What are you reading right now?
>>7705255
My response to your post.
And Today I Wrote Nothing by Kharms.
A Tale of a Tub
Swift is a cheeky lad.
Cannonball by Joseph McElroy.
>>7705255
How to Read a Book
Jewish Pastoral
sǝʌɐǝl ɟo ǝsnoɥ
>>7705255
Kill yourself
>>7705255
Cut nails!
My Awakening - David Duke
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
>>7705338
Well memed
>>7705255
Do you have a gf, OP?
>>7705255
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Right now I am reading my own post as I write it
Steppenwolfe at the moment, not very far in.
>>7705467
What's it like so far? Planning on reading it soon.
The Wine of Violence
endymion
wings of the dove
invention of the jewish people
Storm of Steel
I'm re-reading Crime and Punishment, and I intend to re-read The Idiot and Brothers K. after.
>>7705479
So far it's kind of self-masturbatory but pretty good. Can drag on a bit.
In the middle of Ulysses, but im stopping and starting over once /lit/'s reading group begins.
In the meantime I just started 2666
Currently reading Mythology, hope to finish it up tonight or tomorrow.
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Applications of No-Limit Hold 'em. Trying to plug holes in my game so I can make money this summer if nobody hires me for a paid internship.
>>7705255
Right now I'm reading an interrogative flash fiction titled 'What are you reading right now?'.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Familiar I by Mark Z Danielewski
The Familiar is so fucking self indulgent I might just burn it.
>>7705539
>In the middle of Ulysses, but im stopping and starting over once /lit/'s reading group begins.
I wouldn't recommend it. /lit/ barely ever follows through on things.
I decided to re-read four quartets today and I just finished it. It's still really good.
I read metamorphosis for the first time today. Made me feel very uncomfortable tb h
Hamlet
The return by Bolano, reminds me of DFW for some reason
Hopi myths
Study books
O yeah, still half way in Friday ( or saturday? Idgaf) by Heinlein, what a piece of shit
Finishing up the Iliad.
The Odyssey and the Aeneid just came in the mail. These fagels books are very pretty desu senpai.
Just finishing off Atlas Shrugged, and by god, what a thrill.
Pleb here
Starting this modafucka
Faggot here
Enjoying this cocksucka
>>7705255
Really enjoying this so far, even if it is a bit cryptic.
A compiled book of Machado de Assis short stories.
Pretty good. I think I can understand why he's considered the best brazillian writer.
>>7706047
>i was obligated to read this nigger books my entire education
A brief history of seven killings and a whole lotta bombacloth bloodcloth r'asscloth
>>7706059
I'm portuguese, so I'm only finding the dude now. You have to admit he's pretty great, but I'd like him a lot less if I had to read him trough middle school.
>>7706047
He was a nice discovery around and apart from the realm of magical realism. I'd really enjoy it if Brazil produced another writer at his level.
Should I start Infinite Jest if I am still a normie that barely read 5 books in the last five years?
>>7706099
I didnt read his since middle school but being being obligated to read him just to pass the exams was a pain since I only cared for me grades
Maybe ill read him again in a less agitated manner this time
>>7706140
because its a big book or because its kinda hard to read?
>>7706124
The same happens to us here. We read in school Os Maias, from Eça de Queirós, a huge brick, and people get fed up with him, missing some great books.
>>7706148
>Eça de Queirós
T R I G G E R E D
i know your pain
Top = Highest Priority
Bottom = Lowest
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Dubliners
- 2666
- In Search of Lost Time (currently midway through vol. 2)
- The Bible
>>7706146
Because it's big and you might get bored, and despite what /lit/ tells you, don't read the memes first, read shorter books that spark your personal interest
>>7706187
noice
thanks nigguh
>>7706197
I'm white. And I'm guessing you're white as well. Don't call me nigguh
Life and Fate by Grossman
it's quite good
>>7705806
It's very dense. Very Kafkaesque
The Voyage Out.
I'm liking Woolf's writing style but I'm still on the fence about the actual plot.
I received a copy of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King for Christmas. I have not read the Shining but I do feel obliged to sit down and finish this as it was a gift.
