Winter Break Reading

>>7451737
Tackling Infinite meme

Was gonna read Portrait of the Artist and then Ulysses but I've decided to read 2666 instead.

>>7451737
>The Cannibal
>Mao II as well
>A whole mess of Strindberg
>The Arabian Nights
>Either/Or

>Thoughts?
make a thread when you've actually read one of them and have something to say?

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>>7451737
>The World as Will and Representation
>Bhagavad Gita
>Antifragile
>Brain Lock
excited to read brain lock 2bh because I really struggle with obsessive thoughts.

Has anyone read anti-fragile? What are your thoughts?

>>7451761
This tbfh.

>>7451737
I don't have a winter break per se, since I took an off year, but I did schedule myself for only ~16 hours a week this month to pretend I have one.

So, my list is:

>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
>The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
>The Futurological Congress
>Goodbye Tsugumi
>The Book of Monelle
>Letters to a Young Poet
>The Leopard
>Blaugast
>Nadja

And maybe other things I've been putting off "getting around to" for years.

>>7451746
Hopefully not a translation, or there's really no point.

Lit. Major here, so going to tackle some light reading as a mental break. Probably gonna do

>Beloved
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Discipline and Punish
And maybe
>Absolom, Absolom!

Point Omega
The Name of the Rose
and want to start The Recognitions

>>7451788
lmao don't feed that guy such blatant bullshit. Like 90% of people who've read it have read the translation.

Deez Nuts; A Complete History

>>7451750
>Arabian Nights
You're in for a long, but fun, haul.

For me:
>Think like a freak
>A confederacy of dunces
>Infinite jest

Currently reading Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
after that
The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Tolstoy
The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
then we'll see what Santa left me under the tree

>>7451737
>Don Quixote
>Will to Power
>Fear and Trembling
>Prussianism and Socialism

>>7452063
bump

serious question.

Is Haruki Murakami good and important? Like for example Pynchon, McCarthy, Mishima and Borges?

Or is he bad but people think it's good like Bolaño and Orwel?

is it Mao Two or Mao Second?

>>7452473
He's much worse than Pynchon, McCarthy, Mishima and Borges.
If you're saying Bolano and Orwel are bad I feel sorry that you've swallowed that /lit/ meme.

>>7452473
hes worse than bolano by a long shot
hasnt produced any canonical material at all

>>7451737
Brothers K and David Copperfield, I think, rather appropriate for Christmas holidays and spending time with family, no?

>>7452473
>
this board is fucking horrible

>>7451737
but why only american novels?

>>7451799
You smell like vinegar

Some combination of the following:

D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Philip K. Dick - Radio Free Albemuth

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Philip K. Dick - Radio Free Albemuth

Sylvia Platt - The Bell Jar

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago

summer vacations reading list

Le Clezio - Procès-Verbal
Nietzsche - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Linkola - Can Life Survive?

that's it. don't think I'll get to finish it all

>>7453882
I have no clue how this happened other than that my phone is a piece of shit.

>>7453842
you shut the fuck up

>>7454036
no

Mellvile - Moby-dick (actually have read half of the book before, but had to put it away because of school)

Delillo - Angel Esmeralda

Nietzsche - Untimely meditations

And maybe something more, it will depend on time.

Starting with the Greeks.

Reading an overview first though.

>>7451737
>not going to finish over winter break/10

>>7451766
>what/10

>>7451799
>Light reading
>Discipline and Punish

I hope you're familiar with Foucault because his writing is esoteric as fuck. Its not impenetrable but it takes getting used to at least.

>>7451856
kek

>>7452473
>Orwell
>Bad
>>>/out/

I could certainly see thinking of him as overrated, but Orwell is objectively a good writer, and objectively contributed some great books/essays. Unless your base-line to consider someone average is someone like Fitzgerald or Hemingway than idk how this even happens.

>>7453882
Read Lawrence before? I finished Women in Love a few weeks ago, strangely written book. Lawrence can come off as almost intolerably pretentious, but he also has some very evocative and interesting prose as a product of that. He overdevelops and repeats things i think too....

>>7453888
gl nigga.

>Mine
Blood Meridan, Tender is the Night, and maybe some essays here and there like Unibus Plurum, death of the author and shit like that.

>>7452501
It's Mao Eleven

>>7454095
>>what/10
what's so strange about those book choices, senpai?

>>7454111
Just wasn't familiar with any of them except Schopenhauer

>>7454115
ah, ok.
Is Schopenhauer hard to understand without prior reading? The world as will is basically going to be the first philosophy book that I'll read that isn't about Stoicism.

