/lit/ - Literature

>>21431483
I will reread every book I read in 2022

I'm forcing myself to read the bible. Don't have anything else planned.

>>21431483
Thats a pretty short list anon... do you even read bro?

>>21431483
My planned list for absolute musts this year:
Moby Dick
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Voyage au Centre de la Terre
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch

>>21431483
My gf is going to lend me her Harry potter books. It will be a nice change of pace once I'm done with the tunnel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

The only books I can say I'll read are the ones I'm currently reading, I don't like to give myself a list of predetermined books.
I'm reading Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village and The Body Keeps the Score.
Trying to read more non-fiction.

I'm thinking about trying To The Lighthouse for the third time. Probably Undaunted Courage (a book about Lewis and Clark) and That Which Transpires Behind That Which Appears

>>21431483
This is the year I am going to read the iliad, guys. It is written and it shall happen.

>>21431483
I have no idea, I choose my books by whim and whimsy. Only plan so far is The Letters of Gustav Flaubert and Outline by Cusk but Outline should show up in a few days and I will likely read it before the year ends.
>>21431506
First 5 books are about 5000 pages combined and don't have much in the way of white space. IJ and M&D both are considerably longer than their page count suggests and have a much higher word count than most books their length. Still a bit on the light side for a reader but a good commitment for the sort of person who makes such a thread.

>>21431483
No longer an English major, and now a STEMfag, so I'll have more time to read my own books. My musts for this year are:
>The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac
>The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
>Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
>Complete Poems of Andrew Marvell
>The Confidence Man by Melville
>The Flounder by Gunter Grass
>The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

>>21431483
Looks like you're taking a full-dive into postmodernist tomes. I tried reading Mason & Dixon last winter and got filtered.

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, monsieur?

Every character you meet in the story turns up again, hundreds of miles away, to reveal that they are someone else and have been secretly controlling the action of the plot. It feels like the entire world is populated by about fifteen people who follow the narrator around wherever he goes. If the next two books continue along the same lines, then the big reveal will be that the world is entirely populated by no more than three superpowered shapeshifters.

Everyone in the book has secret identities, secret connections to grand conspiracies, and important plot elements that they conveniently hide until the last minute, only doling out clues here and there. There are no normal people in this world, only double agents and kings in disguise. Every analysis I've read of this book mentions that even the narrator is unreliable.

This can be an effective technique, but in combination with a world of infinite, unpredictable intrigue, Wolfe's story begins to evoke something between a soap opera and a convoluted mystery novel, relying on impossible and contradictory scenarios to mislead the audience. Apparently, this is the thing his fans most appreciate about him—I find it to be an insulting and artificial game.

There is simply not enough structure to the story to make the narrator's unreliability meaningful. In order for unreliable narration to be effective, there must be some clear and evident counter-story that undermines it. Without that, it is not possible to determine meaning, because there's nowhere to start: everything is equally shaky.

At that point, it's just a trick—adding complexity to the surface of the story without actually producing any new meaning. I know most sci-fi and fantasy authors seem to love complexity for its own sake, but it's a cardinal sin of storytelling: don't add something into your story unless it needs to be there. Covering the story with a lot of vagaries and noise may impress some, but won't stand up to careful reading.

>>21432253
STEMchad*

Already started House of Leaves and Volume 2 of Lovecraft, so I'll finish those first.
Have read a ton of short story collections this year, will focus more on novels in '23, but definitely will read the final 5th volume of Philip Dick stories, as well as his Androids, Scanner Darkly and maybe Man in high castle or Simulacra.
- something by Strugatskies
- Ham on Rye
- Clockwork Orange
- Slaughterhouse 5
- rereads of Kafka and Camus
- All queit on wester front and Storm of steel
- something japanese (Mishima, Kawabata)
- Name of the Rose
- Mystic River or Shutter Island (loved his Kenzie & Gennaro series)
- Haunting of Hill house
- more horror by Ellison, Machen, Ligotti
- a couple more Discworld books

Planned reads:
Illiad
Odyssey
Demons
The Tunnel
Zeno’s Conscience
Satantango (love the movie)

>>21432253
Maybe you should focus on developing taste

>>21432581
>Satantango
Reddit: the book

>>21432253
Already built up some resistance for writings of that period. This year i read TR, L49 and i'm currently on the third chapter of Against the Day.

>>21431491
Based
>>21431496
Cringe

>>21431483
Tristram Shandy influenced every one of those books lol might as well read just that

>>21432594
Does man care? Does man care? No.

>>21432635
Grunting influenced all language and literature, might as well just grunt. Oh, that is what you are doing. Nevermind.

