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Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:24:28 2015 No.6762032 [Reply] [Original]

The year is half way up, post what you've read so far. pic related.

my new years goal was to read 12 and I ended up enjoying it way more than expected (before this year I'd read maybe 10 books over ~20 years)

favs: saving the appearances (highly recommend), siddhartha
worst: lathe of heaven, cs lewis, bryson

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:30:51 2015 No.6762046 File: 974 KB, 708x974, read.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Highlights being the Three Theban Plays, Ulysses, Mason & Dixon, A Void and Benjamin's works

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:35:51 2015 No.6762059

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Rhinoceros and other plays by Eugen Ionesco
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Mr. Gatlings Terrible Marvel by Julia Keller
The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
The Caucasin Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Bertolt Brecht
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Threepenny Oprea by Bertolt Brecht
The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marguis de Sade by Peter Weiss

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:38:28 2015 No.6762066

>>6762032
-The Great Gatsby
-No Country for Old Men
-Starting Point (a collection of Hayao Miyazaki's writings and interviews)
-2/3rds of A Confederacy of Dunces (/lit/ overhyped it)
-The Stranger
-Childhood's End
-Child of God
-Hell's Angels
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Also halfway through One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which I dislike. Please tell me now if it does any radical shift in ideas or tone otherwise imma move on to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. After that is The Seven Storey Mountain and then Chesterton. Also at some point I plan to Start with the Greeks. Not /lit/erary yet but on the way.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:42:37 2015 No.6762075

Kafka short story collection
Crying of lot 49
The Trial
Ficciones
Siddhartha
Crime and Punishment
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Botchan
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mythology Edith Hamilton
Narcissus and Goldmund
Thousand Cranes
Confessions of a Mask
Death of Ivan
Dubliners
Heart of Darkness
Stoner
Confederacy of Dunces
Theban Plays

Pretty new to reading, haven't even been here a full year yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:45:59 2015 No.6762080 File: 904 KB, 900x1320, milbert_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Metamorphosis, Kafka Great Expectations, Dickens Harry Potter 1-7 Heart of Darkness, Conrad ALL of T.S. Elliot Milbert Mulberries: the Least Fancy Cow, Grant

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:54:06 2015 No.6762103

My personal favorites:

All of Milan Kundera, particularly The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and the Farewell Waltz
1984 by Orwell
The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Metamorphosis by Kafka
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon

Those are existential as you seem to prefer but if if you're open to crime/suspense:
Dan Brown books!!!! ALL OF THEM

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 19:54:51 2015 No.6762106 >>6762066 I can't imagine what you dislike about it. I enjoyed it but I thought the ending was really heavy handed, so you might hate it. maybe it's quittin' time, homey.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:00:13 2015 No.6762125

Finish One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Stop and appreciate the unreliable narrator, Chief Bromden, as he recounts the tragedy of the anti-hero McMurphy. Kesey wrote it under the influences of LSD from volunteer testing. It is in the pantheon of American Counterculture Literature and stands above its peers. You would appreciate The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test more so after doing so.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:01:24 2015 No.6762127

Books I read in 2015

1. The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
2. The Red and the Black by Stendahl
3. The Game of Our Lives by David Goldblatt
4. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
5. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
6. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
7. The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
8. The Man Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson
9. Confessions of a Mask by Yukiko Mishima
10. The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
11. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
12. The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
13. Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy
14. The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
15. My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger
16. The 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States
17. Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
18. Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge
19. The Collector by John Fowles
Books I read in 2015

Reading Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse at the moment.
Notes from Underground is next on the list.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:06:01 2015 No.6762134
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1. Rubicon: Last Years of the Roman Republic - Tom Holland
2. Euthyphro - Plato
3. Apology - Plato
4. Crito - Plato
5. Meno - Plato
6. Phaedo - PLato
7. Symposium - Plato
8. Hiroshima - John Hershey
9. The Rise of Rome - Anthony Everitt
10 The Roman Army - Chris Mcnab
11. The Inheiritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 AD - Chris Wickham

Currently about to jump onto medieval and byzantine history. Inheiritance is so dense, it's taken me ages. I also have a Caesar biography to read over, along with a massive tome of the Crusades

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:16:50 2015 No.6762159

>>6762106
I dislike it because there was a chance for nuance and it was blown. Instead McMurphy is this inhumanly idealistic Christ figure of liberation and the Combine (therefore society) is portrayed from the POV of hippie, i.e. mechanically dehumanizing but without a sympathetic goal. The main points themselves are essentially correct, but the book so far has excluded many elements that would have greatly enriched it. What is the end goal of the Combine's mechanical perfection? What happens when McMurphy has nothing to rebel against? What can the inmates do to really survive in the outside world? This is why I ask if it gets better, because at this point I can see almost everything it is trying to say (although I hope I am wrong) and move on to Acid Test.

>>6762125
Bromden is the one aspect I can truly appreciate, a unique narrator that can only exist in the novel's circumstances and urges the reader himself to action (although with an interpretation of Indians that only a hippie could have). It's just that the rest of the novel is decidedly average where I could be reading better things.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:18:55 2015 No.6762166

1. Colourless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. Story - Robert McKee
4. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
5. Batman: Death of the Family - Scott Snyder (don't into comics really but have a phase once a year or so)
6. The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
7. Age of Ultron - Michael Bendis (Said phase won't be happening for a while after this one)
8. Hegarty on Advertising - John Hegarty
9. Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy
9. Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy
10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Currently reading:
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
Pathways to Bliss - Joseph Campbell

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:23:47 2015 No.6762178 >>6762166 How is The Book Thief? The only things I know about it are that it's easy and the teenage girls I work with love it.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:24:41 2015 No.6762180

This is just Prose, 80% of what I read is poetry and plays

Herzog - Saul Bellow
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller… - Italo Calvino
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Among Others - Jo Walton
Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You - Alice Munro
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Currently reading: Mrs. Dalloway

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:25:36 2015 No.6762185 File: 3.84 MB, 4160x2340, IMG_20150701_012418.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Only started reading again this year after a long absence.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:31:05 2015 No.6762197

>>6762178
I enjoyed it. For me it wasn't as amazing as it was for other people though.

