/lit/ - Literature

I read:
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
The Wast Land

dragon ball

>>18469652
im still reading the unabridged mahabharata, it is long

r8 what I've read in 2021 so far.

>>18469652
White power by George Lincoln Rockwell
Kai murros collected speeches
Transgender industrial complex by Scott Howard
Cultured grigs by borzoi
Currently reading through the portable nietzche

>>18469652
>We are nearly half way through the year.
God no. What have I done?

>>18469652
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bavaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Guatemala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tasmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_tragedy

>>18469652
The Age of Faith - Durant
The Life of Greece - Durant
The Renaissance - Durant (not finished)
The Story of Philosophy - Durant
A New History of Western Philosophy - Kenney (ongoing)
Phenomenology of Spirit and Hegel's Ladder - Hegel and Hackett (ongoing, 2,400 pages together)
The Shadow of the Torturer

Graphic:
Beserk deluxe volumes 6-7
Blade of the Immortal deluxe volume 1
Battle Angel Alita deluxe volume 1-2
Fables compendium volume 1

>>18471805
Also going through the Berstein Tapes on Hegel and listened to Obama read his new book but didn't finish.

I've picked up Boehme's Signature in All Things and Schloem's lectures on Kabbalah but didn't get too far yet.

>>18469652
1) 19/01/21: The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (William Sloane) (Sakurashinmachi)

2) 21/01/21: The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (Sakurashinmachi)

3) 24/01/21: Twin Spirits: The Complete Weird Stories of W.W. Jacobs (W.W. Jacobs) (Sakurashinmachi)

4) 29/01/21: The Collector (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

5) 29/01/21: Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (Mark Schreiber) (Futakotamagawa)

6) 03/02/21: The witch of Ravensworth (George Brewer) (Sangenjaya)

7) 10/02/21: The Magus (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

8) 21/02/21: The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde) (Sakurashinmachi)

9) 23/02/21: Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (edit. Rex Collings) (Sendagi)

10) 26/02/21: Transparent Things (Vladimir Nabokov) (Otemachi)

11) 03/03/21: The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

12) 12/03/21: Forrest Gump (Winston Groom) (Sakurashinmachi)

13) 19/03/21: Daniel Martin (John Fowles) (Sakurashinmachi)

14) 31/03/21: French Decadent Tales (edit. Stephen Romer) (Sakurashinmachi)

15) 06/04/21: Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola (Kinky Friedman) (Sakurashinmachi)

16) 11/04/21: Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) (Sakurashinmachi)

17) 19/04/21: Against Nature (Joris-Karl Huysmans) (Sakurashinmachi)

18) 27/04/21: Smoke and Mirrors (Neil Gaiman) (Takatsu)

19) 11/05/21: Trigger Warning (Neil Gaiman) (Sakurashinmachi)

20) 01/06/21: C.S. Lewis: A Biography (A.N. Wilson) (Sangenjaya)

21) 08/06/21: Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton) (Sasazuka)

22) 16/06/21: The Diary of a Nobody (George & Weedon Grossmith) (Sakurashinmachi)

Fuck Edgar Allan Poe, I'm about to finish his fucking complete work. I've been reading it for more than a month, I'm also reading Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

>>18469652
Aside from a lot of fiction for 'entertainment'?

- Animal Farm
- Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
- Industrial society and its future
- Singularity is Coming
- Technopol
- Intelligence in the Middle Ages
- How to understand the Middle Ages philosophy?
- The Revolt of the Masses

And I intend to read a lot more this year

only about 7, but they are all really long (all >500 pages, longest was over 2000 pages)

>>18469652
Norwegian wood
Spring snow
Runaway horses
Heart of Darkness
A wild sheep chase
Currently reading Blood Meridian

Not that impressive, but I'm also in the middle of my masters thesis so my brain is pretty fried after work.

