What's /lit/ drinking and reading tonight?
>>7388034
water and pic related
>>7388087
Nice, what part are you up to? This is my second time reading.
Outer Dark and Ginger Ale
I'd post a picture but I have no working camera in my home
>>7388098
about 10 pages away from finishing Beyond the Zero, it is my first time reading.
It is difficult, but also enjoyable. Maybe I should have got the companion thing.
>>7388119
Just finished Suttree not long ago and loved it. How is outer dark?
>>7388126
It's pretty solid so far, more abstract than a lot of McCarthy's other stuff
Stoner and Nastro Azzurro
The tone of this is amazing so far, I'm loving it.
>>7388125
I wouldn't recommend it. Plow through it and try to read as much in one sitting as you can. Things will start to come together.
>>7388261
I've only been reading about 20-30 pages a day, finishing whatever "chapter" I'm on. I guess I kinda get that advice since it jumps around so much and the details would be fresh in my head.
For example, I pretty much completely forgot Eventyr was a medium when I got to this part with him and Dodson's flashback.
And I'm trying to get a handle on the prose, but it is difficult to follow and I do end up rereading parts a lot. Hopefully the more I read the easier it becomes. I didn't have this problem with Lot 49
>>7388034
Coffee, literature for the essay I have to hand in in 10 hours that I haven't started yet
Some sleep tea and Moravagine.
>>7388034
Nothing and nothing
Kraken black spiced rum & Kraken by China Mieville.
>>7388276
I wrote down character names and a brief summary of who they are to refer back to. After the first chapter it starts to kick into gear though. You will definitely enjoy it thoroughly if you've enjoyed it so far.
>>7388296
You're up to the most powerful section of the novel. Enjoy!
>>7388314
Yeah, I have enjoyed it so far definitely. I almost did that with the characters, but I figured I should just experience it the first time I read it.
>>7388087
>bottled water
>at home
>>7388373
tap water here tastes shitty man
>>7388388
don't you have a cup though anon?
>>7388405
are you saying to pour out bottled water into a cup to drink it?
>>7388417
ya. Why drink it in a plastic bottle?
>>7388465
it's pretty convenient desu
>>7388034
I took some methadone and currently enjoying Goncharov's Oblomov
can someone PLEASE recommend me a book in this vein?
i'm not very into literature but i've started to like it a lot since the past 4 books.
If anyone has a recommendation i'll surely appreciate it.
>>7388405
He threw it away
>>7388034
Critique of Pure Reason and water. Used to have a mocha but i drank that thang
>>7388481
>I took some methadone and currently enjoying Goncharov's Oblomov
My nigga. Opioids and Russian lit.
I ran out of dope, so I bombed 250mg of tianeptine to hold me over. Might top it off with some kratom. I'm running on fumes here. I just started Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
>>7388034
Water and Mythology by Edith Hamilton. I'm getting into the Greeks late, but on the bright side I'm finally starting to understand why they're held up so highly. The setting comes out to make Ancient Greece like a utopia, despite the terrible outcomes of most things involving the Gods.
Would you guys recommend reading some of the original sources here? I like the Ovid stories a lot, how is Metamorphoses?
h2o and the road, loving it so far
>>7389165
Cartman x Wendy tbqh
>>7388301
How is Moravagine? I read The Astonished Man and thought it had some real moments of beauty.
>>7388034
>drinking
Um, I smoked a tiny bit of weed I was able to scrape from underneath my bookshelf, and rolled it into a cigarette, and it got me a little bit high for an hour or so
>reading
shitposts on /lit/
>>7388292
iktf senpai, good luck
>>7388087
Why hasn't this gone to an infinite regression yet?
>drinking
water
>reading
the well of ascension
>>7388087
You don't say?
Drinking Ancient age "Preferred" whiskey (disgusting and cheap I know)I always used to hate the idea of Bukowski because of all the fandom but then I actually started reading him... He helped me start reading again because its so easy and rewarding to read.
I will read until I pass out.
Sitting on the balcony despite it being 4 degrees celsius.
Simultaneously juggling Hegel and a biography of Napoleon. Considering whether or not throwing the Satanic Verses into the mix is a good idea. I feel like I need something funny as a respite.
Vodka Tonic
I have some young adult books to get through, but my old lady mysteries have me.
>>7392593
what do you think of it so far?
Going to get a bottle of Canadian Club and read Houellebecq and drink in bed to be honest.
>>7392686
Passionate and high-end prose as far as I read. Each character is sharply chiseled, both vigorous and “masculine” yet somehow desesperately seeking an escape and utterly crushed, it led me to feel a great empathy for the protagonist. François Mauriac sure knows how to depict a young man in his more troubled years. Honestly, I can't understand why he's so much underrated and ignored here albeit we praise and keep talking about talentless authors the like of Albert Camus.
>>7392593
Hey everyone get a load of this rich fuck.
>>7392729
I bought the bottle for $28,15 and got the book for $3,19. I wouldn't describe myself as “rich”.
>>7392734
Do you have any idea what I could do with $32 right now??? Do you, you rich fuck?!!!
>>7392717
Are you reading in french? I cant find any good translations can you recommend one?