To be fair I was high on meds half the time since I was reading it at the hospital whilst having my appendix out (on Christmas FUCKING Eve), so take my opinion for what you will.

It's a good book, either way. How good is up to you to decide for yourself I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:31:58 2015 No.6762201 I've read basically nothing. I keep picking up books and putting them back down.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:42:49 2015 No.6762224 File: 1.20 MB, 2448x3264, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've made the mistake of reading Infinite Jest. So my reading has slowed

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:44:15 2015 No.6762227

65 so far

The Stand - King
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
The Tempest - Shakespeare
The Gunslinger - King
The Children of Hurin - Tolkien
The Drawing of the Three - King
The Silmarillion - Tolkien
Shadows Linger - Cook
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Vonnegut
The Book of Lost Tales 1 - Tolkien
The Waste Lands - King
The White Rose - Cook
The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
The Book of Lost Tales 2 - Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
'Salem's Lot - King
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
Shadow Games - Cook
Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare
Wizard and Glass - King
Insomnia - King
The Lays of Beleriand - Tolkien
Everything's Eventual - King
Dreams of Steel - Cook
Eyes of the Dragon - King
The Shaping of Middle Earth - Tolkien
Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare
The Silver Spike - Cook
Hearts in Atlantis - King
The Lost Road - Tolkien
Wolves of the Calla - King
Love's Labours Lost - Shakespeare
The Stranger - Camus
Bleak Seasons - Cook
Beowulf - Tolkien translation
Frankenstein - Shelley
Song of Susannah - King
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
She is the Darkness - Cook
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Water Sleeps - Cook
The Dark Tower - King
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Iliad - Homer Fagles Translation
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
As You Like It - Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
The Plague - Camus
The Odyssey - Homer
Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare
The complete poems - Shakespeare
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
Theogony + Work and Days + Elegies - Hesiod (first two) & Theognis
Stoner - Williams
Othello - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare

Reading currently Les Miserables, The Histories of Herodotus, Blood Meridian, Timon of Athens, and Lingua Latina per sua Illustrata

Going to read the Xenophon, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Menander, the rest of Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, the rest of Dostoevsky, the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Faulkner, Delillo, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, the rest of Shakespeare, Gawain + Pearl + Orfeo, Le Morte Darthur, Canterbury Tales, Utopia, and Marlowe

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:45:17 2015 No.6762232 >>6762180 What notable plays and poems have you read this year?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:45:25 2015 No.6762233 >>6762227 >counting plays which take an hour to read

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:50:59 2015 No.6762246 >>6762233 They're comparable with novellas in length. Hamlet is about 30000 words and Comedy of Errors is something like 14000. So yeah, they're short but it's not like I counted Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus seperately.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:56:16 2015 No.6762253 >>6762227 > half are short poems pistolfrog.png

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 20:59:20 2015 No.6762264 >>6762253 Are you talking about the plays? They're 3000-5000 lines each, that's long enough to be a novella in my book.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:00:42 2015 No.6762271

Poems of Paul Celan
TS Eliot's Poems Written in Early Youth
Hegel's Early Theological Writings
God Here and Now
Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy
The Totality for Kids
Come on All You Ghosts
Ethical Consciousness
In Catilinam 1-2
Selections from Homer’s Iliad
Greek: An Intensive Course
Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners
The Spectral Wilderness
The Cloud Corporation
Patter
Tender Buttons

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:01:14 2015 No.6762273 File: 632 KB, 627x766, 2015.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not pictured: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. At the moment I'm reading Snow Country/Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:09:13 2015 No.6762291

All since last christmas when I decided to start reading again.
1. John Williams - Stoner
2. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
3. Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
5. Joseph Heller - Catch-22
6. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
7. James Joyce - Dubliners
8. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
9. David Foster Wallace - The Pale King
10. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
11. James Joyce - Poems and a Play
12. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
13. Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
14. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
15. Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
16. Plato - Symposium
17. Sun Tzu - The Art of War
18. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
19. Sean Patrick - Nikola Tesla
20. Sean Patrick - Alexander the Great
21. Karl Marx - On the Jewish Question
22. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
23. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
24. Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
25. Don DeLillo - White Noise
26. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
27. William Shakespeare - Othello
28. Valerie Solanas - SCUM Manifesto
29. Anthony Kiedis - Scar Tissue
30. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
31. Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, then as Farce
32. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Currently reading: Tao Lin - Richard Yates

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:09:38 2015 No.6762294

Pt. 1

Fiction:
>Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood
>Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
>The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
>Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
>The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
>Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
>Northern Lights: Legends, Sagas, and Folk Tales ed. Kevin Crossley-Holland
>Mao II by Don DeLillo
>Two Crocodiles by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Felisberto Hernandez
>The Moslem Wife & Other Stories by Mavis Gallant
>Amerika by Franz Kafka
>Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
>Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
>Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya
>Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
>Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
>Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction ed. Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers
>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
>Letter from Casablanca by Antonio Tabucchi
>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (currently reading)
>Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed by Tennessee Williams

Poetry:
>The Tale of the Campaign of Igor
>Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
>The Animals in that Country by Margaret Atwood
>Momentary Dark by Margaret Avison
>Airstream Land Yacht by Ken Babstock
>Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson
>Processional by Anne Compton
>Lnu and Indians We are Called by Rita Joe
>Selected Poems by Alden Nowlan
>The Dream World by Alison Pick
>Poets of the Confederation ed. Malcolm Ross
>The Road In Is Not The Same Road Out by Karen Solie
>Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas

History:
>Anatolia: Cauldron of Cultures by Dale Brown
>Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe
>The Conquests of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel
>Carthage Must be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
>The Secret History by Procopius
>The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
>The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Chris Wickham

Life Writing:
>The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney: 1887-1890 by Tappan Adney

Religion & Mythology:
>Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BC to 395 CE by Francoise Dunand & Christiane Zivie-Coche
>The Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Science & Mathematics:
>How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff

Theory & Criticism:
>Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
>Cultural Theory: An Anthology ed. Imre Szemen & Timothy Kaposy
>Modecai Richler by George Woodcock

As the year goes on I'm planning on reading some more Japanese & Latin American lit, some Feynman, and more life writing (memoir, biography, etc.).

