/lit/ - Literature

LotR: Return of the King
The Victorian Frame of Mind
LotR: Return of the King

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Just started The Magus

>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Alamut

>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Either Pale Fire or the collected works of Voltaire, can't make it out clearly as I have not put on my glasses.

1. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
3. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

I find this humorous.

>>1428982
You Sir, have quite the witty dog I must say.

Surely, he must be a Yale alumni?

>>1428984

No, for he is merely a University of Virginia Alumni - the Public Ivy League University. ;D

1. I just started the Tao Te Ching.
2. It's a play, but I just finished Equus this morning.
3. Lolita and Equus. They're both sitting on my desk stacked on top of one another.

The Fountainhead
1984
The Fountainhead

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one? Dune
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Wizard's First Rule
Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

About a quarter way through "Let The Right One In,"

About a quarter way through "House of Leaves,"

Just started "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

>>1429012
>About a quarter way through "Let The Right One In,"

How is it btw? I only saw the original movie and liked it very much. Book worth a read?

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Catch 22 - Broseph Heller

>>1429013

In my opinion, incredibly so. I was about 20 pages into another book when I opened this, and haven't been able to put it down since.

Children of Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune

>>1429037
Guess I'm ordering another book today then. Thanks!

Naked Lunch (it's fucking ABYSMAL)
The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
Naked Lunch (still fucking ABYSMAL)

Not so much a book as a fairly long short story: Shadow Over Innsmouth
Recently finished: Dune
Nearest: The Wasp Factory

>>1429058
>>1429011
>>1429042
That's a whole lot of Dune

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Just finished up The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
The Sound of the Mountain

one hundred years of solitude
notes from underground
a stack of 12 books. the closest book that's on own is heart of darkness.

A Clash of Kings
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings

Re-reading them.

augustus - die biographie

die 13 1/2 leben des käptn blaubär

sakrileg

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly

What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
>the sublime object of ideology- slavoj zizek
What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
>player piano- kurt vonnegut
Which book is physically closest to you right now?
>tigana- guy gavriel kay

Nothing
The Stranger
The Long Patrol

>Having a break, as you do.
>The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
>I'm in a fucking library, gtfo.

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Blood Meridian - C. McCarthy
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Crime and Punishment
To Kill a Mockingbird
Charles Dickens Illustrated Collection - Oliver Twist, AChristmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations

The Plague - Camus (almost finished)
A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole
Atonement - McEwan

1) Angelica by Sharon Shinn
2) The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
3) Fix-It and Enjoy-It: 5 Ingredient Recipes

>>1429011
>Wizard's First Rule
Awesome.

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
St. Francis of Assisi by G.K.Chesterton
The Street of Crocodiles and The Bible, KJV with Apocrypha (They're right next to each other.)

> reading
You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier

> read
The Essential Marcus Aurelius

> nearest
Working And Thinking on The Waterfront 1958-1959, Eric Hoffer

I've just realized that every flat surface in this room has at least two books on it.

1- Horus Heresy 5 - Fulgrim
2- Horus Heresy 4 - Flight of the Einstein
3- Giancoli Physics textbook 6th ed.

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
-The feast of the goat, Mario Vargas Llosa.
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
-Spartacus, Howard Fast.
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
-The study of language, George Yule.

>The Master and Margarita
>Single and Single by John Le Carre. It was thoroughly meh.
>some noob stats+probability book by SM Ross

1. Ender in Exile
2. Towers of Midnight
3. Ender in Exile

-"Die Erzählungen Kafkas" (collected shorts of Kafka in German)
-The Collected Writings of Walter Benjamin, Volume 1
-Of Grammatology

1. Notes from Underground and House of Leaves
2. A Clash of Kings
3. Insurgent Mexico

>>1429213
Dude, "The Study of Language" is the physically closest book for me too! What are the odds?

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Crime and Punishment and Capital.

>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Invitation to a Beheading

>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
The Post-Behavioral Era: Perspectives on Political Science

Umberto Eco - On Ugliness
Aristotle - Poetics
Oxford English dictionary.

