what are you reading right now, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.21719096]

post what you’re reading right now. pic related for me, about to start my 5th dosto book, so far:

the idiot > TBK > notes > C&P

also, just finished the name of the rose. loved it.

[Anonymous No.21719106]

About to drop C&P because it lost the magic in the first part. How people cannot stop recommending this book is beyond me, read The Magic Mountain before this and it was so ahead it's not even funny. Can Dosto be saved in my eyes?

[Anonymous No.21719111]

Edgar Allan Poe collected works
Quest of the holy grail
Diary of a madman
Crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.21719112]

>>21719096
Re-reading The Republic, and I'm also wild with desire to re-read Phaedrus and Protagoras...

[Anonymous No.21719113]

>>21719096
Gerard de Nerval's selected writings. Major inspiration for Proust, Jung, and others.

[Anonymous No.21719114]

>>21719106
It's very character driven, a lot of his novels are

[Sage No.21719122]

I’m bad at starting a book and getting a few chapters in then dropping it. I plan to work on finishing stuff I start so I can reread stuff this year. Maybe I’ll cycle my books like a workout routine. For your health.

[Anonymous No.21719137]

Infinite Jest
Currently on the chapter where Gately asks Madame Psychosis if she's so smart why isn't she rich

[Anonymous No.21719158]

>>21719096
about six texts

Hugh Fitzhugh - Cannibals All!
John Calhoun - A Disquisition On Government And Constitution
Max Stirner - The Ego And Its Own
Emmanuel Swedenborg - Heaven And Hell
E.B Tylor - Primitive Culture Volume I
Johannes Friedrich - Extinct Languages

[Anonymous No.21719173]

>>21719122
good luck with that, anon. i find that reading before bedtime is not only good because it becomes a comfy ritual but also because it helps with falling asleep quicker

>>21719113
op here my fingers are not gay the picture is just at a weird angle

[Bookie !!S4Nzgj8dP3d No.21719183]

About to start the Wild Ass's Skin. Have been looking forward to it for a while and it will be my first Balzac. Anyone else read this one before? I always see him mentioned but never his works.

>>21719096
I've got to read more of Dostoevsky's novels at some point here. I've been resisting him for too long while reading virtually every other great Russian work. My favorite that I've read from him so far has been the Dead House.

[Anonymous No.21719184]

>>21719106
>filtered by Dosto
few such cases

[Anonymous No.21719190]

[Anonymous No.21719218]

Madame Bovary.
Crime and Punishment.
1984.
War and peace.

Thinking of getting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, The plague, Philosophy of right.

[Anonymous No.21719405]

>>21719184
The authors who took inspiration from him did it better, since those I have read and enjoyed more.

[Anonymous No.21719414]

Master and Commander, Shogun, and Exodus

[Anonymous No.21719420]

reading dostoyevskiy's Raw Youth right now, great example of incelcore

[Anonymous No.21719464]

>>21719096
The Landmark Julius Caesar. Going to be finishing Gallic Wars soon

[Anonymous No.21719475]

>>21719096
Philip Larkin - Collected Poems
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

[Anonymous No.21719564]

>>21719106
>How people cannot stop recommending this book is beyond me
Because it's the only book of his that plebs read.

[Anonymous No.21719616]

>>21719096
I'm reading nothing so far.

[Anonymous No.21719675]

Antifragile - Taleb
The Alienist - Machado de Assis
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Klaus Schwab
Trading in the zone - Mark Douglas

I can't read a book at a time because I get bored with one theme

[Anonymous No.21719953]

>>21719096
Infinite Jest
The Autumn of the Middle Ages

[Anonymous No.21720214]

[Anonymous No.21721447]

>>21719096
Just finished crying of lot 49. that was a great book i really enjoyed it. i want to read more pynchon. if only i can get a copy of gravity's rainbow.

Currently reading lolita and its a joy to read. wonderful wordplay. beautiful use of language. want to read more nabokov too.

next in line will be anna karenina or war and peace by tolstoy. kinda intimidated by the sheer length of it.

[Anonymous No.21721551]

>>21719096
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.21721581]

>>21719464
Just started Beckett’s Trilogy after a couple false starts too. I feel like everything I’ve read of his is interchangeable to some degree. I’m not sure if I like him or not but I find him intriguing. He’s in the Henry James category for me

[Anonymous No.21721583]

Don quixote, just finished the chapter where everyone goes through his book collection to burn stuff

[Anonymous No.21721685]

>>21719096
Nothing.

[cockler No.21721692]

>>21719096
the crying of lot 49. fun and schizzed

[Anonymous No.21721840]

>>21719106
I dropped it once early on myself and tried it again years later and loved it dearly. Each Dosto book I’ve read so far has a point where it all sort of clicks in my brain after a while, I don’t know how to describe it. I’d encourage you to press on after my experience but you gotta do you.

