What are you currently reading? How do you like it?

Ah I meant I read Portrait after Dubliners, my bad if that wasn't clear. I did enjoy a ton, hence why I'm reading Ulysses now (enjoying it too though I'm not very far).
Tough to say, The Dead is really fantastic but I also really loved A Little Cloud and Araby because I could identify with them a lot. The main character in A Little Cloud not living up to his life's aspirations and feeling inferior to his friend really got to me.

The autobiography of Helen Keller and I'm developing an odd crush. Knowing that she was both blind and deaf while reading about how she was so impassioned and full of wonder and incredibly brilliant got me feeling feelings.

don't tell anyone who has taken psych101 this, lest you get a "well actually" talking to.

The reading order should be Freud > Jung > PKD

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise.

Gotta deprogram after playing the ethnomasochist circlejerk for 4 years of college.

i fucking feel ya.

Marley and Me. I'm really enjoying it.

I ran to the next book in my list to get away from the ending. It fucked me up
Did you guys like Eveline? I thought it was one of his best.

>thinking that freud is in any way better than Carl Jung

who hurt you

Simulacra and simulation by Jean baudrillard. Good read. Waxes reminiscent of some of PKD's work in relation to the whole "cardboard universe" thing. I like it. Oddly enough, the book made a cameo in The Matrix.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R94keJcHk

Thus spoke Zarathustra
I can feel that Im not mature enough to understand it but I like it

It wasn't one of my favorites but I still liked it a lot. Not a bad story in Dubliners imo

Infinité jest. My last book read was brave new world

The Gunslinger and it's confusing at first.

The Children by Wharton. Really enjoying it. The prose is great, the characters are complex and engaging, and it's very fast-paced compared to her more popular novels. It's also very witty, and stays lighthearted most of the time, except when it deals with the central conflict, which is handled with proper gravity. It's interesting to me how differently divorce was handled a century ago.

Infinite Jest. I like it but I don't like long novels. I keep feeling like putting it down because I feel like I could read 3-4 books in the time it will take me to finish this. I'm on page 412 so it's like being halfway done.

>he doesn't rate Rank

Moby Dick
its the most egregiously boring book i've ever read

Been reading Fall of Hyperion on my breaks, half way through now

The Immoralist by Andre Gide and I am loving it

About half way through Stoner. Really enjoying it. The first page grabbed me, I ended up showing it to a professor I'm fond of and he laughed and stated that that is what will happen when he passes. I'm also working my way through the Penguin Little Black Classics collection which are interesting

Halfway through Walden, can't believe I made it this far. I like it, but I'm really struggling through his dry prose.

À Rebours, by J.K. Huysmans. I am having a blast with his intricate depictions of sensations and synesthesia. Currently on page 84.

My favourite was A Little Cloud.

Romeo and Juliet

It's beautiful

just finished the sound and the fury, it sucked.

Reading the recognitions, it's great so far.

Read Troilus and Cressida afterwards, they complement each other well.

Same. The part where he was too much of a coward to even read poetry aloud crushed my heart

Marc aurel. Im not to fond of him yet

The Decameron, Hilarious, and also extremely witty, i'm impressed by how clever some of the outcomes or scenarios are.

There's 100 stories that go for 700 or so pages, and i love seeing all the historical references. Boccacio was really a learned guy.

Not all of them are top tier but considering it influenced just about everything that came after it's impressive. Of course i'm not reading it in italian so it's probably lacking.

Also The Good soldier Svejk, easily the funniest book i've ever read, author does such a good job at creating his character and keeping the theme pretty thorough throughout with the humor. Even though all the most dastardly and criminal things are happening all around him he happily partakes and retains his innocence. Can't believe i put it off for so long.

Lastly gerard manley hopkins, beautiful but too hard for me, i'm gonna try to read keats or wordsworth. I want to love poetry and i do enjoy it but christ, it boggles my head at times with the language/grammar.

I'm reading the recognitions by William Gaddis. Like infinite jest, it took me a hundred pages to get the rhythm of it, but now I'm really enjoying it. Wyatt feels so familiar it's a little unsettling.

decameron eh? so you're a cuck then? you might try gargantua and pantagruel. i hear svejk is incomplete, and eventually the joke runs dry. i own it and i've wanted to read it for quite a while, how's the structure of the thing? is it episodic? is there any real depth to the characters? the only real reason i ask is i have the sense of it being a sort of picaresque style of writing, with a lot of slapstick. i love picaresques when they aren't a thousand pages. have you gone down the picaresque path yet?

Hyperion so good

kek i'm no cuck, there's lots of cuck stories though.

Only a cuck is scared of a good ol ntr story though.

I'll check out gargantua, i haven't heard of it beforehand, i'm ordering petrarchs canzoniere next and a few other contemporaries from his time, it's a big chunk of history with epics from just about every yuro country at the time.

Sveyk is incomplete, but i really don't think it's a story you read to see where he ends up, moreso what happens along the way. I'm 250 pages in and so far it hasn't run dry, i've heard the same thing but considering how absurd yet intelligent it is at the same time, it hasn't lost my interest. Less slapstick more clever witticisms.

It's one running story, all has to do with him getting drafted to the war. and most of the characters he depicts are from people he knew so it's i'd say a good snapshot of how the average czech citizen/soldier saw the war at time, something they wanted nothing to do with.

There's certainly a depth in how honest everythings depicted, but the main draw is the humor, i wish i could elaborate further but i can easily go through 50-100 pages a sitting with it, it's been a breeze so far.

I wouldn't be scared of the size of the book, even if you only read a few hundred pages they'll hopefully be some of the more enjoyable you've come across.

