/lit/ - Literature

>>10793996
>18
>South Italy
>the Gepard

Oh I like it a lot, there's a nice quote that says Morphine is a vulgar substitute of Stoicism. Also being able to read it in Italian helps I guess

>>10794054
Frocioooo

>25
>Midwest US
>Meditations on the Peaks
Very small it will only take me two days to read. Evola seems more paternal and optimistic in this instead of a edgelord.

>>10794081
Va a votare negro

25
US east coast
The Federalist Papers

Boring af, but very informative of the thought at the time.

>>10794099
Coglioneeeee

>21
>Slovenija
>The Arabian Nights, translated by Husain Haddawy.

I'm enjoying them very much.

>22
>Philippines
>Vollman's Rainbow stories

Digging it.

21

Near Sydney, Australia

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

I'm enamoured by the dreamlike writing of Conrad as Marlowe recounts his time in the Congo. Half way through and very impressed with the historical allusions, but my penguin edition rapes the footnotes which is fucking stupid. i'm talking `60 footnotes each chapter explaining anything a 12 year old might not understand

>18
>New Zealand
>The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl -- amazing wit

24
Texas
Steven King's The Shining. I like it okay, has a little bit of filler, but I like it.

>>10793996
37.
Brazil
If a traveler on a winter night. But I stopped, because my mom discovered a brain cancer at the end of February. Now I'm only to her :/

>>10793996
>19, almost 20
>CA
>After Virtue

I'm liking it; I'm a layman when it comes to philosophy and this book is still pretty damn readable and that is wonderful. It's basically shitting on Hume, Kierkegaard, and Kant, mostly. The book is saying that the Enlightenment drove us away from Aristotelian ethics and all philosophies have been trying to establish a rational basis for their moral beliefs even though telos was eliminated. So it's a losing fight not adopting Aristotelian ethics as the basis for our beliefs.

>>10794711
Yeah I'm pretty sure they just want to make the book look longer. Fantastic book though.

>>10794833
I feel for you brasil anon :/

>18
>canada
> IT by stephen king

>>10793996
66
Babylon
Being and Time

its a good read, people who find it boring are subhuman

15
FL
The Epic of Gilgamesh

Doesn't have much in the way of deeper meaning, but it's a great read in hindsight realising how much of an effect it has had on Homers epics.

Also the bible was plagiarised.

>19
>London
>Platform by Houellebecq

I really enjoyed Whatever and Atomised, which made me cry, so I was curious as if this would be better. So far its been disappointing.

>29
>UK
>The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Really enjoying it but I do like trains and travel

>>10794989
>15
The absolute state of /lit/

>>10793996
26
norway
Domain of Arnheim by Poe

22
Sweden
1984
Might be the best book I've read so far

>33
>New Orleans
>Turn The Ship Around
It has it's virtues.

24
Belgium
Journey to the End of the Night
Unsure if I like or dislike, but that's probably the intended effect

23
Australia
Resurrection
It's a bit preachy but still enjoyable

>>10795025
Submission is a genuinely good read and the only one of his I’ve read yet. Should I read atomised next?

>>10793996
28
Baltimore
Canterbury Tales

>>10794910
anyone that states anything more than their actual age when asked "How old are you?" might as well be 7. Just know that when you say 'x but almost y' or 'x and a half', people will be thinking you're a puerile pseud.

>19
>Las Vegas
>The Sun Also Rises
Just finished book 1. Only complaints are I'm ready for Jake to leave Paris and, at times, the choppy prose has been distracting. Worth the time spent reading thus far.

>32
>TX
>Thomas Hobbes-Leviathan

Having trouble finding Hobbes's "voice" (for lack of a better term), so it's a rough read so far.

35
Argentina
Moby Dick
I'm fucking loving it

> 24
> Vancouver BC
> William Gaddis' The Recognitions

Sometimes Gaddis thinks what he's writing is a lot more interesting than it actually is but so far I'm enjoying it a lot. Good characters, good humor, good writing

Also, any good Canadian writing reccs? I've got Atwood and Munro on my list but I'm a hipster piece of shit and they feel a little old school to me

>32
>northern Louisiana
>A Clockwork Orange
the slang is not as difficult to pick up on as I was lead to believe it would be. I really wish I had not seen the movie before--it was a good decade ago yet so much of it is still very clear in my mind.

>26
>Nova Scotia
>It by Stephen King

Pretty good book, about 3/4 through it. I enjoy good horror, and the lovecraftian odds of ordinary people taking on an ancient unknowable evil definitely keeps things interesting.

Themes of the loss of innocence and confronting one’s fears are relatable and useful. Prose is serviceable.

I get distracted recently though as my gf (probably ex now) bought it for me and we are in a pretty bad fight right now. She’s probably going to leave me. Works decently as a distraction from my stress, but looking at the book does make me remorseful.

>25
>PA
>On the Beach by Nevil Shute
I just finished another book, so I'm not far enough into it to form a real opinion.

>20
>southern florida
>Nausea by Sartre
Its okay so far

>>10795663
Where in PA? I just drove across half the state from Cresson back home to Baltimore, MD.

>>10795673
>tfw I don't live in Miami Beach
I hate it desu

>>10793996
>20
>devner
>pic related
it's not awful but not great either, and it's typeset like a YA book for some reason. oscillating between cringing and earnestly enjoying it

>18
>NJ
>Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy
Most enjoyable read I have ever had

>19
>Canadaria
>The Last Tribe
It's pretty good desu, I enjoy post apocalyptic themes and it conveys the loneliness of such very well

>>10795618
after you're done read this https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/the-clockwork-condition.. It was in the back of my edition. Burgess intended to expand the work into a book called "the clockwork condition" but he just released it as an essay after all the controversy surrounding the movie adaptation. I feel sorry for people who didn't experience the orgasmic pleasure of reading that right after finishing the book.

