What you've read this year

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What you've read this year Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:02:01 2015 No.7186794 [Reply] [Original]

Am I on my way to becoming a patrician, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:03:46 2015 No.7186798 >>7186794 You're like 2% there. Keep it up kid!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:06:10 2015 No.7186802 >>7186794 >becoming a patrician Pure ideology. I thought reading higher literature would make you into a more sophisticated person beyond meme dychotomies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:06:43 2015 No.7186805 File: 103 KB, 624x434, 1418670960955.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] nice list you've got there

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:07:43 2015 No.7186810 you should read more ishiguro

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:08:10 2015 No.7186811 >>7186802 He's only reading in order to make egotistical impressions, not the more acceptable notion of egotistical satisfaction deriving from understanding and application. Plebs always gonna pleb.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:08:29 2015 No.7186812

Here's a list of everything I've read so far this year, roughly from best to worst. Thanks for reading my post

Paradise Lost
Love in the Time of Cholera
Moby-Dick
White Teeth
Heart of Darkness
The City & the City
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Buried Giant
The Utopia of Rules
Libra
The Other Wind
Masters of Atlantis
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
The Man in the High Castle
Them: Adventures with Extremists
Vineland
The Boat
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Perdido Street Station
Here Comes Everybody
The Martian Chronicles
Ubik
Tales from Earthsea
Tehanu
Capital in the 21st Century
Disgrace
Stories
Saga: a Novel of Medieval Iceland
Radio Fragments
Dot Dot Dot
The Corrections
Before the Gates of Desire
Carpenter's Gothic
War & Peace
The Bonfire of the Vanities
American Psycho
Yes Please

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:09:33 2015 No.7186814 >>7186812 i'm guessing from how low war and peace is that you read the p&v translation

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:10:37 2015 No.7186818 >>7186814 Correct. Whose Anna Karenina should I read when I get around to that one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:11:00 2015 No.7186820 >>7186812 >thanks for reading my post I only skimmed it. :^)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:11:01 2015 No.7186821 >>7186812 How the fuck is War and Peace worse than Peridio Street Station?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:11:47 2015 No.7186824 >>7186794 If you have to ask

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:12:09 2015 No.7186827 >>7186814 What's the best translation?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:14:49 2015 No.7186834 >>7186814 p&v is usually highly praised is it not?? I'm reading the p&v anna karenina and it's excellent

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:15:11 2015 No.7186836

>>7186821
Both needed editors but W&P needed one more badly. Or >>7186814 might be right and the translation might have something to do with it. But I don't think a better translation would have made the intermittent several hundred page essay on Napoleon and historical determinism fun.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:22:04 2015 No.7186848 >>7186827 >>7186834 >>7186836 idk, all i'm saying is that people who read p&v seem to dislike it in my experience... i read edmonds and loved it

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:28:12 2015 No.7186861 >>7186836 also given how highly you rated moby dick, i'm guessing that your objection isn't so much with authorial digressions so much as the way they are written

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:29:35 2015 No.7186865

In random order with a sweet surprise at the end.
Jesus of Nazareth by Ratzinger
Lankhmar 1 by Leiber
Speech to the Greeks by Tatius
Conan The Conqueror by E. Howard
Fathers and sons by Turgenjev
Cat's cradle by Vonnegut (just as bad as you guys said he would be)
Solaris by Lem
2666 by Bolano
Aquinas on Law, Politics, Ethics, Kingship
Meditations on first philosophy and the existence of God by Descartes
Demons by Dostoevsky
Meno by Plato
Litany of the Long Sun by Wolfe
Crying of Lot 49
Confessions and City of God by Augustine
Neuromancer by Gibson
Age of Shakespeare by some scholar with a weird last name
Virtuous Leadership by someone of no importance
To the Lighthouse by Woolf
Chekhov short stories
Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller
White Nights by Dostoevsky
Great Divorce by Lewis
The Last Messiah by Zappfe
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by JP II.
Valis
Wisdom of the West
Universe Next Door
Idea of Christian Society
Trial and Death Grips of Socrates
Children of Hurin by Tolkien
Stoner by Williams
Ficctiones by Borges
Labyrinths by Borges
Phaedo by Plato
12 Horus Heresy novels including Legion, First Heretic, Aurelian, Know no fear and Unremembered Empire

