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

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

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:31:03 2016 No.8483138 >>8483111 25, South Aftica, Blood Meridian and loving every moment.

>>	FOXE !!2rslAUKg/1u Wed Sep 7 13:32:27 2016 No.8483144 >>8483111 >18 >nocal >those trips, and im loving it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:33:45 2016 No.8483147 >>8483111 27, washington d.c., lovecraft's complete works (not real impressed, but my expectations might've been too high since i'm from providence)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:35:20 2016 No.8483151 >>8483111 >26 >southwest Michigan >Ulysses >I'm not liking it... This is the third time I've picked the book up but I'll make sure I get through it one day. I just finished Tortilla Flat and really liked it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:39:09 2016 No.8483160 >>8483151 Why not?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:39:36 2016 No.8483162 >>8483111 >20 >Russia >Dubliners, and it's pretty good

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:43:42 2016 No.8483169 >19 >local >aleph borge

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:43:55 2016 No.8483170

>>8483160
It's just been pretty boring. I've just finished the first chapter and found last few pages of it to be painfully slow and meandering. The part with him teaching and talking to his boss were really fun and interesting to read though. I just find the parts that are boring to be a little too self indulgent for my taste. I should have clarified I wasn't far into the book though to begin with. I'll continue through but if I get 200 pages through and it's still painful to read I won't continue.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:45:29 2016 No.8483175 >>8483111 >25 >Portugal >A collection of Borges

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:46:00 2016 No.8483179
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24
Ontario, GTA
Ulysses, it's had its ups and downs for me but it's been an intense experience. The chapters I loved I really loved and the chapters I hated I really hated

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:51:00 2016 No.8483195 20 London Tristram Shandy Pretty good but whilst i appreciate the whole thing its pretty tiring.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:53:25 2016 No.8483207 File: 224 KB, 500x375, it will happen to you.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >33 >england >brothers k it's good stuff, rereading it for the first time since i was a student and it turns out i'd forgotten almost everything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 13:55:40 2016 No.8483217 20 England Catch 22. About halfway through it and there have been some genuinely hilarious bits so far, really enjoying it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:00:19 2016 No.8483227 23, Edinburgh, Stoner, 40 pages or so to go. Probably best book I've ever read unless it goes horribly wrong from here. Though I know it won't

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:09:21 2016 No.8483269 >>8483179 Janet?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:11:04 2016 No.8483278 26 Purity by Franzen Meh

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:11:11 2016 No.8483280 >>8483227 >>8483227 Is stoner a sad book? I thought it was just a meme tbqhfam

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:12:42 2016 No.8483286 >22 >somewhere in Europe >Confessions of a Mask real nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:14:55 2016 No.8483294 18, Tehran (Iran), Schopenhauer's Essays, The Selfish Meme, Histories, Oblomov and the Republic

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:15:06 2016 No.8483296

>>8483111
>29
>Colombia
>Hystopia by David Means
>So Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Hystopia is really cool, but as of now I dont see why it merits being long listed for the manbooker. Zarathustra is very enjoyable, but it was a mistake choosing it for my first Nietchoo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:24:20 2016 No.8483336 >22 >Mexico City >The Merchant of Venice On 2.7 atm Really liking it, the problem of identity is well developed in this first two scenes. I have high hopes for this play.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:42:39 2016 No.8483385 > 27 > Poland > Brief interviews with hideous men Some of those short stories are just fine, some are amazing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:48:27 2016 No.8483392 >>8483111 22 London, Ontario Invitation to a Beheading, which is so far stellar, though very similar to Kafka's The Trial

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 14:49:57 2016 No.8483399 >>8483392 couldn't read it cause the language was hard for me (I'm not native English speaker), is it also hard for a native to read Nabokov?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:00:54 2016 No.8483428

>>8483399
It has been fine so far, though I have read a fair number of Nabokov's works so I may be acclimated to his prose. I wouldn't be too hard on yourself, Nabokov is known for his flowery style.

Perhaps try Laughter in the Dark, it's great and probably one of his less adorned novels prose-wise.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:01:02 2016 No.8483430
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>21
>Brazil
>Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)

Certainly deserves its place in the Canon, some amazing short stories here.

Apparently everyone's favorite is "A perfect day for bananafish" and I can get along with that. It really impressed me with how clear you can picture everything, even though there's not exaggerated details like a lot of writers do.

If you haven't already, read it here: https://u.pomf.is/echdrr.pdf
It's worth it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:18:25 2016 No.8483487 >>8483428 Thanks, I would, Invitation was my first try on Nabokov and I find it hard so abandoned it, but I would try it asap

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:20:08 2016 No.8483500
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>27
>Arizona (South)
>Los Detectives Salvajes by Roberto Bolaño
Started last night. I'm only about two, or three, boners into the story.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:26:14 2016 No.8483519

>23
>UK
>Time's Arrow

IBeen reading a lot of ancient stuff recently so I decided to switch things up by reading something modern. It's alright but I keep being distracted by my own despair and longing for the girl that despises me.

Tell me /lit/:how do you deal with life when you want to die but are not suicidal?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:27:00 2016 No.8483523 File: 92 KB, 1340x880, nsaplease.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8483111 oh wow people on this board don't know about data mining

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:28:39 2016 No.8483525

>>8483519
>how do you deal with life when you want to die but are not suicidal?
I jerk off and think about jerking off and how it's a sin and if there's a life after death I would get fucked up, bu then I think that there's no life after death and they're all bulshit, and that distract me about thinking about my vain existence.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:28:55 2016 No.8483526 File: 52 KB, 500x500, 9842439.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8483138 >there will never be a McCarthy novel set in some horrific contemporary african conflict do u know this feel

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:30:03 2016 No.8483532 16 Slower lower Delaware Gravity's rainbow I can dig it, fun read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:34:36 2016 No.8483545 >22 >Bulgaria >Monstrous Regiment Almost at the end, reasonably enjoyable, although I think Pratchett overdid it a bit.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:39:52 2016 No.8483560

>>8483111

>23
>Scandinavia
>Being and Time, by Heidegger

It's ok. There are definitely extremely lucid moments, especially as a sort of antidote to the numbingly boring "rational" scientism bullshit metaphysics that every other plebian uses for "enlightenment" these days.

Although often I find it slightly long-winded, boring and even a little banal. He even says at some point in the beginning that much of it will feel like stating the obvious in a slightly different way and he was exactly right.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:43:31 2016 No.8483571 >>8483170 Are you reading an annotated edition? At least the self indulgence will make sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:45:17 2016 No.8483576 >>8483280 It's intensely melancholic. >>8483392 This did nothing for me. Talk about self indulgence, holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:46:07 2016 No.8483581 >>8483526 Nah, the way I feel at the moment, I would read McCarthy write about anything. Blood Meridian has been such a pleasure to read currently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:50:15 2016 No.8483595 >23 >Baltics >Time's Arrow by Amis. It's fucking amazing

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:52:07 2016 No.8483601

>20

>Budapest

>Magnetic death by Frigyes Karinthy
So far so good.I'm eager to find out how Karinthy handles sci-fi,since most of his works I have read took place in (then) contemporary Hungary.
Reminds me a bit of Candide so far

>Confucianist stories
It's a bit dry,but overall,I'm going to stick with it because of it's cultural value.
I like chinese stories.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:55:10 2016 No.8483611 >>8483595 Hey, me too! Wanna go to Prague in December?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:56:37 2016 No.8483614

