/lit/ - Literature

1990
V
Nietzsche

1992
Extinction
Thomas Bernhard

>>7551934
1992
I am reading 4 books:
- The Complete Cosmicomics - Calvino
- Aeschylus
- JPS Tanakh
- How to Read the Bible - Kugel
Borges

89
rereading Henderson the Rain King
Vollmann

1989
Plot Against America
Pynchon

>>7551968
I got Herzog a few nights ago because I was reading it in Chicago O'hare and could not put it down.

>>7551934
1994
Sputnik Sweetheart. It's kind of shite though, so I may drop it soon.
Probably just Pynchon or Borges. Harold Pinter maybe.

>>7551934
45
All you need is kill
Milton

>1990
>power, politics, and religion in timurid iran
>at the moment, schiller

>>7551973
I'm saving up to buy the Library of America 9 volume collected edition of Roth's novels
:3

>>7551934
>1946
>The Art of the Deal. It's my second favorite book after the Bible.
>myself

1995
Plutarch
God

1992
I am reading 5 books. So yeah.

- Euclid - Elements (Book 10 is extremely intense, mathematically)
- J.S. Mill - Principles of Political Economy (too verbose, but thought-provoking read)
- Homer - Iliad (ehhh)
- Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species (EXTREMELY enjoyable)
- Sophocles - The Theban Plays (dunno, just started King Oedipus, seems pretty cool, I suppose it might be )

>>7551962
Seems you are reading a greek playwright as well, how are you enjoying it?

>>7551986
im reading parallel lives atm,
alcibiades was a little bitch

1986
All the Pretty Horses
Gene Wolfe

I think I might be the oldest on here...

>>7551996
Oh yeah. Favorite author? I don't read much fiction these days, but Pynchon.

Thomas Pynchon.

>>7551934
Please take your shit back to /soc/, Mr. Dataminer

>>7551996
Which edition of the Elements are you reading? I read through Thomas L. Heath's last month - so comfy.

1997
The Scarborough - Michael Lista (Poetry)
Proust

>>7552002

97
Mere Christianity
Joyce

>>7551996
Enjoying it so far. I've only read 2 plays (The Persians and Seven Against Thebes).
Main takeaway is an appreciation that he was one of the first dramatists and what that means.

So far, I've preferred Homer, both The Iliad and Odyssey. Why aren't you enjoying The Iliad?

And you're finding Darwin to be extremely enjoyable? Because we're so far removed from the time, I wouldn't have it said it was that enjoyable, but again I can appreciate the historical impact.

>>7552019
Excellent. Great work, Elements. Glad we could recover it.
TL Heath.

It's nice, but I noticed an error in book ten. Proposition 48 should state that the entire line, not just the greater term, is the first binomial.

But enough of being an aspie. I cannot wait for the other three books. Book ten is such a chore, the other three deal with three dimensional figures, something I look forward to.

1988
The Left Hand of Darkness
Neal Stephenson

>>7552037
read The Great Divorce and A Grief Observed before Mere Christianity

>>7552062
>The Left Hand of Darkness
>a book I was told to read less than 24 hours ago is my favorite book
how can you be such a bad tripfag?

>>7552051
I'm not enjoying The Iliad because it's not challenging at all and extremely repetitive.

But I'll power through it because I don't want to be the guy who hasn't read The Iliad. Plus it's a little informative theologically.

>>7552072
Now, I don't like tripfags as much as the next guy but I think this hatred has blinded you. Read the OP again.

>>7552072
Its the first book read in 2016 you spaz

>>7551934
>1992
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Joyce

>>7552085
>>7552088
you win this time, goofball. but i'll be watching!

1990
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Bolaño

>>7552067
Any particular reason? I'm mostly trying to answer a) is God real b) Is Jesus God and c) which (if any) church carries the most authority. As a result I've got Who Moved the Stone lined up right after Mere (which I'm two books into).

1990
Titanes del coco
Manuel Mujica Laines

>1989
>In Search of Lost Time
>Charles Dickens

>>7551934
93
2666
Cortazar. Read everything by him except Los Premios and 62/Modelo Para Armar

>1993
>Stoner
>Don't think I've read enough to have a good idea of my favorite

>1993

>Arabian Nights

>Jorge Luis Borges, forever and ever

>>7552135
argfag?

