Don't be lazy now.
Green - Good
Blue - OK
Red - Bad
Black/Gray - No plans to read ever unless something drastic changes my mind.
>>7974324
wait fucked up some colors. edited
72/100
favorite is gravity's rainbow
Green pepper = what I've read
The sun = what I'd like to read and will
Black star = what I'd like to read but won't
I don't read translations.
>>7974383
>I don't read translations.
this! serious, i dont know why people bother
>>7974383
now this is flair!
>>7974383
Oh I agree! I agree! Oh verily how I agree!
Translations are a waste!
>>7974395
this.
Last time I did this I had more crossed out. I like the latest changes to this list.
why is there no plato's republic?
Also not a /lit/ fiend like you all, not as well read i guess. What would you recommend.?
>>7974437
forgot something baka
>30/100
That's bad.
>>7974437
You may as well finish off Dostoevsky, unless you feel a need for some change.
Personally, Wolfe and Calvino are gaining my attention. However, having read a selection of essays on writing from Kundera, my next selection will be "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
If you can't pick something, read an essay on literary theory or a critique that captures your interest. Then find the closest match on the list and dive in.
>>7974297
Have not read: In search of lost time, the sun also rises, tropic of cancer, the name of the rose, the remains of the day, society of the spectacle, a farewell to arms, unbearable lightness of being.
>>7974499
+ Madame Bovary and Invisible Cities
>>7974297
>8/100
oh no
>>7974297
I honestly hate this chart.
another too us centric list, but that's to be expected
>>7974572
the Western literary canon is US centered especially in the past century
>>7974297
>>7974572
Can a list of compiled favorite books be too anything centric though? It's not like we tried to compile a canon of the best and most representative of world lit.
>>7974574
Only US centered in the US. Don't know how you'd manage to think otherwise
16/100
Fuck, I knew I was bad but didn't know it was this bad. How do you give yourself a decent reading schedule?
>>7974383
>I dont read translations
>Green pepper on the bible
Oy Vey
24/100. Infimeme jest is under construction though.
>>7974688
>implying 18/100 is bad
It's a very select list and doesn't mean shit about being well-read or not. I mean:
>don dellilo
>pynchon
>vonnegut
>that much hemingway
>that much american literature
If you've read Decameron, some Zola novels I would consider you more well read than a guy that've read 3 Pynchon and 2 Don DeLillo.
fuck / kill / marry
They should have given everyone 5 votes so that we didnt end up withs tuff that only got 2 votes on the list...
What's next? I assume just do the top 10 ones I haven't done yet...
>>7974297
15/100
When am I considered patrish?
>>7974389
>bait
So you read the odyssey and the illiad in ancient greek? There is honestly no reason to avoid translations if you don't have the time to learn a language. I have LEARNED to read two languages in my free time while at 16 credit hours at uni, there is a very good reason flr translations and avoiding them is losing out on the value of experience more cultures and ideas than you otherwise could have.
>>7974333
respectable opinions
read bloodmeme though, it's actually good
51/100
Fuck, that is way too many
>>7974993
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like 35/100
i think my name for this is "quirky, precocious north american male in their early 20s" core
i'm sad about all the long books i read half of, like the bible, don quijote, in search of lost time
some day, some day ...
i'm trying to only read books i enjoy now though, so i dont know how likely i am to start forcing myself through the bible again. god that was shit boring. once i quit school i wont have to read heidegger and stuff like that anymore though, so i guess ill have to fill the yearly masochist quota on my own with stuff like that.
best books on the list, imo: wuthering heights, in search of lost time, crime and punishment
idk what that says about me
>>7975140
>idk what that says about me
fagget
hope that helps
>>7975148
yes, thank you.
I cannot make it through a book when I discover the point is sex, sexual liberation, sexual repression, sexual expression, sex parodies, sex satire, prahic sex, sex with fruit, homosex, general degeneracy, etc. I want books that tell a compelling story that makes me go "whoa". Last book I read like that was... ummm Don quixote? Maybe? It's been a while. I mean, I don't mind if there is sex in it, but if it's been made into a movie staring Kieran knightly opening her legs for 2.5 hours I'd really rather read painthe dry. Any list suggestions.
about 1/3 through Don Quixote atm
>>7975414
Why lol bible?
>>7974927
1 thumbs up
I did mine but I'm not going to post it because it makes me look like I haven't graduated from grade school.
I'm so ashamed.
32/100
i wasn't expecting 52..
a lot of the books on here aren't worthy of being read
>infinite jest (not sure why the fuck that is #1)
>vonnegut (fucking seriously?)
>murakami (fuck you)
>>7974999
4/100 get on my level
Nice digits
>>7975925
oh, Karamazov is green and C&P is red as fuck
>>7974297
Green=Red
Black=Started Reading and lost interest
Also who the fuck seriously thinks Fahrenheit 451 is their favorite book.
I cant even conceive of it.
lot of shitty books on here
>tfw
>>7976064
Also fuck the color thing, I just used red for the ones I read.
>nothing polish
Why are edgy teenagers making those lists?
>>7974383
I strongly appreciate your use of green peppers.
im fairly new,
what should i read
>>7974440
>Catcher in the Meme
>>7974383
>I don't read translations
>Green pepper on Iliad & Odyssey
>>7976133
What are they from? They're so familiar.
>tfw don't like fiction
the fuck do I do now
it really does
>>7976230
cure your autism
>>7976230
I don't either, there's plenty else to read. The only fiction I read is stuff like Finnegans Wake now.
Not too bad
26/100
Not bad, got plenty of time left to read some more.
>>7976384
30/100
Shit I gotta read more /lit/
Fugg!!
23/100
wew lad, is this decent for a non-anglo?
>>7974297
I have only read 1984. Read half of monte cristo and disregarded it as trash. I still say that I like books on dating websites.
blue square- own
checkmark- read
currently reading portrait and catch 22
pls bully
25/100
Heart = Loved it
Star = Liked it
Bolt = Disliked it
>>7974297
Reading Shadow of the Torturer right now.
>>7977078
Fuck, I forgot I read Fahrenheit 451 in school.
Working on IJ right now
I'm a great pleb, /lit/.
What should I read next?
>>7977187
infinite meme
>>7977720
It's been a long time since I last read a fiction book, I kinda miss it.
>>7976162
>he's not fluent in ancient greek
>>7976249
>that legend
what the fuck is wrong with you?
Green – liked;
Yellow – meh/read it a long time ago;
Red – disliked;
Purple – have it, but haven’t yet read it.
I read 80% of War & Peace when I was twelve, but haven’t touched it since.
>>7974333
Why is Kafka on the Shore red?
>>7979569
because it's not good?
>>7979576
He meant why is it not good. Come on.
>>7979601
just search the archives for murakami this has been discussed to death. tl;dr is "middlebrow as fuck" and "repetitive"
fwiw i've read his big 3 (norwegian wood, kafka, wind up bird) and i thought wind up bird was ok. norwegian wood was awful and kafka was somewhere between the two. i have colorless tsukuru and ill read it at some point.
