Currently reading/stack thread

>>8592174

>Valis is really trippy
I really need to re-read it again since it's been a decade or so since the last time I picked it up. Very cool ideas in some parts and I remembered loving it.

Anyway I'm finishing up The Name of the Wind, it's been okay but not as great as everyone proclaims. Feels like a lot of what Kvothe mentions leads to pretty much nowhere. Also got around 300 or so pages of Infinite Jest left, really cool how Wallace goes into absolute detail how the election happened and the rise of certain industries like the phone conversation masks happened.

Might do a re-read of The House on the Borderland considering it is October before I begin something else.

I'd advise starting The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea after reading all that Tolkien.

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Rate/roast/berate/agape

>>8592247

Something tells me you like William Gaddis.

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>>8592247

>>8592280
Jesus, dude. I've heard of meme addiction. But actually seeing it, thought...
Holy...

>>8592280
Also
>not posting your second copy

>>8592284
I'm auditing a DFW class at my uni with all these books on the syllabus. I already had these books for the reason you're insinuating, but they were conveniently stacked on the floor because they're all on the syllabus, so I figured why not take a shit meme picture of the stack.

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>>8592290
You caught me.

>>8592293
>>8592297
Oh, I'm no better. I'm trying to write my Master's dissertation on Gaddis, but more and more I find myself wanting to drop everything and give up.

>>8592317
Grad school's rough, man. I'm literally in the same PhD program DFW dropped out of. Hard as nails, but I gotta stick with it because there's nothing else I want to do or am really good at.

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I literally just got back from spending the evening at the book-store. There were some specific books about espionage during the Cold War that the store did not have, so, I'll have to order them online, the ones The WikiLeaks Files was a nice discovery.

I didn't know Tom Bombadil had a book...

>>8592338
I know. When you find a passion, you have to follow it. It isn't always pleasure, or even sound, but you have to follow it.

>>8592338
That's my plan, not PHD but at least a Masters degree, but I've been putting it off, Im worried that I have been out of academia for too long, I finished undergrad 4 years ago, but I know I want to go to grad school. I know that it is what I want to do with my life, well, I mean the work I do after grad school. Good for you man.

>>8592376
It's a book of poetry, but not all of the poems are about Tom Bombadil. My favourite is The Cat.

>>8592247
Hnnnnggggg.

WTC that edition of The Recognitions?

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>reading
Plato's Republic
Independent People By Halldor Laxness
Myth of Sisyphus
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset

>Inmediate Backlog

The Wandere by Hamsun
The Illiad
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
A Pure Theory of the Constitutional Republic by A.G Trevijano
The Spirit of the Laws - Montesquieu

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This is my currently reading stack

Portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Mongolian Mythology by Lőrincz László
Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume I:Dawn by Yoshiki Tanaka
Chinese philosophy:Ancient era:Volume one by Ferenc Tőkei

Thinking about dropping portrait.It's not an interesting book.The prose is pretty,but it's killing me.

Trying to finish up a couple books to clear up my backlog before next week when I get a new translation of Anna Karenina in the mail. I am excited to read it because from what excerpts I have glanced at it seems incredible and far superior to other translations. It's been 10 years in the making. I have previously read the P&V version, which is was clunky and unimpressive. It was not beautiful prose that you would expect from someone who is compared to shakespeare. I realize I am reading a translation, but my point is that it could be done better.

It is the translation by Marian Schwartz. She also did a translation of Oblomov which I found so incredible I decided to see if she has done other books. Even though I have read AK before, I am excited to reread it now that I will have her translation.

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Just back from the library chaps

>>8592969
WORLD TRADE CENTER?!?!?!?

>>8592174
Can anyone here speak to the quality of Tolkien's Beowulf translation? how it compares to Heaney's?

>>8594765
wtc = where to cop (where to buy)

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Anyone have suggestions to my reading list based on pic related?

Going to the library is just a meme, right? You all actually properly buy books with your Amazon prime account and keep a personal collection to pass on to your progeny, right?

>>8594885
But the Dalkey edition has much better quality...

>>8594891
>not doing both

>>8594891
You should participate in both, collect a library over your lifetime and read what your library has to offer.

The only real meme is E-books.

Foreskin
Accidentally say force kin

>>8594905
W-what need is there for a library AND an amazon prime account? Surely everything you could ever dream to read is right there in the latest edition with the best translation and most recent scholarship. Guys?

