/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2825927]

>Book you've last finished
>Book you're reading currently
>Book you'll read next

LET'S GET THIS SHIT STARTED

[Anonymous No.2825938]

Mine:

>George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, Miranda Carter
>Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar (3rd re-read, as it is probably my favorite work, I return to always whenever I become aware of the crushing emptiness that is my life)
>I dunno, lol

[Anonymous No.2825941]

>Book you've last finished
The Adolescent (Dostoyevski). It started off marvellously, but by the end I understood why everyone ignores it and the critics say it's a failure. All in all, a failure it is, indeed.
>Book you're reading currently
Trying to read several things at once. Will see which one goes forward best. Windup Bird Chronicles, for one, which I don't like, but people said it was at least as ok as Kafka on the Shore. Sure hope it isn't as terrible as other crap by the faggot. Reding this to get done with him forever.
>Book you'll read next
Again, reading several things at the same time, including Chants de Maldoror.

[Anonymous No.2825943]

>>2825941
geez, so hateful towards mister murakami

[Anonymous No.2825947]

>Coming Up For Air (Orwell)
>A Confederacy of Dunces (Kennedy Toole)
>Undecided, maybe Notes From Underground (Dostoevsky)

[Anonymous No.2825948]

>Book you've last finished
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

>Book you're reading currently

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre

>Book you'll read next

either casino royale or hyperion

I seem to be devouring books since I got my kindle 4....best £89 ever

[Anonymous No.2825949]

>last:
Pulp, Charles Bukowski (pretty bad novel, compared to the short story)
>currently:
Billiards at Half-past Nine, Heinrich Böll (very interesting, as expected)
>next:
probably a holiday book, maybe The Pillars of the Earth

[Anonymous No.2825951]

>Just finished
Infinite Jest
>Currently reading
Tender is the Night
>Next read
Save Me the Waltz. Has anyone read it before? Does Zelda actually have any ability? Should I even bother?

[Anonymous No.2825955]

The 120 days of sodom
A Farewell to Arms
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.2825956]

>Book you've last finished
Lolita. Well what can I say. I liked it and I liked Nabokov's writing style, but at some parts it was rather... long-winded. And since I am not a native English speaker there was a number of words I didn't know yet. Still a very good book and the writing is awesome.
>Book you're reading currently
Infinite Jest. Also reading it in the English original (I don't even know if there is a german translation, I never saw one in the book stores). I enjoy it so far. Some parts made me laugh out loud and some of the writing is interesting. The parts that are written in 'strong slang' were suprisingly not as challenging as I thought they would be when I started reading the first one. The only thing with that book is, that there are some things, that I don't really know, since I am not that used to american culture, but well that is something I can find out in google.
Also something about the bookmarks. At first it was annoying to always have to go to the end of the book and read them, but after the filmography of Hal's father (which was ridiculously funny at parts) I will never regret reading them.
>Book you'll read next
Not sure, still have a huge number of unread stuff laying around. Will probably read The Robbers. Its been ages since I have read it and I want to read it before going to the play.

[Anonymous No.2825957]

>Book you've last finished
Dance Dance Dance
>Book you're reading currently
Inherent Vice
>Book you'll read next
Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.2825958]

Read:
Almost Transparent Blue

Reading:
Dealing with Dragons

Will read:
Long John Silver

[Anonymous No.2825959]

>>2825955
>A Farewell to Arms
nice memories...

[Anonymous No.2825961]

>Book you've last finished
Eric - Terry Pratchett
>Book you're reading currently
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
>Book you'll read next
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett

I'm going through a pretty big Discworld phase right now.

[Anonymous No.2825967]

>Book you've last finished

Perfume. Excellent. Grenoille is a great character.

>Book you're reading currently

Zeno's Conscience. Slow to start but it's entertaining in the way an old man at the bus stop is interesting.

>Book you'll read next

Not sure. Metropole perhaps.

[Anonymous No.2825968]

>>2825961
>reading in random order

[Anonymous No.2825974]

>>2825968
Actually I'm reading them in a more chronological order.

[married oldfag !VqaXcWQC4Q No.2825982]

Read: Plurality and Ambiguity by Tracy
Reading: Mistress of the Catacombs by Drake
Queued up: The State in the Third Millennium by Hans-Adam II

[Anonymous No.2825984]

>Last book
2001: A Space Odyssey
>Current book
Stranger in a Strange Land
>Next book
Dune: House Atreides

[Anonymous No.2825986]

Finished:

Particle physics: A very short introduction by Frank Close

Reading:

Here's looking at Euclid by Alex Bellos

Next:

Still undecided. Maybe I'll start Game of Thrones.

[Anonymous No.2825987]

>>2825984
>2001: A Space Odyssey
there's a book?

[Anonymous No.2825988]

Last: Iliad
Current: Cat's Cradle
Next: Odyssey or Crying Lot of 49

[Anonymous No.2825989]

>>2825987
Leave

[Anonymous No.2825993]

>I am America (And so Can You) by Stephen Colbert
Pretty lulzy. A lot of the material in the book seems to have been lifted wholesale from the show, though.

>Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am in love with it so far. I can't wait to finish this one so I can read some essays about it.

>The Bible
I'm actually reading through this one right now too. I started it yesterday, so I'm still on the book of Genesis. Everyone runs on fucking moon logic in this.

I'm thinking The Picture of Dorian Grey after Crime and Punishment.

