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ITT you let other anons guess your personality based on what youve been reading recently. Also, recs.

>> No.6239558

>>6239549
Y're a jackass.

>> No.6239560

>>6239549
a normal dude who enjoys reading

>> No.6239572

>>6239549
Been trying to get into modernist literature. Finding that I absolutely love anything that uses the stream-of-consciousness style (at least when it's done well)

inb4 "pretentious douche"

>> No.6239585

>>6239549
tryhard

>> No.6239767

>>6239549
Generic reader.

>> No.6239769

>>6239549
>translations
>murakami

pleb

>> No.6239922

>>6239549
Wish i could speak three languages, but it's tough, you know?

>> No.6239930

>>6239572
like what?

>> No.6239933

>>6239769
tell me anon, how do you into foreign literature, then?

>> No.6239934
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6239934

Pride and Prejudice
The mysterious stranger
Sherlock Homes series

>> No.6239940

>>6239930
Tropic of Cancer

>> No.6240049

>>6239940
Tropic of Cancer is one of the worst books I have ever read.

Read Joyce and Woolf and Proust to experience true stream of consciousness prose.

>> No.6240059

>>6239933
anons on this board think that you should be the devil in learning every language in the world :^)

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>> No.6240071
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also, white noise but it's an ebook

>> No.6240094

Reading La Nausée now.

>> No.6240898
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6240898

Manages to capture my personality pretty well actually.

>> No.6240908

>>6239549
Now I wouldn't like that because I have a shelf filled with all Chuck Palahniuk's books....
Bbut I have grown out of them, really...

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6240933

Hello

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>>6240898
>C#
>not C++

>> No.6240946

>>6239549
>guess your personality based on what youve been reading recently
So does my personality change radically depending on what I read most recently?

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>> No.6240956

>>6240948

0/29

>> No.6240974

´Hard Rain Falling´, ´Sixty Stories´, ´The dead´, ´As I lay dying´, ´Der Bau´

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>>6239549

>> No.6243632

>>6241068
what is that bigass book with the sideways writing?

>> No.6243648

>>6239933
Nothing is foreign to a patrician.

>> No.6243785

>>6243632
What does the red writing say?

>> No.6243801

>>6243648
You should be proud of this response. I giggled quite a bit.

>> No.6243971

>>6243785
idk i don't know how to read

>> No.6243979

>>6240933
Just bought the Infernal. How is it?

>> No.6243987

>>6243979
Pretty cool, kinda bonkers. It puts you directly into the story, without giving much of an explanation/background, but it seems to work as of now. Writing's not really to my liking, a little bit too traditionalist. Would have preferred something more akin to Shipley's Dream of Amputation.

How did you find out about the book? Haven't seen that much publicity about it.

>> No.6243994

>>6240948
hey dolan

>> No.6243997

>>6243987
Millions' most anticipated books of 2015. I've never heard of the Dream of Amputation.

>> No.6244002

>>6240939
It means he's a Mac user imo

>> No.6244010

>>6243997
Fair enough, I found it through Blake Butler's recs. Check out Dreams of Amputation though, great sci-fi mind-fuck with extremely enjoyable writing. Kinda philosophy-heavy and dense, but pretty good overall.

>> No.6244019

>>6244010
>Blake Butler
Did you read 300,000,000?
I liked it, but it's a book I can't really criticize.

>> No.6244020

alright bitches, have fun with this one. this is the last 3 books I read.

Feast for Crows (asoiaf book 4)
Moby Dick
Bridge of Birds

>> No.6244032

>>6244019
I've been slogging my way through it in the past few months, it's really weird writing in a good way but I kinda miss the holo-fluidity of his previous writing. Does it hold up until the end?

>> No.6244034

>>6244020
You don't care about people's opinion in what you read, and you enjoy a wide variety of reading. Would drink tea with.

>> No.6244053

>>6244032
It's fucked up and strange the whole way through. I'm not even sure how to summarize it. By the end of the novel it isn't really a novel anymore. What it is, is a powerful statement about how America fetishizes violence (also more, but that's the most apparent theme).

