/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9894502]

ITT: post what you're reading and get roasted

[Anonymous No.9894510]

Every single thing he wrote

[Anonymous No.9894523]

"The Bible explained"

[Anonymous No.9894526]

seems like not a lot to go on to roast someone

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[Anonymous No.9894557]

currently making my way through this young writer's work.

[Anonymous No.9894566]

>>9894543
for what purpose

[Anonymous No.9894571]

>>9894557
lol

[Anonymous No.9894576]

You don't need to be roasted with the books you guys just posted.

[Anonymous No.9894584]

>>9894502
just wants more pynchon/dfw shit

>>9894523
hasn't read the bible

>>9894530
will probably read the preface first

>>9894543
probably an *nglishman

>>9894557
nice taste

[Anonymous No.9894593]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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>>9894502
>tfw you will never fuck Mavis

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>>9894502
Really would recommend to anyone interested in this sort of history.

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[Anonymous No.9894691]

I loved The Savage Detectives and this is pretty good so far too

[Anonymous No.9894702]

the first meme book that I've unironically liked, so far.

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[Anonymous No.9894724]

>SOME chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see stading at her helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in midwinter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term. The land seemed scorcing to his feet. Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. Let me only say that it fared with him as with the stormtossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succous; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy. She must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through. With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights against the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed seas landlessness again; for refuge's sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
Know ye, now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treachorous, slavish shore?
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so, better is it to perish in the howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take, heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of this ocean-perishing - straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

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[Anonymous No.9894748]

*denies your surgery*

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[Anonymous No.9895656]

The Virgin Limerick vs The Chad Epic

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>>9894594
Is reading a book on Freud by a guy named Gay some kind of subconscious decision you made? How's your relationship with your mother?

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>>9894624
This is the only non-erotica book Ive fapped to

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>>9894593
High school freshmen are not allowed on 4chan. Please move along to >>>/reddit/

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>>9894557
He's written more books than he's read

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>>9896210
I can't remember the exact bit but there was definitely something about a particular description of cunt that got me going.

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>>9894557

you do realize those were ghost-written, right?

>implying a retarded football player could write a book in coherent english that people would wanna read

Even political commentators like bill o'reilly don't write their own books and the reason they don't is because they can't write anything that someone would want to read

[Anonymous No.9899423]

I'm still slogging through this piece of filth. I hate it so much.

[Anonymous No.9899433]

>>9896690
I always think back to the part about pussy smelling like lobster, as described in a scene about the old Jewish guy, and I start chuckling in public

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>>9899423
Didn't like it either. Too many gimmicks, and it's kind of just boring overall. The stuff in the house is okay, but it's still Stephen King tier

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>>9899423

yeah, I was leafing through it in a store and decided not to buy it. But I really liked the formatting of some of its parts.

Does anyone know any good ergodic literature or just literature that has a unique and active element to its typography but also has substance and isn't just an aesthetic gimmick?

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>>9894639
DUDE DID I TELL YOU THAT I AM CATHOLIC? LMAO
>>9894691
ANALLY AND VAGINALLY
900 pages of pure faggotry

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>>9899423

Went into it only for the experience. Apparently the term for the style of writing is "ergodic" literature. I thought both of the characters narratives were decent enough.

A poor man's Infinite Jest

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>>9899475
Is IJ filled with endless pages of unnecessary pornography?

[Anonymous No.9901122]

Be gentle anons

[Anonymous No.9901408]

I started reading Illuminatus! today as well, OP.

100 pages in, strangely addictive but also pretty dated and just a bit silly I think. Long way to go but not what I was expecting. Read some other RAW like Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Trigger and they pretty much turned me into a paranoid schizo for a brief time. This book just reads like a mildly amusing pulp fiction on mushrooms

[Anonymous No.9901508]

I've been reading much more nonfiction as of late.

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>>9901122
King is fun, nithing wrong with that. That said I think The Stand is way overrated among King fans.

