What are you reading right now?

[Anonymous No.8521609]

Post what you are reading and make suggestions for other anons.

[Anonymous No.8521620]

[Anonymous No.8521623]

>>8521609
i suggest you continue to read it

[Anonymous No.8521638]

1984

[Anonymous No.8521646]

Solaris

[Anonymous No.8521658]

The Canterbury Tales, the modern translation from Nevill Coghill.

It's pretty good, can't believe how much cucking there is though

[Anonymous No.8521671]

Ulysses and War and Peace.

Almost done Ulysses, really sad to see my first read through coming to a close. It's been a very special experience.

War and Peace is very good too, but I've got about 2/3 of the book left, it's very fun to read. It's my easy side book for when Ulysses got too taxing

[Anonymous No.8521676]

Visions of Cody

[Anonymous No.8521705]

we already have a thread for this
>>8516021
>>8516021

[Anonymous No.8523023]

Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh

[Anonymous No.8524163]

Almost done. Very comfy book. Wish I belonged to a Hungarian gentleman's club. It sounds like a blast. Except for the dying of cirrhosis before you're 60.

[Anonymous No.8524187]

Also some book on UFO's that nobody has read

[Anonymous No.8524216]

It had its few moments, but so far mostly existentialist fairy tale that has been way overdone since it was published

[Anonymous No.8524241]

Tom Sawyer

[Anonymous No.8524282]

>>8524163
Would you recommend this Anon? What do you like about it, what is it similar to?

[Anonymous No.8524293]

Liking it so far, almost half way through, quite funny. Love some characters and hate some others. The sparse bits of non-dialogue prose are beautiful

[Anonymous No.8524297]

>>8524293
Oops, forgot pic

[Anonymous No.8524309]

>>8521609

[Anonymous No.8524313]

>>8521658
decameron

[Anonymous No.8524325]

>>8524282
Yes, I would recommend it. It's a bittersweet tale about an aging Hungarian couple who send their ugly spinster daughter away to her uncle's for a week and have a hell of a good time. But they're still sad about their daughter's lonely life and uncertain future.
It reminds me a bit of Chekov but the father's gentleman's club is a bit more boisterous than Chekov's characters.

[Anonymous No.8524342]

>>8521658
Me too!

[Anonymous No.8524390]

so good

[Anonymous No.8524479]

Haven't started this yet, do you guys recommend it?

[Anonymous No.8524487]

I'm trying to get more acquainted with travel writing. For class I'm re-reading Moby Dick and re-re-re-reading Canterbury Tales.

[Anonymous No.8524511]

>>8524479

i liked it. im not a huge franzen fan but i grew up in the midwest and this totally depicts the dismantling of a nuclear middle class family and what happens to its children as a result.

[Anonymous No.8524515]

>>8521609
one hundo years of solitude

[Anonymous No.8525147]

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Phillip K. Dick. And in free time at work, Notes From the Underground, Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.8525240]

>>8521609
Thackeray's Vanity Fair
I'm liking it, has it's moments, but generally pretty comfy

[Anonymous No.8525275]

This thread

[Anonymous No.8525288]

War & Peace, I just finished Stoner, and today I start my first Pynchon, TCoL49.

>>8521671
Hello, I too am reading W&P. What translation are you using? What do you think so far? I'm about 1/5-3/10 of the way through, toward the end of Volume I.

[Anonymous No.8525290]

i'm reading the count of monte cristo, it's great times

>>8524163
this is my favourite ever. something about it just dug right into my soul.

[Anonymous No.8525354]

>>8525147
That's a nice cover.

[Anonymous No.8525359]

Juggling between this and The Origin of Species.

[Anonymous No.8525381]

>>8521609
One of the current john green threads and I really don't know why. Wouldn't recommend

[Anonymous No.8525382]

The INTP Quest by Dr A J Drenth

Irrational Man by William Barrett

Oblomov by <some russian>

Cycling through these three

[Anonymous No.8525403]

At the Mountains of Madness

Naked Lunch

I'm new pls no bully

[Anonymous No.8525481]

>>8521620
shit me too anon. how far are you? do you enjoy it?
I fucking love it I don't get how si many people find it boring. You just get sucked into whale fishing and sea and all that.

[Anonymous No.8525499]

>>8525288
>>8521671
Hey, I'm also reading War and Peace, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I'm really enjoying it, I like this translation as well as it keeps the parts in French from the original and has a historical appendix.

[Anonymous No.8525503]

>The Concept of Anxiety and Journey to the End of the Night.