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:11:44 2015 No.6762301

>>6762294
Pt. 2

Comics, Manga, etc.:
>Star Wars, Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes! by Jason Aaron
>Thor, Vol. 1: Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron
>Thor, Vol. 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron
>Joker by Brian Azzarello
>Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 3: Strange Fruit by Tony Bedard & Peter Calloway
>Secret Invasion by Brian Michael Bendis
>Siege by Brian Michael Bendis
>Siege Prelude by Brian Michael Bendis
>Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 11: Carnage by Brian Michael Bendis
>Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 3: Death of Spider-Man Prelude by Brian Michael Bendis
>Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis
>Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout by Brian Michael Bendis
>Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
>X-Men: Battle of the Atom by Brian Michael Bendis
>Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
>Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
>Magneto, Vol. 2: Reversals by Cullen Bunn
>The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes
>Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
>Brooklyn Dreams, Vol. 1: Dog Days by J.M. DeMatteis
>Batman: Mad Love & Other Stories by Paul Dini
>Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 1-2 by Paul Dini
>Preacher, Vol. 1-8 by Garth Ennis
>Siege: Thor by Kieron Gillen
>Thor: Siege Aftermath by Kieron Gillen
>King City by Brandon Graham
>Adventure Time Presents: Marceline and the Scream Queens by Meredith Gran
>Black Widow by Devin Grayson
>Captain America: Theater of War by Paul Jenkins
>Incognegro by Mat Johnson
>Lost Dogs by Jeff Lemire
>Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1-6 by Jeff Lemire
>Teen Titans: Earth One by Jeff Lemire
>Trillium by Jeff Lemire
>Batman: Haunted Knight by Jeph Loeb
>Civil War by Mark Millar
>Old Man Logan by Mark Millar
>Justice League Dark, Vol. 1: In the Dark by Peter Milligan
>Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki
>Daytripper by Fabio Moon
>Death Note, Vol. 8-12 by Tsugumi Ohba
>Star Wars Legacy, Book 1-3 by John Ostrander
>Trigger Girl 6 by Jimmy Palmiotti
>Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell
>Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1-2 by Brian Reed
>Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave by Greg Rucka
>Palestine by Joe Sacco
>Persepolis, Vol. 1-2 by Marjane Satrapi
>The Sigh by Marjane Satrapi
>Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
>She-Hulk: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Dan Slott
>She-Hulk, Vol. 1: Law and Disorder by Charles Soule
>Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Michael A. Stackpole
>Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart
>Superman: Earth One by J. Michael Straczynski
>Thor, Vol. 1-3 by J. Michael Straczynski
>Superior Iron Man, Vol. 1: Infamous by Tom Taylor
>Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
>X-Men, Vol. 2: Muertas by Brian Wood
>Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist's Diary of a Crisis in Serbia by Aleksandar Zograf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:13:19 2015 No.6762309 >>6762301 >counting manga/comics The quality of posts is extremely important to this community. Contributors are encouraged to provide high-quality images and informative comments.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:14:28 2015 No.6762315
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Just started getting in to reading this year.
I've read since January:

American Psycho
Brave New World
The Metamorphosis
Animal Farm
The Plague
Notes from Underground
The Fountainhead
The Great Gatsby
Lolita
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Walden
Moby Dick

Currently halfway through Ulysses.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:15:28 2015 No.6762320 >>6762315 Oh, and Siddhartha

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:15:49 2015 No.6762321 >keeping track of every thing you read. okay~ I read War and Peace at some point, I'll say that much. Oh and I realized Fitzgerald was good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:17:41 2015 No.6762325 >>6762321 It's not like it's hard. You just write down the author and title in a word doc once you finish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:17:53 2015 No.6762326 >>6762315 How was Animal Farm? Did it depress you the way 1948 depressed me?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:18:54 2015 No.6762329 >>6762326 1984*

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:19:57 2015 No.6762334 >>6762326 Animal Farm isn't depressing like 1984. It is an allegory with some pretty upsetting implications but nothing disturbing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:20:09 2015 No.6762335 >>6762032 How is a short history of decay? Have you read any other cioran to compare it to?

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:23:12 2015 No.6762338

>>6762326
I thought it was more funny than depressing.
As an allegory for the more disturbing parts of political corruption and exploitation, it's a bit on the depressing side, but it's very simple with it's language and themes (they're fucking barn animals), which made it very lighthearted read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:41:13 2015 No.6762374 >>6762334 >>6762338 Ah, thank you. Now I can further explore Orwellian philosophy without fear of PTSD

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:47:00 2015 No.6762390 >>6762374 If you're afraid of Orwell, avoid McCarthy

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:54:15 2015 No.6762403

>>6762032
I always find it hard to keep track of what I actually read, and then judging how many isnt really representative how much you read... you can read 2-3 1000+ page novels that actually challenge you or 40 easy 200 page throw away books.

the Baroque series- 7 books or 3 volumes which ever you prefer 3000ish pages
the Orphanage series- 5 easy books in all maybe 1500 pages
Anathem another 1000+ pages
Dune another 4-500 pages

so not many this year and not all of it that challenging, but entertaining to say the least.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 21:58:05 2015 No.6762412

Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare's Histories
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Lolita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dubliners
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Farewell To Arms
The Elementary Particles
The Magus
The Mad and the Bad
The Road
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra. Yes, memes count.
Snow Country
1984
Ferdydurke
The Man in the High Castle
A Tale of Two Cities
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms
1982, Janine
The Brothers Karamazov