[Anonymous No.2825996]

>last
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov. It was enjoyable but nothing to great.
>currently
A Canticle for Leibowitz. Not to far in but so far it is interesting.
>next
I took a break from the Count of Monte Cristo. I was just getting kinda bogged down in it, so I'll go back and give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.2826013]

the sound and the fury
portrait of the artist as a young man
probably something by mishima

[Anonymous No.2826015]

>Last
2666 -- Fantastic. The atmosphere really pulls you in, and the various motifs and mysteries presented damn near drive you insane trying to piece them all together.
>Current
The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) -- I'm not really that into the whole theological agenda nor the extensive satire of late 13th Century Italian politics, but Dante can certainly conjure an image that sticks with you.
Beyond Good and Evil -- Lots of food for thought, but I can't help but feel like it's Nietzsche stripped to its bare bones.
>Next
The Pale King, which I already own, and I'm probably gonna order Stoner by John Williams as it's been getting a lot of attention on /lit/ lately and sounds like my sort of thing. Beyond that, I dunno.

[Anonymous No.2826027]

>>2826015
oh I forgot, I'm also listening to the audio book of A Clash of Kings. Pretty cool. Roy Dotrice is very good.

[Anonymous No.2826034]

>Book you've last finished
As I Lay Dying
>Book you're reading currently
Both On The Road and Lolita
>Book You'll Read Next
The Odyssey or Catch 22

[Anonymous No.2826042]

Last: Martin Walser's Breakers (original title: Brandung) - a great novel about insecurity, loneliness, longing and fitting in. I honestly doubt Walser will ever disappoint me.

Current: Brothers Karamazow - actually, I finished the first book before the interlude mentioned above. so far, I'm enjoying it a lot, after the slow start you get a good overview of theological questions of the time, all coupled with the typical choleric ductus you see in russian novels. I like it.

Next: Who knows; maybe I'll go back to contemporary American literature, or I'll stay in Germany, or maybe I'll just study the Bible a bit more - the possibilities are pretty much endless.

[Anonymous No.2826057]

>Book you've last finished
All Quiet on the Western Front. I enjoyed it a lot, realism and cynicism are used extremely well, and it isn't the usual story that paint the war as ugly and evil, as some say. Is simply the war seen through the eyes of a soldier, with no filter.

>Book you're reading currently
Lolita. I've read more or less until page 100. Nabokov's style is impressive, his descriptions of Lolita fill my heart.

>Book you'll read next

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
or
Justine by Sade

[Anonymous No.2826065]

>>2826034
>Book you've last finished
>As I Lay Dying

What did you think? I also read it recently and wasn't really sure what to make of it.

[Anonymous No.2826072]

>>2826034
Go with Catch 22. On the Road is a great one, too.

[Anonymous No.2826079]

>Book you've last finished
The Hobbit
>Book you're reading currently
Journey to the Center of the Earth
>Book you'll read next
Either 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or Starship Troopers

[Anonymous No.2826080]

>The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
>Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
>The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.2826087]

>last finished
Slaughterhouse 5
>currently reading
Lolita
>next
something by vonnegut, maybe, I like the way he writes. otherwise I'll try to finish the stack of books I have laying around unread, so maybe master and margarita

new to reading, pls dun h8

[Anonymous No.2826115]

>Book you've last finished
The Odyssey
>Book you're reading currently
None at the moment.
>Book you'll read next
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

[Anonymous No.2826117]

>don't remember
>Les Miserables, Atlas of the Viking World,
>Notre Dame de Paris

[Anonymous No.2826152]

> last: WoT: Lord of Chaos
> current: A Clockwork Orange
> next: Catch-22 or WoT Crown of Swords

[Anonymous No.2826160]

> One flew over the cuckoos nest
> War and Peace (3rd time now)
> Vernon God Little

[Anonymous No.2826161]

titanic - jaan kaplinski
joseph brodskys essays
something out of dat celine/t. bernhard stack

[Anonymous No.2826168]

>Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller
>The Road to Wigan Pier - George "The Rock" Orwell
>I'm certainly open to suggestions. I was considering another go at Tropic of Capricorn; I haven't read that book since late high school, but I remember it being pretty decent.

[Anonymous No.2826181]

>Book You Last Finished
Looking For Alaska by John Green. I mean it's YA Fiction so it is pretty pleb by /lit/ standards but I really liked it. Kind of tries to deconstruct the pathological manic pixie dream girl stereotype. Green kind of mucked up the ending a bit but it's his first novel so I am willing to forgive that.

>Currently Reading
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I am about a third of the way through. I really like DFW's writing style so the length doesn't bother me much. I don't have much intelligent to say about it yet.

>Next
Probably Hamlet or Huck Finn. Entry-level canonical junk.

inb4 "You're reading Infinite Jest before Hamlet?"

[Anonymous No.2826186]

>Book you've last finished
The Prince by Machiavelli
>Book you're reading currently
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
>Book you'll read next
Dunno. Maybe some stuff in my native language.

[Anonymous No.2826210]

>Snow Crash
>Dune
>Foundation

all for the first time

[Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx No.2826211]

>Book you've last finished
The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordai, Ph. D.
I'm not generally one to read diet books, but I really liked this book. It made a lot of since, was written decently, and cited a lot of studies that whose findings were interesting and easy to understand.
>Book you're reading currently
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda (I actually got my copy signed by him)
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (reread)
The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
Some poems by W. B. Yeats - which are covered in a few OYC lectures.
>Book you'll read next
The Paleo Answer by Loren Cordain, Ph. D. (Someone lent these books to me, so I gotta get through them and return them to her.)
Thy Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
I haven't decided on the next novel(s) I'll read yet, but I've got a few in mind.