>>10795338
19
New Orleans
Under the Volcano
Dense at times but beautiful prose. Difficult to maintain attention. Can see how it influenced other writers.

Roll wave

>>10794825
The Shining has the best opening sentence, I also think I read the edition in your book back in junior high.

Anyways.
>28
>Iowa
>Dune Messiah
The details are interesting but jack shit is going on. Oo wow, I got a midget now.

>34
>New York
>Of Human Bondage

I am enjoying it. I had previously read The Razor's Edge and enjoyed Somerset Maugham's style. I'm hoping this doesn't devolve into a treatise on eastern religion as The Razor's Edge did.

>>10795691
I live on the opposite side of miami senpai. In ft myers

>23
>DC
>The Discreet Hero by Mario Varas Llosa

>>10795883
What part?

>18
>Lolita
probably my favorite book. Nabokov’s prose is delicious.

>>10795902
Oh forgot, I’m located in WA

>>10794711
Fuck yeah I love HoD. Everything you said is why I like Condrad’s writing as well.

>>10795560
Had the same thoughts, it does get immediately better after Paris.

>18
>Texas
>The Idiot
Better than C&P, loving every bit of it but admittedly still reading for experience/foundation.

>21
>Brazil, São Paulo
>Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides
It's very interesting.

>>10795902
kys

29
Portland, OR
Blood Meridian by McCarthy

Enjoying it very well but I feel like some sections regarding the characters' travel go on a bit too long.

>21
>Mexico
>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
I just finished it actually, pretty enjoyable
any recommendations on what I should read next?

>>10793996
> 22
> nyc
> The Good Soldier Schweik - Jaroslav Hasek

It's hilarious. I have little educational or cultural context for early 20th century eastern europe, so a lot of the subtext is likely being lost on me, but I'm enjoying it.

18
Tennessee
Puck of Pook's Hill
Very comfy, makes me wish I was born in some small British village.

>18
>Sweden
>1984
I'm 34 pages in and I like it a lot so far. I like how it doesn't tell you anything directly but there's plenty of idea when you put yourself into the text. I recall a funny sentence too, roughly translated from swedish maybe it's different in the original, "The ministry of peace, which handles war."

>>10794054
The film is very very good if you have the time for it.

> 18
> Manhattan
> catch 22
Pretty funny desu

>>10795724
I take what I said back, the book starts strong and is now currently declining

>>10794833
:( Something similar happened to me last month

Take care friend

>41
>Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
>Oakland, California

>>10796179
Isn't it a bit hot living in the delta of Venus?

> 23
> Austin, Tx
> Claudius the God, it’s the sequel to I Claudius, I love the long winded prose and subtle dry quips, feels elegant while being just self aware enough to avoid pretension

> 18
> Texas
> 1984

So far it’s just a lot of sex and complaining about the government

>>10796202
It doesn’t get better, Orwell is crap

>>10795379
It’s depressing, Celine was in fact French, but enjoyable to be sure

>23
>Ireland

Just finished Infinite Jest tonight, when I wake up I start Siddharta. It'll be good to start something a little shorter.

>27
>nyc
>Portnoy's Complaint

Lots of jacking off. 9/10, would recommend

>>10795560
Just finished that, comfy book

>24
>Montreal QC
>We Need to Talk About Kevin

>>10795609
Canadian writing fucking sucks. It says a lot that Atwood is one of our most well known writers

>22
>Macedonia (kill me)
>Macbeth

Dafuq, why is 90% of this subreddit Murican?

>19
>Southeast Alaska
>Ulysses
I'm reading it w/o prerequisites aside from his previous novel and his short stories. Enjoying it so far for the prose itself instead of the allusions. Rather lucid and manageable with plenty of beauty and originality. Kinch's still relatable, Buck's cool, and the flowery language flows. Feels refreshing after having just stopped reading IJ by DFW. Both dense but I much prefer Joyce's prose and characters, themes and location. Perhaps it's because I'm past my sad days and the joys of Joyce are amazing rather than austerely labyrinthine. I'll return to Jest eventually, after all, there were some good jokes here and there.

>21
>Chile
>The picture of Dorian Gray
Very homo desu

>>10794961
What is it like being so close to death?

>26
>MN
>The Silmarillion

I'm half a page in because I get easily distracted, seems nice though

>31
>s.e. u.s.a.
>collected novellas of Ursula Leguin
She is very good, but not groundbreaking in any way, so I would not say great.

>>10796101
The best defense is putting any dissenters in complete fear of their actions

>>10795379
>Belgium
What’s that country like? I would like to visit it someday.

>>10796541
I'm not from Belgium. I was there for 2 days during summer last year, I was in Gent, probably my favorite place in Europe despite my short stay. Really cozy

>>10796179
>41
I wonder how oldfags feel when they see something like "my diary desu"

>>10796549
Switzerland is 100% the comfiest in Europe, that or Luxembourg

>>10796549
I wanna go now
>>10796575
Switzerland is my favorite country, definitely on my bucket list to visit.
>tfw no Swiss bf

>>10796595
Really expensive, but for sure worth visiting. I'm going back someday. The Alps and how the language changed from north, South, east and west. Just awesome

>20
>Morocco
>Mrs dalloway

I like the prose, couldn't care less about the plot

>>10796430
How you liking it? I love Macbeth, especially the supernatural stuff, hope to see it on stage some day

>>10796565
They are probably the ones posting it, much like the 40s women on facebook post shitty minion memes

>>10796430
>>10796666
>>10796506
>>10796101
>>10795951
>>10795969
>>10795321
>>10794646
>>10794054
>this many non-whites posting in a literature board
the absolute state of /lit/

>>10796852
>>>/pol/
We're a civic nationalist board.

