/lit/ - Literature

>>14449780
Who cares. Is this reddit?

literally Infinite Jest

>>14449780
I'm going to finish this one before 2020 begins, then reread it again as my first book for 2020

>>14449780
The Brothers Karamazov

Capital volume 1

>>14449780
Is Emily Dickinson the new Guenon?
I would be fine with this, because she's hot

>>14449794
This.

The first book I start in 2020 will probably be short and simple to give my brain a break. I was thinking either the Hobbit or Beowulf.

I dont read book, I read papers

>>14450260
Is better than that horse-faced frenchie

gormenghast my nigga

>>14451265
shut the fuck up

Not sure yet
My reading in 2019 has been dogshit
Can someone recommend a good short book to start my 2020 reading with?

>>14450404

Based

>>14451300
wiggety

Lanark by Alasdair Gray, who died a couple of days ago. F

>>14449780
currently im reading the idiot. after that im going to read the brothers karamazov so that one will be the first book i begin reading in the new decade.

>>14449780
La Prisonnière by Proust

>>14449780
Have this lying on the coffee table rn. Gonna be nice to get back to Middle Earth after all this time.

>>14450355
Beowulf is a lovely wintertide read. Read it in parallel in Saxon, preferrably aloud to yourself, to truly appretiate the prose. It's a wonderful story.

>>14451737
>the prose
kys

Love in the Time of Cholera. Absolutely loved One Hundred Years of Solitude, perfect novel worthy of the praise it gets.

>>14451746
but anon, didn't you know "prose" means "sonority"?

>>14451737
I wouldn't do it justice because I don't know how to pronounce it.

>>14449780
Gonna try to read the Bible. Should take me around a month.

>>14453107
Suck
Fuck
and Chuck

I want to fix my body by losing this lard and I want to improve my brain and read things other than just dystopian fiction. Pic related I picked up for a dollar.

>>14449780
Then stoner then The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.

>>14449780
Suck my dick nigga

>>14449780
Being and Time

Got some books in the mail today. I've started reading All Creatures Great and Small.

>>14451726
Haven't read any Tolkien since the late 90s. I think I'm about ready to go back

I always re-read the Bible every January. It helps me get through the rest of the year.

>>14453595
Comfy

The Sound and The Fury. Never read Faulkner before what should I expect?

>>14453788
Confusion, then depression, then a headache in literary form, and then quiet sadness

>>14453788
To do quite a bit of re-reading. Don’t be too proud to look up a plot summary either when you’re confused. The first two chapters are nuts (but also stunning), and the third and fourth chapters will make things a lot clearer. Just power through and try to enjoy it. It’s my all-time favorite book.

>>14449780
Brann's book on the Imagination
Girard's book Violence and Religion

>>14449780
i dont have my glasses ,is this The Crisis of the Modern World or A Thousand Plateaus?

One day in and one book read.
The pace won't be maintained though. A combination of the right subject matter and available time.
I'd recommend this book for any one interested in a broader picture of pre-colonial aboriginal Australia. Worth a read.

>>14453568
What a coincidence, I started reading What is Property? a few days ago, and it will be the first book I finish in 2020. Next I'm reading The Conquest of Bread and The Ego and Its Own.

I was doing some long overdue file management and found this lad roaming loose, so I'll give it a shot when I sober up tomorrow. Also curious if
/lit/ is aware of that record label Mille Plateaux (and its several sublabels)? I mean minimal glitch techno isn't very rhizomatic but at least it gave teenage me a slight nudge toward philosophy. Mentioned because it's sold/hosted on what's left of the label's website

Finishing "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous With Destiny". Will start "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship" after the former is completed.

>>14454035
Are you me?

>>14449780
Gonna finish pic related and My Struggle book 1 first. Also gotta finish the book of Genesis so I'm feeling like the first book I'll read from front to back just in this year will probably be either the Exodus of the Israelites or the Gospel of St. Matthew. I'm feeling hopeful after only reading two books in 2019.