>>7551934
1994
A Time for Everything
Nabokov

1990
Currently reading Ulysses and Only Revolutions
I think I have to read a bit more before I find a favorite author.

>>7552114
AGO and TGD are much, much more personal in tone compared to Mere, which is why I liked them. Lewis was a great writer and intimate in most of his works, but not extremely knowledgeable on ecclesiastical or theological matters. Mere I'd say is fantastic but the least personal of his religious writings.
my favourite/greatest (imo) introduction to Christianity was/is the Hackett 2 volume "Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas" edited by Anton C. Pegis (NOT The Hackett Aquinas: Basic Works edited by Hause and Pasnau)
contains massive chunks of the most important portions of the summa theologica and summa contra gentiles. extremely argumentative and straightforward but also broad and general, dealing with almost every faucet of theology.

1990
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
dont really have a favorite author

1996
Invisible Cities
Tolstoy

95
As I Lay Dying
Beckett

>>7552169
A'ight, I'll give those a shot. ありがとうございます先輩。

>>7552187
I'll send you a seer stone for that shit senpai

>>7551934
>1995
>Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
>Cormac McCarthy

>>7552072
:)

92
satantango
bolano

94
Finished House of Leaves , starting The Freelance Pallbearers.
Pinecone or Burroughs

89
You Bright and Risen Angels
Tie between William Gaddis and Donald Barthelme

1995
White Noise
Wallace

1990
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
Nathanael West

1977
The Great Gatsby
Burroughs

87
Sjambak
Anonymous :v

94
assassin's apprentice
guy gavriel kay

1996
The Odyssey
I don't really know, I don't think I've read enough to have a claim at having a favorite author.

>>7552233
Speaking of The Invisibles, is there any literature that deals in the same sort've new age metaphysical occultery as that series?

1995
-Savage detectives
-Ocnos (Jose Luis Cernuda)
Probably Houellebecq/Bolaño

1996
Blood Meridian
DFW

>>7552262
>96
Out of curiosity, can you remember the first book you seriously read past childhood? Do people start out with Harry Potter these days, or is it all classics?

>>7552271
when does childhood end? this would help me answer your question

>>7552271

Can't speak for him, but I was also born in 1996. When I was young (primary school) I read a lot of kids fantasy books and YA-esque books. I started reading classics once I got into high school.

>1990
>"I Served the King of England"
>Salinger

>1988
>Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
>John Updike

>>7552271
In elementary I read Harry Potter etc. I also read the book Holes like 10 for whatever reason
In middle school the first piece of Literature I read was probably Brave New World. I also read a lot of Baseball History books/biographies bc I loved baseball at the time.

There are a surprising numberof high schoolers that read kids books. Harry Potter/Percy Jackson type shit.
Im a Freshman in college and I have like one friend that reads anything "literary"

>>7552304

Can confirm that statement. I'm studying in a cégep atm and very few people read, and lots still read YA fiction and fantasy books.

>>7552304
>>7552316
>a lot of people read for fun and entertainment
>few people read challenging works which force them to think and contemplate the nature of their lives
You don't say? What a startling observation.

>1994
>Nightwork by Christine Schutt
>Kafka or Beckett

>>7551934
>1994
>CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
>Michael Ondaatje... But it changes

>>7552329

You may be shocked to learn that, even among the adult population, many people do not read literary fiction.

>>7552336
Jesus Christ! Does the President know about this? Has anyone told him?

>>7552351
>TFW when the President writes literary fiction

>>7552262
I'm reading Blood Meridian as well and I'm considering dropping it. I'm 120 pages in and for the most part it's just descriptions of the Mexican desert. The only significant moments both for the theme of the novel and to the reader are the deaths, which come like sudden bursts and fade quickly after.

>>7552377
Same here. Trying to read literature just reminds me of why I don't give a shit about literature.

>>7552377
I enjoy McCarthy's descriptions of the desert and specifically the Sun, but it is slow so far. The way he describes the setting was one of my favorite parts of All the Pretty Horses too, but I can understand not really enjoying it

>>7552367
heheheh

>>7552377
>>7552392
consider growing out of video games, it's likely sapping your motivation and making you dumb.

>91
>A Savage War of Peace
>>Implying I can remember what books I've read in the past

>>7552377
That's funny. I loved the descriptive opening and I later dropped the book when it became character driven.

