/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5907886]

How was 2014 readingwise? what did you read this year?

[Anonymous No.5907929]

I didn't read shit, scrambling to finish some books before it ends.

[Anonymous No.5907942]

I read a bunch of Malazan, first few hundred pages of War and Peace, and a whole fuckload of comics.

I regret nothing.

[Anonymous No.5907951]

Read all the books of the New Sun. Read Fifth Head of Cerberus after that. Read a bunch of Camus (but not The Outsider) and a fuckload of Amazon Indie Military Sci-Fi (Marko Kloos, Chris Nuttall, Avan Currie) in preparation of entering my own cash-cow into the race in 2015. Last night I finished Confederacy of Dunces and now I'm starting on Stephen King's Revival as it was an xmas gift and people will get butthurt if I can't discuss it congenitally with them by NYE.

[Anonymous No.5908000]

11/22/63
1q84
old man and the sea
timequake
the corrections
gone girl
rabbit, run
anthem
this side of paradise
candide

[Anonymous No.5908016]

Anna Karenina
The Demons
Blood Meridian
Hunger
Pan
Stoner
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Cossacks
The Great Gatsby
Under Western Eyes
Dubliners

I feel like there's a dozen others Im forgetting, and a dozen more on top of that which I started and never finished

[Anonymous No.5908019]

>>5907886
Definitely cannot remember them all

Steppenwolf
Inherent Vice
Master and Margherita
The Oresteia
Frankenstein
Persuasion
Lyrical Ballads
Sons and Lovers
Martin Dressler
2666
Dr Faustus (Mann)
The Tunnel (Sabado)
Don Juan
Petersburg
Ficciones
10th of December
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
Titus Groan
Persist Street Station
Roadside Picnic
Tess of D'Urbervilles

There are more but idk

[Anonymous No.5908020]

>>5908016
Oh, Dispatches on top of that, which was amazing and severely under-discussed

[Anonymous No.5908068]

Liked: Flaubert, Nietzsche, Liddell, Schwartz, Bellow, Florio's Montaigne, Ariosto, Hume, Bloom's Plato commentary, Ovid, Woolf, Austen, Forster, Trilling, Saunders, Boorstin, Anderson, Berkeley

[Anonymous No.5908579]

>>5907886
2666
The savage detectives
By night in Chile
The Insufferable Gaucho
Monsieur Pain
Nazi Literature in the Americas
You shall know our velocity
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Pound and Yeats cabin
Pan- hamsun
Hunger- hamsun
Pigeon Feathers- Updike
Moby dick- Melville
Selected Lawarence
Birds beast and flowers, poems- Lawarence
Selected Rilke
Complete Sonnets Rilke
Selected Ginsberg
Complete Keats
Complete Dickinson
Complete Blake
The Burning Planes
Complete sonnets Borges
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich- Solzhenitsyn
A hero of our time
Factotum- Bukowski
The man in the high castle- dick
Short Stories- Kafka
Jitterbug Perfume- Robbins


These are all the one's I can remember at the moment, if I can't remember others I probably didn't enjoy them that much anyways. Any recs? Currently reading As I lay dying and loving it.

[Bucephalus No.5908778]

>>5908068

Fucking impressive

[Anonymous No.5909046]

>>5908068
Great job.

5 days to finish Lautréamont's poems and Gargantua, that'll do it.
Favourites : Locus Solus, every Krasznahorkai, Le Bleu du Ciel and The Blind Owl.

Also Number 5 for best chinese carton ever.

[Anonymous No.5909084]

>>5908068
You read 124 books in one year? Holy fuck.

[Anonymous No.5909138]

>Well, you know, that's how it crumbles--cookiewise, I mean.

[Anonymous No.5909152]

>>5909084
It's easy if you don't watch tv or play vidya

[Anonymous No.5909164]

>>5909046

>Favourites : Locus Solus, every Krasznahorkai, Le Bleu du Ciel and The Blind Owl.

cool taste brah

[Anonymous No.5909169]

Infinite Jest
The Sound and the Fury
The Stranger
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
House of Leaves
Fahrenheit 451
Easy of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Crime and Punishment
Macbeth
And I just started Don Quixote, I'm on chapter two I believe. Good year.

