I enjoy the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
slaughterhouse 5 is fine if you read it as an apology to Germans
Stoner is not great... not worthy of Top 100. It's good, but nothing of literary merit. It is isomorphic to the Japanese Kokoro in terms of literary merit. It belongs to the simulacrum which is unique to Japanese society.
>>24744689This. It's an ok book but jerked off way more than it deserves.
>>24744676I am a racist nazi but my favorite book was written by a jew
>>24744743proves you're just larping
>>24744676The western Canon is okay.
I did not like the Iliad at all
>>24744676I only enjoy genre fiction.
>>24744676I like it when books are dialogue-heavy
I read Yellowface for a book club and it wasn't good but it wasn't bad either. Aggressively mid.
>>24744826>I like it when books are dialogue-heavywoman!
I havent read the whole work of my favorite philosopher
>>24744684It unironically is based. That chapter where the guy is banging on about how bad the Holocaust(tm) was and the protagonist just says yeah whatever as he reflects on Dresden.
I have never read any philosophy and don't plan to read anything outside of the Greeks. I could not care less for Heidegger or anyone other pseud.
i have no intention of ever reading dante
>>24744927the greeks are just as stupid
The most fun I've ever had reading has been when reading VNs
>>24744826gay. just read movie scripts.
>>24744853I just read too many screenplays>>24744955I do
>>24744676I've read over 100 books but none written by a woman.
>>24745037>I've read over 100 booksis this supposed to be a noteworthy amount?
>>24745053No but i felt the need to say it because I expected someone to say "because you have read 2 books in total"
>>24744927I love classicist literature but have to ignore all the boy love. Fucking noncery.
>>24744676the only language I know other than English is a small bit of German not enough to conversate. and I'm 43.
>>24745169So? Every major prophet and philosopher only needed 1 language.
>>24745183yeah I guess
I think Dostoevsky is a mediocre writer>>24744676He’s genuinely good
>>24745183Spinoza knew Latin, Portuguese, and Dutch.
>>24745227Can you really fully judge that if you only read translations?
>>24745232Did they write equally in all those?
>>24744826Same
I really enjoyed Murakami's Norwegian Wood, it was extremely comfy sans the weirdly graphic sex.
>>24745253
>>24745064but you HAVE read 2 books in total
>>24745360You’re the turd moving goal posts. Famous authors wrote in one language, not poorly in 5. MIDWIT.
>>24745368But gathered information and influence from multiple. You‘re having a hard time tonight.
>>24745372>projecting one’s folly on others Yea got a midwit here
I read the Iliad, the Aenid, Paradise Lost and Divine Comedy in prose form
>>24744676I really don't enjoy descriptive passages, unless it's poetry
>>24744676I ate the same cheeto twice once ... Figure that one out assholes
>>24745407me neither, that’s why I had to get better at writing them.
>>24744855kek
>>24744676O completely and utterly loathe the left and hate them for destroying my civilization on every level but I think there were a lot of more moderate left leaning authors that have produced a lot of great academic work particularly books that I have pulled useful information from.
I don't actually know how to readI can only parse shitposts
>>24744689You don't know what simulacrum means, do you
>>24744676>Breece Pancakes appreciator>hung like a horse>survived DresdenHe is the superior Cornell chum. Underrated prose minimalist.
When im reading a translated work, even prose, it feels like i didn't really read the book. That im missing something that author could convey only using his language. With a translation i can understand sulerficial elements like the story, the characters and the overal message; but not the essence of the book. I still read translated book, but i refuse to read traslated poetry. Im happy to have this autism problem tho. It motivates me to learn new languages just so i can read my favorite books in original.
>>24745728Pardon? You are applying your own limitations onto me,>In philosophy, simulacra are signs and images that have become disconnected from any underlying reality they were meant to represent, eventually replacing reality itself in a condition known as hyperreality. French philosopher Jean Baudrillard developed this concept in his book Simulacra and Simulation, arguing that in modern, media-saturated societies, simulations become more real and desirable than the reality they imitate, leading to a loss of authenticity and a reliance on superficial signs and symbols for identity and meaning.
Gene Wolfe insists upon himself
>>24744676I enjoy listening to EDM through HD600s when drunk off my ass in bed, ornamental gardening, driving my big comfy sedan on rural interstates, and dishing with anyone within easy face-to-face reach who isn't offended by bawdy allusions or the word "cunt", especially in the Australian sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXwjwR8-FTU&list=RDNnJaRF95TCY&index=12
>>24744922I do not remember this at all
>>24745985https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xeno6VKGlk&list=RDNnJaRF95TCY&index=16
I throw away most books I read after I'm finished with them. >>24745239Not him but desu I've heard that Dosto reads worse in the original. Garnett and the others spruced up what was initially very clunky prose.
>>24746021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_erIG8Haxs0
>>24746025>I've heardso no then.
>>24744684That’s the most cucked position possible, being both pro-Jew and apologetic for conquering weaker land.
I am re-reading Dragonlance books. I am 35 years old. They're awkwardly written but I am enjoying the nostalgia trip.
>>24744855Have you read more than 3 pages his canon or less?
