Someone please post the most recent top-100 book list that was complied just a few months ago.
>>7572240
*compiled
Lol wow! that ruined my childhood. xD
Daily reminder: David Bowie will never write his memoirs.
As a consolation, he did leave us with his list of must-reads. Here:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/01/david-bowie-books-kerouac-milligan
Daily reminder: David Bowie will never write his memoirs.
As a consolation, he did leave us with his list of must-reads. Here:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/01/david-bowie-books-kerouac-milligan
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007)
The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007)
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007)
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002)
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001)
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997)
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997)
The Insult, Rupert Thomson (1996)
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995)
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman (1994)
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard (1993)
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C Danto (1992)
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia (1990)
David Bomberg, Richard Cork (1988)
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick (1986)
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (1986)
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd (1985)
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey (1984)
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (1984)
Money, Martin Amis (1984)
White Noise, Don DeLillo (1984)
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes (1984)
The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White (1984)
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (1980)
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (1980)
Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester (1980)
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1980)
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess (1980)
Raw, a "graphix magazine" (1980-91)
Viz, magazine (1979 –)
The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels (1979)
Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz (1978)
In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan (1978)
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed Malcolm Cowley (1977)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes (1976)
Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders (1975)
Mystery Train, Greil Marcus (1975)
Selected Poems, Frank O'Hara (1974)
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich (1972)
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner (1971)
Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky (1971)
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillett(1970)
The Quest for Christa T, Christa Wolf (1968)
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn (1968)
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg (1967)
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr (1966)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1965)
City of Night, John Rechy (1965)
Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964)
Puckoon, Spike Milligan (1963)
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford (1963)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1963)
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell (1962)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
Private Eye, magazine (1961 –)
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding (1961)
Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage (1961)
Strange People, Frank Edwards (1961)
The Divided Self, RD Laing (1960)
All the Emperor's Horses, David Kidd (1960)
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse (1959)
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard (1957)
Room at the Top, John Braine (1957)
A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno (1956)
The Outsider, Colin Wilson (1956)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (1949)
The Street, Ann Petry (1946)
Black Boy, Richard Wright (1945)
>>7572077
Is that you Mira?
>>7572077
That's a really no-must-read-in-a-must-read-list
I'm looking for some erotica.
I've only historically enjoyed philosophical erotica like de sade, Batialle, and the story of o- but I'm looking for something that can get me hot and bothered - I picked up and read ann rices beauty series - which I liked, but it was too much of "her sex quivered" and "his sword was as big as she imagined it"
I bought a copy of "the siren" by Tiffany reisz but I want more just in case this sucks too
What have you guys read that's hot and preferably kinky
>>7571878
Why would you ever hope something is a PS4
>>7571878
>>7571914
Also I can actually help a little bit, I haven't read any of these myself yet but it might be a solid starting point
>>7571923
The problem is most of that shit isn't actually meant to be sexy or sensual - it's philosophy and art that is usually quite repulsive sexually
>starting with the Greeks
>read the Oresteia of Aeschylus
>can't read any other Greek drama now because it all seems so incomplete
Did I done goof?
Euripides > Aeschylus
>>7572332
pleb
>>7571843
Euripides' Oedipus stuff gives the illusion of being complete
What kind of books does your girlfriend read /lit/?
Is she more patrician or less patrician than you?
Do we really need three threads about what women read? Seriously, fuck off back to r9k.
>>7571599
>need
Nice spook, son
>tfw no qt gf who who reads at exactly the same pace as me
Instead I am stuck with a hairy man who reads just slow enough that I have to wait to turn the page
>authors who were right about everything
>>7571499
I wanna read propagandistic, even naive, socialist/communist fiction. Even more brainless and evident than Mother by Gorki, Eisenstein movies and all that shit. I want literary equivalents to pic related. Is there any specially prominent novel of that kind?
Das Kapital
>>7571623
Kek'd
>>7571495
Love on the dole.
This is a terrible book. I'm about 250 pages in. There's so much jumping, no real plot yet, no "main character(s)" for that matter. Every section seems to have a new major character who fucks around and doesn't accomplish anything. Has anyone else read this book? Does it get better? Help, because I'm considering using my copy for kindling.
It's pomo. Some people just can't stand pomo.
Should have read The Savage Detectives instead desu senpai
take it as a collection of novellas, each of which is highly plot-based, instead of a novel.
or make worthless threads bitching about a book you haven't finished
I met a girl that said she reads, I asked her what she thought of Steinbeck because I figured he is well known enough. She had no idea who he was, her two favorite authors were
>a. John Grisham
>b. Nicolas Sparks
It was a complete turnoff. Where did I go wrong?
Why even bother talking to girls about this shit like this and taking it seriously? The real conversation you should be having takes place in the subtext, the body language, the emoting, etc. Getting your panties in a bunch because some girl doesn't like lit tier books is a good way to remain virginal.
