/lit/ - Literature

that guy has too many hats in my opinion

>last
a portrait of the artist as a young man, joyce
winesburg, ohio, sherwood anderson
>current
the voyage out, woolf
the map and the territory, houellebecq
>next
kangaroo, dh lawrence
the autobiography of alice b. toklas, gertrude stein

>LAST
King Lear - William Shakespeare (reread)
Omensetter's Luck - William H. Gass
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl Marx
>NOW
The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Book of Chuang Tzu - Chuang Tzu
>NEXT
Age of Extremes - Eric Hobsbawm
The Plains - Gerald Murnane
Auto Da Fé - Elias Canetti

>>6151529
Last read: El Aleph, Borges.
Currently reading: steppenwolf
Next read: The dice man

>>6151529
>LAST READ
The Pearl

CURRENTLY READING
Cannery Row

>NEXT READ
Probably Foundation's Edge

Currently reading Seiobo There Below.
Last is the one just before.

Next will be The Bible, as I only read Genesis/Exodus.

>last
We, Zamyatin
Too loud a solitude, Hrabal
Steppenwolf, Hesse
>current
The Ego and its own, Stirner
>next
more Hesse, I guess

>last
the metatemporal detective
faust volume 2 (anthology of weeb fiction)
human chain
>current
blood meridian
collected poems of sylvia plath
treasure island
>next
moby dick
for whom the bell tolls
??? maybe the name of the rose

>last
Steppenwolf

>current
Playing With Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions

>next
Haven't decided yet

>last
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
>currently
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
>next
A Feast for Crows

>last
Loki - Georges Dumézil
La mythologie du monde celte - Claude Sterckx
>current
Dynamite, The history of class violence in America - Louis Adamic
Language and Mind - Noam Chomsky
>next
The History of the Devil - Vilém Flusser
L'économie participaliste, une alternative contemporaine au capitalisme - Pascal Lebrun

>>6151618
>The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
lol idiot.

>last
Dubliners
>current
Catch-22
>next
Don't know, maybe Joyce.

>>6151529
2666
zodiac
probably don quixote

Last read: a Room of Ones Own, and the Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Currently reading: Consumed by David Cronenberg, a couple short story collections.

Reading Next: Gene Wolfe, I'm finally giving into the memes and reading him.

The Map and the Territory - Houellebecq
À rebours - Joris-Karl Huysmans
idk maybe The tartar steppe

The green house

Ficciones

Amerika

>l
wilhelm reich, "the function of the orgasm"
freud, "the sex-aetiology of hysteria"
freud, "the uncanny"

>c
lacan, "seminar x: anxiety"
marx, "economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844"
mandel, "the marxist theory of alienation"
heidegger, "being and time" (might shelve, as my understanding of bourdieu, etc., makes reading heidegger [in english] a bit redundant)
dfw, "infinite jest"

>n
pick up deleuze and guattari, "anti-oedipus" again

>LAST READ
Neuromancer
The God Delusion

>CURRENTLY READING
The Cambridge Companion to Joyce
Fear and Trembling

>NEXT READ
Childhood's End
Kant: A Biography

>>6151657
probably also if i ever finish infinite jest i will start eta hoffman's, "sandman"

>>6151657
>>6151674
No one gives a fuck.

Kill yourself.

>>6151679
>ressentiment

>>6151700
>

>>6151529
>LAST READ
Never Let Me Go
>CURRENTLY READING
Mythology by Edith somthing, Reflections on the Revolution in France, the Book of Genesis, and Demian
>NEXT READ
classical literature/philosophy, and some shit on the French Revolution

Last
Neuromancer

Now
The Magus

Next
Probably El Aleph

>last
everything ravaged, everything burned
>current
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
>next
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>6151551
fuuuk dude winesburg fucked my shit
that book is so good

>>6151705
>fucking faggot
and he thinks he's *not* the pleb

>LAST READ
Factotum by Bukowski and Venus in Furs
>CURRENTLY READING
The Collected Stories of Raymond Carver
>NEXT READ
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami

>LAST
The Trial

>CURRENT
Infinite Jest

>NEXT
idk Satanic Verses or Wind-Up Bird probably

>last read
i don't really remember
i didn't read many books recently
it's mostly philosophy for class
and we read sections in these big course packs, so it's not whole books most of the time

>currently
lolita
dialogues concerning religion
>next
probs gon finish ulysses finally
maybe something else idk

>>6151529

>last
Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau (probably misremembering his last name)

>currently
Portrait of the artist as a young man

>next

Probably a few short stories by Chekov/Gogol and either memoirs of Hadrian or Titus Groan

>>6151529
>LAST READ
Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
>CURRENT READING
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
>NEXT READ
Either The Driver's Seat, Mendlebaum's Gate or The Only Problem by Muriel Spark.