[Anonymous No.2826214]

My Name is Asher Lev
The Golden Bowl
The Charterhouse of Parma

[Anonymous No.2826217]

>Last book I read.

The Myth of Sisyphus ( I finished it yesterday)

>Currently reading.

Plowing the Dark

>Book to read next.

Either The Bell Jar or The Picture of Dorian Grey (I found them each for a dollar about a week ago)

[Anonymous No.2826219]

>>2826211
>reading 5 books at the same time
how in the FUCK

[Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx No.2826225]

>>2826219
Yeah, I just have a few stacks of books on my desk - each of them I'm working through simultaneously. I've actually been pretty good about it - though I've been slacking a bit on Fahrenheit 451. I haven't really read anything since I finished the first part. I'll get back to it soon though.

[Anonymous No.2826233]

>>2826186

>The Diamond Age.

How is that so far? A somewhat interesting person recommended it to me a while back and I've been half-assedly looking for it.

[Anonymous No.2826235]

>Two Towers
>Return of the King
>Either Unfinished Tales or Lustrum

[Anonymous No.2826238]

>Book you've last finished
This Side of Paradise
>Book you're reading currently
The Guns of August
>Book you'll read next
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

[Anonymous No.2826241]

>last book I read
Game Of Thrones
>Book I'm reading currently
The Grapes Of Wrath
>Book I'll read next
Rise To Rebellion

[Anonymous No.2826248]

>>2826181
Green tends to rush the endings of his books, they're still excellent but the endings tend to frustrate me.

[Aflac !fsJxpvs312 No.2826267]

>There is No Year by Blake Butler
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

[Anonymous No.2826281]

>Book you've last finished
A Storm of Swords

>Book you're reading currently
A Feast for Crows

>Book you'll read next
A Dance with Dragons

second time going through the series

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2826296]

>11/22/63 - Stephen King

> The Birthday Party - Panoz Karnezis (reread)

> lol i dunno

[Anonymous No.2826332]

>Book you've last finished
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

>Book you're reading currently
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

>Book you'll read next
Probably Black Boy by Richard Wright

Man, I really liked Tropic of Cancer, but Capricorn is getting to be a slog: Miller's portraits of his Brooklyn childhood are wonderful and present an interesting point of view as to why being a kid is awesome, but there are some parts that are just impenetrable. I'm about 75% done with the thing, and my desire to finish it is waning... Despite that, I was able to relate to Miller on lots of different things; and I probably got more out of Capricorn than Cancer, but it was not nearly as enjoyable... I regret reading these books back to back...

[Yiddo !TaCOYSeqI6 No.2826358]

>Book you've last finished
A Feast for Crows

>Book you're reading currently
-

>Book you'll read next
A Dance with Dragons: Part 1

[Anonymous No.2826362]

>>2826065
I loved it. Read The Sound and The Fury not long before it, and that was my introduction fo Faulkner. I like the way he writes quite a bit. The Sound and The Fury had its blurry moments, but I actually just resorted to Spark Notes sometimes - just to clear things up, and made the experience more enjoyable.
I liked As I Lay Dying quite a bit. I couldn't help but imagine the characters in both books were related somehow considering the style is so similar.

[Anonymous No.2826366]

>>2826072
Yeah I was leaning towards that one. I'm a fairly slow reader so it'll take me a while.
On the Road has been alright, I understand it's not a plot-driven book as much as it is an era-defining memoir. It's good though, I'm glad I read it.

[Anonymous No.2826371]

>finished
The Castle
>reading
The Secret Agent
>next
The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Come at me, Victoria!

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2826372]

>Book you've last finished
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
>Book you're reading currently
Nabokov's Beheading
>Book you'll read next
Ghostwritten

[Anonymous No.2826373]

>You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
>Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
>The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen

[Anonymous No.2826376]

>finished
Stephen King - It
>cancelled
Stephen King - The Stand
>currently reading
GRRM - Game of Thrones and Koji Suzuki - Ring
>next
Probably sequels to the ones mentioned above

[Anonymous No.2826381]

>Some short stories collection by Aldous Huxley
>One Hundred Years of Soltitude by Gabriel García Márquez
>In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez

[Anonymous No.2826428]

Just finished Mishima's Forbidden Colors. Pretty alright, though I didn't see the relevance of him introducing and then discarding lovers. I understand it's to criticize the fickleness of love, but some just seemed hopelessly irrelevant.

About to start Vonnegut's Mother Night.

Then after that Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, for school.

[Anonymous No.2826439]

>Book you've last finished
Platform, by Houellebecq. It's definitively not a good book, but very subversive, and it's filled with some wounding insight. And I like that a lot.
>Book you're reading currently
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It's a great novel if you want to get into Christian philosophy.
>Book you'll read next
Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Taking a break from alt literature.

[Anonymous No.2826442]

The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
The House on the Hill - Cesare Pavese
I Malavoglia - Giovanni Verga

[Anonymous No.2826463]

>Book you've last finished

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012) by Charles Murray

>Book you're reading currently

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws [Third Edition] (2010) by John R. Lott Jr.

>Book you'll read next

Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001) by Richard Lynn

[Anonymous No.2826480]

>killer mine by mickey spillane
>the sailor on the seas of fate by michael moorcock
>blood meridian by cormac mccarthy

[Anonymous No.2826484]

>Book you've last finished
Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
>Book you're reading currently
The Riyria Revelations 6 book series by Michael J. Sullivan
>Book you'll read next
War Maid's Choice by David Weber

I'm running out of fantasy to read...

