What have you read this year?

Just noticed "A Study in Scarlet" is there twice, what the fuck Goodreads? Full of bugs since they introduced the rereading feature.

>/lit/
>actually reading

you are on the wrong website desu senpai

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>He thinks we actually read books

>>9282334
>>9282326

Well there were a few decent discussions before /pol/trash invaded the board, admittedly I haven't been here too much lately but I guess the board has become even shittier.

The Old Testament

So far I've read:
>No longer Human
>The Iliad
>Stoner
>C&P
Currently reading Blood Meridian and afterwards I'm gonna read Atlas Shrugged. I'm not a very fast reader, unfortunately.

>>9282352
Read The Bible last summer, really enriched my thoughts about certain books and motifs. In literary terms the book wasn't as impressive as I expected it to be except for certain parts like the Book of Job but it's crucial to understand Western culture.

>>9282353
Speed doesn't matter and it will come eventually anyway if you read consistently, don't fall for the quantity meme. Those are pretty good choices, not sure what you thought about Stoner but I think it's one of the more overrated book here, not bad by any means but people like to sell it as a masterpiece.

>Camus - The Outsider
>Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
>Plato - Republic
>Homer - The Odessy

>>9282101
All of Nietzches major works, all of H.P Lovecrafts works, the majority of Carl Schmitts bibliography, "total mobilization) and "about pain" by Ernst Jünger, art of Stalinism by Boris Groys and I've begun reading Time and being

Michael Ende

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>>9282334
>orangutans exist

>>9282482
:thinking:

>The Bell Jar
>100 Years of Solitude
>Stoner
>The Old Man And The Sea
>Crime & Punishment
>Perfume
>Satori In Paris

read more in 3 months than i have in the entirety of any previous year of my life.
i only recently got into lit though.

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>>9282101
No that much really

>Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
>Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
>Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New Sun
>Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)
>Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
>Shakespeare - Hamlet

I've been really digging Wolfe. Just finished Urth yesterday, was good but not as great as BotNS. Just started Long Sun and I think I'm gonna read the entire Solar Cycle in addition to some of his other work.

>>9282101
nah

>>9282569
Forgot
> A bunch of stories by H.P. Lovecraft
> Machiavelli - The Prince

>>9282569
i'd rec home fires.
i read shadow & claw earlier in the year. it just gave me the realization that fantasy novels probably aren't my thing. it was neat though.

>>9282557
fuck off hack soul you weeb

>>9282101
Mostly journal articles for school or the Economist, but I have got a few books in:

Tao Te Ching
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Toqueville
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fannon
Expectations of Modernity by James Ferguson (heavily abridged)

I'm halfway through Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche.

After exams start, I'm thinking about finally going through the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man by Joyce

The History of Magic and the Occult by Kurt Seligmann

Currently reading Confessions by Augustine

Not a whole lot, my semester has been very busy so I haven't had much leisure reading time.
>New York trilogy
>in the country of last things
>pale fire
>Borges collected fictions
>bleeding edge
>stoner
>the remains of the day
>Rimbaud complete works

>>9282101
Ethics and Politics by Alasdair MacIntyre
Saved in Hope by Pope Benedict XVI
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God Is Love by Pope Benedict XVI
Apostolic Fathers III. by Anonymous
Where is the new theology leading us by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Last Testament by Pope Benedict XVI
The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Apostolic Fathers II. by Anonymous
Apostolic Fathers I. by Ignatius of Antioch
A History of Philosophy 3 by Frederick Charles Copleston
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Essential Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Culture Industry by Theodor W. Adorno
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustina Kowalska
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Edith Stein by Edith Stein
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (reread)

Slower than last year, I'm studying more sadly.

>>9282588
Thanks, I'll check it out!
I've always enjoyed fantasy and sci-fi so I guess seeing Wolfe merge the two in a way was really interesting. Also helps that his writing is much better than most genre authors.

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Not pictured but also read this year:
>Thank you for being late by Thomas Friedman
>The Stranger by Camus
>Tenth of December by George Saunders

>Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Last Wolf & Hermann
>Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family
>Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
>Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View
>Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
>W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
>Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
>Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
>Elmore Leonard - Killshot
>Ivan Turgenev - Spring Torrents
>George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

favourite so far is probably the sheltering sky

>>9282614
How was Lincoln in the Bardo?

>>9282621
it was great. it managed to feel heartfelt and zany at the same time. made me laugh, made me cry

the colonel by mahmoud downlatabadi
a bad character by deepti kapoor
antigone by sophocles

>>9282569
is achebe's novel as good as people say it is??

