/lit/ - Literature

>23
>Germinal, Book of Disquiet, A Hero of Our Time
Not sure what to read next. Probably Portrait of the Artist as Young Man

>24
>Demons, Republic, The Plague
>Capital

>>12101008
26
>last 3
England Have My Bones by T. H. White
Measure for Measure
The Spire by William Golding
>current
Middlemarch

25
Heart of Darkness, Death of the Vazir Mukhtar, Dead Souls
Moravagine

>>12101038
>Middlemarch
How are you liking it? I'm thinking of reading this next, as I've been on an nineteenth century realism kick, but I'm a bit put off by the length.

>20
>I Served the King of England by Hrabal (for school)
>The Trial by Kafka {for school}
>Fear and Tremblling by Kierky (for school}

next is The Birth of Tragedy by Neetchan (for school). I want break already to read what I want though. when I am not reading for school Ive been reading my Montaigne and rereading my Pessoa. once I get winter break I have a nice stack of books to go through

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Dune, Walden, The Soft Machine
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

>>12101008
>20
>Cosmos, Narcissus and Goldmund, Blood Meridian
>Probably going to start on my Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

>>12101008
>18

>Divine Comedy, Les Chants de Maldoror
and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

>the brothers karamazov

>20
>Nietzsche et la philosophie, Iphigenia in Tauris, Death in Venice
>The Vocation of Man

>22

>La Romana (Alberto Moravia), Zorba, the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis), Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)

>The Last Temptation of Christ (Kazantzakis)

>27
>The waves
>Madame Bovary
>History of gilgamesh

I was reading A confederacy of dunces but the library did not let me renew the loan because some pseud faggot wanted to read it, thus i did not finish it and have not read a single page in the past 6 weeks. I need help /lit/, maybe I will finish thus spoke zarathustra, although i find it completely tedious.

>>12101050
It’s off to a slow start desu
I’m making very slow progress for me.
It has some wit to it though.

>>12101094
That's a shame, confederacy of dunces is great.
Have you tried looking for a pdf online to finish it?

>39

>a collection of texts by Daniil Harms
>Maigret's, Boyhood Friend by Georges Simenon
>a collection of plays by Goldoni

>Tolstoy, Family Happiness

>18
Last 3
>Foundation
>Foundation and Empire
>Second Foundation
Current
>The Fountainhead

>>12101008
>18
>Possession, Invisible Man, Harvest
I'm not really sure what I should read next because I'm new to English lit. I was thinking about 1984, Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby.
Are those good choices?

>>12101008
>21
>The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
>Mastery by Robert Greene
>An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki

>>12101008
>bernie sanders rides serena williams into battle

>>12101008
K eres, d la complu killo?

>>12101218
Yes, they're good entry level choices, and not much similar to each other either which is good.

>>12101229
Thanks. I'm an ESL speaker so I haven't really read many books in English. What else would you recommend? I'm looking for something that's relatively good but not difficult, but the classics and some /lit/ books can be rather intimidating.

>>12101008
I understand the thicc legs and ass, but I'll never get Crumb's fetish for those manly faces.

>>12101250
Well, what's difficult to an ESL reader is different to what's difficult to a native speaker, so I'm not quite sure. But leaving aside modernists and pre-1900 novelists who might be more difficult:
Steinbeck is definitely easy, especially Mice and Men.
Hemingway's prose is famously very simple.
Science Fiction books tend to be easy to read - Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-5, Fahrenheit-451

Other novelists you should try but I'm not sure about the difficulty of: Faulkner, Nabokov, Melville, Poe, Austen, Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Conrad

>>12101250
Oh, completely forgot Woolf and Joyce (Ulysses is hard, Dubliners is probably fine).

>>12101433
>>12101445
Thanks. I screencapped these for further reference. What poets do you think I should start with?

>>12101461
Sorry, not sure, but pic related might help. Not all, but mostly english.
Maybe Heaney would be a good one for a beginner.

>age
35
>last three books
Banana Yoshimoto - Moshi Moshi
Don DeLillo - The Body Artist
Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
>current book
George Saunders - Tenth of December
Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

>>12101433
>>12101461
ESL reader here (French native)
I'd say Conrad is a little bit harder than the other suggestions (mostly because of the vocabulary), and Faulkner a little harder than Conrad (because of the long sentences).
You should start with the others and go for them if you feel you can tackle the extra bit of difficulty.

>22
>La communauté désoeuvrée, La communauté inavouable, La communauté affrontée
>La communauté désavouée

>>12101250
Read a bunch of Raymond Carver stories

>>12101578
For now I decided to settle for the books I first wanted to pick, plus "Dubliners" (since Joyce seems to get a lot of love here) and once I finish these I'll try tackling some of the others.

>>12101614
école de Strasbourg ftw

>>12101340
>I'll never get Crumb's fetish for those manly faces
>manly
I mean I can think of one possible reason

>34
>St Anselm Major Works
>Odyssey (Fagles)
>Mahabharata

>Nicolas Nickleby

27
Venus in furs
Count of monte cristo
I, claudius

No longer human

>>12101008
>age
30
>last three books
the Idiot, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, herodotus histories I-III
>current book
herodotus histories IV-VI

>25
>What Makes Sammy Run?, 1984, Lord of the Flies
>The Moviegoer

based crumb. god bless that pervert.

