/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3745198]

Currently reading thread.

[Anonymous No.3745225]

So far its an interesting read on the relationship between failure and art.

[Anonymous No.3745231]

>>3745198

that guy looks like he says swearwords in public and maybe had the clap once

[Anonymous No.3745246]

People should really stop prefacing a book with a bunch of crap. There's a short biography, a chronology, and an introduction before you even get into the book. Why do people do this?

[Anonymous No.3745249]

>>3745246
you can skip that part by turning the pages even though you didnt read them, hope this helps

[Anonymous No.3745269]

>>3745249
I did, which is why I'm wondering why people put that stuff there at all. It would be better off in the back. Don't act like such a tool.

[Anonymous No.3745272]

"The Accursed" Joyce Carol Oates

lynchings and vampires and university politics

So far, I got the sense, at one point, of being underneath a hanging body (a lynched black man). Very visceral, as is par with the author.

[Anonymous No.3745364]

Beautiful prose. Humbert is a moron but he's not a monster just because he happens to like little girls. Lolita regardless if she never met Humbert she would have grown up to become a top rate bitch.

[Anonymous No.3745481]

>>3745364
You aren't very far, are you...

[Anonymous No.3745488]

Second run. Loving this book even more, very inspiring in all aspects.

[Anonymous No.3745492]

>>3745481

almost done with it, probably finish it tonight unless i get tired.

[Anonymous No.3745497]

>>3745364
>Humbert is a moron but not a monster

I think you switched those words up there.

[Anonymous No.3745499]

Finally returning to this. The imagery in this book is phenomenal.

[Anonymous No.3745509]

First read, loving the literary style
struggled a little at first, but understanding it more and more as i get further into it

[Anonymous No.3745514]

>>3745497

fine he's a monster, he also still a moron

[Anonymous No.3745518]

Read that a long time ago OP. Very funny. He's dead now right?

[Anonymous No.3745532]

is it normal to read philosophy and not understand everything? because i feel like i'm a pleb for my shitty comprehension

[Anonymous No.3745538]

Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen.

[Anonymous No.3745567]

[Anonymous No.3745584]

>>3745364
I just had to pick up lolita too after seeing it discussed so often

[Anonymous No.3745617]

[Anonymous No.3745629]

>>3745532
>Study

Philosophy is not all fun and games, regardless of what /sci/ thinks.

[Anonymous No.3745636]

>>3745532
how much philosophy have you studied? wittgenstein is near impossible to comprehend even for those well-versed in the tradition. he was writing on another level. perhaps try something else? i can give you recs if you want.

also, pic related

[Anonymous No.3745642]

The Prague Cemetary by Umberto Eco

[Anonymous No.3745685]

So far so really pretty good

[Anonymous No.3745704]

>>3745532
As someone who has read TLP, PI and studied WIttgenstein extensively in Uni I will tell you he is really not all that difficult.

You just need some context to understand what is he going on about, and its difficult to get that reading the text alone because he writes in a very esoteric way (if you think PI is bad, try reading TLP).

Honestly I'd take a look at the wikipedia site for the book, but obviously take it with salt.

[Anonymous No.3745712]

>>3745636
>wittgenstein is near impossible to comprehend even for those well-versed in the tradition. he was writing on another level

It's funny because Philosophical Investigations is perfectly approachable unless you lack a chromosome or something.

[Anonymous No.3745718]

>>3745712
>>3745636

Also, if you're going to suggest Russell, maybe you shouldn't be giving philosophy "recs" in the first place.

[Anonymous No.3745730]

>>3745712
i wouldn't recommend it to someone that isn't into philosophy though, would you? perhaps i exagerrated with "near impossible to comprehend", forgive me if it offended you.

>>3745718
This isn't a recommendations thread, it's a currently reading thread. That's what I'm currently reading. I wasn't trying to suggest Russell, the "pic related" was referring to the thread topic. Comprehension, m8.

[Anonymous No.3745739]

These alongside "In Partial Disgrace" by Charles Newman. Both excellent. Why these two authors aren't discussed more is criminal.

[Anonymous No.3745747]

>>3745198
A Confederacy of Dunces

[Anonymous No.3745779]

>>3745730
No punctuation in the first reply, perfect punctuation in the second reply.

