/lit/ - Literature

For any interested in what I'll be reading and hoping to talk about with you guys later, I'll be checking out the rest of the Russian Nabokov works, and I am going to include Pnin.

Why?

Well fuck

He was a RUSSIAN author who was capable of mastering prose in another language. When writing Pnin and Lolita he had only been in the country for a couple years. So for it to be 'American' you'd have to convince me that the entire upbringing NOT in the US was non-influential to the writings of those books. Because the logic is: "Herp derp wrote in America, it's American literature". What about the experiences abroad for the 'lost' generation Fitzgerald, Hemingway and shit? If they wrote it abroad it MUST be foreign literature.

And with the shitstorm that will ensue from this post, I will leave. Got work.

>>2538028

He wrote in English about the American condition, shitface.

>>2538036
So if he wrote in English about the American condition when he in Russia, what would that make it? 'American' literature?

The locality of where the piece of literature was written should be inconsequential, and thus Nabokov, a Russian author by birth, with the remainder of his life spent in Russia in Russian literary circles, and only spending five or so years in the US before producing those works means it's not American.

Sorry, I know Americans like to claim shit that is not theirs to claim, but let's not get silly now, shall we.

>>2538060

He wrote it in America though. He taught at Cornell, my uncle had him as a professor.

>>2538060
By remainder I meant majority. D:

I am willing to say it is 'English' literature, since that's the language in which it was written, but to claim it to be 'American' simply because he wrote in English about America is a joke.

>>2538064
My grandma did too. She was a hell of a lady.

RIP Grandma.

>>2538060

Another buttmad foreigner ashamed that American literature has been domination for the last hundred years or so. Don't even bother with him, he's probably just upset that no Canadian has ever written anything substantial. Such behavior is typal of the innate Canadian national inferiority complez

Long time since I saw a thread like this. I always tell because of the pic.

Last Five:
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Doors of Perception/ Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
Tokio Blues: Nowreigan Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Currently Reading:
Nausea - J.P. Sartre

Next Five:
Faust - Goethe
Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Hermann and Dorothea - Goethe
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Les Fleurs Du Mal - Baudelaire

>>2538077
I'm Australian and give little fucks at all about my country. I don't live through the accomplishments of other people that just happen to bear the same title of nationality of me, that is a joke and worse than living through the achievements of your own family.

Seriously though, literature in Australia's been dead for pretty much ever. I guess Voss might be an exception, never read anything by him.

LAST FIVE:
The Pale King- DFW
On Writing- Jorge Luis Borges
Notes from Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

CURRENTLY:
White Noise- Don DeLilo

NEXT (presumably):
The Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon
Oblivion- DFW
The Recognitions- William Gaddis (Lots of postmodernism coming up)
Sophie's World- Jostein Gaarder
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (re-read)

>>2538080

>Tokio Blues: Nowreigan Wood - Haruki Murakami

Are you reading the spanish edition? I've yet to see it titled Tokyo Blues in English.

What about literature that was written when England still owned the US and the US didn't even exist as a nation?

Interesting....

I guess it doesn't really matter, which is why it should be done by language. French literature. Japanese. English. German. Chinese. Or whatever.

So this is how I will look at it from now on.

Nabokov was a great contributor to both Russian and English literature. His nationality or where it was written is irrelevant. The work itself is what matters.

I no longer give a fuck about this and am late for work.

Last:
The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon, Ted Sturgeon - very good Sturgeon compilation, not his best works but still some interesting stuff.
Station of the Tides, Michael Swanwick - Great book, well-written, thought provoking. Interesting thematic on colonialism and identity in particular - also interesting reference with Tempest. Compare Fifth Head of Cerberus.
The Dragon Waiting, John M Ford - Remarkably entertaining and fun.
The Four Freedoms, John Crowley - Very very good, not as incredible as Little, Big was but very few books are. I still enjoyed it immensely, in particular the depiction of the human element of WWII on the home front.
Among Others, Jo Walton - fucking loved this book. My favorite book I've read this year, so far. That said, I was basically predestined to fucking love this book. If you spent your youth (as I did) reading every science fiction and fantasy book you could get your hands on and haunting the local library, you must read this book immediately. If you didn't do that, I have no idea how you'll take this.

Currently:
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand, Samuel Delany

Next: I have no idea.

Not counting stuff I'm reading for school. Been on kind of an SF kick if you couldn't tell.

