>Morrissey - Autobiography
>Truman Capote - Summer Crossing
>Nick Blinko - Primal Screamer
>Christian Kracht - Imperium
>Don DeLillo - Omega Point
>Richard Laymon - In the Dark
>Christoph J. Bauer - Brötzmann
>David Foster Wallace - The Pale King
>Fjodor Dostojewski - Notes from the Underground
>Henry James - Daisy Miller
Currently reading:
>DFW - The Broom of the System
>>8070609
memed hard
>>8070623
Because I've started two DFW novels or what
>>8070609
the blind owl - buf-e kor
the prophet
can şenliği
eylembilim
some two dozens of nonfiction, mainly sociology (unfortunately) and epistemology
>>8070609
did you enjoy Moz's autobiography?
Madness and Civilisation - Foucault
Trilogy of the Rat - Murakami
Staring at the Sun - Julian Barnes
The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
The Tesseract - Alex Garland
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
John Williams - Stoner
(highly recommended)
Joeseph Heller - Something Happened
(didn't finish this one... probably a good reason why he's only known for Catch-22)
Doestoevsky - Notes from Underground
(didn't finish this one either, felt too much like Elliot Rogers' manifesto)
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
(sucked, but at least I could finish it)
1. the tempest - shakespeare
2. the antichrist - nietzsche
3. absalom absalom - faulkner
4. the tin drum - grass
5. essays & aphorisms - schopenhauer
6. nicomachean ethics - aristotle
7. infinite jest - dfw (waste of time)
8. the bell jar - plath (also waste of time)
9. genealogy of morals - nietzsche
10. wuthering heights - bronte
11. illuminations - rimbaud
12. letters to a young poet - rilke
13. selected poetry - rilke
14. the waves - woolf
15. sound and the fury - faulkner
16. a confession - tolstoy
17. ulysses - joyce
18. beyond good and evil - nietzsche
19. the orestia - aeschylus
20. master and margarita - Bulgakov
21. myth of Sisyphus - camus
22. the iliad - homer (fagles)
23. ezra pound - heyman
24. complete poems - catullus
25. paradise lost - milton
26. the cantos - ezra pound (still reading)
27. Sappho & greek lyric poets - Barnstone
28. selected poems - E.E. Cummings
29. Twelfth Night - shakespeare
30. writing metrical poetry - william bauer
31. Hamlet - shakespeare
32. Selected poems - WB Yeats
33. Anna Karenina - tolstoy (still reading)
>>8070989
Very much, yes. His writing style is great, albeit being a bit pretentious at times, but you have to like his typical arrogance and self-centeredness, otherwise reading it will be torture.
>>8071280
even though I agree with your opinion on the time wasters, and highly admire your taste, you need to calm down because you are making me feel bad for reading less than half of what you have so far this year
FINISHED
In The Miso Soup
Ian M. Banks - The Wasp Factory
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
UNFINISHED
George Bataille - Story of the eye (1/2 finished, it just got redundant, nothing but constant sex)
George Orwell - 1984 (1/4 finished, I gave up a quarter of the way through, much too bland and boring, seemed to be proselytizing a bit too, I may return to it).
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (hardly got through any of it. The writing style is unreadable).
CURRENTLY READING
Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against The Human Race (just started it, it's proving difficult to read)
Oscar Wilde - A Picture Of Dorian Grey (It's taken me 3 days to get 26 pages in. I think I may finish this one though)
V.
Crying of lot 49
Inherent Vice By Pinecone
White Noise
Slaughterhouse Five
Currently reading: Some russian book about stalin
just started being /lit/ this year, so I still have to make it through all the newfag stuff
Shakespeare
The Tempest
Midsummer's Nights Dream
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar
Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions
Faulkner
The Unvanquished
As I Lay Dying
Heller- Catch-22
Hesse- Siddharta
Camus- The Stranger
Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
Joyce- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Salinger- Catcher in the Rye
currently reading Crime and Punishment and V.
>>8072526
why do you separate your lines like you do?
Colorless Tsukuru Takazaki and His Years of Piligrimage- Murakami
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
Kokoro- Natsumi Soseki
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- Murakami
Tender Is The Night- Fitzgerald
Trilogy of the Rat- Murakami
South of the border, West of the sun- Murakami
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Farewell To Arms
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
Macbeth
Stoner
That's it so far, pretty unproductive but things should pick up during the summer.
