What was the last book you read?
What are you reading?
What will you read next?
Guess shit about each other basing on their answers.
>What was the last book you read?
El Beso de la Mujer Araña, by Manuel Puig
>What are you reading?
The Decameron by Bocaccio
>What will you read next?
I guess Under The Volcano by Lowry
>What was the last book you read?
Red Dragon
>What are you reading?
Don Quixote
>What will you read next?
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
>What was the last book you read?
The Demons
>What are you reading?
Notes from the underground
>What will you read next?
The falling or the plague
>Last book
A compilation of Chekhov novels
>Reading
Gogol - Dead Souls
>Read next
The Government Inspector
Got into reading just recently and I'm only reading entry level classics and Russian stuff. Need to broaden my taste soon.
>What was the last book you read?
The Dalkey Archive by O'Brien
>What are you reading?
Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut, The Plague by Camus
>What will you read next?
Probably Do Androids Dream by Dick
>What was the last book you read?
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
>What are you reading?
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
>What will you read next?
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
>>7675420
>Last
Foucault's collected works volume I
>Current
New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, Practice
>Next
The Name of the Father, Lacan
>>7675424
Can read spanish, sometimes watches Univision unironically. Also, may visit a volcano sometime in the future.
>>7675684
Likes spaniards and maybe cannibals.
>>7675805
Has probably read Crime and Punishment, perhaps owns a red hat. Concerned with end times, but not enough to be a televangelist.
>>7675848
Can't speak russian, but has masturbated to Putin riding a horse
>>7675866
Actually an android
>>7675916
Has never been to a park on the moon.
>What was the last book you read?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for the seventh time. If you mean, new books, either GYO by Junji Ito or the Birth of Tragedy.
>What are you reading?
Cinema 1 The Image Movement by Deleuze, Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard, Heretical Empiricism by Pasolini and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
>What will you read next?
Shit I don't know, I know I'll have to get Spinoza's Complete Ouvre for a uni course but I'm thinking about either Salvador by Joan Didion or A Brief History of Seven Killings for fun.
>>7675916
You would probably like Ruggero Deodato's movies, if you haven't seen them yet.
>>7675928
You kind of look like Guattari, smoke unfiltered cigs and are heavily involved in the creative side of your local autonomous lestist movement. I like you.
>>7675928
>Actually an android
You're blowing my cover anon, damn
>What was the last book you read?
Civilization and Its Discontents and Ringworld
>What are you reading?
The Art of Loving, Teaching as a Subversive Activity, and Appointment in Samarra
>What will you read next?
I usually read one fiction and one non fiction, might read The Importance of Living or Variety of Religious Experience and maybe The Red and the Black or The Monkey Wrench Gang
>>7675961
Really doesn't know if that's the lady who fucked the polar bear.
Also, is "The Image Movement" the one about time-crystals? Or was that another one? If he's not talking about time crystals, you should also check out the one that does. Good luck on the Spinoza seminar; sounds dope//am jealous.
around the world in 80 days
fathers and sons
i don't know, probably moby-dick or a confession by tolstoy
>What was the last book you read?
The Kingdom of This World
>What are you reading?
The Brothers Karamazov
>What will you read next?
Invertebrate Spain
>>7676002
Wants to return to the womb.
>>7676031
Feels most emotionally connected to Gruschenka.
>>7675420
>last
The Recognitions
>currently
The Tunnel
>next
Milkbottle H
>>7675424
You speak at least one romance language.
>>7675684
Your are Hispanic.
>>7675805
You struggle to find a meaning to existence.
>>7675848
You live an Europe.
>>7675866
You didn't start with the Greeks.
>>7675928
You are gay.
>>7675961
You enjoy philosophy but secretly worry that it's all going over your head.
>>7676018
Apparently it's Cinema 2. I'll admit, I wasn't really expecting that. I'm kind of fearful for the seminar tho, I've read bits of the Ethica and that was fairly hellish - ironically enough. I only hope it'll be a bit easier.
