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3799516 No.3799516 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have one of these again, shall we?

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
>What are you planning to read? Why?

>> No.3799536

does anyone actually read the posts in these threads

>> No.3799546

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Crime and Punishment 9/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Idiot, i'm liking very much
>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Demons and Brothers Karamazov to complete Dostoevsky's books and then Kafka's biography.

>> No.3799549

>>3799536
Let's test it.
Last read: Aberzombie Loinless - The Gyrated 4/10
Currently reading: Moses - The rest of my rock 6/10 so far, it's an interesting take on ancient history but I find the whole thing a little implausible.
Planning to read: Brigadier Amy - A sob story in army camp

Curren

>> No.3799554

i posted in the one earlier, but may as well post again

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, 8/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Mind of Mnemonist
>liking a lot, includes many quotes from the mnemonist himself, descriptions of his experiences and memory; analyzes the patient from several angles
Egil's Saga
>likely will be one of my favorite sagas, exciting start and the intro was comprehensive
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
>very interesting, led me to pick up the mnemonist book above; includes lots of charts, as well as pictures from synesthetes
The Brain: A Beginner's Guide
>easy-to-read, seeming to be a good primer for neuroscience so far, lots of fun-fact type asides
A Chinese Bestiary: Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
>very long introduction for a highly interesting subject that needed the background info
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
>there's a lot of inaccuracies, but I think I'm going to continue anyway
The Earliest English Poems
>introduction was a great primer for the general poetry of the era, style, history, reception

>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Lais of Marie de France
>short book of folklore, an early female author
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
>because I'm learning about architecture and I like aesthetics
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
>same as above
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
>seems like a fun romp, was rec'd by Goodreads when I loved Little, Big
Theory and History of Folklore by Vladimir Propp
>because I want to learn more on folklore studies
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
>loved the film, the introduction created high interest levels and I enjoy picaresque and stories-in-stories
Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy
>enjoyed some fictional bestiaries and thought it'd be an interesting thing to learn about

>> No.3799556

>>3799554
tl;dr

>:

>> No.3799563

>just read

Cather In The Rye, 5/10 was a let down


>now reading

Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings, about halfway, loving every minute even though I know it's not exactly high-brow


>planning
Orwell - 1984
W.F.Hermans - De Donkere Kamer Van Damokles (Dutch literature)
George R.R. Martin - A Song Of Ice And Fire

>> No.3799573

>>3799536
I do. I like seeing what you are all up to, and sometimes you name things I hadn't heard of that sound interesting.

>> No.3799575

>The Great Gatsby - 7.5/10

>The Master and Margarita - Great stuff; really enjoying it.

>The Crying Lot of 49 - Been meaning to get in to Pynchon for a while so I thought I'd start with this.

>> No.3799580

>>3799516


>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said: 8/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde's ability as a playwright shines through in his wonderful ability to evoke emotion in dialogue, but he lacks the measure and pacing of a truly great novelist, leading to slow, dry chapters of ultimately meaningless exposition near the middle of the novel. Overall a good read so far though.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Cat's Cradle, I want to sample more Vonnegut.

>> No.3799583

>>3799563

>Cather In The Rye, 5/10 was a let down

What did you not like about it?

>> No.3799587

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare, 7.5/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
"Dubliners" by James Joyce, 9.75/10

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Either "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne or "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut. No particular reason.

>> No.3799589

>>3799583

It was boring, had no redeeming qualities. Repetitive, uneventful. Is there something I didn't 'get'?

>> No.3799596

>>3799589

I don't know if you did or didn't, it's on a list of books I want to read just so that I know what people are talking about when they talk about them, and I wanted to know what kind of bullshit I should expect to endure from such an overrated novel.

>> No.3799598

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Jungle.
6/10. It starts off well, but quickly devolves into "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY POLITICAL BELIEFS".

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Atlas Shrugged.
0/10. Final stretch now, John has finally shut up.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Keruoac. His name comes up a lot, want to see what it's all about.

>> No.3799600

>>3799598
>torturing yourself by enduring Atlas Shrugged for its full length

>> No.3799601

>>3799516

>Last Read; The Players - Don Delillo

Was pretty good, but seemed liked a great idea that never really got there - pretty much all Delillo's stuff seems like that to me.

>Reading; Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

I'm quite liking it so far, just wanted to read it to see what all the fuss was about...not sure as yet.

>Reading next; The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Been meaning to read it for a while and have a regular commute coming up so no better time to start such a long book.

>> No.3799602

>>3799596
>saying it's overrated
>has never actually read it

It seems like you've already made up your mind so you might as well just not read it at all.

>> No.3799605

>>3799596

I guess it got hyped by it being banned and all. Goddam sensationalism. You should read it though, just so you can discuss it with others, and warn them. Only takes like four hours if you're fast, but it's boring as hell.

>> No.3799608

>>3799587
>"Dubliners" by James Joyce, 9.75/10
Is it so good?

>> No.3799612

>>3799600

Wouldn't want anyone to say I didn't give Ms Rand a fair chance.

>> No.3799619

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Las Batallas en el Desierto by Jose Emilio Pacheco
youmustbethismexicantogetit/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
So far it's much more understated than Fear and Loathing although but his research is very thorough.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy: And Other Stories by Margareta Ekstrom.
Because some cute girl recommended it to me.

>> No.3799651

last read: Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut. 9/10- fucking beautiful.
Now reading: The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Not bad, enjoyable, but mostly reading because of strong recommendations.
Next: I'm thinking a collection of plays by Oscar Wilde, or perhaps The Time Machine, H.G. Wells.

>> No.3799662

>>3799612

Why not?
You don't have to waste your time on shit just to prove a point.

>> No.3799682

>>3799651

>The shadow of the wind

My entire family's obsessed with that book. They spent about anhour discussing it at a recent birthday party.

>> No.3799684

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Neuromancer 6.5/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Lolita 8/10 I've read it several times. Fuck, do I like that Nabokov prose.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author I hear the most about.

>> No.3799690

why does /lit/ always have such boring tastes

>> No.3799692

>>3799608
I'm not him, but yeah it is. Joyce is at his best when he uses his superior prose skills in the service of beauty rather than obfuscation. He is a genius at portraying the multiform tragedies of the quotidian.

>> No.3799695

>>3799690
What are you reading, faggot?

>> No.3799703

>>3799690
>What are you reading, faggot?

>> No.3799706

>>3799690
Anonymous 05/28/13(Tue)15:20 No.3799703
>>3799690
>What are you reading, faggot?