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 22:06:00 2015 No.6762443

keep going OP

here's my 2015
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Rabbit, Run by John Updike
>Dubliners
>Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
>Atop an Underwood by Jack Kerouac
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Seymour: an Introduction by Jack Kerouac
>First Love by Ivan Turgenev
>The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
>A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
>Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein edited by Carl Can Vechten
>Kangaroo by DH Lawrence
>The Complete Short Stories vol. 1-2 by DH Lawrence
>Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
>Middlemarch by George Eliot
>Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein

and whatever other pieces

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 22:07:14 2015 No.6762444 >>6762443 >Seymour: an Introduction by JD Salinger*****

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:11:35 2015 No.6762628

>>6762335
It was a strange experience reading that. It so beautifully destroyed every conceivable ambition in such a dark, depressing way that I could only read a few pages at a time. Like sipping a strong drink. I think I finished 2 or 3 other books while reading it. It feels like a final philosophy because it makes a joke of basically all human history in a way that's deeply unsettling but also amusing, like there's no other reaction to have other than just stare blankly at the page and kind of smirk. There were many times that he summed up some complex feeling of despair so succinctly that I had to copy it down. Pic related. I haven't read anything else by him yet.

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Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:24:24 2015 No.6762657

Metamorphoses
The Sun Also Rises
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Anathem
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
East of Eden
Tinkers
Libra
History of the Peloponnesian War
Absalom, Absalom!
The Man in the High Castle
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Left Hand of Darkness
Fictions
The Aleph
Great Expectations
Swamplandia!
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:27:27 2015 No.6762667 >>6762628 you are such a fucking moron m8. god it is so ineffectual and weak and fearful. like really come on. read kierkegaard or hume or someone who was not just roiling in their own grimdark juices

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:30:57 2015 No.6762678
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I'll join this circle jerk
Nausea
The Brothers K
Howl & Other poems
Pale Fire
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Crying of Lot 49
Notes From Underground
Hard Rain Falling
Infinite Maymay
Brave New World
The Naked Lunch
All The Light We Cannot See
Beautiful Ruins
Catch 22
V.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:33:55 2015 No.6762693

I need to read more:

Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
Burning Chrome by William Gibson
Herodotus' Histories
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy by Tao Lin
The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:36:20 2015 No.6762699 >>6762667 give me a break bro, it is literally the 20th or so book I've read in my life.

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:42:43 2015 No.6762721

I'm at around 120 this year.

Some nice selections I enjoyed:

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
The Amber Chronicles by Zelazny
Four of the Jeeves novels by Wodehous
The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Adam in Eden by Carlos Fuentes
Journey to the End of Night by Celine
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Around 10 PKD books including VALIS, the Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Stoner by John Williams
Augustus by John Williams
Butchers Crossing by John Williams
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
Satanatango by Lalzo Kraznahorkai
The Adventures of Sindbad by Gyula Krudy
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
Dubliners by James Joyce
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Silence by Shusaku Endo
All of Raymond Carvers collected short stories
Several of Simenon's Romans durs
Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Cannery Row by Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom, and The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner.

I would love more recommendations

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:44:08 2015 No.6762729 >>6762721 The dictionary

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:45:48 2015 No.6762732 >>6762721 Seiobo there below, if you haven't read it yet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:45:51 2015 No.6762733 >>6762729 ty m8, any particular editions?

Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:54:05 2015 No.6762753

La Dame aux CamÃ©lias Alexandre Dumas-fils
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini
The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon Alexandre Dumas
Child of God Cormac McCarthy
The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories William Gay
Silas Marner George Eliot
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do Daniel Woodrell
On Fire Larry Brown
The Rabbit Factory Larry Brown
Dirty Work Larry Brown
Fay Larry Brown
A Miracle of Catfish Larry Brown
Joe Larry Brown
Father and Son Larry Brown
Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy
The Long Home William Gay
Twilight William Gay
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #7) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Speckled Band (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #8) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Empty House (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9) Arthur Conan Doyle
Silver Blaze (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) Arthur Conan Doyle
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle
Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun
Persuasion Jane Austen
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Hunger Knut Hamsun
The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas
The Call of the Wild Jack London
White Fang Jack London
Middlemarch George Eliot
London Bridge Louis-Ferdinand CÃ©line
Quite Ugly One Morning (Jack Parlabane, #1) Christopher Brookmyre
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Guignol's Band Louis-Ferdinand CÃ©line
The Thief's Journal Jean Genet
Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois (The Last Valois, #1) Alexandre Dumas
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
The Watch Rick Bass
A Rumor Of War Philip Caputo
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4) John Fante
The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #2) John Fante
Chump Change Dan Fante
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #1) John Fante
Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy
The Brotherhood of the Grape John Fante
Suttree Cormac McCarthy
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) Arthur Conan Doyle
The Fan Man William Kotzwinkle

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 30 23:56:18 2015 No.6762758 >>6762753 My one piece of advice is don't read The Fan Man, it is fucking terrible.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 01:32:33 2015 No.6763010 >>6762953 that's all you read this year so far?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 01:33:36 2015 No.6763016 >>6763010 yup. a lot of them were novellas or short non-fiction books, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 01:41:55 2015 No.6763041 POST FAVS O S T F A V S

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 04:42:23 2015 No.6763435

Current: Madame Bovary

Mythology Edith Hamilton
Story of the Eye Georges Bataille
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Manon Lescaut Abbe Prévost
Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant
The Cloud of Unknowing Anonymous

