/lit/ - Literature

>>2624083
>recent purchases
> one has no visible title


thanks op. im really glas you showed me a blank book cover!

>>2624083
The green one is War and Peace.

It's mostly a lot of generic /lit/core stuff. I guess it's good that you're finally getting to them? or something.

depends on how far below retail you paid for the entire group.

and of course since anyone who might be interested has been baited into this question: What is the blue faux-leatherbound in the bottom left corner?

>>2624083
>Murakami
>translated Bolano
You fucked up.

Great, I haven't read a single one of those but I would definitely read most of them. Got a little non-fiction in there, that's good. No idea what bottom left is, though. Poetry?

>>2624099
disregard the question of title. but check those dubs

>>2624105

War & Peace is phenomenal. Enjoy your reading, anon.

>>2624105
>>2624099
>>2624089
It's War and Peace.

>>2624083
a clockwork orange, you can read it in 3 days (1 if you don't care about nasdat)

>>2624101
Yes, learn an entire fucking language just to read one fucking book.

Please go fuck yourself. Not OP btw.

General /lit/ crap, hardly any of which is good.

Boring, move aside.

We need people with original taste please.

>>2624112

>Clockwork Orange
>3 days

Seriously? I could read that in one sitting if I wanted. It isn't even 200 pages.

>>2624116
>Original taste.
You're the fucking worst, do you know that? What the fuck does that even mean?

>>2624113
Just saying there is really no point to reading a translated Bolano. His books are awful in English and lose pretty much everything I valued in the Spanish text.

That's a personal thing though, I suppose.

Murakami is just unsalvageable garbage.

>2666
>Crying of Lot 49
>Foucault's Pendulum

I approve

>>2624116
I doubt you've read even half of them.

>>2624101
dont even go there mate. youre just going to bore us with the same tired troll recital about how we should all learn the original language before tackling a foreign text. its a atupid argument and i shant have none of it.

8/10 OP, would read.

just toss out Clockwork and we're golden

Is it wrong that I preferred Kubrick's Clockwork to the novel?

>>2624143
No it's right.

>>2624121
>>2624129
Sick of seeing general /lit/shit in my /lit/

>>2624143

No. That is the correct answer.

>reading translated Bolano

>>2624156
>/lit/shit in my /lit/

If it wasn't on /lit/, it wouldn't be /lit/shit; it's very nature requires it to be posted. Don't get mad.

>>2624156
I am too, bro. Post your own recent purchases and give us a bit of variety here?

A lot of what /lit/ circlejerks about I never read and I'm already sick of seeing the same fucking titles and covers

>>2624171

>it's very nature requires it to be posted

so true.

>>2624120
I don't have too much time to read, I read in the train...

Battle Royale
The Color Purple
Flowers in the Attic
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Fahrenheit 451
Lovely Bones

No pics nigga

>>2624174
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4206268-capsguy?format=html&shelf=currently-reading

I think that's a nice variety.

>>2624186
>Train rides is the only free time he has to read

This nigga's working 24/7

>>2624083
is White Noise worth it?

>>2624101
Fuck you and everything you stand for you pretensions cunt

>>2624191
no, but I have a wife and kids... I spend my time in internet at work...

>>2624202
I hope to never reach this point in where I have little room to manage my fucking time

Good thing I have no chance of getting married with my looks

*pretentious

>>2624188
>Battle Royale
Enjoy your superior Hunger Games

>The Color Purple
Enjoy reading about nigras in ebonics

>Flowers in the Attic
Enjoy your incest

>Lovely Bones
Enjoy your rape

Buy Lolita while you're at it.

>>2624208
Damn /lit/ you angry

>>2624202
How could you still not have time to read?

>>2624208
>Good thing I'm foreveralone

Don't worry, you have books to keep you company~

>>2624225
Poor time management. Every married couple out there has it. Soon he'll be growing fat and blaming it on age. Jokes on all of you, I've never even kissed a girl. Enjoy your fucking love, pussy ass bitches

>>2624225
Oh yeah, the train. Some saturdays I go to a cafe, drink a nice coffee with an alfajor (a kind of cookie) and a take an hour to read, drink and eat.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I like my life!

>>2624232

>>2624208

>>2624232
Thanks, I enjoy it!

I can post my soonish library borrowings, but I don't think /lit/ will have much to say on them. None of them are especially popular here, though I did get the recs for several of them through /lit/.

