>last 5 books you read >age >other anons r8

>>9668402
>Siddhartha (overrated, all the other books were either good to superb)
>Tropic of Cancer
>lolita
>Edgar Allan Poe Tales
>Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
20

Egils Saga
Njals Saga
The Andromeda Strain (shit)
The Hot Zone
The Demon in the Feezer
Metro 2033

>1984
>Tunnel by Andreevski
>The Bell Jar
>Brothers Karamazov
>Oliver Twist
22

>>9668402
>Antigone
>Waiting for Godot
>The Crying of Lot 49
>A Clockwork Orange
>Mrs. Dalloway
20

>>9668410
>wouldhang/10
Tropic of Cancer is my all time favorite

>>9668402
>Decline of the West
>War and Peace
>Imperium
>Programme of the NSDAP
>Faust
I'm 19

>>9668402
5 books? Anon, you read too much.

>Swann's Way
>I Ching (Lynn tr.)
>Tao te ching (Lynn tr.)
>Mitra-Varuna
>The Conquest of America
>35

>>9668402
The Communist Manifesto
The Sun Also Rises
Leaves of Grass
The Qur'an
Siddhartha

>Cold in July
>Light is the Darkness
>The Library at Mount Char
>Joyride
>The Collector

26 tomorrow ;)

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>>9668448
>/pol/lack detected

>>9668448
good. now read some 20th century fiction so you dont become a meathead.

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>>9668460
you better be criticizing those texts anon

>>9668466
Happy birthday anon

>>9668402
>Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
>Introducing Kierkegaard
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>R. Crumb's Kafka
>Come Back, Dr. Caligari
19

>No Longer Human
>Metamorphosis and other Stories
>Notes From Underground The Double and other Stories
>Atomised
>Snow Country
19
>>9668410
>>9668448
Would probably befriend, but I don't have friends so I guess not

>The violent bear it away
>A good man is hard to find
>Of mice and men
>El pozo
>Heart of darkness

25

>>9668441
Does Dalloway have a comlicated vocabulary? I've heard it has, but it's on my college reading list.

>Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
>Winsburg Ohio
>Anthem by Ayn Rand
>Siddartha
>A Tale of Two Cities
20

>>9668427
6/5

>>9668410
5, memey choices and I think Siddharta is beautiful
>>9668427
Lmao I've read the hot zone, I liked it a lot actually.
>>9668432
Hella memes, congrats on Brothers though. 7/10 mostly cuz I think Bell Jar is genuinely good
>>9668441
9, was antigone for a class or you just picked it up...?
>>9668448
10 and I'm impressed
>>9668454
Let's talk Proust!!

>Swann's Way
>Rebecca
>The Sympathizer
>The Plague of Doves
>As I Lay Dying (sucked)

21

>Stoner
>1984
>100 years of solitude
>Crime and Punishment
>Platypus Police Squad

>>9668520
>Platypus Police Squad
Explain yourself.

>The Master and Margarita
>Can life prevail
>Brothers Karamazov
>The Hero's journey
>Crime and Punishment
19, only recently started reading outside of school so I am still reading mostly entry level classics, I'm really enjoying Dostoevsky. I can't really comment on other posts itt as I've only read a few of the books people posted.

>>9668526
Platypus police squad actually has good moral dilemas and an exemplary style of prose.

>Dead Souls by Gogol
>The Miner by Suseki
>Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa
>Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
>The Gambler by Dostoememesky

>23

Warlock
Revolutionary Road
H is for Hawk
Dead Souls
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

>A Clockwork Orange
>The Anatomy of Fascism
>The Gulag Archipelago Vol 1
>The Hobbit
>The Iliad
21

>>9668460
Are you muslim?

>>9668402
>Hearts of darkness, Dead Souls, leviathan, Mason and Dixon, and the Idiot
>22

These threads always get me because judging an anon from their last 5 can can be so different from judging them from their last 5 before that.

22

>Catallus
>Ficciones
>Divine Comedy
>De Amicitiae, De Senectute
>Martial

>White Noise
>The Two Noble Kinsmen
>Henry VIII
>Coriolanus
>Anna Karenina

>>9668432
>>9668410
alright dudes
>>9668627
>>9668608
>>9668582
>>9668570
>>9668531
>>9668520
>>9668514
>>9668508
>>9668506
>>9668427
cool dudes
>>9668517
not cool dude
>>9668490
>>9668466
>>9668460
>>9668454
>>9668448
>>9668441
above average cool dudes

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>>9668635
>tfw above average cool dude

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>>9668517
>As I Lay Dying (sucked)

>>9668647
If you don't orgasm during Addie's chapter you shouldn't be on this board

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>>9668402 (OP)
>on sense and reference
>god knows
>hermann and dorothea
>second april
>the seducer's diary
twenny (reposted this bc misspelling and formatting)

>>9668410
no discernible personality/10
>>9668427
you didn't post your age and i can't discern if you're 15 or 40, which is cool
>>9668441
i'm feeling a strong 6, weak 7
>>9668448
hitler would not have wanted you to spend your time posting on /lit/ instead of contributing to der kampf
>>9668454
based but you're probably insufferable
>>9668466
you probably have fulfilling hobbies outside of literature, good for you
>>9668490
would hang out with you
>>9668508
latent psychopath/10
>>9668509
no but if english isn't your first language the might be difficult
>>9668514
how's your poli sci degree going
>>9668517
>As I Lay Dying (sucked)
i demand satisfaction
>>9668520
meme city
>>9668531
great picks so far. please keep reading. you seem sweet and smart
>>9668570
based
>>9668627
how can you read an entire book and not even know the title. 7.5/10 though
>>9668635
good taste, bad rating style

>>9668688
>>9668509
i meant the grammar might be difficult, fuck my life

>>9668688
y did you skip me :'(

>>9668688
>would hang out with you
Aw shucks anon

>>9668635
I'll take cool dude.

Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
The Hour of the Star By Clarice Lispector
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Hive by Camilo José Cela.

>>9668755
>19
Forgot age

Infinite Jest
East of Eden
Stoner
Anna Karenina
Brave New World
22

>Winesburg, Ohio
>The Hour of the Star
>A Very Easy Death
>Ada or Ardor
>Go Tell It On the Mountain
19

>>9668402
>last 5 books
the black company
The end of poverty
elon musk biography
surviving ai
watership down
>age
27

>>9668517
As i lay dying rocks. You suck

Matter
The Player of Games
God's Hammer
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Man in the High Castle

Age 31

>>9668635
Not anon, but As I lay dying was hard to push through imo. The only reason I even read it was because a prof. Made me. Nigga just bury the bitch in the back yard

>>9668402
>Mein Kampf
>Zweites Buch
>The Art of the Deal
>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>Might is Right
18

>The Road (depression on every page with a sprinkle of hope)
>The dark tower series
>The Man in the High Castle
>The Alchemist (too hyped up for me)
>Infinite Jest (cause the Internet told me too, 9/10)
20

>>9668402
>The old man and the sea
>Naked Lunch
>La invención de morel
>The myth of sysiphus
>El túnel
18

>Brazil by John Updike
>Confessions of a Mask
>Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
>Brave New World
>The Stranger

18, brainlet just getting started. Really don't have a concrete identity yet. Still quite plebeian.

