Currently reading thread

[Anonymous No.9304898]

What is /lit/ currently reading?

[Anonymous No.9304904]

they just beheaded the right whale and described it in it's entirety

[Anonymous No.9304909]

>>9304898

I'm reading this book. Okay, have a nice day!

:)

[Anonymous No.9304910]

>>9304904
honestly, I tried to pay the closest attention to the anatomical sections but I don't fight my eye glazing over anymore

[Anonymous No.9304913]

The Loser by Bernhard. Before that Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee.

[Anonymous No.9304916]

Lagerkvist, the Sybil.

[Anonymous No.9304932]

>>9304909
is it good so far? it's on my list

[Anonymous No.9304948]

it's very good

[Anonymous No.9304970]

>>9304932
not that guy but it's murakami's best work imo. kafka is great too though.

[Anonymous No.9304980]

about half way through

pretty good

[Anonymous No.9304988]

Comparing it to the TV series, it is a nice read.

[Anonymous No.9305000]

>>9304910
you might as well commit intellectual suicide

[Anonymous No.9305011]

>>9305000
>outdated references to the body of a whale
>be me, likes animals, enough to learn about them, enough to know what the fuck a whale looks like
>I don't need mr moby to tell me how many fins he has
>be you
>think the build up of the book is to be found deciphering the summit of a sperm whales head

[Anonymous No.9305030]

I just finished Othello and will start Titus Andronicus later this week.

Currently reading a bunch of essays on the poetic structure of the Book of Job.

[Anonymous No.9305053]

i google everything he mentions because i don't want to "miss" anything (except the astronomers and scientists because there are a fucking lot), now i'm an expert in stellar parallax and south african cuisine

[Anonymous No.9305139]

On Friendship - Nehamas
Cane - Toomer
Wallace poems
Works of Euripides

I need to graduate. Juggling texts like this is fun for a bit, but I'm getting a little burnt out. I need a while to just relax with one book.

[Anonymous No.9305165]

franny and zooey by salinger

reads like a wes andersson movie

[Anonymous No.9305197]

im a little past halfway. pretty interesting book, if not a little slow at points (the scene where walter drones on about birds). havent read the correctoins tho so idk how it stacks up

[Anonymous No.9305223]

Unironically starting this today.

[Anonymous No.9305276]

>>9304932
d/a, but I really liked it. I love these slice-of-life descriptions and I also feel it packs more emotion than some of Murakami's other works; but still in his own, detached way.

It also hit pretty close to home.

[Anonymous No.9305287]

>>9305223
kys yourself

[Anonymous No.9305295]

>>9305287
I will after I finish it.

[Anonymous No.9305317]

I am reading Norman Davies "Forgotten Kingdoms" a history book. Some chapters were more interesting as others, I skim readed most first chapters.
The part about Belarus and Kalingrad were highly interesting.

[Anonymous No.9305319]

The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon

[Anonymous No.9305325]

>>9305223
>>9305287
>>9305295
he was telling to 'kiss yourself' anon! be dandy

[Anonymous No.9305342]

>>9305030

This chart is wrong. For example, NRSV is an objectively more accurate translation than the KJV.

[Anonymous No.9305356]

Interesting philosophy, LaVey just needs too cool it on the exclamation points and stop being so damn smug about everything.

[Anonymous No.9305369]

Histories - Herodotus
Orlando Furioso
Statesman -Plato
With that order of priority

[Anonymous No.9305376]

It's beautiful but I hate poetry and it's already a drag for me after 40 pages

[Anonymous No.9305402]

>>9305053
thats the way it should be done

[Anonymous No.9305468]

case for christ-lee strobel
end of faith-sam harris

[Anonymous No.9305504]

>>9305376
I'm currently reading "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and I'm planning to start this next, pretty excited about it too.

[Anonymous No.9305510]

>>9304898
I don't fucking know. I fished my last book yesterday and now I'm stumped. I have 700+ books of all kinds, any kind. From classic literature to trash- anything. I can't think of anything. This is hell, truly.

[Anonymous No.9305513]

>>9305376
What's that text on the bottom? Welsh?

[Anonymous No.9305540]

Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Pretty disappointing, really. I was expecting an extra layer, but it seems a very bland retelling so far.

[Anonymous No.9305580]

>>9304898
It's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.9305593]

Nearly done with this.

[Anonymous No.9305714]

Really PoMo but Lethem is goddamn good

[Anonymous No.9305850]

>>9305504
haven't read Werther as I detested his personality and considered him a pussy but that was in early high school when I was really into Kneechee. Bad times, will read it in the future for sure.
>>9305513
are fucking serious?

[Anonymous No.9305866]

>>9305714
>Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.

Ya, this sounds -

[Anonymous No.9305884]

>>9304904
I will never understand why this book is so popular.

I read pic related, 700 pages in. The chapters with Iwan talking to his brother about God (like the grand inquisitor) were one of the best things I have read over the last months.

[Anonymous No.9305914]

>>9304932

It's totally without any magical realism, so it's a little bit different from his other stuff but not by much. I'd recommend it though, I enjoyed it.

