/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16547757]

What's /lit/ reading this weekend?

[Anonymous No.16547770]

[Anonymous No.16547783]

>>16547757
Don Quiche Oat

[Anonymous No.16547798]

>>16547757
De finibus, definitely one of cicero's best works

[Anonymous No.16547800]

>>16547757
Halfway through The Devil in the White City by Larson. Finish that by tomorrow morning, then rereading Paradise Lost and Robinson Crusoe for some light reading. Sunday I'll be reading the second volume of The Wealth of Nations.

[Anonymous No.16547805]

>>16547757

[Anonymous No.16547814]

>>16547757
The golden Bought by Frazer. It's peak comfy.

[Anonymous No.16548167]

>>16547757
The City of God

[Anonymous No.16548171]

Paris spleen

[Anonymous No.16548173]

Kunen's Set Theory

[Anonymous No.16548180]

Leviathan by Hobbes (2nd time) and Rebellion by Ackroyd (1st time).

[Anonymous No.16548184]

>>16547757
Gravity's Rainbow, Paradise Lost, and a textbook on schizophrenia. Really starting to appreciate the first two now that I'm ~1/4 of the way through, the descriptions of eden and adam and eve make me tear up a bit

[Anonymous No.16548185]

i'm learning italian.
any entry level recs?

[Anonymous No.16548187]

I'm at some point nearish the middle of Disgrace by Coetzee. I know we're not allowed to like Coetzee here, but I'm enjoying it a lot. Maybe enjoy isn't the right word since it's an incredibly bleak novel, but it's definitely reaching me.

[Anonymous No.16548225]

>>16548180
good luck, I found leviathan to be exceptionally boring
>>16547770
this looks interesting :)

[Anonymous No.16548255]

>>16548180
>Leviathan by Hobbes (2nd time)
Basado

[Anonymous No.16548256]

Finished Homer last weekend and this week I read through all of Aeschylus' minor plays + the first two plays of the Oresteia. Today I'm reading the last play, Eumenides, and moving on to Sophocles.

I "started with the greeks" and thought I'd find them dreadfully boring. I only did it out of wanting a more complete understanding of literary history but goddamn they're great fun. If anyone is apprehensive about reading the greeks, I promise it's worth it. It's all really engaging.

[Anonymous No.16548279]

Started uni and taking advantage of the library

[Anonymous No.16548285]

Junky

[Anonymous No.16548291]

starting up Moby dick, finishing off volume 1 of a history of sexuality, and hoping to get past the first 5 pages of Hobbes Leviathan as well

[Anonymous No.16548297]

I'm going to start Book 11 of Shaw's Iliad as soon as I finish this post

[Anonymous No.16548307]

Confessions of a mask

[Anonymous No.16548310]

>>16547757
comfiest read i had in a while for the moment

[Anonymous No.16548314]

>>16547757
A compilation of Poe's prose and poetry alongside Camus's La Peste.

[Anonymous No.16548322]

>>16547757
I'm not sure, considering going to the library to buy the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Pindar and Hesiod so that I can finally get to read them.

[Anonymous No.16548345]

>>16548310
is reading good for you

[Anonymous No.16548356]

>>16547770
I just finished GGP and I liked it a lot, but the older prose kinda made me space out a lot and miss parts of the story.

[Anonymous No.16548360]

>>16548310
Boobies

[Anonymous No.16548362]

>>16547757
finishing Lolita

[Anonymous No.16548396]

>>16547757
The Fall of Hyperion.

[Anonymous No.16548449]

>>16547757
The odyssey. I arrived late to literature, but I am still young and I can still cultivate my mind, after this one I am going to read Anna Karenina or Crime and punishment, hope they are good books.

[Anonymous No.16548463]

>>16548185
Calvino maybe? I've only read him in translation (not in english) but he's peak comfy and doesn't seem like a hard author

[Anonymous No.16548470]

Portrait of the Artist

[Anonymous No.16548495]

>>16547757
/lit/ reads???

[Anonymous No.16548502]

Prosper Mérimée - La Chronique du temps de Charles IX

[Anonymous No.16548511]

>>16548463
grazie, amico.

[Anonymous No.16548525]

>>16548495
only when observed by an other, like a quantum particle

[Anonymous No.16548531]

Started yesterday, it's been great so far. Had somehow never heard of it until I saw anon post it in a thread last week.

[Anonymous No.16548532]

>>16548525
lol

[Anonymous No.16548540]

>>16547757
my tenth chincfic webnovel

[Anonymous No.16548555]

>>16547757
Poor folks

[Anonymous No.16548559]

>>16547757
Finishing American Psycho, starting Contact.

