/lit/ - Literature

A World Lost, by Wendell Berry. Fucking excellent, a nice quick read but with some beautiful stuff in it and I felt a very satisfying ending.

Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry. Also very good, although not as satisfying so far as A World Lost was. Has less of a central focus to tie itself around, I think - where A World Lost was basically an examination of one person's life through the eyes and the memories of his family, Jayber Crow doesn't have anything like the same central theme propping it up. Still, Berry is a great writer.

Next: Claire Vaye Watkins - Battleborn.

1.The Mote In God's Eye
2.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2.Neuromancer

1. V. by Thomas Pynchon. I really enjoyed it, though I don't know if I totally "got" everything, or even if there was enough to "get."

2. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. So far so good, much more bitter than V. and definitely funnier.

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.

1. the alchemist - feels like new age propaganda
2. the idiot (actually finished it 10 min ago) - that end, all of my feels
3. steppenwolf

>last
harry potter

>current
The Retrosexual Manual: How to Be a Real Man

>next
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

The elegant universe.
Leviathan.
Easy money.

Pic not related.

1. The Dream Songs - John Berryman
2. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
3. If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

>tfw when you want to read fiction but have been sent a reading list for university

Vineland

Winesburg, Ohio

Gravity's Rainbow/ Underworld/ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1. Dorian Grey
2. Kafka complete short stories
3. Dune

>last
When gravity fails by George Alec Effinger

>current
Il Principe by Machiavelli

>next
(hopefully soon) The quantum Prince by Hannu Ravaniemi

>>2900014

Finished a few weeks ago. Still feeling.

>>2899981
>Last book read
The collected works of Scott McClanahan
>reading
Rules of Attraction
>want to read next
The Unseen by Balestrini. I started reading it, then college work/finals happened and I stopped. Once I've read RoA I will get back on it.

1. A Moveable Feast - Hemingway
2. Anna Karénine - Tolstoï
3. Moby Dick - Melville

1. Catching Fire.
2. Moby Dick
3. War and Peace (I got a few pages in before I put it down last time, I aim to change that).

1] Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata—I was wholly enamoured. Kawabata's mastery of oppressive emotions is all the more impressive considering the simplistic prose.

2] In Search of Lost Time by Marcell Proust—The greatest book ever written.

3] Love by Stendhal—I have a soft spot for love as a subject. When treated with a skilled artistic hand, it never fails to arouse sympathetic emotion, philosophical interest, etc..

1. The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
2. Friday
3. The Baron in the Trees

>Last read
The Yiddish Policeman's union

>Currently
WE, by Zamiatin

>Want to
Metamorphasis by Kafka

>finished
Mao II

>reading
Omensetter's Luck
Witz

>next
law textbooks

1. The Stranger by Albert Camus
2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3. We by Jewgeni Samjatin

>>2900094
Are you me?!

Some Shadow pulp novels - Various

Halo: First Strike - Eric Nylund

The Tao of Wu - Robert Diggs (RZA)

Wow, how casual of me. Why am I even here?

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Samuel Butler - Erewhon
Andre Gide - The Immoralist

>>2900097

Well, I hope not.

What did you think about the stranger?

>>2900106
I liked it, and felt it could have been a bit longer.

PUNK ROCK JESUS

MANHATTAN PROJECTS

SPIDERMAN- MAXIMUM CARNAGE

1. Demian
2. Thus Spoke Zarathura
3. The Art of War

>>2900126

I would recommend picking up The Art of War as soon as you can. You can thumb through it in an afternoon, if that.

That said, it's fantastic to keep around and re-read.

Hamlet
Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
Either Steppenwolf or Siddhartha by Hesse
I can't decide which, any help?

>>2900155
Read the Bhagvad Gita.

>>2900155

Siddartha is short and decent.