[Anonymous No.5909170]

Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch, Todos los Fuegos el Fuego, Bestiario, Stories of Cronopios and Famas
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Eduardo Galeano - The Open Veins of Latin America, Vagamundo
Murilo Rubião - Complete Works
Georges Perec - Les Choses
Wu Ming 1 - New Thing
Raduan Nassar - Lavoura Arcaica
Johan Huizinga - Homo Ludes
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones, The Aleph
PKD - Man in the High Castle, collection of short-stories that have been adapted to cinema
Tommy Pinecone - TCoL49, Gravity's Rainbow, V.
Umberto Eco - The Open Work
Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svjek
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
HP Lovecraft - Tales (Library of America)
Francesco Careri - Walkscapes
Guy Debord and Alice Becker-ho - A Game of War and commentaries
Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Calvin Tomkins - Duchamp
William Gibson - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Monalisa Overdrive
Voltaire - Candide
Greil Marcus - Last Transmissions
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Peter Brüger - Theory of the Avant Garde
Peter Marshall - Demanding the Impossible - A History of Anarchism
Eric Davidson - We Never Learn
Emanuel Carrére - I Am Alive and You are Dead - A Journey into the Mind of PKD

I'll probably finish If on a Winter's Night a Traveller before New Year's Eve, though

>>5909046
What are some recent BDs you'd recommend?

[Anonymous No.5909183]

Basically started reading this year (I'm 23):
>Lord of the Flies
>Fahrenheit 451
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>Brave New World
>Catcher in the Rye
>Animal Farm
>Tales of the Unexpected
>Papillon
>The Slap
>Metro 2033
>Of Mice and Men

I was traveling East-Asia at a point, and had to borrow books at guest houses. I bet you can guess which ones that are.

I'm kinda enjoying reading books in English, despite it being my second language. Norwegian is only good when it's the authors original language.

Still i spend my main free time playing /v/idya and watching /tv/series.

Superb pleb. But hey, at least I started reading, ey?

[Anonymous No.5909195]

>>5909170
>What are some recent BDs you'd recommend?

If you read french (or any european language that isn't english), Manu Larcenet's Blast blown me. (pic related).

Otherwise, Winshluss' Pinocchio, Vivès' Polina, Frederik Peeters' Blue Pills are really great. You can take a look at their other works, but I don't know if there's a lot of it translated.

[Anonymous No.5909208]

What I talk about when I talk about running by Murahackami
La vita interiore by Moravia (no English tl afaik)
Kitchen by Yoshimoto
Norwegian Wood
The Great Gatsby
Please look after Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin (currently reading)

Next one planned: Inherent Vice

I'm a huge pleb and I only re-started reading this June. Cut me some slack.

[Anonymous No.5909213]

1. Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
3. Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
4. The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
5. Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
6. Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
7. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
8. Wittgenstein’s Lolita by William Gay
9. Banjo by Claude McKay
10. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
11. Broken April by Ismail Kadare
12. Morte D’ Urban by J. F. Powers
13. Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
14. Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw
15. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
16. River Queen by Mary Morris
17. Victoria by Knut Hamsun
18. The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
19. The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by William Faulkner
20. The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler (Stage Play)
21. The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
22. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
23. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
24. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
25. Runaway Horses by Yukiko Mishima

I am 370 pages into The Red and The Black by Stendahl, about 140 pages to go. I hope to finish it before the end of the year.

Morte D' Urban; Hard Rain Falling and Train Dreams are my favorites for the year. So far The Red and the Black is excellent as well.

Wild; River Queen; Rich Man, Poor Man; Ancient Evenings and The Soft Machine are my least favorites for the year. Special mention for Wild. Boy was that shit.

[Anonymous No.5910750]

>>5909138
>It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

[Anonymous No.5910780]

not much tbh

[Anonymous No.5910789]

>>5907886
Great year. It started pretty slow, and I spent the first five months studying most of the time, and starting a few different books that I didn't feel like finishing.
But from June to September I finished a bunch of books, and read a few new ones. I spent all of August reading My Struggle by Knausgaard, which was an experience.

