Current Reading

[Anonymous No.22826243]

What are you currently reading /lit/? Are you enjoying it? What do you plan on reading next?

I'm reading pic related. It's really good. I'm also reading Aberration in the Heartland of the Real as my non-fiction book. Only 34 pages in so the jury is out at the moment but I like where it's going.

I've got quite a few Japanese novels which I've never read so I think I'm going to read one of them. This is my first time reading Mishima so I think I'll read Confessions of a Mask next.

[Anonymous No.22826255]

Currently got this kino going. I need to pick Aberration back up again.

[Anonymous No.22826262]

>>22826243
The Golden Bowl, like 20 pages a day. I like it. Took me forever to get Henry James but I’ve been reading a lot of his the past couple months with success. A claustrophobic, ambiguous novel

William Blake, the Everyman’s Library version. Love it. He’s the exact kind of poet I look for. I just ordered Northrop Frye’s book on Blake so I’ll probably read that next. Blake is the kind of writer I like to dive deeper into

Conversations with Kafka by Janouch. I like it. Short aphoristic stories about a young man’s interactions with Kafka, his dad’s co-worker. Rumor is it may be fictionalized a little but it’s still a good read. You can read a couple pages a day. Something better taken slow

Reading some Arabian Nights stories here and there. Love it. A delightful book. Lots of fun and has me smiling or laughing often

For next book probably Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson by Gurdjieff. I also have the itch to reread Maldorer by Lautreamont

[Anonymous No.22826269]

Finished "The Remains of the Day" some time ago. Gonna read "Never Let Me Go" next.
I read random whodunnits in between but I think I might be running out of good books to read. Finished "The Three Coffins" recently and it was great but I don't think I like Dickson Carr's other books. I want to read "The Final Curtain" by Keigo Higashino but I don't think the English version is up on bookz yet.

[Anonymous No.22826279]

>>22826243
Irl I'm rereading Kafka's The Castle after procuring a Vintage Classics copy for cheap.
I've finished about 70% of Èmile Zola's Germinal and found it quite good, even thought rather slow in the starting sections. I'm probably going to leave the last parts unread till I get a physical copy, and so I'm moving on to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

[Anonymous No.22826293]

>>22826269
Never Let Me Go is a good one, hope you enjoy it. The last book I read was The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.

[Anonymous No.22826298]

I Who Have Never Known Men, its interesting so far

[Anonymous No.22826303]

>>22826255
Cant picture this being as kino in audio but this is the book that got me into lit.

[Anonymous No.22826305]

>for work:
Julius Caesar
Great Gatsby

>for fun
Why its Ok to like Immoral Artists
The Prone Gunman by Jean Patrick Manchette
Don't Fear the Reaper by SGJ
The Violent Bear It Away by O'Connor

>for MFA
literary theory- an anthology
My Year In Meat - Ozeki

[Anonymous No.22826315]

the Magic mountain

its kind of dull but the introspective musings about love and the passage of time keep me interested.

[Anonymous No.22826320]

>>22826303
It's well done, as is Post Office (which I've already listened to, by the same narrator). Emphasis on well done. I could really imagine the guy narrating the book really was the voice the Bukowski.

[Anonymous No.22826325]

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

[Anonymous No.22826326]

The works of father Antonio Vieira. I remember reading some of his sermons for literature classes in high school and I never forgot some lines, so I decided to delve into his major writings now many years later. The best description of Vieira I can give you anons is a sort of Catholic John Bunyan from the portuguese speaking countries.

[Anonymous No.22826332]

>>22826325
Hey fellow Caesar reader. What are you getting out of it? I'm going to be using it to teach rhetoric, and in that concepts like mob and herd mentality, patriotism and political gain, persuasion vs manipulation

I'm finding it to be one of his denser plays because there's so much to unpack

[Anonymous No.22826341]

Blood Meridian. And I think nothing of it so far

[Anonymous No.22826413]

My first time reading 1984

It is so dramatic, borderline farcical, I can't believe this is held in such high regard in public consciousness.

[Anonymous No.22826429]

>>22826413
I read it for Grade 12 English. Git gud skrub.

[Anonymous No.22826438]

It's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.22826448]

>>22826413
>The book famous for featuring an extreme society centered solely around authoritarianism is soooo dramatic
Are you stupid anon?

