>age>current book>your thoughts on it
>>2520617023One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestI'm almost finished it. I saw the film for the first time when I was around 14 and I've seen it many times since and only recently decided to read the book. As great as the film is, the book is vastly superior. It's got many more layers and everything from the characters to the plot or the setting has so much more depth to it. It's a great critique of authoritarian bueracratic power structures and a social critique of what it means to be normal. The scene where shock therapy is compared to death by electric chair as both being cures for what society deems as wrong or unwanted stood out in particular. Great book
32 The Satanic mass What the fuck is with the French?
>>2520617028Gil BlasIt's quite good, great adventuring, and it's much simpler to read than Don Quixote (less obscure references)
Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?
>>2520617021Old Masters from Thomas BernhardOnly page at page 50. I always have trouble with finding a good point to put the book down. It is an inconvenience that the whole book is only one paragraph. But it reads very smooth. Really entertaining despite not really much happening. Although there is more happening than in Frost or Woodcutters. Seems more happy than these two too.
>26>pic related>enjoying it much more than I ever imagined
>>25206170>28>Dune: MessiahToo much yapping
>>2520617033Ada, or ArdorAbsolutely delicious writing. It straddles the line between majestic use and terrible abuse of English so well. I want to keep reading just for the prose. Our two love birds are fun too, I suppose.
39The three musketeers Ive only got 50 pages to go but i think I like it more than Count of Monte Cristo, boys
>>25206202>Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?My thought was it was leftie Kurdish type, but I don't know how many of those read recreationally in Turkish.
>>2520617027Beren and LuthienGod I hate prose narrative and rhymes
>>2520617039Capital v.1Iron JohnComplete Poems of John Keats*Capital is good, it's been rough getting through the beginning, almost through chapter 3. It's the most stimulating read I've ever had, gotta appreciate that feeling. About sixty pages into Iron John, i like his description of encountering the wild man at any age of your life and basically deciding for once in your life to be daring enough to commit to a dangerous act (my words, not his) and stealing the key from under your mother's pillow. I hadn't considered that men have been turning "soft" since post WW1.As for Keats, it's my first real nosedive into poetry so I'm just trying to adapt and develop an understanding of rhyme and meter, but i do like the content so far. Read 'O Solitude! if i must with thee dwell' this morning. I don't have anytging significant to say here, other than that I'm enjoying the journey.
>>2520617043John Gray - Seven Types Of AtheismDunno, just started it after reading Stripping Of The Altars as a palette cleanser
>32>The Shadow-Line>Love it even more than the previous two in this collection, and I already thought Nigger of the Narcissus was a 8.5/10 and Typhoon a 9/10
>19>Loop by Koji Szuki The whole series has been a blast so far. Much better than the movie(s) (I've only seen the 1st but a ton of the original content was rewritten. Basically everything with Ryuji is cut, i don't even know if they include Ryjui in the movies).
Fuck off with your blatant attempt at data mining, cunt.
>47>Paradise Lost>I left reading this FAR too late in my life. I’d already read Dante, Homer, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Virgil, Chaucer, Ovid in my younger days but never got around to Milton. After picking up poetry again in recent years through Hölderlin and then Blake it felt like a natural progression, despite going backwards.It’s quite possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever read. Just finished Book X and the resolve of man after falling so far is inspiring, though it’s often a rather depressing poem. Book IX is the greatest tragedy I’ve ever read and it’s where Milton’s poetry reaches its peak, in my opinion.
>>25206170>32>Dune MessiahGod, Alia made me hot and bothered. Also fuck the space Jews and fuck midgets.
>23>Say NothingFirst history book I've read that I felt like I shouldn't tell someone fully about what happened to not spoil it>>25206202My ethno guesser autism has to agree with the other anon, the nose shape isn't typical of arabs.
