/lit/ - Literature

>>4878952
Slaughterhouse Five.

>Dickens - Great Expectations
>E. Bronte - Wuthering Heights
>Melville - Moby Dick
>Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
>Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
>Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Joyce - Ulysses

slaughterhouse five is breathtaking.

>>4879106
>Joyce - Ulysses

this

>>4879106
Great Expectations

>>4878952

Seven Pillars of Wisdom-T.E Lawrence
The White People and Other Weird Stories-Arthur Machen
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Women in White-Wilkie Collins

>>4878952
All of them

>the recognitions - Gaddis
>mason & Dixon - Pynchon
>2666
>Don Quixote - Cervantes

Trying to pick my next long book. Just finished infinite jest.

Slaughterhouse 5 a shit.

Me:
>Moby Dick
>The Road
>Bleeding Edge
>Master and Margarita
>Paradise Lost

>>4879482
Moby Dick

>>4879457
Read the 7 Pillars. It is a fucking awesome adventure story that happens to (mostly) be pretty much a true account. Best opening sentence ever.

>>4879495

I plan on taking all the books I mentioned with me on holiday so I should get them all done within a month.

Dubliners
Crime and Punishment
Golden Bowl
In Search of Lost Time 1: Swan's Way
Anna Karenina

>>4879478
>long book
Don Quixote presents itself as a long novel, but it is a collection of short stories.
it's a very big book.
don't expect anything new after page 50. (I read half of it, 3 or 400 pages)
it's great as a funny short story.

I haven't read your other picks.

>Blood Meridian
>American Gods
>Crime and Punishment
>Germinal
>Name of the Rose
>Siddharta

>Musashi
>Journey to the West
>LOTR never got to finish it

I just need something long but interesting to read between my bouts of short stories and poetry

>>4879546
>Journey to the West


havent read the book but i know the story. read it.

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay

>>4879482
anything but Moby Dick, which is absolute boredom after page 40.
The beginning is nice, in a fisherman's town.
Then it's 600 pages of rant about how Melville, though a schoolteacher, thinks he is actually a real tough guy (he will give you all the details about the whaling fishery, because he wants you to know that he did it, *for real*).

There are literally 300 pages constantly teasing about a new mysterious character, Ahab, who will soon enter. It will the most terrible villain any book has ever seen!

Then when he finally does enter after 300 pages, he's just a silent guy (who says nothing) with an obsession for revenge against a whale (it is said only in the end, after 600 pages of non-suspense).
Ahab is the weakest character I've seen in literature. Maybe inspired by a silent scool headmaster in a school Melville worked as a schoolteacher?

The construction of the novel has awful mistakes, which aren't even corrected (for example, the narrator disappears at some point and never reappears. Unfortunately, it was also the main character).

>>4879525
Interesting, didn't know that. Received it for me birthday.
What I like to do is have a long book and read shorter ones if I get bored with the longer one then go back to the longer one

>>4879513
>In Search of Lost Time 1: Swan's Way
this.
It's devided in 2 parts. I read the second part first, as it's an easier read, and loved it.
Then I read the 1st half, very good too, but a bit more difficult because it's not story-driven.

John Williams - 'Stoner'
Michel Houellebecq - 'The Atomised'
Michel Houellebecq - 'Whatever'
Yukio Mishima - 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'
Fernando Pessoa - 'The Book of Disquiet'
Natsume Soseki - 'I Am a Cat'

>>4879584
>John Williams - 'Stoner'
>Michel Houellebecq - 'The Atomised'
>Yukio Mishima - 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'
>Fernando Pessoa - 'The Book of Disquiet'

I've read these four and they're all great. The Book of Disquiet doesn't need to be read linearly so you can pick at that alongside whichever other one you choose to read.

>>4879584
I'd pick Houellebecq, didn't read the rest.

>Michel Houellebecq - 'Whatever'
what an awful translation for "Extension of the field of struggle" (which refers to the struggle of the classes, and claims the struggle is no longer only in the economic field, but now also in the sex/dating field, with the ever growing individualism and the end of traditions)

Though I liked both books, "Atomised" (Les Particules Elementaires) is clearly superior to Extension. I'd recommend. It's a perfect mix of story-driven and your inevitable philosophy digressions.

