/lit/ - Literature

neigh

This.

The first thing I read this year was a Seamus Heaney poem

my penis

>>12322781
An old favorite of mine, back when I was into Terry Brooks. The Heritage tetralogy is better tho.

just never got around to reading it, figured now's as good a time as any

>>12322777
thats a great book, anon.

>>12324135
Just finished it. Felt very realistic in how it all played out. The aunt's speech seemed a soapbox. What did you think of it?

same read of 2018

>>12324210
not abridged ofc

He’s steadily becoming my favorite author

Nothing but the most highbrow content for me.

Moby Dick

The Crying of Lot 49

>>12322777
Brighton Rock

The Emperor of all Maladies.
Got diagnosed with leukemia. Friend gave me his copy of the book since he knew I liked to read.
I'm not too sure how to feel, rollercoaster ride of hope and despair.

>>12324416
Forgot pic

>>12322777
Nice get.

On my side, I gotta finish my Heidegger bender.

>>12322777

>>12324204
Yeah Im loving it so far. I don’t know how much fantasy other than LOTR existed when he wrote it, but it seems like it must be THE generic heroic genrefiction. I feel like Im reading every game ive played and every movie ive watched since being a littl kid

>>12324204
>>12325017
Woops, that was meant for
>>12322931

>>12324204
its been a while since ive read but i remember loving the prose style and the attitude of the two main characters. it felt gritty but it wasnt trying too hard. first and only cormac book ive read but ive been meaning to go back to him ever since. will probably just go with blood meridian. but i also have the rest on my shelf from that trilogy.

>>12322777

>>12324115

Fun fact: Fitzergerald is Francis Scott Fitzgerald, named after the guy who wrote the national anthem. A true american :)

>>12324416
I wish you good health, anon.

This is great so far. The first part was excellent. I hope he can keep up the momentum.

>>12325059
have fun, brave autist

Not sure yet, potentially this. Might do The Setting Sun though

>>12325059
Me too, anon. It’ll be the second time around for me.

>>12325022
>>12325017
The first book is pretty awful, escapist's fun but boring and carbon copy of LotR, and Brooks' style is annoying and forced and childish, but the next two books get better. Then there's the Heritage series, which is great and fresh, and this is Brooks' style at its peak. Right after this, it takes a horrid nosedive. Everything he writes after the mid 90s is fucking awful both in quality and content. Imo, his best books are, in no particular order:
The Heritage tetralogy
Word and Void trilogy, in decreasing value
Elfstones
First three books of the Landover series
First King is OKAY.

That's about it. The Voyage trilogy gets an honorable mention for being an engaging story but awful, awful writing. Armageddon's is fun if you like post-apocalyptic stuff, but it's still poorly written.

>>12325265
Yeah Im really looking forward to Elfstones. I dont mind it being a carbon copy, it is kind of charming, I like these characters more too. Cheers for the list, I’ll jump into Heritage next if the itch is still there after this trilogy

>>12322933
>>12324012
Nice

>>12325047
The interactions between Rawlins and John were quite good, makes me wonder why Rawlins wanted to go with John in the first place - when Rawlins said he won't quit John, without any explanation as to why he is so loyal to him, I thought it might have been a homoerotic reason.
My first Cormac book was The Road which is miles apart from ATPH and not as good, if I recall correctly.
I have heard Blood Meridian praised as his best book which probably means it isn't but I am still interested to read it and the rest of the trilogy. I want to know more about John, Rawlins and Blevins if possible. Guess I'll find out.

>>12325102
Both Augustus and The Setting Sun are on my planned reads for January.

>>12325395
The Road was written for the Oprah audience.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227358482_Cuttlefish_Culture_-_State_of_the_Art_and_Future_Trends

Pretty decent, but the Goldstein excerpts and the dialogue between O'Brien and Winston was fantastic

>>12324012
fuck yeah
i'm still on my deleuze binge. only 10 more books to go before i've read em all

>>12322777

>>12322777
Based and redpilled

>>12325072
me too. very good.

Short
Enjoyable

pretty comfy so far

>>12326823
Forgot my comment. I'm reading Otaku as a followup to Saito's Beautiful Fighting Girl. I've only made a dent in it so far but I think Hiroki's assessment of the otaku phenomena will be far more relevant than Saito's, which is laser focused on waifufags

>>12325047
The crossing is my favorite.

>>12326317
That was a good book. Thanks for posting it, I'd forgotten the title.

I guess it is wintery at least plus it is all semi-autobiographical short stories/vignettes packed with feels so it is very punchy

>last story I read was about a kindly old camp carpenter who was a priest in civilian life and whose only ray of hope while in the gulag was writing to his daughter who he hadn't seen for 10+ years
>the first letter he gets in return is her officially renouncing him as her father

Oof lads

>>12322777

>>12325065
you’re cute <3

>>12327563
That was my first read of 2018. It was quite enjoyable.

gonna pick this bad boy up later

This I guess but I started it last year so I don't know if it counts.

>>12328182
is there any gay romance that doesn't suck? or is it just not substantial enough of a subject to write a decent novel about

>>12322777

>>12328187

its not gay bro

>>12328182
>ROMENACE
subliminal

>>12324217
Where to start with Wodehouse?

>>12327801
I'm quite enjoying it's satire of bougie life even with Nekhlyudov who has to reconcile his spiritual life with his animal life

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

>>12322777
This year’s the year I finish it - beginning to end - not going to take a break to read something else and something else and something else, not this time.

>>12328203
Really? I can't be only anon who thinks the book is a gay romance novel.

>>12322777

>>12322777
I'm starting this afternoon when my gf goes to work

>>12328460
Same here, anon. 100some pages in and I'm enjoying it immensely. Not sure why so many people complain about all the characters making it hard to follow, it's pretty clear so far that all the different tangents are vignettes surrounding the central plot thread of Slothrop somehow being connected to where bombs fall.
Unless it goes in a completely different direction, it makes me wonder whether most of the people who complain about it have actually read it.

>>12325102
Both The Setting Sun and this are fantastic. It took me a little bit to get into the format of Augustus, but I loved it and it left me wanting more

>>12322777
Already finished it too.

>>12324224
I'd much rather see this than another faggot reading Ulysses

>>12326873
Would you recommend it? I've had it checked out for months from my school's library and I was gonna return it when I got back from break, but if it's good I guess I'll read it.

>>12324416
fight it with all you can.

>>12324416
I wish you the best of luck. Cancer is the truest of all battles for survival. While you still have health, meditate on your death and figure out what matters to you most.