>> No.3799733

>>3799692

>portraying the multiform tragedies of the quotidian

Are you seriously this pratician?

>> No.3799753

>>3799682

It's alright. I'm about 130 pages in. It has an interesting story, but a few cliches and picturesque moments that the author seems to try too hard to validate... I'm gonna keep reading it and see what I find. Probably gonna create a discussion about it here when i'm done.... business as usual.

>> No.3799758

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Been awhile because i had uni essays to do, but I reckon the last one was The Jolly Corner by Henry James, I'd give it 6/10, bretty gud, but I'm not really into the gothic so don't take my word for it.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
On the Road - Keroauc, loving it so far, the lifestyle, the period, the prose, it's all so wonderful.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Notes from the Underground - Fydor Dostoevsky, because he seems like an interesting writer, and hopefully I'll be starting at a good place.

Breakfast of Champions - because Vonnegut. Seriously I loved Slaughterhouse-five and I want more.

>> No.3799759

>>3799662

Then why the hell would I be on /lit/

>> No.3799760

>>3799753

Happy times.

>> No.3799769

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Trainspotting 8/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The good soldier Svejk. Very nice, I recommend it.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
The exegesis of Philip K. Dick. Dude was crazy, but interesting.

>> No.3799771

>>3799692
I will try it, thanks.

>> No.3799773

i am currently reading rilke

>> No.3799777

>Last read
Historias de Cronopios y Famas - 9/10. Really great flash fiction, Cortázar is up there with Chekhov in the olympus of short story writers

>Now reading
Dubliners by Joyce - Just started, but I find the descriptions fascinating. I was expecting not to understand shit, mostly because english is my third language, but I'm finding it actually pretty straightforward. I like the epiphanies too, giving you more of a "feel" of the character rather than closing. I'm probably missing a lot of symbolism and whatnot, though.

>Next
Been meaning to read The Process for a long time so either that or Down and Out by Orwell

>> No.3799778

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
1984. 8/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Anna Karenina, I've read 100+ pages and I'm liking it so far.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
After this I'll read Brave New World.

>> No.3799786

Just read brave new world 7/10
Reading orthodoxy by gk Chesterton
Hoping to read heretics by Chesterton next

>> No.3799793

>>3799516
>>What have you just read + x/10 rating
David Goodis - The Burglar. 7/10.

>>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Rereading Horkheimer & Adorno - The Dialectic of Enlightenment. 9/10.

>>What are you planning to read? Why?
Planning to buy the Loeb Classics version of Petronius soon. I'm a classics student, and the excerpts I've read are very funny.

>> No.3799794

>>3799786

>BNW 7/10

GuaranteedReplies.exe

>> No.3799803

>>3799695
I've already posted

~see if you can find me~

>> No.3799832
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>What have you just read + x/10 rating
"Stones of Aran: Labyrinth" by Tim Robinson 4/10
I'm just not a big fan of "travel writing" or long passages of describing scenery. I got this in a batch of 5 NYRB Classics, it was the first I read.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
"The Monk" by Lewis (see pic related). I'm definitely liking it, read through the first 210 pages last night before bed and was eager to continue reading after work today. A bit like Radcliffe's "The Italian" but more blasphemous (nun's fucking, nuns getting abortions, monks attempting to rape kids, murder, devil worship, bleeding nun ghost, etc,etc), alternating between 3 different stories that eventually slowly all start to come together.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Probably one of the other 4 NYRB Classics I received in that batch. My eyes seem fond of the cover, and size of "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim so probably that.

>> No.3799845

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
a canticle for liebowitz, maybe 7/10. great start, gets too angry/angsty/hippy for my liking

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
i started Demons but am finding it excessively fleshy at about 140 pages in, not enjoying it as much as C&P or the idiot. so i switched to the three stigmata of palmer eldritch this morning, and it looks to be typical PKD, so its right up my alley, not far in though

>What are you planning to read? Why?
heres a list of books ive started and not finished because of lack of interest that i really should finish before buying more:
Stranger in a strange land
1Q84 book 3
Monkey/journey to the west
Book 2 of the gormenghast trilogy (not sure i want to read book 3 since its been altered/added to in my version, since he never finished it)
Romance of the 3 kingdoms (kind of an ongoing project as opposed to an actual reading book for me)
The count of monte christo (fucking loved it and it gripped me from the start, then it veered off on napoloeonic politics and that was it)

after palmer eldritch i think im going to read the picture of dorian grey though, since ive been feeling pretty scattered lately i think ill just be wasting time with more focused reads, so shorter books it is i think for now. then ive got the earthsea quartet and gullivers travels to go before i buy more.

no one except >>3799546 appears to be reading anything im remotely interested in in this thread...

>> No.3799858

>>3799845
I did not like "Demons" at all.

And I think >>3799546 is just reading the same old shit everyone always talks about on this board. Although, "Crime and Punishment" was fantastic.

>> No.3799863

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Once and Future King 8/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
It's not high-brow in any sense, but I'm finding it enjoyable.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Crime and Punishment
It's next on my to read pile.

>> No.3799875

>Last read:
The Way of the Knife, 8/10 because quality journalism is difficult to find

>currently reading:
The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, I give it an 8/10 so far, it's better than Viriconium.

>next read:
A Delicate Truth, I expect a 7.5/10.

>> No.3800073

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
I have recently read The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier, 8.5/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
I am currently reading Gatsby, and i am liking it very much.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
I am planning to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, again. And because i feel like it.

>> No.3800083

>Death in Venice: 7/10
>Reading For Whom the Bell Tolls: 6/10 bretty good :D
>About to read Inspirations by Paulo Coelho, was a graduation gift

>> No.3800092

Currently reading Jane Eyre. 4/10, will not finish.

Currently reading the Iliad, Falges translation. Fun in small doses, with the benefit of some understanding of Greek myth background info, 7/10, will finish in 10 years.

I actually lolled when Zeus and Hera argued at the beginning. He actually threatened to "throttle" her in front of all their godly children.

>> No.3800214

>>3800092
That's not even the funniest thing that happens in the Iliad.

also
>10 years

Wut

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>Just finished.
Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein - 6.5/10 some articles were duds, Cavell, Scheman and Diamond can do no wrong though.

>currently reading
Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader (Glock). Idk I've only gotten through the preface so far.

>to read
On my haphazard to read list (besides more for this Wittgenstein project; the Crary, Heyes, and Day & Krebs readers) is Weber's Methodology of Social Sciences, Althusser's Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists, Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery.

