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LAST FIVE READS:
CURRENTLY READING:
NEXT FIVE:

YOU'RE WELCOME TO POST THOUGHTS, REVIEWS, RECOMMENDATIONS, OR GENERAL DISCUSSION. I MAY PROCEED TO DO SO, BUT NOT IN OP.

LAST FIVE:
GOBSECK - BALZAC
MARKHEIM - STEVENSON (INTERESTING SHORT STORY TAKE ON THE DEAL WITH THE DEVIL PREMISE)
THE RED AND THE BLACK - STENDHAL
THE BLACK SHEEP - BALZAC
A COUNTRY DOCTOR - KAFKA

CURRENT:
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - VERNE

NEXT FIVE:
TOMORROW - CONRAD
SANSHIRO - SOSEKI
THE FLOOD - ZOLA
THE TEMPTATION OF ANTHONY - FLAUBERT
TAO TE CHING - TZU

>> No.2056457

Don't lie, no one who so liberally uses the CAPS LOCK key could possibly read books...let alone those books.

>> No.2056461

Last Five:
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
The Lake of Bees by Theodor Storm

Currently:
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

Next Five:
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

>> No.2056465

>>2056457
OPEN YOUR EYES AND BELIEVE.

>> No.2056468

>>2056465

its all good bro, just giving you a hard time.

>> No.2056476

>>2056461
Cool books.

>> No.2056483

Many people know that
a dog's opposite is a cat
But what opposite is there
for a head bald or even with hair?
Not many people know that
this is the story of a hat

>> No.2056486

>>2056476
Thanks. Maybe if you'd have added your reads I could express the same towards you. Now we'll never know.

>> No.2056494

>>2056486
Right now I'm reading Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner and Homer's Odyssey

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I'd be interested to hear what you think of Verne after 80 days - post your thoughts soon!

>> No.2056506

Last five:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Woman In The Dunes
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Norwegian Wood

Reading:
Kafka on the Shore

Next five:
The fuck do I know?

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LAST FIVE READS:
House of Leaves - M. Danielewski
Culture of Narcissism - C. Lasch
Big History - C. Brown
Catch 22 - J. Heller
Ishmael - D. Quinn

CURRENTLY READING:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - E. Hemingway

NEXT FIVE:
The Illuminatus Trilogy - R. Shea
Four Major Plays - H. Ibsen
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - I. Calvino

Feeling pretty plebeian.

>> No.2056516

last: the trial - kafka
relativity - einstein
art as experience - dewey
what is life? - schrodinger
fleur du mal - baudelaire

current: introduction to positive philosophy - comte

next: universal history of iniquity - borges
synchronicity - chambray
on the nature of the universe - lucretius
complete works - rimbaud
ego and id - freud

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>Last Five
Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall (or, why I want to go back in time and bitchslap Charlotte Bronte for causing this novel to be ignored even though it basically takes elements of her own and Emily's work and runs absolute riot with it.)

Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (or why Sherlock Holmes kind of works better in long-form)

Arthur Conan Doyle - Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (or Doyle humanises the seemingly inhuman)

Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (or just..fuck yeah Sherlock)

Jack Lynch - Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard [Non-fiction] (or lol Puritans and Bowdlerisation)

>Current
Nothing. I've been sick and/or trying to work out Wii NAND emulation (or FUCK YOU MIGHTY CHANNELS, FUCK YOU.)

>Next Five
Fucked if I know. (or maybe re-attempt Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native because I keep trying to read it when I'm at my busiest and I'm not now. Or just read a Len Deighton novel. Or something.)

>> No.2056604

>>2056531
Wii emulator?

>> No.2056616

Last 5:
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Box Man - Abe

Currently:
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition - de Vaca

Next 5:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Selected Stories - Mansfield
Dubliners - Joyce
Hard Times - Dickens
Time's Arrow - Amis

>> No.2056620

Last 5-

Pigs Have Wings -Sir P.G. Wodehouse
Blandings Castle - Sir P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves In The Offing - Sir P.G. Wodehouse
Red Dwarf Omnibus - Grant Naylor
The Time Machine/Invisible Man- H.G. Wells

Currently Reading:
What Ho! - The P.G. Wodehouse Collection
#Also listening to the audio-book Full Moon by P.G. Wodehouse, read by Jeremy Sinden

Next 5 - I have no idea.

>> No.2056860

Last five:
The Shrinking Man - Matheson
Foundation and Empire - Asimov
Foundation - Asimov
Rendezvous with Rama - Clarke
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

Currently reading:
JPod - Douglas Coupland

Next:
Second Foundation - Asimov

>> No.2056865

>>2056620
One of these things is not like the others...

