/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15339879]

>what are you currently reading
>what do you think of it

[Anonymous No.15339890]

blood meridian and bhagavad gita. both suck.

[Anonymous No.15339898]

Flashman and the Redskins.
It’s fucking based, as is the case for every Flashman novel

[Anonymous No.15339906]

>>15339879
Child of God
It's okay

[Anonymous No.15339953]

>>15339879
Runaway Horses
I like

[Anonymous No.15339956]

>>15339879
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
I wish I would just quit

[Anonymous No.15339960]

Fathers and sons. Half way through. Really interesting and pleasurable to read. Exceeded my expectations as it's always thrown far back in the catalogues for Russian writers (read him after Tolstoy, Dosto, Pushkin)

[Anonymous No.15339963]

Steinbeck's The Red Pony. It's the worst Steinbeck I've read but it's still alright. It makes me interested in the other book of short stories he wrote

[Anonymous No.15339966]

>>15339879
>>15339879
>>15339879
O Estranho Misterioso de Mark Twain

[Anonymous No.15339968]

>>15339890
Not bazed

[Anonymous No.15339984]

>>15339879
Latin Education in Medieval Europe
Autistic but insightful.

[Anonymous No.15340018]

Genesis. It's comfy as fuck

[Anonymous No.15340061]

The plague by camus. Enjoyable so far

[Anonymous No.15340178]

Absalom, Absalom. Faulkner's style is a bit annoying but it's very interesting

[Anonymous No.15340342]

Phaedo.
I can't follow these fucking arguments, my man. When they just narrate instead of arguing is comfy as fuck. But most of the stuff seems to me like non-sequiturs, I don't know if I'm reading it wrong. I'm new to philosophy btw.

[Anonymous No.15340371]

>>15339879
>The Name of the Rose
>I just got memed into a Christian version of sherlock Holmes

[Anonymous No.15340393]

>>15339879
12 Rules of Chaos.

Pretty good read for a basement dwelling piece of shit like myself.

[Anonymous No.15340406]

>>15340393
I meant 12 Rules For Life. my bad.

[Anonymous No.15340428]

>>15340406
Freudian slip much?

[Anonymous No.15340439]

>The Man Without Qualities:
enjoying it, the prose is excellent and the ideas are conveyed rather succinctly.
>The Rings of Saturn:
First chapter remains the best part of it but the rest is decent too
>Capital Realism
insightful, first time reading a political text
>Poetics of Space
Interesting, but I'm not sure I'll get through all of it
>short stories of jorge luis borges
gonna savor this one over the span of a year or more

[Anonymous No.15340442]

>>15339879
Irish Ghost Stories: Some stories are good, others aren't, I didn't enjoy LeFanu.
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith vol. 2: I love his prose. Fuck Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.15340447]

>>15339956
Keep reading

[Anonymous No.15340450]

>>15339879
Herodotus' Histories. Way more entertaining than I expected, though I'm having to take notes to keep the names and lines of succession straight. Genuinely amusing book.

[Anonymous No.15340496]

>>15339879
>The gay science
Might be the best Nietzsche I've read. Many of his ideas finally clicked for me, and sort of came 'full circle'. I had never felt the weight of the historical turning point that is the death of god, I had just always thought that the meaninglessness was part of the 'human condition', now I see this 'human condition' has a lot more plasticity than I previously thought.

[Anonymous No.15340658]

>>15339879
The world the flesh and father smith
It's peak catholic comfy. I love it to death. It's just a priest living through the early 20th century at his little parish. It doesn't force any stupid scenes, and the characters all interact with the culture of the time. Robert Hugh Benson, G.K.Chesterton, Belloc, H.G wells, and like 3 or 4 other writers of the time get named dropped at one point or another, and a few are quoted. Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.15340666]

>>15339879
willpower
sort of interesting, I would prefer practical advice followed up by studies and discussion though

[Anonymous No.15340679]

>>15339963
Are his short stories that good usually? I've read east of eden(loved it), The Grapes of Wrath(hated it), Of mice and men(good), and the pearl(meh), but I've never heard any of his other stuff recommended. Is any of it as good as east of eden or of mice and men?

