/lit/ - Literature

>>12196455
idk like 50, i mostly read pdfs that i then forget about
best book was probably Clara Milich
regret reading everthing i read by Guénon
i dont talk about books on lit i just shitpost
idk what ill be reading in two weeks

>How many books I read in 2018
52 of >100 pages
>Best
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
>Regret reading
Sapiens
>Won't shut up about
Black Skin White Masks
>Changed my worldview
1491: New revelations of the Americas before Colombus
>Finishing the year with
Wind-up Bird Chronicle

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>>How many books you read in 2018
74
>Best book you read this year
Novel with Cocaine
>Book you most regret reading
The Master and Margarita
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Agota Kristof's Notebook Trilogy
>Book you're finishing the year with
Dunno yet, probably Berlin Alexanderplatz

>Made you cry
Eugene Onegin, I guess
>Changed your worldview
A Child of our Times by O. von Horvath
>Gave you cancer
Doris Lessing, The Grandmothers

>>12196455
>how many book
27
>best book
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>regret book
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Engels a bit repetitive and he blamed everything on capitalism when it was clearly the fault of Irish immigrants.
>won’t shut up book
Probably The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. There’s some contrarian hipster faggots on this board who like to badmouth Lawrence and I’m not having it. Our Ursula is best /lit/ waifu.
>Finnish year book
Middlemarch. I hope I finish in time. I enjoy it but it is long. 300 pages down 550 to go.
>cry book
A Kestrel for a Knave. I didnt really cry cry but that older brother was a dickhead. I got misty eyed I guess.
>changed view book
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Showed me that a woman can be a good writer and lead an interesting life. Most of the other good female writers I knew of were weirdo shut-ins. Beryl was a record breaking aviator, a thoroughbred horse trainer, lion attack survivor, safari scout and boyfriend stealing slut. My kinda gal.
>cancer
Engels again I guess. Fuck commies.

>>12196455
>How many books you read in 2018
Like 30 or 40?
>Best book you read this year
Killing Commendatore.
>Book you most regret reading
Quite a few. Let's say Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Killing Commendatore
>Book you're finishing the year with
Fuck knows. I plan on reading at least 3 or 4 more before then. Currently reading Youjo Senki v4.
>Made you cry
I'm not a faggot like OP.
>Changed your worldview
Nothing really.
>Gave you cancer
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

>How many books I read in 2018
0
>Best
N/A
>Regret reading
N/A
>Won't shut up about
N/A
>Changed my worldview
N/A
>Finishing the year with
N/A

>>12196865
>currently reading youjo senki v4
>I'm not a faggot like op

>>12196901
Best japanese LN in serialization.

>>12196455
>how many
like 20
>best
The Myth of Sisyphus
>regret
none in particular
>wont shut up about
I don't come to /lit/ to talk about books, and almost no one here does
>finishing year
The Rebel

>How many books you read in 2018
15
>Best book you read this year
The Savage Detectives
>Book you most regret reading
Probably Gravity's Rainbow
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
None
>Book you're finishing the year with
Haven't decided yet. Maybe Butcher's Crossing

>>12196455
>How many books you read in 2018
37
>Best book you read this year
Difficult to pick one, best books I've read are Life and Fate, Moby Dick, and Kolyma Stories.
>Book you most regret reading
War and War by Krasznahorkai, it was a let down after reading Sátántangó. Regret forcing myself to finish it. Also really didn't like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, unfortunately.
>Book you're finishing the year with
Either Wuthering Heights or some short stories by Dostoevsky.
>Made you cry
Some parts of Life and Fate made me tear up a bit, such as when one of the characters reads the last letter his mother wrote him before she was killed.

>>12196455
>number
10-15
>best
H.P.L compleate fiction
>year finish
Not sure, probably i have no mouth yet i must scream
>made me cry
LOTR book 1
>made an impact
Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
>Gave me cancer
Neverwhere by neil gayman, fuck this shit man . Caracters are so bad especially the protagonist

>How many books
~25
>Best book you read
Gilles - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
>Book you regret
For a positive critique - Dominique Venner
>Book that you won't shut up
Gilles - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
>Book you're finishing the year with
The Flame - Gabriele D'Annuncio
>Changed your worldview
The Reprieve - Jean Paul Satre

>How many books you read in 2018
Almost 6. I started in November. I'm a little babby
>Best book you read this year
Lolita
>Book you most regret reading
Mer-cycle by Piers Anthony
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
I'm not well-read enough to talk about books yet
>Book you're finishing the year with
Hopefully Plato: The Complete Works but I'm a bit scared
>Made you cry
Flowers for Algernon, a little bit
>Changed your worldview
1984
>Gave you cancer
Mer-cycle by Piers Anthony, horrible book

>How many books you read in 2018
65
>Best book you read this year
Economy and Society by Weber
>Book you most regret reading
The Doors of Perception by Huxley
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Nothing in particular
>Book you're finishing the year with
Barnouw's History of Broadcasting

Probably around 60.
Moby Dick
Unironically Infinite Jest, horrible waste of time compared to the bliss of Melville’s writing
Anything by Thomas Mann
Probably some Gogol

Goethe’s Faust nearly brought me to tears at some points, and I had a sort-of epiphany when I compared his work to that of Rimbaud despite them being almost nothing alike on the surface

26 books (I'll probably manage to squeeze in two more until the year ends), less than last year and I did want to read more, but due to time restraints and working on other backlogs (movies, anime etc) it turned out the way it did. I don't mind it as I was always quality over quantity.

