ITT: What are you currently reading?

[Anonymous No.11390572]

Post pictures of what book your reading

[Anonymous No.11390597]

[Anonymous No.11390610]

>>11390572
Mann's Dr. Faustus

[Anonymous No.11390629]

Just finished Rhinoceros by Ionesco, really liked it. Any more good absurdist theater, except Beckett of course?

[Anonymous No.11390633]

>>11390572
Which translation is that, OP? I recently finished Matthew Ward's translation of The Stranger and I want to check out The Plague but Ward only translated The Stranger so I don't know which translation of The Plague I should pick up.

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[Anonymous No.11390638]

>I suggest you put a veto upon their possession of arms. Make them wear tunics under their cloaks, and high boots, and tell them to teach their sons to play the zither and harp, and to start shopkeeping. If you do that, my Lord, you will soon see them turn into women instead of men, and there will not be any more danger of their rebelling against you.
I just got to the part where Cambyses btfo'd the corpse of Amasis, good stuff.

[Anonymous No.11390646]

>>11390629
Weingarten, Arrabal, some Genet I guess.

[Anonymous No.11390681]

>This much heroism and friend in one book
>You'll never have friends as true as Rüdiger and Volker
>You'll never have a woman as perfect as Kriemhild
I'll re-read it in German later, and I've read half of the Völsunga Saga for a bit of background information.

[Anonymous No.11390693]

>>11390638
I fell for the greek meme and I don't regret it. The histories are sometimes quite boring, but it is a great book.

[Anonymous No.11390696]

>>11390633
The version I have is a translation by Stuart Gilbert. It was the first English translation so it may be hard to come by. I am unaware of who wrote the translation for the copy available on Amazon.

[Anonymous No.11390702]

>>11390597
I read this last summer. Didn't really enjoy reading it but parts of it have stuck with me.

[Anonymous No.11390725]

Reading this atm, its pretty comfy

[Anonymous No.11390730]

I'm glad I didn't listen to the /pol/ memes. Adorno might have been the most intelligent person to ever exist.

[Anonymous No.11390748]

For history class

[Anonymous No.11390749]

>>11390730
Very interesting book. The Jews are godly intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.11390783]

>>11390730
That's probably his best work desu but yea, Adorno is great. His art critics are vulgar (and racist), but the rest is astounding.

[Anonymous No.11390835]

didn't realize Ulysses had such a complicated publishing history.

[Anonymous No.11390982]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

[Anonymous No.11390990]

>>11390748
Looks interesting. Is there any revisionism going on

[Anonymous No.11390994]

>>11390638
Just finished this. Like another anon said, there were some boring streaks where he explains local customs (they were interesting, just not "riveting" ) The stories he tells are great though. The story of how Indians were able to steal gold dust from giant ants by using female camels with offspring at home was memorable.

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>>11390572

[Anonymous No.11391006]

Finished the martian chronicles today
It became a favourite today

[Anonymous No.11391045]

Started this a couple of days ago and I really love it, it has some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read. I'm not that far in (just about to finish Chapter 1) because the prose was hard to get used to since most of what I read is in translation and the amount of notes. This is the first time I'm actually reading a novel outside of what was required for my schooling, all thanks to you people speaking so highly of him. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.11391048]

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[Anonymous No.11391053]

>>11390725
>dat cover

triggered

[Anonymous No.11391058]

>>11391048
top fucking kek my dude

[Anonymous No.11391061]

>>11391045
Are the notes/footnotes on the face of each page, or are they on the back?

[Anonymous No.11391093]

>>11391061
They are in the back, which can get annoying at times. The book also has selections from Stephen Hero, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, and other works of Joyce relating to A Portrait and many critical essays from scholars, like Pound.

[Anonymous No.11391100]

This is very humbling to read. I’m constantly reminded of what a pleb I am with each and every sentence. Nevertheless I’ve been learning a lot.

[Anonymous No.11391165]

>>11390696
Thanks, anon. What do you think of Stuart's translation?

[Anonymous No.11391294]

>>11391006
Bradbury is a god. I suggest the October country or Death is a lonely Business

>>11391165
It’s actually really good. Some sentences are worded weirdly but that could just be that I read too fast. I’d totally recommend it.

[Anonymous No.11391321]

>>11390730
He's quite underrated, even here. I think /lit/ will come around to realize how good he is.

[Anonymous No.11391353]

Currently thinking about reading either Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? or What We Talk About When We Talk About Love...

Which one is the best collection ?

