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Hi guyz wot R U reading

>> No.3895064

i dont read

>> No.3895067

ur post lol

>> No.3895068
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>> No.3895091

Dubliners. About half-way through. At first I found the stories to be almost devoid of philosophy, the ignorant person I am. But I realised the significance of each story as I continued reading them; and I'm finding them to be quite emotionally strirring.

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XXXDDD

>> No.3895125

"The Italian" Ann Radcliffe.

>> No.3895131

>>3895067
oh god why did I laugh at this, why

>> No.3895136

>>3895099
What university are you at?

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Loving it.

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exactly 50% through. great so far

>> No.3895170

a clash of kings

>> No.3895198

gatsby for the first time

>> No.3895208
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At the behest of Joe Rogan. One of the most interesting and amazing books I've read.

>> No.3895212

Lolita
lots of reading induced boners

>> No.3895214

lucretius de rerum natura still, lucretius reminds me of guwop in more ways than one

>> No.3895221

Titus Groan. Only halfway through and I'd already go so far as to say it's one of my favorite books.

>> No.3895234

"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco. Only two chapters left until I finish it.
All novels by Umberto Eco make you feel more clever after you read them.

>> No.3895264

wat, was dis a toll thread?

>> No.3895269

>>3895264
nah it was free.

>> No.3895303
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I am in a very lazy mood and have been reading work that did not require a lot of interpretation. Then I picked up this.

>> No.3895317

>>3895264
>wat, was dis a toll thread?
No.

>> No.3895318
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Recently started Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.3895377

>Albert Camus - The Rebel
been reading it for a while, loving it, but mother of god is it dense -- I've been reading it on and off for about a month now.
>Franz Kafka - The Castle
started about a week ago, my favorite Kafka thus far.
>William Manchester - A World Lit by Fire
have to read it for a course I'm taking next year. turning up to become one of the worst books I've ever read. the writing style doesn't even begin to hit a sweet spot between entry-level history writing and expert history writing, it sort of waffles from random event to event with incoherent witticisms and transitions. there's no sense of planning, and the author even admits in the preface that he just wrote it without planning. also, there's the countless instances of anti-factual buffoonery; such as when he claims that the medieval peasant had no 'ego' -- such a lack of regard for their own self that in the summertime, they went about naked.

>> No.3895386

Reading The Brief And Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Wanted to try out some contemp lot and was curious about the hype. Seems very YA thus far

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And dear god is it underwhelming. Pure penny dreadful.

>> No.3895408

Sculping in Time
Atlas Shrugged
White Nights
A Dance With Dragons

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>>3895264

>> No.3895417

Just finished Remains of the Day

meh. It was OK. Ishiguro isn't my deal, I guess.

Starting Mason & Dixon. What the fuck am I reading

>> No.3895418

Just finished El Zarco by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Now what should I read? hmmmm

>> No.3895450

The Recognitions. Only took 4 months from initial order to arrive

>> No.3895474

>>3895055
Pale Fire by Nabokov and Dubliners by Joyce

>> No.3895511

>>3895386

Dude, stop reading. Pick another book.

You are wasting your time. It goes downhill pretty fast. That's one of the worst books I have read.

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Loved Jesus' Son and Train Dreams, so I figured I'll read his longest work.


Not too bad so far. Johnson may be at his best with short stories, however...

>> No.3895544

'Reason Within the Bounds of Religion', by various authors.

>> No.3895552

Karl Marx's Das Kapital. I cannot stand the way Marx, or any revolutionary, for that matter, writes, but suppose I must read it at some point for its significance.

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>> No.3895575

Almost finished with Stranger in a Strange Land.

>> No.3895577

To The Lighthouse

>> No.3895585

>>3895408
>Atlas Shrugged
How's that going? I like the aesthetic behind Bioshock. I wonder if there is something of merit Atlas Shrugged.

>> No.3895595

>>3895585
Atlas Shrugged, along with all of Ayn Rand is wooden as hell. It's important to note that Bioshock directly parodies that book. It takes it to it's logical conclusion, which is highly negative overall. Nevertheless, if you have the time and inclination, I'd suggest giving it a read. Better angry than informed, then angry and ignorant.