[Anonymous No.2826486]

>Book you've last finished
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was pretty good, overrated I suppose, but worth reading, more for his commentary on the time than for all the drugs.
>Book you're reading currently
The Brothers Karamazov. It's pretty damn good.
>Book you'll read next
Kafka's complete stories, and probably Dubliners. I think I'll read them side by side.

[Anonymous No.2826490]

>"A Crown Imperilled"
Finished it about 30 minutes ago so the second one isn't really relevant
>Either "The Man Who Was Thursday" or "A Roadside Picnic"

Also FUCK YOU, FEIST. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. I WAS REALLY HOPING THAT WAS THE FINAL BOOK IN THE MIDKEMIA FANTASY. I WAS HOPING FOR CLOSURE. BUT NO. YOU HAVE TO TAUNT ME. YES I MAD.

[Anonymous No.2826500]

>Book you've last finished

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates. It was scary how powerful her writing is. I've never been actually intimidated by a novel like that before.

>Book you're reading currently

Ulysses by James Joyce. I'm not really studying it, reading it unannotated and stuff. I'm sure I'm missing a lot, but I'm really enjoying it. Chapter 3 was beautiful, and some parts have been absolutely hilarious.

>Book you'll read next

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. I want to return to my Victorian friends.

[Anonymous No.2826652]

>Book you've last finished
Hemmigway - A farewell to Arms
>Book you're reading currently
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
>Book you'll read next
Ullysess - James Joyce

[Anonymous No.2826659]

Finished: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq (or La Extension du Domain de la Lutte). So honest and true, it's a very eye opening book.

Reading: War and Peace

Next: One of the following

The man with the golden arm
Demanding the Impossible - A History of Anarchism
A People's History of the United States

[Standard Toaster !TOASTw92yk No.2826661]

>Book last finished
Pale Fire - Nabokov. Going into it, I had no idea it was a poem. It was quite good, though. First Nabokov book, too.
>Currently reading
Ulysses - James Joyce (again)
>Next read
Laughter in the Dark - Nabokov

[Anonymous No.2826662]

>Last Finished
The Shallows - Nicholas Carr

>Currently Reading
The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby

>Next
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.2826692]

finished
>Peter Høeg: Elefantpassernes Børn (Danish magical realism, I really recommend it, don't know if translated though)

reading
>Pynchon: Mason & Dixon

read next
>Pynchon: Against the Day

Looking forward to finishing my Pynchonthon (first read of all his books) so I can get to some classics. After reading V., I decided that I'd read all his books chronologicallyand read nothing else till I was done (Høeg was for a pick-your-own-book essay kind of thing). No regrets though, Pynchon is godlike.

[Anonymous No.2826705]

>Last
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
First hundred pages or so are a struggle, but it's worth it if you're into the whole Sherlock Holmes in a 14th century monastery thing.

>Currently
The Pale King by DFW

>Next
Undecided between The Kindly Ones and One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.2826713]

>Last Finished
Picture of Dorian Gray
>Reading Currently
Got a couple here: Don Quixote, The Republic, A Calvin and Hobbes collection
>Read Next
Got a couple more haha: Paradise Lost, Being and Time, Some Hume, Locke and Kant thrown in for good measure.

I've gotten into the habit of buying more books that I can read so I end up reading multiple books at one time and it turns into this mass of half-read books lying about my room. I had always promised myself I would stick to one at a time but having a decent paying job while living rent free with my parents has left me with so much cash to burn.

[Anonymous No.2826730]

>>2826692
How are you finding Mason and Dixon so far? I'll be reading that next..

[Anonymous No.2826737]

>meditations and contemplations - James Hervey
>Paradise Lost - Milton
>Memoirs of William Pitt.

I'm have a bit of an early modern binge.

[Anonymous No.2826740]

>Wild Ivy, Hakuin.
To anon who wanted to know what I think of it a week ago: it's worth reading, very short and surprisingly funny at times.
>Misreadings, Eco.
Hilarious, I've been sending sections to friends and old profs alike.
>Outside Ethics, Geuss.
This one probably won't be as funny as Misreadings or Ivy.

[Anonymous No.2826742]

>>2826705
>The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
>First hundred pages or so are a struggle

I remember reading somewhere that Eco did/does that on purpose, making the first 80-100 pages a bit tedious, to scare away too casual readers

[Anonymous No.2826750]

>>2826742
Yeah he goes pretty in depth about it in the post script. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I think it's awesome how much he wanted to challenge readers, but on the other, it just seems kind of pretentious. The postscript is a really interesting read though.

[Anonymous No.2826752]

>A dance with Dragons, Gurm
>The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, Adams
>Blood Meridian, Mccarthy

[Anonymous No.2826755]

>Book you've last finished
Being and Time
>Book you're reading currently
Lolita
>Book you'll read next
One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.2826760]

>Book you've last finished
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
>Book you're reading currently
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
>Book you'll read next
Essays by Michel de Montaigne

[Anonymous No.2826764]

> Julius, Gore Vidal
> Crimes Against Humanity, Larry May
>The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

>>2826740
I got very drunk with Ray Geuss once. He is a rather funny sort of man.

