>last 5 books you read
>other anons give you feedback
War and Piece, Galapagos, Letters from Seneca, The Ego and His Own, and currently reading Van Gogh's letters
I, Claudius
Pictor's Metamorphosis and other stories
Tales of ETA Hoffman
Silence
Orfeo
>>8183979
The Cantos by Ezra Pound
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade by John Hawkes
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
Omensetter's Luck by William Gass (2nd reread)
the recognitions
mason and dixon
the sound and the fury
Solaris
what we talk about when we talk about love
come at me niggers
>>8183979
IJ, Selected Tweets, Americana, IJ, Fear and Trembling
>>8184039
meme hard brother
The Road
The Martian
Stone of Tears
Hitchhiker's Guide
Wizard's First Rule
>>8184039
kys
>>8184000
>War and Piece
I wanna start it soon. Seneca made me mad when I read parts of On The Shortness of Life because he basically said "lol dont work!"
>>8184032
My local half priced book store didnt have any Pound : /
>>8184034
I loved sound and the fury. Just found Against The Day for like 2 dollars, Ill get to M&D one day
>>8184000
Some serious reading dude. Did Stirner live up to the memes?
>>8184012
Looks like some fun reading
>>8184029
I literally haven't heard of any of this
>>8184032
>>8184034
More serious stuff. Good on you anons.
My last 5 were the Karamazov brothers, falling man, history of -------, sunshine sketches of a little town, and the chrysalids, I read the odyssey before that as well.
The Aleph
Sallys söner
Alice in Zombieland
Moby Dick
Journalisten
>>8184061
>I literally haven't heard of any of this
Robert Graves
Hermann Hesse
ETA Hoffman (lol)
Shusaku Endo
Richard Powers
>>8183979
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Ferrante
The Formation of Muscovy - Crummy
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Arendt
The Story of a New Name - Ferrante
Season of Migration to the North - Salih
>>8184000
>>8184034
>>8184039
>>8184046
Poseurs/Beginners
>>8184012
>>8184029
>>8184032
>>8184072
At least you are trying
Notes From Underground
Iphigenia in Aulis
The Argonautica
Dead Souls
The Trojan Women
Solaris
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Frankenstein
Bleak House
The War of the Worlds
>>8184060
>My local half priced book store didnt have any Pound
I've never seen a single thing by Pound at a physical bookstore, chain or local; so you're probably better off using amazon or something.
Crito/The Apology/Euthyphro
Metamorphoses
The Catcher in the Rye (reread)
The Metamorphosis
Julius Ceasar
the public burning
quiet flows the Don
life and fate
mama day
life a user's manual
The Bone Clocks- David Mitchell
The Fireman- Joe Hill
Haunted- Chuck Palahniuk
Two Serpents Rise- Max Gladstone
Connectome- Sebanstian Seung
>>8184120
total pleb
>>8184100
That's a mighty fine book selection, especially The Public Burning and Life a User's Manual; no one ever talks about either of them here.
>Atlas Shrugged
>A Collection of Kafka's Short Stories
>As I Lay Dying (I dropped it halfway, tho)
>Bad Girl
>The Catcher in the Rye
>>8184125
yeah they were both really damn good and I wasn't expecting to get blow. away going into them.
>>8184100
Was life and fate as good as it sounds? I love the first few pages, i just can never commit to the whole thing
>>8184128
>I dropped it halfway, tho
its on my shelf, what made you stop?
>>8184134
The plot and dialogue was cliche, imo. I'm also not a fan of Stream of Consciousness.
>>8184130
Same. The Public Burning is one of my favorite books now.
>Zero K
>White Noise
>Runaway Horses
>The Setting Sun
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Freud Reader
The Ego and His Own
Part One of Divine Comedy (why did I buy it like this and why do they print it like this)
Trancework
The Portable Nietzsche
9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray
12. Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth
13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
>>8184122
And I fucking love it senpai
>>8184147
Now read Orlando Furioso
>>8184132
yeah dude it was great
ABC of Reading by Pound
A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
Four Major Plays (A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder) by Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
Infinite Jest by Wallace
Also read The End of the Affair by Greene midway through IJ.
>>8184157
I've actually read it first, Boiardo doesn't even compare.
>>8184061
Nothing ever lives up to the memes, but I find its a good philosophy to further justify the sort of people who take to master over slave morality.
