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Age and book that you are currently reading?

>> No.6261375

With every page I age.

>> No.6261378

>>6261375
damn

>> No.6261379

19. Currently reading:

- all the shakespeare I haven't yet read
- rest of beckett's novels
- all of ibsen's plays
- critique of pure reason
- all of faulkner

I say I am reading this at once because I am, I read one shakespeare play or a few sonnets, then 50 pages faulkner, then one section kant, etc. in a loop. Hopefully finished all of this by end of weekend.

>> No.6261380

25 Infinite kek

>> No.6261384

24, The Trial.

>> No.6261444

20, Amerika

>> No.6261448

22, Ortsgespräch (in German)

Finished Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore earlier today too.

>> No.6261456

26, jerusalem delivered

>> No.6261460

18
Foundation Series, currently Foundation and Empire

>> No.6261502

23
Infinite Meme
Simulacra & Simulation
Sixty Stories
>>6261379
>read one shakespeare play or a few sonnets, then 50 pages faulkner, then one section kant, etc. in a loop

wat

>> No.6261504

29

Gargantua & Pantagruel

Fuck I'm old.

>> No.6261522

>>6261502
>wat

I read and comprehend things quickly, and I want to both challenge myself and cover a lot of quality material at a decent pace? Switching across authors also makes things more interesting, so I'm not just staring at Kant for five hours.

>> No.6261525

23

A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.6261530

>>6261504
>Fuck I'm old.

I'm so sorry Anon.

>> No.6261531

20
Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

>> No.6261535

>>6261364
60
The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves, published 1955

>> No.6261536

>>6261522
Yeah I was much happier doing drugs at your age. Have fun being a nerd, faggot.

>> No.6261545

>>6261536
not him, but 19 is the age that I started to smoke pot regularly

>> No.6261554

19, reading Ulysses

>> No.6261560

>>6261536
>>6261545
I started doing kat at 21.

>> No.6261564

19
Mason & Dixon

>> No.6261566

>>6261536
>>6261545
>>6261560
at 17, I began to do jenkem.

>> No.6261567

16 (Im joking dont ban me xdd)
The Republic

>> No.6261595

15 (jk)
Infinite Jest

>> No.6261622

>>6261536
>Have fun being a nerd, faggot.

I will, thanks!

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18
My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir

It's a cool book. The way Muir comments on the cycle of life and death using the metaphor of water reminded me so much of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and the beauty and poetry with which he described it brought me to tears. Definitely not a hard read, but a good one.

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>>6261628
>reduced to tears by the beauty of the written word

>> No.6261647

23
Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard

I'm reading it for the third time. It never gets old.

>> No.6261650

>>6261504
great book though

>> No.6261659

23

taipei - tao lin

>> No.6261663

>>6261646
I'm sorry that you've never had the privilege.

>> No.6261672

>>6261659
is that book actually good or is it a ruse to get me to waste money?

>> No.6261674

21
The Sirens of Titan

Stuff coming up on my list:
>The Road
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Fahrenheit 451
>No Longer Human
>Neuromancer
>The Metamorphosis
>other stuff by Kafka
>Ulysses (sort of excited; the preparation might be annoying)

>> No.6261685

22

Joseph and his Brothers (Thomas Mann).

>> No.6261689

>>6261672
I'm not that far into in. Prose seems to be wannabe DFW, which is to say DFW prose that's not clever.

It has it's moments though, where a feeling is captured well. The bits on drugs are relatable too. Relationships less so.

I kind of regret spending $7 on it since I doubt I'll ever reread it, but it might be worth the read the once.

>> No.6261699

>>6261674
What do you think so far?

>> No.6261703

20 bible kjv, a short history of sociological thought, the europeans

>> No.6261708

>>6261364
23

Contingency, Irony and Solidarity

>> No.6261709

>>6261384
Just finished that the other day, really good.

18
On the Shortness of Life
Also The Bible

>> No.6261712

20, reading Bellow's 'Herzog'

>> No.6261713

>>6261685

>being this patrish

brah i think ur gonna make it

>> No.6261714

21

Stranger in a strange land

>> No.6261715

>>6261560
>kat
lol, ahmed?

>> No.6261719

>>6261699
It's alright. The characters aren't very interesting, but the narrative and plot compensate for them.

