Post the book you're currently reading and waifu.
Robert Walser - Jakob Von Gunten
Das Schloss
Worm - Taylor Hebert
The Pillow Book
what's the worst book you've ever read
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>>8629802
Gravity's Rainbow
House of Leaves
Although maybe it's better to call it the most disappointing
Every single good moment was destroyed by blatantly telling you what dots you should have connected and even worse, by "LE POSTMODERN YOUTH" Truant passages. Johnny's parts of the book are some of the hardest pieces of writing to sit through I have ever come across. Pure garbage. And the book could have been so good, too
>>8629815
You must not have read many books.
New to reading and I have a hard time getting into books when the first paragraph doesn't tell me where the person is. What I mean by this:
I can't build the story in my mind when I don't have the location or environment info and it's making me frustrated. Do I just keep reading or how do you guys deal with this?
I imagine this post can sound like trolling but I can assure you I am this retarded.
>>8629781
might you have autism?
just finished the Wind-Up bird chronicle
I was expecting a more satisfying ending, but apparently if I had read other Murakami I would have known not to expect that.
My questions are:
Why did Creta and Malta suddenly disappeared?
What exactly did Noburu do to Kumiko?
What was the thing Toru killed at the end?
What was up with the last few pages?
Well with Murakami, the journey is definitely the main focus point rather than the ending. Most of the things you mentioned such as what Noburu did to Kumiko, the thing Toru killed, and the resolution are all pretty much metaphors left up to the reader to decide. Creta Kano, in my interpretation, is the fruitful part of Toru's life shown by her fertility, a direct contrast to Kumiko. Most of the novel is pretty much centered around the concept of self-identity, and displayed my means of the weird metaphors Murakami likes to use.
what was up with that child watching some guys fucking around with a tree in the backyard in the middle of the night? did that have any purpose for the story? it just felt unrelated to me
>>8629912
That was Cinnamon, it's how he lost the ability to speak.
Is there a more depressing book? I finished it and absolutely empty, wasn't prepared for the feels. Definetly not a wise decision to read it during my therapy.
>>8629712
Grow some balls, homo
Now go for some Schopie and Cioran.
>>8629727
Could you please recommend me which books by them I should read? And I guess existentialism in general. Would be very thankful for this!
What are some essential self-help books?
especially for lazy stoners
>>8629700
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
>self-help books
>What books were a chore to read but are fantistic to look back on?
For me it's Middlemarch, I still think about it weekly even though I read it more than a year ago. Reading it was such an effort though, luckily I read it in my vacation so I was able to just power through it
>>8629645
It got 6 votes in the /lit/ poll.
If ever there was proof of how pleb this board is
Definitely the Iliad for me. I wouldn't call it a chore to read, but when I had finished it I was sort of only lukewarm towards it. Only in hindsight have I begun to appreciate it so much.
Lolita
Give me those comfy feels lit
Huck Finn
Mason & Dixon
I Am Legend
>>8629671
Seconding Huck Finn.
I'd add in the Odyssey too.
*Yawn* Yo pops, can you tell me a bed time story?
The most tempting idea of having kids for me is reading stories to them at night.
Not even kidding
Cue cricket noises.
I dare you to last more than 4 pages
Is anyone else sort of disappointed with literature, that even literature that seems to try to be the most depraved as possible, talking about legit immoral stuff like child rape and shit, actually shys away from stuff like scat porn? It seems like no matter how depraved an author is willing to get, they never delve into the realms of scat porn, and that to me is disappointing because when I think that I finally found an author who really feels that nothing is sacred, they go ahead being afraid to really push things as far as they can possibly go.
iktf op
i love poo so much in my novella
>>8629567
It seems like you have not discovered De Sade and asstr.
>>8629567
>didnt read sade
Are pictures really worth a thousand words?
>>8629476
billions
>>8629476
Imagine the vile stench of her girl farts, makes me gag thinking about it.
I hate women so much. Why are they so disgusting? Why aren't people taking the redpill?
That's a nice dress hung up there
>tfw no qt summery gf
I just ordered How to read and why and the western canon by harold bloom. How does it feel lit?
>>8629463
That's not even a remotely passable trap desu
We got another one guys!
>>8629466
he or she is really super cute though. they're not trying to pass as a trap, they're just really androgynous. I think it's a he though because I saw an interview with him on a gay porn website once. He has an entire tumblr filled with fetish stuff, he just got a daddy to start taking care of him and he's in diapers 24/7 for kink purposes.
Will it hold up against Dostoevsky's books?
Anyone got an intro to Tolstoy chart?
It's Anna Karenina.
>>8629441
I put off reading Anna Karenina for a long time because I was reluctant to read a book about a woman.
I'm glad I finally did read it though. The parts with Levin working on his farm mowing grain or hunting snipe in the marsh with his dog were so damn comfy.
Plus Vronsky was alpha as fuck, fucking bitches, racing horses and finally going off to Serbia to remove kebab or die trying.
Okay /lit/, you're the smartest board on this shit hole. Let's settle this once and for all.
Who was in the right here?
>>8629427
if neuroscientists can neatly reduce mind states to brain states, ill be convinced that experience is reducible to physical phenomenon.
We are beholden to our thoughts and their ultimately meaningless machinations, but knowledge and pleasure are inherent desires that do not self destruct and as such should be requited.
>>8629442
'muh feelings so muh feelings'
I happen to agree. Mickey is right, not because Donald is wrong, but because Mickey has chosen to respect his feelings and rise over the truth Donald discovered.
so, is the mind always one step ahead as to be impossible for humans to fully grasp its workings?
>>8629419
No, it's going to be mapped out soon and the brain is slow compared to computers.
>>8629425
ok, until that happens then the answer is yes?
>>8629464
>always one step ahead
The answer is no. In fact the mind is already behind. People can predict your choices well before you make them with a brainscan already.