[Anonymous No.16548571]

>>16547757
Tempest
Dubliners
Nabokov stories
60 stories

Basically all rereads.

[Anonymous No.16548603]

>>16548511
You're welcome, have fun. My starting point was The Nonexistent Knight which was short, comfy, felt like a book for children if it wouldn't be for the few sentences, at some key parts, where the writing changed and was much more lyrical, expressive and even prettier without feeling purple or pretentious, effortlessly going back to normal for the narration. I also enjoyed Invisible Cities, and I have yet to read Difficult Loves

[Anonymous No.16548618]

I'm having some books sent over to me by my mother. Might take the time to read more of Montaigne and Descartes when they arrive.

[Anonymous No.16548658]

Baby Alex

[Anonymous No.16548667]

>>16547757
Dostoevsky's The Idiot

[Anonymous No.16548673]

>>16547757
Just starting Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo.

[Anonymous No.16549661]

>>16547757
>the Pauline Epistles

[Anonymous No.16549690]

>>16547757
The Yoga Vasistha

[Anonymous No.16551015]

>>16548225
I can definitely see him being boring. I think the most important thing is to not read him in isolation. His metaphysics are quite interesting and he’s one of the main empiricists. His political theory is the most dry, but it becomes interesting when compared to others like Rousseau and Hume.

The last part on the Nicene Creed is only interesting if you’re concerned with the history of christianity, which I think is interesting from a cultural engineering/statecraft standpoint. The Bible is fascinating if you read it as a tool of government rather than a spiritual document (though it has a lot of wisdom on that part too).

[Anonymous No.16551022]

>>16548279
Books 1-5 are very good and important to understand later Rome. Nonetheless, good choice.

[Anonymous No.16551041]

finishing up Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg, then moving on to the last several chapters of Kissinger's Diplomacy

[Anonymous No.16551078]

Currently reading Bad Samaritans. Also reading Night Shift to get in the Halloween Spirit.

[Anonymous No.16551194]

>>16548667
a wonderful choice
>>16548673
intrigued by what i've seen upon looking this one up; will have to delve further in
>>16548571
solid reads that will no doubt be doubly illuminating and rewarding the second time around
>>16548559
i found American Psycho to be terrifically funny
was blown away by the denouement scene between Patrick and Jean (won't spoil it here, in case you haven't made it that far); added a dimension to the book that was conspicuously absent from the film version
>>16548531
will have to check this one out
>>16548470
lovely
did you begin with Dubliners and move on to this, or did you decide to read Joyce's works in a different order? Joyce's books are incredible -- i've finished all of them except Finnegan's Wake, which I don't think I'll be re-attempting any time soon (it's quite a trek)
>>16548449
we all had to start somewhere, anon
hope you enjoy the greek epics as much as i did my first time around; godspeed
>>16548314
very nice; you should check out Poe's monograph "The Philosophy Of Composition" if you haven't already -- a very good primer for Poe's style and an instructive treatise on style which will benefit any author looking to improve
>>16548285
really enjoyed this one, anon
Burroughs spaces out his grotesque imagery and bits of narrative eloquence really well -- just as the story begins to seem like just bland genre fiction, Burroughs's touches of style grab the reader's attention again -- a more enjoyable work than Queer, i feel, at least in terms of prose style and 'lurid' subject matter

[Anonymous No.16551209]

>>16547757
faust
its really boring so far

[Anonymous No.16551278]

>>16547757
finishing off where angels fear to tread by e m forster. pretty witty and very enjoyable. very mature style considering it was his first novel, published when he was 26. wouldn't get published today, too many stereotypes
not sure after that. maybe the slynx by tatyana tolstaya, found a copy of the nyrb edition for £2 in an oxfam recently.
also got a stack of magazines to sort through and some technical stuff to read
that's my sunday sorted

[Anonymous No.16551289]

>>16548310
Read this a while back, not my favorite Flaubert but he captures a certain mysticism of the period that I found delightful. I think the book could have been longer desu, with more of Salammbo herself. Some real kino scenes in there for sure though

[Anonymous No.16551296]

>>16547757
Grapes of wrath, big feels bros

[Anonymous No.16551352]

>>16547757
Society of the Spectacle
Emerson's essays
Wallace Stevens

[Anonymous No.16551444]

Finishing off La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret, what an amazing book. So far the prose is gorgeous, and the semi-hallucinatory prayer passages will stick with me for a long time.

[Anonymous No.16551462]

>>16547757
First as Tragedy then as Farce

[Anonymous No.16551545]

>>16547757
Very comfy so far.