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>>8593837
I know the feeling my dude, I loved Dubliners but only because they were short and comfy. I find myself leaving portrait for a week at a time while I read other things.

>>8594911
>borrow book
>its shit
>oh lol who cares

>buy book
>its shit
>fugg
>have to stare at it sitting on my shelf

>>8592174
not fun readings
i have a middle english class rn:
Margery Kempe, The Gawain Poet, and Canterbury Tales
other than that not much, anything fun/short worth reading?

I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn desu

>>8595502
Nice. Be sure to read some of his short stories and news reporting as well. I tried reading his short works side-by-side with Hawthorne's short stories a few months ago: both writers are held as models and representatives of American lit, both were prolific in their short fiction (and, in Twain's case, creative nonfiction), had long and fruitful careers and constantly evolving styles but are primarily known for a single slim volume each (Huck and Scarlet Letter) which, despite their skill and value, are not wholly representative of their authors' works.

Can't take a pic right now but I'm jumping between Anna Karenina and Critique of Pure Reason. Thinking about holding off on one for a while to free up time for school work though.

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This is my backlog, i feel like i had been memed to death.

I've just finished reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, afterwards I'm going to read Through the Looking Glass. I didn't expect a children's book to be entertaining, I only started reading it because I loved the Disney movie as a child.

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>>8592338
aka you

>>8596016

are literally me. we watched the disney movie after "reading" the book in my high school british literature english class. i was completely mesmerized. i totally blew off actually reading the book like we were supposed to cause i wasn't really all that interested in "school books" but after watching the movie i really want to go back and read the book.

>>8595818
Geek Love is delightful. Read it earlier this year and really got attached to a few of the characters.

>>8592297
>>8592280
That book of Sartre (and Heidegger?) in the back

>>8592280
That font for Broom is kind of obnoxious.

>>8592174
Am I the only one who absolutely loathes everything that has anything to do with Tom Bombadildo?

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Don't judge me /lit/

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Here's what I've started

The lowest one is a shitty edition of Walden

>>8596016

I just finished reading both. Also loved the Disney movie and really enjoyed the books.

>>8594752
nice, have fun reading Stoner

>>8594888
The Holy Bible (especially The First Testament)

>>8596836
I won't, but don't buy anything from Penguin again or I will find you and I will hurt you physically.

>>8596895
What is the book at the bottom?

>>8596895
what's that lowest book, anon?

>>8596895
That Penguin 20th Century Classics Confederacy. I've been scouring my local haunts for one. I like the Grove Press one alright, but I really want this one.

>>8595818
Why do people read Jarry and his Ubu plays? What's the big deal?

>>8596964
>>8596973
Walden, as I said
>>8596975
I wasn't even looking for it, found it in a small town used bookstore in Brittany, of all places. Is it supposed to be rare?

>>8596975
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780140188103&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-9780140188103-_-used

Yeah, it isn't hard to find at all

>>8596995
whoops, my bad anon.

>>8596995
but what's the book on the bottom of that stack?

>>8592174
the two stacks are what i'm strolling through, reading don quixote a second time right now. not sure if i'm going to leave pynchon there, really seems out of place.

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>>8597036
whoops, needs an image i guess.

>>8597041
oh for fuck's sake. cant i do anything

>>8597024
(You)

>>8592174
>book of poetry by tolkien
nigger what? surely you don't mean "beowulf"

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Just found this shit site recently, and it's creeping into my stack

>All these memestacks
>Your stack only has one (1) meme book
What a nice feeling to have

>>8597456
i want to creep into your sack, anon ;)

>>8597482
>getting satisfaction from thinking you're any better than /lit/
>actually believing it
I don't know which is worse.

>>8597727
>which is worse
The fact that /lit/ is shit

>>8593837
Don't. At some point you will want to read Ulysses and then you'll have to read Portrait anyway. Plus, it's an amazing book with god tier prose throughout.

>>8597743
I'm not sure I want to read ulysses after this.

>>8597734
The fact that shit is /lit/ is really what this all boils down to.

The last novel I finished was Kokoro, and I liked it. I read A Midsummer Night's Dream recently, too, and I've just started Things Fall Apart.

>>8597043
it´s ok

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>>8596962
why anon?

>>8597759
I'm just saying that maybe at some point in the future you'll want to. But if you really hate it just drop it. Also, how is Joseph and his Brothers? Thinking about reading it. Your first Mann?

>>8597809
>Your first Mann

You could have phrased it better.
But yes,the first book I from Mann.
I like the biblical themes,but it's a little bit hard to keep up with all the names if you are unfamiliar with the Bible.
But it's a charming work.Currently around page 120.

