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What was your last book you read?

>> No.7322463

Hitch 22.

>> No.7322464

Dunno.

>> No.7322466

The Dark Tower by Stephen King.

>> No.7322469

Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.7322472

"Teach yourself Swedish"

>> No.7322479

Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.

>> No.7322480

If we're not counting light novels then I have no idea.

>> No.7322481

Twilight.

>> No.7322485

The Broom of the System.

>>7322469
What'd you think?

>> No.7322487

Also mine was Weaveworld by Clive Barker.

>> No.7322488

Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

>> No.7322495

Umineko no Naku Koro ni. It's pretty obscure, I doubt you ever heard of tit.

>> No.7322504

not /jp/ related.

>> No.7322506

Blindsight

>> No.7322512

>>7322504
>not /jp/ related.
>otaku culture
>books
>not related

O rly.

>> No.7322513

Frankenstein.
Kama Sutra before that.

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>> No.7322519

"A sense of style".

You should read it.

>> No.7322543

The Blind Side

>> No.7322568

Neuromancer by William Gibson

>> No.7322578
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Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques.

>mfw everything I believed about hollow-point bullets was a lie.

>> No.7322586

Revelation Space

>> No.7322591

"They Came to Baghdad" by Agatha Christie.
Before that, "Der Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse.
I like to mix pulp fiction and classics so that I don't get too bored.

>> No.7322597

Fablehaven...

Not a fair question as I take out a novel every 3 days.

>> No.7322601

>>7322516
Is that portuguese? Oh god I can't believe studying that shitty language was actually useful.

>> No.7322606

>>7322578
How did you fuck up your beliefs in hollowpoints? They're pretty simple unless you're going for bloodsplatter analysis profession then they're a pain in the ass.

>> No.7322607
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Waiting for the Barbarians.

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>> No.7322616

Moore and Dalley - Clinically Oriented Anatomy

>> No.7322623

>>7322606
well, I though they were magical bullets, that were able to stop a drugged negro on his tracks.

I still think they are better for controlled penetration.

>> No.7322630

>>7322466
I think it was this.
Has been a while since I read a book.

Any suggestions?
I want to read more again.
I was thinking about getting more Stephen King books from my local libary.

Sure I could go to /lit/ and ask, but I want to know what my favourite board suggests.
Also I'd probally act like a complete newfag there

>> No.7322632

A text book.
Before that, I don't really know, probably the History of the Kings of Britain or Le Morte Darthur.

>> No.7322634

Mildred Pierce.
I want to read a book that focuses around a yandere. Fucking where? ;_;

>> No.7322638

>>7322630
Read the stand or insomnia or salems lot if you enjoyed the dark tower

>> No.7322649

Summer, fireworks, and my corpse

>> No.7322662

A POSCO catalogue detailing stress limits on light gauged zinc coated steel stud

>> No.7322667 [DELETED] 

Hoffman's Theory of H^p spaces.
I haven't finished it though, I'll pick it up again over summer I guess.

>> No.7322710

"Iron Council" by China Miéville.
Slowly reading through Conrad Totman's "A History of Japan" that I bought on a whim.
Also tried reading the first book in the Dresden Files series, but as much as the premise fits my tastes, the book isn't very good, so I don't think I'll go back to it anytime soon.

>> No.7322756

Currently reading through Lovecrafts short stories. Before that I read The Trial by Kafka.

>> No.7322773

>>7322710
>"Iron Council" by China Miéville.

Was it good? I read Perdido Street Station and The Scar (same Universe) but I heard that Iron Council is pretty boring.

>> No.7322775

neuromancer by gibson

>> No.7322785

"You did not just do that Agamemnon - A Doomed Man's Tale of Rage"

>> No.7322791

Why are there so many different people in this thread?

>> No.7322794

"Meat right grains wrong" an insightful book on evolutionary diet.

But you read that as "Yet another crackpot and his crackpot diet" didn't you, fucking bread-munching pasta lover? Fuck you.

