/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9496725]

>last read book

>currently reading book

>will to read book

[Anonymous No.9496732]

>>9496725
The Old Man and the Sea
No, I am posting in this thread
I still have some will left in me

[Anonymous No.9496740]

The tower of swallow
The lady of the lake
Season of storms

[Anonymous No.9496741]

>>9496725
The Sellout
The Trial
All Man Is

[Anonymous No.9496782]

>>9496725
Pale Fire
De Brevitate Vitae
Mrs. Dalloway

[Anonymous No.9496792]

>>9496782
How is that Vitae shit, mate? Would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.9496800]

>>9496725
The Individual and His Property
Storm of steel
the fifth season

[Anonymous No.9496838]

The Alchemist
The Brothers of Karamazov
Spice and Wolf

[Anonymous No.9496847]

The Idiot
Never Let Me Go
not sure, might start Les Mis

[Anonymous No.9496851]

>>9496725
Notes from Underground

Infinite Jest

the myth of sisyphus

[Anonymous No.9497073]

The Selfish Gene Theory

Blood Meridian

Book of the New Sun

And then im gonna read Dune again like I do every year

[Anonymous No.9497096]

Black Skin White Masks
Orientalism
Whatever else post colonial theory can offer

[Anonymous No.9497271]

The Gambler

The Idiot

The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.9497273]

>>9496741
>The Sellout

What did you think of it? I thought it was okay to begin with, but then the tone just started to grate by about half-way through.

[Anonymous No.9497561]

Stoner
East of Eden
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.9497564]

QB7 L.uris
Below the salt T.costain
The moonstone w.collins

Freebies from an auction in middle u.s.

[Anonymous No.9497877]

>>9496725
Romeo and Julliet
100 años de soledad
the gay science

[Anonymous No.9497884]

Stoner
Treason by the Book
Black boy

[Anonymous No.9497892]

>>9497561
Me 1 year ago, but in reverse order. What are your thoughts on the three, anon?

>A slew of Shakespeare plays (Henry V, Merry Wives, Comedy of Errors, LLL, Troilus
>Martial's Epigrams, Anna Karenina
>All the Romans, starting with Virgil.

I'm fucking stoked. I'm gonna continue and try to read a Shakespeare play a day, until I'm re-reading them and re-reading them. Same with Plato.

[Anonymous No.9497906]

The Sorrows of Young Werther
A Tale of Two Cities
Under The Volcano

[Anonymous No.9497909]

Brothers Karamazov
The Revizor
Human, all too human

[Anonymous No.9497915]

>Women and Men - fucking incredible

>The Pale King - surprisingly, it's better than IJ at times

>JR - I loved The Recognitions, and I've been excited to get to this

[Anonymous No.9498138]

>last read book
The terranauts
>currently reading book
A littlle history of the world
>will to read book
A brief history of mankind, but before reading another history book i want to read a novel, but i dont have one in my backlog

[Anonymous No.9498217]

The Skin of Sorrow

Les Chants de Maldoror

The sickness unto death

[Anonymous No.9498258]

>>9496725
The Rebel

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Fall

[Anonymous No.9498261]

Things Fall Apart

The Iliad trans. Fitzgerald

Trying to work out some time to sit down and get wrapped up in it, hopefully soon

[Anonymous No.9498458]

strange pilgrims
berlin blues
laughter in the dark

[Anonymous No.9498599]

>>9496725
dead souls
crime and punishment
don't know yet

>tfw patrician

[Anonymous No.9498602]

Last read
>El hereje (the heretic) by Delibes
Reading
>La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The death of Artemio Cruz) by Fuentes
Next
>Extension du domaine de la lutte (Whatever) by Houllebecq

[Anonymous No.9498612]

The Futurological Congress
Taiko
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Is it worth reading all the way through, by the way? I enjoyed reading Herodotus just casually in between other stuff, will this be the same or is it more boring?

[Anonymous No.9498628]

>Hesse: Beneath the Wheel
>Musil: The Man Without Qualities
>Homer: The Illiad

[Anonymous No.9498630]

>>9498612
Skip the morphology parts and the retarded systematic historical philosophy, just read his predictions about what's going to happen to the west

[Anonymous No.9498637]

Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Gay Science

[Anonymous No.9498641]

>>9498612
>>9498630
Fuck, nevermind my response
I thought you were talking about Spengler

[Anonymous No.9498698]

>>9496725
>King, Queen, Knave
>Season of Storms (muh no Ciri)
>(I think it's time to start with) Ulysses

[Anonymous No.9498725]

>>9496725
Infinite Jest
No Longer Human
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.9498788]

>The Aeneid
>The Blade Itself
>Before They Are Hanged

[Anonymous No.9498797]

>>9496725
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.9498816]

>>9496792
I recommend it. Short, well written essay. Pic related is the version I read. It has two other essays. The title essay is the best one, it's worth the price of admission just for that one.

