/lit/ - Literature

Last Five:
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim
Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove
Coyote Was Going There by Jarold Ramsey

Currently:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Next Five:
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patricia Jones-Jackson

>>2488551
DO YOU ALWAYS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY READ FEMALE AUTHORED BOOKS?

I haven't read female authors yet because I haven't finished all the great male authors....

I doubt its ever possible to actually reach female authors if you read in proper order

>>2488568
EXACTLY!

Last Five:
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells
Julius Caesar by my nigger Shakey
Kipps by H.G. Wells

Currently:
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

Next Five:
no idea yet, probably gonna make a start on Hemingway

Capsguy, why is it the 5th Kindle? Are they flimsy as fuck or are you taking them hiking?

OP: was Where Angels Fear to Tread good? i've never read any forster but i downloaded it and have been thinking about reading it.

Last Five:
Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Watts
Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus - Wittegenstein
Raise High/Seymour - Salinger

Current:
The Fall - Camus

>>2488568

What in the world is 'the proper order'?

>>2488564

I don't know. I never really thought about it.

I'm not a fan of kindle, but I'll bite.

Last five:
- "Valis" PKD
- "The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret Atwood
- "The Book of Lost Things" John Connolly
- "Let Me In" John Ajvide Lindqvist
- "House of Leaves" Mark Z. Danielewski

Current:
- "The Year of the Flood" Margaret Atwood
- "Have Space Suit--Will Travel" Robert A. Heinlein

Next Five:
- "Ficciones" Jorge Borges
- "The Snow Child" Eowyn Ivey
- "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" PKD
- "1Q84" Murakami
- "Hyperion" Dan Simmons

>I never really follow my planned "to-read" list though, so we'll see.

>>2488615
Also, any input on my next five would be great.

>>2488537
Why does that picture bring back some feeling of nostalgia, OP? I have no memory of it, just the feeling.

isn't it in celebration of the arrival of my fifth kindle?

emphasis on of?

but, who am i to say.. i don't even capitalize on 4chan.

>>2488620
>>2488620

ASOIAF 1 - Martin
ASOIAF 2 - Martin
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Brave New World - Huxley
The Cosmic Serpent - Narby

REAMDE - Stephenson
Moby Dick - Melville

>>2488582
I WOULD TAKE THEM OUT DRINKING IN JAPAN, I DRUNK PRETTY MUCH EVERY NIGHT, FREQUENTLY ALL NIGHT

>>2488595
AWESOME FOR A FIRST BOOK. SHORT ENOUGH FOR YOU TO WORK THROUGH TO REALISE IF YOU'RE INTO FORSTER OR NOT. HE HAS RELATIVELY SIMPLE PROSE, WITH STRAIGHTFORWARD PLOT, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT MAKES HIM A GREAT AUTHOR

FROM WHAT I'VE READ, HE OFTEN FOCUSES ON THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL CLASSES (AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THEM, ESPECIALLY WITH LOVE), GENDER ISSUES, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, WITH A TOUCH ON RELIGION.

OFTEN DEALING WITH THE WEALTHY, SO IF YOU'RE INTO THAT KIND OF THING, WHY NOT TRY IT OUT...LESS THEN 150 PAGES

lol u bought a kindle instead of an ipad3 what a douche

>>2488777
I DON'T GET IT. ARE YOU SAYING I'M POOR OR SOMETHING?

>>2488782
everyone told u not to major in liberal arts but no u didnt listen and now u have to use shitty off-brand tablets, deal with it

>>2488787
OH, YOU MUST BE NEW HERE.

MY MAJOR IS ACCOUNTING. I'D GO ON ABOUT HOW I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET BY, BUT THAT WOULDN'T REALLY BE ON-TOPIC

LAST FIVE
>Irene's Cunt by Louis Aragon
>The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
>The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire
>Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
>The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
CURRENTLY READING
>Leg of Lamb by Benjamin Peret
>Tea: A Global History by Helen Saberi
>Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Delius
>Antilyrik and Other Poems by Vitezslav Nezval
>American Ghosts and Old World Wonders by Angela Carter
NEXT FIVE
>The Complete Works of Urmuz
>A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hirsal
>On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger
>Whiskey: A Global History by Kevin Kosar
>Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's by Barbara Comyns

Last Five:
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Pleasure of the Damned by Charles Bukowski

Current:
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
*Re-reading* The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Next Five:
Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Collected Poems by Robert Frost
The Trail by Frank Kafka
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad

>>2488595

What did you think of Seymour: An Introduction?

Also
>Camus
ma niggah

>>2488760

>I WOULD TAKE THEM OUT DRINKING IN JAPAN, I DRUNK PRETTY MUCH EVERY NIGHT, FREQUENTLY ALL NIGHT

Did you give your kindle alcohol? I don't understand.

>>2488860

ugghhhhhhhhhhhh
salinger is one of my favorite authors, too, so it really hurt.

>>2488874
FUCK EXPLAINING THIS SUCKS, BUT IT'S MY FAULT.

I WOULD BE AT THE BAR FROM AROUND 3PM, IT WOULD BE QUIET, AND TALKING TO THE STAFF EVERY DAY FOR HOURS ISN'T EXACTLY THE MOST ENJOYABLE THING TO DO. SO BETWEEN 3-6 I WOULD CHIT-CHAT A BIT, WATCH TV, AND READ WITH A FEW DRINKS.

HOWEVER, THE KINDLE WOULD BE WITH ME ALL NIGHT, SO EVENTUALLY I WOULD DO SOMETHING STUPID, AND YEAH....

Last Five:

Sade - 120 Days of Sodom
Octave Mirbeau - The Torture Garden
Bataille - Story of the Eye
Dekker - The Shoemaker's Holiday
Austen - Persuasion

Current:

Austen - Sanditon
Austen - Pride and Prejudice


(my dissertation is on Austen)

>>2488882
Do you think it was the intensity of the stream-of-consciousness which did the piece in? For me it only helped me better understand Buddy more than I ever learned about Seymour.

>>2488921

in a way. it was such a jump from the regular Salinger affair and though it sheds a lot of light on the mysterious Seymour and Buddy it does so in such an awkward rambling fashion that it's hardly worth it. i'd rather have learned of him through showing, like in Bananafish or Raise High. i think Salinger's strong point is his ability to put so much character into trite and often banal conversation, so a "story" that lacked it was really, really disappointing. i was looking forward to it a lot, too, especially after Zooey and Franny and Raise High.

i guess i'm also largely disappointed in Seymour as a character, though i imagine Salinger might have wanted the reader to feel that way just to drive home the idolization of him in the Buddy. all in all i really like the Glass stories, but Seymour - an Introduction just fell flat on its face. i appreciate it for what it is (a stream-of-conscious personable affair with Buddy, really Salinger, in a zen-like characterization of certain aspects of Seymour), but i can't say that i really like it.

>>2488948
Interesting that you mention Salinger putting character into trite and banal conversations - so much of Seymour: An Introduction seemed to be trite and banal analysis (two pages about his nose, etc etc). If anything it seemed to me that it was just a unique delivery of a traditional element. I hear where you're coming from, though.

There's certainly some validity to the fact that it's a jump from other Salinger works - although this novella was some of the earliest Salinger stuff I read, so that never made much of an impact on me.

>>2488956
Valid point, Bob.

>>2489151
Who's Bob?