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FUCKYEAHCAPSGUYTHREAD

LAST FIVE
CURRENTLY READING
NEXT FIVE

LAST FIVE:
THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL - MISHIMA
THE TEMPLE OF DAWN - MISHIMA
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH - VERNE
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - VERNE
THE DEBACLE - ZOLA

CURRENT
VITA SEXUALIS - OGAI
THE KILL - ZOLA

NEXT FIVE:
KAPPA - AKUTAGAWA
HELL - BARBUSSE
KWAIDAN - HEARN
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - NABOKOV
THE MOON AND SIXPENCE - MAUGHAM

ALTHOUGH NEXT FIVE PROBABLY WILL CHANGE IF I PICK STUFF UP AT THE LIBRARY

>> No.2231705

RECOMMENDATIONS APPRECIATED. I THINK ONE OF MY 'READING GOALS' THIS COMING YEAR IS TO COMPLETE ZOLA'S MACQUART-ROUGON SERIES

>> No.2231801

SAGE IN CAPITALS IS SUPER EFFECTIVE!

>> No.2232269

>>2231801
NO JON

LAST FIVE:
KAPPA - AKUTAGAWA
VITA SEXUALIS - MORI
THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL - MISHIMA
THE TEMPLE OF DAWN - MISHIMA
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - VERNE

CURRENT
THE KILL - ZOLA

NEXT FIVE
HARP OF BURMA - TAKEYAMA
HELL - BARBUSSE
KWAIDAN - HEARN
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - NABOKOV
THE MOON AND SIXPENCE - MAUGHAM

>> No.2232277

>>2231705
Will you be able to acquire all the novels in English, Capsguy? As far as I'm aware, Oxford and Penguin do not issue all 20 novels. A couple, specifically early novels, do not have modern translations. You would have to track down an older copy, one not in print. Or at least, that's how it is in N America. Not sure what the popular call for Zola is like in Australia.

>> No.2232280

your posts would be a lot more worthwhile caps guy if you posted a sentence or so about the books you read.

>> No.2232283

capsbro read work of art by sinclair lewis sometime

>> No.2232287

Hows the holiday? I was actually thinking toda about making one of these threads in your abscence.

Last 5:
Tolstoy - gospel in brief
Beckett - happy days
Eco - some essas
Beckett - What where
Beckett - Come and Go

Current:
Mainly In search of the miraculous by Ouspensky but reading bits of other stuff aswell.

Next 5:
don't know yet, mabe socratic dialogues, koolaids

>> No.2232295

im reading the odyssey

>> No.2232304

capsguy, do you ever read poetry?

>> No.2232308

>>2232304
Only faggots read poetry

>> No.2232309

>>2232277
>>2232287
IT HASN`T BEEN SO BAD, BUT NEARLY GOT MYSELF INTO A FAIR BIT OF TROUBLE A FEW TIMES, GOT TO WATCH MY DRINKING.

ALSO FOR THE PAST WEEK AND A HALF MY STOMACH`S BEEN FUCKED FROM EXCESS DRINKING EVERY DAY

>>2232277
FOR THE LESSER KNOWN/RECOGNISED ONES I GUESS I MAY HAVE TO RESORT IN USING PUBLIC DOMAIN TRANSLATIONS, BUT PENGUIN OFTEN USES THEM ANYWAYS

>>2232280
SOMETIMES I DO, BUT I WAS IN A RUSH IN MAKING THE THREAD. ABOUT TO GO OUT TOO

>>2232283
I`LL SEE, BUT AT THE MOMENT WORKING THROUGH ESSENTIAL CLASSICS AND JAPANES PRIMARILY

>> No.2232315

>>2232304
I READ SOME RANDOM TRANSLATED JAPANESE STUFF, SOME OLDER GREEKS, BEOUWULF AND DANTE`S INFERNO.

NOT BIG ON IT TO BE HONEST.

>> No.2232312

>>2232269
What were your thoughts on Kappa and Vita Sexualis?

