ITT: Recent purchases/additions.
What books have you recently added to your collection?
Houellebecq's Submission and The Map And The Territory
Williams' Butcher's Crossing
Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Foster Wallace's The Pale King and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Knausgaard's My Struggle (Book 1) [certainly planning on picking up the other volumes if I enjoy it]
Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
I think I got a nifty little bundle with this lot. What do you guys think of these books?
>>7922512
Bought To The Lighthouse too, hope we both enjoy it! I don't like buying multiple books at once though. In my experience it just serves to create bigger backlogs, reading one than buying another is ideal for me.
>>7922541
That's true, it definitely clogs up my backlog, but sometimes temptation just gets the better of me. Hope you enjoy To The Lighthouse too, anon - a few people I know on Goodreads said it's one of the best works they've ever read.
Reading books is infinitely better than playing video games. So, tell me, e/lit/ists, why do so many teenagers and man children still play video games?
>>7921340
I read 50 books a year. I work slushing shitty poetry for a magazine. Ironically, the poetry I see here is much shittier than what I see at work.
I still play video games almost everyday. I'm 56.
>>7921344
man child confirmed
I've had 2 separate people recommend the Lombardo translation to me, is it actually good?
two separate people as opposed to....two people who are the same person?
>>7921192
well I mean he's great on double bass pedals but he should never have bothered returning to post-seasons Slayer at all, and it would be great if he worked with Mike Patton again.
Are there any books by men? Not women. Not homosexuals. Not nu-males. Not faggots. Just men.
All those thing can be men, anon. ;3
I swear /lit/ wasn't so sexualised
>>7919698
John Updike's Rabbit, Run
Let's have one of these.
Template
I'll be dumping some that I have.
Feel free to create your own and discuss.
How would you explain this book to your parents/normalfags in a way that doesn't paint you as a budding child molester.
>>7922545
>Hey anon, what are you reading?
>Lolita
>Oh, what's it about?
>It's a complicated love story
>That's cool, see you later
>>7922545
A well-written book about a middle aged man who falls in love with a 12 year old and slowly goes insane.
I hate how every cover is essentially just a young looking body
its not even enticing just insulting to my sensibilites and what the book is really about
I just don't get this guys at all.
>>7920508
Too much LSD and weed.
hes britishand got scammed hard
>>7920508
I don't really know who this is, but his physiognomy indicates that he's likely addicted to masturbation and cannabis.
Name a better mythological character.
Protip:You can't
come at me bro
>>7923880
prometheus is a pretty cool guy, eh steals from the gods and doesn't afraid of eagles.
Jesus
have you rolled with the romans yet
>>7920208
>Continue with the Romans
>continue
>not Resume
>>7920208
Reading Comentarri de Bello Gallico atm senpai.
>>7920208
Livy da god
Post 'em, /lit/
y-you first
any hope of getting 4chan goodreads group up again? afaik all the current ones are long dead
>>7918694
Yay! I did it!
I need to make a second goodreads. Mine is half-full of stuff I'd read for work, so the recommendations are all outta whack.
It's such a good system, though. I found some great books through it.
what do you think big Daves suicide note said.
Was probably written in a hanging indent
I'm sure there's something sad and utterly banal about it.
>Peace in the middle east
>muh solipsism
Great thread OP
I mean, kinda, but not really. You should still put a shotgun to the roof of your mouth though.
>muh oversimplification of well argued philosophy
ITT writers you've shamelessly stolen from, whether it's in style or technique or in subject matter.
Every one I've downloaded from libgen
>>7916142
Good thing he's obscure enough that my professors don't pick up on how Gassy my prose is.
>>7916142
I suffer from the same brevity as Borges, so if you see any of my work, don't think it's me stealing.
I do try to dilute what influences I notice along the way, but take as much pride in them.
I've read about 25 books by Asimov, and I've read about 15 by Margaret Atwood. I prefer to read books by different authors, but some writers are great, you know?
i've read a fair bit of richard yates
When I saw this thread I thought of posting
>I have read five books by George R. R. Martin :^)
But then I had a change of heart. I'm sorry for being such a (potential) shitposter OP. Your thread deserves better.
>>7922747
I am a completionist with a genre bent so ... everything by Gene Wolfe, most of Lafferty's stuff, all of zelazny, all of theodore sturgeon, all of nabokov, most of dickens, philip k dick, bradbury, mishima, faulkner, mieville, melville, hawthorne, everything by keats, Emily dickinson, flannery oconnor, proust, most of pynchon, most of mcarthy, etc.
I have no idea why people praise this shit. There's too many fucking characters, the world is basic, and holy fuck is it boring. Are these bad or am I wrong?
>>7917473
theyre bad but not for the reasons you listed. would you rather get into a bathtub full of rotting dead rats or a sick persons snot?
You're wrong. The books are very good I just really super badly wish the next book would come out already!!
>>7917473
>storm of swords split into two
Wut