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Last three
Currently reading
Next three

What are yours?

Reads that is

>> No.3813165

11 22 63
Crime and Punishment
Elantris

Watership Down

Mistborn book one
Wool
A Walk in the Woods

>> No.3813177

Poetic Edda
Egil's Saga
Prose Edda

Njal's Saga

Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Saga of The People of Laxardall
Some other Saga

going to Iceland in a few weeks...

>> No.3813185

Ready Player One
The Island
Slaughterhouse Five

The Brothers Kamarazov

Perdido Station
Dune
East of Eden

>> No.3813190

Maldoror
Pornografia
House Of Dolls

Oedipus Rex

Ulysses
Yes
Portnoy's Complaint

>> No.3813191

A Walk in the Woods is a great read.

>> No.3813194

ulysses
100 years of solitude
paradise lost

crime and punishment

maybe something by mishima
canterbury tales
maybe war and peace or anna karanina

>> No.3813199

>Last three
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Crime and Punishment
Slaughterhouse 5

>Currently
State and Revolution

>Next three
Dubliners
Utopia
Lord Jim

>> No.3813209

>>3813191
I enjoyed some other Bryson books. Im hoping Walk is more of the same

>> No.3813224

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
brothers karamazov
Generation A

Jane fucking Eyre - Fucking english electives

Walden
a scanner darkly
the picture of dorian grey
this would be better if we x/10 the past 3

>> No.3813230

>>3813224
Then x10 it sir

>> No.3813234

>>3813224
Just added Scanner Darkly to my next ten.

>> No.3813242

>>3813234
You read the whole book in 3 minutes?

Boss

>> No.3813250

>>3813242
Sorry, read it as last ten

>> No.3813263

>>3813250
I lold at your first post for a while. Not sure why the idea of speed reading A Scanner Darkly in three minutes made me laugh so hard. Maybe less drugs.

Also, I'm currently reading Jude the Obscure

>> No.3813266

>>3813263
How far in are you?

At times it hits pretty hard

>> No.3813340

>>3813266
Yeah?

>> No.3813419

At Swim-Two-Birds
Dubliners
Heart of Darkness
Woodcutters
No Longer Human
A Personal Matter
Lolita/Today I Wrote Nothing

>> No.3813433

>>3813419
How's woodcutters?

>> No.3813436

>>3813433
It's great. Not exactly a positive thing, but I could identify with some of the character's habits. It's really mean and funny, but every other review has mentioned that.

>> No.3813455

>>3813436
Must check it out

>> No.3813548

The Feast of Love
As I Lay Dying
Blue Nude

House of Leaves

Not sure what's next...

>> No.3813594

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
King Solomon's Mines
Heart of Darkness

Burmese Days

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
At the Mountains of Madness
Intro Text to Political Philosophy

>> No.3814195

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Rum Diaries
Crash

Tripping with Allah

Naked Lunch
A Naked Singularity
American Psycho

>> No.3814247

>Last three
Candide And Other Stories, Voltaire.
Nausea, Sartre.
The Stranger, Camus.
>Currently reading
Demanding The Impossible, Peter Marshall.
Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Tal.
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys.
>Next three
Undecided.

>> No.3814257

>>3813163
Is this an ass? Tits? A swolled arm? What the fuck is it ont he cover?

>> No.3814259

>>3814257
Knees you retard.

>> No.3814263

>>3814259
Knees? I don't see it. Are the flowers sticking out of someone's crotch then?

What a horrible cover.

>> No.3814264

>>3814263
>Are the flowers sticking out of someone's crotch then?
Yes. Metaphors everywhere.

>> No.3814265

>>3814257
Two left shoulders I believe, took me a little while to figure it out as well.

>> No.3814269

>>3814263

It's quite obvious that it's knees. Are you retarded or something?

>> No.3814280

>>3814263

Have you never seen anyone resting flowers on their knees while sitting down before?

>> No.3814288

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lolita
Living Dead Girl

Robinson Crusoe

The Swiss Family Robinson (I have a leather-bound French version from 2862, shit's quack yo)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Life of Buddha and its Lessons

>> No.3814291

>>3814288
I meant 1862 of course.

>> No.3814292

>>3814280
A cover is a cover you fuck

>> No.3814295

>>3814292

What? And? Did I say it wasn't one? The fuck?

>> No.3814296

>>3814291
No you didn't. Go back to your shitty future and stop taking our jobs.

>> No.3814448

Demons
Dead Souls
Gulliver's Travels

Criminal law I. - General Part

Policies of the European Union
Family law
Capital

fucking finals

>> No.3814467

Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota
Professing Literature: An Institutional History
The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust

>> No.3814475

>>3814467

Oh, I'm also reading Umineko no Naku Koro ni on the side, but I always forget to think about that as a text.

