/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9109435]

Last five books you read.

Others judge them based solely on this.

> Richard Adams' Watership Down
> Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
> Yukio Mishima's The Sound of the Waves
> Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment

I loved each one of them.

[Anonymous No.9109439]

Dracula
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Blood Meridian
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice & Men

I swear I'm not straight out of high school, although I know it looks like otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9109448]

>>9109435
You're a white male college sophomore who likes anime and says 'vidya' unironically

me
>'On Women' by Schopenhauer
>Mein Kampf by Hitler
>My Twisted World by Eliot Rodger
>Unabomber Manifesto
>Manipulated Man by Vilar

[Anonymous No.9109455]

>>9109435
> OP asks for last five
> he only posts four

I know you're not a mathematician.

[Anonymous No.9109465]

>>9109448
Voted Trump unironically.

>>9109439
Just recently got into reading. Thinks it's good fun and all but fuck those door stoppers, am I right?

>>9109435
Young casual guy, socially awkward, probably a shitposter

[Anonymous No.9109470]

>>9109435

The Red Room - Strindberg
Getting Married - Strindberg
In Defence of the Fool - Strindberg
Inferno - Strindberg
The People of Hemso - Strindberg

[Anonymous No.9109492]

Mercier and Camier, by Samuel Beckett
Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth
London Triptych, by Jobathan Kemp

[Anonymous No.9109499]

>>9109448

Poor sense of humor. Mediocre trolling skills. Considers shitposting an opportunity to get attention rather than an opportunity to express himself artistically - he rejects creating something new, in favour of rehashing shitposting clichés.

This does not sadden him. He never possessed the spark of divinity and never felt the drive to create something. All he craves is attention, and his shitposts reflect that.

This leads to an interesting, if unintended irony, namely that the poster possesses himself some of the chief characteristics he scorns in his perception of women - namely love of attention and lack of creative drive. While this tragic, banal irony could have literary merit, it is, unfortunately, also a cliché.

[Anonymous No.9109505]

>A Farewell To Arms
>The Motorcycle Diaries
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (reread)
>Pot Stories for the Soul
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

[Anonymous No.9109512]

Mantissa by Fowles
The Jokers by Cossery
The Skin by Malaparte
Dio Cassius' Roman history
Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

[Anonymous No.9109519]

>The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
>The Nigger of the Narcissus by Conrad
>Tristram Shandy by Sterne
>Hell's Angels by HST
>White Noise by DeLillo

>>9109435
No idea OP, l've o ly read two of the four on your list. Also, you were supposed to post five, dingus.

>>9109439
Started coming to /lit/ recently and got into "serious" literature.

>>9109448
You're either an ebin ruse meister or an edgy /pol/ack.

>>9109470
You probably really like Strindberg.

[Anonymous No.9109550]

>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
>Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
>God is not great by Christopher Hitchens
>The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Le Galliene

[Anonymous No.9109565]

The Sun Also Rises
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
My Struggle 1 - Knausgaard
The Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath

[Anonymous No.9109573]

>>9109435
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Neverending Story
Brave New World
The Oedipus Saga

This is over a period of two and a half years.

[Anonymous No.9109586]

>>9109435
>A distant mirror the calamitous 13th century by Barbara tuchman
>The 2nd treatise on government John Locke
>Plato's Republic
>Aristotles politics
>The grapes of wrath by Steinbeck
>The sea and civilization A maritime history of the world by Lincoln Paine
I did 6 because I'm just about finished with two of them.

[Anonymous No.9109593]

J R
Actress in the house
Ancient history a paraphase
Ulyssess
Travesty

[Anonymous No.9109621]

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Waiting For Godot by Beckett
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Under the Volcano by Lowry

[Anonymous No.9109626]

>>9109550
How was the atheist book? Autistic screaming written down?

[Anonymous No.9109951]

Infinite Jest
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Barbarian Days
Neuromancer
White Teeth

[Anonymous No.9109967]

Hondo
Things as They Are
Those Barren Leaves
The Victim
What Makes Sammy Run?

