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Is this anyone else's first year of 'serious' reading?
Using the guides on /lit/ and branching out a bit based on my own tastes, I've read more books this year than throughout probably the rest of my life. It's embarrassing to admit, but I was starting out essentially from scratch.
Here are the books I've read this far (in 2016):
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Catcher in the Rye
A Confederacy of Dunces
Fahrenheit 451
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
The Great Gatsby
The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Of Mice and Men
Pride and Prejudice
Siddhartha
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Stranger
Just wanted a feelgood progress thread, really. The /lit/ guides for beginners are more than legitimate - I got most of the books above from those recommended for new readers and from /lit/'s best of all time lists.
I plan on reading roughly a dozen more books by the end of the year - anyone got a recommendation? Of those listed above, I probably enjoyed Huck Finn, A Confederacy of Dunces, Siddhartha, and Slaughterhouse-Five the most.
>>8099336
no but stay woke my lil nigga
>>8099336
>reading shit
Keep it up OP
MOBY
DICK
>>8099336
>Yes
Timescape
Sophie's World
The Last Best Thing
The Art of War
Hannibal
Infinite Jest
>>8099336
Read Catch 22 next. It is pretty much better than Slaughterhouse-Five in every way (not an insult to Slaughterhouse-Five btw).
>>8099407
That and use
If you liked Vonnegut, OP, maybe try Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon.
Brief History of Seven Killings
Reading contemporary lit is fun sometimes
Yes, but I started in around december imo
in no particular order:
>things fall apart
>picture of dorian grey
>various wilde plays
>various shakespeare plays
>brave new world
>1984
>animal farm
>of mice and men
>grapes of wrath
>siddartha
>great gatsby
>heart of darkness
>kafka on the shore
>the stranger
>slaughterhouse five
>notes from underground, white nights, some other short stories by Dosto
>one day in the life of ivan denosivich
>lord of the flies
>tale of two cities
>Frankenstein
>the bell jar
>stoner
>parts of beowulf
>night
theres more but idk what it was, I'm too lazy to check my bookshelf
I started reading the Wind Up Bird Chronicle the other day.
Yes I know murakami is a meme
Same I just got into lit the year and I've read so far
1984
SlaughterHouse 5
A Clockwork orange
I know it's only three but I haven't read a single book in years until now and I'm about to order some more books online got any recommendations?
>>8099458
This is my first year too (post above you)
>>8099336
>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
>serious reading
>>8099440
>>things fall apart
cuck
>>8099336
Started reading "seriously" on september
>Norwegian wood
>A confederacy of dunces
>Lord of the flies
>The Stranger
>A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again
>Old man and the sea
>Hadji Murat
>The Death of Ivan illich
>1984
>Notes from the underground
>The Catcher in the rye
>Brave New World
And currently reading The Dwarf and Myth of Sisyphus.
Feels pretty good considering i dont have much time to read.
>>8099336
I graduated with an English major 4 years ago. I haven't read too much since I've been so damn busy. I just closed on a house two days ago and I've finally relaxed to read over this long weekend. It feels amazing. OP, I recommend The Sun Also Rises.
>>8099336
It's my third year of ""serious" "reading"" but my first year of "starting with the Greeks".
Διαισθάνεται kαλά, ρε (yeah I know, that's modern Greek, to my shame I'm reading the classics in translation)
>>8099407
>mfw parents that were just proud that I could read
Although taste is shit so thank god they didn't dump their shit Dan Brown and Lee child books on me
>>8099336
Never feel bad that you're reading "beginners books", I'm proud of you for starting and sticking with it
>>8099336
Yeah this is my first year of serious reading. I wasn't really a reader until this past December. I started reading using the /lit/ starter kit loosely. Here's my list:
>Huck Finn
>The Great Gatsby
>Lolita
>Slaughterhouse-Five
>1984
>Of Mice and Men
>Hamlet
>Dubliners
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>Stoner
>Siddhartha
>Notes From Underground
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Catch-22
>If on a winter's night a traveller
>Heart of Darkness
>The Illiad (currently reading)
I'm very glad that I started again.
Is 'serious' reading the new 'serious lifting' ?
>>8099336
>serious reading
>it's all novels
it's funny how nowadays we hate reading novels so much that we feel proud when we accomplish the "serious" task of finishing one
there was a time when serious reading would have meant reading history, philosophy, old Latin and Greek stuff, etc., and not English novels for entertainment.
>>8099446
brave new world
catch-22
>>8100663
Stop recommending garbage
>>8100669
bnw is pretty shit but i liked catch-22
>>8099336
I've always read non-fiction books, but this is the first year I started getting into fiction. I started reading fiction around November.
List includes the non-fiction books I've read:
>Fahrenheit 451
>Slaughterhouse Five
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Why Nations Fail
>The Story of Philosophy
>Lolita
>Things Fall Apart
>Predictably Irrational
>The Republic and some other dialogues (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium)
>Dune
>Norwegian Wood
>Crime and Punishment
>Twilight of the Idols
>The Stranger
>Brave New World
>1984
>Love in the Time of Cholera
>serious reading
>Brave new world, slaughterhouse-5, 1984, fahrenheit 451
>serious
Not my first year of serious reading but by comparing my first year to your first year you all seem to be slacking
First year..
>The Great Gatsby
>1984
>Of Mice and Men
>The Stranger
>In the Penal Colony
>The Old Man and the Sea
>Lord of the Flies
>Animal Farm
>Shakespeare
>Wolf in white van (wish I didn't)
>Fifth Business
Reading now
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina
Any suggestions?
Why do you people all read the same shit ?
>>8100707
>why do people that want to start reading read entry level "classics"?
>>8100725
I seriously don't get it, there's no point in doing that. Most of this books have no redeeming qualities, hell most of this books aren't worth a read
>>8099407
I feel bad for people whose parents didn't dump Finnegan's Wake on them when they were like 4.
>>8100729
and how are we supposed to know that if we don't read them?
>>8099631
What are you doing with an English major? Are you glad that you got it?
This year i've only read Siddharta, Crime and Punishment, The Kreutzer Sonata and currently going with Gorki's 2nd part of his autobiography..
I'm still struggling to make it a habit, but i started about 2 months ago so..
>>8100794
oh i also read Plato's Apology and Flaubert's A Simple Heart. cool short stories
