Rate my vacation /lit/

>>8381410
I'm not touching this

OP here
On the Kindle is ....
Animal farm
1984
A clockwork orange
The great Gatsby
A brave new world
Heart of darkness
Everybody poops

entry level as fuck

Pretty good mix, hope you had a good summer. My only criticism is that there's not enough philosophy. You certainly could have balanced out those Twain stories with some of Kant's shorter works.

Anyway, hope you had a good time.Now that fall's rolling around, what are you thinking for your autumn list?

>>8381410
meme tier vacation

>>8381410

vacation to a 12 year old nabokovs library my friend.

>>8381438
my birthday is in fall so I will ask for an abundance of amazon vouchers. I will probably begin with Dostoyevskybut maybe, just maybe I might head for the meme trilogy starting with IJ

>>8381478

What is the meme trilogy aside from IJ?

I might as well complete the trilogy since i'm about to finish IJ (which I have loved reading).

Also, is the Oxford classics edition (and translation) of Anna Karenina good?

>>8381410
>vintage twain
Hipster. Get some high tech modern twain

>>8381485
gravity's rainbow and finnegan's wake

personally i wouldn't waste my time

>>8381492
Vintage twain is best twain

>>8381485
"Lets play spot the newfag daddy"

>>8381438
The dude's just starting Plato's Apology, he's a long way off from Kant.

>>8381506
ulysses, not finnegan's

>>8381492
You don't get upvotes for awful half-assed jokes here so don't bother next time

>>8381492
gtfo pleb

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>>8381762

>Its another Le Infinite Jest sucks even though I shouldn't be commenting on it since I didn't have the intellectual capacity to finish it episode.

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>>8381485
The older meme trilogy is out of vogue m8, you need the new one but i'm not spoonfeeding you that one

>>8381821
NO IT ISNT
YOUR SHITTY FORCED MEME IS DEAD
NOBODY EVEN KNOWS WHAT THE NEW ONE IS BECAUSE THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT SPERGS PUSHING DIFFERENT VERSIONS

>>8381410
Read Tolstoy, Plato, Melville and Joyce. Burn the rest.

Trade them all in for a copy of Atlas Shrugged.

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>>8381410
It might seem a little like "autism: starter pack", however, I read recently Asimov's the Last Question and it was one of the best fiction pieces I read, so I decided to give a try sci-fi once again.

>>8381782
stop bullying me immediately or I can't guarantee your safety

>>8381410
it's pretty entry level

not to say that those aren't all fantastic books, but it's basically exactly what comes to peoples' minds when you say the word 'literature'

what's important is that you enjoy it though, have a nice holiday friendo

>>8381831
Nah the alternate meme trilogy is pretty well cemented. It's The Recognitions, The Tunnel, and 2666. People often sub Women and Men for one of them though. It's more of a quadrilogy. The Lime Twig isn't long enough for consideration.

>>8381831
you are absolute garbage my friend :)

>>8381410
Fuck off, go to reddit if you want your shit voted on.

>>8381914
I'd say ratemypoo. com is a better site for that.

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>>8381506
>finnegan's
>'s

>>8381410
reaching/10

Well, its incredibly easy to build very good stacks when you're relatively new to literature but you're doing well in that regard
Nothing wrong there m8, nice that you actually read them

One could always try to optimize but honestly, everyone has their needs and interests, there can be no universal entry level reading list. I always found that for myself, I need to make sure to always have some "light" and/or relatively happy reads handy. I'd go crazy when I read too many gloomy and heavy works in succession. You're doing nicely in that regard, it ain't all the same kind of feels.

>>8381410
>has a kindle
>still brings physical books

Looks like a whale of a tale.

>>8381410
Those are fine books to be sure, but I (without a note of condescension, I might add) am surprised you have not yet already read them. I remember doing book reports on four of those whilst still in middle school--a time which has long since passed.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy them.

>>8381410
>dat Moby Dick cover

>>8381410
that ana karenina cover is 10/10

>>8383167
scrub. i read the entire works of melville and joice in kindergarden.

without baiting. if you think you had the maturity to aprehend all of those books themes, motifs and messages in middle school, never mind appreciate them, then you must still be in middleschool

>>8383198
Thematically speaking, "holier-than-thou" fits the bill for /lit/.

I do not understand your agency for discrediting someone's anonymous post online and I find myself content to carry on without understanding it. I hope you find and read a book that makes you happy.

>>8381410
>Dubliners
His worst novel IMO, but the only valid starting point for Joyce.

>>8381813
It has nothing to do with intellectual capacity, just attention span.

