Hey pleb, what books are you reading? I bet it's something only a pleb would read.
Finnegans Wake
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Flowers for Algernon.
D-Don Quixote...in Spanish
Lolita
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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blood meridian for the 40th time
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pruebas o sois un tragasables.
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy
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patrician
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the martian
this thread
The Impossible Lives of Basher Thomas
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
Grimscribe and Songs of a dead dreamer.
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the holy bible
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It's passable. You can tell that the author just got his MFA.
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Swann's Way. Re-reading it and going through all of In Search of Lost Time.
Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Letters of William Gaddis
Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
Devil on the Cross. I like it.
Dracula
Gogol - Dead souls, not sure what to expect.
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947at 110 pages an hour
Nausea
Writing and Difference by Hackques Derrida
Pushkin's poems - Just finished Ruslan and Lyudmila
The Castle of Otranto
Crime and Punishment.
The Theban Plays, just started Oedipus the King
The Canterbury Tales read aloud in proper pronunciation.
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Orhan Pamuk - Black Book
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Reciting Finnegans Wake by memory without errors in a sensory deprivation tank.
The Foundation Pit
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Zinky Boys - Svetlana Alekseevich
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Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower by Kenneth Henshall. I watch/read a lot of stuff from Japan, especially postwar works. I feel like I need a better understanding of the history, and this book works as a nice primer on it all.
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haha oh shit you're right!
wow!
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your favourite book mr bloom
What books are YOU reading?
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But how good is your retention?
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patrish
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pleb
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pseud
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entry-level
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nonfiction tier
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>>7487631
Could be patrician, could be pleb-tier
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Barthelme's Sixty Stories, and Wittgenstein's Mistress
V. and a few borges stories. recently finished manuscript found in saragossa. wasnt that great.
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pleb
I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Just finished Lord of the Flies. Starting Moby Dick, now in English. First time I read was in Portuguese (my first language), and it was painful.
the last days of socrates
>>7487183
Hey, I'm reading A Brief History of Seven Killings, too. How are you liking it?
Also started Calvino's Invisible Cities this morning and am slowly going through Being and Time on the side.
>>7489605
Nice. Moby-Dick is the pinnacle of American literature. You should try some Shakespeare and Milton next, if you're wanting to read the best of what the English language has to offer.
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Hard to judge, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. How are you liking The Castle?
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Entry-level. What did you read before this?
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The Republic
Paradise Lost. If I am a pleb so is Bloom
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Is this your third or fourth time reading it?
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Yes.
Till We Have Faces
Probably somewhat pleb but it's enjoyable, of course enjoying it or reading for enjoyment is probably what makes me a pleb in the first place.
Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann's new novella.
Trouble in Paradisa by Zizek
I wanna read the Book of Disquiet next, but it depends what books I reward myself with for Christmas.
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God, no one appreciates judging plebs, especially for most of these guys who are reading some solid lit. Is that why you started this thread? To criticize everyone who hasn't read Paradise Lost at least twice by now?
That being said, how's Wittgenstein's Mistress? Is that by Bernhard or am I getting it confused with another book that has Wittgenstein in the title? Barthelme is based as fuck, that collection is insane. Do you know which story has the scene where the man is like sitting in his room, then hears some song on the radio and turns it up? I cant fucking remember the name of that story but that image stuck with me so much, its so melancholic and sad. Views of My Father Weeping perhaps? It's one of those ones broken into sections, and if you have the penguin classic version Im pretty sure its on the lefthand page.
>>7487124
what's the differene between beginner's-core and entry-level
I bought The Western Canon and I only read books from the list in the last pages, which is basically all the shit /lit/ recommends.
Beat me to it you old white fuck.
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Intruder In The Dust by Faulkner
Patterson by WCW
The iliad.
>>7491518
Bernhard wrote Wittgenstein's Nephew. Wittgenstein's Mistress was written by David Markson. Amusingly, he originally wanted to call it Wittgenstein's Niece, but decided against it because the similarly-titled Bernhard novel was just published in English
Quietude and Diffidence by Kitzo Hekotormos
Was Mary Shelly a good author?
I'm thinking about buying a collection of her works
The Frost by Thomas Bernhard. Who's the pleb now, faggot.
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Great book
The hunchback of Notre Dame
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Myra Breckinridge
>>7491518
There are about 5 threads on the front page arguing whether Hermione from fucking Harry Potter should be black or not. I believe my calling out of people as plebs when they're reading low-grade fiction or posing by showing off their recently-purchased copy of Paradise Lost is completely warranted. If you don't want /lit/ to be a garbage dump forever, that is.
Don't know which Barthelme story you're talking about. Might be able to read it if this thread is still up in the next two days, but I kind of doubt it.
A U G U S T U S
B Y
W I L L I A M S
Nausea. Sometimes I feel like I am even further gone then the narrator
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>Views of My Father Weeping perhaps
Not that Anon but im pretty sure this is it. Scenes of My Father Weeping, perhaps? The one where the guy takes a lie detector on the talk show is the most memorable I think. I'll check the title when I get home
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Is this hard 2 read?
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Patrician shit, you know? The Tunnel, The Recognitions, The Lime Twig: The "the" trilogy.
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pseud
The cat in the hat.
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Que dijiste pendejo?
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What are you 5??? Aha haha
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pseud
>>7494545
I highly doubt that you've read Don Quixote, or you would know that it is a truly patrician work.
>>7487136
Only true patrician in this thread. *virtual high five* :)
>>7494565
Virtual high five because of fucking science my due.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Divine comedy
Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?, I. Hacking
Screenplays, P. Auster
Culture & Value, L. Wittgenstein
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
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Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson
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If you don't know Bernhard then you're hte pleb, OP.
Ulysses
Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory III: Canonical Splittings of the Log-theta-lattice by Shinichi Mochizuki
The Picture of Dorian Gray. I like it.
>>7495287
Oh yeah, I'm definitely a pseud for caring about MATH, that is, the language of the fucking UNIVERSE. Fuck you.
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can manga be considered literature?
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick.
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its just frost
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
He gives off a writer's writer aura, however I'm thinking of dropping it as I'm not one for conspiracy/mysteries as an excuse to hide some senseless moralising however agreeable.
>>7495287
I read Invitation to a Beheading before I started The New York Trilogy.
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I'm liking it. Difficult to get into the damn dialect though. I think it will pay off though.
>>7495324
yes. my mistake. it is my second Bernhard novel and i really enjoy it. Less than i did Extinction, but it was one of his first novels and he was probably still perfecting his ranting madness style. Huge fan of his though, can't wait to read more.
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Eco is pleb-tier, fag
>>7495415
I'm just getting into literature now, desu famerino.
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In Search of Lost Time
Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth
How'd I do /lit/?
Blood Meridian, Wolf Hall, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Herodotus' Histories, I, Claudius, Swann's Way.
I'm currently reading In Search of Lost Time and Bleeding Edge.
Goethe's Elective Affinities. Only like 60 pages in. Has anyone else read it?
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I've read half of it but i read it simultaneously with his book on colour and architecture, which i eventually dropped elective affinities for. His book on architecture is amazing if you ever get to read it.
>>7489606
Thanks for the suggestion, Sophocles was way cooler than I expected so I would definitely like to read more greek drama.
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Society and Its Discontents
Dune
A Thousand Plateaus
Einstein, Bohr, and the Quantum Dilemma
poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson
how i do
>>7496034
Thanks! I will check that out at some point
