/lit/ - Literature

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586760]

capsguy general aka whattaya readin

>LAST READ
Twilight of the Idols - nietzsche
Paradise Lost - milton
Bartleby - melville

>CURRENTLY READING
Death in venice and other stories - thomas mann
leaves of grass - walt wigwam

>WILL READ
nietzsche's system - richardson

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586781]

>LAST READ
The Good Earth

>CURRENTLY READING
Moliere's one-acts

>READING NEXT
Madame Bovary

[Anonymous No.1586782]

>LAST READ

The Trial - Kafka
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Perfum - Süskind

>CURRENTLY READING

Orwell - 1984

>WILL READ

Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear - Shakespear
Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.1586785]

>Death in Venice
>Walt Whitman

Faggot detected.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586786]

>Paradise Lost - milton
did you hate this too?

of course you didn't, too much is at stake

[Virginia W00F !!GThm5VqxqDi No.1586788]

Mayne BB ALWAYS gets in these bad ass pics. I mean yeah I get some love here but I never get any real BROMANCE. Wish I was fucking dead.

>last read
Sons and Lovers
>current
The King in Yellow
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
>will read
Not Forster, that's for sure. dat muhfukka BORIN'

[Anonymous No.1586790]

>RE-READ
The Trial - Kafka

>LAST READ
Historia del llanto - Alan Pauls

>CURRENTLY READING
Los anormales - Foucault

>WILL READ
Historia universal de la infamia - Borges
Sentimental Education - Flaubert

[Anonymous No.1586791]

LAST THREE:
WARD NUMBER 6 - CHEKHOV (THIS MAN IS THE MASTER OF THE SHORT STORIES AND ARGUABLY EVEN THE NOVELLA, INDISPUTABLE)
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT - CELINE
DEMONS - DOSTOEVSKY

CURRENTLY READING:
NAUSEA - SARTRE

NEXT THREE:
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH - TOLSTOY
DEAD SOULS - GOGOL
WHAT MEN LIVE BY - TOLSTOY

50 BOOKS INTO MY 200 BOOK GOAL FOR 2011, CAPS' GOT THIS

[Anonymous No.1586794]

>>1586785

Whitman was not gay

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586796]

>>1586786
Hated it. I was at the point where I was flipping back and forth between the end of the books and whatever page I was on and working out how quickly I'd get through it if I tackled X/12 books per day. Fucking unreal. I will say it started off decently enough.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586805]

>>1586788
>Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
How are you finding that WV00F? I have that collection by Eco, haven't been too sure whether to read it any time soon unless there's anything particularly profound to be gotten out of it

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586806]

>>1586796
oh

well at least you're consistent

[Anonymous No.1586809]

>>1586794

Yes, he was, dear.

[Anonymous No.1586810]

>>1586788

Here you go :3

[Anonymous No.1586815]

HOW COOL WOULD IT BE IF I WENT TO SLEEP NOW, AND WOKE UP WITH THIS THREAD ON PAGE 0, WITH PLENTY OF RESPONSES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ANONS OF PRE WW-II WORKS NOT AUTHORED BY FEMALES?

WOULD BE AMAZING.

[None !tRipFagZxM No.1586816]

> Last read
What kind of nation - James F. Simon
My life among serial Killers - Helen Morrison, M.D.

> Currently Reading
Che Guevara - John Lee Anderson

> Will read
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris

[Anonymous No.1586820]

>LAST READ
Robin Briggs - Early Modern France 1560-1715
Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year
John Hodge - Trainspotting/Shallow Grave

>Currently Reading
C&M Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare
Brian Jacques - Redwall (lol)

>Will Read
Whatever comes into my book shop

[Anonymous No.1586835]

>Last Read
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mishima

>Currently Reading
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

>Next
Fuck if I know. Haven't read any Lovecraft since I was fifteen. Maybe I'll revisit that.

[Mike No.1586836]

>Last Read
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Portable Nietzsche (contains Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and excerpts from all his other books)

>Currently Reading
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka with a foreword by John Updike

>Will Read
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (reread)
The Basic Writings of Kant
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Divine Comedy
Rashomon and Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
House of the Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories - Yasunari Kawataba

My reading list will keep me busy for a while, I think.

[Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman !!imEIcTjbs/H No.1586837]

> LAST READ

all the pretty horses - Cormac McCarthy
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro

> CURRENTLY READING

The Ring of Words, Tolkein and the OED

> WILL READ

A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Satantic Verses - Salaman Rushdie

[Anonymous No.1586839]

>Last Read:
George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

>Currently Reading:
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

>Will Read:
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

[Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP No.1586841]

>>1586760
>>1586760

Mah Nigga.

>>1586788
>>1586788
I'll make it when I get hommmeeeeeeeee ;D

[JamesBond !!JAU/DZkp95n No.1586852]

>Last Read
State of fear

>Currently Reading
Aristotle's Politics

>Reading Next
???

[Anonymous No.1586853]

[Anonymous No.1586857]

Last read:

Starship Troopers
Orlando Furioso

Currently Reading:

The Pilgrim's Progress

Will Read:

The Faerie Queene
Paradise Lost

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586858]

>>1586853
makes me think spiderman made that picture

[Anonymous No.1586860]

>Last read
Use of Weapons - Iain M Banks
LOVED it. Ordered State of the Art and Against a Dark Background and will probably end up reading all of Banks' books eventually.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Seemed far more close to reality than 1984 considering the latter is what people constantly yap on about.
>Reading

Meditations on First Philisophy - Rene Descarte
It's for a class.

The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott
Halfway through, not enjoying it all. Finishing it for the sake of it. Will definitely NOT be reading the next 3 parts. Will think twice before blindly purchasing from wanky "essential literature" guides from now on.
>Will Read
Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
2nd person book that isn't a choose-your-own adventure sounds interesting.

Empire of the Sun – J.G Ballard
Chinese perspective of WW2 rape by Japan

Human Croquet – Kate Atkinson
Trying to balance the lack of female authors I read. Was rec'd to me ages ago.

[Anonymous No.1586862]

>LAST READ
Water for Elephants - gruen

>CURRENTLY READING
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - haddon

>WILL READ
Inherent Vice - pynchon


yeah yeah, i'm not very cultured :(

[Anonymous No.1586868]

>Last Read:
Collected Poems - Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems - David Malouf
Palace of the Peacock - Wilson Harris

>Currently Reading:
Voss - Patrick White
A Various Art (Post WWII Poetry Collection) - Crozier/Longville

>Will Read
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
In The Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje

[Tom Harper !6FMElt5n.U!!YEOb/BUS8vw No.1586871]

Just leaving this here.

[Anonymous No.1586884]

death in venice and other stories is a great set, d&e! you need to check out the film, death in venice. its a good one.

[Anonymous No.1586886]

last read:
The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Now Reading:
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Fables of Subversion - Steven Weisenburger
Understanding Media - Marshal McLuhan

Next Read:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace(re-read)
+more stuff for my thesis

[God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ No.1586896]

>LST RD
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

>CRRTNLY RDNG
Ethics: An Esay on the Understanding of Evil - Alain Badiou
Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Sane Society - Erich Fromm

>WLL RD
Illuminations - Walter Benjamin
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

How are you liking Leaves of Grass, D&E? Whitmon is de bomb

[Anonymous No.1586902]

>LAST READ

Dante's Inferno
Slaughterhouse Five

>CURRENTLY READING
Tale of Two Cities

>WILL READ
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Naked Lunch

[Byrhtwold No.1586913]

>LAST READ
Queste del Saint Graal
Chivalry (Maurice Keen)

>CURRENTLY READING
Beowulf (currently translating)
Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature (C.B. West)

Snagged the second one just a while ago by stumbling across it in great condition. Price for new hardcover? $75 USD. Price for mine? €8. Fuck. Yes. Might donate to departmental library after I'm done with it.

>WILL READ
Dunno, something else for research, most likely.

Damn it feels good to be a Medievalist.

[Anonymous No.1586914]

Last read:
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
Rebecca & Rowena by William Makepeace Thackeray

Currently reading:
The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray

Next read:
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis
Confessions by Saint Augustine

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586917]

>>1586913
>Medieval literature
majority is shit

[Byrhtwold No.1586919]

>>1586917
Nice try, but I can't be bothered. Still very happy with my find.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586920]

>>1586884
>death in venice and other stories is a great set, d&e!
Yeah, I've read little herr Friedemann and The Joker so far, and I've found that while they're nicely written they're quite similar in theme and outlook. Hoping the next couple of stories will shake that up a small bit. Didn't know there was a movie.

