/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14783025]

>how many books have you read so far this year?
>what were they?

[Anonymous No.14783038]

>>14783025
so far THREE! being firstly crime and punishment!!!!!! sECONDLY THE IDIOT! AND thirdy NOTES FROM th e underground ?

[Anonymous No.14783041]

by tomorrow, 1
A Murder is Announced

[Anonymous No.14783043]

Anna karenina, chaterlys lover and the first vol. of parerga so far.

[Anonymous No.14783047]

>>14783025
Five, that's one more than the number of your eyelids.

[Anonymous No.14783087]

Yes

[Anonymous No.14783102]

A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A German Officer in Occupied Paris by Ernst Junger
In Paragonia by Bruce Chatwin
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano


Currently about 1/3 of the way through The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It’s a bit of a grind to be desu.

[Anonymous No.14783110]

>>14783102
the bolano book is it any good? been dying to read something from him, would you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.14783129]

>>14783087
I just finished Karamazov, but it feels like I missed something...
The story is clear but the deeper undertones went through my head, what was he trying to say about religion?

[Anonymous No.14783131]

>>14783025
>Kristin Lavransdatter- The Cross
>No Longer Human
>The Ruins
>Toshiden: japanese urban legends vol.1
>Dark Water
>The 900 Days: The siege of Leningrad

I'm forseeing either a money shortage of a book shortage this year. Time to read sweaty old library books...

[Anonymous No.14783137]

>>14783025
only 1 so far, No Country for Old Men

now im torn between reading All the pretty horses or something else by a different author

[Anonymous No.14783138]

>>14783025
Mein kampf
American Psycho
Il principe
The death of ivan illyich
48 laws of power
The alchemist

[Anonymous No.14783146]

>>14783038
And what did you learn anon?

[Anonymous No.14783154]

>>14783025
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Ape and Essence
>Dubliners

[Anonymous No.14783181]

So far 8. I've started the year with Campbell's "The Hero of a Thousand Faces" then went to some brazillian novels and short stories and now I'm reading "Light In August" by Faulkner and I am loving every page of it.

[Anonymous No.14783208]

>>14783038

Are you okay anon?

[Anonymous No.14783218]

>>14783025
1. The Yacoubian Building
2. Fanged Noumea
3. Neuromancer
4. To Dare More Boldly
5. After Virtue
6. Terror and Consent

If you have read less than 6 in the first 60 days of the year you will NEVER make it and hot girls will NEVER respect your intellect
That's just a widely acknowledged fact

[Anonymous No.14783222]

>>14783025

8

>The system of Objects
>Humes Enquiries
>The mushroom at the end of the world
>Montaignes essays
>The Antichrist
>This Spike Zarathustra
>Twilight of the Idols
>Spinozas Ethics

(The Nietzsche works were all in The Portable Nietzsche, counting them seperately here)

[Anonymous No.14783233]

>>14783222

*Thus spoke... I'm more drowsy than I had thought. Time for bed.

[Anonymous No.14783238]

>>14783233
explain Nietzsche right now or you've wasted 2020

[Anonymous No.14783239]

>>14783025
do you niggers just speedread and never think about anything?

[Anonymous No.14783254]

>>14783025
Four. Here in ascending quality
-Augustus
-Hard Rain Falling
-The Sound and the Fury
-Warlock

[Anonymous No.14783261]

>>14783239
You can easily read 100 pages a day
Most books are about ~300-400 pages
a book every three four days, given about 60 days, equals 15 books

[Anonymous No.14783269]

>>14783239
Anon can't think in between reads

[Anonymous No.14783303]

11, mostly philosophical texts

[Anonymous No.14783330]

If you spend more than two weeks reading a book, you dont "get" it.

[Anonymous No.14783332]

>>14783261
>100 pages a day
lol what I have a job you faggot

[Anonymous No.14783341]

>>14783332
8 hours sleep, 8 hours working, 4 hours transit and food, 4 hours to read. You cant read 100 pages in 4 hours? Get cracking...

[Anonymous No.14783342]

>>14783025
So far around 50ish mostly technical stuff and philosophy

[Anonymous No.14783355]

>>14783181
ce leu o que em português anão?

