/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23200141]

What are you reading?

[Anonymous No.23200145]

>>23200141

[Anonymous No.23200157]

this exact edition, there are quite a few printing errors. i saw an apostrophe face the other way, very strange
halfway through

[Anonymous No.23200163]

>>23200157
The manicure complainer is based on his ex btw.

[Anonymous No.23200167]

>>23200145
what exactly about this are you "reading" ? The time?

[Anonymous No.23200168]

>>23200141
At Swim, Two Birds, finally.

[Anonymous No.23200169]

>>23200163
at last i truly see

[Anonymous No.23200171]

>>23200157
How are you liking it

[Anonymous No.23200173]

>>23200145
>0.95x speed
i didn't know you can get this precise

[Anonymous No.23200190]

>>23200167
Why are you gay?
>>23200173
Well it's a dedicated audiobook player that I actually paid for, so I got what I wanted.

[Anonymous No.23200191]

My mother got me a six book collection of Roger zelazny short stories and I'm on book 2 atm. Stuff I haven't even heard of and it's all pretty darn good. He's criminally underrated.

[Anonymous No.23200268]

>>23200171
it's funny, i think he's really good at poking fun of people in general

[Anonymous No.23200315]

Herodotus and the Bible
(I'm not a tradlarper tho)

[Anonymous No.23200595]

>>23200141

[Anonymous No.23200599]

>>23200315
What are the titles on the bottom left shelves?

[Anonymous No.23200613]

>>23200315
I imagine the posture needed to read in that setup is pretty uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.23200644]

Just finished Steel World by B.V. Larson
Am on to 'The Maltese Falcon'.

[Anonymous No.23200704]

>>23200141
Kafka on the Shore

[Anonymous No.23201167]

>>23200599
They're books with lots of pictures.
>>23200613
You are not mistaken. I wish I had a different solution.

[Anonymous No.23201175]

[Anonymous No.23201189]

>>23200145
Is that the 90s recording with the old guy who does all the cool voices?

[Anonymous No.23201194]

>>23200157
It's amazing how many ripoffs of Brave New World exist across all forms of art nowadays.

[Anonymous No.23201198]

>>23201167
Is this your home library, or are you locked in the basement of some lodge?

[Anonymous No.23201204]

>>23201198
It's my home, my studio, and my private library with 2500 books. It's nice here.

[Anonymous No.23201210]

>>23201204
How much do you make a year?

[Anonymous No.23201221]

>>23201210
Not that much but my rent is rather cheap and I don't spend my money on much outside of books. Although recently I had to admit I have most of what I need for the next decade or so.

[Anonymous No.23201233]

>>23200141

[Anonymous No.23201275]

>>23200141
>Also Spracha
>Spracha
They couldn't even copy paste the name correctly?

[Anonymous No.23201288]

The Name of the Rose, The Commanding Self, and The One and the Many.

The Name of the Rose is a great novel, a microhistory almost, The Commanding Self is really clarifying the Sufi view (more people should read the Sufis), The One and the Many is a dogmatic Christian Platonist engaging in a grotesque contortion of thought to "falsify" non-dualism. Granted, there are some good points here and there, but it's mostly like you're looking at the Uruk-hai version of philosophy. Damn crank, I had never hate read a book before.

[Anonymous No.23201301]

>>23201275

[Anonymous No.23201327]

Doctor sleep by Stephen King. It's pretty good, till it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.23201378]

>>23201167
I'd recommend a reading stand of some sort for big books like that, along with a proper chair. Sure, sofa's are comfy for smaller books, but you're not doing any justice for your back by hunching over. Pic somawhat related, browser tabs before browsers.

[Anonymous No.23201385]

>>23200141
Pale Fire

[Anonymous No.23201501]

>>23201378
I have enough books on books to know all sorts of options. But it's just this one Bible that's so large and heavy so I'll not get specific furniture for it.
Ironically I read most of my books just standing, on leg to make sure I properly develop my muscles.