>>18469652
like 10

I'm ashamed. Still another 6+ months to hopefully crank through another 15 or so. Brothers Karamazov is among those so I'm using the 800 page excuse desu

>>18469652
Greek Mythology
13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi (super good btw blazed through it in 2 days)
Crime and punishment
Meditations

Breath - James Nestor
The Terminal List - Jack Carr
Goodbye Things - Fumio Sasaki
Jack Reacher The Killing Floor - Lee Child
The Obstacle is the way - Ryan Holiday
Orphan X 3 Hell Bent - Gregg Hurwitz
Walking - Erling Kagge
Jack Reacher Try Dying - Lee Child
5am Club - Robin Sharma
Cosmopolis - Don Delillo
Slowness - Milan Kundera
Silence - Don Delillo

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
Heroic Dreams
Outer Dark
Six of Crows
Honour of the Grave
Cities of the Plain
Infinite Jest
Who Moved My Cheese
The Coming of Conan: The Cimmerion
Stories of Red Hanrahan
Christ’s Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion
Red Sonja: Demon Night
Song of Solomon
Kino No Tabi
Beowulf: A New Prose Translation
Red Sonja: When Hell Laughs
Ulysses
Violence. Speed. Momentum.
Red Sonja: Endithor’s Daughter
Northanger Abbey
Red Sonja: Against the Prince of Hell
Red Sonja: Star of Doom
Suttree

Those are all the new books I read. I also re-read Burton Raffel's Beowulf and Native Son.

>>18469652

>>18469652
>We are nearly half way through the year
Hahaha no we're not. Hahahaha, imagine thinking this... hahahaha. January was like three weeks ago, maybe? Hahahahah

>>18469652
asd

>>18469705
Wasn't rickwell killed by a disgruntled club member outside a laundromat? That would make for a better story than anything he wrote. Oh and write it from the perspective of the laundromat owner.

>>18469652
That old Ace in the hole-annie proulx
Accordion crimes-annie proulx
Chopper collection-chopper read
Apocalypse culture-various
A bunch of Harlen Ellison stories
Cities of the red night and the place of dead roads-burroughs
A couple of non fiction conspiracy related things that weren't very good.
Next I'm reading blood Meridian again because I haven't read it for like 12 years or so.

>>18472638
Oh and a pdf of the book of the subgenius. Liked it a lot.

>dune
>dune messiah
>space odyssey
>rev road
>portrait of the artist
>Dubliners
>Do androids
>man in high castle
>the secret agent
>blood meridian
>clockwork orange
>to the lighthouse
>the night manager
>as i lay dying
>call for the dead
>the iliad
>the wanting seed

this has been my best year in terms of reading for quite a while

>>18469748
What are the asteriks?

>>18469697
>that author syntax
Are you autistic for real because it looks like it

i'm at 55 now :)

>>18469652
Moby Dick

Dune

Frankstein

Spinoza's The Ethics

Descartes Meditations

Pride and Prejudice

Tennet of Wildfell Hall

Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Leibniz Monadology

Mr Norris Changes Trains

White Noise

Invisible Man

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Dubliners

Picture of Dorian Grey

The Quick and the Dead

King Lear

A Streetcar Named Desire

Today I just started American Psycho
Some of that was for school.

>Novels and short-stories

Chesterton - The Napoleon Of Nothing Hill
Barbey d’Aurevilly - The She-Devils
Bataille - Blue of the noon
Bataille - Story of the eye / Lady Edwarda / The dead
Bloy - The Desperate Man
Bobin - Prisonnier au berceau (hidden gem)
Bobin - The Very Lowly: A Meditation on Francis of Assisi
Bulgakov - The Life of Monsieur de Molière
Daumal - A night of serious drinking
Daumal - Mount Analogue (hidden gem)
Flaubert - Three Tales
Jünger - The Glass bees (worst novel so far)
Queneau - We always treat women too well (hidden gem)
Rabelais - Complete works (best novels)
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam - Histoires Insolites

>Non-Fiction

Bataille - Eroticism (best non-fiction)
Bataille - The Accursed share
Bataille - The tears of Eros
Bonnefoy - L’improbable et autres essais (hidden gem)
Bousquet - Papillon de neige
Eliade - The Sacred and the profane (worst non-fiction so far)
Girard - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Gracq - La littérature à l'estomac (hidden gem)
Groupe μ - Rhétorique de la poésie (hidden gem)
Jünger - Diaries 44-48
Leiris - Manhood (hidden gem)
Polo - The travels
de Saussure - First ascents of the Mont Blanc (hidden gem)

