/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10961413]

What are you currently reading /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10961421]

>>10961413
Sidarta by Herman Hesse is the one I am reading the most

[Anonymous No.10961424]

>>10961413
there's already a thread for that.
Also you could specify what you are reading as well

[Anonymous No.10961446]

>>10961424
Im currently reading:
-Foundation by Asimov
-Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.10961608]

Skinny Legs and All
- Tom Robbins
All Fine Nonsense
- Jess Starkey

[Anonymous No.10961617]

>>10961608
Nice very revolutionary reads anon

[Anonymous No.10961621]

>>10961413
(You)

[Anonymous No.10961622]

Violence and the Sacred by Girard is my "main" book at the moment, on the side I try to read at least a couple of short stories and some Futurist manifestoes (got a collected edition) every day.

[Anonymous No.10961629]

Dubliners

[Anonymous No.10961639]

The Growth Of Soil by Nut Hamson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzche
The Zhuangzi

[Anonymous No.10961650]

Sustainable Energy- Without the Hot Air

Moby Dick

Various short-stories derived from The Night Land.

[Anonymous No.10961808]

>>10961622
I'm also reading Violence and the Sacred. Though, that's my side book and War and Peace is my main book. How far are you? I just got to the Dionysus chapter yesterday. Girard's ideas are pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.10961833]

>>10961622
>>10961808
Not that anon, I'm only about 100 pages in but its been worth the effort thus far. A pleasant surprise, I was expecting to burn out quickly with the psychologized semiotic anth logic

[Anonymous No.10961840]

I'm reading The Vicar of Wakefield for a class. It's incredibly contrived.

[Anonymous No.10961849]

>>10961808
>>10961833
Eh, I've read it for just a couple of days - I'm around page 70, and as of now it's been great. His ideas on sacrifice are some of the most potentially "vital" concepts I've come across in a while. Can't wait to get further into it.

[Anonymous No.10961857]

>>10961650
I'm reading Moby Dick too after hearing so much about it; what do you think about it so far?

[Anonymous No.10961865]

Faerie Queene, Stoner, Nicomachean Ethics.

[Anonymous No.10961883]

>>10961857
Moby Dick is entertaining, I only started to read it, I love the character ans setting.,

Also I like people that volunteer to murder whales even knowing they wo't get paid anything and work so, so hard. Only to kill whales for a mad-man.

Like, "OH BOY, GUESS I"M GONNA FUCKING DIE BROKE" cause Ahab ... ah, read the book yourself. Evryone in absolute misery decided to go hunt that fucking whale Ahab wanted to hunt. Real sad.

[Anonymous No.10961891]

Just started The Story of the Stone (AKA Dream of the Red Chamber) earlier today.

[Anonymous No.10961897]

>>10961865
How's the Faerie Queene? I'm in a class on pastoral poetry right now, and we're currently making our way through The Shepherd's Calendar. I'm really enjoying it, and I've always wanted to read Spenser. Looking forward to tackling his big work over the summer.

[Anonymous No.10961899]

>>10961883
One of my friends is a MASSIVE Melville fan, and when a mutual acquaintance called Moby-Dick "boring," my friend exploded, "THERE'S NOT A SINGLE BORING SENTENCE IN THE ENTIRE BOOK!!"

[Anonymous No.10961905]

>>10961897
The good parts of the Faerie Queene are excellent, but a lot of it is dry, dull, and obscure.

Definitely worth reading, but virtually no one is upset that Spenser never finished it.

[Anonymous No.10961906]

>>10961413
The illiad
Lenin
Che
Lacan
Seneca

[Anonymous No.10961939]

just finished
>Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis lectures
currently reading
>Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
(saw that one here, really having a blast with it, I picked it up because we are doing a closed reading on the waste land, but damn does it make Persona 5 more enjoyable)
>will read tomorrow
Webster's White Devil
>for next week
Baudrillard_The_consumer_society.pdf

[Anonymous No.10962002]

>>10961906
Wow super edgy

[Anonymous No.10962069]

short stories by Felisberto Hernandez
l don't like it so far desu

[Anonymous No.10962090]

>>10961413
Canterbury Tales
Taking forever because the style is exhausting to read.

