Read/Reading/Going to read thread? >Read Last thing was Stoner in February. It was beautiful. >Reading >A Game of Thrones Enjoying it, despite the criticisms >Going to Read Crime and Punishment

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Read/Reading/Going to read thread?

>Read
Last thing was Stoner in February. It was beautiful.

>Reading
>A Game of Thrones
Enjoying it, despite the criticisms

>Going to Read
Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:22:35 2013 No.3844288 File: 122 KB, 736x736, 1370671131625.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3844233 Motherfucking student will kill fucking babushka wuth an axe.We in Russia read this book in 5 grade.Yes.It's spoiler.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:24:35 2013 No.3844293 >>3844288 Hey, thanks! Now I'll be sure to look for how that builds up. Unfortunately this is my first time reading it. Isn't it a little advanced for a 5th grader, regardless of whether it's in your native language or not?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:33:35 2013 No.3844328 crime and punishment is very good, read notes from underground after >Read The Long Walk >Reading It >Will read The Divine Comedy maybe

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:36:35 2013 No.3844339

>>3844328
I plan to! I actually meant to read Notes first. I almost chose it for a report in high school, but ended up choosing something I was more familiar with. Lost the book until after I decided on Crime and Punishment.

Also, how did you like the Long Walk?

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:36:35 2013 No.3844342

>>3844293

theres very little buildup for the babushka murder, Raskolnikov already made up his mind before the beginning and is in the process of executing his plan, and the majority of the book is what happens because of it

so dont be disappointed when its not 95% planning a murder

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:38:36 2013 No.3844355 >>3844339 it was pretty good, i didn't know what to expect because a) its a pretty dumb premise and b) the only other thing by stephen king i had read was the shining. it was pretty depressing near the end

Celebes !!NWFwVGUkpTc Tue Jun 11 20:39:35 2013 No.3844363

>Read
Waiting for Godot this morning

>Reading
Micromegas by Voltaire

>to-read
Whatever I feel like in 20 minutes when I finish this, probably Sorrows of Young Werther.
Or I'll finish Tristram Shandy
Or I'll start Vol. 3 of A la reserschedu temps perdue
Or I'll start Life A User's Manual

Help me choose, /li/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:43:35 2013 No.3844385 >Read. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea >Reading. Rimbaud's complete poems >Going to Read. Edwin Drood.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:59:35 2013 No.3844459 >Read The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. >Reading. The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. >Going to read. The Tibetan Book of the Dead. My H.P. Lovecraft collection. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:01:35 2013 No.3844469 >Read The Grapes of Wrath. Great novel. >Reading The Brothers Karamazov. Highly impressed and probably is one of the best novels I have read. >Reading Next Probably Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:03:35 2013 No.3844475 >>3844469 I'm going to start reading The Brothers Karamazov. My friend told me that there are often several pages when a single characters is just talking and talking which sounds really cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:17:35 2013 No.3844540 >Read Letters to Emma Bowlcut >Reading Chekhov Short Stories/Asimov's Robot Stories >Going to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:23:36 2013 No.3844559 >>3844459 I thought Prometheus Rising was fantastic, but I really can't get through the Illuminatus Trilogy- it just seems like a giant clusterfuck to me. Am I missing something?

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:24:36 2013 No.3844562

>Read
The Sea of Fertility tetralogy - Yukio Mishima
>Reading
Macunaíma - Mario de Andrade
>Going to Read
Blood Red Sunset - Ma Bo and Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

I decided after I finish those two books I'm going to start a checklist to read a piece from every author who has killed themselves

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:30:35 2013 No.3844576
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>Read
'Talk to the Snail' - Stephen Clarke. A British expat's take on how to understand the French and their customs. Quite funny. I'd like to read a French person's take on the British. Does anyone have any recommendations?

>Reading
'The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie. Finally got round to reading this. Really enjoying it. Only about a third of the way through and can't quite believe that it caused such controversy. I'm going to read more about the controversy after I've read the book so that I don't spoil anything.

>Going to Read
Perhaps 'The Flight of the Intellectuals' by Paul Berman which deals with the Rushdie affair and the rise of Islamism in general.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:33:35 2013 No.3844587 >>3844233 >Read The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories by Tolstoy >Reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky >Going to Read Not sure yet. Maybe some post-modernist stuff.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:49:35 2013 No.3844636 >Read Lolita >Reading East of Eden >Going to Read Not sure yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:51:35 2013 No.3844640 >Read Crime and Punishment Buying all Dostoevsky's books. >Reading The Count of Monte Cristo It's beautiful. Is there more books as good as this in vengeance/MC suffers and the makes some people pay? >Going to Read The Brothers Karamazov

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:05:35 2013 No.3844667 >Read Death in Venice >Reading Watt >Going to Read idk, maybe something Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:08:35 2013 No.3844674 >>3844233 >Read Heart of darkness >Reading Land of spice Just wanted to say I loved stoner, it is truly a beautiful book. It and Remains of the day are two of my all time favourite books