>>9668832
7/10
9/10 if you read the original German version

>Against the Day
>Women Without Men
>At Swim-Two-Birds
>Nostromo
>The French Lieutenant's Woman
31

>>9668696
why didn't you point out which one was yours :'(
>>9668697
that's not much of a compliment because i'm starved for friendship and extremely unlikable
>>9668827
>nigga just bury the bitch in the back yard
lol

it definitely requires a certain type of reader to be engaging. i thought it was hard to get through on my first attempt but the second time i tried it, a few years later, i read voraciously. i would think even if you weren't that type of reader and didn't find yourself engaged, you would be able to think more of it than to think it "sucked." i know i didn't, hence my having picked it up again later.

>>9668402
>crying of lot 49
>reading like a writer
>death of ivan ilyich
>tonio kröger
>a collection of many lovecraft short stories
23

>>9668402
>The Dark Tower book 1
>Starship Troopers
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
>The Prince
>48 Laws of Power
23

>all these children

I gotta get outta here

>>9668862
how old are you?

>>9668402
Anna Karenina
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
What is Art - Tolstoy
The Moomins
Mythology - Edith Hamilton

>>9668862
t. bitter middle aged faggot

>Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
>Adolf Hitler by John Toland
>The Book of the New Sun Vol. I (Shadow of the Torturer/The Claw of the Conciliator)
>Crime and Punishment (re-read)
>Blood Meridian (re-read)

29.

>>9668870

30. Feel 50.

Think of it like this: if you're 20, I've lived half again your whole life-span. It's no wonder conversations on here go nowhere. The frames of reference are too disjointed.

>Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>Philosophy for Beginners
>Anders Breivik's manifesto
>The Sun Also Rises
>Meditations
24

>>9668847
>Women Without Men
*Men Without Women

>>9668881
What happens between 20 and 30 that sucks the life and energy out of people? I'm honestly pretty terrified of it happening

>>9668893
Work and marriage.

>>9668402
from reddit, but have successfully repented
>>9668427
irredeemable neckbeard
>>9668432
Slowly acquiring taste
>>9668441
a little more rapidly acquiring taste
>>9668448
disciplined
>>9668454
leisured
>>9668460
has wide-reaching sensibility
>>9668466
a happy person
>>9668487
is right but is probably projecting a bit like I am now
>>9668490
+ for wayside but probably should read more original texts
>>9668506
currently regretting his situation in life and could largely benefit from exercise, meditation, socializing, and the Greeks
>>9668508
has a bitchy resting face and has probably gone hunting (if not, warning to all nearby residents)
>>9668514
majoring in political science and doesn't even know that he should be reading Cicero
>>9668517
an avid enough reader who doesn't know himself or the books he reads well enough hence "meme" and "Let's talk Proust!"
>>9668520
slowly acquiring taste
>>9668531
humble enough now and enjoyed life before graduating high school so that after a couple years of continued practice he will be well-balanced, as long as he limits his time on /lit/
>>9668570
probably attractive
>>9668582
a straight-faced man
>>9668608
a fag
>>9668627
knows what's good
>>9668635
cool dude
>>9668688
erudite
>>9668755
someone who should challenge himself more often
>>9668765
starter pack man with a bright future ahead
>>9668770
promising
>>9668795
someone who's at least trying but could afford to try harder
>>9668819
a conversed man
>>9668832
someone who should at least switch it up every four books
>>9668843
someone who should challenge himself more often
>>9668844
a promising start
>>9668845
a less promising start, but nevertheless okay
>>9668847
someone whose found their taste
>>9668852
godspeed erudite
>>9668856
a mixed bag
>>9668858
a basic neet
>>9668873
a get-r-doner
>>9668876
almost set in his ways
>>9668887
newbie who's probably humble

24
>Phaedo
>Crito
>Apology
>Euthyphro
>Meaning of Shakespeare - Goddard

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Stoner - William
Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl
Siddhartha - Hesse
Heretics - Chesterton

Just turned 21

>>9668852
I appreciate that you appreciate it. A lot of literature I've enjoyed lately has been compared to Faulkner, so I likely went in expecting something way different. I found the writing style dull more than difficult, particularly the strategic repetition. I was also irritated by overdone blandness and "southernness" of the characters' personas and names. It reads like a caricature of the south, not a nuanced portrayal.

>>9668902
*Williams

>>9668900
t-thanks for the (you)

>Moby Dick
>Meditations
>Literature Class:Julio Cortazar
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Illiad(Reread)

>>9668914
Forgot to say 21

The Origins of Totalitarianism (current)
Neuromancer
Foucault's Pendulum
The Struggle For Mastery in Europe 1848-1918
Works and Days

>>9668402
>Iliad & Odyssey in the same volume
>Hamlet and a few poems from the Complete Works of Shakespeare
>Dubliners and Portrait in the same volume, B&N edition, $8, good deal
>Ulysses
>In Search of Lost Time (up to Guermantes Way right now)
25

>>9668410
fuck you Siddhartha is underrated
>>9668432
>>9668441
>>9668448
cool

>>9668454
i love this

the rest are decent, a few faggots peppered here and there as to be expected

>>9668919
and I'm 24 but my knees and ankles are 40

>Essays and Aphorisms
>Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me
>Console Wars (awful, drooped at 60%~)
>Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
>Discours sur le colonialisme

>>9668402

>its another lisa allusion

isn't this a bit disrespectful? I mean, she'll never understand, but still. That's your own kin.

>>9668897
>if you get married you'll get sucked out of life and energy by 30
>if you don't get married you'll kill yourself
>tfw can't even get a girlfriend on 22

>>9668942

>life is entirely about girls and marriage

>>9668944
I read mostly because I think I'll hopefully find a girl with who I can discuss books. Nope, they're all just reading twilight, poopi kaur and other pseud trash.

>>9668944
if you can get them at least occasionaly maybe not but being deprived of that pleasure sure makes it seem that way

>>9668954
you're doing it wrong, anon. If you read critically enough and you read Plato then you'll figure it out. You can find a bro to talk literature with, and even a girl who can hold her own in a conversation, but for now learn the literature.