I won't ever finish either.

[Anonymous No.8525520]

>>8521671
Этa книгa мoжeт быть интepecнa тoлькo ecли тeбe yжe зa 30. И eщe мнe кaжeтcя, пpи пepeвoдe былo yтepянo дoвoльнo мнoгo интepecнoгo. И чeгo жe тeбя тaк пoтянyлo нa тoлcтыe книги?

[Anonymous No.8525528]

I just read A Hero of Our Time, and loved it, any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.8525550]

>>8525528
Suggestion about what? Do you want similar writing or story?

[Anonymous No.8525564]

>>8525481
I'm at chapter 60 or page 325 and loving every bit of it so far even though i don't have a lot of time to read lately.
I guess i can see why they find it boring since it doesn't really have a lot of action you would expect. But it definitely makes up for that with all the information about whaling and clever stories.

What do you think of the cover of the version that i posted? i feel like the other covers look and fit the contents better.

[Anonymous No.8525568]

>>8525550
I'd love more of Pechorin, if you understand what I mean.

[Anonymous No.8525603]

Which Bukowski book to start with

[Anonymous No.8525614]

>>8525568
Onegin, Pushkin

[Anonymous No.8525629]

>>8525603

post office.

[Anonymous No.8525630]

>>8525528
Fathers and Sons of course. It's the closest thing I can think of. The Brothers Karamazov to see the final form of the unnecessary man.

[Anonymous No.8525649]

>>8525499
I'm reading P&V too, I agree with you that it seems a good translation. As you said, the preservation of the original French is a good reason to use this edition. What do you think about the book so far? Where are you?

[Anonymous No.8525658]

almost done with Thus Spoke Zarathustra, was amazing.

[Anonymous No.8525692]

>nyrb :3

[Anonymous No.8525748]

>>8521609
"1984" by George Orwell and "Heretics" by Chesterton

[Anonymous No.8525861]

>>8525564
I quite like the cover but it's true it doesn't fit the atmosphere and content of the book. I quite like covers like pic related where Moby-Dick is depicted as this ghost eerie leviatan that induces fear and respect. on the other hand I hate when they exagarate the size of the white whale.

[Anonymous No.8525863]

I'm reading Ulysees and The Shoemaker's Holiday. Both for uni. Ulysees is so good, though I'm sure a lot of the allusions are lost on me.

[Anonymous No.8525926]

This lil guy here. Im almost done. Its alright.

[Anonymous No.8525938]

>>8524479
I just read it and loved it. Great characters

[Anonymous No.8525950]

[Anonymous No.8525959]

>>8525950
Good shit.
If you like that check out:
John Scalzi - Old Man's War
Timothy Zahn - Cobra Trilogy
Marko Kloos - Frontlines Trilogy

[Anonymous No.8525969]

Pretty darn good.
His best work, IMO.

[Anonymous No.8526017]

>>8524515
If you enjoy that and haven't yet, you should read Catch-22. I've just finished The Beetle Leg and started Butcher's Crossing. An unintentional Western kick.

[Anonymous No.8526018]

>>8521609
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, it's for a class.

[Anonymous No.8526025]

>>8525629
Seconded. Read it recently and really enjoyed it. Where to from here?

[Anonymous No.8526041]

>>8525959
I will. Thanks for the recs.

[Anonymous No.8526457]

>>8521609
I have the feeling I got memed, but It's an enjoyable meme

[Anonymous No.8527571]

You like horror?

You like gothic horror?

I got your fucking horror.

Sweet jesus I got your fucking gothic horror.

[Anonymous No.8527768]

>>8524515
Nice, I'm working on that too

[Zachary Taylor No.8527810]

The Wasp Factory - can't finish last 30 pages.

War of The Worlds - brutally decent.
Watchmen - son suggested I read it - well written for a comic.

[Zachary Taylor No.8527821]

>>8525950
Well worth the read - one of the best anti-war novels. Up there with AQOTWF, Catch-22 and Dispatches.

[Anonymous No.8528000]

Just finished Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard.

Needed a break from the incredibly dense prose and started reading this.

[Anonymous No.8528018]

I'm really digging this.

Anyone know of any grimy immersive southern gothic novels or short stories?

[Anonymous No.8528020]

[Anonymous No.8528026]

i'm starting with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.8528033]

>>8525147
I fucking loved this book.