>>10796852
>/pol/ lacky posting
The absolute state of /lit/. I miss Marx.

>>10795609
>tfw I'm 24 and from Vancouver, BC, too
woah

anyways I'm reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger and I'm really liking it so far. I started it after a major reading slump (last book I read in its entirety was in October) and I wanted something similar to A Farewell to Arms, which I read about a year ago and really enjoyed.

>28
>Denmark
>Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy

I'm beginning to understand why so many great authors are in awe by Peake and are so deeply influenced by Gormenghast. Never read anything this nuanced and fantastic before. Truly a joy.

>>10793996
>18
>Croatia
>The Divine Comedy/Augustine's Confessions

>20
>Singapore
>1984

>19
>Oklahoma
>Finnegan's Wake and Honor Harrington
Harrington is pretty good, although Manticore is way too OP. James Joyce is a fucking hack, Faulkner is a million times better.

>23
>budapest, hungary
>charles dickens - bleak house
I love it, recently moved to fiction as all my life i spent reading history/philosophy.

>>10796852
(you)

>>10796674
It's okay.
>>10796852
Are you autistic? Macedonians are pure white.. My skin burns after 1 minute exposed to sun.

>>10797012
Slavs aren't white SIEG HEIL

>23
>Germany
>pic related, but parallel Günter Grass' Tin Drum

Magical Realism and Deleuze is fascinating, though I have to say that I have no idea what Deleuze is about. Never read any of his books, though I've heard that they're shit, except for his texts on other authors, like Foucault. I might check him out, but not any time soon.
The reason I'm enjoying this one though is because the introduction has an interesting introduction in which the author juxtaposes different definitions of MR and shows how they're all flawed. Most strongly insist that MR is inherently postcolonial and cant be removed from a political context, yet, the nature of the genre paradoxically prevents any 'real' subversion of the supposed western enlightenment discourse perceived as dominant. What she's essentially aiming at is coming up with a definition of MR that does away with postcolonialism (which I also want) and instead replaces it with deleuzian ontology (which I find esoteric nonsense).

I'm on page 60 of the Tin Drum and boy, do I already have a love/hate relationship with the prose style. I have never read anything else by Grass, so I shouldnt attribute it to the author and instead to the mentally disjointed protagonist, so it might be intended this way, but it's just so clunky to read. The book is certainly interesting, but what's also giving me a hard time is the cavalcade of seeming nonsense words, that I know probably exist and I'm just too young to have heard of them, but honestly -- and I say this without any malice or indignation, but honest despondense -- as anyone ever heard "kaschubish" before?

>>10795498
Yes. I cannot recommend it enough.

29
Australia
Musashi
>its alright

27
Norway
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

A bit dry, but still pretty interesting.

>>10797018
>Macedonians
>Slavs
Macedonians are Slavs as much as Milk and Honey is a good book. If the public opinion implies it, it doesn't mean it's true.
Trust me, I'm nazi myself.

20
Spain
Metaphors we Live By

So far it's not as interesting or in-depth as I hoped it would be, but still a nice read I'd recommend to anyone.

>>10793996
22
France
The Demon by Selby
Inspiring character and story. You can learn a lot from this book but the writing in its own is disappointing. Also the sex scenes should be well more described.

>Age
23

>Location
Bristol, UK

>Currently Reading
Thomas Morris - We Don't Know What We're Doing

>How you like it
It's good so far, a range of styles. Reminds me of Sherwood Anderson a bit.

>>10796487
Where in southeast? moving to Yakutat next year

>>10797119
Agreed. His more technical stuff is frankly bad- I don't understand why because the tradition he's riding on I feel is really strong (beginning with the psychologist Baldwin, and the linguist Jesperson). A really good book of this type (about metaphor and 'meaning') is Owen Barfield's Poetic Diction, written in the 1920's! The updated version has a great bibliographic essay of this style of critical literature up through the 1980's.

>>10797183
Thanks for the rec, that looks very interesting.

>>10793996
>34
>Nova Scotia
>A Handful of Dust by Waugh. Loving it, I want to read Brideshead Revisited next, but my 2018 stack will topple over

>>10796938
Excellent taste, man.

>>10796935
I'm going to finally read Titus Groan later this year, looking forward to it.

>19
>Melbourne
>The trial
Eager to finish it. God, I'm turning 20 this year

>>10794054
TERRONE DI MERDA

>>10795673
Hey cliff

> 23
> Brisbane
> Bringing then Home report
> We were assholes

>20
>The Netherlands
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Way too late but finally starting with the greeks, really loving it

22
Salt Lake City
Just finished roadside picnic

It was a rather stupid book. Not really anything like I expected. I wanted STALKER and got black market trading and mutant daughters.

>>10796430
Why wouldn't the board be mostly Americans? It's an American website.

>>10793996
>22
>Croatia
>To the Lighthouse

Digging it so far.

>>10796938
Kako ti se svida Bozanstvena komedija?

>21
>the Canadian Prairies
>Phenomenology of Spirit

Finally reading it seriously after getting a copy three years ago. About half-way through the preface and note-taking wise it seems I am going 4 pages of notes
per 1 page of text, though it feels nice to have something to show for my effort so far.
Hegel actually seems to offer a lot of practical material than what the secondary literature impressed upon me.
People tend to look at him as some sort of optimist, but I find his discussion on the importance and necessity of suffering, failure, error and false starts to be rather rich
and his orientation towards common people and common sense is rather heartwarming in some odd and quiet way. It is a fun work to wrestle with.

