anna karenina
Meme Kamp by Knausgård
growth of the soil - hamsun
Ballad of Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
>A Storm of Swords
>1984
>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (don't like it)
Call me Plebian
2 pages in.
My first psychology book ever.
200 pages in and i enjoy it so far.
>>7724302
Have fun, it's fantastic.
I am actually reading pic related because of Min Kamp, I like the idea of the whole non-fiction novel thing.
The Grapes of Wrath
Life, Universe and Everything
Dead Souls
>>7724361
You plebeian.
Started reading Ulysses along with that new group reading thing. Pretty good so far I guess.
A Story Of Anti-Christ
Introduction to the Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse
Michel Foucault's Lectures on Biopolitics
David Harvey's Limits to Capital
Alex Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis
Looking to start Faerie Queene pretty soon. Shit's massive but my fucking dick.
>>7724288 Hope you enjoy, I did. Have you read any other Camus books?
>>7724295 That's a nice edition, never seen it before. I've also never read Dune before, what's it like?
>>7724377 What are your expectations? Just remember to enjoy that sweet, sweet prose.
>>7724393 I know nothing about this, what's it focused on?
>>7724361 You're a plebeian.
>>7724443 How is just "pretty good"? That's not even a fair enough comment for just the first page. Tell us how you feel
pic related is what i'm reading; I don't like the book cover but I like the book so far. I'm about 1/3 in.
>>7724478
>I know nothing about this, what's it focused on?
diff anon but the best part of the book is how they BTFO hedge fund managers by statistically proving that their performance is perfectly random
apart from that it's basically "muh system 1 and system 2", one is instinct, reflexes, unconscious type of thing, think riding a bike. another is long-term planning, complex thought etc. then it's about in what contexts we use which, and also pretty much how we don't use the complex system often enough and as a result make retarded and uninformed decisions
>>7724281
About 50 pages in. Not exactly sure what's going on so far.
Moby Dick
Neutronium Alchemist
Brighton Rock and it's not very good.
Waiting for Infinite Meme to arrive in the mail.
This gem right here.
The Discovery of Heaven
Unseen Academicals
>>7724478
My nigger
I got stuck halfway through, still got to finish
I did read Gravity's Rainbow over the course of a few months and damn, it left a mark
The Little Prince
What a lovely book.
>>7724478
Its classics Dune cover i actually have modern but i post this because i like it more
Dune is very slow and kinda deep it have great world building and feels more like fantasy then sci-fi imo
I only 100 pages in but i like it so far well except way way too many monologues
Good fun!
>>7724539
How are you liking it?
>>7724573
I just bought this, definitely looking forward to reading it. Is it hard to read? And is it funny?
>>7724624
I am reading the Dutch version so I can't give an opinion about the English version, but the Dutch version is great. It may seem a bit dull to people who are just getting into reading, but I think for most of /lit/ this book is a good read
I finished Lost Stars around Christmas, haven't been getting to anything yet. Leading a book club discussion for it in a few days so after that I'll get to Weapons of Choice or go back to the New Testament.
>>7724685
I've heard a lot that this is literally the worst book on anarchism. Can /lit/ confirm?
>>7724704
I've only just started reading it but basically what it's said so far is just that anarchism = socialism.
>>7724742
I have never read anything by Pynchon. What would you recommend to start with?
>>7724761
Gravity's Rainbow.
:^)
Its pretty good tbqh.
>>7724770
>Yellow font color
There was an entire thread proving that the color was tennis ball green, and emphasis on green. Not fucking yellow, any cunt who says it's yellow is fucking retarded, color blind, and should kill themselves.
>>7724780
Tennis balls are yellow dip shit.
That's what the thread proved.
It was far closer to yellow than green.
>>7724780
>tennis ball green
>Yellow and white are the only colors approved by the ITF, and most balls produced are a fluorescent yellow known as "optic yellow"
>>7724803
A friend I had in highschool played tennis competitively and the tennis balls he used were the fluoro yellow of the IJ title.
