/lit/ - Literature

The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald

Pretty good - strange too.

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THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY - MILNE
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH - CHESTERTON
CAKES AND ALE - MAUGHAM

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SCARAMOUCHE - SABATINI

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THE WILD ASS'S SKIN - BALLSACK
EFFI BRIEST - FONTANE
THE HISTORY OF ROME, BOOKS I-V - LIVY

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KING, QUEEN, KNAVE - NABOKOV
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA - O'HARA
THE MAN OF FEELING - MACKENZIE

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TONIO KROGER - MANN

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THE EYE - NABOKOV
THE ANTI-CHRIST - NIETZSCHE
THEAETETUS - PLATO

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SANCTUARY - FAULKNER
THE PAINTED VEIL - MAUGHAM
THE MINISTRY OF FEAR - GREEN

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VANITY FAIR - THACKERAY

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PROTAGORAS - PLATO
THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL - PIRANDELLO
AMSTERDAM STORIES - NESCIO

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UNTOUCHABLE - ANAND
WOMEN IN LOVE - LAWRENCE
THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS - ANONYMOUS

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THE WOMAN IN WHITE - COLINS

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JUSTINE - SADE
THE GOOD SOLDIER - FORD
ZULEIKA DOBSON - BEERBOHM

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THE MAIMED - UNGAR

A SOCIALLY INEPT CLERK IS DOMINATED BY HIS LANDLADY TO SERVICING HER SEXUAL DESIRES WHILE HIS LIFELONG FRIEND SLOWLY WITHERS AWAY PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY BY A FATAL DISEASE. PSYCHOLOGICALLY DRIVEN, AN AMAZING NOVELLA THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

POETICS - ARISTOTLE

ARISTOTLE BOSSING ON THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF GREEK DRAMA. AMAZING HOW MUCH THIS MUST HAVE BEEN OF INFLUENCE OF THE PERFORMED ARTS EVEN UNTIL PRESENT

TODAY I WROTE NOTHING - KHARMS

PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE ABSURDIST WORK YET READ. WHAT A BLAST. INTENSE, UNREAL, AND UNRELENTING. HILARIOUS.

ENJOY WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE IRANMAN'S REVIEW. HEARTBREAKING AFTER ALL THAT WAITING

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21110592-mohammed-tajikistan

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THE HIGH WINDOW - CHANDLER
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU - TOLSTOY

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THE GLASS KEY - HAMMETT
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS - NIETZSCHE
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE - LAXNESS

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THE PICKWICK PAPERS - DICKENS
THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS - ARISTOTLE
THE GHOST-SEER - SCHILLER

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OIL! - SINCLAIR

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ON MURDER - QUINCEY
CLAUDIUS THE GOD - GRAVES
THE CONFIDENCE-MAN - MELVILLE

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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES - DARWIN

SIGNIFICANTLY MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN I HAD PREVIOUSLY RECKONED IT TO BE. THE IMPACT ON CULTURE, EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND NATURAL HISTORY THAT THIS WORK HAS MAKES IT WORTH READING ON THAT BASIS ALONE. IT'S LONG, BUT WORRY NOT, I FOUND THAT UNNECESSARY DIVERSIONS WERE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. THE PORTIONING OF THE BOOK ALLOWS IT TO BE READ IN TID-BITS.

ECCE HOMO - NIETZSCHE

AS IT REFLECTS ON HIS OWN WORKS, IT WORKS AS A GOOD BASE TO UNDERSTAND NIETZSCHE AND HIS PHILOSOPHY (OF WHICH I KNOW LITTLE). MANY MAY ARGUE THAT THIS SHOULD BE READ TOWARDS THE END, BUT GIVEN THE LENGTH AND THE SUMMARY NATURE OF IT, I DON'T SEE WHY ONE SHOULDN'T READ IT FIRST, THEN HIS OTHER WORKS AND RETURN ONCE MORE TO THIS.

SUN AND STEEL - MISHIMA

WORDS AREN'T ENOUGH. EMBRACE THE BEAUTY OF THE BODY. PUSH YOUR MIND AND YOUR BODY TO THEIR PEAKS. TRAINING ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER IS RIDICULOUS. YOU THINK THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE MIND?

