Current Reading Thread

>>7442622

Is the Hughes translation lively?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfQjFkGsEE

hasn't burned down yet, but it's breddy gud

>>7442618
I've been meaning to read this, how are you feeling about it?

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>>7442618

Livin' the meme.

>>7442618
Tell me about Barth, I've been meaning to give him a shot but my backlog is ridiculous. Should he move up in the polls?

Currently reading:
As You Like It
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Groundwork

It's that time of year where I feel validated or stupid!

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>>7442871

>Tell me about Barth...

I hate what this place has done to my mind.

>>7442958
Yeah, yeah, explaining things is difficult, you should know everything already, etc, etc.

>>7442983
Whoa, easy there, big guy. Was getting caught being a pleb part of your plan?

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>>7442998
I guess you can find comfort in knowing not everybody is that far gone. (Most of us are, though...)

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I am listening to an audiobook

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>>7442832
I'm surprised this one isn't memed more often

Swann's way

>>7442832

Reread this earlier this year; it's even better the second time. There's too much to put together to put it all together on the first read.

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on the last 50 pages, it became incredibly gripping out of nowhere, and all of the idle conversation in the first half lends a strong verisimilitude to the final chapters

>>7443084
I just returned that book to the library after having it sit on my desk for a whole month. I couldn't get into his style; it bored me the fuck out.

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:^)

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Currently Reading:
House of Leaves mfw I realised a book is a "house" of paper "leaves"
Gene Woolfe's V.R.T.
Lion Attack (Really hope it's all fiction because the narrator is too me if I was a Melbournite hipster douche to be real) But it's a good read if you're down under nevertheless.
The Golden Bough
Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna
Kaigan
The City of Z
Hitler and Napoleon: A Comparative Biography
>>7443084
I'm reading through Girls With Curious Hair, with Hideous Men and Oblivion waiting on the bookshelf.

All in all, not going to the library anytime soon.

>>7443524
Oh and also reading Urth of the New Sun and I am Providence on kindle, but that's usually just on the shitter.

>>7443524
>Oblivion waiting on the bookshelf
in what form?

>>7443550
Paperback you cheeky little cunt.

http://knigger.org/bradbury/the_martian_chronicles/lang/en/

Pale Fire

I was expecting something else completely, and I'm not disappointed. The man spoke the language of obsession.

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This sexy ass fun ride
It's abso-fucking-lutely perfect

>>7442618

Over-indulgent garbage. It was forgotten for a reason.

>>7446894

I hadn't heard anything about it before I picked it up, but I loved the weirdness of the introduction and all of the Christian allegory in Barth's preface. It's great so far.

>>7446894
yeah, barth is utter shit. same with grass

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read a thousand plateaus over the summer, now im starting this

i need friends

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>>7442618
is this where Bill got his Goat Boy bit?

>>7443024
I can't do it. It makes sense for something you don't <i>really</i> care to read. With audiobooks it's such a pain in the ass to rewind to hear a paragraph or page/etc. again. I like being able to immediately re-read something. You can't possible understand everything the first time read/heard.

I've read everything from DFW, Tao Lin, Mira Gonzalez, and David Fishkind. Who do I read next?

Thank you for the suggestions.

>>7448157
How was thousand plateaus? Is it comprehensible? I was thinking of reading it but I haven't really read much pomo philosophy stuff

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it's aight

>>7448083

I had to read The Floating Opera in Freshman English; I liked it. Couldn't get into lost in the Funhouse though.

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>>7443495
This is coming in the mail today. Can't wait

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Ultimate comf

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it's REALLY good

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No Margaritas so far, a lot less devil and a lot more poet than expected. I'm still in it but the early death set up expectations for the following chapters that so far have not been lived up to.

>>7442618
fuck the haters OP. this shit is bomb. bigger than the bible

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poor Fierro! gauchos were tough though

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Rate

>>7442618
Hegel's Phenomenology