>>9282623
Sounds like vintage Saunders, thanks I'll read it soon

1. the cossacks by leo tolstoy
2. crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
3. david copperfield by charles dickens
4. the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
5. siddhartha by hermann hesse

>>9282633
I didn't think it was bad. I thought the perspective it gave was pretty meaningful, but I didn't find it life-changing or anything. Could just be my taste though. Achebe seems to be pretty fair when describing the cultures of both the Nigerians and the Europeans.

>gilga mesh
>a clash of kings
>inherent vice
>antigone
>the road
>no country for old men
>monkey
>the art if war
Gotta pick up the pace

>>9282589
no u

Nothing

>>9282664
Have you considered structuring your reading? Your list has no apparent cohesion. Perhaps you would be inclined to read more if you read chronologically or syntopically; read with an aim, select books from a certain period or with a certain theme; this will help you form more connections, achieve greater understanding, and so derive more pleasure.

>>9282101
>The Invisible Man & The Time Machine.
>Blood Meridian (re-read).
>Two Gentlemen of Verona (re-read).
>Slaughterhouse-5.

Currently reading:
>The Third Policeman (11:00-11:20, 12:00-12:20, any extra time added on past 9:00P,M).
>The Silk Roads (13:00-13:20 and such for each hour until 9:00P.M.),
>The Essential Hayek when playing grand strategy in the background, as I usually sit back and watch the chaotic construction of a new world through the AI rather than my own input.

I'm quite new to /lit/, anything I should try next? Definitely going to read through Vanity Fair and some other books that I got in my backlog. Probably a couple books I missed since I didn't have Goodreads until a couple weeks ago. How should I rate stuff on there by the way? Should I rate based on my enjoyment of the book or how well it is structured/how well it utilizes language devices?

>>9282837
Sounds autistic desu

>>9282894
Quite the contrary.

>>9282863
>Should I rate based on my enjoyment of the book or how well it is structured/how well it utilizes language devices?

Do whatever you want.

>>9282863
God damn haven't seen so much autism in a while.

>>9282863
>rating books

An endeavour utterly devoid of meaning. Write a review if you have to, but don't waste your time with numerical ratings.

>Chabon, Moonglow
>Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
>Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock
>Eugenides, Middlesex
>Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
>Lowry, Under the Volcano
>McCarthy, Suttree
>Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Wallace, Consider the Lobster
>Whitehouse, The Underground Railroad

Strindberg:
>In Defense of the Fool
>The People of Hemso
>Inferno
>Getting Married
>The Red Room
>The Servant's Son
>Black Banners
>Days of Loneliness
>The Scapegoat
>Tschandala
>The Road to Damascus
>The Father
>The Dance of Death
>Lucky-Per's Travels
>Realized Utopias
>Small Catechism for the Lower Class

Kant:
>Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
>Prolegomena

Schelling:
>Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom

Mill:
>On Liberty

Erasmus:
>Praise of Folly

Strindberg is really good guise.

>>9283015

>Tao Te Ching
>4.42 average
>literally incomprehensible

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>>9282101
some stuff i dont think theyre all here

>>9283041
>Strindberg is really good guise.

I tried Inferno after Hamsun's Hunger, but its second-rate.

my 2017:
> Dante: Paradise
> The Trial
> The Castle
> Ordinary Men
> Gulag Archipelago, vols 1-3
> The Collapse of Complex Societies
> Plagues and Peoples
> Under a Green Sky
> A Vast Machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
> The ecological approach to visual perception
> Noman's Land
> The Way of Men
> Journey to the End of the Night
> A Hero for our Time
> In the Penal Colony
> Cancer Ward
> Man's Search for Meaning
> Kolyma Tales
> Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
> Huysmans - Against Nature

>>9282353
Now read East of Eden.

>>9283015
dyer

>>9283056
I read the translated version.

Most of it is comprehensible to some extent. A second or third reading would probably help to get more out of it, though.

>>9283265
what?

>>9283275
DYER

>>9283275
dyer = do you even read

I've read Tistou of the Green Thumbs and some nonfiction books on oil painting and horticulture.

>>9282349
>le /pol/ boogeyman

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Haven't had much time, so I've mostly just read poetry.

>>9283329
>>9283342
Thanks boys.

100 and something pages of the Chronicle of a Death Foretold are not counted. But yeah, I should read more literature.