What's been the best? In no particular order: Stoner, Trial and Death Grips, White Nights, Chekhov, Aquinas, Descartes, 2666 and City of God.
Overall thus far a very satisfying year.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:31:16 2015 No.7186869

>>7186861
Mostly correct, I think. The cetology in Moby-Dick felt like it built out both Ishmael's character and the world. The Napoleon stuff in W&P felt like it was just something Tolstoy needed to get off his chest. But it's very possible that it would have felt more relevant to the characters and the world if the translation had been better.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:31:50 2015 No.7186871

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
edgar rice burroughs - a princess of mars
richard yates - disturbing the peace
jerzy kosinsky - steps
louise erdrich - the antelope wife
kuzhali manickavel - insects are just like you and me except some of them have wings
meg wolitzer - the wife +
dezso kosztolayni - kornel esti
dezso kosztolanyi - skylark *
j. r. r. tolkien - the hobbit *
david ohle - motorman
h. p . lovecraft - the thing on the doorstep and other weird stories
gabrielle zevin - the storied life of a. j fikry +
j. r. r. tolkien - the fellowship of the ring *
ernst junger - storm of steel
katherine mansfield - the garden party and other stories
j. r. r. tolkein - the two towers *
dezso kosztolanyi - anna edes
j. r. r. tolkein - the return of the king *
michel houellebecq - atomised
angela slatter - the girl with no hands
robert walser - jakob von gunten
richard yates - the easter parade
raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love
john crowley - little, big
muriel spark - the prime of miss jean brodie
edgar rich burroughs - the gods of mars

+ book group choice, not my own
* re-read

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:32:20 2015 No.7186875

>>7186827
I found this on a post about the translations:

Hemingway recalls telling a friend, a young poet named Evan Shipman, that he could never get through “War and Peace”—not “until I got the Constance Garnett translation.” Shipman replied, “They say it can be improved on. I’m sure it can, although I don’t know Russian.”

Yes there are many more options now, but I'm sure it's fine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:34:39 2015 No.7186887 >>7186827 The revised version of the Maude translation, the oxford classics one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:35:12 2015 No.7186889 >>7186865 Took me a while to write this on my phone, replies would be appreciated.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:35:54 2015 No.7186891 >>7186889 well done

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:36:50 2015 No.7186894 >>7186887 I'm Slavic but I have that version because it's cheap. I hope it was well invested.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:37:07 2015 No.7186895 >>7186889 noided/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:38:03 2015 No.7186898 File: 235 KB, 450x695, anon_classics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7186895 >>7186891

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:38:33 2015 No.7186900 >>7186889 What do you want me to say? Looks like a pretty good variety.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:39:38 2015 No.7186905

I don't remember them all, but from the top of my head

Some book about dream interpreting
Name of the wind (it was shite)
Vida de don Quijote y Sancho (Unamuno)
Thus Spoke Zaratustra
La Familia de Pascual Duarte (Cela)
Abel Sánchez (Unamuno)
Lovecraft's complete fiction
V
Catch-22
Poe's extraordinary tales or whatever its name is
like 6 Pio Baroja's novels compiled on a big ass book
Napoleon (Emil Ludwig)
The petty demon (Sologub)
Divinas palabras (Valle-inclán)
El papa verde (the green pope?) (Miguel Ángel Asturias)

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.
Spanish is my first language, in case you haven't guessed

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:40:31 2015 No.7186908 >>7186900 That's enough really.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:41:02 2015 No.7186909

>>7186794

My list.

How did you find Never Let Me Go? I was thinking of starting after being done with Frankenstein.

>>7186812

The Corrections any good? I might read it around November, just seems the perfect time for it.

>>7186865

How's White Nights by Dostoyevsky?

>>7186871

Which Kraznahorkai would you suggest starting with? I've had my eye on Satantango for a good while
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
The Pendragon Legend-Szerb
Children of Men-PD James
Herzhog-Bellows
The Book of Disquiet-Pessoa
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
The Shadow of the Torturer-Gene Wolfe
The Kraken Wakes-John Wyndham
The Crying Lot of 49-Thomas Pynchon
Revolutionary Road-Richard Yates
The Day of the Triffids-John Wyndham
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Player Piano-Kurt Vonnegut
To the Lighthouse-Virgnia Wolf
Blood Meridian-Mccarthy
V.-Thomas Pynchon
Hyperion-Dan Simmons
Although Of Course You Could End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with DFW-David Lipskey