>Poetry

Anonymous - Roman de Fauvel (hidden gem)
Bonnefoy - The Curved Planks
Char - Le Nu perdu (best poetry book so far)
Char - Recherche de la base et du sommet
Claudel - Cinq grandes odes / La cantate à trois voix
Coleridge - Selected poems (worst poetry book so far)
Eluard - Donner à voir
Jacob - The dice cup
Leopardi - Canti
Peguy - The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
Reverdy - Sable mouvant (hidden gem)
Rutebeuf - Complete works

currently reading Moby Dick

bump

>>18472911
Speed reader goes yerrrrrrrnnnn meanwhile retaining * nothing ! *

>>18472887
re-reads

>>18469697
Good but not enough Greeks

1. My Century by Aleksander Wat
2. Copse 125 by Ernst Junger
3. Always with Honor by Pyotor Wrangel
4. Mine Were of Trouble by Peter Kemp
5. Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
6. Three Sips of Gin by Tim Bax
7. White Fang by Jack London
8. Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Ossendowski
9. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
10. A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound
11. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr

I'm not going through the trouble of making a screenshot.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2021/89429739

>>18472852
10/10

>>18474678
i finished the greeks

Ernest Fenollosa (& Ezra Pound) - The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
Varius - Höhlen. Obsession der Vorgeschichte
Francois J. Bonnet – After Death
Jean Baudrillard – Why hasnt everything disappeared already?
Byung-Chul Han - Kapitalismus und Todestrieb
Mark Foster Gage – Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics and the Perception of Democracy
Beatriz Colomina - X-Ray Architecture
Robert Rosenberger - Callous Objects
Keller Easterling – Extrastatecraft
Jennifer Gabrys – Program Earth
Paul Preciado – Pornotopia – An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics
T.J. Demos – Against the Anthropocene
Various – The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory
Frédéric Neyrat - The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation
Andreas Weber – Enlivenment. Eine Kultur des Lebens: Versuch einer Poetik für das Anthropozän
John Hartigan Jr. - Aesop's Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach
Lorraine Daston – Against Nature
Birgit Recki – Natur und Technik: Eine Komplikation
Audre Lorde – The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Sarah Juliet Lauro - Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance
Luise Meier - MRX Maschine
Albrecht Koschorke – Adolf Hitlers “Mein Kampf” - Zur Poetik des Nationalsozialismus
Henri Lefebvre – Rhythmanalysis
Marc Auge - Non-places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
Benjamin Bratton - The Stack
Pierre Clastres - Society Against the State
Wendy Brown - Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Wendy Brown - In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Georges Bataille – The Accursed Share
John Zerzan – A People's History of Civilization
Arthur MacDonald - Fundamental Peace Ideas Including the Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League of Nations (1919)
Byung-Chul Han – Im Schwarm
Pravu Mazumdar - Das Niemandsland der Kulturen
Marc Auge – The illusionary community
Saul Newman – Postanarchism
Todd May: The Political Philosophy of Poststructural Anarchism
Levi Bryant - Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects
Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann - Der Übermensch als Lebenskünstlerin: Nietzsche, Foucault und die Ethik
Christian Welzbacher – Das Totale Museum
László F. Földényi – Orte des Lebenden Todes
Pravu Mazumdar – Gold und Geist
Philippe Descola – Beyond Nature and Culture
Flusser & Bec – Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
Various - Dea Ex Machina
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
Sadie Plant - Zeroes and Ones
Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
Matthew Restall & Amara Solan - The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
Various - Machine Landscapes

and a few dozen others before i started taking detailed notes/lists in early march

list for the rest of the year is more speculative realism, anthropology, history of civilization, feminism, accelerationism, architecture/infrastructure, ecology etc

>>18474594
cope

>used to get depressed about "to read" pile
> 5 years later I now get depressed about "already read" list

I don't know why desu.

>>18469652
67 no set reading list

This year I finished, in this order:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
Geneology of Morals,
Crime and Punishment,
The Republic.

I read 30 mins a day in my lunch break and very occasionally for a bit before bed. Considering reading das kapital or commie manifesto to better understand the theory so I can more accurately dunk on commies but I don't want anyone seeing me reading that gay shit.