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:11:36 2013 No.3844682 >Read Notes From Underground >Reading Crime and Punishment >Going to read Either The Fall, Love in the Time of Cholera or re-read Heart of Darkness.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:14:36 2013 No.3844690 >Read The Knights of Cornerstone, by James Blaylock >Reading The Opium War in Chinese Eyes, by Arthur Waley >Going to Read The People of the Book, by David Stacton

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:17:35 2013 No.3844699 File: 27 KB, 200x314, RUS369.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What is the best translation of "Crime and Punishment"? This is the one I've been reading and I'm enjoying it very much but I have heard a lot of criticism for it.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:24:36 2013 No.3844717

>Read
The Death of Ivan Illyich

>Reading
The Waves. Can't say I enjoy it as much as To The Lighthouse, but I love anything by Woolf.
Ulysses. About 200 pages in I decided to take a break and read Woolf. It was actually quite difficult to put down. I love Stephen's and Bloom's characters, how much they are like some people I know. I also love those little moments when you put the book down or scrawl all capital notes in the margins because you just got something, man, you just figured it out. I'm taking a lit class this summer so I don't think I will have the time to finish the book for quite a while.

>Going to read
Swann's Way
Paradise Lost
Gargantua and Pantagruel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:26:35 2013 No.3844722 >Read Darkly Dreaming Dexter >Reading Moby Dick >Going to Read Infantry Attacks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:39:35 2013 No.3844748 >Read Tao Lin - Taipei, just finished it today actually >Reading PKD - Ubik DFW - A Supposedly Fun Thing essays >Going to Read will start something new tonight, maybe pynchon's Inherent Vice or delillo's Body Artist

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:49:35 2013 No.3844765

>Read
Notes From Underground

>Reading
Vineland

>Going to Read
Journey to the End of the Night or Bros Karamazov. Haven't chosen yet.

Kinda regretting picking Vineland as my second Pynchon novel; whenever I see it mentioned here I get the vibe that it's kinda third-rate.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:01:35 2013 No.3844772
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>>3844233
>read
Taipei- Lin

It was pretty good. It felt like a reading the emotional history of a relationship from its beginning to the end in such a very entertaining style. Lin's ability to write about ordinary human emotions in such grand overreaching metaphors and similes

>Reading
The Book of Disquiet --Pessoa

It is pretty evident that Lin was influenced by Pessoa's really interesting metaphorical language to speak about moments of melancholy. This books is beautiful and packed with very pretty language to describe depression.

The Recognitions - Gaddis

I haven't read another page in a week since I was trying to Taipei, but this book is masterful in its figurative language. The puns are high powered and I can definitely see why many Pynchon fans pick up Gaddis. Haha I just noticed that all of these books are depressing

>Going to read

I am not sure at all. It would be cool to start some more Faulkner may be. Just finished reading As I Lay Dying two weeks ago so The Sound and the Fury?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:19:35 2013 No.3844809 >>3844576 You could also try reading Joseph Anton next.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:49:35 2013 No.3844840 >Read Blood Meridian >Reading East of Eden >Going to Can't decide between Kafka on the Shore or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle yet.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:00:36 2013 No.3844859

>Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
I got very polarized recommendations for the book - it seemed to fit. The first half (Jeff in Venice) was enjoyable, reading like a less observational (and objectionable) Houellebecq. The parts I initially liked were swept away with the plot, in a wave of bellinis and cunnilingus. The second half made me feel weird, not in a bad way per se, in a way that made me think that I didn't like the book as much as I thought I might. Will be sure to read his other works, I only wish they didn't have such godawful titles.

>Life & Fate
It's a real whopper, but the pages go by painlessly. Ultimately though, only time will tell if my attention span will hold out long enough to finish this before starting something new.

and idk maybe Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars or the Manuscript found in Saragossa. we'll see. reading Grossman is kind of pushing me to re-read The Good Soldier Svejk actually

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:00:36 2013 No.3844860

>Read
Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe. Not bad, really, in more than one occasion I kept thinking, "well that is entirely ridiculous" but I keep remembering that I'm reading a comedy satire, so props.

>Reading
Brideshead Revisited. Found this yesterday in a thrift shop. Best decision ever.

>Going to read
Pilgrim's Progress - Bunyan

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:04:36 2013 No.3844864 >>3844860 >Brideshead Revisited. Found this yesterday in a thrift shop. Best decision ever. Yeah it's great

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:35:35 2013 No.3844914 >Read Brave New World >Reading Beowulf >Going to read Adventures of Tom Sawyer

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:52:35 2013 No.3844941 READ: FAREWELL, MY LOVELY - CHANDLER CURRENT: ROGUE MALE - HOUSEHOLD NEXT: THE IMMORALIST - GIDE

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:55:36 2013 No.3844949

>read
Red by John Logan. Great play about Rothko, I loved it. Some killer monologues.

