/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3134826]

What are you currently reading


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[Anonymous No.3134840]

The Broom of the System - David Fostr Wallace
'Tis - Frank McCourt
Battle Born - Claire Vaye Watkins

[Anonymous No.3134844]

Pylon

[LargeMagellanicCloud !NLqByHLcRc No.3134847]

Haven't decided between The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper), and The Inheritors (William Golding).

[Anonymous No.3134849]

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition - Raven Grimassi

I'm ready for the shitstorm.

[Anonymous No.3134873]

[Anonymous No.3134888]

[Anonymous No.3134889]

Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) and The Sound and Fury (Faulkner)

[Anonymous No.3134915]

>>3134840
I'm considering reading BotS or Infinite Jest, how is Broom? Worth checking out or should I just jump in to IJ?

[Anonymous No.3134922]

>>3134915
I'm enjoying it thus far. It's a fairly quick read, so I figure you may as well check it out.

[Anonymous No.3134930]

[Anonymous No.3134936]

The Song of Roland

[Anonymous No.3134953]

Slow Learner, a collection of Pynchon's earlier stories. I'm not really into it, though. I might pick up some more Dostoevsky soon.

[Anonymous No.3134968]

stranger in a strange land

[Anonymous No.3135013]

David Hume's ethical writings
Kant's Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals
Korsgaard's creating the kingdom of ends

[Anonymous No.3135036]

I apologize

[Anonymous No.3135065]

>>3135036
I'm afraid that if I read these again my childhood memories of them will be shattered

[Anonymous No.3135118]

>>3135065

embarrassed to admit this is my first read through. I got into the series after it was finished, saw all the movies and am just now reading them. /shame

[Anonymous No.3135160]

Underworld - Don DeLillo
and
Native Son - Richard Wright

[Anonymous No.3135166]

Don DeLillo- Libra (almost done)
and
Deleuze- Empiricism and Subjectivity

[Anonymous No.3135214]

I've just started Don Quixote. Surprisingly entertaining

[Anonymous No.3135220]

>>3135118
thats pretty cute I'm glad yr reading them you like em? pretty great, huh?

[Anonymous No.3135246]

>>3135036
I had forgotten how much they changed book to book until I re-read them a while back. It never dawned on me just how much they mature. I suppose that is part of the appeal though.

[Anonymous No.3135263]

Aeschylus
Marshall McLuhan

I have made zero progress in the past month however. Too depressed to read.

[Anonymous No.3135275]

The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace

Sea of Ink - Richard Weihe

The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

[Anonymous No.3135298]

i finally started.

[Anonymous No.3135316]

>tfw I didn't do Classics in high school or college

[Anonymous No.3135359]

The Moonstone - Wilkie

[Anonymous No.3135363]

>>3135316
Highly recommend the TTC lecture series by Kenneth Harl as a supplementary, and Donald Kagan's Peloponnesian War

[Anonymous No.3135367]

Crimen and Punishment
sadly, in my opinion a poorly translated edition, with some mistakes in the order of the pages in chapter 3.
I'm not sure if I should continue reading it.

[Anonymous No.3135368]

>>3135363
How does that book read?

[Anonymous No.3135376]

>>3135367
Get the Penguin edition, man. The David McDuff translation is good.

[Anonymous No.3135387]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm usually high when I read it.

[Anonymous No.3135389]

>>3135367
Stop and find a good translation. I couldn't enjoy Demons because of a shitty translation, and now I'll probably have to read it again in the future, just to give it a fair shake.

[Anonymous No.3135391]

>>3135275
How is BotS?

[Anonymous No.3135893]

the Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera

[Anonymous No.3135896]

>>3135893
by Milan Kundera

[Anonymous No.3135900]

I was so pissed off when Yossarians plane gets shot down at the end. I still can't believe Milo stole the only working parachute.

[Anonymous No.3135923]

[Anonymous No.3136427]

[Anonymous No.3136429]

>>3135893
heh heh

[Anonymous No.3136440]

Rereading Ulysses, taking notes this time.

[Anonymous No.3136442]

[Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx No.3136444]

>>3135391
Not the guy you asked, but it's rather wonderful. It's a really enjoyable read. I think people would benefit reading it before Infinite Jest, but it's certainly good in its own right.

