Age

22
Sweden
Brave New World

Haven't come that far, the opening factory scene left me in a surprisingly disturbed/disgusted mood

>The Castle by Franz Kafka

That's next on my to-read list. How does it compare to his other works?

>22
>DC
>Moby Dick

I like it, really. The opening chapters were extremely comfy. And I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the novel. The only complaint I have is that the prose can be a bit tedious and superfluous at times. But what do I know? I'm just a brainlet.

23
Indiana
Hopscotch
Loving it so far, has potential to become one of my all time favorites.

23
Mexico
Post Ofiice Girl by Stefan Zweig
Pretty good so far

20
usa
naked lunch

I really like, I've never read anything like it, I can't wait to read more beat literature. It just makes so much sense to me but on the very surface it's objectively nonsense.

Favorite segment so far:
>Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face. They open zoos, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, file elevator cables to one thin wire, turn sewers into the water supply, throw sharks and sting rays, electric eels and candiru into swimming pools (the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman’s cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru’s life-cycle in situ), in nautical costumes ram the Queen Mary full speed into New York Harbor, play chicken with passenger planes and buses, rush into hospitals in white coats carrying saws and axes and scalpels three feet long; throw paralytics out of iron lungs (mimic their suffocations flopping out on the floor and rolling their eyes up), administer injections with bicycle pumps, disconnect artificial kidneys, saw a woman in half with a two-man surgical saw, they drive herds of squealing pigs into the Curb, they shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe their ass with treaties, pacts, alliances.

39
Prague, CZ

Rereading: For Honor We Stand
I adore it.

Sed and Awk
Boring as hell but useful

Syntopicon
Interesting but time consuming

how can anyone like this ? it can't be just the shock value but I don't see anything here

22, Colorado, Station Eleven

It's pretty heavy on the feels.

Gross.

21
Cambridge, MA
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Béla Zombory-Moldován

It's okay.

>“Ensign! You will present your sword when you report! Perhaps you’re not aware that you’re in the field of battle?”
>I yank my sword out, and endeavor to comply sufficiently with Regulations to stop us from losing the war.

Nice. Parmenides was my favorite to read, though I confess I probably didn't understand him too well. Still need to read the Parmenides dialogue.

my nigga

27
Marseille, France
Pauline by Alexandre Dumas

So far, I'm liking it. It does have some action and not just a series of random stuff happening.

>20
>Winnipeg
>LotR
It's an effort to get through, desu. At points I feel Tolkien's passion for the subject matter shining through and I feel like I get it, but his compulsive need to account for the minutiae of every part of the journey is kind of killing it for me.

I'm reading LotR too!
>23
>Parana, Brazil
>LotR
My main problem is the excess of references to locations and history, and i can't understand that map (the font is too small), but besides that i'm really loving it. Its my first high fantasy book and i really like how "optimistic" Tolkien write is.

btw, they localized all the names to portuguese which i really don't liked (and it probably made it harder for me to memorize, mostly because some names don't work well in my language)

>20
>Southampton, UK
>To the Lighthouse and The Recognitions

I've read about a third of TTL before but ended up putting it aside. Woolf is probably the most impressive writer of prose I've ever read, but then again I'm a pleb who hasn't read much. I'm surprised at how relatable Mr Ramsay is, and how a women was able to render what I assumed to be male-specific thoughts and emotions so vividly.

24
Florida
Musashi

Henry Miller does similar work with more substance.

26
Neza, México
Pedro Paramo

All those feels and the awesome descriptions.

26
Scab City
The Tainted Turd (sequel to Behead All Satans)

>23
>Pernambuco, Brazil
>Dom Quixote, Amadis de Gaula and Gil Vicente's plays

Just doing a good 'ole Iberian tour.

>22
>Quebec
>Plato's Republic.

One of the greatest books ever written, even if it isn't necessarily "fun".

17
Argentina
Dracula
I can't see where's the good part and I'm about to finish it.

>Dracula
filler, the book

17
Pennsylvania
Heroes Die

It's getting good now that the plot has finally started.

>20
>washington dc
>stoner
bretty good. If I finish it, it will have been the first book I read for fun in 4 years

28
Seattle
Antigone. meh.

Ljubljana is one of those cities that I most want to visit.

Sounds like Hasek. Wasn't aware of this, I'll look it up.