>>7454124
Don't think so. I read a few of his works for a course a while back, I find his writing -despite being in translation- is quite accessible. I mean, nihilistic philosophy is generally pretty idiotic imo, but as a writer he conveys his ideas very clearly from what I remember.

Unless you're setting up some type of grandiose architecture like Nietzche, the goal of philosophy should be to get your idea across clearly, and he does that well from what I remember.

Schopenhauer is basically a starting point for his strain of thinking, although there are certainly other classical philosophers who predate him on other stuff.

>American pastoral
>Call of the wild
>The good war : an oral history of World War Two
>What it takes : the way to the White House
>The naked and the dead
>A Sense of where you are : a profile of William Warren Bradley

>>7454150
I see, thanks. I was kinda shying off getting it because I assumed I need other reading but now I feel better if schopenhauer's ideas are conveyed clearly.

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White Noise - >
Time's Arrow - >
If on a Winter's Night - >
V.

Dunno how many I'll get through. Basing the order on the postmodern professor who posted about building a good pomo foundation with the above books. Since I'm a slow reader, I probably won't finish White Noise by spring semester.

>>7451737
The New Testament. Some Marcion of Sinope and T.S. Eliot's Christianity and Culture.

Stoner
Every man dies alone

You guys must be fast readers.

>current year
>reading

>The Sword and the Shield
>Supergods
>Wise Blood
>A light in august

Maybe Leaves of Grass (but I have no idea which edition), Master and Margarita, or a more contemporary novel (Gilead or Let the Great World Spin) - Any opinions on these?

>>7451746
2666 is fucking beautiful, but definitely read Portrait at some point.

>>7454179
If you're not even gonna finish one, just read V. Its way more whacky pomo than White Noise, plus the 3rd and 4th chapters are some of the best reading you'll do in a while.

>>7456609
This break I was gonna read Thirteen Ways of Looking, Gilead, and Portrait of a Man Unknown. Thirteen Ways of Looking is the new book by the guy who wrote Let the Great World Spin, I picked it up because I liked that book so much. I definitely think you should read that, but I havent read any Robinson either, but I've bought a lot of her books because I've heard she's supposed to be awesome.

But knowing me, I'll probably read some other random book that I'll just pick it up and then be upset that I didn't read good lit.

>>7451737
I'll be happy if I get through the book I've been reading the last 3 weeks desu

gonna finish this year's reading, that is anna karenina and kafka on the shore. then I'm going to get comfy with stuff like mythology, lord of the rings, and the once and future king.

>Moby Dick
>war and peace
>tchekhov tales and plays
Hopefully.

>sphinx
>hero with a thousand faces
>stoner
>a sport and a pastime
>phaedrus

>>7457606
Thanks, really trying to get around to more contemporary lit these days

>>7456333
not me >>7453888
4 books in 3 months, and that's being generous

>>7451782
Tsugumi is /comfy/-tier

>>7451737

Infinite Jest
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (starting with Macbeth).

>>7451744

This to be expressive of my true intentions and feelings, family.

>>7458007
>3 months break
jelly

>>7456240
Be sure to lock the guns in a cabinet beforehand.

>>7458164
well it's summer. don't you get three months in between academic years?
I'll still be working and studying for finals so it's not all fun

>>7452473

I hear he's a one-trick pony. I've only read Kafka on the Shore. I found it rather enjoyable. It's nowhere near as profound as some of the other authors you mention, but not a complete waste of time either.

How come you think Orwell is bad? If you haven't read anything else than 1984, I think you should give him a second shot. Homage to Catalonia is an excellent work.

>>7454176

Much of Schopenhauer's thought is a reaction/further development of Kant, as far as I am informed. Rudimentary knowledge of Kant would probably help a lot.

>>7456333

I will be reading 4-6 hours a day because I wont be going to work. You can manage a lot with that kind of time.

>>7456333
For you.

>Runaway Horses (about 60% done)
>Hunger
>V
>The Brothers Karamazov (about 30% done)

>>7451766
I haven't read Antifragile but I thought the Black Swan one was great, and I work in quantitative finance.

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>>7458283

This, more or less, plus Being and Time, History of the Peloponnesian War, and maybe Anna Karenina

>>7458298
>>7458283

Goddamnit just pretend I didn't reply to you, it was meant as a response to the thread but I forgot to delete the quote.

>>7458298
That's a bit much, anon

>>7459034

Yeah I know, I'm just going to keep it all on my list and get through as much as I can. It's not like I have anything else to do over break.

>>7458137
Yoshimoto seems pretty comfy in general, I have a ton of her books and read one every now and then.

