/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21581202]

what are you reading now

[Anonymous No.21581215]

BBC cuck porn transcripts

[Anonymous No.21581216]

>>21581202
One of the best books ever but i am not going to tell you.

[Anonymous No.21581220]

>>21581202
Cartographies schizoanalytiques

[Anonymous No.21581222]

>>21581202
i dont read

[Anonymous No.21581239]

industrial society
infinite jest
the kalevala
the bible

[Anonymous No.21581304]

>>21581202
Acts
The Right Stuff

[Anonymous No.21581325]

>>21581304
>Acts
>The Right Stuff
Urgh.

Why are you reading Acts?

[Anonymous No.21581332]

>>21581325
It was next after the gospels and I lost my reading list. I got TRS at the airport last week.

[Anonymous No.21581362]

>>21581202
Academic papers. Academia.edu is such a great site for them. It's pretty much what I exclusively read nowadays. Currently reading this:
https://www.academia.edu/12214537/The_Relation_of_Logic_to_Semiotics

[Anonymous No.21581363]

>>21581362
i used to read a lot of literature papers off jstor related to whatever i'm reading, but honestly most academic papers are pretty low quality, so i rarely bother these days.

[Anonymous No.21581364]

>>21581202
I'm currently reading Respect about Aretha Franklins life and upbringing as a person. I'm a very slow reader so it's gonna take a long time to read it.

[Anonymous No.21581368]

>>21581364
Do you have any idea how little time you have left on this earth?

[Anonymous No.21581538]

Finished The Kalevala last night, gonna read some Conan now.

[Anonymous No.21581650]

>>21581202
I am reading Vampire$ by John Steakley, Protector by Larry Niven, and Cobra: Cobra Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Thinking about reading Anabasis: The March Up Country and JADAM Organic Farming (Second Edition) by Youngsang Cho

[Anonymous No.21581658]

>>21581538
>Conan
Reading Robert E. Howard or some nock off?

[Anonymous No.21581667]

>>21581202
>The Journal by Thoreau
>The Air Conditioned Nightmare by Miller
>The Pickwick Papers by Dickens

[Anonymous No.21581678]

>>21581658
A 2017 collection of Robert E Howard’s work called the broadsword legacy collection, supposedly it’s all the exact text as REH wrote it, which is good because I didn’t even consider that some editors would alter it excessively.

I was gonna buy the hardcover complete chronicle that Amazon has for 40 bucks but I got this for like, 5 dollars.

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>>21581678
Nice!

[Anonymous No.21581751]

>>21581202

[Anonymous No.21581780]

>>21581202
The Two Natures of Christ by Martin Chemnitz

[Anonymous No.21581800]

>>21581202
Hackett, David Fischer; Washington's Crossing

[Anonymous No.21582232]

>Intimate Behavior by Desmond Morris
>The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy, and Feeling by Diana Adis Tahhan
>Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu

[Anonymous No.21582235]

I plan to start either Sherlock Holmes or House of Leaves.

[Anonymous No.21582236]

>>21581202
Poems by Christina Rossetti

[Anonymous No.21582238]

>>21581220
don't tell me that's a man

[Anonymous No.21582241]

>>21581202
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
I don't usually read sci-fi and feel like I'm missing a lot

[Anonymous No.21582294]

The way of kings

[Anonymous No.21582301]

>>21581202
I don't know. In the last six months I started a bunch of books and stopped. I guess I'm rereading Borges stories to find a specific one that I remember but not the title.

[Anonymous No.21582311]

Wish there were cool hentai like that today

[Anonymous No.21582320]

Infinite Jest, the ebonics sections are fucking painful

[Anonymous No.21582399]

>>21581202
2001 a space odyssey

[Anonymous No.21582415]

im not really in a frame of mind to read anything. last year i have only read like 6 books
i work in IT, i write boilerplate code all day, and after work im just watching footy on my tele or some series
i dont even play vidya, its boring.

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[Anonymous No.21582601]

>>21582415
Same, programming is killing my soul. I implemented one cool feature in November but other than that it was all mindless crap.

[Anonymous No.21582985]

>>21581202
A handmaid's tale

[Anonymous No.21583051]

>>21581239
How the fuck do you manage reading 4 books?

[Anonymous No.21583106]

The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch

[Anonymous No.21583109]

Rereading Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.21583119]

The book of Enoch and ‘the place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church’ by fr. Rose

[Anonymous No.21583130]

>>21581202
The Turn of the Screw.
Deutsche Krieger.
Seeing like a state

>>21581538
>>21581239
Is the Kalelava worth it?
I noticed the English version that appeared last year on the Internet, but haven't read it yet.

>>21583051
Do you actually read?

[Anonymous No.21583136]

>>21583130
Yes, i read /lit/ posts everyday

[Anonymous No.21583329]

>>21583051
Not that anon but 4 books is manageable but more than that i feel it becomes clumbersome.
2 or 3 is the comfiest quantity if you want to read more than one book.

[Anonymous No.21583335]

>>21583130
>Is the Kalelava worth it?
I'm only 4 chapters in but it's wonderful so far. I love the nature imagery and forest life and the Friberg translation reads well.

[Anonymous No.21583353]

>>21581202
On the Apostolic Preaching

[Anonymous No.21583444]

>>21581202
Halfway through the The Latter-Day Pamphlets. Mostly just obstinacy keeping me going at this point.

[Anonymous No.21583448]

Human All Too Human

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[Anonymous No.21583725]

>>21581202
Verification not required

[Anonymous No.21583767]

Is Kite any good?