>>8597821
I don't think there was a better way to phrase it desu
I'll probably read it next, bible fanfic is usually good.

>>8597834
It just sounded kinda gay.
But then again,
>Perverted be the one who thinks about it

It's a pretty good book,but I can't comment on the english translation if you want that,since my copy is hungarian.

>>8596836
you MUST do gomad. it is a CRUCIAL part of starting strength

>>8597842
No, I'll just read it in German. I'm from the country your country used to be part of. Also, it was meant to sound gay, Mann was a homo.

>>8597875
I took a look at the german text an it was hopeless with my basic grasp of german

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Be gentle

>>8598006
>Original language Goethe
>English Nietzche
why?

>>8598011

My German isn't the best and Faust is something I use to test myself with.

Also the German language section was a very small part of an already small bookshop in Moscow and they didn't have much nietzsche.

>>8597805
chauvinistic img

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Picked up these today. Just finished letters to a young poet. My first introduction to Rilke, which certainly came at the right time. His meditations on solitude and love were pure gold.

Doctor Glass - Hjalmar Söderberg
Purity - Franzen

I think this is the shortest my to-read list has ever been

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Picked these up today at half price books because teacher appreciation day.

>>8598433
Dat Oprah book club edition.
Should have gotten the other two, for the completed Faulkner face.

>>8598489
>Dat Oprah book club edition.
what book

>>8598516
The Sound And The Fury

>>8598558
that book was in the oprah club? wtf

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>>8598563

>>8598566
I think you knowing that it was in the oprah book club is worse than me buying them not knowing.

>>8598588
Okay.
I bought it years ago looking to load up on Faulker novels. Was a good deal.

>>8592174
>What's /lit/ been reading lately?
i don't know

Books on my personal reading list:
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost Selected and With Commentary by Harold Bloom
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa
I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Basho: The Complete Haiku
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field by Nathaniel Branden

Books on my class's reading list because every English course at a community college is actually a political science class, apparently:
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Medial Control by Noam Chomsky
Moral Politics by George Lakoff

>>8598111
good books friend

>>8598608
so how about you lurk more, reddit?

The idea of reading one book alone is cumbersome, but these whole stacks is more than tedious.

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>>8598696
lol

>>8592174
What's that che guevera book? I can´t find it in spanish with that name

>>8598727
notas de viaje en motoclicleta mi pendejazo amigo

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I'm currently reading King's Dragon by Kate Elliott. It's horrendous. Nothing but mind-numbing exposition, which she keeps repeating like she's going to test us on it at the end of the novel. I'm 211 pages in and so far all the two main characters have done is get raped (the girl) and set free a dangerous prisoner (the boy). I paid four whole dollars for this book on a whim and I'm really fucking regretting it.

It's especially bad in contrast with The Neverending Story, which I just reread and highly recommend.

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>>8592174
>live dead instead of a good Dick's Picks
>lourveshite
>tolkien
>tshirt man
>radio albemuth is better
>not junchiro tanizaki

nice job

>>8592317
why

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r8/ h8/ what should I read next?

>>8592257
How'd you figure that out?

>>8599425

How do you like Ada

>>8594888
Nice repeating digits you got there friend

>>8599425
All the Pretty Horses

>>8597805
What is the last image trying to tell me?

>>8596836
>Strategy by Liddell Hart

What I'm reading right now

Generally I read only one fiction book and one non fiction book at a time, but I'm reading too many right now, which is bad but will be remedied quickly.

Hard Choices, by Hillary Clinton
The Making of Donald Trump, by David Cay Johnston
The Power Broker, by Robert Caro
and
The Politics of Heroin, by Alfred McCoy

r8 h8 appreci8

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>>8599425
Mirin
>>8597866
What about diahrrea m8? Srs

I`m reading The Setting Sun and enjoying it thus far. Just wondering but does the main character talk about Christianity or is it just the godawful Finnish translation. Which would be strange since No Longer Human translation was pretty great

>>8599859
Well, the heroin one looks interesting, but why read those shite election cash-in books?

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Reading:
Mason and Dixon
Fear and Loathing on he Campaign Trail
The Enigma of Arrival

>Centuries of Childhood
>City of Refuge
>The Innocents Abroad

my current stack is

study in scarlet
1984
sound and fury
black dahlia
galveston
maltese falcon
crime & punishment
metamorphosis

my taste is beyond repair