/lit/ - Literature

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Great dialogues of Plato

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Lolita

>>10291931
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in-between books, but probably The Inheritors or Titus Groan next

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Return of the King

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Stoner

>>10291931
18, The Bible

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Heracletus

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The School of Public Life - Dewey

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Diary of a wimpy kid

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The Bible: just began reading the first book of Samuel

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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

>>10291931
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1984

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2001

>>10291931
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The Fountainhead

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Divine Comedy
Coptic 20 lessons

18
Gödel, Escher, Bach

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Tom Jones

>>10291931
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Shogun

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

> 25
> Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer & Adorno

>>10292365

Good pick

>>10292425
Yo, how is that? I just picked it up in a book sale

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The Sot-Weed Factor

>>10291931
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Infinite Jest

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Meditations

It's better than I thought it'd be

21
Stephen King's works

pretty overrated i must say

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Absalom, Absalom

18
A KGB training manual

14
War and Peace

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The Whistle

>>10291931
>19
>Walden

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A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin

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Phenomenonology of Spirit

>>10291931
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2061

18
Frankenstein

21
The Iliad

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The Decameron

18 ;^)
Should only have two books of the Odyssey remaining past this afternoon

>>10292707
>;^)
What's this supposed to mean? Are you not really 18?

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The Outlaws

21
The Prophet

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Harry Potter

> 20
> ubik

23
The Social Contract

>>10292563
How is it?

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The sun also rises

>>10291945
same bruv

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the waning of the middle ages

>>10292818
I like Thoreau's ideas and his tone, but there is no organization. One chapter is dedicated to how little money he spent on the project, and the next one is a lamentation about how illiterate his countrymen were. Again, he's a good writer, but I had the impression going into this book that it would be like a comfy nature documentary in prose form.

>>10292865
Read his travel diaries they are exactly that.

>>10291931
Pic,

A collection of literary critique essays mostly concerned with romanticism

>>10291931
>18
>The Fisherman
(And very slowly, The Count of Monte Cristo)

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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

>>10291931
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Transformers fanfiction

>>10291931
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7 habits by stephen covey

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Cien años de soledad

I started reading it 2 years ago and dropped it halfway, it was overwhelming. Now I'm about 3/4 in, it's fantastic.
I've been putting off reading for the last 2,5 hours though, I'm such a lazy cunt

>>10292425
I read that recently too and I'm 26 too.

Reading Augustus now and although I do like it, it's not as fun to read as his other 2 novels, which I loved.

>>10291931
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Barbapapa

>>10292972

Sounds like some Joyce crazy shit

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4chan

>>10292977
Worst, it's half-French.

>>10292977
>Usbusbhbshbh
wow wtf what a shit writer
>Usbusbhbshbh by James Joyce
holy shit wtf that's genius

Lmao

Btw @thread
>21
>Brothers Karamazov

>>10291931
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Coleección de poemas de amor de Pablo Neruda

>>10291931
22, name of the rose

>>10291931
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Lonelyache

>>10291949
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A collection of speeches by Robespierre
Will probably read Growth of the soil next

>>10291931
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Mein Kampf

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Man and his symbol

>>10291931
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4chan

>Should probably rethink my life.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Orthodox Church
The Bible (Matthew atm)

>>10293017
GotS is a top tier book, Im sure you will love it.

>>10291931
>18
>A collection of speeches by Robespierre
>Will probably read Growth of the soil next

GotS is an excellent book. Im sure you will love it.

>>10293050
I figured as much, I liked hunger and I see it being pushed here from time to time. Did you read the original or a translation?

>>10293055
I read the translation by the woman... Sverre? Not sure her name but you can easily find it.

I wish I could read it in the original Norwegian but too much going atm to learn a language, especially one that is just there to read Hamsuns works haha.

I am 19
And I am reading Haruki Murakami „men without women“

>>10293063
I'm Norwegian, so I will read the original, I was just curious.
Also Sverre is a male name, lol

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>>10293010
>>10291949
>lolita
>and going through every joyce's book. Currently on portrait. have read chamber music, dubliners and stephen hero so far

>>10293079
O.. My bad.

Yeah it was translated by Sverre Lyngstad. And good stuff, you probably can get a bit more out of it, since some things are lost in translation.

