/lit/ - Literature

"First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
Also making my way through Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons by Bill Watterson. I regularly read all the Calvin and Hobbes books repeatedly until 8th grade, I think. I've been feeling nostalgic, so I picked this up.

I got Collected Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound, Selected Poems by e.e. cummings, and Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson from the library today. I had a flick through the first pages of Pound and actually disliked it - the grandiose/archaic language really grated me. I skipped forward and I genuinely adore the poems from his anthology "Lustra". It seems I like Pound when he's not in elaborate mode: http://www.poetry-archive.com/p/the_garden.html

e.e. cummings is one funny motherfucker.

I've nearly finished Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Thought it was brilliant. I love his over-the-top style - he has a very bleak outlook on humanity, but the constant hyperbole makes it hilarious. He should definitely be a more popular writer on /lit/. I want to read more of his books - I'm thinking of moving onto Correction or Yes next.

currently reading

2666 by Roberto Bolano - 80 pages into and i dont know. It has a pretty good style, and theres kind of a story. I dont know. I know it gets better.

Women - Charles Bukowski
very good, very funny, very sad. Its a pure Bukowski about women, alcohol and gambling, altough Ham On Rye is his best work ever.

bump

Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre. halfway through
Zizek - In Defense of Lost Causes
Beckett - Molloy
Beckett - More Pricks than kicks
Kafka - Diaries
Peter Nadas - Parallel Stories

Plenty of good reading going on among us, I see. Me, I'm reading Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Camus' Myth of Sisyphus.

The Solar Pons Omnibus, Volume II, by August Derleth

Thoroughly enjoyable

Currently reading 'Enforcer' by Matthew Farrer.
>pic related

Recently finished 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett.

What I want to read next are the 2nd and 3rd books of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson.

On a side note, is >>/tg/17600365 correct?

>>2337356
Herpaderp
>>/tg/17600365

>>2337166
Don't usually go on /lit/ but I've been doing a lot of reading for school this week.

last few days:

The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
The Sun also Rises

>>2337358
ahahahaha you're so bad at this

>>>/tg/17600365

Just finished A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin. (Fantastic) Working on pushing my way through Hunger Games. (It's absolute shit so far) Re-reading Watership Down for the bizillionth time. (8 year olds bro)

>>2337356
>>2337363
That guy is just being pedantic, you can discuss it either place. of course it technically makes more sense within the purview of /lit/, but you'll have way more people to talk about it on /tg/. That dude is just being a dickhead.

- peter dale scott's "American War Machine" (almost done, very illuminating)
- neal stephenson's "The Diamond Age" (just started yesterday, fun so far)

>>2337365

Forgot to include I was reading The Gun by CJ Chivers. By far the best history on the AK47 I've ever read, despite not mentioning the gun once in the first two hundred or so pages.

Did anybody read this book as a kid?

Catch-22, Lisey's Story (by King), and The Portable Atheist (edited and compiled by Hitchens). The latter, while being very hit or miss, is actually rather intriguing when an interesting essay or excerpt pops up and a lot of the writings have left me with a lot to think about.

However, I'm mainly just trying to finish up all three of these books while I still have some semblance of free time before school starts up again on Monday.

this

Just finished The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Alright, but really tapered off at the end. Looking for an ebook copy of Mastering the Art of War at the moment.

Just Finished : 2666, Faust
Reading: Steppenwolf

Reading: At the mountains of madness, A Spanish Verb and noun book and William Durant's The Story of Philosophy.

>>2337420
Can you please upload your copy of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms? I'm having such a hard time finding a good English translation of Chinese classics.

I'm halfway through rereading I, Claudius and Claudius the God, and the BBC series, though I was supposed to be done like a month ago, and I should easily be doing at least 200 pages a day. All this because I lied to my Latin teacher about seeing the BBC series, and I don't want to look like a dick if he talks to me about it. But then I didn't want to see the series without revisiting the books.. and now I hate my life.

Aside from that I have a massive pile of shit that's been building up while I have been procrastinating, and every day I keep finding more. I went to buy some Tacitus today and ended up coming home with Otto Skorzeny's memoirs and Pausanius for some reason.

Anyone else know what it's like to have 37 books you want to read equally, and you have to pick one

reading: clockwork orange
bit hard to follow this book, probably due to russian slangs?

1Q84

I just started it

I have about 40 pages left of tropic of cancer.
And im reading a couple stories here and there from
Blow up and other stories-Cortazar

>>2337821

my g/f bought me 1Q84. i read 120 pages and hid it at the bottom of my closet so i'd never have to look at it again. i love Murakami but there's no excuse for how terrible that book is.

currently reading Against the Day instead. it's everywhere you wanna be.

i just finished donald kagan's history of the pelopensian war. Now im starting thucydides' history of the pelopensian war because fuck herodotus

Just finished Underground by Murakami which was streets ahead of his fiction.
Currently reading Crime and Punishment which I like a little more than Notes from...

I just finished Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. She's fucking hilarious. I also read Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party" and really enjoyed it.

Last completed A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. Then I reattempted Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe, but my vacation killed a lot of steam with that. I just read the preface to The Present Age by Kierkegaard, will read the actual thing tomorrow, I'm pretty tired. Then Habibi by Craig Thompson.

Finished Nausea a little while ago and adored it, not in any way that made me happier about myself, mind. I'm reading Crime and Punishment and Dune at the moment, with the occasional T.S Elliot and Ginsberg.

Just finished Ender game, recently read Hunger games, liked it and i will read anything I can get my hands on, most likely Something form stephen king, but you guys got me interested in 2666 so i'll look into it.

>>2337866
Is Hunger Games really worth it? I know the movie is turning into the next fad for teens, but I've heard that it was pretty good even before the hype.