Vonnegut comes up with some pretty nice imagery and settings which I've enjoyed. IIRC, Sirens of Titan is one of his earlier books so the weak characters are more forgivable.

>> No.6261730

>>6261713
>mfw it's better than The Magic Mountain
>tfw it will never be as read as TMM because of its theme and length

>> No.6261731

23

Journey into the end of the night

>> No.6261736

20, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

Also a collection of William Blake poetry.

>> No.6261738

18, Hamlet. I'm only on the second act, but I like it so far. I don't know why I never read it before.

>> No.6261739

>>6261731
Is it really that bleak?

>> No.6261741

>>6261731
Nice, that's one of my favorites.

>> No.6261749

>>6261739
Yes and no. I think it's hilarious

>> No.6261757

>>6261715
no lol, not "khat", i meant "methcathinone" (not to be confused for the popular "meth")

>> No.6261758

21: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

>> No.6261763

>>6261364
>19
>things my girlfriend and I have argued about

>> No.6261766

>>6261749
This guy gets it.
Céline has an amazing sense of humour. His writing is clever and full of energy.

>> No.6261787

>>6261763
>green text why
>unnecesaary

>stop being this much of a dweller

>> No.6261808

>>6261674
dont read Kafka's The Trial. Its an unfinished mess of a book. His other shit is pretty good though.

>> No.6261816

>>6261808
The Castle?

>> No.6261822

21 the wind up bird chronicle
also french poetry

>> No.6261825

>>6261766
Agreed, but Death on the Installment Plan is where it really comes through. That book was a straight up comedy.

>> No.6261838

>>6261825
I can't wait. it's next on my list. any suggestions after?

>> No.6261839

22
Lolita and NKJV Holy Bible

Weird combo, I knoa

>> No.6261849

>>6261808
You're a faggot
>>6261816
Please don't listen to him

>> No.6261851

24, War with the Newts by Capek.

It's enjoyable so far but really obvious it's half about how African American slaves were treated and allegorical for Nazis. Still fun though.

>> No.6261866

>>6261384
Reasonably enjoyable book, perhaps I had a greater appreciation of it because I could identify with the absurdity of a legal system, as I have had experience with such a system.
>>6261456
Which translation, Fairfax?
>>6261504
>Fuck I'm old.
same here bruh.
>>6261531
I have slight positive envy towards you, I have periodically tried teaching myself Greek and Latin though have as yet not made it far.
>>6261364
28, reading Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich.

>> No.6261880

>>6261364

22
Hart Crane poetry. Some of the densest shit I've read so far (poetry pleb), but I'm liking it a lot regardless.

>> No.6261884

>>6261838
The Process by Brion Gysin

>> No.6261897

>>6261880
Broken Tower is breathtaking.

>> No.6261899

>>6261504
but those are two different books

>> No.6261933

>>6261897

I haven't even gotten there yet, but I'm really loving Legend, stark major, and his pastoral stuff. Really surprised I hadn't heard of him until a couple weeks ago.

>> No.6261941

>>6261364

18, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

:^)

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>>6261884

> tfw I spammed The Process on /lit/ hoping it would take hold
> tfw everyone realizes how good it is and it's taking hold

Don't worry, ghost of Gysin, the world will soon know of your brilliance as the true king of the Beats, and in fact, king of prose transcendental of the Beats

> sidenote:

did you enjoy it?

>> No.6261965

>>6261364

23.

King Lear. I originally read it in Secondary School as part of my Leaving Certificate which is why it's my least favourite of Shakespeare's works. I said I'd give it a chance after listening to the review of it on "In Our Time" and by fuck it's blowing me away.

(spoiler)Hamlet'sstillbetterthough(spoiler)

>> No.6261969

>>6261525

How're you finding it anon? I've been meaning to pick it up when I can.

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>>6261951
Of course I enjoyed it. It's my favorite book. The first time I read it I put it down, waited a day, and read it again.

Never seen your spam though. I've been trying to spam it for the past year or so myself, though I only come on /lit/ when I'm bored.

>> No.6261976

22 and A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations, which is not really a book.
Last I read was Kokoro, by Soseki.

>> No.6261978

>>6261646

How in any way shape or form is that fedora core? I think you're mixing up the Romantics with the Enlightenment.

