What REAL literature are you reading now?

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I was on a Pynchon bent for a while but had to take a break. Been going through William Faulkner book-by-book now -- almost finished Absalom, Absalom after having read The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. All books are beautiful in their own rights; I don't know what I'd recommend for a "first text" of his.

 

[kohelemon]

I read the lord of the rings all year long. But, I started some Star Wars EU books. Got like 100 of em, I think it's time to reread!

 

[ieatass69]

1984 lol
probably metamorphosis next after I'm done
was never a fan of traditional literature, I prefer light novels

 

[ExarchOfAfrica]

The Dogs by Ivan Nazhivin. Apparently its a collection of stories about the Russian Revolution told from the perspective of dogs

 

[casgar]

I was reading a 2014 Honda civic's owners manual but currently im reading Merchant of Venice which is noice imo .

 

[TestAddress]

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. It was horrible sh!te like the "Emergence" of Shindo L.

Those are torture n poen both.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Currently reading The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. It was horrible sh!te like the "Emergence" of Shindo L.

Those are torture n poen both.

Kafka...
Still am traumatized from having to have read the german version of the trial.
I was downright physically repulsed from that work.

 

[TestAddress]

1984 lol
probably metamorphosis next after I'm done
was never a fan of traditional literature, I prefer light novels

Animal Farm is a quicker read 📚 . Same author, and same story too. Just dressed differently.

 

[TestAddress]

The Dogs by Ivan Nazhivin. Apparently its a collection of stories about the Russian Revolution told from the perspective of dogs

Dogs 🐕 you mean the servants of the royal family who escaped by a miracle because they were caught, slaughtered, murdered underhanded by the Bolsheviks.

 

[ieatass69]

done with 1984. it's, uhhh, not what I expected. didn't really teach me anything new. considering some jp works instead, a bit lazy to read metamorphosis.

 

[OisE]

done with 1984. it's, uhhh, not what I expected. didn't really teach me anything new. considering some jp works instead, a bit lazy to read metamorphosis.

Now you can read Fahrenheit 451!

 

[Disappointment_Child]

Currently reading Strange Weather in Tokyo. I kind of want to read People’s Republic of Walmart next but it changes based on the day.

 

[djtws4e]

comeon people, give kafka some more love! metamorphosis is like, black comedy

anyways i started reading 'all the pretty horses' by cormac mccarthy, and it was written with such brilliant prose i put it down because i felt i wasn't appreciating it enough

 

[ieatass69]

Now you can read Fahrenheit 451!

the name alone kinda deters me from reading it already lmao. Celcius masterrace. Why not Celcius 232?

 

[OisE]

the name alone kinda deters me from reading it already lmao. Celcius masterrace. Why not Celcius 232?

Because this is the temperature when paper starts burning alone and you can't find the paper's ashes after it. (iirc)

It's good, I swear!

And the author was from the states (maybe) so it's in Fahrenheit...💀

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

comeon people, give kafka some more love! metamorphosis is like, black comedy

I had to read the trial.
Kafka is not getting ang love from me.

 

[beep_repair]

Kafka...
Still am traumatized from having to have read the german version of the trial.
I was downright physically repulsed from that work.

Aw, sadge for Frange. He was the soul of his adult century: sickened and horrified yet faintly bemused, like all true persons of culture. Love him much, esp. The Trial, "The Metamorphosis", "The Penal Colony" (speaking of torture porn), and "A Country Doctor", which is probably the first David Lynch movie.

ANYWAYS:

• I recently read A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, in which M. TItular spends his entire adult life in a hotel room. Action-packed! While it may be too genially disposed to clear the REAL literature bar, I enjoyed it a good deal and hereby submit it for the Academy's consideration.
  
  
• Before that, I read Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz due to having got a discarded library copy from the supermarket charity bin for a dollar (never checked out lolsob). In the manner of its season, I found it pensive, chilly, and rather less than reassuring. Adrift on the Nile is still my fave by the author.
  
  
• At present, a copy of Flannery O'Connor's collected short stories sits on a pile of unspun records by the chair into which I funnel clean laundry. I dunno though... Fanservice beckons.

 

[asdfgh1111]

the name alone kinda deters me from reading it already lmao. Celcius masterrace. Why not Celcius 232?

Celsius is for plebs, loser and worst of all Europeans. Kelvin is the one true masterrace. Get bullied nerd!
Also I'm reading Starship Troopers.

 

[pastelbandaid]

Metamorphosis was an absolute fever dream to read... By the end of it, I honestly wanted to punt the guy's whole family into the stratosphere!!

Currently reading The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, Reassuring Tales by Ted Klein, The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers, and Maldoror and The Complete Works by Comte de Laureamont. It's more fun to have a couple of books to juggle between reading!

 

[Dutchmangareader]

I have been reading Christopher G. Nuttall -> The serie Schooled in Magic. Just finished book 24 Child of Destiny and book 25 I didn't obtained yet so I am going to start with the spin off Stuck In Magic.
Schooled in Magic is about a young girl who is summoned to another world and becomes a protege of a powerfull wizard. I can highly recommend this writer because he is versatile in his writing of other genres also. SciFi and Space but I'm more interested in Magic, so after Tolkien and Rowling I found Nuttall a good successor for books on magic.