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>Last 3 books read/reading
>Next 3 books considering

Give suggestions, partake in top tier literary banter etc etc

Last
>Three Greek Plays (Prometheus Bound, The Trojan Women, The Agamemnon)
>Some Shakespeare plays
>2666 by Roberto Bolano

Next
>Pic, would be my third Pynch after TCoL49 and V.
>The Divine Comedy, Mandelbaum translation
>The Metamorphoses

>> No.6835531

>>6835498

>LAST THREE
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
The Kraken Wakes-John Wyndham
The Crying of Lot 49-Pynchon

Currently:
Revolutionary Road-Yates

Next:
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders-Nazval(re-read)
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
V.-Pynchon

I think you'd enjoy Mason and Dixon but the dialect can be a little bit of a challenge to read but the journey is absolutely worth everything.

>> No.6835546

>>6835531
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835558

>>6835546
wow that is so computers

>> No.6835568

>Last tres

Unbearable lightness of being
A canticle for leibowitz
Roadside picnic

>Next
A connecticut yankee in king arthurs court.
100 Years of solitude
Solaris or maltese falcon


I'd give recs but i'm still a book pleb so ye sry mates.

>> No.6835572

>>6835568
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835598

>Last 3
Nausea - Sartre
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Carver
Ficciones - Borges

>Current
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe

>Next 3
Re-reading Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky
After the Quake - Murakami

>> No.6835606

>>6835598
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835649

>>6835568
I was just recently reaffirmed of Huckleberry Finns greatness so I feel obligated to suggest you more Twain

>> No.6835659

>>6835649
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835672

>>6835649

I've never read any mark twain before maybe a few pages in highschool but ya the plot seemed really interesting even though by the 21st century it's been done to death i'm sure. thanks m8.

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>>Last 3 books read/reading
The Book of Delusions
Siddhartha
Dubliners
>>Next 3 books considering
Stoner
The Recognitions
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (i really quite liked Dubliners)

>> No.6835710

>>6835707
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835726

Last
>Verhulst's 'De Helaasheid der Dingen'
>Pynchon's 'V'
>Nescio's 'De Uitvreter/Titaantjes/Dichtertje/Mene Tekel'

Current
>Plato's 'Politeia'
>Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons'

Next
>Reve's 'Ik Had Hem Lief'
>Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
>Conrad's 'Almayer's Folley'

Next
>

>> No.6835734

>>6835726
>Next
>>
I'm retarded.

>> No.6835736

>>6835726
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835742

>read
Upton Sinclair - Oil
Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Maxim Gorky - My Childhood

>considering
Maxim Gorky - Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky - My Universities
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

>> No.6835757

>>6835742
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835768

>>6835572
>>6835606
>>6835659
>>6835710
>>6835736
>>6835757
For sure brother

>> No.6835779

>>6835768
interesting ass-fuck

>> No.6835784

>>6835779
Force her brother

>> No.6835859

>letzten drei
Hopscotch by Cortázar
The Familiar by Danielewski
Flatland by Abbott

>Currently
Libra by DeLillo

>Nächsten drei
The Recognitions by Gaddis
The Ego and Its Own by Stirner
Only Revolutions by Danielewski

My suggestion would be that since you've read Bolaño, you should take a moment for Cortázar's short stories or Borges' Ficciones.

>> No.6835956

>>6835598
What did you think of Nausea? Any good?

>> No.6835964

>>6835956
Perplexing as fuck.

>> No.6836021
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3 Read
>Middle Ages - Morris Bishop
>Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 AD" - Chris Wickham
>The Roman Army: The Greatest War Machine of the Ancient World - Chris Mcnab
Currently reading
>Caesar: Life of a Colossus - Adrian Goldsworthy
Next 3
>Byzantium: Suprising Life of a Medieval Empire
>Byzantium: The Early Years - John Julius Norwich

I'm on a history binge this summer

>> No.6836031

>Last
mere Christianity
Blood Meridian
Go Set a Watcam

>current
HP Lovecraft novellas collection


>Next
The Road
Gravity's Rainbow
The Monk

>> No.6836036

>>6836021
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836064

>>6835956
It was pretty good. The story itself was a bit stilted, but it seemed like a pretty accessible introduction to Sartre's philosophy. Read like 100 Years of Solitude, where the end climaxes sharply and justifies the rest of the work. 7-8/10

>> No.6836076

>>6836064
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836092

>>6835707
If you liked dubliners and expect to go for ulysses in the near future then yeah youll enjoy Portrait a bunch.

Stoners a nice, restrained little character study. Pretty engaging, at least for me.

>> No.6836098

>>6836021
Howd you like those books youve read? My interest in european history has been peaking and ive veen looking for suggestions

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>>6836098
>>6836098
Middle Ages was an interesting if brief and mildly outdated summary of social history in Western Europe. It is a really good choice for someone not versed in medieval culture, but I imagine it's not too informative for people go are very familiar.

The Inheiritance of Rome is a super dense read, a huge area of history and geography is covered, but I wouldn't rexcomend it as a starting work. It was a long read, but very balanced.

Roman Army is a big hardcover that is rather technical about its talk of the 4 periods of Roman Military, but the nicest thing is the wonderful art inside, with accurate armor and weapons.

Caesar is amazing thus far, and I deem essential for anyone with an interest in Roman History

Those two Byzantine books were reccomeded by a medieval teacher at my university.