>Reading
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. This is fucking hilarious. I love me some Tom Stoppard

>going to read
Christ, I have a lot on the backlog. Thinking Birth of Tragedy, maybe Hell's Angels or The Great Shark. Also need to get through The Iliad Any suggestions, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:32:35 2013 No.3844989 > Read - Picture of Dorian Grey - Heart of Darkness > Reading - Don Quixote - Ivanhoe >Going to read - People of the Mist - Something written by Dickens probably.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:32:35 2013 No.3844990 >Read Treatises on Friendship and old age - Seneca >Reading Trainspotting >Going to read Kafka's diaries

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:38:36 2013 No.3845003 >Read The Moviegoer - read it in highschool and just got back to it, my favorite all time >Reading Gilead >Will Read not very sure and i am open to suggestions

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:44:36 2013 No.3845015
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>Read
Foucault's Pendulum. Very much enjoyed it, had some great moments. Not sure if the ending message was trite or profound.

>Reading
The Call of the Wild. Good solid prose, but London is describing violence a bit too grandly for my tastes.

>Going to read
Pic related. Have a feeling this will take a while.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:55:35 2013 No.3845025

>read
The Communist Manifesto, first time reading communist lit.
>reading
A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens had such an eloquent way of writing.
>going to read
Probably some writings by Bakunin or Goldman. Maybe some more Shakespeare, I don't know, I'm not sure what I wanna read next.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:58:36 2013 No.3845030 >read divine comedy >reading brave new world >going to read textbooks, a fucking gigantic pile that I fear touching.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:00:36 2013 No.3845031 >>3845025 What Bakunin or Goldman are you considering?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:03:35 2013 No.3845036
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>Read
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
Collection of (mostly) mundane short stories from Irvine Welsh.

>Reading
A Game of Thrones
Curiosity got the better of me. It's not all that bad.

>Going to Read
Not sure, maybe Winesburg, Ohio or Nostromo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:12:35 2013 No.3845044 >>3845036 Both Nostrimo and Winesburg, Ohio are amazing. Please enjoy and don't be afraid to post thoughts here

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:20:35 2013 No.3845054 File: 55 KB, 800x995, 1370893826077.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] read >white teeth by zadie smith reading >love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez going to read >despair by nabokov

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:23:35 2013 No.3845058 >read Death's Midwives by Margareta Ekstrom. >reading Conversations with Spinoza by Goce Smilevski >going to read I guess I might start reading more Italian authors.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:27:35 2013 No.3845063 >>3845058 I'll soon be checking out Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World You might be interested

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:38:35 2013 No.3845072 File: 316 KB, 406x462, putin.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >read Horus Heresy books 1-2 >reading Horus Heresy book 3 >going to read Horus Heresy books 4-24 Funny thing is, I don't even think it'll take me more than July to be done.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:40:35 2013 No.3845073 >>3845036 >If You Liked School, You'll Love Work Is that cover in any way, shape or form related?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:42:35 2013 No.3845076 >>3845063 Thanks for the heads up. I'll probably read that and something by D'annunzio next.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:48:35 2013 No.3845080 >>3845073 The last piece in the collection is a novella called "Kingdom of Fife". It features two girl jockeys who wear jodhpurs like in the cover; one of the main characters always stalks them and masturbates over them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:51:36 2013 No.3845085 >>3845076 What did he write?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:00:35 2013 No.3845104 >>3845085 Apparently he was a proto-fascist decadent writer. I'll probably start with Notturno or The Flame of Life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:07:35 2013 No.3845118 >>3845080 What a stupid book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:11:35 2013 No.3845122 >>3845118 Yeah, it was quite the disappointment. Laced with poor writing and dull stories.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:23:35 2013 No.3845134

>Read
A Confederacy Of Dunces. Amazing. Hilarious. Kind of weird when you think about the circumstances of it's publishing.

>Reading
Going through The Bachman Books again, I skipped The Long Walk and Thinner a few years ago, so I'm getting back into that.

>Going to read
Lolita, probably. Or Stephen King's On Writing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:23:35 2013 No.3845136 >>3845104 Obscure author?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:23:35 2013 No.3845137 >Read Most recent was a collection of Jack London stories including White Fang. >Reading Abbey's Road >Will read Either Moby Dick or the Odyssey.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:28:35 2013 No.3845141 >Read The Rum Diary >Reading The Limit >Going to Read Naked Lunch

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:40:35 2013 No.3845167

>>3845134
On Writing is excellent. Thinner was passable. I'm a King and horror/suspense fan but I prefer books about humans doing horrible things to each other because they can or want to. Thinner is about gypsy magic. If the supernatural isn't a turn-off for you or something that breaks immersion, removes suspense of disbelief, then I'd recommend it.

>dat ending

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:41:35 2013 No.3845170 In the last week I've read: The Stranger Book of Blues The Tempest Death of a Salesman exterminator! Reading: On Writing- King Next: On the Road Then back to the library for 7 more books to read in 7 more days

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:46:36 2013 No.3845175 >>3845170 You have no idea what you'll pick up?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:49:36 2013 No.3845178 >read slaughterhouse5, vonnegut >reading hell, robert olan butler the dharma bums, kerouac >wanna read naked lunch, burroughs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:51:35 2013 No.3845180 >read Far From the Madding Crowd >reading The Mill on the Floss >Going to Read In Cold Blood

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:52:35 2013 No.3845184

>Read
All The Pretty Horses
It was pretty good. Must be Cormac's most light hearted novel.

