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Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:00:32 2013 No.3836750 [Reply] [Original]

I'm bored. Post the last 10 books you've read and let others guess what kind of a person you are.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Brave New World
- A Catcher in the Rye
- Walden
- A Clockwork Orange
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- Homage to Catalonia
- Fight Club
- Why I Write (Orwell)
- 1984

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:03:32 2013 No.3836756 A faggot

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:06:32 2013 No.3836761

>>3836750

A teenager, perhaps in his first year at a middling college. You're wise enough to appreciate your deficiencies - and maybe too quick to notice those of others, but you're working on it - and happy enough because you're on your way to fixing them. At least, that's what you hope. Your identity emerges from your future, where you're going, and that ideal is inextricably bound to some sophisticated conception of masculinity. You thought you might become a journalist, but now you're realising that probably won't happen, and you'd like to be a novelist but you don't work at it often enough - if at all.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:11:32 2013 No.3836769

The Wayward Bus - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel García Marquez
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:12:32 2013 No.3836771 Rebecca Fragile Creature Stalky and Company The Thread that Runs So True a book about Lego Robots A Victorian Village Babbitt African Genesis Medea:Harlan's World Square Foot Gardening Rabbit, Run ours go to eleven

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:13:32 2013 No.3836772

> Men without Women
> What Is Enlightenment?
> The Trial /didn't finish it/
> Catch-22
> Nausea
> Barabbas
> Homage to Catalonia
> Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt
> Duel
> The Dwarf

two of them are essays, but otherwise I'd have included much older reads

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:13:32 2013 No.3836774 -The Great Hunt -The Dragon Reborn -The Shadow Rising -The Fires of Heaven -Lord of Chaos -A Crown of Swords -The Path of Daggers -Winter's Heart -Crossroads of Twilight -New Spring

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:14:32 2013 No.3836775 >>3836772 An idealist who isn't sure yet which idea to follow.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:14:32 2013 No.3836776 >>3836750 - Atlas Shrugged - Catching Fire - The Unseen Queen - Running on the Cracks - Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Catch Your Death - Metro 2033 - Tales from Mos Eisley - Shadow of the Empire - Death Troopers

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:14:32 2013 No.3836777 >>3836774 Neckbeard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:16:32 2013 No.3836780 >>3836756 dis guy gets it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:21:33 2013 No.3836786 >>3836750 Stephen "Babby's first literature course" Jones. Aged 19 or 20. First weekend on /lit/. Keen to fit in. faggot/10.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:26:32 2013 No.3836791 >>3836777 :^)))

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:27:32 2013 No.3836794 The Stranger Thus Spoke Zarathustra Fear and Trembling The Myth of Sisyphus The Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories (Kafka) Metamorphoses (Ovid) The Divine Comedy: Inferno Lolita Great Gatsby Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Not in order.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:33:32 2013 No.3836813

Educability And Group Differences by Arthur R. Jensen
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible by Bart D. Ehrman
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
The Myth of Male Power Warren Farrell
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:34:32 2013 No.3836816 >>3836775 you are very, very right. I didn't include some parts of the Bible which I read after Barabbas and the Communist Manifest, which also lead to your conclusion, mind to recommend me some books?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:35:32 2013 No.3836819 >>3836771 you know, i think this list says a lot about me. now that i look over it.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:43:32 2013 No.3836835

Tragedies - Sophocles
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Otras Inquisisiones/Inquisisiones - Borges
Los conjurados - Borges
La cifra - Borges
El hacedor - Borges
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Ramayana - Valmiki
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
If the war goes on - Hesse

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:47:32 2013 No.3836844 >>3836786 Bravo on the name Sir. But wrong on all other counts. 4/10 try harder faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 11:53:32 2013 No.3836851 >>3836835 an escapist who doesn't want to read escapist literature good for you for escaping pleb lit, but mind that there are also some good works

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:01:32 2013 No.3836870 >>3836851 wrong faggot

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:01:33 2013 No.3836869

The idiot - Dostoyevsky
The great gatsby - Fitzgerald
Rosalynde - Thomas Lodge
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Prince - Machiavelli
Hippolytus - Euripides
Then the first 3 ASOIAF books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:04:32 2013 No.3836879 The Book of Disquiet The Immoralist Brave New World Nadja Naked Lunch Tao Te Ching Stoner Leaves of Grass Within a Budding Grove Frankenstein

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:05:32 2013 No.3836881 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Madame Bovary If on a winter's night a traveller The Great Gatsby Writing and Difference The Crying of Lot 49 The Birth of Tragedy S/Z The Idiot The Sorrows of Young Werther In rough order, most recent first!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:06:32 2013 No.3836884 Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest have taken me so long to read that I legitimately can't remember what I was reading before that, I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Pale King between them though

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:11:32 2013 No.3836902 >>3836750 op why are you not guessing/judging anyone

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:12:32 2013 No.3836905 >>3836835 A smart guy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:16:33 2013 No.3836923 Call of Cthulu Metamorphosis Catch-22 1984 Candide The Story of Philosophy Regeneration (Not the war one) Sophie's World 'Night Circus' 'Traitor Queen' In chronological order from most recent

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:19:32 2013 No.3836932 >>3836776 I believe the correct term is 'wanker'

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:20:32 2013 No.3836933

These kinds of threads freak me out a little. I mean, I've read most of the books mentioned, sure. But a lot of them are the same hundred books I see mentioned on /lit/ all the time. It's like you could get every book /lit/ thinks is important onto one big yardsale table. here's a list of good books i just about never see mentioned here. Think of it as your summer reading assignment.

Nana by zola
Lorna Doone
Manon Lascaut
Tortilla Flat
Kim
New Maps of Hell
My Life and Hard Times
Rebecca
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Good Earth
A High Wind in Jamaica
Goodbye Mr. Chips
To Serve Them All My Days
Kabloona
The Sacrlet Plague
Raffles of the Albany
Two Years before the Mast
The Voyage of the Beagle
Zotz!
Kon Tiki

there should be something there for everybody

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:20:32 2013 No.3836934 >>3836923 How did you find The Story of Philosophy? I am up to Herbert Spencer, and so far Durant seems slightly opinionated and a little annoying at times but I guess he's likeable.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:21:32 2013 No.3836935

>>3836870
magical realism is elite fantasy written by good authors, sorry to tell you this
anything older than a century has lost its connection to the real world and deals with emotions for their own sake
gothic novels are the same as magical realism, but written by more boring authors
waiting for godot is making a universe of its own and all the allusions are just spinning you
bgae is describing a world/s which is/are an ideal type

you are just reading anything that you cannot relate to your own life

sorry

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:22:33 2013 No.3836939 >>3836923 Borderline casual, recently to breaking into philosophy (duh Sophie's World and the Story) and literature, inspired by something (?) to engage in more serious reading, though always interested in reading more than others... Help me out here

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:23:33 2013 No.3836942 Brave New World American Psycho Less Than Zero The Picture of Dorian Gray Moby Dick The Fall Those are the only works of fiction I have read my whole life. And to tell you the truth, I didn't actually finish reading 3 of them

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:24:33 2013 No.3836948 >>3836929 asian

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:25:33 2013 No.3836951 >>3836942 You've pretty much given us casual. Interested in people, garnering social power. Maybe doing drama or something. Probably still in high school or undergrad. I feel like I'm writing those fucking horoscope things

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:26:33 2013 No.3836959 >>3836942 fuck you

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:28:32 2013 No.3836967

>>3836951

I'm interested in people and garnering social power, yes.

I'm actually 30 years old I'm ashamed to admit. And yes, I'm a casual who caught the angsty teen nihilist bug late and then tried to catch up on some classic literature to try and appear more intelligent and well read.

I failed

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:36:33 2013 No.3836987

>>3836967
Never too late. Read the sticky, pick up maybe Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon' (many theoretical issues/controversy etc. but regardless it's a neat overview of literature) and 'A New History of Western Philosophy' by Anthony Kenny. Don't be afraid to just read any book that interests you; the effect is powerful regardless, and you can re-read with a secondary text anytime.

Remember that all the edgy philosophising bleeds into a new sincerity, a maturing, a growing up; which in turn decays into further edginess, and so on for all eternity: the edginess, while convincing, is eventually to be grown out of. Look at existentialism - structuralism - post-structuralism - neo-pragmatism.

Don't be intimidated by the people on this board; underneath the patrician facade we're all much the same, else we wouldn't feel the need to reassure ourselves
by putting others down
by posting in threads
on an imageboard
on 4chan.