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:41:35 2015 No.7186911 >>7186865 Looks like a good effort for the year.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:41:42 2015 No.7186913 >>7186909 >Kangaroo Notebook-Kobo Abe How's that? I dig his other stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:42:21 2015 No.7186917 >>7186905 >pio baroja mi negro

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:43:21 2015 No.7186919 >>7186909 i love every krasznahorkai i've read, which is the main four english translated ones, and i have a hard time choosing between any of them. satantango is as good a place to start as any. my first was war & war and it's still my favourite

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:44:53 2015 No.7186922

>>7186909
I thought The Corrections was mediocre but read very fast. It's almost pulpy in its plotting and parts of it are very fun. I wouldn't usually tell people to read a 560 page book I thought was only okay but it went by so quickly for 500 pages that I have no problem saying that in this case. I wrote a longer response along these lines in the thread where a guy was asking about Franzen's Freedom vs. DeLillo's White Noise but I think that thread is dead now.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:45:27 2015 No.7186923

>>7186909
White Nights was probably the most beta, but also sweet and sad story I have ever read, seen or heard, it hits your feels, and it hits them hard, but it's very honest about itself and isn't cheap in any way. How are you liking Wolfe?
>>7186911
I'm planning on finishing Litany of the Long Sun and Moby Dick as well as reading more Descartes and Kant by the end of the year. Lankhmar series is also quite fun so I'll see how far I'll get with it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:48:08 2015 No.7186928 wow you guys read a lot

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:48:10 2015 No.7186929 >what you've read this year Dune The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms To Have and Have Not For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Animal Farm

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:48:24 2015 No.7186931
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Generation Identity (shit)
The way of men (shit)

came to /lit/ after /pol/ recommended me such shit books. Then I read:

Never Let me go
We
Demian
Lolita
Babbit
Fifth Business
To Kill A Mocking bird
300 pages of infinite Jest (loved it, but lost momentum due to work/depression)
and currently reading Anna Karenina

I really liked a lot of these books. If I were to order them from best to worst: Lolita, Babbit, Demian, We, Fifth Business, TKAMB, Never Let Me Go.

I'm hoping to hit 15 books by the end of the year. Slow start, but gotta start somewhere. Pretty girl for reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:49:39 2015 No.7186935 >>7186928 40 pages a day is 40-50 books a year. Not too hard. Reading multiple books at once help.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 18:59:53 2015 No.7186966

>>7186913

As someone who's not read Abe's other books it had a very weird feeling, even though it's pretty much classed as a surrealist book, still I recommend if you enjoy bizarre journeys, I had a Pink Floyd song mentioned constantly throughout it stuck in my head for a while after finishing. Just don't turn to the very last page as it really does ruin why he has radishes on his legs.

Any Abe you'd recommend? I know Woman in the Dunes is considered his most well known novel but I would like to try more lesser known stuff beforehand.

>>7186923

Wolfe's enjoyable so far, I bought two omnibuses of all four Book of the New Sun books but I enjoyed the rituals, bleakness and how architectural the description was of things in Shadow of the Torturer, really reminded me of Meryvyn Peak's Gormenghast series. I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfe was influenced a little.

I'm guessing White Nights is more soul crushing than Notes from the Underground then, I look forward to reading eventually.

>>7186919

I'll definitely get Satantango next time I order on Amazon then.

>>7186922

Thanks for the information on The Corrections.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:03:31 2015 No.7186975

>>7186966
Yes, Notes are closer to cringe due to massive amounts of asshole autismo, while White Nights has that melancholy type of autismo where the character isn't a bad person, he is in fact very sweet, but he is passive to the level of never finding happiness.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:12:01 2015 No.7186991

>>7186794

I am better than you. Ha.

