/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22995956]

We're getting close to the end of the month. What have you read so far this year?

[Anonymous No.22995979]

is this real? looks fictional, like that library in the foundation series in trantor

[Anonymous No.22995989]

Haven't touched any "high-brow" shit this year, burnt myself out a bit from it last year.
>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Loved the film, loved the location, loved the era. The book was just as entertaining with it being basically the film but filled with new scenes, more background and a few twists and turns. Tarantino must mention dirty bare feet at least 15 times though.
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I've come to appreciate it more and more, the movie was a filter of sorts and the book probably more so. Love Thompson's prose.
>>22995979
It's the library at Trinity College Dublin. Basically a tourist destination though. I wander around it when I'm bored sometimes.

[Anonymous No.22996001]

i should hit 31 by the end of the month at this rate, although i've just started solenoid which is fucking huge

[Anonymous No.22996005]

>Finished Herodotus' Histories, but that was something I had been working on for a while
>Roald Amundsen -- The South Pole
>Hunter S Thompson -- Better Than Sex
>Poetic Edda
>Tom Wolfe -- Bonfire of the Vanities
Currently reading a collection of Epictetus' writings

[Anonymous No.22996008]

>>22996001
Do you have a job

[Anonymous No.22996010]

>>22996008
yes, but not a life

[Anonymous No.22996012]

>>22995956
>Wolfe - Soldier of the mist
>the epic of Gilgamesh
>Hölderlin - Der Archipelagus
>now reading The map and the territory by Houellebecq and pre-socratic fragments
I haven't read much because I had exams desu

[Anonymous No.22996013]

>>22995956
I've just finished Blood Meridian.

I liked it.

[Anonymous No.22996019]

>>22995956
In reverse order
>black rednecks and white liberals
>old man and the sea
>i, robot
>a scanner darkly
>1984
>dismantling america
>bnw
>serotonin
>heart of darkness
>hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
>anthem
>history of central banking and the enslavement of mankind
>white knights
>notes from the underground
>brief interviews with hideous men
>antichrist
>confederacy of dunces

[Anonymous No.22996028]

Stella Maris
The Counselor (screenplay)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
All’s Well That Ends Well
Tao Te Ching

I’m just staring Book VI (of VII) of Anabasis by Xenophon. So I should finish that up either today or tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.22996039]

>>22996028
Based Xenophon reader. I never understood why Anabasis didn't get as much acclaim as other Greek texts, I thought it was amazing.

[Anonymous No.22996047]

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
Harry Potter et la Coupe de feu
I'm 40% of the way through Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix
I just want to be a fluent reader of French already

[Anonymous No.22996054]

>>22996047
What are they like in french?

[Anonymous No.22996065]

>>22996039
Agreed. I’m glad it made it into the alternate top 100, which is why I picked it up. It’s an amazing story with betrayal and intrigue and reversals of fortune. It’s like a modern adventure novel only it’s 2400 years old and it’s a true story.

[Anonymous No.22996081]

>>22996054
I only compared the translation to the original text for the first book and not very consistently, maybe 2-3 times a chapter especially when I wanted to check my understanding
There's a bit where Harry has to ask what a préfet is which is added in the translation and I did find sentences that were missing in the French translation here and there but nothing major
Apparently there are people who think the translation is terrible but apart from the Jedusor thing it seems perfectly fine to me
Actually I suppose one thing that's different is that there are no accents until the 4th book whereas in the English original Hagrid has an accent from book 1 but honestly thank God because that would make the text much more difficult

[Anonymous No.22996102]

Emma
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Lady Susan

Currently reading The Non-Existence of the Real World by Jan Westerhoff.

[Anonymous No.22996130]

>>22995956
>end of the month
I read this as ‘end of the earth’

[Anonymous No.22996148]

>>22995956
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Bukowski - The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg Ohio

And some books on technical writing. Tried to get into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I despise the writing style.

[Anonymous No.22996276]

Kitten Clone by Douglas Coupland
The Scientist as Rebel by Freeman Dyson
The Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
John Von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing by William Aspray
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein

Looking for recs!

[Anonymous No.22996288]

I'm a beginner reader because I finally take some of my new years resolutions seriously and one was to read more.

I read so far in January:

Cyberwar: Die Gefahr aus dem Netz - Kurz, Constanze & Rieger Frank

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

Lord of the Flies - William Golding (reread)

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (reread)

Soundless: Final Verse (It's a VN)

The Great Gatsby - Scott K. Fitzgerald

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

DEEP WORK - Cal Newport

Ningen Shikkaku - Dazai Osamu

50 Pages of 120 Days of Sodom - M.d.S

Die Welle - Morton Rhue

Reached Part II of Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Part I of Hyperfocus - Chris Bailey

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

(140 pages) The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

(50 Pages) The Psychology of Stupidity - Jean-Francois Marmion

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(32 pages) DUNE - Frank Herbert

(50 pages) Atomic Habits - James Clear

(20 pages) Nemesis - Philip Roth

Can't hurt me - David Goggins

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (currently at p.41)

I think I'm doing ok, but I'm still too afraid to start anything massive, but Crime & Punishment looks great.

[Anonymous No.22996296]

>>22996008
It can be done, at least theoretically, but you have to sacrifice all of your free time. No social life, and very little to no other forms of entertainment that might distract you. You can also throw in a bit of reading into your work break if the conditions allow it.

[Anonymous No.22996299]

>>22996288
what a massive nerd

[Anonymous No.22996310]

I'm a Slav, so you won't even be able to read half the titles in the first place, yet alone actually recognize them. For those, I included title translations. The other half is in English and it's stuff I ordered on eBay.
>Kad student zatrudni (When the Student Gets Pregnant)
>Američka ideologija (American Ideology)
>The Great Gatsby
>Anthem
>Od demedikalizacije do istospolnih brakova (From Demedicalization to Same-Sex Marriages)
>V for Vendetta
>Twilight

[Anonymous No.22996317]

>>22995956
>Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
>Chesterton, St. Francis
>Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
>Fischer, Capitalist Realism
>Zabin, The Boston Massacre: A Family History

[Anonymous No.22996404]

>>22996288
You could throw away all of those books and lose nothing of value
>>22996310
Based twilight chad
>>22996317
Based sui chad

[Anonymous No.22996422]

>>22996404
>Based twilight chad
I actually got the entire boxset. The only book it doesn't contain is the one that's actually the genderbent version of the first book.

[Anonymous No.22996428]

>>22996404
>>22996422
And before you ask, no, I don't know why the image got turned sideways. It was okay on my phone.

[Anonymous No.22996500]

>>22995956
Garden of Seven Twilights (bout half of it continued from last year)
The Exorcist
A Borrowed Man
The Iron King
A Scanner Darkly

[Anonymous No.22996514]

>>22995956
Dropped 1Q84 at the end of the first book and started Moby-Dick immediately after.
It's a hard read for an ESL like me. I have to stop and look at a dict for almost every pages. Weird, since my vocabs aren't that large, but I didn't have this problem with contemporary authors.

[Anonymous No.22996866]

>>22995956
Nothing lmao

[Anonymous No.22997014]

[Anonymous No.22997188]

>>22996065
Could you or anyone else post the alternative top 100? I was in the sowing thread but missed the harvest.

[Anonymous No.22997215]

>>22997014
good man starting with the greeks

[Anonymous No.22997979]

>>22997188
Here you go.
I was incorrect though. Anabasis was in the main top 100
Tao Te Ching was in the alternate though