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Anonymous Sat Dec 29 01:08:03 2012 No.3294555 [Reply] [Original]

Last three
Currently reading
Next three

Last three
The Riddle of the Sands - Childers
Light in August - Faulkner
Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens

Currently reading
Little Dorrit - Dickens
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth - Wells

Next three
The Cannibal - Hawkes
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Raspe
Skylark - Kosztolányi

Shit's real.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 01:16:03 2012 No.3294574

Last three:
Building Stories - A really wonderful and moving collection. Depressing as hell, as Ware tends to be.
Dune - Shit-tastic
Tao Te Ching - There's a lot of wisdom to be found in this. I didn't think I would appreciate it that much after reading the likes of Confucius but it turned out to be a very interesting little book. Should probably be required reading for everyone.

Currently Reading:
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - My god Campbell is a beautiful writer.
Bhagavad-Gita - Haven't read the rest of the Mahabharata, this just seems like a good entry point.

Next three:
An American Tragedy
The Sot-Weed Factor
Underworld

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 01:34:03 2012 No.3294607 Last Three: Im Westen nichts Neues The Sun Also Rises Farewell to Arms Currently Reading: Crime and Punishment Next Three: The Brothers Karamazov Herr Arne's Hoard The Steppe

VurtKonnegut Sat Dec 29 01:37:03 2012 No.3294616

Last three:
>A Dirty Job - Moore
>Shoplifting From American Apparel - towelin
>Both Flesh and Not - Walrus

Currently reading:
>The Stupidest Angel - Moore
>The Righteous Mind - Haidt
>Billy Bud - Melville

Next Three:
>Forever Flowing - Grossman (I swear I'm going to get to it soon)
>Maybe Big Sur, The Street of Crocodiles, Too Loud A Solitude, Crying of Lot 49, Anatomy of Melancholy, etc etc I'll see

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 01:44:03 2012 No.3294623

Last Three
> Lord of the Flies - Golding
> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
> Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Currently Reading
> The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

Next Three
> Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
> The Idiot - Dostoevsky
> The Republic - Plato

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:05:03 2012 No.3294673 >>3294623 Seems to be getting progressively literary there

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:05:03 2012 No.3294675 >pleb here >last 3 Animal Farm To Kill A Mockingbird 1984 (obvious authors) >now Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes >next 3 Naked Lunch - Burroughs The Half-Life of Facts - Samuel Arbesman Siddhartha - Hesse

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:07:03 2012 No.3294679 >>3294673 Lord of The Flies would have to follow Fahrenheit if that were the case

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:09:03 2012 No.3294683 >>3294675 oh and also I rather enjoyed animal farm and 1984 TKM was meh and loving Flowers for Algernon, read the short story back in 8th grade and oh lawd I might cry. The Half-Life of Facts was a gift but definitely looks promising.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:10:03 2012 No.3294688 >>3294679 I meant in groupings from the last three to next three.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:11:03 2012 No.3294690 >last 3 The Stranger - Camus The Double - Dostoevsky Naked Lunch - Burroughs >Currently Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre - Kaufmann The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-Wolfe >next 3 Myth Of Sisyphus Satantango Cosmic Banditos Iliad & Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:12:03 2012 No.3294692 >>3294675 I fucking loved it when /lit/ started and I began to read literary works after 5 years of no reading. Working through all the classic entry-levels (1984, Siddhartha etc) was a great way to work my way towards finding what I like.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:40:03 2012 No.3294778 Last three Breakfast of Champions Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse 5 (all Vonnegut) Current Clockwork Angels - Neil Peart and Kevin Anderson Next Any other Vonnegut books really, I love his writing style.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:44:03 2012 No.3294793 >>3294778 Diversify your reading my man

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:46:03 2012 No.3294801 >>3294793 I just read The Road and Catcher in the Rye, but after reading Cat's Cradle I got really into Vonnegut and his ideas. He's awesome man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:49:03 2012 No.3294809 >>3294801 May I ask how old you are?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:51:03 2012 No.3294816 Last Three: Walden The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Currently Reading: Bhagavad Gita Next: Walden idk what else

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:53:03 2012 No.3294818 >>3294574 Tao Te Ching is fabulous scripture, I draw a lot from it

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:54:03 2012 No.3294821 >>3294816 You re-read stuff that soon after?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 02:57:03 2012 No.3294827 >>3294821 Not usually. I should probably wait, but I feel drawn to reread it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:05:03 2012 No.3294837 >Last three C.S Lewis - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Ken Kesley - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Paul Neilan - Apathy and Other Small Victories >Currently reading Don De Paul - Caterfly >Next three Not sure yet.

