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so what book are you currently reading? Pic related.

>> No.944991

7 pillars of wisdom, Melmoth the Wanderer, & the summer issue of Artforum. there.

>> No.945060

I just finished the last thing I was reading last night. I haven't decided what to go with next.

I'm thinking either As I Lay Dying or Moby Dick.

>> No.945071

Under the Dome - Stephen King

I'm all washed out from all the /lit/ I've been reading.

>> No.945081

martian chronicles - pkd

>> No.946024

The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard

>> No.946029
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

>> No.946033

nothing

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>> No.946062
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I'm getting close to the end. It's fucking great, probably up there with the best books I've ever read. It's just so fucking long, I want to finish it already.

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>> No.946111

>>946062
I guess it's different when you read it at your leisure, but I had to read it for a class last semester and I hated every second of it

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>>944904

>> No.946120

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

>> No.946145

I'm currently finishing Death in Venice by Thomas Mann; but I'm also going back and forth between The Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine.

>> No.946148

>>946116
me too! :D

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>> No.946151

Gateway - Fredrick Pohl

>> No.946153

>>946111
Yeah, I've had it for a good month and a half now maybe. Some days I'll really plow through it, and others not even touch it. It's long and pretty dense, and there's more than enough to just sit idly and think about. For a class, it would probably be a terrible read. What the fuck kind of a teacher assigns this anyway?

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Standard epic story.

>> No.946188

Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

>> No.946191

I'm currently juggling back and forth among a summer reading list of

100 Years of Solitude
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
White Teeth
Blood Meridian
Ulysses
Various collections of Borges' fiction
Chimera
Money

some of which are re-reads, whenever I have time.

>> No.946193

>>946029
just finished that one, now reading Catch-22, History of Madness (Foucalt)

>> No.946197

>>946191
Alright, some stuff on your list I've read over the past year, namely Ulysses, Hundred Years of Solitude, Borges collected fiction. Latter two were completely moving, and the first was a bit forced. If they're rereads, what do you think of them?

>> No.946208

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>> No.946211

Titus Groan

>> No.946213

>>946197

Ulysses is terrible. I don't know why it's so praised other than because people who read it want to look smart because they get the references.

I haven't read 100 Years of Solitude.

Borges is one of my favorite authors. Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is one of my favorite stories of all time.

I'm not that guy, though.

>> No.946227

Just started into As I Lay Dying.

>> No.946237

CHURNED THROUGH 250 PAGES OF METRO 2033 TO FINISH IT YESTERDAY, STARTED AND FINISHED THE STRANGER (BY CAMUS) TODAY, AND HAVE STARTED (AND WILL PROBABLY FINISH) THE MASTER AND MAN (TOLSTOY) TODAY.

NOT SURE WHAT TO READ NEXT, MIGHT READ A COUPLE MORE SHORTIES BEFORE I HIT ANOTHER LARGER STAND-ALONE NOVEL.

>> No.946265

>Amerika
>The man who disappeared

I sure hope that's not a spoiler.

>> No.946290

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

>> No.946295

Moby Dick, this book simply refuses to finish.

>> No.946297

Gravity's Rainbow.

>> No.946307

I WAS THINKING - I HAVE NEVER READ ANY OF LOVECRAFT'S STORIES, AND HE WROTE AN ABUNDANCE OF THEM, RIGHT?

COULD SOMEONE RECOMMEND SOME FOR ME? :)

I TRUST AND VALUE YOUR OPINIONS.

>> No.946308

mia tyler's autobiography (steven tyler's daughter). she is realy fuckin interesting, what with all the partying stories she has.

>> No.946309

>>946307

Lovecraft's stories are not very good :(

It's like pornography without the money shot: fun for a little while, but ultimately pointless; any pleasure you derive from them, you will always feel could have been vastly improved by the presence of a true climax.

>> No.946310

>>946307

Who the fuck types in all caps? Just buy one of his collections, all the good ones will be there. The colour out of space is my favorite

>> No.946314

>>946310
I'M CAPSGUY.

I'M READING THINGS FROM MY KINDLE, SO COLLECTIONS ARE A IT IFFY TO READ ON IT. THAT'S WHY I LIKE READING ONE SHORT STORY/NOVELLA FROM ONE AUTHOR, AND THEN CHANGING TO ANOTHER. SPICES THINGS UP FOR ME.

>> No.946332

Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Very insightful. I think it's making me less racist.

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The Republic by Plato.

So far I've enjoyed it, though the overly old and pretentious-sounding translation slightly irritates me.

>> No.946336

>>946310
ALRIGHT, WHICH COLLECTION DO YOU RECOMMEND?