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Hello /lit/, I've recently started reading a lot, and I'd like some recommendations based on the books I've read, and those I've not yet read but are on my wishlist. Here's a little list, I'll mark those I've read or still reading as '(R)':
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac - On the Road (R)
Hunter S. Thompson - The Gonzo Papers
Franz Kafka - The Trial (R)
J.J. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Carlos Castenada - A Separate Reality (R)

I hope you can deduce my preferences a bit through that list. Thanks in advance.

>> No.1255366

If you liked Hesse and Kafka you could looking into Sartre and Camus

>> No.1255365

>>1255364
Please excuse me for those typo's in the authors' names.

>> No.1255367

Your "preferences" are pretty much non-existent. That's the most generic high-school reading list I have ever encountered (of which you have only read three books by the way...how do you know you'll like the other ones?).

So my advice is simply to keep going with the generic high school stuff by reading everything in the following pics:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100530215358/4chanlit/images/8/89/1270061661552.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100617113814/4chanlit/images/1/1e/Novellas_1.3.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100910032254/4chanlit/images/d/dd/Novellas2.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100627203054/4chanlit/images/0/04/Shortstories1_2.jpg

>> No.1255371

>>1255367
It's just a list of books I've recently read or added to my wishlist, and as I said before I've only recently started reading alot. Thanks for being such a dick.

>> No.1255379

>>1255366
Thanks, do you think The Stranger would be a good introduction to Camus?

>> No.1255385

>>1255371
>Thanks for being such a dick.

You were being stupid. On the internet. On 4chan. What did you expect? Hugs? I even actually helped you, dick.

>> No.1255390

>>1255379

Yes go with that first then read The Fall or The Plague

>> No.1255391

>>1255385
fuck you faggot

go suck a huge dick you cunt sucking faggot the game

>> No.1255401

Kerouac is quite possibly the worst writer of all time.

Nice taste you got OP. Not.

>> No.1255405

>>1255401
>boy I sure showed him, he's got some balls coming on MY board posting an author that I don't like, but that's alright, I saved the day.

>> No.1255422

op, i like you. i hope you keep your trip and post more.

im being sincere

>> No.1255426

>>1255422

...because what this board needs is YET ANOTHER obnoxious tripfaggot who has literally read three books in his entire life.

>> No.1255429

>>1255426
hey, be nice

op is pretty cool

>> No.1255462

>>1255401
I don't like Kerouac also.
He had verbal diarrhea. ,,On the road" is worse mess of words than any article from ,,Notes of a Dirty Old Man."

>> No.1255467

Man, I thought this place would have a bit nicer people and discussions than /mu/, but everybody just wants to push their opinion on me so I stop liking books.

>> No.1255471

>ask for people's opinions
>complain when they provide them
>gain an anon fan

TRIPFAG SUCCESS!

>> No.1255472

>>1255467
WHINE MORE?

>> No.1255475

>>1255471
I asked for book recommendations. What I got was:
>YOU ONLY READ HIGH-SCHOOL BOOKS
>YOU'RE STUPID
>KEROUAC HAD VERBAL DIARRHEA

Whatever man.

>> No.1255479

>>1255475
IT'S 4CHAN, THERE'S GOING TO BE PEOPLE GIVING YOU SHIT NO MATTER WHAT.

AND DON'T FUCKING LIE YOU LITTLE FAGGOT, SOME PEOPLE DID SUGGEST YOU NOVELS/AUTHORS.

>> No.1255482

>>1255479
Yes, and I am grateful to that one person. Now if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if someone would recommend me some other books.

>> No.1255486

>>1255364

Kerouac, Thompson and Ballard are all shit. Go read some Joyce.

>> No.1255487

>>1255482

see

>>1255367

You have recommendations that will probably last you several years. Get reading.

>> No.1255491

>>1255487
Because recommending 'every classic ever written' is both practical and will perfectly suit my preferences.

>> No.1255492

>>1255491

That's hardly every classic ever.

Now get reading, you twat.

>> No.1255494

>>1255491

People have spent quite some time narrowing down those lists to include only the crème de la crème. Also, you have no preferences. You have read three books.