W-what?

[Anonymous No.3745820]

>>3745488
That's what the fuck is up. Severian is the man.

By the use of the language of sorrow.....

[Anonymous No.3745954]

For some reason I can't bring myself to finish it.

Same thing happened to Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world.

I read through A wild sheep chase in two days so I don't know why they aren't gripping me like that this time.

[Anonymous No.3745961]

[Anonymous No.3745977]

Only started it. The dialogue is great; very witty, too.

[Anonymous No.3746002]

First book from him I am reading. It wont be the last. I am about half way through.

[Anonymous No.3746020]

Very well written with nice bits of dialogue here and there.

[Anonymous No.3746053]

Are you a fan of the Howard Stern show OP?

I'm a huge fan of Sal and Richard, JD and Sour Shoes. Artie Lange isn't that funny to me but his stories are amazing, especially his heroin addiction and how he used to drive to Delaware just to score.

Rumour is that he's back on it, there's a video of him nodding off in his show this year

[Anonymous No.3746054]

>>3745739
I'm reading Running Wild right now

[Anonymous No.3746055]

>>3745532
If I'm reading some philosophy that I don't understand, I usually find some secondary material and read it alongside, it's like translating it to simple english. I don't recommend forming your opinion based on the secondary material, but it helps elucuidate certain passages

[Anonymous No.3746057]

>>3745225
Not sure if you're interested, but here's an English lit. module for the Literature of Failure taught way back when by some famous author in some prominent university. Can't remember who it is sorry

[Anonymous No.3746069]

It's very, very, very, VERY bad. Probably gonna drop it.

[Anonymous No.3746073]

>>3746054
weird book

[Anonymous No.3746085]

>>3746069
At the very least that cover looks great.

What's the matter with it?

[Anonymous No.3746086]

>>3746073
Yeah, it's particularly hard attempting to understand the motive of the killers.

I've come to think that the narrator isn't reliable, and that he's used a representative of Thatcherism rather than a disinterested observer.

But yeah, weird book.

[Anonymous No.3746087]

>>3746085
There's no sex scene or love story or anything. I can't read a book that doesn't have one or both

[Anonymous No.3746094]

>>3746087
I can do that, perhaps I'll have a read.

[Anonymous No.3746101]

>>3746085
Badly written in general. Terrible 1D characters. Economically ignorant even though it's very much about economics/business. It drips of a kind of retarded leftist optimism that I find insulting to my intelligence ("if we just give these junkie squatters a couple of 3D printers they'll be rich entrepreneurs in 3 months!"), badly written and pointlessly shoehorned-in porn, pacing is all over the place, etc.

[Anonymous No.3746898]

Just started this. Only on chapter two but I'm really liking it already.

[Anonymous No.3746934]

I have a bad habit of starting lik15 and taking a couple months to finish 1

[Anonymous No.3746938]

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Hoping to read through the entirety of Remembrance of Things Past this year.

[Anonymous No.3746939]

>>3746934
I'm reading ayn rand at a friends insistence so don't judge

[Anonymous No.3746944]

>>3746934
>I have a bad habit of starting like 15 and taking a couple months to finish 1
This is my problem too. I used to read between 1 and 3 books at a time, but because I can really only comfortably carry one around when I go places, I'd finish them quickly.

When I got my eReader, however, I could now carry hundreds around at the same time and just read them o a whim, so I have lots I've started and few I've finished.

[Anonymous No.3747075]

I'm sure a lot of the allegories are going by me unnoticed but I'm enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.3747091]

[Anonymous No.3747097]

Without Conscience, Beyond Good and Evil and The Republic. I can't wait until I finish one so I can start on some fiction.

[Anonymous No.3747102]

>>3745532
SparkNotes

[Anonymous No.3747127]

It's pretty Kafkaesque.

[Anonymous No.3747141]

I'm reading this at the moment. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

[Anonymous No.3747158]

>>3745364
Humbert isn't a moron...

[Anonymous No.3747218]

On the Road, Kerouac.

Bretty gud thus far, haven't read any of it this week due to essays, but will pick it up again once I've finished.

[Anonymous No.3747277]

>>3745364
>regardless if she never met Humbert she would have grown up to become a top rate bitch.