Also reading a collection of Rilke's poetry

[Anonymous No.16551566]

>>16547757
Some Cicero orations. If I finish them sooner than expected I'll move on to his letters before Monday.

[Anonymous No.16551734]

>>16547757
Just finished Surveillance Valley

[Anonymous No.16551896]

>>16551545
>>16551566
Nice choices anons

[Anonymous No.16551966]

only 60 pages in or so
think it will be good as a whole but the proustian sidetracking is tedious to get through already

[Anonymous No.16551981]

>>16547757
Just got a copy of Penguin Don Quixote by Rutherford. It's mostly for my bookshelf, but I will reread it, because it's a great book.

[Anonymous No.16551994]

Light reading, but it's entertaining, well-argued and well-written.

[Anonymous No.16552317]

>>16547757
Bacon's "Illusions". Not sure why I've put that off for so long, since almost all of the canonical writers I enjoy inordinately are explicit about the subject to some degree, never mind the salutary effects of detecting one's own bullshit when the weather and one's circumstances are fine enough to vacation in reality.

[Anonymous No.16552601]

>>16552317
Canonical writers should be primary reading. It’s unfortunate that they’re only left to those who seek them, often out of disdain for the current primary reading.

[Anonymous No.16552617]

I haven't been reading lately. I've been feeling more and more depressed lately. I'm still capable of doing everything else, but my desire to read has seemingly evaporated.

[Anonymous No.16552648]

I bought this book a few months ago, but I've only started reading it in the last week. It's actually really good. The storytelling is very good and the way James transmits dialect through text is really good in a Mark Twain- or Faulkner-esque way.

[Anonymous No.16552670]

Infinite jest finally. Did dfw just write himself in this book?

[Anonymous No.16552671]

>>16547757
>Nisioisin - Kizumonogatari
>St. Augustine - Confessions
>Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
>Edward Feser - Scholastic Metaphysics

Finished Kizu and almost finished confessions - almost 1/3 of the way through Feser and just started Murakami

[Anonymous No.16552674]

>>16547757
Read the autobiography of black hawk and I'm gonna keep going on Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.16552937]

Anyone read The God of Small Things?

It's kicking off a small book club with some friends. So far the writing in the beginning is a bit annoying, but it's had some clever moments.

[Anonymous No.16552955]

>>16547757
Just finished Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red while my wife was napping next to me. I enjoyed the opening criticism, its multiple sections, and much of the lyricism. Some of the strongest aspects are Carson’s startling similes and metaphors which are related to Stesichoros’ skill she discusses in the first section.

[Anonymous No.16552964]

>>16552670
Erdedy’s anxiety at the beginning of the book is definitely his

[Anonymous No.16552982]

>>16551296
Thirsty work

[Anonymous No.16552983]

>>16547757
I'm trying to blast through the second half of eye of the world because my backlog stack is hanging over me like the sword of Damocles

[Anonymous No.16553006]

getting to Madame Bovary finally, it's pretty tight so far

[Anonymous No.16554181]

>>16548571
>rereading
>can't add new books on goodreads

[Anonymous No.16554188]

>>16547757
The Black Company because I saw it #2 on some list on here. Pretty good so far!!

[Anonymous No.16554789]

Reading Nabokov's The Gift at the moment. The passage where he describes hunting for butterflies and their various kinds is sublime. Made me want to look up what kinds of butterflies are common to the area I live in.

[Anonymous No.16554792]

>>16547757
I'm reading my RPG stuff (no, it isn't d&d).

[Anonymous No.16554841]

Just started Atonement by McEwan, really enjoying how he’s building the story so far.

>>16552937
Yeah the writing is awful, I had to force myself to finish it. It’s a shame since the story is very good.

[Anonymous No.16554847]

orwell's essays. He's BTFOing Tolstoy, tolstoy hated shakespeare because tolstoy was king lear irl.

[Anonymous No.16554855]

>>16554847
Very nice anon, are you reading the complete 1400 page collection?

[Anonymous No.16554861]

>>16547757
I just finished a reread of the Iliad and debating to reread Metamorphoses or first read Aeneid. Aeneid seems more appropriate but I've been reminiscing about Ovid's Metamorphoses for some time now. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.16554872]

>>16554855
no there's 41 essays its a bit more than 500 pages on my tablet

[Anonymous No.16554879]

207 pages in on my first read. Really like it although I am expecting it to improve as it goes on. The scene in the castle when the wench comes to pleasure the carrier was very hilarious, other moments have been iconic, like the windmills, but didnt blow me away. This translation, Jarvis, is from 1742, and it has been a little difficult getting into the groove of the language, although I've got the hang of it now. I feel less contemporary language will bring me closer to the originals spirit.

