last current next book thread

[Anonymous No.2555781]

last: bell jar, syvia plath
current: life and fate, grossman
next: blechtrommel, grass

[Anonymous No.2555791]

last: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson
current: The Plague, Camu/Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
next: No clue, maybe the Heart is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers (again, kind of in the middle of it right now though) or V, Pynchon

[Anonymous No.2555811]

>Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation; The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
>V, Thomas Pynchon; The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
>The Pale King, David Foster Wallace; Molloy, Samuel Beckett

[Anonymous No.2555817]

Last: Nietzsche - Schopenhauer as Educator
Current: Philip K. Dick - Exegesis, Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Next: ??

[Anonymous No.2555895]

>Previous: Plato - The Symposium; Homer - The Odyssey
>Current: Joyce - Ulysses
>Next: Nabokov - Lolita; Ellis - American Psycho; Shakespeare - Hamlet

[Anonymous No.2555907]

Last: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Current: The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Next: Archaeology of Knowledge - Michel Foucault

[Anonymous No.2555954]

Last: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Current: We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Next: Hellbent, Cherie Priest

[Anonymous No.2556448]

Last: Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Current: Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Next: Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.2556465]

Last: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Current: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Next: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Anonymous No.2556650]

>>2555907
>The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
he's quite sweet. take barbarians at fffface value and let them have their own long and dreadful dialectical process until they become their very own special developed nations.

[Anonymous No.2556657]

>>2555907
Have you read The Order of Things?

[Anonymous No.2556662]

Last: Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride
Current: Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
Next: The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

[Anonymous No.2556666]

Last: Nausea, Sartre
Current: The Prince, Machiavelli
Next: Something non-fiction

[Anonymous No.2556669]

>Last
Trainspotting
>Current
2666
>Future
Finnegan's Wake

[Anonymous No.2556672]

> Blood Meridian
> Blood Meridian
> Blood Meridian

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2556831]

Last I read was Confessions by Rousseau.

Anons pick what I read from this lot:

Dune
Brothers Karamazov
Paradise Lost
Gilgamesh
An Invitation to a Beheading
World War Z

[Anonymous No.2556834]

last: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
current: Earth Abides
next: Gravity's Rainbow or The Master and Margarita

[Anonymous No.2556836]

>>2556831
>>2556831

Brothers K if you haven't already read Crime and Punishment. If you have, read An Invitation to a Beheading.

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2556842]

>>2556836

i've already read Crime and Punishment. This will be the 4th book by Dostoyevsky that I will read.

Also have Infinite Jest to read but I think i'll save that for summer.

[Anonymous No.2556843]

Last: The Virgin Suicides
Current: Notes from the Underground
Next: No clue. I have way too much to choose from.

[Anonymous No.2556852]

Last: The Luzhin Defense - Nabokov
Current: Fires on the Plain - Ooka
Next: Extinction - Bernhard

[Anonymous No.2557170]

last: A farewell to Arms by Hemingway
current: Gravity's rainbow by Pynchon
next: Ich werde hier sein in Sonnenschein und Schatten by Christian Kracht

[Anonymous No.2557172]

Last: Confessions of a Mask, Mishima
Current: Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
Next: fuck if I know. Maybe Imperium, Kracht or Arabian Sands, Thesiger

[Anonymous No.2557179]

Last: The Diamond Age, Guards! Guards!
Current: Nothing. I'm finishing up my backlog of comics. DMZ currently.
Future: Krapp's Last Tape, rereading Fear and Trembling (reading it before going to sleep was a bad idea), and starting the Dark Tower series.

[Anonymous No.2557182]

Last: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Current - Candide, ou L'Optimisme - Voltaire and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Next - Talking Heads - Alan Bennett

[Anonymous No.2557186]

last: Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut
current: The Social Contract, Rousseau
next: Cas Closed, Gerald Posner.. i think

[Anonymous No.2557190]

How's Life and Fate going OP?

Last Three: Our Lady of the Flowers - Genet
Apology - Plato
Waiting for Godot - Beckett

Current:
The Defence - Nabokov

Next Three:
Cousin Bette - Balzac
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse

[Anonymous No.2557194]

Last: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Current: Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Next: Haven't decided yet.