[Anonymous No.14783389]

>>14783025
Not even one. My year's been too emotionally draining so far. My grandfather had a stroke but survived. Then my one-room apartment got flooded. Then I had to put down one of my family's cats (I had to make the decision), which I lived with for over a decade. I come home from work, eat, post a little, then I collapse into my bed. On the weekends I visit my grandpa for a few hours and the rest of time time I spend doing nothing that requires any focus or committment.

[Anonymous No.14783408]

>>14783389
It's ok anon, take your time

[Anonymous No.14783446]

>>14783110
I would but it is definitely not his best. I read it in two days.
It gets a little repetitive. Some bits are very funny (the acrostic loving Cuban Nazi is pretty fucking based).

[Anonymous No.14783451]

>>14783341
Sorry let me be more clear
I have friends and a job, you faggot

[Anonymous No.14783452]

>>14783025
Tartar steppe
Snow country
Fictions
Anna karenina
Temple of the golden pavilion
To the lighthouse
The trial

[Anonymous No.14783460]

>>14783038
You must really love Dostoevsky, anon.

[Anonymous No.14783509]

okay you got me stacy, i will read more starting today
i'm reading the secret garden, ever so slowly

[Anonymous No.14783512]

I really don't know why Imperium isn't more popular. That's my favorite so far.

[Anonymous No.14783524]

>>14783451
what are you even trying to accomplish here? you want us to validate your excuse for not reading?
sure

[Anonymous No.14783536]

>>14783137
All the Pretty Horses isn't terribly long and is well worth a read. Definitely a stronger novel than No Country.

[Anonymous No.14783562]

>>14783408
I just hope I'm not slipping into depression again, after finally overcoming it. Maybe it'll be easier to overcome again, now that I've done it once. Life doesn't ever stop throwing shit at you, so I better learn to overcome this sort of thing, because everyone I love is growing older.

[Anonymous No.14783565]

>>14783025
Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll - Started last year but finished in January. Very solid history with some good insights, especially for a lay reader like myself.

All of Aeschylus's plays - The Oresteia is a straight up masterpiece, though the Eumenides is definitely the weakest of the three from a modern perspective. Prometheus Bound is likewise fantastic. The rest are fairly forgettable.

A Confederacy of Dunces - The funniest book I've ever read and one of the most modern feeling despite being written in the 50s.

Understanding Iran by William Polk - Decent history if overly brief. A good intro to the subject.

Currently reading Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, who I recommend wholeheartedly (I've read Zinky Boys by her and loved it), and Emma by Jane Austen. Austen is my favorite author so I'm obviously enjoying it and am excited to watch the film adaptation.

[Anonymous No.14783575]

>>14783087
What'd you think of Joseph and His Brothers? I'm finishing up Doctor Faustus right and plan on reading that one soon.

[Anonymous No.14783597]

>>14783238

I don't need to, I got trips AND dubs which automatically makes me based.

[Anonymous No.14783630]

>Read
The Iliad
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
White Nights

>reading
The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.14783680]

>>14783025
One, Watchmen.

[Anonymous No.14783731]

>>14783355
Li os seguintes livros:
>Antes do anoitecer - Edla Van Steen
>Por que me olhas, Maria Carolina? - Antônio Carlos Resende
>Magra, mas não muito, as pernas sólidas, morenas - Antônio Carlos Resende
>A paixão segundo GH - Clarice Lispector
Foram livros que encontrei por acaso passeando pela biblioteca pública de minha cidade, todos muito interessantes, com destaque para o Antônio Carlos Resende, que é um escritor bastante desconhecido mas com uma prosa e um estilo bastante original.

[Anonymous No.14783741]

>>14783451
I seriously doubt that given your random lashing-out, but, whatever excuse you fancy for why you cant accomplish what I have, is fine.

[Anonymous No.14784251]

The Centurions - Jean Larteguy
The Epic of Gilgamesh
War and Democracy - Paul Gottfried

I know it's not very many. . .

