/lit/ - Literature

foundation's edge
foundation and earth
foundation's fear

foundation and chaos

foundation's triumph
robots and murder
robots and empire

>>3829234
>A Clockwork Orange
>Sirens of Titan
>The Alchemist

>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

>The Satanic Verses
>Mother Night
>The History of Love

>>3829263
Sirens of Titan and Mother night are my two favorite Vonnegut novels.
what do you think about the books you read and the one you are currently reading?

Rogue Male
Maigret and the Madwoman
Tun Huang

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Dictionary of the Khazars
The Manuscript found in Saragossa
Kaputt

zen and the art of motorcycle
sailor who fell from grace with the sea
can't remember not gonna check

lila an inquiry into morals
crash
ask the dusk

no current plans although i'm thinking about finding something on greek myths since the lore has always fascinated me with what little experience I've had with it. otherwise, i'll look into more from ballard because i'm really enjoying crash.

>Island - Huxley
>Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
>Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

>Dune - Herbert
>The Complete Fiction - Lovecraft

>East of Eden - Steinbeck
>Perdido Street Station - Meiville
>Ulysses - Joyce

>>3829300
How was Rogue Male?

>War and Peace (fucking dropped though, because I realized my 'abridged' edition had cut out 1000 pages from the original translation
>Common Sense
>An Enemy of the People

>The Wretched of the Earth

>This Fleeting World
>Ficciones
>Andorra

>>3829408
Make sure you do read the entire book in the future though. War and Peace is amazing

Dubliners
Heart of Darkness
Woodcutters

No Longer Human
Today I Wrote Nothing

A Personal Matter
Kokoro
Invisible Man

>Man's Search For Meaning
>Grendel
>Molloy

>Malone Dies

>The Unnameable
>Moby-Dick
>The (Luzhin) Defense

>LAST THREE
Pic related
>CURRENTLY READING
Generation Kill
Broken Angels
Red Mars
Count Zero
>NEXT THREE
Virtual Light
Pale Blue Dot
Green Mars

>>3829457
Got the download link for today I wrote nothing?

>>3829457
>Dat Japanese lit
I really dug A Personal Matter. Enjoy, brother.

>>3829506
I wish the ending was darker. Although it is based partially on the author's own experiences, so can't hold him back too much on it

thought you were done with reading caps guy

>>3829499
Search the archive. Mine's a physical copy.

>>3829510
I WAS GONE FOR SOME TIME

>>3829556
Can't seem to locate it

L'Etranger - Camus
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
For Whom the Bells Toll - Hemingway

The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770 - Hsia

I'm actually stumped for what to read next. I was going to continue reading academic textbooks and the like but I'll take a break. I already see one person in the thread recommending War and Peace, I am torn between reading that and The Name of the Rose or The Master and Margarita. Suggestions?

>>3829565
I heard you took up teaching english in japan even though you used to laugh at english teachers and claim that you were on the best life track due to studying accounting in your university.

>>3829457
I recently read Woodcutters and am also reading No Longer Human currently. SYNCHRONICITY MANNNN

>>3829379
good

Last 3:
Of Human Bondage
The Great Gatsby
The Razor's Edge

Next 3:
A Confederacy of Dunces
Walden
Cosmos

Currently reading:
Imaging in Molecular Dynamics (true story)

>>3829615
I graduated last year and am on a year break. Once I get my visa I'm going to commence my Masters while working part time.

Other than bar work and teaching there isn't much else to do here, and after months of holidaying I started to feel the need to get working again. That and it's nice to not rely on savings for day to day expenses.

After I complete my masters in a couple years I'm not sure what I will do. Haven't even decided on my course of study.