>>8072568
Cause I'm retarded.
>>8072702
Shit, and Of Human Bondage. That was an okay book.
>>8070609
how was the primal screamer?
>>8070609
Notes from underground
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
V. (currently reading)
Not much, I know.
>>8070609
Daisie Miller, The American, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square, What Maisie Knew, Portrait of a Lady --H James
Emma -Austen
Wuthering Heights
Hard Times, Bleak House
The Return of the Native
Daniel Deronda-Eliot
Lolita
Zero K-DeLillo
The Corrections
Infinite Jest, Consider the Lobster
White Teeth- Zadie
The Blind Assassin-Atwood
Beloved-Morrison
My Century-G Grass
2666
The Odyssey
Billy Budd-Melville
Disgrace-Coetzee
House of Fog & Sand-Dubus
The Woman in White-Collins
Castle Rackrent-Edgeworth
Giovanni's Room-Baldwin
Preparation for the Next life- Lisch
The Human Stain-Roth
The Great Gatsby
Half a Life-VS Naipaul
Come at me
>>8070609
Be lawfag. Almost all my reading has been case law and left-leaning textbooks. :,(
>>8070609
>Crime and Punishment
>Mere Christianity
>Space Trilogy-C.S.Lewis
>1984
>The Everlasting Man
>Frankenstein
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>The Great Controversy
>Confessions
>Beyond Good and Evil
>some redwall books, I enjoy them.
lord jim, joseph conrad
great expectations, dickens
the glass castle, j. walls
on writing, king
david copperfield, dickens
a tale of two cities, dickens
the girls' guide to hunting and fishing, melissa bank
the age of innocence - wharton
pere goriot - balzac
fathers and sons - turgenev
hamlet
the tempest
i hate myself more than i did on january first tho
>>8070609
Homer - Odyssey
Hesiod - Works and Days
Plato - apology, credo, euthyphro, Phaedo, phaedrus, gorgias, symposium
Aristophanes - The Clouds, The Frogs
Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Philoctetus
Aristotle - ethics, rhetoric
Cicero - On Friendship, On the Ends
Seneca - Letters
Epictetus - Handbook, Discourses
Plutarch - Lives of Caesar and Cato
Nietzsche - on the genealogy of morals
Dostoevsky - Notes from the underground
Heidegger - On the Essence of Truth, What is Metaphysics?
Camus - The Stranger
Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism, Nausea
Long commute m8s
>>8070609
I need to get a job.
Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch 22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1984
Slaughterhouse Five
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
Invisible Man
American Psycho
The Great Gatsby
Fear and Loathing
Of Mice and Men
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
Siddhartha
Infinite Jest (waste of time)
>>8071022
you are a legit dumbass
>>8073090
>Infinite Jest (waste of time)
So you read a bunch of entry books and are shittin on IJ now ? So contrarian
In order of enjoyment:
The Recognitions
The Sickness Unto Death
JR
Essential Peirce Vol 1
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Infinite Jest
...
The Corrections
>>8073101
peirce as in charles sanders peirce?
we have very similar reading lists for the year
>>8073097
>using the term 'entry books'
psued detected
>>8073111
Yeah, both volumes for a grad class. Brilliant shit, such an intense clarity of thought. The rest of the list was just for pleasure.
>>8073210
i've been reading dover's "philosophical writings of peirce" for fun and am just now reading the recognitions. Both authors are very smart and fun to read. Was the class just on peirce?
>Dubliners
>Shadow Over Innsmouth
>This is how YOU write
>Candide
>The Dunwich Horror
>The music of Erich Zann
>Tao Te Ching
>The Tragedy of Man
>The Prince
>Sino-Hungarian literature collection I.
Currently reading:
Sino-Hungarian literature collection II.
Notes from the Underground
>>8073118
He uses it because it is defined term and lot of those books are assigned under this term. Good practice this is to think about some books as 'entry' or not doesn't make him a pseud
>>8073233
There is an academic society dedicated to Peirce, we read the two main volumes of his works that they are responsible for assembling. The class was almost entirely on Peirce but with a small amount of Royce as well. That Dover book has some nice selections in it.
My favorites not in there are:
On Phenomenology
Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined
Neglected Argument for God
And one on chance I forget it's title.
Also, have fun The Recognitions, it is probably my favorite novel of all time.
