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1-3 The Iliad
4-6 Kokoro
7-9 Beloved
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>>7763613
Aw shit things are gonna get Ill, thanks guys.
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1-3 Don Quixote
4-6 Portrait of The Artist
7-9 Oblomov
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R
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>>7763649
Charterhouse of parma it is
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>beloved

rofl

skip senpai it's shit
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>>7763667
I have Sula as course work later on so I figure I'll knock off Beloved before that happens.
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I hate these kinds of threads. Do people really expect others to complete 300+ pages from a whimsical aleatory ritual? Ridiculous. Nobody expects astrological predictions to come true either.
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1-3 The Sickness unto Death
4-6 The Myth of Sisyphus
7-9 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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>>7763855
speak for yourself dubspai
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1-2 Nausea
3-4 Ulysses
5-6 Don Quixote
7-8 Moby Dick
9-0 The Iliad
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>>7763855
>300 is a lot
get a load of this pleb
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Dubs War & Peace
0 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2 Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire
3 Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix
4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
6 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
7 Tales of Beedle the Bard
8 Casual Vacancy
9 À la recherche du temps perdu
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1,4,9 -- old man of the sea
2,6,0 -- crying lot of 49
3,5,7 -- the odyssey
8 reroll
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>>7763908
Read thousands of books. Was talking about general people on /lit/, who do not read.
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1 Siddhartha
2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next
3 The Stranger
4 Remains of the Day
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude
6 Catch-22
7 East of Eden
8 White Noise
9 Kafka on the Shore
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dubs Tenth of December
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1-3 My Struggled volume 3
4-6 Ovid's Metamorphoses
7-9 Farewell to Arms
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>>7764468
kek
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>>7763613
1 - The Waves
2 - Light in August
3 - White Noise
4 - The Savage Detectives
5 - Jailbird
6 - The Magues
7 - The Third Reich
8 - A Brief History of Seven Killings
9 - Blood Meridian
0 - Reroll
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1-4: Gladiatoren by Fik Meijer
5-7: Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
8-0: Levenswerk: de Tien Sterkste Staaltjes van de Evolutie by Nick Lane
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1-3 Journey to the end of night
4-6 Molloy
7-9 Sorrows of young werther
0 Don't read, just chill.
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I read so much non-fiction for my course I hardly bother with reading for "fun"
Regardless:

1 - 4: Count of Monte Cristo
5 - 9: Siddhartha
Wildcard (0): Capital - Thomas Piketty
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0 In Search of Lost Time
1 Invitation to a Beheading
2 2666
3 Steppenwolf
4 Absalom! Absalom
5 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
6 Kafka on the Shore
7 A Brief History of Seven Kllings
8 Wolf Totem
9 Mason & Dixon
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1-3 Something Moliere
4-6 Something Shakespeare
7-9 Mansfield Park
0 Reroll
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So how many of you guys followed through? I'm >>7764490 but I'm scared of pinecone so I read olds man and the sea instead.
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1-3 The Peregrine
4-6 Don Quixote
7-9 decide later
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>>7766601
I'm already 70+ pages into the iliad, would be more if not for class.
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gr if odd
if if even
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0-2kokoro
3-5thesunalsorises
5-77100 years of solitude
7-9 9 salingers
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>>7766433
might as well burn that last one
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>>7766601
I had to re-read some parts of tcol49, but it's short, and probably his most accessible, I loved it, gibe it a try but the old semen is short, so if you started it, you might as well finish it
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>>7767565
>77100 years of solitude
That must be one lonely guy.
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>>7767579
Yeah I've got 10 pages left and I'm just taking a break to absorb it all before finishing. Gonna tackle tclo49 tomorrow, then back to the Greeks.
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1 iliad
2 my struggle 4
3 tolstoy confession
4 v.
5 almost transparent blue
6 tolstoy cossacks
7 infinite jest
8 crime and punishment
9 foundation trilogy
0 lord of the rings
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>>7768264
looks like you're fucked.
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0 Der Zauberberg
1 In Stahlgewittern
2 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
3 Our Lady of the Flowers
4 Story of the Eye
5 Ferdydurke
6 Spring Snow
7 No Longer Human
8 Some Prefer Nettles
9 The Woman in the Dunes
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>>7769815
Oh boy you're in for some fun
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>>7769815

We have four overlapping to read books.

Here's mine:

1.Austerlitz
2.Ferdyduke
3.The Woman in the Dunes
4.Story of the Eye
5.Our Lady of the Flowers (started, but became distracted)
6.Bleak House
7. Tender Buttons
8.Absalom, Absalom!
9.Bleeding Edge
0.The Waves
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>>7771176
I'm so disappointed we're not Ferdydurke palls.

