/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2527432]

the books you have read since january 1st 2012

and what you would rate them out of 10

[Anonymous No.2527439]

[Anonymous No.2527543]

Young Stalin - 8/10
Norwegian Wood by Murakami - 8/10
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami - 7/10
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami - 8.5/10
Life by Keith Richards - 9/10
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis - 8/10
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - 7/10
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - 6/10

[Anonymous No.2527548]

Hunger 9/10
Audition 7.5/10
Welcome To My Country 8/10
Holidays on Ice 8/10
How I Learned To Drive 9.5/10
The Kite Runner 7/10
Penelope 7/10
Endgame 10/10

[Anonymous No.2527549]

Bhikkhu Bodhi - In The Buddha's Words - 7/10
Katherine Anne Porter - Collected Short Stories - 8/10 at the best 4/10 at the worst
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 9/10
James Joyce - Dubliners - 7/10
Max Stirner - The Ego and His Own - 8.5/10
Bertrand Russell - Language - 4/10
Ezra Pound - Poems & Translations - 9.5/10
Ezra Pound - Cantos (1-30) - 9/10
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal 9/10
TS Eliot - The Waste Land and Other Writings - 8.5/10 total (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is 10/10)

[Anonymous No.2527551]

>>2527549
oh yeah and currently reading

DFW - Infinite Jest - 7.5/10
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power - 9/10
Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy - 8/10

[Powell, Queen of Maid Democracy !!KtLhhldf2DU No.2527552]

Oh yea, reading. I should make time for that

Red Badge of Courage - 6/10
The Haunting of Hill House - 5/10
The Hobbit - 7/10
Dreams from my Father - 5/10
The World Without Us - 3/10

currently reading and rating so far:
Peoples History of the US - 8/10
1632 - 8/10
Audacity of Hope - 4/10
Green Mars - 7/10

[Anonymous No.2527583]

Scores are on a 1-10 scale

[Anonymous No.2527590]

Plato - Apology
Rene Descartes - Discourse on Method
Justin Gaarder - Sophie's World

That's it...

[Anonymous No.2527603]

Mao's Great Famine: 10/10
Naked Lunch: 7/10
Starship Troopers: 10/10
A Princess of Mars: 9/10
Ender's Game: 8/10
The Hedge Knight: 7/10
Speaker for the Dead: 7/10
Xenocide: 1/10
Children of the Mind: 2/10
Silas Marner: 7/10
The Forever War: 9/10
A Wizard of Earthsea: 10/10
The Boy Detective Fails: 6/10
The Tombs of Atuan: 7/10
Jhonny Memenomci: 7/10
Foundation: 10/10
Foundation and Empire: 10/10
Second Foundation: 10/10
Hard Times: 7/10
The Minority Report: 7/10
The Picture of Dorian Gray: 10/10
Mogworld: Utter shit/10
A Man without a country: Liberal bitching/10
A Fire Upon the Deep: 10/10
Rose Turquand: A Novel: 7/10
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: 1/10
Stranger in a Strange Land: 7/10
Tess of the Durpeyvilles: 4/10
The Name of the Wind: bland and boring/10
The Gods of Mars: 4/10
Gilgamesh: 8/10
Fool Moon: 7/10
Flatland: 7/10
Debt of Bones: 8/10
The Warlord of Mars: 8/10
On the Road: 6/10
The Hunger Games: 5/10
The Old Man and the Sea: 1/10

Really fucking was underwhelmed by the name of the wind, specially since I was told it was single-highhandedly saving the fantasy genre.

[Anonymous No.2527608]

>>2527603
40 books.

You did not read 10+ books a month you neckbeard faggot. What did you do, just sit at home and read? Get a job.

[Anonymous No.2527609]

The Second Letter by Herman Cortes - 6.5/10
The Great Gatsby - 9/10
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo - 7.5/10
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - 9/10

Not a long list, but there have been some interesting reads. And yes, that was my first read of Gatsby.

[Anonymous No.2527611]

>>2527608

im a full time university student

with an a- average

i just read alot

[Anonymous No.2527617]

>>2527611

>university student

Seriously, get a fucking job.