4chan, friends. This is 4chan.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:36:33 2013 No.3836989

>>3836933
Most people on here are reading the most well-known classics first, before venturing into more unknown areas of literature. It's just that there are so many classics (and often monsters of books) to go through, it takes a very long time to have read the 'must-haves'. Hence why the same books get posted over and over again. /mu/ and /tv/ have the same problem.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:37:33 2013 No.3836992 >>3836967 And I figured the social power bit from the Fall. It's quite a good one. Try Machiavelli!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:41:32 2013 No.3837007 >>3836750 - Brave New World - The Great Gatsby - 1984 - Lolita - The Stranger - Complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Snow Country - Divina Commedia - Crime and Punishment - The Count of Monte Cristo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:44:32 2013 No.3837022 >>3837007 Relatively new to literature, not to reading. Has friends. Goes to school/university. Studying a field like drama or humanities wherein literature is not entirely relevant but helpful. Am I getting anywhere?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:45:32 2013 No.3837024 File: 28 KB, 425x310, 1328979047741.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3836844 >4/10 try harder faggot. >post his email in the email field

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:46:32 2013 No.3837026 >>3836884 Doing medicine or law or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:47:32 2013 No.3837033 >>3837007 New to literature, less than 20. Probably an unbearably annoying person IRL.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:48:32 2013 No.3837042 >>3836879 Quiet, thoughtful. Wide circle of friends. Rarely engage in philosophical discussion with them. Keep thoughtfulness to self. Drawn to obscurity and the novel (as in new).

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:49:32 2013 No.3837043

>>3837022
>Relatively new to literature, not to reading. Has friends. Goes to school/university
Right.
>Studying a field like drama or humanities wherein literature is not entirely relevant but helpful.
Wrong. CS.

>>3837033
>New to literature, less than 20.
22.
>Probably an unbearably annoying person IRL.
Well, not unbearable annoying, but everyone are, to some extend, annoying.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:50:32 2013 No.3837048 >>3836869 New to literature. Probably recommended a number of books by /lit/. Interested in social power, reading for the influence and experience rather than the act itself.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:51:32 2013 No.3837055

>>3836794
Edgy as all hell. Clear interest in existentialism and the absurd. New to literature/philosophy, but sees in it a means to bettering himself, exciting new prospects in the way of conducting himself and letting go of concern. Few friends, with whom he does not identify.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:52:32 2013 No.3837057 >>3836813 Chrstian? I've heard Mere Christianity is very nice. Can you confirm? I'm not religious but open to it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:53:32 2013 No.3837060 >>3836771 >The Thread that Runs So True Ha, hahaha ha ha hahaha. Meta.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:53:32 2013 No.3837062 >>3837057 >Chrstian? I've heard Mere Christianity is very nice. Agnostic atheist. I found Mere Christianity terribly unconvincing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:53:32 2013 No.3837065 >>3836769 I have no idea. This is a strange list. Unpredictable? Cool? /lit/, I can't be the only one doing this. It doesn't work if you just post your books and expect everyone to assess them!

>>	Metatron !dBkgKirino Sun Jun 9 12:54:32 2013 No.3837071 completely random, in no particular order The Brothers Karamazov Gravity's Rainbow Moby-Dick The Sot-weed Factor 100 Days of Solitude Against the Day Buddenbrooks The Magic Mountain The Sound and the Fury Vanity Fair

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:56:32 2013 No.3837078

>>3837062
Oh, that's a shame.

Studying theology? A family/friends that is/are very religious? Passing over philosophy of religion in your philosophy course and you want to go more in depth? Or having an existential crisis and exploring the options?

Or, my personal favourite, doing a Polkinghorne: being at the forefront of theoretical physics and realising that it does not answer the questions, but merely clarifies them and defers them, still leaving room for theology which you, with renewed fervour, turn to?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:57:32 2013 No.3837081

The Marriage Plot - Jefferey Eugenindes
The Golden Bough - James Frazer
Island - Alistair Macleod
The Golden Apples - Eudora Welty
Love in the time of Cholera - G.G. Marquez
The Frog - John Hawkes
40 stories - Donald Barthelme
Theory of Film - Sigfried Krakauer
L'Abbe C - Georges Bataille
Cantos - Ezra Pound

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 12:59:32 2013 No.3837087

>>3837071
I've not read enough of those to be able to say anything substantial. I'm going to guess at still in university. Reads some for pleasure, not just 'so I can say I've done it', though there is a strong element of that. Not religious but not a hard atheist, and finds myth and theology interesting (metatron?). Patient. Has friends and some sort of confidence, but not outwardly 'cool' or attractive.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:01:32 2013 No.3837093 >>3837071 you couldn't have remembered those 10 books if you hadn't looked at your bookshelf/kindle

>>	Metatron !dBkgKirino Sun Jun 9 13:01:32 2013 No.3837094 >>3837087 Wow dude, that is just about dead on. I really can't find any fault with anything there.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:02:32 2013 No.3837097

>>3837055
>Edgy as all hell.
Why would you think this? The Stranger and Zarathustra?
>Clear interest in existentialism and the absurd. New to literature/philosophy, but sees in it a means to bettering himself, exciting new prospects in the way of conducting himself and letting go of concern.
Correct.
>Few friends, with whom he does not identify.
A lot of friends, with whom I don't identify. Hopefully this will change once I start my philosophy studies and I meet like-minded people.

I would rate more people myself but admittedly I don't know about half the books being posted.

>>3836942
Starts many projects but always quits them halfway when the initial 'I can do this!' motivation fades.

>>3836881
Moving on from entry-level literature while simultaneously catching up with classics he might've forgotten. You're a completionist, you want to get everything done before moving on, no half-assing.

>>3836835
Eager to learn. Perfectionist.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:03:32 2013 No.3837098

>>3837081
Not heard of any of those save for the Barthelme stories, which I quite enjoyed. I'm going to guess you're not quite interested in literature enough to go for the very classics; you enjoy reading primarily for the pleasure and not for education and circumstance. Probably reasonably rich, outgoing, past university. Cofident. Not an average neckbeard.

Please tell me if I'm right, I'm going off wild guesses just to keep the thread alive.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:03:32 2013 No.3837099

The Wasteland and Other Poems – T.S. Eliot
The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton
The Fall – Camus
Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McKinerny
At the bottom of the river – Jamaica Kincaid.
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
Green Hills of Africa – Hemingway
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
Breakfast of Champions – Vonnegut
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:04:32 2013 No.3837100 >>3837094 Wow. Really? I was guessing, clutching at straws...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:06:32 2013 No.3837103 >>3837097 I am 881, you're completely right. Total completionist. Have to read the whole canon, need discipline. Gatsby movie trailers reminded me I hadn't read it (I'm sure that's the same for many others in this thread).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:08:33 2013 No.3837107 >>3837081 What'd you make of the cantos?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:09:33 2013 No.3837110

>>3836939

Pretty accurate actually

>>3836934

I'm pretty pleb tbh, I found it very confusing towards the end and I found that you are expected to know a lot (or at least more than I know) about philosophy before you begin ready. The early chapters on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle etc. were pleasant but after that I was forcing myself through chapters not understanding much

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:09:33 2013 No.3837114

Captain Pantoja and the special service
Michael Stroggoff
Fahrenheit 451
The Anti-Christ
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
From the Earth to the Moon
Cuentos de Amor by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Selección Poética by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:10:33 2013 No.3837116

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Dunwich Horror - HP Lovecraft
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Carrie - Stephen King
This Book is Full of Spiders - David Wong
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
The Door Into Summer - Robert A Henlein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:10:33 2013 No.3837118

On Sense and Reference - Frege
On Denoting - Russell
On Reffering - Strawson
Naming and Necessity - Kripke
On What There Is - Quine
Philosophy and Logical Syntax - Carnap
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology - Carnap
Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Quine
Translation and Meaning - Quine
Meaning - Grice

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:11:32 2013 No.3837122 >>3837110 Ahhh, yes, that's the other thing. He assumes a lot of the reader, makes frivolous references to the ideas of other thinkers by last name without a thought to explaining anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:11:33 2013 No.3837119 >>3837098 I've read widely but not completely in classics. I'm a poorfag, introverted. So you're mostly wrong, but you're right about the passed university thing.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:11:33 2013 No.3837120

>>3836750
>why not?
>pretty easy imo

Weston: A Rulebook for Arguments
Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow
King: Different Seasons
Dixit & Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically
Lynas: The God Species
Tolkien: Fellowship of the Ring
Worstall: Chasing rainbows
Galbraith: A life in our times
O'Brien: You can have an amazing memory
Porter: Polyanna

>okay it could a little bit hard

I can tell by the list that OP is bored.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:13:33 2013 No.3837130 >>3837107 The Cantos are a frustrating but ultimately rewarding experience. Lots of peripheral research is necessary for proper understanding. Some of his images are so arresting and beautiful. Sometimes he's far too clever for his own good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:14:33 2013 No.3837132 >>3837118 wow lots of philo of science. I'm guessing you have a period when this interests you a lot. I would probably say that your in final year of college with a (social) science major. I'm bad at this game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:14:33 2013 No.3837136 >>3837122 Yeah yeah, I mean he spends whole chapters towards the end of the book explaining 'Transcendental Dialectic' without ever giving any sort of concise overview of the idea. Like I said though, probably because I'm a philosophy pleb.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:14:33 2013 No.3837137

