[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 24 KB, 307x475, 2011_08_29_norwegian_wood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2335725 No.2335725 [Reply] [Original]

I'm not reading this, what aren't you reading?

>> No.2335732

Psychology textbooks right this second, then plan on starting The Myth of Sisyphus before I read The Stranger.

>> No.2335744

>>2335725
The Hamlet by Faulkner.
It's good, but 3 guys 1 hammer is better.

>> No.2335753

>>2335732
you better read the modern translation of the stranger
all the old translations of camus' work are disgustingly oxfordian

on topic
I am reading the pelopensian war by donald kagen

>> No.2335764

>>2335753
Don't even own it yet so I'll have to look around.

>> No.2335767

You should read that book op, pretty crunchy.
Should read Cosmicomics, only have one story to finish.
Then on To The Lighthouse.

>> No.2335769

What I'm not reading is Neuromancer, left it off a week ago.
It's the second time I try to get through it. Should I keep on or drop it for good?

>> No.2335771

>>2335767
Don't listen to this fag. Trust me, the best time you will ever have will be the time you spend not reading Norwegian wood.

>> No.2335775

>>2335725
Because I read one of his other novels and by doing that I read all of his books.

>Dan Brown

>> No.2335777

ficciones

>> No.2335779

OP here, just started reading ullyses too, and I'm two pages in and want to die.

>> No.2335784

Not reading Infinite Jest right now.
After that, I plan to not read 2666.

>> No.2335786

Oddly enough OP, I'm "not reading" The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. It looks at me every day, but I'm stuck at the first few pages.

>> No.2335802

>>2335786
I should have bought wind up instead of nor wood. Found it today for $15 less, I could be not reading it right now.

>> No.2335814

I actually really enjoyed Norwegian Wood.

Then I saw that it was becoming a movie and I got exceptionally pissed off.

>> No.2335818

>>2335814
Movie was decent at best. Don't bother.

>> No.2335819

I wasn't planning to, but thanks for the warning anyway!

>> No.2335845

>>2335802
I actually had Norwegian Wood too (I was trying to impress some semi-hipster girl I guess?) but I sold it through eBay, but the guy never got it because I sealed it wrong, so I had to refund his money. Total loss.

>> No.2335879

>>2335786

I'm struggling with wind-up bird right now as well.. Almost 400 pages in, and it's still fucking boring, lacks a clear plot and direction, a main character with a lack of intellect whom I could care less about, and horribly uninteresting prose. I was told it was his masterpiece so I'll probably fight through it - if anything just to feel like the first 400 pages wasn't totally wasted. But damn, Iøm on struggle street.

>> No.2335919

>>2335879
Part one is effectively pointless, almost everything happens in the third and final book/part.
>>2335818
That's a shame, Tony Takitani was amazing

>> No.2336204

>>2335919
Perhaps, you just don't get the first part, eh?