>age >location >current book you're reading, etc.,etc.

>21
>Aus
>Demons

Eh, it's alright. Sometimes Dostoevsky just rambles on and on and on which bores the shit out of me. When I get to a section with philosophical dialogues they're only a couple of pages. Maybe the last 1/2 will be better.

Tolstoy is so much better at writing it's not even funny.

>19
>USA
>Metaphysics - Aristotle

Dense but rewarding. I'm ready for some eternal first principles

>20
>Brazil
>Moby Dick

Almost finishing it.
Its hella frickin epic

>20
>Oregon
>Mason & Dixon

It's pretty good. I'm reading it pretty slowly though.

>summer has almost rolled around
>/lit/ is already filled with undergrad scum
>posting quality significantly on the decline
>high schoolers will be out soon
These next 4 months are always shit. You should all fuck off and read your books before you post here.

>20
>Alabama
>Animal Farm

>>9536815
>age
37
>location
Argentina
>current book you're reading, etc.,etc.
Lord of the rings, the first

what is the idea of this shitty thread?

>21
>california
>everyday saints and other stories

>>9536946
Ok, but what are you reading?

>>9536815

>24
>Canada
> Dubliners, The Master & Margarita

20
Chicago
Voltaire - Candide

>>9537992
3/10

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>23
>England
>Runaway Horses

Pretty good, about a third of the way through it.

>28
>la
>ham on rye

Bukowski's family

>20
>Myanmar
>The Trial

Metamorphosis was good but the main character atm seems like a dick

>18
>são paulo
>crime and punishment

>19
>Turkey
>Nine ebin maymayz by J.D. Salinger

>>9536815
52
Los Angeles
Nicotine, by Nell Zink

>age
20
>location
The Netherlands
>current book you're reading, etc.,etc.
Ovid's Metamorphoses

absolutely love it, plan on reading The Aeneid next.

>>9536815
>20
>Trenton, NJ
>Gravity's Rainbow

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>age
25
>location
Republic of Uruguay
>current book you're reading, etc.,etc.
Morality: An Introduction to Ethics. Les chansons de Bilitis. La chica del Trombón. Buddhism and Bioethics.

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>>9536815
>23
>Anna Karenina
>Germany

The parts where Levin works together with the peasants are extremely comfy. I'm halfway through the book and like it a lot.

>18
>Canada
>Lolita
Nabokov is a good writer, think I'll buy some more of his books

>>9536815
>21
>Sydney
>Madame Bovary

>>9538572
Should've read the Aeneid first, dipshit

>18
>Serbia
>Stranger by Albert Camus
I've been thinking of picking up Moby Dick, lit seems to be overwhelmed by it, but I'm being skeptical.

>20
>Minnesota
>The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Nabokov
It's pretty interesting so far. As always with Nabokov, the prose is great. Only just started so I'll see how it holds up.

19
Italy
Moby dick

>>9536815

>25
>Barcelona
>Inherent vice (/lit/ rcomendation)


Someone in Barcelona too?

>26
>orlando florida
>the recognitions

Roughly 300 pages deep, great read thus far desu.

>22
>Czech Republic
>At the Mountains of Madness

>21
>Italy
>Being and time

Best piece of shit i've ever read.

34
Sweden
Daniel Deronda

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>21
>Sweden
>Collection of Swedish poets in spare time, Slaughterhouse-five for am.lit. class, other course book for other class, listening to Atlas Shrugged

>22
>Virginia

Just started my yearly re-reading of the Dune books.
Been doing it for about 5 years now, and it seems like every time I catch new details that slipped by on previous readings.

>>9539257
>28
>Turkey
>The Way of Kings

Yes, I fell for the Sanderson meme.

>32
>Iowa
>The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

>22
>Finland
>Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

>>9536815
18
Arizona
Dune

>23
>TX, USA
>Shogun by James Clavell

Just finished the introduction after reading in the rain so feeling like I was washed up on shore after a horrific tempest. Worth the read.

>>9539121
Ne bi trebao biti skeptičan, osim ako si teži plebejac. Dobro je Norton Critical izdanje.

