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What are you reading?
>>7608426
Brighton Rock
>>7608437
god why do that to yourself
>>7608426
De Gualle
Harry Potter
Dom Quixote, a biography on Glauber Rocha and Sculpting in Time, from Tarkovsky. I'm a brazilian aspirant filmmaker.
>>7608426
The man without properties; Submission - Houllebecq; starting Mbembe's critique de la raison nègre
The Recognitions (I'm at Esther's Christmas Eve party)
Hawthorne's Tales and Sketches (my slow burn; really, really good stuff)
Patchen's The Journal of Albion Moonlight (when I told my professor I wanted to start reading John Hawkes, he recommended Patchen first).
American Pastoral
>>7608426
MURRICA, FUCK YEA!!!
Infinite Jest
The end notes are starting to have their own end notes, I'm in too deep.
The Tunnel. It lives up to the hype desu.
>>7608426
11 Kinds of Loneliness.
>>7608426
Blood Meridian
>>7608814
Same here.
Really liking it so far.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
>>7608426
>Catch-twentymeme
>>7608426
some Ionesco
I'm going to start Orlando by Woolf today
>>7608834
>I'm reading something popular so I need to make fun of it before they make fun of me
Pathetic
>>7608748
Never read Yates. Isn't his writing for normies?
>>7608858
gaaaay
Today in defense of /lit/ I read Sidney's Defense of Poesy. Your welcome, brothers.
Nymphomation. I wish the authir would give more grounding to his mathematical theory that is driving the plot. It is a pitty because there are some really good parts, but his wavering, non-committed approach to the actual mathematics is infuriating. You can't just say fractal, probability, and other shit like that an expect a reader to just eat it up. Fuck, such a pitty. Could have been a great book. Probably why I found it in an op-shop for 50c
>>7608426
The Diary of Anne Frank
>>7612047
I read about half of that, and edition which was say 350 pages long, and I couldn't bring myself to finish it got so tedious during the middle
>>7612237
Thats okay, anon. Fiction isn't for everyone.
>>7612237
No, please I love fiction. Please give dear Anne some respect
>>7610614
Vurt doesn't do any of that shit. If you ever read Cryptonomicon, don't worry about the maths, the story makes sense without it.
Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas
Pic related. Not original, but pretty good. Would probably recommend to people new to being edgy pessimist antinatalists.
>>7608874
And it failed anyway. Poor anon
Oblomov
Literally me, except I have a smaller income, no country estate, and non visitors.
![The_Bazaar_of_Bad_Dreams[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/qgXyyno.png "The_Bazaar_of_Bad_Dreams[1].png")
Mason and Dixon
It's pretty great. I'm actually reading a physical copy so I can make notes and point out words I had to look up.
Ive read almost exclusively on a kindle for years and reading on paper feels nostalgic and comfy.
VALIS, Philip K Dick
The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
>>7608594
It's qualities you fucking pleb
A Man that sleeps - George Perec
Bernhard Schlink - Flights of Love
DFW - Infinite Jest
>>7610579
Not him but revolutionary road is b a s e d. Not really normie at all, more the opposite
>>7613825
>on kindle
Pleb.
Go re-read everything.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/e-books-are-damaging-your-health-why-we-should-all-start-reading-paper-books-again-317212
Honestly, it's incredible.
The Book of Disquiet, shit's real good.
kind of want to read the tunnel because its the new meme, is gass more difficult to read than gaddis or even delillo
I starting reading the Bible. Using a 52 week guide to read through it so I can also get through regular lit at the same time. Got a couple pages left of Anna Karenina. After that I might finally pick up Mythology and get working through the greeks. Gonna be a good year.
the sun also rises
any opinions on the book?
>>7614515
I've read Mao II and Underworld and I never thought DeLillo was hard to read.
>>7608814
Same here
Hell of a kick to it after reading Steinbeck
the idiot by fedora dostoevsky
>>7613779
And no servants.
If I had servants I'd be done, the rest of the world could go fuck itself.
