>name a few books from your reading list

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Anonymous Sat May 16 03:35:10 2015 No.6547231 [Reply] [Original]

>name a few books from your reading list

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 03:38:09 2015 No.6547236 why do you keep posting that pic

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 03:49:14 2015 No.6547246 Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses Pnin Invisible Man and War of the Worlds Siddhartha and Steppenwolf

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 03:55:18 2015 No.6547270 godel escher bach malcolm x autiobio the stranger bunch of bukowski brave new world stoner catch 22

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 04:09:39 2015 No.6547309 >>6547270 all god tier

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 04:18:55 2015 No.6547334 >>6547246 Please read portrait of the artist. It is such an enjoyable read.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 04:21:26 2015 No.6547338 >>6547231 bunch of nietzsche anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia character analysis bunch of deleuze molecular revolution in brazil the pale king

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 04:36:21 2015 No.6547378 Storm of Steel Various Shakespeare plays The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Beowolf Shahnameh Oreimo LN

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 05:06:16 2015 No.6547431 wading through 2666 (brilliant writing but so damn morbid) just finished Paradise Lost ( a new favorite) re-reading W&P ficciones en español (Jesus does Borges have a vocabulary to match his imagination) just beginning les mis

Anonymous Sat May 16 05:51:21 2015 No.6547513
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at the moment, I'm going through Kierkegaard. I'm reading Fear and Trembling right now. Then I'll finally start with Hegel's Phenomenology. After that, I intend to read Husserl's works

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 05:59:36 2015 No.6547526 >>6547231 Infinite Jest 2666 Anna Karenina

Anonymous Sat May 16 07:50:04 2015 No.6547763
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>>6547231
Reading list right now:
>Wage-Labour & Capital/Value Price and Profit - Marx & Engels
>Introduction to the Reading of Hegel - Kojeve
>Dance of the Dialectic - Ollman
>Foundations of Leninism - Stalin

Eventually I'll get to:
>Studies on Marx and Hegel - Hyppolite
>Science of Logic - Hegel
>History of Philosophy - Hegel
>Capital Volume 1 - Marx

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:52:44 2015 No.6547766 Marthe by Huysmans Posibility of an Island by Houellebecq Fathers and Sons by Turgenev The Stranger by Camus

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:58:56 2015 No.6547775 >>6547766 You can knock out The Stranger in an afternoon, it'd be a good first choice.

Anonymous Sat May 16 08:13:54 2015 No.6547794

>>6547766
>>6547775
Please take your time with The stranger so you don't fuck your experience with it up like every other faggot on this board. Everybody knocks it as some "kek so lonely and isolated"-bullshit but it's a lot more than that, if you are not handicapped in the brain or if you spend more than a few hours reading it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:17:16 2015 No.6547800 >>6547763 that sounds monothematic

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:19:11 2015 No.6547802 >>6547763 Dance of the Dialectic, now that is one appealing title. Would you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:22:13 2015 No.6547806 Portrait of the artist Demons A farewell to arms

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:24:25 2015 No.6547812 >>6547231 Consolation of Philosophy City of God Confessions Summa Theologica

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:25:01 2015 No.6547814 >>6547231 About to read: The Old Man and The Sea To read: The Sound and The Fury East of Eden Siddhartha Great Expectations Anna Karenina It honestly depends on when I finally go to a decent bookstore.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:57:02 2015 No.6547870 Lorde Autumn of the Patriarch La Llamada and other stories Mansfield Park Bridging The Americas Angels In America Slag and I need to do my annual reread of I, Lucifer

Anonymous Sat May 16 09:18:54 2015 No.6547939

In no particular order:

Acceptance (Vandermeer)
Hopscotch (Cortazar)
The WInd-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)

Those are what I have sitting on my desk right now. What I read after those will come out of the box of what I salvaged from the bookshelves as my mom sold them or threw them out--AKA "The Divorce Bucket." Here are a few possible contenders:

Mason and Dixon (Pynchon)
The Corrections (Franzen)
Space (Michener)
Absalom Absalom (Faulkner)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:24:39 2015 No.6547951 Currently Reading: >Fear: A Novel of World War I Extremily good so far I want to devote time to something long next. To-Read: >The Brothers Karamazov >In Search of Lost Time >Les Miserables