[Anonymous No.2826772]

>Dark Fields
>The Next Best Thing
well,I'm trying to read it but I'm put off by

a)infinite clothes descriptions (I don't fucking care what shade of green was the chiffon fucking scarf she was wearing)
b)awkwardness of the main character
c)having read the description how coming in your mouth feels
d)genuinely female stuff(I'm not sexist but I really can't understand some of her problems)

>don't know the next one


also I don't care for the people calling me pleb after I post this

[Anonymous No.2826774]

>Book you've last finished
Some Leo Kessler shit
>Book you're reading currently
The Idiot
>Book you'll read next
Not sure, maybe I'll give Atlas Shrugged or Gravity's Rainbow another shot

[Anonymous No.2826785]

Gaiman's and Pratchett's Good Omens
Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.2826789]

Last Finished: All Things Shining, Dreyfus & Kelly (I didn't like it much)

Currently reading:

A World Lost, Wendell Berry (Very good)
Reamde, Neal Stephenson (Very uneven - it switches from a book I like very much to a book I dislike roughly every 10 pages or so)
The Life Of The Mind, Hannah Arendt (Fascinating, highly recommended)
New Selected Poems And Translations, Ezra Pound (Difficult, slow going, very good)

Next up: Who knows? Probably more Wendell Berry, Proust, Jeffrey Barlough

[Anonymous No.2826794]

1. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
2. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
3. The Stranger by Camus

[Anonymous No.2826796]

>Book finished last
Blood Meridian - McCarthy

>Current
It - King

>Next
either Child of God or Outer Dark (both McCarthy)

I try to read literary fiction at least every other book, but it doesn't hurt to take a break with something easy every so often. >>2826752

[Anonymous No.2826801]

>>2826794
I tried reading The Stranger but I couldn't really get into it. I'm going to try again here shortly, with the sparknotes this time.

[Anonymous No.2826807]

>>2826801
You're joking, right?

[Anonymous No.2826812]

>Book you've last finished
A Clash of Kings
>Book you're reading currently
The Last Temptation of Christ
>Book you'll read next
Probably Wuthering Heights or Tom Sawyer

[Anonymous No.2826820]

>Book you've last finished
His Master's Voice by Stanisław Lem
>Book you're reading currently
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
>Book you'll read next
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

[Anonymous No.2826827]

>Book you've last finished
The Alchemist. Someone decided to write a motivational self-help book and then tried to build a story around that. Often comes off as very vague and distant. Not recommended.

>Book you're reading currently
Fight Club. Like everyone under the sun, I've had the main twist spoiled for me, but the book itself is quite good. The fragmented writing style may bother some people, but I like it for whatever reason.

>Book you'll read next
Welcome to the NHK. Huge fan of the series, want to read the book that started everything.

[Anonymous No.2826856]

>Escape from Freedom
>No Simple Victory
>Shock Doctrine OR The Affluent society

[Anonymous No.2826862]

>>2826856
No Logo > Shock Doctrine

[The Berserking Badgerman !nCpSAxk8YQ No.2826880]

>Book you've last finished
Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War 2)
>Book you're reading currently
1984 by Orwell
>Book you'll read next
Forever War, I think.

[Anonymous No.2827063]

>Book you've last finished
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih - two short stories and a novella. This was my first experience with Sudanese literature and I really enjoyed it (there were illustrations too!). Probably going to read Sailh's Season of Migration to the North soon - "most important Arab novel of the twentieth century" is pretty exciting praise.

>Books you're reading currently
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Travel literature about Patagonia, a place I knew nothing about before starting this. The way Chatwin blends in history, his own experience and general description/prose is generally eerie, but I like it. Sebald's essay on Chatwin perfectly describes it: "Anthropological and mythological studies in the tradition of Tristes Tropiques, adventure stories looking back to our early childhood reading, collections of facts, dream books, regional novels, examples of lush exoticism, puritanical penance, sweeping baroque vision, self-denial, and personal confession—they are all these things together." I'll definitely be reading more Chatwin too. Probably Utz.

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Ranpo. He's everything I was hoping he'd be. The Human Chair and The Caterpillar were some of the most grotesque works I've read (I had a constant feel of bile in my throat for the later one), and the more detective-oriented ones like The Cliff and The Psychological test have been just as thrilling.

>Book you'll read next
Maybe The Diary of Geza Csath or The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. I am really kind of in a detective/noir mood lately though, and really wish I could get any of Boris Vian's Vernon Sullivan novels or works by Jean-Patrick Manchette other than Fatale online. Black Wings has My Angel by Eliot Chaze was apparently an inspiration for Fatale and I've found that one, so I may read it soon.

[Vicky No.2827070]

>Book you've last finished Sofi Oksanen's Purge (REALLY, really good!)
>Book you're reading currently: The Lady Tasting Tea (It's about the history of Statistics, and it's quite enjoyable so far)
>Book you'll read next: nooo idea.

[Anonymous No.2827071]

>Book you've last finished
A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami
>Book you're reading currently
Ham on Rye by Bukowski
>Book you'll read next
I'm thinking Notes Ffrom Underground by Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.2827076]

>>2826862
Yeah but I've already read it. Sue me pedestrian

[Anonymous No.2827079]

>Book you've last finished
master and margarita, i really dig the cat
>Book you're reading currently
kafka, the castle, so far reminds me of the movie Shutter island
>Book you'll read next
no idea

[Anonymous No.2827087]

>Book you've last finished
Charlie Chaplins Autobiography
>Book you're reading currently
The Beach
>Book you'll read next
Moby Dick (If i can get my hands on a copy)

Be gentle with me..

[Anonymous No.2827097]

>Book you've last finished
Carpenter's Gothic
>Book you're reading currently
Lolita
>Book you'll read next
The Recognitions

[sage No.2827099]

>>2827079
Behemoth is one of my favorite literature characters ever.

[Anonymous No.2827102]

>Book you've last finished
Dead Souls. Gogol you glorious bastard, you made me fall in love with you again.

>Book you're reading currently
Breakfast of Champions. Haven't actually started it yet, but will sometime later today.