Travels - Yehuda Amichai
The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Opus Posthumous - Wallace Stevens
Book of Australian Verse
A Cool Million - Nathaneal West
Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
The Living End - Stanley Elkin
Speed the Plow - David Mamet

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:15:33 2013 No.3837142

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Stoner - John Williams
The Black Company - Glen Cook
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Zeroville - Steve Erickson
Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
White Noise - Don DeLillo
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:16:33 2013 No.3837149

No order:
Dorian Grey
De Profundis
At Swim Two Birds
Is God Happy and other essays- Kolakowski
Herodotus
Third Policeman
Pnin
Wicked
Selected Work of TS Spivet- Reif Larsen
Revenge of the Lawn [this is just here since I dip in and can't think of the tenth]

Judge me, judge me :D

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:18:32 2013 No.3837150 >>3837118 You sound like a fungi.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:20:32 2013 No.3837157 >>3837118 An honestly erudite philosophy student. Does not cut corners. Picked up logic in university. Was once interested in continentals but found them too abstract and stupid; furthered understanding of logic by continuing with analytics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:20:32 2013 No.3837160 >>3837142 You have a bleak outlook, but your sense of humour salvages your personality and makes you charming. Regardless people can only handle so much of you, worried that your outlook is contagious.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:20:32 2013 No.3837162

>>3837078
>Studying theology? A family/friends that is/are very religious? Passing over philosophy of religion in your philosophy course and you want to go more in depth? Or having an existential crisis and exploring the options?

I am interested in trying to determine the veracity of religion. My mothers a conservative Catholic who occasionally makes attempts to convert me. Not currently doing any college courses. This is mostly just for my own intellectual edification. I wouldn't say I am suffering from any existential crisis. The prospect of living in a godless universe and ceasing consciousness after death has never really bothered me.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:21:33 2013 No.3837166

Heinrich Heine - Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (Reread)
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon - V.
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49
Albert Camus - The Fall
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
David Berman - Actual Air

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:24:33 2013 No.3837176

>>3837162
Have you read Aquinas and Augsutine, or anything about either and the early Church? They're interesting just to see the internal logical strife of religion. (Espeically Aquinas)
I'm also recommending Kolakowski from my list, though you might want to skip over the bits about the USSR's politics in favour of the atheist musings in the second half.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:26:33 2013 No.3837184 >>3836935 You don't need to relate in order to feel, bro. And magical realism can be highly relatable at times.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:30:32 2013 No.3837201 >>3837184 that's exactly what I meant - you/ the poster/ want to feel without relating on magical realism - yes, but it leaves the door open at least

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:30:32 2013 No.3837203 >>3837162 >The prospect of living in a godless universe and ceasing consciousness after death has never really bothered me. how?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:36:33 2013 No.3837232

>regarding the pain of others by Sontag
>Animal Farm by Orwell
>ficciones by Borges
>to your scattered bodies go by Philip Jose Farmer
>program or be programmed by Rushkoff
>nausea by Sartre
>metamorphosis and other stories by Kafka
>notes from the underground by ol' Dusty
>ubik by pkd
>the nag hammadi library

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:36:33 2013 No.3837233 >>3837116 probably read some 'popular' scifi, and now going back to the classics (partly informed about classics on /lit/).

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:39:32 2013 No.3837251

Look at the Birdie - Vonnegut
Life of Pi - Martel
A Long Long Way - Barry
The Blind Assassin - Atwood
Lies of Silence - Moore
Reading in the Dark - Deane
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything - Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Adams

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:40:32 2013 No.3837257 >>3837160 I'd say the first part is accurate (particularly the bleak outlook). I don't know about the second part since I don't speak with many people.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:40:32 2013 No.3837260 >>3837251 a 12 year old with above average intellect

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:42:32 2013 No.3837268

>>3837176
>Have you read Aquinas and Augsutine, or anything about either and the early Church? They're interesting just to see the internal logical strife of religion. (Espeically Aquinas)

I haven't read Aquinas or Augustine. For whatever reason, I have a distinctly modern bias when it comes to my reading habits. Apart from the foundational religious texts, I've mostly been reading 20th and 21st century literature. Currently I'm reading "Jesus, Neither God Nor Man" by Earl Doherty, which I guess could be considered to be about the early history of Christianity. It puts forth a mythicist position about the existence of Jesus, which is a distinctly minority position amongst New Testament scholars. Doherty basically argues that some of the earliest Christian texts like the Pauline epistles present a picture of Jesus as a being that existed exclusively in the spiritual realm and not here on Earth. It is argued that it was only later on that the notion of a physical earthly Jesus developed amongst Christians. It's a fairly radical thesis, though I am finding it pretty convincing. I'll probably check out some anti-mythicist literature after I am done with it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:48:32 2013 No.3837294 >>3837203 >how? I guess it is just in the nature of my personality that I don't suffer existential crises.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:48:32 2013 No.3837298 >>3837260 I want to meet the 12 year old that actually finishes The Blind Assassin.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:49:33 2013 No.3837303

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the night
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and punishment
Wilkie Collins: No name
William Gaddis: The recognitions
Joseph McElroy: Actress in the house
William Faulkner: The wild palms
Sergio de La Pava: A naked singulatiry
Patricia Highsmith: Carol
Ford Madox Ford: Parade's end
Carole Maso: The art lover

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:51:32 2013 No.3837312 >>3837176 >Aquinas >early church There was almost one thousand years between Augustine and Aquinas. Read more.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:52:32 2013 No.3837313 >>3837298 I think I was mostly judging by Adams and Vonnegut

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:54:32 2013 No.3837324

>>3837268
Perhaps then a documentary- The Story of God, Winston (I'm not giving him all his titles because he has more than anyone has a right to) It'll give you many jumping off points, especially with regard to early Christianity. I want to say it's by the BBC, but I wouldn't rely on my memory.
Kolakowski is good for 20th Century letters.
Augustine is filth and destruction largely, some flowery bits. You probably won't get much out of him if you're into more modern sources
Aquinas will tell you how many angels can dance on a pinhead [spoilers] none or all of them depending on your views of matter and spirit[/spoilers] The Church used use him for logical proofs, and then tell him LALALALAWE'RE NOT LISTENING when his logic was too good. I'd recommend reading about him if not reading him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:56:32 2013 No.3837330 >>3837312 Pre-second council of Lyon, early RCC

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:57:32 2013 No.3837336

ALRIGHT. NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER(because I don't keep track of time or, as you can guess, ORDER).

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Polish Fables(biling ver) - Ignacy Krasicki
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories - Stefan R. Dziemianowicz(actually a pretty good collection - not like childhood ghost stories; collection of individual writers)
Depression: Causes and Treatment, 2nd Edition - Aaron T. Beck and Brad A. Alford
Metro 2033 - Dimitri Gluhovskij
Fóstbræðra saga - Author Unknown...?
Grettis saga - Author Unknown, again...?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:59:33 2013 No.3837347 >>3837294 so, you are claiming divine origins?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 13:59:33 2013 No.3837349 >>3837336 a depressed person.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:00:33 2013 No.3837357 >>3837349 and not cause of the depression book

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:02:32 2013 No.3837364 >>3837349 Neato - you're half right.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:02:32 2013 No.3837368 >>3837364 you're not a person?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:02:32 2013 No.3837369 >>3837313 Yeah, those two are incredibly easy to read. Same for Martel and Moore, although Deane and Barry are a bit tougher.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:02:33 2013 No.3837363 File: 80 KB, 224x230, 1327952401893.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3837330 >Using the term 'early RCC' >about anything pre-15th Century

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:03:32 2013 No.3837375 >>3837368 I am, of course. Otherwise, I would have failed the captcha.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:04:32 2013 No.3837379 >>3837364 A depressed dog?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:06:32 2013 No.3837389

In no particular order:
Catch-22
The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho
Tao te Ching bu Laozi
The Art of War by Sunzi
Mastering the Art of War by Zhuge Liang & Liu Ji
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Generation of Swine and The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (short stories)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:07:32 2013 No.3837392 >>3837363 yeah I winced myself when I saw I'd left the R in from habit. perhaps you have books to recommend the other anon >>3837162

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:09:33 2013 No.3837406

>>3837330
Who the fuck has taught you that Aquinas and Augustine were 'early RCC' ?. The idea of using the term 'Roman' Catholic Church to identify anything was not required until (at the very earliest) the years leading up to the Council of Constance.

