/lit/ - Literature

>>20737695
Call of the crocodile

invisible cities

>>20737702
What is it about/ is it good?

the trial, it's a slog, not like the short stories
read tolstoy's the gospel in brief recently and it was comfy and affirming even though i haven't given all my stuff to the poor so i'm going to hell

>>20737695
I'm reading "The Golden Bough" by Frazer and "Conquest of Bread" by Kropotkin. Both valuable reads, I think

>>20737705
yes it's good
in fact it's one of the best books

>>20737705
it's fictional "dialogue" about marco polo's discussions with kublai khan describing cities he has travelled to. translated to english from italian. i like it so far, it's a good book if you like to ponder

House of leaves. It's enjoyable, not mind blowing or anything and I actually had nightmares involving it last night even though I didn't feel that terrified by it before bed. I'm trying to get more into literature as an art form and I'm slightly struggling to figure out what exactly the house represents and how it works, but besides that the book doesn't seem that thematically dense.

>>20737695
david gemmell
because it's dopamine manifesting guy stuff.

read deathwalker

>>20737695
Magical realism book clearly influenced by Borges called The Other Prague. The translation is a bit ass but I'm enjoying it so far.

>>20737797
>The Other Prague
Who's the author

>>20737695
I'm reading Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler

20,000 streets under the sky triology, patrick hamilton

GR reread

for you, I'd recommend The Very Hungry Caterpillar...

>>20737695
I don’t read.

>>20737923
?

I'm reading Wheel of Time book 7, and it's taking a long time, but there are some moments of greatness, it's just 5 pages of greatness per 100 pages, and there are so many hundreds of pages to go... I want it to be over, there are so many things I want to read...

>>20738052
The Hobbit was the first book I really enjoyed as a kid, I still re read and re enjoy it from time to time

>>20738052

>>20738064
It's just a goof, relax.

>>20738163
Okay, I am sorry I'm a newfag, I didn't get "GR reread"

>>20737702
>>20737705
>>20737739
>>20737752
>>20737763
there was a thread several weeks ago that had all these same replies wtf

>>20738184
They are slow readers, let them be

>>20738184
>there was a thread several weeks ago that had all these same replies wtf
I can assure you mine (the next to last you quoted) was not since I was not in that thread.

>>20738172
oh...

>>20738195
what is this?

>>20737695
I am reading sumerian mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer

>>20737695
The Death of Artemio Cruz

>>20737705
Yep. Hardly 150 pages or so but can be read and meticulously dissected throughout one's whole lifetime

Anabais by Xenophon, A Glastonbury Romance by Powys, and a bunch of essays by Plutarch, Emerson, DH Lawrence and Montaigne

>>20737739
the trial was fun. the castle too. but yeah, short stories are more fun. be sure to watch orson welles' the trial with gregory peck when you're done. it's in black and white but it's p coolio no foolio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7weUR0oMY

i'm currently re-reading the border trilogy by mccarthy. haven't read it in over ten years. i'm halfway into book 2, the crossing. it's a bit slow but it's a nice book to chill with.

>>20737829
Michal Ajvaz. The english translation is titled The Other City, not The Other Prague (my mistake)

play as it lays

>>20737695
Reading King Lear right now.
Maybe you should try reading Middlemarch, a lot of normies hate it, perhaps you'll like it?

>Sense and Sensibility
It's boring. I made a thread about it!
>The Plum in the Golden Vase
It's boring. Too primitive. Too vulgar.
>The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Too early to tell. The second story was stupid. I might have to go back to Henry James.

>>20738737
is that by fucking orson welles
I had no idea thought it was pretty bad desu

>>20737695
Basic Economics
East and West

>>20737695
Fire and Blood by GRRM

Any decent books set in neo-lithic or bronze age Europe?

>>20738071
>I want it to be over, there are so many things I want to read...
Honestly anon, don't force yourself to read the rest. WoT is the only thing I've ever regretted completing.

>>20739789
The sumerians

>>20740130
There is a chart at the permanent thread

Blindness by Saramago

>>20737695
I am reading The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov and Andrew Robert's: Napoleon - A Life

I'm reading "Owls of the Eastern Ice" by some guy. It's about the Poopman's Russian Greatowl or something. I actually stopped reading it to finish reading confederacy of dunces but I'm posting about it now so that when I start reading something again, it is 'Owl's of the Eastern Ice.'
It's a good book, following an american biologist working in Russian woods in the late winter/early spring trying to get footage and track an illusive, big fat Owl. I recommend it if you're looking for something captivating but low-stakes. Lots of cool info on how Russians living on the fringes of the forest live.
>deer penis, comrade?

>>20738184
I've been noticing that happening A LOT recently. 4chan is fucking infested with bots or glowies.

Casino Royale. Not a long read but wonderfully atmospheric.

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>>20740135
I am looking for drama, or fiction, or even sci fi which is set somewhere around the neo-lithic / bronze age of Europe.

>>20737695
I plan to start this today. I wasn't aware she had a short story collection with animals as theme.