>18
>newcastle (england)
>infinite jest
memes aside it actually is really good. ive been trawling through it for a couple of months on and off so it hasn't exactly been fast but damn, it is a little hit or miss but when it hits it really fucking hits it out of the park

(favourite bits so far, eschaton, when Himselfs dad tells himself about the injury that stopped his career, when dfw goes through all of the thoughts etc of people in halfway houses, could go on. so good.

on page 650 atm )

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:56:57 2016 No.8483615 >>8483430 >https://u.pomf.is/echdrr.pdf thanks, this'll be my morning read tomorrow. sorry about your president by the way, we didn't mean to give you the brazilian gemayel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:58:49 2016 No.8483624 >>8483532 underage

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:59:07 2016 No.8483627 Just got back from Czech Republic two weeks ago, but thanks for the offer. Where are you from exactly?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 15:59:44 2016 No.8483630 >>8483624 honestly who gives a fuck

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:00:21 2016 No.8483633 >>8483611 Just got back from Czech Republic two weeks ago, but thanks for the offer. Where are you from exactly?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:04:16 2016 No.8483650 >>8483624 Blue board?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:18:56 2016 No.8483712 >>8483633 Ah, how was it? I'll probably just go for a week; Prague looks rather cozy to me. I'm from Kent, England. It's kinda mediocre but we have Canterbury which is nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:52:24 2016 No.8483816 >22 >DC >The Road Just started. Looking forward to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:52:32 2016 No.8483817 >>8483712 Hands down one of the most beautiful places I've been. Kafka's museum is also pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:54:23 2016 No.8483821 >22 >Istanbul >Moby dick >can't decide if literary marvel or pure drivel

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:55:58 2016 No.8483826 >>8483269 Nope lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 16:57:33 2016 No.8483829 >>8483821 Literary marvel. You're reading it in english, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:00:24 2016 No.8483838 >>8483829 In English,of course. No doubt this is a great book but his digressions feel too meaningless sometimes. Some of them will deeply move me, others compel me to just throw the book away.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:01:42 2016 No.8483845 >>8483111 >23 (+-) >fuck off >Bleeding Hearts (Demimonde, #1) its garbage, time to move on to "Andrei Lankov - The Real North Korea"

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:02:44 2016 No.8483851 >>8483821 How much do you know about christianity?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:04:03 2016 No.8483853 >>8483624 alert the cyber cops

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:05:31 2016 No.8483862 >>8483430 That's definitely my favorite Salinger work! For Esmé—with Love and Squalor was my favorite story from it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:06:22 2016 No.8483867

>>8483851
I'm afraid the only book I've read on Christianity is Armstrong's A History of God which I found to be repulsive for it's deeply apologetic view of Islam. So not much but I definitely mean to in the future. If you are talking about the Biblical references I'm using the Wodsworth publication that has super useful endnotes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:06:27 2016 No.8483869 >>8483111 >17 >Nebraska >The Conquest of New Spain This book has been a pretty comfy read so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:07:33 2016 No.8483872 >>8483615 I have absolutely no idea about the meaning of your president comment, but enjoy the reading. Also, LibGen has the complete ebook in case you want more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:08:16 2016 No.8483875 >21 >L O N D O N >Infinite Meme, it's pretty good but I find it pretty hard to get into >No Longer Human, interesting book but translated Japanese is a bit awkward

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:09:18 2016 No.8483879

>22
>Southern Indiana
>Montaigne's Essays

Been reading it for about four months now and I think Montaigne might be the sanest author I've ever read. He's helped me out when I thought I was losing my mind, made me laugh, and has never been boring. I get why people talk about the Essays like they're talking about a life long friend, reading them makes you feel less alone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:11:44 2016 No.8483889 >>8483879 >talking about a life long friend Do you think they mean to imply the works' length by that or that's is infinitely re-readable nature?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:12:37 2016 No.8483894 26 sweden JR it is difficult to keep up

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:14:28 2016 No.8483897 >>8483889 Probably both, It's nearly 1300 pages long and I definitely see myself re-reading it in the future.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:15:42 2016 No.8483903 >>8483862 Haven't got there yet but I'm excited for this one, should be one of his best. Once I finish the book I plan on searching for some essays about those short stories. I'm sure there are a lot of things underneath that I didn't catch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:16:22 2016 No.8483905 >>8483111 >22 >Ottawa >9 Stories by Salinger Holy fuck this book is so good so far. These stories are absolutely devastating, highly recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:18:16 2016 No.8483914 >>8483430 >>8483905 I thought that Uncle Wiggly was better actually. Banana Fish was great and the ending is a gut punch, but I think the one after is a bit more fleshed out and subtle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:21:03 2016 No.8483923 >>8483897 I'd also like to add that it's because he mostly wrote about himself, his ever changing moods/ideas/opinions/tastes etc. It might be the closest a book has come to representing a full individual.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:27:54 2016 No.8483946 24 New York Mazalan: gardens of the moon. It's pretty okay. There's a noble kid and two soldiers in the scene now. It's not getting on my nerves with it's in the middle of things opening.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:28:42 2016 No.8483949 >>8483111 >18 >Bosnia >V. Absolutely loving the meme author

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:29:25 2016 No.8483951 >>8483571 No it's not an annotated edition. I've been looking up some context though every evening on what I've read. Annotations would be fucking wonderful now that I'm getting into the book. Maybe next time...

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:31:06 2016 No.8483957 >>8483430 >>8483905 I'm happy to hear others enjoy Salinger's work. Seems like so many want to say how terrible and lame his writing is (usually tongue in cheek of course).

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:33:41 2016 No.8483969 15, new york, diary of a man in despair. good

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:36:10 2016 No.8483980 >>8483111 >19 >Netherlands >The Tatar Steppe >Love it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:39:08 2016 No.8483989 >>8483969 Ur not supposed to tell them. u can get banned ya know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:39:30 2016 No.8483991 >>8483969 >15 >15 >15

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:39:38 2016 No.8483992

>>8483957
Since I'm Brazilian Salinger holds no history for me (we don't read it in school, few people know him etc), so there's also no prejudice. I enjoyed Catcher in the Rye and I'm enjoying his short stories a lot more, he's really one of the greats.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:40:56 2016 No.8483999 >>8483991 This would be the prime underage pseud hub board. A bunch of pretentious teenagers who believe they are so above their peers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:41:59 2016 No.8484002 >>8483111 >29 >Hungary >Don Quixote: sometimes it's hilarious and pretty charming, but also tends to be tedious.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:42:25 2016 No.8484004 >21 >Rome >zhuangzi comfy af

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:43:15 2016 No.8484008 >>8483838 Tbh the whole book can easily be treated as a sequence of digressions. If you really didn't get what he was trying to say with some of them, interpret harder. >>8483969 >>8483869 >>8483532 Dumb fucks

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:43:59 2016 No.8484010 >21 >England >The Plumed Serpent, enjoying it so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:51:04 2016 No.8484035 >>8483111 21(+-) germany The ego and its own visionary, repetitive, harsh Soon done and for me it was absolutely worth it, but I might be an exception here