This conflation can only be excused if you are not yet in college. Otherwise you should not seek to offer wisdom on subject you know little about.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:12:33 2013 No.3837416 >>3837406 Thanks for the wisdom.... See you in Hell :D

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:13:33 2013 No.3837423 >>3837042 nice analysis, pretty spot on

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:13:33 2013 No.3837424

>>3837392
Veracity of the Church? If he is not a theologian/interested in scholastic development then a perhaps history would put his queries into context. Wycliffe/Lollardy or Hus/Bohemian reformation might be interesting and accessible places to start.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:22:33 2013 No.3837449 >>3837423 Oh, thanks, again, didn't expect it to be very accurate. Just figured... They all seem like pretty withdrawn but nonetheless profound books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:33:32 2013 No.3837473 The Painted Bird Equal Rites The Collector Carrie American Psycho Danny the Champion of the World The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Gremlins The Magic Finger The Witches

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:41:32 2013 No.3837494 >>3837473 If you don't have kids, then you're free from literary anxiety.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:44:32 2013 No.3837508 >>3837494 I don't. Is that a good thing? I have never hear the term used before

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:48:32 2013 No.3837518

>>3837389
You're probably college-age. You're also trying to branch out into a new way of looking at things.

For me:
Pale Fire - Nabokov
A Personal Matter - Oe
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
Mao II - DeLillo
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
White Noise - DeLillo
Vineland - Pynchon
Lolita - Nabokov
The Stranger - Camus

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:49:32 2013 No.3837520 >>3837508 It means you don't read things (or say you have) to bolster your ego (unlike a lot of /lit/). So yes, it's a very good thing. Keep reading what you love.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:49:32 2013 No.3837522 >>3837520 Ah, Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:52:32 2013 No.3837533 >>3837120 too many book I don't know. pretty mixed though

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:56:32 2013 No.3837540 >>3837201 sorry, but i can't understand how emotions can be escapist. Care to explian?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 14:59:32 2013 No.3837549 it seems most of /lit/ only read well known books. Doesn't that make you mainstream sheple? How does it feel to read only what you are told to read?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:00:32 2013 No.3837554

I can't remember the last 10 books I read... unless books 1-8 of the collected Sandman count cuz I recently re-read those. Assuming they don't here's what I can remember in reverse chronological order.

1. The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follet
2. Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
3. Under The Influence - James Robert Milam
4. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
5. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankel
6. Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:03:32 2013 No.3837565 >>3836761 Came here to post this.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:16:32 2013 No.3837606

In no particular order:

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irvine
The Stranger - Camus
Essential Dialogues of Plato - Plato
Dubliners - Joyce
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

>>3837554
Possible teenager, interested in finding meaning and in the effects of drugs on the human psyche. Possible pothead.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:19:32 2013 No.3837613

>The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
>Shakespeare’s Metrical Art – George T. Wright
>Shakespeare’s Uses of the Arts of Language – Sister Mirian Joseph
>Tolstoy's Diaries - R. F. Christian
>Tolstoy’s War and Peace: A Studt – R.F. Christian
>Beethoven and The Creative Process – Barry Cooper
>The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov
>The Samurai Sourcebook – Stephen Turnbull
>The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers - Major John Plaster
>Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:22:32 2013 No.3837623 >>3837613 Male, probably in college, interested in the concept of creativity, likely a major in Art of possibly humanities. Other than that, wants to read the classics before ultimately moving on to more contemporary literature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:31:32 2013 No.3837648 In search of lost broads - by Michael Poust.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:31:32 2013 No.3837650

Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama
Thomson: A Guide for the young Economist
Krugman: Peddling prosperity
Krugman: Accidental theorist
Zaesser: On Writing Well
Clarke: 2001 - space odyssey
McMillan: Reinventing the Bazaar
Maslin: Global Warming - a very short introduction
McCloskey: How to be a Human* *Though an Economist
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

easy is fuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:32:32 2013 No.3837654 >>3837650 *as

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:32:32 2013 No.3837655 >>3836750 Vineland The Castle V. Parasite Eve 1Q84 The Broom of the System Fight Club Lamb Underworld The Girl with Curious Hair

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:35:32 2013 No.3837658

The Little Trilogy - Anton Chekhov
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martin Eden - Jack London
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque
The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Macbeth - William Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:37:32 2013 No.3837670 >>3836750 Terry Pratchett Discworld novels, the first ten. In order. Before that Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:39:32 2013 No.3837681

>>3836750
I won't jump to the conclusion that you are young as I have half of those books on my 'To Read' list and I'm 25, I just enjoy reading stuff that's not so serious.

I'd say you're about 23, open-minded aware that you are not as well read as you previously thought and have read those books because of this awareness.

Next.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:40:32 2013 No.3837685 >>3836769 Female or an unsufferable pretentious twat.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:43:32 2013 No.3837696

Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Céline - Journey to the End of the Night (didn't like that too much, returned to the library after 100 pages. might pick up again in the future though)
Vaculík - The Guinea Pigs (liked that)
Havel - complete plays
Meyrink - The Golem
Vaculík - The Axe
Jung - a collection of his essays mostly on dreams, personality types and the importance of psychoanalysis
Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols + Ecce Homo
Fuks - The Cremator
Tchekhov - The Seagull + Three Sisters + The Cherry Orchard

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:44:32 2013 No.3837698

From newest to oldest:

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

I can't remember the particular order of the books I've read after those, and I can't remember all of them. So I'll just go with the books I have enjoyed the most over the last few years. They have no particular order.

Demian by Hermann Hesse
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:45:33 2013 No.3837703 >>3837670 Wyrd Sisters is my favourite discworld novel probably.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:49:33 2013 No.3837715 ok no order: spring snow - mishima crime and punishment paradise lost ulysses 100 years of solitude the castle borges collection tender is the night shoot the kids - oe the savage detectives

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:51:33 2013 No.3837720

- The Undiscovered Self - Carl Jung
- The Sailor Who Fell With Grace From the Sea - Yukio Mishima
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Huraki Murakami
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
- The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
- Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Confederacy of Dunce - Toole
- The New Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 15:56:32 2013 No.3837740

- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Rheseus by Euripides
- Medea by Euripides
- The Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles
- The Oresteia by Aeschylus
- The Persians and The Seven agaisnt Thebes by Aeschylus
- Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
- V by Pynchon
- Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak
- Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:00:33 2013 No.3837762

>>3837698
I wasn't sure if these counted because they aren't books, but I've figured I should include them anyway, because they're actually the two pieces of text I've read most recently:

Letter to a Hindu and Letter to the Liberals, both by Leo Tolstoy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:00:33 2013 No.3837765 >>3837720 age: 16-20, fragile, possibly female, introverted, obviously interested in psychology

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:01:33 2013 No.3837771 >>3837720 Your age is somewhere 17 and 21, and you're interested in Philosophy and the human mind. Possibly a psychology undergrad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:02:33 2013 No.3837776 >>3837765 Ouch, not even close

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:02:33 2013 No.3837777 >>3836761 You're spot on. When I was 14 I've read similair books to OP's, and you described me almost perfectly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:03:33 2013 No.3837781 >>3837771 The reveal 24, C-level student w/ Anthropology degree, Ski bum/Events Coordinator in the Rockies

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:04:32 2013 No.3837783 >>3837149 you're gay

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:05:32 2013 No.3837786 >>3837781 Woah, not even close. I am interested in Anthropology, but I absolutely hate skiing and am not 24.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:05:32 2013 No.3837787

1. Goethe: Wilhem Meister's Apprenticeship
2. Evola: Revolt Against the Modern World
3. Schiller: The Robbers
4. Schiller: Wallenstein
5: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
6. Meister Eckhart: 'Sermons and Defense'
7. Besier: 'The Fate of Reason, German philosophy from Kant to Ficthe'
8. Frithjof Schuon: Logic and Transcendence
9. Junger: Storm of Steel
10. Novalis: Hymns to The Night

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:06:33 2013 No.3837789 >>3837786 No, that's me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:07:33 2013 No.3837795 >>3837740 Philosophy student, Junior or Senior Level. Has experienced psychedelic drugs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:07:33 2013 No.3837797 >a canticle for leibowitz >the time machine >prelude to foundation >forward the foundation >foundation >foundation and empire >second foundation >foundation's edge >foundation and earth >foundation's fear >foundation and chaos

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:07:33 2013 No.3837798 >>3837789 Oh wow, I got it totally wrong. I thought you were quoting another post. I'm sorry for that.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:10:32 2013 No.3837809

>>3837797
Oh god, you made it through some shitty ass Foundation sequel/prequel novels. Saying that the core foundation trilogy is god-tier sci-fi
Relating to this thread; is in love with Sci-Fi, but good sci-fi, most likely a nerdy type but not too beta; willing to finish whatever he starts no matter what the difficulty or quality.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:18:32 2013 No.3837831

