/lit/ - Literature

Last Read: Elmore Leonard - Freaky Deaky
Currently Reading: Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Next to Read: Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice

Last: Naked Lunch
Current: Nazi Literature in the Americas
Next: Cancer Ward
I think I might've posted in one of these already today.

>>1674919
>>1674919

last read: The Double - Dosto
currently reading: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hude and other stories - RLS
next to read: The things they carried - Tim O'brien

Last: Atonement
Current: House of Hate
Next: V.

Last Read: The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Currently Reading: Mary (Nabokov)
Next to Read: The Fellowship if I can manage to snatch a copy at the library, or The Name of the Wind, or another Nabokov book.

Last Read: reread some Isaac Babel
Reading: Moby Dick
To Read: isaac deutschers biography of stalin

Last Read: A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
Currently Reading: In Cold Blood (Capote)
Next Read: Stories and Legends (Tolstoy)

Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter

Last Read: Catch 22
Currently Reading: The Sun Also Rises
Next to read: Forgotten Man, A New History of the Great Depression

Last Read: Nietzsche's Re-valuation of Values
Currently Reading: The Emperor
Next to Read: idk

we can conduct a reading session of w's culture and values sometime

>Last Read: The Fellowship of the Ring
>Currently Reading: Dune
>Next to Read: something light for sure

Last read: Places Far From Ellesmere - Aritha van Herk
Currently reading: Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Next read: The Conservationalist - Nadine Gordimer

>>1674999
I don't know why you'd pick the guy's personal notes and thought records for a reading session. Seems like walking uninvited into a supervisor's house in the middle of dinner and trying to debate a topic with him.

>>1675031
that'd be a pretty good debate. and you probably dont understand w anywayy so it's okay

Last Read: The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (Eurofag)

Currently Reading:
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Consider the Lobsters - David Foster Wallace

Next to Read: Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>1674995
NO ONE IN MY CITY STOCKS OR LENDS THE SUN ALSO RISES UGH FUCK

>>1675043
Me to friend: dude how can you even hate Joyce, you haven't even read his shit? You should check out Dubliners.
Friend: Man, I read half of Dubliners, but the story was so boring.
>mfw
I didn't even call him on that shit, there's no god damned point with some people.

Last read: American Pastoral (shit was enjoyable and I'm pretty sure I can now manufacture a quality ladies' glove)
Currently Reading: Moby Dick
Next to Read: either Nausea or Naked Lunch

>>1675061
got the ebook version
epub : http://www.mediafire.com/?q9h2l2fu7pcwkc5
mobi : http://www.mediafire.com/?hgj4k6u4ggglf4e

Last Read- Pale Fire
Current- Finnegans Wake
Next- Gravity's Rainbow

currently reading: how to block problem tripfags
next to read: quality literature discussion free of triptrolls and shit posts

>>1675080
Holy shit. If I could transport myself through the screen and kiss you, I wouldn't because that would be fucking terrifying, so I'll just say thanks.

My nigga

Last Read: Myths from Mesopotamia
Currently Reading: Anna Karenina
Next to Read: Native Son by Richard Wright

Last read: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Currently reading: Anita Blake
Next: Infynate Jest

>>1675192
>Infynate

last - Dandelion Wine
current - Suttree
soon - I don't know.

Last Read: game of thrones
Currently Reading: dead reckoning
Next to Read: name of the wind

>implying people on /lit/ read anything

>implying this is not the designated triptroll circlejerk spot

Last Read: She Stoops to Conquer-Oliver Goldsmith
Currently Reading: Jack Sheppard-William Harrison Ainsworth
Next to Read: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz

Last read: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Currently reading: The Basic Writin of Nietzsche
Next to read: Atlas Shrugged

Last Read: Stranger in a Strange Land(Heinlein)
Currently Reading: Neuromancer(Gibson)
Next to Read: A Fire Upon the Deep(Vinge)

Fahrenheit 451 -Ray Bradbuyr
The Right Stuff -Tom Wolfe
Red Storm Rising -Tom Clancy

Last read: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Currently Reading: The Windup Girl
Next to read: Theories of International Politics and Zombies

>>1675332
Atlas Shrugged is mediocre writing and shitty philosophy. She takes the very basics of Nietzsche and fails to understand it, then doesn't even bother to see where he went with it. It's a dumb bitch who's butthurt because she doesn't get to be born rich because the commies took all her money away.

Twilight is better.

>>1675445

This is obviously coming from someone who didn't manage to finish the book.

Last read: The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells
Currently Reading: The People of the Abyss - Jack London
Next to Read: Ulysses - James Joyce (but looking for other options)

Last Read: Foundation 1 - Isaac Asimov
Currently Reading: Foundation 2 - Isaac Asimov
Next to Read: If it arrives soon, Metro 2033, if not, Foundation 3

Last Read: Orca (Vlad Taltos, #7)
Currently Reading: Dragon (Vlad Taltos, #8)
Next to Read: Issola (Vlad Taltos, #9)

>>1675445

AGAIN!?

