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Just read - How Music Works by David Byrne
>By the dude from the Talking Heads. Some evo-psych bullshit in it, but lots of good stuff.

Primary Colors by Anonymous
>I fucking love the movie (it streams on Netflix) so I got it off #bookz and started reading it. Fucking jaded, yo

Les Miserables by HUGO
>Not really, but I like to pretend

>> No.3314066

>Just read
Crime and Punishment

>Currently reading
The Wheel of Time - The Eye of The World (SHOOT ME IN THE FUCKING DICK) God I can't fucking wait for this to be over. WHY did I order the second book in the series too...

>About to read
Toss up. I think next I'll read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. I've ordered some Kafka (Metamorphosis, The Trial) and 1984.

>> No.3314122

>>3314066
1984 is good for the first third, but then gets shittier and shittier

Also bump

>> No.3314139

Just Read
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Currently Reading
>The English Patient

Next Up
>The Iliad and Odyssey

I'm still disappointed with my high-school English teachers for not making us read any Homer.

>> No.3314141

>>3314139
>hasn't read Homer
>makes judgements about Homer's value

hahaha oh this one is classic

>> No.3314147

>>3314141
You can argue over Homer's value all you want, but you can't deny his influence.

>> No.3314156

>>3314141
it's probably a comment on how important it is the the Western canon given how much it's referenced, rather than a judgement on the work's value to a 2013 audience. It's sort of like reading the Bible: it might not be great literature, but it's important literature

>> No.3314176

>Just read
Thus Spoke by the Big N/ Finnegans wake

>Currently Reading
A Romance of Many Dimensions/ Finnegans wake

>About to Reap:
House of Leaves / Finnegans wake

>> No.3314182

>>3314176
why the sage :(

Also is Finnegan's Wake anything other than excruciating?

>> No.3314233

>>3314182
Saging isn't an insult.

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3314362

>just read
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
>currently reading
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
>about to read
A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

God I just realized that I'm a huge faggot

>> No.3314370

>>3314182

Finnegans Wake is unrivaled in the beauty of much of its language

>> No.3314373

>>3314182

Sage goes in all fields, always, regardless of content or context.

>Also is Finnegan's Wake anything other than excruciating?

Omnipresent.

>> No.3314379

Just read
>Slaughterhouse Five

Reading
>A Feast for Crows

About to read
>A Dance With Dragons

Got really hooked on Martin's first three books in the series. Took a Vonnegut break and now I'm back in the mix. The fourth book is a little slow though...

>> No.3314388

>>3314370
Fuck imma find it on bookz then

>> No.3314390

>>3314379
no such thing as too much vonnegut. even the shit ain't bad
>also dem welcome to the monkey house short stories
>also god bless you mr. rosewater is like shit tier but still good

>> No.3314431

The posts in these are noticeably more boring when capsguy isn't the OP.

>> No.3314435

>>3314431

We feel safer in caps threads. This is new territory.

>> No.3314524

>Just Read
LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring

>Currently Reading
Naomi Klein - No Logo

>Next up
LotR - The Two Towers

>> No.3314543

Just Read:

Pratchett's "The Truth"

Reading now:

"The English Patient"

Up next:

"Ulysess" or "Paradise Lost"

>> No.3314549

>>3314524
inb4 pleb

>> No.3314619

>>3314176
flatland gets way to little discussion on lit, liking it so far?

>> No.3314635

>>3314066
highly recommend alice, a really fun read with a lot of dreamlike cool shit and wordplay, and if you ever watched any of the movie adaptations as a kid it'll serve for a nice retelling and probably some nostalgia, that being said, metamorphosis is short as hell, break up the monotony of the wheel of time with that, and i didn't like 1984 but it's pretty much required reading to be a pseudo-intellectual fagboy so read it if you like talking about books with assholes i guess

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3314695

>just read
the box man - kobo abe

>currently reading
on the heights of despair - e.m. cioran

>about to read
unsure, i have confessions of a mask by mishima coming in the mail so probably that. after that i want to start the works of osamu dazai

>> No.3314754

>Just read
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

>Currently reading
From the Earth to the Moon

>Up next
...I dont have a clue. Maybe more Verne.