The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Stanislaw Lem
The Theban Plays Sophocles
How the Page Matters Bonnie Mak
Solaris Stanislaw Lem
Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII Plato
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline Daniel Rosenberg
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays Luigi Pirandello
The Republic Plato
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 05:13:46 2015 No.6763497 >>6762185 I'm just starting to get into the habit of reading and I'm finding some parts of Neuromancer a bit difficult to follow. I'm on the fourth chapter, am I retarded, or do I just need to read more often?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 05:20:02 2015 No.6763511 >>6763497 Just try and pay attention as best you can, sometimes Gibson makes things more complex than they need to be, but it's all fairly simple. Once you're into it it gets easier. It feels very fast paced at the beginning.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 05:41:39 2015 No.6763554 >>6763497 gibson is easy, there is only one really difficult passage in that book just keep reading, you most likely wont miss any key details. yes you most likely need to read more often, but you also need to know when something is intentionally vague

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 06:02:01 2015 No.6763581 >>6762264 In you book? more like your poems. kek

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Anonymous Wed Jul 1 06:23:00 2015 No.6763628

The Great Gatsby
A Streetcar Named Desire and The GLass Menagerie
Waiting for Godot
The importance of Being Earnest
Fahrenheit 451
Island-Alistair Macleod
Medea
Hedda Gabbler
The Cat's table- Michael Ondatjee
Dracula
The imperfectionists- Tom Rachman
The Age of Reason
Im also almost finished And the Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 06:43:33 2015 No.6763680 File: 1.35 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Decent progress so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 12:24:21 2015 No.6764602 >>6763628 >Im also almost finished And the Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave How's that? I'm a fan of his music but Bunny Munro was just alright for me.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 12:37:21 2015 No.6764637

Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
Willful Creatures (Aimee Bender)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Carver)
Pastors and Masters (Ivy Compton-Burnett)
The Names (DeLillo)
The White Album (Didion)
Of Human Bondage (Somerset Maugham)
The Sound of the Waves (Mishima)
Blacklung (Chris Wright)

I'm having an awfully slow year.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 12:43:38 2015 No.6764647

Ficciones - Borges
Slow Learner - Pynchon
Inherent Vice - Pynchon
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Portnoy's Complaint - Roth
Light in August - Faukner
The Crossing - McCarthy
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Siddhartha - Hesse
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
White Noise - DeLillo
Cities of the Plain - McCarthy
Infinite Jest - Wallace

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 12:49:12 2015 No.6764665 >>6762032 I'll type it out because some things were on my kindle: A Storm of Swords A Feast for Crows The Secret History Frankenstein Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Never Let Me Go

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 15:41:42 2015 No.6765264

>>6762032
ok, this thread must be one of two things

People are heavily exaggerating or they are being honest and rarely talk about the books they read. Or, threads like this draw like a flame the ones who read for vanity and don't actually try for quality of understanding only quantity.

It took me a good month and a half to read Moby Dick while reading another book in the dry spells and some people are naming off really long books with like 30 others. Also all the people saying "New to reading" and naming off like 20 books that are difficult to understand for a new reader as they regard previous works or require precise knowledge of history/anthropology.

I don't know.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 15:48:22 2015 No.6765288

laszlo krasznahorkai - seiobo there below
marilynne robinson - housekeeping
ryunosuke akutagawa - hell screen
nicholson baker - the mezzanine
karen joy fowler - we are all completely beside ourselves
patrick hamilton - the slaves of solitude
justin torres - we the animals
richard yates - eleven kinds of loneliness
margaret atwood - alias grace
vladimir sorokin - ice trilogy
laszlo krasznahorkai - the melancholy of resistance

i am waaay behind considering that i read 50 last year. i've started and not finished a whole bunch of stuff and just generally been a lazy cunt
i do like that i seem to have read eleven books and one of them is called eleven kinds of loneliness

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 15:50:42 2015 No.6765301

>>6765264
personally i try not to go on too much about what i read, and even the amount i do post about the books i read, i think 'gosh, people must be sick of that guy posting about krasznahorkai for the 10th time'
and i don't really have that much valuable to say
i just like reading books and then posting that i've read them on 4chan for internet acclaim

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:04:49 2015 No.6765351

>>6762032
30 so far
From most recent to the earlier read with opinions
Litany of the Long Sun- not as good as some of Wolfe's other works, but still quite goo
Crying of Lot 49- nonsensical postmodernist garbage
First Heretic- entertaining horus heresy novel, one of the best in the series
Aurelian- also horus heresy, this one is fun too
Vengeful Spirit- garbage even by entertanment standards
Confessions- well written, but not as compelling as I had expected it to be
Unremembered Empire- fun horus heresy, yes I read for entertanment too
The Age of Shakespeare- educational and short, would recommend to those interested in Shakespare
Neuromancer- aged really badly, shitty writing, uninteresting characters and basic action movie plot
City of God- pretty brilliant, you get a peek at what the most educated men were like in roman times, also theology that is now very integrated into everything so it isn't as interesting in that department
An Agenda for Personal Excellence- how to live aristotles ethics in todays world, not self help in fact, light, not bad
To the Lighthouse- very feminine, but in the end not too gripping or fascinating
The Great Divorce- uninteresting, even for cs lewis
Antun Chekov Short Stories- best thing I've read this year, absolutely perfect
Canticle For Liebowitz- nice, solid sf
White Nights- autistic but brilliant, also amongst the best things this year
Poetics- not too farmiliar with greek poetry, so I got very little from this
Last Messiah- good, pretty much kiergegaard without god
Crossing the Threshold of Hope- pope jp wasn't too good at this I think
Valis- a ride into insanity, really one of a kind, love me sum dick
Wisdom of the West- the idiot wrote that kierkegaard was a catholic and that augustine converted to christianity because his mother was nagging him. yes, I kid you not.
Idea of Christian Society- Nice, short, coherent and to the point
Universe Next Door- Unlike Russell, a solid overview of philosophy
Trial and Death of Socrates- Amazing, would give boipussy to
Legion- Fun, good plot, read if you like warhammer
Stoner- brilliantly real and autistic
Labyrinths- hit or miss stories, I get why people like them, but I didn't get into it as much
Ficctiones- same as previous
Children of Hurin- very well done, great recreation of greek tragedy

In progress: Demons, Epiphany of the Long Sun

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:07:00 2015 No.6765357
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Left stack are books I've had laying around over the years unread or unfinished.
Middle stack are books from the first stack I've finished this year.
Right stack is what I'm currently reading.