>> No.2056877

Last five:
Homage to Catalonia
The Catcher in the Rye
Candide
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
The Prince

Current:
The Idiot

Next five:
The Stranger
Essays (Montaigne)
The Complete Marquis de Sade
Musashi
War and Peace

>> No.2057039

Last five:
Farenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Game of Thrones- George RR Martin
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
Cane- Jean Toomer

Currently Reading-
Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen
Paradiso- Dante

Next five:
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Paradise Lost- John Milton
Some Shakespeare play, maybe Hamlet or the Tempest
Norwegian Wood- Haruki Murakami
Invitation to a Beheading- Vladimir Nabokov

>> No.2057060

Last Five:
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Steppe - Anton Chekov

>> No.2057068

>>2056865

Nothing wrong with audiobooks. I listen to them when I am on the train and heading for work; during times and places when reading a book isn't prudent, but you still want to get a good story into your head.

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>LAST FIVE
The Problem of the Body in Nietzsche and Dogen (essay)
Nietzsche's "Will to Power" and Chinese "Virtuality" (De): A Comparative Study (essay)
The Gay Science (book)
Zhuang Zi and Nietzsche: Plays of Perspectives (essay)
Human, All Too Human (book)

>CURRENT:
The Quantum Nietzsche: The Will to Power and the Nature of Dissipative Systems (book)
The Ego and Its Own (book)

>NEXT FIVE:
Deleuze and Nietzsche on Frivolous Propositions (essay)
The Hypermorality of Georges Batailles (essay)
The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner (book)
etc etc

>> No.2057080

>>2057074
Nice selection

>> No.2057081
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Last five:
>The Sound of Waves -Mishima
>Candide- Voltaire
>Lolita- Nabokov
>Mythology- Edith Hamilton
>The Cossacks- Leo Tolstoy

Currently:
>Madame Bovary- Flaubert
Really enjoying it so far. I thought I'd be sick of all these 19th century "woman strives for emotional and intellectual stimulation" novels after reading so damn many of them (took a 19th century women's lit class last year) but even in translation Flaubert has a very excellent, readable style. I think the prospect of a male author writing a female protagonist is really interesting.
>Of Time And The River- Thomas Wolfe
It will probably take me a while to get through this behemoth of a novel but it's got all the goods that Wolfe always brings to his writing. My only problem is that it is kind of scattered in its organization. The point of view just suddenly switched without much cause or foreshadowing.

Next five:
>The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia by Rousset
>Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
>Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
>Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
>Faust by Goethe

>> No.2057086

>>2057080
cheers, the eastern comparative stuff with nietzsche was disappointing though

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>last five
Bed - Tao Lin
The Plague - Camus
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Best behaviour - Noah Cicero
Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill - Bradley Sands

>Current
None

>Next five
Damascus by Joshua Mohr
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher
The Snow Whale by John Minichillo
i am not sidney poitier by Percival Everett
Person by Sam Pink

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>>2057081
If you have erotic thoughts about lain, you are a very very bad man

>> No.2057140

LAST FIVE READS:
>Jejuri by Arun Koltakar
>The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
>Persians by Aeschylus
>The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
>Teahouse by She Lao

CURRENTLY READING:
>The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
>A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West
>Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
>Anna Edes by Dezső Kosztolányi
>Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an
>Hard Times by Charles Dickens

NEXT FIVE:
>The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klima
>Nadja by Andre Breton
>The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzatti
>Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry
>The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal

Reading way too many at once right now, so I'm going to make sure I at least finish a few of them before I start on more.

>> No.2057149

LAST FIVE READS:
>Good Omens (The Nife and accurate prophefies of Agnes Nutt - Witch) - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
not as good as I expected, maybe it was just over-hyped on the reviews or something.

>Science Fiction and Horror Short stories collection
I forget who collected them together but there was a brilliant set in there of about 100, I only read about 8 of them, the book was my dads and is at least 20 years old.

>American Gods (Author's Preferred text)- Neil Gaiman
I loved this one, I'll probably read it again, the idea of god's of American ideals because the ideals are worshipped to the point of anthropomorphic representations of them gaining godhood.

Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore

>> No.2057150

LAST FIVE:
Breakfast of Champions
Fuzzy Nation
Machine Man
A Clash of Kings
Norwegian Wood

CURRENTLY READING
Isaac Asimov short story collection

NEXT
Snow Crash?