So am I interested in seeing whether there's a correlation

>>8302406
your boyfriend sounds like a tryhard faggot and you should drop him immediately

>>8302406
>Abuse will not be tolerated (my own boyfriend even berated my list, but he's always been abusive and has harsh rhetoric so I'm used to it, whatever).
>Thanks :)
What the fuck is this

Anyway, used to be libertarian, this election cycle has made me lose all interest in politics since it's my first time voting and it's such a shitshow. I am Catholic though so that may count for beliefs.
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard (not really literature but I love the way it's written)
>Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
>Moby Dick by Melville
>Blood Meridian by Corncob YeCarthy
>The Lime Twig by Hawkes

>>8302406
This is almost quality bait son.

>>8302406
I am a Trump supporter and my favorite five are as follows

1984 by Orwell
Brave New World by Huxley
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (entire series)
The Call of Cthulu or however its spelled by Lovecraft
2001 A space odyssey by Clarke

>>8302436
only one red herring, everyone knows internet girl = guy irl

>>8302433
That's a pretty entry tier list for a Catholic if it is supposed to represent your views outside of
>god exists
>morality is good
Not saying it's a bad choice, just not representative of what I would consider a catholic taste.

>>8302442
>liberal falseflag detected

>>8302446
In what way are any of these books liberal?

>>8302406

Nice job OP, you had me for a second there.

>>8302445
>not representative of what I would consider a catholic taste

He never claimed it was, you pseud

>>8302418
HEY FAGGOT

>>8302449
They're pleb-tier

>>8302458
I've only recently gotten into reading after having not read a single book for 10 years. I don't give a fuck what you think is pleb, they're all great books.

>>8302451
Yeah, had me going until
>Abuse will not be tolerated (my own boyfriend even berated my list, but he's always been abusive and has harsh rhetoric so I'm used to it, whatever).

>>8302444
No, it's the "everything is subjective don't be mean"

Anyway for me:
Political writings of Thomas Aquinas
Eveything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Children of Hurn by Tolkien
Divine Comedy by Dante
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Republic by Plato
Stoner by John Williams
A Scanner Darkly by Benis

I'm a libertarian trending toward anarchist. I'm also a Christian. My top five prose works are:

Ulysses
If on a winter's night a traveler
At Swim-Two-Birds
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

>>8302460
normie facebook redditors think they're great works

>>8302445
It's not supposed to fully represent my views, it's just the books I enjoy the most, either for their commentary or the beauty in how they're written. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that

>>8302460
>they're all great books
Mediocre at best

>>8302469
Usually with Catholics you can tell his religious views based on the books the person likes, it's pretty specific.
Not the case with you, which is for /lit/ a bit unusual.

>>8302465
Are you redpilled by any chance?

I really like your list

>>8302473
Nope.
I'm conservative if that's what you are asking, but I loathe the /pol/ shit.
Unless we are talking their memes, no one tops their meme game.

>>8302474
Bit disappointing desu

>>8302472
What books come to mind? I haven't gotten around to getting into Aquinas/Augustine or theological stuff

>>8302512
If I was redpilled I wouldn't read at all mate

>>8302517
Chesterton, Miller, Greene, Flannery O'Connor, two you mentioned, but also Feser as the big name in philosophy atm.
It's usually a sentiment or a pattern in reading, not necessarily a list of xy authors.

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>>8302406
Anyone care to guess my political leanings? :^)

>J R - Gaddis
>2666 - Bolano
>L'Écume des jours - Vian
>The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Higgins
>Suttree - McCarthy

>>8302538
Very conservative

>>8302538
very homosexual

The Unnamable - Beckett
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Sabbath's Theater - Roth
American Pastoral - Roth
Lost Illusions - Balzac

I'm a librul

I'm a philosophical pessimist

>The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
>Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
>Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
>To Build A Fire by Jack London
>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

>>8302563
I feel the Balzac love but what's to like about Roth? I personally hated Sabbaths Theatre, what do you think we're its merits?

