ITT: We judge people based off the books they read in 2016: >White

>Count of Monte Cristo
>The Stranger
>Notes from the Underground
>The Plague
>The Iliad
>Storm of Steel

Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I'll probably finish it tomorrow. I think I'll get to the Odyssey after this.

>>7628781
How Does Storm of Steel compare to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Read up to Ithaca at Last in The Odyssey. The rest is pointless.

The Nigger of the Narcisus
Ficciones
A Tale of Two Cities
Now reading Blood Meridian

>>7628747
>Old Man and the sea
>Stoner
>child of God
>A Scanner Darkly

Reading Suttree ATM

I haven't decided what's next; either Iliad, For Whom the Bell Tolls, War and Peace, Dubliners, or Moby-Dick.

My backlog is substantial senpai

i guess i'll do all the judging here

>>7628747
probably no older than early 20s and is just getting into literature.

>>7628781
slow reader

>>7628913
college student

>>7628918
probably works a low wage job

>Agape Agape
>The Pearl
>currently: Why We Can Not Wait
>Next: Fear and Trembling

thus far i've read

>out of the dark by modiano
>naive super by loe
>nobody is ever missing by catherine lacey
>love and eroticism by paz

currently reading missing person by modiano and 2666

>>7628913
Probably likes Dr. Who.

Only have read The Road by McCarthy

>>7628747
Marco Rubio's American Dreams
Tao Lin's Taipei
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse V
Ben Carson's One Nation
About to start Tale of Genji Abridged (._. )

>>7628918
You done acid before and smoke pot regularly.

>>7628944
judging you to be a boring guy, no offense.

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>>7628747
Desires to live out by themselves in the woods.

>>7628781
Ad mist an existential crisis

>>7628913
Frequently stubs his pinky toe

>>7628918
Yells at cats in the street


>A Brief History of Seven Killings
>Mao II
>Mason and Dixon

I work and volunteer a lot so I haven't been able to devour as many books as I often like to.

>>7628956
likes to be punctual

Invisible Cities
Ubik
Some of Hemingway's short stories
The Bloody Chamber
Mondo 2000's guide to the new edge
Grimscribe

>The Tunnel
>The Recognitions
>The Lime Twig
Almost done with A Frolic of His Own.

>>7628926
>low wage job
Thanks, y-you too...
>>7628951
I smoke green pretty rarely desu but I've always wanted to dip LSD.

>>7628956
You've summed me up perfectly, senpai.

>>7628950
You peruse Reddit.

>>7628905
Storm of Steel presents the war from a much different point of view. Junger believes in his duty, and devotes himself to the fight completely. He doesn't waste tears over fallen comrades, or even cringe when somebody in the hole next to him gets ripped apart by a mortar, but that doesn't mean he's cold or emotionless. His basic view is that war is a grisly but necessary endeavor, a noble struggle that burns away weakness and instills humility and respect into civilized men. I highly recommend it, even though it can get dry at some points.

I'm interested to read more of Junger's work. Apparently he was good buddies with Heidegger and Evola, and experimented with a ton of drugs all the way up to his 70s.

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>Paul Auster Screenplays
>Earth-Spirit (Wedekind)
>A Personal Matter
>Blink
>Pandora's Box (Wedekind)
>Thousand Cranes
>Heart of Darkness
>Ficciones
>Do Androids (...) Sheep?
>Letter to his Father (Kafka)

Finishing The Castle, Kojeve intro to Hegel and a Kierkegaard biography...

>>7628781
You seem new here. Those books are good, except Storm of Steel of which I cannot speak (never read it).
I suggest you to check out Camus' The Fall. I thought it was better than Stranger and Plague.

>>7628913
How was A Tales of Two Cities?
I started that book I so far I've had a hard time to get through it. English is not my native language, and often I find myself lost in Dickens' Prose.

>>7628918
Iliad. It's an amazing book, and one of the reason I once tried to learn some ancient greek. According to people who are familiar with the language, Homer is just THAT good. I think a possible problem with the reading is that nowadays we are used to a stress accent while ancient greek had, if iirc, a tonal accent. I think this would make a reading of ancient greek quite musical if properly done.
Read some book on greek mythology first, just to be familiar with the names.