>>18476627
>Considering reading das kapital or commie manifesto to better understand the theory so I can more accurately dunk on commies but I don't want anyone seeing me reading that gay shit.
Hello future comrade.

>>18476631
Fuck off degenerate. Rethink your life.

>>18474594
i don't really read that fast i don't think, i've just had a lot of free time this year and i've found myself on the internet less and less and enjoying reading for recreation more and more
56 now btw ;)

>>18476627
Capital is going to take you some time, it's really dry. Good luck, first hundred pages kicked my ass.

>>18474594
This, it's a book a week depending on level of difficulty. Books like the LoTR or other YA HS tier books are a week or less. Everything else needs more time.

>>18469652
>2
>Been reading the same 5 books since April
>actually fuck it, I just deleted 2 of them from my Currently Reading folder
>now I'm reading 3
>one of them is over 1,000 pages long and I've been reading it for 2 months and I'm only 18% of my way thru it
>one is 500 something pages
>the other is only like 250 pages long and I've been reading it since since March
Ugh wtf is wrong with me?

>>18475235
No you didn't

>>18469697
What did you think about Debord, Hobbes, Spinoza, Blake, Voltaire, and Yeats? Your reading list is quite diverse but it has a nice selection.

A rebours
Jacques the fatalist
Heidegger: a very short introduction
Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals
The odyssey
Literary theory: a very short introduction
Second treatise of government (Locke)
Song of Solomon
Discourse on inequality (Rousseau)
Discourse on the arts and sciences (Rousseau)

Drama:
Agamemnon
Macbeth
Ubu Roi
Manfred
No exit
Death & the fool (Hofmannsthal)

>>18477342
>Debord
Of the chapters (the first three namely, one or two chapters near the end?, want to say there are seven to nine chapters total) I was able to understand, Society of Spectacle is an amazing work and some passages should be taught in high school classrooms. Definitive blindpill work. I wish I had more of a background with Marx (and by extension Hegel) before reading it, but I do plan on re-reading it once I've read and finished Phenemenology of Spirit and Das Kapital (both which I plan to read later this year). Took a break from philosophy, but I plan to pick up Kant's Critique of Pure Reason soon before tackling the two others (if it wasn't obvious from my chart, I'm going about early modern philosophy pretty linearly).

>Hobbes
On Man is a surprisingly easy and enjoyable read. I only read the first chapter because 1) it basically contains everything Hobbes is known for (state of nature, argument for sovereignty) I tried reading Commonwealth and not enjoying in comparison and then I looked up what the next two chapters were about and they were some wacky tobacky schizoposting about Christianity or something, thoughts that are considered an anomaly of philosophical thought. I agree with Hobbes's state of nature compared to Locke's but overall Locke's Second Treatise is even better and more enjoyable to read.

>Spinoza
Ethics is probably my second favorite book I read this year so far (Infinite Jest being the first). Took me so fucking long to understand what Spinoza was saying given the style of the writing, but it eventually clicked and became a mind-opening experience. Some sections like the one on morals felt too ancient for my modern taste (think discussion of Justice in Plato or golden means in Aristotle), but on the other side, his metaphysical breakdown of God/Substance and the Universe/dual body-mind theory were captivating.

>Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience is probably my favorite short poetry collection of all time. The intentional nursey rhyme style and rather on the nose symbols is not a turn off at all for me and actually benefit what the poem collection is about (which is right in the title: the innocence of youth and the subsequent loss of innocence).

>Voltaire
Didn't like Candide. The concept of Candide is funnier than the execution. If I end up not liking something, the book becomes somewhat of a blur, and since it's been a while since I read it, I don't have many thoughts to share other than this.

>Yeats
I love the poems centered around Irish and British mythology and folklore, a lot of them were whimsical, I guess similar to Blake's Songs of Innocence. The collection didn't give any dates, but I also liked his poems that dealt with aging, death, disillusionment with society, your nation, your life, the world, ect. I can only imagine that he wrote these nearer the end of his life, as they feel more, I don't know the word, realer, more personal, a deeper look into his soul / mental state.

>>18476795
You're a psued.

>>18469652
>we are nearly half way through the year
please god MAKE IT STOP

>>18477424
Nice thanks. You should definitely read Kant before reading later philosophy.

the very hungry caterpillar
every single dr suess book
what the road said by cleo wade

currently on the hidden knife by melissa carr

Currently reading the madness of crowds, also by Douglas Murray.