>>3829352
I recon Island is Huxley at his best

Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Ondaatje
Global Political Economy - Cohn

Burmese Days - Orwell

The New York Trilogy - Auster
The Stranger - Camus
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft

>>3829665
Make sure you follow up Burmese Days with Shooting an Elephant and his other essays

>>3829641
>dat Maugham
good taste detected

>>3829756
I really need to read of human bondage

Steppenwolfe
Socrates's trial
Flowers Of Evil

Nausea
Rimbaud's complete poems
Edwin Drood

>>3829760
To be honest, I thought it dragged, but it is really well written. It's a clinic in how to write English fiction if you ask me

-3. Paradise Lost~Milton
-2. The Tower~Yeats
-1. The Summer Book~Jansson
0. Phaedo~Plato
1. War and War~Krasznahorkai
2. Quicksilver~Stephenson
3. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation~Deleuze

>1984
>BNW
>Hunger Games (I now can explain to the 'T' why I don't fucking like that book, so at least there's that)

>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Catch-22
>The Metamorphosis (and other stories)
>Hitchhiker's Guide

>Naked Lunch
>A Scanner Darkly
>Fahrenheit 451

>>3829352
My copy of the Island was 'borrowed.' Fuck me.
>

>>3829822
>fahrenheit 451
I tried reading that the other day. Couldn't get past the first page, the writing is just awful. Was improving every sentence in my head, and i'm not a decent writer. I shouldn't be able to do that, ever.

>>3829862
It is sci-fi, don't forget that....

The Stranger - Albert Camus
>Very good. Insightful, helped me deal with a personal search for purpose. I had been feeling like there wasn't much rhyme or reason, and this book solidified that idea but helped me find a way to be content with the absurd.
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
>Okay. Decent theological themes relating to God's role in fate, or whatever. The end just fizzled out and left me feeling disappointed.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick
>Very interesting ideas, less than good prose. I really enjoyed the focus on empathy, the blurred lines between reality and artificiality, and the emphasis on living animals.

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>I've been getting into classical literature recently, the last classic I read being Don Quixote. C&P is blowing my mind, Dostoevsky's psychological character development is flawless and this book is engaging the hell out of me. I read part one today, and I cannot wait to read more tomorrow.

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
2666 - Robert Bolano

I'm not sure, I might end up reading some different books after C&P. I have a long list, and it is very exciting.

>>3829234

How is the long ships?

>>3829464

How is grendel?

>>3829907
The Long Ships is great if you're looking for something to sink your teeth in to without too much depth. The author's intention for writing the novel was to create something with a similar level of enjoyment as The Odyssey and The Count of Monte Cristo.

That being said, the story and characters are vast, even if the development is a it one-dimensional. For what it is, it's a great read. The background spread of Christianity to the north is of considerable interest. Deceptive fuckers.

Just finished The Thin Man. Using iPhone so may post thoughts later

>>3829907
Grendel is great

>>3829294
The book Im reading now is fantastic. I read Summerland by Chabon, but this novel's more grown up and definitely worth a read. It's very expansive and I often find myself just waiting to hear Chabon describe something, it's brilliant. The Alcehmist was good, quick, a little too metaphorical and philosophical for my liking, but a good book. Sirens of Titan was awesome, as expected of Vonnegut, not as good as CC or SH5 though. And A Clockwork Orange was good to read. I havent seen the movie, but you definitely feel a little insane by the end of the novel since you understand everything he says in his crazy language.

Dubliners by James Joyce - My first Joyce, figured I had better start off light, which isn't to say that many of the stories don't have quite a bit of depth and subtext. I'll probably read through to Ulysses, but I don't know if I want to get sucked into that Wake of Finnegan's.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - Interesting ideas and observations abound, but I never could quite recreate the feeling of disgust for the things that exist around me like the protagonist could.
The Lover by Marguerite Duras - Did not expect to cry for twenty minutes at the end of that. Holy heartbreak.

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Fuck yes. Beautiful observations about the worst life has to shoot at us.

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost by John Milton

>>3830039
Do any other novels have that same technique?

Introducing foreign terms that the reader can understand by the end

>>3829322

I loved Ask the Dust. Currently my favorite Fante novel, although I haven't read the 2nd book in the Bandini trilogy. Read Bukowski blah blah blah.