>>2900003
sci-fi/10
>>2900009
litcore/10
>>2900014
litcore/10
>>2900016
high school/10
>>2900032
8/10
>>2900033
6 with litcore/10
>>2900038
litcore/10
>>2900094
>>2900090
>>2900058
>>2900045
>>2900126
litcore/10
>>2900078
8/10
>>2900082
7/10

1. The Samurai Swordsman; Master of War, by Stephen Turnbull

2. Japan: A Short Cultural History, by G B Sansom + The Taming of the Shrew

3. I want to go through The Samurai Swordsman again. After that I want to read either No Gods No Masters; An Anthology of Anarchism by Daniel Guerin, some more Shakespeare, or A Feast for Crows be George R R Martin. Come at me.

>>2900155
I like Siddhartha more, but Steppenwolf is good too.

>>2900159

what does litcore even mean

>>2900167

Your selected reading consists of books that /lit/ considers good and if you choose to read those books you can finally shed plebe status in the eyes of the /lit/ overmind.

>>2900167
It means books that are discussed here every day, every week, every minute of the day. Someone with litcore tastes doesn't have their own discernible taste. They just see what /lit/ thinks is good and read that. Not that the books are bad. It just gets really really really boring when everyone is always reading and has always just read the same books as everyone else here.

Libriomancer
Good Omens
Illuminatus trilogy.

>>2900116
nice

>>2900177


B-but... it's my first time ever on here...

>>2900197
Like I said, they aren't bad. "litcore" isn't equivalent to 0/10. It's just the equivalent to "I have no opinion on your tastes because they are the tastes of almost everyone here and so it feels useless to actually rate them."

>>2900201

Je vois... étrange...

>>2900159
>no rating for OP

Catherine of Genoa: Purgation and Purgatory, Spiritual Dialogues

The Dark Night of the Soul

I want to finish The Hound of the Baskervilles so I can move on to the last book

1. Whatever the fuck the third Hunger Games book is. It wasn't good enough for me to memorize the title.

2. Fear and Loathing

3.Tom Sawyer

1. Apathy and Other Small Victories
2. The Book Thief
3. Lights Out by David Crawford (Thing is a fucking bible, can't bring myself to read it)

>> The War in the Air
>> The Young Hornblower
>> The Angel of the revolution

>>2900231
well if i gotta

>>2899981
genre fiction/10

>Last:
Daemon by Daniel Suarez. One of the most captivating and interesting novels I've read this year.
>Current:
(re-reading) Neuromancer by William Gibson
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
>Next:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez

>>2900258
>> Litcore, Genre, Sci-fi/10

I give you faggot/10

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Ulysses.

>>2900267
Sorry guy. I don't want to rate genre fiction because I don't read it and don't really have an opinion on it. My ratings would just be based on secondhand opinions. I figured it was better to just do it this way.

You could also do ratings too. I'm the only person doing bonus mode right now.

>>2900277
That wasn't me (the OP), just some guy getting mad. I'll take my genre/10.

>>2900277
Well, that seems reasonable enough.
I withdraw my previous statement. Carry on.

>>2900268

3/10 or
5/10 if you're black


Last read:
Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hoob

Reading:
Three Men in a Boat by some Englishman
Odisseia by Homer

Waiting for bad mood do pass:
Secret Agent by Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski

1. Siddhartha (one of those "finally-got-around-to-it" reads
2. The Power Broker - Caro (so so interesting - if you like history / biography / New York)
3. [Something about the history of liberalism]

1. Grave Descend, by John Lange

2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott

3. At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson

1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. Harry Potter and the Order of Pheonix

not even kidding

1. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin

2. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino

3. No idea. I have a few books on my shelf that haven't been read yet, so probably one of them. As pleb as it is, I might give Cloud Atlas a read.

1.The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2.Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
3.In the Country of Last Things, by Paul Auster

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

Valenzuela's "Black Novel"

something by Mishima

>>2900250

2/10

1. 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
2. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

somebody do another big rating

>>2900384
I would also like that, but lack the consummate, comprehensive knowledge of literature that would be required for such a feat.

1. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
2. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, and Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (for school this coming year).
3. The Return of the King, by JRR Tolkien (just finished Two Towers before I read Watchmen)

>>2900389
We need someone that's not afraid to make baseless judgements of other works of literature.

