/lit/ - Literature

>>23028428
>journey to the end of the night
>the stranger
>crime and punishment
>faust
That’s all for me tbqh

Bump. I see we don’t have many who read books in these here parts

>>23028428
10 Little Niggers
Nigger in the Rye
Nigger New World
Starship Niggers
Blood Niggeridian
Critique of Pure Niggers
Pheniggerology of Spirit
Beyond Good and Nigger
The Nigger Manifesto
Do Androids Dreams of Electric Niggers?

>>23028428
I want to walk that.
>>23029375
I just did not bother because I can not remember the last time anything worthwhile came out of one of these threads, always becomes a circle jerk for a few anons who have only read 20 books and have pretty much the same top 10. But what the hell, in no particular order and I will limit myself to fiction because I am in that sort of mood right now.

Speedboat
So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Balcony in the Forest
George Mills
Winesburg Ohio
Pedro Paramo
The Mezzanine
The Pale King
Exercises in Style
The Sheltering Sky

>>23029391
None of those are real titles.

>>23029522
Some are

Harry Potter 1–7
Hunger Games 1–3

All Things Are Possible - Lev Shestov
Fragments of the Presocratics (Heraclitus in particular if forced to choose)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
Gorgias or Sophist - Plato
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamomt
The Aeneid - Vergil
The Histories - Herodotus
Ajax - Sophocles or The Bacchae - Euripides
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mishima
I'm currently reading The Temple of the Golden Pavillion and it has already become my favorite from Mishima, but I haven't finished it yet.
>>23028461
Read Confessions of a Mask (Mishima) if you haven't

The Divine Comedy
The Stand
House of Leaves
Women
Ask the Dust
Prometheus Rising
Journey to the End of the Night
The Iliad
Infinite Jest
A Visit from the Goon Squad

Honorable Mention: Song of Achilles, Chump Change, Points in Time, and Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Still Alice
Hunger Games
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
The Origin of Species
Verbal Behavior
Contingencies of Reinforcement
The Concept of the Political
Reality: from Metapolitics to Metaphysics
Ethnos and Society
Psychopolitics
The Old Man and the Sea

>>23029522

>>23028428
Revolt against the modern world
Men among the ruins
The ego and its own
The brothers Karamazov
Crime and punishment

Stoner
LOTR
The Book of the New Sun
The Stranger
Whatever
Dracula
The Secret History
The Road

>>23029658
it's said for a lot of people on here but you my friend would be to me especially insufferable

>1611 KJV Bible w/apocrypha
>Webster's Dictionary
>Count of Monte Christo
>Book Thief
>The Secret History of Domesticity Michael McKeon
>How to fail Scott Adams
>How to Analyze People
>Your mastery of English Collier
>The Civilization of Rome by Dudley
>Geoffrey Parker and Robert Cowley's military history
I don't like a lot of hifalutin fart-smelly people, Shakespeare is close to my limit for verbal fluff

My favorites won’t change obviously, but to switch it up some I’ll add a list of my 10 favorite books I read in the last year as well

All time favorites (can add many more than 10)
>Van Gogh’s letters
>Henry Miller in general
>DH Lawrence in general
>Leaves of Grass by Whitman (some of his prose writings are great, too)
>Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journals and essays
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
>Cellini’s autobiography
>Casanova’s autobiography
>Tao Te Ching
>Siddhartha by Hesse

Last year
>Great Expectations by Dickens
>William Blake
>Essays and reviews by Edmund Wilson
>The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
>The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
>Classical Chinese and Japanese poetry translated by Kenneth Rexroth
>Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
>Seneca
>Herodotus
>The Arabian Nights

For whom the bells toll by hemingway
Monkeys Raincoat by robert crais
Less than zero bret e. Ellis
American psycho bret e. ellis
The illiad by homer

>>23029955
And that book by that frenchman marooned in the desert who imagined a little person. Little prince

>>23029955
The same Robert James Crais that wrote Shards?

This is my chart

>>23029391
Based

>>23029862
I recognize you, buddy.

