What are you currently reading?

>>8343221

Notes from the Underground

>>8343221
Dublineers.

Moz' facial expression

>>8343225
>>8343242
/lit/ has such diverse tastes. Mindless drones.

I'm reading In Times of Fading Light.

>>8343221
Finishing up the three Theban Plays. I'm reading 2 different translations though. Then I am going to read Gilgamesh.

The evening redness in the west

Microserfs

>>8343221
This post.

>>8343278
Same here. The prose is really hard for a non-native speaker of English tbqhfamalamadingdong.

>>8343274

I have not read Notes from the Underground before so I thought I would try it. You know what? Fuck you dude. You're a god damned faggot. I hate everything about you. If there were 2 buttons in front of me, one that would give me a billion dollars vs the other that would end the lives of everyone you love and cherish, I would push the latter. FUCK YOU. I hope you suffer.

>>8343221

Heidegger's essays on art/poetry.
And a brain melting, absolute crap prose BDSM novel.

The World of Odysseus

>>8343295
There's nobody I love or cherish, JOKES ON YOU.

>>8343298
>a brain melting, absolute crap prose BDSM novel
My diary?

Just finished Travesty and started Ireland. I always get asked how it is in bookshelf threads so I figured I should move it up the list.

>>8343274
I only read spanish literature, so Dublineers is something completely new for me.

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>>8343221
Cannery Row

>>8343305

Fucking loser then I would press the third button which would put you out of your misery forever.

>>8343221
Man's Fate by Andre Malraux

About to start Ballard's Unlimited Dream Company

>>8343309

really? send me your diary, anon (wink wink)

>>8343225
finished that myself and am now quite a ways into Crime & Punishment

>>8343314
How do you like it?

>>8343317
That'd be kind.

>>8343221
The Histories

Do dolphins really save drowning people?

Cosmicomics

>>8343327

Do you recommend Crime & Punishment? I want to pick up The Master and Margarita tomorrow, I could throw in that one as well.

Re-reading Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, slogging through the New Oxford Annotated Bible, translating La Petite Prince to brush up on my elementary french, reading from the Book of the Dead occassionally, and I have Steven Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature on hold until I finish this reading of Joyce.

>>8343328
It's a pretty good book desu.
I've been looking for more non-spanish 'acclaimed' short story collections, I don't have a lot of time for reading bigger works.

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>>8343366
I recommend to you Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates then. One of my favourite short story collections.

>>8343221
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Blood Meridian for the first time

>>8343275
>2 different translations
Which ones, anon? I've read Christopher Collard.

I'm reading Frank Wedeking's “Spring's Awakening”. It's quite disturbing.

>>8343314
>Dublineers
Is your copy called Los Dublineros?

reading skagboyz, after that trainspotting and porno

was in my to read list, just wanna get over it to get back to them greeks

>>8343450
Sorry, my keyboard had a stroke.
My copy is called Dublineses.

The trial, again

>>8343221
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David "The Mememaster" Wallace. I'm enjoying it, but his literary hi-jinks can get a bit tiresome at times

>>8343274
you're one of those people who try to be quirky and "lol random" because you think that there is virtue in just being different right?

do you also hate mainstream music because it is mainstream? do you refrain from reading all the popular authors like dosto, tolstoy, pynchon, dfw simply because they're popular with a certain crowd?

if no then consider the fact that this thread could have been posted when you were going through a popular work and you would have posted here and some snarky, condescending elitist hipster decided to deride you for consuming a piece of literature just because others had read it too.

people like you make me hate this board anon. i wish i had an actual life which would keep me from coming back here out of boredom but i don't.

>>8343554
It's an important stage to go through. Just let him go.

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Just finished this guy and absolutely loved it. Any recs?

Currently reading Never let me go, my second Ishiguro book, the first was A pale view of hills, and i liked it very much

>>8343340
not that poster but yeah Crime and Punishment was incredible. You go into the mind of a rapidly deteriorating paranoid psycho. It's great

>>8343221
A Frolic of His Own

It's my 4th Gaddis. I'm not sure if I want to read Agapē Agape or The Rush For Second Place next. I'm also reading his letters.

