/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23088609]

>last read
>what you thought of it
>current read
>what you think about it
>next read
>expectations

[Anonymous No.23088634]

>>23088609
>last read
Twilight.
>what you thought of it
Not even "bad", just mind-numbingly BORING, basically nothing more than a collection of random scenes from a high-schoolers life that stand out only because the main character fell in love with a vampire.
>current read
The Wraeththu omnibus.
>what you think about it
It, uh, definitely is something.
If these books were published in early-to-mid 2010s instead of in 1990s, I have a strong suspicion they'd be mocked as "Tumblr shit." If they were published today, they would have used the word "non-binary" in spades.
>next read
>expectations
Honestly, I have no idea. The amount of books I have on my to-read shelf is huge, and more often than not, I have no idea what I'm going to read next until the very moment of decision.

[Anonymous No.23088638]

>>23088609
>last read: David Copperfield. Very good book, incredibly dense but pretty much every subplot has a good payoff and some great characters
>current read: the sun also rises. I’m liking this one a lot so far. Good cast and some great scenes and despite it being usually hemingwayist in it’s sparse scene descriptions, just the mentions of the places n settings brings vivid images to the mind. When people say that he says alot without even saying much, they’re absolutely right. It’s my first “longer” work of his I’ve read (I know. But I’ve only read the old man and the sea and about 2/3rds of for whom the bell tolls (which I do plan to revisit))
>next read: probably gonna pick back up and hopefully finish War and Peace. I’m at the start of the third part bout 180 pages in. It’s a good story I don’t even remember why I put it down maybe I just wanted to read something else. I love Pierre and prince Andrei

[Anonymous No.23088644]

>>23088609
Did the FBI just discovered /lit/?

[Anonymous No.23088655]

>>23088609
Reddit thread

[Anonymous No.23088684]

>>23088609
>last read
The Prince
>what you thought of it
Machiavelli is very edgy in his drive to lay out the general principles for governance in a pamphlet like this, but I think the people who equate his ideas with sociopathy have not read him. He's actually quite sensible on violence and has no patience for cruelty either.
>current read
Rene le Forestier, The Bavarian Illuminati
>what you think about it
Unexpectedly hilarious. A disgruntled liberal university professor tries to start a conspiracy in a catholic state, but it gets away from him extremely fast and his ideas totally fail because he's a bad writer and a bad people manager. This would make for an entertaining TV show.
>next read
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
>expectations
Hopefully I get a sense of how it must have felt to be a military professional that is given a 100% politically motivated goal and getting the logistics to make sense when your leadership are either fanatics or sycophants. Something like Generation Kill, but bleaker.

[Anonymous No.23088695]

>last
The Plague by Albert Camus
Apparently Camus believed that the only way to deal with a deadly pandemic is to join in with the community and help fight it. One need not be a saint but should try to be a healer.
I guess he didn’t know about collecting unemployment and stimulus checks and Netflix and online porn. Kekekekekekek
(In fairness Covid was much ado about nothing and nowhere near as bad as plague. The vax will probably kill more people in the long run and the generation of retards the disruption to the educational system will probably be far more damaging than the Chinaman flu ever was)
>current
Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq
Still too soon to tell. Very early in.
>next
Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg - I’ve seen the movie that was based on the book Cutter’s Way and wanted to see if a couple lose ends are explained in the book.

[Anonymous No.23088715]

>>23088609
>last read
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš, loved it, even though a lot of it went over my head.
>current read
Anatomy Lesson by Danilo Kiš, his polemical work regarding the rough reception and all the controversy the aforementioned novel I mentioned generated (that being ATFBD). Currently read half of it and so far it has been brimming with interesting insights as it pertains to literature and a total tour de force in BTFOing critics and setting the record straight, while also talking about his writing philosophy. It is also quite useful to explain a lot of the socio-historical context of ATFBD, some of the impetus behind writing it and how he approaches towards faction (seamless mixing of fiction and facts) and also goes at length about his appreciation of Borges and want a giant influence he was on his own writing style. As someone who is quite interested in Danilo Kiš, Anatomy lesson has given me plenty of things to think about and a lot of brilliant insights from an absolute master of the written word.
>next read
Alice in Wonderland, I think I'm going to love it.