Except for the fact that she dies at 19 years old ... So she doesn't grow up to be anything.

[Anonymous No.3747286]

>>3745364 is a moron but also a monster mainly because he doesn't care about what happens to little girls. Lolita, regardless of this man's reading, is ruined by Humbert and would have grown up un-raped if it wasn't for him.

[Anonymous No.3747735]

>>3745954

I had the same problem with Hard boiled wonderland. Every time I picked it up I couldn't get further than 100 pages.

[Anonymous No.3747753]

>>3747141
You still here?

Have you read his other book?

[Anonymous No.3747789]

>>3745231

>maybe
>once

Reading Catch-22 right now, been trying to get through it for about two months already. I'm a little short on time and it doesn't feel like a book to just pick up whenever I have a minute or five to read. It's pretty awesome though.

[Anonymous No.3747823]

Lolita

[Anonymous No.3747842]

Hills Like White Elephants, 10 Indians and Che Ti Dice La Patria were brilliant. I didn't much like 50 Grand, but I can understand why people do.

[Anonymous No.3748116]

>>3746938
Seconded.

[Anonymous No.3749462]

>>3745198
Oh snap, are you a Howard listener?

[Anonymous No.3749707]

Money by Martin Amis

I don't know, I'm kind of entertained but at the same time I'm not. I'm not bored by it, at least.

[Anonymous No.3749737]

>>3746002
>>3747127

>my niggas

[Anonymous No.3749768]

the english patient

its for a class. it has a very slow first 70 pages, but it has picked up a bit

[Anonymous No.3750182]

just picked up 50 Cent's autobiography

its pretty good so far

[Anonymous No.3750196]

Insects Are Just Like You And Me Except Some of Them Have Wings - Kuzhali Manickavel

Very interesting and beautiful and atmospheric, but in a way I'm glad it's as short as it is.

[Anonymous No.3750205]

The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr.

[Anonymous No.3750211]

DON MOTHER FUCKIN QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA

[Anonymous No.3750224]

Not as good as the first book. I expected more dark fantasy, instead I get a pseudo-Scarface story.

[Anonymous No.3750257]

The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil

[Anonymous No.3750301]

>>3745488
My professor actually recommended this to the whole lecture hall. I have no idea why I haven't picked it up yet.

[Anonymous No.3750322]

Is decent. It could've used some tightening up (like about 75-100 pages) but those are easily skippable.

[Anonymous No.3750325]

Fight Club

[Anonymous No.3750346]

Wasp Factory

Next up would be either Lolita or one of Mishima's books.

[Anonymous No.3750355]

>>3745198
Liked
>>3745246
Was kinda ok, but cowgirl up.
>>3745364
Writing is top-notch, but couldn't get past the pedophile thing.
>>3745499
Yes.
>>3745509
Gave up after 7th attempt to read it. Never will.
>>3746002
Understand why people like Kafka, but I don't.
>>3746020
Gnarly.
>>3747075
Liked.
>>3747842
The only Hemingway I loved completely. The between-story stuff was wild.
>>3750325
I like most of Palahniuk's stuff.

[Anonymous No.3750375]

I'm about halfway through Part II. I'm enjoying it much, much more than I did The Stranger.

[Anonymous No.3750401]

I haven't started it yet, but this is what I'm going to read next.

[Anonymous No.3750582]

I'm halfway through and I'm really loving it.

[Anonymous No.3750596]

>>3750582
is that a real cover? I wish I had that copy

[Anonymous No.3750597]

>>3750401

amazing.

[p No.3750611]

I've reading this - it's quite funny

[Anonymous No.3750639]

About two-thirds through Dune. I'm pretty disappointed. I don't find any of the characters engaging, I don't like how their motives and feelings are constantly explicated in dialogue and inner-monologues (in other words, there's a lot of telling along with the showing), and the plot has been very predictable. The setting is fairly interesting and Herbert has a knack for imagery that helps immerse you in it, so I keep reading for that reason, but I can't really recommend it.

Can anyone recommend any sci-fi or fantasy with more complex and interesting characters and a less clichéd 'hero's journey' type plot? I've already read ASOIAF and I loved it. That is my personal standard bearer for quality genre fiction.

