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ITT:
1) Last book you read
2) Book you're reading now

For me it's
>Breakfast of Champions
>The Odyssey

>> No.2839371

>I Am America (And So Can You)
>Crime and Punishment, the Holy Bible

>> No.2839372

>The Ambassadors
>The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.2839370

>A Storm of Swords
>House of Leaves

I did technically start A Feast for Crows, but I put it down until I finish House of Leaves.

>> No.2839373

>>2839372

How did you like The Ambassadors?

>> No.2839375

>>2839371
How was Colbert's book?

>> No.2839379

>Chronic City
>Northanger Abbey

>> No.2839382

Goesthes's Faust. Now reading ullyses

>> No.2839383

>>2839375

This. Been wanting to read it for a while

captcha: litorat call

>> No.2839385

>Sorrows of young werther
>Les Miserables

>> No.2839386

>>2839375

Some parts genuinely made me laugh but, I have to say, a fair bit of the material was lifted wholesale from the show. Either way, I was able to cut through the book in an afternoon. It's a pretty decent piece of light reading in between actual novels.

>> No.2839388

>>2839386
Sounds like a nice beach read. Might pick it up after I finish the Odyssey. Lord knows I'm gonna need a cooldown after that.

>> No.2839390

>>2839373
Henry James has a way with words, but the story itself didn't really pique my interest much.

>> No.2839417

>ten most common objections to Christianity
> don't know, always wanted to read a Jane Austen, could be time for that.

>> No.2839421

>>2839417
>started reading Pride and Prejudice
>was distracted by actual good books

>> No.2839423

>The Great Gastby (it's alright)
>East of Eden (it's great)

>> No.2839429

>>2839421

this is my worry, that it won't be all its hyped up to be. but I know I'm a fan of the language she uses so maybe that'll carry me through. also I can get through books pretty quickly so I don't really mind if its not perfect, she's an author I should probably have in my head somewhere.

>> No.2839442

>>2839429
Bro, that's like the same mindset I had going in. I read like 80 pages in one sitting, it was a lot for me to digest, personally, because of the way it's written, and it actually got pretty formulaic to me.
>anticipate party
>go to party
>be at party
>leave party
>talk about party
>rinse and repeat
I started reading a lot of Vonnegut after that and he's one of the best authors I've ever read so I'm gonna be distracted for a while, but one day I have to come back to it just so I can have read one of her works. It doesn't help that the general plot didn't interest me. Wasn't my type of book, I hope you have better luck though.

>> No.2839450

>Last book you read.
Invitation to a Beheading

>Book you're reading now.
Ghostwritten

>> No.2839457

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, which was really good.

Thinkin' I'll read LA Confidential next, in the mood for some hard-boiled shit.

>> No.2839657

>End Game, The Anthem, Moby Dick

>Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Beyond Good and Evil

>> No.2839665

>Dubliners
>Ulysses

>> No.2839670

>Wind up bird chronicle
>fear and trembling

>> No.2839673

>The Kite Runner
>The Road

>> No.2839688

>Madame Bovary
> A superfluous woman.

I'm currently in love with Fin de Siecle literature.

>> No.2839690
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2839690

>Last book
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

>Current book
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

>> No.2839698

i am ashamed, but:
>le mort d'arthur
>dirk gently's holistic detective agency

>> No.2839699

>Last Exit to Brooklyn
>Vineland

>> No.2839705

>Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
>Hero of the Imperium - Sandy Mitchell

It kinda sucks, but imma keep goin'