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Anonymous Fri Nov 18 01:46:06 2011 No.2199630 [Reply] [Original]

LAST FIVE
CURRENT
NEXT FIVE

POST EM

LAST FIVE:
I, ROBOT - ASIMOV
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES - BRADBURY
THE NUN - DIDEROT
HARD TIMES - DICKENS
THE BEAST WITHIN - ZOLA

CURRENT:
ROBINSON CRUSOE - DEFOE

NEXT FIVE:
THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD - LOVECRAFT
THE TEMPLE OF DAWN - MISHIMA
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH - VERNE
HELL - BARBUSSE
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - VERNE

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 02:03:06 2011 No.2199639

how was diderot cappy?

>last five

junky, burroughs (good)
the visible man, chuck klosterman (borderline, forgettable)
you don't love me yet, lethem (i liked it)
chess story, stefan zweig (good)
great jones street, delillo (loved it)

>current

huis clos & les mouches, sartre.

>next five

lolita (annotated)
dom juam, moliere
le misanthrope, moliere
the disappointment artist, lethem
brief interviews with hideous men, walrus

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 02:43:06 2011 No.2199665

>>2199639
SORRY FOR LATE REPLY, BUT I DON'T KNOW, THE CONCEPT FOR ITS TIME CERTAINLY WASN'T BAD BUT AS IT WAS NOT EXACTLY INITIALLY WRITTEN FOR LITERARY PURPOSES THE RECOUNTING STYLE OF THE WORK CAN GET QUITE TIRESOME AS A MATTER OF FACT.

IT WAS WRITTEN AS A JOKE TO GET HIS FRIEND TO ACT ON WHAT HE'D READ AS THE DISTRESS OF A NUN AND HER TREATMENT, HOWEVER DIDEROT'S OWN SISTER DID DIE UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES AND IT DID SHINE LIGHT ON A SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL ISSUE AT THE TIME

FOR THAT REASON (AND THERE ARE MORE) I BELIEVE THIS TO DEFINITELY BE WORTH CHECKING OUT BY ALL

I AM SLIGHTLY DRUNK

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 02:52:06 2011 No.2199669 POSTS WORKING?

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:19:06 2011 No.2199684

Song of Susannah - Stephen King <3
Princeps Fury
&
First Lord's Fury - Jim Butcher <3
The Golden Key - compilation w/ Melanie Rawn.
Didn't finish it. Way bad.
At Grave's End - Don't do it unless you like fluff.

The Dark Tower - S.K.
Black Unicorn - Tanith Lee
Gold Unicorn - Tanith Lee
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Mister Monday - Garth Nix

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:26:06 2011 No.2199688 >>2199684 THAT'S SOME NICE CASUAL READING. WHY NOT CHECK OUT SOME DUMAS OR HUGO? I'M SURE YOU'D ENJOY THEIR BOOKS.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:36:06 2011 No.2199696

Last Five:
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Fantastic)
The Crying of Lot 49 (What the fuck am I reading?)
Cloud Atlas (Three decent stories hidden within three average stories)
Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2 (HOLY SHIT TAKE ALL MY MONEY)
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (It's like Slaughterhouse-Five except I'm not 15)

Current:
The Grapes of Wrath (Pretty good when Steinbeck isn't describing every detail of that stupid fucking car)
Clash of Kings (inb4 loldragons)

Next Five:
Myths from Mesopotamia
The Blind Assassin
Pale Fire
The Big Money
The Iliad

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:39:06 2011 No.2199700
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LAST FIVE:
>Angel Riding a Beast by Liliana Ursu
Amazing contemporary Romanian poetry from an author who spent a bit of time in the United States. I can't name any favorites from it, but only because they are all equally supremely memorable.
>19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Basically 19 different translations of the same poem plus the author's smarmy commentary on how accurately each version conveys the original poem. I kept disagreeing with which versions he deemed best, but it was still extremely interesting.
>Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse de Segur
Mostly picked it up for the absolutely beautiful illustrations. The stories themselves aren't so interesting, but I enjoyed how all of them apparently happened in the same kingdom and kept overlapping.
>A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar
Probably only recommended for Yourcenar fans, this collection has three of her earliest stories. The first was the most interesting, "A Blue Tale," where she writes in a way so that the entire story is told in shades in blue. The entire introduction was basically saying "well, these aren't so good" so probably don't read it first unless you want all anticipation killed.
>The Late Henry Moss, Eyes For Consuela, When the World Was Green by Sam Shepard

CURRENT:
>Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else by Daniela Fischerova
Short stories by a Czech author. I had read "The Thirty-Sixth Chicken of Master Wu" in an anthology before and really loved it, so I picked up a dedicated collection of her work.
>Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Reading for class - read the first section and I'm enjoying it so far. Feels kind of gossipy at places, but Snowe is dowdy enough to keep me interested.
>Traditional Korean Theatre
>The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola

NEXT FIVE:
>Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik
>The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners by Pierre Louys
>Time Gifts by Zoran Zivkovic
>Nadja by Andre Breton
>Blaugast by Paul Leppin

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:41:06 2011 No.2199701 >>2199700 RECOMMEND ME BOOKS!!!!

