/lit/ - Literature

Last
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa

Currently Reading
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon

Next three
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Foer
Of Human Bondage - Maugham
2666 - Bolaño

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Voltaire - Candide
T.S. Eliot - Selected Poems

James Joyce - Portrait

Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
Hemingway - Men Without Women

>LAST THREE
Invitation To A Beheading
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Lady Windermere's Fan

>CURRENTLY READING
The Book Of Disquiet

>NEXT THREE
I don't know yet.

>last three
Norwegian Wood
To Have and Have Not
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

>currently
Cat's Cradle
C&P

>next three
Inherent Vice
V
Portrait

>>4038918
How much does /lit/ influence your reading choices?

>>4038930
Assuming it's because of the Pynchon and Joyce, but I really just wanna see what the hype is all about. I'd say a healthy amount, though.

>>4038936
It's because if every title listed actually

>>4038864
hi capsguy
it's been a while, hasn't it?
how've you been doing?

LAST
Taipei - Tao Lin
Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
CURRENT
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

NEXT
>implying I think ahead

LAST THREE:
DAVID LEWIS THE PARADOXES OF TIME TRAVEL
THOMAS NAGEL WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A BAT
PYNCHON IN THE PENAL COLONY

CAMUS ESSAYS

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
THE CASTLE
WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION

>>4038947
Norwegian Wood? When did /lit/ start recommending Murakami? Last I remember, he was moderately disliked.

>>4038955
>PYNCHON IN THE PENAL COLONY
>PYNCHON

>>4038966
WOOPS
KAFKA

>>4038963
>When did /lit/ start recommending Murakami?

Since always, you stupid fartknocker. /lit/ isn't one person. Some people like him, some people don't. I personally think he's shit. He's the Japanese Stephen King and the go-to for Japanese fetishists and/or collegiate women who want to appear cultured on Facebook.

>>4038969
Seconded. Also, his sex scenes creep me out.

>PREVIOUSLY READ
Voltaire's "Candide" (alright)
Bukalov's "Heart of a Dog" (shit)
Hesse's "Siddhartha" (good)

>CURRENTLY READ
Burgess's "Clockwork Orange" (good, but I could have done without his nadsat gimmick)

>NEXT
Fante's "Ask the Dust"
Mishima's "The Sailor Who FellFrom Grace with the Sea"
I don't know, any suggestions?

>>4038976
I suggest Naomi by Tanizaki. Beautiful book but I found it really depressing.

>>4038947
>Hemingway
>Murakami
>Vonnegut
>implying these three authors aren't frequently trashed on /lit

>>4038969
>tfw haven't read either Stephen King or Murakami and not planning to do so
this nigga ain't got no fucks to give

>LAST THREE
Hull Three Zero by Greg Bear (eh)
The Illumination by fuck this guy not even worth mentioning (not good)
Light Boxes by Shane Jones ( really enjoyed)

>CURRENTLY READING
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (52% on Kindle)

>NEXT THREE
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Tenth of December by George Saunders
[knowing three books in advance what you're gonna read] naw

>>4038976
Siddartha is great. Read The Sound and the Fury.

valis - pkd (first half 4/5, second half 2/5, too insane)
demian - hesse (5/5)
gnostic gospels - pagels (4/5)

>now:
history of the 30 years war - schiller (solid 5/5)

>next:
cg jung's and richard wagner's autobiographies
doktor faustus - thomas mann

i-i swear I'm not quite as entry level as this makes me look

>last:
The Early History of Rome (Livy)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fahrenheit 451
>current:
Steppenwolf

>next:
Crime and Punishment
Great Short Works of Poe
The Spider's Thread

>>4039035
How long is the Schiller?

>>4039046
How does Livy read?

>>4039050
~130k words

>>4039054
Dry and simple prose - at least in the de Selincourt translation, which I have. He just kind of tells a detailed and meandering story, pretty matter of factly, and reflects on things sometimes.

it's not difficult or anything but I could see someone finding it boring

>last three
Animal Farm
Brave new World
The Great Gatsby

>Currently Reading
Also sprach Zarathustra
Atlas Shrugged
Steppenwolf

>Next three
Siddhartha
Fahrenheit 451
Julius Cäsar: Die gallischen Kriege

Yes I'm new to english literature.

