Hey pleb, what books are you reading? I bet it's something only a pleb would read.
>>7377431
Hamlet
>>7377431
Who /school of resentment/ here?
blood meridian
>>7377431
Harry potter
>>7377438
>harry potter
>reading
>>7377431
Your post
Drown by Junt D Ass, and My Struggle by Coral Noseguard
>>7377431
Ficciones
Hunger
>>7377455
>High school-grade
You are confirmed a newfag. Bloom loves Hamlet so much.
>>7377455
>reading
>hobby
TOP KEK
>>7377469
In spanish.
>>7377431
Thus Spake Zarathustra and Junky by Burroughs
>>7377471
Everyone of patrician taste loves Hamlet, but if you haven't memorized it after you're second read you're certifiably a pleb.
>>7377472
The man I was responding to doesn't read constantly, and so he thinks of it as only a hobby: as only a pleb will.
>>7377474
Patrician. Is this your first Borges?
>>7377476
>not having already moved on from Nietzsche
heh
>>7377481
im reading it again, after finishing El Aleph.
>pleb/patrician dichotomy
back to /mu/
>>7377481
>Thinking philosophy is a sphere in which you can 'move on' from author to author
Such a pleb.
The Art of Reading Poetry - Harold Bloom
>>7377495
>trying this hard to justify reading fanfiction
>>7377487
What's your favorite story of Borges'? Mine is "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." The way it represents the impact language has on thought has always been a concept that interests me.
>>7377496
There is natural progression from Nietzsche. You're still stuck in your pre-transcendental phase, kid.
>>7377502
I doubt it.
>>7377431
Correct. I am reading 1984.
>>7377506
fanfiction is great, what are you talking about?
>>7377506
>I doubt it.
I'm on part 7 where you talk about Hart Crane's Voyages II as an authentic work of poetry.
>>7377431
Instruction manual for the 2008 Starscream Transformers toy, alternating between the Spanish and English sides every two steps. When I finish, I do the steps in reverse switching the order. I have been assembling and unassembling this toy for the past week, while studying the literature of the instruction manual. Your turn, Mr. Book-Guy.
>>7377524
>reading King Lear when Ran exists
>>7377521
Fair enough. Hopefully you're balancing that critical work of genius with some patrician literature, though.
>>7377522
>playing with toys
As is to be expected.
>>7377524
>King Lear
Have you not already finished all of Shakespeare's canon? This is something you should have done early in your undergrad years. You will never be a patrician at this rate.
>>7377535
>playing with toys
if you cannot understand the literary merit of the Starscream instruction manual then perhaps
>>>/r/books
is more up your alley, eh?
Is this the best /lit/ has to offer? Frankly, I'm not surprised.
>>7377535
like, whtvr, man
>>7377481
>after you're
>>7377545
It's sat night + what do you expect of highschoolers or early twenties who started reading seriously a year ago.
Just go to your relevant campus cafe or whatever and talk to other postgrads if you want that level of discussion.
I want to start reading Shakespeare. Which plays should I read and in what order?
>>7377555
>not getting post ironic memery
IT'S 2015
>>7377560
All of them, chronological order.
>>7377506
>There is natural progression from Nietzsche.
>2015
>Using ideology-filled words like "natural"
pleb.
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
>>7377570
The pleb is known to lash out once he is coming to the realization that he is a pleb, allowing him to continue perpetuating his plebeian existence.
Seems like good ol' OP ended up being the pleb afterall. Funny how these things work out ain't it? One moment you think you have a guy pegged as a patty (the patrician way of saying patrician), then blamo - he ended up being a pleb all along. What a fucking pity.
>>7377576
No-one in this threads respects your opinion m8
>>7377555
Simple mistake.
Have you ever read Philosophical Investigations? You would know that the language-games we're participating in don't warrant proofreading.
>>7377580
Were you the one reading the toy manual? There's no need to hold grudges: some people grow up faster than others.
>>7377589
I have met very few patricians here, and you are sadly not one of them.
>>7377593
you're basically king of the plebs
>>7377593
>2015
>referencing Late Wittgenstein instead of Early Wittgenstein
>>7377612
The theory of a thought being a logical picture of facts, as proposed in the Tractatus, is wrong, and Wittgenstein realized that in PI.
>>7377613
I'm actually the lord, the preacher, and the congregant representing a religion of my own design. The central themes involves a devotion to a plastic decorative log that resides in an empty reptile enclosure I found sitting at a neighbor's curb, possibly to be taken with the trash, as well as daily prayer through shitpost. As you probably know, once you have found the light of religion, ideas such as agnosticism appear as nothing but silly child's play.
