/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12776325]

>age
>last 5 books

and others r8

[Anonymous No.12776336]

>>12776325
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Gilead
Late Fame
Winesburg, Ohio
Billy Budd, Sailor

[Anonymous No.12776341]

I am legend
The sound of waves
The mayor of casterbridge
From Russia with love
The good soldier

[Anonymous No.12776346]

>>12776341
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[Anonymous No.12776367]

>>12776325
21
Beyond Sleep - Willem Frederik Hermans
Germania - Tacitus
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea - Yukio Mishima
The art of war - Sun Tzu
White nights - Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.12776507]

>69
Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola
>Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Republic by Plato

>>12776341
did you like From Russia with love?

[Anonymous No.12776539]

>>12776507
Quite boring. The finale with the serial killer was nice though.

[Anonymous No.12776620]

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The Wind Up Bird Chroniclea
Swann's Way
A Brief History of Time
Infinite Jest
Atomised

[Anonymous No.12776931]

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Ubik
Aleph stories
Man in High Castle
Antony and Cleopatra

[Anonymous No.12776940]

>>12776325
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Currently reading Dracula
>>12776336
I don't know them.
>>12776341
I read I am Legend in highschool, I'd like to read it again but this time in English.
>>12776367
I don't know them.
>>12776931
Did you like The Man in the High Castle? I didn't understand it.

[Anonymous No.12776947]

>23

>The Idiot
>Moby-Dick
>Death of Ivan Ilyich, and also Confession
>Thousand Cranes
>Dubliners

Currently reading Ulysses. Excited because about to start Nausicaa

[Anonymous No.12776949]

>>12776325
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musashi
moby dick
meditations
zen teachings of huang po
silmarillion

[Anonymous No.12776950]

>>12776325
24

The Twelve Chairs Ilf and Petrov
hamlet/macbeth Shakespeare
Day of oprichnik Sorokin
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
Belkin-story Queen of Spades Pushkin

[Anonymous No.12776956]

>>12776947
*22
fuck, I keep forgetting my age god damn

[Anonymous No.12776958]

23
Mishima - Sun and Steel
Schelling - Clara
de Jouvenel - On Power
Conan the Cimmerian Chronicles
The Bell Jar

[Anonymous No.12776963]

>>12776950
Oh hey I read queen of spades too. what did you think? did you buy the £1 penguin edition as well?

[Anonymous No.12776985]

>>12776947
Is The Idiot good?
I've yet to read a "big" book from Dostoevsky besides Crime and Punishment.
I have read a lot of his novellas though.

[Anonymous No.12776993]

>>12776963
I buy big one. When read i think about how it was refers to Gogol and Dostoevsky. I really like the briefness of Pushkin's prose.

[Anonymous No.12776997]

>>12776325
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Who Moved my Cheese?
Masters of Doom
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
these are the last books I can remember finishing recently; I need to read less articles and blogs and more literature (it's an occupational hazard, fuck computer programming)

[Anonymous No.12777005]

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Nana - Zola
Short Stories - Maupassant
Hard Boiled Wonderland - Murakami
The High Window - Chandler
Bliss - Carey

>>12776947
Fantastic bunch there

[Anonymous No.12777008]

>21

White nights by Dostoyevsky

Demons by Dostoyevsky

Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoyevsky

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Either/or by Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.12777024]

>>12776367
Based

>>12776947
Based

>>12776997
Cringe

[Anonymous No.12777026]

>>12776325
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Old people and the things that pass - Louis Couperus
Journey through the monkeyland - J.A. Schasz
Notes from the underground - Dostoevsky
The life on earth - Slauerhoff
Typee - Herman Melville

[Anonymous No.12777030]

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The Red and the Black
Elective Affinities
Complete Works of Horace
Wuthering Heights
Brave New World

[Anonymous No.12777042]

>>12776325
>27

>what is power? - byung-chul han
>immaterialism - graham harman
>on the concept of anxiety - soren kierkegaard
>chaosmosis - felix guatarri
>thinking of the other - emmanuel levinas

[Anonymous No.12777045]

>>12777030
what think about The Red and the Black?

[Anonymous No.12777050]

>>12777005
How did you like maupassants short stories? heard many good things about it
Also how do you feel about Zola's work? I've been curious

[Anonymous No.12777055]

>>12777026
how was typee?>>12776993

[Anonymous No.12777068]

>>12776940
>The Man in the High Castle
Well I understand the plot, but I don't understand the ending and the meaning of the book.
I didn't like it, I don't like history and dystopia. It was the only Dick book in the library and I got baited into reading it because I didn't know it's atypical Dick.

[Anonymous No.12777069]

>>12776993
You're reading it in Russian? That's awesome. I like Pushkins prose too. Have you read Dead Souls by Gogol yet? I want to read it soon
Happy you liked it, my friend

[Anonymous No.12777079]

>>12777055

[Anonymous No.12777081]

>>12777045
I loved it, it instantly became one of my favorites. It got me interested in Stendhal's other works and I'm currently reading Love.