>Book you'll read next
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.2827121]

>Book you've last finished
Junky
>Book you're reading currently
Steppenwolf
>Book you'll read next
The Man Without Qualities

[Anonymous No.2827125]

>Book you've last finished
Slaughterhouse-Five. First Vonnegut novel I've ever read, shit was really good but still kinda overrated.
>Book you're reading currently
The Corrections
>Book you'll read next
The Girl Who Played with Fire probably. I've been avoiding it because my mother said it was much, much worse than Dragon Tattoo but I've recently realised my mother has awful taste.

[Anonymous No.2827139]

>Book you've last finished
Every Man Dies Alone, Fallada

>Book you're reading currently
The Orchard Keeper, McCarthy
The Essential Tillich
Microscripts, Wasler

>Book you'll read next
Systematic Theology, Tillich
The King of Elfland's Daughter, Lord Dunsany
Metamorphosis and other stories, Kafka
Early Chinese Mysticism, Kohn

[Anonymous No.2827413]

>Book you've last finished
Child of God. It read like The Stranger, only it was more realistic and much darker.

>Book you're reading currently
The Gardener's Son. Not too far into it. Can't say much.

>Book you'll read next
Moby Dick. If you are going to read this book find this version. I got this one for 4 dollars on Abebooks shipped. It is out of print but it has the most comprehensive footnotes.

[Anonymous No.2827418]

The Beautiful and Damned-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Fall- Albert Camus

Miss Lonelyhearts & Day of the Locust- Nathanael West

[Anonymous No.2827427]

>Last Exit to Brooklyn

>Vineland

>2666

[Anonymous No.2827436]

>American Psycho
It was alright, I mean, I get it, but some parts seemed written for shock value.
> A Scanner Darkly
Oh Philip. How I adore you.
> Lolita
I've been putting it off forever.

[Anonymous No.2827438]

>>2827125

>2012
>reading anal rape books about dull author inserts and suicide girls with your mom

Le shiggy leonardo

[Anonymous No.2827451]

>The war in the air
>The young Hornblower
> Either Les mis or the angel of the revolution

[castiel !C.Z5K.oPig No.2827500]

I can't remember the last book I finished; I've been reading comic books almost exclusively for the past few months.

Currently reading Hard Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World.

Going to reread Journey to the End of the Night next, I imagine.

[Anonymous No.2827540]

>plebs posting book titles without their impressions of them

[Anonymous No.2827589]

>Last finished
The Joke by Milan Kundera, or The Collected Fictions of Borges if we're counting short story collections.

>Currently reading
The Brothers Karamazov

>Next
No clue. I might finish my Sherlock Holmes collection, or Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.2827690]

>Catching Fire
(please, have mercy on me)

>Slaughterhouse Five

>The Hobbit
(for summer reading)

[Anonymous No.2827697]

>Last Finished
Snow Country- Kawabata

>Currently Reading
The Iliad- Homer

>Next Read
Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut

[Anonymous No.2827701]

>Book you've last finished
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
>Book you're reading currently
The Red Badge of Courage
>Book you'll read next
Probably poetry of Keats

[Anonymous No.2827794]

>Book you've last finished
The Left Hand of Darkness
Her writing style is both whimsical and jarring. I was honestly pleased and disappointed at the same time. A planet of hermaphrodites isnt the worst idea to come out of sci fi.
>Book you're reading currently
Dhalgren
I dont find the book difficult to read at all which is one compaint I've heard about it. Its sexually explicit and violent one moment while being completely mundane the next.
>Book you'll read next
Gravities rainbow

[Anonymous No.2827858]

>Just Finished: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
>Reading: Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
>Will Read Next: Carl Sagan - Contact

[Anonymous No.2827871]

> Last finished:
Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card... rereading it but it is worth it.
> Currently reading:
I am currently between books. This sad state will end tomorrow.
> Next up:
Prince of Thorns - never read it, but sounded good from reviews.

[Anonymous No.2827872]

>>2825989
>>2825987

2001: A Space Odyssey (Film) - Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey (Novel) - Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik.

This is one of the very few times I will say I preferred the film to the novel.

[Anonymous No.2827873]

>Read
The Hunger Games

>Reading
Catching Fire

>Will read
Mockingjay

Deal with it

[Anonymous No.2827890]

>Book you've last finished

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

>Book you're reading currently

Selected Stories of Franz Kafka [Modern Library, small fifties edition hardcover]

>Book you'll read next

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

[Anonymous No.2827894]

Just Finished: Into the Wild
Now Reading: The Odyssey
Up Next: Ulysses

Fuck bitches.

[Anonymous No.2827922]

>Book you've last finished
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
>Book you're reading currently
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
>Book you'll read next
The Illiad, the Odyssey,A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and finally Ulysse. I'm new to /lit/ that's why I haven't read them yet.

[Anonymous No.2827952]

Last Five:
The Jungle - Sinclair
Severin`s Journey into the Dark - Leppin
Jude the Obscure - Hardy
Molloy - Beckett
Titus Groan - Peake

Currently Reading:
Under Western Eyes - Conrad
Under the Volcano - Lowry
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories - Mishima

Next Batch:
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo - Kido (Thanks Raven)
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy - Dazai (Thanks Raven)
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - Hearn
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Count Belisarius - Graves
Coming up for Air - Orwell
The Letter Killers Club - Krzhizhanovsky (Thanks Raven)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Hardy
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Ranpo (Thanks Raven)

Not a bad mixture. Been working on `depressing` literature a bit, and nice to see I`ve found some Japanese and Russian titles again. A few essentials also thrown in for good measure.

