/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10464076]

What will be the last book you read in 2017?

[Anonymous No.10464091]

In cold blood

Kinda dry so far but I'm too far in to call it quits.

[Anonymous No.10464098]

>>10464076
War and peace

I'm reading the idiot now but I won't able to complete it by new year

[Anonymous No.10464105]

>>10464098

How are you liking it? I was considering either re-reading The Odyssey or maybe starting Anna Karenina in the new year once I'm done with Life and Fate.

[Anonymous No.10464108]

>>10464076

[Anonymous No.10464113]

>>10464108
gross

[Anonymous No.10464124]

[Anonymous No.10464129]

>>10464076
Letters From a Stoic, pretty sure I read a shit translation but meh I learned my lesson.

[Anonymous No.10464133]

Dubliners
Really enjoying it, "Araby" was my favorite so far

[Anonymous No.10464588]

>>10464076
War and war by krasnahorkai, but goddamn, Life and Fate was amazing. Lit doesn't talk about it nearly enough. The letters from Viktors mother and the note the prisoner left were on par with some of the most beautifull passages of Ulysses amd the Magic Mountain this year for me.

[Anonymous No.10464637]

is a comfy read

[Anonymous No.10464649]

>>10464588

I think all the smaller segments like the accountant, the pilots or the girl who was singing in the cart are much more memorable than the bigger arcs, it's shocking but oh so captivating. How is War and War? I'm planning on getting it next month but the synopsis reminds me too much of 2666 which I just read lately.

[Anonymous No.10464650]

>>10464076
The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.10464651]

>>10464108
yummy

[Anonymous No.10465375]

Guards! Guards!

[Anonymous No.10465388]

>>10464076
A cup full of rage. Because it’s short and I wanna cum

[Anonymous No.10465407]

>>10464076
Seneca's Dialogues and Essays. I expected a rather dull read but the Oxford translator and the subject matter(s) were great. Love it

[Anonymous No.10465415]

>>10464076
Still reading The Rainbow by DH Lawrence. Between work and parties and recovering from parties I’m probably not going to get it finished. So last one I finished will be The Riddle of the Sands

[Anonymous No.10465417]

I am probably going to finish this tomorrow. I haven't read a lot lately.

>>10464650
How do you like it? I didn't like it that much but I'm really glad I read it. I made a stupid /lit/ meme out of it lol

[Anonymous No.10465421]

why should i tell you?

[Anonymous No.10465475]

Not nearly as interesting as I was lead to believe

[Anonymous No.10465522]

>>10464076
I'll spend my New Year's Eve reading the Cloud of Unknowing most probably.

[Anonymous No.10465556]

90 pages of this garbage left.

[Anonymous No.10465802]

>>10464076
Estrella distante, Roberto Bolaño

[Anonymous No.10465815]

re-reading it

[Anonymous No.10465847]

>>10464076

[Anonymous No.10465955]

A Maze of Death by PKD

[Auz No.10466242]

Dante's Inferno

[Anonymous No.10466243]

>>10464076
Oraux X-ENS, algèbre 3

[Anonymous No.10466255]

>>10465847
Ciardi is so comfy
people keep telling me Mandelbaum and Hollander are much more accurate verse translations, but if I wanted accuracy I'd go for the singleton prose

[Anonymous No.10466390]

Myths from Mesopotamia(Gilgamesh +others), probably going to finish it up over the weekend, got it for Christmas and really enjoying adlibing the missing pieces. (Oxford translation)

>>10464108
Pizza looks good where u at?

[Anonymous No.10466416]

Ending the year with 3001: A Space Odyssey and starting the new one with the Rama novels. It was a precisely enjoyable space trip with the Odysseys so far.

[Anonymous No.10466419]

>>10465475
That's unfortunate, I have it on my shelf and was looking forward to reading it eventually.

Is it just boring or what? Honestly I'm still not sure what makes some histories interesting and others not; I just know that sometimes I spend weeks slogging through 300 pages, and other times I whip through 400+ in just a few days.

[Anonymous No.10466517]

>>10464076

Driving to have the Federalist Papers proper done by year-end (30 pages left), and/or a re-read of the Coming Insurrection for a forthcoming wiki edit (halfway thru tonight)

I figure tomorrow I'll bring Federalist home and get it knocked out. I've only been doing the body of the text but I need to do all front and back matter by my own standards before it's done. The important part will be done before 2018 though.

