/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17898278]

Post the books you read in March

[Anonymous No.17898282]

>>17898278
And also what you've got planned for April.

[Anonymous No.17898392]

>>17898278
Too lazy to pull them off my shelf and stack them up for a picture so
>Argonautica
>Before the Muses
>History of the Ancient Near East
>Hero With a thousand faces
Planned
>Egyptian Mytholgy
>writings from ancient Egypt
>the ship who sang
I'm also planning on reading into oriental mythology. Just need to choose a culture to start with still. Will probably start with Korean as my dad speaks it and can help me find good texts for it, if he remembers them from when he used to read Korean literature.

[Anonymous No.17898401]

In March I read Ulysses, Stoner, Complete Breece D’j Pancake, and Tender Buttons. Next month I’ll read Buddenbrooks, Howards End, don’t know what else.

[Anonymous No.17898407]

>>17898392
I forgot to mention guest of the sheik as read although I started that in February.

[Anonymous No.17898542]

>>17898278
Left is what I read in March
Right is what I plan to read next month

[Anonymous No.17898896]

>>17898278
I picked up "die brücke über die drina" (the bridge over the drina river) by Ivo Andric for April.
My german is average, but I got bored of reading everything in english. Decided to challange myself a bit.

[Anonymous No.17898918]

Stoner
SIDDHARTHA
The Ice Storm

[Anonymous No.17898933]

Hamlet
Richard II
Henry IV part one
Henry IV part two
Henry V
A Midsummer Nights Dream
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
King Lear
The Tempest
Coriolanus
Julius Cesar
Antony and Cleopatra
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Macbeth
Timon of Athens
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
Pericles

[Anonymous No.17898962]

Gringos
Foucault's Pendulum
Terminal Park
Naked Lunch
1493
Fall: The mysterious life and death of Robert Maxwell

[Anonymous No.17898966]

>>17898278

[Anonymous No.17899004]

>>17898278
>Ovid's Metamorphoses
>Euripide's Medea, Hippolytus, Electra and Helen
>The Poems by Yeats
Next month I should get my copy of Faust and else finish reading the Discourses/Fragments/Handbooks by Epictetus. I'm not sure I'll get the time to get to the The Concept of Anxiety, which I've been meaning to read this month.

[Anonymous No.17899031]

Will there be a fav reads poll again?

[Anonymous No.17899033]

>>17898278
how do you guys read so much. a good day for me like 40 pages.

[Anonymous No.17899147]

>>17898966
yeh wot

>>17899031
I don't know mate, I'm not the one that does them ones.

[Anonymous No.17899169]

>>17898278
Doctor Zhivago
King Richard III
The Tempest
Livy Books 1-32
Watt
Murphy
Waiting for Godot
The Sun Also Rises

[Anonymous No.17899183]

>>17899033
I suppose it means they read more than you?

[Anonymous No.17899212]

>Dune: Messiah
>Space Odyssey by Michael Benson

[Anonymous No.17899439]

>Marco Polo - The Travels
Very comfy book about the travels of Marco Polo though the empire of Kublai Khan and back. The fact that Polo probably didn’t go that far himself is pretty great because it makes fiction undistinguishable from reality a lot of times, especially when he describes the Chinese cities or the customs from the South-East of Asia. In a way it’s very reminiscent of Invisible Cities with its very imaginative descriptions. Read it in the original Franco-Venitian which isn’t too hard if you know how to speak French. I only had to check the translation a handful of times. The prose is awful that being said, quite dry and repetitive: it’s really the potentially fantastical that makes this book enjoyable along with the emotion of reading such an old and classic text.


>René Char - Le nu perdu et autres poèmes
Not much to say. Great book of poems as always with Char. Each poem deserves its own criticism and at the same time I feel it would be impossible, as each one is both too explicit and too deeply rooted in Char’s own vision of the world to be really appreciated without having a general idea of his work. With Char the words shine and pass through the reader as the arrows of the reals. Hard poetry too, though his poems are always extremely short it takes some time to appreciate them. I don’t know if this collection in particular or my own sensibility, but I felt his Heraclitean thoughts were really showing.

>Mikhail Bulgakov - The Life of Monsieur de Molière
Fun read but not really consequential. A biography of Molière who didn’t have an extremely passionating life but Bulgakov tells it with a lot of affection for whom he calls «my hero». The story of Molière relationship with the public he satirised and Louis the Fourteenth is interesting and there are a few delightful anecdotes (notably concerning the fact that there are high doubts that he married his own daughter). It’s easy and short and I’d recommend it to either someone who likes Molière or who wants some kind of introduction to him.

1/3

[Anonymous No.17899449]

>Yves Bonnefoy - L’improbable et autres essais
A few essays by Bonnefoy, mostly about poetry or painting. Each one is really hit or miss, in a large part because Bonnefoy doesn’t give a shit if you haven’t the same level of erudition as him. Got really lost during some of them but it made me discover a few painters, both old and new. Bonnefoy develops in a few of them what we may call his poetical system which is good imo, basically a poem must be a promise and a representative of presence, some kind of negative theology of being. A lot of reference to Plotinus were unfortunately lost on me. Very found of his essay about Baudelaire and the one about the concept in which he describes it as something that hides death, that we made immortal but that is preventing us to really appreciate reality too.

>Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam - Unusual Tales
A collection of short stories not as good as his Cruel Tales, but still worth reading. Villiers’ style is delightful, very precise and highly ironic. I was particularly charmed by the story about a hobo raping the lady who gave him money to thank her. All of the stories are more or less in the same vein.

>Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the profane
Short book which is meant to be a summary of Eliade’s thought about the distinction between the sacred and the profane and especially how the sacred modifies the perception of the world even in the day-to-day life. It’s very hard to judge this kind of books when one is a neophyte since it makes a large use of anthropology. There are interesting considerations that can be useful when thinking about symbolism.

>René Char - Recherche de la base et du sommet
Absolutely kino. A collection of poetical essays and texts by Char about various topics: his time in the Resistance, post-war France, various painters and sculptors, some dead friends, his literary tastes and life in general. Very touching and beautifully written. There is a small text about Camus and their friendship, he really paints him as a fundamental good man which doesn’t surprise me the least. Too wide in scope to be really summarised but I’ll just say that I think Char is really helping me grow as an individual. At the very least grow metaphysically. The last few pages are a collection of poetical aphorism which probably have wisdom for life (we’ll see in a few decades).

2/3

[Anonymous No.17899456]

>Pierre Reverdy - Sable Mouvant
Poems and essays by Reverdi. The first poems are cubist prose poems: sometimes a metaphor really breaks the discourse but they mostly went over my head, despite being overall enjoyable. They were poems from his youth meant to be illustrated, which my edition didn’t have - it would probably have been better with them. The second part of the poems are his last poems. A nice way to see his evolution. They are mostly good but the last one he ever wrote is absolutely magnificent. Almost brought me to tears first time I read it. It's kind of an assessment of his life and of his goal of poetry, ending with how he wants to be remembered. It’s very bleak and pessimistic, full of anguish and unsatisfaction, and yet hope still makes its way trough it. It feels very true. The last part of the book is made of three essays he wrote about poetry. Far more prosaic and easier to read that what Bonnefoy and Char wrote about it but very enjoyable nonetheless. I think they could work as a way of convincing someone that poetry is interesting, I’ll have to try.

>René Daumal - Mount Analogue
Unfortunately unfinished book but still amazing nonetheless. The story of an expedition to clim the Mount Analogue, the highest mountain on earth hidden in the Pacific. Short, funny, very nicely written and imaginative. Basically a symbolic, existential and pataphysical novel about life, literature and that kind of shit. Dual sounds like a benevolent and smart guy, I’ll definitely read more of him in the near future.

As for future reads, I have in mind:
>Rutebeuf - Complete Works
>Charles Peguy - The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
>HB de Saussure - First climb of the Mont-Blanc
>Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
>Max Jacob - The dice cup
>Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy

3/3

[Anonymous No.17899462]

[Anonymous No.17899479]

>>17899439
>Read it in the original Franco-Venitian which isn’t too hard if you know how to speak French
based

[Anonymous No.17899756]

bump

[Anonymous No.17899774]

>warlock

Keyed af desu senpai

[Anonymous No.17899976]

>>17899183
I know. I'm asking how they do it.

[Anonymous No.17900025]

>>17899976
Probably NEET or just don't have many hobbies or duties

[Anonymous No.17900035]

>>17898542
>French symbolist poetry
Based. Is it a collection of poems? If so which were your favourites?

[Anonymous No.17900053]

>>17899976
a bit of >>17900025 this and also the fact that I've been reading for a long time which helps me focus longer
I go read in a parc very often to not be disturbed by my phone/computer. It also makes for a few fun interactions now and then.

[Anonymous No.17900104]

>>17899462
I'm reading klara at the moment too, half way through. Ordered never let me go as well

[Anonymous No.17900138]

>>17899976
>>17899033
>people lying on the internet
Ever heard of this? It's a pretty common phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.17900171]

>>17900138
Maybe some of them are but I doubt most are lying. I think some people just read more often and more quickly than I do.

[Anonymous No.17900248]

>>17900171
If all the people on /lit/ read so much per month they would easily run out of great books to read. Instead, what you see in almost every thread is that an extremely high number of people have not read even the most common and remarkable novels, let alone poetry or essays. This is an evident contradiction. Also, I would add that reading so many books in one month is most likely a singularity, that month being probably preceded and followed by regular months with one or two books read. No one has the energy to read so much EVERY month. Sometimes it happens, but not always. Reading requires breaks.

[Anonymous No.17900294]

>>17900035
It is a collection, a pretty nice one too.

My favorites were:
Elevation and Correpondences by Baudelaire
Chanson D'automne and Clair de lune by Verlaine

[Anonymous No.17900777]

>>17899976
How long does it take you to read those 40 pages?

[Anonymous No.17900874]

>>17899976
I sit and read for hours and hours every day. Long, uninterrupted sessions. My life is: No kids, work 2 days a week, only socialize (music projects) or do outdoor activities (hike or fish) about twice a week. The rest of the time I just read. About 150-200 pages per day. Might be one day a week where I don’t read but I read 5 books a month easily, “classics” and other worthwhile texts only.

[Anonymous No.17900890]

>>17899976
>>17899033
Same :')

[Anonymous No.17900906]

>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
>Diary of a Naopeonic Foot Soldier (Jakob Walter)
>America (Baudrillard)
>I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
>Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Mishima)
>Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
>Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)
lotta shorties

[Anonymous No.17900919]

>>17900874
you only read books that are between 1000 and 1200 pages?

[Anonymous No.17900928]

Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Descartes - Discourse on the Method
Descartes - Meditations on the First Philosophy
Spinoza - Ethics
Locke - Second Treatise on Government
Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
Jung - The Undiscovered Self
Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

I'll probably be able to finish Infinite Jest in the next two days.

I managed to read a lot this month because I've been homebound.

