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The Resistance 2014-08-25 07:15:20 No.315 [Last 50 Posts]

Every literature board has a bump while reading thread.

Currently reading:
-New Testament
-The Wealth of Nations (book V)
-Gravity's Rainbow

Anonymous 2014-08-25 10:15:06 No.316

>>315

I tried to read Gravity's Rainbow but got derailed on page 21 where there's a whole block of text describing objects on a desk. Maybe a shiny insect distracted me or something, but I haven't got the patience to read about paperclips.

Please let me know what it's like and I might read on

The Resistance 2014-08-25 10:32:06 No.317

>>316
You need some decent amount of knowledge of World War II, I suggest reading the first couple volumes of Churchill's recount. I'm glad I did, anyway, there are so many references to obscure machinery and plenipotentiaries that it's mind boggling.

Anonymous 2014-08-25 10:38:28 No.318

>>317

Ty for the suggestion. Thematically, is there much going on in Gravity's Rainbow? I have a decent understanding of WW2 but can one enjoy the story on a meaningful level without a deeper understanding of the military paraphernalia?

The Resistance 2014-08-25 11:08:01 No.319

>>318
Certainly. It's a work of historical fiction, but it's largely a test to see if you can piece the jigsaw puzzle together… not easy to do. He writes like an effervescent ADD-addled child, but I feel some of the parts are beautifully put together and under the surface mean something truly interesting and tie in wonderfully. It's anecdotal, all the different parts with their own theme.

Anonymous 2014-08-25 11:09:35 No.320

>>319

Can you perhaps compare it to Slaughterhouse 5?

The Resistance 2014-08-25 12:07:07 No.321

>>320
I've heard of that book, I've never read anything by Vonnegut though. What's he like?

Anonymous 2014-08-25 12:11:34 No.322

>>321

Quite postmodern but not to the extent where he can't be bothered to craft a good story. I enjoyed Slaughterhouse 5 a lot - it's a short, sharp and very effecting read. The alternate title, addressed in the book, is The Children's Crusade and I think this is a much more appropriate title. A book on the futility of war and on how life-after-war, or life in general, is a mess of absurd events. He bleeds historic fiction and sci-fi together very nicely. I haven't read anything else by him, but he can drop a mean quote:

“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”

The Resistance 2014-08-25 12:21:15 No.324

>>322
Oh, wonderful quote. Yes that seems to be the general rhetoric Pynchon uses towards science as well, but details the application of human emotional futility in the midst of war as a battle between two sides, the ultimate Pavlov(mentions him a lot)ian paradox.

Anonymous 2014-08-29 07:58:06 No.328

currently reading
snow crash
a portrait of the artist as a young man
rereading clockwork orange

Anonymous 2014-08-30 00:20:01 No.330

Currently reading All Quiet on the Western Front because I'm a pleb that has just started getting into literature. Read a few chapters today, I'll probably finish it tomorrow.

Anonymous 2014-09-01 20:35:16 No.334

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Moby-Dick
Invisible cities

Anonymous 2014-09-14 18:35:12 No.355

Beginners Guide to Jungian Psychology
Who Stole Feminism

and about 5 different series of weeb manga trash

Anonymous 2014-09-14 21:59:54 No.360

I got Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner as a gift from my father. It's a good book, and way better than the mad magazines he usually gets me.

Anonymous 2014-09-16 08:21:33 No.363

currently reading
the rebel - camus
the plague - camus
existentialism for beginners
colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage - murakami
also rereading clockwork orange thanks anon

Anonymous 2014-09-17 05:19:07 No.364

Currently reading Jane Eyre on my e-reader.

Anonymous 2014-10-01 14:13:36 No.400

Invisible Cities
Snow Crash

Anonymous 2014-10-01 23:10:53 No.401

Just read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," going to read Camus's "The Stranger" next.

Anonymous 2014-10-15 18:19:50 No.428

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The high crusade.

Anonymous 2014-10-15 20:13:49 No.429

Journey to the West. Quite funny, though a bit repetitive.

