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SO /LIT/, IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN

LAST THREE BOOKS READ: THE MOON IS DOWN, THE SUN ALSO RISES
CURRENTLY READING: THE DIARY OF A MADMAN, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR AND SELECTED STORIES (IT'S ONE BOOK)
NEXT THREE: AFTER EACH NOVELLA AND PLAY IN THE JUST MENTIONED BOOK, I WILL READ ANOTHER BOOK AND THEN COME BACK TO IT FOR ANOTHER STORY. SO THE NEXT THREE ARE WHAT I JUST MENTIONED, THE RED LAUGH, AND EITHER LOLITA OR ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (ANYONE READ THIS?)

NOW POST YOURS, AND RECOMMEND TO OTHERS IF YOU WISH.

>> No.1202704

LAST THREE READ:
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemigway
The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
Candide by Voltaire

CURRENTLY READING:
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

NEXT THREE:
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

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1202734

LAST THREE:
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

CURRENT:
The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse

NEXT THREE:
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kraken by China Miéville
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

>> No.1202750

LAST THREE:
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

CURRENT:
Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

NEXT THREE:
How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Douglas Adams
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

>> No.1202756

LAST THREE READ:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane

CURRENTLY READING:
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Faithless by Joyce Carol Oates

NEXT THREE:
The Village by Ivan Bunin
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

>> No.1202766

LAST THREE READ:
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall

CURRENTLY READING:
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (past halfway, but i've come to a halt)
The Gunslinger I by Stephen King

NEXT THREE:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Metapmorphoses by Franz Kafka
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

>> No.1202771

LAST THREE READ:

Mason & Dixon by Pynchon
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
Moby-Dick by Melville

CURRENTLY READING:

The Value of Nothing: How to reshape market society and redefine democracy by Raj Patel

NEXT THREE:

Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
Something by Marx

>> No.1202782

>>1202771
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA IS MY FAVOURITE OF ORWELL'S WORKS.

HOPE YOU'LL ENJOY IT.

I JUST STARTED 'THE RED LAUGH', LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE THE MOST DEPRESSING WAR STORY I'VE YET TO READ.

>> No.1202871

LAST THREE:
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley

CURRENT:
Women by Charles Bukowski

NEXT THREE:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

>> No.1202883

LAST THREE:
Sir Amadace
Regeneration by Pat Barker (guys what if Pat Barker was a girl???)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy


CURRENT:
Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism by Renate Holub
La Morte D'Artur by Thomas Malory
Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy by Arnold and Luca

NEXT THREE:
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Body Artist by Don Delillo
something on Mannheim idk

>> No.1202931

Last Three Read:
4 A.M. Friends By Christopher Gutierrez
The Stranger By Albert Camus
Animal Farm By George Orwell

Currently Reading:
The Fuck Up By Arthur Nersesian
The Rum Diary By Hunter S. Thompson

Next Three: No idea, although I would like to read Pale Fire By Vladimir Nabokov. Any other recommendations?

>> No.1202956

Last read:
Catch-22
Complete Prose of Woody Allen
Breakfast of Champions

Currently reading:
A Passage to India

Next three:
That Lenin biography by Robert Service
That Trotsky biography by Robert Service
That Stalin biography by Robert Service

>> No.1202990

OH GOD, THIS IS DEPRESSING AS FUCK. WHY HAS THIS YET TO BE MENTIONED HERE IN /LIT/?

HARDLY EVER DOES LITERATURE EVOKE EMOTIONS OF ACTUAL SUBSTANCE WITHIN ME. I AM PERHAPS HALFWAY THROUGH, AND IT REALLY IS DISHEARTENING TO SAY THE LEAST.

I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW MY THOUGHTS WHEN I FINISH THIS...

>> No.1203000 [DELETED] 

>>1202990
I don't know if you forgot to post a picture or are making the point that the only truly depressing thing is nothingness itself...

>> No.1203010

Last three books...
Post Office by Bukowski
For Whom The Bells Toll by Hemingway
Los Geniecillos Dominicales by Ribeyro

>> No.1203024

Last three:
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

Current:
The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Next Three:
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Discarded Image: an Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis

>> No.1203027

Last Three Read:
Working - Studs Terkel
The Belly of Paris - Emile Zola
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis

Currently Reading:
Command in War - Martin van Creveld

Next Three to Read:
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The Flounder - Gunther Grass
An Anthology - Paul Valery

>> No.1203045

Last Three:
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Terra Amata - JMG Le Clezio
White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov

Currently:
Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Flood - JMG Le Clezio

Next Three:
Pig - Andrew Cowan
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima

>> No.1203056

Last three books read:
Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski

Currently reading:
Petersburg by Andrei Bely

Planning to read:
V. by Thomas Pynchon
2666 by Roberto Bolano
and maybe some Mario Vargas Llosa

PS. Capsguy, Petersburg is like the more entertaining and more understandable Ulysses. I like it a lot more than Ulysses. It's been great so far.

>> No.1203085

Last 3:

Zen in the Art of Archery
The Alchemist
Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting

Currently:
A Canticle for Leibowitz

Next Up:
The Method of Zen
Death and the Dervish
???