>>8383218
>I do not understand your agency for discrediting someone's anonymous post online

neither i yours, which is why i called you on your bullshit, or do you expect anyone to not understand the denegration you were inflicting not only on OP, by calling his literature of choice "middle school level", but by claiming any of that literature is middle school level.

Many books have made me happy. your post made me sad.

>>8381898
Do you need to read 2666 in Spanish to read it correctly ?

Why would you have a kindle and still bring along eight paperbacks that all are available in ebook form?

That's space being wasted in your bag that you could use for cool Hawaiian shirts with dragons and shit.

>>8383167
Which ones? Where did you go to school? Sounds unusual to me - but then I'm a Britbong, so we wouldn't have read the Mark Twain ones which seem the most obvious choices.

What I did this summer:

An Area of Darkness- V.S. Naipaul
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Galaxy in Flames (The Horus Heresy, #3) - Ben Counter
False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2) -Graham McNeill
The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Geza Vermas
Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy, #1 - Dan Abnett
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy
Ivan the Terrible (The Russian Series, V. 32) - R.G. Skrynnikov
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4) - Elena Ferrante
Skylark - Dezso Kosztolanyi
On the Edge - Rafael Chirbes

>>8381417
Bait is strong.

>>8383167
are you telling me you read anna karenina and moby dick at <14, as part of a curriculum?

what negligent middle school did you go to?

>>8383037
i see what you did there

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what ive read so far this summer, minus religious texts (re-reading portions of the Bible, working through City of God, etc.). macbeth is a reread, just starting Mme. Bovary

>>8383234
I neither said nor implied any such thing, going out of my way to state that I was not bearing any condescension in mind or in tone when saying that I was merely surprised he hadn't yet read them. I used my own experience with some of those books as an example of when I had read them, but did not mean to compare myself to the OP.

None of what I said qualifies as bullshit just because you took a fancy to your own interpretation of it.

>>8383241
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Anna Karenina, and Moby Dick; I attended Wayland, situated in MA, in '76.

>>8383258
No. I never said anything that you people are saying I said. I did not even imply it. The books were not part of the school's curriculum, I simply opted to read those books in particular and complete reports on them. While I do not recall much of my middle school experience, I do not think it's fair to say that they were negligent for allowing me to read what I wanted to.

>>8381485
>Also, is the Oxford classics edition (and translation) of Anna Karenina good?

It's a maude translation. They are quite good, but I'd go with something newer. I was really impressed with Schwartz' Oblomov translation, I bet her Anna Karenina would be superb. Bartlett has gotten great reviews as well.

>>8381410
No Jonathan Safran Foer, no Jonathan Franzen, you even trying?

>>8383219
>Dubliners
>novel

>>8383516
It's both a novel and a compilation. The stories are all set in the same general location in the same general period of time with a constant progression that is concluded at the end of The Dead. It's a novel that happens to have a large cast of characters and a variety of narrative perspectives.

>>8383278
How does that edition of Gravity's Rainbow differ from the Penguine Classics Deluxe Edition with the black and white cover ?

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>>8381410

You only have three days of vacation? Wew Lad

>>8383616
it fixes the omissions/errors
it also looks better

>>8383616

More aesthetic.

Also less errors.

>>8383278
Is this your first time reading Flaubert ? Not my favorite by him but Madame Bovary is great.

>>8381419
Loved a clockwork Orange and the movie was awesome too must watch

>>8381866
Just read hitchhiker's a few weeks ago, really hilarious, never really got tired of Adams' style or humor. P good read imo

>>8384753
>>8384761
What errors are in the other version ?

>>8381866
More like "pretending to be smart: starter pack". It's not even good sci-fi or good popsci.

I also brought lots of books with me on holiday, already knocked two of them off but they were relatively short.

So far I've read Skylark and Franz Kafka's America, I've got the rest lined up:
Don Quixote
Infinite Jest
The Magic Mountain
Parade's End
Fall of Hyperion

Which do I read next? Considering I'm in Spain Don Quixote seems like the most logical choice. I should be able to finish off the 1000 within the last couple weeks I'm here since I can read 300-400 pages a night here without distraction.

>>8385879

I forgot I had Life and Fate by Grossman too.

>>8384783
yup!

>>8385593
a few omissions, if you google it you can easily find the major one (one long sentence is cut in half).

>>8381410
Why do you still need psychical copies if you already have a Kindle you pleb

>>8385950
Is it worth it to get the better edition online if I already own the Deluxe one ?

>>8387063
Actually, I looked up the notorious omission and then looked at the page in my copy and the sentence isn't missing anything. It looks like Penguin corrected it at some point.