Anonymous 2014-10-18 08:47:12 No.432

-rereading some Poe stuff bc Halloween
-Kafka's The Metamorphosis
-The Great Gatsby

Anonymous 2014-10-20 17:06:48 No.433

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-A Clockwork Orange
-Short stories by Ray Bradbury

Anonymous 2014-10-22 10:29:26 No.435

>>432
>Kafka's The Metamorphosis
I liked that one, but I couldn't quite tell if it was supposed to be a metaphor of some sort or just an exercise in the absurd.

I'm reading the Iliad, and I intend to read the Odyssey shortly after.

Anonymous 2014-10-26 01:30:55 No.441

After Dark - Haruki Murakami. First half is ok, just your average story or so it seems. Then the TV kicks in. Dern Japanese shows.

Anonymous 2014-10-26 02:56:28 No.442

>>315

Guns, Germs, Steel

Passion and Reason; Making sense of our emotions

Shorts by James Tiptree Jr.

Anonymous 2014-10-26 13:59:55 No.457

Mao's Red Book
Welcome to the NHK
Rich Christians in the Age of Hunger

Thank god for living at the end of the bus line. I always manage to get a seat, so I can read.

>>433
>A Clockwork Orange
Wait till you get to the end. The "lost chapter" really does tie it all together. I can't believe that they wanted to remove it.

Anonymous 2014-10-26 14:40:09 No.458

>>457
Read it yesterday and couldn't agree more, possibly one of the best endings I've ever read. Removing it means castrating the whole novel imo. "More appealing to U.S. audiences", jeez.

>Mao's Red Book
Always wanted to read it, thanks for reminding me.

you all have wonderful taste btw <3

Anonymous 2014-10-26 21:51:43 No.459

- House of Leaves

It's weird, but I like it.

>>433
>Short stories by Ray Bradbury
I've only read Fahrenheit 451, but quite liked it. How do his other stories compare?

Anonymous 2014-10-27 06:14:43 No.460

>>459
I haven't read that many yet, but they're quite good - Bradbury is great at creating full SF-scenarios in ten to fifteen pages or so, really impressive. Very philosophical as well.

Anonymous 2014-10-27 20:00:35 No.462

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Telekommunist Manifesto

It's about "Peer-to-Peer Communism" and "Client-Server Capitalism".

Anonymous 2014-10-28 10:30:47 No.464

>>460
>>459

Try out The Illustrated Man when you get the chance. It's more short stories, and they're really, really, good.

Anonymous 2014-10-28 12:06:55 No.465

>>459
He made me go "wtf Ray" a couple times in his early works.
For example in The October Country (1955) he sets you up in a cemetery, takes you deep into the setting and then says something like "some headstones were so big that it looked like someone had a bed accident and took the matress outside".

Anonymous 2014-12-14 11:17:23 No.622

>Currently reading:
- The Golem, Gustav Meyrink

Picked this one up yesterday. I'm ~50 pages in, and I really like it so far. It's about people in the Prague Jewish ghetto, focussing on one character who doesn't quite seem mentally all there (weird dreams, appears to have some sort of sleep paralysis, out of body experiences), and the "Golem" returns once every generation in a period of widespread stress, acting as a harbinger of change and crisis.

- Civil War Stories, Ambrose Bierce

A collection of short stories inspired by the American Civil War. They're all ok, but not my usual fare.

- House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Does this need any introduction? Ostensibly a book about a fictional (both here and in-universe) documentary called "The Navidson Record", it blurs the line between what is real and what isn't, and the narrator/editor gradually descends into madness with increasingly lengthy and bizarre footnotes, and the typesetting starts to completely fall apart. It's tough going, but a very fun read.

Anonymous 2015-01-06 03:17:16 No.639

I just read Animal Farm some days ago - the final was pretty good, but i wasnt used to books where the plot does not much focus on characters, except for Boxer and the mains pigs - it is even sadder to think it is a representation.

Im going for Origins of Totalitarianism now.

Anonymous 2015-01-07 20:10:56 No.645

I've just finished reading The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi.

It was pretty good, would recommend.