Hard boiled wonderland and wind up bird chronicle were really good as well, if you haven't read those

[Anonymous No.9305934]

>>9305850
>are fucking serious?
it's sure as shit not german

[Anonymous No.9305935]

>>9305593
how is it? 10/10 title BTW

[Anonymous No.9305945]

pretty damn good

[Anonymous No.9305951]

>>9305934
I'm not telling you, you'll never know whether it's welsh or something else

[Anonymous No.9305956]

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

It's really enjoyable, the prose is endlessly detailed and requires patience, but it's interspersed with really intense dialogues and short, almost essay-like passages about all kinds of topics. Generally it's also more accessible than I would have thought. Would recommend

[Anonymous No.9305964]

>>9305934
It's a book publisher in Poland.
I'm not sure why that guy is being such human garbage.

[Anonymous No.9305965]

>>9305934

Looks Polish to me famalama

[Anonymous No.9305968]

>>9305934
its polish
you can tell by how fucked it is

[Anonymous No.9305973]

i'm about 300 pgs into the recognitions

>>9305956
in english or in

[Anonymous No.9305976]

>>9305973
german

[Anonymous No.9305984]

>>9305976
can't read german. wary of reading it in english.

[Anonymous No.9305988]

Vol II of the Gulag Archipelago. Really fucking glad I never lived through any of that.

[Anonymous No.9305998]

>>9305951
you're a monster

>>9305965
>>9305968
thanks dudes

[Anonymous No.9306024]

>>9305984
I've never read the english translation or any englihs translation of any of Mann's works, so I can't help you, intuitively I think it should be fine, as I said, the prose is very detailed so the danger of something getting lost along the way isn't as great as it maybe could be.

[Anonymous No.9306025]

I wanted something easy to read and this seemed like the lowest of the low trash lit which turns out to be true. It's also pretty brutal. Makes you wonder how many 74 year old grandmas have read this.

[Anonymous No.9306061]

I don't read books. I just read wikipedia articles of books and everybody thinks I read a lot. :)

[Anonymous No.9306077]

>>9305964
he could've googled it, not like it's in Cyrillic or arab, wykopku

[Anonymous No.9306091]

Cause I'm a newfag that's gotta start somewhere.

[Anonymous No.9306092]

I'm having trouble finding anything by Jack Vance that I don't enjoy immensely.

[Anonymous No.9306096]

>>9304898
I just finished A Farewell to Arms. It sucked. Hemingway was a hack.

[Anonymous No.9306114]

Better than I thought it would be

[Anonymous No.9306131]

>>9304898
I finally started A Song of Ice and Fire
It's every bit as good as people made it out to be, but then again I'm only about 100 pages in to A Game of Thrones.

I kind of just want a spinoff series where Jon, Arya, Ghost, and Nymeria go off on an adventure and have happy lives without all the bad stuff :(

[Anonymous No.9306135]

>>9304904
Just finished that bit, about to start chapter 78. Also reading this and would recommend

[Anonymous No.9306173]

>>9304898
The immoralist.
Am I in for a treat?

[Anonymous No.9306176]

>>9306091
luvly book cover.
But

[Anonymous No.9306223]

>>9304898
>my Phiz when mechanickal Ducks

[Anonymous No.9306241]

AMA

[Anonymous No.9306248]

>>9305223
My sister unironically loves this book and suggested I read it.

What do?

[Anonymous No.9306249]

Just finished If on a winter's night a traveler, think I'm gonna re-read Family Ties by Lispector (NOT the Dodson translation, good christ that woman can't write)

[Anonymous No.9306287]

>>9304898
120 Days of Sodom by Sade

[Anonymous No.9306290]

Very enriching.
>>9304904
I've read half, dropped it (2 times). Determined to pick it up where i left off and actually finish it
>>9305956
wasn't Mann a pedophile or something? How can you feel good about his words?

[Anonymous No.9306293]

>>9305197
How do you like Franzen? I've considered picking up one of his books. He's supposed to be good for contemporary lit

[Anonymous No.9306296]

>>9306290
>wasn't Mann a pedophile or something? How can you feel good about his words?

I think you're on the wrong board, friendo

[Anonymous No.9306297]

>>9305356
That's kinda the point, tho

[Anonymous No.9306307]

Has five of Cicero's defence speeches. Really good stuff, recommended for anyone interested in Rome

[Anonymous No.9306309]

The series as a whole is much more literary and just generally good than I expected of a fairly mainstream grimdark fantasy trilogy. I'm really liking it

[Anonymous No.9306331]

>>9306296
well I know a little about Mann, and I'm intrigued and thought about reading Buddenbrooks. But how do you get past his thoughts on little boys? Or is that irrelevant?

Also reading some pic related on the side

[Anonymous No.9306342]

>>9306331
>But how do you get past his thoughts on little boys?
I don't care about his opinions or personal life if he writes a good book.

That's like not reading hamsun because he gave his Nobel prize to goebbels. It has nothing to do with art.

[Anonymous No.9306353]

>>9306331

To me, the author's life isn't very relevant to what I think of their works. You can kind of see what you're talking about in Death in Venice I guess, but still, just separate the two, he's worth reading

>>9306342

Holy shit did Hamsun really do that? That's funny as hell

[Anonymous No.9306355]

>>9305402
but is it really? do you think that's what pinecone wants from us?

[Anonymous No.9306363]

>>9306353
>Holy shit did Hamsun really do that?
Yes. And a lot of people don't read him because of it.

[Anonymous No.9306486]

>>9306331
Is the New Criticism a complete joke or what? I feel like it might have helped lead to the "outrage culture" fad being prevalent today

[Anonymous No.9306498]

>>9306248
Read it you pansy POS.