>The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
>White Tiger - Aravind Ariga
>Dubliners - James Joyce
>White Noise - Don Delillo
>The War of the End of The World - Mario Vargas Llosa
>Walden - Thoreau
>Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes

>>4879478
>2666

That's a book that needs to be digested properly, so it's a commitment but it's a commitment with a girlfriend that gets uglier and ages but you learn to love her because she's interesting and you learn a lot from her. In the end, you realize she's beautiful and you're happy you stuck with her.

spivak's calculus
mathematical statistics with resampling and R
the bible

>>4879584
Out of all those, The Sailor is the shortest. I haven't read the rest of those but what I can tell you about the sailor is it's a very profitable read, and the symbolism is subtle so you might want to look in on that.

Sophocles - Oedipus King
Flaubert - Bouvard et Pecuchet
Neil Gaiman (not knowing which one)
Narcissus and Goldmund
Macbeth
A streetcar named Desire
Updike, Rabbit Run
Shutter Island

?

>>4879650
start with the greeks

>Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
>Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
>Something by Dostoyevsky (haven't read a thing)

>>4879642
>the bible
this.
if only because so many people try to control you just because they read it, and you haven't.

>>4879482
>The Road

Read the original scroll version, no paragraph breaks and all of Kerouac's abbreviations and shorthand are left in tact.

Also, listening to Bebop Radio on Pandora will make the book even more enjoyable; it connects you even further with the characters.

>>4879650
Sophocles is great. If you want more, try the Oresteia, by Aeschylus.

With Flaubert, you should start with Madame Bovary and A Sentimental Education. If you have already read those, go ahead.

>>4879662
I tried getting deeper into Nabokov after Lolita, I tried Ada, but gave up.
>inb4 you can't do without the inappropriate sexual tension

>>4879541
>Siddhartha

Reading this book is like achieving a higher consciousness without all that pesky meditation.

>>4879662
Dostoevsky. I'd suggest Crime and Punishment.

I'm about to go to bed and I want to start something new, I got:

Adam Smith - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Kierkegaard - Sickness Unto Death
Descartes - Discourse on the dick
Euclid's Elements

-The Thousand Nights and One Night translated by Gustav Weil
-Inherent Vice (Having not read any Pynchon before)
-Homage to Catalonia
-A Storm of Swords
-Kafka's short stories

>>4879642
Spivak.

I'm basing this purely on the strength of the covers for his differential geometry texts.

Alternatively smash out that stats and get that data science job while it's still trendy.

>>4879677
thx, it seems quite short anyway.
I did read Bovary but not A Sentimental Education.

>>4879698
only stories can soothe me into sleep.
Descartes is a good read though, he speaks clearly (not about dick though)

Catch-22
Absolom! Absolom!

>Also thinking about reading more Kerouac after reading On the Road

>>4879709

I have Knausgaard's A Death in the Family too. Better choice for tonight?

>>4879713
dunno, but yes, pick a story if you want to read yourself to sleep.

>>4879541
>Name of the Rose
one of the best things I ever read.
very ambitious and sometimes difficult, despite its reputation.

>>4879672
I think you're referring to On the Road, but thanks for the info anyway

>>4879748
Haha yes I was, I've been getting the two confused lately. Comment deleted.

>>4879712
absalom! absalom! is a challenge but a favorite of mine

catch-22 is entertaining and much easier to read by comparison

City of Saints and Mad Men - Jeff Vandermeer
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
Foam of the Daze - Boris Vian
Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
2666 - Roberto Bolano

Looking to get more into Mark Twain after reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in high school. Any suggestions?

>>4879823
>Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy

Joyce; The Dubliners
Faulkner; The Sound and the Fury
Vonnegut; Slaughterhouse Five
Nabokov; Pale Fire
Beckett; Molloy

>>4880201
james joyce is always good

>tfw everyone "loves" slaughterhouse 5
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>>4878952
The Sun Also Rises
Beyond Good and Evil
Dubliners
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
95 Poems e.e. Cummings
Memoirs of Hadrian

>>4880580
The Sun Also Rises is nice. I had always heard so much about Hemingway so I picked up this book. Maybe I just don't really care for Hemingway, but this book didn't do a whole lot for me.