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:56:31 2016 No.8484047

>25
>Manhattan
>The Republic and Dubliners -- really enjoying Dubliners only have The Dead left which I'm really looking forward to... Have only read through Book I of Republic so far--wasn't crazy about it (particularly the exchange towards the end with Thrasymachus) but Book II seems more to my liking from the bit I've started.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:57:57 2016 No.8484050 22/Nova Scotia/ The Stranger It's good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 17:58:18 2016 No.8484052 >>8483111 18, Los Angeles, Metamorphoses

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:01:37 2016 No.8484059 >>8483280 In general its bleak but it also describes romantic love in such a beautiful way... Just read it, its short

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:06:44 2016 No.8484072 >>8484052 How do you like it? I hated Metamorphosis and dislike Kafka in general. Can't say he didn't have some serious literary contributions though. Or do you mean the poem?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:07:42 2016 No.8484073 >>8483147 Same on the book. How far are you? Any stories that you particularly liked?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:09:50 2016 No.8484079
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>>8483430
Just finished reading this today. It's really an enjoyable read, from its prose to originality. There were two or three stories that didn't interest me, though. However, I'd still recommend this to anyone interested in reading short stories. Salinger commands a distinguished voice with his writing. I plan on reading his other works before year's end.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:10:40 2016 No.8484083 >>8483111 19, South East England, Why Nations Fail, it is a lot longer than it needs to be but very interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:29:38 2016 No.8484133 >18 >Prince Albert, Saskatchewan >Gibbon >Read a lot about time previously and wasn't sure this was worth reading. Boy was I wrong.

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Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:47:02 2016 No.8484184

>22
>Germany
>Infinite Jest; Steppenwolf; An Introduction to Aesthetics

Jest is such a bore. I'm 400 pages in and all the unnecessary drivel drowns out the brilliant novels that are shining though every so often. Those nuggets keep me going though. Steppenwolf reads like butter in comparison.
Just finished the Baumgarten section, moving on to Kant. Got nothing new out of it yet

>>8483560
Is it as hard as people make it out to be? Are you reading it for a course?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:56:04 2016 No.8484213 >>8484035 Stirners Prosa ist einschläfernd, habe nach 20 Seiten aufgegeben, werde es in Zukunft nochmal angehen. Liest du es wie ein Selbsthilfe-buch? Mit welcher Einstellung sollte ich das Werk angehen?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 18:58:30 2016 No.8484217 18 Croatia Vojnović - Dubrovnik Trilogy (for school) and Moby Dick >>8484170 Hej

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:10:44 2016 No.8484263 >>8483111 18 Italy Crime and Punishment The characterization of the characters is really good. Less than 100 pages to finish it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:20:27 2016 No.8484305 24 North Carolina Hellblazer, pretty entertaining so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:21:39 2016 No.8484311 >20 >America >Cannery Row. Super comfy, I'm digging it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:25:29 2016 No.8484327

>>8484213
Teilweise Augen zu und durch, dafür lohnen sich manche Passagen umso mehr.
Ich habe mir am Anfang gedacht es hätte Ansätze eines Selbsthilfebuches, aber ich habe mich getäuscht.
Zwar gibt es konkret solche Stellen (z.B. am Anfang von 2.3 "Mein Selbstgenuß"), aber das ist auch nicht seine Hauptintention.
Zuallererst verstehen, dass er es hauptsächlich mit Junghegelianern zu tun hatte, welche wiederrum alle Idealisten sind (so gesehen auch Marx). Das missfällt ihm sehr, denn er sieht sich als Kämpfer gegen "das Heilige", was sich letztendlich als alles Geistige/Idealistische entpuppt , er war schon damals Außenseiter und sich dessen bewusst, unter anderem auch daher vermute ich den harschen und eigen-artigen Ton.
Oftmals werden auch Begriffe benutzt, die erst später richtig definiert werden, etwas nervig, aber man gewöhnt sich daran.
Ich lese es als politisch/soziologische Abhandlung der Gesellschaft.
Ich erkenne in seinem Werk spontan 3 Hauptmotive , die mich in dieser Annahme bekräftigen:
1. Die modernen Strömungen, Liberalismus und Kommunismus(/Sozialismus), sind ja nicht nur Erben, sondern gerade eben die Komplettierung des Christentums
2. Unabhängig von 1. Kritik am Liberalismus und Kommunismus
3. Lösungsvorschlag -> Der Egoismus

Teilweise ist es echt mantra-artig ausgeartet, doch zeigt es, wie sehr Stirner Wert auf den Egoismus legt.
1. und 2. fande ich gut ausgearbeitet und ich habe auch einiges über andere zeitgenössische Philosophen (Bauer, Marx, Feuerbach, Hess, Proudhon) dazugelernt und einen guten Einblick in die damalige Zeit gewonnen.
Manche sehen ihn als Wegbereiter des individuellen Anarchismus (mMn auch des einzigen), diese Annahme hat durchaus ihre Daseinsberechtigung.

Es kommt darauf an, was du dir erhoffst von diesem Buch(na gut, habe ich jetzt ein bisschen vorweggenommen).
Ich wurde aber auch sehr oft an Stellen inspiriert, kann bei dir unterschiedlich sein

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:30:17 2016 No.8484347 >27 >Germany, Munich >Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Represantation Volume 2

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:34:37 2016 No.8484365

>>8483111
>20
>Topeka KS
>Crime and Punishment and the Hobbit

C&P is great and Rodya has so far been one of my favorite literary characters yet, about 200 pages till finish. Hobbit is a comfy AF book to read right before bed and I feel like i can read ten pages of it in a minute

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:38:32 2016 No.8484386 >>8483179 Oh nice I'm from there as well! Weird to see people from Ontario post on 4chan! Hope you enjoy the book anon!

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:41:09 2016 No.8484398
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>>8483111

>23
>Serbia
>The Roman Catholic Criminal Project of the artificial Croatian nation

Loving every section of it.

The books is free on english in case you're interested

http://www.vseselj.com/files/books/Rimokatolicki-na-engleskom.pdf

His works include other hits like

Shriveled kangaroo ball Kevin Parker, and Bristling Scottish shit Ian Bonomi

The books are amazing, probably the only literature you will ever need to read in life.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:47:53 2016 No.8484429
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>21
>Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
> The Tsar of Love and Techno

It has its moments. The book is a collection of short stories that are all loosely tied together. Ultimately I find myself connecting with some stories better then others. As a result I find that the book has moments were I could not care less but also has some really cool moments that I wish was more fleshed out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:53:17 2016 No.8484449 >>8484398 Jebemti mater anone, skoro sam ugrizao udicu.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:53:35 2016 No.8484451 25 New Zealand Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol I'm finding it hilarious and I love the self-awareness of the author, especially the commentary on how loathsome the protagonist is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:54:44 2016 No.8484456 >>8484449 udicu ? Ja sam ozbiljan

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:56:02 2016 No.8484463 >>8484456 udica = bait

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 19:58:44 2016 No.8484482 >>8483111 >21 >USA >Der Steppenwolf I've just started it so it's too early to tell. I was on page 28 before I left the library.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:01:41 2016 No.8484493 >26 >Sweden >Letters from a Stoic, overall good but some of the advice is unrealistic