>>8184085
I'll freely admit that I'm a beginner. I arguably just started reading seriously a few years ago and I regularly go through depressive spells where and I read nothing and sulk about the fact that I read nothing for months.
>>8183979
infinite jest
infinite jest
infinite jest
infinite jest
fight club
>>8184580
you should check out infinite jest
>>8184151
throw in some marx to round out your "how2modernism"
>>8184573
pleb
>>8184128
>doesn't finish as I lay dying
>finishes atlas shrugged
Gilles Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed - Claire Colebrook
Carmilla - Sheridan le Fanu
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction - Todd May
Crash - JG Balls
Blindsight - Peter Watts
A Visit from the Goon Squad (gf recommendation), The Trial, Candide, The Magic Mountain, and The Road
>>8184632
>(gf
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>>8184128
I fucking hate Atlas Shrugged. Your thoughts?
>>8183979
1. Stalin: Volume 1
2. Mythology - Edith Hamilton
3. The Iliad - Homer and Fagles
3.5 reread the Odyssey, doesn't really count
4. Histories - Herodotus
5. The Name of the Rose
Hill William - Scott McClanahan
Cezanne: A Life - Alex Danchev
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Taking Care - Joy Williams
The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs
>>8184596
i like that you joked about the other anon's "how2modernism" when you seem to be boarding the "how2postmodernism" train.
The Dwarves
The War of the Dwarves
The Revenge of the Dwarves (Stopped halfway through)
Roadside Picnic
Currently reading Dune.
I've never been a big reader but I've been reading a lot more recently
>>8183979
Currently reading IJ
Cuckleberry Finn
The Metamorphosis (reread)
Collected works of HP Lovecraft
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
My most recent novel
>>8184655
>i like that you joked about the other anon's "how2modernism" when you seem to be boarding the "how2postmodernism" train.
i like that you like that. you board trains much more efficiently when you don't deceive yourself. btw wuthering heights is shit.
>>8184678
>btw wuthering heights is shit
I thought to myself, "hey, this anon is pretty cool and funny" up until you said that dumb shit.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I Am Legend
Black Beauty
Communion Town
The Urth of the New Sun
>>8184686
But Wuthering Heights is shit
>le moor
>le heathcliff
>hanging puppies off the back of a chair is characterization
Anon plz
>>8184686
gotta stay on your toes my man. why did you like it? it has been a very long time since I read it.
>>8184692
I Am Legend is written quite poorly but it's still one of my favourite books.
last words from montmartre - qiu miaojin
a heartbreaking word of staggering genius - dave eggers (i think)
m train - patti smith
tres - bolano
some ether - nick flynn
>>8184039
is fear and trembling a meme? i thought it was just a pretty cool kierkeegard
>>8183979
That dog really fucking annoys me
Elantris
Mistborn
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Way of Kings
I recently discovered Brandon Sanderson and read these all in the past 3 weeks, currently reading Words of radiance
>>8184700
I thought the characters were interesting and complex, if unlikeable. The novel's general atmosphere is relentlessly dank and gloomy which I'm into. I found the dynamic between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange compelling. I enjoy Bronte's prose the way I enjoy Melville's or Hawthorne's. I like novels about gender politics.
>>8184039
>Selected Tweets
memes aside, selected tweets is cool.
The sun also rises
The book thief
The crying of lot 49
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Neuromancer
I liked them all but the sun also rises, any recs?
House of Leaves
Cloud Atlas
Battle Royale
The Sound and the Fury
The Martian
>A Scanner Darkly
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
>The Old Man and the Sea
>The Dharma Bums
>Satori in Paris
The Dead/Joyce
The Trial/Kafka
Petersburg/Bely
Remembrance of Things Past/Proust
Pale Fire/Nabokov
>>8184095
>>8184034
Read Ubik/Dick if you haven't.
>>8184046
Hitchhiker's Guide is awful.
>>8184072
Moby Dick is a masterpiece.
>>8184012
Only Beckett's trilogy is worth reading.
>>8184029
Just ordered Silence myself. What did you think of it?
>>8184654
Lombardo's translation is better. Don't really like Fag-les.
>>8184632
Good choice on The Trial. It's a masterpiece.
>>8184151
Stay away from Freud, unlearn him whatever you do.
>>8184794
TCoL49 is Pynchon's best work.
>>8184804
Good reads; awful opinions. Don't be so loud next time, will ya?