[Anonymous No.9306527]

>>9306091
Newfag or not it is a fantastic book. Gonna reread it myself soon enough.

[Anonymous No.9306543]

>>9306248
Read it. It's unironically good.

[Anonymous No.9306604]

~100 pages in. Promising so far. Was easier to get into than I thought.

but:
> 10th edition
> typo on the first page

[Anonymous No.9306612]

The Apology of Socrates by Plato
Just finished, actually
Great read. Very intriguing.
I recommend the Benjamin Jowett translation.

[Anonymous No.9306674]

>>9306248
give me your sister's number so i can give her some private lessons about the importance of this book

[Anonymous No.9307355]

[Anonymous No.9307386]

Pic related. Very good, very dense. I try to read a passage a day, but given my strange work scheduled it's tough to do sometimes. Worth reading though.

[Anonymous No.9307389]

Best Short Stories by Maupassant

[Anonymous No.9307396]

In Search of Lost Time. It's a painfully boring read, I'll probably stop soon.

[Anonymous No.9307400]

Just finished Member of the Wedding (McCullers) I'm on The Tain now

[Anonymous No.9307405]

>>9307386
Why aren't you reading the fucking Frame translation

[Anonymous No.9307414]

>>9307405
Don't have it and I have this one. I'll probably pick up other translations later.

[Anonymous No.9307460]

>>9307405
Screech is the best translation tho

[Anonymous No.9307463]

>>9307460
No.

[Anonymous No.9307495]

>>9307463
Yes.

[Anonymous No.9307516]

>>9306309
What makes you enjoy it so much? I dropped it halfway through Prince because of how little description there was of any of the scenery or characters, as well as the actual syntax, which was mediocre.

[Anonymous No.9307585]

>>9304980
I'm reading this too and I'm 44% on kindle. When do they stop randomly traveling through abandoned Mexican towns and do something? Other than that, I see why people would say it's overwritten, but I'm liking it

[Anonymous No.9307598]

>>9307495
No. Screech is an abomination. The worst translation in any language.

[0791-3208-3257 No.9307685]

It went way off topic for an entire chapter.

[Anonymous No.9307738]

It's relatively new but I think thisll be one of the greats

[Anonymous No.9307748]

>>9307738
>I think thisll be one of the greats

you're going to be sorely, sorely disappointed

t. read the whole fucking stupid thing

[Anonymous No.9307766]

the tempest

[Anonymous No.9307771]

Quickly moving up my list of all-time favorites.

[Anonymous No.9307773]

>>9306309
I didn't like these as much as I expected. The protagonist gets out of every situation with luck or something equally ridiculous. I dropped it after the second one.

[Anonymous No.9307800]

>>9306135
Nice-- I read Pinker's Words and Rules and enjoyed it quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.9307809]

>>9307771
I've heard he's a hard author. Is this book "hard" or just long (kind of like Infinite Jest)? To compare: I think Gravity's Rainbow is a hard book.

[Anonymous No.9307812]

>>9304898
The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay and Demosthenes' speeches.

[Anonymous No.9307817]

>>9304904
just finished, can confirm classic status

[Anonymous No.9307849]

>>9307817
can confirm? Give him gold too.

[Anonymous No.9307887]

>>9307400
are you able to get into it?
inb4 that's not how it's pronounced

[Anonymous No.9307892]

>>9304898
>>>LOL SHE TURNED HER INTO AN ANIMAL/PLANT/INANIMATE OBJECT AD INFINITUM

[Anonymous No.9307893]

>>9305884
i've read a number of his works including this brothers K-

i thought the plot was weak, but it has some gems in there like the grand inquisitor and a few other sections that were excellent quality.

i liked the characters- i thought the brothers were drawn very well.

overall, i preferred crime and punishment to be honest.

im reading notes from the underground right now- about half way through (like 130 pages +/- total) so far so good.

for whatever reason though i get a lot out of reading him, no author gives me as much as dostoevsky him...

[Anonymous No.9307907]

Really liking it, though I'm sadly not reading as often as I'd like. Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before this. Been trying to build up a base of classic books.

[Anonymous No.9307912]

>>9305513
Looks like Polish.

[Anonymous No.9307924]

>>9306091
S'purdy gud to be desu.

[Anonymous No.9307931]

>>9306287
What do you think of it?

I was optimistic going in (I like edgy shit) but by the time I finished it I decided it was a colossal waste of time.

[Anonymous No.9307941]

>>9304909
get off my bored idiot

[Anonymous No.9307957]

>>9305011
>outdated references to the body of a whale
this post is 0% woke
truth: books are written within a historical context. think about how 'scientifically inaccurate' information might still be able to inform the reader as to other aspects of the work.

>hurr durr Timaeus is altogether useless because we know there are more than 4 elements

[Anonymous No.9307977]

>>9305964
because he's a fucking Pole
you should have come to expect it from those "people"

[Anonymous No.9307984]

>>9306091
to be honest when I decided to start getting back into reading this was the first book I picked up.

I'm not a tremendous fan

[Anonymous No.9307988]

>>9305964
>I'm not sure why that guy is being such human garbage

Well, he IS a Slav.

[Anonymous No.9307994]

>>9307957
Could description like that also be of value to those that knew little to nothing about the details of a whale? I don't know what sort of people were reading the book, but I'm sure proper whale photos were scarce in 1851.