A good year, hopefully 2015 will be even better.

[Anonymous No.5910812]

>>5908068
lmao get a fucking life, nerd

[Anonymous No.5911244]

2014 was a Discworld year for me. I know I read a few things before the series earlier in the year, but I can't remember what was when.

[Anonymous No.5911256]

>>5910812
If you think that guy's a nerd for reading a lot of books, most of which considered great, then maybe you shouldn't be posting on the literature board

[Anonymous No.5911279]

>>5908068
>>5909046
Nice! Question for you two and other anons: how do you guys go about reading poetry collections? Just all the way through? A couple poems at a time whenever you feel like it? Starting with the major works and then to the lesser-known ones if you like the renowned ones? etc

[Anonymous No.5911293]

>>5907886
>tfw only 5 novels and a bunch of philosophy

[Anonymous No.5911439]

Fuck this thread and everyone in it. You proles are killing this board.

[Anonymous No.5911442]

>>5911439
Seriously. Fucking lightweights.

[Anonymous No.5911457]

>>5908068
That's all you read? What do you do most of the time? Sit around and refresh this board?

Leave /lit/, pls.

[Anonymous No.5913354]

can't remember them all but Stoner, Blood Meridian and As I Lay Dying come to mind

[Anonymous No.5913373]

ayyyy

[Anonymous No.5913385]

>>5909183
yeah man well done, just carry on and dont stop

[Anonymous No.5913402]

>>5907886
The Torah
Mortality - Hitchens
Hitler's War - Irving
Essay on the Inequality of Human Races - Gobineau
Plutarch - Greek Lives

[Anonymous No.5913413]

Man, the year was so much more productive than it actually felt.

Plato's dialogues:
Alcibiades, Gorgias, Theaetetus, lysis, charmides, euthyphro, ion, the republic, the symposium, phaedrus, apology, crito, phaedo, the sophist
Essays by Seneca (on anger and the like)
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
Outlines of Skepticism by sextus Empiricus
By Dostoyevsky:
The Idiot (my favorite book I think)
The Brothers Karamazov
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Aristotle's Metaphysics (I don't know why I did this to myself)
Amadis of Gaul
The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
By Nietzsche:
The Birth of Tragedy, on truth and lies in a nonmoral sense, human all too human, the gay science (with book 5), daybreak, thus spake Zarathustra, ecce homo, twilight of the idols, the antichrist, genealogy of morality
Candide by Voltaire
Either/or by Kierkegaard

I'm missing some, I'm sure, but I think it was an educational year

[Anonymous No.5913420]

The Bible- God
Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler

All I need amen

[Anonymous No.5913423]

>>5913413
I just wanted to add that I just started into philosophy and that of find it superbly interesting (especially Plato and Nietzsche, if that wasn't plain enough)

[Anonymous No.5913439]

Finished 42 books. I'm reading another two at the moment but I doubt I'll finish either of them before the new year.

The highlights were:
- Tao Te Ching
- Confucian Analects
- Parables of Chuang Tzu
- Dhammapada
- Upanishads
- Bhagavad Gita
- Demons and The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz, by Sebald
- Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K, by Coetzee
- Cathedral, Fires and Elephant, by Carver
- As I Walked Out One Summer Morning, by Lee
- Fear and Trembling, by Kierkegaard
- Imperium and The Emperor, by Kapuscinski

Looking forward to reading more Eastern philosophy in 2015.

[Anonymous No.5913451]

>>5907886
neuromancer
odyssee
the old man and the sea
the twelve caesars
1984
the power of habit
the myth of male power
goals and eat that frog by brian tracy
the 7 habits of highly effective people
homicide, a year on the killing streets
homo faber (2nd read)
thinking, fast and slow
grow a pair
you are a badass
the intelligent investor
the charisma myth

obviously wanted to read much more, but its okay for my standards

[Anonymous No.5913469]

Faust
Dr Faustus
The Master and Margarita
The Recognitions

[Anonymous No.5913603]

>>5913451
this is wow. what did you like?