Reading- One Dimensional Man-Marcuse
Read- White Noise-Delillo
Nearby- The Parallax View-Zizek

Edward II,
Women in Love
Various Analytic Philosophy journals.

Spark of Life- Erich Maria Remarque
The Sirens of Titan- Kurt Vonnegut
The House of Spirits (Isabel Allende) and The Journey of Self-Discovery (Swami etc...)

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Between The Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Mr. Monster by Dan Wells
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
A names book.

> If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language, New Testament, Commentaries on the Gallic War, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader
> What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Ghost World
> Which book is physically closest to you right now?
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language

>Reading
At home:Mona Lisa Overdrive
At work:Atlas shrugged
I don't like to be unoccupied and I'm way to damn shy to talk to people..

>Last book
Hell's Angels

>Closest
I am legend.

The Trial and On The Road
The Castle
Practical Boat Owner Monthly

Arabian Nights

Dracula

The Mote in God's Eye

Dracula.
Ender's Game.
Dracula.

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Ulysses, it's great.
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
The Praise of Folly, it was not bad.
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
I'm using a collection of two Shusaku Endo novels as a mousepad. The first one makes me crazy because I can't find any online proof of its existence.

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one? Occultion by Laird Barron
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety? The Hobbit. Wanted to see what the fuss was about.
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Occultion

>last book

The Game -- Niel Strauss

>current book

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes -- Bill Watterson

>next to me

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thompson

Good Omens
Dracula
Sketchbook

is anyone else here halfway through 20 books?

Currently reading:
Let the Great World Spin by Collum McCain (Good so far), and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max (mildly amusing but mostly self glorifying crap)

Last finished:
Shogun by James Clavell (awesome)

Book physically closest to me:
My journal

1.
Catch-22
The Hobbit
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2.
Ask Alice

3.
Bible

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
The God Delusion
Women

>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Down and Out in Paris and London

>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
stacked on top of each other

Howards End
Madame Bovary
Howards End

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
The Witches of Chiswick by Robert Rankin
Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban

1.Stranger in a Strange Land

2.A Clockwork Orange

3.Pocket Reference.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. Short stories by Guy de Maupassant
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray

almost done Ulysses, in the middle of a game theory / biography of John von Neumann book
just finished The Selfish Gene
The Arguments of the Philosophers: Karl Popper

Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar
Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises
Carlos Fuentes - Terra Nostra

The lord of the rings, 1st volumen
The candidate
the lord of the rings :)

Infinite Jest
Neuromancer
Death on the Installment Plan

I just finished the book I was reading last night, and as I worked all day today, I have yet to start another.

The book was The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie.

I didn't think I was going to be able to answer the third question because all of my books are generally in the same place, but I see that The Great Gatsby is lying on the coffee table. I haven't read it in a long time, so I have no idea why it's out.

> Lord of the Flies
> The Metamorphosis
> Idiot's Guide to Being Assertive

> mfw

The Dharma Bums
On the Road
The Dharma Bums

Crime and Punishment
Grapes of Wrath
Count of Monte Cristo

The Brothers Karamazov
I can't even remember, I think it was Waiting for Godot or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Pre-Calculus textbook.

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Song of Solomon
>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
Pale Fire
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Song of Solomon

I'm reading On The Road Now.

The last book I read was The Rum Diary.

The book(s) physically closest to me are A Box Of Matches and Women since they're on a stack.

1 - The Fountainhead (haters are going to hate, or, more likely, not care)

2 - Lolita

3 - Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials (a truly engaging tale)

>If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
Little, Big for pleasure; Eichmann in Jerusalem for school.

>What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
In its entirety? I suppose that would be some fantasy book or other.

>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
Eichmann in Jerusalem.

>The Richest Man in Babylon (because I can never say no to my Grandad), and before that was about 20 pages in to The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The Princess Bride
>The Black Books box set (shaped like a hardcover book)

The Odyssey
And Another Thing
The Odyssey

Reading Chomsky's Media Control
Last read Edward Said's Freud and the Non-European
Closest book to me is Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism

Currently reading Trader Horn. Super interesting btw, a guys memoirs from Africa in the 1870s. Printed in 1926, and I bought it for $1

The last book I read was the Iliad

And my bookshelf is perfectly perpendicular to my line of sight so that I'm roughly the same distance from all of them.

