>age >last 5 books you read And then other anons try to

>>8539440
20
The Waves
To The Lighthouse
Walden
Wuthering Heights
Swann's Way

Didn't someone point out in a previous thread that this is pointless? That is unless people give an indication of whether they liked the book or not. I'd sooner guess what kind of person someone is by the next five books they want to read.

>>8539440
24. Just Kids (Patti Smith memoir), On Writing (Stephen King memoir), A Moveable Feast (Hemingway memoir), Fifteen Dogs (Andre Alexis), The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Heather O'Neill).

Bonus: currently reading IJ

>>8539458
Wait- it just occurred to me that's wrong because the sort of books a person is willing to pick up in the first place could be telling. Sorry OP.

>>8539440
18

The Ego and It's Own
Infinite Jest
Mein Kampf
The God Delusion
Bottom's Dream

>>8539465
M E M E

20

Starting with the most recent
>The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
>The World as Will and Representation by Ol' Schopey
>Selected Works 1943-1978 by Onorato Damen
>Essays on the Materialist Conception of History by Antonio Labriola

>>8539462
>On Writing

That seems interesting. How'd you like it?

>skagboys
>the iliad
>leviticus
>notes from the underground
>walden & civil disobedience

26

Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Ulysses
1984
The Sound and the Fury

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>half of Crime and Punishment
>The Lawless Roads
>The Power and The Glory
>Histories, Herodotus
>The Odyssey

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>>8539477

>>8539453
Femanon

22

>Agape Agape, Gaddis
I read this to get a taste of Gaddis's style before jumping into one of his doorstoppers, but I don't think it gave a great first impression. I'm giving Gaddis the BOTD and will probably still attempt one of his more well-known works.
>Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Loved it. One of the comfiest books I've ever read, and Huck is probably the most charming and endearing narrator I can think of.
>Infinite Jest, Wallace
Yes, I actually read it. Yes, it was actually good.
>Factotum, Bukowski
"He's a pretty good read, but who would wanna be such an asshole?"
>Stoner, Williams
It's true, this is a damn near perfect novel.

20

Notre-Dame de Paris
Moby Dick
Le Suicide
Surveiller et punir
Malaise dans la civilisation

>>8539477
I am gonna assume you just kicked off a dystopian phase going off 1984 and BNW being in your last 5 books read

29

The Flying Troutmen
Breakfast of Champions
Child 44
Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha
Tuesdays with Morrie

>>8539472
Hoped it'd be a little more technical but it was a pretty great (and light) read. The tl;dr from the book is "work hard, write a lot" with some colourful anecdotes about King's childhood, big literary breaks, and drug use. Honestly never read anything from his oeuvre (usually stick to the classics) but he seems like a pretty cool guy and I'll probably read Carrie as a post-IJ vacation.

>>8539462
Femanon

>>8539494
W-wrong

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>>8539440
27

actual
>Swan Lake
>Dwarf Nose
>Saint George and the Dragon
>The School for Cats
>The Sleeping Beauty

ignoring kid books
>A Terrace in Rome Pascal Quignard
>Prose Edda
>Pybrac by Pierre Louys
>The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
>Pride and Prejudice

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>>8539491

>>8539501
I'm really just trying to educate myself on classics.

18

White Noise
Madame Bovary
Native Son
Teddy Roosevelt's autobiography
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

>>8539453
replace Wuthering Heights with Pride and Prejudice and that was me over the summer

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>>8539502
Thanks, anon. I'll definitely check this out. Maybe it will rekindle my dream to become a writer.

>(((20)))

>Dostoy - Notes/Double
>Steppenwolf
>Recognitions
>Dubliners
>Portrait

yfw this is now a /lit/ horoscope thread

25
Cuentos Completos 2, Julio Cortázar.
El Túnel, Ernesto Sabato.
L'Étranger, Albert Camus.
For Whom the Bells Toll, Ernest Hemingway.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami.

>>8539526
If that's your goal, definitely read Just Kids! Way more entertaining, literary, and inspiring. (I had no idea who Patti Smith was before reading it.)

18
American Gods
Ready player one
Do androids dream of electric sheep
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Dune

19

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

>>8539497
You are probably homosexual, you dirty Frenchman.


25

1) Hamlet for the umpteenth time.

2) The Two Noble Kinsmen

3) Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity to Literary Icon

4) Biographies of Rabelais, Shakespeare, Marlowe

5) The Brothers Karamazov

>20

>Daisy Miller
>The Romance of Tristan & Iseult
>Epic of Gilgamesh
>Exquisite Corpse
>Fear & Trembling

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>>8539550

Why don't the ages surprise me..

24
Man's Fate
The Thief's Journal
Journey to the End of the Night
Skylark
The Easter Parade

>>8539440
18
>Dead Souls
>The Power of Myth
>Nostromo
>Labyrinths
>Satyricon

>>8539570
>French culture == high culture

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19

The Fall
Animal Farm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Crime and Punishment
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By the way, any recommendations are welcomed

>>8539550
you seem like a smart dude who wants to get into real literature.

23

>Lolita (not joking)
>The fundation
>The aleph
>On the will in nature
>Utopia

>>8539531
Finding yourself.

>>8539585
Read Brothers K

22
>Portrait of an Artist
>The Everlasting Man
>Titus Andronicus
>Taming of the Shrew
>Ulysses

>>8539585
The Immortality is my favorite Milan's book.

>25

The Book of the City of Ladies
The Present and the Past
The Penguin Book of Sick Verse
The King's English
Some Tame Gazelle

>>8539585
Don't rush into Brothers Karamazov and instead continue to read a variety of writers. Read a version of Robinson Crusoe without the irregular printing style and spellings of the 18th century to see an example of an early novel. Bear in mind that most of the great Russian writers were influenced by the great English and French writers. The Red and The Black by Stendhal is a well-paced, psychological novel that a fan of Dostoevsky would appreciate.

>>8539602
Why would you joke? It's a wonderful book.