>>	FAULKGUY Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:10:03 2012 No.3294847 Ivan Desinovitch Ms. Dalloway Johnny Got His Gun The Hamlet Got a whole shelf waiting. I like to choose in the moment.

Henry DeTamble VIII !!Pn2gpShOOtP Sat Dec 29 03:13:03 2012 No.3294851

>>3294555
Last three:
The Lord Of The Rings(including The Hobbit) - J.R.R. Tolkein
The Stand - Stephen King
The collected stories of O.Henry - O.Henry
Currently Reading
Mere Christianity - C.S.Lewis
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Next Three:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Space Trilogy - C.S.Lewis
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:21:04 2012 No.3294874

Previous 3:
The Sun also Rises
Of Mice and Men
God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater!
Currently reading:
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
1984
Crime and Punishment
Romeo and Juliet
Next 3:
Siddhartha
Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms

Problem is, I can't ever find the damn time to read. There is always so many distractions, Computer, TV, games, and the like. Its hard for me to Actually sit down and read.
Feels bad, Man.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:24:03 2012 No.3294884
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Last 3:
>Women - Charles Bukowski
>The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
>The Trial - Franz Kafka

Current:
>The Metamorphosis - Kafka

Next 3:
>1984 - George Orwell (sacrilege to have not read this, I know)
>Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
>The Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:32:03 2012 No.3294913

Last three:
>Anathem - Stephenson
>The Time Machine - Wells
>The Rise of Endymion - Simmons
Currently reading:
>The Profit - Gibran
>A Dance With Dragons - Martin
>The Bros Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Next Three:
>The Magicians - Grossman
>The Book of the New Sun - Wolfe
>Foundation - Asimov

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:33:03 2012 No.3294915 Am I the only one who can't read multiple books at the same time? I need to either finish one or give up on it to start reading another.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:35:03 2012 No.3294924 >>3294915 No. I don't see the appeal in reading multiple books at a time. I like to finish what I've started and stay focused on it

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:43:03 2012 No.3294933

>>3294913
here.
>>3294915
>>3294924
reading multiple because occasionally i'll get my hands on a new novel that interests me more than what i was otherwise reading. in this case i'll power through the new one, then return to the older. i've exhausted my rereads of every book i have in my house, so am forced to pick up ones i don't care for just for something to read. so when new, interesting material presents, i just can't wait till i bring the previous reads to a close.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:45:03 2012 No.3294936 >>3294933 Get yourself a library card, man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:53:03 2012 No.3294946 File: 34 KB, 192x248, 111041947032169745_8v1lQXfv_b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3294936 If only, anon. I'm afraid I would never pick up a pencil again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:54:03 2012 No.3294949 >>3294946 I have no idea what you're trying to say

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 03:57:03 2012 No.3294955 >>3294949 Limiting myself to books i own forces me to. um. not read, sometimes. like those times i need to go to work, between pages. and speak, between pages. and things.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:04:03 2012 No.3294968 File: 477 KB, 480x480, 1. Hedges L.260 (The Snuff).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Last three After Dark - Murakami Factotum - Bukowski The Woman in the Dunes - Abe >Currently reading The Moon and Sixpence >Next three Don't know yet

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:12:03 2012 No.3294983
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Hello, /lit/erates. Constructive thoughts on Farenheit 451. The idea concept really interests me.