The neal Stephenson book is brand new, I broke my own rule about not buying anymore books until I finish the ones I own.

Catch 22 was great, the ishiguro books, especially the unconsoled were very good. The pynchon stories were great. Everything else was not horrible, other than the raw shark texts, which was completely horrible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:08:33 2015 No.6765360 >>6765357 >the unconsoled is so good, and so underrated. i'm always so happy whenever someone mentions they've read and loved it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:11:48 2015 No.6765371 >>6765360 I picked it up for a dollar years ago at a book Fair when I was reading never let me go. I wish I had read it back then, I'm shocked it's ignored compared to ishiguro's other stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:41:28 2015 No.6765473 >>6762185 How was Altered States? I enjoyed the movie, but I heard the author wasn't very happy with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:41:55 2015 No.6765476 >>6765264 Maybe people are just more avid readers than you? If you read 50 pages a day, that is a few chapters and an hour or so of your time, you can read a 700 page book in two weeks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:45:34 2015 No.6765492 Moby dick The sun also rises The island of dr Moreau Blood meridian (fucking fantastic) I'm currently reading the count of Monte cristo. Only 100 pages left

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:48:25 2015 No.6765510

>>6765264
I know I used to read a lot more when I was younger but time has increased my responsibility and decreased my stamina.
Everyone reads at a different pace, for one reason or another. As long as you're getting something out of what you're reading, don't worry about it. It's not like it's a race.
Well, it's not a race against other people on this board anyway. It is a race against the time of your inevitable death.

The people who claim to be new to reading are probably also slightly embarrassed for reading less than they used to and use this harmless lie as an excuse. Surely you can understand how they feel?

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:50:23 2015 No.6765529

I've been reading a bit less than usual but this year I've covered:
The Razor's Edge (was really good)
Looking for Alaska (Am I an awful person for reading books ironically?)
and I'm almost finished with Catch-22.

I've got a copy of The Magus sitting around that I can't wait to jump into when I'm done.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:51:25 2015 No.6765533 >>6765473 It was a very interesting book. Chayefsky did a great job of making it seem like a very real account until all of the supernatural and metaphysical elements.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:51:50 2015 No.6765536 >>6765529 >Looking for Alaska (Am I an awful person for reading books ironically?) Yes but I forgive you. How are you liking catch-22?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 16:54:49 2015 No.6765548 >>6763016 Yeah. I've heard Gaddis is a pretty quick read.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 17:40:33 2015 No.6765720

* = for college

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Jorge Luis Borges - The Garden of Branching Paths (re-read)
*Zitkala-Sa - American Indian Stories
*Thomas Morton - New English Canaan
*William Bradford - Of Plymouth Plantation
David Eagleman - Sum
*N. Scott Momaday - The Way to Rainy Mountain
David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (all but the David Lynch piece, which I'm saving until I see more of his works)
*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
*Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony
George Saunders - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
*Henry David Thoreau - Walden + various essays
*Ralph Waldo Emerson - various essays
*Sherman Alexie - Indian Killer
*Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories (about halfway, going to finish up in the fall)
Don DeLillo - White Noise

didn't like White Noise. I was really engaged the first hundred pages or so, until it sank in how flat the dialogue and satire was, how grating the narration (pretty, but shallow-seeming) was, and I nearly threw the book at the wall once I finished. maybe I'll give one of his later works a try, but if WN is typical of his style (rather than the obtuseness of the prose being attributable to the academe protagonist), then no more DeLillo for me thank you.

the college readings, aside from the Thoreau essays, The Scarlet Letter, and most of Indian Killer, were mediocre. don't recommend any of them.

>currently reading
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Naomi Klein - No Logo

by September I'd like to get to The Brothers Karamazov -- got about 400 pages in last summer, then I realized how I can't keep up a long read while in school, so I'm starting over from the beginning since it's been so long.
this fall it looks like I'll be alternating between more Kafka and Borges. maybe re-read Dubliners as well. then pick out some other doorstopper to plow through during winter break.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 19:31:03 2015 No.6766198 >>6765264 I read 4-5 hours a day, and I can read about 50-60 pages a minute of decently complicated material. Stuff like Pynchon or Gaddis slows me down quite a bit, but something more straightfoward like PKD I can blast through in a couple hours.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:24:48 2015 No.6766931 >>6765720 >(all but the David Lynch piece, which I'm saving until I see more of his works) you don't need to tbh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:25:41 2015 No.6766933 >>6765357 I don't think I've ever seen anyone (myself included) whose copy of Hyperion isn't beat to shit.

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:38:58 2015 No.6766990

This gonna be largely bound to portuguese and brazillian lit, sorry
Machado de Assis- Dom Casmurro
Ernest Hemingway- For Whom The Bell Tolls
Gonçalo M Tavares- Matteo Perdeu o Emprego
Rubem Fonseca- Feliz ano novo
Celso Furtado- A Formação Econômica do Brasil
Proust- Swann's Way
Camões- Os Lusíadas
Sérgio Faraco- Dançar Tango Em Porto Alegre
Edith Hamilton- Mythology
The trial of socrates dialogues and Symposium
I've started As intermitências da morte by saramago and I'm halfway through Ivanhoe. Next I'm probably doing the revolt of the masses by ortega y gasset, something by dickens and something by whitman
fuck i really need to focus on international lit more

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 22:53:11 2015 No.6767046 File: 1.60 MB, 1152x1156, Booksthisyear.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Film student here thus I read a film/tv scripts. Not for any classes, I do it for myself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:01:37 2015 No.6767075 >>6766198 >pyncon or gaddis >complicated hello newfriend :^)

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:09:49 2015 No.6767091 Alright I'm trying to finish a reading challenge this but I'm behind. Is it a good idea to read smaller books while I'm reading a big book like The Brorhers K at the same time? Or should I give TBK my full attention?

