/lit/ - Literature

Recently discovered Harvard Review at a bookstore. I'm enjoying reading a variety of essays, poems, and prose from living people instead of the usual selection of dead men.

Just finished Starship Troopers, on to Arthur C. Clarke. Cool beginning, but I'm literally 18 pages in.

The Bukowski book I'm absolutely devouring. I'm reading nonlinearly, so I've read some parts about 3 times, and some not at all. It's exciting, I love it. It's not beautiful writing at all. It's dirty, it's not particularly graceful or pretty, but it's honest and it gives you the whole of the man. I love it. I need more. Lately I've bought a bunch of poetry; there's a library downtown that has book sales on occasion where you can pick up a box and fill it with whatever you want for $20. It's provided me with eyefodder for weeks.

Umberto Eco is a brilliant writer. It saddens me I have to read translations, exclusively, however I very much enjoy his thoughts. I'm leaping around in that book, too.

Almost every book of mine has a bookmark in it. I've stopped being a hardass on myself and I've taken to reading things I enjoy. I'm going to continue down this path.