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LAST THREE
CURRENTLY READING
NEXT THREE

LAST THREE:
THE MAIMED - UNGAR

A SOCIALLY INEPT CLERK IS DOMINATED BY HIS LANDLADY TO SERVICING HER SEXUAL DESIRES WHILE HIS LIFELONG FRIEND SLOWLY WITHERS AWAY PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY BY A FATAL DISEASE. PSYCHOLOGICALLY DRIVEN, AN AMAZING NOVELLA THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

POETICS - ARISTOTLE

ARISTOTLE BOSSING ON THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF GREEK DRAMA. AMAZING HOW MUCH THIS MUST HAVE BEEN OF INFLUENCE OF THE PERFORMED ARTS EVEN UNTIL PRESENT

TODAY I WROTE NOTHING - KHARMS

PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE ABSURDIST WORK YET READ. WHAT A BLAST. INTENSE, UNREAL, AND UNRELENTING. HILARIOUS.

ENJOY WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE IRANMAN'S REVIEW. HEARTBREAKING AFTER ALL THAT WAITING

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21110592-mohammed-tajikistan

CURRENT:
THE HIGH WINDOW - CHANDLER
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU - TOLSTOY

NEXT THREE:
THE GLASS KEY - HAMMETT
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS - NIETZSCHE
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE - LAXNESS

>> No.3924435

FOR THOSE TOO LAZY TO FOLLOW THE LINK:

Hello. I am Iranian, sorry for poor spelling it is not my first-language.
Holy fucking shit I waited for this book for so long, camels have died of thirst in lesser time. Mr Kharms is a very odd and strange man, not like the man I thought he would be when I first heard about this book then saw the cover. I thought he would be a writer who would appeal to lonely young bachelors like myself and fill the hole in my heart created by my lack of a virgin desert bride. Do not read this book, it will leave you only unhappy and much confused. I read mine through slitted eyes with the harsh Iranian sun glaring the screen on the library's Acorn computer, this made me have headaches and long-time corneal damage, all for nothing! Mr Kharms may you burn in hell, and may those who chastized me for wanting so badly this book burn alongside him

>> No.3924443

>Vineland, Trail and Death of Socrates, Infinite Jest

>Oxford Companion to WWII

>idk maybe I'll finish my huge ass dictionary

>> No.3924478

>Last Three
Queer - William S Burroughs
Ulysses - James Joyce
Henry V - Shakespeare

>Currently
Crime and Punishment

>Next three
Life: A User's Manusl - Perec
El aleph - Borges
The Aeneid - Virgil

>> No.3924525

>>3924435
Haha what the fuck? This has to be fake

>> No.3924531

>>3924435
IRAN MAN YOU ARE BACK!

>> No.3925053

>>3924478
Queer is my favorite Burroughs.

>> No.3925323

Bump

>> No.3925327

>>3924478
I like you. Perec's Life seems really interesting.

>> No.3925335

>Last Three
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

>Current
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol

>Next Three
Pale Fire - Vladmir Nabokov
Murphy - Samuel Beckett
Dubliners (again) - James Joyce

>> No.3925352

>>3924435
OMG I somehow expect that's someone from /lit/ making a joke. But still a hilarious joke.

BTW Capsguy I remember you posting on Goodreads that you were going to stop reading to focus on other things in your life or something? How come you changed your mind?

>> No.3925361

>>3924430
>Last Three
She comes first
Rich Dad's Investing like the Rich
Crime and Punishment

>Current
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State

>Next
>3919917

>> No.3925374
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3925374

Been on somewhat of a Satanic kick as of late...

>LAST THREE
"The Monk" by Lewis
"The Quest Of The Holy Grail" by Anonymous/Unknown
"The Damned (La-Bas)" by Huysmans

>CURRENT
"The Italian" by Ann Radcliffe

>NEXT THREE
"The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe
"Looking Back: 2000 - 1887" by Edward Bellamy
"The Lady In White" Wilkie Collins

>> No.3925382

>>3925374
>shing

>> No.3925384

>>3925361
you and I would not get along

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>>3925382
Y-YOU TOO...

?

