>Last book read >Currently reading >Next book I'll

>War and Peace
>How to Read Wittgenstein
>The Fountainhead

>Last
Light in August by Faulkner
>Current
Divine Comedy
Violence - Zizek
>Next
Essays on semantics and philosophy of logic - Gottlob Frege

>Last book read
Don Quixote
>Currently reading
Epic of Gilgamesh
>Next book I'll read
Conference of birds

>Naked Lunch
>Ulysses (tee hee hee)
>not sure yet, i was thinking of doing something much lighter just to chill with

>last
the stranger by Camus
>currently
Farewell to arms
>Next
Chekhov

>>7948552
philosophy major or at least wishes you were.

>>7948556
>Epic of Gilgamesh
have fun finishing that in a year.

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Last: The Bishop - Anton Chekhov
Current: Sophist - Plato
Next: Statesman - Plato

>>7948552
total pseud

>>7948541

> The Dhammapada
> Buddhist Texts (Penguin)
> Konjaku monogatari shu

>>7948568
insufferably boring.

>>7948541
Last: Paulina and Fran
Now: The Pale King
Next: Ficciones or Cosmicomics

bloodmeme
mason and Dixon
hunger

>>7948574
Shut you're cunt mouth Mr. Fullstop

>>7948575
how is the meme king?

Gravity's Rainbow
Turn of the Screw
Under the Volcano

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>>7948541
>Last
Candide by Voltaire
>Currently Reading
Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular Moralists
and
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists
>Next
Complete Works of Plato

>>7948611

Literally sophomoric, so guessing you're a sophomore (or perhaps even a freshman).

>>7948611
kill yourself

>>7948614
Yeah, I'm straight out of high school and I have an interest in Philosophy.
>>7948615
For what reason?

>>7948541
Last: Nietzsche and Philosophy - Deleuze
Current: Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
Next: Mason and Dixon - Pynchon

>>7948620
your wasting your time lil buddy

>>7948624
How am I wasting my time? Explain. Give a reason.

>>7948548
You read Kafka at 16 but never Twain
>>7948559
You've become too preoccuped with modernism and pomo and havent read widely outside them
>>7948563
Started reading recently
>>7948568
You put each short story into goodreads seperately
>>7948575
You will wish you hadnt wasted time on dfw after borges
>>7948579
You think tarantino is a bad director because 4chan told you too
>>7948611
You are going to burn out from trying to read too many classics as quickly as you can to catch up

>>7948627

Why you not do me :(

>>7948627
I'm >>7948611
What would you suggest I read in between the classics so I don't burn out? I'm entirely open to any recommendations.

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>"Nick Carter se Divierte Mientras el Lector es Asesinado y yo Agonizo"
>"Encuadre Cinematográfico"
>"Making Movies Work"

>The Bell Jar
>The Neurotic Personality of our Time
>No Longer Human

>>7948627
lol I love tarantula

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>>7948548
You plan to read Wittgenstein.

What is it with this board and philosophy? I'm not asking for people to read genre fiction but half of you are either reading Infinite Jest, Ulysses, the Greeks or the philosophy starter pack. Is it just the age of the board where everyone is looking for an answer?

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>100 Years of Solitude
>Satantango
>Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens

>>7948628
Which are you?
>>7948630
I would say that if you are enjoying them then keep going through them but after a few of the older books a change of pace is often nice. You might like to follow on with a later french writer to try and trace his influences so maybe Flauber or later Celine.
>>7948640
Fug

Last: Naruto vol. 1
Current: Canterbury Tales
Next: Naruto vol. 2

Does nobody own up to reading any non-standard titles because they're afraid they could be identified by it or is every poster here really this narrow-minded and boring?

>>7948650

I'm >>7948573

>>7948650
This nigga right here.

>quality content on /lit/
>actual year

>>7948656
I havent read any of them so ill just go with you smoke weed and despite your best efforts wont achieve nirvana this lifetime

>Last
The Recognitions
>Current
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
>Next
Buddenbrooks

>>7948588
I've just started it, literally on page 10. No complaints so far

>>7948652
see people read those things before lit brainwashed them.

>>7948664

I guess I do technically smoke weed, though I only just started recently and don't do it often (live in Colorado where it's legal). I don't care about nirvana, I'm not a Buddhist (which I guess means I won't achieve nirvana in this lifetime, so yeah)

>>7948665
>Wyat Gwyon
>Why go on

Summed up pomo for you.

>>7948627
Yeah lol

I even put essays in separately if I can

Who's gonna stop me?

>War and Peace
>Discourse of Livy
>The Republic

Swann's way
The Trial
Crime and punishment

>>7948548
You regret giving up piano lessons.

>>7948552
You've never read Hegel and justify this by telling yourself that you just haven't found the right translation of the Phenomenology yet.

>>7948556
You are attempting to grow a beard.

>>7948559
You desperately want to try marijuana but are too nervous to meet a dealer.

>>7948563
You have an unread pile of Wordsworth Classics.

>>7948568
You wore a suit to junior high for several weeks.

>>7948573
You scoff whenever someone mentions that Siddhartha changed their life.

>>7948575
You enjoy 'What I Read/What I Expected/What I Got' threads.

>>7948579
You reassure yourself that posting on other boards is okay because you always make sure to check /lit/ after doing so.

>>7948600
You have an alcoholic parent.

>>7948611
You are worried about your GPA.

>>7948623
You want to read more poetry but instead waste your time writing free verse about a girl you could never muster the courage to talk to.

