/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19628157]

What is /lit reading this Christmas? I’m 30 pages into pic rel

[Anonymous No.19628163]

>>19628157
Aeschylus' Persae.

[Anonymous No.19628420]

>>19628163
How do you like it so far?

[Anonymous No.19628856]

>>19628157
Oblomov, he's so lazy!

[Anonymous No.19629240]

im reading kennedy's fauci book and getting MAD as HELL

[Anonymous No.19629254]

>>19628157
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.19629259]

>>19628157
I'm reading comics because I'm lazy. I finished Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant this morning and now I'm working on Himawari House.

[Anonymous No.19629260]

Aristoteles' Topicos

[Anonymous No.19629270]

Switching back and forth between Blood Meridian and Jane Eyre.

[Anonymous No.19629620]

>>19629240
>kennedy's fauci book
Is that written by an actual Kennedy?

[Anonymous No.19629639]

>>19629620
RFK Jr is a lawyer that specializes in cases where the government or pharmaceutical companies knowingly allow people to get sick and die. Guy has been an activist all his life basically.

[Anonymous No.19629663]

>>19628420
I think it's pretty good, but I feel like I'm probably missing out by reading that instead of the Oresteia. I felt sorry for the Persian queen.

[Anonymous No.19629816]

>>19628157
81 pages in.

[Anonymous No.19629944]

>>19629620
Yeah, although many of his family members have disowned him because he publishes correct information about vaccines.

[Anonymous No.19630016]

>>19628157
Stoner. I'm at the part where Katherine resigns and leaves Columbia and Stoner becomes a morose middle-aged man. The last chapter was really sad, especially the end.

[Anonymous No.19630079]

Reading "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Really enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.19630133]

Currently reading and it's really great narrative history, reads like fiction

[Anonymous No.19630141]

Snow Country
Should finish either tomorrow or Monday
Pic related is next on the list.

[Anonymous No.19630202]

>>19630141
>snow country
without getting into the plot, what do you think about it? I've had it for some time but haven't gotten around to reading it yet

[Anonymous No.19630218]

>>19628157
Just finished ch.11 of The Sun Also Rises, and I've also been reading some of the short stories from Cathedral by Raymond Carver

[Anonymous No.19630220]

>>19628157
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, i'm reading the Introduction which I almost never do because of the introduction of Snow Country coincidentally enough. It's a wonderful introduction about James Agee's life written by John Hersey and I want to check out his book Hiroshima sometime.

[Anonymous No.19630250]

Halfway through this. A great novel of place so far, with the fictional town vividly created.

[Anonymous No.19630480]

>>19629663
I read Augustus having already known the history of Rome and coming directly from studying epistolary works of Seneca. Williams tackles the story with such style and elegance being one of the most entertaining works I've read. Displays the ambition of Augustus in such an incredible journey: enjoy anon

[Anonymous No.19630500]

Just starting the Glass Bead Game by Hesse.

[Anonymous No.19630837]

>>19630480
Thanks anon godspeed

[Anonymous No.19631001]

>>19628157
A bit of Chateaubriand and the Screwtape Letters

[Anonymous No.19631141]

some short Chekov stories.

[Anonymous No.19631811]

>>19630250
Sounds great. Kind of unrelated but does anyone know what the painting in the cover is?

[Anonymous No.19631866]

>>19631811
It is by Felice Casorati and titled Silvana Cenni.

[Anonymous No.19631892]

Sun's out guns out

[Anonymous No.19632693]

Just staring out, doing a presentation on Gothic and Weird Fiction so I picked it up
Next I'm going for Castle of Otranto

[Anonymous No.19632720]

I'm reading the Brazen Head, it's about Roger Bacon.

[Anonymous No.19632729]

I finished the thief's journal on Christmas day, now I'm reading the odyssey.

[Anonymous No.19632738]

For My Legionairies and The International Jew. If I manage to finish these quickly I might try and read another Goethe work before year's end.

>>19630079
I finished that the other day, it was quite interesting but it didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know. Its message is glaringly obvious today to anyone who puts their phone down for a moment.

[Anonymous No.19633102]

>>19631001
hello, based department?

[Anonymous No.19633219]

>>19628157
It's Me, Eddie by nazbol gang. First 2 chapters are one of the most sad things I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.19633406]

>>19633219
QRD? Its description kinda reminds me of Tropic of Cancer

[Anonymous No.19633415]

Reading this to my girlfriend. Last time I read her Euripides' Medea. She said that so far she liked the Greek stuff better.

[Anonymous No.19633416]

>>19629663
>I feel like I'm probably missing out by reading that instead of the Oresteia
But you can read Oresteia later too? You're missing out by not reading Herodotus first maybe if you're not familiar with the Persian war. Also Persians is believed to have been written before Oresteia.

[Anonymous No.19633459]

>>19628157
Caesar's Civil war.

[Anonymous No.19633473]

>>19628157

[Anonymous No.19633497]

Right now I'm mostly just rereading the Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. This year I'm going to be focusing on Arthurian literature and learning Old English because I want to be able to read Beowulf. I picked up the grammar and reader by Robert Diamond and it looks relatively easy compared to Greek.

[Anonymous No.19633507]

Comfy but the fourth chapter reminded me that I was reading pynchon with all the jumps

[Anonymous No.19633712]

[Anonymous No.19633829]

I know this is normie-tier but I started reading this yesterday. I'm about 100 pages in and it's very comfy

[Anonymous No.19634130]

>>19633473
Should I read this or the Myth of Sisyphus next? I’ve just finished the Stranger.

[Anonymous No.19634581]

[Anonymous No.19634723]

>>19633473
Slowenakentranse

[Anonymous No.19634786]

>>19628157
My mom gave me Augustus for Christmas. Looking forward to reading it.

[Anonymous No.19634813]

I'm reading Wurthering Heights. It's really fucking boring about 80 pages in, need some anons to tell me its worth it

[Anonymous No.19634822]

>>19634813
Not worth it.

[Anonymous No.19634828]

I just finished reading Pale Fire this Christmas. I've now started reading a couple of chapters from The Potrait of a Lady, it's been great so far. It's my first Henry James novel, he often gets mixed reviews here but I wanted to find out for myself and the physical copy was one sale.

[Anonymous No.19634834]

>>19634813
I dropped it 150 pages in but do regret it

[Anonymous No.19634860]

I am nearly halfway through, shit just got started to be real

[Anonymous No.19634972]

>>19628157
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Billy Budd, I'm really enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.19635151]

Guns Germs and Steel

Joy of Living

[Anonymous No.19635162]

Delillo’s Underworld
Death and Co cocktail book

[Anonymous No.19635180]

>>19628157
I am reading The Name of the Rose and enjoying it very much. I have a general interest in history, with pre-modern times (middle-ages and the iron age) being my more particular favourite. Makes me want to read more on the recurring conflicts between the pope and the emperor and all the heretical movements that were formed in that time.

Augustus is fantastic, by the way. If you want more like it I'd warmly recommend Memoirs of Hadrian (which I enjoyed even more).

[Anonymous No.19635608]

>>19635180
Thanks anon