[Anonymous No.8528044]

This is CUMFEE and also reading infinite jest but taking a quick break at about 450 pages so I don't burn out

[Anonymous No.8528052]

>>8525288
Lot 49 is super good. I read it in a day and enjoyed every moment

[Anonymous No.8528541]

[Anonymous No.8528544]

>>8528026
hamilton was comfy. Be it a bit wikipediaish.
Enjoy your roadtrip with the Greeks, I've enjoyed it a lot and still am.

[Anonymous No.8528549]

>>8528044
>burning out on IJ
just kill yourself already

[Anonymous No.8528553]

>>8524187
You are missing 2/3 of the book, nigger.

[Anonymous No.8528555]

I'm reading the P&V collection of Leo Tolstoy stories. I have read The Prisoner of the Caucasus and The Diary of a Madman so far. I liked the first but am not really sure what to think about the second, it was unfinished I think.

[Anonymous No.8528558]

>>8524487
Literally finnegans wake

[Anonymous No.8528569]

Moliere don juan
Thanks to him i started to like comedies.
Already've read misanthrope and tartuffe, and loved them both. Any playwriter like him?

[Anonymous No.8528575]

230 pages in and I still can't understand what's the appeal of this thing.

[Anonymous No.8528576]

Infinite jest. Enjoying tyranny soldiers and kids locker room hijinks

[Anonymous No.8528659]

>>8521658
Froisaart's chronicles

[Anonymous No.8528677]

>>8521609
>what you are reading
The Demon Princes, Vol. 1
by Jack Vance

>suggestion for other anons
Lyonesse

[Anonymous No.8528711]

>>8528569

Don juan i found very underwhelming. Almost every comedy i know though i'm missing out on about 90% of it by reading it and not seeing it live.

Moliere didn't even want to publish his plays, he only did it cause plagiarism or something of the sort.

I'd recommend Richard Brinsley Sheridan, he's got some hilarious plays.

I still don't understand though how playwrights from the greek times to 1800s the most enlightened eras used over and over siblings coming together to bring a play to its conclusion.

Oh you're my sister and i'm your brother, we're actually nobles well our fathers won't be mad at who we choose now.

[Anonymous No.8528770]

>>8528018
Try some Flannery O'Connor. Her short stories or Wise Blood.

[Anonymous No.8529076]

Reading pic related. It's been a long time since I've read any Thompson and it's a nice reintroduction to his prose. Apparently it was written way before his established catalogue but one of the last novels he published before he died. It's pretty comfy.

[Anonymous No.8529089]

>>8521609

[Anonymous No.8529090]

>>8525147
>>8528033
What is it about?

[Anonymous No.8529094]

>>8525861
The ideal Moby Dick cover shouldn't even have the whale on it imo. 95% of the book is Melville's digressions on life. Synthesis of concepts he picked up from elsewhere. The book is so much more than just whaling.

[Anonymous No.8529102]

This, finding it boring as hell, especially as half the philosophers believed the same things and the book just repeats itself over and over

Looking forward to finishing this so i can finally start reading The Greek Sophists and then I can finally, finally start Plato

[Anonymous No.8529107]

All the King's Men by Warren

[Anonymous No.8529310]

>>8528711
Thanks for recommendation, i'll look into his works later.
What you don't like about don juan? I persanally enjoy his dialogs with Sganarel, and there are some funny scenes as well as some great scenes like when Don Juan saved Don Carlos.

[Anonymous No.8529340]

>>8521609
Guys, does anyone know where to find "Pain and Retribution" by David Wilson for free ?

[Anonymous No.8529386]

>>8521609

Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.8529390]

>>8528026

I always smile when I see this on /lit/ as the recommended starting place for the Greeks because I've had a copy since I was probably twelve that I got from my grandparents book collection after they passed.

[Anonymous No.8529394]

More plays should be written in verse

[Anonymous No.8529396]

>>8525382
by Goncharov, motherfucker. You aren't liking it? Why disrespect the author, it takes a second to look his name up? Or you could just omit mentioning the name entirely, would be fine as well.
Sorry, just a triggered Russian passing by.

[Anonymous No.8529492]

For a health care worker who doesn't really give much of a shit about his patients it's quite inspirational.

[Anonymous No.8529757]

>>8529094
>95% of the book is Melville's digressions on life
Yeah that's true, but how would you turn that into a cover art? Also the white whale is a huge symbol and an anchor of the story but I get your point

[Anonymous No.8529804]

She Came To Stay by Beauvoir.