>Kafka On the Shore
>2666
>White Noise
>Speech and Phenomena
>currently tackling Being and Time
18

i have to shit right now but i'm stuck at my university library listening to Zizek talks until mommy can pick me up :c

>>9668402
>A Tale of Two Cities
>The thoughtful dream
>King Lear
>Kindred hearts of stone
>Forgotten times to remember

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>>9668942
Marry, and you will regret it. Don't marry, and you will regret it. Marry or don't marry- you will regret it either way.

>>9668900
>probably should read more original texts
I'm workin' on it, anon. Slowly shedding my brainlet skin.

A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Consolation of Philosophy
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
The Porch and the Cross
Ruthless

I'm 30

>>9668900
>a promising star
Just got back into reading this year, so thanks.
Any recs?

>>9668956

speak for yourself mate

>>9668993
>Symposium
>Philoctetes
>Stoner
>Grapes of Wrath
>The Histories

All accessible and for the most part still challenging.

>Candide
>Fahrenheit 451
>Bound Alex Verus (urban fantasy)
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Legion novellas by B. Sanderson
>23
Normally I mostly just read fantasy so this is far fancier than what I normally read.

>Hamlet
>Catcher in the Rye
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Brave New World
all I can remember because i am so very new to /lit/
19

>>9669008
Just finished 10 grade huh?

>>9668402
>Roadside Picnic
>Fellowship of the Ring
>Pudd'nhead Wilson
>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
>Life on the Mississippi

doing some light reading boyos

>>9669010
Well I really haven't read much since

>Complete tragedies - Aeschylus
>Swann's way - Proust
>In the shadow of young Girls in flower - Proust
>El alcalde de Zalamea - Calderón de la Barca
>Some sonnets of Shakespeare every now and then
It's been like one month and a half since I last read seriously tho. Had to stop reading "The Guermantes Way" due to a sudden depressive crisis that kept me from getting the peace of mind required.
20, will be 21 in August.

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>>9669019
Well time to catch up!

If dubs you have to read Infinite Jest as your first /lit/ novel

>Paradise Lost
>Snow Country
>Kokoro
>No Longer Human
>Fear and Trembling

>18

>>9669034
Ill read it as my 4th, then. I have a copy next to me along with (from the library) A Confederacy of Dunces, Dracula, and 1984.

>>9669052
dude it's a meme. First go through all the classics and then if you feel like it read it but not as your 4th book...
please.

>>9668466
Happy birthday Anon!

>>9669056
Suggestions?

>>9668402
>The Recognitions
>Dublinesque
>The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
>The Rings of Saturn
>Waste
22

I honestly can't remember the last 5 books I read.
I can only remember the last 3.

>>9669052
godspeed
>>9669056
honestly I read IJ as my first /lit/ novel (i had read 7 or 8 high school classics before that and a lot of genre fiction) I'm this >>9668635 anon. But yeah, young anon: Unless you're highly dedicated, and even if you ARE dedicated, then IJ at this stage is going to be tough and not TOO rewarding.

>>9669063
>>9669003
these are solid suggestions. But I'd try Cannery Row or Of Mice and Men before Grapes and Wrath. Also:

>Watership Down
>Huckleberry Finn
>Animal Farm
>The Stranger
>Old Man and the Sea

>>9669071
What are they?

>>9669076

Sexual Personae, Moby Dick, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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>>9668520
If you enjoyed Stoner, 1984, and Crime and Punishment, we would be bros.

>>9669063
idk since you are just getting (back) into reading find something that will be fun but has merit that allows it to be considered a classic.


>Old Man and the Sea
>Metamorphosis
>Siddhartha
>All Quiet On The Western Front
>Catch-22

1. To Kill a Mockinbird, Harper Lee
2. The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway
3. Ask the Dust, John Fant
4. The Savages Detectives, Roberto Bolano
5. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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>100 Years of Solitude
Very immersive
>Invitation to a Beheading
Enjoyed it (Going through all of Nabby)
>The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Nothing I didn't already know but fun to read
>The Invention of Morel
Didn't really enjoy it (Read it because of Borges)
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
One of the best books I've read
18

>Class by Jilly Cooper
>The Game by A.S. Byatt
>1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar
>Across the Common by Elizabeth Berridge
>Brothers and Sisters by I. Compton-Burnett

26

>>9668402
borges collected poems
rene duamal pataphysical essays
calvino the complete cosmicomics
the emerald tablet alchemy for inner transformation
passao the book of disquiet

>>9668402
No Surrender (Hiroo Onoda)
Gideon's Corpse (Preston & Child)
Gideon's Sword (Preston & Child)
Reliquary (Preston & Child)
Good Omens (Pratchett & Gaiman)
25

>portrait of the artist
>ulysses
>all of aeschylus plays
>the book of disquiet
>the stranger
>21

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>gregory the terrible eater
>dora's opposites
>dora's day at the beach
>but not the hippopotamus
>the curious seahorse
36

> The Sorrows of Young Werther
> Crime and Punishment
> Genealogy of Morals
> Twilight of The Idols
> The Antichrist
19. Reading Demons right now.

>>9669288
how did ulysses go?

>>9668402
>>9668402
>The Bell Jar
>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
>Work (crimethinc)
>I Hate the Internet
>Tales of Moonlight and Rain
26.

>>9668971
*cringe*

>>9668614
No, just felt like reading it for the beautiful poetry :D

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Whatever by Houellebecq
Atomised by ditto
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
No Longer human by Osamu Dazai
Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano

23

invisible monsters remix
tropic of cancer
candy
filth
the hollow dolls

>>9669466
im also retarded. 18.

>>9669464
>Whatever by Houellebecq
sounds emo, quick rundown?

>>9669464
4/10

Correction
Omensetter's Luck
The Lime Works
Gargoyles
Frost

26

>>9669479
Lonely IT professional rambles abut his pointless life and deception with women

>>9669464
weeb faggot detected

> From an Ontological Point of View
> German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism
> Eumeswil
> Hegel and Aristotle
> Metamorphoses

20

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Animal Farm
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks
>Brave New World
>Wuthering Heights

23

18
Eugénie Grandet by Balzac
The Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Stefan Zweig
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Evenings by Gerard Reve

>>9668900
>someone who should challenge himself more often
Well, before that, i was reading long novel after long novel, philosophy and other non-fiction. I wanted a break

>>9668402
Gorki - Chelcash
Herman Hesse - Demian
Luisa Josefina Hernández - La Plaza de Puerto Santo
Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilich

if you just POST but you don't RATE then you set a PRECEDENT for DOING THAT and then NO ONE will RATE YOU which is why you POSTED in the THREAD in the FIRST PLACE

>>9669653
any literature recommendations that go into altruism?