>>8071280
no lifer detected
John Williams - Stoner
George Saunders - Tenth of December
Homer - The Odyssey (Fitzgerald)
John Berryman - 77 Dream Songs
Joe Wenderoth - Letters to Wendy's
Gilgamesh
Euripides - Herakles
Christopher Logue - War Music (A partial (unfinished) retelling of the Iliad. Excellent read.)
Theodor Herzl - The Jewish State
Franz Kafka - The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
Matthew Minicucci - Translation (book of poetry)
Abraham Cahan - The Rise of David Lewinsky
Philip Levine - Breath
Henry Roth - Call it Sleep
Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Magician of Lublin
Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker
Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's Planet
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
David Grossman - See Under: Love and To the End of the Land
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
Ayalet Tsabari - The Best Place on Earth
Currently reading the Iliad (Lattimore)
>>8073333
pleb detected
>>8070609
The Holocaust Kingdom - Alexandar Donat
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Why We Get Fat: And What to do About it - Gary Taubes
My Family and Other Animals - Gerard Durrel
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran Shoutouts to >>8071280
Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzche
Currently Reading -
The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
>>8073389
In my defense. I'm an engineering student.
Brothers Karamazov
Le Roman de Monsieur de Moliere
Book of disquet
Beckett Dramatic Works
Poemes Saturniennes/ Fêtes Galantes
A bunch of Shakespeare Commedies
American lessons by Calvino
Narciss and Goldmund
Currently reading Don Quixote
I read more but these come to mind
>>8073389
In my defense,I just got into it.
>>8073328
thanks
>>8073389
>reading is a dick measuring contest for how many titles you can say you've finished
> The last Emperor
> The silmarillion
> "La Destra" Italian alt-right magazine Apr-Mag 1974 "The sense of History" with Partecipations of Huxley, Evola, Toynbee, Von Treitschke etc
> The Golden Temple, Y. Mishima
Naked Lunch
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Ulysses
House of leaves
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
V
>>8071280
What do you do for a living?
Stoner (John Williams) 10/10
Pretty much a perfect book, I have no delusions about it being custom-built for a middle class white boy like me, but I loved every word.
The Undertaking (Thomas Lynch) 6/10
Very dull at times and borderline insufferable when Lynch gets on his right-wing soapbox, but really interesting to hear some of his thoughts about a trade he knows so well. It's also cool to read something that was such a clear influence to the creators of Six Feet Under, if you're into that show.
Submission (Houellebecq - read in french) 7.5/10
Quite dull at points, but ultimately a good book. Maybe I'm just terrible at literary analysis, but it took me a while to figure out how it wasn't really a critique of Islam/religion, which it still is in a way, but just on a throwaway level really.
Brave New World (Huxley) 9/10
Loved it, Huxley's use of language is great. The ending bored me slightly when it became more plot-driven.
V. (Pynchon) 9/10
Amazing, blew my mind. I find the sweeping theories people have about his work interesting, but ultimately it's Pynchon's use of language and set-pieces really fun and engaging.
The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon) 8.5/10
"She couldn’t stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears".
My Struggle, Book 1 (Knausgaard) 8/10
The 'climax' of this book in his grandparent's house with his brother and grandmother is fantastic.
The Man in The High Castle (P. K. Dick) 7/10
I enjoyed the beginning and not the end. I'm very willing to assume that I'm just too dumb to understand PKD's philosophical undertones.
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi) 9/10
Really great visceral account of a failed marriage. Kureishi is so underrated outside of the UK it's unreal.
God is Dead (Ron Currie, Jr) 8/10
It felt a bit devoid of any depth, but the writing was fun, and it made me want to explore his other work.
Graphic Novels (fuck you they deserve to be here):
Watchmen (Moore) 9/10
Weirdly the only part I didn't care for was the central plot. The exploration of the characters and Moore's tangents were amazing.
From Hell (Moore) 10/10
Meticulous and beautiful, a masterpiece. Reading through the second half while doing historical fact-checking on Wikipedia was a really pleasant experience. Chapter 14 is just... Wow.
Asterios Polyp (Mazzuchelli) 9.5/10
Really great character study and the art style is beautiful. It's a shame it goes JUST over the pretentious threshold at times.
It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken 6/10
Very Anticlimactic. Ultimately left no impression on me, but the art style is nice.