[Anonymous No.10466522]

>>10464076
Herodotus' History.
Shit is so cash, won't be able to finish it before 2018, though.

[Anonymous No.10466525]

>>10464651
>>10466390
Pizzanista in LA

[Anonymous No.10466534]

Fully read? Looks like Laws by Plato

[Anonymous No.10466612]

>>10466534
Dude nice, most people don't get to that, let alone knock it out. Highly recommend the cambridge critical guide to the laws (can get ISBN if you want). Like 10-12 essays, maybe 250 pages total. Very interesting and one of the only full treatments of Laws I managed to find.

[Anonymous No.10466614]

Persian Fire, I'm going to read the last two chapters today.

[Anonymous No.10466618]

The Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.10466619]

As in completed reading? This Hallowed Ground, unless I happen to finish something over the weekend.

[Anonymous No.10466656]

[Anonymous No.10466697]

>>10464076
The winter of our discontent

[Anonymous No.10466716]

>>10466656
Literally got my copy of this today, just finished a history of wwi yesterday. How are you liking Junger? I want to start either him or Remarque this weekend.

[Anonymous No.10466752]

[Anonymous No.10466759]

>>10466752
run while you can

[Anonymous No.10466774]

>>10466752
What have we here?

[Anonymous No.10466780]

>>10466612
Th-thanks /lit/...

[Anonymous No.10466788]

>>10466752
dc
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[Anonymous No.10466794]

>>10466788
Is there another DC meetup in the works? I missed the last one

[Anonymous No.10466795]

>>10466716
junger is much better. remarque spent about a month on the front

[Anonymous No.10466799]

>>10466697
made glorious summer...

[Anonymous No.10466816]

Bataille's book on Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.10467187]

[Anonymous No.10467190]

>>10464108
That looks good

[Anonymous No.10467204]

>>10464076
Tropic of cancer. Starts edgy but gets good fast. I need some depravity in my life.

[Anonymous No.10467268]

>>10464076
This series is pretty good but took me a year to get to the second book

[Anonymous No.10467286]

Hell‘s Angels by HST

[Anonymous No.10467294]

The Good Soldier Švejk

[Anonymous No.10467308]

East of eden. P good

[Anonymous No.10467398]

My first Simenon. Great so far.

[Anonymous No.10467400]

A Brief History of Seven Killings. Fun stuff, although it's not rocking my world.

[Anonymous No.10467408]

Interesting read. I would posit that J.D Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' was influenceed by this piece. The general theme of public observation is quite similar, aswell as the descent for society and social things.

[Anonymous No.10467417]

>>10464076

Demons - Dostoyevski

[Anonymous No.10467427]

I just finished Dead Souls and I probably won't finish the Iliad by New Years'.

[Anonymous No.10467431]

>>10466752
>girl btw

[Anonymous No.10467443]

Finished this one up last night

[Anonymous No.10467463]

Blood Meridian. Pretty damn good

[Anonymous No.10467472]

>>10464649
I got a shitty editions with critic's praise on the first few pages (you know what i mean), but one of them described it pretty spot on saying: imagine a dostoevsky novel with the main characters bordering on insanity, but take God out of the question entirely.
Also: every paragraph is just one long sentence, which felt like a trope for the first few pages, but it turned out to really serve the plot and general oppresive mood the book is going for.

[Anonymous No.10467476]

>>10464076

[Anonymous No.10467493]

>>10467398

It's impossible to finish his bibliography in 3 lives.

[Anonymous No.10467515]

I won’t finish anything in time, os the last one will be No Longer Human, which I’ve read for the second time this year.

[Anonymous No.10467541]

Bet I'll finish tomorrow. Quite dense for such a thin print.

Related, anyone else a semiotext(e) fanboy? Or fan girl? Or is it fan(x), now? I guess I can stick to "fan". Connotation is different though.

[Anonymous No.10467542]

Not disappointed. I've been on an Eastern binge lately. Think once I'm done I'll move over to sci-fi, have barely read any so it should be fun.

[Anonymous No.10467713]

>>10467408
Wow, I never thought about this, but it does seem like Salinger was influenced by this

[Anonymous No.10467741]

Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.10467748]

My last completed book will be The Sound and the Fury

[Anonymous No.10467750]

>>10466656
>penguin translation
Might as well make it up yourself.

[Anonymous No.10467779]

>>10464076

[Anonymous No.10467824]

An entry level book to Logic.