[Anonymous No.5913705]

plus I'll finish Urth of the New Sun and maybe something else before the end of the year

[Anonymous No.5913725]

>>5913451

lmao at all that self help crap

you dont even want to get better, you just read them as yet another way for procrastination

[Anonymous No.5913748]

>>5909183
Traveling is a great way of getting lots of reading done; I also read extensively while going through SE-Asia.

Also, fellow Norwegian here. I agree with reading in the author's language being the best, and have honestly read way too little Norwegian literature.

Also read in 2014
Men Without women
Boyhood
Youth
Never dry tears without gloves trilogy
Gonzo
Kapital
The Sun Also Rises
The Lives of Animals
In the Heart of the Country
A Visit From the Goon Squad
MaddAddam
Contact
The Last of the Vikings

[Anonymous No.5913764]

49 books, going to be a tight crawl to the revered 52

[Anonymous No.5913835]

Capital Volume One and Two

[Anonymous No.5914080]

Finally hit my 2014 goal yesterday (100 pages per day). Still lots on my list for next year.

[Anonymous No.5914269]

The Book of the New Sun
Long
Short
Latro in the Mist
The Wizard Knight
Moby Dick
The King in Yellow
The Island of the Day Before
The Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
Memoirs of a Mercenary
Diary of an English Opium Eater
The Consolation of Philosophy
Through the Looking Glass
The Waste Land
The Dying Earth
Peace
The Disaster Artist
there were more but I can't recall..

[Anonymous No.5914275]

>>5907886
Is that supposed to be the tessier ashpool skull?

[Anonymous No.5914347]

>>5907886
I read 14 books.

Including Book of the New Sun, The Hobbit, Hyperion, The King in Yellow, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, and Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ.

I'm 18 years old.

[Anonymous No.5914357]

There was a goodreads poll and the normal curve peaked at around 30 books a year.

It made me feel woefully inadequate.

[Anonymous No.5914428]

>>5914357
well yeah, your sample group are all avid readers.

that's like going to sex addicts anonymous and being depressed that everyone gets laid a lot

[Anonymous No.5914463]

>>5914428
I think I got this idea planted in my brain that any group or forum outside of 4chan is "casual normalfags" who couldn't compete with our powerlevels and elitist high standards

[Anonymous No.5914698]

>>5908000
>>5907929
>>5907942
>>5907951
>>5908016
>>5908019
>>5908579
>>5909169
>>5909170
>>5909183
>>5909208
>>5909213
>>5911244
>>5913354
>>5913402
>>5913413
>>5913439
>>5913420
>>5913451
>>5913469
>>5913748
>>5914269
>reading less than a book a week
can you fucking plebs go back to /v/
seriously if you read below 50 books in 2014 you're a dilettante cunt
even my fucking nan reads two books a week

[Anonymous No.5914720]

>>5914463
If anything we're more likely to waste time calling each other faggots. Although (until recently) we forced each other to read actually good books, but now that other boards have flooded us the few that actually do try to read have decided any decent author is an epic meme who shant be mentioned because they're cetainly not going to try to "read good".

[Anonymous No.5914768]

>>5914698
>>5913764
the stakes are high

[Anonymous No.5914780]

>>5914768
ayyy

[Anonymous No.5914808]

>>5914698
this

[Anonymous No.5914850]

Everything by McCarthy, Hemingway and Sylvia Plath. Everything.

Twice.

I am on the verge of suicide.

[Anonymous No.5914872]

>>5914850
nice
I like it when people get to know a few writers really well

favourite work from each?

[Anonymous No.5914876]

>>5914698
Sorry I'm a student at uni/I do other things.

I love to read and I do so frequently but I also pursue music/painting/relationships.

It isn't our fault we have multiple things in our lives that matter to us

[Anonymous No.5914890]

>>5914872
McCarthy: My head says Blood Meridian but my heart says The Crossing.

Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

Plath: She didn't exactly have a large body of work to choose from but since she was my first real attempt at reading poetry I feel like I am missing out so although I enjoyed The Bell Jar more than the poetry that's largely down to my unfamiliarity with poetry so it would be unfair to judge.

[Anonymous No.5914937]

>>5914890
>hemingway's worst novel

[Anonymous No.5914949]

>>5914937
I didn't say it was his best. I said it was my favourite.

I just loved the minimalist side of it.

[Anonymous No.5914960]

>>5914949
favourite short story? of ol' hem hem?

[Anonymous No.5914971]

>>5914960
The End of Something

I'm starting to think my choices have something to do with fish.

[Anonymous No.5915033]

>>5914876
i read over 50 and also pursue two of those anon, don't pretend reading a lot is hard

[Anonymous No.5915044]

>>5914876
you can literally read a novel a week if you spend 45 minutes reading a day

[Anonymous No.5915056]

>>5907886
Lolita,
Stoner,
The double,
notes from the underground
Ham on rye
women
Post office
On the road
Propoganda by berneys
the books of blood vol 1 - 3
Lady chatterlys lover
the invisible man (the actual one not the nigger one)And a few ben eltons

its been a pretty pretty quiet year

[Anonymous No.5915065]

>>5914698
why not make it 52 nigger

[Anonymous No.5915069]

>>5913705
how great was Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.5915071]

>>5915065
2 weeks vacation to pursue the other less worthy arts

[Anonymous No.5915090]

>>5915065
I was rounding

[Anonymous No.5915247]

>>5907886
Pretty good! I started a habit of taking a train to the big LA Central Library and coming back each month with as many books as I could carry. I read a whole shitload of new stuff I could never have found otherwise. All genre fiction, though, so I'm still a pleb.

[Anonymous No.5915257]

>>5914698
>>5914808
>>5915065

>>>reddit.com/r/52book
>>>/out/

[Anonymous No.5915262]

Only started reading again like half way through the year and made it through like 20-30 books.

>tfw too casual for Mobby Dick.

[Anonymous No.5915285]

>>5915257
pleb

[Anonymous No.5915286]

>>5914720
>Although (until recently) we forced each other to read actually good books
That's never been a thing. Your entire post is bullshit wishful thinking.>>5914876
>Sorry I'm a student at uni/I do other things.
I'm an attorney that works 50+ hours per week and still managed to break 100 books this year. Being a student means that you definitely have time to read 52 books without putting in any noteworthy amount of effort.

[Anonymous No.5915291]

- Dark continent: europe's 20th century by Mark Mazower
- Disgrace by Coetzee
- Clockwork Orange by Burgess
- Apathy and other small Victories by Neilan
- The Gambler by Dostoyevsky
- Mercure by Amélie Nothomb


and then some academic shit from school

[Anonymous No.5915319]

>Gunslinger
>David Gemmell's Drenai saga
>Black Boy

Gonna pick up "drawing of the 3 and waste land, coming this monday when I get back to work.

[Anonymous No.5915327]

>>5907886
literally didnt read a single book

read the first act of Romeo and Juliet and the first 2 chapters of a Sherlock Holmes book, and that was it

[Anonymous No.5915337]

I read Ulysses and a PKD collection

it's been a rough year

[Anonymous No.5915338]

this whole 52 books a year is cray cray (since i'm not a big reader) but i'm gonna try to hit that number for 2015.

[Anonymous No.5915350]

>>5915338
in 2013 i read 12 books
in 2014 i have read 55

follow ur dreams

[Anonymous No.5915370]

- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Candide
- Notes from the Underground
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Coupon, The Raid... etc
- Russian short-stories (Chekov, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Turgenyev)
- The Stranger
- Steppenwolf
- Siddhartha
- American Psycho
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- Zorba the Greek
- Sophie's World

[Anonymous No.5915391]

>>5915350
I work at a book warehouse where we ship out used books ppl bought on amazon or ebay. Im around books all day so I was like "fuck it, i'm gonna read them".

[Anonymous No.5915395]

>>5915285

>Somebody who reads a hundred trash YA and thriller novels in 5 months is more patrician than someone who spent the same time contemplating Heidegger.

