Post your backlog, others recommend what you read next
>>8113610
Petersburg or Faust
>>8113610
bout 3/4 of my 25 shelves
>>8113629
Have read zero of them but I've been looking to check out skylark for ages so go for that
I have far too many unread books right now but the choice for this evening is going to be one of these four. Which one should I read first?
Under the Volcano
Libra
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
I'm leaning toward Under the Volcano or Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
>>8113610
Went on a bit of a spree recently. Green spines are:
Chekov - select plays
Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson
Darwin - Voyage of the Beagle
>>8113830
Under the Volcano. Don't think twice about it. It's what cemented my interest in literature when I read it.
>>8113944
Moby duck
>>8113944
Moby Dick
Albert Speer - Memoirs
Bely - Petersburg
Vodolazkin - Laurus
Delillo - Zero K
Wolfe - Book of New Sun 1
Celine - Journey
Pynchon - Vineland
Augustine - Confessions
Ellison - Invisible Man
What do I pick?
Let's go
http://www.strawpoll.me/10378348I'm 250-something pages into Moby Dick but it's quite a struggle.
>>8114368
All the Light We Cannot See would be the perfect book to read between stints on Moby Dick. It's really light and good for what it is.
>>8114368
In what manner are you struggling with Moby Dick
>>8114378
It's just so dry at parts that it takes me forever to get through the page, or I find myself daydreaming.
I usually manage to finish 100-150 pages a day, but MD is a special case. Sometimes I put it down after 20.
>>8114404
I think i remember there being maybe 24 dry chapters total
But just remember that 1. It's a book about everything 2. Ishmael's rambles are the perfect counterpoint to Ahab's determination
>>8113962
You better not have lied to me. I followed your advice and am about to be stuck on an airplane reading it.
>>8114368
It's heavy but I don't remember it being dry at all, MB's like the definitive american dark romance - embrace the indulgent language and detail - does your version have explanatory notes? I feel you need notes to fully appreciate the romance
>>8114306
Speer!
>>8113610
Petersburg is one of my favorite novels. I read that same edition
>>8115468
Just get past the first chapter and you'll begin to enjoy it. You can even read the first chapter after you've read the rest of the book if you're having trouble getting through it. He's got some flowery prose which takes some getting used to but that's one hell of a book.
Malcolm Lowry
Late of the Bowery
His prose was flowery
and often glowery
He lived, nightly, and drank daily,
And died playing the ukulele.
>>8113632
This, seriously. My college library did a spring cleaning a few months back and left a lot of classics up for grabs. Since none of my student body is literate, excluding a few exceptions, I had free range for pickings. I probably collected $200 worth in used books including Durant's eleven volume set titled the Story of Civilization, a collection of James Joyce, Miller, Steinbeck, Tolstoy (Including War and Peace), Faust, Don Quixote, The Illiad and some histories of Rome, etc. I basically collected a small library.
>>8113830
>Under the Volcano
I acquired that from the dump as well; Will start it now.
JG Ballard - Crash
Marquis de Sade - Justine
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Goethe - Sorrows of Young Werther
Ursula k Le Guin - The Dispossessed
>>8113944
Arden's were actually the best editions of Shakespeare's works I've read. Though more the newer ones than the older ones.
Moby Dick
Don Quxote
The Beetle Leg
The Once and Future King
The Count of Monte Cristo
>>8116441
Anon...just....anon... What are you doing? You should have just stopped at the initial recommendation. The first chapter was amazing. This was a good choice.
>>8113610
Top-tier backlog, anon Check out Darconville's Cat and Double or Nothing.
>>8117033
It's actually a poem he wrote lol. Glad you like the book.
>>8117057
Not talking about the poem. I'm talking about the advice to power through (or skip!) the first chapter.
Gravity's Rainbow
The art of war
The art of war (different translation)
At the Mountains of Madness
Wuzi
Gravity's Rainbow
>>8117589
Looks like you should read How to Read and Why and then apologize to Pappy Bloom for posting that shit version.
>>8113944
Chekhov
>>8117664
I only had the shit one for some reason
>>8117315
Oh okay. I've just had friends put the book down because they couldn't focus through it. But I mean it clearly makes more sense to read it first lol.
A hero of our time - lermontov
The Guns of August - Tuchman
Manon Lescaut - Prevost
Tolstoï - Death of Ivan Ilyich
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rabelais - Gargantua
>>8113944
Jane Austen, Ovid and Virgil asap
>>8116678
Moby-Dick
>>8118524
>Tolstoï - Death of Ivan Ilyich
Haven't read gargantua though
>>8118503
>A hero of our time - lermontov
Read this, because that's the classical fiction I'm reading after Siddhartha.