>>8539603
Am I right in guessing that you've read most of Shakespeare's plays? I'm in the middle of The Two Noble Kinsmen, the only play by him I haven't read. I feel like going back to some of the big tragedies soon after. A performance of Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon this past summer got me hooked again.

>>8539568
why would they

>25
>Mrs. Dalloway
>Crime and Punishment
>Invisible Cities
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>To the Lighthouse

>>8539440
>19

Lolita (reread)
Leningrad: the 900 days
Kissinger's on China
A Voyage to Arcturus
The Flight to Lucifer

>>8539639
Nope. I've only read six, but I'm making my way through them all right now. Any suggestions on order?

>>8539440
19

Currently reading the bible and moby dick, last books read were polybius histories, epic of gilgamesh, and some cicero

20
The Foundation
The Stranger
Ham on Rye
The Sociological Imagination
Second Stage Lensman

18

The Odyssey
Fragments of Sappho
Hell's Angels
The Iliad
Ham on Rye

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>22
>the road
>nine stories
>atlas shrugged
>a collection of short stories by Kafka
>the bad girl

r8

>>8539629
Well, half the time the book is mentioned here is whit meme intentions so...

Wonderful indeed my friend. One of the best readings i've had this year. Planning on getting more into nabokov also, any suggestions?

>>8539496
Just finished stoner 10 minutes ago and nearly cried at the end. Also huck finn is maximum comfy, I just wanna live on a raft. Also I'm halfway through IJ. Are we friends now?

>>8539721
with*.

>>8539568
This is 4chan dude. Even on an "intelligent" board like /lit/ it's still going to be teenagers and young 20s.

>>8539729

>lit
>intelligent

that's not how you spell pedantic

>>8539722
I'll be your friend :3
Wanna build a raft and get into some hi jinx together?

>>8539568
>Why don't the ages surprise me..
Because this is the median population, oldfags are almost all gone. 4chan is mainstream. Fucking pepe is on Fox news.

>21

>The Possibility of An Island
>The Idiot
>Capitalism & Schizophrenia
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Atomised

>>8539694
was embarrassed to like Ham on Rye

>>8539603
>>8539627
Thank you, will try to find The Red and The Black and progressively get into Dostoyevski

>>8539610
Will read it, I liked The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>8539453
you take pride in your tumblr's aesthetic, you're also probably a good person to date but after several months your emotional needs become tiresome.

>>8539462
You're pretty chill, enjoy your life even though you don't always feel like you do, and comfortable with the idea of commitment to another person

>>8539465
you think you're much more intelligent than you actually are and you feel frustration but you're unaware of the source

>>8539471
You're sad and seek refuge in knowledge because being an intelligent person makes you feel good about yourself but not good enough to not be sad

>>8539476
You're going through something, mentally. An agnostic-atheist, perhaps.

>>8539477
You are confident in yourself and yet constantly question the validity of your own opinion about yourself. You also have a hard time empathizing people's feelings, even if you understand them.

>>8539487
You are also sad and seeking refuge in intellectualism. You're considering that maybe the warmth that intelligence doesn't provide you may be found in seeking God.

>>8539496
You're genuinely chill, and although you aren't really fulfilled as a human, you aren't worried about it. Likes Modest Mouse, obvs. Has a reddit account.

>>8539497
you're reconsidering art school

>>8539501
unjustifiably smug, slightly misanthropic

>>8539506
goal-oriented femanon having a difficult time with adulthood but not with life in general

>>8539516
puberty was not kind to you

>>8539531
you feel a vague kernel of potential in your gut, you believe that you have it in your to rise above your peers. One day that kernel will go off like black powder and people will see. You're also p sad.

>>8539538
you eat beans with like everything

>>8539550
you're posing as a Redditor. Here's your (you)

>>8539552
you're identifying with the things I've said of other people, but think yourself above them.

>>8539558
actual redditor

>>8539563
you have a genuine interest in philosophy and literature, but little else

>>8539570
books don't effect your social standing, but you think they do

>>8539577
That goes double for you, hipster teen

>>8539585
relatively new to /lit/ but you find ot exciting. You hope not to come off as pretentious

>>8539602
also reddit

>>8539603
you have an eye for the aesthetic. you're also white.

>>8539742
I liked it. You had to wade through some of the more cringe parts to get to the good stuff, though.

>>8539487
>half

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>>8539747
>goal-oriented femanon having a difficult time with adulthood but not with life in general

Thanks anon, that's entirely accurate. I would've thought you knew me.

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>>8539747
I'm >>8539476

More of an agnostic-theist, and if there is something I'm going through, mentally, is the growing feeling that I need to abandon society and live like Thoreau did

>19
>Lolita
>The trial
>No longer human
>Ficciones
>Perfume

22

>Too Loud a Solitude
>Conversation in the Cathedral
>Skylark
>Middlemarch
>Digging Up Mother

>>8539736
That is why the quotes are there, also, even in our worst, when the competition are a board dedicated to being politically incorrect, a board about video games, a board about anime, a shit tonne of porn boards and a board dedicated to NEET culture, yea, we are in the more intelligent bracket

>>8539747
>unjustifiably smug
actually, crippling inferiority complex

>slightly misanthropic
cant argue that one

23

>The Murders in the Rue Morgue
>Mio, My Son
>Heart of Darkness
>The Call of Cthulhu (I've been reading his works chronologically)
>The Man With the Twisted Lip

>>8539706
I also read some Kafka shorts this summer, I especially enjoyed The Metamorphosis. Also read The Road, it was good too.
If I had to guess something about you, it'd be that you're slowly giving up.

>>8539693
I don't know about those last couple books but I liked the foundation series immensely

Bro-tier/10

18

>The Glass Menagerie
>Civilization and Its Discontents
>The Secret Agent
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Homage to Catalonia

21
1. Jesus son
2. End zone
3. Great jones street
4. Melancholy of resistance
5. Steps by jerzy k

>>8539747
if this were a facebook post i would like it or something probably, unironically

>>8539793
I wouldn't want you anywhere near my little sister, anon.