Currently Reading:
Le Rivage des Syrtes (Julien Gracq) ((The Opposing Shore))
100 Years of Solitude (Marquez)
A History of Western Philosophy (Russell)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men- DFW
The Stranger- Albert Camus
The Girl Who Was Plugged In- James Tiptree
No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai
Ubik- PKD
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Meditations- Marcus Aurelius
Babyfucker- Urs Allemam
Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne
Family Happiness- Leo Tolstoy
The Dhammapada
The Trial- Franz Kafka
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said- PKD
Currently reading:
Walden
Mindfulness in Plain English
Lolita
>>8070989
Is Animal Liberation worth reading, anon? From what I heard about Singer he sounds like a hack.
>>8070609
Er Ist Wieder Da - Timur Vermes
Utopia - Thomas More
New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
From Jutland to Junkyard - S.C. George
K-PAX - Gene Brewer
Not a great year so far
Not a great year so far.
1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by
James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind
6. V by Thomas Pynchon
7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
8. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Currently reading Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth and enjoying it. Very pervy.
I know the meme on Roth around here is he only writes about Jews from New Jersey and their problems, and while that's true of this book, it doesn't take into account how enjoyable stories from the pov of an aging perv are.
Either Beneath the Wheel or Man's Fate will be next on the list.
The Time Machine - Wells
The Invisible Man - Wells
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Inherent Vice - Pynchon
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
Next on my list is David Copperfield, am I doing alright for a pleb?
>>8073981
try to read more women and non-white authors honestly
copperfield is the shit tho, I don't care if a dead white man wrote it
>>8073981
Forgot to add The Norton Edition of Edgar Allen Poe's stories.
I really enjoyed Inherent Vice, what would be the next obvious Pynchon to read?
>>8073986
Woolf is the next woman on my backlog
>>8073990
can't go wrong there
I always rec gertrude stein. my favorite author, period
>>8070609
>Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
>Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
>Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>Right Ho, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>The Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse
>Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>Ring for Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
>Money - Martin Amis
>Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
>reread Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Shit, I don't know for sure. What I can remember.
>First half of the Book of the New Sun - Wolfe
>Ethics - Spinoza
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
>Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
>Passage in the Forest - Junger
>Blindsight - Peter Watts
>Neuromancer - Gibson
>Le Pli, Leibniz et le Baroque - Deleuze
>Outer Dark - McCarthy
>Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
>Spiritual in the Arts - Kandinskij
>Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
>The Post-Documentary Era - Perlisa
>Gli Esordi - Antonio Moresco
>Story of the Eye - Bataille
Pretty sure I've read a few others but don't remember them, plus a load of essays and selection from books.
Currently reading:
>Models of Political Philosophy
>The Social Contract - Rosseau
>Democracy in America - De Tocqueville
>Introduction to Rosseau
All this for class, think I'll be reading The Ego and Its Own in my spare time
>>8073999
I see you like humorous fiction. Have you read any Tom Sharpe?
>>8070609
>Foucalt's Pendulum--Umberto Eco
>Assassin's Apprentice--Robin Hobb
>Seven Gothic Tales---Isak Dinesin
>Blindsight--Peter Watts
>The Stars My Destination--Alfred Bester
>Royal Assassin--Robin Hobb
>Under the Volcano--Malcolm Lowry
>Invisible Cities--Italo Calvino
>The Crying of Lot 49---Memas Pinecone
Currently Reading:
>Assassin's Quest--Robin Hobb
>The Lions of Al-Rassan--Guy Gavriel Kay
>The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia--Peter Hopkirk
>>8072880
It's highly autobiographical and the first 90% or so read as if they were written in the context of a writing therapy, thus it's pretty authentic and interesting. After that, it evolves into some kind of Lovecraftesque horror. Not a masterpiece, but all in all an interesting read.
>>8070609
What the actual fuck?
Something doesn't add up here, honestly. I see a lot of 'daily routine' threads, and it seems like everybody who isn't a procrastinatory NEET actually has something to do in life. How do you guys have the time to have read over 15 books within 5 months
>>8074228
I have a fulltime job and a wife, but I read about 1-2 hours per day - I commute by bus and read before I sleep. 2016 I've read 46 books, 12,982 pages, much less than I had last year at this time. I'll probably finish at ~80 to 100 books with 30,000-35,000 pages based on experience of the last few years.
