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Post the current books you're reading and what you're going to read next.

Plato - The Republic
Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy

Up next:
Epicurus - Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

>> No.6454934

William Faulkner - The Sound and The Fury

Up next:
I really like Faulkner, so I may jump to Absalom next. However, I was initially planning to read V. next instead.

>>6454912
>Republic
how are you liking it so far? Plato's thought, to me, always had a sort of incompleteness to it.

>> No.6454958

>>6454934
You know, you are right, Plato has quite a few a priori assumptions stated by Socrates, and also a sort of glorification of the state. This being said, however, the political philosophy he writes is not merely theoretical, but practical, and relates the soul to the empire, something very few philosophers do, which makes it a very interesting book to read.

>> No.6454983

Caesar - The Conquest of Gaul (Handford)
Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Up next:
Benioff - City of Thieves (friend recommendation)
Naipaul - In a Free Country (recommendation from a different friend)
Chesteron - Orthodoxy (what I want to read next)

>> No.6454997

Conquests of Alexander - Arrian
Guide to Shooting and Guns
Building a Digital Human

Next:

Parallel Lives - Plutarch
Symposium - Plato (I've already read Republic and Last Days of Socrates, after Symposium, should I read anything else by Plato or should I just continue onwards to Aristotle?)

>> No.6455002

>>6454912
>Reading:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

>To Read:
Hegel's Lessons on Philosophy(for a class)
Foucault's History of Sexuality

After that, I have no idea. Probably Infinite Jest or Deleuze's bibliography. Open to suggestions.

>> No.6455022

>>6454912
I'm going to get hated, but I'm catching up to the canon here

Current:
A Single Man
Stoner
Passing
Lolita
Moby Dick
Being and Time

Up next:
The Once and Future King
Book of the Five Rings
Ulysses
IJ
Don Quixote

>> No.6455033

>>6454912
Reading:
>Hegel's Philosophy of History
>Dickens, Oliver Twist

Up next:
>Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
>Dickens, Great Expectations
>Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

>> No.6455091

Ulysses
Mythology of the Ancient Greeks.

Next:
Gilgamesh
Don Quixote

>> No.6455110

>>6455022
Who is going to hate you, man. Dw bout it. I'm OP and I haven't read a single book out of that list. Read what you want

>> No.6455122

>>6455033
how are you finding Hegel's writing? I can't stand it. Denser/more obscure than Heidegger's or Deleuze's.

>> No.6455141

dubliners - joyce
hopscotch - cortazar
meditations - marcus aurelius

Next:
portrait of the artist as a young man
mao II
hundred years of solitude

>> No.6455149

just finished Moby Dick a couple hours ago, reading Blood Meridian now, and either the Iliad or Portrait of the Artist next.

>> No.6455239

>>6454912
Reading now
The Brothers Karamazov
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Charles Neider)
Just Finished:
The Sun Also Rises

Will Start:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
As I Lay Dying

>> No.6455260

>>6454958
>This being said, however, the political philosophy he writes is not merely theoretical, but practical, and relates the soul to the empire, something very few philosophers do, which makes it a very interesting book to read.

spot on, anon. the political implications were definitely the best application of Plato's general theory.

>and relates the soul to the empire
he certainly had consistency and application working in his favor; he applied his version of idealism to several types of philosophy at the time, from aesthetics to politics.

>> No.6455263

>>6455239
read faulkner first :^)

how'd you enjoy Hemmmmmingway, btw?

>> No.6455275

>>6455122
I'm an editor for a philosophy professor, and everyone I'm the staff agrees that he is one of the worst writers in the history of philosophy
But no one reads him for his prose

>> No.6455281

>>6455122
It's pretty awful tbh. He just jumps around and makes bullet-lists at seemingly random points and then goes on and on for pages about each bullet. It's just ~so fucking verbose.~ But sort-of inspiring.

>> No.6455283

>>6455122
His lectures on aesthetics are easier though I'd start there for an intro to his thought, then phil of history, and then phil of religion.

>> No.6455287

>>6455239
Just finished tSAR myself.
How'd you like it? personally, it's probably my favorite 20's expatriate novel. I think it blows Gatsby out of the water

>> No.6455289

>>6455263
It was a good read, but I don't think it lived up to the hype.

>> No.6455291

>>6455275
*on
Fucking phone and fucking wine
Fuck

>> No.6455301

Currently re-reading Infinite Jest; reading an oral history of the Pixies on the toilet.

Next I'll probably read City of Quartz or Devil in the White City, and a bio of Peter Ivers on the toilet.

>> No.6455306

>>6455275
You live in a blessed place, everygoddamnbody around me seems to love his prose.

>>6455281
>>6455283
Concur on general shittiness, I'm not really interested but my professor has a huge hard on for him and we have to talk about almost everything he wrote about Modern Philosophy. The pain is real.

>>6455291
Leaving the dream, philosophy style.