[Anonymous No.3136445]

almost finished. : - )

[Anonymous No.3136446]

<<<<<<< this.

[Anonymous No.3136453]

Being and nothingness

Sarte is a shit writer

[Anonymous No.3136458]

In direct translation: "Matter and Values: Neolucretianism of Stanislaw Lem"

[Anonymous No.3136479]

Someone here recommended it as being eye opening.

It really is.

Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf

[Anonymous No.3136482]

>>3136479

I bought this the other day, though I haven't had chance to start it yet. Good to know :P

[Anonymous No.3136505]

>>3136482
It starts with someone telling you that he found this script, that´s not true, it´s just part of the story.

I felt stupid because I actually believed him.

[Anonymous No.3136518]

First time, too.

[Anonymous No.3136520]

<<< Diary of a Nobody - Essentially a humorous slice of life of a middle-class family in Victorian Britain. Quite short but also quite interesting, worth the £2 I spent on it due to Wordsworth

[Anonymous No.3136526]

I don't understand it.

It just seems like the ramblings of a heroin addict.

[Anonymous No.3136540]

infinite jest

even tho its pretty autistic, i really enjoy it

[Anonymous No.3136570]

>>3134826
Books mad good. Finished it in a weekend I was so wrapped up in it.

To answer your question though:
>The Power and The Glory
>Summerland

[Anonymous No.3136574]

>>3135387
That's actually next on my list. I read No Country for Old Men and was actually shocked at how good it was. How's it so far?

[Oh, Pea !Kzj8nCczWE No.3136617]

Currently reading this motherfucker right here.

I made it to book 3 the other day and just stopped for a break. After reading The Wind-Up Bird and A Wild Sheep Chase, I figured this would be spectacular. I was half-right.

The more Murakami I read, the more I find myself not liking his character's way of thinking. They assume too much, like, WAY too much, and I think he only does that so his wacky stories can progress. I'm enjoying the book, but I'm just wondering how it's going to end.

[Anonymous No.3136623]

The White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Damn good.

[Anonymous No.3136624]

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

[Anonymous No.3136627]

I will start War and Peace in a few days.

[Anonymous No.3136630]

>>3136624
>>3136617

snap same book

[Buffon Blowjob !!S4VoQvuh3lT No.3136650]

300 pages into Brothers Karamazov now. It's a very good Finnish translation, and I've enjoyed the book immensely. Two thirds left.

[Anonymous No.3136665]

>>3135316
also reading Thucydides

largely because i'm going to try entering the Vellacott History Prize essay competition that cambridge uni does.

[Anonymous No.3136666]

>>3134826
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr
We'll Always Have Paris - Ray Bradbury

[Anonymous No.3136687]

Dune

and I fucking hate it

[Skapti No.3136690]

Íslendingabók, once more.

As an aside, I'm always fascinated by these threads. It's interesting to see which books appear regularly (in some cases, nearly every time), and how often things like >>3134936 pop up.

[Anonymous No.3136753]

Just finished Doors of Perception... piece of fkin shit that
Gonna start Requiem for a dream tonight, or tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.3136765]

>>3136753
I wish I'd read that before watching the film. I've watched the film but I can only imagine that the book will be boring knowing what happens.

I'm currently reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson. I didn't expect it to be so child-like, but I quite like it. It occasionally gets a bit dis-interesting, but it quickly peaks interest again shortly after.

[Anonymous No.3136792]

>>3136765
American Psycho is one of my favorite films (inb4shitstorm) and watched that 2-3 times before reading the book which I enjoyed even more; so I'm certain I won't get bored reading Requiem for a Dream, since it is also one of my favorite films.

[VurtKonnegut No.3136799]

[Anonymous No.3136812]

I ordered Neuromancer, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and House of Leaves through my library, but it's closed today and tomorrow for Veteran's day.

I'll probably finish Fluke or The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove today.

[Anonymous No.3136841]

From 1962 and very informative.

[Anonymous No.3136932]

Andy Warhol Diaries and The state of siege - camus

[Anonymous No.3136954]

for whom the bell tolls

feels kinda like one of the best books i've ever read, so far.

[Anonymous No.3136956]

>>3136799
Horrible book.