[Anonymous No.9109972]

>Steppenwolf
>Myth of Sisyphus
>Nausea
>A Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>Sorrows of Young Werther

I'm currently reading meditations

[Anonymous No.9110005]

Republic by Plato
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Salam Europa! by Kader Abdolah

[Anonymous No.9110013]

>>9109435
>Knowledge and Christian Belief, Plantinga
>The State in the Third Millennium by Prince Hans-Adam
>Monarchism in the Age of Enlightenment by Blom
>Foreigner by Cherryh
>The Hobbit (out loud to a child)

[Anonymous No.9110024]

Infinite Jest
Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World
Ham on Rye
Ishmael
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

IJ was amazing.
I'm a huge Murakami fan and HBW was his only book I'd ever given up on, read almost everything else so I said fuck it and went back and read this. The HB part is as bad as I remember but the Wonderland is really good, I thought.

Ham on Rye was good. Real as shit.

Pic related was the worst book I've ever completed. Jesus, that was garbage.

Denisovich was pretty good, if not a bit boring. I tend to like the gritty feeling in a lot of Russian lit and that was probably my favorite aspect of this book.

[Anonymous No.9110030]

>>9109972
White, ~21, only one friend you actually consider yourself close to

>Gravity's Rainbow - Pinecone
>Collected Fictions - Borges
>Portrait of the Artist - Joyce
>The Long Ships - Bengtsson
>End Zone - DeLillo

[Anonymous No.9110457]

>Count of Monte Cristo
>Catch 22
>Jekyll and Hyde
>A Dance with Dragons
>Fight Club

[Anonymous No.9110559]

>Queer (Burroughs)
>All the Kremlin's Men (Mikhail Kygar)
>The Tempest (Shakespeare)
>Poetics (Aristotle)
>Bacchae (Euripides)

Been a pretty good year so far. Reading 'The Duchess of Malfi' (Webster) and 'The Rage Against God' (Peter Hitchens) at the moment.

[Anonymous No.9110572]

>>9110005
Which translation of Metamorphoses did you read? Was it any good? Thinking of reading that soon but want to get a decent translation

[Anonymous No.9110590]

>>9109435
Meditations-Aurelius
Hyperion-Simmons
Fall of Hyperion-Simmons
Last and First Men-Stapledon
The Iliad-Homer

[Anonymous No.9110646]

What's the point of this thread if the only thing people do is post a list and completely ignore the "judge" part?

[Anonymous No.9110653]

>>9110646
We all get to boast about how patrician our reading habits are.

[Anonymous No.9110657]

Judges
Joshua
Numbers
Exodus
Genesis

:^)

[Anonymous No.9110659]

>>9110590
>Last and First Men-Stapledon
How did you like it? One of my favorites personally.

[Anonymous No.9110662]

>>9109435
Listen, shitfuck. I REALLY hate when retards list the author along with the title of the book. We know who wrote the fucking thing you cuck. So I now hate you.

[Anonymous No.9110675]

Starting from the most recently finished:

The Iliad
Lolita
The Oxford Library of Short Novels Volume 1
Mythology (Hamilton)
The Return of the King

[Anonymous No.9110684]

>>9109470
Is in Defense of the Fool like In Praise of Folly or totally unrelated?

[Anonymous No.9110699]

>>9109435
>Frankenstein (for course)
>Robinson Crusoe (for course)
>War and Peace
>Romeo and Juliet (for course)
>Short stories by Chekhov

also probably somewhat better for judging my personality I cant masturbate to porn if the guys dick is smaller than mine like whats up with that man wouldnt it make more sense if it was the opposite?

[Anonymous No.9110716]

>>9110699
>well-endowed man has small penis humiliation fetish
I'd read it.

[Anonymous No.9110748]

>>9110699
>reading those books for school
Underage lol

[Anonymous No.9110767]

>>9109550
Faulkner + Meditations = Based

[Anonymous No.9110771]

>>9109565
Straight out of high school English class

[Anonymous No.9110778]

>>9109573
Edge lord

[Anonymous No.9110782]

>>9109593
Reading the /lit/ "essentials"

[Anonymous No.9110786]

>>9109586
Freshman Philosophy major

[Anonymous No.9110789]

>Don Quixote, Cervantes
>Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
>a bunch of jeeves and wooster, Wodehouse
>Tristram Shandy, Sterne
> A Christmas Carol, Dickens

[Anonymous No.9110797]

Tolstoy A Confession
Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols
Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Hesse Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.9110805]

>Rose Madder by Stephen King
>1984 by George Orwell
>The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time #2) by Robert Jordon
>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
>King Lear by William Shakespeare

Currently reading: House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

[Anonymous No.9110806]

>The Sot-Weed Factor
>Against the Day
>Oblivion
>Fathers and Crows
>The Old Man and the Sea