>>2900408
Exactly. Someone with a cavalier sense of objective subjectivity and a mad-cap, no-holds-barred approach to peer review

1. What is Stalinism? (forgot the author)

2. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jane Rhys) and The Second World (Paragh Khanna)

3. Letters to Hitler (Henrik Eberle)
I have a list of a few books to read, including a 1945 Stalin-themed book, two history small books: one about the Weimar Republic, and the other about Nazi Germany. I also want to read some tales by Tolstoi.

>ITT: 1/10 that's the best I can do

>>2900415
edgy/10

>>2900392
Oh, and a few weeks ago, I read Wonderful Wizard of Oz. took me about two hours to read the whole book, but damn was it good.

>>2900419
Not the guy you're replying to, but I don't see an interest in WWII era history as edgy. It's actually pretty damn interesting. The war totally shaped the modern world.

1. a naked singularity by sergio de la pava
>decent, could have used an editor and about 250 fewer pages but shows promise. deserved a distribution deal through a major publishing house, which would have solved the problems, aforementioned.

2. the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai
>fucking amazing. one of the best books i've read in recent memory.

3. the rise and fall of the third reich by william shirer
>it's never at the discount book store. picked up a copy of 'delivered from evil' by leckie today which i will read as soon as i finish the guns of august

>>2900431

Don't worry about that. We're lucky enough to still find people interested in History anyways.

>>2900409

.5/10

The Sirens of Titan

Slaughterhouse Five

Breakfast of Champions\\

I'm on a real vonnegut kick

>>2900490
Oh man, I did a similar thing a while back. I'd not read any Vonnegut until a couple of months ago because I'd always had other books to read, and I didn't think he sounded all that great. Then I found an old copy of the Sirens of Titan in my dad's book shelf, and that sparked like a week of just reading every Vonnegut book around.

Vonnegut is great.

>>2900457
What's the 5/10 for?

> Last book

Franny and Zooey by Salinger- After finishing it I think it has a nice place on my top ten. Though the action is slow (there barely is any in fact) I think that the message and execution was absolutely well done.

>Currently reading

The Pale King by The Infamous DFW - This is my first foray into DFW's fiction and from the first 40 pages I have read of PK I think it is one of the funniest books I have ever read. His style to me is so unique and well done.. I don't think I can possibly say anything bad about him so far.

>mfw reading PK

>Next book

Hopefully Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. I have been waiting to dive into this for a while now, but I fear that college will slow me down or even discourage me enough to once again postpone it. If anything goes wrong my back up is some good ol' PKD.

>>2900490
>>2900499

Hocus Pocus is interesting... it's not very good, but to see Vonnegut write like an angry old fart was interesting enough.

>>2900506
Yeah, Psychon is not really a book you can read with any distractions of any kind. You need to just set aside a week for that shit.

>>2900509
I haven't actually read that. Bluebeard is some pretty great stuff though.

1. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
2. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

>>2900517
How did you like the Overcoat? I felt so heartbroken reading it. I just knew something absolutely terrible was going to happen to the point I was paranoid for that character.

roadside picnic by arkady and boris strugatsky

the march of folly by barbara tuchman

a savage war of peace by alistair thorne

>>2900525
Whoops * Did you like the Overcoat?

1. Light in August, William Faulkner
2. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
3. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

>>2900033
>Winesburg, Ohio
sideways 8/10

1. Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

>Lolita
>The Bible
>The Bible

I've tried reading the Bible 1,000 times before, but I'm afraid I'm just going to give up again.

What I'd really like is an annotated Bible. Anyone have a suggestion?

1. Patterns of Intention, Michael Baxandall
2. The Double, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Winter Garden, Pablo Neruda

>>2900588
>annotated Bible

I am pretty sure all you need to do is just google any scripture and you will most likely get a 10 page analysis on it. The Bible is something that has been studied for years and most likely all of the information can be seen online. Or you could go to (lol) church.