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 03:52:06 2011 No.2199706

>>2199701
Um. Well, I think you like gothic/supernatural stuff a bit?

All Lafcadio Hearn's work is on Project Gutenberg - he was an author who spent a large amount of time in Japan late in his life. Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan are his re-tellings of local folklore, myths, and otherwise scary stories. He actually taught English literature at Tokyo Imperial University until he died, and then Nastume Soseki took over the position.

He wrote other stuff too, like stories based on New Orleans, but his Japanese related books are the most well-known.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:02:06 2011 No.2199711 >>2199706 WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH DO ANY OF THE TWO RECOMMENDED BOOKS HAVE OVERLAPPING STORIES OR ARE THEY ALL DIFFERENT?

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:08:06 2011 No.2199714

>>2199711
Pretty sure at least those two have entirely different stories. I haven't read either of them the entire way through yet though, so I may be wrong.

He also has Kokoro (not that Kokoro) and Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, which aren't as much ghost stories as just "Japanese stories." But they may interest you too!

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:25:06 2011 No.2199723 >>2199714 I WILL START WITH THE TWO FIRST RECOMMENDED BOOKS. LATER ON IF I'VE READ THEM AND ENJOYED THEM, PLEASE REMIND ME TO CHECK OUT HIS OTHER STUFF.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:40:06 2011 No.2199728 pedo capsguy, no one cares what you've been reading go away

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:51:06 2011 No.2199731

Last five:
>Schopenhauers Telescope by Gerard Donovan
Well this was easy to read and had an interesting plot, but all the pseudo-philosophy was almost too much to bear. Or when Donovan lets the good guy diagnose the bad guy with depression when obviously that madman ain't got a fucking depression but some schizo-shit.
>Das Labyrinth der träumenden Bücher (the labyrinth of dreaming books) by Walter Moers
Some of Moers' other books were translated into English, so you might know him. This new novel of his is probably by far the weakest one, but in a weird way. Basically one half of it is a retelling of the prequel (it has been published in the fictive world of the novel, too, and got made into a costly puppet play there, which the protagonist then attends), the rest of the time nothing really happens and then the whole thing ends with a cliffhanger. Very weird and seemingly postmodern, if it weren't a fantasy novel.
>Alles ist grün (everything's green) by DFW
This is a newly published collection of some of his stories that had previously not seen translation into German. They're all from the Girl With Curious Hair book. "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" really blew my mind and felt like the most dense/complex piece of literature I ever read. Anyways, I love DFW, so these stories were fun.
>Eeeee Eee Eeee by the infamous Tao Lin
Yeah, well. I really liked it; but I can see what can be said against it.
>Naked Lunch (Die ursprüngliche Fassung / The Restored Text) by WSB
One helluva drug.

Current:
>A collection of "underground poetry" by the likes of Bukowski
Maybe I will find something good in this, was only 3 Euros.
>Der Zauberberg / The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
What can I say.

In pipe for the next five: Gravity' Rainbow, Buddha's Little Finger, Gantenbein, The Recognitions, Vergil's Bucolica, 1Q84. (and more)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:54:06 2011 No.2199732 >>2199728 YOU SO CUTE KEEP LIVING IN YOUR DREAMS

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:54:06 2011 No.2199733 >>2199731 OTHER THAN MANN ANY OF THESE PRE 1950?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 04:58:06 2011 No.2199735 >>2199733 Yes, the Bucolica. witty.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 05:01:06 2011 No.2199738 >>2199735 NOTHING COMES UP AS INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS PRE 1950 FOR THAT TITLE. WHY YOU WASTE MY TIME

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 05:03:06 2011 No.2199739 >>2199738 I think he's talking about Virgil's Eclogues, a.k.a. Bucolics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 05:05:06 2011 No.2199741 >>2199739 ANYTHING ELSE MY STEED?

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 05:07:06 2011 No.2199743

>>2199731
>Eeeee Eee Eeee by the infamous Tao Lin
That one isn't so bad. His early work is actually quite good. It's his later stuff that is just a clusterfuck of hipster/aspie posturing and gobbledygook.
>Naked Lunch (Die ursprüngliche Fassung / The Restored Text) by WSB
Burroughs is the poor man's Osamu Dazai.

