/lit/ - Literature

>>17312782
True Grit.

>>17312782
Germinal.

>>17312782
Connaissance de l'Est by Paul Claudel, also wondering why I didn't read this sooner. It's excellent.

Tarka the Otter.

The book of mormon

nothing

>>17312782
The first Doom novelization. I am dissatisfied with the level of brutality.

>>17312782
my Amazon order of Lolita, Gilead, Gravity's Rainbow, Watches and Confederacy of Dunces arrived today so I'll be reading one of those.

>>17312782
Resurrection by Tolstoy
I'm 100 pages in and i love but i'm a bit sad because this is the last work of Tolstoy that i haven't read. Finished his short stories and tomes, wont be diving into his mental essays so this is the end, my journey with Tolstoy comes to a close.

400 pages into IJ.

>>17312782
I started The Brothers Karamazov the other day. It's pretty good so far.

>>17312782
Hegel's aesthetics

Going to start PKD's Exegesis tonight

>>17312828
Is there even a way to write the level of brutality it warrants?

These individually bound short stories that I received for Christmas. Aren't they nice?

>>17312782
The Culture of Narcissism
>>17312811
cute

American Psycho, about 40 Pages in. Just read the ebic nigger joke

>>17312782
Thoreau’s Week on The Concord and Merrimack Rivers. I don’t know why I was expecting an easy and comfy read, it’s denser than Walden and Cape Cod. It still is comfy, and I like the information he gives, but still I think the prose is just hard to follow at times. Seriously considering putting it on pause until after this coming semester ends and just reading something comfy and easy like Treasure Island or Lord of the Rings.

>>17312925
yes, but you have to space it out. still, it's at about a 4, and I need it to be at least a 6

>>17312782
Tender is the Night. Just finished the first book.

bhagavad gita,
Psilocybin mushrooms of the world,
The immortality key: the secret history of the religion with no name.

>>17312927
I love both Strindberg and Lagerlöf. Sad to say I haven't actually read Dagerman. Which Strindberg story is that?

Hell's Rejects by M.R. Forbes. It's a 4 book collection and I just finished book 1.

>>17312991
"Frictions."

I'm 24, I seriously never read kafka before. kicking myself, brilliant book

>>17313039
Better late than never! Read "Amerika" when you get a chance. It gets less praise than "The Castle," but I think it's far better.

>>17312782
Your post.

>>17312782
Pride and prejudice

Thousand cranes

>>17312782
Mr Nice, again

I don't read

Magic Mountain
>>17313072
I'll get around to it.

V.
Manual of Zen Buddhism
Naked Lunch

I have a question for those of you who've read Naked Lunch: am I the only one that finds pretty much every page of it repulsive and disgusting? There are spaces within it, never amounting to more than a paragraph, where Burroughs's writing talent occasionally shines through, but the rest of the time, which is to say most of it, I just want to fucking puke he's a damn faggot paedophile junkie who writes to disgust, I literally only enjoyed the introduction where he spoke of addiction
I'm half way through it and it's the first time in my life that a book has seriously made me want to put it down, never read it again and vomit

>>17312782
Bleak House and Totem and Taboo. BH is fantastic, like all the Dicken's novels I've read before. My one complaint is that the main character is a bit too much of a goody goody. Everyone likes her and she never seems to do anything wrong. Bit too passive. T&T is my first Freud that I've read and I'm enjoying it. The book gives you a unique perspective about religion and primitive social practices. I really liked the chapter that described the taboos that tribal leaders face, like being forced to adhere to very strict diets, in order to make positions of authority as undesirable as possible.

>>17313046
thanks anon

I'm unironically giving Gardner's book a try. Call of the Crocodile in particular. It's pretty bad desu.

About to start reading Stoner after I finish the last couple chapters of The Witches.

>>17313091
Just finished The Magic Mountain yesterday
Really enjoyed it

>>17313163
>am I the only one that finds pretty much every page of it repulsive and disgusting?
I thought the passages about 11-year-old boys being raped to death by incontinent lizard-men were really remarkable for their harmony and beauty. What's your issue?

im writing. not reading

>>17312782
The Bible, slowly.

>>17313072
Me too.

Just finished the book about bullet journalling.
Written in quite an irritating way, but I feel bullet journal at its core might help me sort my chaos mind out.

>>17313398
Can you explain to me how “bullet journaling” is different than just using a planner?

Today I finished Nine Stories by JD Salinger (it was excellent, 5/5)

Before bed I will begin Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima, my first from him.

>>17313255
Also reading Stoner, first book in a while that I'm reading in English.

>>17313060
I hope you’re enjoying it. It’s a real pleasure to read, it’s not profound but it’s perfect for what it is.

