Age

>18
>Lawrence, KS
>Book of Disquiet
>Couldn't say, Might be Love, Gil Orlovitz
>Collected stories of Breece DJ Pancake

Book of Disquiet seems like its going to be 500 pages of melancholic musings. But it's interesting to see Pessoa's thought process and the way he views things.

Orlovitz is a hell of a poet. I may try and find one of his novels here soon.

Pancake is one of the best post WWII short story writers IMO. I think Trilobites is my favorite. His style has a way of going from concise and grounded in once sentence to fluid and almost metaphysical in the next.

>21
>Germany
>blood Meridian

It's fucking great. Great athmosphere!
>Tried to read it in englisch
>read 30 pages
>dropped it and bought a translation
I never had that Problem before but it was just too much for me.

What's the most difficult book in English that you've read?

>23
>America desu
>notes

The beginning half reads somewhat like a philosophy text written by a neet. I find myself relating to some of the points but not others. His writing style makes it feel like we're communicating and I really enjoy it, even if the character seems like he would shoot up a school in the current year.

Fantastically underrated

>18
>Phoenix AZ
>The Stranger
Decided to become Veeky Forums so I've started reading the essentials, and I'm loving it so far.

good one

The writing is pretty purple, you're not wrong in that, but it's the type of flowery prose that makes you smile a bit at the use of language combined with the characters' witticisms. Very warm and Spring-like in his style, if that vague seasonal comparison makes any sense to you. Definitely a fan.

A lot of times, though, there's pages of dialogue discussing a bit of philosophy until the last sentence, which suddenly moves along the discussion to an actual plot point, but that doesn't necessarily bother me personally. Might be an irritant for you, doe, my brutha

Would you recommend Beloved? Never heard of it before your post

>20
>burger
>A confederacy of Dunces

>21
>Australia
>War & Peace

The first volume was a bit mediocre but I've enjoyed the second one so far.

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22
philly
paradise lost

just finished part.. 9? where the fruit was eaten. absolutely beautiful. really spoke to me about the nature of man and of woman. knowing that milton was a protestant and not a catholic made me wonder when protestantism turned so radically textual and permissive. the implications w/r/t sex were eye-opening for sure.

>21
>Massachusettes
>Middlemarch

I'm reading it for uni, and I never engage with stuff for uni the way I do for regular reading, but I'm surprised at how good some parts of it are. I'm taking a long bus ride tomorrow and Im gonna start "Nothing like the Sun." Hopefully finish it this weekend.

>27 (today actually)
>Minnesnowta
>Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Freedman

Happy birthday user!

>27
>providence
>ego

Happy birthday, bud. May you be Veeky Forums forever

>23
>Vancouver
>No Longer Human
>my diary desu
Even the suicide attempt matches up

>23
>Illinois
>Norm MacDonald
Just finished. Pleb tier I know but he's funny . It was not a memoir just a long joke. Starting Murakami Pinball/wind tom .

19
Ecuador
Why Nations Fail.
Interesting. It has interesting ideas. I like these kind of books because i read them very fast compared to fiction. Evn being in english doesn´t slow me

>27
>Bulgaria
>"Josephine Mutzenbacher, the story of a Viennise whore as told by her"
Pretty good so far, more explicit than Fanny Hill but a bit more in the two headed eagle (Germanic) way old fashioned

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Huh?

, Explain yourself retard, not
everyone here is on your level of idiotism

discord.gg/kWHpZXY join this discord

I haven't finished the book but the man seems to be like you, full of hate and malice.

That sounds alright, I like Poe and Lovecraft and Machen and Lawrence so I think I would enjoy Dorian. As for Beloved I dont know if you would like it or not, it's pretty heavy handed on slavery and The White Man being the devil but it's written very well and jumps around in time in a nice way, there is magical realism but it's not off putting and it can be really graphic and violent at times.

kek, hello mr President.

>23
>Philly
>Naked Lunch

It's pretty good, control theme is really well realized. Shits vile though and I was getting dirty looks reading it on the train.

19

Southeast Louisiana, USA

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

its amazing. i guess you could say the story is samey, but the books flawless. ranking as my favorite alongside the likes of White Noise and Stoner.

>18
>US
>The Hobbit
I'd have gotten around to reading it a lot sooner if my first copy hadn't disappeared. Anyway, pretty good so far. It seems a lot easier to read than most fantasy novels somehow. I'm only about 15 or so pages into it.