[Anonymous No.9498844]

>iq84
>nine stories
>raise high the roof beam, carpenters

I love Salinger

[Anonymous No.9499351]

>>9496725
90% sure it was
>One Fat Englishman - Kingsley Amis
Current
>The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Will
>Charles Dickens
dunno which dickens yet

[Anonymous No.9499392]

>>9496725
>>will to read book
are we on some ESL shit here?

[Anonymous No.9499405]

>>9496725
Animal Farm
Starship Troopers
War and Peace

actually i just finished startship troopers this morning but i figured i would throw it in anyways

[Anonymous No.9499450]

>>9496725
>last read book
The Odyssey
>will to read book
Can't decide Ulysses or War & Peace. Suggestions?

[Anonymous No.9499458]

>>9499450
>>Can't decide between* Ulysses or War & Peace. Suggestions?
God, why can't I string a simple sentence together reeee

[Anonymous No.9499495]

>>9496725
Lincoln in the Bardo
Rabbit, Redux
Stoner

[Anonymous No.9499684]

>>9497073
Whole series, or just the first book?

[Anonymous No.9499704]

>the farm - orwell
>I started reading 1984 but I stopped some days ago because I didn't have time to read, now I do
>the master and margarita - bulgakov

[Anonymous No.9499760]

>>9499458
war and peace

[Anonymous No.9499867]

I finished the Iliad today

Not sure what to read now. I'd go straight to the Odyssey, but I want something shorter and more modern to take a break from Homer

The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.9499887]

>>9499867
Try either Achilles by Elizabeth Cook or The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason.

Both are short, modern and excellent and both keep you on theme.

[Anonymous No.9499912]

>>9496725
Last book was warlock. It was good but nothing special. Ending felt cheap.

Currently reading a smugglers bible. It is weird and captivating. Curious to see what becomes of it.

Next to read could be anything.

[Anonymous No.9499928]

>>9496725
Haiku of Basho
Sense and Sensibility
Lolita, maybe

[Anonymous No.9499939]

The Trojan War a New History
Lolita
The Illiad

[Anonymous No.9499982]

>>9499887
Thanks

[Anonymous No.9500022]

>>9496725
Unwanted Advances
Gravity's Meme
Don't know what I will read next.

[Anonymous No.9500044]

>>9498698
More of ""him""?

[Anonymous No.9500051]

>>9496725
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>The French Lieutenant's Woman
>Not sure, maybe Nostromo, or I might see if I can pick up a copy of Against the Day

[Anonymous No.9500080]

>>9496725
Pinball, 1973
If I did it: confessions of the killer
The seige of trenchers farm

[Anonymous No.9500161]

I've been reading books in threes:

>Last Read:
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham: The ultimate meme, I know. I loved Girls though and had an ex girlfriend's copy of Dunham's book and read it after the show finished. Frustratingly unreflective at times, lacking the vitality of her work on Girls. Disappointing and minor-key, with a handful of inspired essays.

Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless by Matt Hart: A generous and exciting collection of poetry. Lacks some of the linguistic daring of his more recent collections, but still more inventive and fresh than 99% of contemporary poetry.

Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri: Charming fable. Much like Khalil Gibran's The Prophet. Linguistically rich, but would probably benefit from rereads to truly make sense of it. Kind of felt like skimming my feet in warm water without being fully conscious of the movement.


>Currently Reading:
Jacob, Menahem, & Mimoun by Marcel Benabou: By turns amusing, charming, and more seriously engaging. Very meta, and a book that would be enjoyed by anyone who has spent time studying genre and form in writing. Benabou seems like a real great dude.

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: Absolutely fucking amazing. This is some of my favorite kind of writing. Manipulation of language masterfully done. Can go from dry and understand to complex and expansive without the change in registers having any discernible break in between. Fantastic book. Very timely in regards to how I can relate it to my own life as well.

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas: Have only read the introduction thus far. Am waiting to read through it all in one chunk when I have the time to listen to the actual radio production of the script right after.

>To Read:
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton: Honestly I don't even know why I own this book or why I am reading it. I haven't read Crichton in YEARS, but this was somehow among the MANY unread books I brought home from school after I graduated in Dec. Apparently it's some kind of abortion thriller though, so who knows.

Looking Awry by Slavoj Zizek: I loved Pervert's Guide to Ideology and a professor gave me this book when I had mentioned it to her. It's Zizek applying Lacan to pop culture so. Pure Zizek. Maybe it'll help me get more out of the Crichton book.

