Post the last three books you've finished and the next three

Ada by Nabokov
Transparent Things by Nabokov
The Enchanter by Nabokov

The Recognitions by William Gaddis (halfway through it now)
Plus by Joseph Mcelroy
Mars by Fritz Zorn
Then back to Nabokov

>>8690630
>reading
what are you a fuckin nerd?

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Not particularly proud of my list but its a start.

>>8690735
Reading the idiot and myth of sis currently.

Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth
Democracy by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, and Annie Di Donna

The Portable Dante by Dante Alighieri
Essential Shakespeare by Ted Hughes
Team Work by Carl Larson and Frank M J LaFasto

>>8690735
>Hasn't read The Republic yet
Lol.
>Wants to read Atlas Shrugged
She wrote shorter things. I'm reading Von Moses right now, that's the version of the story you want. She is a horrible fiction writer and a horrible philosopher at that.

Richard III
The Histories
The History of the Peloponnesian War

Don Quixote
Merchant of Venice
Complete Works of Plato (resuming)

>>8690630
last three
catch-22
slaughterhouse 5
the things they carried

next 3
white trash: the 400 year untold history of class in america
letters from a stoic
steppenwolf

>>8690768
>The Histories
One of the best things ever to read. Loved every second of it. Reminded me of The Holy Bible at parts.

Absolutely loved when Darius and the others overthrew the Persian empire and contemplated the best forms of government. The series of the history of currency developed under Darius' reign was interesting as well.

>>8690743
started the idiot but didn't finish it, should go back.

notes is one of my favorites by him

>>8690789
Holy shit yes. The entire story surrounding Darius's rise to power was great. Then from the backdoor conspiring to winning the vote by (allegedly) getting the horse to smell the mare's pussy... Amazing.

>>8690822
I do vaguely remember that as well. With books like those, there are so many details it is easy to forget. But I believe Darius overthrew Astyages, correct?

>>8690822
>by (allegedly) getting the horse to smell the mare's pussy

Can you explain this (preferably in explicit detail... just kidding, a general what the hell are you talking about would suffice)

>>8690758
Those are the books ive read so far this year desu

Last three:
JR by Gaddis
Book 1 of Don Quixote by Cervantes
Silence by Endo

Next three:
The Tunnel by Gass (currently on page 100)
Book 2 of Don Quixote by Cervantes
Not sure yet

>>8690630

Last three:
>Sharpe's Honour
>Sharpe's Regiment
>My first published novel

Next three:
>Next published novel
>Either 3rd published novel or Sharpe's Siege
>Either 3rd/4th published novel or Sharpe's Siege

Writing counts as reading... doesn't it?

>>8690718
lol

>>8690735
I admire your determination

>porno by irvine welsh
>the iliad
>walden & civil disobedience

>the odissey
>the stranger
>few plato dialogues

>>8690860
The other six then discussed the fairest way of deciding who should have the throne. They agreed that if it fell to any of them, Otanes and his descendants should receive every year a suit of Median clothes and such other gifts as are held to be of most value by the Persians. These privileges were for Otanes only; they also agreed upon another to be shared by all: permission, namely, for any of the seven to enter the royal presence unannounced, except when the king was in bed with a woman. They further agreed that the king should not marry outside the families of the seven confederates. To choose whom should be king, they proposed to mount their horses on the outskirts of the city, and he whose horse neighed first after the sun was up should have the throne.

Darius had a clever groom called Oebares. After the meeting had broken up, he went to see this fellow, and told him of the arrangement they had come to. “So if,” he added, “you can think of some dodge or other, do what you can to see that this prize falls to me, and to no one else.”

“Well, master,” Oebares answered, “if your chance of winning the throne depends upon nothing but that, you may set your mind at rest; you may be perfectly confident—you, and nobody else, will be king. I know a charm which will suit just our purpose.”

“If,” said Darius, “you really have got something that will do the trick, you had better hurry and get it all worked out, for tomorrow is the day.”

Oebares, accordingly, as soon as it was dark, took from the stables the mare which Darius’ horse was particularly fond of, and tied her up on the outskirts of the city. Then he brought along the stallion and led him around and around the mare, getting closer and closer, in narrowing circles, and finally allowed him to mount her. Next morning just before dawn, the six men, according to their agreement, came riding on their horses through the city suburb, and when they reached the spot where the mare had been tethered on the previous night, Darius’ horse started forward and neighed. At the same instant, though the sky was clear, there was a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder: it was a sign from heaven; the election of Darius was assured, and the other five leaped from their saddles and bowed to the ground at his feet.

That is one account of how Oebares made the horse neigh. The Persians also have another, that he rubbed the mare’s genitals and then kept his hand covered inside his breeches. When the sun was rising and the horses were about to be released, he drew his hand out and put it to the nostrils of Darius’ horse, which at the smell of the mare at once snorted and neighed.

In this way Darius became king of Persia.