[Anonymous No.17900947]

>>17900928
oh yea I also reread all the gospels of the bible

[Anonymous No.17900996]

>>17900874
i envy your life

[Anonymous No.17901026]

>>17898278
La Vita Nuova
Kill All Normies
The Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.17901073]

>>17898278
* Las buenas conciencias (The Good Conscience) in Spanish by Fuentes
* Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
* The Swindler (El buscón) by Quevedo

I really like all of them, but I feel that if I start a thread on any it won't get any replies, has anyone read any of this?

[Anonymous No.17901083]

>>17898962
>Naked Lunch
How did you feel about the cut-up technique?

[Anonymous No.17901099]

>>17899033
>how do you guys read so much. a good day for me like 40 pages.
I'm not sure but I've been for like 4 months of antidepressants and I'm planning on keep going to my psych, many times we try to blame of other things and is internal, and this place is quite toxic, I like it, but it's horrible for advice. I don't feel pornography or "decadence" is to blame, it could be attention span deficit due to mobile devices or mental health if you can try get help because a psychiatrist or psychologist can help you with both. And don't be afraid to talk about recurrent ideas that came from reading 4chan.

[Anonymous No.17901105]

>>17899439
>Very comfy book about the travels of Marco Polo though the empire of Kublai Khan and back. The fact that Polo probably didn’t go that far himself is pretty great because it makes fiction undistinguishable from reality a lot of times, especially when he describes the Chinese cities or the customs from the South-East of Asia. In a way it’s very reminiscent of Invisible Cities with its very imaginative descriptions. Read it in the original Franco-Venitian which isn’t too hard if you know how to speak French. I only had to check the translation a handful of times. The prose is awful that being said, quite dry and repetitive: it’s really the potentially fantastical that makes this book enjoyable along with the emotion of reading such an old and classic text.
Could you post your copy of the book to see the text, I'm intrigued to see how it looks, I know french and spanish.

[Anonymous No.17901112]

>>17899462
The figure is about the ancient "science" of measuring skulls for psychology problems? How you get it?

[Anonymous No.17901117]

>>17900906
>>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
I'm reading this rn.

[Anonymous No.17901120]

will be reading war and peace next

[Anonymous No.17901137]

>>17900248
>If all the people on /lit/ read so much per month they would easily run out of great books to read.
Huh? I doubt that. I have enough books on my reading list to last me many years and it's always growing.

>>17900777
About 1.5-2 hours. I guess I'm a slow reader. I subvocalize and there are also times when I will have trouble concentrating and start daydreaming.

>>17900874
What do you do for a living? Don't you have a job?

>>17901099
I don't want porn and I think porn should be banned but I wouldn't blame it either. Decadence more broadly though, maybe. How much time do I spend watching videos or mindlessly scolling? Many others sink hours upon hours into videogames. It definitely takes a toll.

[Anonymous No.17901138]

Read: The Odyssey
Planned: How to Read a Book

[Anonymous No.17901174]

>>17901137
>How much time do I spend watching videos or mindlessly scolling? Many others sink hours upon hours into videogames. It definitely takes a toll.
Here's the thing, I don't like videogames but research shows that attention span problems and depression are not caused by games but social media and scrolling, if you think about it, a person who is capable of spending 6-8 hrs on the same thing, involving mental exercises is definitely not doing to have problems with concentration; scrolling on the other hand? yes.

[Anonymous No.17901185]

>>17901174
Yeah...I gotta stop scrolling.

[Anonymous No.17901224]

>>17900996
I appreciate my comfy life but I am 27 and not yet "successful".
>>17901137
>What do you do for a living? Don't you have a job?
I work 2 days a week at a tattoo shop. I'm about to start a new job at a homeless shelter making more money and working more days. Applying to grad schools in the fall.

[Anonymous No.17901312]

>>17898278
Trout fishing in america (awesome) and in watermelon sugar (pretty good) by brautigan, much of the recognitions by gaddis (up and down but overall amazing), hart crane's the bridge (phenomenal) and white buildings (great), dom casmurro by machado de assis (pretty good) and other poetry.
>>17898282
Gargantua and pantagruel was fucking amazing for me, but if your not into scatological humour you'll hate it. Dickins is a huge meh from me - i prefer late dickens but he hasnt wowed me on rereads.
Not really a distinct tbr maker but i want to start ovid's metamorphoses or the lusiads, start another brick when recognitions is done (underworld, middlemarck, or ducks, newburyport), and read thousand cranes and some other palm of the hand stories by kawabata.

[Anonymous No.17901328]

>>17901312
I also want to read wilde's an ideal husband or the oresteia - whichever grabs me first.

[Anonymous No.17901394]

Behold.

[Anonymous No.17901417]

>>17901394
How are they?

[Anonymous No.17901438]

>>17901417
Very good. I liked them more than Crocodile and Arcade. Which I find odd considering those are the ones I started with. I assumed that meant those were the better of the bunch. I ended up liking Kappa and Cradle significantly more.

[Anonymous No.17901471]

>>17901438
So they're actually good? What are they even about?

[Anonymous No.17901488]

>>17901471
>spending your limited time on Earth reading meme books from 4chan when you haven’t yet completed the Western canon

[Anonymous No.17901493]

>>17901488
Don't worry, I'm not going to read them. But I am curious.