Anonymous 2015-01-07 21:48:20 No.646

I read the Harry Potter series for the first time over Christmas Break. They seemed pretty good, I would recommend them. I don't see how people can compare them to directly to the Lord of the Rings, though. They are different types of fantasy.

Anonymous 2015-01-07 23:27:13 No.647

I just finished reading Frankenstein, it was good, especially looking at some of the themes from a contemporary perspective. Now I want to rewrite an older thing I wrote.
>>646
I think those comparisons are because folks didn't read everything they wanted to.

Anonymous 2015-01-08 15:49:32 No.648

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I've finished The Steppe and am currently reading The Duel (I'm going to finish it up right after I submit this).
Both contained in pic related.

Anonymous 2015-01-08 17:38:13 No.649

The Whisperer in Darkness.
I read it little by little while commuting.

Anonymous 2015-01-09 15:18:08 No.653

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didn't like 20 thousand leagues under the sea, but this one has been fun so far.

Anonymous 2015-02-01 22:41:27 No.767

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> Economics: The User's Guide
Pretty good, would recommend.

Anonymous 2015-02-02 22:35:42 No.770

Just finished Prometheus Rising.
It's fun reading predictions about life longevity pills in 2005.

Anonymous 2015-02-03 22:03:03 No.775

portrait of the artist as a young man, James Joyce
loving the stream of conscious style of the piece. Think it's a very good image of what Joyce's early life was like.

Anonymous 2015-02-04 18:44:17 No.778

Just started reading the Hunger Games series. Figured I might as well, so I can know what all these darned kids are talking about.

Y'know, back in my day, like five years ago, good books were ones that were written in the 20th century and before, and all of the bests books were from the 1960s and before!

Anonymous 2015-02-05 18:47:33 No.785

>>778
>Y'know, back in my day, like five years ago, good books were ones that were written in the 20th century and before, and all of the bests books were from the 1960s and before!
^This. I've read a good amount of the bestselling, "amazing" books of this modern age and I've always found the "ancient" classics far superior and preferable. Not saying newer books aren't of worth, though-for the most part- they're not nearly as good as are the classics.

Anonymous 2015-02-06 03:54:19 No.788

>>785
eh, I've been there before but I think I'd disagree now. We give older works too much credit these days - some of my favorite writing is from the 20th and 21st centuries, mostly because that's when scifi and innovative narration got big. Give it another 10 years and the "nothing is good after 1960s" folks will be the "nothing is good after 1970s" folks instead.

Anonymous 2015-02-07 21:28:46 No.795

> Greg Egan: Quarantine
fuarrrking awesome hard science fiction.

Anonymous 2015-02-07 23:22:28 No.796

>>788
>We give older works too much credit these days
I disagree. See below.

>"Nothing is good after 1960s" folks will be the "nothing is good after 1970s" folks instead.

I am >>778 . I did not literally mean that all the best books are from then. You didn't find the "back in my day, like five years ago" part as being slightly ridiculous? There are a good amount of works that are written nowadays that are good. I would say, though, that time clears things up. That mediocre garbage people read and say that it is the best thing ever? It will be gone in a few decades; barely read. Now, the good and great books from this time frame will be remembered and still read.

What I am trying to say is, time is like a filter for books. Gradually, the lesser books fall away, and only the best remain. That is why older books seem better. Not because they ARE better, but because you can usually be assured that they are quality reads, whether for pleasure, information, etc. Time washes away what is weak, and leaves the strong.

In 50 years, the Hunger Games will be slightly read, but Harry Potter will still be popular, as will the Lord of the Rings (and I am hoping that the Ranger's Apprentice series will be popular; they are good.) I hope that clears things up.

Oh, and I finished the first book in the Hunger Game series. It seemed good, but not brilliant. I would say that it is popular because of good writing meets mediocre story = movie + $$$

Anonymous 2015-02-08 00:36:58 No.797

>>796
oh, I completely understand the time thing, I was also making a joke, cuz I like to fuarrrk with some of those literary elitists you hear about judging everything new.

I've heard the hunger games movie is better than the book, but I haven't actually read hunger games yet so I can't make that comparison.

