Honeydew – Edith Perlman
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
The Camomile Lawn – Mary Wesley
City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
The Dharma Bums – Jack Koreuac
Harnessing Peacocks – Mary Wesley
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Binocular Vision – Edith Perlman
Best: The Camomile Lawn
Worst: To Have and Have Not
Ulysses. I'm now reading thus spoke zarathustra and urth of the new sun
Why are you reading those things if your own literary output is essentially light novels?
>>7750013
What?
is that you Gas? I thought you left that job
>>7750017
He probably thinks you're gasautist because of the pic you used in the op.
>>7750054
No, I'm just a random poster. I liked the pictures though.
What did he write? Low-brow stuff?
>>7750067
Anime pod-racing and mecha science fiction.
>>7750070
Please sauce this. I would love to read some Mecha scifi
>>7750073
He's going to self-publish it on amazon soon, apparently. I'm sure he'll make a thread.
>>7750073
Do you really want to read 11 fucking books of it though?
Haven't read much at all. Blank one is Germinie Lacerteaux
Disgrace -Coetzee, J.M.
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness -Brady, Frank
In a Free State -Naipaul, V.S.
My Ántonia -Cather, Willa
No Longer Human -Dazai, Osamu
Silence -Endō, Shūsaku
Soumission -Houellebecq, Michel
Teatro Grottesco -Ligotti, Thomas
The Bell Jar -Plath, Sylvia
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution -James, C.L.R.
The Fishermen -Obioma, Chigozie*
The General in His Labyrinth -García Márquez, Gabriel
The Moor's Account -Lalami, Laila*
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control -Marks, John D.
The Shadow of the Torturer(The Book of the New Sun #1) -Wolfe, Gene
Typhoon -Conrad, Joseph
1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by
James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind
6. V by Thomas Pynchon
7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
>>7750110
How did you like The Rubaiyat and Seven Killings?
Theogony/Works and Days/Shield- Hesiod
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
The Upanishads
Pebble in the Sky - Asimov
Currently reading Dubliners
Best: Upanishads
Worst: Tie between Pebble in the Sky and Kitchen. Kitchen had god awful prose with cliches everywhere, but i suspect that part of it can be attributed to translation.
Hey Gaskun I had the most intense dream I've had all year recently and you were pretty much the protagonist in it. When I woke up sweating I typed it all out on my phone. It's out of battery right now but the dream concluded with me discovering / you subtly revealing that you had released a bomb named "Orisin" which was linked somehow. I think you were my brother in the dream or something and we had parted for whatever reason during my youth.
John Williams - Stoner
Theodor Herzl - The Jewish State
Homer - The Odyssey
Henry Roth - Call it Sleep
Cristopher Logue - War Music
John Berryman - 77 Dream Songs
Gilgamesh
George Saunders - Tenth of December
Kafka - The Metamorphosis; In the Penal Colony; The Judgement
Philip Levine - Breath
Joe Wenderoth - Letters to Wendy's
Matthew Minicucci - Translation
Abraham Cahan - The Rise of David Levinsky
Euripides - Herakles
Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Magician of Lublin
Favorites - Saunders, Odyssey, War Music
>>7750108
What did you think of the Cather? I recently picked up a book of hers that has My Antonia in it. Should it be something I read immediately?
Submission - Houellebecq
Atomised - Houellebecq
On Overgrown Paths - Hamsun
Hunger - Hamsun
Islands in the Stream - Hemingway
2666 - Bolano
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Factotum - Bukowski
Various short stories by Hemingway, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard
Some non-fiction on the socio-economic climate of Norway, the development in former parts of the Soviet Union, and mountaineering
Auster - Screenplays.
Wedekind - Earth Spirit
Oe - A Personal Matter
Gladwell - Blink
Wedekind- Pandora's Box
Kawabata - Thousand Cranes
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Borges - Ficciones
PKD - Androids dreams sheep etc
Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
Moro - Utopia
Shakespeare - Andronicus
Takimoto - Welcome to the NHK
Best: Ficciones
Worst: NHK
>>7750155
I thought Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Antonia were beautiful books that I enjoyed a great deal.