[Anonymous No.10962098]

>>10961857
>after hearing so much about it
What a silly reason to pick up a book. You should have started to read it because it's one of the best books in the English language.

[Anonymous No.10962102]

>>10961899
You're friend is entirely justified

>>10962002
There's nothing edgy about those...

[Anonymous No.10962173]

Just finished "The New Human Rights Movement" by Peter Joseph. Very mixed feelings on it. Used to be a big Peter Joseph fan but after this book, I really don't know. Yes the world and the current system is filled with problems. He has a very leftist way at looking at the world, blaming most of the worlds problems on the "White man". Reading it, I sometime felt like I was getting lectured by typical SJWs on racism etc.

Also
>Poverty=Crime
>Poverty=Lower IQ
etc.
I really couldn't take him seriously after reading stuff like this.

I just started Benjamin Button, really needed some fiction after all the headache that Peter Joseph inflicted on me.

[Anonymous No.10962307]

Less Than Zero - BEE
The Pale King - DFW
also been trying to knock off one book of the Iliad every day, but have skipped the past few.

[Anonymous No.10962353]

2/3 through Blood Meridian. Then I'll either start Brothers Karamazov or Storm of Steel.

[Anonymous No.10962381]

>>10962173
>>Poverty=Crime
>>Poverty=Lower IQ
But that's true...

[Anonymous No.10962404]

iliad

[Anonymous No.10962513]

>>10961897
yeah its dense, and there's a bit of joking going on but it's not necessarily funny

[Anonymous No.10962580]

>>10962381
Not when you live in the first world, then that's not true, but he kept arguing that it is true even in the West.

The real truth is that in the West: Crime=Poverty and Lower IQ=Poverty. NOT vice-versa.

[Duke Of Indie Rock No.10962586]

To The Lighthouse and I am pretty much disliking it so far

[Anonymous No.10962592]

>>10962580
you don't understand mathematical logic and neither does the anon you're replying to

[Anonymous No.10962598]

>>10962592
we haven't even established what algebra we're working in you pleb

[Anonymous No.10962611]

>finished
Snow Crash - Stephenson, great atmosphere and bold start that piddles way into nothing in the end. Still love Cyber-punk and the Metaverse, enjoyed the Sumerian history but yeah.
>now
V - Pynchon, few pages in looking forward to just having a read and not trying to get too caught up in the Pynchon meme. I liked Lot 49.
>next
The Ticket that Exploded - Burroughs, been a while since I got around to him and I wanted to follow a few ideas in his books.

[Anonymous No.10962637]

>>10961421
stop it is for edgy teens

[Anonymous No.10962778]

>>10961413
Finished
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

Currently reading
>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
>Corpus Hermeticum
>Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann

[Anonymous No.10962838]

>>10962580
You're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.10962841]

>>10962611
Snow Crash is straight garbage and you should kill yourself for enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.10962853]

>>10961413
Someone post the REAL image to lead OP in the right direction. Stirner is at the top.

[Anonymous No.10962863]

the sayings of the desert fathers

just finished waiting for godot

[Anonymous No.10962884]

Lolita.

[Anonymous No.10962890]

>>10962884
Get off the edge NOW!!

[Anonymous No.10962914]

>Tolstoy
>Pynchon
>Peterson
>Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.10962916]

>>10962838
Yes, you are actually right. Because I once only had 1 dollar in my pocket and I was very hungry. But I didn't steal, I didn't fight. I worked hard, and made a plan for myself. I wasn't born rich, my mom and I were poor when I was a kid. What I really should have done was to steal, but I didn't because I'm an idiot. I have impulse control, unlike most poor low IQ monkeys who create havoc in this world.

You fucking degenerate scum! Blaming all of your misfortunes on other people.

Peter Joseph is cherry picking his facts the whole time. Funny how he praised Swedens "Low-crime" rate as a result of equality, when 3 years after the release of his book, Sweden now is the rape capital of Europe and murders have gone thru the roof.

He never once brought up Culture or IQ. Blaming everything on the White man and poverty, are you fucking kidding me? HAHAHAHA.