>> No.3814494

>>3814264
>Yes. Metaphors everywhere.
There's nothing in Anna Karenina that can be metaphorically expressed as an image of flowers between someone's legs.

>> No.3814497

>>3814280
>Have you never seen anyone resting flowers on their knees while sitting down before?
Where the fuck do you live that people actually sit on their knees?

>> No.3814498

>>3814494

What about that time Levin harvests the grass?

>> No.3814506

>>3814494
>There's nothing in Anna Karenina that can be metaphorically expressed as an image of flowers between someone's legs.
Have you read it? It's p sexually charged.

>> No.3814534

>Last three
The Black Company by Glen Cook (I actually gave this up after about 150 pages or so, so I don't know if it counts as a "read.")
Stoner by John Williams
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

>Currently reading
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

>Next three
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordechai Richler
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Ulysses by James Joyce

>> No.3814537

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Emma
Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

N.P.
The Idiot
Freedom

>> No.3814564

>>3814506
Anna Karenina? Sexually charged? Are you fucking nuts?

>> No.3814574

>>3814564
You haven't read it then. It's a good book, I recommend it.

>> No.3814610

>Last three
Lolita
1984
The Great Gatsby

>Currently reading
Crime and Punishment

>Next three
Aeneid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus

>> No.3814645

>>3814564

It's 800 pages about adultery, dude.

>> No.3814647

>>3814645
Yeah, but it's all in oldentimey language like thou and thee and shit. Nobody can understand that stuff. He could be talking about dripping wet pussies and massive dongs and nobody would know.

Literature is hard. Help.

>> No.3814656

>>3814647

Yo but any ol' nigga can talk about dripping pussies and shit, that Tolstoy nigga managed to talk about it by talking about peasants and dancing and horse racing and shooting yourself in the gut.

>> No.3814658

>>3814647
>Yeah, but it's all in oldentimey language like thou and thee and shit.
You know Tolstoy wrote in Russian right? 19th Century Golden Era Russian, but Russian nonetheless.

>> No.3814671

>>3814647

Leave

>> No.3814752

>>3814647
someone goet this nigga out of here

>> No.3814796

>>3813177
You should check out Tolkien's compositions of The Lays of Sigurd and Gudrun.


>Last three:
The Gypsy's Curse by Harry Crews. One of the funniest books I've ever read.

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. My first Faulkner, absolutely incredible. I was underwhelmed at first, but the farther I got into it the more I started to appreciate it.

Armored Hearts by David Bottoms. The first full collection of poetry I've ever read. David Bottoms is my favorite poet, simply awesome. You all need to read him.

>Currently Reading:
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner. I had picked up both this and Absalom, Absalom! together at a library sale. I'm only about 60 pages into it, but am enjoying it so far.

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I've only read a couple of poems out of it so far, but I can dig it. Was loaned to me by a professor after I showed him some of my own poetry.

>Next three:
Lord of the Flies
Stranger in a Strange Land
Catch-22

>> No.3814806

>>3814645
>It's 800 pages about adultery, dude.
I have read it in Russian. You should read it, too, junior. It's the least arousing book ever, which is the whole point of it: adultery's uncool.

>>3814647
>Yeah, but it's all in oldentimey language like thou and thee and shit.
That is incorrect.

>> No.3814874

>>3814195
How is Tripping with Allah?

>> No.3814902
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3814902

>Last three
David Goodis - The Burglar
Maurice Blanchot - Thomas the Obscure
Horkheimer & Adorno - The Dialectic of Enlightenment

>Currently reading
Picture related.

>Next three
Lorenzo Chiesa - Subjectivity and Otherness
Jacques Lacan - "The Youth of Gide"
E.M. Forster - Maurice

>> No.3814981

V., Pynchon
The Broom of the System, Wallace
The Castle, Kafka

Vineland, Pynchon

A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
The Eye, Nabokov
Either Ada or The Trial.

>> No.3815590

The Idiot
The Master and Margarita
Sidharta

Jupiter's Travels: Four Years on One Motorcycle

The Feast of the Goat
One Bullet Away
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.3815635

Buddenbrooks
Doctor Faustus (Mann)
Hunger

The Man Without Qualities

Crime And Punishment
The Brothers Kamarazov
The Idiot

>> No.3815639

>>3815635
How did you like Buddenbrooks?

>> No.3815648

Crime and Punishment
As I Lay Dying
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Ulysses

Swann's Way
The Waves
Oblomov

>> No.3815658

>>3815639
loved it, best book i read so far.
but i must say that i read it in german, i don't know how a translated version feels...