>>2520617035 in three daysThe True History of the Conquest of New SpainIt's alright, I'm on the last chapter. There's been some interesting bits like where Cortes tried to convince the natives that the Spanish cannon and horses were sentient and pissed off at them by firing said cannon and driving a horny stallion into prancing madness by giving him a whiff of a mare in heat and the posthumous smear campaign about Bortello the conquistador "astrologer and caster of lots" that swears a flock-stuffed leather dildo was found among his personal effects after he was killed. Glad to see genuine cheeky pettiness was alive and well 450+ years ago.
>>25206351how can you tell it's that vs someone wanting book recs?
>>2520617029The Hunchback of Notre DameSo far, it is very enjoyable. Funnier than I would’ve expected and the chapter describing Quasimodo and the cathedral is genuine kino. I know this probably won’t last long as I’ve heard the story is brutally dark. If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other work
I feel so old… there must only be like 4 other Gen Xers here.
>Gen Xer goes into a millennial space>YEAH, WELL UMM... I'M A GEN XER SO..Nobody cares. Fuck off.
33MoominIt's alright but vastly worse than other children's fantasy like Tolkien
>>25206170>22>Thomas Traherne -- Centuries of Meditations>Better than every other book
>>25206809Try OurTime or SilverSingles, grandpa.
>39>finished Flights by Olga Tokarczuk today Enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would recommend. Starting The Death of Artemio Cruz tonight most probably
>23>(Re-reading) Red Harvest by Dashiell HammettOne of the coolest books i ever read.
>25>The Qur'an: A Verse Translation>MashAllah
28War And PeaceBook 1 was a slog. Both because it felt like a Jane Austen book and also because it's hard to keep track of and remember everyone. It really started to click for me with how much more focused books 2 and 3 are. Just got up to Andrew/Andrei being captured and, while I want to read more, my eyes hurt and I'm worried I'll get burnt out trying to power through the rest of it.I'm going to take a break with something easier.
>>25206351You schizos are always so fucking dumb. He didn't even list a geographical location. What "concrete" fact about your lame, faggy little life will some glowie gleam from knowing your current age and what book you read lately?Shut up, you fucking wacko.
>Secret>The Screwtape Letters>Nice little devotional book. I appreciate how easy it is to read Lewis' prose compared to someone like Chesterton.>>25206186Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists." Do occultists actually do anything (with it or in general) or is it all larp?>>>25206255This book is pure kino
>Ficciones>Pure kinoIt's just "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" if it were fucking mundane.
>>25206907Filtered by short stories?
>>25206932It's lame shit, dummy.
>33>The Fellowship of the Ring>the is simply a vehicle for Tolkien's autism-induce mythos, but it's cool
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe.Interesting look at it from the inside of a residual cultural mnemotype, even if it's far more residual today than it was at the time of writing. I don't read or interact with japanese culture enough for it to add to anything but I'm enjoying reading it all the same. The prose is serviceable and a little understated. The ideas are communicated clearly, though I very much doubt such ideas were ever given more than surface level consideration by most of its adherents. It's also quite short, I suspect I'll be done today and I fired it up this morning. It makes a nice chance from my recent delves.
>>25206800Probably because these turn up often qnd usually come with personal questions. This one is admittedly the only one I've seen without a location/gender/political orientation tag or whatever. Age is telling.
>>25206906>Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists."That’s a poor understanding of the book unless you’re taking inspiration from the details of black masses for your LARP but the book itself is just an account of cases of Satanism throughout history. Again, majority being French.
38Blood Meridian A little over half way through, Glanton and his gang are ruthless curs. Why’d they have to run all them mules off the cliff, upset me. The kid is an interesting protagonist. The judge is a pretentious twat, if devil incarnate. I’ve had to use the dictionary a lot, and my meager understanding of Spanish has been put to the test. Really enjoying McCarthy’s prose a lot more than I thought I would having only read The Road by him prior to this.
>21>bible NABREI’ve been reading it front to back (I know not recommended)until I got to the prophet section which isn’t arranged in chronological order which killed a lot of my motivation reading through it. So I’ve went and looked to see when each book takes place and started reading from there.