>>3829352

>East of Eden

You're in for a treat.

>>3829234
CALM DOWN

>>3829592

Haven't read The Name of the Rose. The Master and Margarita is a really good read, although a thorough knowledge of both Goethe's Fause and the story of Christ and Pontius Pilate probably helps deepen appreciation for the story. I was going to read War and Peace soon, so if you settle on that you'll be in good company.

Last Three:
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye

Current:
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings

Next
Don't know yet

>>3830132
CAPS OR NOTHING

>>3829903

There are so many quotable lines in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Even if you don't always agree with them it's still a lot of food for thought.

THE IDIOT
THE CRYING OF LOT 49
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER

MADAME BOVARY

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
ULYSSES (FOR BLOOMSDAY)
OF GRAMMATOLOGY

>>3829482
marine detected.

>>3829234
Last: Despair, Alll The Pretty Horses, The Crying of Lot 49.

Currently: Anna Karenina.

Next three: The Savage Detectives, V, As I Lay Dying.

>chasing rainbows
>A life in our times
>Polyanna

>Great gatsby

>dunno

Gorgias by Plato
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

The Sleepwalkers by Herman Broch
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Taipei by Tao Lin

>>3830240
>Me
>A Marine
Lel. I just liked the miniseries, so I bought Generation Kill.

>>3830323
Really?

>LAST THREE
Rogue Moon
Candide And Other Stories
Nausea
>CURRENTLY READING
Demanding The Impossible
Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal
Oblomov
>NEXT THREE
Tao Te Ching
Howard Zinn Speaks
The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius

>>3830499
Nice

Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
Collected Stories - Ernest Hemingway
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato

The Passion According to G. H. - Clarice Lispector
The Magic Kingdom - Stanley Elkin
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

plato - gorgias
saramago - blindness
tolstoy - the death of ivan ilyich

tolstoy - polikushka

pessoa - book of disquiet
dostoevsky - brothers karamazov
tolstoy - war and peace

>Last three
Romancero Gitano - Lorca
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Odyssey - Homer

>Currently
Down there on a Visit - Isherwood
Paradise Lost - Milton

>Next three
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf
Daphnis and Chloe - Longus
Atonement - Ian McEwan

>>3830561
>The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Enjoy. It's a great one.

-3: Eric Emmanuel Schmitt - Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

-2: Eric Emmanuel Schmitt - L’Enfant de Noé

-1: Günther Grass - Die Blechtrommel

0: Günther Grass - Katz und Maus

+1: Ken Follet - World Without End

>Last 3
The Wayward Bus
Wuthering Heights
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

>Currently
Gravity's Rainbow
The General In His Labyrinth

>Next 3
Don Quixote
Lolita
The Name of the Rose

>>3831336
the book of disquiet is sooo good, but I recommend reading it with breaks because, as it isn't even a novel but a collection of semi-related fragments, you might not retain a lot of it.

Nadja - Andre Breton
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
L'immoraliste - Andre Gide

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

Taipei - Tao Lin ;)
Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Tristram Shandy - Sterne

LAST THREE
>The Paperman
>Gravity's Rainbow (reread)
>American Pastoral
CURRENTLY READING
>nothing lol
NEXT THREE
>The Strange Tale of Jekal and Hyde
>not sure
>dunno

I've done some fairly good reading recently.

>last three
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
The Tidewater Tales - John Barth
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

>currently reading
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

>next three
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Dr. Faustus - Thomas Mann
LETTERS - John Barth

>>3831736
Not that guy but I've heard it's Catcher in the Rye for thirty yearolds. Of course, the guy who told me that isn't super intelligent. I have been meaning to pick up the book though

>>3831748
I finished the first 2 volumes of ISOLT but had to take a break.

How far are you?

>>3831768
I just started the second one. Hopefully I'll get through it.