If you read less than 15 books in 5 months then I really don't know what you're doing on the literature board, that's 3 books per month, more than one book per week.
>>8073697
full time architecture student. It's not that hard to find time to read desu, just don't watch tv or spend so much time on 4chan.
>>8074248
some ppl dont read fast
>>8073665
>implying this thread wasn't already meant to be a dick measuring contest
>>8071280
what were your favorites
>>8070609
In no particular order
>Henry James- Spoils Of Poynton
>Edith Wharton- The House Of Mirth
>HL Mencken- The American Scene
>Heidegger- Introduction To Metaphysics
>Jorge Amado- The Two Deaths Of Quincas Wateryell
>Carlos Fuentes- The Old Gringo
>Hegel- Collected Works
>Camus- The Myth Of Sisyphus and Collected Essays
>William Somerset Maugham- Short Stories
>Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar
>Joseph Conrad- Heart Of Darkness
>Theodore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
>John Williams- Stoner
>Woolf- Jacob's Room
>Conrad- Lord Jim
>Don Delillo- Libra
>Marquez- Autumn Of The Patriarch
>Wittgenstein- Blue And Brown Books
>tfw super pleb
>>8075001
might be easier to list which ones weren't my favorites:
1. the tin drum
2. infinite just (i got memed)
3. the bell jar
4. wuthering heights
5. master and margarita (it was funny but i got pretty bored towards the end)
6. paradise lost (don't get me wrong--the book was amazing, the descriptions of hell and satan's speeches were incredible, but the constant scenes of Jesus sucking God's dick kind of ruined the book for me)
>>8075083
finish the meme trilogy lad
>>8075090
I'm wary to read GR after getting memed up the butthole with infinite jest. That is two I will never get back.
>>8075095
two weeks
>>8075003
Brazilian? Portuguese?
>>8074216
I had a Rudimentary Peni cassette get jammed in the tape deck of my old beater car, and the fuse setup was such that you couldnt disable the audio without taking out the headlights. Eventually the actual tape started to decay and slur in spots. Nighttime drives in that thing were a Lovecraftesque horror for sure.
>>8075106
Me?
No I'm filthy Turkpleb, I just love South American literature for some reason
Amado may seem like an odd choice but I just picked it up at the behest of a Brazilian friend when I asked him what Brazilian author I should read
East of Eden
Flowers for Algernon
Salems Lot
Catch-22
Ready Player One
Slaughterhouse-five
Blood Meridian
Grapes of Wrath
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Old man and the sea
Cannery Row
Rage
Brief interviews with hideous men
Crime and Punishment
Death of a Salesman
The metamorphosis
Would've probably had 4 or 5 more by now but a first-time read through of the bible and a reread of infinite jest are slowing my count. But that's okay, right?
>Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Loved it.
>James Joyce - Dubliners
I liked some of the stories and thought that a few of them were specially great, but otherwise I thought it was kinda nothing REALLY special as people hyped me up to be. Still looking forward to reading more Joyce, though.
>Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism (read in French)
I understood his ideas, but I don't know if it's the way I'd want to live my life.
>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Good start for the greeks :^)
>Homer - The Iliad (Lattimore)
Fantastic, my oldest classic and I loved it. It's breathtakingly beautiful.
>Kafka - The Trial
Almost nauseating to think about these burocratic nightmares Kafka is so fond of. Really good.
>First Philosophers: Pre-Socratics and Sophistas (accompanied by classes on Youtube and Oxford's site)
Amazing to see the ocidental mind forming here in it's earliest stages. However, remembering each name and their arguments is really hard.
>Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro (read in portuguese)
Should've read this sooner. Really good book.
>Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Thought it was really weak. Nothing stood out.
>Karen Armstrong - A Short History of Myth
Kinda simplistic, but it does a good job at summarizing the history of religion.
>Calvino - Complete Cosmicomics (read in Portuguese)
At the beggining, I was really enjoying it. However, 90% of the stories are so similar that it gets very boring after some time. My favorites were the ones from T=0.
>Thomas Sowell - A Conflict of Visions (accompanied by a small debate group with 2 PhDs in Philosophy and 4 other people)
This one (along with the group) really made me turn my attention to political philosophy, something I never thought I'd care about. A game changer for me, personally.