>> No.1203090

LAST THREE READ:
- Happyslapped By a Jellyfish - 2009
-
-

CURRENTLY READING:
-

NEXT THREE:
-

>> No.1203397

LAST THREE READ:
Psycholinguistics - Open University book from the 70s
do androids dream - dick
Last and first men - olaf stapledon

CURRENTLY READING:
The language instinct - ste pinker

NEXT THREE:
Clockwork orange - burgess
Empire - Niall Fergusson
Guns, Germs and Steel - Whoever it is

>> No.1203411

Last three:
Doce cuentos peregrinos - Gabriel García Márquez
Hawk in the Rain - Ted Hughes
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short stories, prose, and diary excerpts - Sylvia Plath

Currently reading: Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Next three:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
This Side of Paradise - F Scott Fitzgerald

>> No.1203431

LAST THREE READ:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

CURRENTLY READING:
Ulysses by James Joyce

NEXT THREE:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski


Flame me all you like, I haven't read anything seriously in years, so I need to catch up on the classics.

>> No.1203465

LAST THREE READ:
Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline


CURRENTLY READING:
White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov


NEXT THREE:
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

>> No.1203505

Last read:
Tell-All by Palahniuk
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Larsson

Currently reading:
Nothing :( I read the Larsson books last week, and I haven't had a chance to pick up the third. I don't really care if you think they're trash as seems to be the mindset on /lit/, I found them to be enjoyable. I wasn't looking for a serious read, and they're not.

Next three:
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Larsson

I don't really know after that. I'll read pretty much anything, so it'll be whatever strikes me fancy at the moment.

>> No.1203516

LAST THREE
-Brothers Karamazov-Awesome
-1984-Awesome
-Ten Days that Shook the World-Dense at points, but other parts really made up for it. Worth the read.
CURRENTLY
-A Confederacy of Dunces-I don't get why /lit/ likes this book so much. There are some funny parts, but Ignatius is such a fucking tool. I hope he dies in a fire by the end of this book (I'm about halfway through).
NEXT THREE
-Siddhartha
-Pale Fire
-Voices from Chernobyl

>> No.1203520

>>1203431
Hey I noticed you have Slaughterhouse five and Catch 22 on your to read list. Both are great books and Catch 22 is definitely one of my favorites. I hope you liked A Clockwork Orange too because that's in my top ten for sure. :)

>> No.1203526

Last three:
Don Quixote,Miguel de Cervantes
Eye of the World,Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt,Robert Jordan

Currently Reading
Infinite Jest,David Foster Wallace

Next Reading
ehhh..don't know.Thinking of delving into Russian golden age literature...

>> No.1203527

LAST THREE READ:
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
all by Joe Abercrombie

CURRENTLY READING(starting after I eat lunch):
Latro in the Mist

NEXT THREE:
I don't plan that far ahead.

>> No.1203529

Last 3: slaughter house 5, fear and trembling, stiff

Current: Anna Karenina (in russian)

Next 3: school for fools (in russian), nothing else planned.

>> No.1203540

Last read:
Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger
Day - This Simoin World
Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener

Currently reading:
Balzac - The Girl with the Golden eyes
Whitman - Leaves of Grass
McCarthy - Suttree

Next:
Kipling - The Man Who Would Be King and other stories
Melville - Billy Budd
Dickens - Christmas Carol

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>>1203505
You are the winner of worst taste in literature prize, congrats.

Here is your award.

>> No.1203561

>>1203526
>>1203526
>Don Quixote

>> No.1203577

Last three:
A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
Slaughterhouse-Five

Current:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Next:
As I Lay Dying
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Nicholas Nickleby

>> No.1203587

>>1203516
I thought Igantius was /lit/'s literary avatar?

>> No.1203594 [DELETED] 

Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway.

Hemingway said that Twain is where American literature starts, so you should start there. Faulkner writes about the South, like Twain does, so you should read him next.

Hemingway you should read last because his writing is the best, and the most removed from the other two.

>> No.1203598

Last Three:
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
Principia Discordia
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

Currently Reading:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Next Three:
The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

>> No.1203599
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1203599

Last Read:
Handling the Undead - John Advije Lindqvist
Pygmy - Chuck Palaniuk
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas

Currently Reading:
How I escaped my certain fate, The life and Deaths of a Stand-up Comedian: Stewarte Lee
Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens

Next:
Harbour - John Advije Lindqvist
This way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
Coming up for Air - George Orwell

>> No.1203607

lets see here

LAST 3
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Norwegian Wood
Waiting for Godot

CURRENTLY READING
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

NEXT 3
The Tain
The Water Margin
Fahrenheit 451

>> No.1203634 [DELETED] 

NEXT THREE: AFTER EACH NOVELLA AND PLAY IN THE JUST MENTIONED BOOK, I WILL READ ANOTHER BOOK AND THEN COME BACK TO IT FOR ANOTHER STORY. SO THE NEXT THREE ARE WHAT I JUST MENTIONED, THE RED LAUGH, AND EITHER LOLITA OR ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (ANYONE READ THIS?)