>> No.2232335

>>2232312
BOTH GREAT CRITIQUES ON JAPAN AT THE TIME. SEXUAL THEMES THROUGHOUT BOTH ARE SIGNIFICANTLY EVIDENT HOWEVER THEY DO NOT COME OFF AS CHEAP EROTICA.

I PRETTY MUCH READ BOTH IN ONE SITTING AND I`D THINK THAT READERS WHO ENJOY AUTHORS LIKE DOSTOEVSKY, NIETZCHE AND OTHER EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHERS WOULD ENJOY THIS JAPANESE TAKE ON THEM, AS BOTH ALSO HAVE REFERENCING TO VARIOUS AUTHORS.

KAPPA DEFINITELY HAS A MORE LIGHTER TONE, WHICH ASSISTS IN IT BEING ABLE TO BE RECEIVED BY A WIDER AUDIENCE, HOWEVER DUE TO THE PREVALENCE OF THE TOPIC OF SEXUALITY INCLUDING HOMOSEXUALITY I WOULDN`T BE GIVING THAT BOOK TO A CHILD TO READ, UNLESS MAYBE IN THEIR MID TEENS OR LATER.

>> No.2232341

>>2232309

>I`LL SEE, BUT AT THE MOMENT WORKING THROUGH ESSENTIAL CLASSICS AND JAPANES PRIMARILY

don't give me that tone when you just asked for recs

also, mcteague by frank norris

>> No.2232357

>>2232308
That is, people who care about literature? Right.

>> No.2232362
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2232362

LAST FIVE
Osogbo and the Art of Heritage by Peter Probst
The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard
Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson
Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson
Language by Julia Kristeva

CURRENTLY READING
Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
Octavio Paz in general

NEXT FIVE
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
General Course in Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

>> No.2232366

>>2232341
SORRY :(

ANYWAYS THIS ISN`T ADVERTISING BUT YOU KNOW HOW LAST TIME I DROPPED MY KINDLE IN A BAR AND IT BROKE? WELL, I SAT ON MY NEW KINDLE AND THE SCREEN GOT FUCKED UP

THANK GOD MY FRIEND MADE SURE I HELD ONTO IT AND AMAZON ISSUED A NEW ONE FOR FREE

FUCK YE

>> No.2232385

>>2232341
second the norris. I prefer the octopus, but mcteague is the one people like best it seems

>> No.2232386

>>2232287
have you read Beckett's Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable trilogy yet? I highly recommend them

>> No.2232388

>>2232385

shit, haven't read octopus yet... that's the railroad-y one, yeah?

>> No.2232405

>>2232388
yup

>> No.2232457

>>2232405
Nope

>> No.2232463

last five:
the importance of being ernest: hilarious and endlessly quotable.

huis clos: it was pretty good, somehow I expected something very much like this when told the premise.

great jones street: loved it.

junky: cool. educative.

the visible man: mediocre. had potential to be interesting.

current:

rereading lolita with endnotes. you could fill a separate book with everything I missed. I even missed the annabel leigh references.

next:
dom juan
le misanthrope
brief interviews with hideous men
a couple of borges

>> No.2232466

>>2232463

make sure "library of babel" is one of those borgeseses

>> No.2232468

>>2232466
i read that short story already, but wasn't it really short? don't be afraid to recommend any borges-like dude, i can handle beanspeak.

>> No.2232482

>>2232468

yeah, shit's short

borges-wise "funes, his memory" is key too

non-borges, try some camilo jose cela, esp mrs caldwell speaks to her son

>> No.2232495

>>2232482
added to list thanks.

>> No.2232515

Last Five:
>Mistborn: Alloy of Law by Brandom Sanderson
>Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
>Mistborn 3
>Mistorn 2
>Mistborn 1

Currently Reading:
Starman: Yuri Gagarin by Piers Bizony

Next Five:
Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
All Skyrim Books in epub Format by The Internet
IQ84 by Some Asian Guy
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Reamde by Neil Stephenson

>> No.2232534

Last 5:
A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Anne-Marie MacDonald
Othello - Shakespeare
Sacred Violence - Jill N. Claster
Works & Days and Theogony - Hesiod

Currently:
Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas
The Pleasures of the Damned - Charles Bukowski
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1297-1344 - Judith M. Bennett

Next Five:
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
An assortment of Greek tragedies I need to read for next semester (Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Hippolytus...)

