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LAST FIVE
CURRENTLY READING
NEXT FIVE

LAST FIVE:
NAOMI - TANIZAKI
THE OLD CAPITAL - KAWABATA
THE RESTAURANT OF MANY ORDERS - MIYAZAWA
NIGHT ON THE MLKY WAY RAILWAY - MIYAZAWA
SPRING SNOW - MISHIMA

CURRENT:
PALM-OF-THE-HAND-STORIES - KAWABATA

NEXT FIVE:
QUICKSAND - TANIZAKI
DEATH IN MIDSUMMER: AND OTHER STORIES - MISHIMA
SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ - LEVI
RUNAWAY HORSES - MISHIMA
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND - DICKENS

>> No.2162705

in b4 "where is that pic from"

>> No.2162708

OH SHIT NIGGA IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN

LAST:
THE SOCIETY OF SPECTACLE
SCHOPENHAUER ESSAYS
ISIS UNVEILED
A FEW GNOSTIC GOSPELS
THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH

CURRENT
BEELZEBUBS TALES TO HIS GRANDSON
IM OK YOU'RE OK

NEXT
MORE SCI FI
SOME ADORNO
SOME BARTHES

>> No.2162710

lol Caps for Sale is my favorite book. We should start a thread about t on /lit/

>> No.2162716

>>2162708
YEAH TWAT, I'VE BEEN SO BUSY WITH PREPARATION FOR HOLIDAYS AND EXAMS, IT'S NOT FUNNY :(

>> No.2162723

>>2162716
SHIT MAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIES. JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS READING TO YOU IN THE SCOPE OF THINGS? THAT'S THE REAL QUESTION WE AS READERS MUST PONDER EXTENSIVELY. JUST REMEMBER CAPS, EVERYTHING IS SECOND TO READING.

YEAH BUT FOR REALS, I HEAR YOU MAN. KIND OF. I'LL REMEMBER SOON ENOUGH

>> No.2162727

>>2162723
I KNOW MAN, I KNOW. IT'S PROBABLY ALSO BECAUSE I'M READING MORE SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS AND THE LIKE THAT IT TAKES MORE TO GET INTO THEM. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MUCH EASIER TO TAKE IN SMALLER BITES.

>> No.2162745

>>2162727
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THAT SENTIMENT MY GOOD FRIEND. FOR I HAVE FOUND WHEN ATTEMPTING TO READ NUMEROUS SHORT STORIES AT ONCE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE WELL CONSTRUCTED, I GET NOTHING SHORT OF /OVERWHELMED/. NOW I DO NOT MEAN THIS IN A FATIGUE SORT OF WAY OR EVEN A LACK OF INTEREST SORT OF WAY, BUT RATHER A FULL FEELING AKIN TO EATING A HEFTY MEDIUM RARE SLAB WITH GARLIC FRIES WHILE DRINKING THE FINEST OF DRINKS. THE POINT IS REACHED AND THE BAR CAN'T BE HIGHER, LEFT ALONE AND FORCED TO CONCUR NEW TERRITORY.

>> No.2162749

>>2162745
>>2162745
*CONQUER

>> No.2162752

This thread is an obnoxious wall of text.

>> No.2162753

LAST FIVE:
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit
Philip K. Dick - Ubik
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat
Glen Cook - The White Rose
Terry Pratchett - Mort
Glen Cook - Shadows Linger

CURRENTLY READING:
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

NEXT FIVE:
Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Ray Bradbury - Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99

>> No.2162760

I don't think the last iteration of this thread has even 404'ed yet. Can we stop making the same god-damned threads every day?

>> No.2162903

>>2162760
I HARDLY MAKE THEM THESE DAYS. USED TO MAKE MORE

>> No.2162926

100 years of solitude
The bhagavad Gita
Uncollected - Paul Jennings
The electric experience
The laughing policeman

Currently reading
Hans Christian andersons fairy tales


Next 5
The rumpold omnibus
Other stuff

>> No.2162948

>>2162926
You like reading kids books?