>23
>Italy
>Moby Dick

>>9539138
>>9540666
Ayyy

>31
>Texas
>Don Quixote

>23
>Spain
>Short stories by Cortázar

>>9536815

>24
>GA
>Topology of a Phantom City - Robbe-Grillet

I have no idea what the fuck is going on but it's translated very nicely

>>9536815
>25
>NYC
>Omensetter's Luck
My first exposure to Gass was In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country. This is kinda slow so far but it's starting to grow on me.

>>9540713
What collection and how are you liking it?

>29
>GA
>The Satanic Verses

have had to look up the references to Islam many a time but Rushdie is in full control and loves the written word. Do recommend.

>27
>DC
>the peregrine
it's dope so far

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>>9538629

>25
>Republic of Ireland
>Spring and all, White Noise, The Black Jacobins

>>9536815
>19
>f
>Oregon
>Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Wittgenstein had a very artistic temperament. No wonder so many people are drawn to him instead of his work. I cried when David Pinsent died.

>>9540926
Sorry,

Spring and All is fun so far. Cute.
White Noise feels both relevant and dated simultaneously.
The Black Jacobins is fascinating, although I'm only a few chapters in.

>39
>USA
>World Hypotheses: a study in evidence
INDUBITABLE DOGMATISM

>>9536815
>29
>USA
>Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Borges, The Aleph

It's my second time reading Leaves of Grass. I'm enjoying it far more than the first time, which was some years ago.

The Aleph is entertaining. Several of the stories are very good, but I thought Labyrinths more impressive so far.

>>9540933
him is his work

>22
>Dominican Republic
>The waves by Virginia Woolf

Always wanted to read a book like this

>>9536815
>22
>Leaf
>NMR probeheads for biophysical and biomedical experiments

>20
>USA
>House of leaves

>18
>Ausfailia
>The Iliad
Been reading this for about a month now, but I have stopped to read Macbeth in the middle. 'Bout 100 pages to go so hopefully get the time to finish this week. Very much enjoying it when I read it, and look forward to the odyssey.

20
AL
Working my way through Fitzgerald's Iliad. Just got to Book Five I believe, been putting off reading a lot though despite enjoying the book a lot. I feel like the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles hasn't been dissected properly as an ethical dilemna in modern terms, and that question (and others like it, such as Paris challenging and cheating Menalaos) so cleanly drives the rest of the narrative, at least from what I've read.

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>23
>Vancouver, B.C.
>Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac (almost finished), next book is gonna be Wuthering Heights.
>really enjoying my current read. I've heard good things about Wuthering Heights and I'm hoping it'll be as good as everyone says.

>>9540879
Reunión y otros relatos (Ed. Six Barral) So far my favourites are El perseguidor and Final del juego. It's my first Cortázar but I'm enjoying most of the stories.

>>9536815
>26
>Belgium
>Gayman's Norse Mythology

It's pretty fun to read actually, not great literature, but it's still more digest to read than the Edda

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>20
>Norway
>The Way of Kings

It's pretty good. Shallan is fucking boring though. And Sanderson can't write women for shit.

>19
>Mexico
>The Prince by Machiavelli

28
MA
New York Trilogy

18
United States
Ulysses, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Wuthering Heights

>>9536815
>18
>UK
>Dracula

>>9536815

>26
>California
>The Group by Mary McCarthy

I'm learning a lot about women.

>>9544038
I did the CoMC reading group around Christmas time, and although I found it comfy and entertaining with some possible implied criticism, I, ultimately, felt that it had been a waste of time. I felt that what one puts in to reading that semi-commercialized crowd pleasing behemoth is not adequately returned. Is there anything you can tell me to change my mind / make me feel that I didn't waste that many hours of my life? I can see how, in your case, that it might be nice to unwind and take breathers with something as light at the CoMC while you're reading Ulysses simultaneously.

>>9536815
>32
>England
>The Deer and the Cauldron

>20
>NYC
>Blood Meridian (for the second time), Will to Power, Augustus by Stoner

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>22
>VA
>Feast of the Goat

Cash af, desu.

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> 18
> USA
> Stoner, Dubliners

Never before have I hated a character as much as I hate Edith.

>22
>Mexico City
>Nine Stories, by Salinger

Finished it last night. Boy was it a ride. Salinger is an excellent short story writer. If you think The Catcher in the Rye or Salingwr are memes, get some real education and read this book. You'll thank me later.