Back on topic, I've been delving into House of Leaves lately - it's got some interesting stuff going on, I gotta say.

Anonymous 2015-02-08 20:40:36 No.802

>>796
> What I am trying to say is, time is like a filter for books. Gradually, the lesser books fall away, and only the best remain.
It is interesting how many of unappreciated good books were lost. I am sure there were some.

Anonymous 2015-02-09 08:29:41 No.806

>>797
>House of Leaves
Currently rereading that - I read the German translation four years ago (Krautfag), now I'm working my way through the original text. I forgot how much I love the minotaur part.

Anonymous 2015-02-27 01:02:33 No.866

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Currently reading The Raw Shark Texts

up next might be Don Quixote or something

Anonymous 2015-03-01 23:16:12 No.873

Right now:
Men without women - Haruki Murakami
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevski
aaand rerereading Johnny the homicidal Maniac - Johnen Vasquez (I don't know if that one really counts)

Anonymous 2015-03-02 00:19:47 No.879

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Finally reading The Diamond Age and it's great so far.

I enjoyed what I've read of Stephenson far more than I enjoyed what I've read of Gibson (and I certainly enjoyed Gibson).

Anonymous 2015-03-02 04:14:06 No.884

>>879
A guy at my work has told me how good Stephenson is, I have Snow Crash in my backlog to read soonish.

Anonymous 2015-03-02 21:25:41 No.887

The Metamorphosis, Kafka
It's been pretty good so far. Fun to analyze.

Anonymous 2015-03-04 07:37:36 No.893

-Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
It's great.

Anonymous 2015-03-04 10:20:59 No.894

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Just started but it's quite entertaining so far.

GillSans 2015-03-05 05:42:51 No.895

On a whim, I read Balzac's 1835 Le Père Goriot. Extremely enjoyable and engaging. I read it at the library, but chanced upon a nice used hardback later. Shows an interesting view of Parisian society, contrasting the upper and lower classes, and is written with a much wit and charm.

I liked this passage: http://www.literaturepage.com/read/balzac-father-goriot-48.html

Anonymous 2015-03-07 05:16:40 No.900

>>873
Johnen is continuing the Invader Zim comic series I feel like hes slowly breaking and going to sell out.

Finished Brave new World
Probably For Whom The Bell Tolls is up next
Skimmed Through the Juliette society just to see what a book written by a porn star was like

Anonymous 2015-03-07 21:28:48 No.906

>>900
Consider reading Brave New World Revisited.

Anonymous 2015-03-08 09:49:09 No.907

>>900
Well, maybe it won't be that bad, I mean he had like 2 more seasons already planned. If they make them into a comic, I'd buy it.

Also >>906 I've never heard of that, thanks for the tip.

Anonymous 2015-03-16 19:07:52 No.947

Just started reading: The Name of the Rose

I am clearly obsessed with labyrinths so why wasn't I told about this book?
Also magical realism in a 14th century monastery.

Translating the Latin very slowly and cursing myself once again for not being born into a catholic family.

Anonymous 2015-04-05 03:27:58 No.1105

Reading Great Expectations right now.

It's much more entertaining than I remember it being in high school. But it's not exactly a page turner either.

GillSans 2015-04-05 03:51:43 No.1106

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>>1105
I just read that book for the first time a few weeks ago. Really, really enjoyed it. Has a lot of imagery that sticks in my head (Miss Havisham's antics, Wemmick's place, the swamps and prison ships, London's grimey atmosphere) and fascinating characters. Some parts are slow, but I couldn't put it down for several large chunks of it.

Anonymous 2015-04-05 12:28:06 No.1108

>>1105
>>1106
Reading Great expectations as well.

Anonymous 2015-04-22 16:15:26 No.1177

Walter John Williams: Voice of the Whirlwind

It's a soft scifi work and the story contains aliens, but I like it very much so far, great atmosphere and non-silly non-lame story despite a reincarnated protagonist with missing memories. Core cyberpunk of course.