[Anonymous No.9308013]

I'm reading pic related and Confessions by Augustine right now.

[Anonymous No.9308023]

>>9308013
drop that shit and focus on Augustine

[Anonymous No.9308034]

>>9304898
You're probably going to hate me, but I'm having a great time with pic related. Pretty funny, imo.

[Anonymous No.9308044]

>>9306223
>>9305053
should i read this next
>>9305884
just finished this one before, the grand inquisitor part was good, but overall i thought the book felt lackluster, so many parts could've been cut out

[Anonymous No.9308047]

Reading hunger at the moment. It is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.9308094]

>>9307809
Harder than Gravity's Rainbow, in my opinion, but not as consistently. If that makes sense?

[Anonymous No.9308160]

Anyone read this before? I found it when my brother moved out seems interesting so far

[Anonymous No.9308168]

>>9305376
Oh man I really liked that book would recommend

[Anonymous No.9308177]

>>9308160
nigger its like 80 pages, just read it

[Anonymous No.9308211]

>>9308160
Well, let's just say it'll give you the healthy dose of theology and geometry you're so sorely lacking.

Also, legend says it's better grasped if you read it inside a bus station bathroom.

[Anonymous No.9308233]

Picked up Platos Republic today, Penguin Classic.

Enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.9308282]

>>9308211
Let's not get to pretentious now

[Anonymous No.9308341]

>>9307585
They'll keep doing it for a while longer it seems

[Anonymous No.9308368]

>>9305053
im pretty sure there are guides and stuff for every one of his books.

[Anonymous No.9308383]

Off and on for about a year now.
I also read some of his other books at the same time. I hope to get through infinite jest and his other short stories and essays at the same time, then finish with The Pale King.
Is this the best way to read his work?

[Anonymous No.9308385]

>>9304898
That has to be the ugliest book cover ever.

Also, I'm reading Mason and Dixon

Freaking out because i have to use the wiki every 45 seconds. Why is Pynchon so hard?

[Anonymous No.9308567]

>>9307892
Are you disliking it or just memeing? I have just finished hunger and I am hype as fuck to start metamorphoses.

[Anonymous No.9308585]

Not the best
but good nonetheless.
Gonna start Lolita next

[Anonymous No.9308687]

The last line really got me

[Anonymous No.9308692]

I'm reading Death With Interruptions by Saramago, not the English translation though

[Anonymous No.9308752]

Mistborn

[Anonymous No.9308876]

>>9307771
that is one sexy looking book, i looks like it's just in its underwear, and those look like tattoos what a little slut

[Anonymous No.9309336]

>>9308876
One of the first things I did when I got it was take a few pictures without the dust jacket, as there doesn't seem to be any online that I could find.

[Anonymous No.9309345]

;^)

[Anonymous No.9309348]

>>9308385
gutter-tier post

[Anonymous No.9309351]

>>9309345
Forgot pic hehe

[Anonymous No.9309366]

>>9305197
I'm gonna start this tonight; judging by the backblurb it should be good at putting me to sleep.

[Anonymous No.9309419]

>>9309351
worst edition. It even lacks some pages.

[Anonymous No.9309430]

>>9309351
>
such a cool edition

[Anonymous No.9309434]

i'm reading la femme de trente ans by balzac
it's going better than i expected
the first chapter gives you a bad impression but if you keep up a little you'll b surprised

[Anonymous No.9309435]

>>9309348
excellent post

[Anonymous No.9309440]

>>9309419
>>9309430
>this meme again
it has been corrected

[Anonymous No.9309443]

>>9305884
>I will never understand why this book is so popular.
you don't have the life experience yet and it sounds like you haven't even completed it.

[Anonymous No.9309653]

>>9304980

>three different fonts
>title is in two different fonts for absolutely no reason
>blurb from some random critic takes up a third of the page

Whoever designed that cover should be dragged into the street and shot

[Anonymous No.9309658]

>>9304948

Crome Yellow is pretty great too if you want to read more Huxley.

[Anonymous No.9309666]

>>9307941
>bored idiot
That's really nice that you want anon to get off your idiot. You're taking really good care of your idiot.

[Anonymous No.9309712]

>>9309351
Shit tier edition, is literally another book with GR in the title.

[Anonymous No.9309722]

It's the only require reading for my [research paper] class. It's written well enough to be entertaining although I wouldn't have bought it on my own

[Anonymous No.9309726]

about 200 pages in

[Anonymous No.9309794]

Just started part two

[Anonymous No.9309808]

>>9309726
>muh racism

[Anonymous No.9309833]

>>9306307
Just finished reading this for one of my classes.
Offical power rankings for anyone interested :
1. Pro Caelio
2. Pro Milone
3. Pro Roscio
4 = 5 Pro Murena Pro Archias

[Anonymous No.9309844]

>>9309658
okay rad. i got that book in a bundle of second hand classics recently. i think i'm going to read the doors of perception as well.
i finished point counter point last night, the ending was weak but overall i loved it.

[Anonymous No.9309853]

>>9309808
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.9309854]

Currentlly in volume 3. Comfiest book confirmed

[Anonymous No.9309855]

51 pages into GR, Papa Pynch sure likes his bananas and the paranoia is building up. I also love the prose consistency, just like in TCoL49 but with steroids.