>>8302588
Agreed. erudite momcore novels

>>8302442
you dont need to try that hard to make trump fans look autistic

>>8302406
King Lear
Darkness at noon
The just (Camus)
Devils
Autumn of the patriarch

Commie

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Histories by Tacitus
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Waverley by Walter Scott

I'm probably a classical liberal, I guess

>>8302426
This.
This is either shitty bait or your boyfriend is a pretentious piece of shit.

I find it impossible to believe that someone truly passionate about the most artistically masterful classic literature could simultaneously be a "vociferous Trump supporter"

>>8302588
>not loving Sabbath's grinding vitalism which carries him past the edge of madness in erotic fury

>"The walking panegyric for obscenity," Norman said. "The inverted saint whose message is desecration. Isn't it tiresome in 1994, this role of rebel-hero? What an odd time to be thinking of sex as rebellion. Are we back to Lawrence's gamekeeper? At this late hour? To be out with that beard of yours, upholding the virtues of fetishism and voyeurism. To be out with that belly of yours, championing pornography and flying the flag of your prick. What a pathetic, outmoded old crank you are, Mickey Sabbath. The discredited male polemic's last gasp. Even as the bloodiest of all centuries comes to an end, you're out working day and night to create an erotic scandal. You fucking relic, Mickey! You fifties antique! Linda Lovelace is already light-years behind us, but you persist in quarreling with society as though Eisenhower is president!" But then, almost apologetically, he added, "The immensity of your isolation is horrifying. That's all I really mean to say." "And there you'd be surprised," Sabbath replied. "I don't think you ever gave isolation a real try. It's the best preparation I know for death."

ROth has placed Sabbath near the outer limit of organized society: a beggar, a vagrant, and a courter of death. It does not matter: Sabbath is redeemed through sheer vitalism.
Also, it's pretty hysterical at times.

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>>8302406

Anarcho-capitalist here.

My Struggle 1-5 - Knausgaard
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Song of Solomon - Morrison
Lolita - Nabokov
IJ - DFW

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>>8302613

>>8302640
It's clearly bait, but I don't doubt there are people who are simultaneously well read and intelligent yet completely self-deluded enough to believe Trump. After all, there were plenty of smart people who admired a hollow dullard like Reagan.

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>>8302442
this was me in middle school

>Mann - The Magic Mountain
>Eliot - Middlemarch
>Woolf - To the Lighthouse
>Sophocles - Antigone
>Beckett - Waiting for Godot
>Flaubert - Madame Bovary
>Stendhal - The Red and the Black

I'm of the leftist orientation

>>8302406
Moderate here who will not be voting. I am more of a Hillary hater than a Trump supporter. I think both would be fine as president tbqh, but I absolutely hate the fakeness of Hillary, at least Trump is real. But I'm quite indifferent to the election, none of it matters as much as people think.

That said, here are my favorite books (fiction/non-fiction) in no particular order:
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
>Letters From A Stoic by Seneca
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein
>Siddhartha by Hesse
>In Search of Lost Time (all volumes) by Proust
>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
>Mason & Dixon by Pynchon
>Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon

>>8302737
>at least Trump is real.

Bit insulting to Trump that.

>>8302406
"tolerated"? Fuck off, you lying troll.

>>8302737
>the only person in the thread whose taste displays any intellect whatsoever
>does not give a fuck about politics

i see a correlation

>>8302760
>Siddhartha
>Infinite Jest
>Pynchon
>displays intellect

Well meme'd

>>8302644
I respect the way you see it but I found it amusing at best, garrulous, tedious and pompous at worst. 2/5, first and last Roth.

>>8302825
oh well

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>Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
>The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by EA Burtt
>The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
>The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Ideology:
>legalize it

>>8302640

>I find it impossible to believe that someone truly passionate about the most artistically masterful classic literature could simultaneously be a "vociferous Trump supporter"

protip: this is a "pretentious piece of shit" thing to say

and i'm not an american nor a trump supporter before you try to meme at me.

>>8302987
He's right, though.

>>8302741
this post really made me think

>>8302644

Roth is so shit. Dialogue should be beautiful and witty if it's going to be unrealistic.