Am I banned?
>>7676085
>Has a diaper fetish.
Not my favorite, but, yes, it's true. I'm an all around disgusting human being.
>>7676089
Yes
>>7675420
> Last book
Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
> Current Book
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
> what will you read next?
Torn between A Confederacy Of Dunces or Selby Jr's The Demon. I want to either laugh or cry.
>What was the last book you read?
The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode. It was a christmas present and besides his sometimes jarring personal analogys, he had some interesting ideas.
>What are you reading?
Confederacy of Dunces. I made a lot of progress with it last month but haven't felt like reading it recently.
>What will you read next?
Probably The Big Sleep by Chandler or An American Dream by Mailer. Depends on my mood.
>>7676089
OK then
>last read
The Tin Drum -Gunther Grass
>now reading
Psychological Operations: Practices and Case Studies. -Frank Goldstein (col. USAF) and Benjamin Findley (col. USAFR)
>up next
Dialogues of Epictetus or Paradise Lost (I can't decide yet)
>>7676108
You should read The Recognitions.
>What was the last book you read?
Future of the Mind
>What are you reading?
Genius and MadnessI don't think it was translated to any language other than my mother tounge; which is good because the book isn't all that great. Psychologists try to explain if madness and creativity are linked by "diagnosing" great minds (Gogol and Pushkin for example) with the knowledge we have today
>What will you read next?
Probably Divine Comedy, just starting out
>>7676112
I'll look into it, thanks for the recommendation, anon.
>>7676145
Also, if you are looking for something more off its hinges, I'd look into The Tunnel and The Lime Twig.
>>7675420
The Ocean at The End of the Lane
The Big Nowhere
Dreamcatcher
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
The Hobbit
>What are you reading?
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Around the World in 80 Days
>What will you read next?
The Lord of the Rings or maybe Metamorphosis by Kafka.
>last book
A Canticle for Leibowitz
>currently reading
Great Expectations
>next up
The Fountainhead
Read East of Eden. The whole second half felt like one long epilogue.
>>7676064
>You live an Europe.
Correct!
>Ulysses
I got to Circe, where the prostitute puts him on trial and just need a brake
>Palimpsest
Gore Vidal's memoir
>the rest of Ulysses
What the fuck is going on in Circe though, Oxen of the sun was difficult enough for me.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
If by read you mean finished, it was Finnegans Wake.
>What are you reading?
Mason & Dixon and The Broom of The System
>What will you read next?
Either Against The Day because it's my last pinecone or The Lime Twig.
>>7676378
ebin memester, dfwposter
Has a nice dick. Had homosexual thoughts as a teenager
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Nine Princes in Amber
>What are you reading?
Guns of Avalon and Dead Souls
>What will you read next?
Next Amber novel. Pretty fun thus far.
>Guess shit about each other basing on their answers.
Op is a fag.
>What was the last book you read?
Le Rouge et le Noir
>What are you reading?
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
>What will you read next?
In Cold Blood or Livro do Desassossego
>What was the last book you read?
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
>What are you reading?
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
>What will you read next?
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
>>7676391
I've been told it's big, but it looks average to me. Not that I have anything to compare it to. Maybe it feels bigger than it looks when it's inside them.
>>7676378
Read The Lime Twig next: it's infinitely better than Against the Day. And since The Lime Twig is probably one of the most opaque novels in existence, I recommend you get some supplementary reading, which, in addition to clarifying the plot itself, will also help you understand his ideas.
>>7676416
>The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Nice. Clark was one of my best lecturers at Uni. How are you liking it? I had to read it for essays so I never particularly paid attention to whether or not it was well-written or enlightening.
>>7676497
I've already read 6 of his other books so I'll go in raw. Also I don't know if it can get much more opaque than The Beetle Leg was.
>What was the last book you read?
Dracula
>What are you reading?
Blood Meridian
>What will you read next?
