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What's the first book you intend to read come 2019?

>> No.12292909
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>> No.12292913

A Native Son of the Golden West

>> No.12292914

The death of Ivan illych and then the great Gatsby

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>> No.12292941

>>12292916
This pero en español and gonma finish the count of monte cristo in english. Sorry francs i'll read it when i can read french, which will be two years or so down the line by my estimation

>> No.12292986

The Bible.

>> No.12293007

>>12292783
Have to get some Bookchin read as soon as I’m done with Stirners Critics
Followed by Kropotkin, Harvey, Graeber, Freire etc

>> No.12293019

>>12293007
get out of /lit/

>> No.12293145

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

>> No.12293149

Invisible Cities

>> No.12293176

>>12292783
Culture of Critique :D
But serious answer, the new Zizek book. The audiobook of it is on YouTube.

>> No.12293182

>>12292783

60 Stories by Donald Barthelme, when my GF gifts it to me in a couple days :^)

>> No.12293735

Decline of the west

>> No.12293774
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I decided to have a sort of a theme for the year.
Starting with greek/roman gods, then judaism, christianity, islam. Faust, Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy. Things along those lines.

>> No.12293786

East of Eden

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>>12292783
I'm going to reread The Virtue of Selfishness again

>> No.12293946

Genji Monogatari

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>> No.12293974

>>12293774
this, I've already started tho

>> No.12293976

Gonna try finishing Ulysses, but since that's probably not gonna work out, either Kokoro or The Rings of Saturn

>>12292916
>>12293149
Gonna have a great 2019

>> No.12293998

I'm gonna finish the Prince by Machiavelli /a book about history of literature. Sadly it's been months since the last time I've read a non related book to Uni. Some of them were nice, but nothing exceptional. I guess the whole month of January, too, will be like that

>> No.12294015

Den Zauberberg. I'll be reading it on a snowy mountain even.

>> No.12294028

>>12292783
Tao Lin's Taipei

>> No.12294049

Beyond Good and Evil

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>> No.12294205

>>12293976
>Kokoro
This is on my reading list for January.

>> No.12294208

>>12292783
Probably Castle to Castle.

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>>12292783
I have a couple books on the back burner for this week, but now that you mention 2019, yeah, I was thinking of picking up Gravity's Rainbow earlier today, so I'm gonna have it be my first 2019 one.

>> No.12294341

>>12294015
I would love to read this soooo much but the only version available in my language costs €50, and I don't speak German.

Anyway enjoy anon!

>> No.12294403

Still haven't decided maybe 2666, or Tay pan if I'm in adventureous mode

>> No.12294405

hexensabbat

>> No.12294420

imma read kafka’s letter to his papa, anyone read it?

>> No.12294422

>>12292783
I don't know yet.
Might start a 1 book every week challenge but I feel like I'm going to fail right away.

Sadly my kid sister reads more than me lately.
It's children books but still...

>> No.12294424

>>12294420
Kafka is the go-to German for idiots. Just thought you might want to know.

>> No.12294729

>>12294424
We all know that, fagtron. Have you read the book in question?

>> No.12295643

>Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
>A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Draper
>House of Leaves
>Neurosis and Human Growth by K. Horney
>The Holy Bible
>Les Enfants Terribles by Cocteau
>Demons by Dostoevsky
>Dom Casmurro by Machado
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>Robinson Crusoe
>Salammbo

I'm reposting my list here from elsewhere, just to straddle two threads

>> No.12295939

On the Heights of Despair

>> No.12295957

>>12293774
I suggest Hinduism/Buddhism too. A rich body of literature and some great stuff to learn.

>> No.12295964

>>12294424
>tfw to intelligent for one of the most important writers in the canon

>> No.12295972

Probably Story of the Eye if it arrives before New Years.

>> No.12295977

Currently reading The Savage Detectives. So probably that

>> No.12295978

>>12292783
>The Fountainhead
>Sapiens
>Galapogos
>Capital
>Black Water Lilies
among other books I have lying around.

>> No.12295984

>>12292783
Probably "When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost his Brain: Untold Chapters of History"

>> No.12295987

Count of Monte Cristo
I’m slowly making my way through and it is kino af.

>> No.12296020

Either Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius or the Odyssey.

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sounds pretty good, haven't heard of the author before

>> No.12296369

>>12296044
>A year
That sounds incredibly unhealthy

>> No.12296464

Depends on what I finish this year.
Probably Pale Fire by my current pace.

>> No.12296561

>>12295957
That and Shinto were on my original list. I'll definitely add them back in the future - especially if I can find a way to link their histories with the abrahamic religions so it flows smoothly.