Currently Reading:
A Supposedly Fun Thing, DFW
Complete Works, Plato
Obra Completa, Murilo Rubião (in Portuguese)
Rayuela, Julio Cortazar (in Spanish)
A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, Peter Berger
>>8075119
You should try Graciliano Ramos. He is our James Joyce with his book "Grande Sertão: Veredas". Dunno how well it translates, though.
>>8075158
Damn. Had a brain fart. It's Guimarães Rosa that wrote Grande Sertão.
>Porno - Irvine Welsh
>Close Range - E Annie Proulx
>Heart Songs - Proulx
>Shipping News (second time reading) - Proulxmeister
>Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
>Misery - Stephen King
>On Writing - Stephen King
>The Princess Bride - William Goldman ft. Morgenstern
>currently reading: The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
>>8075103
pynchon is actually good though
>>8070609
Not in any specific order
>Free Will by Sam Harris
>Why Johnny Can't Think by Robert Whitaker (almost a joke)
>Anatomy of An Epidemic by Robert Whitaker (I can't believe its the same guy that wrote this wonderfly cited and nuanced book)
>Ride The Tiger by Evola
>A Hand Book of Traditional Living
Currently reading:
>Stoner by John Williams
>Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
>>8071280
>1. the tempest - shakespeare
>2. the antichrist - nietzsche
>3. absalom absalom - faulkner
>4. the tin drum - grass
>5. essays & aphorisms - schopenhauer
>6. nicomachean ethics - aristotle
>7. infinite jest - dfw (waste of time)
>8. the bell jar - plath (also waste of time)
>9. genealogy of morals - nietzsche
>10. wuthering heights - bronte
>11. illuminations - rimbaud
>12. letters to a young poet - rilke
>13. selected poetry - rilke
>14. the waves - woolf
>15. sound and the fury - faulkner
>16. a confession - tolstoy
>17. ulysses - joyce
>18. beyond good and evil - nietzsche
>19. the orestia - aeschylus
>20. master and margarita - Bulgakov
>21. myth of Sisyphus - camus
>22. the iliad - homer (fagles)
>23. ezra pound - heyman
>24. complete poems - catullus
>25. paradise lost - milton
>26. the cantos - ezra pound (still reading)
>27. Sappho & greek lyric poets - Barnstone
>28. selected poems - E.E. Cummings
>29. Twelfth Night - shakespeare
>30. writing metrical poetry - william bauer
>31. Hamlet - shakespeare
>32. Selected poems - WB Yeats
>33. Anna Karenina - tolstoy (still reading)
TOP KEK YOU LIE!!
> Book of Job
> Gospel of Matthew
> Gospel of Luke
> Gospel of John
>>8076252
Why would I lie. A lot of those are books of poetry and shakespeare plays, which can be read in a day if you aren't a retard.
>>8073676
How you liking that Mishima?
>>8074011
i havent. i will look into it though.
Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Torrents of Spring
The Singers
Bezhin Meadow
Mumu
The Sun Also Rises
Pere Goriot
Of Mice and Men
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Complete Poems of Sappho
Uncle's Dream
The Permanent Husband
Tao Te Ching
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Peasant Marey
Dark Adeptus
Quixote: The Novel and the World
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Canterville Ghost
Lysis
Holy Bible
Bible took me a little over a month and a week. OT is so fucking long
>>8078003
what did you take out of how to read a book?
>>8078008
Not too much since it's mostly aimed at people reading non-fiction, but it has a lot of good information in there for newer (or less observant) readers.
Sophocles - Theban Trilogy
Aeschylus - Oresteia
Friedrich Schiller - History of the 30 Years War
Some book on the Franco-Prussian War
Herodotus - The Histories
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Double
Leo Tolstoy - The Cossacks
Ivan Turgenev - Torrents of Spring
Ivan Turgenev - First Love
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf (never finished)
Thucydides - History of the Peloponessian War (still reading, took a hiatus for the Russian lit midway through)
Somewhat disappointed in myself. Really ought to get rid of my PC.
>>8070609
>Franz Kafka - Complete Short Stories
>Albert Camus - The Stranger
>Machiavelli - The Prince
>Voltaire - Candide
>Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Currently Reading:
>Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>Albert Camus - The Plague
>Thomas Pynchon - V
>>8071696
>albeit
Sounds like you've picked it up along the way, or maybe you were always just a pretentious pseudo-intellectual.
