What is /lit/ currently reading?
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That's a weird cover, OP.
As for me, enjoying this as much as his others works, it's fantastic.
I'm really enjoying it so far.
tvätta händerna, boken blir smutsig(are)
Loving it so far.
Still one of my favorites.
Named Lunch, Fear and Trembling and a book on Japanese Cinema by one of the greatest living experts on the subject.
Non pictured, the Soft Machine and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (tho I'm reading it for the seventh time or something like that, refreshing my memory for an essay I need to write in connection to Kierkegaard)
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>>7910059
Finished Kizumonogatari on the tram home tonight, so I guess either Lights out in Wonderland or a translation of the first edition of Grimm's Fairytales, whichever I grab in the morning.
>>7910099
>fear and loathing in la and kierkegaard connection
Tell me more.
>>7910122
Won't go too much into the details as it is rather longwinded as a reasoning (might translate the essay and post it here when I'm done) but basically:
>Think of the present as the "God is Dead" era
>The American Dream, as the natural condition of the totality of all possibilities, is the new "God" (think Spinoza kinda)
>HST's character is the knight of faith, essentially going to Vegas and theleologically suspending the ethical in order to rise above the Morality, the General, and regaining himself as an Individual in the higher order of morality that is the godgiven possibility for an American citizen to do and be everything
>The cops, the hippies, the gamblers and all others are representations of mere men, knughts of resignation, all that shit
I know it's kind of confusing but I'm translating on the fly from my mind
>>7910088
Haha, jag hade målat ett par timmar innan jag plockade upp boken. Bilden är från igår.
About a quarter of the way through The Brothers Karamazov.
>>7910089
Have you read 54? I remember liking it, although I couldn't tell you what it's about.
>>7910099
How are you finding Naked Lunch? I recently read it, if 'read' is the right word.
I'm reading Mason & Dixon, but finding that I have to do do almost episodically. It's really good in chunks, but then I get distracted.
Monty Python talks!
It's a comfy read.
Nice to know how things went at the BBC back in the day.
>>7910180
I haven't read much of it for now, but aside from the obvious mastery of language and the inherent funniness (and I'm not talking drugs lmao but rather his descriptions of junkie characters and the whole bit with the doctor at the start) it's incredible to see how many subsequent authors have borrowed from him (HST and Gibson, even Deleuze if you will kinda I think) and how he himself is part of a flux of experimentation (just yesterday I've noticed how heavily he was influenced by Lovecraft's horror as the collapse of semiotic barriers).
How do you feel about it? If you liked it I'd urge you to watch (if, to paraphrase you, watch is the right word) Stan Brakhage works - writing an essay on the correlation for a uni course
https://youtu.be/NAoTHILzheo
>>7910180
>Have you read 54
nope
>>7910059
I don't read
>>7910166
How are you enjoying those father Zossima pages?
>>7910268
>/lit/ - Literature
>>7910059
Is this where that London meme comes from?
Nice
I'm reading houellebecq and it's making me uncomfortable
The City and The City
>>7910099
È buona la roba di Mondadori?
>>7911005
Dipende, alcune cose si altre no. Dipende dall'autore. A livello di qualità di stampa si, ma costano parecchio.
>>7910270
It was pretty good. At first the book was a bit slow and took a little getting used to since the characters are referred to by other names. I wouldn't say it's picking up, but I'm getting more into the story. Just got to the part where Alexei found Ivan at the Metropolis tavern.
The Art of War.
Fuck all y'all, haters
>>7911993
>keep your memes closer then your out-dated memes
Currently reading this
I really regret putting off reading it for so long.
its fantastic.
The Cantos. Honestly it's like reading a book by Dr Seuss.
>>7910059
The Great Book of Amber.
I found a free epub version online, but it is filled with typos and shit. I went ahead and ordered a physical copy from Amazon and it's coming tomorrow.
>>7910263
Thanks anon, I'll check it out. I can't say that I 'enjoyed' Naked Lunch as much as I 'experienced' it. It was quite visceral and at times very challenging to read. Within a page I wouldn't go from laughing to cringing, all while trying to figure out exactly what was happening. I can see what Ballard was trying to do with his books, although I haven't been able to read any of them through.
>>7913226
You should read The Neon Bible too, it's pretty short and John Kennedy Toole wrote it when he was 16.
I really think that if he had a larger body of work and hadn't killed himself so young that he'd be considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
>>7911993
Which one? I like my copy, but I'm a bit dubious of its accuracy.
>>7910059
why don't you just emulate ian and drive against a tree in a car, you cheesenigger
>>7913236
Except not at all.
>>7914181
That seems a bit harsh.
>>7910497
L O N D O N
>>7913594
I disagree. I think he was a one-pump-chump but that his one book was enough to secure his legacy. He made the first notes for Confederacy when he was like 22 (with Ignatius named as Humphrey Wildblood) and spent almost a decade on it. I don't think he could have surpassed that unless he wrote quote unquote serious fiction.
Lolita
>>7910059
Currently reading Dune.
>>7914202
What do you mean by quote quote unquote serious fiction unquote?
>>7914192
appropriate for a nazi, though
>>7914265
Why is he a nazi for reading a book?
>>7914318
With that logic, I'd be a serial killer if I read about Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy as well
About halfway through.
Only bought it because it was on sale(along with Oliver Twist), I had never intended on reading any of them but since they were on sale I thought why the fuck not
Not too impressed by Treasure Island so far though
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bretti gud
i'm reading a few books at the same time
Ian Nish - The Iwaura Mission in America & Europe
Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods
John Szczepaniak - The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers
Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
Ken Robinson - The Element
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>>7914443
>not the Hong translation
I just puked a little.
>>7914378
by that logic you're probably only reading books about idiots
>>7910059
Divine Comedy by Dante (Everyman's Library)
Moby Dick (Footnotes by Charles Feidelson)
>>7910059
Haha är du nazist?
>>7914464
>implying you have read both
Hey
What?
You have to talk to me
OK
OK what?
OK I’m talking
Are you?
Yes
OK
OK
What?
NothingOK
>>7914979
Burn
>>7915590
>>7910495
You're dumb.
>>7910099 got that copy of named lunch, pretty good edition
Currently reading brief interviews with hideous men, really liking it so far.My only problem is tha T the footnotes can get be a bit tedious sometimes, but I know I'm gonna have to get used to that when reading ij
>>7915590
That whole book.
Currently reading this, not really enjoying it thus far tho, got it from my local library and it's just unappealing to me.
>>7910141
>translating on the fly from my mind
that's language anon
Under the Volcano. Shit's so cash.
I'm reading The Golem. Mike Mitchell's translation. I'm having an unusually hard time getting into it.
Little man, what now?
