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What is your reading list for the new year?
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What is your reading list for the new year?
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Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Magic Mountain
Man Without Qualities
Women and Men
The Recognitions
JR
The Sot-Weed Factor
Giles Goat-Boy
Miss Macintosh, My Darling
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Bible
Mason & Dixon
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Knausgaard's My Struggle
Against the Day
Finnegans Wake
Game of Thrones
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Robinson Crusoe
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare
The Bhagavad-gita
Heart of Darkness
Anatomy of Melancholy
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge
The American Heritage Dictionary
The International Thesaurus of Quotations
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>>7523799
Pretty much
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i don't know. some plutarch, some literary criticism on shakespeare is all i have in mind, i don't make lists like that.
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If you read anything besides The Bible, Montaigne, or Shakespeare, you're wasting your time.
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Rayuela
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Ego and its Own
V.
And whatever other stuff I have lying around picks my interest.
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Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple
Dare Me - Megan Abbott
Feed - MT Anderson
Harpist in the Wind - McKillip
Anathem or Seveveves - Neal Stephenson
Old Man's War - Scalzi
Resurrection Man - Sean Stewart (reread)
Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot - Vanhoenacker
Swann's Way
Voices in the Ocean - Casey (cetacean studies)
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Infinite Jest, The Divine Comedy, Blindness, Decameron, The Portrait Of A Lady, Ineherent Vice, something from Eco, God Emperor Of Dune, Nightfall, Journey Through The End Of The Night and Nausea.
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>reading list
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>>7523799
do you even have a taste of your own?
>tfw when literally fitting virginia woolf's definition of being middlebrow
Congrats anon you'll officially stay pleb 4ever
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(The rest of) The Rise and Demise of the British Empire and the Lessons for Global Powers
State and Revolution
Tony Blair: A Journey
Aftermath (In the spirit of SW7)
Four Feathers
The Man Who Would Be King
Kim
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Gabriel García Márquez - Hundert years of solitude
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

This is what's waiting on my shelf right now.
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So far it's the Plot Against America (only because I just got back to the states and started it) Mao II, Ecce Homo (Nietszche) & Herzog.
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>>7523903
>The man in the high castle
Can it get much plebier
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Western Canon as laid down by St. Bloom
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Being and Time
Portable Darkness
The Odyssey
Notes from Underground
Hopscotch
Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
History of the Peloponnesian War
Infinite Jest
The Analects
The Masks of God
The Portable Jung

and some other stuff probably. I'm just making this up as I go along.
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>>7523883

>Ridicules anon for letting others think for him by letting Virginia Woolf think for himself.

Top sophistry.

>>7523909

Sure it can. I quite liked it. Mr. Dick is among the greatest authors I know of at conveying a sense of paranoia and uncertainty about reality, and MitHC is no exception.
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I'm starting with the greeks, so those.
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>>7523790

Backlog:

>Macbeth - Shakespeare
>King Lear - Shakespeare
>The Tempest - Shakespeare
>The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
>The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
>White Noise - Don DeLillo
>The Collected Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
>The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
>The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck
>Johnny Got his Gun - Dalton Trumbo
>Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable - Samuel Beckett
>Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
>War and Peace - Tolstoy
>Paradise Lost - Milton
>Lord of the Flies - Golding

Apart from that, I am looking to acquire "The Society of the Spectacle" ASAP, as it seems very interesting, and somewhat relevant to the Baudrillard I've already read.

Having just finished Infinite Jests yesterday, I am most certainly not touching anything David Foster Wallace related for at least half a year. Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoyed it, but ho-lee fuck do you get DFW fatigue.
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>>7523790
Way too much.

I guess I'll finish Plato. Then read Oddysey and Illiad again (havent read it since I was 12 or so). Then I might read Herodotus, which I will probably do even though I've studied History and am very well aware of Greek History. Then I'll pick up Aristotle's entire works. Then Epictetus and other Stoics before moving on to Cicero and any other noteworthy Roman writers, also Aurelius. Then I'll move on to Augustine and Aquinas.

Owh before I forget, I'll also have to read all the fkn tragedies and other shit thats noteworthy of the period...

As for lit, I'd like to read more of Dost, Tolstoy, Garzia and all the other meme lit starting kit authors which I want to be familiar with.
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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD
Last Evenings on Earth by Bolano
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
My Life by Anton Chekov
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Misbehaving by Richard Thaler
Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse
The Chronicles of Amber by Richard Zelzany

all i have planned at the moment
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Not really a list but I want to read for the first time Hamsun, Gogol and Mann. I also want to finish reading Dostoyevski's work and Salambó by Flaubert
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