Anonymous 2015-05-31 17:21:25 No.1339

Right now I'm reading:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Sternstunden by Wolfang Seidel (Basically a book about the history of cartography and geography)

Anonymous 2015-06-03 07:24:43 No.1360

Stanlislaw Lem - The Cyberiad
Robot fairy tales, what's not to love?

Anonymous 2015-06-03 16:18:30 No.1363

I am reading Brisingr currently.

Anonymous 2015-06-03 16:36:06 No.1364

The Sound of Waves by Mishima

It's a lot more str8forward than Golden Pavilion/Confessions of a Mask

His nature descriptions are on point
Unfortunately, the story gives me feels

Anonymous 2015-06-03 21:36:29 No.1369

A book about Greco-Roman mysteries. It's not what I expected, I thought it was going more 'pop-science like' instead it was made for students who already know about this stuff because it's a collection of texts with a comment. I don't mind it though, it's still interesting.

Anonymous 2015-06-07 01:33:44 No.1407

The Gulag Archipelago
The Stranger

Anonymous 2015-06-12 19:41:50 No.1440

the 36 stratagems reinterpreted by peter taylor

Anonymous 2015-06-13 03:50:35 No.1441

Just finished The Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft
Reading Asimov's Foundation Trilogy(currently Foundation and Empire)
Rereading Homeland by Cory Doctorow
Just started The Great Gatsby

Anonymous 2015-06-13 15:55:36 No.1442

Reading "Six Days War"

Pretty nice book, still on the first section (not chapter)

Anonymous 2015-06-13 20:30:49 No.1443

>>1442
Is it about Israel?

Anonymous 2015-06-13 21:00:37 No.1445

Just finished reading the endless war, a fantastic sci fi book. Now I'm gonna read the Dispossessed and the Manga Guide to the Universe

Anonymous 2015-06-13 22:36:35 No.1446

Currently reading Midnight's Children, Kafka By the Shore, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and a bit of The Tain and the Poetic Edda every once in a while.

Anonymous 2015-07-06 12:13:43 No.1564

Reading House of Leaves, I got to the point where I am now a few years ago but stopped.
I'm really enjoying the Navidson Record plot, but I don't really like the old man's digressions and sometimes I just skip entire pages of the edgelord's crazy soykaf. It's not a really enjoyable read at times but it's really good when it is and I keep reading for those moments.

Anonymous 2015-07-11 23:18:52 No.1597

Currently reading: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Design of Everyday Things.

Count of Monte Cristo is really good. I'd somehow managed to go into it without much prior knowledge of the plot, and it's really gripping me. Only got a hundred or so pages left now, everything is wrapping up and, oh!, what a wrap-up.

The Design of Everyday Things is a good read, it's making me much more conscious of interfaces I come across in my day-to-day life. Whilst the title says "everyday things", it's all fairly generic and applicable to software as well (in fact, software examples and anecdotes are frequent).

Next up: Flowers for Algernon, or Fall of the Roman Republic.

I've decided I like having one fiction and one non-fiction book on the go at the same time.

Anonymous 2015-07-18 08:03:19 No.1625

I'm reading Neuromancer. I really like Gibson's style but I find it sort of hard to follow sometimes, not being a native english speaker and everything.

Anonymous 2015-07-19 03:35:31 No.1629

>>1625
I personally preferred the later books in the sprawl trilogy. Count Zero was my favorite, although the jumping between characters was slightly jarring, at first.

I just got done reading the Takeshi Kovacs series of novels. They're pretty good, less cyberpunk, and more sci-fi, although the last book brings in quite a few cyberpunk elements. His sex scenes feel a little crammed in, but they're short. I probably would have enjoyed them more if I weren't reading on the bus. I just wish there were more books, to be honest. I personally liked the last book, best. The second had a great ending, though, and the first one is pretty nice, as an introduction to the world. A lot of neat ideas in those books.

Right now I'm reading Dune, for fun, and "The Open Secret", by Lesslie Newbigin, for my book club.

Anonymous 2015-07-25 22:35:36 No.1658

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Finally knocked this one off the reading list. It was surprisingly engrossing, not what I expected.