[Anonymous No.23202246]

No bully

[Anonymous No.23202446]

>>23200141
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis

[Anonymous No.23202455]

>>23202246
Are you 18

[Anonymous No.23202463]

Halo Outcasts by Troy Denning

[Anonymous No.23202466]

>>23200145
I'm all for people enoying things the way they want too, but audiobooks in particular are a plague on humanity that have done more harm than good. And it's not reading.

[Anonymous No.23202494]

>>23202455
I'm way older

[Anonymous No.23202505]

>>23200141
Lots of William Carlos Williams lately. Some Rexroth essays. Rereading Chuang Tzu every night

[Anonymous No.23202526]

>>23200141

[Anonymous No.23202535]

>>23200141
Just started No Longer Human, didn't realise it was so short! Think Middlemarch will be what I read next.

[Anonymous No.23202567]

>>23202466
Seethe kek

[Anonymous No.23202581]

Pragmatism: A new name for some old ways of thinking

[Anonymous No.23202715]

>>23202526
post bookmark

[Anonymous No.23202739]

>>23200315
beksinski is cool

[Anonymous No.23202744]

>>23202739
*was
;_;

[Anonymous No.23202769]

>>23200141
I just started Julien Gracq's
>Le Rivages des Syrtes
Really enjoying the prose, have my hopes up that it's going to be as good as it's hyped up to be around here sometimes

[Anonymous No.23202774]

>>23200141
Hmmm, yes. A good book. Let me just put into my book cellar and age it like all books should be. Hmmm... Vintage...

[Anonymous No.23202785]

>>23202774
Hmmm, delightful. My IQ hasn't aged a day in a year. I love books!

[Anonymous No.23202819]

finally taking the joyce pill

[Anonymous No.23202822]

>>23201275
I think Nietzsche would have approved an arso spracha and been a massive yugi stan

[Anonymous No.23202911]

>>23202715

It's quite rustic, but it is handmade. Can't remember where it's from (I didn't buy it).

[Anonymous No.23203091]

>>23200141
Some contemporary bullshit that I'm forced to read because of college. Hopefully I'll get to finish the Republic this year. I'm already at book 7.
>>23202526
Never understood why people have fancy bookmarks, I always use payment receipts instead.

[Anonymous No.23203150]

>>23202567
you couldn't give me an accurate three paragraph summary of the chapter that quote is from because you don't take in books KEK

[Anonymous No.23203981]

[Anonymous No.23204038]

>>23200145
BASED audiobookchad making all the snobs seethe endlessly. while I prefer actual reading I do enjoy supplementing with an audiobook when i'm in the car or at work.

[Anonymous No.23204094]

>>23203091

>Never understood why people have fancy bookmarks, I always use payment receipts instead.

I've never understood people who think they're oh so bohemian for using random shit as bookmarks instead of a tactile, unique hand made object which you can keep for a lifetime. Literal consoomer brain. Plato isn't going to help you.

[Anonymous No.23204766]

>>23203981
If the CSM reviews your book there's probably not a lot of fun in it

[Anonymous No.23204859]

>>2320014
Currently:
>The Faerie Queene - Spenser
>Table-Talk (Original Essays) - Hazlitt

Next:
>Maiden Castle - John Cowper Powys
>Orlando Furioso - Ariosto / tr. Harington
>Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis

[Anonymous No.23205023]

>>23202246
Sex.

[Anonymous No.23205035]

Dracula, nobody told me it was so good!

[Anonymous No.23205111]

>>23204766
You have to read it yourself. I think it's clever

[Anonymous No.23205329]

[Anonymous No.23205348]

>>23205111
For them to endorse it like that, it can't have tackled things I'm interested in. I'm not saying it's bad (CSM is very good at what they do address) but it's just not going to be of much interest to me if it involves only things Christian Science accepts as valuable grounds for fiction or reportage.

[Anonymous No.23205367]

>>23205348
I have absolutely no idea what you're talkin' about bro :)

[Anonymous No.23205393]

>>23202446
Are you enjoying it? I thought it was very funny.
I’m also on Lewis, finished rereading the revenge for love last night and am about a quarter the way through apes of god. Thinking I might give childrmass another try after while I’m in the groove.