>>8343221
Tales of ordinary madness

Currently on my second reread of The Recognitions (as in, for the third time). I got to the part right before Esther's party, and I kept having to go back and look up certain recurring phrases, words and references so I decided to start from the beginning again.

>>8343554
Jesus Christ just calm down and shut the fuck up.

Remember that you're supposed to enjoy 4chan with ironic detachment. Don't take anything serious.

>>8343221

A collection of Milton's work.

>>8343340
Master and Margarita is mostly romance novel so I wouldn't reccomend if you don't like that kind of novels

I think i have to finish Freedom by Jonathan Franzen before i ceremonially burn it and spit on it for being such a stupid piece of shit

I've lost control of my life, so right now I'm reading:

Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
Walden by Thoreau
The Upanishads
In the Buddha's Words by Bikkhu Boddhi
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

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Mozfu

I'm rereading Plato's Dialogues while also reading Dubliners. I read a dialogue, then a story from Dubliners, then back to Plato, then to Joyce, and so on.

>>8343221

Just finished a Hero of Our Time by Lermontov. It was fucking excellent.

>>8343526

>but his literary hi-jinks can get a bit tiresome at times

Octet is basically him jacking off into his own mouth for far too many pages, simultaneously trying to convince that he is not, in fact, jacking off into his own mouth.

Other stories are really great though. I still have a sense of visceral repulsion at the sheer, banal horror of the life of the toilet attendant.

1984, and damn is it tedious. It's been 3 days and I've only got through 70 pages.

>>8343221
Im gonna start Herzog. Is it good?

Crime and Punishment. Still really early into it though, haven't finished part one yet.

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I'm reading a book on greek mythology. But it is meaningless, after one or two days i forget everything. So many names and dudes that only existed to be killed by Achilles.

Metaphysics

Only 100 pages left. Feels good desu

>>8344091
How is it tedious? If anything I found it too easy. It's not one of my favourites necessarily but I enjoyed it.

Currently reading Leaves of Grass. Great stuff, though with some weak points. I've also been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately, trying to work through all the nice editions they have at a store nearby before filling in the gaps with my Oxford Complete Works.

>>8344143
He's too smart for Orwell

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zaregoto 6: hitokui magical. it's the first book i've read entirely in japanese.

it's about a guy who gets picked by a human biology researcher to help her in the "study of not dying", for a bit sum of money, and is also instructed to bring 2 other people as monitors. trying to defy fate. the first half of the book is spent in what he does between getting the offer and counting down the days until the job starts. the second half of the book is the job and experiments, and, as you'd expect, everything goes horribly awry

>>8343340
Well, I got Brothers Kamarasov first. But a friend told me to read Notes first, as a warm up for that hunk of a book. But then I got hold of a Crime & Punishment copy and have been reading that and enjoying it a lot.

>>8343644
>>8343340
Also what this poster said. I think Crime&Punishment might be the best book to follow Notes up with because the mentality of the Underground man carries over a little.

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Not lit, but still interesting

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Its a bit shallow on some of its topics but i'm enjoying it none the less.

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>>8343221
Finnegans Wake
The Waves
Juliette Society

Ulysses, some essays on semiotics by Umberto Eco, Herodotus' History, rereading Odyssey.

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>>8344217
If you can read spanish, i highly recommend you Antonio Piñero's works

>>8343726
You got dicked on kid

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The Shadow of the Torturer, if we're going to be specific.

Just finished Swann's Way, as well, and will be switching off Shadow & Claw with Within a Budding Grove (both are of the Moncrieff+Kilmartin+Enright translation).

>>8344120

The Bellow Herzog novel, or Werner Herzog's memoirs? Both are in the modern classics, and both are well worth reading desu f a m

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Gonna start reading Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence.

What am I in for?

>>8344589
Bellow's Herzog. Gotta read Herzog's works then

Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>8344237
Herodotus is greatly underrated on /lit/.
Not only was he the first historian, but his digressions of dubious veracity are fascinating in themselves.

