What are you currently reading? What were you reading prior? What do you plan on reading next?
I'll start:
>Currently- In Cold Blood
>Prior- White Noise
>Next- Child of God
Reading is. Wee todd ed!!!
currently-Metamorphoses
>prior (all withing the past week or so)- the art of war, the kreutzer sonata and other short stories, the universe in a single atom, the psychedelic experience, and don't sweat the small stuff (kek all you want)
>next- probably "kitchen confidential", Gogol's overcoat, and The Stranger
>the god delusion
>the martian
>slaughterhouse-five
The Trial
The Iliad
The Odyssey
>Currently
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (in Japanese)
>Prior
Heart of Darkness
>Next
Probably Blood Meridian, but I'm not sure as I'll likely be reading Murakami for a long while. First time I'm trying to read a book in Japanese.
1984
Neuromancer
Crime and Punishment
Current: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me - Farina, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Diaz
Previous: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
Next: probably To the Lighthouse - Woolf
>The Idiot - Dostoevsky
>A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
>Oedipus - Sophocles
>>7844157
>The Well Of Loneliness. About 150 pages are left
>The Voyage Out
>Not sure yet. Either Sense & Sensibility, A Wild Sheep Chase, or A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
>>7844619
Good luck Anon.
I read some of Murakami's short stories in Japanese. It was an interesting experience.
>Currently. Atlas shrugged
>prior. War of the worlds (mediocre stuff, atlas shrugged so much better)
>next. Iliad and odyssey so i can get ti Ulysses. I also wanna read stoner from what i heard about it not sure which path to choose.
beware of pity and infinite jest
Currently Reading:
Insurgent, Huckleberry Finn
Trying to get back into reading, starting at a high school level.
Any recommendations?
>>7844809
start with the greeks
>>7844603
well i guess i replied
>>7844812
What to end with
>>7844157
Current: The Satanic Verses - Rushdie
Previous: A Little Life - Yanagihara
Next: No idea, might do some nonfiction about the Middle East
>Currently
Perfume / On Love And Death
>Prior
The Baron in the Trees
>Next
Leviathan
>>7844819
you never end
Lost in the funhouse
Nabokov's Dozen
Poisonwood Bible
>Currently - Of Human Bondage
>Prior - Leaves of Grass
>Next - A Supposedly Fun Things Ill Never Do Again
>Last Read
Sanctuary
>Currently
Light in August
>Next
Absolom, Absolom!
I'm in a Faulkner class, btw.
> Currently - The Dhammapada
> Prior - High Magick; Theory and Practice
> Next - Buddhist Scriptures
I just reread 1984 and finished up Catch-22 and Farenheit 451.
I read Brave New World, but I would rather forget about that
Next is Lolita maybe?
>Last
Journal of Albion Moonlight
>Currently
alternating for the past two months Mason & Dixon// Debt: The First 5000 Years
>Next
Middle C by Gass
>currently: The Recognitions
>prior: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>next: probably The Corrections, maybe something by Barth
>>7845089
>Journal of Albion Moonlight
Interested in your thoughts on this one. Worth it?
>>7844770
Who is John Galt?
>>7844157
Last: Freud & Jung
Current: Atlas Shrugged
Next: The Freud Reader
>>7844157
>Currently - LotR: Fellowship of the Rings
>Prior - The Hobbit
>Next - I have an abridged version of James Frazer's The Golden Bough that I plan on rereading after I finish all of LotR
I've never read anything by Tolkien before except for some bits of the Silmarillion, but I finished the Hobbit last night and ventured about 100 pages into Fellowship today and it is one of the comfiest things I've ever read. I'd willingly read a million pages of just hobbits doing hobbity shit.