>>17312782
Evan’s Third Reich trilogy. The Nazis were really over the top.

Emma

About to start The Elementary Particles

master and margarita

>>17312782
The Hobbit :)

>>17312811
this looks nice

>>17312782
Trip by Tao Lin and Journey to the Night

any books like Peep Show? I still haven't watched a tv show as comfy as

A wild sheep chase

Haven't read in like 2 years. Trying to read blood meridian. It's hArd to stay focused. I've ruined my brain with the internet.

>>17314762
get a kindle or move your phone into another room

>>17312782
Re-reading Gilgamesh, specifically Andrew George's translation alongside David Ferry's verse rendering

>>17312782
Crime and Punishment

1-2 chapters a day of The Bible
The Odyssey
Man and his Symbols
I think its nice to balance out with a non fiction book desu

I'm reading pic related.
>>17312879
Max comfy and fun. I wish I could read it again for the first time.
>>17314024
it's just a format for creating your own custom planner. Only stationery nerds and visual artists really benefit from bullet journaling. For most people, a regular planner will suffice.
>>17313039
never visit the Kafka Museum in Prague. It's shit.

>>17314791
>Jung
>nonfiction

i hate reading and i've never read a single book in my life

>>17312782
Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
>>17314805
Hilarious. Truly.

>>17314805
>>17314844
it was in the nonfiction section of the library where I picked it up from :(

Ulysses and Leviathan
I am having maximum /comfy/ time

>>17314861
I'm the second anon you replied. Jung is based and the other anon is a faggot. How do you like the book so far? I haven't read MaHS but his other works that I've read were consistently great.

Not Yet Married & Evidence That Demands A Verdict

>>17312782
My Struggle Volume 6 (Knausgaard)

>>17314994
it's a great introduction to his ideas/philosophies. I'm also studying hermetic philosophy and it feels very easy to combine ideas from both. Jung answers a lot of questions.

>>17312782
Currently reading pic rel, it's quite good (as I've heard) but I'm only 2 chapters in.

>>17314994
>>17315177
jung is shit, you're both retarded apes.

>>17315227
pol pot did nothing wrong

>>17315244
shoo commie
if Pol Pot were in charge you would be dead for using the Internet

Madame Bovary

Started The Guermantes Way this weekend. I love Proust so much bros.

Just read Notes from Underground and it was brilliant and about to start A school for Fools by Sokolov.

>>17315556
Nice Richard R

Capital Vol. 1
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Some mediocre book in Spanish for language learning purposes (Corazón de Voltaire)

>>17312782
Why this thread, of course!

Kierkegaard's Either/Or
so much Don Giovanni autism

>>17312782
Trying to finish this. Bought it years ago when I wanted to start reading and I thought the Art of war would be a good start.

>>17315855
HAHA! GOOD ONE ANON!

>>17315886
>so much Don Giovanni autism
Please elaborate.

>>17312782
Clausewitz - On War

I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow
It's still relatively early days in my literary endeavors; there are however few things I've enjoyed as much as reading a long and "difficult" book, not understanding anything that's being said at first, but slowly getting accustomed to the writing style as I, at first, force myself to keep on reading, before finally achieving the desired state where understanding and enjoyment become one

>>17315886
>Kierkegaard's Either/Or
abridged or complete?

>>17315912
>not understanding anything that's being said at first, but... finally achieving the desired state where understanding and enjoyment become one
I never got beyond the first part with Gravity's Rainbow, tbqh.

>>17312782
considering this

>>17312782
the aleph and other stories & political theology

Zorba the Greek.

>>17315963
I read it a few years ago. It's not great.

>>17312796
Oh hey same. Nice.

>>17312782
Its kinda light but I am enjoying it

>>17315895
He has just been talking about this Mozart opera from like 70-80 pages and something about how music captures the essence of Don Giovanni best and sensuality is best represented in music. I thought the first part was about the aesthetic lifestyle and here I get pages upon pages about some Opera I haven't listened to.

>>17315913
The Penguin abridged edititon

The Bello Gallico

>>17316094
>The Penguin abridged edititon
Sadly it is the cheapest and easier to find edition, how much content is it lacking?

just finished the Shining, now a toss up between Pachinko and The Fifth Season Book 1

>>17316094
If you want to watch it, I strongly recommend the 2011 Met Opera production starring Mariusz Kwiecien. It’s available to rent from Met Opera On Demand.

>>17316094
If you want to watch it, I strongly recommend the 2011 Met Opera production starring Mariusz Kwiecien. It’s available to rent from Met Opera On Demand.