[Anonymous No.21584071]

>>21583767
Yes but avoid the dub

[Anonymous No.21584203]

The plague by Camus, in french. Fucking shite. Don't like Camus. Can't wait to finish and then read madame Bovary, which will hopefully be good. Candide is really funny. I enjoyed it immensely.
>tfw no red sheep

[Anonymous No.21584263]

https://archive.org/details/UFOsNaziSecretWeapon1974/page/n7/mode/2up

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[Anonymous No.21584295]

>>21581202
Acceptance

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>>21584295

[Anonymous No.21584413]

>>21581202
Really good set of advices, talked to 2 girls this month.

[Anonymous No.21584438]

Gene Wolfe - Peace
What a pleasure to read so far

[Anonymous No.21584475]

the pilgrim's progress

[Anonymous No.21584815]

>>21583109
I'm enjoying it so much more than the first time reading it.

[Anonymous No.21585499]

Beowulf

[Anonymous No.21585528]

The prince

[Anonymous No.21585548]

His Dark Materials. Not too long not too short.

[Anonymous No.21585627]

Currently I'm reading a tale of two cities. Plots finally picking up.

[Anonymous No.21585642]

leviathan - oxford classics. really enjoy the index
>>21585528
what translation/edition

[Anonymous No.21585644]

>>21581202
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
t. straight white dude

[Anonymous No.21585693]

Started Gravity's Rainbow, why is it all about bananas so far

[Anonymous No.21585722]

>>21581202
the band aid is on backwards

[Anonymous No.21585751]

Sky in the Deep. About 20% through it, enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.21585757]

>>21585751
new verner vinge?

[Anonymous No.21585765]

>>21583130
It's a good read. There are some fun stories in there that modern readers might get a little squeamish with. I personally enjoyed Lemminkainen and the story of Kullervo

[Anonymous No.21585794]

>>21581202
Augustus by John Williams. Read Stoner in December and loved it. I'm getting used to the concept of the story being told via letters written by different figures.

Also reading Phaedrus, just finished the Trial of Socrates dialogues.

[Anonymous No.21586121]

>>21581202
So far i enjoy it, has anyone else read it?

[Anonymous No.21586137]

>>21585642
I'm from argentina but this book was printed in English version, check it yourself

[Anonymous No.21586228]

>>21581202
I'm currently reading Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. It's an essay collection written by a doctor/psychiatrist with lots of experience working in a British slum, a prison, and some of the poorest countries in Africa. It's about the troubles of the underclass, how their worldview shapes their actions, and how ideas pushed by intellectuals often aggravate their problems, even when their intentions are good. It's a pretty interesting read, so I definitely recommend it.

[Anonymous No.21586275]

The Bible and Talking To Canadians (the memoir of Rick Mercer)

[Anonymous No.21586372]

>>21586228
thanks for the rwc seems v interesting

[Anonymous No.21586912]

I just finished Sobre Heroes y Tumbas (On Heroes and Tombs).

The writing is glorious and the main plot is interesting, but GOD it is a BORE to read. The author goes nowhere with bazillions topics that add nothing to the novel and it becomes tiresome very fast.
"Informe Sobre Ciegos" is also boring. It lacks complete sense and, of course, goes nowhere.

But that's most of latinamerican literature, I guess.

[Anonymous No.21586930]

The most wild swings in quality, tone, style and subject matter of anyone I've read.

[Anonymous No.21586932]

>>21585644
>I fucked a prostitute and now I feel better with myself!11!1!!!!

Trash.

[Anonymous No.21587374]

>>21586930
the shield of achilles is such a great poem

[Anonymous No.21587397]

>>21581202
Cugel's Saga and Radix.

[Anonymous No.21587399]

The King in Yellow. It's alright but I was expecting something spookier

[Anonymous No.21587568]

ratner's star
pretty bizzare book

[Anonymous No.21589209]

>>21581202
Doña Barabara en español
Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions in English

Barbara is killing my ass with all the llanero speech. Eccentric Lives is okay, but the Internet makes it seem kind of quaint.

[Anonymous No.21589392]

I meant to start reading Foster Wallace with "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" but bought this instead. It is a great read but don't know if I could be arsed with Infinite Jest any time soon.

[Anonymous No.21589406]

80% in and i feel like killing myself

[Anonymous No.21589427]

>>21583051
Not that anon, I'm currently reading 4 books too.
I read two when I want to actually read, changing them when I get bored of one.
Then I also read one book which is extremelly longer (2600 pages long), I read some chapters after finishing a normal book.
I also read the bible to go to sleep.

[Anonymous No.21589506]

2001: A Space Odyssey

I'm loving the pace

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[Anonymous No.21589765]

>>21581220
Is this real or AI-nime?

[Anonymous No.21589864]

>>21581202
>what are you reading now
industrial society

[Anonymous No.21590270]

>>21589209
>Doña Barbara
I think this is the first time I've seen someone mention a book from my shit hole here in /lit/, It feels nice.

[Anonymous No.21590284]

>>21589765
it's a real book by Guattari

[Anonymous No.21590989]

>>21587399
The king in Yellow is pretty spooky as is.

[Anonymous No.21591027]

>>21581202
entertainment:
War of the Flowers by Tad Williams

interest:
The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink

meditation:
The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa

for language learning:
Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便)

[Anonymous No.21591082]

>>21581202
just finished cory doctorow's radicalized. in short: convenient 2d strawmen dish out or receive social justice in political statements haphazardly disguised as novellas.