>>1430576
are you a teenaged policy debate kid

>>1429130

lolno

Goodkind is pretty terrible.

Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
The Great Gatsby
Tale of Two Cities.

The Master and Margarita
Eeeee Eee Eeee
Tie betwene The Pocket Rumi and The Master and Margarita

Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

1: Zombie Survival Guide (re-reading), Started a readthrough of a Lovecraft collection someone put together for me, and Rant - Palanhiuk
2:One of the Dark Tower books, I forget which, i'm gonna start over once I put 'em on my eReader anyways
3: All of them

Wicked
Carrion Comfort
Seeing Redd

>>1430622
No, just an inquiring mind.

>>1430645
House of Leaves just came in today how is it?

>>1430728
Haven't started it yet, just picked it up from the library myself.

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
picture related
A Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse

The Looking Glass Wars: Seeing Red
Allied and Enemies
The Count of Monte Cristo

Not reading anything right now. Trying to decide between Great Expectations and Bryce Courtenay's latest book.

The Judas Gate by Jack Higgins. He's very, very repetitive. Not sure why I bothered.

New Moon. I'm selling it and need to take photos to put on the site.

>>1430754

The Glass Bead Game is the greatest badly written book I've ever read. His writing is incredibly dry, but the story and thought put into it is so coherent. So typically german. Meticulousness above anything else.

Also, love that Putin had slavface in his younger days, people sure are happy in the old eastern block. Pic related.

>>1430801
I wanted to hear about Putin's perspective on allegations of corruption. He speaks with such indignation on the topic, it's like reading a Augustine talk about the 'just war'.

Started Brave New World yesterday
An Enemy of the People, the Arthur Miller adaptation
Brave New World

If you are in the middle of reading a book, which one?
>The Ubu Plays

What is the last book you read in it's entirety?
>Amerika (lawl no in its entirety as its incomplete)

Which book is physically closest to you right now?
>Don Quixote

Nill. I'm to busy at the moment, I have a huge exam tomorrow.

Man's search for meaning.

College physics sixth edition.

1. Ovid's Metamorphosis.
2. Vonnegut's Player Piano.
3. Little Mermaid coloring book.

I'm slowly but surely making my way through Vonnegut's stuff.

1 - Catch-22 By Joseph Heller (Thus far one of my favorite books read ever)
2 - Bleachers By John Grisham (was meh)
3 - A collection of Edgar Allen Poe short stories

Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Mickey Mouse's Learn to Write.

>>1430946
by my strumpot!! Someone on /lit/ has taste.

-None at the moment. I'm picky about books but I may re-read Hounds of the Morrigan or something?
-Zombies Versus Unicorns.
-Uh, Dante's Inferno and Quest for a Kelpie, stacked on my desk.

Prodigal Summer
The Hobbit
The Count of Monte Cristo

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Catiline's Conspiracy by Sallust
The Art of Salvador Dali

>>1431267
Norrell FTW

Shadow of the Torturer
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Naked Lunch

>>1431184
now let's see yours!

none lol
hamlet
hamlet

good list yeah

The Brothers Karamazov
Crooked Little Vein
Player Piano

>>1432009
crooked little vein was a piece of shit yeah?

>>1432017
Funny, but yes.

A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

>>1430946
>Which book is physically closest to you right now?
>Don Quixote

Fuckin' snap, Bro. Routledge's Excelsior Series edition. Leather bound, gold leave, all the bling.

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo

>>1428972

1. Brave New World.
2. 1984.
3. The 7 Spiritual Laws to Sucess.

>current book
still the Ciaphas Cain / Defender of the Imperium Omnibus, close to the end of book #2

>last book read
Clive Barker's Books of Blood Vol 1-3

>closest book
Two. The Cain-Omnibus and Dostojewski's Brothers Karamazov (which is the next on the list).