What are you reading?

why are you reading?

To learn

learn what?

what an interesting outpour of emotion

Why yes, I am.

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy (will finish today)

and then it's either Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays

or

Dosto's Crime and Punishment

I just started Brother of Sleep. The first pages hooked me up, like it hardly ever happens. Has anyone read it?

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Lovecraftian shit by the Conan the Barbarian author

Took ages for the library to get this, somehow super rare apparently

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That book straight blew my mind. Currently reading Submission (Houllebecq)

these guys sound like real jerks

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Currently about half way though the magus by John fowles

i'm not enjoying hundred years of solitude

The Confessions, Ippolito Nievo

because it goes from amazing to terrible

Sue me

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I had to FORCE myself to push through about 150 pages of it. the last 50-75 were all right. but making it there was torturous.

The man who loved children. It's great. Saw a couple of goodreads reviews for it and now I'm frustrated with the 1 star ones. Top review is by a guy who probably wouldn't know good writing if it spit in his stupid face.

I decided to read a chapter between each other book, but actually when I finished a book I couldn't go back to a chapter of Solitude. That sucks. I give myself 2 more months.

Nigger who the fuck asks for someone skype just like that on Yea Forums?

such an enjoyable read. how far into it are you?

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Ulysses. Just finished Wandering Rocks but it's getting to me lads. The fact that I have 8 chapters left and fucking 500 plus pages left is intimidating me.
Keep me going bros

Rate

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actually the cutest thing i've read today

7/10 for Calvino, Ligotti, Krasznahorkai. The rest is shit.

Portnoy's complain per request of my cousin

Epictetus' writings. I kind of regret buying the book because it reads like ancient self-help.

The Moon is a Cruel Mistresses

nvm. going with Faust.

>The fact that I have 8 chapters left and fucking 500 plus pages left is intimidating me
Most of that is a play so it will be quicker to read. On the other hand you also have Oxen of the Sun.

Walden

This thread :^)

Also The Pale King cuz I thought that reading group thing was gonna actually work out

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couldn't find a cover that's in english and not ugly

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Going through short works of Dostoevsky. I read "Faint Heart" not too long ago. From what i understand that if you take everything too much to heart, you might end up going insane.

photography skill 0/10
what's the 4th book from the bottom

Basic Economics, by Thomas Sowell.

Léve - Suicide & selfportrait
Fumio Saki - Goodnye things

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2666 and A room of one's own

The chapter that's told in questions and answers is god tier and not even difficult. Same with the final chapter

>Carl Schmitt isn't one of the most influential political philosophers of the last century in general.
Is this what you actually believe?

reading Les Racines du mal by Dantec

good rec

Tried to read Hamsun's hunger but was too boring so started reading mysterios and i like it very much so far.

A relatively obscure novel known as "The Way Of All flesh", by Samuel Butler.

I've heard of this and am very interested in it. What do you think of it?

Well I've only recently started reading it, and so far I have enjoyed it. It holds a reader with interesting characters, and a compelling message of defiance of victorian britain.

Common Sense™ by Thomas Paine
The intro tacked on doubles the length and I'm a slow reader anyways, so it isn't a one-day read.

Why the need to be so over dramatic? The book is full of easily digestible 20 page chapters

my gf bought me nabakov - invitation to a beheading

What did you struggle with?

Cute

repetition

I'm finishing up The Red Horse by Eugenio Corti and I'm about to move on to either The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc or The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.

all the points you gained from krasz and calvino you lost with society of the spectacle

Have you read anything else by Yates? I recently read a few of his short stories in an anthology and liked them quite a bit more than the Carver or Cheever.

Just got a library card, ignore bad cropping.

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What don't you like about Society and the Spectacle, anons?
Some of the books in the stack are obviously bought out of curiosity for the memes since those titles got thrown around quite a lot (Ligotti, Baudrillard, Debord)
Confederacy of Dunes

>I thought that reading group thing was gonna actually work out
you must be new

based stack

What do you think lads?

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this nigga bout to get enlightened. Gnosticism is false though, homie

Gravity's Rainbow, 20th Century Ghosts for reading at work

think I'm following with Red Mars and Winesburg, Ohio

I was trying to convey the exasperation I felt at the time. Wanting to quit a book when you are 300 pages in is no bueno. And I was past ready to drop it. But I had come that far, and so I continued.

The book is not difficult. But it does become relentlessly tedious in the middle.

I "struggled" with the tediousness

I played the games and fell in love with the setting. I'm on chapter 4 currently.

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>he doesnt erp
why are u even here

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>tfw never finished a book before
What should I read lads?

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How old are you?

To understand literature, you must first understand yourself
Start with The Cat in the Hat

23

Am I too old for this book?

book lacks alot of detail but picks up in the end. I was so confused in the beginning alot of the shit was incoherent to me, but when he starts shooting shit up alien cowboy shit it gets better

well, either that or start with the greeks

>23
>never finished a book before
Suicide is always an option.

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Any possibility of epub of The Red Horse user? Couldn't find it on libgen or on bookz.

I just started reading this. Liking it so far.

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Book I of Politics

Try "Hard rain falls" by Don Carpenter. The main character gets into reading and philosophy kinda late in his life (though in the story that's just a small detail).

>Lem is shit
big mistake

I'm waiting for my copy of Either/Or with A Fragment of Life. It was supposed to arrive here yesterday but hasn't yet.
In the meantime I'm making my way through a collected edition of Kant's works.

How could you not enjoy such a beautiful book? serious question. Go into as much detail as you want.

Not the guy you're quoting, but that really is a good book.

I’ve read Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade. I thought both were excellent.
I’m surprised how gay A Good School is so far. (I’m at page 115 and it’s only 180 pages long.). His other two novels that I read were very heterosexual.

The Story of the Eye with several others Bataille's works.

Im reading infinite jest just to see what every one was so hyped about. Im only on page 250 so far but I really like it. Some times I don't understand what is happening but since the chapters are so short it really doesn't matter. I just got to the chapter where Madame Psychosis is about to Have To Much Fun. Does the book get better? Also do things start to make more sense as it goes on?

Yes, I am.

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I have "My mother" and "L'abbé C" waiting on my stack, if you read em already can you say if they're good?

How to read

Cool. I'm currently reading The Accursed Share and Literature and Evil.

In the second volume of Mein Kampf and just starting to read The Lord of The Rings.

>woof woof

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And how is that?

Just about to begin Either/Or too. Just finished Fear and Trembling and I really like Kierkegaard so far.

His book's been sitting on my wishlist for a while. Then I actually browsed through it in a book store recently, which lured me in.

Reading through Portrait right now and the book's last owner appears to have compulsively highlighted every other word. Dubliners looks to be Flemish free though, and the highlights are so ubiquitous that they actually aren't distracting. You get to a point where there are so many that they lose any appearance of particular significance.

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>sideways picture
>"Flemish" free
Phoneposting is a disease and I am a symptom.

Thanks user. This sounds interesting

Just finished Shadow of the Torturer, about to start Claw of the Conciliator. Probably going to take a break and read something else before moving on to the 3rd.

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bookstore haul was just basic stuff i needed

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reading this right now

pretty based

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