/lit/ - Literature

>>23183889
Yeah, your post.

>>23183897
I hope you're just trying to ruffle my feathers.

Yes but not with my eyes.

>>23183934
*sound of whetstone on executioning axe*

I read 16 pages of Le Colonel Chabert
It's actually surprisingly tough
I was very comfortably reading 40 pages of Simenon a day but Balzac is kicking my ass and making me feel like I don't know the language

>>23184028
There, there, anon. Keep trying. You're making progress and that's good.

>>23184028
Try reading Le Désespéré by Léon Bloy. 10 pages a day feels like a lot given how often I need to read the dictionary with this prick. His novel isn't even that good to invest so much of your time, I'd say.

>>23184039
I know it's stupid but after reading Soumission I don't really want to, at least I want to read Huysmans and Péguy first
>Je suis hanté par le Catholicisme
>>23184032
What have you read?

>>23183889
I read about 60 pages of Tolstoy's confession and other religious writings, somewhere around ~70 pages of Dostoevsky's demons, only habe 75 pages left of that, and I read chapters 6 and 7 of the golden ass :) I also flicked open Anna Karenina and read a few randomly flicked to chapters solely out of habit. I wanna branch out though but I don't know the next step I should take

>>23183889
Prose writings by Ezra Pound. His economic and political writings make A LOT of sense.

>>23183889
Yes. I've read the Wikipedia entry for schizoid personality disorder. :)

>>23183889
the owl of minerva takes flight at nightfall

>>23184045
Nothing fancy. I've read a bit of Trollope and a little bit of Beckmann's A History of Pi. I am thinking of starting Choephorae today—it has been a little since I finished Agamemnon, so I think I ought. Either that or King Lear, which I have never read and wish to.

>>23184061
Sorcery is repugnant to me, anon.

>>23183889
Several pages of Hamsun's Hunger. About 30 pages of The Recognition by Gaddis.

>>23184052
Well, aren't you a good anon!

>>23184055
Hmmm, I'll tuck that away in my back pocket. Sometime, I may get around to looking those over myself.
>>23184058
Well...that's something...sort of.
>>23184127
Very good, anon. Very good.

I've been scared of owls ever since watching Rock a Doodle as a kid

>>23183889
Read Spring and All; loved it. Short enough that I’ll reread soon. Reminds me of Blake and while some stuff went over my head, some parts were electrifying

i read my kindle while i poop

>>23183889
The first two chapters of Memecarthy's Blood Memedian

>>23184155
Whatever floats your boat.

>>23184149
Lol, I forgot about that movie. I don't even remember the owls in it. Owls find me, or I find them all the time. Birds are special to me and to my forefathers. The Owl, the Eagle, and the Peacock. These are my birds. I love many more besides, however.

>>23184152
I've never heard of it, but I enjoy Blake a lot, so now I want to check it out. Good job, anon.

>>23184155
I prefer the scent of a candle and double bergamot Earl Grey when I read.

>>23184188
Nice work, anon.

>>23183889
i just woke up

>>23184307
Oh, a day bird. Well, get flapping! Those books won't read themselves!

I pretty much only read fanfics nowadays, does that count?

>>23184357
No, ENFP, sorry.

>>23184464
I am am INFP though.

>>23184324
i read some of point counter point

>>23183934
Based Audiobook Chad

>>23184859
Have you got to the manicure yet?

>>23184873
i'm only on chapter 4

>>23183934
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Finishing up a book of short stories before returning it to the library then probably going to read a comic book(s) for a next few days. Feeling kind of burnt out literature wise

>>23183889
I finished House of Leaves earlier, I might start Naked Lunch later or hide in some less challenging literature for a few weeks before the urge to suffer comes back

I read about 10 percent of Shipped by Meredith Tate on my lunch break today. I did it on my phone as I don't like lugging my Kindle to work.

>>23184922
I think it's pretty early on, but then that's relative considering the length

>>23183889
Currently on my first read of American Psyhco. What a hoot! You're welcome.
Anyway, I'm about 3/4 through and it's kind of a slog. Names which are probably wrong, designer names which are probably right, restaurants, gadgets, buildings, and companies which are all the same, different just enough to be distinct but not so different that the differences matter. It's a barrage of information filtered out by the brain until the psychotic episodes happen, which are excruciatingly detailed and gruesome. (okay maybe I'm enjoying it)
My issue with the book is that there isn't anything resembling a plot. It seems like the story is just a series of short stories with the narrator slowly going more obviously insane as you read through the book. Which, now that I've typed that out, is sick as fuck. Actually, I lied. American Psycho is sweet. good read. if someone says it's their favorite book I would put that guy on a list.