The number of books you is absolutely not conclusive of anything.

[Anonymous No.5915406]

>>5914698
>mfw you took my subtle joke seriously

[Anonymous No.5915411]

>>5915395
They've both wasted their time, albeit in different ways.

[Anonymous No.5915413]

>>5915056
>the invisible man (the actual one not the nigger one)
Lmfao how pleb can you get to be typing this sentence

[Anonymous No.5915417]

>>5915411

I know you're trolling but I am still rused.

[Anonymous No.5915480]

Started grad school, so reading time was limited.

Fiction:
1. The Monkey Wrench Gang- Abbey
2. Fire on the Mountain- Abbey
3. Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
4. Good Omens- Gaiman and Pratchett
5. American Gods- Gaiman
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane- Gaiman
7. 1984- Orwell
8. Matterhorn- Marlantes
9. Leviathan Wakes- Corey
10. House of Leaves- Danielewski
11. Rape: A Love Story- Oates
12. Prince of Thorns- Lawrence
13. A Dance With Dragons- Martin
Also currently reading 2666- Bolano

Non-Fiction:
1. This Kind of War- Fehrenbach
2. Mortality- Hitchens
3. Gentleman Bastards- Maurer
4. On Bullshit- Frankfurt
5. The Way of the Knife- Mazzetti
6. How Music Works- Byrne
7. I Will Fight No More Forever- Beal
8. For Crew and Country- Wukovitz
9. Ghost Soldiers- Sides
10. The Emperor of All Maladies- Murkhajee
11. Mind Over Muscle- Kano (founder of Judo)
12. Animal Wise- Morell
13. Tiger Force- Sallah
14. WAR- Sebastian Junger
15. Lone Survivor- Luttrell
Also currently reading Undaunted Courage- Ambrose

Trash Novels:
1. The War That Never Was- Palmer
2-5: Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising
6. SSN- Clancy
Also currently reading A Hymn Before Battle- Ringo

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks:
1. Black Hole- Burns
2. The Couriers- Wood
3. Seconds- O'Malley
4. Deadpool Vol 1- Posehn
5-6. Deadpool Classic 1-2
7. The Harlem Hellfighters- Brooks
8. Blue is the Warmest Color- Maroh
9. Ghost World- Clowes
10. Johnny Hiro- Chao
11. Godzilla: Half Century War- Stokoe (Fuck you, it was awesome)
12-13. Manhattan Projects Vol 2-3

Humor:
1. A Load of Hooey- Odenkirk
2. Feel This Book- Stiller/ Garofalo

Short Stories:
1. The Egg- Weir
2. The Ice Dragon- Martin
3. The Last Question- Asimov
4. The Last Answer- Asimov
5. They're Made out of Meat- Bisson
6. Harrison Bergeron- Vonnegut

[Anonymous No.5915489]

>>5908019
>Petersburg
How was this? I'd like to read it, but it seems daunting

[Anonymous No.5915499]

>>5915417
Not trolling, just the truth.

[Anonymous No.5915707]

>Ancient Greek works:
*Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (Books I and II)
*Herodotus — The Histories (Books V and VI)
*Aeschylus — His 7 (surviving) tragedies

>Argentinian literature
*Beatriz Guido — La casa del ángel (1954), La caida (1956)
*Julio Cortázar — Bestiario (1951), Final del Juego (1956), Rayuela (1962)
*Ernesto Sábato — El túnel (1948)
*Manuel Puig — La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968), El beso de la mujer araña (1976)
*Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú — Huésped de un verano (1994)
*Miguel Cané — Juvenilia (1884)
*Griselda Gambaro — El campo (196?)
*Héctor Tizón — Luz de las crueles provincias (1995)
*Antonio Dal Masetto — La tierra incomparable (1994)
*José Pablo Feinmann — El cadáver imposible (1992)