>>8539842
>>8539842
>Jesus' Son

Pseud worskshop core but I still loved it.

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>>8539747
>You are also sad and seeking refuge in intellectualism. You're considering that maybe the warmth that intelligence doesn't provide you may be found in seeking God.

27yo cis fucking white man.

Dubliners (re-read)
Underworld
The Melancholy of Resistance
Blood Meridian
Runaway Horses

Apart from Japanese lit which I have a deep interest in, I'm kind of embarrassed how obviously /lit/ influenced my list is.

Currently reading a Japanese short story collection not in translation because I'm a galactic weeb, clearly.

someone decipher me already

19

>Lolita
>Blood Meridian
>Prior Analytics
>Siddhartha
>Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics

>>8539440
Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
Camus - The Plague
Souseki - Kokoro
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

>>8539909
Age is 24

22

In no particular order:

>Richard III
>The Merchant of Venice
>Bhagavad Gita
>Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
>Asterios Polyp

Currently reading: Antony and Cleopatra

>>8539440
22

The Republic, Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics, The Catcher in the Rye, Politics

22

no particular order

Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm
No Longer Human
AA Big Book first 164
V

>>8539440
21
Kosinski - The Painted Bird
Boll - The Clown
Lagerkvist - Barabbas
Bellow - Seize the Day
Pearl Poet - Collected Works (Middle English)

>>8539440
18
>Notes From Underground
>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
>Crime and Punishment
>Roadside Picnic
>The Gambler

22

The Ego and His Own
The Day of the Locust
The Executioner's Song
Tao Te Ching
Hyperion

>>8539909
What were your thoughts/feelings on Fear and Trembling? Just picked it up today, and am curious to hear a first person account on it.

24

El divan del Tamarit - Federico Garcia Lorca
Poeta en Nueva York - Federico Garcia Lorca
Romancero Gitano - Federico Garcia Lorca
Poema del cante jondo - Federico Garcia Lorca
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

>>8539476
You are a social outcast, who is on the verge of retreating to nature away from all the noise.

>>8539487
You are young, and starting to realize that the world does not have the answers for your questions.

>>8539793
A romantic,a poet in formation. You will write a poetic masterpiece, but will be always unhappy as your idea of love will never be fulfilled.

>>8539909
>>8539916
I'm also 24, and reading the plague. Coincidentally, I'm planning on reading meditations after. I must find some type of meaning throughout this pile of shit that is currently my life, or at least learn to accept it for what it is.

>>8540042
If you continue reading Dostoevsky, you will become a priest by age 35.

21

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Time Out of Joint by Philip K Dick
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Every Song Ever by Ben Ratliff

>>8540069
What are you doing

>>8540011
>22
>AA Big Book first 164

Wtf. I'm 22, in rehab, and have also been assigned the first 164 pages of the BB. Strange. Are you also in In or Outpatient treatment my friend?

23
>Moby Dick
>A Handmaids Tale
>Epic of Gilgamesh
>Marauders of Gor
>A Game of Thrones

>>8540011
>>8540089
>>8539793
It looks like you're just getting into reading, which also could mean that you don't have a strong passion or sense of identity and therefore feel the need to validate yourself, through intellectual means, in order to achieve self-satisfiion of sorts (in a not necessarily negative way (self-satisfaction is key for contentment)).

>>8539907
>Quantum Non-Locality...

How is it? My friend explained the bare bones of Bell's Theorem to me the other day, as well as the potential implications of the lack of hidden variables in QM (non-determinism and all that jazz) and it got me interested in the subject. Looking for a relatively accessible but thorough and in depth book on the topic.

>>8539900
Your the type of person who didn't receive enough attention as a child—and you don't know who you are.

>>8539885
Galactic weeb.

Was Underworld worth the time?

>>8539798
Has 4 year old child because that's the only reason I can imagine for a 22 year old would read SkyLark.

>>8539747
Didn't read all of your replies, but I'm assuming you're a slightly jaundiced cat owner with a superiority<->inferiority complex with a name that starts with A. But then again who isn't.

>>8539620
You killed your son.

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>22
Canción De Tumba - Julian Herbert
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Hölderlin selected poems
Sculpting in Time - Andrei Tarkovsky
November - Flaubert


>>8540069
You're trying to find meaning in your life, you've lost your path and it's been hard to try to feel motivated again. Also amazing taste
>>8540042
Recently discovered russian lit and find everything Dostoievsky wrote eerily relatable
>>8540011
American and finally started getting into serious literature
>>8540050
You're deeply troubled about your feelings and thoughs
>>8539909
Going through an existential crisis and trying to find enlightenment from different sources
>>8539907
Don't know what to major yet
>>8539885
You have a handful of friends but feel alone most of the time
>>8539793
Your ideal for love is not conventional and have a hard time relating with people in general. Also a kissless virgin
>>8539706
Life's not going the way you expect it as a teenager
>>8539687
You have a vivid imagination and love epic tales because of the lore and amazing setting you recreate in your mind

>>8540144
>Was Underworld worth the time?

I think so. Actually decently breezy read for the length. Read it in a much shorter time than other books of similar length.

It leaves some things to be desired, but what doesn't.

>>8539824
You like Iron Maiden and playing RPGs on your game consoles.

>>8539840
Inner-city, politically-aware yuppie, but you feel disconnected from your social liberal peers and are slowly falling down the hole of reactionary socialism or conservatism.

>>8539938
You live a very coordinated, sober life and hope one day to become an actor in the theatre.

>>8540037
Aspiring patrician suffering from big-fish, small-pond syndrome in his third-rate postgrad department.

>>8540042
You picked up reading books to impress a hipster qt in highschool but accidentally became patrician.

>>8540050
Supreme sperglord (psh, nothing personnel).

>>8540117
You exclusively wear mom jeans and sneakers, and have a vast comic book collection.

22
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
J.G. Ballard - Drowned World
David Lewis - Counterfactuals
Robert Stalnaker - Inquiry
Macbeth

>>8539747
>You're genuinely chill, and although you aren't really fulfilled as a human, you aren't worried about it ... Has a reddit account.
Spot on
>Likes Modest Mouse, obvs.
Nah, I just happen to agree with that lyric. My brother plays them all the time, which is how I knew it offhand.