Last
Adam Bede, Sebastopol Sketches, some of Milton's early poems
Currently
The Parliament of Birds, The Vicar of Wakefield
Next
Shilappadikaram, Melmoth the Wanderer

Im reading Fight Club

Planning to read Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

>LAST READ
The Castle by Franz Kafka

>CURRENTLY READING
Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>NEXT READ
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

>>6151831
fuggin pleb, Kafka saks

>>6151759
Mein nigga!
>>6151820
reddit miss you, friendo.

>LAST READ
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Bestiario by Julio Cortázar
>CURRENTLY READING
Siddharta by Herman Hesse
>NEXT READ
I was thinking Goethe but IDK. Recs would be great

>Last
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman

>Now
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

>Next
I have a few that I want to read
probably House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
or The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

>LAST READ
Brave New World

>CURRENTLY READING
The Pale King

>NEXT READ
Probably The Ego and His Own since it should come in the mail tomorrow.

>>6151887
>Next
or Kafka on the Shore or Slaughterhouse Five

>Last
Milton Paradise Lost

>Now
Lord of the Rings bitches

>Next
Something by vonnegut or hermingway

>>6151849
Go for Faust dude.

>LAST READ
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, which is the first book i've read outside of school.

>CURRENTLY READING
Storm of Steel and The Orthodox Way.

>NEXT READ
The Brothers Karamazov

>>6151893
do yourself a favor and skip both of them. Slaughterhouse five is just a gimmicky ploy to sell tattoos and Murakami can't rite

Last
Lincoln: A Novel - Gore Vidal

Now
Money Mischief - Milton Friedman

Next
Satiristas - Paul Provenza

Have to inject some levity after all of that.

>>6151920
I like that picture? mind if I safe if?

>>6151926
Do yourself a favor and start watching Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Its Terry Gilliams cartoon work

>Last
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
>Current
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
>Next
Joseph Conrad - Heart Of Darkness

>LAST READ: When the emperor was divine


>CURRENTLY READING: a Game of thrones

>NEXT READ: Either a Clash of kings or the sun also rises

>>6151931
I have. it starts with "ITS"

>>6151529
Hey OP, we missed you around here. It's been a while since you last showed up, what kept you busy?

>>6151917
Ive read about three Vonnegut books if memory serves me, and I cant help but think that all of them seem oddly gimmicky. I'd say theyre the Wes Anderson movie of the written world.

Dunno though. Maybe I'm missing something.

>LAST
DFW - Infinite Jest (started over winter break, finished a few weeks ago)
Borges - The Garden of Branching Paths (reread)
David Eagleman - Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives (lovely book. reminds me of Borges, his playful attitude towards other philosophies without necessary subscribing to them)
>CURRENT
DFW - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (read the title essay like half-a-year ago, now I'm doing the rest, and will likely re-read the title essay)
>NEXT
George Saunders - Civilwarland in Bad Decline (never read him before, highly recommended by a friend along with Eagleman)
Kafka - The Complete Stories / The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories (basically alternating between the Neugroschel translations [which I've read in the past] and the Muir translations)

Over spring break I'll probably read a novel, maybe GGM's The Autumn of the Patriarch, or Kafka's Amerika.

That should keep me busy until the semester's over. This summer I'm hoping to re-start and finally finish The Brothers Karamazov. Got about 400 pages in last time, but school started and I got too caught up in other readings.

>>6151743
I have to read Mythology soon for a class, how is it? I also had a friend recommend it to me years ago but I never got around to it

>Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
>East of Eden - Steinbeck
>White Teeth - Zadie Smith

>>6151849
Siddhartha was a fun read. I remember the exact setting I read in. Very zen-like. I have to read more Hesse...

>>6151529
>last read
The Sun also Rises
>currently reading
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
>next read
Siddhartha

>LAST READ
torture garden by mirbeau -- surprisingly, very, very good. it's kind heart of darkness, but more ornate and for china instead of africa

>CURRENTLY
1 chapter into canticle for leibowitz

>NEXT
idk..... too many books. maybe mao II?

>>6151529
>currently reading
4chan

>>6151638
How's Cronenberg's book?

>>6151964
master level troll

>Last read
If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
>Currently reading
Frankenstein
Walden
The Moons of Jupiter
>Next read
Eugene Onegin
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

>>6151529
>Last
Death and the Dervish
>Current
South of the Border, West of the Sun
>Next
Don't know

>Last
Iphigenia - Racine
Iphigenia - Euripides
>Current
Mithridate - Racine
Phaedo - Plato
Life of Neron - Suetonius
>Next, hard to say
The Republic - Plato
Bajazet - Racine
Holy Sonnets - Donne
And maybe some Keats, but don't know where to start. Endymion? Hyperion? Ode to a Nightingale?

Last: Everville, Clive Barker
Today spent an hour reading The Fifty Year Sword, Danieljewski

Current: The Odyssey

Next: Finish Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses.

I'm horrible at planning though and my next book could be anything really.

>last
pimp by iceberg slim
>current
reading BOTNS and Sword and Citadel straight through. halfway through the latter.
>next
probably a mccarthy novel. blood meridian has been on my list for a long time.

i started browsing /lit/ about a year ago and the recommendations have been fucking excellent.