[Anonymous No.15340714]

>>15339879
Gravity's Rainbow. I'm enjoying it but damn it is tough as shit. I'm a few pages away from being through with part 1, what am I in for afterwards?

[Anonymous No.15340735]

>>15340018
If you sip to minute 5 of this video you'll find a really charming re-telling of the creation story in genesis. I really love it. The premise of the video is that it only features sound clips of people long dead.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Omjj6jdPhBBb/
>>15340061
Good call, love that book
>>15340342
That happens a lot with plato. like 80% of what he says is total bullshit. You'll learn a decent bit more by thinking about why you think he's wrong, rather then agreeing with him.
>>15340371
Decent book. The inquisition scene towards the end is the best part. Absolutely gripping stuff. Eco's book "Foucault's pendulum" is a lot better though. Even if you don't like this, you should definitely read that.

[Anonymous No.15340796]

>>15339879
>The book of genesis
I'm rereading it because whenever I do reread it, I get a new meaning out of it.
>Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Initially used it to refresh my childhood memory of my autistic Greco-Roman mythology obsession. The book is more than an anthology of short myths. It glosses over some stories, so I wouldn't recommend it for a first-time reader trying to understand classical thought. Although I'm not one for the anti-Augustan views presented in the book, I appreciate the fact that it adds a level of complexity to a book that may not be perceived as such when not read carefully.

[Anonymous No.15340836]

Infinite Jest
150ish pages in, good stuff but not too exciting, meandering as fuck for the most part.

[Anonymous No.15340837]

This Side of Paradise.
Not too bad so far.

[Anonymous No.15340937]

>Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
I'm only about a fourth through it. I didn't expect the protagonist to be a simp. I feel embarrassed for him. The section containing the hallucinations of Brás Cubas was pure kino though. I really hope the simping stuff ends and the book gets back to where it began: shorts tracts of pessimism and mildly hallucinogenic experiences by an ironic, yet candid, dead man. One thing that I didn't expect is that the book is hilarious. Really making me laugh out loud while I read. Overall, a comfy book.

[Anonymous No.15341273]

>>15340679
If the red pony is any indication, no. As far as other less popular steinbeck books, I really reccomended Cannery Row and then Travels with Charley if just for a chapter or two. Cannery Row is a really fun kinda light-hearted, humorous book and Travels with Charley is a mediocre travel story written with all the Steinbeck cliches and made up dialogue between steinbeck and people that he pretends to have met. It's fun for a while but I never finished it

[Anonymous No.15341313]

The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway. His descriptions of the sea and the sky are weirdly relaxing

[Anonymous No.15341500]

>>15339879
Pourquoi les hommes ont peur des femmes (why men are scared of women) by Jean Cournut. It's probably the worst book I've ever read, and I'm only continuing to see how terrible it can be.

[Anonymous No.15341508]

>History of Philosophy - Anthony Kenny
second night reading it, it makes me excited about learning ancient Phil, it's pretty fun to read, doesn't feel as technical as you'd expect from something written for undergraduates
>Ficciones - Borges
can't believe I waited so long to read this. I always thought I wasn't ready, but this stories feel like you can read them a thousand times and each you'll find something new. just lovely

[Anonymous No.15341509]

Utvandrarna by Vilhelm Moberg and On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Utvandrarna is highly based with Swedish farmers being castrated by their wives, hippie heretics and kids dying from eating porridge. On Stranger Tides is a mixed bag so far.

[Anonymous No.15341557]

Currently read Moby's Dick
Honestly gibberish mixed with some good laughs and cool as hell 19th century taxonimizing so far.
I miss the old mdg for my sense of direction

[Anonymous No.15341580]

Roger Bacon - Opus Majus
Jacob Marschak - Economics, Information, Decision, and Prediction
Nicolaus Copernicus - Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings vol. 1 (Manual of Political Economy)
Aristotle - Sophistical Elenchii

Aristotle is probably the most consistently interesting one out of this bunch, but very often he starts going on about things that are obvious to anyone who has read any philosophy/mathematics at all.