[Anonymous No.2557204]

>>2557194
I so want to read Swann's Way, but I'm bored to death about reading about authors/writers.

[op is a faggot No.2557212]

Last read: Othello by Shakespeare
Currently reading: Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Next: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exuperie

[Anonymous No.2557216]

>prior
Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
>present
Richard Powers - Prisoner's Dilemma (1988)
William H. Gass - The Tunnel (1995)
A.S. Byatt - Possession (1990)
>post
Joseph McElroy - A Smuggler's Bible (1966)
Susan Daitch - L.C. (1986)

Everything has been excellent so far. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

[Anonymous No.2557221]

last: advanced propositional logic, dont know name of the author
current: dostojewsky: the idiot
next: oxford studies in metaethics vol III

[Anonymous No.2557235]

>Last
Tactitus' Agricola and Germania
>Current
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
>Next
I don't know.

[Anonymous No.2557239]

Last: Sociobiology by E. O. Wilson
Current: On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson
Next: Biophilia - The Human Bond With Other Species by E. O. Wilson

[Anonymous No.2557246]

Last: Broken Glass - Alain Mabanckou

Current: The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

Next: ? Maybe: The Blind Assasin - Margaret Atwood

[Anonymous No.2557251]

>Last
Dubliners -- Joyce
Hamlet -- Shakespeare

>Current
The Double -- Dostoevsky

>Next
The Gambler -- Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness -- Conrad
Under the Volcano -- Lowry
The Republic -- Plato

[Anonymous No.2557253]

>>2557216
How does 'The Tunnel' compare with other pomo door-stoppers ('Infinite Jest', 'Gravity's Rainbow', etc. -- you know, the usual suspects)?

[Anonymous No.2557261]

>>2557204
Just read it, man.

[Anonymous No.2557343]

>>2557253
>How does 'The Tunnel' compare with other pomo door-stoppers ('Infinite Jest', 'Gravity's Rainbow', etc. -- you know, the usual suspects)?

Disclosures: I've only read Vineland and some of Pynchon's short stories at this point. He's like an alien to me. I have no idea what precedent he's drawing from, the only analogues I know of to him are Thompson and Burroughs, and those are because of the placement of substance use/abuse in the act of creation and finished product. Like saying a bear and a bobcat are alike because they both have fur. Additionally I've voiced some of these opinions before and found some disagreement among the community. As given: just one persons opinion.

I'm glad to see Gass becoming more visible to /lit/. He seems to be coming up more this year than when we started.

I'll spare you the premise. In contrast to the other doorstoppers The Tunnel comes across as the most naturalistic of what I've read. It's kind of a demented nineties take on the saga (not a popular format at the moment) and unlike the other postmodern doorstoppers the entire story is told from the viewpoint of the protagonist. The squirrelly pomo tricks in the text come not from shifting of narrative vantage but rather in the treatment of stream of consciousness and the plays on memory that are facilitated and pointed out by typographic anomaly. Think House of Leaves on a reserved, academic level. On that topic; out of the authors I'm thinking of (Wallace, DeLillo, Barth, Pynchon, Markson, I'm going to keep this to Americans for my sake) Gass seems the most indebted to academia and pays the most lip service to that background. He's the least reliant on differentiating and describing his scenes.

[Anonymous No.2557346]

>>2557343
There's a particular chapter in The Tunnel where the protagonist (Kohler) is ruminating over his childhood memories of drives out into the country, simultaneously comparing it in his head to the trips he took his own family on, all the while elements of his masterwork treatise on Nazi Germany infecting the scenes and thoughts with images of atrocity, and still further confounded by the vengeful fantasy of cartoon anvils falling on his family and those pesky Jews who have vilified the racial force he's in his secret heart aligned with. None of this is particularly spelled out, it's inferred rather clearly though. So in that sense while the novel occupies the landscape of the mind it changes the way surreality works in it when compared to fantastic realities like those of Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest . Unlike those novels it isn't science fiction.