Theogony/Works and days-Hesiod
Volverás a Región-Juan Benet
The Sickness unto Death-Soren Kierkegaard
Iliad-Homer
Complete short stories-Hemmmmmmmingway
>>8184804
Had you read the trial before? What did you think of it? I'm thinking of rereading it, I wasn't crazy about it.
>>8184804
>Stay away from Freud, unlearn him whatever someone with shitty taste is afraid of Freud? guess I know what I'm reading next
>>8184828
I liked the metamorphosis more, much more eventful for me, and more concise.
It's strange though, even though I didn't like the trial very much there is something about Kafka that seems almost magnetic to me.
sein und zeit
wahrheit und methode
doktor faustus
the sickness unto death
Either/Or
>>8184814
>>8184828
They're not, really: Hitchhiker's Guide is, when you consider it for what it is, not that bad (not great, of course, but not that bad); How It Is and Ping are just as good--depending on the person, maybe better--as Beckett's trilogy, and you would know that if you actually read them; giving yourself background and context for an entire field of study is, in no way, something that should be avoided; and TCoL49 is, even by his own account, one of Pynchon's weakest novels, especially when you compare it to Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and, in some aspects, Against the Day. Again, good books, but you should really chill with the opinions, especially because you didn't even bother to back them up.
>>8184850
i'm reading being and time right now
heidegger is my favorite nazi.
>>8184855
he's a nazi like the conservative revolutionary "nazis" (Schmitt, Juenger, etc)
>>8184853
I've only read Waiting for Godot beside his trilogy and didn't like it, and I've read Nabokov's criticisms so I was partly basing my opinion on his. I couldn't finish Hitchhiker's Guide and I like both humor and science fiction, the prose put me off. To me TCoL49 feels the most unique of his novels which is why I like it the most, it was the most Pynchon. The reason I didn't want to back my opinions was because I don't think they're actually "good," I said that jokingly and my opinions tend to be unpopular.
weight of glory, prose edda, a christmas carol, psychology as religion, portrait of the artist as a young man
Things Fall Apart
Ice
Siddhartha
10:04
Brave New World
>>8185049
how did you like 10:04?
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Summer Book
Slaughterhouse-Five
Infinite Jest
Steppenwolf
>>8185049
listen to more drones and read less lerner. also don't see kavan much on here (if we're talking about the same book) good taste m8.
Kingdom of Fear
Hell's Angels: A Strange And Terrible Saga
The Outsider (Colin Wilson)
The Hobbit
The Great Gatsby
Morning Star, Golden Son and Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Starship Troopers and Tunnel In the Sky by Robert Heinlen.
>>8184132
Most is somewhat above average, except for the war scenes with the cut-off detachment, which should have been the whole book.
Alamut
Waiting for Godot
Kafka on the shore
A hunger artist
Anna Karenina
Deliverance
The Informers
Desolation Angels
American Tabloid (re-read)
The Cold Six Thousand (re-read)
>>8184725
>patti smith
based
for me:
>franny and zooey by salinger
>the bell jar
>the liars' club by kary karr
>to the lighthouse
>a sort of life by graham greene
>>8183979
>The Sergeant In The Snow - Rigoni Stern
>Inherent Vice - Pynchon
>Stoner - Williams
>Portrait Of A Lady - James
>Nausea - Sartre
>>8183979
Soul platonov
Bukharin and the Russian revolution Cohen
Edward II Marlowe
Massacre of Paris Marlowe
The power and the glory Greene
Big Sur - Kerouac
Post Office - Bukowski
Notes from a Dead House - Dostoevsky
The Essential Ginsberg (majority of it)
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry 2nd Ed. - Whitman, Dickinson
Not all in that order, intermingled.
V.
Paradise lost
Kafka on the shore
The ego and it's own
Gravities rainbow
2666
Ride the tiger
What next?
Reading Nick land atm
europe central
Giles goat boy
a frolic of his own
cannonball
in the heart of the heart of the country
>>8185875
>>patti smith
>based
>>the bell jar
>>to the lighthouse
are you a cuckold
>>8186024
nah just queer
Karen Blixen - Babette's feast
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaugtherhouse 5
Ernest Hemmingway - To have and have not
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
>>8184850
Travesty that Gadamer is what we get after Heidegger
>>8186121
babies first book read
Taipei by Tao Lin
Berkeley literature lectures by Julio Cortázar
El Aprendizaje del Escritor by Borges
My Struggle #1 by Knausgård
La Gallina Ciega by Max Aub
1. Faust I & II - Goethe
2. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
3. Furiously Happy - Lawson
4. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway
5. House Made of Dawn - Momaday
>>8186201
>My Struggle #1 by Knausgård
Just saw the IQ2 interview with him which made me interested in the books, what did you think of the 1st?
