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ITT: WE POST THE BOOKS WE PLAN ON READING IN THE NOT TOO FAR FUTURE. DOESN'T HAVE TO BE WHAT YOU RECEIVED FOR CHRISTMAS OF COURSE

A PERSONAL MATTER - OE
THE DAMNED - HUYSMANS
THE GATE/MON - SOSEKI
SKYLARK - DEZSO
THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN - BRECHT
TAIKO OR HEIKE (NOT SURE YET) - YOSHIKAWA
THE BOOK OF DISQUIET - PESSOA
GOODBYE TO BERLIN - ISHERWOOD
THE ENORMOUS ROOM - CUMMINGS
THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER - HOGG
PERE GORIOT - BALZAC
LOOKING BACKWARD - BELAMY
AN IDEAL HUSBAND - WILDE
MEMOIRS OF MY NERVOUS ILLNESS - SCHREBER
EARTH ABIDES - STEWART
CHROME YELLOW - HUXLEY
THE MOON AND SIXPENCE - MAUGHAM


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

>> No.2281349

THE PROBLEM WITH MINE IS, I JUST KEEP ADDING MORE BOOKS. I SEE AN INTERESTING BOOK BROUGHT UP HERE OR ON GOODREADS QUITE FREQUENTLY, ADD IT TO MY CURRENTLY READING LIST. BUT THEN I'M ALWAYS GOING TO THE LOCAL LIBRARY HERE IN JAPAN AND AM TRYING TO WORK THROUGH THEIR JAPANESE TRANSLATED WORKS.

AT LEAST I'M NOT AT A LOSS OF WHAT TO READ, THAT WOULD BE WORSE

>> No.2281355

OKAY, THE BOOKS I PLAN ON READING ARE
THE SILMARILLION,
UNFINISHED TALES
THE CHILDREN OF HURIN -TOLKIEN
THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKERS TO THE GALAXY
DOUGLAS ADAMS
SOME LOVECRAFT, PROBABLY GONNA BE SOME CTHU
LU STORIES -LOVECRAFT
FAHRENHEIT 451 - RAY BRADBURY
1984 AND ANIMAL FARM (IN THE SAME BOOK TOO) -GEORGE ORWELL
CLASH OF KINGS AND ALL THE OTHER ASOIAF BOOKS BY JRRM

>> No.2281357

>>2281355
THAT LOOKS LIKE SOME GREAT HOLIDAY READING.

>> No.2281356
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2281356

Pic related. It depicts all the people who care.

>> No.2281364

>>2281356
COOL PICTURE MAN

>> No.2281366

I GOT LIKE 200 PAGES LEFT IN MUSASHI I'M GONNA TRY AND FINISH IT BEFORE THE NEW YEAR.

TO READ LIST:

GRAPES OF WRATH
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS (THIS IS NEXT)
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING: THE FIRST AMERICAN IN AFGHANISTAN
A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE: THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
CATCHER IN THE RYE
STORY OF A SHIP WRECKED SAILOR

>> No.2281367

Finnnegan's Wake - Joyce
De Finnibus Bonorum et Malorum - Cicero
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Glory - Nabokov
The 120 Days of Sodom - de Sade
The Antichrist + Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
War and Peace - Tolstoy

>> No.2281368

>>2281348
In the near future, I'm reading every book written by a woman after 1950.

>> No.2281369

>>2281368
YOU POOR WRETCHED SOUL

>> No.2281373

Can you recommend any contemporary novels set in Tokyo/Japan?

>> No.2281376

FUCK YOU. I DON'T NEED TO READ OLD AND GOOD STUFF. ON MY AGENDA:

TWILIGHT
INFINITE JEST

I DON'T CARE ABOUT QUALITY SO FUCK YOU.

>> No.2281377

>>2281373
Whatever shit Murakami pushed out of his colon this month.

>> No.2281383

FUCK YES LOOKING BACKWARD

CHEERS TO YOU OP

>> No.2281384

>>2281373
I DON'T READ THAT MUCH JAPANESE LITERATURE WRITTEN POST 1950, ALTHOUGH MISHIMA'S TERATOLOGY 'THE SEA OF FERTILITY' IS SET IN TOKYO FROM TIME TO TIME

IF YOU'RE WILLING TO GO BACK A FEW MORE YEARS, NATSUME SOSEKI AND OGAI MORI BOTH HAVE MEMORABLE BOOKS THAT REALLY CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF TOKYO AT THE TIME.

I BELIEVE RYU MURAKAMI'S 'ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE' IS SET IN YOKOHAMA, ABOUT ONE HOUR SOUTH OF TOKYO (CURRENTLY SECOND MOST POPULATED CITY IN JAPAN, SO IT'S NOT SOME SMALL SHITHOLE)

>> No.2281386

>>2281383
FUCK YEAH CAPS.