>>7628972
Nice selection, but
>The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato?
I have mixed feelings about him. I read his book The Resistance, but it felt like some old man rambling about the change of things through time - 80 pages to say "everything was better in my youth". I also have a poor opinion of him as a philosopher.

>>7628747
You live with a roommate who loves metal and is a big fan of comic books but appreciates your interests in literature.
>>7628781
Fresh from the top 100 list.
>>7628964
Budding substance abuse problems. Prefers vodka based cocktails. Depression problems from teenage years but fairly friendly. You sound like a cool guy.

>>7628950
you fall for spooks

>>7628956
you're often passed by

>>7628964
you like the cure but you don't know that

>>7628972
you take more notes than are necessary at times

>>7629000
The Tunnel by Gass, silly.

>>7629000
Do you really think that Kafka's letter to his father counts as a book?

Also you can't really finish the castle if Kafka didn't

>Watchers by Dean Koontz
>A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
>Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
>Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Currently reading Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

>>7628992
Interesting, senpai. It's often that we have poets writing about war, people who are broken by it. Cool to see it from a different perspective.

>>7629000
You were a very enthusiastic student in class and were often bullied by your fellow classmates for this, rightfully so

>last: Molloy
>current: La región más transparente
>next: The recognitions and the KJV.
am I gonna get meme/d, /lit/?

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>>7629017
>rightfully so

>>7629015
you will be the oldest one to post in this thread

>>7629008
>you take more notes than are necessary at times
This is accurate.

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>>7629014
>Do you really think that Kafka's letter to his father counts as a book?
There is more stuff in the book. I'm just too lazy to write its full name.

>>7629003
Cheers.

>>7629008
I quite definitely do not like the cure.

>>7629015
You're in high school.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Pnin
This Side of Paradise
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

I'm currently reading Dubliners.

>>7629017
>You were a very enthusiastic student in class
Pretty much the opposite.
I hardly said a word in class, nor show any effort or interesting in anything school-related.

>>7629041
>I quite definitely do not like the cure.
I don't like you.
The Cure is awesome.

>>7629054
Buy me a vodka-based cocktail and I'll agree with you.

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>>7628960
100% correct

>>7629008
Do you mean I'm unnoticeable?

Father and Sons by Turganev (great)
Representative Men by Emerson (alright)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Vidal (not good)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (for a twenty page book? Pretty good. Much better than I expected)
Socrates Defense (alright, no Symposium)
Low (the Bowie album) of the 331/3 series (top notch)
Red Harvest by Hammett (damn near perfect)
The Dhammapada (great)
The Road by McCarthy (a perfect book plus 2 pages)

>>7629069
>plus 2 pages
what do you mean?

>>7629041
why do you think i added that you don't know it? you will probably never know that you do similar to how catholic dark age peasants most likely never figured to gag a woman with their cocks but I guarantee you if they had, they would have liked it.

>>7629046
nah
>>7629024
maybe

>The Secret Agent - Conrad
>The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
>Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
>Peter the Great - Robert Massie
>The Last Lion: Visions of Glory - William Manchester

>Current book: Submission by Houellebecq

>>7629074
Why do you think that I said that knowing that you added that?

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i quit this thread. i judged you all and was completely ignored. i am taking my ball and GOING HOME.

>Dom Quixote (the first book)
>A Juventude do Dragão (Glauber Rocha's biography)
>The Secret Language of Film

I just started the Surrealists Manifestos from Andre Breton.

>>7628747

>Ulysses (finished the last 60 pages in the first couple days)
>Family Ties -Lispector
>Next: hopefully Roadside Picnic or Platonov short stories

I think that's about it. Ulysses utterly drained my desire to read, even though I really enjoyed Lispector.

>>7629065
for some reason I knew that the postmodernism would link you to punctuality. I do not know why.

>>7629083
>I judged you alL
>completely ignored
None of the posts above satisfies the two condition.
Which was your post anyway?

>>7628988
Why would you think I go to Reddit based on that? I have literally not ever gone to that site.

>>7629073

I rambled about it here.

>>7628987

>>7629014
>Also you can't really finish the castle if Kafka didn't
Hey, be grateful that we got anything senpai.