Also I haven't gone down picaresque but i know there's a good amount of spanish ones. I'll accept any recs, always looking for more.

That book is beautiful.

Sup bud. Though you were falling out of love with picaresques?

The Bonfire of the Vanities. 100 pages in and I don't think I'm a fan. I've read American Psycho and this is obviously a huge influence upon that book. I wanted to read Wolfe because Veeky Forums had memed me into believing he was some sort of virulent racist but so far I'm disappointed. Fifty pages could have been trimmed just by removing all the ellipses.

hm, that sounds about right then, well, you'll have to read lazarillo de tormes first, so you can understand the genre and complain when nothing else truly meets that standard, as i enthusiastically do on occasion, then there's gil blas. you know, i'm gonna stop with those two because most don't meet my standards, and i'd hate to spoil the genuine experience for you. Don Quixote is another one often considered a Picaresque, but i don't think it truly is. regardless if you're enjoying that time period and you havent read any cervantes or ariosto, you're doing yourself a disservice. lately i've been tending towards more structured and serious works, but i think i know your mood.

Light in August. It took me a long time to grab a copy of it, but I can't help but be amazed with Faulkner. I think he already wrote THE great American novel with Absalom, Absalom! but it turns out he may also have written one of the best Southern Gothic novels ever in Light in August.

He's so good that I can't think of any other American writer with five masterpieces to his name.

oh i am, but i will never hesitate to suggest them since they're pretty much the only shit i know about. how's chat?

oh and manuscript found in saragossa because it has fucking everything.

I finished "Dead Souls" by Gogol twenty minutes ago. God damn, it was so good. The best Russian novel I've read since "War and Peace."

It is an unfinished trilogy, and contains only pieces of the second part. The characters, setting, plot and dialogue are all excellent. Gogol creates lively and entertaining characters. I was sad reading the second part knowing he never finished it, and probably destroyed the completed manuscript. One of Russia's greatest novels was never finished.

Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum. Just got to Book Two yesterday and with the descriptions of the siege at the Polish Post Office it's really picked up, though the prose has been consistently good throughout. Read Notes from Underground the other day and American Psycho about a month back - been on a particularly unreliable narrator kick.

>thriftbooks
>Dune

mein negro

>mfw I hate this fucking quote so much and I've never even read Dune
It's such ignorant and self-righteous higher than thou bullshit and I can't believe it's gotten this popular.
>hur dur I'm not gonna be afraid of literally dying
Fuck you. That ruins the whole point of fear, it is supposed to keep you aware of danger. It's there to help you, and it's the individual that would let fear consume them.

How come so many people name their stuff "Fall of Hyperion" or "Hyperion" or something like that ever since John Keats?
Seriously it just bugs me and I don't know why

The point of the quote is mastering your fear instead so you can overcome challenges instead of pussing out or becoming a nervous wreck. It's a good message for socially anxious nerds. Read the book

Started the ego and his own by max stirner yesterday.

Liking it so far.

Jesus Christ, it's a line of text from a book. Chill out.

The life of a useless man (or whatever its name is in English) by Gorki

It's great

I plan in reading it if I can get my hands in a copy, I do appreciate and admire the series because of how developed it is.
But I just can't wrap my head around this idea of "mastering" your fear.
What I've done is instead tried to work with it, acknowledge in afraid and instead of letting it take over I listen to it but still move on.
As someone with autism that has been infinitely more helpful than trying to ignore my fear.

At least you now know how the antagonist works.

>As someone with autism
It shows

>What I've done is instead tried to work with it, acknowledge in afraid and instead of letting it take over I listen to it but still move on.
Sounds a lot like the actual quote. Read the book first before sperging

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

I feel like that's suggesting fear does all the work.
When from what I've seen it's the person allowing fear to take over.
Like, I can feel afraid, but I won't shut down or run away. I can still choose to react to my fear by pressing forward.

Just read the book

Metaphysics. Pretty awesome. How did he knew hydrogen was the first element?

Green Hills of Africa

I am really enjoying it so far. I've read quite a few of his books with no complaints thus far. Excellent book by a great author.

I'm reading the Fear of the wise man by patrick rothfuss. It's the most glorious fantastic book i have ever read.

Animal Farm. I like the children's tale tone.

Have you read Redwall?

No I have not
>mfw children series with 22 books

Proust does it better

mein got you're in for a treat. I hope you like food description porn

what do you consider his masterpieces aside from AILD/TS&TF/A,A!

The Red and The Black. It's good. I missed serious literature.

My backlog is bloated right now but I may check it out. Thanks user

Moby Dick

Dude can write, but I couldn't give 2 shits about the types of whales

what about squishing sperm?

Reading Sabbath's Theater.
I shouldn't be enjoying elderly porn this much but I have to admit I am enjoying the perviness.

keep reading, you're still in the white boys being assholes section
the "he a good boy, he dindu nuffin" part is still on the horizon

Cold Spring Harbor, by Richard Yates.

I really deeply love it, like anything that man writes.

Anna Karenina

I'm not really sure, I got to the part when Kitty and Levin are in Italy. Really dissapointed in Anna, and I have a strong dislike to her; on the other hand, really like Levin and his brother

eventually you'll hate them all and will come to the conclusion that the grass mowing is the only good part of the whole damn book.

Tortilla Flat.

It's just ok but I'm depressed so I'd probably hate everything

>Portrait of a Lady
Hate it, although the characters psychologies are reasonably well developed its just slow and boring and themes of Europe vs America were better explored in The American which was a much better book

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
I don't like it

Shelby Foote's Civil War set. It's quite enjoyable.

An Irish Country Doctor

I find it to be a comfy read.