In4b it's not real literature gtfo and die pleb. (It's still better than fantasy)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:16:03 2012 No.3294997 >currently reading The Black Box next two >Killing Lincoln >Killing Kennedy

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:32:03 2012 No.3295024 Last Three >The Picture of Dorian Gray >White Teeth >Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance Currently >Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Next Three >Gravity's Rainbow >Portnoy's Complaint >Passage to India

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:53:03 2012 No.3295068

>>3294983

Read it only a couple days ago.

I really enjoy dystopian themed books, and enjoyed the book as a whole.

I did however, think Montag 'saw the light' a bit too easily. It is a short book, but I thought more events and more inner discussion should have occurred for him to make all of the sacrifices he made.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:54:03 2012 No.3295074 >>3294968 >Hedges snuff >2012 Do you even High Dry Toast? Does menthol rebound mean nothing to you? Grow the fuck up.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 04:55:03 2012 No.3295075

Last three:
>Der Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
>The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>Dubliners - James Joyce

Currently reading:
>Ulysses - James Joyce
>At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien

Next three:
>V. - Thomas Pynchon
>The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
god knows what else, probably:
>The Crying of Lot 49, Tender is the Night, some Le Guin fantasy novels or anything by Wolfgang Koeppen

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 06:54:03 2012 No.3295343

Last three
>Soseki, Spring Miscellany
>Freyre, Masters and Slaves (gave me a headache)
>Blake, Selected Poems

Currently reading
>Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
>Ma Jian, The Noodle Maker
>Cunningham, The Hours

Next three
>Okakura, Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art
>Mo Yan, The Garlic Ballads
>Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Another huge load of Japanese books is coming soon though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:04:03 2012 No.3295357 Last three: >Catcher in the Rye >Notes from the Underground >No Longer Human Currently reading: >Lolita Next three: >The Book of Disquiet >The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay >The Cancer Ward

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:10:03 2012 No.3295371

johann holtrop - goetz (2/5)
am sarazenenturm - jünger (3/5)
radetzkymarsch - roth (5/5)

capital - john lanchester (4/5 so far)

the political mind, a cognitive scientists guide to your brain and its politics - george lakoff
randolph hearst biography - ben procter
acid dreams, complete social history of LSD, CIA, the sixties and beyond - lee, shlain

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:18:03 2012 No.3295388

>Last three
The Tennis Court Oath - John Ashbery
Valis - Philip K Dick
Rivers and Mountains - John Ashbery

>Currently reading
A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory - Jonathan Culler

>next three (not sure yet but)
Holzfaellen - Thomas Bernhard (read it in English already but I want to practise my German)
The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Double Dream of Spring - John Ashbery

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:29:03 2012 No.3295419 Last Three - Catch-22 Slaughterhouse Five The Great Gatsby Currently - The Grapes of Wrath Next - Fahrenheit 451, Ulysses

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:40:03 2012 No.3295447

Last:
>Stephen King's Just After Sunset
>A lot of books on the many subjects of cinema and cinematography
>The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan & Barbara Pease

Now:
>Clive Barker's Books Of Blood Vol. 3

Next:
>Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
>Probably more books on cinema

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 07:52:03 2012 No.3295478 >LAST Atomised (Houellebecq) Storm of Steel (Juenger) Oblivion: Stories (Wallace) >NOW The Third Policeman (O'Brien) >NEXT The New York Trilogy (Auster) The Passion According to G. H. (Lispector) Peace (Wolfe)

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 08:22:03 2012 No.3295536
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Last three:
>The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time - Hunter S Thompson
There are some really interesting articles here, I was especially fascinated with the hippie ones. And re reading one of the Fear and Loathing articles was nice.
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back"
>A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Pretty damn crazy, I watched a acted version of it too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64f0C4TGq0
>The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S Eliot
I really, really enjoyed The Wasteland, I've read it about 3 times now in the span of a week or two.
Currently reading:
Infinite Jest - Wallace
Pretty great so far, some boring parts, some amazing parts.
Next three:
>Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Seems like what I'm interested in, counter culture.
>The Recognitions - William Gaddis
Seems to be hard as fuck, will give it a go.
>Demian - Herman Hesse
Siddhatha was pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 10:20:09 2012 No.3295743 File: 422 KB, 480x480, 2. Samuel Gawith (Kendal Honey).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3295074 To each his own, I snuff what I like. You don't have to be a dick about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 10:25:09 2012 No.3295753 >>3295478 How's Policeman? I bought it recently, I've never read anything by the guy

