List off the last three books you've read, others will rate

>One Dimensional Man
>Beckett's Endgame
>Utopia

Cool taste OP

No Game No Life
Psycome
Strike the Blood

R8 me.

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>>8519045
>One Dimensional Man

>Beckett's Endgame

>Utopia

10/10, fantastic taste

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>>8519040
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is comfy as fuck, hope you liked it. Only read The Collector by Fowles but heard good things about The Magus. 7/10

Me:

>A Wizard of Earthsea
>The Tombs of Atuan
>Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

>>8519040
will you post the rest of that photo set? its half disgusting half comfy

>Wittgenstein in Exile - Klagge
>Bonfire the Vanities - Wolfe
>Everything and More - Wallace

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>>8519064

>>8519040
Crash
Petersburg
The crysalids

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>>8519052
Light Novels/Manga are not literature, you disgusting weeaboo. 0/10

J R (one of the best books I've ever read)
angle of repose (meh)
the easter day parade (meh)

>>8519087
Hello cynical depressed faggot

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The Ego and Its Own - Max Stirner

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

The King Must Die - Mary Renault (Starting on)

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>>8519073
>Light Novels aren't literature

>Clear Your Doubts About Islam: 50 Answers to Common Questions
>Submission
>Our Lady of Fatima

>>8519096
i usually hate you but I've been meaning to read Memoirs of Hadrian and the work of Renault, recently. nice.

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>>8519098
Even YA has more literary merit than your autistic anime scripts. Deal with it.

The Good Soldier
A Passage to India
The Rainbow

>>8519109
Literary merit based off of...?

>>8519040
>A volume of plays by Euripedes
>Another volume of plays by Euripides
>The ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

And I still have five or so more plays by Euripides to read.

>>8519118
Anti-Nabokovian.

>Miss Lonelyhearts
>Portnoy's Complaint
>Madame Bovary

Ulysses
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury

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>>8519144
>>8519052
>>8519068

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>>8519100
But why do you usually hate me?

The Bluest Eye
The Trial of God
After Dark

lol

The Everlasting Man
Titus Androticus
Macbeth

>>8519144
Nice. Be sure to read Go Down, Moses and Absalom, Absalom! Without a doubt the best Faulkner wrote.

miss macintosh my darling
Cartesian sonata
agape agape

>>8519178
Did you really read MM,MD? What's the big deal?

>>8519100
Don't reply, it just encourage them.

The Iliad (Fitzgerald translation)
Shakespeare's Memory
Cymbeline

>>8519206
>>8519178
>>8519172
>>8519168
>>8519144
>>8519118
>>8519092
>>8519096
>>8519068

>[Rate someone before posting]

Fuck you.

>Symbols of Transformation, Carl Jung
>Thinking Architecture, Peter Zumthor
> Everything that Rises. . , Flannery O'connor

>Hitchhikers Guide
>Don Quixote
>The Son Also Rises

>>8519206
Oddessy is better.

>>8519222
Rate muh dick
>>8519232
I disagree, but they're both masterpieces

The Unpossessed, Tess Slesinger
Caterva, Juan Filloy
Witch Gass, Raymond Queneau

>>8519206
>Shakespeare's Memory
You mean Borges?

>>8519178
This >>8519187 is me. Cartesian Sonata is better than In the Heart. Too often I felt like Gass was talking down on his subject in the earlier work. In CS you can feel his ideas germinate and sprout; something which comes with experience, I guess.

>>8519222
What did you expect from a bunch of try-hard illiterates?

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>>8519040
>ZAMM

I remember being 16

>>8519045
I wish people would talk about Utopia more. Good stuff.

>>8519052
Why are you here if you're not reading the meme canon?

>>8519060
back to your containment thread

>>8519064
>>8519172
tryhards

>>8519092
seems ok

>>8519096
tripfag

>>8519100
>a /pol/ migrant

>>8519118
>>8519227

gay

>>8519129
>>8519225

Pseud

>>8519137
>>8519178
Patrician

>>8519144
mememaster

>>8519168
woman

>>8519206
newfag

Making Comics by Scott Mccloud
A journey round my skull by Frigyes Karinthy
The Stranger by Albert Camus

Well?

