Post the last book you've read, what you thought of it, the book you're reading now or planning to read, your age, and where you're from.
Botchan. It was pretty good, a lot less serious than Kokoro
>Bankerott: book about the Norwegian banking crisis. Same old reasons as any other bank crisis and imo way to much filler.
>ekstremisme kjennetegn: Norwegian book about extremism, what is extreme and now to deal with it. Good so far but i can feel a left wing bias.
>The bible
Norway, 18 years old.
>Read: Dubliners
Well written but kinda boring. Read it because I'm in Dublin right now.
>Reading: Karamazov Brothers
Liking it so far.
I'm from Brazil, 20 years old.
>>7458674
Jess Walter's We Live in Water - Pretty good collection. Regional fiction but he has a nice sort of dark humor in most of the stories.
Now reading The Three Musketeers because I haven't yet. 32 in southeast USA.
I read Men Without Women by Murakami in one weekend a few weeks ago. It moved something in me. The story about Tokai, the doctor who got played after so many years of playing others. And the one with the actor - who befriended his late wife's lover undercover, just to see why she had liked him.
Now 100 pages in to my second by Murakami - the Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Kind of dull and slow so far. He is an interesting character though, Toru Okada. So unambitios and unmanly. No real dreams or goals. Unlike myself.
I'm 21 y/o and from Copenhagen, Denmark.
>Read: Animal Farm
Cute propaganda
>Reading: Markens Grode
Norwegian version of all those early 1900's "surviving in da woods" tough-man stories. Won a Nobel Prize. Written in some weird bastard child of modern written Norwegian and Danish...
24, America
>>7458674
>The Sun Also Rises
Was good, not what I was expecting, my first book by Hemmingway which I've finally got around to reading. I like how Jake is basically keked by the universe but he just keeps doing his thing and trying to be a good guy
>V.
Honestly not sure if I like pinecones prose or not, but I keep reading it so oh well
>22
>Bahamas
>Last read:
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava. It was great. Funny, clever, insightful, and at the same time bleak and harrowing. Anybody that says there is no good literature being written right now needs to read this.
>Currently:
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Makes me think the same thing; great works of literature are still being written today. Reminds me a bit of The Savage Detectives with the dozens of narrators thing. I'm only on page 50 so I can't say too much about it yet, but it's wonderfully written and I can tell it's gonna be good from what I've got down so far and from what I've heard about it in general.
>>7459679
Btw, 21, Wisconsin, USA
>read
pornographia
compelling, bitter, fascinating
>reading
savages detectives
stunning narrative if a bit much at times
23, pennsylvania
>read: 4:48 Psychosis
well i would recommend this to a suicidal person whom i wanted to commit suicide. im glad i wasn't when i read it.
>reading: sphinx
favorite book of the year so far
22
paris
>Speak, Memory
Left it till after I finished the rest of his work (and a grace period) and I'm enjoying it much more for that fact; feels like one of his early novels. It's nice piecing together where some characters and scenes arise from.
>(ongoing) Poésies Choises par Ronsard
Have translated (and insignificantly had published) various things by him over the years and I've fallen back into it again.
Going to re-read Darlinghurst Heroes next, and am looking for something more "major" to read; overdosed on biographies lately.
>>7459765
20, Vancouver.
>Read: Black Sea, Neal Ascherson
Pretty good, it's a travel/history book by this Scottish journalist traveling through the cities of the coast of the Black Sea and telling their stories, talking about the culture etc.
>Reading: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
I have read just 'Satanic Verses'. This one I'm finding more enjoyable, kind of reminds me of Günter Grass's 'The Tin Drum', which is one of my favorite books.
25
Rio de Janeiro
Last Book: Black Rain (Kuroi Ame) by Masuji Ibuse
>I liked it a lot, especially how it delved into self imposed hardships of the Japanese after the bombing. I'd like to see more books about the discrimination survivors of the bombs faced from their fellow Japanese.
Next Book: I'm planning to start Rashomon next, probably tomorrow.
Age: 22
From: Northern Virginia, USA
The Sound and the Fury
Probably the second best book I've read so far
His writing style really blew my mind
>>7459916
whats #1
>>7459916
the last chapters felt a bit weird to me like he lowered his power level or something
>>7459965
Infinite Jest hands down
>>7458674
Last book I read was The Picture of Dorian Grey. Fucking loved it except for the couple of chapters before the last one. I get that they were there to set up the environment for the ending but they just felt like filler. Everything else was so great I didn't really care much though. The best chapter was the Opium Den, the way Wilde doesn't really give away right at first what's happening but makes you wonder for a while was great. Also the time skip chapter was masterful fuck all the plebs who shit talk it as boring on here.
Currently I'm reading Underworld by Delilo. I'm about 200 pages in and its pretty good but its seemed to slow down considerably after the prologue and part one, some of it just reads like rambling, does it pick up again soon? I love White Noise and though segments have been better so far in general it still hasn't matched it. Only other Delilo I've read is Cosmopolis and his short story "Human Moments in World War 3". Cosmo was like a fun play and the story was surprisingly spooky.
Planning on reading either Gravitys Rainbow ot Blood Meridian afterwards. I can't make up my mind because, on the one hand the only other Pynchon I've read is CoL49 but I've been meaning to read Blood Meridian for a while noe because I really adored The Road and Child of God, the only others I've read by McCarthy. What do you guys think?
>>7458674
>Read: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I really really liked it. Incredibly well written. I felt like I gained a little bit of knowledge about the immigrant experience and a lot of knowledge (compared to nothing) about the Domincan Republic. I didn't love the ending, but that didn't matter too much.
>Reading:
The Long Goodbye.
23, Los Angeles.
