/lit/ - Literature

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics

Winter is gonna be rough this year.

>>Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein

Interesting choice; when you have read it, be sure to create a thread about it.

>>3172854
Kant is not difficult, sack up

>>3172837
Hellenistic philosophy - Inwood
Introduction to Hegel - Singer
Mortal questions - Negel
Early greek philosophers -Barnes
Short history of the world - H G Wells
Three early modern utopias (Utopia, New atlantis and isle of pines) - More and bacon and somebody else
Epicurus - Taylor

>>3172877

I definitely will. It looks awesome. Ive only read Stranger in a Strange Land but i loved it. I also have I WIll Fear No Evil but with prolly wait till after Time Enough for Love.

Heinlein seems to be a very interesting author from what ive read of him and about him.

No recent buys, but here are my recent library check-outs (as always):

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Leopoldina's Dream by Silvina Ocampo
An Offering for the Dead by Hans Erich Nossack
The Diary of Mr. Pinke by Ewald Murrer
Who Are You? by Anna Kavan
Aladdin's Problem by Ernst Junger
Encounters by Juan Garcia Ponce
The Museum of Useless Efforts by Cristina Peri Rossi
Tainaron: Mail From Another City by Leena Krohn
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami by Akiko Yosano
All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulova
Will o' the Wisp by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
In the Junk Shop and Other Stories by Bertha Pappenheim

Currently reading the first two, most of the last haven't come in yet. I'm hoping I'll have enough time to read them before I have to turn them in, before the semester's up. Several are ones I'm hoping to scan for /lit/, since they're hard to come across.

>>3172837

OP you should read the book "Island" by Huxley
he considered it his most important work ever. basically about an American visiting a blissful psychedelic island paradise

>>3172941

Oh wow. I definitely will. Sounds interesting. thanks for the suggestion. :)

I bought A Confederacy of Dunces and Hamlet the other day, a few weeks before that Siddhartha and a book of Kafka's short stories

I never go on this board and I've just recently have gotten into reading so I don't really know the norms of this board and that of avid book readers but, you guys actually BUY books? Like with real money? Is it just for the fact that you can display it when you're done, unlike a pdf?

>>3173001

A Tiny bit but for myself, not to show off. Theres something magical about the physical book. The smell of the pages, the feeling of turning the pages, the numerous edition choices. And i normally buy used copies which adds the feeling of shared experience. You know for a fact that someone before you, maybe multiple people, have enjoyed the same copy that you hold in your hands.

I also like to reread and refer back to sections of specific books. Apparently you cant just flip to a page on an e-reader.

>>3173001
I read from physical books when there are no ebook versions available. Sometimes I'll buy them instead of using the library - if I know it will take me more than two weeks to read or get around to and is fairly cheap (<$3), if it's something related to my favorite areas of literature (and so something I'm probably going to want to mark up and keep for future teaching maybe), or if it's something I know I'll want to reread many times in my life (if I read the ebook version first).

>>3173001
I just like having them around. I like the physical feel and smell of them; I like how they look on a shelf. I like being able to picky one up and have a memory of the time I bought it or the time I read it - there is a physical cue there that I am not going to get otherwise.

The Castle - Kafka
Pale Fire - Nabokov
East of Eden - Steinbeck
White Noise - DeLillo
The Master & Margarita - Bulgakov
Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

I hope you didn't purchase Shantaram, it's trash. Don't waste your time on it.

>>3172910
My Heinlein favorites = Stranger etc, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Citizen Of The Galaxy, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. I'm afraid I found I Will Fear No Evil to be a chore. And of course you can read "Grumbles From the Grave," a selection of Heinlein's letters edited by his widow Virginia - good fun, although I hear that she severely sanitized the content.

>>3172837


The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath

>>3173044
Meh, it looked good to me. And you know what they say, one mans trash is another mans treasure.