MIGHT TAKE ME SOME TIME TO GET AROUND TO IT, SORRY

>> No.2281388
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2281388

Well, I rarely follow any lists I make, but these are pretty likely to be my soonish reads:

>The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
>The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klima
>In Light of Shadows by Izumi Kyoka
>Nadja by Andre Breton
>Aurelia and Other Writings by Gerard de Nerval
>The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
>Tutelary Tales by Villy Sorensen
>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
>The Passive Vampire by Gherasim Luca
>The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
>Hebdomeros and Other Writings by Giorgio de Chiciro
>The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz by Ladislav Novak
>Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
>House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

>> No.2281394

My reading list has hundreds of books. On my mind right now are...

- Natasha's Dance (a social history of Russia)
- Gulag Archipelago
- White Noise - DeLillo
- India: A History

Would love a book about contemporary Indian culture.

>>2281384
Very cool, thanks for the recommendations.

>> No.2281399

>>2281357
WHY THANK YOU

>> No.2281400

>>2281394
ALSO, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN KANSAI (OSAKA, KYOTO, NARA, KOBE ETC) THEN DEFINITELY CHECK OUT

THE HUNTING GUN - INOUE (WRITTEN JUST AFTER WW II)
PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING BY TANIZAKI
THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION - MISHIMA (ABOSLUTELY MEMORABLE IMAGERY OF KYOTO AND ONE OF ITS MOST FAMOUS TEMPLES)

THE OLD CAPITAL - KAWABATA

QUITE A POETIC STORY IN KYOTO WITH NOT ALL THAT MUCH HAPPENING, ALTHOUGH THE PROSE MAKES THE READER FEEL AS IF HE'S IN THE SETTING IN THE STORY. GREAT IMAGERY WITH A MELANCHOLY TONE.

>> No.2281418

Over the next year I plan to get through, at the very least:

Second half of Proust
Divine Comedy (Purgatory and Paradise)
Don Quixote
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Dream of the Red Chamber (or one of the other four great Classical Chinese novels, if I have time)
Complete Emily Dickinson
The Rest of Shakespeare (I've read about half of him this year)

This probably won't go to plan, because reading plans never really do. Oh well.

>> No.2281521

on top of the giant list of books i have to do for my graduate thesis,

-taipei, king rat, musashi by james clavell
-tides of war by steven pressfield
-death of kings, redcoat by bernard cornwell
-name of the rose by umberto eco
-3rd n 4th books of SOIAF by GRRM

in case you cant tell im big on historical fiction :3

>> No.2281789

A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Othello - Shakespeare (It's a play, but whatever)
The Iliad - Homer
Demian - Hesse
This Side of Paradise - Fitzgerald

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>>2281355
>OKAY, THE BOOKS I PLAN ON READING ARE
Let's comment on those, fagboat.
>THE SILMARILLION,
Good boy.
>UNFINISHED TALES
No.
>THE CHILDREN OF HURIN -TOLKIEN
Ha ha, no. It isn't even Tolkien for the msot part.
>THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKERS TO THE GALAXY
Oh God, no.
>DOUGLAS ADAMS
No, no, no.
>SOME LOVECRAFT, PROBABLY GONNA BE SOME CTHU
There's only one Cthulhu story in all of Lovecraft, and it sucks horribly. Lovecraft in general is awful.
>LU STORIES -LOVECRAFT
huh? Anyway, Lovecraft was a dumb faggot that couldn't write shit. He thought up some nice things, but he really failed to convey them in his writings.
>FAHRENHEIT 451 - RAY BRADBURY
It's crap.
>1984 AND ANIMAL FARM (IN THE SAME BOOK TOO) -GEORGE ORWELL
Don't forget to read the Da Vinci Code and Twilight next. 1984 is about sheep, but these days all the sheep read 1984. Ironic, huh?
>CLASH OF KINGS AND ALL THE OTHER ASOIAF BOOKS BY JRRM
ASOIAF is a horrible mess. It's a horrible mess. It's not even literature. Even Lovecraft looks competent compared to that.

No, I'm not trolling. Right or wrong, this is what I genuinely believe. I'll post my own list later ITT.

>> No.2281799

A Feast for Crows
Spice and Wolf 5
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Selfish Gene
The Hamilton Case
The Red Badge of Courage
Living History
Ada or Ardor
The Audacity of Hope
Letters from my Father
Lolita
+ a book that contains 4 of PKD's works
+ some assorted manga

>> No.2281803

Small Gods
Moving Pictures
Naked Lunch
1984
Catcher in the Rye

and some books for uni, haven't actually checked yet which ones I'm supposed to read next semester

>> No.2281809

Let's check my Aldiko folder.