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. Been meaning to get to it for some time

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>>8344768
good choice

>>8344768
yup

>>8344768
I read that, and now I don't feel compatible with this planet, although I feel I have my own structured idea of what the world should be and what my ideal world would be. I'm not depressed and suicidal, I'm more of an idealist who's starved of any sort of satisfaction, and indeed it's left me with a deep seated resentment and dissatisfaction with life. Most of the time I'm just bombarded with thoughts of how much I hate myself, because of how my thoughts have betrayed me, how they've misguided me into saying something regrettable. That's one way I really relate to Dorian, is that I feel that my own thoughts betray me, in the foray of existence I'm forced, by any principles of living for the sake of living, to live through.

So you relate to Winston in 1984 as well, the same way right?

>>8344802
fuck off

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Cynical as fuck, I love it.

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>>8344841
Brighton Rock...Pinkie Brown I'm just sayin

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>>8344841
Arthur Miller's masterpiece

>>8343221
Speciation

PK Dick's Confessions of a Crap Artist. It's the first of his 'mainstream' novels that I've read, and I have to say that it's pretty damned good. He seems much more comfortable not having to paper over his ideas with a thin veneer of 50s style SF, and the characters actually seem to have some depth to them.

>>8344705

Nietzsche: The Novel

>>8343294
It's my favorite book, but ut can be hard for a native speaker.
>that cowboy jargon
>the words I can't fi d a definition to anywhere that I assume he made up.

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Currently around page 500/note 200. It's neither as bad as /lit/ makes it seem or as good as the rest of the world makes it seem, who would have thought?

>>8343598
No.

Memoirs of n Imaginary Friend, for the billionth time. Still makes me cry every time

Nothing and I feel bad about it

>>8344935
get off 4chan and read something

>>8343355
Wanna see my pp?

>>8344938
But I just finished work and I'm exhausted.

I'm off tomorrow, I'll pick something up then.

>>8344952
Yes.

Not currently reading it, but I just bought "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" by Richard Yates, is it good?

>>8343221
Reading Suttree. Pretty good, but I definitely prefer Blood Meridian.

I've seen people here deride BM for the "edgy" violence, but I think that that kind of subject matter just fits McCarthy's style better than some of the material in Suttree. The same kind of prose is used to describe things that venture very close to the banal and makes it seem edgier than BM.

>>8343221
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock. I'm really enjoying his satire of romantic-gothic fiction.

>>8343355
Five different shades of beige.

>>8343428
How do you like it?

>>8344752
I wouldn't say so. /lit/ just doesn't talk about history books all that much (Herodotus is actually mentioned quite a lot in that regard).

David Byrne's How Music Works

American Psycho
I find that it is best enjoyed one or two chapters at a time, so it's taking forever for me to finish it
Unfortunately, I insist on reading only one book at a time, so it's going to be a while before I get to pick up something else

>>8343221
Collected works of Getrude Stein and Letters from Seneca

>>8343221
I'm around 300 pages into Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, which is really shaping up to be enjoyable. When I bought the book, I assumed, since it was under "essays" in the wiki, that it would be a collection of notes, or a pamphlet. Something like Paine's Common Sense, in terms of size at least. So straight out of the box this one's surprised me, first with its size, then with its humor, and now with its readability. There's a saying about this book: "a member a day keeps the melancholy away", and I've taken to realize that to mean this book's size will be insurmountable unless I'm pacing about a member a day, so has had some interest or plans regarding this book, keep that in mind.

>>8343221
Morrissey's autobiography, it feels like a blog from an angsty teen and I love it

>>8344992
Love the imagery and the feeling of endless violence if that makes any sense. Not to far into it so I haven't seen enough of the characters yet but it seems to be shaping up nicely.

>>8343437
Fagels and David Greene

>>8345314
Read it not too long ago, love the childhood/teen bits, Smiths trial bit is dull as fuck, but has some good later bits like seeing a ghost on the moors

Jack London - Call of the wild
William Golding - Lord of the flies (Again)

>>8343221
wheel of time, book 2, robert jordan

The Grave - Charles L Grant
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

>>8343221
Varieties of Religious Experience
Collected Stories of Maupassant
Ulysses
The Sense of Beauty: Being an Outline of Aesthetic Theory
Life is Worth Living

>>8345554
People hate on WoT a lot (and deservedly), but it has a special place in my heart because it's what got me into reading. I doubt I'll ever reread it, though, because despite my nostalgia it's probably garbage.