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3314762

Just Read: The Time Machine HG Wells

Reading: We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

About to Read: Time's Arrow, Martin Amis

>> No.3314767

>>3314695
fuck yeaaaah box man

makes me see how much murakami ripped off other less known japs

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3314821

>just read
the way of shadows - it was mostly shit. i guess it came before first law/gentleman bastards but it felt like a mash up of those except with much worse writing. would recommend only for fans of the genre who have run out of everything else

>reading now
the diamond age - it's pretty bad so far as well. some of the lines i think he's being tongue-in-cheek and others i think he is serious. there's a line about one of the characters looking like she is backflipping into the arms of morpheus while she is sleeping. it's just fucking bad in some parts, especially his tendency to use a highfalutin vocabulary only occasionally with really simple/screenwriters prose for the rest.

>next
Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) or Best Served Cold (Abercrombie) or Blindsight (Peter Watts)
WTB people actually posting their thoughts rather than mindlessly posting titles.

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3314835

>>3314821
I'll serve up some thoughts on mine, just because nothing better to do.

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Well, I sure am glad that is over. The good old Murakami dual reality appears once again. I liked it mostly for the settings created, like when describing rainy sundays and the like. And the ending was unnecessarily and predictably melancholic, as usual.

From the Earth to the Moon - Now this is more like it! Fantastically satirical on Americans, warfare and science. I think this might just get me into early science fiction as a whole.

>> No.3314863

>>3314695

Damn, you going through a big depressing /lit/ phase eh? Cioran THEN Dazai? That would be too much downer for me.

>> No.3314908

>>3314863
literature is at its best for me when i relate to it. so yeah depressive /lit/ all the way. i try and balance it out with weed and comedy.

>>3314767
kobo abe is so influential and amazing, and yet relatively unknown (asides from the films). at least, outside of japan. its so weird.

>> No.3314916

>>3314863
FOLLOW IT UP WITH SOSEKI.

I'M HEADING BACK TO OSAKA TOMORROW SO CAN POST THOUGHTS THEN. FUCK DOING IT ON AN IPAD, BUT HERE GOES.

LAST THREE
SKYLARK
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN

CURRENT
RUSSIAN FAIRY STORIES
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHIST

NEXT THREE
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
THE THIRD MAN
TENDER IS THE NIGHT

>> No.3314926 [DELETED] 

>just read
What is Tao? / What is Zen? (A.Watts)

>reading now
The picture of Dorian Gray (O. Wilde)

>next
I don't know. There is a cute girl working at the library so I'll just have her help me pick something

>>3314767
>less known japs
Maybe to you. He's well known and rated quite high (at least in Japan)

>> No.3314927

>just read
What is Tao? / What is Zen? (A.Watts)

>reading now
The picture of Dorian Gray (O. Wilde)

>next
I don't know. There is a cute girl working at the library so I'll just have her help me pick something

>>3314767
>less known japs
Maybe to you. He's well known and rated quite high (at least in Japan)

>> No.3314929

>>3314926
MOST JAPANESE I MEET AREN'T THAT ACQUAINTED WITH HIM, IF AT ALL. BY THE WAY, DID THAT SHARE THREAD OR RELEASE OF NEW JAP LIT FOLDER HAPPEN?

>> No.3314936

>>3314929
I've deleted one post because I posted 2x

My friend's father is Japanese and he said that Abe was pretty influential in his time. Oh, and you can't expect too much from average Japanese people


>BY THE WAY, DID THAT SHARE THREAD OR RELEASE OF NEW JAP LIT FOLDER HAPPEN?
http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/3263105 is the last one iirc

>> No.3314963

>>3314936
most japanese people don't give a fuck about reading anything other than nonfiction.

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3314968

>JUST READ
The Stand - Stephen King
4/5

>CURRENTLY READING
The Stranger - Albert Camus

>ABOUT TO READ
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

>> No.3315002

>The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

Well, that's swell, Mr D. I was really hoping to eat my dinner in peace, and go home in the same form, without having Russian Orthodoxy lectured into me by the other guests, but if you think I had really ought to just be grateful for it, well, za vas, Fedor!

>Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

It's... pretty cool. The introduction into it pretty much just detailed ad nauseaum all its contentious points; as in, where confucianism and it are in disagreement and whether he actually said this or that; it, for the most part, steeled its readers against ever lending much gravity to its content - which, really, might be appropriate. Regardless, it's quite the educational little document.

>> No.3315010

>>3315002
Next I'll read the Tanakh, although there's not much I could tell you about that, given that I haven't read it.

>> No.3315021

>>3315002
Introductions should always be read after reading imo.

>> No.3315022

>Just Read
White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov...assuming November counts as "just read"
>Currently
The Brothers Karamazov
>Next
Something out of Arabian Nights

>> No.3315029

>>3315021
The problem is that it goes against the whole point of putting it at the beginning of the book and calling it the introduction.