>Dune
>For Whom The Bell Tolls
>Letters from a Stoic
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Meditations

22

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>>9668402
>Trainspotting
>A Clockwork Orange
>Dune
>Angels and Demons
>The Portrait of Dorian Gray
18

>>9669663
>Angels and Demons
>The Portrait of Dorian Gray
>Portrait

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1. One way St & other writings by walter benjamin
2. lectures on the philosophy of history by hegel
3. fleurs de mal
4. notebooks of malte briggs by rilke
5. the postmodern turn by sadie plant

>>9668402

The Bayeux Tapestry (Wilson), most recent completion.

Maaybe I completed something else here-or-there, but I definitely read all four books in the (2001 A) "Space Odyssey" series by Clarke very recently. I've done notes on a wiki project to incorporate minor characters into existing material but it's back-burner, as you'd imagine I burnt out taking notes while reading through.

Previously I also re-read Machiavelli's The Prince.

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>23
>Desolation Angels
>Dr. Bloodmoney
>The Minority Report
>A Farewell to Arms
>The Motorcycle Diaries

>>9669707
Perfect books for the age. Also Desolation Angels represents the more compelling side of Kerouac, but most people ignore it. Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the novel.

>>9668402
>The Last Policeman
Overhyped, standard mystery novel. Light, easy read.
>The Rings of Saturn
A new favorite.
>So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Solid Modiano, but not his best.
>In the Café of Lost Youth
Better than So You Don't Get Lost, but still not quite his best. It's also borderline Debord fanfic
>Bluets
I enjoyed this a lot, her prose is good and I liked the concept. Probably one of the most interesting books published in the last decade.

>>9669653
I haven't read much yet so my opinion would be useless and don't want to shit the thread, but thanks senpai I'll remember to shit post more in the future

>>9669666
Fuck. You got me. Meant to type "Picture". Guess I'm growing ever more retarded the later it gets.

>less than zero
>the man who was thursday
>critique of practical reason
>groundwork of the metaphysics of morals
>crying of lot 49

28

>Bleak House - Dickens
>Pale Fire - Nabokov
>Jerusalem Delivered - Tasso
>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anon
>Nana - Zola

27

>>9669728
Thanks for responding to my post because it was intended specifically for you

> Moby Dick
> Blood Meridian
> Cracking the Coding Interview
> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
> East of Eden
I'm 21 btw

>The Gambler
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>To the Lighthouse
>The Trial
>Good Omens

18

>>9669804
what edition of moby do you have?

>>9669804

What did you think of Moby Dick?

>>9669481

What are the Lime works?

>>9669079

what is sexual personae all about?

>>9669819
Read all of them except Good Omens. Lighthouse sent me to sleep. Trial almost sent me insane, so stifling. Monte Cristo was really enjoyable. Gambler was middling, not the best of Dostoevsky, but still worthwhile.

>>9668402
Much Ado About Nothing
The Odyssey
Beyond Good and Evil
Fahrenheit 451
The Decay of the Angel

>>9669852
Forgot to say that I'm 19

>>9669844
Probably obvious, but I wouldn't bother with Good Omens. Don't know what I expected, but was disappointed.
Out of all of them, I'd say that the Gambler and Monte Cristo were my favourites.

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>>9668410
8
>>9668448
9
>>9668454
9
>>9668460
7
>>9669504
10

>Metamorphoses
>Poetry, Language, Thought by Heidegger
>De Doctrine Christina
>Vita Nuova
>Collected Poems of Yeats

20

>Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
>Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude
>Ian Mcewan - The Comfort of Strangers
>Banana Yoshimoto - Asleep
>Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe


33

>>9669804
I read Moby-Dick when I was 15 and it baffled me, but still left me shaking at the end. I have to read it again. Blood Meridian really surprised me. I hadn't read McCarthy before, and was impressed by his rich, evocative and very masculine prose. He is certainly one of the best writers living. That Judge dominates the book, like the whale in Moby.

>>9669880
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you now?

>Book of the New Sun
>Magic Mountain
>Siddhartha
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Tractatus

20

>>9669661
We could be bros
Don't reply, I can't handle rejection

These threads remind me of how much of a beginner I still am

>>9669745
I've made 4 attempts at Pure Reason - and have never succeeded. How on earth did you do it?

>>9669887
27, I made a post above. I've been reading seriously since I was 13, when I got into Greek mythology and later read The Iliad.

>>9669873
Ah, I'm reading The Tartar Steppe now. About halfway through.

>>9669899
That's cool. I wish I had started earlier, but 17 ain't too shabby (I hope).

>>9668448
Thoughts on Decline of the West? I'm thinking of reading if once I finish Meditations. I've heard (((people))) say that it's just pseudo gibberish, but (((they))) tend to say that kind of crap about any book they don't like.

>>9669905
That's a good age to begin.

>Paradise Lost - Milton
>Dubliners - Joyce
>Meditations - Aurel
>Art and Revolution - Wagner
>Mythos Wagner (nonfiction book about Wagner)

22

>If On a Winters Night a Traveler
>Invisible Cities
>The Castle
>A Farewell of Arms
>Cosmicomics
22

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I am Brian Wilson- Brian Wilson
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Watchmen- Alan Moore
Devil in the White City- Erik Larson
Imperial Bedrooms- Bret Easton Ellis

23

Don Quixote
Gravitys rainbow
The tempest
Cicero the life and times of romes greatest politician
The federalist papers
29

> Metaphysical meditations
> Discourse on method
> Prolegomena to any future metaphysics
> A treatise of human nature
> The republic

>>9669974
Age, cocksucker

>>9669974
Also 18

>>9669880
I'm the 21 year old who just finished it and it's probably my favorite book now. Melville is so gifted.

>>9669906
It's really good and extremely well thought out. The only problem is that Spengler spends the first half of the book going over again and again how each high culture is different in the minutest way. Different mathematics, different art, different sciences etc. and it gets sort of tedious and I can see how people can call it gibberish. However it's not entirely hard to read.

The second half gets really good however as Spengler goes into a deep analysis of cultures themselves rather than describing how they differ.

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World - Timothy Morton
Why hasn't everything already disappeared? - Jean Baudrillard
The Crying of Lot 49 - you already know
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
Love, Guilt, and Reparation - Melanie Klein
20

>>9668432
Nice. The Bell Jar is in my top tens. I read 1984 again recently and didn't regret it. Dostoevsky is always good, especially if you like Sylvia Plath.

Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks
Don Delillo - White Noise
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms

18

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Of Mice and Men - John Stienbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Stienbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell

I'm in HS.

Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World - Frances Burney
>Although I had to read this for a class I still enjoyed it. It's not perfect. Evelina humblebrags constantly but she won't settle for anything less than the dolled up lord and she's shaming men constantly. It's absurd because the setting she is in is the most repressed one imaginable. Everything is 'suggested' in 18th century English society. If anyone does something she finds unpleasant, they're unscrupulous, evil brutes. Her whole perception of things can be annoying. You sort of want someone, anyone, to just burp in her face or chuck a molotov cocktail into the room. But for the most part it is very insightful and the language is superb.

