>age >location >current book you're reading, and

>>8682753
>22
>DC
> The Gambler by Dostoevsky
> Strunk and White writing guide

Just started the former, so don't really have an opinion yet. Have been slowly reading the latter for a while now. It's practical.

>>8682753
>20
>brasil
>kjv bible, walden and the odissey

>>8683063
>Brazil
>KJV Bible
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ARE YOU ME?

>>8682753

>29
>USA
>Dracula

re-reading, haven't read it since 8th grade

>19
>Maryland
>The Recognitions

About 400 pages in, it feels like the Ur-text to almost every post-structuralist book I've read.

>22
>Halifax
>Saga of the Volsungs

Loving it.

>>8682753

>23
>BAH
>Mister Squishy, and not too enthralled desu even though DFW is my favorite author.

>19
>BR
>The Iliad and Notes from Underground

>tfw postponed the last 30 pages of the Iliad for tomorrow because it's great
I don't want it to end.

>>8683063
>>8683073
Can any of you compare Schnaiderman's translation to P&V? I've tried Notes on P&V, but it seems terribly clunky. Schnaiderman has a much better flow, but I'm not sure if that's biased because his version is in my mother tongue.

>>8682753
>21
>Santiago, Chile
>Macbeth, mindblown
>The Waste Land, reading it again, amused
>Austerlitz, dunno just began

>20
>NY
>A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I'LL NEVER DO AGAIN
DFW's cultural observations are hilariously engaging, but his Michael Joyce essay is quite dull.

>>8682753
>18
>USA
>Wuthering Heights

Rereading it, one of my favorites.

>21
>Maryland
>Mason and Dixon
Pynchon knows more about the history of my state than I do.
>>8682933
>>8683137
That's quite a lot of DMV in a short amount of time.

20, Texas, Plath's Collected Poems

Love it. Plath is one of my favorites. Received it as a birthday present, and am glad it was bestowed upon me.

>>8682933
>>8683137
>>8683188
>26
>kalorama/admo
>if on a winter's night

>>8683188
DMV 4chan meetup?

(kek)

>>8683217
Maybe in a less perfect world.

18
Montreal, Quebec
Gaston Miron's collected works and A Farewell to Arms

>>8683216
>kalorama

Isnt that by Brett Easton Ellis? How do you like it?

>>8682753
>19
>NY
>The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

About 1/3 through it. Really interesting, the author offers viewpoints of people from all parts of Yugoslavia during the lead up to the war.

>21
>Australia
>Oblomov
Quite a lot
>War & Peace
It's okay desu, makes me wish I was reading Anna Karenina instead though

Might start reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami soon, maybe it will encourage me to stop being lazy

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>35
>california
>pic related
>nostalgic and comfy

>18
>CA
>The Brothers Karamazov
I'm taking my time reading it but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. I'm going to read a lot of it when I'm on break because Uni life is time consuming with homework and exams.

>18
>burger land
>the sorrows of young werther. Not a fan of the prose, but the beginning was quite comfy

>>8682753
>18
>minnesota
>walden. I only just started but i have been steeped in his ideas so im not expecting it to be very thought provoking.

>20
>CA
>Parables of Kierkegaard

I like the stories, but it takes me more time than I'd like to admit to confidently say that I understand the lesson.

Or I'm just overthinking it, not sure yet

>>8683159
Sorry, can't help you, camarada.

>>8683073
Which book of the Bible are you reading now? Just finished Numbers today.

>>8683988
Your comfort will turn to ash. The book transitions from a coming of age comedy to a tragedy.

>>8682753

36
București
Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov

There's something about that prose--I can't put it down sometimes and at the same time it seems too much. And it's not even his best work, not by far.

>>8684929
Was reading Genesis, stopped for a bit to take a look at Os Sertões.
Jesus fucking Christ reading that book is like banging my face against the wall.