>>6151529
>Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal - Carl Jung
>The Ego and His Own - Maximum Forehead
>probably No Longer Human - Dazai Osamu

I read a bunch of Jung right in a row. It was interesting, and I think I got some good ideas out of it, but by the end I kinda jumped ship on a lot of his kooky ideas. Still like the guy, just don't think I'll be exploring much more of his work at this point.

Stirner is actually a really fun read, I understand how he reached meme status. Whether his philosophy is really sound or not, I'll reserve judgment until I finish and digest it.

I'm getting a little worn out reading philosophy and psychanalysis and theory, so I think I'm gonna switch it up with a novel or two.

>>6151955
Sometimes a Great Notion is one of my very favorite novels. Did you like it? I think I really started to become an adult after reading it. Kesey is really underrated (despite being highly rated by the boomers, which would probably make him sick)

>>6152004
is pimp good? been meaning to check it out, but it always seems like a book that I don't necessarily NEED to read, if you know what I mean

>>6151764
love that fuckin' book. too bad sherwood anderson peaked

>>6152029
it was great. remember that when it was written in the early 60's that pimp's were considered the lowest of the low. today they have a glamorous appeal that sickens me. so much slang there's a glossary. i actually knew most of it because i'm from chicago where the majority of it takes place. i don't know how it would read if you didn't know some of the slang.

>>6152024
Do you have a link for that Jung book?

>>6152091
I have the hardcopy, sorry. it's all material from his other works, compiled together, and a good amount of it was taken from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections', and a lot of the same material is covered in 'The Undiscovered Self' and 'Man and His Symbols', the three of which are some of his most accessible and famous books

>>6151949
Not very far along, but I find it to be really fascinating so far.

last:Gormenghast
current:Blue movie
next:Something by Joe Lansdale

>>6152059
cool. did you see that hughes brothers movie 'American Pimp'? Pretty fucked up shit

also, a good (fictionalized) book about pimping is Mingus' "autobiography" 'Beneath the Underdog'. It's really a great novel and very funny

Ima check out Pimp though, you reminded me it was on my 'to-read' list

>LAST READ
Plato - The Republic
>CURRENTLY READING
José Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt of the Masses
>NEXT READ
Julius Evola - Men Among the Ruins

>>6152108
k, thanks

>>6151949
>>6152112
>I have to read Mythology soon for a class, how is it?
I don't really think it's worth reading tbh. It can be skipped and you can just read Iliad/Odyssey and the great Tragedies and Ovid's metamorphoses for the greek stuff and then read the poetic edda for the icelandic stuff. she just summarizes books that are more fun to read on their own IMHO

>>6152091
I've been looking for Jung epubs but haven't had much luck, there are some pdfs on kickass.to though.

>last
La Tumba - Jose Agustin
>current
Frankenstein
>next
i dont know

>>6151529
>Last
Hitch-22
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Ender's Game
>Current
The Ego and It's Own
>Next
The World as Will and Representation, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil etc.

>Currently reading
Pic related. Ties in well with Jungian Gnosticism/psychology

>Next read
The Corpus Hermetica

>LAST READ

Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe by Jose Donoso

>CURRENTLY READING

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe

>NEXT READ

??
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa

>>6152183

anon stop posting dorky /soc/ tier pictures of yourself with that book you come across as an desperate poser.

>>6151529
>>LAST READ
Oh man that was a long time ago, uh...Theory Of Bloom?
>>CURRENTLY READING
Infinite Jest
>>NEXT READ
Fuck if I know I just wanna finish IJ before thinking about the future.

>>6152227
>that picture
top kek

>>6152183

anon stop posting dorky /soc/ tier pictures of yourself with that book you come across as a desperate poser.

last:
animal farm

current:
a farewell to arms

next:
lolita

>>6151529

>Last read
Charles Baudelaire- Les Fleurs du Mal

Current
>Georges Bataille- Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Next
>Nick Land: The thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

The Wild Palms

The Way We Live Now

The Confidence Man

>>6152183
Cool reads, i'll have to check them out.

>>6151932
Pretty nice list, keep on anon

>>6151887
just avoid House of Leaves.

>>pick up book
>>HMM LOOKS INTERESTING
>>readreadread
>>OMG MUCH HORROR
>>finish book
>>I AM SO LE DISTURBED RN WHAT IS HAPPEN
>>Read wiki
>>its meta-fiction
>>hang self

tl:dr is a childish book and a waste of time
>>

>>6152293

you're a fucking moron
stop telling people what to do

>>6152091
don't bother with jung unless your an old white male reactionary

>Last
The Gathering Storm
>Current
Towers of Midnight
>Next
A Memory of Light

What does this board think of the Wheel of Time series?

>>6152305
>>stop telling people what to do

stop telling me to stop telling people what to do anon
stop it

>>6152325
It's really good, but I got tired of it at book 9, because too much extraneous detail, and too much braid-tugging.