>>7457606
Oh no, I was saying that I may not finish them over the break. Definitely going to complete all of them. Really interested postmodern lit at the moment.

>>7451799
>>Absolom, Absolom!
Also currently reading this, as I'm just on winter break, it's pretty jaw-droppingly beautiful, I can see how Faulkner is a forerunner to Pynchon.

I like how everyone is reading some Delillo. Just read The Names for a class and was pretty smitten, I've also got Libra in my stack that I just picked up.

>>7451766
Antifragile is honestly a joke of a book. He's obsessed with being some sort of philosopher even though he's a risk analyst. Constantly references other thinkers (Lucretius, the Greeks in general, Lacan, etc.) to scaffold his points but honestly the book could be 30 pages, instead it's 500 or so. Hurl-across-the-room-tier desu

Also got Earthly Powers by Burgess and Burmese Days and Homage to Catalonia by Orwell. I'll be damned if I'm only reading 4 books in 3 weeks though, gonna fire up that goodreads to-read backlog and have an orgiastic 2 hours finding a bunch of shit at my school library, also meeting with me mum to go shopping at one of my fav spots and will probably find a bunch of cool stuff for xmas

>>7454095
>Foucault
>esoteric as fuck
Have you read Foucault? The only really difficult texts of his come from his earlier archaeology years. Discipline and Punish is an entertaining and enjoyable read.

>>7451737
finishing 900 pages of quantifiable earnesty

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>>7451737

>Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
>Jan Potocki - A Manuscript found in Saragossa
>Proust - Swann's Way

Winter break is only 1 and a half weeks for me, as I teach.

I'm going to read The Book of the New Sun series, to see if it's as literary as sci-fi/fantasy people claim it is.

A Naked Singularity is great, enjoy it OP

>>7463389
Btw, I will be reading War & Peace, La vie mode d'emploi, and if I have time after those 2 big works then Zeno's Conscience, Middle C, and/or JR. I have 5 weeks so hopefully I'll be able to get in most of those.

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>>7463375
>Jan Potocki - A Manuscript found in Saragossa

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Uni doesn't start until February sometime, so I intend to read at least these.

>>7463567
>Uni doesn't start until February sometime, so I intend to read only one decent book

I'm planning to finish the Divine Comedy and Anna Karenina before Christmas.

>>7463573
and which one would that be?

Aeneid
Some Plutarch
Metamorphosis

But my main goal is to write more.

mathematics from ancient to modern times
demons by dosteovsky
and maybe moby dick

>tfw you have to buy online Mao II because you don´t know how to pronounce it.

Aristotle's Metaphysics
Ulysses
Poetry of William Blake (W.B Yeats Selection)
Othello
Crying of Lot 49

>>7452473
he's good but not important to any school of literature. I'd say his only importance is helping to bring attention to modern Japanese literature, but that's only good if you're big into studying different regions of literature.

However, I have enjoyed his books . You won't find anything profound, but he's an easy read if you want something to simply enjoy and not think too much about.

>>7454150
>I mean, nihilistic philosophy is generally pretty idiotic imo

Good thing he isn't a nihilist then.

>>7463904
Is it the "II" that's tripping you up? It's pronounced "two".

>>7463375
>Jan Potocki - A Manuscript found in Saragossa

oh shit man, I'm about to read this one too. gonna spend a couple weeks with my family and figured this would be a comfy book to take along for the trip.

>>7463904
It is meow without the e.

>>7463896
>and maybe moby dick
You won't regret it.

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I'd like to finish at least 4 and read a 1/3 before Uni starts again.
>Fear and Trembling
>Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Aphromisms
>Butcher's Crossing
>Sanshiro

Finish up Against the Day
V.
Brothers Karamazov
Stoner
The Third Reich - Bolano
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse

>>7460695
>Delillo
every day I think more and more that DeLillo is the most important american author in the last 50 years

>>7457606
>telling someone to pass up White Noise

I'm getting three weeks off so...
Finish Gaiman's Sandman, on volume 3 now
Finish a Sport and a Pastime, nearly finished
Finish Moby Dick, about 400 pages left
Start the Iliad
Start the Book of the New Sun
Maybe read TCOL49 or Their Eyes Were Watching God

>Narcissus and Goldmund
>The Birth of Tragedy (+ some essays on it)
>Billy Budd, Sailor

Those are the big three, though I wouldn't mind trying to find some time to read more of Cosmicomics

>>7460695
I wish Faulkner wrote about stuff that wasn't the pastoral South. There are passages in AA! that make me think he's the greatest writer in history, but I wish he'd something bizarre like Borges or Calvino.

>>7464250
White Noise is a beautiful book but I have a weakness for The Pinch.