[Anonymous No.23088733]

>>23088715
Shut the fuck up, retard.

[Anonymous No.23088745]

>>23088695
>(In fairness Covid was much ado about nothing and nowhere near as bad as plague. The vax will probably kill more people in the long run and the generation of retards the disruption to the educational system will probably be far more damaging than the Chinaman flu ever was)
Retard.

[Anonymous No.23088749]

>>23088733
That was meant for OP, not some retard butting in.

[Anonymous No.23088758]

>>23088749
Shut the fuck up, retard.

[Anonymous No.23088765]

>>23088758
A broken record, eh?

[Anonymous No.23088788]

>>23088745
um this is called based and you are in fact the retard

[Anonymous No.23088921]

>>23088609
>>last read
poems of Wang Wei
>>what you thought of it
The pure landscape poems are perfect, absolutely divine use of negative space.
I don't think the allusive Tang court style works well in the context in which he tends to use it, it might be best to just stick to the Three Hundred Tang Poems selections and skip the full collection, but idk.
>>current read
poems of Du Fu
>>what you think about it
Much better use of the aforementioned style because there's not so much dissonance between the style and what it's being used for. Less perfect in description but such an immense wealth of soul, humanity, storytelling and imagination. Deserves his place among the great national poets.
>>next read
Poems of Tao Qian
>>expectations
I've already read some of his stuff. In a way I think he's probably the greatest of them all. One of my absolute all time favorite authorial personalities.

>>23088638
Nice picks anon, I love all of those authors. For Whom the Bell Tolls is really beautiful.

[Anonymous No.23088963]

>>23088684
Read Illuminatus!

[Anonymous No.23088977]

>>23088609
>previous read
Anna Édes by Kosztolányi
>thoughts
Interesting book, wasn't very boring I enjoyed reading it. I really liked the political themes of the book and the examination of psyche of the main character by the society around her. Would recommend, although I don't know how good the English translation is.
>current read
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
>thoughts
Amazing book, I really enjoy Joyce's writing style. This is one of the first "real" modernist books that I've read, so some parts of it feel strange, but I think it's good.
>next book
Lolita by Nabokov
>expectations
I expect a beautiful romantic story about a forbidden pedofilic love.

>>23088638
War and Peace is one of the greatest books ever written. It has one of the most beautiful stories with the deepest, realest characters. I recommend finishing it, it's a book like no other

[Anonymous No.23088987]

>>23088609
On the jewish question by Karl Marx.
Retarded and stupid, just like everything ive read from him, extremely convoluted.

[Anonymous No.23089480]

>last
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
I’ve got mixed feelings about this. The male feminist stuff is kind and f cringey but I liked the whole Frankenstein pastiche and the woman being rejected as a feminist heroine because she’s a bit of a muddled coomer seemed reasonable to me.
>current
Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green
Enjoying it so far. Alexander was a prick no doubt and he inherited a great army that his father had built up but he’s still pretty impressive.
I’m at the part where he’s besieging Tyre and building a mole to connect the island city to the coast and they’re actually doing it, while under fire from the soldiers trapped inTyre. He definitely had plus sized brains and balls
>next
I don’t know. I’m leaning toward something Asian. I might finally start the Bhagavad Gita or The Water Margin

[Anonymous No.23089611]

>>23088609
>Last read
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
>What you thought of it
It was alright, but I preferred The Drop which I read before this. The scope in Small Mercies is too large, I think the focus being narrower in The Drop was to it's benefit.
>Current read
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
>What you think about it
Enjoying it a lot. Theology is something that I have a sort of passing interest in, so the discussions between the monks I find interesting. So far I prefer it to Foucault's Pendulum, which a little to much schizoid ramblings.
>Next read
The Revolution of Hope by Erich Fromm
>Expectations
High. I read A Man for Himself a few months ago and found it really interesting, and I've read excerpts from The Revolution of Hope before and really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.23089749]

