Age

How is it so cold all of a sudden? It was so hot yesterday

21
Australia
Blood Meridian
It's pretty good but the long ass sentences wear me out

New Jersey bro, where do you study?

25
México
The Tao of Pooh
It's pretty good.

This is data gathering of Veeky Forums users. Remember to fake all information.

Okay, I'll say I'm with friends then.

msu. you?

Im reading the Lies of Locke Lamora.

Its pretty intresting

Went to Stevens, live in Maine now, went to a bunch of shows in Montclair though.

>Its okay. Makes me feel like I'm missing out on life because I don't have sex.

Don't kid yourself, friend. You are depriving yourself of having a life by not having sex.

18
Texas
City of God
It's bretty good

it's not the best place but w.e

Shut the fuck up, faggot. You act like Veeky Forums and the NSA don't already have terabytes of your personal life and search history, you porn-watching degenerate. Please end yourself.

reee, etc.

>20.
>Australia.
>War and Peace.

Really good. The entertainment I get out of it goes up and down in some parts but overall its a great book. Currently halfway through book three and hoping to finish by Christmas. I've got AK and Demons by Dosto to read next but i'm getting worn out by so many long ass books.

>19
>Texas
>The Iliad

I started reading for study purposes but I'm really enjoying it so far

23
UK
War & Peace
It's accessible and engaging, about the opposite of what I assumed it'd be. I feel I have pretty much no reason to keep putting off reading when it's so fun.

19
Australia
The Count of Monte Cristo

It's fucking amazing.

19
Walker/Hammond, LA
Finishing Crime & Punishment, 5 stars
i have like 240 books and i don't know what to start next. What should i pick? something short preferably. just say a book and i probably have it

nine stories

>22
>Sask
>In search of lost time/by swann's way. I like it, reminds me of multiple memories all stiched together.

>25
>Kentucky
>Betrayer of Worlds
I really like it. The only book by Larry Niven I haven't enjoyed so far was A World Out of Time and the first half of Ringworld.

yeah hey might be la ninà

19
Aus
War and Peace
Its ambitious but his crystal clear prose and having already studied the Napoleonic wars make it easier

Almost Transparent Blue

Oh god I hope not last time we had a La Nina winter we had 2ft of snow on the ground and I'm in Kentucky. That's practically unheard of here.

>28
>estonia
>just finished Lolita, reading book about putin right now

dont now what to read next ,something prison themed maybe

>18
>For Whom The Bell Tolls
>Idk what exactly he wants to say, the characters also feel a bit illogical at times.

Bureau of Meteorology says its unlikely this year but we will see soon my man

25
Russian Federation
The Death Of Ivan Ilych (just finished)

I have no idea why this is so good with critics. It's just an enjoyable, but not relatable chronicle.

28
Boston,MA
Book of Illusions

20
ny
art of the deal

waiting for my broker to get back to me about my 10$ investment in hentai images

>19
>South Africa
>Lolita
Enjoying it quite a lot. Veeky Forums wasn't memeing about the quality of the prose. The fact that it manages to be uncomfortably sexual without any vulgarity is impressive too.

24
Home
Plato The Republic.

Socrates kind of pisses me off. I found myself sympathizing with the people that rage at him for being a little cunt.

>Ask someone what justice is
>When you do good to good man and ill to a poor man
>Rephrase question
>DOES A HORSEMAN MAKE A HORSEMAN UNABLE TO RIDE A HORSE?
>DOES ONE WHO ILLS A HORSE ILL THEM IN A MANNER OF A HORSE
>AND DOES ONE ILL A DOG IN THE MANNER OF A DOG HMMMMMMMMMM?
>Dude Socrates what the fuck are you talking about? Why don't you answer what justice is if you're so smart?
>HMMMMM I AM BUT A POOR IGNORANT FOOL WHO KNOWS NOT OF JUSTICE ;^^^^)))) ENLIGHTEN ME AND I SHALL CALL YOU THE WISER!!!!

It makes me angrier than it should.

20 next week

Madison

Don Quixote part 2. First part was a relaxing read, even the monologues. I'm just hoping part 2 is as comfy and Sancho gets his insula. Getting some Gogol for Christmas so looking forward to going full russian lit for a few months after this

>The fact that it manages to be uncomfortably sexual without any vulgarity is impressive too.
Check out God's Little Acre if that's your cup of tea.

>24
>south eastern burgerstan
>anthology of kierkegaards works
>its some cool shit, but so is blow and strippers
nah but for real though sickness unto death is a great essay with some insightful points
my grandfather would be rolling in his grave if he knew I was agreeing with the philosophy of a filthy proddy buttfuck it

>paedophilia
>not vulgar in of itself

There my niggas at book club starts saturday
>21
>Austin Texas
>War and Peace

>25
>Ireland
>Homage to Catalonia

It's pretty good, I like Orwell's style in it, interested to read from where he has to deal with republican infighting.

25
Cambridge, MA
Moby Dick. About 300 pages in. Loving it so far. I was led to believe it was largely boring cetology, but even the cetology chapter was lively and beautifully written. The characters are phenomenal.

That's her best book.

It's all downhill from there. :^)

>22
>Ireland
>Nausea

>20
>brazil
>finished hamlet yesterday, will start portrait today

Hmm. I'll wait a while before I read anything else then. Wait til I forget how good it is.