>> No.6455313

>>6455239
same person
I just received Infinite Jest in the mail, so I may read that in the near future. I also found a copy of Ulysses and I have been doing some casual research into Greek and Christian mythology. Can anyone recommend a good intro to Greek and Christian mythology to ready me for Ulysses?

>> No.6455316

>>6455289
Understandably so. His prose is simplistic and his diction easy to grasp, yet the emotions behind it all are incredibly complex.

I'm a huge Hemingdicksucker, so I'd say that the best way to appreciate TSAR is through intensely close reading of certain passages (the ones that appear most 'deep" or loaded with symbolic/emotional words), like the sort of thing you'd do in HS english class to short story passages. It's so sparse, yet there's a surprising amount of depth behind his short, declarative sentences.

>> No.6455327

>>6455316
I have the book right beside myself. Which section is the best to re-read?

>> No.6455340

>>6455327
it's been a long time, man. I'd say a lot of the descriptions of nature lend themselves to interesting ideas. Also, there was this section where Jake and Cohn went fishing or something, and I spent a while looking at that.

>> No.6455345

>>6455340
I am re-reading that chapter now. thanks

>> No.6455366

Stoner

IJ

Kek

>> No.6455739

>>6455306
It's mainly an Ag school, so the LA college has so stay pretty close-knit

I feel like Stoner

>> No.6455805

Renault - The Mask of Apollo
Fielding - Joseph Andrews
Collection of short stories by O. Henry

Up next:
Galsworthy - The Man of Property
Maugham - Of Human Bondage

>> No.6455831

>>6454997
>after symposium, should I read anything else by plato . . . ?

I would suggest you read Meno, Euthyphro, Apologia, Crito, and Phaedo. Won't even take that long.

>> No.6455837

>>6455831
Last Days of Socrates includes Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, so I read all of those. I will read Meno though.

Where to start with Aristotle?

>> No.6455838

>>6455831
Sorry, just got off work, very tired, didn't recognize Last Days. So yeah, just the Meno then, although it goes chronologically before the four in Last Days if I remember correctly

>> No.6455840

>>6455838
>although it goes chronologically before the four in Last Days
Most stories about Socrates do.

>> No.6455850

>>6455840
Asshole lol obviously I mean it actually goes with those four and is the first in that series.

>>6455837
All I really remember of his is Nicomachean Ethics. I suppose it'd be as good as a place as any to start.

>> No.6457390

Just Finished:
Cannery Row

Currently Reading:
In Dubious Battle

Up Next:
East of Eden

Reading Cannery Row got me interested in Steinbeck again. It deserves to be one of his better known books.

>> No.6457418

>>6454912
Gravity's Rainbow - Pinecone
The Disaster Artist - Mark
Idylls of the King - Ben ten

Next

The Invention of Solitude - Paul Autist
Ulysess - That guy who likes farts
The Lime Twig - Juan Hawkes

>> No.6457428

>LAST
The Book of Chuang Tzu
King Lear - William Shakespeare (reread)
Macbeth - William Shakespeare (reread)
>NOW
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson
Light in August - William Faulkner
>NEXT
La Peste - Albert Camus
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
China: A New History - John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

>> No.6457445
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6457445

Reading Now

>The Master and Margarita
>Love In the Time of Cholera

Listening to:

>1Q84

Just finished

>A Thousand Acres

Up next:

>Freedom
>Treasure Island

>> No.6457454

>>6457390
Cannery Row is one of my absolute favorites. There's a kind of sequel called Sweet Thursday that's damn good as well. I reread The Winter of Our Discontent this winter and it's amazing how I keep changing my mind about the fate of the main character at different points in my life.

>> No.6457496

>just finished
diary of a superfluous man
the picture of dorian gray

>currently reading
Crime and Punishment

>up next
probably The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.6457498

Now:
Brave new world
100 years of solitude

Next:
Odyssey
Shakespeare (many plays)

>> No.6457552

>>6454912
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49

Next:
Denis Johnson - Train Dreams

>> No.6457557

>>6454912
>Reading
The Doll

>Next
Ferdydurke

>> No.6457582

>>6454912
Democracy in America - Tocqueville
Walden or Life in the Woods - Thoreau

Up next :

Orwell - Homage to Catalunia
Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward

>> No.6457623

>>6454912

Currently-
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
V (On hold) -Thomas Pynchon
first Hitch Hiker's Guide Douglas Adams (re-reading)

Next-
Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Mogworld - Yahtzee Croshaw

>> No.6457658

>>6457582
Walden is the best

>> No.6457743

>Last
Being There, Steps - Kosinski
Sapiens - Harari
>Now
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
>Next
Omensetters Luck
Swanns way

>> No.6457779

Hegel - Charles Taylor

Next: Upanishads - Moscaro translation
Bhagavad Gita (re-read) - Flood and Martin translation
The Pocket Oracle and The Art of Prudence - Gracián

These three in preparation for reading almost all of The Schope, in addition to their intrinsic value.