26

Parable of the Sower
Song of Solomon
Absalom, Absalom

Against the Day

>13

>The Bell Curve, The Turner Diaries, A Troublesome Inheritance

>On the Jannies and Their Lies

> 27
> Man in the High Castle, The Stranger, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
> Notes from the Underground, Meditations, Watership Down

>old

On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis
War by Other Means - Blackwill and Harris
The Hell of Good Intentions – Stephen Walt

Current read:
The Great Delusion – John J Mearsheimer

24

Moby-Dick
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
The Narrow Corner

>>12104903
Current is The Magic Mountain

>25

>The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz
>The History of the Byzantine Empire, Vasiliev
>A Confession, Tolstoy

>The Everlasting Man, Chesterton

>>12101008
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Death on Credit
No Longer Human
The Setting Sun

Book of Disquiet

>20
>Hans Henny Jahnn - Dreizehn nicht geheure Geschichten
Ludwig Hohl - Bergfahrt
Goethe - Faust I
>none

>>12101008

>Eternal
>Bonjour Tristesse
>Man's Search for Meaning
>Journey to the End of the Night (currently reading)

>>12101008
>age
27
>last three books
Fall into Time - Cioran
Man and his symbols - Jung
The Puer Aeternus problem - MF Louis
>currently reading
Mercurius by Patrick Harpur

Last three:
Richard Wagner - The ring of the Nibelung
Beowulf
The song of Roland

>21

>last 3
Maria-sama ga Miteru
Kumo desu ga, nanika?
Kino no Tabi
I must practice my Japanese somehow and I can't read true /lit/ stuff yet, sorry /lit/.

>current book
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
This is the first book in a while I choose to read for pleasure alone instead of for practicing Japanese. It isn't like I didn't have fun with the light novels, though.
Every single poem so far gave me chills after figuring out what it means. I'm really enjoying this.

>>12101032
How was Lermontov? Worth the read?

>>12101008
>23
>The symposium, Politics, The Misanthrope.
>The History of the Peloponnesian War

>>12101008

>24
>100 Years of Solitude, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines, Can Life Prevail?
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

I mostly read a fiction book and then a non fiction book in turn

>18

>el aleph, o primo basílio, don quijote

>brothers karamazov, the baron in the trees

>23
>Waiting for Godot, Room to Dream, Hadji Murat
>Blood Meridian

>>12105177
where the fuck did you find this image

>>12105182
It's from surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, quite a famous painting

>25

>The Old Man and the Sea, A Confederacy of Dunces, Kingdom of Loathing

>Pimp: The Story of My Life

>>12105216
>Kingdom of Loathing

ebic fail

meant Hunter S. Thompson - Kingdom of Fear

>>12101008
>24

>East of Eden
>The Sense of an Ending
>Ordinary Men

>Anna Karenina

I disregarded my school books.

23

>Last three
Metamorphosis- Ovid
Origins of Totalitarianism- Arendt
Nationalism and Culture- Rocker

>Current
Annals/Histories- Tacitus

>20
>The Idiot (Dosto), A Fortunate Man (Pontoppidan), The Laws (Plato)
>Dune

>>12105133
Yes. I wasn't really feeling part 1, but when it goes into the first person narrative of the "hero", I got really into it. It's a short easy read anyway.

18

Notes from the underground
Hunger
In cold blood

Grapes of wrath

>20

>Pale Fire
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Fahrenheit 456

>A Tale of Two Cities

The Battle
The Retreat
Exile
trilogy of Napoleonic disasters, first won the Prix Goncourt- by Patrick Rambaud
Now, The Terror Before Trafalgar (a history) by Tom Pocock
35
They're all solid.

>>12101008
19
>The Blind Beast, The house on the Borderland, The Hound of the Baskervilles
>Dubliners
>Portrait of the Artist as a young man

>21

>Laurus
>The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
>Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction

>Aeneid

>28
>The Colossus (Plath), Bone (Ward), Book of Frank (Conrad)
>Reality Sandwiches (Ginsberg)
Not many other /poetry/ here I see.

>>12101504
>bukowski and 2pac
>hughes and Frost not entry level.
Terrible.

23
>last 3
The Unique and its Property
The Elementary Particles
The Sun Also Rises
>current
The Man Without Qualities
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>last movies as a bonus
Cold War
Whisper of the Heart

>>12101250
I’m ESL too, I started reading in english with Hemingway and John Williams.

>>12105633
Yeah, it's a pretty shitty chart too (I think Dylan is a dumb choice too), but it's the only one I could find, and I haven't read many twentieth century poets.

>>12101008
24
El Libro del Fantasma
Memorias de un Librero
No somos Tan Buena Gente
Bar del Infierno

>20
last 3
>Gogol's Saint Petersburg Tales; Moby Dick; The Game
current
>The Definitive Book of Body Language

>>12101008
>19
>Suttree, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Storm of Steel
>Gravity's Rainbow; The Dog of the South; Between the Woods and the Water

>>12101222
>That college curriculum

>>12101008
>19
>Backpacking with Dracula
>The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus
>The Book of J
>Crime and Punishment