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Last book read: Escape from Camp 14

Currently reading: House of Leaves

Reading next: Making Money

>> No.3317824

>>3317800
>Escape from Camp 14
oh, I downloaded that in a torrent of NYT bestsellers, and thought I might give it a shot. Was it any good? Did you like it?

>> No.3317844

>>3317824

It was pretty good actually, but then I have a hardon for anything North Korea.

I read it in one 6-hour sitting, if that says anything.

>> No.3317857

Last: Quentin Durward

Current: American Psycho

Next: The Satanic Verses

>> No.3317871

>>3317857

How is American Psycho? I like the movie alright.

>> No.3317879

>>3317844
says something

>> No.3317906

Last book read: The Tombs of Atuan

Currently Reading: The Iliad

Reading Next: The Odyssey

>> No.3319842

Hello from the garden state ;)

>> No.3319860

best book ever

>> No.3319861

>>3317844
Have you read Orphan Master's Son? It takes place in North Korea, horribly depressing, but a good read.
North Korea might be the worst place on earth.

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3319877

>hardon for anything North Korea

Have I got a treat for you:

http://www.yhchang.com/

>enjoy your seizures

>> No.3319888

Last book read: The Wars

Currently Reading: Philosophical Investigations

Reading Next: Assassination of Jesse James

>> No.3319901

>>3319877
Disguising bland writing by making it into huge letters, cool HTML5, bro.
>would read if wasn't so painful

>> No.3319916

>>3319877
>http://www.yhchang.com/

>Cunnilingus in North Korea
>Important for Communism

Oh jesus what is this

>> No.3321249

1774183 rd times a charm

>> No.3321257

Last: 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared - Jonas Jonasson

Now: Swann's Way - Proust

Next: Bad Science - Goldacre (Non-fiction

>> No.3321294 [DELETED] 

Last read: Junky

Reading: The Hobbit

Next: Moby Dick

>> No.3321326

Last: Confessions of a Mask

Current: Crime and Punishment

Next: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

>> No.3321354

I bet the OP wears khaki shorts with tshirts.

>> No.3321374

Last book read: A Farewell to Arms

Currently reading: Napoleon by Allan Forest

Reading next: For whom the bell tolls

>> No.3321379

Last book read: Frankenstein (sort of read Candide too, but that was a reread except in the original French instead of translation)

Currently reading: The Sagas of Icelanders. Just finished Egil's Saga and it's really engrossing stuff. The family trees and relationships are very challenging though, more than anything else I've read so far.

Reading next: Probably Northanger Abbey (Austen) because I have to. It could change though.

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3321416

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>> No.3321420

Last: Jorge Luis Borges - El Hacedor

Currently: Carlos Monsivais - El 68: Tradición de la resistencia.

Next: Nahmad, Klineberg, Furst, Myerhoff - El Peyote y los Huicholes

>> No.3321450

>Vineland
>Oblivion
>white noise

>> No.3321492

Last: God is Not Great

Current: 1984

Next: Spice & Wolf

>> No.3321499

Last book read: The Communist Manifesto

Currently reading: Cat's Cradle, Nausea, Watership Down, The Denial of Death, Portnoy's Complaint, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Next book: Guns Germs and Steel.

I really need to stick to one book at a time.

>> No.3321504

>>3321492
How's high school treatin' ya?

>> No.3321515

>>3321450
How was Vineland? It gets extremely mixed reviews.

Last: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Current: The Sorrow of War, Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre

Next: Stoner, Vineland, The Myth of Sisyphus

>> No.3321524

Last: Gravity's Rainbow (Reread)
Current: White Noise
Reading Next: Ada or Ardor

>> No.3321528

>>3321515
>How was Vineland? It gets extremely mixed reviews.
So if it gets mixed reviews, why do you care about this guy's opinion? Is an anonymous post on 4chan somehow more credible to you than the amalgam of other reviews which come to no general consensus?

>> No.3321674

117311 is the loliest number in the world

>> No.3321676

38663 rd times a charm

>> No.3321701

Last: The Trial
Current: The Plague
Next: On the Road (possibly)

>> No.3321725

Last book read: The kite runner

Currently reading: From a Buick 8

Reading next: 100 years of solitude

>still looking for more books to read preferrably non-fiction anything someone would recommend

>> No.3321728

>>3321725

Read Homicide - David Simon.

>> No.3321767

2274964 bases on a baseball field

>> No.3321778

1894433 rd times a charm

>> No.3321786

317444 bases on a baseball field

>> No.3321791

2401801 is the loliest number in the world

>> No.3321951
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3321951

Last Books:
The Odyssey - Homer
America Beyond Capitalism - Gar Alperovitz
All Things Shining - Dreyfus & Kelly
Liberalism - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Currently Reading:
Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World - Youval Rotman

Next Books:
My Past and Thoughts - Alexander Herzen
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Byzantium: The Early Centuries - John Julius Norwich
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

>> No.3322973

Last book read: A Canticle for Leibotiwz

Currently reading: Neuromancer

Reading next: As I Lay Dying, The Mote in God's Eye, J.M. Robert's History of the World

>> No.3323005

Last book read: Paper Towns

Currently reading: Anna Karenina

Reading next: Gulliver's Travels

>> No.3323007

Last read:
(Fiction) Baudolino - Eco, Umberto
(Non-fiction-ish) Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - West, Rebecca
(sshh..) Blue Remembered Earth - Reynolds, Alastair

Current:
(Fiction) The Nightwatchman's Occurrence - Naipaul, V.S.
(Non-fiction) George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Carter, Miranda
(...) Prospero Burns - Abnett, Dan

Next, Whatever I'm in the mood for at the time; probably about time I started: Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 - Applebaum, Anne
Spring Snow - Mishima, Yukio

>> No.3323016

>>3323005
I hate John Green but never read his writing, how is it?

>> No.3323031

Last book: Anthony and Cleopatra.
Current book: Gravity's Rainbow
Next book: Tolstoy's Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence, maybe TS Eliot's Collected Poems.

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>>3322973

Mote In God's Eye is really good.

Last read: Dracula

Current: Hyperion

Next: probably sci fi something or other...

>> No.3323037

>>3323016
It's light and friendly. A palate cleanser.

>> No.3323045

Last: The Hobbit

Current: The Secret Agent

Next: All Tomorrow's Parties

>> No.3323050

>>3319877
>http://www.yhchang.com/

What. What the fuck is this? Is this real?

>> No.3323068

Last read: Naked Lunch

Current read: The Worm in the Bud - The World of Victorian Sexuality

Next read: Forbidden Colours


Still processing Naked Lunch.

>> No.3323070

>>3321725
I second >>3321728 - also, 'The Corner' by the same author.

>> No.3323071

Last book read: The Great Crash 1929

Currently reading: Finance: the basics

Reading next: The Bonfire of the Vanities

>> No.3324011

222422 reminds me that i have to poop