>> No.6262013

>>6261978
He's trying to get a "I'm to cool to let words affect me" vibe going.
Making him the biggest fedora holder here, actually.

>> No.6262029

>>6261976
What did you think of Kokoro? I'm just starting part three.

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>>6261975

Nice, I am glad we both enjoy the same book so much. I was interested in Gysin's poetry with burroughs earlier in life, so I picked up the book and loved it.

>> No.6262079

>>6261364
29
Finnishing Oblomov, which was a /lit/s recommendation, thanks

>> No.6262081

>>6262029
Really liked it. There's some deep calm, melancholy and solitude in japanese books that please me a lot.

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>>6261941
17 One Soldiers War in Chechnya

>> No.6262120

26
A Renegade History of the United States

>> No.6262126

>>6261364
28

Runaway Horses
and
Euclid's Elements

>> No.6262140

>>6261364
30.
The Last Unicorn.

>> No.6262363

Age: 19

1) The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Review: I certainly agree with some–but certainly not all–of Bloom's bold assertions. Although many of his observations occurred around 1960-80, they hold true for my generation, as well as generation Z (I consider myself a millennial–although technology is a large part of my life, I have an affinity and reverence for the analog form; many of my friends and I have undergone a sort of post-ironic shift in sensibility towards the old, the refined, the pre-internet–all while inconspicuously using the internet and social media to pursue such interests)

2) Some odd religious text by a half hindu/half christian guy from the early 1900s? Can't remember his name. Cool, esoteric stuff. Very trippy and schizo.

3) Class readings for: Courses: Oscar Wilde and His Contexts; Philosophy of Religion; Biology

4) New York Times via free access from my school. Articles from various publications including: The Economist, New Yorker, etc.

5) Psychology research papers for my undergraduate research

/diary entry. Faggots

>> No.6262366

21
Ulysses

>> No.6262393

22
Discourse on the Method
Kinder- und HausmärchenThe Grimm Fairy Tales for those of you who can't read German)
I've found that the original German text is actually more brutal than the english translation

>> No.6262396

>>6261364
25. The Plague and Ubik, alternating.

>> No.6262404

>>6261674
I like your list.

>> No.6262450

19.
Hesiod's Theogony
Finishing Foucault Reader

>> No.6262462

18

Maxims by La Rochefoucald

>> No.6262473

20
Euripides, The Complete Plays Vol. 3

I don't like the way Mueller translates so far, Everything is formed out and spoon fed.
I guess I'm drawn to plays with some ambiguity, maybe that's why all my favorite playwrights are absurdists.

>> No.6262490

>>6261808
>>6261674
Any posthumous work is not doing the author any good. There's a reason he didn't publish it within his lifetime.
Protip: His novels are his weakest. Short stories is where Kafka truly shines.

+The Sirens of Titan is a fun, good read.
Vonnegut is fun. He got me into reading when I was younger.

>> No.6262530

25, Founding Brothers Joseph J Ellis and Nautilus Magazine.

>> No.6262545

21
some DH Lawrence stories but I need something novel-length to cozy up to this weekend

>> No.6262558

>>6262545
Read some Vargas Llosa, m8

>> No.6262566

21

finished today: the setting sun - osamu dazai

currently reading: who will run the frog hospital - lorrie moore; what is cinema? - andre bazin

feel like i should read more classics. thinking about reading dubliners and some virginia woolf novel next.

>> No.6262569

>>6262558
good idea, but where does one start with him?

I might have to make do with Leaf Storm and Other Stories by GGM

>> No.6262573

>>6262569
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is quite comfy, imo

>> No.6262578

>>6262573
thanks m8, I'll keep an eye out for it at the bookstores

>> No.6262586

19

right now
>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Also midway through or committed to
>The Great Train Robbery - Michael Chrichton
>Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (how did I not read this in high school?)
>The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
>Saga of the Swamp Thing - Alan Moore

I also bought a Tom Clancy book to see what the big deal was but I can't remember which one

>> No.6262590

>>6261672
i genuinely enjoyed reading taipei, and it is also my favorite book of his. i think if you want to get into, or at least try, tao lin's work, taipei should be your first step. try renting it if you can.

>> No.6262591

>>6261364
20, The Sound and The Fury

>> No.6262621

>>6261969
Not OP, but I found it enjoyable.