Nothing - Janne Teller
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Wayward Bus - John Steinbeck
Status - Erlend Loe
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey - Homer
A Farewell to arms - Ernest Hemingway
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
L'éducation Sentimentale - Gustave Flaubert
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson
Stoner - John Williams
Onkel Danny Fortæller - Dan Turéll
Onkel Danny Fortæller Videre - Dan Turéll
Onkel Danny Fortæller i Timevis - Dan Turéll
Onkel Danny Fortæller på Tallose Opfordringer - Dan Turéll
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Morkelygten - Jesper Tynell
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone - Hunter S. Thompson
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Profane Testament (poetru anthology)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Aphorisms - Soren Kierkegaard
Essay on Boredom- Soren Kierkegaard
Essay on Sorrow With Three Women - Soren Kierkegaard
The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Alle Tiders Noveller - Peter Budtz-Jorgensen m. fl.
Frydenholm - Hans Scherfig
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Diary of a Madman - Nikolaj Gogol
The Overcoat - Nikolaj Gogol
The Art of Happiness - Arthur Schopenhauer
Dead Souls - Nikolaj Gogol
Don Quixote- Miguel Cervantes
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Lord Arthur Saville's Crime - Oscar Wilde
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Most of these were quite good. The only ones I really disliked where Things Fall Apart and The Sun Also Rises. They sucked. The Double is definitely the weakest work of Dostoevsky I've read so far, but it is not uninteresting.

Most positively surprised by Dead Souls by Gogol. That was amazing. Overall best of the above is a tie between Moby Dick and Don Quixote.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:16:16 2015 No.7186998 >>7186991 Pretty good list. I'll have to read Dead Souls and with War And Peace I'll have read all most important works of major Russian authors.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:17:59 2015 No.7187006 >>7186966 Don't hesitate to read Woman In The Dunes. But if you really want something else read The Box Man.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:33:03 2015 No.7187066

>>7186998

I think I'm going to read War and Peace in the winter. Before that, I'll be reading Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, probably in a week or so when I finish Blood Meridian.

Dead Souls is pretty great. It's a great shame that it was left unfinished, but it's quite profound and very enjoyable as is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:35:46 2015 No.7187071 Half of Nausea East of Eden The beginnings of about 7 books I come here just because it soothes anxiety

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:36:08 2015 No.7187075

In no particular order:
2666- Bolano
The Metamorphosis- Kafka
The Book of Five Rings- Musashi
Walden- Thoreau
Self-Reliance- Emerson
Animal Farm- Orwell
Mother Night- Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut
Siddhartha- Hesse
The Brave Cowboy- Abbey
Desert Solitaire- Abbey
Black Sun- Abbey
Existentialism is a Humanism- Sarte
Redeployment- Klay
Rashomon- Akutagawa
Tom Sawyer- Twain
Arguably- Hitchens
Girl Meets Boy- Smith
Bend Sinister- Nabokov

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions- Kuhn
Ancillary Justice- Leckie (more like Ancillary Shit)
Girl in a Band- Gordon
Unknown Pleasures- Ott
The Martian- Weir (more like The Shit)
The Fall- Camus
Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Marquez
Gardens of the Moon- Erikson
Deadhouse Gates- Erikson
Memories of Ice- Erikson
House of Chains- Erikson (more like House of Shit)
Radon- Fristoe & Cometbus
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell- Clarke (more like Strange Shit and Mr. Shit)
Everything is Illuminated- Foer
Infinite Jest- Wallace
Captain Corelli's Mandolin- De Bernieres
Three Body Problem- Liu (more like Three Shit Problem)
Under the Glacier- Laxness
Classical Electrodynamics- JD Jackson (more JD Sadist)
Modern Quantum Mechanics- Sakurai

Feels weird listing those last two, but whatevs, I read them nearly cover to cover.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:37:34 2015 No.7187077

>>7186905

>Vida de don Quijote y Sancho (Unamuno)

Just looked this up. Have you read the original? If yes, how does it compare? From what I could gather from a quick-skim research, he considers his own version superior to Cervantes', since he believes the original has too much clutter. A bold claim. Personally, I think the "clutter" was an integral part of the charm.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:37:45 2015 No.7187078 >>7187066 The only thing better than the Dead Souls are Gogol's Short Stories. The Painting, The Nose, Nevsky Prospect, The Inspector General, Diary of a Madman... the list goes on

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:39:30 2015 No.7187082 >>7187066 Try Anna Karenina before War and Peace to get a taste of Tolstoy. It's also much more accessible, having read it at 16 and having fully enjoyed it.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:40:35 2015 No.7187085

Musashi
Count of monte cristo
Norwegian wood
Roadside picnic
Darkness at noon
100 years of solitude
Paris Spleen
Paris Peasant
Gabriel Garcia Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Wolfman and Other Cases
The Caudillo of the Andes: Andres de Santa Cruz

