/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10715399]

What books have you finished so far this year?

>LOTR
>Dune
>Kafka on the Shore
>The Gunslinger

I'm trying to stop reading books halfway through and losing interest, regardless of how much they suck

[Time for a Circle Jerk No.10715426]

Discourses, Enchiridion of Epictetus
Meditations on First Philosophy
Parerga and Paralipomena
Crowds and Power

[Anonymous No.10715459]

>>10715426
What did you think of Crowds and Power? Sounds preddy gud

[Anonymous No.10715676]

The Stranger, Crime and Punishment, Heartbreak House

[Anonymous No.10715697]

Women by Bukowski
Now halfway Pimp, by Iceman Slim

Yeah, im in that phase.

Gotta continue with some Carver or Vollmann.

[Anonymous No.10715713]

Novels:
>Coming Up for Air
>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>The Man in the High Castle
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Frankenstein (the 1818 text)
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The House on the Borderland
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Novellas:
>Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
>Mathilda

[Anonymous No.10715877]

> Notes from Underground
> C&P
> The Stranger
> Lolita
> Bhagavad Gita

[Anonymous No.10715887]

>>10715399
>nothing
Im reading like 2 longish ones and a 300-page one at once so

[Anonymous No.10715899]

>All 3 stormlight archive books
>gunslinger
>48 laws of power
>Mastery
>the prince

Im on a weird streak rn just leave me be

[Anonymous No.10715909]

>Demons -- Dostoevsky
>Notes from Underground -- Dostoevsky
>Why Believe -- Bernard Wills

[Anonymous No.10716126]

>The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne - started last year but only finished at the beginning of this year
>Brave New World
>The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
>1984
>Infinite Jest
>Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilisation by Stephen Cave
>The Three Body Problem

[Anonymous No.10716130]

>Hyperion
>Wuthering Heights
>Ruth Hall
>Idyll's of the King
>A New England Tale

[Anonymous No.10716137]

>>10715399
Psychology and the Occult by C.G. Jung
Young Carl Jung by Robert W. Brockway
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
The Hymns of Hermes: Ecstatic Songs of Gnosis by G.R.S. Mead
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes and the Kybalion: Two Classic Books on Hermetic Philosophy by Hermes Trismegistus and The Three Initiates
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
A Primer of Jungian Psychology by Calvin S. Hall and Vernon J. Nordby

[Anonymous No.10716162]

>>10716137
damn, so you're kind of a rw pleb huh?

[Anonymous No.10716182]

>>10715459
It's a bit of a slog, his writing style is somewhat repetitive. I read it at work over the course of a month and a half. Don't expect a lot of citation, either, he makes assertions like a psychologist. Many ideas of his got my noggin joggin, though, and his discussion of the Schreber case is pretty insightful and original in that he doesn't resort to seating the paranoia in some kind of sexual repression. I thinks his system is a well made one because otherwise he wouldn't be able to go on at such length without contradicting himself, though he does do that, e.g. in his explanation of "crowd crystals."

Definitely worth the read, though.

[Anonymous No.10716186]

>>10715399
>I'm trying to stop reading books halfway through and losing interest, regardless of how much they suck
why?

[Anonymous No.10716197]

>>10716162
What gives that impression? Mishima?

[Anonymous No.10716202]

>>10715877
What edition of the Bhagavad Gita did you read? What were your thoughts on it?

[Anonymous No.10716214]

>>10715713
Thoughts on Dorian Gray?

[Anonymous No.10716223]

>>10716162
I don't think Hermeticism, Japanese lit, or Jungian Psychology has anything to do with the right-wing. I'm not into Memerson and neither Mishima book had anything to do with nationalism.

