No.13546
What books are you plebs reading?
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No.13549
I told myself "I've really got to buckle down and stick to Against the Day," but then I got bogged down around the 200's and 300's and did almost no reading for a month, so I dropped it for now and picked up a few more books. My backlog grows, but so does my reading volume.
Currently reading The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Not my favorite Mishima so far but still enjoyable.
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No.13551
Just finished The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco.
Trying to read Mussolini's Giornale di Guerra in italian. I suck at Italian but I need to improve.
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No.13552
4 volume Lovecraft collection
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No.13554
There's been some recent banter back and forth about various series from famous authors. I'm especially unenthusiastic toward the towering endless door-stopper series favored by big name authors.
Occasionally, the works of the lesser known and much lower ambition might hook me into their series. It's time for me to take a break and dive in to the silly end of the spectrum.
And so ….
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No.13556
>>13549
Against the Day is amazing, but you have to be on board with both his general style as well as the specific historical setting to appreciate it. I rate it as one of my favorite novels, and one of Pynchon's best.
This stands in odd contrast with Gravity's Rainbow, for which I had similar problems as you described. I read about a quarter of it and lost interest. I'm not going to pick it up ever again, period. Gore Vidal wrote an amusing, relatively brief back handed review that can be consolidated such: "As was demanded of me by the mavens of book-chat land, I finally finished GR. Ho hum." He used GR as a touchstone of all that was wrong with the path postmodern novels were taking.
Where you are otherwise willing to accept a reading challenge, yet that challenge turns into a pure slog without respite, seek a worthier challenge. Drop it; move on. You are still to be counted in good company for trying. There are far too many other works waiting to reward your efforts. Some are even to be found merely from a different work of the same author.
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No.13557
One Hundred Years of Solitude, and assorted Marx and Lenin.
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No.13571
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No.13588
>>13546
Just a bunch of Shakespeare plays and the Remains of the Day.
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No.13677
The Brothers Karamazov, I'm a litpleb so I just started somewhere. I think it's quite good so far
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No.13679
>>13546
Rereading Le Surmâle by Alfred Jarry and finishing Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique.
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No.13681
Horns, by Joe Hill.
I wanted something light and kinda weird or spooky and this was the first thing I found in the tsundoku pile. Haven't seen the movie but the book is pretty good. The foreshadowing is quite heavy though, it's kinda hard not to know what's going to happen.
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No.13689
>>13546
Today, I stumbled across an exceedingly weird utopian novella entitled: ''Can a Man Live Forever?"
I should be through and done with it by late tonight, or early tomorrow.
It reads like …? Well, how to describe it? In a way Stephen King can never hope to be, J. Emile Hix is utterly horrifying.
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No.13691
Shout at the Devil, by Wilbur Smith. Not sure how I feel about it so far, to be honest, but I'm barely a third of the way through it.
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No.13692
I'm juggling The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and Storm of Steel.
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No.13714
The way of the superior man
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No.13786
I'm looking at my backlog and adding more books to it on a weekly basis. I work so much it's hard to find time. I'm posting this now before I go to work.
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No.13790
The Great Purple Hoo-Ha, Part 2 by Philip Faber.
Pretty good.
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No.13793
I'm currently going through "The top 100 sci-fi" audiobooks (random torrent I found). RIght now, I'm in the middle of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein (guy who wrote 2001).
I've really come to appreciate how well all these writers take a seemingly simple idea and make them so interesting.
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No.13794
I've put it off for about 8 years now but I'm finally almost finished with The Idiot. I regret putting off some other books until I finish it, especially ones that are referenced in The Idiot itself, but this book has taunted me for nearly a decade.
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No.13796
>>13794
I made it to the halfway mark in The Idiot when I was staying at a monestary. I will probably finish it in a few years from now. Really delicate character studies therein.
Yes this is pleb tier reading but I've been reading Crime and Punishment for almost a decade. I just cherish Raskolnikov so much. I don't really even want to know what happens to him. I usually stop reading afte /that/ happens. I just love the descriptions of how fucked everything is in the whole city. It's great.
Also thumbing through Kafka's Castle. I did not understand a word of it the first time I read it, but this time I have an entirely different view because I've actually been through Beurocracy Hell.
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No.13805
>>13546
I'm balancing two books currently;
Legendary Blue Smoke by Philip H. Faber – decent enough, a fun light read.
Finneganns Wake by James Joyce – remarkably fun, though I only read two pages(or so) at a time, it really energizes my willingness to language.
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No.13817
>>13796
The Idiot didn't really click for me until I read a quote from Dostoevsky about it, which I found on the back of an older copy of the book:
>The chief idea of the novel is to portray the positively good man. There is nothing in the world more difficult to do, and especially now. All writers… who have tried to portray the positively good man have always failed… The good is an ideal, but this ideal, both ours and that of civilized Europe, is still far from having been worked out. There is only one positively good man in the world - Christ.
It's amazing I can't find this quote online.
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No.16886
>> 13793
Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001 friend. I hope you receive this in 2017.
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