>>3173051

Nice. Ive heard that about I WIll Fear No Evil but the subject is definitely of my interests. Looking up the other titles you mentioned. Thats a shame that his widow "cleaned them up." Kind of a slap to the face to edit her dead husbands work no matter the subject material. Insult to his memory.

>>3173084

I started that about 6 months ago but didnt finish. Probably gonna give it another go soon enough. Have you started it yet?

>>3173100
it was a pretty quick read for me. Easy to get into. I love it. I love all of Sylvia Plath. The problem is that she was still young and didn't seem to hit that age of understanding ones self so it's kind of angsty but man her "voice" is just terrific.

>>3173108

I definitely felt the angst in it but i havent read any of her other works. What do you recommend as a starter to her?

>>3173116
i would suggest getting to know her biography first just do some background information and she will make complete sense. The bell jar and any other works of hers (basically all poetry) are biographical. honestly you either like her or dont like her. I love her but i don't know of a whole lot of people who do. Listen to her on the you tube reading her poetry. its not easily understood but her images are perfection.

>>3172837
Shantaram! Fuck boy, you're in for a treat!

If you like to listen to ambient/instrumental music when reading like I do, tr Cayote oldman, he makes tribal music which suits the Indian setting really well. Also try Bonobo and Boards of Canada.

Recently I've Bought Pynchon's V. and Against the Day, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kafka on the Shore, Shantaram too but I'd already read it and Anna Karina(it was cheap).

I've acidently got a bookshelf now that is literally what lit would use as being pleb as fuck. I don't have Catcher in the Rye yet because it was $30 where I could find it.

>>3172957
Don't be fooled, Island is boring as hell. People say Island is like that and you think it's going to be this amazing psychedelic story full of so many amazing ideas, nope, it's bland.

>>3173128
Sounds good. Ill definitely watch some of her videos tonight and do a search on her. Yeah ive only know one person who was in love with her but then again i dont personally know many who love reading like i do. My core group of friends are mostly musicians.

>>3173134
Nice! :) Yeah chill ambient music in the background is nice while reading. ill give those bands a listen to before i start it. I recently bought east of eden. My first Steinbeck purchase. im excited to start it. Ive only seen Of Mice and Men with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich and i really liked it. Obviously ruined the sad ending but i still plan on reading it.

>>3172920
oh yah, and I also picked up The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake so I can read the rest of those now. I don't think I would have ever found him if it wasn't for /lit/, which I am pretty thankful about.

I have to reply to myself because no one else cares about the kinds of books I get.

>>3173160

Sorry. Ive never heard of those books or authors but im trying to search some up now to see if any are of interest.

>>3173159
Oh man yeah you kind of did ruin it, Of Mice and Men is so fucking well written.

>>3173015
>>3173020
>>3173029
Those are all great reasons. Now I need to procure some 'real' books, however, I do not believe in purchasing any form of media. This will be a precision job. They'll never see it coming.

Just got this two hours ago.

>food of the gods
>you actually bought it

OP, you are a special breed of shitposter

The History of Sexuality (all three volumes), Michel Focault
Problems of the Philosophies, Bertrand Russel
The New History of America, Phillip J. Furlong

Everything else is ACT/AP Review books

>>3173200
lol yeah but oh well. Still gonna read it.

>>3173001

E-readers and reading on computers hurt my eyes. And fetishizing paper books is a wonderful hobby.

>>3173254

Why is this?

The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Lord of the flies - William Golding

Keep it alive!

>>3173288
Lord Dorian Gray and the Picture Of The Flies ... ?

Recent buys:

>'Malloy / Malone Dies / the Unnamable' - Samuel Beckett

>'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - James Joyce

>'The Man Without Qualities, Volume 1' - Robert Musil

>'New and Selected Poems: v. 1' - Mary Oliver

>'Don Quixote' - Miguel de Cervantes

>'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>'The Complete Poetry and Prose' - William Blake

>'Tao TE Ching' - Lao Tsu

>'Labyrinths' - Jorge Luis Borges

And I'm thinking of grabbing a copy of 'Hark! a Vagrant' by Kate Beaton soon, love that comic.