>>3831778
I think it was the second one specifically that stopped me. I hear it's the poorest of them all. Hopefully I'll get back into it when I start vol 3.

Idk, the 2nd one is just very long and boring

>>3831785
Yeah he better give Gilberte the D soon or my interest will start to wane.

>>3831785
Also the whole idea he seems to be pushing about how none of your desires are ever realized until you cease desiring them feels tenuous to me.

Last three:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Schleiermacher - Hermeneutics and Criticism

Current three:

Hermeneutics Reader
Truth and Method
The Things They Carried

Next three:

Is There a Text in this Class? or The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur
From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected by Michael Ondaatje
A Room with a View

>>3831746
Actually I have started reading it already, only the first 5 pages, and it is indeed awesome. There's so much beauty in almost every passage, it's amazing. And yeah, it's a bit dense so I like your method, I'll keep returning to it when I need to feel that deep pleasure... If you haven't read Álvaro de Campos already I recommend it a lot, especially his "late" phase, it seems to be very close in spirit to Bernardo Soares. His "tabacaria" ("The Tobacconist's") in particular is my favorite Pessoa poem.

>>3831789
>>3831795
idk why proust can get away with writing a 700 pg book (vol 2) about a boring summer with his grandma and some girl he stares at where anyone else would get burned for such a thing.

I like Proust but I had a bitter aftertaste when I finished Within a Buddinggrove

Mother Night
Call of Cthulhu
The Myth of Sisyphus

Picture of Dorian Gray

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Stoner
The Brothers Karamazov

In Our Time - Hemingway (though I didn't finish the last two stories)
Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation - Michael Zielenziger

Currently: The Woman in the dunes by Kobo Abe

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert Putnam
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev

>>3831900
Oh, and I'm not OP, what the fuck. My bad.

A Moveable Feast
Homage to Catalonia
On the Road

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Strange
The Odyssey
Some biography of Picasso

>>3831924
The Stranger*

>Last Three
Medea
The Three Theban Plays
Gilgamesh

>Currently Reading
Confessions: Books I-XIII

>Next Three
Vita Nuova
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales

>LAST THREE
Olive: A Global History
19 Lessons on Tea
The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea

>CURRENTLY READING
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (reread!)
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
The Brain: A Beginner's Guide
A Chinese Bestiary: Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
The Earliest English Poems
Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

>NEXT THREE
possibly some Dunsany or Machen, possibly more food histories, mostly just want to finish all I've started recently

>>3829822
I've learnt to not lend out Huxley. I realised this when I stole my copy of The Human Condition. >.>

>>3829234
V., Pynchon
The Castle, Kafka
Vineland, Pynchon

Underworld, DeLillo

The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
The Eye, Nabokov
War and Peace, Tolstoy

>>3832007
Speaking of Nabokov, has anyone read ADA, I found a copy of it at my library and thought of checking it out. I've never read anything by him and was wondering if that was a good place to start.

Former:
De Profundis- Wilde
Herodotus
At Swim-Two-Birds- O'Brien

Current:
Dreaming of Babylon- Brautigan

Next:
no fucking clue, halp?

>Last Three:
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (9/10)
Armored Hearts by David Bottoms (9/10)
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (8/10)

>Currently Reading:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

>Next Three:
Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyaaka

>>3832028
Ada isn't a good place to start, it's basically his magnum opus and has a lot of his views on Prousts views of time and on Tolstoy and other writers while having an odd meandering plot that plays with a lot of his common themes and tropes. It's also dense as hell, but the prose still flows amazingly like all his works. I'd probably recommend Lolita as a starting point or maybe Pnin for something lighter and a little bit less characteristic of his other works.

Last Three
The House if Seven Gables
The Jungle
Dracula
Currently reading
Nausea
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Aesop's Fables
Next Three
The Double
Uncle Tom's Cabin
CPU textbook
Also, no I'm not a student.