>> No.6262649

>>6261364
29

Way to Christ, Jacob Boehme

>> No.6262693

>>6261364
19
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Also, The Grass is Singing because school and stuff

>> No.6262729

>>6261364
25

(re)-reading The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea

>> No.6262755

Fuck, all these youngsters here. Guess that explains a lot.

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>>6262755
>young people on the internet

>> No.6262793

>>6261375
overrated post.

Age:
21

Currently Reading:
Helmet for My Pillow
Steppenwolf
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
White Teeth


"But anon, why u read multiple things? U pretentious or sumtin?"

No, just all three of them suck so I am getting them all out of the way at the same time.

>> No.6262800

>>6262793
why not just read better books or get better taste? which ever takes longest.

>> No.6262807

>>6262800
>not finishing what you start
absolutely disgusting

>> No.6262815

>>6261736
Dos Chimney Sweeps doh

>> No.6262821

21
Pride and Prejudice

>> No.6262831
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19
The First Bad Man by Miranda July

>> No.6262921

age 45
currently reading The Fermata, Perfume: story of a murderer, and Lolita

pls don't judge

>> No.6262931

22
The King's Revenge. It sounds like cheesy fantasy, but its a study of the Regicide of Charles I and the efforts of his son and heir to punish those responsible.

>> No.6262933

24
Tau Zero
Technically in between books four and five of the Codex Alera series too.

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19

Infinite Jest by le maymay man

>> No.6262968

30
10:04 by Ben Lerner
why am I trying to finish this piece of crap?

>> No.6262972

20

The Beautiful and Damned

>> No.6263005

45
jonathan strange and mr norrell
gamer girl by mari mancusi
light by m john harrison
(how fiction works audiobook)
city of a thousand dolls
writing the breakout novel

>> No.6263010

>>6263005

for a senior citizen, you sure are a pleb

>> No.6263069

>>6262591
how do you like it? which part are you on?

>> No.6263070

33

The Sound And The Fury.

>> No.6263075

>>6263070
you're the age of Benji

>> No.6263079

>>6261364
21
Family Ties by Clarice Lispector

>> No.6263080

Stalin-Court of the red czar
20
No not some edgy marxist I just find the guy interesting

>> No.6263087

>>6261731
Just finished this. Loved the first half but the second was a bit of a slog.

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>finally older than the average /lit/ user

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>>6261364
20

I'm readin english translations but the original names are better

Os Maias
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Also part of El Tunel but the 'morbidity' of Castel is disgusting really

>> No.6263296

30.
great expectations-Dickens
L'Ile misterieuse- Verne
master i margarita- Bulgakov

>> No.6263308

21

Travels with Charley

>> No.6263326 [DELETED] 

15

sloterdijks critique of pure reason
rereading humes treatise
gides fruits of the earth
dostos brothers karamazov

>> No.6263350

>>6263326
critique of cynical reason*

>> No.6263361

>>6263326

15? It can be an underage in this tablon?

>> No.6263370

Eighteen plus or minus a couple years. I just started reading on my own time a couple days ago. I chose to read The Stranger almost totally on a whim and now I'm reading Nausea. I don't know if they're good first choices, but I figured I had start somewhere. I think I'll read some kafka next.

>> No.6263378

>>6263361
yes, and no. Off my veranda cuckhold!

>> No.6263382

>>6261364
24
>Naked Lunch
>Surrealism Poetry

>> No.6263392

Eighteen
The myth of sisyphus

>>6263326
>telling you are underage in a tibetan pornographic website

>> No.6263399

22.

The last days of Hitler

>> No.6263402

20, I don't read.

>> No.6263447

26
if on a winter's night a traveller

>> No.6263463

>>6261364
34
The Silent Blade (Legend of Drizzt)

fight me

>> No.6263479

28. Clive Barker's Books of Blood.

>> No.6263483

>>6262921

Perfume is amazing, and The Fermata is my favorite Baker book. You're okay, anon.

>> No.6263491

23
memoirs from the house of the dead

russian lit best lit

>> No.6263499

>>6261364
>33
>Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
>Macbeth
>Midsummer Night's Dream
>Frankenstein the Play by Philip Pullman
Student teacher in case you didn't guess. Wish I could get back to my real reading list.