>23

>Lolita

>Kentucky

>19
>Florence, Italy
>Ulysses
Very deep, made me laugh, too obscure sometimes

>28
>Edmonton, AB, CAN
>Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro; read Dance of the Happy Shades a while ago and loved it. So far, loving this one too.

>>10796222

And J.K Rowling is one of UK's best-known writers, and Stephen King is one of America's best-known writers. Best-known/popular indicates nothing.

>>10793996
>22
>Argentina
>seneca's complete works. I'm in love with this guy

>>10793996
>age
18
>location
Kent England
>current book you're reading and how you like it
tower of swallows
its not my fave book in the series but the series is my fave so enjoying it

>>10793996
>25
>Upstate NY, USA
>The House on The Borderland
I've been busy with school so I'm only about 40 pages in but so far it's pretty good. Some bizarre and neat imagery.

>19
>Austria
>Infinite Jest

only liked the prose and some of the themes in the beginning, but as i read further and further (i'm at page 750) the story starts coming together and little things pop up that you thought were completely unrelated. reading very slow atm because of the density and because i don't want it to end :( but apparently it never ends

>>10794054
>>10795129
>>10795321
>>10796935
>>10797032
>>10797094
>>10797763
>>10798241
>>10796101
>Be born poor americuck
>Will never experience growing up/living in a beautiful and historic country
The grass is greener, r-right guys?

>>10798276
My childhood went to shit when I moved a bit further away from central stockholm, watching american movies I was envious of that sort of lifestyle they show

>>10798276
hey speak for yourself mother fucker.
I was born and raised boston, this place has history.
Not like florence but still more than the fucking swede and norwegian guys you quoted.

>>10798276
you aren't missing anything, Italy is good only if you are a tourist.

>>10796852
>so few whites post on /lit/
the state of americuck

>>10796430
its an american website you dirty "macedonian" (heh)

>>10796430

"Macedonian"

>>10798298
>>10798305
>>10798307
In my defense, I live in a small and boring low income city bordering lake Ontario, so it is pretty historical but the people leave after graduating and the property is generic or run down. It's economy is basically kept afloat by being a college town with a Walmart.

>26
>Ireland
>The Book of Disquiet
I love everything about this book and am reading it very slowly because I know I’m going to be sad when it’s finished. I feel like I’ll never find another book like it.

>>10793996
>too old for this shit
>France
>Blood And Guts In High School
what comes to mind is 'artsy fartsy'

>25
>capital of canada
>les mis
abt halfway through. wading through all the history stuff is tedious imo but the narrative is enticing enough to make it not utter shite.

>>10795609
fifteen dogs by andre alexis
la guerre, yes sir! by roch carrier
turvey by earle birney

>19
>France
>notes from underground

I am reading all the works of Dostoyevsky, I'm saving Brothers Karamazov for last.

>20
>New York
>Dune Messiah
slower than the first dune but still good overall. i like the theme of how religion can be an unstoppable force and such.

>25
>Indiana
>VALIS
I just finished it this morning. I really enjoyed it and it’s interesting to see that side of PKD. The latter half got a little out of hand but the first half was some of the most interesting stuff I read in a long time. It really makes me question whether he was legitimately insane or a pure genius

>>10797411

Please be in A M S T E R D A M

>>10799016
>Dune Messiah

Read that last month. Found it pretty boring and generally shit.

>>10793996
>24
>Buenos Aires
>Neuromancer, pretty cool tbqh

>19
>Finland
>Ariel by Sylvia Plath
It's alright but I must admit that some finnish poets write about death better. Maybe Plaths poems lose some of their beauty in translation.

>22
>Le 52% Land
>The Righteous Mind by Haidt.
For a Jew, this is spot on.

>20
>Mexico
>Return of the Idiot

It's okay, not as good as Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot.

>>10793996
>21
>UK
>Neuromancer by Gibson
Finally getting around to reading the trilogy after putting it off for so long. I want to read Book of Urth by Wolfe after finishing them.

>>10799314
Hey.

>28
>Philly
>Nabokov short story collection
Progressing from old to new... really great.

>22
>Brazil
>Naked Lunch by Burroughs

I honestly don't know. It sometimes feel like shock value garbage, but i'm still reading it so fuck me, i guess.

>27
>Bolivia
>On The Heights Of Despair

I'm enjoying it. Cioran had a qt gf though, so I'm taking his stuff with a grain of salt.

>19
>Turkey
>The Metamorphosis
>mfw

>>10793996
>26
>San Diego, CA
>Organon
dense as fuck and full of obvious shit thats repeated ad nauseam
>Stoner
pretty comfy but fuck Edith

>25
>London
>On the Road
Only started reading it because I had nothing else, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Didn't realise I was such a brainlet pseud desu, feels bad

>>10794054
I'm also 18 anon. Is it just me or does life outside of books not seem worth living? Mom wants me to apply for college but I don't have any ambition other than reading books and travelling, both of which I lack proper funds to support.

>18
> NY USA
>Coming off Catcher in the Rye, 200 pages into Confederacy of Dunces, about to start Don Quixote

>>10799571
yo
what you think about Dixie? I just like him so much

>18
>North Dublin
>How to read a book
Very interesting really enjoying it. Glad I got to it relatively early on it has some points I never would've thought of. Decided to read it and some other books like it (art of fiction by David Lodge and Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams) before starting Gilgamesh and then the Greeks.

