Age

>20
>NY
>A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I'LL NEVER DO AGAIN
DFW's cultural observations are hilariously engaging, but his Michael Joyce essay is quite dull.

>18
>USA
>Wuthering Heights

Rereading it, one of my favorites.

>21
>Maryland
>Mason and Dixon
Pynchon knows more about the history of my state than I do.
That's quite a lot of DMV in a short amount of time.

20, Texas, Plath's Collected Poems

Love it. Plath is one of my favorites. Received it as a birthday present, and am glad it was bestowed upon me.

>26
>kalorama/admo
>if on a winter's night

DMV Veeky Forums meetup?

(kek)

Maybe in a less perfect world.

18
Montreal, Quebec
Gaston Miron's collected works and A Farewell to Arms

>kalorama

Isnt that by Brett Easton Ellis? How do you like it?

>19
>NY
>The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

About 1/3 through it. Really interesting, the author offers viewpoints of people from all parts of Yugoslavia during the lead up to the war.

>21
>Australia
>Oblomov
Quite a lot
>War & Peace
It's okay desu, makes me wish I was reading Anna Karenina instead though

Might start reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami soon, maybe it will encourage me to stop being lazy

>35
>california
>pic related
>nostalgic and comfy

>18
>CA
>The Brothers Karamazov
I'm taking my time reading it but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. I'm going to read a lot of it when I'm on break because Uni life is time consuming with homework and exams.

>18
>burger land
>the sorrows of young werther. Not a fan of the prose, but the beginning was quite comfy

>18
>minnesota
>walden. I only just started but i have been steeped in his ideas so im not expecting it to be very thought provoking.

>20
>CA
>Parables of Kierkegaard

I like the stories, but it takes me more time than I'd like to admit to confidently say that I understand the lesson.

Or I'm just overthinking it, not sure yet

Sorry, can't help you, camarada.

Which book of the Bible are you reading now? Just finished Numbers today.

Your comfort will turn to ash. The book transitions from a coming of age comedy to a tragedy.

36
București
Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov

There's something about that prose--I can't put it down sometimes and at the same time it seems too much. And it's not even his best work, not by far.

Was reading Genesis, stopped for a bit to take a look at Os Sertões.
Jesus fucking Christ reading that book is like banging my face against the wall.

>22
>AZ
>The Nubian Prince by Juan Bonilla

I'm only maybe 50 pages in. A little torn between not liking the narration style (super conversational, a little tryhard at times maybe) and sort of feeling the "it is what it is" perspective that I have irl

AZ Veeky Forums meetup when

>19
>UK
>Fahrenheit 451
Tried reading it a while back but I gave up because I didn't like the writing style. Rereading it now and I'm liking it so far.

>24
>San Diego
>Letters to a Young Poet
Very comfy. To the SD user who said he was going to be in Balboa Park that one time, did anyone show? I got sidetracked.

26
Frankfurt
My Private Camwhore III: Project Girlfriend, desu I liked part I best, still good for a wank though.

>23
>Finland
>1Q84 by Murakami

about 2/3 in, pretty amusing so far but rather shallow and more story-driven than I was expecting
I love the way Murakami introduces plot elements little by little though

>19
>UAE
>Notes from Underground

>18
>Israel
>Lolita
More than half thorugh and very amazed by it. I thought this board was only memeing this book because pedophilia but it's one of the funniest books I have read.

>18
>Malaga, ES
> Infinite Jest and Welcome to the Monkey House
Page 450 or so in and the book is getting more coherent and the themes are really flourishing. (Found out perhaps too much about AA)

>25
>Kansas
>Brave New World. Feeling red-pilled as fuck, desu.

>23
>South Africa
>Memories of a Game Ranger
A comfy read about a Crocodile Dundee type character from the early 20th century

>22
>Texas
>Alternative Scriptwriting
Obviously is a book on scriptwriting. Offers a lot of alternatives to 3 act structures, characters, genres, etc.
Planning on reading either Dubliners or Gravity's Rainbow after this.

