/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5774153]

>currently reading
>current fells

[Anonymous No.5774200]

nothing
sad

[Anonymous No.5774204]

gravity's rainbow
I don't even know what the fuck I'm supposed to feel

[Anonymous No.5774208]

Birth of Tragedy
Euphoric

[Anonymous No.5774216]

Poor Fellow My Country
Like weeping for my country, in the traditional way: by smacking rocks against my head and screaming at the sky.

Dhalgren
Like I want to stop reading Dhalgren. Delany's pedophilia thing is making me seriously uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.5774223]

>Brothers Karamazov
>tfw God is now beside me

T-thanks Fyodor

[Anonymous No.5774227]

The Beach, Alex Garland.

It's not very well written but it's giving me backpacking nostalgia. Really need to get back out to SEA sometime next year.

[Anonymous No.5774238]

>>5774153
Started Sabbath's theater.

I reached the part where Sabbath is in the bathroom with Norman's daughter's photos and Norman walks in. Had to stop because it was worse than watching the office.

[Anonymous No.5774246]

>beginning to come to terms with my alcoholism moving from its adolescence to maturity
>back in one of those phases where I accept being alone and don't do anything to change my situation
>complacent with passivity and detachment.

[Anonymous No.5774248]

>>5774216
>Like I want to stop reading Dhalgren. Delany's pedophilia thing is making me seriously uncomfortable.

Oh come on, it's not that bad.

[Anonymous No.5774259]

>>5774248
It's not about anything. It's just an anthology of obscurantist sci-fi tropes mixed in with NAMBLA propaganda. I'm beyond half way so I'm going to finish it, but God, I wish I had finished it already.

[Anonymous No.5774268]

Canterbury Tales
Mirth

Just finished Miller's and Reeve's and Chaucer is a cheeky fucker. My garbage translation is missing the lawyers tale though so I'm a touch pissed

[Anonymous No.5774273]

Eckart Peterich - Götter und Helden der Griechen (gods and heroes of greek mythology)
I found it in my deceased great uncles book shelf. Its only 140 pages so I figured I might aswell read it before i begin reading up on greek plays / mythology as a nice little introduction. it makes me excited for more.

[Anonymous No.5774274]

>>5774246
>beginning to come to terms with my alcoholism
>complacent with passivity and detachment
Geoffrey please, did you even read the book?

[Anonymous No.5774379]

>>5774153
Reading metro 2033 into the light
Feeling post-apocalyptic

[Anonymous No.5774389]

>>5774268
>Chaucer
>Translation
Is middle English that different from current/victorian English?

I'd be fucking pissed if I had to read Spenser and Chaucer in translation.

Also :

>Reading
The Peloponnesian War

>Feeling
A little confuzed, for I have just been diagnosed with mild autism.

[Anonymous No.5774396]

>Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
>Indifferent

[Anonymous No.5774417]

>Blood Meridian
>currently I'm pooping at work, but in general I'm apathetic and depressed, the latter not some general depression but largely because I believe my anxiety is going to prevent me from having the life I want

[Anonymous No.5774424]

its a bit of a hit and a miss

[Anonymous No.5774440]

>gospel of Luke
>feels confused

[Anonymous No.5774441]

>>5774274
No, I just started it.

[Anonymous No.5774443]

>>5774153
Of Human Bondage
Nostalgic, comfortable

[Anonymous No.5774452]

>>5774153
The Crying of Lot 49
Tickles my funny bone, but agitated cuz sister is in the hospital :'(

[Anonymous No.5774476]

>>5774440
There really, really obviously isn't a God. Do you feel better now?

[Anonymous No.5774494]

>>5774476

[Anonymous No.5774498]

The Kiterunner
No feels, except the thrill of learning about a new culturw

[Anonymous No.5774516]

>>5774494
Cereal dad? I know this meme.

[Anonymous No.5774526]

The Book of Disquiet
Some feels, ironic feels, sad feels a bit depressing

[Anonymous No.5774634]

God fucking damn it Jake, just get with Brett. - Fiesta.

[Anonymous No.5774643]

Walden
I want to go live in the country.

[Anonymous No.5774656]

A Tale of Two Cities

Comfy

[Anonymous No.5774669]

>>5774634
He has no penis, moron.

[Anonymous No.5774674]

>>5774153
>Laxness: Under the Glacier
>feels: I need to wander around rural Iceland and find my true self and commune with the exobiology of the glacier personified in Úa.