>>25207110Oh yeah the prose in BM is great. For all the memeing and recent vitriol surrounding it—which can tend to blind people to the quality of the work—it’s really well written.
>>25207030Ah ok got it. I like they included the age because I can compare what I'm reading
>32>no country for old menIts alright but cormacs other books are better imo. I’m gonna watch the movie when I finish and I feel the movie will be better than the book.
>26>the talented mr. ripley>he's literally me
35Cousin BetteJust started it but it's alright so far.
26Crime and punishment Raskolnikov Is a really fun protagonist and Raz is peak bro. Love em.
>HUUUUUURRRRRR, DATAMINING!!!This dipshit is in EVERY thread.
52Dune on my bed side table. Brothers K coming in the mail.tomorow..(I'm testing my ability to make a post. )Dune: 200 pages in they're walking through a desert and it's starting to get choppy to read, as if parts of the action were lost so I'm losing my mind trying to keep up. I hate this glossary where he throws out terms just to make me view the glossary (two words for poisons in different state of matter, when "he was scared of a poison" woild have done the same work, do they ever come up again?), not every term is defined there. Maybe gonna drop it.
>29>I only read the first 15 pages of any book and then stop readingI'm kinda depressed. But I'm gonna start working out tomorrow though.
>>25206806>If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other workPretty much all his books follow the same themes; unrequited love and/or class struggles. I'd recommend Toilers of the Sea if you like the 'man on a boat' setting.
>>25207749Noted. I do like a man on a boat. Thanks anon
>>25206170>30>Confessions of a Mask>The protagonist, just like in The Golden Pavillion, is shaping up to be a massive fag just like the protag in The Golden Pavilion. Mishima's prose is great but god DAMN I can't stand some of his protagonists.
Old (I grew up in the 80s)The Piano TeacherJust finished. A bit of a slog. Stodgy writing and mostly boring. The film is better.Just started The Death of Grass. How have I missed this? I'm a fan of apocalyptic / disaster novels and this one is rolling right along. So far, it reminds me of The Day of the Triffids in tone, but it's early days yet.
>>25207407Naive retard.
> By Night in Chile by Bolano>23>Only 25 pages in but enjoying it so far. Beautiful prose.
67Against MethodThe thesis is incredibly important and changed (maybe coalesced is a better word) my thinking quite a bit, but the text itself is full of mistakes and extremely dated, cringe leftoid sentimentality. Overall a great book but it feels like it could be rewritten by someone else with modern knowledge and become even better. About halfway done with it now, might skim the rest as I'm already convinced and dont find much of the argumentation all that compelling in detail.
>>25206827Moomins appeal is just wallowing in coziness with a touch of the mystic fear of the finnish forest. It's for pretty young kids, although I still find it very charming.
>>25207944Stop signing your posts.
>>25206202Behold the Americanoid respond with anger the second he percieves a random guerrilla as 'Jihadist', as he has been well conditioned to do by his pedophile overlords. This despite the fact that the man is clearly not reading in Arabic nor displaying any Islamic symbols or cultural markers. Luckily, the Americanoid cannot read, for his overlords have dismantled all institutions of learning in his country.
>28>on the marble cliffs>just finished solenoid>book club on white noise starts next month>>25207127the movie is fantastic. enjoy it anon
>>25208939am fucking idiot who forgot to include thoughtsonly a couple pages into marble cliffs so no thoughts yet. solenoid was pure schizo hallucinations. some were beautifully written (the first protest at the morgue or the mite colony messiah, for example). the larpy "yea bro i totally have sex" sections got tiresome though
19Solarisits really slow paced, the descriptions of the planet are interesting but the descriptions of solaristics is boring. I also didnt expect that it would be fully about main character falling in love again with the copy of his dead wife. I expected something more ambitious like some deep questions about the nature of the ocean (which are still in the book but i hoped it would be the main thing about the story). I am still enjoying it tho, I almost finished it.
>32>Heaven by Mieko Kawakami>it was alright>>25208320Goated book. Love Bolanos prose.