I think everyone who loves literature can relate to Quixote. His impassioned rants and self-comparisons with characters reminds me of my own on Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, comparing myself to Andrei Bolkonsky, Levin and Myshkin, pontificating on the brilliant craftsmanship of the battle scenes in War and Peace.

The inter-textual play with the fictional chronicler of Quixotes tale I can see is one of the first seeds that grew into the many a post modernist shtick in the centuries that followed.

[Anonymous No.16554891]

>>16554861
Do whatever you want.

[Anonymous No.16554922]

>>16547770
Good one. Have you read The White people? That one is great, especially the opening!

[Anonymous No.16554926]

I'm reading Tutameia by Guimarães Rosa
Even the foreword is great

[Anonymous No.16554948]

Plato and Pindar

[Anonymous No.16554959]

Platform by Michel Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.16554962]

>>16551194
>very nice; you should check out Poe's monograph "The Philosophy Of Composition" if you haven't already -- a very good primer for Poe's style and an instructive treatise on style which will benefit any author looking to improve
I read an extract in which he discussed how the intellect, the heart and the soul are enticed in different ways, which I found fascinating. Passion for the heart, wisdom for the intellect and beauty for the soul. In particular, I was surprised when he reasoned that beauty is not an attribute, but rather a reaction. I thought about it and I couldn't help but to agree.

[Anonymous No.16555028]

What do i read next?

[Anonymous No.16555051]

>>16554922
Yes so far The White People is my favorite Machen. I just finished The Great God Pan and was a little underwhelmed by the ending. Starting The Hill of Dreams now. He’s just getting back from boarding school. Not very spooky so far but very comfy.

[Anonymous No.16555056]

>>16554891
I want to be liberated from my carnal prison.

[Anonymous No.16555101]

>>16551209
Goethe’s? Which translation?

[Anonymous No.16555573]

>>16552671
How is Nisioisin? I really enjoyed Kizu (movie) but I've been on the fence about reading Monogatari. How is it?

[Anonymous No.16556776]

>>16547757
I'm going for something easy: Frankenstein.

[Anonymous No.16556829]

>tfw finished to read what i planned to read this weekend

[Anonymous No.16556883]

>>16547757
Le Morte D'Arthur, I've almost finished. It was more engaging than I expected but I'm getting a little tired of reading about Lancelot disguising himself and going to jousts for the eighteenth time.

[Anonymous No.16556963]

Finishing the 2nd foundation novel then on to the next, also some philosophy in between when I'm not dealing with bullshit.

[Anonymous No.16556976]

endgame volume 1. Then 2666 probably

[Anonymous No.16557025]

didn't realize this guy was my nigga

[Anonymous No.16557033]

Satantango. So far it's very comfy, but not as depressing/hopeless I thought it would be. I didn't really "get" the Doctor's chapter, but it was pleasant nonetheless. Looking forward to Esti's chapter (or who I presume to be Esti; the little girl on Béla Tarr's movie poster).

>>16554926
>Guimarães Rosa
patrician choice I was reading Corpo de Baile earlier this year but stopped because covid. need to get back to it

[Anonymous No.16557132]

It's pretty comfy thus far, though he's mostly just talked about his childhood thus far. He just met with the kaiser though and is hoping to get sent the fight for schleswig-holstein. He's also given some interesting thoughts on education, like what he thinks young men should learn in school, and what they should wait to learn about in their more advanced years.

[Anonymous No.16557154]

Don quixote, war and peace, dracula, and le horla

[Anonymous No.16557207]

>>16556829
:DDDDDDDDDD

[Anonymous No.16557355]

man and his symbols. Im about 50 pages in, it's alright.

[Anonymous No.16557377]

>>16547757
Pierre by Melville and Pensees by Pascal

[Anonymous No.16557396]

>>16547757
Pic related, btw seams to me an asian adaptation of "À rebours" by Huysmans

[Anonymous No.16557432]

>>16547757
Getting Meditations by Marcus Aurelius tomorrow. What do you think about the book?

[Anonymous No.16558036]

>>16557432
p shit but good if you're a pseud

[Anonymous No.16558419]

i'm reading stephen king, murakami and a book called fangirl.

[Anonymous No.16558450]

Middlemarch

I am only a 200 pages in but very impressed so far

[Anonymous No.16558558]

>>16548185
o think this image would be really cool if someone made the hat’s eyes have the sharingan

[Anonymous No.16558607]

>>16547757
the alchemist

[Anonymous No.16559328]

>>16557432
One of the five or six books I repurchased after losing everything in a fire. Vital.