[Anonymous No.5775032]

>>5774153
Phaedo by Plato, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Odyssey by Homer.
Meh

[Meow !!vV0qMsDxVPF No.5775045]

>Moby Dick
>tfw oversleep every day
>Tfw work in 30 minutes so shitposting instead of reading

[Anonymous No.5775065]

Nothing

Feels good man

[Anonymous No.5775081]

>>5774498

gr8 b8, m8

>>5774643

I stay in my family cabin sometimes and it's absolutely terrific experience. I want to do it too.

[Anonymous No.5775085]

>Currently reading: Articles in Foreign Affairs
>Current feels: Speculative, looking for flaws and strengths in various arguments

[Anonymous No.5775092]

>>5774498

>no thrills

You didn't find the scenes with the neo-nazi future taliban rapist thrilling?

[Anonymous No.5775143]

L'etranger (English Translation)
Heh, I'm supposed to be doing uni work but I've lost my motivation.

[Anonymous No.5775150]

>>5774498
God fucking dammit I hate that book, had to read it at A-level.

[Anonymous No.5775156]

>>5775150

It was a good window into politics, history, the lives of immigrants to the United States, etc. but fuck if the main antagonist wasn't an unrealistic cackling black hat

[Anonymous No.5775986]

>>5775156

Yeah, a Nazi Taliban pedophile rapist. The author could not be any more subtle.

[Anonymous No.5776026]

>>5775085
Did you read the article in the November/December issue about Heidegger? How do you feel about it? I was embarrassed for the author of that article by the end, it was very obvious he had no idea what he was talking about but took that German guys critique completely without questioning just to hop on a politically correct bandwagon. McFaul's opinions on the Ukraine also seem sort of naive.

[Anonymous No.5776115]

>>5774153
>Lolita
>pedophilia

[Anonymous No.5776182]

>American psycho
>hip but not too square

[Anonymous No.5776185]

4chan
Affectless

[Anonymous No.5776190]

>Wolf in White Van
>Uncontrollable sympathy

[Anonymous No.5776205]

>Inherent Vice
>Mild jubilance and a steadily growing hype for the upcoming film

[Anonymous No.5776222]

>>5776026

I found it amusing. I was mostly paying attention to the articles on WWI, the article on Xi Jinping, and the pieces on the lessons of the war in Iraq.

[Anonymous No.5776224]

I just started reading Notes from the Underground. Each sentence is a struggle to read.

[Anonymous No.5776260]

>>5774153

Don Quixote
Nearly done, it's been an incredible experience the entire way. The book's overall tone of melancholy is starting to get to me and I'm preparing myself for a very moving ending,.

[Anonymous No.5776277]

>>5774153
>2666
>trying to figure out how long i should wait before i blow whatever money i have left and use it to go out west, write a novel, and decide whether or not i should continue writing or just kill myself. also trying argue with myself that there are such things as decent suicides, or suicides that are not driven by depression.

[Anonymous No.5776302]

>>5774153
Halfway through The Doors of Perception, just finished The Divine Comedy.
Trying to decide if I should read Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, or get started on some Plato.

[Anonymous No.5776347]

Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt

Absolutely fantastic, recommend it to everyone. Polemic lamenting the loss of political dialogue and how we must reclaim it.

[Anonymous No.5776359]

Just finished Blood Meridian, gonna read a Pynchon next, got Against the Day here but thinking abut picking up Mason and Dixon tomorrow to read instead. Which should I go with?

>okay, kind of lonely, fucking up talking to someone yesterday made me feel way worse than it should

[Anonymous No.5776362]

A lot of you guys sound depressed/lonely as fuck. What's going on mates?

[Anonymous No.5776381]

>>5774153
>bleeding edge
>questioning whether or not working a shitty temp job to support my failed music career and trying to sleep with as many people as possible is a good idea

[Anonymous No.5776508]

>>5776381
right there with you

[Anonymous No.5776516]

>>5776362
existence.

[Anonymous No.5776545]

>The Foundation Pit
>tfw no qt blond loli w/ gr8 class consciousness

[Anonymous No.5776574]

>>5775156
>>5775986
This.
MC was fucking retard, and also a bit of a cunt. His father was the interesting character in it, and should have been the MC

[Anonymous No.5776581]

>Swann's Way
>gay

[Anonymous No.5776586]

Landmark Herodotus

Trying to cope with being a worthless fuck who's poop is more useful to the world than I am.