Lucky Jim
Dream of Fair to Middling Women
>>7706229
my bad cracka
I've been skimming through Salinger's short stories.
I'm reading some Vietnam War books for a class, and it's not as bad as I thought. But still, it doesn't interest me all that much.
I just started Name of the Rose as well, but I'll have to put it off for a while unfortunately.
Which one should I start next /lit/? I've never read any Emerson but I've read parts of the Odyssey like 2 years ago in senior year.
>>7706341
Those both look like memes
Finished Tortilla Flats by Steinbeck today, I want to start a new book but I've started and ignored the Old Testament, the complete works of Wilde, and Leviathan a while ago and feel like I should finish at least one of those first.
>>7706380
O-okay
>>7706025
That's my favorite novel of all time.
>>7706341
>odyssey
A B S O L U T E
M
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D
M
A
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I'm re-readingFirefightbefore I startCalamity
That being said, I'm plodding through Moby Dick as well.
>>7706341
Careful with Homer translation. Can make or break your experience.
Emerson is beautiful though. Do a little reading on transcendentalism. He has an extremely strong and deep mystical tradition running through him. Very erudite. Don't underestimate him.
>>7706443
Lets see how I do since im a total plebian
Im reading the portuguese edition
I hope nothing much get lost in translation
>>77063411
Dover Thrift Editions are so based.
It's kinda pulpy, but I've been reading the expanse series, about halfway through book 3,"ghost" miller is pretty spooky so far
>>7705255
Dune by Frank Herbert
pic related and a manual on symbolic logic
just cultivating that joy of living yknow
>>7706493
How do you like it so far?
Kaboom
Monster of Florence
One L
The Bloody White Baron
The Long Walk
In The Heart of the Sea
The Lathe of Heaven
Edge of Dark
The Peace War
A History of God
Stations of the Tide
Fairly new to /lit/ and going through some of the recommended, stumbled upon The Stranger, and reading that now between classes. Great read so far.
>>7706560
Read it for the first time last year and it blew my mind. The Plague might be my favorite though.
Any Pynchon fans here? I'm about to read Vineland, which seems like a pretty short read. Where to go next? Against The Day or Gravity's Rainbow?
I saw it in the library and the title looked neat so now I'm reading it.
Some p interesting characters so far.it's not about aliens
>>7705255
https://www.wattpad.com/155720354-a-new-bizarre-world-the-sweetest-dream
It's actually what I'm reading
It's got realistic characters and fuck you guys. Nobody can give me 3 reasons why this is poorly written that aren't memes.
This is my first time to /lit/
I never read something seriously outside the LOTR/meme self-help books years ago.
Where should I start to become patrician (i dont mind some philosophy and classical modern novels i guess)?
>>7706633
He's my bro.
It's a Good Boom.
>>7705255
>>7706558
Three reasons
1.) Chee
2.) Ri
3.) Os
>>7706634
Don't worry about appearing patrician to autists on a cantonese caricature board. Read what appeals to you and don't fall for memes like the greeks or lengthy postmodernist drivel
>>7706664
Nice
Think ill start reading Diplomacy by Kissinger then some the Stranger or Catch-22
>>7706515
On page 200 right now, one of the most well written sci-fi books I've ever read. I like to study theology and my favorite movie is Dune so I'm gonna love reading about messianic prophesies and what not.
>>7706686
The Stranger and Catch 22 are both enjoyable and good starting points
>>7706678
Dune is so extremely well-done. It has one of the strongest fantasy/sci-fi settings I've ever read. I'm glad you like it
>>7706695
thats good to hear
Just got catch as an ebook
Finishing this masterpiece.
>>7706726
kek
Yea, but just gonna take some time to go back to the greeks after the trauma i got in school reading the Iliad
>>7706110
you shouldnt start it at all
>>7706706
Have you read any of his son's work?
>>7706757
I didn't even know he had a son
>>7705255
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
>>7706789
After he died his son found his old handbook and wrote prequels and other books based off of Dune.