Where Wallace struck me as following up and finishing the metatextual games Barth started Gass is very clearly influenced and working from the kind of fictive treatment of time Faulkner was working with in The Sound and the Fury. The other big influence Gass has in The Tunnel that the other novels we're comparing it with seem to lack or not be interested in is Joyce. I mean Joyce as lyricist, the Finnegans Wake pursuit of rhyme, boundaries you can push with the narrative content just to strike out at that snagging bit of assonance or alliteration. While there are some periods he doesn't go fully into it I find this aspect of his writing to be the most consistent through his career and what really separates him from the others.

[Anonymous No.2557356]

Last: The Club Dumas
Current: Don Quixote
Next: ?

[Anonymous No.2557359]

Last: John Dies at the End
Current: Nuklear Age
Next: Coming of Age in Mississippi (history class req)

[Anonymous No.2557364]

>>2557359

How was John Dies at the end.

[Anonymous No.2557375]

>>2555781
What did you think of the Bell Jar OP? I just finished it and I've been reading her poems. Pretty great stuff.

[Anonymous No.2557386]

Last-
Of Mice and Men

Current-
Blood Meridian,
The Stand, and
Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic

Next-
Thinking about finally starting on Haruki Murakami's work.

[Anonymous No.2557401]

>>2557364

I actually enjoyed it, even though the shit jokes tend to grow a little old. I laughed a couple times, and the story itself (being essentially a giant ass creepy pasta) actually has some interesting implications. Plus the twists are cool, but I'm always a sucker for a twist.

Anyway, I'd recommend it.

[Anonymous No.2557406]

Last: Reflections on War and Death by Freud

Current: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Next: Actually I'm probably going to read some Manga shit next, NO I'm not insane, I'm considering writing a book about the anime/manga crazed subculture and to do so I plan to infiltrate and befriend manga/anime friend circles.

Obviously to do that I will have to be able to converse about manga/anime to enough of an extent as to know what all the popular books/shows are about, so I am going to be reading the frist two books in all the main popular series, and watching the first 6 episodes of all the popular shows. To know just enough to be able to pass as an Weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.2557411]

Last: Dubliners
Current: The Sound and The Fury
Next: Oliver Twist

[Anonymous No.2557412]

>>2557343
>>2557346
Thanks for the insightful post!

It's been languishing near the bottom of my to-read list for way too long, I think I'll include it in my next Amazon haul.

[Anonymous No.2557422]

last: huckleberry finn, twain
current: cup of gold, steinbeck
next: pocket nietzche, nietzche

[Anonymous No.2557608]

>>2557406

Don't enter to far or you'll pass the point of no return.

[Anonymous No.2559122]

Last: Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn
Current: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury
Next: Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2559168]

Last: Confessions:
Current: Brothers Karamazov.
Next: Gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.2559177]

Last: Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Current: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Next: Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

Yeah, fuck you. I read what I want.

[Anonymous No.2559259]

Last: help a bear is eating me- Hansen
Current: grapes of wrath- steinbeck
Next: either journey to the end of the night, brothers Karamazov, or necromancer. Suggestions?

[Anonymous No.2559267]

Last: The Trial, The Magic Christian, Catch-22
Current: The Case for Socialism (Alan Maass)
Next: A Game of Thrones

[Anonymous No.2559384]

Last: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Current: Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come by Norman Cohn & The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Next: Daisy Miller by Henry James, I think

[Anonymous No.2559392]

last: song of kali, dan simmons
current: clan of the cave bear, jean m auel
next: the perks of being a wall flower, stephen chombsky

[Anonymous No.2559581]

Last: A feast for crows, GRRM
Current: A dance with dragons, GRRM
Next: Purple Hibiscus, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

[Anonymous No.2559585]

last: Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
current: A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
next: Heart of Darkness, Conrad

[Anonymous No.2559640]

Last: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Current: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Next: Jazz by Toni Morrison

[Anonymous No.2559685]

Before: Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Now: Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
After: (maybe) Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

[Anonymous No.2559688]

Last: Goethe - The sorrows of young werther
Current: Kafka - The castle
Next: Dostoyevsky - crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.2559715]

Last: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Current: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Next: Stoner by John Williams

[Anonymous No.2559726]

>last
A collection of Chekhov's stories. I really enjoyed them all.

>current
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, and the collected fictions of Borges

>next
Pride and Prejudice or The Joke.

[Anonymous No.2559736]

>>2556852
>>2557190
How is that Nabokov?