>> No.6244072

>>6239549

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, along with a few essaybooks that examine the narrative (or as the essays generally agree upon, the destruction of the narrative as a form) and its effects on future authors

Molloy in french

I'm not really liking it, but some Proust

some Pynchon

some Kerouac

some WB Yeats

some contemporary jazz and serialism theory essays/books

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Just starting Doerr, just finishing my bottle of vodka

>> No.6244086

>>6239549
Remainder by Tom Mccarthy
Nixonland by Rick Pearlstein
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
From the Mouth of The Whale by Sjon

>> No.6244124

>>6244072
I imagine you lack of healthy relationships due to your condescending nature and inherent douchery, although you are not aware of these things in yourself. Therefore, you often come up with things that are wrong with those around you (not smart enough, etc) and make it their fault that you fail at being socially engaging.

>> No.6244132

Bed, Lin
American Psycho, Easton Ellis

>> No.6244151

>>6240071
drug addict

>> No.6244160

>>6240948
College student who is too busy to focus on lit but has potential. Analyzes lit to death and ends with mildly innovative conclusions. more scientific, probably antisocial to a fault and is a virgin due to betaness and inability to fully connect emotionally. not autistic but exhibits many signs.

>> No.6244162

>>6244160
and is a virgin, no gf

>> No.6244174

Stranger in a Strange Land
Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation

>> No.6244258
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+Hyperion audiobook

>> No.6244261

>>6239572
Read Ulysses, also try to read some of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun if you can find it, though I can't vouch for the translations.

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>tfw you realize everything is a translation

>> No.6244665

>>6244020
you are a pleb and barely understood moby dick

>> No.6244667

>>6244073
i heard "all the ligh.." was shitty, what do you think

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here's how I spent last week and February

>> No.6244718

>>6244697
Is Gertrude Stein good? What will I get out of her?

>> No.6244721
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I'm reading Kavalier and Clay too, OP. How do you like it so far?

>> No.6244734

>>6244718
Gertrude Stein wrote some of the best non-fiction about wartime/post-war Paris, and hung out with virtually every artist who was in the country at the same time.

if you read her memoir "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," you'll find Hemingway, Picasso, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Cezanne, Matisse, and virtually everyone else except Joyce

her experimental writing is some of the best drunk-reading I can think of. Tender Buttons and the opera 'Four Saints' namely

her lectures on art and writing haven't let me down, either. 'Composition as Explanation' and 'The Gradual Making of The Making of Americans' come to mind

she's my favorite modern

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plus a bunch of papers on lot 49 and nietzsche in general

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>> No.6244951

Recently finished:

> Animal Farm
> The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.6244956

>>6244892
based.
how is that lovecraft?

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6244973

plz dont bully.

>> No.6245039

>>6244956
Good, but difficult to read because of sheer size.
I'm a big guy but it's virtually impossible to hold in my hands, I have to rest it on my knees.
In basic money:size ratio it's a bargain

>> No.6245123

>>6239934
>Homes
nigga you dumb

>> No.6245151

>>6240049
Not the anon you replied to but... come on!
Tropic of Cancer is fun, and enjoyable and some pages were beautiful. It may not be Proust but... one of the worst book you've ever read? really?

>> No.6245171

>>6244892
redditor

>> No.6245199

>>6244151
elaborate

>> No.6245230

>>6240908
Not OP but
It's ok anon. Palahniuk is funny and he has good ideas. They're way more embarrassing authors in my own shelfs.

>> No.6245252

>>6244020
did you like Fest for Crows?
I hated that shit, iirc it was the book that convinced me GRRM is below average.

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>>6244859
princeton

>> No.6245281

>>6244264
nice picture!
depressive, but trying to get out of it, probably clean-freak.
it's funny how you placed an all-inclusive celebratory epic between two sad boys.