Walden
>>7676511
It's just excellent. I'm exploring pre WWI times and loving it so far. Going to read MacMillan's The War That Ended Peace after the books I mentioned.
>What was the last book you read?
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
>What are you reading?
Later Political Writings by Marx
>What will you read next?
Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of late Capitalism by Freddy Jameson
>What was the last book you read?
Patrick Modiano - La Ronde de nuit
>What are you reading?
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
>What will you read next?
Luigi Pirandello - The Late Mattia Pascal
"The Stranger" -- Camus
"The Fall" -- Camus
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" -- Nietzche
>>7676551
Don't know if you're interested in pre-WW1 Austria-Hungary and Serbia, but if so I recommend reading some R.W. Seton-Watson. I was reading a lot of his stuff at about the same time as Sleepwalkers and really got into it - contemporary 'history' / politics, beautifully biased and logically inconsistent, wonderful to read with hindsight and the knowledge of what will actually happen.
>>7676293
After LOTR you should read the Silmarillion.
>>7676526
Ah, so you're nice and stretchy already, huh? Well, good luck, anon.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance
>What are you reading?
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
What will you read next?
Something by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably. I'mgoing through Borges' recommendations
>>7676582
I am. Clark talks a lot about Austria-Hungary, Serbia and the Balkan conflicts, but I'd like to go some years before. I read The Proud Tower and it was a nice account of western Europe and the fall of Thomas B. Reed in USA.
>>7676293
I am doing you a favor, don' ask why. Just throw Around the world in 80 days in a fire. I can't believe that someone as generic as Jules Verne with nothing to say got so popular. Everybody I know hates this crap, from Harry Potter fans to literature majors.
>What was the last book you read?
Mao II, pretty good.
>What are you reading?
The Sound and the Fury, "get you hands in yer pockets! you don't want to be sick at christmas!"
>What will you read next?
Probably A Midsummer Night's Dream.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Dickens: A Christmas Carol
>What are you reading?
Bukowski: Ham On Rye (My second time)
>What will you read next?
Knausgard: My Struggle #1
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Swann's Way and Stoner
>What are you reading?
Republic, Finders Keepers, and a stack of casebooks
>What will you read next?
A Frolic of His Own
>>7676351
Circe was a fun chapter. I think you are trying too hard if Circe was the one that broke you down.
>What was the last book you read?
Vladimir Nabokov, Despair
>What are you reading?
William Shakespeare, Richard III., southern Slavic poetry
>What will you read next?
Southern Slavic poetry
What was the last book you read?
Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
What are you reading?
Nausea by Sartre
What will you read next?
Maybe some Chekhov short stories. idk tb.h
>>7676579
babies first year of reading philosophy
>>7676569
Pretentious know-all hipster. Didn't go to a good university, but considers himself extremely smart, and places himself above others.
>>7675420
>last
Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
>current
Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm
Macbeth
>Next
Heller - Good as Gold
or
Maugham - Of Human Bondage
>>7676636
You appreciate complex works, and though you have your heart set on making a living in the literary world, you worry constantly that aren't good enough.
>>7676597
>dynamic
Yeah, I really admire non-fiction books (especially history, or politics or sociology) that are really "well-written", in a way that almost seems to make them part of the same process as fiction prose-writing. The best book of that style I've ever read was Sebastian de Grazia's "Machiavelli in Hell", although I don't know if it would stand up so well to a re-read.
>>7676613
If you're interested in 19th century Balkan ideologies, Ivo Banac's "The National Question in Yugoslavia" is essential reading. Most general accounts of the world before WW1 tend to be a bit too...well, general, and Balkan politics tends to be obscured by Great Power posturing, which is understandable enough but actually misses a lot of the more interesting stuff going on among the small nations that would actually kick of the general conflagration.
>>7676542
Just started reading, and is actually enjoying the hobby. Doesn't read to appear cool, but falls for trends and lets other people sway his opinions. Not political, and doesn't vote, but cares about his country.