[Anonymous No.12777093]

>>12777069
Dead Souls is like Hamlet/Faust for russian lit. Realy good prose, read it, you will love it

[Anonymous No.12777098]

>>12777081
thank, fren

[Anonymous No.12777108]

>>12776325
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Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Crying of lot 49
Pluckoon
Good Solider Svejk
Bleeding Edge

[Anonymous No.12777114]

>>12777108
Nice stuff
fuck col49 though

[Anonymous No.12777130]

>>12776958
tryhard retard

[Anonymous No.12777135]

>>12777098
no problem, fren

[Anonymous No.12777139]

>>12776620
>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

any good?

[Anonymous No.12777142]

>>12776325
30. I don't read.

[Anonymous No.12777166]

>>12777055
Good, but doesn't hold a canlde to Moby Dick. I was gonna read all Melville books in order, but I'll probably skip Omoo, unless I hear it's far more interesting than Typee.

[Anonymous No.12777277]

22

Why we sleep - Matthew Walker
13 essential rules of selling - Joe Girard
John D. Rockefeller biography - Michael Simmons
How to get rich - Felix Dennis
The compassionate mind workbook - Chris Irons

All I think about is money

[Anonymous No.12777314]

>20

>steering the economy
>roots of appeasement
>Munich 1938
>hayek socialsm
>swanns way

[Anonymous No.12777315]

21
Song of Solomon
On the Road
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Empire of the Sun
The Sorrows of Young Werther

[Anonymous No.12777333]

26
The critique of judgement
Nathan the wise
Life and Action
The myth of sisyphus
The rebell

[Anonymous No.12777358]

>>12776325
21
>Trumpet
>Oroonoko
>The Master and Margarita
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Hero and Leander

[Anonymous No.12777387]

>>12777358
What's the unbearable lightness of being like?

[Anonymous No.12777391]

>>12776325
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Call of the wild
Less than zero
Grapes of wrath
All the pretty horses
David Copperfield

[Anonymous No.12777399]

>25
>haven't finished a book in about a year but come on /lit/ every day

sometimes I read the book of revelation. sometimes I see a hooker/tinder thot.

[Anonymous No.12777410]

25
>A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
>Kull: Exile of Atlantis
>Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
>Dubliners
>The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.12777426]

25

Caligola
The Stranger
V.
De Vita Beata
The notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

[Anonymous No.12777439]

>>12776325
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>The Waste Land
>Meditations
>The Way of The Shaman
>The Death of Ivan Ilych
>Ariel

[Anonymous No.12777484]

>>12777026
Notes from underground was really good I felt, especially the first half struck me.

[Anonymous No.12777501]

>>12776325
>34
>The Culture Industry
>Simulacra and Simulation
>The Odyssey
>Constructing the Self, Constructing America*
>Based on a True Story
I am pretty sure this is accurate.

*This book is garbage for retards and made me antisemitic.

[Anonymous No.12777508]

>>12777387
Really good.

[Anonymous No.12777513]

>>12776325
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Illuminatus!
Inherent Vice
Walden
Walden Two
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.12777517]

23

Storm of Steel
Cancer Ward
The Things They Carried
The Rape of Nanking
Meditations

[Anonymous No.12777518]

>>12777501
I actually recently got the Constructing America book, haven't started it yet but the author does clearly have an axe to grind, I'm going to read it regardless of what you say but do you feel that it has any merit for somebody interested in American history and psychology even if I disagree with or ignore his core thesis?

[Anonymous No.12777522]

31
The sea of fertility tetralogy
Sailor who fell from grace with the sea

I'm in awe of mishimas descriptions

[Anonymous No.12777533]

>>12776325
19
SlaughterHouse 5- Vonnegut
On Crimes and Punishments- Beccaria (not the dosto one)
Philosophical Investigations- Wittgeinstein
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire- Bukowski
A Heart of Darkness- Conrad

just started Jung's autobio and No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.12777545]

>>12776325
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Forward the Foundation by Asimov
Überfahrt by Anna Seghers
Das Odfeld by Wilhelm Raabe
Siddharta by Hesse

And currently reading/nearly finished The complete plays of Sarah Kane. I'll probably also reread some of those.

[Anonymous No.12777548]

>>12776947
how's Death of Ivan Illych? saw it on a bookstore yesterday and kept wondering if it was worth it

[Anonymous No.12777550]

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>Marcin Kołodziejczyk - Dysforia
>Stefan Żeromski - Labors of Sisyphus
>Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
>Joseph Heller - Catch 22
>William Golding - Lord of the Flies

[Anonymous No.12777571]

>>12777518
Definitely read it. There are some interesting things in it especially in the first 1/3 or so and how he talks about advertising/consumerism as a sort of healer-cult in our society. I was very frustrated with it because I thought I was going to get all this arcane knowledge about how human beings have conceived of themselves through the ages and like 100 pages was dedicated to minstrel shows and how evil white people are. The author seems to think he is some sort of Howard Zinn of psychology (complete with absolute basic bitch boomer socdem sentimental moralism) and even at this modest task he fails. Also every chapter starts with an epigraph that is like song lyrics which made me want to kill.

But don't take my word for it!