>>7948632
You frequently rewatch 'Aquirre, the Wrath of God'.

>>7948637
You have spent considerable time researching the lethal dose of the pills in your medicine cupboard.

>>7948649
You masturbate exclusively to Hispanic girls taking white cock in their ass.

>>7948651
You own more graphic novels than all other types of books combined.

>>7948665
You have more books on your Kindle than on your bookshelf.

>>7948627
>You've become too preoccuped with modernism and pomo and havent read widely outside them
this may be true, what do you suggest i read next then?

>'Let me in' by John Lindqvist
>'Cat's Cradle' by Kirt Vonnegut
>Not sure yet.

>last
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
Mao ll by Don DeLillo
>current
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman
>next
The No World Concerto by A.G. Porta
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel by Julian Rios

>the forest passage: Ernst Junger
>Eumeswil: Ernst Junger
Dunno what I'll read next. Thought about revisiting Joyce or something. Maybe try getting into Pynchton after my friend made me sit through Inherent Vice.

>>7948711
Nah. I wore skater t-shirts and jeans. Rode a BMW tho.

>>7948722
BMX*

Almost made myself sound like Rodger

>>7948718
Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

>Buddenbrooks
>The Corn Maiden
> Stoner

>>7948711
>You desperately want to try marijuana but are too nervous to meet a dealer.

way off base, i used to smoke a lot actually, i have a lot less since being out of school. that assumption might be accurately applied to acid, but it's more a matter of just not knowing the right people.

>>7948712
I get the feeling a lot of the pre-modernists would bore you so id say try G K Chesterton or early russians like Lermontov or maybe Pushkin. If im wrong and you'd be fine with some slower ones, you're reading Ulysses so you'd probably be ok (unless you're memeing), then Henry James or Dickens.
Another alternative is moving away from english and reading some latin american literature to splice it up a bit, maybe read Hopscotch by Cortazar or some Borges as they still have the modernist or pomo touch but just widens the net a little.

>last book read
60 stories
>currently reading
The Fellowship of the Ring/ Late Capitalism by Ernest Mandel
>Next book
The Two Towers/ Postmodernism by Fredric Jameson

>>7948711
>You own more graphic novels than all other types of books combined.

I actually only own four thank you very much.

>Catch-22
>Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>Hypersphere

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The Kybalion
Moby Dick
The lesser key of Solomon

>>7948729
I shit post on anonymous image boards while waiting at Red lights. :^)

Min kamp 2 by Knausgård
Vennskapets pris by Kjell Askildsen
Confessions of a mask by Mishima

>>7948750
A revelation is in your midst.

>>7948739
i actually found myself annoyed a lot by the naked lunch, it's fun at first but wears thin quckly. i don't think pre-modernism would bore me. I love Ulysses to death, as I did Dubliners and portrait of the artist.

>Last
The Plague
>Current
The Crying of Lot 49
>Next
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>7948711
>You are worried about your GPA.
Its nice to see that people think I'm going in college.

>Oblomov
>Illiad
>Don't know yet

>>7948711
White cocks in Asian asses, but close.

old custer
dianetics
a million little pieces

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>>7948781
you've had several failed marriages and have starred in films that are essentially thinly-veiled homoerotic videos.

>Last
Thomas Pynchon –V.
>Current
Evelyn Waugh –Brideshead Revisited

>>7948541
emile zola l'assommoir
pierre drieu la rochelle la comédie de charleroi
knut hamsun the hunger

>>7948796
hmmm young manlet cruise

>>7948541
last - the unbearable lightness of being
current - ulysses and gravity's rainbow
next - nostromo, portrait of the artist, the man without qualities pt 1, fathers and sons

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>Brave New World
>Frankenstein
>The Metamorphoses (Kafka)

>>7948850
kinda looks skinny fat to me

>>7948541
>Macbeth
>King Lear
>Julius Caesar
I have some catching up to do.

>>7948541
>The New Vichy Syndrome
>Witches of Eastwick
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

>>7948868
you're a 15-year-old

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>last book read
The Art of Being Right. aka the sophist bible.
>currently reading
Enten-Eller. also the first four platonic dialogues (or Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo), the Republic and Il Piacere ('the Pleasure').
>next book i'll read
only god may know. probably Steppenwolf.

>>7948556
you're definitely good at drawing.
>>7948559
conformist.
>>7948563
you never throw cigarette stubs on the ground.
>>7948600
you have at least 112 hours on super mario galaxy.
>>7948611
you secretly want to die.
>>7948623
you explicitly want to die.
>>7948868
you look like the innocent flower,
but are the serpent under it.

>>7948886
I don't know if you read this shit in school in America but you don't in my country

>>7948641
They think that they'll learn to enjoy life by reading things that aren't enjoyable in the slightest.

>>7948904
Plato (aside from a few dialogues) is fun as fuck.

>>7948711
>You are attempting to grow a beard.
close enough. Just shaved a one year beard
>>7948891
you are italian

Last: The Corrections
Current: The Savage Detectives
Next: Of Human Bondage

Fyi guys, Prince just died.

>>7948929
what was his religion again?

>>7948929
thanks bud
now here come the rip sweet prince shitposts

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>>7948941

Last: Ulysses Yes, I was memed into it. Enjoyed it, though.
Current: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Next: Ehm, probably La luna e i falò by Cesare Pavese

>>7948541
Last book read - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Currently Reading - House Of Leaves By Mark Z. Danielewski
Next book - Probably some Lovecraft or something

inb4 not pretentious enough

>Cesar (Shakespear)
>the great divorce
> Do androids dream of electric sheep

>>7948923
you could say that.