[Anonymous No.14784275]

the tunnel
crash
song of solomon
invisible cities
crying of lot 49

a few lacan essays on the philosophy side as well, and reading for all of my classes

>>14783451
if you want a bunch of time to read, you have to pay less attentions to your friends than you otherwise could. how is this controversial?

[Anonymous No.14784279]

count d'orgel's ball, serotonin, the devil in the hills, the emigrants

currently reading train to pakistan, it's very good so far

could use recommendations, esp for interesting non-western or 19th century lit

[Anonymous No.14784523]

Working through the sixth:
1. Taipei (reread while at home over break, felt right)
2. Confederacy of dunces
3. Pedro Paramo
4. When we were Orphans (Ishiguro)
5. Kitchen Confidential (surprisingly well written and a nice break after all the downer war stuff from WwwO)

[Anonymous No.14784527]

>>14784523
Oh whoops...
6. Temple of the dawn

[Anonymous No.14784535]

>>14783025
0, none at all

[Anonymous No.14784604]

Old man and the sea and about to finish A portrait of the blah blah by James.

[Anonymous No.14784614]

>>14783025
Coffee is good for you, but nothing is good in excess

[Anonymous No.14784642]

>>14783025
Tractatus
The Stranger
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Rebel
Exile and the Kingdom
The Fall
The Sickness Unto Death

I'm starting Fear and Trembling tonight, and will finish up Camus after that before going through Dostoevsky's major works and then Either/Or.

[Anonymous No.14784931]

Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Rushdie - Shame
Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
Mario Vargas Llosa - In praise of the stepmother
Llosa - The Time of the Hero
Llosa - The Green House
Llosa - The War At the End of the World
Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Llosa - Death in the Andes
Llosa - The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Llosa - The Bad Girl

That makes 11. Currently reading The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Rushdie, and after that, I will read Death on Credit by Celine. Maybe some Faulkner after that.

[Anonymous No.14785024]

>>14783575
Joseph is my favorite book of all time. That was my second reading. Paradise Lost excepted, I don't feel like anything compares to it in terms of retelling Biblical stories. I love every character, every setting, every recurrent symbol. I love so many of the dialogues. It has so many impactful scenes. I cried during both reads but at different scenes in each read. I want to read it again right now but I can't spend my whole life rereading the same book. The only thing I don't like is the 40 page introduction before Mann even starts the story, but that's just because I want to dive right in every time but feel like I'm cheating to start on page 40, and it's really offering some good thoughts on the nature of identity, individuality, time, and history in relation to the people of that era. Imo one of the greatest achievements of literature in the 20th century. I can't power-rank it since I haven't read everything but there's no way it isn't a top 5. It's just too beautiful and profound.

[Anonymous No.14785034]

-Screen Memories by Freud
-The Creative Writer and Daydreaming by Freud
-Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood by Freud
-The Uncanny by Freud
-The Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Marinetti
-Macbeth by Shakespeare
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The first five are essays but in total I've read seven so far. I'm unsure what I will read next but am considering reading Dubliners by Joyce. I want something that is intriguing but not long-winded.

[Anonymous No.14785090]

12

[Anonymous No.14785121]

JANUARY 2020
1. A Tranquil Star - Primo Levi
2. The Definitive Book of Body Language - Allan & Barbara Pease
3. Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes
4. The Hunger Artists - Maud Ellmann
5. Hung, Thirst, Sex & Sleep - John Young
6. A History of Force Feeding - Ian Miller
7. Metamorphoses - Ovid (t. Horace Gregory)
FEBRUARY 2020
1. Hunger: A Modern History - James Vernon
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
4. Things Fall Appart - Chinua Achebe
5. Grass Soup - Zhang Xianlang

12. Finishing Three Essays by Freud rn.
To summarize the books I'm basically copying Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby and have found the couple of pages really useful to digest what I've touched on each month.

[Anonymous No.14786146]

Whatever
Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Bel Ami
Heart of Darkness
The Lord of The Rings, The Two Towers
The Last Days of Socrates
Blood Meridian
As I Lay Dying
Dubliners

[Anonymous No.14787383]

>>14783451
You clearly have larger issues than being a illiterate subhuman.