>> No.12297817

>>12293831
As a fan of Rand in her less autistic moments, I'm declaring this bait.

>> No.12297828

First 3 books of the year will probably be
>Notes from Underground
>The Bell Jar
>The Fall
But not sure which to read first.

>> No.12297829

>>12297828
Read Notes from Underground, then place the other two in the trash and move onto something else.

>> No.12297836

>>12297829
Can I ask why? Isn't The Fall his best? I've read the other two. And regarding Plath, are you just annoyed that she's a woman or something?

>> No.12297839

>>12297836
There are good female writers, Plath is not one of them.

>> No.12297841

>>12297836
and by the other two I mean The Plague and The Stranger...

>> No.12297868

>>12297839
I find it almost impossible to be influenced by a single subjective opinion, especially when it's written in such a concrete way. Just the other day I made a thread asking what people thought about The Bell Jar and some said it was good. Some people like things others don't.

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>>12292783
Why is the 1 being replaced but not the 2 or the 0?

>> No.12297932

>>12297904
OCD much, anon?

>> No.12297942

I still have half a dozen on my "to read" stack for this year, then the 14 that I got for Festivus/Krampus/Kwanza/Mas.
It will be a crap shoot.

>> No.12297949

>>12295978
>Galapogos
so entertaining

>> No.12298022

Watership Down, read the first 60 pages so far and im hooked

>> No.12298044

>>12298022
You need to completely start over in 2019 or it won't count.

>> No.12299459

>>12297829
The Fall is fantastic, will pair well wth Notes too.
Bell Jar you can discard, though it's a very easy read, so you can get away wth skim reading and will still be able to know what you're talking about in future discussions.

>> No.12299513

>>12299459
Guy who posted those three books in the first place here. See, this is why I find opinions ridiculous and why one is clearing wasting their time when that one guy so objectively stated that I should throw The Fall in the trash. People like different things. Thanks. I WILL keep The Fall. He didn't even give me a reason why it was bad anyway... I'd heard it was Camus best work, so I at least thought it would be considered good here and I wanted to finish his 3 main books. Btw, as for Plath, can a book not be easy and worthwhile at the same time? I wanted to read it because I'm interested in the subject matter. Shame no one here seems to like it.

>> No.12299526

>>12299513
would be wasting their time listening to that one guy*

>> No.12299548

>>12299513
>Btw, as for Plath, can a book not be easy and worthwhile at the same time? I wanted to read it because I'm interested in the subject matter. Shame no one here seems to like it.
Give it a go by all means, but was also interested in the subject matter and disappointed by the book which felt very much like YA. A book can be easy and worthwhile, but I don't think The Bell Jar would be worthwhile unless you're quite young in terms of reading level. I'm not a "females can't write books" sort of person btw - Virginia Woolf and George Eliot, for instance are among my favourites.

>> No.12299576

>>12299548
Fair enough. That's a shame. I've read Woolf, Perkins Gilman and Jackson mainly. I was operating under the assumption that The Bell Jar was not YA when I considered it for my list. I thought it was another at least decent book in the midst of cringe inducing YA writing. Maybe not. Damn.

>> No.12299605

>>12292783
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.12300776

In Search of Lost Time
I wonder how far into 2019 It'll be before I finish it

>> No.12300810

>>12299513
I'd like to add my voice in support of The Fall. I agree with >>12299459 and if you can appreciate the underground man then you'll also like Clamence. The ending is ice-cold.

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Cujo by Stephen King

>> No.12300875

>>12292783
i'm going on a long haul flight on new year's day and i'm taking labyrinths by borges and lost at sea by jon ronson to read on the flight
cheating a bit because i'm already half way through labyrinths

>> No.12300911

I'm probably going to be reading The Odyssey into the new year, but the first book after will be a reread of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

>> No.12300924

>>12300911
Unless /sfg/ votes to read A Scanner Darkly, then I'll reread that.

>> No.12301987

I just started Moby Dick

>> No.12302030

>>12292909
all praises to the most high and his son yahawashi. We waking up, ahch.

>> No.12302067

>>12292783
>Corporate Warriors: The Rise of The Privatized Military Industry (not really /lit/ but first on my list)
>Le mythe de Sisyphe
>Le désenchantement du monde
>Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme
>Villon's collected poems

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>> No.12302137

I'll start Stoner. I've waited way too much to read that.

>> No.12302678

>>12292783
Notes from underground
I could do with some self reflection

>> No.12302898

Middlemarch

>> No.12302904 [DELETED] 

Probably finish pindars does or start Aeschylus.

>> No.12302953

Probably finish pindars odes or start Aeschylus.

>> No.12303659

The Importance of being Earnest. I feel like reading more plays