/lit/ - Literature

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>>1538290
ban this fucker.

>>1538290

last 3: Some Lermontov, some Gogol, some Chekhov
current: Some D.H. Lawrence
will: Some Mishima, some Bely, some Iroquois myths

>>1538314
>>1538314

yeah let's ban him for making a literature thread!
last:
the trial
metamorphosis
collections of essays (not sure if count?)

current:
frankenstein

next:
w/e my pleasure

what are some good books on buddhism.

>Last 3
The Shining (King)
Haunted (Palahniuk)
Factotum (Bukowski)

>Current
Less Than Zero (Ellis)

>Next 3
Rules of Attraction (Ellis)
Post Office (Bukowksi)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

>LAST 3 READ
sociology of law survey thingy
supercapitalism
something by dummett that sucked

>CURRENTLY READING
constitution of agency by christine korsgaard


will read
naturalising jurisprudence leiter

>>1538335

introduction to buddhism by D T Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginners Mind, stuff by Alan Watts

>LAST 3
The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
Ficciones (Borges)
Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

>CURRENTLY
To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
Congress: The Electoral Connection (Mayhew)

>3 WILL READ
Ethics (Badiou)
Gender Trouble (Butler)
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)

>>1538348
what about descriptive studies of buddhism particularly as it is practiced in china

>>1538330
How much do you hate Frankenstein?

>Last three
Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei
The House Spirit and Other Stories by Kanoko Okamoto
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

>Currently reading
Country Teacher by Katai Tayama
The Doctor's Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe

>Next three
I dunno, I think I might do something different and read some Japanese authors.

>>1538330
more like ban him for being a tripfaggot.

>>1538353
dunno about china, always was concerned more about the daoism and confucianism over there

>>1538363
most anons should be banned judged by the content of their posts

>>1538359
Who ever you are, I really like your tastes.

>>1538375
Shut up, tripfag.

>>1538379
peon

>>1538359
>>1538376
So you guys like FLCL or...
>>1538375
second.jpig

>>1538379
spawn more overlords.

>>1538363
>>1538363

lemme just check the rul-
HEY!
almost had me buddy!
why would we ban tripcode users when they're a collection of 4chan elites?
the most intelligent and knowledgeable users on this board who don't make shit posts like you've been doing in this thread.

you fucking prole

can we be a little less poop and a little more constructive? Stop reminding me why I rarely bother posting here.

As such, anyone got any recs as far as further reading on Gender? I really loved the topic in my cultural anthropology class and Butler was the first thing I got ahold.

>>1538380
I peon you.

>>1538390
Have you read Helene Cixous' Sorties?

>>1538382
He/she has very different taste, I bet you haven't read a single book on that list.

>>1538392

>>1538356
>>1538356

eh i'm not that far in yet, but it's starting to just be people fucking whining all day erry day.

i'm reading the norton critical edition so half of the book is taken up with responses from different critisicm perspectives.

meh

>>1538392
>mfw clever comment.

>>1538395
I have not. Looks interesting though. Thanks bro.

>>1538290
n1. raymond carver is a man amongst men.

>LAST 3 READ
soseki- and then
wolff- bach: the learned musician
mishima- the sound of waves

>CURRENTLY READING
yoshikawa- musashi

>WILL READ
soseki- kokoro
oe- a quiet life
oe- nip the buds, shoot the kids

>>1538392
that's pretty funny but you shouldn't do it

>>1538400

Well, I feel obligated to tell you that it's a piece of shit.

why does one make a thread like this?

books are never actually talked about in them

>>1538416
Maybe you should um...

y'know...

>>1538426
wat...

>>1538429
gtfo is wat you faggot

>>1538359
U MY BRO. i love oe and he's rarely talked about here, even in the jap lit threads.

>>1538429
>>1538429

talk about some books?

>>1538453
well i can't in this thread

and i wasn't trying to say that they shit up the board or anything

i just don't think there is really any point in making them

>>1538457
Wait.
why can't you talk about books in this thread? all you have to do is pick one from someone's list, give an opinion on it or ask a question, and there you go- discussion.

>>1538462

or better yet, he could even read.

>>1538462
but so little has been posted now

I will say that
>>1538290
>metamorphoses
is brilliant and beautiful

and that i intend on translating it eventually

Last3
-The Mysterious Island by Verne
- War of the Worlds by Wells
- Through the Looking Glass by Carroll

Currently
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
- Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky

Planning to
- The God Delusion by Dawkins
- God is Not Great by Hitchens

>>1538480
Metamorphoses was such a terrible read I wailed and beat my breast and tore my hair

>>1538480
See? Now you can dispute what
>>1538495
said and you have that which you were seeking.