Twenty-Six
1. Court And Politics In Papal Rome, 1492 - 1700
2. Jerusalem In Medieval Narrative
3. Several plays by Middleton
4. Jude The Obscure
5. Brideshead Revisited

>20.
>Infinite Jest.
>The Brothers Karamazov.
>Notes From Underground.
>Stoner.
>The Picture of Dorian Gray.

>>8540169
Despite the fact that you probably purposefully spelled 'personal' incorrectly (unless you're dyslexic or just stupid) and I'm actually mentioning it: in life outside this board and the internet as a whole, I've found that the use of the term 'sperglord' or any casual reference to asperger's as pertaining to non-sufferers is often indicative of highly socially inept individuals and should therefore be avoided as much as possible. I still love you though.

>>8540159
>Deeply troubled...

Pretty close. I'm in rehab and seriously patching my life up. While my thoughts remain at peace, my feelings whirl and whirl. I've met really cool people however. And for that, I'm happy.

>>8539440
In The Heart of The Heart of The Country
Agapē Agape
A Frolic of His Own
J R
Carpenter's Gothic
(bonus)
The Recognitions

I basically read everything by Gaddis back to back in the past few months.

21
The Brothers Karamazov
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Trial (Kafka)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Anna Karenina

>>8540186
It's time to grow up son...

>>8540069
>>>8540042 (You)
>If you continue reading Dostoevsky, you will become a priest by age 35.
You are correct, I am already feeling it. How do I make it stop?

>>8540188
As I said, it was nothing personnel, kid.

23
The shadow line. Joseph Conrad
The sound and the fury
Magic mountain
Anna
Mice and men

>>8539440
I don't read

18
>Submission
>Our Lady of Fatima
>Marx in His Own Words
>The Sun Also Rises
>Introduction to Christianity

judge me

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Stoner
The Mysterious Stranger
Woodcraft and Camping
Blood Meridian
Roughing It

In retrospect I really look like one red-blooded American motherfucker.

27
The Jews - Hilaire Belloc
The International Jew - Henry Ford
On the Jews and their lies - Martin Luther
Judaism and Freemasonry - Adnan Oktar
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Anon

>>8540144
if you're looking for a primer on Bell's Theorem and its philosophical implications without any of that dastardly pop-sci then I would definitely recommend the book. It's also a good jumping off point if you're interested in general philosophy of physics.

22

The Pale King
J R
Chimera (Barth)
The Corrections
The Crying of Lot 49

Liked them all, though The Corrections the least. Also please recommend me novels

>>8540169
>You live a very coordinated, sober life and hope one day to become an actor in the theatre

I try to live a life like that, but I wouldn't call qualify it as "very" coordinated. As for the second part, I enjoy drama and acting, but I am not sure I would want to become an actor.

All in all, sort of accurate description.

19

The First Philosophers
Ulysses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Plague

>>8539570
that's a nicely depressing run of books

>>8540227
Cool beans.

24

The Conquest of Bread
Sketches From a Hunter's Album
No Longer Human
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The Flowers of Evil

25
witcher book
the tower of the swallow
day watch
night watch
twilight watch
>muh escapism

20

>Crime and Punishment
Great novel, absolutely based characterization
>The Frying of Latke 49
It's nice, very Pinchin and all, but compared to GR it felt a but underwhelming
>Of Mice and Men
Absolutely based, want to pick up Steinbeck's novels now
>Dubliners
Superb prose and most of all every story felt so real
>Gravity's Rainbow
My favorite novel desu

>>8540241
>19
>Ulysses

>>8540258
>20
>GR

Excuse me for being skeptical...

27

The gospel of matthew
The gospel of mark
White noise
The Stranger
Oblomov

>>8540258
>20
>Gravity's Rainbow is my favorite novel!! XD

Why do you lie on the internet?

18

The Aeneid
Plato: Five Dialogues
Lolita
Dubliners
On the Road

33
Italo Calvino Mr Palomar
Han Kang The Vegetarian
Chris Moore The Hoarse Oaths of Fife
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Alfred Bester Starburst

>>8540280
Not me, but GR is a pretty inventive and highly entertaining novel for which I see no reason why someone can't place it as their favorite novel (other than the fact that they think it might be too difficult to thoroughly enjoy, in which case it would say more about that than the self-proclaimed GR admirer).

>>8540218
SPLC operative

>>8540258
you've realized /lit/ memes are fun

>>8540252
you probably play a lot of video games or have some other geek hobby that you know you should grow out of

>>8540241
getting memed hard

>>8540229
memes

>>8540218
Martin luther is based. and 100% right mind you. I'll recommend that you read Paul Hellyer's book the money mafia. He more-or-less names the jew.

>>8540216
you seem like a cool dude. not even kidding. Try butcher's crossing if you haven't read it yet.

>>8540214
Pretty unique for 18.

>>8540191
if you like tolstoy and dosto try reading oblomov. I like your taste

>>8540186
Some of the best memes this board has. I love all those books

>>8540185
You seem like a very interesting anon. Tell me about Jude the Obscure (without spoilers if possible)

>>8540275
party scene was a dead end

25

Cursed Days
Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
Elementary Particles
Why Evolution is True
The Village

>age
23
>last five books
Diplomacy, by Kissinger
The World According to Garp
The Name of the Rose
History of Modern Libya
Libya Since the Revolution

I cannot recall the authors of the last two.

>>8540289
My point is that 20 is very, very young and GR is undeniably a recondite and turgid novel written by a now elderly postmodernist of the silent generation. Add in that GR is the meme universally praised novel on /lit/--he's tryhard posturing unless proven otherwise m8.

>>8540316
Nah, you can still read GR at 20. If you really think it's turgid the problem is more on your end.

21

Secret of the Veda
Ressentiment by Scheler
Sherlock Holmes
Story of Philosophy
Laurus

>>8540262
>>8540280
Why would I lie on an anonymous imageboard? Stop projecting.