My last five were...
1.) Guinea Pigs by Ludvik Vaculik
2.) Before the Dawn by Shimazaki Toson
3.) Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
4.) Motorman by David Ohle
5.) Beyond the Curve by Kobo Abe

Currently I'm reading...
1.) A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga
2.) Chronicle of My Mother by Yasushi Inoue
3.) Formas de volver a casa by Alejandro Zambra

I'll be working on The Europeans by Henry James, The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness, and Zero by Ignacio de Loyola Brandão.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 05:09:06 2011 No.2199745 >>2199739 Indeed I do. Didn't know what they were called in English, so I used the Latin title. Have to read them in Latin anyways for university.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 12:41:06 2011 No.2200101 SHALAMPUBUMPU

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 12:52:06 2011 No.2200109

Last 5:

Family Happiness - Tolstoy
The Monk - Lewis
Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy
The Big Sleep - Chandler
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Family Happiness was in a Penguin Classics collection with The Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil & Father Sergius so I'll more than likely read through those. Then I'll either read some Verne, or H.G Wells, or some Plato, whichever strikes me at the time.

List might seem a bit eclectic, I've only been reading for a month or two so I'm trying out different styles and genres to see what I like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 12:59:06 2011 No.2200116 >>2200109 Forgot to mention; I enjoyed all of them but found The Monk a littledark for my tastes. Far From the Madding Crowd rambled a little, but it was still enjoyable.

Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) Fri Nov 18 13:16:06 2011 No.2200134
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>LAST
How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - Christopher Boucher
The Human War - Noah Cicero
Damascus - Joshua Mohr
The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home - Sam Pink
Crash - JG ballard

>Current:
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

>next five
I seriously don't know who plans that far ahead.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 14:02:06 2011 No.2200165

Last five:

The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
The Crow Road
The Castle
In Praise of the Stepmother

all of them were great, I particularly loved 'The Catcher in the Rye'. I was apprehensive about it mainly due to all this stuff I'd read on /lit/ about how Holden Caulfield was an ass, but I found him quite lovable. I plan to make a thread in his defense one day soon.

Currently reading 'In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales' by Lord Dunsany and so far so good.

Next up I have 'Empire of the Sun' by J.G. Ballard, and after that I'm looking at 'Invisible Cities' by Calvino, 'Metropole' by Karinthy and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 14:17:06 2011 No.2200174

Last Five:
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Good Soldier
The Aspern Papers
Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Glass Bead Game

Current:
The History of Western Philosophy
To Purify the Words of the Tribe
Atonement

Next Five:
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
The Years of Rice and Salt
Strange Pilgrims
The Eyesight of Wasps

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:17:44 2011 No.2200604
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>LAST FIVE

H.G Wells - The Time Machine

It falls apart towards the end but who doesn't like a nice socialist-minded time travel moral tale?

Len Deighton - An Expensive Place to Die

The next in Deighton's "Unnamed Spy" series though with an obviously different protagonist to "Harry" and principly focused upon pre-69 Paris with parts that almost act as a apologetic for Bond whilst sticking to Deighton's knack for realism and depth of characterisation though with a little less stylistic experimentation (probably thanks to his publishers). It still is a bit of a minor novel of his I think, and I can certainly understand see why the next phase in Deighton's career he took a break from spy fiction as it feels like it was wearing a bit thin at that stage.

Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon

Arguably a lot better than I think I would have found it had note been exposed to the Moscow show trials through the lens of Australian communists in Frank Hardy's flawed masterpiece "But The Dead Are Many". The quintessential Soviet prison novel? Perhaps.

Lisa Lang - Utopian Man

Not much meat on the bones in this bit of historical portraiture about the somewhat eccentric and optimisic Melbourne bookseller Edward Cole, but it was still undeniably enjoyable read.

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman

Nightmarish, bizarre and at times utterly hilarious especially with the footnotes in regards to the fictional philosopher de Selby. The twist might be a bit predictable nowadays but it's still undeniably effective when you discover it's implications.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:21:44 2011 No.2200608
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>>2200604

>CURRENTLY READING

Tim Winton - Cloudstreet

There's undeniable brilliance in it but it's a real slog of a novel to get through. As it's an "obligatory Year 11/12 text" though, I can see why the kids hate it as it's 400 pages of elusive and fragmentary prose with multiple viewpoints explored and an overall obsession with the domestic which just isn't exactly suited to a stressed-out adolescent audience no matter what the monks at the curriculum monastery think.

Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 [N-F]

Reading it at a rather leisurely pace in order to placate one of my political hack mates who just happens to have gone through a Hunter S. Thompson phase.

>NEXT FIVE...SUBJECT TO CHANGES IN WHIM, WEATHER AND WHATEVER

Ivan Turgenev - First Love
Tayeb Salih - Seasons of Migration to the North
David Peace - 1974
Tim Winton - Dirt Music
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:37:35 2011 No.2200628

>Currently Reading

The Stranger
Perfume
Of Mice and Men
The Color Purple
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic

Working my way through literary canon... I enjoyed all of them immensely, particularly The Stranger and Ivan.