>>10291931
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph “Polish Picaninny Pulverizer” Conrad

>>10291931

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Catch 22
I don’t care if this is a meme book it’s hilarious so far and that’s enough.

>>10292063
that's like 4 pages

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Aleph - Borges

Someone recommend a non depressive interesting book that I should read next.

>>10291931
>18
>Reading Critique of Pure Reason with lectures every few days, but have read 50 pages of Odyssey yesterday, and will complete it by the end of the day. Only been held up because I'm Xmas shopping books online for pleb family members to become cultured.

>>10292157
woah

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Accelerated Spanish, Volume 1.

>>10293019
Sounds about right.

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lotr

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Malazan

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Anthropologie structurale, Levi-Strauss.
Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo

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frankenstein

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Being and Time

>>10292865
Isn't there some pleasant nature writing at the end of the book about how he's friends with trees or some shit

always amuses me how much less pretentious picks get with age (im no exception)

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Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy
Fichte's Ethical Thought
Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and his lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology

>>10293662
>21
>he thinks he possesses age
god i would kill to be young again

>>10292944
I also started reading it sometime ago, dropped it because there was too much noise in my house. Now I'm at the end of Noticia de Un Secuestro and finding it boring as fuck.

>>10293185
I think I got swindled

>>10293695
Noticia is mediocre
If you want something similar but executed much better, read Crónica de una muerte anunciada

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The Gulag Archipelago

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Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic

>>10291931
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Petrolio by Pasolini

>>10293679
Not him, but how old are you? Also, sometimes I wonder if I'm not wasting my youth with books when I should be out there loving and living all the pretty women while I'm still attractive, that's not gonna last forever.

>>10293743
You're not wasting your youth at all, my biggest regret is not reading nearly enough when I was younger and now I have a permanent inferiority complex and feel like I always have to catch up

>>10293743
Really, it's what you value in life now, versus what you think you'll value later on.

>>10293662
>21
>Age
>Posts three philosophy classics
>Not pretentious
You're the confirmation of your own hypothesis.

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Tariq Ali's biography of Lenin

>>10293786
all things considered, i wouldn't be in this thread if i wasn't pretentious and cared immensely how im perceived on an anonymous image board

though, i suppose claiming self-awareness isn't really an excuse in the end

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The Gay Science
I read a lot of the greeks to get here. it still makes me feel retarded

>>10293806
>the gay science
that's gay, anon

>>10293813
well it did start with poetry

>>10293743
There's no need to choose, you can do both. Furthermore, doing the first will contribute with doing the latter.

>>10291931
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'Salem's Lot

prometheus unbound - shelley
home - marilynne robinson
songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe - thomas ligotti

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Return of the King

>>10293727
how's the ride anon?
a buddy of mine got half way through and had to stop due to it being so depressing it's boring

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Plato - Theaetetus - 20 pages from finish
Joyce - Ulysses - finished the Sirens chapter

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Akashic Records

>>10293806
>I read a lot of the greeks
Like what?

>>10293891
Little Red Riding Hood

>>10291931
>24
>Being and Nothingness
>The Magician King
I can’t focus properly on books without a pulp book on the side to act as a palate cleanser.

>>10293395
I shill for Danielewski way too often, so I will recommend House of Leaves.
The Crying Lot of No. 49 is great too.
Canetti is great too.

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In Search of Lost Time

>>10291931
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At the end of Paradise Lost right now.

>>10293801
>i wouldn't be in this thread if i wasn't pretentious
That applies to each and every single /lit/ poster. I was just referring to the books.

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The Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault, Michel.
Constructing The Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy, Cushman, Philip.

See, "old" and worn out, still a pretentious fuck.

>>10292365
gay asf

what are you going to read next? A New Kind of Science? lmao

>>10293042
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Halfway through this too

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Watership Down by Richard Adams (for pleasure)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (for class
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (for an essay due in about two weeks)
J R by William Gaddis (for pleasure)

20. soon to be 21 =(
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov. it's breddu gud desu but all the shitposting aboit translations is making it a little less enjoyable. (P&V)

>>10291931
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Anna Karenina

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

Almost done with both though.

