>Last book you read
>Book you're currently reading
>Book you'll read next
Try to guess facts about each other.
>>7832485
Last
Light in August
Current
Typee
Next
Cassandra at the Wedding
>Last
Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman - Laurence Sterne
>Current
Anabasis - Xenophon
Tractatus logico-philosophicus - Wittgenstein
>Next
V. - Pynchon
>>7832505
I remember the summer after high school, I decided to read as much as possible. Morning, evening, late night; I was going through books like breathing. Tristram Shandy stopped me cold. It took me a month to get through it because I just knew this was something that had to be enjoyed patiently.
Funnily enough, I was planning on rereading V. after Typee, but I've had Cassandra... sitting on my shelf for too long.
>>7832485
>Last
Rudolf Rocker - Anarcho Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
>Current
Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
>Next
Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects The State
>>7832522
You're less than 20
>last
Kawamata Chiaki - Death Sentences. I highly recommend this to everybody here it's really fucking good
>Current
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
>Next
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
>>7832485
>will you please be quiet, please?
>sanctuary by faulkner
>i don't know
>>7832503
you care a lot about what you look like while reading
>>7832505
you're cool as fuck
>>7832522
you define yourself based on the twitter accounts you follow
>>7832529
you have better things to do than read books
>>7832555
>following people in twitter
>in the year of our lord 1204+812
>Last
Things Fall Apart
>Current
Manon Lescaut
>Next
no clue. Maybe Junky.
>Last
Plainsong
>Current
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
>Next
Mason & Dixon, probably
>last
Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony and other short stories, Kafka
>current
The Trial, Kafka
>next
Sult (Hunger), Hamsun
>>7832485
Last: Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Current: The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
Next: The Radetzky March -Joseph Roth
A fairly eclectic mix of books.
I just finished Red Mars today, and it was pretty good. Relatively harder science fiction, or it at least tried to be, about the settlement of Mars.There were some fuzzy edges around the science. It still kept a very major focus on the characters and how humans were effected by various developments. Despite dragging on at parts, I still liked it a lot. Very enthralling plot for the most part.
The Man Who Was Thursday, I'm going in fairly blind. I'm familiar with G.K. Chesterton, a famous distributist Catholic philosopher, but this is one of his fictional works. It's about a secret anarchist society threatening London, where the members identify with days of the week. Thursday is the leader, naturally. A detective must infiltrate this group and foil its dastardly plot. We'll see how that turns out.
The Radetzky March, hopefully I can get into by the time I go to Vienna. It is a historical fiction generational story, of an Austro-Hungarian peasant family, that after the father saves the leader from a murder attempt. The book explores how the family and subsqeunt generations deals with being elevated to noble status and how their fortunes rise and fall. It was published in 1932, and it also in metaphor and in actual setting covers the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I'm looking forward to reading this one for sure.
>>7832590
How did you like Things Fall Apart?
>>7832485
>Last
Greek Lyric Poetry (OWC)
>Current
History of Medieval Spain by Joseph O'Callaghan
>Next
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
>>7832522
I feel like you're in college.
Last book teach you a lot?
>The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
>Moby Dick
>The next book that falls in my hand at the uni library
>>7832629
Big uni library at least?
>>7832619
It's incredibly interesting if you're looking for an introduction to the history and theory of Anarcho-Syndicalism, as well as the application of it in Anarchist Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Otherwise, you might just see it as another leftist political book.
>>7832615
What did you think of that Greek Poetry book? I been considering the Amazon one because its massive, but its a bit expensive because its out of print
>Last
100 years of solitude (didn't enjoy it too much)
>Current
War and Peace (it is great)
>Next
Don't know yet
>last
2666
>current
journey to the end of the night
blood meridian
>next
savage detectives
a history of philosophy
>>7832648
>>7832641
Alright. The ideas of Anarcho-Syndicalism are fairly fascinating, In comparison to Marxists, I like how they admit that any "Worker's State" would eventually become like any other state; in their view, only enriching themselves or those in power.
I think that these are very rational concerns, even if I personally feel they can probably be mitigated enough to make the existence of a state do far more overall good than bad.
How'd it work outl when it was applied in Anarchist Spain?
Last: for whom the bell tolls
Current: crime and punishment
Next: Canterbury tales
>>7832643
>the Amazon one
I meant the Penguin Classics one on Amazon
>>7832650
What didn't you like about 100 years of solitude?
I haven't read it but I always see it on "best of" lists of novels and as a shining example of Latin literature.