>>12197059
I heard Life and Fate is great, but to be honest I never was into books related to war (especially to a war from the last century), even though I like certain ones like War and Peace. Should I still give Life and Fate a shot?

>>12197132
>Changed your worldview
>The Reprieve - Jean Paul Satre
I will never understand why people find Sartre to be so relevant to their worldview today. In the context of post-war Europe, his philosophy was striking and a cultural touchstone for Europeans reeling from unimaginable horror. But today, a lot of this stuff just seems self-evident. Maybe it's different for other people, but Sartre and Camus just seemed like "oh yeah, I got through that when I was in high school" to me and virtually all of my friends. It's like how if you're above the age of 16 and you haven't already beaten the themes of Catcher in the Rye to death, I do raise an eyebrow.

But in all seriousness I'm glad you enjoyed the work. 2bh I don't know if our generation has a touchstone author who quite so accurately addresses the issues of our times.

>>12197585
Whoops, forgot to respond to the rest of the stuff
>Best book you read this year
Dostoevsky's Gambler, hands down.
>Book you most regret reading
A tie between "Man's Search for Meaning" (a friend of mine made me read this one, the part describing life in the nazi camp is interesting, but I don't feel acomplished by reading it, and the second part contains the psychotherapeutic method of the author, it's extremely cringeworthy and pathetic) and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" (a poor mixture of medicine (barely containing any information related to it) and pseudophilosophy (theorizing about the state of minds of the patients, being overly dramatic and turning a lot of scenes into a melodrama)).
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
None at all, I barely post here.
>Book you're finishing the year with
Probably "Brodie's report", one of the two Borges short stories collections I haven't read.
>Made you cry
It almost happened when I was reading the tale of Guzman's family (a story from Melmoth the Wanderer), it's so heartbreaking.

>>12197342
>Gogol
Based

>>12197153
I predict you won't acclaim 1984 as much as you do now, I remember loving it a lot a few years back, but since then I've changed and now look at it as a just okay book, whose concept is massively overused nowadays, not to mention the book definitely didn't predict the future, as our future is Huxley's "Brave New World".

bump

>How many books you read in 2018
64 to date
>Best
Ada, or Ardor
>Regret
An Inland Voyage by Stevenson. Just couldn't get into it.
>Won't shut up about
Probably Ada
>Finishing the year with
Sodom and Gomorrah, and maybe a bit of Raymond Chandler

>>12196455
>How many books you read in 2018
34
>Best book you read this year
Child of God by McCarthy
>Book you most regret reading
Island by Huxley
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Ficciones by Borges
>Book you're finishing the year with
Metro 2033 by Glukhovsky

>Made you cry
The Unreasoning Mask by PJ Farmer
>Changed your worldview
Very Strange Bedfellows by J Witcover
>Gave you cancer
Siddhartha by Hesse or Aurora by KS Robinson

>>12196455
>>How many books you read in 2018
8
>>Best book you read this year
LIVEBLOG
>>Book you most regret reading
the portable jung
>>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
i dont lit
>>Book you're finishing the year with
killing commendatore

>How many books you read in 2018
1
>Best book you read this year
Mike Cernovich - MAGA Mindset
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Mike Cernovich - MAGA Mindset
>Book you're finishing the year with
Mike Cernovich - MAGA Mindset
>Made you cry
Mike Cernovich - MAGA Mindset
>Changed your worldview
Mike Cernovich - MAGA Mindset

>>12196756
>agota kristof
Hello it's me again. You know who

>>12196455
>How many books you read in 2018
20
>Best book you read this year
The count of Monte Cristo or the idiot
>Book you most regret reading
The Divine Comedy, I think I need to read more to appreciate it, It is good so I don't regret that.
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
The count of Monte Cristo
>Book you're finishing the year with
Dracula

>>12197597
If you enjoyed War and Peace I'm quite sure you'll like Life and Fate as well. Grossman was inspired by W&P so there are some similarities. Both have a large set of characters and lots of different settings, the story is interspersed with some philosophical discussion by the author (though less in L&F) and lots of attention is paid to characters' inner thoughts, relations with others, and dilemmas. The story of Life and Fate doesn't only take place place at the Stalingrad front, but also at research institutions, concentration camps, a hospital, ordinary homes etc. I found W&P to be more uplifting though, since it has some heartwarming scenes. L&F is rather grim, but very powerful. If you end up reading L&F, make sure to look up the letter Grossman wrote to Khrushchev, in which he asks for the release of his conviscated manuscripts. The publication history of the book is interesting in general.

>>12199159
Thanks for the reply, I'll find the time for it next year.

>>12196915
Faggity fag

>How many books you read in 2018
Around 50.
>Best book you read this year
Metamorphoses, Ovid.
>Book you most regret reading
Sagarana, Guimarães Rosa.
>Book that you won't shut up about on /lit/
Against Nature, Huysmans.
>Book you're finishing the year with
Memoirs of Hadrian, Yourcenar.