>>1586896
>How are you liking Leaves of Grass, D&E? Whitmon is de bomb
I can see why he's rated, getting a good sense of something distinctly American in the scope of his writing, which I am enjoying overall. The insistence on including "he and she/ man and woman" distinctions at every turn and the hokey "I am u & are me" lazy yokel philosophy which I think Isabelle Huppert considers Nietzschean or something is grating a little but no complaints overall

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586924]

>>1586919
I'm not trying to bother you

but medieval literature is shit

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586930]

>>1586924
I'm not trying to disagree with you but that's fucking wrong

[Byrhtwold No.1586935]

>>1586920
>>Leaves of Grass
Ergh... Yeah, I know what you mean. I like a lot of his other poems better, actually - ones where he doesn't have to make those distinctions all the bloody time. It's probably cliché, but "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is one of my favourite poems, right up there with the other possible clichés like Tennyson's "Ulysses"

I'm not so sure I agree with Huppert's desire to call it Nietzschean, though. Sounds like a bit of a stretch.

[Anonymous No.1586936]

>LAST READ
On the Road It sucked

>CURRENTLY READING
Slaughterhouse-five

>WILL READ
Catch-22

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586937]

>>1586930
>majority
excuse me

you will still deny me?

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586940]

>>1586937
That is not much of a point there fab the majority of any era in literature is shit

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586942]

>>1586940
fine

I still hate a lot of popular medieval literature

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586945]

>>1586935
>I'm not so sure I agree with Huppert's desire to call it Nietzschean
It was a little more complicated a comparison and I am misrepresenting what he said at the time, but it's an interesting comparison I prob. wouldn't have picked up on myself

[Byrhtwold No.1586950]

>>1586945
I'll admit, I'm interested in hearing it. Any idea where you saw that?

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586959]

>>1586950
It was a few months ago, I gave a look on green oval and I couldn't find the post, sorry

[Anonymous No.1586960]

>>1586760

Too bad Nietzsche is probably the most overrated philosopher of all time.

[Anonymous No.1586963]

>LAST READ
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
Neuromancer - William Gibson

>CURRENTLY READING
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Logic - Immanuel Kant
The Meaning of it all: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist - Richard P. Feynman

>WILL READ
The Peace & War Omnibus - Joe Haldeman
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

[Byrhtwold No.1586972]

>>1586959
Ah well, no bother - I'm assuming it was in a journal, so I'll have a look through the usual places. Cheers for that.

[Anonymous No.1586973]

How do you tripfags have time for reading when you are always here ?

I'm sure none of you read/work/school ect..

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1586979]

>>1586973
i read during school

[Byrhtwold No.1586982]

>>1586973
I don't know if you're trying to troll ME, since this is the first time I've bothered to use a name on 4chan, but meh. I actually am doing research/higher degree work in Medieval Studies, and that's about all there is to say on the matter. I dunno if you were looking for more, or what.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1586986]

>>1586982
Actually while you're here; is there much call for literary theory in areas like medieval lit? I did a course on medieval texts last year and using lit theory to talk about the texts was like putting a suit on a dog. The closest we came was a vaguely marxist reading of one story.

[Anonymous No.1586988]

>LAST READ
High Tech, Low Pay - Marcy

>CURRENTLY READING
Living in the End Times - Zizek

>WILL READ
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics - Marcuse

I've been trying to get more into neo-Marism lately, thinking about breaking open some more Frankfurt School works in the next few months.

Can /lit/ supply me with any recommendations?

[Byrhtwold No.1586996]

>>1586986
Do you even understand what you're saying ?

You have to be the biggest dolt I have ever encountered online.

[Byrhtwold No.1586997]

>>1586986
There is, yeah. New Historicism is popular, because of the necessity of historical understanding when dealing with the field, but it's not the only theory. Really, the best way to apply things like that to Medieval lit are to avoid the "one school and one school only" approach (even/especially with New Historicism) and to view lit crit in general as a toolbox of sorts, from which you draw parts. Obviously, some schools are better able to do this than others (I know someone who spent ages trying to shoehorn postmodernism into everything, with little success).