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:33:12 2015 No.6547962 I've Alberto Moravia's Il Conformista and Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises prepared to read next. Not sure what to read after those yet. Probably either Camus, one of the Brönte sisters, more Moravia or a short sci-fi classic.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:35:11 2015 No.6547967 >>6547870 >Autumn of the Patriarch my favorite parts were the periods

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:57:12 2015 No.6548022 Gravitys rainbow Concrete island libra American pastoral Plan to actually read Nietzsche's corpus to see what there is to see

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:09:25 2015 No.6548064 >>6547270 You taking the edgy teen module m8? Paradise Lost John Donne's Poetry Emerson's essays/lectures Walt Whitman The Revenger's Tragedy The Shoemaker's Holiday The Waves Ulysses

Anonymous Sat May 16 11:47:08 2015 No.6548267

Well, I just finished Inherent Vice this morning and am planning on starting DeLillo's Underworld pretty soon. Otherwise, Stoner, Lost in the Funhouse, and The Day of the Locust are what I plan on reading next.

Also, is Twilight of the Idols a good place to start with Nietzsche?

>>6547513
I finished Fear and Trembling a couple weeks back and really liked it. Have you read either/or? Is it worth reading as well?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 11:49:57 2015 No.6548273 >>6548267 Either/or is pretty good, the sickness unto death is that true Kierkegaard shit though

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 11:50:18 2015 No.6548274 >>6547231 >>6547236 that pic i feel like shaving my head and taping cabbage to it while attending a uni course on existentialism that i don't even belong to

The cats Sat May 16 11:58:47 2015 No.6548291

>Inimitable Jeeves/Young Men in Spats - Wodehouse
>The Recognitions - Gaddis
>A Smuggler's Bible - McElroy
>White Teeth - Smith
>I Am a Cat vol III - Soseki
>Foucault's Pendulum - Eco
>Tristram Shandy - Sterne
>The Satanic Verses - Rushdie
>2666 - Bolano
>The Pale King - Memester Dankus

Honestly will probably last me into the fall assuming I don't get random shit in the interim (hah!).

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:32:59 2015 No.6548373 East of Eden Don quijote Ficciones All quiet on the western front

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 23:34:10 2015 No.6550676 bump

Anonymous Sat May 16 23:43:24 2015 No.6550707
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>>6547802
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/books/dd.php
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/dd_reviews.php

See for yourself. I got it because I wanted an introduction to Marx's dialectical methodology that wasn't filled to the brim with Hegelian obscurantism or Dialectical Materialist dogmaticism. It's the book David Harvey sourced for his understanding of dialectical contradiction in 17 Contradictions of Capitalism, and since I haven't started reading it (I'll get to it after I finish reading Foundations of Leninism), the real question is if you trust Harvey.

Reviews of it have been really positive.

>>6547800
I read really slowly, so tackling too many subjects at once will make me forget most of what I read. What's wrong with monothematicism anyways?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 23:48:46 2015 No.6550725 Shantaram Stoner Homer, Illiad (Baricco's) Canterbury Tales (read a few so I'd like to do the lot) South of the Border, West of the Sun

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 00:10:23 2015 No.6550778 I heard The Stranger is a toned down Brothers Karamazov without as much jesus hubbabaloo. Y/N?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 00:26:26 2015 No.6550827 >>6547231 the trial (currently reading) mason and dixon ...any other recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 00:31:26 2015 No.6550849 >>6550778 uh, no

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 00:41:00 2015 No.6550883 Currently reading The Recogntions Plan to read Confessions of a Mask Moby Dick The Tunnel Underworld Something by Samuel Beckett, haven't decided specifically what yet Barthelme's Sixty Stories The Floating Opera

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 00:43:40 2015 No.6550891 >>6550883 Oh and Absalom, Absalom and The Violent Bear it Away, gots to get some southern goffick in there

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 01:22:03 2015 No.6550992 (Not counting the few history books in reading/going to read) Gulliver's Travels The Old Testament The Divine Comedy Aesop's Fables

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 01:40:13 2015 No.6551051 >>6550992 You actually read history books? Not knocking you but isn't that boring? I like history but still...