22
Ulysses
Naked Lunch
Portrait
Dubliner's
Crime and Punishment

>>8539440
19
Molloy Trilogy
Meditations
Ada, or Ardor
Franny and Zooey
The Order of Things

>>8540297
never partied, but nice try

>21
In no particular order:
>"Demons", Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>"A Hero of Our Time", Mikhail Lermontov
>"Laurus", Evgeniy Vodolazkin
>"Captain Michalis - Liberty and Death", Nikolas Kazantzakis
>"Broken April", Ismail Kadare

>22

>Middlesex
>Both Flesh and Not - DFW (reread)
>Chuck Klosterman IV (lent to me)
>Ham on Rye (lent to me)
>Omega Minor - Paul Verhaeghen
>Atlas Shrugged

Currently trying to read Mason & Dixon again, but I've never really been into Pynchon. Also going through the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with ambivalence.

>>8540367
I didn't care for Demons; how did you like it? I've been wondering if the translation I had ruined it for me. And I've been neglecting mother Russia lately - could you recommend a few titles?

20

Cloud Atlas
Good-bye to All That
The Glenn Gould Reader
Testimony (Shostakovich)
Spain in Our Hearts

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>>8540379
Well, I'm not native Russian myself, but I didn't have a problem with my translation in particular. What I enjoyed most about it(and why it is my favorite Dostoyevsky work) is the fact that it's more of an allegory for the Russian society as a whole instead of dealing simply with certain archetypes. Good book if you have the patience.

If you already read Dostoyevsky, Lermontov and the contemporary Vodolazkin(out of his two novels only "Laurus" being really a masterpiece, although "Solovyov and Larionov" is still a decent read in and of itself); you can never go wrong with Bulgakov or Tolstoy.

>>8540389
Thank you. I will pick up Laurus. I'm a short story mongerer so I've only been through (all of) Chekhov, (most of) Dostoeyevsky, and (some of) Tolstoy. I've really been itching for more Russian lit and you've given me a place to start. Cheers.

20
En el estado - Juan Benet
Trilogía de Madrid - Francisco Umbral
La vida es sueño/El alcalde de Zalamea - Calderón de la Barca
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Histories - Herodotus

>>8540396
Most welcome, senpai.

>>8539471
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
nice how was it i was just about to start it

21

Oblomow (translated to German) -Goncharov
The bell jar -Plath
Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen -Heine
a collection of Heine's poems from reclam
Stoner- Williams

19

The Butcher Boy
The Catcher in the Rye
Blood Meridian
No Country for Old Men
Child of God

>>8539440
>19
>gravitys rainbow
>stoner
>as i lay dying
>portrait of the artist as a young man (reread v3)
>catch 22

>22
>Anxiety of Influence
>Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis
>The Perfect Wagnerite
>Mussolini's autobiography
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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>>8539440
19 years old

Last 5 books that I've enjoyed

>Stoner by John Williams
>Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
>Anatomy of An Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
>Wealth of Nations
>The Power of Habit

also included a pic of myself for relativity's sake

The Bottoms - Joe R Lansdale
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Fup - Jim Dodge
The Stench of Honolulu - Jack Handey
Anna Karenina - GI Wonder.

>>8540053
>>8540053
I tried it a few months ago, but the use of Abraham in the first third put me off (why do I give a shit about a character who was probably intended to be nothing more than a device conveying a simple message?) and I stopped until a week or so ago.

If you have the same reaction, just push through. His ethical ideas, especially how the aesthetic and the ethical oppose and complete one another, are incredibly sharp and after a while he stops even referring to God and discusses the divine in terms of a very Camus-y thing he calls the "absurd".

Based, but read it along with some YouTube lectures.

>>8540527
>30
I forgot oops, also that was going off my kindle list. I read Oku no hosomichi bumping Anna Karenina off the list.

>>8540069
Read Epictetus' Discourses and check YouTube for lectures on it. I started reading during an existential crisis, and the Discourses and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals snapped me out of it pretty quickly.

I haven't read it yet, but Siddhartha also looks like it could be life-changing.

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21.

Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman
Infantry Attacks, Erwin Rommel
The Trouble With Being Born, E.M. Cioran
The Black Riders and Other Lines, Stephen Crane
Sonnets to Orpheus, Ranier Maria Rilke

18

Ulysses
Finnegan's Wake
Dubliners
Portrait
All the Pretty Horses

>>8540546
Good Meme ©®√

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>age
31 as of yesterday. Feeling like I don't want to be 31 and two days.
>last 5 books you read
- Bolaño's The Savage Detectives (currently. In spanish. Hating it)
- Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein
- Jin's Kagerou Daze v1 (in English. Thanks, Viz)
- Jennet Conant's The Irregulars - Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
- Bolaño's 2666 (I think? In spanish. Loved it)

18
Book of Negroes
Wealth of Nations
Republic
Secuity Analysis
Propaganda - Bernays

>>8540751
happy birthday anon

18
Blood meridian
TBK
Paradise lost
IJ
Hamlet

Just started reading not too long ago and this is my attempt to catch up with lit memes

I'm recently 19.

Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens
Mrs Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf
A Visit From The Goon Squad ~ Jeniffer Egan
The Feast of the Goat ~ Mario Llosa
Gods of Metal ~ Eric Schlosser

27

The black company
Ready Player One
Stormlight Archives
Wind up bird chronicle
The long way to a small angry planet

>>8540779
Have you actually been enjoying them this way? Because that seems like a very bad way to read. By all means read the greats, but don't just go through them like a checklist, pursue aspects of them you found interesting, genres you really like, read a whole lot of an author's work after one another. Read for pleasure!

30

Throne of Bones
Summa Elvetica
Mere Christianity
History of the Catholic Church
Childhood's end

>27
My Diary t b h
My Diary desu
Le Journal d'un Enfant
My Diary desu 2
My Diary T o B e H o n e s t

>>8540763
>Book of Negroes
>18
What are your thoughts on it? I know that I read that book at around the same age, probably a bit earlier.

