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Books Anonymous Mon May 26 23:25:26 2014 No.8279571 [DELETED]

What does /fa/ read?

I'm looking for this book someone was talking about on here. Cover was angular and looked intellectual. Help me out.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:25:55 2014 No.8279572 File: 237 KB, 570x831, o-TOPLESS-577.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279571

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:30:13 2014 No.8279580 >>8279571 i would read those tits all day long without a cig break at all, pure literature cultivation for sure anyways, i was reading The Garden and The Tower by Alberto Chimal, good shit, idk why i stopped, maybe because of school and shit

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:31:03 2014 No.8279584 File: 118 KB, 290x413, pynchon-v.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279571 my favorite novel is V. about to start Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad >Cover was angular and looked intellectual. that's all you have? it could be fucking anything

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:39:18 2014 No.8279611 >>8279571 I never got the chance to read American Psycho, been wanting to for a long time, but now I don't want to as much since I found out it's a fucking meme book.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:40:18 2014 No.8279615 >>8279571 finished cat's cradle last week was okay slaughterhouse five was way better Started on on the road Fuckin worst book ever...fuckin "white lazy ppl who needs a job the book"

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:43:54 2014 No.8279627 WHERE THE HELL IS POET :(((((

Anonymous Mon May 26 23:48:35 2014 No.8279644

>>8279615
>Started on on the road. Fuckin worst book ever

I wouldn't go that far. It has occasional flashes of brilliance in here and there, mostly when Kerouac's enthusiasm about travel and the experiences that brings comes to the fore, but it was a definite let down and mostly a bore.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:58:14 2014 No.8279682 >>8279627 Making some pretty amazing music, last I heard.

Anonymous Mon May 26 23:59:06 2014 No.8279689

Still trying to finish Don Quixote but it's so tedious. You read for pages and pages and only come across something moderately funny once.

I also have the link for the Virtue of Selfishness saved because I feel as though I am in need of a rereading, what with my recent lack of self-esteem. Ayn Rand is good for that sort of thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 23:59:28 2014 No.8279690 I'm buying Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicles tomorrow B)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:00:20 2014 No.8279695 >>8279682 any info about him? i know its hard to contact him, but tumblr or somthing?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:00:22 2014 No.8279697 >>8279689 >Ayn Rand i hope you are reading her ironically

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:00:36 2014 No.8279699 >>8279689 Don Quixote is boring m8, i tried to read it once, i couldnt get further than the part where he gets crazy and starts playing with his old swords

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:01:18 2014 No.8279702 >>8279571 I think I know the book OP was talking about. People called it a "meme" book. Edgy. Dark. Can't put my finger on it

>>	Blueberry !kDGHoSy8DE Tue May 27 00:01:51 2014 No.8279704 read the side of paradise by fitergerald. Im on his short stories right now. Other favorites >catcher in the rye >slaughterhouse five >harry motherfucking potter >1984 >of mice and men overrated as shit >on the road

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:02:13 2014 No.8279705 >>8279690 >Murakami I've only read Norwegian Wood, and didn't think much of it tbh. Also, either his descriptions of sex are terrible or there is something lost in the translation. Is it worth diving into more of his work?

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:02:50 2014 No.8279707

>>8279584

oh man dude I want to read that and gravity's rainbow so badly, but I'm scared, seems to daunting the both of them.

I just read inherent vice and love it but even that was confusing at points and thats supposed to be on of pynchons more accessible novels.

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:04:29 2014 No.8279713

>>8279704
>1984
noice, i got my mind blown after i finished it, you can correlate so many things with the real world

>BB is the US president or Angela Merkel
>the ministries are each institution of eery country
>the ambience is the bad side of capitalism
>the war is the everlasting violence in the world
>Ingsoc is the brainwashing

i wont go on because i would go full autism and thats unfa

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:04:36 2014 No.8279714 File: 25 KB, 304x500, No_Longer_Human_(Osamu_Dazai_novel)_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is my favorite book. Read this.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:05:52 2014 No.8279721 >>8279704 Know of any dark/int books. Psychological and strange to read? Like The Stranger but more modern?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:06:26 2014 No.8279723 >>8279705 I'm not sure, as I've only read 1Q84 so far, which I enjoyed. If I like this one then I'll probably read Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore soon.

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:11:06 2014 No.8279740

>>8279707
V.'s not so bad in that regard; the perfect warm-up for Gravity's Rainbow. Honestly, Gravity's Rainbow isn't too difficult, either, though it can get dense and have these huge slabs of text (I think I remember one paragraph going on for like 5 or 6 pages, but goddamned if it wasn't magnificent). The only problems I remember having about keeping track of things was some stuff in the past concerning the S-Gerät and unit 00000 and the last section of the novel is pretty fragmented.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:11:49 2014 No.8279743 >>8279704 I really hope you're reading/going to read Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams". It's beautiful and I think about it often.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:12:50 2014 No.8279746 >>8279705 >>8279723 Although Norwegian Wood is Murakami's most famous novel, it's not really representative of his work. It's pretty much just a standard Coming-Of-Age story.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:13:52 2014 No.8279750 >>8279695 there are a few people on the board who know where his music can be heard & maybe 4-5 who he reqularly speaks with The dude is a ghost as of late and I think he just wants to be left alone

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:14:26 2014 No.8279752 >>8279746 thanks for clarifying. I do remember reading somewhere that he predicted it would be a hit novel

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:23:30 2014 No.8279773

>>8279571

If you really want to be /fa/ in terms of books, you need to be familiar with all of the greats (note: everything you should have read in HS and College, along with books you see referenced in popular culture, such as "1984").