>>7629014
>Also you can't really finish the castle if Kafka didn't
Wrong language game.
"Finish The Castle" in this context means "Read everything Kafka wrote as part of his novel The Castle"

>>7629098
Thanks

I made a post about how you're wrong

>>7628926
>slow reader
Sarcasm, I assume? I mean, I've had nothing better to do during winter break, most days after school, and now this blizzard.
>>7628956
>ad mist an existential crisis
Correct.
>>7629000
>you seem new here
I've been browsing /lit/ daily since last fall, I don't know if that counts as new.
>>7629003
>fresh from the top 100 list
Nah, I was here before that. I'm still new to reading literature, though. Up until this past summer, all I read was Tom Clancy-type stuff. I've been working through the essential stuff since then.

>>7629131
Oh woops...oh well!

>>7629131
Fuck me you read an awful lot of Tom Clancy type wank. You gave four stars to the dresden files?
This must be bait.

>>7629138
>File says No Bully
>You bullied

I beg your pardon? What strikes you as Clancy?

I like Dresden files, but in my defense I gave a bit too many stars to lots of stuff when I first signed up. Oh well!

The Stranger
The Fall
The Plauge
Mother Night
Hunger
Against The Grain
Äldreomsorgen I Övre Kågedalen
Nausea (Sartre is hugely outdated)

>>7629142
Whatever "The Remaining" is, I was literally judging it by its cover.

>>7629120
Noted

>>7629069
Gay guys flirt with you.
>>7629077
You've seriously considered the military as a career.
>>7629086
You can't grow a beard.
>>7629131
1. That's a disgusting amount of bookmarks.
2. You're younger than 21, and have browsed /r9k/ before. You're a STEM major.
>>7629145
You have anxiety issues.

>>7629156
Genre lit. Zombie apocalypse stuff. Surprisingly well done.

>tfw no replies at you
>>7629020
just like in real life haha
haha
ha

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>>7629165
Wrong on all accounts!

Step your game up, son.

>>7629176
which post are you?

>>7628747
Faust I + II
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Currently reading Oblomov

>>7629183
>>7629131

>The Collected Poems Of Friedrich Schiller
>Ethan Frome
>Arms and the Man
>Cartesian Sonata
>Four Screenplays (Ingmar Bergman)

>>7628747

>all these guys who've read 4+ books in the past 26 days

Jesus christ it takes me a month minimum to read a 300 page book

>>7629165
>>7629145

well i'm a bit depressed i guess yeah

The Catcher in the Rye
Lolita book one
Currently reading
Lolita book 2
Infinite Jest.
I'm breaking Lolita up like that to make it seem like I've read more than I have, even though it's really just one book.

>>7629145

Also i just realized i misread the thread, those are the books i've read in the bast 6 months

well that's not fucking fair, I've kept it simple to rest a bit after last year
>Lord of the Rings
>The Squabble
>Naked Lunch
>Solaris
>Ice

Ego and Its Own
Revolt Against the Modern World
Complete works of Esenin

>Tfw slow reader

>Philoctetes
>The Bacchae
>The Waste Land and a couple other Eliot poems
>(most of) Selected Poems of HD
>A bunch of bad short stories written by fellow students of my creative writing class
>One good short story written by a cute British exchange student

Currently reading Gravity's Banana, Aristophanes' Peace, and Thucydides.

Crime and Punishment
Dubliners
The Ego and His Own

>The Brothers Karamazov
>Blood Meridian
>Leviathan
>The Prince
>The Master and Margerita

>>7629358
you're an expert memer

>>7629380
you're not wrong

>Infinite Jest, pages 1-532
>Currently reading: Infinite Jest
>Next Up: Infinite Jest

>The Varieties of Scientific Experience
>The perennial philosophy
>Meditations

>>7629000
>How was A Tales of Two Cities?
I loved it. Spanish is my native language but I read it in English, and even though I struggled with it at first, I got used to his writing style and ended up reading up to 100 pages a day. It fucked up my sleeping schedule. I consulted the Es/En dictionary quite frequently.
Blood Meridian is fucking me up tho. It doesn't just laugh at my meager lexicon, it fucks my dictionary too.

>>7629410
I tried doing that with spanish and Don Quijote, read two chapters before I finally admitted I wasn't understanding shit.