>>7832485
>last
The Lime Twig, The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
>current
Cannonball, Lost in the Funhouse
>next
The Cantos, Milkbottle H, JR
>Last
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Current
The Odyssey
>Next
Hamlet
>>7832671
I'm not a big fan of magical realism, seems a bit cheesy to me. I preferred other works by Marquez who are less filled with this magical realism like Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It is good though, just not exactly my thing
L' Etranger-Camus
Seamus Heaney's Selected Poetry
Tarr—Wyndham Lewis
>Last
My Friend Dhamer
>Current
Invisible
>Next
Not sure, maybe Infinite Kek
>>7832666
In Anarchist Spain, when socialism was introduced (and in some parts money disposed) productivity of goods in factories increased over 400% within 3 months, and starvation dropped. There was also a decline in prostitution as well as an overall decrease in crime. Suffice to say, it worked quite well until the combined forces of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and to some extent Stalin, crushed it. I think it's amazing they lasted the 3 years they did, considering their opponents.
>>7832667
>>7832677
I always get a little suspicious when I see people on these threads that just have these ultra well known, "best of" books on their lists.
These books don't have too much of a common thread other than they are all incredible hallmarks of literature you'd find when looking up "best literature".
I don't know, did you guys just come across actual good literature and you know are trying to catch up as fast as you can? Are you trying to impress someone?
>>7832640
Yes but no, the library in itself is big but as I am doing an English literacy degree, I try to only read books in English and the English part of the library is quite small. Tho they have all the "classics"
>Last
Walden/On Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
>Current
On America - Susan Sontag
>Next
The Prince - Machiavelli
>Last
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
>Current
Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland
>Next
Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
I'm working my way through a bunch of crime/detective/mystery fiction if you can't tell. Prepping to teach a class on it for my student teaching
>last
Atomised
>Current
Beyond Good and Evil
>next
another Houellebecq. I've read Whatever - recommendations?
>>7832590
you contradicted your teachers a lot in secondary school
>>7832593
you're gentle and meditative and used to be embarrassed by that
>>7832594
you have a job that doesn't require you to talk to other people
>>7832607
you have generally good intentions but lack empathy
>>7832615
if your favorite bookstore closed down, you'd stop reading
>>7832629
you're gonna come out on top
>>7832667
you see reading as a means to an end rather than an end in itself
>>7832650
you didn't read very often as a child
>>7832677
masculinity confuses you
>>7832485
Syrian Yankee - Salom Rizk
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
The Aesthetics of Resistance - Peter Weiss
>>7832485
> Solaris
> The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
> The Design of Everyday Things or maybe I, Claudius
>>7832485
Last
Oblivion
Current
George Mills
Next
The Butt; An Exit Strategy
>>7832693
400 percent is pretty incredible, if a little unbelievable. I typed it into google with some key words but couldn't find anything. I'll presume it's just in the book, which is fair enough. Not all information is online.
I just wonder if that's true, how inefficiently the capitalists (I presume they were capitalists, maybe fascists?) were working that factory before. Capitalism is generally supposed to be efficient with that sort of thing. Even fascists should know how to run a factory better than that.
You say they gave up money in some parts. Did they just revert to bartering instead of money?
>>7832485
>last
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
>now
The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
>next
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen
I started too many books, Basic Economics, Ask the dust, On the heights of Despair, The Sociological Imagination, I can't believe the last book I finished was Stoner and that was 3 months ago.
>>7832705
>The Prince - Machiavelli
I would recommend you to lookup his character a bit to understand the context in which he wrote the book, tl dr: The governor's of Firenze/Florence, the Mediici Family once they seized the power yet again, they deposed him of his political role, had him arrested for having helped the republic and accusing him of conspiring, had him tortured and he wrote this while under a sort of "house arrest" it was sent privately to them.
The end justifies the means was never said by him, he did say that end was the State though.
>>7832756
how far into gravity's memebow are you
been on a serious irish lit journey as of late; started with waiting for godot as an introduction, which led me to reread some joyce, which led me to ulysses, which i'm reading now for the first time (200pgs in).
probably going to read some oscar wilde or yeats. i've been pissed at myself because i haven't read dubliners yet, and i don't remember the odyssey.
any recs dudes? i'm really into playful and inventive narrative, so faulkner, joyce, conrad... should i delve into virginia woolf? i have her books, but haven't read them yet.