>>8519255
Obviously they're both fantastic. I've always had a preference for the adventure stories like huck finn, lord of the rings, etc.. Probably why i prefer The Oddessy.

>>8519290
So what are you reading?

The Stranger
The Tartar Steppe
The Complete Cosmicomics

>Magic Mountain
>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
>The Insufferable Gaucho

Good taste OP. I really liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

20 Years After
Great Expectations
The Analects

Blood Meridian
Lolita
Prior Analytics

>>8519222
on it m80

>>8519290
yes, woman, but more because i was just doing some faster, easier reads before school. im still in the middle of less light reads.

>>8519258
Yup. Some cozy late Borges.
>>8519299
Iliad is just more emotionally affecting imo. Also the plot (inb4 >plot) is so complex and gripping. I like the more linear structure and I feel that the characters are more fleshed out.
>>8519308
How would you compare Cosmicomics to Calvino's longer form work? I've been meaning to read it.

>>8519392
>*but it's more that i was just doing

>>8519096
You actually tackled the meme.
I'm impressed

>>8519385
shit

personally for me:
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

>>8519395
If only the rest of the illiad series still existed

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>>8519052
you get a 3.3333 NGNL is pretty good the other two are utter shiet though why did you waste your time with them

>>8519073
the quality of the writing is irrelevant for it to be defined as literature

>>8519100
2/10 Bild dir deine eigene meinung

>False Gods
>Der Antichrist
>Also sprach Zarathustra

>>8519040

The Eye in the Pyramid
Ride the Tiger
If on a Winter Night a Traveler

>>8519040
>Naked Lunch
>How Music Works
>Wuthering Heights

Working on Perdido Street Station currently.
Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Snow Crash before that.

>>8519385
>Blood Meridan
It's actually the one big McCarthy books that I haven't read. I imagine it's equally as good though?

>>8519475
It's extremely good

>>8519461
How is the naked lunch, I've been thinking of reading it.

>>8519187
it's a giant long mindfuck. that's about it. the writing quality also holds up well for such a big book. it's like reading a dream about memory.

>>8519395
I've only read the complete cosmicomics and invisible cities. I haven't read any of his longer form work. Although there is a connection between all the cities in invisible cities I reckon I'd class it as short stories. I preferred it to cosmicomics, anyway.

>>8519560
You'd really class Invisible Cities as short stories? I thought the whole point was the connections and narrative being told through the vignettes. You should read If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, though. Probably the most purely fun book I've ever read.

heh
>Frankenstein
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

>>8519467
Three fairly good books, Perdido Street Station is the weaker of the three but it's a nice read anyway. Think I've gone through it in a night.

>Hamlet
>Hamblet (a meaty, nihilistic rewriting of Hamlet that meshes English, Italian, French, Provenzal, Latin and German)
>Introduction to the History of the Byzantine Empire

>>8519414
>especially those considered of superior or lasting merit

Literally the first definition you fucking sperglord.

>>8519817
>Perdido worse than Snow Crash
What

>Pale Fire
>You Can't Go Home Again
>The Sound and the Fury

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>>8519888
especially doesn´t mean only you fucking sperglord

>>8519910
>he's this mad that his chinese cartoon books aren't literature

>>8519467
that book is terrible

>>8519939
noice straw man

>>8519232
Why?

>Jesus' Son
>Look Homeward, Angel
>The Silence of the Lambs

>>8519944
I disagree. It's a bit slow, and can often have big rants of nonsense but it's interesting and descriptive

>Bhagavad Gita
>Richard III
>The Merchant of Venice

>>8519172
I like Chesterton and Shakespeare. We could be friends.

>>8519290
You seem like an insufferable teenager.