[Anonymous No.9110812]

>>9110748
I wish it was the case

I just made some real mistakes with the uni I decided to go for

[Anonymous No.9110813]

>>9110005
not him, but Golding is best.
>>9110559
>>9110657
>>9110789
cool men.

actually all of you are cool except >>9109448

>Walden
>Ulysses (Re-read)
>Butcher's Crossing
>Answer to Job
>Sound and the Fury

[Anonymous No.9110815]

Hedda Gabler
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Myth of Sisyphus
Tenth of December
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

[Anonymous No.9110820]

>>9110572
oops, I meant to reply to you. Arthur Golding is the best translation.

[Anonymous No.9110934]

>>9109435
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
LOTR Trilogy

[Anonymous No.9111066]

Orthodoxy by Chesterton
The Three Musketeers by Dumas
The Count of Monte Christo by Dumas
Demons by Dostoyevsky
Faust by Goethe

[Anonymous No.9111074]

Zeno's Conscience
Bartleby, the Scrivener (i'm gonna count it)
Stoner
Dark Knight Returns
Watchmen

Currently:
House Made of Dawn
Anna Karenina
Maus

[Anonymous No.9111078]

>Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
>The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
>Cooking for Jeffrey by Ina Garten
>The Phaistos Disc by Anonymous
>The Complete Works of Shakespeare in Japanese by William Shakespeare t. 김정은

[Anonymous No.9111122]

>>9110457
How have you enjoyed your first 9 books, reddit?

[Anonymous No.9111143]

lolita
Danubia
The complete stories of Kafka
Catcher in the Rye
The Secret History, procopius

[Anonymous No.9111173]

>>9109435

>On Chesil Beach
>Hear the Wind Sing
>The Fifth Child
>The Road
>Atonement

I'm having a year of contemporary literature. I liked them all except Hear the Wind Sing.

>>9110934
>>9111143
>>9110805

Getting through some of the balls basic texts in the medium.

>>9110699
Studying literature at a mediocre university.

[Anonymous No.9111180]

>>9109435
Only those in English:

Steps to Christ, by Ellen G. White
Silence, by Shusaku Endo
Gifted Hands, by Ben Carson
The Master of Petersburg, by J.M. Coetzee
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Murakami

[Anonymous No.9111358]

The Recognitions
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Image and Idea by Philip Rahv
A Sportsman's Sketches

about 50pages into The Trial. Should finish in the next day or two

[Anonymous No.9111466]

I can barely remember, and if you asked, I couldn't tell you much of anything about them. This is frustrating because it didn't used to be that way, and none of the docs I've talked to seem particularly concerned.

In the past year or so I remember reading
>the fall by camus
>a couple remote viewing manuals
>house on the borderlands by hodgson
>the king in yellow by chambers
>secrets of voodoo by milo rigaud
>a couple audiobooks by christopher fowler
>bits and pieces of several other books

[Anonymous No.9111483]

>>9109435
psychomagic - alejandro jodorowsky
the ascent of humanity - charles eisenstein
six memos for the next millenium - italo calvino
the name of the rose - umberto eco
in my own way - alan watts

[Anonymous No.9111557]

>>9109435
How did you find it in you to enjoy heart of darkness? It was shallow, stale, and stylistically overrated to high heavens.

[Anonymous No.9111585]

Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Demons - Fyodr Dostoyevsky
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher & Other Stories - Hilary Mantel
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

[Anonymous No.9111589]

>>9111358
The feast of the goat was unexplainably sexy

[Anonymous No.9111590]

>>9111585
Did you like disgrace?

[Anonymous No.9111601]

Very much so. I'd recommend it. It's pretty short so not much of a commitment.

[Anonymous No.9111614]

>>9109435
Island in the Stream- Hemingway
Mokiwa - Godwin
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Fall of the House of Usher and other writings - Edgar Allan Poe
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger

[Anonymous No.9111619]

>>9109435
AGOT
ACOK
ASOS
AFFC
ADWD

[Anonymous No.9111727]

From most recent to most distant

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money - John Maynard Keynes
The Collected Works of Archimedes trans. T.L. Heath
The Theory of Interest as Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It - Irving Fisher
The Theory of Money and Interest - Ludwig Von Mises
Euclid - Elements

Right now I'm engaged in Apollonius' Conics and Carl Menger's Principles of Economics Book II has been pretty easy and Menger is pretty fucking simple, so after a pretty steady period of reading intense logical derivations through the first book of On Conics and The General Theory, I get a little break for my mind.