>>7706797
Shit, I'll have to get to those soon. Cheers
Go Now by Richard Hell. He's an old punk burnout heavily influenced by Frenchies. Kind of scuzzy but that's my kick right now.
>>7705288
Love Kharns.
>>7705303
That's some Voltaire/DesCartes mocking shit right there.
The Tunnel. I'm finding it a bit challenging without a break in the writing for me to just chill a bit and internalise the previous sections. I'm enjoying the book so far though, regardless of how exhausting it is. I'm at the 70-75th page I think, does it become a bit more lucid?
>>7706493
Great book. I only read that and the second one
>>7705255
3001, I jump from 2001 to this. Its okay?
probably more of a /his/ sort of book, but I'm enjoying it very much
>>7705713
Update, finished Mythology and am now reading Trigger Warning by Gaiman.
It's pretty comfy.
>>7705535
>So far it's kind of self-masturbatory
That's the point
>>7706895
No, it's a steaming pile of shit.
>>7705255
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Was reading M Train by Patti Smith when she mentioned how much she loved Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so now I am reading that, sort of like a footnote. When I finish, I'll go back to Smith.
The once and future king. Just past halfway. This book is becoming one of my all time favorites. Merlin is such a joker.
I'm reading:
>In The Miso Soup
>Something Happened
Had Great Expectations sitting around for awhile now, so decided to give it a read. Does Pip ever get to taste some of that sweet Estella pootie tang?
>>7705255
War & Peace
>>7707262
Nobody fucks in Dickens
>>7706740
Trauma reading the illiad? Not sure what you read mate but it's an awesome book. I'm almost finished
>>7707302
What a prude.
I've had Encyclopedia of the Dead sitting around for awhile now. Anyone suggest reading it? Is it worth it?
>>7707294
hello nick
>>7705255
How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt
The story of how the mp3 became the standard and the downfall of the record industry. 1/3 of the way in, pretty good so far.
>>7706146
b/c it's bad
>>7706814
the guy who did blank generation?
>>7707339
The one by Kis? Yeah that's a great collection. I ought to re-read it one day.
David Copperfield
it's the shit
Dull writing but entertaining
The world is a stage, by Michael Spears. Fucking brilliant!
>>7706595
I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow these days, and so far its one of the best I've ever read.
I don't even know where to start describing it.
>>7707681
Quit trying to shill your shit book faggot
>reading in a coffee shop
>carrying around a high res camera
>to take pictures of yourself reading
LOOK GGUYZ I REaAAAD
u could say I'm a bookwurm XP
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Currently waiting on my Kindle Paperwhite 3 to be delivered.
Ordered it yesterday, and it was on £20 off today.
Asked Amazon if they could refund me £20 and they did.
What should I read first on it?
Thinking about starting 'The Laundry Files series' by Charles Stross
>>7706595
Read V. before Gravity's Rainbow. Keep in mind Vineland is pretty much an anime. Still fun.
>>7706982
Right, I'm aware, but that doesn't make it any less true. Just because it is meant to be self-masturbatory doesn't make it any more interesting to read.
Le morte darthur
The winchester manuscript
>>7705255
Gogol short stories, just finished The Carriage. Gonna hit up The Portrait and The Overcoat next.
After this, Soul by Platonov. Hype for that.
Dinner menu
>>7705255
Did you take that picture OP? You're like a well-trained dog.
>>7707262
Oh, Estella...
>>7705255
Herrmann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game. I love it.
Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind.
>>7705255
I'm reading the subtitles for my anime.
50 pages deep into American Psycho and really eating up the dialogue, definitely one of the best books when it comes to that. Completely blows the movie out of the water and it's one of my top 10. Any thoughts from you fellers who've read through it at least once?
>>7705255
**nothing**
>>7708877
How is le. I'm reading the once and future king. Shit cracks me up. Pellinore is retarded.
>>7705255
Infinite Jizz and The Waves. I always end up reading multiple books at once.
>>7705534
I've only read The Idiot, but I found that it got so dull in the middle then only picked up again briefly before the end. Any other thoughts on this book?
>>7705255
Script for the play I'm in
>>7705525
How is wings of the dove? I have it on my shelf but haven't read it.