>>7377431
Invitation to a Beheading.
>>7377670
laughter in the dark is better
>>7377838
I'm debating starting Paradise Lost but I can't decide if I should read Sartor Resartus first for fun
>>7377431
AFFC. Fight me /lit/
>>7377871
pleb
At The Mountains Of Madness
>>7377841
Paradise Lost is bootiful
>>7378069
It's really grabbing my interest as of late. I think I'll start it up tonight
Ego and its own
On Genaology of Morals
The Picture of Dorian Gray
They're all p good so far though I wish Stirner wasnt so repetitious and im no macho man but Wilde is a bit 2 homosex but overall I am really enjoying the book
>>7377532
>Watching Ran when good Kurosawa films exist.
Stay pleb.
The Makioka sisters
>>7378087
ugh such an entry-level reading list. someone get this pleb out of my sight.
>>7377431
The Hunger Games
A Good Man is Hard to Find And Other Stories
Swann's Way in English.
Didion: Play it as it Lays. Fucking ICE COLD style
Totality and Infinity.
White Noise by Don Delillo
Soumission
Der Steppenwolf
>>7377431
A century of loneliness
>>7377431
Finnegans wake on 10,000 units of LSD.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Reading 'Hoist no Dupa' atm
>>7377431
joyce's portrait of an artist
>>7378174
>Watching Ran when good Kurosawa films exist.
Name 'em
To The Lighthouse but I have no clue what's going on so I guess that does make me a pleb.
>>7378971
Not him but Kagemusha had some sick fucking visuals and I liked Hidden Fortress a lot. Throne of Blood is bretty good too.
the voynich manuscript
>>7377431
Unfortunately the introduction already spoiled the ending.Socrates dies.
The Bible
How to Read a Book by Adler
>>7377431
>I bet it's something only a pleb would read
Yes, that's why it's actually entertaining and enjoyable.
>>7377431
I'm trying to look for the best English translations of Dostoyevsky. Needless to say I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. Any recommendations?
>>7379868
McDuff
>>7379850
>pleb doesn't find enjoyment from challenging his intellect with patrician works
Typical.
>>7379850
You aren't supposed to enjoy literature, idiot.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
the original one by an unknown author
>>7377431
The Words by Sartre
>>7377431
House Of Leaves, Wind up Bird Chronicle and Ulysses
molloy by beckett
amulet by bolano
The Master and Margarita
>>7377431
Currently alternating depending on mood between Franz Kafka's the Castle, Bina Gupta's Introduction to Indian Philosophy and Derrida's Positions
>>7377431
10:04 - Ben Lerner
Television - Jacque Lacan
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis - also Lacan
Poking around through Maugham's collected stories vol. 4.
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
it's been a weird semester
Underworld by Delillo
I get what he's going for and enjoy it, but some of the parts really drag. Hopefully it fits together well at the end since that seems to be where it's headed.
The Bell Jar
>>7382770
Absolutely disgusting.
wittys tractatus
sloterdijks critique of cynical reason
>>7383306
>Reading the Tractatus
>Speaking about it
topkek
>>7383310
ugh im so sorry
>>7383306
I hope you're balancing my boy Witty with some patrician lit.
>>7383330
i just finished the mask of sanity by cleckely and myrdun by ernst jünger.
be tender
Just finished Factotum by Bukoskwi. Good read.
I am reading Boole.
>>7382768
I am really enjoying it thoroughly so far. Its a fairly funny book and I find it to be quite a good critique of the Soviet Union. I just like surrealist literature in general.
Reading lolita
I am reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky and a book about AIG and the financial crisis called Fatal Risk. Thanks for asking OP.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
The Manipulated Male
Gravity's Rainbow
Tsukihime
>>7377469
Spanish is a horrendous language. It's very grating to the ears.
>>7377431
>Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (I just need to hate myself less honestly)
>Kappa
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
I'm teaching the Irish Revival writers, so reading through Joyce and Yeats again atm too.
>>7377535
Nice troll, Shakespeare's work can be condensed and better enjoyed through a Wikipedia article.
>>7384526
The pic reads like something I'd write on crystal meth and feel bad about after coming down
>>7379687
!!!! fuck
thanks, asshole
>>7384545
>Shakespeare being better enjoyed by being condensed and not read/watched in its original form to appreciate his use of language
Hey now, who's the real troll here? 7/10
>>7384565
how is this book anon?
>>7381355
the castle (mark harman trans.) is comfy as fuck, perfect for cold winter weather. oh god the prose
>>7384117
>lolita
not him, but my qt azn wife has been masturbating me off to it for the past few days while i read t.h. white's "once and future king". suck it, pseud.