>>10799401
Any recommendations of Finnish poets?

>>10793996
>no
>chimpcago, illinigger
>finished 48 laws of power moving on to mastery
I’m gonna keep rereading/looking through these books from time to time but, after I finish mastery I’m going to read the prince and thus spoke Zarathustra

> 18
> India
> Lolita
I hate how good it is. I could read the first few chapters of Part One for ages. It settles down after those though to fit within the norms of the novel. Nabokov's erudition shines through. As stated above though, I hate how he boasts of his prose, but also how he backs it up.

A good read so far in the first 10 chapters. Also, I'm read the annotated edition so I understand a lot more references than I usually would.

>>10800764
*reading. Apologies for the mistake.

26, france' Eragon / ,dont really know what to think of it...

23
Australia
A Confederacy of Dunces

Ignatius is 60% of people who post on 4chan.

>>10800870
I'd like to say this is untrue, but it is for myself to a large extent (no pun intended)

We certainly aren't all holding Master's level education and a lot of anons are falling for the atheism meme these days

>>10800764
>I hate how good it is

i bet you say shit like "criminally underrated"

32
Bratislava
12 Rules for Life, an Antidote for Chaos

I'm thoroughly enjoying it. In particular I like the rules about not comparing yourself to anyone else but only comparing yourself to your past selves and the rule about doing what is meaningful, not what is expedient. I'm a little annoyed that he uses emoticons :) sporadically throughout the text. That said his anecdotes about time spent with patients (particularly I liked the section about the huge psychiatric hospital with underground tunnels in winter) are amazingly fun to read. I'm about half-way through it.

25
Texas
The Shadow of the Torturer

comfy thread

25
midwest
mrs dalloway

gotta be honest, sometimes just the descriptions of scenes make me want to cry (and have) from their vivid beauty

>>10793996
>18
>Washington, U.S.A
>Slaughterhouse Five

Reading it for school, but it's slowly becoming one of my favorite books of all time.

22
Mexico
Les Ténébreuses by Gaston Leroux

>>10795379
I just finished this, and while I enjoyed the ride (especially the surprisingly beautiful sections between the dark angry parts, like when he describes the giant woman on the island) but overall I gave it a 3/5

I also am 18 and reading The Idiot.
I like it, but I am unsure whether it will keep me hooked throughout its entirety.
Currently staying in Panama City.

>>10801393
seen any sneks

>>10793996
>27
>Pacific Northwest
>How to Win Friends and Influence People

Overrated to be honest. Every chapter is common sense that is actually dated in the sense it's actually hard to appear authentic and genuine to others in this postmodern-ironic society

>18
>Mexico
>The Anti-Christ

I like how this guy makes fun of Jesus, his apostles and everyone who believes in that stupid religion. So far 8/10.

>>10799213
I don't live in Amsterdam. I live in Breda and I travel a lot to arnhem, Rotterdam and Utrecht

25
France
Les filles de feu by Gerard de Nerval
So far I like it though I barely started it

>>10801540
not too mention how much bullshit he pulls out of his ass trying to illustrate each simple point.

>24
>Slavic shithole #234
>Henry VI 3
Nothing special desu.

>73
>England
>The bible
It's okay

26
NZ
Altered Carbon, finally got around to reading it after watching the netflix series. The novels are great but atleast the show painted a more updated visual universe in my head. I find Sci-fi etc always sounds stupid and corny in text
Also reading In Praise of Older Women. Say no more. Bruh i love milfs.

>>10801789
I'm reading Broken Angels and it's shite.

>>10801672
U T R E C H T

>>10801807
zo weinig nederlanders hier baka

is this /soclit/ or what? I'll bite.

>18
>Romania
>The world as will and representation

A slightly less boring but edgier and solipsistic version of Critique of practical reason, I like it.

>23
>Italy
>Memoirs of Hadrian

Nice book, but for sure not an easy and light read. I have really appreciated the part of the relationship between Hadrian and Antinous

>this many 18/19 year olds
I almost don't believe it. I could have sworn /lit/'s average age would be way higher

>>10801877
I'm sure you also complain that younger generations are becoming increasingly more stupid.

>22
>Sydney
>my girlfriends messages

very harrowing, gut wreching stuff. 10/10

23
America
Journey to the end of the night

Funniest book I've read in a long time

>>10798276
>The grass is greener, r-right guys?
this is actually true
i'm one of the posts you quoted and i'd rather live in the us
i think we just tend to romanticize other nations based on movies/associations etc, whereas daily life seems to be roughly the same regardless of where exactly you live, as long if it's the first world.
but still
>tfw you'll never get to fuck college roasties while they call you daddy

>19
>Vienna
>Arno Schmidt - Aus dem Leben eines Fauns

Like. Pretty funny and insightful, also very melancholic and a bit sad at times. Some tremendously beautiful metaphors there.

>>10801954
>vienna
my man

>>10802088
Which district? What are you reading?

>26
>Bible Belt, USA
>The Fuck-Up
Really good so far. Reminds me a lot of myself

>>10802103

c'est moi >>10798241 22. district, how bout you?

>24
>Greater Pittsburgh
>Walden - good I just wish Thoreau would get to the point
>The Bear - Faulkner short story that's straightforward and vivid, it's really good
>a few books about The Beatles - further fueling my teenage obsession

I will confess though that lately I haven't been reading more than a few pages every couple days because I've been working so much. Feels real bad, man.

>>10802148
the second, near prater

>>10793996
>27
>East coast of Australia
>The conspiracy against the human race

Pretty good casual pessimistic philosophy. Not heaps well thought out, but very entertaining.