>>3173092
>>>3173051
>Nice. Ive heard that about I WIll Fear No Evil but the subject is definitely of my interests. Looking up the other titles you mentioned. Thats a shame that his widow "cleaned them up." Kind of a slap to the face to edit her dead husbands work no matter the subject material. Insult to his memory.

Well, as I have heard it Virginia Heinlein was very protective of her husband and his public image, both during his life and after his death, so I don't fault her too much.

You may find some interest in the entries on Heinlein at www.thewaythefutureblogs.com - Frederik Pohl, who will turn 93 this coming Monday, is the last man alive who has seen the whole sweep of commercial SF from the late 1920s forward - and has a few interesting memories about Heinlein as well as every other important figure in SF since the Depression).

If you're interested in Heinlein I strongly recommend checking out "Expanded Universe" v interesting collection of fiction / non-fiction / commentary. Very illuminating on him.

Also IMO his best novel is Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and it's not close. Very interesting writer.

Petersburg- Andrei Bely

Petty Demon- Fyodor Sologrub

White Guard- Mikhail Bulgakov

What Dreams May Come- Richard Matheson

The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham- Brian Keene

>>3173174
Hah, I'm guessing you didn't find any of them to be of interest. They all have a lot of appeal for me - essences of surrealism, depression, anxiety, loneliness all mashed up in books mostly less than 200 pages. Here's a few summaries for anyone else that cares:

>In the Junk Shop and Other Stories
"In these nine tales, nine domestic objects tell their tales of woe and misery to each other, as if they were engaged in a nocturnal therapy session. They reflect on Pappenheim's treatment, dealing with guilt, evil and death. They are not just for children, but also serve as parables for adult visions. They allowed Pappenheim to be reborn, transformed, serving as a kind of 'writing cure.'" (Pappenheim was one of Freud's patients)

>Who Are You?
"First published in 1963, cult writer Anna Kavan's unheralded tale of a calamitous army marriage in the tropics unfolds in a vaguely post-war colonial setting. Narrated by the girl,"" her story plunges into a claustrophobic nightmare, played out twice, as she tells us about her husband, ""Mr. Dog Head,"" a heavy drinker who rapes her and kills rats with his tennis racket. Told against a background of intense heat and malevolent servants, the book seems virtually soaked in a Sylvia Plath-like surreal sense of youthful alienation."

>Tainaron
"TAINARON consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. TAINARON is a book of changes. It speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human. The same irresistible force that gives us birth, also kills us. Nominated for the prestigious Finlandia prize, this is the perfect introduction to the work of a modern fabulist."

>>3173585
>The Wall
"First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal. This novel is at once a simple and moving tale and a disturbing meditation on humanity."

>The Diary of Mr. Pinke
"Written as a compilation of journal entries spanning March to December, it relates the strange happenings amongst a group of village residents, including a rabbi, a magic goat, an ancient Gypsy, and a fortuneteller in a mythical region which could be the Galician countryside. The entire atmosphere is suffused with a surrealistic quality as people and beasts float across the landscape, leaving only cryptic traces of their passage."

>An Offering for the Dead
"An unexplained catastrophe has stripped an unnamed city-and most likely the world-of all inhabitants except for the narrator, who wanders its silent streets. Without relationships to others, he has lost himself, and he finds that his dreams and musings hold more clues to his identity than does his waking life. His memories escape individual experience and dive into archetype, so that what Nossick ultimately presents is a mythopoetic history."

>>3173468
Oh i see. Damn thats impressive. Must be so cool to be able to look back on Science fiction and see the progression throughout your life. Im looking at it now. Where are the entries about Heinlein located?