[Anonymous No.14787442]

Cry of the Coon - Paul Stromton
A Brief History of Alamagatta - John Josephus
Deconstructing Deconstruction: A post-structuralist at the ground zero of 9/11 - Mallus
My Teenage Dream Ended - Rose McGowan
Kicking the habit: A case for suicide - Jack Kevorkian

[Anonymous No.14787453]

>>14783025
So far I've read:
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowels

Waterland by Graham Swift

The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom

Yeats by Harold Bloom

From The First Third by James Merrill

Beginning with O by Olga Broumas

[Anonymous No.14787501]

>>14783025
Siddharta
Lolita
Nausea
Pale Fire
The Myth of Sisyphus
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
The Crying of Lot 49
Der Proceß
To the Lighthouse
The Sound and the Fury
some Kafka short stories here and there

[Anonymous No.14787527]

This is a really unusual list for me. The plays were mostly garbage and for a university course. Nothing especially standout so far this year. Jekyl and Hyde was good, as I'd expected. God's Stepchildren was surprisngly great too.

[Anonymous No.14787537]

>>14783025
I Have no Idea on Hitler, Karl Kraus
The Medium is the Massage, McLuhan and Fiore
La Cause du peuple, Patrick Buisson
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Alias Caracalla, Daniel Cordier

[Anonymous No.14787544]

>>14783025
The Plague - Camus
En folkefiende (An Enemy of the People) - Ibsen
The House of the Dead - Dosto
The Birds - Vesaas
The Nose/The carrige - Gogol

In that order. The one I enjoyed the most was The Birds followed by The House of the Dead.

[Anonymous No.14787565]

>>14784642
Have you read the Concept of Anxiety?

[Anonymous No.14788156]

>>14783038
1. The Broom of the System (DFW)
2. The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
3. Cartas a Ophélia (Pessoa)
4. Dr. Bloodmoney (PKD)

[Anonymous No.14788188]

i read one book :)

[Anonymous No.14788328]

>>14788188
good job anon :) I hope you had a great time

[Anonymous No.14788357]

3
Lanark - Alaisdair Gray
A Room With a View - EM Forster
Swann's Way - Marcel Proust

[Anonymous No.14788373]

>>14783451
Based

[Anonymous No.14788397]

>>14787565
I haven't. I was going to order more Kierkegaard once I got through Either/Or.

[Anonymous No.14788424]

>>14783025
Do audio books count?

[Anonymous No.14788452]

>Kiku's Prayer
>Zhuangzi
>Wenzi
>a bunch of gnostic stuff

[Anonymous No.14788455]

>>14785121
Hungry much?

[Anonymous No.14788543]

>>14787544
Was The Plague good? I hear it's his best work. I'm about to read A Happy Death, but I plan to read The Plague after.

[Anonymous No.14788549]

>>14783110
Savage Detectives is a far better book to move onto if you enjoyed 2666.

[Anonymous No.14788573]

>>14783025
>still grinding through Pliny's Natural History, up to volume V
>Right now he's talking about plants and agriculture and he has for most of the past couple volumes

[Anonymous No.14788613]

>>14783025
1. Edith Hamilton - Mythology
2. Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
After I've finished reading about the Jews and their lies I'll move onto the Negro.
3. Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth

[Anonymous No.14788620]

>>14783129
Having read Notes, going to a wiki article about it really helped.

[Anonymous No.14788624]

>>14783341
How can you read that much and retain all of the information.
Sure I can probably read any book in a week if I'm just reading the words.

[Anonymous No.14788632]

Eight, but I’ve read a shit ton of scientific articles because I’m finishing my PhD.

[Anonymous No.14788635]

>>14784642
Why so much Camus.
That guy isn't a real philosopher. He's a juvenile bourgeoisie talkman with no real bearing on the world. What is his point even? Endure what you have to endure and enjoy it? That's based, I almost thought it'd be ersatz Sartre wrapped in thick layers of Stoicism.

Skip the fag and move on straight to Dostoboy.