[Anonymous No.10467857]

Cosmopolis by DonDelillo.
I've just read White Noise and enjoyed it immensely and have been enjoying cosmopolis thus far (5/7ths of the way trough), so I'd appreciate your suggestions as how to continue the DeLillo train.

[Anonymous No.10468153]

>>10467398
>>10467493
I don’t intend to, but I might read a few more. Are there any good ones that take place in Liège?

[Anonymous No.10468200]

>>10467541
i have a semiotext(e) copy of simulations i just finished recently, they're definitely attractive
nothing special apart from that it seems

[Anonymous No.10468207]

>>10467857
underworld, considered his opus by some

[Anonymous No.10468426]

>>10466752
>The Hamlet
It's one thing picking (usually fairly obscure) lines out of Shakespeare for your novel's title, but this is just fucking lazy.

[Anonymous No.10468441]

>>10467472

I own two Krazshnahorkai novels with those exact descriptions on the inside of the cover. I feel like those are the only editions available since I know his works went out of print for a while I'm just glad there's a good demand for them before they go back out of print again.

[Anonymous No.10468444]

[Anonymous No.10468489]

>>10468200

They're attractive, and the works they choose to print are interesting. I enjoy looking through the press's website.

[Anonymous No.10468576]

https://archive.org/stream/bibliophileoffut00barz#page/n31/mode/2up
>They and the books called scholarly are taken as signs of a knowledge explosion. It is only a knowledge inflation. The knowledge which should go into a footnote of six lines is made into an article of twelve pages; and that which should go into an article of twelve pages goes into a book of three hundred.

[Anonymous No.10468707]

>>10466795
Cool, thanks; will read Junger first.

[Anonymous No.10469126]

>>10464076
D. W. Brogan's The American Character (1944). Starting it this evening.

[Anonymous No.10469151]

>>10467398
Can't go wrong, anon. Guy's amazingly consistent.

[Anonymous No.10469519]

I'll be finishing my second read of pic related tomorrow morning, and I have to say it only helped to cement my love for Heidegger - I've read few other authors that manage to understand poetry and language as much as he did. Will probably be reading his other writings on Hölderlin soon.
In the meantime, I'll pick up Bataille's La Conjuration Sacrée and probably Potocki's Manuscript Found in Saragossa, which I got on the cheap a few days ago.

>>10466816
Nice, I wanted to read it for a while - Bataille is always good, solid intelligent fun. Have you read anything else by him?

[Anonymous No.10469547]

>>10468153
no need to read simenon for that, just go there and become a murder victim!

[Anonymous No.10469613]

Siddartha by Hesse

[Anonymous No.10469971]

>>10464076
As someone trying to get into literature, I figured it would be good to see if there is any kind of intuitive love for the art I can discover in myself via osmosis from Goethe himself. At the very least it would outline for me the life of a very successful artist, which could be productive emotionally and intellectually.

Tbh the chapters before he gets into college were great but he is beginning to spend an increasing amount of time discussing and critiquing the books he's read rather than his actual life. I might not finish the rest of it.

[Anonymous No.10470003]

>>10464076
Tokio Blues, liked it, specially the seyying

[Anonymous No.10470032]

Plebusmaximus

[Anonymous No.10470042]

Made to stick.

[Anonymous No.10470121]

>>10464076
Voltaire's Micromegas. It's a good read. Literally 40 pages.

[Anonymous No.10470208]

I'm loving it so far, hope the ending doesn't screw the pooch.

[Anonymous No.10470256]

>>10470208
The epilogue is one of the best parts

[Anonymous No.10470504]

I'll finish it with a short read.

[Anonymous No.10470567]

Last thing I finished was 1984. Now I’m 250 pages in Anna Karenina, and I’m enjoying it so far: the part from the rejection of Lievin to the Waltz with Anna, Vronski and Kiti was so good

[Anonymous No.10470582]

>>10468426
Nonetheless, it's a quiet masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.10470586]

>>10466752
What’s it like being fat?

[Anonymous No.10470597]

>>10466752
The book concludes beautifully. My favorite one by him. Sadly the rest of the trilogy doesn't live up to the promise of this one.

[Anonymous No.10470616]

>>10465556
>dog ear
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.10470621]

>>10464076
He died with a felafel in his hands

Fun book

[Anonymous No.10470658]

I'm planning on finishing this tomorrow so my total books read for the year will be 26. It's a bit of a snooze, though. I suspect it's a bit of the Seinfeld effect since it's well written and efficient in the story it's trying to tell, but I feel like I've seen this story 100 times before.

