>>5616 Kiki's delivery Service and Kamogawa Shokudo In a few days I will start Hundred Line too

Forty Millenniums of Cultivation my first cultivation novel, i fear unless i find a really good one i'll be disappointed compared to how much fun this one has mashing together sci-fi and the cultivation genre. luckily it's so long i will probably not be done with it before the year is through. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes nuff said

I'm currently reading anons' posts. I might read Forty Millenniums of Cultivation because anon made it sound really good, even if I know she's like a 40 years old winehag or something bizzare like that.

>>5630 Forty Milleniums and Lord of the Mysteries are the best cultivation novels you can find out there

Three Body problem. Chinese sci fi about first contact. Absolutely depressing outlook on the future of humanity, including Total Soyboy Death.

Starting it RIGHT NOW! Thanks anon.

>>5636 i'll tuck that recommendation under my hat for future perusal

avoid redemption of time I don't understand the kind of hubris to write this crappy fanfic and claim it to be part of the series

editing my manifesto it's 🔥

Le morte Darthur

I just finished "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy" Very accurate commentary from the 1990s about the struggles of today

>>5616 I just finished "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky. Truly, a book only a Russian man could write. I wouldn't really recommend it myself because even though it's got very interesting characters and overarching story, the writing is a too long winded for me. I almost dropped it in the first 200 pages because of that, but if you look past it there's a lot of good here. Maybe this shouldn't have been my first book by Dostoevsky. I almost feel like this book is a crystallization of the author's personal beliefs, and without some context on the author himself from other books/his biography, I am missing parts of the story.

>>5784 No, that's just how he writes, I'm afraid. You should still try Crime & Punishment, maybe even Demons, but I dropped Karamazov Brothers 1/3 in of the same reasons.

>>5784 The Idiot is the best of Dostoevsky's body of work so in that sense starting with the best is a waste. On the bright side, you don't need to read anything else from him now because you experienced him at his best.

>>5784 I have only read notes from underground but >>5793 is probably right with it is just how he writes. I find it captivating but I understand how it can be off putting.

>>5616 Currently reading the latest chapter of this sloppa. Basically- /biz/-/jp/ anon gets isekaied into being a little girl in an alternate history Japan. Too bad it has a big confusion on what it's trying to be. Alt-history? Otome-game villainess slop? /biz/? Alt-history parts can't be appriciated if you're not a japanese history buff/economic history buff, /biz/ parts get old pretty fast too, since the /biz/ part goes likes this: >we merge karafuto bank with dingdonglingledong bank, this somehow deletes debt. >general manager tonegawa, do it for me. >"yes ma'am" >also i'm a singer and professional movie star in kintergarten it's got its moments especially in the first volume, but the more i read the more i get dissapointed at the wasted potential.

Going to read a fancy translation of the Zhuangzi in my mothertongue.

>>5818 Let us know if it's any good, I'm kind of curious. >>5645 I read the first book, I heard such bad things about 2nd and 3rd book I ended up dropping it preemptively... peer pressure...

>>5820 I thought the 2nd and 3rd book were also pretty cool

>>5820 Brainlets probably. Second book was based, I'm on the third one right now and it's pretty great as well.

>>5833 Or perhaps you are just easily entertained

>>5834

any lit rpg fans? I have been going through the wandering inn as they come out on audible

Just finished Mijikanamonogatari, moving on to mazemonogatari.

>>5820 Second book is the best one.

>>5820 the first is still great but has the weakest concept and story. -weakest by the standard of the following books. for me it was a great read but even if you feel like it is a slog to read trough I would recomend to push trough just as a set up for the second book

>>5904 The first book is more like a mystery because no one really knows what's going on until the end, whereas the other two are about dealing with the threat. So I'd say it's the most structurally different.

I have books that I read but I don't feel comfortable discussing them in any sort of detail, I'm afraid that I might get something wrong or misinterpret something because I forgot a detail

>>5946 Without describing the book, what is in your opinion the best book you read last year?

Reading the Pickwick Papers now, I'm gonna be Dickenspilled by the end of the year. I'll also keep reading Classroom of the Elite, it's pretty good for a light novel series. >>5784 The Idiot is like a refutation to Crime and Punishment, which is like the answer arc to Notes From Underground's question arc. Dosto's mature career is all about developing his ideas on human psychology, his works build into one another. It wasn't the best place to start, but the final crystalization of his ideas isn't until Brothers K.

>>5946 kek, you're literally me

I'm reading the Brothers Karamazov, P&V translation. Coming off the back of Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner, I'm actually enjoying how simple and explicit it is so far. Even though I really think a good stream of consciousness is an incredible experience, I think I also like more straight forward narratives as long as they have strong characterisation. I'm not that far into it yet, but Brothers Karamazov is feeling a bit like a morality play.

I'm reading detective stories to boost my theories in Umineko

"Linoa by the Window." A new manga with european style.

>>5616 I just started up The King in Yellow following my first playthrough of Signalis where the book seems to be a major background element.