[Anonymous No.14788662]

>>14783025

1. Queen of Spades
2. A Dance with Dragons

thinking of rereading God Emperor of Dune for that psychedelic revelation feel

[Anonymous No.14788698]

>>14784931
What's the best Llosa book from your list?

[Anonymous No.14788720]

>>14783025

On the nature of things - Lucretius
Los cilicios - Pablo Suero
Odes - Horace
The Fall - Albert Camus
Novelas ejemplares - Cervantes
Der Golem - Gustav Meyrink
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Work and the Days - Hesiod
Theogony - Hesiod
Shield of Heracles - Hesiod
The Death of Ivan Illich - Leon Tolstoy
The gambler - Dostoyevsky
La cautiva - Esteban Echeverría
El matadero - Esteban Echeverría
El Aleph - J.L. Borges
The beach - Cesare Pavese
Don Juan Tenorio - José Zorrilla
Tartuffe - Moliere
The misanthrope - Moliere
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes

And one Volume and a half of the very long Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

[Anonymous No.14788725]

>>14783025
1 (ONE)
Fathers and Sons, liked it
Also reading After Nature atm.

[Anonymous No.14788728]

Bernhard - extinction
Hamsun - on overgrown paths
Sebald - Austerlitz
Borgen - Lillelord
Kunstler - The geography of nowhere
Celine - death on credit
Walser - Jakob von Gunten
Sebald - Vertigo
Kafka - The Castle

[Anonymous No.14788747]

>>14788725
After Nature seems dank, what's it about?

[Anonymous No.14788821]

>>14788747
After having read half of it, I literally can't tell.
It's three prose poems. The first about Matthias Grünewald, the second about Georg Wilhelm Steller and the third – apparently – about the author himself. It's weird but also satisfying to read. Can't say more about it so far, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.14789333]

>>14788549
One of the characters from 2666 is also in Nazi Literature in the Americas. The Romanian colonel (or was it general?) with the big dick who fucked the Countess in Dracula’s castle.

[Anonymous No.14789402]

>>14783025
tiddies

[Anonymous No.14789448]

>>14789333
How could I forget Archimboldi and his buddy jerking off to them through a peephole?

[Anonymous No.14789455]

4 and a half
The Flowers of Evil (the manga)
The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
The Tin Drum - Grass
Hunger - Hamsun
My Struggle Book Four - Knausgaard (half)

>>14788720
do you recommend the golem?
>>14788725
does it pick up after a while? you thought it was enjoyable and/or informative? i read maybe 10 pages bc i was planning on reading it but i decided on hunger after the entrance of the son on the carriage to his dads house and all the mental flowcharts of characters and their relations.

[Anonymous No.14789483]

So far I've read
Soul by Andrey Platonov
Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes
Skinema by Chris Nieratko
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Brodie's Report collection by Borges
Now I am Spock Must Die! by James Blish

[Anonymous No.14789594]

>>14788635
I like Camus :)

[Anonymous No.14789631]

>>14783025
Augustus by Adrien Goldsworthy
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway

[Anonymous No.14789641]

Five. Frankenstein, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Sorrows of Young Werther, Existentialism is a Humanism, Hunger.

[Anonymous No.14789795]

>>14783102
Patrician

[Anonymous No.14789970]

>>14783218
>you will NEVER make it and hot girls will NEVER respect your intellect
begone THOTS
I've read 6.

[Anonymous No.14790086]

>>14788455
And people seem to think I have an eating disorder....

[Anonymous No.14790124]

>>14783025
13
brave new world, siddartha, crime and punishment, diogenes sayings and anecdotes, aristotle eudemian ethics, fear and loathing, i robot, the outsider, count of monte cristo, we, no longer human, heavier than heaven, the old man and the slave, stopped buying books for the past couple weeks though since very little money, thinking about buying a kindle to get free books in the future

[Anonymous No.14790519]

>>14788698
I liked The Green House and The Time of the Hero the most. I feel there Llosa perfected his style of interwining but separate stories that are told all at once, the perspective and narrator sifting constantly. I have yet to read The Conversation in the Cathedral, but I have heard it's supposed to be even better in this regard.