From there, go and develop your taste. Stay away from trashy romances and shitty tween novels, and you'll be fine. Just be *expansive,* in your reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:26:46 2014 No.8279784 just read "ape and essence" yesterday, it's another huxley distopia. pretty dope imo. reads like a terry gilliam film.

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:27:31 2014 No.8279787

>>8279705
I've only read a few of his books, by Norwegian Wood is my least favorite, and the only one I didn't like.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is my favorite. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and short story collection after the quake are good, too. Also fond of Sputnik Sweetheart, though the writing isn't as good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:36:24 2014 No.8279816 >>8279695 >>8279750 kek he has a soundcloud u fuggen nerds https://soundcloud.com/kingscountylighthouse

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:38:38 2014 No.8279825 File: 33 KB, 307x475, 49552.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279571 Just finishing 'In the First Circle' and I intend on starting 'In Search of Lost Time' next. Is pic related the angular novel you saw discussed?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:40:01 2014 No.8279830 File: 43 KB, 324x500, the-stranger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of my favorite tales. Also very angular.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:41:11 2014 No.8279833 >>8279825 >>8279830 are you me?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:41:38 2014 No.8279836 >>8279816 >https://soundcloud.com/kingscountylighthouse HOLY MOLY POET IS GOD DUDE HE IS FUCKING GOD we have to start an oficial /fa/ church

Anonymous Tue May 27 00:41:52 2014 No.8279837

>>8279699
>>8279689

thanks for making me feel better about my own inability to finish quixote. everyone's like "YO the edith grossman translation though" and I just feel bad about not wanting to make it through.

reading doesn't seem very fashionable. knowledge doesn't seem very fashionable either, for that matter. I suppose that reading something that tao lin or his pals put out would be considered fashionable because it straddles mainstream and underground pretty well. you'll get knowing looks reading it on the subway in the same way that joy division shirt elicits a response

i'm currently reading the town and the city by kerouac, his first novel before he did beat generation stuff. before that, notes from underground and a biography on gacy

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:53:53 2014 No.8279886 File: 1.50 MB, 299x168, 1400711898016.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279836 >we have to start an oficial /fa/ church s m d h faggots like you are why good posters dont stay

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 00:55:00 2014 No.8279890 File: 98 KB, 400x648, 9780312983321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] currently reading this

Anonymous Tue May 27 01:03:57 2014 No.8279923

>>8279837
>reading doesn't seem very fashionable. knowledge doesn't seem very fashionable either, for that matter.

if that's the case, being an ignorant, uncultured pleb is even less /fa/.

being well-read and applying all sorts of knowledge correctly in a conversation, as in not looking like a poindexter know-it-all trying to impress, is /fa/ as fuck

>tao lin
my fucking sides

>>	stag !yuN2yghJ4E Tue May 27 01:08:34 2014 No.8279936 File: 18 KB, 182x276, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My latest read

Anonymous Tue May 27 01:10:53 2014 No.8279942

>>8279837
I would think someone reading Tao lin is a tasteless faggot the same way I think someone wearing a joy division tee is a tasteless faggot
/fa/ is reading lesser known works by good authors. It shows you're not just reading what best of lists have told you to,and that you have your own taste

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:11:48 2014 No.8279944 >>8279890 i love frost! this may be one of my all time favorite poems http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173524

Anonymous Tue May 27 01:13:32 2014 No.8279949

>>8279571
the /fa/ book threads are always shitfests and i hate them because it's a stupid idea for a thread (the obvious answer is anything good, the more classical literature you know the better and if you read contemporary lit mags and journals it's ideal) but where 2 cop qt shirtless central park gf

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:15:14 2014 No.8279957 >>8279942 >/fa/ is reading lesser known works based on this thread, /fa/ is reading mostly classic or well-regarded contemporary works. a surprisingly solid list of titles tbh, but nothing exactly obscure.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:15:24 2014 No.8279958 File: 43 KB, 321x500, 51JF1gGjMgL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love this book. Does anyone have any sci-fi recommendations for some summer reading?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:18:23 2014 No.8279973 >>8279958 Roadside Picnic was a good read, the movie/games are great aswell.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:19:09 2014 No.8279974 File: 40 KB, 325x500, 51FXrAJeA7L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279958 more on the humorous side, but still thought-provoking. admittedly, i'm not a huge sci-fi guy but i thoroughly enjoyed these stories.