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>>9901408
Honestly it gets so much weirder by the end. The appendices are fucking great too.

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>>9894543
*nglo bloodsucker

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>>9894502
Oeuvre

[Anonymous No.9901641]

Have fun.

>>9894576
Nice.

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>>9902192
How's high school going? Are you going to ask Sally to homecoming in the fall?

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[Anonymous No.9902285]

V. but I just put it down to read the Bhagavad Gita.

[Anonymous No.9902362]

R A Salvatore's Collected Stories

[Anonymous No.9902392]

>This prize-winning novel imagines nineteenth-century America through the eyes—and in the sparkling dialect—of an Irishman who emigrates during the Great Famine. Joining the Army, he is sent out West to slaughter Native Americans and fights on the Union side in the Civil War, nearly starving to death in a prison camp. Increasingly preferring to wear dresses, he has a romance with a man. By presenting these actions—whether cruel, noble, or tender—without judgment, Barry creates a sense of America as a huge canvas of juxtaposition and possibility, and of human life as something similar. “We have our store of days,” the protagonist says. “We spend them like forgetful drunkards.”

I have this on Kindle, so I just noticed there's a rainbow on the cover.

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>>9894594
>the FREUD reader by peter GAY

[Anonymous No.9902461]

I like fantasy :)

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[Anonymous No.9903734]

slam me pls

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>>9897225
Why do you think he didnt write them? Just because he's more athletic and has fucked more chicks than you that means he has to be stupid? I can't imagine where that attitude comes from.

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>>9894584
>>9901567
Can you please explain the * to me?

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>>9903475
I read this in high school. Pretty entertaining, not sure if it's for realsies though.

[Anonymous No.9903933]

>>9894681
alt-right
>>9894735
bored US soldier on deployment
>>9901508
ow, the edge!
>>9902276
10/10 check out Sometimes A Great Notion after

just finished Jean Baudrillard's "America" and picked up pic related while I wait for "The Coloring Book" by Colin Quinn to arrive in the mail

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>>9894643
if you speak serbocroatian, read ja, ibeovac by vlado dapcevic

[Anonymous No.9904030]

Just started part 3

[Anonymous No.9904035]

>>9894502
college

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>>9903836
You know the word "nigger" is censored like "n*gger"? It's like that

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>>9894502

I'm reading some translated Italian UFO book from the seventies. It has a cigarette ad in it. It isn't UFOlogy though. It actually has a very non-presumptuous hypothesis about a secret that the US airforce has tried to leave behind regarding the ubiquitous discs over American skies. Good read. Don't think the cigarettes exist anymore though.

[Anonymous No.9904173]

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

It really makes me want to read the original versions of the myths.

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>>9894502
Good taste OP. Don't miss his secret history trilogy. Seems to start simple but grows in complexity as the MC ages and by book 2 has some of my favourite sections in any of his works.

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>>9901528
It's probably on account of him claiming it was one of his best books in On Writing.

[Anonymous No.9904194]

>>9894557
>NFL player Tim Tebow and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo have apparently split — and it's reportedly due to his virginity vow.
>"He was sending her love letters and cute notes and professing his love for her . . . She had to break up with him because she just couldn't handle it. He still hits her up, but she just can't deal with the sex thing. He's pretty adamant about it, I guess."
>A source told Us last month that the athlete thought Culpo was "a goddess." However, no goddess could make him change his sacred promise.

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>>9894735
SAME

[Anonymous No.9904202]

Try to be original

[Anonymous No.9904244]

Love Dick

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>>9904306
also

[Anonymous No.9904318]

This book feels like it's about the childhood of a sociopathic Japanese school shooter.

I enjoy Mishima's prose though.

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>>9901122
Radical castration is your only hope.

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>>9904333
As opposed to gentle castration?