The Plague - Albert Camus
>Classic. I didn't know Camus to be such a brilliant writer of settings before this. The dead rats piling up in trash cans. Cottard's suicide attempt. The sounds of stray dogs and cats getting summarily executed through the night by cops. I think it's his best novel. Genius the whole way through.

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky, translated by Oliver Ready
>Another classic. There's no surpassing Raskolnikov's soliloquys.

Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
>I enjoyed it tremendously. I'd never have thought the detached, Spock-like philosopher of Being and Nothingness would be so in touch with suffering.

currently:
The Trial - Franz Kafka
>This is about my third time reading it. There are still major details I only now pick up on. Kafka is a very dense writer. When K. goes from his dry, catatonic, legal Kafka-speak to his more colorful, humorous mode of description it's always delightful. ex: "This room is drowning in filth!" "Next time I'll bring these street children some candy or a cane to flog them with"

I'm 23

>The Way of Man - Martin Buber
>Atomised - Houellebecq
>Andre & Oscar - Jonathan Fryer
>The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
>Death in Midsummer - Mishima
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>>9668402
>La Literatura Nazi en América - Roberto Bolaño, in spanish
>Laurus - Eugene Vodolazkin, t. Lisa C. Hayden
>A Brief History of Seven Pozzings - Marlon James (doesn't really count, as I dropped it 10% in though)
>Occultic Nine v2 - Chiyomaru Shikura, t. Adam Lensenmayer
>田中: 年齢イコール彼女いない歴の魔法使い v1 - ぶんころり (in japanese, I have the other 3 volumes waiting too)
>The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, t. Mirra Ginsburg

>age: 31

>>9668410
Hey, 4/4. p good. I should read Tropic of Cancer eventually,
>>9668432
3/4 -The Bell Jar
>>9668441
3/3
>>9668448
2/2
>>9668454
3/3, though I read Cleary and Hogan respectively instead of Lynn.
>>9668460
1/3 -the communist manifesto -the qur'an/hadith/sunna
I really like Sharia Law for Non-muslims though.
>>9668466
0, but happy birthday.
>>9668490
2/2
>>9668506
4/4
>>9668508
0/1 -Of Mice and Men
Or maybe 1/1, I don't know. I don't love it, but I don't hate it as much as other early Steinbecks.
>>9668514
3/3
>>9668517
I guess 1/1. I didn't hate As I Lay Dying.
>>9668520
4/4. Or 3/4, not sure about my stance on Stoner.
>>9668531
3/3
>>9668570
4/4, except it's Soseki, faggot.
>>9668608
4/4
>>9668627
2/2
>>9668635
2/2 2/2
>>9668755
2/2
>>9668765
2/4 or 3/4, -infinite meme, not sure about stoner.
>>9668770
1/1
>>9668819
1/1
>>9668832
3/3
>>9668843
Fuck, I don't know how to rate this.
I liked The Man in the High Castle.
I didn't hate The Dark Tower Series, but I didn't love it either. Or, well, I did hate some parts, but I was fine with most of it, I guess.
The Alchemist and Infinite Jest are shit though.
>>9668844
3/3
>>9668845
4/4
>>9668856
2/2
>>9668858
3/5 -the motivational garbage my dad forced me to read when I was in my teens

>Field too long
OK, deleting some stuff, I guess
>Error: Too many lines
Well, fuck this shit. Deleting half the field and all the empty lines then, I guess.

>>9670202
Finally ratez. Don't quite understand your rating system though

>>9670207

the boardwide system

books he enjoyed/books he has read

>>9670207
liked/read
How new are you?

>>9670202
Let's carry on
>>9668876
2/2
>>9668887
2/2
>>9668900
1/1
>>9668902
3/3, fuck it, I guess I liked Stoner.
>>9668914
2/2
I like Cortazar's Rayuela, and love his short stories (I remember fapping hard to his story about that nurse going full /ss/, Warau Kangofu style, back when I was in puberty), but I haven't read that literature class thing.
>>9668920
4/4
>>9668932
1/2 -Maus (only read the comic though. Still nothing but propaganda)
>>9668971
3/3
>>9668978
2/2
>>9669005
3/3
>>9669008
3/4 -To Kill a Moniggerd
>>9669017
2/2
>>9669032
1/1
>>9669039
Hey, 5/5.
Very nice for an ub& lying about his age.
>>9669075
4/4
>>9669094
5/5 pretty damn good, lad.
>>9669227
3/3
>>9669243
0/1 -The Game
Reminds me of Lithursday though, so I guess it's not all bad. Good old days.
>>9669251
1/1
>>9669279
1/1
>>9669288
3/3
>>9669292
8/8gr8b8m8
>>9669332
I mean, 5/5, but Nietzsche ruined what Schopenhauer made.
Nihilism should be pessimist. Otherwise, it's not that much different from self-help, which is how I now see Nietzsche even if I sperged at him when I was your age too.
>>9669378
0/1 -bell jar
>>9669464
4/4 counting punpun
even if I dropped it a couple of volumes before the last one because I was nursing a depression and, come on. They're still burnt in a DVD and I'll finish reading it sometime though
>>9669504
2/2
>>9669517
3/4 -wuthering heights
>>9669547
1/1
>>9669634
1/1
>>9669661
2/2
When I was an edgy teen, I pretty much force-lent my copy of Zarathustra to a schoolmate, who was the daughter of a protestant pastor.
She burnt it. Huge tits though.
>>9669663
3/4 -An-
...
Fuck it, 4/4
>>9669667
1/1
>>9669707
2/2
I was going to go on a diatribe about why I haven't read TMD, but >1765
>>9669745
2/2
>>9669761
2/2
>>9669804
4/4
>>9669819
4/5 -To The Lighthouse

field too long, too many lines: FUCK

>>9670232
>>9670202
Third part. By the way, rate mine, faggots. Specially you >>9670207

>>9669852
3/3
>>9669869
2/2
>>9669873
2/2
>>9669894
3/3
When I was an edgy tween, there was this girl in my class who had amazing tits. She was the daughter of a protestant pastor, and although I was already an atheist, we were friendly. I kinda force-lent her my copy of Zarathustra.
She burnt it. Still though, HUGE tits.
>>9669942
2/2, should read Wagner. Love his operas.
>>9669946
1/1
>>9669963
3/3, but fuck off with your hurr watchmen counts as literature durr.
>>9669971
3/3
>>9669974
4/4
>>9670124
1/1
>>9670160
3/3
>>9670194
3/5 -early Steinbeck
>>9670196
3/3
>>9670199
3/3

Holy shit, I'm done!