[Anonymous No.5776668]

>>5776574

>I'm going to stand back and watch my bff get rape!

At least he was guilty about it...

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.5776788]

the epic of gilgamesh, never read it before, only a brief retelling

cedars, cedars everywhere

also pretty funny how scientists translate things, mark twain was right

[How did you come here,] such a far road?
[How did you get here,] to be in my presence?
[ How did you cross the seas,] whose passage is perilous?
...... let me learn of your [journey!]

i read it parallel in two languages and those translations fill these lacunas differently, another version thinks the scorpion-men asked him why he came there and he crossed rivers, not seas, the water obstacle is possibly derived from the verb, i dunno

oh, and it's pretty sexist too, it has 3 female characters at the point where i'm right now (apart from some maids and brides whom gilgamesh raped in recreational purposes), only one of them is a positive character, the mother of gilgamesh (except they called her a cow anyway), another two it's a temple whore ("Spread your clothing so he may lie on you, / do for the man the work of a woman!") and ishtar who is a real bitch and a slut (in these translations it's described too prudently (i also checked third for one unclear moment, one guy was turned into either dwarf or spider or mole or scarecrow for refusing to do some indecent things together with ishtar and those things are described differently too) but still clear, she punished all who declined her like gilgamesh and all who didn't too), it's kind of fun how she threatens her father to give her a magic bull to send it to gilgamesh

>If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
>I shall smash [the gates of the Netherworld, right down] to its
dwelling,
>to the world below I shall grant [manumission,]
>I shall bring up the dead to consume the living,
>I shall make the dead outnumber the living.

^ the earliest zombie apocalypsis btw

and how she then 'hopped and stamped' on the wall (the earliest tsundere, lol)

>Ishtar went up on the wall of Uruk-the-Sheepfold,
>hopping and stamping, she wailed in woe:
>'Alas! Gilgamesh, who mocked me, has killed the Bull of Heaven.'

[Anonymous No.5776806]

>>5774153
Proust
>tfw don't love but need gf

[Anonymous No.5776814]

>>5774389
I want to read the pelopennesian war, apparently its real heavy on the strategic discussion - is this true?

[Anonymous No.5776820]

>>5774153
Locked In
Hope

[Anonymous No.5776826]

>tfw you will never hunt whales on the high seas

[Anonymous No.5776828]

>>5774153
Finished Things Fall Apart, last page hit me like a ton of bricks.

[Anonymous No.5776841]

>>5776788
Yeah it is pretty sexist but Enkidu and Gilgamesh were such great bros.

[Anonymous No.5776886]

>The Road
>My life is boring and methodical, current friends suck, need to adventure and meet new people
you know, the usual

[Anonymous No.5776889]

>>5776359
finishing up Blood Meridian now, just bought Gravity's Rainbow..get out of my head, anon
>feeling tired and actually fucking good. Blood Meridian is usually depressing, or so I've seen. But it's doing good things.

[Anonymous No.5776893]

>Brothers Karamazov
>tfw migraine
>but also tfw gf

[Anonymous No.5776924]

Stoner
reconsidering my desire to enter academia; realizing that other people have experience love in the same way that I have

[Anonymous No.5776933]

>>5776581
nothings even gay in Swan's way, that shit doesn't start till book 4 (the aptly named sodom and Gomorrah)

[Anonymous No.5777012]

Reading for whom the bell tolls

Waiting for more brutality. I don't even know how the spanish civil war ended. Hoping this book tells me.

[Anonymous No.5777029]

>>5774153
Tfw reading Saunders in your room as it rains after coming back to a single parent home for thanksgiving from uni to a mom who is too depressed to leave her room and say hello and a little sister with rheumatoid arthritis so bad that you just spent that last three hours talking to her because you found her sobbing on the bottom step of the stairs leading to her room because she can't climb them anymore.

Those feels are fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.5777083]

>scar tissue
>empty

[Anonymous No.5777663]

>>5776814
Yes indeed: the two highlights are the military strategies and the speeches.

However, go for the Landmark edition.

[Anonymous No.5777743]

>>5774153
Franney and Zooey
shit i'm trippin hardballz man, I feel so scared of nothing, and when I move my body or interact with an object of some kind i know there is a sensation, but I can't feel inherent qualities of the forms HOT DAMN HOLY SHIT I CANT NGGLY type with one eye open at a type like James Buchanan Pres 15 first faggot in office.

