>Last book you read
>Book you're currently reading
>Next book you plan to read
Prove that you actually read books and don't just browse the internet all day, /lit/
>Last
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
>Current
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
>Next
Dunno yet. Still eyeing a few things in my backlog. Maybe The Magic Mountain.
Yes, because naming three books would totally prove that objectively and of course I, Anonymous, desperately need to prove to you, Anonymous, that I read books.
>>7888194
You probably still use Digg.
Last
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Current
Hard-Boiled Wonderland - Haruki Murakami
Next
Democracy - Joan Didion
>>7888178
>>Last
The Lime Twig - John Hawkes
>>Current
Second Skin - John Hawkes
>>Next
Either
Against the Day (Tommy R. Pinecone)
or
The Recognitions (Willy Gaddis)
>>7888197
I'm more of an alt. guy.
>last book
Henwood - Wall Street
>currently reading
Morrison - Beloved
>next book
Butler - Dawn
>Last
Shakespeare--A Midsummer Night's Dream
>Current
Wolfe--The Fifth Head of Cerberus
>Next
Faulkner--Absalom, Absalom!
>>Last
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass
>>Current
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
>>Next
Man in the Holocene
>Last
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
>Current
O Ateneu - Raul Pompéia
>Next
Le Rouge et le Noir - Stendhal
Medea - Euripides
Taking one year as NEET to read all of my backlog feels extremely good.
>>7888178
Read: East of Eden
Reading: Walden
I'm leaning toward reading The Red and The Black next, but have not decided yet. Maybe Gogol or, if I don't find a woman before I finish Walden, Kierkegaard.
i wish i could participate in these threads but i always read 1-5 books at once.
>>7888178
>Last
The Lime Twig - John Hawkes
Cannonball - Joseph McElroy
>Now
The Cantos - Ezra Pound
Milkbottle H - Gil Orlovitz
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade- John Hawkes
>Next
Take 5 - D. Keith Mano
Ice Never F - Gil Orlovitz
>>7888178
>Last
Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle (recommend, interesting unconventional story telling)
>Current
Necronomicon -H.P. Lovecraft anthology
>Next
Crime and Punishment?
>>7888232
Read The Recognitions. You won't regret it.
>le everybody lists their books, doesn't read or respond to others thread
>>7888178
>Faust/Storm of Steel
>Dubliners/L'Avare (both almost done)
>Also sprach Zarathustra
it's been ~ 3 weeks since I started the first two.
>>7888351
I read every other post, I just don't fucking read anything these pretentious people read
>>7888354
How is Zarathustra? I read about it researching 2001 A Space Odyssey and was interested, but never got around to it.
>>7888357
havent read it yet but know the general theme and have read some of nietzsche's oeuvre already (namely On the Genealogy of Morality). I love the concept of the Last Man and I think I will enjoy it immensely. I'm going to be discussing it chapter by chapter with a faculty member at my uni which will hopefully prove to be a rewarding experience.
>>7888178
>>Last book you read
Iphigenie auf Tauris - Goethe
>>Book you're currently reading
Le Republic - Plato
>>Next book you plan to read
Politics - Aristotle
>>7888375
socrates is better than plato is better than aristotle
its sad to witness the decline
>Last
Animal farm
>Current
The Aeneid
>Next
The Iliad
>>7888187
You just got into reading. Congrats.
>>7888194
You are insecure about yourself.
>>7888226
You probably like Pynchon.
>>7888232
You are in a love/hate relationship with yourself, and are always either patting yourself on the back or whipping it.
>>7888246
I have no clue.
>>7888247
You like cute anime grills.
>>7888252
You feel you could be doing more with your life, but, at the same time, recognize that you probably won't do anything to change it.
>>7888278
You haven't read much modern literature.
>>7888323
You are me.
>>7888345
You're new here.
>>7888354
Got nothing.
>>7888375
You are trying to start with the Greeks.
>>7888386
You are baiting.
>>7888178
>>Last
Journey to the End of the Rainbow by Dr. Destouches
>Current
Finnegan's Wak'e
Some postmodern crap by Vila-Matas
>Next
No matter what I decide now I'll pick something else on a whim later, like I always do.
>>7888398
Why am I baiting?
>last
Persuader; Lee Child
>current
Infinite jest (~300 pgs in); David Foster Wallace
>next
Not sure... probably some 18th/19th century philosophy. kant, nietzsche, or hume, possibly.
>last
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives - Brad Watson
Picked it out just because of the title. Good short stories with some interesting characters.
Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
Didn't realize it was short stories when I picked it out. It was entertaining but think I would have been better off with reading his other stuff first.