>> No.3925413

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
The Psychic Soviet
The Izu Dancer and other Stories

still crawling ahead with Life and Fate
Grimm's Tales

next: submit your suggestions, dear reader

>> No.3925415
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tan lin - ambience is a novel with a logo
tan lin - seven controlled vocabularies and obituary 2004. the joy of cooking: [airport novel musical poem painting film photo hallucination landscape]
daumal - a night of serious drinking

daumal - a fundamental experiment

akutagawa - a fool's life
diary of vaslav nijinsky
idk but im looking for more of the whole vaporwave-esque 'corporate/generic' aesthetic in literature like tan lins stuff but i might just read his other books

>> No.3925429

>>3925415
The Possibility of an Island
Good Solider Svejk
Tarr

proto-vaporwave

>> No.3925430

>>3925413
you should read The Third Policeman.

How'd you like Jeff in Venice? I saw it after I read Death in Venice and wasn't sure if I'd like it or not.

>> No.3925432

>>3925415
>>3925429
>vaporwave-esque 'corporate/generic' aesthetic in literature

tell me more

>> No.3925446

>>3925429
i don't know if i'd be interested in reading anything else by houllebecq but the other two look interesting, though what i'm looking for really could only be done in the 21st (or at least late 20th) century
>>3925432
tan lin's seven controlled vocabularies is all i know of
>How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? Seven Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of field guide to the arts, wherein distinctions between various aesthetic disciplines are relaxed or dissolved and where avant-garde notions of difficulty are replaced with more relaxing and ambient formats such as yoga, disco, and meditation. Each of the book’s seven sections is devoted to a particular art form—film, photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, and theory—and includes both text and found photographs as it explores the idea of what it means to be a book in an era when reading is disappearing into a diverse array of cultural products, media formats, and aesthetic practices. Seven Controlled Vocabularies will be available in a variety of print and electronic book delivery systems and formats.

>> No.3925502

>>3925352
Time allocation my friend

Also love reading and after almost half a year felt the urge to return to reading.

>> No.3925574

>don't lurk /lit/ for half a year
>come back
>capsguy on front thread

nostalgia tears

>> No.3925597

>>3925574
Stay

>> No.3925755

LAST THREE:

>Edward Abbey - Abbey's Road

A collection of travel stories and essays that deal primarily with ecology, green anarchism, and human nature.

>Barry Goldwater - The Conscience Of A Conservative

The fundamental text for American Conservatism. I've been trying to learn more about philosophies that I disagree with, so this was a good place to start.

>Stephen Crane - The Red Badge Of Courage

A young Northerner enlists in the Civil War and confronts his own cowardice, notion of heroism, and Confederates on the field of battle.

CURRENTLY READING:

>J.R.R. Tolkein - The Return Of The King

Yins know what this is about. I'm noticing a prominent environmentalist/luddite theme, but that might just be because I've been reading a ton of green anarchist/deep ecology literature.

NEXT THREE:

I'm not sure, so I'll take recommendations from the unread books I have.

>James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
>Homer - The Odyssey
>Jack London - Stories Of Adventure
>Jules Verne - Around The World In 80 Days
>Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
>Herman Melville - Moby Dick
>Miguel Cervantes - Don Quixote
>Leo Tolstoy - War And Peace
>Anton Chekhov - The Works Of Chekhov (it's a collection of everything he wrote)

The last three were stolen from a decorative bookshelf, so they're laid out in awful type with columns and the translations probably aren't the best.

>> No.3925783

>>3925755
Pretty solid list of classics you got coming up

Enjoy

>> No.3925789

>>3925783
Where should I start?

>> No.3925810
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>>3924430
>Currently reading
Zizek-Mapping Idealogy
Kaiku-Hyperspace
Lacan-Psychonalaytic Theory and Practice

This comes after a relatively long time of not reading much of anything so I can't really recall my last three. Also
>my face when these fucking books man

>> No.3925820

>>3925789
The Iliad if you haven't already read it, the. the Odyssey

>> No.3925845

>>3924478
Life a User's Manual is great. The way he juxtaposes so many lives and events at once is absolutely stunning and at the same time complex. I hope you like it.

>> No.3925854

>Last
Sun Also Rises
V.
The Prim of Miss Jean Brodie
>Now
Slaughterhouse 5
>Next
Much Ado About Nothing
Catch-22
Heart of Darkness

>> No.3925857

>>3925854
Catch-22 is my favorite novel. Enjoy it.

>> No.3925943

>>3925857
Don't tell him what to do

>> No.3925972

>LAST THREE
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast Of Champions
Pnin

>CURRENTLY READING
The Plague

>NEXT THREE
The Fall
Exile And The Kingdom
The Myth Of Sisyphus.

