/lit/ - Literature

>>3723269
Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, coming from someone that read Magic Mountain and thought it was fun.

>>3723291

I want to read Buddenbooks, but not a rec. Was it goos or not?

>>3723306
Not that anon but it's okay. Not as good as MM tho.

Have you read Joseph and his Brother's? That's my favorite work by Mann. It's a long read (about 1400 pages) but it's worth it. At times it can be really moving.

One of Sunhawk's threads.

Shit is painful.

>>3723306
It's good, without question, but it's written in a naturalistic style; that is, with extreme attention to detail. I've been reading more contemporary stuff lately and so, though the descriptions felt impressive, they seemed to overload me with information because I was not used to it anymore. I guess now is the time to read some Musil, or revisit Proust.

William T Vollmann's "The Royal Family". Took me like a month to finish

>>3723306
Minnie Mouse is MIckey Mouse's fiance.

>>3723291
Toni is a slut

>>3723269
What about Franzen? I've never bothered to read him because of the Oprah controversy.

"If a book is hard to read, it must be good."

-Sunhawk

>>3723329

Well, some of /lit/ (emphasis on 'some') think only simple books are worth reading. Look at that Murakami thread.

>>3723335
well obviously either extreme is retarded kiddo

>>3723335
>these people are retarded, look! That makes me less retarded, right?
No, friendo. That means both of you are retarded.

Youre not a native English speaker, are you? Trainspotting isnt difficult to read.

>>3723339

Reading smart books is retarded? I see. I never even knew that until today. I feel bad about it.

>>3723340

Lol. The Scottish dialect is very hard to understand, at least, until you get into it.

>>3723345
Maybe if you're an idiot, yes.

>>3723269

>>3723352
Why did you feel the need to replicate and propagate Sunhawk's shit?

>>3723345
Its really not.

>mfw I remember when Sunhawk was but a youngling, spurned by elder tripfags

It makes me very sad that he is now 'our' only recognisable tripfag.

That's not to say I don't like you though, Sunhawk. I think I'd actually miss you if I did not come here.

I really could not keep a coherent train of thought when reading Dubliners.

Part of it being Dublin isn't that interesting, the other being the confusing slang and terminology.

>>3723375
What? Dubliners is incredibly easy to understand.

If you think Trainspotting is hard, try reading Finnegan's wake

>>3723512
>tfw finished FW in six days last month.

I less understood the book than I contemplated the word play, though.

>>3723269
Are there more advice pictures like this? I've known not to shake girls hands for a couple years now but I don't know what else I don't know and those seem to explain shit well.

I'm plodding through Notes of the Underground.

The Double Dream of Spring by John Ashbery

Need to re-read it sometime to try and figure out what's going on.

>>3723369

Leviathan.

Gave up 1/3rd of the book will probably try to read it once more this year.

I've read about a hundred pages of A Void by Perec, and I'm finding it hard because of how shitty the lipogrammatic requirement makes the writing. I find almost every line simultaneously technically impressive and aesthetically infuriating. Don't know if I'll go back to it, but it's short so maybe.

oh oh oh a sunhawk thread!

>I love sunhawk!

The hardest to read for me was Larry Niven's ringworld
>Because of how awful it was.
And The first discworld because I kept getting bored and distracted and it just didn't interest me.

Gaddis' "The Recognitions".

>>3723342
>he still thinks big books are smart books
how embarrassing

>>3723356
>hardest thing you've read

>>3723375
>Struggling with Dubliners
>Because of "confusing slang and terminology"

Good thing you've no interest in the city of Dublin: there are areas of it that might cause you to die of confusion.

>>3723269
wow I just literally did the opposite of what is in that picture. fucking autism strikes again.

some paper by frege

Am I pleb for struggling with The Sound and the Fury?

>>3723817
Yes.