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Last Book
Present Book
Next Book

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Paradise Lost
Pylon

Just finished For Whom(awesome), a chapter into Paradise

>> No.6053789

Lolita
Crime and Punishment
I don't know yet

Lolita was alright, actually preferred the second half to the first. C&P is really great so far though, enjoying it.

>> No.6054394

>>6053784
Was For Whom The Bell Tolls good?

>Last Book
Catch-22
>Present Book
Inherent Vice
>Next Book
Either Light in August or A Farewell to Arms or The Crossing. I can't decide.

>> No.6054401

>Last booK
Lolita

>Current book
A Clockwork Orange

>Next book
11/22/63

>> No.6054405

The Lathe of Heaven
Brave New World
Beckett's Three Novels

I'm re-reading BNW, read it years ago and didn't think much of it but I thought I'd give it another go. The Three Novels I've had for ages and been about 100 pages in, but it's time to give it the attention it deserves.

I've also got Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test on the go for some lighter reading. Not really /lit/ I know, but it's so bloody readable.

And Will Self loves it...

>> No.6054414

>last
The shadow over Innsmouth

>current
The Time Mashine

>next
probably Of mice and men

>> No.6054420
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6054420

>Last Book
Wittgenstein's Mistress
>Current Book
Vineland
>Next Book
Uhh, either The Sun Also Rises or Death and the Dervish or The Tanners. Haven't decided yet.

>> No.6054454

>Last Book
American Gods
>Present Book
Anansi Boys
>Next Book
Against the Day

>> No.6054488

>last book
The Empire of fashion
>current book
War and peace
>next book
Fausto II

>> No.6054507

>last book
The Red and the Black
>current book
The Rings of Saturn
>next book
Laughing Monsters

>> No.6054517

>last
Life A User's Manual - Perec
>now
Glory - Nabokov
>next
idk prob non-fiction

>> No.6054521

> last
the god that failed
> present
Infinite Jest
Julian
> next
Crime and Punishment (or Wuthering Heights, not sure yet)

>> No.6054522

>Last
Capote by Gerald Clarke
>Present
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
>Next
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

>> No.6054601

This is the ultimate circlejerk and proof that the majority of /lit/ reads not for the sake of reading but as a form of tangible internet cred, a bit like pseudo-intellectual XP points. Anyway, I'll post anyway because I'm a useless sap:

The Polyglots by William Gerhardie
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney (though I'm probably going to drop it soon because I don't like to be dragged through pools of shit for the occasional gem (why am I here?))
Either: The Cannibal by John Hawkes, or A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

>> No.6054605

>>6054420

how was witty's mistress? Been thinking about picking that up, but I haven't heard any personal thoughts on it so I've yet to do so

>> No.6054816

>>6054601

I don't think it's a circlejerk, it's just interesting to see what people are actually reading.

It's also good just remind yourself of certain titles.

>> No.6054866

>Last Book
The Luminaries

>Present Book
Master & Commander

>Next Book
Stoner

>> No.6054975

>>6054866

How was the Luminaries? I read Stoner last year and would really not recommend it, it's certainly emotional but there's nothing standout about it.

>> No.6054981

>>6054601
Which form of tangible Internet cred?
>>6054488
>the Empire of fashion
How many XP can you get with this one?

>> No.6054993

Meditations On First Philosophy
Star Maker
Ethics (Spinoza)

>> No.6054996

Byzantium: The Early Years
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Not sure, between Arsene Lupin and Quo Vadis for now

>> No.6055001

>>6054394
(Not OP) I'm not a big fan; it's raw and well written but struggled to hold my interest like some of Hemingway's other works have.

>> No.6055006

The old man and the sea
Siddhartha
The Prince

>> No.6055008

>last book
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
>present book
Dracula
>next book
A People's History of the World (Chris Harman)

>>6053789
C&P was my first "serious" book when I was young, and it still holds a dear place in my heart. It really showed me what storytelling could be. How far into it are you?

