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Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:33:27 2015 No.6786951 [Reply] [Original]

>age
>current book you're reading
>how do you like it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:35:42 2015 No.6786954 25 Tipping the Velvet Not that far in but it's pretty good, might read Fingersmith after.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:37:22 2015 No.6786961 >>6786951 >20 >2666 >would love some sort of narrative closure, know that im not going to get any

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:39:19 2015 No.6786964 >>6786951 24 Gravity's Rainbow It's fantastic in parts, I don't understand parts, overall not as good as V but just as entertaining. I like it a lot, can't wait to finish it and read it like two or three more times.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:41:19 2015 No.6786975 18 Memoirs of Hadrian it's really interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:44:29 2015 No.6786979 >21 >Don Quixote >It's really long, and I am forcing myself to read it just to say that I have, but, otherwise, I do enjoy most of it bar the long monologues and have laughed quite a lot at some parts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:53:22 2015 No.6787006 23 Journey to the End of the Night >everything's shit unless I'm having sex

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 11:56:01 2015 No.6787018 22 The Road s'alright

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:03:40 2015 No.6787043 >27 >Knut Hamsun - Pan >It's amazing. More poetic than other stuff I've read of his, but still funny and engaging.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:04:41 2015 No.6787046 22 Nausea It's alright

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:06:27 2015 No.6787051 >>6786951 18 The World as Will and Representatiom Loving the writing style, the book is paradoxically heartwarming

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:11:00 2015 No.6787061 21 Slaughter House-Five It's pretty neat

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:12:05 2015 No.6787064 27 Consider Phlebas I'm ~60pg in and 5 shitty pages from dropping it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:12:50 2015 No.6787066 >17 >Ulysses >Not going to lie it's rather challenging. Perhaps I'm a bit out of my depth, but I am enjoying it. I'll see it through to the end, and revisit it when I have more understanding of the Greeks, Irish history, etc..

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:12:58 2015 No.6787067 File: 127 KB, 576x635, 1405196909057.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6787051 >m'fellow sufferer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:13:19 2015 No.6787069 22 Norwegian wood bretty good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:13:47 2015 No.6787070 19 Bangkok haunts Finished reading heavy books for a bit and tried some shorter, mysterious types. Really like this book for the setting and characters

>>	The cats Mon Jul 6 12:14:07 2015 No.6787072 >>6787066 You'll regret being a loser when you're older m8. Even if you're like fat this is your time to change that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:14:56 2015 No.6787073 >>6786951 18 Nausea (25 pages in) I'll be completely honest - I'm a bit bored

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:15:14 2015 No.6787075 25 Killing hope Pretty good, not so much in things I didn't know about but he goes in great detail of every Cia plot to overthrow governments

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:15:38 2015 No.6787077 18 The Illiad I'm 300 pages in and starting to get bored of all this fighting, not sure if I want to finish but it'd be a shame to stop at this point

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:19:39 2015 No.6787085
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>>6786951
>23
>Svante Nordin's History of Philosophy
>He clearly attempts to project the image of an intellectual here but in whole it's definitely an enjoyable read
>It's in Swedish

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:23:48 2015 No.6787094 >23 >Éltem, Másutt, Túl by András Pályi >struggling with the first short story Éltem, it is good, but also killing me, because the fuck cares about an old woman

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:30:22 2015 No.6787106 27 Death at the President's Lodging The Britishisms are a little incomprehensible at times but the puzzle is interesting so far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:30:49 2015 No.6787107 >>6787072 Pls no b8erino

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:31:36 2015 No.6787110 19 De Uitvreter/Titaantjes/Dichtertje/Mene Tekel (I think the English translation has the title "Amsterdam Stories") from Nescio. Possibly the best thing I've read.

The cats Mon Jul 6 12:36:00 2015 No.6787121

>>6787107
If you are 17 and reading Ulysses you are almost certainly "that guy" and a massive annoying pseud. I'm sorry you think that frank advice is "trolling" but unless you are some sort of crazy anomaly in six years you're either going to be on wizardchan or realizing you should get in shape or whatever it is before its too late

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:38:49 2015 No.6787129 >>6786954 >tips velvet >"M'Waters"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:43:40 2015 No.6787145 >>6787085 Fruktansvärd bok. Stirner och Lacan nämns bara i förbigående, och Beauvoir är reducerad till en parentes till Sartre. Dessutom slarvar han med den tidiga kristendomen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:44:01 2015 No.6787148 >>6786964 >26 >Same as this anon >just finished Lolita between part 2 and 3 of GR. That was fantastic

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:45:31 2015 No.6787154

18
Tender is the Night
Started off pretty good, but the jump to Paris was a bit jarring and the whole novel feels a bit shallow compared to This Side of Paradise or The Great Gatsby. Something inauthentic and Agatha Christieish about the style. The characters also seem too capricious for real humans.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:46:11 2015 No.6787156 24 The Martian So far it's pretty engaging.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:49:45 2015 No.6787168 >age 19 >current book you're reading Catch-22 >how do you like it The funniest book I've read so far, I'm enjoying it.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 12:54:57 2015 No.6787192

>>6786951
>28-ish
>War With the Newts
>So fucking awesome I don't even want to recommend it to you fucks because you might not appreciate it. Seriously funny, not the deepest in the world but holy fuck the scope and perfect skewering of 1930s society in almost every part of the world is awesome.

>>	Mercadian Quark !QuarkQByko Mon Jul 6 12:58:10 2015 No.6787205 18 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Invitation to a Beheading Murakami is repetitive and a little predictable, I'm almost done with it. I enjoy Nobokov's writing style, I am halfway through it and its interesting so far

>>	The cats Mon Jul 6 13:02:27 2015 No.6787221 >>6787205 >tfw tempted to sell wind upbird without reading it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:03:36 2015 No.6787225 27 Jurassic Park I'm literally 10 pages in I just finished Alice in Wonderland. It was a nice charming little book, but Alice is a horrible little child.

>>	Mercadian Quark !QuarkQByko Mon Jul 6 13:03:43 2015 No.6787226 >>6787221 Read Kafka on the Shore, I should be done with Wind up today, i'll tell you if its worth it or not

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:04:00 2015 No.6787227 24 Underworld It's good so far but I haven't dedicated very much time to reading lately. I'm taking a break from the Wire to watch Wolf Hall (which is amazing) so it's hard to squeeze in reading time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:04:18 2015 No.6787228 25 Don Quixote Not bad

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:08:26 2015 No.6787241

>>6787121
You are jumping to conclusions based on quite a few unfounded assumptions.

I tend to keep to myself about my literary endeavors, and refuse to discuss such matters unless I am expressly asked. Now, do I consider myself intelligent? Hardly. I consider myself passable at best. I've merely begun to delve into the literary realm, and the deeper I venture the less I think of my intelligence.

I appreciate your sentiment, but I seek only understanding and no "tale of virgin woe" will dissuade me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:08:36 2015 No.6787242 24 Shirley 130 pages in and there is no character called Shirley. Top quality though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:11:59 2015 No.6787247 19 No country for old men Really enjoying it so far, very tense and the dialogue is excellent, even if I don't enjoy the lack of quotations and tags as much as I did in the road.

The cats Mon Jul 6 13:13:55 2015 No.6787253

>>6787241
Okay well crushing lonliness is a thing that happens to adults so just make sure you don't eschew friendships and experiences so you can tell the internet about the meme trilogy. The book has made it 100 years so I mean it's not going anywhere. Good luck young bro.