>reading
Anna Karenina. Apart from the bits about farming, there's not a word wasted. And that says a lot considering it's roughly 1,000 pages long. Amazing stuff.

>to read
I'm not sure, but it will probably be short. I'm thinking Rabbit, Run or A Farewell to Arms.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:54:36 2013 No.3845186

>>3845175
My library often has shit selection and almost no philosophy. Will look for a Shakespeare comedy, Naked Lunch, Freud, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein if possible. Also IT or Pet Sematary. Although I usually just browse the whole selection and pick whatever takes my fancy. If there are none or few available that I'm interested in, I'll request books from other branches.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:54:36 2013 No.3845187 >>3845180 How was Far from the Madding Crowd? I've read a couple of Hardy's novels and they drag

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 03:59:35 2013 No.3845192

>>3845186
Would also like some recommendations on Shakespeare's works. I'll likely read his whole selection of plays eventually, but I'll take any recommendations.

Have read: *Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, *Hamlet, MacBeth, *King Lear, The Tempest, R+J, and I believe 3-4 more that slip my mind at the moment.

*=favourite. Love me some Lear, Hamlet and Iago

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 04:05:35 2013 No.3845205 >>3845192 Well, The Merchant of Venice is must if you haven't already read that. I thought it was very good, apart from the ending.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 05:02:36 2013 No.3845290 >>3845205 Seconding this recommendation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:06:35 2013 No.3845385 >>3845187 Far from the Madding Crowd was good (i enjoyed it). At times I was just waiting for stuff to happen because I could tell what was around the corner but otherwise good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:16:35 2013 No.3845409 >>3844363 Sorrows of Young Werther, nigger. I remember reading it a while back when /lit/ tried to have a book club.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:19:35 2013 No.3845415 Read---Bring Up the Bodies Reading---Growth of the Soil Next----The Sound of Waves

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:42:35 2013 No.3845449

>Read
Momo by Michael Ende

>Reading
Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima

>Going to read
Continuing My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, probably.

I always love Mishima's writing. I feel we kinda share some of the same outlooks on life, which is why I think his writing hits me so hard and feels so intense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:49:35 2013 No.3845452 >>3845449 >My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård id suggest reading something better

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 06:55:35 2013 No.3845461

>>3845452
I'm going to start book 4, and I intend to finish what I've started.

Admittedly, I like the project. The "plot" may be mundane at times, but the prose is beyond amazing, so I don't really mind. And it's not like it's a normal self-bio, because after a reading for a while, you understand that this is not really about the author at all. I have a feeling I know where the whole story is going, and I'm going to see if he really goes there, because there is some heavy hinting at something that would be an amazing conclusion.

Why do you think it's inferior?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 07:00:36 2013 No.3845465

>read
Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum. Pretty generic crime. Had it lying around for several years, decided I have to read it.

>reading
Cold Heats by Gunnar Staalesen. Still reading crime. This is way more interesting though.

>gonna read
The Silmarilion, maybe. Or some more Jules Verne.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 07:01:36 2013 No.3845466 >>3845465 Are you Norwegian, or is Norwegian crime tales really that popular outside the country?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 07:07:35 2013 No.3845474

>>3845466
heh, I'm norwegian. I don't really know how popular they are in other countries. I think Gunnar Staalesen is fairly known in a few other countries. Crime isn't usually my preferred genre, used to find it boring. But I think I'd enjoy reading more of Staalesen's Varg Veum series.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 07:19:35 2013 No.3845485 >>3845205 Seconding this recommendation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 08:01:36 2013 No.3845519 >>3845485 Nice double post

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 08:27:35 2013 No.3845542 >>3844475 more like chapters

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 08:32:35 2013 No.3845545
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>Read
Metro 2033
A great book, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

>Reading
La nausè by Sartre
My swedish translation has these black pages, why do they do this?

>Gonna read
St. Augustines confessions

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 08:34:35 2013 No.3845550 File: 1.88 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3845545 The front cover if anyone is interested

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 08:43:36 2013 No.3845560
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the last thing I read was Haunted by Chuck Palanuik. I liked it.

Currently reading Blood Meridian, beautiful prose and terribly ugly actions. I'm not too much a fan of the storytelling because it's not really Character driven. It should have just been about Glanton and the Judge, the kid is barely even in the book.

Next up, I might force myself to read a collection of stories by Jim Butcher, but I think I'm getting too old to be reading about a wizard detective. The second choice is to read Dune, which I've heard is like one of the best sci-fi novels ever written.
>Steak or a hamburger
Here's a random picture so you read my post, because no one reads posts without a picture.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:02:35 2013 No.3845583 >>3845550 >>3845545 Jävligt bajsnödigt omslag. Vars bor du litbro?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:12:35 2013 No.3845598
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>>Read
>Crime and Punishment
A little too Russian for me, and kind of tedious at times, but ultimately entertaining and worth it.

>>Reading
>The Third Reich: A New History
Just started, seems like it'll be a slog but I'm interested nonetheless.

>The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism
I'm probably gonna be reading this one on and off for a while; I'm hoping it'll be a decent jumping-off point for all the philosophy/theory I have in my backlog.

