Can we just have a comfy fiction thread?

[Anonymous No.17127413]

I’m tired of all these philosophy threads, they’re making my brain hurt.

[Anonymous No.17127419]

I am reading the idiot
What are you reading frend

[Anonymous No.17127432]

Reading Life: A User's Manual. Had no idea going into it that it's a cozy collection of short stories that build off each other

[Anonymous No.17127441]

im reading the bible

[Anonymous No.17127452]

>>17127413
i could use this too anon. anyone want to talk about andrei from war and peace?

[Anonymous No.17128563]

>>17127413
good thread OP too bad no replies

Myself am half way into Mona Lisa Overdrive rn. 3rd book in the Sprawl Trilogy. It's a blast so far and think I will re read it next year because I'm enjoying it a lot. Will try to finish it this year still so I can start Dune in the new year.

Happy holidays!

[Anonymous No.17128571]

>>17128563

so the sequels are worth it?

[Anonymous No.17128574]

>>17127452
andrei is literally me

[Anonymous No.17128607]

Reading the Once and Future King, it's extremely comfy so far

[Anonymous No.17128617]

>>17128571
>Kind of in a cyberpunk hype right now so can't give an unbiased answer but I am enjoying my purchase of the trilogy a lot.

The entire story is a bit repetitive tho because it is the same "Unknown force plays 4d chess with punks" trope in all 3 books but he does incorporate a little from the previous books into the following book so it does give it a sense of a changing world.

Maybe don't blow your load instantly and buy the trilogy all at once like I did but I would definitely recommend you should give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.17128626]

>>17127413
Been rereading Infinite Jest, absolutely amazed at how emotional it is, far less humor than I remember and I am finding it very difficult as I near the end. Seeing how spot on it was in regards to how people avoid the difficult, avoid honest conversation and isolate themselves and everyone around them for the sake of short term easy to attain pleasure is depressing me to no end, these tendencies in society keep getting worse and show no signs of improving. It hurts.

Also read Mishima's Life For Sale, it was kind of fun, entertaining but somewhat forgettable.

[Anonymous No.17128650]

>>17128626
Genuine question here

Is it actually good? I see so many mixed reviews and none of them come close to each other. Some say it's the most pretentious thing ever and others say it's one of the best books they've ever read.

I saw this green text about it once and it kind of put me on the side of this book is probably really bad.

[Anonymous No.17128681]

>>17128650
It is wonderful. The thing that throws many readers is that he wrote the book to reflect how he saw society becoming, so what is important in the novel is hidden in spectacle and distractions, there is always something compelling trying to pull you away. As I mentioned above about people choosing easily attained short term pleasure over difficult long term happiness, that is how the book is structured, it is filled with easily attained short term pleasures. The amazing thing is how all of the spectacles and distractions support and tie into the work, they are not just there to obfuscate, there is not a single thing in the novel which does not directly serve the main themes.

Ignore the copy pasta.

[Anonymous No.17128703]

>>17128681
Oke thx for the reply!
Will put it in my to-read list then ^_^

[Anonymous No.17128775]

Read Great Gatsby last night. Made me appreciate more those mystery/adventure novels I usually read.
Now don't get me wrong, it's an excellent work, the author did a really good job in presenting the rot and parasitic nature of humans under all that glitter, but the ending can really tear out one's heart, and it's precisely the fact all that selfishness went unpunished that left me feeling kind of bitter about it all.
Eh, I'm a sucker for justice, it's sort of a flaw.

[Anonymous No.17128859]

>>17127413
Because you're not familiar with the terminology and it seems way scarier than it actually is. Best remember that just because plenty of /lit/izens are being verbose and appear to know things on the subject, doesn't mean they actually do.

But since you wanted to talk fiction, I've been thinking of revisiting Tolkien's LOTR trilogy and will likely read it all day, starting in a few hours. What about you, OP, what are you reading at the moment?

[Anonymous No.17129020]

>>17128617

thanx man! I'm gonna have to reread neuromancer first then... been more than 10 years. But i remember that after reading it, ghost in the shell and maybe even matrix seemed like pale copies of neuromancer with new skins.

[Anonymous No.17129832]

comfy bump

[Anonymous No.17130744]

Reading count zero rn, it's pretty cool .

[Anonymous No.17131750]

I'm reading the quran
it's ok but I've heard the bible is better

[Saint Seiso !Mahdi26/jg No.17131775]

/phil/ - Philosophy when?

[Anonymous No.17131781]

>>17127413
have just finished reading the karamazov brothers. what a ride it has been. tomorrow i'll start reading the trial

[Anonymous No.17131838]

>>17128574
impossible, for andrei is literally ME.

[Anonymous No.17131912]

>>17128775
>>17128775
The symbolism of T.J Eckleburg's faded eyes overlooking the Valley of Ashes being God's eyes over the literal decay of human morality is one of the reasons I started reading literature in the first place.

[Anonymous No.17131985]

>>17131781
based. Brothers Karamazov is one of the best reads of all time. What chapter or section was your favorite?

[Anonymous No.17132274]

>>17131985
Tbh some parts of the iljiusha side story touched me more than the rest of the novel, for example when snegiryov tells alyosha about how he wants to escape with his family from the village so that they can at last be at peace or when iljiusha is reconciled with "his" dog with the help of krasotkin. Ivan's conversation with the devil is something that also stuck with me because of its eariness but also because of its somewhat ironic nature.