[Anonymous No.22826451]

>>22826243
I love Mishima's work so much

[Anonymous No.22826672]

>>22826255
bought this too recently

[Anonymous No.22826686]

The Stand. Reading the uncut version. 95% done. It's been so good. Stephen King is a great author even tho he's a liberal piece of shit irl

[Anonymous No.22826889]

>>22826672
I regret selling my Bukowski books since they all have new awful looking book covers now. Same applies to Haruki Murakami books

[Anonymous No.22826909]

> The castle
Great read overall, expands your mind. I like to think the castle is God for now, but you can replace God with anything, the setting will still give ways of comparison

> Casanova's memoirs
Amazing. About 3000 pages in, I sometimes disagree with the Man, sometimes admire him, most of the time remain in awe for his thoughts and sparkles of wisdom, sometimes laugh.

> Tolkien's letters
I like it. Gives insights on the man that didnt come through his interviews, he was based, kind, wise, and autistic.

> Moliere's complete work
Outdated themes and ways of thoughts. But the language flows beautifully, it's a pleasure to read

> Ulysses
Garbage as far as I'm concerned

> The gay knowledge
There is everything in it, which also means there is nothing. Don't like it much, it feels like it was fueled by resentment, ironic for the purpose it's supposed to fill up

[Anonymous No.22826916]

>>22826243
It made sense.

[Anonymous No.22826921]

>>22826413
Orwell was a commie faggot

[Anonymous No.22826924]

Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

[Anonymous No.22826936]

>>22826924
I think it's fun, true to life characters, plot is very masculine in a sense. I also learnt a lot because I had to look up nautical terms.

[Anonymous No.22827131]

Just finished Stoner. I enjoyed it a lot compared to Lolita where it was a mind of a slog to go through. Of course I had an easy life so I thought Stoner had a sad life.

[Anonymous No.22827150]

I finished "Echtzeitalter" yesterday, a German contemporary novel about a pro AoE2 player at an elite boarding school in Austria. First half was great, second half was meh. Wish there was more literary examination of the contrasts between pro gaming and traditional education.
No idea what to read next. I finished American Psycho two weeks ago and have been depressed since then. I tried to fill the void with contemporary slob like Normal People but it is just not doing much for me. Maybe it's time for the meme stack see pic related

[Anonymous No.22827171]

Just started this mornings and marathoned my way through Act One Scene One
I have no idea who the fuck these guys are or what their fucking problem is but otherwise so far so good

[Anonymous No.22827228]

I’m reading the fountainhead. Just finished catch 22 on monday.

I wanna talk about catch 22 because I’m not sure what deeper meaning I was supposed to get out of it, some anon in a thread a few days ago said I needed to read the last 2 chapters to get it but besides them being really dark I didn’t get much out of it. It struck me that it was something of a leftist book, and I felt really annoyed at a lot of the leftist comments in the thread. First at the start with the texan and then not until a lot later where it went into depth on milo but the image of the military as a useless bunch of politics damned socialism more than the book poking fun at a free mans right to starve because he can’t afford food. Militaries are essentially socialist institutions, Hayek described socialism as military society and that is exactly what socialism looked like in practice, just officers undermining each other for rank while all the work and more work got piled at the bottom of the chain of command and there being no actual justice. Anyway I guess there is supposed to be a message of shell shock but it really only felt apparent in aarfy with the rest of the characters remaining more or less rational.

[Anonymous No.22827480]

>>22826916
Based modern society hated

[Anonymous No.22827491]

>>22826916
Best book written by a transgender author

[Anonymous No.22827520]

I was reading one novel every week or two for years and the past 6 months slowed down my reading considerably. Trying to finish writing a book by late January so I'm getting distracted.
But I will start reading Faulkner's novels that I haven't read before.

[Anonymous No.22827526]

First time reading this. Surprisingly readable for 1895, and it’s cool to see how much modern sci-fi owes to stuff first presented in this book.

[Anonymous No.22827534]

>>22827526
The "black wings" description of the time travel sequence is so cool.
I think what's so interesting about the story is it's getting into Wells greatest fears about social stratification. It's still fairly simple of a story, you can tell it's his first published novel.
If you like that, read the Invisible Man. Harrowing and tragic. Very different take about invisibilty compared to the whole "no accountability" theme in Tolkein's stories.

