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21435388 No.21435388 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading?
Am reading pic related having put it off for many years. Somehow thought it would be tedious and mawkish but it's a real page-turner.

>> No.21435412

Look kid, I have projects. I don't have aesthetic preference for books or categorize them in mind as "Comfy autumn book" or "Sensuous Christmas Eve book"

I read them, finish them and throw them into trash if they are fiction. What's the point reading it twice if it is not some manual or hard to comprehend treatise?

>> No.21435415

>>21435412
What's the point in breathing more than once?

>> No.21435447

>>21435412
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not suggesting this is a book somehow fitted to Christmas (it's not). I'm asking my fellow anons what books they have on over a period when there is typically more time for reading, hence my taking on this 2000-word novel that I've put off for a while, in part because I'm between projects.
Also if you're refusing to reread novels because they are novels, your conception of the project seems utilitarian and shallow.
But there's world enough for us both to be wrong: read what you like, bin what you like, and despite my disagreement here, post what you like.
If anyone wants to post their comfy Christmas read or their 'hard-to-read treatise', be my guest. Would be good to get some new reading recommendations.

>> No.21435449

what's wrong with this site

>> No.21435451

>>21435415
Noth-NNNGH!

>> No.21435656

Reading 'Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue' Pretty comfy desu, even though at some points it's very emotionally, and sexually arousing.

>> No.21435708

>>21435388
hyperion

>> No.21436647

I read dostoyevsky's heavenly Christmas tree on Christmas eve and straight up cried for the first time in God knows long. literally had tears running down my face. not just from how sad it is, but because of the sheer level of extreme contrast between the sadness and the overwhelming beauty and joy.

>> No.21436663

>>21435449
No one here reads

>> No.21436736
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21436736

>I read them, finish them and throw them into trash if they are fiction. What's the point reading it twice if it is not some manual or hard to comprehend treatise?

>> No.21436747

>>21435449
Too much reading.

>> No.21437483

>>21436647
Will give it a try desu

>> No.21437503

Right now I'm alternating between stories in Sam Lipsyte's Venus Drive and chapters in James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime.

>> No.21437874

>>21437503
>Sport and a Pastime
From the few Salter reviews I just skimmed, I'm surprised I've never heard of this.

>> No.21437972

>>21436647
Dostoevsky is the only author who has ever reduced me to a weeping pathetic mess. Heavenly christmas tree shattered me as well.