[Anonymous No.10962958]

>>10962916
Oh sweet, some fresh pasta. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.10962967]

histories and alice's adventures in wonderland

[Anonymous No.10962971]

>>10962916

[Anonymous No.10962973]

Devils by Dostoyevsky

It's been extremely entertaining, I don't want it to end.

[Anonymous No.10962985]

>>10961413
>books give you a better perspective
There's no such thing as a better or worse perspective; there are only different perspectives. I hope whoever wrote that doesn't call themselves a democrat.

[Anonymous No.10962992]

>>10962985
A more well informed perspective is inherently superior to one uninformed perspective.

[Anonymous No.10963001]

>>10962992
Is knowing you're going to die soon superior to being completely unaware?

[Anonymous No.10963014]

>>10961413
the moon is a harsh mistress. I'm gonna follow it up with the prince, and then finish reading dune messiah(stopped towards the beginning because I lost interest).

[Anonymous No.10963137]

>>10963014
Sorry to hear anon. You can do it I believe in you.

[Anonymous No.10963158]

Finished The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
In the middle of Gulag Archipelago

[Anonymous No.10963187]

>>10961413
I have to read Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing.

[Anonymous No.10963193]

>>10963014
I got bored of Dune 2: Hyperdune as well.

[Anonymous No.10963206]

>>10962971
WTF?

[Anonymous No.10963486]

Main squeeze: war and peace
Side hoes: couple of Mark Fisher's, Ordinary Men, Focault - Madness and Civilization, Mark Twain short story collection.

[Anonymous No.10963488]

Finished last night. Was amazing.

[Anonymous No.10963529]

Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams
Yeats is a fucking madman holy shit

[Anonymous No.10963535]

>>10963488
finishing in 30 minutes...nice

[Anonymous No.10963547]

I'm about 80 pages into catch 22. It has been a very long time since I laughed aloud to a book.


Thanks /lit/ for the rec.

[Anonymous No.10963564]

>Volume 9 of F(r)iction
Just about done; enjoyed it overall.
>Volume 00 of Vestiges
It's solid, but given that it's just the initial volume (from 2015), you can tell they're figuring out where to go from there.
>Great Gatsby
Re-reading, since it's been years
>Postcapitalism by Robert Mason
About 100 pages in. I didn't expect it would be this dry and rambling. Seems like he's still laying down preamble to a point that (I assume) will eventually come. I'll be disappointed if it turns out to be just an amped-up version of babby's first dissection of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.10963585]

Just finished The Laws, gonna be reading The Timaeus tomorrow in its entirety (or at least try to)

[Anonymous No.10963648]

>>10963535

you mean 14.5 hours ago

[Anonymous No.10963660]

-Bhagavad Gita
-Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.10963668]

>>10961413
Thor: God of Thunder Vol. 2: Godbomb

[Anonymous No.10963741]

>>10962173
You might find this hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWctkxnEO5E

Jones was butthurt that he wasn't the only conspiracy film maker in town and they pulled a bunch of dirty tricks on him during the interview (like fucking around with the bumper music).

Truly AJ at his most insecure

[Anonymous No.10963754]

>>10963660
wow you’re really smart, reading one part of the hindu epic and then a propaganda book of speech material recycled by ghost writers. what a brain you have

[Anonymous No.10963766]

>>10962002
why

[Anonymous No.10964002]

Finally made it past the preface yesterday

[Anonymous No.10964662]

Meddlers in Time, had it recommended to me by a friend

[Anonymous No.10964954]

>>10963741
I saw that when it got release many, many years ago. Very funny. I'm telling you, I used to be a big Peter Joseph fan. I agree with him that the system is flawed, big time. What I seriously disagree with him on is his proposed solutions and him blaming "whites" on all the worlds problems regarding inequality etc.

[Anonymous No.10965068]

>>10962778
>>10963486
>>10963564
Do you find that reading more than one book at a time is better or worse for your understanding?

[Anonymous No.10965373]

>>10962914
***Poseur definitely a poseur***

[Anonymous No.10965419]

I'm reading interpretation of dreams by Freud and Jew Diary of Anne Frank.

Justin finished the UnaBomber Manifesto and "Crime and punishment" the day before yesterday.

[Anonymous No.10966077]

>>10961413
Pride and prejudice