>>	doc brown. !khyINr9Fj6 Mon Jul 6 13:23:04 2015 No.6787283 >>6786951 >>age 27 >>current book you're reading Siddhartha >>how do you like it descriptions of the Self and finding the Self are pretty interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:25:29 2015 No.6787295 26. Pale Fire (book) and Crime and Punishment (audio book; it's a translation, so why not?). They're both great, but I think I like Nabokov's better because his novel is more innovative than Dosty's book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:29:00 2015 No.6787315 23 The Sun King by Nancy Mitford I dislike it and can't wait for it to be over. 300 pages of gossip surrounding the late 1600's bourgeoisie at Versailles. I'm too autistic to drop a book once I start it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:31:02 2015 No.6787320 >>6786951 17 Persan letters of Montesquieu (in French) It's funny and a lot of thing in it are true. It is very disturbing when he talks about eunuch and their life.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:33:31 2015 No.6787330

>>6787253
I do my best to keep myself not too distanced from others. I've experienced crushing loneliness, or at least from my limited reference level I have. I will never return to the depth of existence form whence I came, but I appreciate your concern for my well-being.

Here's to many more years of cognitive well-being and profound meme discussion /lit/ brother.

>>	The cats Mon Jul 6 13:36:29 2015 No.6787338 File: 284 KB, 1601x850, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6787330 Hal, srsly, pls :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:38:59 2015 No.6787346 21 The Ground Beneath Her Feet I am 4 chapters in and loving it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:51:06 2015 No.6787376 20 The Secret Agent I'm enjoying it. I've decided to read Conrad's other books as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:53:46 2015 No.6787383 >>6787154 I like the cut of your jib. I feel the same.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:54:57 2015 No.6787388 >>6787330 Sorry, but you are that guy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:57:29 2015 No.6787394 >>6787388 That's alright.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 13:58:22 2015 No.6787400 >>6787388 I was just about to write that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:06:29 2015 No.6787434 >>6787394 I'm am yet another poster who is telling you it's not alright.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:12:10 2015 No.6787459 19 I'm juggling Watchmen and The Light Fantastic (Discworld 2). Both are seriously quality, both in surface entertainment and meaningfulness

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:12:38 2015 No.6787462 >23 >The Book by Alan Watts >Sort of dissolves into pothead metaphysical ramblings after chapter 3

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:14:15 2015 No.6787467 >>6787192 In translation? and if so which? I was thinking about reading it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:17:21 2015 No.6787479 >>6787434 >>6787394 I am also telling you it is not alright

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:18:57 2015 No.6787485 >>6787462 you should get of /lit/ if you can't read, he writes in the most lucid style imaginable pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:19:22 2015 No.6787486 48 Lolota Wish it had more huffin n puffin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:20:54 2015 No.6787492 >>6786961 That's tied with Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang as my all time favorite novel. You won't find much in the way of conclusion to most of the threads, but with this book it's absolutely about the journey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:21:34 2015 No.6787496 >>6787492 Is Abby's fiction comparable to his non-fiction in quality?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:22:15 2015 No.6787500 >>6787486 >huffin n puffin this,tbh

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:24:57 2015 No.6787510

>>6787156
I liked it, but it really just didn't work for me. The problem-solution-problem-solution narrative was too fast paced for any tension to build, excepting only one problem which I'll not spoil. Again I thought it was good, but I think all the hype is just a part of this fetishistic obsession most teenagers have with "science" right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:25:05 2015 No.6787512 >>6786951 >22 and three quarters >Charles Baxter's Shadow Play >It's pretty good; I literally just started it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:27:12 2015 No.6787524 23 Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy It is interesting but dated

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:31:54 2015 No.6787540 >>6787241 Lmao is this bait? You sound like a cunt put down the thesaurus mate

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:35:39 2015 No.6787558

>>6787496
Monkey Wrench is. It's got all the humor of Desert Solitaire and then some, and it's a biting criticism of not just our destruction of the southwest, but also of the pop liberalism that argued against it. Brave Cowboy is a pretty decent anarchist novel, but the movie, Lonely are the Brave, is far superior. Fire on the Mountain is also a good little novella, especially because it deals with a story similar to that of Ted Bundy or whatever the fuck his name is. The fortunate differences are that the character in the book is not a racist, filthy rich pig who just wants to get out of paying taxes. He is instead a sympathetic figure of rebellion against excessive governments.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 14:52:21 2015 No.6787615

>18
>Crime & Punishment

I'm rereading it and I like it way more the second time.
Seeing a lot of Nietzsche's Ubermensch ideas here.
Too bad Dosto is a christfag and tries way to hard to push his religious crap. I got the same bad taste in my mouth as when I read Anna Karenina and when Levin basically commited philosophical suicide for muh religion at the end.
Although, I really like the psychological analysis. The sickness that happens after murder suggests that our moral values are biologically ingrained, and that the body attacks "bad" ideas that go against our pre-programmed values.
Would beating this sickness give one more power and the ability to create one's own values?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:01:23 2015 No.6787640 >>6787615 >The sickness that happens after murder suggests that our moral values are biologically ingrained, and that the body attacks "bad" ideas that go against our pre-programmed values. Are you special?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:06:40 2015 No.6787657 27 At the Mountains of Madness/B is for Burglar Mountains is as good as the first time I read it. Burglar is so far better than A is for Alibi. I'm more worried about the missing lady's cat than I am about the lady.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:08:58 2015 No.6787667

>>6787640
I worded it badly. I mean, not biologically ingrained in the sense that we are born with those values, but that through the process of socialization get programmed and ingrained to the point where changing those values become painful like removing nails from the head.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:09:54 2015 No.6787676 >>6787667 >im only 18 >muh intelligence you're just like one of those cunts who posts how young they are in the comment section of classic rock songs on youtube

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:10:52 2015 No.6787682 >>6787676 The only reason I posted my age is because of the OP. Are you retarded?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:15:21 2015 No.6787705 >>6786951 >24 >The Sorrows of Young Werther Love it! I was recommended Goethe and he's a fucking genius.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:17:46 2015 No.6787718 >>6787682 stop trying to impress people on an anonymous message board and grow the fuck up you're already 18 years old buddy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:19:37 2015 No.6787727 >>6787667 Are you saying that we aren't born with a moral sense of right and wrong? because we are, in a very basic way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:26:41 2015 No.6787758 >>6786951 18 The Fellowship of the Ring I've read the series before but I was really young and now I'm reading it again and it's fantastic, so much better than what I remembered.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:29:19 2015 No.6787772 21 The Plague by Albert Camus Pretty good. The translation is kind of clunky, but it's still good. It made me tear up last night.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:30:09 2015 No.6787776 >>6787705 How do you think Goethe is pronounced? pls do not google

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:30:25 2015 No.6787777 [DELETED]

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>>6786951
24

Slaughterhouse Five

It's awful. From the synopsis, I thought I was going to get an absurdist comedy, but instead I found the most pretentious and boring thing ever, with the most yawn-worthy prose. The only thing that's enjoyable is the prologue by the author, about how he was convinced by a disgruntled nurse to make a disgustingly somber, realistic story of World War II, as opposed to a highly romanticized, Errol Flynn/Ronald Reagan-esque adventure that would inspire young boys to take up arms and die horribly, if they're lucky.