[Anonymous No.8530770]

bump

[Anonymous No.8530779]

>>8525969
The setting sun by the same author is good as well

[Anonymous No.8531167]

[Anonymous No.8531185]

>>8528044
Read Stoner today. It is comfee, in a cringey sort of way. Kind of felt bad for the daughter.

[Anonymous No.8531202]

>>8528018
Child of God by McCarthye

[Anonymous No.8531252]

Currently reading "The Lovecraft Compendium" it's a good read tbqh, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into Lovecraft's writing

[Anonymous No.8531321]

>>8528575
its really sad thats why

[Anonymous No.8531703]

>>8525503
I gave up on Journey to the End of the Night about 2/3 of the way through and don't regret it - I felt like it was a bit front loaded. I enjoyed it though, not a "great work" imo but it was emotionally captivating, in its desperation, I guess, and funny as hell at parts. Have you had a favorite part so far?

[Anonymous No.8531850]

Just finished The Vorrh. Now I am about 50 pages into Omensetter's Luck.

[Anonymous No.8531872]

Just picked this up today and I'm 100 pages into it already.

Pretty compelling but I know things ain't gonna end well for anybody in this.

[Anonymous No.8533061]

Halfway through. I'd like to be able to write with such wit and depth one day. His comparison of Marx versus Turgenev was increadable.

[Anonymous No.8533434]

>>8533061
ha ha

[Anonymous No.8533734]

Reading The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski while giving intermittent attention to Gibbon's Decline and Philippe Aries' The Hour of our Death.

What to do after Witcher?

[Anonymous No.8533747]

[Anonymous No.8533754]

>>8531252
I just ordered the Necronomicon. Between that and Eldritch Tales that about covers everything, right?

[Anonymous No.8533760]

>>8533754

Bone up on some Clark Ashton Smith. Most of his stuff is free on Eldritch Dark. And if you haven't, please explore at least some of the later stories of Robert E. Howard.

Do you like Alan Moore? Neonomicon will give you the spooks.

[Anonymous No.8533763]

>>8528549
>posting about IJ when he didn't read it
I see right through you friendo

[Anonymous No.8533784]

>>8533760
I was talking about Lovecraft anon

[Anonymous No.8533929]

>>8521609

[Anonymous No.8534125]

[Anonymous No.8534156]

The Catcher in the Rye and L'Etranger

[Anonymous No.8534170]

>>8521609
Great book, i highly reccomend it. The author interviews soviet workers who were at the scene after the reactor blew up in chernobyl. The book handles philosophical themes brought up by the intervieved. All and all, fantastic book.

[Anonymous No.8534295]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
W B Yeats selected poetry edited by A Norman Jeffares

[Anonymous No.8534312]

>>8526457
The German Ideology

[Anonymous No.8534323]

>>8534156
t. 17 year old

[Anonymous No.8534329]

>>8521609
Brave New World.

I recommend Sult by Knut Hamsund.

[Anonymous No.8534358]

>>8528575
Man you really feel like you're in St. Petersburg in the 19th century while reading this book. It's a very long book with a lot of words but the book leaves you with a satisfaction due to its detailed descriptions and the psychological analysis of every character and how thry reflect the modern philosophies of Dostoyevsky's time and his perspective of each one.

[Anonymous No.8534427]

>>8534295
is the name of the rose good?

[Anonymous No.8534442]

>>8533784

I know. And I think, if you enjoy him, you'll probably also enjoy the other pulp horror writers of the time.

[Anonymous No.8534853]

I'm reading Beauty and Sadness by Kawabata.

Despite its themes, it's quite the comfy read, and I'm sad the book is so short.

[Anonymous No.8534980]

>>8533061
If you like him you should try "Life at the Bottom."

[Anonymous No.8534989]

>>8534980
That was actually my first book by him. I'm hooked will probably read more of his stuff.

[Anonymous No.8535009]

I've been meme'd

what should I read next

[Anonymous No.8535021]

>>8535009
forgot pic but fuck it I'm reading IJ

[Anonymous No.8535054]

>>8534989

[Anonymous No.8535085]

The History of the Catholic Church by James Hitchcock
Bullies by Ben Shapiro
The Night Angel Trilogy - I just started it but I'm thinking about dropping it.

[Anonymous No.8535204]

[Anonymous No.8535278]

Currently I'm reading Tolkien's translation of Beowulf.

I'd like to properly begin a study of Old English and I figured this translation was a good primer.

[Anonymous No.8535301]

>>8534427
I've only just started it, but (as a complete beginner to Eco) I think it's pretty good!