>>7832758
finished the first part, still not sure what to think of it
>Last
On Killig
>Current
The Liturgical Year by Dom Prosper Gueranger
>Next
Gawain and the Green Knight
>>7832756
>Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Do you think Daniel Defoe portrayed Crusoe as one carrying "the white man's burden" colonizing and helping the "savages" as a serious thing or was he making fun of UK or what?
>last
As I Lay Dying
>current
Gravity's Rainbow
>Next
Nadja
>>7832725
Ah, at last someone evaluates me. I'm inclined to disagree with your judgement, but the view from the inside is always very biased.
>tfw no one ever replies because your taste is too patrician.
>>7832741
It's not that the capitalists were unproductive, it's mainly that there had been a dip in production prior to the civil war, paired with the fact that the factories could now produce to their hearts content and not have to worry about silly capitalist thoughts, like 'profit'.
>>7832762
>playful and inventive narrative
How about "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa", is a fun read I think, rather light (at least by the italian translation I read), it goes "literary deep" without confusing you.
>Last
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
>Current
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne
>Next
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
>>7832705
I've always been tempted to read Sontag's novels. How's this one? The premise, at least, sounds good.
>>7832762
Have you read The Dead, by James Joyce? I would presume not, because it's in Dubliners.
You absolutely should read that ASAP, one of the most magnificent short stories I have ever read.
A link if you should be so inclined:
http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/958/\
It ties into the themes Dubliners discusses, but it can be read very much so as a stand alone story. It's a fairly quick read.
Also, if you're into inventive narrative and Irish lit, you should absolutely check out ,"Cré na Cille”, or "Churchyard Clay". There are several Irish to English translations existing, it was only recently translated though.
Supposedly one of the best Irish novels of all time, and unappreciated by much of the English world for a while due to lack of translation. It features inventive narration in that the main characters are all corpses buried in a graveyard during World War Two.
The book has no plot to speak of and unfolds entirely through dialogue. This is the interesting, although clickbaity titled, article I read about it in:
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-irish-novel-thats-so-good-people-were-scared-to-translate-it
>>7832778
Ah, I got it. Checks out.
>>7832799
One long allegory for Helena Modjeska's life.
I love it thus far, and she isn't one to stray from delving it the crevices of a man's thoughts.
Parts of it really drag, but altogether a worthwhile read.
>>7832725
>if your favorite bookstore closed down, you'd stop reading
I'm curious how you got to that, I get all my books on Amazon.
>>7832702
What country is this? Are English classics respected much there?
>>7832802
bless. yes,i had figured dubliners would be necessary for ulysses, but i wanted to just get on with it while school is out, so i can really focus on it, and not be bogged down with other readings.
thanks bro. this is some heavy shit.
>>7832820
What would you do if Amazon went under?
>Last book you read
Infinite Jest
>Book you're currently reading
The Art of the Deal
>Book you'll read next
Something on Austrian economics
>>7832836
Probably go to the library? I was just wondering why those books came out to that conclusion.
>À l'ombre de jeunes filles en fleurs
>Le côté de Guermantes
>Sodome et Gomorrhe
>>7832802
Not that guy but, is The Dead some kind of outlier in Dubliners? I have The Dead in a short story collection and I don't know if I should get Dubliners.
I mean, I'll probably end up getting it and reading all the other stories in it anyway, but should I expect the same thing as with The Dead?
>>7832844
Yeah, seemed weird to me too. You would have to be a real NEET to give up like that.
>>7832851
Well, the stories all deal with the idea of some life-shattering epiphany. Some of them are less life shattering than others of course, it builds.
You should expect a similar epiphany type structure but keep in mind the ideas discussed will change.
If you liked The Dead a lot, you'll probably at least appreciate the rest.
>>7832868
No.
Last
>In Cold Blood
Current
>Moby Dick
Next
>Henry IV
>>7832643
The Oxford World Classics one is very short, nearly half the book is the Introduction and end notes. I enjoyed it a lot. It's a really quick read, largely because the poems are often fragmented and short. Also can be disorienting, as it throws a lot of authors from a lot of different times and places at you very quickly. But still, it was fun read. Don't think I got that much out of it, but I don't regret reading it.
>>7832873
John Edwards says he talks to dead people.
Basically the South Park kids found out that John Edward makes somewhat vague claims on the hope that someone will relate and expand on it.
He just makes guesses because when he gets it right people believe he can talk to the dead.
I was suggesting that maybe >>7832820 was doing the same thing, except with personality rather than dead people.