[Anonymous No.2827954]

last
>poor folk
current
>the idiot
next
>dunno

[Anonymous No.2827959]

>>2827873
fuck you

[Anonymous No.2828082]

>>2827427
How are you liking Vineland? I could not finish it. I was just rather bored and not interested. It wasn't bad by any means, but I won't pick it back up. And have you read any other works of his?

[Anonymous No.2828086]

>>2827952
How are you liking Under the Volcano? I've considered it before.

[Anonymous No.2828105]

>>2828082

I haven't started it yet, I'm gonna pick it up tonight and hopefully plow through 100 pages or so.

I've read Lot 49, V., Inherent Vice and Mason & Dixon. They were all extraordinary, though Inherent Vice was a little more mediocre.

[Anonymous No.2828109]

>last
Norwegian Wood
>Current
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Next
not sure yet,maybe Nothing to Envy

[Anonymous No.2828114]

>>2828105
V. and Lot 49 are two works I'm very interested in reading. I don't think Vineland was an accurate picture of him as an author. Wouldn't be fair to ignore him based on that. The Crying of Lot 49 tends to be recommended as a good place to start. Do you agree with that recommendation?

[Anonymous No.2828115]

>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip Dick
>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, I forget.

[Anonymous No.2828118]

>>2828109
100 Years of Solitude is great. Are you enjoying it?

[Anonymous No.2828121]

>>2828114

Yes, either that or V. are good starters. The latter is more indicative of the 'Pynchon' style, so it'd be good to read that before the rest of his work. Lot 49 is very short and very enjoyable, so it's a good start as well.

[Anonymous No.2828129]

>>2828121
Wonderful, thank you. I'll be sure to pick one of them up for my birthday. I noticed he has a short story collection, as well. I might grab that. Damned if I don't love me some short stories.

[Anonymous No.2828134]

>Book you've last finished
Rational Mysticism by John Horgan

>Book you're reading currently
Leviathan Wakes
Teleny or the reverse of the medal

>Book you'll read next
Aldous Huxley's The doors of perception
The story of O
anything by Jorge Luis Borges

[Anonymous No.2828138]

>Twilight
>New moon
>Eclipse
nah, just trolling.
Captcha: she, lyingDis

[Anonymous No.2828140]

>>2828134
Grab Borges' Collected Fictions. You'll love it, and it's great to have all that in one book.

[Anonymous No.2828142]

>>2825947
I recommend Notes from the Underground. I read it as a part of my University course on World Literature last year and I really enjoyed it. The lecture butchered it, but that's besides the point.

>past: Go Ask Alice. I hadn't read it in years and thought I'd take a trip down memory lane.

>currently: Let the Right One In. I'm loving it so far.

>next: I picked up an anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems and I'm looking forward to it.

[Anonymous No.2828145]

>>2828140
I'll do, thanks man, (also I'll probably re-read some of the short stories on that book, but shit is so cash)

also, inb4 somebody /litrolling/: "hurr durr not reading Borges in spanish is for newfags"

[Anonymous No.2828153]

>Book you've last finished
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>Book you're reading currently
None at this moment in time
>Book you'll read next
Me and a friend are thinking about reading Dune at the same time, anyone here read it? Is it good?

[Anonymous No.2828160]

>>2828134
Dude, teleny as gay erotica is so laughable in some parts, I doubt Wilde wrote it all

>>2825948
cool, my favorite piece of writing from Ian Flemming is Quantum of Solace, because it's not a James Bond storie at all.

[Anonymous No.2828162]

>>2828153
>Me and a friend are thinking about reading Dune at the same time, anyone here read it? Is it good?
I liked it, but only read the books by Frank Herbert, IMO avoid the shit wrote by his son.

[Anonymous No.2828193]

Last Read:
Tropic of Capricorn

Currently Reading:
Infinite Jest

Next to Read:
Pride and Prejudice

[Anonymous No.2828201]

>>2828193
Don't expect too much out of Pride and Prejudice.

[Anonymous No.2828239]

>Book you've last finished

The Sun Also Rises

>Book you're reading currently

The Brothers Karamazov

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

>Book you'll read next

Cat's Cradle

The Disappearing Spoon

[Buffon Blowjob !!S4VoQvuh3lT No.2828257]

>Book you've last finished
Tender is the night by F Scott Fitzgerald. I definitely liked the atmosphere and the characters of the novel - Fitzgerald is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers.
>Book you're reading currently
Just started Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Can't say anything at this moment.
>Book you'll read next
I'll probably try Anna Karenina.

[Anonymous No.2828264]

Previous:
Gravity's Rainbow
Now:
Inferno (Hollander translation)
Next:
Purgatorio

I don't really get what's so great about Dante, but I'm hoping I'll find it if I keep going.

[Anonymous No.2828277]

Ubik, Zero History, Wired For War

[Anonymous No.2828286]

>Last finished
Notes from the underground

Had NO idea it was going to be as good as it was, don't know why I thought that dostoyevsky was going to be dry as a desert..

Are his other books as good as this?

I was in stitches during zverkov's going away dinner

[Anonymous No.2828289]

>Book you've last finished
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>Book you're reading currently
Angela's Ashes

>Book you'll read next
I'll pick one up from the shelf blindfolded

[Anonymous No.2828292]

>>2828264
you'll need some sort of companion, this work is too old for us to comprehend by simply reading it.

[Anonymous No.2828293]

>>2828286
I've only read Notes from the Underground myself, but one of my close friends read Crime and Punishment and says it's his favorite book of all time. If he recommends it, I'd say it's worth a shot. I'd get around to it myself but I have a ton of other things I've been dying to read.