>>6152024
Great Notion was excellent. I read it knowing I would move to the PNW soon after starting it, and it served as a good descriptive primer for moving here. The narrative style was interesting and written well enough not to get too vague or repetitive. I like books where traditional masculine values are challenged, but end up holding worth to some extent, and Sometimes addresses this pretty directly.

It's the first Kesey I've read, but plan on getting to the obligatory One Flew Over... at some point.

>>6152347

Books 9-11 are a drag. It really does get better, much much better, and I strongly suggest powering through them. It's definitely worth it.

>>6152393
>It really does get better,

All my friends say the same, but I'm skeptical of Brandon Sanderson.

Besides, there's just so much other shit to read.

>>6152183
>dat goth chick

marry this woman

>Last
The Phenomenology of Spirit, Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

>Current
Gorin no sho, Miyamoto Musashi
At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

>Next
The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut (want to reread this)

>>6152405

I think he's doing a really good job. He's keeping the spirit of Jordan's style of writing, but cutting back on the unnecessary fluff & upping the intensity. He does a much, much better job of handling chapters as well.

But I'm probably biased; Sanderson is one of my favorite fantasy authors, if not #1

But yeah, I feel you. I've been at nothing but WoT since Sept 30th last year, when I started. It's been quite the journey.

>last read
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsy
>currently reading
Borges - Labyrinths
>next read
Robinson - Blue Mars or
DFW - The Pale King

>>6152421
> The Pale King

Nice man, certainly more digestable than IJ I think.

taipei
shoplifting from american apparel

>>6152414
>The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

Goodness. I tried that, once. Got about half-way until I gave up, I just couldn't take it anymore.

>>6151529
>Hell's Angels and 1984
>Fear and Loathing On Campaign Trail '72 and Slash autobiography
>Don't know yet, usually just pick whatever I'm feeling

>>6152417
Sounds good. Might take it up.

>last
the martian
it was a gift so i felt obligate to read it

>currently
light by m john harrison

>next
i haven't decided. maybe some YA

>leviathan

>pic related

>hypatia

>>6151529

The Iliad
Don Quixote
The Odyssey

>>6152413

she is indeed fine as hell not even gonna lie. but man i wish this guy could see how hilariously cringe taking corny photos like that is. he has newreader tourist written all over him.

>>6151949
Mythology is a good introduction to get familiar with the names and an overview of the main mythological stories. I also appreciated her introduction about how the Greeks actually viewed Mythology in their daily life. Prose is dry though and she's not a very good storyteller IMO. If you are completely ignorant of greek mythology in general like I was I'd recommend, otherwise you could probably skip it.

>last
The Loser, Debt: The First 5000 Years, Huckleberry Finn
>currently reading
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Winesburg Ohio, Concrete
>next
Probably more David Graeber.

>have
Benny Morris - Righteous Victims, A History of the Zionist Arab Conflict
>is
Yochai Benkler - The Wealth of Networks
Modiano - A Missing Person
>will
Mo'fuckin Picketty
Ursula K le Guin - The Dispossessed

>>6152460
Going from Leviathan to GR...hmmmm well there are all sorts of crazy things you have to remember for both... and Pynchon randomly writes the most ridiculously important thoughts and ideas in the midst of a web of confusion just like Hobbes does. I swear, I got way too much manipulative thought science from Leviathan.

>>6151657
How the fuck do you read all these mindfucks at the same time

>>6152441
I was really into lord of the rings as a kid so I tried reading it then. Got about halfway through, but I remember it being an incredible story. That's why I want to reread it.

>last
2001: ASO
>current
A Clash of Kings
>next
Childhood's End

>>6151529
>Last
Kleist - "The Duke of Homburg"

>Current
Shakespeare - "Hamlet"

>Future
Spivak - "Calculus"

Though the list isn't linear; I'm basically reading both Past and Future right now intermittently.


Also, can someone explain what the deal is with the hat guy? I vaguely remember the story, I think there's a kitten in there somewhere, why is it giving me an erection?

>>6151657
>heidegger, "being and time"
How difficult is his prose for some someone with an amateur understanding of the rudiments of metaphysics?

>>6152537
i'm actually going into gravity's rainbow entirely on a whim, without any prior pynchon experience, too. so far a total convoluted, but enjoyable, mess.

Lr: Atlas Shrugged
Cr: Infinite Jest
Nr: The Gay Science

>>6152608
He has nothing to do with metaphysics

>>6152570
>Spivak - "Calculus"
Probably the best calculus book ever written, followed by Apostol.
His book Calculus on Manifolds is worth reading as well, ti covers the topic usually taught in a second and third semester of calculus (multivariable calculus and differential forms)

>Last
Junot Diaz - "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
>Current
Neal Stephenson - "Anathem"
>Next
Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

discipline and punish
confession
english literature: it's history and signifigance

>LAST READ
The Odyssey by Homer

>CURRENTLY READING
Anabasis by Xenophon

>NEXT READ
Works and Days / Theogony by Hesiod

>>6152654
>starting with the greeks

>>6152625
Yes it will remain that way for a while.