>> No.3800260

>Read
The Stranger by Camus. 9.5/10
>Reading
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell. Currently in the logician/mathematical writings section. Rather dry and technical, but his critique of John Dewey's pragmatism is both absorbing and vibrant.
>To Read
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky. Bundled together with The Double, which I finished previously.

>> No.3800264

>Just Read
Jane Eyre, 10+/10, Best New Reissue
>Reading
My mum knows I like books but doesn't ever know what to get, so she bought "Criminal" by Karin Slaughter. It's shit. So, I'm between books.
>Planning to Read
When I can fucking focus, perhaps Wuthering Heights.

>> No.3800280

>rating books with x/10

Holy fuck sage.

>> No.3800281

>>3800092
Shit gets way better, mate, Jane Eyre.

>> No.3800295

>>3800236

>reading the preface

>not tearing it from the book's spine

>> No.3800298

>>3800295
do people really do this?

the preface gives a short overview of all the articles in the reader. it's handy

>> No.3800308

foundation's edge, excellent/10
foundation and earth, very much
foundation's fear, daneel + it's the next in this series

>> No.3800369

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Importance of Being Earnest, 8/10, beginning my excavation into dramas
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Anthem today just to get it off my reading list, interesting and seems to be the source of a lot of 80s scifi cliches.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Faust and The Art o Public Speaking, one to read classic German drama I was recommended and the other for personal interest. May get through some short Bradbury stuff.

>> No.3800421

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Les Miserables (Abridged) 7.5/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Mrs. Dalloway - I'm liking it very much, thank you.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Madame Bovary, because I've been meaning to read it for over a year now and I just recently purchased a copy.

>> No.3800431

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Curse of the Spellmans. Decided to just have a nice quick read before summer started. 6.5/10.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
In Cold Blood. I love how vividly descriptive it is.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Jungle then Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Maybe Taipei later. They just seem interesting.

>> No.3800453

>>3800298
No. Only a retard rips a preface from their books.

I always read the preface if their is one. Introductions, not so much, especially those in Penguin Classics as I have found them to be fairly lose with spoilers.

>> No.3800762

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Stoner by John Williams 10/10 Would feel again
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It's okay so far. I'm enjoying it but it's not as good a book as Stoner.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut because I want to finally start reading some Vonnegut and put a dent in the used book shopping spree I did last week.

>> No.3800769

>What have you just read?
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and the actual author, Aaron Johnston. Fucking garbage/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Name of the Wind, it's alright. It seems like a masterpiece after what I've just finished.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Your Inner Fish, because I enjoy popular science books.

>> No.3800792

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
the jungle 7/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Blood Meridian, good so far i would like more violence
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Child of God, recommendation from a friend

>> No.3800800

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Eyes of The Dragon by Stephen King 9/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Gerald's Game by Stephen King. Will not finish this heap of shit
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Lolita. I have heard so many great things about it.

>> No.3800799

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes. 8.7/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell. I've already been acquainted with pretty much all of the topics presented in the book, but Russell gives a somewhat unique look on many of them. So far I'm enjoying his simplistic, though meaningful, writing style.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Well, I'm currently reading the Tractatus Lgico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein, but I've kind of put it on hold to read the Russell book. I'm taking it nice and slow, and I'm only about 10 pages in. It's the best thing I've ever read, at least so far, and although I may be "misinterpreting" him, I think I'm definitely getting something from it. 9.99999999998/10. However, before I'm finished with it I'll have moved onto another book. I'm thinking about Aristotle's Metaphysics. I just recently (by which I mean about two years ago) became interested in philosophy.

>> No.3800801

>>3800800
Check my double 800's

>> No.3800802

1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: 7/10 engaging but not the 'magnum opus' it was supposed to be, oth stuff of his is better.

2. The Magus- John Fowles: Facinating introspective style, very slow read tho

3.Jo Nesbo is Christ

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>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Wild Nights by Emma Tennant
I give it two kisses and three wet mouths
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
It's off the chain brah shit's mad
It's like eating the most perfectly prepared feast in the world
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Underworld by Don Delilo
DeLilo's a good cunt I liked White Noise and parts of Americana and the film of Cosmopolois was fucking A
Also: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath cause my girlfriend wants me too and I'm all about the sadness
Also: Infinite Jest because everyone says you gotta read it around here and I'm all about the post-modernism
Also: The Order of Things by Foucault cause Foucault's a good cunt and I'm all about the constructivist interpretation c'mon man I love that shit

>> No.3800810

I liked no country for old men better by him, more concise, more violent, and more accessible.

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>>3800762
>The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It's okay so far. I'm enjoying it but it's not as good a book as Stoner

Out of curiosity, why

>> No.3800828

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Pale Fire 8/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far
Vineland. Hoping it's a good introduction to Pynchon (all I've read prior to it was The Crying of Lot 49). Hilarious book, though. I love how blurred everything is.
Also reading Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America. It's not as bad as the title sounds. And yes, I like Jack Kerouac.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Les Fleurs du mal or some Suzuki essays on Buddhism. I might give Mishima a go while I'm at it.

>> No.3800842

>>3800828
i've been meaning to read les fleurs du mal too man. does anybody know if it's any good?

>> No.3800851

>What have you just read + x/10
Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs 8.5/10. The organization was a little weird but I love interview driven biographies.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski. It's okay, Buk is always a hit-and-miss with me.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
How Late It Was, How Late- James Kilman
What We Do Is Secret- Thorn Kief Hillsberry
I always stop halfway with these books because the writing style is so strange and I always want to read any new poetry I find.
The Blank Slate- Steven Pinker
I have a passing interest in evolutionary psychology.

>> No.3800855

>>3800842
It's so great, one of my favorite books of poetry.

>> No.3800866

>>3800855
>tfw I didn't even know Les Fleurs du mal was poetry.

>> No.3800899

just like to point something out about you anons that i like.
when the group focus descends on a particular work, we hear mostly unflattering page-shredding.
but we can see that just about every snapshot review here is an 8/10. (just a happy little subconscious reminder that on an individual basis, when left to ourselves and latest excitements, /lit/ anons genuinely do enjoy the reading experience, and find themselves appreciating what's out there.) i don't know. feels nice.

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>>3800866
Baudelaire is god.
Just remember that when you start behaving like a deviant.

>> No.3800905

>Gravity's Rainbow - 9
>Dubliners, I'm almost done and it's good.
>Another book by Joyce

>> No.3800924

>Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask 6/10
>PKD's Ubik - very agreeable sense of humor, amusing concepts, a little clumsy prose. first time reading philip
>John de st Jorre's Venus Bound (non fiction). Interested in olympia press' early pulp output as was briefly described in burrough's biography.