>>2337868
I personally liked it. It kinda reminded me of Harry Potter but more mature and sometimes cruel. And yes the movie is going to be a piece of shit.

>>2337166
120 Days of Sodom.
Just started, I'm almost at the list of their daily debaucheries.
So...much...rape...
But I have to finish.

>>2337543
http://www.amazon.com/Kingdoms-Romance-Complete-Unabridged-ebook/dp/B004I1KCMI/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_
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I got a kindle version for the convenience, but this is the translation. It's the old CH Brewitt-Taylor translation, which means it has plenty of errors, reads like a novel, and has no supplementary notes, maps, etc. It's readable if you have enough of a background to provide context, but some things escaped me. Still, it reads well and I liked it up until the end, but that's more of a problem with history than with the writing/translating.

>>2338079
As a note, though, I recall the Moss Roberts translation being highly recommended. It uses the more common naming system, Pinyin (Cao Cao vs. Tsao Tsao), and has a much more liberal use of notes, I believe generally ~200 pages of supplements. That pushes the page number near 2000, though, so it's up to you which you think would work better for you.

<-- Almost half-way through this.

2/3 the way thru "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"

Next read: "Tuning in to Nature" by Philip S. Callahan

finished the conformist
started oblomov

>Reading: A Storm of Swords
>Reading: The Eight Doctors
Come at me, brothers.

About 1/4 of the way through Crime and Punishment.

I've got The Brothers Karamazov up next.

Reading Infinite Jest and Ada or Ardour at the same time.

>>2340408

+1

About 100 or so pages into House Of The Dead, think i'll save The Brothers Karamazov for summer.

im reading 4chan you dolt

Currently reading: Don Quixote, The Martyred, and Endgame Vol II

wheel of time book 4 (re-read)

>>2340434

I am in the middle of the audio book of Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

It is outstanding

Currently reading Mishima's Confessions of a Mask

>>2340460
what if mishima was a gangster rapper

i think he'd be really good

Nearly finished A Clockwork Orange
Halfway through Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Halfway through Survivor
Quarter of a way through My Family and Other Animals

Our Mutual Friend. Only put it down to check my email, and here I am. Like a fat kid eating cake, I hate myself.

E.L. Doctrow's "The Book off Daniel".

I have just finished reading 11.22.63

but i will now read the bourne ultimatum because i decided before christmas to reread all the bourne books, however i got a load of books for christmas so i finished supremacy then read all the books i got

Millennium by Tom Holland. Just started, it's a history of the rise of the Christians.

How I escaped my certain fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand Up comedian by Stewart Lee. Nearly finished, hilarious book but only if you are British or Irish else most of it will be about people you don't know.

Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich. I am about 3 chapters in, originally this was called The Willing Flesh but it renamed after the Sam Peckinpah film. It's not bad so far, not the usual WW2 novel.

I'm working on Ubik.

Just started so I'm only a few chapters deep.

Just started Oryx and Crake yesterday and going to finish it today.

Loving it so far. Gonna finish my PKD collection afterwards.

Near half-way through "Grettis saga", after reading "Egils saga", "Víga-Glúms saga", and a few other Icelandic sagas. Still need to finish "The Crossing" by McCarthy and "The Sword of the Lictor" by Wolfe.

>>2337166
A Game of Thrones.

I just don't know if I want to keep reading it because I've already seen the series.

"Ingenious Pain" by Andrew Miller

just finished "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan

and I'm sort of reading book 2 of the "Wheel of Time"

The Count of Monte Cristo
about 1/3 through, pretty boring
it's overdue.. yet i need to finish it
i havent finished a real book in over a year

Currently reading 'Welcome To The Monkey House' by Kurt Vonnegut, and 'Rose Madder' by Stephen King.
I just finished 'Seven Days In Rio' by Francis Levy, which was great.

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

It's great so far, but I just started. It's the first discworld novel I'm reading.

I just finished Ugly Man: Stories by Dennis Cooper really feel dissapointed I paid for that ,but was only 5 bucks.

Been reading around a compilation of the greatest poets of the modern era. So far I am liking it

>>2340645
>Pretty boring
>Monte Cristo
>Pretty
>Boring
>Boring
>B
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What the actual fuck am I reading? You should be in the throes of despair around the 1/3 mark, then hopeful at the 2/3 mark, then out weightlifting bears and screaming FUCK YEAH at flowers. The feeling when that story ends should be roughly the same as looking God right in the face and spitting in his eye.

Kids these days...

Recently finished Andersen Prunty's Zerostrata and Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Just started Stephen King's The Shining.

Just finished reading Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume and Brave New World by Huxley, now currently reading Coming Up For Air by Orwell.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Coyote Reader by William Bright
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Recently finished reading We Need to Talk About Kevin, which took me a while to read, and unfortunately I predicted the ending to some extent.

Now a third of my way through Lolita. Bizarre novel. I'm not sure what I find more disturbing - his love of young girls or the fact that he refers to the girl he's in love with as his daughter.

>>2337881
>yfw you finish the boring section of the book to realise the better parts of the book were unfinished and in note-form.
Read Philosophy in the Bedroom instead.

>>2340704

This be true.

Just finished "Kokoro", thought it great. Sensei's story was pretty heartbreaking.

Now reading "The War of the Worlds" (roughly a third of the way through) and enjoying it a lot.

"Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts.

I'm about 150 pages in and considering abandoning it. The main character, Lin, is borderline Mary Sue and the scenes are turning formulaic. Lin has a culture shock moment, he learns the deeper meaning behind it, he comes to accept it as a superior way of doing things. All the expats he meets are snobs and drama queens and like him only because he's a good listener.

It's 900+ pages, too. I keep hoping for some twist or more immediate conflict, but Lin keeps faffing about