/lit/ - Literature

>Just Read
The Brothers Karamazov, 9/10!
>Reading
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
>To Read
The Castle
Crime & Punishment
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Ulysses

What should I read next?

>Just Read
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

>Reading
The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki

>To Read
Probably gonna finish up The Man and the High Castle or The Temple of the Golden Pavillion.

>What should I read next?

Something good instead, eh?

>>1277728
I'd say go for Pale Fire next.

>Just Read
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Casteanada
>Reading
Calligrammes - Appolinaire
>To Read
Ulysses- James Joyce

>>1277736
0/10. Way, way too obvious.

>>1277728
letters of James Joyce to Nora Barnacle

>>1277736
>>1277741
well aren't you two just so edgy today

>>1277732
I dunno i looked at the plot & i kind of want to continue on with some more cynical social plotlines like there is in the last two i read. I think I might read Hamlet actually.

>>1277737
I'm scared to open/start Ulysses, gonna leave it till like 5 books later or something.

>>1277739
:3 The only way I troll.

>Just read
Madwand by Roger Zelazny, 5/10

>Reading
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie, so far, 8/10. Abercrombie is great. So is Zelazny usually, but Madwand was just bland as fuck.

>To read
Next thing I'll read will be 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

>Just Read
Absalom, Absalom!
>Reading
The Reivers
>To Read
Anything but Faulkner.

>>1277749
And of course it would be a sci-fi derp who thinks the likes of Nabokov and Dostoevsky aren't "good."

>>1277757
>He missed the part where I was admittedly and obviously trolling

I expected reading comprehension on a board dedicated to literature.

>Just read
Sirens of Titan
>Reading
Fahrenheit 451
>To Read
Not sure. Maybe Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Reposting, I guess.

Read:
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Slaughterhouse 5

Reading:
>1984
>The Catcher in the Rye (I understand this one is controversial, so feel free to ignore it)

Still to read:
>East of Eden
>Utopia
>The Kill
>The Iliad
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Brothers Karamazov (my father's favourite, apparently)
>The Idiot
>David Copperfield
>Leave it to Psmith
>The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
>War and Peace
>Paradise Lost

What would you guys recommend?

OP has terrible taste in books and music lol.

LAST READ: THE CANDLE BY TOLSTOY
CURRENTLY: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO BY DUMAS (20% THROUGH IN TWO DAYS, WILL GET 10% DONE AT LEAST EACH DAY)
NEXT: PROBABLY A HAPPY DEATH BY CAMUS, OR SPRING TORRENTS BY TURGENEV.

>>1277786
David Copperfield is pretty good. I'd leave Brothers Karamazov a while unless you can get the Peaver & Volokhovsky translation.

Also leave War & Peace in case you ever get imprisoned or something.

>Just Read
War and Peace

>Reading
The Pearl (obviously not going to take long) by Steinbeck
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima (in Japanese)
Tales of Ise (in Classical Japanese)

>To Read
Ulysses
Absalom, Absalom!
Crying of Lot 49
More Mishima or some Natsume Soseki depending on my mood

>Just Read
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek

>Reading
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

>To Read
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (re-read)

>Also leave War & Peace in case you ever get imprisoned or something.

Doing this now.

>>1277799
Noted. My copy is pretty old, so I'll look into buying that translation. Thanks.

Just Read: Breakfast of Champions. Could have sworn I read this when I read some Vonnegut in high school, but apparently not. Reading this made me realize I didn't know what the fuck Vonnegut was talking about back when I was a high schooler, so I'm going to go back and re-read his books.

Reading: On the Road. Thinking about returning my copy to the library and checking out the 50 year anniversary edition (uncut, unedited).

To Read: Love in the Time of Cholera, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Brothers Karamazov

>>1277817
Well it's particularly Constance Garnett;s translation i found 'dry' but the whole thing has put me off reading non-english novels for a bit unless it's P&V Dostoevsky.

>>1277814
>>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
>taking a communist seriously in 2010.
pic related.

>>1277823
YOU TAKE EVERYTHING YOU READ SERIOUSLY?