[Anonymous No.22827762]

Halfway through Runaway Horses right now. Next book will be The Makioka Sisters.

[Anonymous No.22827774]

>>22827526
I ready War of the Worlds a few weeks ago and it was very interesting.

[Anonymous No.22827777]

>>22827150
i fucking hate german book publishing, the name of the author and title of the book are printed so small on the spine in comparison to books published in english, i have to search for them in my shelf because they are so hard to tell apart from each other

[Anonymous No.22827780]

>>22826243
Finna bouta read Hölderlin's "der Archipelagus". What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.22827783]

>>22827762
dust your house anon

[Anonymous No.22827805]

>>22826243
I'm currently reading this book I randomly came across in a thrift store it was pretty fucked up but I loved the writing style on the first few pages so I found the pdf online, been trying to finish it but I'm just way too much of a zoomer. but I'm enjoying it so far

also op you shouldn't read foreign books not in their original language especially an Eastern language, it's pretty much a different book than the original if not in Japanese or whatever

[Anonymous No.22827813]

never marry a crazy bitch

[Anonymous No.22827860]

>>22827783
I wipe it weekly but the dust is really visible on that table tbqh

[Anonymous No.22827902]

Houellebecq's The possibility of an island

>>22827813
I read that and he didnt smoke pot once. 0/5

[Anonymous No.22827919]

>>22827777
Nice quads. What's even worse is that the text alignment on German books is simply wrong. When you lay an English book flat on a surface with the back of the book touching the surface, the alignment of the title on the spine is correct. If you do this with a German book it's fucking upside down.

[Anonymous No.22827950]

100 pages away from finishing Perfidia by James Ellroy. It's long, exhausting, and exhilarating at the same time. Ellroy's a master of this material; he's found his niche.
I'll be reading This Story by Ellroy next, sequel to Perfidia.

[Anonymous No.22828078]

>>22827813
She looked pretty normal at first in his defense

[Anonymous No.22828135]

>>22827919
yeah, it's really fucking retarded. what i also dislike is that many works of classic literature are mostly published by reclam. i hate those ugly, tiny yellow pieces of shit, they are an eyesore.
anyways, how is "Die Gesänge des Maldoror"? after seeing it in your picture i read the blurb and it seems interesting.

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[Anonymous No.22828873]

i really like the strugasky brothers and sci-fi, so this has been a very enjoyable read, i recommend it if you are a fan too

the main idea: they both were passionate about astronomy, lived through the war and stalin's regime, and liked pushkin, so naturally all these things make an appearance in their work

at one point, the author goes full autism about the star vega to prove that andrei voronin could not have possibly returned home to leningrad at the end of the doomed city

planning to read "definitely maybe" next, another strugatsky brothers novel

[Anonymous No.22829097]

>Critique of Pure Reason
About 150 pages in. Lots of terminology and subdivisions of subdivisions but I'm mostly keeping up. Very forward-thinking and futuristic, and if anything the recent science seems to back up what he says about time and space. I've read the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and I'm becoming a fan of Kant.

>Moby Dick
Just about 150 pages left. I love it. Melville's personality comes through and he has so much charisma. I chuckle a lot while reading it. I've heard retarded journos say to skip over or skim the "parts about whaling" or whatever, which I knew was bullshit, but I had no idea how bullshit it was. Like 90% of the book is just about whaling, no real plot progression, but all of it is so fun to read because of Melville's personality.

>Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions by Sarah Elizabeth-Titcomb
Mostly crap. Originally published in 1889 and seems to be full of incorrect assumptions about the non-Abrahamic religions. I got some copy printed by "Forgotten Books" from Amazon and the typeface is gigantic and the book itself is just ugly and cheap looking. Literally might just throw it out once I finish these last 50 pages.

>>22826243
I didn't think too much of The Sailor while I was reading it but the ending stuck with me ever since. Reading The Temple of the Golden Pavilion now and it's interesting. Both of them seem to have rather on-the-nose symbolism, where certain characters exist to exemplify a certain eternal concept, but I've gotten used to that. I think it might even be something of a Japanese thing.

>>22826909
>Ulysses
I somehow got about halfway through but I just had to face the fact that I was not understanding a fucking word of it. All gobbledy-gook to me. There were brief moments where the idiosyncratic prose came across really beautiful to me, like the ending of the Lotus Flower chapter, but other than that I didn't glean anything. I guess you could say I was filtered.