Anonymous Tue May 27 01:37:05 2014 No.8280030

>>8279957
I think well-regarded contemporary works are decidedly more /fa/. /fa/, from my perspective, rejects popular contemporary fashion brands; respects the quality and longevity of some great older fashion houses (Lanvin, CDG etc.) but ultimately identifies with newer, more relevant designers with very individual style and flair (Rick Owens, Raf Simons, usually what we're dressed in). I think Gaddis, Gass, Pynchon, Barth, DeLilo etc. are to literature what a lot of /fa/'s favourite designers are to fashion, whilst the classics, still great in their own right, are something that a far broader market can readily identify with.

Anonymous Tue May 27 01:49:25 2014 No.8280073

>>8279615
Haha dude are you me?
Just finished On The Road 5 minutes ago. I found the start really boring but gets better towards the end. The last part is actually quite good and I feel a bit empty having finished it. Persevere, it's pretty good but doesn't live up to the hype.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:50:42 2014 No.8280077 File: 22 KB, 200x301, Rama_copy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279973 >>8279974 Thanks, guys. I'll check those out.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 01:50:58 2014 No.8280079 enjoying runoske akutagawa's novels very /fa/ pretty short perfect for reading on a bus/while waiting for someone, or while smoking a cig, they are literally that short

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:00:19 2014 No.8280104 reading and enjoying the wind up bird chronicle want to start kafka on the shore soon, both are by murakami. norwegian wood is also worth checking out.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:11:50 2014 No.8280129 >>8280104 oh lord dont fucking read murakami overrated trash this is like drinking starbucks or listening to arctic monkeys etc etc

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:12:28 2014 No.8280132 >>8279713 How's the 10th grade going?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:13:34 2014 No.8280137 >>8279713 having your mind blown after fiunishing 1984 is unfa babbys first book

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:17:45 2014 No.8280149 >>8280129 recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:32:12 2014 No.8280179 >>8280149 wittgenstein

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:40:30 2014 No.8280201 >>8280149 heidegger

Anonymous Tue May 27 02:42:10 2014 No.8280205

>>8279723
>>8279746
>>8279787

I thought Norwegian Wood was good but as has already been said it's a very standard story. I think I liked it mostly because I was reading it during a period in my life where I could relate to it.

I found The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to be too un-focused in terms being a compelling narrative. I enjoyed the surrealism of it though.

My favourite Murakami is Kafka On The Shore. I think it has the best blend of enjoyable narrative, surrealism, and interesting characters.

I think the best novel I've ever read would have to be The Grapes Of Wrath, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, or Master And Margarita. Maybe The Brothers Karamazov. All pretty cliche choices but whatever, they're great books.

Anonymous Tue May 27 02:47:27 2014 No.8280215

>>8280201
no, dont listen to this nignog.
>>8280205
blah blah

m&m = shit, not even best nabokov book, not even 2nd best

wont even comment on gow

and you put bk in this pile of shit?

oh well, I guess tastes differ and all.

dont bother reading anything from his list, maybe bk if you want to.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:53:02 2014 No.8280236 >>8280215 >m&m >nabokov >eheheheheheh dumby

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:54:07 2014 No.8280237 >>8280215 What are your favourite books? Always keen for recs. Nabokov didn't write M&M by the way. Nice bait or whatever. What Nabokov do you like though? Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada Or Ardor are all very good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 02:56:05 2014 No.8280243 >>8280237 I'm not this dude, but The Luzhin Defense is worth reading too.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:02:44 2014 No.8280264 >>8280236 >not understanding the reference I didnt expect you to anyways, too witty and inside. >>8280237 camus, beckett, picrelated, dostoevsky pretty much anything by them I can continue with less liked by me but still great authors :^)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:04:24 2014 No.8280268 >>8280215 whats wrong with the supreme nazi philosopher

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:05:09 2014 No.8280269 File: 35 KB, 318x521, 753718_2879735.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] last book I read

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:05:42 2014 No.8280271 >>8279611 Well don't read it then you stupid cunt

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:06:16 2014 No.8280275 >>8280269 congrats on graduating from 8th class! enjoy ur summer! you might want to read 1984 or brave new world while you're at it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:08:17 2014 No.8280280 >>8280275 >shitposting >recommending baby's first books

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:08:49 2014 No.8280283 File: 16 KB, 250x366, 250px-Lesdeuxetendards.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm reading this >best seller in France during the occupation >now an almost forbidden book, because of alleged antisemitism I find it very powerful

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:09:46 2014 No.8280285 >>8280280 it's called irony very close to sarcasm actually, which probably is one of your favorite forms of humor, considering how it is also the lowest form possible.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:10:28 2014 No.8280289 >>8279571 lol fat chick eating a cake typical

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:11:16 2014 No.8280292 >>8280280 >not realising that recommending babby's first books was the main joke in the shitpost

Anonymous Tue May 27 03:11:29 2014 No.8280293

>>8279837
i´m a spanish speaker and trust me, its boring even in its original lenguage, its tedious as fuck, it tries to explain every bit of everything, i know sometimes it works but every two seconds you´re reading the description of an object or an even

being culutrued is /fa/ as fuck m9, just act cool with it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 03:13:25 2014 No.8280295 Currently enjoying Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb I tend to pick up books on a whim or spate of interest in an idea or topic I'm also in the middle of Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust, but but now that I'm on book four of seven I'm losing momentum

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 04:51:41 2014 No.8280517 >>8279942 fuck off richard yates was cool in places

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 05:13:47 2014 No.8280585 File: 63 KB, 430x648, cryingof.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8279707 go with pic related difficult but short and sweet

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 05:20:45 2014 No.8280609 Currently reading 'All the Kings Men' By Robert Penn Warren and 'A Conflict of Visions' by Thomas Sowell.