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Demons - Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes - Schopenhauer
The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Judgment - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Oedipus the King - Sophocles
Euthyphro - Plato
Symposium - Plato
The Fall - Camus
The Stranger - Camus
The Plague - Camus
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Stoner - John Williams
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
.
Best: The Idiot
Worst: To Kill a Mockingbird.
>>7749997
Not really proud.
Harry Martinson - Aniara
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations
Thomas Pynchon - Slow Learner
Jurek Becker - Amanda herzlos
Bernhard Schlink - The Reader (Der Vorleser)
Borges - Labyrinths
George Orwell - 1984
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (finished yesterday)
Currently reading/about to finish:
Borges - Ficciones
Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
Robert Bolaño - Monsieur Pain
Albert Camus - The Fall
Thomas Pynchon - V.
Hans Henny Jahnn - The Ship (Das Holzschiff)
Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
The German ones besides The Ship were mandatory for our literature course.
>>7750094
>potter
Why?
>>7750231
>Aniara
Third mention of this book ive seen today.
Did you like it?
Also, your list of partially finished books tickles my autism in a bad way.
>>7750234
ynot.jpeg
why is this guy using my pics?
I still work there at night after my day job.im killing debt.
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant - Yu Hua
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
The Magician King - Lev Grossman
The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
My Struggle #4 - Karl Ove Knausguaard
Last Word from Montmarte - Qui Miaojin
Witz - Joshua Cohen
the magicians trilogy was awful fwiw
>>7750070
At least use a recent pic
>>7750120
>How did you like The Rubaiyat and Seven Killings?
The Rubaiyat didn't impress me. All I got out of it was "Dude, wine, lmao." And maybe "all we are is dust in the wind"
Seven Killings was good but if I don't read Jamaican patois for a while, that will be okay.
>>7750305
Woi
>>7750298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_HQZMU5nw
>>7750073
>mech doesn't show up till book 5
>unbiased bookstore manager recently read book 1 and said the racing was "what podracing should have been"
>no anime
1. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf.
2. As I lay Dying, William Faulkner.***
3. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry.*
4. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West.
5. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West.
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson.**
7. Dreams/Arteries, Phinder Dulai.
*Denotes favourites so far.
1. The Tempest - Shakespeare
2. The AntiChrist - Nietzsche
3. Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
4. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
5. Essays & Aphorisms - Schopenhauer
6. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
7. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
8. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
9. Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche
10. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Hamsun - Hunger
Dante - Commedia
Mishima - Confession Of Mask
Burgess - Junk
Toole - Confederancy Of Dunces
Goethe - Faust
Kochanowski - Dissmissal Of Greek Envoys
Proust - Swann Way
>>7750330
Good list. What did you think of Nicomachean "the best ethical treatise that has ever been conceived and put in writing" Ethics?
>>7750340
godspeed "anon", i hope you get a stable amazon income
>>7750341
Nicomachean Ethics is absolute trash. Paul Coelho puts a more rigorous way of living life than him.
I would like to rape gaskun tbqh
>>7749997
1. Napoleon, a life
2. Antigone, Oedipus rex
3. freud and beyond a history of psychoanalysis
4. the buddha walks into a bar (inb4 newage trash my gf asked me to read it)
5. introduction to worlds systems analysis
6. the book of Isaiah
7 the world of Odysseus
8. Demian
>>7750231
>Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Is it worth reading?
>>7750350
Thank you. I'd like that too. Nailing down the specifics for the new series now. These are the notes. Should be 6-9 volumes to tell the whole thing. Lost in space meets Moby dick with the harder sci fi nuts and bolts of interstellar (sorta)
>>7749997
Spectacular Realities (a history of paris spectacle)
Gay New York
All that's Solid Melts into Air
Self-help- Lorri Moore
Guts- Amelia Gray
Oblivion- David Foster Wallace
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
Ratner's Star- Delillo.
>>7750389
I support you Gaskun.
