/lit/ - Literature

>>16281381
Re-reading the greeks

>>16281381
Plutarch.
Historia Anglorum

sein und zeit & basic writings i guess!

Bump

Silmarillion but I'm going to first re-read the Hobbit and LotR as well in preparation for it, to maximize its comfiness.

>>16283895
Very basedrian
I haven't read lotr too, is winter long enough to read both? English is my second language so I have to translate some words from time to time...

>>16283937
Yes it's definitely long enough the books aren't that long, you can easily read Hobbit + LotR + other books in one season, I've done it before but the books are great and worth re-reading at least once or twice.

>>16281381
>Moby Dick
Avoid

Glass Bead Game and Auto da Fe for December
The Magic Mountain scheduled for January
Les Miserables for February.

>>16283987
Why don’t you like The Whale, anon?
Remember that if you mention distraction from the plot it outs you as a pleb who can’t into non-genre fiction

>>16281381
Yeah, I expected Moby-Dick to be good and it still exceeded my expectations. No other American book compares.

>>16284015
Distraction from the story is alright if the author actually has something interesting to say in the interval. But with Moby Dick, Melville goes on these endless autistic rants about whaling, cetology, and all the minutiae of how the Pequod is organised, who does what, which title belongs to whom, etc., which I just don't want to hear about. And it's not as if they're unobtrusive little extras on the side; they're literally chapter-length essays interspersed throughout the book.
The start of Moby Dick is about the best thing I've ever read prose-wise; there were multiple times I entered that state of awe, wonder, lucidity, and enchantment that you get when you encounter great art. But I couldn't get more than 30% into the book before dropping it out of boredom. Perhaps when I'm older I'll warm to it, but I don't plan to read it again any time soon.

>>16284015
There's like a whole chapter on whale cum

>>16284015
Fuck off

>>16284678
>a whole chapter on whale cum
wait really? wtf im more excited for winter now

>>16281381
Reading Tolkien on a dark and stormy night

>>16284225
I’m sorry you didn’t like them anon, they almost all link up back to the themes of the book (mast-head, fast/loose fish, and cisterns/buckets particularly come to mind), by relating the activities of the whalers to most facets of existence, and particularly the danger of succumbing to set ontotheologies. Even Melville’s contextual writing of the activities I find exuberant and referential enough to sustain interest. The most conceptual chapters (whiteness, images of whales, bower) are my favourites of the entire book as Melville delves more fully into what he wants to say about humanity and the conceptual place of the whale.
>perhaps when I’m older
Try it again when you’re older anon, the first time I read “cetology” I didn’t understand what he was trying to do, it just seemed like autism, but the context of the later chapters helped it make sense to me as a sort of parody of zoological books (which may admittedly make more sense to me because that’s a subject I have particular interest in). Had I read it in my mid-late teens rather than my very early twenties I probably wouldn’t have liked it at first.
>>16284678
“A Squeeze of the hand” is a great (if homoerotic) chapter about first the wonder of shared human experience, and then later the almost adventurous dangers of certain manual labours that one might expect to be dull. Also, spermaceti isn’t cum, it just strongly resembles cum.

>>16285659
Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand
Sperm as in oil, not like actual whale cum
Still gay as fuck tho, imagine accidentally squeezing you crewmate's hand, haha

>>16285745
>they almost all
Let me expand on this. To my memory, they all relate to the overarching meanings but it’s been a while since I’ve read the book, so I can’t recall every chapter off-hand. If other anons have any chapters that seem especially pointless, please point them out.

>>16285754
haha wouldnt be funny if you rubbed your pepe with it lol weird haha

>>16281381
Damn son, I was going to start reading Moby Dick in autumn as well

For some reason I enjoy biographies on cold snowy winter night with some good whiskey or a hot drink. I’ve been eyeing this new Hemingway biography for that time. Any suggestions are welcomed for good ones.

>>16285782
>squeezes your hand under the counter-pane
>“You want-e touch-e pepe-e”
Wat do?

>>16285820
Meant for>>16285770

>>16285820
touch-e le pepe-e obv haha

God-tier comfy winter reading

>>16281381
bump

>>16281381
bumpo

>>16281381
bump

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>>16287443
didnt know the thread is still up thanks guys

>>16281381
Moby-Dick is a very appropriate comfy winter choice, most Melville works for that especially his shorter fiction . I quite like Conrad books and stories for a comfy read by the fire, Youth is my favourite of his stories even if it is quite short. Dumas books a very comfy, but the count is probably better as a summer read because it’s set in the summer mostly, women’s war is a good Dumas one but three musketeers is probably most comfy.

>>16281381
Just finished Moby Dick. 100% recommend.
>>16281391
This is peak comfy. It just doesn't get comfier than Plato for me.
>>16285988
CHECKED and this is based. I read in one summer in Germany. Odd for a summer read but comfy nonetheless.

I don't know what it will be for me, bros. Looking like
>Vollman, Pynchon, Aristotle, and Kierkegaard.

>>16281381
I'm sitting on Middlemarch and Brothers K so I guess those.

>>16281381
The Catcher in the Rye
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Lord of the Rings

>>16281381
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
The Bible

>>16281381
Poe
Frankenstein
The Turn of the Screw

>>16289624
That second one is quite good. I only read it after I saw the movie. He has a great sense for crime realism.