>>	Σ▼ƦƟ/ƒ▲/Ğ Tue May 27 05:22:26 2014 No.8280615 File: 21 KB, 246x400, shooting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Enjoyable short-reads. Good shit. Got Paradise Lost lying around too but don't think i'm going to dive into that anytime soon.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:23:13 2014 No.8281445 im reading tristram shandy its fucking gr8 but also very very hard to understand and sometimes i have to read a chapter 3 or 4 times to get it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:29:50 2014 No.8281458 File: 15 KB, 181x279, index.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue May 27 10:37:12 2014 No.8281469

>>8279816
p good instrumental hip-hop. Definitely liking the eastern influence, almost getting a bit of a Nujabes vibe from it.
Loving the sampling on Criminal Slang Mix.
Not really traversing new ground, though. Seems like something Blue Sky Black Death could've done if they had marathoned Samurai Champloo before recording.
I'm feeling a decent to strong 6 on his work so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:37:50 2014 No.8281470 >>>/lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:39:42 2014 No.8281473 >>8279690 Just finished it, its fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:41:41 2014 No.8281477 >>8279705 Try Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It reads extremely fast, and is much more interesting thematically and stylistically than Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Wood is so unlike everything else Murakami has done, its so bland in comparison.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 10:48:58 2014 No.8281489 >>8279571 I don't read because novels annoy me. The way they try to babby you into their points rather than flat out simply state them is bothersome to me. That's what I like about Locke, he gets to his fucking point.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 11:01:33 2014 No.8281506 WInnie the Pooh by Milne. Every year at least once.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 11:04:11 2014 No.8281517 >>8279704 How's high-school you fucking pleb?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 11:05:30 2014 No.8281521 >>8279721 Anything Kafka, except they're not very modern.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 11:24:04 2014 No.8281569 >>8279721 Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih is extremely psychological. Then there's the obvious: Pynchon, Delillo, Borges.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 11:45:15 2014 No.8281614 File: 51 KB, 299x493, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] w2c sandtrout exoskeleton?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 12:00:12 2014 No.8281639 >>8280179 l m a o m a o

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 12:02:29 2014 No.8281646 >>8280179 >>8280201 /lit/ pls

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 12:03:34 2014 No.8281648 I'm reading Thoreau's "Walden".

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 12:04:16 2014 No.8281650 File: 115 KB, 412x750, tumblr_n5mt7zD8Co1remgeeo1_500[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8281614 gotta try to swallow in a dry throat bro

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 12:41:13 2014 No.8281771 I'm currently reading about post modern minimalism. Good stuff :)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 13:15:29 2014 No.8281862 >>8279611 Just ordered it, it's supposed to be really good. Just fucking read it if you're interested, don't let others judge you by the books you're interested in.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 13:16:36 2014 No.8281866 >>8281862 >Bret Easton Ellis >good

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 13:23:53 2014 No.8281881 >>8281866 >not liking blank fiction It really is the most effay genre.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 14:50:16 2014 No.8282103 >>8279714 tryhard-core

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 14:52:07 2014 No.8282109 File: 896 KB, 855x1393, 0967ffee0d5f890bc395d451a67feab8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yeah im a bitch lol

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 14:58:20 2014 No.8282130 >>8281866 bret easton ellis is shit but american psycho is excellent

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 14:58:46 2014 No.8282134 >>8279702 House of Leaves maybe

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 15:00:02 2014 No.8282140 a lot of Bret Easton Ellis. kinda borderline obsessed with american psycho

Anonymous Tue May 27 16:29:23 2014 No.8282546
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I'm waiting on pic related to ship.

In the meanwhile I've been reading comics\graphic novels: I just finished the complete Persepolis last night and finished Sweet Tooth a couple days ago.
Going to start reading Annihilation either tonight or tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 16:37:08 2014 No.8282584 >not just reading whatever the fuck you want I'm reading Xenophon's Anabasis, I've just finished Steinbeck's East of Eden and next up is Homage to Catalonia by Orwell so just fucking read books, son

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 16:38:57 2014 No.8282590 >>8279833 You are the only person that has ever read The Stranger.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 16:44:01 2014 No.8282602 >>8282546 tryhard

>>	aiouh !!2EBwZerKFLu Tue May 27 16:47:21 2014 No.8282616 I just finished Sputnik Sweetheart I am just gonna pretend to get it but can somebody tell me what happened is Miu Sumire's mom

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 16:48:01 2014 No.8282620 >>8282602 >only person in the thread to mention comics Who am I trying for?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 16:55:48 2014 No.8282649 >>8282616 >is Miu Sumire's mom Where the hell did you get that idea?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 17:15:31 2014 No.8282716 >>8279713 Brave New World >1984

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 17:22:13 2014 No.8282736 I just read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. If anybody's read this, I'd like to have somebody to talk about it with briefly.