[Powell, Queen of Maid Democracy !!KtLhhldf2DU No.2527620]

>>2527603
>mogworld
>shit

[Anonymous No.2527621]

>>2527611

>"I don't have any friends, so I spend all my free time sitting around reading books. I'm so lonely ;_;"

[Anonymous No.2527625]

>>2527608
Last year I went to school, worked, went tot he gym 5 days a week, had a pretty good social life and read on average 10 books a month

[Anonymous No.2527629]

>>2527617
>get a job when unemployment is rife
>mfm you're a fucking moron

[Anonymous No.2527630]

>>2527617
>>2527621

haha, how dare I read more books than you, right?
you guys are so sensitive, dont worry, I dont profess to be more of a reader or whatever, your dominance isn't being challenged

get over it. Im doing the 52 book challenge thing and a goodly chunk of those books are so short you can read them in a day. The Epic of Gilgamesh can be read in an hour, lol

[Anonymous No.2527645]

>>2527630

This isn't some fucking wolfpack retarded thing you faggot. You are a loser and you need to understand this. You sit around reading books all fucking day and probably going to fucking english classes. You're a fucking joke of a person and you act like it doesn't bother you but it fucking does. You shouldn't be reading, you should be fucking making friends, maybe playing games with your friends, you're a fucking asshole and your snide and smug attitude of "I'm better than you because I read so much." drive me up the wall you fucking disgusting faggot

[Anonymous No.2527648]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - 8/10

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami - 8.5/10

Tribe of One Trilogy by Simon Hawke - The Outcast 10/10, The Seeker 10/10, The Nomad 10/10

Gladiatrix by Russell Whitfield - 7.5/10

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - Inferno 10/10, Purgatorio 10/10, Paradiso 10/10

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould - 10/10

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Ser Arthur Conan Doyle - 10/10

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua - 9/10

Been a great year so far for reading,

[Anonymous No.2527651]

>3096 Days - Natascha Kampusch
6/10
>Beowulf
8/10
>Philosophy in the Boudoir - Marquis de Sade
6/10
>Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
8/10
>Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9/10
>Doppler - Erlend Loe
7/10
>Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
5/10
>Oliver Twist - Dickens
7/10
>Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
8/10
>The Cannibal Within - Mark Mirabello
2/10
>Hard Times - Dickens
4/10
>The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
7/10
>Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
6/10
>The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
6/10

Am now reading Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck.

[Anonymous No.2527654]

>>2527645

haha, god forbid a guy who frequents the literature board actually reads books, right? you can return to your David Foster Wallace books now, king of the books. I will no longer stand in your way, your majesty.

[Anonymous No.2527659]

>>2527645

You could read for 2-3 hours a day and finish 10 books a month. Stop being retarded. It's not all that crazy.

[Anonymous No.2527665]

>>2527654

THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, YOU BAG OF SHIT.

>reads garbage intentionally
>hates good books
>is retarded
>thinks it's okay to read shitty fantasy books
>doing those retarded FEEFTEE BOOK A YAR CHALENG things

Fuck you. I hate you. You are everything wrong with the medium. You're probably a fucking obese virgin who is failing all his classes.

Fuck it, I'm out. I'm too rustled for this.

[Anonymous No.2527669]

>>2527654
>sci-fi dweeb insulting dfw

get some taste, fag.

[Anonymous No.2527674]

>>2527665

ok cool man I'm gonna start on Mishima's Sea of Fertility novels today, have a good one bro

[Anonymous No.2527677]

>>2527674

OH MY GOD ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT
YOU SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO READ THOSE FUCKING MASTERPIECES. JUST GO READ THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES OR SOMETHING, SOF IS TOO FUCKING DEEP FOR YOU TO GET. I HATE YOU. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FUCKING EXIST, I MEAN IT IF I KNEW YOU IN PERSON I'D FUCKING CAVE YOUR HEAD IN WITH A ROCK. YOU FUCKING BITCH.

OKAY THAT'S MY LAST POST, I'M GONE BEFORE I SMASH MY LAPTOP INTO PIECES

[Anonymous No.2527679]

>>2527669
DFW was a sci fi dweeb.

[Anonymous No.2527691]

>>2527677
you are the type of guy that read Hungry games because it came out in the movies. words for thought "dont judge a book by its exterior" - Thomas Jefferson. just go back to read Dr. zeus you unsophisticated, pleb.

[Anonymous No.2527693]

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/341660

I mostly read nonfiction and philosophy. feel free to add me if you want.

[Anonymous No.2527694]

I dont know who is trolling who anymore

[Anonymous No.2527703]

>>2527693
Added you, Marx is god tier and I'm interested in all those socialist books.

