post what youve read sofar!

[Anonymous No.17296606]

post what youve read so far, you faggots.
for prose:
>the peoples history of the united states
>harrasment architecture
>pnin by nakobov
>the trial by kafka

for poetry
>love is a dog from hell (bukowski)
>on cats (bukowski)
>complete poems of ana akhmatova

[Anonymous No.17296612]

>>17296606
So far this year?

[Anonymous No.17296625]

>>17296606
My Diary Desu

[Anonymous No.17296648]

>>17296606
Do you mean this year only?

[Anonymous No.17296667]

>>17296606
I've been reading Escape from Freedom. Sometimes i read just a few pages per day because i can barely concentrate.

[Anonymous No.17296697]

>>17296606
the Death of Ivan Ilyich and some other Tolstoy shorts. Now I'm doing Ubik. Probably jumping back into Ulysses after

[Anonymous No.17296710]

For prose i've read dfw's e unibus pluram essay, gaddis' recognitions has been a ton of fun this month, and for poetry i've been reading rilke's duino elegies and pessoa's collected poems. All of its been pretty good but i'm worried with pessoa because his style is very statement/personal truth oriented and its decent but something isnt vibing w me there.

[Anonymous No.17296721]

>>17296606
What do you think of buk's poetry? I hated love is a dog from hell so much i had to finish it to know how i never want to write

[Anonymous No.17296732]

William Golding Pincher Martin
W. Somerset Maugham The Magician
Richard Yates A Special Providence
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Molly Keane Good Behaviour
Roberto Bolaño The Savage Detectives
Richard Brautigan The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966

i'm doing good this year

[Anonymous No.17296785]

>>17296612
yuh

[Anonymous No.17296790]

>>17296648
yes, i mean this year only !

[Anonymous No.17296805]

>>17296721
hes very entitled and thinks hes the best writer ever, i loved on cats and love is a dog was alright.

[Anonymous No.17296828]

Land — Fanged Noumena
James — The Varieties of Religious Experience

[Anonymous No.17296907]

>>17296828
You just finished Fanged Noumena this year or started and finished?

I'm behind. I did Wait N6 by Chekhov(kind meh novela), Macbeth and Of Mice and Men, currently in the middle of Steppenwolf and loving it.

[Anonymous No.17296925]

Some of Jim Corbett's hunting memoirs, a horror novella about a demonic kangaroo and Blood Meridian.

All good so far.

[Anonymous No.17296933]

>>17296606
B*kowski and a tryhard meme count as reading negative books, anon

[Anonymous No.17296942]

Only thing I’ve finished so far.
Currently about 80 pages into Copse 125 by Ernst Junger

[Anonymous No.17296949]

I got into reading last year, read 1984, Lord of the flies and, the metamorphosis. This year I have read Hatchet, animal Farm and I am currently halfway through Emma and loving it. I have bought pic related but only 4 have came. So after Emma I might read great expectations.

[Anonymous No.17296963]

>>17296949
this is nice and i wish you well

[Anonymous No.17296979]

>>17296963
Thank you kindly anon, I wish you well too.

[Anonymous No.17297028]

>>17296606
Started reading texts for university on 02/01 this year without much interruption so far. Ancient Greek/Roman/Byzantine architecture is quite a comfy topic. Reading some Byung-Chul Han and Gaddis’s letters too. Going to finish Vineland after the next exam.

[Anonymous No.17297133]

>>17297028
How are his letters?

[Anonymous No.17297135]

>>17296606
>the peoples history of the united states
How long did it take you to finish?

[Anonymous No.17297142]

>>17297133
I mean Gaddis'

[Anonymous No.17297163]

>>17296907
I have a security guard tier job in terms of time I can read so yeah, finished it in a few days.

[Anonymous No.17297200]

>>17297163
Props, I have a programming degree, but often seriously consider switching to something where I can read, but never go through.

[Anonymous No.17297294]

>>17297142
I’m enjoying reading them. He traveled quite a bit starting at a fairly young age and had interesting stories to tell in his letters. He wrote to his mother frequently. If you’re a fan of his novels you’ll get a better idea of his writing process. Overall I’d recommend the collection, even if you just end up skipping through the more interesting stages of his life.

[Anonymous No.17297367]

>>17297200
You'll probably retire before me; plenty of time to spare either way

[Anonymous No.17297749]

>>17296805
I see what you mean. I want to read you get so alone at times but liadfh really sapped me of any desire. Some of his poems are stunning but idk if its worth it

[Anonymous No.17297803]

>>17296606
Yasar Kemal - Memed, My Hawk
Tommy Wieringa - These are the Names

I'm also a decent way through the following books (in the case of Boll, it's a mix of novellas and short stories, about ~800 pages of them)
Heinrich Boll - The Stories of Heinrich Boll
Noah Yuval Harari - Homo Deus
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Demons

[Anonymous No.17297842]

Best 'trip report' I ever read. Much better than Huxley's.

[Anonymous No.17298525]

>>17296606
Star by Yukio Mishima
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
Currently reading Hopscotch by Cortazar and The Plague by Camus

[Anonymous No.17298571]

this year
>Factotum by Bukowski
>Hollywood by Bukowski
>The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
>Stoner
>Plato's Republic
>The Koran
>Historical Figure of Jesus by EP Sanders

[Anonymous No.17299119]

>>17296606
Prose
>The Sun Also Rises
>The Fellowship of the Ring
>Tuck Everlasting
>The House of the Seven Gables

Poetry: Various works by
>Jessie Redmon Fauset
>Langston Hughes
>Jean Toomer
>e e cummings
>T.S. Eliot
>Georgia Douglas Johnson
>Claude McKay
>Vachel Lindsay

[Anonymous No.17299569]

I havent read anything yet this year :(

[Anonymous No.17299587]

So far I've done
>The Spectator Bird-Wallace Stegner
>The Complete Far Side-Gary Larson
>Tarka the Otter-Henry Williamson (Unrelated to that post weird coincidence)
>Season of Migration To The North-Tayeb Salih
>The Pilgrim Hawk (Can't remember author, pretty unremarkable)
>Doppelganger-Dasa Drindic

[Anonymous No.17299607]

>>17296606
Man Without Qualities has eaten my January so far. Such a fucking 'tell don't show sludge'. Fuck Ulrich and all those phony mouthpiece characters.