i am ozzy
book of five rings
moonwalk
enchiridion
notes from the underground

21

>>9668402
>Fathers and sons
>On the Eve
>Stories by Chekhov
>Anna Karenina

>>9668402
>Dead Souls
>Confession's of a Mask
>Souls of Black Folk
>Heart of a Dog
>Several of Tolstoy's short stories trying to get through the whole thing
24

>>9668402
Demian
Steppenwolf
Candide
Mere Christianity
Plato's Dialogues

18

>>9668448
>>9668832
edgy Hitleryouth back to /pol/ with you scum
>>9668460
interesting what did you think of the Qu'ran?
>>9668873
8/10
>>9668887
breivik manifesto mein gott, otherwise 7/10
>>9668914
very nice 9/10
>>9669032
I like ur style bra 9/10
>>9669039
not bad for 18, 7/10
>>9669094
not spectacular but all quite solid novellas 8/10
>>9669332
I too like Goethe and Nietzsche 8/10
>>9669504
german idealism ftw go read some Hegel and Fichte
>>9669547
bonus points for Stefan Zweig!
>>9669745
this boy likes theory I can respect that!
>>9669873
I dont know a single book here so..gj I guess
>>9670194
yep that's a really HS list but Ray Bradbury is the shit

The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn

>>9668402
>Homer - The Iliad
>Stoker - Dracula
>Tolkien - The Silmarillion
>Austen - Pride and Prejudice
>Stevenson - Treasure Island
>26

Age: 22
Just finished my finals in Classics so all Classics related:
Odyssey (in Greek)
Metamorphoses (in Latin)
Plato's Republic (in Greek)
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (in English)
Aquinas Summa Theologica (in English)

>>9670260
You're in a for a fun few months, don't give up on Wheel of Time when it sags a bit in the middle, last few books are great.

>>9669761
All less popular, but classics. Well played, sir.

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>Moscow Stations
>The Magus
>Kitchen Confidential
>Simulacra and Simulation
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

23

Age: 19
Georg Büchner - Woyzeck
Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Rimbaud - Illuminations
Hermann Hesse - Demian

>>9669873
Elders seem to be reading less known books.

>>9669894
How the hell do you read Zarathustra. I couldn't understand one page in my native language. It's not the easiest by Nietzsche, but still... Had you read anything by him before?

>>9670297
What?

Not him, but Zarathustra is Nietzsche's easiest book. It almost reads like a novel.

Maybe you just read a shit translation.

>>9670196
Plague wasn't as good as Stranger. Plus I didn't quite understand the exodus philosoply.

Is Nausea good enough to read for a high functioning existencial nihilist?

>>9670202
Margarita is my favourite. It's a shame that you read it that late, I read it on 19.

>>9670279
You've read Odyssey and Plato's Republic in Greek, and Metamorphoses in Latin. Dank.

Calvino - 6 Memos for the Next Millenium
Calvino - A Plunge Into Real Estate
Calvino - Our Ancestors Trilogy (The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-existent Knight)
Calvino - The Cosmicomics + Tzero
Calvino - The Castle of Crossed Destinies / The Tavern of Crossed Destinies

20 years old

>>9669946
Did you enjoy the chapter from if on a winters night a traveller which is meant to be the diary of the author?

>>9670315
It was really good.

I also play guitar, and a few years ago I was obsessed with replicating the live version of the Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. I wish I'd already read Margarita and Paradise Lost back then, maybe I could've connected even more easily.

It also read like butter. Ginsburg is amazing.

>>9670300
I've heard that it's not his easiest several times. I think the translation was OK.

>Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden from it, and carry everywhere the reflection of your happiness!
Behold. This cup is again going to empty itself, and Zarathustra is going to be a man again.
to be a man again.
I mean come on, how the hell am I supposed to know what is the metaphorical meaning of this. It's only the first page. I can't even find an explanation anywhere.

>>9670334
OK I fucked up the formatting, there should be a preview option.

>>9670334
I think it's pretty obvious. But again, it reads like a novel, so give it a normal read, even if you don't understand the metaphors, and then give it another one.

Yeah. It's cryptic. But-

>>9670340
>there should be a preview option
Fuck off back to wherever you came from, and don't come back.

>>9670342
Well, I checked the rest of the book and it seems there aren't much more metaphors like that one.

Maybe I'll give it another try. But maybe metaphors and especially poetry aren't meant for me.

>>9670311

I think the exchanges between Tarrou and Rieux come off a little schmaltzy, but the observations of the other characters, the description of Oran, these things just jump out at me so vividly that I can't help but love The Plague. I really do love all of Camus's novels though. It's not so easy for me to rank them and even now I am uncertain.

Despite the influences of German idealism, Kafka, the Russian realists, other existentialists, etcetera, The Stranger is mostly written like the tough 30s and 40s American novels (Hemingway, Faulkner). Meursault looks at the world "as if behind a pane of glass" or like a Martian, and describes things mechanically and simply. It effectively makes the point about absurdity, that is certain. A judge condemning someone to death, a woman you met just yesterday saying "let's get married", these things seem absurd. It's only at certain climactic moments, especially the end ("all my life a dark wind has been..", "the warm indifference of the universe") that we see the lyrical, introspective Meursault (and Camus).

Nausea explores similar themes from an entirely different perspective. If Meursault is sort of like a Hemingway protagonist (tough, reconciled), Roquentin of Sartre's Nausea is sort of like Josef K. or the Underground Man (schizoid). It helps that Roquentin is a Parisian, so he has a metropolitan wit and education Camus's characters (except for Clamence from The Fall) don't quite have. He is also a bit more sensitive it seems to me. Sartre, although not a masterclass artist like Camus, is surprisingly an excellent one. You would think an academic would be painfully out of touch but I assure you he is not. It was also written in the 30s before Sartre delved into political ideology and became a worldwide meme.

Hopefully you are mature enough and have enough good faith to not discard Nausea for a lack of MacGuffins or plot hooks. It's a novel full of genuine feeling and it moved me, calcified as my heart is, to tears. I say this only because I've seen some people on this site say they got bored with it and may have read other "existential" novels for the wrong reasons (it is edgy to kill arabs and pawnbrokers).

It's practically a must read if you're into this sort of thing so yes, definitely.

Vagabond Vol 1-15 (Vizbig)
Paper Girls Vol 1-2
Journalism (Joe Sacco)
The Incal
Like 50 pages of Infinite Jest

18

>>9669337
very well. unique experience. felt things I did not think was possible to feel through books. didn't know what to do after finishing it, and will reread it soon.