[Anonymous No.14790679]

read 18 get on my level plebs

[Anonymous No.14791104]

>>14783025
I've read about 6 books, but a few of those books contain multiple works (like The Last Days of Socrates) so it depends what you are really looking for

[Anonymous No.14791263]

>>14783025
6 so far:

>Augustus, Williams
>Child of God, McCarthy
>His master's voice, Lem
>Jane Eyre, Bronte
>The sun also rises, Hemingway
>A farewell to arms, Hemingway

Currently reading 'The obscene bird of night' by Jose Donoso. Really liking it so far, probably my favorite book thus far this year save for Augustus.

[Anonymous No.14791290]

>>14783025
Read 10 so far. How's my collection? Am I on the right track?

[Anonymous No.14791462]

>>14791290
I can feel my interest in literature evaporating by the second. Also if you're going to read Joyce you might as well not skip Portrait, it doesn't really make sense to go from his short stories to Ulysses. The stylistic difference is too pronounced between the two whereas Portrait is the comfortable medium, in style, in substance, in length, in form, in everything basically.

[Anonymous No.14791472]

>>14783451
Based. Ignore the pretentious retards. Read what you can, just make sure you're doing it, and make sure you're actually processing the information.

[Anonymous No.14791482]

4 so far
Nicomachean Ethics
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Frankenstein
The Stranger

[Anonymous No.14791517]

>>14791290
If you want the modern day Bill Cooper, Matthew Raphael Johnson is your guy.

[Anonymous No.14791542]

>>14783218
imagine being the simp waiting in line

[Anonymous No.14791551]

Whoever says more than 2 is a retard unless they read 100 page books

[Anonymous No.14791552]

>>14791472
t. Brainlet

[Anonymous No.14791559]

>>14783451
???
Do you always hang out on the weekdays? Plenty of time to read still

[Anonymous No.14791565]

Crime and punishment and ben-hur, curently reading the ancient city by coulanges

[Anonymous No.14791651]

>>14783451
Based and cringe

[Anonymous No.14792412]

>>14783025
So far this year I have read: Last Wish by Sapkowski, A Brief History of India by Kerr, Pale Fire by Nabakov, and Competitive Strategy by Porter

[Anonymous No.14792801]

Seven:
>Mihály Babits - The Son of Virgil Tímár
>Mihály Babits - On the Hungarian Character
>Anonymous - L’anomie ou le Tumulte des Tapirs
>Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
>Sergei Dovlatov - Pushkin Hills
>Venedikt Yerofeyev - Moscow-Petushki
>Vladimir Voinovich - The Fur Hat

I also read Mario and the Wizard by Thomas Mann, but that's such an irritatingly shitty work that I'm not going to count it.

[Anonymous No.14792872]

>>14783129
my take was:
ivan: the intellect
dimitry: the passions
alyosha: the spirit
in the end, it is only alyosha who prevails.

[Anonymous No.14792883]

>>14792801
is Moscow-Petushki any good aside from being a list of interesting ways to mix cocktails with a limited amount of available drinks on a train?

[Anonymous No.14792926]

>>14792883
It's good, very good. A true experience.
It's a really unique book.
Though personally I wouldn't try any of the cocktails Yerofeyev describes in the book.

[Anonymous No.14793037]

>>14783025
I've just finished M Train by Patti Smith, I think I'll go on to read crime and punishment next.
I tried and failed to read foundation and the selfish gene, I thought they weren't particularly fun or interesting to read.

[Anonymous No.14793132]

>>14788543
It is something, but it wasnt as great as I thought it would be. Could be me being retarded though.

[Anonymous No.14793135]

>>14783512
what's the rundown

[Anonymous No.14793190]

>>14783102
>>14783110
>>14783446
>>14788549
I'm just getting into Bolano his stuff is great. I've read By Night in Chile and going through Last Evenings on Earth now. Anyone have suggestions for next or a reading list?