Love and Other Hungers by Sarah O'dell Underwood: A lovely poet that read a year or so before I graduated at my school. Have had this for a while just hadn't had the chance to read it before now.

[Anonymous No.9500168]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
V.
I don't know. Maybe Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon or Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.9500176]

>>9496725
IT - stephen king
The serpent and the rainbow
The book of disquiet


Is the book of disquiet any good?

[Anonymous No.9500192]

>>9497906
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
Does it even have any worth nowadays, outside the scope of the XVIII century romanticism? It's so naive it reads like a parody or a /r9k/ pasta.

[Anonymous No.9500856]

>>9500044
"He" seems to be Denise Tantucci:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyGURNxyHU&t=3s

[Anonymous No.9500896]

Blood Meridian
Atlas Shrugged
Arsene Lupin Omnibus

[Anonymous No.9500903]

>>9496725
> The Little Prince
> Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
> Heart of Darkness or The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[Anonymous No.9500968]

>>9499495
I really like the "lesson" that Lincoln in the Bardo teaches but it was a bit meandering in my opinion but with some very good points.

[Anonymous No.9501087]

>>9500192
Not that anon but then otherwise you should read "last letters of jacopo ortis", because is similar but it carries a stronger message, it speaks of a political paralysis, a romantic hero looking for an identity for his country, who is unable to find his fellow country men, he wishes to inspire his souls but find nothing but idleness, his love being stopped by mere titles where every party involved simply chooses to abandon himself to the invisible forces of social conventions.

I have no idea how is the translation though.

[Anonymous No.9501091]

Pale Fire
The Remains of the Day
Faust (Goethe) or In Dubious Battle

>>9500176
The Book of Disquiet is a collection of nihilistic musings. They can be rather similar and disconnected, so I recommend reading a few musings a day, and pick a different book to properly read.

[Anonymous No.9501119]

The Aleph (Borges)

Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)

Steppenwolf, Roadside Picnic, or Solaris

Which one would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.9501125]

>>9498599
Read Oblomov

[Anonymous No.9501330]

>>9500968
I thought it was disjointed and unsuccessful. I generally like Saunders, but largely because he is generally outstanding about making his readers feel empathy with ugly characters (and questioning whether or not they really are so ugly to begin with). There was next to none of that in "LitB;" and the characters generally stayed pretty distant and cold (and many of the racist characters basically were irredeemable, which is not what I expect from Saunders). The parts out of history books that made a Rashomanesque kaleidoscope of background went on far too long to make a simple point.

And most of the stuff about race felt like it had been shoe-horned in (especially the part where a black guy decides to inhabit Lincoln for the rest of history, but nothing is really said about this beyond 'it happened!').

Meh. Hopefully he gets back to better short fiction soon.

[Anonymous No.9501369]

>>9496725
- fear and loathing on the Campaign trail 72
- crime and punishment
- The Brothers Karamazov
>kind of on a dotoyevsky binge rn

[Anonymous No.9501389]

>Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
>Demons.
>Master and Margarita or Dr Zhivago. Don't really feel like reading either though tbqh.

[Anonymous No.9501412]

>>9501119

Haven't read steppenwolf, but I liked solaris way better than roadside

[Anonymous No.9501467]

Whores for Gloria by Vollmann
Infinite Jest, half done
Ulysses

[Anonymous No.9501510]

>>9496725

Meyer's history of ontology
The Trial (This time in german)
"The new spirit of capitalism" - Boltanski and Chiapello

[Anonymous No.9501520]

>>9499458

Since you just read the Odyssey, i'd say the Iliad. If you're french-speaking (You never know) i recommend Victor Bérad's translation.

[Anonymous No.9501773]

>>9496725
master and margarita
goethe's faust
oblomov/tom jones, a foundling/tristram shandy; not sure which.

[Anonymous No.9501804]

>>9498138
Would you recommend the terranauts? I am currently reading the german translation of Water Music. It's my first T.C. Boyle book and I am really enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.9501818]

>Absalom, Absalom! by Willy Faulk
>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
>Either Savage Detectives or Laughter in the Dark

[Anonymous No.9501825]

The Call of the Wild

Interview with the Vampire

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

[Anonymous No.9502460]

>>9496725

>White Noise

>For whom the Bell Tolls/Come on In (Bukowski)

>The Trial.

[Anonymous No.9502480]

Ecclesiastes
Crime and Punishment
The Aeneid

[Anonymous No.9503649]

>the Oresteia
>the Histories, the 3 Theban plays
>Anabasis, 4 plays of Aristophanes

[Anonymous No.9503651]

>>9496725
Negative Dialectics
Anti-Oedipus
Reading Capital part 1

[Anonymous No.9503683]

>The Annals and Histories by Tacitus
>Picking up the Iliad again.
> The Aeneid. Aeneas is based