/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18680451]

What are you reading today /lit?

[Anonymous No.18680461]

>>18680451
A short history of almost everything. Pretty good, if a little outdated.

[Anonymous No.18680479]

75 pages in so far
Maximum comfy

[Anonymous No.18680517]

>>18680451
Continuing with American Psycho. Those detailled brand descriptions make me crazy, but there is hope left in me that this is not just an American author being an American and making the narrator appease to a consumerist audience

[Anonymous No.18680557]

>>18680517
I’m pretty sure the author was critiquing 80s yuppie culture

[Anonymous No.18680624]

>>18680557
I wouldn't know, neither have I finished the book nor have I even remotely finished thinking about it

[Anonymous No.18680666]

>>18680451
Phalanx is extremely interesting but poorly written, or at least I don't like the dialogues.

[Anonymous No.18680719]

>>18680451
human all too human

[Anonymous No.18680727]

Going to finish a Carl Hiaasen book and get started on a Richard Brautigan one

[Anοnymous No.18680994]

>>18680451
I finished a book I'd been stuck on for 2 weeks late last night and now I'm listless and have no idea what to read
hell, I might just study the Bible for a bit

[Anonymous No.18681015]

>>18680451
Nothing, 35ºC and working and sweating

[Anonymous No.18681018]

>>18680517
Wow, completely missing the point

[Anonymous No.18681411]

>>18681015
Based, you can write about this some day

[Anonymous No.18681425]

>>18680451
Low middle-tier. The weird thing is that I really feel like I've read this before.

[Anonymous No.18681463]

[Anonymous No.18681467]

>>18680451
The Waves by Woolf. Having a hard time getting into it because of the way it is written. That said, many sentences are absolutely impeccable.

[Anonymous No.18681484]

just finished book 13

[Anonymous No.18681571]

The Life of Paracelsus

[Anonymous No.18681581]

hate it. Especially the "life" given to the techno-logical as if almost in an attempt to humanize technical procees for mass acceptance at the behest of technocrats. It reads like propaganda to me honestly; I'm reminded of the "Great Teacher."

[Anonymous No.18681590]

>>18681484
Literally finished it yesterday for the first time. 4/5 pretty good desu. I liked the exploration of how we interact with fate and destiny. My favourite moments were:
>Andromache calling hector her mother and her father
>the night raid
>hector deliberating on whether to fight Achilles or not
>Thetis commissioning Achilles’ new armor
>Achilles mourning Patroclus, tossing and turning in bed
>Priam and Achilles’ convo towards the end
Btw where is the Trojan horse and Paris killing Achilles? Are they later additions

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[Anonymous No.18681724]

>>18680451
Homer's Odyssey
Badiou's Infinite Thought
Kierkegaard's Three Discourses
Breddy Cumfy

[Anonymous No.18681741]

>>18680451
Started on Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill yesterday, and now that I've finished Sklepy Cynamonowe I'm going to be reading an Orwell essay every day before going to bed. Also reading Keats on my work breaks.

[Anonymous No.18681806]

>>18681590
you have to remember that there are a total of 4 epics of the same size as the illiad and odysee between the two that include thing like the arrival of a massive force of trojan allies, the death of achilles, then the trojan horse and an "odyssey" but for the atreus sons, but those have been largely lost to time. Same for another poem that took place before the illiad that detailed the prelude and the first 9 years of the war

[Anonymous No.18681815]

/lit/ always ignores him for some reason

[Anonymous No.18681906]

>>18680451
Reading Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse, will probably listen to Siddhartha by the same author at work.

[Anonymous No.18681915]

Do you guys take the dust covers off your books or so you keep them on? Me? I like to take them off personally, makes the books feel less commercial and more authentic

[Anonymous No.18681936]

Giving this another try.
Got filtered last time but I was working a lot more hours back then
I might have just been sleep deprived

[Anonymous No.18681975]

>>18680451
Going to read Bleak House and Paradise Lost today. Might start another Plato dialogue.