[Anonymous No.9309862]

Only survives in fragments but good shit for anyone who likes smutty ancient novels ripping on Nero.

[Anonymous No.9309863]

>>9307400
Is 'Member of the Wedding' good? I love the heart is a lonely hunter, is it equally as good?

[Anonymous No.9309870]

>>9308094
Have you read The Recognitions? I think of it that way (harder than Gravity's Rainbow but not everywhere).

[Anonymous No.9309871]

>>9305376
i found that too. it's kind of a diamond in a haystack thing, where most of it is pretty uninteresting but you've got to read all of it carefully to get the most out of it.
you'll be glad once you've finished it. i've only read part one but there was a lot i liked in it.

"Of secrets that he teaches, first shall be
To blend deceit with magnamity,
And with the ardour of a passionate man
To fall in love, - according to a plan."

[Anonymous No.9309874]

>>9308034
One of my favorite books, Woody Allen is a great writer desu my friendo

[soma No.9309945]

about ~200 pages in, this is some good shit.
>>9307771
what the FUCK is this ive never seen this edition before? have dzanc finally got off their asses and reprinted it?
>>9308687
the last few chapters of this are exceptional. i love the descriptions of the derelict macondo.
>>9309726
>>9309794
i have both of these but havent read them yet. what are they like?

[Anonymous No.9309947]

>>9309870
Yes, and that's a good comparison. It's a bit more demanding than The Recognitions, though.

[Anonymous No.9309953]

>>9309945
Nope, it's the original hardcover without the dust jacket. I took that picture because I couldn't find any online without the dust jacket and it bothered me.

[soma No.9309972]

>>9309953
it looks better without the dust jacket imo. idk if i prefer your pic or the dalkey edition cover

[Anonymous No.9310027]

>>9309972
Yeah, it does. It's the only book I read with the dust jacket on, though, because I'm so worried about damaging it at all.

I think I like the hardcover more, but I'd love to get my hands on the Dalkey edition. It's more expensive, generally.

[Anonymous No.9310058]

>>9308687
I read this book a couple months ago, and it was still lying next to my bed when my girlfriend visited me for the first time. She laughed about the title and me reading it, asking, "Living in solitude for a hundred years is your big plan, huh?".

Those names, though. My edition included a family chart that I had to look up occasionally in order to realize who's who again.

[Anonymous No.9310068]

>>9308752
Is it worth reading? My dad got me the trilogy for christmas a few years back but I still haven't gotten around to it.

[Anonymous No.9310076]

>>9310068
If you're 12, yes. If you're an adult, no.

[Anonymous No.9310099]

>>9305376
you hate poetry and find it a drag but it's beautiful?

[Anonymous No.9310112]

very good. he's channeling Deleuze tho so maybe that's why

[Anonymous No.9310119]

>>9309945
Ada starts out pure fuck but after the first few chapters it evens out into more recognizable Nabokov, really enjoying it so far. Less incest than you'd expect from a book about incest, which isn't to say there isn't plenty. It's long

[Anonymous No.9310130]

>>9305956
Reading a collection of his short stories, and I agree on the bit about detail.

[Anonymous No.9310422]

Just finished McCarthy's Child of God and now a third of the way through Rabbit Run. Updike, um, just turned my BBW fetish back up to 11 (and ripped that knob off).

I'm really enjoying the back and forth between Rabbit and Ruth. His needy attempts to attach to her and her repeatedly shrugging him off, and the narrator following his point of view despite her obvious resistance.

And yeah, yum sweaty fat chick sex.

[Anonymous No.9310438]

>Currently reading Dune

is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.9310481]

>>9310438
No.

[Anonymous No.9310492]

>>9310481
Elaborate

[Anonymous No.9310514]

>>9310492
Space Muslims win

[Anonymous No.9310521]

>>9304904
That's the best part.

Second best part is the dialogue between Stubb and the Captain of the Rose-Bud

[Anonymous No.9310554]

>>9308567
Nah, just memeing, I'm enjoying it. But the "changing people into things" is pretty constant.

Probably why it's called "Metamorphoses" eh?

[Anonymous No.9310613]

>>9305714
>Chase Insteadman

Fucking DROPPED.

[Anonymous No.9310623]

>>9305956
It's pretty amazing how many history books I've read that refer to this book and it's plot.

[Anonymous No.9310674]

>>9304898

[Anonymous No.9310684]

>>9310438
First two books were GOAT in my opinion, I enjoyed Messiah far more than Dune though.

Didn't go further than that though.

Muslims in space yaddah, yaddah, yaddah.

[Anonymous No.9310688]

[Anonymous No.9310696]

>>9309871
yeah I know, bore...bore...bore and suddenly few magnificently crafted verses and I'm all excited.
>i've only read part one but there was a lot i liked in it
In the introduction of my copy they mention that 2nd part was always considered inferior up until mid 20th century when intellectuals like for example Thomas Mann started to appreciate it openly.
>>9310099
correct, these two things doesn't contradict themselves. I hate it, but can appreciate it's beauty in the same time. Imagine a bitchy, bipolar qt3.14 with 10/10 looks; you detest her character but surely can appreciate her looks.

[Anonymous No.9310730]

This and Tender Buttons. I prefere Alice B. Toklas to this autobio, though.

[Anonymous No.9310737]

>>9310674

one of my all-time favs

[Anonymous No.9310768]

>>9305593
cool. i want to read this.