>> No.3895600

>>3895055
I'm making my way through The Transition of Titus Crow and looking for more Cthulhu-based fiction. Any recommendations? (I've read all Lovecraft)

>> No.3895623

I just finished a Storm of Swords
Holy shit that epilogue send shivers down my spine

>> No.3895680

>>3895511

This guy doesn't know shit

>> No.3895687

>>3895067
I laughed

>> No.3895712

>>3895303
reading this, the fourth book is fucking me up, its becoming a full-blown chore to power through to the end

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Wanderers of Time and Forge of Darkness

>> No.3895794

As I lay dying

I feel like at some points it exudes a believable "southerner's wisdom" while at other points faulkner is clearly trying too hard by shoving grossly simplified philosophy into sockpuppets as a writting exercise

Overall a tedious but p cool read so far

>> No.3895820

The Scarlet Letter

I'm still in the Custom-House, but I like it so far

>> No.3896178

The Sun Also Rises by that one guy.

Followed by, in no strict order or perhaps all at once:

Candide (again)
Moby Dick
And Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, 'cause I love me some dragons.

>> No.3896196

moravagine

>> No.3896214

>>3895055
I was reading poetry right before I read your post. Palgraves Golden Treasury (1st to 5th volumes I believe). Recently before I was reading C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower.

>> No.3896229

reading the magus by john fowles

and reading l'etranger in french in the off time

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Gotta get better at life

>> No.3896263

Catch 22 but I think I'm going to skip it and read >>3896250

>> No.3896267

just finished book 2 of 'the wheel of time' (which is why i'm still awake, 2 hours after i went to bed with the final ten chapters!)

>> No.3896269

>>3896250
you mean, "how to look like a yes-man to everyone you meet"?

>> No.3896270

>>3896269
r9k pls
everyone likes a yesman

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autobiography of gandhi

>> No.3897518

Malazan Book Of The Fallen!

>> No.3897582

Infinite Jest.

Because Wimbledon is on. I like it. Confusing at the beginning, but now everything is becoming linear after the grief consular session chapters. Is Hal a self insert for Wallace? It does feel like it sometimes.

>> No.3897587

>>3896311
or how I used abstract moralism to fuck bitches and avoid working

>> No.3897606

>>3895221

I loved Titus Groan. Steerpike is one of my favourite characters in literature.

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>> No.3897870

Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'

really good so far, love the prose, the style is interesting.

Canterbury Tales in Middle English

Wonderful language, and good storytelling.

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The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament, Robert Sapolsky.

>> No.3897911

>>3897891
Drop us a link.

I love Sapolsky.

>> No.3897915

>>3896269
Did you even read it?

The book is more about being a "bro" rather than a "yes-man", to use the parlance of our times.

>> No.3897917

>>3897911

I love him too. What's so great about him is that you really learn a lot from reading him, and it's incredibly fascinating and funny at the same time. I don't have a link, sorry.

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Surprisingly fun

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Depression gets in the way of me wanting to read much, but I started reading George Orwell's 1984 after hearing about the NSA spying. I figured that it was relevant and talked about a lot in popular culture. I've read the first six chapters. I like it so far.

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Just finished the Man in the High Castle. I loved it.

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(re-)reading The Claim of Reason and I forgot how intensely you have to engage with this book otherwise everything flies over your head. Kind of like the Investigations on steroids.

>> No.3898633

>>3897941
Same bro, how much did you fucking hate Juliana?

>> No.3898676

>>3895377
I too must read A World Lit by Fire for a course.

Is it really that bad?

>> No.3898688

>>3895595
So are you saying it's a bad book? Because I'm 50 pages in and have been enjoying it thus far.

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I'm enjoying more and more as I'm getting used to the strange style in which it's written. I feel like its really building toward quite a profound message, and am pretty excited to read on.

>> No.3898714

>>3895569
sooo gooooodddd
>>3895068
on my list


I'm reading So Long and Thanks for all the fish. Next is either Lolita, Rama II, or Brave New World

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It's like The Golden Girls meets Alice in Wonderland. It's keeping me entertained

>> No.3898723

>>3898697
Kesey, and this book in specific, are very much misprised. I'm glad to see someone else reading this novel. It's one of my all-time favorites.

>> No.3898736

>>3898676
hold on, lemme go dig some quotes out of it

>> No.3898744

>>3898723
yeah he's definitely one of the finest writers of the last fifty years and definitely had some balls writing the way he did. Unfortunately he didn't subscribe to ironic, postmodernist garbage so he hasn't quite gotten the praise he deserves in this age.