>>7675420
>what was the last book you read?
The Man In The High Castle
>what are you reading?
The Brothers Karamazov
>what are you reading next?
American Gods
TELL ME ABOUT ME
>>7676669
t. token Karamazov reader
>>7676669
just arrived from plebbit
>>7676669
Take your copy of American Gods and throw it in the trash. God, that was one of the worst things I've ever read.
>>7676669
You are one of those kids who would wear a pepe the frog t-shirt in public. Memes are your life. The approval of people on an anonymous site matter a lot to you. You refrain from exposing your true self, and project a you that you believe people want to see. You are depressed and unhappy with your life, but you are not sure why.
>>7676669
Under 25
Videogame fanatic (or former one)
New to reading
Wants to like complex /lit/ books but always finds them difficult and boring
Graduated HS and either didn't go to college or went for comp sci
>>7676648
Is a slav
>what was the last book you read?
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
>what are you reading?
Invisible Cities - Calvino
>what are you reading next?
Maybe more Calvino (Cosmicomics?), maybe Marquez (Hundred Years...), or maybe one of Carver's short story collections.
I have finished V some three hours ago.
It was my second novel by Pynchon, the first being Lot 49. It's very impressive, although some passages are pointless (I specially disliked the first part of Fausto's story, although, towards the ending, it became fascinating). The whole of chapter 3, the surgery scene, the South African dream sequence, Veronica's death, and ballet chapter are great works.
At the moment, I am not reading anything. I might start an anthology by Bocage today.
Bocage. After that, Antonio Nobre's Só. After that, I suppose the second part of Don Quijote.
>what was the last book you read?
Of Mice and Men
>what are you reading?
Stoner
>what are you reading next?
Wittgenstein's Mistress
>>7676703
North American richboy.
>>7676634
You are working class and do not know whether you are proud or ashamed of this.
>What was the last book you read?
John Fowles - The Magus
>What are you reading?
Jude the Obscure
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Also studying a collection of Ben Jonson's Verse
>What will you read next?
Ulysses or Don Quixote (fancy a longer read)
>>7676640
I have no idea how you can make it past Proteus and Oxen of the Sun then get stumped by Circe. It's probably the least difficult and most entertaining chapter overall.
>>7676666
Vasko Popa, Oskar Davičo and Miroslav Krleža wrote in WWII, and after, but they were great, It's a shame there are not many translations.
>>7676735
An Kočo Racin too
>>7676715
Nope, but I do enjoy the movies of Woody Allen, and Wes Anderson so I can understand the confusion.
>>7676743
*And
>>7676657
Yes! It's a wonderful genre and I am glad to have discovered it.
>>7676721
Not far from the mark, limey.
>What was the last book you read?
Notes from Underground by Feodor Dostoevsky
>What are you reading?
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
>What will you read next?
Undecided, on a bit of a Russian literature binge recently so maybe Master and Margarita
>>7676760
>limey.
>>7676772
Yes. Nice, try reading Ivo Andrić too.
>What was the last book you read?
The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child
>What are you reading?
Nothing currently
>What will you read next?
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
>What was the last book you read?
Svartar fjaðrir, by Davíð Stefánsson frá Fagraskógi
>What are you reading?
Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink
>What will you read next?
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
>>7676676
Have also read Crime and Punishment, and The Devils
>>7676677
Literally never been to Reddit in my life
>>7676683
Really? What was bad about it?
>>7676691
I am very depressed and unhappy, but I am fully aware of why. And I don't give a shit what you think.
>>7676696
20
Study HisPol at one of the best uni's in my country
Have read my whole life
Not a massive fan of gaming, it's alright for downtime.
>>7676808
My guesses were being charitable since I was wrong, the only remaining conclusion is that you are stupid.
>>7676783
Bridge on the Drina is on my "to-read" list in English - I can't wait until I'm functional in the language to read that! Any other essential B/C/S classic lit I should be familiar with?
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
>What are you Reading?