>World Literature
*Jose Saramago — O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (1991)
*Stephen King — The Shining (1977),
*Ken Follet — The Key to Rebecca (1980)
*Lian O'Flaherty — The Puritan (19??)
*Franz Kafka — Amerika (1912?), Das Schloß (the castle, 1922)
*Pierre Cornaille — Horace (1640), Rodogune (1645)
*Willia Shakespeare — Titus Andronicus (1593)
*Agatha Christie — Murder on the Orient Express (1934), They Came to Baghdad (1951), Third Girl (1966)
*Edwarg Morgan Forster — A room with a view (1908)
*Mary Renault — The mask of apolo (1966)
*Pierre Grimal — Mémoires d’Agrippine (1992)
*Marguerite Yourcenar — Memoirs of Hadrian
(1951)
*Émile Zola — Nana (1980)
*Honoré de Balzac — Eugenie Grandet (1833)
*Georg Orwell — 1984 (1949)

>Non-fiction
*José Pablo Feinmann — Filosofía y nación (1982)
*John Stuart Mill — On Liberty (1859)
*José María Rosa — Historia Argentina (Sexto tomo) (1970)
*Mary Reanault — The Nature of Alexander (1975)
*J. A. C. Brown — Freud and the Post-Freudians (196?)
*David Rapaport and David Shakow — The influence of Freud on American psychology (1964)
*Ángel Rama — Los gauchipolíticos rioplatenses (197?)

[una canallada !trap0OylHY No.5915719]

>>5915707
>*Héctor Tizón — Luz de las crueles provincias (1995)
>*Antonio Dal Masetto — La tierra incomparable (1994)
Que tal estuvieron estos dos?

[Anonymous No.5915725]

>>5908068
>>5913373
>>5914080
It's always nice to see the few people on /lit/ who actually read as their primary hobby.

[Anonymous No.5915726]

>>5915707
>José Pablo Feinmann
ayy
Que me recomendarías para empezar con la literatura nacional?
Tenía ganas de leer el Facundo, tambien alguna novela de Cortázar y el Aleph

[Anonymous No.5915862]

>>5915719
>>5915719 Bastante malos en verdad. Hector tizon es insoportable porque quiere abarcar muchos temas de una y al final no puede llegar a nada en concreto: aborda en una sola novela politica, crítica histórica, religión, la dicotomía provinicas / Buenos Aires, la vida de los inmigrantes, el matrimonio a principios del siglo pasado y muchas otras cosas. Por lo menos Tizón tiene algo que Dal Massetto no: un "estilo literario" interesante. Le gusta usar términos en desuso o propios del espacio rural y tiene un ritmo más bien pausado, muy poético (a veces) y melancólico que da a la novela un aire distante y críptico. Entonces "Luz de las crueles provincias" tiene (podría decir) un temperamento, una personalidad. "La tierra incomparable", no. Es una novela totalmente prosaica. Esta escrita sin ganas. Es un texto llano que parece más una crónica de diario que una novela.

>>5915726

Bueno, lo que tiene nuestra literatura es que hay una pléyade de escritores que proyectan tanta sombra que opacan a los demás: Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sábato, generalmente. Se olvidan muchos de escritores geniales como Eduardo Mallea, Germán Rozenmacher, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Beatriz Guido y tantos otros.
El Facundo es una obra clave de la construcción nacional de la identidad argentina pero aunque tiene una prosa literaria (y esta es una discusión larga sobre si el Facundo es un ensayo, una novela, propaganda política u que sé yo que otras cosas) no es muy recomendable para el que quiere empezar a leer ficción. Cortázar es un buen punto de partida, empezá por los cuentos, son ejemplos perfectos del género. Sus novelas (más allá de Rayuela, que es genial pero hay que abordarla tranquilo y con mente abierta) no son muy difundidas, aunque para mi es ahí donde su prosa hermosa (para mi es realmente de lo mejor que dio la literatura en español) se explaya en todo su potencial. El Aleph es un tomo de cuentos que para poder entenderlos necesitas conocer un trasfondo del tema que desarrollan. No te recomiendo a Borges para empezar. Te diría que leas a Arlt y al ya mencionado Cortázar.

[Anonymous No.5916097]

>>5915069
extremely very good, finished it 2 or 3 months go and have probably though about something from it every day since

[Anonymous No.5918330]

>>5915862
Gracias migo.