[Anonymous No.3750675]

>>3750355
>couldn't get past the pedophile thing

What do you mean - 'get past'? It's not like the book is enjoyable 'despite' him being a paedophile.

[p No.3750689]

>>3745961
Started this - very informative and interesting

[Anonymous No.3750776]

>>3750582
Nice cover, interesting book but not his best.
>>3750401
Got bored of this halfway through. Neat idea, but damn it gets repetitive. The prologue at the start kills the tension, too.
>>3749737
Interesting but hard work.
>>3747218
Beautiful, in its way. Full of life and energy and just so fucking fun.
>>3746020
Fun gothic, overrated but by no means bad.
>>3745617
My favourite book ever, so beautiful.

[Anonymous No.3750805]

>>3750776
Tell me about The Waves

[Anonymous No.3750849]

>>3750805
Okay. Superficially, it follows six childhood friends from infancy to middle-age, but it's all told in this very beautiful way. While a lot of Modernist books try to *imitate* thought, like in A Portrait of the Artist or To The Lighthouse, The Waves is made of a series of soliloquies that use poetic imagery and metaphor to *represent* it. This means that it's kinda difficult to get into, as simple things you might take for granted like what a character is actually doing at a given time are implied rather than stated, but once you get used to it there's so much depth and beauty here. The form really allows Woolf to create some very complex, intricate, subtly distinct, growing, and believable characters, and convey their feelings to you in a very beautiful and intimate way. It's not for everyone, but I love it.

[Anonymous No.3750893]

>>3750196
I loved the shit out of this book, didn't think anyone else had heard of it. Definitely not meant to be consumed in one sitting though.

[Anonymous No.3750913]

>>3750893
I wonder if I heard of it from you, then. Did you post about it in a thread about the best books since 2008, or something like that? That's where I heard about it.

[Anonymous No.3750925]

>>3745198
>The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.3751027]

>>3746934
briauna?

[Anonymous No.3751169]

dat oratory

[Anonymous No.3751178]

>>3747277
Yolo!

[Anonymous No.3751325]

>>3750639
Your criticism about clichés are funny to me because I find that Dune is more of an originator of many of clichés that the original Dune series handles in much more complex ways than current watered down versions, found for example, in ASOIAF.

Read Dune to the end. Maybe it's Herbert's writing style that throws you off but Dune is forever one of my favorite scifi pieces that I will compare a lot of my further readings in the genre to. I also recommend you pick up the first sequel, Dune Messiah as I found it to be a very powerful emotional complement to Dune.

[Anonymous No.3751353]

First time reading this bad boy. Saw the movie a couple times and man is this book good. I find myself laughing aloud when reading it, is this normal or am I a psycho too?

[Anonymous No.3751355]

>>3751353
Nah, it's funny as fuck. The film loses a lot of the humour, imo.

[Anonymous No.3751362]

>>3750375
It gets really, really good. I remembered I finished reading it on the train and I just felt this infusion of sadness, happiness and contentedness simultaneously. It's just..great.

[Anonymous No.3751366]

>>3751362
Oh, and I'm currently reading The Magus by John Fowles. /lit/ went crazy about it a month ago, so I decided to pick it up.

[Anonymous No.3751369]

>>3749462
I'm not the OP, but I'm a huge stern fan. There aren't enough non-retarded places on the internet where you can find other listeners.

[Anonymous No.3751372]

>>3751355
Yeah I agree about the movie. Have you ever read any other Ellis novels, just want to know what Ellis novel I should read next. I heard there was one about his brother, who is briefly in American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.3751373]

Currently reading 1984. I had no idea that there was such a true romance in the middle of this dystopian strawman novel. It's really taking me by surprise.

[Anonymous No.3751408]

last exit to brooklyn

[Anonymous No.3751429]

>>3751372
Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction are his only other good books.

[Anonymous No.3751470]

>>3747277
Fuck, spoilers man. I'm only halfway through it myself. I mean, I'm still going to read it because I love the prose, but shit, man.

[Anonymous No.3751484]

>>3751470
But now you can admire the foreshadowing and plot structure.

He's done you a favour.

[Anonymous No.3751490]

what the fuck just happened to 4chan's stylesheet

[Anonymous No.3751491]

>>3751484
Yeah, but I usually hold that until a second reading.