I'm halfway through the audiobook, but it's just so dull. I'm heavily considering quitting, but it's on my Literary Pilgrimage list as one of the great classics, and I've already given up on too much in my life. I managed to complete Oliver Twist (which was okay, but Dickens isn't my author, methinks) and I want to go through more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:31:29 2015 No.6787779 >>6787776 It's Jöötte.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:32:59 2015 No.6787789 >23 >The Catcher in the Rye >I quite like it, it reminds me of being a teenager and its interesting to see how Americans used to talk. I'm trying to read all of the 'classics' I should've already read by now

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:33:33 2015 No.6787792 18 Just finished V, White Noise, and The Crying of Lot 49 this weekend, haven't decided what to read next They were all excellent

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:34:31 2015 No.6787795

>>6787727
What exactly do you mean? We might have an ingrained sense to play nice with other humans, and not needlesly act aggresive or attack them, like other animals.

But, a sense of "right" or "wrong"? "Right" can't be anything more than just survival, and "wrong" anything more than death?

>>6787718
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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:39:01 2015 No.6787818 >>6786951 >19 >Spengler's The Decline of the West >Feel both utterly belittled by Spengler's majesty and also more and more captivated and depressed by his argument.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:39:26 2015 No.6787820 >>6786951 >23 >In the Miso Soup (Ryu Murakami) It's pretty fun so far. A Japanese neo-noir with a hint of Blue Velvet and Silence of the Lambs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:40:46 2015 No.6787826 24 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Amazing

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:41:00 2015 No.6787828 >25 >Trainspotting It tries too hard to be gritty, but it has some genuinely hilarious moments and I quite like that it's written phonetically in the Scottish dialect. Also I've never read so many swear words in my life. Bretty gud

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:45:54 2015 No.6787853

19

Norwegian Wood and Stone Shields

Norwegian Wood is pretty interesting, but I have feel that it's on a solid decline from the first chapter. The other one is a novel from Bulgarian author Dimitar Talev, so most of you probably haven't heard of it. This guy is the master of historical fiction, love all of his works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:45:56 2015 No.6787854 20 Kafka's Short Stories I'm really liking the section of "shorter stories" that are essentially flash fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:47:00 2015 No.6787859 >>6787853 Norwegian Wood is pretty good, kinda has the same symbolism/prose thing going on that gatsby does

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:49:25 2015 No.6787872 >>6786964 Interesting, I would say better than V. but less entertaining.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:50:08 2015 No.6787881

>>6787859
I haven't finished it yet, but I found the first chapter to be the best so far. Maybe it was because I was left with the impression that Murakami's works have some sort of a surreal and magical feel to them so that was what I was expecting. The first chapter is coming the closest to it, with the woods, sound of the cicadas, the legend about the well. Other than that, I can tell it's a good novel, but I went in with the wrong expectations.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:51:10 2015 No.6787887

>>6787777
Audio-book is a different medium than book, and vonnegut's prose wouldn't lend itself well to being performed vocally. Try reading the shit off the page, there's even "drawings" that add a small layer of meaning to the story which you will miss

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 15:53:34 2015 No.6787899 >>6787881 yeah I heard the surreal thing too, and was expecting a big surreal "twist" at any moment which got me more interested somehow.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:01:21 2015 No.6787925

>>6787887
Thanks for the tip. I might just move on, though, because I don't have the attention span for regular books, hence why I opt for the audio versions. If I come back to it, I'll have to look up the physical copy. I did love all the pictures, graphs and charts in the Jurassic Park novels.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:02:49 2015 No.6787933

>>6786951
22
Blood Meridian

>oooh flashy prose
>ooh gore
>99% absolute boring exposition about shit I don't care about

I like prose, I do. But not when an author sits down and says, "How pretentious can I be?"

4/10 so far and the Glanton Gang just got ambushed. Even if everyone gets killed...how would I miss them? These characters are absolute shit, and none of them even matter. McCarthy is worse at writing characters than Pynchon but atleast Pynchon has a gimmick where he just adds a few hundred. McCarthy simply cannot write anything except a thesaurus. Pretty bad book especially since I recently found it that it's not even of his own mind, and that it is just a plagiarism of some fake western autobiography. Why do people like this hack again?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:10:32 2015 No.6787964 20 Oil - Upton Sinclair liked the movie more

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:22:15 2015 No.6788017 16 Infinite jest Pretty great

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:26:27 2015 No.6788040 >>6788017 >v&

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:30:52 2015 No.6788061 >>6788017 >Infinite jest >Pretty great >16 well, checks out

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:33:06 2015 No.6788079 >22 >Wolf Hall >It's great and now I'm sad I've always neglected to read much historical fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:34:09 2015 No.6788083 >>6786951 18 A feast for crows (game of thrones) It's a big book for me but I like the story.It would be cooler if Martin stopped killing everybody.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:35:25 2015 No.6788090 File: 44 KB, 200x267, Why_cant_i_hold_all_these_feels.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >21 >in search of lost time >pic related

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:40:47 2015 No.6788104 >>6788090 same except 23. I keep rereading pages because Its hard to take it all in at once. Its kind of mundane but in a really comfy way

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:41:51 2015 No.6788108 >>6787933 the pretension is all on your side

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:43:19 2015 No.6788114 File: 93 KB, 811x479, DISGUSTING.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6786951 >20 >phenomonology of mind >pic related

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:46:37 2015 No.6788129

26
Elegance of the hedgehog
I like it. I'm so emotionally stunted that's it's coming of age themes are resonating. The style is intentionally pretentious, presumably to expose the absurdity, but I don't see it yet. Still enjoy me some oversized words, antiquated quotes and deeep ideas.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:55:39 2015 No.6788161 >>6788108 >typical hiveminded /lit/ and their masturbation of McCarthy NEXT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:55:47 2015 No.6788164 >21 >A big book of Lovecraft's complete fiction The first short stories are hilariously bad, but at least they are fun

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 16:56:40 2015 No.6788169 >21 >Travels with Charley - Stienbeck >I am about 20 pages in, seems promising so far. I just finished The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen. Really liked it one of the least gay books on zen buddhism written by a westerner I have read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:02:33 2015 No.6788200 >>6787779 Where did you get the "J" from? It's a "G" as in "goat".

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:06:06 2015 No.6788219 >>6788164 His first short stories are from when he was like 15, no?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:08:23 2015 No.6788234 >>6786951 19 Notes from Underground Simply epic >>6786951

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:09:25 2015 No.6788239 25 On the Shortness of Life I like inspirational lit. It's interesting, deep and wanna make you change stuff in your live.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:11:19 2015 No.6788248 >>6787933 > the Glanton Gang just got ambushed which ambush? There are like two and one happens about 1/5 of the way through the book. Keep reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:12:33 2015 No.6788250 18 No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan This marks the third time I've read it. I'm a bit obsessive about Dylan though, so I don't know how I'd rate it if that wasn't the case.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:12:39 2015 No.6788251 >>6788248 The one towards the end where Glanton gets fucking rektd Book is still shit though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:15:57 2015 No.6788265 >>6786951 22 The Brothers Karamazov As great as everyone says it is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:17:13 2015 No.6788271 >26 >Telegraph Avenue >God damn do I love Chabon's prose and characterization

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 17:48:10 2015 No.6788404

>>6787073
18, read Nausea last month after reading The Outsider (new translation of L'étranger) by Camus. Sartre writes quite boring indeed, and not that much actually happens throughout the book. If you want a good introduction to his philosophy though, I would definitely recommend that you finish the book, how boring it sometimes might be. He makes you really feel his ideas at certain points, even though I myself would have like a bit less philosophical mumbo jumbo and a bit more of a plot (saying this as a philosophy student).
Overall; Camus is the better writer, Sartre the better philosopher. I have a feeling you would like Camus better (supposing you haven't already read some of him).

Finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude an hour ago
Liked it a lot

Currently awaiting my online orders of On The Heights of Despair and The Catcher in The Rye

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:02:24 2015 No.6788453

>19
>The Sound and the Fury
There's something going on here, but I'm not sure what. Very intricate, very well-written. I can tell that Fury took a specific genius to be created and realized. I seem to be missing many small details, however. Faulkner has such an insight into his characters that he can leave out details they would already know, but I find myself struggling to pick up on them, like how Caddy's daughter is also named Quentin - for most of Jason's chapter I thought they were talking about Quentin the boy. I was very confused. All in all, it's a good book, but I clearly need help or experience.

>>	The cats Mon Jul 6 18:02:31 2015 No.6788454 >>6788251 Hack away you mean red nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:05:38 2015 No.6788465 >>6787330 Please, please, PLEASE stop writing like that. You try too hard. There is no use in having a large vocabulary if you can't use it well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:09:23 2015 No.6788483 >>6786951 > 24 Well I just read The Great Gatsby (somehow missed it in high school, and even with a degree in English never read it). Amazing, obviously. About to start The Brothers Karamazov. Expecting a masterpiece.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:14:41 2015 No.6788505 21 Finished reading The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher I enjoyed it, can't wait to read Blood of Elves.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:17:16 2015 No.6788517

23
Being and Time
It is far and away the most difficult book I have read. I have been taking extensive notes, listening to podcasts and the occasional Dreyfus lecture, as well as reading Magda King's accompanying study guide on top of further secondary literature on Heidegger's philosophy. I will finish the book later today and I have to say the second division is much more difficult than the first, and some of this is due to my thought that he largely epeats what he stated in the first division but with gratuitous throwing-around of the world temporality and how temporality temporalizes itself, which makes no sense to me. Hopefully after I read the rest of the econdary literature and study it further it will make more sense.I bought the damn book on April 18. Shit has been taking me forever.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:18:34 2015 No.6788524 >>6786951 18 The Dynamics of Creation It's very interesting but misses some of the finer details (though I suppose the point of the book would be lost if it got mired in the fundamentals). I'm also reading The Iliad. I don't like it much.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:23:43 2015 No.6788553

21
Letters to a Young Poet - Ranier Maria Rilke
Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Enjoying Catch-22 a lot (so hilarious), but my schedule meshes better with shorter reading sessions so Letters gets more attention even though I feel pretty neutral about it. Wolf in White Van I just started but I'm really enjoying it. I'm getting a bit of a low-level DFW feel from it; I'll be able to better articulate that feeling once I finish the book, I think. I'd recommend both Heller and Darnielle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:30:49 2015 No.6788588 File: 38 KB, 500x389, 1436125078908.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6787400

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:33:05 2015 No.6788602 25. The Road to Serfdom and Killing Mr. Lebanon. They're good. Would recommend.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:35:06 2015 No.6788616 >>6787899 >>6787881 Norwegian Wood is his least mystical work of fiction. Don't wait too long for any surreal moments, if that's what you're looking for I would rather read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:36:13 2015 No.6788618

>19
>Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
>Pretty cool, lots of interesting backstories of the indie and punk bands of that era, how they rose from nothing and made something of themselves, musically

Next I want some easy fiction. Thinking Black Swan Green. gf wants me to read Paper Towns, so maybe that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:37:03 2015 No.6788620 >>6787330 Don't worry about being "that guy", enjoy your book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:40:46 2015 No.6788635 >>6787615 Jesus man are you writing us a book report

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:43:52 2015 No.6788650 31 Ghost Fleet Premise is absolutely fucking retarded but its kind of enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:43:58 2015 No.6788651 13 Hunger Games Catching Fire Really Good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:47:14 2015 No.6788669 17 Crash Sexy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:47:55 2015 No.6788672 >>6788651 get outta here kiddo >=(

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:51:05 2015 No.6788684 >24 >Poetics of Reverie - Gaston Bachelard >The first 60 pages are about how awesome it is that the french language is gendered and how dumb German is for having a neutral gender. Hoping it picks up from here.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:51:25 2015 No.6788691

>>6787772
21 y/o here who finished The Plague recently as well (as an audiobook on a long drive). I figured I may have found it a little long and uneventful for the most part if I had read the book, but as a story I could listen to in the background it was emotional and made me long for a community of neighbors who support one another.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:53:47 2015 No.6788708 File: 35 KB, 661x720, really_good.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6788651

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:54:36 2015 No.6788716 >>6787792 Bull

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:54:50 2015 No.6788717

>27... 28? I dont remember
>Eon by Greg Bear (wasn't he involved in that sci fi award faggotry that happened recently?)
>Its pretty good I guess. I don't really like the second half where the future civilization takes center stage... I would have prefered they remained a mystery.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:56:44 2015 No.6788730 >>6788717 >>27... 28? I dont remember how do you not know your own fucking age?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:57:19 2015 No.6788733 >>6788730 >can't handle the cheeky banter

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:57:35 2015 No.6788734 >>6788248 The 1/5 ambush isn't glantons gang it's a group of American irregulars the kid joins up with

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:57:44 2015 No.6788735 >>6788691 >as an audiobook oh, so you didn't read anything GTFO

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:59:16 2015 No.6788741 >>6788716 I didn't read them all cover to cover this weekend, I was reading White Noise and V about neck and neck and finished both on Friday, then I read Lot 49 over Saturday and Sunday.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 18:59:32 2015 No.6788742 >>6788717 You don't know how old you are, sweetie? Do you need me to find your mommy?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:00:17 2015 No.6788748 >>6788734 I meant the one where Indians shoot arrows at Glanton's Gang from a distance and hit a few guys and horses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:02:04 2015 No.6788754 >23 >A Game of Thrones >It's really good. It's like LotR if LotR wasn't written a century ago. I can't put it down.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:03:17 2015 No.6788761 File: 263 KB, 810x1101, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6788748 Oh yeah my bad

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:14:32 2015 No.6788804

>>6788730
>>6788742
I'm 27. I always forget though because the last few years of my life have been jobless neet tier and the days just kinda blend into each other.