>> No.3815679

The Read Frank Zappa Book
VALIS
The Third Policeman

Kornél Esti

Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
The Way of the Shadows
A Game of Thrones

>> No.3815697

Nocturne
Embassytown
The Gargoyle

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

Hidden Empire
A Forest of Stars
Horizon Storms

>> No.3815698

Beowulf
The Sun Also Rises
Dubliners

Lord Jim
The Iliad
Lovevraft compilation


The Odyssey
The Republic

>> No.3815703

Sure is James Dostoevsky in here.

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>>3815698
Rate me

>> No.3815721

L'étranger
Grapes of Wrath
For Whom the Bell Tolls

The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770
Catholic Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Byzantine Theology

>> No.3815725

>>3815721
oops, currently reading Catholic Renewal.
A third next read would be Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars

>>3815698
I greatly enjoyed The Sun Also Rises. I didn't like reading parts of The Republic two years back but maybe I've matured since then.

>> No.3815804

last three were all sallinger I think

Crime and Punishment

Stoner
The soft machine
The sound and the fury

>> No.3817359

>Last three
Candide
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Heart of a Dog
>Currently Reading
The Sun Also Rises
>Next three
Metamorphosis
Idiot
To Kill a Mockingbird

>> No.3817374

>>3817359
Heart of a Dog any good? Recently finished The Master and Margarita and thinking about getting it.

>> No.3817376

>>3817374
It's a funny book

>> No.3817390
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3817390

>Last three

Flowers for Algernon
Homage to Catalonia
The Big Sleep

>Currently reading

The Remains of the Day

>In the queue

Flashman and the Redskins
The Great War for Civilisation
Gardens of the Moon

>> No.3817397

>>3817359
Do you ever read books longer than 150 pages?

>> No.3817403

>>3817397
Last time I checked, The Idiot was slightly over 150 pages.

>> No.3817404

>>3817374
M&M was the shittiest fiction I've read in recent memory. HOAD was at least somewhat less shitty but it depends what you're into. It's "fun" in a Russian kind of way that personally I don't care for.

>> No.3817406

We Disappear
City of Night
Pattern Recognition

Audition

Dhalgren
Generation A
East of Eden

>> No.3817408

>>3817403
I bet you only get 150 pages into it. Shit sucks.

>> No.3817434

On the Road
Fear and Trembling
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success

The Subterraneans

The Flowers of Evil
The Republic
Animalinside

>> No.3817435

>>3815648
>>3814534
>>3813194
>>3813190

Ulysses is a shit novel, very third rate.

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>previous three
alain de botton - consolations of philosophy
schopenhauer - essays and aphorisms
plato - meno

>currently
sartre - nausea

>next three
dostoyevsky - karamazov brothers
marcus aurelius - meditations
ayn rand - virtue of selfishness

>> No.3817454

>Last three
The Great Gatsby
The Stranger
1984
>Currently reading
Anna Karenina
>Next three
Brave New World
Don Quijote
Crime and Punishment

>> No.3818045

Stephen King's On Writing.
Patricia Highsmith's The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories.
Zadie Smith's On Beauty.

Reading Titus Groan from Mervyn Peake.

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake.
La Littérature sans estomac by Pierre Jourde.

>> No.3818088

>>3813177
As an Icelandic person I approve.
You should also take a look at Laxness' Gerpla and Justine Undone by Thor Vilhjálmsson

>> No.3818187

Mrs. Dalloway
I'm Ready To Die A Violent Death
Ecclesiastes

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Madame Bovary
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Pilgrim's Progress

>> No.3818300

>Previous Three
- Children of Hurin
- Trainspotting
- Ecstasy

>Currently reading
- The Sun Also Rises

>Next Three
- Beautiful and The Damned
- Animal Farm
- Filth

>> No.3818311

>>3817359
We're reading the same one aw

>> No.3818362

Last:
House of Leaves
American Psycho
Lost World

Current:
It (by S.king)

Next:
Read lord of the flies again
Then some "light" shitty books, perhaps The hunger games
And then a classic, maybe Gone with the wind or Dr. Zhivago

>> No.3818368

Last three:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Currently:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Next three:
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

>> No.3818432

Skagboys (for the second time in a month)
The second hunger games book
Trainspotting

Eating animals

The third hunger games
Porno
The foundation trilogy

>> No.3818452
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3818452

>Last
essays in persuasion - keynes
technique of coup d'etat - malaparte
austerity - mark blyth

>Currently reading
conjuring hitler - guido preparata
>interesting chapters about russian civil war, weimar republic and the occult roots of NSDAP. 50% through, but still not sure where exactly he draws the line between historical coincidence and conspiracy theory.

