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

> 24

> The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy
> Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943 - 1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright, by Steven Millhauser
> Ernesto, by Umberto Saba
> Aquarium, by David Vann
> The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima

20
The waves
No longer human
Slaughterhouse five
The trial
I'm currently halfway through the brothers Karamazov

>>9826604
>20

>Crown and country - David Starkey
>The Romanovs - Siomon Sebag Montefiore
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton
>Candide - Voltaire
>The complete works of H.P Lovecraft

>21
>The Odyssey, Resurrection (by Tolstoy), A Plato Reader (8 dialogues inc Republic), Demons, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>9826619

meh

>>9826667

meh

>>9826681

meh

20
Kafka - Der Prozeß
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Hesse - Narziß und Goldmund
Calvino - If on a midnight's train a traveler
Melville - Moby Dick

>>9826604
18

Capital
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
1984

>18
Gravity's Rainbow
Critique of Pure Reason
Phenomenology of Spirit
Finnegans Wake
Being and Time

18

>William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
>William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
>James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>J.D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
>Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

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>>9826739
Although I think Faulkner a meme, keep up the good work, kid. You're reading solid literature.

25

The Name of the Wind
Lolita
The Road
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Sapiens

I like to mix up serious lit and genre reading.

>>9826689
Basic bitch who started yesterday.

>>9826739
Trying hard?

But seriously, how was Trumbo?
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26
>East of Eden
>The Grapes Of Wrath
> Butcher's Crossing
>No Country for Old Men
>The Harder They Come

18

>notes from underground
>the diary of a young girl
>groundworks of the metaphysics of morals
>the taming of the shrew
>euthyphro or Lolita

>>9826604
>age
18.
>last five books I read
1. Infinite Jest
2. Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Crime and Punishment
4. The old man and the sea
5. Charlotte's Web
>>9826619
Nice.
>>9826667
Nice.
All the others are also nice.

Turned 18 on Friday

>Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
>Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
>Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
>Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Idk what to read next, gents. As I Lay Dying, Cat's Cradle, or 2666?

>>9826782
My friend, I've been meaning to pick up either East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath. Which do you recommend?

>25

>Infinite Jest
>The death of Ivan Illitch
>Notes from the Underground
>Crime and Punishment
>Brothers Karamazov

>>9826604
20

The Melancholy of Resistance
V.
Story of the Eye
Hopscotch
2666

>>9826703
Nice
>>9826693
Strange combo, but still nice
>>9826739
Haven't read Trumbo, but pretty list taste otherwise.
>>9826743
Brief Interviews is the most tedious thing DFW wrote IMO
>>9826796
Nice
>>9826807
If the last thing you read was The Unbearable Lightness of Being, tackle 2666.
>>9826839
Dosto a best.

23

>TBK
>ghosts(Ibsen)
>heart of darkness
>fathers and sons
>the rainbow(Marie Hamsuns autobiography)

>>9826681
>the romanovs

Is it good? I have it, but haven't looked at it yet.

>>9826782
Trumbo was suprisingly very good for what I was expecting. I went in expecting some sort of typical story recounting the terror of war and what he went through , but it's really all about the after effects of war, and lots of thinking about how no one is really willing to die for any cause once they're staring down the barrel of a gun. And begging for death, lots of that as well.

>>9826604
26

Iron Shirt Chi Kung by Mantak Chia

The Dhammapada (teachings of The Buddha) translated by Gil Fronsdal

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Sadhana Guidelines by Yogi Bhajan

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

>>9826900
Yeah the Romanovs are great

>21
>lolita
>death of a salesman
>crime and punishment
>the plague
>dharma bums

>>9826977
How was death of a salesman? Been wanting to read for a while

>>9826604
>27

>God's Philosophers - James Hannam
>Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
>Liberty Defined - Ron Paul
>From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
>The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam - Jonathan Riley-Smith

>>9826972
Cool.

>data mining
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Ramayana - Valmiki, trans. William Buck

Reading: The Recognitions - William Gaddis

>>9826977
Nothing but memes
>>9826919
Quarter-life crisis?
>>9826900
+Ibsen +Turgenev +Conrad, good reads anon
>>9826880
I like it
>>9826839
Pretty good
>>9826807
Neat that we were reading similar things, but not personally a fan of Hemingway or Vonnegut

Okay I'm done rating

>23
>Das Judentum in der musik, by Richard Wagner
>Aurelius' Meditations
>I fondamenti dell'astrologia medica by Ciro Discepolo
>The Bhagavad gītā as it is by Srīla Prabhupāda
>Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes

Im growing tired of life. Those five are all i've read since december

>>9826992
Excellent. Really sad and it'll make you look at your family in an entirely new light. I really would love to see a performance of it because the stage directions are so meticulously presented and add a lot to the story.

>18

>Jane Eyre
>The Symposium
>Discipline and Punish
>Grapes of Wrath
>Jasper Johns: From Plate to Print

>>9827111
It'll also take you only a couple of hours to read.

>>9826815
East Of Eden is fun to read and also highly intriguing.

The Grapes Of Wrath is tremendously sad but also somehow highly vigorising.

Read both.

> Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
> In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Filbrick
> More Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
> Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
> Slouching Towards Nirvana - Charles Bukowski

>>9826604
22

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
The Conquest of Bread
Scandalous Obligation: Rethinking Christian Responsibility
War is a Racket
Precarious Life: The Powers and Mourning of Violence

>>9827297
33

>23

>The Idiot by Dostoevsky
>Siddartha by Hesse
>Sweating Blood by Leon Bloy
>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
>Dead Souls by Gogol

>>9827297
You managed to read through three pieces of that perverted boozer whose writing looks as if he chunked it all down in a single sitting while jerking off with his left?