>> No.3925983

>>3925943

Don't tell him what not to do.

>> No.3925985

>>3925943
i do wat i wnt btch now step off b4 i crak a brik x yr teef

>> No.3926040

>>3925985
Come at me

>> No.3926046

>Last Three
Justine (Marquis)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote)
Lolita (Nabokov)

>Currently
Juliette (Marquis)

>Next three
Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Saramago)
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Cien años de soledad (García Marquez)

>> No.3926174

LAST THREE:

TODAY I WROTE NOTHING - KHARMS
THE HIGH WINDOW - CHANDLER
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU - TOLSTOY

CURRENT:
THE GLASS KEY - HAMMETT

NEXT THREE:
ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS - NIETZSCHE
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE - LAXNESS
THE SONG OF ROLAND - ANONYMOUS

>> No.3926748

>>3926174
God damn you must have so much free time

>> No.3926805

WE ARE ALL IRANMAN

>> No.3926820

>>3925384
Why?

She comes first is a sex book. I didn't read it for literary value.
Rich Dad's book is good for opening your mind. Kiyosaki is probably a crook, but he has good ideas.
Crime and Punishment is wonderful; I love dostoevsky's writing style.

After liberalism is an interesting look at the attempt to change national culture. Even if you don't agree with it's claims, it's an enlightening book.

>> No.3926844

>>3926174
Tell me how The Song of Roland is when you finish (I'm sure you'll tell everyone in all caps anyways but still)

>> No.3926848

alright let's see

>last read
portrait of the artist
last exit to brooklyn
gatsby

>currently reading
neuromancer

god I'm roadblocked on neuromancer. I'm so disinterested I can only stomach it at single chapter intervals. I'm not even sure why it hasn't clicked with me. hell, I read portrait after I had already started neuromancer, as a sort of chaser and I finished that instead of going back.
thinking the trial next and/or the wind-up bird chronicle.

>> No.3926859

> Last three
The Road
Fahrenheit 451
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

> Currently reading
The Iliad

> Next three
State of Wonder
Cloud Atlas
Wolf Hall

>> No.3926865

>Read
Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
Borges - Labryinthes

>Reading
Bronte - Jane Eyre

>Will Read
???
Maybe try Flaubert in French to brush up my high school FSL.

>> No.3926909

>>3926844
Sure

>> No.3928211

Bump

>> No.3929206

>Last three
LOTR trilogy
The Art of War
Siddhartha

>Currently
The Aeneid
Crime and Punishment

>Next three
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Haven't decided yet

>> No.3929213

I recently finished The Song of Roland and found it hasn't aged well with time.

Perhaps the translation?

Why do I even bother reading translated poetry

>> No.3929216

>>3929213

I told you about poetry in translation bruh, I told you.
I guess it's a lesson you have to learn for yourself.

>> No.3929230

>>3929216
I'm struggling through Independent People too. Pretty bleak but the prose is too plain for my liking. It goes well with the type of novel, but I can't help but love my digressions and philosophical arguments or at least monologues in my reads.

NEXT THREE
BRIGHTON ROCK - GREENE
FOAM OF THE DAZE - VIAN
TOBACCO ROAD - CALDWELL

some interesting reads that i am looking forward to. Having read nothing by Caldwell and Vian yet, and Greene being a solid author that I enjoy from time to time, will make for some good reading

>> No.3929269

>>3929230
Good

>> No.3929270

>Last Three
- Swan Song
- Grundish and Askew
- The Stan

>Currently Reading
- Oliver Twist
- The Golden Age

>Next Three
- Probably some Dickens
- Ivanhoe
- The People of the Mist

>> No.3929277

>>3929270
Don't bother with The People of the Mist

>> No.3929308

>Last Three
The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
How They Were Found - Matt Bell
Memories of my Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>Currently Reading
Blow Up: and Other Stories - Julio Cortazar

>Next Three
The Blind Owl - Hedayat, Sadegh
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo

>> No.3929329

>>3929308

What did you make of the end of El Tunel.
Was the blind dude just a beta cuck?

>> No.3929344

>>3929329
Beta to the max

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>LAST THREE

Dubliners - James Joyce
Youth - J.M. Coetzee
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

>CURRENTLY READING

Rust and Bone - Craig Davidson

>NEXT UP POSSIBLY

The Player of Games - Banks
probably something from Japan
maybe Virginia Woolf
Maybe some more short stories