[Anonymous No.5777845]

The Castle

Tired (it's 2:01 AM here)

[Anonymous No.5778566]

>>5774153
>Apollodorus' Library and Paradise lost
feeling pretty darn good now that i got my adhd meds at a right dose and can finally read very diligently

[Anonymous No.5779058]

>Steppenwolf
I really enjoy it, Hesse's prose is really good.
I like how it seems fake deep at the beginning and then become a bit more technical

[Anonymous No.5779071]

>>5774153
>Against His-story! Against Leviathan
>FUCK THE SUMERIANS HOLY SHIIIIIIT

[Anonymous No.5779075]

>The Iliad
>Paris, seriously, the fuck ae you doing?

[Anonymous No.5779081]

>collection of h.p. stories
>no epic dark fantasy world with evil awesome creaturs (but really there is, it's earth!!! [[(^:]] )
>no cute archaeologist gt to discover the hidden evil ancient gods with


/:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0 /:0

[Anonymous No.5779085]

>their eyes were watching god
>twf when I'm not a pretty black lady married to teacup

): ): ): ): ): ): ): ):

[Anonymous No.5779125]

>>5774379
I watched my cousin play it. Does the book feature knifing several large rats at once?

[Anonymous No.5779138]

>>5776581
Swann's way
What a funny way to translate the french title. It's more "On Swann's side". I finished it not too long ago and i felt
>comfy
childhood memories.

[Anonymous No.5779146]

>>5777029
That's a very specific kind of feel.

[Anonymous No.5779187]

GILES Goat-Boy or The Revised New Syllabus
We're all Flunke'd. Maximalism is intense

[Anonymous No.5779321]

>Crime and Punishment
>the saddest Ive been in a long time
The feel isnt related to the book btw. That one is great.

[Anonymous No.5779473]

>>5777012
Turns out the butler did it.

[Anonymous No.5779476]

>>5779321
why

[Anonymous No.5779485]

Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson

Absolute and total disgust at what the United States has become, and longing for the day of reckoning when our governing apparatuses implode in on themselves.

[Anonymous No.5779491]

No Longer Human by this Japanese guy with a weird name.
I feel.

[Anonymous No.5779498]

>>5774153

Essay on Man
Feel really dumb and illiterate

[Anonymous No.5779509]

>>5776362
It's 4chan, and /lit/ of all places, what did you expect? Only /r9k/ is sadder than us

[Anonymous No.5779518]

>>5776362
What? Me? No, I'm fine. Just going out for a pint with the lads.

[Anonymous No.5779519]

>>5776788
>2000 BCE
>sexist

No surprises there

[Anonymous No.5779560]

>>5779509

/r9k/ is sad because they recognize how women can be abusive and are allowed to get away with it because of the intrinsic misandry everywhere

they want hetero relationships with omen because of biological urges but recognize that if they pursue those relationships they will become physical and emotional punching bags just like every het male who enters a relationship with a woman

[Anonymous No.5779567]

>>5774389
>is Middle English that different?

Yes. Yes it is, Anon. It is very clear that it becomes Modern English, but you can see the German seeping from it. Though, reading Chaucer in the original isn't too hard if you have an edition that footnotes the long-dead words/phrases.

[Anonymous No.5779579]

>>5779560
Yes and also the fact that even if they wanted to become punching bags, women would still not want them.

[Anonymous No.5779586]

>>5779560
Glad to see fellow /lit/erati who have abandoned the pursuit of pussy and have wholeheartedly welcomed dick into their life and asses.

[Piracy !!1zjmpE5cmno No.5779601]

>Sommelier prep course because reading about wine is fun
>Strained

>>5776362
My dad is terminally ill and I spend basically every waking moment taking care of him but know the inevitable will happen soon.

[Anonymous No.5779612]

>>5779476
Several things: that creeping depression, I dont feel like getting stuff done at the moment, more like I am just wasting day after day, the pressure of preparing for university, that literature cutie I went on date with wants to be "just friends" with me.
Its just a bunch of stuff coming at me at once, I hope the holiday season will turn my mood for the better.
When I have a bunch of free time I can reorganise my current situation and it may help.

[Paradise !!vh7XQhHe/pR No.5779618]

>>5779612
Take it easy, dude.