I'm thinking of reading The Social Contract pretty soon.

[Anonymous No.9111733]

>>9110778
y-you too

[Anonymous No.9111739]

>>9109573
>takes two and a half years to read five books

Please be joking.

[Anonymous No.9111743]

Guignol's Band (Celine)
London Bridge (Celine)
Plus (McElroy)
Inter Ice Age 4 (Abe)
The Floating Opera (Barth)

[Anonymous No.9111772]

>>9111727
lonely guy. Wants a better /lit/, still holds out hope. Researching for a book possibly though the idea isn't clearly formed yet.
>>9111614
good looking, fucks, takes pride in reserved masculinity. Good chance is a university student.
>>9111483
you can tell you have quasi-mystical beliefs by looking at your wardrobe. Smokes a lot of weed. Brought up as a christian, made communion.

Here's mine:
>lolita
>mao II
>great jones street
> first division being and time
>enquiry concerning human understanding

currently: critique of pure reason and short history of decay

[Anonymous No.9111779]

>>9109435
The Hobbit
The Call of Cthulhu
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Star Wars
The Hero of a Thousand Faces

>>9109448
you considered shooting for the high score many times but are too much of a pussy to actually do it.

[Anonymous No.9111787]

>>9111772
Good. Now what's my name. And don't play dumb with me.

[Anonymous No.9111788]

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The round house by Louise Erdrich
Lab girl by Hope Jahren
The fifth season by NK Jemisen

[Anonymous No.9111792]

>>9111787
Tyler. We know.

[Anonymous No.9111799]

1984, starship troopers, forever war, nightfall 1 and meditations

[Anonymous No.9111800]

The Book of Mormon
The Turner Diaries
SJWs Always Lie
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The Flight To Lucifer

[Anonymous No.9111826]

>>9111739
I read from others--those were just the last five I actually finished.

[Anonymous No.9111840]

>>9111772
>good looking, fucks, takes pride in reserved masculinity. Good chance is a university student.

"Fucks" could always be better and I don't want to be too narcissistic by commenting on my looks
but you hit the nail on the head.

Sorry, I can't adequately critique you since I honestly haven't read any of your recent books except for the first chapters or so of lolita back in early High School.

[Anonymous No.9111852]

>>9111826
??? How many books do you start but not finish???

[Anonymous No.9111854]

>>9111800
>The Book of Mormon

What is that like?

[Anonymous No.9111856]

>>9111800
i cant believe harold bloom swallowed his own redpill

[Anonymous No.9111919]

>>9111852
A few dozen, off the top of my head. I realise that that still isn't many at all--given the span of time I'm talking about--but being forced to read was the punishment I really ever received as a kid so I've only just recently made any attempts at doing it recreationally. Sucks to suck.

[Anonymous No.9112018]

>The book of Odes by Confucius
>Circle of Chalk by Li Xing-Tao
>Selected novellas of Akutagava Ryunosuke
>The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra by Anonymous
>On certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.9112487]

>>9111779
underage b8
>>9111788
white supremacist
>>9111800
cool goy
>>9112018
son of a bitch

[Anonymous No.9112494]

>>9112487
What are you trying to say with this?
(calling me a "son of a bitch")

[Anonymous No.9112505]

The Host
Twilight
Harry Potter and the cursed child
Infinite Jest (10 %)
Jojo Moyes

[Anonymous No.9112523]

Birds/Lysistrata/Assembly-Women/Wealth by Aristophanes
White Buildings by Hart Crane
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
In the Clearing by Robert Frost
Promotheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus

>>9112505
Underage. Just found /lit/ and tried falling for the memes but found them too difficult.

[Anonymous No.9112568]

>>9112487
>son of a bitch
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.9112699]

>>9109435
Rules for Radicals
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
The Art of the Deal
The Road to Serfdom
Democracy: The God That Failed

[Anonymous No.9112737]

>>9109435

Jesus Christ this board is embarrassing.

Nice high school reading list you have there.

[Anonymous No.9112752]

I can't remember lol

[Anonymous No.9112808]

>>9109435

>Bibliotheca by Pseudo-Apollodorus
>Euripides tragedies
>Aeschylus tragedies
>Greek Myths 1 by Robert Graves
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

i'm a fucking meme but i don't regret anything

[Anonymous No.9112833]

>>9111589
Raping virgins is sexy. Nothing inexplicable about it.