>22
>AZ
>The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla

I'm only maybe 50 pages in. A little torn between not liking the narration style (super conversational, a little tryhard at times maybe) and sort of feeling the "it is what it is" perspective that I have irl

>>8685135
AZ /lit/ meetup when

>19
>UK
>Fahrenheit 451
Tried reading it a while back but I gave up because I didn't like the writing style. Rereading it now and I'm liking it so far.

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>24
>San Diego
>Letters to a Young Poet
Very comfy. To the SD anon who said he was going to be in Balboa Park that one time, did anyone show? I got sidetracked.

>>8682753
26
Frankfurt
My Private Camwhore III: Project Girlfriend, desu I liked part I best, still good for a wank though.

>23
>Finland
>1Q84 by Murakami

about 2/3 in, pretty amusing so far but rather shallow and more story-driven than I was expecting
I love the way Murakami introduces plot elements little by little though

>19
>UAE
>Notes from Underground

>18
>Israel
>Lolita
More than half thorugh and very amazed by it. I thought this board was only memeing this book because pedophilia but it's one of the funniest books I have read.

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>18
>Malaga, ES
> Infinite Jest and Welcome to the Monkey House
Page 450 or so in and the book is getting more coherent and the themes are really flourishing. (Found out perhaps too much about AA)

>25
>Kansas
>Brave New World. Feeling red-pilled as fuck, desu.

>>8682753
>23
>South Africa
>Memories of a Game Ranger
A comfy read about a Crocodile Dundee type character from the early 20th century

>22
>Texas
>Alternative Scriptwriting
Obviously is a book on scriptwriting. Offers a lot of alternatives to 3 act structures, characters, genres, etc.
Planning on reading either Dubliners or Gravity's Rainbow after this.

>>8685409
>Malaga, ES
¿Qué parte de Málaga?

>21
>Oregon
>Don Quixote

Haven't even stared it yet but I just kicked a book last night and I'm going to start it today.

>>8683175
I loved the Michael Joyce essay, especially the bit about the athletes being our culture's holy men, "almost ascetic the way they devote themselves to the sport." Also how they love the sport, sure, but not like we usually view love, but like an old married man loves his wife, and you can see it in the athlete's eyes during interviews.

>>8685962

>22
>Vegas
>Don Quixote

Substituting it in as I work my way up the canon. I just started it, but I'm loving it.

>20
>Nyet
>Lolita
Holy fuck I wish I could get as good at a foreign language as Nabster here.

>>8682753
>19
>CA
>nausea

just started, it's a bit of a headache

>>8683145
Saga is great fun, my favorite version by far

>>21
>>Netherlands
>>Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
100 pages in.
>>I'm a socialist, hurr hurr durr, let's hate
Liked Fountainhead better, which felt to me as breaking free from social conditioning rather than>>make money for yourself, therefore you help the world around you

>>8685999
Same anon, shouldve just combined posts

>20
>VA
>Underworld by delillo

Loving it so far. The prose is great and its got a wonderful density of humor, technique, and message without reading too slow. Ive been going through all of delillos works and Underworld feels like all his positive qualities at their best.

>20
>New York
>Whatever my teacher wants me to go through for comparative literature.

It's okay, like anything there's a lot of hit and miss, but overall I've generally enjoyed the class. Can't wait to be done with it though so I can actually go back to reading literature as opposed to criticism

>>8682753
>19
>Dutchland
>Don Quixote, I love it. Started part two a couple of days ago.

>21
>Boston
>L'Amant by Marguerite Duras and a handful of IR texts

Duras is pretty good pêh. I should have it done by tomorrow.

>>8685327
whereat senpai

>>8683145
hello fellow Halifax bro

> 22
> Halifax
> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

not enjoying it as much as I had imagined I would, but that could be the cause of the translation chosen for the first english edition..

>anonymous board
>location
>people actually post it

>>8686058
You're great at sucking the fun out of things, why not suck my dick as well?

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>23
>Seattle
>Ficciones
>Dracula
>Hard boiled fantasy / end of the world

Ficciones is a fun read. I find after I've read them my attention is so fickle that I really only think about them in the immediate aftermath. I wish I could carry works in me, so to speak, as Borges does...