>>8078082
Nice inferiority complex
>>8070609
Did you enjoy Omega Point?
Read cosmopolis and thought it was pretty boring and pretentious. I've heard that cosmopolis might not be representative of his writing so I'm just asking for your point of view.
>>8078082
lol how the fuck is "albeit" pretentious? It is a word.
>>8073906
thanks for the reviews you french frog
The Anabasis by Xenophon
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
The Wonderful Visit H.G. Wells
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Laokoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris
Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense
Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov
Bulgakov's A Theatrical Novel
Murakami's Audition
Two Women and Contempt by Moravia
Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
Knut Hamsun's Hunger
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Kawabata's Thousand Cranes
and Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, most recently.
Currently reading Nana, and Through the Looking-Glass on hold.
>>8078615
stendhal sucks balls.
>>8078615
Oh man, Katie.
She loved books.
>>8070609
>Charles Bukowski- Ham on Rye.
>Émile Zola- Germinal.
>Arthur Rimbaud- Illuminations.
>Haruki Murakami- Wind-up Bird Chronicles.
>Alessandro Baricco- Novecento.
>Miguel de Unamuno- San Manuel Bueno, mártir.
>Jon Juaristi- Poesía reunida.
>J.D Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye.
>Gabriel García Márquez- 12 cuentos peregrinos.
>Dorothy Porter- La máscara del mono.
>Franz Kafka- La metamorfosis.
>Mircea Cartarescu- The Levant.
>TRuman Capote- Breakfast at Tiffany's
>Carlos Fuentes- Aura.
>Charles Bukowski- Women.
>David Foster Wallace- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
>David Foster Wallace- Infinite Jest
>Jorge Luis Borges- Fervor de Buenos Aires.
>Jorge Luis Borges- Inquisiciones.
>Pedro Salinas- La felicidad inminente.
>Pedro Salinas- La voz a ti debida.
>Murasaki Shikibu (?)- Heike Monogatari.
>Mircea Cartarescu- Lulu.
>Elena Poniatowska- Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela.
>Markus Zusak- The Book Thief.
>Samuel Beckett- Esperando a Godot.
>Emil Cioran- Del inconveniente de haber nacido.
>Thomas Mann- Death in Venice.
>David Foster Wallace- Consider the Lobster.
>Stephen Burn- Conversaciones con David Foster Wallace.
Fernando Pessoa- Las Odas de Ricardo Reis
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Currently reading:
David Foster Wallace- The Girl with the Curious Hair.
Fernando Pessoa- The Book of Disquiet.
Trump's Crippled America
The Turner Diaries
Mein Kampf
>>8071280
Mirin. It's been 5 months since the new year; kind of hard to believe people have only read 8 books. Also I like your taste.
>historical library of diodorus (12 vol in 2)
>appian's histories and civil wars (3 vol)
>sallust (2 vol)
>caesar gallic/civil wars (2 vol)
>suetonius' twelve caesars
>tacitus (agricola, germania, annals, histories, 3 vol)
>dionysius' roman antiquities (7 vol)
>dio cassius (4 out of 9 total vol)
>poems of catullus
>master and margarita, bulgakov
>the foundation pit, platonov
>satires, zoszczenko
>hadrian the seventh, rolfe
>eugene onegin, pushkin
>appolodorus, library of mythology
>count of monte cristo, dumas
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Creation by Gore Vidal
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Running Dog by Don DeLillo
Justine by the Marquis de Sade
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
Super Cannes by JG Ballard
>>8079912
Some of us have jobs
>>8079970
That must suck
>>8079958
how rewarding does hitch-22 get? the intellectual masturbation and constant name-dropping was fun but i stopped once i read the part about his mom, like 80 or so pages in, because it made me understand why he hates god so much
Infinite Jest - DFW
Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel West
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Transcendence of the Ego - Jean Paul Sartre
Anti- Semite and Jew - Jean Paul Sartre
one or two ethnographies for class
Ubik - P.K. Dick
The Life of Anthony - Athenacius
Phadre - Racine (translated by Ted Hughes)
Bankei Zen - idk who complied but it's some Bankei sermons
Shinran's Pure Grace - Alfred Bloom
The Threepenny Opera - Brecht
The Empire of Signs - Roland Barthes
Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community - Dogen
A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine - John Nelson
about half of Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleu-Ponty
Currently reading:
The Blue Devils of Nada - Albert Murray
>>8073986
The only reason to read more women authors is to be more well rounded.
