/lit/ - Literature

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Blood Meridian

>>16026366
>didn’t make any friends the first time around
sad

>>16026345
Smyposium

>>16026374
It's more about manipulating, don't be fooled by the title

99% of my books I never revisit. Lets say I've read 300 books. 2 books I will go back and re-read my favorite chapter. And 1 book I read multiple times which would be the book Eyes Wide Shut was based on.

Only books who taught mandments/nature rules/how to live life so I dont forget after a year or so

I try to read annualy this guys

>enchiridion epictetus
>meditations of myself marcus aurelius
>cartas ad lucium seneca
>ecclesiastes
>art of war sun tsu
>the millionaire next door thomas stanley

>>16026376
This, pretty good book

>>16026345
Of course, you don't truly understand a book until you read it multiple times, read a biography of the author and read commentaries on it made by academics.

>>16026345
In elementary and middle schools I would reread Harry Potter over and over, but I’m 26 now and I have not reread any book since then. Planning on rereading Mason and Dixon and TCoL49 this year though, cause I have forgotten them completely.

>>16026345
Rarely
Naked Lunch
Journey to the End of the Night
Some Bukowski books
The Stranger
Cities of the Red Night
Siddharta
Marriage of Heaven and Hell

>>16026345
No. Books take long enough to read the first time. Why would I waste that time on knowledge I already possess?

>>16026460
Yeah, philosophy and history are worth refreshing.

>>16027174
>knowledge I already possess?
I doubt you truly understood any of the books you read, yours is a shallow knowledge worth the same as your so called 'time'.

>>16026345
re-reading books is often necessary but often re-reading them is a complete waste of time.

>>16027189
>waste of time.
What is not a waste of time in life? The very concept of living is wasting time waiting for death, there is no objective waste of time in life, one can categorize any activity as a waste, therefore it's entirely subjective what is considered a waste of time.

>>16027185
Cope. I'm smarter than you.

>>16027201
>What is not a waste of time in life? The very concept of living is wasting time waiting for death, there is no objective waste of time in life, one can categorize any activity as a waste, therefore it's entirely subjective what is considered a waste of time.
MEGACOPE

>>16027201
>there is no objective waste of time in life
Anything that directly or indirectly doesn't increase your odds of survival is objectively a waste if time

read Anna Karenina three times, Demons four times

>>16027209
Well, we all should become medics then.

>>16027201
>too deep 4 me

>>16027226
Quite the opposite. We would all starve to death.

>>16027209
>tfw eating tendies is a better way to spend time than reading Plato

>>16026345
Not often only certain books
Moby Dick I reread fairly regularly, once a year or so, the second time I read it was only 6 months after the first.
I reread non-fiction works, particularly philosophy, to reaffirm my current and develop new understanding as I read more things that relate but that’s true for most people I suspect.
I reread poetry I like as well

Stuff I reread:
Pale Fire by Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
(Everything by Joyce)
Omensetter's Luck by William Gass
J R by William Gaddis
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

>>16027293
Oh, and also Mrs. Galloway. Good shit.

I've read most of Gene Wolfe's books a minimum of 2 times each. I've read the Wizard Knight about 6 times, the Soldier series 6 times, etc. Thing is you rarely go into a book knowing what you're getting into. After reading Latro in the Mist I was compelled to read Herodotus, and other Greek historians, and more mythology as well. I unironically read a huge portion of the Greek stuff due to a historical fantasy.

I'll get trapped in obsessive cycles like this for months at a time if not years. Gene wolfe also got me reading a lot about Catholicism.

>>16027310
>Gene wolfe also got me reading a lot about Catholicism
He wasnt catholic though

I didn't reread much at all until I hit about 400 books. Now I'm rereading at few every month.

>>16027881
I just recently hit 400 books, and I feel the exact same way. I have so many books to read, but I think now that I have a solid foundation, I am ready to go back to books I have loved in the past.

>>16027881
>>16028104
The fuck? You people count?

>>16028444
Goodreads will tell you how many you read you dumb bastard.