>> No.6055009

>Last Book
Dream Story
>Present Book
The scarlet and the black
>Next Book
Dunno yet

>> No.6055018

>last book
Richard Yates (I typed, with a neutral facial expression)
>present book
Into the Woods (pulpy Dublin noir, written by a woman and surprisingly great so far)
>next book
If Into the Woods winds up being good, then the next one in the series. If not, I'll read All the Pretty Horses.

>> No.6055026

>>6053784
>Last Book
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

>Present Book
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

>Next Book
Beckett's trilogy probably

>> No.6055039

>>6053784
Old man and the Sea
The picture of Dorian Gray + Faserland
Der Tod in Venedig

I'm really sad there are so few German literates on this board.

>> No.6055042

>>6053784
In Stahlgewittern/Storm of Steel
I, Robot
A Brief History of Time

>> No.6055052

>>6054601
>read books because books are fucking awesome
>post about it on the internet
>pseudo-intellectual online shithead

Someone's got a superiority complex.

>> No.6055056

>L
Rameau's Nephew/D'Alembert's Dream
>C
Taipei
>N
Probably something by Stephen Zweig

>> No.6055061

Pnin
Infinite Jest
Something short!

>> No.6055071

>>6055039
Was? Neger, es liest doch niemand was except from the Germans Die tun nur auf Amerikaner weil die gerne selber welche wären. Wir alle leben, nämlich, in Amerika.

>> No.6055078

Last: american psycho, BEE
Present: transparent things, Nabokov
Next: damned, palahniuk

Opinions on transparent things? So far I'm giving it a 2/5 and I'm three quarters through the book.

>> No.6055099

>last
As I lay dying
>current
Odyssey
>next
Ulysses

>> No.6055115

>>6055039
Es gibt auf keinem Board prozentual so viele Deutsche wie hier.
>>6055071
Warum vergewaltigst du unsere Sprache?

>> No.6055118

>>6055078

Hey I'm the poster here
>>6055061

Do you find problems with Nabokov's style or is it something specific about this novel you dislike?

>> No.6055124

Norwegian Wood
Either/Or
House of Leaves

>> No.6055139

>>6054601
You sound like my gf. She just refuses to believe I enjoy reading these books and thinks I'm being pretentious to show off to some imaginary person.
Ridiculous.

>> No.6055141

Last: The City & the City by China Mieville
Current: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Next: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

>>6054601
I don't think this is true, I like these threads when they're not too common. Gives you a cross section of what /lit/ is interested in and reminds you or informs you of some interesting books you haven't read yet.

>> No.6055145
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6055145

Moby-Dick

Othello

Augustine's Confessions

>> No.6055157

>>6054394
>Was For Whom The Bell Tolls good?
Yes. I normally hate Hemingway(Muh Dick also Rises), but the prose, plot, and Roberto Jordan were incredible 9/10

>> No.6055159

>>6055118
This being the first book of his that I have read I can't compare to others. I find myself confused as to what is happening a lot of the time and I can't get to grips with the characters and find they are forgettable. Also the tense changing I find hard to follow. Maybe this is because I have only recently started reading properly. How are you finding it?

>> No.6055182

A confederacy of dunces

In evil hour

Crime and punishment

>> No.6055190

>>6055159
Not the guy you're talking to, but just out of curiosity, why did you choose that Nabokov book? I've read and loved four books of his but I hadn't even heard of Transparent Things until you mentioned it.

I think most would recommend starting with Lolita or Pnin but maybe this is enough for you to decide Nabokov isn't for you, which is fine!

>> No.6055225

>>6053784
Iliad
Odyssey
The Fugitive - Proust, Medea - Euripides, Sappho, Tropic of Cancer or... Not quite sure.

>> No.6055233

>>6055190
I found it in a second hand shop and just thought I'd give it a go.

>> No.6055235

>>6053784
The Tempest
Moby Dick
Bartelby

Tempest was a pleasant short read. Moby Dick is far better than I thought it would be, so now I must read more Melville.

