What are you currently reading?

I have not read Notes from the Underground before so I thought I would try it. You know what? Fuck you dude. You're a god damned faggot. I hate everything about you. If there were 2 buttons in front of me, one that would give me a billion dollars vs the other that would end the lives of everyone you love and cherish, I would push the latter. FUCK YOU. I hope you suffer.

Heidegger's essays on art/poetry.
And a brain melting, absolute crap prose BDSM novel.

The World of Odysseus

There's nobody I love or cherish, JOKES ON YOU.

>a brain melting, absolute crap prose BDSM novel
My diary?

Just finished Travesty and started Ireland. I always get asked how it is in bookshelf threads so I figured I should move it up the list.

I only read spanish literature, so Dublineers is something completely new for me.

Cannery Row

Fucking loser then I would press the third button which would put you out of your misery forever.

Man's Fate by Andre Malraux

About to start Ballard's Unlimited Dream Company

really? send me your diary, user (wink wink)

finished that myself and am now quite a ways into Crime & Punishment

How do you like it?

That'd be kind.

The Histories

Do dolphins really save drowning people?

Cosmicomics

Do you recommend Crime & Punishment? I want to pick up The Master and Margarita tomorrow, I could throw in that one as well.

Re-reading Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, slogging through the New Oxford Annotated Bible, translating La Petite Prince to brush up on my elementary french, reading from the Book of the Dead occassionally, and I have Steven Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature on hold until I finish this reading of Joyce.

It's a pretty good book desu.
I've been looking for more non-spanish 'acclaimed' short story collections, I don't have a lot of time for reading bigger works.

I recommend to you Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates then. One of my favourite short story collections.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Blood Meridian for the first time

>2 different translations
Which ones, user? I've read Christopher Collard.

I'm reading Frank Wedeking's “Spring's Awakening”. It's quite disturbing.

>Dublineers
Is your copy called Los Dublineros?

reading skagboyz, after that trainspotting and porno

was in my to read list, just wanna get over it to get back to them greeks

Sorry, my keyboard had a stroke.
My copy is called Dublineses.

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The trial, again

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David "The Mememaster" Wallace. I'm enjoying it, but his literary hi-jinks can get a bit tiresome at times

you're one of those people who try to be quirky and "lol random" because you think that there is virtue in just being different right?

do you also hate mainstream music because it is mainstream? do you refrain from reading all the popular authors like dosto, tolstoy, pynchon, dfw simply because they're popular with a certain crowd?

if no then consider the fact that this thread could have been posted when you were going through a popular work and you would have posted here and some snarky, condescending elitist hipster decided to deride you for consuming a piece of literature just because others had read it too.

people like you make me hate this board user. i wish i had an actual life which would keep me from coming back here out of boredom but i don't.

It's an important stage to go through. Just let him go.

Just finished this guy and absolutely loved it. Any recs?

Currently reading Never let me go, my second Ishiguro book, the first was A pale view of hills, and i liked it very much

not that poster but yeah Crime and Punishment was incredible. You go into the mind of a rapidly deteriorating paranoid psycho. It's great

A Frolic of His Own

It's my 4th Gaddis. I'm not sure if I want to read Agapē Agape or The Rush For Second Place next. I'm also reading his letters.

Tales of ordinary madness

Currently on my second reread of The Recognitions (as in, for the third time). I got to the part right before Esther's party, and I kept having to go back and look up certain recurring phrases, words and references so I decided to start from the beginning again.

Jesus Christ just calm down and shut the fuck up.

Remember that you're supposed to enjoy Veeky Forums with ironic detachment. Don't take anything serious.

A collection of Milton's work.

Master and Margarita is mostly romance novel so I wouldn't reccomend if you don't like that kind of novels

I think i have to finish Freedom by Jonathan Franzen before i ceremonially burn it and spit on it for being such a stupid piece of shit

I've lost control of my life, so right now I'm reading:

Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
Walden by Thoreau
The Upanishads
In the Buddha's Words by Bikkhu Boddhi
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

Mozfu

I'm rereading Plato's Dialogues while also reading Dubliners. I read a dialogue, then a story from Dubliners, then back to Plato, then to Joyce, and so on.

Just finished a Hero of Our Time by Lermontov. It was fucking excellent.