>>Going to Read
>Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960's and/or The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea/The Temple of the Golden Pavilion/Confessions of a Mask

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:15:35 2013 No.3845601 >>3844233 >Read The Cask of Amontillado >Reading Farenheit 451 >Going to read Dune

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:27:36 2013 No.3845615 >>3845601 How's the Cask?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:28:36 2013 No.3845619

>Read

The Great Gatsby, just to refresh my memory before I went to see the Luhrmann film

>Reading
A Feast For Crows. Tedious at the moment, not as page-turning as ASoS. Just trying to get through it so I can move on to my next book

>Going to Read
Either Crime and Punishment or The Wanderers by Richard Price

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:28:36 2013 No.3845621 >>3845583 Kungsbacka och ja, men det var den enda editionen de hade och jag ville verkligen läsa den. Var bor du själv?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:36:35 2013 No.3845639

>Read
Frankenstein, I enjoyed it, the daemon was a kewl guy

>Reading
An Anthropologist On Mars - Oliver Sacks, it's pretty interesting. There's one case in it about a guy who became a Hare Krishna during the sixties and they all thought he was becoming blissful and enlightened, but he actually had a brain tumour the size of a grapefruit that wiped out a lot of his brain and destroyed his ability to form new memories, as well as eating into some of the memories he'd already formed. It meant that he was living in this bland contextless limbo all the time - and also he didn't even realise it had made him blind, he'd lost all memory of the concept of seeing so when they tried to get him to learn Braille (because he was apparently capable of learning things like the way round the hospital and new guitar techniques - something to do with procedural memory or something) he refused, saying, "If I was blind I'd be the first to know about it". It was pretty sad, but also kind of funny.

>Going to Read
Maybe some Vonnegut, I enjoyed Slaughterhouse 5. Might give Dune a stab, I've got the great trilogy in one big volume, seems pretty heavy going though. I've just finished my degree so now I can read whatever the fuck I want, but I'd like to tick off a lot of classic books that everyone is supposed to have read, and I have a lot of work to do on that front.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:54:35 2013 No.3845659
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>Read
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
I FUCKING LOVED it. One of the best books that i have ever read in my life, i had to re-read it.

>Reading
Ayn Rand - Atlas shrugged
Awesome piece of book, im glad that i bought it.

>Going to Read
Aristoteles - Politics
Opened it to scan through it, oh boy it did look really hard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:59:35 2013 No.3845666 File: 108 KB, 1280x720, s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3844233 >Read The Demons, good but not as C&P or Idiot. >Reading The Brothers Karamazov......uoooo, so good >Going to Read Lolita

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:08:35 2013 No.3845676
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>Read
John Hersey's Hiroshima. Cemented my misanthropy.

>Reading
Sylvia Plath's Ariel. One of my favorite books of poetry. Writing my manuscript for grad school, and she's always good for inspiration.

>Going to Read
Robert Lowell's Life Studies. He taught Plath, figure he's worth looking into.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:10:36 2013 No.3845679 >>3845659 >ayn rand >awesome One of my mom's friends gave me that book, but I can't bring myself to read it. I could read so many other non-widely-derided pieces of literature in the time it would take me to conquer Shrugged.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:11:36 2013 No.3845680 >>3845639 Have you read Cat's Cradle? If not, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:14:35 2013 No.3845682

>>3845679
I love the way how she expresses thoughts of the characters. I mostly sympatize with them and feel the same in my life. All actions commited by people in the book have deeper meaning and only very few people understand it. There is nothing wrong with the fact that you dont like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:27:35 2013 No.3845699 >>3845680 I haven't, my housemate has a copy of Breakfast of Champions though, would you (or anyone else) recommend that?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 10:30:35 2013 No.3845705

>>3845699
I'd recommend Breakfast of Champions over Slaughterhouse 5. Cat's Cradle is amazing though, and if you like Breakfast of Champions, I'd recommend picking that up next.
(Incidentally, I wasn't pissed off by the movie they made of Breakfast of Champions)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 17:05:35 2013 No.3846522 >Read Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe >Reading Lavish Are The Dead by Kenzaburo Oe >Going to Read franz innerhofer - schöne tage or The Bonfire of the Vanities

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 17:10:35 2013 No.3846534 >>3844328 >Will read >The Divine Comedy maybe >translated in english >Divine Comedy translated it's summer alright

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 17:37:36 2013 No.3846608

>>3844342
Im reading the start now, it's quite clear that he's going to kill her.

The way it's described is amazing though. I'm not at the murder yet, but theres some buildup in the beginning, in a much more realistic way than what you find elsewhere. It just shows the human experience so well, especially if you're wondering about ethics

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 17:42:36 2013 No.3846625 >Read American Pastoral - Roth >Reading Ulysses - Joyce >Going to Read Master and the Margarita or some more Borges or some Woolf. Maybe some philosophy idk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 17:51:36 2013 No.3846656 >Read Just finished Naked Lunch. Loved it. >Reading Physics textbooks, fucking exams. >Going to read The Subterraneans or Wild Boys or something else.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 18:04:36 2013 No.3846689

>Read
Just finished Sons and Lovers. It was okay. The protagonist was sort of frustrating to deal with.