>current
Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart - Oates
Gonna be honest I thought this was a poetry collection. So far it has grisly murder and lots of amusingly racist characters though so might be worth it.
>next
Catch 22 if it isn't checked out (it will be). Maybe a collection of Housman's poetry. My selection process is basically to wander around the stacks and see what catches my eye.
>>7888398
You are stating the obvious
Last
On the road - Jack Kerouac
Current
The essential Ginsberg
Next
Something by Thomas Pynchon where should i start?
>>7888455
I know. Harder to be wrong that way.
Past: How Literature Saved my life - David Shields
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (all in one transit ride)
What Belongs To You - Garth Greenwell
Present - Post-war - Tony Judt
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietsche
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelienek
Future: Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Tristam Shandy - Sterne maybe
>Junky by William Burroughs
>100 Years Of Solitude
>The Idiot
>last
The Stranger by Camus
>currently
Crime and Punishment
>next
probably On the road
>>7888178
Aristotle - Nicomachian Ethics
Plato - Phaedrus
Epictetus - Discourses
just posting novels because I'm always reading poetry and the Bible in-between
>The Plot Against America
>In the Labyrinth
probably going to read Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet since it came in the same book next.
Not really sure after that. I'm open to recommendations.
>Last
To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
>Current
Gravity's Rainbow- Pinecone
>Next
Under the Volcano- Lowry
>>7888494
Junkie Jones Basterd, you hear me?
>last
Doctor Faustus- Marlowe
>Current
Faust- Goethe
>Next
Doctor Faustus- Thomas Mann
>>7888561
I thought Under the Volcano was a really bad book. I can't imagine being able to finish that immediately after Gravity's Rainbow or Virginia Woolf. I don't know how much of it was his fault, being an alcoholic at a very dry point in literature (tail end of modernism but too early for the next big thing). It really is just a shittier Ulysses or something.
I think a better book in the same vein would be Tropic of Cancer, a much, much better book. Then again, I'm often criticized for this opinion. Maybe others see something I don't.
>Last
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
>Current
V. by Pynchon
>Next
Sorrows of Young Werthee
>>7888575
They do. Not only is Under the Volcano the best depiction of alcoholism ever written, it is also one of the most beautifully written works of the twentieth century.
>Last
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
>Current
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
>Next
777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
>last
no longer human - dazai something
>current
the serious game / den allvarsamma leken - hjalmar söderberg
>next
brief interviews with hideous men - dfw or the member of the wedding - carson mcculers depending on mood
>last
The Trial
>now
The Sisters Karamazov
>next
Forest of The Hanged
>The Scarlet Letter
>finished Thousand Cranes a few days ago
>finished Antal Szerb's Pendragon Legend just this morning
>I'm away from home so all I have to go with till Thursday is either Animal Farm or Alice in Wonder/Mirrorland
>last
The Iliad
>current
The Room - Hubert Selby
>Next
Fathers and sons - some Russian guy
>oblomov
>White Teeth
>Buddenbrooks
>last
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>current
As I Lay Dying
>next
The Crying of Lot 49
>>7888178
Last - The Bell Jar by Plath
Current - Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Zamoyski
Next - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
Judge me.
>>7888178
My Struggle, book 5
My Struggle, book 6
Undecided. Likely either Rights of Man and Common Sense by Paine or Democracy in America by Tocqueville.
>>7888734
Guilty
>>7888741
What's my sentence?
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>Last
This amazing bit of mindfuckery. It made me so happy reading it because I'd already had the idea to write something like this, but Rushdie did it more perfectly than I ever could.
>Current
Nothing at the moment, focusing on my own stuff.
>Next
Suggestions?
>>7888734
You read like you still frequently listen to the Beatles.
>Last: Cyrano de Bergerac (in french)
>Current: 1984 (in english)
>Next: i fell for the IJ meme and ordered it...
(I'm french)
>Last
Flowers for Algernon
>Currently
Siddhartha
>Next
Letters from a Stoic
>>7888750
Your shitty life.
>>7888754
Here's a suggestion for you. I've only read a little of it so far and it's really interesting.
>last
Nick Hornby: A long way down
>current
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and punishment
>next
Franz Kafka: Letters to Felice
or
Antal Szerb: Journey by moonlight
>>7888756
Very accurate desu family
im new :<
the myth of sisyphus
a confederacy of dunces
protocols of the learned elders of zion / the communist manifesto / we the living(ayn rand)
Last: Animal Farm
Currently: 1984
Next: The Stand
>>7888178
nah
The house on the borderland
The castle of Otranto
Probably the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
>Last
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
>Current
Rabbit, Run - John Updike/Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E Lawrence
>Next
No idea
>Last
The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
>Current
The Stranger - Camus
>Next
Metamorphosis - Kafka
>>7888178
>Last books read
Foundation
The Crying of Lot 49
>Currently reading
Empire and Foundation
Satantango
>Next choices
Under the Volcano
Second Foundation
>>7888892
But I'm open to suggestions for the next one. Especially ones with audio books available...