Just started visiting this board, thought I'd get started with some of the books on the 'starter kit' so I'm reading A Farewell to Arms right now and loving it. I read someone say that the first half was very dry and boring and to 'push through' to the second half but I'm really enjoying the first half. The narrator doesn't have a lot to say but the things he describes around him seem to tell a lot about the kind of person he is.
war and peace
what do you guys think about Helene?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Really fucking depressing. I think I'm going to read some positive shit for now on.
The Good Soldier Svejk and Norwegian Wood (in norwegian)
>>7608426
Min kamp 1
So far I am not very interested and may be dropping it.
>>7608426
The Ego and Its Own.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe.
The Decameron.
The Worm Ouroboros.
And the Bloody Chamber and Frankenstein.
I want to read the Divine Comedy and Don Quixote and Count Zero, too. Save me. Or kill me. Please.
>>7616045
The second part of the book is the best imho.
Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit
Borges - The Book of Sand
Agatha Christie Lord Edgwar dies.
I figured I needed som lighter reading inbetween in the middle of my Dostoyevsky marathon and decided to try Christie as I enjoyed her when I was a mid teen but the book is pretty terrible, won't read anything more by her.
got memed into finally reading 2666 and it turns out it's fucking great
Ficciones. I read most of the stories long ago, but never took the whole thing as a whole. Love the meta fiction or however you might call it
Breece D'J Pancake
>>7616083
>Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe.
what's it like?
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. I read tge other 3 books, and so far this one is good.
>>7617616
In Spanish?
I'm reading White Noise, finished Part 1. Liking it so far. I hate/love Murray, but I think that is how Im supposed to feel about him.
>>7617725
Yes, it's my native language
>>7608597
Just looked up Patchen. Sounds intriguing, how is the book itself?
Oliver Twist and capital in the 21st century
I have been reading a couple of the stories a day and each one seems to pick away at me in one way or the other. I really wish I didn't relate to the characters.
I just read "Two gallants" and it took me back to my childhood. Those dismal middle school days where I would constantly orbit around the group of boys who I thought would be my friends, led on by a faint feeling of friendship.
How sad I was as a child, so afraid to be alone, so quick to follow others.
>>7613847
>reading translations
>accusing others of being plebs in the same sentence
>>7614534
very solid novel, lots of great descriptive language throughout. It is very effective at describing an emotional state that becomes more apparent as the novel goes on.
Moby Dick.
I recently quit reading V. really getting tired of post-modernism.
>>7617897
Even in german it's qualities, you fucking pleb
>>7608426
been feeling really out of it this entire winter break and haven't read much more than a bunch of Wallace Stevens' later poems, some shakespeare, and some poems online. before the break I was reading probably 200 pages a day. at least 100 a day, surely. now it's about five pages if I'm lucky, or a full poem if I'm lucky. I've read the first 3 pages of Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain over and over and can't flip past those pages. I have no idea what's wrong with me.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina
Does anybody have any thoughts on it?
Journey to the End of the Night
What should be my first Pynchon?
>>7618355
Crying of Lot 49 or Inherent Vice
>>7618355
The Crying of Lot 49.
>>7618355
don't bother.
I have been in vacations for almost a month and a half now and I've basically spent almost all of my time reading, and sometimes writing. I've read almost 20 books, mostly novels. The best ones so far have been Lobo Antunes' Exortação aos Crocodilos, Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter (which is deeper than the sometimes overly-romantic language might lead you to think), and Antonio Vieira's Sermons. I also reread The Death of Ivan Ilich, and fell in love with it - in my two previous readings, I had thought it was quite average, but my opinion changed completely.
>>7618390
>Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter (which is deeper than the sometimes overly-romantic language might lead you to think)
you might really like DH Lawrence's take on it in Studies in Classic American Literature.
>>7618430
Thanks.
It's funny: the book is so 'operatic' that it sounds almost naive at times, but in fact it is one of the most impressive works I have read recently. The drama in it is very, very genuine, and not once it is fake or kitsch.