>> No.6055236

>Last Book
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

>Present Book
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick

>Next Book
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

>> No.6055241

Child of the God
The Odyssey
Last of the Mohicans

>> No.6055248

>>6055233
Fair. Wish I had read it so I could say more, but in general I've not found Nabokov to be difficult or obscure with what he's trying to say, actually pretty direct for how eloquent it is.

>> No.6055292

Last book: enders game series
Current book: dark tower series
Next book:breakfast of Champions

>> No.6055314

>>6055292
This is trolling, right?

>> No.6055332

>>6054605
At first I hated it because it was just a woman rambling in (what I at first perceived as) simplistic stream of consciousness and misremembering everything. But I stuck with it and started to appreciate it once I began to understand what it was going for. It wasn't a very enjoyable read from an excitement or 'page-turning' stance, but I really love it after finishing and letting it roll around in my head a bit. Definitely recommended, although you might need to power through some parts.

>> No.6055411

>>6054601
I had somebody see my dorm room book collection and assume I was trying to impress people. It never occurred to him that I cared much more about books than people.

>> No.6055423

Last: The Trial
Current: Blood Meme
Next: probably A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.6055428

>>6055411
I'm afraid of giving people that impression, but I hope that perhaps a visitor will have read one of them, it would be a nice talking point.
Really it's for my convenience and accessibility since nobody visits my dorm anyway.

>> No.6055454

Last book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Current book: The Moons of Jupiter
Next book: Walden

>> No.6055511

>>6055428
I always thought of people seeing my book collection more along the lines of "yes, I know I'm a weird nerdy bookworm but that is who I am." The thought of impressing people never even entered my mind.

>> No.6055536

>>6053784

>Last Book
The Elementary Particles
>Present Book
Watt
>Next Book
Tropic of Cancer

>> No.6055588

>Last Book
The Stranger
>Present Book
Anna Karenina
>Next Book
Os Maias by Eça de Queirós

>> No.6055677

last. barth sot weed factor
current. dickens david copperfield
next. not sure. bleak house maybe

>> No.6056472

Ficciones
Siddhartha
2666

>> No.6056484

>>6053784

>Last Book
The Crying of Lot 49
>Present Book
Fight Club
>Next Book
New Testament KJV

>> No.6056506

>>6053784

>Last Book
Genesis if it counts, if not then Don Quixote
>Present Book
The grapes of wrath
>Next Book
Exodus, if it counts, if not The Mysterious Stranger, Twain

>> No.6056514

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Iliad
Odyssey

>> No.6056516

>>6056514
How'd you like apotaaaym

>> No.6056529

Ticklish Subject (Zizek)
Fourth Political Theory (Dugin)
Sein und Zeit (already read a few times want to go at it again)

>> No.6056559

>Last
Scarlet and Black
>Current
Faust
>Next
Maybe something by Dostoevsky, or I might go back to Plato, Cicero, or Strauss.

>> No.6056596
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6056596

>last
how to read a book
>present
how to think straight about psychology
>future
how to take over the world

>> No.6056725

Blood meridian
Infinite Jest
The Magic Mountain

I'm not even memeing it just worked out that way

>> No.6056733

L:The Confusions of Young Törless(reread)
C:The Red and the Black/Meditations/Catch-22 audiobook for English practice
N:Nuremberg Diary

>> No.6056737

>>6053784

Perfume (good, but not in a literary way. Enjoyable read, really nice ending, but 2 dimensional characters/everything else)

Beloved (almost done with this, it's pretty great actually)

Either Catch-22 or Brothers Karamazov
I'm trying to catch up on books other people read when they were in high school

>> No.6056748

The Idiot
The Master & Margarita
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.6056753

>>6053784
History and Class Consciousness
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Underworld? Anti-Oedipus?

>> No.6056852

>last
The Things They Carried

>current
The King in Yellow

>next
The Plague

>> No.6056953

Last. Metro2033
Current. Blood of Ambrose
Next. This Crooked Way

>> No.6058116

Sorrows of Young Werther

The Necronomican

The Bible

>> No.6058190

A Feast for Crows (shut up)
August 1914
Taking suggestions

>> No.6058193

>>6056737
Toni Morrison is great. Tar Baby you would like. Oh, superb opening line, "124 was spiteful."