It's the same way I started Gravity's Rainbow. Supposedly, it is his magnum opus anyway, so enjoy.

Personally, I got a lot from Gravity's Rainbow. The esoteric knowledge, the paranoiac atmosphere, the phases of human existence represented by different states of war, the metaphorical rocket. Everything.

>Last read selections from The Canterbury Tales
actually Hamlet but reading a play takes a day at most
>currently reading Frankenstein
>Next read I'm hoping to finally fucking read Vonnegut; I've been eying Slaughterhouse Five for months but haven't had free time

last: against nature - huysmans
currently: 1985 - burgess
next: hopefully pic related, if i could find a free ebook copy...if not, ill probably read justine by de sade

>>6151983
>>6152179
>>6152666
Frankenmind

>>6151529
>last
no country for old men

>current
anna karenina

>next
crime and punishment

>>6152668

>last: against nature - huysmans

verdict?

>>6152666
How's high school going?

>>6152727
> he hasnt read a rebourse yet
>mysides.jpg

>>6152727
interesting question. i thought it was terrible, no plot and no profundity, but his insight and critique on literature is pretty good.

worth the read? probably not but it's a good waste of time

>>6152608
it's more difficult for someone with an amateur understanding of the german language than anything. i feel like i need to devote time into learning german before i re-approach heidegger in his own language. the english translation-- to me-- is just very involved and seems to repeat itself.
so, no, i wouldn't avoid reading it just because you haven't read many other philosophical works; heidegger himself is very clear about situating his ideas historically and explaining what he's unfolding as he's unfolding it. but whether you want to read the translation when so much of his work relies on the workings of the german language is up to you.

>>6152542
carefully and slowly

>>6152735

lol could you be any more of a posturing pseudo?

embarrassing.jpg

>>6152570
nigga sells caps for 50 cents each which is a fucking steal. some monkeys try to steal his caps (which he carries around on his head because he's a master cap salesman) and he tricks them shits into giving them back

>last
The River Why

>current
Taipei

>Next
prob Steppenwolf

>last
Bloody Meridian
>Current
Literature Theory, History of Sex, Sheakspare sonnets
>Next
Don't know, been thinking about rereading ulysses since i have read anything that could come necessary to understand it completely, maybe Ferdydurke once again.

Oh god, mine hasn't changed since the last thread.

Although I am reading Infinite Jest :^)

>>6152634
Yeah, the school has us using Stewart. It's not a bad book, way easier to understand for sure, but the level of mathematical rigor between the two is night and day.

Spivak does away completely with diagrams of planes taking off and other bullshit; I feel like I'm actually learning something. Most of the exercises are proofs.

The problem is that I'm lazy and unintelligent, I would have no idea what he was talking about if I didn't already know it from Stewart.

>>6151529
>LAST READ
Blood Meridian / The Burrow (Kafka)
>CURRENTLY READING
Ulysses / The Castle
>NEXT READ
Probably Beckett's trilogy, or given my reading speed with Joyce, The Winds of Winter

>>6152727
A must-read I'd say. I really liked the book, even if it doesn't have a plot like most modern fiction you should be able to enjoy it if you like literary fiction.

Fun fact: According to Wilde's diaries it seems that that Á Rebours is the book Henry gave to Dorian. There's nothing explicit in the Portrait, but apparently it's the book WIlde had in mind.

>>6151529
Last read
UBIK
Current
Book of the New Sun
Next
If a Winter's Night A Traveller.

>>6152813
there's little if any literary value to it
>guys hates people
>guy craves people
>fuck it, no i don't
>doctor: yeah, you kinda do

intertwined with his good but needless descriptions of literally everything at his house

but i did lol when he kills the tortoise by bejeweling the fuck out of its shell

>>6151529
>shoplifting from american apparel
>Cien años de Soledad
>¡Boom!

>>6152831
>but i did lol when he kills the tortoise by bejeweling the fuck out of its shell
kek, I remember that, but I laughed more when the guy starts to eat by his anus and he's actually very happy to do so

>Last
Stephen King's "Misery"
>Current
Stephen King's Insomnia
>Next
Stephen King's Salem's Lot

Soon, I'll suck the King's cock

>>6152846
overall, terrible book in my opinion

i read it under recommendation from a friend of mine.
>her: oh, you like de Sade, you'll love huysmans

imagine my disappointment

>LAST READ
god here and now
>CURRENTLY READING
critique of pure reason
early greek thinking
>NEXT READ
concluding unscientific postscript

>>6152633

ontology is metaphysics you dip

>Last
A Game of Thrones - A Dance with Dragons

>Current
A Tale of Two Cities

>Next
Undecided

Last book I finished was Principle of Population by Malthus

Right now, I'm going through a re-analysis of The Wealth of Nations and I'm reading The Histories and Leviathan.