>but his literary hi-jinks can get a bit tiresome at times

Octet is basically him jacking off into his own mouth for far too many pages, simultaneously trying to convince that he is not, in fact, jacking off into his own mouth.

Other stories are really great though. I still have a sense of visceral repulsion at the sheer, banal horror of the life of the toilet attendant.

1984, and damn is it tedious. It's been 3 days and I've only got through 70 pages.

Im gonna start Herzog. Is it good?

Crime and Punishment. Still really early into it though, haven't finished part one yet.

I'm reading a book on greek mythology. But it is meaningless, after one or two days i forget everything. So many names and dudes that only existed to be killed by Achilles.

Metaphysics

Only 100 pages left. Feels good desu

How is it tedious? If anything I found it too easy. It's not one of my favourites necessarily but I enjoyed it.

Currently reading Leaves of Grass. Great stuff, though with some weak points. I've also been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately, trying to work through all the nice editions they have at a store nearby before filling in the gaps with my Oxford Complete Works.

He's too smart for Orwell

zaregoto 6: hitokui magical. it's the first book i've read entirely in japanese.

it's about a guy who gets picked by a human biology researcher to help her in the "study of not dying", for a bit sum of money, and is also instructed to bring 2 other people as monitors. trying to defy fate. the first half of the book is spent in what he does between getting the offer and counting down the days until the job starts. the second half of the book is the job and experiments, and, as you'd expect, everything goes horribly awry

Well, I got Brothers Kamarasov first. But a friend told me to read Notes first, as a warm up for that hunk of a book. But then I got hold of a Crime & Punishment copy and have been reading that and enjoying it a lot.

Also what this poster said. I think Crime&Punishment might be the best book to follow Notes up with because the mentality of the Underground man carries over a little.

Not lit, but still interesting

Its a bit shallow on some of its topics but i'm enjoying it none the less.

Finnegans Wake
The Waves
Juliette Society

Ulysses, some essays on semiotics by Umberto Eco, Herodotus' History, rereading Odyssey.

If you can read spanish, i highly recommend you Antonio Piñero's works

You got dicked on kid

The Shadow of the Torturer, if we're going to be specific.

Just finished Swann's Way, as well, and will be switching off Shadow & Claw with Within a Budding Grove (both are of the Moncrieff+Kilmartin+Enright translation).

The Bellow Herzog novel, or Werner Herzog's memoirs? Both are in the modern classics, and both are well worth reading desu f a m

Gonna start reading Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence.

What am I in for?

Bellow's Herzog. Gotta read Herzog's works then

Phenomenology of Spirit.

Herodotus is greatly underrated on Veeky Forums.
Not only was he the first historian, but his digressions of dubious veracity are fascinating in themselves.

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. Been meaning to get to it for some time

good choice

yup

I read that, and now I don't feel compatible with this planet, although I feel I have my own structured idea of what the world should be and what my ideal world would be. I'm not depressed and suicidal, I'm more of an idealist who's starved of any sort of satisfaction, and indeed it's left me with a deep seated resentment and dissatisfaction with life. Most of the time I'm just bombarded with thoughts of how much I hate myself, because of how my thoughts have betrayed me, how they've misguided me into saying something regrettable. That's one way I really relate to Dorian, is that I feel that my own thoughts betray me, in the foray of existence I'm forced, by any principles of living for the sake of living, to live through.

So you relate to Winston in 1984 as well, the same way right?

fuck off

Cynical as fuck, I love it.

Brighton Rock...Pinkie Brown I'm just sayin

Arthur Miller's masterpiece

Speciation

PK Dick's Confessions of a Crap Artist. It's the first of his 'mainstream' novels that I've read, and I have to say that it's pretty damned good. He seems much more comfortable not having to paper over his ideas with a thin veneer of 50s style SF, and the characters actually seem to have some depth to them.

Nietzsche: The Novel

It's my favorite book, but ut can be hard for a native speaker.
>that cowboy jargon
>the words I can't fi d a definition to anywhere that I assume he made up.

Currently around page 500/note 200. It's neither as bad as Veeky Forums makes it seem or as good as the rest of the world makes it seem, who would have thought?

No.

Memoirs of n Imaginary Friend, for the billionth time. Still makes me cry every time

Nothing and I feel bad about it

get off Veeky Forums and read something

Wanna see my pp?

But I just finished work and I'm exhausted.

I'm off tomorrow, I'll pick something up then.

Yes.