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>>8343221
Been missing Firefly so this is perfect.

Inherent Vice. I get why it's dubbed "Pynchon Lite" and it's overall not as good as his other stuff but I still enjoy it quite a bit.

Ernest Hemminway's The Old Man and the Sea.
I'm enjoying it so far because the old man is interesting. It's a nice mixup after reading some dry ass Vietnam War nonfiction.

>>8343274
lol dude ikr? all these sheep just droning meme books xD im glad theres other people like me with unique tastes, if we were on reddit, i would upvote and give you gold

>>8343305
Can someone a banner out of this

Brothers Karamazov, not super far in yet, so far Ivan is my dude

The second Anno Dracula book.

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Claudius the God. I don't want it to end. This is the edition I have, wish I could get a poster of the cover

Euthyphro by Plato

Phaedo

>>8343221
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
Currently just started on Endymion, plan on studying John Keats when I am done with the whole cantos.

>>8343221
THE HOLY BIBLE PAGE FOUR HUNDRED THREESCORE

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>>8345951
I wish illustrators would stop making the shrike look like some dude in spiky amour.

>>8345791
I felt the same way. I read it right after V. and so I was initially very disappointed, but it grew on me, and by the end I was enjoying it. Certainly not one of his best, but not a bad novel, either.

A Commentary on Plato's Meno by Jacob Klein

>>8344733
What do you think of it so far? I just bought it. I also purchased Kojeve's introduction to the reading of Hegel.

>>8343598
i enjoyed mysteries of pittsburgh but then again i'm pretty much a faggot

>>8343221
God is not one, and I'm re-reading GOT

>>8346044
Do you recommend it?

>>8343294
>>8344891
Yeah, he used a good amount of unique words. I consider my English vocabulary (native speaker) pretty decent -- not amazing or anything -- and I get most of his words, but definitely sometimes I am just blanked. The writing is very interesting, I find it unusually easy to read (aside from the vocabulary) considering how dense and wordy it is. I think it's because the rhythm of the language is so good, I feel like it just keeps flowing really well on the tongue and it's easy to lose yourself in it.

The book is really good, I had just read The Road and it absolutely tore me a new one, made me cry like a /b/ fag after getting hardcore baited for 220 posts. This book is a lot different from The Road though. It manages to be one of the darkest books I've ever read, even though I don't feel that McCarthy has a lot of malevolence or darkness inside him. I mean, I get the impression he definitely hasn't lived a life of such harshness himself ... yet he nevertheless tells such a dark story superbly. Judge Holden is an amazing character, I am about 3/4 of the way through the book and looking forward to seeing how he ends in the tale.

>>8343960
Doesn't sound like you've lost control to me, bro. I think you haven't spent enough time on /b/
>losing control of life
>drinking two 18 packs a day
>jerking non-stop to trap/loli/vore
>massive cuck fetish
>and this is just the first 5 threads

>>8344252
Amerifag here = shit education system = will never be able to speak other languages, 30 years old, given up hope

>>8346085
Yes, but it's a very dense and difficult work. I've never paid as much attention to a written text as Klein does. His argument is that the dialogues are what Aristotle called philosophic mimes, or dramas. He gives attention to things like the time of the day the dialogues take place, and the temperament of each of the characters. Not easy reading at all.

>>8345769
Cover looks awesome. What is about?

I just started Brothers Karamazov,
only 100 or so pages in, really enjoyable so far.

Though, I am always a bit sad when reading translations, because I always feel like I may be missing something or other.

>>8346367

Learn Russian my man

>>8343928
That's what you get for being dumb enough to read Franzen.

>>8344053
Octet is one of the top five stories in brief interviews. Even calling it masturbatory is wrong because it's more of a response to the excesses of metafiction and postmodernist writing like that of John Barth than its own thing.