[Anonymous No.22829127]

>>22826243
Finishing up Euripides (Cyclops). Also dipping into an anthology of Akkadian literature, nothing of much interest yet but I haven't gotten to the Classical period.
Yes, it's quite fun. Maybe he'd have been better off writing comedies - not really though, his particular virtues as a tragedian are good to have despite the fundamental flaws.
Going to read the other tragedians next, very excited for it.

>>22826305
What do the students think of JC?

>>22826262
>he's into James now
You're leveling up Miller-anon, I love to see it. I can't remember, have you read Chaucer? You might like him if you like Arabian Nights.

>>22829097
>>Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions by Sarah Elizabeth-Titcomb
It does sound a bit crankish but that's a pretty cool field, I want to continue getting more into that type of thing myself but I usually just check wiki and look for primary sources.

[Anonymous No.22829220]

>>22827813
love this book so much

[Anonymous No.22829226]

Meditations

I think next week when I have nothing else to do I'll binge Count of Monte Cristo and see how long it takes me.

[Anonymous No.22829327]

>>22829127
Yeah, I like Henry James now, some anons should read some of his shorter stories to adjust. I made a thread a couple weeks ago about The Beast in the Jungle. One of the greatest short stories I’ve read. He was writing with fire at the end, which is something you never really hear said about James. Ultimately you have to read James in his own terms and just go with the flow, and don’t get unnecessarily bogged down

I have The Canterbury Tales and I’ve read a few of the sections, but as I’ve said recently the adjustment curve is long and steep for me. I want to read it, and I already respect Chaucer, it’s just tough for me to read and fully take away. I forget who but I read a good essay where it was explaining the relationship between the stories told, the storytellers, and how Chaucer described the storytellers, and how there is a lot to be grasped that isn’t apparent at first. Lots of subtle things lurking beneath the surface. I’ll eventually try him again. The Decameron is one of my favorites, and I see Arabian Nights becoming one as well. Something about books of storytelling appeals to me

[Anonymous No.22829363]

>>22829327
Yes I think the "fire" is very much there in one form or another in Daisy Miller and Portrait as well. Not at all a "bland" or "dry" writer imo, he just takes the long way around in getting to the real core of a story.

That's fair, the language is not easy, I just use the Harvard website with interlinear modernization. I get it though, I just personally find him super fun.

[Anonymous No.22829412]

>>22829363
Yeah. Many readers look at him too crudely IMO. He is a figure worth sympathy and you can learn a lot about James by studying him. He’s a very unique author, few like him. A Freudian or Jungian reading of him would be interesting. He’s kind of an extrovert who wrote introverted novels and stories. Lots of dialogue and descriptions but James rarely gets inside the minds of his characters. He lets the reader decide

James is also a man blown about in the wind in the way, a fin de siecle Stendhal of sorts. Always moving about in America in his younger years, never quite fitting in in Europe in his adult life. He was definitely passionate about America though. The new world vs the old world is a favorite theme of his. He compared Emerson and Thoreau to Goethe and Schiller, he used to draw emotion from his subdued but passionate reading of Whitman, a poet he regretfully criticized in his younger years. You get a sense of a man without a home. A man who never quite fit in

Lots of his later middle period books focus on the corruption of innocence and some put forth he’s has pedo tendencies but it’s much more likely he was gay or asexual. When James was a youth he used to be jealous of his brother William hanging out with rougher kids that swear. I think the innocent young girl corrupted in James’ work is perhaps James himself. That theme was brought out after he tried his hand at plays and his work was panned. I think James was a sensitive man and he wanted to kill that part of himself off. He could never be the one hanging with the rough swearing kids and he hated himself for it

There are very few writers with a body of work deserving of being studied like James. There are clear periods. There is heft to his oeuvre and he deserves an in-depth look. I’d bet most readers who give up on him give up shortly into the book or try to read him by other standards. Once you get adjusted, he isn’t too bad.

[Anonymous No.22829424]

Getting back into learning spanish after a 7 year hiatus. Paradisó is a baroque doorstopper so I switched over to Ficciones to get reacquainted with grammar and build some vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.22829460]

>the sexual revolution and its consequences etc.