>>4038883
>>LAST THREE
>Mr Palomar
>Under the jaguar sun
>The road to San Giovanni
>>CURRENTLY READING
>War and Peace
>>NEXT THREE
>Anna Karenina
>The Kreutzer Sonata
>Resurrection

Yep, I proceed to authors.

>>4039088
more like to literature

>>4039096
Eh, I read all the german shit but that was a few years ago.

Last three:
Dubliners - JJ
Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Poetical Works - Keats

Currently:
Demons - Dostoyevsky

Next three:
Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Anna Karenia - Tolstoy
Kalevala - Lönnrot

>>4039102
how did you feel about dubliners
talk to me anon

No Country for Old Men
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World

Voyage au bout de la nuit

Ulysses
Finnegan's Wake
The Infinite Jest

>>4039139
>Ulysses
>Finnegan's Wake
>The Infinite Jest
:^)

>>4039139
God speed

>>4038864
Last three
Ethics and the National Economy

Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

The State in the Third Millenium

Now:
Three Hearts and Three Lions

Next:
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics

Blacklisted by History

The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism

>>4039144
>>4039161
When I buy books I just go to lit and take the first titles I see mentionned. Then I start reading from the smallest to the biggest. I don't think I'll need to buy books for about a month or two.

>>4039139
>Finnegan's wake
>nnegan's wak
>an's w
>'s

>Past
Dead Souls [loved it]
Gravity's Rainbow [interesting]
Ratner's star [utter shit]

>Present
V

>Future
Can't decide, please help me?

>>4039178
No

LAST THREE
Snow Country
Bonjour Tristesse
The Picture of Dorian Gray

CURRENTLY READING
Brother Karamasov
Collected poems of Vladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of The Artist

NEXT THREE
War and Peace
Jane Eyre
Mary

>>4039188
Someone else who likes the classics

Nice

>>4039191
lol

>>4039191
>*le fedora tip to you too, sir

>>4039178
Mason & Dixon
The crying of lot 49

Last Three
>A Light in August- William Faulkner
>Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
>The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

Current
>Dubliners - James Joyce

Next three
>2001 A Space Odysee - Arthur C. Clarke
>1984 - Orwell (Still haven't fuckin read it)
>Ulysses - James Joyce
>

>>4039163
I got bored just reading the LIST

>>4039203
What did you think of Light in August?

>>4039199
A good fedora tip goes a long way

>>4039209
Faulkner is my favorite writer, so I have a bit of a bias. But it's among his best, in my opinion. He applies a bunch of different styles in it, it's not just stream of conscious like a lot of his other stuff. And there's a lot more narrative than I'd usually expect from Faulkner

>Last:
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Road (finished a few minutes ago)

>Current:
Blood Meridian

>Next:
Moby Dick
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gravity's Rainbow

>>4039237
Blood Meridian is among the greatest works of fiction produced in the last 40 years. I fuckin loved that book. Highly influenced by Moby Dick, I almost think you should read Moby first

>>4039251
Who cares about ANYTHING written in the past 40 years?

>>4039273
no-fun-allowed.jpg

>>4039273

me

Last:
The Sun also Rises
A Scanner Darkly
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Current:
I'm still waiting on the postman.

Next:
Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep Farewell to Arms
Slaughterhouse Five

>>4039282
Sorry

>>4039251
Thanks, I might just do that.

>>4039273
that's just silly

>>4039342
Why?

>>4039273
You're such a faggot, capsguy. You claim to read all these books but I've never seen you make a substantive post about the actual content of a novel you've read. You're worse than fucking Sunhawk. Just fuck off already, you bogan bulldyke.

>>4039416
sup looney

>>4039416
I love this relationship we've shared over the years, one of the reasons I never leave.

>>4039416
>bogan bulldyke
An original insult. Respect.

>LAST THREE
Demian (by Hermann Hesse)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (by James Joyce)
Medium Raw (by Anthony Bourdain)

>CURRENT
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto (by Chuck Klosterman)

>NEXT THREE
Bedwetter (by Sarah Silverman)
No one belongs here more than you (by Miranda July)
I Sing The Body Electric! (by Ray Bradbury)

>>4038864
>Last Three:
The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 10/10 (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality made me change my major to Journalism/Political Science).
Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa: 8.5/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: 10/10 (My reading of this was undoubtedly colored by my Rousseau afterglow).