Last Read: _____________Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (10/10)
Currently Reading: ______________The Second Bill of Rights, Cass Sunstein (10/10)
Next to Read: _____________Haven't decided which of the next chapter in the revolution to read next. 1848 or Homage to Catalonia, or a break from the theme.

AGAIN!?

Last Read: _____________Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (10/10)
Currently Reading: ______________The Second Bill of Rights, Cass Sunstein (10/10)
Next to Read: _____________Haven't decided which chapter in the revolution to read next. Either 1848 or Homage to Catalonia, or a break from the theme.

Last Read: Stephen King - The Gunslinger (finished it up)
Currently Reading: Graham McNeill - The Nightbringer
Next to Read: (Ehh I dunno maybe I'll finish up) Philip Roth - American Pastoral

Last Read: The Phenomenon of Man - Teilhard de Chardin
Currently Reading: Man and Technics - Spengler
Next to Read: Ride the Tiger - Evola

Last Read: The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism - ed. P. Adams Sitney
Currently Reading: The Evil Demon of Images - Jean Baudrillard
Next to Read: Desire in Language - Julia Kristeva

Last Read: I am a cat v 1
Currently Reading: Tengo miedo torero and Solomon's Ring (yeah yeah)
Next to Read: i don't know yet i'd like to read the new Jane Auel book if I can get it

>>1675109
Should be shot

Last Read: Lolita
Currently Reading: Myth of Sisyphus
Next to Read: Either Being and Nothingness or Nausea

angels and demons
hitchhikers guide (whole series)
lost symbol

>>1675859
Wrong link. Meant >>1675332

Last Read: Crime and Punishment
Currently Reading: Invisible Man
Next to Read: Heretics of Dune

>>1674923
>Atlas Shrugged
Oh boy do I feel sorry for you. At any rate, do yourself a favor and skip the 50-page speech near the end.

Last Read: Crime and Punishment
Currently Reading: Watch your mouth by Handler
Next to read: Diary by Palahniuk

percy jackson and the last olympian
the tracker
creepypastas
not even trolling

last read: the communist mannifesto
current read: atlas shrugged
next read: animal farm

>>1677311
>pretentious high school senior detected

Last read:
>Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
and at about the same time
>Replay by Ken Grimwood
Currently reading:
>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
>Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Next to Read:
I don't know, whenever I decide the next book I should read, I change my mind the last possible moment. Recommendations are welcome though.

Last Read:

Crime and Punishment - Brostoevsky
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Bronan Doyle

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Fuck knows

Last Read: Might is Right - Ragnar Redbeard
Currently Reading: The Ego and Its Own - Max Stirner
Next to Read: On Liberty - JS Mill

>>1676235
Bt that's the whole point of the book, the speech. You might as well read the whole story on wikipedia, then read the speech as a philosophical text rather than fiction.

Last Read: The fall of Constantinople, 1453, by Steven Runciman.
Currently Reading: German Short Stories 2, published by Penguin.
Next to Read: Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson. But that won't be until exams are over.

Invisible by Auster
Sveve over vatna by Ragnar Hovland
Either The Wind-Up Bird or Yates' Twelve Kinds of Loneliness

>last read:
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

>currently reading:
Faust by Goethe
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

>to read:
Naked Pictures of Famous People by John Stewart
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Last Read: Discipline & Punish
Currently Reading: The Leviathan
Next to Read: Meditations on First Philosophy

I am aimless philosophy major incarnate

2001: A Space Odyssey (and then I watched the movie for the first time)

Dead Space: Martyr (meh, I like the games)

I have big list to read.
John Dies at the End, Pygmy (Chuck Palahniuk), Slaughterhouse Five, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Atlas Shrugged (I know, shut up), Ulysses, House of Leaves, I can't think of too many more offhand.
2010, also, once that gets checked back in at the library.

I also have plans of reading The Dark Tower series and recently bought the Picador Box Set of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I want to reread that series.

I fucking hate tripfags...

And now onto my post:

Last Read: The Walking Dead Compendium One
Currently Reading: House of Leaves
Next to Read: That's a mystery!

Last Read: The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce - Paul Torday
- I can't recommend this enough, it's got some really chilling moments in it that make you detest the main character but you still want to support him all along. Also it's told in 4 roughly equal parts, working it's way backwards over a period of about 4 years.

Currently Reading: Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- I'm not sure about this one to be honest, I understand it's the start of a trilogy but within the space of 2 chapters it has jumped to a completely new time and place. I've only just started and mite b cool, but so far I see nothing special or captivating about it.

Next to Read: If I enjoy Foundation I'll go for the sequel (as I have enjoyed Asimov's other work in the past, mainly "I, Robot"). If not I guess I'll move on to another Paul Torday novel. I think "The Girl On The Landing" is the next one by that author.