19
Oxford
House of Leaves

It's a big ol' meme but I am really enjoying it stylistically. It is probably unnecessarily slow but I am really interested to see where it goes.

20
BRISBANE
intruder in the dust

I feel like I'm rushing through it because of the length of the sentences. Wild Palms wasn't full of these, but I don't mind the style

>19
>Indonesia
>Tender is the Night

ilm feeling angry at these vain, soulless richfags

>21
>bed
>Ovid's biography
>It starts with an in-depth description of the wonders of childbirth
>mfw

21
nj/boston (study in boston)
The Design of Everyday Things, just finished Cryptonomicon.

To the Lighthouse is also phenomenal. Much less ambitious than The Waves but still formally innovative and full of beautiful passages. I say give it a read if you are liking The Waves

>19
>Cluj-Napoca, Romania
>Notes from the underground

Am I an edgy teen or a meme if I identify with the narrtor? The first part, at least, was pretty close to my own thoughts and experience.

I promised myself I would finish that book. Still couldn't, it was too painful.

I really just don't get hemingway. He obsesses over details I don't care for, and leaves everything else out of his jounralistic prose.

I tried to read Green Hills of Africa as well, and it made me want to die. He just rambles...

Can someone enlighten me? Am I missing something with Hemingway.

>brisbane
nice brodie heading over there to see senpai in a couple days. the city kills me though

>18
>melbourne
>heidegger's introduction to metaphysics
I loved heidegger from reading What is Metaphysics, and this is even better. Psyched to read Poetry, Language, Thought and eventually Being and Time

>22
>Sweden
>The Iliad
The preface is like 100 pages of hexameter babbel, very informative but extremely boring at times.

sophist detected

>The Iliad

Is it worth reading for someone who doesn't really care about the ">start with the greeks" meme? Personally, I just care about reading well-written classics, so if you think it so, then I might consider it.

>tfw no Swedish gf

19
nz
outer dark

Reading all of McCarthy, enjoying it so far

Reading the Iliad in translation is like listening to Beethoven's 9th played on a piano.

20
Aus
The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius

It's pretty decent, the prose is nice and well thought out. Decent poetry too.

>18

>Kentucky, USA

>Lolita

Really good book, its my first read through.

(op)
23
Indonesia
The ingenious man Don Quixote of la mancha

Da. Acuma ieși acas', țâganule.

23
Austria
The left hand of darkness by Ursula LeGuin.
I hate it, it's boring sci-fi shit but I have to read it for school.

17
My house
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I'm really really getting into it, don't think I've ever been this intrigued by a piece of writing before

You might want to delete this.

>reading poems and plays
>not performing them

Absolutely disgusting

>24
>São Paulo
>God and the State

18
Montreal, but here studying Chem (originally from Leb)
- Can Love Last
- A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- Fatherless Sons
- Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood

They're all pretty good so far, got them from the library to try to make sense of everything I've been feeling lately.

>18
>Miami
>The Aenead is ok but I preferred the Iliad. Though the Aenead is more enjoyable than the Odyssey.

22
Brazil
Les Misérables
The theme is interesting, The Victor Hugo's aphorisms and comparisons are really good too. It's been a great experience.

>20
>Spain
>Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides)

19
edinburgh
the alchemist,
its great
>inb4 "this is a literature board"

20
Fort Collins, Colorado
The Courage to Act

It's pretty interesting. Reading about how the markets would freak out just because Ben added an adjective in the slightly wrong place is both hilarious and frightening.

Get well soon

The Jonson play? If not

>pleb

> 19
> Atlanta, GA
> The Old Man and The Sea. loveli

27
France
Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien d'Alfred Jarry

I don't understand a fucking word but it's fun

>22
>Australia
>To the Lighthouse

It's fantastic. It's like it's opened my eyes to what good prose is, because it functions on a whole different level to the other stuff I've read up until now.

>/r9k/: The Post

>24
>South Afrika
>The Stand

Pretty good, I wanted to read some post apocalyptic books, so I started with Alas, Babylon and moved onto this, any other post apocalypse type survivor books I should try?

I feel like reading some good horror type stuff set in new england, I'll check out some of kings other books too.

>same age, same book
noice
central europe though

I liked the stand until he introduced some bullshit spirit stuff. I quit then, it just felt out of place with the rest of the book, Introduced so quickly.

it's so good

i fucking love pineapple

power through it dude, i think the protagonist basically admits to having no soul late in the book

Yeah man, it is pretty "symptomatic," to say the least...

22
New Hampshire
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Nearly 200 pages in and I'm really loving it so far.

23
Minnesota
Silence

About 40 pages in and not enjoying it so far. Prose is flat and there's not too much going on. Might drop it soon.

well yeah unless you are dying of stomach cancer its not directly relatable but if that's your criticism then you are a certified plebian

>23
>London
> cultural logic of late capitalism and Pope's Illiad

22
Brazil
Aesthetics of Verbal Creation

Very nice phenomenology of stuffs (selfs, authors and characters)

>24
>sweden
>Landnámabók

Pretty boring but informative. Started to work my way through the complete Icelandic sagas. (As complete as it gets in Swedish at least) Expect it to get better once I get to the actual sagas as the ones I've read before are kinda cool.