>>8184725
How was Last Words From Montmartre? Just picked it up. Might read that next.
Metamorphosis
Crime and Punishment
IJ (reread)
Iliad
Odyssey
Now reading the Bible
Out - Natsuo kirino
Coin locker babies - Ryu murakami
Life - Kieth Richards
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Piercing - Ryu murakami
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
To the Lighthouse
The Savage Detectives
Pale Fire
Where I'm Calling From
What should I read next? (I didn't really like Fear and Loathing)
End of the Affair - Graham Greene
All That Is - James Salter
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
>>8183979
Beyond Good and Evil
Human, All Too Human
The Last Days of Socrates
Ulysses
The World as Will and Representation (Vols. 1&2)
>>8185059
I really enjoyed it. I thought it was very touching and the writing was expressive. The part about the Challenger explosion in the middle and how it inspired him to write I thought was fantastic and on it's own worth reading. The meta-narrative stuff was also really interesting and fun; like this could have easily been about a white new york struggling poet feeling sad and scared and slightly surreal but I thought it was more than that and was pleasantly surprised.
>>8185449
Yep! It was Kavan's Ice. I think I liked the writing more than the story, which may not be that surprising. Parts like "I was committed to violence and must adhere to my pattern" and the connection between the characters was fantastic. It was just a little dry some times, but always very unnerving.
Short History of Decay - Cioran
Confessions - Augustine
The Individual - Karl Schmidt
Social Contract - Rousseau
Society of the Spectacle - Debord
>>8186895
Some pretty meme tier pessimism, not to say it's bad stuff but branch out more.
Also if you like that stuff read Cioran.
>>8187022
Only one of the authors on that list would qualify as pessimistic.
>>8186770
it was alright. deeply personal and intimate and all that, but it's so sincere it was cloying. good enough though.
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Man and His Symbols, Jung etc (second read)
The White Goddess, Robert Graves
The Poetic Edda
The Curtain, Milan Kundera
My body is ready
>>8186022
How is Barth?
>Joyce, Ulysses
>Pynchon, Gravity's rainbow
>The Tunnel
>Gogol, the nose
>Gertrude Stein collected short writings
>>8186153
Well, we can't all be reading the classics.
Ambrose Bierce - The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
James Rebanks - The Shepherd's Life
Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
Elmore Leonard - The Complete Western Stories
Ubik- Dick
The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway
Frankenstein- Shelley
The Double- Dostoyevsky
Bleeding Edge- Pynchon
>>8186153
some people like to read for fun and not for bragging rights on the internet
>>8184654
How's you like Eco? I've got Foucault's Pendulum on my shelf, is it anything like the Illuminatus! Trilogy?
>>8187499
it's 1000x better
>>8185423
I really loved Steppenwolf, as a young lad it really turned me off the dark and edgy path.
>>8186002
I liked the game, is the book anywhere near worth reading?
From most recent to least recent:
James Joyce - Ulysses
H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
Olive Schreiner - The Story of an African Farm
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rabindranath Tagore - The Home and the World
>>8183979
The Sirens of Titan -- Vonnegut; I fucked up my head, so I decided on this for some light reading, it was pretty good for what it is.
Libra -- Delillo; I've not read a lot of Delillo, only White Noise, but this really hooked me, I finished it quite quickly, probably what some would consider a "page turner."
The Trial -- Kafka; this didn't really pop out so much to me, I really dug the heavy, weighing down feeling, but I think I'd like to read it in German, I'm not a yuge fan of translations, especially not Kafka.
Moby Dick -- Melville; I really liked what I understood, but i feel like I didn't catch the meaning of some of the later monologues, I will definitely reread in the near future.
