/lit/ - Literature

Montaigne's Essays. Cozy old man calmly yelling at clouds. Good stuff.

>>23198022
I'd heard of this novel but had no idea it was written by a woman. How is it?

Captcha: XXXR8

Herodotus: An account of Egypt. I picked up the 50 volume set of The Harvard Classics last weekend from a used bookshop for $125 and I want to learn some history.

>>23198055
It's a trainwreck drama you can't look away from. Very dollhousey, Wes Anderson kind of novel. All the characters are precious and insufferable in a touching way. In usual McCullers fashion, it hasn't revolved around the point enough to come to a climax where you know what it's about yet. Captain Pendleton is a repressed homosexual getting cucked by his subordinate and dumb bitch of a wife. This one private is watching it all and sneaks in the house at night to watch Lenora sleep. The captain is in love with the private. Analecto is a gay coded philipino house boy. Makes me want to watch the adaptation with Brando and Liz Taylor, but it's a novella so I don't have but so far to go. Beautifully written, not my thing at all, I only picked it up to finish it because I want it out of my head.

>>23198166
You will learn some history.

>>23198182
I love the experience of picking up a book out of my wheelhouse and being pleasantly surprised.

Might check this out.

>>23198217
I read Ballad of the Sad Cafe and the short stories that came with it probably 15 years ago and loved them. Read Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the end of this year and found it sublime. This one is different.
>Maybe the Reflections in a Golden Eye were the friends we made along the way.
kek

>>23198237
Every book should be required by law to title-drop at least once.

The captain is now tsundere for private Williams. It's just like my Chinese cartoons.

>>23198248
20 years on this shit hole has made it a treat when they do. I almost fell out my chair and started clapping.

>>23198237
It ended nice. Would recommend.

On to the next one. I've been putting this one off for 20 years.

Hold on, it's a little chilly out. I need my reading hat.

>>23198022
J. M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians

>>23198613
Still waiting for them?

>>23198022

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I'm enjoying it so far. I was in the mood for something not so deep and serious. I'm on page 200.

>>23198766
is it true that it's mostly dialogue?

>>23198768
It does have a lot of dialogue. Also a lot of inner thoughts of the characters.

>>23198768
You would get torn to shreds by Gormenghast.

>>23198022
Mostly William Carlos Williams. Finishing up Richard II by Shakespeare as well. A little bit of Zhuangzi every night

>>23198783
I prefer prose, that's all. A book with mostly dialogue is not literature.

>>23198814
You have no idea how hard it is to write good dialog not necessarily meant to be spoken out loud.

>>23198022
I'm reading Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. It's a DFW biography.
>>23198182
Why was it on your mind?

Almost done DUNE.

i'm reading the sailor who fell from grace with the sea and it's pretty good

>>23198913
>Why was it on your mind?
If you don't finish a book, it sticks with you.

>>23198022
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Clifford Geertz, Umberto Eco, some poems by Ezra Pound. Why do you ask?

Only the most high class of literature:
Japanese Isekai LNs
They even come with accompanying pictures!

>>23199016
He said READING you subhuman.
Gtfo of this board.

>>23198055

To continue your journey into Frenchmen shouting at clouds you should read Rochefoucauld's Maxims next.

>>23198593

I like your reading spot, very comfy. Enjoy Ignatius's antics.

>>23199759

Which Pound poems so far? Working towards the Cantos?

>>23198022

I had intended to savour this but I'm already 80 pages in after starting just this afternoon. Probably indicative of how much I'm preferring the pace to that of early vol 2 (worth it for the Balbec episode though).

>>23201504

And naturally I forgot the pic

>>23201504
>Rochefoucauld's Maxims
Might check this out next. I've really been enjoying the 'commonplace book' vibe of the Essays.

I'm reading in the bathroom.

>>23201569
Reading pic related.

>>23201571

Didn't even know that existed, any good?

>>23198568
about to finish this. you'll like it, it's actually a funny book (unlike supposedly funny books like catch22).

>>23201504
I think the point of novellas is that you can finish them all at once, like a movie. 3-4 hour read, tops. The novel length suggests to me that it is meant to take more reading sessions.

bug scifi

im reading the first volume of isaac deutscher's biography of trotsky, extremely cosy. want to read his stalin biog next.

>>23198022
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park