>>23088609
>last read
Brideshead Revisited
>what you thought of it
Beautifully written. I liked the first part the best; I suspect most people do. I grew very fond of Charles and Sebastian.
>current read
Lord of the Flies
>what you think about it
Not a fan of the prose. I liked the characters more than I thought I would though. They really felt like kids and I felt bad for all them despite everything that happened.
>next read
Regeneration by Pat Barker
>expectations
Pretty much a published Siegfried Sassoon fanfic. Not really sure what to expect besides that

[Anonymous No.23089788]

>last read
When Prophecy Fails
>what you thought of it
Absolute banger of a book. It was an interesting look into belief systems and a compelling story.
>current read
Propaganda (Jacques Ellul)
>what you think about it
Yet another fucking banger of a book. A lot dried, but definitely a page turner.
>next read
Addiction by design: Machine gambling in las vegas
>expectations
I want something like When Prophecy Fails, perhaps less dry: sometimes that is sumaltenously a compeling "human" story and a look into the dynamics of the mind.

[Anonymous No.23089817]

>>23088921
For whom the bell tolls is quite great and alot of the scenes and passages are easily retrievable from LTM, I really just have a bad habit of starting books then getting distracted by others cause frankly i'm just reading for the pure experience, atleast thats how i justify it. ya know, rather than for amount of books read or anything
>>23088921
are these all chinese poets? I do love poetry and would love to read some eastern shit. are you reading in oregano or translation and if so what do you recommend
>>23088977
War and Peace really is beautiful atleast i know the translation i have is. like i told the other poster i just have a bad habit but i did start it again and will probably read it alongside my hemingway. Nice pick on Portrait of the artist, not everyone likes it but i thought it was pretty great. I love Joyce's very transcendental imagery and his just masterful use of language. he somehow just knows how to mix the feelings of humble homeliness with wonderfully obscure references and beautiful musical language. Stephen is a great character, i love the scene of him and his friends debating poets. i love the line
>but you couldn't have a green rose, but perhaps somewhere you could
that line just destroys me. its so sad and bittersweet and yet hopeful. God i love joyce, if you haven't read it yet do read ulysses (which my guess is probably already on your tbr given what i can glean from your current choices) Ulysses is Joyce simply at his absolute best. literally cant go more than a page or two without howling with laughter, and i mean it when i say actually laughing loud. but theres also moments of such poignancy and honestly brought me to tears at parts. Idk how he felt about dickens and probably thought he was a bit on the nose and self contained (atleast compared to the universalism of joyce's employment of syntax, his lexical choices, and allusions
>>23088695
i really want to read the plague, so far from camus all ive read is the stranger and about half of the myth of sysyphus. thats hilarious about how he'd react nowadays. i think alot of these old school left types would be kinda disgusted by where the left is now.

[Anonymous No.23089985]

>>23088609
About to reread the Oresteia. Just read an introduction by Richard Seaford and it blew my mind and let me see Aeschylus in a whole new light I wasn’t aware of, mainly the importance of opposites in a Heraclitean or Pythagorean sense that borders on the Ying and Yang philosophy, and the structure of the play emanating outwards from the family to the city to the cosmos and why it is important and what it means

[Anonymous No.23090539]

