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what is /lit reading at the moment

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>> No.1340854

im reading harry potter 1-7
so i can make judgement on it based on experience rather than assumptions

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>>1340852
Your post

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>years of accumulated political fuckery

>> No.1340876

Alternating between Fahrenheit 451 and Tipping the Velvet.

My friend and I formed a book club consisting of only the two of us, so we're reading Fahrenheit together (I picked it because I've seen it ripped apart here a lot, but I've never read it myself). So far we're both of the opinion that it's okay, but obviously a book you'd read in high school. I probably would love it if I was still sixteen, but I think it takes itself too seriously.

But Tipping the Velvet rules.

>> No.1340882

Currently going back and forth from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Madame Bovary.

>> No.1340883

Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man

Pretty good so far.

>> No.1340885

>>1340882
How are you liking Jonathan Strange so far?

>> No.1340889

Dune

>> No.1340899

The demolished man rules.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is to long winded for me.

>> No.1340905

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Just started it today. About a page in. Should I keep going?

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>> No.1340918

I just finished The Master of Ballantrae by RLS a few hours ago. Gonna pick up the Guild Wars novel next. Tie-ins are my guilty pleasure, and I'm super excited for GW2.

>> No.1340921

'WE', YEAH, I'M FINALLY READING IT.

>> No.1340927 [DELETED] 

I'm really enjoying it actually. Her writing is a bit long winded but the story is great nonetheless so I can look past that.

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going to finish it tonight.
Not sure what to read next either Prelude 3, some anthology or Dan Browns Digital Fortress
(is that like dorf Fortress?)

>> No.1340936

>>1340885
I'm really enjoying it actually. Her writing is a bit long winded but the story is great nonetheless so I can look past that

>> No.1340940

Just finished Ulysses. Gonna read a short novel or two before Christmas - hope someone got me books.

>> No.1340942

>>1340928
At first I was curious about the pic, then I deciphered the logo at the top.

"Dragonlance"

And then
>Dan Brown

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Doing a bit of R&R with the Constitution - reading and revising.

>> No.1340955

Just started A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

>> No.1340967

Cold War a New History by John Gaddis

>> No.1340968

The Dubliners - really enjoying it so far.

>> No.1340971

On the Road. It's slow moving but I kinda like it that way.

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>> No.1340992

Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle. Slow, slow, going but very interesting and often very funny.

>> No.1340994

titus groan

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Sunset Park by Paul Auster.

About half way through. Not his best by far, but still quite engaging.

>> No.1341001

Breakfast of Champions.

>> No.1341003

>>1341001
Me too. I like the pictures of assholes.

>> No.1341007

>>1340980
that looks pretty interesting, any good?

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All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque.
Fucking depressing, man.

>> No.1341016

I have a ~100 year old copy of The Count Of Monte Cristo that I've never read. Is it worth a read?

>> No.1341018

The Sound and The Fury. Great Stuff.

>> No.1341028

Towers of Midnight, book thirteen of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

Really enjoying it. I can easily see the difference between the writing styles of Jordan and Sanderson, and I think I like Sanderson more. He doesn't go into so much description of clothing, architecture, weather, faces, hairstyles, etc.

>> No.1341042

>>1341016
YES

>> No.1341053

Odyssey

Just finished the Iliad. I've never read any of Homer's works in high school, so I thought I'd read it on my own.

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Kafka - The Trial
Kafka - Metamorphisis and other stories
Dawkins - The God Delusion

and i've just read a couple of plays, Marjor Barbara, Ghosts and a few other random ones.