>Currently reading
Johnathon Franen - The Corrections.

I'm not too far into it, but I like the writing style so far. I just hope it doesn't get too sappy on me.

>NEXT FIVE...SUBJECT TO CHANGES IN WHIM, WEATHER AND WHATEVER
I don't plan

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:42:33 2011 No.2200632

>Last Five:
Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse - same
Circus of the Damned - same
Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem - I don't remember her name, she writes the Vorkosigan books
'Salem's Lot - Stephen King

>Current
Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
Ender's Game (I'm rereading it) - Orson Scott Card

>Next Five
Pet Sematary - Stephen King
The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan
The Lunatic Café - Laurell K. Hamilton
Bloody Bones - same
The Killing Dance - same

Needless to say, I'm working through the Anita Blake series. It's not bad. Not exactly the best series ever, but not bad.

OP Fri Nov 18 20:48:34 2011 No.2200641

LAST FIVE:

Love in the Time of Cholera - Kicked so much ass

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Great, but could have used some major editing

Freedom - I enjoyed it, nothing fancy but good nonetheless

Franny and Zooey - Reread it every year, one of my all time favorites

CURRENT:
1Q84 - Slightly disappointed, interesting, but not his best work

NEXT FIVE:

A Confederacy of Dunces - Looks good

The Marriage Plot - Supposed to be good, has a character based off DFW= all I needed to hear

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - On my list since I first heard "Tereza and Tomas"

Going After Cachiatto - I loved TTTC and my Dad has been bitching at me to read it so that I can read his MA thesis on this and Beloved

Something by F Scott Fitzgerald that is not The Great Gatsby... Suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:49:36 2011 No.2200643 >>2200165 Read Franny & Zooey if you have not already. If you liked Catcher, you'll love it. Personally, I think it's even better, and I love both.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:51:33 2011 No.2200647

1.Animal Farm by George Orwell
2 Dune by Frank Herbert
3.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
4.Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan by Vonda McIntyre
5. Star Trek The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry
Currently Reading
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Next
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:19:53 2011 No.2200809 FUCK YEAH CAPSGUY

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:28:48 2011 No.2200818 Last: Crying of Lot49 Laughter in the dark Cats Cradle Catcher in the rye Letters from a stoic. CUrrent: V Thinking about A farewell to arms or the fountainhead next.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:30:47 2011 No.2200821 >>2200818 I've read "V." a few times. Love it a lot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:39:48 2011 No.2200826 >>2200818 HOW'S LAUGHTER IN THE DARK? THIS WILL BE MY FIRST NABOKOV SINCE LOLITA, WHICH LET ME DOWN A BIT.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:50:47 2011 No.2200832 >>2200826 Im enjoying it. Its taking me a while but im sure it will be worth it. >>2200821 It was my first Nabokov and i liked it. It was a pretty easy read and there was some great stuff in there. He does love his young ladies

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 23:55:49 2011 No.2200837 >>2200832 PERHAPS YOU HAVE SOME OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS?

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 00:02:49 2011 No.2200844

>>2200837
I honestly never read much until past couple of years. It used to take me a good month to read a book because sitting down and focusing on one thing for a long time has always been very unpleasant, but ive started focusing more because i like to write and my writing is shitty.

I like Pynchon and Vonnegut. Im working my way through their work.
Catch 22 might be my favorite.
I liked Infinite Jest and the Pale King alot as well.
Im trying to mix in the classics with some "post modern" stuff as well.
And i try to read what authors i admire do.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 00:08:50 2011 No.2200853 >>2200844 YEAH I'M THE SAME, DIDN'T REALLY READ 'PROPERLY' UNTIL JUNE LAST YEAR. ALTHOUGH I NOW PRETTY MUCH ONLY READ PRE-1950 WRITTEN BOOKS.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 01:42:49 2011 No.2200924 CAN I HAVE A BUMP?

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:02:48 2011 No.2200934

Last 5

"The Name of the Wind"-Patrick Rothfuss
"The Wise Man's Fear"-Patrick Rothfuss
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"-Ernest Hemingway
"Empire"-Orson Scott Card (terrible)
"Crime and Punishment"-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Current: "The Lies of Locke Lamora"-Scott Lynch

Next: "Red Seas Under Red Skies"-Scott Lynch
"War and Peace"-Leo Tolstoy

Dunno after that. I like to alternate between "for fun" books, typically fantasy, and more classic works of literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 02:17:48 2011 No.2200942 >>2200934 SEEMS PRETTY AWESOME IF YOU NEED MORE CLASSICS THAT ARE INTERESTING TO READ WHY NOT CHECK OUT THAT THREAD I HELPED OUT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS?