>>7571437
It's the same for film buffs dude, just bite the bullet and accept that a pretentious attitude is going to be seen as a reaction relative to the norm whether you have it or not.
Accept that most people are forever plebs and either ignore the topic or recommend her books and say your back list is 100 strong so you won't have time for hers... that's the way it should be for women, they don't want to be influential they want to be known of and influenced.
>>7571442
It just irked me hard.
I don't even know what I expected.
I think this board is too obsessed with the classics and other old ass shit. Sure the classics are classic, and the old greats are great, but if we don't look to the future; try and stay on the frontier of this artform, then we'll be a bunch of assholes talking about the same shit over and over again forever. More so then we are now.
So, in the last 5-10 years: What books do you think were instant classics? What authors do you feel represent the best living literary voice?
Other stuff. More words.
Go.
The Pale King
Bleeding Edge
thats about it
Please leave.
Looking for 50 shades of player one was pretty good
How articulate are you? Is being articulate an indication of being well read?
>>7571198
Very, yes.
>How articulate are you?
what criteria are you using?
>Is being articulate an indication of being well read?
no.
It seems to me that people get bent out of shape over the term "feminist" or related labels because they don't explicitly etymologically make room for the perpetually disenfranchised white heterosexual male. Grow the fuck up. That's like saying that you believe slavery should be abolished, but don't consider yourself an abolitionist because the term only deals with a struggle faced by black folks. That you believe Jews should have their own homeland, but don't consider yourself a Zionist because the term isn't inclusive to gentiles. That you think gay people should have equal rights as straight people, but don't support "gay rights" because the movement isn't called "all rights".
Using this logic, no equal rights movement in history or today deserves its own label and they should be neatly boiled down to a single"humanist" entity (we'll ignore the ridiculous distortion of the term "humanist" here and save that for a future discussion). The fact of the matter is that equal rights movements throughout history have emphasized empowering the disenfranchised and often took on names that reflected the group they were seeking equality for. Feminism is about attaining genuine equality for women, hence the name. People who get caught up on the semantics are generally just looking for a reason to oppose gender equality in general and are far from the "humanist" egalitarians they purport to be.
News flash - if you call yourself an egalitarian yet believe that the social status quo among the genders is acceptable, then you're not an egalitarian.
>>7571182
Why do indians always looks so dirty?
>>7571185
genetics
>>7571182
>the perpetually disenfranchised white heterosexual male
This is why you're making enemies. You paint the heterosexual white male as the lord of all existence, failing utterly to identify that he is just yet another slave to the capitalist system, just as stifled in expression as most other groups, and faces problems unique to him self. You do this casually and without thought. Microaggressive bitch.
Feminists are the useful idiots of capitalism. They misidentify the enemy as regular white men rather than all of our shared feudal overlords.
Fuck you. If you say that white men cannot emphatize with the plight of women and PoC, how the fuck can you empathize with white men?
hell be fine
dont you fucking dare
Dellilo hell be just fine
Roth hell be just fine
McCarthy hell be just fine
Bloom hell be just fine
Pynchon hell be just fine
for the record
>>7571164
McElroy hell be just fine
Gass hell be just fine
What do you all know about SJC?
It's not the one in New York.
>>7571055
Yes
i know it is a great books school that have two campuses, annapolis and santa fe. was looking to transfer to annapolis my soph yr but everyone in my life talked me out of it. said the degree from there wouldn't have been practical. so i stayed the course and got a biz degree. currently unemployed. REAL PRACTICAL EVERYONE. anyway, they give away their reading lists online, good stuff if you want to read thru their curriculum yourself which ive been doing for years
Anyone do reading challenges? I'm thinking about it this year because of changes to my work schedule i will have more than enough time to read (i.e. 5 12 hour shifts every 10 days of potential reading time)
This was the best one I could find, though would like to see some others that aren't aimed towards middle aged women and/or kids.
Here's what I've got lined up IAW the image:
> Huckleberry Finn
> The Metamorphosis
> Infinite Jest
> Beowulf
> Moby Dick
> (fuck whatever i guess)
> The Hellbound Heart
> White Noise
> Dubliners
> A Wild Sheep Chase
> The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
> The Trial and Death of Socrates
> Picture of Dorian Gray
> Alphabet of Manliness
> Inherent Vice
> Crime and Punishment
> Great Gatsby
> 'Salem's Lot, Shining or The Stand. Not sure which is best or how much time ill have.
> (implying I will do this)
> Brave New World
> Faust
> (no idea)
> Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
> Slaughterhouse-Five
will I make it?
go to reddit
>>7570927
>Joseph Franzen
>Joseph
>with Pinecone and DFW
??
>>7570927
Sounds cool, I don't have the motivation to do it but goodluck if you do do it