>>3836750
A mature 50 year old aristocrat with an extensive library of world literature.
>>3836769
A tenured professor at an Ivy League University.
>>3836771
A very attractive woman in her late 40's bloom who probably has been married four or five times each successively to more and more failed varieties of intellectual, artist, and human being.
>>3836774
An 60 year old thrice divorced full time philosopher and yoga instructor who lives in a cramped appartement rigged out to look like Zarathustra's cave.
>>3836794
A world renowned author with dozens of published novels, screenplays, novellas, plays, poetry, with a movie soon to be released adapting your first novel.
>>3836813
World renowned theologian in his late 90s.
>>3836835
Chain-smoking Parisian Homosexual Fop with a full time employment at eleven world renowned universities.
>>3836869
40-year old poet with considerable psychological problems cradling
an incredible and shattering genius.
>>3836881
Explorer, adventurer, womaniser, misanthrope, a 38 year old English philistine who has read more books than the rest of you put together but can't possibly understand anything and who drowns himself in ale and spirits on a diurnal and nocturnal roundelay.
>>3836923
Michel Houellebecq

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:21:37 2013 No.3837844

>>3836750

- Spinoza's 'Ethics
- Euklid's Geometry
- Darwin's On the Origin of the Species
- Astrid Lindgren 'Emil fra Lonneberg'
- Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World'
- Svend Aage Madsen 'Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden'
- Everything by Carl Barks
- Richard Feynman 'Surely You must be joking, Feynmann!
- Einstein's general and special relativity (don't understand it yet but I have to try)
- Dostovjsesksjeksjesy 'The Idiot'.
Also the Bible (not christian but Jesus was brilliant at times imo)

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:22:37 2013 No.3837852

>>3837720
52 year old scholar with an impressive and encyclopedic knowledge of world literature who writes one monograph per month on bizarre and misunderstood literary conundrums like " The sorrows of old Werther: a phrenological reading from Jewish perspectives." Severely sexually frustrated and in need of exploring your homosexuality further and possibly also your crippling crypto-Jewishness.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:24:32 2013 No.3837858 File: 29 KB, 385x350, Nikki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT: It's summer on /lit/, and everyone wants a circlejerk! RATE ME! DO I FIT IN YET?! VALIDATE ME! EXTRAPOLATE BROAD CHARACTER TRAITS FROM MY IMAGINED READING LIST!

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:24:32 2013 No.3837859

>>3837844
A 68 year old convicted murder and rapist serving his time in one of Siberia's harshest prison who can quote from memory every major paedophilic landmark in literature with an arcane existential interest in the politics of nose-picking and the quirky ironicness of American youth.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:25:32 2013 No.3837862 >>3837787 idk why but I figure you like an old man with swagger

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:25:32 2013 No.3837863 >>3837336 Um. You're... interesting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:26:32 2013 No.3837864 File: 111 KB, 456x356, 1341390982853.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3837844 >The books I want her to see me reading.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:26:32 2013 No.3837867 >>3837787 33 year old frugal dutch peasant with a jesuitical mien and thick beard who as a part time poet while writing on the back of husks of rape while and singing Sapphic odes memorised in youth exercises his right to be alone in this cruel world.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:27:32 2013 No.3837871

Twentieth Century Harmony - Vincent Persichetti
Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot - Rachel Pollack
You Are Psychic - Debra Lynne Katz
Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy - Alain Badiou
Leibniz - Nicolas Jolley

The World of Parmenides - Karl Popper
In Game: From Immersion to Incorporation - Gordon Calleja
The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics - Lewis Putnam Turco
Pataphysics: A Useless Guide - Andrew Hugill
The Collected Works - W.B. Yeats

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:27:32 2013 No.3837872 >>3837740 Attractive 29 year old Latin female unavailable for regular sexual congress due to a particularity for exploring the transgressive shadows of autophilia and cunnilingus.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:28:32 2013 No.3837877 >>3837715 Strange and ironic 37 year old autodidact bibliphile and misunderstood genius who recently has become homeless and goes by day to the library to write a novel that hopefully will bring a much needed lucky break.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:28:32 2013 No.3837879 >>3837867 This is the greatest thing I've ever read; thank you for that laugh

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:29:32 2013 No.3837883

>>3837831
Undead French (reluctant) post-structuralist who secretly frequents gay bars in which he bathes in a trough of fermenting human urine before returning home to make love to his beautiful mistress (Jenifer Lopez). Looking to publish another book before the beefy poz loads take their inevitable toll.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:29:32 2013 No.3837884

>>3837859

That was... interesting. Was it a serious guess?

>>3837864

reading Emil fra Lonneberg is alpha as fuck. On a serious note, SPINOZA IS BY FAR ONE OF THE SMARTEST GUYS TO EVER HAVE LIVED. I can think of only few (Einstein, Goethe, Leibniz, Da Vinci,) who could be worthy of comparison. Also both Goethe and Einstein were fans :3

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:30:32 2013 No.3837888

Utopia
More, Thomas

By Night in Chile
Bolaño, Roberto

Outside Ethics
Geuss, Raymond

Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke
Lutes, Jason

Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones
Lutes, Jason

The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
Mishima, Yukio

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Albee, Edward

Aesthetics and Politics
Adorno, Theodor W.

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Saunders, George

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:30:32 2013 No.3837892 >>3837863 Oh come on - put some effort into it. At least EXPAND on it.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:31:32 2013 No.3837897

>>3837336
Well adjusted world famous and mature sporting athlete with a secret fetish for underappreciated eastern European literature about which you have published several articles in a Russian periodic where your poor mastery of the slavic languages is on display in many grotesque spelling errors which has made you a laughingstock and byword for dillentantism among the Russian intelligentsia which is only tolerable because you write under a very convincing pseudonym.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:35:32 2013 No.3837911
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>>3837831
>>3837852
>>3837859
>>3837867
>>3837872
>>3837877
>>3837897
Funniest person who has ever posted on /lit/. If not already a professional satirist, should become one instanter.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:35:33 2013 No.3837912 >>3837698 Morbidly obese 36 year old virgin and part-time librarian whose undiscovered necrophiliac urges have taken the form of an addiction to declaring your favourite books on anonymous internet image boards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:36:32 2013 No.3837918 >>3837897 GOOD LORD MAN I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH AT YOU OR CONGRATULATE YOU SO I WILL DO BOTH

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:37:32 2013 No.3837921

>>3837658
Pale faced etiolated stranger who often frequents provincial cafes in aggressively chic and outre outfits which provoke scorn from the jovial but fundamentally meatheaded locals who view you as nothing more than an attention seeker because that is exactly what you are.

fembot Sun Jun 9 16:37:32 2013 No.3837922

>>3837809
you are a cool anon. (actually really enjoyed all i've read so far & looking forward to the rest. [when i find what feels to be a nice author, i usually read all of their work. read all the time, so never have excess to damp the interest.]) cheers 809

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:38:33 2013 No.3837928

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Ego and it's own - Max Sitrner
War With the Newts - Karel Capek
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Difference and Repetition - Gilles Deleuze
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:38:33 2013 No.3837931

>>3837867
>33 year old frugal dutch peasant with a jesuitical mien and thick beard who as a part time poet while writing on the back of husks of rape while and singing Sapphic odes memorised in youth exercises his right to be alone in this cruel world.
Stolen for future profile use. 10/10

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:39:33 2013 No.3837936

>>3837655
Foul odoured heifer who pronounces the word "quite" with effortless pretentiousness but who deserves a second chance and has recently become a father to a young boy who shows promise of becoming a lady's man and an excellent fucker in the bedroom.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:40:32 2013 No.3837942

>>3837606
Wise and wind-ravaged old man who goes barefoot everywhere in defiance of cobblers and sweatshops and who offers citations from the great authors at random to passersby who are only really interested in viewing you from a certain angle where you look like a television actor who used to be famous in the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:47:32 2013 No.3837984 Well... -World War Z -1984 -Einstein's Intersection -Stars My Destiny -Cthulhu Mythos (all of them) -Foundation Saga (the first trilogy though) -Graveyard Rats (short story) - Henry Kuttner -El Túnel - Ernesto Sábato -The Mist -Firestarter

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:49:32 2013 No.3837996 >>3837936 This is quite accurate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:50:32 2013 No.3838003 >>3837518 A woman of 30 years of bashful despair who has finally decided to have a sex change in order to astound her suburban coevals.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:53:33 2013 No.3838020 >>3837473 An ordinary and well adjusted 58 year old communist who died on the inside at age 20 after receiving a Dear John letter from own mother.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:54:32 2013 No.3838024 >>3837389 Someone for whom only the name "steve" would could possibly denominate the insidiously ordinary and innocuous nature of your moral odiousness.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 16:59:33 2013 No.3838049 >>3837114 Ethereal transgendered aficionado of 80s porn who has an impressive moustache and a penchant for accosting strangers and accusing them of having "a hipster fashion."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:00:34 2013 No.3838056 >>3837142 You are so bleak and dark that sometimes I have to turn the light on in order to see your soul.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:03:32 2013 No.3838067

>>3837137
Strangely surreal person with an immaculate interior decorating sense but without the personal fashion awareness to match to the point of actually wearing curtains on your body and a lamp shade on your head in your lighter moments as an expression of the deeply set "ironic humourousness" of your doctorate in double humanism.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:06:32 2013 No.3838083

--The Eternal Wound:Coping with the Loss of Your Parents
--Estate and Business Management for the Young Entreprenuer
--The Art of Ninjutsu
--Advanced Forensics and Crime Detection
--Advanced Leathercraft and Theathrical Costuming
--Building The Underground Home
--Chiroptology
--Part of the Show:Overcoming the Fear of Clowns
--Funnycar! The Art and Science of Customizing Your Street Rod
--The Youg Ward :The Erotomenos in Greek Heroic Tradition

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:08:32 2013 No.3838091 >>3837120 Condescending and "emotionally secure" well fucked 28 year old bartender who regularly retails uneducated opinions on early modernism and fauvism with an arrogant smile that no punch in the face has yet done absolute justice to.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:11:32 2013 No.3838110

>>3837071
Educated and refined museum curator who is secretly a recovering WOW addict who is trying to find meaning in their life after the latest WOW expansion ignited an existential crisis that walked straight in on your recent alcoholism and the unbearable lightness of being this fat.