[Anonymous No.18681995]

>>18680451

[Anonymous No.18682056]

comfy doc book

[Anonymous No.18682171]

Just finished Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

[Anonymous No.18682187]

I just am unsure if this is supposed to be for all books. For instance I want to read Moby dick, should I skim it the same? Read the last couple pages? And table of contents? Are these rules applicable for fiction?

[Anonymous No.18682212]

>>18682187
Why the fuck do you need to read a book on how to read a book?

[Anonymous No.18682221]

>>18682212
Lol this

[Anonymous No.18682235]

>>18682187
It's mainly for non-fiction until you get to part 3.

[Anonymous No.18682246]

>>18680517
Lol

[Anonymous No.18682253]

>>18680451
Today I started reading Malone Dies. I'm not sure I "get" Beckett just yet, having finished Molloy the other, but I feel like I'm making way to some sort of point.

[Anonymous No.18682540]

>>18680451

[Anonymous No.18682563]

The Good Soldier Švejk and Leviathan

[Anonymous No.18682582]

I’m rereading The Catcher In The Rye. I always reread it every couple years and come away with a different impression of the book and Holden every time

[Anonymous No.18682646]

>>18682187
How can you read the book about how to read books if you haven't read it yet.

[Anonymous No.18682835]

Camus
>The Plague

Celine
>Death on Credit

Beauvoir
>Second Sex

[Anonymous No.18682871]

Seutonius - Twelve Caesars

[Anonymous No.18682952]

One Bird's Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home

It's interesting and relatable. Also it's quite interesting how I can identify the author's writing style in this book (non-fiction memoir) and his later novel I'm Thinking of Ending Things. That said, I am surprised a publisher opted to publish this, since it is not particularly distinctive in terms of the subject matter etc.

[Anonymous No.18682993]

>>18680451
/tvlit/

[Anonymous No.18683006]

i just got to the part in blood meridian where judge randomly buys and throws two dogs of a bridge : )

[Anonymous No.18683046]

Cochrane by Donald Thomas And Erewhon by Samuel Butler

[Anonymous No.18683071]

>>18681906
Siddhartha sucked.

[Anonymous No.18683080]

Post-cartpush/doordash grind comfy reads

[Anonymous No.18683679]

>>18682212
>>18682221
>>18682646
Are you retarded? It's a book on how to understand what you read, it assumes you have mastered the basic skill of identifying words on a page.

[Anonymous No.18683889]

i finished reading dune. took two days. i will try the sequels next. i haven't read a book for a few months so this was nice to get back to.

[Anonymous No.18683894]

>>18680451
Rereading moby dick

[Anonymous No.18683966]

>>18680451

[Anonymous No.18684137]

>>18680451

[Anonymous No.18685035]

suttree, the kybalion

[Anonymous No.18685063]

>>18680451
Plutarch's Life of Lysander and ballads from the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge

[Anonymous No.18685081]

Read: Ask the dust, The hour of the star.
Done my reading for today! (only because I am waiting for more books to arrive or something online to grab me)

[Anonymous No.18685092]

>>18680451

Stanislaw Lem: Because fuck character, fuck plot, fuck setting, you are going to take 200 pages of thought experiment and *like it*.

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[Anonymous No.18685116]

>>18681815
Cause they’re midwits (me included)

[Anonymous No.18685146]

>>18680666
How is the twenty days? I've had my eyes on it for years but never picked it up

[Anonymous No.18685398]

Got it for free senior year when they were cleaning out the english department, 42 pages in so far

[Anonymous No.18685427]

finished Age of Capital earlier today. they're neat books

[Anonymous No.18685578]

Keen to get through this one after having read his four other classics

[Anonymous No.18685587]

If the weather is nice later, I'm gonna read a little of this.

