/lit/ - Literature

Harper Lee (before to set a watchman)

>>12140742
The closest I’ve come is F. Scott Fitzgerald, I’ve read Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and a smattering of short stories here and there.

Anne Frank

>>12140742
Camus, Kafka and Dostoyevsky (minus his comedy novella that I have on my shelf but haven’t got around to) Hamsun minus one or so and whatever is untranslated.

Ive read Shakespeare and watched some plays multiple times.

>>12140742
Never

>>12140742
Cormac’s novels
He wrote a stage play, a teleplay and a screenplay that I haven’t read.

ouui, j'ai le lis le the ouevre parce que je suis connaisseur oh mon dieu quelle blague putain

>oeuvre
fuck off
fuck french words
fuck france

>>12140780
It takes a special type of masochist to read Description of a Struggle from beginning to end

>>12140813
It’s been years but you’re right. I really liked how his characters would suddenly act infantile or clingy with others. Every thing was uncertain in his books and stories, it was like he wrote the jump scares of comedy.

>>12140742
Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Nietzsche.

>>12140742
Maddox until 2005

>>12140742
John Green

Dickens, Tolstoy, Austen, the Bronte sisters.

>>12140742
Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Philip K. Dick minus some short stories and non-sf novels.

>>12140742
I've read the vast majority of his fiction. All I'm missing is a handful of his revisions.

>>12140742
Hemingway and Fitzgerald are the closest, if only because I used to actually read books in late highschool - freshman undergrad.

>>12140791
wow we have a winner here

Kafka would be pretty easy, I've seen all his works collected in one not-too-long volume. I've just got Amerika left.
Who would be the hardest to "complete" though?
Balzac is what immediately comes to mind.

>>12140742
Philip K. Dick, although I don't really count the Exegesis.

Tolkien

Lovecraft

Poe

Shakespeare, Dickens, Homer, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. The list goes on. It's not that hard unless you're dealing with a Balzac/Trollope type with 50 novels. All Dickens is only about 20 books

>>12140812
This

Thomas Bernhard except for his poems and plays, Franz Kafka except for probably some short stories, Christian Kracht except for his nonfiction, literally everything by Patrick Süskind, everything by Matthew Stokoe except for one book that wasn't available for less than a few 100 dollars until recently but now that this thread reminded me of it I looked it up and it's available for 13 bucks now, so I'll read it soon, everything by Donald Ray Pollock, Raymond Carver except for his poetry.

>>12141541
>Who would be the hardest to "complete" though?
Henry James, Arno Schmidt

>>12142759
retarded humble brag post

>>12140800
just read them you cunt it takes less than an hour each

>>12141541
william t. vollmann
joseph mcelroy
samuel richardson
stephen king because his shit is so bad and he wrote too much

>>12142851
I've done Henry James apart from a few short stories which are hard to get hold of. He's prolific but consise, nothing over 500 pages, most under 300.
Trollope is the big dog here. 47 novels, all massive Victorian monsters

>>12140742
I've read all of Houellebecq's novels but none of his poetry or essays. Probably the closest I've gotten.

>>12142858
Low iq post. What if I told you I've read all of Shakespeare and all of Dickens at least twice, and the hits several more times?

>>12142862
Other priorities

>>12140742
yeah, Bret Easton Ellis, Lovecraft, and Dostoevsky

>>12140742
Barbara Cartland

>>12140742
Jack London

>>12140776

baudelaire

>>12140812
peu basé

Not in chronological or order of importance: Ellis, King (no bully pls), Pinecone, Hemingway, Dickens, Wilde, Kafka, Woolf, Homer, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Tolkien, literally any remotely proficient female writer from 1750 to 1890ish and most Roman orators (both pretty much against my will in college lol), Philip K. Dick, Lovecraft, Camus, Tolstoy, kaser, Bernhard, Voltaire, K. Le Guin, Houellebecq, Goethe, Schiller, Hesse, Rilke, both Murakamis, Mishima, Calvino, Gracq/Poirier, also every iteration of the Edda and Nibelungen material I could legally get my hands on regardless of author.
To be fair, I'm old as dirt and this was done over the stretch of 22+ years, plus I also listed those where I read anything I could acquire but not technically all of it (for example untranslated works in a language I don't speak fluently enough, or obscure fragments and such).

>tfw 3.5 books short of completing Balzac but I just CAN'T BE ARSED

>>12140742
hart crane and walt whitman, multiple times each

>>12143117
How old are you, Sage Anon?

>>12143117
>>tfw 3.5 books short of completing Balzac
At that point, just say you have and maybe read the summaries.

>>12142843
You should read Bernhard’s plays, anon. I’ve read all his novels sans Frost and Amras. His plays are quite fun to read and very funny in a mean spirited way. Histrionics is a nice collection of three of his plays.

I’ve read a lot of Samuel Beckett, about half his drama works and most of his prose works sans How It Is, Nohow On, and Dreams or Fair to Middling Women. Oh and I haven’t read More Pricks Than Kicks.
I’ve read almost all of Bolano’s novels. Haven’t read The Skating Rink, Monsieur Pain, and The Third Reich.