>>8519040
One and a half/3
>>8519045
>>8519052
>>8519064
0/3
>>8519054
One half/3
>>8519060
3/3
>>8519290
-0/3

Etc.
Nothin' personal kid

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>>8519402
It's legit. I never "memed" it

>>8519939
you make me wonder
what is it that makes you fear the reality that light novels are literature?
and based on what do you disqualify them?
it can´t be quality since if it were that you would not do this blanket statement
so it can only be the medium
but why?
Light Novels are usually the equivalent of western "youth books" in serialized form

so what do you base your qualification for literature for

on a seperate note
>>8519798
>>8520039
>>8519897
i can attest these men to have a valid taste in books

i´ve been reading
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
and Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

>>8520272

Meh

>Notes from the Underground
>Stoner
>Death of Ivan Ilyich

>1984 (inb4 meme book)

> Henry IV (both parts) followed by Henry V

>Le Morte D'Arthur

>>8519167
Fuck that's a cool pic

Seveneves
Heart of Darkness
Camp of the Saints

Confederacy of Dunces
The Idiot
Red Mars

this thread literally doesn't make sense
reading a book doesn't mean you liked or disliked it so how could it reflect your taste

>>8519040
>Ablutions
>Moby Dick
>In the Heart of the Sea

In order from latest to earliest

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Agapē Agape
A Frolic of His Own

>>8519040
>>8519045
>>8519052
>>8519054
>>8519060
>>8519064
>>8519068
>>8519092
>>8519096
>>8519100
>>8519118
>>8519129
>>8519137
>>8519144
>>8519168
>>8519172
>>8519178
>>8519206
>>8519225
>>8519227
>>8519258
>>8519294
>>8519308
>>8519312
>>8519318
>>8519385
>>8519408
>>8519414
>>8519436
>>8519461
>>8519467
>>8519798
>>8519817
>>8519897
>>8520017
>>8520039
>>8520292
>>8520536
>>8520609
All exceptional choices. I like you guys. Hope you all have a great time reading these wonderful books.

>>8520621
You can judge someone by what they chose to read.

>>8521183
What is this "chose" you speak of?

>What my niece & nephew told me to read
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Puss in Boots
The Pied Piper

>What my English teacher made me
Grapes of Wrath
Lord of Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird.

>What my sisters wanted me to read
The Hunger Games trilogy
The Divergent Series
50 Shades of Grey

>What my book club selected to read
Mystic River
Dragonriders of Pern
Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code, Angels&Demons

>>8521260
>what my cousin suggested
Ann Rice

>what my grandpa was reading
Tom Clancy

>Yellowing books the library was getting rid of
Edgar Rice Burrows | Tarzan (various volumes)
Space Odyssey 2020

>The last book I actually bought for myself
A Darker Shade of Magic
Fearsome Journeys (Short Stories by different Fantasy authors)
Falconfar trilogy (that I regret buying but forcing myself to finish anyways)

neuromancer - gibson
four-day planet - piper
the warlord of mars - burroughs

Neuromancer
Foundation and Empire
Catcher In The Rye

Samuel Beckett's trilogy
Marcus Aurelius' Meditiations
Foucault's The Order of Things

>>8520272
Would it be better if I said that Light Novels are not art?

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>>8521414
Good stuff. 4/5

>>8521412
>>8521327
Personally thought Neuromancer was garbage. Rest is good though. 3/5

>>8520609
Still don't get why people like The Idiot so much. Doesn't even come close to Dosto's other books. 3/5

>>8520536
>Camp of the Saints

wew lad

>>8520292
Great stuff. 5/5

>>8520286
Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. 5/5

italo calvino - mr palomar
han kang - the vegetarian
fyodor dostoyevsky - the brothers karamazov

>>8521260
you need to find a better cook club

Ulysses
Naked Lunch
Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man

The Celtic Tradition
The Stranger
and I honestly can't remember what I read before that

>The Republic
>Childhood, boyhood, youth
>War and Peace

The Fall
Steppenwolf
The New York Trilogy

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Howard Fast: Spartacus
Jorge Luis Borges: In Praise of Darkness
Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe

>>8521698
shit taste

Anyway here's what I finished lately:
The Conscious of the Constitution
Conjectures and Refutations
The Closing of the American Mind

Sculpting in time - Andrei Tarkovsky
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
DH Lawrence - England, my england

>>8521698
How does one quote himself?
>>8521667
The New York Trilogy was really great
>>8521659
Is that your first Plato? just curious
>>8521627
How did you like Calvino's Palomar?
>>8520286
>>Stoner
>>Death of Ivan Ilyich
Both great fantastic and bleak
>>8519897
10/10

>The Iliad
>The Bible
>Don Quixote
Depending on your definition of "read".