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 04:42:48 2011 No.2200984

Last:

Moby Dick (reread)
The Trial
Most of Kafka's short stories
The Castle
Othello

Currently:

Name of the Rose
Blood Meridian (rereading)
And a bunch of non literature.

Next:
Maybe some Dickens, certainly some Joyce.

Always enjoy these threads, lit should do some reading together.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 04:46:48 2011 No.2200987

i am a slightly drunk /mu/tant who lurks this forum regularly posting my very entry level plebeian list

previous five
darkness visibile
where i'm calling from
duncton wood
portrait of the artist as a young man
acts of king arther and his noble knights (steinbeck)
current is kafka on the shore
to read:
brief interviews with hideous men
dubliners
brothers karamazov
this interesting book on beer gifted to me (tasting beer by randy mosher)
idk i might read darkness visible again, it was pretty good

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 04:47:48 2011 No.2200989 >>2200987 >arther >alcohol

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 05:06:49 2011 No.2200998

LAST FIVE
Speichelfäden in der Buttermilch(compilation of Austrian comedians Stermann and Grissemann)
All of Flann O'Briens works

CURRENT
House of Leaves(In German though, I know that much is lost by translation but my English isn't good enough to fully understand it in English therefor I just read it in German since its easier for me)
NEXT FIVE
Walden Two
Wallenstein
2666
John dies at the end(reread)
Kafka on the shore(reread)

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 05:11:48 2011 No.2201005

> Past:
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Other short works of Beckett
Selected letters of Napoleon
The Poetics
Long Day's Journey Into Night

> Present:
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Tocqueville: A life
Letters of Tocqueville
The Rhetoric
The Ethics

> Future:
More plays.
More ancient greek philosophy.
A book on the history of the Social Contract in Western culture.
More of the New Yorker.
More Beckett.
Poetry.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 05:32:48 2011 No.2201022
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Last Five:
The Book of the Law - A. Crowley
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P Lovecraft
Dune 1, 2, 3 - F. Herbert

Current:
The Man in the High Castle - P. K. Dick

Next Five:
The Clavis or Key of the Magic of Solomon - S. H. Peterson
Metro 2033 - D. Glukhovsky
Liber 4 - A. Crowley
More Philip K. Dick

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 07:44:49 2011 No.2201070
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Last:
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatski
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin

Now:
Starfish Girl by Athena Villaverde

Next:
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Hadji Murad by Tolstoy
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham

pictured is my favorite snack while i read. fuck the cheddar bullshit btw, original is where it's at

Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Nov 19 08:47:50 2011 No.2201098

>>2200641

Wow, I've read all 5 of those books you just got done with, all of them enjoyable.

Last 5 read:

1Q84 - Murakami - okay
Nazi Literautre - Roberto Bolano - good
Labyrinths - Borges - okay
The Prodigal Daughter - Jeffrey Archer - good
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - slightly bad

I'm currently reading Underworld, by Don DeLillo. I admit, I'm enjoying it a lot, despite being warned off by several people. There are a lot of interesting sections: the progress of The Ball; Klara Sax and her life; the underground weapons bunker. I see why people like this, and why it's considered zeitgiest. But weren't authors who lived through the Cold War as bitter as a citris farm?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 08:54:50 2011 No.2201102 >>2201098 >The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - slightly bad how comes? not that i value your opinion or anything, just curious. i'm planning to read it soon.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 08:56:50 2011 No.2201105

LAST FIVE:
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
Leaves of Grass (earliest edition) by Walt Whitman
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

CURRENTLY:
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

NEXT FIVE:
Atlas by Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not really sure after that. The semester is ending, so I have to choose for myself again, and I haven't put much thought into it yet. Maybe some Bolano, I've been wanting to explore his work.

>>	Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Nov 19 09:35:49 2011 No.2201125 >>2201102 If you don't value my opinion, you don't need to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 09:45:49 2011 No.2201131 >>2201125 >cops out on explaining why he doesn't like The Bell Jar

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 09:52:50 2011 No.2201133

LAST FIVE:
An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki by Harold Gould Henderson

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore
The Hobbit

CURRENT:
The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer

NEXT FIVE:
I'll sometimes pull a book from a shelf at the library and start reading it, if it sticks I'll head to checkout.
I've been wanting to read through Iliad and the Odyssey, anyone recommend a translation by some book company or author?