>> No.2232875

bump for caps

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>>2232875

>> No.2233054

I TRY SO HARD GUYS. IN INTERNET CAFE AT 2AM WAITING FOR GIRL TO GET OFF WORK FROM BAR. OH GOD THE HUMANITY. I WENT TOO A GIRLS BAR TONIGHT. OH GOD. OH GOD. NOT BAD BUT NO FUCK YET

BUT I MAY HAVE ARRANGED MY SUPPLY OF WEED AND DMT AND MUSHROOMS HERE, YAY

>> No.2233063

how was decay of an angel? i haven't read it.

mishima is kind of like a manchild. but he's a proseman no doubt.

>> No.2233066

LAST FIVE
>The Old Man and the Sea (*****)
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (****)
>On the Road (***)
>The Illiad (*****)
>The Odyssey (*****)
CURRENTLY READING
>Lolita
>The Lost Estate
NEXT FIVE
>Moby-Dick
>Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
>Metamorphoses
>Blow-up and Other Stories
>Kokoro

>> No.2233078

>>2233066
> stars for on the road

i like you because we share opinions. have fun with kokoro. not my favorite work by one of my favorite authors but still high up there.

>> No.2233098

>>2233078
Which of Sōseki's books do you rate higher than Kokoro, out of interest?

And yeah, On the Road really underwhelmed me. It picks up pace around two-thirds of the way through, but still.

>> No.2233121

>>2233098
sanshiro or botchan as an intro to the author. way more action than his later works. botchan is funny. sanshiro is poignant, softspoken and bittersweet. neither drops philosophical bombs on you but they're still lots of fun. rubin's translation of sanshiro has a great cadence about it. i love it. however, kokoro is probably representative of his later works. it's the best of his darker material imo and uses a formula he used in several books with the story's organization.

almost forgot. i also really liked kasumakura. it's soseki reflecting on his life at age thirty. maybe because i'm thirty myself (and read it less than a year ago) i related to it in some weird way. i do not know. not a book i'd recommend to people new to him.

i really love most of everything i've read by soseki. at the same time i don't recommend him to a lot of my friends. although i love his stuff i could understand if someone else was turned off by it. especially his later material where so little action happens.

>> No.2233126

>>2233098
yeah. on the road has a few memorable lines but overall i thought it was overrated. maybe because i read it in my late 20s. maybe if i read it in high school or early college i would've felt differently.

>> No.2234726

Last 5
39 steps - John Buchan: enjoyed but shows its age
In Patagonia - bruch chatwin: fuck I want to go to Patagonia now.
We called it music - Eddie candon: enjoyed well written and interesting, but I love jazz especially bebop.
Breakfast at Tiffany's -Truman capote: I would have have been capotes slave.
End of the mission - Heinrich boll: very funny thouroughly enjoyed.

Currently reading

Cabin fever - Elizabeth jolley: bit strange but good don't know where it is going.
Flesh - Philip Jose farmer: sci fi porn.

Next:
?

>> No.2234734

LAST FIVE:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Point Omega - Don Delillo
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachary Mason

CURRENT
The Fabulous Riverboat - Philip Jose Farmer
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Decision Points - George W. Bush

NEXT
The Dark Design - Philip Jose Farmer
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Fall - Camus
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Chess - Stefan Zweig

>> No.2234738

last five:
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - lovecraft
City Of Saints and Madmen - j. vandermeer
Welcome to the monkey house - vonnegut
The Cosmic Serpent - j. narby
Intelligence in Nature - j. narby

Currently reading:
1984 - orwell
Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstader

Up Next:
The sirens of titan - vonnegut
The silmarillion - tolkein
Brave new world - huuxley
American psycho - ellis

>> No.2234925

Last Five:
The Metamorphosis and other Kafka Stories
Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
On the Road - Kerouac

Current - Lolita - Nabokov

Next Five:
The Big Sleep - Chandler
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
The Maltese Falcon - Hammett
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
The Trail - Kafka