[Anonymous No.3136963]

>>3134826
>What are you currently reading

4chan, obviously. Are you fucking retarded or something?

[Anonymous No.3136977]

oscar wilde's plays

theyre actually pretty funny

[Anonymous No.3137228]

Endgame. Well, I just finished it about an hour ago. So, nothing at the moment.

[Anonymous No.3137280]

snow crash

[Anonymous No.3137290]

a collection of works by Carl Jung on dreams

[Anonymous No.3137294]

I read like 6 books simultaneously.
Postwar is the centerpiece, then there are other supporting historical books and articles. Love being unemployed student.

[Anonymous No.3137298]

[Anonymous No.3137363]

[Anonymous No.3137377]

Thoroughly enjoying this series so far.

[Anonymous No.3137393]

A home at the end of the world.

[Anonymous No.3137399]

All quiet on the western front

[Anonymous No.3137404]

Just finished The Rings of Saturn today.

Don Quixote

Beowulf

The Man who was Thursday. I'll probably finish this soon aswell. Maybe tonight.

[Anonymous No.3137418]

>>3134826
The Sound and the Fury

Catch-22 was the last book I read (for the first time). Pretty goddamn amazing.

[Anonymous No.3139078]

Finding it kinda "meh" so far.

[Anonymous No.3139083]

>>3139078
I found it meh until a few months after I finished it. Also, the fire analogy the guy uses for himself/his son has really stuck with me.

[Anonymous No.3139117]

>>3137399
fuck yes, very good!

Pynchon said Warlock is one of America's best novels, so I thought I'd give it a go.

[Anonymous No.3139218]

>>3139117
Ohh! Please let us know what you think when you're done! I've been wanting to read this for some time but haven't gotten around to it.

[Anonymous No.3139221]

>>3139078
I read it in an Africa 1870 - 1945 class, so it had a lot of resonance. As a novel, it's okay.

[Anonymous No.3139226]

Don't know if I will finish. Problem with many short story collections, some are fantastic and others are shit. Right now the story I am reading falls into the latter category.

[Anonymous No.3139254]

>>3137399
I really enjoyed this, it's not the greatest piece I've ever read but it did have a large impact on me. Was kind of odd to read about the things people my age and younger had to do. A very humbling read, I think this is something I'd recommend quite a lot to people in the future.

[Anonymous No.3139268]

>>3136479
For all the not-so-exciting parts it is quite eye-opening. I can vividly remember how I felt when he sat on the stairs and was looking at that flower and that last 1/4 has to be one of my favorite endings ever, I recall having a very intense experience with it. Hope you have fun with it.
>>3136482
and you too

[MikkelD !kuMAuO2NO6 No.3139343]

>>3136617
Finally somone who is reading the books as well. I'm just a bit into book one, and I do like them ; Although the style is different from eg. Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood. But I do enjoy it so far ; very mysterious stuff tho'.

[Anonymous No.3139347]

>>3135214
same here, surprised at how engaging it is. It doesn't feel dated despite being written before shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.3139349]

[Anonymous No.3139352]

Whenever someone says they're reading a famous book, all I feel is contempt for them that they feel the need to inform people, and also that they haven't read it sooner.

[Anonymous No.3139355]

>>3136446
Same here man. Nearly done tough. Found it quite a hard read.

[Anonymous No.3139357]

>>3139352
It's not a race you cunt.

[Anonymous No.3139358]

>>3135900
you dick, spoiler your shit

[Anonymous No.3139360]

>>3139352
There are too many famous novels out there though! Why feel contemptuous, you should feel interested and encourage them, they're not reading trash fic, should make people feel more accepted for reading the good stuff.

[Anonymous No.3139361]

>>3136812
if your experience is anything like mine, you'll love Neuromancer

[Anonymous No.3139363]

>>3139357
I know but in real life, if someone say's they're reading or is seen reading famous/'deep' book #3205, people flock to them going 'ooh aren't you smart' etc and strike up conversation and is well liked for it. Meanwhile I who am sat alone, reading something light or something unpopular am left glaring at them thinking 'the only reason I'm not popular right now is because I already read that book fucking ages ago, you complete dicknugget, but I'm going to look like a total shit if I just stroll up and say that, so I'll just continue to sit here and glower while nobody is interested in what I'm reading'.

