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What book are you reading right now?

>> No.18637047

>>18637005
Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Afterwards I'm planning on reading Woolf's "the Waves" and some Henry James.

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>>18637005
This was suggested reading for a Master's class. Useful tips I guess, but the author treats the reader like middle schoolers.

>> No.18637068

>>18637005
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov

>> No.18637090

>>18637005
The Chronicles of Prydain: Taran Wanderer (Lloyd Alexander)
When the Cat's Away (Kinky Friedman)

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>>18637005
what about you anon?

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Reading this as a palate cleanser after Moby Dick and before whatever comes next, probably a Nabokov title.
>Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
It's decent for being crap, has some life to it. Exactly what the cover suggests it is, a story of a haunting in a not-Ikea. I read My Best Friend's Exorcism by him prior and it too was a fine, quick read with some heart to it.

>> No.18638762

started east of eden the other day, just finished the introduction of cathy, what a crazy bitch.
I am wondering if i should have read the book of genesis first though

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Just started but liking it so far

>> No.18638815

Die Leiden des Jungen Werther

I'm like 70% through, know the ending thru popular culture but it's still a pretty good read. I really enjoy the style, let's you dive right into the mind of Werther

>> No.18638840

Victor Serge’s memoirs. Pretty interesting stuff. The running around with extremists during the Revolution is cool on its own but hearing the thoughts of a guy who believes so strongly in an idea but knows it’s almost certainly a lost cause is pretty sobering. I wonder if his general optimism will continue throughout the book.

>> No.18638851

>>18637005
I’ve been rereading books that I read when I first got into literature recently. Right now I’m halfway through 1984. I’m liking it a lot more than when I first read it ~10 years ago

>> No.18638870

Leviathan
Maybe I am turning into a boring old fart at the young age of 27 but I actually find this book deeply engrossing.
Something about the subject matter puts images in my mind like one gets when reading a novel. I just imagine the hobbesian state of nature as a bunch of guys in the woods

>> No.18638945

>fiction
the master of go
it’s pretty sweet. very solemn but cozy novel
>non fiction
aristotle’s physics
my head hurts. takes an hour to read 15 pages

>> No.18638957

Lord of the rings: The Two Towers.

>> No.18639864

>>18637005
Moravagine

>> No.18639869

>>18637005
Going to start reading Cancioneiro da Inconfidência by Cecília Meireles. Just finished Nove Noites by Bernardo Carvalho.

>> No.18639870

Nations and Nationalism by Hobsbawm.

>> No.18639877

>>18639869
Romanceiro da Inconfidência*

>> No.18640083

i am reading the room

>> No.18640091

Social Skills Guidebook, Chris McLeod

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>>18638752
Just finished. Grady is largely a utilitarian writer but he's got a little bit of art to him, and he absolutely nails his endings.
>Look at the Harlequins! by Vladamir Nabokov
Excited to keep working on Vlad's oeuvre. No reason to pick it but I have all his books purchased already and do want to save a few specific titles for later.

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>>18637005

>> No.18640662

>>18637068
Very nice, have you read Soul?

>> No.18640672

>>18637005
I imagine women like this as immortal witches who kidnap men and torture them to consume the energy from their pain or something idk lol

>> No.18640738

Snippets of the bible here and there. Yeah, yeah... The Skeptics Annotated Bible.

>Inb4 muh fadora

I don't even give a shit anymore. This thing is one of the most depressing, disturbing things I've ever read..

Fuck is it BORING too..

>> No.18640753

>>18638945
>15 pages per hour
You're going too fast

>> No.18640757
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Aristotle's Physics
Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Interpretation
Samuel 1
I also finished a cozy collection of Mountains of Madness, Innsmouth, and Stranger at the Doorstep.
>>18638945
>tfw void isn't real because of things would infinitely accelerate through it
>>18640738
Lol this niggas depressed over a grandma book.

>> No.18640771

The Faery Queen. So far it's fantastic. I have an edition that comes with a column just for translations/synonyms of archaic terms, and with the help of that it's surprisingly very readable.

>> No.18640778

At The Mountains of Madness. It's been a long time since I've read Lovecraft but I recently read The Worst Journey In The World and it gave me an urge to revisit this story.

>> No.18641024

>>18640672
I imagine them having dicks.

>> No.18641037

>>18637005
Reading house of leaves while listening to "I miss you" - blink 182

>> No.18641041

>>18637005
Moby dick c: it’s so good guys

>> No.18641389

>>18640662
Not yet Foundation Pit is my first novel of his but I'm liking it alot so far so I'll definitely add Soul to the list!

>> No.18641429

olive kitteridge by elizabeth strout. i like it so far, getting some strong alice munro vibes

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It's okay I guess.

>> No.18641484

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends

>> No.18641489

The Bible and City of God

>> No.18641538

>robinson crusoe
it sucks

>> No.18641663

>>18637005
a compilation of short stories by Hemingway: "Men without women"

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This.
Its good.
Like the author.

