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Alright show me how pleb the people i share this board with are
Post the last three books you read and the book you're currently reading

>> No.12436486

>>12436482
>oblivion, notes from underground, the great Gatsby
>great expectations

>> No.12436487

>>12436482
Too lazy to post pictures like every other faggot in this board.

>last three
Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma
Mishima's School of Flesh
Diary of te Countess Livia, by Camillo Boito

>current
Nana, by Zola

All books about romance and/or sex, amusingly.

>> No.12436494

>>12436482
Last three
>Billy Budd, True Grit, Ficciones
Current
>Crime and Punishment

>> No.12436496

>>12436482
Grendel by John Gardener
Nocturnes by Ishiguro
Dealing with the new Iranian superpower by Robert Baer

Currently reading the oxford collection of Epictetus's works. Not a big fan of stoicism but I'm giving it a chance to change my mind. The only other book on this list I really liked was Grendel

>> No.12436500

Last three
>Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
>The Strange Death Of Europe - Douglas Murray
>Give Us Back The Old Roads - John Waters
Currently
>Dead Souls - Gogol

>> No.12436505

>last 3
The Shockwave Rider - Brunner
Platform - Houellebecq
Convenience Store Woman - Murata

>current
The Little Friend - Tartt

>>12436487
>Mishima's School of Flesh
fag detected

>> No.12436520

>Last
The Captive - Proust
The Gods Themselves - Asimov
Dune Messiah - Herbert

>Current
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Wolfe
The Fugitive - Proust

>> No.12436528

Last 3:
The book of disquiet (man writes daily pages)
Dubliners (big don)
Murphy - Samuel Beckett (don’t recommend)

Currently reading: heart of darkness

>> No.12436535

>>12436505
It's actually about an upper-class liberated modern woman who falls in love with a stereotypical manly man. You would love it if you had a dick.

>> No.12436665

>Last
Willpower - Roy Baumeister, John Tierney
Conquest of the Useless - Werner Herzog
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl

>Current
Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin

>> No.12436681
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12436681

>>12436482
>Last three
Plato's Republic.
Herodotus' Histories.
The Hobbit.
>Current
The Fellowship of the Ring.

>> No.12436685
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12436685

>Last 3
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
2666 by Roberto Bolano

>Current
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson

>> No.12436709

>Lord of the flies, old man and the sea, down and out in Paris and London

>Picture of Dorian gray

>> No.12436716

>>12436500
How's gogol? It's my next read

>> No.12436750

>Last three
Wuthering Heights
The Trial
The Age of Innocence
>Current
The Odyssey and Dubliners (you can see where I'm going with this)

>> No.12436767

>>12436716
Going good. Not as dry as i'd thought

>> No.12436772

Currently reading 12 rules for life by renowned psychologist jordan b Peterson

Last three books
>harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
>catcher in the rye
>lord of the flies

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12436782

>last

Unclay - TF Powys
The Third Hotel - Laura Van Den Berg
Cherry - Nico Walker

>current

The Desert and it’s Seed - Jorge Barón Biza

>> No.12436787

>>12436772
oh fuck off back to your containment board conservatard cunt, youve ruined my board, fucking ruined it, now youve opened the floodgates for your WANKER friends
>OH I LOVE OSWALD SPENGLER LMAO FUCK N******
real mature

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12436792

>>12436772
Doesn't hurt to be sincere now and then you know

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12436794

>>12436716
You should read his short stories first anon, they are great.

>> No.12436798

>>12436792
It's not insincere its ironic.

>> No.12436806

>>12436482
notes from underground, 12 rules for life :) , industrial society and its future
50 philosophy classics

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12436815

>last three
Sun and Steel
Nores from the underground
Histories by Herodotus
>current
The double

>> No.12436827

>>12436482
Las Hienas (Enrique Medina)
Las Muecas del Miedo (Enrique Medina)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)

The Terror (Dan Simmons)

>> No.12436833

don quixote, cynical acumen, letters to a young contrarian, a brief history of time

>> No.12436842

>last read
anatomy of melancholy
plato republic
some poe story don't remember which
>currently reading
gene wolfe botns

>> No.12436846

>Dharma Bums
>A Fools Progress
>some bukowski collection of poems

Currently reading Desert Solitare

>> No.12436851

>>12436846
Edward Abbey is based. Not so much as a writer, more as a character. Thoreau was a very different character but is the same in this sense.

>> No.12436898

>Last three
Storm of Steel
The Crucible
Poor Folk
>Current
The Koran
Fathers and Sons

>> No.12436915

>>12436482
Mere Christianity
Neuromancer
Feersum Endjinn
I'm currently reading Gorgias, if you count Plato's Dialogues as books then I read Apology, Crito, and Phaedo before.

>> No.12436919

>>12436482
>last three
Les destinées sentimentales, jacques chardonne
Les Pléaides, Gobineau
The sound of waves, Mishima
>current
Haven't started one yet, it either will be Goethe's italian journeys or Stendhal's essay on love

>> No.12436922

>previously
the leopard
a room of one's own
hannibal rising
>currently
fathers and sons (reread)
book of disquiet
dear life

>> No.12436934

>last three
A Clockwork Orange
Lucky Jim
No Longer Human (most recent)
>current
rereading The Great Gatsby

>> No.12436950

Last three
Catcher in the rye
Perfume story of a murderer
Stoner

Current
Brave new world
Lolita