>>7551934
1996
My expensive /lit/ textbook.
Virginia Woolf

>>7552406
I haven't played video games regularly for years.

>1996
>Blood Meridian
>Herman Melville

>1991
>The Great God Pan
>Michael Moorcock

>>7552334

How's CivilWarLand. 10the of Dec. is the only Saunders I've read but I fucking loved it.

1991
Ada Ardor: Family Chronicle
Joyce

>>7551934
1992
Faust
Dostoevsky

1969
Swann's Way
Roger Zelazny

>>7552051
And Darwin is sufficiently influential these days.

I know it's misleading (perhaps), because some of those texts could be said to be outdated, but On the Origin of Species is by far the most relevant, contemporary work, even moreso than the economics book I'm reading that was written about the same time.

1990
The Holy Bible
Goethe

>>7552244

Are you that guy who reviews books on Youtube?

1994
Moby-Dick
Ernest Hemingway

>>7551934
1995
Invisible Cities
Italo

>1997
>Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle
>Gogol

1993 Master Race here
Everyone born after this glorious year is automatically a faggot who will forever be too young for anything that matters

So gtfo cunts

1998
Alvin Toffler's 'Future shock'.
Stephen King

>>7551985
Have you published anything?

>>7552831
Yeah. The book I read is what I've published.

>1995
>Works of Love by Kierkegaard
>Nietzsche

>>7552135
>>7552152
Argies on /lit/, nice.
I tried reading Borges but found that, although I liked it, I wasn't quite ready for it.

1993
manhattan transfer
pushkin

>>7552271
I'm from 98 and I started with The Hobbit, then Harry Potter.

>>7552862
MODS

He could be a January baby.

>>7552862
So you started with the Classics?

>>7551934
1997
lenin and the revolutionary party
marx

>>7552890
>claims favourite author is marx
>likes some lenin bullshit

1997
Foundation & Empire
Yukio Mishima

>>7552897
>"Lenin is the greatest thinker to have been produced by the revolutionary working-class movement since Marx" - Georg Lukacs

gib argument pls. you don't even know the content of the book im reading.

>>7551979
So good

>>7552110

total faggot

that image is double confirmation

>>7552938
>lukacs

you're cringe incarnate kid

>>7552956
says the person who posted an edgy gulag stalin macro

also how the hell is lukacs cringe-worthy? he's perhaps the most influential marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, second to lenin

>1992
>Molloy and Augustine's On Free Will, or whatever it's English title is
>Bolano

>>7552963
>western marxist
>relevant

>>7552976
>Soviet Marxism
>being relevant anywhere ever for any other reason than because of the Soviet Union

1986
Story of O. I'm a bit surprised how little titillation there has been so far.
I don't really subscribe to the favorite author thing because I have a habit of just getting bored of an author entirely after reading their stuff long enough.

97
Modern Architecture: a critical history
Kafka or Donne

9
Till Eulenspiegel
Beckett

>>7552240
WS Burroughs desu
Else any of the modern shite inspired by Lovecraft

>>7551934
1993
Not currently reading anything, but I've read a couple books already; the books being
1: The War of Art
2: Prisoner of Zenda
Enjoyed both of them immensely
Olaf Stapledon is my favourite author

93
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Poemas y antipoemas by Nicanor Parra
Either Cortázar or Bolaño, can't really choose

95
Groundwork to a Metaphysic of Morals
Joyce

1993
Applied Cultural Anthropology (hahahaha)
Margaret Atwood

-1989
-Just about to finish up Republic of Thieves and then will probably re-read The Warded Man
-Patrick Rothfuss

H8 me m80s. The more I read the books, the less I like them, but his writing style is just so comfy and easy to read. Reminds me of my glory years of 15-18.

>91
>He Killed Them All by Jeanine Pirro
>I don't really know

1990
Infinite Jest

I haven't decided yet. I've just been watching various lectures and trying to hold interests in those.

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life(holds my interest best)
Great World Religions: Buddhism

Those have been my main focuses while sort of giving up on Historical Jesus and Plato's Republic.

1994
If on a winter's night a traveler
Pynchon fite me

>>7551934

1995
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer

>>7551934
1989
Catch 22
Dost.

>>7551996
Can't tell if bait...

>1991
>interminable yuk
I don't think I can pick a favorite author since I'm still trying to work through the cannon and haven't really delved into anyone in particular.