[Anonymous No.9112840]

Metro 2035, Glukhovsky
The Mouse that Roared, Wibberley
Beware of the Mouse, Wibberley
Years of Rice and Salt, Robinson
What if?, Monroe

[Anonymous No.9112847]

Stained Glass - Rosewell
SPQR - Beard
Churches: An Architectural Guide - Bradley
The Trojan War - Strauss
Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England - Saul

[Anonymous No.9113364]

>>9111557
OP here. I hadn't been forced to read it in school and was casually interested in it due to loving Apocalypse Now. I began reading it out of curiosity to see how it was integrated into a visual adaptation and I ended up enjoying it more partially for the detail of the prose and I was admiring of the portrayal of enslavement of a race (in 1899, it's quite forward thinking to be sympathetic towards the slaves). I have yet to read more Joseph Conrad so I don't really know how it compares to his other works but I'm pretty excited.

I politely disagree with your post, anon, but I'm sure you also have your own valid reasons as to why you disliked it.

[Anonymous No.9114408]

>>9110659
I really enjoyed it, but I'm a sucker for books that deal with the long-term 'story' of humanity. Like Dune and Hyperion and this.

His description of 'national characters' and cultural forms which construct the people that live within the nation, culture, etc. was also engaging and handled uniquely compared to much of what I've read.

Overall I am a big fan and want to read Star Maker soon.

[Anonymous No.9114750]

Paradise Lost - Milton
Catch 22 - Heller
The night is darkening round me - Emily Bronte
The 13th Valley - John M. Del Vecchio
Heart of Darkness - Conrad

[Anonymous No.9114777]

>>9110786
Close! I dropped out after community college and went to work for the family business.

[Anonymous No.9114812]

Moby Dick
Steppenwolf
Mr Norris Changes Trains
No Longer Human
The Iliad

[Anonymous No.9114817]

>House of Leaves
>Ars Goetia
>City of God
>The Secret Teachings of the Ages
>Meditations x2

[Anonymous No.9114841]

The Death of Ivan Illych by Tolstoy
Richard III by Shakespeare
Thyestes by Seneca
Oedipus Rex by Seneca
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

[Anonymous No.9114847]

>>9114841
Read Yeat's Oedipus then Freud for the memes.

[Anonymous No.9114853]

>>9114841
You seem like some one who tires to be smarter than the rest, but ultimately you never feel superior.

[Anonymous No.9114858]

>>9114847

Sounds interesting, I'll definitely check Yeats out

Fuck Freud tho desu

[Anonymous No.9114866]

>>9114853

Can you put that more simply for me? I don't understand

[Anonymous No.9114883]

>>9114866
Not sure if you're joking.
But, like me, you strive to be better than everyone around you, as you've always felt lesser. In the end, however, you'll never feel as though you've overtaken anyone, even if you have.
Or maybe I'm just projecting.

[Anonymous No.9114948]

>>9114883

Nah, I read firstly to try and understand how I can live a happier and more fulfilling life, and secondly for entertainment.

[Anonymous No.9114960]

Pan, by Hamsun
The Waves, by Woolf
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, by Benjamin
Laia, by Espriu
Swann's Way, by Proust (current)

Pan has been definetly my favourite so far

[Anonymous No.9115050]

>>9110684

I haven't read In Praise of Folly, but from reading a short synopsis, no, not at all. In Defence of a Fool is an autobiography of Strindberg's first marriage, marred by his jealousy that is at times justified, at times clear insanity.

It's a good read, but if you want to give Strindberg a try, I'd recommend The Red Room.

[Anonymous No.9115075]

>>9114960

If you like Pan, I recommend Mysteries, also by Hamsun. It's slightly similar, thought with less poetic musings on nature and more in-depth psychology.

[Anonymous No.9115226]

>>9111173
Basic they are, they are enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.9115238]

>>9109470
You're very patient and possibly a little psychotic. I'm half way through The Inferno right now, I know its very short but its also very intense.

mine
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
By The Open Sea by August Strindberg
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard

[Anonymous No.9115256]

>The Process by Kafka
>Les Miserables by Hugo
>The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
>Dead Souls by Gogol
>The Golem by Meyrink

[Anonymous No.9115273]

>>9115256
your car just got towed, you have persistent diarrhea, you stepped on your cat's tail this morning and you don't drink enough water which means you're dangerously dehydrated because of the diarrhea.