[Anonymous No.17901498]

>>17901471
They all take place in Chicago but are separate stories. Cradle is mostly told through the perspective of a baby who see's a leprechaun who wants to burn down the city. Kappa is about a weeb who's obsessed with martial arts and is being stalked by what be begins to think is a Kappa.
Crocodile might be the weirdest. It's about a grieving family in Chicago who's youngest son was eaten by a crocodile at an amusement park in the city. A human like crocodile appears and begins to haunt the surviving family members and they begin to suspect it's Satan or some kind of demon.
Arcade is Pokemon except horror. It's kind of all over the place. There's a school shooting which is kind of interesting for a horror setting. Lots of twists which i think is probably why anons here read them.

[Anonymous No.17901503]

>>17901488
This really only applies to mainstream books which are horrible. Indie stuff is cool and this is about as underground as it gets.

[Anonymous No.17901541]

>>17901498
These actually sound really interesting except for arcade wtf

[Anonymous No.17901557]

Moby Dick - first read, loved it, definitely something i'll reread

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck - not that interesting

History of the Philippines - functional, informative

Of Mice and Men - 1st read it in high school, feels like a weak entry in Steinbeck's oeuvre. i realized after the first chapter that it was structured like a play, and that's kinda why it fails. the dialogue is a bit weak and Steinbeck lays it on too thick at times

Dusk by F. Sionil Jose - incredible, read it in 3 days because it was so good. it's the first part in a 5 novel saga, so i'm absolutely excited to read the other ones

Marianne Moore's New Collected Poems - her pre-war stuff is the best of the best, post-war becomes a little too moralistic and not as interesting. the editor's essays are a great addition, and to my knowledge this is the most complete presentation of Moore's poetry.

The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck - pretty good, another novella-play but it feels like Steinbeck had a much better grasp of the form

The Bread of Salt and Other Stories by N.V.M. Gonzalez - shitty, the stories early on remind me of the worst stories in Dubliners, and they only gradually get better near the end

The Remains of the Day - had this for 10 years, finally read it. really good, i think the emotions and subject matter Ishiguro was dealing with were handled particularly well, easily my favourite of the 3 Ishiguro novels i've read

Cannery Row - loved it, makes me really want to read The Wayward Bus

[Anonymous No.17901560]

>>17901394
>>17901417
>>17901438
>>17901471
>>17901493
>>17901498
>>17901503
>>17901541
stop shilling

[Anonymous No.17901571]

>>17901560
Crocc of the arcade is good, fucc the haters

[Anonymous No.17901583]

>>17901560
>stop shilling
It shows how we are not different from instagram girls who buy from ads, he started posting his crap and now we are memeing about it.

[Anonymous No.17901595]

>>17901560
>>17901583
I'm not a shill. I was genuinely interested.

>>17901571
That one sounds the least interesting. If I ever read any of them (which I doubt I will), it would be the crocodile or the kappa.

[Anonymous No.17901603]

zajebiste ksiązki, to się szanuje

[Anonymous No.17901620]

>>17901595
>I'm not a shill. I was genuinely interested.

They're calling me a shill too. I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.17901627]

Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
Robert Graves - Collected Stories
Geoffrey Hosking - Russia and the Russians

It was a fairly light month because I've been working almost constantly but I enjoyed all of the books quite a lot. Having a new Ishiguro novel was a real treat, I love the way he writes. Oscar and Lucinda was better than I was expecting, I've read two or three other Carey novels and never really been impressed but I definitely was this time. Robert Graves' stories were a bit up and down but he is really good at writing historical pieces and that's something you don't really get with the other English authors from the same time period. Russia and the Russians was about what I expected, it was interesting to fill in the gaps in my knowledge of Russian history (which previously came from Russian literature and general history reading)

[Anonymous No.17901637]

>>17901595
Get some taste you fucking imbecile, crock of the arcade is the best by far.
It's a must read for anybody looking for video game culture depicted in art and horror literature heads. Its also clever as fuck; you must have missed the "Game Over" on the cover.

[Anonymous No.17901650]

[Anonymous No.17901653]

>>17901637
I haven't read any of them so I can't say which is the best. I just said that one interested me the least, which could be because I'm not into videogames.

[Anonymous No.17901657]

>>17901653
>Its also clever as fuck; you must have missed the "Game Over" on the cover
I swear to god this nigga is trolling

[Anonymous No.17901673]

>>17901498
>Cradle is mostly told through the perspective of a baby who see's a leprechaun who wants to burn down the city.

I read the ebook version of Call of the Cradle. I thought it was a practically a masterpiece. I'm thinking of getting it in print now that I see how the pics look.
I like how the cover conveys the plot with the sleeping baby wrapped in flames. Eerie once you realize what the premise is about. How the demon is constantly on the baby's mind but he can't fully understand just how dangerous the situation is.

[Anonymous No.17901708]

For me, it's Call of the McChicken.

[Anonymous No.17901739]

>>17901498
Fuck it. I’m grabbing these. You’re making these sound amazing.

[Anonymous No.17901775]

>>17901708
Yowl from the rim-ticklin'

[Anonymous No.17901785]

>>17899033
I've been flying a lot coast to coast. Those flights are 4 hours, I can only sleep for so long. I don't watch tv or movies unless I'm with company because it can't engage me and the only other choice are games which drain my battery which I need to arrange rides.

[Anonymous No.17902741]

>>17901137
>Huh? I doubt that. I have enough books on my reading list to last me many years and it's always growing.
Reading comprehension: 0/10

If anyone read the books in OP picture (apparently 8) every month, it would 96 books a year (8x12) which means about 500 books in 5 years. No one reads that much, we would be all extremely well-read and this board wouldn't be what it is. So tone down, jerk.

