/lit/ - Literature

>>11675733
The Hobbit.

>>11675733
Some books yeah, I re-read some short stories every year like The Bridgeroom, The Wall, Evie M.. some of these I read almost once a week, never mind a year.

>>11675733

les enfants terribles because its the best book about being a NEET i've ever read

ulysses. Always read it between the last and first months of the year. Done that 3 years now.
This year I read finnegans and intend to reread it every year too

The meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Siddartha, Rilke’s letters to a young poet. Sometimes I’ll just read passages, sometimes the whole book, but these are a constant presence

>>11675836
Any favorite bits from the Wake?

These are all pretty solid, desu

>>11675733
My diary desu.

>>11675762
Was about to post this. Why is BM so good? It make other books look like shit made by retarded childrens

>>11675912
i've only read it once and without any notes/secondary material, so it is hard to say, I don't even feel I can say I've read it without reading at least once more. That said, it is very hard to think of specific parts I enjoyed but reading it in no moment it felt like a chore to read it. What I can say is that I found innumerable very funny parts, very beautiful parts, some of which I admit I didn't entirely grasp what even made it beautiful

>>11675735
Riddles in the Dark. My fav chapter

The Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian. Not every year as there are 20 of them.

Best American Poetry, Years 2014-2016

>>11676007
Keeping a diary is a little bit gay.

Now, keeping a written chronology of your murderous thoughts and terrifying existential introspective nightmares? Very gay.

>>11675733
Gravity’s Rainbow

>>11676476
>Spends all year rereading the same book.
Patrician.

>>11676471
agreed

>>11676471
>>11676537
>writing is gay because it recommends the writer to a personal account and as we all know, having a personality is very homosexual

>>11675733
I'm gonna start doing that with the different translations of the Iliad. Rouse sucked, Lattimore was great, I'll try Chapman next.

>>11675733
gilbert white's a natural history of selborne
i don't re-read the whole thing, it's an epistolary, so i just pull it off the shelf now and again and read a couple of the letters. it's one of my favourite books ever.
also i have an (abridged, admittedly) edition of samuel pepys' diary desu, so i often take it down and read the entries for whatever day it is

Catch-22

>rereading books
But there are so many good ones I haven't read yet and I'm going to die one day

>>11676409
I assume this was a joke, though I'm not entirely sure. Either way I laughed.

>>11679046
If you read 40 books a year for 50 years that works out to be a lot of books

>>11679046
>reading books

>>11675733
World War Z

>>11675836
>reading Finnegans Wake in a year

>>11679066
No it doesn't

>>11679066
That's not much of a dent in the total number of good books though. Completism is a curse

>>11679121
How many good books are there?

>>11675733
I'm a simple man, really.

>>11679131
Definitely over 9000

>>11675733
Cyclonopedia.

>>11676043
>I found innumerable very funny parts, very beautiful parts
if only we knew what these were

>>11675733
As a child, yes, all the time. But since the age of 14 or so I don't think I've re-read a book once

>>11679555
What's it about, your trips have me curious. Fate should not be trifled with.