>>1538495
fuck off

>>1538505

>>1538511
do you derive some sort of gorgeous pleasure from this?

>Last 3:
Soseki - Botchan
Bellow - The Actual
Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper

>Now
Machiavelli - The Prince
Wilde - The PIcture of Dorian Gray
Lodge - Nice Work

>Next
Dunno lol. I intend to read more works by Australian authors because I'll be going there soon hopefully. Any good writers besides Patrick White and Peter Carey?

>>1538519
But srsly what do you think of Paradise Lost?

>>1538511
>>1538519

You guys gonna fuck or what? I'll try not to get any spooges on you from the corner.

>>1538495

herp


>LAST 3 READ
Art of War
How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
World War Z

>CURRENTLY READING

Mapping Human History

>WILL (3) READ
Simarillion
Dune
Hitchhiker's Guide

>LAST 3 READ
Renegade - Mark E Smith
Glamorama
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

>CURRENTLY READING
Naked Lunch

>WILL (3) READ
Junky
Crime & Punishment
A People's History of the United States

>>1538532
written well

a bit over rated

better than dante

>>1538541

>implying i would fuck a philosophy major

>>1538551
He's clearly not a philosophy major.

>>1538567
lol

>LAST 3 READ
i don't remember

>CURRENTLY READING
forty stories by donald barthelme
a collection of all of raymond carver's stories
the bible

>WILL (3) READ
i dunno lol. maybe the odyssey

that is probably the most fucked up painting I've ever seen

and the painting itself sucks too

geez

a new height in fucking bad

i'm sorry

So deep wat is your opinion on House of Leaves

>>1539544

>>1539535 <--- me


don't take it so hard
try again
do better
this one's not a classic
but next year's will be
rock on

>>1539548
I haven't read it but it's a piece of shit

>>1541282
amazing

Last three:
The Moon & Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Currently reading:
The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

Next Three:
Rebecca and Rowena by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

>>1538290
political satire is funny

>>1541313
There is some political satire that transcend the ages. Not much though, because it's too specific of an attack. Generalized satire is the best.

>>1541333
if you learn the facts about the politics of the day, they can remain relevant. although the funny may come from observing vast shifts in political values.

>LAST 3 READ
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

>CURRENTLY READING
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

>WILL (3) READ
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (rereading)
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Gulag by Anne Applebaum

Last 3:
Plato - Phaedo
Huxley - Island
Bukowski - Women

Currently reading:
Foucault - Discipline and Punish

Next 3:
Holberg - The Political Tinker
Balzac - Eugénie Grandet
Milton - Paradise Lost

>LAST 3 READ
The Dice Man
The Stranger
Roadside Picnic

>CURRENTLY READING
On the road

>WILL READ
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
undecided

Well the dice man was pretty shit, and on the road is fucking terrible.

>>1541899
>the dice man was pretty shit
what didn't you like about it?

>>1541917
I think that there was way too much untapped potential in it, basically. The majority of the interesting parts were barely explored.

The whole thing about dice centers and the whole movement actually catching on was a bit too... Well, brief, if you ask me.

It took a while to really get going (there's nopthing wrong with that) and then the last third of the book or so was way too rushed.

That was my opinion of it, anyway.

>>1541934
>The whole thing about dice centers and the whole movement actually catching on was a bit too... Well, brief, if you ask me.
I can completely agree with this, I didn't even like the fact that it turned to the dice center stuff.

Last 3: Molloy; Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra; Nausea
Reading: Age of Reason
Next: Foucault's Pendulum if it's ever returned to the library, the rest of Trilogy, Being and Nothingness

>LAST 3 READ
Slaughterhouse 5
Life of Pi
Fight Club

>CURRENTLY READING
Catch 22

>WILL (3) READ
Fanfan
The Diary of a Young Girl (the Anne Frank diary)
Brave New World or Clockwork Orange

Breakfast of Champions
Holes
Narcissus and Goldmund

On the Road - The Original Scroll

Slaughterhouse 5
Enders Game
The Trial

>>1541934
>>1541984

Slaughterhouse 5 was quite entertaining. I laughed out loud on several occasions, got a couple of weird looks from people in the café. Have a good read.

Last Read:
A History of the Crusades - Thomas Asbridge
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Currently Reading:
Manstein: Hitler's greatest general - Mungo Melvin
Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 - Fergal Keane

Will Read:
The Genesis Genealogies: God's Administration in the History of Redemption - Abraham Park
Depending on how ^ goes the next two in the series.

>Last Three
The Great Philosophers: The Disturbers - Karl Jaspers
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Room - Emma Donoghue

>Currently
Rabbit, Run - John Updike

>Will Read
More from the Rabbit series
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Maybe some Steinbeck