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:02:53 2016 No.8484501 >19 >Brazil >The corrections. Just started it, so I have nothing to say.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:03:50 2016 No.8484505 >18 >USA >Speak, Love it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:04:32 2016 No.8484508 >26 >Dallas >Brothers Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:07:34 2016 No.8484522 23 somewhere the trial by kafka feels like the place i work at, buncha meaningless and oppressive bureaucracy. it's good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:09:31 2016 No.8484530 >>8483111 20, Toronto, Among Others. A comfy read, even if it is mostly a fantasy book about someone who talks non-stop about sci-fi books.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:17:46 2016 No.8484559

>27
>American (but living in Japan)
>Blood Meridian (lel memes)

Blood Meridian is pretty good, but I have about 90 pages left and I'm ready for it to be done. I was incredibly enraptured during the first half but it's getting a little repetitive. I guess in a way that's kind of the point, as it matches the changing disposition of the characters themselves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:23:15 2016 No.8484577 19 Texas The Martian Chronicles Absolutely love the way it explores how humanity effects a foreign environment.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:29:08 2016 No.8484595
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18
Illinois
Infinite Jest
Some moments are really beautiful and well written, some aren't, I kind of knew that going in. At the end of the day I'm enjoying it quite a bit but part of me wants it to be over so I can read something a little less taxing/shorter. I'm mixing in pic related though and it's fun and informative so there's that to enjoy as well

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:32:21 2016 No.8484606 >>8484595 I like to always have a little genre fiction to read on the side so don't get burnt out stuff like that

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:35:14 2016 No.8484625 32 Not important The Road Enjoying it as much as the first twenty times I read it. It's the only fiction novel I read. Too bad the film adaptation had such a shit director.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:38:40 2016 No.8484635 >19 >England >Catcher in the Rye and HP Lovecraft short stories >Loving both desu.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 20:38:55 2016 No.8484636 24 UK Utz I'm enjoying it desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:13:31 2016 No.8484944 >>8484625 >Not important POO

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:16:41 2016 No.8484957 >>8484072 I mean the poem. I don't really enjoy Kafka's work that much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:18:27 2016 No.8484960 >>8484184 Being and Time is an insanely hard book, or at least it was for me. It's probably the only book I've put down because I didn't think I was ready for it. For reference, I thought Phenomenology of Spirit was rather enjoyable in comparison.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:21:56 2016 No.8484974

31 this month.
Guatemala.
The Irregulars - Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington.

It's alright. Tends to go off on a tangent about who's fucking who's wife while being broke and pretending to be rich or striking riches after finding oil or shit like that a bit too often for my taste, but it sometimes does paint quite interesting, clearly zionist links in a book about instigating a world war, so I can forgive all the gossipy shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:21:56 2016 No.8484975 >>8484606 I feel the same way with interesting nonfiction. I don't want to get two stories mixed together on accident but I also don't want to just read IJ for months straight and be sick of it when I finally finish

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:23:46 2016 No.8484981 >>8484944 IN

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:24:37 2016 No.8484986 >24 >Indiana, USA >Crash This book really commits to its themes, huh? Also, Ballard's prose is pretty good and I've read some of the weirdest fucking similes ever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:29:20 2016 No.8485001 >>8484974 Mis vecinos eran miembros de las Maras Salvatrucha y consiguieron deportados a Guatemala. Siempre fueron muy amables conmigo; qué te parece que todavía están viviendo?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:32:22 2016 No.8485007 >>8484974 También lo siento para hablando en español. No suelo tener la oportunidad de hablar español en el aquí y es bastante pobre.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:33:53 2016 No.8485014 >>8483894 Are you reading a translation?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:42:51 2016 No.8485036

>>8485001
>>8485007
Mh... your spanish is not the best. Let me fix it while I reply:

>Mis vecinos eran miembros de [la Mara Salvatrucha] y [fueron] deportados a Guatemala. Siempre fueron muy amables conmigo. ¿Qué te parece que todavía [estén] viviendo?
I'm against both the death penalty and illegal immigration, so I'm glad they weren't murdered by any state, and that they were sent back to the country they illegally migrated from.

I'm sure there were circumstances for the life they've had. Though I also believe they should pay for every single crime they committed, of course, but not with their lives. I do hope they get reformed, but considering the statistics, it's obviously a hollow hope.

>>8485007
>También: lo siento para hablando en español. No suelo tener la oportunidad de hablar español [-] aquí, y [mi español] es bastante pobre.
Weren't there threads dedicated to practicing foreign languages in /int/? I mean, I don't go there, but I believe I've seen that mentioned around...

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:44:57 2016 No.8485045

>>8485036
>>8485007
Wait. Didn't really fix the second quote:
>También: [siento hablar / siento estar hablando / lo siento por estar hablando (any of these work)] en español. No suelo tener la oportunidad de hablar español [-] aquí, y [mi español] es bastante pobre.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:46:21 2016 No.8485050

>>8485036
Thanks anon, I appreciate it. A few years back I would have considered myself fluent, but it's been about 5 years since I really did anything with my Spanish. I've never been to /int/, but do you know of any places that might be able to give me a refresher in Spanish so that I can get better at it?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:50:13 2016 No.8485061

>>8485050
>do you know of any places that might be able to give me a refresher in Spanish so that I can get better at it?
Just go watch El Chapulín Colorado in youtube.

31 Minutos too. Huh. Just searched for it, and it looks like they officially uploaded all the episodes. That's cool.
https://www.youtube.com/user/31minutostv/playlists?shelf_id=17&sort=dd&view=50

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:50:36 2016 No.8485064 27 Maryland Europe Central and I'm enjoying it quite a bit though I still think I like You Bright and Risen Angels more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:52:44 2016 No.8485070 >>8485061 I can't help but feel like 31 Minutos is hilarious. Thanks a bunch anon!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:55:41 2016 No.8485083 >>8483111 >28 >Lima, Perú >Memoirs of Hadrian loving it, specially how Yourcenar portrays the emperor's worldview. It also ranks in my Top 5 Gayest Books

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 22:57:46 2016 No.8485093 >>8483111 >24 >NYC >The Brothers Karamazov, literally first opened it tonight

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:00:09 2016 No.8485101 >>8484493 >From Sweden >some of Seneca's advice is unrealistic Like his advice about how a government should be comprised of actual leaders, and not the fucking spineless cucks currently running your country?

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:02:21 2016 No.8485109

>>8485070
It's actually pretty classy for a funny kid's show. But yeah, it does have its hilarious moments.

Have a boatload of books in spanish while I'm at it:
http://librosgratisxd.com

Go read some Bolaño, and get memed by /lit/ so hard you read him in his native language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:03:36 2016 No.8485113 >>8484184 Skip Infinite Jest and read Siddhartha instead. Instead of reading the 1,000 page Infinite Jest, you're better off reading the 100 page Siddhartha 10 times. And it will be 1,000 times more beneficial to your life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:11:58 2016 No.8485138 30 Texas Cosmicomics Somewhat underwhelmed desu, I may have just been overhyped but just feels like he's imitating Borges.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:13:00 2016 No.8485144 >>8483111 >16 >Floriduh >Mason & Dixon

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:14:27 2016 No.8485149 >>8483111 >37 >New Zealand >Spheres II: Globes It's utterly transcendent.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:16:38 2016 No.8485155

>20
>Iowa, small lib arts college
>bricks without straw by Albion Tourgee

It's for an american lit course. I like Tourgee's depiction of the Recontruction era and he writes Southern Black dialect in a fairly respectful way. Not too complex, but im only a third of the way in, hopefully it'll get a bit more interesting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:17:31 2016 No.8485157 >17 >Michigan >Fear and Trembling

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:31:46 2016 No.8485189 >>8484981 LOO

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:42:39 2016 No.8485215 File: 235 KB, 1104x870, 1446331748044.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8483111 >18 >Notes from the Underground >pretty meh, I expected some deep philosophical shit and only got "/r9k/:the book"

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:45:04 2016 No.8485225
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>19
>Winnipeg
>Phenomenology of Spirit (or Mind, if you are so inclined)
Been reading it very slowly so I might actually understand it.
I started it last week and I'm only at section 7 of the preface,
and I'm rather surprised by how much content he packs into relatively short chunks.

Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:53:38 2016 No.8485254

>>8483111
20
Ann Arbor, Michigan
"On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius. I haven't gotten to any of the Epicurean friendship sections, but I am absolutely floored by the frenetic, atom-grained reality Lucretius described; the myriad comparisons he makes towards nature and society in characterizing the atoms really drives home the ubiquity of an atomic universe. Also, it's been a while since I read something from someone so unrestrained, and it's refreshing to see some character; Lucretius was cranky at pretty much everyone who wasn't Epicurus or who believed in Gods.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 7 23:58:23 2016 No.8485269 >>8483111 25 Missouri Merrill's collected poems, quite enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 00:47:32 2016 No.8485388 >>8483872 It was about how your president is Lebanese and corrupt. >LibGen I'll check it out, cheers

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:20:18 2016 No.8485449

>>8483195
I'm from ontario too

Age 27

Reading White Noise. Delillo has some beautifully poetic prose. I read falling man earlier this year and enjoyed it but even just a few pages in I could tell this was better. Not that falling man is bad, but white noise is just that dang good

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:22:48 2016 No.8485451 >>8485225 >>19 >>Phenomenology of Spirit easy there, slick. you have years ahead of you for the really difficult works.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:34:17 2016 No.8485459 >24 >Seattle >Frankenstein First time reading the original. Since the rain came back it's a comfy horror read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:42:12 2016 No.8485470 >21 >Ontario >It What the fuck is with that ending sex part?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:49:37 2016 No.8485479 >>8483111 >25 >.ru >Master and Margarita, 50p in and it's good

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 01:51:03 2016 No.8485483 >>8485388 Libgen is a godsend till it isn't. You're finding every obscure textbook, any rare esoteric pdf, then all of a sudden fucking nothing for something you'd consider far more well known. Bizarre.

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 04:33:01 2016 No.8485723
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>>8485215
I wish people would stop comparing the underground man to /r9k/. Robots are the way they are because they're invalids. The Underground Man is the way he is out of contempt for the world. Plus, he at least doesn't spill his spaghetti with women. Even managed to convince a young prostitute to give up her ways and seek him out.

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 04:55:14 2016 No.8485751

>>8483111
18, England, To The Lighthouse. Vickie is a try-hard bitch desu but I'm finding it interesting, Time Passes is quite an impressive section and I would be surprised if any other author could write it as well as she has. Supper chapter was cool. I'd read more of her in a few years though

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 04:59:30 2016 No.8485760 26 The Netherlands Out of Africa I don't like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 05:12:52 2016 No.8485784 >>8485014 nope. i don't even know if there is a translation of JR and if there is one it's definitely not in swedish.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 10:43:59 2016 No.8486457 File: 55 KB, 519x878, 12647495_1025277420878619_7913253481073292211_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8484398 reminded me of this

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 10:46:37 2016 No.8486467

>>8483111
20, Scotland
>How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Introduction gives some great theory on what is to be gained by reading, and I feel like reading this book will improve my own writing abilities as much as my reading.
>Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Great, concise reference book for Greek Mythology. Yet to have bothered with the Roman and Nordic sections.
>Gogol's Diary of a Madman and other stories
Amazing satire, genuinely hilarious and easy to read. The nose is my personal favourite. The overcoat is great too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 10:48:18 2016 No.8486473 >24 >SoCal >Sons by Pearl S. Buck (it's meh.) >Kids book of Welsh myth (comfy) >Twelve Who Ruled (non-fiction about the Reign of Terror and it's amazing so far.)

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 10:49:27 2016 No.8486476

>>8485723
People need to stop talking about robots as if they're a single class of individual with totally uniform beliefs, background and characteristics. The reason underground man is often tied in with /r9k/ is because /r9k/ was the defacto /lit/ before /lit/ existed and Notes from Underground was highly lauded there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 10:51:38 2016 No.8486482 >>8483111 >25 >NYC >Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse I picked it up out of curiosity after hearing a couple of posters here talk about how terrible it was. I can see why some people might not appreciate it, but it's actually great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 11:05:55 2016 No.8486521 >>8484522 >22 >Pennsylvania >The Trial >The Meditations (Marcus) >The China Study

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 11:10:26 2016 No.8486535

>>8484184
I'm not reading it for a course, just part of a project of educating myself.

No, it's not at all as hard as people make it out to be. If you have a basic grip of the tenets of phenomenology and hermeneutics, I think it's very doable. Wikipedia has a glossary for his terms, which are handy to have while reading. Also, I am reading it in german (mother tongue), pehaps that's also why I find a little easier than some people. He gives very common, prosaic german words a spin, but "getting" the prosaic context of the original words helps a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 16:18:36 2016 No.8487513 20, merica, currently don quixote, the sun also rises, and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, really loving all 3 but will probably have to drop one since classes have started again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:51:57 2016 No.8487957 >>8485388 99% of our politicians are ridiculously corrupt, the president being one of them or not makes absolutely no difference. This is Brazil, unfortunately.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:56:56 2016 No.8487979 20, Engerland, IJ. Enjoying it more than I thought I would. A lot easier to access than people lead me to believe.

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:05:42 2016 No.8487993

24
Virginia, USA
Currently reading All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir. Guys, I used to be a regular /lit/izen, coming daily for months at a time. How is it that I've never heard about this book until recently from reading a random bio online? I am not done yet, but it comes second only to The Brothers Karamazov in my opinion. I AM NOT DONE AND IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE. I've read the works of several existentialists but this is just something else. If you can read this and still view your personal matters as significant, then I envy you because I've succumbed to such apathy as I have never felt before reading this. She portrays the futility of existence; the delusion of man in attributing worth to himself and his life so well, that all memes about women being inferior writers has been effaced from my mind. I suppose I'm opening myself up to a lot of #babysfirstexistentialcrisis but no brothers, this is different. Through All Men Are Mortal, this dear, dear woman, whom I love now more than I do my own mother, strips you bare as only a woman can so from the desolation of apathy, you can build yourself up and attribute significance anew. In a word, I recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:09:18 2016 No.8488003 >>8487993 >Simone de Beauvoir I don't believe you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:40:27 2016 No.8488078 >>8488003 I don't blame you. Before reading this, Mary Shelley was the only woman whose work I admired. I would have likely disregarded a post praising a woman writer also, but like I said, she's fucked my shit up.