>>7888909
What'd you think of TMOS? Is the Stranger any good?
I read A Happy Death but it's... inconsistent.
>>7888178
Books I read last week:
Bernard Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
Handmaidens tale.
pnin nabokov
una collezione dei racconti italiani
books im reading this week
dfw - consider the lobster
plays of oscar wilde
crying of lot 49
books i hope to read next week
some of shakespeares histories
the rest of wildes work
maybe some faulkner
but mainly just textbooks cause exams are approaching
>last
The alchemist
>current
The trial
>next
Either I am a strange loop or superintelligence
>>7888930
Oh
>Last
The Myth of Sisyphus
A few short stories
>current
Cioran - The Temptation to Exist
Miljenko Jergovic's Sarajevo Marlboro
>Next
Not sure. Something by some French tosser. Maybe The Myth of Mental Illness.
>>7888253
how are you supporting yourself if you dont mind me asking? welfare or parents or savings or homeless? i really want to go full hermit but im worried i wont be able to get back into society afterwards so im making sure its after i get enough money to 1. retire 2. buy a lighthouse
>last
To the Lighthouse
>current
Mason & Dixon
>next
Probably Geek Love, The Mill on the Floss, or The Custom of the Country
>Last
Notes on the Third Reich by Julius Evola
>Book you're currently reading
A Squire's Trial by Alexander Slavros
>Next book you plan to read
Hammer of the Patriot by Charles Chapel
>>7888385
how can you tell the difference between socrates and plato?
do you just mean early (more socratesish) plato or late (more platoish) plato?
i think obviously socrates philosophy is more accurate but thats only because late plato was writing about stuff that hadnt really been analysed before.
and whats up with the hate for aristotle?
>last
Corpus Hermeticum
>current
Orlando, Woolf
>next
On Liberty by Mill
>>7888475
how is ginsberg?
i saw that film with harry potter kid but was worried ginsberg would be too "drugs lmao"
>>7888909
>toolatetotheparty/10
>>7888178
>last
Shadow over Innsmouth
>Current
DublinersI still couldn't finish itOnly 2 stories left
The Tragedy of Man
>Next
I don't know.
A few short stories by lovecraft,since I bought a story collection.
And maybe Art of War.It looked nice when I read that few pages.
>>7888930
The Myth of Sisyphus was alright but I didn't understand everything because the philosophers and writers he referred to I didn't know too much about. The comparisons he made with different characteristics and personalities such as 'Drama, Conquest and Don Juanism' and how they all lived their lives was something that I liked but the actual story of Sisyphus was lacking as I didn't understand why he was happy.
The Stranger feels as if it's a man who just lives indifferent to everything that's happening, I'm enjoying it so far but I can tell it's not as if he's being trialed for the actual crime but for what his personality is.
>>7888966
Sorry, just had a shower fampai.
>Last
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
>Current
Eugene Onegin - Pushkin
>Next
Your Mother's Vagina - Muh Dick
>>7888347
My copy still hasn't been delivered yet. It's on its way.
>>7888769
Dubliners is fun for what it is, but it and Portrait are only entry-level Joyce.
>>7888992
Just pirate it, bruh.
>Last
And Then by Natsume Soseki
>Now
White Noise by Don DeLillo
>Next
Stoner by John Williams
> Last
Whatever - Houellebecq
> Current
Portrait - Joyce
> Next
Bats Out Of Hell - Barry Hannah
>Last
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis
Read it by accident yesterday for the 2nd time
>Current
Niebla - Miguel de Unamuno
>Next
probably going to reread Dom Casmurro
last - pride and prejudice by jane austen
current - a view from the bridge by arthur miller
next - war & peace by tolstoy
>>7889000
I did initially, but after a few pages I thought it'd be a shame not to own. I'm fine with e-reading most things, but if it's something I could see being genuinely great, I want to own a physical copy.
>>7888178
>Gigi
>The Elementary Particles
>The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
>>7889063
I can understand that. I'd wait till you get it, though, since Against the Day is long and, as a whole, vastly inferior.
>Last
Ulysses for the first time
>Currently
Almost done with Jason and the Argonauts
>Next
Saul Bellow - Humboldt's gift
Am I doin alright?
>>7888246
How's T Morrison, m8? I've been curious as to whether or not I should read her.