>last
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities Volume IV
>current
Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, Volume V
>next
Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, Volume VI
get me off this wild ride
>last
rawls - a theory of justice
>current
barth - sot weed factor
>next
i can't see that far ahead
>>7832485
>Last
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (didn't finish though - one day I will)
>Current
The Taker by Alma Katsu
>Next
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
>>7832922
Dr. Zhivago and A Brief History of Time
Fuck yeah, anon
Congrats on the dubs
>>7832907
Haha, that's probably true, but to be fair it's hard to make more than vague claims off of 3 books. I'm just curious because his answer seemed really disconnected from the books.
>>7832901
Are the notes necessary? Do you think one with more poems but no notes would be a worse purchase?
>>7832485
>Last book you read
The Road
>Book you're currently reading
The Road
>Book you'll read next
The Road
Come at me.
>>7832922
>A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
How does /lit/ feel about science books?
I mean non-fiction and non-technical ones like the ones Carl Sagan wrote?
I love reading them, but I always had the impression that /lit/ would shit on me if I made a thread about them.
>>7832942
Hmm, good question. The notes were mostly for people coming in totally cold. If you have a solid grasp of ancient Greek religion/ritual/geography/politics you'd be fine without them.
I did find them helpful in that they helped me reorient when the book jumped 100 years forward to a new author. But for the most part it was just stuff like "Leto's son: Apollo," or "X: a village in Boeotia." The Introduction was much more interesting.
>Last
Neuromancer
>Current
Cocaine Nights (JG Ballard)
Ulysses (for the second time, last time I read it I wasn't ready)
>Next
Some Etgar Keret, maybe. I still haven't finished my Nabokov translation of Eugene Onegin.
To anyone who has seen High-Rise recently or who hasn't picked up a Ballard yet - PLEASE, PLEASE DO. His oeuvre is enormous, very varied and unfailingly thought-provoking. There's the limpid, beautiful short stories of Vermilion Sands, the masterful high SF of The Drowned World, the crazy, revolutionary and prescient avant-garde satire of Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition, modern middle-class satire in Millennium People, one of the greatest war novels ever written in Empire of the Sun (nothing like the sentimental film, the book is eerie, hollow and bleak, brutal without being prurient) and then the taut, philosophically complex later novels of his like Super-Cannes and Kingdom Come. Jean Baudrillard, Will Self, China Mieville, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Christopher Hitchens all speak very highly of him. Jump in if you can find a space in your reading list, there really is something for everyone in his oeuvre.
>last
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
>current
2666
>next
idk
>>7832949
10/10
>>7832485
Infinite Jest
Submission
The TeXbook
>last
The Stranger — Camus
>current
A Man Cannot Cry — Keverne
>next
Not sure yet.
>>7832969
Well I been reading Ovid so hopefully I'll be good without the notes to get the big Penguin's version before it disappears off the market. Thanks for the info man
>>7832696
Maybe they are younger than you and are just getting into books. Nothing wrong with that. Those are all great books.
>>7833165
>last
Book of disquiet
>current
Lolita
>next
Pynchon
You seem quite The melancholic type i guess
>>7832696
You're a pretentious dweeb. Who cares whether they're trying to "catch up" or not, would you prefer they just didn't read classic/essential lit whatsoever?
>last
Stoner
>current
The trial
>next
Wish you were here (Douglas Adams self-biography)
>>7833184
What's your take on Lolita so far?
>last
War and Peace
>current
The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
>next
Metamorphoses
>>7833202
quirky, doesn't fit in, wishes he could but knows he can't and deep down kind of likes it
>Last
Kokoro
>Current
Journey to the End of the Night
>Next
The book of Disquiet
>last
apex
>current
the neutronium alchemist
>next
the naked god, maybe. Not sure if I'll take a break, the night's dawn books are huge and I feel like I need something lighter.
>>7833177
Link to the penguin version? I picked up the oxford during the recent sale but haven't read it yet.
>previously
Animal Farm
>currently
The Hobbit/Mabinogion
>next
probably something by virginia woolf
>Last
Ulysses
>Current
V
House of Leaves
>Next
Not sure yet. I feel like reading something 20th century American. Recs anyone?
>last
TCoL49
>Current
Iliad
>Next
Odyssey
>>7832851
Most people agree The Dead is the best story. The rest are fantastic however and you should read them. The Dead is the longest by far.
last: dead souls
current: the idiot
next: crime & punishment
>>7832704
Yeah Ulysses is next on my list. Finished the Odyssey a couple hours ago and am gonna start Hamlet shortly. I read it back in hs but don't remember it too well.
