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Post the book you're currently reading.

Also, if you've read the book the previous anon posted, tell us if you liked it.

Starting off with Norwegian Wood. I love the diversity of the characters and the overall weird depressing-calm atmosphere this book delivers.

>> No.1379009

>murakami
>characters
>diversity

>> No.1379012
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I love how Roger overcomes obstacles and develops, the vivid descriptions, and the psychological obsession, as well as motif, of red.

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re-reading

>> No.1379015
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About halfway through there is a total shift in voice and it becomes almost unreadable at points.

>> No.1379018
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Currently reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government and Wuthering Heights (first time).
I've never read Norwegian Wood OP, what's it about?

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>>1379009

And here I was hoping that the literature board would be free of retarded trolling kiddies.

>> No.1379024
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It's funny as shit, I'm digging it so far. It's also surprisingly easy to get used to reading a novel written in first-person plural.

>> No.1379026

girl with a curious hair by david foster wallace

>> No.1379036

>Currently reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government

why.jpg

>> No.1379039

>>1379018

It's pretty much about a guy that enters university and his relationships with different people. You have a depressed girl whose boyfriend killed himself in high school, a perverted chick that takes the protag to watch porn in theatres, an egocentrical and strong-willed guy that wants to work for the goverment etc.

Add to that a weird nostalgic atmosphere and I'm totally sunk in. Really interesting so far, I'd highly recommend it.

>> No.1379041

>>1379036
I'm working my way through the philosophy canon, what's wrong with that?

>> No.1379045

>>1379041
Philosophy's for losers who can't get laid.

>> No.1379046
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1379046

Just finished Brave New World. Not sure what I should read next. Help me pick:

The Trial
Labyrinths
The Plague
The Idiot
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
Slaughterhouse Five

>> No.1379051

>>1379045
Alright, yes that's true, but that doesn't nullify philosophy itself.

>> No.1379054
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>Wuthering Heights (first time)
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>> No.1379056

>>1379046

If you've never read it before, Gatsby. It's one of the few books I think every single human being should read.

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>>1379051

>> No.1379058

>>1379045

>losers
>get laid

This is a literature board, take your high school standards back to /b/, kiddo.

>> No.1379063

>>1379054

>(first time)

I'm sure you were raving about that novel like 3 months ago.

>> No.1379068

>>1379063
no i meant to reply to the guy reading it & john locke.

>> No.1379067

>>1379063
He's just a really slow reader, is all.

>> No.1379072

>>1379046

Slaughterhouse-Five > The Great Gatsby

Read Gatsby twice, the last time being a couple of months ago. Hated it then, hate it now.

The Idiot isn't a bad choice, either, but it involves more time and effort than Slaughterhouse-Five.

>> No.1379073

>>1379068

oh. is it good anyway? i still haven't read it.

>> No.1379080
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>>1379072

>Slaughterhouse-Five > The Great Gatsby

>> No.1379082

>>1379073
its the best english book. my favourite along with Nabokov & Catcher

>> No.1379087

I get the impression this thread is full of teenagers.
I wonder why is that...

>> No.1379092

>>1379087

How old are you then, nigger?

captcha: Archwavy Henry

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So far I really enjoy it.

>> No.1379106

Started the Plague for the third time, this time I WILL finish it.

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>> No.1379115

>>1379106
I thought I was the only one who had to restart that book over and over again. I don't know why I can't finish it. It's not like I don't like it. I just always get about halfway through and stop

>> No.1379121
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1379121

Non-fiction about local food growing, reading as part of my scholarship curriculum.

It's pretty good, but makes me hate the world.

>> No.1379123

if you give up halfway through novels you are a plebeian

>> No.1379127

>>1379106
Reading it now, about halfway through. Got to say that it's very different from his short stories, which i love.

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>>1379121
Wow this looks like pap. I thought Kingsolver was a serious business writer. Why does it make you hate the world?

>> No.1379129

>>1379115
>>1379106
trudge on my /lit/ brothers
also, if you don't know who the narrator is you are an idiot

>> No.1379130

>>1379104
I liked it, but Sartre wasn't the best at fiction imho.
I'm currently reading Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle and Let The Right One In by Lindqvist is next if I don't decide to read Franny and Zooey again.