[Anonymous No.3751582]

The Coming Insurrection

and

Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein.

Loving both so far.

[Anonymous No.3754235]

>>3750849
Thanks to this post I started reading The Waves and I'm loving it already, so so much.

[Anonymous No.3755825]

bump

[Anonymous No.3756722]

About 70 pages in.

Had one of the most surprisingly saddest moments in a book for me.

[Anonymous No.3756781]

>>3745249
awesome post.

[Anonymous No.3756784]

>>3745269
you are a fucking pussy. The previous generations faced starvation and fought in wars. You are crying because you have to turn pages. You have no balls and your mind is atrophied from easy entertainment and idleness.

[Anonymous No.3756794]

>>3745497
Humbert is not stupid. He does stupid shit becuase he is obsessed with pre-teen cooze.
If he wasn't no stoy.

[Anonymous No.3756802]

>>3745488
What is the deal with Gene Wolf?
If people were not stupid fucking plebs and they were looking for a George RRMartin type thrill-would this spike in popularity?

[Anonymous No.3756810]

>>3746053
He is always funny on Marc Maron's WTF.
He is the kind of old school anything for a laugh comic that is kind of dead now

[Anonymous No.3756820]

>>3746057
This would have been Williiam Gaddis from cursory internet research. He taught at Bard. He wrote The Regonitions which Franzen liked. He is notoriously difficult to read.

[Anonymous No.3756871]

[Anonymous No.3756877]

>>3747277
reading this was my own fault but i am still upset because i am 3/4 of the way through.

:(

[Anonymous No.3756907]

Read this in one sitting today, which is rare for me. I got through No Longer Human in a similar way as well, Dazai (or at least the translations, though considering how much he sold I imagine it's the case in Japanese as well) is very easy to read.

It was really fascinating reading through the perspective of Kazuko and her almost absurdist bent, while knowing that Dazai himself resembled Naoji in many ways. Though the excerpts from Naoji's diary were exceptionally well done.

Does anyone have a suggestion on where to go with Dazai from here?

[Anonymous No.3758930]

>>3756810
is WTF any good? Because the title makes it seem unbearable.

[Anonymous No.3758936]

>>3756907
Read mishima's confession of a mask. It's the apex of the japanese I-Novel. It's like no longer human x 9000

[Anonymous No.3758957]

>>3758936
I've actually got that sitting right next to me now.

>It's like no longer human x 9000
Oh dear, that was emotionally taxing enough. Sounds like something that will leave me despondent for days.

I can't wait to get into it though, I've never read Mishima despite wanting to for a while. I was reading up on his dislike of Dazai and he seems fascinating.

[Anonymous No.3758963]

>>3758936
Whatever it's worth, I advise you skip Confessions of a Mask. It's too much for too little. You'll want at least some of your time back--guaranteed.

[Anonymous No.3758968]

[Anonymous No.3759242]

American gods and a clash of kings

[Anonymous No.3759253]

Little, Big. I'm not very far in but I kind of wish it would settle down a little.

[Anonymous No.3759281]

>>3758963
I've heard The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is the best starting point with Mishima, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere and I don't want to wait for it to arrive in the mail. I want to strike while the iron's hot, and no harm done if I don't get through it.

[Anonymous No.3759320]

A gloriously epic romp.

[Anonymous No.3759366]

It's great.

[Anonymous No.3759435]

>>3745225
I've been meaning to read Fleauir for a while. Is it better in the original French?

[Anonymous No.3759441]

The first seminar I've read in Sheridan's translation; leaves much to be desired.

[Anonymous No.3759450]

>>3758963
I don't know about that. It isn't nearly as melodramatic as NLH, and I think that's to its credit. And much of it hits home for us fags.

>>3758957
Mishima disliked him?

[Anonymous No.3759453]

>>3746939
u picked the worst ayn rand book

[Anonymous No.3759470]

>>3759441
i'm disappointed to hear that

[Anonymous No.3759518]

I just started Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday

[Anonymous No.3759549]

>>3746002
Whaaaat? I'm pretty sure metamorphosis is universally required hs reading.

I'm currently reading The Island - Huxley. Good thus far, imagery is fantastic.