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:03:43 2015 No.6551113 Currently Reading Anna Kerenina Plan to read Mason and Dixon The Tunnel JR Les Miserables Cancer Ward Underworld Shogun Absalom

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:09:58 2015 No.6551127 >>6551113 how are you liking Anna Karenina?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:28:14 2015 No.6551175 Currently reading: History of Rome by Livy Books 1 - 10 (will read Machiavellis Discouses of Livy after) A collection of Japanese folk tales in nihongo. Guide to Shooting and Guns Athenaze Vol 1 Selected Works of Plato

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:29:48 2015 No.6551177 Rendezvous with Rama The Mote in God's Eye Solaris 2001 Foundation series Divine Comedy Dune Shakespeare stuff

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:39:07 2015 No.6551204 Entre Nous by Manny Levinas Homo Sacer by Georgey Agamben To Our Friends by the Invisible Committee The History of Sexuality Vol. 1 by Mike Foucault And various poetry and fiction by Celan, Rilke, Woolf, and Blake.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:40:59 2015 No.6551208 >>6551127 I really like i so far. I haven't read much Russian lit besides Dostoyevsky, but I'm finding Tolstoy to be more enjoyable. I guess I've read Nabakov, but I almost see him as an American writer as he went on.

Anonymous Sun May 17 02:44:38 2015 No.6551220

>currently reading
Love in the Time of Cholera
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

>next few
Capital in the 21st Century
Paradise Lost
Moby-Dick
Blood Meridian
White Teeth
Invisible Man
American Psycho
2312
Them!
Masters of Atlantis
Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
Vineland
Shalimar the Clown

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 02:47:05 2015 No.6551226 >>6548267 I haven't, but I will. It seems really interesting.

Anonymous Sun May 17 02:48:11 2015 No.6551229

Here's what I have planned now that I've graduated and need to start getting my shit together for possible grad school (no particular order):
>finish The Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
>Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals - Kant
>Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - Kant
>Cambridge Companion to Kant - Ed. Paul Guyer
>German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism - Beiser
>German Philosophy 1760-1860 - Pinkard
>Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics - Wittgenstein
>The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein - Editors: Kuusela and McGinn
>The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason - Schopenhauer
>The World as Will and Representation (undecided about vol. 2) - Schopenhauer
>The Philosophy of History - Hegel
>The Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel
>Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology - Lewis
>Philosophy of Mind - Editor: Chalmers

The anthology stuff should be no big deal, same with Kant's shorter works. Hegel and Schopenhauer will kill me which is why I'll probably read them after the German idealism and german philosophy books so I can have some groundwork laid out.

Wish me luck!

>German idealism

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 03:11:58 2015 No.6551291 >>6548267 Did you like Inherent Vice? Now that the movie hype is over. I didn't really care for it, sadly.

Anonymous Sun May 17 03:21:55 2015 No.6551310

Currently:
>Foucault's last three lecture courses at Collège de France where he talks about the ethics and subjectivity in the West, with emphasis on the "care for self" of the ancients.
Next:
>I'll probably reread some of Nietzsche from the perspective of those Foucault's lectures above, and try to translate it into concrete practices.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 03:29:33 2015 No.6551318 The Unconsoled The Octopus Four Novels by Marguerite Duras Harold Pinter plays 1959-1963 Maybe some Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 10:49:07 2015 No.6552226 I want to get Days of Rage and All Involved. Currently reading Catcher in the Rye.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 12:18:46 2015 No.6552531 >>6548291 read 2666 next, its truly magnificent

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 12:20:04 2015 No.6552536 The Opposing Shore Stoner Infinite Jest Nausea The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Book of Disquiet

Anonymous Sun May 17 12:24:07 2015 No.6552551

>>6551291

not him but I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was a great book but it was an enjoyable one I don't regret reading.

I'm really into psychedelics though and so I liked how they tied into so many different parts of the book and into how the characters talked and behaved. If I wasn't though I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the book as much, by the end of it I was a little tired of the whole thing.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:24:57 2015 No.6553388 ANIMORPHS

Anonymous Sun May 17 16:32:37 2015 No.6553425

>>6547270
Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow

Dubliners
A View From The Bridge
The Divine Comedy
Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales
The Trial

Those are books I have planned for the summer.

Looking to pick up some more Pynchon and Dostoevsky over the summer too. Recently became hooked on both authors. I hear I should chekov some Tolstoy and Chekov if I like Dostoevsky. Any other Russian authors I should read?

Anonymous Sun May 17 16:34:00 2015 No.6553436

Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow

Dubliners
A View From The Bridge
The Divine Comedy
Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales
The Trial

Those are books I have planned for the summer.