>>23089817
>are these all chinese poets?
Yes, just some of the really big names. The Chinese tradition is *massively* underrated imo. Maybe not quite as much variety as Europe but there's so much sublimity and feeling and delicate beauty.
>are you reading in oregano or translation and if so what do you recommend
Translation, I've learned a tiny bit of the language but I think you'd have to learn older pronunciations in order to have it be relevant for the poetry. It's one of those things I tell myself I will do eventually.
My recommendation would be to use an anthology like the Three Hundred Tang Poems, because there can be a lot of relatively uninteresting stuff in the complete works of a poet as I kinda mentioned in my post, I only do it that way because it soothes my autism. Translations are a bit spotty, David Hinton is a big one, he modernizes a bit too much for me though. I really like Arthur Waley (who hasn't done that much in terms of actual poetry translations), and Burton Watson is one I haven't tried but he seems like he'd be fine. Waley made his own little anthology with a good selection, including some pieces that would be hard to find translated elsewhere.
>For whom the bell tolls is quite great and alot of the scenes and passages are easily retrievable from LTM, I really just have a bad habit of starting books then getting distracted by others cause frankly i'm just reading for the pure experience, atleast thats how i justify it. ya know, rather than for amount of books read or anything
Don't have to explain it to me lol I'm the exact same way. FWtBT has a pretty great ending though, if not exactly super shocking or twist-y. Depending on how far you've gotten already there's like 4 or 5 separate arcs/dynamics that play out in compelling ways. War and Peace is a weird one because Tolstoy is weird but definitely still an all-timer in spite of it all, like you say the characters are just irresistibly lovable.

>>23089985
Yeah it's pretty awesome, I was similarly impressed when I realized that it was dealing with those metaphysical implications. The art and artifice of it is way more sophisticated than I had expected. I also remember, in reading stuff about Suppliants and Seven, that they called attention to similar conflicts between the masculine and the feminine, it would've been so cool if we could have seen how he played those themes out differently across multiple different trilogies. I guess in the end the loss of all those plays was the REAL tragedy, xD

[Anonymous No.23090589]

>antérieurement
L'étranger
I thought it was great and very funny
I found the last two chapters to be very upsetting and it was at that point that I suddenly found myself distanced from the protagonist, his autistic mind stopped being funny and appealing to me and I tired of it
I felt like the priest who runs out of the room crying
>actuellement
Soumission
It's very funny and entertaining
Honestly i really want to read Husymans and Péguy now and just generally study the Medieval ages more
I don't think my French reading ability is good enough to read Huysmans yet however
>prochain
I feel like reading the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry next or Le Grand Meaulnes

[Anonymous No.23091482]

>>23088609
>last read
Antigone
>what you think of it
I really really liked it. Didn't expect that at all. I already knew how it was gonna end and it still delivered. I guess I didn't really read it since it was the Fagles translation
>current read
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
>what do you think about it
So far it's interesting. Very clear too. I progress very slowly
>next read
Oedipus the King
>expectations
Antigone hyped me up so too high

[Anonymous No.23091504]

>last read
Epictetus' Discourses, Fragments & Enchiridion (Penguin Classics edition)
>what you thought of it
Good. It's a very functional and extremely basic applied philosophy. The contents all felt very intuitive, as if one knows these 'truths' on how to live a good and virtuous life deep down already, but to have them put on paper so eloquently is cool. Epictetus kind of strikes a balance between a Diogenes-pilled old lunatic and a wise, bearded philosopher.
>current read
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
>what you think about it
I've read about 20 pages before bed last night, can't say I've formed much of an opinion
>next read
Tough to pick. I inherited some old Jules Verne books, with cool illustrations. I think they are "around the world in 80 days", "20,000 leagues under the sea" and "Journey to the center of the earth". If any of you have any tips on which one is comfiest, I'd love to know.
>expectations
Comfy reading by candlelight, rolled up in a lil blanket. Ready to be swallowed into a world of adventure.

[Anonymous No.23091534]

>>23089788
Addiction by Design has been on my To Read-list for quite a while now. Just from browsing through the pages, it seems like it's less of a 'story', but more of a technical book on how the gambling-machine manufacturers implemented their addictive design.

>>23090589
Soumission *is* pretty funny, man. Houellebecq is kind of seen as 'le conservative wrongthink maniac man', but I like how he actually paints quite a positive picture of islamism. While the main character does 'submit', it does seem kinda based to be a muslim (if you're rich and have some stature).