[Anonymous No.2527706]

>>2527677
ok i thought you were retarded at first but now it's completely obvious you're just fucking with us. good job making us thing you're retarded i guess

[Anonymous No.2527711]

>>2527677
though I do agree that guy has awful taste if it makes you feel any better

[Anonymous No.2527725]

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 7/10

Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov 6/10

The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy 8/10

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx 4/10

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 7.5/10

The Hunger Games - Susanne Collins 2/10

Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence - Jacques-Yves Costeau 7/10

The Plague - Albert Camus 9/10

Studies in Pessimism - Albert Schopenhauer 9/10

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe 8.5/10

And I'm about to finish the last 50 pages of Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. I'd rate it a 9/10.

[Meowington No.2527742]

GET IN HERE

livestream/thehungergames

[Anonymous No.2527743]

it's amazing how many list threads /lit/ has. i thought this place had discussions?

[Anonymous No.2527758]

>>2527743
rarely

[Anonymous No.2527767]

>>2527743

If you consider everyone shitting on everyone elses choice of reading material discussions, then yeah, there are some.

[sage No.2527769]

>The Art of Being Right - Schopenhauer
10/10

>Histoires Extraordinaires (collection of short stories written by Poe and translated by Baudelaire)
10/10

>Fables - La Fontaine
10/10

>Ruy Blas - Hugo
10/10

>Memoir on the discovery of animal magnetism - Mesmer
8/10

>Half of Plato's works
10/10

>Oedipus the king
9/10

Yeah, I only read great stuff this year. Also, currently reading :

>The second half of Plato's works
>Nightmares of an ether-drinker - Lorrain

[Anonymous No.2527777]

>>2527743
>hasn't even read high fidelity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6Ks4pxixw&t=5m40s
That's what discussion people are like.

[Anonymous No.2527781]

Hunger Games Trilogy - 6/10
1984 - 8/10
Brave New World - 7.5/10

>I really should start reading more

[Anonymous No.2527786]

>>2527590
I've read Sophie's World and Discourse in the past two months. After a few more books I'm going to read Apology. Are you me?

[Anonymous No.2527793]

>>2527590

Not sure if Sonic...

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2527801]

i'd give both Plato books an 8/10
Tesla's and Dostoyevky's bio a 10/10
Murakami's Underground 7/10
A Study in Scarlet i'd give a 6/10
The Real Bluebeard gets a 7/10

[Anonymous No.2527804]

>Neuromancer - William Gibson
10/10

>Hannibal - Thomas Harris
10/10

Just started on Lovecraft yesterday, they're all short stories, so I'm going to read one a day:

>The Rats in the Walls - Lovecraft
8/10

Been very busy with colleg stuff, and I'm already quite a slow reader, so not read that much this year so far. Enjoyed what I have read though.

[Anonymous No.2527805]

-The World According to Garp
-Last Night in Twisted River
-The Hotel New Hampshire
-Books 18 and 19 of the Horus Heresy W40k series
-From Here to Eternity by J. Jones
-The Small Apocalypse by T. Konwicki
-Journal 1958 by Tyrmand
-A book by Marek Hłasko, but don't wanna google the english title equivalent
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Earth, Planet of Man by S. Exupery
- The Little Prince also by Exupery

Now I'm reading Star Diaries by S. Lem. Fucking love it, it's true sci-fi literature, not some fucking space cowboys. Sure, I like to read some cheesy w40k fiction from time to time, but neither Clarke nor Dick come close to Lem when it comes to examining the human condition through sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.2527807]

>>2527805
Here. Fuck rating them, they were all great in the aspects that mattered then.

[Anonymous No.2528136]

I don't remember 4/5 of what I read, but here goes nothing:
>Unbroken
10/10
>Inheritance, book 4
9/10
>Jarhead
9/10
>The Wasp Factory
5/10
>The Painted Bird
7/10
>All The Pretty Horses
6/10
>No Country For Old Men
10/10, favorite book
>The Sunset Limited
6.5/10, it was sort of a play so not sure how to judge
>Suttree
7.5/10
>Hunger Games, first book
5/10
>The Five People You Meet in Heaven
10/10
>The Camp of the Saints
9/10
>The Revolution: A Manifesto
4/10 because politics aren't entertaining
>Skellig
8/10
>Desperation
2/10
>The Orchard Keeper
1.5/10, couldn't even finish
Right now reading:
>The Kite Runner
5.5/10 so far
>Blood Meridian
7/10 so far
>The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration
Hardly a book, just fun/motivating

