/lit/ - Literature

East of Eden

It's bretty gud

Who Goes There by John W. Campbell. Seen the 50s and 80s The Thing film a lot and loved them so I wanted to check it out. Seems cool already.

alias grace by margaret atwood
it's ok
i wouldn't have picked it myself but i'm reading it for my book group and enjoying it. she's very readable and it's an interesting subject to me

Attacking faulty reasoning. Bretty good, my fedora is tipping itself as I read it.

Magic Lantern (Ingmar Bergman): Crude and interesting view of his life.

>>6563514
I chose poorly. This guy, as knowledgeable as he is, is a Tory monarchist who makes Joseph Ellis and David McCullough seem almost leftist.
Learning a lot, but I think I'll stop after another chapter and finish some of the other books I'm in the middle of. I picked it up to give a third pass at the Mithridates story, having already read the Mayor bio and just recently a chapter from my Kingdom of Armenia about Tigran.

Not the worst book I've read, but I'm just a little put off by the tone of his bias.

A Farewell to Arms
By Ernest Hemingway

Honestly I'm enjoying it more that I thought I would. The romance and glamour and the war is honestly starting to get to me. I feel the passion of Federico. I too want to walk and talk with the priest. Damn you Hemingway.
From what I heard it ends badly for the characters but right now for me ignorance is bliss.

Human, all too human by dynamite with moustache

It's great, but I'm reading it slowly because it's breaking all that I know about everything and I don't know what to do with life now.

To Kill a Mockingbird

I'm enjoying it so far. I'm reading a lot of stuff that I should have in high school but never did because it wasn't apart of the curriculum. I'm pretty pleb with literature too so it only took me until graduating college to get into it

I am reading "History Of The World" by J.M. Roberts. Its about 1100 pages and I'm only about 65 pages in (really small type/dense paragraphs)

I am really liking it, so far it has talked about prehistory, the hominids, neanderthals, the fertile crescent, and I'm just now reading about Sumer and Gilgamesh. The book continues up until the 1990's-2000's.

Its bretty good, would recommend/10. The writing is very dense and academic-like, its almost like reading a study. I like that though.

>>6563555
>A Farewell to Arms

mynigga.jpg thats one good book, probably his best although I can't say for sure because I've only read 3 of em

Only Forward

Liking it so far but the foreword kinda spoiled it since now I'm expecting all of it eccentricities. If I'd gone in blind I would have been more surprised by the rather sudden changes of tone.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke. It's pretty neat and comfy. It's this super dry, endless Jane Austen-ish novel about magicians in 19th century Britain. It's kind of superficial though. There's little personal about it and no great questions raised, but it's genre fiction, so I guess this is like criticizing an apple for being an apple.

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Agota Kristof

v readable, I could even probably read it in French if I tried. I'm on the Proof now

also Brothers Karamazov because I am ADHD shit

100OS

It's a meme

Kafka on the Shore. Really fucking good.

Game of Thrones, as I watch the show

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
Blake: The Complete Illuminated Works

>>6563520
Good on you. East of Eden is the shit.

>>6564365
Is this you?

Help me guys. Should I read The Sound and the Fury, For Whom the Bell Tolls, or Something Wicked This Way Comes next? I've already read TSatF, but I wanted to reread it sometime in the future.

>>6564374
Yeah.

>>6564398
Thanks, anon-sama. I'm 130 pages in, and I can already understand what your post encompasses. I really, really enjoy it. In fact, I plan on giving the book to a friend as a gift. Thanks for the rec.

>>6564403
I'm glad you like it. Without spoiling much - it starts off great and only gets better - you might have a lot to look forward to.

I'm >>6564382

>>6564398
>>6564403
pls respond

I got Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance from this 'take a book, leave a book' box outside my local library. Pirsig is way too into himself, and the book reads more like an essay disguised as a novel. The common complaint is that it's pseudo-intellectual, pretentious crap. So far it's good, but it's much longer than I thought. Hopefully I won't end up hating it.

>>6564365
East of Eden is a great book. It's really got it all.

>>6564382
If you're familiar with Faulkner's work, read TSatF,

The Familiar. Almost 300 pages in. It's pretty dense. Danielewski has like 7 novels happening at the same time, but they're all connected. It's an interesting concept.

>>6563514
just finished The Trial. I really liked the ending, and although its written in a very straightforward and journalistic manner, it could get quite dull at points so I skimmed a lot. I also liked the menacing and ominous atmosphere. Going to watch Orson Welles adaptation in a bit, curious to see how he interpreted it for screen.