[Anonymous No.23205476]

>>23200141
Also Spracha Zarathustra.

[Anonymous No.23205711]

>>23200141
Thus spoke zarathustra. Part one.
I don't get it. He's rejecting everything?

[Anonymous No.23205869]

>>23200141
Literally that book in your pic.
I'm reading because of Madoka Magica

[Anonymous No.23205994]

Kinda boring, but I'm very impressed by how articulate Kissinger is.

[Anonymous No.23206044]

>>23205367
They're a religious group, so some things which exist in most people's lives are actually hallucinations sent by the devil for them, so they don't cover them because it's spreading delusion. Kind of like how a scientologist will never tell you to take psychiatric medicine or Jehovah's witnesses will never want to watch zombie movies with you.

[Anonymous No.23206060]

>>23206044
well... maybe I should I join a cult

[Anonymous No.23206072]

>>23206060
Christian Science is pretty okay compared to the others but if you get sick pretend you broke a bone.

[Anonymous No.23206268]

Currently rereading Wuthering Heights while working my way through a half-dozen poetry books. Really enjoying all of them.
>>23202819
What’s been your favorite so far?

[Anonymous No.23206868]

Just finished the Dune and Space Odyssey series. Decided to go for something completely different thematically as a pallete cleanser so I'm currently reading through the Poppy Wars. My younger brother just finished it last month and it's been fun chatting with him about it.

[Anonymous No.23207058]

Plato's Progress by Gilbert Ryle

[Anonymous No.23207339]

>>23201175
Very nice. You’re gonna make it

[Anonymous No.23207563]

>>23200141

[Anonymous No.23207603]

>>23200141
The Miser.

[Anonymous No.23207619]

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

[Anonymous No.23207889]

>>23201189
Yessssss. The single narrator who does all the voices. All the sequels are an ensemble.

[Anonymous No.23208038]

>>23207603
Well I finished it and now I'm moving on to J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

[Anonymous No.23208152]

I'm literally Heathcliff

[Anonymous No.23208212]

gay kino

[Anonymous No.23208218]

>>23208212
Sleeping in the same bed as another man is not gay, please stop

[Anonymous No.23208234]

>>23200141
gocomics.com

[Anonymous No.23208293]

>>23200141
I've been trying to read three books: Crime and Punishment, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Holy Bible (KJV). I need to get that hipster credibility.

[Anonymous No.23208311]

>>23200315
nice library

[Anonymous No.23208885]

>>23200315
Thought about using logos.com for studying the bible?

[Anonymous No.23208925]

>>23200141
Nothing atm. Been too busy, although I read The Odyssey, The Sailor who Fell, and half of Ulysses (before giving up) and Journey to the End of the Night all this year. I've been meaning to pick up The Iliad but whenever I do I'm either distracted or not in the mood

[Anonymous No.23208942]

>>23202466
I agree somewhat, I find it silly how people "read" classics whilst at the gym or cooking food and still believe they're taking the book in 100%; but I can imagine some non-fiction can be absorbed well through audio; also poetry really needs to be read aloud to be appreciated. This is also the same for Ulysses and Finegan's Wake. Joyce was obsessed with how words are said and intentionally wrote those books to be as lyrical as possible.

[Anonymous No.23208949]

>>23205869
bichona

[Anonymous No.23209221]

>>23204094
>consoomer brain is to go buy a handmade bookmark instead of using random leftover paper you find at home
You okay bud?

[Anonymous No.23209229]

>>23209221
>consoomer brain is to use a random leftover paper you find at home instead of buying a handmade bookmark instead of using random leftover paper you find at home***

[Anonymous No.23209234]

>>23209229
>>23209221
Damn, can't believe I fucked it up twice. Going off 4chan.

[Anonymous No.23210573]

>>23200141
I'm currently reading five books (down from around six).

>Food A History of Taste (about two-thirds done)
>Culture of Critique (about 60% done)
>Perelandra (about 55% done)
>The Idea Factory (it's about Bell Labs, about 40% done)
>The Walkthrough (it's a memoir about working for BradyGames, about a third done)

I recently completed The Screwtape Letters, I liked it.