Crime and Punishment
The daVinci Code
Lolita
>Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? or Umineko Chiru episodes 5-8 if you count that since that's like 40 hours of reading
>Kokoro
>DFW's 500 page suicide note
>>7833267
http://smile.amazon.com/Greek-Anthology-Ancient-Epigrams-Classics/dp/0140442855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458511127&sr=8-1&keywords=greek+anthology
I believe this is it, but I'm having trouble finding the exact page that I had found before
>>7833283
I really liked Animal Farm and The Hobbit. I want to read the Mabinogion someday, what are your thoughts so far?
>>7833413
The book I have is divided into the four branches of the mabinogion, then three arthurian romance tales.
I read the first branch and it was enjoyable, but it's an old victorian translation that feels very literal and comes across a bit stiff while reading (if that makes any sense). Nevertheless there's a lot of pretty imagery so far, and I'd reccomend picking it up.
>>7832485
Farenheit 451
Anna Karenina
Moby Dick
Hardbacks because I like to be poor
The Book of Disquiet
Oblomov
East of Eden
Havamal
The art of war
and last but not least Thus spoke zarathustra will be next.
>>7832696
Go fuck yourself.
>>7832485
>last
Freud & Jung
>Current
Atlas Shrugged
>Next
The Freud Reader
>>7833566
>Atlas Shrugged
Are you planning on finishing it?
I couldn't get into the prose, it was a drag to read. I didn't want to be tied down so I stopped read it.
Already knew the philosophy anyway, I didn't need all that.
>last
ulysses by jj
>now
underworld by dd
physics by aristotle
paradise lost
plutarch's lives
>next
infinite jest
gravitys rainbow
>Last
Steppenwolf
>Current
Narcissus and Goldmund
>Next
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Last
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
>Current
A Clash of Kings by George R R Martin
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
> Next
Ulysses by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Last: Book of the New Sun
Current: War and peace
Next: A canticle for leibowitz
>>7833598
You're about to enter adulthood and have big plans for when you do. Whether you'll be able to complete them is another story.
The Aeneid
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
The Republic
>Last Book
Brave New World, Huxley
>Current Book
The Hobbit, Tolkien
>Next Book
The Trial, Kafka
>Last book you read
The memeing of lot 49
>Book you're currently reading
The Secret History
>Book you'll read next
Ficciones
>Man seeking woman
>IJ, The Architecture of Happiness.
>Gravity's Rainbow
>>7833557
are you an edgy ROTC or JROTC cadet?
Three musketeers
The Sound and The Fury
Dead Souls
>>7832485
last
stefan zweig - beware of pity
current
ayn rand - atlas shrugged
next
probaly the post office girl or another zweig novel
>>7832485
>don quixote
was p good, long as shit for what it was going for
>infinite jest
i want to drop this boring shit so much, but its interesting
>no longer human
i need something short
>>7832485
>The death of Ivan Ilych
>The mother
>I'll probably read the second book of My Struggle
>>7832529
how do you like crying of lot 49?
>last
Kokoro
>current
The Pale King
>Next
either Baron in the Trees or Sophocles' Theban plays
>>7833655
you have "good" taste in beer but you admittedly only drink socially
>>7833583
you're skinnier than you'd like to be, and sometimes work out to fill out a little but you never end up sticking to a routine
>>7832696
>>7832725
I just recently got into reading, so I am reading the classics first. I will then read more of the authors I enjoy the most and their influences
>>7832704
bretty gud, i like how the characters deal with their mixture of pride and inner distress; but I feel that I sometimes dont get stuff on the monologues the characters usually have in dosto's stories
>>7832485
>>Last book you read
Stoner
>>Book you're currently reading
Odyssey
>>Book you'll read next
The corrections
>The Golem
>Dracula
>Our Ancestors
>Last book you read
Crippled America
>Book you're currently reading
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>Book you'll read next
Don Quixote
>last read
"Gutshot" by Amelia Gray
>currently reading
"The Lonely City" by Olivia Laing
>up next
Either "Crash" by JG Ballard or "A Collapse of Horses" by Brian Evenson
>>7832485
>last book
Soul - Platonov
>currently reading
Crime and Punishment
> next
Probably Fathers and Sons
On a huge Russian kick. I think I'll read one more after Turgenev, then start re-reading stuff for the rest of the year.
>>7833304
Depends. Turn-of-the-/early-century? Mid-century? Late? Does it matter?
I'd recommend Gaddis' The Recognitions. It's long, complex and beautiful.