>>	zachipster Tue May 27 17:33:06 2014 No.8282768 Just ordered infinite jest cause i read some quotes on wikitionary and i think it will resonate with me :3

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 17:34:18 2014 No.8282773 File: 58 KB, 800x1323, forside-de-besatte.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw i dont russki

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 17:36:54 2014 No.8282788 >>8280275 >>8280269 C&P is babby's first? I always thought of it as kind of dense. I know the original Russian is extremely hard to read for non-mothertongue speakers.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 17:53:59 2014 No.8282849 >>8282788 My high school English class taught it Junior year. And I'm an American.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:11:38 2014 No.8282911 >>8282849 I'm kinda jealous then. Junior year of highschool for us we did Shakespeare and The Wars.

Anonymous Tue May 27 18:15:24 2014 No.8282931

>>8282736
man I felt so cheated when I watched the movie and realised it was based on a book, such a beautiful movie would've loved to have read the book first. I was actually reading The Last Remains of Day a while ago though

Is it worth reading Never Let Me Go?

Anonymous Tue May 27 18:27:05 2014 No.8282976

>>8282931
The language is quite a joy to read actually; even though it may sometimes seem just like a little girl's middleschool journal. I'm not sure what part of the movie you liked, but if you thought the character building and plot were nice, then let me assure you that there is plenty of that in the book.

I actually really disliked the book, but I think I know why. Again -- not sure how the movie played out -- but the entire book was essentially 100% a piece about nostalgia. I think it tried to simulate the different feelings you get along with nostalgia: the grief of regret, the joy of remembering something beautiful, the annoyance of not having appreciated things back when you still had them. It even seems to simulate the catharsis experienced when a loose end from your childhood is finally tied in your adult life.
The problem I experienced -- and you may not at all find this to be a factor -- is that I felt as though it was written from the perspective of a middle-aged woman and written for middle-aged women, because I certainly have never felt nostalgia to the almost sickeningly sweet level that Kathy did.

Additionally, the book I'm sure is entirely unlike the movie in that it is very understated and slow, almost plodding. The entire second part of the book seems basically like a sexual fantasy (another reason why I thought it was written for middle-aged women) and was a chore to read. The ending, given the slow nature of the rest of the book, was so unexpectedly quick and convenient that I could hardly take it seriously.

Of course, since you liked the movie, it is entirely possible that you will see a beauty in it that I never got.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:29:57 2014 No.8282988 File: 938 KB, 824x1200, Captain-Underpants-Talking-Toilets.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] starting to read this. language is a bit hard to understand tho

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:31:47 2014 No.8282992 >>8282976 actually feel kinda the same way about Last Remains Of Day, wasn't really enjoying it all that much, guess I might just give it a miss.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:33:43 2014 No.8283001 >>8282988 but the flip pages are worth it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:38:35 2014 No.8283016 just finished Dubliners about to wrap up Thus Spoke Zarathustra on second read of Ulysses have a huge stack of books to read, will decide on the next one when I get there I guess

Anonymous Tue May 27 18:39:37 2014 No.8283022
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>>8282988
lmao what did the kids have to do to get the principal to turn into captain underpants

> morris gleitzman
> paul jennings
> andy griffiths

GOAT authors

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:41:36 2014 No.8283032 >>8282988 only books I ever bought from the book fair

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:44:26 2014 No.8283041 >>8283022 they hypnotise their principal which turns him into captain underpants

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:49:09 2014 No.8283057 >>8279571 Classic Russian literature. Amazing stuff, way better if read in original version (I'm slav)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 18:51:06 2014 No.8283064 >>8282988 right in the nostalgia....

Anonymous Tue May 27 19:00:47 2014 No.8283088

>>8279923

yeah, i guess that feeds back into sprezzatura/ability as a proxy for "being /fa/." When I was writing my comment, I kind of thought of "being /fa/" in the terms of being a person who frequents this board, not their ideal. whopps.

>>8279942

what about the dude who really likes joy division, or really likes tao lin? do they have to become EVEN MORE underground for the sake of it to deserve respect? (the answer is yes, i think, but it shouldn't have to be that. i spose that the notion of the graphic tee as fashionable comes from its communication of "muh secret club" where if you signify something nobody knows, it's useless, and if you signify something everybody knows, there's no genius bonus in recognizing it). Either way, if you're laughing at a person for liking tao lin, whose biggest novel has sold in the 5 figures, you're gonna have a difficult time find people to talk about lit with in real life.

>>8280293

that's good to know. It's like shakespeare, in that I'm continually noticing how cervantes is changing the game, but from an intellectually distant rather than entertained standpoint.