Anonymous 2015-08-03 04:24:30 No.1686

Got High-Rise by J G Ballard lined up at the moment, along with some technical books. Might re-read some stuff on my bookshelf after that.

Anonymous 2015-09-04 04:33:31 No.1940

Reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Been a slow read, but I've enjoyed it all so far. Finally about 50 pages from the end.

Anonymous 2015-09-04 07:42:25 No.1941

>>1625
I re-read these for the first time in about 7 years and was really impressed with how elegant the style is and how it synergises with the themes of the novels. I find Neuromancer a bit juvenile but Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are top lit snob tier imo

Anonymous 2015-09-11 00:19:35 No.1985

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>>1407
Nice. How's The Gulag Archipelago? Read a bit of Solzhy but not that yet.

Myself, I'm reading this glorious fuarrrking thing.
It's fantastic. Completely fantastic.
I find that a good way of explaining how that is is contrasting it with, say, Vonnegut, since both are thought of as essentially satiric dark comedic drama. Well, this is a lot easier to take seriously. There's less of a feeling of insignificance; there's less impotence and powerlessness in the protagonist. But it still hits hard, feels absolutely real in the sense that dying a day away from being the first in your family to graduate college then getting run over by a bus is real. Its language is elegant then crude in the best way, then unimaginably brutal as you get shelled and it switches to imagery of being swallowed by flame, becoming chaotic, unseeing, unfeeling nothing flung about like trash beside the dead flesh of your comrades.

.. It's really good, basically.

Anonymous 2015-09-11 01:27:42 No.1986

>>435
It's a metaphor.

Him turning into a bug is him becoming a shut in who feels alienated.

Anonymous 2015-09-11 01:29:25 No.1987

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Anonymous 2015-09-11 12:54:58 No.1988

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Anonymous 2015-09-11 13:48:53 No.1989

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Reading:
The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain - Simon Baron-Cohen

Audiobooking:
The Martian - Andy Weir

Anonymous 2015-09-11 17:13:36 No.1991

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Diary notes from Ernst Jünger. I couldn't ask for something better, as it blend personal thoughts, dreams report, gardening tips, opinions on literature, botanical and zoological research logs and chronicles from the end of the Third Reich by a man who's a war hero and a highly intelligent and sensible man and writer.

Anonymous 2015-09-16 05:07:20 No.2029

struggling through Neal Stephensons' Reamde

Anonymous 2015-09-16 18:48:44 No.2030

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every month till i drop dead

Anonymous 2015-09-17 02:35:32 No.2032

I'm on the last 10 pages of Das Schloss, it's been good, as is all of Kafka's work, but I don't know how I feel about including his notes as a 'final chapter' of sorts. It does nothing but introduce another layer of uncertainty to the previous events.

I'll probably start The Illiad later today; I've had it and The Odyssey sitting on my shelf, waiting to be read, for over a year now.

Anonymous 2015-09-20 02:27:14 No.2059

>>315
Red Sorghum-Mo Yan
for a class, but I can't read more than a few pages at a time. The most disturbing book I have read. Even Blood Meridian only had me this way in some scenes.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Liking the language, but I feel like the Catholic guilt is rubbing off so I only read in snippets.

Anonymous 2015-09-25 11:25:49 No.2121

Currently reading a compilation of Kierkegaard's works, and Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Former is great if you're and existentialist and/or a Christian, and is good for understanding a philosophical point of view anyway.

The latter is an incredibly good discourse on the decline of society due to modern entertainment; in other words, that Huxley was right.

Anonymous 2015-09-28 03:24:18 No.2138

Just finished reading As I Lay Dying, about to start The Stranger

As I Lay Dying was very interesting, especially once they had been on the journey a few days and everyone's internal thought process started getting more and more incoherent and difficult to understand without context. The chapters from other people's point of view (Peabody, Armstid) were placed very well and did a really good job at giving the reader an outsiders perspective on the family. Just really well written overall.

I've read The Stranger before, but it's been years, so before reading The Fall and the Plague, I'm reading it again. Loved it the first time, expect to love it again.