>>7551934
>1994
>Aleph (once again)
>Borges

>>7553979
Why would that be bait?

>>7551934
>93
>just finished The Stranger, might start I, Claudius next.
>I don't know, I have a hard time choosing a favorite anything

>>7551934
1989
"The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok" by Dr. Waggoner
William Gibson

1989
Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima
László Krásznahorkai

1988
The Worm Ouroboros
Hemingway

>1990
>The Idiot
>Melville

>>7551934
91
rayuela
pynchon

>>7551934
>Year you were born
1995
>First book you're reading in 2016
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
>Favourite author
H. P. Lovecraft

1997
Underworld
Mishima

1991
The Anti-Christ (Nietschze)
James Joyce

>>7554021

>I am reading 5 books. So yeah
:^)
>Book 10 is extremely intense, mathematically
:^)))
>Iliad
>ehhh
u wot
>Origin of Species
>EXTREMELY enjoyable
fedora hardr

guy comes across as a one upsman, pretentious neckbeard with no taste.

>>7551934
1982
The Fishermen - Obioma
Marlon James as of right now, subject to change

1996
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Murakami

>1993
>The Way of the Bodhisattva
>Dōgen

1987

Just read Station Eleven, not sure where to go. Maybe The Stranger?

>>7554507
Favorite author is Dick normally, London at times

1996

First book I had to read for class was Beyond the Pleasure Principle, but I've been reading--slowly--Labyrinths by Borges

McCarthy, Nietzsche, or Baudelaire

1988
Kafka's The Trial
I like every Hesse and Hemingway book I've read, so I guess one of them

>1993
>Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
>Gertrude Stein, Kerouac, or Balzac

1987
The Leopard
Herman Melville

1995
>I am actually in the younger part of the board

Sources of Japanese Tradition [Cambridge]
Sextus Empiricus
Taoteching
Stirnerbirder

Sextus again. Pyrrhonism is hometown.

>1983
>first i started was the long ships, but the first i finished was cold spring harbour
>krasznahorkai at the moment

1994
King Rat
Ehhh, Philip K Dick? Haven't read enough to have picked one yet.

>>7551934
1990
The Tunnel
Gass

1997+1
The Idiot
Tolstoy

>>7551934
'96
Good Old Neon (so like, an eighth of Oblivion)
no favorites yet, I just started the canon a few weeks ago

>>7552316
Quebec huh?
Which cegep?

'93
The trial
Hemingway

92
whatever
ernst jünger

>>7551977
I was thinking the same thing while I was reading it too. But as readable as it was I finished it and I don't recall it as a bad experience.

>>7552825
Underage b&

>'94
>House of Leaves (again)
>Philip K. Dick

>94
>The children of Hurin
>Tolkien

>Year you were born
1991
>First book you're reading in 2016
For pleasure: "Five Modern No Plays" by Yukio Mishima
For work: "Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century" by Irfan Shahid
>Favourite author
No idea.

>>7551982
سلام، هم ایراندوست

>>7551934
1990
Gravity's Rainbow
Dostoyevski

>1993
>Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought, Gregor
>Afghanistan and the Defence of Empire, Wyatt
>Robert E. Howard

>97
>The Web and The Rock
>Joyce

>96
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Kafka

>>7551934
1995
For Calvinism - Michael Horton

>>7554413
I felt the same

>>7551998
It's not his fault, he read too much Archilochus as a kid.

1980
A Widow For One Year
Updike

>>7552670
Nope, what guy btw?

>>7552406
>consider growing out of video games

Please find a hole to die in

-83
-Miss Wyoming, just finished point omega, catching up on pomo, also failling to understands Zizek Organs without bodies
-Catulle (flavour of the month)

>>7551979

>45

prove it.

Seriously prove it, though. So I know I'm not the oldest person on /lit/.

>>7551985

Do the same as >>7559297.

1993
The Right Stuff
Herman Mellville

97
Michael Kohlhaas
Burgess or Abbas Sayar

>>7559297
Not that guy but I'm 46. Not going to bother you prove it with ID.
Your idea of the homogeneity of 4chan is unfounded.