1984

ebin

>>6563615

The footnotes in that are pretty good and I like the backstory on the Raven King too, very interesting person.

>>6564473

How would you say it is compared to House of Leaves? I was going to buy it on release but I figured I would wait a while..

Currently reading 100 Years of Solitude, I find it very whimsical, charming and colourful.

>>6564500

It's way different than HoL. There's no footnotes or anything like that but he institutes new little literary devices and gimmicks to keep you reading. I enjoy it.

>>6563514
Mason & Dixon

Phenomenal, the best I've read by him thus far. Pynchon really is a comic genius

>>6564514
that's next on my list. Have you read any other by Pynchon?

Moby Dick.

Fucking awesome.

>>6564513

The thing that puts me off the prospect is the fact Danielewski has around 27 of these books planned and I'm wondering if reading the first one alone would be enough to get me to invest in the rest.

Does it at least use a similar visual structure to House of Leaves?

>>6564514

As someone from the north of England I found the Geordie dialect in that a little exaggerated but it was a lot of good fun.

>>6563615
>>6564365
>>6564462
>>6564500

Holy shit, what happened to this board? It's only been two years. Two goddamn years.

>>6564518
Mhm, I've read ToCL, IV, and V. All good, but V certainly stood out. This is proving to exceed all three

>>6564526

So far I'm ready to take the journey into the complete series. It is a very visual book still. Each character how a different colored tip on the page along with a timestamp and marker for where and when they are. Each character has a different font. And each character has a different tone and dialect. I just read a chapter by a gang member in East LA and it was written like a Mexican Vato speaks. It's interesting stuff.

Dubliners

Joyce is a master of descriptive detail, and the version I'm reading has a very helpful note section so the references to Dublin streets and Irish history aren't totally lost on me. Very much enjoying the stories. Just finished Ivy Day in the Committee Room, which I enjoyed after reading up on the political climate of Ireland at the time. Can't wait to read The Dead, I've heard it's quite good. Another cool thing about my copy is that it had a previous owner who annotated nearly as extensively as I do, so it's like I have a literary counterpart who is reading along with me to compare thoughts with. It's almost like I have a friend

im reading selected chekhov

completely amazed

>>6564528
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0

>>6563514
The Gospel of John. Pretty great so far; however, I have been reading Jerome's Latin version, and his latin prose is really meh compared to the Cicero I have read.

Reading East of Eden right now.

I like the characters, some of them. I've always been interested in sociopaths, and Cathy takes the cake so far. Charles and Adam do a good job in the Cain and Abel role. Wondering when he's going to get to the Hamiltons already.

What I DON'T like about this one, is the pacing. Years go by but the way Steinbeck narrates, it feels like a steady, straight line, coursing over day by day. Good story but . . . I don't want to say it but almost a lazy style. I expected a more measured pace seeing as he considers this his apex opus.

But I do like it though, so far. I've always wanted to write a story spanning a family's multiple generations (if I could write worth a shit).

>>6564554
there are no feels like Dubliners feels, anon.
>>6564598
that's a part of the biblical sense East of Eden is supposed to framed in. Plus, the novel covers three generations; thematically it makes sense to skip around to the parts of the characters' lives that are relevant.

>>6563514
less than nothing by slavoj zizek
im 1000p into it and like it although i probably wont remember everything.
however i finally think i got lacan and hegel

Gravity's Rainbow. It's roasting my fucking head. Although I've only got 150 pages to go.

I'm also reading Wuthering Heights, which has quite possibly the laziest way of unfolding a backstory ever (I still quite like it though) and Dubliners. Joyce's prose strikes something in me that no other author for me has done thus far. His writing is mad beautiful.

>>6563623
hows agota kristof?
zizek mentioned one of her books

Just read most of Hamsun, now I'm reading the DeLillo I'm most interested in. Starting with White Nosie, Mao II, and Underworld.

The Song of Roland.

It's alright.

White Noise
good so far, really like the children characters and murray

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

I'm reading it in Humphrey Bogart's voice and it's great.

>>6563514
The Divine Comedy

It's interesting

>>6563514
The Idiot

I love it as I have every other Dostoevsky novel I've read. I'm doing my best to read a little at a time so to prolong that inevitable post-Dosto depression that comes as I realize that all else is inferior.

Just finished Post Office by Bukowski. Boring garbage.

>>6563555
I didn't like it.