I don't know whether or not I should read the prequel and sequels for Eon after I finish it. I started reading Eon because I read it was going to be 'realistic sci fi'... but its actually kind of too fantastical. Idunno.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:22:47 2015 No.6788842 >>6788804 and if LoTR was actually good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 19:39:53 2015 No.6788925 18 Beyond Good and Evil actually pretty good behind the entire orchestra of Nietzsches pompous intellectualism

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 20:08:57 2015 No.6789046 18 LoTR Pretty good but i'm wondering why this Tom Bombadil seems to be so powerful ex:wielding the one ring but being unaffected by it, but was left out of the movie adaptations

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 20:34:39 2015 No.6789160 >>6788651 Nice joke but my 22 year old gf literally loves those books. I don't understand the appeal, especially for a fully-functioning adult.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 20:36:28 2015 No.6789174 >17 >steppenwolf >about a hundred pages in, enjoying it so far.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:08:09 2015 No.6789297

>19
>Don Quixote
I'm sad that eventually it's going to end, the length helps make it good and display the fantastical perspective of the protagonist. It wouldn't be the same if it wasn't so long winded and flowery. I love that style of writing anyways so maybe it's bias.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:09:19 2015 No.6789306 >>6789160 >fully-functioning adult Are you sure about that, anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:13:48 2015 No.6789335 >>6789160 >fully-functioning adult >loves the hunger games series nice try, mr. skellington

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:20:23 2015 No.6789372 >>24 >>Infinite Jest >>Love it. I'm getting such a kick out of the kids at ETA. DFW has a fun sense of humor. I only wish I had more time to dedicate to it; stupid summer class. Need to finish The Bell Jar and On the Road as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:21:07 2015 No.6789378 >21 >1Q84 >I'm enjoying it. I like the weird combination of subject matter and the appealing lifestyles of the main characters.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:28:24 2015 No.6789412

>>6787168
It's a good book. One of my favorites. It's great for leaning how to see the fnords.

>>6788164
Same, 21 and Lovecraft stories.

My main problem is that I'm reading on the train, and trains put me to sleep. It's not bad, but I've spent too much time on TVtropes, and the endings, for the most part, aren't shocking to me. I could see how they would be scary back in the day though.

>>6788588
Wow, that's... oddly neat.

>>6789046
Because it's bad enough that people are like 'durr, why didn't they take the eagles?', would you really want everyone saying 'durr, just give the ring to Tom'.
I don't know how far you are into it but Tom is revealed to be the oldest thing in middle earth. However, it's discussed about giving the ring to him, but he would loose it because he didn't care, and if push came to shove, "he would fall, last as he was first"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:30:34 2015 No.6789420 >21 > L'Amant by Marguerite Duras >Generally p. cool, never read anything by her before and I'm impressed so far

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:31:19 2015 No.6789424 >>6789420 >her

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:42:47 2015 No.6789472

>>6789412
> but I've spent too much time on TVtropes, and the endings, for the most part, aren't shocking to me. I could see how they would be scary back in the day though.

Funnily enough, TVtropes has a trope for that.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:44:31 2015 No.6789480 22 Ride the Tiger Très bien

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:46:54 2015 No.6789488 >>6789472 Bro, I think you mean this one http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife It's not that I don't enjoy them, it's just I see it coming.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:48:17 2015 No.6789496 23 On Liberty and other essays by John Stuart Mill It's okay, it does get tediously dry in some parts though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:51:11 2015 No.6789507 >>6788602 > the road to serfdom Neat, it was a great read. I just finished putting together a new book case and it caught my eye again. Maybe it's time for a reread?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:51:34 2015 No.6789508 20 Mrs Dalloway it's great, easy read, digging that the narratives string together for really long periods of time

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:52:42 2015 No.6789520 22 I haven't read a book in months, I don't even know what I am doing here Last book was Romance of The Three Kingdoms, a pdf I found on the internet, I dropped in the middle, it was a tiresome reading

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:53:13 2015 No.6789523 File: 35 KB, 321x500, north and south.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 31 Elizabeth Gaskell North and South

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:53:50 2015 No.6789525 23 Stoner It's good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:59:47 2015 No.6789557 19 just finished The Surgeon's Mate, 7th Aubrey/Maturin book. Best one since The Mauritius Command.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:07:30 2015 No.6789600 21 ur book its shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:18:18 2015 No.6789650 >age 21 >current book you're reading American Gods >how do you like it It's getting interesting, has a lot of potential to be great, don't disappoint me Neil

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:19:21 2015 No.6789658 >>6789600 :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:24:33 2015 No.6789681 25 The Man in the Castle I'm not loving Dick's interpretation of how that alternate reality would go. It feels equal parts of dated and empty of any kind of knowledge about Germany or Japan. Liking the pace and characterization.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:25:01 2015 No.6789682 18 Infinite Jest It has some really good passages and it's nowhere as opaque as people say, but holy fuck I'm thinking of dropping it because it's so damn long.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:25:34 2015 No.6789686 >>6789600 thanks for giving it a try, future man, once I kick the bucket and my family publishes my personal diaries you'll like those more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:32:20 2015 No.6789717 >>6788651 >>6788669 >>6789174 M O D S O D S

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:32:50 2015 No.6789718 I'm a reading noob. Age: 19 Just finished Slaughterhouse-Five, it was pretty enjoyable. I picked up Pale King by DF Wallace. Never read anything he's made before. what am i in for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:35:03 2015 No.6789726 >>6786951 20 Moby-Dick I really like it. I'm only 170 pages in so I still have all that whaling to read about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:37:54 2015 No.6789746 23 Lolita Loving it so far. I don't know if I'm supposed to be enjoying Humbert as much as I am. And does every male who read this secretly keep an eye out for nymphets for a short amount of time?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 22:42:06 2015 No.6789773 24 El Ingenioso Don Quijote etc etc lulz/10 Didn't expect it to be this funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:01:15 2015 No.6789866 >>6789726 Just remember that if Cetology isn't your favorite chapter you're a dilettante.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:08:45 2015 No.6789923 >>6786951 >20 >Homo Faber: Ein Bericht >I'm reading it in its original language and it's complete shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:13:28 2015 No.6789958 >>6788925 nothing about Nietzsche is pompous

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:20:13 2015 No.6790006 >>6789958 >nothing about Nietzsche is pompous hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, high school must be going well for you, kiddo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:30:31 2015 No.6790066 File: 1.24 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6789958 >nothing about Nietzsche is pompous

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:32:10 2015 No.6790075 >>6790066 its self deprecating humor, aspiethustra

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:35:14 2015 No.6790090 >>6790075 >It was just a prank bro!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:36:40 2015 No.6790103 >21 >Illuminatus! Trilogy It's fun as shit, like a green-pilled Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:38:24 2015 No.6790110 >23 >A personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe >I'm enjoying it. I love the imagery he uses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:41:09 2015 No.6790121 >>6790103 Hey, I was just looking for that book today. See>>6789412 You read the Principia Discordia or the Black Iron Prison yet?

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:48:05 2015 No.6790163

>26

>Closing Time by Joseph Heller
>I'm nearing the end, and while it has definitely had its moments, some passages of amazing prose, it has been overall by far my least favorite of the books I've read of his (have also read Catch-22, Something Happened, and Picture This. It doesn't rely as heavily on the linguistic games of Catch-22, but it also just isn't as funny or insightful. And where it does use similar linguistic games, it comes across as just immature, forced, repetitive, and predictable.

>World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein
>I've only read the intro and first chapter (about 25 pages total) so far, but I'm enjoying it. Early on I didn't understand why he was explaining what he was explaining in the first chapter, how it was relevant to the chapter's or book's purposes, but by the middle it began to make sense and came together completely by the end. He is a master of explaining complex ideas (I've been reading his biweekly articles on this website Agence Global for years). I look forward to the rest of the book and would highly encourage anyone interested in global studies/social analysis to look into him and his work.