20

>Meditations, Aurelius
>Short Stories of Dostoevsky
>The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
>Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
>The Prince and the Pauper, Twain

>>9826604
>25
>A Short History of Ethics, MacIntyre
>After Virtue, MacIntyre
>The Unholy Consult, Bakker
>Taiko, Yoshikawa
>From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Dennett

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>23

>Making History
>Waiting for Godot
>The Summer I Died
>Dare Me
>The Space Between

>22

>Junky by William S Burroughs
>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
>Sidharta by Herman Hesse
>The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

>>9826604

25

In no particular order:

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

Yeah, I know, not overall particularly /lit/. Current book is The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, then The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, then Atlas Shrugged by David Mitchell (the last two are as part of a book group). Not sure what to read after that. I've ordered a shit load of Robert Ranking books, so I might just power through then, or I might go for Ulysses.

>>9827424
Fucking casual, you make me sick.

>>9827434

I knew I'd get this but that's fine. I'm not the most /lit/ of people. I read for enjoyment and what interests me.

Rate other's posts, otherwise this is just masturbation

>>9827434
Look at the other posts. These threads are full of people reading basic shit.

>>9827050
I've had several existential crises already. Lol. Is that version of Ramayana worth reading?

>>9827445
>Is that version of Ramayana worth reading?
Yeah it's very entertaining, not what you'd want to be reading if you're trying to be scholarly about it. Not sure how good it is for existential crises either, but who's to say?

>>9826604
25

Crime & Punishment
Swann's Way
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Within a Budding Grove
Forty Stories - Anton Chekhov

>>9827366
His narratives set the stage for his poetry. A look into the life and id of a damaged man. He makes me not feel so alone in this world.

>all these 20 yos stupid enough to read meme books
kill yourselves kiddos. if you were smart enough you would've read them 6 years ago, and given that you didn't, you're too dumb to get them until you're in your 40s or 50s

>>9827497
>kill yourselves kiddos. if you were smart enough you would've read them 6 years ago, and given that you didn't, you're too dumb to get them until you're in your 40s or 50s
can someone explain this meme to me? I guess I just don't get the joke

18
The Kite Runner
It's Kind Of A Funny Story
Pride and Prejudice (cheated with audiobook about 2/3 way in)
Beloved
The Great Gatsby (also audiobook cheats, semi-required).
Byrd.

>>9827442
Sure, but they're typically 18 years old.

>>9827441
assigning a rating to anything is more masturbatory than jerking somebody else off

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The Portrait of a Lady
The Stranger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Blind Assassin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

if I told you which books I'd last read there's a good chance someone would know who I am.

>>9827639
how was the portrait of a lady? I didn't like The Turn of the Screw, but I liked James' prose.

>>9827654
insufferably boring, but that's how I feel about most 19th century fiction. The characters are extremely well written though so if it's your thing then I'd recommend it

>>9827668
I'm more of a character guy than a plot guy, but I agree. Most 19th century fiction is so character driven that the absurdly long page count doesn't ultimately doesn't justify itself.

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>21
>Dubliners
>Portrait
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Omensetter's Luck
>Ulysses

I'm a sucker for the memes, clearly


>>9826667
similar to my reading list last summer

>>9826689
its lit bruh

>>9826691
98% ßased

>>9826693
good lord, Capital? really, how much do you hate yourself

>>9826703
heavy list

>>9826743
it sounds like you genuinely enjoy reading desu

>>9826794
good shit

>>9827119
timeless classics, good taste

>>9827417
ez lit

>>9827538
sounds like highschool alright

>>9827639
you can do better

18

The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Lake by Kavabata Yasunari
Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians in 1848-49 by István Deák
Mulberry and Peach by Nie-Hualing
Bánat és rombolás az Ég Alatt by Krasznahorkai László

English titles used where applicable
Currently reading Mo Yan's "The republic of Wine"

>>9826604
21
>The Sailor Who Fell...
>Roadside Picnic
>Molloy
>The Woman in The Dunes
>Vineland

>>9826691
All books I enjoyed bar Hesse as I haven't read that one.

>>9826791
Just about to start that Death In Venice collection. Which ones did you enjoy?

>>9827538
What did you think of The Beloved? I read Funny Story years ago and thought it was pretty bad.

>>9827417
All good books bar fear and loathing imo. Which one did you enjoy the most.

>>9827497
Let me be yet another one:
Don Quixote
Communion (Whitley Strieber)
Moby-Dick
The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
Dune

>>9827802
>The Woman in The Dunes
How was it? Does it hold up well to the movie?

>>9827817
Haven't actually seen the movie. I think for the most part I enjoyed it but was promised a very existential Kafkaesque trip but instead received something more like Kafka-lite. Interesting novel but not something I'd read again.

>>9827366
What have you read lately, anon?

>>9826604
>rating other peoples subjective tastes in subjective works of art
>90% of negative ratings are because the rater never read the works he's rating poorly

/faggot/ general?

>29
>Ladders to the Sun
>You & I
>People With Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes
>Latro in the Mist
>Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

>>9826604
23
>Implying I have read 5 books

>21
>À quoi rêvent les algorithmes: Nos vies à l'heure des big data
>Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest (Evola)
>The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy
>Histoire de la Musique européenne
by Jacques Stehman
>Aristophanes's Comedies

>19

>The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
>Euthyphro, Plato
>Germinal, Émile Zola
>The Trial, Franz Kafka
>The House of The Dead, Dostoyevsky

>18

>All of Sophocles tragedies
>The Brothers Karamazov
>18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
>Homage to Catalonia
>The Gambler

>>9827802
>What did you think of The Beloved?
I really enjoyed it, the prose wasn't the most difficult and there were scenes I could totally picture in my mind.
>I read Funny Story years ago and thought it was pretty bad.
I enjoyed it also, although I felt Craig was still pushy about depression in the end (hard to escape.)
The movie, stay away, TERRIBLE. 6.5/10.

