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Hey, /lit/! Let's have a "what are you currently reading?" thread!

Pic related.

>> No.573367

JIZZ
IN
MY
PANTS!

>> No.573374

Quite possibly the most original novel I've ever read OP, way to go.

I'm currently reading Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees.

>> No.573376

Nothing.
I just finished a book and now I'm in No Man's Land, trying to decide which book I should read next.

>> No.573379

Pride and Prejudice

>> No.573385
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This.

Absolutely loving it. Stoker is a great writer.

>> No.573386

Been at the last 6th of Good Omens for months now... Fucking midterms that begin within a month's worth of classes and only finish mid-semester. ;_;

>> No.573391
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>> No.573405

>>573374
So far I'm loving the shit out of Pale Fire. It's the first Nabokov I've read, too, and it's definitely making me want to read the rest of his work.

>> No.573407

Currently in the middle of Exile and the Kingdom by Camus, but I'm kind of getting tired of him lately and might start Pnin. Have already read Pale Fire and Lolita, Nabokov is awesome.

>> No.573410

Desert Island and Other Texts by Gilles Deleuze, beginning to question my interest in continental philosophy. I'm starting to see how it is relevant to europe but not so much to someone in the United States. Any US philosophical fiction or nonfiction in the vein of deleuze but more american, so to speak?

>> No.573416
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Shit's blowing my mind.

>> No.573433
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It's pretty decent, if not predictable.

>> No.573438
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I feel like I've been reading it forever.

>> No.573444

"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller and "The Sea Wolf" by Jack London.

Both are great so far, although the descriptions of Paris and nautical language slow me down a tad while reading.

>> No.573451
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Levin is tha bomb

>> No.573454
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100 years of solitude from Gabriel Garcia Markez.

>> No.573457

stranger in a strange land, its ok so far...pretty dull writing though

also reading Crime and Punishment, it's much more interesting and well-written than the former

>> No.573463
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Vonnegut gives me a hard on.

>> No.573482

2666
philip k dick short stories

>> No.573492

the brief wondrous life of oscar wao. won a pulitzer prize. good shit.

>> No.573494

Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins.

I loved The Moonstone and Woman in White, so I decided to read the rest of his novels.

>> No.573495

>>573463
Me too!

Except I don't like it that much.

>> No.573499

Flipping through the old testament for kicks

>> No.573501

>>573482
You liking 2666? I liked it a lot, but I don't know anybody else who's read it.

>> No.573517

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I also started reading the Sookie Stackhouse books for some reason. I like it.

>> No.573524

>>573501
Yes. Out of curiosity did you like all the parts of the book or is there one you didn't like as much?

>> No.573530

The Jungle Book (and other works) by Rudyard Kipling.

>> No.573532
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>> No.573534

moby-dick
cosmicomics

>> No.573575

>>573385
I enjoyed that book. What part are you at?

I am currently reading Light in August. The story is good but the writing is very, very dry

>> No.573611
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just finished Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman

reading this.

>> No.573626

Don Quixote

>> No.573660

>>573524
If I had to choose my least favorite section, I'd probably say the Part About the Critics, but that part is pretty interesting alongside the Part About Archimboldi. The most puzzling section for me was the Part About Amalfitano.

>> No.573663

Currently tackling Infinite Jest. inb4 hipster.

>> No.573688

jack london: the call of the wild

>> No.573692

Just finished the postmodern condition after six months. Yes, six months to read what is basically a long form essay. The language is opaque and I probably didn't get as much out of it as I could have, but still.

Currently reading some of Lovecraft's short stories as an easy, fun palette cleanser, partly because I enjoyed reading Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart a year or two ago.

I WANT to read, /lit/ I really, really do. But 12 hour days leave me precious little time for beer, internet, and chores, let alone reading and the occasional video game. Oh, if only I could be a NEET! Oh, the pain! Oh, the pain of it all!

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>> No.573995
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>> No.574003
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>>573463
totally agree with you!!

>>573517
one of my favs...

pic related 1/2 books i'm currently reading

>> No.574013
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574013

I don't technically have the book yet, but I read the preview from A Game of Thrones.

"Dragonlance with balls" is the best way I've been able to describe this series within its genre so far. It's fucking great.

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book 2/2

>> No.574027

fucking ecce homo

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>>573995

and this

>> No.574051
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Moby Dick and so far I don't hate it.

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>> No.574138

>>574051
Well, you're just falling in Melville's clever trap like so many before you. He's trying to make you feel comfortable, to lower your defenses a bit by introducing you to a bunch of fascinating characters travelling around the world in order to realize this Arthurian quest that Ahab set before them: to kill this bloodthirsty leviathan, the White Whale; Moby Dick. And then in one swift, violent move, he'll shove his massive encyclopedia far up your ass before you even know what hit you. I loved it to death.

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>>574051
DAT COMIC!!!!!!

>> No.574269

>>573361
Try Lolita next, then Ada.
>>573405
Read Ada!

>> No.574273

>>573454
>>573626
>>573361
Awesome!

>> No.574288
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Feels confusing, man

>> No.574291
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Clive Barker's weird.

>> No.574315
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Just started it.

>> No.574320

Les Justes

>> No.574329

>>574288

One of my favorite books, but yes, it's abstract and confusing as hell, which is especially suprising seeing as normally, Bret Easton Ellis novels are incredibly frank and concrete.

>> No.574331

>>574288
Just finished that one. Really confusing.. but it's sorta cleared up at the end.

>> No.574332
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574332

These two. I've got Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" waiting to be read afterwards.

>> No.574352

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

>> No.574357

Just finished:
The Regulation of Evil (two essays in there that I needed for a paper)
Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death
Kitsch & Culture: The Dance of Death in 19th Century Literature & Graphic Arts.