>>9544086
whats Augustus like? I'm considering checking it out. I enjoyed I, Claudius and Stoner.

>>9544284
I'd say that Augustus is just as heavy in feeling as Stoner was for me (and should be for any man willing to accept and embody the circumstances of any given time and then live out the experiences of said time). The structure is particularly interesting. The entire novel is a compilation of letters. We see a myriad of perspectives on each circumstance, and the development of these characters through their individual voices is extremely personal in feeling. Due to the rate of events occurring at a much slower rate when compared to Stoner, Augustus, as a result of this, moves much slower (I also find myself reading it at a much slower rate). This is not to say, by any means, that this work drags. There is just significantly more attention given to detail (visually in addition to the complicated webs of intrigue). I would certainly recommend it to anyone who either enjoys Williams' other works or who is interested in possessing beautiful images of Rome's personages and its culture.

>>9544314
thanks for the reply, it sounds like what I hoped it would be. I'll check it out.

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>>9544266
>tfw still have never been to mexico city
>tfw I just want to go clubbing with hot mexicanas

I already like you simply by the fact that you enjoy Salinger. You're also my age, and live in a dope city. You seem like a cool guy, desu. I'd hang out with you irl.

Read Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter-- And Seymour.

You'll thank me later.

>>9536815

>20
>New York
>The French Revolution by Carlyle

>26
>Edinburgh
>Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

>>9536815
>21
>Germany
>The Visit of an old Lady by Dürrenmatt, The Decameron

>18
>Moscow
>Commentaries on the Gallic War
I'm determined to finish it, but every war just blends together into boring repetiveness.

>>9544345
You should come, man. It's a shitty plave if you live here, but if you just come to visit it's actually quite nice. I was going to read the rest of Salinger's stories and novellas (Franny and Zooey, the ones you mentioned, the three recently undisclosed stories), but I think I'll do it later. I need to digest his Nine Stories thoroughly first.

If you ever come to Mexico City, keep me posted brah, I know some cool places that tourists usually don't go to. Although we probably won't ever meet again on this board.

>19
>Brazil
>The Picture of Dorian Gray

Loving it so far

>19
>commiefornia
>The Castle - Kafka
love the atmosphere and dialogue although every character talks like a lawyer. but it fits the atmosphere and uncanny, suspicious feel. gonna read picture of dorian gray next.

>>9536815
>22
>Tennessee
>A Tale of Two Cities & Interrogating the Real by Zizek.

AToTC isn't my favorite Dickens, but it's fine so far. Only about a third of the way into it. Interrogating the Real is also good so far. My background in Lacan isn't super strong, but there's a glossary in the back that was somewhat helpful. I just recently read Looking Awry as well.

>>9537992
Low quality but I lol'd

>28
>USA
>Moby Dick

Ishmael is Melville, Ahab is his tulpa, and Moby Dick is male homosexuality.

>20
>Washington
>The Crying of Lot 49

Somehow my first time reading Pynchon. I'm halfway through and so entertained

21
>Da Yoopee
>The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
>>>tfw reading Magic Mountain while working at a hospital
Besides the subtle hints and philosophies in the book about the patient/caregiver relationship, I find his deliberation on the passage of time fascinating, and despite very little happening so far I've been enjoying reading it. It's very cozy for some reason.

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>26

>Oregon

>The Statues That Walked

I've been on an Easter Island kick lately, it's pretty interesting. Totally blows Jared Diamonds "lel they slaughtered each other and cut all the trees down" meme theory.

Also slowly beginning to read Napoleons Wars, it's a bit of a brick and I'm not feeling like diving into a 600 + page book.

Might just hop over to The Myth Of Sisyphus, I dunno.

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>22
>the great state of Michigan
>reading Journey to the end of the Night and Nausea

>>9536815
17
Queensland
Off to be the wizard

>21
>brazil
>reading aeschylus' playwrights, yesterday read the persians, today will read seven against thebes. also reading kjv, currently on psalms, and when I am not home I am reading book of disquiet

>24
>Montreal
>Invisible Cities

Only the third Calvino i've read. All of his works are very distinct from each other, which I appreciate.

26 and reading illiad for the hundreth time.