>>17312782
To Live by Yu Hua
also started The Tunnel

>>17316120
The translator says not much, there is one portion that is cut out but it's idea are also present in other parts of the book which is in the abridged edition

>>17316249
Thanks anon

>>17312782
Wuthering Heights, but it's too difficult! I mean the story's told by a man and then a lady and then no one.

Im smoking a spliff and reading war & peace

Reading them all again.

>>17316768
>Tibetan water-spear
Try the audiobook by Juliet someone. WH also has some pretty based racial subtext too

>>17316803
whoops don't know why I copied 'Tibetan water spear" in there

>>17316776
DUDE

War and Peace, only 200p to go

>>17312782
Frankenstein.

Again.

Reading Dune around 60 pages in, was around 100 but hadn't been reading it for almost a year so decided to start from the beginning again. I'm finding it very enjoyable so far.

>>17316872
WEED

Tadoku Stories

Invisible cites, by Italo Calvino.

Gandhi-Autobiography. Today, Gandhi would be on the spectrum. It's a very comfy book, I wish the names and places were less outlandish.

>>17313163
Its not even that grotesque

>>17312782
American Gods

Fear and trembling, stoner, and manufacturing consent.
>>17313054
nice, this is on my reading list. How does it compare to manufacturing consent if you've read that?

>>17312887
I've been reading it as well. Finished Book 1 and I'm starting to find it a bit boring.

The waves.
Kinda confusing desu but I'm enjoying it.

>>17312836
based. i only have hadji murat, childhood boyhood youth and some of his minor stories left, depressing

Journey to the abyss.


and we are still in the abyss, we had it all, once

>>17312782
hegel and the metaphysics of absolute negativity by brady bowman

>>17312800
agree with you here, absolutely loved reading that one

Discipline and Punishment. I'm like 90 pages in, pretty good and very clear (which I did not expect) so far

Politics is for power, it's pretty good.

>>17316276
How's the tunnel? Was looking into it yesterday, seemed a bit strange but intriguing.

Atlas Shrugged and The 50th Law (my father gave it to me after I finished the 48 laws of power)
I want to read more about investment/finances and shit. Any recommendations on this?
Also Atlas Shrugged is pretty cringe at times

>>17312782
I'm around page 400 of this

>>17313163
May the Lord have mercy on your permanently defiled eyes.

>>17317796
keep going anon it gets better I promise

>>17319997
Take a look in here
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/01dhrlan4owdvz2/AAAFYa1SV5GvtwGkQ_AUqUcsa?dl=0

>>17320170
Wow, thank you very much

>>17320196
No problem

Insightful. Abundantly resourceful.

>>17312782

>>17312782
I'm trying to study the early modern. The shift between feudalism to industrial capitalism.
I am experimenting using multicoloured post-it strips, pretty enjoyable.
I have five categories: pink makes you think, green for the machine (technological advancement), blue for the jew (formation of international financial system), orange for class distinctions/formations (such as burghers and the emergence of towns or serfdom in the East), and finally yellow for territorial developments (for example the weak reach of the Holy Roman empire allowing city states to flourish in Italy).
t. autodidact fish and chip frier

>>17316050
Great book and comfy

>>17312833

>>17312828
Finished it. Wasn't impressed much, but, because I'm a problem solver, I skipped all the rest of the books written by Dafydd ab Hugh, and skipped right to the Doom3 series written by Costello himself. The difference in quality is really impressive. Haven't gotten to the gore yet, but I've got high hopes.

Of Human Bondage. Only a few pages in. Is it a good book? Should I keep reading?

ovidius metamorphosis and some greimas

>>17312811
i read it around november. it lulled very heavily for most of it desu. it was very monotonous and realistic in its lack of drama, and the random jabs of flourishing poetic language became progressively more uninspired and jarring. i really don't know if i enjoyed it or not, i felt rather bored most of the time, but other times i admired and enjoyed every single line

i'll probably read his farming diary sometime soon

Lee’s lieutenants, volume 1.

Mansfield Park

>>17320018
hope you're enjoying it anon

Sun and Steel, also a book with some of Joseph Conrad's short stories, I'm on youth at the moment

>>17312782
the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

>>17312782
your mom's taint

IKEA instructions on how to assemble a bookshelf. Still early on in it. Will update how it goes later.

>>17322501
>IKEA

Be sure to read the sequel.

>>17312782
Journey to the End of the Night
Cuentos de Amor, de Locura y de Muerte

>>17312782
Anime: A History

>currently reading Moby Dick and Crime and Punishment
>A fuckton of characters in c&c has the name ivanova
I’m enjoying my time time reading these two books but holy fuck how am I supposed to remember all the name in C&C

Pretty interesting, the formation and history behind the different American colonies. Feels like it's an epilogue to the 13 colonies revolting.