>>7628747
>As I lay Dying
>Economics in One Leason
>Reading Law: An Interpretation of Legal Texts

>Firestarter
>War Dogs
>The Mammoth Hunters
>Currently Reading: The Gunslinger

>>7629165
How the fuck did you know about the beard?

>>7629823
Idk, for some reason I associate surrealism with guys who can't grow beards.

From my Goodreads, not omitting anything (first coulpe were Christmas presents and it would have been rude not to read them):

>The Second Half by Roy Keane
>Roy of the Rovers: The Official Autobiography by Giles Smith
>Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Submission by Michel Houellebecq
>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
>American Pastoral by Philip Roth

>I am Ozzy
>The Black Tulip by Dummas
>War and Peace
Also tried to read The Bourne Identity because a friend told me to, I didn't get far with that one.

>>7629215
its ok, you get faster the longer you stick with it.

America by Baudrillard
Blood Meridian by McCarthy
Still Life with Woodpecker by Robbins
The Selling of the President by McGinniss

>>7629482
And now I'm done with The Gunslinger. I feel like I need to spend an hour in the Dark Tower wiki.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
On the Marble Cliffs
The Glass Bees
The Book of Disquiet
Marcovaldo
Napoleon

Things fall apart, Men without women, Norwegian Wood.
Currently reading: The good soldier Svejk and Love is a dog from hell
Next: maybe some Hamsun idk

>Various screenplays
>Kari Hotakainen - The Classic
>Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
>Kafka's short stories
>Uni textbooks (psychology)

Now reading:
>War and Peace
>Nausea
>White noise
>The Trial

Nothing that hasn't been for class, sadly. Besides my textbooks, two of them being a collection of articles about film noir, and the numerous articles I've read online for class, I've read Nervous Conditions, and am currently on The Half-Inch Himalayas.

>>7630273
Some sort of Third-Positionist/Traditionalist

>>7629371
Studying something related to politic science whose mother recommended Dostoyevsky.
>>7630358
Worries more than you should about your hair. Wants to keep a dream diary but is to lazy.

Me:
>Catch-22
>Lolita
Now reading:
>Zizek: The Sublime Object of Ideology

>>7629945
Probably pretty cool. Has friends and tries their recommendations; reads both classics and topics that interest him; not pretentious. 10/10, friend material.

Mine:

Anthem
Lolita
Pride and Prejudice
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
American Gods

Working on The Sun Also Rises now.

>>7630391
Degenerate leftist, wimpy, skinny, maturbates a lot and doesn't get laid much. HATES Hitler.Wants to suck off immigrants and be pegged.

Read:
Notes from Underground
The Portable Jung
Portable Darkness
Tao Te Ching
Being and Time
Corpus Hermeticum
Myths to Live By

Reading:
History of the Peloponessian War
The Analects

>>7628747
Western Civilization by James Harvey Robinson
Reread The Hobbit
Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor
1913
Something I don't remember

>>7630623
redpilled as fuck. Hates non-whites and women. Slightly overweight

>>7630629
Underweight
pretty redpill
my cat and girlfriend are female. they're alright, kinda dumb
If we came down to "hate", i guess Islam sucks.

Almost done with 1984.
Next book will probably be something by Ligotti.

>>7628747
>jack london
may as well read redwall if you're gonna read books with talking animals, pleb

>>7630507
>Reading Being and Time in less than a month

Top fucking kek

>>7630691

I actually started it in October, but I finished it in January and "read" means "finished" in my mind.

The Sea, the sea - Iris Murdoch
The WInd-up bird Chronicles - H. Murakami
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood

>>7630739
>reading women and non-whites

tumblrina cuckold liberal feminist cultural marxist degenerate detected.

Brainwashed. Leftist. Against whiteness

>Richard Yates - Cold Spring Harbour
>Elmore Leonard - Fire in the Hole (and other short stories)

currently halfway through 2666, The Long Ships and a bunch of Lovecraft stories

So far:
>How To Keep Your Brain Alive
>Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Currently:
>Learn To Read Music

In the list:
>The Jefferson Bible
>Assgoblins of Aushwitz
>The Discourses of Epictetus

>>7630658

>1984

I'm calling the cops on you for reading banned literature.

