/lit/ - Literature

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>>6899972
>Last read
In the miso soup, by Ryu Murakami

>Currently reading
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

>Next to read
Of Human Bondage by Maugham

>>6899972
She has a jawline similar to my girlfriend's

>>6900072
girls crying is kind of my fetish.

It's hard to find pictures that are not some fake over the top acting shit.

>>6899972
Dazai's great, good choice.

>Last read:
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim

>Currently reading:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

>Next to Read:
Oreo by Fran Ross

>>6899972
>Last read
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy

>Currently reading
the Metamorphosis by Kafka

>Next to read
Will take suggestions, but I've been thinking of the Pale King

>Last Read
100 Years of Solitude but I gave up at about page 160ish. Didn't care much for it past the first hundred pages.
>Currently Reading
Infinite Jest. Surprisingly readable. I thought this was supposed to be the trickiest shit this side of Finnegan's Wake, but I'm on page 70 right now and it's been smooth sailing.
>Next Read
Gravity's Rainbow. I picked up a copy of it at a used bookstore after giving up 200 pages in because I didn't know what the fuck was going on but I've decided to commit myself.

>>6899972
>you will never make a girl look like that after a perverse dick sucking session

jdimsa

>>6900314
that is such a dumb image

>last read
Of Love and Other Demons
>currently reading
I don't know.
>Next to read
I would eventually like to read something by Gaddis

>>6900094
>girls crying is kind of my fetish.
mine too. they are beautiful when they cry

>Last Read
Hopscotch

>Currently Reading
Oblivion and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

>Next to Read
Augie March

>>6899972
>girls who take pictures of themselves crying

The most mental psychopathic spoiled narcissistic whores.

Stay away from them.

No caps guy image, no books.

>last Read
Norwegian Wood, by Murakami

>Currently Reading
Gulliver's Travels. by Jonathan Swift

>Next Read
De Ontdekking van de Hemel (The Discovery of Heaven), by Dutch master-author Harry Mulisch

war and peace
the brothers karamazov
the idiot or ferdydurke

>last read
Giacomo Joyce

>currently reading
The man without qualities
Junky

>next to read
occurrences in immediate unreality

>Last
White Fang / London

>Current
Dubliners / Joyce

>Next
Something by Chekhov

>last read
Ensam (Alone) by August Strindberg

>currently reading
Tjänstekvinnans son (Son of a servant) by August Strindberg

>next to read
Giftas (Getting married) by August strindberg

>last read
The Double/The Gambler/Sorrows of Young Werther

>currently reading
The German Ideology

>next to read
Schopenhauer Pargacegegermina and Palagogomimmena

>last
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven
>Current
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
>Next
Starship Troopers - Heinlein

>>6899972

>Last read
Cafe Assassin by Michael Stewart

>Currently reading
Briefing For A Descent Into Hell - Doris Lessing

>Next to read
Blindness - Jose Saramago

>>6899972

>Last read

Crying of Lot 49 and Petersburg, both didn't finish.

>Currently reading

Brothers Karamazov

>Next to read

Wittgenstein's Poker

>last read
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq

>currently reading
V. by Pynchon
History of the World by J.M. Roberts

>next
Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux

>>6902292
How is Norwegian wood? I got a copy of it and have been meaning to read it.

>>6902480

Not anon, but I've read it. I think it's pretty good and worth the read, but The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a lot better.

>>6902480
I am the anon you replied to.

Norwegian Wood was quite nice. It has many qualities reminiscent of other Murakami works, but it's still somewhat different, in that it's more of a love story. A good one nonetheless, and definitely worth the read. Depressing as fuck though.

>last read
no longer human
>currently reading
nothing in the foreseeable future
>next
nothing in the foreseeable future

The Odyssey
War and Peace
Barchester Towers

>>6902489

> Depressing as fuck though.

That's interesting. I didn't feel it was depressing myself, but I constantly had an odd feeling of broodiness about it when reading it.

>last read
Skag Boys by Irvine Welsh
>currently reading
Stoner
Tao te Ching
Anne Sextons Collected Works
>next
probably going to go on a comic binge for a few weeks but I might read Marabou Stork Nightmare by Welsh due to my rabid fanboyism

>Last read
Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin Demons by Dostoevsky which I didn't finish because it's too fucking boring. And this coming from a guy who has read most of what he wrote.
>Currently reading
Book of the Long Sun, Aquinas on Kingship, Law, Morality and Justice
>Next up
Finishing the 2/3 of Moby Dick and Establishing the metaphysics of sexual order (really can't remember the English word) by Kant

>>6902500
it's just a matter of how you describe it, brooding is one feeling I could agree with as well. If anything, Murakami has inspired a lot of life -and self reflection with his dark storytelling.

>>6899972
>Last read
No longer human, by Osamu Dazai

>Currently reading
Infinite Jest, by DFW

>Next to read
Either Aniara or the last 100~ pages of Blood Meridian

>last read
The Disappearing Spoon

>currently reading
Fathers and Sons

>next read
Stand on Zanzibar

>>6899972
>Last read
The Hare by Cesar Aira

>Currently reading
Naked Lunch by Burroughs

>Next to read
Finally going to finish Being and Time

>>6902432
>Crying of Lot 49 and Petersburg, both didn't finish.
What

>Last read
Pale Fire
>Currently reading
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Next to read
Frankenstein

>>6902603
In all fairness, Petersburg is probably the most complex Russian language novel. It's considered one of the greatest works of the Russian Symbolist movement. I loved it, but I doubt I did more than scratch the surface of it.

>>6899972
What did you think of In The Miso Soup, OP? I love Ryu Murakami's work but it seems like nobody has heard of his work outside of Audition.