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>25
>Penguin Classics: Early Greek Philosophy
>Works & Days
>Theogony
>Odyssey
>Illad

Working through pic related.

I've read so little I can't give an educated opinion on what others have read, so my uneducated opinion is >>9828405 seems to have sense enough to read books that both left-leaning and right-leaning people would be drawn to but sounds like a depressing person.

>23

>Spiral, by Koji Suzuki
>The Fellowship of the Ring, By J.R.R. Tolkien
>The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
>Dracula, by Bram Stoker
>Faust Part 1, by Goethe

>>9827497
I read c&p at 17; and when i was done with dostoievsky and read Don Quijote i was 19. Go fuck yourself

>>9828358
I found the orchard keeper cheap the other day and bought it on a whim. I know its McCarthy's first novel but is it still good?

>>9828643

The prose is good.

18
The running man by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (my all time favorite)
The dogs of war by Frederick Forsyth
Ice station Zebra by Alistar Maclean

>>9826604
>18
Crime and Punishment
The Arms of Krupp
Mere Christianity
On the Shortness of Life
The Sound and the Fury

>>9828547
>Faust Part 1, by Goethe
Did you like it? I hope you read it in original german.

>>9826604

>22

>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Bhagvad Gita
>Ralph Waldo Emerson essays
>Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine
> A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

>29

>A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
>Ubik - Philip K. Dick
>Queen of Sorcery - David Eddings
>Infinity: A Very Short Introduction - Ian Stewart
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

>>9826604
>23

>The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
>The Illiad, Homer
>Dune, Frank Herbert
>Deadhouse Gates, Steven Erikson
>Beren and Luthien, JRR Tolkien

>>9826604
no

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>>9828924
I fucking love that book!

>>9826604
>20

> The Celtic Twilight - Yeats
> Le Père Goriot - Balzac
> The Conduct of The Allies - Jonathan Swift
> The Present Attempt To Dissolve The American Union - Samuel Morse (The Morse code guy)
> Battle For The Mind - William Sargent

>>9828700
Faust Part 1 is excellent. Knowing the historical context helps a lot, as does reading up on Goethe's obsession with the occult.
I suggest reading this for historical context, great read and reliable info: • https://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2004/pres_day/hzl_keynote2.html

19

>currently reading Molloy
>Book Of The New Sun
>V.
>Catch-22
>The Great Gatsby

>>9826604
24

No Exit
Medea (Oliver Taplin)
Hippolytus (Robert Bagg)
Antigone (Anne Carson)
Antigone (Robert Bagg)

27
Nothing Like the Sun
Wise Blood
Gargantua & Pantagruel
Finding a Girl in America
Skippy Dies

23.

>Primo Levi - If this is a man
>Osamu Dazai - No longer human
>John Fante - Ask the dust
>W.B Yeats - The hour glass
>Diary of Anne Frank

25

Less Than Zero
The Silence of the Lambs
American Psycho
Red Dragon
Stoner

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>>9829161
wew, lad

>>9828700
as if the posters reading only the first part read it in german. www.kaufmann.com

>21

>The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece by Thomas Cole
>The Idiot
>Houses of Belgrade by Borislav Pekic
>On the road
>the art of memory by Francis Yates

23

>The Confidence-Man
>The Sun Also Rises
>Paradise Lost
>Within a Budding Grove
>The Divine Comedy

>>9829178
The Confidence Man is the greatest book ever written.
Whose Comedy?

23
The Third Reich at War
The Third Reich in Power
The Coming of the Third Reich
Winesburg, Ohio
Silence

>>9829150
What did you think of Wise Blood? I just started it.

>dubliners
>no longer human
>notes from underground
>picture of dorian gray
>essential tales poems edgar allan poe
Im in the stage of reading all of the classics and im scared for it to be over. I suppose i shouldnt worry about that, but this honeymoon phase is just too good. portrait of the artist, steppenwolf or crime and punishment is next

>>9829208
Read it a few times. Not her best, but packs a wallop and sticks with you. I've heard it owes heavily to the Waste Land.

>>9829182
The formal structure of it alone is incredible; Melville's oeuvre is beyond words. I chose Ciardi for my first read-through and enoyed it immensely. I'm figuring on reading Hollander when I end up revisiting it.

>>9829227
Sorry, that's not very helpful. Like all O'Connor, it's baffling, but she offers a few more details than she does in other works. The effect is more accessible, but diminishes the sense of awe her other stories gives.

>>9829231
Mandelbaum isn't bad either. I found it interesting to compare Mandelbaum's footnotes to Ciardi's. Usually they note identical things, but there are a few places where the disagree or where Mandelbaum gives more detail. Ciardi's is probably more readable though

>>9829245
That's good to know. With a work like the Comedy it'd be beneficial to cross reference such things. Ciardi definitely was good for a first read just to get acquainted with the scope of it all.

Reading through most (though not all [!]) of these lists, I understand the feminist position re:literati.

20

Siddhartha
Into The Wild
Myths to Live By
The Deep
Lord of the Flies

>>9827424
Idgaf how "un-/lit/" an opinion this is but I love terry prachett

>25

Pride and Prejudice
The Painted Bird
Man and His Symbols
The Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks
Winter of Our Discontent

>>9827802
>Just about to start that Death In Venice collection. Which ones did you enjoy?

I really enjoyed Tristan and Tonio Kroger and, of course, Death in Venice. The rest really aren't that substantial IMO. Since they are listed (I think) in order of how they were written, it's really interesting to be able to see Mann mature as a writer as the collection goes on.

By right thread (not sure what is), but anybody read Last Temptation of Christ? Zorba grew on me enough that I read it a few times. Want to know if I should drop $7 for this used Temptation.

>>9829386
I didn't like Man and His Symbols, so pretentious...

