/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14643058]

Simple thread. Books you've read that really stick in your memory.

[Anonymous No.14643067]

sell me on it

[Anonymous No.14643076]

Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
By Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall. I read it along with Human Nature and the Limits of Science
By John Dupré. The second introduced me to acutally thinking about what measurements mean in science and the first really showed how sometimes policy comes first and creates certain measures.

[Anonymous No.14643084]

>>14643058
Roadside Picnic. That distinct Russian suffering paired with dialogues on intelligence and humanity. No other like it I've found.

[Anonymous No.14643093]

Butterfly, I need you to post a real picture of your ass. Now. :3

I think you did before

[Anonymous No.14643098]

It’s ridiculously amazing :3

It’s extremely thick and muscley

[Anonymous No.14643102]

Good book, excited to read more mishima soon

[Anonymous No.14643133]

>>14643058
Underwhelming read desu, comfy at times and heartbreaking at others but somehow I expected more. Is the film kino?

[Anonymous No.14643155]

Not major Hamsun, but some of his best.

[Anonymous No.14643192]

>>14643155
>munch painting on a hamsun cover
will they never tire of this meme

[Anonymous No.14643304]

>>14643155
I have very specific memory feels of reading Munch cover Hamsun books in my parents house 15 years ago... Hunger, Pan, Mysteries.

Never read anything outside of that holy trinity. Is this one good? I've started Growth of the Soil a few times but never persisted

[Anonymous No.14643309]

>>14643058
>>14643067
>exceedingly comfy prose
>a small village in the northern England countryside in the summer
>frugal living and work restoring medieval altar frescoes in the decaying village church
>patrician musings on art, history, time
>the /lit/ life, minus the degeneration
>village vicar's wife waifu
>falling asleep on a marble slab in the churchyard on a June afternoon
>no homo bonding with a homo
>glimpses of a short, simple, sturdy life, having withstood centuries, about to be swept away by the storms of the twentieth century
>glimpses of a distant past come briefly alive, only to be presently pulled back under the grime of time
>virgin ochre vs. chad cinnabar
>a Christ that's come to bring righteous Justice, rather than Mercy
>a breeze to read
>short
>nostalgia, oh the bitter, bitter, bittersweet nostalgia, so gently thrashing at the heart

[Anonymous No.14643317]

>>14643309
All these have stayed with me for years since I read it, though I've never reread it. All I do is read again every now and then a few lines I've highlighted, especially one near the end, like a poem.
Really, why /lit/ isn't all over this novel's dick is beyond me. It's perfect for beginners, too, though the nostalgia parts may not sift through so well for those under 40 (yes, I'm a boomer).
Not op, btw.

[Anonymous No.14643333]

>>14643317
It was memed a good bit back in the day when NYRB published it, and it’s almost always namedropped in /comfy/ threads.

[Anonymous No.14643346]

>>14643058
Read that recently OP, a fine book, a damn fine book

[Anonymous No.14643361]

>>14643309
Ok you sold me

[Anonymous No.14643372]

Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy FitzPatrick.[1] The book tells of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross,[2][3][4] during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic).[1]

[Anonymous No.14643387]

>>14643058
>>14643309
>>14643317
>>14643346
read it myself a while ago anons
didn't want to get to the end and come back to the real world
also highly recommend 'how steeply sinderby wanderers won the fa cup' by the same author

[Anonymous No.14643443]

>>14643304
Growth of the Soil is alright though i have trouble taking it as seriously as is perhaps expected but The Women at the Pump (as well as to a lesser extent the second of the Wander books) is some of his best work .

[Anonymous No.14643575]

pic related is great and easy to understand. the book basically just debunks the most common kinds of fallacy that people make regarding economics. if you don't particularly care for economics then reading the book won't stick with you that much but its still a good read

[Anonymous No.14643624]

>>14643575
>ayn rand

[Anonymous No.14643700]

>>14643443
OK, cool - I've added it to my goodreads list.

Interesting that "The Women At the Pump" is the title of a Munch painting (where I presume Hamsun got the title from) yet a *different* Munch painting is on the cover...

[Anonymous No.14644539]

Of all the books I read last year, I keep coming back to pic related.
Memoirs were never particularly my thing, however I thought Machado played around with the structure and style of it all to keep me consistently interested.

Also, other worthwhile lit about abusive relationships?

[Anonymous No.14644811]

Denial of Death by Becker
What was memorable was how much it humbled me. No matter how much we like to believe ourselves as intrinsically transcendent and divine creatures capable of deep philosophical contemplation, we are after all fragile animals inescapably bound to our need to eat and shit. Really put into perspective what "copes" are to the human condition, and questions whether a "cope" by definition invalidates any ideology

[Anonymous No.14645227]

>>14643102
when's he writing some new stuff dya think?

[Anonymous No.14645234]

>>14643309
is that mould or flour? damn i gotta make some bread myself today. im gonna do it without measurements or recipe.

[Anonymous No.14645269]

Everything about this book is so unusual and striking. It almost certainly went right over my head but I still loved it.

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[Anonymous No.14645284]

>>14645234
btw thanks for the book really englishy and pulls back to a time and place to which i am closely tied but have never known, therefore alien. i HAPPENED to find an EPUB of it which im going to read at a river crossing footbridge in the rain early morning. HOPEFULLY it does rain so i can get wet and have a nice WaRM bath. :))

[Anonymous No.14646164]

>>14643102
read this one multiple times, extremely re-readable

[Anonymous No.14646220]

>>14643058
You'll probably enjoy this OP

[Anonymous No.14646230]

>>14643058
>A Month in the Country
maximum comfycore

>>14643076
Nice. Dupre is great.

>>14643084
>Roadside Picnic
Classic.

>>14644811
>Denial of Death by Becker
Absolutely essential for understanding everything about human beings.

Pic related is an amusing 'novel of ideas' set in the Axial Age.

[Anonymous No.14646232]

>>14643372
This looks nice.