>>10802251
nice, my discord is pyril#2408 if you want to write about books or something

>29
>South Florida
>2666
Just finished the first book, and it's okay. Kinda boring so far.

>>10793996
>46
>ATL
>The Complete Works of Pat Parker

Still depressingly relevant.

>>10795855
Moon and Sixpence is the only Maugham that matters. Seriously. You won't regret it.

>>10793996
>22
>Belgium
>"The search for the perfect language" - Umberto ECO

>>10793996
>22
>Norway
>The Gathering Storm, book #12 of Wheel of Time
It's better than the last few, but I kinda regret getting into this series in the first place. Even though this book has a lot of epic parts in it, and it's mostly very enjoyable, I wish I had spent the last months reading something more worthwhile. I think I'll avoid fantasy in the future.

>>10798276
The grass is always greener, but America is forever shit. The reasons your country is shit has nothing to do with a lack of history, tho
>sipping my free healthcare and free access to university education

26
Italy
22/11/63 by Stephen King. Wanted to read something easy to digest in between books. It's somewhat decent entertainment but it's nothing ground breaking.

>>10793996
>21
>Belgium
>The Iliad, Lattimore Translation
Lots of greeks bitching at greeks, aw onderfully memorable isult has just been dropped
>You wine bag, with dog's eyes and the heart of a deer

>>10796101
>roughly translated from swedish maybe it's different in the original, "The ministry of peace, which handles war."

That is intentional and the same in the original.

>>10798305
>this place has history.
>tfw Americucks think the 1700s counts as history

>>10793996
>19
>Washington DC
>The Black Swan by NNT

Holy fuck it’s so good. It’s essentially one truth bomb after the other. The guy talks about randomness and chance and how it basically dictates our lives.

>>10802357
Gonna add you later

>>10793996
22, Albany, NY.
I'm reading a bio of Rasputin and retreading Husserl in top of my classwork.

>>10793996
>26
>Malaysia
>Kafka's Collection of Short Stories (currently reading Metamorphosis) - i'm hooked

>23
>Just landed in North Carolina before jumping down to Florida
>The Naked Communist
I wish I could read more books like this. The history and details and how the US had a large part in its continued existence via planted Communist agents or converted Americans throughout the 1950s-90s is interesting.

>>10801400
Yeah
Spiders too

>26
>Northern California
>House of God

Really enjoying it. Catch 22 and A Confederacy of Dunces are two my favorites and this is of the same ilk so no surprise there. I wonder why I haven't heard of it before; I constantly search for "comedy" novels. It's interesting to read what the show Scrubs was derived from. How similar they are in premise but different in execution.

>>10798276
I've spent my weekend exploring abandoned castles in the wilderness.

>18
>Ireland
>Oblomov

>>10800292
hmu bro

>>10802573
>>10802357
done so

>18
>Western Denmark
>title translates to something like "history of ideas of sexuality"

It's mediocre. I feel like the author sort of handpicked philosophers and texts that support his personal views.

>>10793996
>20
>northern midwest
>siddhartha

been reading it for a while now, pick it up for a bit and cant seem to finish it, forget where i left off so i just start over

>>10793996
>22
>WA, USA
>The Ego And Its Own

Its confirming a lot of my personal psycho/socio theories and is worded excellently. Hard as hell to take in, but equally rewarding.

>>10793996
>29
>México
>Maps of Meaning
Just start it yesterday, like it so much so far

>>10793996
>27
>Canada
>New Testament
Loving it, fascinating stuff. There's some truly great lessons to learn and I truly believe it's helping me to direct my life on a better path.

>>10793996
>20
>Cleveland, Ohio
>Anna Karenina

It's good. Haven't gotten very far into it, though. Been stuck on my university's campus for the past few days and I can't read whenever this one literary qt is around. I'm too busy trying to keep the spaghetti from falling from my pockets.

>>10794833
chin up, friendo. I'm right there with you.

>>10793996
>18.
>Buenos Aires.
>A Clockwork Orange.

>29
>Canada
>The Bell Curve

Only idiots find this book contentious which is unfortunately most people because most people have never read it and only hear about it secondhand. It has seven appendixes, one explaining stats for people who will never learn stats so that they get as much out of the book as possible and not misinterpret the data, then this material is also briefly covered again in the main text, and the rest of the appendixes are all more advanced stats and tables for those who harbour doubts about the authors abilities in statistics. And then there is all the endless citations and footnotes, the meta-analysis approach, and the incredibly careful wording.

And yet with all that, it still is one of the most controversial books out there, but as it says nobody in the scientific community behind closed doors disagrees about IQ, it's just the public who can't handle the truth.

>>10796430
>Dafuq, why is 90% of this subreddit Murican?
>this subreddit

>>10796506
Awe, my favourite book :3

>>10797162
>Bristol, UK
kys

>>10797411
>>The Netherlands
A Dutch qt just started working in my office, what should I say to impress her?

>>10801633
I’m not even religious and you sound like an edgy faggot

>>10805945
He's Mexican, that's a compliment

>>10793996
>18
>AZ
>Zarathustra
Am I a pretentious cunt for liking really anachronistic sounding epic poetry? For some reason I just love reading stuff like this and Paradise Lost

>>10802409
That is not the consensus.

>>10805593
be handsome
don't be ugly

>>10802421
I read fantasy novels as a way to give myself time to digest and decompress from serious literature. I rarely read 2 in a row and I'm weary of series despite having thoroughly enjoyed the first 2 books of the Kingkiller Chronicles. I find that fantasy also helps my writing juices flow probably due to the strain it places on the imagination.