>>10293891
I realize now I should not have wrote "a lot"
Nichomachean ethics - Aristotle
The republic and the trial by Plato
a bunch of myths

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Herodotus

>>10291931
Very old, just finished Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. 4/5

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The Brothers Karamazov

>>10292997
¿Qué te parecen? No leo mucha poesía pero leí los 20 poemas de amor y no me convencieron mucho. No termino de entender por qué han tenido tanto éxito

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Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Fuck you guys are young. From the way you guys post I assumed everyone was 30+ /lit/ professors

>>10294333
Well the demographics of 4chan isn't exactly a normal distribution.

>>10294248
I'm seconding this, is he worth checking?

>>10294333
if you read the books /lit/ talks about you'd know that most of us are talking out our asses

>>10294374
this

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A Michael Dummett collection called The seas of language.

>>10294071
You mean the apology?

>>10291931
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Player Piano

>>10294397
yeah the actual name escaped me atm

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Les miserables

>>10294333
I'm 21 and I regularly shitpost about books I've never read.
Anyway I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment and that's not a shitpost.

>>10294404
It takes less than an hour to read. Id read that an the Pheado before the republic if I were you. Also, when you get to it in the republic, know that when Plato writes "Pastry bakers and Corinthian girls" he means cake and whores. Lowest common denominator and all that shit.

>>10294413
Read the first part a month ago, and then the semester hit me. Thinking about going back to it. Found it pretty good but that unabridged walk-through of the battle at Waterloo. Damn son that hit me like a wall. How are you liking it? Is it worthwhile further in if one isn't majorly into 18th-19th century French history?

>>10294441
I already read those. that's what I said in the first post

>>10291931
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>Reading : See Pic Attached

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The Birth of Tragedy

>>10291962
25 and just finished this the other night. It's an incredible novel.

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Norwegian Wood

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Naked Lunch

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Hamilton’s Mythology
DeLillo’s White Noise
DFW’s The Pale King

Just finished Anna Karenina so I figured it was time to hurl myself into present day. Definitely want to read The Brothers Karamazov soon. What translation do we favor, lads?

>>10294452
Sorry, read it as you were currently reading them.

>>10294491
Garnett

>>10294494
nah. what's Phaedo? I didn't get as much out of the Republic as I wished

>>10294482
Make sure to read it again after you finish. You will appreciate it more. Also on the 2nd read try reading it randomly because Burroughs said you don't have to read it linearly. The stories can be read in any order. I wonder if not reading from cover to cover changes understanding.

>>10294458
upon seeing this photograph, i am become aroused

>>10294506
It's written in the same period as the republic and the apology. Basically it follows the last conversation of Socrates right up until he drinks the hemlock. Goes through some reflections on the immortality of the soul, innate ideas and what have often been tied to eternal recurrence theory (just to mention it now that you're reading Nietzsche), the mind body problem in general, and more on the ideas. It is very short and neat, and not the same bitch as the republic. It's highly recommendable.
Also, now that you've read the republic, you might find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsLditCFME The big G himself. (Not that hermeneutics is my main cup of tea in any way).
Also, this is pretty neat as an introduction to most philosophy, at least I've enjoyed it both as a refresher and introduction. It's a bachelor's entrance course to the history of philosophy running over the course of a year. The guy was a christian thinker, but was famous for this course and he knew his shit. Plus he's actually very cool to listen to. So if one can live with the Christian undertones and slight lack of going in to detail due to the level of the course, it's brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yat0ZKduW18&list=PL9GwT4_YRZdBf9nIUHs0zjrnUVl-KBNSM

>>10291931
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The Count of Monte Cristo, the Robin Buss Translation

>>10291931
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Don Juan-Lord Byron
Philosophical Essays and Correspondence-Rene Descartes
The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage-Will Durant
A History of Philosophy Volume I: Greece and Rome-Frederick Copleston

>>10294570
this is the highest quality response to a post I've gotten out of this shit-hole website in a hot minute anon. I'm more into this for the political philosophy but this is gonna be a good help to build a foundation on

>19
>Mythology & The Works of Plato

26, werner jaeger

>>10292354
Cringe.

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Heart of Darkness

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Blood meridian

>>10293124
>>10294769
Hiya friend

>>10291931

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live and let die

>>10292656
I kekt

>>10293727
Clean your room

>>10293046
Patrician

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A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery - Mary South Atwood

>>10294333
T b h the age thing makes a lot of sense. I was under 20 when I read a lot of classics and I couldn't understand shit, even the stuff I thought I understood went way over my head. Anyone under 24 is a genetic brainlet so it's no surprise that people on here don't understand what they read.