>Last
Casino Royale, but before that Infinite Jest
>Current
War and peace
>Next
Probably the Martian

>>7948541
>The Human Stain
>Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Crying Lot of 49

>>7949000
faaaaaaaaaaaaaag

>>7949011
Good meme friend :^)

>>7949015
TRIGGERED

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>>7949024
Okay

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>>7949027

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Last: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Now: The Color Purple
Next: Persuasion

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>>7949031

>>7948626
bro ignore him you're doin the right thing

>>7949011
>>7949015
>>7949024
>>7949027
>>7949031
>>7949041
i suggest you get out of this board.
probably might wanna get some fresh air, too.

>>7949066
Fuck off tripfaggot

>Last
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
>Current
Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser
>Next
White Teeth - Zadie Smith

>>7949114
id like to wear you like a thick, woolen sock and then take you off after 10 days of wearing w/o breaks or washing and then fill you with milk and drink it out of you and taste the sweat and fungus mingled wiht dairy

>>7949066
No, you leave, you attention whoring fuck.

>Last
Just Kids by Patti Smith
>Currently Reading
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
also slowly working through Capital and a re-read of Ulysses
>Next
Cannonball by Joseph McElroy

Ulysses (seriously - I had promised myself I would read it before I turned 20, both things which I did last week);
Nothing, as university has been putting a lot of pressure on me and I've been getting bad grades, so I'm having to study;
I don't know - I try to read at least five books a month so it will probably be a few short books, specially so as not to distract me very much from uni.

It's impossible for me to read long books while in uni. If the book is great, I aways dive into it completely - I missed three or four classes because I just couldn't go out until I finished some particular episode of Ulysses.

>>7949148
you werent supposed to write a diary entry, just the titles of the books. now i can easily tell that you have autism based on clear evidence and not just a gut feeling, and its not as fun

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>>7948541
>Last book read
The Art of the Deal (was fascinating, really a great profile on his mind)
>Currently reading
although of course you end up becoming yourself (well I'm done but I'm rereading it for essays and stuff)
>Next book
I have 6 or so checked out that are due in a month so I'll read something from that along with gravity's rainbow which seems to be next in line

right now I'm drafting a thing though about this guys book

Last: A Treatise on Human Nature
Current: Leviathan
Next: On Liberty (Mill)

>>7948541
Last: Troilus and Cressida
Currently: the secret agent Joseph Conrad
Next. Soldiers in the proletarian dictatorship about the red army 1920-30 or world as will and representation vol 2 whatever is delivered 1st

>>7949180
Just getting into philosophy. Painfully centrist in political opinion

>>7949225
yes, indeed you are

>>7949219
Recently started college and have been tempted to join the Marxist society.

Last book: In the shadows of young girls in flower
Current: The maze runner
Next: The maze runner #2 or The Guermamtes way.


Analyze me

>>7949225
Yes, no.

>last
Moby dick

>current
Stoner

>next
The stranger, maybe some other short novel that isn't depressing

>>7949244
how long did it take you to read moby dick? It took me over a month

also is stoner good?

>>7949235
Why are you reading a literary cash-in?

>Jaws
>The Marshmallow Test
>Brothers Karamazov

>Implying I can afford non-shit books

> Le mythe de Sisyphe
> Byron Collected Works
> Finnegans Wake

>previously
marilynne robinson - gilead
>currently
william h. gass - the tunnel
h. p. lovecraft - dreams from the witch house and other weird stories
j. r. r. tolkein - the silmarillion
elmore leonard - the complete western short stories
>subsequently
michael frayn - spies (for my book group)
raymond chandler - the long goodbye

>>7948541
Nausea
On the Road
Naked Lunch

>>7949282
You need to be 18 or over to post here.

>Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
>Danielewski - The Familiar 2 - Into the Forest
>Freud - Schriften über Kokain

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>>7949089
>>7949126
you wouldn't fall to the level of using argumenti ad personam if you weren't anonymous. would you?
because if you would, that's terrible.
you're basically stealing me the fun of humiliating you, by humiliating yourselves instead.

>>7949249
Moby dick took me about 3 weeks, one of the best books ive read and I plan on giving it another rwad in a year or two.

I just finished Stoner 5 minutes ago, and I absolutely loved it. There are themes of identity in that book that I had no idea existed outside of my ocd ridden brain. It didn't make me weep like other /lit/ people claim. However it came fucking close.

>>7948541
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Crime and Punishment
>A Confederacy of Dunces

>>7948541
>last
Irvine Welsh- the Blade Artist

>current
Nevile Shute- On the Beach
Dickens- Great Expectations (re-read, taking it slow)

>next
Not even sure, got a hell of a backlog.

>>7948541
>The Old Man and the Sea
>Cannery Row
>Crying of Lot 49

>Last book read
Fathers and Sons

>Currently reading
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>Next book I'll read
A Hero of Our Time or The Duel or Demons/The Possessed

Leaning towards Demons because I want to read it while Fathers and Sons is still fresh in my mind, but honestly I'll probably pick up something I didn't even plan on reading.