[Anonymous No.5779651]

>death in venice
>aesthete boy-luv feels ;^)

forreal though, I really like roving characters he meets, like the old fop guy, the gondola dude, and the guitar player. very dream-like

[Anonymous No.5779724]

>>5774153
>currently reading
Crime and Punishment
>current fells
I feel like I want to be indifferent to society because I can't ultimately change it but I can't do it guys so in a word, bitter.

[Anonymous No.5779760]

>>5779651
the old fop guy is ashenbok's vision of himself in the future as he tries to appear youthful to attract the young kids

[Anonymous No.5779767]

>>5779618
Thanks man, I'll try.

[Anonymous No.5779777]

>>5779767
we're here for u anon

[Anonymous No.5779801]

>>5779760
*grins coquettishly with rotting teeth and black gums*

[Anonymous No.5779965]

> Just finished Paper Towns by John Green
> Holy shit. I know every single one of you hates John Green with your fiery dicks but I loved it so much. The final metaphor hit me so hard and I can't stop thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.5779996]

>>5779965
consider sudoku

[Anonymous No.5780000]

>>5774153
The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink
Depressed, tired, confused and not just because signifier chains confuse me
life is pretty crap

[Anonymous No.5780057]

>>5774153
Dune. Rereading it. It's better than I remember. Gives so much than it did 15 years ago.

[Anonymous No.5780072]

eu4ic

[Anonymous No.5780090]

Against The Day
Bored

[Anonymous No.5780105]

Reading:
>The histories by Herodotus
>The Iliad

Feels:
>dead inside

[Anonymous No.5780113]

>Reading
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Feeling
like complete shit; my gf is breaking up with me even though we still love each other. Fuck everything & fuck you, Mr. Aurelius

[Anonymous No.5780125]

>>5780113
Do not stop reading, Marcus knows the feels even if he does not want to show it. I know that feel too, I suspect my gf is not being honest to me in some things, this adds up to the fact that I have a shitload to read for a test next friday

[Anonymous No.5780154]

>>5780125
Thanks, brah
I hope everything goes well for you

[Anonymous No.5780176]

>Reading
The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry and the collected works of WB Yeats

>Current fells
I feel alright. I have a sore throat, which sucks. I just broke up with a qt redhead so I can bang a half Japanese girl but now the Asian girl doesn't want to fuck so there's that. Also struggling with the idea that I will never be remembered as a great poet.

[Anonymous No.5782318]

>>5776224
Second part is much better

[Anonymous No.5782327]

>Currently Reading
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

>Current Feels
Frustrated in my romantic exploits. My fear of rejection overpowers my will to action. I've been on one date in the past year because I'm terrified of being turned down.

[Anonymous No.5782343]

I feel great
I feel the deep breathes of rain and snow.
My bike died on the road to home,
Leaving only a letter to my mom
I feel great and I have got "lots of friends."

[Anonymous No.5782344]

>>5779601
>IKTF bro, aint no light at the end of this tunnel

[Anonymous No.5782359]

>The Feels
>>5782327
I heard someone describing a portuguese writer, Fernando Pessoa, as a guy who had loved, but never had a fulfilled love life. Pardon the poor English, but that definition scared me a bit. I certainly don't want to be that person.

>Reading
Dubliners

[Anonymous No.5782360]

>>5776362
Either users are pretending to be sad in order to appear romantic or deep, either they're stupid. Sadness is the mark of every heavy mind, only bright minds can access true Bliss.

So long Cioran lovers.

[Anonymous No.5782361]

>Currently Reading
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

>Current feels
Euphoric in my enlightnment, not by my worship of a false god. But my intelligence.

[Anonymous No.5782362]

>>5774153
>currently reading: american gods
>current fells: I'm in the half of the book and hating it. Its like Twilight for boys, but i can't stop reading because my OCD don't let me.

[Anonymous No.5782367]

>>5782360
Well what's certainly not helping /lit/ is the repetition.
It seems like the people in this group repeats again and again the same jokes, refers to the same books and ideas.

Closed universe are nefast for salubrity.

Open the windows, think about different things, try to have another point of view.

"To martyr yourself out of caution certainly won't help it out at all." says a popular song.

[Anonymous No.5782376]

>>5776362
i'm living a life that isn't mine.
I'm studying things i don't like or care about, rounded by mediocre hedonistic people, far away from my family, far away from my friends, far away from my city. (i'm not north american, btw)

[Anonymous No.5782382]

>>5782376
I have a friend potentially feeling like this right now, he might be, might not, I don't really know. Haven't spoke to him about it but my god you just made me sad.