>>16551896
thanks fren
Am on page 623 of Essays now, enjoying the ride

[Anonymous No.16559335]

>>16547757
I read some assigned reading :/

[Anonymous No.16560112]

>>16555573
actually quite a fun and quick read
if you like the series reading the novels is a great idea

[Anonymous No.16560184]

>>16547757
Gibbon
Plutarch

[Anonymous No.16560214]

>>16547770
gay
>>16547783
gay
>>16547798
gay
>>16547800
baste but also gay
>>16547805
gay
>>16547814
baste
>>16548167
gay
>>16548171
baste
>>16548173
bug
>>16548180
bug
>>16548184
bug
>>16548185
baste
>>16548187
gay
>>16548225
gay
>>16548256
>translation
gay
>>16548279
>translation
gay
>>16548291
gay
>>16548297
>>16548307
>>16548310
>>16548362
gay
>>16548396
gay
>>16548449
>russians
gay
>>16548470
based
>>16548502
baste
>>16548531
gay
>>16548559
gay
>>16548571
baste and gay
>>16548667
cringe
>>16548673
cringe
>>16549661
cringe
>>16549690
cringe
>>16551209
baste and gay
>>16551352
kys
>>16551545
bug
>>16551566
bug
>>16551981
bug
>>16552671
cringe
>>16554879
bug
>>16554926
BASED
>>16554959
cringe and incel
>>16555028
gay
>>16556883
BAsED
>>16557025
gay seed help nigger
>>16557154
cringe
>>16557355
cringe
>>16557377
cringe
>>16557432
gay
>>16558450
based
>>16558607
gay

[Anonymous No.16560776]

I tried reading House of leaves
Idk if i got filtered or I am brainlet or what, but it couldnt get through the first chapter
That second story within, is off putting, the dialogue seems like it was written by an edgelord and super cringe
can I skip those parts or will i miss something
The Navidson house story was interesting

[Anonymous No.16560786]

>>16547757
assigned reading / Louis Gluck's Meadowlands. it was a good collection. more cohesive than oher collection I've read really. I can see why she got her nobel

[Anonymous No.16560788]

>>16560786

[Anonymous No.16560857]

>>16547757
The Federalist Papers

[Anonymous No.16561278]

müsli

[Anonymous No.16561689]

the haunting of hill house and pale fire at some point. ive paused Pnin cuz it makes me too happy and i dont wanna rush it

>>16560776
hol wasted a lot of my time. ive spent a lot of time discussing it and trying to understand why people liked it but its just bad and tryhard cringe and a total mess of ideas that dont mesh. the interesting parts dont go further than the premises imo and its the only book where only the cover is genious. im sorry if im killing ur vibe but i would have wanted to save that time cuz im a slow reader. anyways maybe read more reviews. again, sorry

>>16554847
tolstoys philosophy about art is insulting. hope he btfos him good

[Anonymous No.16562542]

>>16547757
Currently rereading Prometheus Rising.

[Anonymous No.16562547]

[Anonymous No.16562737]

>>16547757
Clannad

[Anonymous No.16562790]

The Throne of Bones, a collection of dark fantasy stories. It has its moments.

[Anonymous No.16562799]

>>16562737
Try Subahibi and The House in Fata Morgana

[Anonymous No.16562855]

[Anonymous No.16562875]

>>16547757
The Rover by Jospeh Conrad, found it in an antique/second hand bookshop.

[Anonymous No.16562888]

>>16547757

Camus' The Plague 'cause everyone was raving on about it.

[Anonymous No.16562902]

>>16547757
Anti-Oedipus

[Anonymous No.16563035]

Walden and the gospel of Mark

[Anonymous No.16563054]

>>16547757
The Hebrew Bible, translated by Robert Alter

[Anonymous No.16563126]

It's ok, get a lot of use out of my dictionary.

[Anonymous No.16563183]

Oyasumi Punpun
I never once expected I'd like a manga so much.

[Anonymous No.16563467]

>>16563183
Not /lit/ at all, i've read it and i failed to understand the "moral of the story" so to speak.
Is it that outside help can't save a person from their issues, or is it some poor-man's take on lives having very little value ?

[Anonymous No.16563486]

>>16563467
Stories don't always need a moral.

[Anonymous No.16563496]

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND BY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

[Anonymous No.16563597]

>>16563486
[If punpun has no meaning/moral] than it's absolute dogshit ; a tearjerker with a non-emotional protagonist, utterly for the sake of poignancy.

[Anonymous No.16563950]

Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix

[Anonymous No.16563969]

>>16563597
cool opinion bro