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Hey /lit/. What are you currently reading?

>> No.11715879
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>>11715871
Early Work by Andrew Martin

>> No.11715890

Your diary desu

>> No.11715918
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11715918

take a guess

>> No.11715954

>>11715918
.............. No thank you. I'd prefer a straightforward answer that isn't designed to just give you (You)s.

>> No.11715963
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>>11715890
But... I ate that so none could ever discover my secrets during awkward puberty times. How on earth did you get your hands on it!?

>> No.11715974
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>>11715954
well here's yours

>> No.11716007
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>>11715974
No, I tend to stay home for a reason. Better than desperately setting up situations to make people pay attention to me due to lack of personality.

>> No.11716030
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Mostly Evola

>> No.11716059

>>11715871
I feel sorry for you. The funniest thing about that book is the title.

>> No.11716094

The Plague by camus

>> No.11716097

>>11716059
Don't feel sorry for me. I enjoy having good taste.

>> No.11716238
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Les Miserables

>> No.11716326

Sutree and Ubik

>> No.11717111
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>>11715871
Fuck me, this book is too much relatable to 4chan and it's users...

>> No.11717116

>>11715871
Almost done with The turn of the screw.

>> No.11717329
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I haven't read anything fictional in a while, so I wanted something relatively easy and Murakami has never done me wrong in that regard. He gets a lot of hate on this board, but he's fine for what he is.

>> No.11717338
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Les liaisons dangereuses by Chordelos de Laclos

>> No.11717347

>>11717111
I made a post about it a few weeks ago. Didn't like it.

>> No.11717351

>>11715871
'The Long Song' by Andrea Levy

>> No.11717453

>>11717329
Basic bitch literature

>> No.11717640

Cancer Ward

>> No.11718131

Tim Lott's White City Blue

>>11716007
>I tend to stay home for a reason. Better than desperately setting up situations to make people pay attention to me due to lack of personality.
Ignatius?

>>11717111
In what way?

>>11717329
I'm thinking of reading Wind Up Bird Chronicle next. I have heard it and Hard Boiled are Murakami's best works. Can you attest to this?

>> No.11718287

>>11715871
2001

>> No.11718291

>>11717111
>tusquets
Lo recomiendas?

>> No.11718427

>>11718291
Si, pero aun no lo acabe (pág ~100)

>> No.11718522
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>>11718131
Absolute nonsense. I must ask for such slanderous accusations of my character to immediately cease, lest my valve should risk being closed indefinitely.

>> No.11718540

>>11715871
crying of lot 49
the play they see was hilarious

>> No.11718613

Rudin

>> No.11718621
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A collection of novels from Knut Hamsun and the critique of the power of judgement

>> No.11718695
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I’m enjoying the shit out of this

>> No.11718750

>>11718131
Wind Up and Hard Boiled are the only books of his that I've read. I read Wind Up about 10 years ago so I can't wholly attest to a lot of the specifics of the plot, but I remember it being very good.

>> No.11718763

>>11718522
Go jerk off to thoughts of your dog, weirdo

>>11718750
Good to hear. You should read Norwegian Wood and if you like that, read Men Without Women and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

>> No.11718774

Thus Spoke Zarathustra for the second time

>> No.11718778
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>>11717111
I like this book, but it is very un-4chan.

I am reading Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff, endorsed by PYNCHON. It's so fun so far. Very eccentric, like a PKD novel crafted towards a broader intent.

>> No.11718808
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The last 20 pages of Anna Karenina. At the moment it looks like the "part 8" is just full of useless philosophical bullshit and that makes me a little sad.

>> No.11719081

omoo

>> No.11719276

>>11718131
You really only need to read wind up bird. It's his best book, and if you read more than one you'll realize hes a hack.

>> No.11719292

>>11719276
WIndup Bird + Norwegian Wood is not a bad slice of Murukami, if you're just gonna walk away after thinking you've glimpsed the big pic.

>> No.11719368
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It’s funny but I don’t know if it’s going to be 600 pages worth of funny

>> No.11719792

>>11715918
Essays by D.F.W.?

>> No.11719798
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>>11715871
This excellent translation from 1912.

>> No.11720035
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>>11715871
Catch 22. I'm starting to read "seriously" so I don't really know what to make of it. Some sections are really funny, but also war is bad? I feel bad knowing I'm probably not extracting even half of what the book has to offer but I don't want to check sparknotes to understand every book I read.

>> No.11720098

>>11717338
Based

>> No.11720658

>>11720035
why are you polluting you mind with jewish propaganda?