>>8118524
>Tolstoï
Lol
>>8118692
forgot it was Tolstoy in english soz
>>8118630
Ok, meet here on Monday to discuss?
>>8117055
Thanks for the recs anon
>>8119394
No p, family.
James Joyce - Dubliners
Thomas Pynchon - V
Aldous Huxley - Island
Vladmir Nabokov - Pale Fire
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Carl Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Don Delillo - Underworld
Preferably something nice to read outside on a sunny day or inside shortly before bed
>>8117039
Mason & Dixon
>>8119638
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Is McElroy pronounced "Mic-El-Roy" or Mackel-Roy"?
>>8119638
Ficciones , pale fire and mason and Dixon are three of my all time favourites
>>8122136
Listen to music
>>8113830
Under the Volcano is great.
>>8122136
Condition of books: Grubby.
can someone recc me a book that will help me get over the loss of a loved one?
>>8113610
Crime and Punishment
The Plague
Being and Time
The Republic
Metaphysics (Aristotle)
>>8121408
Mackel-Roy
Sorry only have deutsch books
>>8122480
>Schachnovelle
Yeah boi
>>8113944
What publisher are those green spines from?
>>8122524
Heron Books 'Books that have Changed Man's Thinking' collection.
>>8122231
All my books come from second hand stores. As does everything else I own.
>>8117039
Cloud Atlas, Europe Central, East of Eden, Ficciones, and The Pale King are probably the most worthwhile ones on that shelf.
>>8123308
I found a crushed newt in the middle of a book i got from a second hand store once. A whole newt.
Totally serves me right for not flicking through it before i bought it, but even so i still wonder about the circumstances that lead up to it becoming trapped.
Now i buy my books off of those big lowish price distributors on Amazon. Rarely fails me.
>>8122933
>Books that have Changed Man's Thinking
Umm, sexist much??? Literally shaking.
>>8117664
I just started reading "How to Read and Why" recently and it feel like every other sentence is a reference to some literary meme that I'm not familiar with.
>>8124814
Just keep at it, anon. Bloom has a wonderful way of looking at literature that is hugely beneficial even for those of us without his prodigious memory and breadth of reading.
>>8118524
What edition of Joyce did you pick up?
>>8122236
The Stranger
High Rise - J G Ballard
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Mostly recommended stuff, Ive been enjoying Mitchell and McCarthy lately though.
>>8127568
Really good taste, anon.
(uncracked spines, though...)
>>8126724
maybe try the good McCarthy, Mary McCarthy
>>8127585
>backlog
...
>>8113610
Petersburg is a must, seriously underrated masterpiece. Not a bad backlog though. I think you can save Vineland for when you've read more Pynchon.
My backlog:
The Magic Mountain
Being and Time
The Corrections
Warlock
Light in August
Underworld
Sanctuary(Faulkner)
Anna Karenina
Under the Volcano
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
Might just save Ulysses, Being and Time, The Magic Mountain, Don Quixote and Proust for when I go on holiday next month. I could probably make great progress with all of them in fact since I won't have internet for three months or so.
>>8114306
Journey and Book of the New Sun are great. Can't go wrong with Celine.
>>8114368
Finish Moby Dick
>>8127585
> he can't read books without opening them
>>8127588
Oops, good point. Carry on.
Sound and Fury or Jacob's Room?
>>8127568
Brothers Karamazov
>>8113610
Backlog:
>Dubliners
>The Sound and the Fury
>Visions of Cody
>Blue Highways
>The Winter of our Discontent
>>8127610
Sorry Russians are mostly winter reads for me.
>>8127595
Under the Volcano is great. Good sort of wandering boozy haze of a book.
There's some /his/ in my /lit/ but a backlog is a backlog
A Farewell to Arms
Red Badge of Courage
Un corsair au bagne, Garnerey
La Guerre de Cent Ans, Minois
The Golden Ocean, O'Brian
Ivanhoe
Everything in pic related except for Vinland, Gilgamesh and Orkneyinga
>>8127787
Oh, and the Nibelungenlied
I need some good historical fiction
>>8127800
O'Brian. Enjoy 20.5 books of sheer bliss.
>>8127595
A book like The Magic Mountain can be read in a week, it's way less laborious than people make it sound, Being and Time is only really tough in the beginning until you get into his style
>>8127616
Higly recommend LIA. A bit conveluted at times but overall great.
>>8127595
Yeah I'm half way through Faust then going on to Petersburg , I've already read all other Pynchon
In the home stretch of Urth of the New Sun as well as Infinite Jest.
The books staring at me on my desk are:
>Possession - A. S. Byatt
>The Count of Monte Christo - Dumas
>The Baron in the Trees - Calvino
>The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton
>Baudolino - Umberto Eco
help /lit/