[Anonymous No.10716237]

none

[Anonymous No.10716536]

>>10716237
Get on it

Catcher in the Rye
War of Art
Dictator's Handbook

Currently reading The Castle

[Anonymous No.10716559]

Dune #2
The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Hard to be a God
2010: Oddessy Two
The Shadow over Innsmouth

[Anonymous No.10716562]

1984 again while waiting for boks to arrive
The Ego and Its Own

3/4 way through Swann's Way but the translation was made by a WOMAN

[Anonymous No.10716566]

House of the Dead
Snow Country

Wagecucking is a bitch

[Anonymous No.10716586]

Plato - Statesman
Jean-Jeacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Apollonius - On Conics Books I - IV

I'm going to be finishing two very soon. I'll finish Rousseau's Emile tomorrow and On Conics book V - VII sometime next week. These are exciting times to be in.

I'll be reading Alexander Hamilton's (or Plurbius') Federalist Papers starting at the beginning of next week, and by next weekend I'll be neckdeep in Arabic with reading the reconstructed Book VIII of On Conics by Ibn Al-Haytham.

[Anonymous No.10716589]

Right now I'm reading a couple of shorter novels, so I'm gonna catch up.

[Anonymous No.10716647]

Being reading some of the remaining nudune:
*Paul of Dune (Parts II, IV)
*Wedding Silk
*Paul of Dune (Part VI)
*The Winds of Dune (Part II)
*Whisper of Caladan Seas

Now rereading original Dune. Damn, what a contrast. But still like nudune stuff.

[Anonymous No.10716748]

>>10715399
Herodotos
How to read a book
Catcher in the rye
Heart of darkness
Symposium

[Anonymous No.10716751]

>>10715877
You read all this as of 2018?
Sheet nigga

[Anonymous No.10716763]

>>10715399
>Tropic of Cancer
>Satantango
>No longer human
>Whatever
>The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
>roadside picnic
>the bell jar

currently finishing the melancholy of resistance and a mishima short story collection. And starting with robert walser's der räuber,

[Anonymous No.10716796]

>>10716763
What are your thoughts on Satanango and Melancholy of Resistance? Would you recommend one over the other?

[Anonymous No.10716806]

Notes from underground
The art of war
The gulag archipelago
The prince
Fear and Trembling
Man, the state, and War
The Abolition of Man

Now half way through Marcus Aurelius's meditations

[Anonymous No.10716809]

>>10716223
Read runaway horses

[Anonymous No.10716975]

Kafka circa 60 short stories
Steppenwolf
Hamlet
Adolescent
3 Edgar Allan Poe stories
Le Petit Prince

[Anonymous No.10716980]

brrap meridian
moby brap

[Anonymous No.10717002]

>Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
>The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
>The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
>Don Quixote - Cervantes
>Stoner - John Williams

[Anonymous No.10717012]

>Antifragile, Nicholas Nassim Taleb
>Iron Ambition, Mike Tyson
>The Story of My Life, Giacomo Casanova

[Anonymous No.10717015]

Mysteries, Hamsun
Shyness and Dignity, Solstad

[Anonymous No.10717017]

Memeing Edge
Infinite Keks

[Anonymous No.10717038]

Uno, nessuno e centomila - Pirandello
Siddhartha - Hesse
on truth and lies in a nonmoral sense - Nietzsche
The gay science - Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.10717115]

Fiction is for plebs

[Anonymous No.10717256]

>>10716796
I read satantango in about 3 days
melancholy of resistance took me almost 3 weeks it has a lot of passages that just go on and on and on and on. I found satantango easier to digest, and I also liked it better. The pictures it painted in my mind were more vivid than in melancholy. Also the ending of satantango is GOAT

[Anonymous No.10717346]

The Quantum World - New Scientist
Gods and Fighting Men - Lady Gregory
The Book of Jubilees
The Letter of Aristeas

[Anonymous No.10717842]

>>10717115
reading pop science with a shitty sense of superiority is more pleb than reading fiction

As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Inherent Vice
Silence (Enzo)
The Castle
Foundation
Metamorphoses
Catch-22

[Anonymous No.10717868]

>>10715399
Almost done with the Bible

[Anonymous No.10717919]

>Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union by Chuck Tingle
>Nevada by Imogen Binnie
>Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano
>Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, by Philip K. Dick
>The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook

[Anonymous No.10718209]

>>10716214
Excellent. Although the chapter where Dorian describes all of his treasures was a slog. If you cut out that chapter it would be a nearly flawless novel.