>>7710219
Btw the play is race
>>7710219
Thats pretty fuckin cool yknow
300 pages in and im still expecting somebody to be murdered
>>7706307
My nigga
>>7707217
Ugh, fuck - I read In The Miso Soup a while back after getting it with Piercing (the book I actually wanted to read by him). So badly written, barely any plot, just trying to be shocking and "spooky" and just failing. In the end I never even bothered reading Piercing.
>>7710225
It's not bad.
Theater kid since my sophomore year in highschool.
Readers theater style so staging is minimal and scripts in hand for the performance.
Only 4 characters/actors
>>7707581
I'm about 100 pages in and it's had some funny moments but it's mostly fairly mundane descriptions. Is that the joke? "lel made you read 1000pages of this + 200pages of footnotes"?
>>7705255
Pacific Payback
>inb4 pleb
>>7709999
It's okay, anon, I'll check em for you.
>>7708214
You'll understand it when you get farther along
Just finished Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. On the 3rd chapter of Ulysses.
>>7705255
Volume 1 of short fiction by Tolstoy. Meh, so far.
Books about fighting are really fucking engaging
>>7705255
the war of the worlds by h.g wells.
is this considered a classic?
Roadside Picnic
Crime and Punishment. I should have listened to Nabokov.
La Celestina
Its funny
>>7710527
near the end of Nightlord Shadows. its basically a fun romp of wish fulfilment with tedious talks about physics that are not really explanations since they end with on "or something like that".it has a ballsy end but its also cruel to readers since there is likely to be a big gap between this and the next book. a lot of epic shit happens but its epic in a way reading mythology wiki is epic, you can see the logic of why it epic but you don't feel connected.
>>7706790
I read a few of the chapters for a class a few years ago. Dense. Didn't enjoy how he wrote much, but its definitely interesting
>>7710527
he mentions it in almost all of his works for someone who dislikes it.
Its a necessary read anyway
Almost finished with Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, I'm going to read his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Might pick up Kukuro or No Longer Human to read between books. Which of those two would you guys recommend first?
>>7710736
Kokoro*, half asleep my bad.
The only other Stephen King book I've read is On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft for my AP English Writing class 5 years ago. I really loved it. It dawned on me the other day I've never read any "actual" Stephen Kings so I just randomly decided on The Stand.
Really like his writing style, can totally just read on and on (I suppose its easy to read, but w/e I like it). About 1/8 of the way through.
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft. Just finished "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"
>>7710726
>necessary read
>believing in such a thing
Top Pleb
Next you're gonna say start with the Greeks huh?
I'm reading Infinite Jest and it fucking sucks
>>7705760
Danielewski's output has been trainwreck after trainwreck since House of Leaves
>>7706174
Hofstadter is a laughing stock pls give up GEB and for the love of god don't check out Strange Loop or that other one about Analogies. I haven't the slightest fucking idea how he won a pulitzer for non-fictionthe bible should be your top priority
>>7710349
Its considered a pile if waffles. Wtf kind of q is that? Old as fuck book. Still in print. Yeah.
>>7707602
Yeah. He writes books. They're pretty good. He used to fuck Patti Smith, too, but he's a junky.
>>7705255
Brave New World
Monobeno -happy end-
Beginning of Natsuha's route. The first few scenes are replay of common route, but from Natsuha's perspective. It's interesting to see things from her perspective, because while her condition is the moving force of the plot, the previous routes ultimately aren't about her all that much.
>>7710527
How did you manage to read nabnub before reading c&p? Did you not go to high school?
dubliners
did i just fall for a meme? sure its a fun read and the prose isn't bad but everything seems kind of...not as dense/difficult as id expect
> pleb
> just getting into reading
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
I'm reading this book and it seems to have made me realize the true cost of war... I can't stop thinking about how much is lost when a life is taken. I couldn't think of a bigger waste of life than war, but it's inevitable. Then I watched a video about the Dresden bombings in ww2 the other day and it really struck me. Now I feel like I need to read more history.
There seems to be a real difference between knowing and understanding how terrible something is.