>>7845089
>kvelertak
My negroid
Stoner
Poilu
The crying of lot 49
>Currently
The Island of Doctor Moreau —Wells
>Prior
A Man Cannot Cry —Keverne
>Next
Kalevipoeg —Kreutzwald
>>7845247
Wonderful read. Bit unnerving but some fantastic prose poetry. I've always had an affinity for surrealism and this was the perfect blend without being too "out there"
Prior: Stoner
Current: Odyssey
Next: not sure. I have a nice little back log. Maybe oblomov, or catcher in the rye. I haven't read it in years and it's meme'd endlessly
>Last Read
In the heart of the heart of the country
>Currently
Invitation to a Beheading
>Next
Either Butcher's Crossing or Ada, anyone who has read either of these tell me your thoughts
>>7844947
tell me about the class anon
current: Futbol a Sol y Sombra - Galeano
prior: Notes from Underground - Dosto
next: the trial
>>7844947
I was reading Light in august last summer but got bored after 100 pages because the christmas backstory was dragging like a motherfucker. I know I'm a pleb. But, how do you like it so far?
>>7844619
I'm reading Heart of Darkness right now. how did you like it, anon?
>>7844157
>currently
infinie jest. this is a book i plan on reading for the next few months, while reading the books mentioned in "next" simultaneously as soon as i can get my hands on a copy.
>prior
Shadow's Edge, the night angel trilogy. awful books.
a knight of the seven kingdoms. george rr martin. it was ok. nothing special.
>next
i cant decide between
the book of the new sun, the big short or h.p. lovecrafts necronomicron.
>>7844607
I'm planning on reading the trial when I finish my current book. I have only read notes from underground so far, do you think i need to read more books by dostoevsky given that he was a big influence on kafka?
Also, any other authors i should read before reading the trial? I'm trying to go in depth about existentialism starting with dostoevsky which will lead me finally to sartre and camus.
>>7845520
There really isn't any "necessary" reading for the trial, but if you want to have a good time read Invitation to a Beheading, and watch Brazil after reading the trial.
>>7844947
Nice, man. You'll love Absalom, Absalom! How is Light August so far? I have a copy that I plan on reading.
Prior-Parzival
Current-The Book of Job (for Easter)
Next-A Midsummer Night's Dream
>>7845250
Yo mama
>Last
Victoria by Hamsun
>Current
Story of Art by Gombrich
Death in Venice by Mann
>Next
Either Lolita or that Ishiguro book my friend lent me so she stops breaking my balls about taking it back
>Currently - Ulysses
>Prior - The Stranger
>Next - Siddhartha
>Currently - Finished The Stranger a few minutes ago. Will start Kreutzer Sonata in a while.
>Prior - Love and pedagogy by Unamuno
>Next - Kreutzer Sonata, then Essay on Blindness by Saramago
>>7845403
>Kalevipoeg —Kreutzwald
Based Estonia is based
Current: crime and punishment
Prior: art of the deal
Next: something by turgenev
>Currently- Don Quixote
>Prior- Gargantua and Pantagruel
>Next- The Clouds
>currently
Ulysses - James Joyce
>prior
Julius Caesar - Bill Shakespeare
>next
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
(I have them all in one edition)
>>7846370
I too am reading Ulysses
Thoughts anon?
>>7845514
t. Redditor who just discovered /lit/
>Currently
The Night Land
>Prior
The Fall (though I took a break from TNL to read it)
>Next
Altered Carbon or The Stranger
Last- Oblomov
Current- Man Without Qualities
Next- Under the Volcano
I only read books in one sitting. I read Boris Schneiderman's 'Guerra em Surdina' last sunday, I'm going to read Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' this sunday and read the first volume of the complete Tolstoy's short stories (there are three volumes).
Last - Snow Country
Current - A brief history of Ireland + Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Next - The Man in the High Castle
Don Quixote
Wittgenstein's Poker
Faust Pt. 1
>>7844157
>Currently
Lolita
>Prior
Ulysses
>Next
The Trial. I've been thinking about rereading War and Peace though.