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Malazan

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Cacausian Battlefields and Russian Fairy tales

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This thread

>>10291931
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Federalist papers, Lautreamont.

Lautreamont would have made a great biologist, had he lived and pursued it. His detailed knowledge of and passion for plant and animal behaviors is evident in his work, and is buttressed by an understanding of mathematics and logic.

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deconstructing radical orthodoxy
logic and theism

>>10291959
i'll be 30 in two weeks and i am also reading return of the king.

>>10292776
>>10292978
>>10293044
old
pic related

>18
>the tunnel
i am going to be fucking slain but i don't care the subject matter seemed cool and mr. gass is a smart guy i watched his readings and lectures
also i am severely overcompensating for my lack of self-worth
be honest do you think i can enjoy this book? i'm totally interested and everyone says it's sublime, but at the same time people tend to speak of it like it's illegible at parts
iunno i have some confidence
:(

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thomas the obscure

>ITT feel vindicated for posting your thing and don't talk to anyone or read anyone else's

>>10291931
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Alibis by Aciman

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Divine Comedy

>>10293921
I enjoy math... What's wrong with that?

I am 28 years old. I am about a quarter of the way through A Confederacy of Dunces. I saw that Nick Offerman played Ignatius in a play based on the book. I wish I could watch it because the book has been hilarious so far and I feel like he could do a lot with that character.

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Martin Jay, The Dialectical Enlightenment
Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints
Nicholas Cook, A Guide to Musical Analysis

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Phenomenology of Spirit

>>10291931
>25
>thomas hardy tess of the d'urbevilles

>>10291931
>48
>everyone poops

>20
>My life: volume 1 by Richard Wagner

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Black Spring

>>10295594
Fuckoff b&

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Soldier of Arete - Gene Wolfe
Laws - Plato
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle

I didn't start reading until a few years ago so I feel like I'm always trying to play catch up.

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Ficciones
serbian lit — Landscape painted with tea, Milorad Pavić
poems from Borislav Radović
poems from Branko Miljković

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Blood Song
Dune
Deepdrive

>23
>anna karenina

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Choke -Palahniuk

>>10292429
Kek fucking continental trash

23

Rimbaud's Complete Poetry
rereading King Lear
bunch of essays on King Lear
About to start The Master and Margarita

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How to win friends and influence people. I fell for the meme guys but I’m actually liking this book

>>10295708
What essays on King Lear?

>>10295563
Good shit I had to read that book for a class

>>10294670
Are you reading all Those books at the same time?

>>10294248
>>10294373
La verdad es que pienso que lo sobrevaloro un poco porque cada vez que leo un poema pretendo leerselo a una chica de la cual estaba enamorado. De todas maneras, a pesar de que sus poemas son relativamente simples y con un lenguaje sumamente accesible, Neruda es un buen poeta, en mi opinion garcia lorca escribe mejor, pero al igual es por habito de imaginarme leyendole sus poemas a una enamorada.

>>10291931
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Faust

23, atlas shrugged. My first time reading ayn rand, I like it so far but it seems a bit heavy handed at times.

>>10295737
Whatever I can find on the subject of silence, or just general interpretations of the play. For example, right now I'm reading one written by Arthur F. Kinney. At this point almost anything I read on Lear seems repetitive at times, but when an author delivers their own reading, the one I hadn't thought about before, it turns out to be illuminating. For example, in Kinney's essay he advances that Edgar as Poor Tom is an amalgamation of Cordelia (filial duty), Kent (disguise), the Fool (nonsense language) and Lear (nakedness). It seems obvious, but I hadn't seen it like that before.

If you want to read other good general interpretations of the play, the best I've read so far have been those by Bloom and Goddard. Good stuff all around, even if you don't agree with their readings.

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What happened - Hillary Clinton

>>10291931
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Mein Kampf

>>10292354
rude awakening coming soon, cringe as fock

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Doting from Henry Green

>>10292354
lmao cringey af
(what's cringey btw ?)

>>10295807
How is it? unironically? does she write well or is it exactly what you'd expect. or is u trollin?

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You must change your life

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Dead Souls
Whipping Girl

>>10295868
How is it?

>>10293949
I absolutely loved Watership Down. Thoughts on it so far?