[Anonymous No.2828294]

>>2825927
Lolita
Pale Fire
Les Miserables

[Anonymous No.2828324]

>Last Finished
Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
>Currently Reading
Albert Camus's The Stranger
>Read Next
Not sure, either Satre's Nausea, Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, or Kafka's Metamporphosis

>>2828286
I loved Notes From Underground, but I found Crime and Punishment really difficult to get through. It takes a while to read, but it's definitely worth it

>>2828289
What did you think of Portrait of the Artist? It's probably my favorite book of all time, but everyone I know that's read it said they hated it.

[Anonymous No.2828330]

>>2828324
Wow. It's like you sit on your fat ass waiting for /lit/ to tell you what to read.

[Anonymous No.2828367]

>Previous
Tropic of Cancer
>Current
Fear and Loathing on the Champaign Trail '72
>Next
Count of Monte Cristo

However I'm feeling intimidated by the size of Monte Cristo so I might chicken out and read The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.2828370]

>>2828330

I lol'ed. Most of the posts are heavily /lit/core, anyway

[Anonymous No.2828371]

>just read
Catcher in the rye
>currently reading
Looking backward
>going to read next
>walden

[Anonymous No.2828386]

>Floating Life, Moez Surani
>Floating Life, Moez Surani
>Floating Life, Moez Surani

[Anonymous No.2828906]

>read: Erich Fried: Poems
>currently: Franz Kafka: A Country Doctor and other short stories
>next: Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost or Hermann Hesse: Demian

[Anonymous No.2828918]

>Book you've last finished
The Name of the Rose. It's one of the best books I've ever read, and I basically bought every other Umberto Eco novel a couple of days after finishing it. Never before have I been so infatuated with a writers prose.
>Book you're reading currently
Foucault's Pendulum, The Pale King, Catch 22
>Book you'll read next
The Island of the Day Before

[Anonymous No.2828937]

>Book you've last finished
The Hunter by Richard Stark
>Book you're reading currently
L.A Confidential by James Ellroy
>Book you'll read next
Kings Ransom by Ed McBain

Been on a crime novel kick lately

[Anonymous No.2828939]

Last finished:
>Publius Ovidius Naso - Ars amatoria

Reading currently
>Ken Kesey - Demon Box

Next
>Thinking Proust, but I always do.. So dunno, Garcia?

[Anonymous No.2828943]

why does this thread exist why do you idiots insist on creating it every few days why do idiots insist on posting in it nobody reads your replies and it invites no discussion interesting or otherwise you're all scum and you all deserve to be genitally mutilated (moocans would just have to have their penises entirely removed)

[Anonymous No.2828946]

>>2828943
I think you need to calm your autistic ass down.

[Anonymous No.2828950]

>Book you've last finished
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
>Book you're reading currently
Roughing It by Twain
>Book you'll read next
Islands in the Stream by Hemingway or Pale Fire by Nabokov, I haven't decided yet

[Anonymous No.2828963]

>>2828943

I love these threads. Even without discussion of the books, the titles send me to Amazon and get me reading new stuff that looks interesting.

[Anonymous No.2828975]

>Last read
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice (it included a collection of short stories too, which I also read)

>Now reading
Thomas Bernhard - Die Ursache. Eine Andeutung

>Book you'll read next
Thomas Bernhard - Der Keller. Eine Entziehung
and "Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music ", a collection of essays by various authors, which I'll probably read inbetween

[Anonymous No.2828979]

>>2828943

have you read the thread? there's a good bit of discussion, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.2829624]

>Book you've last finished
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
>Book you're reading currently
Lord of the Rings: Return of The King
>Book you'll read next
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

[Anonymous No.2829645]

>As I Lay Dying

>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>JR

[Anonymous No.2829682]

>>2826371
>>2827079
Hey look, Im the guy who just finished it and you are reading it. If you like it you'll like Amerika even more. The Castle lacked the flourish of that novel which keeps the fantastic elements of his short story worlds. The Castle not so much as into one fantasy.

[Anonymous No.2829687]

The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

The Comedians - Graham Greene

The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre

I WANT TO BE A SPY.

[Anonymous No.2829693]

>Fall of Giants, Ken Follet
>A Book of Travellers Tales, Eric Newby
>Haven't decided.

[Anonymous No.2829696]

>>2829645
Thanks for reminding me that my library copy of As I Lay Dying is two weeks late and I'm only fifty pages in. I think I'll return it; I didn't like what I read.

[Anonymous No.2829712]

>>2829696
I thought the language was very beautiful and lyrical. And the way Faulkner enables a partially-coherent jumble of ephemeral images and instantiations to approximate a mood...it was like he was writing in the syntax of thought itself. 9/10 I'm looking forward to the sound and the fury

[Anonymous No.2829749]

1984 - George Orwell

Edward of Planet Earth - N. Eftimiades

Lord of the Flies - can't remember

[Anonymous No.2829762]

>>2829712
I've just never been a big fan of Faulkner. Light in August was okay, but I've never been able to get into the Southern setting of his works.

[Anonymous No.2829772]

>>2829762
twain too? GASP

[Anonymous No.2829795]

>Book you've last finished
The Dragon Reborn
>Book you're reading currently
Shadow Rising
>Book you'll read next
Fires of Heaven

[Anonymous No.2829803]

you're tedious

[Anonymous No.2829804]

>>2829795
>>2829803

that was meant for you

[Anonymous No.2829833]

last: The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
now: Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
next: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)