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:18:55 2015 No.6767120

>>6767046
Is there like a website where you guys can make these? Or are y'all all doing this grunt work in photoshop?

Anyway, not too much this year so far

Voyage of the Space Beagle
Slan
Southern Mail
The Story of Philosophy
The Tao of Architecture
As I Lay Dying
Wizard of Earthsea
Out of the Silent Planet
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Claremonts X-Men
Stan Lee Spider-Man
The Plague
Antigone
Over My Dead Body
Stoner

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:19:57 2015 No.6767124 >>6767120 Struggling with MS paint

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:20:20 2015 No.6767125 >>6767091 Read the beother's k. Right now I'm focusing on Monte cristo and it helps if you just read one book at a time. Easier to keep track of characters also.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:20:59 2015 No.6767129 >>6767091 Depends on your own reading habits. If you can manage a book or two on the go at the same time go for it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:21:20 2015 No.6767131 >>6767120 >Is there like a website where you guys can make these? Goodreads my friend

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:40:19 2015 No.6767165

>>6767091
FUCK NO DONT DO THAT. that book is one of the best ever written, read it as enthusiastically and in as large chunks as you can, for hours and hours get lost in the hysteria, become as manic as the characters. Plow right through that sucker and you will be greatly rewarded with a deep sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Don't do yourself the disservice of not letting the story make you go kinda crazy for like a week, go hard. It's not a hard book it's just full of raw pain and I'd imagine distracting yourself with other books would make it get kinda tedious because of the length. Read it all at once, I'm not a fast reader but I read it in less than a week. I believe in you!! >>6767091
>>6767091

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:42:44 2015 No.6767168 >>6762046 PARANÁ A R A N Á

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:46:13 2015 No.6767170 >>6767165 Roger that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:46:56 2015 No.6767175 >>6767168 o cara deve ser português

Anonymous Wed Jul 1 23:51:46 2015 No.6767188

The Hobbit
Hitchhiker's Guide
Supergods
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
A Wild Sheep Chase (current reading, halfway through)

I know I probably sound pretty pleb but I just got back into reading in February. Before that? Probably hadn't even glanced at a book for 9 or 10 years. Lots of wasted time and lots of catching up to do. Any suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 00:59:17 2015 No.6767425 >>6767091 do you have autism? do whatever you want to

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:08:04 2015 No.6767441
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The covers that are hard to make out are:

Nightwork by Christine Schutt
The Dark Room - Jonnosoke Yoshiyuki

I also read Dark Spring by Unica Zurn - which didn't make it onto the picture.

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>Best
Dick, Dickens, Yourcenar, Gallant, Lipsector, Taylor, Joyce, Lucian, Racine, Schopenhauer, Chekhov
>Worst
Beckett, Carver, Lowell, O'Connor, Borges, Virgil, Corneille, Eliot, Stein, Brautigan, Spivak, Sherman

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:39:05 2015 No.6767531 >>6762046 >>6762273 >>6762953 >>6767046 >>6767087 >>6767441 >>6767472 Is there some program where you can do this or do you just copy and paste the covers of all the books? Please help a somewhat-newfag out

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:49:40 2015 No.6767550

My goal has been to read a couple books per day this year and, since I read a lot of poetry and drama, I'm several books ahead of schedule.

Best Discovery: Drayton's Idea Cycle
Best Revisit: The Henriad
Worst Discovery: Roth's The Humbling
Worst Revisit: Ronald Firbank in general - I used to enjoy him much more.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 01:54:36 2015 No.6767564 >>6767531 read the thread

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 02:18:13 2015 No.6767629

>>6767046
What did you think of Being John Malkovich?
If you liked it (or even if you didn't), you should watch Synecdoche, New York. It's written by the same guy who wrote Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman, and it's also his directorial debut. I don't know if you like the quirkiness of it, but Synecdoche has the quirkiness, but it's much darker at times, it deals a lot with death. Anyway, I love his movies. Especially Synecdoche and Adaptation.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 05:43:08 2015 No.6768056

>>6767629
I've seen Synecdoche, albeit many years ago.

I do like reading scripts, they are utterly unlike novels since the writer has only a short space to describe a scene.

Malkovich was fun to read, it did speak to me more than the actual film, I could see the layers as well as appreciate the humor better.

I would read more scripts but finding them are difficult, thankfully my Uni's library is pretty expansive.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 10:34:16 2015 No.6768744

>>6764602
sometimes the prose is a bit overblown and he uses alot of made up/really obscure words that sometimes dont really work but yeah its worth the read so far. It's got some fairly brutal scenes but the writing at teams is really good and it has some really interesting moments

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 11:53:23 2015 No.6768944 >>6765548 >a lot of them

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:08:07 2015 No.6769004

In absolutely no order because I can't be fucked:

Live from Golgotha - Vidal
Bleeding Edge - Pinecone
Andrew's Brain - Doctorow
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Shriver
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Albee
Ape and Essence - Huxley
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard
Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country - Coetzee
Diary of a Bad Year - Coetzee
Freedom or Death - Kazantzakis
1Q84 - Murakami
The Moor's Last Sigh - Rushdie
Labyrinths - Borges
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Darkness at Noon - Koestler
Violence - Zizek
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously - Zizek
The Gate - Bizot
The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990 - Young
Jarhead - Swofford
House of Bush, House of Saud - Unger
Banh Vinai: The Refugee Camp - Long
Kafka Comes to America - Wax
In the Garden of Beasts - Larson
Columbine - Cullen
Sky Legends of Vietnam - Vuong
No god but God - Aslan
So Close to Heaven - Crosette
Empires of the Word - Ostler
Spell it Out - Crystal
Metaphors We Live By - Lakoff/Johnson
Language in Thought and Action - Hayakawa
Through the Language Glass - Deutscher
Innumeracy - Paulos
The Meaning of Human Existence - Wilson (cringe-worthy: Christmas gift)
The World Without Us - Weisman
Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich
Dumping in Dixie - Bullard
9/11 - Chomsky
Karma Cola - Mehta
Illuminations - Rimbaud
Letters - Vonnegut (p.350/400)
The Question Concerning Technology - Heidegger (p. 103/190)