>> No.6245286

>>6239549
Wisdom of the West by Russell
Idea of Christian society by Elliot
Demons by Dostoevsky
Sttepenwolf by Hesse
City of God by Augustine
Valis by Dick

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>>6239549
Suttree (reread)
Butcher's Crossing
Amsterdam Stories
The Confidence Man
The Life and Times of Michael K

>> No.6245799

>>6245265
close! geographically speaking. one state over

>> No.6245852

The Magic Mountain
Alchemical Studies
Gravity's Rainbow
L'homme Qui Rit
The Art of Always Being Right

>> No.6245856

>>6244721
a hell of a ride with a bit of an open and wistful ending, but nothing short of satisfying.

>> No.6245959

>>6244174
You still have pimples and you've never had sex.

>> No.6246094

The Bone Clocks
Looking For Alaska
The Koran
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
and now I'm onto Infinite Jest

>> No.6246116

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mason and Dixon
Inherent Vice
Labyrinths and Other Stories
Kangaroo Notebook
Dune: Messiah

Currently reading Heart of Darkness.

>> No.6246141

>>6240094

Just say Nausea. Jesus Christ.

>> No.6246143

>>6239549
>trial
meh
>kafka on the shore
best of his work
>the road
meh
>anything chabon
shit

you are probably new to literature. for me:
>under the volcano
>don quixote
>kitchen confidential
>2666

>> No.6246175

>>6246141

Maybe he's reading it in French?

If he's not, then he's a pretentious cunt.

>> No.6246180

>>6246175
Even if he is, he's a pretentious cunt. Why do we need to know he's reading it in French?

>> No.6246228

>>6239549
Beneath The Underdog - Charles Mingus
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Crucible - Arthur Miller

How pleb am I?

>> No.6246235

Mr. Mercedes
Ulysses
Blood Meridian
Savage Harvest
The Stranger
The Most Dangerous Book
Mrs. Dalloway
Collected Poems of TS Eliot
Catch 22

That's all of this year.

>> No.6246297

>>6246180
>also the original title?
just sayin'

>> No.6246307

>>6245332
Nescio, high five.

>> No.6246310

>>6246235
you like to eat those books because you like to eat garbage because you are what you eat LOL

>> No.6246324

I'm reverse chronological order
Ulysses (currently)
Film Theorie: Zur Einführung
A history of Medicine
Sculpting in Time
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Taras Bulba

>> No.6246336

The Sirens of Titan
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) (for a class)

>> No.6246359

You fags keep posting your boring lists, choosing to not even try and guess anyone's personality, while also ignoring what little personality guesses there are, probably thinking it would be too much of a drag to dignify them with an answer. I am slightly agitated because of this.

>> No.6246362

>>6246180
maybe he is french?

>> No.6246368

>>6246359
no one cares

>> No.6246374

>>6246324
Someone who read Madame Bovary and decided to be a cuck. He maintains an Asian gpa, hipste pseudo intellectual friends but he's trying to better himself. If he becomes a doctor he will probably feel accomplished not realizing that although has save lives he has developed an inaccurate dour view of people.
This man needs Jesus and Henry David Thoreau. maybe a touch of Voltaire

>> No.6246411

>>6246374
Couldn't be further from the truth

>> No.6246696

>>6246094
Your reading choice are determined by the Internet to a larger extent than I thought possible. You may have already tried to work through lesswrong's recs, but at some point realized how stupid and insular they were. You probably won't get much out of Infinite Jest, but later on you'll read an explanation and decide that you really did enjoy it after all. Despite all this, you will become better and smarter simply because you read.

>> No.6246702

>>6246094
Bait

>> No.6246718

>>6246094
>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
wtf is that?
someone elaborate

>> No.6246726

>>6245852
you like allegories and being correct

>> No.6246745

Brothers Kamarazov
Dune
Starship Troopers
Consider Phlebas

>> No.6246751

>>6246745
*Karamazov

I dunno why it stuck in my mind as that.

>> No.6246785

>>6246718
>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
it's harry potter fan fiction