[Anonymous No.17902757]

What a fucking disgusting thread. I hate all of you to the point I would beat the shit out of you.
>circlejerking and bragging about how many books or pages ones read when it's obviously an extremely variable thing
>even caring about this
God, fucking kill yourselves losers.

[Anonymous No.17902806]

>>17901105
Here's is chapter two (from wikisource):

>Chap II: Par quel moyen les deux freres vindrent à la court du grand Empereur des Tartares.

>En ce temps un grand ſeigneur envoyé en ambaſſade de la part du roy Allau au grand Empereur des Tartares, en paſſant logea à Bochare, ou il trouva les deux freres Venetiens, qui deſja ſçavoient bien parler la langue Tartarique, dont il fut fort joyeux, & cherchoit les moyens de leur perſuader d’aller avec luy, ſçachant qu’il feroit une choſe treſagreable au grand Empereur de Tartarie, s’il luy pouvoit preſenter ces deux hommes Occidentaux, & nourriz entre les Latins : & pour ceſte cauſe les recevoit, & traictoit honnorablement en ſa compaignie, & leur faiſoit de grans preſens, meſmement apres avoir par longue frequentation congneu leurs meurs, qui luy eſtoient agreables. Adonc les deux freres congnoiſſans que difficilement & ſans grand danger de leurs perſonnes ilz ne pouvoient retourner en leurs maiſons, & voyans la bonne affection que leur portoit ceſt ambaſſadeur, ſe deliberent de ſuyvre ſa compagnie, & ſe mettent à chemin avec luy pour aller vers l’Empereur des Tartares, ayans en leur compagnie quelques autres Chreſtiens qu’ilz avoient amenez avec eulx de Veniſe. Et de faict partent enſemblement de Bochare. Et apres avoir employé pluſieurs mois en leur voyage, ilz arriverent finablement à la Court du grand & ſouverain roy des Tartares, lors nommé Cublai, autrement dit le grand Cham, c’eſt à dire le grand roy des rois. La cauſe d’avoir eſté ſi long temps par les chemins, fut à raiſon de ce que tirans vers le pays froid du Septentrion, ilz rencontrerent grande quantité de neiges & inundation d’eaux qui leur empeſcherent les chemins.

Not sure how hard it is if French is not your native language or if you never read texts from the Middle Age. My edition was picrel which has the original text on the left page and the modern French on the right page. The introduction was quite good too. This collection "Lettre gothiques" has a lot of texts from the Middle Age like that.

[Anonymous No.17902820]

Slaves of Paris by Emile Gaboriau
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Bunch of Inspector Maigret books by Simenon that are all short, so they don't take long. I forgot to count how many I've gone through, cause I started randomly and then switched to going through the list based on publication date.

[Anonymous No.17902862]

>>17898278
Holy shit what a slog Fear and Trembling is.

[Anonymous No.17903028]

March:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Three Theban Plays
Meditations
The book of disquiet (third time)
April:
Ethics (about 60% through)
Confessions ( about 33% through)
The Sickness Unto Death (just started)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (not started)

[Anonymous No.17903039]

>>17903028
>Theban Plays

[Anonymous No.17903143]

Vic Varjabedian - Cracking the Code (not finished)
David Graeber - Debt: the first 5000 years (not finished)
William B. Yeats - Collected occult writings (not finished)
Saint Bonaventure - Journey of the Soul into God
Carlo Michelstaedter - Persuasion and Rhetoric

[Anonymous No.17903172]

>>17903039
W-why are you laughing

[Anonymous No.17903588]

>>17902806
magnificent, thanks, I can read most of it.

[Anonymous No.17903736]

Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Been trying to push myself to read new stuff lately. Favourite is probably Algernon followed by Klara

[Anonymous No.17903745]

March isn't over yet

[Anonymous No.17904166]

>>17899033
they're all lying

not only do they manage to read 6+ books a month, they're 'reading' the driest, most boring literature imaginable, the "classics" to look impressive. I enjoy reading for fun and thought to come to /lit/ to see what it's about but no one here actually reads or enjoys it. They just post pictures of the smartest looking books they can find and argue points from the internet no one can refute because none of them have actually read the material. It's just as pretentious as /mu/ where it's all a competition to look more impressive than the other fedoras online.

I read this month:
Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
(I actually only read the first half, and then quit. I'm not even ashamed to admit it.)
Normal People - Sally Rooney

about 900 pages in total, but about 50 a day on any given day and the reading level is not especially challenging. But I read books I wanted to read and enjoyed them. Let's see what /lit/ has to say about that. I'll bet you 20 dollars not a single person on here has ever heard of any of them, because none were written by a Greek man in the last 1000 years.

[Anonymous No.17904182]

>>17904166
>Let's see what /lit/ has to say about that
It's cool you enjoy what you read at the pace you like. I am really not sure if you're baiting because these threads are always comfy and nice and no one looks down on anyone for "reading less". The only people that shits them are people thinking it's a contest while no one really cares.

[Anonymous No.17904202]

>>17904166
>female authors

[Anonymous No.17904258]

Satin Island
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Crudo
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Bright Lights, Big City
The Society of the Spectacle
No One Is Talking About This
Finnegans Wake
Walden
Lionel Asbo
Lucian's True History
Hitch-22
Never Mind
Bad News
The Autograph Man
The Pale King
Swann's Way
Loop of Jade

[Anonymous No.17904274]

>>17898278
didn't read any because i'm in full swing writing my novel desu.
sometimes when i take a break i'll grab a book and read a few lines

[Anonymous No.17904280]

>>17904258
I am an unemployed reject-freak who's prescribed vyvanse, for context

[Anonymous No.17904326]

>>17904166
Whatever you must do in order to cope with people being different from you.