>>23030012
I dont think so. Robert Crais writes private eye novels set in LA. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series
FYI They may be sloxk but they are comfy and his style reminda me of hemingway, personal observations intermixed with storytelling

>>23030012
Monkeys rainxoat excerpt

Another pause, this one the kind when the background static becomes real noise. Then he said, "You're an asshole, Elvis. I'm on my way." He hung up. I hung up. I sipped the scotch. Asshole. That Lou. What a kidder. I called Joe Pike. He answered on the first ring, a little breathless, as if he were finishing a long run or a couple hundred push-ups. "Pike." I could hear his stereo system in the background. Oldies but goodies. The Doors. "It's gotten hot," I said. I gave him the short version. Pike asked no questions, made no comment. "Button up," he said. "I'm coming in." Pike thinks Clint Eastwood talks too much. I took eight eggs, cream, butter, and mushrooms out of the refrigerator. I got out the big pan, put it on the stove, and was opening three raisin muffins when Ellen Lang came down and stood in the little passageway between the counter and the wall. She was wearing the terry robe and a pair of my socks. Her hair was damp and combed out and looked clean. So did her face. She looked good. She looked younger and maybe willing to laugh if you gave her something worth laughing at. "How are you doing?" I asked. "You must be terribly tired," she said. "Let me do that." She moved to the stove. "It's okay." I put the muffins face up in the toaster oven. "Don't be silly," she said. "You've had a hard day. If you want to do something, you can make the coffee." Her eyes had turned to poached eggs. Her smile was weak but somehow pleasant, the sort of smile you get when you practice smiling because you think you have to. Like with Mort. Only now the poached-egg eyes were rimmed with something that could have been desperation. I smiled as if everything was fine, and stepped back out of her way. "Okay." She opened each cabinet, saw what was inside, then closed it and moved on. She looked over the food I had out, then put the cream back into the fridge and took peanut oil out of the cupboard. The oil and a little bit of the butter she put into the big pan. While they heated she beat the eggs with a little water, then placed the spoon neatly beside the bowl when the eggs were frothy. I could see Carrie in her. I said, "I always put in cream." She chopped the mushrooms. "You men. Cream makes the eggs stick. Never put cream. Would you like to shower before we eat?" "Later, thank you." She moved around the kitchen as if I weren't there, or if I was, I was somebody else. We talked, but I didn't think she was talking to me. She was Barbara Billingsley and I was Hugh Beaumont. But not. I drank more of the scotch. She got out two plates, forks, knives, and spoons, and brought them to the counter. She had to move the Dan Wesson to set out the plates, and stared at it before she did.

>>23029862
>miller anon
I recommended you something or some post of mine sold you on something like 6 months ago or something, wish I could remember what it was so I could ask you about it. Judging by you list for last year you have certainly grown up a fair amount, which is not a judgement on any of the works listed, more an acknowledgement that you actually read and that literature is more than an affect for you.

>>23030153
There are a few books I’ve been recommended that I keep in the back of my mind like Boswell’s Johnson, La Sens-Plastique, Tagore, and a few others. Someone mentioned Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport which I got recently. I’ve read a few of the essays and it’s great. He had a powerful analytic mind and a few of the essays blew me away and learn things I never would have known or seen.

I’m pretty adaptable and like pretty much every book I’ve read. If I’m not feeling something I’ll put it aside and come back to it in a different frame of mind. I’ve said on the board a few times that I try to put the onus on myself to appreciate a book and I’m generally good at it. Maybe I’m easy to please but I don’t really mind because the whole world of literature is open to me. I’ve been devouring Dickens lately and he was a writer I ignored for like a decade and I looked down upon him without ever reading him. Goes to show what I know and I find it’s best to keep an open mind

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>>23028461
You might like Broch's 'The Sleepwalkers'

>>23030017
why even bother making a chart with all that garbage in it

Ulysses
Beloved
Almanac of the Dead
Moby Dick
Invisible Man
Agape Agape
King Lear
The Sound and The Fury
House on Mango Street
The Trial

>>23030017
You might like Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

>>23030819
>Agape Agape
Really? What makes it a favorite? It has some moments but is quite rough and not the sort of rough that gives insight into the creative process, just rough. More than anything it makes me hurt to think about all the time and effort he put into researching and working on it just to never finish it or even get it near finishing.

>>23030889
It’s Gaddis’s pure rage and dying vitrol against the destruction of art into capital and social cool kid points in a blistering stream of consciousness. What the fuck is there else you need? It’s like he had finally peeled off all the shells he had from The Recognitions onward and got to the core of his concerns

>>23030935
It is not his "pure rage," he had far more nuance than that and his interviews showed that. Agape Agape is more about his frustration as a writer and the failings of the medium/artistic expression and it jumps back and fourth between the character and the author because of its very much unfinished state. We get glimpses of where he was going with it but even taken purely from the narrators perspective it is far more nuanced than "the destruction of art into capital and social cool kid points," the narrator is deeply flawed and can not see what is obvious to Gaddis.

>>23031012
http://www.williamgaddis.org/critinterpessays/secrethistoryaa.shtml

Read up, dork

Galadin's Tale
The Rose
Alexander
The Iroquid
Nebraska
Shireton
Two O'Clock
Vesperiti
Steel
Rass

>>23031046
>we must ignore context because someone wrote something!
You really should spend a little more time with Agape Agape.

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