Copernicus is finally getting more mathematical. The next section is sufficiently large, and I will spend like 1 hr. on the section tomorrow most likely, but that's what I miss: synthetic geometry. I love that shit, and it looks like I'll get to engage with it once again heavily, with Copernicus and Bacon (as I am starting Bacon's Mathematics portion of Opus Majus, although that will deal with the spiritual side of mathematics moreso, still very interesting and involved somewhat)

Also, I'm looking forward to reading the 'father of econometrics' with Marschak. :3

[Anonymous No.15341583]

In a Lonely Way. It's really great. I haven't picked it up in a few days, but I'm savoring each time I give it a go.

[Anonymous No.15341592]

>>15339879
Hamlet
his english is fucking difficult and im porbably a brainlet

[Anonymous No.15341598]

>>15339879
4chan.org/lit/
It fuckin ROCKS dude

[Anonymous No.15341636]

>>15339960
I read this last year and thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely overrated.

Currently reading Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon.

[Anonymous No.15341643]

>>15341636
>overrated.
I meant underrated, excuse me I'm retarded

[Anonymous No.15341671]

Currently reading pic related. It’s a bit of a slow read but interesting. The hubris of the high command, the bravery of the besieged paratroopers (how come French were so brave during WW1 and First Indochina War but WW2 they were so shit?). Also very impressed by the Vietminh. Just the logistics of transferring heavy artillery and tons of shells through the jungle and up the mountains pretty much by hand over a period of just 5 months is astonishing. And once they got the artillery up on the high ground, the French were fucked.

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>>15341592
Yeah you're porbably right

[Anonymous No.15341787]

>>15341500
What is it about? Something like how men fear women because they're superior, and that's why they treat them as inferior at work?

[Anonymous No.15341963]

>>15339879
Fell for the meme. Mythology by Edith Hamilton. Its interesting but hard to retain from all the different gods, elder gods (titans) but it's doing a great job at showing me how the Greeks humanized their gods. This is going to be an interesting ride because I'm planning on doing all of these and then on to the no nonsense romans.

[Anonymous No.15343569]

Not even a read just like watching a movie, just churn through the pages is genuinely interesting.

[Anonymous No.15343577]

The Royalist Revolution.
God save the King.

[Anonymous No.15343588]

>Introduction to Marxist economics by Rob Sewell
He's good at explaining the economics though I already knew most it to begin with
>Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels
I'm a midwit so I have trouble understanding a lot - other than that it's enjoyable
>Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin
Lenin is a fine writer and I have no trouble understanding what he says

[Anonymous No.15343949]

Halfway through Neuromancer and boy do I feel like I'm missing out on half the shit that's going on.

[Anonymous No.15343990]

>Spiritual enlightment - damnedest thing
Very interesting, honestly. And written not bad. But probably woudln`t be so interesting if you aren`t into all that "spiritual" fuckery.

[Anonymous No.15344001]

Parmenides.
I have no idea why I am forcing myself, and I am about to quit. I want to enjoy reading, not getting through it like it's a job.

[Anonymous No.15344054]

>>15339879
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I hate it

[Anonymous No.15344075]

>>15341963

You will give up before you finish these all, you'll burn out and want to read about something that isn't Greece

[Anonymous No.15344090]

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline

Currently nearly 90 pages in and he hasn't even begun to talk about the actual collapse yet. Should be called "Bronze Age Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean"

[Anonymous No.15344118]

>J.Keroauc - Road
50 pages in and so far it's not that engaging. I hope it'll pick up the pace.
>Y.Mishima - Spring snow
only 2 chapters in so on opinion. I think i'll have hard time reading it in english as i'm esl.
>C.Rodgers - On becoming human
It's very captivating read and interesting approach towards psychology and human condition in general. I'm reading it in hope to fix myself or rather become true self.

[Anonymous No.15344152]

>>15340679
>I've read east of eden(loved it), The Grapes of Wrath(hated it)
Properly filtered.

A few of his short stories are zingers. Also, dont listen to the anon who reads a chapter and then speaks on the entire book. The chrysanthemums is his famous one

[Anonymous No.15344967]

Less than Zero.

I'm seeing that Bret only has one real topic to discuss: the depression and maddening wealth of the rich. He even uses a scene from the book again in American Psycho. I enjoy it because he writes interesting stories, but it is not quite as good.