[Anonymous No.23091841]

>>23091482
Oedipus is the “perfect tragedy” according to long critical consensus. It’s possible you’ll admire it more than love it, but admire it you most certainly will. Sophocles was something really remarkable.

[Anonymous No.23091922]

>last read
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
>what you thought of it
My book club really whiffed on this one. It's not a unified text; instead, it consists primarily of speeches and interviews in which Davis briefly touches upon left-wing hobbyhorses without fully explaining them. It doesn't function very well as an anthology, either, as there's no meaningful curation (e.g. the speeches are not in chronological order and frequently cover redundant talking points). If you're interested in Davis, start with Women, Race & Class instead. The only value I got out of the book was as a reference point for other, better books like Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois.
>current read
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
>what you think about it
The archaic prose has made progress difficult. I have to re-read every sentence at least once before I think I understand it. To make matters worse, I'm constantly trying to mentally "cross-reference" Hobbes' statements (e.g. about his 17th-century European conceptions of human psychology) with my understandings of the same ideas and with their interaction with the ideas of other political philosophers. Unsurprisingly, I'm still in the first section.
Overall, it's impressive that Hobbes tried to build his entire system from the ground up (and on terms far more secular than those of Aquinas), but that creates a lot of openings for his more dated premises to undermine the conclusions. Nonetheless, as a matter of internal coherence, I'm excited to see how robustly he connects his premises to his famous conclusions about the nature of the social contract, and I'm even more excited to see how much reading this improves my grasp of later political philosophers.
>next read
Lenin: The Man, The Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen
>expectations
I find Russian history fascinating, and I especially want to brush up on my Soviet history. The 1917 revolutions seem like the logical place to start, and a biography of the central figure seems like a logical place to start that. I just hope that Sebestyen has a responsible approach to historiography and doesn't try to reduce things into a pro- or anti-communist polemic.>>23088609

[Anonymous No.23092121]

>>23088609
>>last read
The Return of the King
>>what you thought of it
There is a reason this trilogy is seen as a classic but I slogged through these books compared to sci fi (my favorite genre). The worldbuilding autism is impressive and the arcs of the hobbits are cool (the scouring of the Shire is essential). Denethor is a tragic figure that deserves too much hate imo. The battles keep you engaged. Less annoying songs compared to the first 2. 2 Towers is the best though, and while Fellowship feels like a big exposition dump at times it has better moments compared to 3. I wouldn't have read these books if they weren't classics though.
>>current read
Footfall by Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle
>>what you think about it
Mote is my favorite novel, and I like Ringworld and Lucifer's Hammer. I like the realistic science. While it reads like a TV script proposal rewritten for a book, it does a neat job balancing the threads so far, and it has an epic blockbuster scale without feeling stupid (unlike Hollywood) and it has depth. Takes a lot of time to set things up, I just got to the part where the aliens arrive.
>>next read
I plan to finish my reread of the Foundation trilogy (I was halfway through Second Foundation). Then I will read the Invincible, then try to properly finish the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, then begin Cixin Liu's trilogy.
>>expectations
Asimov's writing in Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation is superior character wise compared to the first. It will likely be good. I liked Red Mars but college work made me lose interest in going more than a third into Green. I have heard plenty off cool shit about Lem (I even saw the boring Tarkovsky adaptation of Solaris) and Cixin.
I don't care about the TV adaptations of Asimov and Cixin.
I plan to try War and Peace and Moby Dick down the road.

[Anonymous No.23092212]

>>23088609
>last read
His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer by Anne K. Howard
>current read
picrel
>>what you think about it
love anything about ct or colonial history. this stuff fascinates me

[Anonymous No.23092236]

>>23088609
>last read
Phantom of the Opera
>Thoughts
Enjoyed it quite thoroughly although the chapters told by the Persian were easily the best and stood out well. Somewhat confusing at parts but I think I just wasn't paying enough attention.
>current read / next read
can't make up my mind. Think I want to get into a series of sorts. I recently read BotNS and loved it, but I don't want to read something so nuanced and subtle at the moment. Open to suggestions.

