/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12512101]

What's the book you've read the most amount of times? Pic is mine. Read it 5 or 6 times

[Anonymous No.12512119]

>>12512101
At least 10 times, Im not actually sure.

[Anonymous No.12512184]

I would not ordinarily consider reading a book again but I did read Peace by Gene Wolfe twice.

[Anonymous No.12512216]

Uhhhh I guess Gödel Escher Bach. I’ve read it every winter since 2012.

[Anonymous No.12512311]

Fantastic

[Anonymous No.12512382]

>>12512311
>Fantastic
Lmao, it is literally a propaganda pamphlet, it is admittedly good at being that, but it is nothing more than that.

[Anonymous No.12512455]

>>12512311

"40 cents"

HahahahahahahahHahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.12512493]

>>12512311
Same here

[Anonymous No.12512524]

>>12512382
>lmao
ing at your life

[Anonymous No.12512556]

There was a week back in 2009 where our entire campus was snowed in. Internet was down and the library was closed, so I ended up doing nothing but re-reading the only book I had on me at the time: To the Lighthouse. I read it at least a dozen times during that stretch. Probably close to twenty overall.

[Anonymous No.12513168]

>>12512311

[Anonymous No.12513185]

>>12512101
I've read The Sun Also Rises and Dubliners probably 3-4 times each.

[Anonymous No.12513204]

>>12512101

[Anonymous No.12513207]

>>12512556
suck my dick fag bitch

[Anonymous No.12513224]

>>12513207
Who pissed in your anti-depressants?

[Anonymous No.12513244]

>>12513224
>reddit attempt at humor
cringing at you

[Anonymous No.12513249]

>>12513224
>>12513244
>humor
I don't even get the joke.

[Anonymous No.12513288]

>>12513249
certified not reddit
>>12513224
certified reddit

[Anonymous No.12513294]

>>12513288
>>12513244
I've been away from /lit/ for a few years, has this place been colonized too? That's a shame.

[Anonymous No.12513316]

>>12513294
It’s like the the French and Indian War and in here. On one side, the the French, or the Redditors, and on the other, the British, or /pol/. We’re basically being spit roasted as a board.

[Anonymous No.12513327]

>>12513316
At least they sort of cancel each other out. It would be worse if it were only one.

[Anonymous No.12513355]

>>12513316
There's no these people actually read books, right? They must just read Wiki summaries.

[Anonymous No.12513366]

>>12513355
no way*

[Anonymous No.12513916]

If I find a copy of it, I buy it. Nothing feels better then reading about someone who loses it all and then dies.

[Anonymous No.12514235]

>>12512101

[Anonymous No.12514613]

karl may - treasure in the silver lake
20k miles under the sea by verne
something like that

[Anonymous No.12514886]

>>12512101
please help me understand why The Sun Also Rises is so good. I felt like I 'got" it, but just wasn't;t impressed.

The main character is impotent and in love with woman who he cannot be with. So far I I'm with him. But then he helps the matador fuck her. WHY? Why would you help another guy fuck the girl you love? And why the fuck would you hang around her when she's fucking other guys? pure masochism.

I can't get behind any of the other characters. The Jew's reaction is more realistic, though too puerile.

And then the bull fights. I get the metaphors and all that.

I don't know. I just felt like this book was way better when you thought about it than when you were actually reading it, and as I thought about it I thought the behavior of the main character wa just ridiculous.

what am I missing?

[Anonymous No.12514960]

>>12514886
I guess for me it was deeply personal. I could relate to Jake Barnes in many ways. It just evoked and continues to evoke a strong emotional response for me. If you don't like it, that's perfectly fine. No one likes or relates to everything.

[Anonymous No.12515003]

>>12514886
Depending on how you look at it, he helps the matadors fuck her exactly because he can’t do it himself. Think about the events prior, they go out on a rather romantic night together right? Then he caps it off by having some young stud lay his pipe. Maybe it’s a form of vicarious fulfillment. Maybe she has so much power over him that she can make him a cuck like all the rest of the men in her life (which I don’t think is accurate but it’s a thought). So the bullfighter thing was actually a pretty complex emotional moment in the book, I thought it was interesting.