What I personally find, and what my various mentors over time have ingrained in me, is the need to bring your theories to the literature with an eye to the history (this is again why some people are content to just use New Historicism and New Historicism alone, it's easier). In memorable words, "An important part of any text is that it is a conversation with the author. We owe it to them to at least meet them halfway." We'll never be the author's perfect audience (even their contemporary audience probably wasn't), but once we can get to that point, we can then start relating it back to how we understand it in terms of our contemporary world as well. Case in point, if you're interested in Marxism, I actually read an interesting paper a while back entitled "The Social Function of Middle English Romance" that cast an eye on that subject with an eye to, among other things, Marxist theory.

Sorry, that got longwinded. tl;dr - Yes, but I would say that any theory alone is imperfect, and should attempt to work alongside a historical approach (though not necessarily be subordinate to it).

[Byrhtwold No.1586998]

>>1586996
That's.. Not me, but hey.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1587008]

>>1586997
Yeah, that all fits very well with how I was taught to approach the stories we studied; Archetypal theory was pitched to us as a useful tool to look at the text with. It probably didn't help that the professor I studied under for one class was quite skeptical of taking the texts with a theoretical bent, so we didn't really focus on historical aspects. But thanks, that all makes quite a bit of sense when I look back on what I did.

[Anonymous No.1587013]

ok so,

>Last 3
Pulp- Bukowski
Madame de Sade- Mishima
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman- Murakami

>Currently reading
The Sound and The Fury- Faulkner

>Will Read
Journey to the End of the Night- Celine
Them- Oates

[Byrhtwold No.1587015]

>>1587008
Some professors are just annoying like that... I've had my fair share of them too over the years.

Anyways, I'm going to drop back to lurking while I cook dinner, so meh to any imitation-brand Byrhtwolds. Thanks for the discussion and that suggestion about Whitman.

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1587021]

>>1586760
the fact that d&e bunched up with bb out of all the potential theory-buddies makes me doubt his abilities for a second before reconsidering he's probably just doing it because BB is the only other with personality.

>>1586781
>madame bovary
really l'etranger is babbies first french book not that i think you'll actually go through with learning french, just saying.

>>1586788
fabulous isnt a bro to you?

>>1586791
what do you think of Nausea so far caps

>>1586815
cocky dicks dont get, well maybe they do irl. but we're too lazy here.

>>1586871
lol

[Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP No.1587047]

>>1587021
>>1587021
>>1587021
>>1587021
ty i only read the first thing you said and felt i had to reply with outrage.
you have a personality.
a great one.
one which i, and i'm sure i'm speaking for everyone else here loves.
i read recently you are doubting your worth, especially whether you should trip or not.
the only thing i can say to that?
DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT MISTER.
<33333333333333333

[God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ No.1587051]

p.s. what's ur opinion on Badiou's thought, d&e?

besides the fact that he's adorable

[Anonymous No.1587073]

Breaking Bad rules. Best show on TV atm

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1587076]

>>1587051
I haven't gotten around to him yet. Do you think he has anything to say I would find interesting (i.e. not the product of a myopic slave dialect?)

[Anonymous No.1587077]

>>1587021
>>1587047
TyBrax is a piece of shit. At least his ridiculous psychological breakdown seems to have ended, but that will always taint my opinion of him. Also, he didn't need to be a dick about the Anon who's reading Madame Bovary just now. How's he even know the guy's learning French? He could be fluent, or he could be reading a translation.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1587087]

>>1587051
Well, he's a marxist so I guess something must have went wrong somewhere along the lines

jk haven't gotten around to reading up on him yet. do you think he has anything valid to offer those of us who are not enamoured with myopic slave dialects?

[God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ No.1587094]

>>1587076
Well Ethics is a pretty condensed (and accessible) intro to his system; I'm told Being and Event is his masterwork; so I dunno if I could judge that wholly. He does vehemently reject Levinas and the postmodern attraction to the 'ethics of the Other' and human rights and all that, so yeah maybe. There is a chapter where he has a brief but subtle love affair with Nietzsche. His Ethics rejects the 'Other,' and considers all ethical actions those that retain fidelity to 'truth-processes' or somethin. Of course he's also a committed Communist along with Zizek, but focuses less on the psychoanalytic aspects.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1587095]

AUGGGGHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.1587099]

[Anonymous No.1587100]

>>1587076
>i.e. not the product of a myopic slave dialect?
You don't get round the slave dialectic by denying it, all you can do is accept it's always there.

[♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI No.1587102]

badiou is better than whatever shit d&e is enamored with
hurr slave dialectic durr

[God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ No.1587107]

>>1587102
I dunno. And maybe it's just because I'm a humble undergrad/haven't read Being and Event, but I still don't know what the fuck he means by a truth-process

[Anonymous No.1587115]

>>1587095
I think it's calmed down now

[Anonymous No.1587119]

All class related

>LAST READ
Ethel Wilson - Hetty Dorval
Sheila Watson - The Double Hook
Ovid - Metamorphoses

>CURRENTLY READING
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Virgil - Aeneid

>WILL READ
Evelyn Waugh - The Loved Ones
Percy James - House of Hate
Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Grey

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1587133]

>>1587021
>>1587047
you're both dull as could be

BB is likeable

Ty is just a miserable cunt

[Anonymous No.1587141]

>LAST READ
Brightness Reef - David Brin

>CURRENTLY READING
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

>WILL READ
The Fort - Bernard Cornwell
Infinity's Shore - David Brin
Heaven's Reach - David Brin
Eight Skilled Gentleman - Barry Hughart

[God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ No.1587161]

Alsoooo Don Quixote came in the mail today so that totally goes on my WLL RD list

Also it's in the best condition I've ever gotten a book for less than 2 dollars off amazon. Besides Civilization and its Discontents which was 2 cents and is almost brand new.

[Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI No.1587190]

Last read:

A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Currently Reading:

A Midsummer-Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
The Western Cannon by Harold Bloom
Hard Times by Charles Dickens

NEXT:

All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
The Moon and Sixpence by Maugham

[Anonymous No.1587230]

>LAST READ
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Fanfan - Alexandre Jardin
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

>CURRENTLY READING
Anne Frank's Diary

>WILL READ
Kafka's complete short stories
The Stranger - Camus

[Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP No.1589100]

>>1587133
>>1587133

[Anonymous No.1589112]

>Last three read
The Name of the Flower by Kuniko Mukoda
A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature by J. Thomas Rimer
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

>Currently reading
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

>Next three reads
To Live by Yu Hua
The Sea and the Poison by Shusaku Endo
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

[Anonymous No.1589114]

>>1589112

[Anonymous No.1589211]

>>1589112
nice

[Anonymous No.1589217]

>LAST READ
The List of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

>CURRENTLY READING
Armor by John Steakley
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

>WILL READ
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Stars, My Destination by Alfred Bester
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn

Other suggestions welcome.

[Anonymous No.1589219]

UPDATE TIME:

LAST THREE:
NAUSEA - SARTRE (1938) TOO DEEP FOR ME, WILL PROBABLY RE-READ IN THE NEXT TEN OR SO YEARS

WARD NUMBER 6 - CHEKHOV (1892) MY FAVOURITE SHORT STORY/NOVELLA AUTHOR AMAZES ME YET AGAIN WITH ANOTHER STORY FOCUSING ON THE TOPIC OF MENTAL ILLNESS.

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT - CELINE (1932)

CURRENTLY READING:
DEAD SOULS - GOGOL (1842) REALLY BEGINNING TO APPRECIATE GOGOL'S HUMOR STYLE, ONLY A QUARTER OR SO THROUGH, SO NOT MUCH I CAN SAY SO FAR. FOR SOME REASON I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A TEDIOUS READ, BUT ONCE AGAIN CAPSGUY WAS SILLY.

NEXT THREE:
WHAT MEN LIVE BY - TOLSTOY

CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH - TOLSTOY (1852) SHOULD REALLY BE INTERESTING TO GAIN SOME INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF ONE OF MY FAVOURITE AUTHORS.

THE STREET OF CROCODILES - SCHULZ (1933) PROMISED AN ANON AND RECENTLY A FRIEND FROM POLAND I WOULD CHECK THIS OUT, QUITE EXCITED AS I HEARD IT'S QUITE THE UNIQUE WORK, SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO KAFKA'S PIECES IN NATURE.

AS ALWAYS, FEEL FREE TO RECOMMEND ME THOSE PRE-WW II WORKS.