>>4880580
The Sun Also Rises is nice. I had always heard so much about Hemingway so I picked up this book. Maybe I just don't really care for Hemingway, but this book didn't do a whole lot for me.

>The Sound and the Fury.
Have not read any faulkner before.

>2666

>Hamlet

>The Iliad

>The Crying of Lot 49
Finished V. recently.

>>4879106
Wuthering Heights is a hell of a book, finished it recently.

>>4879513
if its your first time reading Dubliners, then that. The end of The Dead will be some of the most beautiful writing you'll have come across

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
The Black Spider
The Glass Bees
Zeno's Conscience
The Book of Disquiet

>>4878952

SH5 or neuromancer will be the most entertaining

>>4879106

Scarlet Letter or Great Expectations, then the others

>>4879457

7 Pillars

>>4879478

Oof, Don Quixote, then the rest

>>4879513

Dubliners my man, then I'd say c&p and swan's way

>>4879541

Germinal is incredible, but might be nicer after Siddhartha

>>4879584

I am a cat is great, as is Stoner

>>4879624

White noise then dubliners then walden then war oteotw then don quixote. At least that's how I did it

>>4879650

If you read sophocles, which you should, read all the theban plays, king oedipus, then oedipus at colonus, then Antigone. It's not a true trilogy, but they flow nicely

>>4879662

The Idiot, or IJ

>>4879698

Euclid baby

>>4879712

Catch 22

>>4879823

Feast of the Goat or 2666

>>4880201

SH5 then dubliners then s and t f, then pale fire, then molloy

>>4881016
I just finished the sound and the fury today. it's insanely well written, but if you are interested in something more for it's story than I would see read another one, because it isn't centered around plot

Crime and Punishment, Blood Meridian, Lincoln, White Noise.

How do I into Mishima?

>>4881114

First I read was Sailor Who Fell From Grace... It's short relatively and enjoyable.

>>4881073
slaughterhouse 5 it is

I am looking for essential sci fi.
Which one should i read next?

>Neuromancer
>Metro 2033
>The Forever War

Anything important i am missing?

Lost Horizon
A Clockwork Orange

>>4882898
>Lost Horizon

this. anything is better than the overhyped piece of mediocrity that a clockwork orange is

>>4878952

>Slaughterhouse 5

I read Neuromancer and I think it's probably as good as cyberpunk fiction gets, but still overrated.

>Dune
>The Forever War
>Heart of Darkness

>>4882930
i fear it's kinda outdated also. i will be reading it eventually anyway.

You know, I've been wondering. Is there some kind of book equivalent to MyAnimeList? Something which uses what you've read to then go on and recommend further material?

>>4883042
goodreads, whatshouldireadnext, the list could go on..

The Great Gatsby
Richard II
Pride and Prejudice
Brave New World
The Prince

>>4882866
Neuromancer and the obvious, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".

>>4882930
i agree. if Neuromancer was my introduction to cyberpunk I would've loved it I am sure. But, I am spoiled by Shadowrun and the such so it wasn't anything new.

Slaughterhouse 5 was awesome. Read that next.

>>4884917
>Brave New World

I love dystopian novels. The Great Gasby I couldn't read all the way though because I got bored of it unfortunately.

Crime and pushiment
Borges' stories
Dune
Something by Asimov

>>4885042

If that's ficcones, then go with borges, otherwise Dune.

Master and Margarita
Dreamsnake
Man Plus
March
The Early History of the Church

>>4879642

We used spivak in college and then again for manifolds. His calculus isn't nearly as scary but holy fuck, top two math books ever fighting with Rudin.

>>4884917
>Brave New World

one of my favourite books. the german translation of it was great

A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Before the Dawn (Nicholas Wade)
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Shunryu Suzuki)
The Collected Philosophy of Chuang Tzu
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Murukami)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)

Seriously, most of these books were given to me and I would love advice on which to pick up next -- thanks!

>>4886231
I've only read the last one, and can say that it was very entertaining

>>4886231
Ive only read Island.
It's very simple, but he puts forward some very interesting ideas; it really seemed the story was there as a medium for his ideas of what a "perfect" society might look like. It seems your'e interested in Buddhism/mysticism, so I would definitely recommend it.

rereading Infinite Jest
Storm of Steel
continue Neuromancer (just started)
Dune
something by McCormick (Blood Meridian or The Road maybe?