>>10806047
no you’re pretentious for using the word anachronistic and using it in an inappropriate context. you meant to say archaic poetry and prose

>>10798276
>The grass is greener, r-right guys?
No. I live in a shit-tier euro country and from what I've seen it's still much better than US.

>>10800020
Get your shit together, lad

>>10806047
Maybe you like simply it because it's well-written?

30
Netherlands
Ghost stories of a antiquarian

Loving it.

>>10793996
>15
>melbourne, australia
>Nausea (Satre)

27
usa
thinking in systems / algorithms to live by / machinery of life

>>10804781
>forget where i left off so i just start over
If ony someone invented a device which helps you remember the last page you read...

22
boy in striped pyjamas.
just finished it. broke my heart, but i guess as the author said,
"Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age. "

>36
>germany
>republic of plato
great

>>10793996
>28
>Cucknada
Finished Stalin (Kotkin) last night, deliberating whether I should crack the 2nd volume today or take the day off and start it tomorrow. Either way it's good but I'm in way over my head. I was just reading it to get some context for a book on the Holodomor and a re-read of Gulag Archipelago.

I might read some Silmarillion in the meantime.

>>10808982
I like fiction too

>22
>midwest
>Gravitys Rainbow

This isnt my first larger work nor my first Pynch, yet I am having trouble understanding just what is happening... love this book either way, specifically my favorite part is the full page or so dedicated to describing Slothrops mess at ACHTUNG

Probably will reread again

>>10797670
Lord n Savior Sadler created a video series summarizing each section, i found it very useful for Phenom: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgR4OyOt31isknkVH2Kweq2

>21
>Oregon, U.S.
>Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
Only just started it, but I like it so far. Its the second book in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. I'm excited to see how the story plays out over the course of the four books. Spring Snow, the first book, was absolutely beautiful, so I have high hopes for the rest of the novels.
>>10804781
I had a hard time getting into it the first time I read it too, but it is well worth the read.
>>10801266
Yeah, its a good one. Check out Sirens of Titan next if you like it. Some of the aliens from Slaughterhouse make an appearance again, as well as in Timequake.

>20
>Carolinas
>Grapes of Wrath

It's not the most entertaining of Steinbeck's books so I'm reading it rather slowly but it certainly is insightful. Casy and Tom are top 10 my favorite characters in literature.

>>10796595
the waffles are dank. very cozy place

>>10801250
Got to rule 6 and got bored. I'll read 1 rule every year

>>10801266
I hear cats cradle is a good read after

>25
>Canada
>War and Peace
>Violence and the Sacred by Girard
War and Peace in fantastic. I just got to the point where Pierre was kinda forced to marry and it has got me hooked. It's like a Russian soap opera, except better than any actual soap opera. It's pretty funny at times too.
Violence and the Sacred has some pretty interesting stuff. I read Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood last year and I've been wanting something else that scratched the itch of violence with regards to religion. I'd definitely recommend both books if you're interested in the topic.

>23
>Chicago
>A book of travelers tales

It's great. I don't have to commit to any passages for longer than 5 minutes and there's a wide range of writings from different locations, times and people. Also many hilarious vignettes involving culture shock

>>10793996

>23
>Toronto, Canada
>On the Road (lol). Just finished the first part. The prose isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, and it gave me a vivid impression of what middle America must have been like in the immediate post-war environment. I like the slang and the proto-drugs that figure prominently in it. As far as the Beats go, I'd claim that Kerouac has the top spot locked down.

>28
>San Francisco
>Das Glasperlenspiel
Read it in English a while back as my final foray into Hesse. Beautiful and absolutely not what I expected. The poetry threw me off a bit in English, so I'm hoping revisiting the novel in German will bring better insight.

>>10803835
Hi fellow norcal friend

>>10807470
MR James is a treasure, love the atmosphere of his stories. Which is your favorite so far?

26
Dearborn, MI
God Emperor of Dune

I’m liking it which is good because Children was trash. Although he created an interesting world and has some great concepts Herbert just isn’t that great of a storyteller, the guy is an autist

>>10793996

>19
>Canada
>Lolita

Wasn't expecting it to be written the way it is. Really enjoying reading it, although my appreciation for prose may just be that I just finished "how to make friends and influence people", and that's not an exciting read, especially when it's trying to sell you on itself.

>>10799642
stoner is both incredibly comfy and incredibly depressing at times

> 27
> Brampton, Canada
> Emma

I'm enjoying it. Not my favourite, but it's okay.

>19
>NYC
>Invisible Man
It’s pretty good so far. It’s my first venture into literary fiction over genre fiction.

30
Estonia
The Luzhin Defence - Nabokov

i enjoy it. I also took up chess lately so its double comfy

>>10800020
You could think of it as college = future money for books and traveling

>20
>minneapolis, MN
>pic related
It's an interesting read so far. Grabbed it because it's dfw and I need some interesting reading to assign for a class I TA for and it ended up being much better than I had hoped.

>>10811158
>>10801266
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's best imo. Slapstick is a close second. Sirens of Titan is good I feel it is more about the destination than the journey. I enjoyed it immensely but not until the very end, which is profound in Vonnegut's "nothing is profound" kind of style.

>>10799030
Love this book, I'm pretty sure he was at least a little insane.

>>10798305
>boston
I can tell.

>26
>New york
>Not sure.
I've recently finished The Indiscreet letter by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. So I'm taking suggestions.

>Natsume Soseki - The Gate
I'm halfway through, and it's really depressing, honestly.
>tfw Sosuke's internal monologue about taking the same tram every day without looking at your surroundings
>You are reading this monologue while you are sitting in the tram you take every day without looking at your surroundings

>Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace
I enjoy it way too much. The characters are almost overly alive, and it's the kind of book that makes me angry despite being superbly written.