>>8302406
I'm economically rightist, but can't stand social conservatism (more libertarian in that area) and am nonreligious. Dislike both prez candidates. My favorite books are:

>Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
>Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
>Complete Poems of William Blake
>My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
>Voice of the Fire (Alan Moore)

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>>8303129
>Roth is so shit

>>8302672
I support trump
He's a hack
>you need to be deluded to support x
when will this meme end

>>8302442
i think it's silly to say you're a character supporter
>implies you agree with character's implications in policy
just support policy yourself
1984 and BNW are stepping stones to greater things but this bait and those who fall for it give /literallyretarded/ a bad taste

Right wing traditionalist
>Fausto Goethe
>Plume dans le plafond Henri Michaux
>Alain Elements de philosophie
>Ulisses Joyce
>The mad adventures of Ulysses, his gang, and some war in troy
>Hunger Hamsun
>A la recherche de l'absolut Balzac
>Kafka El proceso
>Ovid's metamorphoses
>Don quijote Cervantes
>A la recherche du temps perdu Proust
>Kant CPR
>Nietzsche Thus spoke Zarathustra
I don't get the ''you must only read from people who think like you'' meme
Or the ''only read what aligns with you'' meme

>>8303325
This is the list of an intellectual. what do you think about women and blacks, my friend?

>>8303334
>what do you think about women?
In truth equal, yet still mentally or arguably socially inferior, in the sense of a Schopenhauer form. Women denying their purpose of reproduction is contraproducent. But none shall ever infringe free-speech
>blacks?
Oh boy, here we go
There is a really strong cultural trend calling to the ''underdog'', the gangster, the lazy welfare nigger.
And this is not my analysis, this is an analysis made by ''uncle toms'' or black intellectuals.
A quote from Frederick Douglass
>"What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with
us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!

In short, negroes are the undoing of themselves and the white man, but not of the cruelty of the white man, but from the pity of him.
When they stop calling themselves Afro-americans and start saying I am American, people will stop looking at them with pity, and accept them as one of kin.

In the end, I believe that a flag and a border are important.

>>8302563
I like you.

>>8303375
Good stuff.

What should we do about racemixing?

>>8302538
libertarian

>>8303389
I will never encourage imposing to a free person.
But if this free person damages the group, see the definition of Evola of fascism, it should be stopped.
Is race-mixing inherently bad?
Well, to a point race mixing is quite rare, normally people align themselves with people of their own looks. And even if race-mixed jew with nigger, or nigger with white, but still do a contribution to society, it's not truly bad.
Yet it is true that a homogeneous society would be perfect, since retards wouldn't throw race at every discussion, and value character. But the real question, is it possible without the zionist jews unleashing NATO all over the legislation?
Now this degenerate hedonist society is a problem.
Solution? Education.
And no, liberal arts degree or gender studies is not a real education, just a pandering circle-jerk.
I believe you can do whatever the fuck you want, but please, don't drag other people into it.

>>8303440
>And even if race-mixed jew with nigger, or nigger with white, but still do a contribution to society, it's not truly bad.
>I will never encourage imposing to a free person.
>I believe you can do whatever the fuck you want

Just lost my respect for you

>>8303451
Please bear in mind that this is realistic.
I would love living in a fascist country, see Evola form, but not warmongering.
If you have a formula of erasing kikes, niggers, mudslimes, chinks and whatnot, without getting zionist'd , I will follow blindly.

>>8303462
Nah, you sound like a liberal at heart, mate

>>8303468
>Nah, you sound like a liberal at heart, mate
[Spoiler]At heart I'm a dumb anime poster[/Spoiler]

>>8303477
>4chan traditionalist
>animeposter

'bachelors are unmarried'

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>>8303496
Nice talking to you anyways
Have a good one anon

Classical liberal, Protestant Christian

Top 10 favourites, no particular order:

Middlemarch - Eliot
Transformations - Sexton
The Dead and the Living - Olds
Ulysses - Joyce
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
My Ántonia - Cather
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory

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>>8303477
>tfw I'm half black/half Asian lurking this discussion with an odd mixture of apalled amusement at how a well-read and presumably socially and academically involved person could harbor such myopic views
>"at heart I'm a dumb anime poster"
hahahah I have presumed far too much of you

>>8302406
>he's even a vociferous Trump supporter, ugh
Kill yourself

>>8303590

> phew for a minute there I almost questioned my own worth

>>8303611
>implying my self worth ever came into question
>projecting this hard
wew

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>>8303590
>tfw I'm half black/half
proof
>myopic views
elaborate

>>8302418
If only you had listened.