[Anonymous No.3759664]

>>3746057
Hey no Problem, I'll look into this. It would at least give me a chance to read the jungle and savage god

[Anonymous No.3759772]

>>3746934
man julian jaynes kinda sucks imo.

[Anonymous No.3760683]

>>3759450
just so you know i'm basing this off unsourced hearsay i've read on the internet.

They only met once or twice, but on one occasion Mishima was invited to a party celebrating, or at least partly-focused on Dazai. He walked strait up to him and said "I don't like your writing". Whether or not he meant it I don't know, but how their depression manifested was very different. Dazai wore it on his sleeve, possibly as a fashion statement, and lived almost hedonisticly, while Mishima tried to give the image of a very strong person. Compare Dazai's drinking too Mishima's bodybuilding.

[Anonymous No.3760699]

I read Ender's Game yesterday

[Anonymous No.3762401]

[Anonymous No.3763101]

>>3756907
Which translation are you reading?

[Anonymous No.3763107]

>>3756907
>Dazai (or at least the translations, though considering how much he sold I imagine it's the case in Japanese as well) is very easy to read.

Yes. It's very common for one of Dazai's short stories to be the first literary text read by intermediate students of Japanese. I can't remember the title -- it's about a sister confessing to her brother that she faked an illness.

[Anonymous No.3763117]

>>3762401

I can't decide if I love or hate the new Barnes and Nobles editions

[Anonymous No.3763123]

[Anonymous No.3763139]

Finished The Stranger, starting Lolita right now.

[Anonymous No.3763151]

I just finished Neuromancer. I'm not sure what I want to start next. Maybe The Republic.

[Anonymous No.3763161]

[Anonymous No.3763211]

>>3763139
Holy shit. I read those two books in that exact order.

[Anonymous No.3763219]

>>3763161

[Anonymous No.3763271]

I'm curious what lit thinks about it. I'm not too far in (about 200/500 pages) but so far I really like it. Faulkner wrote some beautiful sentences imho.

[Anonymous No.3763276]

>>3763271
and forgot the image...

[Anonymous No.3763287]

>>3762401
Which translation is this...Garnett?

[Anonymous No.3763298]

>The Double
First exposure to Dostoyevsky. Finished last week. Just what the fuck am I reading?
>The Gambler
Not started yet. Broke between the two to read The Stranger, and Sartre's commentary on it afterward.

[Anonymous No.3763300]

dis sheeit

[Anonymous No.3763310]

That's some mind-bending portrait of solipsism and pure realism right here.

[Anonymous No.3763315]

>>3763287
Yeah it's Garnett.

[Anonymous No.3763321]

>>3763310

Springer's Progress > that

[Anonymous No.3763341]

>inb4

[Anonymous No.3763345]

>>3763101
Donald Keene

[Anonymous No.3763404]

>>3763341
this.

[Anonymous No.3763421]

>>3763341
>>3763404
hey, me too!

[Anonymous No.3763428]

>>3763139
just finished lolita, great read. hope you enjoy it

started reading moby dick, the prose is really good. just re-reading sentences because how lovely they are

[Anonymous No.3763437]

[Anonymous No.3763440]

>>3763219

is there a reason you quoted me?

[Anonymous No.3763450]

>>3763123
i picked up a 1910 edition of this at goodwill a few days ago, looking forward to going through it

[Anonymous No.3763600]

>>3751470
>>3756877
I am sorry for revealing this to you, however I might point out that this is revealed on the first page... Also, more than once Humbert mentions how his book won't be published until they are both dead... It is important that she is dead from the start... bars of the cage man, bars of the cage. AGain, though, I am sorry I revealed it to you. I should have used the spoiler black.

[Anonymous No.3763601]

>>3756784
Oh snap!

[Anonymous No.3763608]

>>3746934
That makes me annoyed.

[Anonymous No.3763661]

pic related. it is a quick but very fascinating read. i have a lot of other things to read and peruse as a result of it.

[Anonymous No.3764295]

>>3763117
I like them. Although I prefer good looking old books, Barnes and Noble offers a beautiful hardcover for around 20 bucks. I've gotten a few books from their series

[Anonymous No.3764311]

I'm thinking of reading Gravity's Rainbow next. How is it?