[Anonymous No.23092260]

>last read
house of leaves
>thoughts
complete shit, stopped midway once i googled the author and saw his face, it took away any trust i might've had in it being good by the end
>current read
putin on putin by dugin
>what you think about it
it's fine, explains a lot about russia's plan to destroy the us and rebuild its empire
>next read
not sure, probably some old pulp

[Anonymous No.23092381]

>>23088609
>last read
Psychology Of Revolutions by Gustave Le Bon
>thoughts
good historical book whos thesis warns against mob rule
>current read
Man And His Symbols by C.G. Jung
>thoughts
Pretty good into Jung as well as a nice summary of the unconscious, the anima/animus, and general symbolism/dream analysis
>next read
Interpretation Of Cultures by Clifford Geertz
>expectations
Hoping to get a general overview of interpretative anthropology and not some anal discussion of some obscure pre-civilizational tribes

[Anonymous No.23092430]

>last read
Possibility of an Island.
>what you thought of it
Funny at times but very bitter. Can be sleazy and downright pornographic, although in an entertaining way. The author’s thesis in regards to the spirit of the age is in my eyes correct. Houellebecq is vindication for those who say that life sans religious experience is meaningless. Not to say that I am particularly religious. There are strains of Céline in him, but Céline has a brutality and a passion in him that Houellebecq lacks. He really is a pathetic man. Reminds me of the old crackheads you see drinking cheap beer in the park.
>current read
Coriolanus
>what you think about it
Only 2 scenes in, I like it so far.
>next read
Under The Volcano
>expectations
I’m expecting it to be very good, but I don’t really know what else.

[Anonymous No.23092460]

>>23088609
I'm going through the Elric books
>Last read
Revenge of the Rose. Didn't care for it.
>Current Read
Bane of the Black Sword. Loved it. I didn't like Weird of the White Wolf or Vanishing Tower too much, so I was almost done with this series before buckling down with this one.
>Next read
Stormbringer. Excited to see how it all wraps up. Especially since I've heard the ending is iconic.

[Anonymous No.23092719]

>>23092460
Sailor on the Seas of Fate is my favorite, next to the first book and Stormbringer. Enjoy and check his other The Eternal Champion stories, or read the Elric comic. You will like both.

[Anonymous No.23092722]

>>23088609
>last read
Crisis of the Modern World, Guenon. Not one of my first Guenon books, I have already faced many texts and articles. Luckly I didn’t start with this one, indeed it touches most aspects of Guenon’s tought but the entire approach remains vague and undevoped, still inspired me into reading more of his work, especially the symbolism kind.

>what are you reading
Note Azzurre by Carlo Dossi. Typical european intellettual diary by a ‘800 writer too much acquainter with latin and roman authors; most of the notes are interesting and worth reading.

>what will you read
Either will pick some Guenon from the library or something in the likes of Karl Kraus

[Anonymous No.23092791]

>>23092719
Yeah Sailor on the Seas of Fate is by far my favorite as well.
>The eternal champion stories, or read the Elric comic
I'm reading the 80's comic alongside the books and they are pretty good. I was gonna read the Corum novels and comics next because I saw Mike Mignola does the art.

[Anonymous No.23092868]

>The Stranger
Mostly a re-read for french practice. Same I thought last time Mersault is the perfect frenchman.
>Love Lasts Three years
Another one for french practice. Rene has some great lines here and there but he suffers from terminal midwitness. 'Oh dopamine, oh chemicals! There's a study that proves that-!'
Insufferable.
>Hopscotch
I love most of Cortazar's stuff so I want to see what he did with a novel. His short stories are great.

[Anonymous No.23093112]

>>23092868
>french practice
Tips on learning how to read French? I’ve got some basic grammar and I found a parallel text french/English collection of short stories. It’s just a case of lots of practice isn’t it?