Looking to pick up some more Pynchon and Dostoevsky over the summer too. Recently became hooked on both authors. I hear I should chekov some Tolstoy and Chekov if I like Dostoevsky. Any other Russian authors I should read?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:36:51 2015 No.6553452 these are some books i have that i've been wanting to read: lolita electric kool-aid acid test underworld nutrition and physical degradation james joyce gravity's rainbow the trial which order?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:38:20 2015 No.6553455 >>6553452 you should read James Joyce first, it's a great novel

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:39:50 2015 No.6553462 >>6553436 Gogol, Zamyatin, and Gorky

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:41:06 2015 No.6553467 >>6553455 i most of all of joyce's books. i thought that was obvious but apparently not, huh?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 16:42:28 2015 No.6553475 >>6553436 tolstoy and chekhov are not really similar to dostoevsky except that they're russian. chekhov might have a few similarities

Anonymous Sun May 17 16:47:03 2015 No.6553493

>>6553462
Thanks, kind anon.

>>6553475
That's fair enough. I just remember seeing a post or two on /lit/ recommending both writers if somebody liked Dostoevsky. Still plan on reading their work in the near-future though. Thanks for the heads up, good to not get my hopes up about more Dostoevsky-esque work.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 17:35:05 2015 No.6553659 >>6547231 Jurassic Park Dog Training for Dummies Harry Potter Series Breakfast of Champions

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 17:49:42 2015 No.6553712 A Hero of Our Time White Noise Mason & Dixon The Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 17:51:00 2015 No.6553715 Just finished The Moviegoer and am starting Swann's Way. >the existential pain is real

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 17:55:00 2015 No.6553731 Reading: Skagboys How Proteins Work Free will: A very short intro Next up: Maybe Fear & Trembling or Philosophical Investigations. Perhaps another stab at Ulysses...

Anonymous Sun May 17 21:15:24 2015 No.6554522

>>6547231
>"father goriot" Balzac
>"antimanuel de philosophie" Michel Onfray
>"the ego and his own" Bill Murray
Yeah did it /lit/, I will read fucking stirner.

After that I have a couple of ideas, like "the nasuea" or "the second sex". I'm quite interested in everything between 19-20th century right now.

Anonymous Sun May 17 21:50:07 2015 No.6554689

All the books in my nighstand at the moment:

Notes From Underground by Dostoyevski
Religious Ethics by HH Dalai Lama
Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper
Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard
A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Ulysses by Joyce
62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortazar

Anonymous Sun May 17 21:50:13 2015 No.6554690

>Finished
My Twisted World (Elliot Rodger)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)

>Dropped
120 Days of Sodom (Marquis de Sade)
V (Thomas Pynchon)
Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)

>Planning to read
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick)
VALIS (Philip K. Dick)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (H. G. Wells)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 21:59:01 2015 No.6554746 >>6554690 >Lotsa Dick. >My nigga. A Scanner Darkly is my favorite of his novels. I'm barely on the first page of The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 22:00:26 2015 No.6554756 non-fiction Wretched of the Earth - Fanon Wealth of Nations - Smith fiction Book of the New Sun - Wolfe Call of Cthulu and other weird stories - Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 22:46:21 2015 No.6554981 >>6547231 Memento Audere Semper 2516 Libra Geographies of Strabo

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 02:13:29 2015 No.6555513 >>6547231 mona lisa overdrive infinite jest playboy sci fi anthology swanns way the bees

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 02:17:08 2015 No.6555519 my next few books are: the golden bough the fabric of the cosmos the consolation of philosophy

Anonymous Mon May 18 04:23:03 2015 No.6555776
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almost done with The Familiar (which is, thanks to pages with literally just 3 pink dots on them, the fastest I've ever read an 800+ page novel.

up next is The Gunslinger, the second Wild Cards book

inb4 Steven King and George RR Martin hate

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 04:24:34 2015 No.6555778 >>6555776 should be an "and" in between those two books. sorry /lit

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 04:33:49 2015 No.6555787 The Rommel Papers Infantry Attacks not sure after that

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 04:48:43 2015 No.6555806 >multiple books to read Why? How? You can only read one at a time slow down and wait

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 04:58:28 2015 No.6555820 Pale Fire Labyrinths Fear and Trembling The Immoralist

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 05:03:07 2015 No.6555823 autobiography of a brown buffalo martin fierro the waves speedboat invisible cities novel with cocaine

Anonymous Mon May 18 05:21:58 2015 No.6555852

>Currently reading
Metamorphosis and Other Stories

>Reading next
The Trial

>Planned reads (in order)
Cannery Row
Dubliners
Lolita
A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man
Norwegian Wood
Stoner
Doctor Zhivago
Confessions of a Mask
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
V
Ulysses
Pnin
Kokoro
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
Tortilla Flat
Light in August
Sanshiro
Outer Dark

Hopefully I should get this all done by the end of summer, except for Ulysses (might take that one slowly).

