/lit/ - Literature

>>19895252

>>19895268
it was the first book ive read by him, honestly mediocre
are other PKD novels better?

>>19895252
Tempted to read this book. What's it like?

>>19895252
Silly medieval soap opera.

>>19895305
generic romance novel written for 40+ year old femcel cat w*myn

Kafka on the shore

>>19895252
For Whom The Bell Tolls. Hemingway is a bitchbaby that is more focused on his man-angst than on writing a good book.

>>19895292
Only other one I’ve read is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and only read that because I like Blade Runner.

>>19895439
Was it any good? I have it on my TBR but haven't heared anything of it.

>>19895305
I liked it, but largely because it's an M/M romance and I'm a fag.

>>19895252
My answer.
>>19895361
Dropped this too. The Sun Also Rises was so good but Bell was boring. Haven't tried Farewell to Arms yet.

>>19896055
>filtered by intro-level Faulkner
ngmi

>>19896066
Faulkner is a faggot and the book was boring

>>19895292
I really liked the man in the high castle

I always think I'm going to love Joseph Conrad but I find him so boring to read for whatever reason

>>19896605
good to hear because i have this one in print. should read sometime soon

>>19895252

It was as awful as I expected.

>>19895292
K. Dick books are badly written fever dreams or "psychic drugs lmao".
I never understood why he is so highly regarded, the characters are not interesting, his stories make no sense and the setting is barely exposed.

>>19896594
Maybe you should stick with anime or video games and leave literature to adults

>>19896039
>reading M/M written by women
you're not just a fag. you're a complete faggot.

>>19895305
It's like it was written by a woman, which it was.

I'm convinced people just pretend to like this one because everyone else pretends to like it.

Yall sleeping on Song of Achilles, that shit bussin

>>19896594
If you had understood the book, you wouldn't have found it boring.

>>19896763
I want to read him, but I can't shake this obsessive fear that I'm getting filtered every time I turn the page.

>>19895252
I hate those comments on the cover. They say nothing of substance, sound pretentious and don't make me want to read the book.
And to answer OPs question:
The Darkness that came before

>>19897666
fr fr

>>19897758
That is typical of all quotes that publishers decide to shit up a cover with.

>>19897598
>>19897676
>bro like... did you know aunt mae died
No shit, she died? Whoa incredible, such deep writing. Barely readable but so deep and insightful! Wow!

>>19896763
He was ESL anon. I loved reading him when I was younger but always found it hard work.

>>19897920
I know. Does't make it better. I think they're insulting to the reader and the author

>>19895252
every woman I know owns this book

>>19897930
Try Joyce

>>19895305
Gay-fiction for yaoi-girls who into fanfiction and classics

>>19897975
>every woman I know

Not sayin much here.

>>19898107
Yeah I admit that it was a hyperbole, I meant every woman I am close enough to talk about our interests of books.. so maybe like 17

Dropping a book you've already started is midwit shit.

>>19898114
You have an absurdly large family

>>19898124
good one

>>19898128
Thank you

>>19898124

>>19897654
I thought I was the only who thought this. Granted I read the English translation, so that may have been part of the problem, but wow such a miserable slog

Jung and Crowley's Biography

>>19897654
90% of LIFE

>>19895305
It's like Mary Renault if she was a boring piece of shit that huffed paint

Easily the most pozzed book I've ever read. Total cuckold shit

Bleak House by Dickens

I can't fucking stand how this pretentious faggot writes.

War and Peace
Ada, or Ardor

Maybe I'm just retarded but these Russian novels with 800 characters and 5 different names/titles for each are impossible to follow

>>19895252
I started Song of Achilles and was enjoying it but then I ended up having to drop it for lack of time because I got caught up in something else. What can I say, I'm a shameless fujoshi.

>>19895292
Ubik and Galactic Pot Healer I liked, also Flow my tears police man said, and his VALIS trilogy

>>19897617
Can you recommend me patrician M/M lit please?

>>19899130
>Maybe I'm just retarded but these Russian novels with 800 characters and 5 different names/titles for each are impossible to follow
This. It was mildly annoying when they used Rodya/Rodion/Raskolnikov without introducing us to his full name beforehand. And there are fucking 2 characters with the same name(Petrovich). Well crime and Punishment was still easy to follow as it was not that long but man Tolstoy write thick books.

>>19899130
I'm an actual brainlet, who struggles to understand basic philosophy. But even i could keep the characters from war&peace in my smooth brain

>>19895453
NTA, but I read it and it sucked. Not completely though. Last 2 dozen of pages was just stupid nonsense.

>>19898038
Ok, but is it well written?

>>19899932
I didn't read it but Maurice by E. M. Forster is gay.

No, I'm not going to read 400 pages of garbage so that I can afterwards read a *possibly* better book.

>>19895252
I liked picrel but I got the gist the chapter before the last. at that point I was like "sigh, I get the fucking point."

>>19899932
Can't go wrong with Wingmen.