>>8540835
Hipster girl with a child-like mentality and attitude to life.

>>8540831
finds the aesthetic of western christianity delightful

>>8540819
normie who reads books. hopefully doesnt post on social media about it

31
A wild sheep chase - Murakami
The master and margarita- Bulgakov
A dog's heart - Bulgakov
What I talk about when - Murakami
Libro de sueños - Borges

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18

The Idiot
Gerry Adams: Before the Dawn
Hyperion
The Republic
Chronographia of Michael Psellos

19

Aristotle - Metaphysics
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologiae
Milan Kundera - The Joke
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities

18

No Longer Human
Stoner
Notes From Underground
The Book of Disquiet
One Hundred Years of Solitude

18

Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics
Walden
Poems of Yeats
Livy's History of Rome 1 - 5
War and peace

>>8539585
>19
>Animal Farm
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Crime and Punishment
You sound like someone I know, what country do you live in?

>>8540763
Interested in politics and probably a bit of a redpiller

>>8540779
Newbie but good choices

>>8540819
Pleb but hopefully not too serious about it

>>8540835
Insecure and bored about life but hiding behind memes

>>8540893
Into heavy lit but not too pretentious about it

>>8540907
Likes a serious, sort-of dark but intellectually insightful, clear sort of literature (hard to explain it)

>>8540910
A bit depressed

>>8540522
Slightly Alt right and depressed

>>8540483
New into lit but good picks

>>8540469
Like dark, south-western American books

>>8540341
Ambitious novice and progressing quickly

>>8540258
New into literature, still trying to understand it but enjoying it a bit

24

Crash
Billy Bathgate
Ham on Rye
Outer Dark
Breakfast of Champions

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The Tain
Early Greek Philosophy
The Taming of the Shrew
Oswald Mosley: My Life
The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

19
>The Odyssey - Homer
>The Aeneid - Virgil
>On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason - Schopenhauer
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
>The Philosophy of Schopenhauer - Magee

>>8539440
26
The Politically Incorrect Guide of Philosophy
The Politically Incorrect Guide of Brazilian History
Animal Farm
1984
<something i was forced to read about 8 years ago in high school>
(sorry)

19.
a history of language
tractatus-lp
the antichrist
elveda gülsarı (farewell gulsary)
gazoz ağacı

>>8540769
Thanks.

>>8539440
34
The Master and Margarita
the Buried Giant
Under the Volcano
Gravity's Rainbow
The Quiet American (reread)

>>8539440

25
America-Franz Kafka
Mythologies-Roland Barthes
Skylark-Dezső Kosztolányi
Satantango-Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Les Misreables-Victor Hugo

Current read is Infinite Jest, around 400 or so pages in.

>>8539570

19

Pale Fire
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Catch 22
2666
The Old Man and the Sea

>>8539440

28

The Book of Lambspring

The Eye in the Pyramid

Ride the Tiger

If on a Winter Night a Traveler

Foucault's Pendulum

>>8539440
24
The map and the territory
The stranger
Nausea
Ficciones
The Sirens of Titan

26
The Saudis by Sandra Mackay
The Innocents Abroad by Twain
Moby Dick
Wheel and Pinion cutting in Horology
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

>>8540933
Sadly, in México

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>>8539440
>19

Rien de moi
Candide
Les Fleurs du Mal (re-read for the fifth time)
After Dark
The Aleph and Other Stories

Borges is the fucking man. This guy's mind does not operate on the same plane of existence as us common men. The content that he is able to express on paper is unlike anything I've ever seen before. The Library of Babel was fucking sick as well.

22

Change (Mo Yan)
Inherent Vice
The River Between
Weep Not, Child
The Hunting of the Snark

>>8541050
You'd be a typical pretentious wanannabee artist type but you're too lazy and self aware.
>>8540997
You agree with /pol/ but don't really care.
>>8540928
You were conceived by the memes.

>>8541120
*wannabe

18
Lions of all rassan
Neuromancer
A mother and two daughters
Horus rising
Do androids dream of electric sheep

>>8541130
Pleb.

>>8539440
28
Jack by Ulf Lundell
Twillight Eyes by Dean Koontz
Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets
Servants of the Twillight by Dean Koontz
Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone

I'm reading Harry Potter for the first time in my life because they were a big deal of my GFs childhood

>>8539472
It's a good book, first half is about his past, second half about actual writing. Then there is a bonus story about him getting hit by the car - buretty interesting

>>8539440
26

>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
>Fatherland
>American Gods
>Regenesis

21

Waiting for Godot
Absalom, Absalom!
Labyrinths
Brave New World
Hemsöborna

>>8541142
Is Jack just as bad as one would think?

>>8541157
I actually haven't finished it, but it's just him doing drugs, fucking young women while claiming to be all in love with this "mysterious" chick he comes by time to time and hanging with his friends. It probably portrayed a lot of thoughts and stuff that young in Sweden during the 70s were thinking.
I think it can be kinda hilarious and comfy to read time to time, but then it seems like he intentionally wants to write dialogues and thoughts in a confusing and "hysterical" way as possible - so I'm not a fan of doing long reading sessions of that book

24

Mrs. Dalloway
The Screwtape Letters
Collection of Joseph Conrad sea tales
Complete works of Byron
Lolita

>>8541178
Keeping in mind my own preferences I'll take that as a yes. Thanks for the description.

>>8541149
>Waiting for Godot
Mien nigga, thoughts?

>>8539440
Transcendent
Exultant
Coalescent
Vacuum Diagrams
Xeelee: Endurance

>>8541239
oh, and 30

21

>Re-read Prometheus Bound
>Re-read Seven Against Thebes
>Philoctetes
>A Faint Heart
>The Women of Trachis

>>8540406

It's an incredibly beautiful book.