Just finished

>>14454024
Will check this one actually, will find you if book isn't worth it, and act as if im not native english speaker

>>14454200
Almost, except that I read God and the State last month instead of State and Anarchism (how was it, btw?) and that I will read Stirner in the Cambridge edition. Any reason you didn't also get the Cambridge editions for Kropotkin and Stirner?

Lady of the Lake by Sapkowski, it's so shit, but I just need to finish the series
the characters get dumber and dumber with each book, like holy shit geralt??

>>14449780
I'm finishing "Elective affinities" by Goethe, I wanted to end it by 2019 but I couldn't for like 35 pages. Pretty boring book, in fact in the mean time I've read like 4 books such as Madame Bovary, which I preferred vastly

>>14451378
Based
>>14451726
I want to live in that cover

>>14449785
No, this is patrick

>>14453568
>>14454035
Why do you need a ~200 page book to answer what property is? Is it really that complicated of a question?

>>14455096
Most fantasy is a waste of time, including Witcher. Make this your first foray into quitting things that aren't worth finishing.

>>14449780
good
>>14449794
decent
>>14450203
good
>>14451378
cool
>>14451658
nice
>>14451707
BASED
>>14451726
lol
>>14452211
nice
>>14453029
gl
>>14453558
gl
>>14453568
i don't believe in political philosophy
>>14453581
haha
>>14453595
:)

>>14456711
I should be starting Volume II of "In Search of Lost Time" tomorrow. I finished Volume I around 3 months ago and forgot most of the stuff other than major things (character names and bigger events). Am I going to be alright or do I have to reread some summary?

Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It's okay I guess. I've already read a different book of Greek myths but I figured reading them again under a different author will make them stick a little more.

>>14456722
you're good. maybe pick up a reader's guide (get it off libgen) like the one by patrick alexander to quickly review.

>>14456749
Thanks for the heads-up. What were your favorite parts in Volume I?

>>14456756
np

related to swann's insecurity a lot. like when he was trying to read through odette's envelope, i'd do that kind of stuff if i was a french aristocrat in the 19th century.

also just in general i believe in proust's overall theory of love (if i've perceived it correctly). the last sentence in swann in love ahaha it's perfect.

what did you like in vol i?

>>14456865
I think that his affair with Odette was drawn out a bit, although there were some amazing scenes. And that twist near the end when it turns out he married her even though the book makes it look like he got over her was amazing.
>what did you like in vol i?
My favorite scenes were those comfy ones in "Combray". I also loved the salon scenes.

>>14456622
It answers he question in the first paragraph: property is theft. Then it proceeds to argue why it is so for ~200 pages. Quite brilliant. Very French. Very now. Very chic.

Started the Hobbit last night, hope to be finished around 200 pages tonight. At 150 now so that's not much trouble. Then LOTR, Collected shorter fiction of Tolstoy, and perhaps after that I finally re-read Joseph and His Brothers. Feels like a solid start to the year.

>>14456362
Fantastic novella. Enjoy it, wish I could read it again for the first time

I sat down with this today and read almost a third of it in one go. It really stirs whatever masculinity I have in me. Besides the Decameron, this is the only piece of Italian literature I've deeply enjoyed.

>>14458408
I'm not masculine. Will this unearth my masculinity?

>>14449780
finished the conquest of bread

>>14458768
not him but probably not it's not traditionally masculine imo

I’m still reading idiot
then demons then brothers k

Pic related, which I got for Christmas. I'm really liking Pynchon a lot, this being the first book of his I'm reading. I love his sense of humour and the tangential sort of way he writes, it all just agrees with me very much.

>>14459377
I'm a moron and forgot the image.

>>14451441
F

>>14458768
No, not at all. You’re better off becoming a Petersonfag.

Independent People.

So far I have gleamed that the national character of the Icelandic people is that of coffee and sheep.

Pretty comfy.

Steppenwolf, pretty intresting so far.

Finishing Ulysses

>>14458790
Cringe

>>14453581
I am 20 and /lit/ taught me what to read: the post