>> No.1379133

Wow. This board is shit. Fucking /lit/fags and their high school intellects.

>> No.1379134

>>1379133

what u readin bro.

>> No.1379137

>>1379128
I don't know what "pap" means, lol. I'm not familiar with anything else by Kingsolver, but this is kind of an autobiographical experiment she was doing with her family. Growing their own food and such.


The book talks a lot about how the food industry is destroying the diversity of crops and livestock. The breeds we have are less resistant to diseases, etc. And the one corn company that sues anyone who saves their seeds, puts a terminator gene in their corn, and sells the pesticides that their crops are resistant to.

It just makes me pessimistic, since I like the earth and all.

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It's pretty average so far.

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>>1379106

Man I had to read that one in high school, I remember thinking my teacher was nuts every time she started explaining the symbolic.

Currently reading this in french. Doesn't seem to have any English translation. It's a funny and witty tell about two unemployed spellcheckers and their crazy/insightful view of Montreal french art community in the 70's.

Also started re-reading the Odyssey, it's epic ...

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Put it off for the longest time because I figured it would be full of dense nerdy fantasy jargon, but it's actually an interesting read. I'm a little more than halfway done, the first half was great but it's starting to drag now. We'll see.

I had heard the movie was considered one of the worst ever made, but I didn't realize I had already seen it until just now when I Google'd for the book cover. At the time I had no idea what was going on, just that it was so awful I couldn't turn the channel.

>> No.1379174

>>1379147
Are you from Montreal?

>> No.1379178

>>1379152

I'm sorry to say that it doesn't get any better.

>> No.1379179

>>1379174

Yeah, pretty much

>> No.1379188

>>1379179
So am I.
I've never read Ducharme but I heard it's great...

>> No.1379197

Currently I'm reading both The Plague and A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man.

Enjoying both of them greatly actually. I need to hurry up and finish quickly though since I always ask my parents to send me books for Christmas and I compiled a list which should prove very intriguing reads, good for the rest of the next semester.

>> No.1379210

>>1379188

Well, if the rest of is book uphold to the quality of l'Hiver de force, you haven't heard wrong.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever read some Hubert Aquin?

>> No.1379219

>>1379003
If you believe those characters are diverse, then I'm quite convinced that you've never read a book before.

>> No.1379229

>>1379210
Have heard of him, yes, but haven't read him.

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Just ordered Pandora's Star off amazon, eagerly awaiting arrival

>>1379015
That was a good book, little difficult at points, but good

>> No.1379245

>>1379197
>good for the rest of the next semester
dont you think its so depressing how for your degree each year is split into 2 semesters?

>> No.1380695

gfdfg

>> No.1380723
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1380723

best book of the language

>> No.1380727

>>1380723
I'm reading it too at the moment, and it's quite enthralling. Dickens is becoming one of my favorite authors.

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Reading this. Just in norwegian (but coulden't find a good picture of the norwegian book cover...)

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And i love it

>> No.1380745
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>>1380723
I've never read this one, but I've read A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. (I've also owned Tale of Two Cities for six years and just haven't gotten around to finishing it)

>> No.1380752

I'm about to start "Titus Groan."
Just finished Bely's "Petersburg" and absolutely loved it.

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good collection of short stories.

>> No.1380846
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This is good so far, I'm not too far into it. I thought Alyosha was going to be a one dimensional super christ character, but he's actually turning out to be more interesting. Smerdyakov is a bro. Making me think a lot about what religion does for people.

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It's pretty good.
The translation is a little iffy now and then, though.

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1380878

meh.

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Gift idea for an old person in your family. Huge book. Cheap for its size.

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1381425

Already read two other Phillip K Dick novels, but I think this is supposed to be his main work or something. Not enjoying it as much as Electric Sheep or Palmer Eldritch, but I still like it alright.

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>> No.1381434

Narcissus and Goldmund

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>> No.1381441
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Pretty interesting.

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1381485

interesting.

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1381490

Started it four days ago and I'm only on page 24. Doesn't help that I'm an extremely slow reader to begin with. So far it's pretty interesting, but I feel this is a book that I will have to re-read a few times if I want to fully understand it.

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>>1381425
You should try Beyond Lies the Wub, my favorite stories of his are in there

Never read LOTR before, great imagery

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my dad bought it for me for Christmas