>Reading
Catch-22. Not sure how to feel about this. I feel ambivalent, but maybe some kind-anon will convince me of its greatness.

>Going to Read
Antony and Cleopatra

Any recommendations, anons?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 18:14:36 2013 No.3846710 >>3844699 The P&V translations are usually considered the standard, they also do a bunch of other Russian translations that come highly reconnended.

>>	Adult Z !!t94vbIeQJUW Wed Jun 12 18:15:36 2013 No.3846712 >Read The Acid House >Reading Saturday Night and Sunday Morning >Going to Read probably some Kafka

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 20:25:36 2013 No.3846985
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Read:

DeLillo's White Noise

Reading:

By the North Gate, Joyce Carol Oates
What Falls Away, Mia Farrow
I Lost It at the Movies, Pauline Kael
The Animals in That Country, Margaret Atwood
My Life as a Woman, Roseanne Barr

Going to Read:

Charles Manson Now, Marlin Marynick
Bossypants, Tina Fey
I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me, Joan Rivers
Demonic, Ann Coulter
Inside Scientology, Janet Reitman

I'm a faggot, btw.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 21:49:32 2013 No.3847158

>Read
The Fountainhead. Fantastic book. Completely disagreed with the premise, but excellent writing and character development. Couldn't put the fucker down.
>Reading
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. It's alright, nothing too surprising.
>Going to read
The 50th Law, by Robert Greene and 50 Cent

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:07:36 2013 No.3847188 >Read The Plague by Camus >Reading The Drunkard's Walk by Mlodinow >Going to Read Wittgenstein's Poker by Edmonds and Eidinow

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:26:36 2013 No.3847215 >Read Siren's of Titan - first Vunnegut book I've read. I was pleasantly surprised. >Reading Use of Weapons and Myth of Sisyphus. >Going to Read The Plague and then go back to alternating Vunnegut and Culture books until I'm finished with both.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:30:36 2013 No.3847221 >Read Voyage au bout de la nuit >Reading >>Listening The Jennifer Morgue >>Reading The Man in the High Castle >Gonna read Most likely The Wasp Factory or Inversions. Then Look to Windward, Feersum Endjinn and The Business. RIP Banks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:38:36 2013 No.3847232 >>3847158 >The 50th Law, by Robert Greene and 50 Cent lmao

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:47:37 2013 No.3847238

>>3844233
>Read
Atlas Shrugged. Although I don't agree with Rand's ideology in general, the book was easily atleast a 8/10.
>Reading
1984 by George Orwell, it's easily on the best books I've read in a long time.
>Going to read
The Hobbit. by J.R.R Tolkien.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:49:37 2013 No.3847239 >>3845682 Do you feel you're special yet everyone refuses to recognize your greatness, thus your potential is slighted and the world is slightly worse off for it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:50:36 2013 No.3847240 File: 115 KB, 569x317, 1358702685840.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >all this plebian taste

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:50:36 2013 No.3847241 File: 115 KB, 475x599, The_Scream.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw everyone's reading Ayn Rand novels and liking it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:52:37 2013 No.3847243 >>3847241 Shikata ga nai.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:54:37 2013 No.3847247 File: 154 KB, 1366x768, cosmos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3847243 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:56:36 2013 No.3847248 File: 52 KB, 254x253, 1371083698564.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3847240

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:57:36 2013 No.3847249 >>3846625 Go with Dalloway next, if you pick Woolf. After reading Ulysses, you'll be in the right mindset.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:57:36 2013 No.3847250 >>3847241 What's wrong with her novel? Sure, Ayn Rand isn't known to be a good human being, but her novels are great. Not trying to start a flame war or anything, just genuinely interested.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:59:36 2013 No.3847253 >>3847250 I think the people who are convinced of her idiocy are also convinced that said idiocy made its way into her fiction.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 22:59:36 2013 No.3847254 >>3847250 It's a joke, like the /lit/ Rule. Don't take it so serious.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:00:36 2013 No.3847255 >>3847253 People worshiping her books r funnay. poke poke

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:16:36 2013 No.3847264 >>3844233 >Reading Brave New World >Going to Read The Brothers Karamazov So excited!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:17:36 2013 No.3847268 >>3847264 Welcome to /lit/ my friend.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:19:36 2013 No.3847271 >Read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller >Reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernst Hemingway >Going to Read Not sure

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:21:36 2013 No.3847273 >>3847268 Thank you! How did you know I was new here?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:25:36 2013 No.3847280 >>3847273 I have my ways

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:29:36 2013 No.3847285

>>3846689
>Catch-22. Not sure how to feel about this. I feel ambivalent, but maybe some kind-anon will convince me of its greatness.

