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>>7521763
I am listening to music. Fuck off, David. You're dead.

>>7521763
Calvino is too damn inspiring to read all at once. I really wanted to finish that damn book before the new year too, but I have to put it down after every fucking chapter.

>>7521784
If on a winters night a traveler?

As every year since I was born: The Bible.
Any other book is for contrarians and degenerates.

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Here's my reading list for 2015. Still reading the Bible, probably won't be done with that for a while.

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I read much less than I wanted to this year.
>Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,Joshua Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
>The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian
>nine stories
>The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need
>200+ poems and 100+- short stories for school

As of now, my life is complete.

Also - I hereby announce this to be the death of literature and literary sense. No literature is literally needed after this bad boy. It has everything and nothing at the same time. It is the perfect static and a cultural mashup of everything. It is the dankest sphere known to man. The Hypersphere!

First of all:
Thank you for this wonderful experience. We're published now! I've been writing on this project since the first thread and I've had so much fun. I love you /lit/.

If you catch anything that is wrong in the PDF or BOOK I'll do my best to fix it. I'll link to the google doc I used for generating the PDF in a bit.

Feel free to start your own lulu accounts and sell it yourselves, I claim no sole ownership and neither should you.

>>7497314
Congratulations, /lit/. Our Ulysses come.
Thank you, tripeditor, Sam, Bottleman, Egotist and much more for contributing.

>>7473067
Nevermind it's not a torrent, URL fooled me

>>7473062
Fuck, thanks anon.

>>7473062
>If anyone's got Jung's Red Book
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/NroYdSmp/file.html

>>7524241
The campfire glowed the faces of the band, their cold red faces made redder by the light. Behind them, each wrapped in their own thick fur, lay nothing but darkness and snow and the wilds of the night. Only the newcomer did not wear a fur and no one offered. He was of slight build, more slender than any other man gathered, wearing only Spring-leathers. He sat cross-legged, smoking a short pipe. Only a few hours before, before the sun had sank beneath the hills, he had approached them as they made their camp. Turning him away seemed certain death, so they had let him stay. Menon the White was first to speak over the crackle.

“You said you’d been comin’ from the east.”

The newcomer, spoke without removing the pipe. “Yes.”

“Tell us what you will of it.”

“For one, it isn’t quite so cold. I may have made a poor decision coming so far. There, the world burns. King Aramand has sent his men into the steppes to cull the horsemen. He comes next for the Shore people. His killing never ends.”

Swillen Swann spoke, “So ye came fer greener pastures and found nothing but white.”

“It’s a welcome reprieve truth be told, but I will be headed back shortly if I am where I ought to be.” He paused taking a deep pull on his pipe before removing it from his mouth, and speaking through a lungful. “I was told I’d find a man here who wears the scars of the White Dragon Thrawn. I’m to take him back.”

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times up, not satisfying end

>>7524236

I'm incompetent. Precisely because I'm incompetent I will try this.

>>7524236
rolling

Jesus.

Lenny.

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>>7525630
Jesus was a rapist. The evidence for this is on equal ground as that of his existence. Raping =/= innocence.

They won't disappoint, they're very entertaining.

Just watch the series instead

>>7525244
It's long, but it's easy to read so you should be able to finish it quickly. You won't waste a lot of time in just seeing for yourself weatehr you like it or not.

My writing teacher complained a lot that I was just copying Pynchon and DFW, so probably them.

>>7525042
Homo faglord

PKD because of style and focus on metaphysical themes.

>>7525003
i could imagine this being played at the ball scenes in Northanger Abbey

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olWG6jiMV0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3BmBHAJ-c

Marx and Foucault changed the way I view the world a little bit. Paradise Lost was the most beautiful thing I've ever read. I enjoyed Demons even more than TBK and C&P.

i'm 2/3 done with Moby-Dick, so i'll count it
Carpenter's Gothic blew my mind
Ed the Happy Clown was perfect surrealist comix
Jacques Maritain's philosophy of education was A+ shit and Education at the Crossroads is a brilliant piece of philosophy
W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folks was immense. The writing had such a religious power that i couldn't stop reading.

Favorites in no particular order:

>Stoner
4chan has never been more right about a book. Interesting, as I usually don't enjoy /lit/ meme books (Notes from Underground, Lolita).

>The Corrections
Probably just liked it so much because of personal experience, but still, definitely Franzen's strongest work.

>Ender's Game
Went out and bought a nice copy after reading the ebook, jumped up to my top 5 easy, fun reads. Could not put this down, holy shit.

>Master and Margarita
My first real introduction to Russian Literature. It was fun discussing it with my Polish immigrant grandfather who read it when it was new.

Final book count for the year is 27, including IJ and an attempt at Anna Karenina, so I'm fairly happy with my year.

>>7523975
How many languages do you know OP?

>>7523977

I'm mainly a beginner. I can get by in Russian, French, Romanian, Italian, Turkish and Arabic.

>>7523982
Bullshit

What translation?

>>7523861
english.

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>>7523863

Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Magic Mountain
Man Without Qualities
Women and Men
The Recognitions
JR
The Sot-Weed Factor
Giles Goat-Boy
Miss Macintosh, My Darling
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Bible
Mason & Dixon
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Knausgaard's My Struggle
Against the Day
Finnegans Wake
Game of Thrones
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Robinson Crusoe
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare
The Bhagavad-gita
Heart of Darkness
Anatomy of Melancholy
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
The American Heritage Dictionary
The International Thesaurus of Quotations

>>7523799
Pretty much

i don't know. some plutarch, some literary criticism on shakespeare is all i have in mind, i don't make lists like that.

>>7523739
Pic related is the only children's/ YA book series worth making a thread over.

MEMES

>>7523739
>the fedoracles of narnia

>>7523648
Then the canon will never change.

>>7523648
Why is time spent readimg the canon better spent than time reading garbage? Either way you are going to die.

>>7523659
>living reading garbage is the same as living reading classics