>>25206170>21>Lord of the Rings (about halfway through Fellowship)This is my second reading, but my first was back in middle school, I think. In the past few years I've done a cursory tour of Classics and a few /lit/ memebooks like Infinite Jest (which I loved). Going back to Tolkien, his writing is just great. He has this way that he makes the world itself feel alive, as though every rock, tree, hill, valley and river has a story to tell and a song to sing. It really is a tribute to the folklore and poetry of the Old World.Also the more I read the more I realize the movies, though good, don't quite live up to the novels.
>>25206906Screwtape letters is one that it's been a few years since I've read, but it keeps coming back in my mind the more experiences I have. I'll definitely have to go back to it one of these days. I read Mere Christianity and the Space Trilogy last year and both were great.By the way, this might not be the right place to ask, but does anyone have that screencap of some anons writing a Screwtape letter about a patient that's a /lit/ user? I downloaded it ages ago but lost the file somewhere and haven't seen it here again.
>>25208956Anyone ever told you that you sound very effeminate? In a good way
>21>Moby DickBeautiful prose that is just a treat to be read aloud and I really love how Melville/Ishmael can arrive at profound soliloquies from seemingly mundane and dry descriptions of a particularly niche subject (cetology and whaling in 19th century America). So many memorable passages (The Lee Shore sticks out the most to me, dedicating an entire chapter to an epic eulogy for a non-character that, by way of his own lack of identity, stands for the innumerable, faceless perishings at sea, is a stroke of genius; and many more examples that are just too many to list). My only complaint is that the prose is way too dense. I practically have to read each chapter twice with notes alongside for me to feel like I’ve properly “grasped” the full meaning that Melville is trying to get across. The more narrative driven sections are also very fun to read. There’s a lot of cheeky humor to be found.
21The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullersIts amazing. You wouldn't get the book completely if you dont live in the US south. McCullers and Faulkner both capture this deep rooted southern dread that still pervades to today.
22PiranesiI just finished it a few minutes ago. It's not the sort of thing that's going to change my life but it shares an aspect with some of my favorite books-for-pleasure in that it gives you a thrilling sense of having discovered something secret about the world which is exciting and dangerous. enjoyed reading it quite a lot. The protagonist is a very amusing person to be in the pov of. It was a worthwhile use of an afternoon.
>>25207178It's quite mediocre and melodramatic, much like everything else by Balzac. I'm not sure why I read it.
>69 lol>The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry MillerI like it when he is describing Greece. When he ‘s whining about how bad America is it gets a bit repetitive and dull.
>>25209366That's one of the better books I read last year. Glad you liked it too, anon.
>>25206170>22>Siddhartha and Julius Caesar>I finished both within the day. Thus Spake Siddhartha was a good read, but I wouldn't necessarily subscribe to the monism posited by Hesse. Regardless, it's a life affirming work. Julius Caesar was rubbish, with it being a dramatic recount of the famous death of Julius. However, it is less interesting than the actual event it was based on. From delving deeper into Shakespeare's catalogue, the only masterpiece that I have thus discovered is Hamlet. I'll read King Lear next. >>25206361I prefer the other epic poems that predate Milton. The first half of Paradise Lost has some of the best English verse to ever exist, but it is inconsistent. Every section with Satan is wonderful. Still, to deny Milton's genius is to be stupid, and the work is thematically complex. However, if I had to re-read a Book in which one of the angels vouchsafes Adam, I'd find it more interesting to commit suicide. Not to say that the "impious war" wasn't interesting, but everything after the midpoint section seems lame in contrast to the greatness of Books I/II. >>25208956The Tarkovsky film is one of my favourites.
>>25209461I've never really enjoyed reading any of shakespeare's plays; they're much better, in my experience, being watched as plays.
23white noise by deliloonly on page 30 but so far its good
>>25209493Really? I heard it was crap, or at least I interpreted it that way.