Anonymous Mon May 18 05:34:46 2015 No.6555868

>>6547231
The Making of Law
The Parasite
Cosmopolitics II
Theory of the Partisan
The Body Multiple
Que diraient les animaux, si ... on leur posait les bonnes questions ?
The laws of the markets
Ni duieu ni gene
The Concept of Nature
Science and the Modern World
Process and Reality
Some stuff by Auguste Comte

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:07:44 2015 No.6556615 >>6551204 >Mike Foucault Kek

Anonymous Mon May 18 11:21:50 2015 No.6556648

-Las últimas lagrimas del guerrero - Juan Diego Loaiza (My favorite school teacher posthumus book, published by his family)
-A prayer for Owen Meany - irving
-The Conspiracy against the human race - Ligotti
-El obsceno pájaro de la noche - Donoso
-The castle in the Forest - Norman Mailer
-Pirke Aboth
-Mount Analogue - René Daumal
-Geometry Revisited - Coxeter

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:25:28 2015 No.6556655 >>6547870 >Autumn of the Patriarch Get ready to a weird, awesome, difficult trip. It is worth it. Finish it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:35:55 2015 No.6556680 >>6555519 >the golden bough Are you going to read the abriged version or do you want to commit intellectual seppuku?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:47:17 2015 No.6556714 >people are actually responding to OP I see that making your list of books known is very important to you guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 11:49:30 2015 No.6556722 File: 31 KB, 325x382, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6556714 >being this ass blasted

Anonymous Mon May 18 11:50:37 2015 No.6556725

been down so long it looks like up to me by richard farina
the fire next time by james baldwin
bright lights, big city by jay mcinerney
slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion

working through some books i didn't get to from my courses this semester, and some fun ones thrown in

Anonymous Mon May 18 12:06:07 2015 No.6556762
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War and Peace
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
A Scanner Darkly
The Gambler
Narcissus and Goldmund
The Stranger
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Gay Science
Infinite Jest
The Good Earth
On War
Paradise Lost
Faust
City of God
Confessions (also by Augustine)
Suma Theologica (is that by Aquinas? I need some Aquinas)
Les Miserables
Gravitys Rainbow
All Quiet on the Western Front
Neuromancer
A Clockwork Orange

Maybe some Wittgenstein, after I finish the following
Some Kant
Some Sartre
Some Simone De Beauvoir

To reread:
Fear and Trembling
Either/Or
Sickness Unto Death
Works of Love
120 Days of Sodom
The Bible

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>>6555852

Try the Metamorphosis before you do The Trail, if you haven't already. In the trial, because of layered characterization and a frequency of dialogue, it can become easy to forget that it's really a grand alegory, and an allegory within and allegory as it nears the end. Read at least one essay on it by someone you respect before trying it. That's what I did with 120 Days of Sodom, read Beauvoir's Esssay on it. Zero regrets.

Take a 2 day break beforre and after the trial as well as Blood Meridian. i now it's not quite kosher, but these deserve the time it takes for the ideas to sink in. Just saw you're readin metamorphosis, good show, I think we have the same copy.

>>6555787

Try
On War by Clausewitz
The Prince by Machiavelli and reread
The Art of Wart by Sun Tzu skip the Prince if you never want to lead or command anything, but if you want rise to power of a kind and hold it, he has considerations you need.

>>6554690

Give 120 Days another try, it's worth it. Read Lolita if it's too dense, then return. If it's the material I recommend another reading of Blood Meridian to harden your soul, if too dense I recommend you read more slowly, carefully and man up.

>>6554689
Why would the Dalai Lama know anything about ethics? He's just going to go deontological with an eastern slant, just read Kant.

Read Dubliners and Finnegan's before you do Ulysses.

>>6553712

Greeks first. Not meming, they're necessary. Do the Illiad, the Odyssey, the Aeniad and if you have time the Argonautica. If you put the hamer down you can do them in a week or two, then get back to your reading list.