>>9283357
go back to your board you triggered nancy

>>9283376
But I am already here

>Of Human Bondage (currently)
>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
>Prometheus Rising
>The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
>The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks

>>9282101
how do you get that view

>>9283265
wayne dyer

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I was originally going to try to read 100 books this year but that's not working out. Instead I'm going for like 20,000 pages. This allows me to read my long meme books

My favorite so far has either been Sound of Waves or Carpenter's Gothic

>Dubliners
>Pre-Socratics and Sophists
>Candide
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>>9282349
>blaming /pol/ for the low quality of /lit/
You'd of been better of blaming the fags that post the top 100 charts on reddit year after year.

>>9282349
The /pol/ meme is so trite at this point, and is it was incorrect from the beginning. The board sucks because every other thread is "iz it gud?" or "wuz it awtism?"

>Heart of Darkness
>Othello
>M. Butterfly
>some miscellaneous Wallace Stevens poems
M. Butterfly was trash.

>>9283690
Is Underworld Worth It?

>>9282837
Teach me.

>>9283679
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017

>>9283690
nice desu

>>9283378
I hope you accept that argument from the "migrants" as well.

>>9282548
same, got into books last year but only into reading like late february.

>Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle +++
>Prunty - The Sorrow King ++++
>Bernlef - Hersenschimmen +++
>Brooks - The Bunker Diary --
>Mellick - Sausagey Santa +
>Dazai - No Longer Human +++
>Baum - Wizard Of Oz ++(+)
>Hansen - HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! ++
>Hershey - Hiroshima +++

Barely fucking anything. My attention span is shit. Where I could once read a book a day (as a kid/teenager) I can barely get through two pages a day now.

Fucking hell.

>>9284998
Have you tried to sit down and actually fucking force yourself to read? If not then don't act like you don't like your current state.

>>9284998
Learning to read and having the patience is very hard if you grew up/got used to the Instant Gratification of the Internet era.

>>9282349
/pol/ hardly has an affect on this board. The booktuber shit and threads about book covers and shelves are what bring down discussion.

>>9285020
This. This board is literally too irrelevant to matter to the zeitgeist boards and vanguard of 4chan.

>>9285020

this and the elitism
like we can be edgy if we want but a bunch of autists screaming at each other about who can post the biggest brained wojak is common

>>9285034
>tfw to smart for /lit/

>>9285034
Elitism is the only way to hold together a good discussion in a culture board.

Look at the /tv/. It went to complete shit in 2011 when elitism got eradicated in there.

>>9285040
/tv/ is a fucking disaster, literally 9gag, reddit and facebook.

1.the broom of the system
2.return of the king
3.the two towers
4.inherent vice
5.the crying of lot 49
then some other shit books like the circle and the drawing of the three.

>>9284296
stop reading trash genre fiction

>>9282101
How's MacCulloch's History of Christianity? I was thinking of picking it up after watching his BBC doc.

nonfiction:
Richard Beck - We Believe the Children
Helen Castor - Joan of Arc
Douglas P Fry - Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

fiction:
Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 (reread)
Celine - Journey to the End of the Night (reread)
Gibson - Neuromancer (reread)
Heller - Something Happened
Huxley - Brave New World
Ligotti - Noctuary
Mary Wilkins Freeman - The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories

currently reading Celine - Death on the Installment Plan

>>9285381
Do you literally read all day?

>>9285370
I thought it was great but honestly I barely read non-fiction that's not philosophy (trying to change that) so I can't really compare it to other similar works. Anyway it was detailed and comprehensive my only concern was that he could have been a little more objective, he was quite sarcastic a lot of times but that didn't affect the facts.
Also this is only my pet peeve since I'm Hungarian I was really annoyed that even when they were very important for some reason he never named the Hungarian kings just used the generic title even though he named every other not so significant people.

>>9282557
What did you think of Snowcrash?
I was suprised I didn't really like it.

>>9285313
Why?

>>9285607
because i said so

>>9282609
Damn dude, good shit. I read The Book of the New Sun a couple months ago and it was pretty legit. I'll have to read it again sometime. How did you like Aquinas, Aristotle and MacIntyre? That's a pretty interrelated group of philosophers.

>>9284308
No, strong beginning but weak overall.

>>9285439
Yes, he has brain problems so he doesn't go out. Be nice to him.

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Reading Ulysses and Finding a Form by William H. Gass right now.

>>9282101
The shit you read is brainwash and youre nothing but a cuckold lemming. Fucking die.