[Anonymous No.21721851]

>>21719218
I just finished Une Vie by Maupassant today and have a copy of Bovary, is it good so far? Should I continue my voyage through the lives of sad French housewives?

[cockler No.21721856]

>>21719106
c&p is good don’t get me wrong, but probably one of his weakest novels. it’s fun, incredibly easy to understand and follow along with. a pretty casual read; there’s really no big ideas that make you think too deeply. maybe that’s why it’s one of, if not his most popular novel.

[Anonymous No.21722797]

>>21721856
unreal

[Anonymous No.21722855]

Just finished Pedro Paramo yesterday.
And started pic related. Only about thirty pages in but pretty engaging so far.

[Anonymous No.21722946]

Reading White Noise. Just around the halfway mark. I’m in the middle of Part II (which is admittedly one chapter) but I keep getting called away by irl shit.

The writing good and there isn’t really much plot to speak of in the first 100 pgs. But I trust it’ll pay off. At the very least I do enjoy it so far.

[Anonymous No.21722952]

>>21719106
I just finished it. It was good but not as good as Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.21722959]

>Nostromo
>How Markets Fail
>Steve Jobs bio
Have gotten a lot of recommendations from BAP’s side of Twitter, will probably read Céline or Junger next. Any recommendations for a sensitive young man who wants to be man of great power?

[Anonymous No.21722994]

>>21719106
It's funny you should say this because I read both C&P as well as The Magic Mountain last year. I'm not smart enough to be a prose nerd yet so what I mostly take away from books is the story and the emotional impact it makes on me. And I dont see how C&P is in any way inferior to The Magic Mountain in either way. Oh well different strokes

[Anonymous No.21723009]

>>21719405
Name them. The ones I read as follow ups to Dosto fell short for me, because they didn't have that religious ferver which cannot be emulated and comes only from true faith. I havent read Demons and The Adolescent yet but pretty much everything else from Dosto. And all his works have at one point or another a moment of pure evangelism which no one can do quite like him.

[Anonymous No.21723040]

>>21719113
Lol this is literally a test of how high your testosterone are. The longer your ring finger compared to your pointer the higher your testosterone was in adolescence.

[Anonymous No.21723042]

>>21722994
Mann puts the whole of Europe and its culture and achievements on display mixing it between psychoanalysis and mythology, comfy scenes and scenery, relatable characters and makes it rewarding and effortless to read. He explores the extremes of mankind, the piety and asceticism and decadence and the horrors of WW1 while also showing how men can't help themselves in the face of such events, primordial instincts awaken in us leading to tragedy but also to the sublime. He just writes so well.

>>21723009
Joyce, Mann and Hesse come to mind, also Dazai. Steppenwolf, a third of the stories from the Dubliners, No Longer Human et cetera.

[Anonymous No.21723103]

I'm a promiscuous reader. Jump from book to book; partially lose interest in one book while reading and pick up another and read only as long as it kept me hooked. Kindle and the easy access to books (pirated) are to blame. Anyone guilty of this?

Books currently reading:
The Idiot
In Defense of Sanity (a collection of essays by GK Chesterton)
On the Genealogy of Morality

[cockler No.21723341]

>>21722797
what now *rolls eyes*

[Anonymous No.21723371]

>>21719096
Maybe I'm just an iqlet but it's so difficult to follow

[Anonymous No.21723423]

The hero with a thousand faces. Its a nice mythology/hero's journey study and hope it helps me as a writer.

[Anonymous No.21723563]

>>21719096
The Master and Margarita, which is surprisingly silly and cartoonish
also Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, which contains a lot of interesting stuff I didn't know (I'm a historylet)

[Anonymous No.21725060]

>>21719096
This book is so funny. A slow burn.

[Anonymous No.21725065]

>>21719096
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov right now.

[Anonymous No.21725088]

>>21719096
>pic related
Get sure it is not censored, some versions let out the one "cursed" chapter.

[Anonymous No.21725133]

I'm reading Sayaka Murata's short story collection.

[Anonymous No.21725146]

Everyone on this board reads the same 5 authors.

[Anonymous No.21725155]

Prometheus Rising
60 Stories
Lord of the Flies

[Anonymous No.21725342]

>>21725146
lmao why every teshigahara fan has to be a pseudo?

[Anonymous No.21725370]

>>21725146
I’d imagine most anons are under 20 and just getting into reading so you get the usual suspects of “beginner” books, not that they’re bad or anything. I’d bet majority of this board have read less than 50 books in their life. There aren’t as many older anons as before

[Anonymous No.21725570]

Coin Locker Babies, a recommendation from my friend's Japanese literature professor father

[Anonymous No.21725903]

>>21723563
I'm reading A Dead Man's Memoir, by Bulgakov, and it features that same playfulness.

