/lit/ - Literature

>>7442622

Is the Hughes translation lively?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfQjFkGsEE

hasn't burned down yet, but it's breddy gud

>>7442618
I've been meaning to read this, how are you feeling about it?

>>7442618

Livin' the meme.

>>7442618
Tell me about Barth, I've been meaning to give him a shot but my backlog is ridiculous. Should he move up in the polls?

Currently reading:
As You Like It
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Groundwork

It's that time of year where I feel validated or stupid!

>>7442871

>Tell me about Barth...

I hate what this place has done to my mind.

>>7442958
Yeah, yeah, explaining things is difficult, you should know everything already, etc, etc.

>>7442983
Whoa, easy there, big guy. Was getting caught being a pleb part of your plan?

>>7442998
I guess you can find comfort in knowing not everybody is that far gone. (Most of us are, though...)

I am listening to an audiobook

>>7442832
I'm surprised this one isn't memed more often

Swann's way

>>7442832

Reread this earlier this year; it's even better the second time. There's too much to put together to put it all together on the first read.

on the last 50 pages, it became incredibly gripping out of nowhere, and all of the idle conversation in the first half lends a strong verisimilitude to the final chapters

>>7443084
I just returned that book to the library after having it sit on my desk for a whole month. I couldn't get into his style; it bored me the fuck out.

:^)

Currently Reading:
House of Leaves mfw I realised a book is a "house" of paper "leaves"
Gene Woolfe's V.R.T.
Lion Attack (Really hope it's all fiction because the narrator is too me if I was a Melbournite hipster douche to be real) But it's a good read if you're down under nevertheless.
The Golden Bough
Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna
Kaigan
The City of Z
Hitler and Napoleon: A Comparative Biography
>>7443084
I'm reading through Girls With Curious Hair, with Hideous Men and Oblivion waiting on the bookshelf.

All in all, not going to the library anytime soon.

>>7443524
Oh and also reading Urth of the New Sun and I am Providence on kindle, but that's usually just on the shitter.

>>7443524
>Oblivion waiting on the bookshelf
in what form?

>>7443550
Paperback you cheeky little cunt.

http://knigger.org/bradbury/the_martian_chronicles/lang/en/

Pale Fire

I was expecting something else completely, and I'm not disappointed. The man spoke the language of obsession.

This sexy ass fun ride
It's abso-fucking-lutely perfect

>>7442618

Over-indulgent garbage. It was forgotten for a reason.

>>7446894

I hadn't heard anything about it before I picked it up, but I loved the weirdness of the introduction and all of the Christian allegory in Barth's preface. It's great so far.

>>7446894
yeah, barth is utter shit. same with grass

read a thousand plateaus over the summer, now im starting this

i need friends

>>7442618
is this where Bill got his Goat Boy bit?

>>7443024
I can't do it. It makes sense for something you don't <i>really</i> care to read. With audiobooks it's such a pain in the ass to rewind to hear a paragraph or page/etc. again. I like being able to immediately re-read something. You can't possible understand everything the first time read/heard.

I've read everything from DFW, Tao Lin, Mira Gonzalez, and David Fishkind. Who do I read next?

Thank you for the suggestions.

>>7448157
How was thousand plateaus? Is it comprehensible? I was thinking of reading it but I haven't really read much pomo philosophy stuff

it's aight

>>7448083

I had to read The Floating Opera in Freshman English; I liked it. Couldn't get into lost in the Funhouse though.

>>7443495
This is coming in the mail today. Can't wait

Ultimate comf

it's REALLY good

No Margaritas so far, a lot less devil and a lot more poet than expected. I'm still in it but the early death set up expectations for the following chapters that so far have not been lived up to.

>>7442618
fuck the haters OP. this shit is bomb. bigger than the bible

poor Fierro! gauchos were tough though

Rate

>>7442618
Hegel's Phenomenology