>> No.6263532 [DELETED] 

12
infinite jest

>> No.6263568

>>6263532
3
Beyond Good and Evil

>> No.6263622

24

Reading Cloud Atlas again.

>> No.6263644

>>6263622
That movie gave me cancer.

>> No.6263645

>>6263644
I liked it. Have you read the book?

>> No.6263648

>>6261364

27
Ulysses
Notes from Underground
Cows
Extinction

>> No.6263652

18
Dead souls

>> No.6263661

>>6261531
COЯN

>> No.6263666

>>6263532
Well, it's better than not reading anything at all, but I think at this age, you should be already looking into some real literature.

>> No.6263675

>>6263645
Wouldn't want to.

>> No.6263679

>>6263666
Don't quote yourself, just don't.

>> No.6263684

>>6261364
31
The Silmarillion

Aguante Tolkien carajo!

>> No.6263689

26, just got into highbrow stuff

currently reading "Taipei" by Tao Lin and I'm surprised an outdated medium can transport emotion so effectively.

>> No.6263711

22
Winesburg, Ohio

>> No.6263725

>>6262450
nice

>> No.6263730

>>6261364

30, The Dresden Files. Holy, Shit, how much of a pleb I must be.

Still, it's fast and I enjoy it, so..

>> No.6263732

troilus and criseyde
the bible

20

>> No.6263738

>>6261364
19. Paradise lost

>> No.6263742

18
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

>> No.6263745

>>6261364
23
Palestinian Identity
The Qur'an

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37 and "what if trayvon lived"

>> No.6263767

22
The Glass Bead Game

>> No.6263777

21
Dune and an older book called The Girl In The Golden Atom.

>> No.6263782

19
Also Sprach Zarathoestra
Honestly I have no idea what's going on, I barely know anything about philosophy but I just wanted to try it and see how it would go.

>> No.6263789

>>6261808
Ignore this dude^^^

>> No.6263792

22

All The Pretty Horses

It is vary gud book

>> No.6263859

18, the Lieutenant of Inishmore

>> No.6263862

18, double or nothing by raymond federman

>> No.6263888

18, breakfast of champions. pleb-tier satire.

>> No.6263894

19, Stoner.

>> No.6263911

>>6263894
And Les Misérables is in stand-by.

>> No.6263912

Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis
-Paul Cohen

>> No.6263918

>>6263912
24*

>> No.6263934

>>6261866
>Which translation, Fairfax?

None, I'm reading it in Italian.

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>>6263894
what the fuck why do you read Stoner at 19, you can't relate to it in the slightest...

>>6263782
You're doing it wrong, just memorize random passages to quote on /lit/.

>>6263742
trash

>>6263652
russian lit = god tier lit, good on you anon

>>6263648
drop ulysses

>>6263622
for some strange reason a bretty gud book

>>6263491
one of the D's weaker ones imo

>>6263447
shit

>>6263392
camus is proof that edgyness predates the internet. Drop it or stay pleb

>>6263370
Kafka is good, drop the camus and exercise your radical freedom to wipe your ass with the dwarf

>>6262967
trash

>>6262821
trash

>>6262793
dont waste your time on lit you KNOW sucks. And by god, your list does...

>>6262729
weaboo shit

>>6262693
being 19 in school, nice

>>6262586
>BNW

interesting content, shit writing. What do you expect of an englishman? Save your time.

>>6262450
lmao such edge

>>6262366
joyce = trash

>>6262119
only book in the thread i never heard about before, how is it?

>>6261941
McCarthy is a mixture of JK Rowling and that Pulp Fiction director guy. 2/10

>>6261736
Hunter S. Thompson is objectively the worst write to ever have been published

>"LOL IM ON DRUGS"
>"LOOK AT HOW I AM AT DRUGS AND THERES DRUGGY SHIT GOING ON"
>"DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS GIB MONEY PLS ALSO DRUGS"

have to give him credit, at least he offed himself

>>6261685
no

>>6261674
Mother of god you're the biggest faggot in the thread. You made a list with 7 items, and 6 of them are utter garbage. Please stop reading.

>> No.6263948

22, Crime and Punishment.