>>3173587
The Wall and An Offering to the Dead do appeal to my interests. Are they particularly hard to locate?

>>3173575
Have you started What Dreams May Come? I saw the movie when it first came out. I was 8 almost 9 but it still made a huge impression on me. Great movie. Im just curious if the book is great as well. Ive heard it falls into the situation where the movie actually surpasses the book.

>>3173642
Both are out of print and unlikely to be found in physical stores, but there's a cheapish copy of the hardcover of the Nossack on Amazon. The cheapest of The Wall seems to be about $15 for a "good" condition, but there's a new edition/reprinting of it coming in February next year.

If you use the library, they should both be fairly easy to get through inter library loaning.

>>3173587
>>3173585
hey obscure-novels anon, do you have a goodreads?

>>3173665
Yep! goodreads.com/sriq

Sea of Poppies - started, I might not finish this. The narrator shifts before anything interesting happens is starting to annoy me.

The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956. I doubt I'll read this straight thru. Might be a good dip in for a bit switch to something else for a while book. Beckett is a hero of mine though.

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun I loved Hunger. I enjoyed Pan quite a bit too but was a bit let down by the ending. This guy is underappreciated in USA though. I just stumbled onto him because of a Paul Auster essay.

Just got back from a trip to Toronto. Picked up a lot of used books.

Fiction:

- History of the Kelly Gang, Cary
- Butcher's Crossing, Williams
- Exploits and Adventures of Brig. Gerard, Doyle
- Barabbas, Lagerkvist
- Greenmantle, Buchan
- The Death of Grass, Christopher
- Dictionary of the Kazars, Pavic

Non-Fiction:

- On Britain and Germany, Tacitus
- The Zulu War, Clammer
- Histories, Herodotus
- few old Penguin books on Mesopotamian archeological digs

>>3173657
Nope but I do like Matheson, He's pretty damn good imho. I am currently on a Russian literature run. About to start The Master and Margarita.

>>3173669

>Age 23 , Female

>>3173160
I love Breece Pancake. While his fate was a sad one, I lovethat his short stories still have this cult following and every now and then I come across somebody else who was moved by his work. It seems redemptive to a sad ending.

>>3173676
If you like Barrabas, I loved The Dwarf by Lagenkvist. He's an underappreciated novelist.

>>3173001
Living writers I buy books. (I consider it subsidizing the arts.) Dead ones I either get free public domain, or buy used for a penny and shipping.

>>3173698
How do you count translation work? Do you not care if the translators get paid or not?

>>3173703
>reading translations

>>3173703
I do. I am pretty boojie, well paid, and old for this board though. So I doubt I'm representative.
(And Germans I try to read in German.)

Lisey's Story -Stephen King
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Culture- Marvin Harris
Anthropology of an American Girl- Hilary Thayer Hamann

>mfw i've been gifted a book only twice by the same person, though many a times i've heard people tell others of how much of a reader i am.

>>3173745

you like the idea of being a reader more than you do actually reading. the same as kids who like to wear glasses because they like the idea of people thinking they're smart

>>3172837
Jacob's Hands - Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood

$15 hardback copy for $1 at Half Price Books earlier today.

I recently bought about 6 novels in the Mike Hammer series of Mickey Spillane.

>>3173755
wat?

Have any of you read Inner Paths to Outer Space by Rick Strassman M.D.? Ive read DMT: The Spirit Molecule and loved it. Necessary read for anyone interested in trying DMT. It went into great detail on how it interacts with the brain and the mind.

Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti

Wolfenstein and Catch-22

bump!

>>3173638
Try here and also the related entries links on that page:
http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/the-wives-and-drives-of-robert-heinlein-part-1/

>>3175162
Oh yeah, and here also:
http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/working-with-robert-a-heinlein/

Limit - Frank Schätzing
Contact - Carl Sagan
The German Genius - Peter Watson
Thinking, Fast And Slow - Daniel Kahneman