>>7388034
Getting into scifi
Drinking some old red wine and reading Neuromancer
>>7392749
Depends. How much you willing to pay for a ZJ?
>>7392796
I might trade a couple of titles if you demonstrate advanced skills. “Voyage au bout de la nuit”, “Inventaire de l'abîme” or “Lieu d'asile”. I bought a lot by Georges Duhamel recently. Joke apart, what are you, a “NEET”? You should search a position to apply, it's much more rewarding and interesting to work, buy titles and build a library.
>>7392854
Just fucking around, man.
>>7392890
I hope this situation suits you.
>>7392911
It does. For now.
Stoner and Green Tea
>>7392922
Done. It looks like I'm still conscious, it would be wiser to go to sleep.
Great Expectagions and water. Both are a bit boring.
>>7392616
Would Instagram/10
I can never take decent pictures.
>>7388087
Is this an acceptable combination?
>>7393730
What the fuck are you doing. Continue the chain, ya turkey.
>>7393759
Have nothing to take a picture with; literary lifestyle involves absence of smartphone technology.
>>7388126
One anon here compared it to morrowind, which I honestly agree with.
>>7389165
Damn, I've never tried reading on opiates once. I usually tend to just focus my energy on getting as comfy and horizontal as I can with some music going.
>>7388098
How much did you until you gave it a second go?
>>7388034
>drinking and reading
How does this work well unless you're an actual alcoholic who needs booze to function?
>>7394009
Protip: You don't have to get wasted when you drink alcohol. A single drink can be felt. Relaxes you. Can help with immersion in fiction and enjoyment of prose.
Subtlety is out of style, but you still don't have to get obliterated every time you drink.
>>7393802
It's quite surely the best thing in the entire universe. For a short while.
>>7388034
Water and GR as well. Only about 30 pages in and still waiting to be blown away and become engrossed in the text. How long must I wait, /lit/?
>>7394057
Keep waiting my friend, keep waiting...
>>7394034
I was an accomplished binge drinker in college, so I'm not a lightweight, but one or two drinks just had the opposite effect on me from what you described. It gets distinctly harder to concentrate and appreciate prose.
>>7394057
I'm almost halfway through, and have to say that with this novel, for every one chapter that is very entertaining and gives a clear understanding of where the plot is going, there are two that are virtually incomprehensible and confuse the fuck out of you. These latter passages tend to bore me.
I made it to the epilogue of War and Peace last night and cracked a beer, by the time I got to Part 2 I couldn't follow any of it. Am I a retard?
>>7394057
I was already engrossed at that point but definitely by the second section it should grab you
>>7394009
OP here. Don't knock it if you've never tried it. Having a few beers is not the same as going through a fifth of whiskey.
Both are quite enjoyable but I probably won't read when doing the latter as I won't remeber what I read.
Tea at the moment, will have cheap lager later.
Waiting for Godot
Coffee and The Stranger
>>7394118
>Go to the fridge
>There is only a turnip
>>7388034
Coffee because I'm falling asleep and Poor Economics
Nice pick me up after the afternoon nap, lads.
This book + gingerbread latte
Happy thanksgiving guys
>>7394191
i swear it was a carrot
>>7388034
White wine and Meditations
>>7394118
which lager, lad?
>>7394005
A little over a year. In that time I read all of pynchon's other works and a bunch of other stuff.
Reading it a second time is extremely rewarding
snoots gtfo
>>7394655
>communism
>>7394845
which euro lager does pbr compare to and why do american fetishise it so much?
>>7394847
There's no euro beer that's as bad. PBR is fetishized because it tastes the most like beer out of all the cheap beers that are less than $1 a can. It took on an ironic hipster status in part through its outdated labeling and their pride in their 1893 award. But practically, it's nice to have a really cheap beer that you can take to a party and people won't be ashamed. It got me through many grad school evenings quite happily. But it's not much better than soda with alcohol and a whiff of hops. Stick to good, cheap German lagers and you'll be much more pleased.
>>7394857
You hit the nail right on the head anon
The book of disquiet and sprite
>>7394857
The only American lager I've had is Budweiser. Tastes worse than €0.90 a litre eurolager tbqh.
>>7394845
Literally a meme author
>>7394902
Budweiser is nasty industrial piss. No European brewery that I've encountered has sunk that low. Even in Turkey the Efes Pilsen tastes better. In America, some find and drink products are made to incredibly low standards. It's just how things are. Fortunately, good craft breweries are doing really well and their beers are mostly quite affordable. Left Hand and Captain Lawrence and Founders are my favorites at the moment.
>>7394910
Just because his novels are now entering meme status here doesn't mean he's a meme author as much as pynchon is a meme author
>>7394939
Your craft beer movement is based since it influenced Europeans to be more diverse in their offerings as well, so we have our traditional stuff and American inspired microbreweries as well.
Leads to some interesting developments, like Belgian style brewers trying their hand at heavy stouts and the like.
>>7392566
Double
>>7394949
Is that windows xp
>>7394956
yes
>>7394949
Hope you're reading the one on the left
>>7394989
not him but why? does the other version have printing errors?
Completely incompatible but this is my first Lorrie Moore and I think I'm in love.
>>7394993
yes, major ones
>>7394989
why do you think I have two?
>>7395056
Because I have four