>>25209476I've seen four film adaptations of Hamlet, including the great soviet one, but I have enjoyed it the most when reading it. There is true literary merit within the work itself. I can re-read each monologue a billion times. I haven't necessarily found the same level of existential depth within Shakespeare's other works, but I imagine King Lear being similar. If anything, everything else I've read by Shakespeare has felt shallow in comparison, and this would not be remedied by merely watching a stage production (most of which would likely be poorly performed).
>>25209069Nevermind, found it on warosu
>30>Journey to the WestSo, so, so kino... for the first 200 pages. Tripitaka and Sun Wukong recently started their pilgrimage, and the mythological anecdotes leading up to the journey were pure joy. But then all of a sudden Sun Wukong is nerfed for plot. The monster fights are kind of cool but not nearly as awesome as the mythological vignettes and I've heard it's episodic like this for the rest of the book which is disappointing
>>25208760You sound awfully triggered thirdie.
>>25208956Ah, to be 19 and a hot twink again... Cherish these moments anon, total twink death comes sooner rather than later.
>>25209072Yeah, both in a good and in a bad way. Why are you asking?
>>25209571your request for concession has been received and accepted.
>>25210362I accept your mother is a whore, yes
>48>Sermons on the song of songs , Bernard of Clairvaux>good
>>2520617021MusashiTakehiko Inoue is a fraud for dropping Vagabond and starting a new sportsslop manga.
>>25206170>25>Rising SunOnly a bit over a third of the way into it, I don't know if I should say it "aged poorly", but every time a Japanese term, phrase, or cultural artifact is explained I have to take a break to laugh, it's just so much less believable or exotic nowadays. Otherwise I'm enjoying it, I'll finally get around to reading Crichton's stuff.
>>25210347He wants to suck your feminine penis, anon.
>>25206170>age22>current booksLolita, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Bataille's Eroticism>your thoughts on itI'm reading the first two for school. I've read Lolita before and adore it. The Kreutzer Sonata is good and I'm fresh off of Anna Karenina so seeing Tolstoy's moral system evolve is really something. The Bataille book is just some random book I got on a whim, but it is chock full of surprisingly fascinating things to say about transgression and seeing his borrowing of concepts from gnosticism is pretty cool too. I think they kind of fit together considering they're all in dialogue with one another.
>>25210296I had more appeal to women once I left that phase of my life… around when I turned 23, I believe. Before that, I got told I looked like a girl on my ID photo by bouncers, faggots calling me cute, Asian women over twice my age finding me attractive. It’s flattering but not what I was looking for. I had a friend who was a girl who’d call me a twink daily. I did have one gf and even her gay best friend tried it on with me. Nowadays, well, I’m single right now, but at least they call me rugged and shit.
>>25208956Solaris had a really cool atmosphere and tension early on, only to be drowned in yapping about the ocean for 40% of the pages.
>23>Great ExpectationsI was extremely hyped and I'm finding it very boring. I'm like 1/3th through, when Pip arrives to London, and things seen to start getting interesting, but God. I'm normally a very patient reader but the stupid plot, the retardation of every single character and their fagginess made me almost drop it.
>>>Threadly schizo that thinks people can figure out who you are or where you live by knowing your age, what book you're reading right now and how you currently feel about it having a melty as usualWhy are schizophrenics like this?
>>25211080>retard thinks because he's posting on an anonymous website that he is anonymous >doesn't understand how building a profile works>didn't even say hello to his handlers
19The Birth of Tragedy (Stanford translation)I think I'm too stupid for this book, or at least I'm not familiar enough with Schopenhauer to understand the framework that Nietzsche is working in here. I'm reading it very slowly, maybe two sections a day, sometimes re-reading them again later that day if I really felt lost the first time. I'm traveling right now but once I'm home I think I'll re-read everything I've read up to this point in full and take notes down.
>>25206266>Dune: Messiah>Too much yappingIf you don't like it you're going to have a rough go withe the later novels. From Children and onwards it's more or less a dissertation on messianic figures and the nature of dictatorships.