Finished Warlock by Oakley Hall then started reading Less Than Zero by BEE again. Next will be another attempt at Gravity’s rainbow but I got filtered hard last time.

>>17322884
Why do you keep calling it c&c

>>17317796
Hang in there.

Wow I really wanna kill myself after realising how much I identify with it

>>17312782
Opium: A History

>>17316950
hehe :)

>>17313227
Absolute kek, he advertises here and can't even put a good book out, what a hack

The Turner Diaries

Scary what kind of parallels it has with our current state. 12 chapters in and I'm find it clever how he hasn't made a direct "quote" the entire book. I enjoy his style of writing, easy to read yet has substance

>>17312782
>>17315963
finally decided on picrel instead

>>17322513
>>17322932
good stuff, enjoy.

the secret agent by conrad, its pretty good so far

Working through a commentary on Aristotle's rhetoric by George A. Kennedy.
A lot of it seems to be stating the obvious now that most of aristotles ideas are widely accepted and a lot of time is spent laying out dialectic form- but as the work is as much about rhetorical form this is important.

As a translator he's arrogant and condescending of previous translations, and he both keeps and criticizes their compilation.
It makes for a lengthy read with few highlights, and falls broadly into the category of "homework"

>>17323533

what's your take on it so far anon?

finally wrapping up war and peace, just hit the epilogue and decided id leave it for tomorrow to finish since its 100 pages

>>17312782
DFW consider the lobster and other essays

>>17312782
hammer's slammers volume one

>>17315517
First time posting here. Just posting to say I've read it three times and hated it every time. High school english teacher nearly ejaculated when discussing raindrops on her parasol and bending over to pick up the riding crop. Good fellow. I loathed the characters, which I know isn't a valid criticism. The book just made me feel sick.

I just finished Sarajevo by Joachim Remak. It's a well written and fairly thorough account of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, I knew the basic details of the assassination from reading about WW1 but the details on the trial and the extra information on all involved (both prior to and after the event) made it worth the read.

>>17320824
It's a great book. I find it works better if you have read some other Maugham novels before though. The personal tone in Of Human Bondage is a significant difference to his usual detached narrator who isn't all that invested in the drama of his characters style.

>>17312782
Just made a thread about it

>>17325072

>>17312782
Behead All Satans
pg 168
little bitch cried and drooled so much, my hands
kept slipping off her neck. finally got it done, though. a decent job. an ok job.
CRUSHED IT

>>17322513
underrated

Singoalla by Rydberg. A based Swedish fairy-tale style novel on Paganism vs. Christianity, Gypsies vs. Swedes, the unconscious and so on. A light, fun read. Great illustrations too.

>>17312782
Just finishing Brothers Karamazov

Reading the chapter were Ivan is talking to the devil or going insane. Fuck, bros it's so good..

>>17312927
I see you're starting with the Swedes.

>>17315127
Do you enjoy his autistic analysis of a Celan poem? At that point I was about to put the book away.

>>17323358
Crime & Cunnyishment

Trying to find out why he did it

Pre-Socratics
Cato

what am I in for? just got this

>>17312782
Murakami

>>17320088
>>17323378
What book would you say TBK starts to get good?
I had the same issue with Crime and Punishment, I loved the first third of the book, but struggled with the middle parts.
Notes From Underground was great throughout though, especially part two, was comedy gold IMO.

>>17326443

>>17313309
those nails are fucking atrocious.

10 chapters into Sword of the Lictor from Book of the New Sun. Immediately one of my favs

I got shilled into Self Reliance by Emerson, and have a few of his other essays from 1841-44. I'm still digesting it, but it comes across as idealistic drivel. He seems egotistical and lost in his own world at times. Can someone give a brainlet analysis on what he means in modern english??

>>17326916
This scene was really powerful and compelling when I first saw it as a teenager. I saw it again recently and I was kind of embarrassed by it and my former self.

>>17313091
>Magic Mountain
same

>>17312782
pic and The Great Gatsby.

>>17327028
you and me both, anon

>>17312782
On heroes by Thomas Carlyle
Just finished the second chapter and not impressed so far. I didn't expect much so I'm not disappointed either

>>17312782
The bridge on Drina

>>17325870
I’m two books into the Emigrants series. I really need to go back and finish it eventually.

>>17312821
Need to start my seventh read through soon.

>>17327123
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann
A River Runs Through it and Other Short Stories
The Street of Crocodiles

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann
A River Runs Through it and Other Short Stories
The Street of Crocodiles