>> No.6058200

>>6055677
Lol, The Sot Weed Factor; I still laugh when somebody mentions that book

>> No.6058214

>>6058190
I guess my next book will be House of Leaves. I have it right next to me; I stole it from a friend. I'm not giving it back if I like it.

>> No.6058245

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Republic
Probably something else by Plato. I'm trying to delve into philosophy, specifically I'm trying to work my way towards a decent knowledge of metaphysics and prominent philosophers up until about the 20th century.

>> No.6058247

Death and the Dervish
Infinite Jest
Underworld

>> No.6058249

im reading book of blood by clive barker gimme a suggestion for another horror book i can read

>> No.6058259

>>6058249
House of Leaves is pretty good. It was the one time I'd say that Danielewski's "woah look how weird my formatting is!" gimmick worked.

>> No.6058271

Hegel, A Very Short Introduction
Introduction to Systems Theory
Child of God

>> No.6058309

>Last
I am Legend
>Current
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
>Next
The Gunslinger

Really enjoyed I am Legend and End of the Lane has been good so far too.

>> No.6058361

Blood Meridian
White Teeth
2666

>> No.6058379

>>6053784

Oh, Sup.

William Tell (Schiller, technically a play)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fear and Trembling

I'm jumping around a bit but fuck you i'll do what I want.

>> No.6058418

>>6053784
The Big Misadventure of Kurtz and the fellows - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDF2xfcbv8

Rayuela - Cortazar Maga is mai waifu

Запиcки из подполья - Доcтоевcкий

>tfw able to fully understand English/Spanish/Russian

feels good man

All I have to do now is learn French, German and Japanese so I can watch my chineese cartoons :3

>> No.6058422

>>6053784
Girl with all the gifts
S.
Haunted (or invisible monsters, can't decide lol)

>> No.6058429

>>6058422
How was Girl with all the gifts? I have it on my nook but haven't read it yet.

>> No.6058442

Entanglement
The Loop
Paradiso

>> No.6058448

>>6053784

>Brave New World (just wanted to see what the hype was about. I was disappointed.
>Hamlet
>The Scarlet Letter

>> No.6058452

>>6058429
I enjoyed it. Don't expect your typical zombie story, however.

>> No.6058456

Vineland

The Illuminatus Trilogy

The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman

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>>6058422
I read Haunted 2 books ago, colossal waste of time and energy. Around three out of the twenty-four short stories were actually thought provoking. Most were just shock value, the best short story in the book was the first story told chronologically, it all goes downhill from there. It can be found online here

http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html

>> No.6058477

The End of Faith
The Myth of Sisyphus
Ulysses

>> No.6058486

>>6054394
It's not as good as Farewell to Arms but still a pretty damn good book.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Big Sleep
A Clockwork Orange

>> No.6058489

>>6058473
Thanks, I'll read just that story and go with invisible monsters then. Have you read invisible monsters? I have the remix version.

>> No.6058519

>last
catch-22
>present
infinite jest
>next
invisible cities

>> No.6058522

>>6058519
well, at least you're readin calvino

>> No.6058535

>>6053784
Last Book:
The Omen Machine (Fucking terrible fantasy, holyshithowisheabestsellertier)
Current Book:
Handling Sin
Next Book:
Words of Radiance (Hopefully)

After that I hope to get into some more dense material. Crime and Punishment maybe?

>> No.6058551

>>6058522
hey man catch-22 was comedic genius. such a wonderful take on war! Infinite Jest is really gripping me right now. I'm only about halfway through but I really like it so far. Maybe a bit over hyped but its fucking good! And yeah a friend recommended me Invisible Cities. i've read if on a winters night a traveler so i'm excited to read this.

>> No.6058555

>>6058535
Crime and Punishment is great and even more accessible than its relative length would attest

>> No.6058561

Paradise Lost
Pale Fire
The Pale King

Pale Fire is nice so far, and Paradise was amazing.

>> No.6058613

>last book
The Old Man and the Sea
>current book
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
>next book
Red Mars