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THE UNFETTERED MIND - SOHO

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TO A GOD UNKNOWN - STEINBECK
THE HISTORIES - HERODOTUS
VILE BODIES - WAUGH

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The Riddle of the Sands - Childers
Light in August - Faulkner
Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens

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Little Dorrit - Dickens
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - Wells

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The Cannibal - Hawkes
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Raspe
Skylark - Kosztolányi

Shit's real.

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Black Spring - Miller
Bleak House - Dickens
Sonnets to Orpheus - Rilke

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Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

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The Cannibal - Hawkes
Other short works I've yet to read that I can find in .pdf until I get a new kindle (and other Dickens audiobooks)

Anyone got that link for Will 'O the Wisp?

Let's do this /lit/, probably the last one for the year

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On the Heights of Despair - Cioran
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Khayyam
A Princess of Mars - Burroughs

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Bleak House - Dickens
Cyrano de Bergerac - Rostand

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The Purple Cloud - Shiel
Black Spring - Miller
The Riddle of the Sands - Childers

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Howards End - Forster
La Dame aux Camélias - Dumas-fils
The Return of the Native - Hardy

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The Innocence of Father Brown

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Bhagavad Gita - Vyasa
Every Man Dies Alone - Fallada
Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars - Remarque

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Phaedo - Plato
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
Foundation # 1 - Asimov

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The Young Lions - Shaw

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Last and First Men - Stapledon
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein
The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

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>The Social Contract - Rosseau
>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne
>A Passage to India - Forster

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>The Golden Bough - Frazer
>Candida - Shaw

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>Foundation #1 - Asimov (didn't know it was actually written prior to 1950 until recently)
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
>The Maltese Fiction - Hammett

Eventually, I'll knock out all of /lit/'s essential pre-1950 works and find some super special gems.

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Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress - Shaw
The Radetzky March - Roth
The Vicar of Wakefield - Goldsmith

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The Golden Bough - Frazer
Sons and Lovers - Lawrence

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The First Men in the Moon - Wells
A Passage to India - Forster
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne


Sure is a lot of British/Irish literature for me. I disregarded it for too long.

Hello /lit/! I am debating between starting one of four books at the moment. I'm going to read all of them eventually, I'm just not sure which I should dive into next. Here are my options:

The Cobra Event, by Richard Preston
Sleeping In Flame, by Jonathan Carroll
Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

What are your thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks.

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The Mysterious Island - Verne
The Moonstone - Collins
Alamayer's Folly - Conrad

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The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham

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The State and Revolution - Lenin
The Vicar of Wakefield - Goldsmith
The Radetzky March - Roth

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MOLL FLANDERS - DEFOE
CALEB WILLIAMS - GODWIN
UNCLE SILAS - FANU

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THE WILLOWS - BLACKWOOD

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SALOME - WILDE
CARMILLA - FANU
SHE - HAGGARD


FUCK YEAH FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN

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>THE DIARY OF A NOBODY - GROSSMAN
>THE AENEID - VIRGIL
>WHAT IS ART? - TOLSTOY

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>GROWTH OF THE SOIL - HAMSUN

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>FANNY HILL - CLELAND
>THE MONK - LEWIS
>THE SHADOW LINE - CONRAD

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>Pygmalion - Shaw
>Ivanhoe - Scott
>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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>The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories - Chambers

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>The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale - Stevenson
>Victoria - Hamsun
>Captain Blood - Sabitini

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COMMON SENSE - PAINE
PETER CAMANZIND - HESSE
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - BUNYAN

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THE CANTEBURY TALES - CHAUCER
IN DUBIOUS BATTLE - STEINBECK

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THE RAZOR'S EDGE - MAUGHAM
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA - JOHNSON
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT - ORWELL

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Do it

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Infantry Attacks - Rommel
Mysteries - Hamsun
All the King's Men - Warren

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Burmese Days - Orwell

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The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
The Magician - Maugham
Erotic Poems - Goethe

God damn what awesome reads.