1990
White Noise, Sun and Steel, Invitation to a Beheading, Beauty and Sadness.
Melville I guess.

>>7551934
93
Stoner
Don't know

1983
Jean Genet: Querelle
Ernst Jünger

>>7552062

holy shit 1988 here,

currently reading
seveneves
Neal Stephenson

kik me : kriskris223

im a dude btw

>>7551973

im afraid to google search that book name

>>7559290
>>>7559473
oh hi 83bros
isn't it nice being in your 30s and on this board? i personally find it very fulfulling

>>7559450
>Your idea of the homogeneity of 4chan is unfounded.
>demographics don't exist!!!
you seem like you're a 20 year old desu

>>7559712
foreskin or gtfo

1990
The Marriage Plot
Dostoevsky

1988
REAMDE
Don't have one yet

>>7551934
1996
The Decline of the West
Homer

>>7551934
1995
The Stranger (finished)
Pratchett

>>7551986
So your favorite book is the Bhagavad Gita then?

1984
Buddenbrooks
Genet

>>7552124
Dumbass spic

>>7559473

>1994
>Moby Dick
>Pynchon

>>7551934

1991
finishing Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Charles Bukowski

>1987
>I read 2 books already but now I'm reading Brothers Karamazov and Capital
>Pynchon

1990
Teaching: A Tale of Two Cities
Reading: Ubu Roi
probably Marlowe

1989
Finished Mao II as first book in 2016; currently reading American Pastoral
Andrey Platonov

>>7551962
Of you don't read Borjes in spanish you're literally shit.

>>7552983
soviet union was pretty big though
i am not guy you were fighting

>>7551962
>Borjes

1990
Moby Dick
Dostoevsky

1998
The Metamorphoses
Borges

1995
The Journey through Wales by Gerald of Wales
Kafka

1998
The Catcher in the Rye
None so far

>>7552976
>>7552983
>Commies
>Relevant

1984
Mikkel Thykier - Sub Rosa
Clarice Lispector - Agua Viva
Woolf

1971
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Marx

>1998
>The Moral Landscape
>idk

>>7551934
>1994
>unbearable lightness of being
>salinger. fight me.

>>7559786
not that guy but...
>demographics are universal
>everyone here has to be the exact same age or I'll be buttmad
>there is a right way and a wrong way to browse the internet.

I've hated you since I saw your first post, desu-fag. really, drop the goddamn desu.

>1992
>The Book of Tea
>No one comes to mind

>1997
>Catcher in the Rye
>Stefan Zweig

>>7555229

My local used bookstore has an old copy of volume II but not I, and a bookstore I visited in Portland had an old copy of I but not II. I like to pretend they were from a matching set and I found them both, having drifted apart in the chaos of the years. Yes I am probably autistic.

Anyway cool that you're into that. I got a ton of books about Japanese stuff.

>>7551934
>1993
>Saint Antoine's temptation (Flaubert)
>nigga you wat

>1995
>Ressurrection (Tolstoy)
>Bulgakov

>1996
>The Iliad
>Hjalmar Söderberg

>1995
>A Place of My Own
>Joseph Heller

>>7561532
1971 club represent, or something.
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
None really.

>>7551934

1993
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Dostoevsky

>>7562062

I was about your age when I read Catcher in the Rye. How do you like it so far?

>1988
>Germinale - Emile Zola
>Don't have one

>>7551934

1996
Revolt against the modern world
Evola

>>7552862

M O D S

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>>7555343

MODS

MODS HELPS

>>7561254

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>>7561563

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1994
Stoner by John Williams
Nabokov or Hesse

>>7562279
>>7562274
>>7562270
You know that you cant ban him cause its possible he got 18 the past few days right?

>>7562305

oops

>>7562305
They can ban him if they want.

>>7552521
I think 10th of December is better, but in really enjoying CivilWarLand

1995
Future Shock
Hermann Hesse

1986
Dictator ~ Robert Harris
Neil Gaiman

>>7551934

>1994
>Stoner
>Haven't read enough to properly decide but at the moment; Hunter S. Thompson

1990
The Eye of the World
Haven't read enough to decide.

St Augustine

St Paul desu

>1986
>Keep The Aspidistras Flying (it sucked btw)
>Dylan Thomas

1994
Monsieur Pain by Robert Bolaño
Franz Kafka I guess

>>7552240
Go for the thing that made it possible to begin with: The Illuminatus Trilogy and all the other Robert Anton Wilson books in general.