>> No.11720666
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fathers and sons by turgenev

>> No.11720672

>>11720035
hey listen man, don't give up. Keep at it. Eventually when you read enough you'll start to pick up on things academics talk about on your own. It'll make intuitive sense.

But whatever you do don't give up

>> No.11720674

>>11718131
Not him but I've read every Murakami novel (tremendous waste of time by the way) and Wind-Up Bird is a step above everything else he's written. Hard Boiled Wonderland, Dance Dance Dance and 1Q84 are the others I really liked, although Dance Dance Dance is best if read after the other three Rat novels

>> No.11720681

>>11716030
cringe

>> No.11720685

Picked up Hard Rain Falling to fill a gap while I wait for some books to be delivered. It's enjoyable so far

>> No.11720785

>>11720672
At what point do you get the urge to shoot a member of the Beatles? I ask so I can stop just before that point.

>> No.11720790
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>>11715871
Moby Dick. It slaps.

>> No.11720929

>>11720790
im gonna slap my dick on your buttcheeks

>> No.11720951

Roads to Sata by Alan Booth

I'm really liking it so far. I've been getting into travelogues recently and I quite like them. This book is a really fascinating look at the culture of Japan right before the economic boom of the 80s, and is well worth a read.

Though it's not really a travelogue in the proper sense, Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald is one of the best books I've read in a long time, I highly reccomend it.

>> No.11720957

>>11716059
Which was taken from something Jonathan Swift wrote

>> No.11721224

>>11715871
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.11721246

Zealot by Reza Aslan

>> No.11721262

>>11720035
Keep reading. Underlying themes become more and more apparent with each chapter and you really start understanding the zeitgeist of yossarians situation. I remember having to take breaks a couple of times when I started it but it’s worth the finish.

>> No.11721272

>>11716238
Nice

>> No.11721282

>>11715871
Oliver Twist. I’m liking it so far. I’m going through a small timeline of UK literature.

>> No.11721733

Norwegian Wood
Les Miserables
Shake Hands With The Devil

>> No.11721739
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Should i read straight through or take a break every volume?

>> No.11721750

>>11721739
Read at whatever pace you feel like reading at the time.

>> No.11721756

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. It's alright but also kind of seems like a huge dump for DFW's emotions and not much else. Almost finished and I probably won't read anything else by him.

>> No.11721757
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That's my third Hesse. Demian was good and Steppenwolf was bad and I really hope this one is like the former.

>> No.11721885

>>11718695
stop biting your nails you disgusting fuck

nice book btw

>> No.11722004

>>11720672
>>11721262
Thanks, I was planning on finishing it anyway because it seemed wrong not, but its good to know that it's just a matter of practice. I read to kill a mockingbird before (following the starter kit to see if I find what kind of authors I like) and I felt that I "got" the book a lot better.

>> No.11722031

Started War & Peace but I'll probably start something else to read between it too

>> No.11722238

Nothing.

>> No.11722245
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most engaging read in awhile

>> No.11722992
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Went into it a little apprehensive because of Pynchon's reputation, but a couple chapters in and I'm finding it pretty straight forward and enjoyable, thus far.

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>>11722992
NICE

>> No.11723013

Complete works of H.P. Lovecraft

>> No.11723021

>>11715871
God this book was shit

>> No.11723032

>>11723013
My nigga, I'm reading the exact same thing

>> No.11723119

>>11715871
Kafka's Trial.

>> No.11723128

>>11723003
Unfortunately enough I have that Where's Waldo edition of 'V'. That being said, I haven't seen any of the issues listed, yet. But I do agree that the covers are terrible.

>> No.11723145
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>>11723128
I took some comparison photos of the Waldo edition vs the Harper edition so you can see the difference.

This is the waldo.

>> No.11723147

>>11723145
And this is the harper

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>>11723147
autopost forgot photo

>> No.11723457

>>11723157
I see....

>> No.11723893

>>11723457
yeah

sadly, no acid free editions as far as I know

>> No.11724265

>>11723893
100 pages in and the binding is beginning to split. Whether that's down to poor quality materials or that its been gathering dust on my shelf for 10+ years, who knows. Probably a combination of the two.

>> No.11724340
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Capital volume 3

>> No.11724361

>>11724340
Madman

>> No.11724386
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currently reading unto leviathan. i'm almost done with 50 or pages left. first thing i've read in years

>> No.11724394
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>>11715871
Cuban Ulysses.

>> No.11724411

>>11715871
is that a chocobo

>> No.11724854

>>11724411
Cockatoo

>> No.11725635

Currently about 120 p into Gravity's Rainbow