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What is the last book you have read?
What is the current book you are reading?
Next book that you want to read?

>> No.2873452
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Last book: The Great Gatsby
Current book: The Castle by Kafka
Next book: Lolita/Dekada 70's

>> No.2873459

>What is the last book you have read?
The Prince by Machiavelli
>What is the current book you are reading?
Money by Martin Amis
>Next book that you want to read?
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.2873461

last read

>Vineland

It was good, probably my least favorite of Pynchon's works so far but still very enjoyable and brilliant at times.

current

>Winesburg, Ohio

I've only read the first few stories but they were amazing. I'm going to finish it today, hopefully.

next

>Underworld or The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

>> No.2873462

Last: The Man In The High Castle
Now: Slaughterhouse Five
Next: Naked Lunch

I'm new to all this reading lark

>> No.2873466

>>2873462
First two are good choices if you're new (dunno about Naked Lunch, haven't read it).

>> No.2873468

Last: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Current: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Next: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.2873486

What is the last book you have read?
>Journey to the end of the Night
What is the current book you are reading?
>Lolita
>and Swann's Way
Next book that you want to read?
>The book of laughter and Forgetting
>or The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

>> No.2873496

Last book: 2666
Current: Neuromancer
Next: People of the Book or The Fountainhead. Not super keen on either but they've been lying around long enough.

>> No.2873500

>What is the last book you have read?
Trainspotting

>What is the current book you are reading?
None

>Next book that you want to read?

Probably another book from Irvine Welsh, Zizek or Foucault

>> No.2873501

Last: She: A History of Adventure
Now: Of Human Bondage
Next: Claudius The God

>> No.2873516

>Last
The Pale King (DFW). For some of my thoughts on it, see >>2873215
>Current
Hunger (Hamsun). Too early to really have any thoughts yet.
>Next
White Noise (DeLillo).

>> No.2873519

>last
Blaugast
>current
Mason & Dixon
>next
The Maimed

>> No.2873523

Last: The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

Now: Ham On Rye

Next: Notes From Underground

>> No.2873631

Last book: Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Current book: People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Next book: River of Gods by Ian MacDonald

>> No.2873658

Last book read:
>War and Peace

Raisin book I am reading:
>The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Next book I will read:
>Israel Potter (Melville)

>> No.2873660

Last: The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
Current: On Sparta - Plutarch
Next: Dunno. Thinking of A Tale of Two Cities. The Dark Knight Rises got me in the mood for some revolution and I read in an interview a lot of the script was inspired by AToTC.

>> No.2873683

1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Catch 22
3. The Name of the Rose.

I must stop borrowing from the library for a while and work on my backlog, it threatens to fall on me.

>> No.2873723

>What is the last book you have read?
Good Omens
>What is the current book you are reading?
Coriolanus
>Next book that you want to read?
Beowulf

>> No.2873748

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

>> No.2873754

>What is the last book you have read?
The Fall by Albert Camus
Great book, would read it again.

>What is the current book you are reading?
The Invisible Man
It's what I expected and I'm enjoying it so far. Though Griffin is aggressive, "you do what I want and when not I will kill you"

>Next book that you want to read?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
I did some search on what to read next and this one looks interesting.

>> No.2873769

Last: On Liberty by J.S Mill
Current: Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda
Next: Nietzsche and Philosphy by Gilles Deleuze

>> No.2873770

Last: The Republic by Plato
Current: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Next: Probably Candide since I've never read it and it should be coming in at the library soon.

>> No.2873809

Last: Claves líricas, Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Current: Romancero Gitano, Federico García Lorca
Next: Poeta en Nueva York, Federico García Lorca

>> No.2873892

>>2873770
you can read candide at the gutenberg project site

Last book: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Current book: The Magus by John Fowles (thx to the anon who suggested it)
Next book: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

>> No.2873914

>What is the last book you have read?
Replay by Ken Grimwood
>What is the current book you are reading?
For Want of A Nail by Robert Sobel
>Next book that you want to read?
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

>> No.2873930

Last book: Confederacy of Dunces
Reading Now: Hamlet
Next book: Either Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow, I can't decide which one I want to start with. Any advice?

>> No.2873940

>>2873892
>Next book: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

You're in for a treat.