>>6902640
>I loved it, but I doubt I did more than scratch the surface of it.
I absolutely agree with this, I just don't see how you could not finish. It's such a compelling book. But I guess everyone is different

>>6902684
not op, but i thought it was kinda trashy
it was still better than average genre/ya book but still there wasnt much intellectual value in it imo

>>6899972
Why are u such a weaboo tbh?

>>6899972
>Last read
White Noise by Don Delillo

>Currently reading
Ulysses by James Joyce

>Next to read
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
109 E. Palace by Jennet Conant

Writing a novel set during the time of The Manhattan Project a year before the Trinity test.

>Last read
Theaetetus

>Currently reading
Sophist

>Next to read
Statesmen

On that Plato binge.

>Last read
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
>Currently reading
Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
>Next to Read
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kasodaskod

>>6902590
Fathers And Sons is such a fantastic book. Turgenev's prose is really top shelf stuff

>Last Read
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

>Currently Reading
The Tunnel, Ernesto Sabato

>Next to Read
Rituals, Cees Nooteboom

>Last read
Kafka On The Shore

>Current
Name of The Rose

>Next
Ulysses

>>6904025
what version are you reading fella?

>>6902424
Started reading Starship Troopers but didnt like it. Probably inspired Halo games. Came off to me as pro fascist.

>last read
To Kill a Mockingbird

>current read
To Kill a Mockingbird

>next read
To Kill a Mockingbird

>>6904090
This one.

Going to read Allan Bloom for The Republic though

>>6904111
Ah I've got that one; I'll be reading it soon. How are you finding it so far? Also why Bloom? I understand he is meant to be a very good translator, but do you know of any issue with the translation in the Complete Works?

>>6904123
>How are you finding it so far?

Really enjoying it. I don't know of any issues with the translation (i know nothing of translation being a monolingual pleb), but Bloom has come highly recommended to me, so i thought i would give him a go.

>>6904155
Glad to hear that. One more question if you don't mind; how useful are you finding the introductions for understanding the dialogues? I plan on using the Stanford Online Encyclopaedia for extra help, but I'm going on holiday to Rhodes soon (Quite fitting for Plato tbh) and I'm not sure if there'll be wifi. Cheers for the answers tho m8

>Last read
The Barber of Seville, by Beaumarchais

>Current read
The Marriage of Figaro, by Beaumarchais

>Next read
The Guilty Mother, by Beaumarchais

>>6904155
>I don't know of any issues with the translation (i know nothing of translation being a monolingual pleb), but Bloom has come highly recommended to me,

This is the problem with the translation industry.

Translations eventually go into the public domain--it's inevitable and so in order to stay afloat and maximize profits, they must produce new translations every now and then, getting them highly praised and criticizing the old, free, widely available translations. You can see an example of this by how much people stay away from Garnett's translations of Russian works.

They produce new translations, and because there are so many monolingual people, and even if they're not, what are the chances that someone's going to read Proust in English and French? So they get away with it, and even if there were one single, definitive, best translation, well it wouldn't matter because that too would go into public domain and then translators would want to put out new translations. Mark my words, in 100 years, Bloom's Republic will have been replaced by a new definitive edition.

So choose Jowett or Bloom, it really doesn't matter too much and I'd love to see someone try to show me that Bloom's translation is better than Jowett's.

I suppose that, in a way, this entire post can be summed up as

>reading translations

>>6899972

>Last read

Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo

>Currently reading

Mythology, by Edith Hamilton

>Next to read

Stoner, by John Williams

>>6904168
The introductions are very short and not really in-depth at all. They're more an overview than an analysis. Nothing wrong with that though, i'd rather make my own conclusions on a first read rather than be bombarded with biased interpretations, so the introductions serve their purpose well, although supplementary material is a good idea.

>>6904224
Sure, but you can't say there aren't some poor translations that really do or did need an upgrade.

I think we all know that original language > translations, but it isn't really feasible for most of us to learn Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German ect.

It's not just getting fluent either, you really need to understand those languages and study them for a long time if you are going to appreciate difficult lit. Heck, i'm sure most of us already have trouble reading some stuff in our native language as it is.

>Last read
The Recognitions, William Gaddis

>Currently reading
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

>Next to read
Still deciding between jumping into 2666 or some shorter ones...

>>6904287
Ah I'll probably download some essays onto my phone for then. I agree with you on making one's own conclusions first, however I'm not sure if that'd be a good idea once I'm at The Organon or Hegel haha

>>6899972
>Last read
Collected Works of Doyle

>Currently reading
The Circle (stop judging me)

>Next read
Der Ego-Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger

>>6904296
I can't imagine going straight from The Recognitions to Pessoa. Gaddis writes human anguish and frustration so beautifully and researched that Pessoa seems like a whiny child. Most books are downhill from The Recognitions.

Last read - Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters (Salinger)

Reading - The Rainbow (Lawrence)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Next: Gravity's Memebow

>came here for pics of qt girls crying
>get a bunch of faggots posting books knowing that nobody reads these threads anyway

>>6904367
>get a bunch of faggots posting books knowing that nobody reads these threads anyway
kek my nigga

>>6904345
I thought it would be a good comfy palette cleanser after Gaddis, and while I hate to admit it (since I am enjoying Pessoa well enough), you're pretty damn right. There are some little gems in here, and it's fun for what it is...but I'm still too haunted by The Recognitions to care that much. I probably should've taken a longer break before starting something else.

>last
A Confederacy of Dunces

>reading
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth

>next
either Notes from Underground or The Trial. One of those short ones I keep meaning to get around to.

>>6904065
>not putting your best books on the bottom shelf so the little kids will pick it up and become patricians