All the Pretty Horses. Started it today, just about halfway done with it already. Pretty good so far, but I do see why people dislike McCarthy's run on bonanza sentences. Personally, I think it fits with the story's feel and flow

Wasp Factory. I like it but it doesn’t compel me, more does it just entertain me. I read Siddhartha previously and it was a fun light read.

I do typically read pirated textbooks, but I’ve been looking for inspiration because I’m writing a short story.

Just finished The Story of San Michele. Really enjoyed it, one of the best books I've ever read.
>ywnba fashionable 19th century doctor

Mythology by Edith Hamilton, currently preparing myself to read Iliad

>>20737700
Call of Ishmael

>>20738052
>The faggots are reeking!"

>>20742045
Check out E.R. Dodds Greeks and the Irrational, the chapter on Homer, and the first chapter that covers Homer in Jaeger's Greek Theology

Tbh also check out the first chapter of Frye's The Great Code, on Vico and the metaphor-thinking of primitive cultures, especially relating to Homer (pic related)

>>20737695
Picture of Dorian Gray right now. Never read Wilde before but I'm enjoying it a lot. Gonna start Reign of Quantity & Signs of the Times after

Call of the Crocodile

>>20737695
City of God, the Bible and re-reading The Sickness unto Death

>>20738184
>>20740229
Ever notice how a lot of threads these days will have multiple posts, usually two or three, that all have the exact same content? I don't even see this outside of this specific board, I dunno why people are making a point to bot and spam a niche literature forum with duplicate posts but it's nowhere near that blatant on /x/ or /fit/ (the only other boards I use). Although I wouldn't be surprised if all the coomer and coffeeposting threads on the latter were bots too

>>20737695
Currently reading "The Gum Thief" by Douglas Coupland
I read him a lot back in the 90's when he was the hippest, most finger on the pulse writer on the scene at the time.
Haven't read any of his stuff in at least 15 years.
So far i'm enjoying it, comfy as fuck.

>>20738184
I can't find duplicates in the archive?

>>20737695
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Want more comparative mythology but without the Freudian analysis and want to read Sumerian myths . Finished The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat and want more fiction structured like a dream.
>>20737778
Read a post that said the minotaur was the reader. Finished it awhile ago and didn't catch that.

>>20737695
I am reading picrel and its the best books I have read in years

>>20737695
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media. I would recommend it but its getting a bit long with the endless chapters.

I plan on reading some of Levi-Strauss' essays and maybe Agamben's Homo Sacer next

>>20737746
Is Frazer good? I skipped him because I had a feeling he was very basic in his anthropology

>>20742148
I found Kierkegaard impossible

>>20738651
+1 on DoAC, especially if read in Spanish

I need something soulcrushing, I want to get absolutely destroyed with despair.

>>20737695
I'm starting my Hesse journey with Demian and Steppenwolf and I just began reading Les Misérables for the first time

>>20737695
>Old Testament in progress
>The Ego and Its Own
>Digital Minimalism
>Eisenhorn

uuhh

>>20743291
Have you not read No Longer Human yet? Dazai in general fits this requirement

The Wasp Factory

I recently read Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler and while I overall didn't like it that much, one of the main characters uses the n-word at one point and it's not treated like it's some gigantic moral failing (it is not in the real world either).

>Song for Roland & other poems of Charlemagne (Oxford classics)
Just finished the titular poem moving onto the small samples
>Orlando furioso (Oxford classics)
Only 5th canto in.

>>20745113
Epic

Does anybody here read books in a foreign language?

>>20737695
I am reading Political Order and Political Decay by Fukuyama and The Power Elite by Mills. I'm laying a foundation for graduate level studies of world order.

>>20745723
Is it boring?

I'm almost finished with Harold Schoenberg's Lives of the Great Composers. Fun book to read from in between novels.

>>20745733
Fukuyama is an easier read than most IMO, he covers a ton of history in these two volumes (I already read the first) and uses very good comparative analysis to really flush out political evolution to build a framework to describe how many of the states of the modern world emerged and their defining characteristics.

Mill's Power Elite is far more accessible than I was expecting, and so far its great. Really cuts through the baloney bullshit of American politics to describe the upper echelons of power. Great anchor for analyzing and critiquing future reads and projects.

>>20745782
Ok thanks

>>20745701
I'm learning Latin so I can read Latin texts, but it takes time as you can imagine.

Anna Karenina, the Levin chapters are so much better than everything else, I find myself waiting for the other chapters to be over all the time. Finished the first book today, I find it not as good as War and Peace but that might change.

I've been reading Kirkpatricks translation of the Divine Comedy. Can't believe I let this rest for so long, it's a great book.

>>20739789
The Godborn series by Dan Davis. It's bronze age kino and he's /ourguy/

>>20737695
I was reading Kierkegaards either/or, but dropped it so I could read the Bible. Taking it very slowly so I understand it on a non-trivial level. I am only at Abram being renamed into Abraham. I now see how one could spend a lifetime reading this

raymond carver poems
if you like his stories you'll probably like his poems

>>20743291
Stoner