What are your new books for the new year?
Just got these from the mail.
Nice choices, going for a happy 2016 i see.
>>7530833
Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, Grettir's Saga, The Poetic Edda. Books I'm going to read this month.
Don't read The Trouble with Being Born. Don't let /lit/ or anyone else tell you it's good or "patrician;" it isn't.
It is horribly depressing, written by a man who is committing suicide slowly by devouring himself psychologically. Cioran is an intelligent man, but that book is a blight on the human mind and soul, if you even believe in that.
It's not for the weak minded, nor for the strong minded. It just isn't for anyone with a mind. Cioran embodies detrimental nihilism -- it will make you want to give yourself brain damage or kill yourself. Finishing that book will not enlighten you and it will not give you satisfaction; it will only hollow you out. You will derive nothing from this except sadness and possible depression.
Even nihilists stay away. Cioran is far too fucking extreme in his distaste for living. He literally says the only reason he doesn't kill himself is because he's already suffered living and it'd be too late anyway.
Burn the book. I made the mistake of reading it and I threw it away.
>>7530833
this.
>>7530937
Thanks for the warning, man. But I'll be heading for the storm to experience it myself.
>>7530833
Holy shit, OP. Are you me? With the exception of Lowry I got the same set.
>>7530937
Well, I can confirm. It won't be a huge exaggeration if I say that my life was not the same anymore after I read this. Optimistic nihilism my ass.
>>7530965
That's nice. What do you plan to read first?
>>7530983
I've already read 'Stoner' (this is my second copy), right now I'm delving deep into the world of one Ferdinand Bardamu, i.e. "Journey to the End of the Night".
>>7530987
No shit? I've read Journey and this is my second copy of it. My other copy was the one with Vollman's introduction. I gave that to my girlfriend. It's silly but I'm pretty impress by this encounter.
>>7530833
What a coincidence OP, I just finished Stoner and I plan on reading something by Cioran and The book of disquiet too.
Is that an assortment of depressing literature?
>>7530833
You watch way too fucking much Clifford Sargent clearly.
>>7531019
Not OP, bu I knew those books way before I found out about /lit/, not to mention Sargent.
>>7531027
Congrats, I guess, person I wasn't talking to.
>>7531019
I had to Google who Clifford Sargent is before finding out he's the Better Than Food dude. I've only seen two vid of his, Blood Meridian and Journey (which I watched after reading the book). But you associate these books with him?
>>7530965
I wanted to ask if your copy of By Night in Chile also came with a newspaper headline? Did that came with every book? The article was dated 2009 and the book was published at around 2000.
I've been waiting to spend a Christmas voucher I was given for a bookshop close to me.
I just got back, I left a hardback copy of Ulysses there but might go back for it, anyway rate my purchases /lit/
![2nlkcj[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/YAIe7l7.gif "2nlkcj[1].gif")
All twelve volumes. It will probably take me half a year.
>>7530937
I put down A Short History of Decay because it was just silly. Cioran is a massive windbag with no ideas.
>>7531147
>It will probably take me half a year.
I don't get it, 6 months to read some manga?
>>7531158
It's a novel, dude. That's just the cover art.
>>7531158
>dat pic
RIP my sides. Saved.
America- Kafka
War and Peace- Tolstoy
The Man Without Qualities- Musil
Vanity Fair- Thackeray
The Man Who Was Thursday- G K Chesterton
The Idiot- Dosto
What first lads
Mosquitoes - Faulkner
Orlando - Woolf
The Etymologicon - Forsyth
Moby Dick - Melville
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Ward No.6 and other Stories - Chekhov
>>7531175
I-Is that you...?
>>7531190
I thought Mosquitoes wasn't all that impressive, but Flags in the Dust is clearly and early masterpiece.
>>7531208
I've not had any exposure to Faulkner before; based on the cover summaries in the bookstore Mosquitoes seemed more appealing to me than his other works. I hope I enjoy it more than you did.
These are my most recent purchases. I'm going to start Dunces today.
>>7531147
>reading translated light novels
topkek
Walked into my local bookstore today and for the first time I noticed a "classics" section. Didn't get much, as I wasn't planning on buying any books today, but I saw these two that I was meaning to get for a while and they were pretty cheap so I picked them up.
>>7531160
Written at a 1st grade level......
>>7531048
>I had to Google who Clifford Sargent
Sure you did.
6 out of the 8 he reviewed, the other 2 of that 8 being a repeat of an already present author to the pile. It doesn't take a genius to connect those dots.
>>7531294
Who is he, then? I can't even find anything on Google. Those authors have been /lit/core for years.
>>7530833
>Watership Down, Catcher in the Rye, A Tale of Two Cities, Gormenghast, The Iliad
How much will /lit/ hate me?
Foundation trilogy-Asimov
Paris Peasant-Louis Aragon
Mythologies-Roland Barthes
Warlock-Oakley Hall
Satantango-László Krasznahorkai
Kizumonogatari
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Tropic of Cancer
Big Sur
>>7530950
that's really cool anon I had my frist dream in about a year about 2 weeks ago and it was lucid so i've been writing down my dreams to help increase my ability.
exploring lucid dreaming when i was younger was amazing have fun
>>7531330
He's a Youtuber. Gives out reviews of good books. Though I don't get why anon has a hard-on for him.
>>7531294
Maybe they're just fucking popular books you megafaggot
>Went to the bookstore to try to exchange the copy of The Wake I got for christmas for a copy of infinite jest
>they were out of IJ so I got a copy of the pale king instead
felt like a stereotype wanker asking for IJ
probably because I am; it'll be a miracle if I've finished pale king by 2017
I don't read much
>>7530833
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice & Men
Shelley's Frankenstein
Shackleton's South: The Endurance Expedition
Zamyatin's We
Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
How is my year going to be?
>>7533051
the end of junior year should be great. you're finally an upperclassmen and only one more year till college!!
>>7533190
You're a cheeky cunt, m8, but I appreciate that some of my recent purchases are high-school-core.
reading currently:
the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa
bright scythe by tomas transtromer
planning:
across the land and the water by wg sebald
greensward by cole swenson
sentimental education by flaubert
the waves by virginia woolf
nowhere to be found by bae suah
plus whatever my british modernist novel + romantic poet classes assign this month.
Necronomicon: the Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
A Memory of Light
>>7533051
Confederacy of Dunces is fucking hilarious
>>7530833
Man that's a lot of super depressing shit you got there. Really good super depressing shit though.
>>7530937
>Burn the book.
Never listen to anyone who would say these words.
>>7530833
Lad, I think if you read all of those consecutively you'll kill yourself by the end
>>7533051
We was really good, better than 1984 or BNW, imho. CoD was alright; it kind of wore on for me, but a lot of people think it's funny as hell.
>>7530833
Whats the name of the painting in the background?
>>7530833
The Great Shark Hunt
The Maltese Falcon
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Didn't know what it was but it was 3 bucks)
Moby Dick
I'm hoping to pick some other books up by the end of the week.
>>7533199
i was just ribbing you anon, i really enjoyed Of Mice & Men & Frankenstein, and while i didn't get too into gatsby it was a good book. if you haven't read them before you should enjoy it.
>>7530833
You're not going to feel very good after reading those books.
Starting off the year with a fun book.
>>7534241
>>7534250
You okay?
New reader here. Starting the year off with some normiecore books.