Anonymous Mon Jul 6 23:58:38 2015 No.6790196

>>6790121
If you mean the standalon Principia Discordia, no I haven't. I plan on reading more of Wilson's stuff though. It's very interesting to me, which I feel is maybe kind of dumb because it just makes me feel like a huge stoner to read Illuminatus and kinda agree with some of the zanier ideas. I can't remember why I bought Illuminatus when I did, 3 years ago. I think I just knew that it was postmodern, and the cover looked like some seapunk shit. Pretty glad I picked it up, though, and even gladder that I coincidentally put off reading it until after I had tried shrooms and acid. I don't know how much I'd be able to love this book in my less "awakened" years lel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 00:01:37 2015 No.6790211 >>6786964 19 Same as this It's good, entertaining, brilliant and interesting. However it's starting to feel like a chore to get through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 00:06:47 2015 No.6790231 >19 >Beyond Good and Evil >Kind of Interesting but idiotic. Also vague, unfalsifiable, hypocritical, and needlessly complex/confusing syntax.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 00:14:18 2015 No.6790252 23 (fuck, really!?) The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years Pretty dang good, probably gonna go through it again when I'm done.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 00:29:58 2015 No.6790304 >>6790075 >self deprecating there's no deprecation in nietzsche. he even manages think his frailty and weakness is a triumph.it is an exaggeration for sure, rhetoric and pomposity but not for humour.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 01:27:42 2015 No.6790467 >tfw 25 are people on /lit really this young or is it just because young people are more vocal

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 01:35:08 2015 No.6790494 >>6790467 just look at the average post quality and decide for yourself. reminding myself that most of the people on this board are juvenile edgy teenage cunts, makes it slightly more bearable.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 01:37:30 2015 No.6790505

19
Siddhartha
Actually I've finished it (last night) haven't yet started a new one. The style was fitting for the content but unexceptional, with that said I really did like reading about all the Buddhist philosophy which I know nothing about. Thinking about reading Steppenwolf in 2-3 books time for a similar feeling with psychoanalysis.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 01:58:35 2015 No.6790589

19
Infinite Jest

haven't really done much reading in the last 10 years apart from school readings and university textbooks. This book was much easier to read then I was expecting, nothing like Gravity's Rainbow (which I read 100 pages of then decided I'd revisit it after I properly got back into reading)

DWF has a very matter-of-fact writing style. I really like it some of the time, but it does lead to many skimmable passages

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 02:42:35 2015 No.6790721 >>6790467 The kids probably enjoy talking more because they think it matters; or maybe they just want encouragement of some sort. I'm just worried that in 10 years I'll still be coming here and be the weird older guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 02:52:21 2015 No.6790749 18 Divine Comedy Tad hard to digest I'l admit but Im getting through

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 04:31:03 2015 No.6790919

>>6787154

17
Tender Is The Night
Fitzgerald's writing is beautifully lyrical. In the earlier chapters he describes Rosemary's ignoring a boy talking as a person consciously hears a clock and slowly tunes out the ticking. There are many gems like that throughout. It's worth the read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 04:48:14 2015 No.6790947 >21 >The Sorrows of Young Werther >started it tonight, but pretty Goethe so far [sardonic, flowery, an epistolary novel to whom?]

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:18:44 2015 No.6790997

19

Collection of Rimbaud's Poetry
The Republic
An American Dream

a) Pretty good, but feels almost contradictory to his own beliefs so far. A bit romantic for such a professed non-believer.
b) Almost finished. It's good, and bad. Kinda expected of such an old book of philosophy, but it's important to read to get some more modern stuff.
c) I like Mailer; he reminds me of Henry Miller.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:21:31 2015 No.6791000 19 Middlesex - Eugenides Long. Long enough that my original disgust has now turned into an obsessive affinity for the characters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:25:13 2015 No.6791003 >>6786951 >23 >Manufacturing Consent >It's alright. Too informative to be boring, too boring to be enjoyable. Good thing I have the Pancatantra and Oxford Myths of Mesopotamia incoming. I need something nice and easy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:26:01 2015 No.6791006 File: 4 KB, 250x242, tumblr_m28gqrmatY1r3zat8.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 22 >Cyrano de Bergerac It's glorious, I am loving every bit of it. Almost finished it as we speak

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:35:01 2015 No.6791018 25 of love and other demons barely into it but I know I'll love it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:39:11 2015 No.6791024 45 light by m john harrison quite good. recommended.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 05:44:48 2015 No.6791036 24 The Book of Disquiet 50 pages in so far and though it's beautifully written I'm having a hard time engaging with the narrator's musings. I think I'll have have to read it again in the near future to truly appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 06:15:39 2015 No.6791098 26 The Desert Fathers – Sayings of the Early Christian Monks not bad, good read if you've any interest in asceticism regardless of region

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 06:18:23 2015 No.6791099 >20 >some book by garcia marquez >i like it

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 06:29:08 2015 No.6791117

19

The Praise of Folly
Clara Milich (also known as "After Death") -audiobook-

The Praise of Folly is rather boring, Erasmus was surely an erudite and it's really interesting to read all these references, but it's pretty inconsistent.
As for Turgenev's novel, I don't really like Aratov, he is very cliche, but I'm not even halfway in the novel so it might get better soon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 07:34:54 2015 No.6791231 >>6786951 >28 >Middlemarch >I'm less than 100 pages in, but I'm worried that it's just a really long Jane Austen novel, and that it's categorically inferior to Anna Karenina.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 07:58:42 2015 No.6791291 >>6786951 19 Dracula It's really good so far. Are there any other books which use the same style, as in presented through loads of different types of documents and stuff?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 08:05:17 2015 No.6791312 >>6786951 23 Revolt Against the Modern World It's pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 08:14:42 2015 No.6791328 File: 1.59 MB, 3672x3024, 1436092086559.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what books should a young reader get into if they are interested in philosophy? greeks?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 08:21:04 2015 No.6791341 >>6791328 A philosophical textbook would be a good start.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 08:23:44 2015 No.6791350

I turned 27 today.

Currently reading Three Men in a Boat.

It makes me feel less sad. I laughed out loud at a part where the author describes a man burying a smelly hunk of cheese he can't get rid of at a beach and then the beach becomes a major tourist hotspot for years due to the "strong air."

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 09:36:28 2015 No.6791514

>>6787148
Lolita is amazing. Watch Kubrick's film!

>>6787872
V had me rolling, it was less complicated which I think makes it more readable for me currently. I'm almost to page 600 in GR and it started rolling again about 100 pages ago, I'll be finishing it in a few days. Definitely have to read both of them again. I have The Crying of Lot 49, Mason & Dixon, and White Noise on my "to-read" list. I think I'm going to read White Noise first and then maybe From Hell before I get into another Pynchon. TCOL49 I might just sit and read one day...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 09:46:54 2015 No.6791541 >>6791514 Kubrick's nothing like the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:30:00 2015 No.6791692 >>6791328 just get an intro to philosophy textbook and read the referenced material in full. should give you a good starting point

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:36:39 2015 No.6791715 23 Trainspotting Rereading it. Its better than I remember, but I think that's because I have more life experience and have had my own drug and alcohol issues so a lot of that shit is way more relatable than it was when I was 16.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:55:59 2015 No.6791779

26
Moby Dick

Ironically, for a book set at sea it's dry as fuck. The prose gives me an erection but holy shit is it hard going. Some sentences and paragraphs I read multiple times because they're so satisfying but then others are just a real challenge.

I haven't been made to feel so stupid by a book since in tried to read War and Peace when I was 14.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 11:10:44 2015 No.6791819

>>6786951

21
Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My entry to Marquez, though I remember reading some of Love in the Time of Cholera years ago. I'm really enjoying it, I think I have an affinity for magical realism as of late.