>>9536815
>20
>aut
>'time and free will' by henri bergson
>But also 'Process and Reality' by alfred north whitehead

>>9536815
>30
>UK
>Nostromo
It's a bit long winded, and there aren't any aliens to be seen, but it's quite good so far

>29
>estonia
> we- Yevgeny Zamyatin,

Is /lit/ one of the most international boards ?

>>9536815
>giving yor data to google and veely forums
It's like you guys never learn.

>>9547006
unless you are posting in a duo2core, with libre boot, a os like tails, and is posting using a proxy, you have already gave goole all your data too

>>9536941
The number of plebbit fags is on the rise

>24
>Hungary
>Great Expectations

>>9546706
WE

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>>9536815

>almost everyone on here is around 20

What a surprise. No wonder you fall for meme literature, have shit taste, and only spout your professors tell you.

Fucking children.

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>>9536941
>>9547554
>Butthurt that you are no longer young

Cry more, middle age/over the hill faggots.

>21
>England
>The Courtier and the Heretic

>>9536815
>20
>South Carolina
>The king in Yellow/Faust

I'm the jackass who starts a book then moves to another

>>9540935
I really liked White Noise!

20
New Hampshire
The Great God Pan

It isn't high brow but it is something fun. I take classes over the summer so I've gone for easy reads.

>18
>oregon
>hour of the star

>28
>Germany
>In cold blood

>25
>Norway
>Ulysses

>19
>Newcastle
>Inherent Vice and Forbidden Colours

>>9536909
>>9540666
>>9544972
I can`t ready Moby Dick for the life of me. I`ve tried three times, and put it back down every time.

What do you enjoy about it?

23
Texas
Independent People

I don't care that Scandi writers hate America, they write well.

>>9548281
Why are you reading that trash

>>9536815
>28
>Toronto
>Gravity's Rainbow

>>9536815
>18
>Argentina
>Lolita.

>>9536815
>24
>Seattle
>Ideas Part 1

>21
>israel
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>9539260
Fuck off, plebbit.

>>9548795
Then you should fuck off back to plebbit.

Also,
>reading solely for enjoyment
At this point just kill yourself

>>9549892
How is Seattle, really? Is it actually full of retarded SJW commies and antifa? Or is it a legitimate city with a thriving art scene that just happens to be full of commies?

>27
>Baltimore
>Moby Dick
I hate it here, but while the city has been improving, the literary scene has been devolving.

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>>9549954

>but while the city has been improving, the literary scene has been devolving

Maybe that's because the writers are leaving.

> 21
> Norway
> The autobiography of Malcolm X

Thought it would be more interesting, to be honest.

>>9536815
>18
>CAN
>The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

I know it's a meme, also this is literally my first post on /lit/ pls no bully

>>9549952
far left makes better art anyway

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>>9536815
It was Ukraina now its russian terrtory i Am from the Island krym
17 old
няш мяш Кpым нaш
Fuck istonia
A russian 100/100 fantasy фэнтeзи book name (гибeль Бoгoв) (the Death of the gods )

Americans englo german subhumans dont know shit about our great books and this books will never be transleted to americans hahaha

If you know russian Get this book you will like it

>>9550065
my favourite band is also CAN

>>9538039
also Chicagofag here, read Candide before. What are you feeling about it? Personally, Voltaire is definitely not my favorite philosophe by any means, but Candide did leave an impression on me. Made me feel empty at the end

>>9550317
are you autistic? Is this real? I remember a few other nonsensical posts by a Russian that couldn't speak english, but I struggle to understand what you're doing here, especially since you seem to be posting genre fiction

ты читaл 200 лeт вмecтe?

18
Hawaii
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

I'm almost done, and I'm deciding between reading Crime and Punishment or Lolita next.

>25
>Finland
>Brave New World

Loving it, can't believe I took this long to pick up this book.

>16
>US
>The Pickwick Papers

>>9550318
Tago Mago is pertty good desu

>>9536815
>19
>Tokyo, Japan
>Norweign Wood by Haruki Murakami

Pretty good book so far.

24
Goddamn New Jersey
Warlock

Just 30 pages in so far. Pretty comfy.

>>9536815
>19
>USA
>2 Kings

It's Nice

>18
>UK
>The Man in the High Castle

18
uk
the establishment: and how they get away with it

>>9544266
Salinger does some things well but he's fairly boring compared to a lot of the authors who actually get memed.