>House of Leaves
>Confederacy of Dunces
>New York Trilogy
>>7847209
I liked how it managed to create very vivid images with such concise prose. I enjoyed it even though I knew all about it and its themes already from lurking around here. It was a nice read
>>7847206
Read more Russians after Lolita, pale fire is a nice short read too.
>>7847245
Been reading them for a while, even though this is my first Nabokov's. I'll check Pale Fire, thanks.
>Currently
Anna Kerenina
>Prior
The world as will and idea
>Next
For whom the bell tolls
>currently - white noise
exactly halfway through if page count is anything to go by. I love how smarmy this shit is. Haven't read anything quite like this in a while
>prior - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72
Loved this, even if at times it felt like a dragging behemoth. I think thompson's work shouldn't go beyond 200-300 pages to be honest and this was about 500
>next - Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Only read On the Road, which I liked, so I'm excited to dig into this
Current > The Big Sleep
Prior > The Invisible Man
Next > Strangers On A Train
The Tunnel - Gass
The Crossing - MemeCarthy
Absalom, Absalom! - GOAT
>>7847265
>The world as will and idea
how was it?
did you enjoy it?
>Current
Steppenwolf
>Prior
The Master and Margarita
>Next
The Catcher in the Rye
>now
Brothers Karamazov
>prior
Lost in the Funhouse
>next
idk either Dubliners or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, haven't decided yet
>>7847770
>Dubliners or Portrait
If you're doing so to prepare for Big Man Joyce's Big U, I'd say first Dubliners. Portrait is more important to Stephen's part in the novel than Dubliners is overall.
Kafka on the Shore.
The Grand Chessboard.
The God of Metaphysics.
>>7844157
>Currently; Technique du Coup d'Etat by Curzio Malaparte
>Prior: La Horde du Contrevent by Alain Damasio
>Next: Sonietchka by Ludmila Oulitskaïa
>>7844157
>current
Choose Your Own Adventure: Hostage
>prior
Plowshares into Swords
>next
A short book detailing NVA and Vietcong equipments through the Vietnam War
>>7847193
Under the Volcano is enjoyable in a depressing, spiraling-downward way.
>Past
Prolgeomena to Any Future Metaphysics
>Current
Sheila Sinclair's Quest
>Next
Understanding the Psychic Nature of Man
>>7845346
That's my next too!!!!
>>7844157
>Currently - Moby Dick
>Prior - In Cold Blood
>Next - Henry IV
>>7844157
Count of Monte Cristo
Lolita
Cryptonomicon
Paradise Lost
Current- Infinite Jest
Previous- The Temple of The Golden Pavilion
Next- Either Ulysses or The Savage Detectives
Currently slowly making my way through l'etranger, after that I'll probably continue picking through Terence's plays.
Anybody know other French philosophical texts an intermediate could get through?
Previously - The Mouse that roared
Currently - Woodcutters
Next - The Religion War
>>7844947
I love it. Absalom, Absalom! is fucking awesome.
>>7849535
How was The Mouse that Roared? I have a copy.
>last
Moby dick
>currently
Lord Jim, Crying Lot of 49, Dubliners
>next
its between Spring Snow, Lord of The Flies and Huckleberry Finn
>>7849540
>Lord of The Flies and Huckleberry Finn
Did you not go to high school
>Last
Slaughterhouse
>Currently
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>next
unsure
>>7849927
>implying there are no other countries besides 'murica
>>7849980
I just assumed since half the books he's reading/read are by Americans
Hey dudes, please answer.
Has anyone read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"? Should I read the 1998 one or the one he collaborated with Leonard Mlodinow in 2005?
Actually, are they even the same, do they go over the same ideas, did you like one better than the other?
>>7849536
Do you like it better than Sound and the Fury?
>Last
No Longer Human
>Currently
Thank You for Smoking
>Next
The Gin Closet
>Last
American Psycho
>Currently
The Iliad
>Next
The Odyssey or Heart of a Dog
>Last
Kafka on the Shore, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>Currently
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
>Next
Hear the Wind Sing, The Association of Small Bombs