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:27:06 2016 No.8488191
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>>8487993
Hey, Virginiabro

What do you expect? The majority of the board is below the age of 22. Most of them are still in college, id say. Aside from that, everyone on here just reads meme writers and meme-of-the-week books. Just read whatever you like, mate. There's no shame in that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:34:18 2016 No.8488211 25 Massachusetts H is for Hawk About half way through. Hoping things clean up a bit. I like the descriptions of the Hawk at least.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:37:47 2016 No.8488220 >21 >Buenos Aires, Argentina >Festival - César Aira I just read 20 pages, so I can't really say, so far so good. Yesterday I finished Catcher in the Rye (in english btw), I really like that book, I really do.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:44:08 2016 No.8488240 >>8488220 You seem cool. We'd probably get along irl. Let me ask you a question, friendo. How do I woo an Argentinian woman?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:59:20 2016 No.8488277 19, Atlantic Canada, reading Brave New World on the bus, and at work I just finished Catcher in the Rye and The Princess Bride audiobooks BNW is alright so far. It's no 1984 if you ask me, but I'm only a few chapters in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 21:14:43 2016 No.8488318 File: 852 KB, 640x454, 1461770210062.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8488277 reddit: the boy

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 21:14:47 2016 No.8488320

>24
>Los Angeles

>Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem

The first few essays are only kind of meh, but the later chapters are good.

>A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze&Guattari

Good shit.

>A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump

Serviceable overview of scientific developments, but kind of makes me want to just read Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by EA Burtt again.

>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

How didn't I read this when I was younger? It's amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 21:48:31 2016 No.8488394 File: 472 KB, 500x300, Landwar.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8488318 You know it, babe

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:01:21 2016 No.8488425 >24 >North Carolina >Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay It's OK. Entertaining, but not really substantial-- the setting is interesting but the prose is fairly bland.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:02:50 2016 No.8488430 21 Seattle The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Schopenhauer Been pretty fun so far, though I haven't read too much besides him throwing a hissy-fit about Hegel

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:10:29 2016 No.8488461

>20.
>Australia.
>The Brothers Karamazov.

200 pages left. Would rate it 10/10.

I'm tempted to say it's my new favourite book, but I usually like giving it a couple of weeks before ranking it. I finished Infinite Jest almost two months ago and I like/appreciate it even more now after going back to read some sections a couple of times.

>>8484184

Hello plebo.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:12:18 2016 No.8488467 >>8488461 >dostoevsky >10/10 >calling other peoples plebs pleb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:13:32 2016 No.8488473 Age: 19 Location: Houston, going to Minnesota for college Currently Reading: the old testament

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:15:32 2016 No.8488484 >>8483111 >19 >North Dakota >Reading Dubliners, just finished Araby. I like it a lot, but its a bit of a hard read, especially if you want to understand the deeper themes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:16:51 2016 No.8488491 File: 106 KB, 457x640, pseud.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8484073 not really man, it's all just marble cities and perfumed fountains - going to get to call of chtulhu and if it doesn't improve will drop this shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:20:50 2016 No.8488504 >>8483111 >18 >Nowhere important >Infinite Jest Not good, not bad, just thought provoking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:21:05 2016 No.8488506 >20 >brazil >Alejandra Pizarnik's letters to her psychoanalyst.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:22:53 2016 No.8488510 18 Michigan Utopia/glass bead game

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:25:56 2016 No.8488528 >19 >Maryland >Notes from Underground. I've just started a couple of minutes ago, but so far I find the narrator to be incredibly annoying. I'm not sure how much of this I can take.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 22:27:24 2016 No.8488537 >>8488504 >just thought provoking Isn't that a good thing ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 00:59:35 2016 No.8488857 >20 >Let's just say Oakland >Last Unicorn

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 01:40:35 2016 No.8488938 >>8488506 good taste

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 01:49:27 2016 No.8488954 >>8483111 21 Los Angeles Taking a break in between Parts 1 & 2 of "Don Quixote" by rereading "V." by Pinecone. Enjoying both immensely

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 01:50:03 2016 No.8488955 >23 >Turkey >The Brothers Karamazov Its going fine, the whole family is fucked up though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 01:53:32 2016 No.8488967 >>8488955 >alyosha >fucked up u wot m8

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 02:23:53 2016 No.8489053
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19
Northern Colorado
And Quiet Flows the Don, by Sholokov

Been looking for this book everywhere, rather than buying online. Spotted it in a random spot after searching for Sholokhov at a used book store today. Got it and a couple books my gf picked out for a bunch of books I traded in. Not a great trade value-wise but I needed to get rid of some books nonetheless.

I like the cover and I'm a big fan of these Signet Classics. I like it so far!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 02:26:17 2016 No.8489060 >>8483111 >18 >Washington State >The Quiet American, I like it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 03:14:39 2016 No.8489132 >Twenty-Six >The Tragic And The Ecstatic: The Musical Evolution Of Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde It's quite good so far; concerned primarily with Wagner's reading of Schopenhauer. It's interesting to consider how artists internalize certain ideas.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 03:47:06 2016 No.8489174 >23 >Poland >Commentaries on the Gallic War Just finished second book. Pretty cool, even though Caesar is biased towards Romans or their allies in general and I sometimes have problems with distinguishing millions of Gallic tribes describe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:06:46 2016 No.8489314 >>8483162 Пpивeт :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:13:26 2016 No.8489320 >>8483111 25 Germany Neuromancer Only 30 pages in, atmosphere is good, sadly some passages are less good due to clichés.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:19:22 2016 No.8489326 >24 >f (mtf) >USA >The Gospel in Brief by Tolstoy - it's life-changing

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:20:34 2016 No.8489327 >>8489326 >people will fall for this

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:28:55 2016 No.8489339

>>8487957
He was am informant for the CIA, and recently Brazil became pro-israel even though Brazil was one of the few non-arab countries which were pro-palestine. It's going to get worse, buddy. But economically, the state will get much better on the long run, but that's like 40 years from now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 05:52:33 2016 No.8489372 >>8489174 >>8483385 Uszanowanko

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:04:38 2016 No.8489396 >>8489326 Don't you have a rope to go hang with?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:07:21 2016 No.8489402 >>8488955 >Alyosha. Nigger are you even comprehending the book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:13:04 2016 No.8489411 >>8489314 Пpивeт! Этo ты Macтepa и Mapгapитy читaeшь?

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:21:29 2016 No.8489425

>>8483111
>23
>Argentina
>American Psycho
>I'm liking it so far, i haven't got to the good stuff yet, bateman describes every single moment of his life and it can't get boring having to read about him being a total ass with his ''friends'', but i guess that's cool because you get to really know him.