>>8521589
i wasn't a fan of neuromancer either

>>8520292
I've never understood why 1984 gets such a bad rap on /lit/, do people just like being an ass about classics?

Skylark-Dezso Kosztolanyi
America-Franz Kafka
The Magic Mountain-Thomas Mann

Currently: Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace

Waiting for Godot by Beckett
Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago Volume 2, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

True hallucinations
the trial
various tales of edgar poe

>The Wonderful Land of Oz
>Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
>Bambi

>>8519798

Fine taste.

>>8519227
>>8519385
man you're the only people here as normie as me. nice taste tho lads.

>The Cider House Rules
>Light in August
>Hangsamann

>>8522436
>New York Trilogy
I liked Ghosts the most.
How's Sculpting in time? Should I finish his filmoography first? Got the right here on my table

>The Corrections
>JR
>The Metamorphosis

Enjoyed all 3, JR was difficult for me though (probably cause I'm a pleb)

I can't rate anyone I'm a pleb

>hitchhikers guide first two books
>col49
>nearly done w confederacy of dunces and halfway done with IJ

Last three books reads to completion (I rated in an earlier post):

The Outsider (L'Etranger) - Albear Camoo
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Best Short Stories by Fydor Dostoevsky - Translated by David Megashark

Currently reading some ancient/philosophy/religious I've been slugging through between more contemporary literature.

>>8522788
>I want to get into reading. I know! I'll check out r/books for recommendations!!
>Reads hitchhikers guide
>continues browsing reddit until he comes across the /lit/ top 100
>comes here and starts reading our top meme books

am i right?

>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson.
>A Throne of Bones, by Vox Day
>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison.

Right now I'm reading the Brothers Karamazov because everyone kept telling me to.

1. melancholy of resistance
2. jesus son
3. End zone

Th Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Boredom of Haruhi Suziumiya

>one hundred years of solitude
>foucault pendulum
>stoner

kind of pleb i guess

Akutagawa's Rashomon and 17 Other Stories
Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull

>>8522809
Great choices. Which Dostoevsky story you liked the most from the collection you've read?

蒼穹の昴 (Soukyuu no Subaru) - Asada
Shirley - Bronte
夜想曲集 (Nocturnes) - Ishiguro

Currently reading some short stories from Ambrose Bierce.

>>8519052
but the real question is: moonrunes or translated?

if LNs count, i'll add シュガーアップル・フェアリーテイル to the top of my list.

>>8519137
thoughts on madame bovary? it's one of my favorites.

>>8522891
Probably The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. I also really liked the Honest Thief and Notes from the Undergound. They are all quite good, and they are arranged in an order to see Dosto's style evolve. I look forward to revisiting them.

>>8522925
>listing ishiguro in japanese
lol

>>8522952
i read it in japanese, sorry to disappoint you with pleb translations.

>The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
>After Virtue
>Thinkers of the New Left

>>8522967
why, are you a native japanese speaker?

Last read: L'étranger by Albert Camus
Current read: A Fairwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Next read: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

>>8522989
No, just a hardcore weaboo

Gravity's Rainbow
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Slaughterhouse 5

>>8522994
so you read english language works in japanese just because? that seems retarded as fuck

>>8522821
Pretty much. Anything wrong with that?

>>8522989
i'm fluent! though i find it helpful to read translations so i can improve my grasp on writing in both languages.

>>8522989
not me, it's a bit difficult to be a weaboo when you're japanese.

>The Stand (Shut up i liked it) - Stephen King
>The Pigeon - Süskind
>Confessions of a Mask- Mishima

>Metaphysics - Aristotle
>Summa Theologiae - Thomas Aquinas
>Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

>Gormenghast books
>1066
>Moby Dick

>>8519290
wow, you soooo cool, sure you never read any of those books, because you are a god.