>last book
the razors edge ( it was good )
>currently reading
blood meridian ( sucks so far )
>reading next
the glass bead game
>Last book
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"Bag of Bones" by Stephen King
>Current book
No Longer Human
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
>Next book
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Catch-22
Suttree
Moby-Dick
For Whom the Bell Tolls or Dubliners
>>7832485
>Last
Aspects of Wagner - Magee
>Current
Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
The Philosophy of History - Hegel
>Next
The Nibelungenlied
>>7834036
How's Moby Dick been? Been interested in that one. How far along are you?
>>7834048
Halfway through. It's been overwhelming at times with the sheer gravity of its prose and its numerous mythological references prompted me to study that on the side so as to better understand the text.
It's a challenge, but the sense of fulfillment swells with each page.
>>7834067
Seems like you like it. Will look into reading. Interested in Norton Critical Edition.
>The Cambridge History Of French Literature
>Corneille's Horace
>Pic Related
>>7834014
>found the bait
>>7834094
found the sperg
Last was Heart of Darkness
current is notes from the underground
Next will be the count of monte cristo
>>7834094
What's so wrong about it?
>Last
The Divine Comedy
>Current
Infinite Jest
>Next
Gravity's Rainbow
>>7834324
>memeing this hard
>Last
1984
>Current
Catcher in the rye
>Next
Probably Nine Stories
>last
The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
>current
Metamorphosis - Kafka
>next
No idea, probably something from Hemingway that's not For Whom the Bell Tolls/Farewell to Arms/Islands in the Stream
>>7832485
>last
Infinite Jest & truffaut interviews with hitchcock
>current
Infinite Jest
>next
Infinite Jest & some other book
I am not even joking
>>7833632
you have asked your high school professor for some cool books.
>>7834044
why are so many philosophy nerds so fucking horny for all of this old germanic übermensch bullshit? Read the edda saga, its better than wagners shit.
>>7834397
found the 16 year old
>>7834436
chill, at least he is reading while it is still ok to live in your stepdads basement
>>7833700
I'm on chapter five. It's really good. I don't get why people think pynchon is a meme author the man is probably the most quintessential american writer
>>7834441
of course it's okay to still live there if your 16
>>7834442
probably because he is a meme
and shit genre fiction
>>7834449
>your
>>7834456
*ur
>last
Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery
>current
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
>next
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
>>7832485
Last
Jane Eyre
Current
Les Miserables(only 200 pages left, my mind's asshole is so ready to be done with this amazing assfucking)
Next
Tale of Genji
read: Complete Works of William Blake
reading: Complete Works of William Blake
Want to read: IJ, ulysses, the divine comedy (all rereads dont jump on me)
>>7834400
You're a lone wolf. The people in your life tell you to get out more, but you feel that you get out too much as it is. You wouldn't call yourself a drinker, but you will down a glass of wine without hesitation. You don't appreciate meditation, but when you sleep you try to find clarity of mind and reflect into yourself before falling asleep. Also, you're probably single, but your last girlfriend cheated on you - you're better off without that slut.
I usually rotate reading through about 3-4 books at once. Currently reading 'The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 cent. Not a big 50 cent fan, its no where near as good as 48 laws but its a good read.
'Behold A Pale Horse' by William Cooper. Flat out good read.
'$weet Jone$: Pimp C's Trill Life Story'
Love this book. A long read but very funny and entertaining.
Fun Fact: Pimp C read 4 librarys worth of books while he was in jail in Texas. Supposedly, 4 librarys worth of information is what the CIA gathers on a daily basis. This man said in one of his songs to read 48 laws, Behold a Pale Horse and Secret Societies of America back in early 2000. He is also on video saying he doesn't know what a 'synonym' is. Very smart man. Knew exavtly how to play the game.
R.I.P Pimp C
Waiting on amazom to deliver 'The Spirit Molecule' by Rick Strassman and 'War Is a Racket' by Smedley D. Butler.
>Mr. Sammler's Planet
>Moby-Dick
>Death in Venice
>last
Childhood's End
>current
The New Testament (New American Bible)
>next
Love in the Ruins
>>7834666
Satanic trips tells me that you are concerned about the status of your soul. Repent and may you find your peace.
>Last Book: The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
>Current Book: Beerspit Night and Cursing, the Collected Letters of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli
>Next Book: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
I'll be in England for about two weeks. Wish me luck, lads.
>>7834846
holy fuck she used to be hot
>>7834850
Not bad, eh? The Duchess of Cambridge has nice thighs.