26
Storm of War By Andrew Roberts
The Coldest Winter By David Halberstam
Joe Steel by Harry Turtledove
A Confederacy of Dunces By JK O'Toole
Rising Sun Victorious By Various Authors

>>9826742
How is he a meme
>inb4my mother is a fish
Find another reason

>age
22
>last 5 books
The fat man in history - Peter Carey
The Soft Machine - William S Burroughs
The View From Castle Rock - Alice Munro
Wild Surmise - Dorothy Porter
A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard

>>9829341

this is the gayest thing i've read today.

>>9829641
gehy

Lol at these 18 year olds reading books that they won't even begin to actually comprehend for like at least 10 years.

>23
>infinite jest
>animal farm
>1984
>notes from underground
>heart of a dog

18
>The Symposium, Plato (English)
>Maurice, EM Forster
>Ars Amatoria, Ovid (Latin)
>Paradise Lost, Milton
>Euthyphro + Apology + Crito, Plato (English)

Next on the list is The Picture of Dorian Gray, then a fuckload of Marxism

>23

>The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
>Based on a True Story - Norm MacDonald
>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
>The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump

>>9826992
Please make sure to watch it live/on video too, reading a play can only convey so much

19
Latest to Oldest
48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
Shadow of The Torturer - Gene Wolfe
Brand New World - Aldous Huxley
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche

I'm a beginner lee me alon

>>9828405
How did you like Homage to Catalonia? I just finished that last week, really enjoyed it.

30

>Sea Dragon Heir
>The Rum Diaries
>And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks
>Shardik
>Firestarter

>18
>Blood Meridian
>Catch-22
>A day in the life of Ivan Desinovich
>All the pretty horses
>The road

>age
20

>last 5
Pale Fire, Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading, Nabokov
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Roman de la Rose, Lorris & de Meun
Purity and Danger, Douglass (not really /lit/ but)

>22
>Mason and Dixon-Pynchon
>Pale Fire-Nabokov
>The Wapshot Chronicle-Cheever
>Ulysses
>The Odyssey

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
We
Counter Clock World
The Name of the Rose
Farewell, My Lovely

>>9829994
28

>>9826739
Nice
>>9827417
Nice
>>9828510
Nice
>>9828841
Which PKD did you like better?
>>9829215
Always the rereading stage

>>9830012
>Which PKD did you like better?
Ubik, if I have to pick.

>age
21
>books
musashi -Yoshikawa
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Murder on the Orient Express - Christie
Othello - Shakespeare
Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami

22

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please
The Dying Earth
Beyond Good and Evil
Frog and Toad books
Today I Wrote Nothing

24
>The Bible
>Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride
>Heirs To Forgotten Kingdoms - Gerard Russell
>Sinbad the Sailor (Penguin)
>Misc. Lovecraft stories

>>9829862
High school / 1st year undergrad reading, but good on you for taking initiative! You're probably more literate now that 3/4 of the population.

19

>The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
>Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
>Dubliners - James Joyce
>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>Sanshiro - Natsume Soseki

all great reads, gonna read Dream Story next

>25

>Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos (counting this as 1 even though it is 4 books)
>Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
>Collection of Isaac Asimov short stories
>Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
>Dom Mazzetti - The Swoly Bible

>>9830318
Gotta start somewhere

19

>"The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy"
>"Stranger"
>"Little prince"
>"Mein kampf"
>"Evegie Ognegin"

Can someone reccomend any books to read, i want to get into reading more but i rarely like a book.

I only liked 3 books in my lifetime
>Hitchikers guide
>Stranger
>I dont even remember the name of the third one

>19
>Can't remember reading any books

>>9830321
How did you like Sanshiro? I've seen the film version but don't know how close it is to the book.

>>9830334
Why are you on /lit/?
Do you write?

>34

>dino buzzati - the tartar steppe
>karl ove knausgaard - my struggle 2
>emily bronte - wuthering heights
>jun'ichiro tanizaki - in praise of shadows
>horace walpole - the castle of otranto

>>9830340
Ya I write 4chan posts

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>The Red Badge of Courage and 4 Other Stories- Stephen Crane
>Underworld- Don DeLillo
>Stoner- John Williams
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea- Yukio Mishima
>The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Doestoevsky

>>9830348
Cool cool

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>18
Kafka's short stories
White Noise
I Sing the Body Electric
Clockwork Orange
I, Claudius

>>9830392
>I sing the body electric
Whitman's Blades of Grass is probably one of my favourite anthologies
also you have nice eyebrows

21 years old
>astrosaus: a twist in time
>Geronimo Stilton: the great cheese race
>where's Wally: jungle utopia
>The Quran
>scary stories to tell in the dark

>>9826604
>19
>Rainbow Six
>Shadow over Innsmouth
>Call of Cthulhu
>Annihilation
>Ready Player One

Bite me anons

>>9830348
>This guy has won /lit/

>>9830407
Thirst.

23
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Finding a Form (William H. Gass)
>Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
>Dit zijn de namen
>Sessanta racconti (Dino Buzzati)

>>9826604
26
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest
>Infinite Jest

19
Snow Country - kawabata
Church history - Eusebius
Hylas & philo - Berkeley
Shadow of the torturer - gene wolf
Against nature - huysmans

Against nature is one of the best books in general

>>9830481

What did you think of gravity's rainbow... I tried to read it back in the day but quickly lost track of everything.

