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Merry Christmas!

What are you reading?

Love from your favorite writer!

>> No.2277292

Richard Yates.

I don't know if it's brilliant or terrible.

>> No.2277294

>>2277290
Merry Chrimbus, Tao Lin!

The Short Stories of Hemmingway~Hemmingway
Lonesome Dove~Larry McMurtry
Sun Under Wood~Robert Hass

>> No.2277296

Tales EA Poe. What should I read next?

>> No.2277320

Happy Xmas!

>> No.2277321

Ammianus Marcelinus' Histories.

Felix Nativitas broius.

>> No.2277349

I got the First Law trilogy and Stephen King's new book for Christmas so those, I suppose.

>> No.2277354

>>2277321

how do you like it? is it similar to other histories like livy or plutarch?

>> No.2277359

Hope to buy Book of the New Sun and the Elric Saga. Anyone know if they're as good as people say?

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ive got 2666 from Bolano and Women from Bukowski

and nothin from you tao :(

>> No.2277365

>sonsequitor title of a book "4chan"

>> No.2277399

>>2277354
It's more akin to Tacitus, I reckon. Livy is more broad in scope, and so is Plutarch in my opinion.

Ammianus writes, in what I've read so far, very detailed, and mostly on the life and around the emperors. All the conspiracies, the murders, revolts, the nasty parts of court life, much like Tacitus when he speaks of Nero for example. Only that in 350 AD onwards, all politics are even more of a clusterfuck than they were in the times of the first emperors. It's nice, but a lot more dense and detailed. Ammianus himself actually was in the middle of it and he's talking about what he saw personally and what he lived all the time, so it's a definite plus, too.

Halfway through it, more or less.

>> No.2277422

Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis - From the science citation index to cybermetrics

Haven't read fiction in a year I think.

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>> No.2277452

Crime and Punishment

>> No.2277455

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Gonna play The Witcher soon and figured I'd read the books they're inspired by. Anyone else read the Witcher books?

>> No.2277462

Platform by Houellebecq.

Tour de force, same angsty genius as in Elementary Particles.

>> No.2277500

Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates.
I bought it at Strand as an early Christmas present for a girl whom I have a crush on currently. I took out a copy of it from a library yesterday; I believe I have a grave mistake in giving it as a present... She's not going to like this book at all.

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legit so far

>> No.2277532

merry christmas. i'm reading debussy's biography :)

>> No.2277535

>>2277455
DUDE READ ALL OF IT
it's pretty much the best saga ever. my english isn't good enough to fully explain just how much i love sapkowski. read all of it, you won't be sorry

>> No.2277549

>>2277500
>girl you have a crush on
>giving her a present
Welcome to the friend zone.

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2277561

Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

So very thought-provoking... also, I read each of the posts in this thread. I hope you are all enjoying the literature of your respective Christmas Eves.

>> No.2277565

>>2277549
Ironically, I'm half way through The Sufferings of Young Werther. :(

>> No.2277635

Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clark. Not much of a Sci-fi, if you ask me.

>> No.2277636

Man and his Symbols by Jung

>> No.2277654

>>2277359

wolfe's writing is incredible but can be difficult to get through. he uses words that you wouldn't see unless you work at meriam-webster. amazing imagination though

>> No.2277680

I've been saving up Interviews with Hideous Men for months to finish up this year with something cool.

>> No.2277715

I finished reading The Body by Stephen King and it was really great. I'm going to read The Catcher in the Rye again.

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Isaac Newton by James Gleick

>> No.2277735

>>2277636
>Jung
Why would you bother with such dribble.

>> No.2277741

I'm currently alternating between The Waste Land, Gravity's Rainbow, rereading Lolita, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

>> No.2277758

Dance of Dragons. This series, I cannot get enough of it.

>> No.2277763

I've been in the mood for Oscar Wilde as of late.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Importance of Being Earnest.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, because I'm feeling festive.

>> No.2277768

>>2277763
Is The Importance of Being Earnest very good? I loved Dorian Gray, sucks that he only wrote one novel.

>> No.2277783

>>2277768
Well, I do like it and it has encouraged me to see the play if it's ever on show. Generally I struggle to enjoy written plays, I just don't think it does the play a great justice. There are very few that I can say I really enjoyed, all of them were Shakespeare's works.

>> No.2277784

I just started reading Bleak House.

Also, you're a faggot.

>> No.2277786

>>2277783
Fair enough.