>>2538077

1/10

>>2538028

>Not reading "Invitation to a Beheading," which was written in Russian before being translated into English. Also, Nabokov himself believed it to be his best work, and wrote the first draft in a single night, WHILE HE WAS WRITING "The Gift". Talk about a fucking boss.

>>2538102

You got me. I read the spanish Ed.

This one precisely:

http://www.gandhi.com.mx/index.cfm/id/Producto/dept/libros/pid/390399

Last Five:
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
James Joyce - Giacomo Joyce
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Currently: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

Next Five:
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fictions
Haven't planned anything past that. I'm very curious about Proust, so I might read Swann's Way.

Last Five:
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Lolita by Nabokov
Slaughterhouse V - Vonnegut
Less Than Zero - Ellis
American Psycho - Ellis

Currently Reading:
Antigone - Sophocles
A Canticle For Leibowitz - Miller Jr.

Next Five:
Crime And Punishment - Dostoevsky
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Alamut - Bartol
Steppenwolf - Hesse
The Camp of the Saints - Raspail

ITT: Everybody lies.

>>2538197
I told the absolute truth. Unsurprisingly, my post is the one filled with science fiction.

Some of these lists are pretty damn unbelievable though.

>>2538206

Fair play. The rest of the posts look like cuntpasted Lit 101 reading lists though.

Liars, liars everywhere.

>>2538197
>implying you have supernatural abilities and know if these people are telling the truth or not.

Last Five:
>Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov
>Dorian Gray - Wilde
>Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
>Leaves of Grass - Whitman
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Currently reading:
>Prometheus Bound and Other Plays - Aeschylus

Next Five:
>Lolita - Nabokov
>The Violent Bear it Away - O'Connor
>Point Counter Point - Huxley
>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

>>2538211
Yeah, especially Mr. "Shakespeare Joyce Cervantes Beckett Joyce".

I'm not sure what's worse - if he's lying, or if he's telling the truth. Because doing nothing but working through these massive Great Books works seems like an incredibly tedious way to approach literature - I don't see any joy in it. That's not to denigrate the books, which are obviously wonderful and ought to be read. It just seems like an odd and joyless way to read.

>>2538212

Last five

>pretty much the same as everyone else

current

>something that I think other people will accept

Next 5

>some stuff I've seen referenced here, and will pretend to be interested in while I'm watching monster trucks on ESPN 6

Congratulations - you're pretty much everything that's wrong with the world you fat ugly bastard.

>>2538014
I read L'assommoir last year and fucking loved it. I went out and bought a whole bunch of the Oxford editions of the cycle.

>>2538216

What should I be reading if not this? Scifi/Fantasy?

Fuck off dude,

>>2538218

lol, 4/10 - you made me smile with the Monster Trucks.

>LAST FIVE:
Bonjour Tristesse
Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
Bad News by ibid
Never Mind by ibid

CURRENTLY READING;
Kingdom Come by Ballard
Reamde by Stephenson

NEXT FIVE:
Jude the Obscure by Hardy
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Cosmopolis by Delillo
Consider Phlebas by Banks
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

>>2538224

At least if you read sci-fi, you wouldn't be pretending to read a load of books you hadn't, you fucking liar.

>>2538230
LOL, it´s been a more than a year of my search of a Spanish Ed. of Francois Sagan Bonjour Tristesse. I'm actually thinking of just steal the French ed. of my grandma.

I'm surprised that no-one has ever written a novel about monster trucks. It seems rife with interest to me. I bet they fuck each other and go to jail on oxycontin possession like 24/7 those guys.

>>2538088
I'm not Australian, but I read a lot of Australian fiction. Australia has a vibrant and awesome literary scene right now, you should take my word for it. Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Steve Toltz, Peter Carey, Shirley Hazzard just off the top of my head. Not to mention Patrick White. Voss is good, but Eye of the Storm is best.

>>2538232

Scanning...Scanning...Scanning...


>Logical Level: 0.5/10

>Troll levels: OVER 9000

>IQ: ~90

>Psychological Defects: possible inferiority complex and substantial insecurity. Possibly a fat friendless faggot living in his parents' basement.

>>2538232

Heres what you said
>Oh the books he's reading are great timeworn classics.
> Oh he's actually reading them, thats pretty weird, and joyless
> Joyless

So If I was reading Sci-fi It wouldn't be joyless? what the fuck is that, You admit that the books are good, but then if someone wants to read them they can't possibly being doing it because they enjoy it, they are doing it to be cool?