>>9285882
Let's see your list buddy ol pal

>>9284308
original guy who posted, mostly agree with anon:
>>9285804
you could read the first section as stand-alone; pretty epic day of baseball. the rest is fine, but really starts with a bang. i'd give it a try.

>>9283121

>I tried Inferno after Hamsun's Hunger, but its second-rate.

I disagree, but I do not think Inferno is Strindberg's best either. If you want to give him another chance, I'd recommend The Red Room.

>>9284814
did you like Senselessness? I was looking at it the other day, seemed interesting.

>>9285846
Link to your account anon, I'll follow you

>>9285882
Thanks, I love being called a cuck by mentally challenged right wingers.

>>9286437
sweetie...

I just got into reading this year:

So for I've read

>Lolita
loved it. very beautiful

>Dubliners
some stories were great. some sucked balls. too much Irish for me.

>1984
great. the ending was perfect. it was pretty repetitive though

>the stranger
it seems like it would have blown my mind when it was written but now it leaves much to be desired

Right now I'm either going to read another Nabakov novel like Ada or continue with the classics like C-22.

>>9286499
read nescio - amsterdam stories

>>9286499
Ada is the culmination of Nabokov's creative philosophy and the aesthetic interests he pursued during his american career. It is his masterpiece, but as such it is best appreciated after reading most of his other work. Read at least Pnin, Pale Fire, and Invitation to a beheading first.

I've read so much and I really have no opinions of my own. Every time I read something I'm more or less "okay that's understandable" or "I guess that's a fine proposition" or something.

It's grueling to read twenty hundred books and the end result be "hmm okay I guess that was some time spent huh" instead of having an original (somewhat) idea be brought about by my tiny pigeon brains

Jesus I wish I had patience to watch films or something instaed of reading but ohw well

>>9282101
How do you create this graphic, kind anon?

>>9286398
It's funny. Really short too

>>9286713
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017

>>9286701
Reading takes a lot more patience than watching films, what are you even talking about?

>>9286755
Not to my experience. I get bored when I watch film. Can't hold my attention at all.

Now give me a 800+ page classic novel and I'm sucked into it from the first words onwards.

idk why really

games hold my attention even less.

>>9282971
I agree with you in principal, but it is worth it on goodreads, at least if you use the recommendation engine. Essentially just give high ratings to stuff you would want to read more of, to get decent recommendations that way.

>>9286763
It's not about patience, it's about quality. Video games are trash, I don't know what films you have watched but once you get to know some of the art of cinematography you can find a lot of pleasure in some works but of course I don't mean the Hollywood blockbusters.

>>9286799
I've seen most films (like 90%+) in the They Shoot Pictures Don't They list which was some 1000 films. After a certain while, I don't know why , but the images of film became quite boring. I tried to venture to more avant-garde film making too, but that felt mainly film school circlejerking. It all felt too incestuous I guess.. in that everything felt so connected to each other because the industry and influence was so small and immediate. Where as books surprise me still today in their complete difference from each other and I can't wait to open the next book and read it.

and frankly they didn't make me think, the films that are

>>9285454
better than i expected but i had almost not expectations

>>9286743
Thank you, my man

>>9284998
Think of it as practice, maybe try meditation\mindfulness as well. I suffer from the effects of instant internet gratification and it helps to remind yourself there is virtue in being patient.

>>9286817
>>9286763
I know that feel m8, I usually get bored when I'm watching films, but I can read for hours.
You could try writing a journal, then you would maybe think more about the ideas in books, and also remember the books better.

You could also try to get into some other things, like drawing or painting, cycling or playing music, so that you wouldn't feel bad about the fact that you only read and have nothing out of it.

>finished the republic
>for whom the bell tolls
>the picture of dorian gray
>the inferno (re-read)
>east of eden
>notes from the underground (re-read)
>a book about the french revolution

Also read numerous other short stories and poems but I'm too lazy to list them

>>9286921
I'm not artistically gifted.
I'm a dumb meathead

However, I am going to cycle across the Europe with a bike. And I don't mean a motorbike, just to clarify. Starting somewhere South Italy and ending most likely at Gibraltar. Can't wait for it desu.

Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy
Junky by Burroughs
Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford
Great God Pan and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machine

Not as much as I'd have liked. Busy at the moment with my dissertation. Could someone recommend me a pleasant and short (~100pp) work to read periodically whilst I'm working?