>>2900588
>What I'd really like is an annotated Bible.
Are you fucking twelve? Would you like an illustrated bible while you're at it, with everything written in simplified, size 30, Comic Sans English?

>>2900588

Why would you read part 2 before part one? Read the Torah first, then the bible, then the fanfiction book of mormon, and then the final retcon the quaran

>>2900588
oxford annotated bible, nsrv translation. the standard academic text.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - Book I read as par of a lit. course I took this summer, was very enjoyable.

None due to exams but The Origin of Species is up next. I've had this book for a while and have been to busy to actually sit down and read it, I;m looking forward to it.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

>>2900525
I enjoyed it. The thing that struck me most after reading was how despite all his flaws I never found him pathetic.

Also as an update to >>2900517 :

1. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

>>2900603
the tanakh is in the bible

and if he takes >>2900606 suggestion, then the version of the old testament contained therein is functionally identical to the standard academic english translation of the tanakh

>>2900600

I have a really poor grasp on history. I feel like an annotated Bible would help keep some shit in historical perspective (assuming it wasn't annotated by a Christfag).

>>2900598
I'd like something I can read when I'm away from the computer.

>>2900606
Hmmm. Sounds expensive. TO AMAZON!

>>2900157
imo Siddhartha sucks read Steppenwolfe much better.

Just finished The Death and Life of Malcolm X by John Toland
Just started Damien by Herman Hesse
Want to read so many things probably will end up with Media Control by Chomsky as I am trying to get into Chomsky/political science in general and it's very short and accessible looking. Also just purchased Democracy In America by Tocueville, hoping it is not hopelessly obsolete because it is certainly outdated (any opinions?).

1. Shoplifting from American Apparel, by Tao Lin
2. Eeeee Eee Eeee, by Tao Lin
3. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

>>2900033
touhou_fan?

>>2900623
Historical perspective is completely irrelevant to the Bible. None of it ever happened, and their is little to no basis in fact. Why would you even think that was the case?

>>2900628
>Tao Lin
>Tao Lin
Go to bed, Tao. Nobody in their right mind has read your books.

>>2900632
I like them for what they are and for what they supposedly represent, and they're pretty funny. Worst of all, I can connect. But honestly, I would never consider it great prose or storytelling.

>>2900631

Well, for example, I've heard that the Whore of Babylon was a symbol for Babylon itself, and the passage was basically about how much the Christians fucking hated the Babylonians (or some shit like that).

>>2900639
Well at least you're honest. I hope you at least pirated them so that you didn't give that fucking cunt any money.

>>2900647
That's not really something you need to know when reading the book. If you can't read it without knowing that shit, you won't be able to read it knowing it. You also have ADD and should kill yourself.

>>2900651

I really don't understand why my desire for an annotated Bible has you so pissy. Were you touched by a priest or something? Jesus fucking Christ,

>>2900665
I just don't understand why you can't read that shit like a normal human being. There's a reason annotated Bible's don't exist, and if you honestly can't comprehend why that might be then you are dumber than the people that treat the Bible as fact.

>>2900674

>I just don't understand why you can't read that shit like a normal human being

Because it's boring as fuck by itself, so maybe a bit of explanation for all the whacky shit going on will make it a little more palatable.
>There's a reason annotated Bible's don't exist
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aannotated+bible&keywords=annotated+bible&a
mp;ie=UTF8&qid=1344912057

>and if you honestly can't comprehend why that might be then you are dumber than the people that treat the Bible as fact.

Oh you.

>>2900674
>There's a reason annotated Bible's don't exist
whoop! showed your hand there. good troll though, good troll.

>>2900649
Nope. I'm a terrible piece of shit who bought them from Amazon. They were used though, so it's not like I bought them from a real retailer.

1. JPod, by Douglas Coupland
2. Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals, by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
3. The Element, by Ken Robinson

>>2900155
>>2900156
>>2900157
I would add it's much more than decent. And the Gita is definitely worthing read if you have any interest of philosophy or religion.

1. The Scarlet Letter
2. Wanderer-Sterling Hayden
3. Oblomov-Goncharov

1. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. James Joyce - The portrait of an artist as a young man
3. James Joyce - Ulysses

1. A dim book on Constantine, before that, Freethinkers - Susan Jacoby

2. American Sphinx - Joseph Ellis

3. Ethan Allen - Willard S Randall, America Beyond Capitalism - Gar Alperovitz, Freedom For the Thought That We Hate - Anthony Lewis, Garibaldi - Lucy Riall, My Past & Thoughts - Alexander Herzen, John Julius Norwich's Byzantine trilogy, Moby Dick... Oh tons really.

>1.No Simple Victory
>2.East and west
>3. cybernetics,or control and communication in the animal and the machine

1. War and Peace
2. The Infant Race (La Infana Raso)
3. Moby-Dick, perhaps

Pilgrim's Progress
Brave New World
Don't Know

>>2900630

I'm not sure. Who/what is touhou?

>>2900551

Sideways? Thanks?

>>2900159

I can live with this

>>2900628

die/10

>>2900860
>>2901142

9/10

1. American Gods (complete shit)
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Rise of Endymion

1. Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
2. A Game of Thrones by R.R. Martin
3. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The Mote in God's Eye

Slaughterhouse 5

Cryptonomicon

1) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver
2) Walden, Thoreau
3) Less Than Zero, Ellis

1. Fulgrim
2. The Things They Carried
3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Hamlet

Notes from Underground

Oxford Dictionary

-Queen of the damned

_The Mandarines

_100 Years of Solitude

1. The Crying of Lot 49
2. The Crossing
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude -or- The Collected Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

O Livro do Desassossego - Fernando Pessoa

The Outsider - Colin Wilson

For Whom The Bell Tolls - E. Hemingway

>>2899981

O'Connor is good

Cat's Cradle

The Trial

Don Quixote

Robot Dreams - Isaac Asimov
Robot Vision - Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov

you say E.L. James, I say Marquis de Sade.
You say Tao Lin, I say James Joyce.
You say Stephanie Meyer, I say Virginia Woolf.
You say Ayn Rand, I say Slavoj Zizek,

ninety five percent of college kids read awful books written for angsty teens and pseudointellectuals. If you're one of the 5% who still reads real literature, copy and paste it to at least 5 threads.Don't let the spirit of leftism die.

1. Jorge Luis Borges - On Mysticism
2. Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago & Martin Heidegger - Sein und Zeit
3. Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan

Thinking of re-reading any Nabokov as well. Probably Ada or Ardor. I used to inhabit Lolita more than Ada, but upon reflection, the former was a more developed novel than the latter.

1. Brave New World
2. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
3. The Leopard

Selection of Plays - Anton Chekhov

The Man in the High Castle - P.K.D

Not sure yet. Maybe Dune, Rendezvous with Rama, or some Kafka.

>>2901308
Check out The Complete Robot if you haven't already. Great bunch of short stories.

>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Eternal Husband and other stories
>The Possessed/Chekhov collection

1. The Way of Kings
2. Elantris
3. The Shadow of the Torturer

>inb4 fantasy hate

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Skagboys / Midnight's Children
As I lay dying

1. I REMEMBER - JOE BRAINARD

2. GREAT JONES STREET - DON DELILLO

3. THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE - HARUKI MURAKAMI

1. The Black Death by Peter Ziegler
2. Saving the Appearances by Owen Barfield
3. Parzival by Wolfram Von Eschenbach

1. The Outsider by Albert Camus

2. House of Leaves by Daniel 4. Dichezxekjsdsdgfdkoijsdgorwhatever

3. The Gunslinger by Stephen King (next book on my pile... don't usually like stephen king but trying to check it out)

Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

Either Ada/Ardor - Nabokov, or The Vikings - Robert Ferguson.

1. House of Leaves
2. Ulysses
3. Slaughterhouse Five

1. Lolita by Nabokov
2. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
3. Finnegans Wake by Joyce

Yeah, I'm getting to all those books that I feel I should have read as an English major.

L'Étranger by Camus
Lord of the Flies by Golding

Next I'm not sure... Maybe Cryptonomicon by Stephenson.

1. The faerie queene by Edmund Spenser
2. Great expectations by Charles Dickens
3. The pragmatic programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

stfu capsguy

useless thread. no potential for discussion

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. The Crying of Lot 49
3. The Brothers Karamazov

1. The sun also rises, by Ernest Hemingway
2. Blood meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
3. All the books. But I think I'll try Ulysses next.

1. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
2. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussel
3. The Norton Introduction to Poetry/We're Flying, Stories by Peter Stamm

>>2900043
It's Rajaniemi, actually, with a J. Also, he's a friend of my dad's. I'll rate you 10/10 just for that.

1. Game of Thrones (Yeah yeah I know. It was a fun read though)
2. Shuffling through Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed and Byzantium and Its Army 284-1081 by Warren Treadgold.
3. Infinite Jest. Kinda sounds interesting.

1 - The plage
2 - La Nausée
3 - Not sure yet, but probably Hard Times or maybe Impressionism, by Ingo F. Walther

Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut

I'm still deciding what to read now, it's between these:

Foundation & Empire - Asimov
Ubik - Dick
Moving Pictures - Pratchett
Sculpting in Time - Tarkovsky

Brief interviews with hideous men - first DFW changed my life.

Johnathon strange and mr norel - really enjoying, but only 350 pages in.

Either:

Minotaur takes a cigarette break
The savage detectives
Sphere of influence (writing on cricket and its discontents)

>>2901884
Yeah how fucking good was Brief Interviews. Which interview did you like best? #46? #2? #20?

So many of these stories were really intense, it's probably the best book I read this year and got me really pumped for IJ.

1. Tyrant Oidipous
2. Hamlet, Dracula and The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker (I usually read several books at the same time
3. Probably A Tale of Two Cities or The Handmaid's Tale. I have shitloads of unread books, so it's just a matter of picking one.

>>2901897
Oh and my list:

>The Third Policeman by Flann O'brien
pretty disappointing.

>Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Enjoyably, but don't like the commentary about the 'human condition'.
>Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Really creeps up on me about 1/4th in.

>Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
>The Plague by Camus

>>2901907
>>2901897
>The Third Policeman by Flann O'brien
>pretty disappointing.

You're disappointing.

>>2901907
>'enjoyably'
>no commas
>etc.
Christ, get a grip dave.

>>2901914
Could you explain to me why you consider it so virtuous?

>>2901907
Tao Lin pls go

1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Kings
3. The Fellowship of the Ring

1. The Stand by Stephen King
2. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
3. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson

>>2900009
Gravity's Rainbow is fucking excellent. I had to keep on telling myself that it was okay not to understand everything though. There are quite a few parts that made me laugh out loud though

>Last read
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
>Currently reading
The Book of Dave by Will Self
>Would like to read
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy but cannot get a copy here

1. "Too Loud a Solitude", Bohumil Hrabal
2. "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", Paul Hoffman (biography of Paul Erdős)
3. "The Makioka Sisters" or another biography of Erdős (I'll see how sensational this one ends up being)

1.-Politics-Aristotle
2.-(Isn't a book, but it counts as literature material) Timaeus-Plato
3.-I want to give another lecture to my favorite one. The Prince-Machiavelli

Slaughter House 5
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Anna Karenina but 2 door stoppers back to back is a bit much.

>>2902082
Also if someone could recommend a romance novel that's worthy to be called literature, Id like to read that as well. Trying to broaden my tastes from just Russian literature, Americana, History, and scifi.

1. Just finished the Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
2. Currently reading Selected Letters of Vladimir Lenin
3. Next up is Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by Lovecraft

1. Red Storm Rising
2. Art of War
3. Roadside Picnic

1. Brothers Karamazov
2. Count of Monte Cristo
3. The stranger
Entry level as fvck

1. Brief interviews with hideous men, DFW. It was very thought-provoking, and funny at the same time.

2. Unfortunately, I haven't been reading anything lately. Too busy browsing 4chan and preparing my September exams.

3. Tie between Brothers Karamazov and Mason&Dixon.
Two excellent books, I presume.

1. Nueromancer by William Gibson
2. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
3. Undecided

Poem of the Deep Song - Lorca
The Savage Detectives - Bolanos
V - Pynchon

>>2902158
Hello friend. What is your opinion of the Count of Monte Cristo? I've been interested since reading Portrait of the Artist, but I'm put off by its length.

1. Animal Farm
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Grapes of Wrath

Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Death on the Installment Plan - Celine
Pnin - Nabokov

Narziss und Goldmund (Narcissus and Goldmund)
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge)
Auf den Marmorklippen (Auf den Marmorklippen)

>>2901373

First time doing GJS? Mine was about three weeks ago. Dug the fuck out of it. Wasn't expecting it to be funny. The dialogue is some serious Joseph Heller science, very unlike the DeLillo I thought I knew.

>>2902218
sorry, last one should have been: On the Marble Cliffs

1) Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
2) Lieutenant Hornblower
3) Hornblower and the Atropos

[rereading them with my sons]

1. Headhunters, By Jo Nesbø
2. A farewell to Arms, By Ernest Hemmingway
3. American Psycho, By Bret Easton Ellis

1. The Discovery of Heaven, by Harry Mulisch
2. Operation Mossad, by Gordon Thomas
3. Der Prozess, by Franz Kafka

1. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
2. Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoevsky
3. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

1. The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien; or Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems, whichever one arrives first

1. The Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari
2. Essays, by Michel de Montaigne
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Richard Burton

1. Wizards and Glass
2. Wolves of the Calla
3. Song of Susannah

lol

1. Without End - Adam Zagajewski
2. Some shit by Rumi, its meh, I might just read something else.
3. Moby Dick, or poems by William Carlos Williams.

>Last Book
The Fall by Albert Camus

>Current:
Ms. Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

>Next:
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald

1. Notes from Underground by the Dostoy
2. The Double by the Dostoy
3. Something else Russian

1. The Queen of Air and Darkness, T.H. White
2. The Ill-Made Knight, T.H. White
3. The Candle in the Wind, T.H. White

1. Nelson Algren - A Walk On The Wild Side
Loved it, it's so eloquently written and I've got a fetish for this kind of description of the 'old America'
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
About 200 pages in, I recon reading the translation takes some of the magic away but Marquez constructs the history of so many characters and keeps it fresh and compelling everytime, I definitely like it.
3. Theodore Kaczynski - Technological Slavery
After reading Industrial Society and its Future and some things like his mental health report I'm still not sure if he's a genius, just paranoid/crazy or both, so I really want to take a deeper look into his ideas. Has anybody read it yet? I haven't ordered it yet and according to some he just repeats his ideas over and over, I'd love some opinions.

>>2902566
>but Marquez constructs the history of so many characters in such an excentric way and keeps it fresh and compelling everytime
Missing a couple of words there.

>last book
Slaughterhouse-5 Kurt Vonnegut

>current book
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn

>want book
James and the Giant Peach

>>2900703
I thought that the bit where I said "also you have ADD and should kill yourself" might have given me away, but I guess not.

The Philosophy of David Cronenberg (by various)
Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
USA by John Dos Passos

1. Carrie, Stephen King
2. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (Tales of love, madness and death), Horario Quiroga
3. Beyond good and evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

>>2899981
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Timequake
3. The End of Mr. Y

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

2. Lincoln by Gore Vidal

3. When Maria Abramović Dies by James Westcott

>>2900003
Niggas got good taste

>1) Narcissus and Goldmund
Beautiful and amazing and brilliant, loved it.
>2) A Clockwork Orange
Enh, we'll see. It's good at making me uncomfortable, but I have to say that there's nothing so far that seems great. I'm not far through it though.
>3) Nausea

>>2900490
I'm doing the same thing right now. Im reading Timequake right now, it's only good once you really know his voice by reading his other books. BoC is hilairous. Cat's Cradle is genius, I highly suggest you look into it.