Grow up.

>>2538239
I liked it, but I read it in English. Considering the ease of language in it, I think I'll give it a try dans francais. It can't be any worse than that time I tried Madame Bovary in french. Yikes!

>>2538232
>>2538218
>>2538197
>>2538211

Samefag detected

LAST FIVE:
The Restaurant of many orders - Kenji Miyazawa
Fantastic, too deep for children.

Writings and Drawings - Bob Dylan
Yeah alright.

Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
My second Natsume and I guess I'm not really a fan. Maybe it's the English translation, reminds me of Norwegian Wood, boring writing and just not that yeah amazing.

VALIS - Philip. K. Dick
Liked the start, topics that interest me. Psychedelic usage, depression, strange theories etc. My Last Dick Novel though, I just think his writing is not that great.

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
I had very high hopes for this after reading Slaughterhouse-five. Thought it was mediocre like every other Vonnegut I have read, not including Slaughterhouse-five.


CURRENTLY READING:
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
Wow, I am really, really liking this. This is exactly what I am looking for in novels. I'd love to find more books like this(recommendations please)
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
I've hit a boring patch, almost up to Part 2 and apparently it gets better from there.

NEXT FIVE:
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

I am currently really interested in magical realism, fantasy realism, surrealist realism what ever it's called, just really well written literature with other wordly things occurring

Last Five:
The Kite Runner
Infinite Jest
The Martyred by Richard Kim
Don Quixote
Norwegian Wood

Currently:
Neuromancer

Next Five:
Sanshiro by Soseki
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Dune
A Scanner Darkly by PKD

>>2538251

Shouldn't that be "en Français"?

>>2538251
I have Stendhal´s Le Rouge et Le Noir waiting for me on my shelf. I think it may be too complex for my low-level french.
Have you read anything in French or any other language that isn't English?

>>2538264
Lol. Hence my difficulty with the language. I was raised bilingual but after living exclusively with anglos, I'm losing it fast.

>>2538272
I read most of the three musketeers in French and that wasn't too bad. I also read some Guy de Maupassant short stories in french. Those were a bit more difficult as he's working in the Flaubert school of dense style.

>>2538272
Also, I read Le rouge et le noir last year and found it rather tedious. The psychology is interesting up until the end in which the framework of a conventional nineteenth century novel takes over. I heartily recommend reading Bel-Ami though, either in English or French. Fucking fantastic novel

>>2538243
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram? He's writing more, hopefully they are just as great.

lol french readers.

I read The Stranger in french, hardest thing ever for someone as incompetent at french as I am. But you can tell that it needs to be read in french, the sentences are written all short blunt and minimalistic. It was really quite interesting to read.

>Last Five
Magician: Master - Raymond Feist
Magician: Apprentice - Raymond Feist
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Plague - Albert Camus
A Feast For Crows - George RR Martin
>Currently Reading
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
>Next Five
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Ulysses - James Joyce
Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

>>2538263
What did you think of the kite runner? sounds interesting.

>>2538295
The first line of L'etranger is one of the most difficult to translate lines. Almost impossible to convey in English.

>>2538299
>someone's ambitious

good luck (not sarcastic)

>>2538295
Oh! A friend of mine also read it in French. The book is now thorn and old but he plans to give it to me as soon as he gets a new, better-looking, one.

Last Five:
Invisible Cities - Italio Calvino
Female Man - Joanna Russ
Illuminations - Walter Benjamin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - PKD
Minima Moralia - Adorno

Currently Reading:
Trouble on Triton - Samuel Delany

Next Five:
History of Sexuality - Foucault
Beloved- Toni Morrison
Metamorphosis of Science Fiction - Darko Suvin
Sandman - Neil Gaiman
Moses and Monotheism - Freud

>>2538320
Couldn't get through Triton, even though I'm a fairly big fan of Delany. I'm pretty pumped for his new novel coming out this month

>>2538320
>Female Man - Joanna Russ

Nice! I just got the "Alyx" collection out of the library and it's Real Cool, Joanna Russ is Real Cool

>>2538336

Good to know someone else had trouble with it. He's a great writer (Dhalgren is one of my favorite books) but this one is just a chore. I hope i'm done with Miéville's book by the time "Spiders" comes out.