>>	Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Nov 19 10:00:50 2011 No.2201137 >>2201131 >being insulted >being asked for help by the same person He reminds me of some of the people I know IRL.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 10:08:50 2011 No.2201138 >>2201137 it was a gentle bit of banter, you senstive fellow, you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 10:16:50 2011 No.2201142 >implying i've even read 5 books in my lifetime nice try nigger

>>	Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Nov 19 10:19:49 2011 No.2201143 >>2201142 Don't call black people niggers, you whitey. It's racist. I admit that some niggers are bad though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 10:43:50 2011 No.2201150 Sweet

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:06:50 2011 No.2201162

last
>dinner-table philosophers by athenaeus (outtakes)
ancient VIPs exchanging short anecdotes at banquets. good book for toilet sessions.

>tristes tropiques by claude levi-strauss
a shallow summarization would be too insulting. i'm now very interested in his follow-up book "savage mind"

>I, claudius by robert graves
I expected something like "memoirs of hadrian" and got montechristo soap opera instead.

current:
Collected Poems of Cavafy (english translation, not sure if want)
A Life by Italo Svevo (amazing)
Selected Karl Kraus Articles (meh)

planning:
more Svevo, more Levi-Strauss, Noah Cicero, Carpentier, Borges

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 11:09:49 2011 No.2201163

LAST FIVE:
>Conquest of Bread
>Heart of a Dog
>Story of the Eye
>A Hero of Our Time
>A Clockwork Orange

CURRENT:
>Anna Karenina
>Crime and Punishment

NEXT FIVE:
>hoping to finish the /lit/ novellas list soon
>some Czech books
>probably gotta read Catch-22 at some point and stop pushing it off for later

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:20:50 2011 No.2201204
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>Last five
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Some boring parts where he indeed describes this fucking truck for ages, a little too politically engaged for me but thoroughly a great piece of literature. Steinbeck has that ability to describe and make the reader feel emotions that is amazing.
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin. Enjoyed all of them. Could have less neckbeard sex scenes, but the plot and shennanigans are highly enjoyable.
The Name of The Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Highly enjoyed the first one and the second one almost as much, I can't understand all the hate on it. The part with Felurian highly lyrical and the whole coming of age of Kvothe is really deep and realistic. Currently finishing the last pages. Read all these in English.

>Next five (in that order I presume)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, while listening to Leviathan all day erryday. Fuck yeah. I have high expectations for this book, best be epic. In English.
The Prince by Machiavel, in French.
The Hobbit by Tolkien, in English, because incoming film.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde,
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, both in English, cause I need a little Brit literature around all this fantasy shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:24:50 2011 No.2201205 >>2201204 >Moby Dick by Herman Melville, while listening to Leviathan all day erryday. Fuck yeah. I have high expectations for this book, best be epic. In English. Oh man, are you in for a rude awakening.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:27:50 2011 No.2201208 >>2201205 What do you mean by that, that it's boring...?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:32:51 2011 No.2201213 >>2201208 That it's absolutely nothing like the fucking Mastodon album, and you're going to hate it because it's going to shatter your preconceived notions.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:33:51 2011 No.2201214 >>2201208 it's an incredible book, but it can be a little dry. trying to blast through it in one day isn't a good idea.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 12:36:50 2011 No.2201215 >>2201214 I didn't plan to blast it in one day, even though I have a lot of free time right now. I read incredibly slowly. Don't know why, I never was able to read faster.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:28:50 2011 No.2201274

Past:

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf translated by Heany

Current:

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

and

The Great Philosophers edited by Frederic Raphael

Next:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:42:53 2011 No.2201288
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previous
>rum diary - total bore
>no country for old men
>Junky
>In search of the dice man
>Alice in Wonderland - yeah and what?!?!

Current
>Audition
>Girl, Interrupted
>Naked Lunch
>On the Road
>The crying of Lot 49
>I, Partridge

Future 5
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Seven Days of Peter Crumb
>Fear and Loathing Campaign Trail
>Do Androids dream of electric Sheep?
>White Noise
>Out
What that's not FIVE....FUCK
Well here's Fat Misty ENJOY!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 13:48:51 2011 No.2201293 >>2201288 same on Alice in Wonderland. Over hyped as fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 14:42:52 2011 No.2201406 >>2200641 That's also how I got into The Unbearable Lightness of Being! I hope you like it when you finally read it. I loved it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 14:52:51 2011 No.2201430 >>2201288 She actually has a really cute face.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:01:51 2011 No.2201447 >>2201430 NO

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:14:55 2011 No.2201472

Last five:
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
>Really great. I can't wait to read more Kawabata
Metamorphosis by Kafka
>Read for school. Kinda sped through it so I can only say it wasn't my favorite Kafka but Kafka is something you have to take your time on.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky
>again for school
We The Animals by Justin Torres
>A good novel with a terrible ending. It was so bad I can't help but think about how bad that ending was and forget all the good stuff I liked about the book.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
>Makes me want to go camping. A good novel for examining Kerouac's repressed homosexuality. There's even a scene where someone in a bar mentions a boy liking him and he ends up leaving the town just because of it.