[Anonymous No.10718238]

>Culture of Critique
>White Identity
>The sun also rises
>>10717015
Both GOAT tier imho.

[Anonymous No.10718267]

>>10717919
>>Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union by Chuck Tingle
Review it.

[Anonymous No.10718278]

>>10717115
>Richard Dawkins
gtfo of here with that shit.

The Stephen Hawking book looks cool though, I have that one myself.

[Anonymous No.10718285]

>>10717868
Did you read it all the way through?

[Anonymous No.10718306]

>>10718267
Aside from a few typos, I have no complaints. It was amusing and silly. NGL I did get a boner during the sex scene.

[Anonymous No.10718389]

>>10717115
>Richard Dawkins
HAHAHAHAHAHA! You pretentious pop science fanboys are insufferable. You're almost as annoying as the Harry Potter fangirls who think J.K. Rowling deserves to be canonized.

[Anonymous No.10718425]

>>10717115

[Anonymous No.10718497]

>>10715399
>Some Platonic dialogues
>Outer Dark
>Paradise Lost
>currently reading Nostromo

[Anonymous No.10718523]

The Door
Concluding
The Human Stain
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Mindhunter
Fooled by Randomness

All of them have been pretty good so far. I was pleasantly surprised by Concluding since I knew nothing about Henry Green going into it. The Human Stain is became my second favorite Roth novel, after American Pastoral.

Started The Seven Madmen last night.

[Anonymous No.10718669]

>>10715713
>Gordon Pym

Love that book.

This is what I managed to read so far:

Dirty Snow (Simenon)
Fouché (Zweig)
A supposedly fun thing... (DFW)
Aura (Fuentes)
Mimmoun (Chirbes)
Campo de sangre (Aub)
Las niñas prodigio (Urraca)

[Anonymous No.10718885]

>>10718278
>>10718389
Is there a bigger give away of memelord pseuds than blindly attacking anything Dawkins?

[Anonymous No.10718904]

>the Sun Also Rises
>Frankenstein
>The Iliad
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Anonymous No.10718936]

>>10718885
I just don't like Evolutionary Biology.

I really enjoy physics though, so I do have that Hawking book.

[Anonymous No.10718978]

oh boy,

between the acts V. Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Dogen essential writings (kind of shit, but it's the only thing translated in Bulgarian by him)
a paperback on Dao I picked at a rail station and read on the ride
a book with feminist essays (Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva and others)
The Poetics of Space by Bachelard (I've read it for a second time)
"Contemporary women" a Bulgarian short story collection from the 1943 by Alexandra Voinikova
Rimbaud's collected verse. I've been mainly rereading a season in hell
Critique of Judgment for a second time

I also read a lot of Schiller's works on aesthetics and a lot of paper on terrorism and experimental music.

and that's that, I don't think I'm forgetting something

I'm now reading The Range of Interpretation by Iser.

[Anonymous No.10719000]

>>10715399
>Notes From the Underground
>Pnin
>dropped Simulatipn and Simulacra because it was 2much4me
Currently reading the B&N Essential Dialogues of Plato.

[Anonymous No.10720529]

>2666
>conspiracy against the human race
>the invisible man (wells)
>how to win an argument
>bamham year one
Got a lot more to read though, goal is 50 books which is easy but never know what might happen

[Anonymous No.10722694]

>>10715399
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Kafka - The Castle
Tolkien - The Hobbit, Fellowship, The Two Towers
The Iliad
Augustine - Confessions

[Anonymous No.10722878]

>>10715399
>Inferno
>Mere Christianity
>Christianity and Culture

I feel like I'm a very slow reader

[Anonymous No.10723030]

>>10722878
Slow, or non-committal? If you only read 30 minutes a day of course you'll never amount to anything substantial. I'm also a slow reader by my estimation but as long as I read 2-3 hours at least 6 days a week, I can plough through a good many books.