[Anonymous No.5782388]

>Kierkegaard anthology
>first real philosophy (not modern pop philosophy)
>can't understand a fucking thing
>forever a pleb

[Anonymous No.5782404]

>currently reading
Infinite Jest
>current feels
I'm 200 pages in, please will the plot just start properly

[Anonymous No.5782409]

>>5774204
Max

[Anonymous No.5782412]

>>5776362
22. everything sucks. people are supposed to have the times of their lives at 22. Im a 1st generation slavshit in Germany. Working a dead end job as a burgercook in some semi-restaurant, while studying agriculture. i still live at home, as i want to stack enough money to be 100 percent prepared for grown up life. i have defined goals and expectations, but still my current life is not enjoyable and i still have like 2 years to go like this, i dont know if i can take it any more. since im always studying, working, or too tired to do anything, i have NO FRIENDS. my 9/10 gf dumped me after i stopped selling/smoking weed and got my life together, now im left alone with my hypersexuality, endless depression, coffeaddiction, wowaddiction... just kill me alredy

[Anonymous No.5782414]

>>5776826
i had the exact same feel a week ago. hmm

[Anonymous No.5782420]

>>5782404
>muh plot

[Anonymous No.5782431]

>>5782412
>people are supposed to have the times of their lives at 22
This is what mediocre people say. Don't believe them.

[Anonymous No.5782432]

>>5782420
ehh, I really wouldn't mind if there was no substantial plot and the entire thing was just about kids at a tennis academy doing their thing, but after 200 pages I really expected more than a few pages about a medical attaché and a few conversations between a tranny, a French-Canadian and a dude in a wheelchair

[Anonymous No.5782456]

Stranger in a strange land
Excited for schoolies

[Anonymous No.5782564]

A book about the search and proclamation of the actual (XIV) Dalai Lama (can't translate the actual title, sorry)

A bit sad but eager to return home for christmas with my family, but not because of the book. The book makes me wish I could live a peaceful life of contemplation in the Tibet

[Anonymous No.5782565]

>>5782412
If you are having the time of your life at 22 your life will probably suck by 30

[Anonymous No.5782569]

>>5782565

I had the time of my life at 21, what does that say about me?

[Anonymous No.5782578]

>>5782569
I said probably

[Anonymous No.5782626]

>>5774153
>The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton
>Completely satisfied with my life and mission on Earth.

[Anonymous No.5782643]

>Just finished Moby-Dick
>Now I want to kill and part a whale

Also, the ending gave me flashbacks to One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Anonymous No.5782745]

A Deepness in the Sky
Started reading it after I finished Blindsight, and I loved that one.
This one isn't catching my interest at all, though.

[Anonymous No.5783659]

>>5774153
I am in between books right now.
Reading: Pnin, Snow Country and other stuff as well. Can't find anything to really dive into.

Feeling: Kind of down lately but have an odd sense of optimism.

[Anonymous No.5783714]

Dracula
Meh plot contains plenty of grieving, but Van Helsing keeps it real

[Anonymous No.5783720]

>E. Cioran
>tfw you were born

[Anonymous No.5784765]

>>5774268
>translation
Invest in The Riverside. It contains a huge range of his work in middle english and has plenty of helpful notes, explanations and essays.

[Anonymous No.5784768]

July's People by Nadine Gordimer
White guilt and then shittiness for feeling white guilt

[Anonymous No.5784935]

Plato's Apology
Weak

[69 No.5784984]

>>5776826
:^(
I looked into hunting narwhals after reading Moby Dick,but I didn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIoJUZTJgOo

[Anonymous No.5784988]

>>5782388
I share these feels

[Anonymous No.5785134]

>currently reading
The Bell Jar
>feels
Like I've reached the top and yet still feel no satisfaction. I could not have found this book at a better time. I think Sylvia Plath is my spirit animal.

[Anonymous No.5785140]

>Tales from the Arabian Nights
>pic related

[Anonymous No.5785157]

>Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Book Seven
>sad for dem poor Mycallessan chillens

[Anonymous No.5786373]

>Metro 2034
also, i started to stop giving a shit about my social life anymore. im studying physics, have a part time job and im reading/playing vidya in my free time, mostly at night, so i dont even know what to feel.