Sounds like you're still towards the beginning where things jump around a lot. I felt the same way but keep reading. It's worth it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:31:36 2013 No.3847290 >>3847280 Well you have successfully impressed me. Anything I should know about this board?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:32:36 2013 No.3847291 >>3847290 People here all read the same shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:36:37 2013 No.3847297 >>3847291 Ha yes, I assume Brothers Karamazov is one such book. Well I hope after I read some "must" reads I can provide this board with lesser known titles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:47:37 2013 No.3847329 >>3847248 That kid is gifted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 23:49:37 2013 No.3847331 >>3847297 I PERSONALLY ONLY READ PRE-1950, TO KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:06:36 2013 No.3847362 >Read White Noise >Reading Narcissus and Goldmund, A Game of Thrones >Next Read Either Siddhartha or Ecce Homo. Can't tell yet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:09:36 2013 No.3847369 >read slaughter house V >reading 451 >going to read brave new world, a clockwork orange, and invisable man. im new to /lit/ are there any great books that aren't covered in the sticky or always talked about, something i might miss??

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:18:36 2013 No.3847388 >>3844233 >Read Slaughter House 5 Did not enjoy my time reading it at all, did not enjoy it. >Reading Slow Learner >Going to Read Gravity's Rainbow, maybe Brave New World at the same time too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:37:36 2013 No.3847407 >Read Alice in wonderland (almost made me cry) >Reading little women (nitsche's favourite book) >Going to read The Idiot

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:43:36 2013 No.3847412 >>3847407 SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST EH?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:47:36 2013 No.3847414 >Read The Crying of Lot 49 >Reading Notes From Underground >Going to Read Crime and Punishment/Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:50:37 2013 No.3847417 >>3847414 Shit, how could I forget Steppenwolf under Read? Went through both of those books within two weeks of each other. I am not a fast reader by any measure.

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:50:37 2013 No.3847418

>Read
A Thousand Splendid Suns. Really enjoyed it.
>Reading
Things Fall Apart. Besides Cry, the Beloved Country, I haven't read any African literature, so it's an interesting book to read.
>Going to read
Kafka on the Shore. It's kind of my introduction to contemporary Japanese literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 00:55:36 2013 No.3847424 >>3847418 Read Dance Dance Dance or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle afterward. Although I haven't read the latter I've heard good things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 01:15:36 2013 No.3847445 LAST: THE IMMORALIST - GIDE CURRENT: THE MYSTERY OF EDWARD DROOD - DICKENS APE AND ESSENCE - HUXLEY NEXT: GUADALCANAL DIARY - TREGASKIS

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 01:29:36 2013 No.3847456 Read: The Republic Reading: Walden Going to read: King Lear, Peter Pan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 01:30:36 2013 No.3847458 >>3847388 The ending of Brave New World still gives me chills to read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 01:34:36 2013 No.3847463 >>3846689 Catch-22 is hilarious. But it's not one of my favorites by any means. It wasn't particuliarly enjoyable though, but by the end you'll have satire drilled into your brain.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 02:07:36 2013 No.3847491 Read: The Rum Diary Reading: High Fidelity Going to Read: A Farewell to Arms

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 02:43:37 2013 No.3847515 >>3844233 The old man and the sea, a moveable feast and one hundred years of solitude. Probably read some more Hemingway later ... Eh am I the only one who didn't bother reading him and then got mind blown?

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 02:53:36 2013 No.3847524

>Read: The Heart of a Dog, Bulgakov.
Wonderful, liked 'The White Guard' even more.
>Reading: War and Peace, Tolstoy.
First 100 pages were a chore, but starting to get really involved now.
>Going to read: Not sure, perhaps give Russian lit a break and go for something totally different. Cormac McCarthy perhaps, as I've only read Blood Meridian and enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:19:37 2013 No.3847556 >Read Summa Contra Gentiles Book I >Reading >A Game of Thrones Summa contra Gentiles Book II >Going to Read Summa contra Gentiles Book III

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:27:36 2013 No.3847567 >>3844233 >Read Anthony: The horse, the wheel and language >Reading Sophocles: Oedipus the King >Going to Read Plato

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:27:36 2013 No.3847568 >>3847556 God speed

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:30:36 2013 No.3847571 Read Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot Currently Rereading The Sauna and the Furries Next to Read: Journey to the End of Night

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:30:36 2013 No.3847572

>Read
Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Very surreal in how every bit of scifi ever in every medium since has ripped it off a lot - it seems really by-the-numbers now, when matter of fact it's the original painting everyone else just fills in. Great prose, rather flat characters, some really cool setpieces. And Gibson's nonsensical cyberspace is still much cooler than most more plausible kinds.

>Reading
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross. Robot courtesan-turned-courier has adventures through space a few hundred years' after mankind has gone extinct and all that's left is their erstwhile mechanical servants. Pretty good so far, some interesting as fuck descriptions and ideas, and some really hot bits (as expected with a protagonist like that). But first person present tense is always a little bit of a downer.

>Going to Read
Les Miserables. I think a break from SF would be nice, plus I've read it abridged, seen the musical, and referenced it a lot in my current writing, so I think it's high time I got to grips with the real thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 03:36:40 2013 No.3847582 >>3847572 Wait for some snob to say not the real thing unless read in French

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 08:28:37 2013 No.3847908 >Read Hashish by Henry de Monfreid >Reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson >Going to read The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 08:34:38 2013 No.3847911 >Read Animal Farm (I put off reading it for a long time) >Reading Lolita (same as above, I guess) >Going to Read Crime and punishment. Picked up a nice hard copy the other week. Going to start ASOIAF at some point.