>>7834846
wtf is she sitting on
>>7832485
>last "book"
I've just finished Plato's Apology and then Xenophon's.before that uh..some essays
>currently reading
none
>next
i don't know. maybe Anabasis or parts of Critique
>>7832503
What's Typee like? Obviously I thought Moby Dick was GOAT but I'm not sure about his other stuff, it sounds a bit like romance-y escapism.
last: The Great Gatsby
current: Beloved
next: Lolita
>>7833304
What'd you think of Ulysses?
>>7833566
Hello fellow Freudian. What's your take on 'Freud & Jung' ?
>midnights children
>collected stories of clarice lispector
>queen of the damned
>>7834902
You like your roasties toasted
Last
Lolita
Current
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>>7834910
>takes the lit memes seriously
>>7834910
You use anime as a substitute for human interaction, at this point in your life you've heard more synthetically feminised voices than you have those of real women's. You probably couldn't get an erection to porn that isn't hentai any more. Last night you stayed up 8 hours listening to nightcore and crying.
>>7832485
>Last
The Tempest
>current
The Bell Jar
>Next
Swann's Way
>last
Northanger Abbey
>current
Oblomov
>next
Haven't decided yet
>>7834922
You're definitely not a casual. You've probably been reading classics for several years now or you are enrolled in a literature program at university. Grats, bro.
Last: Fear the sky
Current: Fear the Survivors
Next:Fear the Future(Probably)
God tier Sci-fi Saga
>last
We Have Never Been Modern
>current
Photopoetics at Tlatelolco, Afterimages of Mexico 1968
>next
?
>>7834917
You are delusional about your literacy.
>>7834937
Thank u
Guns, Germs and Steel
Portrait of the Artist and Gravity's Rainbow
Better Angels of Our Nature (or the Idiot)
>>7834946
i'm neither of them, but gz fooling 2 anons on /lit/ just now bro
>>7834946
So this is what you rehearsed in case somebody called out your plebbit taste?
Last
Shadow over Innsmouth by Howard P. Lovecraft
Now
Dubliners by James Joyce
Next
I don't know
Maybe another Lovecraft story
Last:
Paul the Peddler by Horatio Alger, Jr.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Current:
The Tunnel by Bill Gass
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Next:
The complete short stories of Hemingway, probably
>last
Campo Cerrado by Max Aub
>current
La Tregua by Mario Benedetti
Infinite Jest by DFW
>next
Paris-Austerlitz by Rafael Chirbes
>>7834434
>Read the edda saga
I already did you prole.
>Last
The Plague by Albert Camus
>Current
The Iliad
>Next
The Odyssey
>Last: The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean
>Current: The Crying of Lot 49
>Next: Trinity by Leon Uris
I'm all over the place
>can't remember anymore
>Canterbury Tales
>at this point beginning to have doubts as to ever getting to read something else
Meditations
Moby Dick
Some Nabokov, Lolita or the defense
>Last
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
>Current
Book Of The New Sun - Gene Wolfe
>Next
Don't know, maybe reread The Recognitions
2666
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
The Golden Bough
>Last
On War - Clausewitz
>Current
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife - John Nagl
>Next
Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
- Joris Karl Huysmann - à rebour
- Clausewitz - On War
- Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Light in August
>High-Rise
>>7835182
Have you read the rest of Aub's "Laberinto mágico" novels? I read Campo de almendras back in university and loved it, but the rest of his novels were checked out for the remainder of the year.
>>7834865
It really is romantic escapism, sprinkled with some ponderings on human nature and society, but not as much as Moby Dick. It's good fun if you're looking for high seas adventure, but I honestly prefer his later works.
Three stigmata
Valis
Probably a chem or calc book
>last
Catch-22
>now
Lucky Jim and Shadows of Carcosa
>next
Dirty Snow or 2666
>>7835333
You have OCD
>>7832594
You're a 19 year old student getting into literature for the first time and you loved The Metamorphosis and may have even looked into magical realism but couldn't find anything close enough.
>>7832675
You're very patient and probably more high-brow than your friends in general.
>>7833128
DXM?
>>7833145
Working through a post-modern booklist.
>>7833256
A lonely soul but you're mostly at peace with it.
>>7833583
You have a ton of free time. If you work it's only part-time. You're probably just a student though with a major that's not too intense for you.
>>7833911
You don't believe in god but you're spiritual, in not in the checking-your-horoscope kind of way.
