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Last three
Currently reading
Next three

Last three
Black Spring - Miller
Bleak House - Dickens
Sonnets to Orpheus - Rilke

Currently reading:
Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Next three:
The Cannibal - Hawkes
Other short works I've yet to read that I can find in .pdf until I get a new kindle (and other Dickens audiobooks)

Anyone got that link for Will 'O the Wisp?

>> No.3262661

How did you like Bleak House?

>> No.3262665

>>3262661
I didn't.

I think I'm the only person who doesn't love Dickens. His mundane descriptions achieve nothing. I'm not going to read books just for characterisation and recycled plots.

>> No.3262695

Last 3:
>the farming of bones: Edwidge Danticat
>The Russia House: John LeCARRE
>The Pyrates: George MacDonald Frazer
Current:
>Anna Karennina: Tolstoy
>Target Tokyo: Gordon W. Prange
Next:
>Sentimental Education: Flaubert
>The long goodbye: Raymond Chandler
>The call of Cthulhu and other weird tales: Lovecraft

>> No.3262792

>>3262665
Edgy

>> No.3262823

>>3262665
You're not the only one. I don't like him either. Nor does Sunhawk lol.

>> No.3262836

Last three:

Antonio Damasio- Decartes's Error.
Lakoff and Johnson- Philosophy in the Flesh.
Alva Noe- Out of our Heads.

Currently:

Thompson and Valera- The embodied mind.
Catherine Malabou- Ontology of the Accident.

Next- List is too long and I've not prioritised.

>> No.3262873

last 3
> blindness by saramago
> storm of steel by junger
> liquidation by kursetz

currently reading
waiting by ha jin
the city & the city by mieville

next 3
> the elephant vanishes by haruki murakammi
> the bhagavad gita
> maybe infinite jest

>> No.3263086

not sure, if i'm eligible I read very slow and posted what have I read this year in an another thread. but y not
>L3
Krugman: Peddling Prosperity
Krugman: The Accidental Theorist
Zinser: On Writing Well
>C
MacMillan: Reinventing the Bazaar
Clarke: 2001: Space Odyssey
>N3
Dunno.

>> No.3263098

>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Freakonomics
>Pedro Paramo,

>The Hellbound Heart

>The Great and Secret Show
>Hebdomeros
>Republic

>> No.3263099

Last Three
>The Hobbit - Tolkien
>What is Property - Proudhon
>The Stranger - Camus

Currently Reading
>White Noise - Delillo
>Fellowship of the RIng - Tolkien

Next Three
>Infinite Jest - Wallace
>Anarchism and other Essays - Goldman
>Daodejing