Paris peasant was so fucking good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:41:26 2015 No.7187087 >>7187082 eh i read war and peace first and loved it. i don't believe in this bullshit easing yourself into everything philosophy. i say just go straight for the jugular, if a big grand work appeals to you just fucking read it

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:42:08 2015 No.7187088 >>7187082 my question >>7186818 kind of got lost among a bunch of people disagreeing with me on War & Peace, but what AK translation would you or others recommend (not P&V of course)?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:42:09 2015 No.7187090 >>7186991 What is an Onkel Danny Fortæller?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:43:39 2015 No.7187095 >all these people reading less than 50 books a year >and thinking they have anything to be proud about Alright, guys. No, that's fine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:43:50 2015 No.7187096 >>7186794 How's proud beggers OP?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:43:55 2015 No.7187097 >>7187087 It's not easing your way in a sense where you go for something lower, Karenina is an amazing book by itself. It's just shorter and doesn't drag as long.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:45:20 2015 No.7187103

>>7187078

I've only read The Overcoat and Diary of a Madman of his short stories. The Overcoat is perhaps the greatest short story I've ever read.

Does anyone know of good translations of his short stories? I hear Pevear and Volokhonsky get a lot of flak for some of their work, does anyone know if it is also the case with their Gogol translations?

>>7187082

Thanks for the tip, I might look into that. I'm not entirely green when it comes to Tolstoy, having read the Death of Ivan Ilyich (which I enjoyed immensely), but I am unfamiliar with his greater works.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:45:43 2015 No.7187105 >>7187088 I'm Slavic so can't help you. >>7187095 I'm at 46 and the end of the year is still 3 months away.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:49:01 2015 No.7187116

>>7187090

Danish author called Dan Túrell, a national treasure. Writes very engaging vignettes. Warm, funny and immensely enjoyable. Onkel Danny Fortæller are his sort-of memoirs, composed mostly of entertaining anecdotes. Lighthearted reading, but he is a master of Danish prose.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:50:44 2015 No.7187119 >>7187095 Thinks reading x books per year is an appropriate metric. Get fucked, kid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:59:18 2015 No.7187148 >>7187095 double check which board you're on dude, this is /lit/ - Literature, not /pri/ - Pride. We talk about books not what we're proud of doing.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 19:59:55 2015 No.7187149

>>7187077
Well it is not exactly a version, is more like a study on Alonso Quijano's character as interpreted by him, who considered himself a spiritual person. He supports the idea that Don Quixote acts as an spiritual figure like Christ, every crazy adventure he gets into being in pursuit of immortality, glory... and is not actually a dumb crazy fellow like Cervantes kind of explictly says on some occasions (which is why Unamuno considers his Don Quixote -the character, not the book- as better)
He cuts on the clutter (mainly the side stories that other characters relate to Don Quixote and Sancho) because Unamuno's book is ultimately about the characters and not the story.

The book is not actually a novel, is like a big essay. I wouldn't reccommend if you haven't read or aren't really familiar to Cervante's Don Quixote and it's not the easiest Unamuno to read, but I really enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:06:35 2015 No.7187171 + Swann's Way, Man w/o Qualities v1

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:08:45 2015 No.7187184 File: 672 KB, 1600x644, 2015.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how pleb am I?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:15:13 2015 No.7187206 >>7186909 >>7187075 what were your favorites lads

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:20:57 2015 No.7187225 File: 2.34 MB, 880x1840, 2015 sept read.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] + Swann's Way, Man w/o Qualities v1

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:23:31 2015 No.7187233 >The Annotated Lolita. Plebbbb.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:23:34 2015 No.7187234 I always give up trying to record everything I read halfway through the year

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:31:15 2015 No.7187255 >>7187233 you could have saved yourself some typing and just written >Lolita. Plebbbbb.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:34:01 2015 No.7187270 File: 228 KB, 1020x1529, 1443310500978.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7186794 I would write my list but I'd rather be reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:34:49 2015 No.7187275 File: 1.43 MB, 704x1700, autistic.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] R8 please.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:39:27 2015 No.7187293 >>7187275 i want to know all of your thoughts on something happened

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:43:36 2015 No.7187312 File: 428 KB, 1252x852, oct2015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7186794 I feel so inferior with my selection compared to you fucking scholars

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:45:39 2015 No.7187322 >>7186794 >just having read a certain combination of books makes someone patrician No, op