>>8302460
>they're all great books.
incorrect

>>8303621

It doesn't matter what laugh you try, you're still just a nigger.

>>8303590
>blasian
Damn son, that's even worse than mulatto.
I'd have killed myself way before now if I were you. You're a stain to a proud family line. Well, I suppose unless you're Malay, cambodian, or flip.

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>>8303643
proof
>elaborate
I'm having drinks at a friend's, I'm not gonna have a 4chan discussion with a redpilled kid that watches cartoons

I'm an agnostic atheist and I have no political affiliations whatsoever.
>Dubliners by Joyce
>Basically any of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories
>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde (and pretty much all the rest of Wilde's work desu)

>>8303691
>try to engage in discussion
>get condescended
>nah m7 i woul destroi ye but 2busy
suprising

Hmm if I had to put myself inside a political ideology I would say I'm a conservative but I really don't care too much, I'm more for anow efficient administration.
On the other hand, I consider myself an absurdist and an existentialist but my taste in books is really diverse so I dunno.

Here's my list:
Caligula Albert Camus
Faust- Goethes
Le fantôme de l'opéra- Gaston Leroux
The world of yesterday- Stefan Zweig
Le diable et le bon dieu- Sartre

(And yeah, I'm HP shot but that's another story)

>>8303732
Caligula is a wonderful play
I personally love it
Have you seen it or just read it?

>>8303590
You thought for even a millisecond that the author of those pretentious thesaurusposts is socially and academically involved

>>8303760
first mistake is a 4chan animeposter socially involved
second is believing that reading = first class literature professor
>pretentious thesaurusposts
sorry that the books i like the most bother u

Classical liberal, culturally Christian agnostic who is fascinated by religion

KJV Bible

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Moby Dick

Piers Plowman

Paradise Lost/Paradise Found

The Odyssey

Pale Fire

Barabbas

Ulysses

I should note that I've been far more influenced by mathematics books due to my profession, but these are a small sampling of my favorite works of literature.

>>8303773
The fact you thought 'pretentious' referred to your listed readings shows how stupid you really are

>>8303749
Read it and seen it. I love it both ways. Camus finale is one of the best I've ever read. :)

>>8303795
btfo

Libertarian, esoteric inclinations

>William Blake
>Borges
>Tolkien
>Frank Herbert
>Plato
>Heraclitus

>>8303796
Have you read Attendant Godot?
You'll like it
Or Fin de Partie

>>8303590
So was it mom or dad who disappointed their parents?

>>8303814
M8! I love Beckett's Fin de Partie! Have you read/listened to All That Fall?
I'm sure as hell gonna read Attendant Godot.
What else do you like anon? Have you posted your list already?

>>8302406
Not sure exactly what to call my politics (not really educated regarding politics), but I love John Locke and live by his Three Natural Rights). I'm also in a same-sex relationship and love America and guns, if those mean anything to you. I guess I'm a moderate? I'm not voting in this election, anyways.
>Vineland by Thomas Pynchon favorite)
>The Castle by Franz Kafka
>A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
>The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
>Orlando by Virginia Woolf
>Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

This is shit bait and shit tier satire:

>>8302406
>>8302538
>>8303325

This is mid tier bait and satire:

>>8302442

>ideology
>groups
>parties

Be your own men, cucks.

>>8303974
P good taste.

>>8302406
I'm a Christian AnCom, and my favorite five are:

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Man Outside (play) - Wolfgang Borchert
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock/Wasteland - Eliot
Molloy - Beckett

BONUS:

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - BS Johnson

>>8304004
Thanks!