[Anonymous No.9310776]

>>9306241
how big is your e-peen?

[Anonymous No.9310868]

>>9307738
Loved it 5/5

[Anonymous No.9310983]

>>9310438
God that cover looks retarded. I hate minimalism so god damn much.

[Anonymous No.9311186]

>>9310983
It makes it look so much cleaner

[Anonymous No.9311189]

It's a cool and nice read

[Anonymous No.9311210]

>>9309874
Indeed. His essays are always hilarious, however, his best book is Getting Even, imo.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.9311241]

>>9310983
>minimalism
>Roman mosaics

*Sigh*

[Anonymous No.9311254]

Been a while since I read something comfy, feels good bros.

[Anonymous No.9311269]

>>9309666
hook, lime, and sinker.....

[Anonymous No.9311272]

>>9311254
How is it compared to the movie? Is the movie much different?

[Anonymous No.9311273]

>>9305053
You're reading that book the right way. Good job!

[Anonymous No.9311277]

>>9311272
Yes, the movies and books are nothing alike really

[Anonymous No.9311281]

>>9304898

Book depository needs to step up their bookmark game, I've already got 85,000 black and white colouring book style bookmarks.

[Anonymous No.9311282]

I don't know why I expected to enjoy reading a book about suicide. An Unquiet Mind was less taxing to read.

[Anonymous No.9311288]

>>9311272
OP here, yeah it's pretty different. They follow the same arc and visit the same places but some of the iconic moments from the films simply don't exist in the book and likewise.

[Anonymous No.9311289]

American Psycho. So far, enthralled. There are clearly some stylistic devices I've seen from Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.9311302]

>>9311288
>>9311277
Good to know.

I've read The Hobbit and then I saw how different The Hobbit movies were. But, the LotR movies aren't as different from the books as The Hobbit trilogy was, right?

[Anonymous No.9311312]

>>9311289
Tbh I've never gotten a Dostoyevsky feeling from Ellis, considering one of the literary touchstones he's talked about the most is Didion. Any examples? I'm really curious.

[Anonymous No.9311329]

>>9311302
Well in the Hobbit movies they added a lot of material from other Tolkin works, so you actually had a movie which contained about four books of different source material.
So it's not very comparable, the story of LotR in the movies is essentially there and any differences tend to be expanding on things alluded to in the books.

[Anonymous No.9311337]

>>9311281
>85,000
What the fuck nigguh? You bought 85 thousand books? If you have that much cash just buy some nicer fucking bookmarks.

[Anonymous No.9311344]

>>9309726
same, about 350 in for me.

despite >muh racism, it is unironically good

[Anonymous No.9311355]

>>9307809

It's incomprehensible IMO.

[Anonymous No.9311365]

>>9311312
Don't know. I've read Dosteyevsky in German, and am reading American Psycho in English, so it's a little hard to tell after only 30 pages. What I can say is that Ellis adapts a likely psychologization; in American Psycho it is rather implicit through excessive materialism and through extensive dialogue. Since Price did most of the talking for now, I could feel through his thorough dial-- pardon, monologues what kind of person he is. Everything in speaking and developing situations are carefully nuanced so far, in a way that resembles Dostoyevsky's writing style.

Same went for The Godfather from Mario Puzo, but Puzo was a little more blunt, therefore a little less cunning.

Heck, I might be imagining things since I read that Puzo and Ellis took inspiration from Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.9311387]

>>9311337

>nicer fucking bookmarks

Any recs? What's the patrician's choice?

[Anonymous No.9311408]

Act of the Damned (Auto dos Danados) by António Lobo Antunes. In portuguese.

Incredibly difficult read. 4 different narrators (so far), who are part of a family of ~30 characters(I'm drawing a family tree as I go); 4 or 5 timelines. One sentence can have more than one narrator, speaking of different stories, in different timelines. All this in highy metaphorized prose.

But I'm used to Lobo Antunes and I love his style.

Overall fantastic read.

[Anonymous No.9311478]

>>9311387
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/259755672/the-matching-set-bookmarks-custom-design?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_au_en_au_a-books_movies_and_music-books-book_accessories&utm_custom1=b00f3f70-180e-4016-959e-5754162757a9&gclid=CLfRwqXm_NICFQ4GKgodlBAC9w

This works if you're on a budget.

[Anonymous No.9311589]

Finished this yesterday, now deciding whether to reread Moby Dick or finally get to Ulysses. Suggestions?

[Anonymous No.9311606]

>>9304898
Dead Souls
I didn't expect it to be this funny

[Cain No.9311631]

20170328_182421.jpg

Most bloody, brutal and violent novel I've ever read (well second, to Night by Weisel)

[Anonymous No.9311639]

>>9309862
Too bad that so much is lost that makes it disorienting. It was interesting to read about Roman degeneracy firsthand though

[Anonymous No.9311664]

Apollonius - On Conics
Léon Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
Plato- Symposium

On a side note, I know the secrets to the universe, it's a cool party trick. Ask me anything

[Anonymous No.9311765]

>>9308385
Go back to Instagram you cretinous female.

[Anonymous No.9311900]

Get on this level

[Anonymous No.9311984]

>>9309844

Yeah Crome Yellow doesn't really offer a whole lot in the way of plot but it's goddamn hilarious. It's supposed to be satirizing posh British culture of the early 20th century, if I remember right. It's been a few years since I read it.