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 10:28:09 2012 No.3295759 >>3295753 I'm not far into it yet, but so far so good. Very funny and the prose is tight as a twelve year old's pussy.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 10:44:09 2012 No.3295790

>>3294675
have fun with naked lunch

All them holy men in lotus position waiting around on the man, so then buddha says "by god I don't have to do this, I'll metabolize my own junk"
"but you can't do that, the revenoors will swarm all over you"
"swarm over me they won't, I've got a gimmick see, as of right now I'm a fuckin holy man"
"jeez boss what an angle"

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 10:46:09 2012 No.3295794 >>3295371 >acid dreams word up son

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 13:48:09 2012 No.3296242 Last Three: American Psycho - Ellis The Fountainhead - Rand Atlas Shrugged - Rand Currently: Look Homeward, Angel - Wolfe Next Three: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Klosterman On the Road - Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Miller

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:04:09 2012 No.3296280 >>3294913 Don't read The Magicians, it's newbie/pleb/reddit tier crap. Coming from someone who bought the book on a whim based on "glimmering" reviews (never again).

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:11:09 2012 No.3296299

Last:
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky

Currently reading:
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf

Next:
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Joke - Milan Kundera or something else that's relatively simple.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:17:09 2012 No.3296309 >>3294555 Last three: Jurassic Park Ghosts of Onyx Day of the Dragon Currently: H.P. Lovecraft's Complete Fiction Next three: The Land That Time Forgot Magic Man in the Sky The Jungle

>>	John Lee Hooker With A Penis !Ix5qDyu7XY Sat Dec 29 14:29:09 2012 No.3296328 >>3294555 I really like that picture. Where is it from?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:35:09 2012 No.3296346 L3: Picture of Dorian Gray The Outsider 1984 C: Macbeth N3: Animal Farm Clockwork Orange Hamlet I'm rereading all the books I read in high school.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:37:09 2012 No.3296351 >>3296328 A kids book called Caps for Sale.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:38:09 2012 No.3296352 >>3296328 http://www.amazon.com/Caps-Sale-Peddler-Monkeys-Business/dp/0064431436 >tripping >can't even reverse-google

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:49:09 2012 No.3296385

Hesiod
Ivanhoe - Scott
Venus in Furs - Sacher-Masoch

Understanding Media - McLuhan (honestly I've been reading this for over a year and haven't felt compelled to finish)
White Goddess - Robert Graves
English Ballads - Childe

Man and His Symbols - Jung
Flower Symbolism

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:55:09 2012 No.3296409

>Last three
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Lions Tale: Around the World in Spandex - Chris Jericho
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

>Current
The Stand - Stephen King
Film Art - David Bordwell

>Next
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 14:59:09 2012 No.3296431
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Last three
Carl Sagan - The Varieties Of Scientific Experience
Christopher Hitchens - Mortality
Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land

Currently reading
Albert Einstein - Ideas And Opinions
François Rabelais - Gargantua And Pantagruel

Next three
George Orwell - Shooting An Elephant and Other Essays
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From The Underground
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:09:09 2012 No.3296477 Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy Hobbes - Leviathan Voltaire - Letters on England Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Dr Johnson - Lives of the Poets Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:11:09 2012 No.3296489 Last three >Cloud Atlas >Waiting for Godot >A wild sheep chase Current >A hero of our time >Infinite Jest Next >Satanic verses >number9dream >Something by Bannana Yoshimoto.. dunno what though

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:14:09 2012 No.3296497 >>3295343 How was Spring Misc. I was thinking about venturing beyond Sanshiro but I'm not sure what would be the best starting place after it.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:21:09 2012 No.3296520
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The Question of Bruno - Hemon (7/10 would be 8.5 if not for Josef Pronek & Dead Souls story)
The Marquise of O - Kleist (9.5/10)
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light - Klima (5/10)

Hymns to the Night - Novalis

Next???