[Anonymous No.18685727]

>>18682187
Isnt there an entire section on fiction in that book?? Can you not read??

[Anonymous No.18686096]

>>18682563
Based choices

[Anonymous No.18686120]

>>18680451
4chan

[Anonymous No.18686144]

>>18680517
bait

[Anonymous No.18686174]

>>18680451
1984

[Anonymous No.18686492]

>>18686174
Unironically very well written

[Anonymous No.18686816]

World order by Kissinger. Interesting insights into the neolib mindset. Did the US really think that they could brute force Afghanistan and Iraq into becoming pluralistic liberal democracies? Also is the meme about invading Iraq for oil real? What did they really think they were going to gain in exchange for trillions of USD and thousands of American lives?

[Anonymous No.18687063]

Moby dick and Kant's essay "On perpetual peace".
Honestly I feel a bit too afraid right now to tackle Kant and Hegel's philosophical works, which is why I went with the political one instead.
Not sure if I should just jump into Hegel before I exhaust all of Kant's critiques.

[Anonymous No.18687125]

>>18680517
I'm 30 and figured it was a bit when I was a sophomore in HS. this is bait, right?

[Anonymous No.18687197]

>>18685146
So far so good. I don't know what's going on, but it's interesting.
In a few months the guy who translated this book will release an anthology of novellas by the same author.

[Anonymous No.18687233]

>>18681484
>Incel Verlag

[Anonymous No.18687432]

finished sexus yesterday and wanted some "genre fiction" to read before i move on to plexus. 50 pages into this one. it's jarring moving from the natural flow of miller's cadence to delillo's stilted, mechanical dialogue, but seems like it might get good later on.

[Anonymous No.18687525]

>>18680451
Hopefully finishing Ivanhoe today... 50 or so more pages.

[Anonymous No.18687553]

>>18687525
How is it?

[Anonymous No.18687556]

Christ the Eternal Tao

[ΠΑΣ No.18687597]

>>18680451
I am trying to meditate.
It's amazing just how much implanted memories i have from movies. I watched way too much tv as a teenager.

[Anonymous No.18687858]

>>18680451
gonna read The Fellowship of the Ring on an airplane today
>>18687525
what'd you just call me?

[Anonymous No.18688384]

>>18681915
Take them off while reading, put them back on the shelf. I just don't like them sliding around in my hand.

[Anonymous No.18688715]

Just finished Cyclops in Ulysses

[Anonymous No.18688716]

>>18681906
Both of these books are great. Steppenwolf is a much more grounded work and much more mature, while as Siddhartha is a very childish and fable-like approach to Hesse's topics he covers. Both affected me deeply.

[Anonymous No.18688962]

>>18687553
Worth a read for sure. The writing is pretty dense, at least more than I expected having not read that much from Scott's era. The story itself is fun and there are some good humorous bits throughout. Lots of character reveals... and other things that in retrospect are pretty funny now that I'm thinking about it. I'll probably reread it in a few years. And I'll definitely read more from Sir Walter Scott.

[Anonymous No.18689177]

Switching between Herman Melville short stories and this

>>18682187
Was also reading this a couple weeks ago. Might come back to it

[Anonymous No.18690243]

>>18680451
Finished Fathers and Sons. Starting Dubliners.

[Anonymous No.18690274]

>>18681590
trojan horse and achilles dying and aias (ajax) killing himself were lost to time

[Anonymous No.18690310]

Currently reading wittgensteins mistress and Molloy gudt stuff

[Anonymous No.18690488]

>Louis XIV by Olivier Berthier
It is alright so far, though the first 50 pages, out of 350, are an extended prologue, and the next twenty are about his teenage loves

[Anonymous No.18691444]

Pound and Dickinson

[Anonymous No.18691705]

Hey guys, any other /ic/ people reading books?

[Anonymous No.18691719]

I would have been finishing up War and Peace if it weren’t for my kindle dying. I don’t even know how long it’s taken me to read at this point. At least 9-10 months.