>The Republic
>Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
>Plato's dialogues

>Animal Farm
>Ulysses
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>Soumission
>APOTAAAYM
>Lolita or Mein Kampf

>Last
Prince Caspian
>Current
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
>Next
American Pastoral

>>7948541
> I, Claudius by Robert Graves
> Algebra: the x and y of Everyday Math
> Einstein's Dreams

>>7948626
I'm assuming that that Anon can't philosophize, thus seeing someone else do it he deems it a waste of their time.

>>7949601
Child
>>7949694
Takes /lit/ too serious

>Emma by Jane Austen
>grapes of wrath by Steinbeck / picture of Dorian gray by Oscar Wilde
>Dubliners by James Joyce

>Emma. By Jane Austen
>picture of Dorian gray by Oscar Wilde
>Dubliners by Joyce

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>last
2666
>current
The Pale King
>next
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>7949231
no,no.

>>7948541
>Catcher in the Rye
>The Iliad
>Collection of Chekhov's short stories

> Cathedral by Raymond Carver
> Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
> Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

>last
Death and the Penguin
>current
The Unfortunates
>next
Holy Disorders

>The Fountainhead
>Culture of Critique
>48 Laws of Power

>>7949817
posts on mobile/10

>>7949861
>> Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

Prepare for a very, very polarizing collection. Ranged from some great to some that felt almost unreadable.

>>7949877
> 48 Laws of Power

Muh nigga.

In all honesty, I loved the book. After that, I'd recommend reading The Art of Seduction.

Now, you join me in being a learned-psychopath(just kidding, young one, but ye shall learn the ways of a true Master).

>Last: College Caesar
Commentarii de Bello Gallico with grammar notes, vocabulary, and commentary
>Now: Kalevala
The Finnish epic in its original language
>Next: Hypersphere
The book of memery, just ordered

>>7948541
>Molloy
>The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
> Malone Dies

>Nostromo
>gRaVity'S RaiNbOW
>ogniem i mieczem

>>7948541

Judas, the Obscure
Against Nature
Molloy

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>Last
The Golden Bowl
>Current
My Struggle (The Knaussgard one)
>Next
rereading Pnin

>>7948541
>Sophocles plays as Oedipus as King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
>Metamorphoses by Ovid translated by Dryden, probably the most enjoyable read I've ever had in terms of raw prose
>either Dubliners by Joyce or Tolstoys novella the death of invan russianvich

Last book was Pettegree's The Book in The Rennaisance
Currently reading Infinite Jest
Next book The Stand

>>7949136
You've been reading for years, haven't you?

>>7950032
The same as this guy except I don't know what I'll be reading next.

>Last
The Complete Plays of Sophocles

>Current
Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America

>Next
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

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>>7950053
Ovid is absolutely based and Dryden is godly so it's probably the most enjoyable of all my reads in lit's memery, even though lit didn't meme me into it

>Last
Mistborn

>Current
Simulacra and Simulation
The Road

>Next
The Dispossessed

>>7950057
You're in a 20th c. American Lit course

>>7948541
>Macbeth
>Still Life With Woodpecker
>probably gonna finally read Catch 22

>The Stranger
>2666
>Intelligent Investor

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>>7948541
>Last
Atlas Shrugged (Was pretty dissapointing. Part one was good and so where some of the monologs but the ending was atrocious.)
>Current
The Portable Nietzsche (Just finished part 3 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is really good, but very cryptic.)
>Next
Either the Freud Reader or Heart of Darkness

>>7948541
>Last book read
2666
>Currently reading
Foucault's Pendulum
>Next book I'll read
Something short

underworld
ij
gravitys rainbow

i wish i was joking

>White Noise
>Infinite Jest
>Blood Meridian

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>Last book read
Descartes, Meditations

>Currently reading
Spinoza, Ethics

>Next book I'll read
Leibniz, Philosophical Essays

>>7948641
We think that if we read what this board tells us will make us smarter, that people will recognize as wise or intelligent IRL. We are wrong.

>Last book read
Hamlet
>Currently reading
Ulysses
>Next book I'll read
Dunno yet, maybe The Trial or some short fiction

>>7948541
>Last book read
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
>Currently reading
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
60 Stories - Donald Barthelme
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass
>Next book I'll read
The Castle - Franz Kafka
One of the NYRB I bought on a whim or I'll seriously consider reading The Recognitions

>Fear and Trembling
>The Idiot
>The Brothers Karamazov

>last
Invisible Man - Ralf Ellisun
>current
Sirens of Titan - Kerrt Vonugget
>next
The Magic Mountain - Toemas Mahn

>Last
Great Expectations
>Current
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
>Next
Ulysses or Moby Dick

>>7950227
That one mysterious guy who sits at the back of the classroom

>>7950249
meem so supreem that you let out a screem

>>7950255
P O S T M O D E R N

>>7950256
Smart guy 4u

>>7950266
>"I'm reading the classics" *tips trilby*

>>7950278
Calls people "pleb" often

>>7950283
>muh Christianity
>muh Russia

>>7950283
You'd like The Master and The Margarita, if you haven't read it
>>7950291
You think postmodernism is the bee's knees
>>7950302
You should read Ulysses, even though you're leaning towards Moby Dick

The art of Stoic living
Dune
Crime and punishment

>>7950328
I do call people plebs often, but it's usually in reference to people not directly to them. Good call

>Last Book Read
The Code Book by Simon Singh

>Currently Reading
......

>Next book I'll read
......

>>7950082
Nope. I teach high school English.

My guess for you is that you spend too much time on /lit/ and/or give opinions on /lit/ too much weight when it comes to deciding what to read.