The Shadow of the Torturer-Gene Wolf
The Claw of the Conciliator-Gene Wolf
Satantango-László Krasznahorkai
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller

Next up is probably No Country for Old Men or Childhood, Boyhood & Youth. I might save Under the Volcano for when I go to Spain

>>7630391
>Worries more than you should about your hair.
I actually worry about my teeth.
>Wants to keep a dream diary but is to lazy.
Spot on. I usually remember them for a long period though.

>27 days into the month
>fucking autists already on their 6th mid sized book
Worse than non-readers. You're not reading genre fiction, skimming through the pages doesn't constitute for shit. It doesn't matter if you read 50 books in a year if you can't recall any of them nor have any sort half intelligent dialogue about them.
It's pity full that some of you actually do this, it's a concept junior high schoolers are familiar with.

>read in 2016

3/4s of Anna Karenina

It's so good

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>>7628972
>read nearly 3k pages in less than a month

Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
The Laramie Project
Currently reading Winesburg, Ohio and Approaching the Quran: The Early Revelations

>>7631098
100 pages a day isn't that outrageous

The Plague - Camus
Hell's Angels - Thompson
Ubik - Phillip K Dick
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Helter Skelter - Bugliosi

Empire- orson Scott card
Magic street- card
Sandman slim- richArd kadrey

>>7628747
>Metro 2033
>Catcher in the Rye
>Brave New World
>White Nights
>The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
>Slaughterhouse V

Currently reading Notes from Underground and Dubliners

>>7628747
the ego and its own
womans liberation movement in russia- feminism,nihlism and bolshevism
dubliners
the portrait of the artist as a young man
the metaphysical poets

>The Stranger
>The Plague
>The Fall
>Stoner
>Meditations
>To Kill A Mockingbird
>War and Peace
>Greek Mythology

Currently reading Demons by Dostoyevsky

>>7631250
You're a 20 something humanities undergrad with patchy facial hair. You would describe yourself as a misanthrope.

>>7628747
Plato: Ion, Thaetetus, Laws
Illiad
Odyssey
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides

all u dumbass faggots just posting what you read without judging

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Just relaxing without deep thinking

>>7631307
We can tell.

>>7631303

That's because no one here actually reads, especially not enough to judge.

>>7628781
New to reading
>>7628913
Wants to live a full life with experience
>>7628918
Inbetweener
>>7628944
Is pale
>>7628946
Is tan
>>7628949
Is a cowboy
>>7628950
Walking meme
>>7628956
Likes to read books from around the world
>>7628964
Drink whiskey because you think it's manly
>>7628972
Likes experimentation, would rather do anal than missionary
>>7629000
Has a tumblr for viewing images
>>7629015
American
>>7629020
Tries to read quickly to get to the next book
>>7629048
Likes experimentation, would prefer the other partner to do the work in sex

fuck off i'm gonna go through everyone though

-------------------------------------

>Theaetetus
>William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
>Feudal Society, Volume 2
>The Recognition of 'Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts

>>7631387
Spends more time in the library than making conversation.

>>7631387
please tell me about myself
>>7629388

>>7629388
>>7631425
You have an interest in "expanding your mind" and view learning as a virtue

>>7628747

>1984
>Brave New World
>Currently reading: The Count of Monte Cristo

Brazillian shit:
>Senhora
>Iracema

>>7631433
Thanks, i believe you got this one correct about me, i'm a training medical doctor, and i like reading on various topics on the weekends.

Wyeth People
Invisible Man
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
100 Years of Solitude

Currently reading:
>Oedipus cycle by Sophocles
>Master Prints of Japan
>Norwegian Wood

>Yvain, The Knight with the Lion
>Augustus
>The Aeneid
>Gogol's short stories

>>7631500
Is invisible man good? I was tempted to buy it today. I'm not used to reading stuff surrounding the civil rights movement in America and the like, does it go full "kill whitey" at any point or is it reasonable?

Brave new world is awesome

cant read oscar's season bby

finishing No Country For Old Men tho

>>7631511
It's not a very traditional civil rights narrative. It goes pretty deep and the view of racism presented is nuanced. Also a lot of the book is about communist movements and also misguided attempts at getting equality. It's more an exploration of the nuances of the ideas and structures rather than an ideological work.

Don't expect Martin Luther King, Jr., but also don't expect the Black Panthers.