HURR

>>1277832
>non-fiction
It's not like we're talking about something historically significant like Mein Kampf here.....

Also it's meant to be quite heady so why go to all the bother?

>>1277837
I DON'T KNOW MAN, MAYBE HE LIKES READING FROM PRESENT ACADEMICS. AFTER ALL, ON /LIT/ AT LEAST, THE GUY GETS MENTIONED A FAIR BIT.

>>1277843
>supporting a regime responsible for many genocides of the 20th century
>academic

>>1277855
hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
academician: an educator who works at a college or university

LEARN TO DICTIONARY.

>>1277862

>>1277855

I think most modern Marxist academics like to forget the past

Nowadays they're only interested in cultural Marxism and critical theory.
It's only the teenaged reds that embrace the likes of Stalin and Pol Pot.

I have plenty of shit to be getting on with.
>Just Read
the body artist by Don Dedildo

>Reading
Oracle Night by Paul Austere

>To Read
Midnight's Children by Salamander Rushdie

>>1277889
>I have plenty of shit to be getting on with
Wow, no need to get all defensive!

I'm sure the only reason you're in on this fine friday night is to get some serious SHIT DONE, right d&e?

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber.

>>1277896
>defensive
Not really brah, that is what you got from it.

>reasons
Reasons are things people look for, construe. It is a sort of structuring process with some aim in mind on the part of the individual. I am not interested in reasons - this is how things are now. I am neither coming nor going. This sort of thinking is alien to someone such as yourself, although this is nothing surprising given your age and so on.

"salamander Rushdie"
LOL
but seriously,
he's the shit

>>1277918
>>Not really brah, that is what you got from it
>saging me
>using swears
sounds pretty defensive to me & prob most ppl here.

>'i live in the moment', etc, etc
i dont believe you.

I'm in every Friday night. Suck it socialfag.

>Just Read

The Good Soldier Svejk 9/10 even though it ends in mid-story, why did you have to die Jaroslav

>Reading

The Sealed Angel and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov

So far I am disappoint

>To Read

Zuckerman Unbound

>>1277940
I HATE D&E AS MUCH AS THE NEXT GUY, BUT THAT, COMING FROM YOU TYBRAX.

OH YOU!

GO WHINE SOME MORE AND DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO.

>>1277940
>'i live in the moment', etc, etc
complete misunderstanding, Tybrax. I mean, it is perfectly obvious that each and every one of us 'lives in the moment' given that that is how time is experienced.

>Just Read
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>Reading
As I Lay Dying
>To Read
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Crying of Lot 49
Cannery Row

>>1277896
>>1277896
>>1277946

he's mad.

what a spastic

>>1277946
>thinks defensive means some sort of whining action or something
>capsguy
hmm, makes sense.

>>1277957
>this is how things are now. I am neither coming nor going
you trying to make me mad bro?

>>1277968
WAS REFERRING TO THE 'LIVING IN THE MOMENT' PART OF YOUR POST, YOU FUCK.

>>1277962
You are extremely immature.

>Just Read
Darkness at noon

>Reading
Decision Points

>To Read
A whole bunch of Asimov stuff. And Basic Economics by Sowell

>>1277957
I laughed, mainly because I hate tybrax.

>>1277975
oh ok. but i dont recall me ever pretending to myself that i do such-and-such on here. for instance i admit that i whine.

>do nothing about it
is an exaggeration though. there are many things to do i just dont do the right ones or something.

ITT: Tybrax attempts to deconstruct the image he himself has devised about me which I have neither condemned nor condoned. Perhaps one day you will learn that there is more 2 ppl than ur skewed projections of them lil TyBrah

except for capsguy, of whose soul there constitutes nothing more than the upper case

>Just Read
Legacy of the Drow - Salvatore

>Reading
P.G. Wodehouse short stories and Quick Service. Wodehouse has to be the greatest comedic author I've ever read.

>To Read
Some more Drizzt, maybe a new mango, some more Steve Erikson

Jesus Christ d&e, not sure if you're not replying directly to me because you think i was serious about the friday night thing or something else.