>18
>California
>The Name of the Rose

I'm loving the theological arguments, ranks in my favorites already. The b story of the burning of Michael funneling into Abo's deflowering sold it

30
Massachusetts
Vanity Fair

Reminds me of Dickens but with more polish and a lower ceiling.

>22
>VA
>Crime and Punishment

I'm not meme'n when I say this is the best book I've ever read.

that's the magnus opus of burroughs, there's no racional tought in all the book, but all the words, they're just dark poetry of the unconscious of his mind. i fuckin love that old dead bastard

Someone on Long Island other than me browses Veeky Forums. It kind of depresses me to know we'll never know each other and have a nice literary discussion in real life.

eco is a fuckin asshole, that book is a shitty story with a lot of semiotics

>3
>The world
>The Cat in The Hat

>19
>argentina
>los suicidas by antonio di benedetto
>the birth of tragedy from the spirit of music

i finish the first, i think it's the best novelist from my country, the way he writes it's just fuckin weird and the plot of the book is like a masked existencialism
im 30 pages from finishing the second, i dont understand fully some parts but i understand the basic, have to read it again after reading more of the greeks

>18
>California
>The Road and Perelandra
I don't really like Perelandra, but the Road is fantastic.

which country has better writers, Argentina or Chile?

>17
>Oklahoma
>Education of a wandering man

Pretty good, I like the adventure of it so far. Louie really read a fuck ton.

>two and twenty
>Terra
>Eternal Meme

It's actually quite an ounce or two more entergaging than I suspected, though I do think the maximalist style, while uniquely enjoyable, does reflect a certain "quick intelligence he [nearly] squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself," to use Wallace's own words. The cleverly packed prose makes me giggle and occasionally say 'hey, haven't thought of that,' but it hardly seems to me to be a work of incandescent brilliance as so many readers care to claim (out of what I suspect primarily to be a cognitive dissonant need to justify the reading of such a megalithic doorstopper—"I devoted so much time to this literarily virtuosic sophisticatedly sesquipedalian tome that it must be a work of genius!"

>asking a dude from argentina
i wonder what the answer will be

>17

you sound like a pseud. no wonder you enjoy it

definitely argentina, without counting the more known writers(cortazar, borges, girondo, etc), there are lots more of under writers that if they had recognition would be worldwide acclaimed
chile has some good writers but they're all 7/10 and nothing more

osvaldo lamborghini (argentina) is the best poet i ever read

stranger things have happened, friend /user/

where are you from specifically, if you don't feel out of sorts answering that?

>18
>Seattle
>Catch22
Its good

Well—and I don't enjoy admitting this—but I actually empathize with the guy in all his puffed-up pretension and noticed quite a few commonalities with him, such as using an above-average though relatively atmospherically low wit to essentially just show-off, displaying style with little or no substance. And your post just goes to show how immediately evident that is in the way I write.

That being said, while no genius, I'm probably smarter than you ;)

well, i think im being objective on this, not just because im from there, i know some writers from chile and they're shitty in mi opinion

i dont doubt youre smart. im sure you are. the problem is that you are greatly overestimating how much smarter than average you really are

Brookhaven

>16
>Balkans
>Critique of Esthetics by Kant and Germinal by Émile Zola,maybe later this week I will hop on some work of Flaubert other than Madamme Bovary

Sick. Also from Suffolk County.

Shirley, over here.

>18
>California
>Inherent Vice
Just started today. It's good but definitely "pynchon-lite" and I keep getting a sinking feeling that I could just be watching the big lebowski

>19
>Canada
>Moby Dick

I actually like it a lot. I've gotten rather into spirituality in the past year and this book is rife with it. I was partially inspired to read it because it was referenced in Illuminatus!

The whale biology chapter was unpleasant though

Just passed through Shirley the other day. Very nice county park over there.

>20
>New York, upstate
>Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
I'm about halfway through, really delightful prose. The characters and the setting are bone-chilling. The plot of the thing can be a little hard to follow but I don't think it's terribly essential to enjoying it.
>Irimias and Petrina threatening to bomb everyone at that bar
kek'd

did you see the movie?
i think the book must be worthwhile

I mean, that might be true, but what does it matter? Sure it could make seem like a smug douche, but the thing is that I honestly do try (though unsuccessfully at times, such as in this case with you (though I really was just saying so in finite jest ayy lmao)) to avoid assuming upon meeting someone that I'm smarter than them unless I have an immediate reason for doing so, which would make it not really an assumption. I also try to avoid comparing myself with others, in intelligence or any other capacity, because that way of thinking is not only impractical but fucking toxic. I also am happy to admit whenever I think someone is simply smarter than me because that means I'll grow intellectually by hearing a new perspective straight from the horse's mouth. Anyway, I don't really know why I'm saying this—you're probably not interested at all. I guess it's mainly for my sake.