>>6236 I wish I lived in the Europe Japan imagines Europe to be.

俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！ Original text because >localizations

I am reading House of Leaves now and what. the. actual. fuck.

I just started reading Ooe. I heard it's the new vn kamige. It's BL but I will skip the gay parts and continue reading it for the story.

>>5818 based and wuwei pilled

I'm gonna start ten little niggers

Kino

>>6888 IFLUG

What is the The Lighthouse of literature?

>>6888 HFK

>>7421 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

>>7421 The Lighthouse by Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Bloch

I am rereading Musashi for the fifth time

>>5616 What are the definitive /mjg/ moege?

>>8204 Mashiro-iro Symphony: Sana Edition

>>8062 I should check the book of the five rings but i keep procastinating on that. Musashi one of my favourite book as well.

>>8333 Too late, I decided to go for Love Loco instead.

I finished reading Shadow of the Sun. Kapuscinski provides a very close look at the state of the entire African continent throughout the mid 20th century when they were breaking free from European colonization. The English translation was excellent and I was gripped the entire time. His accounts go further than just staying with the wealthy, he goes out of his way to stay with local tribes and see the less glamorous parts of the continent. If you're interested in post-Colonial Africa then it is probably the best primary source.

>>5616 I'm rereading 1984 since it's been a hot minute since the last time I did, and I've really lost the stomach for this kind of horror. I can handle a lot but any kind of mundane sadness is uncomfortable, maybe its too relatable.

>>6448 I have paper version of the book and got about 50 pages in, before I realized that it's the slowest I ever read any book, just because of sheer amount of nuances, details and traps the writer planted to catch the reader off guard. I postponed it for later when I get a bit more familiarity with reading heavy english books. For the time being, I'm going through the printed works of 'qtnm', one of OG SCP creators, his novels are interesting mix of high sci-fi with sheer brutality and down-to-earthness of Tarantino movies. https://qntm.org/vhitaos - this assortment of short stories is good starting point, you can read it online for free or buy in paper.

>>8951 I am incapable of reading book in english outside of ln. I don't know why i find it so unpleasant, evrything flow so much better and clearly in my home language. [spoiler]i am downloading the lord of the rings in english, I will see if am a lost cause [/spoiler]

I hate literature

>>6448 >hear about this book >hmm, let me download a copy and check it out > consider me interested, but not enough to go outside and visit a book store

>>9080 is not hard to flow better and be more clear than english

>>8360 I remember disliking that, but maybe it had more to do with the translation.

>>9085 Libraries are still a thing and you should use them

>>9085 Buy an e-reader, you'll never need to leave your house or spend money on books again

For nonfiction, A History of Private Life Vol 1. So far I have learned that the Romans didn't give a shit about blood ties when considering family and kids were mostly raised by nurses or tutors. At the same time a grown man couldn't sign contracts, pursue careers, or control his own money without paternal consent and wasn't considered a real adult Roman until his father died, which helps explain all the patricide they had going on. For webnovel shit, I am mostly caught up on I’m an Infinite Regressor, But I’ve Got Stories to Tell. This is probably the best gookslop webnovel I have read, much better than his previous work SSS Suicide Hunter which I dropped fairly early on. The MC's funny autistic obsession with referencing Romance of the Three Kingdoms all the time makes me want to get around to that. >>5655 I can second LotM as the best chink webnovel I have read. Haven't gotten around to the sequel though.

>>9875 I remember taking a classics class on private lives in Greece and Rome and learning about all drinking games that ancient greeks would do at their symposion. The Greeks and Romans lived pretty wild lives.

>>6742 ok I finished it and found it quite an exciting read, though some of the details of the culprit and how he had committed the murders are pretty farfetched and rely on contrived logic and plot convenience. Nice to see what inspired Umineko though.

>>5620 Finished reading the Hundred Line short story, it was decent but the translator is clearly not used to literary translation much. Hiruko best girl confirmed but I knew that much already. Also mahjong mentioned in the game.

>captain told us to read Moby Dick in preparation for our theme Is there a short version I can skim through?

>>10998 Read the /lit/ annotated version.

you will read all the whole whale enciclopedia and you will like it

I read The Odyssey!

>>11001 Was the journey worth it?

I read The Stranger last week. Didn't expect it to be about a literal autist. [spoiler]I related really hard to the part where he thinks he could probably get used to living in a cell forever because there's so much to think about that one could simply spend the rest of their life living inside their own head.[/spoiler]

>>11005 >spoiler That's why I never understood that hearsay about nobody succeeding to stay in the most soundproof room ever created for one or two hours. I can stay focused on my own thoughts for hours while ignoring the outside world completely but apparently not everyone is capable of that.

>>11006 ^ I don't get it either. The people who have tried it always cite that it's eerily silent. I suppose it's a similar thing to "presence" in films, where you record the silence of the rooms the movie takes place in, because if you put a different silence recording over the room it sounds strange.

>>11001 Thoughts on it? Personally, I didn't like it as much as the Illiad. Not even close.