>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Akira
>Machiavelli: Philosophy of Power

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (sucked, but I promised someone I would try it)
Line War by Neal Asher (comfy dumb scifi)
The Iron Heel by Jack London (surprisingly decent, but less exciting after reading a dozen other dystopian books)

>>8522876
very late/3

>>8523471
Obviously trying to hit major and important works. No problem with that.

>The Sound and the Fury

>The Buddha of Suburbia

>Pushkin short stoies

>>8522461
1984 was one of the first books I read that got me serious about literature.

It gets hate because it's entry-level, easily accessible. Sort of like someone getting into film and touting Goodfellas as great. Not to say 1984 or Goodfellas are bad, at all (I love them both), but on an anonymous board where we're generally more widely-read (hopefully), it attracts hate. Hell, I know a girl my age who's only classic under her belt is 1984. She says it's the greatest. It doesn't particularly upset me, but I'd like to think she'd eventually read something else.

>>8523011
Not him, but no. Happy reading.

>>8523764
I see that and agree it is the most entry of entry level. But it's still a classic and a book that got me and alot of people into books. It's just weird how many people i see just go oh man it's trash. Like oh i read Steinbeck in high school so he's a shitty writer it's weird logic.

>>8523452
I unironically like Stephen King, so it's cool.

>Frankenstein
>Supernatural Horror in Literature
>The Old Man and the Sea

>>8519040
The Silmarillion

Dubliners

The Picture of Dorian Gray

>A la recherche du temps perdu, Volume 4 : Sodome et Gomorrhe
>The Master and Margarita
>Don Quixote

Good-Bye to All That

The Glenn Gould Reader

Testimony (Shostakovich)

>>8519461
>>8519514
>>8521644 (nice double numbers btw)

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Naked Lunch
White Teeth

Naked Lunch was nice. My favorite part was the guy who taught his butthole to talk. Also Dr. Benway was silly.

>>8524502
Wait is thay actually in the naked lunch?

>>8524616
Yes.

After a while the ass start talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time.

Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him: “It’s you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat and shit.”

>Sea of Fertility
>The Fifth Child
>A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Currently reading The Young Bride. Planning to read Blue of Noon, The Mare, Nadja, and the Pennyroyal Caxton bible.

>>8523794
2/10

Witch Grass by Queneau
New Harry Potter (it was so dumb)
How I Became a Nun by Aira (okay)

Witch Grass was great though and I'd recommend We Always Treat Women Too Well and Exercises in Style by him as well.

>>8524633
Wow if this a troll 10/10 but if not i need to fucking read that shit.

>>8523794
6/10
>>8522999
5/10
>>8519897
Lol, but only because mine is

TCoL49
Pale Fire
The Sound and the Fury

>>8523771
Thanks friend you too

>>8524683
I went through a brief Queneau phrase not too long ago. You've read Zazie in the Metro, right?

>>8524502
How'd you like Special Topics? Have you read The Secret History?

>>8524829
Nope those are all I've read by him. I'll get to it eventually, especially since I just saw it's like 150 pages.

>>8524784
Please do. Also worth quoting Dr. Benway:

Dr. Benway is operating in an auditorium filled with students: “Now, boys, you won’t see this operation performed very often and there’s a reason for that…. You see it has absolutely no medical value. No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it had a purpose at all. Personally I think it was a pure artistic creation from the beginning.

“Just as a bull fighter with his skill and knowledge extricates himself from danger he has himself invoked, so in this operation the surgeon deliberately endangers his patient, and then, with incredible speed and celerity, rescues him from death at the last possible split second…. Did any of you ever see Dr. Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a scalpel across the room into the patient and then make his entrance like a ballet dancer. His speed was incredible: ‘I don’t give them time to die,’ he would say. Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage. ‘Fucking undisciplined cells!’ he would snarl, advancing on the tumor like a knife-fighter.”

A young man leaps down into the operating theatre and, whipping out a scalpel, advances on the patient.

DR. BENWAY: “An espontaneo! Stop him before he guts my patient!”

>>8524835
I don't know why I always assume people get into Queneau with Zazie (probably because that's how I did). It's good fun, though a little light. Pierrot and Icarus are also standouts.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Crying of Lot 49

>>8524842
Father just had WATWTW lying around from forever ago so that's where I started. Exercises in Style is nutso, I love that fucking book.