>18
>Australia
>Dead Souls - Enjoying it.

17
lithuania
steppenwolf
its pretty good

19
Spain
Dead Souls
One of the comfiest books I've read since Confederacy of Dunces but not nearly as entertaining or engaging. i'm forcing myself trough it, I just see no point, nothings happening and I still don't understand whats Chikhikovs angle.

>29
>Ohio
>The Dharma Bums
I love it, it's reminding me of why I everything I owned twice now to move across the country and back when I was younger. I want to do it again, but where to go?

>22
>Nottingham, just moved here
>Saturday Night & Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
It's basically Working Class Banter: the book. Heartily recommended.

enjoy your stay on reddit

18
england
inherent vice

it's... groovy

23
DC
The Gateless Gate

I'm interested in Zen, and this book hits the spot. Love the commentary too; Yamada is obviously convinced of the truth of Zen

>15
>Virginia
>Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw.
I like the play, am currently doing a character analysis of Captain Bluntschli

27
NJ
Tsotsi

It's not bad. Maybe the most unlikeable protagonist I've ever read about, but the writing is very suspenseful.

19
Mexico city
Women
"Bukowski"

Stop being young.

...

I played that character once.

Too bad you're too young for me to help you

>25
>Hungary
>Moby Dick

pretty fucking great desu

18
Western Hemisphere
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Seven Seas edition)
I actually just finished the first book. It was a pretty fun tale about a girl with a strange imagination. The anime art may be off-putting but the text is 1:1 with the original.

>19
>Ecuador
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The prose is delicious

the average Veeky Forums poster is male early 20s, hails from a 3rd world spic country, bleak postcommunist eastern europe, or failing that a hick town somewhere in flyover USA

...

26

Ohio, USA

Gravity's Rainbow- It's pretty good, it has a very interesting/funny concept, though the math talk is over my head.

It's very entry level.....it's meant for young teenagers. Still a good read though.

18
Israel
Oblomov
Much more draggy than I expected but still quite enjoyable. I'm not even halfway through tho, so I probably haven't reached the real shit yet.

His details are tedious....but honestly, if you've seen the movies, it's actually a bit easier to visualize.

20
Oklahoma
Immortality by Milan Kundera
Just started but seems very promising.

Literally the only good part is the first 1/4 of the book where he escapes from the castle

>Israel

22

Kentucky

Uhuru. It's a good book with a great concept behind it.

>22
>Spain
>La guerra del fin del mundo by Vargas Llosa.
I am enjoying it quite a lot
Nice

19
Northern Europe
T. Mckenna's Food of the gods

It's really good. Even more ensayistic than Lightness, but less political.

23
Iraq, can't be more specific than that
The Hero With A Thousand Faces; it's good shit senpai, real 'greenpill' shit if you get my drift, opens the perspective on how the collective subconscious constructs narrative and how man understands the world through those narratives

>Paraná
My nigga

reading Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, brilliant, as are all Assis' books

20+4-2*4
Middle Europe, protipp today was our presidental election
Narzissus and Goldmund
I really liked the first third, it was amazing and brilliant for me it could have endet when Goldmund left, second third: at first I didn't quite like his traveling time, but this part was amazing too especially his time at the masters house when he was boulding the statue of Narzissus, third third, I have about 50 pages left and I think I won't like the ending..but well see

21
Poland
Polska jesień by Jan Józef Szczepański

...

22
Sweden
Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, having fun reading this one - I've noticed certain character similarities to Ubik by Dick

25
US
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

I've only just begun but I do see why VS-W became a minor writer from that era and hasn't the prominence that some of her friends still enjoy.
It is worthwhile if you are interested in the period and class that she wrote from and about.

It is also a good lesson as to why authors should use paragraph breaks when the speaker changes.

why dont you just write 18 faggot

>19
>Texas
>Way of the Pilgrim
Probably uncovered more wisdom from this book about God and His love for us than any book other than the Bible that I have read so far.