Don't really subscribe to an ideology, I believe in doing the right thing when it suits me, and being kind when it suits me, and hate war but am in the military. Also a Muslim, as far as practices go, fuck the Hadith.
Top 5 are
Picture of Dorian Gray
Brave New World
Gone With the Wind
The Power of One
Lolita

I can't pick a single play of Shakespeare's—because if I include one, then I have to include another, and then another, and so on—but otherwise he would have made the list. I've also left out the ancients, because it will interest nobody to list Vergil, or Augustine, or Horace. My Greek is still in its infancy, but I look forward to the day when I may claim to have read Homer, Plato and Paul.

The English top 5:

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Guy Mannering, or, the Astrologer by Sir Walter Scott
The Rod, the Root and the Flower by Coventry Patmore (though it is not, of course, on the same level with the others)

Honorable mentions to Boswell's Life of Johnson, Chesterton's poems, Dryden's poems, Ruskin's Modern Painters series, and Paradise Lost.

And the "ideology" I "subscribe" to, though those are your barbarous words and not mine, is Catholic Christianity. For which reason, I would rather have a revolution in the United States than elect either of the major candidates.

>>8304004
>Christian anarcho communist
Is this a meme

>>8304032

Significantly better taste than your average poster here. You can tell that you've really carved out a literary taste of your own. Nice one, m8.

I assume you've studied somewhere?

>>8302406
Not sure if b8 but here's my grain of sand

Used to be a raging communist, I even supported Stalin and Mao kek, but the moment I grew up and began to plan some start-ups (STEM major) I realized how wrong I was, and that a smaller state is desirable. I still like the tools marxism provides to annalyse societies and ideologies.
Here's the list, in no particular order:
>Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
>Ancia, by Blas de Otero
>American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
>Infinite Jest, by the absolute madman
>Robots and Empire, by Isaac Asimov

Could any /lit/izen recommend me some books based in my choices? I'm 19 and feel like missing out on good literature. Thx.

>>8302406
I like each of the books your boyfriend likes sans Divine Comedy, pretty indifferent to your own, and would vote Green if I were an Amerifat.

>>8302465
Probably a rightwing fag.

>>8302538
Libertarian.

>>8303325
Pretty good list, wouldn't expect a right wing dude.

>>8303794
Now that one fits.

>>8304190
Why? Christians are pretty communistic in spirit, just corrupted by the church.

>>8304282
There is no "Christianity in spirit" without the church.

Uh im pretty apolitical but atm leaning slightly left.
>Moby Dick
>Ulysses
>Hopscotch
>The American
>Absalom Absalom

Trump Supporter

The Hunger Games
Harry Potter
Mein Kampf
1984

I don't really like book learning that much though and I also hate women reeeeee

I am redpilled and support trump

Mein Campf
1984

these are the only two books I have read as I am not very good at reading

I support Hillary Clinton because women have a right to their bodies and gays are oppressed by white Christian males.
My favorite books are
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter
Name of the Wind
Prince of Nothing
1984

>actively apolitical

>Goethe - Faust
>Shakespeare - King Lear
>Cervantes - Don Quixote
>Ibsen - An Enemy of the People
>Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>8303894
yes see>>8303325
if you ignore my bait shitposting
I will read to All that fall m8
I like often everything, but my nail is surrealism, Henri Michaux is great, and if you get Lointain Interieur with Plume dans le plafond. I'm afraid I don't know much more about absurdism

>>8304282
sheltered 15 year old commie detected?

>>8304835
Probably

>>8304835
Close enough but no.

Had to work since I am 16 and studying business economics now, making enough money on the side to afford a somehow decent apartment, travel 4-5 times a year and buy all the fancy Apple toys I want. Was conservative as a kid (14), grew out of it and became somehow commie reading Das Kapital unironically (17), then realized that it's all dumb shit couple years later; left libertarianism is the most decent way with literally no downsides unless you feel entitled to leech or force your views on society.

Politically I'm anti-capitalist, I call myself a communist and a very critical marxist. People like Badiou and Zizek are very close to me politically.

Favorite works? I'll go with authors, instead, as that is the only way I can answer. With works, it'd be either no works or a huge list of works. With authors, I can honestly name favorites. I also won't mention philosophers.