Anonymous Tue May 27 19:19:59 2014 No.8283167

>>8282768
>[1]just ordered infinite jest[2] cause i read some quotes on wikitionary and i think it will resonate with me :3

Not sure if serious[3].

Anyways, it's a decent book (though "tome" might be more appropriate)[4]. I think /lit/ hates it for some reason. It and Wallace are its ITAOTS.[5]

[1] Greentext: a method of quoting on the imageboard 4chan[a], often done to convey condescension or highlight implications. In this case: express incredulity.
[2] A novel by David Foster Wallace [Little, Brown and Company, 1996]. ISBN: 0-316-92004-5. 1079 pp.
[3] A frequent dilemma in text-based communications, where nuances in voice, body language, etc., are lost, and tone, and thus meaning to a significant extent, becomes difficult to gauge accurately. Especially troublesome on the internet and when messages are punctuated with annoying little emoticons.[b]
[4] It isn't; just hyperbole referencing the novel's 1000+ page length.
[5] The album In the Aeroplace Over the Sea [Merge, 1998] by Neutral Milk Hotel. A divisive album infinitely posted in jest on the /mu/ imageboard of 4chan.
[a] http://www.4chan.org.. The "asshole of the internet." Launched in 2003 as a place to discuss anime, manga, and other detritus of Japanese pop culture, but quickly exploded in popularity and expanded to cover other areas of interest. Perhaps most famous for the notorious /b/ imageboard, association with the hacktivist group Anonymous, and for creating and popularizing many internet memes to be used on the social news site Reddit.
[b] Everything is just drenched in irony these days.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 19:39:45 2014 No.8283221 File: 12 KB, 186x271, shocker-on-shock-street.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8283032 >only books I ever bought from the book fair >not buying Goosebumps ISHYGDDT

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 19:41:50 2014 No.8283227 >>8283221 AYAOTD >>>>>>>> Goosebumps

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 19:51:10 2014 No.8283253 >>8279837 >you'll get knowing looks reading it on the subway all you will get are looks of contempt, pal

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 20:02:56 2014 No.8283278 >>8283221 fuck yes r l stine is my nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 20:06:40 2014 No.8283288 File: 73 KB, 318x471, 17560343[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's actually really funny at points. A short read that would suit someone interested in #menswear or preppy styles.

Anonymous Tue May 27 20:12:25 2014 No.8283306
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>>8280275
What the fuck is this? So what if 1984 is read at school, it's a fucking classic of dystopian lit that should be read by everybody. Are you seriously demeaning someone's taste because the book they're reading is well-known?

Fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 20:13:33 2014 No.8283312 >>8283167 >Infinite Jest[1] [1] tl;dr

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 20:14:35 2014 No.8283316 My favorite book is Blood Meridian. I pretty much love all of Cormac McCarthy's book. Another pretty /fa/ read is Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 20:15:15 2014 No.8283319 File: 32 KB, 250x400, three-men-in-a-boat-jerome-jerome-k-97801400121321[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8283288 Shit, that's not Based Jerome k Jerome. I meant to post this.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 22:30:55 2014 No.8283932 >>8279958 Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" nothing at all like the movie; its a very good read

>>	Anonymous Tue May 27 22:58:35 2014 No.8284018 >>8279571 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/topless-book-club-new-york-photos-nsfw_n_5267320.html

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 01:50:07 2014 No.8284535 File: 23 KB, 324x450, light-in-august2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8283167 underrated post >>8283312 lel

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 01:54:11 2014 No.8284547 >>8279615 pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 11:43:44 2014 No.8285804 File: 189 KB, 1100x480, dfw-impersonation.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8283167 6/10, for effort mostly

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 11:51:35 2014 No.8285831 Anything by T.S Elliot Sophies world Foundation series Lots of assorted short stories

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 12:00:39 2014 No.8285861 >>8279571 Just finished Homo Economicus: Prophète égaré d'un temps nouveau by Daniel Cohen. I don't know if it's available in English but it was an interesting read. Now I just started Le Procès by Franz Kafka and so far I really enjoy it

>>	zachipster Wed May 28 12:06:11 2014 No.8285876 >>8283167 nah im being serious i read some quotes that were relevant to things i spend a lot of time thinking about. :3 and i thought /lit/ liked foster wallace

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 13:31:24 2014 No.8286124 File: 42 KB, 504x317, Gibson_sprawl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >neuromancer hasn't been mentioned yet I am dissapoint

Anonymous Wed May 28 14:52:36 2014 No.8286356

>>8279936
great choice

i'm so pissed off, my kindle has fucked up and i was partway through gravity's rainbow

Looking forward to finishing uni tomorrow and having the time to read for pleasure. Got White Noise by DeLillo, Oscar Wao by Diaz, the David Byrne book about music and a couple of other bits lined up.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 14:54:17 2014 No.8286361 >>8281866 He's amusing.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 14:55:02 2014 No.8286364 File: 81 KB, 797x1232, 9803.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] readin it for like 10th time

>>	/fa/scist faggot !!ovdI0id3NeK Wed May 28 14:55:31 2014 No.8286367 File: 27 KB, 344x500, the path to power_caro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tackling the monster.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 14:56:58 2014 No.8286376 >>8283167 strong post

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:00:14 2014 No.8286392 >>8286124 His newest trilogy is obviously most /fa/

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:11:52 2014 No.8286643 >>8279723 Great Murakami is Hard-boiled Wonderland And the End Of The World ... or ... Kafka on the Shore. Two greats. Also, less weird ones are Wild Sheep Chase, and its sequel, Dance Dance Dance.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:45:49 2014 No.8286759 What's some Sub-200 page books? Sat down and read >>8279825 and it was pretty good. Collections of short stories also work well.