27
> Hue 1968
> More Attention Less Defecit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD
> Norm Macdonald: Based on a True Story
> Apocalypse Culture
> Murder at 40 Below

23

>A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitj - Alexander Solsjenitsyn
>The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
>The Expedition - Bea Uusma
>The Serious Game - Hjalmar Söderberg
>Owned by nobody (??) - Åsa Linderborg

>>9830333
you must not have like it very much. try Kafka or catch-22

24
>infinite jest
>crime and punishment
>the millionaire next door
>the little book to common sense investing
>inherent vice

halfway through brothers karamazov now
pls r8

>>9830563

very interesting and smart / 10

>>9826604
>20

Atomised, Atlas shrugged, Confronting the classics, On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti and Storm of Steel

>>9826604
>24
V.
GR.
the sound and the fury
american gods (i know, dont shit on me too hard)
the ego and its own

>>9829371
good omens was fucking awesome no matter what anyone here says about terry/neil

26
(1320) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
(429 BC) Oedipus the King by Sophocles
(1946) The Stranger by Albert Camus
(431 BC) Medea by Euripides
(2010) That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (had to read for uni)

>>9830623
Wew lad...

>24

>>Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation
>Leonardo Padura - The Man Who Loved Dogs (this was a /lit/ rec, thanks guys!)
>Duong Thu Huong - The Zenith
>David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism
>Peter Linebaugh - The Many-Headed Hydra, The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

>>9830639
>(1946)
carful now. don't want to intentionally read anything past 1950.

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>>9826604
27

Metamorphoses, Ovid (Martin)
Snow Crash, Stephenson
Kokoro, Soseki
Barbarian days, Finnegan
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell


Next I will read The Confederacy of Dunces I think.

>>9826604
>The Death of Ivan Ilych (Tolstoy)
>Doctor Fischer Of Geneva (Graham Greene)
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
>Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut)
>Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

>24
Mason & Dixon
Don Quixote
The Open Society and its Enemies
The Columbia History of Western Philosophy
The Collected Works of Rilke

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>>9826604

90

>A History of Atlantis
>The Great Book of Atlantean Verse
>The Collected Tragedies of XDragoon
>A Long Night's Walk in Atlantis
>Start with the Atlanteans & Other Short Stories

>>9830639
Rate The Divine Comedy

>21

>Being and Nothingness by Sartre
>V. by Pynchon
>Reflections on the Revolutions in France by Burke
>The Second Sex by Beauvoir
>Gualg by Applebaum

Judge me bitches

>>9826604
18
The American scholar - Emerson
Metamorphosis - Kafka
The myth of Sisyphus - Camus
Griftopia - Matt Taibbi
Everything that rises must converge - O'Connor

19
The Robbers and Wallenstein - Schiller
Confessions of a justified sinner - Hogg
The Captain's Daughter - Pushkin
Complete Plays - Beckett
Plays - Pushkin

>>9831291
(this is me)

>>9831159
Entry level but with pomo ambitions
>>9831108
A bit too focused on pomo/polsci
>>9830719
Still getting in but working hard
>>9830655
Entry level
>>9830652
Wasting his time
>>9830639
START WITH THE GREEKS
>>9830626
full of /lit/ memes but not overly committed ideologically
>>9830623
probably the only five books you've read

damn i'm just gonna stop now because it's apparent everyone here just reads /lit/ memes without any real consideration

>>9826667
good taste

>>9826691
good taste

>>9826703
nice, how did you find Phenomenology of Spirit?

>>9826739
I like all these

>>9826743
Same.

>>9828918
Seem like a D&D homie
22

Reading: The Crossing
Last 4 Read:
Death in the Andes
A Man Walks Into a Room
Giovanni's Room
The Iliad

Give me some opinion's lit:
for up next should I read Gilgamesh, Dubliners, or 100 Years of Solitude.

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>>9826604
20
>Neuromancer
>A Clockwork Orange
>The Road
>Fear and Loathing
>1984

Can anyone give me some recs? Only just started to enjoy reading and this is most of what I've read so far.

>27

>The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
>Home Land by Sam Lipstye
>A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
>The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
>To Have and to Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

The Hemingways are all re-reads.
>>9831291
Too young to understand the shit you read, will either end up very wise or a complete twat when experience fills you out. Revisit Beckett in five years.
>>9831108
Insufferable to talk to.
>>9830719
Going to be smart in five years.
>>9830676
Actual reader.
>>9830626
Spends too much time on lit.
>>9830623
Edgelord.
>>9830521
>book about ADHD
>can't read gravity's rainbow
>>9830453
Good kind of pleb.
>>9830350
Person who has something wrong in their life but is blaming it on external circumstances.
>>9830343
Real Patrician. (Seriously somebody on /lit/ is reading Wapole? If you liked it, read Arnold Bennett. I strongly recommend Riceyman Steps and The Old Wives tale. Bennett was Wapole's mentor.)
>>9830326
Pleb with potential.

>>9827801
No rates?

>>9831330

Read the rest of Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, or maybe Pattern Recognition and the other Blue Ant stuff if you want something more lightweight.

If you like Fear and Lothing, read some of Norman Mailer's nonfiction. The seige of chicago, army of the night, the fight, of a fire on the moon. You'll also probably like Terry Southern's novels and Nathaniel West's novels.

If you liked Clockwork Orange,there's also extremely dense verbal texture like that in the work of both Faulkner and Joyce.

If you like The Road, you should read Nelson Algren.

>>9831337
are you hungarian/did you read that krasznahorkai in hungarian/how was it?
i love the english translations of his stuff and that's only one translated into english i haven't read yet

26

The republic
The brothers Karamazov
The road to Wigan pier
A Hero of our time
Animal Farm

>>9831343
Thanks mate, was planning on reading some more of the Sprawls trilogy after I've given some different stuff a go.
I liked clockwork and fear and loathing a lot so will check out some of those. Did try and read Dubliners before but couldn't get into it at all, I'll probably try again in the future.

>>9831332
(me being >>9831291)
i seemed to understand all the stuff i read pretty well, when compared to criticism of those authors i've read and introductions and so on. Beckett is the only one I struggled with but after a while I think i understood his game

>>9831367

Burgess, the author, was a big fan of Joyce. Wrote a book about him. You might try Dubliner's on audiobook. Joyce is a good listen. He's sensitive to sounds.