>>7889268
Well I'm still reading Second Skin by Hawkes now and I'm not exactly in a rush so I'll probably just finish Second Skin by the time it arrives.
>>7888178
>Last
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
>Current
American Psycho - Brent Easton Ellis
>Next
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
>>7888884
Just finished all of those last week.
>>7889281
Ah, I see. How are you liking Second Skin?
>>7888178
>Last
Slade House - David Mitchell
>Current
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
>Next
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
>Last
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
>Currently
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
>Next
(Rereading) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Aside from obvious answers like Dubliners and Homer, what should I read before Ulysses?
> The Time Machine by HG Wells
> Assorted HP Lovecraft short stories
> Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
>>7888769
I am reading it in French!
Dubliners is among the better collections of short stories I've read. Almost done with it, very excited to read The Dead. I started Ulysses a while back and made some decent headway before I decided to forego it in favor of first familiarizing myself with Joyce's body of work. Glad I did.
>>7889280
Very, very good. Extremely dense prose, so in some sense I understand why high schoolers who are handed Beloved are turned off by it the way many are by Joyce. But seriously, it's nearly on that level of density. Great dialogue and a plot told in snapshots as it jumps around with no regard to chronological order, but mostly worth reading just for the spectacular language.
>>7888957
honestly its just my subjective opinion, and more or less based on my enjoyment. Socrates is very accessible in works like the Apology; he's a funny guy and the dialogue manages to convey a lot of great information in a short space. When you get to Republic, Socrates is a dummy and, in my opinion, in the wrong in his argument with Thrasymachus. Most of Republic is pretty dry and, despite what your interpretation of it may be, less applicable to Joe Everyman than Plato's earlier works which dealt with Socrates and not exactly useful as a political guidebook.
Aristotle I haven't read in some years but I found his work boring and less... inspiring than that of Plato. Aristotle also started falling for the empiricism meme, which I hate.
>>7888178
>Last
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
>Current
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
>Next
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
>>7888178
Early Dialogues of Platon.
>Last
Stefan Zweig - Fantastic Night
>Currently
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
>Next
Not exactly sure
>Last
A Confederacy of Dunces
>Current
The Magic Mountain
>Next
Pnin
>>7889567
how was anna, i'm thinking about picking it up next
>>7888398
>You probably like Pynchon.
I just sort of started with pynchon. have read crying of lot 49 and inherent vice already. going to gravity's next
>>7889529
I'm only about a fifth of the way through it. It's cool but pretty subdued so far. I've read a lot of Hawkes before and this might be one of his most lucid books.
>>7889764
I didn't have the Iliad (in english) at home, and I'd thought about checking out the Aeneid for a while, so it just happened.
>>7889744
i dont think empiricism is a meme. empiricism is the philosophical equivalent of science in the way idealism (and esp. formalism) is the philosophical equivalent of mathematics.
who can blame the empiricist scientist?
who can blame the idealist mathematician?
if your reading the dialogues for the humour then maybe the early dialogues are better i suppose. though late dialogues (minus Laws and Republic) arent THAT dry -- well maybe a bit ;) --
tttbbbhhh Apology makes socrates look a bit of a cocky twat in my opinion.
>Last
A Pale View of Hills
>Current
Not really a book, but the "Worm" web serial. Writing style is a little bit young, but I just can't stop reading it.
>Next
I hadn't really thought about it all too much, might start borrowing some of my dad's mystery novels.
>last
Stoner
>current
The Stranger (just started)
>next
Not sure yet, either Heart of Darkness, The Brothers Karamazov, or maybe the recommended Mythology book by Hamilton.
Yes, I'm fairly new to /lit/.
>>7889567
Loved The Idiot, thought the whole party scene with Ippolit was nearly as much a showcase of Dostoyevsky's bravura as "The Grand Inquisitor" in Brothers Karamazov.
As for Ulysses, no clue mate. Dubliners, Portrait, and The Odyssey is probably enough for your first go round.
>Last
Amityville Horror. It was all right; an interesting read, but crippled by prose that often detracted from the spooky atmosphere of what was depicted.
>Currently
The Analects, Arthur Waley translation
>Next
Mencius, D. C. Lau translation
>Last
The Circle-Dave Eggers. Did not enjoy at all.
>Current
Station 11 - Emily St. John Mandel. Only about a fifth of the way in. Can't tell if I'm into it but I'm gonna keep going.
>Next
Purity - Jonathan Franzen. Excited about it. Deliberately don't know much about it.
>Literally do not remember
>Les Liaisons dangereuses, The Petty Demon, Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy
>Principles of Economics, The Sound and the Fury
>Last
Neuromancer
>Current
Notes from a Dead House
>Next
a few short stories by Algernon Blackwood
