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What are you currently reading /lit/? Anonymous Fri May 5 15:03:00 2017 No.9468537 [Reply] [Original]

>I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

Go go go!!

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:42:06 2017 No.9468849 >>9468537 Why do people read multiple books at the same time

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:43:41 2017 No.9468852 File: 20 KB, 363x563, 1q84.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9468537 I'm a pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:44:18 2017 No.9468855 >>9468849 this why do people do this i can only read a novel and then maybe a non-fiction on the side

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:45:04 2017 No.9468858 >>9468537 >2666-Bolano >Speedboat-Adler >Blood Meridian-McCarthy How are you finding The Road? I enjoyed it I just thought it got far too preachy with the environmentalist stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:46:24 2017 No.9468862 >>9468855 That's nice. That's the only way to do it of course. Like making an egg

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:49:42 2017 No.9468879 >>9468537

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:55:12 2017 No.9468903 File: 88 KB, 300x485, books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9468849 >>9468855 I dunno, because I can without detriment? >t. Bierceposter

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:57:36 2017 No.9468909 >>9468858 The Road is fantastic so far anon, it was hard to put it down.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:14:35 2017 No.9468953 The Dark Forrest - Liu Cixin Rome's Italian Wars - Livy I like to read nonfiction during the day and then a fiction before I go to bed.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:31:14 2017 No.9469009 Is this Goodreads? Pathetic, anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:39:06 2017 No.9469028 >>9468537 Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov). I'm planning on reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers) next. I'm also really excited to start Faust, although I'm a bit worried it might be too difficult.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:42:29 2017 No.9469040 >>9468537 Hey, I'm in highschool too! But I'm not reading any of the books I should be. >Don Quixote >Symposium (GAY?) >>9468849 Because I have literal ADHD and need a break. >>9468858 Environmentalism is like zero percent of the novel.

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>>	抗養蚕(ἀντιπολιτισμός) !RnKG69rrpM Fri May 5 17:53:41 2017 No.9469072 >>9469041 How is Alamut?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:54:42 2017 No.9469076 >>9469072 its my next book, i cant comment yet, but am rather excited

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 17:58:50 2017 No.9469092 Wittgenstein's Tractatus

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 18:09:23 2017 No.9469135 File: 464 KB, 522x589, tumblr_olyn7sVHP51tcqhjho2_540 (1).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1 book at a time, otherwise ya fucked up.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 18:13:57 2017 No.9469151 File: 1.83 MB, 1024x1020, the only book lit needs.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9468537

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>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 18:17:30 2017 No.9469171 Just finished The Dispossessed and now I'm reading "How to create a mind" by Ray Kurzweil.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 21:18:18 2017 No.9469773 >>9468852 I liked. Pleb as well I guess?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 21:20:22 2017 No.9469780 >>9468858 I loved 2666, I'll get to Speedboat or Pitch Dark by Adler sometime this year, how are you finding it?

Anonymous Fri May 5 21:30:11 2017 No.9469809
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Its pretty damn good, the prologue detailing its structure as a response to Chernyshevsky gives it a lot more power than the work in a void would possess (probably where /r9k/ got their interpretation from)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 21:33:07 2017 No.9469816 >>9468537 >>I showed you mine, now you show me yours I didn't ask, and I won't be coerced

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 21:35:51 2017 No.9469829 >>9468537 Don Quijote Blindness by Saramago

Anonymous Fri May 5 21:41:54 2017 No.9469849

>>9468855
Some books become disinteresting and you find one you'd rather read another on a subject that speaks to you more at the time. At some later time, you come back to the book you put down, finish it, and you're happy. Either way, you've read the book.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 21:43:40 2017 No.9469855 Los recuerdos del porvenir - Elena Garro El libertino de calidad - Conde de Mirabeau Whatever - michel houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 22:14:37 2017 No.9469945 >>9469028 If you mean Goethe, it's not difficult. Unless you're reading it in German and don't know German I guess.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 22:21:37 2017 No.9469978 File: 17 KB, 318x241, story of o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe years of hentai ruined me but this isn't doing anything to me

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 22:23:13 2017 No.9469983 File: 362 KB, 1547x604, Francis-Bacon-Three-Studies-for-a-Portrait-of-Lucian-Freud-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >people reading multiple books at a time Enjoy not fully comprehending and appreciating each book, turboplebs