>> No.3800927

Does /lit/ ever read anything but 2-deep-4-u post modernism?

>> No.3800932

>>3800927
I hate that stuff.

>> No.3800939

>>3800924 here

>>3800851
Oh, Lexicon Devil's a good one. Especially loved that bit with the avant-garde german composer coming in an orchestrating vague cryptic warehouse parties with orgies, acid and animal sacrifices for the punks to partake in.
Ted Morgan's biography on Burroughs has a lot of similar stuff, though written in a more objective style, he goes on great tangents, some especially good bits on Brian Gyson in the beat hotel.

>>3800927
>implying you're just not basing that on the pynchon & joyce post above yours
>implying joyce is pomo

>> No.3800969

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Life and Death of King John, I don't feel comfortable assigning a rating but I will say that it isn't top-tier Shakespeare, though it is more interesting than people sometimes make it out to be.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Measure for Measure, it's good, obviously. I'm planning on visiting Stratford this summer to see their production.

>What are you planning to read?
The rest of Shakespeare that I haven't yet read, which includes a number of plays as well as his non-Sonnets poetry and part of a play about Thomas Moore.

>Why?
Shakespeare is an integral part of Western heritage and I've been feeling ashamed that I'm already a year into college and still haven't read his complete works.

>> No.3800994

Read - Diary of a Madman
Reading - The 48 Laws of Power 7.5/10
Want to Read - Poe Collection

>> No.3801004

>What have you just read
On The Road by Kerouac, 8/10. Fantastic book.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Infinite Jest by DFW. Enjoying every page.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Maybe Foucault. Kinda interested.

>> No.3801020

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
LOTR Fellowship of the Ring 3/10 I couldnt even finish that shit
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
the Shunned House by HP Lovecraft it is a bit slow right now but its picking up
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Holes by Louis Sachar. because I love it and haven't read it in a while.

>> No.3801031

>What have you just read?
The State and Revolution, 10/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Living In The End Times. I like it, I like Zizek, though I desire a stronger footing in Hegel.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Either Schopenhauer or Kant, the former to gain a better understanding of what I have read of Nietzsche, the latter to ground my future studies of Hegel.

>> No.3801049

>>3801031
The state and revolution is pretty boss

>> No.3801060

Alice in wonderland 6/10
3 musketeers, pretty damn epic
Gravity's rainbow, if i can find a decent copy for cheap

>> No.3801061

>>3801031
>The State and Revolution, 10/10
Oh great, another fucking communist, just what this board needs.

>> No.3801063

>>3801061
More Communist literature recommendations please

>> No.3801069

>>3801061
Oh, what's wrong with The State and Revolution? Don't be afraid to go into extreme detail, I think I can handle it.

>> No.3801072

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Plague by Albert Camus - 7/10
It kinda droned on repetitively for a while, but I don't regret reading it

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
2 books bc fuck yeah!
1.) Amerika by Franz Kafka - For whatever reason, I cannot get hooked into it like usual... I almost lose focus after 30 mins of reading
2.) Oblivion by David Foster Wallace - I like it, the first story was almost too technical when talking about damn gamma and chi squared distributions, but luckily I just took a statistics class this past semester.

>What are you planning to read?
Catch 22 or Gravity's Rainbow

>I still haven't quite figured out which style of writing I like most, so I am trying to expand my literary circle. They are also supposed to be great books

>> No.3801079

>>3799589
Word to the wise, I found A Song of Ice and Fire to be repetitive, if eventful. Still pretty tedious either way.

>> No.3801098

>>3799684
What about Neuromancer didn't you like? Was it that the technology can seem really dated considering what we have nowadays? Or did it try too hard to be cool? Or something else?

I personally love that book, though I first read it back in middle school and my last re-read was a few years after that. I have huge nostalgia for it.

>> No.3801099

>>3801069
It propagates a destructive ideology which seduces the poor and uneducated with promises of utopia while in practice only ever producing oppressive, totalitarian regimes.

>> No.3801118

>>3799845
Gods, I also couldn't get through Stranger in a Strange Land. It felt like the message was supposed to be about sexual liberation and all but Heinlein's treatment of his female characters struck me as casually misogynistic in a way that turned me off the entire book.

>> No.3801125

>>3800281
Disagreeing opinion here, it does not.

>> No.3801139

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Chinese Playground: A Memoir 7/10
Pretty interesting look at 60s-80s Chinatown gang life, but the writing is in need of serious editing.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Habitation of the Blessed, it's breddy gud.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
A Long Way Gone, cuz I like to alternate between non-fiction and fiction. I don't think this memoir from a child soldier is as famous/lauded as that other one, but whatever

>> No.3801141

cosmopolis (delillo). 10/10.

REREADING ratner'sstar / reading radio free ablemuth, three stugmata palmer eldritch (dick) and running dog (delillo as in the reread)
very nice stuff.

have umbrella by will self , birds of the air david yezzi , the devil's own dear son james branch cabell
CUZ LIBRARY PRIVLEDGE MATE

>> No.3801142

>>3801118
Stranger in a Strange Land frequently devolved into self-parody. All of Heinlein's books read more like didactic tracts that you'd expect to encounter being passed door-to-door by zealous ideologues than like novels

>> No.3801143

>>3801004
>Infinite Jest
mah nigga

>> No.3801173

>What have you just read
I just recently finished... Starship Troopers(7/10) and Ender's Shadow(8/10). I enjoyed both, especially Shadow, it's a cool spin on Ender's Game. And ST was alright, I was expecting more action and story. Instead it was a whole lot of military propaganda... odd book.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
I am currently reading.. The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (yes, I've been on a military sci-fi tear lately). The Forever War is everything you think Starship Troopers should be, and better.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Planning to actually crack open this copy of Against the Day a friend bought for me on Christmas. I feel I haven't tackled something challenging and grand in a while, so I figure I'll start with this one.

I'll never crack open this copy of Infinite Jest I have lying around. May as well be a door stopper

captcha: litizow new

>> No.3801181

>>3801173
Do yourself a favor and crack open Infinite Jest and read the first 100 pages, then see if you want to keep going.

http://infinitesummer.org/archives/215

>> No.3801195

>>3801181
interesting link, cool man, I'll give it a shot

slowly but surely

>> No.3801210

>>3801020
I know that feel bro, I couldn't get through LOTR because the first 100 pages of every book are like the whaling encyclopedia parts of Moby Dick. Eventually I took someone's advice and started reading at the fifth chapter. Pretty enjoyable.