The unholy trinity of horror; Poe, Lovecraft and Ligotti.
Others: Henry Miller, Kafka, Nabokov

>>8302406
I'd choose similar books to your boyfriend and i'm about as bolshie as they come.
His taste involves classical literature with well established, ultimate philosophical themes concerning religion, fate, human destiny as a whole etc. while yours are more modern, concerning typically faddish areas of criticism (feminist criticism is valid but ultimately narrow) and books more geared towards enjoyment than any perceived 'literary value'.

>Paradise Lost by Milton
>The Divine Comedy by Dante
>Hamlet, King Lear, Richard II by Shakespeare
>Moby Dick by Melville
>The Trial by Kafka
>Iliad/Odyssey by Homer
>Heart of Darkness by Conrad
>Antigone by Sophocles
>Birth of Tragedy/Zarathustra by Nietzsche (and the Hegel that comes before it)
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard

Economic left, social secularist-centrist.

>>8302406

Libertarian

>Atlas Shrugged by Rand
>Vonnegut
>Hemingway
>Steinbeck

Grew up with fairly shaky religious footing. Dad was raised Catholic, but didn't like to talk about it and didn't find it necessary to try pushing it onto me. Mom went back and forth between different spiritualistic/holistic types of institutes before settling in neutrality, which I suppose is where I'm at as well. Part of me is deeply jealous of my friends who were brought up religious, especially the Catholic ones. Favorite lit:
>Watership Down by Richard Adams
>The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
>Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
>Faust by Goethe

>>8304912
Pleb yearning for wealth detected

>>8304990
Yep!

>>8304864
down with the bourgeoisie

>>8304912
>Ayn Rand

Who will build the roads xDd. *tips fedora*

Politics make me want to kill myself.

>>8302465
>Political writings of Thomas Aquinas

KEK

>>8305527
Forgot to mention he was a saint.

>>8304977
A lot of the "brought-up-Catholic" people I know seem to be wishy-washy on matters of religion. I don't know why it happens, but my experience tells me it does.

I was brought up atheist and materialist—my dad introduced me to Betrand Russell when I was a kid and liked rant about the ignorance and sheepishness of the religious masses—which might be why I'm so staunchly Catholic now. There's nobody more confident in his beliefs, I think, than a convert.

>>8305180
I like to think Hemingway would have hate fucked Rand if he was drunk and horny enough, which he almost always was. I bet being touched by that massive throbbing literary phallus would have elevated her prose by orders of magnitude.

>>8305164
The proletariat have nothing to lose but their chains.

>>8305534
>There's nobody more confident in his beliefs, I think, than a convert.

No one more transparent in their self-delusion, you mean.

>>8305532
Would that change his shit writing and logic?

It wouldn't. It just means the church legitimized it and had 2 falsehoods to merit him as a saint.

>>8302406
>very much a conservative
>Trump supporter

Pick one.

>>8305527
I don't even have a response to your plebiean opinion on authors you didn't read.
>>8305532
Not all too important in him being a magnificent political philosopher.

>>8304657
That's some good taste anon. Michaux''s "Plume au plafond" is, in fact, on my to read list.
Absurdist novels you can find them mainly in the works of Camus (obvs), Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Sartre.
A fine absurdist novel is "Il deserto des tartari" by Dino Buzzati. The novel is an individual absurdist work but if you don't know him, I strongly recommend reading his other novels. You can also read "La Cantatrice chauve" and "Rhinocéros" by Eugène Ionesco, "Précis de décomposition" by Emil Cioran and "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
There's a lot more novels but I think these are a good start. Oh! You can get a lot more references in the films of Ingmar Bergman.
What other Hamsun novels should I read? I'm tempted to buy Hunger but I would like an introduction to this author.

>>8302648
anarcho-capitalist: "rich guy anarchism".
Not even anarchism.

Amoralist, Follow my own religion

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Spinoza's Ethics

I admittedly don't read as much as I think I do.

Liberal almost across the board, except fuck the liberal disrespect of the university. The Yale poetry thing really pissed me off...a bunch of 17-18 year olds claiming they have a better sense of the poetry best suited for educating the soul than Yale professors? Liberal education only functions for those who can shut down their personal ideologies for the span of a few classes.
Anyway
>Plato's Republic
>Euclid's Elements
>Homer's Iliad
>Aristotle's Metaphysics
>Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
>Strauss's On Tyrrany
>Bolaño's 2666

All these mentions of Plato's Republic sickens me. He was a gorilla-shaped totalitarian racist and I think him and all the other Classicists should be burned from the historical record.

