What are you reading at the moment and does it make you smile?

[Anonymous No.14918273]

[Anonymous No.14918355]

The Labyrinth of Spirits. Apparently it's the last book of the series but they can be read at any order.
I was about to put it down because the narrator, Daniel, is fucking boring and bland, and the only character with any worth was Fermin. Turns out first two or three chapters were a set up to then start telling Fermin's story and I am so fucking happy about it.

[Hyronimus B No.14918450]

>>14918273
the idiot by dosto. i sometimes laugh at the bootlicker introduced in the first scene.
thanks for the reminder to read now.

[Anonymous No.14918461]

>>14918273
Your post and yes :)

[Anonymous No.14918466]

>>14918450
Lebedev is actually a pretty funny character later in the book

[Anonymous No.14918515]

>>14918273
Pickwick, copiously
>Mrs. Dowler is out at a social function and Mr. Dowler can't sleep waiting for her to come home
>Winkle wakes up to her post-chaise drivers rapping unremittingly at the front door
>goes to answer it in his sleeping gown
>door slams shut behind him
>people start looking out their windows to see what the racket is
>Winkle doesn't want to be seen in his sleeping gown and tries to force himself into the chaise to avoid embarrassment
>Mr. Dowler pokes his head out the window just in time to see this and thinks his wife is running off with Winkle

[Anonymous No.14918588]

shadow of the torturer and no i got memed, will abandon the rest of the series for a bernhard book

[Anonymous No.14918833]

>>14918273
Magic mountain by Mann. I've laughed plenty and smiled more and cried a little.

[Anonymous No.14918977]

>>14918461
based nice anon :)

[Anonymous No.14919245]

>>14918273
The Republic and yes :)
thank you for this post fren

[Anonymous No.14920576]

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[Anonymous No.14920742]

Just finished Virgil's Ecolouges (C.Day Lewis trans) and it made me smile a little. The idyllic, Theocritean scenes, in natural settings, of either groups of peasants singing or single songs, each about matters vital in different ways (love and livelihood), written in a self-conscious, impractically poetic fashion (Virgil almost admitting, as he has one of the men admit outright in Ecolouge IX that
>... poems/ Stand no more chance, where the claims of soldiers are involved,
poetry is a quite useless thing in these pressing times), especially when one takes into consideration the fact these poems were written against the backdrop of land confiscations and in a time of intense strife, where pretty poems were little needed vs. more important matters such as a person's livelihood.

It was a bittersweet smile I had, considering the dreamy nature of these poems against a background of grief, and yet despite their dreamy nature, Virgil embeds them with many hardships otherwise, never allowing his work to be reduced to mere political allegory. Being a farmer himself, one can easily see how much he longs for simpler times.
Going to read the Georgics next week and then the Aeneid.

[Anonymous No.14921853]

>>14920576
>>14918273
>no qt reader gf
why live

[Anonymous No.14921857]

A collection of Maupassant stories

It does

[Anonymous No.14921858]

Confederacy of Dunces and yes

[Anonymous No.14921881]

>>14921858
Such a funny book.

I'm reading Severance by Ling Ma, it's not making me smile.

[Anonymous No.14922012]

Just began the Cyropaedia :)

[Anonymous No.14922946]

>>14921853
We should all have one anon.

[Anonymous No.14923026]

>>14918273
Naked Lunch and yes

[Anonymous No.14923050]

>>14918273
I am rereading all my Gottfried Feder books for the 2nd or 3rd time and have decided to write an essay on them and how he situated national socialism within the broader philosophical tradition.