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 23:24:03 2017 No.9470170 >>9469983 ok.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 23:26:20 2017 No.9470184 >>9469983 do you also struggle with walking and chewing gum at the same time?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 23:29:54 2017 No.9470197 >>9468537 >Confessions by Augustine >The Conquest of New Spain >The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 23:30:47 2017 No.9470205 >>9470184 false equivalance fallacy

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 23:47:25 2017 No.9470253 >>9469978 read smut written by men then read Story of the Eye

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:06:34 2017 No.9470300 File: 40 KB, 552x621, FB_IMG_1493952707475.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >On the road >A farewell to arms >2001 a space odyssey Though Keruac may be a lil' pleb some parts are 8/10, good stuff

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:24:28 2017 No.9470344 >>9468537 /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:36:54 2017 No.9470376 File: 275 KB, 1920x1080, jvyBKqD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9468537 Das Kapital and just bought The Year of Living Hopelessly and The Recognitions. How fucking meme'd am I?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:38:39 2017 No.9470380 >>9468849 Because they can and its nice to enjoy a book in incriments?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:43:49 2017 No.9470391 File: 823 KB, 4000x3519, 1476606943122.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thus Spoke Zarathustra. First half was great, second half its dropped off a bit but still good. >When you keep your thoughts to yourself for too long.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:44:42 2017 No.9470393 File: 537 KB, 966x440, Screen Shot 2017-05-06 at 2.43.42 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] reading all of them

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 01:08:31 2017 No.9470443 The Sun Also Rises. Making my way through essential Hemingway.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 01:13:04 2017 No.9470450 On the Road The Clash if Civilizations I plan to read some criticism of the second one when I'm done e with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 02:05:28 2017 No.9470558 File: 279 KB, 806x1613, Screenshot_20170506-010410.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is probably the most I've ever read at once.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 02:25:14 2017 No.9470598 >>9468849 Why not?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 02:49:14 2017 No.9470649 Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino It's okay.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 08:50:11 2017 No.9471442 >>9469983 I just put up my "to read" shortlist

Anonymous Sat May 6 10:50:29 2017 No.9471841

>>9469780

Finished it today but I found my interest waning a little in some vignettes but otherwise I could see what she was going for in her writings. Going to check out the rest of her books sometime.

Only picked Speedboat up since I found it cheap in my local used bookshop, it was a NYBR and the blurb compared her to being similar to David Foster Wallace. Not bad though, just not my cup of tea but maybe needs another reading to fully appreciate.

As for 2666 the only part I've really hated so far is the second chapter dealing with the geometry teacher's wife who cucks him constantly. Just all around boring and doesn't get interesting until the end. Great book though, found the friendship between the three critics really cozy and I'm looking forward to the last part since I'm near the end of part five now, had to put it down for a while since reading all those descriptive rape scenes of the victims got a little nauseating.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 11:09:13 2017 No.9471885 I finished up reading Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence a few days ago. Right now I'm alternating between some of his shorter papers on his website, as well as short stories from Borges and Lovecraft.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 11:22:03 2017 No.9471915 File: 34 KB, 298x475, medwin byron.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >muh goblet

Anonymous Sat May 6 13:11:11 2017 No.9472364
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I posted this in another thread when I was drunk, but I'm really enjoying this novel. It's always when Star Wars books go beyond MUH JEDI MUH FORCE and delves into the lives of civilians, politicians, military leaders, etc. It goes beyond simply "good and evil." Also, Zahn is probably the best Star Wars writer in history.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 13:18:19 2017 No.9472394 >>9471915 >be byron >wake up >open dire >write >tfw famous

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 13:19:22 2017 No.9472399 >>9472394 open diary*

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>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 18:25:42 2017 No.9473416 >>9469983 t. brainlet

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:13:27 2017 No.9474201 File: 6 KB, 220x165, Cadfaeltitlecard.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I am meandering through the Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters. Mental comfort food.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:58:29 2017 No.9474333 >>9468849 Because you if you break up 1000+ page novels into small daily increments while reading shorter novels in larger chunks you can maximize your efficiency.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 08:48:52 2017 No.9475550 File: 57 KB, 338x498, IMG_1888.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've read The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. Both had good translations. Wish i could say the same about Blood of Elves.

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