[Anonymous No.18691919]

[Anonymous No.18692583]

>>18690488
Are you the anon whom I talked about biographies? If so, thank you for the update; I had forgotten about it, lol.

[Anonymous No.18692618]

the red badge of courage by stephen crane, it's pretty comfy and short.

[Anonymous No.18692623]

Beautiful facsimile

[Anonymous No.18692627]

>>18680451
I just finished The Interior Castle, might move onto The Decameron.

[Anonymous No.18693725]

1/3 through notes from underground. I don’t really get it :(

[Anonymous No.18693825]

>>18692618
Based get his collection you won't regret it

[Anonymous No.18694020]

>>18681463
>Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth...
— Kahlil Gibran

[Anonymous No.18694064]

>>18690243
Fathers and Sons hit me so hard. I cried like a baby when Bazaroff died.

[Anonymous No.18694080]

>>18693725
A simultaneously lucky and unfortunate man.

[Anonymous No.18694135]

Might go read Alexander Pope's Iliad to my mother, catalogue of ships is next

[Anonymous No.18694180]

>>18693725
It’s a poorly written schizoid treatise against the Enlightenment principles which brought you the internet, democracy, and a life expectancy above 45 (so yeah it’s trash)

[Anonymous No.18694186]

>>18685427
Read through these earlier this year. They're good, but be wary - the bibliography and sourcing betray him, even when he's trying to be charitable "within" the Marxian framework. Age of Extremes is just revisionist.

[Anonymous No.18694215]

>>18694135
Post feet pic of mommy

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[Anonymous No.18694505]

>>18680557
>>18681018
>>18682246
>>18686144
>>18687125
My friends, I got it now, I believe.
Pat Bateman is lonely as fuck because of the braindead environment he lives in. Everything only ever gets touched superficially and the only thing that seems to count for Bateman, and in a larger sense thos rich Amis, as hinted at by the narrator only ever explaining that in detail, are the materialistic details: riches, good clothes, status.
Of course that destroys the mind of any non-soulless human, that's why Pat has to resort to drugs and extreme violence/narcissism to feel anything

[Anonymous No.18694698]

>>18685092
I only read Solaris and loved it. What are some other comparable books by Lem?

[Anonymous No.18694716]

>>18694064
When the dad felt like his time keeping up was wasted, I felt really depressed. The duel also hit me hard and naturally the end made me tear up as well. I've always put effort in to be close with my dad but I also know it gets silly when he asks questions about video games and tries to understand the younger worldview. He's the epitome of "are you winning son" and I can't help but love him.

[Anonymous No.18694908]

>>18694698
Not him but I think the closest might be 'His master's voice', 'Invincible' and 'Fiasco'. I prefer his more humorous books like 'The star diaries', 'Tales of Pirx the pilot' etc. Lem was a genius.

[Anonymous No.18695498]

>>18692583
Yeah that's me, I am now 200/350 pages in. I will still post my book report after I have finished, but I would recommend a different one.

[Anonymous No.18695508]

>>18694180
>the enlightenment was the reason for scientific progress, ignore the other 10,000 years of it!!!

[Anonymous No.18695544]

is nicomachean ethics good

[Anonymous No.18695579]

>>18695498
>I will still post my book report after I have finished
I appreaciate your dedication
>I would recommend a different one.
Ah, is it dull?

[Anonymous No.18695588]

Starting this

[Anonymous No.18695601]

>>18695579
Yes, it is not very detailed and ignores his campaigns entirely outside of mentioning which fortresses he conquered; meanwhile, he describes every catfight between mistresses and report from his ministers. The one thing it does well is that it has a lot of direct quotes, but you might as well just read his memoirs. If I had to read this book without knowledge of its titles and pick which one it was from the list of Louis XIV bios, I would guess that it was the Women in Louis XIV's Life one.