>>9670378
>four comics and a shit book
>not even Vaughan's best work
>but in any case, posting comics when you're being asked about books
Kill yourself back to /co/mblr

>A Yi - A Perfect Crime (empty, juvenile)
>Yu Hua - Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (funny, sad)
>Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (nothing groundbreaking)
>Liu Binyan - A Higher Kind of Loyalty (bureaucracy bashing)
>Mo Yan - The Republic of Wine (annoying)

24

20
Death of ivan iljitsch
Macbeth
Stoner
Iliad
Augustus

>>9670320
Yea, just finished studying Classics at Oxford which requires you to read a huge amount of stuff in the original languages.
Can't say I enjoy it as much as reading a really good piece of English literature but it's a pretty cool skill to have nonetheless.

>>9670383
>Vaughan's best work
Kill yourself back to /co/mblr

>>9670408
So do kids matriculating at Oxford already know Greek and Latin or do you just try to learn it as you go?

How competently can an average Oxford student read in those languages?

Cannonball, McElroy
Lost in the Funhouse, Barth
Despair, Nabakov
Reader's Block, Markson
The Sot-Weed Factor, Barth

Not enough talk about Barth and Markson here on /lit/

Paradise Lost
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The First Man in Rome
Napoleon: The Path to Power

28

>>9668402
Lolita
Rise of the Robots
Catcher in the Rye
Childhood's End
The Dispossessed

Faust
Critic of Pure Reason
Eternal Husband
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Limited Inc.

21 years old

>>9669831
Everything on that list other than Omensetter's Luck is by Thomas Bernhard.

>>9670408
Didn't know there are Oxford students here lol. Meanwhile I'm studying on demolished university in poor man's Narnia.

>>9670438
There are three routes for doing Classics at Oxford.
The majority of us matriculate with decent knowledge of Latin and Greek from our school days.
A smaller group come with just Latin and no Greek.
The smallest group are those with neither Latin nor Greek (usually from state schools which didn't offer those subjects) who then only learn one of the languages, rather than the first two groups who are examined on both Latin and Greek by the end of the course.
For the second and third groups, the language that they have to learn from scratch is taught in intensive classes during the first two years, after which they are expected to be as good as those who already knew the language before matriculating.
The standard varies massively, I was probably in the top 20% of the year and I can pretty comfortably translate most authors, only getting stuck on occasional rare vocabulary.
The very best 5% are really quite extraordinary, but at the same time there are some in the bottom 20% who seem to struggle with even basic translations like Cicero or Xenophon.
To be honest, the course is more about essay writing and literary criticism than translation, but you do need at least a basic level of Latin/Greek knowledge to graduate.

The Histories - Herodotus
I am a Cat - Soseki
Solaris - Lem
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
History of the Peloponissian War - Thucydides

43

>The Grand Gatsby
>The Crying of lot 48
>Stoner
>The Sirens of Titan
>Niebla (Mist by Unamuno)
>19

>Metamorphosis - F. Kafka
>The Stranger - A. Camus
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra - F. Nietzshe
>Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( I'm not sure if it counts becouse it's been my 3rd time with this book, I just love it so much )
>Steppenwolf - H. Hesse

>>9670745
Forgot about age. I'm 22

Journey to the End of the Night
The Idiot
The Book of Disquiet
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The Double

20

>>9670687
43 omg. Glad that this isn't a teenage board though. Looks like most of us are in the 20s.

>>9670774
a blink of an eye Anon and you'll be here too :)

>t.oldfag

>>9669895
i've never read the whole of the first critique, but i have done the second and third (or at least i think i read all of the third). i'm not disciplined enough to do it and it's just not something i really need to do, given what i'm up to.

>>9670786
False. I can only wish that I'd become old enough to die by a natural death by a blink of an eye.

>t.22yo depressed existencial nihilist loser

>>9668402

100 Years of Solitude
A Clockwork Orange
1Q84
The New York Trilogy
On the Road

21

>>9668402
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>Moby Dick
>Nine Stories, JD Salinger
>Histories, Herodotus
>The Sound and he Fury

>>9670885
26

>>9670202
Check out トラフィック・キングダム

>>9670297
I read it in German and aside from needing like 50 pages to realize that his use of "also" was not the usual "as such", but meant to be read as "als so", like "like that," it wasn't too bad. I checked out some English translations and barely understood a thing, so yeah, I'd blame the translation you read.

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>>9670885
>Nine Stories, JD Salinger

>>9668402
>Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues, Berkley
>The Cynic Philosophers from Diogenes to Julian, Dobbin (translator)
> Essays and Aphorisms, Schopenhauer
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche
>The Culture of Critique, MacDonald
21

>>9670885
You seem like an insufferable fag irl

>>9670902
If I manage to find a raw, sure. I'll buy it if I like it.

But... it doesn't seem particularly special. Only 2 amazon.jp reviews after a year in the market, and the author's other novels seem... just, like shovelware.

On the other hand though, 147 pages is a pamphlet, and I'm reading LNs to practice, so sure. If I find a raw.

Liquid Modernity
Liquid Life
The Thirst for Annihilation
Undoing the Demos
Speed and Politics
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>>9670957
Interesting thought

25

Including one-off plays:

Letters from a Stoic - Seneca (Penguin's collection)

Enchiridion - Epictetus

Alcestis - Euripedes

The Clouds - Aristophanes

The Organon - Aristotle (with porphyry's introduction to Categories I think)


It's too late for me, friends.

>>9670878
wew

>>9668402

> The Fall
> The plague
> 1984
> The outsider
> mark manson's self-improvement book, forgot the title.

>>9671008
After The Stranger I was a bit dissapointed about The Fall. It was ok...just ok and nothing more.

>>9671008

19 yo

>>9671036

It was quite different from his other books because the absurd wasnt the central theme, it was more about having the right to judge and "the fall". I personally found the book to be both educational and entertaining as the lawyer was not only an interesting and relatable person, he could be interpreted in different ways as well. He most likely made up his stories so he could fulfill his task better.

The only downside for me was that i know next to nothing about the bible and missed out on a lot symbolism near the end and had to look it up.

The Third Policeman
The Cartel
Dispatches
Wise Blood
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a justified sinner

>>9671083
Everything you said is right. My opinion isn't objective....since there was almost nothing new in this book for me. I've seen it all already.
I love absurd so after The Stranger I was hungry for more...

>>9671102

Since you only mentioned the stranger, have you read the plague as well? It can be interpeted as either the absurd condition or the german occupation of France, im sure you'll love it when you read it through the absurd lense as you'll find different ways to deal with "the plague". Nausea might also be a good one for you. Havent read the book myself, but what i have read is that the character has the same indifference to the world as Meursault had.

It sucks that Camus had to die so young, we missed out on a lot of books :(

>Hamlet - 4/5
Really liked it, my first shakespeare play out of school, got the complete works so just going to read a play of his a month from now on

>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking Glass - 2/5
I mean, just not my thing

>Cryptonomicon - 3/5
Liked it for stretches but it doesn't half drag at times when Stephenson is reminding you how smart he is

>Night - 3/5
Was alright, I already knew the holocaust was not a lot of fun and it wasn't like the prose was anything to write home about

>Memories of My Melancholy Whores - 2/5
Couldn't get into this, at least it was v short

am 24

>>9671150
Yes I did but a few years ago, Really good book.
When It comes to Nausea ..I will have to check it out and put it in my "to read list" then.