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
>What Will you Read Next?
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
>>7676822
that was my uni post
free time reading:
The Things They Carried
Time out of Joint
Naked Lunch
>>7676636
>Proust
>Williams
>Plato
>Gaddis
>
>
>
>King?
>What was the last book you read?
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
>What are you Reading?
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>What Will you Read Next?
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
>last read
Roland Barthes - Mythologies
>currently reading
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
>next to read
Noumenautics: metaphysics - meta-ethics - psychedelics
i alternate between fiction and non-fiction
>>7676815
>averaging a first
>have a master's lined up
>my dissertation professor thinks I could be a teaching fellow in the next few years
Yeah, I'm moronic. Think what you want if it makes you feel better about yourself.
>>7676816
Milan Begović's play Pustolov pred vratima, Janko Polić Kamov's Brada, Tragedija mozgova, Antun Branko Šimić's Preobraženja, Tin Ujević's collected works, Miroslav Krleža's Povratak Filipa Latinovicza, Gospoda Glembajevi, U agoniji, Leda.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Dead Souls. Really fricking funny, and with epic-like golden thoughts, still pretty relevant
>What are you reading?
Faust. I am in second part, and its start to be difficult sometimes. Maybe its cause i have internet lastly, but i manage only to get through 1000 verses per day. Monumental work tho, all emotions known to men are here, i especially like grotesque and humour like in Walpurgie, or carnival. I am now at Classical Walpurgie, and it could be scenario to nice escapist anime desu, great adventure feeling
>What will you read next?
Proust Swanns Way. Huh, i think i will hold on with coming back to library
>What was the last book you read?
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
>What are you reading?
When Gravity Fails - George Alec Effinger
>What will you read next?
Liberalism: A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
>>7675420
>Last Read
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
>Currently Reading
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and Satan is Real By Charlie Louvin (Country music biography)
>Reading Next
House of Incest by Anais Nin
>>7676854
Is Dead Souls really that good? I read that Gogol published it, and it basically sent the intelligentsia into a craze expecting the follow up to be an enlightening piece of work that would reveal the answer to Russia's social problems, which sent him mad under the pressure.
>>7676854
English is your second language. Most likely some kind of Slav. Probably smokes cigarettes and drinks vodka. Reads almost exclusively classics.
I found Faust pt. 2 to be less exciting overall than pt.1 to be honest, maybe that's where your difficulty is coming in.
>>7676849
Antun Gustav Matoš, Vladimir Nazor, Dobriša Cesarić, Jure Kaštelan, Josip Pupačić, Vojislav Ilić, Aleksa Šantić, Vasko Popa, Oton Župančić, Kočo Racin, Slavko Janevski, Dragutin Tadijanović wrote good poems.
>>7676808
>What was bad about it?
It's prose is an abomination to God; it's story is drawn out and stupid; it's ideas and themes are infantile; and, for fuck's sake, the main character's name is Shadow.
>>7676847
>Lying for validation on a Lesothoian lekolulo trading site
Anon, you aren't making any friends here...
>>7676880
*its
*its
*its
Autocorrect is the worst invention since leaden gasoline.
>>7675420
>Read
Inland, by Gerald Murnane
>Reading
The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
>Next
Thinking about reading Ghosts by Cesar Aira or On Being Blue by William H. Gass
Last book: That Night by Alice McDermott
Current: been done with Infinite Jest, but can't go on due to required reading for classes
Next: either Pale Fire by Nabokov or As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. (Help me decide?)
>>7676908
I would recommend Faulkner. Much better writer in my opinion.
>>7676913
I've read Sound/Fury. Honestly, probably wouldn't have appreciated it if I weren't an aspiring writer. It taught me a lot. Do I expect the same with As I Lay Dying?
>>7676908
Nabokov and Faulkner are extremely different writers, but I'd go with As I Lay Dying, that book changes stuff in you.