> 18
> India
> 1984

About halfway through. It's kinda nice, but I really preferred Brave New World's take on the whole dystopia thing. The people in 1984 are sad and poor, while I though the people in BNW were actually happy, even if it was artificial. They were just blissful in their ignorance, while the people in 1984 are angry because they have to defend propaganda that they know deep inside their minds is untrue. Also, BNW showed that sex is, in fact, soma. 1984 thinks that sex is some kind of freeing act of rebellion. I personally disagree with that, because I really find sex to be the earliest form of soma for the early man. Of course it's useful for reproduction and all, but that is why climax gives that drug-like, indefatigable sensation of utter numbness, of no feeling- artificially produced to encourage mass reproduction, perhaps?

Anyway, enjoying the book thus far. Will keep updating.

>>9549950
How hostile, if you never read every now and again as an indulgence then you are neglecting one of the purposes of literature.
I understand the importance of Moby Dick however I do wonder if there is some element that I am missing, rather like how some people read Catcher in the Rye and love it while others have no opinion. Is there is some human experience I have yet to have that would make the work resonate? Does it speak to people and draw them in? What about the book makes people want to read it? Is it simply to wander in the symbolism or understand the beginnings of the modern novel? Does the style capture your attention? I understand not everyone who reads Moby Dick enjoys it, and that it is still an important work regardless, but I am asking those who do enjoy it - Why?

>25
>USA
>Hit or Myth (Myth-Adventures Book 4) by Robert Asprin

I've been reading the Myth series because I'm trash.

>19
>Heidelberg, Germany
>Journey to the End of Night
Currently debating whether I should just get drunk next weekend and try to fuck the girl I have an enormous crush on. What does /lit/ think?

>25
>Connecticut
>The Histories

>25
>Philadelphia
>The Glass Bead Game

22
Croatia
The Light Fantastic

>>9536815
>18
>Infinite Meme
>Indiana

>>9536815
>20
>Rotterdam
>Meditations
my journey to philosophical wisdom started with Niccomachean Ethics, Encheiridion, now Meditations, and then i go for De Rerum Natura

>>9536815
>25
>Atlanta
>Crime & Punishment

>>9536815
>18
>Portalegre
>Les Chants De Maldoror

>>9536815
>26
>Hungary
>Snow Country

It's meh. It started good, but now I'm halfway trough and I still don't know where this is going. They just sit in the room or walk around whilst talking about everyday things. Yeah, we learn about their lives in the meantime, but it doesn't seem to be really amounting up to anything.

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>30
>Finland
>Oma Maa

23
Sweden
Fathers and Sons

It's starting to pick up and get more interesting but the characters still seem more like constructions than humans.

23
Denmark
Masters of Rome
What's the point of this thread?

>>9550620
Haha finlan :DDD

>>9552746
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVnVJrTDGM

>>9551646
Is this book worth reading or is it pretty much just "lol nazis are bad"

>21
>US (Pennsylvania
>Castle to Castle

I've heard people complain that there's no plot to Journey to the End of the Night. I don't share that opinion, but those people would probably toss this one in the trash in the first 100 pages if plot is the concern.

19
Illinois
Industrial Society and Its Future
Im just drifting through life.

>>9536815
>14
>US
>Being and Nothingness

>10
>USA
>Ulysses by James Joyce

23
Halifax, NS
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>>9554071

Gotem

>>9536815

>19
>USA
> Simon Schama's Citizens

super nice

>25
>Texas
>Gilbert Law Summaries: Criminal Procedure
Not that I'm taking the class over the summer, but my new job demands I know this stuff and I have no idea what I'm doing.

People apparently have rights and shit when they get pulled over. Who knew.

>>9550566
GAfag. I thought Candide was hilarious. I actually sperged out and laughed out loud on public transit while reading.

>26
>Chile
>By Night in Chile

The eerie segments are pretty intense and this has been the first time in many years I've laughed so much with a book at some points in the story.

>>9538039
also chicago fag
ulysses
come down to hyde park and sperg

>>9540956
would totally date you

>>9554215
I live in HP, I'm sitting near the point rn

Don't go to UofC but I went to the hs there

wanna be friends? I'm here for the summer now

>>9549963
I don't think that was nearly as funny as you thought it was, nor as clever.