>> No.3898758

>>3897582

Not exactly. Theres a little bit of wallace in a few characters

>> No.3898761

>>3898676
"The most baffling, elusive, yet in many ways the most significant dimensions of the medieval mind were invisible and silent. One was the medieval man's total lack of ego.
[...]
"Among the implications of this lack of selfhood was an almost total indifference to privacy. In summertime peasants went about naked."

[After talking about the torture methods of Torquemada]
"Jewry was luckier -- slightly luckier -- than blacks. If the pogroms of the time are less infamous than the Holocaust, it is only because anti-Semites then lacked twentieth-century technology. Certainly they possessed the evil will."

=====

those are the best ones I have so far, I'm only about 60 pages in

>> No.3898764

What do you guys think of the macro if I do this thread in a few weeks again? Should I change it or are you fine with this one?

>> No.3898768

>>3898761
So what does the author just jump around a lot?

>> No.3898769

>>3897941
>>3898633
May I ask you what about this book you loved?

The only thing I got out of it was that the outcome of the war would be negative no matter what. It really fell flat plot-wise.

>> No.3898782

>>3898768
yeah. it's just a drag in style and organization. You really just have to read it for yourself. It pains me a lot more reading it alongside the Camus book; he's the prince of namedropping, yet he always makes sure the people he mentions are relevant, and his prose is very straightforward compared to Manchester. Camus' history of rebellion is thoroughly engaging. Manchester's style is so ill-managed, it's hard to get enjoyment out of.

>> No.3898786

>>3898782
Oh okay I see what you're saying.

>> No.3898790

Ending the night with The Meditations by Aurelius.

>> No.3898791

Red Mars
Generation Kil

>> No.3898973

>>3895055
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

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I like it

>> No.3899310

Tonight I'm reading:

>re-reading Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism (3/4ths finished)
>finishing The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
>Kierkegaard's Johannes Climacus
and if time permits (it wont),
>Kierkegaard's The Present Age

I'm loving all this free summer-time.

>> No.3899343

The Way Between the Worlds

>> No.3899348
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Long as fuck

>> No.3899366

Ulysses.

Just finished the "Sirens" episode, which is definitely my favorite thus far.

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The Tale of Genji

>> No.3899396

The Portrait of a Lady

>> No.3899405

Blood Meridian - started today and just put it down for the first time. Just started Chapter 9... book is fantastic. The only thing I don't like is all the "old west/mexican" terms for plants/horse gear, etc... I'm really digging this book though... love the violence. It's like I am watching the Wild Bunch on steroids, in my head.

>> No.3899408

>>3899405
my favourite book, I can say that with confidence.

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>>3895055
The Moral Animal

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>> No.3899425

>>3899405
just finished it. incredible. the antiquated language is a bit annoying (only bothered to look up some definitions early on) but i don't think it was too much of a hindrance to the novel.

>> No.3899426

>>3895055
A Confederacy of Dunces.
can't read it in public because I laugh out loud.

>> No.3899429
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It's the best biography I've ever read.

>> No.3899432

>>3899429
Edgy.

>> No.3899433

>>3899432

Elaborate.

>> No.3899481

>>3899429
Man, these guys are really milking Bill's dead body for cash. I saw a (actually good) documentary about him last week, also made by Kevin Booth.

>> No.3899493

Oliver Twist, just started it.

>> No.3899509

>>3899481

Would that documentary be "American: The Bill Hicks Story"? AKA the only real, professionally produced Bill Hicks documentary made since IJAR came out in 1994?

Also, Kevin Booth made an incredibly small amount of money for the book and split what little he had made with Michael Bertin. The book has been out of print for 9 years now.

>> No.3899827

>>3895623
One of the things that wasn't spoiled for me. Just about about shat myself in amazement.

>> No.3899858

Les Misérables.
I'm finally past half-way through the book, I can't wait until I'm finished with it. I regret reading this book, it's too long and Hugo drags on about some subjects so fucking long. I don't want a complete biography of Louis-Philippe.

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>>3899858
This is the edition by the way, it's a Wordsworth Classic, the book is divided into two volumes.

>> No.3899968

The Pickwick Papers by Dickens

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The Once and Future King.

Just finished A Dance With Dragons and need more stupid medieval novel crack. Next is an overbearingly long history of Robert the Bruce to see if that knocks some sense into me and cures this mental addiction.

>> No.3899983

Brief interviews with hideous men.
It was on the /lit/ list and I like short stories, psychology crap and terrible people.
It sounded ideal.
I've only just started though.

>> No.3900055

>>3899366

Ulysses is a shit novel, very third rate.