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>>6263947
>what the fuck why do you read Stoner at 19, you can't relate to it in the slightest...
we'll see

>> No.6263987
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>>6263973
It was a rhetorical question, it's evident that you are a prestige reader trying to further his social status by randomly spewing random quotes from books you have read (in the mechanical, not the intellectual sense) to naive freshwomen, hoping to impress with your intellectualism and land some youknowwhat

spoiler]It works, but still leaves you a pleb[/spoiler]

>> No.6263997

>>6263987
so much hatred

>> No.6264000

>>6261364
26, George Saunders, 10th of December

>> No.6264043

>>6261364
19
French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
4 Quartets - T.S. Eliot
East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Next:
>Dictionairy of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
>The Balkans - Misha Glenny
>In Paranthesis - David Jones

>> No.6264065

>>6263947
Son, you're such a shittalking loser.
But I agree with you about the Hunter Thomson part.

>> No.6264089

>>6263947
>no

What does that mean?

>> No.6264166

>>6263947
>being this insecure

>> No.6264169

18
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.6264212

20
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

>> No.6264224

20
Consider the Lobster and other essays by DFW

>> No.6264234

>>6261364
24
Recently finished Count Zero, and just moved on to reading Think & Grow Rich for the 3rd time.

>> No.6264237

>>6263947
College isn't school? What

>> No.6264241

22 The Divine comedy

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>>6264241
>mfw just reading inferno because i don't care about the rest

>> No.6264257

31. Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

>> No.6264398

30, All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.

>> No.6264467

23

The Man Without Qualities
The Golden Bowl
The Iliad

>> No.6264559

>>6261808
come on, it's the best book ever

>> No.6264564

>>6261364

22

My current and next two:
We
The Fall
The Conquest of New Spain

>> No.6264618

30
Murakami 1Q84
Knut Hamsun Wayfarers

>> No.6264629

30
The Sound of the Mountain

>> No.6264650

>>6264618
murakami is shit

>> No.6264683

23, about to finish up The Illustrated Man.

It's been pretty hit or miss, some of the stories are really good, but damn that one about fictional characters was awful.

>> No.6264711

Um. I'm 20 and I just started reading Lolita.

It's hella good! A real page turner!

>> No.6264717

18
Martian Time-Slip

>> No.6264726

21
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.

>> No.6264727

21 infinite jest.

>> No.6264728

>>6261364
25

The Elements of Academic Style

Really recommend it for any other anons in grad school.

>> No.6264739

23
Ulrich Beck «the risk society»

>> No.6264750

>>6261364
Currently reading The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard.
Do you mean the age like when it was written/published or when this particular version I have came out? Because 53 and 16 respectively.

>> No.6264761

27
Pride and Prejudice
Replay: The History of Video Games

>> No.6264782

20
David Copperfield

>> No.6264787

26
The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

>> No.6264807

25

Asimov - Foundation
Melville - Moby-Dick (rereading for first time since high school)
Huxley - Devils of Loudon

>> No.6264812

>>6264726
can you relate to Wittgenstein in his youth?
I'm 20 and definitely can

>> No.6264837

>>6263652
That final page where he writes about the troika is GOAT.

>> No.6264854

>>6264787
fag

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>>6264854
quality post

>> No.6264971

27
politics and vision - sheldon wolin
life - richard fortey
post carbon reader - richard heinberg

>> No.6264990

>>6264782
What chapter you at son?

>> No.6265048

20
Invention of Morel

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>>6261364

21, i'm reading L'âge de raison, Sartre
"Armand Salacrou" Dieu le savait

French stuff & shit

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>>6265079

This guy

>> No.6265174

>>6261364
19, 20 in less than a month. currently reading Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Arednt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

>> No.6265176

>>6261364
21
Romans

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>>6261646

> he hasn't read Augustine's confessions

>> No.6265184

>>6262831
ne gd?

>> No.6265187

>>6261364
>26
>Don Quixote

>> No.6265189

>>6262968
it's amazing, u suk

>> No.6265194

22
i'm trying to read the alexandrian quartet but i just don't see myself finishing it within less than two months. i don't have that much free time and it's not keeping me interested. i feel like a shit for it, but i'm seriously considering quitting.
what do you guys think about the book?

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27

>> No.6265348

23. Description of a struggle.

>> No.6265410

>>6265187
Que?