It's some spooky fun. One thing that stood out to me is how the description of Dracula is a lot like the narrator from the big lebowski. Take it or leave it.

I'm a Murakami fan, but this book around 65% is running in to some spells of genuinely bad, uninteresting writing. Poorly written and action centric.

>>8686058
...and?

>18
>Denmark
>Children of Dune
About 1/3 in and this series is getting progressively worse from the first book. However Frank Herbert was still a clever fuck with this sci-fi
>Thinking of Starting Brave New Worlds or Island by Aldous Huxley afterwards

>23
>the hamlet of virginia beach
>all the pretty horses

Its fucking good lads

>>8685356

I read that earlier this yeah and underlined a few key passages I liked, I still go back and reread bits and pieces every now and again. What do you make of it so far?

30
Northcote Melbourne
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey. I like it.

>>8686034
I'm in Phoenix. You?

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>average age <22
>46% are 20 or younger
>81% are 23 or younger
>mfw
assuming this thread is representative of /lit/'s population it sure explains a lot...

>23
>Glasgow
>Malazan Book of the Fallen, Toll the Hounds.

Its pretty good.

>austria
>21
>gravity and grace by simone weil
I have never read anything like this before. I like it a lot.

>>8686374
If it helps, I only post very rarely because I am aware that because of my age most of my opinions are annoying to read.

> 22
> France
> The sea of fertility
Fantastic read, beautifully written and moving.

>>8686058
>location
>except for burgers, everyone posted their country only
its not like people are posting their fucking address, friendo

>>8686390
>If it helps, I only shit in the lake of raw sewage very rarely because I am aware that my shit smells bad.
yeah, technically 1 less turd is 1 less turd, but practically it doesn't really make a difference. thanks, though.

>24
>Uruguay
>Aristotle and the Science of Nature (A. Falcon); Space, Time, Matter and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics (D. Bostock); The Remains of the Day (K. Ishiguro).

The first two are alright. I still find some of Falcon's formal reconstructions of arguments unneeded.
I'm loving Ishiguro's book.

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>>8682753
23, Fallbrook, CA
Reading the poems of Sasa Pana..
Glad to have a new favorite Romanian poet

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>>8682753

31
Portugal
A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Veyne, Paul
Goldhammer, Arthur
Ariès, Phillippe
Duby, Georges


Its describes in amazing detail the small world of day to day life from antiquity to the middle ages, and its quite a good read.
Life was not as shitty as people make it especially the god damn Empire. Of course a disease could fuck you up but its reassuring to know that overall we are not a shitty species and just want to have a chance at life.

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>>8682753
23
MA
On Writing: It's alright.
Of A Fire On The Moon: Meh.

>23
>Vancouver BC
>IJ
700 pages in. Don't like it. DFW writes characters like he's observing insects and his prose is like a thesis paper in a blender and on ecstacy.

>23
>key west, fl
>Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention from Fire to Freud. I like it a lot; a survey at just the right depth for me

>18
>The Woodlands, Texas
>Ulysses
I am really enjoying this book. I thought it would be a cumbersome read, but it's surprisingly light and fun. I am on the Circe chapter (about 480 pages in) and it's a very difficult but rewarding chapter.

>>8686653
How was fantasy fest? did you see lots of boobs?

>>8686303
It feels like Rilke is patting my head saying "There, there." Love it so far. And it definitely has re-read value.

>>8686689
Far from any boobs; I'm on a tugboat offshore

>>8682753
>19
>Toronto
>Just finished All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy is a legend. One of the best books I've read in a while.

>>8686498
this makes me want to read it desu

57
Singapore
The Battle:A New History of Waterloo

Its alright

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>27
>half-NJ and half-Philadelphia
>White Teeth

Only like 50 pages in so I can't tell yet.

>>8682753
23
Texas
Bible and Of Time and the River

34
Texas
Reading lone star: a history of texas and the texans. I know its cliche but its actually a quite interesting read so far. My family has been in texas since the 1820s and on one side the first vice president of the republic is an ancestor of mine. Figured i should read up on it.