>>12142868
Vollmann writes faster than I can read

>>12143477
47, 48 in early 2019
>inb4 wtf are you doing on 4chan(nel)???
where else can I discuss what I love while calling people jews, niggers, cucks or faggots, that'd get me banned from anything I hold dear irl very fast heh

>>12143521
I do occasionally but I can't live with the lie much longer

>>12143634
how do you feel about mary mccarthy

>>12143695
mostly blatant indifference, I'll admit The Group was entertaining and her letters to Arendt, while kinda gay, were interesting too

>>12143117
>King (no bully pls),
HOW? His bibliography is fucking huge.

>>12140812
basé & rougepillé

Nietzsche

Currently i am reading his posthumous fragments which are double the lenght of his ouevre (6000 pages)

>>12143634
My dad left me and my mom when I was around 12. I think I like you.
>>12143969
Where and how? Which language and edition?
I bought a very nice complete works edition that I should get back to soon. I'm not memeing when I say reading him is like a drug.

>>12143117
What are your favorite books anon?
You've read so much good stuff.

>>12143924
enough time. I read the first one when I was a wee lad and finished the last one half a year ago. also do note that I just mean actual king works, I'm still missing a couple he penned under an alias or collaborated with others for.

>>12144148
mine did too. I made kitschy train station kiosk wildwest heroes my father figures, didn't hurt as far as I can tell kek

>>12144179
don't ask me to choose, I fucking implore you. some I always come back to one way or another are Camus' Stranger, Mann's Magic Mountain, Voltaire's Saul (or the OG non-revised Pucelle maybe), Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby, and Faust II. but the list goes on, my 3x3 is an unironic 12x12 at any given time.

>>12143117
>>12143634
>47 year old man(?) types out "no bully pls"
top zozzle

>>12144287
not the worst I've done, not even today.
also yes, man, where do you think we are

>>12140742
in my final undergrad year I obsessively read everything Samuel Beckett ever wrote, he's one of the only writers capable of maintaining a formal, aesthetic and thematic consistency throughout his entire writing career that is also uniquely his own.

>>12143117
>voltaire

Bullshit

>>12144329
Read Thomas Bernhard my man

>>12143117
Do you speak German?

>>12143608
I live in Vienna, so there's a good chance I might be able to see his plays performed. You should definitely read Frost, it's one of my favorites. Amras, on the other hand, is rather neglectable.

>>12140742
edgar poe,homer,tom robbins,

>>12140812
it's je l'ai lis you fucking retard

>>12144397
stop liking what I don't like - the post

>>12144492
Ich habe die ersten sechzehn Jahre meines Lebens teilweise dort verbracht, ja.

>>12144551
i think it's je l'ai lu

The closest I've come is Arthur C. Clarke: all his SF novels and stories, and about half of his nonfiction.

>>12140742
Lovecraft
Mishima
Poe
A great deal of Wilde

>>12144563
Nice, wo lebst du jetzt bzw. was ist deine Nationalität?

>>12144850
Ich lebe jetzt ca. vier Monate im Jahr in Norditalien und den Rest in den USA (Ostküste), Nationalität ist theoretisch deutsch+italienisch aber den meisten Amis spiele ich WASP vor, who gives a fuck :>

>>12144484
Yeah I've been meaning to, I've heard there's a fair amount of similarities between them. Where should I start and which English translations should I go for?

>>12144563
I just doubt that you've read his complete works given how prolific he was

Plato
Aristotle
Chaucer
Montaigne
Shakespeare
Defoe
Austen, the Brontë's, Eliot and Shelley
Keats
Dickens if you exclude journalism
Yeats
Hemingway if you exclude letters
Steinbeck
Joyce if you exclude The Wake (which I do)
Ian Fleming
Pynchon
DFW

Obviously not including one-hit wonders, and those are just the authors who I've read >99.99% of their published stuff, leaving so little that it would be difficult for me to find out what I'm missing.
I've read the major and easily accessible works of countless other writers who are just too damn prolific, like Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, all the romantics etc

>>12143005
he called 759 retarded because the OP never said that reading an author's complete works was "hard." the OP is probably just curious about which authors inspire the most thorough reading

if this post was made with the intention of getting a rise from a fish like me, well done

>>12140742
Isaac Asimov. Or at least all of his stuff that falls in with the time line he made later in his life.

>>12140742
the Pearl poet, Chaucer, and Plath (starting from the obvious, but then I went out to find her poetry). and Homer I guess. excluding Langland since he only wrote one poem, even if he wrote that poem more than three times in different versions.
starting to work my way through the Summa right now to finish off big T, but it just feels like reading a dictionary or other reference work, this isn't how it's meant to be used at all.

>>12145732

Who's good

>>12145732
What did you learn from reading the complete works of Plato and Aristotle?

>>12140812
J'ai trouvé le maximum pleb

>>12144790
t'es correct mon ami

>>12140752
underrated post

>>12145657
oh. well, as mentioned I exclude things I could not get a translation of (I do speak French but not enough to read works of that magnitude lol), that rules out quite a couple early and/or "banned" texts. but the rest, yup.

Not counting the low output writers, I think the biggest I've done is Descartes.

>>12140742
(Most of) Faulkner, Oakley Hall, John Gardner (USA), lotta mystery writers (Christie, Allingham, Moyes, etc)

>>12140742
Racine makes for a very enjoyable read.

>>12148471
he's the guy that almost makes me want to learn french

Bolaño, but only if we are not counting his poetry, because his poetry is pretty bad desu