[Anonymous No.15344985]

>>15344118

I'm also exactly 50 pages into On the Road and I find it rather charming. What don't you like?

Temple of the Gold Pavilion is also sitting in my stack waiting to be read.

[Anonymous No.15345249]

>>15344985
It's not that i didnt like it but rather found it rather slow and too many information on little things.
>Gold Pavilion
heh, that was my last Mishima's book. It really helps too look thought the actual temple pics to get a full picture of beauty.

[Anonymous No.15345277]

I want to improve my writing so I'm reading the elements of style.

Instead of writing better, now I'm realizing how poor my english is. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.15345300]

>>15345249

See I think the opposite, and it's part of the reason I really like Jack. He has an extremely curt and point-of-fact style that only gets flowery when recalling a moment that might've been precious to him.

[Anonymous No.15345411]

>>15339879
>Moby-Dick
It's decent. Melville's prose is beautiful, but I guess I'm just too young to not get bored with the book at times.
>The Undiscovered Self
An extremely interesting read so far. I'd never read Jung before but it makes me want to read more of him.

I also need to start the Timaeus soon, hopefully after Moby-Dick, since I finished the Republic about two weeks ago and don't want to have too large of a gap.

>>15340061
I think this one is even better than The Stranger. I need to read The Fall sooner or later.

>>15340342
It took me quite a few dialogues before I realized that the argumentation is not supposed to necessarily be straightforward. Typically Plato is saying something between the lines that's much more akin to his true purpose in writing the dialogue, but it takes a lot of work to filter through the bullshit. I also agree with >>15340735

>>15340836
This is my favorite book. Give it a few more days and it won't seem as dense and cumbersome to get through. I think it just takes some time to get accustomed to his style.

>>15341592
I don't know how anyone reads Shakespeare if English is not their first language.

>>15344001
Parmenides is cool as shit, but I guess I only read some fragments. What don't you like about him?

[Anonymous No.15345427]

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Pretty gay but I like it so far.

[Anonymous No.15345444]

>>15339879
Currently reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. Pretty good so far, about 300 pages left. Almost done with the fourth section of the book, which is the one about the murders.

[None !SWEEZYguAc No.15345470]

>Fear and Trembling
Even in translation, the prose is so playful I can't read more than a couple of lines without giggling uncontrollably at Kierkegaard's wit. I'm really enjoying it a lot even though it is such slow going for me to try to understand the depth of everything being discussed.

[Anonymous No.15345491]

Moby dick

Its pretty good, definitely not something I can read in large chunks though.

[Anonymous No.15345516]

>>15345300
Oh, i see. I dont mind point of fact style but it's a bit tedious at start.

[Anonymous No.15345536]

> The republic
somewhat boring at parts. but I'm glad I'm reading it

>east of Eden
fantastic. lee, Charles, and sam hamilton are based

[Anonymous No.15345737]

>>15345536
Fuck yeah, Lee is great and Sam is a bro. I love that book.

[Anonymous No.15345756]

>>15339879
Book of Disquiet
Got kinda sluggish and monotonous after a while but maybe that's the point

[Anonymous No.15345762]

Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard

Only a few pages in. I'm hoping to learn my money printing machine go brrr

[Anonymous No.15345763]

>>15339879
Jomini's The Art of War
Clausewitz is clearly superior but its fine

[Anonymous No.15345880]

This summer will be the summer of Proust for me. I am about half-way through Swann's Way.

[Anonymous No.15345914]

>>15339890
Based

[Anonymous No.15345969]

Critique of Pure Reason
Just finished it. Reading it Kant would amaze me and then baffle me in the next paragraph. He spends the whole book on epistemology/metaphysics ect and then at the end brings up his moral philosophy tentatively. I still don't understand how his previous critique relates to the morals though, he makes this weird leap that i don't really understand. Guess i will have to read his moral works...

[Anonymous No.15345978]

Essays of Schopenhauer
Based

[Anonymous No.15345979]

thats smart

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrowdedNeighborlyVanillaDBstyle

[Anonymous No.15347192]

bump

[Anonymous No.15348510]

>>15341636
How is Campaigns? I got it as a Christmas gift this year, was like fifty or sixty bucks I think

[Anonymous No.15348527]

>A time of gifts
One of the best books I've ever read

[Anonymous No.15348537]

>>15340679
My favorite of his are Cannery Row and Winters of Our Discontent.