>> No.18641686

>>18641667
what is it about?

>> No.18641690

>>18641489
holy based

enjoying the city of god so far?

>> No.18641707

>>18641663
pd. they usually are about men-tier activities, according to the author, like bullfighting or boxing

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I like it, but the constant clothing descriptions are a little annoying. Also, what the hell is up with Les Miserables being referenced every 5 minutes?

>> No.18641725

>>18641710
thank you. Forgot I had this on my to-read list

>> No.18641738

>>18641710
>>18641725
So you need to understand that Bateman has private money and is being an executive / executor in order to *fit in*. He is slumming it by turning up to do no work in an office.

Bateman has produced his personality and being from the pages of advertorials from the 1980s, thus his constant references to advertising for the sickeningly rich management class and his horrific fashion.

Bateman is capable of taste, but chooses instead fashion.

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Pe Culmile Disperării/On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran. It reads so fucking hard in Romanian it took me 5 hours to go through 30 pages. It's also indescribably depressing and sobering so I can't read it for extended periods of time without wanting to an hero more than I already do. Might take a break from it and read The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli.

>> No.18641831

>>18641690
It's great so far.
Loved confessions too, and the Bible is also great.

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>>18637005
Gothic Violence
(I can't find anything other than this piece of shit picture)

>> No.18641967

>>18641686
About the lives of several college students in a private liberal arts college. All they do is fuck, drink and maybe go to class.

>> No.18641975

started the arthurian romances by chrétien de troyes top tier comfy so far

>> No.18642116

solitary fitness, it's mediocre at best and reads like it was written by the norf f.c guy which is why I don't regret reading it so far. My favorite part is where bronson yells at two fag when they want to touch his muscles

>> No.18642452

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Tokarczuk. It’s surprisingly really funny. She almost reads like a kind of vegetarian feminist equivalent of Houellebecq.

>> No.18642551

Finishing up Asimovs Robot series. It’s been fun so far.

>> No.18642601

The Council of Twelve.
It's a historical mystery I bought on a whim. It's about a Bavarian council of hangmen that meet in low Munich to discuss their trade. But shit's going awry in Au, so its on them to solve the mystery.
It's alright. There's a lot of rape in it but I think that might be a clue as to the killer, as well as the theme of the book. The main character is a big, old, gruff, badass hangman, but the books sorta tempers him with his family being a troublesome sort.

>> No.18642606

>>18637005
I'm finishing up A Storm of Swords. It's good, I'd say on the level of the first two books. I was thinking of reading All Quiet on The Western Front next, would you anons recommend it?

>> No.18642811

>scott lynch, the lies of lock lamora
>konosuba vol. 9
>so I'm a spider so what? vol. 11

>> No.18642939

>>18637005
The Grapes of Wrath, La Nausée and The Bible

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This series is objectively not that great but I kind of love it. It’s just comfy baseball and romance. I do think it has too much “male gaze” but I like it. Nothing special I guess but it does it for me

>> No.18644195

>>18642551
Robot series is great. Without a doubt, you should read his Foundation afterward if you haven't already.


I'm reading picrel. It's pretty cool so far, but I still sort of hate Ignatius at my point. Hope he becomes less of a douche.

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>>18644195
Fuck captcha

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>>18637005
So far, so good.

>> No.18644216

>>18637005
Storm of Steel

>> No.18644230

>>18637005
Ivanhoe!

>> No.18644514

>>18637005
finished pic related this morning. Reading Rimbaud now.

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>>18644514
forgot pic

>> No.18644860

>>18637005
unironically 1984
never read it before, not even in HS

>> No.18644905

I'm getting close to the end of Crime and Punishment and it's been a great read.
Been loving the long monolouges and dives into the psyches of all sorts of mad people.

But why is this praised as one of the greatest books ever? It's great but I don't get the hype.
Seems like a typical crime story

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The second part of Legends of the galactic heroes

>> No.18644941

a collection of poems by Ferreira Gullar and Borges' Fictions

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The Cyber Angel.

I haven't found a better A.I. Written Novel.

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>>18637005
Storm of Steel by Jünger. Have just finished "All Quiet on the Western Front" and wanted to follow up from a different pov. Thanks to all the anons that recommended it!

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>>18637005
About to start this one, I'll start it once I finish with 4chan for today.

>>18644195
>>18644202
>Hope he becomes less of a douche
Nope, he never learns. It's a comedy though, just chuckle at him instead of trying to sympathize with him and it makes it a lot smoother.

>> No.18645265

stoner and it's pretty comfy

>> No.18645301

I just finished The Trial.
I have on my stack Oblomov, Novel with Cocaine (Ageyev), The Possibility of an Island

What would you read first?

>> No.18645344

>>18645301
oblomov

>> No.18645596

>>18645301
I'd read Novel with Cocaine first