/lit/ - Literature

Oh God no.

Noooo
Noo
Nooo

>>1918155
I am reading three billy goats gruff, very enlightening especially when they try to cross the bridge

That book is probably the best of his for trolling purposes, because there's just something impudent about that strawberry bear. Not that I'm saying you're trolling, OP.

I see what you mean, it's like "strawberry bear walkin' here".

Anyone reading anything?

I'm reading Coby Dick by Herman Melville. Seems gay.

I'm currently reading this, but I also have OP's book and will start it eventually.

>>1918173

I've been meaning to read that. What do you think of it?

>>1918172
> Coby Dick


wat

I'm reading a Jump by Nadine Gordimer. It's a book of short stories. Some are quite shit but there's one called Once Upon a Time (shitty title I know) that reminds me of The Burrow by Kafka. I would recommend that one.

I'm also rereading The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee. It's a fictional lecture about animal rights which sounds pretty lame but it's actually really witty. His character pretty much trolls everyone in the book.

lol sorry I meant Moby Dick, I must have been thinking of Coby Dick on some level.

>>1918176

It's pretty good, so far. I've read Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaws book, and it's a good read.

>>1918184

I'll look at that one in due course, just reading about it now.

>>1918183

Why?

>>1918190

Who knows, man.

Myth of Sysphius and Beyond Good and Evil

Also Discourse on the Origin of Inequality but it's on hold for now.

I literally just started this.

READING THIS

ALL THE WHINING ABOUT HIS CHRISTIAN PREACHING AND HOW HE WAS TURNING INTO A SENILE OLD MAN AS HE WAS WRITING IT MADE ME THINK THIS WAS GOING TO BE A LOT WORSE THAN IT WAS

SURE, THE CONTINUAL REDEMPTION, BUT NOT ONLY THROUGH RELIGION GETS A BIT BOTHERSOME, BUT CONSIDERING THAT THIS IS UNDER 600 PAGES, IT'S NOT THAT BAD. IF IT WAS DRAWN OUT A FEW MORE HUNDRED PAGES, I COULD SEE MYSELF ENJOYING THIS A LOT LESS THAN I AM

I'm reading Have Space Suit-Will Travel which I'll finish on the train and then start something else ehehehehehehehhehehehehheuheuheuhehuhuehuehueuheuhuheuheuheuheuheuhehueuheuheuheuheuhuehuhehueuheuhe
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See you next week!

Mason & Dixon

It's weird to read a Pynchon novel and yet know what is actually going on, plot-wise. Weird.

Tao how come you only pimp Eeeeee Eeeee and R. Yates here, and never Shoplifting?

>>1918196
this looks good

I'm reading some Paul Auster. He's ten times the writer than that attention-seeking little boy Tao Lin.

Oh look, another Tao Lin thread that's going to reach over 200 posts. I know I'm not doing much in helping the situation but... come on, /lit/, are you serious?

>>1918275
Nice try, Tao.

I'm reading Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North. At first I thought it would be a bunch of postcolonial wank but it was pretty good. Sort of a reimagining of Heart of Darkness/Othello.

>>1918275

sage to chink not selling a single fucking book in a board that doesn't exceed 10 peeps

>>1918275
THE THREAD ISN'T EVEN ABOUT TAO LIN

BUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU INSIST ON BRINGING HIM UP JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS READING ONE OF HIS BOOKS

>>1918271

> He's ten times the writer than that attention-seeking little boy Tao Lin.

That's not even grammatical, bitch.

This isn't a thread about Tao Lin, it's a 'what are you reading' thread started by someone who's reading a Tao Lin book. Then suddenly, some racist samefag starts spamming his name.

Lolita

also trying to read same as OP. I think i may drop it and move on to something else.
Also reading Burroway if that counts

>>1918336

Cool, how are you finding it?


>>1918344

I've never read that. Is it good?

I'm reading the Gulag Archipelago

after this, I'm moving on to OP's pic, then Middlesex and then the 9/11 Comission report

...and then back to Discworld

>>1918353
I think I prefer lighter books, like Gardner's Art of Fiction, etc.. but it's good so far, if you're thinking about writing, then this book gives solid advice, good examples, and the prompts are very helpful.

>>1918364

I may well acquire this, thanks for the info.

this, currently

following it with "gould's book of fish"

it's part of a theme month im doing

A Farewell to Arms, I'm really enjoying it.

Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs. My favorite period of his work.

>>1918383
How are you liking it so far?

The dharma bums by Kerouac, it's taking me forever though I just can't seem to get into it enough :L

Much better than I thought it was going to be. Pretty much done.

Just finished The Hunger Games. The ending depressed me substantially.

>>1919235
Literally every member of my family has read those...
Are they any good? Or are they like, a guilty pleasure type read?

>>1919240
kid you got a weird-ass family

>>1919245
I think it's like a literary infection. Spreading from one person to another, like the wickedness of Twilight or the happy-go-lucky goodness of Harry Potter.

>>1919251
I like that you put "kids" in quotes...

might have to borrow it from one of 'em.

>>1919240
They're not the next Twilight, if that's what you are asking.

It's probably not as deep as most of the stuff /lit/ likes, but it's interesting and well-written, for a "kids" book.

>>1919257
Go for it. I only got the first one because it was on sale, now I'm suckered into buying the trilogy.

>>1919217

Great book!

pretty good so far

halfway through Discipline & Punish by Foucault

as a sort of break, must say I've always had somewhat of a secret affection for the jeeves and wooster stories.

Just finished reading this. Really enjoyed it. Anything that offends over-sensitive muslims gets a thumbs up from me!

It's meh.

Text CP but I like the visuals. Lots of grammatical errors, however. Seriously on the second page it says "Wouldn't of".

He also went hipster and didn't put quotes around dialogue.

i am 6% in according to my kindle. i started it last night. so far i only like the scenes where everything is relatively lucid (marijuana guy and orin at his condo complex being my favorites so far). i hope there is more of that and less of the other shit.

fucking awesome

>>1921155
Also reading this, 212 pages in.

Loved the bit about what you learn working at the rehabilitation centre.

Finally: Arbitrary winking cat.

Currently reading this. Just finished The Naked and the Dead by Mailer and was thoroughly disappointed. :(

captcha: haterete could

Carl Jung's "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies."

I generally hate psychology but I like Jung.

Just finished Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow. Great book. Now I'm reading a few short stoy collections, Flannery O. Connor, E. L Doctorow and Alan Sillitoe. Not sure what novel I'll read next. Maybe Hollywood by Bukowski or some Raymond Chandler.

Brilliant

>>1921169
I have been meaning to pick up that book as I have always found a preference to Jung rather than Freud.