>>7771142
I don't remember how it even ended up on my read list.
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0-4 Twelfth Night
5-9 Emma
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>>7771183

Me too. Read the man without qualities after ferdy. It's Joyce Proust tier.
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0-3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
4-6 - Portrait of the Artist
7-9 - East of Eden
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after I finish what I'm currently reading:
123- Camera Obscura- Hildebrand
456- Orlando- Woolf
789- Dubliners- Joyce
0- I finally force myself to finish 1984
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123 - Gravity's Rainbow
456 - East of Eden
789 - Light in August
0 - Ulysses
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Is Kokoro really that good?

I've always found Japanese authors too sentimental for my liking.
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>>7771227
proust and joyce were far better.
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>>7772698
shit actually, I'll let a random poster in this thread decide for me.


what do you think I should read, anon?
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>>7772718
east of eden.
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1-2 king lear
3-5 moby dick
6-8 best english poems anthology
9-0 hart crane's works
dubs ezra pound's works
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1-3 Portnoy's Complaint
4-6 Dr. Zhivago
7-9 Othello
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>>7772718
Light in August. You rolled it, faggot, you read it.
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1-3 On the Beach
4-6 One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
7-9 A Field Guide for Science Writers
0 Gravity's Rainbow
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0-9 Iliad
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1 L'assomoir -Zola
2 Le tartuffe -Moliére
3 Count of Monte Cristo -Dumas
4 The three musqeteers -Dumas
5 Foundation (please no) -Asimov
6 The geneaology of morals -Nietzsche
7 Père Goirot -Balzac
8 Faust -Goethe
9 L'isola del giorno prima -Eco
0 Narciss and Goldmund -Hesse
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1 neuromancer
2 quel gran pasticciaccio di via merulana
3 the sword of the lictor
4 extension du domaine de la lutte
5 the peloponnesian war
6 the mask of god
7 sublime object of ideology
8 on the genealogy of morality
9 Leaves of grass
0 il male oscuro
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>>7763613
this is a very good idea, but inb4 people use it an opportunity to brag about all the books they haven't read yet
1/2 Broom of the System
3/4 Q&A
5/6 Confessions of a Mask
7/8 Social Acupuncture
9/0 Get Me Out Of Here
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>>7773023
>brag about all the books they haven't read yet
Why would someone brag about this? I'm ashamed of all I haven't read yet.
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0 - 4 White Noise
5 - 9 Brief History of Seven Killings
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1-3 Under the Volcano
4-6 War and Peace
7-0 /lit/s choice (just make sure it's a classic cause I probably won't have some obscure shit on my kindle)
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1-3 - Upanishads
4-6 - Chekhov Short Stories
7-9 - History of Ancient Rome
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>>7773065
Cool, I absolutely adored Anna Karenina
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>>7773071
nooooo read under the volcano! lowry is criminally underrated
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>>7773054
I know, but I assume people are in part using this as a forum to name drop the challenging books that are in their queue. I'm just reminding them that bragging about all the books they haven't read is what they're doing, if that is what they're doing.
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>>7773068
fuck it I'll read chekhov anyway
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1 - The Man Without Qualities
2 - The Recognitions
3 - The Book of Disquiet
4. Infinite Jest
5 - The Waves
6 - Illuminations
7 - Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
8 - Finnegans Wake
9 - Montaigne's Essays
0 - In Search of Lost Time (the last 4 parts)
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0 / 1 Roll Again
2 Last Evenings on Earth
3 Perfume
4 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5 Brideshead Revisited
6 The Man in the High Castle
7 Riddley Walker
8 The Dumas Club
9 Julius Caesar
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1-3 Being And Nothingness
4-6 Phenomenology Of Perception
7-9 Divine Comedy
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This'll have to wait for when I finally clear myself up enough for it, but I can decide now.

1/2 - Eyeless in Gaza
3/4 - The Violent Bear it Away
5/6 - A Confederacy of Dunces
7/8 - The Merry Wives of Windsor
9 - Infinite Jest
0 - Anons reply to post and tell me what to read instead
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>>7763613
1-3 The Wealth of Nations
4-6 The Republic
7-9 Paine's two books i gots Rights of Man & Common Sense
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>>7773174
You're in for a hell of a time no matter which one you get.
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>>7775437
makes common sense i should read common sense first. followed by rights of man. then i can move forward
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