>>4886252
*McCarthy, that is

Legionnaire - Simon Murray
Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
Count Zero - William Gibson
Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence

>>4886235
Awesome, thanks!
>>4881096
>>4885042
Crime and Punishment is the only one of those that I've read, but I liked it a lot. Dostoevsky is great.

>>4884917
The Great Gatsby gets flak around here sometimes, but it's short enough to finish quickly, and I'd say it's totally worth reading. Go for it!

>>4880580
I've been reading Meditations for awhile, and I really like it -- it's not the sort of book to sit down and plow through, though. Give it time and space, and read a few pages every day.

>>4880566
>not enjoying Vonnegut

it's okay to be childish sometimes, friend.

>>4879701
Kafka or GRRM. ASoS is the best in the asoiaf series, so enjoy it!

>>4879662
I totally recommend Notes from Underground, by the Dostoevskinator. V good book. Infinite Jest is my favorite, but it's a huge investment.

>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
>Norwegian Wood - Murakami
>White Noise - Delillo
>Collected Fictions - Borges

>>4878952
>Ramayana
>Tao Te Ching
>No Exit - Sarte
>Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
>Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Steppenwolf - Hesse
Stoner - John Williams
As I lay dying - Faulkner

>>4886261
I haven't read Lady in the Lake but I love Chandler.
>>4886275
White Noise is excellent
>>4886314
Always Faulkner

>>4886261

Quixote you fool. You should've read it by now.

Choose the Grossman trans, it keeps the colloquialism quite nicely and has best notes

>>4886231

Chuang Tzu because you'll probably find yourself going back to him more than most philosophers as you get older, then Suzuki

Honestly apart from maybe Toole everything else there can be dropped

>>4886314
Steppenwolf. The beginning may be a bit boring, the ending however is amazing.

I'm new to actual /lit/erature so please don't mock me for not having read these.

>The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
>Stoner - John Williams
>Literally anything by Mishima
>Ulysses - James Joyce
>Nausea - Sartre

anyways, for reference my favorite author is Camus and my most hated author /lit/ seems to kinda like is Vonnegut

>>4886343
just saying that i didnt like nausea.

>>4886343

Stay away from Ulysses.
You're not ready for it yet.

Try Spring Snow by Mishima.

>>4879106
>>Joyce - Ulysses
Read it. It might be my favourite novel. No way near as obscure as one would make it out to be. Molly's monologue at the end of the novel is the best part of the book. Hell, even Finnegans Wake isn't that bad with Joseph Campbell's 'Skeleton key'

Also here is my list:
>George Eliot - Middlemarch
(Loved Adam Bede. Silas Marner was pretty good too.)
>Pier Paolo Pasolini - Complete/Collected Poems
(Any good English translations? I've read a Swedish translation of The Ashes of Gramsci and it was excellent)
>Charles Dickens - Bleak House
(I've only read The Pickwick Papers. I'm hoping that this will be equally as good.)
>Peter Gay - Freud: A Life for Our Time
(A bit of non-fiction here.)
> James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson
(Is this really the biography to end all biographies?)

>>4886305
>Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

From what i know it is suppossed to be essential cyberpunk literature if you are into the stuff

>Naked Lunch
>Dhalgren
>Shadow of the Torturer
>Brothers Kaz
>Heart of Darkness
>Foundation

>>4882866
Neuromancer and Metro and both pretty good. I'd say start with Neuro then read Metro.

>Notes from the Underground
>Candide
>Gulliver's Travels
>Crime and Punishment
>Catch 22

>>4887488
HoD

>Voltaire - Candide
>Knut Hamsun - Mysteries
>Banana Yoshimoto - Goodbye Tsumugi
>Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
>Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus

>>4887575
pls

>>4887629
Let's read Catch-22 together

>>4887636
ok

>>4887336

Spot on. I read Neuromancer and then Snow Crash, they were excellent together. I've my fill of cyberpunk for a while, however presently I feel Snow Crash a great follow-up for Neuromancer.