>>8524831
Special Topics was nice. Lots of literary references that probably went over my head but it didn't make it a bad book. I don't really understand what happened at the end though. Her dad like straight up left or something?

>>8519040
>Stoner
>A scanner darkly
>The grapes of Wrath

>>8522445
Essential pretend to have read tier

>Tao Te Ching
>Notes from the Underground
>At the Mountains of Madness

>Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts

>Special Topics in Calamity Physics

>Journey By Moonlight

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Watt by Samuel Beckett
Snow White by Donald Barthelme

>>8519040
Against Nature is dope.

>>8521414
Nice!

>>8519144
All great books, clearly.

>>8519045
How is One Dimensional Man?

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>The Portable Nietzsche

>Faust (Part II)

>Peer Gynt

>>8525060
Hey, man, did you like special topics?

>>8524897
Preeeeetty pretentious

>Bleeding Edge
>the pale king
>The call of cthulhu

Cannery Row - Steinbeck
Fuir - J.P. Toussaint
Tête bêche - Liu Yichang

>>8525078
I'd say it's probably the best Frankfurt school I've read thus far besides maybe Dialectic Of Enlightenment. Some of the best argued and most levelheaded continental philosophy I've read in a while, would recommend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

>>8519040
The divine comedy
Kalevala
Beowulf

In an epic kind of mood, going to re-read the aeneid soon

>>8525082
smart motherfucker/10
The savage detectives
The aleph
Le grand cahier

>>8525646
Awesome, thanks. I really enjoyed Dialectic of Enlightenment, especially the parts on the culture industry & the Odyssey.

Lit reads reminds me of the Southpark episode on goths.

- Walker Percy, The Second Coming
- Gogol, assorted short stories
- Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza

You all should read Nausea.

>>8525706
6/10

>>8525082
micropenis

>>8524844
just kill yourself

>>8525979
>Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza
Loved this book, I also read his first novel on audiobook which was hilarious.

Essential Sufism
No Longer Human
An Introduction to Database Systems 8e

Roadside Picnic
Dune
Dracula

About to start American Pyscho

>>8524838
I'm guessing that's one of the characters in said lunch?

>The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
>Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
>11-22-63: A Novel
>The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
Nothing deep but I find these types of books quite enjoyable.

>>8526113

5/10, usually when I meat this kind of person I try recomending something better and starting an interesting conversation.

>The Waves, Virginia Woolf
>V., Thomas Pynchon
>Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

>>8525090
Lots of people claim it's pretentious in its wording, but I feel like the way things are phrased are supposed to be as they are. It's full of really witty wordplay, and since the protagonist is a gifted young girl, it really puts you in the environment. I was hooked from the first page, and God, that fucking twist! Give it a shot. You might prefer Night Film though; it's a lot more surreal, but not as linguistically libre.

>La vida es sueño/El alcalde de Zalamea - Calderón de la Barca
>Trilogía de Madrid - Francisco Umbral
>Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

>The Setting Sun
>Travels With Herodotus
>Labyrinths

>>8526609
>Dazai
Nice. Schoolgirl is my favourite work of his.

>>8526608
What's up with those late-Century Spanish authors who wrote like 30 200-page novels? I tried getting into Delibes, Cela, Umbral, Ballester, Marsé, Gaite, Matute, Molina after reading most of Ferlosio's stuff, but their backlogs are daunting. It reminds me of Gass' intro to The Recognitions, where he talks about authors who penned off a book every year "just to show how easy it was."

>>8526701
I guess it's all about leonine shite contracts with oligopolistic spanish publishing houses from the 70s 80s and 90s and also with the average spanish reader from back then being unable to concentrate on reading anything that lasts more than 300 pages

>>8519040
Putkinotko
Gödel, Escher, Bach
The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology

>>8519040
Wisdom of psychopaths
48 laws of power
Romance of the three kingdoms

>>8526729
I can kinda understand that. I read a couple of those light novels for a while and they seemed like, and excuse me if I make a misstep here, one of those shows people binge watch for a long weekend, or a quiet movie.