>>6455837

Categories, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, and Nichomachean Ethics are all essential, especially if you care to understand the height of medieval philosophy. Metaphysics is also essential, but pretty taxing, and unrewarding if you don't have those previous works (with the exception of NE) under your belt. Politics is also important too, but I found it to read like some scattered nuggets of philosophy surrounded by a lot of historical observations I didn't connect with and didn't care much about.

>> No.6457810

Now: I was the Emperor - Puyi

next: Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin

>> No.6457818

Current: The dream life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin

Next: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Then whatever else is on the shelf.

Not much to do with the /lit/ canon, I realize.

>> No.6457855

Stephen King - Revival
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Up next:
Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
Murakami - Kafka on the shore
Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
and more...

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>>6454912
>Knowing what you're gonna read next.
>Not having a closet full of paperbacks you got at used bookstores and swap meets.
>Not getting high and masturbating, then reading whichever book you cum on.
>Not letting the spirits guide your education.

It sure is normie in here.

>> No.6457876

>>6457861
>reading whichever book you cum on.
>Not letting the spirits guide your education.

I like your style.

>> No.6458292

>>6454912
Pride and Prejudice
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Trouble with Physics
The Innovators

Up next:
Bartleby and Co.
Durling's Divine Comedy
Ulysses
Jesus Interrupted

>> No.6458352

>>6454912
> Orthodoxy by Chesterton
> The Glass Bead Game

> War and Peace
> The Idiot/The Sounds and the Fury
dunno suggestions?

>> No.6458371

>>6457390
East of Eden is such a good book.

>> No.6459060

Just finished Crime and Punishment today.

Next up is either Siddhartha or White Noise.

>> No.6459074

>>6454912
St. Augustine-Confessions
Homer-The Iliad
Plato-Phaedo

Up next:
Edith Hamilton-Mythology
Hobbes-Leviathan

being new is fun

>> No.6459133

>Just finished
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>Currently reading
The Skin Team - Jordaan Mason
In the Buddha's Words - translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi

>To read
Dune
As I Lay Dying
The Essentials of Hinduism - Swami Bhaskarananda

Need to finish Brothers Karamazov, but I put it down in the middle so I don't know if I'll have to start it over again.

>>6455141
You enjoying Meditations any? I really dug how straightforward most of the passages were.

>> No.6459192

Currently:
Dependency and development in Latin America, Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto
El señor presidente, Miguel Ángel Asturias
La sombra del caudillo, Martín Luis Guzmán

Next:
The Prince, Machiavelli
Democracy in Mexico, Pablo Gonzalez Casanova (these two are for sure, for a class)
Options:
Mason & Dixon, Pynchon
Moby-Dick, Melville
Inherent Vice, Pynchon
News of the Empire, Fernando del Paso
The sound and the fury, Faulkner

Pretty psyched, actually

>> No.6459228

>Now:
Lev Tolstoi - Anna Karenina

>Next:
David Foster Wallace - The broom of the system
Ernest Hemingway - A moveable feast

>> No.6459246

>>6454912
>tfw not strapped into a ballistic missile by your gay german lover

>> No.6459635

Bump

>> No.6459675

>>6459246
>tfw Bugs Bunny teeth
>tfw won't live to top Mason and Dixon so write a fun internet novel
>tfw everyone shits on your fun internet novel
>tfw just want to smoke Panama Red on a couch in Mexico but wife won't leave NYC
>tfw murdering some scrub in a bandanna who talked shit about irony
>tfw won't live to top Mason and Dixon
>tfw when screaming comes across the sky but it's just muslims

>> No.6459678

>>6459228
Broom of the system is juvenalia. Only read it if you really care that much about DFW.

>> No.6459697

>>6459675
>but it's just muslims

Kek

>phone wants to autocorrect "kek" to "lel"

I've been here too long.

>> No.6459703

>>6459675

Mason & Dixon was great and is underrated, generally speaking, but--didn't you enjoy Against the Day? I don't think it was markedly inferior to M&D, if at all.

>> No.6459709

>>6459678
>Broom of the system is juvenalia. Only read it if you really care that much about DFW.

Well, it's very accessible, but it's fun and worth reading. Though it's probably true people read it because they care about him more than they hear anyone discussing it.

>> No.6459745

Just finished 1984. Thinking about either Dubliners or Neuromancer.

Or go out and buy As I Lay Dying

>> No.6459803

>>6454912
Got bogged down in The Sot-Weed Factor, so I'm taking a break and reading The Crack in Space before getting on with it.

Up next: The Quartet that Split Up

>> No.6459853

Kierkegaard- Fear & Trembling

NEXT UP:

Rudyard Kipling- The Jungle Books
Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory

>> No.6459903

Just finished All The Pretty Horses

>Reading
Hesse - Steppenwolf
McCarthy - The Crossing

>Up Next
McCarthy - Cities of The Plain

Any recommendations for Westerns/Southern Gothic in the same vein as McCarthy?