>>3832087
>The House of the Seven Gables*

>>3832028
His short stories are good too.
If you don't want to get through the weight of Lolita, The Enchanter is kind of a precursor. There's one I need to find again- it was in a Penguin mini book they released for some anniversary, title story is Cloud Castle Lake, the story itself is about a popular in youth woman who grows old alone inexplicably and smokes a lot... I think. Anyone got it/know the name? I don't think they're doing another run since it was an anniversary edition.
Glory isn't bad as a starting point- if you go on to read Speak, Memory you'll find similarities again. Pnin as above anon suggested is also a laugh riot at times.

/lit/, do you think they'll ever bring Women and Men by Joseph McElroy by into print? I want to read this book so much, but I am not willing to pay 60+ dollars to do that.

> Watership Down
> The Great Gatsby
Don't remember what came before WD, obviously was not very good, otherwise I would.

> Looking for Alaska

> Tales from Watership down
> Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
> The wind cannot read

>>3832119
Use a library?

>>3832119
Make a suggestion on the NYRB website. They have a section.

The Stranger - Camus
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Lolita - Nabokov

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Candide - Voltaire
Notes From The Underground - Dostoevsky

Also reading Metamorphoses - Ovid from time to time currently, but I'm not actively reading it.

>>3830406
Have you watched Generation Kill? It's equal parts awesome, brutality, and hilarity. It's like a fraternity thrown into a warzone.
And Ray Persons is fucking GOAT.
>Peace sucks a hairy ass. War is the motherfucking answer.
Are you an ex-Marine?

>>3829234
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Dubliners - Joyce
The Bell Jar - Plath

Moby Dick

Ulysses
The Bible
maybe some pulpy stuff like chandler and hammet because I'm taking a writing course and we have to write pulp.

>>3831748
I think Thomas Mann is incredible. The Magic Mountain was terrific, so was Buddenbrooks.

How was Joseph and His Brothers though? A 1500+ page retelling of the biblical story seems pretty tough.

>>3832000
You always read the most interesting books.

>>3832232
>How was Joseph and His Brothers though?
I thought it was incredible, but it isn't for everyone. He has a lot of interesting things to say regarding the nature of history and mythological narrative and, above all, it's a really entertaining, endearing and occasionally moving story. I would definitely recommend it, but know what you're getting into: the dialogue is biblical and the character description can sometimes be extensive.

>>3832194

How was the young man as artist?

>>3832194
>>3832316

scratch that, reverse it.

>>3832144
Oh wow, thank you. I had no idea this was a thing. What do you think the odds are of me getting reply? Have you had any success with this?

>>3832331
What can be reversed, once scratched?

>>3832168
No i'm an active duty LCpl. Agreed on Ray Persons.

>In the words of the warrior poet Ice Cube: If the day does not require the use of an AK, it is good.

>>3832771
Best literature on war recommendations?

Last three:
Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol
Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Currently:
Joyland by Stephen King

Next:
Taipei by Tao Lin (put in a request at the library hopefully it gets filled soon)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (got both in a single volume so I consider it one book)
Not sure. Torn between reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee or The Plague Dogs.

>>3832825
Depends on what you're looking for. I really enjoyed The Sling and The Stone and Dirty Wars for information on modern wars and The War on Terror. If you're a WW2 buff I'd also recommend Why The Allies Won. Instead of looking at the battles that led to Allied victory the book examines the logistical side of the Allies combat, production, leadership, and research capabilities.

>>3832825
War and Peace

>>3832921
The Cossacks

>>3832771
So do you guys spontaneously break into song?
>SHE WAS A GIRL! HE WAS A BOY! CAN I MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS?

>>3832958
I love you

>>3832963
I know this might be an odd question, but are all of your like Iceman? Do you have some zen motherfuckers like Fruity Roody in the Marines or are they all crazy like Trombley?

>>3832972
>all of your
All of *you

>>3832972
Not the guy you were talking to before

>>3832988
>tfw Real-Life Iceman left.
>tfw no GK Feels