Heinlein - Glory Road.
Heinlein - A Comedy of Justice.
Heinlein - Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Pynchon - Mason & Dixon.
Carel Capeck - Salamander War.
Harry Potter 6 and 7 (yeah).
Dostoyevski - The Double.
Dostoyevski - Crime and Punishment (re-read).
Stephan Grabinski - collected works vol. II.
Joris-Karl Huysmans - A Rebours.
Murakami - Wind-up Bird Chronicles. Maybe. 1Q84 badly sabotaged my interest in that retard.

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>>2281809
>Murakami
>retard

>> No.2281830

>>2281809

>Murakami - Wind-up Bird Chronicles. Maybe. 1Q84 badly sabotaged my interest in that retard.

Chronicle is a great book, Murakami's best. Read it or you'll miss out.

>> No.2281835

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Roads to Freedom: Anachism, Socialism, and Syndicalism by Bertrand Russell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris

And after that, it'll probably be time to head back to class and I won't have much time for my own reading anymore.

>> No.2281840

>>2281801
Okay.

>>2281418
>This probably won't go to plan, because reading plans never really do. Oh well.

Mine never do.

>> No.2281846

hey caps guy why do you post short stories like they books cuz they ain't yo

>> No.2281848

Windup Bird Chronicle (well I've read 4 pages already)
Ficciones
Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow
Norwegian Wood
The Sun Also Rises
Heart of Darkness
Anna K (maybe)
>hereafter uni reading list stuff
Slaughterhouse 5
1984
The Age of Innocence
To the Lighthouse
The Bell Jar
The Girls of Slender Means
Pride and Prejudice
The English Patient
In the Penal Colony
A Modest Proposal
Shooting an Elephant
The Prevention of Literature

>> No.2281855

Oblivion: Stories (DFW)
The Pale King (DFW)
Libra (DeLillo)
Underworld (DeLillo)
The Corrections (Franzen)
Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
Inherent Vice (Pynchon)
Against the Day (Pynchon)
Slow Learner (Pynchon)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)
The Fortress of Solitude (Lethem)

>> No.2281887

Crime and Punishment
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow

All on my shiny new kindle.

1Q84 - Murakami

Got exams coming up soon though so I don't know how much reading I'll be getting done.

>> No.2281950

Wallenstein - Schiller
The Experiment - Strugatzki
Roadside Picnic - Strugatzki
One billion years before the end of the world - Strugatzki
2666 - Bolano
ICO: Castle in the Mist - Miyabe Yes it got an own book
Maybe the Mars triology by Robinson
City of Bones - Clare and the following books if I like the first.

>> No.2283315

>>2281846
WHAT BOOK IN MY LIST IS A SHORT STORY?

SHORTEST IS MAYBE AN IDEAL HUSBAND, BUT THAT'S A PLAY

>> No.2283340

pretty much whatever it is i need to understand what you guys are talking about half the time

>> No.2283357

the last Alex Rider
Don Quixote(maybe)
wuthering heights
the 2 latest Artemis Fowl
some Sherlock Holmes
whatever else I can find in the school/public library
one hundred years of solitude(Spanish)

>mfw I never recognize the books mentioned in /lit/

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>>2281388
>Hebdomeros
deck

>> No.2283383

Trying to finish 1001 Nights, Dante's Inferno and Montaigne's essays right now,
Kafka's Diaries,
More Pricks than Kicks,
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Beckett

There's also Irish Rites and How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake which I've been meaning to read.

I keep getting bogged down in the Inferno because: shouldn't I be trying to muddle through the Italian?

Almost finished with The Adolescent by Dostoevsky right now, it's absolutely incredible. Almost as good as C&P.

>> No.2283474

ADD THE FOLLOWING TO MY LIST (JUST PICKED THEM UP FROM LIBRARY)
I AM A CAT - SOSEKI
FIVE WOMEN WHO LOVED LOVE - SAIKAKU
THE COUNTERFEITERS AND OTHER STORIES - INOUE
RASHOMON AND OTHER STORIES - AKUTAGAWA
GRASS ON THE WAYSIDE - SOSEKI

FUCK YE

>> No.2283520

Fuck you

>> No.2283521

Madame Bovary
Concrete Island
Runaway Horses
Dostoevsky: A writer in his time

>> No.2283524

>>2283521
Ａｎｙｔｈｉｎｇ　ｅｌｓｅ？

>> No.2283533

A personal matter - Kenzaburo Oe
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
From whom the bell tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Farewell to arms - Ernest Hemingway
Ulises - Joyce
Considering the lobster - Foster Wallace

Currently reading: The possesed - Dostoyevsky

>> No.2283534

Well yes, a few more in the mail:

The Box Man
Mirror of the Marvelous:Classic Surrealist Work on Myth
The Crystal World
Visions: Leonid Andreyev stories