[Anonymous No.3766177]

>>3756907
Which translation did you pick up? I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.3766186]

>>3763608
why?
>>3759772
he is a bit of a crack pot
>>3759453
it is a pretty dull read
>>3751027
nope

[Anonymous No.3766204]

>>3766177
see
>>3763345

Keene's is the only one I've ever been able to get any info on, so I don't know if other translations have even been published.

[Anonymous No.3766210]

Just started it and am not very far, but I'm liking the story, the translation/way it is written, and the imagery/description and scene-setting a lot thus far.

[Anonymous No.3766223]

>>3745198
I actually read this awhile ago, enjoyed it as a stern fan

[Anonymous No.3766238]

>>3762401
I bought the Dracula and also the Edgar Allan Poe collected works in this series. Hopefully they will look cooler when we're old men.

I'm with this gentleman:
>>3763117

[Anonymous No.3766241]

Started this today. It's been two years since I read anything by the man... it's good to have him back.

[Anonymous No.3766247]

>>3766241
I'd give anything to go back and read V. for the first time, again. I've read it about 5 times so far in my life, but none were as great as the first.

Lucky bitch.

[Anonymous No.3766253]

In Search of Lost Time
The Book of Disquiet
Brave New World
Naked Lunch

[Anonymous No.3766292]

Whoa, I literally made this thread over two days ago and its still alive.

[Anonymous No.3766300]

>>3766292
That's /lit/ for you

Where the front page stays the same all night on a weekday

[Anonymous No.3766387]

>>3745779
a comma splice is perfect punctuation?

[Anonymous No.3766415]

>Carefully, black-shod step by step, Pirate approached the thing. It began to slide forward to meet him, over the cobblestones slow as a snail, leaving behind some slime brightness of street-wake that could not have been from fog. In the space between them was a crossover point, which Pirate, being a bit faster, reached first. He reeled back, in horror, back past the point—but such recognitions are not reversible. It was a giant Adenoid. At least as big as St. Paul’s, and growing hour by hour. London, perhaps all England, was in mortal peril!


what

[Anonymous No.3766475]

>>3746002
Reading as well. Definitely agree about the dialogue, though I find the merciless cynicism somewhat tiring.

[Anonymous No.3766673]

>>3745198


I'm about 100 pages in, and I'm really enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.3766704]

>>3766673
Enjoy it while you can, the other 900 pages are all about food preparation, Tengo's penis, and Aomame's ears and sexual preferences.

[Anonymous No.3766712]

>>3745712
don't you mean if you have an extra chromosome because that would mean you have down syndrome, which I'm inferring is what you are referring to.

[Anonymous No.3766734]

>>3766704
Hey, don't knock noodles. That shit is why Murakami's a goddamn wizard. He can make cooking noodles interesting.

[Anonymous No.3766736]

>>3766673
If you haven't listened to Sinfonietta yet, I highly recommend you do as early in the book as you can. Those opening bars perfectly set the tone for a world that is ever so slightly shifted.

[Anonymous No.3766746]

>>3766673
IMO, it's up there with Murakami's worst books, and this is coming from a big fan of his. It was, at least to me, a big dissapointment. But it's not all bad. Most of Book 1 is okay, and the second half of Book 3 is good. The second book sucks, though.

[Anonymous No.3766748]

Arthur R. Jensen - Bias in Mental Testing (1980)

Very long book. I'm a bit more than halfway (of ~800 pages).

[Anonymous No.3766753]

>>3766746
The second book outshines the rest in my opinion. It gives the reader a firm grasp on some of the shit that's flying around.

And it goes nowhere. Murakami's nowhere is very interesting, mind you. Worth reading the rest. But it didn't follow through after the floating clock chapter.

[Anonymous No.3766755]

>>3745636
>he was writing on another level.

If by that you mean "he was a shitty author", then yes. :) He is one of the many philosophers where it is better to read 2nd literature.

[Anonymous No.3766758]

>>3745961
You should follow up with the book he recommends it in. I read both.

He also has a new book out, which is apparently not on the net in decent quality?

[Anonymous No.3766770]

>>3766748
forgot pic

also, good to see at least one person reading anything science (Bad Science). Russell also decent. Wittgenstein okay. A lot of fiction (whatever). Some garbage philosophy (Lacan, the wannabe mathematician and his möbius strip model of mental disease).