I should finish up the WoN and Leviathan coeval in time for Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy. Whenever I finish Histories, I'll start The Republic.

>>6151967
Not particularly good.

>last
Siddhartha

>current
The Stranger

Next
>Brothers Kekramazov

Slowly making my way through babbys first literary works

Last
>Kafka on the Shore
Current
>The Name of the Rose
Next
>Master and Margarita

>>6152953

Everyone starts somewhere, savour each moment with your fresh eyes and most of all, enjoy!

Apology
Phaedo
Republic

>>6152953
pffff I only read patrician works and have never read any of those. I also have posted on /lit/ for like two years.

There really isn't a 'common core' standard here at /lit/. We aren't /mu/.

>>6151529
>Slaughterhouse 5 (for 20th cent. American war literature class)
>Introduction to Legal Reasoning by E. Levi (personal read)
>Catch-22 (same class)

>Last
Steppenwolf
>Current
Russia and the Russians
Fathers and Sons
>Next
The Idiot
Don Quixote

Last - Siddartha

Current - Dune

Next - Either The Wealth of Nations, or The Wretched of the Earth. Most likely in that order so that I could have a nice intro into babylonian capitalism before watching it all get ripped to shreds.

>last read: The Road
>about to start: The Crossing,bought it 15 minutes ago
>next read: probably Cities of the Plain. maybe.

>>6151529

>moby dick

>got halfway through this book called afghanistan but stopped cuz it was boring as hell
>started reading my struggle instead

>next up; inherent vice

fight me irl

>>6152654
>Xenophon's Anabasis
under_rated_gold.jpg

>>6153257
>underrated
>literally part of the classical canon

>Candide, CoL49
>Mansfield Park
>Madame Bovary

Last Read: Difficult Loves, Calvino
Currently: The Strange Library, Murakami
Next Read: No idea. New York Trilogy?

>>6151529
Last : A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
Current: Moby dick, Plato's The republic
Next: Either "The origin of species -Charles Darwin" or "On the revolutions of heavenly spheres - Nicholas Copernicus"

>>6153277
The Anabasis is often overshadowed by Xenophon's Hellenica, in terms of importance due to it being a considered a continuation of Thucydides' work, along with Xenophon himself being overshadowed by others with a Socratic education.

current- the picture of dorian grey
last- the importance of being ernest
next- great expectations

>last
Shadow of the Tourturer
>current
The Republic
>next
Rest of the book of new sun

>>6151609
>reading blood meridian before moby dick
>shiggy

>>6151996
for keats: read his odes

>>6153376
Are you me?

>>6152262
the confidence man is real good, good choice

>>6153646
Why would you break up BOTNS like that? Read them all one after the other.

>>6153022
fuck off idiot

>>6153147
mccarthy is excellent, my favorite author
read suttree after the border trilogy

>last

Starship troopers

>current

42nd parallel
Don Quixote
2007 Best American Essays

>next
The Gay Science

R-rate me

>>6153734

He's quickly becoming one of my favorites too. I read the road in two sittings. Not that it was particularly long or hard, but it was a gripping book none the less. I cried.

>>6153147
Cities of the Plain wasn't that great, but The Crossing was really good.

>LAST READ
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

>CURRENTLY READING
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

>NEXT READ
Undecided, but probably The Trial by Franz Kafka or Against The Country by Ben Metcalf.

>>6151657
coolest poster on /lit/ by far

>>6152726
>>6153779
How is Anna Karenina going for you folks?

>>6151842
>reddit miss you, friendo

And you obviously missed 1st grade.

>the time machine
>the time machine
>the time machine

Fuck yall best short story there is.

>>6153770
McCarthy book list(in order of goodness)
1. Suttree
2. The Crossing
3. Blood Meridian
4.All the Pretty Horses/Cities of the Plain
5.The Road
6. Child of God
Haven't read the others

4 and 5 are very close in goodness, No Country for Old Men looks good and I seriously can't wait for The Passenger to come out

>>6153608

great expectations is a beast

>Last read
Kafka short stories
>Currently reading
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? by Albee; Franny and Zooey by Salinger
>Next read
don't know bruh

>Last read
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
>Currently reading
Preparation for the Next Life - Atticus Lish
>Next read
Notable American Women - Ben Marcus

last:
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

currently:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (just started it, wish me luck fellas. I think I can do it in under a month)

next:
probably another classic I haven't gotten around to yet like Moby-Dick or Paradise Lost. or maybe I will take a break with some chill easy to read stuff like more Gene Wolfe or John le Carre

>>6153808
I would rank them:

1.Blood Meridian
2.The Crossing
3.Suttree
4.All The Pretty Horses
5.Child of God
6.Cities of the Plain
7.Outer Dark
8.The Road
9.The Orchard Keeper
10.No Country for Old Men

>Last read
Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland
>Currently reading
Through the looking glass, The Wanderer (Waltari),
>Next read
Swann's Way, probably.

>>6154088
Then again, The Crossing, ATPH, and Suttree could probably all share the number two spot.