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:45:55 2015 No.7187323 >>7187312 you're alright with me

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:45:58 2015 No.7187324 >>7187275 What were your thoughts on Phillip K Dick's plumet into insanity via the cluster fuck that is Valis? Were you expecting something different? I certainly was.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:47:28 2015 No.7187329 White noise Fahrenheit 451 x2 The spy who came in from the north Catcher in the rye Picture of dorian gray mother night random teenfag book peter v brett book bryans gold other short story boddhivista blues

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:47:30 2015 No.7187330 >>7186998 Not him, but do yourself a favor and prioritize Dead Souls its in my top three all time favorites alongside Middlemarch and Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:53:50 2015 No.7187352 Just make a Goodreads, faggots. It's a better forum for people to not care about what you're reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:54:27 2015 No.7187355 >>7187323 That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:54:28 2015 No.7187356

The Trees the Trees
Christle, Heather *

Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Rich, Adrienne

Civilization
Arnold, Elizabeth

To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems
Foust, Graham

Flowers
Killebrew, Paul

The Morning of the Poem
Schuyler, James

Laodicea
Ekstrand, Eric

Tender Buttons
Stein, Gertrude

Patter
Kearney, Douglas

The Cloud Corporation
Donnelly, Timothy

The Spectral Wilderness
Bendorf, Oliver *

Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners
Pharr, Clyde

Greek: An Intensive Course
Hansen, Hardy

Selections from Homer’s Iliad
Homer

In Catilinam 1-2
Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Ethical Consciousness
Killebrew, Paul

Come on All You Ghosts
Zapruder, Matthew

The Totality for Kids
Clover, Joshua

Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy
Heidegger, Martin

God Here and Now
Barth, Karl

Early Theological Writings
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:58:01 2015 No.7187369 >>7186869 >napoleon digressions >not relevant to the story, in which napoleon is a character, and the entire plot revolves around the french invasion of russian >under napoleon What are you talking about?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:58:07 2015 No.7187370 >>7186794 How was Proud Beggars? I read The Jokers by Cossery and enjoyed it.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 20:58:10 2015 No.7187371

No Country for Old Men (McCarthy)
Libra (DeLillo)
The Ghost Writer (Roth)
Zuckerman Unbound (Roth)
The Anatomy Lesson (Roth)
The Prague Orgy (Roth)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Austen)
My Struggle Book 1 (Knausgaard)
My Struggle Book 2 (Knausgaard)
I, Claudius (Graves)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Henry VI Pt. 1 (Shakespeare)
House of the Dead (Dostoevsky)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Island (Huxley)
The Alchemist (Jonson)
Epicene (Jonson)
Oroonoko (Behn)
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (Caro)

Might have been others, I forget.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 21:08:40 2015 No.7187409 >>7186812 Is this subtle b8?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 21:12:38 2015 No.7187426 >Dostoevsky Mein negro

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 21:18:40 2015 No.7187444

Telegrams of the Soul - Peter Altenberg
Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
Trans-Atlantyk - Witold Gombrowicz
The Foundation Pit - Andrey Platonov
Autobiography of a Corpse - Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Soul - Andrey Platonov
Nothing More to Lose - Najwan Darwish
Perched on Nothing's Branch - Attila József
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
In The Deep - Pierre Guyotat
Diaries - Franz Kafka
Stolen Air, Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me - Javier Marías
The Lost Origins of the Essay
Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Nobodaddy's Children - Arno Schmidt
In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House - Denton Welch
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
To Our Friends - The Invisible Committee
The Voice Imitator - Thomas Bernhard
Collected Novellas - Arno Schmidt
+ some comics

shit year so far, all books were good though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 21:20:50 2015 No.7187450 >>7187409 nope, it's what I actually read and what I thought about it, but I'm very happy to know that my real opinions might be bad enough to bait people

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 21:28:29 2015 No.7187471 >>7186812 >Radio Fragments lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 22:42:36 2015 No.7187669 >>7187312 Meh, don't mind all the pretentious cunts who think themselves superior just for having reads few classics. If you don't enjoy what you're reading you're wasting your time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 22:46:35 2015 No.7187674 >>7187444 You read all his diaries?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 22:47:35 2015 No.7187678 >>7186889 I'm stealing this for copypasta

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 22:52:29 2015 No.7187688 "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." - Theodore Roosevelt