>>24745365How many have (You) read?
>>24744684Unironically got my degree on this point
I read more non-fictions (math, self improvement, and philosophy) than fictions.
>>24744689>>24744695It captures the structure of a plain life, which people read tragically. It has the power to evoke the feeling that someone shouldn't live such a life, even though so many do. The way his creative ambitions, his daughter, his wife, all turned out. Reading it makes you want to cry.
It took me a year to read Proust's in shadow of young girls in flower.I haven't read a book from start to finish since May.I no longer consider myself a reader but other people do because of my full bookshelves. Full of books I never read.
>>24744676I like languages more than the stories they’re in.
>>24745164Having read Burckhardt it's clear that since the end of the Homeric age severe strains of degeneracy had already set in. What we know as the glory of the Greeks is just the dimming afterglow.
>>24746006It's when he's in hospital and the guy next to him is some obnoxious journalist or author or something. It's been some years since I read it so might be misremembering some things.
>>24744855That applies to all of /lit/
>>24744751Hitler loved jews too. We have to stop this toxic idea that you cant love what you genocide.
>>24746171what have you conquered?
>>24744676I’m too retarded to enjoy Henry James or James Joyce.There’s some parts of Portrait of Lady that I really liked, but it’s so long that I just glazed over the rest. Dubliners was fine, but it didn’t leave me feeling anything particularly special. I have no idea what the fuck Ulysses is supposed to be or what if anything I should get from it. It feels like a book people pretend to get to seem like they aren’t a philistine. Also love me Terry Pratchett. Fun man. Walker Percy I also recently fell in love with but he can fuck off talking about semiotics, no one cares as much as he does.
>>24747371I think both Dubliners and Portrait are highly overrated. Their main artistic value lies in helping you understand how Joyce came to write the Ulysses. Though admittedly part 3 of Portrait is pretty good.Ulysses is admired for a variety of reasons. >for its inventiveness and sheer variety, Joyce's range is insane>for its density; some people like to dig deep into each and every sentence and Ulysses rewards them for it, every sentence is meticulously crafted >psychological depth, Joyce doesn't abandon his characters like Pynchon does with his rough caricatures>the book is also incredibly funny, I can't think of a single book where I laughed more
>>24744676I don't care if he was a communist, Debord was right and I'm sick of pretending otherwise
>>24744676i think some of the disney star wars books are good
>>24744855If you've only read a single page, that still puts you ahead of most of this board
>>24746451>>24748096I read half of his book, but on the other hand ive also read a few books on him with plenty of passages
For me it's the Odyssey > the Aeneid > the Iliad.I've also never managed to finish the Iliad due to it being a slog.
>>24745037I think a 1-5% woman number is reasonable. At 100 books you might read one by a woman and not suffer.
I can barely recall any details or impressions from the books I read 10-15 years ago. This includes shit like Joyce and Faulkner. I tell people I have read them, which I technically did, but my memory is garbage. I'd start again but I'd rather read other stuff.
>>24744676so it goes
I'm a man in my 30s and I love romantasy novels. Yeah, Court of Thornes and Roses and Fourth Wing are terrible, but the genre is full of achingly beautiful stories/worlds/characters/relationships. I also wrote my own romantasy novel which has received some positive feedback. I also plan to write another novel that is essentially the same style/genre but in a sci fi setting.
>>24744676>I enjoy the works of Kurt Vonnegut.This is not a confession
>>24744922>That chapter where the guy is banging on about how bad the Holocaust(tm) was and the protagonist just says yeah whatever as he reflects on Dresden.You are misremembering this chapter but it is a good one.
I enjoy Dean Koontz
>>24745800I’m the exact same as you. My symptoms have been made worse by reading translated works, then reading the original and I keep noticing tiny changes that affect the overall meaning and feeling of a particular passage or element. Luckily, the languages I do know are rich in literature and poetry.
>>24744922>HolocaustHiroshima bombing, I believe
I don't get fiction at all. I usually completely miss what the author is trying to say and it's dreadfully boring to read. I feel like most authors are just failed philosophers trying to obscure how faulty their message is with characters and plot
I like Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.
>>24748977You should just say you haven't read The Iliad then instead of ranking it.
>>24749834I used to be exactly like this.I view fiction as a study of man and his mind. If you read it like a work of psychology, you'll get more from it. Try to put yourself in the shoes of the main character and reflect on what you (he) feel(s).
I raped my ex girlfriend
>>24749834I can't even think of one great author that falls into this category. Maybe Blood Meridian seems to espouse some philosophy about life in Holden's "sermons", but I don't think McCarthy is pushing anything. And that's just one book of his. Camus I suppose made a character that follows his philosophy, but I wouldn't call Camus a failed philosopher, same with Satre.
>>24744743Which one? Human Action?
>>24744676camus the stranger and catchure in the rye are both overrated and the fact people think the characters are "crazy" just shows how srupid people are when it comes to insanity, both characters are normal regular people.
>>24744855I consider myself 'well-read' on Plato but I haven't read Philebus, Laws and Cratylus, or any analysis paper/book on Plato
>>24749272What are some good ones
