/lit/ - Literature

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Old Man and The Sea by Hemmingway. These descriptions of where he is or what he is doing on the boat are pretty annoying due to my lack of sailing experience.

Maus - Art Spiegelman

nooteboom - rituals
p horrible

Moby's Dick.
Long, hard, and satisfying.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

>>4325083
hehehehehehehe

>>4324900

Recently finished Swann's Way by Proust, currently reading All Quiet on the Western Front and next after that is either Valerie and Her Week of Wonders or Something Wicked this Way Comes because I never read that growing up.

i just can't concentrate in a book. i never read a cool big book like game of thrones or lord of the rings or the Bible :(

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume

I'm getting stuck on ECHU though, just because it's so damn dry

Halfway through David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, I stopped to read Pedro Paramo.

Almost halfway into Catch 22.
>tfw browsing 4chan instead of reading again

A Tale of Two Cities.

Might read Snow Crash next, or finish Art and Illusion, which I got a bit distracted from.

Walden

The mysterious stranger by Mark Twain.
He can't write, but I enjoy it because the plot is fascinating.

>>4325086
I read it a few weeks ago and enjoyed it. How do you like it so far?

The Book of Mormon.
Not interested in converting just wanted to see what they believed.

Stephen King, Duma Key

>>4324917
what translation are you reading?

>>4325232
if you're reading him chances are he can write

>>4325495
Robert Bly. I didn't do any research beforehand but I really like it so far.

Currently reading Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, and I just picked up Drood by Dan Simmons.

>>4325185
Did you read Descartes beforehand? I went straight from Descartes to Hume and it was pretty entertaining that way. Hume tears those filthy rationalists a new one.

Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren

>>4325514
I was going onto Descartes next actually, I'm guessing your way was the "correct" way, given your reply

The Egyptian by Mike Waltari

In a way I feel like a kid again reading about Sinuhe's adventures, but every now and them there's a line that just throws you back into reality about how the world sucks.

>>4325024
If you think that is annoying you'll love Moby Dick.

>>4325679
Melville was at least alright in explaining what exactly was going on in terms of the ship's operations. At least from my recollection. Last time I read Moby Dick was almost three years ago and the last time I touched it was to snort MDMA off the cover. Yeah, watch my edge.

>>4324900

I just finished "On the western front nothing new"

It was superb

>>4325535
I'm unsure if there is a "correct" way to go about reading Hume, but Hume is responding in many cases directly to Descartes and Leibniz and the other rationalists, so reading at least some Descartes beforehand gives Hume some much needed context.

>>4324900
Memoranda and a Garibaldi study/bio book

>>4324900
100 years of solitude

the translation is top tier, marquez is top tier, everything is good. satisfied with the book

Almost done with The Tunnel - Sabato.

The whole is just spaghetti stories told by a fucking beta lunatic. Not what I was expecting, but still good. The prose is great.

>>4326219
The ending is fantastic.

>>4325495
>translation

>>4326235
shush

The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray for the third time this semester

>>4326237
Sorry, but you have to admit that after that entire book, Garcia gives quite the satisfying end.

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino.

I was reading the anthology "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison, but "Delusions for a Dragon Slayer" is really hard to get through. I find it completely uninteresting.

Vatican Sayings.

>consuming powdered love with the use of a cherished classic

Edge level: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM9YWm6T_hc

>>4325691
>consuming powdered love using a cherished classic

Edge level: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM9YWm6T_hc

Carson - Men in the Off Hours
2deep4me

Memoirs of Hadrian

It's incredible

Last pages of La Peste and after I'm done with that I'm reading Cain by Saramago, is it good? (Cain)

>>4326960
On the same level as whoring out nature for humanity's cheap thrills?

Yeah sounds about right.

King Leopld's Ghost.

>>4325508
Bly is a good translator, but his own poetry a shit.

The Winter of Our Discontent, by Steinbeck
A few of Plato's dialogues

Also picking my way through the Divine Comedy again, because I was able to get a nice hardback volume for pennies. The problem? It's the Longfellow translation and it has no footnotes for my plebian ass. I actually don't mind the translation, but the references man...the references kill me.

>>4326929
I'm reading The beast who shouted love at the world and about halfway through it, I have no mouth is next for me. Never read anything by him before it's pretty interesting

>>4324900
Making my first bought through Lord of the Rings. Only on Fellowship. It has terrible pacing issues.
The Hobbit was better

>>4325024
Reading this too. So far, Not bad. I like his pros

I just finished The Name of the Wind.
Wasn't terrible.

>>4327756
Hot

>>4327410
It's one of his worst books, read some other and you'll be better off

Great Expectations (finally)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

>>4328354

Oh, and I'm not Sarah. Forgot to take off the name.

The Red and the Black - Stendahl

I think it was a mistake buying it, as I had a long-standing and entirely false idea that it was some War and Peace style Napoleonic epic with war and grand events and the like, wheras it's actually more of a society critique. That said, i'm quite enjoying it so far.

H G Wells. The invisible man

on to part two now

just started. enjoying.

The Castle - Kafka
The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson

>>4328402
how is it?

hate it when people just say the name with nothing else

Almost done with Stranger in a Strange Land. I hated Starship Troopers but I was in high school when I last read it so I thought I'd give Heinlein a second try. It's interesting but far too aimless and lengthy. Are his other works similar in these regards?

Investigating The Unexplained - Paul Roland. It's a throwaway but a fun throwaway.

I'm reading that story in the toastoyevski thread. its surprisingly good for lit

Celine - Journey to the End of the Night

almost done, I'm really loving it. he's so bitter and misanthropic. Back when I was reading Bukowski I remember him saying how much he admired Celine, and I can totally see the influence. Buk just wanted to be Celine.

also, can anybody recommend more books about impoverished, angry people, preferably somewhat autobiographical? Stuff like Hamsun's Hunger, Bukowski, and Down and Out in Paris and London

>>4329790
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment

quite enjoying it, to be honest.
any recommendations for similar stuff? besides the trilogy, i mean.

>>4329790
Nick Flynn. But he does attempt a sort of salvation or answer in all that bitterness and misanthropy. He's not corny about it, but the DeNiro/Paul Dano version is.

Wish he came up more on /lit/

>>4329866
already read those, but thanks anyway
>>4329910
sweet, I'll check this out!

>>4329790
Houellebecq

>>4325192
>almost halfway into Catch 22
>browsing 4chan instead of reading again
are you me

>>4324900

>>4327756
Post more nigga

>>4329943
where's a good place to start?

>>4329943
neither impoverished nor particularly angry...

Paley - Little Disturbances of Man

>>4324900
Last of the Mohicans

Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Библия, Братья Карамазовы (lel), and Yeats' canon.

Done with The Impossible State though. On the last chapter of The Unlikely Disciple.

Hyperion - Dan Simmons
about 200 pages in and I'm enjoying it so far.

>>4329790

I think you'll like No Longer Human

Currently i'm almost done with All Quiet on the Western Front, it's pretty good, I think this is the first book i've been shaken with while reading because I noticed that when he was describing all the soldiers getting pieces of their faces and other stuff blown off, usually i'm good with that sort of stuff but this one struck a chord with me.

>>4330630
If you like Joy of x, consider Russell's ``Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy'', I think it is a very accessible intro to things like well ordering and other set theory fundamentals.

Also consider ``Naive Set Theory'' by Paul Halmos, it is the third most beautiful book I own (in typogrophy and content)

>>4330630
how was the impossible state