[Anonymous No.11391385]

started Resurrection today, wanted to do The histores but after War and peace I wanted to continiue the Tolstoy streak

[Anonymous No.11391408]

went from turbo gay to pussy destroyer--interesting read, 40% in

[Anonymous No.11391484]

>>11391100
If you like that I suggest you pick up some of his other works too. He was 93 when From Dawn to Decadence was published. Several other great books preceded it, such as The House of Intellect and The Use and Abuse of Art, the themes of which you won't find unfamiliar.

[Anonymous No.11391528]

They're both pretty good

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[Anonymous No.11391556]

It's been good, it hasn't truly begun yet though.

[Anonymous No.11391584]

Maybe I was too much of a brainlet at 13 but does anyone else finds unrealistic that the kids are giving existential speeches and what not?

[Anonymous No.11391626]

>>11390638
Is there any specific translation that I should look for? Read Fagles' Iliad, Odyssey, and Oresteia but he gets meme'd on here a lot.

[Anonymous No.11391629]

>>11391528
I prefer the cover we have here in Brazil

[Anonymous No.11391631]

>>11391584
You were a brainlet at thirteen

[Anonymous No.11391636]

>>11391629
Shit now that's a cool cover

[Anonymous No.11391643]

>>11391631
Delete your comment

[Anonymous No.11391662]

>>11390730
do him a favor and don't overhype him which usually just ends up in a situation where he is misunderstood as badly as it gets. Adorno is one to ask hard questions by stating dogmas ("no poetry after Auschwitz", "it's a sin to see a purpose in world history" etc.). his philosophy is anti-systematic and the last thing on this world that would make anyone happy.

[Anonymous No.11391671]

reading on weed great or not? should i try?

[Anonymous No.11391741]

>>11391671
all who ever tried were too high to surpass the first page

[Anonymous No.11391753]

>>11391671
No, you'll take an hour to read a page, forget everything after you've read it and then go back

[Anonymous No.11391756]

eng. title is ”Vertigo”. great thus far (read a third today).

>>11390730
Adorno is very good.

[Anonymous No.11391762]

>>11391741
>>11391753
thanks, guys
i'll keep listening music then

[Anonymous No.11391819]

>>11390572
Almost done with "The Suicide of the West" by Goldberg. It was surprisingly thorough in its arguments. Goldberg gave reference to a couple dozen of other history/political history books that I've already purchased. Just started "Intellectuals and Society" by Sowell

[Anonymous No.11391837]

>>11391100
Very nice. Ive underlined the hell out of that book. If you haven't already id check out Wes Cecil's youtube lecture on Barzun, really complements this book

[Anonymous No.11391854]

>>11391819
>Goldberg

[Anonymous No.11391864]

>>11391408
Iz good. Have you read Demian?

[Anonymous No.11391869]

>>11391753
this

[Anonymous No.11391878]

anna karenina. am i wasting time?

[Anonymous No.11391886]

>>11390730
>marxist

[Anonymous No.11391892]

>>11391878
i've only just got to part two, but i think its great so far. tolstoy is outstanding

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[Anonymous No.11392012]

>>11391662
Do yourself a favor and stop worrying about happiness.

[Anonymous No.11392029]

>>11390572
I actually just picked up a copy of the Satanic bible at a local used bookstore. More out of curiosity than anything.

[Anonymous No.11392110]

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[Anonymous No.11392214]

Just about at the halfway mark. I still need to figure out some of the underlying structure and symbolism in characters and themes, especially as they may relate to pre-WWI Europe, but it's a compelling work. It's especially interesting when Mann delves into our ideas of time, perception, and knowledge.

>>11390982
Finished this a few months back. It took me a while to get into it, but it ended up well worth the time sink. How are you liking it?

>But at last Dahoum drew me: ‘Come and smell the very sweetest scent of all’, and we went into the main lodging, to the gaping window sockets of its eastern face, and there drank with open mouths of the effortless, empty, eddyless wind of the desert, throbbing past. That slow breath had been born somewhere beyond the distant Euphrates and had dragged its way across many days and nights of dead grass, to its first obstacle, the man-made walls of our broken palace. About them it seemed to fret and linger, murmuring in baby-speech. ‘This,’ they told me, ‘is the best: it has no taste.’ My Arabs were turning their backs on perfumes and luxuries to choose the things in which mankind had had no share or part.

[Anonymous No.11392274]

>>11391100
Nice shit, gonna buy it.

[Anonymous No.11392301]

>>11390725
Awful cover, fantastic book.

[Anonymous No.11392307]

>>11391584
I guess I can see what you mean but honestly I didn’t think that the chief was that smart. His philosophical speeches are just edgy and don’t really amount to any real insight.

[Anonymous No.11392321]

>>11391045
>>11391093
sounds like a great edition. Keep going, it only gets better

[Anonymous No.11392339]

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman