/lit/ - Literature

I deduce that you only discovered /lit/ within the last 6 months.

>>3531484
18-25 year old American white male who has had less than 5 sexual partners in his lifetime

Mine: Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, Being and Time by Martin Heidegger, Nog by Rudy Wurlitzer, Ice by Anna Kavan, The Castle by Franz Kafka

>>3531500
18-25 year old American white male who has had less than 5 sexual partners in his lifetime

You are a first or second-year college student who has read most, if not all your listed books, for class.

Here are my first 5 books that I can think of...

The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
La silla del aguila (The Eagle's Throne) by Carlos Fuentes
Como me hice monja (How I Became a Nun) by Cesar Aira

The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Kornel Esti

>tfw I've only read 4 books in total

>>3531506
lol somone's mad

>>3531511
You must be a pleasant person that actually loves to read. :3

>>3531510
South American with a lazy penchant for self-improvement.

>>3531500
Mildly dissatisfied drug user, craves a life full of experiences and unique characters.

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

>>3531506
Jokes on you - I've had five!
If you count the hispanic man George who claimed to be an FBI agent and gave me a blowjob in an alley on the Williamsburg waterfront after I bought crack from him and we smoked it together... he wanted me to fuck him but I couldn't really get hard because I'd taken a bunch of Vicodin earlier... blowjobs count tho right?

The Sun Also Rises-Hem
Stoner-John Williams
This Side of Paradise-Fitzgerald
The Map and the Territory- Michel Houellebecq
The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes

>>3531511
You must be the person who put me onto Pu Songling a few months ago. Thanks for that.

"Dune" series
"The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings" series
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series
"A Song of Fire and Ice" series
Robert E. Howard's Conan series

I consider each of the above series, one large "book".

>>3531530
thumbs up.

>>3531561
You're 40 years old living in your mom's basement; your World of Warcraft clan is ranked number five in the world and recently finished raiding the top dungeon in Pandaria, and your literary ambition does not exceed writing the best LoTR fan-fiction novel ever.
How'd I do?

War and Peace - Tolstoy

One Hundred Yers of Solitude - GGM

Shakespeares Imagery - Caroline Spurgeon (It contains an record of the various metaphors used by Shakespeare, a selection according to their themes - what I like the most in Shakespeare are his metaphors, his language; i like them much more than the characters and storylines of his plays)

The Death of Ivan Ilicht - Tolstoy

Kholstomer, the history of a horse - Tolstoy

>>3531561
extremely handsome, giant penis, abnormally high iq, charisma jfk would've envied, and the world's largest collection of fedoras.

>>3531521
500 here - you're half right - I'm high on opium right now, and I once craved a life of worldly experience - but I've been off heroin for two years and I know longer experience much of an urge to take part in the social world, preferring to spend my time investigating and caring for the garden of my own mind

>>3531561

I think you're somebody who enjoys the thought of people reading your insincere posts on 4chan and becoming anally frustrated.

My arbitrary 5:
-Little, Big by John Crowley
-Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
-Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Stranger, Hyperion, The Name of the Rose, Foucalt's Pendulum, and The Future (by Al Gore)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is my favorite

Treasure Island
Shogun
River of Doubt
Dune series (Frank Herbert)

>>3531581
Someone I would go considerably out of my way to avoid interacting with

;) ;)

but really

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
Down and out in Paris and London - Orwell
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
The House of the Dead - Dostoevsky
Resurrection - Tolstoy (Leo)

>>3531588
W-why?

Wide Sargasso Sea
The Bell Jar
The Canterbury Tales
Dr. Faustus
Medea

>>3531581
Actually, I'll switch out Hyperion for Les Misérables. Hyperion was pretty mediocre really, it was just the first thing that came to my head.

Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72
Gravity's Rainbow
Breakfast Of Champions

>>3531584
Sheeeeeeet I forgot about Homer

>>3531602
Someone who is new to /lit/ and unable to formulate their own opinions

>>3531597
Girl doing a degree in Classics.

>>3531592
tepid sci-fi, Dan Brown-esque pap posing as philosophy, and banal politics suggest that the Camus, the only book of any merit on your list, is ill-appreciated in your crude and obtuse mind. heh
just kidding kind of (I feel like I should give you a hug now), I mean the fact that you even read books would be enough in real life to make us sound friends, but, if I had my druthers, in the end, I'd stand by what I say

>>3531606
So did I, Anon. But there's no turning back now.

>>3531602
pseudo intellectual

>>3531610
lel
>Banal politics
lel x 2
>Dan Brown-esque pap posing as philosophy
lel ad infinitum

>>3531598
Les Miserables doesn't help your cause at all - honestly Hyperion would probably have been better

>>3531617
What cause?

>>3531618
the cause of appearing attractive, to me, your anonymous internet literary judge

>>3531521
You got the South American part sort of right. But no dice on the second part!

>>3531580
College student who has very decidedly not yet "come of age" - still more boy than man, he nurses a nostalgia for childhood simplicity and fantasy which will ill serve him as he passes through his twenties and his face ages - notably early balding is a serious likelihood. How you like THAT Anon

>>3531614
Nothing about his five says 'pseudo-intellectual' to me. I am betting you just think that because of IJ and GR's reputation on /lit/, which only really tells us that you need to learn to think for yourself and get out more.

And no, I'm not him.

>>3531621
But I enjoy politics, and I enjoy history. I shall enter politics one day. What is wrong with my taste in literature? Do you find me distasteful because my taste differs from /lit/s equivalent of 'Now That's What I Call Pop'? Or maybe you just have no ambition, and because my taste indicates that I do have some modicum of that, you feel the need to put me down?

Or maybe it's none of those things, and you've just confused opinion for fact.

>>3531630
>But no dice on the second part!
You have no self-improvement drive?

Infinite Jest

The Brothers Karamazov

Sophie's Choice

The Divine Comedy

The Catcher in the Rye

Gravity's Rainbow

>>3531645
You have a tenuous grasp on basic mathematics.

>>3531646

oh shit. oopsie.

I struggle to name my five favourite anythings.

>>3531660

Boring young white middle american.

Sir Orfeo
Oedipus Tyrannus
Agamemnon
Watership Down
The House of Mirth

>>3531660
How about your five favourite moments of indecision that have contributed to your social and economic stagnation?

>>3531484
You are a person who has not yet read Ulysses.

>>3531637
I don't consider politics a universally meretricious field, but it must be said that its typical everyday action occurs in a superficiality which is much in opposition to most literary aims. A profound investigation in politics may nonetheless be worthy of respect, but the particular missive you include on your list leads me to suspect you of the very weak-minded populism you accuse me of - I rather suspect most /lit/izens would be inclined to agree with my assessment that bestsellers such as Gore's owe more of their popularity to the worldy success of their author than they do literary merit...

Finnegan's Wake
The Recognitions
The World as Will And Representation
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Ego And It's Own

>>3531672
I don't particularly enjoy American politics; I find them farcical at the very best. But I found The Future an interesting discussion of politics, society and economics, and their relationships with each other, going into the future. As the future is something I am heavily invested in, I thought it appropriate to read it, and I found it interesting. I was sceptical at first, due to the myriad stigmas associated with Al Gore, and indeed, with American politicians in general, but I was pleasantly surprised by its contents. I would recommend it to anyone (and I would like to imagine anyone can be treated as a synonym of 'everyone' in this context) who cares at all about human progress.

I have not read anything by Gore in the past, it is the subject matter of this work which appeals to me.

>>3531672
Addendum:
>I don't consider politics a universally meretricious field
Why ever not?

>>3531632

My college days are an awfully long way behind me.

I think you should reread Alice in Wonderland and remind yourself that it's a masterpiece and that judging people as emotionally immature/nostalgiafags for still loving it is as adults is a pretty dumb thing to do.

You're probably right about the earlyish balding though, shit's hereditary and my dad was starting to thin at 35. Shit sucks.

>>3531679

You have no life.

You leave your room almost exclusively for food or work/study. When you see people, usually you think of how they waste their lives with things futile and meaningless moments.

Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Critique of Pure Reason

>>3531664
>>3531668
Those are some pretty silly assumptions. Ignoring the subjective "boring" (which I would dispute) only young and white apply.

>>3531672
>I don't consider politics a universally meretricious field
I thought I was alone in this

>>3531705
You two probably are, because that's an immensely silly attitude to have.

>>3531689
Oh I'm sorry - I can't stand it anymore! I'm so critical towards you only for my own predatory pleasure and I can see by your continuing responses the sensitivity and goodness of your heart - and such a vision forbids me from continuing to antagonize you! In fact, I feel compelled to say - with every response you make to me I feel a deeper and deeper affection growing within me and now I recognize it blossoming in to something I can only call - - - Love! I love you, Anonymous...I love you despite and because of your inclusion on your list of you five favorite books and book which was released only two months ago - your naivete and earnestness is melting my icy heart like a nuclear fire!

Chronicles of Narnia

Peter Pan

The Little Prince

The Bible

Top 500 Poems book.

>tfw you're a pleb

The world according to garp, Everything is illuminated, Fall of giants, An idiot sent abroad, Skippy dies. Skippy dies has got to be the all time favourite.

>>3531720
It would be extremely creepy if he wasn't.

>>3531714
You're a Catholic Priest

>>3531692
Because occasionally politics shows itself to be acting on profound insight and vision for the future of the country being lead. I suspect I am being misread here; perhaps a definition of 'meretricious' is in order: "Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity: "meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade"."

>>3531711
your knees got weak from your 2nd reply actually. you just can't be mean can you?

>>3531725

I'm a 28 year old graduate literature student.

>them feels when I'm sad now

>>3531729
Then you're creepy, kidding. Why the odd choice in literature, if I may ask of course.

>>3531733

I'm in a graduate program for children's lit

>>3531729
I mean, not that it's any of my concern. Just wondering.

>>3531695
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an awesome book. Way better than Gravity's Rainbow.

>>3531572

As I thought: I am mysterious and indecipherable; nobody examined me. It must be because of this aura of mystery that permeates me that I bang so many girls.

>>3531745
Ah, I see, well then your choices are great.

Borstal Boy
Catch-22
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Old Man and the Sea
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>>3531711
Stop being so melodramatic. You're not politically or historically inclined, and that's fine. Not all of us are capable of dealing with reality.

We're all unique, special snowflakes, and let's just leave it at that.

Les Miserables
Nation - Terry Pratchett
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy Douglas Adams

I know, I know, but better to be honest than to feign sophistication

The Stranger
Othello
No Exit
Lord of the Rings
Ender's Game
Heart of Darkness

>>3531774
You're a gigantic faggot

>>3531774
Someone not inclined towards maths.

>>3531754

To compare the two is almost meaningless, obviously. But if I had to state agree or disagree then, yes, I think Carroll's is the greater achievement.

The Book of the Law
Hexentexte
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
The Birth of Tragedy
Bardo Thodol

The world according to garp,
Everything is illuminated,
Fall of giants,
An idiot sent abroad,
Skippy dies

>>3531778
Actually I'm going to school for engineering.

>>3531776
Why thank you.

The god delusion x 5

>>3531783
Well GR was heavily influenced by Carroll. And Pynchon's a /lit/ favourite so I hoped the comparison might convince some of his fans to give Carroll a chance and I was just being needlessly inflammatory.

Dialogues with Leucò by Pavese
Hopscotch by Cortazar
Gypsy Ballads by García Lorca
Mambrú by R.H Moreno-Duran
Everything I Possess I Carry With Me by Müller

>>3531802
Are there any good translations of Lorca kicking about? I really want to get into his stuff

>>3531575
>fedoras
I lol'd

>>3531765
Please! I would wager I'm more historically competent than anyone else on /lit/ right now. It's this very historically familiarity which makes me comfortable in denigrating the opportunities for the expression of profundities which politics can offer - that is to say, the lack thereof. Political treatises and and theorizing can not uncommonly be elucidating and worth the read, but all too often political writings take on and attempt to influence the immediate, contemporary political situation, and are thusly compromised by the patronising role they consequently assume. The most eloquent speech of the statesmen pales to banality in the face of a single paragraph of finer literature - the respective demands of genre and audience in each case determine this.

>>3531804
Not sure. I read him in spanish. It should be, since he's one of the most importants poets in the XX century in Spain.

I don't really gave a consistent set of five favourite books, but currently and in no order: Catch 22, The death of Ivan Ilyich, Peter Pan, Watchmen, and The Dark Knight returns.

I also like any given discworld novel or Bradbury short story.

>>3531808
Can you explain the whole Peloponnesian crap to me? I'm interested in it.

>>3531813
Ah, I was hoping you read him in English. I find translated poetry, or any work of literature for that matter, is never really as good.

>>3531808
How old are you? Seriously

>>3531641
I suppose we all have a penchant for self-improvement of some sort, no? Also can you please give me a further explanation as to what you mean by "self improvement"? Whenever that term comes to mind I can't help but think of lousy self-help books.

You're getting trolled

>>3531829
I'm wading into this thread by defining my own self improvement. I haven't gone out in the town for a year, and haven't ever been in a bar. I gave up my sporting team six years ago. I don't study. I don't talk to women, and the odd time I talk to guys. I'm trying to change all of that right now, and started last week. Strides of self improvement..

>>3531826
I'm Forty-two, why do you ask?

>>3531845
Seriously

>>3531845
>>3531848
Okay, so how the fuck is age relevant on the internet in any way?
It isn't, so don't go all seriously on him.

>>3531808
>I would wager I'm more historically competent than anyone else on /lit/ right now.

Post credentials

2nd year history graduate at top 10 program in the country reporting in

White Noise, Blood Meridian, The Metamorphosis, The Castle, A Confederacy of Dunces

>>3531854
sophomore babby in top 10 uni from your country? if your country isn't us or at least uk, there's no reason to mention such triviality

>>3531854
Dutch high school.
My fucking sides when I'm twenty years old, and in my last year of high school.

>>3531860
babby doesnt into biased rankings by US media magnate

>>3531874
ok pal, post legitimate rankings then

>>3531854
My credentials are decades of attentive and insightful awareness of contemporary global maneuvering and conflict, and shelves upon shelves of historical texts and political theory. I regret to reveal to you that a slip of paper from even the finest institution of learning is indicative of very little beyond placement in a certain social and economic milieu.

>>3531882
Please tell me you are just doing a very good parody of a pretentious self aggrandising cuntbag.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Blood Meridian
The Stand
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

>>3531891
If I were to tell you such a thing, I would no longer be actualizing a very good parody, now would I be?

>>3531882
hahahahahahahahah

I need friends please

The Brothers Karamazov
No Longer Human
Mother Night
The Sound and the Fury
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

>>3531877
There's no such thing as a legitimate ranking of university. Ranking universities is a childish fantasy made up by people who think world company rankings can be applied to anything. What matters is first you dedication and learning discipline, second your own talent and intuition, third your teacher (quality of teaching hasn't much to do with the credential of the teacher, or even his quality as a researcher in his field) and equally your classmates and close fourth what you're doing outside of your studies.

>>3531512

Never change, /lit/.

>>3532106
heard this story too many times. get real kid

>>3531484
>favourite books
>Waiting for Godot
>books

>>3532112
No seriously. Do you really need a ranking to tell you Harvard is third best university in the world for law but only fourteenth while Yale is fourth in the world for physics but eleventh in law ? Bullshit. Go speak to the students, the teacher, look at the exchange programs, the courses, the major, the campus and student life. Get informed about really relevant things. World rankings will never give you that. If you think no university is good outside of Britain or America because you read in some ranking than Todaï (university of Tokyo) is only ranked twentieth in whatever-the)newspaper ranking table, then you clearly don't get it. Real researcher work with colleagues all around the world. And if you fear for your children, well, I guess you can telle a shitty community college in ghetto area from a upper-tier university without any ranking, right ?

Kafka- The Trial
Hemingway- Farewell to Arms
Camus- The Stranger
Kobo Abe- Beyond the Curve
Kobo Abe- Woman In the Dunes

>>3531484
Go to bed, CLT

Antonin Artaud - The Theater and it's Double
Frederich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil: A Prelude to the Philosophy of the Future
Sir William Glock (ed.) - Ligeti in Conversation
Samuel Beckett - The Unnameable
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra & Simulation

Breakfast of Champions; The Third Policeman; An Béal Bocht; The Catcher in the Rye; A Farewell to Arms

>>3531567
> How'd I do?

I'm 45 and I own my parents home, my parents having passed away.
Otherwise, you're way off the mark.

A Clockwork Orange, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, Walden

I could put 1984 or Fight Club as the 5th but i'd be lying to myself.

The Road, Siddhartha, The Satanic Verses, Still Life With Woodpecker, East of Eden

>>3531602
>Breakfast of Champions

Mah nigga.

The Old Man and the Sea -Hemingway
Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut
Being there- Kosinski
The Painted bird- Kosinski
The Prophet- Gibran

The Blind Assassin
The Demolished Man
The Big Nowhere
Absalom, Absalom!
Snow Crash

Night Train
The Information
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Moby Dick
Lucky Jim

>>3532363

Male, progressive, modern not postmodern. Likely American/Canadian. No older than 30.

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Finnegans Wake
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying

Don Quixote
Memoirs of Hadrian
Little, Big
To The Lighthouse
The Passion According to G.H.

the catcher in the rye
madame bovary
the idiot
hunger

I'm almost done with the heart is a lonely hunter, and i think that might be one of my favorites when i'm done with it too.

>>3532347
You live in the Pacific Northwest

>>3532295
you are a graduate student

>>3532066
you have dealt with depression in your life

>>3532448
Southern California, actually. Nice try.

The Trial by Franz Kafka
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Faust by Goethe
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Plague by Albert Camus

Hagakure, Anarchism and Other Essays, Tao Te Ching, The Spider vs. the Empire State (trilogy of books from a pulp series), The Dispossessed

Minima Moralia - Theodor Adorno

The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

A Picture Of Dorian Grey - Wilde

Nausea - Jean Paul Sarte

Molloy - Samuel Beckett

Cujo, Stephen King
Paranoia, Joseph Finder
Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino
The Hobbit, Tolkien
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman. I know it's a trilogy but I don't give a fuck.

>>3532467
Optimistic.

>>3532474
Very reclusive.

You've thought about killing yourself before.

The Brothers Karamazov
The Luzhin Defense
1984
2001 A Space Odyssey
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Yep!

>>3532474
You like things that are shit

>>3532490
bit vague but alright.

>>3532515
Oooouu, you nasty man!
tell someone who cares, buddy.

Queer by William Burroughs
Crime and Punishment
Pnin
Invitation to a Beheading
Offseason by Jack Ketchum

Orwell - 1984
Caro - The Path to Power
Conrad - Lord Jim
Silverstein - The Giving Tree
Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

>>3531500
>18-25 year old American white male who has had less than 5 sexual partners in his lifetime
That describes me perfectly!

100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
How to Philosophize with a Hammer by Nietzsche
Invisible Man by Ellison
The Stranger by Camus
Faust by Goethe
King Lear by Shakespeare

/faggot

>>3532568

If I had to guess I'd say that you're the kind of guy who is too fucking retarded to count to five.

>>3532568

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
L’Étranger by Albert Camus
The Road by Cormac McCathy
Siddharta by Herman Hesse

East of Eden
The Hobbit
The Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment

>>3532639
I would say you're a woman or rather young, early 20s... you're optimistic and have an open mind.

I would respect you more if Life of Pi wasn't the first one on your list, but that's only my opinion.

(in no particular order)

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Myth of Sysiphus - Albert Camus
La Soledad de las Vocales - Jose Maria Perez Alvarez
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

>>3531484
Don Quixote
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
The Art of Computer Programming
The Catcher in the Rye
Going Bovine.

the hunger games, harry potter, percy jackson, star wars books and the hobbit but i only read 1/2 of it

>>3532679
You probably don't get out much, but you're not fat or unattractive. Just not outgoing.

>>3532707

I bet your 12 and a girl

>>3532714
no

>>3532710
Maybe. I do go out, have friends, all that jazz, but most of the time I'm most comfortable chilling at home.

>>3532460
You think too much, though that's not necessarily a bad thing.

>>3532066
Have you watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters? If you haven't, do! Bet you'd like it.

Night watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko
Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett
Walden by Thoreau
Prey by Crichton

>>3532679
They're not in any particular order, haha. More like in the order I discovered them.

>>3532789
I enjoyed the Life of Pi, but felt the whole "religious" spin that it implies was kind of unnecessary.

Journey to the End of the Night
Brothers Karamazov
Master and Margarita
The Stranger
Death in Venice

Of Human Bondage
Confederacy of Dunces
Lucky Jim
A Picture of Dorian Gray
Ubik

Old Man and the Sea
The Hobbit
Siddhartha
Moby-Dick
A Separate Reality: Further Teachings from Don Juan

Suttree, In Search of Lost Time, Infinite Jest, Watership Down, Solaris

>>3532679
>i'm so edgy and sexist why wont my mom do what i tell her! wahhhh

Journal by Sandor Marai
The Emigrants by WG Sebald
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
Light by M. John Harrison

Starship troopers
The great gatsby
The hobbit
To kill a mockingbird
All quiet on the western front (that's the english title right? )

Infinite Jest
The Virgin Suicides
No Country For Old Men
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Labyrinths
Pop Art (short Story)

>>3533683

19. White. Middle-Class. Virgin. College student. Facebook user. Twitter user. Mild bisexual tendencies in private.

Pale Blue Dot; Carl Sagan
The Things They Carried; Tim O'Brien
My Man Jeeves, Wodehouse
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche
Light in August, Faulkner

>>3533701
Now you I like.

>>3531484
Im going to guess you're the sort of person who goes to /lit/ and cherry picks books that are regarded as good by the majority of the board to be his favorites. except you threw CITR in there in an attempt to seem original.

Clarissa
Emma
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
To The Lighthouse

Here are mine:
Journey to the End of the Night
V.
Madame Bovary
Bohemian Lights
Infinite Jest

>>3531484
The fact that you used a semicolon to split the books you've read instead of a comma reveals your pseudointellectualism. I don't blame you though, I love semicolons myself.

>>3533785

>pseudointellectualism

Missed a hyphen.

>>3533785

>reveals your pseudointellectualism

le epic Infinite Jest face

>>3531667
No love for my post?

>>3532397
You are a disquieted history professor and you have the urge to flush one of your colleagues down a toilet.

>>3533785
And yet you don't know how to use them.

>>3531572

I also didnt get any love for my post.

>>3533799
I would comment, but I haven't read any Tolstoy. I suppose you like Russian novelists?

>>3531667
>dat filename.
Oh yeah, I love your post anon.

>>3533804

Yes. I'm a big fan of the Russians, but especially Tolstoy. Works are simple to read, but that demosntram a great knowledge of human beings, the language is very simple, but the scenes and people are all presented with amazing details.

Please read Tolstoy, you will not regret it: start by tales! I'm sure you'll love it.

>>3533789
Oh shite, sorry. I think I missed it since pseudo-intellectualism is written without any hyphen in my mother tongue (pseudointelectualismo). Pardon me, sir.

>>3533792
IJ rocks. Deal with it, sport.

>>3533795
In what sense do I ignore how to use them? Was my sentence badly punctuated? I'm intrigued.

>>3533822
You separated two independent clauses with a comma. You can't do that.

>>3533827
>muh prescriptivism

basically i'm not the type of person who dwells on what my favorite 5 books are

>>3533883
>muh inability to adhere to basic grammar

Tenuously trying to justify our shitty writing, are we?

>>3533895
Why'd you post in this thread, then.

Grand Strategies ( Charles Hall )
Ulysses
A Song of Ice and Fire ( No, I'm not trolling. )
The House of Scorpions
My Side of the Mountain

I have coffee and sublime truffles; I'm ready for your opinions.

Of Mice and Men
Beautiful Joe
Alice in Wonderland
Clockwork Orange
The Things They Carried

No particular order.

sure why not
1. one flew over the cuckoos nest
2. the illiad
3.metamorphasis
4. illustrated man
5. brave new world

The Hobbit
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Book of the New Sun
The Colour Out of Space
The Rubaiyat

>>3533799
>>3533794
>don't judge any post prior to theirs
>expect to be judged

Wow, it seems 100 years of Solitude is really popular with /lit/ users.

Stormbringer
The Lord of the Rings
The Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
Cosmos

>>3534154
you're ugly

Ulysses
As I Lay Dying
Under the Volcano
Gravity's Rainbow
Underworld

>>3534072
>>3534072
u are borderline retarded

>>3531789
>Actually I'm going to school for engineering.
and yet you cant count.

>>3534182
>why can't everyone obey the rules like me :(?!!

My all time favorite book is a wizard of earthsea. I cant be bothered to rank my other favorites so instead here are the four most recent books i have read.

Anna Karenina
Heart of darkness
The trial
Dubliners

And yes i was following /lit/s recommendations.

>>3531484
"Kafka on the shore" -Haruki Murakami
"The Ea cycle" -David Zindell
"With the old breed at Penelelu and Okinawa" -Eugene Sledge
"Fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72" -Hunter S. Thompson
"Requiem for homo sapiens" -David Zindell

>>3534225
Having a Murakami book among your 5 favorite books is like chocking on a fair amount of black cocks

>>3534236
I wish it was that good.

>>3534236
how do you chock on black cocks?

>>3534236
Notice how the question is asking for peoples favorite books, not the best books. Whether or not its a classic its still a good book.

>>3534225
>Requiem for homo sapiens
>homo

lol

>>3534170
How'd you get to that conclusion?

>>3534236
You dweeb, want some Keruac and Irving? Ok fine, once you go black...

>>3534243
Jesus...

This thread=Trophy bookcases full of halfread classics

Count of Monte-Cristo
The Humument
War and Peace
sir gaiwan and the green knight
L'Étranger

>>3534303
Actually swap Sir Gaiwan for one flew over the cuckoos nest and that'll do me

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe, Berenice - Racine, Meno - Plato, Pensees - Pascal, Atala - Chateaubriand.

>visit a backwater bored to hopefully garner some lulz

>they arbitrarily demean superb works of modern literature if they happen to be popular

>they can't even come up with their own memes and piggyback on ones that I invented

I see there are 15 year olds here, huh?

The picture of Dorian Gray.
Crime and punishment.
Juliet. by the Marquis, should anyone doubt.
The metamorphosis.
All quiet on the western front.
And other pretentious works of crap.

>>3534374
>begging for meme credits on 4chan
oh wow

>journey to the end of night
>teh brothers Karamazov
>teh elementary particle

just three.

The Protagoras by Plato
The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
The Rhetoric by Aristotle
Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade
The Laws by Plato

judge me

>The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller
>L'cume des jours - Boris Vian
>The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
>Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars
>Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
>

>>3534424

You want to do a lot in life, but feel restricted

Of Human Bondage
Confederacy of Dunces
Lucky Jim
A Picture of Dorian Gray
Ubik

The Catcher in the Rye is shit m8.

The Fountainhead
The Count of Monte Cristo
Emotional Intelligence
Enders Game
Dune

>>3532929
n-nobody?

>>3534491
your a faggot

>Dharma Bums
>Invisible Monsters
>On The Road
>The Naked and the Dead
>Glamorama

>>3534493
You better be a girl

>>3534492
urite tho

The Interrogation
Autumn in Peking
Infinite Jest
A scanner darkly
American psycho

No shame.

>>3534374

>>>/mu/

Fahrenheit 451
Do Androids dream of electric sleep
Slaughterhouse #5
1984
The Catcher in the Rye

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
1984
The Divine Comedy
Hamlet
The Shining

>>3534081
This applies to most people in this thread. Rate to be rated.

The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Discipline & Punish - Michel Foucault
The Kalevala - compiled by Elias Lonnrot
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley

Foucault's Pendulum
Master and Margarita
Q
Chesterton's Autobiography
Confederacy of Dunces

What do you think of my AWESOME fanfic? Tell me via reviews!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074995/1/Fear-of-the-Heart-Resurrected

>>3534716
You seem like an interesting person. Would have a coffee with you.

Ezra Pound - The Cantos
James Joyce - Ulysses
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote
Bending the Bow - Robert Duncan
The Mercy - Philip Levine

>>3534826
listing the author first instead of the book makes me think that you care more about the people themselves rather than their messages. 2/10 would not bang.

1985
Dracula
The Phantom of the Opera
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World

>>3535028
But that's the correct way. He cares more about writing style than plot or "message." 0/10 pleb

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Master and Margarita
Fluke Or, I know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Sunset and Sawdust
The Bluest Eye

>>3535280
oh my god. just... holy shit.

Moby-Dick, The Cement Garden, Notes from Underground, The Plague, The Catcher in the Rye.

>>3535249
Are you afraid of the evil that lurks inside the human heart?

Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Any of the works by Julio Cortázar, maybe Historias de Cronopios y Famas on top.
Demian - Hermann Hesse
La Revolución Perdida (The lost revolution) - Ernesto Cardenal
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

And a short story that I'm going to add anyways:
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

Choke, Candide, Do Androids Dream od Electric Sheep?, Ficciones, Gulliver's Travels

>>3535345

Spic weeaboo with horrendous hygiene.

>>3534826
You are an sensitive man, disheartened by a world you can't seem to grasp. You have lived your life in a distant manner and you are in a reflective mood most of the time.

>>3535355
Both far off.

>>3535355
Americhump angry that his whore mother gets plowed by spic cocks on a daily basis.

>>3535372
>>>/sp/
Have you spent your entire day making these up?

>>3532528
Dat Duma Key reference.

Dune
1984
American Psycho
The Count of Monte Cristo
Brave New World

>>3531786
Ah, another friend who has read the Bardo.
Did it help you?

Reading about the Hungry Ghosts and their sphere really made me reflect about some of my worse characteristics.

>>3535852

new to literature.

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity - Richard Rorty

Fear and loathing on the campaign trail
Dead souls
Trainspotting
What then must we do?
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

The Foundation Trilogy
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Wheel of Time series as a whole
Faust
Where the sidewalk ends

Alan Moore's Promethea
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark
Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
J. D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey

>>3533768
Someone do me, please

>>3537885
Someone I'd probably enjoy tripping with.

American Psycho - Ellis
Blindness - Saramago
The Corrections - Franzen
East of Eden - Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

>>3537895
Sure; bend over, darling.
You have glasses and a unadventurous haircut.

>>3537538
You haven't fully grown up yet

>>3537449
You're currently in grad school or considering it

>>3535852
You graduated high school recently or are going to this year

>>3535292
You are an extremely pessimistic person

>>3534826
You're an insufferable prick with few friends

>>3534481
You think you're smarter than you actually are

>>3534424
You're a pretentious sack of shit

>>3537900
I like this.

>>3534408
You really don't enjoy life

>>3534424
"Michel Foucault has a head like a fucking orange." - Daniel Day Lewis

>>3537904
That's completely true, omg

Waiting for Godot
Catch 22
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Clockwork Bird Chronicles
Einstein's Dreams

I hear the trumpets of /lit/ish judgement as I type

>>3537980
You want to be in a great adventure, but you're also grounded and enjoy your current reality.

>>3538004
not a bad description, from where I'm standing.

Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Mark Twain's Letter's from the Earth.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

Cliche? maybe. still don't give a shit, these are great books.

>>3538061
You have a tendency to read things that you have heard others refer to as good, rather than making your own decisions. That said, the aforementioned system has worked for you so far, so why fix it?

>>3538072
Have I looked up things like banned book lists, reading reccomendations by people I respect as book readers? sure, who hasn't. How do you make a decision on what to read without input? Unless you're running around a library with a blindfold, every person who reads regularly does what you just described all the time. just sayin.

Dragons of a Fallen Sun: Weis and Hickman.

Talon Of the Silver Hawk: Raymond E. Feist

Silverwing: Kenneth Opal. ( childs book still love it though.) read it when I was young.

The Golden Compass : philip Pullman

The rest is anything from Isaac Azimov

Sometimes a Great Notion
A Confederacy of Dunces
Labyrinths (Borges)
The Trial
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

>>3538168
You take an escapist approach to your problems. geddit?

for whom the bell tolls.
1984
The count of montecristo.
No country for old men.
papillon

>>3537428
I'm graduating high school in three months haha you got me

>>3537913

Hm. Maybe. My brother committed suicide a year ago, my dad had a heart attack half a year ago, my first major (nursing) didn't work out, I lost my religion a few years ago, I've started realizing the flaws in my positivist view fairly recently and I'm nearly convinced that I cannot truly love any woman I'm sexually attracted to.

tl;dr--yeah, you got me.

>>3535852
You do well in your science classes.

>>3535351
You smoke weed.

>>3534636
You're a very nice and understanding person.

>>3534375
You are vain, but you're at least AWARE that you're vain which makes it a littler better until you become aware of that awareness and became vain about that level of introspection, etc.

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace

so much post-modernism. damn.

>>3538535
>so much hipster bullshit. damn.

>>3538535
You enjoy Mind Fucks, and always want to feel on the edge of reality.

Blood Meridian by McCarthy
The Stranger by Camus
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Moby Dick by Melville
The Book of the New Sun by Wolfe

>>3538535
You're unconventional. You eating habits are either extremely healthy or extremely unhealthy. But you detest exercise.

For me:
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

>>3538588

Y-y-y-yeah? Well wh-what b-b-b-b-books do you like, f-f-faggot!?

>>3538609

This.>>3531510

>>3538627
Not the guy that posted the list, but you seem like a total prick.

Petty Demon (read this, if you like Old Russian literature!), Devices and Desires, The blade itself (love me some pulpy fantasy lit), The Fountainhead (I know, I know) and Fight Club

>>3531597
>reading a Faust novel
>not von Goethe
You don't belong here

1. Copleston - History of philosophy (11 vols.)
2. Homer - The Odyssey
3. Plato - Complete works
4. Homer - The Iliad
5. Rushdie - Midnight's children

>>3538694
Rushdiiiieeee

>>3538639
And I'm sure you're a mama's li' darlin' that happens to have shitty taste in books. Why so butthurt, bro?

>>3531484

White Noise by Donny D
The Sound and the Fury by Bill Falcon
The Things They Caried by Thomas O'binkers
Grapes of Wrath by Julius Steinway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernst Von Hemlock

>>3532699
No response?

>>3538606
You're a white kid who lives in Portland Oregon, you have a beard and like to draw comics. You are currently half heartedly attempting to become a local hipster rapper with your black friend on keyboard.

>>3538763
I know a guy like that

My post recieved no love, so I'll post again.

A Clockwork Orange, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, Walden

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (LOVE)
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (yes)

>>3538694
You love greek philosophy, baby.

>>3540467
Rate to be Rated.

>>3540592
You like Tim Burton movies, and read fantasy as a way of escapism. Though you enjoy literature, you can't stop enjoy the not-very-respected YA genre.