[Anonymous No.9115361]

>>9109435
>The old man and the sea - Hemingway
>Alice's adventures in wonderland - Carroll
>common sense - Paine
>Mythologies - Hamilton
>The Iliad

[Anonymous No.9115440]

Ricoeur - Living up to Death
Hadot - Philosophy As a Way of Life
Kavenna - A Field Guide to Reality
Epictetus - Discourses
Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers

[Anonymous No.9115462]

>Man & His Symbols - Jung
>The Divine Invasion - PKD
>Studies in Classic American Literature - Lawrence
>The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne
>Conference of the Birds - Attar

[Anonymous No.9115500]

Hamsun - Pan
Petterson - Out Stealing Horses*
Hamsun - Hunger
Hamsun - Mysteries
(reread Pan for a class)
Hamsun - Victoria

I was so impressed by Pan that I decided to take a Hamsun class this quarter. Victoria wasn't part of that class, though; I read it out of curiosity. Right now I'm reading Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless. Not a huge fan. Up next is László Krasznahorkai's Satantango.

I should probably get around to Growth of the Soil at some point but its premise seems less attractive to me than early Hamsun.

>>9115075
That one fucked me up most of all the ones I've read.

[Anonymous No.9115511]

>>9110789
>>9110005
>>9109565

Alright sorts of fellows

[Anonymous No.9115513]

>>9115500
Also currently working through that Penguin book of Schopenhauer Essays and Aphorism's. More enjoyable than the Musil desu; compared to Hamsun, Musil seems hackneyed.

[Anonymous No.9115583]

>>9115500
You can skip Growth of the Soil. Too contemporary for my taste.

[Anonymous No.9115661]

>>9115075
>less poetic musings on nature and more in-depth psychology.
But these were the best parts. I'll still get around to read it though.

>>9115583
Don't listen to this man

[Anonymous No.9116167]

Pierre Goriot
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior

pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.9116291]

Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West"
Heinrich Harrer's "Seven years in Tibet"
Knut Hamsun´s "Growth of the Soil"
Lothrap Stoddard's "Into the Darkness"
Ian Smith's "The great betrayal"

[Anonymous No.9116457]

>>9116291
Fuck you cherokee.

[Anonymous No.9116480]

Francis Wheen - Marx's Das Kapital
Frankenstein
Dracula
The House on the Borderland
Slavoj Zizek - Disparities

[Anonymous No.9116512]

>>9109435
Old man and the sea
Farewell to arms
Thus spoke zarathustra
Beyond good and evil
Meditations

Come at me.

[Anonymous No.9116767]

Moby Dick
A Confederacy of Dunces
A River Runs Through It
The Killer Angels
The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.9116862]

SubaHibi
Sakura no Uta
Dies Irae
Muramasa
Shisha no Sho

[Anonymous No.9116874]

>Don Quixote (current)
>The Adventures of Huck Finn (brilliant)
>Borges Collected fictions (occasionally boring, but generally brilliant)
>Jakob Von Gunten (short and brilliant)
>The Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Mostly brilliant, rather difficult)

[Anonymous No.9116933]

>>9116862
You should kys weeb piece of shit

[Anonymous No.9117591]

>>9109435
1945 China
Atomized
tin drum
complete essays of george orwell
Medea

[Anonymous No.9117629]

I'm new to /lit/, I'd love some recommendations:

Lovecraft
Lolita
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
The Road To Wigan Pier
A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Reading Gulag Archipelago now

[Anonymous No.9117737]

The Broom of the System
Outer Dark
Post Office
Mother Night
Billy Bathgate

[Anonymous No.9117966]

Demons - Dostoyevsky
Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Jung
The Gulag Archipeligo - Solzhenitsyn
Faust pt 1 - Goethe
The King and the Corpse - Zimmer

[Anonymous No.9118009]

>>9109435
>Andrei Bely, Petersburg
>Maxim Gorky, Foma Gordeev
>John Reed, Ten Days That Shook The World
>Boris Savinkov, Memoirs of a Terrorist
>Alexander Pushkin, short stories (re-reading)

Yes, my nationality must be obvious.

[Anonymous No.9118039]

>The Way of Kings (currently)
>The thran
>The drawing of the three
>Planeskalker
>Prince of thorns

I'm leaned toward dark/high fantasy.