[Anonymous No.15348595]

>>15339879
The Aeneid.
I just finished Book 7. I haven't liked too much of it, truth be told, but Book 6 was very good. I feel like the stuff with Dido might have been more powerful if the translation I was reading was better. I could see Book 4 being pretty good, after all. I didn't care much for Books 2 & 3 -- Aeneas' recap of his journeys up till Carthage. It just felt like such ridiculous Homer fanfiction. I would have liked more of Anchises because my favorite part was his relationship with his son. I'm not particularly looking forward to The Iliad 2: Italian Boogaloo.

Also, I haven't liked the blatant political propaganda, but that's a minor gripe.

I know for the majority of intellectual thought, the Aeneid is considered one of, if not the best, and I'm just not seeing it. But of course, I can't speak Latin.

[Anonymous No.15348657]

>>15348595
The Aeneid is completely unfinished and is barely a rough draft, so it makes sense that you don’t like it.

[Anonymous No.15348809]

>Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Real good- I am very interested in labor history, and love me some good descriptions of the American west

[Anonymous No.15349869]

>The Sound and the Fury
Its confusing, but intriguing

[Anonymous No.15349881]

>>15339879
Since I have the time on my hands I was about to start reading Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion in 8 volumes, something that I have thought about doing for some time.

[Anonymous No.15349905]

>>15340937
Sounds interesting, I will check it out. From what I heard my workplace probably won't open before July, if then...

[Anonymous No.15349911]

>>15339879
>American Psycho
This book is hilarious when it isn’t detailing senseless and gruesome murders.

Current scene: Bateman, who is basically a Chad on the outside while inside he is a psychotic, hallucinating psychopath, is having dinner with his beautiful ex-girlfriend. He spills his spaghetti and hands her one of his psycho poems which she reads out loud in the restaurant.

He insists she read it out loud. I kid you not, the poem reads,
>”The poor nigger on the wall. Look at the poor nigger on the wall. Fuck him. Fuck the nigger on the wall. Black man is debil.” (typo intentional)

Bateman is murdering my sides.

[Anonymous No.15349933]

>The Postmodern Condition by Lyotard
My personal reflective writings have been validated.

[Anonymous No.15350000]

>>15339879
read a few books over the last 14 days.

>True history of the kelly gang
fun romp with a great prose. enjoyed learning about the ''wild west' that existed in my own backyard.
>Battle Cry of Freedom
Good work that gave me a good overview of the us civil war. Recommend for any pleb in the subject
>The terror
Somehow not as good as the AMC show, but still a fun navy kino
>Alchemy Power of Ideas that don't work
A little disappointing, Read on recommendation from taleb but its quite basic tier, some cool factoids but nothing you need if you have already read antifragile or sitg
>The French Revolution and what went wrong
Anglo author shitting on the revolution. Would not recommend as an intro to the subject but very interesting read if you are already familiar with the french revolution. Shed a tear when Louis XVI got guillotined.
>Models behaving badly
Fantastic work that combines personal narrative and the memoirs of a physicist/quant in showing why financial models suck ass and aren't similar to models in physics
>The god that failed
Recommend for everyone, If you are a commie, you will be cured, if you hate commies your hatred will be reduced.
>Crimean War by Oliver Figes - In the middle of this now, enjoyable
>Darkness at noon arthur koestler
Just started, very much enjoying.

[Anonymous No.15350005]

I finished notes from the underground today and it reminded me of my autistic friends who are overly emotional horse blinder faggots. I’ve never wanted to punch a character in the face more. Not even Holden was this much a stupid hypocritical cunt.

[Anonymous No.15350070]

Jane Eyre
I just read Wuthering Heights and loved it, so I got this. I can hardly get through it, it's so boring. I haven't touched it in about a week, I think I'm just going to start over and take it from fresh.

[Anonymous No.15350093]

>>15345737
I love how Steinbeck perfectly displays the progression of human life over the course of his books.