[Anonymous No.21726040]

>>21725146
Dosto, Kafka, Joyce, Marx and Nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.21726245]

>>21719096
Horst: Like Ho Chi Minh, Like Che Guevara
hooks, All about love
DSA Marxist unity group, Marxist Strategy Reader

[Anonymous No.21726263]

>>21725146
Junger?
Evola?
Guenon?
Pound?
Celine?

[Anonymous No.21726373]

>>21719113
Just looked up this finger difference thing it of curiosity. Apparently a different length actually is associated with greater masc hormones.
And interestingly the relationahip is clearer with women, a different length more consistently relates to lesbianism, but with men the relationship is more ambigious.
>men had a more “complicated pattern.” For them, there is “no direct relationship between finger length and sexual orientation.” (Isn’t that just what a guy named “Breedlove” would say? Let’s see your fingers, pal.) But “some gay men did appear, based on their finger lengths, to have been exposed to greater than normal levels of fetal androgens before birth,” the press release continues. In other words, there might be a connection
>If there is, Breedlove says, it “calls into question all of our cultural assumptions that gay men are feminine.” Indeed, it would argue the opposite–that gay men are “hypermasculized,” i.e., they have more male hormones.

[Anonymous No.21726380]

Finished Chip War by Chris Miller a few days ago. Great read.

At the moment I'm getting through Pale Fire by Nabokov and Lifespan by David Sinclair.

Got halfway through another book about land reform called How Asia Works which I guess I could finish, but after listening to talks hosted by the author on youtube I think I get the gist. Interesting either way.

>>21719106
Yeah I remember thinking it was clunky as fuck, but it still struck a chord (I'm a sucker for redemption). I haven't read any other Dostoevsky but I've heard it's all way better.

[Anonymous No.21726423]

I've been reading Suttree by Cormac McCarthy, bout 70 some pages in right now, it's pretty great and hilarious at moments. I'm also reading The Last Detective Alive by John Swartzwelder

[Anonymous No.21726427]

>>21719113
What if my ring finger is longer than index? Either way Nerval is great. Sylvie is a short must read work and his strange orient tales are great as well. Very unique writer who doesn’t get the credit he should

[Anonymous No.21726463]

I'm rereading Khun Chang Khun Phaen translated by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. After that I might try to tackle the other giants of Thai literature.

[Anonymous No.21726518]

>>21726427
Don't know how accurate this is it sounds like pseudoscience but this article says that :
>Index fingers that are longer than ring fingers are a result of higher exposure to testosterone in the womb. Conversely, ring fingers that are longer than index fingers are a result of higher exposure to estrogen.
https://www.elitedaily.com/wellness/fingers-mental-reveal-more-know/1657829

[Anonymous No.21726553]

>>21726518
Weird. I don’t know much about testosterone but I’m a pretty boy who looks much younger than I am. Not exactly the picture of testosterone. But my sex drive is pretty good and I do well with girls. It’s all probably pseudoscience though

[Anonymous No.21726615]

Reading growth of the soil, it's pretty good. Isaks attitude towards labor is inspiring. Slow and steady wins the race seems to be the lesson here. All the women in the novel are unlikable.

[Anonymous No.21726630]

>>21726553
Well now I found another article that says the opposite, its just pseudoscience

[Anonymous No.21726667]

>>21725370
Serious books? Maybe.
Total books? Not even close.

>>21719096
Just finished volume 25 of Sword Art Online, reading volume 7 of Mob Isekai right now.

>>21726373
Men can more variably alter their levels of testosterone via body fat, exercise, and diet. It's not surprising that the relationship is unclear.

[Anonymous No.21726700]

>>21726667
>serious books
Like literary books read in free time

[Anonymous No.21726756]

Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima
I liked confessions of a mask better than im liking this one

[Anonymous No.21726884]

>>21726700
It was kind of implied in the next part of my reply.
I wouldn't consider webnovels books, nor comics. Light Novels I'm kind of on the fence, perhaps novellas rather than novels.
Then again the OP was asking for "books", not novels nor epics, so maybe I'm just focusing on the wrong thing.

[Anonymous No.21727196]

Elizabeth Bishop. I'm working my way through Complete Poems. It's tender and charming.

[Anonymous No.21727217]

>>21719112
Nice. I just read the Republic for the first time this year. Really enjoyed it and found it incredibly insightful. What drew you to it again?

[Anonymous No.21727686]

>>21719096
I’m reading nothing.

[Anonymous No.21727698]

Steinbeck’s pirate novel

[Anonymous No.21727703]

>>21719096
Look Who's Back and The Burnout Society, next are Skylark and A Christmas Carol