>>7724803
How does it feel to be retarded?
That's fucking yellow.
>>7724803
Looks yellow to me tbqh
>>7724281
>2016
>read a translation
I am reading Dostoevsky in Russian, because I can.
>>7724803
>that damage control
>>7724812
Shut the fuck up, this is a font color thread.
>>7724808
The fuck is that supposed to be, the fucking most extreme green you could find? There are different shades of green, and the IJ text is definitely a shade of green.
>>7724811
Get the IJ text, a fucking proper one, and test it. The la thread had someone do it and you know what happened? It showed up as fucking green.
>>7724826
its yellow
>>7724685
>Dat name
>>7724830
Did you just fucking say that tennis ball is yellow? Are you fucking blind?
>>7724817
My fuck is shuted, bro
>>7724835
Are you?
>>7724761
V. or The Crying of Lot 49, but V. is preferential
Poetics
White Noise
120 Days of Sodom
>>7724839
Obviously not, because that tennis ball is obviously green.
>>7724846
Do you want to say that if it is obvious that the ball is grenn, it is also obvious that you are not blind?
>>7724846
IT
IS
YELLOW
Gone Girl
Harley Quinn vol 1 (the new 52)
18 hours worth of textbooks
Next up: EM Forster, Maurice
>>7724298
Уpoки cдeлaл?
>>7724704
What are some good books on the subject?
>>7724826
>Get the IJ text, a fucking proper one, and test it. The la thread had someone do it and you know what happened?
I was talking about tennis balls and those are fucking yellow (as shown above). I have no idea what colour the IJ text is but if it's green it sure as hell isn't the colour of tennis balls.
>>7724864
The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise
by Craig O'Hara
That book is for your level.
Tbh try to read Kropotkin.
>>7724845
When you're reading multiple books at a time, how do you choose which one to read at a time? And does it ever get confusing?
>>7724868
>NO
So why did you say that it is obvious?
Why your views are so chageable? I am pretty sure that if you understand the ball is yellow, you will diny your previous shit.
>>7724412
Slow start but what a fucking book, I hope you enjoy it
Ficciones
>>7724887
What the fuck are you talking about? The tennis ball was never yellow, because tennis balls ARE GREEN.
>>7724895
But what if I colour my balls in yellow?
Шaх, и мaт, faggot.
>>7724908
>A tour the force
>>7724295
Vrai parmi les vrais
>>7724949
>4chan
>French
Are you mad?
p good tbqh
500 pages in.
![images[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Jag5Cs3.jpg "images[1].jpg")
>>7724880
>how do you choose which one to read at a time?
usually based on my mood
>And does it ever get confusing?
no, not really, on the contrary it makes it more 'fresh' and i'm constantly comparing the texts and styles while reading.
>>7724393
This one's in my queue, can't wait to get to it
>>7724549
Read Pan next, then Growth of the soil, then hunger.
>>7724393
Loved it.
>>7725002
How do you like it? I bought a Penguin hardcover the other day and plan on starting it some time soon. Feel a bit intimidated by the length though.
>>7724443
I finished it recently. Been a long time since I enjoyed a novel that much, it's beautiful imo.
>>7724780
The thread said:
> 15% of the way from yellow to green
That means yellow, you fucking retard.
>>7725213
good choice.I found I already did most of his recommendations for 4th level reading but he gives good advice for reading different types of works. also the recommended reading list at the end is top tier.
>>7725197
Cheers
>>7724709
>mfw native speaker of portuguese and still didn't read it
>>7725002
Enjoying it? Have you ever read other works from him?
>>7725222
So far I'm slowly discovering that I read uselessly. Glad I found the book.
700 pages into this.
And but so I'm enjoying it.
Currently reading some short stories by Fitzgerald and to kill a mocking bird because rip Harper Lee ;;
>>7724742
Also reading this right now. I've never read any Pynchon before but I'm loving it.