I've never posted on /lit/ before, so hi and stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 12:57:33 2015 No.6792139 >>6787073 24 also reading Nausea, its a chore so far, with a few keks in between. i'm also reading a few of his short stories on the side and those are actually very good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:05:39 2015 No.6792169 >22 >Faust >I can't put it down.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:07:27 2015 No.6792176 20 Dune Really well paced and sweet world building, really feels like GURRM rips off Herbert's style but doesn't do it nearly as well. Why does everyone shrug so much though? Seriously someone shrugs once every other page

>>	paul Tue Jul 7 13:19:58 2015 No.6792225 >>6792176 Dune is an awful book pleb

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:29:52 2015 No.6792265

>>6792176
they also love failing to do actions.
Herbert is pretty formulaic and the second half has the plot progression of a history book, zero arc or change and things just fall one after the other. It's a great introduction to a lifetime interest in international politics and culture as a weapon.

>>6792225
someone doesn't want the spice to flow.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:32:10 2015 No.6792277 >>6792225 aw darn better go find some stirner-jerk in the catalog if i wanna be as cool as /lit/-chan

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:36:44 2015 No.6792304 23 Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson Enjoying the series so far, got the 3rd book lined up

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:37:25 2015 No.6792309 >>6792265 I just hit the halfway mark so if true that's pretty disappointing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:40:06 2015 No.6792321 21 Art as Experience by John Dewey It's a dense and informative read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:41:11 2015 No.6792327 >>6792321 john dewey is the fucking man

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:44:07 2015 No.6792339 >tfw in 30s damn you kids

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:59:57 2015 No.6792404 27 my struggle book 2 its okay. i dont know why i want to continue reading but i do. i like norway and sweden a lot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:02:14 2015 No.6792419 Norwegian Wood by Murakami...100 pages in and still feels like it's going nowhere, feels pointless but i hope it pays of in the end

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:07:47 2015 No.6792439 >>6792419 If you're not liking it 100 pages in, I don't think you're going to enjoy the book as a whole.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:33:20 2015 No.6792549

>>6786951
18
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
not exactly literature, reading it to brush up before tackling Tolkein's Beowulf (it's not all Greek, there's a section on Norse at the end) and after that Lattimore's Iliad.
First chapter read like a fucking grocery list but it's been getting better. She disses Ovid's style of writing probably because she favors the Greeks, but I don't see anything wrong with it.
I like the little anthropology bits she throws in.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:36:34 2015 No.6792565

>>6792419
I'm a rare Murakami fan on /lit/ and I agree with your first reply. If you're not feeling it now you probably won't like the rest of the book.

If you're unfamiliar with his work and would like some basic recommendations I can suggest something else.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:42:13 2015 No.6792589 >>6787077 would you happen to be attending college this fall somewhere in the pacific northwest?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:59:45 2015 No.6792671 >21 >History of the Congo >Firebomb that country NOW

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:07:44 2015 No.6792720 >>6789746 the answer is yes i met a nymphet like a week after reading it and decided that books really can ruin a life

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:12:14 2015 No.6792747 17 Critique of Pure reason It's laborious and feels outdated

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:21:38 2015 No.6792796 >>6792565 >>6792439 thing is I read South of the Border, West of the Sun, couldn't put it down. Don't know why this one hasn't given me that feel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:36:31 2015 No.6792865 >>6792549 >23 >Also Mythology It's alright. I mean it's nothing new and some stories are way more fun than others. I am reading it more because I sort of have to (following lit's philosophy project) but it ain't a chore either

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:37:53 2015 No.6792874 >>6786951 25 The Magic Mountain It's okay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:38:58 2015 No.6792883 >>6787110 waarom?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:40:01 2015 No.6792891 >18 >The myth of sysiphus >just came in today, haven't started yet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:47:48 2015 No.6792950 >>6791328 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit?pli=1#

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 15:49:30 2015 No.6792961 21 A Tour of the Calculus Pretty meh, does have some interesting points but can get really dry at some points. Would recommend if your trying to learn calc in college and want to get different view on what your learning.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 16:46:42 2015 No.6793219 >>6792874 I'm gonna read that next next summer

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:09:12 2015 No.6793335 18 Kite Runner Ok

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:22:17 2015 No.6793391

21
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Urth of the New Sun
I love surreal stuff, so Wind-Up sits just right with me, though I can see why people wouldn't like it. It wanders about and doesn't seem to go anywhere so far, but it's an enjoyable read,
Urth of the New Sun is wonderful, and has the best prose I've seen from Gene Wolfe. I know he wrote it at the oublisher's reauest and is considered a 'coda', but nothing about it so far says it isnt consistent with the rest of New Sun. Honestly, it should be nothing less than the fifth book, instead of an epilogue.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:23:11 2015 No.6793403

19
The Name of the Rose
Holy shit, it's great. About halfway through, I love the parts where exciting things actually happen but I also enjoy the slower bits where it's just characters conversing. I do think some things aren't explained very well, mostly the complex details of the case like how William decoded the secret symbols on Venantius' note.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:27:25 2015 No.6793436 >>6791291 House of Leaves I guess. Also horror.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:35:11 2015 No.6793489

>>6788219
Yes, maybe a bit later, bu he was a teen. It's pretty nice seeing how the stories slowly get better and less generic gothic terror tales and he starts shaping his own universe and imagery
>>6789412
True, Lovecraft's stories are definitely not scary as of today, but there's some charm to them. The man knew how to create an atmosphere and build up his stories.
>>6792169
I really need to reread it, I did it when I didn't get half the references and it was too opaque for me, it went over my head, especially the second half

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:37:02 2015 No.6793498 >>6793219 are you saying you're not going to read anything till next summer :(

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:39:36 2015 No.6793513

>>6792565

Not that guy, but I just finished Norwegian Wood today. I had never read Murakami before but I really enjoyed it. Got big feels as a person who usually only reads historical non-fiction.
Wish I knew what happened afterwards, the flash-forward or whatever at the beginning didn't give much information in that regard.

What book of his should I read next?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:39:39 2015 No.6793514 no age thread plz. just turned old :( Reading Candide, though. Hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:29:29 2015 No.6793791 >>6786951 >21 >Catch-22 >Major Major Major Major clusterfuck, but i'm loving it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:31:12 2015 No.6793800 >>6793513 it's kind of fun to read all of murakami's work in order because you can see how they're all the same book yet still fun to read, and it's enjoyable overall.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:36:46 2015 No.6793829 >>6793791 i put this book down about 150 pages in. It was funny but there was no narrative. I plan on finishing it one day though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:40:10 2015 No.6793849 >21 >1Q84 and Lolita >1Q84 is essentially a seinen manga with illustrations, which is pretty good imo. Lolita is great so far (not a fan of lolis in general though)

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:48:48 2015 No.6793880

21

Gravity's Rainbow / Butcher's Crossing / The Book of the Long Sun

GR has been brilliant so far but it's a hard slog for this time of year and I've often felt the need to dip in and out every now and then by pairing it with less dense alternatives. So far I've read The Road and a few Larry McMurtry novels in this fashion, and now I'm on to the above.

The Book of the Long Sun is a little disappointing, though. Not quite what I'd thought I'd gotten in to from the first hundred or so pages.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:50:45 2015 No.6793894 >>6793829 There most certainly is a narrative. It's not strictly chronological or simple, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:08:42 2015 No.6793976 19 gave in and started Infinite Jest recently Its pretty good but the maximalist style kind makes it seem like a chore to get anywhere.