>> No.7322812

>>7322785
Love that one. But I prefer "Why Iranians Suck" starring the 300.

>> No.7322813

>>7322773
It's different that's for sure, and yeah, it's slow paced at times. The political theme is also more pronounced - I'd advise to stay away from it if you're a die-hard republican, for one.
But it's still Miéville, and it's still a good book.

>> No.7322822

Hunt for the Skinwalker

>> No.7322831

>/lit/

>> No.7322832

>>7322791
because we're being raided by /lit/

>> No.7322833

Not sure if LNs count, but the last non-fiction I've read was International Law.

>> No.7322836

Plato Presents: Socrates and Friends

Currently on the "More Coats, Callicles?" part.

>> No.7322840
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I found this to be a very interesting read.

>> No.7322841

Some of these books don't even exist. Stop that, /jp/.

>> No.7322843

Not /jp/ related, take this shit to /lit/.

Reported.

>> No.7322852
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7322852

Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets

Mainly to piss off libertarians, and other religious branches of capitalism.

>> No.7322854

Thus spoke zarathustra/Catcher in the Rye

>> No.7322860

>>7322843
I find it hard to imagine that board existing, sometimes.

Just checked. There's a "bookcases thread." Man, I can imagine one of my professors taking these. Even recommended books chart... people come to /lit/ for recommendations?

>> No.7322867

Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology

seriously, its a real book. I have this obsession with trying to know everything.

>> No.7322868

>>7322860
I think every board has one of those charts these days.

>> No.7322874

吾輩は猫である。
...right, actually 'trying' to read.

>> No.7322887

''Masturbation Techniques Between Batman and Robin''.

I swear it's a real book, only that the title is actually in spanish.

>> No.7322915

Currently reading "The Origin of the Species".

Before that was Lolita. I wonder how many here have actually red that one...

>> No.7322942

Trying to read Kara no Kyoukai in original language to see how far I've progressed.
Last non-jp book was the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Mainly bought it on a whim because I wanted to read the rhyme of the ancient mariner again and so figured I'd read the other works too, they're not that bad.

>> No.7322968

>>7322915

Lolita is the second most recent book I've read (excluding assigned material and textbooks.)

The most recent was The Definitive Book of Body Language.

>> No.7323273

>>7322915

I hope a lot of us have seeing how it's one of the most well written books in the last 100 years

>> No.7323299

Some novel by Agatha Christie.

>> No.7323315

Umineko Episode 8

>> No.7323327

>>7323273
>>7322968
>>7322915
I'm sure almost everyone has read it.

>> No.7323335

>>7322630
Pet Sementary
Bag of Bones (My favorite book outside of the Dark Tower series)
The Shining
The Stand
Pick up his short story collections, I believe there is one out with The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption.
Duma Key (Something with Key in it. Fantastic book)

There are 2 more that I'd recommend. I forgot the names of them. I read them a few years ago and they were quite good.

>> No.7323341

"Apache" by Ed Macy.

>> No.7323350

>>7322915
I read it when I was 14, my mother had it in our mini library next to Stephen King, Kafka, Hoffman, Remarque and Fowles.
It's not some underground banned bible or anything.

>> No.7323357

I haven't read a book for two years. I've probably missed quite a bit.

>> No.7323359

>>7323335
Duma Key was the one about the island or something right?

I heard it was terrible.

>> No.7323385

>>7323359
It started awesome but went to shit near the end.

>> No.7323414

>>7323359
>>7323385
I agree it ended in a lackluster way. I still enjoyed it though.

>> No.7324427

Tokyo blues: Norwegian wood by haruki murakami

>> No.7324432

>>7324427
Quality book. Watch the movie!

>> No.7324444

I have no idea. Haven't read a book in like 5 years.