>> No.3801221

>>3800969
Stratford Upon Anon, what would you recommend in terms of a definite Complete Works collection? The Riverside Shakespeare is the general consensus but what do you suggest?

>> No.3801247

>>3801221
Sorry to say, I'm not qualified at all to give an answer to that question. I'm currently using a small, compact paperback edition based on the 1951 Alexander Text, whose main virtue is the ease with which I can take it anywhere.

>> No.3801299

Bump

>> No.3801322

>>3799546
I did not like the Demons as much as the others. It's basically two unfinished stories that are interwoven.

Brothers Karamazov is superb (except for one chapter where the outher let's us know about his religious views....)

>> No.3801347

>>3801322
I loved the dark atmosphere that Demons provided

I'm also a sucker for political novels

Any recommendations?

>> No.3801353

1) Naked Lunch, 8/10.
The first entry of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. Its like Raymond Chandler if he were to become unhinged and pursue himself through the streets of New York bent on vengeance. I like it.

I'm going to read Antwerp by Bolano next. I just nicked it from Barnes a few days ago and its basically a read for a day, but I really dug 2666/Savage Detectives and I think Bolano may only make sense as a poet. Really want to get more of his poetry as well.

>> No.3801374

Most recently read Journey to the End of the Night . . . 5/10, I can't do old school realist narrative writing, it bores me.

I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow, absolutely love it. Wasn't sure about Pynchon before this, I'd read Lot 49 beforehand which I liked with some reservations, and also V., which I had more mixed feelings about and less satisfaction...I don't even remember what happened. But GR is fantastic, definitely my favorite thing I've read all year.

I'm planning to read Mao's China and After by Maurice Meisner because it's supposed to be a pretty solid account and my knowledge of Maoist China is really limited. Also planning to read Underworld by Delillo b/c I've liked some of his books a bunch and heard this was good too.

>> No.3801423

Just read
>The Mexican Revolution by Adolfo Gilly 8/10
Currently reading
>Nothing, just finished my previous book an hour ago. Going to pick something at random from the stack of books I got tired of half-way through
Planning to read
>Same as above basically

>> No.3801431

>>3801099
Interesting. Just by the by, how well are you doing in your other high school AP classes?

>> No.3801438

>>3799536
Yes, these are usually the more substantive threads on /lit/...pretty good for sparking conversations on, like, books, you know?

>> No.3801443

>>3799601
>Was pretty good, but seemed liked a great idea that never really got there - pretty much all Delillo's stuff seems like that to me.

I want to like Delillo but run into pretty much this exact problem. The only thing I've fully embraced by him is White Noise.

>> No.3801449

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Infatuations by Javier Marias 9/10. Marias is now one of the best contemporary writers.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago. I like it but less than the Infatuations
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias. I'm going to continue my literary adventure with this writer.

>> No.3801465

>just finished Neuromancer, 6/10
It was just too confusing. Too much made up technology.
>reading Catcher in th Rye, it's actually pretty good. We never read it in high school so I felt obligated to read it.
>I'll probably read The State and Revolution next
Lenin seemed like a cool character so I want to check out his writing.

>> No.3801466

>>3801443

Absolutely agree - when I was reading The Players it seemed like the synopsis of the plot was more exciting and interesting than the book itself.

>sopomo

Where as White Noise certainly lived up to the praise I had heard about it.

Have you, or anyone else, read Underworld? Any good?

>> No.3801485

>>3801465
What else did Lenin write that's worth checking out?

>> No.3801494

>>3801466
A few pages of underworld but not enough to judge.
DeLillo is fucking inscrutable but I enjoyed Cosmopolis and Omega Point. They're both really ponderous and sort of horror. The last one I'm pretty sure is a book about the way it feels to read his books. He spends at least half of it describing a desert, and bookended by the experience of one man repeatedly watching Psycho slowed down to be 24 hours in duration.

>> No.3801501

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
JAM by Yahtzee 7/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Dark Half by King, it's alright, hoping it doesn't have anything predictable in it
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Stranger in a Strange Land or Shatterday. In the mood for some sci-fi or some bugfuck prose.

>> No.3801506

>>3801466
> it seemed like the synopsis of the plot was more exciting and interesting than the book itself.

Felt exactly the same way about Mao II and Falling Man.

I've always heard really mixed stuff about Underworld, but one guy whose opinions I trust said it was fantastic...the 60 page prologue at least is universally hailed as Delillo's best so that should be worth checking out at the very least.

A short story collection of his came out a bit ago that I'd recommend; it can be hit or miss but a good portion of the bunch is really nice.

>> No.3801511

>>3801485
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

With Lenin it's good to make sure you have a solid grasp of Marx, so you understand why Lenin's contributions are so important an extension as a whole.

>> No.3801529

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy 7/10 Was interesting.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos. Very interesting so far, nicely written.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Easy starting place with philosophy, what's not to like.

>> No.3801548

>Just read:
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. 9/10

>Currently reading:
Armored Hearts by David Bottoms. Absolutely brilliant book of poetry.

>Planning to read:
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner. I picked it up along with Absalom, Absalom! at a library sale. I had never read Faulkner before.

>> No.3801632

>Infinite Jest - 10/10 (best book I've ever read, but I get why people don't like it)

>Slaughterhouse Five - It's a lot better than I thought it would be, and I came into it with high expectations. Dat fractured plot structure

>Ulysses - Because I want to finish reading all of the 'big name' books that everyone talks about so I can go back to reading good authors like Dan Brown

>> No.3801643

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Dubliners by Joyce - 8/10, great group of short stories. The Dead is one of my favourite short stories of all time.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Stranger by Camus. I have heard good stuff about it, and I'm liking what little I've been able to read of it.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Myth of Sisyphus, Hobbes' Leviathan, Clausewitz' On War, Machiavelli's The Prince. Myth of Sisyphus is for personal pleasure, the latter three are for uni (being proto-realist works, they help with the IR stuff I do)

>> No.3801665

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The General of the Dead Army - 7/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Concept of Anxiety, just started it, so can't really rate.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
No idea.

>> No.3801674 [DELETED] 

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - 7.5/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Hemingway - Men Without Women / It is good but I prefer his longer short stories like The Old Man and the Sea to his shorter collections.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Slaughterhouse-Five / Because it is a classic.
Botch / " "
Son of Hamas / Because I am interested in the conflict.
I Shall Not Hate / ""
Candide / Recommended on the Lit satire list.
Animal Liberation / I am interested in becoming a veggie.
Fahrenheit 451 / Classic again.