>>9550098
Prop posters aren't art.

>>9552004
kys retard

>>9554346
lol labschool fag
sure. im here until end of june. if you see someone (finishing) ulysses or reading some other /lit/ tier book at the point come say hi [\spoiler]

22
Tejas
Waste by Eugene Marten
+ Illuminations by Benjamin

>>9536815
>25
>Oregon
>Phenomenology of Spirit
Nearly past the front matter. Once I get into arabic numerals I'll take a quick break to brush up on the critiques followed by a couple secondary texts on German Idealism, then I'll be ready to go!

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>>9552004
Simply put, if you fancy yourself as an appreciator of literature, you need to force yourself to see what is good in Moby Dick otherwise you are hopeless.
1. Melville is quite sophisticated philosophically so if you are not, it may be of benefit to educate yourself in that respect.
2. His prose style is as excellent as it gets in the 19th century. This is a simple fact.
3. His psychological exploration is something anyone with interest in learning about themselves can appreciate. Maybe if you are content with being mediocre and letting the world happen to you it may be of less interest but I assume you are not like that.
4. Melville was a good chap and you should read everything he wrote.

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>>9536815
20
Washington State
Infinite Jest

>18
>Germany
>Gravity's Rainbow

It's hard but I didn't want to go for a translation.

>22
>Australia
>The Buried Giant

It's pretty comfy but probably the weakest of the few Ishiguro novels I've read.

>>9552004
>>9555004
I forgot one major point and I forgot it I suppose because it is so obvious to me, but Moby Dick is a hilarious book. If you are not laughing the whole time you are reading you are doing it very wrong.

I'm a little over half-way through Moby Dick and I'm starting to think it's way overrated.

Let's be honest - the cetology shit is boring. It's tedious and it weakens the narrative.

25
Sweden
Nausea

>23
>cz
"everything was forever until it was no more" by Alexei Yurchak

>24
>Australia
>Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

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>26
>German
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>9552014
I think if you're just in lust there is nothing to lose.

>>9553908
It's not high lit but it's a nice setting and the Nazis come off pretty well but maybe that's just my nationality speaking.

>>9554940
yep good to know we still have whatever horrible rep I'm sure we have
you serious? My grandma is here today but if you actually want to meet, tomorrow I'll be reading at the point after around noon unless the weather's bad, then the reg

>Argentina
>21
>Tom Jones

The man isn't afraid to go on a tangent for a whole chapter to let me know how much he despises critics. Other than that, quite good.

>>9539092
Nice, that's also my favourite part

>>9555303
I really do love her but our generation's fucked emotionally either way and fucking her is the only way to get close to her. I think I can do it but it does hurt to do it this way.

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>25
>NYC
>Infinite Jest, which I reread every summer, and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

>>9540867
Holy shit were you on the Manhattan bound N train a few days ago in the evening? I was on the train and this fat fucking loser's belly entered the train 5 seconds before he did, plops down across the cart from me, he has that homeless person smell like he hasn't showered except he's clearly a living-with-his-mom guy, and he opens a copy of this boom I've never seen anyone else reading called Omensetters Luck. A woman on the complete other side of,the cart had a book open and he saw this, pointed his head and put his hand over his brow as if blocking out light so he can see farther, and he was trying to see what the cover of the woman's book said. Then he just starts smiling like a fucking serial killer, still looking at the woman. The woman glances over at him and immediately looks away, just another nutjob on the subway. The fat fuck smiles and shakes his head, as if harshly judging what the woman was reading, perhaps it was too "pleb" for his clearly intellectually superior self. Then he sees I'm reading Finnegans Wake across from him, and says "that's a great book." I pretend I don't know he's talking to me. Louder, he repeats himself. Now the entire train is looking at us. I say "th-thanks" and put my nose back in the book. "... for a 12 year old" he says. Now, I'm on my way to MMA which I do 6 days a week, and I'm not that great but I know I can fucking kill this guy if I got into it with him. I put my book on my lap and look him dead in the eye. Getting a glimpse at my pec cleavage, broad shoulders, traps, and overall hardened athletic frame, and scar on my neck that looks like I survived someone slitting my throat (but really just from an accident when I was baking piping madeleines in my Proust phase) his body language changed from cocky and cheeky to insecure and back-in-high-school-around-people-who-know-he's-a-fucking-pussy. "s-sorry" he said, eyes down in his book. I remember thinking to myself the only people this intellectually insecure and visibly disgusting at the same time are most people who browse /lit/ regularly. What a fucking loser.