>> No.6836250

>>6835498
Good taste, nothing out of the ordinary

For me, last 3:
War of the world's
Gone girl (guilty pleasure)
The count of Monte cristo (my favorite book

Next 3:
Ubik
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The master and margarita

>> No.6836252

>Last
Small Gods
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Crime and Punishment

>Current
War and Peace

>Next
Anna Karenina
The Book of Disquiet
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>> No.6836260

>>6836092
>>6836098
>>6836166
>>6836250
>>6836252
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836266

Last 3:
>Madame Bovary (translated)
>Moby-Dick
>The Bible

Next 3:
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Heart of Darkness
>Hamlet

>> No.6836274

>>6836266
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836276

>>6835498

Last
>Selfish, Whining Monkeys - Rod Liddle

Reading
>The Decline of the West - Spengler
>On the Aesthetic Education of Man - Schiller

Next
>Either/Or - Kierkegaard
>Fascism Viewed from the Right - Evola
>Being and Time - Heidegger

r8 me, b8 me

>> No.6836282

>>6836276
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836291

>>6836276
ìnteresting as fùck

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Last three:
>The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton
>The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting - Kundera (really liked it)
>The Eye - Nabokov

Currently reading:
>Eichmann In Jerusalem - Arrendt

Planning on reading:
>Darkness At Noon - Koestler
>The Unbearable Ligthness Of Being - Kundera
>Politics Of Nature - Latour

>> No.6836449

Childhood's End
Rendezvous with Rama
The Plague

On Being Blue
Power/Knowledge
In Hazard
The Prince

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>>6836064
I bought it about a month ago and it's been on my shelf with some other short novels I bought by Sartre. Thanks for the response.

>> No.6836553

Last 3
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Spy who came in from the Cold
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Currently reading
- For Whom the Bell Tolls ( nearly finished only have about 30'pages left)

Want to read

- Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
- Lucky Jim (Kinglsy Amis)
- the Quiet American (Graham Greene)

Or I might read George Orwells stuff on the Spanish Civil War when I'm done with For Whom the Bell Tolls or something about communism because it's piqued my interest

>> No.6836586

>>6835498
>A moveable feast
>Demian
>Reading Ulysses

>Book of disquiet
>Ezra Pound Cantos
>Probably sth by Dostoyevski (haven't read anything by him'

>> No.6836630

>The Plague
>Lord Jim
>The Broom of the System

>White Noise (currently reading)
>Mason & Dixon
>Against the Day
>Infinite Jest

>> No.6836689

Last three:
>Solaris
>The Fellowship of the Ring
>The Black Swan (the adventure novel by Sabatini, not the non-fiction book by Taleb)

Current:
>The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
>The Thebaid

Next:
>Parzival
>KJV Bible
>The Shadow of the Torturer

>> No.6836702

last
>mason and dixon
>revolt of the masses
>the day of the locust

currently
>critique of everyday life

next
>the image
>mrs dalloway
>idk

>> No.6836806

last:
Brothers Karamazov
The Sun also Rises
current:
Infinite Jest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
next:
Some supplementary material for Ulysses
Ulysses
Whatever the person who replies recommends (Please Pynchon, I want to see how good he is)

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last
>ficciones
>mao ii
>portrait of the artist as a young man

next
>the notebooks of malte laurids brigge
>ulysses in spanish
>ulysses in english

>> No.6836832

>>6836806
the crying of lot 49

>> No.6836836

>>6836832
I will see if my library has it.

>> No.6836843

>>6836836
You will see

oh yes, you will see...

>> No.6836880

>>6836825
>ulysses in spanish
I always assumed that any translation of Ulysses would never do justice since he put thousands of pedantic things into it. Is this true?

>> No.6837146

>Last Three
Hitch 22
The Looming Tower
A Canticle of Leibowitz

>Last Three
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
Princess Cimorene- The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

>> No.6837207

> Last

V
White Noise
Blood Meridian

> Next

Gravity's Rainbow
The Odyssey
Dubliners

working towards Ulysses

>> No.6837231

Last
>Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism in Chile
>The Tree of Knowledge
>The Capital
Next
>Hermeneutics
>Steps to an Ecology of Mind

>> No.6837285

Last
>Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
>No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton
>Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

Next
>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
>Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
>On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Would recommend Suttree.

>> No.6837316

>The Nonexistent Knight
>White Teeth
>The Recognitions

>Bleeding Edge
>Falling Man
>A Visit From to the Goon Squad

>> No.6837350

>>6835498
Nice OP, I'm reading the Iliad at the moment, next is gonna be the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and then the Mandelbaum translations of Metamorphoses and Divine Comedy. Those Everyman's Library hardbacks are fucking sexy.

>> No.6837816

>>6835498

Last
>Sirens of Titan
>Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
>Walden & Civil Disobedience
>Cloud Atlas

Current
>Moby Dick
>The Parallax View
>Main Currents of Marxism

Next
>An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
>The Upanishads
>Zen and the Birds of Appetite

As a general recommendation I suggest everyone read The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, chronicling his descent into schizophrenia while trying to help establish a drug-addled commune in British Columbia and escape his father's shadow over the hippy generation.

Looking for reccs.

>> No.6837855

>>6836689
>>6837816
Ha I just picked up a copy of the KJV, Melville's constant Biblical references finally convinced me to read it strictly as a piece of literature (as opposed to an inspired text, oh those misguided days...) But the question is, how to go about it? Should I read it chronologically, treat each book as an independent entity or skip from prophet to prophet? Lots of options.

Also acquired a copy of the Quran today, I'm excited to cross-read them.

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>>6835498
>last 3
Jakob von Gunten by Walser
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome
V. by Pynchon

>current
Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov

>next 3
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by Saunders
Barley Patch by Murnane
Vertigo by Sebald

>mfw theyre all white men

>> No.6837887

Last
> Love in the Time of Cholera
> Introduction of Mathematical philosophy
> Aristotle Poetics

Next 3
> V
> Children of Huron
> Tractatus Logico Philosophicus