[Anonymous No.18695651]

>>18695601
>he describes every catfight between mistresses and report from his ministers
haha, ok I might skip it. But I'll wait for your full description of the book.
I've been looking at Peter Robert Campbell's Louis XIV biography; perhaps a good alternative.

[Anonymous No.18696375]

>>18695588
What are you trying to remember anon

[Anonymous No.18696387]

>>18680451
More of Sartre's Being and Nothingness. I read 150 pages today, gonna aim for 200 before I sleep.

[Anonymous No.18696487]

>>18681806
>ywn get to read those epics
It hurts so bad, bros.

[Anonymous No.18696559]

>>18696387
Fek you must be unemployed. I average 50 pages a day

[Anonymous No.18696597]

>>18696387
You wont remember any of it in 2 weeks.

[Anonymous No.18696605]

>>18680451
re-reading The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.18697231]

>>18696597
I typically remember what I read, and I take notes and ruminate in written form so I have stuff to go back to later.
>>18696559
In the summers yes. 50 is what I normally do as well. Today is an outlier.

[Anonymous No.18697987]

I didn't read today, which is ok since I got paid today and went for a little jaunt around Vancouver. I was going to read in the park but I ended up just blazing, moping about a girl, and fucking around on my phone. Maybe tomorrow. Anyways I'm almost finished Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by PKD (yes I am the one shilling this book lately) and next I'm going to read Solaris. I'm also reading the Roberts biography on Napoleon.

[Anonymous No.18698032]

Piranesi for reals. Hogg for... self torture I guess?

[Anonymous No.18698039]

>>18697987
Taylor Swift is gross. Boy ass.

[Anonymous No.18698046]

>>18698039
Taylor is literally the most beautiful woman alive you pleb. She is elitist with a garbage personality though.

[Anonymous No.18698124]

>>18681741
Lads I've finished reading Keats, so now I need a new book to read on my fuckin work breaks, and I can't be bothered to make the choice myself rn. Here's me options:
The Warden
Either/Or
Absalom, Absalom
Zemsta
Nienasycenie
Faraon
Père Goriot
The Confidence Man
Berlin Alexanderplatz
A Tale of Two Cities
V.
Gravity's Rainbow
War and Peace
Demons
Pierre et Jean

[Anonymous No.18698151]

>>18698046
>She is elitist
that's a positive so I will assume she also has a good personality

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.18698188]

>>18698151
Elitists don’t have much personality going for them.
Unless an evening with someone like Mitt Romney sound fun to you

[Anonymous No.18698235]

>>18680451
Don Quixote but I'm lazing around. Had a lot on my mind lately.

[Anonymous No.18698440]

He has some good/interesting points, but overall it's just another commie rating about capitalism.

[Anonymous No.18698451]

>>18698188
>Unless an evening with someone like Mitt Romney sound fun to you
Can I recharge my powertools? Because I want it to be slow.

[Anonymous No.18698694]

>>18686816
>meme about invading Iraq for oil real

It wasn't to "grab oil" it was about Saddam trying to finance his regime by selling oil for Euros or some other currency than Dollars. Americans will not allow you to do this, since their hegemony is largely based on other countries needing to buy dollars for international trade.

[Anonymous No.18698767]

>>18698694
Hmm well didn’t the war cost way more than whatever they were losing prior?

[Anonymous No.18698795]

>>18680451
I am reading /lit/ today

[Anonymous No.18698824]

>>18698124
Easy. Absalom

[Anonymous No.18699059]

>>18682187
This shit is such a fucking drag. I really had to force myself through it. Adler has some good ideas but the dude badly needs an editor so he's not saying the same thing 40 times. I have also read his book on communication and it has the exact same problem.

[Anonymous No.18699064]

>>18685092
Cyberiad is the greatest work of science fiction ever written.

[Anonymous No.18699093]

>>18698046
You clearly have never seen her without makeup on then.