>> No.1255496

Hi OP, i like you.
:D

tinychat DOT com/litclub

>> No.1255497

>>1255494
I listed a couple (be sure to notice the 'couple' here, it emphasizes the fact that it is in fact not a complete list!) of the books I read in the past 3 months, and those I thought would be interesting based on what I have read about them, as well as advice from friends and even /lit/.

>> No.1255500

>>1255475
OK OK.
I'll help.
Bukowski - Post Office, Factotum, Women, Ham on Rye, Pulp.
Vonnegut-anything. Bagombo snuff box has some good short stories.
Murakami - Norwegian wood, Underground. Kafka on the shore is a bit...weird. Lika a bad anime.
Castenada - Duuude...I liked him. Get anything from him.
Palahniuk. OK, I know, /lit/ hates him, but still worth checking out.
Celine - read The journey to the end of the night. Or something like that.
Remarque - Spark of Life and Arc de trioumohe were brilliant.
Hemingway - The Old man and the Sea. You may skip everything else written by him.
Nabokov - Lolita. A /lit/ "classic"
Bulgakov - Master and Margaret. Lovely. Just lovely. I liked it.

Oh, and Kerouac HAD verbal diarrhea.

>> No.1255509

>>1255500
>Hemingway - The Old man and the Sea. You may skip everything else written by him.

You...you...DOUBLE NIGGER

>> No.1255516

WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE

I WANT HELP, I'M NOT BEING BABY-FED ENOUGH, THEREFORE /LIT/ FUCKING SUCKS

WHINE WHINE

THAT'S WHAT I'M SEEING IN THIS THREAD

>> No.1255528

>>1255364
screw siddharta, it's shit

>> No.1255526

>>1255500

>Hemingway - The Old man and the Sea. You may skip everything else written by him.

you may definitely not! you have to at least read "a farewell to arms" and "for whom the bell tolls"

>> No.1255538

I'll try to be of help:
W.S.Burroughs - Naked Lunch
J.P.Sartre - Nausea
W.Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

>> No.1255550

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
This goes without saying; it's an essential

Louis De Bernieres - Birds Without Wings
About WWI Anatolia (Turkey) and Greece, the rise of Kemal Ataturk, and the story of a village during those times. "People are birds without wings, and birds are people without sorrows." I have a vague idea about what that means but I quoted it to a chick and later her lips were humming Irish folk tunes on my cock.

Heinlein - Starship Troopers
The classic military treatise. A reason why the movie is, and always will be a travesty and complete shit compared to the book itself

The Bible
I liked this one, was a page turner. Lot's of action, really epic battles and miraculous feats until it reaches the sappy hippy dippy second act, but then :( oh its so SAD

>> No.1255556

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey (One of the subjects of your Tom Wolfe book

Any of Virginia Woolf's novels. I read The Voyage Out and sections of it read like a mushroom trip. It's post-victorian too, so it's this really weird combination of ideas and ideals clashing.... badass and in line with your whole rebellious culture jamming mindset.

Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog

>> No.1255594

>>1255526
As a non-Hemingway fan, I'd suggest just reading For Whom the Bell Tolls. Easily the most impressive of his works.

>> No.1255606

Oh wow, I decide to leave this thread because it's just a whining orgy, and I come back and there are recommendations everywhere. Thanks alot guys, I'll be sure to check most of those books all of you mentioned. I've read one of Hemingway's books, but it was a long time ago and I can't quite recall the title. It was about the Spanish Civil War, I liked it alot.

>> No.1255609

>>1255606
that's "a farewell to arms"

>> No.1255610

>>1255606
what did you learn from this experience op?

also is english your first language?

>> No.1255637

If you like Hesse, look into works by W. Somerset Maugham and Thomas Mann.

If you like Kerouac and Wolfe, look into Ken Kesey.

If you like Kafka (there's no one who's anything like this guy), I recommend Dostoevsky, Camus, Sartre, and Borges.

>> No.1255661

>>1255610
No, I'm Dutch so my grammar might not always be impeccable.
It's nice to see that people can be polite if one is patient enough.