>>7631527
Sounds nice actually, I'll pick it up next time I'm in town. Thanks.

>>7631517
I respect your opinion, but for me, it was some time spent for nothing intesting.
The society of Brave New World is based on the stability, where people are born and predestined to their social function. Despite the initial shock, I think there's nothing more to see here. If you have a deeper undestanding of this book, share please.

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>>7630451
>MFW i read your answer.

>>7631538
Did you read the whole book? The folly in that society became much more apparent when they became exposed to the savages. It showed the true consequences of their infantilism through their inability to empathise with other societies.

Freud and Beyond a history of psychoanalytic thought
Introduction to World Systems Analysis
the moon and sixpence
the cherry orchard
Narcissus and Goldmund
Buddha walks into a Bar
between the world and me
The Floating Opera

>>7631544
Yeah, I read it. But, it was expected.
"Oh, look how nasty she is, she has a son"
"We don't marry, let's just have sex with the whole world"

Yeah, it shows how stupid would be that society e that's this book's message, but on distopic books, I prefer 1984, but I haven't read others yet.

>>7631556
I found BNW better as a comment on human sexuality than I did authoritarianism honestly

Don Quixote
Desert Solitaire
Silas Marner

>>7631256
im actually a stem post grad with evenly distributed facial hair. I don't care enough to be a misanthrope

This thread needs more judgements

>>7628972
Been reading The Recognitions for 4 months...

The Tunnel
Lolita
The Tin Drum
The Cantos (Pound)

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Maiden Voyage
A Voice Through a cloud
The Process - B. Gysin
Journey to the End of the Night
Death on Credit

I don't know enough about literature to criticise you lads tbqh

Currently reading
> Discourses of Epictetus
Just finished
>The problems of philosophy
>Longitude, The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time (meme title but good book)

>>7631526
How haven't you read this already?

>>7631684
You are constantly concerned by your growing backlog.

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>odysseus in america
>steppenwolf
>thomas sowell reader
>history of philosophy vol. 1

> Dune
currently: La Nausée

i just learned h2read

>>7631387
thank you, my spirit can rest easy now that i have been judged. and yes, yes, i am tan.

>>7631098
>>7631680
I started The Recognitions before 2016; I just finished it a week ago.

>>7631387
>would rather do anal than missionary
Nope. Asexual.

>>7631806
Yeah but if it came to it you would

>>7631809
But then my weenie would get dirty. Please don't make have a dirty weenie.

>>7631813
Nah she's got a clean ass lad, don't worry

No Longer Human
The Man Without Qualities
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Book of Lies.

Plath - The Bell Jar
Plath - Ariel
PKD - Radio Free Albemuth
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
West - The Day of the Locust
Rand - Anthem (reread, had to teach it)

Also a bunch of short stories from Kafka (mostly rereads), Checkhov (rereads), Poe (rereads), Lovecraft, and Vonnegut (rereads), among others, a handful of poems from various poets including Shelley, Dickinson, and some lesser-knowns like Marilyn Chin and Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Currently reading Heller's Good as Gold and rereading Macbeth.

I just read a book by Honoré de Balzac. I wasn't familiar with French realism and I was wondering, is it just in his books or did aristocrats in France speak in five pages worth of monologue without hesitation?

A Boy's Will and North of Boston by Robert Frost.
The Sketchbook of Geoffry Crayon Gent. by Washington Irving.
Burmese Days by George Orwel
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alcestis by Euripides
The Waste land and other writings by T.S. Eliot

>>7630830
Nobody gonna judge me?

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Tenant by Roland Topor

Haven't had much free time to do reading s I have a lot to catch up on

>Brothers Karamazov
>St Augustine's Confessions
>The Myth of Sisyphus
>The Plague
>Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
>The Belgariad
>The Undiscovered Self
Currently reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the King in Yellow and Poilu

Slapstick! Or Lonesome No More
Slaughterhouse-Five
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Moonfleet
Now reading: A Wizard of Earthsea
Next: the Name of the Rose or a Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, haven't decided

>>7631962
A few of your friends have told you to get on reddit, but you don't have the time to make an account there so you just shitpost on /lit/ in your off hours

It's a good thing that so many people come here, read the classics, and then never post again right? Because that's the only thing that would explain everyone reading the same books for the last 5 years.