>18
>Slovenia
>War and Peace, Tolstoy

I have no idea what to expect, but i like it so far

>27
>Ohio, US
>Brothers Karamazov

Not as good as i thought it would be, but I'm about 3/4 in and it's starting to get good I guess.

Maybe you got your hopes to high, user. What were you expecting?

>18 as of yesterday
>Wyoming, Illinois
>Encyclopaedia Brittanica, vol. 13

I find it to be a delightful repository of information that has delivered me innumerable and excitingly newfangled expansions to my ever evolving worldview.

>31
>Texas
>Paper Tiger
>it's entertaining but only half way through

>I just say what I think is a "smart people" book
LOL, I don't believe you are reading that shit book for a second. How do I know? Two chapters in and you would have stopped reading that garbage.

Great book, but as an American myself I can tell you it's a little hard to read because he uses words that no one on earth fucking uses anymore.

>he uses words that no one on earth fucking uses anymore.

Kek. Can you give any examples?

I don't know. It's the best book ever written according to Veeky Forums. Maybe you need to be a Christian to truly appreciate it. Im at the part where Dmitri gets v& at the inn.

Post a spoiler alert, you fucking faggot.

I can't remember specifics, but many on this list.

vocabulary.com/lists/260613

And then I remember I also googled words that didn't even have definitions anywhere, they just brought up excerpts of Blood Meridian.

Hardly a spoiler. Someone about to read it wouldn't know what the fuck I'm talking about and the description on the back of the book gives that much away anyway.

hardly a spoiler old chap! they wouldnt know what i was talking about anyway unless i used the rest of this sentence to further clarify exactly what i was fucking talking about.

The fuck is this even supposed to mean?

Are you off of your medication again?

actually yes.

>says title of book
>gives a very important part away
>not a spoiler
LOL idiot.

>20
>Vancouver, Canada
>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Never really read much non-fiction, but I think I might start. Super interesting and pretty broad, but I can see how many would be opposed to a journalist writing history vs. a historian. However I find it super comfy and well written, nice to learn a little bit after an intense day of study/work
Downsides: swastika on cover attracts a lot of unwanted attention of public transit, also at 1500+ pages it's pretty demanding

>LOL
how to give away how much of a faggot you are in 3 letters

Movie made me reconsider everything
Although it was a chore at times to watch, I would phase out and it would become beautiful and meditative

Thanks for proving you were wrong by trying to move the goal post.
>he hates memes
>senpai
>bro
>bruh
>100
>:^)
>SJW
>hahaha
>kek
>constanza.jpg
>triggered

>34
>texas
>lone star: the story of texas and the texans

Still reading this as it a bit of a doorstopper. Good shit though and very informative. Fehrenbach keeps most of it moving quickly and lively.

>being this much of a contrarian

23
Calgary
1984
Well I just finished it today and thought it was great. Pretty much an essay by Orwell masked in a novel.

>age
18

>location
California

>current book
The Book Of The New Sun

This is my first actual book that isn't young adult and stuff other than The Hobbit. I like it a lot. My brain kinda skips the random philosophical parts and i dont understand many of the words but i know how to infer and I like when it reminds me that it is Sci-Fi and not Fantasy.

>24
>China
>Don Juan

Guys this is literally the best work in English that I've read. I feel toward Byron as I've felt toward women I've dated in the past. His mastery over the language is indubitable and totally inspirational. To offer a plot, amusement, and philosophy not only in verse, but rhyme is simply genius. I've never felt such adoration and love for a writer as I feel for Byron. I am halfway done and I almost tremble at the thought of having to separate from him. I don't know what I'll do without him.

Pic related, one of the many stanzas I've collected.

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>30
>Notts, UK
>Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
>fantasy escapism, halfway through, decent enough so far

>24
>Germany
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Eh it's okay so far

Sorry, I guess my phone thought that to send it upside-down from China would translate to a normal picture.