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:28:09 2012 No.3296534 >>3295024 did you like ZAMM? i got it for xmas

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:49:09 2012 No.3296602 >>3296477 check out kant's prolegomena. so good.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 15:59:09 2012 No.3296627

recently finished
>the goat, or who is sylvia? BY edward albee
>the way of zen BY alan watts
>the communist manifesto BY karl marx
>the american dream BY edward albee
>animal farm BY george orwell
>quantum psychology BY robert anton wilson

currently reading
>zen mind, beginner's mind BY shunryu suzuki
>the book BY alan watts
>the psychedelic experience BY timothy leary
>the dialectic of sex BY shulamith firestone
>be here now BY ram dass
>against civilization ED BY john zerzan

next on list
>the doors of perception and heaven and hell BY aldous huxley
>the illuminatus! trilogy BY robert anton wilson
>food of the gods BY terence mckenna
>walden BY henry david thoreau
>infinite jest BY david foster wallace
>the sacred and the profane BY mircea eliade

i read like 10 books at a time, reading them each piecemeal, so it usually takes me over 6 mos to finish each book haha

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 16:11:10 2012 No.3296653 >last three Infinite Jest - Wallace The Stranger - Camus Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky >Current On the Road - Kerouac >Next The Metamorphosis - Kafka Stoner- Williams Crying of Lot 49 -Pynchon Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 16:53:09 2012 No.3296741

>>3295388
you should check out Flow Chart by Ashbery if you haven't already, it's my favourite of his works.

Last:
>In The Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
>Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
>The Wars - Timothy Findley

Next:
>The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 17:10:09 2012 No.3296793 Last three >Great Gatsby - Fitgerald >Son of Satan - Bukowsky >Cell - S. king Currently reading >Betond good and evil - Nietzsche Next three >62/modelo para armar - Cortazar >random tales of Poe >I don't know but the homer's Iliad maybe

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 17:13:09 2012 No.3296803 >>3296627 do you read 5 books at the same time?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 17:23:09 2012 No.3296843 >>3296741 I haven't - I did read the opening and it seemed very good though. I think I'll come to Flow Chart after reading a bit more Ashbery, since it seems so long and complicated - Three Poems and Girls on the Run perhaps.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 17:47:09 2012 No.3296926

>Last
The Great Gatsby -- Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood -- Capote
The Jungle -- Sinclair

>Currently
Frankenstein -- Shelley

>Next
Don Quixote -- Cervantes
Fathers and Sons -- Turgenev
Walden -- Thoreau
or The Stranger -- Camus

I'll decide when I get there. Reading both eventually

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 17:57:09 2012 No.3296953

Last Three:
>The Castle by Franz Kafka
>Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
>Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Currently reading:
>White Noise by Don DeLillo

Next three:
>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
>Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
>Phaedo by Plato

>>	John Lee Hooker With A Penis !Ix5qDyu7XY Sat Dec 29 18:59:09 2012 No.3297108 >>3296352 I was just being lazy. I don't think that makes it any better, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:14:09 2012 No.3297131 > Last Two A Storm of Swords - Martin The Silent Cry - Oe > Current Two Flowers for Algernon - Keyes The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa > Next Two The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Murakami The Brothers Karamazov - That Russian Guy

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:15:09 2012 No.3297136 Last Three Underworld Negative Dialectics Love in the Time of Cholera Currently Reading Our Lady of the Flowers: Jean Genet Future Reading V by Thomas Pynchon The Red Room by August Strindberg Richard III

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:16:09 2012 No.3297138 >>3296953 How are you liking White Noise? It's one of my favorites. I think you'll enjoy Catch 22 also, very funny book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:17:09 2012 No.3297142 Last Two The Name of The Wind The Kingdom of this World Currently reading Siren of Titans Next up Dune Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:18:09 2012 No.3297146 >>3297142 >The sirens of titan my bad

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 19:19:09 2012 No.3297148

>Last three
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The Trial - Franz Kafka