[Anonymous No.17904365]

i finished four in pic rel, currently reading:
Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Carl Jung - Modern Man in Search of a Soul
John Lukacs - The Hitler of History
John Cowper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance

[Anonymous No.17904418]

>>17904166
>It's just as pretentious as /mu/ where it's all a competition to look more impressive than the other fedoras online.

>I'll bet you 20 dollars not a single person on here has ever heard of any of them

big time tism

[Anonymous No.17904445]

>>17898278
does anyone here shops on bookdepository? does the vpn shit still works?

[Anonymous No.17904454]

>>17898933
based shakespeare's collected works poster

[Anonymous No.17904463]

>>17898278
Cugel's Saga - Jack Vance
Rhialto the Marvelous - Jack Vance
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency - Samuel P Hays
The Mathematics of Magic - L Sprague de Camp
A True Story - Lucian

[Anonymous No.17904520]

>>17898278
Can you give a summary on the peter falk book?

[Anonymous No.17904532]

>>17899033
Learn skimming stuff. That doesn't mean I skim whole books but I skim stuff that feels more like repetition rather than something that adds to the whole

[Anonymous No.17904563]

>>17898278
Reread:
>The Magic Mountain
>Sometimes a Great Notion
>some short stories of Mann, Chekhov, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Maupassant
Read:
> The Opposing Shore
>some Henry James Short stories
Reading now:
>Tender is the Night

[Anonymous No.17904573]

>>17898278

[Anonymous No.17904576]

>>17904563
>> The Opposing Shore
Based. One of my favourite book. What did you think of it?

[Anonymous No.17904583]

>>17901112
i inherited it from my grandpa (not that i think it's worth anything, but it's neat and reminds me of him)

[Anonymous No.17904601]

>>17904166
This post is so based that the thread no longer has reason to exist.

Please OP, delete this abomination, and fuck the pseuds who walk on this awful board.

[Anonymous No.17904616]

>>17904576
Loved it.It reminds me of The Tartar Steppe but with more surrealism.I might buy Balcony in the Forest to read sometime over the summer

[Anonymous No.17904637]

>>17904166
I agree for the most part that there is too much dick sizing and LARPing that goes on.There are people who read a lot here though and you can find these people if you make book specific threads that aren’t memes.

[Anonymous No.17904657]

>>17898278
How was the outsider?
>>17899004
How was metamorphoses?

[Anonymous No.17904747]

>>17904616
Nice. Yeah it has a lot of similarities with The Tartar Stepp, it also felt more cosmic and a bit less existentialist imo. I definitely recommend Gracq’s essays too. They’re super kino but I don’t know if they’re easy to find in English.

[Anonymous No.17904876]

>>17904747
Different author but have you read Waiting for the Barbians?I’ve heard it’s in the same vein as TTS and TOS

[Anonymous No.17905098]

>>17904876
Nope, it's on my to-read list though. I read the poem which is quite good too.

[Anonymous No.17905323]

>>17904463
Oh I forgot I also read Illustrations of Madness this past month

[Anonymous No.17905425]

White Fang by Jack London
Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand A. Ossendowski
Der Fragenbogen by Ernst Von Salomon

[Anonymous No.17905868]

>>17901603
dzieki chłopje

>>17904274
fair enough mate, good luck with your book and that

>>17904520
Well its his own autobiography so yeh that's the main thing it's about. However, it doesn't really have any kind of structure to it, especially in the first 100 pages where you get complete subject change happen all the time without any kind of warning or reason and little stories that have nothing to do with anything that came beforehand show up constantly. It does eventually get more of a normal, standard structure though. Overall it is pretty decent and fun, and a very quick read as it probably took me less than 2 hours of reading in all to finish it and I read at a fairly slow to maybe average speed. And if you're already well into your Columbo or John Cassavetes films then you'll certainly like it as theres quite a lot in there about those two.

>>17904657
It was alright, definitely overhyped, but I thought that the very last chapter was very good and by far the best part of the whole book.

[Anonymous No.17905952]

I did not finish anything in March, and in April I would like to finish Crime and Punishment. I'm really enjoying it, the writing style (orgeat and volokhonsky trans) is super enjoyable

[Anonymous No.17905970]

>>17905952
Pevear and V

[Anonymous No.17905993]

>>17899033
Some books are easier to read than others. I can devour certain non-fiction books with ease, especially works that are in my professional field. Plus I tend to read in the morning, while having breakfast, on a commute, and then before bed (90 minutes before bed, no screen time really aides in sleep cycle)

[Anonymous No.17906028]

(Finished) The brothers karamazov
Listen, little man
The great gatsby
A portrait of an artist as a young man

[Anonymous No.17906353]

>>17898278
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski

Whatever
by Michel Houellebecq

Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki

[Anonymous No.17906383]

i'm enjoying everyone who has read klara and the sun. at least there's one contemporary author /lit/ actually reads (even if it wasn't his best imo)

[Anonymous No.17906394]

>>17906028
what's your age and what's your take on the great gatsby?

[Anonymous No.17906704]

> Alex's adventures in numberland
It explains a few different math topics that are separated per chapter. Good for a mathlet like me.

> Don't burn this book
Dave Rubin is sad.

> L'étranger
My first book in French, and wow I did not expect it to go like that. It was rewarding to read the literature in the OG text.

> Thinking, Fast and Slow
Good read, shows how economic systems that think humans are rational are flawed, and how humans are pretty stupid with thinking.

> The Uninhabitable Earth
Climate doomerism. Uncle Ted was right.

