It's Friday. Post what you're reading for fun you damn masochistic academicians.
>>7877123
Poor Folk
Going to learn all of philosophy.
Melville's Israel Potter.
The deluxe masochist version from Dover.
>>7877144
>fun
>>7877158
It's fun to me.
>>7877159
i thought it was hilarious
I'm on page 200 of The Tunnel. Should I give it up? Gass doesn't seem to have anything important to say.
It's pretty good.
Plus, she's hot.
House of Leaves, but it's for a class. I've been having fun reading it so I don't feel bad posting ITT.
I'm reading this whiny Jew. Honestly it's better than I expected.
>reading for fun
After Tamerlane
>>7877123
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
Should be finishing Altered Carbon tonight, then it's on to The Stranger maybe, not too sure yet.
Just finished Oblivion.
Moving on to Consider the Lobster.
>>7877154
yo how is that? have you read Pierre?
Reading The Wild Duck by Ibsen
I like psychological dramas
Totally unrelated but I think you people can guide me. How do you deal with jealousness? Consider that someone has a fun life, good friends and so on, on the other hand you have a shitty life in a shanty place with no friends? How do I deal with it? How do I not feel miserable? Any book you'd like to recommend on this issue?
>>7877140
I wonder how Poor Folks fares compared to Dostoyevsky's mature work.
I've read The Humiliated and Insulted years ago, and I remember it as a total failure of a novel. Since then I haven't dabbled into the earlier works, barring The Double, which I thought would be interesting but turned out to be some kind of mediocre Gogol pastiche.
Has the man written anything worth reading before Notes from the Underground?
Is Infinite Jest your guy's Neutral Milk Hotel/Bane/Ben Garrison/Ect?
I keep seeing it posted. I'm reading this by the way.
>>7877386
Pretty much yeah.
>>7877386
literally everything here is a meme
>>7877363
Anyone? Help. :(
>>7877123
Pretty cool so far
Random library find
It's kinda boring so far.
>>7877363
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
>>7877363
>>7877455
You seem desperate, so I will reply.
Even though I'm poor and friendless just like you, I'm not jealous of anyone, because I know it's my own responsibility : I don't work as much as I should and I am a solitary person.
Perhaps some books may help you shed some light onto your muddled feelings and organize your thoughts, but there is no miraculous cure to be found in literature.
>>7877123
>>7877363
Don't compare yourself with other people first off.
>>7877350
Not your intended anon, but I'm reading Pierre now for the third time.
>>7877363
Walden made me feel ok with just being me, and happy just to be alive.
>>7877123
Just finished this. Pretty cute story.
Reading Happy Days. Already read Godot and the shorter plays. After that I'll watch Happy Days, then read Endgame and watch it again. And then I'll go for the radio plays and television plays.
Yes I'm reading trash, I haven't done it in a long time and it'sfun
The aeneid.
At the mountains of madness + Plato's Republic. Memed for what's left of weekend.
Really enjoying it
It's also an extremely fast read
It's pretty fun, it reads like a David Lynch movie.
>>7877123
>fun
To the Lighthouse and Down and Out in paris and London
Not enjoying woolf, orwell is comfy in places but pretty plain.
+ Stoner
>>7878048
You should read the sequel - Metro 2666.
violent stuff
Funny, really well written, protagonist riddled with anxiety and internal moans and groans. Very British, would recommend
>>7878084
how come it's socrates and plato and not socrates and glaucon?
>>7877123
>>7877378
I really liked The Double actually. So far Poor Folk is really quite good. The publisher he brought it to, through a friend who was a poet, couldn't believe a 22 year old could have written such a piece as Poor Folk, he said something along the lines of "You can't possibly know what you have written..." Anyways, once released the reception was pretty good, but not outstanding, The Double even less so. I recommend reading it, and the other stories in the specific book I mentioned. According to the introduction, they are about as "modern" as Dost. ever got.
Ficciones. It's really making me think about narrative structure and short stories differently.
And it'sfun________"
Well, I WAS reading Fifty Shades Darker, because it punishes me for not writing my own stuff. Read a paragraph or two, go "Augh, I can't" and then go back to writing for a while until I get distracted, read more Fifty Shades, go "Augh, please no" and get back to writing.
It's actually been a pretty effective tool in that right, but I finished the second book and I'm really hoping I don't have to go through the third to finish my novel.
>>7878192
Don't bother yourself over the inaccuracy of a meme, anon. Though that's obviously the way it should've been portrayed.
>>7878295
Spanish version?
best genre fiction right here
pretty spooky fun, but I feel like it shouldn't be read all at once. If you read it story by story and don't read something else in between it seems super repetitive
>>7877186
Then you don't understand it. Throughout the novel, Gass addresses hundreds of things, including war, art, history, and, most importantly, the fascism of the heart--the domination of active emotions by inactive ones--which is very obviously illustrated by the flags that appear in the very first pages of the book. If you want to learn more about the novel, I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlYVszUMpM
a bit preoccupied with his sexuality, but p. good otherwise - especially for pop music crit
I just finished fear and loathing in las vegas in about three hours. I was soo high
>>7879567
I'm finishing that one out, right now I'm at where De Villefort is being accused of poisoning.
>>7877386
lurk more, kid, the things you'll see...
I've been reading some short stories from Gogol's Arabesques, but the translation is prehistoric and I couldn't really get into it (btw, I'm not one of those ">he reads translations" faggots).
to the lighthouse
>>7880090
I think that's fair given sexuality is a big part of the "David Bowie" identity. I'll have to check it out.
>>7877123
>It's Friday.
>tfw it's now Sunday