>>6553436

Soljenysen. That's deifnitely a mispelling, but he was the definition of WW1, outside of Hemingway and All Quiet on the Western Front.

>>6551229

Godspeed you glorious golden bastard. Some day you will understand more than we could possibly know. just do me a favor. When you're done, contribute yourself.

>>6548291

Read 120 Days of Sodom instead of Rusdie. His 'freedom' is edgy without the point of being entertaining.

>>6547962

Fleurs du Mal if you haven't already on Baudelaire.

>>6547814

Every book on this list is excellent. Take a minute after Siddartha though.

>>6547812

Bread pill I see? Good stuff.

>>6547236

I think he's doing it because it describes the notion that the things we wish to do both disgust and unnerve us, not by their neccessity, but the fact that we have not done them. They torment us, and here we see a man broken by that which he cannot help, cannot remove, and cannot help but feel creep along the surface of his being, perhaps visible to all those who care to look at him. It's pretty apt.

Anonymous Mon May 18 14:17:52 2015 No.6557173

>currently reading
Consumed a Novel - Cronenberg
2666 - Bolaño
The Collected stories - Lydia Davis
The Colossus and other poems - Plath
The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson
Subliminal - Modlinow

>to be read... maybe
Signal to Noise - Silvia Moreno
Underworld - Delillo
a bunch of Marquez

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:22:12 2015 No.6557187 Les miserables Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Master and Marguerita For whom the bell tolls

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 14:22:22 2015 No.6557188 >>6547231 Steppenwolf The bohicaryavatara Helmet for my Pillow Underworld Confessions of an Advertising Man

Anonymous Mon May 18 15:56:35 2015 No.6557670

Albert Speer - Spandau
Bertrand Russel - The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
C.G.Jung - The Red Book
Ernst Junger - Storm of Steel
Joseph Stalin - Works
The Autobiography of Malxolm X
T.E.Lawrence - Seven pillars of WIsdom
Theodor Herzl - The Jewish State
The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943
Viktor E.Frankl - Man's Search for meaning

Anonymous Mon May 18 16:12:01 2015 No.6557749

I am currently reading The Biocentric Worldview by Klages, Brighton Rock by Greene, A Mencken Chrestomathy, Camp of the Saints by Raspail, and Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Pirandello. I finished reading The Stand and Dorian Gray yesterday. I've been anxious to plow through what I'm currently reading to start fresh, especially since these all have been slow burners that I'm on the last few pages of.

Anonymous Mon May 18 16:15:36 2015 No.6557764
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>>6547231
Currently reading Narcissus and Goldmund.

Being and Time - Heidegger
Either/Or - Kierkegaard
Iliad - Homer
Faust - Goethe
Actually wondering about the last one. Not seeing a definitive edition on amazon. Any recommendations for a translation? Leaning towards Kaufmann's, but I'll gladly read suggestions for alternatives.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 16:18:53 2015 No.6557777 >>6556762 How is Works of Love?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 16:42:40 2015 No.6557909 >>6557670 >muh profoundity

Anonymous Mon May 18 16:49:52 2015 No.6557954
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>>6557777

It's Kierkegaard, so a little awkward aroun the edges. It deals a lot with the immutability of God and the infinite compassion/ and beneficence of God, which are thing most Christians enjoy. I would highly recommend it for a post bread pill education. Pic slightly related, Kierkegaard always makes me think of this.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 16:54:47 2015 No.6557988 >>6557954 >post bread pill education ?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 17:52:07 2015 No.6558269 >>6548274 same

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 17:54:51 2015 No.6558283 >>6557173 I'd read The savage Detectives before 2666. Much more light-hearted, not as dense and still GOAT. 2666 can put you off from Bolaño and make you think all of his stuff is in the same vein, when it's not the case at all.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 17:56:21 2015 No.6558290 File: 256 KB, 636x708, 1430242158010.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6547231 Paradise Lost Structure of Sci. Rev. Confederancy of Dunces Did Marco Polo go to China? Immediate Fiction Elements of Style Those are the books I'm reading now.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:03:21 2015 No.6558315 Gödel Escher Bach Kafka's letter to his father Robinson Crusoe Anneli Rufus - Party of one Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 18:04:48 2015 No.6558322 Kierkegaard - Selections Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Natsume Soseki - Sanshiro

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