Also, Bill is a top tier bro.

[Anonymous No.12515010]

the crying of lot 49 i probably read like 5 or 6 times

[Anonymous No.12515020]

Catch-22. Laugh through it every time. Curse Arfy every time.

[Anonymous No.12515040]

>>12515003
I related to Jake Barnes, too. but would have responded to situations in opposite ways (starting with staying the fuck away from a girl I'm fucked up over but can never be with). which may be why I was so frustrated.
>>12514960
Bill is a top tier bro, yes. good guy, for sure. vicarious fulfillment sounds like grade a bullshit to me, though. though I get why you'd throw that out there.

good, good. sounds like I wasn't missing anything. I just think Jake was an idiot. But if he'd played it my way, there'd have been no story. so there's that.

[Anonymous No.12515052]

>>12515040
>starting with staying the fuck away from a girl I'm fucked up over but can never be with
Love is a real mother fucker. It makes people do some pretty nonsensical things.

[Anonymous No.12515059]

>>12515020
The Major Major Major Major chapter had me in fucking stitches laughing . Catch 22 is probably the only book to make me laugh out loud

[Anonymous No.12515122]

>>12512101
Winter of our discontent, 3 times

[Anonymous No.12515151]

There's something about Invisible Cities that I find almost addictive. As soon as I finish reading it I just want to start over again, which I’ve never had with any other book. The word comfy is overused but it’s the best description I’ve got; there’s something so singular and strange about it, but it is so comforting at the same time. Wish I could find anything else like it. I’ve read it more than a dozen times, not sure exactly how many.

[Anonymous No.12515432]

>>12512101
Shakespeare's sonnets. Poetry in general.
I don't think I have ever read a novel or even a short story twice. Not that I couldn't find any worth it, it's just that there's so many of them and I'm such a slow reader. Poetry is more up my alley anyway.

[Anonymous No.12515453]

>>12515151
I really should read that again. I got the same feeling the first time I read it, but the thought that I have so much more to read and that I could be reading something new is stopping me to every reread anything. I'm being spooked by my own backlog.

[Anonymous No.12515993]

I've read Gulliver's Travels 5 times. Criminally overlooked on /lit/ especially considering it's undoubtedly a classic.

[Anonymous No.12516006]

>reading books more than once
not even once

[Anonymous No.12516027]

>>12516006
>'A good reader is a rereader'

[Anonymous No.12516719]

the comfiest book

[Anonymous No.12516721]

>>12512216
Based and Apollo-pilled

[Anonymous No.12516746]

either the lord of the rings trilogy, or the unconsoled
the former i read about every decade since i was seven (i'm mid 30s now)
the latter i first read in my late teens but really connected with and reread a bunch of times including for my book group when i made everyone else read it

[Anonymous No.12516757]

>>12513916
Reminds me of the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson. Every time he saw a copy of Catcher in the Rye he bought it. Were you MK-Ultra'd?

[Anonymous No.12516758]

>>12512101
The Great American Novel, of course.

[Anonymous No.12516830]

>>12512101
6 times

[Anonymous No.12516844]

>>12512101
for school generally.
not this translation of course

[Anonymous No.12518309]

>>12516844
which translation would you recommend

[Anonymous No.12518441]

Read it in my native language about 4-5 times.

[Anonymous No.12518496]

>>12516746

Jesus. I hated the Unconsoled. I had a hard time reading it too... The interest was just not there.

[Anonymous No.12518505]

I’ve read The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness, and Macbeth three or four times each. It’s because I started teaching English again.

[Anonymous No.12518692]

>>12518309
samuel butler lad

[Anonymous No.12518847]

>>12513249
Like he said...Reddit humor

[Anonymous No.12518903]

>>12516758
Nice. Gatsby is one of the few books I've re-read as well. It's just sublime

[Anonymous No.12518918]

>>12512311
Hardly counts. It's quite short.

[Anonymous No.12518954]

>>12512101
Just read it for the 2nd time, because the 1st one was more than 10 years ago and a translation.
I think it's the only literature book I've read twice.

I do reread parts I like of books I like, but have never reread the full thing.