>Malaga, ES
¿Qué parte de Málaga?

>21
>Oregon
>Don Quixote

Haven't even stared it yet but I just kicked a book last night and I'm going to start it today.

I loved the Michael Joyce essay, especially the bit about the athletes being our culture's holy men, "almost ascetic the way they devote themselves to the sport." Also how they love the sport, sure, but not like we usually view love, but like an old married man loves his wife, and you can see it in the athlete's eyes during interviews.

>22
>Vegas
>Don Quixote

Substituting it in as I work my way up the canon. I just started it, but I'm loving it.

>20
>Nyet
>Lolita
Holy fuck I wish I could get as good at a foreign language as Nabster here.

>19
>CA
>nausea

just started, it's a bit of a headache

Saga is great fun, my favorite version by far

>>Netherlands
>>Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
100 pages in.
>>I'm a socialist, hurr hurr durr, let's hate
Liked Fountainhead better, which felt to me as breaking free from social conditioning rather than>>make money for yourself, therefore you help the world around you

Same user, shouldve just combined posts

>20
>VA
>Underworld by delillo

Loving it so far. The prose is great and its got a wonderful density of humor, technique, and message without reading too slow. Ive been going through all of delillos works and Underworld feels like all his positive qualities at their best.

>20
>New York
>Whatever my teacher wants me to go through for comparative literature.

It's okay, like anything there's a lot of hit and miss, but overall I've generally enjoyed the class. Can't wait to be done with it though so I can actually go back to reading literature as opposed to criticism

>19
>Dutchland
>Don Quixote, I love it. Started part two a couple of days ago.

>21
>Boston
>L'Amant by Marguerite Duras and a handful of IR texts

Duras is pretty good pêh. I should have it done by tomorrow.

whereat senpai

>24
>Uruguay
>Aristotle and the Science of Nature; Space, Time, Matter and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics; The Remains of the Day.

The latter is the only I'm reading for pleasure. I like it so far.

hello fellow Halifax bro

> 22
> Halifax
> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

not enjoying it as much as I had imagined I would, but that could be the cause of the translation chosen for the first english edition..

>anonymous board
>location
>people actually post it

You're great at sucking the fun out of things, why not suck my dick as well?

>23
>Seattle
>Ficciones
>Dracula
>Hard boiled fantasy / end of the world

Ficciones is a fun read. I find after I've read them my attention is so fickle that I really only think about them in the immediate aftermath. I wish I could carry works in me, so to speak, as Borges does...

It's some spooky fun. One thing that stood out to me is how the description of Dracula is a lot like the narrator from the big lebowski. Take it or leave it.

I'm a Murakami fan, but this book around 65% is running in to some spells of genuinely bad, uninteresting writing. Poorly written and action centric.

...and?

>18
>Denmark
>Children of Dune
About 1/3 in and this series is getting progressively worse from the first book. However Frank Herbert was still a clever fuck with this sci-fi
>Thinking of Starting Brave New Worlds or Island by Aldous Huxley afterwards

>23
>the hamlet of virginia beach
>all the pretty horses

Its fucking good lads

I read that earlier this yeah and underlined a few key passages I liked, I still go back and reread bits and pieces every now and again. What do you make of it so far?

30
Northcote Melbourne
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey. I like it.

I'm in Phoenix. You?

>average age 46% are 20 or younger
>81% are 23 or younger
>mfw
assuming this thread is representative of Veeky Forums's population it sure explains a lot...

>23
>Glasgow
>Malazan Book of the Fallen, Toll the Hounds.

Its pretty good.

>austria
>21
>gravity and grace by simone weil
I have never read anything like this before. I like it a lot.

If it helps, I only post very rarely because I am aware that because of my age most of my opinions are annoying to read.

> 22
> France
> The sea of fertility
Fantastic read, beautifully written and moving.

>location
>except for burgers, everyone posted their country only
its not like people are posting their fucking address, friendo

>If it helps, I only shit in the lake of raw sewage very rarely because I am aware that my shit smells bad.
yeah, technically 1 less turd is 1 less turd, but practically it doesn't really make a difference. thanks, though.