Yesterday I read three similar books (Black Death in Book Illustration, Black Death in Literature, another one I can't remember).

A few days before that I read the Soulforged by Margaret Weis as a study break.

Now I'm going to start the Faerie Queen. YEAHHH

>> No.574360

I got a book that I thought was about ancient "pegan" belefs and Godesses. It turned out to be over 400 pages of badly done femanist propaganda. I am still reading it to keep my critical thinking sharp, plus it makes me want to look up the crap they put in the book to prove it wrong.

>> No.574363

>>573517
My god, I've been resisting the urge to pick up those books as well, anon.

I may soon give in... I need delicious pulpy vampire novels, my Anne Rice collection is getting battered, haha.

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Mort, though i started this morning and am almost done now

>> No.574628

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Logics of Disintegration - Peter Dews
Politics of Modernism - Raymond Williams
Lessons from October - Leon Trotsky
Bread and Authority in Russia 1914-1921 - Lars Lih
Problems of Moral Philosophy - Theodor Adorno
Introduction to Sociology - Theodor Adorno
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
A Philosophy of the Future - Ernst Bloch
Ismail - some greek guy

Yes, I really am reading all of these simultaneously.

inb4 pretentious

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This. But they're like popcorn, the more I read the more I want to read. TBT, this is my second run through the entire series.

>> No.574637

>>574633
Is it loaded with action? Or is it shitty British comedy?

>> No.574645

>>574637
>shitty British comedy
a contradiction in terms. British comedy rocks.

>> No.574655

>>574645
The only 'comedic' novels I could read would be something akin to that of Catch-22

>> No.574661

I'm not reading anything. I never read.

Bertrand Russell

>> No.574670

2666 - roberto bolano

>> No.574671

Neuromancer -- I'm really enjoying it, I read Snow Crash after hearing so much praise for it on /lit/ and I probably like them both equal. The characters in Neuromancer are much darker, whereas in Snow Crash they are all Mary Sue's.

John Dies at the End -- Loving it, doesn't take itself too seriously and makes me laugh out loud which books rarely do. I can tell I'll be sad when it's over.

>> No.574688

>>574637

Have you never heard of the Discworld series before? It's very highly acclaimed, very very funny and wonderful.

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Working on "Everything is Illuminated" right now and just finished "Lolita". I've been trying to read a book a week, next week is "Norwegian Wood".

>> No.574696

>>574688
Never heard of it, except in /lit/.

>> No.574728

Starship Stroopers its good but nothing special

>> No.574738

>>574637
it's awesome British comedy
>>574598
or in this ones case just plain fucking awesome

also you seem to have no skills what so ever, have you ever considered teaching

>> No.574755

>>574738
I study accounting, I'm not meant to have a sense of humour.

>> No.574762

Tale of Two Cities.

I just got to the part where they storm the Bastille.

>> No.574773
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Just picked up a bunch of books that my friend was gonna take to good will

>> No.574781

>>574755
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y
you may not have a sense of humor like the brits , but they have one about you

>> No.574783

The Tain

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>> No.575147

>>575128
I'm so glad they italicised that.

I was worried it would be spanking any old Maid.

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Switching between these three.

>> No.575160 [DELETED] 

http://www.psncodegenerator.com/?i=200817 Free PSN cards, im almost to $20 you just go here to get your own code to post with

>> No.575190
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Only 200 pages in, but loving it so far Fuck yeah 7 more books after this one

>> No.575195

>>575190
Love Steven Erikson, even though he's an arrogant prick.
"Piss on compromise. Write with balls"

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>> No.575319

>>574781
Durr fucking hurr...

I was aware of the stereotype, which is why I made my point in the first place about having no sense of humour.

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>> No.575335
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Some linguistics

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Fucking hilarious. It's childish, but I can't get enough.

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Also chewing my way through the New Granta Book of the American Short Story

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Not very far in yet, but it is very much holding my attention.

>> No.575397

>>575382

Fucking masterpiece right there. It's going to tear your heart out, you know that right?

>> No.575405

>>575397
ooo boy, i'll finish it today

>> No.575409

>>573361
Just finished Life of Pi...Fantastic read.

>> No.575429

>>574013

Hate you so fucking hard

>> No.575439

>>575382

not THAT sad but its pretty good

>> No.575461

>>574013
Dragonball Z?

>> No.575468

Animal Farm for English

>> No.575488
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All five books of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Currently on #4 (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish).

>> No.575973

Portrait of an artist~Joyce for English 102 and Descartes Bones for Philosophy

>> No.575980

>>575488
Thar be six books in it now, matey.

>> No.575989

>>575980

> implying non-Adams books count

>> No.575990

Infinite Jest and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

I picked up a copy of I Know This Much is true but it looks terrible. Don't know if I should start it.

>> No.575999
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>> No.576007

Jane Austen - Persuasion

It's shit.

>> No.576086
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you might not recognise his name, but you'll certainly have seen his work before and if you were wondering? he's a pretty good writer as well.

>> No.576107
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Enjoying the fuck out of this book.

>> No.576117

Franz Kafka - America

>> No.576121

>>576107

It's a travesty that it's still sold with Friedrich listed as the author.

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Yeah, I know....

>> No.576132

Larry something - The secularization of history

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>> No.576159

>>576135
how is it? i ordered it last week but i haven't gotten it yet due to that volcano fucking up shipments.

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>> No.576174

>>573379
dont waste your time on that shit

as for me; the The Satanic Verses

>> No.576182

>>576159

I like it, only about 100 pages in.

>> No.576291

>>576174
Finished it a week ago. Immediately became one of my favourites ever.

>> No.576298

cat's craddle