>> No.2163003

>>2162948
Yes.

>> No.2163572

JUST FINISHED PALM-OF-THE-HAND STORIES, AMAZING HOW KAWABATA WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE HUMAN ESSENCE AND EMOTION IN SUCH SHORT WORD COUNTS.

BEING GUIDED THROUGH THE QUIRKY TALES OF STRANGE ROMANCES TO SORROWFUL EPISODES OF WAR AND POST-WAR JAPAN AND MORE CERTAINLY LED FOR QUITE THE READ.

KAWABATA DEFINITELY PROVED THAT LESS CAN BE MORE IN THIS SHORT STORY COLLECTION.

I CURRENTLY HAVE NO FIFTH BOOK ON MY TO-READ LIST, WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME! NOT SURE WHAT I WANT TO CHECK OUT SOON.

>> No.2163583

>>2163572

maybe try elfriede jelinek, she's more contemporary than you tend to go for but i feel like her style might not be too objectionable for you

>> No.2163596

>>2163583
I MUST STAY TRUE TO MY ROOTS AND REFRAIN FROM READING FEMALE AUTHORED WORKS

SORRY ANON :(

>> No.2163605

DECIDED TO CONTINUE MY ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES BY ZOLA WITH THE BEAST WITHIN/LA BETE HUMAINE

IF RUNAWAY HORSES FARES A GOOD READ I'LL PROBABLY THROW THE THIRD INSTALMENT OF HIS TERATOLOGY ON STRAIGHT AFTER TOO.

STILL, OPEN FOR RECOMMENDATIONS.

>> No.2163611

THE GREAT THING ABOUT ZOLA IS HIS WORKS ARE SO GRITTY AND PACKED FULL OF INTERESTING SUBJECT MATTER THAT THEY MAKE FOR QUITE THE ENJOYABLE READS.

WHO DOESN'T WANT TO READ ABOUT PEOPLE SLEEPING AROUND AND MURDERING?

>> No.2164765

LAST FIVE:
>The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras
I want to say it made me think of a not-as-good The Tunnel by Sabato. A lot of the same themes, artsy, but much shorter and more sexual.
>Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays
Really great Chinese theatre. My favorite is "The Ghost in the Pot," where the guy is killed, thrown into a kiln, and turned into a chamber pot which he then haunts. Judge Pao is a really fun character.
>The Lover by Marguerite Duras
>A Tomb For Boris Davodivich by Danilo Kis
>My Tired Father by Gellu Naum

CURRENTLY READING:
>Howling at the Moon and Blue by Hagiawara Sakutaro
>The Visits of the Queen of Sheba by Miguel Serrano
>Imperial Messages: 100 Modern Parables

NEXT FIVE:
>Laments by Jan Kochanowski
>The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
>View With a Gran of Sand by Wisława Szymborska
>Nadja by Andre Breton
>Pigeon by Patrick Suskind

>> No.2164784

1984
Crime and Punishment
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the flies
Catch-22

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Mein Kampf
To Kill a Mockingbird
American Psycho

>> No.2164785

>>2164784
WELCOME TO /LIT/

>> No.2164795

LAST FIVE:

>You don't love me yet, Lethem
>Chess Story, Zweig.
>The End of the Road, Barth
>Dubliners, Joyce
>Spirits of the Dead, Poe

I haven't read a book I didn't like since forever. Although Dubliners was tiring and I expected better.

CURRENTLY READING:

>Junky, Burroughs

NEXT FIVE:

>Great Jones Street, DeLillo
>Ready Player One, some dude
>Brief Interviews With Hideous Man, walrus
>The Luzhin Defense, Nabokov
>[your recommendation?]

>> No.2164812

>>2164785
Thanks, I am really starting to get into reading. I can't believe I didn't really appreciate the beauty of books sooner. I guess television is to blame.