Caine Black Knife and Caine's Law
some SWEU books
Big Fish
A fuckton of Lovecraft
Both of Shakespeare's History Tetralogies
Beowulf
Grendel
The Song of Roland
The Destruction of Dà Derga's Hostel
The Story of the Volsungs and the Nibelungs
Some Gothic stories
Blithe Spirit
Hay Fever
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Pretty much all of Milton's other English poems
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Currently Reading Broken Empire

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>>9282482

So far I've read

House of Leaves
Oblivion
The Stranger
Wolf In White Van
Blood Meridian
2666
The Bell Jar
The Broom of the System
Cat's Cradle

Just started The Savage Detectives, 2666 left me hungry for more Bolaño

>>9283015
>>9283360
>>9283690
Where do i find this page on goodreads?

>>9287638

>>9286743

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Currently reading Faulkner's Sanctuary and Selected Non-Fictions by Borges

How do I get to that page??

>>9285381
I'm genuinely curious how much time you spend reading each day..

>finished Don Quixote
>Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
>The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
>The Epic of Gilgamesh
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Confessions of St. Augustine
>Steppenwolfe by Hermann Hesse
>A bunch of Montaigne's Essays
>Currently reading Taipei and Dead Souls

>>9288862
How did you enjoy Omon Ra? I also read it this year and found it slightly above average

>>9285846
How have you read such tomes as Europe Central and ATG etc. in 3 months?

>>9288900
That was the last book I would've expected anybody to comment on. I liked it a lot, it was an incredibly cool idea executed fairly well. Seemed like a really interesting take on the USSR as a whole.

Have you read Pelevin's short stories? My brother introduced me to them years ago, I remember them being super surreal, but I was also probably about 15 and not used to that. The one about a shed who dreams of being a bicycle was strangely charming.

>>9288862
How are you liking Dead Souls? You're reading the Guerney translation hopefully? The other ones don't even compare.

>>9288926
I'll probably go back to it and read it again in a few years time. It was my first Pelevin, I've had his short stories and Buddha's Little Finger sitting on my shelf for years but haven't read them yet. I'll definitely have to check out his short stories this year.

>>9286499
i didn't get that much out of the stranger either. i think i understand the idea he's getting at, that in absurd and tragic situations you have the freedom to react however you may, but the story itself just didn't buzz me.

>>9288940
not that guy but i've read and recently reread the pevear translation of dead souls, cause it was available at my local library. i thought it was cool but nothing particularly memorable.
you think i should read that one?

>>9288940
P and V because I'm borrowing it from my brother. I like it enough so far that I'd absolutely be willing to reread it, and if it's in an even better translation (though I haven't noticed any problems so far and the prose actually seems really good) that's just more motivation to go through it again.
The book as a whole is great. Certain aspects, especially the way he melds his characters with their environments (just got past Plyushkin and his dilapidated house), seem far more modern than any book I've read as old as Dead Souls is. Seems way more playful and innovative like Bulgakov than mid-19th century.

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>tfw i will never find someone who shares my interests

I have been on a bit of a sci-fi kick recently, having just finished Starship Troopers and The Forever War. Both excellent reads.

I also finished Pronto by Elmore Leonard which scratched two itches of mine, one for westerns and one for cop dramas.

I also have read FM 3-21.8: The Infantry Platoon and Squad if you can count doctrine as literature.

My next ventures will be more heinlein, probably Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, then Armor for more science fiction fun.

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Currently reading Anna Karenina and Street of Crocodiles.

>>9289041
>COMICS
LOL

In My Own Way by Alan Watts (autobiography) - fucking fantastic

Inner Engineering by Sadghuru - likewise, uses modern metaphors that make sense in the application of yoga to the self

The Name of the Rose - Enjoyable and worthwhile in a way that I have yet to apprehend conceptually

The Kyballion - Damn idk, goin on about metaphysical ideas that are too fundamental too be applicable but they probably have their place in as yet unknown ways in relating my conscious experience to my unconsciousness

Ostend - Page turner, Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth and other real and interesting characters convene in Zurich prior to WWII and do what is in their power to prevent the inevitable over cafe conversation

>>9288261

8-14 hours

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Germinal and Undset's The Son Avenger best books.

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Since everyone is rereading Blood Meridian this year I suppose I can too.

>>9289645
The whole Penguin's history of Europe is amazing, good choice

>>9282457
I thought Stoner was very good. It's by no means a masterpiece, but I didn't go into it expecting that. I didn't expect much of it really, and I was pleasantly surprised for it.
>>9283131
Why? I've looked at it before and it's interested me, but why do you recommend it based on my reading?