[Anonymous No.9904533]

>>9903828
Most football players have sustained enough head trauma to be functionally retarded

[Anonymous No.9904535]

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>>9903828
see >>9904194

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>>9904539
Levin is ma boi

[Anonymous No.9904758]

>>9894502
That book is a mix of smut and Liberal propaganda.

[Anonymous No.9904765]

this is a shitshow of a thread

[Anonymous No.9904825]

>>9894639
Fell for the /sffg/ meme
>>9894681
wew lad
>>9894691
bretty gud
>>9897207
Is this bait
>>9899423
reddit
I haven't read it so I don't actually know
>>9901122
Acceptable if you're under 15.
>>9902192
terrible cover
>>9902221
terrible post
>>9904202
Not his best work desu
>>9904318
What do you like about it?
Didn't really do much for me.
>>9904535
Shit taste :^)

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>>9904758
And anti-liberal propaganda, and more liberal propaganda and anti-propaganda propaganda, and every other type of propaganda.

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>>9897225
Tons of athletes became writers, including football like Kerouac.

[Anonymous No.9906189]

At the moment I'm reading Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen.

It's great so far.

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>>9894502
you seem like a faggot to me, maybe.

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>>9894502
finished it today

[Anonymous No.9906230]

>>9906204
How are you liking it?

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>>9906230
I see myself in heinrich - but I'm only a few chapters. It also reminds me of the college town I'm in, and Murray is every liberal arts majors I've ever gotten high with.

[Anonymous No.9906246]

Philip Roth's Sabbath Theater

halfway, pretty good, guy is obsessed with sex as always

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>>9906204
I liked it, his anti-consumerism feels a little hamfisted sometimes, but he writes meta-fiction much better than someone like Julian Barnes, for example, who also touches consumerist society and whom I fucking detest. Most of all I liked the bleak humor which felt like an undercurrent in the story to me, but also the characters, especially Heinrich, the cheeky cunt.

I don't think I'll pick up another Delillo book, but White Noise was good.

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>>9906246
I finished the Plot Against America recently

I found him obsessed with lists. Listing fucking everything, often needlessly.

Good novel on balance tho

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>>9906025
Haven't read it but I'm digging the cover art.

[Anonymous No.9906785]

Forbidden Colors, by Mishima.

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>>9904318
It's good, just don't get stuck with the edgyness and forget there's a deeper meaning behind the story. Also, you're mostly right.

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>>9904030
I loved it. It's a nightmarish blend of styles and themes, but I think it all ends up making sense in its own nonsensical way. If you're into fucked up sexual shit then you're going to enjoy the ride for sure.

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>>9894691
I have to take it back from the library again and finish it (I was like 280 pages in, I think. Like half of the book). I felt it was a few really good parts mixed with stuff I didn't give a fuck about. Bolaño's prose is good, though, and overall it gave a sense that he knew what he was doing with the story.

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>>9895656

this

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>>9894530
>DUDE

>>9894543
Just don't. This is by far the worst he ever wrote. Russell knows jackshit about the Presocratics.

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>>9894502
Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy is better.

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>>9906827
>>DUDE

what

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>>9894502
Have you read the Book of the Subgenius?

[Anonymous No.9908836]

>>9908824
Not OP, but big RAW fan and can confirm Book of the SubGenius is Grade A prophecy. Nostradamus-tier.

[Anonymous No.9908842]

>>9908836
y u no slack?

[Anonymous No.9908848]

>>9908842
Noone knows my slack, and I aims to keep it that way, bub.

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[Anonymous No.9908946]

Dune, and Yen Press' translation of Konosuba to wind off.

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[Anonymous No.9909286]

I've just been reading Colin Quinn's book for some light reading. It's pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.9909501]

This book was surprisingly hard to get. Before someone whines, I'm not a radical feminist at all, but I'd rather actually read such a controversial author instead of skimming Wikipedia quotes and acting like I'm educated on the topic.