>>>7950283 (You)
>You'd like The Master and The Margarita, if you haven't read it

Thanks I will look into it

>>7950328

Eh, I am not really a muh Russia guy, although I have recently gained an interest in the country because I realized I really knew nothing about it or its history. Along with that I generally see Dosto's books recommended so I figure I would check them out

>>7948915
What is fun by Plato anon? I didn't enjoy the parts of Socrates' dialogues that I read. I appreciated their logic and conviction, that's not the same as enjoyment.

>Last
American Psycho

>Current
Dubliners

>Next
idk I want to find some nonfiction that's better than The Making of The Atomic Bomb but the search has been futile

>>7950492
How's dubliners? I'm debating between that and death of ivan ikaw.e from tolstoy?

>>7948749
You struggle to form sincere relationships with your family and acquaintances

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Last:
V.
Current:
Slaughterhouse 5 (not really feeling it tho)
Next:
Either another Pinchin or Portrait

>>7948541
>Thus spoke Zarathustra
>Gilead
>Psychedelic information theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason

>>7950678
*Tips weed*

>>7950683
lol I stopped smoking weed 2 years ago

>last
less than zero
>now
One flew over the cuckoos nest
>next
Either paradise lost or heart of darkness

Last:
>Your Mind Matters - Stott
Currently:
>The Pit - Frank Norris
Next:
>maybe Blood Meridian

>The Divine Comedy
>Ulysses
>Capital

>Breakfast of Champions
>literally just finished ^
>I dunno, more Vonnegut. Player Piano?

>>7948563
>>Epic of Gilgamesh
>have fun finishing that in a year.
There's no way you can't read it in one sitting.

>last
portrait
>current
Oliver Twist
>next
probably Dubliners

>What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank - Englander

>The Seven Storey Mountain - Merton

>not sure, Ive been seeing the Book of Disquiet lately but I don't know how much of a meme it is

>>7949866
you seem to have good taste, what are your favorite books?

Last - Absalom, Absalom!
Current - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Next - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Attention-whoring thread.

>>7948651
You thoroughly enjoy shit posting

>>7951017
attention whoring post

>Last "El futbol a sol y sombra"

>Current "Light in august"

>Next "The metamorphosis"

Judge me, /lit/

>>7951036
Yes, yours is.

Here's your (you) and may you have many more.

>>7950943
>There's no way you can't read it in one sitting.
2000 pages in one sitting?

proud of you keep iit up mr rain man

>Moby Dick
>John Carter and the Princess of Mars
>Dune

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>James Prosek - Eels
>Mishima - The Sound of Waves
>Bolaño - Los Detectives Salvajes

>>7951065
What book are you reading? My copy is 63 pages.

The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on giant stone tablets. 2000 pages would be metric tons of stone.

>Last Exit To Brooklyn
>Catch 22
>The Room

>>7949000
The Martian is not worth it

>Last Book Read
Swann's Way
>Currently Reading
The Leopard
>Next Book I'll Read
Seven Madmen

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>One Dimensional Man
>A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
>Not sure. I'm thinking of going back and covering my earlier modern bases (e.g. Spinoza). Or maybe more Hegel and Kierkegaard.

>>7951087
they were very very very small pages

>Last book read
Complete Cosmicomics, Calvino
>Currently reading
Conflict of Visions, Somwell
The First Philosophers, Robin Waterfield
Rayuela, Julio Cortazar
>Next book I'll read
Aside from Complete Plato after First Philosophers, no idea. I will decide when I finish one of the two. I only read one fiction at a time, though.

>>7951203
Sowell*

>>7951041
Argentine.

>>7948541
>Last book read
Sam Pink - Rontel
>Currently reading
John Green - An Abundance of Catherines and John Ashbery - The Tennis Court Oath
>Next book I'll read
Gonna finish Citadel of the Auroch or whatever the hell it's called, then probably Stefan Zweig's Post Office Girl

>Last
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
>Current
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
>Next
Stoner by John Williams

>last
The Human Stain
>current
Blood Meridian
>next
White Noise

Read - Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
- Hesse - Demian
Reading - Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
- wb yeats - collected poems
- From A Life of Physics - Dirac et all.
Next - Joan Didion - Play it as it Lays
- Mann - Buddenbrooks

>>7948541
Last: East of Eden
Current: On the Road
Next: Crime and Punishment

>>7950227
My Nigga! I reenacted Jacopo belbo and MC's meeting scene yesterday at a bar with a bunch of friends and they wouldn't play along. They just kept saying "that's so pessimistic, thats a really pessimistic way of looking at things, bla bla i permanently need a netty pot because im a bitch ass nerd faggot". I hate everyone. They're all idiots. Fools. Cretins.

>Last
Call of the Wild
>Current
Soldier of Arete
>Next
White Fang

>>7951093
My Dad Bought it for Christmas, and he is always going on how a great a book/movie it is. I feel like I should read it.

>>7951355
Good taste.

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>>7948541

>Man and His Symbols, CG Jung
>Archetype of the Apocalypse, Edinger
>The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Eliade

I'm not a robot. Human living in pic related.

>last
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

>current
The Instructions - Adam Levin

>next
MOAR FAULKNER

>>7951492
I hate to break it to you but... your dad is a massive pleb.

>Emma by Jane Austen
>Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck / Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
>Dubliner by James Joyce

>>7948541
>Last
Metamorphosis by Kafka
>Current
The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
>next
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy

>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest

Start with the memes

>>7950669
10/10 accurate, seriously

though not really that impressive considering which board we're on

>>7951886
You shitpost so uncreatively that you can't even think of two more /lit/ memes to make your list even slightly amusing.