>>7676935
It is less experimental than S&F, but it is equally as good in my opinion. Equally as 'claustrophobic'.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Murphy - Beckett
>What are you reading?
To The Lighthouse - Woolf
>What will you read next?
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Márquez
>>7676965
Have you read the whole trilogy? (Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
The most exquisite books I've read.
>>7676970
Shit, I mistook Murphy for Molloy, sorry.
>What was the last book you read?
Danielewski - House of Leaves (re-read)
>What are you reading?
Agazzi - Symbolic Logic
Kaczynski - Industrial Society and its future
>What will you read next?
Schönberg's treatisy on harmony
I'm just a load of fun
>>7676822
>Dashiell Hammett
uncanny how 2016 this guy looks
>>7676847
I got a first, am currently doing an MSc, and could find a PhD pretty easily if I wanted to and wasn't too picky about where I went for it - and I'm still a moron. What's more, the people on my course are also morons. Academic achievement counts for less and less nowadays. I know someone who has two master's degrees (both distinction) in addition to his first at undergraduate, and he's genuinely never read a book that wasn't a sports autobiography.
Anyone read Das Kapital?
>>7677045
I bought all three parts, published in 1936, in top condition for $30.
P-p-please be gentle...
>What was the last book you read?
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
>What are you reading?
S. by Doug Dorst
>What will you read next?
The Conscious Brain by Steven Rose
>>7676982
Pic related looks like Faulkner. Is he equally good?
Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Stirling
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Solzhenitsyn
Waiting for Godot
Gravity's Rainbow
Haven't decided yet, 2666 maybe? someone rec me
just read
ringworld by larry niven
reading
candide by voltaire
to read
i have a pretty big "backlog" so have no idea open to any suggestions but i was maybe thinking J R by gaddis
>>7676880
>It's prose is an abomination to God
That is basically every story on earth.
>What was the last book you read?
The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes
>What are you reading?
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
>What will you read next?
Most likely The Beetle Leg by Hawkes, or The Blind Owl
>>7677410
I am loving all the Hawkes in this thread. Anyway, you are losing touch with reality.
Moby-Dick (Absolutely loved it)
The Gay Science
not sure yet
>>7677180
2666 is dope af. I kind of liked the savage detectives better though - it's a lot more fun and it doesn't really drag in the way parts of 2666 do (albeit it's done intentionally). I guess I kind of feel the same way about V. vs GR tbqh. GR and 2666 are the "better" books, but something about V. and TSD was just really memorable. You should definitely read both tho
>Last read
Last Exit to Brooklyn
>Reading
Ada or Ardor
>Finna
Probably either Little, Big or Mason and Dixon
>TBK
>Whatever by Houellebecq
>three Novels by Beckett or Beyond Good and Evil, maybe both
>>7676935
As I Lay Dying was my first (and only so far) Faulkner. All I'll say is that the ending caught me off guard. Not bad at all for a provincial corncobber.
first mine:
Rig Veda (abridged obviously, edited by some guy at the Sorbonne)
Complete poems of DH Lawrence
The portable Thoreau reader
>>7677410
The Blood Oranges is great. It was my first Hawkes and after that I couldn't get enough of the guy. The Beetle Leg is a very different kind of book though. It's still great, but there's a good chance it'll leave you scratching your head.
>>7677654
You're going through a period in your life where you consider yourself a fraud, on some level. Don't worry it is a sign of intelligence. Your cynicism is valid. Also, Beckett is really depressing and i think purposely lacks substance. Have "fun" >>7677410
you might just be a creative writing major
>>7676908
I'd actually say Pale Fire but that's just me. They're completely different kinds of books so it's hard to compare them.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
The Anatomy Lesson
>What are you reading?
The Prague Orgy
>What will you read next?
The Counterlife
>>7677698
>you might just be a creative writing major
close, lol was English major before but I switched to Marketing. I still write though.
>>7677693
Yea that's what I hear about Hawkes, that each novel is like a universe of its own. The Blood Oranges was my first by him and I enjoyed it alot. Really looking forward to The Beetle Leg, his whole collection really. A really engaging and unique author.