[Anonymous No.9312027]

>>9311900
Is this a real edition? I can't find it anywhere and this is the second picture of it that I've seen today.

[Anonymous No.9312068]

Currently this, and then A Canticle for Liebowitz. So far this serves as a decent easing into the thought of Freud, of which I plan to explore in depth, alongside Jung.

>>9306612
Isn't this painting actually from the Phaedo

[Anonymous No.9312141]

>>9312027
Got it off amazon it didn't advertise that cover

[Anonymous No.9312157]

>>9311387

go visit indie bookstores and hoard their custom bookmarks.

its my touristy thing to do every time i travel. bonus if you can find older or "rare" ones in used books.

[Anonymous No.9312161]

>>9308385
>Pose book with "le ebin glass of wine!!111oneoneone"

Goddamn, almost cringed hard enough to break my back.

[Anonymous No.9312253]

>>9305714
This cover has intrigued me. What's it about? How are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.9312292]

>>9310696
lol. your posing.

[Anonymous No.9312377]

You guys seem to be pretty patrician.

I've been reading only scifi and fantasy, but I want to read some more realistic stuff. I liked Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, and The Great Gatsby in high school.

What should I start with to get into regular fiction?

[Anonymous No.9312620]

>>9312377
nobody will agree but my picks are:

Robinson Crusoe
The Theban Plays
Billy Budd

[Anonymous No.9312627]

>>9312377
This list is a meme, but I nevertheless recommend Stoner, Lolita, or Crime and Punishment. All three possess beautiful prose (and assuming you don't know russian, you can at least obtain a translation of C&P with good clarity), and could turn you on the formal literature.

[Anonymous No.9312646]

>>9311387
either an index card, a post-it note folded in half, or the receipt from the book

[Anonymous No.9312649]

>>9312377
Given the books you like >>9312620
>Robinson Crusoe
seems like a good bet.

[Anonymous No.9312662]

I'm getting kind of a gay vibe from it but that's okay.

[Anonymous No.9312663]

Basically everything I can find that's written by Wildbow/JC McCrae. Finished Worm yesterday and I'm starting Pact as soon as my head stops spinning from mr wildbows wild ride.

[Anonymous No.9312664]

>>9312662

No surprise there, the author himself was bisexual

[Anonymous No.9312698]

>>9312664
I was making a funny. I've always entertained the notion that he got married and had children as a formality, stemming from his sense of duty. I could be completely wrong on this though.

In the book he writes that he was completely disinterested in the princesses in the fairy tales he read, he only cared for the princes. He was even disgusted by Joan of Arc after he found out she was a woman, which I found amusing.

[Anonymous No.9312705]

Catch-22 currently. Gone through around 20% of the book. The shit load of characters is confusing, but I dig the humor. Had some true laugh out loud moments.

[Anonymous No.9312729]

>>9304904
The part before Ishmael and Queequeg get on the boat is the best part of the book

[Anonymous No.9312989]

>>9312705
Have a good time with catch-22. Regardless of what the memers here may say it is a great book with some of the most belly laugh inducing humor I have read.

[Anonymous No.9312991]

>>9312698
>He was even disgusted by Joan of Arc after he found out she was a woman
I have similar memories. I missed out on the militaristic father and being taken away by my grandmother, thankfully.

[Anonymous No.9313045]

>>9311478
>64 dollars for a fucking bookmark
there's nothing patrician about being a fucking moron

[Anonymous No.9313058]

>>9304898
Bread book by that Growpotkin guy.

[Anonymous No.9313076]

>>9313045
Wow. I even chose something affordable you fucking poorfag. Jesus lower class scum please remove yourself.

[Anonymous No.9313082]

>>9311589
Go for Melville.

[Anonymous No.9313087]

>>9313076
If you're going to spend money on a bookmark, the only patrician thing to do is to buy the materials and make it yourself.

You embarrass me, you consummist fuck.

[Anonymous No.9313100]

That and the captain's verses by Pablo Neruda. Apologies if im a pleb, I dont come to this board very often.

[Anonymous No.9313108]

>>9306241
How much, if any, of Johnson's works have you read?

[Anonymous No.9313136]

>>9311478

That's a girly as fuck bookmark. Give me something that's a bit more manly.

[Anonymous No.9313344]

>>9313087
>>9313045
Listen, I am going to tell you something. If you are going fall for obvious bait, do it in a way that doesn't make you look like an angry poorfag. Also nothing faggier than a DIY bookmark, unless you use a hundred dollar bill coated with cocaine or something.

>>9313136
You at least fell for the bait acceptably. I cannot help you anymore but I will plant in you the seed of my knowledge. There is one thing you must do to find a more masculine bookmark: search expensive ass bookmarks in google shopping, and scroll until you find the right product.

[Anonymous No.9313348]

Got it today, is pretty good so far.

[Anonymous No.9313351]

>>9304904
If Moby-Dick doesn't blow your fuckin mind out your asshole and blast you to the WHAT dimension every other sentence you aren't smart enough to read it yet

[Anonymous No.9313362]

Pic related and "Gifts of the Desert" by Kyriacos Markedies Which is about the Author's visit to Mt. Athos

[Anonymous No.9313377]

Damn you fuckers never made the Greeks seem like this much fun!

[Anonymous No.9313379]

I'm up to St. Augustine, very interesting so far.