>>16028457
>Using goodreads
Get the fuck out of my board, tumblr.

very few

the accursed share
war with the newts
confederacy of dunces

and I reread kafka stories regularly

>>16026345
I read my favourite books nearly every year
The Recognitions (JR every other year)
Moby Dick
Rabelais
Don Quixote
Chaucer
Rulfo
Spend the rest of the year rereading Beckett and Twain. Haven’t read Joyce in years even though he was a big influence when I was 16-22, gonna have to spend the rest of the summer on him. Recently started rereading Proust and it felt like revisiting old friends/family I haven’t seen in years.
>>16027170
>Cities of the Red Night
I should really get on that. I left off on Burroughs after the Nova trilogy.

>>16028475
Keep on acting like you belong

>>16028475
Goodreads has been a staple of /lit// since it's creation, dipshit.

>>16028520
>Proust and it felt like revisiting old friends/family I haven’t seen in years.
That's why Proust is bigger than any other author, everyone else looks like a scared dog in comparison to the injured lion that is Proust. He makes people actually feel things with his writing, a task all others throughout history tried to accomplish but ultimately failed because theirs just felt too artificial, but Proust just broke through that shallowness and touched our very own souls with his writing, he's unparalleled, a monster among babies, a real genius and above all a true human being, more human than anyone else and yet less human than anyone else as well.

>>16026345
I WANT TO READ HER BOOSY I WANT TK GIVE IT A BIG OL SCHNIFF AND JUST SCHNIFF IT AND THEN REREAD IT I JUST WANT TO PUT MY FACE IN IT AND JUST WHIFF IT OH BY GOD I WOULD WIFF THAT BOOSY IF I GOT A CHANCE HUNKA HUNKA UUUUUGGGGHHH

>>16026446
What makes traumnovelle special?

I get around to rereading most good fiction sooner or later. Some stuff like Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey Maturin series, Salems Lot, The Great Gatsby, Revolutionary Road and Alas, Babylon I’ve reread more times then I can count
The last couple years though I’ve actually been inclined to listen to them on audio while at work. Listening to stuff I’ve already read is a good way to enjoy them all over again without worrying about not fully appreciating them and doing this at work instead of rereading in my downtime has probably contributed a lot to the overall quantity I’ve been able to read

>>16028475
I made a goodreads and linked it in my tinder profile back when I did that sort of thing; it worked really well.
It did make me sort of screen what I added there though. Like I distinctly remember not adding a Robert E Lee biography and Hitler’s War by Irving

>>16029329
>using literature to grab some pussy
You are, sir, a truly despicable human being.

>>16029329
>It did make me sort of screen what I added there though.
I do that on movie social medias lol

>>16026345
She can't even figure out how to sit on a sofa, how am I supposed to believe she can read?

>>16026345

I finished rereading Frank Herbert's Dune series a couple of months ago and am currently rereading J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy, I'm already on Return of the King. I am also rereading Morris Berman's Twilight of American Culture because of the protests/riots that are happening. I might reread the Silmarillion later this month after I finish LoTR: The Return of the King.

>>16029923
>I finished rereading Frank Herbert's Dune series a couple of months ago
Could never finish any book except the first Dune
>am currently rereading J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy
Based. Have reread this couple of times both text and audiobooks

>>16029953

Cool. I read and reread LoTR, the Dune series, Black Hawk Down, Frankenstein, Dracula and other books back in high school. All of these have live action adaptation which is why I got interested in them and reread the books.

>>16027209
Leisure staves off suicide.

I listen to Count of Monte Cristo on audiobook every year.

>>16026460
Great post, Stoic philosophy is always worth rereading.

>>16029923
>Reading young adult fiction
Grow up kid

>>16031254

What? I was reading genre fiction, except for Black Hawk Down which isn't genre fiction. I think Bourne Identity was another book I've reread in high school.

>>16026345
Recognitions 2x
GR 2x
Dubliners, Portrait, Omensetter's Luck, Ada 2x

Lots. I'd rather re-read a great book than waste time with a good book

the big book of reddit

>>16029896
Her ass hurts

I'm reading the Iliad for the sixth time. I'll be sticking with Lattimore btw.

