/lit/ - Literature

23
South Florida
V by Pynchon
I'm enjoying it a lot. His sense of humor is great, rarely do I laugh out loud while reading

>>9439064
>rarely do I laugh out loud while reading
It's good to admit you're stupid. Now you can go from there.

>>9439066
I wish I was miserable like you

>>9439066
Why is that?

>>9439056
>31
>Germoney
>Blood Meridian
>more gore please

>20
>Houston
>Starship Trooper
It's a really neat book.

>>9439069
But then you'd have a rich inner life and life very often while you read. It's not my fault you can only laugh at someone slipping on a banana peel.

20
Ecuador
Just read Sabato´s Sobre héroes y tumbas (On heroes and tombs) and it was excellent. I´m going to start The Myth of Sisyphus

>>9439081
Try to be more intelligible when posting and stop wasting people's time.

22
Brazil
Finishing Brothers K (Avsey translation)

There's no need to repeat how much the book is great, so I'll just say that I'm very glad I picked this up, and also very sad to know we will never be able to read the planned sequel, focused on Alyosha. Him and Father Zossima were by far my favorite characters, and in the same proportions I disliked Dmitri - which made book nine "Judicial Investigations" a real drag to me.

>>9439056
>22
>VA
>The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

It's a little too comfy, desu.

>23
>Romania
>Il Principe
Reading a bilingual edition with the original script and a Romanian translation (my Italian is a bit slow) and I am really hooked.

>age
27

>location
Retirement community in a retirement town in the retirement state of the USA

>current book you're reading and how do you like it
Rereading Something Happened by Heller. About as good as I remember when I first read it something like seven years ago. The absurdist outlook of his Catch-22 with the sophistication of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, which covers similar themes.

Also reading The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks. I've only read the introduction so far. Whatever I think of the actual content, it will surely be worthwhile in expanding my understanding of the development of early Christianity, particularly a branch of which I am largely ignorant.

22
Rome
The Wretched of the Earth

I feel so woke now

27
Detroit metropolitan area
The Complete Stories of Flan

>19
>Brazil
>Crime and Punishment
Really enjoying how Dosto approaches the personality of the characters, they are very "real" in how they think and act.

21
Northern California
Iliad then Odyssey
Starting with the Greeks.

>datamining general

http://veekyforums.com/section/literature

>>9439247
It really was the birth of psychology. Freud borrow a lot from the various manias of the characters.

>>9439056
>Twenty One
>Texas
>Last and First Men, then Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

20
Czechia
Open Source Manifesto

Great, but Steele doesn't go far enough. Anyway, if you are not familiar with the philosophy of open source then it's a real eye-opener

>>9439056
>26
>Serbia
>Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising
Rereading, brings me back to the safe-space of my teens, still good
>Borislav Pekić - How to Quiet a Vampire
Neat, caters to my superficial interest in philosophy
>Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Just started reading, needs more Hitler

>19
>Italy
>The Zeno's conscience
At the beginning was hard to read and to appreciate the prose of Italo Svevo but now (100 pages to the end) I can say that is one of my favorite books. I relate with Zeno and with his tragic/comic adventures. We are all inept.

24
UK
Fahrenheit 451
I like it, the style of writing feels pretty. I think that the message conveyed is simple but indispensable, it's thought provoking.

My opinion isn't worth much, I'm an uneducated plebian, so stupid that it's taken me half my life to come to terms with it. So I came here recently for recommendations and discussion that might broaden my perspective.

>>9439056
>20
>Romania
>The minds of Billy Milligan
I read 1/2 of it, it's pretty interesting but I still can't believe DID is real. Maybe the other half will change my opinion but I doubt it.

22
L O N D O N
The Everlasting Man
Currently getting Breadpilled. Mere Christianity is next

DATA MINERS GET OUT!!!! FUCK VEEKY FORUMS

>>9439056
>19
>House Of Incest
I do love me some dream-like/nightmarish ramblings, but Nin's shorts stories are much better.

It's really short though.

>>9439056
REMINDER:
DO NOT reply to datamining threads

>20
>AL
>Notes From Underground
Started reading it just earlier today as a change of pace from the insulting Rules for Radicals - and I'm pleasantly surprised to learn it was conceived partially as an answer to outraging political bullshit from Dostoevsky's own time.
It's also legitimately funny, so that's a plus

>>9439256
>>9439869
>>9439881

Get a life, loser.

>>9439926
Get a real job Jackie Chan.

26
DFW TX
"Spring Snow" by Mishima

Fuckin nuts, I want to read his whole 'Sea of Fertility' series.

>>9439933
>implying these threads havent been going on for years
>being THIS new

>>9439244
What's your favorite (mine is "The River" or "Revelation")?

>>9439064
If I'm not mistaken, anon.. is a certain tongue in a certain cheek?

>21
>USA USA USA USA USA #1
>Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt

It's great. I like it better than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (though that's not to say I hated that book.)

>>9439056
24
Saskatchatoon
A Farewell to Arms

Only about a quarter of the way done right now but it's pretty decent.

>>9439056
>25
>Middle Georgia
>Barabbas
I'm really enjoying it. I've always liked stories like this where it's telling a famous story from a different point of view. Reminds me of Grendel or Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

>>9439056
19
Montana
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Like the new testament, but so much better

>>9439056
25
Canada
Re-reading 'The Killer Inside Me' by Jim Thompson, also reading Jesus' Son by Dennis Johnson and Pastoralia by George Saunders.

21
Ontario, Canada
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

29
Atlanta
Baseball: A Literary Anthology.
I'm about halfway through and I've loved every entry. Baseball has so much history and romance. Combined with the character present in players and the voices of writers, the collection has given me both deeper understanding and appreciation.

>19
>USA
>Man and His Symbols
It's stimulating.

>>9440941
Any thoughts on it so far? I've had it on my shelf for a little while but I'm also going through a few other books I wanted to read first.

>>9441229
It's great so far, I'm 1/3 in.
I'm not great at putting my thoughts in words but it really captured my attention and made my imagination become really animated while reading despite the english being really old.

If you have trouble visualizing some of the events in the story, just google them and there's tons of artistic depictions of them.

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
I'm enjoying it

>27
>Philadelphia
>Master of St. Petersburg, JM Coetzee
is good for far, only about 30 pages in though. coetzee is definitely one of the best writers.

21
Texas
The Wasp Factory

Not sure hit I feel about it. Seems very edgy

28
AZ
DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers


I hate it but at times it is extremely well written. Plan on finishing for the prose alone otherwise I may have tossed it.

>>9441367

>JSM

>22
>south Africa
>wheel of time: shadow rising
Mat is best character then perrin then rand.
>Anna Karenin
I like the characters so far but haven't gotten far enough into the story since I only read it while I'm at work.

>23
>North Florida
>Kissing the Mask (Vollmann)
Gr8 prose, but hard to remember all the hyperspecific words for Japanese concepts (even with the glossary).

>19
>France
>Infinite Jest
I really like it. Finally close to the ending, I'm hyped! Gately is being visited by a ghost, I suppose it's James Incandenza?
>Dubellay's Les Regrets
Really powerful poetry, even if it's quite repetitive.

>>9439056
>give me some demographic info I can make money from

>age
219
>location
Djibouti
>current book you're reading and how do you like it
Pounded in Djibouti By My Own Djibouti
I especially like how it handles the French portions of the original