>Currently reading
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

>Next three
The Man Without Qualities, Buddenbrooks or some other shit. I don't know, I usually decide when I get to the library.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:41:09 2012 No.3297754 Flying to Kagoshima today. Maybe expect a shitload of reading in the next week

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:52:09 2012 No.3297783 >>3296627 >i read like 10 books at a time, reading them each piecemeal Break this habit. This is an objectively bad approach to reading. Just stop.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:54:09 2012 No.3297790 >>3297148 >I usually decide when I get to the library. >I get to the library. ma nigga

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:55:09 2012 No.3297794

>>3297783
i know, i know, but i get bored with a book and then start a new one, meaning i get like a third through every book i read and end up reading close to a dozen at once. i know it's a terrible habit but i'm an awfully slow reader with ADD which makes finishing a book quite difficult for me :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:55:09 2012 No.3297795 >Last 3 The Plague - Camus The Trial - Kafka White Guard - Bulgakov >Current The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevksy >Next By Night in Chile - Bolano The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 22:57:09 2012 No.3297797 >>3297783 Don't tell me what to do grandma

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:03:09 2012 No.3297814

Last three:
Beyond Lies the Wub - Phillip K. Dick
Clockwork Orange - Burgess
The Tempest - Shakespeare

Currently reading:
The Gunslinger (I) - King
Necessity of Atheism - Brooks (fantastic.)

Next three:
Dream Psychology - Freud
The Drawing of the Three - King
Must... finish... Clockwork Orange... I've been working on it for a few months now O.o

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:04:09 2012 No.3297817 >>3297794 I know that feel. I feel bad for it because I'm a Lit major, too..

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:07:09 2012 No.3297823 >>3297814 But a clockwork orange is an easy and fun read?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:13:09 2012 No.3297844 >>3297823 But college..

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:15:09 2012 No.3297848 >>3297844 What do you study bro? I had so much spare time with a specialized accounting major.

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:26:09 2012 No.3297889

Last Three:
Oh God, I feel like a virgin here.
I've been very bad about reading in the last few years.
Posting here to try to push myself in the right direction in my transition from false intellectual to actual intellectual.

Currently Reading:
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz
Mindfulness in Plain English by Venerable H. Gunaratana Mahathera

Next Three:
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (I had previously read about half of this before getting frustrated with the nonsense writing style and giving up trying to derive any narrative from it.)

Anonymous Sat Dec 29 23:49:09 2012 No.3297937

Last Three:
Shoplifting From American Apparel-Tao Lin- Checked this out to see what all the fuss was about
Grimscribe-Thomas Ligotti
Teatro Grotessco

Currently Reading:
Eeeee Eee Eeee- Tao Lin

Next Three:
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Queer-William S. Burroughs- I've read Naked Lunch before, but I don't know what to expect from this
Glamorama-Bret Easton Ellis

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 00:01:09 2012 No.3297963 >>3297817 How do you get past it? I'm worried i'm gonna be like this forever, like in 10 years i'll be reading 50 books at once, some of which I started years earlier haha

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 00:07:09 2012 No.3297970

>>3297937
>Queer-William S. Burroughs- I've read Naked Lunch before, but I don't know what to expect from this
It's good, you can feel a distinct Fitzgerald or Conrad strain in it. It definitely feels unfinished, though, it's only like 100 pages long. Here's a quote from Queer I like

“Lee did not enjoy frustration. The limitations of his desires were like the bars of a cage, like a chain and collar, something he had learned as an animal learns, through days and years of experiencing the snub of the chain, the unyielding bars. He had never resigned himself, and his eyes looked out through the invisible bars, watchful, alert, waiting for the keeper to forget the door, for the frayed collar, the loosened bar … suffering without despair and without consent.”

Hope you like it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 00:29:09 2012 No.3298035 >>3297970 Thanks. Good luck with whatever you are reading too.

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 02:48:09 2012 No.3298406

>Last three
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

>Currently reading
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

>Next three
Mr.Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 02:50:09 2012 No.3298414

>>3294623
Take a breather between each book in the Republic. I highly recommend reading alongside someone, so you can discuss it. If you can't do that, download a literary guide (don't waste your money buying one) and at least skim it. The Republic isn't hard to understand or read, but you get much more out of it by developing a discourse on it.