>>7948541
Last
>The Gospel in Brief, Leo Tolstoy
>The Devil, Leo Tolstoy
Current
>Capitalism 4.0, Anatole Kaletsky
>My Little Monster, Robico
Next
>Buying Tim Wolfgang Streeck
>Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler

>Don Quixote
>Vineland
>dunno yet, maybe the Aleph

Last: Faktotum by Bukowski
Now: Roadside Picnic by Strugatzki
(Probably not going to finish it tho)
Next: Nathan the wise by Lessing

>last
Notes on the death of culture

>current
Ficciones

>next
death and the dervish

>>7950675
>Slaughterhouse 5 (not really feeling it tho)
Go read Breakfast of Champions

>>7950051
>You've been reading for years, haven't you?
isn't that...everybody here...

>Pride & Prejudice
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
>The Assassin's Apprentice

>>7952562
You are obese

>>7952565
LMAO thank u

>Last
The Weight of Things - Marianne Fritz

>current
Ficciones
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>Next
Siddhartha

>>7952303
You don't smoke weed but enjoy drinking
You make a joke out of everything but you're a very serious person

>>7952592
You have a strange but functioning relationship with your mother. You used to smoke. You're heteroflexible. You majored/are majoring in engineering.

>>7952597
1/4 desu, didn't know the term heteroflexible but it certainly fits my faggot ass like a glove

>>7952629
ok let me retry.
You have bouts of depression. Sometimes your thought process confuses even you. You get upset when you see people making fun of clearly mentally ill people.
do me
>>7952562

>>7950934
How was Breakfast of Champions?

>Zeitoun
>Walden
>Gorillas in the Mist

>>7951857
You get all of your books at used bookstores and take a big whiff of the pages whenever you open the book.

>>7952704
You have bad dandruff - as in you can peel of long pieces of dried skin from your scalp. You like to eat it, too. In the privacy of your room, you lie in bed and listen to classical music and dig those fingernails (painted lime green) into your head and scrape them down. You are almost never without a hat or some sort of beanie, so you can conceal the dandruff from the public eye. You refuse to get rid of it because you are so addicted to your disgusting hobby.

Last: heart of darkness
Current: back to methuselah
Next: Alamut or the idiot

>>7952749
You once bought a wide-spaced, woven hammock and lowered it into a septic tank until it was completely dripping with feces. Then you put the hammock up in your yard and got in it naked, reveling in the feel of slimy old shit on your body and the patterns it made on your back.

>>7952722
>>7952759
what the fuck

>Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami
>Inherent Vice - Pynchon
>Discipline and Punishment - Foucault

>>7950393
If this were true he wouldn't be reading the road

>Fuck knows.
>Alex's Adventures in Numberland
>17 equations that changed the world. (I'm trying to stick to a theme for once.)

>Last
Henry James - Washington Square
>Current
Joan Didion - The White Album and other Essays
>Next
Joseph McElroy - Lookout Cartridge

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>Last book I read
Alchemy
>Currently reading
The complete works of H.P. Lovecraft
>Next book I'll read
Faust

>>7952769
Every once in a while, you eat about 5000 calories worth of terrible food and take an emetic to induce vomiting. You are sick into a large bucket, and then you funnel the vomit into a hollowed out beehive. Once it's all in and hive is leaking like an oozing fungal sore, you dip each of your toes into the chunky sick individually in an almost dainty manner. This sometimes requires some maneuvering due to the narrow-ish mouth of the hive, but you always get it in the end.

>>7952774
You are an oncologist specializing in colorectal and prostate cancers. When you perform a colonoscopy, which is quite often, you remove polyps benign and cancerous from the patient's passage. Unbeknownst to the patient, you keep the polyps you remove. You store them in a large container, frozen. During Thanksgiving, you are known for your delicious, specialty roast turkey dinner. The whole family comes over, your parents, your siblings and their families, and your wife's as well. While preparing the meal, you thaw the polyps and then separate them into two categories: the ones for the stuffing and the ones for the gravy. You slice them into very fine pieces and season them well. You cook them in turkey fat until juicy. You serve it to the family and, as usual, are showered with praise. An in-joke and humorous tradition within the family is your wife badgering you playfully for the secret ingredient. You tap the side of your nose and with a wink, say, "Sorry, dearest. If I told you...I'd have to kill you!" And you would. The family laughs, but you would.

Last: The Upanishads

Current: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic - Hobbes

Next: The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

>>7952788
You are a powerful dark wizard and you have trapped your teenage daughter's soul in a painting. To others, she appears completely static and unmoving like any normal portrait, and everyone assumes it is just something you have commissioned, but when you are in the room with her, she bangs on the "wall" of the painting. Screaming, unheard. Eyes pleading, face taut with rage, betrayal. Why have you done this to me, father?
Her physical body in your realm, the normal one, is diagnosed comatose and has been for a year. With no soul or mind to occupy it, it lies dormant and lifeless in a hospital bed. Your friends and family think that your recent reclusiveness is because of how "ill" your daughter has fallen, but that is not the case. This is. This, right now. You are sitting in front of your captive daughter completely naked. She cannot turn away, cannot blink or shut her eyes from you. You grin is sharp as you reach between your legs and give you engorged member a pull. She's crying now, which in turn makes your cock weep to match. She watches in horror as you slip your slick fingers into your anus. She's shaking a head, you nod right back at her, release quickly approaching. You stand up for this and splatter her with your cum. Her miserable expression is almost enough to get you hard again. With a smirk, you magic away the mess and leave the room. Till next time, my darling. Till next time.