[Anonymous No.5786376]

>>5785140
That's why muslims have been trying to ban it time and time again.

[Anonymous No.5786383]

>>5774153
The ending of The Red and the Black ducked me up just a little bit.

[Anonymous No.5786385]

>>5786383
*fucked

[Anonymous No.5786406]

>Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Why do I feel like I'm reading the Japanese version of Joyce's Dubliners?

[Anonymous No.5786425]

>>5774153
Miss Julie- August Strindberg
His plays always make me feel uncomfortable for some reason.

[Anonymous No.5788720]

Tuesdays with Morrie
Empathetic

[Anonymous No.5790481]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Sort of depressed

[Anonymous No.5790490]

>>5774153
>currently reading
The Idiot, Symposium by Plato, some of Edger Allan Poe's work and I'm thinking of starting Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
>current fells
Satisfied.

[Anonymous No.5790495]

Homage to Catalonia
She uttered the words, "My boyfriend.....".
>mfw

[Anonymous No.5790497]

My mom keeps pestering me to get a job. How do you guys do it?

[Anonymous No.5790503]

The Magic Mountain
I feel like I just took too many sleeping pills and if I close my eyes I'll die
Also, I have a boner

[Anonymous No.5790510]

>>5790497
I recently got a job at retail.

Let's just say I no longer believe all people are innately good. I used to have an office job and while, perhaps, less variety and less socializing with coworkers (best part of my current job), the work itself won't make you hate humanity. Maybe society and capitalism, but not humanity.

[Anonymous No.5791066]

>Inherent Vice
>tfw I don't know where to score

[Anonymous No.5791395]

>>5774153
>I am a Cat
>tired

[Anonymous No.5791399]

Sons and Lovers
spacey

[Anonymous No.5791665]

I bought these today. I am incredibly hungover.

[Anonymous No.5791671]

>>5791066
Score what? I sell drugs anon just give me your email and send me your address and there will be a kilo of some devil dandruff or a gram of dank shit or some tabs or caps or anything you desire in your mailbox within three days.

[Anonymous No.5791681]

>>5774153
The god delusion
Euphoric

[Anonymous No.5791686]

>>5791671
>tfw FBI has infiltrated chinese cartoon forums
truly the blurst of times

[Anonymous No.5791710]

Journey to the end of the night
Anxious, stressed, and just shit in general. Can't really get "into" this book either.

[Anonymous No.5791718]

>>5791686
Nah man, I'm serious, email me at [e-mail]. I can hook you up brother

[Anonymous No.5791739]

>>5774153
>The Bible (Old Testment)
>Fearing god

[Anonymous No.5791778]

The Fault in Our Stars
Contempt

I just don't understand the praise. The writing is juvenile and lacks any sense of subtlety, he literally tells you what all the symbolism means. There's also a bunch of blatant allusions that's not at all couched within the writing, so it sticks out like a sore thumb:
>"by exploiting his cancertastic past, slowly working his way toward a master's degree that will not improve his career prospects, waiting, as we all do, for the sword of Damocles to give him the relief that he escaped lo those many years ago when cancer took both of his nuts but spared what only the most generous soul would call his life."
Sometimes he nails the teen dialouge and mannerisms perfectly, and I can respect that, but then at times it's like he's writing for two different characters entirely.


Heart of Darkness (re-read)
Appreciation I guess?

In a way Conrads style of writing reminds me of Wilde, there's a lot of thought-provoking quotes about the nature of man. Also I really enjoy how he created the persona of Kurtz, at first he's championed as this amazing representation of mans achievement, but then in reality he's hallow and through his achievements, spurred by nothing more than his own earnest ability to achieve, the intentions of other characters are reflected vicariously through their interpretations of his character. The characterization is phenomenal.
The ending still fills me with a sense of emptiness, almost dissatisfaction, but I wager that's what Conrad was going for.
I wish there could be discussion about this book without resorting to, "hurrr highschool entry level garbage".

[Anonymous No.5792909]

>>5774238
Ha ha...christ, Mickey Sabbath, his lack of shame fills me with glee and spirit!

[Anonymous No.5792921]

Some genre fiction by conn Iggulden, the first part of his trilogy on the of the roses.


I picked it up because I liked his Juilliard Caesar novels way back when, but this book REALY feels rushed as shit, with years going by in between paragraphs, let alone chapters. I think it's been 'edited' or the like down , it certainly feels like large chunks were taken out and little else replace them.