Homage to Catalonia. It's about as good as I hoped it would be; some really interesting insights into revolutionary Catalonia

>>8344981
YeCarthy doesn't get shat on for the violence. He gets shat on for writing vapid shit masquerading as "biblical". If you look past the overwrought prose and hokey faux-folksy dialogue it's clear that he doesn't have any original or even remotely interesting thoughts about anything.

>>8345221
For real or are you just trying to trigger us?

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It's pretty good, like Swedish Stephen King before the accident.

>>8346793
>NOW A MAJOR FILM
But memes aside it's a decent book, worse than his others though.

>>8343225
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qXV8aB3-fc

>>8343850
Ru high

>>8346126
I'd read Suttree sometime after you finiah Blood Meridian. It's semi-autobiographical and if even half of it is true you've greatly underestimated the life McCarthy has led.

>>8346793
>Let the right one on

>>8346461
>>8346461
So you really don't think any interesting ideas went into the creation of the judge? And these accusations that he is somehow fooling us all by using neo-biblical prose is hilariously unfair.

Yes he has influences and writes in a stylistic vein, but that doesn't diminish his talent.

>>8343221
Noes from the undergroud

Kojiki
Knut Hamsun - Hunger

Burning Chrome

>>8344802
Stop taking yourself and life so seriously

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Corrosion basics: An Introduction

My father recently switched jobs into a field involving corrosion. He's high up on the corporate ladder, but still needs and understanding of corrosion and has a background in chemical engineering. I myself took a peek at the book and its very friendly to people who know nothing about corrosion. I myself am majoring in chemistry, I definitely want to try and read all of it but its very thick. I can't fully dive into it right now because of my online philosophy classes. Currently on John Locke and Hobbes.

>>8343221
Your post :^)

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>>8343221
pic relate its alright
short criminal stories mainly read it on the beach or when i chill on the balcony

Terry Pratchet's books
I only heard of him few years ago before his death, since he isn't that big name around here. and I need to order the books from another country in english. seems like they are aimed at teens but at 25 I've been thoroughly enjoying them

when you get old and crusty, things like pulp thrillers really are about the only thing you can stand.. try Jim Thompson's pop 1280 for a good example... I simply can't stand "high lit" wankering around, even the guy I wrote my Ph.D on (Nabokov) grates at this point.. much less his imitators...

>>8348172
>when you get old and crusty, things like pulp thrillers really are about the only thing you can stand
t.bloom?

>>8343221
Just started Phantastes this morning.
First Macdonald I've ever read.
Any tips on what I'm in for?

>>8348103
>tfw you are too young to realize that technical books are mostly shit, not because they're uninteresting but because they lack aesthetic and creative openness

>>8347899
Thanks for the tip, bro. I guess I wouldn't be so surprised by this, either, I just thought Blood Meridian seemed like less of a personal exploration of violence and deviltry, and more of a general/Godly inquest. Probably this is just the style of the book, it's weird/unusual how McCarthy never really delves into the mind of the kid, the narrator is often personal but the characters personalities are locked out, by and large.

>>8346126

Probably because the odder words he uses aren't in any usual English lexicon. Usually they're Spanish words for minutiae.

>>8348404
I interpreted this as a conscious aesthetic choice by McCarthy that stems from his theory of evil. He doesn't believe that the primary source of evil is an internal world but a lack thereof (with exception of the judge who is a different topic altogether).

One of the quotes at the beginning of the book talks about how the evil do not live suffering but live in darkness. A kind of nothingness. And one of the few glimpses into the kid's mind talks about breeding taste for mind less violence. Among other things.

>>8348186
Faeries 'n shit. Talking animals, knights, Christian allegories.

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A journey round my skull by Frigyes Karinthy (in it's original language,hungarian)

I have already read one third of the book and it's excellent.It's even funny at times,despite the subject matter.(Karinthy describes the months leading up to the diagnosis,that he has brain tumor,then he writes about his surgery in later parts of the book)
Description of the interbellum Budapest and way of life gives the book an extra layer of historical value.

I like Karinthy's writing.He is absurdly funny at times.

The Terror by Dan Simmons

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Oxford histories on Medieval Europe. Starts with the Romans ends with the hundred years war.