You could try some more Burgess too I guess. I read Earthly Powers after reading Clockwork and found it dull.

I highly suggest Mailer. He's very under-read now because Feminism and his later work, which was very uneven.

>>9831353
I checked, and there is an english translation for that, it's called "Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage"
It's about his 2002 travel he had in China.
Weird stuff, It was kinda hard to read at times, but as with his other works, the good points make the reader forget the bad parts.

I read all of the books in Hungarian.
Never had the chance to read his works in English. He has a really unique style with the somewhat long sentences and his sometimes archaic vocabulary.(And he also likes using foreign origined synonyms for words that have a hungarian counterpart, which is often more commonly used.)
That said, I like his writing, even if I say that I abhor it while reading a book by him, because after finishing the book, only the good "experiences" and parts of the work remain.

>>9831386
>And he also likes using foreign origined synonyms for words that have a hungarian counterpart, which is often more commonly used
that's an interesting insight

>>9831380
Anything particularly good to start on with Mailer? I've got a couple of weeks off from work so planning to get a lot of reading done.

>>9831396
Miami and the Siege of Chicago is a good introduction. There's also Armies of the Night, and The Fight.

>19 (soon 20)
>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hugo
>The Ego and Its Own, Stirner
>A Balcony in the Forest, Gracq
>Anarchism : Its Philosophy and Ideal, Kropotkin

>>9826604
>20

current: foot - atomic physics; shepherd - the synaptic organisation of the brain; maldoror; arntzenius - space, time, and stuff; plath - ariel; mallarme - collected poems; jammer - the philosophy of quantum mechanics and more...

>Samuel Beckett - Mercier and Camier (4/5)
>Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things (3.65/5)
>Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (3.5/5)
>D.M. Armstrong - What is a Law of Nature? (3.5/5)
>Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight (4.2/5)

>>9826693
A.J. Ayer - Language, Truth, and Logic

>>9826791
Julien Gracq - A Dark Stranger

>>9826796
Ernesto Sabato - El Tunel

>>9827390
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

>>9829090
How are you finding Molloy? I just ordered the """trilogy""". Can't wait. Check out 'Murphy' - it's fucking funny.

>>9829161
Oh man. Stoner killed me.

>>9831419
Les Miserables

>>9831332
I was gonna call you out but then I saw you read Algren. Good taste anon :^)

Anon... easy on the Hemingway

>>9826604
>27

>"The Basic Writings of" Carl Jung
>"A History of Religious Ideas vol. 1, From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries" Mircea Eliade
>"Black Book of the American Left vol. 2, Progressives" David Horowitz
>"Beyond Good and Evil" and "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche
>"How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" Thomas Woods

>>9831462
I like to read authors in chunks.

The Algren was the last thing I read and it was very good. I'll probably read a few more books by him next.

>>9831490
He actually had a fling with Simone De Beauvoir. Thought that was interesting. Try Chicago: City on the Make

22.

> Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade*
> David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress.
> Robert Stone, Children of Light.
> John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces.
> John Williams, Augustus.

*if we aren't counting non-fiction, then Ulysses.

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>>9826604
Let's try
25
Last witnesses Svetlana Alexievich
Homo Ludens Johan Huizinga
Pale fire Vladimir Nabokov
Never let me go Kadzuo Isiguro
Books in my life Henry Miller

20
>Invisible Cities by John Williams
>August by John Williams
>Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Mishima
>Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami
>A Month In The Country by JL Carr

>>9831545
How the fuck did Williams pull off Augustus? That last chapter is absolutely beautiful.
What did you make of Augustus' dream of the bull?

>>9831603
>Invisible Cities by John Williams
Italo Calvino, I mean

>>9829371

I'm really enjoying The Colour of Magic.

I've only ever read one of his books before. My friends were shocked I never read his books. I had just never got round to it. They were especially confused when I created a character in D&D that was pretty much exactly the same as Captain Carrot (I think that's his name). He was a 6'8" human warrior who thought he was a gnome because he was raised as one. I'm looking forward to Guards, Guards! for that reason alone.

>>9826791
mods

> 26

>Harry Potter 4
>Harry Potter 3
>Harry Potter 2
>Harry Potter 1
>Moby Dick

<():-)

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>>9826604
26

SPQR by Mary Beard
I,Claudius by Robert Graves
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
Forty Stories by D. Barthelme

>19

Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation - Jeff Chang

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City- Matthew Desmond

The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander

>>9832048
Birthday boy series.

>>9826604
21
>Borges, Collected Fictions
>Herodotus, The Histories
>Chernow, Washington: A Life
>Wharton, Age of Innocence
>Heller, Catch-22

>>9830471
i'm a straight girl, i just thought she was pretty. stop being so edgelord

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>18

>Egmont by Goethe
>Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe
>Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald
>The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
>Uzumaki by Junji Ito

>18
>The Egyptian - Mika Waltari
>Colorless - Haruki Murakami
>The Great Gatsby -Scott Fitzgerald
>The Brothers Karamazov - Fjodor Dostojevsky
>Now reading L'étranger by Albert Camus

>>9832132
post your feet or I'll cry in real life

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>>9832316
I won't be able to wear my favorite heels this weekend :((

>>9826604
>28

>Spirit of the laws by Montesquieu
>Corinne, or Italy by Germaine de Staël
>The jungle book by Kipling
>Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
>La vie de bohème by Murger

21

>Uncle's Dream (Dostojevski)
>Adults in the Room (Varoufakis)
>Antifragile (Taleb)
>Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee)
>The Queen of Spades (Pushkin)

>>9826604
31

Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (Robert E. Howard)
The coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Robert E. Howard)

Anyone know of any good post apocalyptic books that focus on before and after the apocalypse? Like how Lucifer's Hammer and Seveneves focuses mainly on characters from before the apocalypse, those same characters during the apocalypse and time skipping to how their descendants fare or how society has rebuilt itself after centuries/millennia?