>>7835429
Do you have an incest fantasy?
number9dream by David Mitchell
Ulysses
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
>>7832485
>Last
The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
>Current
VALIS - Phillip K Dick
>Next
Wind, Sand & Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>>7832696
I'm in the same boat as them. I just recently got into reading and I'm just trying to read the best that the world has to offer before I go off exploring my own personal tastes
>>7835583
That's fucking retarded.
>>7835551
You have some problems with your taste pal
>>7835475
You're enjoying reading a wide range of books possibly for the first time, still in that joyous phase of experimentation that comes with getting into literature proper.
>>7835504
I guess that you're a cool motherfucker and I would like to talk to you about whether you think Gaijin Murakami the novel is any good.
>>7835551
You probably don't have a beard.
Last book I finished was Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Currently I'm reading both Murakami's 1Q84 and Naked Lunch. Next I plan to read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
>>7835599
VALIS?
I thought a 'taste' had to be developed, by reading at large.
>Last book you read
Butcher's Crossing
>Book you're currently reading
Lonesome Dove
>Book you'll read next
Suttree
>>7835678
Ah yes, the rarely-acknowledged but enjoyable western phase. Make sure to look into Warlock by Oakley Hall.
>Last book you read
Gargantua and Pantagruel
>Book you're currently reading
Don Quixote
>Book you'll read next
The Clouds
Asimov Prelude to Foundation
Sanderson The way of kings
Shopenhauer World as Will And idea
>>7835607
>I guess that you're a cool motherfucker
*blushes*
number9dream is not as slick as his later work. That's normal of course, it was published in 2009. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the main "real" story with the fictional one, that caught me off my guard at first. I enjoyed the first book of 1q84 very much, but the other two were a bit of a drag.
>>7835593
But why?
Last:Divine comedy
Current:The Gulag Archapeligo
Next:Brave new world
>>7835787
>Next:Brave new world
Don't.
It's a waste of time
>>7835798
Why is it a waste of time?
I loved that book. It's even more relevant today than when it was written.
Unless you're one of those people who reads solely for plot. I even liked the plot, but could see how others might not.
Last:
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Current:
>Pale Fire
Next:
>The Magic Mountain
>>7832485
>Stoner
>Portrait of Dorian Gray
>Infinite Jest
>As I Lay Dying
Last
Stoner
Current
Paradise Lost
Next
Not sure, maybe V or Ulysses
>>7832485
>Kokoro
>48 Laws of Power
>Ranger's Apprentice
>>7832485
>Last
John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power
>current
On Liberty: J.S. Mill
>Next
The Wealth of Nations
>>7835827
Psychedelic core
>>7835939
funny because I'm actually thinking about tripping for the first time
>>7832485
>Last
Foucault's Pendulum
>Currently
2010: A Space Odyssey
>Next
Something Habermas wrote.
>>7835958
On what?
If you're thinking about DXM, PCP or some other ghetto shit, then don't.
LSD, LSA, shrooms, mescaline, DMT (not for a first timer though) and peyote are the good ones.
>>7836036
Definitely will be LSD if i decide to, not going to do mescaline right after reading fear and loathing though
>>7835895
you have an inferiority-complex
>Last book I read
Anatole France - The Gods Will Have Blood
>Book you're currently reading
Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
>Book you'll read next
I don't know yet, but it's probably going to be either The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah, or Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man
>>7835871
I think we could be friends. Stoner is great.
Finished The postman
And have just sent Babyfucker to my kindle.
Next thing I plan to read is some of camus' plays, nor sure which yet.
Mr Ma and Son - Lao She
Fortress Besieged - Qian Zhongshu
Next:
Our Twisted Hero - Yi Munyol
> Last
The Crying of Lot 49
> Current
Moby Dick
> Next
either The Trial or The Martian (somebody gave me their copy of it and I'd like to read it so I can discuss it with them sometime)
>>7836195
I'm about to pick up TCoL 49, what did you think of it
>>7836200
I loved it. It's very accessible for Pynchon and was very enjoyable. It's short so you'll probably finish it in a day to a week depending on your schedule, so it doesn't overstay its welcome either. Just don't try to speed read it; take your time because some passages are still very dense.
The Trial- Franz Kafka
Hitler's War- David Irving
The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Last
Last Exit to Brooklyn
>Current
Interviews with Francis Bacon
>Next
The Iliad
>>7832485
>Last
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
>Current
Zeno's Conscience, by Italo Svevo
>Next
Romeo and Juliet, by Billy Shkspeer, and/or Leaves of Grass (1855 ed) by Walt Whitman, and/or La vida es sueño, by Calderón de la Barca.