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I'm only in the first chapter. Is this the best place to start With Nietzsche?

>> No.3900093

Notes from Underground

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historyfag reporting

>> No.3900169

How Few Remain

Next is either Fatherland or I begin tackling the Jane Austen collection

>> No.3900294

>>3900063
I think Thus Spoke is the typical starting place

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Don't you judge me.

>> No.3900347

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - very enjoyable for a genre fiction, probably the best spy novel ever.

Taming of the Shrew - a laugh out loud Shakespeare comedy.

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>French speaker here.

Le Rouge et le Noir.

>> No.3900928

>>3900829
Oh my, you must be like a god.

I mean, I'm french and speak english too, but you can speak TWO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES?

That's impossible..

>> No.3900930

On the road by Jack Kerouac, I'm like... I don't know. It's like reading a blog post from a guy in 30's who really likes eating pie.

>> No.3900939

>>3897870
>Canterbury Tales in Middle English

>Wonderful language, and good storytelling.


HAHAHAHAHA

>> No.3900946

>>3900829
Yes, I am reading the The Red and Black too. In Latvian though. How far are you?

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>>3897941

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getting hot'n'bothered about chemistry

>> No.3900956

Coming Apart: The State of White America

society is going to shit I tell you what

>> No.3900966

Can someone recommend me translations of Metamorphosis and C&P? Not read either yet and want to make sure I get a great first impression

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Really good read

>> No.3900994

>>3900299
>Judged for reading Abercrombie
>Noone criticized for reading Game of Scones
I sure hope not.

On topic, The Sun Also Rises, as well as some assorted poetry by Keats.

>> No.3901006

>>3900974

that's a great book m8

>> No.3901049

>>3900994
The only Abercrombie I've read is The Blade itself, but so far Martin is so much better than him it's not even funny.
Actually it is, because /lit/ always recommends Abercrombie over Martin for some reason.

>> No.3901074

Moby Dick, which is surprisingly a much more difficult book than I thought it would be. They really give this stuff to high school sophomores?

>> No.3901076

>>3897518
Half way through book 2. I'm blazin through way faster than I did for Game of Thrones

>> No.3901093

>>3901074
That's why americans are so smart in general.

>> No.3901175

>>3895055
Lolita and Tropic of Cancer

>> No.3903090

>>3895212
you're sick

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I just finished Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions a few minutes ago. For people with a basic understanding of mathematics it's not really mind bending, at least not in this day and age, but it's a great read nevertheless.

>> No.3904964

>>3903102
Read that myself a while ago. I love the part where he convinces the sphere that there must be more than just the 3rd dimension.

>> No.3904972

>>3901175
Damn, Miller´s a beast! I liked more Cancer than Capricorn

>> No.3905003

Just finished Storm of Steel which I enjoyed; however, I wanted to hear more about the development of Junger's nationalist ideology during WWI.

Currently reading 1493: Uncovering the World Columbus Created. Fascinating analysis of the Columbian exchange; so far he's brought up tobacco and malaria as huge factors in the development of the New World colonies.

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My friend gave this to me four years ago after losing a book I lent him. It sat in a pile of old books I've been meaning to read and a week ago I picked it up because I finished a few books from the stack in June when I finally had time to read.


It's incredible. I have about 50 pages left and I love this book so much. I don't know why I've never seen people talking about it on /lit/.

>> No.3906501

>>3901049
The Blade Itself is his worst work. Abercrombie gets better with time.

I think Martin is a better writer and MUCH better worldbuilder, but Abercrombie has him in the battle department (by a longshot) and has arguably better character development.

At least finish the first law, it's great.

>>3900299

That book is AWESOME.

>> No.3906690

>>3900966

welp, a bit of a late response here, but might as well; Joachim Neugel-something for The Metamorphosis, and Pevear and Volohonsky translation for any Dostoevsky.

>> No.3906693

>>3905365
It's been mentioned on /lit/ a couple times but yes, it does fly under the radar.

>> No.3906707

>>3906693
It's use to be the go to book for people who just read Jack Kerouac and wanted stories of drifters.

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>>3906707
forgot to say what I'm reading.

I'm re-reading Noah Cicero's entire bibliography. Poor working class slice of life is where it's at.

>> No.3906934

Dostoevsky - Notes from the Dead House.

>> No.3906939

>>3895145
>>3895068
>>3906934

Pleb

>> No.3906951

>>3895055
Lord of the flies.