>>7725234
>he fell for the meme
kek
>>7724281
Zoo - Otsuichi
I just read through the first two stories
On one hand the psychological and mental aspect of the characters he portrays is fantastic.
On the other hand the scenario he makes up to put the characters through is borderline bullshit and doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. It drove me mad to think what the characters went through. It drove me even madder how bullshit the scenarios are.
I don't want to drop this, but I'm too reluctant to read on. Help
>>7725242
>falling for the 'he fell for the meme' meme
Doesn't get more pleb than this folks.
>>7724534
It truly is magnificent.
I'm reading Selected Poems - Borges
>>7724305
Just finished the second part. Terrific book so far.
>>7724864
>7724877 is right, Kropotkin and Bakunin are good entries. The worst thing to do is to try comprehend anarchism via lenses of some academic shmuck like Chomsky. Read 'Days of War, Nights of Love' by Crimethinc
>>7725166
it's not that great desu senpai desu lad
>>7725264
>replying to meme responses
WEW LAD
Paradise Lost
House of Leaves
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
Only read 4 novels so far this year, I'm falling off honestly, and Paradise Lost is going really slow. I honestly think I might be depressed, I can't even read anymore. I started writing early 2015 and back then I read so much, now I can barely read or write without just ending up staring at the wall and feeling empty. Please help.
>>7724441
Planning on reading it soon. How is it so far?
Its strange, but it has some beautiful passages. A delightful blind buy.
Currently reading King Henry V, Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti, and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe.
>>7725318
I just ordered The First Philosophers after I saw it on offer, how is it? Is it a good starting point with Greek philosophy?
Hamlet. My first Shakespeare and I'm finding it surprisingly enjoyable.
Hilaire Belloc, Servile State.
Later will read Silence by Shusaku Endo.
Its green.
Spring Snow
>>7725429
Shakespeare is great. The language is not actually that difficult to read when you get into it. The tragedies are a great way into his other stuff. Lear and Macbeth are great plays that consider similar things to Hamlet, if you're considering reading more.
>>7725429
how did you get through high school not reading any Shakespeare?
>>7724478
What are some other books with sweet prose? I enjoyed Gatsby.
Reading The Crying of Lot 49 right now.
>>7725451
Well we did read Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth, but I'm not counting these because I had shitty teachers who would make us read as a class which wouldn't allow me to slow down and actually think about what I'm reading so I had no idea what was going on. Also the teachers would skips a scene or two to save time and just give us the summary of it.
>>7725476
I plan to go back and reread these two after Hamlet now that I'm more well read then I was and have the time to actually contemplate the verse.
these are the books I still have to read before ordering new ones:
The Invention of Morel- Adolfo Bioy Casares
1984- Orwell
the Dubliners- James Joyce
the Kyballion- three initiates
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
what shall I read first lads?
>>7725502
Of those five I have only read Dubliners and 1984, but I heartily recommend James Joyce.
>>7725476
Read Macbeth next, way better than Hamlet imho
>>7725465
Dubliners by James Joyce has really nice writing, in my opinion.
>>7725512
His wife is such a stupid bitch, this book triggers me.
>>7725557
Seconding this. It's a shame that so many schools teach it too early, and people come away hating it.
>>7725557
wrong desu
though king lear is better than both
>>7725576
Oh it was next on my list anyway. Thanks!
last 100 pages of no country fro old men
Just finished reading Moby Dick so I went for some Philip K Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Needed something good enough and which doesn't pose any challenges.
I'm gonna start The Well Of Loneliness today.
Not too far into it yet but I'm liking it so far. Feels a little like a novel Borges would have come up with and written about.
>>7725502
dubliners, for pure bliss
1984 for cultural awareness
karenina for classy romance
dunno the rest
Almost finished with Hopscotch - or at least I think, it's confusing with all the hopping around.
>>7725502
Casares of course.