>all these 18 year olds

laughing out loud

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>>9826604
Age: 18
>Mishima: A Biography
>The Long Walk by Stephen King
>La-Bas by J.K. Huysmans
>Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead
>Black Boy by Richard Wright

>>9826619
>>9826739
>>9826919
>>9827071
>>9827412
>>9827802
>>9829156
>>9829161
>>9829170
>>9829627
>>9832115
>>9832390
You guys are all right, keep it up

>>9827639
Kudos on reading P.K. Dick, hope you keep reading his work

>22

>Angela's Ashes
>Young Hearts Crying
>The Book of Disquiet
>Portrait of a Man Unknown
>You Can't Win

Reading Gravity's Memebow right now

>>9826604
>19
>Atlas Shrugged
>Sex & Character
>The ego and his own
>The world as will and representation
>Being and time

The Trial
The Corrections
What EveryBODY is Saying
啊Q正传
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Currently working through infinite jest.

26
>Blood Meridian
>Crime and Punishment
>The Death of Ivan Ilych
>Flowers for Algernon
>De Niros game

Just began Infinite Jest

20

>Dubliners by James Joyce
>The Shining by Stephen King
>All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
>Cain's Blood by some shmuck whose name I've already forgotten
>The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guinn

>>9832432
See you in September

21
>The Poisoned Crown by Maurice Druon
>American Gods by Neil Gaiman
>Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawerence
>Royal Babylon, The Alarming History of European History by Karl Shaw
>Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abenett

>>9833076
Abit of a downer

>>9833197
Don't try too hard

35
>M John Harrison - Light
>JG Ballard - Crash
>Mark FIsher - Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
>INLA; Deadly Divisions - Jack Holland and Henry McDonald
>The White Lama - Alexandro Jorodowsky and Georges Bess

25
The Sound and the Fury
The Plague
Short History of Nearly Everything
Naked Lunch
The Dice Man

Finnegans Wake
Occidental Mythology
Dreams in the Witch House
Language Made Plain
Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #3)

>>9834069
Oh yeah, and 25

30

I don't read books.

>>9834091
What about textbooks?

>>9833676
Listened to the song, but otherwise the reference is lost on me

>>9834097
No need. Between skimming and reading synopses, the last book I read cover to cover was probably fifteen years ago.

>19

>Alice In Wonderland
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Infinite Jest
>The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
>Franny and Zooey

23

Mort by Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
The Amityville Horror
Smoke and Mirrors by Gaiman

>>9834165
My list isn't very /lit/ but I read a fuckton of short stories/excerpts for coursework and I try to have fun with my freetime reading.

>>9827439
Fuck the /lit/ mentality of only reading capital L literature, honestly. I just like to read whatever interests me, and sometimes it does happen to be Lit. Pratchett and Gaiman are incredibly entertaining and pretty genius.

>>9834202
I respect your opinion until the very end. You can read whatever you want and fuck who else thinks so but I certainly wouldn't call Gaiman a genius.

19

>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
>Storm of Steel, by Ernst Junger
>Terre des hommes, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>The Landscape of History, by John Lewis Gaddis
>Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory Viggiano

>>9834253

Respect.

Well, I don't think he'd call himself a genius as someone who describes himself as someone who "makes things up and writes them down." I misspoke, really. I meant to say that their stories are original/interesting creative.

>>9830719
What did you think of Rilke? I've been looking for good physical copy translations of his works for ages and only recently found one. He seems to be elusive or few people know about him.

>23

I will count only things from my free time
From the most recent:
>Calvino "Six memos for the next millenium"
>Melville "Moby Dick"
>Nothomb "Métaphysique des tubes"
>McGrath "Asylum"
>Nabokov "Lolita"

Has anyone red Nothomb? I enjoyed overall this short novel but I feel like I kinda mem'd myself into it

>18
Grass Tin Drum
Kundera The festival of insignificance
Houellebecq Atomized
Iacocca An Autobiography
Coetzee Foe

22
The Master of Self
Total Money Makeover
Self Reliance
Iron John
Diogenes

19

Some of Hemingway's short stories
The Cantenbury Tales
A large percentage of Ezra Pound's poetry
Stendhal's On Love
Miroslav Krleža's The Return of Filip Latinovicz

>>9826604

>>9826619
Respectable

>>9834733
Very respectable


20

>Waking Up by Sam Harris
>How to make friends and influence people
>Thinking, fast and slow
>She comes first
>Never split the difference

Sorry for not looking up the autors

19

Gullivers travels - Johnathon swift
Robinson crusoe- Daniel dafoe
The rise and fall of great empires- paul kennedy
dubliners-James Joyce
Trainspotting-irvine welsh

>23
>Gulliver's Travel's by Jonathan Swift
>Jazz by Toni Morrison
>The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra by ur boi
>Persuasion by Jane AUsten

>>9826693
either liar or pleb who did not understand what he read

23

>The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
>Dark Deleuze
>The Use of Bodies
>Scenes of Subjection
>Germinal

20

>How to be happy (not a self help book, seriously)
>the trial
>two Lovecraft collections
>Half way through Infinite Jest

>>9826604
30

Child of God - C.McCarthy
Death in the Afternoon - E.Hemingway
The Rule of Law - T.Bingham
Dr Bloodmoney - P.K.Dick
A Clergyman's Daughter - G.Orwell

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>19
----------
>Walden
>The Gay Science
>The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
>Ulysses
>Miles Davis autobiography

>>9826703
Sorry anon, I can't help but to call you a brainlet.
Reading is about nourishing from the texts. At least in Philosophy. Not only repeating the words in your head and leaving behind undigested arguments.