Read A Whole Life yesterday, it was ok, people would probably enjoy it if the liked Stoner.
Am currently reading Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and How Fiction Works by James Wood, need to save up some money before I can buy another book so will probably dip into one of my short story collections, but am considering focusing on the Norton Anthology of Crit to tide me over.
>>7711338
I hope you're trolling
Going through this again.
>>7705255
Crime and punishment and I'm loving it
East of Eden-Mr Steinbeck
physical copy of cloudstreet by tim winton and then one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez on kindle
the former seemed really good when i started it but i've read, heard about and downloaded other books that are more intriguing to me since that i just want to get it finished. the latter is astounding, though
>>7711338
Dubliners is Joyce's most accessible work, and also the stuff he published first - if you've seen Ulysses or Finnegans Wake before you may be confused why it's so "easy"
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Pentecost (play)
Prisoner's Dillema (play)
Hax (poetry)
La familia de Pascual Duarte
Based Cela.
>>7705255
water margin. its good
>>7710736
No Longer Human, my personal favourite, is more about despair and self-loathing, while Kokoro deals with about love, guilt, honour, treason.
Choose any which one speaks to you most, they are both amazing.
>>7711752
*with love.
Sorry, I'm retarded.
About hakfway through Godel, Escher Bach.
I need to learn more about music. I'm fine with logic and math and computers talk but fugues and shit loses me
>>7711379
How are you liking it so far?
>>7711242
Haven't heard of that VN yet. How difficult is the writing? I understood everything in your picture so I suppose it might be bearable?
>>7711971
The pic is from perspective of MC's younger sister and the text difficulty reflects that.
Normally it's harder, there are characters that speak in various dialects or old Japanese. MC is also a medical student, so there's some technical lingo related to that.
But if you're interested in it, you can try it. Well, first you should look up what it's about and consider if it's something you'd like. I can tell you it's very unique, haven't read anything quite like it yet.
Half way into Meditations after that long ass introduction.
Also got Letters from a Stoic to read afterwards.
What should I read afterwards? The Prince?
massacre in newtown: adam lanza's dark passage to madness
>>7705255
American Psycho
On page 330 or so.
Jasper Jones, by Craig Silvey.
It's like a classic Southern Gothic crime novel, but set in 1960s Western Australia, as told by Holden Caulfield, if he wasn't such a dickhead.
Snow Crash.
The Two Towers
>>7712509
How is it?
>>7705782
Yeah I was sort of apart of the GR group and I don't think there were many left by the end of it.
>>7706818
I'm sure you don't you insincere fuck
>>7712819
DFW's ghost detected
>>7706045
Finished now.Cried like a bitch.
>>7705255
any and all journals, articles, reviews etc. about P2X receptors and their association with nociception
I have a 5000 word literature review of my own due in a little over a month and all I've done is an introduction draft, not looking forward to having to slog through this
>>7705255
steppenwolfe/hesse
and
valis/pdk
and
lords of the sith, but i hate it and its a chore to read
The Prince is short and interesting reading, but a massive downer.
Umineko.Reading through the Hobbit for the first time, its pretty comfy. also about halfway through Inferno, just started the eighth circle
>>7705255
This.
>>7706236
I got about 150 pages in and gave up. Should I keep reading? I wanted it to be interesting but it didn't grip me that much.
>>7706677
Skip Kissenger, don't rot your mind. Catch 22 and the stranger and both good though.
>>7713834
What's wrong with Kissenger? You fucking faggot.
I'm on a bit of Borges kick. I'm reading it in Spanish, not that my Spanish is any good, but I feel if someone puts the effort to write in a language I should pay them the respect to read in that language.
>>7713836
He's an imperialist neoliberal sack of shit. If you're into that kind of thing I imagine your mind is already pretty rotted anyway though, so go ahead.
>>7711186
if you're in the first 300 pages it will. Keep going,
source: page 930 currently.
It started a bit rough but...I hate that I love it
>>7713842
>Conservative republishit detected
>>7713866
You're the conservative, retard.
>>7713904
I know you are, but what am I?