Just finished Stoner like 30 minutes ago. It was good, kinda melancholic. Currently scouring threads for something that looks interesting enough

The Ego and It's own
I'm around page 67 and it's on my desk because my eyes hurt for reading yesterday

About to finish The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.

Gonna start reading 1984 as it is arriving tomorrow.

Carl Clausewitz - On war

Jailbird by Vonnegut

Siddhartha, loving it

The Go-Between, just started, but it seems very promising.

La Nausée, Sartre

What do you think about it? I am near the end, it is so captivating, it seems to me that I 'get' what he wrote, I get in a state near meditation. But it is so hard to take it again to read, I have no idea why, it happens quite rarely

Also, why would you choose to read a book in its original language instead of the one you are the most confortable reading in?

Just finished The Notebook, and Proof, and The Third Lie.

Why did she decide to basically retcon the first two books? What is up with that last book? It's almost like a separate thing rather than a sequel.

The sorrow of Belgium from Hugo Claus. In Dutch

>>8344222
How well does it cover england in 1648-1700~, if at all?

>>8343316
That book is comfy as fuck, my favorite Steinback and one of my favorite books ever. People will probably ridicule me for putting it next to stuff like Ulysses, but I just love how the book is crafted.
>you will never hunt frogs with the gang and then chill out in the evening

Been trying to finish V for going on a month

About 20 pages left, but I keep forgetting to find time to read

The Good Soldier Schweik, great book.

>>8349059
I thought it was amazing, my favorite part is when he is commenting on the portraits.

>>8348535
Check out Oblomov if you haven't.

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-Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault.
-The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.

>>8349165
READ NOW FAGGOT

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>that feel when it's a "orf is talking about meese again" chapter

The Color of Magic as my light reading.
Philosophical Investigations as heavy.

I don't care what anyone says, Pratchett is brilliant.

Descartes - Meditations
Rousseau - The Social Contract
Halbach - The Logic Manual
Russell - A History of Western Philosophy


Plus literally 12 other books, fuck summer reading for uni desu

>>8349275
Wohah the pleb metter went off
>he didn't read all this in his mother's womb
retard

>>8343221
the electric kool aid acid test

theory of the leisure class

person to person

yes, all at the same time

>>8349288
Next time I will read the foundation texts earlier instead of fucking about, I promise

>>8344192
Raf?

>>8349327
It's k man
Don't waste 9 months ever again though
I did my lecture of Hobbes' Leviathan when my cells were gathering

>>8343221
Gravity's Rainbow, just finished part 3

>that castration scene
Geez, did anyone else feel bad for Major Marvy, even though he was kind of a dick?

Finished The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With
the Sea earlier, really good book.
Started reading Empire by Niall Ferguson, and
shortly I will begin with Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland.
Pretty content lads.

Stendhal's the red and the black

absalom absalom
towards an architecture -- corbusier
working back thru some benjamin fr a project
& getting poetry in thru maximus -- olson

>On the Origin of Species
>The Idiot
I'll finish Darwin just because I started it already, but I can't enjoy it.

Peer Gynt and The Sorrows of Young Werther

>>8349746
to both empower a darwinist lineage
as well as open his texts up to an analytical breath.
I would recommend,
following however much darwin you believe is enough
reading frazer's "golden bough"
-- if you havent already, that is! --
and then proceeding to freud's "totem und taboo"
-- though with the same advice --
otherwise, skip all of that shit and read
claude levi strauss
"triste tropiques"
-- unless u done that 1 as well --
in which case::
maybe some fucking greenblatt or darnton vielleicht
i dont fucking know man
it really depends on how far you want to chase the scholarship of otherness in western thinking

>>8349761
Thanks man

>>8343355
Just finished The Outsider by Camus about to start Portrait of an Artist...Any tips/pointers?

>>8344091
Go home

JR

it's hectic and often confusing but it's very funny and it's cool to read, Gaddis has a crazy amount of literary tricks he seems to pull out of nowhere

>>8344252
Just finished my first reading of The Odyssey. New /lit/ fag starting with the greeks. Also reading Rhetoric

>tfw I'm such a newfag to fiction that I can rarely post in these threads (unless I'll just post philosophy and such books)
I mean, its embarrassing to READ Dostoyevsky or Homer or some other really classic author right now. Its good only after I've already read them.