You guys just don't fucking get it. Jesus. I mean, how can so many people posing to be so many things get so much so wrong so often and so completely implausibly? I just can't even begin to grasp the grease soaked truth that is all of your undeniable pads of intellectual shoulder meat that you braise in the overly reductive bourdelaise sauce stirred by nature's nefarious specter of gloom and his sommelier buddy George who's just here for the weekend.
I mean, FUCK. You guys just think that you're all the tartest in the smarties bag don't cha? Just the shiniest scalp at the old people's home? Just the wettest pair of panties at church, huh? The deadest joke ITT, yeah?
Well You've got at least one other thing coming your way from my way that you didn't see coming your way cuz they call me Nighthawk.
Remember that name.
Nighthawk will strike with his [my] tumescent talons, my scalpael sharp talons of justice and pugnity, forged from Haepheastean steel and made with the finest oils made from God's most delicous of fish in the clearest sea on the shore with the most beautiful Brazilian women who you can't even really tell have had kids because for some reason that skin just snaps back like a fresh leathercowhide rubber band made of the freshes mozambiquean rubber (that's where they get the gest rubber).
NIGHTHAWK: prowler of truth and sanctification delivery system.
Right now?
Les Chants de Maldoror.
Fucking suck my ding-dong-dick.
Oh, I also forgot to mention that I'm skimming through a modest little volume called THE WESTERN FUCKING CANON, ever heard of it? No, because you're a pleb, and plebs don't even know what Wedelstaedt means.
>>7385044
How do you sit with such unwieldy testicles 4chanfriend? You must have a very impressively sized penis that women (or men, I don't like to presume one's sexual orientation as to not offend or promote outdated standards regarding personal choices that should have no bearing to any form of ideology, no matter how heterogenized) really enjoy putting in their mouths and other holes that denote deep senses of pleasure as a result of the copulation process that has enabled our persistently prosperous race its long stint here on lovely Earth. Yeah, you must have a real big dick. A nice meaty cock that oozes juice–fucking grape juice from such big grapes. Oh yeah, let that grape juice ferment for all those ladies that love your hippo-leg sized manhood. I totally want to fucking let you use my bed for whatever your salami smelling meatjuice dispensing roll of cockdog desires for the ladies. Yeah, you have a real sexy sex organ I bet. A real fuckable fuckstick. Yeah, I'm getting stiff just jokin' about it. Yeah, fucking turgid.
You want me to send pics of my thick, red, throbbing thumb. It fucking hurts and I think I need to see a doctor or maybe just your juicy prostate examiner known as a phallus. Yeah so hot. Fuck. Let me watch you get fucked by some chick holding a camera filming me jerking it to you and the other dude in the corner with the other chick who, fuck yeah, so hot.
>>7384569
It's great, if you're interested in reading history it's a good start
>>7385044
I love Les Chants. What's your favorite line so far?
>>7385192
Probably this one, so mellifluous to my mind's eardrums beating to my rapidly increasing pulse:
>He will hide his sadness in the woods; but, the rustling of leaves, through clearings, singing in his ears the ballad of remorse; and he will flee from these parts, stung by the hip bush, holly and blue thistle, its not fast entwined by the flexibility of vines and bites of scorpions.
>>7384117
I´m currently not much into fiction but the next book I wanted to read is from Rainer Maria Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,
because I got it as a present and wanted to talk with the person I got it from about it.
Why does Harold Bloom always make that stupid fucking face? He looks like he's shitting. He looks like fucking Droopy Dog. I hate that dumb faggot.
Grimm Fairy Tales and Battle Cry of Freedom.
>>7377455
you dropped something
Mason and Dixon.
>>7377431
sword art online progressive
>>7386326
>Bloom resting face
neuromancer
you're right
>>7387181
embrace the awfully writing
>>7387195
Neuromancer isn't that bad.
>>7377431
The Interpretatyion of Dreams. I wanted to get psyched.
The Stories of English by David Crystal
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
1776 by David McCullough
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin
120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
The Bible by Anonymous
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Everything that Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Marry Wollstonecraft
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
Islam the Brand by Hani Soubra
The Selected Poetry Edna St. Vincent Millay
Swanns Way for he 5000 time
hopscotch
>>7388628
>You aren't savoring the works. You're gorging your mouth like an obese pleb.
I started reading Transgender History back in January 2014 and I'm currently finishing it. My mind is just able to juggle multiple books at once. I can leave a non-fiction book, and come back to it years later without missing a beat. I try to read fiction without interruption, though.
Naked Lunch for the 5th time.