[Anonymous No.14793263]

So far only 2. I need to get on my shit.
Hume- treatise on human nature
Sartre- nausea

[Anonymous No.14793303]

>>14783038
what the fuck the first novel i've read this year was Crime and Punishment too
I like you

[Anonymous No.14793519]

>>14783025
>>14783110
>>14783218
>>14784251
i want to see jizz on these faces

[Anonymous No.14793612]

Trying to read all of the major political science books throughout history this year. So far:
>trial and death of socrates
>the republic
>the nichomachean ethics
>the politics
>history of the Peloponnesian war

[Anonymous No.14794208]

>>14783025
One, The Andromeda Strain. I'm working on Night Shift in between writing my own book.

[Anonymous No.14794223]

>>14793190
Savage Detectives and 2666 are definitely worth the effort. I don’t know about his shorter books. I might try The Third Reich later this year.

[Anonymous No.14794252]

>Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
>Looking for Alaska by John Green
and halfway through the girl who loved tom gordon.

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>>14794223
Distant Star is good

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>>14793190
>>14794223
Pretty much what this Anon said. Those two are easily his best pieces of work.

[Anonymous No.14794400]

Like 9 discworld books, the harry potter series, the three body problem, the first volume of dune, the city and the city, the Master and the Margarita, A Young Doctors Notebook, Roadside picnic, Leviathan wakes, and that's about it.

I was always pretty good at reading but I never actually read fiction or anything, so now that I'm done with school and am suffering temporary NEETdom I'm catching up on all the reading I never got to do.

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>>14783025
Eleven. My first was The Black Company and my last was DragonFlight

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>>14794400
Discworld is the shit. I finished Leviathan Wakes a year ago. I took a semester off school to rest a bit. It's my final year.

[Anonymous No.14795056]

Kafka on the shore
One hundred years of solitude
The windup bird chronicles
Almost transparent blue

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>>14783087
What website is this?

[Anonymous No.14795448]

>>14783025
1.The oldman and the sea
2.East of Eden (still reading it)

Pretty good both of them

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>>14784931
>>14784642
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>>14785121
how the fuck do you read so fast? Ive wasted a lot of time, I admit that but still too read all those books seems crazy.

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>>14795056
oh nigga Ive read the first three, the 2 murakami books were really good and the first time I dabbled into magical realism. The wind up bird chronicles left me with an empty feeling of closure from that finale.
I was happily surprised when Miss Saeki said the name of her song jejej good one Mura.

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>>14783341
>8 hours sleep, 8 hours working, 4 hours transit and food, 4 hours to read. You cant read 100 pages in 4 hours? Get cracking...

>4 hours transit and food

What. The. Fuck.
4 hours of transit and food?

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>>14795448
I make sure I'm in a silent place, or in a place with near quiet white noise, and read. The coffee shop at my college is actually quite nice for this when it isn't rush hour.

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>>14783025
So far I've only read the stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Society of the Spectacle, Herodotus' The Histories, and Fanged Noumena.

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>>14793612
>Trying to read all of the major political science books throughout history this year
Why? It's not like you'll take much away from them or remember much anyway. Is it so that you can check them off the ol' pseud list or something?

>>14794223
The Savage detectives was by far the shittiest book I've attempted to read these past 10 years. Barely got through the first part, which was just pure shit. I would like to spit in Bologneses face for writing such utter drivel.

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>>14783452
Since you have read The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati, what do you think of it? I am wondering, because I read it, as well, around the beginning of the last decade. I think it is one of the best books I have read, despite how unusual it is. The themes of the book stay with me, to this day. The movie is also great, although it is probably still difficult these years later to get a hold of a DVD of it, without paying a lot of money, perhaps even more difficult.

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>>14789455
>all the mental flowcharts of characters and their relations
That's just the introduction. So yes, it does "pick up". Definitely informative in its description of 1850s Russia and enjoyable if you like Russian Realism.

[Anonymous No.14796486]

Two, "Clean Architecture" by Robert C. Martin and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig.

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>>14783038
>>14793303
me too, actually

[Anonymous No.14796685]

>>14787501
how did you like siddharta anon?

[Anonymous No.14797009]

Threads like these always motivate me to read more.
4 so far.
>Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
>The Occult Anatomy of Man by Manly P Hall (too short to count as a book)
>The Iliad by Homer
>Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Currently reading the Metaphysics of War by Julius Evola