>>10291931
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Less Than Nothing

>>10295747
Lee el rayo que no cesa de Miguel Hernandez.

Eso si que hara el chocho pepsi a una mujer con buen gusto portico.

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wheel of time

>>10295896
Dense, but he's a genius so it's worth the work. Sometimes he can be very, very, funny. Unreservedly recommend if you don't mind reading slow and having to look up words, ideas, and authors all the time to figure out what he's on about.

>>10295854
I liked the book. Maybe its not for the average 4chan trump supporter.

>>10295943
Thanks, I've had Critique of Cynical Reason by him on my reading list for a long time. I'm eager to finally dive into his works. I've heard that despite the density of his books they can often be light-hearted and humorous.

>>10294521
Noted, thanks!

>>10295969
I managed to struggle my way through his 'Spheres' trilogy over the last few years, heavy going but it totally rewrote the way I think about so many things it's hard to remember how I thought before I read him, incredibly perceptive and despite his, at times discursive style, utterly analytical, and informed by an immense understanding of history and literature. Intimidating even. 'Rules for the Human Zoo' is next on my 'to read' list.

26 Thomas Bernhard - Frost (I feel old)

>>10294467
>>10291962

I'm 25 too and I just finished Stoner a few days ago. Left me with an strange yet calm feeling.

I'm reading Galveston now.

>>10292076
Only intelligent answer?
Wich book are you currently working yourself trough?
In my opinion, Rodrick's King made the biggest philosophical statement.

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The Great Gatsby
I have to for school...

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Hegels history of philosophy and Heraclitus mostly
Life is good

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The Devil in the White City
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ficciones
The Big Sheep

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The Meme Itself

>>10296395
What do you think of it?

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The Holy bible

Never read it, thought I should give it a try. Beautiful book so far

>>10296405
I'm halfway and so far I'm not sure what to make of it. The fact that I'm still reading is a positive sign, but I'm in the middle of one of those archaically-written historical sections and I'm struggling to see how it all ties in. Maybe it will make sense later.

It has made me read up on some philosophy and "made me think" a bit, so that's also good.

Also, my only exposure to Adam Roberts prior to this novel was his introduction to the SF Masterworks edition of Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe, where (in my opinion) while summarising the plot without spoiler warnings he gets some stuff wrong and that confused and annoyed me.

So I came into this already disliking the author but willing to give him a chance.

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The Phenomenology of Spirit

>>10295904
It's entertaining. I like how Adams portrays rabbits as realistically as possible. While they're anthropomorphic in the sense that they're characters and can talk, they really aren't at all. I'm only about halfway through but have been neglecting it recently. But I will pick it back up soon. It also makes me feel kind of shit for being a human living in an urban area. What creatures have I killed and displaced because I, the human race, has decided to "improve" on what nature has given us?

>>10294865
Took me two attempts to read that book. Definitely McCarthy's hardest read.

>>10295522
To be fair the OP never said discuss. But you probably posted some "look at me flexing my brain power" novel and were egotistically defeated when no one responded to your obvious intellect praising you for your brilliance.

23 and I'd be reading Woolf's The Waves if my copy hadn't gone missing the fucking second my sister came to visit

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Alchemical texts
Tales from Atlantis
The Culture of Critique

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>bluebeard
>Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower)
>Born Standing Up
At the very end of bluebeard and BSU

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The Alchemist

>>10291949
same breh

>19
>Confederacy of Dunces
>War and War

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Teatro Grottesco

>>10295917
Buen gusto, amigo. Es mi poemario favorito.

>21
>L'Œuvre by Zola
>Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

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Osamu Dazai

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A Confederacy of Dunces

>>10296787
howdy

>>10291949
LONDON
O
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D
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>>10296915
What do you think of the book so far?
I think the prose and especially the dialogue are incredible, but I can totally understand why it was rejected by so many publishers. There seems to be no overarching plot.

>19
>Mein Kampf

not edgy, just always wanted to read his book.

>22
>Catch-22 & Citizens

>>10296948
There is. It just doesn't come out until the end. The plot basically revolves around the effect Ignatius has on the lives of people around him. Like how what he does seems disastrous and ruinous but ends up working out for the best in the long run. And yes the dialogue is hilarious and it's very well written in the way it mocks Ignatius and his ego.