Last Read:
>> Reread Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
>> Escape by Carolyn Jessop
>> Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin

Currently Reading:
>>Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti
>>A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
>>The Well of Loneliness by Radclyff

Read Next:
>>Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

>> No.1203655

Last three:
Lucky, Alice Sebold
Wintersmith,Terry Pratchett
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett

Currently reading:
Dune, Frank Herbert

Next three:
Not sure. Maybe more Dune books. Maybe reread some more Pratchett. Maybe Jurassic Park.

>> No.1203662 [DELETED] 

>>1203655

Lucky made me want to die.

>> No.1203675

Last Read:
>> Reread Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
>> Escape by Carolyn Jessop
>> Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin

Currently Reading:
>>Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti
>>A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
>>The Well of Loneliness by Radclyff

Read Next:
>>Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

>> No.1203699

Last three
Live and let die -Ian Fleming
Breakfast of champios-Vonnegut
Ficciones Borges

Currently reading:
The obscene bird of the night-Jose Donoso
Lord of light-Roger Zelazny

Planning to read
Mostly Harmless-Douglas Addams
The memoirs of sherlock holmes- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book- Kipling

>> No.1203738

last 3:
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune

current:
Heretics of Dune

next 3:
Chapterhouse: Dune
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion

>> No.1203774

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)

The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
??????????

>> No.1203794

Last Three Read
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Currently Reading
Lucky Jim by Kingsly Amis

Not finding it as funny as its reputation led me to believe it would be.

Next Three
The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Will most probably change closer to the time.

>> No.1203813

1. The Road
2. Cloud Atlas
3. A Spot of Bother

1. Big Sur

1. Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Liar
3. Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?

>> No.1203818

>>1203794
Nice. I like your taste.

Regarding Lucky Jim, I agree that it's not that funny - Kingsley Amis is never all that funny, except in a very dark, cynical way. I do think it's a good book, though - Amis is really a great writer. I prefer Take A Girl Like You to Lucky Jim.

Also, nice selection of Greene there. Power and the Glory is a really phenomenal book, lot to look forward to.

>> No.1203843

>>1203465
How was Woman in the Dunes? I haven't read any Abe yet but I own the book, plan to read it soon.

>> No.1203852

LAST 3: THE ROAD, CHILD OF GOD, BRAVE NEW WORLD
CURRENTLY: FAHRENHEIT 64245
NEXT 3: BROTHERS KAMAROZ, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, CLOCKWORK ORANGE

SHIT MAN DONT YELL AT ME I GET PANICED

>> No.1203855

Last 3: Slaughterhouse Five, Richard Yates, Oryx and Crake

Current: On the Road (oh god when will it end)

Next 3: Naked Lunch, Lolita, Infinite Jest

>> No.1203857
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1203857

Last Three:
Lolita, Nabokov
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask, Dumas

Currently Reading:
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Next Three:
Everything by Harlan Ellison
Rereading Les Miserables
I don't know, suggest me something.

>> No.1203870

>>1203843
It was OK, a nice quick read, but it didn't blow my mind.

At first it was like reading something written by a Japanese version of Kafka, a nerdy version of Kafka at that. The imagery is nice, at some parts you can almost feel the sand so it can be a little disturbing.
Some people would probably get much more out of it.

Btw, my English copy had some completely useless illustrations every 20 pages. Reading this book on the train with those particular pictures was kind of embarrassing.

>> No.1203930

Last 3 read:
Hood: The King Raven Trilogy - Book 1 - Stephen Lawhead
The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
Feast For Crows - Book Four Of A Song Of Ice - GRRM

Currently reading: Acacia: Book One: The War With the Mein

Want to read:
Magician: Apprentice - Feist
Towers of Midnight - Jordan/Sanderson (3 weeks!)
Heroes Die - Matthew Woodring Stover

>> No.1204008

Nice recommending guys.

>> No.1204628

Last Three:
Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), The Trial(Kafka), American Psycho (Also Ellis
Current: 2666 (Roberto Bolano)
Next: Sexus (Henry Miller)

>> No.1204640

Slaughterhouse Five, Great Gatsby, The Last of the Mohicans
Waiting for the Barbarians/Crime and Punishment
South of the Border, East of the Sun; Dubliners, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>> No.1204641

Last 3: The Apple That Astonished Paris- Billy Collis, Roman de Silence- Helders of Cornwall, Jesus Saves- Darcey Steinke

Currently reading: Let The Right One In- Lindqvist

Next 3: Fight Club
Post Meridian- Mary Ruefle
The Ordinary White Boy- Brock Clarke

>> No.1204646

LAST THREE:
The Invincible
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hyperion

CURRENTLY READING:
The Fall of Hyperion

NEXT THREE:
Absalom, Absalom!
The End of Eternity
IDKLOL!

>> No.1204648

Last Read: Anathem, Sputnik Sweetheart, Zoe's Tale
Currently Reading: The Devils of Loudun
Next Three: Tender is the Night, Master and Margarita, Visions of Gerard