"Now Abraham can say the most beautiful things any language can muster about how he loves Isaac. But this is not what he has in mind, that being the deeper thought that he would have to sacrifice Isaac because it was a trial. This no one can understand, and so no one can but misunderstand the former. Of this distress the tragic hero knows nothing. In the first place he has the consolation that all counter-arguments have been done justice to, that he has been able to give Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Achilles, the Chorus, every living being, every voice from the heart of humankind, every intelligent, every anxious, every accusing, every compassionate thought an opportunity to stand up against him. He can be sure that all that it is possible to say against him has been said, unsparingly, mercilessly – and to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful."

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>Lolita
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Notes from Underground
>The Overcoat (if it counts)
>L'Étranger

>>8541294

Did you start reading seriously recently?

>>8541300
>L'Etranger
Clearly not.

>>8541120
(>>8540928 (You))
Wait, conceived or convinced? Either way is pretty much true.

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>>8541308
I meant conceived.

>>8541300
Somewhat recently, yeah.

>18
A portrait of the artist as a young man (On page 80 or so)
The Metamorphosis (Swedish)
From Russia with Love
Dubliners

19.
Thus Spoke Zarathrusta;
Fictions;
Quixote;
Stoner;
And, most recently: The Prince.

18
Latest first:
The old man and the sea
Faust I
Nichts (nothing)
Chess novella
Collection of Kafkas short stories

>>8541313
Very true. Strip away memes and I am nothing.

>>8541342
Nog för att vårt utbildningssystem gått åt helvete men du borde väl i alla fall kunna räkna till fem.

>>8539440
22
The Stranger - Camus
1984 - Orwell (reread)
Candide - Voltaire
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Factotum - Charles Bukowski

Currently reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Welcome to the Monkey House, Dubliners, and Notes from the Underground.

>>8541357
Kommer ju knappast ihåg ordningen på det jag har läst förutom de få senaste.

ps. begå självmord

>>8541365
Generic White 22 yo Liberal Arts Cuck

I fucking challenge you to finish Notes from the Underground.

18

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
ASOUE reread (only counting as one book)
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Crying of Lot 49

I'm not full /lit/ at all, I just read books I am recommended by people and browse here to realize how much of a pleb I am. I'll get there when I get smart enough to actually appreciate top tier lit

>>8541406
nah, man, start reading some serious lit as well. pick something that at least somewhat interesting to you and start reading, be it philosophy or fiction, joyce or le pynchmeme. it's ok not to get everything on your first read, just make sure it challenges you to think (which is what will make you "smart enought to actually appreciate top tier lit") and you're having at least some fun. it's also ok to mix it with genre trash despite what faggots will say here.

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19

>Infinite Jest
>No Longer Human
>The Night Circus
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Windup Girl

Rec me books pls
Preferably books that read lushly

>>8540169
>probably thinks a handmaids tale is a fantasy novel.
>doesn't realize the juxtaposition of a dystopian analysis of feminism and a pulpy plainly misogynistic fantasy makes for an intense reading sequence
>thinks reading Gilgamesh is about the story and not a study in how Sumerian texts can be interpreted into a very simple poem
>can't enjoy well written fantasy every now and again

Fucking pleb

>>8540522
>guy with long hair
cut your hair dude, you'd look cuter with it short or something.
style it up in one of those bangy kpop digs, yknow

>>8541438
sorry, no recs, but is the night circus any good?

19

>Picture of Dorian Gray
>Beowulf
>Snow Country
>The Jungle
>Five Modern No Plays

I'm of fan of the Japanese lit from Kawabata and Mishima, I'm planning to read Spring Snow, Beauty and Sadness, and Confessions of a Mask, anyone have other reccs.?

>>8541374
>ps. begå självmord
sött

>>8541448
That's not a guy.

>>8541450
yup. the writing so far hasn't gotten stagnant or anything. plus she describes most things in detail, it's nice.

>>8541436
pynchon i started reading because of /lit/. I started with Crying of Lot 49 since it looked easy. I bought Gravity's Rainbow too, but I think I am going to read V. next. I just don't have infinite time to read since I'm college, so I like shorter books

19

>Brideshead Revisited
>The Illiad
>Critics of the Enlightenment
>The Name of the Rose
>Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

37

The Guns of August
Cryptonomicon
Hunt for the Red October
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Napoleon: The End of Glory

26

>The Shock Doctrine
>Labryinths
>Sixty Stories (Barthelme)
>The Broom of the System
>Some Brief Introduction to Foucault

23
>Night
>Dune
>Down and Out in Paris and London
>On the Road
>Wind/Pinball

26

The Upanishads
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Homage To Catalonia
A collection of Rumi's poetry
The Sacred And The Profane

>>8541508

>The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Thanks for ruining the story anon.

>>8541513
It's a Russian book, anon.
Ivan always dies.

>>8539440
18
Robespierre
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Thus it spoke Zaratrusta
Orfism and Magic
War and Peace

>>8541374

>Jag kommer ihåg fyra böcker men absolut inte fem

???

Confessions of an English Opium Eater ( De Quincey)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Notes From Underground (Dostoevsky)
The Sketch Book of Geoffery Crayon, Gent. (Irving)

19
Brave New World
A Confederacy of Dunces
Moby Dick
The Metamorphosis
Lord of The Flies

i'm new here, i'm sure you can tell :))

>>8541539
22 y/o btw

>attention whoring thread
>will soon count 300 replies

>>8539440
>21
The Man Who Was Thursday---G.K. Chesterton
The Secret History---Donna Tartt
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer---Patrick Suskind
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West, and the Epic Story of a Taiping Civil War---Stephen R. Platt
Life Along the Silk Road---Susan Whitfield

28
Ulysses
Ulysses
Ulysses
Ulysses
Ulysses

Currently reading Bottom's Dream

>>8541549
I think you're quite like me, I've also read recently those you've written!

>>8539497
HONHONHON OMLETTE DU FROMAGE

>>8539501
>
MEME MEME MEME

>Ulysses
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Politics (Aristotle)
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Paradise Lost

>>8541577
wanna fuck? i've always fantasized about having a twin, dominating him with physical and emotional force, and ramming him mercilessly in the ass.