>> No.6265423

>>6263483

What'd you like about Perfume? I thought it was alright; certainly not bad, and the ending was actually really good imo, but a decent chunk of the middle section (if I remember) was kinda fillerish. What makes it amazing to you?

>> No.6265434

>>6265410
I'm sorry
>El ingenioso hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha

>> No.6265466 [DELETED] 

14
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Welfare Wednesdays.

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>>6265466
>14
>Lolita

>> No.6265510

18
Finnegans Wake

You could say I'm smarter than most other people my age.

>> No.6265517

>>6265510
No you are not, stop being a faggot.

>> No.6265520

>>6265517
>insecurity
Can't handle my intellectual superiority brah?

>> No.6265529

>>6265499
Hyper kek

>> No.6265545

>>6265510
>or

>> No.6265558

19
The Songlines (Chatwin)

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>>6265520

Oh, get me I read and I am 18.

A lot of people here are, including me, just because you're reading a Joyce book doesn't make you intelligent.

I sincerely hope you are a troll.

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17
Emma and Pride and Prejudice

>> No.6265615

>>6265604
I read and fully understand incredibly dense and intelligent texts. My peers do not. Stay mad.

>> No.6265624

>>6261364
23

Catch-22
Fahrenheit 451
Tanakh

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>>6265615

>> No.6265648

>>6265615

Maybe you hang around simple minded people to make yourself feel superior. They probably think you're an arsehole.

>> No.6265650

>>6265510
You sound like a faggot

>> No.6265657

>>6265610
b&

>> No.6265662

>>6265510
Carrying around a copy of Finnegan's Wake is not the same as reading and comprehending it. I tried to get my AP Lit professor, who has a PHD in English, to read it and he wouldn't.

>> No.6265670

>>6265657
Did I say 17? I meant 18 ;)

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>>6265648
>assumptions
>>6265641
>>6265650
>>6265662
>being this insecure

>> No.6265676

>>6265510

How the shit has no one recognized this as bait? Jesus Christ I thought /lit/ was supposed to have the least literal autists.

>> No.6265678

The Dice Man
18

>> No.6265688

>>6265674
How am I insecure?

>> No.6265690

>>6261646
are you some kind of robot? i cried writing the ending to my own fucking novel.

>> No.6265694

>>6263730

I too enjoy the Dresden Files. They're neat mystery turned action novels and they're published fairly regularly.

Are you looking forward to Butcher's steampunk novel coming out later this year?

>> No.6265697

>>6265676

But what if he isn't?
Just helping him climb out of that arrogant adolescent hole.

>> No.6265701

>>6265688
I'm not that guy, but it's obvious that you're envious of an 18 year old on an anime imageboard and out of frustration feel the need to assure yourself that he is, in fact, not intellectually superior to you when he clearly is. I can sense your resentment from here.

>> No.6265703

18

Flatland

>> No.6265729

twenty-two and religion of the samurai

>> No.6265740

>>6265648
>>6265674
This. I didn't even give a shit about this stupid argument but this has been brought up, I suggest that you should be moving up in the world if you're smarter than all your friends. I'm not saying you should just dump your friends. Keep them, but find some people who are on your level or maybe even a bit higher. Unless, you like to hang around people like that because then it makes you feel better. Just saying.

>> No.6265745

>>6265703
that's a good book

>> No.6265782

18, the big sleep

>> No.6265787

>>6265499
you think that was a joke?

>> No.6265819

>>6265787
No.

>> No.6265840

19
All Quiet On The Western Front

>> No.6265889

>>6261622
Underrated post.

Good outlook anon :^)

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English fag reporting in:

>Aeneid - Virgil
>Paradise Lost - Milton
>Mahler - Consciousness and Temporality (some rando dude)
>On Writing - Stephen King
>Darkness Visible - Styron
>Essays - Orwell
>The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway

>> No.6265950

>>6261364
25
/lit/ would make fun of me for reading a fantasy book so something poetry or some russian author.

>> No.6265973

>>6263947
>what the fuck why do you read Stoner at 19, you can't relate to it in the slightest...
Dumbest post I've seen all week, good job.

>> No.6265986

>>6265921

What do you think of The Sun Also Rises?

Also have you read Down and out in Paris and London? (Orwell)

>> No.6265987

12
50 Shades of Grey

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>>6265987
huh.huh.