>> No.3801680

>>3801674
>Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - 7.5/10

I'd give it 8/10, although it depressed the fuck out of me. I read it while I was at school during Winter - having to get up at 6AM in pitch black and stand in a crappy thin school uniform in -10C waiting for the bus - and as shit as I felt then I figured that if I had to get up at 4:30 to stumble into -40C temperatures for 10 solid years with no respite I would have probably killed myself.

>> No.3801703

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
In One Person by John Irving, 7,5/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Das Schloß (yes, in German) by Franz Kafka; like it pretty much so far, have the feeling it's Kafka's best work
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Daodejing because I'm a martial artist and try to train my mind in that respect as well

>> No.3801718

>last read
Lanzarote by Houellebecq,3/10 literotica tier fapfiction with no real message
>currently reading
One hundred years of solitude,it's pretty good,makes for some easy reading
>planning to read next
The Great Gatsby,I want to read it before I watch the movie

>> No.3801840

>What have you just read: Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings 9/10 Fan-bloody-tastic
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far? A clash of kings George R.R Martin. reading because the show is too slow for me. Pretty good so far.
>What are you planning to read? Why? After the "A song of fire and ice" trilogy, Not really sure will get to it when I get there.

>> No.3801857

>>3800811
I guess I'm enjoying it because I can relate to the main character. I'm only about fifty or sixty pages in so far though.

>>3801118
This. I hated Stranger in a Strange Land for the same reason. It totally discouraged me from reading any more Heinlein.

>> No.3801858

>>3801840
You ever steer away from fantasy?

>> No.3801860

>Previous
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke
8/10
The first third of the book almost made me drop it, but onward made up for it BIG TIME.

>Current
Nothing at the moment. Some random short stories by Asimov and King. I started with Shakespeare's Midsummer and gave up. Can't take any of that shit anymore. Probably going to read...

>Next
The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons

>> No.3801866

>>3801858
Yes but I had a long period where I didn't read much, life was busy and what not.
Last non fantasy was Deliver us from Evil by David Baldacci, Which was a good read.
Fantsy is my bread and butter though.

>> No.3801871

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Just read a little book about life in early imperial China. Not literature, but interesting nonetheless. 7/10 would recommend.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Shogun right now, the first part of a series by James Clavell. I'm liking it so far, 8/10
>What are you planning to read? Why?
After that I'm attempting to get through Robert Steveson's short stories (I.E Jekyll and Hyde).

>> No.3801897

>Just read
Waiting for Godot
8/10
>Currently reading
Let The Right One In

I heard it was a lot darker than the movies, seems to be darker in a completely different sense than I expected. It's bretty good and refreshing to read something I can keep up to but I'm eager to get back on the 'classics'
>Planning to read
The Passion According to G.H. or The Sound and the Fury

Because I read up about Lispector and it all sounds great, I've read the first chapter of The Sound and the Fury and loved it, but I found the second difficult enough to warrant a break

>> No.3801927

>Invisible Cities, Calvino
>The Stand, King
>some 2000s contemp lit

>> No.3801936

>>3801927
forgot the commentary:
>7/10
>I'm a sucker for things apocalyptic and/or creepy, so I'm eating the plague part of the plot up. I don't like the cut and dry good/evil dichotomy that seems to be developing. 146 pages deep.
>I'm a lit student and trying to find an author or topic about which to write my senior thesis.

>> No.3801944

> What have you just read + x/10 rating
All the books from the Wool series. 9.5/10.

> What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Currently nothing, because of school (or that is what I'm telling myself).

> What are you planning to read? Why?
Tuf Voyaging -- I have already read two stories from the book in Dreamsongs (collection of stories by GRRM) and it was great. It just came out in e-book format as well.

>> No.3801949

>>3801927

How far are you in The Stand? I loved it, especially the first 1/2 or 3/4 of the book.

>> No.3801955

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Passage, Justin Cronin
5/10, tedious as fuck, though it got decent at the last third... now I'm not sure if reading its sequel is out of the question.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Lost Symbol, Brown. Nearly finished. It made the activity of reading feel fun again. Fucker knows how to keep a story engaging.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Crossing, McCarthy
Maybe I'll get some some flack for this, but I'm hoping that it'll read more like NFCOM and The Road, rather than Blood Meridian.

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>What have you just read + x/10 rating

The Paperboy - Pete Townsend - 4/10
Boring and unfocused, took me like a week to read 300 pages. Some well-written parts, though, esp. towards the end.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?

Reading Gravity's Rainbow, sort of a second read. For the first time, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Getting a lot out of it that I never did, plus, I'm understanding it.

>What are you planning to read? Why?

American Pastoral, Philip Roth. As for why I'm planning to read it, if you can figure that out, you're a better man than I.

>> No.3802101

>Steven King on Writing
Very enjoyable, good advice on writing and perspectives I didn't consider. 8/10.

>Tale of Two Cities
Not to far in. Fine at the moment.

>Blood Meridian
Heard some good things, enjoyed the Road.

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>Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 8/10
>Nothing
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I think that he is an interesting person and i heard that he had a good writing style. My first language is german but i am reading this one in english. I already have it infront of me and will start today

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>>3802106
Oh man, that cover is amazing.

>last read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - I found the mixture of plot and philosophy interesting and quite relaxing. My emotions and relationships were getting torn apart at the time I was reading it, so maybe it was just fitting to have a cute story to escape into. 8/10, I'd say.
>currently reading
Steppenwolf. I'm only at the part when Harry reads the brochure on Steppenwolf, and I'm liking it so far.
>planning to read
The Castle by Kafka. Attempted to chew trough it at 16, but it went straight over my head.

>> No.3802144

>Currently
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, holy shit this is some amazing prose. It's so rich its like reading pudding.
>Last
Haunted by Chuck Palaniuk, I loved it, except for that one part when they ate the cute redhead's ass.. Also Who would guess that a secretly gay author would include a scene with a guy choking to death on a dick? I still love you Chuck!
>Next
Dune by Frank Herbert
The spice must flow

>> No.3802149

>>3799536
I do, because it's the closest thing to a book recommendation thread we can have without it turning into a shitfest.

>> No.3802154

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Wuthering Heights. 6/10.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus, a third of the way in and it's very good. Steinbeck never disappoints me.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Lolita, once my girlfriend finishes it. Wanna be able to talk about it with her.

>> No.3802170

>>3802154
Is your girl a nymphet?