>>	Ricotta Elmar !/J1QYpS5Eo Sun Jun 9 17:13:32 2013 No.3838116 Second Foundation Foundation and Empire Foundation Forward the Foundation Prelude to Foundation Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Children of the Mind Xenocide Speaker of the Dead

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:14:32 2013 No.3838127

>>3837007
Member of the House of Lords and presiding archon over the various Youth Branches of the Tories you have been fully accepted into the British elite not only on account of your family's pedigree and wealth but also on account of your careful husbanding and prudent management of a set of literary tastes and opinion that are so ordinary and commonplace that no one has yet had occasion to discuss literature with you ever.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:15:32 2013 No.3838128

Dracula
Interview with the Vampire
Coraline
The Old Man and the Sea
The Difference Engine
The Magician King
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Sparkling Cyanide
Pride and Prejudice
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Shoot me down

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:19:32 2013 No.3838151

>>3836933
Sensitive and sexually experienced 14 year old stripper in a neon-corusucated part of downtown Bangkok who reads voraciously in order to appear more like a character in a Hollywood movie whose ironic pastiche of feminism and grunge struck a chord inside you and set you burning with a desire to adopt foreign manners and customs whose materialism and optimism helps you to escape the sheer asianness of existence.

QPuan !!8cNuQPuan2l Sun Jun 9 17:19:32 2013 No.3838153

-Ecce Homo
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
-How to Win Friends and Influence People
-Beyond Good and Evil
-The Metamorphosis
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
-Walden
-Johnny Got His Gun
-A Game of Thrones (I just started the series, though I mostly use it as shitature)
-I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:21:32 2013 No.3838166 >>3836879 Overweight 39 year old proofreader who is meticulously irrelevant in all his opinions in order to escape the "herd" and live the life of a "noble obese-y."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:21:33 2013 No.3838168 >>3837007 Well, you fooled these others, but you won't fool me. Lolita? Really? One shouldn't be surprised by anything I suppose. It hardly matters: your post number would have given you away in any event. Poorly played Mr. Bond. One expects better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:22:33 2013 No.3838174 >>3837116 A living effluence of not Jewish Enoughness.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:23:33 2013 No.3838176 >>3838151 Bullshit! I'm from Kowloon

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:27:32 2013 No.3838185

>>3837928
34 year old owner of a small publishing house who lives in Williamsburg, NY, who reads the Huffington post religiously and dropped out of university in order to pursue a romantic relationship with a condescending bartender of considerable bad breath.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:30:32 2013 No.3838197

>>3837554
Terribly anorexic 44 year old retired convalescent cancer patient who has a tattoo in latin on her inner thigh in which a third declension noun is improperly declined in the manner of a first declension noun of which you are not ignorant because this is how you wanted to symbolise your unfitness for living.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:32:33 2013 No.3838213 >>3836987 A 12 year old boy who is sick of hearing people call each other "12 year olds" as an insult.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:34:32 2013 No.3838226 [DELETED]

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Treasure Island
Diogenes the Cynic: War Against the World
The Conference of the Birds
I am a Cat
Danny the Champion of the World
The Masque of the Red Death
Seeing Dark Things: the Philosophy of Shadows
Gods and Fighting Men
The Name of the Wind
Musashi

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 17:40:33 2013 No.3838262 >>3838226 Gifted 31 year old jazz guitarist with a thing for white women and household cleaning products.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 20:56:35 2013 No.3838816

>>3837623
>interested in the concept of creativity

You got it right.

>>3837623
>likely a major in Art of possibly humanities.

I have a law degree.

>>3837623
>wants to read the classics before ultimately moving on to more contemporary literature.

That's kind of true. In reality there are few fiction writers who really attract me; I generally like to read more technical books and books on topics that are important to my own literary production.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:01:35 2013 No.3838832 2666 (current) Game of thrones Taipei Travel book about the Balkans Mao 2 Heart shaped box A naked singularity Rise and fall of the third reich Waiting The gospel according to Jesus Christ I think that's right more or less.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:07:34 2013 No.3838840 Liars.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:29:34 2013 No.3838889 >>3837831 i was described as a chain-smoking parisian homosexual. and that made me very happy. i love you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:41:34 2013 No.3838920 >>3837831 >Michel Houellebecq Man putting this so simply at the end of this long post killed me. 10/10.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:48:34 2013 No.3838937

>Cloud Atlas
>Confederacy of Dunces
>Unpopular Essays (Russell)
>A History of Western Philosophy
>The Meditations (Aurelius)
>The 12 Caesars
>Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
>Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
>Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor
>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:54:34 2013 No.3838956 The Corrections Bossypants by Tina Fey (lol) Underworld Blood Meridian Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Zizek Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Persuasion Anna Karenina Democracy In America Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:57:35 2013 No.3838965 >>3838937 20 year old East Coast college sophomore at a decent state university. Wears button down shirts casually.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 21:59:34 2013 No.3838976 Stoner Skylark The Castle Franz Kafka's Loneliness Mishima: A Vision of the Void Confessions of a Mask No Longer Human The Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:01:34 2013 No.3838981

>>3838832

The only smart guy in his Tennessee/Kentucky family of middle class whites. Either a middle or youngest child, but his family is fairly large. Reads strictly for pleasure, but as a reasonably smart guy, pleasure frequently overlaps with intellectual stimulation.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:01:34 2013 No.3838982

The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monster's remix - Chuck Palahniuk
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:02:34 2013 No.3838986 The Waves The Book of Ebenezer Le Page The Rings of Saturn Sentimental Education Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Moby-Dick Memoirs of Hadrian The Book of Disquiet Little, Big Death and the Dervish

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:04:35 2013 No.3838991 Halo: The Fall of Reach Halo: The Flood Halo: First Strike Halo: Ghosts of Onyx Halo: Contact Harvest Halo: The Cole Protocol Halo: Evolutions Halo: Cryptum Halo: Primordium Halo: Silentium http://sketchtoy.com/37201146

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:04:35 2013 No.3838992 >>3838982 Recent high school graduate recoiling from his first existential crisis.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:05:34 2013 No.3838995 >>3838128 Reads classics to conform, but is fetish ridden with the kinkiest of thoughts. Craves to be dominated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:07:34 2013 No.3839003 >>3838981 You got that I'm from Tennessee which freaked me out a little but the stuff about my family is off base. My dad is an attorney who owns several thousand books for example. I have a masters in math and do actuarial work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:08:34 2013 No.3839006 >>3839003 I should have said in my last post - good guess, I liked it overall.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:10:34 2013 No.3839010 >>3838956 Depressed

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:11:34 2013 No.3839012 >>3838832 Definitely American

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:12:34 2013 No.3839015 >>3839010 That's too easy a statement to make on /lit/. And, point of fact, I'm not. Somebody else try, I want a real answer.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:18:34 2013 No.3839024

>>3836750

A Cultural History of causality - Kern
Hegemony or Survival - Chomsky
Hopes and Prospects - Chomsky
Precious - Sapphire
The Basic writings of Bertrand Russell - BR
Infinite Jest - DFW
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
The Pale King - DFW
Resident Evil: the umbrella conspiracy - S.D Perry
The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:24:35 2013 No.3839038

Civilization: The West and the Rest (Ferguson)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Company (Micklethwait and Wooldridge)
Accounting Ethics (srsly)
Body of Lies (Ignatius)
Partisans (Maclean)
How to Read the Old Testament (Charpentier)
Minority Report (PKD)
Light in the Far East (Fischer)
Agents of Innocence (Ignatius)

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 22:59:34 2013 No.3839121

- The red badge of courage
- As Esganadas (Brazilian comic detective story about a fat-ladies serial killer)
- The Art of War (for the third time)
- I, Robot
- The Illuminatus!
- Ready Player One
- Dexter (the first three books)
- Battlefield 3
- Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy (whole 6 books)
- The Caves of Steel

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:23:34 2013 No.3839168

Who the fuck has time for fiction?