>>7677728
I'd say The Blood Oranges, Death Sleep & The Traveler, and Travesty work well together as a sort of makeshift trilogy. Other than that, yeah, each book is its own trip.
do me
>last read
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
>Currently Reading
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
>Next to Read
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
>>7677765
You've had enough of standard genre fiction and want to expand. Probably read Gene Wolfe or will at some point.
>>7677781
this is plausibly true. I actually mostly read genre fiction now after exhausting myself on capital-L Literature (graduated uni with an english/secondary education degree in the winter [tfw still searching for a teaching position]). I find there's a lot to be explored in genre fiction academically
What was the last book you read?
Blood Meridian
What are you reading?
The Autumn of the Patriarch
What will you read next?
Book of Imaginary Beings
>last
Doctor Faustus by Mann
>now
Blood Meridian
>next
probably some French
>last
The Wasp Factory, and The Swarm
>Current
Volume 2 of The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, also listening to Dead Beat by Jim Butcher because although it's not great it's something easy to listen to during walks/runs.
>Next
Either some Vonnegut or more Banks. Haven't decided yet.
The Odyssey - Last book I read
Les pédagogues (Gérard Bessette) - Book I'm currently reading
Notre-Dame de Paris - Book I will read next
>>7676875
Mixing Serbian and Croatian authors triggers me so fucking hard
>>7676868
Dead Souls is in prose, but Gogol thought about it as national epic, he used this term several times, there is at least two divine conedy references, also some sort of homeric dygresions. While russian scenery is seen as beautifull he was afraid about country, and wrote it to move conscience of richest peoples. So in this book, characters are landlord responsible on lives of hundreths peoples, with all their flaws - niggards, liars, mysanthropics, snobs etc. Everything in absurd, carnival-like humour. Thing is, only first part was published, second was burned by author, 2 and 3 would be like purgatorio and paradiso, and his prose is really sweet so shame
>>7676873
I dont know if less exciting, but in 2 its lot more characters, and its easy to loss in various references. There is much more action than in first
Last Book - Magna Carta (Derek J Taylor)
Current Book - Wer wir waren, wer wir sind (Michael Juergs)
Next Book - Chasing The Sun (Richard Cohen)
Last Book: Short stories collection by Anton Chekhov
Currently reading: The Old Testament, Droll Stories by Balzac
Next Book: Probably The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
>>7678138
They are not only Serbian and Croatian authors.
>last
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
>current
>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
>next
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I apologize for nothing.
>What was the last book you read?
The Voyage Out, by Virgina Woolf.
>What are you reading?
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, by Tolstoy.
>What will you read next?
I have River Of Stars - Selected Poems by Yosano Akiko laying around here, so I guess I will get to that afterwards.
>>7680626
Underaged - b&
>>7677698
you actually nailed it, im not an authentic person at all. i have no idea who i am.
Last
Tofte - Problems facing Muslims in The Modern World
Current
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Next
Vaughan - Romantic Art
No real plan of action here.
>>7676002
Good bloke.
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
the Count of Monte Cristo unabridged
>What are you reading?
Hyperion
>What will you read next?
A Shadow in Summer
>What was the last book you read?
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
>What are you reading?
High Lonesome, Barry Hannah
>What will you read next?
Animorphs 1-54
The Last Unicorn
The Ego and Its Own
I've been thinking maybe Rayuela or Moby-Dick, not definite though
"Man's Search for Meaning" -Frankl
"Crime and Punsihment"-Some Rusdian guy and "The Moviegoer"-Percy
"Catch 22"
>what was the last book you read?
My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard
>what are you reading?
By Night in Chile, Roberto Bolano
>what will you read next?
Women and Men, Joseph McElroy
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Dylan - Chronicles Vol1.
>What are you reading?
Warren Commission Report + Old Goriot by Balzac + Shameful Flight by Stanley Wolpert.