>Current:
"Estranged Labor" by Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Just reading them for The Modern and the Postmodern on Coursera)

>Next Three:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

thank you for being a friend

travel down the road and back again

your heart is true,

you're a pal and a confidant

>>4040048
omg that poor little puppy omg

>Last three
Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Shoplifting from American Apparel - Tao Lin
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess

>Currently reading
Richard Yates - Tao Lin

>Next three
Island - Aldous Huxley
Siddhartha - Hesse
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

>>4040054
Omg, are you okay?

LAST THREE:
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS BY C.S LEWIS
THE TRIAL BY FRANZ KAFKA
SPRING SNOW BY YUKIO MISHIMA

CURRENTLY:
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS BY HUNTER S THOMPSON

NEXT THREE:
THE CASTLE BY FRANZ KAFKA
GHOSTWRITTEN BY DAVID MITCHELL
DEMONS BY DOSTOYEVSKY

Last three:
Celine - Death On Credit
Kadare - The Palace of Dreams
Goncharov - Oblomov

Currently:
Grass - Dog Years
Pearlman - Binocular Vision

Next:
Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
Schneider - The Wall Jumper
Zweig - Journey Into The Past

>Last three
Intimacy - Jean-Paul Sartre
Boomerang - Michael Lewis
Andrew Marvell - The Complete Poems

>Currently Reading
Grimblades - Kyme
Problems of Philosophy - Russell
Dubliners - Joyce
The Curse of the Mistwraith - Wurts

>Next three
Toward a Better World - Gorbachev
The Silmarillion - Tolkien
The ships of the Merrior - Wurts

>>4041568
For a download link for journey into the past?

>>4041578
Got a*

>>4041578

Paperback

>>4041581
Scan it

Last three.
>Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
>The Kingdom Of God Is Within You - Tolstoy
>Nature - Emerson

Currently reading.
>V. - Pynchon
>Of Mice & Men - Steinbeck
>Nine Stories - Salinger

Next.
>Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
>Walden - Thoreau
>The Sickness Unto Death - Kierkengaard

Last 3:
Mishima - Confessions of A Mask
Kawabata - Snow Country
Shang Yang - Book of Shang Yang

Currently:
Solzhenitsyn - A Day In The Life

To read:
Im not sure, thinking of reading a Tanizaki, Vassily Grossman or No Longer Human. Thoughts?

>>4041896
No Longer Human is really good, Tanizaki wrote better books but before go with Dazai.

Last three
El informe de Brodie - JBL
Novels in Three Lines - Felix Feneon
The Voice - Seicho Matsumoto

Currently reading
The Notebook - Agota Kristof

Next three
I guess I'll finish Kristof's trilogy and read another Matsumoto book.

>last three
Norwegian Wood
what purpose did i serve in your life
South of the Border, West of the Sun

>currently
Anna Karenina

>next three
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories (Murakami)
1Q84
The Bell Jar

>>4041774
V. is one of my favorites, how're you liking it?

Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas
The Spirit Level – Seamus Heaney
Storm of Steel – Ernst Jünger

Monsignor Quixote – Graham Greene

? The Mabinogion, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, some Chekhov ?

Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
M. John Harrison, Light
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas


Iain M. Banks, Player of Games
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time #4


Who knows what next, Idk

>Last
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
The Dharma Bums, Kerouac

>Current
Dubliners, Joyce

>Next
The Odyssey
Ulysses, Joyce
Dracula, Stoker


if you can't tell I'm trying to educate myself on Joyce

Notes from Underground
Blood Meridian
Fugitive Pieces

Inherent Vice

Vineland
Moby-Dick
White Noise

Last
Portrait of The Artist
Metamorphosis
Julian by Gore Vidal
Currently
Counte of Monte Christo
Next
Ulysses
Faust
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

>>4038864
There is so much 'reading just to say you've read it' here on /lit/.

Paper Towns
Catcher in the Rye
The Road

Roadside Picnic

WHATEVA I WANNA DO GOSH ITS COOL NOW

>Last
Lord of the Rings
The Road
Memoirs of a Geisha

>Current
Chronicles of the Black Company
The Shack
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>Next
The Blood Meridian
As I Lay Dying
The Dark Tower #1

>>4043918
Think you motherfuckers really really need to cool down.