>the image he himself has devised about me
which is? usually its based on the current thread mostly combined with constant things between threads :/

>Perhaps one day you will learn that there is more 2 ppl than ur skewed projections of them
This is so dumb that I think you're just trying to make me mad. Why wouldnt i project about someone on the internet? i dont know them to think anything otherwise.

Not sure if I hit a nerve or something, i'm scared d&e ;_;

best thread on /lit/ *****

>>1278048
I CAN'T HELP IT, WHEN I WAS AN INFANT, I HAD LOTS OF EAR INFECTIONS, AND I THINK AS A RESULT, I DON'T PERCEIVE SOUND AS EFFICIENTLY AS A 'NORMAL' PERSON. SO WHEN I SPEAK, I TEND TO SPEAK SLIGHTLY LOUDER THAN NECESSARY :(

Tonight I asked a girl I like if she wanted to get together and read Kant with me. She said no (but maybe next time). Looks like I'll be staying in tonight.

I was supposed to meet someone for a date an hour and forty minutes ago, but they ditched me. Boohoo, so sad.

Last: The user's manual for my new car

Reading: Absolut: Biography of a Bottle

Next: Sacco and Vanzetti: Italian Immigrants and Anarchists

>Just Read
Clear and Present Danger

>Reading
The Sum of All Fears

>To Read
Without Remorse
Debt of Honor
Executive Orders
Rainbow Six
The Bear and the Dragon
Red Rabbit
The Teeth of the Tiger
Dead or Alive

All by Tom Clancy.

>>1278070
>She said no
I hope you weren't surprised?

I called health place earlier but the appointment that was free was taken so now i have to wait until the week after next to see her. im gonna skip uni until then.

think i might tell her im 'suicidal' next time to so she can up-the-ante, im not feeling very important to them.

>>1278070

>read Kant
>she said no

I'll bet she's a Holderlin bitch

went on a date earlier
so now im at home watching Saving Private Ryan

>Tonight I asked a girl I like if she wanted to get together and read Kant with me. She said no

>I was supposed to meet someone for a date an hour and forty minutes ago, but they ditched me

>went on a date earlier so now im at home watching Saving Private Ryan

wow you guys are all losers/rejects/freaks.

>>1278082
COMING FROM THE VIRGIN FROM SCOTLAND OR WHATEVER SHITHOLE YOU LIVE IN.

>>1278094

>>1278094
>>1278094

i live in England and i'm not a virgin, sorry to disappoint.

also your post was quite rude, unnecessarily so. Damn and blast your eyes sir.

>>1278094
>virgin
stopped reading. jeez capsguy no matter how many asian sluts you fuck, you'll never get rid of that insecurity of having a small penis.

>>1278105
WASN'T REPLYING TO YOU, DEAR BB.
>>1278108
YES, I HAVE A SMALL PENIS. EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MY BODY IS IN THE RIGHT PROPORTIONS OF THAT OF A PERSON AROUND 6"4', EXCEPT MY PENIS.

MAKES COMPLETE SENSE TO ME!

>>1278120
>>1278120

my mistake handsome

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>>1278120

I've fucked dudes who were 6'4" with wee little dicks the size of my index finger, so find something better to base your defense on than height.

Actually, I've fucked more hung short dudes than hung tall dudes.

>>1278159
please stop feeding his insecurity, im sick of his shit on here.

>>1278168

>call people losers on the internet
>accuse other people of being insecure

>>1278159

>dudes who were 6'4" with wee little dicks the size of my index finger

This is my fetish, give me their names

>>1278159
YOU'VE FUCKED MULTIPLE GUYS THAT WERE EXACTLY 6"4' THAT HAPPENED TO HAVE SMALL DICKS? THAT'S VERY CONVENIENT FOR THIS CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING, DON'T YOU THINK SO?

NICE TRY 1/10.

>>1278176

Probably not 6'4" exactly, but 6'2" to 6'6", yeah. It happens when you're a promiscuous gay man.

I wish I could hide my seething rage at the world behind the capslock too

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>>1278205
I'M NOT MAD OR RAGING.

>Capsguy
>TyBrax
>Deep&Edgy

Fucking shit threads tonight...