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 02:52:09 2012 No.3298421
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>Last
On Certainty - Wittgenstein
The Blue and Brown Books - Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus - Wittgenstein

>Current
Capital, vol. 1 - Karl Marx
Basic Writings of Martin Heidegger

>Next
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
Masculinities - R.W. Connell
For Reasons of State - Noam Chomsky

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 03:09:09 2012 No.3298447 >not rating how much you enjoyed the books ISHIEIJFURNGRGYGYGYY

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 03:09:09 2012 No.3298449 >>3298421 butler fucking rules

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 03:18:09 2012 No.3298464

Last three:
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
Current:
Remembrance of Things Past
Next three:
Not that I'm getting to them for a while, but Doctor Zhivago, War and Peace, and a Memory of Light. When Christmas shopping, people in my family seem to assume that "fast reader" means "I can read a library in a day".

>>	Minimal Sun Dec 30 04:30:09 2012 No.3298581 >>3294851 >Mere Christianity - C.S.Lewis Why did you read it? And what did you think of it?

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 06:27:10 2012 No.3298676
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>Last three

The Insurgents by Noah Cicero: Great novel that is filled with funny characters and eye opening and even touching moments of connections to others.

King Lear by William Shakespeare: Fantastic play. There will never be a tragedy better than Lear.

4 plays by Eugene Ionesco: Many consider this guy the greatest part of The Theater of the Absurd and I can see why. The Bald Soprano is a great commentary on identity.

>Currently reading

Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler: Absolutely depressing and dark. Nothing remains still. Everything rots and drags.

The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs: The cut-ups and the idea behind the word virus is genius so far. I am probably going to finish this and Scorch Atlas by tomorrow.

>Next three

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 06:36:09 2012 No.3298687

>Last three
Candide - Voltaire
Sons - Pearl S. Buck
A House Divided - Pearl S. Buck

>Currently reading
Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe
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>Next three
The Highway Man - Alfred Noyes(going to read this soon after I stop posting on /lit/)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
East Wind, West Wind - Pearl S. Buck

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 06:48:09 2012 No.3298696 >>3294913 What did you think about Anathem? I was thinking of either starting that or Cryptnomicon

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 06:49:09 2012 No.3298697 Last Three >1984 > Fahrenheit 451 >Animal Farm Current: None, waiting for Kindle to get here Next three: >History of Opera (Quiz Bowl requires this knowledge) >Ulysses > Not sure

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 08:22:09 2012 No.3298786
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Last three:
Mortality - Htichens
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Electra - Sophocles

Currently reading:
Lolita - Nabokov
Truth and Method - Gadamer

Next three:
The Pale King - Wallace
The Collapse of Globalism - Saul
War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 22:33:14 2012 No.3301515
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>>3298676
UPDATE

Just finished Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler. It is a fantastic collection that feels so cohesive and unsettling that I needed to step away from the book for breaks. I recommend it to anyone that enjoys David Lynch films or William S. Burroughs' work
>mfw reading it

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 22:40:14 2012 No.3301534 >>3301515 I too have an update but posting from iPhone so fuck that. Any Osaka fags here? I'm moving to nakatsu next week, 10 minute walk to JR Osaka. Fuck. Yes

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 22:51:14 2012 No.3301576 >>3298786 >Mortality - Htichens Thoughts? Was thinking of blinding this one.

Anonymous Sun Dec 30 22:55:14 2012 No.3301596

>>3301576
Not the person you're responding to, but I fucking loved that book. Really evoked some emotion in me and helped paint a different more compassionate picture than the usual Hitchens, Also extremely saddening to see the ideas that never even got remotely carried out that were just being thought up in his last days.
5/5 book, especially if you've ever dealt with cancer

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 30 23:01:14 2012 No.3301628 The Divided Self Madness and Civilization The Myth of Sisyphus Lucifer's Hammer Tao Lin Things Fall Apart Leaves of Grass Steal! This Book Gravity's Rainbow Infinite Jest

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