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 08:49:38 2013 No.3847929

>Read
The last book I read was The Aeneid by Virgil

>Reading
I'm currently deciding whether I should read the second volume of Les Misérables to finally be done with the book, or to read Kafka on the Shore which I got as a gift

>Going to Read
See above

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:10:38 2013 No.3847957

>Read
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - I was in Savannah so I thought I best. Enjoyed it.

>Reading
Red Mars - Started off very enjoyable, but i'm finding it hard to get through now. Keep just tuning off and having to go back and reread sections

>Going to read
Either 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' or 'High Fidelity' - which does lit recommend?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:18:38 2013 No.3847968 I don't read to many books. But I'm currently reading Nightshade. Almost done with it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:20:37 2013 No.3847976 >read Slapstick, idc what my teacher said, I enjoyed the prose. >Reading The Story of B... weird transition I know, but still. >Going to Read Hocus Pocus, Vonnegut again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:43:37 2013 No.3848007 >Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. bretty good. >Reading (Almost finished) Ulysses, hubba bubba I see why it has such a reputation, I think I prefer Portrait and Dubliners. >Going to Read Lord of the Flies I think.

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:44:37 2013 No.3848008

>LAST
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato
Oresteia - Aeschylus
>NOW
The Passion According to G. H. - Clarice Lispector
>NEXT
The Enormous Room - e. e. cummings
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The Satyricon - Petronius

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:45:37 2013 No.3848010 File: 57 KB, 576x960, the moss.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3847572 >Referencing a work you have not read

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:46:37 2013 No.3848012 >>3848007 Dubliners is infinitely better from a readability standpoint, but I don't think Joyce had readability in his head when he went to work on Ulysses.

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 09:52:38 2013 No.3848024

>Read
Last book i finished was band Of Brothers. First book i read in over a year.

>Reading
The Fellowship Of the Ring, Senna Versus Prost

>Going to Read
Frank Herbert's Dune series after i finish the LOTR trilogy. What's everyone's opinion on it? I liked the games, which is why i chose it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 10:20:38 2013 No.3848075 >last read lolita >reading stoner & omensetters luck, plus some short stories here and there >next to read I just got Heart of Darkness and A Day in the Life if Ivan Denisovich

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 12:28:37 2013 No.3848257 >Read The Great Gatsby >Reading LOTR: The two towers Micromotives and macrobehavior >Going to Read Slaughterhouse 5 or F451 or Do androids...? and probably some other Econ.-related book

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 12:28:37 2013 No.3848258

>read
watchmen, loved the different narratives and all that noise, ending was whack though
8.5/10

>just finished reading like ten minutes ago
the old man and the sea, fucking manliness incarnate, first hemingway too
9.5/10

>Going To Read
Blood Meridian or some more phillip k dick

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 13:22:37 2013 No.3848383 >>3844363 How did you like Micromegas? I liked it a lot, despite its brevity.

Anonymous Thu Jun 13 15:16:38 2013 No.3848677

>>3847239
No, my qualities and skills are being well approved and paid for and this book is helping me to become even better.

I dont live in a small and sad world thinking that everyone is worthless, in fact, my favourite thing to do is to learn from the others.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 16:03:38 2013 No.3848758 >read Parade's End - FMF >reading Wolf Solent - Powys Frost - Bernhard >going to read The Hero of Ages - Sanderson

Anonymous Fri Jun 14 01:41:37 2013 No.3850126

Read: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Reading: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Going to Read: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

Was reading Good Omens as a light-hearted cool-down after finishing Brothers Karamazov a couple days ago. I loved it. I love Dostoyevsky. I'm only 50 pages into Infinite Jest and I'm not sure what I think yet. Hopefully I'll get a lot of reading done tomorrow. I will add Notes From Underground to my list now that a couple of you guys mentioned it.

Sorry for not quoting anyone, im too high to make a good post. But I really love books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 14 01:45:37 2013 No.3850134 >Read Of Mice and Men, my feels ;_; >Reading The Great Gatsby because I enjoyed the movie >Going to Read not really sure, probably Korea's Place in the Sun for an oral exam in my A-levels

Anonymous Fri Jun 14 01:50:37 2013 No.3850143

>>3850134
If you liked Of Mice and Men, please read To a God Unknown by Steinbeck. People only ever read the trifecta of Grapes of Wrath/East of Eden/Mice and Men, and they ignore every other Steinbeck book. To a God Unknown is just as feels as Mice and Men, but so much better. Also read Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat, two of Steinbeck's funniest novels. The Moon is Down is very good also, and not set in America. The Red Pony is some great shorter fiction. Travels with Charley is a very fun autobiography. Basically I love Steinbeck. You should read Steinbeck.

Anonymous Fri Jun 14 01:52:38 2013 No.3850152

>>3850143
thanks, I will look into him but not right now as I'm trying to broaden my horizon reading many different authors for now. read Kafka before Steinbeck, and Irving before that, and Orwell - basically I'm reading all over the place. when I come back to Steinbeck I'll consider your advice though.

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