>> No.6265996

>>6261364
Othello, I haven't read nearly enough Shakespeare. Just finished The Waves.
20

>> No.6266058

>>6265973
Nah, he's right though. You shut-in, unpopular teenagers reading hard-hitting novels about life and loss and anguish are pretty much sad as fuck. It's an excercise in pointlessness. You don't "get it", regardless of whether you think you understand what is being communicated. If you're the sort of kid who is spending all of their free time on electronics and reading muh classics during your adolescense you are likely going to end up are a stunted manchild missing out on everything. Doubly so if you're majoring in something "useless" and are anti-social.

>> No.6266209

>>6265991
Not him. Thanks for the gif. Pretty funny.

>> No.6266217

>>6262755
Go to bed Pynchon.

>> No.6266225

18
Girl with Curious Hair

>> No.6266235

>>6265986
Not yet. I've read some of Orwell's essays, 1984 and Animal Farm so far.

Shooting an Elephant is fucking incredible. His essay on the Spanish Civil War made me interesting in for whom the bell tolls.

I want to check up on Homage to Catalonia later as wel

>> No.6266245

18. Currently reading:

Antony and Cleopatra- Shakespeare
Watchmen and Philosophy- collection, ed. Mark D. White
Also technically still reading Frankenstein but it's been months since I've picked it up

>> No.6266248

>>6261364
19, IJ.

>> No.6266341

>>6266245

>months

I think it's safe to say you're not reading it anymore, m8

>> No.6266364

>>6261364
19
Crime and Punishment
(although i didnt completely finish war and peace im not through the last 50 pages of the epiloge. Not really a fan of the war philosophy)

>> No.6266366

>>6266341
I have zero interest in it but I feel like it's one of those books that I'm supposed to read
Bad outlook for sure

>> No.6266369

>26
>American Tabloid by James Ellroy

>> No.6266389

>>6266366

Yeah, I'd hold off on it. Read what you have a genuine interest in, and if you find your way to the classics, great. I'm 22 and just starting to be really actually interested in that kind of thing, so whatever, you know

>> No.6266499

>>6265648

tfw made friends with someone better read in literature and better listened in music a year ago

went from thinking Metallica was the pinnacle of the 80s to enjoying and studying the works of Schoenberg and Webern and Stravinsky, as well as studying and listening to Jazz and good experimental rock. Though I'm quickly becoming far better read, he reads at the pace of one pynchon book a month, I read like 3 books a day now

you don't learn by hanging around with retards

>> No.6266520

>>6266245
I'd recommend picking up Frankenstein again. I read it at your age and really enjoyed it. In fact, I plan on picking it up again some time.

>> No.6266522

23 years old here.

Reading as much of M. Leblanc's Arséne Lupin novels as possible. Started with a general collection sort of book, because they're not common books to find here in the States. Read. I've read the Hollow Needle. Just finished 813. Good times.

>> No.6266532

>21
>Antonioni's Visual Language
but if you were after something fictional instead
>Great Expectations
I'm on a Dickensathon at the moment

>> No.6266539

>>6261375
19

Meinz Kampf and Moby Dick

>> No.6266553

22

Song of Susannah
Stephen King

>> No.6266558

18
1984

>> No.6266561

22

The Clown
Heinrich Böll

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22
How Architecture Works
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume One
The Magus

>> No.6266600

22

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

>> No.6266608

>>6266532
Haven't read any Dickens apart from A Christmas Carol. What would you recommend? IIRC, I liked his prose; it felt cozy.

>> No.6266804

>>6266539
>also 19
>also Moby Dick and Blood Meridian

>> No.6266976

>>6264650
Yeah, I'm not completely sold either. I'm starting to think what I like in this writing belongs to Japanese culture rather than his own personal thing.
Hamsun is good though. Norway was not a funny country before oil.

>> No.6267066

24
American gods

>> No.6267154

29 **1st year of my lit/phil life**

A Treatise of Human Nature

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23
In search of lost time

>> No.6268833

>>6261364
20
Naked Lunch
Medical Biochemestry
Re-reading Don Quixote

>> No.6268871

>>6261364
Reminder that 80% of everyone saying "19" is a high schooler who wants to say they're not.