A lot of shit for Uni, literature-wise, I've only finished 2 short-ish books and started 3 that I'm making very slow progress on

that pleb feel

>>9282101
Don't mean to be an autist, but how do you get those stats on Goodreads?

>>9289903
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017

while logged in

>>9289903
>Don't mean to be an autist,

Too late.

>devoured 10 volumes of manga in a couple of days
>only read 3 real books this year
such is the life of a pleb

>>9291062
holy shit end yourself

>>9285040
>>9285041
/tv/ is the apex of post ironic meta self aware shitposting. there is not a better board in existence in this or any alternate universe.

>>9291083
why don't you go back there then, just post about capeshit, tushy, blacked and hollywood sluts

>>9291062
Why are you even here?

some of these are re-reads, and I'm not putting down anything I've only partially read (besides CoG).

Antigone
Phaedo
The Merchant of Venice
Meno
Politics as a Vocation
Timaeus
Critias
Ancient History: A Paraphase
King Lear
Hegel's Aesthetics
half of City of God
Robinson Crusoe

>>9282609
BIT

>>9283065
a lot of trash but some good ish

>>9291062
>comic books take a short time to read
wow I would have never guessed that

>>9291547
Bit?

>>9285760
Well I liked each a lot, none of these being my first for any of these. I've read 5 other by Aristotle and 4 by MacIntyre before, as well as a lot of secondary material on Aquinas as well as some 600 pages of mostly his political writings.
I obviously dig A-T framework a lot, it really seems to me to be the only fully coherent philosophy out there, in as much that it covers every area of human thought and has a place within itself without falling conflicting with some other part (ethics versus metaphysics and so on).
I'll be reading a lot more of the stuff throughout the year, still haven't even started on G-L (great French Neo-Scholastic whose name I cannot remember beyond initials), GEM Amscombe and Peter Geach. That alongside whacky Marxism, it's fun and can be easily used as a basically reactionary tool of social analysis (per MacIntyre), planning on Gramsci and more Adorno.
Gene Wolfe is an author who is universally better each time you read him and this was actually my first read. It's what intially got me into literature and also partially philosophy 4 years ago.

>>9282101
Ulysses, almost done with it

blood meridian- cormac mccarthy
notes from a small island- bill bryson
Donuts 33 1/3 series
Stoner- john williams
born to run- bruce springsteen
death with interruptions- jose saramago

>The Lost Symbol
>A Christmas Carol
>The Book of Disquiet
>Room

>>9291755
best in thread

I finished Curtain, then the rest of the year I've been reading Ulysses. I'm about 3/4 done, I'm probably going to reread a few sections after reading complimentary material.

>>9282101
>Using GoodMarketing / booktuber bebo

How the FUCK am I supposed to know everything I read?

>>9291811
Thanks lad.

>>9291831
Goodreads. Add stuff when you finish reading it. It's pretty simple.

Read aroun 40 books so far, highlights include:

>Zorba the Greek
>A.C. Bradley's Lectures on Shakespeare
>Leviathan
>Shakespeares's Complete Sonnets and Poems
>William H. Gass' Short Stories

I feel like it's going to be a good year, lads.

>>9282349
/pol/ isn't ruining /lit/ - /pol/

>>9288908
I read for at least two hours every day, and most days I get three or more. I read for about an. Hour before work in the morning, on my lunch hour, and for as long as I can when I get home. I don't watch television, I limit my shitposting time, and I read every time I take a shit. I read an ebook on my phone simultaneously, to read whenever I'm waiting in line, waiting for food, or during slow times at work. It's not that hard. I don't read fast, I read consistently. Most people have a hard time getting over the bullshit idea that reading takes a long time. Put half as many hours as most people on here have put into Skyrim or WoW, and you'd finish just as many, or more, books than I have.

>>9288261
Read shitty pulp and you'd have this many too.

>>9291556
"""""read"""""

>>9292055
filtered

>>9284246
>You'd of
This is the state of /lit/

>>9289041
Daily reminder Schultz was foot fag

>>9293891
>hating footfags

The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume III
"Nothing" (by Janne Teller)
Tao Te Ching
Voyage to Faremido
Book of Odes by Confucius
Circle of Chalk by Li Xing-Tao
Selected novellas of Akutagava Ryunosuke
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
On Certainty (Wittgenstein)
Tractatus Logico~Philosophicus
Starting Point 1979~1996 (Hayao Miyazaki)
Északról Hegy, Délről tó, Nyugatról utak, Keletről folyó (Krasznahorkai László)

Translated every title I could.