What have you read so far in 2016?
>A Poetry Handbook - Oliver
>The Elder Edda
>The Iliad
>Beowulf
>The Odyssey
>Prose Edda
>Theogony & Works and Days
>The Saga of the Volsungs
>Persians and Other Plays (Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound)
>Aspects of Wagner - Magee
r8 me lads
>I don't really give a fuck what you have read but I will ask anyway so I have an excuse to show off my list. Just how cool am I?
>>7791523
Well i probably wont, but there a possibility i will.
Also, boredom.
>>7791519
and currently reading The Gambler by Dosto...
>As I Lay Dying
>Lolita
>Dubliners
>Mythology
>Dune
>The Stranger
>The Trojan War
>Under the Volcano
>Blood Meridian
Death Of A Salesman - Miller
Hunger - Hamsun
Odyssey - Homer
Taras Bulba - Gogol
Apology, Menon and Cratilus - Plato
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
Wise Blood - O'Connor
Artificial Paradises - Baudelaire
Collected Stories - Faulkner
Mad Toy - Arlt
Kiss Of The Spider Woman - Puig
The Book Of Sand - Borges
Oblomov - Goncharov
Dubliners - Joyce
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Cathedral - Carver
Some short stories by Conrad and Chekhov
Currently reading Tristram Shandy. Hella funny
Mason & Dixon
Confessions of a mask
Invisible cities
The familiar volume 2
If on a winters night a traveler
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Dubliners
Starting Ulysses today
>>7791684
id reccomend not wasting your time on 39 steps... the pro is you can whip through it in a couple hours. the con is it has no substance at all, purely a thriller
Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
Oedipus trilogy
Huck Finn
Iliad
Odyssey
The Torrents of Spring
Crime and Punishment
The Singers
Bezhin Meadow
Mumu
The Sun Also Rises
Pere Goriot
M Train - Patti Smith
Spring Snow - Mishima
>>7791909
What did you think of Fathers and Sons?
>>7791981
I had already read russian stuff about that nihilism theme (Demons by Dosto as my fav desu), so it was a really comfy read since it's also pretty concise. The dialogues are fucking great tho.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Just Kids
Amsterdam Stories
Fight Club
Out of Mind
Quiet Days in Clichy
Chapel Road
Catch-22
Steppenwolf
The Darkroom of Damocles
Book Alpha
Beautiful Losers
Rituals
Tonguecat
and some poetry and short stories
Newfag so don't judge too harshly
Lolita
Slaughterhouse-Five (Reread)
1984
Of Mice and Men (Reread)
Hamlet
Dubliners
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Stoner
Siddhartha (Reread)
Notes From Underground
>>7791519
Mickey Mouse doesn't make sense and sounds like a raving Evolafag.
>>7791519
>man's search for meaning
> Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
this was quite booring
>4 hour work week
>think fast and slow
>Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
i read slow and dont even now why i choose half the books
>>7792605
Okay, I'll put up a trigger warning for you, Reddit.
>>7791519
>Suicide - Edouard Leve
>Journey to The End of The Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
>The Last Messiah - Peter Wessel Zapfe
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
Seeing things by Seamus Heaney
Living in the end times by Slavoj Zizek
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy
The wasteland by T.S. Elliot
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Anna Kerenina by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Only recently got into literature so starting to make my way through the classics.
> Rabbit At Rest - John Updike
> The Sea - John Banville
> The Kindness of Women - J.G. Ballard
> High-rise - J.G. Ballard
> Crash - J.G. Ballard
> Concrete Island - J.G Ballard
> The Divided Self - R.D. Laing
> The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise - R.D. Laing
> Civilization and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
> Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
> As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
> The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
I haven't finished a single goddamn book this year.
>>7792718
Did you like Crime and Punishment? What did you think of it compared to Anna?
>>7791519
The Last Year of Leo Tolstoy - Valentine Bulgakov
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Confession - Leo Tolstoy
halfway through The Aethetics of Resistance - Peter Weiss
>>7792732
How's "High-Rise"? I've recently watched "World on a Wire" by Fassbinder (not to be confused with Fassbender, although ironically the latter stars in the film adaptation of High-Rise) and was told they share some stylistic similarities.
>>7792767
If I had to pick one I'd probably say Anna would be my favourite of the two (might change the more I think about them and when I reread them). Both books are great but I seem to prefer Tolstoy as a writer. Bare in mind Anna is the first Tolstoy I've read and I'm yet to read the idiot or brothers Karamzov which might change my mind.
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Suttree - McCarthy
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
Night - Elie Wiesel
Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki - Murakami
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Patriotism - Mishima
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche
>>7792810
It's a wonderful combination of gripping storytelling and perverse humour that, as with all of Ballard's work, has an oddly transcendental quality. I'm not sure if you've ever read any Ballard before but he's not a writer to take at face value: yes, High-rise is nominally a social critique, a Lord of the Flies re-booted for the modern world, but it's also much, much more, a novel that doesn't quite take itself seriously and seems to at times even champion the social degeneration and alienation inherent in the urban landscape.
I think most people take the novel as some sort of commentary on how the modern world has blunted our sense of community by sealing us away inside the four walls of our concrete cells. IMO, High-rise is actually a celebration of the pathologies of modern life, a hymn to the sinister promise of emerging technologies.
Read, and then re-read.
>>7792914
Thanks, that's what I will be reading next, then!
The Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace
Infinite Jest
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The Recognitions
The Tunnel
Don Quixote
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason and Dixon
The Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick
up next: The Name of the Wind
>>7791519
Not fucking enough.
>Ulysses (finished early in the year)
>Soul by Platonov (highly rec'd)
>Roadside Picnic
>Family Ties by Lispector (highly rec'd)
>A collection of Gogol's shorts (also rec'd)
>>7792955
way too much stimulus in those works to really digest in 2 months
>>7791684
Love Murakami, but hated the 39 steps. Made no sense to me.
>>7791917
Tried to read a portrait of the artist as a young man like a billion times, but it always loses me.
>>7792599
Pretty much the angsty self titled 'genius' teenage goth shortlist right there.
Devta
À la recherche du temps perdu
The Recognitions
Ulysses
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Summa Theologica
Augustine's Confessions
Divine Comedy
Zettels Traum
Women and Men
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Les Misérables
Atlas Shrugged
Infinite Jest
Mahabarata
I re-read the Bible between each book so I'm reading that next