>last
Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell
>current
Go by John Clellon Holmes
>next
maybe Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

>LAST READ
Wuthering Heights
>CURRENTLY READING
King Lear
>NEXT READ
Not sure, maybe some George Saunders

>>6151540
hello, evidence?

>LAST READ
Exiles by Joyce
>CURRENTLY READING
Barokk Róbert by Szentkuthy
>NEXT READ
idk, maybe TCoL49, maybe Journey by the Moonlight, maybe The Pendragon Legend, the latter two are both by Antal Szerb

>>6154189
You can't have too much hats

randomtf2guy.mp4

>>6151540
no such thing

>>6154227
fedoras are the lowest form of hat

>LAST READ
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
9tail Fox - Grimwood

>CURRENTLY READING
Lolita - Nabokov
The Ego and His Own - Stirner

>NEXT READ
After Dark - Murakami
The Man in the High Castle - Dick

>>6151608
>Too loud a solitude
any good?

>>6151529
>last read
The Stranger
>current
The Goldfinch
>next
Stoner

Last :
Nexus - Miller
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Kundera

Current:
Theogony - Hesiod
Social Learning Theory - Bandura

Next:
In Her Absence - Muñoz Molina
Eumeswil - Junger

last, the maze runner trilogy
Now, the stand by stephen king
Dont know about next right now

>LAST READ
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
>CURRENTLY READING
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
>NEXT READ
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

Last
Darkness at Noon
Current
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Next
Confessions of a Mask

>>6151529
>Last
Heart Of Darkness, Conrad
>Currently
Naked Lunch, Burroughs
Blood Meridian, McCarthy
>Next
The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
Inherent Vice, Pynchon

>last
Black Skin, White Masks
>current
Confessions of a Mask
>next
The Sound of Waves, Go Tell It on the Mountain

>>6154315
Sounds a lot like highschool!
Heart of Darkness was great, probably the second best text I read my senior year of HS.

The Potters can be fun, probably worth it from a cultural reason, though I'm not the biggest fan.

I despised As I Lay Dying, but fell in love with critique of it so that was interesting.

Haven't read the Salinger, but Hamlet is the best work written in English, so I hope you enjoy!

>>6151626
Are you liking Catch 22? I enjoyed it quite a lot

>last
1Q84, Murakami
>currently
The Ego and its Own, Stirner
>next
War and Peace, Tolstoy

Last, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Current, The Way by Swann's (Proust)
Next, haven't got a clue what to read next, maybe some more French stuff, translated.

>Last
Software - Rudy Rucker
Star Dragon - Mike Brotherton
Fine Structure/Ra - Sam Hughes
After Life - Simon Funk
>Currently
Freeware - Rudy Rucker
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
>Next
Realware - Rudy Rucker
Armor - John Steakley
Echopraxia - Peter Watts

>Last
The Lesson of the Master, Henry James
>Current
Odysseus, Homer
>Next
Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe

>>6151529
>Last
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
>Current
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
>Next
Either This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald or Madame Bovary

>Past:
Infinite Jest
>Current:
Pale Fire
>Next
Something light & frothy

>>6154670
How is steppenwolf? I've been thinking about picking it up

>>6154670

Do Madame Bovary next, and then read Nabokov's lectures on it (lectures on literature), it's pretty interesting and elucidates some things you may not have noticed while reading.

>>6151529
>last
Bones Of The Lost - Kathy Reichs
>current
John Dies At The End - David Wong
>next
probably The Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick

>Last read
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July

>Currently Reading
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

>Next read
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride

>Last book read.
Labyrinths and Other short stories-Borges

>Currently.
Mason & Dixon-Thomas Pynchon

>Next.
The Pendragon Legend-Antal Szerb
The Book of Disquiet-Pessoa
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Herzhog-Saul Bellows

>>6151529
>last
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

>current
House of Spirits by Isobel Allende

>next
Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>LAST READ
The Picture of Dorian Grey
>CURRENTLY READING
Tao Te Ching
Atlas Shrugged

(One incredible short, one incredibly long)

>NEXT
Albert Camus, The Plague

>last
Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King
Playboy of the Western World

>current
2666

>next
either Anna Karenina or love in the time of cholera

>last
The Pale King
>current
A History of the Arab Peoples
>next
The Honourable Schoolboy

>>6154826
>Bellows

kek

>>6152767
Which do you think is worse, reading the English translation or reading the original with intermediate German skills?

>>6154864
What edition of Tao Te Ching do you have?

I have on that have about 30 pages, I feel it doesn't even count as a book.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Godfather. Sherlock Holmes (Crimes and Punishment)

>>6155015
>Sherlock Holmes (Crimes and Punishment)
The fucking videogame?

There's no Holmes story with that name, at least not written by Doyle.

>>6155018

>Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an investigation game in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares and published by Focus Home Interactive for Microsoft Windows.

Well played, Anon.

