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What book are you currently reading, /lit/?

>> No.2707862

Infinite Jest

>> No.2707865

Mason & Dixon

>> No.2707867

gormenghast, travesuras de la nina mala, the bell jar, childe harold's pilgrimage, and berenice.

>> No.2707874
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The Illiad
Rilke's Duino Ellegies

>> No.2707876

the pale king

>> No.2707879

hmm I wonder what will give me the most imaginary /lit/ cred

No fuck that. Fun & Games by Alistair Cooke

>> No.2707885

Faust.

Bit of a chore, but I'm enjoying it.

>> No.2707895

Robert Musil's "The Man without Qualities". Pretty weird, obscure brick-level literature. Started it because I like his other book, "The Confusions of Young Törless" which is super-gay.

>> No.2707900

The Myth of Sisyphus.

>> No.2707902

'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre
I love the feeling that the main character gives off and I agree with almost everything he says, but damn nothing has happened yet in the book.

>> No.2707906

>>2707879
>The first American Letter was broadcast on 24 March 1946 (Cooke said this was at the request of Lindsey Wellington, the BBC's New York Controller); the series was initially commissioned for only 13 instalments. The series finally came to an end 58 years (2,869 instalments) later, in March 2004.

what in the everloving fuck

>> No.2707907

The Stand by Stephen King

>> No.2707908

Labyrinth Lord.

IT'S FREE!

http://www.goblinoidgames.com/labyrinthlord.html

Yeah, I'm a huge nerd.

>> No.2707918

Philosophical Investigations

>> No.2707929

Hesoid's Theogany and a number of short stories for a course.

>> No.2707941

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

>> No.2707944

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

>> No.2707989

Technological Slavery

>> No.2708005

Things from the Nightside

>> No.2708041

Sound & The Fury.

Not bad, part one was a bit of a chore though.

>> No.2708046

The Trial. The lack of line breaks annoys me.

>> No.2708047
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2708047

Railsea - China Mieville

>> No.2708109

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Marc Hauser - Moral Minds

>> No.2708117

>>2708047

I didn't even know that was out. Is it one of his kid's books, or is it proper?

>> No.2708134

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

>> No.2708162

>>2708117

all ages --really it is

China is great

>> No.2708180

>>2708162

Yeah, I've loved all his books, but I've never really had time for his YA stuff. I may have to see if I can track down a free copy.

>> No.2708192

>>2708180

The City and the City was great

>> No.2708204
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The Old man and the Sea

>> No.2708206

>>2708192

In some ways, I think it's one of the best books of the last decade, regardless of genre.

Ambitious, innovative, amazingly constructed and plotted, with fascinating prose. I can't think of a better book from the noughts.

>> No.2708211

The Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.2708228

Michael Heisman's Suicide Note

>> No.2708241

Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
The Bible - God.

>> No.2708244

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

>> No.2708250

>>2708206

The idea was unique but then most everything he does is unique.

>> No.2708263
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2708263

Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

>> No.2708339

A Study of Scarlet

>> No.2708342

Voyage to the Moon and the Sun - Cyrano de Bergerac
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami

>> No.2709692

Moby Dick, wish me luck.

>> No.2709693

Down And Out In Paris And London

>> No.2709696

Fast Food Nation
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

>> No.2709699

Runaway Horses - Yukio Mishima

>> No.2709701

The Saxon Stories

>> No.2709706

The Lost Fleet

>> No.2709716

Carpenter's Gothic - William Gaddis

>> No.2709726

Falling Man

>> No.2709730

A room of one's own

>> No.2710061

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching - Thich Nhat Hanh

>>2709699
Have you read The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea? I just ordered it along with Spring Snow.

>> No.2710071

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues

I win

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Good stuff

>> No.2710122

Jack The Rippers Autobiography.

>> No.2710153

>>2709716
How is it?
I'm reading The Recognitions right now and it's amazing.