>>10795836
officious little prick

24
NE Brazil
The Afghan.
It's a great book, goddamn Forsyth can write a thrilling account using realism and dry, jornalistic prose. I really do recommend any of his books if you're into long planning and autistic details, in particular Dogs of War.

>26
>Connecticut
>12 Rules for Life

>23
>Mexico City
>50 Haiku, by Kobayashi Issa

Loving Issa's style. Before him I read Basho and Shiki, and it's quite interesting to see the differences between them. I just need to get my hands on some Buson and I'll be set for some real-ass satori.

>20
>Upstate New York (the best new york)
>New people of the flat earth.....fucking me up senpai

>>10793996
19
Poland
Sword of Destiny. The Witcher books are pretty great, or at least the short stories are so far.

>>10813611
>Upstate New York (the best new york)

sure if you're a fucking herion junkie

>>10813623
>not staying away from the cities
Upstate best state and you simply havnt been if you disagree,

>>10800292
>>North Dublin
>>How to read a book

>18
>Ireland
>3rd volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
I've come back to it after leaving the second volume a while ago and it's refreshing
However it's easy to forget how dense Gibbon's style can be and I trip up over it a lot, especially the constant "former" and "latter" shit he can't help doing every paragraph to make me double take

>>10813641
I have been all around upstate NY.

NYC > Upstate NY.

lol

>>10795652
>Nova Scotia

Nice, me too.

On The Road - Kerouac

It’s ok.

>19
>southern cone
>"Dubliners" and "Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy". I'm liking both but it appears I'm too much of a brainlet to understand Dubliners so I read cliffnotes after every short story. Still, I enjoy it.

22
Bongistan
Genealogy of Morals - neecheeee

>>10813553
Just finished 12 rules, absolutely a fucking profound read anyone that bashes it either didn’t read it or went into it with their mind already made up on JBPs character. I’m not one to champion pseudo-intellectuals but my God it’s the best (or only good) book on self-help (for lack of a better phrase) I’ve ever read

>>10814027
nice. I'm about to start the last chapter.

before this, I've never read any type of "self help" book unless you count Meditations by Marcus Aurelius but I imagine it probably is one of the better self help books.

>>10814052
I’m generally not a fan of the genre and so lament using it for his book. It comes with connotations of some useless individual with no accolades telling you how to live your life. The last chapter is, I found, an extremely meaningful one. That might be because I romanticise life but I would suggest you take a quiet time where you have 30 mins to read it.
Oh and DON’T miss the Coda

>30
>USA
Reading 1984. It's okay, just read animal farm right before so it's too much of the same thing. Mostly reading it because I want to read everything on the art of manliness reading list.

>>10814102
>the art of manliness reading list
Is the art of manliness on there

>>10814129
No but it is a pretty decent book definitely recommend it.

>>10796959
>'
>slags off a book he can't even spell correctly

>>10813763
>NYC best for visiting
>Upstate best for living

Impossible to dispute thank you.

>>age
19

>location
Brazil

>current book you're reading and how you like it
Pic related. I'm liking it a lot, thanks to some anon that recomended. Portuguese and Brazilian writers are the bests.

>>10795618
>northern Louisiana
Hello, my friend.

25
Northeast Louisiana
Brave New World

I didn't get a chance to read this in school, maybe because it's still on the banned list (just kidding, but honestly, it's a very rural and religious community, so.) I'm very much enjoying Huxley's way of writing and hate that I'm just now reading it. I think 18 year old me would've loved it even more.

>>10814208
Yah I really liked that one they should make a movie out of it

>>10814102
Went through that list
>atlus shrugged
Start with the Greeks

26

United States Delaware

Life in the Middle ages

Its interesting to read about the day to day lives of peasants, townsfolk and knights and how they fit into the whole scheme of things in the feudal world of medieval Europe,

>>10793996
>20
>Pennsylvania
>A Happy Death by Albert Camus
I got super distracted because I didn't wanna study for my Arabic exam, so I went on a sperg spree in the library to find Camus. The book thus far is mystical in its storytelling; sans dialogue, he manages to paint an image of North Africa in a enthralling way. But complex and I have to sometimes reread pages.

>>10804793
Update, I have dropped this after about 130 pages. It has turned into liberal drivel. Fucking hell.

>>10815783
He wrote it while teaching at a girls school. You got memed.

>22
>NY
>Meditations
good book. much easier to digest than the Greeks, but I feel like I'm learning lot from it so I'll be better equipped to go back and read more Plato

>21
>Texas
>Sticks and Stones

I fucking hate it so far. It comes off as preachy and adds WAY too much information on top of the boring stories.
It's extra credit for a course I'm taking. Gotta finish it.

>>10793996
>31
>israel
>meditations on the tarot

>>10793996
>23
>Midwest US
>And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks

>>10816195
Forgot to post how it is.

Not awful, considering it was Kerouac's fist novel (which he hid and wasn't published in his lifetime.

>22
>Northern California
>Gravity's Rainbow
First time reading all of the "heavyweights" (Ulysses, Infinite Jest, etc.)

22
cali
a farewell to arms

>>10816524
right I think hemingway was kind of a sad guy

>21
>Manchester
>Girl with Curious Hair
The first story fuckin' sucked, far as I could tell, but those I've read after it so far are fucking fantastic. Account Representative and the titular short are fantastic and really speak to DFW's underutilized ability for concise storytelling.

>>10801393
It's so good bud! Anyone who tells you it isn't a slog in parts is lying so just power through the first bit of the last act, it's very much worth it