Microelectronics: Circuit Analysis and Design
An Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
Calculus, 9th Edition
AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems
Mindfulness in Plain English
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Jefferson Bible
7 Habits of Highly Effective People

And then a few Avengers comics. Shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:27:35 2013 No.3839175 >>3839168 >7 Habits of Highly Effective People Is this one good?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:28:35 2013 No.3839178 >>3836750 Some edgy 18 year grad trying to impress /lit/ with the selection of books most kids in grade 12 are forced to read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:33:35 2013 No.3839188 -Other Voices, Other Rooms -Autobiography of Malcolm X -Jane Eyre -Jude the Obscure -The Chosen -The Cantebury Tales -Emma -Light in August -The Little Prince -Breakfast at Tiffany's

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:44:34 2013 No.3839211

>>3837858
Looks for validation, wants to fit in, but finds it hard and thinks it ought to be for everyone else. Doesn't read as well as others in the thread, but has read the standard Gravity's Rainbow, Brothers Karmazov. Hasn't read Infinite Jest because the hype about it has put him off; it's probably pseudo-intellectual.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:47:35 2013 No.3839218 Steppenwolf Crime and Punishment(re-read) A Supposedly Fun Thing i'll never Do Again Flowers Of Evil Lolita Wasp Factory Atlas Shrugged Socrates's Trial(re-read) The Republic(re-read) Nausea Titus Groan I like to go one step beyond.

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:50:34 2013 No.3839225

If on a winter's night a traveller
Outside the town of Malbork
Leaning from the steep slope
Without fear of wind or vertigo
Looks down in the gathering shadow
In a network of lines that interlace
In a network of lines that intersect
On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon
Around an empty grave
What story down there awaits its end?

Anonymous Sun Jun 9 23:51:34 2013 No.3839227

-A Canticle for Leibowtiz
-Ramping Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere
-Infinite Jest
-Extinction Journals
-White Noise
-Lolita
-Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
-Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:02:34 2013 No.3839251 >>3839024 Let me guess... you are male, in your mid-twenties and at this point in time you are one of those people annoying all of your friends by flooding their newsfeed with infographics about the NSA and Monsato?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:07:35 2013 No.3839259 >>3838128 Female, involved in two or more fandoms, regular on tumblr. Wears glasses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:13:35 2013 No.3839275 >>3838991 You are single. You are oblivious to the fact that you have a faint odor to you that is reminiscent of a wet cheeto.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:15:35 2013 No.3839283 >>3838982 3edgy5me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:15:35 2013 No.3839285 from most recent to oldest The Count of Monte Cristo Into Thin Air Midnight's Children Homage to Catalonia The Sun Also Rises Maus Candide A Confederacy of Dunces Carry on, Jeeves

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:21:35 2013 No.3839302 From most recent to oldest The Count of Monte Cristo Into Thin Air Midnight's Children Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Lolita Homage to Catalonia Candide A Confederacy of Dunces Animal farm 1984

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:21:35 2013 No.3839305

Antony and Cleopatra-Shakespeare
Consider the Lobster-DFW
Brave New World-Alduous Huxley
Between Meals-Aj Liebling
Glengarry Glen Ross-David Mamet
Great Gatsby(reread)
Beloved-Toni Morrisson
We Were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates
On Directing Film-David Mamet
High Fidelity-Nick Hornby

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 00:26:35 2013 No.3839318 >>3838128 POWPOW

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 02:28:35 2013 No.3839530

Hardy- The Mayor of Casterbridge
-The Wessex Tales
Austen-Sense and Sensibility
Dickens-Great Expecations,
-David Copperfield
SHakespeare- A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Macbeth
5/3/1- Jim Wendler
Kipling- The Jungle Book
Dresch- A History of Modern Yemen

Not many unabridged versions available where I live so I have to search long and hard between books.

>inb4 torrents

[/spoiler]I like being able to see.[/spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 02:36:34 2013 No.3839542 >>3839530 >5/3/1- Jim Wendler Great program bro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 03:11:35 2013 No.3839581 >>3839542 as long as you don't make the mistake of doing it too early, like I did.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 03:26:34 2013 No.3839593 >>3839581 I honestly don't understand people who move straight to 5/3/1 after a beginner program.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 03:46:34 2013 No.3839616 >>3838049 None of them, but I'm still laughing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 03:54:34 2013 No.3839621 Moby Dick One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Animal Farm 1984 A collection of Conan the Barbarian short stories by Robert Howard Lolita Childhood's End A Clockwork Orange Heart of Darkness The Stranger

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 03:55:34 2013 No.3839623

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
Might is Right
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Ego and Its Own
Anatomy of the State
What Is Man?
Letters from Prison (Marquis de Sade)
On The Future of our Educational Institutions
Emile
The 120 Days of Sodom

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:00:34 2013 No.3839626

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Symposium - Plato
Phaedrus - Plato
A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason - Rene Descartes
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
Alexander the Great - Phillip Freeman
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:06:35 2013 No.3839632 >>3839530 Ditch Kipling and Dickens for more Hardy in your future searches. Far From The Madding Crowd is one of my absolute favourites.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:08:34 2013 No.3839635

The last pieces of text I've read are Letter to the Liberals and Letter to a Hindu, both by Leo Tolstoy. Those aren't books, though, so the real list is, from newest to oldest:

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

I can't remember the particular order of the books I've read before those, and I can't remember all of them. So I'll just go with the books I have enjoyed the most over the last few years. They have no particular order.

Demian by Hermann Hesse
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:12:34 2013 No.3839640
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Tolstoy - War & Peace (current)
Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart Of A Dog
- The White Guard
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall (re-read)
W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon And Sixpence
John Le Carre - Absolute Friends
- A Perfect Spy
P.G. Wodehouse - The World of Jeeves
Stephen Fry - The Liar
- Making History

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:18:34 2013 No.3839645

Mingus Speaks - John Goodman
Levels of Life - Julian Barnes
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Marx - The Later Political Writings - Marx
The Social Contract - Rousseau
Leviathan - Hobbes
Politics - Aristotle
A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters - Julian Barnes
Dylan on Dylan - Jonathan Cott
Pulse - Julian Barnes

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:20:34 2013 No.3839648

No Logo- Naomi Klein
Manufacturing Consent- Noam Chomsky
Work- CrimethInc. Collective
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
The Case For Mars- Robert Zubrin
Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut
Down & Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
And a book on mindfulness that I can't be assed into finding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:32:46 2013 No.3839662 >>3839648 Approx. 20 year old (probably) male. Suburban upbringing. Attends or dropped out of community college and hangs out in coffee shops (or would, if there were any decent coffee shops around).

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:33:46 2013 No.3839664

>>3839648
A social pariah and utterly unbearable conversationalist. Works in a Blockbuster Video Rental, views a daily wash as optional and often contemplates suicide. Drives a green Ford Focus and would like to be able to enjoy Whiskey more than he does.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:39:34 2013 No.3839670 >>3839645 how is Mingus Speaks? I love his music.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:39:34 2013 No.3839671

>>3839662
I attend uni., but aside from that, that was painfully accurate (especially the lack of decent coffee shops)
>>3839664
Not a social pariah, but not very outgoing. I'm not very preachy about my views. Never walked inside a Blockbuster. I shower daily. I do contemplate suicide often, though. No car, and I don't drink.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:46:35 2013 No.3839681

>>3839670
Good source material, but the interviewer pisses me off. There's way too much of him in the interviews, giving his opinions on free jazz, criticizing Albert Ayler and Pharaoh Sanders and so on. I guess that's one way to get on Mingus' good side, though. A few nice anecdotes about Eric Dolphy, but still not the stuff that could make a good biography of him.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that these are all 'new' insights on Mingus, though. His wife wrote a perfectly good memoir of their time together which these interviews really only reaffirm. Still, interesting stuff and very entertaining; there's only so much biographical detail on musicians of his kind so it makes sense to get what you can.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 04:53:34 2013 No.3839691 >>3839681 Will look into it, I do love his work, but he likes to play the moody musician card too much.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 05:05:34 2013 No.3839707

The Stranger
Tao Te Ching
Steppenwolf
1984
A History of Western Philosophy
Flowers for Algernon
Beyond Good and Evil
The Apology
The Definitive Book of Body Language
Fahrenheit 451

I really don't keep track of books I finish. This isn't exactly accurate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 06:01:35 2013 No.3839762 >>3839707 17 year-old (ish) who has begun to mature not that long ago, but is still pretty much learning. Interested in a wide range of topics, still looking for a place you're comfortable in (ina philosophical sense).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 06:04:34 2013 No.3839763 >>3839178 Pretty much this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 06:11:34 2013 No.3839772 >>3839178 Edgy - Yes 18 - No Trying to impress - No Grade 12 - The fuck is that? I'm no colonial.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 06:12:34 2013 No.3839773
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Corinne - Germaine de Staël
Appearance and Reality - F.H. Bradley
The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
The Innocent - Ian McEwan
Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
The Decameron - Boccaccio
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
Armance - Stendhal
The Romantic Agony - Mario Praz