[Anonymous No.9118076]

>>9109435
Frederik Pohl - Gateway
Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand Of Darkness
Angela Carter - Heroes And Villains
Anton Chekhov - About Love And Other Stories
Tolstoy - War And Peace

I enjoyed them

[Anonymous No.9118181]

The House of Mirth
The Sound and the Fury
Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson
Ulysses
Great Expectations

[Anonymous No.9118199]

Ben Macintyre - A Spy Among Friends
Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter
Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
John Le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

[Anonymous No.9118206]

>>9118181
>Sculptor's Daughter

What language? I find it intolerable. Like the one where she rolls something through town and gets stuck under a door. Aaargh

[Anonymous No.9118222]

>>9109573
Oh I just remembered I read Gilead over last Easter.

[Anonymous No.9118224]

Teixeira - The Fabric of Terror
Süskind - The Perfume
Unknown/various -Icelandic sagas first volume (1 of 5 in a complete translation)
Snyder - Black Earth
Saeterbakken - Through the Night

[Anonymous No.9118266]

Odyssey
Hamlet
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses

>>9109435
Dostoevsky is another author I want to explore like how I'm exploring Joyce.

>>9109439
How was Blood Meridian? And Brief Interviews? (the only DFW i read was IJ and I loved it)

>>9109550
I want to read Meditations too, I loved Seneca. S&F is also a high priority, is it true that there's a lot of good Stream of Consciousness in it? I love stream of consciousness writing. I guess if I'm judging you I'd say you're pretty cool, and by cool i mean you're a lot like me, so i guess actually that means you're not very cool. Whatever.

>>9109565
You seem like your bookshelf is just books you stole from a middle school library you fucking faggot

>>9109573
You suffer from depression, read Tao Te Ching and Letters From a Stoic

>>9109586
>did 6
You're a gigantic fucking faggot I can already tell

>>9109593

[Anonymous No.9118319]

>>9118266
Continuing

>>9109593
>didn't read Portrait or Dubliners right before Ulysses
you read it for the sake of the meme and you'r a faggot

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>>9118199
you all seem like faggots

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>>9116874
you're cool

>>9110797
i'd hang out with you more than anyone else on this entire board

[Anonymous No.9118336]

>>9117966
Hello fellow Peterson's-reading-list reader :^)

>>9116480
>Actually reading Zizek

>>9116512
I'm glad to see so many people reading Meditations, it really helped me out I think.

My List
>Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
This shit was great. Did you know that for like 20 years the central US was home to the most effective mounted cavalry force in existence? And that this bunch of reedy Indians rolled back the tide of manifest destiny hundreds of miles? Ever wonder what stopped the Spanish from continuing their colonization efforts up through Mexico into the Midwest/Canada? They couldn't because 30,000 Comanche wrecked their shit so hard they couldn't maintain settlements north of the Rio Grande.
>Gulag Archipelago
Made me angry about Communism desu. And states in general.
>A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
A deadass great book my guys :^) Read it, top notch sci-fi with relatable characters and cool fun aliens with computers.
>The Algebraist, by Ian M. Banks
Also incredible.
>Ringworld, by Larry Niven
Nobody does aliens as well as Niven, No-Bo-Dy.

Currently reading Neuromancer on a fucked up pdf. I feel like having every f replaced with a # is bizarrely immersive, like I'm reading some text barely retrieved from a zaibatsu mainframe by the skin of some cowboy's virtual teeth.

[Anonymous No.9118451]

Kafka on the Shore
Gates of Fire
Belcanto
Oedipus Rex
The Gunslinger

[Anonymous No.9118463]

>>9118319
>I don't know anything about the books you posted so you seem like a faggot

[Anonymous No.9118481]

>>9109435
How Proust Can Change Your Life by de Botton
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Complete French (Learn French from Teach Yourself)
À la recherche du temps perdu

[Anonymous No.9118681]

Against The Day
A Little Life
1984
The Pale King
Double Or Nothing

[Anonymous No.9118686]

Karl Ove Knausgård My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family
Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination
Elizabeth Jane Howard The Long View
Richard Matheson I Am Legend
W. Somerset Maugham The Painted Veil

[Anonymous No.9118711]

>>9109435
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Technological Slavery by Uncle Teddy
Gulliver's Travels by Swift (reread for school)
The Power of Myth by Jojo Campbell
A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lemmiwinks

Give me some suggestions or rip my head off

[Anonymous No.9119027]

Camus: The Pest
Kafka: The Trial
Dostoyevski: White nights and other short stories (this edition includes Notes from the underground)
Sophocles' Theban plays
The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway

I've enjoyed The Pest but I felt it was a bit drawn out at times. Still a great book.