Anonymous 2015-10-04 12:05:59 No.2176

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Just finished "...And the Angel with Television Eyes" by John Shirley. Now starting "Street Lethal" by Steven Barnes. Thinking about re-reading the sprawl trilogy.

This is a nice board.

Anonymous 2015-10-04 12:16:58 No.2177

>>315
i have been reading Gravity's Rainbow for 10 years Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

currently reading the baroque cycle, not /cyb/, but pretty good

Anonymous 2015-10-11 05:20:32 No.2203

Currently reading:
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

I have difficulty concentrating as a result of my depression, which I try to combat by keeping my mind occupied on different topics as I can muster up a bit of motivation to study them.
I'll read a section or two of one of these books, and then put it down as soon as I start losing interest. Thus far it's worked relatively well in keeping my mind active, but I should really start working on increasing the amount of time I can focus on any particular thing.

Anonymous 2015-10-11 07:52:02 No.2204

>>315
J-just my college textbooks right now. ;_;

Anonymous 2015-10-11 08:23:23 No.2205

>>2203
Nice taste. I just started reading Nausea and SICP. Got Nineteen Eighty Four and The Stranger on my desk for when I finish

Anonymous 2015-10-11 09:36:30 No.2206

>>2204
Nothing wrong with that readying intro to computer security and the fedora/red hat enterprise books for school. I'm enjoying it

Anonymous 2015-10-13 10:03:48 No.2209

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Just finished the second volume of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard. He's been called the Norwegian Proust,
I've never read Proust but I imagine them as being quite similar - he writes about his own life ("struggle") in exact detail, switching back and forth from childhood to the present day in a way that reflects the way memories pop up in your mind.

It sounds dull but the way it's written makes it riveting. You can't wait to find out what happens next, and the intimacy of sharing someone else's life and thoughts makes finding out what happens next really affecting.

Waiting for my dole cheque so I can get the next volume :B

Anonymous 2015-10-13 21:36:34 No.2210

Flat earth news

If you didn't trust mainstream news already, you will after reading this book.

Anonymous 2015-10-14 08:03:40 No.2211

>>2209
Besides length, the similarities between Knausgård and Proust are almost nil both as people and as authors. Definitely worth the read though as you say.

For those who want a taste, read the last chapter of his A Time To Purpose Under Every Heaven.

Anonymous 2015-10-14 21:41:58 No.2212

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Reading:
• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
• The UNIX Haters Handbook

Anonymous 2015-10-15 04:39:32 No.2221

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Currently reading Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Anonymous 2015-10-19 02:25:00 No.2233

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-Gravity's Rainbow
-The Great Shark Hunt
-Heart of Darkness' historical appendices (Conrad's journals and such)

Recently finished all of beloved Vonnegut's novels except Galápagos, which I'll have to order online. Looking for other writers in the same vein.

>>315
I'm roughly a quarter of the way through Gravity's Rainbow and loving it, but I find it hard to keep track of all the characters without a "cast" sheet attaching faces to names. Are Pynchon's other works in similar style, and do they all have so many characters?

Anonymous 2015-10-20 09:51:59 No.2244

Currently reading Grimm's fairy tales. Who could have guessed Disney got it all so wrong?

Anonymous 2015-10-20 17:15:21 No.2249

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I'm reading Blood Music.

Description: In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. The novel follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left behind. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear’s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.

Anonymous 2015-11-02 01:28:39 No.2347

Finished Camus's The Stranger.
Reading McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

I think I'll read some more Poe and Lovecraft soon. Probably The Gold Bug first, since it's about cryptography.

Anonymous 2015-11-03 19:23:39 No.2355

>>355
>Beginners Guide to Jungian Psychology
How are you liking it? I've only looked over Jungian concepts on Wikipedia but I'm planning to put books about it on my backlog.

>>2138
I'm about half way through As I Lay Dying. Faulkner is incredible at capturing the country aesthetic.

currently reading:
As I Lay Dying
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Princess of Mars
Bird By Bird (writers guide)
and re-reading Madame Bovary

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