>>7726125
Have you read his short stories? Rayuela is a good read, but I feel Cortázar really shines at his shorter stuff.
>>7724898
>this was so cringe
Why do you say that?
>>7726399
that guys fucked I don't see how anything Calvino writes can be called "cringe" and Cosmicomics is among his best
I'm almost finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and I'm really enjoying it. Can anyone recommend me something to read next, something similar?
(I've already read Kafka on the Shore)
I'm in love whit Dumas.
Carver's book is "what we talk about when we talk about love". Cant't figure out why einaudi decided to call it. "beginner".
Like it a lot so far.
>>7726507
>>7724281
In a seminar on the major tragedies
>put off reading Saussure's Course in General Linguistics for years because assumed it's going to be this 858-page proto-Lacanian insanity that I have to read a dozen other scattered essays and secondary guides to understand
>turns out it's lively and intuitive, and subsequent thinkers just make it seem complicated by using it as a touchstone, often semi-spuriously
>tfw it's short as fuck and there are even fun drawings
>tfw this picture of Freud looks exactly like Zizek
>>7724281
your post.But actually Gravity's Rainbow.
>>7724780
tennis balls are fucking yellow you sack of shit
Master and Margarita, think it's ok but I don't love it so I'll probably give it 3 stars on Goodreads. Been giving everything 3 stars lately, I wish they had a more sophisticated rating system 2bh.
>>7724478
Eyyyyy, I'm halfway through the exact same edition. Yeah, the cover really is shit. What do you think so fat?
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
I'm trudging through pic related, currently.
>>7726478
If you're looking to read more Murakami, I really enjoyed 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'. It's certainly more pulpy than the other two, but it's personally my favourite of his novels.
>>7724704
Confirmed, books written by shills are shit. But all books on anarchism are shit so it doesn't really matter. Do yourself a favor and skip that whole phase of your political development.
>>7724281
Lolita
>>7724281
"The English teacher" ("El profesor de ingés"). A argentine novel I think bought my parents 20 years ago and nobody ever read. I was going to sell it but I read it and found it ok, but it's no big deal: I could never identify or at least empathize with the protagonist, and a major character dies but does not manage to convey grief or anything. It seems that won a prize or something, but was completely forgotten by the literary world.
>>7724281
Blood meridian
>>7724512
theogony is really a very nice book.if you ''translate'' it with a philosophical thougt, is really really good
>>7724281
Nothing, because I can't get a library card because I haven't transferred my driver's license since moving, and because the two independent bookstores in my city suck.
Well, I do have a copy of Saunders' Civilwarland but I'm not that into it. I'll probably just read stuff on wikipedia.
Can anyone suggest good articles or essays on the 2008 mortgage crisis? Or good articles/essays on any topic whatsoever?
>>7724281
Candide by Voltaire
>periodically perusing
The Complete Poems and Letters of Hart Crane
The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
>attentively reading
At Swim-Two-Birds
>leisurely reading
Profiles in Courage
>speedily scanning
The Tunnel (Gass)
>>7726703
Same. Not sure what I expected but now it's turning into what I had in mind
But I have been too consumed with reading for school to actually read this for entertainment.
its a beautiful book. Amazing vignettes.
Almost finished with this.
I will read his Commentaries on the Civil War next.
>>7725323
It's pretty good so far, easier than I thought it'd be, which is good for me.
>>7726521
Which edition is that?
>>7726973
How are you liking it? Have you read much, if any, primary source ancient history before? What made you read Caesar?
Just curious, as I'm also reading that right now (just finished book V), and am also reading his civil wars next. I read Appian and Sallust as background on the civil wars and the 1st century era in general, and enjoyed Sallust's style way more than Caesar, who is undeniably writing like a military commander rather than a rhetorical or even vaguely stylistic historian.
But it's very easy to read, and for all the corn memes in the "what you expected/got" threads, it's a decent narrative.