Currently:
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
>I'm extremely impressed. Stephen Crane may be one of my new favorite writers. He's so damn poetic for being the crown prince of realism.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
>My current door stop. I'm really enjoying it. I love Japanese history and reading about all the schools of martial arts and samurai families is extremely interesting to me.

next five:
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
>gonna be my next doorstop after I finish Musashi
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
>never read it. I feel like I need to.
Nine Stories by Salinger
>see above unless Salinger doesn't click with me then I'll probably ignore.
King, Queen, Knave by Nabokov
>only read Lolita. I'm excited to see what his other novels are like.
The Story of a Ship Wrecked Sailor by Marquez
>see above except with Love in the Time of Cholera

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:15:55 2011 No.2201475 Most of you have shit reading taste

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:20:53 2011 No.2201479 >>2201472 Stephen Crane was an amazing poet too. If you want to get the girl, just quote "Should the Wide World Roll Away".

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:26:55 2011 No.2201487 >>2201479 I've read most of Stephen Crane's stories and enjoyed them. Other than by Chekhov you know any other stories or novellas worth checking out?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 16:18:54 2011 No.2201551 BUMP

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 16:32:52 2011 No.2201562

>last five:
JFK and the Unspeakable - James Douglass
Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Exile and the Kingdom - Albert Camus
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

>current
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon

>next five
Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
War and Peace - Tolstoy
On the Shoulders of Giants - Stephen Hawking
Hidden Reality - Brian Greene

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:17:52 2011 No.2201828 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:39:52 2011 No.2201861 >>2201828 I'LL BUMP THAT BUMP, WITH A BUMP

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:03:02 2011 No.2202009

LAST FIVE:
THE CASE OF DEXTER WARD - LOVECRAFT
ROBINSON CRUSOE - DEFOE
I, ROBOT - ASIMOV
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES - BRADBURY
THE NUN - DIDEROT

CURRENT
THE DEBACLE - ZOLA

NEXT FIVE
THE TEMPLE OF DAWN - MISHIMA
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH - VERNE
HELL - BARBUSSE
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - VERNE
THE LESSON OF THE MASTER - JAMES

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:17:02 2011 No.2202027
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A Dance With A Waste of One Weeks Time - Martin
The Lucifer Effect - Zimbardo
A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson
Ghost Legion - Margaret Weis
Lost City of Z - David Grann

Currently Reading:
Neverness - David Zindell
Hunger Games - Collins (Lol, never read it, good shitter reader)

Next I intend to hit some more of this year's latest releases in scifi/fantasy:
The January Dancer - Michael Flynn
Conqueror's Shadow - Marmell
Skyship Academy - James
Reality 36 - Haley
and Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:29:48 2011 No.2202050

-5 : Sophocle - Complete Tragedies
-4 : Lysistrata - Aristophane
-3 : Notre-Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
-2 : Putain - Nelly Arcan
-1 : Les yeux bleus de Mistassini

0 : The trial - kafka

+1 : Three musketeers - Dumas
+2 : Sisyphus myth - Camus
+3 : Romeo & Juliette / A Midsummer Night's Dream
+4 : Divine Comedy - Dante
+ 5 : Hyperion 1 - Simmons

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:37:49 2011 No.2202063

Last Five:
A Song Of Ice And Fire (1-4) - George R.R. Martin
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

Current:
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Scarlet Letter (Have to read this boring piece of shit for high school literature) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nueromancer - William Gibson

Next Five:
Some Dying Earth stories - Jack Vance
H.P. Lovecraft stories
Dance Of Dragons - George R.R. Martin
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:37:49 2011 No.2202064

LAST FIVE
> Women - Bukowski
> Heart of Darkness - Conrad
> Wuthering Heights - Bronte
> The Evil Shepard - Bjørneboe
> Frisk - Cooper

CURRENT

> The Cossacks - Tolstoy

NEXT FIVE
Ada, or Adar - Nabokov
The Fixer - Malamud
The Dice Man - Rhinehart
Call it sleep - Roth
The White Guard - Bulgakov

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:44:49 2011 No.2202076 >>2200826 Ada's his best work.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:44:49 2011 No.2202077

>>2201472
Hey just a suggestion, if you enjoy Japanese writings I suggest that you pick up a copy of "The Hagakure" by Tsunetomo Yamamoto. Its an engrossing quick read about the Samurai cultures. Really enlightening in respects to historical social ideals of Japan.