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 22:58:12 2015 No.7187694 >>7187095 I'll admit that my reading amount took a nosedive after middle school You have to read so much in law school/legal work that reading for pleasure just goes a bit to the wayside.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 02:30:29 2015 No.7188182 >>7187674 yes, they're a good read and only about a 300-400 pg book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 02:36:26 2015 No.7188189 in search of lost time

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 02:48:35 2015 No.7188210

Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephan Crane
The Little Prince - de Saint Exupery
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mar Wollstonecraft
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo - Platon
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
The Birth of Tragedy\Case of Wagner - Nietzsche
The Hero of One Thousand Tales - Joseph Campbell
Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
Animators Survival Guide - Richard Williams
Theogony\Works and Days - Hesiod
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
Parallel Lives - Plutarch (current)

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 02:59:35 2015 No.7188228

>>7187206
>>7187075

Favorites? Well 2666 is now tied with Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang as my all-time favorite novel (for completely different reasons, obviously). Desert Solitaire is probably somewhere in my top 5 nonfiction, so I guess at this point I can confidently say that Abbey is my favorite author. Whatevs, Also really liked Mother Night, The Fall, Infinite Jest, and Under the Glacier.

Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism was already among my top nonfiction from forever ago, but this was a different translation and I wanted to re-read it after so many years. It held up.

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 02:59:51 2015 No.7188229 [DELETED]

On suicide
Xenocide
The god delusion
How to win friends and influence people
The fault in our starts
Why I am So Wise
The Martian
Consider Phlebas
Dataclysm
Justine
Ariel
No Matter The Wreckage
Flash Boys
The Time Machine
The Rules Of Attraction
Fear and Trembling
Poetics
Litteraturvetenskap. En inledning.
Epikanalys
Lyrikanalys
Ezra Pound selected by Thom Gunn
Pälsen
Doktor Glas
Self-Portrait in a convex mirror
The sorrows of young Werther
Siddhartha
The Oddesey
The Bell Jar

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 03:18:28 2015 No.7188265

Notes from the Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
Family Happiness
Death of Ivan Ilych
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
The Republic
SICP
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Of Mice and Men
Elliot Rodger's Manifesto
Anders Breivik's Manifesto
Ted Kazynski's Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
Two Treatises on Government
The Social Contract

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 03:41:21 2015 No.7188310
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1-Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
2-Dark Spring - Unica Zurn
3-Silvio in the Rose Garden - Julio Ramon Ribeyro
4-Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
5-Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
6-Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe - Jose Donoso
7-The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe
8-The Plains - Gerald Murnane
9-Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
10- The Dark Room - Junnosoke Yoshiyuki
11- The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
12- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
13- The Genocides - Thomas M. Disch
14- The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
15- Solo Faces - James Salter
16- Queer - William S. Burroughs
17- The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
18- Endangered Species - Gene Wolfe
19- Peru - Gordon Lish
20- Nightwork - Christine Schutt
21- The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin
22- Ice - Anna Kavan
23- Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan
24- Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K. Le Guin
25- A book by a close relative
26- The Lover - Marguerite Duras
27- Break it Down - Lydia Davis
28- Richard Yates - Tao Lin
29- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
30- Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano
31- The Blood Oranges - John Hawkes
32- The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter
33- The Last Samurai - Helen DeWhit
34- Snakes and Earrings - Hitomi Kanehara
35- Lightning Rods - Helen DeWitt
36- Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia E. Butler
37- The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
38- The Book of Revelation - Rupert Thomson
39- The Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
40- The Collected Stories - Breece D'J Pancake

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 04:12:09 2015 No.7188344 >>7187330 It is much shorter so I probably will, if I find it in my language. I hate borrowing from librarys because I like to have my own pace.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 04:30:59 2015 No.7188364 >>7187330 Aaaaand there are no epubs. I'll check out some antiquaris.

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 07:49:14 2015 No.7188660

i'm new to /lit/, so pls no bully

1. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
2. Scott Lynch - Lies Of Locke Lamora
3. Scott Lynch - Red seas under red skies
4. Scott Lynch - Republic Of Thieves
5. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (twice)
6. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
7. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (twice)
8. Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
9. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49
10. Thomas Pynchon - V.
11. John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
12. Truman Capote - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 07:58:06 2015 No.7188673

"Dr. Faustus" by Christoper Marlowe
"Comus" by John Milton
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larson
"Mysticism and Logic" by Bertrand Russell
Euclid's "Elements"
In progress: The Pentateuch (halfway through Leviticus now)
"Panpsychism in the West" by David Skrbina (nearly finished)
"Lingua Latina per se Illustrata Pars I" by Hans Orberg (nearly finished)
"Fifty Shades of Grey" (I know, my gf convinced me to read it.)