Planned:

> Cien años de soledad
> Paradise Lost (reread)
> Sapiens (in French)
> Candide (in French)

Any French anons with good recommendations?

[Anonymous No.17906712]

I don't read

[Anonymous No.17906832]

>>17906704
>Any French anons with good recommendations?
Sure. What are you looking for?

[Anonymous No.17907091]

>>17898933
>>17904454
Update: I read Cymbeline

[Anonymous No.17907119]

>>17899462
wait i also read another book

[Anonymous No.17907270]

>>17903143
I want to read that Graeber. And Yeats.
>>17904563
what did you think of Henry James? I plan to read him after some Forster and Wharton.
>>17907119
how was the Gluck?

[Anonymous No.17907275]

>>17907270
>how was the Gluck?
good!
i liked it a lot. i'm not super up on poetry but it grabbed me, it was all kinda austere but very thematically consistent and interesting. it felt extremely pure

[Anonymous No.17907469]

>>17906712
Begone then, thee foul and slimy wench.

[Anonymous No.17907532]

>>17904583
>i inherited it from my grandpa (not that i think it's worth anything, but it's neat and reminds me of him)
That's beautiful, I think it has something to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology?wprov=sfla1

>>17907119
>wait i also read another book
Blessed be you, just in the finals

[Anonymous No.17907613]

>>17899033
turn off your internet stop doing other stupid shit you do and read

[Anonymous No.17907629]

I finished Don Quixote, and started it again immediately after.

[Anonymous No.17907654]

>>17903028
>the books I read in march
>gilgamesh (not started)

[Anonymous No.17907866]

>>17906832
Something good for intermediate - advanced speakers. Preferably fiction or philosophy.

>>17898278
What did you think of the Stranger?

>>17899976
Set aside a time for reading for big books. Have a book on you or your phone for shorter easier reads. Look at much time you spend on your phone anon, there has to be some time you can dedicate to it. Using auidobooks as well.

>>17900874
Jealous

>>17901627
What do you think about Klara and the Sun?

>>17903028
Seneca's work is also pretty nice, if you want to read more about Stoicism.

[Anonymous No.17907868]

Demons - Dostoyevsky
Diary of a Superfluous Man - Turgenev
In Watermelon Sugar - Brautigan
A Doll's House - Ibsen
A Scanner Darkly - PKD
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Burnett

[Anonymous No.17907918]

Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 Book 4
The Fate of Africa
Johannes Cabal, books one through five.
SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
half of the Eric Metaxas biography on Martin Luther

[Anonymous No.17907947]

>>17902862
Really? I didn't think it was a quick or easy read, but I felt constantly pulled forward and engaged.

[Anonymous No.17907981]

>>17898278
03-21-21 The Myth of the Twentieth Century – Alfred Rosenberg
03-23-21 Industrial Society and its Future – Theodore Kaczynski
03-24-21 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
03-28-21 Bronze Age Mindset – Bronze Age Pervert

[Anonymous No.17908049]

>>17907866
>Something good for intermediate - advanced speakers. Preferably fiction or philosophy.
I was thinking more in term of tastes but I guess you could try Contes Cruels by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, it's probably a safe bet.

[Anonymous No.17908444]

I admit I'm not finished Berlin hence the bookmark

[Anonymous No.17908448]

>>17904166
retard the explanation is really quite simple: a lot of us are neets, and many of us are working our way through the classics for the first time, which there are a lot of.

[Anonymous No.17909861]

Read proust, macbeth, reading l'amant and reading Ionesco next

[Anonymous No.17910124]

>>17907270
>Henry James
He is definitely a writers’ writer.I have to be in the mood for him because he can be turgid and long winded.Especially his later work.From what I read, he is great at psychology at subtle moments.At times I thought “he put into words what can only be felt”.Other times it’s “just spit it out”.I’m not a believer in charts but James is a writer who has 3 distinct periods that get more difficult and nuanced throughout the years so best to start with A Portrait of the Lady or anything before then.There’s always The Turn of the Screw which is the rare literary horror that has different interpretations.Be prepared for many commas and semicolons

[Anonymous No.17910373]

Heinrich Böll - Billiards at half-past nine
Heinrich Böll - The Clown
Alexander Solzenitshyn - The first circle
Lagercrantz - Reading Proust
Robert Bolano - By night in Chile

Loved Böll and Solzenitshyn, just started reading The cancer ward.

[Anonymous No.17910382]

>>17898278
Peter Falk. Awesome. How was it?

[Anonymous No.17910546]

>>17907866
>>17910382
Your answers are here lads.
>>17905868

[Anonymous No.17910712]

>>17910124
thanks for the thorough reply! I would like to read him chronologically, then.

[Anonymous No.17910737]

>>17908444
>pop-history

[Anonymous No.17910749]

>>17899033
They don’t lol. Some sperg claiming he read Ulysses plus 4 other novels in a month? Lmfao. It takes mfa students 3-4 weeks at best to finish Ulysses

[Anonymous No.17910754]

>>17907654
Friend, Gilgamesh is under what I intend on reading/finishing in April...

[Anonymous No.17910771]

>>17907629
Based without fear and beyond reproach.

[Anonymous No.17910779]

>>17898278

[Anonymous No.17910802]

>>17904182
Not that anyone particularly looks down but all of these threads end up looking the same, every post is 5-7 antiquity or modern classics that even if you you were totally NEET you wouldn’t have time to finish. No, you didn’t read GR, Ulysses, and the complete Shakespeare in a month. Nobody has.
I remember reading how most professional reviewers took 3-4 weeks to finish IJ when it first came out and pseuds on here will claim they read it and 4 others on top in a month. It’s ridiculous desu.

