What are you currently reading January 2020?

[Anonymous No.14533172]

What’s litting?

[Anonymous No.14533182]

I'm having a Jorjani January

[Anonymous No.14533190]

>>14533172
The Maudlin book is great.

[Anonymous No.14533193]

>>14533172
Finished up the last of 1Q84, then Flowers for Algernon, now I'm almost done with Breakfast of Champions. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.14533195]

I aim to read 8 books/month this year but I’m reading them simultaneously. This month’s books are:
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck
Le Ventre du Paris - Zola
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Tartar Steppe - buzzatti
The Crying of Lot 49
Peter Pan
Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn
The Miner - Sōseki

[Anonymous No.14533197]

>>14533172
what system is this you're using?

[Anonymous No.14533200]

>>14533172
Hey what app is that

[Anonymous No.14533220]

>>14533195
>Le Ventre du Paris - Zola
if you have goodreads add me
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/97105646-macquart
i'm aiming at reading the entire rougon-macquart series this year or next year
i'm interested in your reviews

>>14533172
I'm on Les Misérables, 9% in.
Surprisingly easy to read, and some paragraphs are fucking beautiful.

[Anonymous No.14533234]

>>14533200
>>14533197
Kybook 2. (I don’t like Kybook 3)
It’s great unlike ibooks I can load anything in it, organize better and most importantly uses the whole screen so as you can see 500 page books go down to 250p w small font and seem to flow faster.

[Anonymous No.14533243]

>>14533234
Oh and doesn’t have a stupid copyright addendum every time I copy paste a note from a book. And the mosaic view is great too.

[Anonymous No.14533248]

>>14533172
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

America: The Farewell Tour p- Chris Hedges

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

[Anonymous No.14533251]

>>14533172

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Zuboff
On the Basis of Morality - Schopenhauer
The Journey to the End of the Night - Celine

[Anonymous No.14533259]

>>14533193
His Masters Voice — Lem
The Immense Journey — Loren Eiseley
The Gods Are Athirst — Anatole France
— op

[Anonymous No.14533273]

>>14533172
Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It's a trip man. One of those that kind changes the way you view literature

[Anonymous No.14533278]

The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters and The Possibility of an Island. Thus far both are fantastic. I also recently encountered Virgine Des-something and read King Kong Theory. She's a great writer and I'll be reading one of her novels after the aforementioned two.

[Anonymous No.14533315]

>>14533220
>goodreads
Naw dude I don’t want obama knowing what my interests are.
It’s my favorite of the books I’ve read recently; the first book in years that I can really get lost in, burn through 50 pages without even realizing it. My criticism is that the characterization is lopsided; while there’s no clear main character, some main figures are thoroughly fleshed out but others aren’t at all. As a character Lisa is amazing, disturbing, feels like she’s in the room with me. Florent on the other hand is...skinny? Has PTSD? What else? I feel pity for him but not interest.
It’s the first book by Zola I’ve read; I was living homeless near Paris last October, reading Orwell’s Down and Out, and he mentions Zola as someone who’d do a better job of describing the colorful chaos of a hotel kitchen. That got me curious.
What other Rougon-Macquart books are good? Does order matter?

[Anonymous No.14533342]

Emily Bronte The Complete Poems

[Anonymous No.14533348]

>>14533315
it's the story of a family. he was the first writer to introduce "naturalism" in his books. it's the idea that you can apply the science concepts of the time onto the characters you write.
each character of his Rougon macquart series inherits a trait from a predecessor.
there's a genealogy online if you want. I'd have translated it for you if you had goodreads.

basically the series is renowned for two things :
naturalism
realistic portrayal of the poor

you might want to read the three books portraying the three poorest members of the family
- l'assommoir
-nana
-germinal
they are famous because poor people were never realistically the subjects of novels. he really did his homework too.

please note that I'm in accounting and everything I said has the potential to be wrong lmao

[Anonymous No.14534021]

>>14533273
Stop after Gormenghast.

[Anonymous No.14534128]

Currently ending Steppenwolf, already read Industrial Society and Its Future

[Anonymous No.14534261]

>>14533172

[Anonymous No.14534337]

Just finished Augustus by John Williams. Next book up is 'The obscene bird of night' by José Donoso.

>>14533259
>His Masters Voice — Lem
Based, one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. Lem is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.14534404]

Kant - CoPR
Spinoza - Ethics (2nd read)
Aristotle - De Anima
Plato - Philebus
Nietzsche - Birth of Tragedy
Anselm - Monolgion and Proslogium

[Anonymous No.14534562]

>>14534404
What do you do anon?

[Anonymous No.14534866]

Naked Lunch. It’s confusing but fun to read

[Anonymous No.14534931]

>>14534021

The third book is really trippy with the way it mixes science and fantasy, Peake just didn't care and went absolutely crazy with it but the end of Gormenghast is really perfect.

[Anonymous No.14534947]

>>14533172
These are what I'm reading. What ereading app do you use OP? I use Kindle and Moonreader sometimes.

[Anonymous No.14534954]

so far...
Bernhard - Extinction
Hamsun - On Overgrown Paths
Sebald - Austerlitz

Currently..
Johan Borgen - Lillelord
Joseph Roth - The White Cities

Next...
Sebald - Vertigo
MFK Fisher - The Art of Eating
Gracq - The Opposing Shore

[Anonymous No.14534956]

>>14533234
Have you tried readera?

[Anonymous No.14534999]

Finished:
Mihály Babits - The Son of Virgil Tímár
Mihály Babits - On the Hungarian Character
Anonymous - L'anomie ou le Tumulte des Tapirs
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis

Currently reading:
Mihály Babits - The History of European Literature

[Anonymous No.14535185]

>>14533348
I will read those next, thanks.

[Anonymous No.14535192]

>>14534404
This is the reading list of a kid who started reading big philosophy books to impress girls on the bus, but got genuinely hooked and kept reading past the first tier.

[Anonymous No.14535193]

Hello, Universe