Anonymous Wed May 28 16:56:09 2014 No.8286811
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almost finished with this. pretty good, very engaging characters. rec'd if you're looking for a long read. going to read Simulacra and Simulation next, followed by The Goldfinch. I like to alternate reading fiction novels and philosophical tracts. feel like it keeps my critical reading sharp.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:58:06 2014 No.8286817 File: 442 KB, 1593x2000, Émile_Zola_by_Carjat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Emile Zola's books are truly effay.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:58:55 2014 No.8286819 >>8286817 he looks pretty fa himself

Anonymous Wed May 28 17:02:13 2014 No.8286830

>>8279690
I didn't like it, but assuming you're >>8279723
and liked 1Q84 you will probably like it.

Norwegian Wood is a totally different type of book than the rest he has written though, just so you know. It's a rather mediocre book about a Japanese guy growing up in the '60s + some melodrama. It's not at all like the rest.

Anonymous Wed May 28 17:02:57 2014 No.8286833
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recently finished naked lunch, the sun also rises and dracula (lol)

currently reading descartes' discourse and game of thrones. it's pretty shite but i'm on the 5th one for some reason

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:19:32 2014 No.8286888 >>8286124 Neuromancer is shit!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:32:08 2014 No.8286947 >>8279714 modest memory?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:00:53 2014 No.8287040 >>8286830 norwegian wood is easily the best book he has written

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:02:16 2014 No.8287044 >>8286888 shut your whore mouth

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:04:50 2014 No.8287058 only /fa/ dystopias are Iron Heel and We.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:35:50 2014 No.8287188 just finished Flatland, reading Flatterland now. Idc if it's spergy, that dimension shit is interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:37:29 2014 No.8287196 Just read Ubik, pretty good book

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:39:21 2014 No.8287423 >>8280293 pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:51:44 2014 No.8287467 >>8279721 Try Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 21:17:45 2014 No.8287759 >>8287467 >footnotes the book

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 21:23:43 2014 No.8287782 File: 96 KB, 436x311, mw1_danielewski.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8287759 That reminds me, House Of Leaves was a pretty enjoyable book. /fa/ too I guess.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:01:32 2014 No.8287911 >>8285804 >>8283167 lel

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:06:15 2014 No.8287924 File: 569 KB, 968x1600, connect w girls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] been reading this, hasn't gotten me into any conversations yet but its small and super interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:13:41 2014 No.8287952 File: 34 KB, 297x446, Blade_Runner_poster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Read the "Blade Runner" novelization and I loved it. I'm thinking of reading the rest of "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", does anyone know anything about it?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:24:16 2014 No.8287989 >>8287952 I absolutely love Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? You should definitely give it a read. It's short too so you have nothing to lose.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:34:00 2014 No.8288035 Read Froth on the Daydream yesterday. Absolutely great read, a bit on the ~quirky side, but Vian is an incredibly engaging writer. Would definitely recommend.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:38:32 2014 No.8288062 >>8287989 Alright, thanks. I'll download it or something. Read it on the bus around town.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:40:59 2014 No.8288069 Perfume by Süskind, anyone?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 22:53:19 2014 No.8288122 Anybody read the M. Gira book?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 23:02:25 2014 No.8288164 File: 105 KB, 261x400, orwell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] a very /fa/ page turner. orwells account of working in parisian hotels in 1900s then living as a hobo.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 23:02:43 2014 No.8288168 >>8288069 das ist gut.

>>	nothin str8 bout her but her p(...) Wed May 28 23:24:26 2014 No.8288268 File: 199 KB, 500x500, 00 - Mac_Miller_Faces-front-large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dostoevsky is a good start to /lit/. Any stoic philosophy text is bound to be good. Vonnegut's my guilty pleasure.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 23:35:59 2014 No.8288305 Any good fashion, scifi, heartwarming/d'aww worthy or nostalgia giving stuff you'd rec?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 00:19:43 2014 No.8288435 >reading any fiction aside from Shakespeare, Joyce, Homer, Proust, Dostoevsky, Cervantes, and Tolstoy >being /fa/ Anyways I just started the Bible. I'm about half way through Genesis and it's boring as fuck.

Anonymous Thu May 29 00:23:09 2014 No.8288443

>>8279704
>likes 1984
>boring-as-fuck-prose of mice and men
>harry potter. lol.
>but somehow stupid new trip #9348399234 thinks on the road, one of the most inspiring and honest books of the beat generation is overrated.
i bet you had to read all of those for highschool bitch. meet me outside of uniqlo before your bed time.