[Anonymous No.22829479]

>>22826243
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James. Its exciting in spots but long, about 700 pages. Next, probably Manifest Destinies by Steven Woodworth or The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill.

[Anonymous No.22829500]

>>22829226
>Meditations
Pretty gay, right?

[Anonymous No.22829516]

>>22829500
no bro it's straight

[Anonymous No.22829527]

>>22829412
He and his books definitely shared that quality of quiet, restrained passion, he's certainly a relatable figure for me in certain ways. He captures a wonderful picture of the same forgotten, aimless era that Proust captured, with lots of similarities and also deep differences. Hopkins is worth mentioning as being around the same time, having an idiosyncratic, indirect method, and being a highly conscientious repressed homosexual - with your tastes you'd love Hopkins actually, I can't remember whether or not you've read him.
I agree that the arc of his development and the completeness of it is satisfying - a byproduct, no doubt, of his withdrawn nature; no distractions powerful enough to pull him away from his work and create discontinuities in its trajectory.

[Anonymous No.22829600]

I usually read classics but I asked chatgpt to give me recommendations from the past few years based off books I like. It gave me the midnight library and the vanishing half. Has anybody read either of these and are they worth my time? I want to try something knee but I’m a little unsure based on the descriptions of the books.

[Anonymous No.22829609]

>>22829600
Try something new*

[Anonymous No.22829612]

>>22829600
Ahahahahah
What books did you input

[Anonymous No.22829613]

>>22829600
>>22829612
Oh nvm I didn't see you were specifically asking for new books. That's a difficult one.

[Anonymous No.22829617]

>>22826243
Starship troopers and the Maltese Falcon

[Anonymous No.22829652]

>>22826921
Orwell hated authoritarianism, left or right it's all the same end.
To be on topic and also relevant I am reading We.

[Anonymous No.22829858]

>>22829652
>Orwell hated authoritarianism, left or right it's all the same end.
Like anon said, Orwell was a commie faggot

[Anonymous No.22829859]

>>22829527
I’ve had my eye on Hopkins for a bit. I take it there is no specific edition above the rest that is best? Like the Oxford World Classics complete poems and prose will do? The Penguin seems shorter so I’m skeptical. There’s a book about Hopkin’s writing that I want as well- Gerald Manley Hopkins: A Critical Symposium by New Directions. It has commentary by Leavis, McLuhan, Lowell and others. I’m also interested in biography by Robert Bernhard Martin published by Faber and Faber (an underrated publisher IMO). It’s either Hopkins or Tagore for the next poet I get into after Blake. Any things to keep in mind for Hopkins?

[Anonymous No.22829887]

>>22829858
But communists are just authoritarians waiting to get power and use "workers" to reach that goal. Then they discard the useful idiots. I don't think Orwell supported that kind of thinking.

[Anonymous No.22829902]

>>22826243
I've been reading parts of the Summa Theologica. It's actually quite interesting, though I'm not Catholic. Tomorrow I'm going to start the Divine Comedy.

[Anonymous No.22830646]

Drowning. I just started. It's 70 pages so I'll probably be done by the evening.

[Anonymous No.22830675]

>>22830646
Sounds interesting, I'll probably try to read this soon.

[Anonymous No.22830678]

>>22828135
Reclam is a disgrace for German literature, I will never understand how you can treat great works in such a way. The font, the style, the size, everything is just bad.
Maldoror is fascinating. The first time I tried reading it I got filtered hard by the archaic language and the "philosophical" style. But now it's intriguing me again and I plan to read it beginning next year.

[Anonymous No.22830954]

>>22830675
This guy has an interesting wiki, looks like he ended up getting killed by the Japanese, in Drowning consider them his enemy while studying amongst them, and coveting their women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Dafu

[Anonymous No.22831001]

Currently this. It's pretty good.
I'm going to read either Savage Detectives or A life for Sale after this.

[Anonymous No.22831007]

>>22830646
>>22830675
Shit, can't find this on libgen or z-library.

[Anonymous No.22831723]

Walter Kaufmann - The faith of a heretic
Stefan Zweig, everything
Byung-Chul Han, everything
Steven Nadler books on Spinoza
Martin Hagglund, This Life - Secular faith and spiritual freedom
Mary Midgley - Myths we live by
Rene Guenon - Things Hidden since the foundation of the world

[Anonymous No.22831846]

Classic burgerpunk.