[Anonymous No.17910811]

>>17904365
>james hogg
nice

[Anonymous No.17910919]

Plan on reading:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

[Anonymous No.17911093]

>>17898278
read in march:
>A Canticle For Leibowitz
I liked this a lot, I feel like it'll ascend to a true favorite upon a reread.
>The Giver
although I enjoyed breezing through it, I disliked the content of the book on reflection. The messaging felt far too basic for how utterly all the details of plot and setting defer to it. I guess its directed to kids for a reason.

planned for april:
>Assassin's Apprentice
>This Side of Paradise
>some Lovecraft
>probably some shitty YA I can read on my phone while at work
please excuse my short lists, I'm just getting back into voluntary reading for the first time since probably middle school

>>17906704
>Dave Rubin is sad
regressive left cancel culture sjw woke propaganda

[Anonymous No.17911189]

>>17909861
>Le roi se meurt
Very nice, I played it in high school. What did you think of it?

[Anonymous No.17912544]

>>17898278
left is march right is april

just started on Gilgamesh and i had no idea Stephen Mitchell was a "Zen Buddhist" LARPing poet who doesnt even speak the original language but fancies himself as a reincarnation of the original writer of Gilgamesh, sure does read like it and i regret buying this version very much

[Anonymous No.17912582]

>>17898282
Based appreciator of that eminent and truly great man Pickwick

[Anonymous No.17913480]

bump

[Anonymous No.17913580]

>>17910749
>mfa students
Do you even know what an MFA is? It’s not a masters program which would involve critical study of authors such as Joyce. you numbskull.

[Anonymous No.17913631]

>>17910749
underage detected

[Anonymous No.17913676]

>>17904202
this guy gets it

[Anonymous No.17913698]

>>17907981
Xd

[Anonymous No.17914651]

>>17912582
Well I'll have to read it first before I can appreciate it. I hope I'll like it tho, the only other Dickens I've read is David Copperfield and that one was a fuckin belter.

[Anonymous No.17914821]

Why don't we post video of what we've read? Anyway here is what I read in March. You can follow me on tiktok @jaidynsbookshelf if you want :)

[Anonymous No.17914830]

Smooch is gay

[Anonymous No.17914833]

>>17914821
i'm interested in that max porter book

[Anonymous No.17914850]

>>17907119
snuck one more in

[Anonymous No.17915117]

>>17898401
Based pancaker

[Anonymous No.17915523]

>>17900928
based

[Anonymous No.17915820]

>>17898278
Hows that ‘just one more thing’ book?

[Anonymous No.17916981]

>>17914821
LONDON

[Anonymous No.17917014]

>>17904166
>tfw just got done reading titanicus and dragonslayer
Reading for fun really is the best desu
And I like harder books been reading the book of the new sun for awhile but I'm kind of dumb and need to reread stuff to understand it, but I can safely say this is a lot more fun than speed reading 7 500 page books in a month

[Anonymous No.17917022]

>>17913580
Idiot

[Anonymous No.17917043]

I think I'm going to try to finish The Recognitions, the Rings of Saturn and the Emigrants. Finishing up a masters and time is tight, but I hope I can manage in between semesters.

[Anonymous No.17917060]

Read in March:
Ovid's Metamorphoses (liked it a lot)
Donna Tart's The Secret History (felt empty after reading it but i enjoyed the process of reading it, was fun reading something brainless for once!)

[Anonymous No.17918304]

>>17917022
That’s the only reply you could come up with?

[Anonymous No.17918396]

>>17914821
>those funko pops

[Anonymous No.17918465]

[Anonymous No.17918555]

>>17914821
son, you are too pure for us, please leave before you get harmed or contaminated with out neo nazism and horrible manners.

[Anonymous No.17918822]

11) 03/03/21: The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

12) 12/03/21: Forrest Gump (Winston Groom) (Sakurashinmachi)

13) 19/03/21: Daniel Martin (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

14) 31/03/21: French Decadent Tales (edit. Stephen Romer) (Sakurashinmachi)

[Anonymous No.17918943]

>>17915820
What's the one by the rabbi?

[Anonymous No.17918997]

Bukowski:
>Hollywood
>Pleasures of the damned

Camus:
>Stranger
>Exile and Kingdom

Nickel:
>Strategist in exile (Xenophon and the death of Thucydides)

[Anonymous No.17919008]

>>17918997
Still reading:
Celine
>Journey to the end of the night
Sartre
>Nausea

[Anonymous No.17919015]

>>17915820
A manga adaption of "Mein Kampf" ?

[Anonymous No.17919062]

>>17898278
Finnished:
Wise blood
Crying lot of 49
Ecce homo
Have not finnished:
Worthington heights
Anti-odepus

[Anonymous No.17919144]

>>17918997
>>17919008
What's that language friend?

[Anonymous No.17919247]

>>17919144
That's Finnish my dude.

[Anonymous No.17919253]

>>17919247
nice, good luck Finnishing all these books

[Anonymous No.17919704]

>>17919253
Kek thanks

[Anonymous No.17919710]

>>17898278
Finished:
Moby Dick
The Nose
Still reading:
The Brothers Karamazov
Tacitus' Annals

[Anonymous No.17919980]

>>17919015
Yeah and it’s kino. It even tells you what kind of sound effects play in the frames like for example “sfx: evil laughter”
>>17918943
It’s just a poem about a rabbi, nothing really crazy. I thought it was decent