>>	uuuuhhhh Thu May 29 00:24:08 2014 No.8288450 I'm reading das kapital and ignoring the politics this is the worst written piece of shit ever

>>	Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 Thu May 29 00:36:02 2014 No.8288484 >>8288443 Liking 1984 isn't an indication of plebiness. It's a fucking great novel, and geniuses like Czeslaw Milosz would say the same

nothin str8 bout her but her p(...) Thu May 29 01:20:39 2014 No.8288603

>>8288305
Jacking off would be a better use of your time than reading anything that pleb.

>>8288450
It's Karl Marx, what do you expect. Karl Marx is circle jerked by pleb cc sluts.

>>8288484
Lmao it is exactly an indication of plebness u pleb.
>So and so says it's good
"It must be good!"

Think for your self pleb. Czeslaw Milosz was a salmon.

Anonymous Thu May 29 01:32:31 2014 No.8288649

>>8288443
Of Mice & Men was great, honestly. Those required reading books in high school were chosen for a reason, mostly because they exemplify certain qualities worth studying in literature-- all other reasons are secondary to that.
It sounds like you're trolling but I'll bite: McCarthy's writing seems hit or miss-- I feel like it goes over people's heads-- mostly the uneducated. It reads awkward and is filled with redundancies-- littered with vocabulary words you'd find in a middle school textbook and nothing beyond. It's a style, sure, that can be praised for certain aesthetics by people who know anything about literature, but it seems mostly to appeal to the uneducated or every-day-man/woman who want to feel smart by keeping up with a cookie-cutter best seller that panders to their level of comprehension.

tl:dr The Road is actually overrated by the majority that read it

Hop off McCarthy's dick sometime; there's some pretty great writers out there.

Anonymous Thu May 29 01:47:10 2014 No.8288706

>>8288649
>but it seems to appeal to the uneducated
>cookie-cutter best seller that panders to their level of comprehension
lol, you should probably go back to talking about clothes, talking about literature with such an obnoxious level of pretentiousness doesn't do your opinions any favors.

That said, I made the ultimate mistake here, I read "The Road" as "On the Road", I was actually was terribly confused when you started talking about McCarthy, I should probably stop getting so high and going on the internet. Honestly, I don't think The Road made a big enough splash in the literature community to warrant it being really 'overrated'. On a commercial level, I'd have to agree with you, I see that shit being picked up at airport bookstands all the time, but it never was a piece of praise by a discourse group of any worth. While the style definitely makes for a book that nails morbidity, it doesn't do a whole lot more than make something that is a good book in surface-reality, but does nothing on a more technical level for anyone, I don't know what you're on about with it going over unread people's heads.

Anonymous Thu May 29 01:53:15 2014 No.8288714

>>8288649
Don't take The Road as a litmus test for the entirety of McCarthy's writing. In my opinion it's the worst novel of his that I've read. Blood Meridian and Suttree are much better. The Border Trilogy is good too, but the prose is more on the level of The Road than his other books. Still great narratives, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 01:55:44 2014 No.8288718 File: 48 KB, 640x520, stack-of-books-for-vela-blog-post.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The Story of B >The Last Man >Collapse >Don Quixote >The Sirens of Titan >Dune >Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 01:56:19 2014 No.8288722 >>8279571 hornblower, idk if its very effay, kind of cool tho if you're me

Anonymous Thu May 29 02:02:41 2014 No.8288739

>>8288706
I was just in a /lit/ thread about McCarthy's works, debating what I consider mediocrity in contemporary "best selling literature". Over there they've strong opinions on the subject either way--
So you can imagine my frustration on seeing ANOTHER McCarthy themed argument starting in an entirely different thread.
But I digress.

>>8288714
I read through The Road and became awfully bored of it. Nothing about it could strike me as interesting, or worth reading-- and based on the fact that it was, at the time, his most popular book on the shelf, I put most of my judgement there.
Though I've yet to read his other work, the excerpts I have read make me nauseous-- maybe it's best to digest his pieces whole?

If I have the time I'll consider picking a copy up-- or if that's too much trouble just downloading a pdf onto my kindle.

Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 Thu May 29 02:07:41 2014 No.8288759

>>8288603
It was one of the first novels to deal with the (since discredited) linguistic relativity theory, and it so accurately articulated what Soviet life was like that the Russians secretly passing copies amongst themselves had trouble believing that the writer hadn't lived under communism. It's an important book, and exciting despite the simple prose.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 03:13:05 2014 No.8288906 >>8288443 lel I bet you think Brave New World is a more accurate prediction of the future. pleb >>8288450 >ignoring the politics So ignoring what made the book noteworthy, it's bad? No shit. >>8288305 Kill yourself >>8286817 muh nigga

>>	uuuuhhhh Thu May 29 03:18:24 2014 No.8288910 >>8288906 it only gets worse if you don't ignore the politics

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 03:28:46 2014 No.8288931 >>8288910 yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, capitalist pig

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