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 06:17:34 2013 No.3839782 >>3839762 Quite accurate, well done.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 07:10:35 2013 No.3839827

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Hero Of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 07:12:35 2013 No.3839835 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - The Communist Manifesto - A Catcher in the Rye -1984 -Atlas Shrugged -The Gay Science -One Thousand and One Nights -Leaves of Grass -Ulysses -Canterbury Tales

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 07:21:35 2013 No.3839848 >>3839827 You take the people in /lit/ too seriously. You haven't really been into (serious) literature for very long.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 07:21:35 2013 No.3839849 >>3838128 femanon or gay

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 07:29:35 2013 No.3839875 File: 57 KB, 500x332, 3100808024_84f9b44885.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] last 8: 2666 one hundred years of solitude stoner no longer human high windows journey at the end of the night the crying of the lot 49 four quartets

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:13:34 2013 No.3839919 >>3836750 >>3836923 >>3837007 >>3837698 >>3837984 >>3839302 >>3839621 >>3839635 >>3839707 >>3839835 Surprised to see 1984 in so many recent reading lists. The only explanation is that all these posters are either new to literature or 16.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:33:35 2013 No.3839944 >>3839919 Or it's a popular, solid book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:35:34 2013 No.3839947 >>3839944 Twilight is popular too but I don't see it on many reading lists. I'm sure it's solid, but geology aside, what does that say about it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:37:35 2013 No.3839952 Orwell is a safe choice. Even police states assign it as required reading in schools. What does that tell you about it?

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:39:35 2013 No.3839954

>>3839947
Ha. It might be entry-level (by some standards...), but it's still a significant work. And it's not as if patricians don't read some more rudimentary books in any event. They might go back and read some that they missed because of relevance; cf Great Gatsby.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:44:35 2013 No.3839960

>>3839919
You quoted me there. I'm >>3839635 and in my case, I read it about three years ago, if you read my post you'll understand. I was around 14-15 years of age, and from what I know, people usually read that book between ages 14 and 19. So yeah, I bet most people are either inside that age range or just wanted to re-read it. Personally, I would re-read it.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:51:34 2013 No.3839974

Waiting For Godot
Paradise Lost
Great Gatsby (reread it for the movie)
Invisible Cities
Religion From Tolstoy To Camus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Paradise Lost
The Forever War
Surrealism & Architecture

I've been all over the place. Before that, it was a long list of books on fascism, communism, socialism, and other various political beliefs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:52:34 2013 No.3839975 >>3839974 I guess I liked Paradise Lost so much I put it on my list twice. Add The First Man to the list in its place, then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:55:34 2013 No.3839978 >>3839974 >>3839974 16-19, avidly trying to undertand the whys and wherefores of absolutely everything, at the same time. Basically, in a pursuit of knowledge, and of a place where you fit properly, in terms of ideals.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:56:34 2013 No.3839982 >>3839978 woops, I accidentally my sentence. Forget about the 'at the same time' frase. I don't know how it got there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 08:56:34 2013 No.3839983 >>3839978 Spot on. You read me like a book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:06:34 2013 No.3839999 >>3839974 May I ask which books on Politics you've read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:08:34 2013 No.3840000 - Tom Jones - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Dune - 9 volumes of the Sagas of Icelanders

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:19:35 2013 No.3840017 >>3839175 Habit one: post on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:23:34 2013 No.3840026 The Journal Of Edwin Underhill Cyrano De Bergerac (in French) Sacrifice Vanity Fair (re-read) Frankenstein Carmilla (re-read) Affinity Ringu (in English) Twilight (IT WAS A DARE IT WAS A DARE!!!!!) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:27:35 2013 No.3840036

>>3838128
Why? It's a decent list. Anyway, you're 22, male, white, straight, in college and single with only 2 or 3 friends but they are relly close friends. You're living with an obnoxious roommate and you can't separate yourself from your mom and dad (mostly your mom) even if you want to. You dream of doing a Kerouac and going on the road for a year (maybe in another country) but you're too disorganized to pull it off as of yet.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:46:35 2013 No.3840055

- The Realities Behind British Diplomacy (P. Kennedy)
- Love and Mr Lewisham (Wells)
- Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
- International Relations, a very short introduction.
- Power: a Radical View (Lukes)
- Nausea (Sartre)
- Justine (de Sade)
- the Second Sex (de Beauvoir)
- Development as Freedom (Sen)
- Plantation of Ulster (Bardon)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 09:50:34 2013 No.3840064 >>3839978 Much the same as myself. Very incisive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:03:34 2013 No.3840089 Patriotism No Longer Human The Setting Sun Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico Six Gun Snow White Musashi Bartleby & Co Senselessness Starfish

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:05:34 2013 No.3840096

>>3840055
College-age caucasian male, from an upper-class background. Your parents are political conservatives and are slightly religious, though you consider yourself as neither. You have a healthy social and sex life and get above average grades in school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:10:34 2013 No.3840109 >>3840096 Interesting analysis! College age caucasian male, yes. I come from a very low income single parent family: just me and my mother. She's very liberal and not religious at all, much the same as myself. Sex life could improve I dare say!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:16:35 2013 No.3840124 >>3839848 >>3839827 I can't fault a man for reading well, but yes there's nothing wrong with some light stuff now and again!

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:46:35 2013 No.3840178

>>3838976
second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to Christopher and Hannah Bush. married first husband, Daniel Johnston, in 1806, and had three children. In 1819, married Thomas Lincoln and joined his family with three children.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:50:34 2013 No.3840182

>>3840089
born and died in Paris. raised by mother and maternal grandmother, believing them to be sister and foster mother, respectively. biological father, Louis Andrieux, a former senator for Forcalquier, married and thirty years older than mother, whom he seduced when she was seventeen. mother passed Andrieux off to her son as his godfather. only told the truth at the age of 19, leaving to serve in the First World War.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:50:34 2013 No.3840183 -The giver -The messanger -Eragon -Gray's Anatomy -The Red Book -HP Lovecraft Great tales of Horror -Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems -Natural Selection -1984 -It -Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:51:34 2013 No.3840184 >>3836750 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward How to win friends and influence people Journey to the Center of the Earth 20000 leagues under the sea Call of Cthulu At the mountains of madness Dagon The colour out of space

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:53:34 2013 No.3840190 >>3840184 I loved the colour out of space! Such an interesting read!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:53:34 2013 No.3840191 >>3840183 13 year-old who is starting to get into literature, influenced by his mediocre English teacher.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:53:34 2013 No.3840192 >>3840183 a religious, political, and military leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:56:34 2013 No.3840198 >>3839635 Anyone?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:57:34 2013 No.3840199 >>3840192 EXACTLY! damn you guys are good... In all truth, I haven't read as much as I would like, but im getting better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 10:58:34 2013 No.3840201 >>3840199 Does that mean you're what >>3840191 described you as?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:00:34 2013 No.3840207 >>3840201 No, I'm actually a 19 year old male, who did amazingly in english class, and now works a decent job, with promotion oppurtunity. Luckily today I don't start until 2. Most of my time I spend reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:03:34 2013 No.3840215 >>3839635 an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:08:34 2013 No.3840223

The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
Lavondyss - Robert Holdstock
How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
Candide - Voltaire
90 Day Geisha - Chelsea Haywood
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Ten Little Niggers - Agatha Christie
Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks
The Sense Of An Ending - Julian Barnes
The Night Sessions - Ken MacLeod

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:24:31 2013 No.3840257 >>3840223 chinese

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:25:31 2013 No.3840261

>>3839635
High-pitched and nasal Jewish journalist for Salon and former editor as Esquire who moonlights as a screenwriter for popular television comedy show "Saturday Night Live" and has long been a fan of the ironic squalor of Seth Macfarlane's tawdry humour.

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 11:41:33 2013 No.3840305

Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Historias de Cronopios y Famas - Cortázar
The collected plays of Oscar Wilde
Dubliners - Joyce
Paris Spleen (in Spanish)- Baudelaire
Dance Dance Dance - Murakami
Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios - Borges y Bioy Casares
Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey - Peter J. Bowler and iwan Rhys

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 15:45:33 2013 No.3840839 >>3840305 fairly intelligent, over 24, enjoys discussion on literature, reserved herzog crime and ounishment lucky jim of human bondage nausea steooenwolf money no longer human

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 16:57:39 2013 No.3840985

A Clash Of Kings - George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Metro 2033 - Dmitri Glukhovsky
Metro 2034 - Dmitri Glukhovsky
Der Prozeß - Franz Kafka
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Red Dragon - J.R.R. Tolkien
Corpus Delicti - Julie Zeh (for school)
Fatherland - Robert Harris

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 16:58:39 2013 No.3840988 >>3840985 Oh, uhm the author of Red Dragon should be Thomas Harris, of course.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 21:51:34 2013 No.3841507 >>3838116 an elmar of discerning taste. foundation/card/dune readers represent.

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