>>9671221
>>Hamlet - 4/5
>Really liked it, my first shakespeare play out of school, got the complete works so just going to read a play of his a month from now on
discuss it with someone or if you don't know anyone at least read up on it or watch youtube videos discussing the incredible depth that goes into understanding the play.

>>9671221
Gross! A sorry sin when 24 and you have already peaked. This world was not made for you friend, maybe on the next birth.

Dracula
On Monsters
(((If You Catch An Adjective, Kill It)))
Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads
MSND reread because June 21 just happened

>>9668448
faust is the best non-fiction book i've read lately
>>9669005
anniversary edition 451?
>>9668978
how old are you?

>the fountainhead
> the republic
> What i talk about when i talk about running
>king lear
>fahrenheit 451
>19
am new here pls no bully

>>9671314
forgot half my post, nice. i'm 24

Dracula I was impressed with. The characters weren't simple as in Frankenstein and I enjoyed reading the origin of so many tropes.

Ben Yagoda is a real meshuganah.

Martha Wells isn't great, but she is comfy.

MSND is as good as it always is. Reading it and The Tempest always make me wish Shakespeare had done more plays involving fae, but that's just the lorefag in me.

>>9671334
Did you read Lear in the ancient Celtic?

+ Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
+ Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, Gabriella Coleman
+ Everything's Eventual, Stephen King
+ So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
+ Popular Crime, Bill James

Aged 21

>>9671359
I'm thinking about getting into Stephen king. How do you like him?

>>9671358
no i read it in my bedroom

>>9671359
>Aged
Unexist yourself.

books, i have no familiarity with any other than I've heard good things about the Ronson one.

>>9671359
could you rate slaughterhouse 5 for me? planning on reading

>>9671243
You got any recommendations on what to read/watch?

>The Fellowship of the Ring
>The Two Towers
>Narcissus and Goldmund
>Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
>Wandering by Hermann Hesse

>>9671409
I'm 20

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>>9670207
>Finally ratez.
you know a foolproof way to get rates in a thread? rate in the thread

>>9670373
sorry this was ignored, it was a pretty good response

>>9670202
please explain why you wrote pozzings instead of killings
>>9670242
do you just hit "random" on wikipedia over and over until you find your next book
>>9670244
for someone who's only ever read 4 books, you sure picked 4 good ones!
>>9670246
8/10 if you're black, 7/10 if you're white, 9/10 if you're not black or white
>>9670248
not bad, age-appropriate
>>9670260
endearingly autistic
>>9670263
you know those "500 Books You Have to Read Before You Die" lists? you don't actually have to read all of them before you die
>>9670279
you don't belong here. you deserve better.
>>9670286
books 8/10, porn 2/10
>>9670291
how strong is your speech impediment
>>9670326
8/10 if you always read authors in blocks, 10/10 if you only ever read calvino
>>9670378
OP said 5 books, not 4 picturebooks and 1 meme
>>9670397
wouldn't want to get stuck in an elevator with you but
>>9670397
you seem like you have a great personality judging by your taste but a horrible personality judging by your comments, it's neat
>>9670405
are you a real person or a university reading list
>>9670450
awesome, let's get coffee
>>9670492
you haven't read any of these books
>>9670510
you shouldn't have read any of these boks >>9670525
age is relevant here
>>9670525
i genuinely don't understand how so many people misremember the titles of books they only recently read
>>9670687
d-daddy
>>9670709
blech

>>9668402
Last 5 books I finished

The crying of lot 49
Melmoth the wanderer
Inferno
For whom the bell tolls
The master of go

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>>9671380
I had AP Lit in High School where we spent 2 weeks analyzing only that play and then in college a voluntary class on Shakespear so I mostly had the exposure of talking to others about our ideas and listening to techers and profs on their more professional opinion.
But there has to be plenty of stuff on youtube.
Hamlet truly is endless. It is incredible.

>If you have time and want a funnier aspect to it check out "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" the play and then the movie.
>Really fun to watch and seeing this comedic alternative angle was really funny after spending so much time discussing Hamlet in a serious manner
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcpbKvMLSo8 (pretty abd quality) torrent it maybe instead somewhere.

>>9668410
>Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of an American Empire
>Crime and Punishment
>The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
>How God Became King
>Triton of the Sea
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>>9671622
Awesome thanks mate, I'll grab that right away it looks great. I was going to grab a film adaptation of Hamlet but there's quite a few, do you have any recommendations for that?

google told me the lion king is best

>ywn be a 20 year old kid just getting into literature reading the greatest books ever written for the first time again

>100 Years of Solitude
>The Wretched of the Earth
>Weavers of Revolution
>The World According to Garp
>Can't remember, was taking finals. Probably The Light Fantastic?

>>9668402
I'm on a PKD and Vonnegut kick. I feel the need to rate each of my own so anons don't get the wrong idea. So sue me.
> Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut; 4/5
> THHGTTG, Adams; 2/5
> Ubik, Dick; 4/5
> Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut; 5/5
> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick; 5/5
> 21, Male, USA

>>9671997
>rating do androids dream of electric sheep above ubik
i cannot get behind this

>>9672002
Androids was the first PKD I read so that might have something to do with it. There were things about Ubik that I didn't fully get. Why is Ubik advertised in the form of so many products if it's only ever seen as a spray or balm? The concept of a prudence organization needing to exist is barely glossed over in favor of inner politics between them and their enemies.

>Joseph Conrad - Victory
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>All the Pretty Horses
>The Crossing
>Naked Lunch

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>>9671891
Tfw that's me right now

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>>9668402
I'm 32 and I don't think I've even read a book from cover to cover since I read 1984 in 2013 or 2014. I read Starting Strength from cover to cover, took months, I think it was around the same time. I don't know why this happens. 1984 didn't even take all that long to read. I mean I can't read a novel in an hour like some can, but I think I read between half an hour and an hour on the bus every day and it took maybe one or two weeks to read it, although I don't really remember. Fuck my life. Also, I don't want a rating, that shit's gay.

>>9672149
Oh, switch V. with Fictions, I read it after

>>9672166
Do English speakers call it 'Ficciones' or 'Fictions'? However, you know what I mean

>>9672183
don't think i've ever heard an english speaker call it "fictions"

>>9672150

Whats stopping you from picking up a book right now? It seems to bother so you'll hit two birds with one stone as well.

>>9671891
20 year old kid here, hit me up with the books you wish you could read for the first time again