[Anonymous No.23093139]

>>23093112
NTA but I'd suggest French for Reading, great book.
Also, yes, it's just practice, and practice should be trying to immerse yourself in the language through material you actually enjoy so it isn't a chore.
The more you enjoy the material the easier it is to learn the language.

[Anonymous No.23093430]

>>23090589
>>23091534
I'm taking french in uni right now and don't want to lose it completely when the semesters over. Do you have any recs for french reads on the easier side?

[Anonymous No.23093463]

>last read
Convenience Store Woman

>what you thought of it
loved it. An uncomfortably relatable first act with a nerve-wracking middle act twist. And an ending where the normal self-assured individual ascends to a higher level, discards a shoulder-devil of convenience like yesterday's point-of-purchase promo display, and triumphs over the oppressive normie masses all without disturbing the day to day operation of society.

>current read
I haven't started anything else since, so ill post my REG magnum opus about the book I read previously

[Anonymous No.23093519]

>>23091534
I think Submission is more about the death of French culture and civilisation rather than anything else but he does intimate that the basic precepts of Islam in relation to sexual matters are agreeable to any red-blooded man. I can’t remember where I read it but I once saw an anecdote from a French journalist embedded in South America with a group of socialist revolutionaries from various countries. They were all singing folk songs from their respective backgrounds and it was the French guy’s turn he could only barely remember the Marseillaise. I’ve always had the idea that the French were more culturally assertive though, especially compared to the British.

[Anonymous No.23094082]

>>23093430
Harry Potter is my recommendation
I have read
>first 4 books of Harry Potter
>half of the 5th Harry Potter book
>Le Petit Prince
>half of Le Chant Du Depart by Max Gallo (which is a terrible book btw)
>L'étranger
>Soumission
I believe in the input hypothesis so I think reading the most words is better for language learning than reading complex/difficult prose
If you really love Le Petit Prince then read it but I don't think it's long enough personally

[Anonymous No.23094087]

>Last Read
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
>What I thought of it
An essential book about understanding morality; gripping from cover to cover
>Current Read
It was going to be Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren but the MC was a sexually self-righteous bitch so I returned the book to the library early
>Next Read
Mexican Gothic
I expect it to be spooky, romantic, and a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.23094127]

>>23088609
>last read
Crime & Punishment.
>what you thought of it
I liked it a lot. I identify with Raskolnikov staying in his room until he has a schizoid meltdown, then being pulled back to reality by those closest to him. Razumihin felt pretty unrealistic. Still, I couldn't help but love every character other than Svidrigailov. I liked it so much that I'm planning on learning Russian to read the other Dostoyevsky novels.
>current read
Singing School by Robert Pinsky.
>what you think about it
It was very helpful to me; I've started a daybook with some of my favorite poems, mostly Kipling and some Hemingway.
>next read
Probably No Longer Human. However, I'm going to DNF it and read the Brothers Karamazov if it doesn't interest me in the first twenty or so chapters. I know I said I'm going to learn Russian but I got a sweet copy of Karamazov from a used bookstore and I can't wait to crack it open.
>expectations
Dunno, I've just seen lots of people talk about No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.23094231]

>>23094082
Haha, I was actually thinking of Le Petit Prince because it was one of my grandpa's favorite books as a kid! Thank you kindly!

[Anonymous No.23095122]

>>23093112
Oh no, not like that. I can speak a fair amount, this is mostly vocabulary building and seeing how well I fare off.

[Anonymous No.23095190]

>Last read
Origin of Species
>My thots
Apparently metaphysics were ‘very’ important…
>Current read
Still Alice
>My thots
I gave up because I lost reward for reading fiction slop
>Next Read
Tourism Research paradigms
>Expectations
Neoliberal+goyslop chattel

[Anonymous No.23095298]

>>23092791
>I was gonna read the Corum novels and comics next because I saw Mike Mignola does the art.
As good a reason as any!