/lit/ - Literature

>What are you reading
La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas
Mulata de tal
>what are you planning to read
El tiempo principia en Xibalbá

>>20669823
Puto Indio tiraflechas. Milagro que te enseñaron a leer.

Finishing up Mere Christianity and will pick up Sketches from a Hunter's Album next

>>20669799
>What are you reading
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media

Leopold Von Ranke - History Of The Reformation In Germany

Max Weber - Economy And Society

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

John Keegan - A History Of Warfare

The Holy Bible

Giordano Bruno - On The Infinite The Universe And The Worlds

>planning to read

Georges Sorel - Reflections On Violence

Marc Bloch - Feudal Society Vol. 1 and 2

Alec Fisher - The Logic Of Real Arguments

Thomas Szasz - The Myth Of Mental illness

Thomas Habinek - Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle To Philostratus

Reading-
Space Team

Plan to Read-
Either The Icarus Hunt or The Once and Future King

>>20669823
Basado
>>20669842
Verguenza

>>20669884
Forgot to add I was also planning to read and re-read Meister Eckharts sermons and writings

Reading:
Sand - Wolfgang Herrndorf
Kornél Esti - Dezső Kosztolányi
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Planning:
Not sure. Maybe Don Quixote.

>what are you reading
I'm finishing off some short stories by robert aickman and a Christian book about evolution. I've somewhat lost interest but I feel obligated to finish them so I can cancel my kindle unlimited sub
>planning to read
some books I got from overdrive and gutenburg. probably first on the list is cyropaedia. its pretty interesting.

>>20669799
Did I accidentally make this as it’s own post or did you take it from the /sffg/? Either way, currently reading:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses (re-read)
Timeline
Plan on reading Devil in the white City since my sister recommended it.

Reading:
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Awakening the inner Budda - Lam Surya Das
Compass - Mathias Énard
Middlemarch - George Eliot

Planning:
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Du Bonheur un voyage philosophique - Frédéric Lenoir

>>20669799
I'm going to write a series of short stories based on pic related and then read them.

>>20670075
Sounds stupid as fuck.

Recently read Red Country by Abercrombie, for a dumb travel book.

Just finished reading Summer Light, Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (a translation from Icelandic).

Next I'll be reading The Troll Inside You, which is a fairly academic book about the paranormal in medieval sagas.

Hoping to return to The Bright Ages after that.

I don't read

>>20669799
>reading
Idylls of the King and Guénon's Studies in Hinduism. Also read half of Vril/The Coming Race in one sitting a few nights ago, but I keep forgetting to pick it back up to finish
>planning to read
Too much, dude. Le Morte d'Arthur, more Guénon in general, Blavatsky (more for entertainment than seriously), and a lot of old weird fiction beyond just Lovecraft/Howard/Smith. I keep meaning to look into Machen and Blackwood but I just never seem to get around to their stories even though I know they aren't that long. And I tried reading Nos: Book of the Resurrection and found it simultaneously intriguing and incomprehensible, so I'd like to come back to it when I've read more on esoterism and can actually understand what the fuck Serrano is talking about (assuming it isn't just schizobabble).

Also OP pic game is kino.

I am near the end of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

>>20669799
Antisocieties and Suttree

>>20671784
Planning to read something short afterwards for two reasons:

1. Next school year is in August.
2. I don't want to burn out from reading large books one after another.

What are good classic Russian short stories to read. I'm thinking of Gogol or Turgenev.

currently reading 'Kim' by Rudyard Kipling
thinking about reading 'Once there was a war' by Steinbeck afterwards, although im enjoying Kipling so much i might check out his over novels

>>20669799
Possibility of an island. I just finished elementary particles and finished extension du domaine de la lutte a week ago. Damn, houellebecq is fucking addictive. The blackpill is just.

>>20669799
Currently Reading:
- How to Read a Book
- Latin Grammar
- The Bean and the Dream
- The Knot of Vipers
- The Silmarillion
- The Eye of the World
- The Eternal Champion

Planning to Read:
- History of Western Literature
- Greek Grammar
- The Odyssey
- Memories of the Scribe Isaías Caminha
- Unfinished Tales
- A Game of Thrones

Currently Reading:
The Iliad

Planning to read after the Odyssey:
The Bible
Portnoy's Complaint

Just finished The Forever War, and currently debating whether to pick up Roadside Picnic, The Gay Science, And Then There Were None, The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, or some combination of several of them at the same time.

>>20669799
Currently reading.

Reading: Augustus by John Williams & Sophocles
Planning to read: Genghis Khan and the Modern World, Steve Jobs’ biography, The Sovereign Individual.
Literature recommendations welcome (preferably energising)

>>20669799
>reading
Almost finished Jane Eyre. Like it. Very comfy.
>planning to read
I don't plan anymore, I let chance decide what I read next. I have so many unread books on my shelf that I figuered it would be better to let the dice decide my next read. Also adds a little bit of excitement to it.

>>20669799
Currently reading Crime and Punishment, I'm planning on reading something by Borges after, or maybe going with The Iliad.

>>20669884
This is a pretty good list, especially for a casual reader who is not a scholar of a particular discipline.

Weber and Ranke are both excellent places to start if you want to understand modern history and social thought. They're all rooted in the thinking and assumptions of these two, no matter how hard people try to deny it.
Hobbes will put you into the mindset of the preRevolutionary Era and give you a firm grounding in the thinking of early modern political and economic modes of thinking.
Keegan is a good place to start and popular with undergrads because he's both easy to read and thoroughly knowledgeable.
For Bruno I would suggest also reading Fontenelles plurality of worlds
Bloch is one of those true greats of the historical profession who needed more life to pursue his thinking more fully.
Szasz offers some gripping ideas and should be more broadly read.

Good work fella.

I'm in the process of reading Lamartine histoire des Girondins, Democritus Junior, Oblomov and reviewing an older translation of Quixote. I've also been skipping around philosophical texts and poetry daily.

>>20669930
There was a copy of the Eckhardt at my used bookstore for 20 bucks, I passed, looked it up and it goes for $60.00 minimum on ebay. Unbelievable.

>>20670030
Middlemarch needs more readership. You should read all of her major novels. It takes an ugly woman to write well.

>Currently reading
Demons by Dostoyevsky

Really liking it so far, much more comedic than I expected.
>Planning to read
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

>>20669799
I am reading The Histories by Herodotus. The most interesting parts for me are the ones where the author exposes the habits of different ancient civilizations.

I am not sure about what to read next; maybe Works and Days by Hesiod; maybe the book on Parmenides by the Phoenix Pre-Socratics; maybe a more recent literary work just to change a little bit what I've been reading... I honestly don't know yet. I am starting with the Greeks by the way.

>>20669884
>>20669982
>>20670030
>>20671857
How can you guys read so many books at once? Is it what you do all day?

>>20673357
It's not hard to read 10 pages a day with more than one book

>>20673357
I read non-fiction books slowly, classics at similar or slightly faster pace, and entertainment books as fast as I can. Sometimes I don't feel like reading everything in my stack so I pick up only one/two books and read them. I set a goal of reading at least 50 pages per book. It's all a matter of adapting to what you're reading and keeping consistency