>Next
tales of the dying earth - jack vance (RIP)
imperial germany and the industrial revolution - thorstein veblen
fabian, the story of a moralist - erich kästner

>> No.3818463

>>3814806
>I have read it in Russian.
The ultimate lie.

>> No.3818518

Last 3:
Rant
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Don Quixote

Currently:
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintainence

Next 3:
Steppenwolf
Myth of Sisyphus
Lolita

>> No.3818560

>Last three
The Stranger
Existentialism is a Humanism
Utilitarianism

> Reading
The Plague

> Next three
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
A New History of Western Philosophy
The Broom of the System

DFW has finally made his way onto my queue. I'm eager to see what his works are like since /lit/ loves them so.

>> No.3818592

Last three:

Faust
Paul West, The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg
Ian McEwan, Atonement

Currently reading:
John Fowles, The Magus

Next reading:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner, Absolom, Absolom!
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

>> No.3818614

>>3818187
Madame Bovary was a major disappointment to me. Two-dimensional characters and a very, very contrived storyline. It's also exceptionally dull.

>> No.3818670

>>3813163
>Last three
Der Steppenwolf, Das Glasperlenspiel(but didn't finish it) and Jarhead.

>Currently reading
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I noticed that it's kinda useless reading the book when you saw the movie. They are very similar.
Back when i read Jarhead i had already seen the movie but the book added a lot of things that werent present in the movie.

>Next Three
dunno

>> No.3818726

>Last three
Atlas Shrugged
Foundation
(I've only read these two ;_;)

>Currently
The Great Gatsby

>Next three
The Crying Lot of 49
Things Fall Apart
The Brothers Karamozov

>> No.3818748

Wuthering Heights
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
A Moveable Feast

The Wayward Bus

Don Quixote
Lolita
The Poetic Edda

>>3813177
Hope you enjoy Independent People, it's one of my all-time favourites.

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3818760

>L3
Pitcher, ed. - Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations
Sluga and Baker, ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Emile Durkheim - Rules of Sociological Method

>C
Glock, ed. - Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader
Weber - The Methodology of the Social Sciences

>N3
Althusser - Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists
Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolution
Adorno - Critical Models

>> No.3818769

>>3818760

Are you an STS guy?

>> No.3818771

>>3818726
what do you mean you have only read those 2? You've only read 2 books?

>> No.3818772

>Last three
White Noise
The Satanic Verses
The Bell Jar

>Currently Reading
Blood Meridian
Philosophical Investigations

>Next three
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Savage Detectives
The Man Without Qualities

>> No.3818780

>>3818771
Yes.

>> No.3818830

>past
Nausea, Sartre
Swann's Way, Proust
Letters to Emma Bowlcut, Callahan
>current
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
>next three
Democracy in America, Tocqueville
Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda
3rd isn't set in stone, probably will be brushing up on mythology though

>> No.3818839

>>3818769
no, but I've got a budding interest in philosophy of science and sociological theory since I read Capital Vol. 1 last winter. My fall semester will be spent on Hegel and Foucault and the spring semester on Kant and Plato so I'm trying to read as much as I can this summer. Got some Popper lined up if I can get to it.

>> No.3818844

>>3818614
I have it on hold, I was always told it was one of the most beautiful books ever written in the original French. Do you think this didn't translate well, or that it simply wasn't true?

>> No.3818886

Anna Karenina
The Grapes of Wrath
Might is RIght

Lolita

The Complete Chronicles of Conan
The Warriors
Crime and Punishment

>> No.3818900

>>3818772
>Philosophical Investigations
>The Man Without Qualities

u seem cool. How'd you like the Bell Jar?

>> No.3818915

>>3818900

On the whole I rather liked it. It was funnier than I expected it to be.

If there was one thing that kept it from being truly great it was that it was lacking in insight: it was a wonderful (or rather, terrifying) depiction, but it didn't bring much in the way of understanding.

>> No.3818949

The Death of Ivan Ilych
Dharma Bums
The Brothers Karamazov

Still deciding what to read next.

Either Notes from the Underground,
Slaughterhouse-Five,
or Steppenwolf

Suggestions?

>> No.3818967

>>3818780
Wwwhaaaatttt

>> No.3818975

>Last Three
Phantoms in the Brain
Through The Language Glass
Flowers for Algernon

>Now
Aping Language
Original Intelligence

>Next Three
Bending the Rules: The Flexibility of Absolutes in Modern Life
I Am Legend
The Feeling of What Happens

I have some books by Peter Krotopkin I've meant to read but the formatting in the editions I have is so ugly...

>> No.3818998

>>3818949
If you liked the character of Smerdyakov in Brothers, you should definitely read Notes, it's basically an exploration of many of his ideals.