Anarcho-communist, agnostic.

VALIS, Philip K. Dick
The Dream Songs, John Berryman
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Woodcutters, Thomas Bernhard
Rivers and Mountains, John Ashbery

>>8305643
>Plato
>totalitarian

Plato's basic teaching was that the thinker is incompatible with the political actor. He did not have a political program. The only regime models he accepts are within metaphors, used to depict the multifaceted structure of thought.

He was a totalitarian in the same way that you are a careful reader.

>>8305546
The "former Christian" is as loud and certain as the "former atheist", by the mistaken belief that they are completely familiar with the virtues and shortcomings of the side they left.

>>8302406
>1984 by Orwell
>Three Musketeers (and the sequels) by Alexandre Dumas
>American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
>Watership Down by Richard Adams
>Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

I would describe myself as a libertarian leaning conservative with anti-globalist streak (although I have syncretic beliefs in general, liberals consider me a conservative and vice versa). I support Trump, although I don't agree with all his ideas.

>>8305720
>liking 1984 and being a right wing "libertarian"
>not realising upholding the relations of private property and wage labour is what necessitates much of the surveillance state

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>>8305745
Yeah, because the alternative is so much better and different.

>>8305778
Oh yeah, any left wing politics that preserves money and the state is a sham. It's good that you perceive that. I recommend looking into ultra-left thought.

Read Gilles Dauve, The Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement.

what an immense astro-whore

get the fuck out with your "liberal" taste

i'd cum in your eyes

>>8302433

>kierkegaard
>not literature

triggered

>>8302442

i didn't even thought you were serious man

i thought it was great bait

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>>8305792
Me again, I went and checked out the source of that comic and look what I found (look closely at the book the character is reading - it's the same as the one I recommended):

https://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.de/search?updated-max=2016-07-06T15:11:00-07:00&max-results=1

You literally reposted a Left Communist meme and made out that it supports your conservative viewpoint. No wonder the image actually makes a good critique.

>>8305700
Sometimes they are right.

>>8302406

true patrician here. current bedside table books:

The Complete Works of William Blake
The Complete Works of Wittgenstein
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Finnegans Wake

>>8305831
I didn't claim it wasn't a left wing meme and I also never claimed the artist is a conservative like me - it just happened one of these cartoons is useful for presenting my view. I will definitely read the book you recommended, it's never a bad thing to challenge ideas you hold.

>>8304196
thanks mate, and yeah I'll admit that I have

>>8302406
>Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Based. Your taste is shit btw

>>8302406
Favorite Authors
Goethe
Cormac McCarthy
Pessoa
John Fletcher
Juan Benet

Generally (the american version of) liberal but I hold traditionally conservative beliefs such as gun control.

I'm an atheist (though I hate the label) and I don't really have strong political opinions. But I'm probably more a conservative than a liberal.

My top 5:

Crime and Punishment
Othello
Canterbury Tales
Death of Ivan Ilych
Divine Comedy

Wasler - A Schoolboys Diary
Kafka - The Trial
Krasznahorkai - War and War
Lautreamont - Les Chants de Maldoror
Beckett - Molly
Montaigne - Essays

Far left

>>8309188
>Krasznahorkai - War and War
you're ok

Someone else has probably already said this, but I will repeat it: while I know this is a troll thread, let me just say that I cannot consider the first list superior to the second. It would be just like a lower-middlebrow pseudoreactionary Trumper to name five (actually six, since 'Hamlet and King Lear' can hardly be considered to constitute a single book) of the authoritative greats of Western literature (leaving out Cervantes, naturally, since he sounds like a Mexican) without having read them. In fact, this is such a very good characterization, I can almost believe that in some not-so-distant alternate universe, this post is genuine.

Ulysses
Warlock
Gravity's Rainbow
White Noise
Neuromancer
Paradise Lost
Pale Fire
Master and Margarita

I don't vote or care too much, but would probably go for moderate democrat if I had to make a choice.