>last
The forge (Barea)

>now
Aurora roja (Baroja)

>next
Germinal (Zola)

>>7948541
>Last book read:
The Catcher in the Rye
>Currently reading:
All Fires the Fire
>Next book I'll read:
King Rat, or The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>7952099
How did you like Quixote?

>>7952945
How's highschool going?

>>7952684
10/10, surpassed Slaughterhouse Five by a mile. Very strong introspective look at Vonnegut's own mind and creative process while equally extolling valuable mores on the nature of art, religion, and sollipsistic apathy in the face of natural absurdity.

>Last:
Moby-Dick or the Whale.
>Current:
Siddharta -- Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Marquez
The Divine Comedy -- Dante
The Idiot -- Dosto
>Next:
The Idiot pt. II
Naked Lunch
The Hunger Games III

And yeah, I always read at least two books at a time when i'm on a break from uni and work. I just prefer it that way, or else i finish em' up too quickly.

>>7952958
Pretty good, finishing next week, thanks

>>7952984
You act like a normie: you have a girlfriend, and smell good. You're popular beacause you act cool, but deep down you're a fucking autist faggot.

>>7952945
You were raised in the Alaskan semi-wilderness, your father being a survivalist nut and proud of it to the point of obnoxiousness. Denouncing everything and anything even vaguely connected to what he deemed "modern technology", the only thing you had was a gas stove and a fridge.
You begged him for a heater, but he refused. Instead, he took you hunting, said some extra pelts would keep you warm enough. The two of you are in the forest armed with shotguns, sparse distance between you, when you hear a wolf's howl coming from his direction. Having no temperament for this kind of thing, much to your father's chagrin, you are startled. Before you can stop yourself, you turn towards him, and
BANG -
"You stupid little bastard!" Father is writhing on the snowy forest floor, near-screaming in pain. "Fuck! Get me to the truck!" You are paralyzed. "Son, what are you doing? Hurry up!" More expletives, stop standing there like an idiot, come and help me. But you are rooted to the spot. His face has lost all color now, and he's run out of curses to throw at you. Only when he has completely bled out do you drag him back through the heavy snow and into the truck.
You try to prop him up at the table, but he keeps sliding off. "Wait there," you say stupidly, and you go into his room and through his drawers, returning with three of his belts. You fasten him to the chair. Your breath mists in front of you and you feel like you're in a very strange, uncomfortable dream.
The next morning, you drive into town (with a blanket thrown over the other seat to hide the bloodstains) with your father's credit card. He has a bad fever, you say. No no, he'll be alright, but he told me to get a heater.
Alfred? they say, Told you to get a heater? Jeez, it must really be serious.
You nod earnestly and bring the heater back to the truck, then you get some lunch. The first good meal you've had in ages.
Back home, dad's body is weirdly stiff. You go upstairs to your room and curl up in your now comfortably toasty room with a book, one of the few luxuries he ever afforded you, eventually succumbing to a deep, troubled sleep.

It's been three days, and he's starting to smell real bad. You don't really know what to do. You could bury him outside with his shovel, but what then? You've tied an old scarf around your face to stave off the smell, but it's still there. He's all bloated and disgusting. Whatever you decide to do next, you need to get him out of the house as soon as possible. You wrap your arms around his middle and pull him up. There's an awful squelching noise and the smell suddenly got infinitely worse. You look down and - what the fuck? You drop his corpse like you've been burned. You had no idea that people could shit themselves after they've died. Unable to contain it any longer, you rip the scarf aside as quick as you can and unleash a torrent of bile on your poor father, and - oh, god. The scarf really was blocking most of the smell.

>>7953031
i was going to finish it with you fucking your dead dads shitty rotting ass but i reached the character limit and i cant be fucked anymore. bye

>>7952944
You have a Tumblr account.

>Slaughterhouse 5
>1984
>A clockwork orange

>ABC of Reading
>The Cantos
>The Waste Land and Other Poems

>>7953044
You need to be 18 or over to post here.

>>7953050
You have sent poetry to multiple journals and received form rejections from each, which has caused you to stop writing.

>>7953060
He's just doing the /lit/ starter kit. What's wrong with that?

>last
La Peste

>current
Notes from a Dead House

>next
IDK, maybe Inherent Vice, but I need to focus on some research reading in May.

>>7952999
Keepin' them grades up, son? Just remember anything but STEM is a massive waste of cash.

Last - Cortazar End Game and other stories
Current - Gravitys Rainbow
Next - Celine Journey to the End of The Night

>Last
Infinite Jest
>Current
The Republic
>Next
Don't know yet

Not really new here, just hadn't read those two before

>>7953069
Yeah I thought the starter kit was a meme but I bought slaughterhouse 5 and really liked it so I went and got the other two.If I like these I'm planning on getting A portrait of an artist as a young man,Stoner and the Count of monte cristo what do you think?

>Last
Hunger
>Current
Short stories by XX century writers for uni
Some contemporary philosophy book for uni
Some mediocre medieval poems for semester thesis at uni
Some Bible stories all over again for uni
Plato's dialogues for uni
100pg Literary theory tome for uni
Pale Fire
>Next
Please no
Nothing

>The Shadow over Innsmouth
>At the mountains of madness
>Call of Cthulhu and other wierd stories

>>7953121
Are you 15?