[Anonymous No.10470971]

>>10468426
It's about a hamlet. Intertexts to skspr here are lesser than like any other faulkner. But you're just shitposting so who cares I guess.

Last completed book this year is Bolano's Savage Detectives (in English translation). Took me like 3 goddamned months because I kept getting distracted and reading other books; the middle sections with variable narrators were hard to penetrate, but once I let the narratives flow over me, the novel was absolutely astounding. Next up, preparing for a semester teaching

[Anonymous No.10471021]

So slow, though.

[Anonymous No.10471672]

>>10464076
Dumbing Us Down:The Hidden Curriculum in Compulsory Education by John Taylor Gatto. 10/10

[Anonymous No.10471702]

>>10465475
i dunno, i bought it this past year as i had heard it was a very good history of the 30 years war, and i had almost no real understanding of it.

it's a bit dry, but not unbearable. i enjoyed reading it

[Anonymous No.10471747]

Sokay

[Anonymous No.10471852]

>>10464108
this is a comfy pic

[Anonymous No.10471860]

Started Omensetter's Luck today. Definitely not going to finish it in time for 2018. It's pretty hard to follow.

Last book I finished was Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. It was alright. It was more useful in my final paper than it was on its own desu

[Anonymous No.10471868]

>>10464108
A+ juxtaposition

[Anonymous No.10471947]

just finished a long hard slog through the brothers karamazov and need to turn my brain off for a bit. ending 2017 with a comfy book and a comfy view :^). unfortunate choice of foreword

[Anonymous No.10471982]

The name of the rose

[Anonymous No.10472544]

>>10464076
crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.10472800]

the wind up bird chronicle probably

[Anonymous No.10473873]

>>10467541
surprising that a semiotext(e) fan would labor over gender rather than the actual material.

[Anonymous No.10473877]

>>10464076
Doctor Faustus
I'm looking forward to shitpost about it in 2018

[Anonymous No.10473891]

>>10467541
>fan(x)
that would be read as "fan of x" by people who've gone through high school maths
the essjew convention is just wordx, like in latinx

[Anonymous No.10473931]

Fahrenheit-451

[Anonymous No.10474179]

Great read so far, although depressing.

[Anonymous No.10474268]

>>10464091
it's good, power through it

[Anonymous No.10474273]

Homage to Catalonia will be the last book finished.

I'm through Part 1 of Life & Fate right now. Holy shit, so good.

[Anonymous No.10475266]

The last thing I've read in 2017 was "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"

[Anonymous No.10476318]

100 years of solitude and I couldn't. Be happier

[Anonymous No.10476327]

>>10475266
Such a driveling pseudo academic novel. poor connection between the stories (even worse than Meme Atlas) and Calvino hardly makes you want to be a part of the story

[Anonymous No.10476694]

>>10476327
Terrible, never post on /lit/ again, "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" is an amazing book.

[Anonymous No.10476699]

>>10466752
lol

[Anonymous No.10476705]

Loved it. I think Natsume Sōseki will always remain my favorite Japanese author.

[Anonymous No.10476786]

Finished it a few hours before midnight. It was all right.

[Anonymous No.10477081]

I finished Waverley on the Chevalier‘s birthday. I’ll probably read Ivanhoe sometime in 2018.

[Anonymous No.10477097]

>Stoner.
Can you guys please stop hyping up books.
Every time I follow one of your suggestions they end up being less than what expected
(and it is not because I value your guys' judgement so highly that anything below paramount literature is expected, trust me that is definitely not it; the novels just turn out to be underwhelming.)
I would take any of Herrmann Hesse's "self-help" novels over Stoner.

[Anonymous No.10478008]

>>10464076
"If the War Goes On: Reflections on War and Politics" by Hermann Hesse

[Anonymous No.10478086]

>>10473873

More over appealing to everyone while playing with a question of connotation. It's a semantics thing. Inclusion is an aim with the goal of an answer rather than a moral question.

I'm surprised you responded picking at my lexicalplay rather than addressing the text at hand. Motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.10478093]

>>10473891

Balls. Thanx.

High school maths was 10 years ago. As I'm gearing up for the GRE... perhaps a bit of review is in order...

[Anonymous No.10478884]

>>10464076
Killers of the flower moon

It was eye opening and interesting