>>2200934
Fuck yeah. "Lies" is possibly my favorite fantasy to surface in the last few years. and the wait for the third book has been agonizing. as for red skies, sorry buddy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 22:41:46 2011 No.2202187 >>2202076 AND THE WHITE GUARD BY BULGAKOV IS ONE OF HIS BEST

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 22:44:48 2011 No.2202193 >>2202187 why aren't you reading the enormous room yet capsfuck

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 22:48:48 2011 No.2202198

Last 5:

House of Leaves - Okay, but WAY overrated.
1984 - Good
Brave New World - Also good
Slaughterhouse 5 - Great
Atlas Shrugged - I want to like it, but it's just way too long. It could easily have been shortened to about 500 pages without losing anything of interest. Just beating a dead horse.

Next 5:

Sherlock Holmes collection
..........dunno, need to buy more from amazon

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 22:55:49 2011 No.2202213

Last five (excluding all history-related reading):
The Great Gatsby
On the Road
The Yellow Wallpaper
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass

Current:
Naked Lunch
The Merchant of Venice

Next five:
Richard III
Howl and other poems (re-read)
The Changeling (Middleton)
and then probably some other Burroughs stuff or some of his influences/contemporaries

It's quite funny how studying actually takes away most of your choice in what you read, so my literary knowledge seems to be becoming greater but much less diverse which is a shame.

Anonymous Sat Nov 19 22:56:47 2011 No.2202219

>>2202193
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4206268?shelf=currently-reading

BECAUSE I HAVE 16 BOOKS ON MY 'CURRENTLY READING' LIST.

I ONLY STUMBLED ACROSS THE ENORMOUS ROOM RECENTLY, IT'S LUCKY IT'S NOT SHOVED TO THE BACK OF THE LINE.

NOT LIKE ANYONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT HERE

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 01:18:47 2011 No.2202397 Awesome. Getting tons of great recs. I need something new to read. :) bump~

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 01:33:47 2011 No.2202420

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Hardy 3/5
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe 2/5
Cakes and Ale - Maugham 3/5
No Exit - Sartre 3/5
Hunger - Hamsun 2/5

Currently reading:

Nothing really. Lots of Uni work to do. Have kind of been reading Frankenstein on and off..

Next Five:

Hunchback of Notre-dam - Hugo
My Antonia - Cather
Maybe a Shakespeare Play
Garden of Eden - Hemingway
Not really sure, East of Eden maybe. Probably won't have time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 02:47:46 2011 No.2202494 POSTING HOPING THAT MORE PEOPLE WHO READ PRE 1950 POST

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:31:46 2011 No.2202874 >>2202494 I vaguely remember you explaining this before but what's with your obsession over pre-war lit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:40:47 2011 No.2202889 >>2202874 He places arbitrary restrictions on what he reads so he can focus. Same reason he doesn't read women.

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:00:49 2011 No.2202927
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poland - michener
fire upon the deep - vinge
anathem - stephenson
a game of thrones - martin
catcher in the rye - salinger

clash of kings (33%) - martin

the baroque cycle (quicksilver, the confusion, system of the world) - stephenson
reamde - stephenson
foundation - asimov

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:03:50 2011 No.2202932

Last five:
Brave New World - Excellent.
Life of Pi - Also excellent.
The Stranger - Didn't really get it so much. I'm still a little confused on the existentialism of the book.
Dorian Gray - Meh.
The Lacuna - Alright.

Currently Reading:
Most of my reads are for English class. We just finished short stories (Camus' The Guest was the last one I read).

Next five (also coming from my english class):
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Penelopiad
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hamlet. Afterward, I might try something for myself. Maybe a few novellas or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 14:18:49 2011 No.2203117 >>2202889 PRETTY MUCH THIS

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:37:51 2011 No.2203924 I usually read epics of some sort. Reading the Dark Tower series. Before that I read the Wheel of Time series and Mistborn. So thats the last...what, 20 books?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:44:52 2011 No.2203940 >>2203924 BUT WHAT'S NEXT? DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:49:52 2011 No.2203948

>Last
Assorted short stories by King
The teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada
The sign of four- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

>Currently
Nausea- Jean Paul Sartre

>next 5
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
The portable nietzsche, not sure how much of it I'll read
Ender's game- Orson Scott Card
The Myth of Sisyphus- Albert Camus
Bought a book on Latin, going to attempt to learn it because I hate myself

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:51:51 2011 No.2203952 >>2203940 Thought about trying to read the Bible in a more literary approach. Maybe wander around until something takes my interest. Probably not gonna read more Stephen King.....I feel like I've been run over by deus ex machina with spinning rims.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:55:49 2011 No.2203961 >>2203948 Your taste sounds excellent, >>2199731 here. After looking up Eeeee Eee Eeee on amazon and reading a few reviews, I bought it immediately. I think I'll enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 21:58:50 2011 No.2203968 >>2203961 Woops flipped the two quotes, you get what I mean

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:17:50 2011 No.2204002 >>2203961 WHAT ABOUT ME JON?

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