>>8526818
Kek what did you read man? Are you spanish?
I suggest you try some Juan Benet, nigga was breddy good. I read some novels by Delibes years ago and I think I liked them. I was 15 or so tho. Same with La Familia de Pascual Duarte by Cela, will have to reread that shit.
Also, Trilogía de Madrid was my first Umbral and I found it to be quite well written, although being a little boring when my nigga Paco starts telling you about every single minor writer during the Madrid of the 60s. It's a self biographic work tho, I'll probably check some of his fiction.

>>8526867
not that guy but yeah, Benet's descriptions can be quite delicate and poignant at the same time. I read this short story called Sub Rosa and I loved it, made me want to try and find a copy of Volverás a región. Have you read that one in particular? I'm interested in the whole fictional geographical construction in the vein of Rulfo's Comala and Onetti's Santa María.

>>8527027
>Volverás a Región
Yep. Stunningly beautiful, mane. Grab a copy if you find it. Just finished "En el estado" and I don't think I got all of it (it's a way more philosophical, less narrative novel than Volverás a Regióm) but reading that nigga is a fucking pleasure. I'll aim for more stuff by him I guess.

>Siddhartha
>The Great Railway Bazaar
>Family Happiness

>>8522436
really want to read sculpting
>>8523726
Pushkin is great
>>8525078
niccce

>the Beetle Leg
>Paradise Lost
>Swann's Way

>The Hero with a Thousand Faces
>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
>Long Shadows (Warriors)

>Beware of Pity.
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
>Grettir's Saga.

How'd I do?

1984
siddhartha
the bell jar

"A Hero of our Times" Lermontov
"The Niche of Shame" Kadare
"Solovyov and Larionov" Vodolazkin

>poor people
>the double
>uncle's dream

>Fear and Loathing in Las vegas
>Moby Dick
>Karamazov brothers

>>8529763
Odd list but I assume you are tying to gain a broad literary perspective and those three books are all worth reading so good job: 7/10

>A Frolic of His Own
>Libra
>Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist

>>8528793
Oops, should have rated you instead since you are the last one to follow instructions.

I like the mix of highbrow classics and obscure postmodernist weirdness. I've not read Beetle Leg but from the other Hawkes I have read, I imagine that being a funny juxtaposition with the other two. 8/10.

>Odyssey
>Oidipus Rex
>Symposium

Learning to Live: A User's Manual - Luc Ferry
The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
The Black Obelisk - Erich Maria Remarque

>>8530195

Greeks/10, good lad.

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SPQR IX: The Princess and the Pirates
SPQR X: A Point of Law
SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius

All written by John Maddox Roberts.

>Selected writings, Marx
>The Iron Kingdom, Chris Clark
>El Aleph, Borges

>>8522999
Nice trips and books

Slaughterhouse Five-Vonnegut
Franny and Zooey- Salinger
Down and Out in Paris and London-George Orwell

>The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Lady Diana Cooper
>Thousand Cranes
>The Brontës and Religion

The Sound and the Fury
Wittgenstein's Mistress
The German Ideology

>>8529488
CYKA BLYADD

10/10

me

La Ciudad y los Perros by Vargas Llosa
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

>pls raet

-Petersburg(biely)
-La Familia de Pascual Duarte(Cela)
-Queer(Burroughs)

A Visit From the Goon Squad
As I lay Dying
Franny and Zooey

>>8530178
Had you read a lot of Beckett before reading The Last Modernist? What'd you think of it? Would you recommend it? Have you read any of his other bios?

Also, Libra and Frolic are both really good. If you haven't already, do read the rest of Gaddis.

>>8531418
did you read La Ciudad y los Perros in spanish?

Stephen King - IT
Mark Twain -Huckleberry Finn
Dan Abnett - I Am Slaughter

>>8519040

>2666
>Siete noches
>Los relampagos de Agosto

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>Siddhartha
>1984
>Fahrenheit 451

Currently reading Slaughterhouse-Five.

>>8530327
>Wittgenstein's Mistress
what did you think of this? I was thinking of picking that up.

>>8531760
>Journey to the end of the Night
>Bridge to Terrabithia
>Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights?

>>8531760
>>8531795
The Wizard of Oz
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Slaughterhouse V