>>7727678
Dude are you serious.
a pleasant book, compassionate and heart warming throughout
>>7727688
Not which publisher, which EDITION. 6th, 7th, etc. That's not the most recent Norton edition that I've seen on amazon.
>>7726973
Reading it in French?
I'm reading Epictetus' the discourses and akutagawa ryunosuke's in a grove.
>>7727692
Ah, shit, I'm the retard. Sorry anon, disregard me and my stupidity.
It's fucking awful, avoid.
>>tfw you're the type of person who has to end what he starts
>>7727692
Looks like 2. I have three. I love it.
>>7727710
It's a campy-scfi, what do you expect
>>7727709
No worries anon, I see where you were coming from.
>>7727714
Thanks! It looks like a great value, so I've been considering it (the newest edition) for a while. What's the ratio (roughly) of critical response:source text? I think the recent text is something like 3000 pages total.
Also how does it handle, physically? A book that big could be a pain to deal with.
>>7724570
I thought Dune was pretty overhyped desu
>>7727726
>I thought Dune was pretty overhyped desu
>overhyped
Change your mindset, or, just say it's shit.
Name of the Rose. RIP
>>7725308
>falling for the old nested-meme paradox
Aren't you supposed to be reading Dick and Jane now, little boy?
>>7727743
leave dick and jane out of this
>>7725590
stoner builds his house
>Currently, as in right this moment:
A short story written by a class mate that is just God awful.
How can you get past high school mixing up "your" and "you're"?
I hate my university.
Welcome to the NHK.
It's decent. Nothing special, but entertaining. I haven't watched anime in years, but I may watch the anime adaptation of the LN if I like it enough.
Also reading The Remains of the Day and Why we read fiction: Theory of Mind and Novel. The latter is a work on cognitive literary studies, I'd recommend it since it's very short and divulgative, so no prior knowledge of anything is needed (it's also cheap if you're considering buy it). I haven't read much of Ishiguro's book, but so far it feels like other Japanese authors, Kawabata in particular; I find this interesting because Ishiguro, although born in Japan, grew up in London and has lived most of his life in England.
>>7727946
what's you're university?
>>7726555
I like it. There are points where I'm wondering what the hell is going on, but they seem to work out eventually. I enjoy it most during the scenes of Benny finding his life taking him randomly around new york.
>>7727710
how many pages in are you? I hated it at the outset, loved it by the middle but was a little disappointed by the end
so far so good
>>7728105
Is this good?
Check some of William H Hudson if the setting interests you.
>>7724412
Holly fuck I need to read this book already.
Scared because I sorta didn't like "Breakfast at Tiffanys"
Kinda a let-down. It's obvious he wanted to keep cashing from Bone Clocks story line
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. I am 278 pages in.
>>7726784
When I read it, I hadn't expected it to be literally the funniest novel I'd ever read.
Just finished For Whom The Bell Tolls and now I've picked up pic related
>>7728209
I read this last month, great fucking book
Genesis. Not even memeing. I was reading the Savage Detectives and enjoying it but I'm not really in a novel mood. I made it 100 pages in and quit.
idiot
moby dick
the tunnel(sabato)
2/3 into Purgatorio, I'm enjoying it so far.
While reading the book I'm feeling something I've never experienced before. My heart feels heavy, and I couldn't explain what's it about. Weird
>>7728473
After you finish that I suggest reading some C.S. Lewis if you find religious fantasy pleasurable.
I suggest picking up pic related "C.S. Lewis Signature Classics".
My favorite is "The Great Divorce". Read on friend.
>>7728493
Woops
:^)
1q84. The plot is entertaining but it's cheesy and trite as hell. My first and last Murakami. I feel memed
>>7724281
Tocqueville's Democracy in America, The Age of Confucian Rule: the Song Transformation of Chine by Dieter Kuhn and Allen Carr's Easyway to Control Alcohol.