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 10:48:42 2015 No.7189031

Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Slaughterhouse-five (reread)
How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mexico City Blues
Post-Office (reread)
Women
Winter's Bone
Outer Dark
Choke
Jailbird
No Country for Old
The Road (reread)
Every Day (awful book, don't read)
A Game of Thrones
To Kill a Mocking Bird
An Abundance of Kathrines

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:21:39 2015 No.7189105 >>7188673 Break up with her asap

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:22:48 2015 No.7189109 >>7189031 Try breaking the pleb spree with a few classics from time to time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:33:24 2015 No.7189127 >>7189109 I have read classics before, but i read what i feel like, not what I think will impress to hacks online who cares more about discussing literature than actually consuming it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:38:15 2015 No.7189140 >>7189127 Why do you read so much trash?

Twiggy !zf/ZW7mGp6 Sat Oct 3 11:39:54 2015 No.7189145
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>becoming a patrician
>becoming
>changing your blood being by blood being
like this is possible
ha ha ha ha ha ha i spit out my wine laughing my ass off at your implication has the democratic impulse infected everything my god ha ha ha a peasant like you thinking he can become a patrician by reading sartre and alan watts HA HA HA i bet you just came inside from drinking pond water and digging up roots for your family HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

pic related, it's my family tree

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:40:12 2015 No.7189147 File: 212 KB, 358x400, lmao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >asking for confirmation of patriciandom

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:41:36 2015 No.7189149

>>7189140
I don't think it is trash.. well some if it was pretty awful, but i just usually pick something up and hope that it is alright. Beside, i am trying to write, and you have to read bad literature to understand good literature.
And have you read all of those books? Or do you just assume they are bad because someone told you to feel that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:46:24 2015 No.7189164 >>7189149 No, you really don't. I've read enough to know they are bad. You don't get to be a smash young adult hit by being good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 11:53:37 2015 No.7189174 File: 150 KB, 358x350, resorted_to_memes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7189164 >being this /mu/pleb

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 12:07:10 2015 No.7189198

>>7189164
Good books usually hide its strings to well, that means that you don't get to understand how the puppets move. You know it is happening, but not why or how.. by consuming more average lit you get to see the flaws they make, and then you can learn to not make the same mistakes.

But even then, most authors are actually really talented, sure you got your E.L. James's of the world.. but they are few and far between, because even genre writers are craftspeople.

And not all of those books are YA, and if you're going to try to convince that Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut are bad, then you're the one who is clueless, not I.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 12:13:42 2015 No.7189220 >>7189198 >Good pre-modern books usually hide their strings Fixed that for you, my man

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 12:20:22 2015 No.7189240

parallel worlds
my inventions
memoirs of my nervous illness
the ancestor's tale
the elegant universe
god is not great how religion poisons everything
the birth of tragedy
lord of the flies

i think i read some other shit, but i'm high a lot so fuck if i know

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 12:39:44 2015 No.7189291 >>7186794 >tfw only read The Old Man and The Sea

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:02:33 2015 No.7189345 >>7188210 >The Hero of One Thousand Tales - Joseph Campbell What is this about? Is it any good?

Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:22:17 2015 No.7189395

>>7186794

>NO Japanese lit
You're a fucking hack, OP
Japan consistently produces some of the best and most interlocuable literature in this century, and you've completely ignored it this year. Grow a fucking pair and understand that your shitty European authors only represent half of the spectrum. No, Alan Watts does not give you the same invitation into Eastern mentality as reading an actual fucking book written by an actual fucking Eastern author, you fucking pleb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:25:31 2015 No.7189405 >>7189395 is this bait?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:40:28 2015 No.7189442 >>7189405 I don't know, but you should at least read some of Akutagawa's short stories.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:41:09 2015 No.7189443 >>7189442 Who hasn't read Akutagawa?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 3 13:41:59 2015 No.7189447 >>7189443 More people than you think. And probably the OP.

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