>> No.7324454

tokio hotel: norwegian wood by haruki murakami

>> No.7324456

Man I'm trying to go through Feast of Crows as fast as i can...so fucking boring compared to the other song of ice and fire books. Need to finish this stupid shit by Dance of Dragons. I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT BRIENNE AND CERESI

>> No.7324458

I like how threads like these have almost no complaining despite a complete lack of relevance.
Probably due to how vital it is to maintaining a sense of elitism.

>> No.7324461

The Complete guide to Asperger's syndrome

>> No.7324462

Voltaire's Bastards

>> No.7324465

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows.

>> No.7324486 [DELETED] 

Lirael by Gath Nix

Went all nostalgia-y and dug out the trilogy, quite happy about it to be honest.

>> No.7324487

The Nordic Crusades by Eric Christiansen

>> No.7324494

Lirael by Garth Nix

Got all nostalgia-y and dug out the trilogy, fun stuff.

>> No.7324498

Shogun

>> No.7324730

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

>> No.7324757

Daemon Daniel Suarez

>> No.7324784

Umineko.

>> No.7324810

Anathem -Neal Stephenson

>> No.7324812

"Classic Feynman"

which is strangely semi-related to OP's hawking

>> No.7324819

Last read:
>Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Last real book read:
>Let the Great World Spin

>> No.7324822
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>> No.7324828

/lit/ is similar to /jp/ in some ways but has more of the "newer" 4chan type shit. It is a slow moving community with established tripfriends and a kind of odd culture and inside jokes.

Last book I read was Ender's Game and I'm currently reading The Pale King.

>> No.7324833

>>7324828
>Ender's Game
You are now required to read the Ender's Shadow block.

>> No.7324837

Finished White Noise last weekend, just picked up Naked Lunch.

>> No.7324849

I like this thread.
Also, Discourse on the method.

>> No.7324857

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan.

Now I'm rereading Catcher In The Rye. Last time I read this was when I was a HS freshman and the fucking teacher just skipped around to her favorite parts and told us that IT WAS DEEP. Honestly, I can't see the significance in this book. So far I'm getting that some miserable rich kid who is a possible pedophile fucking around in New York before his parents find out he got kicked out of school. I seem to remember this kid ending up in the nuthouse but I can't imagine why when his only problem is that he's an angsty kid with an inferiority complex.

That would probably explain why so many annoying angsty teenagers like this book so much.

Nokosage for rant...it was on my mind for awhile.

>> No.7324868

I am currently reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis. The last book I finished was Stendhal's The Red and the Black.

>> No.7324886

The Road in pdf form.

>> No.7324916
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still reading the Legend of Drizzt series and currently half done with Book 6. I like the characters and the storyline is exciting.

>> No.7324931

A game of thrones. I've had the book on my shelf for years but it took seeing the HBO preview to make me read it.

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Have you read yours today?

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>> No.7324951

Lolita, I think.
But I can't finish it. I read some of the second part, but it's... disturbing.
Don't minsunderstand, I'm quite fond of little girls, if you know what I mean, but the depravation of the protagonist is unbearable. He's like me, if I had the guts. Or the opportunity.
I didn't believe the critics at first, but it IS disturbing.

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>>7324940
This just made my day.

>> No.7324959

>>7324730
Oh my god Wittgenstein owns

>> No.7324964

>>7324951
If you think Lolita is about pedophilia you are a really bad reader and should consider sticking to light novels

>> No.7324979

The Nameless Monster by Franz Bonaparta

>> No.7324993

The Invisible Man.
Musashi before that.

>> No.7325001

>>7324964
Of course not. It's about hebephilia.

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『妹　処女蜜舐り』御影凌
"Imouto: Shojomitsuneburi" ("Little Sister: Lapping the Virgin Honey") by MIKAGE Ryou

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>>7325044

>> No.7325057

>>7324951
Lo is such a bitch.

>> No.7325072

Magician by Raymond E. Feist.

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>>7325044

>> No.7325098

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

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