This is off-topic but is it *always* autistic to ask a girl to go out with you sometime if you've never had a real conversation with her?
>>7750426
no, that's how you get to know people, by asking them to spend time with you.
>>7750389
You actually printed that ridiculous drawing? lmao
>>7750430
Some other people, on a different board, said I should start with small talk rather than scare her by asking to go out sometime. The thing is I rarely see her any more and I think (or so my autistic brain tells me) that she may have been curious about me and even interested in me before but interpreted my pose of indifference towards her as evidence (reasonably) that I wasn't into her. I really want to just stop her the next time we pass and say "excuse me, I hope this isn't inappropriate but would you like to go out with me sometime?"
I think it will really surprise (shock?) her and even if she is bored / indifferent to me by now it may rekindle any interest she may have initially had. Am looking for any guidance.
>>7750296
Pretty good. Really asks a lot of the reader at the beginning/end, but you get used to his style fairly quickly and from then on it's a interesting take on the modern trendy "Jewish Book About Being Jewish". Sort of like a more understandable Finnegans Wake crossed with The Sot-Weed Factor in style, if that makes sense.
>>7750444
It was a visual aide for a guy I asked to help me in condensing the story. I'd like to get rid of redundancies and boil things down to their base components and if the particular conflict in question applies to one of the things on that list then I know to either change it or space out how close certain conflicts are in relation to one another across the entire work.
>>7750249
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Aniara, so yes. Harry Martinson is a Swedish wordsmith in a sense I've never experienced before. Also it might be of use if you're a Swedish speaker.
One another note, have you heard "Miman" by Nicole Sabouné? If not you should check it out, because of the reference to the book.
If I understood you correctly, you mean that you can tell that I'm a reclusive reader? So what?
>>7750376
I think I should have read it much earlier than in my 20's because of his themes being kind of out of use, at least in Western society that is.
Although I liked the blissful shift at the ending of the story.
>>7750596
Sorry about the spoilers, dear anon.
Gas-kun, can i have a free copy of your book when it's out?
>>7750680
Sure. Find me later next month and give me an email (temp) and I'll get you one. Still undecided whether to charge a buck or give away the first taste for free. A high ranking on the on the Amazon "top free download" list could be a game changer. Plus, each book has the first chapter of the next book at the end to entice the reader to pick up the next one
>tfw i will steal all of gaskuns ideas and become a NYRB bestseller living it up with the cultural elite while he pumps gas and sells bourbon in kentucky
>>7750717
Thanks.i'll be sure to give you a good review on goodreads
Are you writing anything else (or planning too)?
I imagine your kind of swamped with this at the moment though.
>>7750728
A hacker story about a girl who creates a program that solves the "millennium problems"
http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems
A WW1 story about a young British school teacher whose love is spurned, so he joins the army and becomes the Vickers machine gunner with a fat useless assistant on the battlefront.
Some other stuff
Anna Karenina
Lord of the Flies
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Iliad
Lament for a Nation
The Book of Job
Well over 2000 pages anyway. Which is good because last year I read less than 3000. I have noticed my vocabulary improving a lot since I started reading more.
3/5ths of the way through Mythology, and half way through The Gospel of Matthew. Might read more Gabby before moving onto the Odyssey. I bought two of his novels at a used book store the other day. I'm getting overwhelmed by how deeply western culture is steeped in myth. It seemingly pervades every aspect of our civilization. Basically this year I'd like to get through the essential Greek and Roman works as well as the Bible. A side goal is to get through some Canadian history and politics as well.
>>7750453
>Some other people, on a different board, said I should start with small talk
Nah. Disregard this. If you're into her tell her you'd like to on a date. Don't try and be friends with her first.
David Dabydeen - The intended
Sam Selvyon - lonely Londoners
Joyce - Ulysses
Henry V
Rape of Lucrece
Titus Andronicus
Prometheus Unbound
Vindication of the rights of men - Wollstonecraft
The italian - Radcliffe
Fun Home
The Fire next time - James Baldwin
currently reading sunset song