21
Northeast Florida
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor,
and I love it.

20
Quebec
枕草子

24
Czech republic
The Anatomy of Melancholy

I will construct a time machine and travel back to kick Robert Burton's ass. I swear to God, the guy was autistic. The book shows how completely disconnected from reality he was. His vision of a utopia, his personal "Atlantis", is a clusterfuck of unreal notions and ideas that could never translate into reality. On one hand, he demonstrates a decent knowledge of geopolitics and economy, but then he goes full retard saying
"damn, people are poor and sick, but I know the way out! Let's cure and feed everyone!" or
"damn, people are easily corruptible lying cunts, let's build some courts'n'shit to keep them checked", and my favorite
"war is terrible except when it's waged for a good cause, but even then, war is a terrible nasty thing, many young Christians are warmongering, because they want to fight for a cause, but that is nasty and disgusting. Damn, soldiers in armor are cool."

I don't understand this; he was obviously intelligent and read a lot, why is it then that his theses are ignorant and could be bested by cognitive skills of a 15 year old?

Even then, I appreciate his academical approach. Citing source to every fart that gets mentioned. More than anything, the book shows a complex portrayal of his time. What surprises me is how everyone was obsessed with Greeks.

Also
>yellow bile, black bile
>liver kidney lungs
>sad people have dry brains
>when your soul is in your ass you have autism
The four temperaments was such a bullshit, top mental gymnastics. I though they got rid of it much earlier.

21
Czech Republic
The Guermantes Way + Atlas Shrugged
Proust is amazing... Rand I've been reading for almost a year now because it's sooooo fuckiiiiiiing aaaaawfuuuuuul. I just can't get myself to finish it. And I haven't even reached that Galt's dreadful monologue yet.

>Only reading one book at a time

30
Ohio
The Problem with Socialism - Thomas DiLorenzo
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology - Leah Remini

I'm liking them all so far. Troublemaker is much interesting than I thought since I don't pay attention to any of that Hollywood. I've always had a passing interest in Scientology so I didn't expect to learn anything new but I've been surprised.

The Screwtape letters are great. If you're a Christian it's a must read, I'm only a quarter of the way through it and I'm constantly finding myself doing exactly what Screwtape would have wanted for me.

The Problem with Socialism speaks for itself. It's easy to read and understand even for somebody like me that had no real knowledge of economics.

18
Chicago
The world as will and representation
Not a dry as I thought. 7/10 for the writing, 10/10 for content

Age x=(25+0,5*10)/6-(2,2+1,4*2)+18
East-Helsinki, Finland
Confederacy of Dunces (It's pretty funny, I think it can be better and I think it will get better), Putkinotko (Lehtonen is fucking fantastic, haven't even finished and I think this might be the greatest finnish book I've read), Les Illusions Perdues (in the very beginning, not ready to say anything) and The Origins of Order (It's very interesting if you're interested in theoretical biology and overall how the constructions of the world are forming/formed)

are you serious

20+4-2*4=/=18

Dunces is a masterpiece, I hope you enjoy it.

>18
>Great Planes, United States
>Inherent Vice--interesting, sometimes confusing. love the conversational narration

Oh and I guess Portrait of the Artist, which is very good

and The Pickup, which is good (I guess) but so depressing and I hate Julia

>20
>Canada
>Infinite Jest

It's good, I like it. It's not as difficult as I was led to believe, but I've been balls deep in Chaucer studies this whole semester so idk.

23
Brasil
The new science of Politics, Voeglin; Pretty comfy desu

19
Dallas
The Brothers Karamazov, i like how its divided up. it reminds me of the bible. It's pretty funny sometimes too.

>21
>Portugal
>"Erotism: Death and Sensuality" and "The Sailor Who fell from Grace with the Sea"
Erotism is quite good. I'm at the beginning, but it clarifies many elements of Bataille's books.
Sailor is beautiful. The prose is poetic and very delicate, with carefully crafted analogies and descriptions.

I'm not sure, this is my first Kafka book.

>20
>Colorado
>nothing
I'm an English major and it's sucked the fun out of reading. At least I'll only have to read Gatsby and other high school trash for the rest of my life.

18f
new york
lolita
it makes me horny....

>23
>Mexico
>Books of Blood vol 1 by Clive Barker

Very good, high quality prose even if the ideas are not that engaging so far.

If you truly love reading, it will come back to you.

I got burnt out too, lots of reading as a history major.

But a year after graduation I decided I wanted to read for fun again.

>26
>Dallas, TX
>The Brothers Karamazov

So far, so good. Fyodor Pavlovitch reminds me of my own father and I wish I could be as kind hearted and forgiving as Alyosha. Im on the part where Ivan is reading Alyosha his meme poem.