>> No.3802174

>>3802170
Nope, but she's into lolita fashion and wanted to know where the term came from.

>> No.3802180

>>3802134
>Steppenwolf. I'm only at the part when Harry reads the brochure on Steppenwolf, and I'm liking it so far.

the tractat.
i think it's a bit long and it's kinda repeating itself with the whole idea that it is talking about but after that it gets a lot more interesting imo

>> No.3802674

>>3802095
You're going to get punched in the face, Sunhawk. Remember that when you encounter someone in your little town of Somerset, England.

>> No.3802734

>John Williams - Stoner - 9/10
>Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Loving it so far, Proust's style is beautiful
>Probably Portrait of the Artist again, because I loved it the first time and I just need to start reading again

>>3799575
>Crying of Lot 49
Great jumping off point for Pinecone

>> No.3802777

>what have you just read
The Yiddish Policemen's Union. 6 or 7/10; cool world, hilarious dialogue in places; bretty gud as a literary novel, although its style relied a bit too much on "see what I did there" symbolism & thematic development; utter failure as a mystery novel.

>currently reading
Blood Meridian
great style and description. intredasting philosophy. good historical context on some race issues in America (inb4 Tumblr)
Joseph Anton
9.5-10/10 nonfiction. Rushdie's style is in top form and there are a lot of brilliant takedowns and disses. Loses 0.5 because he seems too self-justifying and self-centred in every single instance, but he's not nearly as bad as say Ted Hughes in Birthday Letters, and deserves some slack given what he went through
The Republic of Wine
Mo Yan uses way too many adjectives but otherwise this book is cool.
Bombay Ice
Mystery novel with better writing style than most literary novels and way more suspense than Chabon's. The author seems to have taken Edward Said's "Orientalism" as a how-to guide on portraying India though (inb4 Tumblr)
The Guermantes Way
IT'S FUCKING PROUST BITCHES
Harperland
Informative and well-written nonfiction.

>planning to read
The Pale King, because it's been sitting on my shelf for ages

>> No.3802875

I just read Lolita, very enjoyable, probably a 10.

Am reading Dubliners. It's pretty good but I don't necessarily get what he's trying to portray with these stories.

I want to read a Shakespeare play next, but I don't know what to read because I am, evidently, very new to this stuff.

>> No.3802899

>>3802875

Macbeth

>> No.3802907

>>3802899
Thanks, salubrious anon.

>> No.3802917

>>3802907
You are welcome

>> No.3802985

>>3801949
In 24 hours, I'm at p 144 of 1138, which at my pace means I'm tearing through it. So far, I think I've been introduced to all of the main, good characters. My current chapter is about Nick Andros and his stay in the Arkansas jail (he just found out that the sheriff died overnight of the sickness). At this point, the plague has devastated a handful of towns, but the government has rolled out "extreme covert countermeasures" and so the public doesn't yet (but will soon) know what's going on.

It's been a pageturner, and I hope it keeps up at least some of that momentum once everybody's dead.

>> No.3803071

Just Read: Deadeye Dick, 9/10, I'm a sucker for Vonnegut.

Reading: Invisible Man, 9/10

Going to Read: Dunno, maybe Notes from Underground.

>> No.3803237

>read Slaughterhouse5 - Kurt Vonnegut
was ok, war story with timeshifting and a bit of humor. Kind of a nice idea about no one dies if you could live in 4d

>reading Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - 6/10
Kilgore Trout makes another appearance, all a bit strange rather than funny so far, not far in
>Planning to read - Black Swan Nabeel Something

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>>3799516
> Wells, "The Time Traveler"
6/10. It's obviously more an essay than story, and you can understand the whole book just reading the first 1/3 of it. Only a <200 pg read however so I'm not terribly disappointed.

> GRRM, A Game of Thrones
9/10. Such an enjoyable book. It also doesn't let the most basic of reader predict what happens next. I only wish I didn't piss on myself by lurking forums of it and spoiling the hell out of it for myself.

>> No.3803277

Just read:

Franco Berardi- The Uprising... 7/10. Great analysis, awful neologism spasms on every page, not much in the way of practical political help.

Currently reading:

Darian Leader- The new black: mourning melancholia and depression. Terrifically readable. The kind of psychoanalytic prose that makes you think psychoanalysis isn't a pile of shit and which even makes Lacan seem to make sense. Fantastic for the case studies alone, but sealed by impassioned call for greater nuance in understanding human unhappiness.

HHhH- Lauren Biset. First historical novel I've read and so far an incredibly good read. Manages to question the genre as well as treat history as a reality constructed a myth (or a myth constructed as a reality) without sinking into postmodern bullshit. Fantastic for the slippage between fiction, a second order fiction, and the obsessive attempt to detail a real incident from WW2.

Next up:

Ray Brassier- Nihil Unbound: enlightenment and extinction. Deals with the question of nihilism in a new way; escapes from many an anthropocentric delusion; part of broader conversation about the liberating effect of the death of meaning.

Elizabeth Grosz- Volatile bodies. Examines feminism and phenomenology from the perspective of embodiment. Just sounds necessary to my interests.

>> No.3803296

>>3803237
Statsfag here. Taleb's The Black Swan is a unique take on applied statistics and its intersection with epistemology. He basically endorses Popper's falsificationism while shitting on stats models as revealing anything about reality.

>> No.3803665

>>3803237
>Kind of a nice idea about no one dies if you could live in 4d
>Thinking Billy wasn't just suffering from PTSD the whole time

>> No.3803698

mfw so many show off readers reading theie "trophy" books(Ulysees - Great as a cartoon set in 2031), probably on their faggoty macs whilst eating couscous and cheremoyah

>>3803665
WOAAAHAHAHAHH

might have to reread it then, but yeah, I suppose

>>3803296
hmm, sounds ok

>> No.3803717

>>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam, by Amélie Nothomb. I give it a 6/10. Quite enjoyed it.
>>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littel. I don't have an opinion yet as I have just finished the first chapter.
>>What are you planning to read? Why?
Some works by Kawabata, Tanizaki and Dostoievski. Because I like them and this weekend I'm going to buy a shitload of books in the annual bookfair, and I'm going to buy the ones I'm missing from these authors (but not only).

>> No.3804308

>The River Of Doubt 10/10
>Destiny Of The Republic - Great; Garfield was a seriously interesting but unfortunately forgotten man
>Finish The Republic

>> No.3804322

>>3799516
>Boccaccio's Decameron
>Apel's Discourse Ethics
>de Musset

>> No.3804523

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Grand Design - Hawking. 9.9/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Intellectual Impostures - Sokal, Bricmont. 8.5/10. Their critique of postmodern obscurantism is a bit flat since le choir. The originals are hilarious.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Lolita. /lit/ made me curious.