If this was you you should fucking kill yourself. I bet it was too, only someone that snarky would leave a two-line comment about the obscure bullshit he's reading likely seeking validation for your shitty hipster taste. No, go fuck yourself.

29
nsw
the bible

>>9555444
I probably don't qualify as being your generation so I don't understand these things but what about just kind of having a tipsy conversation where you are excited about each other and then maybe kissing but not immediately shoving it in her meat hole because she's so wasted she doesn't care what goes in there anymore?

>>9555529
Because I tried that one but she didn't get that kind of affection and thought I just wanted to be nice so you have to go all out so she'll get I really do love her. It's gotten really obvious over the past month.

>26
>Ger
>kerouac´s lonesome traveller, yates

24
kys
Fermat's Enigma

>>9555533
And telling someone you love them means getting wasted and fucking them, not you know, asking them out or telling them?

>>9536815
>30
>Austria
>Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by D. Ingram

>>9555497
>Finnegans Wake
>Infinite Jest
>N train
>boom
You're write but I'm writer.

24
Dallas
Trainspotting

>>9536815
>20
>Minnesota
>Conversations with Professor Y

I like Celine's style a lot, and this one reads especially fast. I'm reading the Stanford Luce translation which seems pretty good. I'm not a huge French lit guy, so a lot of the references are probably going over my head.

>>9555990
Yeah because it doesn't work like that. I told a friend of mine and she just straight up laughed at me. My surroundings are pretty shitty, mind you.

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26
Burgerland
Das Capital

>18
>USA
>The Awakening

like the prose, idk if i'm just too dumb to pick up on the themes or how it's "revolutionary." think i'm going to read woolf next, excited for that.

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>18
>Australia
>Slayers vol 14: Hatred in Sellentia
It's alright, although the fan translation isn't the best

>>9536815
28
Sri Lanka
Necronomicon by hp lovecraft

>18
>brazil
>reading aeschylus' playwrights, yesterday read the persians, today will read seven against thebes. also reading kjv, currently on psalms, and when I am not home I am reading book of disquiet because i'm a fag

>>9538256
Brett?

>>9549795
ah man i love that book so much

28
New Orleans
a confederacy of dunces and a book about life after death (journey of souls)

28
New Orleans
My diary desu and infinite jest and some random economic articles here and there

21
Washington
Absalom, Absalom!

>>9555081
>mfw squeezing sperm

>>9555378
maybe. depends what time i wake up.
if i go, ill be wearing a green m43 wehrmacht hat bc its the most identifiable piece of equipment i own .

>31
>Melbourne Central shopping centre
>The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

>>9559222
kek I also have a fucked sleep schedule. I'll probably be there for a while since I like reading outside, but obviously no pressure
I'll wear a Bears sweatshirt and I'm a girl

>21
>Norway
>Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur

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>>9559222
Is this you? Asking for a friend.

>>9555497
Christs you're fucking retarded

>18
>Brazil
>Geography of Hunger

>>9550573
Do you also struggle with remembering to breathe

>>9536960
oldfag detected

>>9538039
i really like this book 10/10

29
Thailand
the snow of kilimanjaro

not too bad

19
Bumfuck Connecticut
Dubliners, I really like it, James Joyce understands Slice of Life, I don't think he's been topped in that regard.

>32
>Scotland
>Tales for travellers

Just started it, Seems good so far.

>>9544078
>The Deer and the Cauldron
Hey im a big fan of jim jong too
finish all his works actually
great writer

>>9554016
GTFO

>>9559384
no but i actually i think i know who this autist is

>>9559237
weather is probably gonna be shit tomorrow. (80% rain). do you want to do monday at 3? my roommate and i can drop by for a bit. both at uofc.
if you wear some bears paraphernalia and sit by one of the firepits with a book should be easy to find. my roomie will be wearing a brown messenger bag. in any case we'll probably be there regardless so no pressure.

>>9562416
see you Monday, then. I'm going to wear a bright tie dye t-shirt you'll be able to recognize me pretty easily