>>2538355
Did you ever read his nineties stuff like Mad Man or whatever it was? I tried, but there was only so many hobo blowjobs I could take. Not because I'm a homophobe but because hobos are filthy.

Oh also what do we think of Darko Suvin

he always seemed a little overly formal to me & I'm not sure I like his definition of SF as cognitive estrangement (seems really limiting) but otoh well done to him for taking the field seriously

>>2538375

The most recent thing I've read by him is Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, which starts very slow and erupts during the last 100 pages. I actually haven't heard anything (positive or negative) about his 90's stuff, but I'm interested.

As for Suvin, I have some problems with his "SF is the lit of Cognitive Estrangement" stuff (being too rigid and relatively uncritical) but its enjoyable and enlightening. Its obsolete, I think (Fredrick Jameson just released that essay on Radical Fantasy that blows a hole in Suvin's work).

>>2538404
>Fredrick Jameson just released that essay on Radical Fantasy that blows a hole in Suvin's work

!!!

>>2538409

Its pretty sweet. He talks about "Materialist Fantasy", like Miéville and LeGuin, as being cognitive in a way Science Fiction can. Opens up a whole can of worms. Just google Radical Fantasy (i'm pretty sure its the first thing that will pop up). Also "just" is not accurate. He released it in 2002 (where has the time gone!!)

Last 5
The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
Make your Own Damn Movie - Lloyd Kaufman
The Piano Teachers - Jelinek
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Currently Reading
Zeno's Conscience - Italo Sveno
Next 5
Rip it Up and Start Again: Post Punk - Simon Reynolds
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Mother Courage and her Children - Brecht
All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

>>2538437
yeah I just downloaded, I'll read it when I'm not exhausted / consumed with reading for school. It looks really cool.

last 5:
Pnin - Nabokov
Brief Interviews - DFW
Everything is Obvious - Watts
Agape Agape (reread) - Gaddis
The Unknown Masterpiece / Gambarra - Balzac

Currently:
Siddhartha - Hess
Aenid
Recognitions - Gaddis

Next 5:
Something easier than The Recognitions.

>>2538443
mmm Svevo. I'm a huge fan of As a Man Grows Older.

>Last five
Sophist by Plato
The Republic by Plato
Phaedo by Plato
Crito by Plato
Apology by Plato

>Currenty
Metaphysics by Aristotle

>Next 5
The Philosophy of Aristotle
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Advancement Of Learning by Bacon

I'm taking the chronological approach.

Last five:
Iron Council - Mieville
John dies at the End - David Wong
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon - Logsdon
The Wise Man's Fear - Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind - Rothfuss

Currently:
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier - Tyson
The Bell Jar - Plath
Castro - Kleist

Next:
The 4% Universe - Panek

>>2538511
Chronological? But you're skipping over 500 years of philosophy, and then more than 1000 years...

Previous:
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
James Joyce - Dubliners
Homer - The Odyssey
Plato - The Symposium

Currently: James Joyce - Ulysses
I've only just started to keep my understanding on top while reading it, just finished the Nausicaa episode, and it put into perspective just how in control of his technique and prose Joyce is, the way that he uses the change in style and length and romanticism to symbolise Bloom's orgasm is really special, though I've heard that Oxen of the Sun is most difficult in the whole book.

Next:
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Some more Plato

>>2538565
Circe is harder.

LAST FIVE

Platforme - Michel Houellebecq (original French)
Looking for Alaska - John Green (original English)
La Carte et le Territoire - Michel Houellebecq (original French)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Selznick (original English)
El sueño del Celta - Vargas Llossa (Dutch Translation)


CURRENTLY

A Game of Thrones - R.R. Martin (original English)


NEXT FIVE

Une Gourmandise - Muriel Barbery (original French)
Paper Towns - John Green (original English)
Ecce Homo - Nietsche (Dutch translation)
El manuscrito de piedra - Garcia Jambrina (original Spanish)
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry (original English)

>>2538573
Is that the one written as a play and has a load of hallucinations? I dunno, on the surface that seems a lot easier to grip and interpret than the recapitulation of the entire English language.

>>2538211
Why would I lie about what I'm reading?