>LAST READ
The Street of Crocodiles (for pleasure)
Waterland (for class)
>CURRENTLY READING
Nothing really
>NEXT READ
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (for class. I know. It's fucking dumb)
Infinite Jest (for pleasure)

>>6155216

Underage. Back to school, kiddo.

>>6151529
>Grapes of Wrath
>Slaughterhouse-Five
>Ishmael

>>6155262
Those are for college courses bro. Hence why it's fucking dumb.

>>6151529
>Old man and The Sea
It was good, ending was GOAT, symbolism somewhat heavy handed, but still well done.
>Lolita
Shits making me uncomfortable, kinda funny too though.

>The Sun Also Rises
Reading this because my gril is making me, excited for more Hemingway though.

>>6151529
>last
The Confusions of Young Master Torless by Robert Musil
>current
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
>next
Uhh probably Richard II by Shakespeare

Last: Ulysses
Current: Infinite Jest
Next: Probably either the Odyssey or Don Quixote

>>6151529
>last
excerpts from a few of herodotus' travels, or, since its not really even part of a book, ringworld by larry niven

>current
arslan by M J Engh, not as scifi as i hoped, but enjoyable enough so far

>next
not sure yet, have alot to choose from, suggestions are always welcome
various celtic myths
romance of the three kingdoms (reading this in smallish chunks at a time)
master and margerita
herodotus' histories
they were counted (miklos banffy)
some sci fi stuff
probably more!

>>6154762
I'm nearly halfway through it. It's pretty good. Loneliness seems to be an important theme so far, which is probably why it's so popular on /lit/.

>feels

>One flew over the cuckoo's nest
>Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth- in German
>not sure, it's either Fanny Hill or Carmilla

>>6154079
good luck

>>6154088
What did you like about Child of God?

>Last
She Came To Stay - de Beauvoir (fucking loved this)

>Current
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño

>Next
How to be both - Ali Smith
Near To the Wild Heart - Lispector

>Past
The Big Sleep
>Current
The Odyssey and Lolita
>Next
A sci-fi binge of Do Androids Dream, Clockwork Orange, and the Martian Chronicles

last read- Sharp Objects by gillian flynn

currently reading- night film by marisha pessl

next- i dunno, im on a female writers binge right now. almost done with night film and looking for something similar by another female writer

>last
American Psycho
>current
Against Joie de Vivre
>next
Either Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or The Portable Nietzsche

>im not sure I dont read much
>A farewell to Arms, Hemingway
>Taking suggestions

Hemingway's dialogue between characters is weird and fast

good book though

>>6151529
>Last
Dubliners reread, sixty stories

>current Don Quixote and The conspiracy against the human race. An interesting combination for sure.

>next
either Isaak Babel or Celíne

>>6151529
>Last
Aucun souvenir assez solide, Alain Damasio
>Now
Under the Dome, Stephen King
>Next
The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>6151529
>LAST
Homo faber. Had to read it for school. Really liked it
>CURRENT
Crime & Punishment.
>One hundrd years of solitude

>>6159005
I dun goofed
>next
One hundred years of solitude

>Roland Bogue's Delueze & Guattari intro
>Speak, Memory - Nabokov
>A Thousand Plateaus -D&G and Demons - Dostoyevksy

>last
2010:Odyssey 2
>current
2061: Odyssey 3
>next
3001: The Final Odyssey

>>6151529
last:
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Island by Aldous Huxley
Revolution by Russel Brand

current:
Less than nothing by Zizek
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Capital by Marx

next:
probably Illuminatus! by RAW and Shea again
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
finish Gödel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter finally

Last
>Cock and Bull - Will Self

Current
>The Quantity Theory of Insanity - Will Self

Next
>More WIll Self
>Or
>Unknown Pleasures - Peter Hook

>>6151529
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Just finished Notes from the Underground
>In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again

Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Death of Ivan Ilych

probably something from Bolano

>>6154079
>War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (just started it, wish me luck fellas. I think I can do it in under a month)

it's a surprisingly easy read. because of it's reputation I was expecting it to be a slog, but it's really not. it's long, of course, but if you have the time to read, you'll breeze through it.

>>6151529
Last
>Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (Finished it minutes ago)
About to start:
>The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli

>last
A Storm of Swords
>current
Supergods
Brave New World
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (which is actually more of a comic book)
A Feast for Crows
>next
All that shit in the /lit/ starter kit.

>>6159172
thanks for the picture. by the way, what's the deal with infinite jest? do people like it or is it a joke?

>Last
Book of Job
>Current
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
>Next
Either The Karamazov Brothers or The Divine Comedy. Haven't decided.

>last read
Of Mice and Men
>currently reading
Dubliners
>next read
Either Crime and Punishment or The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Last: The Futurological Congress

Current: Child of God and Neuromancer

Next: Point Omega

>>6156305
Hard to say. I liked his concept of a man isolated from society, the way Lester takes possession of dead women's bodies as his only means of forming an intimate relationship with women. And I thought the imagery of the cave near the end was really tight.