Wanting to be more well rounded is for cucks.
Trainspotting
Naked Lunch
Jurassic Park
Frankenstein
Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
On the Road
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Currently reading: Sometimes a Great Notion
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>>8082043
you guys are better off reading nothing at all than reading these books 2bh
>>8082029
why do you read books if not to understand, like, human experience? If half of the humans are women aren't you only getting half of the picture if you only read male authors?
>>8083691
>women are humans
what?
>>8070609
>Capote
my class read his shit in eighth grade s.mh step up f.am
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
John Cena: I never back down
Finnegans Wake
Looking for Alaska
Read:
>At the Mountains of Madness
>A Scanner Darkly
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
>The Old Man and the Sea
Reading:
>Dune
>The Sword in the Stone
>Essential Celtic Mythology
>>8085305
why the FUCK are you reading two books in the same series at once?? [spoiler[are you a retard?[/spoiler]
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. - Adelle Waldman
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Anna Karenina - Toystory (still reading)
>Edith Hamilton - Mythology
>The Illiad (fagles)
>The Odyssey (fagles)
>The Stranger
>The Plague
>Dubliners
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Part 1
>Hugh Howey - Wool
Currently reading Ulysses and following up with either IJ or The Trial.
Also, yes, I just started reading as a hobby this January so it's all very entry level.
>>8086134
Oh, and The Crying of Lot 49
>>8085524
Maybe if you saw what the thread was titled you wouldn't look restarted to anyone who sees your comment -_-
>>8086219
>restarted
>>8070609
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/4249276
I've got all my recent reads on goodreads
>>8070609
I've seen this pepe a billion times already, but just now I noticed that he looks like Franz Schubert.
History of english language
Mythology
Iliad
Odyssey
The world of odysseus
East of eden
The moon is down
The trojan war: a new history
Ancient greece: a political cultural and social history
Fahrenheit 451
Currently reading a compilation of 5 of platos dialogues then moving onto the laws and republic then aristotle from there.
Salman Rushdie - Midnights Children
Rawi Hage - Cockroach
Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
Karin Friedrich - Brandenburg-Prussia: 1466 to 1806
Gaston Bachelard- The Poetics of Space
Henry Kiyama - Four Immigrants Manga
Gish Jen - Who's Irish?
Mother of Michitsuna - the Gossamer Years
Shusaku Endo - Silence
Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves
Dany Laferriere - I am a Japanese Writer
Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts
Currently Reading:
Han Kang - The Vegetarian
Next:
Patrick White - The Vivisector
blood meridian- McCarthy
white noise- delillo
in cold blood- capote
child of God- McCarthy
moby-dick-Melville
Jacques Barzun - The House of Intellect
Nietzsche - The Genealogy of Morals and The Gay Science
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Lots of math books because math major
>>8070609
>Kalevala
>Dubliners
That's literally it, kill me now
Notes from Underground
The Rational Male kek
Don Quixote
Old man and the Sea
Antigone
Oedipus
The Apology
Republic
Brothers Karamazov
Decline of the Intellectual - Thomas Molnar
The Fabulous Mrs. V - H.E. Bates
The Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
The Sound of MAD
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Killers of the Dream - Lilian Smith
Chosen - Luke Zimmer
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber
Atala/Rene - Chateaubriand
Culture, Language, and Personality - Edward Sapir
Trevayne - Jonathan Ryder
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
World History - Capino
The Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah
Elements of Technical Report Writing
Drone - Allan Popa
Your Children's Health
On the Nature of the Universe - Lucretius
Sales Promotion and Merchandising
Oblomov - Goncharov
Commonplace - Arthur Yap
The Gods Will Have Blood - Anatole France
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Kant
Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man
The Fall of Paris - Ilya Ehrenburg
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Capture Perfect Health - Micaller
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah
The Master of Go - Kawabata
Philippine Community Life - Capino
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Carnegie
MAD's Dave Berg Looks at People
The Mouse that Roared - Leonard Wibberley
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Risk - Dick Francis
Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute
Light in August - William Faulkner
Comfort for the Jews - JF Rutherford
The Right Word at the Right Time - Reader's Digest
The MAD Morality - Vernhard Eller
Two Hardy Boys books
