/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15748672]

What are you currently reading and is it any good?

[Anonymous No.15748691]

>>15748672
I will not be tempted. Get thee hence Satan

[Anonymous No.15748692]

>>15748672
/lit/ right now.
it's meh.

in reality, The Stars My Destination (pretty good) and The Sandman Universe (excellent so far).

[Anonymous No.15748709]

>>15748672
"Germinal". I'm 200 pages in. For now it's good but not amazing.

[Anonymous No.15748738]

>>15748672
Reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot. About 400 pages in, about to go and read more, and yeh it's good yeh.

[Anonymous No.15748754]

>>15748738
read up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ

It'll help you understand the cultural concept of yurodivy (the holy fool/idiot) and enrich the book.

[Anonymous No.15748858]

Why do nylons give me an instant boner

[Anonymous No.15748875]

>>15748858
Too much porn probably.

[Anonymous No.15748891]

>>15748875
Wouldn’t it be the opposite, with desensitization and shit?

[Anonymous No.15748894]

>>15748672
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek, it's pretty funny so far. I knew it was a critique of Fascism published in the interwar period so it's quite poignant in that its criticisms, which here are shown as parody, are quite accurate. I'll probably finish it now since I'm enjoying it quite a lot.

[Anonymous No.15748898]

>>15748672

Brothers karamazov. About half way through. I like it, mitya is a pussy wipped idiot tho. He's not even getting laid

[Anonymous No.15748899]

>>15748891
No, you probably conditioned yourself, anon. Read about the Pavlov experiment.

[Anonymous No.15748904]

>>15748672
Something about the way manga artists draw feet annoys me

[Anonymous No.15748910]

molloy by beckett
very good, his prose is unmatched.

[Anonymous No.15748916]

I'm seeing a hooker in two hours I can't wait.

[Anonymous No.15748962]

I clicked on the thumbnail so I could read the book titles on the floor
There’s no hope for me, is there?

[Anonymous No.15748998]

>>15748672
Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White, yes I love it.
Finished Queen Victoria's biography yesterday and it was such a fucking drag.

[Anonymous No.15749089]

Liking it so far even though I’m not a surfer.

[Anonymous No.15749385]

>Dune
>No.

[Anonymous No.15749399]

>>15748916
Don't do it, anon. God is watching you.

[Anonymous No.15749401]

>>15748962
That means you made it

>>15749089
I know it's not the crux of the book but this looks like something that talks about finding and fucking loose women, is that accurate?

[Anonymous No.15749416]

>>15748672
The Sex Sphere - Rudy Rucker
I have read only other book from the author and is such wacky fun.
>>15748916
First time?
>>15749399
That only make it hotter

[Anonymous No.15749448]

I'm reading Norwegian wood, 60 pages in seems like nothing special.

[Anonymous No.15749462]

>>15748672
>The Diversity Of Life
it's good so far, biologists always seem to have a virtuosity to their writing that errs poetic and makes their books more enjoyable to read artistically as well as intellectually.
>V.
I like it, much more so than The Crying Of Lot 49, especially the mix of style.
>Don Quixote
I read part one a few months ago and greatly enjoyed it, part two perhaps even more so, I don't feel i'll have complete perspective on it until I've finished the book, I know that a lot is going over my head because of little knowledge of Spanish culture, so I might watch some lectures on it, the Yale one on youtube looks good.

[Anonymous No.15749482]

Sult, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Portable Nietzsche, I will never finish them because I have a tiny walnut size attention span

[Anonymous No.15749494]

Pierre; or, the Ambiguities by Melville and it's pretty rough goings so far. I'm excited for the part where Melville loses his ability to write a domestic tragedy and just goes nuts with the narrative style & plot though.

[Anonymous No.15750021]

solaris, about halfway through. should be done by eod. its pretty good, definitely kinda spoopy in the beginning

[Anonymous No.15750044]

>>15749401
So far no fucking but he’s still in his early teens. Might change I suppose

[Anonymous No.15750080]

>>15749462
Thanks for calling out those Yale lectures, sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.15750492]

Freedom by Franzen. It's not mindblowing or anything but not too bad for the most part.

[Anonymous No.15750504]

the ossian poems.
very good. you need to read them in gaelic though.

[Anonymous No.15750507]

>>15748672
About 600 pages into The Brothers Karamazov and it's been consistently insufferable.

[Anonymous No.15750612]

>>15748998
I love mpws videos, so comfy. What's the book like?

[Anonymous No.15750613]

The History of the Peloponnesian War. It's really long though, is it worth going through the whole thing?

[Anonymous No.15751058]

>>15750612
It's basically kitchen confidential: bong edition

[Anonymous No.15751062]

>>15748672
Internet latrines. Kinda meh.

[Anonymous No.15751075]

The Bible
The Discourses of Epictetus
Julius Evola- Introduction to Magic

[Anonymous No.15751156]

I wish I had a qt with nice pairs of legs and feet in bed with me right here and now.
But anyway: Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Cioran and Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend. All pretty good of course.

[Anonymous No.15751276]

>>15751156
Have the other half anon

[Anonymous No.15751373]

>>15748672
The Princess Bride. And yes, I am.

[Anonymous No.15751400]

>>15748672
We have always lived in the castle - Shirley Jackson

It's P-good so far!

[Anonymous No.15751426]

3/4 into Gravity's Rainbow and not really. Pynchon is probably genius but not my taste. I'm still going to finish it though

[Anonymous No.15751496]

>>15748998
What's your reasoning for studying *nglo r*yalty? I wouldn't he able to stomach it.

[Anonymous No.15751540]

>>15751496
The second half of the 19th century is one of my favorite history topics so I kinda felt like I had to at least know a little bit about the person the era is named after.