>>18469652
I'm still trying to understand the first chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason by Kant and I'm now balls deep in Vienna Circle anti-metaphysics papers as supplements and about to quit the Critique altogether to just start with Hume's treatise which itself might just be a downard spiral back to Plato where I started

>>18469652
Honestly, quarantine demoralization and excesive studying, and ofcourse media intertainment, have eaten all my year so far.
I am almost ending the 1st book of Scherlock Homles adventures. Probably over before July.
I have a big list of books that I want to buy and read but I do not want to ask my parents for money since the still house me as a 21 year old. I do not want to be more of a financial burden for my entertainment.

>>18469652
>We are nearly half way through the year

>>18469652
Books and ratings. I would have read more but I went back to university so I've been busy with that shit

Fire Force
Survival Course
Forever War
Metamorphosis
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Ego and His Own
Harassment Architecture
Mamelukes
The Mystery of the Grail
Sniper on the Eastern Front

>>18472151
He was killed by a glowie

I'm about 150 pages away from finishing invisible man. Should finish today I think.

>>18479241
pretty good progress, but you don't have to limit yourself to books from this list

Atomic Habits
Deep Work
Can't Hurt Me

I read war and peace , some manly p hall and havent read anything since

RATE ME, ANONS, I REQUIRE ATTENTION TO VALIDATE MY EXISTENCE

Emma by Jane Austen
Confessions by Augustine
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Cities of The Plain by Marcel Proust
The Captive by Marcel Proust
The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust
The Past Recaptured by Marcel Proust

Hamlet by Shakespeare
On the Incarnation by Athanasius
The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
Bread, Water, Wine, and Oil by Webber
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
The Iliad by Homer (reread)
Oresteia by Aeschylus
Complete Plays of Sophocles
Sonnets by Shakespeare
Histories by Herodotus
Decameron by Boccacio

Frankenstein
Hellbound heart
WeaveWorld
Lord of the night
Almost through "look who's back"

>>18469697
kinda based

>>18479241
Thanks anon, I'm not limiting myself and I'll probably read another chart when I'm finished with this one. I've really enjoyed every book so far.

>>18479649
>>18480031
Oops wrong quote

>>18469729
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon
Based.

>>18469652
lol like id waist my time readin a fuckin book

Extremely pathetic compared to previous years. I also listened to some fantasy books, but didn't add them because listening isn't reading.

>>18472116
Strains credulity.

I laugh at some of these lists, knowing that jamming through so much text in so short a time not only disvalues the stories but also wastes the readers time.

Everyone is very impressed.

>>18480198
You're just a brainlet, dude. And you're insecure about how much you read.

>>18469652
In Search of the Dark Ages - Michael Wood
1066 The Year of Conquest - David Howarth
The Woman In Black - Susan Hill
The lord of the Rings (again) - J.R.R.Tolkien
Mathematics: The New Golden Age - Keith Devlin

why isn't everyone discussing my list and asking me questions about what I thought

Attempted three other shits today
https://godcock.neocities.org/lit

>>18480878
so around 382 since mid dec

>>18469652

Not in chronological order:

Andy Weir - Artemis

Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev - The Light that Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy

Marco Polo - The Million

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Paolo Coehlo - The Alchemist

Muammar Gaddafi - The Green Book

Ulrich Plenzdorf - The new Sorrows of Young W.

And also a couple of Croatian books that have no English or any foreign translations.

An embarrassingly small amount, and most of them were uni related. This summer I hope to at least read a few books that I voluntarily choose.

I can't decide if I want to read something about psychology/education/epistemology, something about social dynamics/dynamics of social change, something on the topic of linguistics, or books about evolutionary biology

Consider Phlebas and Player of Games. Now reading Use of Weapons. A few chapters of Trance-Formations. I'll probably read half the Culture series before the year ends by this pace, but I want to slow down because is just too good.

>>18480330
I can guarantee you that I'm smarter than literally everyone who has ever posted on this board, not even joking.

>>18482070

Your claim is both outlandish and anonymous, and is therefore obviously not credible.

>>18469652
I don't keep track of what I read