Also i'm not that big of a reader, 23 years old and i just now started to get into literature

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:23:54 2016 No.8489429 >>8483430 So glad someone else has found out amazing this work is. Really underrated, for me, De-Daumier Smith's Blue Period was one that really stuck with me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:24:05 2016 No.8489430 >>8489411 Heт Я мимoхoдoм cюдa

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:39:06 2016 No.8489447 >>8489430 нy cмoтpи! в любoм cлyчae, пpиятнo знaть, чтo тyт нeмнoгo pyccкoгoвopящих вoдитcя.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:43:49 2016 No.8489451 >>8489447 Кaк Дyблинцы тeбe? Джoйca нe читaл, нo нaчaл в филocoфию yглyблятьcя нынчe. Дao дэ Цзин дoкaнчивaю и пoтoм либo "Диaлoги", либo чтo-нибyдь из Aвpeлия

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:51:32 2016 No.8489461 20 France Le principe, by J.Ferrari (about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle)

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:57:06 2016 No.8489471

>>8489451
Mнe нpaвитcя, нo кaк я пoнял, для cтиля Джoйca этo нe caмaя хapaктepнaя paбoтa, пoэтoмy я o нём пoкa мнeния нe cocтaвил. A дo филocoфии я никaк нe дoбepycь, oтклaдывaю нa пoтoм, кoгдa пoyмнee cтaнy, тaк чтo читaл тoлькo тo, чтo в yнивepcитeтcкoй пpoгpaммe былo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 06:58:59 2016 No.8489475 >>8483111 22, Romania, just finished The Road and started Fear and loathing, I'm into it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 07:00:16 2016 No.8489478 >>8483147 Did you visit his grave yet? Cool place although pretty small

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 07:03:18 2016 No.8489481 >>8489471 Bceмy cвoё вpeмя, я пoлaгaю. Пpиятнo былo cвидeтьcя, a я cнoвa yхoжy в вeчный pидoнли

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 07:43:40 2016 No.8489533 >22 >Copenhagen >an evening of long goodbyes

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 08:44:44 2016 No.8489633

>>8489478
yeah i grew up close to it. the cemetary its in, swan point, was a classic middle school/hs spot for riding bikes to smoke weed/cigs. its also next to something called gay bay, a road/bay in providence where gay men go to get picked up/fuck; theres a whole headlights on or off language. anyways that always added a little edge.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 08:52:43 2016 No.8489647 >>8489396 Huh? You don't like Tolstoy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:03:45 2016 No.8489673 >>8483111 25 Norway Vineland, it has grown alot on me, soon done, but really looking forward to reading the last 90 or so pages

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:14:24 2016 No.8489703 20 Oviedo, España Trilogía de Madrid, by Umbral. Cool, despite being a little boring sometimes. History, by Herodotus. Great, instructive and entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:14:59 2016 No.8489704 24 North East England Warlock by Oakley Hall. Only ~100 pages in so far. Seems decent enough.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:32:34 2016 No.8489740 >>8483111 21 Eastern France The Three Musketeers This is my first Dumas, and I am really really enjoying it. Haven't been this engaged in a storyline for a long time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:35:23 2016 No.8489742 >>8483111 >32 >australia >I, Claudius - bretty gud

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:36:37 2016 No.8489745

19
Southern Germany
Demian

I really enjoy it so far, it's so concise and beautifully constructed and it often articulates universal thoughts in a way that is striking and fascinating. Favorite excerpt:

>“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:37:50 2016 No.8489748 >>8489411 >>8489430 >>8489447 >>8489451 >>8489471 >>8489481 I just tried to follow this using Google Translate and it came out with absolute gibberish.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:38:31 2016 No.8489752 28 UK The Count of Monte Cristo Yeah, it's all right.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:41:21 2016 No.8489759 >>8483111 18 Richard The Third A Horse! A Horse! My kingdom for a horse!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 09:44:00 2016 No.8489763 >>8483336 Se pone chido

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 10:19:46 2016 No.8489833 >>8483111 35 Virginia/usa kasumakura by soseki my second time reading it (read it 4-5 years ago) so I guess I like it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 13:19:59 2016 No.8490278 >>8488461 Hi leddit

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 13:27:27 2016 No.8490304 25 Switzerland The Dark Tower 4: Wizard and glass. Fucking good, fucking long, fucking flashback.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 13:43:40 2016 No.8490359 20 Colombia Infinite Jest, pretty nice

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:02:03 2016 No.8490419

I'm 24 and currently reading Harry Potter books in french since I'm in France and I want to enhance my knowledge of the language; so I decided to read something simple that I'd read before.

It's weird, they translate the fucking names. Snape is Rogue for example.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:06:42 2016 No.8490439 >>8490419 thats a pretty good idea. hows your french rn, how long you been studying?

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:12:26 2016 No.8490465

>>8483111
22
Amerifat
1984, Dubliners, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

I've read 1984 before, but it's been a while. It's hitting me much harder than it did in high school. Both collections of short stories are excellent. Dubliners is the first I've read by Joyce, and the setting is captured incredibly well. I suspect that I'm missing some thematic nuance, so I'll be looking for critical essays next. I started reading Carver because I saw Birdman recently, and I've got to say that it's much more emotionally poignant than the other two books.

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:18:04 2016 No.8490479

>>8490439
I've been learning french for like 4 months or so, I speak portuguese which has a lot of words that sounds similar and it helps a lot. I know enough to understand most of what is said but I struggle to express myself beyond basic sentences: my vocabulary isn't very extensive and my grammar is terrible.

Weirdly I apparently speak well enough to pass for a native when drunk, I think it's probably due to me lacking confidence when sober.

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:24:57 2016 No.8490505

>>8490465
>I started reading Carver because I saw Birdman recently, and I've got to say that it's much more emotionally poignant than the other two books
Me too, i was curious about it and it was surprisingly good. Some of them gave me really strong feels.
Did you get to the story of the old man and his son speaking in the airport?

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 14:34:08 2016 No.8490527

>22
>Guadalajara, México
>Justine - Lawrence Durrel
Beautiful prose, the story and character development it's interesting, I like how the setting plays a major role on the plot and I'm really interested in the idea behind the Alexandria Quartet, I have great expectations
>Yeats' bilingual anthology
Just started yerterday but it's beautiful and I'm loving every single page

>>	deaf chords; dead ends Fri Sep 9 15:16:48 2016 No.8490654 >>8483111 saging another stupid Sam Harris thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 15:21:11 2016 No.8490664 >>8483111 21 atlanta, georgia Wizards First rule I'm liking it but i think ill go back to wheel of time after i'm done with it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 15:53:37 2016 No.8490789 >>8485083 ¿Qué lugar de Lima?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:06:59 2016 No.8490836 >20 >Brasil >The KJ Bible and The Iliad Enjoying both.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:10:27 2016 No.8490851 18 Saskatchewan The Picture of Dorian Grey. I've been taking advantage of the Uni library to read some /lit/ core as I am pretty new here but do enjoy reading. I'm really enjoying the book. Any recommendations on what I should read after this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:16:59 2016 No.8490868 >>8483111 >19 >Dublin Just finished reading Blood Meridian. I thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through but was a bit disappointed by the final chapter. Had a difficult time trying to decipher the epigraph too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:17:12 2016 No.8490870 >>8490851 If you liked Oscar read the importance of being earnest next. If you meant general suggestions, read flowers for alrgernon. it's good and light, just like picture of dorian

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:19:01 2016 No.8490873 >>8483111 >19 >The Netherlands >Natasha's Dance:A Cultural History of Russia Absolutely loving it, planning to move on to The Icon and the Axe and Mirsky's History of Russian Literature next

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:35:12 2016 No.8490935

>>8490870
I actually read flowers for algernon a year or two for high school. I really enjoyed it as well. And Oscars style so far is very appealing to me, as (from what I can tell) he can get large ideas across in rather simple prose. Thanks for the rec.

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:37:02 2016 No.8490945

>22
>middle-America
>Infinite Meme (like it but am perpetually exhausted while reading it); Borges' Collected Fictions (love some of them, like Tlon, but others are meh); Tom Stoppard play collection (really like his monologues, but always found it awkward to read plays); Fast Machine (some of the short stories have great moments, but overall has a flat "look at me I'm an alt-lit writer" feel to it); The Alchemist (lol, a friend told me to).