Finished book. I've another new one but I have to make it last the weekend or I'm probably back to re-reads

just here for the wols

I'm 30 short chapters from the end of Moby Dick, I need something light to read after this. I might go for some nonfiction, I don't know, I feel like I've earned some kind of break.

I read one page of platos republic. Its still too hard for me. I'm still on book 1.
I'm not sure I care at all about defining justice or anything or arguing over it

>>23186058
I got memed into buying that book too. Not reading that shit lol.

>>23183889
based em-dash enjoyer

I read some of volume 10 of Everybody Loves Large Chests
as you might guess, it is not High Literature™

>>23186040
I know it's generalshit, but I'm caught up on Dungeon Crawler Carl, and yeah it's a litrpg but an excellent pallet cleanser

>>23184838
Unsurprising. I nearly made the caveat. It's just the only two fanfic-addicts I've met irl were both ENFP.

>>23184859
Nice. I've been in the mood for a return to Huxley lately. Perhaps that will be the one for me as well. Is it good?

>>23185038
Hahaha, love the pic! I love short stories too.
>feeling burnt out
It happens to the best of us.

>>23185046
Very good, anon. Very good! Suffer magnanimously!

>>23185071
Keep up the good fight, anon.

>>23185960
>What a hoot!
A very deep, broad smile spread slowly across my face reading that. I've never read it either. I suppose I keep prioritizing older books over newer ones—working my way forward or something. Perhaps I'll take a break from ancient things and read it myself.

>>23185973
Now you sound like a reader! Hopefully you're reading valuable reads.

>>23186040
Good work, anon. Keep going! You've got it!

>>23186058
Now, now, anon. Don't give up so easily. Of course it's not too hard for you and of course you care about Justice, that's why you have the book. Don't be discouraged. Just keep working your way through patiently. You can do it, anon! Fight the good fight!

>>23186106
>Everybody Loves Large Chests.........volume..........10
W-well, anon, at least you're reading! K-keep it up, I s'pose. No pun intended!

>>23186514
>Now you sound like a reader! Hopefully you're reading valuable reads
Sorry anon, pomo sex fiction, but a lot of it

>>23186537
Well, at least you're honest about it.

I was attacked by an owl tonight, again. my nerves are shot. my valve has sealed.

>>23186514
>Nice. I've been in the mood for a return to Huxley lately. Perhaps that will be the one for me as well. Is it good?
it's a book filled with characters having awkward conversations, pure satire
so far so good

>>23186580
You should be careful whose streets you're on, homie. Nigga bout 'ta get boxed!

>>23186605
>filled with characters having awkward conversations, pure satire
Sound fun. I'll read it.

>>23186614
I'm still not sure what they want with me or what it means. they are watching me.

>>23183889
I’ve been passing the past few days with poetry but going to read Shakespeare’s Henriad starting tonight. I’ve generally only liked his tragedies but I want to give his histories another shot, now that I consider myself a more experienced and open minded reader.

I’ve also been making my way slowly through a reread of Zhuangzi. I’m always undecided whether I like this or the Tao Te Ching better. Both are sublime works and talking about them cheapens them IMO. They are books to be felt and ruminated on. They speak for themselves.

I reread Aeschylus and Sophocles in the past month and want to get at them again while they are fresh in my memory.

>>23186618
Fascinating. I've never heard of such a thing. Keep us posted on your battle with your local owls (for no particular reason beyond my curiosity).

>>23186619
A /lit/erary champion! Really! I've never put much stock in the Daoist thinkers (despite of my fondness for ancient Chinese poets), but it has been many years since I've read them. Perhaps, I'm due a reassessment. Regardless, I like hearing of your enjoyment of them. You make me want to try them again. Keep up the good work, anon. Keep the non-readers on their toes!

