Post what you read in the month of august.
>>24693613Last month I read100 Poems from the Japanese - RexrothThe rats in the walls - LovecraftAnimal Farm - OrwellFive Decembers - James KestrelMacbeth - ShakespeareThis month I'm planning to readAs I lay Dying - almost halfway throughLast Days of Socrates(Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)All Quiet on the western frontThe turn of the screwLolitaKing Lear
>>24693613Read... Name of the Rose, Portrait of the Artist, Norwegian Wood, The Stranger, and Blindsight, then went on holiday.Reading IJ atm, so that's going to take a little bit. Also got my KJV bible so I'm kind of browsing it out of interest.
>>24693613how /lit/ is turkiyv? I've read Sabahattin Ali but i can't get much more
>>24693655Do you think Animal Farm is worth reading? I had read some of Orwells short stories and they were great and all but I did not really enjoy nineteeneightyfool. I thoroughly enjoyed Faulkner when I read him in grad school, great choice.>>24693662Im planning on reading Name of the Rose this month! Maybe foucaults pendulum even, if I can keep focused>>24693663Not /lit/ as it could be. Sabahattin is obvious peak, you could maybe look at Oğuz Atay (the disconnected). Sometimes likened to a turkish wallace (I have my own disagreements on that) Id also say Orhan Pamuk but everyone else probably told you that. The /lit/test it gets is esoteric underground literature most of which isn't translated or translated very poorly.
>>24693613ive only read a few papers on topics of interest. hopefully my real life as a book reader will start in september
>>24693673>Do you think Animal Farm is worth reading?It's pretty short, I am not a literary critic to say whether it's worth or not. I liked it. It's plainly obvious that it's a satire on stalinist russia, like there's no nuance but I enjoyed it so YMMV.>I thoroughly enjoyed Faulkner when I read him in grad school, great choice.Actually read TSATF last year and making my way through him
I will stake 60% of my donor kebab cart's liquidity on the fact that you are Turkish, and that this is the first serious month of reading in your entire life.
>>24693683lit major, try again.
>>24693686Fair. Then I stake the remaining 40% of my donor kebab cart's liquidity on the fact that you secretly wish to have sex with your mother.
>>24693694Hey man i read dfw that is a long hanging fruit of a bet there. Also not to be pedantic but its spelled "d(o/ö)ner" unless you are making some sort of an (organ) donor (?) type of failed joke.
>>24693613Nothing I have finished, unfortunately. I am reading Anna Karenina, which hopefully I will finish this september.
>>24693613It's none of yo damn business
>>24693613In August I read (I was on vacation, so I had a lot of free time):Brothers KaramazovAnna KareninaApology (Plato)Mount Athos, the Call From Sleep (Erhart Kästner)The Harz Journey (Heine)The Hero with a Thousand FacesMy belief (Hermann Hesse)Confessions of a MaskThe House of the Dead (Dostoevsky)Paradise LostMaster and MargaritaRoßhalde (Hesse)Knulp (Hesse)Gertrud (Hesse)Daphnis and ChloeWe (Zamyatin)Home of the Gentry (Turgenev)The Temptation of St. Anthony (Flaubert)
Deborah Levy - The Man Who Saw EverythingDavid Harsent - Fire SongsJoan Didion - The Year of Magical ThinkingSean Borodale - Bee JournalHalldór Laxness - Under the GlacierDon Paterson - RainBasil Bunting - Complete PoemsJoyce Carol Oates - BlondeJohn Burnside - The Myth of the TwinElizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy BartonDouglas Dunn - ElegiesAnnie Ernaux - ExteriorsWalter de la Mare - Selected PoemsRobert Lowell - The Old GloryBest: Blonde, Myth of the TwinWorst: Under the Glacier, Walter de la MareStill angry about how shit Walter de la Mare is. Gloopy post victorian formalist shite
>>24693613All library books so no photo.Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoDesigning Australia's cities: Culture, commerce, and the city beautiful by Robert FreestoneTristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-StraussAn Imaginary Life by David Malouf
>>24693739So joyce carol oates really is as good as the normalfags make her out to be? Her stuff always seemed fluffy from afar, but that's on me for being a judgemental cunt
>>24693749It’s the only thing of hers I’ve read, no idea what her hit rate is (who does lol).But Blonde was kino. It’s not a celeb bio, it’s a modernist literary novel whose main character happens to Monroe (and is mostly imaginary). More about how childhood neglect and sexual abuse pan out over an adult life than about fame and Hollywood.
>>24693741>Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoPatrician's choice
NOTHING.Didn't crack one book.Didn't turn on my ereader even one time.
>>24693613Things Fall Apart, AchebeThe Mexican War, Otis A. SingletaryMaster of War, Benson BobrickGrant, Jean Edward SmithMemoirs, U. S. GrantEmbattled Rebel, James McPhersonLee, Douglas Southall Freeman
>>24693673Name of the Rose was really fantastic, thoughtful work that focused heavily on the power of rhetoric and reasoning. If you've read any medieval theology, it'll probably be even more fun. As an ESL speaker, it was certainly a bit of a struggle at times with long, poetic sequences of descriptions, littered with phrases like "chryselephantine diptych," winding passages about ecclesiastic ornaments and relics, but I really loved the history and real people spread across the pages. I have Foucault's Pendulum on my shelf, but haven't read it yet. So many books, so little time (and focus.)
>>24693613Do you buy your english books from used bookstores anon?
>>24693856I buy almost all my books from used bookstores, its cheaper that way.
>>24693899Based sahaf enjoyer
>>24693902im addicted to nadirkitap i cant put down the books
>>24693905Noted. Thank you anon-kun
Working my way through an abridged 1 volume edition of Declined and Fall of the Roman Empire. Contantinople has fallen to the Turkish horde. Now it’s naught but papal squabbling.
>>24693993>abridgedwhy even bother