>19
>J R by William Gaddis (500 pages in)
love it most of the time, only the school board parts are a bit dry at times

>>10291931
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"The Brothers Karamazov" - Dostoevsky (underlining favorite passages | I can relate with Ivan, but I'd rather be more like Alyosha)

Original Drafts/Typewritten Facsimile of Eliot's "The Wasteland" w/ notes by Ezra Pound (old edition found in the collectors section of my local bookstore for $18.00--so worth)

>>10297051
Have you given Recognitions a chance? I tried reading last year, but couldn't summon the patience to get past the boat scene in the opening

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No Longer Human

>>10297051
The school board parts are great. Everyone is so inept at their job. Nothing ever gets done. There's so much miscommunication and misunderstanding. Everyone is always pushing their own agenda but no one is ever listening to anything anyone says.

>>10297078
Yes, 1 or 2 months ago. Didn't get much further than you. I think I'll try again when I'm through with the rest of Gaddis (J R will be the first one I've finished).

Have you read J R? It's much easier than The Recognitions and not boring or dry or tortuous as I expected. On the contrary, it's pretty funny and you really care about the important characters.

>>10297112
Parts of it are funny but at times it gets a little nagging. Still good but my least favorite section of the book.

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dubliners

18
The Republic

22
SlaugherHouse-Five (rereading)

Storm of Steel

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The Lacanian Subject

>>10296450
I read it earlier this year and I ended up liking it very much. A few parts didn't do it for me but overall it was surprisingly fun.
It's quite unique and way smarter than I expected it to be.

>>10291931
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War and peace

>>10295012
"genetic brainlet"? You sure you picked the right word there?

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The Cases that Haunt Us

>>10293727
Same age and I started to read this and it's just so depressing I don't think I can go on.

>>10293178
You will get it when you finish the book.

>>10291931
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Chesterton's Heretics

>>10291931
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Aeneid
Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Decline of the Roman Empire Vol. 2

>>10291931
24
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

>>10291931
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Fundamentals of exercise science for a fitness professional
and
ACE personal trainer manual

Getting my shit together, anons.

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Wheel of Time

>32
>The Mars Trilogy by Burroughs

>>10291931
22

crime and punishment.

i feel like everyone on this board is reading c&p

>18
>Formal and Transcendental Logic by Husserl/The Collected Poems of Yeats

>>10295868
I saw this for sale at my local used shop for 5$ and came back the next day and it was gone. I was hesitant because I thought it was some lame self-help nonsense

>37
>and quiet flows the don by sholokov, dart by alice oswald, an episode in the life of a landscape painter by cesar aira

>>10291931
guys, shit. im outgrowing 4chan. kms i have to find a new website to waste my life on.

> mean age is 23.4
>> 95% mean confidence interval = [22.62, 24.43]
> median is 22
>> 95% median confidence interval = [21,22]

> data up through >>10298068 as a csv:
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21

Paradise Lost

Far more entertaining than I expected. I just wanted to get the cultural references but it's pretty enjoyable so far. Still don't understand where the "Satan is the good guy" meme comes from though.

>19
>Finishing the Witcher series
>The Once and Future King
>Parfum
im a brainlet who reads for fun

>>10298177

checked.

>>10293010
kek I have the same edition
good boys adelphi

21, Basketball (and other things) by Shea Serano. Would recommend any basketball fan to read this. The art in it is fantastic btw.

>>10292703
Is it better than Chaucer? I only remember reading some in world lit.

>>10298177

good job, Anon.

>also kek mfw i am exactley 23 years and 4 months old

18
beyond good and evil

21
Don Quixote

>>10291931
21
The World of Odysseus and The Light of Day

>>10293001
how'd u find it so far?
which part r u at friend?

>>10293949
What'll the essay be about, specifically?

30
Lots of anime subtitles

69
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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>>10292365
That book reads like a fucking homework assignment (Show your Steps!)

22, Le rouge e le noir Stendhal

Last book I read was Fathers and Sons

now finally reading Infinite Jest because I've had it lying around for over a year and I don't want to be one of those people who owns a xopy of Infinite Jest but hasn't read it.

20

>22
>beware of pity and lanark

>>10295896
so good anon

>>10292640
Is it good?

25, moby dick

i've read a lot of james joyce but this high school required reading book is hard for me to get through. impossibly uninteresting

>>10291931
>>10293042
>>10293935

19
Man and his Symbols

Pretty noice for a broad but basic understanding of Jung's ideas.