[MikkelD !kuMAuO2NO6 No.3139372]

>>3139363
Geez! Stop being so bitter and lonely and just relish in your book.
And TBH; people don't just talk because of the book, they talk because you seem accessable and open; Even if you sit around reading some Dan Brown crap people might come up and ask "Whatcha reading?"

[Anonymous No.3139403]

>>3139363
The thread was so friendly until this autist came along

[Anonymous No.3139406]

>>3139363

Stop being concerned about projecting your status through your reading material

[Anonymous No.3139410]

Besides stuff for class, I'm reading Thelma by Marie Corelli. I'm really grateful to that NotBillMurray guy for bringing her up once. It's weird that she was so popular in her day but completely fell out of favor later on. She's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.3139528]

>>3136617

I finished 1Q84 during this 20-hour train ride to NYC and I ended up feeling like it wasn't as good as his other work. I didn't really feel like he was communicating the characters' emotions as eloquently as he did in other books. Aomame just started to feel sort of annoying, especially in Book 3. I guess I might re-read it later to see if my opinions change but I think that it could have been pared down quite a bit without losing much. I usually recommend Wind-Up Bird to people who are considering reading 1Q84.

That said, currently reading Simon Morden's Equations of Life. Dat pulpy sci-fi to distract you from bad MFA-program writing...

[Anonymous No.3139604]

>>3134826
Voltaire - Candide, Micromegas and Zadig, plus some other collected works. I have to say, he is a rather underwhelming writer, technically-speaking, of course,

[Anonymous No.3139607]

[Anonymous No.3139610]

i've been reading The Stand for maybe a month

[Anonymous No.3139613]

wonderful

[Anonymous No.3140091]

>>3134849
0/10

[Deep&Edgy !UfFKGtFx2M!!/0aWHODYBc0 No.3140332]

A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN!

[Anonymous No.3140353]

>>3140332
Good man.

[Anonymous No.3140357]

I never get a chance to read anything that's not course-related.

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.

[SadCat No.3140382]

It starts out weak, but builds up very nicely.

[Anonymous No.3140386]

Blade Runner, i like it

[VurtKonnegut No.3140392]

>>3140386

[Anonymous No.3140396]

>>3140392
so /lit/ doesn't like it?

[Anonymous No.3140398]

>>3140396
Blade Runner isn't a book. Are you daft?

[VurtKonnegut No.3140403]

>>3140396
Are you talking about Do Android Drsam of Elctric Sheep? Or this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner

[Anonymous No.3140405]

There and Back Again

[VurtKonnegut No.3140407]

>>3140403
Look at all the typo

[Anonymous No.3140408]

>>3140398
well here in germany it is being published as "Blade Runner" Original name is "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep", but that was impossible to get. And I read it for fun and not because I want to have an awesome cover.

[Anonymous No.3140415]

>>3140405
Like an actual copy of There and Back again or The Hobbit? Or is it something entirely different?

[VurtKonnegut No.3140440]

>>3140415
http://www.amazon.com/There-Back-Again-Actors-Tale/dp/0312331460

[Anonymous No.3140444]

A Farewell to Arms.

[Anonymous No.3140446]

Picked it up from a thrift store for £1.75
Not read before, enjoying it thus far.

[Anonymous No.3140564]

>>3137228
The Bobby Fischer biography? Fantastic book.

[Anonymous No.3140569]

>>3137290
I just got The Red Book. Wow.

[Anonymous No.3140638]

>>3140446
My favorite series of all time. I found a first edition copy of the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide for 2 Dollars a few months ago, and I read them all over again.

[Anonymous No.3140909]

Dostoevsky's Devils. It's really good, but I'm glad I'm reading it after having studied the time period and read a lot of the people he references. Definitely more difficult than the other Dostoevsky I have read (C+P, Notes and Brothers)

[PI !sgx0a498kg No.3140969]

this and some emerson, hawthorne, and thoreau for class

[Anonymous No.3140979]

Looking for Alaska. just finished it last night.. still can't get over it

[Anonymous No.3141012]

>>3136765
>Will Grayson, Will Grayson

I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST

[Anonymous No.3141015]

About to start. Any opinions?