>>7632036
you often get lewd intrusive thoughts about your mother

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>>7628747
Junky
A collection of Poe
Minority report
R.U.R
All you need is kill
A canticle for leibowitz
Beowulf
Madness and civilization

Currently reading Death in Midsummer.

>>7632050
rude.

i regret judging you. and will now delete it

>Autobiography of Malcolm X
>American Tabloid
>The Way of Men
>Currently Reading: Whatever (Hollaback)

>>7632236
Closet faggot.

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>>7628747
>My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante (spillover from last year)
>Chamber Music-Joyce
>
On the Abolition of All Political Parties-Weil
>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-Annie Dillard
>Divine Fury: A History of Genius-Darrin M. McMahon

Still chipping away at Darconville's Cat

>>7632252
I'm straight, but once I got my dick sucked by another man.

Lyrical Ballads
Wise Blood
Transmission
Faulkner's short stories

working on Absalom, Absalom! and Paradise Lost

>>7628747
>The Magic Mountain
>Maugham's Collection of Kipling's Best
>Natural History (Pliny the Elder)
>A Small Place (Jamaica Kincaid)
>a collection of magical realist spanish short stories (Cortazar, Allende, etc.)

Currently reading Uncle Tungsten and Death in Venice, then probs Rabbit Run. well, idk might pick up knausgaard.

>The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
>Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
>The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
>The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald
>The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind

Reading The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomsen and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
Might try to read V next.

>Bright Lights, Big City
>Kokoro
>American Psycho
>The Great Gatsby

>Crying of Lot 49
>Submission

Currently halfway through Moby Dick

Finished:
>Samson Agonistes
>Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
>The Picture of Dorian Gray

In progress:
>New Expansive Poetry
>Ecrits
>Pragmatism

Finished:
The Corrections
Freedom

Currently reading:
Underworld
The Shipping News
Introduction to Metaethics

Next:
Visions of Cody
Portrait of the Artist[...]
Labyrinths

>>7632851
What did you think of Pynchon, Anon? Read any others from his canon?

>>7629096
>angry reaction

Thanks for the confirmation

>>7632461
Thoughts on Susskind?
I read Perfume as a study in my final year of high school, always been curious about his other works. Worth pursuing?

>Gulliver's Travels
>Heart of Darkness
Currently reading:
>Arcadia
>Scarlet Letter
>Collected Works of HP Lovecraft

>>7631240
How is Metro? I love both games.

Ah fuck:

David Copperfield
On Writing
All The Way - Jordin Tootoo
The Science of Superstition

Happy hunting.

>Lushin Defense
>Oblomov
>Black Snow (A theatrical novel)

3/3 character either committing suicide, or dying early due to poor self-maintenance.

>currently reading Audition

started ulysses in december and I'm almost done. also reading thus spoke zarathustra

>people claiming to have read 6+ books in a month including mammoth-sized tomes like war & peace or infinite jest
how the fuck

>>7632979
>he isn't NEET
>he didn't read war & peace in one day

>>7632984
I really wish I were NEET. I'm in school and working part-time, and I think I could be much more productive in NEETdom.

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>>7629020
>>7629173

Was the Fuentes novel good? I have it out from the library but it's been gathering dust. It's in English btw I hope that's okay.

>>7629252

Did you like Ice? I really liked Ice. I'm assuming it's the one by Kavan.

I've read:

1- The Pesthouse - Jim Crace
2- Belle De Jour - Joseph Kessel
3- The Magician's Garden and Other Stories - Géza Csáth

r8, h8 or db8

>>7632061
You're an athiest
You enjoy skiing
You're more of a dog person than catly-oriented

>>7628747
>Most of the Divine Comedy
>Ficciones
>The Stranger
>Notes from Underground
>Some Kafka
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Dubliners

>>7633016
Also, anyone have suggestions on what I could read next. Looking for something that's not depressing, less than 400 pages, and ideally not from the Anglo speaking world.

>>7633022
The savage detectives?

>>7633023
I guess I should be more descriptive because I want something like Notes from Underground. Reading that gave me a sense of calm that I hadn't felt in months, a sense of self assurance that I haven't really felt in a long time, and probably did more than any psychotherapy could do. What are some novels or novellas that might give me that feeling?