>Song of Achilles and Neil Gaiman shit will replace Hamilton's Mythology and Bulfinch's Mythology as the definitive introduction for high schoolers in your lifetime

>>19895252
Rene Guenon - Crisis Of The Modern World. Call me a brainlet all you want, but there's nothing I was going to get out of that book. Sentence structure is fucking horrible (engl. translation), and this guy really just makes unsubstantiated claims and I'm supposed to just believe it.

>>19895252
Your first mistake OP was reading anything recommended on “BookTok”, “Bookstagram” or “BookTube”

>>19895292
He has really good ideas, but was in too much of a hurry to publish them because he needed the money. As a result, the ideas are intriguing but not well developed.

CAN YOU FUCK OFF MY BOARD YOU FUCKIGN NEWFAGGOTS

>>19900849
I started browsing this week friend unironically. Enjoying the stay.

>>19900963
based

>>19900827
You don't have to use any of those things to be advertised this book. I certainly haven't used any of those things ever and advertisers still push it hard at me.

It's sad that Statius died after having composed only the first two books of the Achilleid. I wanted to know the story of Achilles from childhood, but not a pozzed contemporary iteration of it from a complete lack of source material.

>>19900449
i personally thought children was better than GE

Anyhow, book i dropped picrel. It makes me sad because I really thought it had a very interesting and well written scene in it that i sometimes think back to but then somewhere halfway there is like a 60 page rant that just keeps going without anywhere to reasonably pause.

Totally unrelated im currently reading Atlas Shrugged and can't wait for the John Galt rant :)

>>19900704
You have to believe him because he is one of their guys. While you are supposed to be skeptical of any authority that runs counter to their worldview. That's how it goes here.

>>19899128
You deserve to have your skull smashed in.

I never drop a book.
Can't talk shit about it if I haven't finished it, many books have slow starts and payoffs that are worth it.
Not sticking with things is a zoomer disease.

>>19900996
Who said anything about advertising, I’m just saying if a book is popular on those platforms it’s most likely dogshit

>>19897654
Goddamn what a boring book

>>19900963
Basado

>>19895252
Dropped this after 200-or so pages a few weeks ago, but feeling the strange urge to return to it again. I'm guessing I just wasn't in the right mindspace.

>>19901292
I dropped it too, after 30 pages. I think I'll give it another try soon.

>Revolt Against The Modern World
It enhanced my knowledge of ancient societies but is inherently Nietzschean. Discarded.

>Ride The Tiger
Same reason as above.

>Quran
Worst piece of literature I've read. I finished the second chapter and expected brain damage if I read more.

>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
This was the fist book I wanted to read in English, but dropped it because of its difficulty. Once I read all Christian works I wanted to read I will give it another shot.

>>19899932
Alexander's Choice by Edmund Marlowe

>>19901225
You have to be on those platforms to have a sense that they are popular on those platforms. Anyone who has never used any of those things can still find themselves beguiled into purchasing it. I mean nothing more.

I say this as a person who had a latent interest in it based on the title, through passive exposure to its image, not through engagement via any social media platform, but who discarded it based on its author+year of publication. Anybody else could have easily skipped that second step.

>>19901364
Seems like a Peyrefitte rip off

>>19901389
It's more like a homage / commentary on it. It's about the changing attitudes towards homosexuality and pederasty. Things have changed since Les amitiés particulières was set, but not completely. It's also mainly about a teacher / student relationship rather than student and student.

Also It was written by someone who went to Eton at the same time as Boris Johnson and a lot of other English politicians. And there is speculation that some characters may be based on them. According to the LRB and Daily Mail review.

>>19900849
First time on 4channel. Looks like a great website.
Will be posting my YA collection review every Monday and Wednesday

Motherfuck. I thought my coworker was reading the Illiad because of what he was describing. Apparently this book downplays Athena's relationship with Achilles? Because he was nonplussed when I brought her up. Is it really yaoi faggotry that eschews the gods in favor of buttsex tension?

Dropped Schopenhauers Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung because Schopenhauer wrote that one should be very familiar with Kant before reading it which I wasn't back then. I'll pick it up again though.

The only other book that I dropped (and remember) is Pynchons Against the Day. Never gonna pick that waste of time up again though.

>>19901446
based

>>19897654
It's rather kitsch.
The best parts read like imitations of Borges and Rulfo, the others read like soap opera.

>>19897654
I was surprised by how much pedophilia there was in the book. No one ever talks about that .

>>19901689
Next time include a name and a signature and an email

>>19895252
>book starts by insulting men's height and saying the understood average relative to the time and place is 'short'
women

>>19901957
Kek I felt the same way with John Crowley's "Little, Big". Multi-generational family magical realism and pedophilia, name a more iconic duo.

>>19901225
If they have no taste you'd expect whether a book is popular there to not indicate it's any more or less likely to be good. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.

>>19896055
the sun also rises was shit

>>19896763
i read Lord Jim recently and didn't enjoy it. it was one Conrad book in particular where him being ESL really showed