>>7724921
>a tour
Learn french dipshit
>>7728592
I've tried Murakami three times and never managed to finish any of the books (1Q84, NW, KotS). I came away from each experience thinking it was a cultural thing since I've felt something similar with other Japanese writers.
>>7724478
Camus dude. It feels like a 5/5 halfway through the book. If it keeps up to the end, I'll check the next ones.
>>7728376
I enjoyed this book, but it takes me a weirdly long time to get through Wolfe's books. Must be his prose; I get a lot out of it.
all this easy surrealism is boring me...
>>7727718
dan brown with dick jokes
>>7728174
12% it could have been an interesting pulp thriller, sadly it just goes full retard too many times for that to have any shock value and mean anything. It's like listening to a wikipediakid list all of the things he's half remembered this month, exhausting and devoid of wit. I can already see how it ends because the MarySues are shaping up nicelyGeorge + Atlanta anti-save the world?
But then I hated The Watchmen for that same reason, and it has it's die-hard fans.
>>7727726
Its not best sci fi ever like some people say but its still good
>>7724864
Technically you can't read about anarchism. It's like Fight Club for nerds who don't into taxes.
>>7728693
I can see why someone wouldn't like it, but the book really hasn't hit its stride yet. Given, even when it does it's not super profound or moving or anything like that; it's a vulgar day-glo cartoon and is most enjoyable when you bear that in mind.
Also your prediction is wrong.
>>7728635
I have read the Stranger, Sisyphus, and the Fall so far. They're all really great
who else here /east of eden/?
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>The Master and Margarita
>Don Quixote
>Ubu Roi
>Critique of Pure Reason
>>7726935
>Garrison Keillor
Currently reading:
Inherent Vice-Pynchon
The Little Friend-Donna Tartt
Just Finished:
The Goldfinch- Tartt
Satan is Real- Charlie Louvin
>>7728592
1q84 is not one of my favorites of his. It doesn't come together very well despite some cool characters and settings, it just was a lot of the worst of Murakami's tropes stretched out for far too long. It certainly isn't a bad novel but not his best by a long shot.
I'd say give the Rat Trilogy (beware book 1 isn't so great) and Windup Bird Chronicle a try before you write him off completely. I can see not liking Haruki though.
Suttree
This is my third time reading it.
I just finished reading Infinite Jest
I've got to admit, I'm a little bit confused
It's basically "That escalated quickly": The Book
I'm reading a book of arabic fables collected by a german woman, who walked with caravans threw the desert.
>>7724281
Fitzgerald's odyssey
I love this cover, Gavroche is my favourite character, need to buy it some day.
I'm reading some other old edition.
>>7728693
your prediction is wrong. i know what you mean though, it's too all over the place to have any impact. sometimes it starts to restrain itself though, and individual passages are great. my favorite parts were mostly distanced from the action and just debating different theories of something.
![trigger-warning[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nI32KK1.jpg "trigger-warning[1].jpg")
it's pretty good
>>7728623
Not saying that you have to like Murakami, but he's heavily criticized in Japan for being an "un-Japanese" author, so cultural might not be your issue with him.
Good fucking story. Might be the best I've ever read.
>>7729936
my nigga
that's my favorite book and i love rereading it
>>7724281
>>7731192
this is pudding going to see lady death?
Doomed - Chuck Palahniuk.
>>7731258
Yes. Just read it and feel as if I need to brush my teeth.
>>7731358
kek
>>7724478
I am the gatsby guy.
The way it is written has completely enthralled me. I've read 2 chapters and so far a lot in the book is a mystery, however the mystery is built well.
I started reading it with no expectations and so far the themes it tackles (the corrupted lifestyle of the wealthy in the 20s) just seems to not be compelling to me.
>>7728493
You just became my fav person in this board
>>7730638
Entirely possible.
In what way is he considered to be un-Japanese?
Just finished this /his/ meme book (Guns, Germs, And Steel)
patiently waiting for my next one to arrive from the postman (The Reformation: A History)