>What will you read next?
My Screenplay which i should be writing right now but meh... just jerked off so i'm not in the mood.
Life of Pi
nothing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Maus
>The Mammoth Hunters
>The Drawing of the Three
>>7675420
>last
Slaughterhouse 5
>current
Dune
>next
Count of Monte Cristo
I forget the last book I read think it was Til We Have Faces though.
Currently reading A Farewell to Arms.
Planning on reading Butcher's Crossing next.
>what was the last book you read?
Junky by William S Burroughs
>what are you reading?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>what are you reading next?
Selected Writings (Anna Freud)
What was the last book you read?
Zigzag Street
What are you reading?
Infinite Jest
What will you read next?
The Mezzanine
>last
Saint John of Damascus on Islam
>current
Koran(+ Explanatory dictionary of the Koran)
>next
Esoteric Doctrines of Islam
>later on
Islam and its function for Rene Guenon
>>7681136
You have an interest in Islam
>>7675420
>What was the last book you read?
Typhoon by Conrad
>What are you reading?
Savage Detectives
>What will you read next?
Black Jacobins
>>7681136
You are Islam
>>7681143
Was that hard to guess? lel
After reading a criticism of Islam from an Orthodox theological perspective, I've gotten curious as how valid of a spiritual tradition Islam is and how close it is to the Mosaic tradition as opposed to the Christian perception of the transfiguration of the law through the coming of the Christ.
>Last book
A Scanner Darkly, although I didn't complete it, got interrupted by exams.
>Reading
Underworld - Don Delillo
>Next
I don't know, maybe Gaddis' Carpenter's Gothic or the lime twig.
>>7675420
>last book
Gravity's Rainbow
>Reading
The Ethics Of What We Eat and Borges' Fictions.
>next
maybe Sometimes A Great Notion but I'm not exactly sure
only counting fiction:
Neuromancer
Foucault's Pendulum
Accelerando
>What was the last book you read?
"The Magicians"
What are you reading?
Few collections of essays by Virginia Woolf
What will you read next?
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" once more time
I've just started Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and am already considering dropping it after the first 'philosophical' spiel about science and ghosts.
>Last
Omensetter's Luck
>Reading
Stoner
>Next
The Power Broker
>>7681627
I bought it, but gave it the boot from the bookshelf after I read some of it.
>What was the last book you read?
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
>What are you reading?
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
>What will you read next?
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
>>7681653
What about it did you not like?
What was the last book you read?
The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising
What are you reading?
The Horus Heresy: False Gods
What will you read next?
Also Sprach Zarathustra
finally got my book collection started
>Last read
Picture of Dorian Gray
-Oscar Wilde
>Currently reading
The Sun Also Rises
-Hemingway
>Next read
Maybe For Whom the Bell Tolls and more Hemingway,
Maybe Dubliners/Odyssey then Ulysses
Monstrous regiment by pratchett was the last one, currently on infinite jest but its a slow progress.
Probably some non-fiction for the next one.
>last book
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald
>current book
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
>next book
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, I imagine. I like to alternate between English-language writers and foreign ones. Something French after that, maybe Camus.
>>7681598
Personally, I really liked Sometimes A Great Notion, but I wasn't reading as voluminously as I do now and didn't mind the slow burn. It's the only Kesey novel I enjoyed outside of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Stomach the ~100 odd pages of character development and exposition and you're in for a real Oregon-ass book.
>>7681627
I had the exact same fucking sentiment. Like motorcycles, like "philosophy", couldn't read more than 30-40 pages. It's written in such a way that conceit and overwhelming self-assurance drip from every trite epigram, and I didn't care to find out if that was a salient character flaw.
bump for the lonely anons who haven't received a rating yet
>>7675420
>last
Hunger
>current
None, feels great
>next
No idea, will probably just shitpost on /lit/ but I've had tons of Pynchon, Calvino and Kerouac in my backlog for some time now