>>23186651
I love the classical Chinese poets as well. I’m not going to pretend I can read Chinese but even in English so much depth, emotion, and philosophy are packed in so few lines with so few primitive, almost archetype, images that are intrinsically understood by everyone. I find them so calm and contemplative

Did you list what you’re reading itt? I haven’t really scrolled through

I read 6 chapters of the enchanters endgame (belgariad book 5) by david eddings. normally I can burn through 10+ chapters a day of this stuff but now he's focusing on what all the different queens are doing in the different kingdoms while the kings are off at war and I just don't care. give me more garion adventures and cenedra being boss bitch so I can wrap up the series

>>23183889
no but you can solve it by recommending something good that won't bore me to tears

>>23186664
Yes, I did. I'm not reading anything much. I just finished Agamemnon, a first time for me. The only other Aeschylus play I've read was Prometheus Bound. Both are very good. I was struck by many things in Agamemnon. It is something I will read again soon. I was reading a bit of A History of Pi for Pi Day and I've been reading a couple of Trollope's works here and there for a little over a year now. I'm still reading Doctor Thorne and debating whether to read the Eustace Diamonds afterwards, but Trollope, as similar as his tastes may be to mine in some ways, is entirely vulgar to me in others. He strikes me as the worst sort of middle class mind at times (whether he was of the middle class or not, I have no idea; and I was lead into his work by Julian Fellowes, who is genuine gentry, so perhaps more the fool me). I also read quite a lot of poetry and take snippets here and there of non-fiction as it suits me. I just purchased a compilation of most of Robert Frost's poetry. He is a poet I had always taken a bit unseriously, despite his achievements, but when I opened at random this collection and read for the first time 'Out, Out—', and 'All Revelation', I realized I had perhaps not given him enough looking though. However, now I am a bit sad that I have. I've found in his first collection a poem of gnostic themes, and the last thing—the absolute last thing—I want to find in any more of my favorite poets is hidden anti-Christisms or hidden Satanisms. I can't bear any more divorcing of myself from poets, but I will do as I must. Why my kindred spirits needs make war on me by making war on Christ, I cannot fully comprehend. Anyway, I read similarly as I eat: all throughout the day, and whatever my mental taste buds are craving.

I also read the Chinese writers in translation. I don't speak a lick of Chinese, but some lines from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that I cannot forget. My collection of Chinese poems I love was translated by the San Francisco Renaissance poet Kenneth Rexroth, and is called "Love and the Turning Year: 100 Poems from the Chinese," or something like that. It is a very nice small collection. Rexroth likewise did a fantastic introduction to a collection of D.H. Lawrence's poems which I have, but I've never had much appreciation for his poetry personally. I feel a bit guilty about it, heh.

>>23186692
Oh, we all know that feeling. For me it was the slow trot to death by brandy of Sir Roger Scatcherd and the state of his family and so forth. "Hurry up and die, old man! There's no saving you now! DIE!" is how I felt about it. Good work, anon.

>>23186718
That won't bore you... A high task, since I don't know you. What bores you?

>>23186818
>Rexroth

Love those books. My favorite Chinese translator as well. I’m meh on his original poems but I haven’t given them a serious look. I’ll circle back to them eventually. I also like the Classics Revisited and More Classics Revisited. A bunch of 3-5 pages essays on many famous books and I’m a sucker for writers on writers/books, one of my low key favorite genres if it is one. I’m a huge Lawrence fan but most of his poetry falls flat for me, though he does have some great ones. Snake is one of my all time favorite poems. Which collection does Rexroth do an intro for? I’ll eventually get Rexroth’s essay collection Outside the Window (?). From what I’ve seen he’s a pretty astute guy and I generally like what he has to say

>>23186905
Wow! I had no idea he'd done so many. I just picked up the one in a second hand shop on a whim. Rexroth does "D.H. Lawrence; Selected Poems," published by Viking Compass. I also picked it up second-hand. I love at least a good handful of Lawrence's poems. I even love The Wild Common, despite its being a materialist aria of sorts. In terms of writers whose craft I really admire, Lawrence and Joyce are very near the top. I will also get Outside the Window, then. I feel the same way about his thoughts. I've saved the image. That's a good list of books to add to my library.

>>23183889
I've been becoming more misanthropic, so I mainly read books about animals now.
I've also read many books on birds. One author, Jennifer Ackerman, who wrote one of my favorite books, The Genius of Birds, recently published one on owls, pic-related.

>>23187052
Awesome, anon (the book, not the misanthropy)! I'll have to give that one a look-see. I have sympathy for your waxing misanthropy as well, however. Some of you anons are what keeps me from it nowadays (and some of them drive me to it, lol).

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