>>7628747
>The Stranger
>The Fall
>The Plague
>The Age of Reason
>Currently mid-way through Nausea

Kind of went on a French Existentialist bender in Jan. Thinking of reading Kierkegaard, should I do it?

>>7628747
>The Cat's Table
>My Education (William S Burroughs)
>The Importance of Being Earnest
>A Visit From The Goon Squad

>norwegian wood
>siddhartha
>allen carr's easyway to stop smoking
>slaughterhouse 5
>the art of loving yourself
>the alchemist

currently reading hitchhiker's guide

>>Blood Meridian
>>Started The Stand

First three parts of Elric of Melnibourne. Only the first one was good.
Man Who was Thursday
The Prince
Galactic Pot Healer
The Platonic Tradition
Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

>>7633104
Self help teenager reading, the list.
>>7633060
Kierkegaard is far superior to French existentialism. If you like it, read him.


Quality reading
>>7633016

Against the Day. I actually started it in December and finished it about 2 days ago.
>currently Reading
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick.

>>7629020
The Recognitions is top tier stuff, m8. You're gonna love it.

This thread néeds more judgements

>>7628747

>Stoner
>Dorian Gray
>Descartes' Discourse on Method and The Meditations

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>>7633188
>Kierkegaard is far superior to French existentialism.
>MFW

>>7633316
One eye on nothingness, the other on the hoes

>>7633319
One eye in being in itself, the other on radical freedom.

The Unconsoled

The hobbit
Ride the tiger
Paradise lost
Enders game

And random text books and learning material.

Currently reading valis

>>7633222
ur a faget

In 2016? I just started reading Ulysses tonight. Last books read were House of Leaves and Things Fall Apart

A Brief History of Seven Killings, James
Mao II, DeLillo
Trois contes, Flaubert
~300 pages of City on Fire, Hallberg

>>7633404
your a meme, f a m

>Death Of A Salesman - Miller
>Collected Stories - Faulkner
>Hunger - Hamsun
>Cathedral - Carver
>Oblomov - Goncharov
>Some short stories by Chekhov and Conrad
Just finished Dubliners. Dunno what am I gonna choose now.

>>7628747
>Le roi des Aulnes (The Ogre) - Tournier
>2084 - Sansal
>The door - Szabó
>Things fall apart - Achebe
>Simplissimus - Grimmelshausen
>Tierra del fuego; El ultimo Grumete; Golfo de Penas; Naufragios - Coloane
Finishing Issa collected Haïku

>A Storm of Swords
>Foundation & Empire
>The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the sea

Currently reading Something Happened, and Second Foundation

>blindness
>for whom the bell tolls
>the idiot

>>7632881
I liked Perfume much more than The Pigeon. I thought The Pigeon rather slight and wasn't impressed with the psychological insights. Nowhere near as original as Perfume.

>>7628747
>Don Quixote
>An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

In college, so not much time for anything else. Don Quixote is the only pleasure reading I can afford right now.

>>7629096
>literally not eve gone
ya buddy, I guess you can't even right?

>>7628926
Spot on

>>7633557
You peruse reddit

January

21st: Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque
26th: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Currently Reading: The Book of Job
Next: Probably Cosmicomics

The Word for World is Forest
The Days of Abandonment
The Art of War

currently reading Brothers Karamazov and Capital

>>7633485
This hits so deep anon

>>7628747
> Submission by Houellebecq
> Factotum by Bukowski
> Paa gjengrodde stier (On Overgrown Paths) by Hamsun
> Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
> Islands in the Stream by Hemingway
>currently reading 2666

>Outer Dark
>Mary
>Drawn and Quartered
>A Short History of Decay
>For my Legionaries
>Confusions of Young Törless
>Siddhartha
>Neuromancer

Might be forgetting something.

Small Favour by Jim Butcher (still reading)
Fall by Sean Williams

That's it so far, been to busy enjoying getting internet at home again for the first time in a few years.

>Mythologies - Roland Barthes
>The Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S. Thompson
>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
>On the Road - Jack Kerouac
starting Red Harvest - Dashielle Hammett tomorrow

>>7628747
the unbearable lightness of being

tao te ching

the likeness

next: master and margarita