>>21432635
Don Quixote influenced Tristram Shandy lol might as well read just that

>>21432655
>Oh, that is what you are doing. Nevermind.
What kind of insult is this AHAHAHAHAHA
No wonder you chose all the babby’s first postmodernism, I should have known from that that you’re a literal child

>>21432390
Thanks, fren.
>>21432421
The Name of the Rose is great, I hope you enjoy it!
>>21432589
>developing taste
Isn't that what reading books is for? How can you tell me to develop taste regarding books I haven't even read yet. You don't know whether I like them or not. Besides, why don't you like the books I want to read?
>>21432613
What is TR?
>>21432635
Reading a book which influences another doesn't negate the experience of reading the other book. Only a fool believes this.

>>21432982
>What is TR?
I think he means The Recognitions.

>>21431483
El luto humano - José Revueltas
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Collected Novels - John Williams
Collected Plays - Ibsen

>>21431483
I plan to read Guénon (Intro to Hindu Doctrines, Crisis, Reign of Quantity), The Study Qur'an, Brave New World, Stephen King's "On Writing", and Don Quixote.

>>21431483
1. The Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings,
Chronicles, Job, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Song of Solomon, Daniel, Four
Gospels, Acts of Apostles, Epistles of St. Paul, Psalms
2. Homer - The Iliad, The Odyssey
3. Greeks - Orestia, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Hippolytus, Lysistrata,
Crito, Euthypro, The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Poetics, Ethics
4. Romans - Aeneid, Metamorphosis
5. Middle Ages - Divine Comedy, Decameron, Canterbury Tales
6. Renaissance - L'Morte de Artur, Don Quixote, Essays of Montaigne, The Prince
7. Shakespeare - Complete Works
8. Post-Shakespeare - Poetry of John Donne, Paradise Lost
9. 18th Century - Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
10. Victorians - Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Tenet of Wildfell Hall, David
Copperfield, Bleak House, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Jane Austen
11. America - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick,
12. 20th Century - Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, Snows of Kilimanjaro and
Other Stories, The House of Mirth, Death in Venice

A lot of these are re-reads though.

>>21431483
Mason and Dixon is an impossible read desu

>>21431483
I wait till I’m almost done reading a book before deciding on and ordering another. Thank god for Amazon 2 day delivery. I would never pick a bunch of books for the upcoming year and force myself to read them. I don’t know what I’ll be looking for in a book a few months from now

>>21433167
Holy based (PBUH)

Don Quixote and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
I plan on knocking out the two longest books I own.

>>21433260
Architect.

Anna Karenina
The Count of Monte Cristo
Demons
Master and Margarita
Old Curiosity Shop
A Tale of Two Cities
Dead Souls
Mrs Dalloway
Exuvii
Toate Bufnițele
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Jude the Obscure
Atonement
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Return of the Native
Charlie Chaplin's Autobiography

Anna Karenina and Count of Monte Cristo are my main goal though.

>>21433178
Nothing is impossible

>>21431483

> Confederacy of Dunces
> Gravity's Rainbow
> Moby Dick

Anything else is a bonus.

>>21432251
You know I was being sarcastic right?

Will finish Pynchon with the second half of MD, then V, AtD, and Bleeding Edge distributed throughout the year. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, Libra, would like to reread White Noise before the movie, A Thousand Plateaus, Diff+Rep, that's all Ive planned.

Homer - Iliad
Homer - Odyssey
Jonathan Barnes - Early Greek Philosophy
Hermann Hesse - Demian
Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

I've read a bit of Greek philosophy already, mainly Plato and I want to fill in some gaps, similarly for Hesse. Besides just reading those books, I want to engage with them a bit more, discuss them and maybe get some secondary literature.

>>21431483
i will try to read at least 3 works of fiction

>>21431483
The complete writings of Henry Darger

I want to read some Henry James, probably The Golden Bowl oder The Ambassadors

>>21432661
Kek ur so mad

t. different anon

1) The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith;
2) Capital - Marx;
3) Biology: a Self Teaching Guide - Steven D. Garber;
3) The origins of Species - Charles Darwin;
4) Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - Bertrand Russell;
5) Basic Mathematics - Serge Lang;
6) Nicchomacean Ethics - Aristotle;
7) Rhetorics - Aristotle;
8) Poetics - Aristotle;
9) Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene;
10) Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka;
11) The Trial - Franz Kafka;
12) The Philosophical Investigation - Wittgenstein.

More Shakespeare tragedies
More classic histories
More art history (biographies, monographs, studies)
Kipling & Poe short stories

- pet sematary
- call of the werewolf
- skeleton crew
- winner takes nothing