>> No.3804542

>>3803296

have you read Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow?

>> No.3804694

>>3804542
Shit

>> No.3804715

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Last book I finished reading was 'Waking the Dead' by John Eldridge. 10/10. Life-changing and paradigm-shifting.

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?

Currently reading Les Miserables for the first time. In a word, incredible. 11/10.

>What are you planning to read? Why?
I'd love to get around to reading GoT eventually. We'll see, though.

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>>3804715

>Life-changing and paradigm-shifting.
>incredible. 11/10.
>I'd love to get around to reading GoT

>> No.3804733

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
One Hundred Years of Solitude - 10/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
War and Peace - I'm only about 100 pages in but I like it so far
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Demons by Dostoevsky - He's one of my favorite authors and I have yet to read this

>> No.3804760

>>3804715
I just finished Les Mis! What translation/edition are you reading?

>> No.3804765

>>3804715
I really appreciate people who put effort into it, like this guy.

>> No.3804793

>>3799554
a slight update:

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Harney and Sons Guide to Tea, 7/10

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha
>enjoyable cultural approach, sencha's role in the literati and how it shaped history

>What are you planning to read? Why?
Firearms: A Global History to 1700 by Kenneth Chase
>because I like gan and history
Olive: A Global History
>because I like olive and history
Cheese: A Global History
>" " cheese " "
A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany
>enjoyed Fifty-One Tales
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden
>aesthetics, gardening and early Japan: all things I like

>> No.3804824

The Language of Flowers - 7/10. An interesting novel about an antisocial girl growing up and aging out of foster care. It's a little chick lit-ish but it's more of a character study/coming of age novel.

Little House in the Big Woods is going well. I'm fascinated by frontier life. Pa shot a bear and made the bladder into a ball for the girls to play with. Now they're harvesting and making maple syrup.

Gringos by Charles Portis is also going great but it won't displace True Grit as one of my favorites.

Occasionally:
Howard Pyle's Arthurian knights or Robin Hood
The Fighting Staff by Dwight C. McLemore
Bo: Karate Weapon of Self-Defense by Fumio Demura

I'm not sure what I'll read next. I'll see what I feel like after I finish something.

>> No.3804913

I'm currently reading Strange Fables by E.M. Radulovic I give it a 8/10

>> No.3804920

>>3804913
I can't find it on goodreads?

>> No.3804940

>>3804920
>Radulovic
I don't think that author or that book exists.

>> No.3804943

>>3804920
Oh wait, there are two e-books on Amazon for that name: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=E.M%20Radulovic&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3AE.M%20Radulovic

>> No.3805251

>>3799858
To be honest i started reading seriously only some mounth ago so I think that reading Dostoyesky would be a matter of time.
>>3801322
Really? Demons is the one with more expectations from me, and i dunno why.

>> No.3805264

>>3799832
The Monks seems interesting, added in wishlist.

>> No.3805417

>>3802985

I'm pretty sure 150 pages a day pretty much means tearing through it for anyone. I'm at a 50-70 page average, and that's only if I'm really liking the book I'm reading (and I am: >>3799563 )

>> No.3805454

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, 8/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Beyond Good and Evil. I don't really know yet, I am reading The Free Spirit right now. Nietzsche's writing style seems kind of obfuscated and I don't like having to look up people I don't know about just to get the point being made. I'll give him a shot though.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I really, really loved To The Lighthouse and have heard excellent things about this novel as well.

>> No.3805500

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Negri and Hardt's "Empire". 9/10 very refreshing
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Gogol's "Dead Souls". Seems alright so far, but prose too purple
>What are you planning to read? Why?
Kant's Prologmena is next, after that probably Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and some Seneca. At the same time I read the Bible and probably gonna give St. Thomas another go.

>> No.3805516

>Ulyssess 6/10
Was boring and hated such a feminine based character who is downright odd.

>Redemption of Althalus 5/10
Struggles to describe elements, surroundings, characters and environments. Has an annoying goddess, Althalus is cool but the book just seems to be milking the fact it's a fantasy.

>current
The Black Company
Seems pretty good love the gritiness and maturity of it all.

>next
World War Z
A song of Ice and fire
My name is wind.

>> No.3805535

>>3801020
I lol'd when I saw LOTR, couldn't finish that piece of shit either. The characters where annoying and weak, after watching the movies I just imagine the annoying movie actors and sets.

>> No.3805617

>>3804715
> Just finished
Les miserables. The First two chapters (Fantine & Cosette) are just incredible as you said. The others are good too, but some chapters in the latter volumes were not so interesting/touched me deeply as the first two. 10/10 and 7/10

btw. When we learned it at high school I plugged my ears just not to spoiler it by the teacher. I wanted to read it later in my life.. it worth for it.

>> No.3805619

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Selected Poems by Borges 10/10--Even

memorized some of those gems

>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene--Its written in very basic teacher's tone but it's solid. Started 2 days ago and only have about 20 pages left.

>What are you planning to read? Why?

Voltaire's Candide just to know what everyone is raving about.

>> No.3805622

>>3799516
>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Inferno 3/10
The Talisman (Walter Scott one) 9/10
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
History of Western Philosophy. Good but dry, probably going to take a break from it for a while. Hard to digest quickly. 6/10 so far
>What are you planning to read? Why?
No idea, History of Western Philosohpy has made me want to re-read Plato's Republic, so might do that.

>> No.3805623

>>3801210

>I couldn't get through LOTR because the first 100 pages of every book are like the whaling encyclopedia parts of Moby Dick

This is pure bullshit.

>> No.3806020

>What have you just read + x/10 rating
Albert Camus - The Stranger. I quite liked it. Meursault was a very interesting character. 8/10.
Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea. Also very nice. Very easy to identify with Roquentin. 8/10.
Also just read Tony Iommi's biography, which I found quite enjoyable and fun.
>What are you reading? How are you liking it so far?
Peter Marshall's Demanding The Impossible. So far it's just brilliant. 200 pages into it.
Also reading a collection of Voltaire's stories. So far read Candide, Micromegas and Zadig. Really like them all, alhough I expected more from Micromegas. Currently on The Ingenu, which I'm really liking, and then ending on The White Bull, probably today.
>What are you planning to read? Why?
I don't know yet. I have a big backlog. We'll see what I feel like once I'm done with my curret ones.