>>10295817
>>10291931
Me as well! How far into it are you?

>>10291931
24
storm and steel -
ernst junger

>21.
>Swann's Way.

A lot easier than everyone says. I love how aesthetic the prose is.

>>10291931
20
The Lost World

>>10297136
>dubliners
I loved that. Very enjoyable and relaxing reading.

>>10296992
Which edition? Only one I can reccomend is the Ford translation.

>>10293861
>>10297578
It's been disturbing at times but also inspiring for me as a writer. I would recommend it to anyone

>>10299412
Not him, but I'm reading the Manheim translation. If I had held off a while longer, I'd have bought the Stalag edition. I still might.

35
Just finished Blood Meridian earlier today, probably start Pale Fire tonight. Just saw that Blade Runner movie and have had Pale Fire for a while so figured why not?

28
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

>>10299433
Also I was about 1/4-1/3 of the way through Demons/The Possessed but I'm in the process of moving and I forgot to put the book in my "don't pack this shit" stack. So I might try to find a digital version or just start over in about two years. All that stuff is going into long term storage, so those are actually the choices.


>>10294865
How are you liking it so far? I just finished today and thought it was a good read, there were a couple small things at the end that we kinda weird. Other than that, the only thing I didn't like was every now and then he would write a long ass line where he just kept describing things and using the word and to go onto the next then and then continuing and so on and so forth and then he would keep going and going and going.

>>10299432
>Manheim
He purposefully mistranslated large segments of Mein Kampf which is why you will hear many modern readers of it refer to it as "nonsensical". Because his failure to accurately translate it from German to English, it will obvious look and sound ridiculous.

>Stalag
It's okay and on par with the Ford translation in some regards. I think Ford is the best because it seems the most true to the concept of fair translation.

18
Blood Meridian

also a bit more than halfway through Rilke's notebooks of MLB

though desu im usually too busy or tired or lazy to read. kind of hate myself for it

>>10299460

Does the Ford have many footnotes, or a slanderous forward?

>>10291931
24
The Sound and the Fury

>>10293178
The book is fucking brilliant and the ending is one of the best in the world.

>>10299489
I can't recall there being many footnotes except to elaborate on a specific historical reference, character, individual, etc. I never read the forward, I usually skip that for most books anyways.

I do not believe the translator had any real agenda except to provide a fair translation of the book. I've read it twice now and do not think it was purposefully mistranslated the way Manheim underhandedly did it (and to nobodys surprise is the "official" translation used by most college univerisites despite it being notoriously flawed and fradulent).

That being said MK is a very dense book. It is one mans entire political philosophy and autobiography combined into one of the most influential books on the modern world. Don't expect it to be easy reading.

19
pic rel

>>10299517
Do you have sources on Manhein's being false? Back when I was looking, Manheim was the only copy at the local bookstore, and when looking at his biography I thought it would be okay. The only thing was the the forward written by (((Abraham Foxman))) which Manheim couldn't control. However I have read of a few mistakes in translation, it doesn't seem to be anything malicious.

>>10298043
An easy mistake to make given the title but still a shame, it's a quote from a Rilke poem.

26

Pestana’s Surgery Notes,

My Surgery final is in a few days and the only thing I’ve deeply read in the last 3 years are medical texts because medical school has taken all the joys from life and replaced it with encyclopedic and dry medical knowledge. Truly this is suffering. I long for the day I can leisurely read books again.

>22
>Mandragola, Niccolo Machiavelli
I think I'll have to read it a time or two to really absorb it, I have very little knowledge of Machiavelli's other works, life, or historical context. Interesting so far but not "jaw breakingly funny."

>27
>Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

>>10291962
Stoner is a great book to read under 30

To me Stoner was about applying love to your life, and being conscientious about where your love goes

Incredible book hope to reread it many times

30
gravity's rainbow. last 140 pages.
door stoppers FML

>>10291931
18, Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

19

Finnegans Wake

Jung's "Liber Novus"

The Bible

Eliade's Shamanism

The Children of Hurin

Paradise Lost

>>10299531
>do androids dream of dick
that's hilarious

>>10291931
18
This spoke Zarathustra

>>10300340
Thus*
Phoneposter fag here

35
Maps of Meaning
>seriously