[Anonymous No.3141027]

>>3140909
I found Devils to be a very fun read. Didn't really have any problem with difficulty. I started Raw Youth a while ago, that one I still haven't finished.

[Anonymous No.3141049]

>>3140979
I loved Greene in highschool. Paper Towns is still one of my favorite books.

[Anonymous No.3141060]

Really interesting and informative essays, particularly "Disneyland With the Death Penalty" and "Rocket Radio"
Also, I'm trying to start River of Gods, but I keep on getting off track, which is what I'm doing right now.

[Anonymous No.3141077]

>>3139363
whoa...You have some serious issues with social envy man.

[Anonymous No.3141096]

its sick2dope

[Anonymous No.3141135]

>>3141096
this shit was fucking cash yo

[Anonymous No.3141141]

Warm Bodies.

I swear. It is truly amazing. Just... amazing.

[Anonymous No.3141156]

>>3140408
you sure it's the same book just titled differently? I read somewhere that they made a book from the movie that's different than Dick's. either way, I love do Androids dream.

[Anonymous No.3141697]

Just finished reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood, about to jump back into the Gaunt's Ghosts series.
>>3141141
Self terminate.

[Anonymous No.3141841]

Angels & Demons.

[Anonymous No.3141856]

>>3136753

What didn't you like about The Doors of Perception ? Slow and tedious read ? Dull ? Expected more substance ?

[Anonymous No.3141862]

>>3139372

Eh, I'm liking Angels & Demons so far.

Why it crap ?

[Anonymous No.3141866]

>>3141697

What was your favorite story? I'd say mine was Pig Blood Blues. That concept is so unsettling.

[Anonymous No.3141868]

Taking a break from Ulysses with some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[Anonymous No.3141872]

>>3141015

Hmm. It's meh. I enjoyed the misogyny, though.

If you want a better read by him, try Brave New World.

Ape and Essence has half the substance that BnW has.

[Anonymous No.3141940]

>>3141872

>It's meh. I enjoyed the misogyny, though.

lol, oh /lit/...

[Anonymous No.3142593]

>>3141156
Thats the name of the book here. Probably to boost the sales. It lists the original name of the book as "Do Androids dream of electric Sheep?".

Also finished it and started to read Ubik

[Anonymous No.3142620]

Good Omens

[Anonymous No.3142646]

>>3136526
what is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.3142973]

>>3135923
I just started this yesterday. Surprised at how easy it it to understand, I'm too dense to get more than four chapters into Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.3142986]

>>3136954
I just finished it yesterday.
I've never had so many damn feels from one little book.
I don't understand why The Sun Also Rises is considered better.

[Anonymous No.3142987]

>>3137393
Got half way through and just put it down. Shit book is shit.

[Anonymous No.3143951]

>>3141866
Pig Blood Blues was pretty good, but I'd have to say my favorite is a tie between The Yattering and Jack and Sex, Death and Starshine.

[Anonymous No.3143985]

>>3134888
Loved it, most of my friend hated it. Admittedly, I was really underwhelmed while reading it. I thought it was going to be a lot better, but boy, after about a week after I finished it, I loved the shit out of it. Love Kurtz so much.

Catch 22
Paradiso (can't stand Dante anymore, will probably just drop it).

[Anonymous No.3144010]

Interesting look on the relationship between film, photography, and the fine art.

[Anonymous No.3144018]

>inb4 MACFAG!
Posting from a PC running Windows 7 with Fedora on a separate HDD(that I switch between).

It is a good biography so far though, I have to admit. The author doesn't whitewash Steve's life for the most part so it stays fairly objective.

[Anonymous No.3144071]

Just finished Libra and now reading Zola's La Bete humaine. Almost done Conversations with David Foster Wallace, too.

[Anonymous No.3144107]

World War Z - Max Brooks
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Demons - Dostoyevski

[Anonymous No.3144113]

>>3144018
Actual macfags have complained it doesn't portray the technological side accurately. Personally, I think they're retarded

[Welcome to the NHK !!mgd0AJT4mBo No.3144116]

[Welcome to the NHK !!mgd0AJT4mBo No.3144125]

>>3136518
i love it, even though what he is doing is reprehensible i cant help but like Humbert and his writing style. it is almost whimsical

[Anonymous No.3144141]

King Lear.