1. Chav, the demonization of the working class.
2. Bleak House
3. the Decameron.

>>2902718
He's got pleb taste. You only think he's got good taste because you too are a pleb.

>>2902732
>Chav, the demonization of the working class
Looked up the description of that on Amazon, it sounds retarded. Chav ≠ working class. Not all working class people are chavs, and not all chavs are working class. Anyone with sense already knows this.

>>2902746
This. It's only apologists that equate the two.

>>2902733
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a quality dystopian sci-fi book and the inspiration for a great little movie called "Blade Runner"

Either it's not your type of reading or you're a complete idiot.

>>2902754
I love Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but there's a difference between having good taste and liking similar books to someone else.

>>2902760
>I love Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>pleb taste

Well I guess you're insulting yourself then

>>2902763
I find it enjoyable. I also find The Simpsons and Terry Pratchett enjoyable, but nobody would imply or outright state that liking those things is in anyway indicative of good taste.

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Crime and Punishment';
2. Masha Gessen, 'The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin';
3. Thomas S. Kuhn, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'.

>>2902768
You're just band-waggoning on super heafty "ONLY THE PUREST LITERATURE" mindset carried by most of this board. You don't have to like all the supposed "great" books and you don't have to think all the supposed "shitty" books are bad.

Liking something means you have taste for that, it's a guilty pleasure, but Im not about to condemn someone for saying they like something that isn't being readily worshipped.

Here's a metaphor for you: if you go to a metal concert, everyone there will say that you have good taste in music because August Burns Red or whatever. However, if you go to a classical orchestra's performance, the people there will tell you have good taste because you like Mozart and Bach.

>>2902791
That's a terrible example really, because the people who like August Burns Red are objectively wrong.

1/10 try harder next time

1. Post Office, by Charles Bukowski.
2. Tai-Pan, by James Clavell
3. Ulysses, by James Joyce

>>2902800
Not at all. It's different genres. One is not better than the other, the only reason classical music is studied instead of metal is because metal hasn't been around as long.

Looking for Alaska is being studied at a school instead of Catcher in the Rye. It's not that one is better, they're different. There are different reasons to study the works, and different reasons to like them both.

1. Like any
2. Of you
3. Give a shit

>>2902822
I do ;_;

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
2. The Last Tycoons
3. Game of Thrones

>>2902817
no Catcher in the Rye is definitely better and more worthy of study than Looking For Alaska. and I don't even like Catcher in the Rye that much.

like, I think you're basically correct in that this board tends to dickride on 'classical literature' a little much, sometimes as a substitute for actually evaluating things. but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to evaluate things, or that some things aren't better than others, it just means that they're evaluating others. it also doesn't mean that you shouldn't read Looking For Alaska (I mean, you shouldn't, it's the worst) but my point is that it's okay to read things that aren't the best ever if you enjoy them. that's perfectly okay. but, you know, that's not an excuse to escape judging things critically either.

1. Island, by Aldous Huxley. Amazing. And for Spanish at college, Los hombres amables, by Marcelo Cohen. Kinda weird.

2. Again, for English Literature, Tess of D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy. I'm just starting it.

3. I really wanna read The Great Gatsby.

>>2902851
Exactly. I definitely concede that the works of Joyce and Hemingway outdo that of the vast majority of todays contemporary writers works on a technical note, but that doesnt mean that someone should restrict themselves to reading exclusively those books. They should read some books that might not be as technically well done or as strong a voice in them, but they should read it because of the story and their general interest.

1. Deliverance - James Dickey
2. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
3. didn't get that far yet, maybe revisit A Canticle for Leibowitz

>>2902746

Just because there is no formal equality between the two doesn't not mean there is not significant overlap that would justify a title that riffs on this overlap. You seem dumb. You might want to talk to a doctor about that.

>>2902329
>>>dat taste!

>2903717

Oops, too many negative verb formations! Damned litotes.