She's certainly brash. I wouldn't call her stupid, but she makes bold claims in a condensed style that's hard to read. Overall it's far too big of a pill for me to swallow, even though I feel she is misrepresented somewhat. You get the feeling that, although her arguments ostensibly concern the wider society, the subject matter is very personal to her experience. The contentions are pretty much what I expected, but her prose threw me off guard. It's more similar to a preacher than a media critic.

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>>9894502
>Jefferson and/or Mussolini- Ezra Pound

>Nicomachean Ethics- Aristotle

[Anonymous No.9909734]

>>9894502
I am the biggest meme of all time

[Anonymous No.9909893]

fucked up

[Anonymous No.9909904]

>>9894502
RAW is a hack.

[totally not cliff No.9910002]

>>9894594
>not reading freud himself

>>9894691
is actually /cliff/

>>9895656
thinks he's hot shit for reading the classics, probably goes to the gym

>>9902276
american male in his 20's, used to like bukowski but ''grew out of it''

>>9904030
only reads /lit/core

>>9904298
only wears polo shirts or button ups

>>9909501
probably one of the few people in this board who actually reads more than he talks about reading

those are good picks tho bois I'm just playin'

[Anonymous No.9910030]

Almost finished with this. It's pretty fucking good.

[Anonymous No.9910031]

Reading this and The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus by Leo Tolstoy.

[Anonymous No.9910126]

The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche

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>>9910002

this book is great but you probably feel like you have an appreciation for architecture despite living in a shithole yourself

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>>9902276
Fantastic book.

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>>9894502

i'm almost done, only like 40 pages left. i've been thoroughly enjoying it.

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>>9899423
i enjoyed it, but it wasn't as creepy/scary as i hoped. all of the "present day" shit with the author was pretty boring, but the stuff in the house was good.

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>9911278
I really enjoyed that book.

[Anonymous No.9911302]

It's pretty good, not as good as the first one, but good.

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>>9904035

Let me guess, it's about the struggles of POC.

[Anonymous No.9911309]

>>9902429
i read it in middle school and enjoyed it well enough. i doubt i would like it if i read it today.

>>9904030
maybe the worse GR cover there is

>>9909734
boring book. it just frustrated me how the beta main character let himself get pushed around

[Anonymous No.9911345]

My first Murakami.

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>>9904202
1. gain height
2. hit the gym
3. get a clue
4. have sex with kids

[Anonymous No.9911442]

>>9906246
I loved this. It's a crying shame that my backlog is so full because I need me some more Roth.

I'll still never get over how he fucks a bunch of women, a large percentage of them prostitutes, without condoms and apparently never gets an STD.

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>>9894502

Jokes on you faggots, I'm reading the Iliad.

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>>9904198
w-where are you up to? I'm up to the part where Emperor Alexander meets Napoleon. Who is your favorite character?

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>>9894502
How is it? I just finished Cosmic Trigger vol 1.
>>9902192
Hell yeah

[Anonymous No.9911750]

Man's Search For Meaning, 2. Ed., Viktor Frankl
Notes From The Underground, Dostoevski, working with two translations
The Rebel: An Essay On Man In Revolt, Camus
The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien

Was gonna reread The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, but decided to give the book to a fren and to watch the movie tomorrow.

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>>9894594
>Peter Gay

[Anonymous No.9912200]

Capitalism and Freedom, I'm all oiled up for the roasting I know is coming

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>>9908848
>>9908842
How were your multiple alien sex partners today?

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>>9909904

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>>9913220
They took the form of an individual human sexpot. It was pretty crafty!

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>>9894502
I like to mix it up.
Penrose: Road to Reality
Homer: The Iliad
Epic of Gilgamesh
Abercrombie: The First Law
Some Jung, Nietzsche, random history and pre-history
Dostoevsky: The Karamazov Brothers, Poor Folk
Random Professor: How to read like a Professor
Also wasting time with those nice lit/phil Yale university videos, and various cosmology and physics. Forming my own theory of the self and the universe at large.

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[Anonymous No.9914181]

SubGenii are fnord faggots.