The only introductions I enjoy are when writers talk about how their views on the work and how it changed their work. I don't like the kind of intros by academics too much.

>> No.3315082

>>3314373
>Sage goes in all fields, always, regardless of content or context.
i giggled

>> No.3315089

>>3314052
>Les Miserables by HUGO
>Not really, but I like to pretend

Hahaha, I have the hard copy for this exact reason ;_;

>> No.3315100

Just read
>No Longer Human
I chewed through it in a day, the internal struggle of Yozo was certainly easy to relate to, but it didn't really leave me with much, probably because it was written with such impartiality. maybe that's the point. no probably not, i think it just went through my head.that's being too kind, it went over it

Currently
>Lolita
About 100 pages in and really enjoying it. I love all the not so subtle wordplay. I haven't read any Nabokov before, but I'm assuming that writing from the perspective of a very passionate and often shameless writer allows him to get away with the complete lack of self-consciousness that would normally limit such unrestrained lyricism.

Next
My brother just slammed the gauntlet that is 2666 on my bedside table.

>> No.3315103

>Just read
Aleister Crowley - The law is for all

>Currently reading
Burroughs - Junky

>About to read
I'm thinking naked lunch, but something else might come up

>> No.3315106

>>3314052
Why would you need to pretend to read Les Miserables? It's an easy as fuck book to read, just long.

>> No.3315125

>>3315089
What's wrong with you?

>> No.3315134

Daisy Miller
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Red Badge of Courage

>> No.3315364

recently finished: Roadside Picnic
It was okay.

now reading: Rushdie's Joseph Anton
I like it, but it lacks some of the language-play I expect from the author. (Though, considering the topic, I'll let the author slide.)

up next: A River Runs Through It & The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.3315375

>Just read
Flowers for Algernon
> Currently reading
The Housekeeper and the Professor
> About to read
On The Road

>> No.3315447

>Just Read
Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck

>Currently reading
Brave New World-Huxley

>Next
Factotum-Bukowski

>> No.3315449

>>3315364
did you watch STALKER? incredible film.

>> No.3315454

just read
>The Great Gatsby

currently reading
>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

next itll be
>Antwerp

>> No.3315460

>last
Bright Lights, Big City

>current
House of Leaves

>next
Infinite Jest

>> No.3315463

A Dead Mans Memoir
Brave Cowboy
Dont know yet, maybe Faulkner

>> No.3315464

>>3314767
Too bad he didn't rip off his interesting and likable main characters.

>>3314929
This January hopefully. Plenty of new additions and more readable versions.
Btw, you CAPSGUY?

>> No.3315467

>Just Read
Tokio Ya No Nos Quiere por Ray Loriga
>drugs drugs drugs drugs drugs aw yeah
>Currently Reading
Neuromancer, because drugs cyberpunk and all that
>About to Read
Not sure, I might finish the second book of the New Sun

>> No.3315472

>>3315467
>Tokio Ya No Nos Quiere por Ray Loriga
Is it any good? I've been reading English books for so long I feel I need to read something in Spanish before I forget what it was like.

>> No.3315473

>>3315472
I rather enjoyed it. It's like Brave New World from the drugs perspective, and it reads like HHGTTG.

>> No.3315690

>>3315449
No, I did not.
It's incredible? How so? Because, aside from the book having some interesting ideas, like that of aliens leaving garbage around and a black market/underground arising out of it, I did not think the book was incredible.

>> No.3316800

>Just read:
The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells

>Currently reading:
50 Shades of Grey by E L James

>Up next:
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea

>> No.3316821

>>3315454
Would you consider listening to the radio series of HHGTTG?

>> No.3316831

>>3316800
Island of Dr. Moreau is amazing, so is 20,000 leagues.

>Just Read:
While Mortals Sleep by Vonnegut

>Currently Reading
2666 by Bolano
Ceremonial Songs by Pablo Neruda

>Up Next
Where the Air is Clear by Carlos Fuentes

>> No.3316849

>>3314754
Read All Around the Moon if you just read From the Earth to the Moon.

>> No.3316868

>>3316849
Brilliant idea! I will.

>> No.3316870

>just read
Lolita

>currently reading
Catch 22

>about to read
either Pnin or The Wind Up Bird Chronicles

>> No.3316891

>>3316868
Also, if you haven't read the Mysterious Island, do that. It's Verne's best work. Brilliant.