I didn't realize how little fiction I've been reading this year... Still, this was fun to go back over, I've only been keeping track of when I finish books for the last 9 months or so.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:08:22 2015 No.6769005 >>6762953 Maruo and Ito, that's some taste.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:26:34 2015 No.6769070

>>6769004
As for favorites, nothing among the fiction really stood out exceptionally (and Bleeding Edge had to be the quickest and least satisfying Pynchon I've read yet, not bad but...), but I'd VERY highly recommend 'Empires of the Word' and 'Metaphors We Live By'. Languages are the only thing that really personally interests me, and those two were thoroughly awesome-sauce-ome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:52:43 2015 No.6769160 >>6767131 How??? I've searched for like, fifteen minutes and I don't know how and it's getting annoying.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:55:00 2015 No.6769177 >>6763680 What edition of W&P is that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 12:59:24 2015 No.6769194 The Red Pony The Way of the World A Modest Proposal Gulliver's Travels Travels with Charley About half of Plato's dialogues Cannery Row The Pearl East of Eden Robinson Crusoe

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:02:55 2015 No.6769210

Here's what I've read so far this year.

Inherent Vice-Thomas Pynchon
Dune: Messiah-Frank Herbert
Kangaroo Notebook-Kobo Abe
Labyrinths and Other Stories-Borges
Mason & Dixon-Thomas Pynchon
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
War with the Newts-Capek
Heart of Darkness-Conrad
Wuthering Heights-Bronte
Petersburg-Bely
Children of Men-PD James
Herzhog-Bellows
The Book of Disquiet-Pessoa
The Pendragon Legend-Szerb
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
The Kraken Wakes-John Wyndham
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon

Best surprises this year are: Petersburg, Herzhog, The Pendragon Legend and War With the Newts are best finds I've had so far.

Best book I've read this year is Mason & Dixon, I liked it mostly because a lot of it was set where I live in England.

Biggest disappointment is Dune: Messiah, hopefully Children of Dune is a lot better when I get round to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:08:16 2015 No.6769222 Christ, you people barely read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:11:07 2015 No.6769231 >>6769222 What have you read this year? Why is it a competition to see who can read the most?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:14:37 2015 No.6769239 >>6769231 It's not a competition, I'm just surprised at how little people read. I don't even keep track of what I read beyond taking notes so I can't tell you how many I've read this year, I've read three books so far this week.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:15:59 2015 No.6769243 >>6769239 *but I've read

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:27:48 2015 No.6769284

>>6769239
Psssh only three books in a week? I read at least one book a day, more if they're under 1000 pages. I don't even keep track of them other than taking notes. How can you even stand to post here being such a pleb? Also check out my sweet Lamborghini.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:31:46 2015 No.6769295 >>6769284 Nice meme.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:33:25 2015 No.6769300 >>6769239 >It's not a competition I'm just a complete loser and too autistic to realize this isn't normal >>6769295 Nice meme

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 13:37:25 2015 No.6769320 >>6769300 It's been a long time since someone insulted me for reading. N-nice dubs ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:04:24 2015 No.6769424 Man I feel like I read a lot but I could never get through this many books in a half year. Guess I'm a slow reader. Do you all not stop to look up references you don't understand?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:28:48 2015 No.6769510 >>6769424 Also depends how much you work. Losing my job quadrupled my reading time/volume.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:32:34 2015 No.6769528 >>6769510 Yeah. I work full time and have actuarial exams so I pretty much did no reading for two months. Is that it then? You're all NEETs?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:37:27 2015 No.6769557 >>6769528 If you call being laid off from the factory NEET, then yeah I'm NEET.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:44:49 2015 No.6769588

The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll - Mutis
Las últimas lagrimas del guerrero - Juan Diego Loaiza
The recognitions - Gaddis
Berserk (Manga)
Learn you a haskell for great good!
The Beautiful and Damned - Fitzgerald
8 tokyo scenes - Dazai
Enoch Arden - Tennyson
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
Historia Personal del Boom - Donoso
The Portable Coleridge
Plata Quemada - Piglia
Ibis - Vargas Vila
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Capote
Happy Birthday, Capo - Jose Libardo Porras
Les Fleurs du Mal - Baudelaire
Lady Chatterly's Lover - DH Lawrence
La Busca - Pio Baroja
Gracias Por el fuego - Mario Benedetti
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Wild ass skin - Balzac

Highliths: Benedetti can't write for shit. His prose is even worse than his verse.
Madame Bovary is an amazing novel. Slow buildup but it pays off.
The recognitions is one of the most masterful pieces of writings i've ever read.
The Dazai book was some short stories. I liked it a lot, I want to read his novels now.

Anonymous Thu Jul 2 14:48:29 2015 No.6769599

Since May:
Gracchi to Nero - Scullard
Marcus Agrippa - L.James
Anthony & Cleopatra - A.Goldworthy
In the Name of Rome - Goldsworthy
The First Emperor: Augustus -A.Everitt
The Bees - L.Paul
Look Who's Back - T.Vermes
Seveneves - N.Stephenson
Fooled by Randomness - NN Taleb
Handmaids Tale - M.Attwood (re-read)
Metro 2034 - D.Gluhkovsky
The Edge of the World - M.Pye
10 Cities that made the Emprie - T.Hunt

Going bookshopping tomorrow, I work within walking distance of 4 of the best bookshops in the country, should be fun and perhaps pauper me too.

Bookmarks, Bloomsbury
Gosh!, Bloomsbury
Judd Street Books, Bloomsbury
London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury

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