>23
> Critique of Pure Reason (only the Aesthetics)
> Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (only the Preface and the fist chapter)
> Gilberto Owen's, Perseo Vencido
> Carlos Pellicer's Selected Poems
> Hölderlin's Empedocles

I'm doing a work to get my degree. That's why I read Kant.

>>9835195
you too

27

in no particular order:

Tropic of Cancer (Miller)
The Chronicles of the Black Company (Cook)
The Books of the South (Cook)
Human, All Too Human (Nietzche)
and currently 1/3 of the way through Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)

>19
>Don Quixote
>Crime and Punishment
>Horus Rising
>Ulysses
>Norse Mythology

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Dubliners - James Joyce
The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
A Wilderness of Mirrors - Max Frisch
The Secret History of Twin Peaks - Mark Frost
Dune - Frankie boy

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>>9826972
no Romanovs are pure shit

18
>Steppenwolf
>100 Years of Solitude
>Pride and Prejudice
>Frankenstein
>The Importance of Being Earnest

27

House of Chains
Consider Phlebas
The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness
Cities of the Plain

don't h8

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>23
>Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
>Siddhartha
>Steppenwolf
>Storm of Steel
>Things Fall Apart

What ARE the last three books I read...

26

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Apology of Soh Crates
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lo Lee Ta
Brief Interviews with Hideous Fuckers

Halfway through M&D right now

>>9826604
18
>The Odyssey
>Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
>Civilization and Its Discontents
>Spinoza's Ethics
>Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

>>9836984
You've started reading recently and are reading the classics to try to get a concept of what you enjoy and what you don't like. Very possibly deciding what to read next based on a "best books of all time" list. Just don't be afraid to try more contemporary works as well

>>9826619
p gud
>>9826667
the trial was amazing and same with brothers here
>>9826681
p gud
>>9826689
tolstoy is always nice
>>9826691
The progress? never heard of that one is it gug?
>>9826693
bad
>>9826703
idk desu
>>9826739
p gud
>>9826743
p gud
>>9826782
p gud
>>9826794
notes was nice
>>9826796
nice
>>9826807
not bad
>>9826839
very good
>>9826880
idk desu
>>9826900
idk desu

theres too many i give up r8ing

>>9837078
your ratings are STUPID

22

WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Demons by my homie Brostoevsky

The Idiot by my homie as well

Schlump by something something Grimm

The Prank (the best of young Chekhov) by Chekhov

>>9826604

>23

>Being and Time - Heidegger
>A Universal History of Infamy - Borges
>Other Inquisitions 1937-1952 - Borges
>Dreamtigers - Borges
>The World of Yesterday - Zweig

>>9837052
I was mostly listing stuff I read for AP Lit that I enjoyed, I read some contemporary stuff as well.

>>9830407
is it really your favorite if you dont even know the name?

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"Structure, sign and play in the history of the human sciences" -Derrida

Random excerpts from Saussure's "Course in General Lingustics (specifically on the linguistic sign)

and I just started "A Treatise on Human Nature" by David Hume

Some good books in this thread. I'm proud of you all.

>26

>If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Calvino

>Fictions, Borges

>A Rebours, JK Huysmans

>Libra, DeLillo

>La invencion de Morel, Bioy Casares

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A Game of Thrones
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Lord of the Flies
Dracula
Frankenstein

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>>9826604
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Selected Poems - Rilke
Amulet - Bolano
Backbone Flute - Mayakovsky
Cathay - Pound
A Season in Hell - Rimbaud

Currently reading Against Nature by Huysmans.

>>9827756
I started Omensetter's Luck but didn't finish before it was due back to the library, is there an interesting payoff?

>>9837184
Good taste, magical realism is great.

>>9834553
I have, several of them actually, Hygiène de l'assassin, stupeur et tremblements...
But this was like 10 years ago, the only one I've read recently was Attentat and I enjoyed it quite a lot.

Nothomb has great ideas for premises and an easily digestible prose but it never really disappoints although her books are never really deep or anything, it's just a bit of fun.
Great books to read on a few hours long trip

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Parmenides
Philebus
The Protestants Dilemma
The Philosophy of Tolkien
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History

>>9837276
I read the Book Thief when I was around your age, it was one of the first books that opened my eyes to the emotional impact that literature can have. God speed anon, you're on the right track.

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>The stranger, A. Camus
>No longer human, O Kazai
>The brave new world, A. Huxley
>Phaedo ,Plato
>Quincas Borbas, M. Assis

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>Fahrenheit 451
>The Dark Tower #7
>The Road
>Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
>Neuromancer

>>9837308
>The Dark Tower #7
Oof. That's a rough one.

>23
>Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
>Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis, Graves and Patai
>the first hundred pages of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, need to get back to that one
>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard
I've just picked up A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, so I'm starting that next.

>>9837262
>Catholicism
beautiful, excellent

>>9837324

It was kind of a slog, but I had to see it through after getting through 6 books (the last of which was awful). I was satisfied with the ending, though.

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>War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
>Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
>Very Good Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse
>Sword of Honor by Evelyn Waugh
>Lincoln by Gore Vidal

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Age: 29

Last read:

Crime and Punishment (re-read)
A couple short stories from The Best of HP Lovecraft (re-read)
Blood Meridan (re-read)
Heart of Darkness
The Bible (KJV w/ Apocrypha)

To read:

War and Peace
Martin Eden
Lord Jim
At the Mountains of Madness
The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)

Currently reading The Brothers Karamazov

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>Anton Chekhov - The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov
>Ivan Turgenev - First Love and Other Stories
>Franz Kafka - The Trial
>Anton Chekhov - Peasants and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev - Spring Torrents

>t. russiaboo

>>9837442
>russiaboo

Same here anon, starting my Russian literature studies in the fall. Got any recommendations of less well-known authors?