>23
>Nabokov, 'King, Queen,Knave'
>Nabokov, 'Camera Obscura'
>Sartre, 'Nausea'
>Joyce, 'A portrait of an artist as a young man'
>Fight club (disliked it immensely)

19

The History of Religions
Anna Karenina
The World as Will and Representation
The critique of pure reason
Notes from the underground

18
Moby Dick
Dandelion Wine
Essays and Aphorisms Schopenhauer
Dubliners
Snow Country Kawabata
>tfw neglecting reading lately
reading is comparable to other vices anyway

21

a world lit only by fire

endless war - ralph peters

american psycho

the five ages of the universe

the postmodern condition

>>8540107
Currently 18 months without Alcohol and 10 months with weed. Did not go to rehab, I just read Infinite Jest and it planted the seed, in my head about my addictions. Not even meming

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The Naked Ape (just started)
Rendezvous with Rama
Thousand Cranes
No Place to Hide
The Red Pony

if /co/ counts, then stick Flex Mentallo in there someplace too

Can someone guess me (>>8541116)? I made a seperate post with guesses so I'm not just asking without giving.

>>8541636
>No Place to Hide
I should specify that I mean the David J. Bradley's book, nothing to do with Snowden

>>8541379
Why would that be a challenge? I'll probably finish it today. I read all of those books this month. I also have a bachelor's in physics.

>>8540825
I've been getting a little burnt out, it reaches back farther than this, so I think you're right as I'll take a week from reading sometimes despite legitimately enjoying it. Thanks for the advice, I'll try to keep it in mind.

>>8541641
You want attention

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>>8539739
Yes but can I be Jim ;)

19
The Rumours by Hugo Claus
Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Blindness by José Saramago
Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

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>>8541684
>Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

>>8541524

But don't forget, Ivan lives on inside of you.

>>8541116
You seem like an absolutely unbearable faggot.

>>8541695
Half right.

27
Wuthering Heights
Books 1 - 4 of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. (I want to finish them all so I don't forget what's going on, as he brings back characters and past concepts a lot.)

After that my plan is to read Infinite Jest, which I've started, then Gravity's Rainbow and the Stories of a Dying Earth (forgot the exact name) series.

Trying to get a lot of meme-lit out of the way.

Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2, Solzhenitsyn
Endgame, Beckett
History of Philosophy, Volume 1, Copleston
Waiting for Godot, Beckett
I recently turned 22

>>8540296
It's Hardy's last novel, it was received quite poorly, and it's a commonplace that he stopped writing them for that reason. I'd read it before but not with Brideshead, which is an homage to Jude in certain (spoiler-y) respects. They're both essential as far as I'm concerned but Hardy's become a preoccupation of mine so I won't generalize.

19
The Stranger
The Bell Jar
Steppenwolf
Marilyn Manson Autobiography
myth of sisyphos

>>8541717
New to reading, no defined taste atm. Will take 2-3 years to find his thing in literature.

>>8541706
Tales of Dying Earth.
I'm assuming you'll go for 2-3 volumes at first, instead of the full collection.

>21
>plato - apology, phaedo, republic, witkiewicz - insatiability, proust -swann way

>>8541725
I'm not entirely sure, I honestly haven't looked into ToDE that much. I downloaded it off that e-book finding service for my kindle and it has been sitting there- it isn't like the Foundation series in that it is long as all hell and drops in quality every book, is it?

>>8541768
It's a series of mostly unrelated short stories set in the same setting.
The writing is miles better than Asimov.

28

The Road
Catch 22
My Struggle (Knausgaard novels)
Glamorama
Blood Meridian

>>8541771
Sounds like my cup of tea. Thanks man.

'18'

The Catcher in the Rye
The Stand
Hunger
Meditations
1984

Reading The Remains of the Day right now

18

>Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
>Stoner - John Williams
>Moby Dick - Herman Melville
>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
>Old Goriot - Honoré de Balzac

>22

>Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
>Seven Eves
>100 Days of Solitude
>On With the Story (re-read, feel like this collection is v underrated)
>Heart of Darkness (re-read)

21

>The Cement Garden
>The Castle
>The Haunting of Hill House
>Solar Bones
>The Secret History

Probably going to read another McEwan book next, perhaps some of his short stories.

25

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton
Watt, Samuel Beckett
Snow White, Donald Barthelme
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino

>>8541802
Just starting to get your feet wet. Good taste for your "age". Hunger and Remains of the Day are both great.

>>8541709
You seem like a cool dude.

>>8541598
Wow. You are a very ambitious 19 year old reading Critique of Pure Reason. Gotta give you credit.

>>8541499
How is Sixty Stories? Anyway, cool taste.

>>8541493
YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE

>>8541365
Not a heavy reader or just started reading.

>>8541142
lol

>>8540938
>>8540296
Cares about the quality of discussion on this site and actually contributes instead of just posting a diary entry without saying anything about anyone else.

16

My Antonia
Brave New World
The Sun Also Rises
Walden
I finished Lolita last night.

27

The Aleph and Other Stories
Homage to Catalonia
A Room of One's Own
Death Of An Old Goat
Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography

The Iliad
Mythology
A Brief History Of Ancient Greece
Blood Meridian
The Myth of Sisyphus

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A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
The Girl on the Train
Sharp Objects
Quantum Break Zero State

>>8541939
reported :^)

>>8542046
Fuck off, wizard. Kys

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>>8542057

26.
Spring Snow
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Resurrection
War and Peace
Master and Margarita

>>8542046
Full retard

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>>8542076
>I only read sophisticated books for sophisticated people such as myself

>>8542079

Nah dude. Not that guy but you're just a scrub.

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>>8542091

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>Cellist of Sarajevo
>Slaughterhouse-Five
>Who Goes There?
>The Stranger
>Catcher in the Rye

I'm just getting back into reading, but I'm really enjoying it.
I've been taking so many little quirks writers have and incorporating it into my own work.
My last non-fiction story sounded just like Holden Caulfield.

>>8541939
MODs

>>8542117
wew lad