>>8686742
Yeah, it was fun for like the first half, but now I'm not finding any reason to come back to it and it's turned into a chore.

>>8682753
>18
>Australia
>The Cloud of Unknowing and Hero With A Thousand Faces

Taking a break from fiction because I just finished Moby-Dick and I don't think anything will compare for a while. Thinking about reading some John Williams or Murakami next, something with nice and simple writing.
>>8686305
I've got that somewhere, might check it out.
>>8683982
I've got War & Peace, I'd really like to check out Tolstoy's style (which is apparently amazing) but idk if I can seriously take on a book that long, especially as I've heard it's kind of shallow compared to other lit out there.

>>8686982
>w&p
>shallow

where do you people even get these ideas

>>8687007
idk I think someone said it comparing tolstoy to dosto

>>8682753
>24
>Austria
>Roadside Picnic

>16
>portrait of the artist
>it's okay, the prose is gorgeous but stephen is unlikable. The theme of religion is a little vapid

WA, USA
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Holy Shit, Abe Lincoln was way more racist than I thought. Pretty good read, just shows how far political discourse has fallen.

>>8688247
26

>18
>Florida (hate it)
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Honestly , it's a pretty tiresome read. The banter is only mildly interesting at best and it mostly just hammers in the same, albeit conflicting, themes over and over again. At least the writing itself is beautiful.

19
Dallas, Texas
Colette
It's alright so far, Lucy is an interesting narrator. Can't say the story so far is overly intriguing though.

>>8686943
>reading the history of your own region
Cheers, very cozy. Texan history is pretty awesome, too. Studied it in middle school. Fuckin' Santa Anna

What the fuck happened to all the 24+ years olds on /lit/?

Was there a cull?

>>8682753
22
slovenia
tolstoy short stories; proudhon what is property; thinking, fast and slow

>>8688284
they probably got a life

>20
>Montreal
>Third Policeman

Love it, surreal without being a meme

>>8682753
>22
>Taiwan
>Count of Monte Cristo & Meditations
Enjoying both a lot
Monte Cristo is really long so I've decided to split it up a bit by reading another book as well.

>>8688284
Suicide
Just memeboiz now

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>>8682753
>21
>Massachusetts
>Diary Of An Oxygen Thief

It's a novel about a britbong turbochad who enjoys making roasties get attached to him before sperging out and breaking their hearts, drinking himself to death in the process. Kinda men but I'm willing to see where the author takes this.

>>8685389
תברח מפה כל עוד אתה יכול, ילד

>>8688284


>>8683121
>>8683216
>>8683988
>>8685103
>>8685356
>>8685516
>>8686446
>>8686470
>>8686875
>>8686943
>>8688165
>>8688247

We are too old to be here.

>>8686875
>57
d-dad?

>>8688276
Agreed. I love texas. You should read the book even if you're not from the area. It's very good and goes from prehistory all the way up.to modern day.

>>8683238
This is a quality post and you deserve recognition (no pun intended).

the amount of south american posters is problematic

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>>8682753
>age
24
>location
Connecticut
>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, read the first act earlier and it's boring as fuck. Might switch to something else, Halloween put me in a mood for genre.

>20
>Vegas
>Gerard De Nerval's Selected Works
The poetry is dense but Aurelia and Sylvie have been awesome. Some of my favorite short fiction now. Especially Aurelia
>>8685978
Vegas represent

>>8682753
>18
>Alaska
>Doctor Zhivago
One of the best books I've read, the constant trope of the protagonist meeting up with someone he already met/saw in the expanse of Russia is getting pretty funny.

>>8685516
>Kansas
>posting on /lit/
You live in Lawrence don't you

27
Germany
Platform by Houellebecq. I like it.

>>8682753
>21
>nashville
>steppenwolfe
its kind of fucking with me how much i see myself in this

>20
>Mexico
>A universal history of infamy.
It`s pretty good.

>33
>england
>son & xon

it's unbelievably good, every fucking sentence is a joy to read

>>8686374
Great contribution to the thread, thanks for showing us youngsters how it's done.