>>8302406
>Favourite works
Kalevala
Buile Suibhne
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Odyssey
Finnegans Wake

>Ideology
Ideology is for dickheads. I get most annoyed by conservatives but that's only because I'm exposed to them more often.

Butcher's Crossing
Storm of Steel
Sevastopol Sketches
Benito Cereno
King Lear

I cannot accurately summarize my political beliefs so I'll just say that it's some mixture of traditionalist conservatism and left-libertarianism partly rooted in Catholic social teachings but more socially permissive.

>Flowers in the Attic
>Brave New World
>Catcher in the Rye
>1984
>Blue World
>Fight Club
>Gone Girl
>The Book of Lost Things

Personally, I've never really looked too much into politics to label my own ideology, but basically I'm supporting whoever lets me continue to smoke bud and have poly relationships in peace.

>>8309830
For all the shitty bait in this thread yours takes the cake

I'm entirely apolitical. Not sure if this is apparent or not apparent from the books I like.

>Brideshead Revisited.
>Plato--esp. Republic.
>Borges.
>Ulysses.
>Either/Or.
>Tristam Shandy.
>Poems of Gerard Manly Hopkins.
>Brothers Karamazov.
>Confessions/City of God.
>Sartor Resartus.
>Nabokov--esp. Pale Fire and short stories.

>>8309861
good list, you pass

>>8309861
except there's one problem

"Manly"

>>8309261
I feel like a few things need to be off-limits in these threads just to keep things interesting

>Canterbury Tales
>Shakespeare
>Iliad
>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>Don Quixote
>Paradise Lost
>Infinite Jest

>>8305608
>Amoralist, Follow my own religion

sounds incredibly boring and sad

>>8302532

WEIRDLY ENOUGH, CATHOLICS ARE CAPABLE OF AND INTERESTED IN WRITERS THAT DON'T MERELY REPRODUCE AND REFLECT THEIR SHARED MORAL SENTIMENTS.

WHOWOULDATHOUGHT

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>ideology is like an identity you inhabit

>Antifragile & The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
>Black Mass by John Gray
>The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra
>Debt by David Graeber
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>the Eddas

Take a guess

Catholic.

>The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
>Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
>Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
>The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Melancholist lefty

Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit
James' The Will the Believe
Unamuno's Tragic Sense of Life
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Maugham's The Razor's Edge
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
Hardy's Jude the Obscure
Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

>>8302406
I'm a fairly radical leftist. Communist.

Favourite fiction would be The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Macbeth, Blood Meridian, Moby-Dick...Russian lit is generally my fav, but I really like genre stuff in a sort of literary style too (like Cormac McCarthy and Gene Wolfe).

>>8311189
the lady doth protest too much, methinks

I have no trouble admitting that I like when a great writer has right opinions, and that I hold suspect a man who believes anything else. I'd be a liar if I pretended that I think a Muslim could be a Dante, or an atheist a Wordsworth. I'd be lying, too, if I said I didn't think something missing in Wordsworth.

Catholics have written bad literature; and non-Christians have written great literature. But inasmuch as a poem or a novel lacks the full good sense of a right understanding of the cosmos, it will always be missing something. Shelley's verses are good, but they are full of flaws. Something's off about Hardy's realism. The Iliad falls short of what it might have been.

The other poster says there is "a sentiment or a pattern in reading" shared among Catholics, which mainly shows itself in their habit of reading prominent Catholic authors. This very mysterious shared sentiment which predisposes us to read Greene sooner than Burroughs—is it not obvious that it's just the thing we believe? Why should we, who think Nietzsche an interesting curiosity, be as eager to read him as a modern agnostic, who thinks him a genius and food for endless thought? It does matter whether a novel or a poem shows men and the world as they really are—"Poetry is something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house at least." If I am a Catholic, I believe Catholic Christianity is right; if I believe the dogmas of the Catholic Church are right, I am sure that a man who is really orthodox in his beliefs is more likely to speak good sense than a man who is not; and if he happens to be brilliant, he may attain to heights of good sense that the atheist cannot.

There is nothing wrong about saying that we Catholics like to read other Catholics. It's a rational preference.