>>7948541
>last
V.
>Current
2666
>Next
either against the day or women and men
both are pretty long, anyone whose read both care to chime in?

>Last

The Weavers by Hauptmann

>Current

A Dream Play, by Strindberg

>Next

Fuenteovejuna most likely

>>7953134
If you really enjoyed V. Just read Against the Day, if you like serious literature, read Women and Men.

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>Previous:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — Joyce
The Sword in the Stone — T.H. White
>Current:
Today I Wrote Nothing — Daniil Kharms
Bulfinch's Mythology
The Great Divide — Peter Watson
>Next:
Keats' poetry and letters
toss-up between Wolfe's BotNS or Blood Meridian
my father-in-law's OUP book(s)

>>7953084
did you read Infinite Jest sequentially? my wife is doing that now, and she says the reading pace is akin to something pulpy and enjoyable, not very challenging. she's a thematic wizard, however.

the republic is one of my favorite books, and there is a great audiobook recording on youtube that's extremely comfy. i'd vaguely wager you are stable financially (whether independently or not), and you are slogging through tedium to reach your goals. you are, however, somewhat directionless

>>7953071
i'd skip inherent vice, as someone who likes GR. it might be nice to zone out at pieces of paper if you are working hard at research, but otherwise, meh.

are you comparative literature, philosophy, or biopsych?

>>7953144
Thanks anon perhap i will. v. was bretty gud i thought, but i think i get what you mean. It definitely didn't have a huge impact on me like gravitys rainbow did , but that ending (the random waterspout that destroys the ship) was pretty funny having just read mob dick prior to V.

>>7952956
A lot. I pretty much knew all about it already since I'm a Spaniard and we are bombed with Quijote stuff from birth, but I wanted to read the real thing

> Anarchy State and Utopia (Nozick)
> House of Leaves (Danielewski)
> La Nausée (Sartre)

>Last
Los de abajo/The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela

>Current
Romeo & Juliet, by the Birthday Man

>Next
I'm still not sure. Perhaps it will be The Taming of the Shrew, again by Billy McCanon, or Knut Hamsun's Hunger. I may even read Mrs Dalloway. Which one should I read first, /lit/?

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>Last
The color out of space by H.P. Lovecraft

Really good.Spooped me in the right places.
I will never fucking put even one of my feet on New English ground.

>Currently
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

I like the use of satanistic rituals and witchunting folklore.Something fresh after fucking around in seaside towns/watery places.

Monty Python talks by David Morgan

Good group biography.
Interesting to know how the creative processes went.
70s BBC must have been interesting to work with as an author.

>Next

The tibetan book of the dead
Maybe the Art of War.
Or some adventure novell.
I have no idea.
China got interesting to me in the last 2-3 weeks.Mainly ancient China.
Confucius and Lao-ce.
A whole different branch of cultural evolution.

What do you think /lit/?

>>7948541
>>Last book read
The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
>>Currently reading
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
>>Next book I'll read
Democracy in America by Tocqueville

>>7953145
I mostly want to read Inherent Vice because I love PTA's movies and would rather have the book under my belt before watching. I'm still not sure I liked GR.

I intentionally misled with my post. I am not in a field even remotely related to literature or psychology.

>>7948541
>Hyperion by Dan Simmons
>Shogun by James Clavell
>Finish Growth of the Soil or a collection of HP Lovecraft stories

Read the Tao Te Ching.

One of my favorite books. Read multiple translations, look at the Chinese text and research Kanji. Read other people's interpretations of chapters. Don't read it in one or two sittings because then it won't sink in and it will seem like a bunch of hippy bullshit

>>7953403
Meant for
>>7953381

>>7953403
I'm okay with reading hippie bullshit.(throwing something out because you don't agree with it isn't a smart thing to do)
I digest books for days.
Thinking about the pieces,checking out the viewpoints.
A big puzzle where you have to find the solution that you are the most comfortable with.

>>7953418
If you have the time for it, I'd recommend reading and then researching one chapter a day.

>>7953381
>What do you think /lit/?
you are a titty

Last
>Allen Carrs' Easyway
Current
>Günter Grass' The Tin Drum
Future
Some philosophy book, open to suggestions.

>>7953445
If I'm a titty,then you are a pussy.

>>7953392
hah, that's the exact same reason i tried to read it, after /lit/ branded it as "pynchon-lite". it reminded me of the laziness he treated oedipa's motivation in TCoL49. ultimately, couldn't make it through half the book, and still haven't seen the movie.

what's your field of study?

>less than zero - bret easton ellis
>crime and punishment - dostoyevsky
>whatever - michel houellebecq

>>7953387
Thinks Big Government is poisoning the drinking supply

>Architect of Aeons -- John C. Wright
>Wired for War -- P.W. Singer
>Not sure. I have a couple of short Arthur C. Clarke novels, maybe one of those.

>>7953121
Only wears fingerless gloves

>Arcadia
>Outer Dark
>Lolita

>>7952902
>putting this much effort in

>Last
In Cold Blood
>Current
The Savage Detectives
>Future
I will read the first reccomndation if I like your reason why

>>7953507
>Outer Dark
Have you read Child of God?

>>7952592
You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.

>>7953474
Nuclear/Particle physics. Pretty removed from literature but it helps me strike balance.

>>7953460
deal

>>7948541
>Last
A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway
>Current
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
>Next
American Tabloid by James Elroy