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SUGGESTION TIME, FUCK YEAH

LAST FIVE: GORGIAS (7/10), LUCKY JIM (8/10), STORM OF STEEL (8/10), THE KREUTZER SONATA (9/10), THOUSAND CRANES (8/10)

CURRENTLY READING: ONCE THERE WAS A WAR

NEXT FIVE: IVAN THE FOOL, THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED, THE DEAD, THE COSSACKS, THE SYMPOSIUM

REMEMBER, RECOMMEND TO AN ANON BEFORE POSTING YOUR OWN, AND FEEL FREE TO RECOMMEND EVEN AFTER POSTING YOUR OWN.

>> No.1252101

>>1252098
Haven't read a single one of your last five. So I can't recommend anything.

>> No.1252110

>>1252101
I RECOMMEND YOU READ ALL OF THEM, HOW ABOUT YOU POST YOUR READS, AND I OR SOME OTHER ANONS MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP YOU OUT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS?

>> No.1252123

I can't be the only one that thinks capsfag is irritating.

Let's not listen.

>> No.1252140

Argh capsguy, I'm pretty sure you have any recommendation I could give you. I know you at least got the Calvino and Auster out of the other thread, so.

Maybe some more Turgenev? I finished Spring Torrents recently and thought it was great, not quite as good as First Love though, imo. I don't see Fathers and Sons on your Goodreads, so maybe that as well, since it's apparently his best novel. And as always, moar Japanese lit if you can find it.

And here's mine:

LAST FIVE: [kind of been doing some children's lit]
Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Matilda by Roald Dahl

CURRENTLY READING:
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Also still have The Temple of the Golden Pavillion and A Canticle For Leibowitz still like halfway read. Need to finish those.

NEXT FIVE:
Not entirely sure, but some possible ones are:
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
The Plague by Albert Camus

>> No.1252142

Last Five: Death of a Salesman 10/10, All Quite on the Western Front 9/10, Wasteland and Other Poems 9/10, Billy Budd 10/10, The Things They Carried 6/10

Currently Reading: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Next Five: Hard Times, Vile Bodies, Chekhov Plays, The Turn of the Screw, The Warden

>> No.1252143

>>1252140
>Maybe some more Turgenev?

Diary of a Superfluous Man and Fathers and Sons are my favorite of his.

>> No.1252208

@CAPSGUY, the only thing I've even heard of from your books is "The Dead," which I'm assuming is the Joyce novella, in which case you should read Portrait of the Artist, which is his best thing. Sorry if this is incorrect/useless but I am trying to play by the rules Here's me:

Last five: all the His Dark Materials books, Lolita, Inherent Vice

Next Five: Paradise Lost, Hyperion, Snow Crash, some biography of Joe Strummer/The Clash that I found, the Bible (trying to read this in its entirety...I'm 3 books in)

>> No.1252486

>>1252140
THANKS FOR THAT, I BUMPED UP SPRING TORRENTS IN MY LIST, SO I'LL READ THAT ONE SHORTLY.

I ALSO HADN'T HAD RUDIN IN MY LIST AT ALL, AND HAVE SINCE ADDED IT. THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I WOULD LOVE TO READ SOME MORE JAPANESE LIT, BUT AS YOU'RE AWARE, I'M HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING HOLD OF IT.

>> No.1252620

>>1252142
CHECK OUT THE RED LAUGH IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU'VE DONE WARFARE /LIT/ TO DEATH, IT'S SHORT AND I'M TRYING TO GET EVERYONE HERE TO READ IT.