Last three:
-Ulysses (current but very near done)
-A Portrait of the Artist
-Mrs. Dalloway

Next three:
-Pale Fire
-Riddley Walker
-God of Small Things

the last two are for a class and I have no idea what to expect.

>>8690671
Have you read Pale Fire? Thoughts on it?

Also how would you rank Ada among the Nabokov you've read? I love Lolita and have the other two on my to-read.

>>8690799
You've read TBK and C&P already? I found the Idiot much more enjoyable after reading those two and also learning more about Dosto's life.

>>8691865
>porno by Irvine Welsh
are you as hyped as I am for trainspotting 2?

>>8690630
Tale of two cities
Beautiful losers
Story of the eye

Next

Anna Karenina
Symbolic interactionism
What should my third be?

>>8690630
game of thrones
lord of the flies
divine comedy

next
clash of kings
catcher in the rye
to kill a mocking bird

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>Under the Volcano (Lowry)
>The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home (Pink)
>Nadja (Breton)

next:
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Frost)
>Suttree (McCarthy)
>The Dreams in the Witch House (Lovecraft)

Which of the next 3 should I tackle first?

>>8692023
>are you as hyped as I am for trainspotting 2?

I envy you for being hyped. I loved the first film but I feel like the second will feel odd (I haven't watched the trailer yet).

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Paradise Lost
Notes from Underground
The Recognitions

>mfw I fucking loved every second of all of these

Dubliners
Steppenwolf
The Confessions of St. Augustine

Iliad
Odyssey
Death of ivan ilych

Next:
Don Quixote
The histories
Anna karenina

Primeval and Other Times
Beyond Good & Evil
The Divine Comedy

The Leopard
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Bleeding Edge maybe

Vertigo
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Essays in Idleness

The World Goes On
From the North by Hill, From the South by Lake, From the West by Roads, From the East by River
Old Masters

>>8692023
>are you as hyped as I am for trainspotting 2?
I don't know man...feeling a bit like >>8692023.
I really loved Trainspotting, I hope the the 2 exceeds my expectations

>>8692402
meant to 'feel like' >>8692079

>Last
Life of Solon - Plutarch
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Bernhard
En Attendant Godot - Beckett
>Next
Complete Tragedies - Aeschylus
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - DFW
Swann's Way - Proust

Last three:
The Monk-Matthew Lewis
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace
The Name of the Wind-Patrick Rothfuss

Next three:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-David Foster Wallace
Life and Fate-Vassily Grossman
The New York Trilogy-Paul Auster

Last three:
>The Return of the King (reread)
>The Neverending Story (reread)
>The Secret Garden

Current: Dracula

Next three:
???

INCOMING RANT:
I had to give up on one, King's Dragon by Kate Elliott. I'd been on a fantasy kick but she killed it dead. I probably should have stopped when one of the main characters got raped, but I didn't. Then she got impregnated, beaten, and had a miscarriage. Still I didn't stop. Surely, I thought to myself, the heroine will take some action now to remove herself from these terrible circumstances. But she didn't. Because the characters in this book don't do anything. All they do is overhear other people's conversations and sit by while other people do things. I quit literally in the middle of a sentence when I realized I was reading yet another overheard conversation. This book was absolute garbage.

>>8690735
>My Twisted World

>Law: very short introduction
>Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
>Brave New World

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>Fairy Tales [Hans Andersen]
>Henry the VI (Parts 1-3)
>Durée et simultanéité: à propos de la théorie d'Einstein

>>8692041
>lord of the flies
might add this one to my to read list

Not counting books I have to read for class

Last three
The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
Eyes of the Overworld, Jack Vance
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams

Next three
Metro 2034, Dmitry Glukhovsky. I'll finish it one day.
Cugel's Saga, Jack Vance. Reading it right now, I completely fell in love with the Dying Earth universe.
And then maybe Asimov's Foundation series if I can find them cheap.

>>8690630
I own Euclid, read through some of Book One. When does he get past all this math shit?

>>8694612
What do you mean 'math shit'? Pythagoras influenced Book one immensely. What else do you expect to find in a book on Geometry, you dolt? Some books are based entirely upon logical deductive findings of units, and the monad and so forth.

Last three:
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Rayuela by Julio Cortázar

I'm not sure, but I guess I'll read some of the books a friend gave to me the other day. The ones that catch my atention are:
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

>The Martian
>The long walk
>The road

>1984
>Diary of Anne Frank
>The Great Gatsby

>The Communist Manifesto
>Siddhartha
>Thus Spake Zarathustra

>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
>The Prince
>Kappa

>>8695868
>Edgy Communist philosophy undergrad

>>8694638
He's clearly being facetious, retard. Just another example of an "intellectual" not truly understanding anything.

>>8695901
>you are what you read
I'm not even an undergraduate yet kek

>metro 2033
>metro 2034
>metro 2035

>Neuromancer
>Count Zero
>Mona Lisa Overdrive