Last five:
Of Mice and Men - Steinbrenner
Delta of Venus - Nin
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - le Carré
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories - James
Hard Times - Dickens

Now:
Equal Rites - Pratchett

Next:
Everything is Illuminated - Foer
Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Dracula - Stoker

LAST FIVE:
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Caroll - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
CURRENT:
Game of Thrones - GRRM
NEXT FIVE:
The rest of the ASOIAF series
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson

last five:
>three famous short novels - faulkner
>long day's journey into night - o'neill
>the crimes of love - marquis de sade
>back on the fire: essays - gary snyder
>the red notebook - paul auster

currently: a confederacy of dunces - toole

next:
>the yage letters - burroughs and ginsberg
>on the black hill - bruce chatwin

>>2538615
there is absolutely no reason to specify whether you read something in the original or translation unless you expect people to look down your list and be impressed that you know at least 4 languages. you are an insufferable douche.

Before They Are Hanged
The Last Argument of Kings
Think Like a Dinosaur
Embassytown
The Wonderful Life of the Burgess Shale

currently: Stand on Zanzibar

>>2538994
that's not true. certain translations are markedly different than others and some books don't translate well at all. in any case, i am not that poster, but what the fuck do you care anyway

>>2538994

El sueño del Celta was to hard for me to understand in Spanish, so I read it in my native tongue after reading 100+ pages in Spanish.

Besides, some books translate hard or are insufferable when read in a translation. I'm a translator by profession and I don't mean to be a douche. For me, it's important understanding where the language is coming from.

Meaning, history and context are not always (mostly not) translatable. That's why I try to read as much as possible in the original language.

>BOOKS I'VE READ SINCE I LAST POSTED IN ONE OF THESE THREADS:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (mindbogglingly good. At first I felt a little ripped off by the ending, but after some contemplation I've decided that IJ is one of my favourite reading experiences thus far)
Dubliners - James Joyce (achingly sad and beautiful. It's astounding how he manages to convey so much with so few words)
>CURRENTLY READING:
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
>NEXT FIVE:
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Double and the Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Republic - Plato
Concrete - Thomas Bernhard

Last five:
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth.
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque.

Currently Reading:
Odessa - Frederick Forsyth.

Next Five:
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe.
Looking for Alaska - John Green.
Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol.
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley.
Demian - Herman Hesse.

Last five:
Dune - Herbert
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Larsson
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller Jr.
No Country for Old Men - McCarthy

Currently Reading:
Nothing (school stuff, trying to pick what to read next from the following list)

Next Five (in no order):
Lord of the Flies - Golding
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
Titus Groan - Peake
The Black Company - Cook
The Cave - Saramago

>2538014

Last Five:
Shadow of The Wind
Montana Sky
A Princess of Mars
The Millionaire Gets His Way (DONT JUDGE ME!!!!)
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Currently Reading: Inkheart/ By Blood Written/ Fight Club/Perdido Street Station

Next five:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Feast For Crows
Stardust
Battle ROyale
Eleven Minutes

>>2538014
>>Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Hey OP, you know Nitobe was pretty much raised by white people and pulled that entire book out of his ass, right? Just makin' sure.

LAST FIVE:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Saariston samurait - Tapio Koivukari
Earth is a Sinful Song - Timo K. Mukka
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
Tha Stranger - Albert Camus

CURRENTLY READING;
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

NEXT FIVE:
Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Romaanihenkilön kuolema - Matti Pulkkinen
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Ulysses - James Joyce
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

Last Five:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
Night - Elie Wiesel
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell

Currently:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Next Five:
Gilgamesh - some guy
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Iliad/Odyssey - Homer
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

casual shit underageb& detected entry level ect ect

Last 5:
A Study in Scarlet
The Real Bluebeard
Underground-Murakami
Tesla biography
House Of the Dead

Currently:
Confessions-Rousseau

Next 5:
No Longer Human
Poe: The complete works
The Prince
Dune

Should be done with Confessions tonight. Anons pick what I read next.

Last Five

Call of the Wild/White Fang - Jack London
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
And.. uh.. I don't really remember what else

Currently Reading: Just finished White Fang and haven't decided what to read next. I almost want another wolf/animal book.

To Do list
finish Don Quixote - Miguel De Cerv.. Cervantiwehfwers Sadfhfwes
Past that I need to ask people what books I should read. I just got goofy shit like Jurassic Park and The Jungle Books

>>2539527

Noticed I didn't put a 5th choice on my "To read next" list. I suppose it'll be Gilgamesh.

LAST FIVE:
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

CURRENTLY READING
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

NEXT FIVE
Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
The Gardener's Son - Cormac McCarthy

I'm on a mission, yo.