[que calor !trap0OylHY No.5918363]

>>5915862
>Es una novela totalmente prosaica. Esta escrita sin ganas.
Leería tu blog.
Entonces, de tu cosecha 2014 local qué recomendarías?

>>5915726
Considerá darle una chance a Manuel Mujica Lainez, se consigue Misteriosa Buenos Aires de editorial de bolsillo bastante fácil. Es el Nabokov de la pampa.

[Anonymous No.5918374]

>>5915489
Fantastic. Can be slow in portions but a very enjoyable read.

[Anonymous No.5918381]

The Woman in Black
In Cold Blood
The Haunting of Hill House
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Deliverance
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Psycho
Zodiac
American Psycho
1984
On Booze
The Metamorphosis
The Anatomy of Evil

[Anonymous No.5918415]

>>5915707
You're weird

[Anonymous No.5918421]

My reading year didn't start until the begining of may cause I was too caught up with work up until that point. I'll probably finish The Crossing and Cities of The Plain before new years too.
Hopefully I'll do better next year.

[Anonymous No.5918448]

>>5915707
obviously you're lying, fag

[Anonymous No.5918470]

>>5918448
why do you say that

[Anonymous No.5918500]

I read lots of books about and by Nietzsche.

It seems like he's the least objectionable philosopher. That's not a criticism of the rest though.

[Anonymous No.5918539]

>>5907886
2014 was the year of TV shows and Films.
I've never liked films all that much (book related or not), but this year I've watched quite a lot.
I read like 20 books this year. The selection was good (interesting and somewhat long books) but I want 2015 to be focused on reading rather than films and tv series. And games.
At this moment I'm finishing Ernesto Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs in Spanish.
It's just... wow.

[Anonymous No.5918554]

finished 1 book
fuck brain damage

[Anonymous No.5918925]

>>5918539
letterboxd?

[Anonymous No.5920021]

>>5915707
how readable are greek works?

[Anonymous No.5921848]

>>5915480
>all this nonfiction and these graphic novels

[Anonymous No.5923370]

this year i have read
mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita
zachary mason - the lost books of the odyssey
phil elverum - dawn
j a baker - the peregrine
brian aldiss - report on probability a
d m thomas - the white hotel
anais nin - the four-chambered heart
yann martel - the life of pi
amelie nothumb - the stranger next door
michelle paver - dark matter
david malouf - ransom
john williams - butcher's crossing
richard brautigan - in watermelon sugar
don delillo - cosmopolis
alfred bester - the demolished man
yasunari kawabata - a thousand cranes
cynan jones - the long dry
leo tolstoy - war and peace (edmonds translation)
gabriel garcia marquez - memories of my melancholy whores
anais nin - house of incest
h.p. lovecraft - the call of cthulhu and other weird stories
kurt vonnegut - galapagos
thornton wilder - the bridge of san luis rey
larry niven - ringworld
lao tzu - tao te ching (stephen mitchell translation)
anthony burgess - 1985
ferenc karinthy - metropole
roger zelazny - lord of light
kazuo ishiguro - the unconsoled
charles l harness - the rose
john brunner - stand on zanzibar
jon mcgregor - if nobody speaks of remarkable things
clifford d simak - city
alfred bester - the stars my destination
ian fleming - from russia with love
david eagleman - sum
jose saramago - blindness
john wyndham - day of the triffids
laszlo krasznahorkai - war and war
milan kundera - ignorance
j g ballard - crash
harry martinson - aniara
philip k dick - ubik
victor pelevin - the helmet of horror
ian mcewan - the children act
anais nin - little birds
ted hughes - crow
ian mcewan - on chesil beach
njal's saga
and i'm currently reading satantango (and a bunch of other stuff i haven't got around to finishing, but satantango is the one that i'm most interested in finishing at the moment)

[Anonymous No.5924403]

The Myth of Sisyphus
The Stranger
The Plague
The Fall

The Trial
The Castle

The Possesed

Also Mo Meta Blues and Unknown Pleasures

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