Ficciones -- Borges; I liked this a lot more than I thought I would, not to be DUDE WEED LMAO, but some of the concepts of the stories kinda game me that feel
>>8183979
Twisted Metal
Blood and Iron
Hyperion
In Search of Shrodinger's Cat
Anti-Matter
>>8187589
>reading dellilo
Didn't know people were masoquists here.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
White Teeth (dropped halfway because holy shit it is awful)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Trial
Taipei
>At Swim-Two-Birds
>Under the Volcano
>The Crying of Lot 49
>American Gods
>The Leopard
>>8187621
>masoquists
I have never seen 'masochists' spelled that way
>>8187621
No snobbery please, do you find him difficult or do you have some hang up about his writing or topics? I'm reading Underworld right now and enjoy it and if you struggled I'd be interested to hear why - but if you're just gonna fire-back something scathing about him being an idiot then don't reply pls
>>8187630
spanish spelling. that's why he can't appreciate delillo.
The Big Sleep
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Mythology
The Crucible
Dune
I don't think this list is very reflective of my taste
>>8184100
How did you like Quiet Flows the Don?
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World
Sense and Sensibility
The Sun Also Rises
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>>8187696
Have you read other Murukami? I have read Norweigian Wood and all of The Windup Bird Chronicle and was interested by Hard-Boiled... but already the sameyness is setting in. Do you think it'd be worth checking out and is fun and unique in small parts enough to warrant going through?
I'd usually just read it cause I clearly like his stories but, damn dude, so much in his writing is alike.
>>8187704
hard boiled is unlike most of his other novels
poems~dugan
poems 2~dugan
nights and days~merrill
the double dream of spring~ashbery
under milk wood~thomas
>>8187706
Thanks, that's good to hear. It sounded really cool.
>>8187704
I've read most of his works, yeah. I'd say Norwegian Wood and Wind-Up Bird Chronicle focus a lot on love, which is only partly a common theme in Murakami's works - mostly he describes mysterious women, whom the protagonist bangs, but not the emotional bond they share. Hard-Boiled is quite different from his other novels, like >>8187706 pointed out, but if you enjoy Murakami's writing I would also advise you to read something else by him, to see how he writes if love isn't the main focus.
I quite like A Wild Sheep Chase myself and think it's a good introductory novel, since it was also one of his first ones.
Snow Crash
The King in Yellow
Time and the Wind
Book of Disquiet
The Centaur in the Garden
good luck rating my plebeian brazilian taste lads, i'm getting brothers karamazov next
>>8187015
>>8187547
>>8187741
>>8184850
>>8184596
>>8184100
>>8184032
Good taste.
>>8187626
on beauty and especially nw are better
>>8187589
read the collected short stories and fragments
hunger artist and penal colony are favs of the longer ones
>>8186153
there's worst lists posted...
like >>8185947
>>8184875
also in that he hated jews...
>>8184766
>>8184039
if you've never been on the internet before...that so sad today, hacky as I find it, does what they're trying better as do literally thousands of teen girls who don't get a pay check out of it
>>8188943
>also in that he hated jews...
this doesn't discredit his work.
>>8188959
if you're /pol/ don't bother replying, but being swept up in or unlearning antisemitism is a mark on his character, and more importantly, his thinking- plus it leaked into his philosophy at a barely dog whistle level, not saying he shouldn't ever be read, but he is tainted by his own doings and failures
>>8188959
no one said it did, you defensive, paranoid, /pol/tard
the age of innocence by edith wharton
pere goriot by balzac
fathers and sons by turgenev
hamlet
the tempest
>>8188971
I'm not /pol/, and I think antisemitism is pretty fucking stupid, and I really like Heidegger still.
The Unvanquished, Faulkner
To the Lighthouse, Woolf
Selected poetry of Baudelaire,
Selected poetry of Ezra Pound
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
(Currently reading)
The Recognitions, Gaddis
Complete Essays, Emerson
The Terror - Dan Simmons
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
The Complete Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
The White Comany - Arthur Conan Doyle
James Joyce - Dubliners (Loved it)
Ovid - Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum) (Loved it)
Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Her Description of Death was cool)
George Eliot - Middlemarch (Changed the way I think)
Genre Wolf - Retrospective Short Fictions (Made me believe in the potential of SF)
Reading: Fagles' Illiad
>>8189004
Did you Like to the Lighthouse? It was my first modernist work and it made me cry at one point.
>>8189031
It's easily one of my top five favorite books. Read The Waves if you haven't already, it's like To the Lighthouse on acid
>>8189089
>To the Lighthouse on acid
sold
>>8189089
I'm reading it after if finish the Odessey
The Grapes of Wrath
A Tale of Two Cities
Siddhartha
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Cricket on the Hearth / The Chimes
Currently: The King in Yellow