>>8351123
It might seem unimpressive on here, but 99% of readers never read the classics taken for granted here unless they had to read them for school.

>>8347053

This is fucking stupid

The Water Hen by Witkacy

Notes From the Underground as my daytime, sober book

Nova by Delany as my fun time marijuana book before bed

Lolita
Foucault's Pendulum
Elements of the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
The Man in the High Castle

The Odyssey then Ulysses afterwards

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I'm just about to finish ulysses. After that I'm going to start either Don Quixote, Moby Dick, or Crime and Punishment. Not sure which one though.

my diary sesu

>>8343221
Heart of Darkness

Treasure Island.

Just finished The Odyssey, Hamlet next then Ulysses.

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The Burroughs Reader

It's incredible. I've never read anything like it.

First time reading Catcher in the Rye

>>8343221
Stoner

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in A Tundra

>>8354488
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>8343504
> Best Ghost of Stories

>>8343221
Boswell's Life of Johnson.

>>8354914
How do you like it?

>>8343221

High Magick II

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre. I'll be reading a shitload of him, he's great and just what I was looking for in ethics.

>>8343504
>>8355267

They cut Carmilla out of the picture too. Somebody goofed on that cover design.

spoon river anthology
not bad, but i have to remark that english poetry is very simple and simplicistic

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>>8355535
How can english poetry be simplistic if it invented the human being?

>>8355434
The full illustration is in the book, but yeah, it just looks a little odd having it cut off that way.

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Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity by Maurizio Lazzarato

>>8355535
I want to throttle you.

Black Wings I
Only a few stories remain. Some have come across as tryhard or just not very good, but I'd say most have been good, a few have been really good. Better than most Lovecraftian fiction that takes the form of "we wuz elder gods n shit" where name dropping supposedly equals cosmic horror.
I found Ramsey Campbell's comedic faux-historical epistolary piece 'The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash' to be particularly great. It's at the same time a satire of the kind of "criticism" plebs lash out at the master, a study on how cruel and insulting the deconstruction of a hated person's life by an outsider can be, and a humorous descent to butthurt/madness with a projected and satisfying weird twist at the end.

a book on cezanne

>>8343221
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared.

It's for book club, but it's quite funny.

>>8344893
I got to the three page paragraph and quit.

Kudos for making it as far as you have.

>>8356753
Find a different hobby

Lolita

Just got through the part about him trying to track down Lolita and the mystery man. Now I'm reading about him and Rita.

Honestly, it's been kinda slow. Been tapering down from 30mg of prozac to 10mg Lexapro over the past few weeks so my concentration has been shit.

>>8356771
I have many hobbies, and only read spradically as a result. In the same time I spent losing my place in that mire and having to reread the last three lines over to find it again, I could have drawn out a sewing pattern, started a sketch, written a page, built the framework for a small sculpture, or crocheted a row on a blanket.

Are you really suggesting that I should never take the time and sit down to read anything?

>>8356810
>Are you really suggesting that I should never take the time and sit down to read anything?

Yes. If you aren't willing to invest your time in the best of literature you shouldn't read at all.

>>8356818
>best of literature
>Infinite Jest

>>8353563
can't go wrong with crime and punishment.

if you like whale dick (literally) and 500 pages of whalling stories, go moby dick

if you like being Meta. go Don Quixote

>>8356873

your description of moby dick literally confirms you're a goddamn pleb

>>8353563
ignore his post

Read Freedom last week.
Plan to finish Marc Morris' The Norman Conquest by Sunday.

Haruki Murakami
Half-boiled wonderland and the end of the world

Some nonfiction, and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I'm not liking it so far. About 10% through. I don't know how you can take a story about a London magician and make it so boring.

>>8343554

That anon is probably alluding to the fact that /lit/core is the same few meme books that people masturbate over having read.

>>8346394
I did that for War and Peace and decided to do my own translation because the ones I've read don't do it justice. I'm currently on my second draft but its truly painstaking work. I do feel my version is the authoritative one. At least, it will be when I'm done with it.