>The Topless Tower by Silvina Ocampo
>Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
>The Chess Set in the Mirror by Massimo Bontempelli
>The Shutter of Snow by Emily Coleman
>The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
>The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
>Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews
>12 Collections & The Teashop by Zoran Zivkovic
>The Tenant by Roland Topor
>Telegrams of the Soul by Peter Altenberg
>From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon

>>2624256
Do any of those sound particularly interesting?

>Kavalier and Clay

I approve.
I haven't read War and Peace yet but so many people have bucket-cummed about it that it can't be /that/ bad.

Metamorphosis and other short stories
Dune
Great Gatsby
Great Expectations
Hunger

inb4 entry level

>>2624256
Well, yeah. All of them do, else I wouldn't be borrowing them.

The Ocampa one is described as being influenced by nonsense literature and the Latin American surrealist movement. Singular Pleasures is flash fiction about masturbation from the first American member of the Oulipo group. Sisters by a River is the first novel by Comyns, an overlooked magical realist whose books are usually both disturbing and hilarious. The Tenant "chronicles a harrowing descent into madness as Mr. Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, a suicide victim whose presence still saturates Mr. Trelkovsky's new apartment." The Sjon one takes place in 17th century Iceland and is about a guy who "recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children." The Altenberg is a prose poetry collection praised by Thomas Mann and that is apparently nicely eerie and remarkable.

>>2624285
Well, yeah. All of them do, else I wouldn't be borrowing them.

The Ocampa one is described as being influenced by nonsense literature and the Latin American surrealist movement. Singular Pleasures is flash fiction about masturbation from the first American member of the Oulipo group. Sisters by a River is the first novel by Comyns, an overlooked magical realist whose books are usually both disturbing and hilarious. The Tenant "chronicles a harrowing descent into madness as Mr. Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, a suicide victim whose presence still saturates Mr. Trelkovsky's new apartment." The Sjon one takes place in 17th century Iceland and is about a guy who "recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children." The Altenberg is a prose poetry collection praised by Thomas Mann and that is apparently nicely eerie and remarkable.

>>2624324
I really enjoyed Kafka. I didn't ever get into Dune (though it's probably good considering its large fan-base.) I've only ever heard people say good things about Gatsby and I personally liked it. I didn't like Great Expectations at all. I haven't read hunger.
Hope you enjoy!

>>2624488

You have some really fun reading ahead of you. Start anywhere, really.

The Corrections
Freedom: A Novel
by Franzen

Mason & Dixon
Inherent Vice
by Pynchon

The Dubliners
Ulysses
by Joyce

Right ho, Jeeves
by Wodehouse

Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius

Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre
by Kaufmann

War and Peace
by Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov
by Dostoevsky

Death of a Salesman
by Miller

The Road
by McCarthy

Les Miserables
by Hugo

Nausea
by Satre

Last shopping spree I managed to get:

The Deccameron - Bocaccio
Complete Works - Julius Caesar
Historia Romana - Cassius Dio
"The Light Fantastic" and "Wintersmith" - Terry Pratchett
A book on Byzantine heroic poetry (poem of Bellisaire, Digenis Akritas and others).
And... Super Freakonomics.

Thanks OP for reminding me to give V. another shot.
Is it just me or was boring around page 100?

Everyone will be happy to tell you how well you've done with respect to certain /li/ classics (and they're right: you have) but I'm gonna go full book club and give you props for Kavalier & Clay. For a homosexualist who loves wonderfully showoff-y, flowery prose as much as he does comic book history there is no better book.

>>2624516

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>>2624516
haha, I remember enjoying Jeeves and Wooster, what does /lit/ think of Wodehouse?

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Exile and the Kingdom - Camus
The Fall - Camus
Don Quixote - Cervantes
and...
The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain

>>2624580

I don't know, I fucking loved the whole thing

>>2624636
Wodehouse is awesome and great fun. But I feel like there's not really much to say about him. No real conversation. I think most people on here generally like him if they've read him.

>>2624636
Anyone who dislikes Wodehouse on anything beyond a militantly ideological level is a turd

>>2624761
I will give it another go over summer then.

>>2624083
>pop geopolitics books
>buncha fiction cotton candy

Grand haul there OP

>>2624188
I'm 3/4 done with Do Androids Dream and I don't care for the writing, but the ideas presented are fantastic
Lovely Bones was good

>>2624794