>>7387181
I kind of like his newer stuff more. Zero History just has an edge to it is older stuff just didn't have
>>7377431
The Ring of the Nibelung
Aкимyды
The Threepenny Opera
Almost finished On the Road: the Original Scroll
Dracula
and
If on a winter's night a traveler
>>7377469
>which translation
>patrician
Borges se revuelve en su tumba ante el mundanamente anodino comentario que, a través de un fangoso sentido del orgullo forjado en un foro de marionetas chinas, has proferido.
Lanark
Aristotle's Metaphysics
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse.
The Republic.
Gone read some Hemmingway next.
Just finished The Master and Margarita and started the Three Musketeers
reading: stora döden by a dick harrison; historyogrphical summary about the black plague in europe (swe isnt my main so it's taking a while)
And i just got a collection of short stories by adolfo bioy casares whichj i wanna get into.
Brothers Karamazov!
I'm reading an absurdist novella about a man who wakes up one morning to find a mysterious knob has appeared on the back of his head
>>7390704
Your diary tbqh?
>>7389650
>Almost finished On the Road: the Original Scroll
Isn't that the version where the whole book is a single paragraph?
Still reading Dracula. Fug off, I only got back into reading last winter... ;~;
This. It's really good.
I finished Women and Men, now onto The Recognitions.
Any more in this ballpark? (no, not Pynchon).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntfk1PTsiD2E3KabYXS2q4XmgX7f3o7htzkIxsaDGVs/edit?usp=sharing
Write that story for once and for all and
paste it here
>>7391022
They're kind enough to break it into five (scrolls).
snow falling on cedars, just started it.
>>7392004
David Markson
Don Quixote 2
metro 2023
>>7377512
>Not reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
O Arquipélago da Insónia, by António Lobo Antunes. It's too complicated for you plebs, don't even bother.
>>7394126
hello fellow patrician
i finished that recently
good friggin book
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature and Tristram Shandy
>>7377431
Yeah, you're right.
I've started five books at once. Which is a bad idea, but I wanted to get a taste of each.
Right now I'm reading The White Tiger, Gardens of the Moon, Best Served Cold, Perdido Street Station, and The Infinite Jest.
The only ones I've read beyond a few chapters so far are the White Tiger (because it's short) and GotM, because I want to get it over and done with. I'll get back to the other three once I finish these two.
>>7377455
Fuccboi tier trolling
>NERD
The History of Korea: Old and New
Some professors at Harvard put it all together. Less plebby than the average layman.
>>7377431
i want to stomp that stupid fucking face
>>7394718
Out of date dawg
>>7394722
Any fiction?
>>7395872
It's not surprising that this list contains no surprises.
>>7385104
Here's your (You). I even read to the end without skipping :^)
>>7377431 (OP)
Dream of the Red Chamber
>>7395872
Ego and its Own, Meditations and Thus Spoke Zarathustra shouldn't be there.
>>7377431
Sadagh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
>>7377431
Catcher in The Rye.
Reads kinda like a YA. Just picked this up since it was /lit/core I guess.I'm new here
>>7396068
Have you got to the part where Holden reveals he raped Phoebe yet?
Twilight reimagined
I'm reading Dune
i...i don't know if i like it. I'm like 50 pages in and it's boring
does it get better bros?
>>7395872
I will never ever understand how Tolkein ever makes it onto these lists. Absolute fucking tripe.
>>7396184
Yes.No.
>>7396896
nerds intrude
Fuck off, Harry.
>>7383520
Go kill yourself scrub
God this board is shit. I've gotta get out of here.
>>7384138
Can relate, anon. Dostoevsky is next on my list. Some economical book about some guy travelling the world and explaining the position of every country is next.
At this moment, I mix between Tolstoy- War and Peace and Houllebecq-Atomised
>>7397401
Not a troll. I just enjoy a good book.
>>7379953
I can safely assert that literature as a medium. past law and religious texts, at least partially originated for entertainment. And there's bound to be some overlap.
Anna Karenina
>>7384545
Modern /lit/, everyone.
>>7397617
Beginners-core.
>>7377646
Can I sign up, and can I still fear China?
Lermontov's A hero of out time.
>>7395872
is infinite jest at #1 a joke? Serious question and no judgement from me on the book - i just know DFW is a major mememeister general on here
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Crime and Punishment
>>7398824
Pretty good. It's short and progresses nicely. Also, wonderful descriptions.
>>7395872
I'm nearly half-way to become a living meme.
Modern Korean Short Stories
Swann's Way
>>7377431
B-but /lit/ told me to start with the Greek...