>>	The cats Tue Jul 7 19:14:10 2015 No.6794014 File: 158 KB, 470x706, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6793976 It's a big book...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:18:10 2015 No.6794041 >>6786951 25 Oreo - Fran Ross It's alright. Definitely a forgotten gem that should have gotten more attention, but is unfortunately not black enough for the black kids and too black for the whites.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:18:58 2015 No.6794049 >>6794014 yeah, Im the type who likes marathoning a book in 3-4 days but this is more of a challenge. Im getting there though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:55:44 2015 No.6794251 17 Stoner Just started reading it today. Still waiting for those feels.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 20:16:27 2015 No.6794378
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Lolita

It's firing up my loins, to say the least. I'm enjoying this a lot more than the last one I read(Notes from Underground). Notes was good but just a little bit too much went over my head for me to feel completely satisfied(which also makes me apprehensive to try C&P or BK, since they're considerably longer and of similar density), so I'll have to revisit after I get a bit more mileage.

but yeah this pedo book is damn good

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 20:22:20 2015 No.6794412 Twentyfive:Lot49: it sucks, fuck you lit, at least its short

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:32:32 2015 No.6794765
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The Picture of Dorian Grey

I just started getting into literature, I'm curious.
Never browsed /lit/ that much.
>I'm from Italy, what are good Italian authors I can start reading for beginners?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:34:18 2015 No.6794772 >>6794765 Did they not teach you about national authors in school?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:40:25 2015 No.6794794 >>6794765 How do you like the book?Is the level hard for you?

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:55:48 2015 No.6794874

>>6787705
Same, and a lot of it is really hitting home. The spirit of /lit/ could learn a lot from our pal here, and from this passage in particular:

>Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our own unworthiness, a feeling of discontent with ourselves, which is always related to envy, which in turn is stirred up by foolish vanity?

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:04:58 2015 No.6794916

>>6787776
>>6788200

>picking on an innocent reader about the pronunciation of an author's name, the most superficial of all literary related topics (save book covers)

What kind of spiteful pedant, going out of your way to denigrate a fellow reader on an anonymous image board for no apparent reason, are you? Tell me, oh arbiter of all that is Goethean, what's is your favorite of our great German polymath's works? The aforementioned? probably not. Elective Affinities, then? Faust pt. 1, 2? Theory of Colours? Tell me, and I'd love to discuss thoughts and theories with you via my email: ThrowYourDaddyIssuesElsewhere@gofuckyourself.cumlaude

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:13:45 2015 No.6794947 >>6794772 Yes, they did. I'd like a external advice, I'm curious about what foreigners think of our literature

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:13:55 2015 No.6794950

>>6787295
>>6787295
There were two structural things that confused me about Pale Fire:
For one, I divided my Pale Fire lines according to index cards. If my math is right, the whole poem fits on 81 index cards, not 80 (Canto One is fourteen cards long, not 13).
Second: there are a few lines like "A thread of subtle pain" or "That Englishman in Nice" or "Grim pen" -- lines which go unnumbered. What I mean by that is as follows: Line 130 of Pale Fire is: "I never bounced a ball or swung a bat." Line 139 is: "Bicycle tires." After that, it isn't the next line that's labeled 140, but the line after that one.
I don't know what to make of it. I take it it's just heaping more on Kinbote's unreliability shtick.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:15:29 2015 No.6794959 >>6794794 I'm liking it. Sometimes I have to read passages twice, but that's just a linguistic issue.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:23:02 2015 No.6794996

>>6786951
>19
>A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire)
>I kind of ruined it for myself because I looked up who the POV characters would be beforehand so I'm coming in confused and disappointed. 100 pages in and its okay so far, I'm happy Cersei is still a bitch even from her own POV.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:26:22 2015 No.6795010 >>6786951 infinite jest its shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:33:10 2015 No.6795039 >>6786951 >23 >Revival by Stephen King >It's not particularly good even by Stephen King standards

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:02:49 2015 No.6795394 File: 1.50 MB, 400x285, 1436220418746.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pretty solid thread, tbh

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:18:12 2015 No.6795446

>18
>Tom Sawyer

Trying to get back into reading before going off to college. Sometime in middle school I grew bored of books, mostly because I lives in the middle of nowhere and was reading at 'college level' back then, so basically everything they had was dreadfully boring and easy to read. I've got a collection of Mark Twain novels so I'm just reading those for now.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:20:16 2015 No.6795453

>>6786951
19
Kesrith
after reading Solaris, this type of science fiction feels vapid, but counterintuitively because of Solaris's overall trend towards declaring man's intellectual pursuit to be more or less as meaningless as man's pursuit for anything else.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:24:26 2015 No.6795462 >>6794765 Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:36:01 2015 No.6795511 >>6795394 shit, it's like simon cowell and arnold had a man baby

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:55:07 2015 No.6795579 >>6791036 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:56:40 2015 No.6795584 17 re-reading Mein Kampf Gets more beautiful every time

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 00:59:11 2015 No.6795588 24 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce I absolutely love it. Looking to read The Sublime Object of Ideology next.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:06:01 2015 No.6795606 >>6786961 We're the same age and reading the same book. Isn't that neat? I just got to Rosas pov and I'm really enjoying it. Although the first section was a little tiresome.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:07:34 2015 No.6795607 >>6786951 23 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Propaganda by Jacques Ellul

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:09:20 2015 No.6795613 22 Siddhartha in the German It's ok. A little too simple, but it looks like it's going good places.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:09:37 2015 No.6795614 22 The Leopard It's aight. I'm only halfway through but it's like a soap opera at the moment and I haven't broken down and Google d what I'm supposed to get out of it philosophically yet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:14:39 2015 No.6795630 >>6787933 Blood Meridian is a lot like Moby Dick where the characters become vessels for a philosophical exploration into mankind's frailties. In Blood Meridian the explored themes appear to be warfare and progress.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:15:22 2015 No.6795634 >>6786951 18 V. I'm confused, and I want it to start coming together.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:37:20 2015 No.6795714 >>6792891 >current book you're reading >the book i'm currently reading is the one i haven't started yet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 02:47:56 2015 No.6795918 >>6794950 This is interesting. I haven't finished reading it yet so I have nothing to add.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:18:26 2015 No.6796280 >>6791779 This practically sums up my reading experience. I get the feeling that rereading this book in the future will be a much better experience though. I take so much joy in the prose.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:19:41 2015 No.6796657 >>6795584 >this edge

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:24:38 2015 No.6796667

>>6795634
It won't make sense in the end. Moments still pop into my head weeks later and I still don't have it pieced together. It's a magnificent read, though. I finished it and literally sat staring at the last page repeating "what...." through my mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:27:33 2015 No.6796668 >>6791541 Which is why it's nice to compare the two.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:37:39 2015 No.6796681 >turning 21 in a month >Plague It has it moments, but overall it's tedious and overstretched, which is the point of the book, I assume. Only got about 65% through.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:20:16 2015 No.6797403 >>6787462 >be me >be addicted to Alan Watts' talks on youtube >it's to the point where I have to listen as I fall asleep How is he such a fucking good speaker?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:22:34 2015 No.6797414 >>6787727 >2015 >philosophical certainty What the fuck are you doing?

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