/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18609669]

What are you reading right now /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18609680]

savages got what they deserved

[Anonymous No.18609701]

>>18609669
The Devils (at work)
The Fountainhead (at the bar)
Mein Kampf (at home)
The Song of Roland (just picked it up today)

[Anonymous No.18609726]

>>18609701
Is this a joke?

[Anonymous No.18609769]

>>18609726
No, why? I am currently reading them all. Started some others like Paradise Lost, Lolita, Rules for Radicals, and Lord Jim before, but they dropped off while I read my current four.
I am a little forgetful, so my work book stays at work for reading during lunch. The bar is one of those laidback ones where everyone knows everyone, so I sit back with a book and brew. Mein Kampf is not socially accepted yet. The Song of Roland was picked up not more than 5 hours ago and started while I was prepping dinner.

[Anonymous No.18609789]

Pride and prejudice.
Enjoying it more than I thought

[Anonymous No.18609790]

>>18609669
The Revolution by Ron Paul
Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
The New Testament
>mfw

[Anonymous No.18609815]

>>18609669

[Anonymous No.18609869]

Shakespeare's Caesar and the book of Genesis

[Anonymous No.18610060]

Inside Out, the Pink Floyd book written by the drummer

[Anonymous No.18610074]

[Anonymous No.18610082]

I feel like I've only read excerpts from it. Felt it was time to fully read it.

[Anonymous No.18610084]

>>18609769
It sounds like you're saying "The Devil's at work," "The Fountainhead at the bar," "My Struggle at Home."

[Anonymous No.18610092]

>>18610082
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.18610136]

>>18610092
Firft

[Anonymous No.18610283]

>>18609669

[Anonymous No.18610293]

>>18610092
>>18609815
>>18609680
>>18609669

Pretentious, only there to scratch your own egos. Fiction is based.

[Anonymous No.18610326]

>>18609790

[Anonymous No.18610341]

I posted about it in another thread but I finished David Markson - This is not a Novel, which a collection of aphoristic musings and collected factoids into something tangentially resembling a novel, with the barest hints of a character called 'Writer' who wants to write a novel devoid of characters, plot, setting, etc. but in a way constructs its own narratives of death and making banal the lives of idolized artistic figures. For example:
"yet seducing the reader into turning pages nonetheless.

the greatest lesbian poet since sappho, auden called rilke.

virtually beyond the Writer's imagining:
the lost eighty or so plays, each, of aeschylus and euripides.
the lost one hundred and ten of sophocles.

it is an aspect of probability that many improbable things will happen.
aristotle says agathon said.

spectacular exhibition! right this way, ladies and gentlemen! see professor harold bloom read the 1961 corrected and reset random house edition of james joyce's ulysses in one hour and thirty-three minutes. not one page stinted. unforgettable!

what's this? can't spare an hour and a half? wait, wait. one matinee special, today only! watch professor bloom eviscerate the pears-mcguinness translation of wittgenstein's tractatus - eight minutes and twenty-nine seconds flat! guaranteed."


I am currently working on Jonathan Franzen's Freedom now, which I am enjoying immensely today, for its portraits of middle class and upper class life, and its richly developed characters. Franzen has a knack for noticing the tiny, cloying habits and peculiarities of middle American people

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[Anonymous No.18610387]

>>18610084
Oh, I see what you mean

[Anonymous No.18610400]

>>18609669
dantes inferno. found a beautiful hardcover copy at local used book store with illustrations by gustave dorè intermixed