>24
>Uruguay
>Aristotle and the Science of Nature (A. Falcon); Space, Time, Matter and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics (D. Bostock); The Remains of the Day (K. Ishiguro).

The first two are alright. I still find some of Falcon's formal reconstructions of arguments unneeded.
I'm loving Ishiguro's book.

23, Fallbrook, CA
Reading the poems of Sasa Pana..
Glad to have a new favorite Romanian poet

31
Portugal
A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Veyne, Paul
Goldhammer, Arthur
Ariès, Phillippe
Duby, Georges

Its describes in amazing detail the small world of day to day life from antiquity to the middle ages, and its quite a good read.
Life was not as shitty as people make it especially the god damn Empire. Of course a disease could fuck you up but its reassuring to know that overall we are not a shitty species and just want to have a chance at life.

23
MA
On Writing: It's alright.
Of A Fire On The Moon: Meh.

>23
>Vancouver BC
>IJ
700 pages in. Don't like it. DFW writes characters like he's observing insects and his prose is like a thesis paper in a blender and on ecstacy.

>23
>key west, fl
>Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention from Fire to Freud. I like it a lot; a survey at just the right depth for me

>18
>The Woodlands, Texas
>Ulysses
I am really enjoying this book. I thought it would be a cumbersome read, but it's surprisingly light and fun. I am on the Circe chapter (about 480 pages in) and it's a very difficult but rewarding chapter.

How was fantasy fest? did you see lots of boobs?

It feels like Rilke is patting my head saying "There, there." Love it so far. And it definitely has re-read value.

Far from any boobs; I'm on a tugboat offshore

>19
>Toronto
>Just finished All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy is a legend. One of the best books I've read in a while.

this makes me want to read it desu

57
Singapore
The Battle:A New History of Waterloo

Its alright

>27
>half-NJ and half-Philadelphia
>White Teeth

Only like 50 pages in so I can't tell yet.

23
Texas
Bible and Of Time and the River

34
Texas
Reading lone star: a history of texas and the texans. I know its cliche but its actually a quite interesting read so far. My family has been in texas since the 1820s and on one side the first vice president of the republic is an ancestor of mine. Figured i should read up on it.

Yeah, it was fun for like the first half, but now I'm not finding any reason to come back to it and it's turned into a chore.

>18
>Australia
>The Cloud of Unknowing and Hero With A Thousand Faces

Taking a break from fiction because I just finished Moby-Dick and I don't think anything will compare for a while. Thinking about reading some John Williams or Murakami next, something with nice and simple writing.
I've got that somewhere, might check it out.
I've got War & Peace, I'd really like to check out Tolstoy's style (which is apparently amazing) but idk if I can seriously take on a book that long, especially as I've heard it's kind of shallow compared to other lit out there.

>w&p
>shallow

where do you people even get these ideas

idk I think someone said it comparing tolstoy to dosto

>24
>Austria
>Roadside Picnic

>16
>portrait of the artist
>it's okay, the prose is gorgeous but stephen is unlikable. The theme of religion is a little vapid

WA, USA
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Holy Shit, Abe Lincoln was way more racist than I thought. Pretty good read, just shows how far political discourse has fallen.

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>18
>Florida (hate it)
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Honestly , it's a pretty tiresome read. The banter is only mildly interesting at best and it mostly just hammers in the same, albeit conflicting, themes over and over again. At least the writing itself is beautiful.

19
Dallas, Texas
Colette
It's alright so far, Lucy is an interesting narrator. Can't say the story so far is overly intriguing though.

>reading the history of your own region
Cheers, very cozy. Texan history is pretty awesome, too. Studied it in middle school. Fuckin' Santa Anna

What the fuck happened to all the 24+ years olds on Veeky Forums?

Was there a cull?

22
slovenia
tolstoy short stories; proudhon what is property; thinking, fast and slow