[Anonymous No.22831857]

>>22826243
De Rerum Natura by Lucretius

[Anonymous No.22831864]

>>22826243
"Sadako wants to live" would've been a much better title.

[Anonymous No.22831866]

>>22829859
Idk anything about edition I've just read the stuff on the Poetry website.
>things to keep in mind
He has some weird metrical theory that I don't really know much about. He was interested in Duns Scotus, talks about him explicitly in one of his poems but there's other stuff that he based on his ideas as well.
>an underrated publisher IMO
Home of Thomas Stearns Eliot himself! I hope someday we get a slim volume entitled "The Rejection Letters of T.S. Eliot".

[Anonymous No.22832098]

>>22829127
We're not reading JC til next semester. Each book I teach I read three times to make sure I know it right. I hope they'll like it

[Anonymous No.22832114]

>>22831846
>Library of America hardback
Based. I have that exact volume and still need to finish it.

[Anonymous No.22832269]

>>22832114
I grew to love them after picking up the novels in the Chandler collection many moons ago. There aren't many robust, archival hardbacks out there and they have pretty good curation and mostly complete sets within certain limits. I almost exclusively buy hardback these days and it's a pain in the dick trying to find any at all, much less good ones with decent buckram and paper.

[Anonymous No.22832342]

>>22831007
http://chinese.wooster.edu/files/sinking.pdf

[Anonymous No.22832919]

Earth Abides. It's pretty good so far. It was written in the late 40s, so it's kind of neat to read a post-apocalypse book that's not "modern" per say. It also focuses more on the post-human ecological changes from a macro level, which is different from most of the other books I've read in the genre.

[Anonymous No.22832959]

It's keeping my attention. He can't write characters but he can write sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.22832998]

>>22827491
>>22829887

what do you think the end goal of democratic socialism is?

[Anonymous No.22834123]

>>22826243
100 pages into Absalom, Absalom! and I barely understand what has happened or what is going on

[Anonymous No.22834138]

Richard Zenith's biography of Pessoa. I am only a few hundred pages in but the level of research is very impressive.

[Anonymous No.22834191]

>>22826243
Not bad. Big sur better

[Anonymous No.22834195]

Third book in Biocentrism trilogy by Robert Lanza. I dunno why this isn't more popular. He puts all the ground breaking new science together in a neatly package with great spiritual implications if you want to interplay it like that.

[Anonymous No.22834209]

I'm just under half way and waiting for the mind-job that always comes in the middle of a PKD book. I get the feeling Kathy is how PKD (based) sees most women.

[Anonymous No.22835773]

>>22829127
Update: I have now moved on to Aeschylus. I was worried he wasn't gonna live up to the hype and sometimes an isolated line or strophe doesn't hit as hard as Euripides' transient fantastical imagery but I finished Persians and I gotta say it seems like my man Wagner was on the money with his assessment.

>>22832098
I hope so too, it's sublime.

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[Anonymous No.22836684]

>>22829613
What do you think of it?

[Anonymous No.22836693]

I’m reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I wanted to defenestrate it early on but I have 60 pages left and have changed my opinion.

[Anonymous No.22836903]

Finished up the main book I was reading so decided to reread a couple favorites on a whim

Specimen Days - Whitman

Les Chants de Maldorer-Lautreamont

[Anonymous No.22836914]

>>22826243
Read most of his plays, but never got around to any of his novels. Reading the trilogy, then Murphy afterword.

[Anonymous No.22837428]

Still trying to read selected short stories by Oscar Wilde.
I finished a bigass Haruki Murakami book by reading daily, but Wilde is starting to become a monthly thing despite being a tenth as long as Murakami.
Wtf.

[Anonymous No.22837485]

>>22836914
It gets pretty retarded but it's fucking great.

[Anonymous No.22837493]

>>22837485
The sex scene in Molloy had me laughing out loud.

[Anonymous No.22837498]

I'm reading the Nibelungenlied, a new Finnish translation was released this year. It's definitely a great work, I really like the rhythm of the poem and I've read it out loud to my two-month old daughter who also seems to enjoy it.
Next up I'll probably read Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow, my fifth Bellow book this year.

[Anonymous No.22837564]

>>22829460
I liked that a lot but ragequit 2 of his other books