Last Five:
The Brothers Kamarazov
Anna Karenina
Childhood's End
The Road
A Game of Thrones

Currently Reading:
A Clash of Kings

Next Five:
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
<Something Sci-Fi or Classic>
<Something Sci-Fi or Classic>

>>2539762
How are the Game of Thrones books treating you?

Last five: so long ago that I don't remember, I just got a Nook and got to start reading again because I'm visually impaired.

Currently reading:
>Blood Meridian
>120 Days of Sodom
>Of Mice and Men
>The Stand

Next five:
>No Country for Old Men
>going to start the Dune series
>maybe IQ84
>maybe Lord of the Flies
>maybe some more Steinbeck

>>2539527
What's the name of the Tesla bio and was it accurate (i.e. do they talk about the J.P. Morgan funding cut incident/cover-up)? I can't find any decent info on the internet that's not drowned in conspiracy sauce, even though it was technically a conspiracy I suppose.

>>2538014
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT'S THIS COVER FROM
I REMEMBER IT STRONGLY FROM MY YOUTH

Last five, from latest to last:
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
The catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
The trial - Kafka
The master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Kungen av Portugallien - Selma Lagerlöf


Currently reading:
Gösta Berlings saga - Selma Lagerlöf
Oedipus the King - Sofokles
Hamlet - Shakespeare

Next five depends how fast i read the ones i need to read for class, but the ones i Have to read are:
Drottningens juvelsmycke - Almqvist
Jeppe på berget - Holberg (Wtf is this?)
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Fröken Julie - Strindberg
To the Lighthouse - Woolf

Have a lot more interesting things id like to read, but education goes first.

>>2539795

Wizard: The Life & Times Of Nikola Tesla.

They go into a great deal about that in the bio.

Last Five:
1984 - Orwell
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway
Under The Dome - King
Rage - Bachman
The Shining - King

Currently Reading:
11/22/63 - King

Next Five:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - King
Infinite Jest - DFW
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

>inb4 fags hating on King

>>2539820
The girl who loved Tom Gordon i disliked. Might have been because i forced myself to read it.

How was the old man and the sea?

>>2539826
It's a novella i had to read for my English class. It was ok. Kind of depressing really. I can see why Hemingway blew his brains out.

>>2539837
Only a man with a deathwish would drink this;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_the_Afternoon_(cocktail)

Havent gotten to Hemingway yet, hoping ill enjoy some good literature!

>>2539819
Thanks, I'll have to look for it.

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ANSWER SOMEONE
HOLY SHIT THIS IS PLAGUING ME

>>2539839
I haven't read anything else by him though. I can say that I do like his style of writing. I just need some recommendations of what to read.

>>2539846
>shocked lesbian.jpg
Hahaha!

>>2539849
Thread derailed effectively

Last five:

The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)
Crime and Punishment
Mistborn Trilogy


Current:
Leisure
IQ84
A Dance With Dragons
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School
The Plague, The Stranger (re-read)
Collected Essays of Camus
Collected Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
(take a guess which authors I'm doing my semester project on?)

Next five:

To be announced. A lot of shit already.

>>2539846
I feel nice, and I liked the shocked lesbian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_for_Sale

Pssst Use tinyeye

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>>2539919
So glad I didn't close this window after done watchin porn.
You sir deserve another cleverly named reaction image

Last five:

Hurskas kurjuus - F. E. Sillanpää

One of the better known novels by the Finnish Nobel laureate. Was alright, but not the best I've read from him.

Rakas isänmaani - F. E. Sillanpää

A short story collection by the same author. This one I enjoyed much more, a few really good ones there imho.

Marchel Duchamp - Yves Arman

A book about Marchel Duchamp. Pictures of his work (although in black and white) and some comments on them and the person himself. A rather good read.

Gorgias - Plato

Quite interesting, will be reading again. This dialogue esp. because of a course in philosophy I'm taking.

Arcana - A. W. Yrjänä

Finnish poetry, quite nice albeit a bit abstract at times. Probably due to me having read very little poetry.

Current:

Sourcery - Terry Pratchett

Will be finishing soon

and

Sartre - Esa Saarinen

A Finnish introduction into the philosophy of Sartre.

Next five:

Tales of Ten Worlds - Arthur C. Clarke
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (especially looking forward to this one)