[Anonymous No.10723042]

>>10716202
I'm Hindu, so I've read it in Hindi as well as English. The Hindi version was a much better experience, I read the ISKCON English version though and it was fine.

[Anonymous No.10723049]

>>10716751
Yeah, though I started Lolita just a week before 2018 but finished it after the year started.

[Anonymous No.10723086]

Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall
Dan Brown - Origin

[Anonymous No.10723157]

FUCK

I'm almost done with one RN, I'll add to it tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.10723297]

The Knight
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Stranger
Lolita
The Great Gatsby

Lolita actually blew me away, had no idea what I was in for.

[Anonymous No.10723310]

Open by Andre Agassi
The Joke by Milan Kundera

[Anonymous No.10723315]

>>10716647
Don't read nudune lmao why would you do this

[Anonymous No.10723327]

Not too many yet. I've been busy working but am making a concerted effort to read more than I play vidya and shitpost.

So far I've only gotten through:

- Red Sun/Sudeep Chakravarti
- Unaccustomed Earth/Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Namesake/Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Classic Horro Stories/Lovecraft

Recent purchases include pic related. I also have a couple other books in the mail.

Haven't read any of the Russian classics yet. I'm a bit excited and slightly apprehensive with Dostoevsky -- I skimmed the first few pages and the writing seemed alright, but I sometimes have a difficult time getting into 19th century literature (I'm sure that's a terrible thing to say on PseudCentral).

[Anonymous No.10723336]

As of 2018, I've read:
Wizard of Earthsea
The Sun Also Rises
The Road
Lolita
Sword and Citadel
The Goblin Emperor

Honestly, every one of these has been a homerun in different ways. Highly recommend

[Anonymous No.10723433]

Plato's Symposium
Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Albert Camus' The Stranger
George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London

What would anons recommend I read next?

[Anonymous No.10723440]

>>10715399
more moebius artwork please

[Anonymous No.10723580]

On the road
Naked lunch
Catch 22
Siddhartha

Currently reading confederacy of dunces

[Anonymous No.10723599]

>>10715399
>I'm trying to stop reading books halfway through and losing interest, regardless of how much they suck
That’s stupid. If they suck why waste more time?

[Anonymous No.10723612]

>>10723599
To build discipline for the times your lazy mind wants to stop even though it does pay off to finish the book.
Brainlet.

[Anonymous No.10723617]

Voices from Stalingrad
Last Empire
Forgotten Soldier

Currently reading The White War: Italian Front 1915-1919.

[Anonymous No.10723663]

>>10715399
Just Don't Quixote. I'm a slow reader. About half way through Myths from Mesopotamia right now.

[Anonymous No.10723681]

War and War
Underworld (technically started it last year)
The Melancholy of Resistance
Currently reading Europe Central right now, and am not far enough in to really have an opinion on it.

[Anonymous No.10724781]

>>10715399
Submission, White Noise, The Man in the High Castle, some short German works.

[Anonymous No.10726047]

6 of the Witcher Books on Tower of Swallows
Kingkiller Series (first two)
Super Sales on Super Heroes (both books)
The Devil you Know
First two of the Ender Quartet

[Anonymous No.10726088]

Moby Dick.
I've gotten slower at reading instead of faster. I feel lied to.

[Anonymous No.10726866]

The Book of the New Sun
Last Chance to See
Hyperion
Axiomatic

[Anonymous No.10726990]

Only Dubliners. Pretty shit display but I've been familiarising myself with a lot of technical reading, could probably do with a break desu.

Next will be Narcissus and Goldmund

[Anonymous No.10727327]

Hyperion
Westmoreland's memoirs
Death's End
Count to Infinity
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Prince
Accelerando
Complete Poems - John Keats