>>16026345
Going to reread the last book I read so yes

>>16026345
it was a terrible habbit for me...it kept me stuck in a rut...in the last few years made it a point not to re read anything until I finished at least 3 new books that year

>>16027395
>Gene wolfe
>not Catholic
he most definitely was. What are you on about?

>>16027226
We should all become physicists so we can control time and end the problem since it's solution is there being no time at all

>>16026345
Kafka's The Trial

>>16026345
almost all of them
they're fucking free

>>16026345
Occasionally. Haven't re-read anything for the past 3-4 years though, since I started reading a lot more again. Before that I must've read Lolita 5 times and some other classics a couple of times. Going to be re-reading a lot of the recent books I've read these past few years since I've during this time found a lot of new books I really enjoyed, like:

The obscene bird of night
Suttree
Warlock
The leopard
The star diaries
etc.

Very often. Most good books are better the second time. If I enjoy a book enough to remember it fondly a year later I will inevitably read it again at some point.

>>16027310
I recommend Memoirs of Hadrian, anon, if you don't mind a lot of typical Roman homosex. It's a first person account, like BotNS, but closer in tone to Meditations, of an Emperor trying to find a belief system, sort of.
It might get you into later historians.

Things I've reread
The Stranger, 4 or 5 times. The Plague, 2 times.
ASOIAF, except the second time I had watched the show and smoked a ton of weed while reading it (very vivid imagery)
Book of the New Sun, 3 times, will do another one when the Rereading Wolfe catches up to at least tye 3rd book
Welcome to the NHK, 5 or 6 times, or every other year, trying to figure out what went wrong.
Borges short stories. Pick one at random and just read it when I'm bored.
Kokoro, 3 times.

>>16027209
Following that logic, we should all go into cryostasis. Survival for hundreds of years is guaranteed, brilliant Dr. Anon.

>>16027209
No one actually believes this, they just say it because they feel like an intellectual or a bad-ass for saying it.

>>16026345
usually only short books or collections of short stories. one day i intend to do moby dick and pale king again

For the most part I re-read self-help, stuff like Epictetus and Seneca for example, because although I never actually fix my shitty personality and habits, I enjoy the experience of communing with guys who believe that I could if I wanted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSSibWkQcTA

>>16033394
I'm not Catholic but isn't it blasphemous to sexualize and fantasize about women to the extent that Gene Wolfe does in his books? I'm pretty sure that there's a verse in the Bible warning about lusts of the flesh. If Gene Wolfe was a catholic he surely didn't try hard to uphold his religions values

>>16035919
Isnt there something in there also about letting God judge people and minding your business

>>16035938
hey, i don't blame gene wolfe at all for doing what he does, but it does make me scratch my head a little when one talks about how gene wolfe brought them to catholicism

>>16026460
how often do you have sex?

>>16035896

Your self anecdote isn't really a self anecdote, you fucking snake.

>>16026345
Journey to the end of the night and Death on the installment plan

>>16036187
Once a year desu, just to remember how disgusting women are

>>16027206
Philosophy is a cope.

>>16026345
I am a huge William Gibson fan and regularly re-read everything starting with NEUROMANCER. It’s fascinating to see what details seem different over time. So yeah, I love a good re-read.

>>16036204
It actually is.

>>16028488
Sometimes I just pick up The Accursed Share and read a few sections at a time. Such a wonderful mind.

>>16036279

Yeah, sure it is.

>>16036294
Yep. It is

potters, dracula (5 times), sacred games, the list goes on

>>16026345
Once in a while, I reread some pop science titles.

>>16036987

Can you recommend any books I should buy, read and reread that have been released within the last 9 years? I'll do my best not to read any of them.

>>16037194
I certainly can.

I’ve read BOTNS twice and I’ll probably read it again in the near future.
I read 100YOS 5 years ago and even the moment I finished it I wanted to reread it but I’m going to wait a bit so it’s fresh af again when I do

>>16026345
Pic related. Have had it for almost 10 years and I've read it at least 10 times all the way through and look through particular passages I like regularly.

I even stomp around my apartment and recite from it out loud on occasion.

>>16038187
Did you shoot that with birdshot? I like the damage