[Anonymous No.1589220]

>LAST READ
Joris-Karl Huysmans - A rebours

>CURRENTLY READING
Comte de Lautreamont - Les chants de Maldoror

>WILL READ
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1589223]

>>1589219
>NAUSEA - SARTRE (1938) TOO DEEP FOR ME, WILL PROBABLY RE-READ IN THE NEXT TEN OR SO YEARS
pretty much how I felt although I chalked it down to Sartre being a rubbishy writer

[Anonymous No.1589238]

>>1589223
HOPEFULLY I'LL HAVE BETTER LUCK WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING.

[Anonymous No.1589246]

>>1589220
Looks like someone's into the whole Decadent thing.

>LAST READ
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

>CURRENTLY READING
Hemingway - First 49 Stories

>WILL READ
Mahabharata

[Virginia W00F !!GThm5VqxqDi No.1589259]

>>1586810
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
>>1586805
Man... I don't know what constitutes profound anymore. I'll say this: I think he has some interesting insight on...uh...Americana I guess. I'm not all that far in yet.

[Anonymous No.1589267]

>>1589220

then.... he fucks a SHARK!!! YOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.1589446]

>LAST READ
Seize the Day - Bellow
The Cossacks - Tolstoy
The Bluest Eye - Morrison

>CURRENTLY READING
Petersburg - Bely

>WILL READ
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Gulliver's Travels - Swift

[Anonymous No.1589535]

>>1586790
No leas Historia universal de la infamia, no es tan bueno como las otras obras de Borges.

[Anonymous No.1589549]

>Last read
Amuleto - Roberto Bolaño
>Currently reading
Los detectives salvajes - Bolaño
>To read
Point Omega - Don DeLillo
Sunlight Dialogues - John Gardner

[Anonymous No.1589559]

>LAST READ
-Heidegger's The Turning, The Question Concerning Technology, The Word of Nietzsche
-The Aspern Papers - Henry James
-The Sickness Unto Death - Kierkegaard

>CURRENTLY READING
Heidegger's The Age of the World Picture and Science and Reflection

>WILL READ
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals - Kant
Anthology of the works of Soren Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.1589563]

>>1589535
>>1589535

Ya lo leí cuando tenía como... 13, 12 años, supuestamente ahora lo voy a releer, aunque ni me lo acuerdo :p. Aparte de Borges ya leí casi todo.

[Anonymous No.1589572]

>LAST READ

On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
John Dies at the End - David Wong
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Mogworld - Yahtzee Croshaw

>CURRENTLY READING

The Difference Engine - Gibson, Sterling
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

>WILL READ

Storm Front - Jim Butcher
The Pale Kind - David Foster Wallace

[Anonymous No.1590633]

Abc

[3rd No.1590641]

>>1589572
>The Pale Kind
>Pale Kind
>Kind

[Anonymous No.1590652]

SEEMS LIKE I'VE GONE OVER MY INTERNET LIMIT, MAY AS WELL GO TO UNI EARLY AND READ MORE, SO I CAN UPDATE THIS BITCH QUICKER.

[Anonymous No.1591138]

>>1590641

>>Post
>>Come back six hours later
>>Realize typo
>>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU

[Anonymous No.1591334]

>>1587141
Hey Brin guy, are you still here? Seeing as you've read Brightness Reef, is the new Uplift trilogy related to the events in Startide Rising, or is it just another unrelated story arc?

[Anonymous No.1591337]

FUCK YEAH, THIS THREAD STILL GOING. BUT NO UPDATES FROM CAPPIE, BUT TOMORROW THERE WILL BE!

[ZiggyMeister !THUCK2SfO2 No.1591341]

>LAST READ
Salammbô - Flaubert
Les Mots - J.P. Sartre
>CURRENTLY READING
As You Like It - Shakespeare
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
>WILL READ
>Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare
>Eugénie Grandet - Balzac
>Le Père Goriot - Balzac

[Anonymous No.1591386]

>>1591341
YOU SIR, ARE AMAZING.

[Donne !!+SByMppsy+r No.1591823]

>read:
(reread)
Heart of Darkness
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Dubliners
Assorted Modernist and Elizabethan poetry.
>Reading
The Unfortunate Traveller
Jacob's Room
>Will read
Time's Arrow
Oblivion: Stories
The Anxiety of Influence
Night and Day

[Anonymous No.1591926]

LAST
2666, Bolano
Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mafouz
Fathers and Sons, Turgenev


NOW
Infinite Jest, Wallace
Straw Dogs, John Gray

NEXT
? Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.1591938]

>>1591341

Is Salammbô any good? Considering reading it since Bouvard and Pecuchet is not bad.