I'm trying to build a base up here, so I can finally get into some more serious/in-depth areas.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 16:38:18 2016 No.8490951 >>8490935 Sure thing brother

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 18:13:48 2016 No.8491299 File: 122 KB, 1080x1326, 14031776_1142714529134208_144834206_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >19 >California >Candide Actually just finished it this morning. Motherfucker... Why did I wait so long to read it? It is a goddamn masterpiece.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 18:58:24 2016 No.8491438 >21 >Peru >Nana Is she a good girl or not

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 19:05:37 2016 No.8491457 23, UK Reading History of the Makhnovist Movement by Peter Arshinov. I don't really like reading history but I want to know about the anarchists in Ukraine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 19:07:10 2016 No.8491463 21 philly Snow Country

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 19:11:51 2016 No.8491482 21 Spain Bichos y otros parientes(spanish title for a book written by gerald durrell)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 20:12:07 2016 No.8491599 >>8488955 >>8488967 >>8489402 I don't think Ivan was fucked up. Right? Ivan was legit.

Anonymous Fri Sep 9 21:05:19 2016 No.8491742

>>8488240
well... it's a difficult question to answer. People in here are very different. You have some people (the scum) where you just have to fuck around with them and act all alpha and shit. Like you're trying too hard to get under her pants. Lots of women here like toxic relationships, they get turned on by guys who are not really worth it.
There's a lot a dumb women too. It doesn't matter their social class, they are just shallow. That's a difficult trick.
The only advice I can give you, if you're not from Argentina, is that we are one hell of a kind. We use to belive we're better than the rest, in all terms. So this apply to women itself. If you just act like you have the biggest cock in the whole room in a natural way, they will notice you. They like sweet guys to, but if you're not witty in your sweetness they would pass you by. We have something called "canchereo", something similar to "showing off". This is the core characteristic of any Argentino, so woman tend to look for this.
If you're from another country that's one hell of a perk. I mean, we are mostly inmigrants in here. So there's some real value and simpaty for any foregin person, especially if you talk another language. Some places in Buenos Aires like San Telmo, where a lot of guys and women stay in their trips is a great place to get some woman.
In a cultural side. Like trying to get into somebody that appreciate arts in all forms is a little bit more complicated. There are a lot of this women here, but it's not like there's some place (not to my knowledge) where you could really meet this kind of person. In my experience a lot of this people are very self aware and try to much to hide. Also a lot of them are really big cunts that think their "intelectual" knowledge makes them not worth their times, even if you're smarter than them. People here tend to stay very much attached to the grups they make, but in a way we are very friendly and we can always make new relationships given the right time.

I hope this could help you anon. Don't know if you're gonna read this tho, but if you like we can share some contact info and keep talking, it's always good to know new people that enjoy your tastes :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 00:09:59 2016 No.8492132 >>8491742 > but it's not like there's some place Cultural centres, theaters, café-libraries, conservatories, art galleries. Get out more.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 00:52:50 2016 No.8492219 >18 >Minneapolis >Bed (short stories) by Tao Lin >really liking it, my first time reading him

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:09:07 2016 No.8492246

>>8483111
20
United States

I've started Diary of a Drug Fiend, but I may have picked up a misprinted copy.
Most of the 'D's are typed as '|)' and there are enough spelling errors to make me doubt whether I actually have a genuine copy and it's all an effect of the drug fiend's rotted brain.
But I like what I've read so far, i'm enjoying it plenty.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:14:11 2016 No.8492262 >>8485254 hey we live in the same place

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:15:53 2016 No.8492269 >>8483111 >20 >Los Angeles >Dubliners, I like it a lot so far. Initially I was a bit put off by the writing style, but I've grown to admire and enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:28:30 2016 No.8492291 >>8485155 Wouldn't happen to be drake? I graduated from there recently and live in the area.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:30:18 2016 No.8492294 18 Gulliver's Travels Liking it a lot, a way quicker read than I initially thought it would be.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:31:39 2016 No.8492297 >20 >Canada >Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Little more than halfway in and I'm loving it so far

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:49:30 2016 No.8492334 22 Sacramento, California, USA Just finished Narcissus and Goldmund, I liked it a lot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:50:00 2016 No.8492336 >21 >chile >John Milton's Poems >Sense and Reference Half way through sense and r, like 4% through the compendium. Reading on a kindle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 01:57:29 2016 No.8492347 20 Los Angeles Women and Men Holy shit this is good. Gaddis levels of complexity and just sheer thematic density. Fuck the memes, fuck people who call it unreadable or a slob. This shit'll knock your socks off if you give it your full attention.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 02:09:04 2016 No.8492369 17 Texas Crime and Punisment im enjoying it and am really relating to Raskolnikov

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 02:12:34 2016 No.8492376
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>>8491742
Thanks for posting this, anon. The reason I asked was because I had a very intimate encounter with one of your kind, and she broke my heart. So, now I abhor her. I do, however, still find Argentinian women quite attractive. Perhaps one day I'll visit Argentina and find me a woman. Cheers.

t.Z

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 02:13:35 2016 No.8492380 >>8491438 >Nana Who's that by, Vargas Llosa?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 02:48:00 2016 No.8492441 File: 759 KB, 2200x1500, Slowcore_sadcore.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 20 Brazil Kafka's Metamorphosis

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 02:53:50 2016 No.8492446 >>8483111 21, USA, Dune. It was an entertaining read at first, but now that the novelty of constant mental chess between characters has worn off, it's gotten exponentially more of a slog.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 03:14:51 2016 No.8492463 >17 >Canada >The Master & The Servant by Matthew Gillies pretty good so far

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 03:18:21 2016 No.8492466 22 Stockholm, Sweden The Trial by Franz Kafka, it's good

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 03:28:21 2016 No.8492479 >>8483111 23, México, V. I'm loving it so far, I laughed a lot with Benny Profane's escape from the marine boat and the stencil impersonation chapter is quite amazing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 03:31:40 2016 No.8492484 >>8492380 I'm guessing it's Zola's novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 04:15:58 2016 No.8492531 >>8483111 >19 >East Midlands, UK >The Philosophy of Schopenhauer Pretty fuckin' good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 04:25:43 2016 No.8492543 >>8483111 25 Finland Ontology Or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey. It's good.

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 04:41:58 2016 No.8492562

>>8483523
>implying we give correct info
For example, I myself have read Ulysses 7 times, have a 12-inch penis, am currently reading Foundation and Empire, and work at Ye Olde Used Goystore in Calgary, Albertastan with an annual salary of 300K petrobucks guaranteed by Rachel Notley herself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 05:09:14 2016 No.8492584 26 istanbul, TR the craftsman by richard sennett really liking it so far but I'm a fangirl for sennett anyways

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 05:29:30 2016 No.8492609

>>8492132
Kek. I went and oftenly go to a lot of this places, you'll have the same luck finding someone really interesting there than in any other place. Being in a place that It's supposed to be intelectual doesn't mean that women there will be smart or actually worth your time. I met people in cultural places that are as dumb as a villero, and negras in bars that are smarter than any girl Who think is intelectual because she read some foregin book and watches independet movies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 05:50:00 2016 No.8492631 >>8483147 >Lovecraft >not impressed Congratulations on being a tasteless twat.

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