[Anonymous No.9313406]

storm of steel. kino prose desu

[Anonymous No.9313417]

Glamorama. The only Bret Easton Ellis novel I haven't read previously. So good.

[Anonymous No.9313422]

>>9313362
Oh hey I've been to Mount Athos. Would you recommend the book? I have some very fond memories of my trip there, highly recommended to anyone who's Orthodox

[Anonymous No.9313675]

>>9313377
>Ovid
>Greeks

[Anonymous No.9313724]

I've been reading The plague by Camus for a long time now.

[Anonymous No.9313742]

>>9312068
does yours have the Hitch introduction?
could you post photos of it ? i'd love to read it.

[Anonymous No.9313753]

>>9312161
>>9311765
I just got it off google. It's not mine. What's wrong with you people? Jelly virgins?

Why can't a man enjoy watching the sexy prose dance on the page with some madeira?

Losers.

[Anonymous No.9313763]

Hero of our time. I forgot that reading can be fun, and this book reminded me about it.

[Anonymous No.9313778]

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen.

[Anonymous No.9314043]

>>9304898

[Anonymous No.9314049]

>>9304898
: )

[Anonymous No.9314105]

>>9313675
Yeah, funny decision using a roman to start with the Greeks huh? Its not the most straightforward way, but hey I thought I would take things differently than most.
or maybe I realised my mistake soon after my post, got embarrased and didnt want to correct myself.
Just finished book one though and am having a bloody good time.

[Anonymous No.9314133]

>>9304898

[Anonymous No.9314743]

>>9313742
Hitchens' intro is nothing impressive in my opinion. It's only 10 or so pages and discusses the effects of WWI on Freud and other intellectuals. This edition does have a nice, short biography at the end though, which is worth copping this edition over another for a person just starting to read Freud. The book quality itself is nice, too, for a <200 page paperback.

[Anonymous No.9314746]

>>9304898
Fanged Noumena

[Anonymous No.9315102]

>>9313724
Not enjoying it I take it? I don't actually remember much of novel but it definitely improved in the second half

Reading pic related atm, pretty good

[Anonymous No.9315106]

>>9313422
Read Mountain of Silence first as to give an overall view of the practices there on the island and then read Gifts of the Desert.

T. Orthodox

[Anonymous No.9315119]

Tom Wolfe - A man in full.

Reminds me of Ellroy

[Anonymous No.9315125]

>>9314746
Is it readable?

[Anonymous No.9315461]

>>9315125
I don't know about readable but it's certainly entertaining.

[Anonymous No.9315514]

I'm only 100 pages in, but I've enjoyed the style so far. Plus I've already read The Collector and I enjoyed that.

[Anonymous No.9315518]

>>9305276
how is nausea. I want to read it but my library doesnt have it. I tried reading "The Age of Reason" but didn't get far in because of exams.

[Anonymous No.9315579]

Guys!! I think he >>9310554 is on to something!

But seriously, love that book; nicer in the latin though.

[Anonymous No.9315598]

Just finished:
On the Road
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Reading now:
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Winters Tale
Purgatory from Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.9315608]

>>9311631
umm, missing something?

[Anonymous No.9315611]

Stupid question, I know, but if Plato only wrote about dialogues between two other characters what makes him a philosopher? I am just getting into Greek philosophy, and all his works I have read so far are about other people saying things.

[Anonymous No.9315614]

>>9311664
if you know the secrets of the universe why do you feel the need to read apollonius?

Also the symposium is excellent.

[Anonymous No.9315621]

>>9305934
Man Polish is the easiest to guess. If it looks vaguely slavic and has shit ton of w's it's Polish.

[Anonymous No.9315636]

>>9308013
this is the most boring book of the series

[Anonymous No.9315670]

>>9315611
its only the form in which he chose to present his ideas. if the ideas are there, why not call him a philosopher?

[Anonymous No.9315808]

>>9313379
>Bertrand Russel
Does his bias show in the book?

[Anonymous No.9315816]

>>9315611
Because he used them as a vessel to put forth his own ideas. Nothing in any of the speeches were recorded verbatim, nor were they intended to be.

[Anonymous No.9315817]

>>9315808
god yes

[Anonymous No.9315827]

>>9315817
That's a shame. It sounds like it would be a intriguing book if it avoided judging the different philosophical movements.

[Anonymous No.9315935]

The first three half of this book was damn fun. Any similar books?

[Anonymous No.9315947]

>>9315827
You can still read it, just be as critical with Russell as I assume you would be reading any other text. In particular, after his discussion of Hume - which from what I remember is the last chapter in which he at least attempts some kind of impartiality - take the rest of the content of the book with a huge grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.9315962]

>>9315947
what he said.

his discourse on Nietzsche is just...bad. he completely missed 3/4ths of the dudes philosophy and focused on one tiny portion of it and used that for his whole basis.

also Russell infamously left out Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, and I'm making the assumption that it was because they were both christians. I do know the last time Russell spoke with W. was when he was released from prison in Italy. W. told Russell he'd converted to christianity and Russell thereby dropped him. I think they spoke in letters from there on only. this left a really bad taste in my mouth for Russell. he has strong biases that he does not care to overcome.

[Anonymous No.9316008]

>>9310068
I enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.9316950]

it's alright, much longer than it needs to be.

I think I'm going to take a break from fiction after I finish it.

[Anonymous No.9317260]

>>9315611
Written philosophy was a new concept, drama was popular at the time