Last 2:
Nice Work - David Lodge
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Now:
The Victim - Saul Bellow
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Ulysses - Joyce (I know)

Future:
Whatever's next in line on my bookcase, not there right now.

[Anonymous No.1591958]

Last: Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King.
Now: Circus, Alistair MAclean.
Next: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne.

[Anonymous No.1591995]

>last read
"the grapes of wrath" - steinbeck
"metro 2033", dmitry glukhovsky

>currently reading
"east of eden", steinbeck

>will read
"the boat", nam le

[Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP No.1592948]

last read:
the great gatsby

currently reading:
ferdydurke

next to read:
either naked lunch
catcher in the rye
or something else (not yet decided)

[Anonymous No.1592969]

>>1586760
>LAST READ
>Twilight

Stopped reading there.

[Anonymous No.1592973]

>>1592969

You're so cool and edgy, you're putting down a book you've never even read because of it's association with terrible movies and teenage girls.

Face it, you're not better than midwestern anti-communists.

[Anonymous No.1592989]

>LAST READ
The Walmart Effect

>CURRENTLY READING
Homage to Catalonia

>WILL READ
Notes From the Underground
Stranger in a Strange Land
Roadside Picnic

>>1586781

FUCK YES THE GOOD EARTH

One of my all time favorites for sure.

[Anonymous !.M17dCV/UE No.1593006]

>LAST READ
Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke

>CURRENTLY READING
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

>WILL READ
Even The Dogs by John McGregor

[Anonymous No.1593008]

>LAST READ
1984- Orwell, Roadside Picnic- Strugatsky

>CURRENTLY READING
Brave New World- Huxley, Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky

>WILL READ
Foundation Pit- Platonov, Atlas Shrugged- Rand, Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky, War and Peace- Tolstoy, Under the Dome- Stephen King

Fuck I have a lot ahead of me and that's not even the full list for future reading.

[Anonymous No.1593009]

>>1592948
So how's high school going?

[Anonymous No.1593011]

Anyone else notice that every time we have one of these threads D+E posts like, 3+ new books he's read in the past week?

The fucker is ALWAYS on 4chan. How the fuck can he read so many books in so short a time?

Answer: He can't.

[Anonymous No.1593012]

>>1593009

Way to be a snob, bro.
We're all really impressed to read Adorno.

Seriously, why is everyone on /lit/ a dick all of a sudden?

[Anonymous No.1593015]

>>1592989
>Roadside Picnic
Fucking awesome read man, you'll love it especially if you played the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games and/or saw the movie Stalker.

[Anonymous No.1593017]

>>1593012
Dicks fuck assholes bro. It's just nature.

No spread it.

[Anonymous No.1593019]

>>1593017

This board should be above all that dickishness, this isn't /b/.

[Anonymous No.1593020]

Nah, you can scan through paradise lost in a week.

You can't understand it, but you can scan it. Except of course that Herp&Derpy will claim to have acheived full understanding of a poem that's occupied brighter people for their entire career.

[Anonymous No.1593021]

>>1593015

I've seen the movie and I love Call of Pripyat. I'm pretty psyched to read the book. Just need to get a hold of it now.

[Anonymous No.1593022]

>>1593019
>implying human nature is above dickishness

[Anonymous No.1593026]

>>1593022

>implying there is such thing as human nature

Go read a book, bro.

[Anonymous No.1593031]

>>1593026
No U.

[Anonymous No.1593034]

>LAST READ
She by Haggard
>CURRENTLY READING
Siddharta

>WILL READ
Teatro Grotessco
A Confederacy of Dunces

[Anonymous No.1593035]

I was watching the film again and I realised that the Stalkers in the game and novel are most like the Doctor/Professor, not like the "Stalker" character.

He's got the hooded jacket and backpack, he goes off on his own for a while and navagates the zone without any help, he goes to an underground bunker to steal something, he wants to destroy the Wishgranter...

The Professor is fucking Strelok.