The Trial is a solid book. Loved it, copied some of its symbolism.

Dostoyevski's short stories are great, underrated imo. Notes from the underground is brilliant.

I wasn't in the mood for Sophocles, I just wanted to finish it because his Theban plays are classics and don't take much time to read.

Hemingway is Hemingway. Fun to read. Not great, not average, not bad. Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.9119044]

>>9118319
Fuck you. And thanks for replying.

[Anonymous No.9119051]

Ulysses - James Joyce
some trees - John Ashbery (hated it)
Ave, Palavra - João Guimarães Rosa
The Parasite - Michel Serres (positive surprise)
Dialect of Enlighment - Adorno

[Anonymous No.9119699]

1984
Crime and Punishment
House of the Dead
Notes from the underground
The double

[Anonymous No.9119815]

>>9109435
> Grapes of Wrath
> Brave New World
> Heart of Darkness
> Things Fall Apart
> Grit

[Anonymous No.9119919]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Christina Henry's The Red Queen
Christina Henry's Alice
Pride and Prejudice
Lovecraft's Great Tales of Horror

[Anonymous No.9119971]

>>9118266
>read Tao Te Ching and Letters From a Stoic
Will do. I'll give you my thoughts come 2019.

[Anonymous No.9120099]

Franz Kafka - The Trial
Haruki Murakami - After the Quake
Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
Jonathan Harris - Byzantium and the Crusades
Naomi Mandel - Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X

[Anonymous No.9120278]

Am I to late in the game to be judged?

1. Cature in the Rye
2. Infinite Jest
3. Brave New World
4. 1984
5. Fight Club

>me irl

[Anonymous No.9120295]

>>9120278
You're a lesbian black man?

[Anonymous No.9120303]

>>9120295
but my friends call me charles
i played alot of nes fighting games as a kid
like even power ranger ones
pretty bad ass

[Anonymous No.9120742]

Paradise Lost
Swann's Way
Picture of Dorian Gray
Jacob's room
Mason & Dixon


Fuck I feel like a meme

[Anonymous No.9120756]

Don Quixote by Cervantes
An American Dream by Mailer
Go Down Moses by Faulkner
V by Pynchon
Tao Te Ching by Tzu

[Anonymous No.9120767]

>>9120742
is jacobs room good? looks out of place there.

[Anonymous No.9120799]

>>9118681
How was Against the Day?
How does it compare to Pynchon's other work?

I've considered reading it but I am intimidated by its length and discouraged by the fact that it not as highly regarded as Pynchon's other works. If I'm going to crack into a 1,000+ page book it better be worth it.

[Anonymous No.9120908]

>>9109499
insightful read
8/10

[Anonymous No.9120996]

>>9120767
Yeah it's p comfy

[Anonymous No.9121380]

Journals of lewis and clark
Magic and sorcery in ancient scandinavia (Varg)
Unremembered Empire
Hail to the Jeep
Through a mirror Darkly

[Anonymous No.9121391]

>>9120799
It's excellent, well worth the time. Given time I reckon it'll be as well regarded as his other work

[Anonymous No.9121416]

>>9109499
good post

[Anonymous No.9121428]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Watchmen graphic novel (this counts right)
The Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

[Anonymous No.9122237]

White Noise - Don Delillo
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Gallic War - Julius Caesar
On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History - Thomas Carlyle

[Anonymous No.9122277]

> We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
> Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
> The Stranger - Albert Camus
> Bartebly, the Scrivener - Herman Melville
> Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

[Anonymous No.9122380]

>Homer - Iliad (Lattimore, some Pope and Chapman)
>Alex 'Icycalm' Kierkegaard - Orgy of the Will
>Shakespeare - Macbeth; Hamlet
>various classical writers
>Nietzsche - Complete works (Cambridge)

[Anonymous No.9122746]

Antal Szerb – Journey by Moonlight
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Lost Girls – Alan Moore
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
A Chinese Life – Li Kunwu

[Anonymous No.9122821]

>>9122746
>Antal Szerb – Journey by Moonlight

I stopped reading there so I can't be disappointed. Good on you, f a m.