[Anonymous No.2528165]

The Martyred by Richard Kim 6/10
The Metamorphosis by Kafka 7/10
Infinite Jest by DFW 10/10
Don Quixote by Cervantes 5/10
Norwegian Wood by Murakami 7/10

[Anonymous No.2528168]

The Old Man and the Sea - 8/10
A Dance with Dragons - 10/10 (i love asoiaf, fuck haters)
Down and Out in Paris and London - 4/10 (bored to tears)
As I Lay Dying - 9/10 (superb)
The Great Gatsby - 9/10 (the prose is fantastic, again, fuck haters)
Siddhartha - 10/10 (best book I've read 2012)
Ishmael - 10/10 (I lied, it's a tie between Siddhartha and Ishmael)
Catching Fire - 4.5/10 (I enjoyed it, but it's utter shit. I can't even bring myself to finish Mockingjay, the writing's that terrible)
Communist Manifesto - 5/10 (rhetorical bs)
House of Leaves - 9/10 (poetry is great)

Good year so far, I hope to keep the reading up.

[Anonymous No.2528187]

>John Barth - Lost in the Funhouse - 7.2
A good read, but nothing spectacular.
>Scott McClanahan - Stories V - 9.8
One of the best collection of short stories I've read.
>Ben Brooks - Grown up - 3.0
One of the worst novels I've came upon... and I've read Tao Lin's Richard Yates.
>Noah Cicero - Insurgents - 9.6
>Noah Cicero - Nosferatu - 9.4
Two great pieces of short fiction from THE writer of our generation.
>Samuel Beckett - Endgame - 8.3
>Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - 9.5
I've read, and re-read Beckett's plays so many times, and yet they still hold high.
>Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station - 3.7
I have some friends who wont get off his dick, if this is his best work so far, I wont be getting on it anytime soon.
>Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms - 8.3
It's Hemingway, shit, what more can I say?

[Anonymous No.2528207]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Autobiography - Bertrand Russell
Burning Chrome - William Gibson

I really don't care enough to rate them. I've been trying to read a book a week but failing because several of them are nearly 1000 pages.

[Anonymous No.2528208]

New(ish) reader coming through!

>Jan
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace (8/10)
Work! Consume! Die! - Frankie Boyle (5/10)
The Odyssey - Homer & Robert Fagles (7/10)
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (9/10)
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (8/10)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (10/10)
>Feb
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace (7/10)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/10)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (6/10)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7/10)
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (9/10)
>Mar
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft (7/10)
Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer (8/10)
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (10/10)
>Apr
Dubliners - James Joyce (TBD)

Also just received 'Demons' by Dostoevsky in the mail and I'm super excited to get started on it.

[Anonymous No.2528250]

Siddhartha - 7/10
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - 10/10
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - 6/10
Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems - 6/10
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies - 8/10
Contemplation - 6/10
100 Poems From the Japanese - 10/10
The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz - 6/10
Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood: Modern Albanian Short Stories - 8/10
Fado - 9/10
The Passive Vampire - 8/10
House of Day, House of Night - 9/10
The House of Illnesses - 6/10
Vegetation - 7/10
The Chieko Poems - 10/10
The Perpetual Motion Machine - 6/10
Beside the Sea - 6/10
Land of Wooden Gods - 7/10
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead - 8/10
Edition 69 - 6/10
The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy - 6/10
The Street of Crocodiles - 10/10
Stone in a Landslide - 6/10
The Vet's Daughter - 8/10
The Dedalus Book of Absinthe - 7/10
The Sky Behind the Forest: Poems - 7/10
The Juniper Tree - 6/10
Absinthe: History in a Bottle - 6/10
The Finishing School - 4/10
Ex Libris - 6/10
Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell - 4/10
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories - 9/10
Irene's Cunt - 7/10
The Complete Works of Urmuz - 8/10
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman - 6/10
On the Marble Cliffs - 9/10
Invisible Cities - 9/10
Scorch Atlas - 6/10
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders - 6/10
Whiskey: A Global History - 6/10
Tea: A Global History - 6/10

A really great year so far, and I think I've kept it pretty diverse. I'm definitely finding a lot of new favorite authors, at least.