[Anonymous No.1593037]

>>1593021
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
The external links at the bottom are what I used to print out a pdf file of it, because I could not find a copy that wasn't 400 bucks. I will still buy an actual copy if I can find one, but for 150 something pages, just print that shit out and put it in a binder to relax with in the evenings. Also, make sure you play Shadow of Chernobyl, I've found a lot more similarities or references to Roadside Picnic there than in CoP and Clear Sky combined just from the anomalies. Still, all the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are good modded and vanilla, so enjoy!

[Anonymous No.1593039]

>>1593031

How about you defend your position on human nature instead?

[Anonymous No.1593042]

>>1593035
>hooded jacket
>picture of a man with nothing but a collar and a cap.

[Anonymous No.1593043]

>>1593026
took the words right out of my mouth

[Anonymous No.1593047]

>>1593039
Against what, my dick waving brethren? A comment on the interwebs?

[Anonymous No.1593056]

>>1593035
I am Strelok!

[Anonymous No.1593063]

>>1593037

I tried SoC before CoP. Hated it. Granted it was vanilla. But it was super broken imo. I'm considering modding it up and trying again.

And thanks I'm def gonna print this out.

[Anonymous No.1593065]

>>1593056

[Anonymous No.1593070]

>>1593063
No problem bro, that's to be expected. CoP is the only one that is near perfect vanilla, and the other two need mods to not be broken entirely, but if you get a mod you like, it can be the best for you.

[Anonymous No.1593071]

>>1593037

Here you go. A cheap book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roadside-Picnic-Masterworks-Boris-Strugatsky/dp/0575079789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF
8&qid=1298946486&sr=8-1

[Anonymous No.1593090]

>>1593071
Holy shit, thanks man!
I live in America, though. Will it matter that it's from the uk amazon?

[Anonymous No.1593093]

>>1593090
Make .co.uk .com

[Anonymous No.1593094]

>>1593090

Probably a bit more expensive delivery, but that should be everything. I live in Sweden and order from amzn.com/.co.uk without any problems.

[Anonymous No.1593096]

>>1593071

OOOOOOOOOH shit Imma have to buy that.

[Anonymous No.1593102]

>LAST READ
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

>CURRENTLY READING
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Meaning of it all: Thoughts of Citizen Scientist - Richard P. Feynman
Logic - Immanuel Kant

>WILL READ
The Peace & War Omnibus - Joe Haldeman
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age - Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus

[Anonymous No.1593106]

>LAST READ

Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman.
The Pleasure of Finding Things out - Richard Feynman
What do you care what other people think - Richard Feynman

>CURRENTLY READING
Origins - Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith.
Antimatter - Frank Close.
Leonardo, The First Scientist - Michael White

>WILL READ
Newton, The Last Sorcerer - Michael White.
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman
Six not-so easy pieces - Richard Feynman

And a bunch of other books I ordered that came in the mail a few days back.

[Anonymous No.1593107]

>>1593093
>mfw these prices
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0575079789/ref=kinw_rke_tl_1
Fucking America!

>>1593094
Thanks, since I already read the pdf version, I am willing to wait for the extra shipping time etc.

[Anonymous No.1593119]

>>1593096
>>1593107

You're welcome!

[Anonymous No.1593148]

>last
lovecraft

>current
too depressed to read now

>eventually
transhumanist manifesto

[Anonymous No.1593152]

>>1593106
have you read QED? if not, you really need to, it's the best science book I've read I think. And what do you think of Feynman, the character? I think that he came out as a bit dickish and self-important in Surely. too many stories about him trying to be eccentric for the sake of being eccentric, too many features about picking up girls and looking down on the non-physicists/biologists, and not enough science niceties, I found. Great scientist and a very sharp mind though, no doubt.

LAST READ
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

READING NOW
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Heart of Darkness

WILL READ
something out of those when I'm done with the last two:
Tropics of Cancer
Blood Meridian
Dubliners
Le nez qui voque
Le père Goriot
The Ward of the End of the World

[Anonymous No.1594081]

LAST THREE:
DEAD SOULS - GOGOL
FEAR AND TREMBLING - KIERKEGAARD (JUST THE STORY, WILL REVISIT IT LATER FOR THE REST WHEN I AM LESS OF A RETARD)
WHAT MEN LIVE BY - TOLSTOY

CURRENTLY:
PROBABLY THE STREET OF CROCODILES - SCHULZ

NEXT THREE:
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH - TOLSTOY
THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS - CONRAD
THREE YEARS - CHEKHOV