[Anonymous No.12777580]

>25
>The Kindly Ones
>Hunger
>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
>Submission
>The Magus

[Anonymous No.12777613]

>>12776325
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>Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
>...and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Tyranny of Debt)
The most interesting book i've read this decade
>Blood Passover
>The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man
Skimmed over some pages, very heavy on diligent documentation
>Inside the South African Reserve Bank: Its Origins and Secrets Exposed

Been lately trying to get a hold on to the increasing number of books being banned from being sold at Amazon, quite uneven field of works... several extremely interesting volumes that can be held to a high scholarly standard but also some poorly written garbage with no value whatsoever.

Also slowly but surely listening through audiobooks of Malazan while doing chores and exercising, currently on Midnight Tides.

[Anonymous No.12777636]

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The Sickness Unto Death- Soren Kierkegaard
The Soft Machine- William S Burroughs
Phenomenology of Spirit- GWF Hegel
Philosophy in the Bedroom- Marquis De Sade
On the Genealogy of Morals- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.12777642]

>>12777391
Planning on reading the rest of The Border Trilogy?

[Anonymous No.12777686]

>>12777613
>..and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Tyranny of Debt)
Is this like a better version of Graeber's Debt? Read that and found it somewhat wanting, though interesting.

[Anonymous No.12777693]

>>12776985
It's a lower tier than Crime and Punishment and TBK, but it's good.

[Anonymous No.12777699]

>>12777580
Is The Kindly Ones good? I purchased a copy years ago based on a recommendation.

[Anonymous No.12777700]

>29
>Assassin's Apprentice (currently reading)
>Vita Nostra
>Last argument of kings
>Before they are hanged
>The blade itself

[Anonymous No.12777705]

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The Girl With All The Gifts
The Juliette Society
Bright Lights Big City
Dear Life
The Soft Machine

[Anonymous No.12777725]

>>12777699
It’s absolutely fucking revolting at times (quite often actually) And the military jargon is heavy but I really like the book a lot

[Anonymous No.12777728]

21
The Quiet American
A Farewell to Arms
The Public Burning
A collection of short stories by T.C. Boyle
Neuromancer (this was probably cool 25 years ago but holy fuck was it hard to get through)

[Anonymous No.12777732]

>>12777725
I've read revolting books before and military jargon works for me. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.12777784]

>>12777686
>Is this like a better version of Graeber's Debt?
Pretty much, Hudsons research is considerably more in-depth and he takes a lot more matter-of-fact approach instead of philosophical one

[Anonymous No.12777788]

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Prolegomena to any future metaphysics kant
An enquiry into human understanding hume
The underground man dostoe
Wuthering heights by some hoe
Phaedo plato

[Anonymous No.12777838]

27
Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota #2)
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
Notes from Underground
The Cynic Philosophers

>>12776949
Good mix of /lit/-core and other.

>>12777008
Existentialism/10, you depressed yet?

[Anonymous No.12777849]

>>12777784
damn that is what i wanted out of Debt. Guess I got another to add to the backlog. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.12777868]

>>12777008
White nights was pretty good, but I already forgot the ending.

[Anonymous No.12777881]

22

Steppenwolf (currently)

The Stranger
The Master and Margarita
Blood Meridian
Crime and Punishment
No Longer Human

[Anonymous No.12777918]

>24

>Omar Pasha Latas by Ivo Andrić
>First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
>Exemplary Stories by Miguel De Cervantes
>Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

[Anonymous No.12777938]

>>12776325
Uh,

Age: 22
The Dragon Reborn
King of Thorns
The Return of the King
Prince of Thorns
The Hobbit

go nuts

[Anonymous No.12777967]

30

A Good School by Richard Yates
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti
The Puritan Dilemna by Edmund S. Morgan

[Anonymous No.12778013]

>>12777142
same

[Anonymous No.12778067]

24
The Shock of the New
Thief of Time
Gladstone: A Biography
Why We Sleep
Pale Fire

[Anonymous No.12778102]

>>12776325
I love feet

They're one of the few reasons I haven't killed myself

[Anonymous No.12778105]

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Fellowship of the Ring
Mein Kampf
Hillbilly Elegy
Sun and Steel
The Stranger in the Woods

I'm a noob and still haven't even started with the Greeks so don't judge too hard.

>>12777517
How was Storm of Steel? I plan to read it soon.

[Anonymous No.12778113]

>>12776325
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Han Solos revenge
The Iliad
Marine: Life of Chesty Puller
Two lives of Charlamane
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy

[Anonymous No.12778137]

>>12777315
How's Katharina Blum? Does it get more interesting after a few dozen pages? I tried reading it but the prose felt weird and the plot wasn't too exciting, at least at the beginning.

>>12777426
Did you also read the play 'The misunderstanding' that is sometimes published along with Caligula? I really loved it, more than Caligula actually.

>>12777545
How's Anna Seghers? Hardly ever talked but about, but apparently she's important. I really wonder if her works are weird and poetic or can be read like any regular novel.

>>12776325
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Mary, Nabokov
Job, Joseph Roth
Demian, Hesse
Franny & Zooey
Roadside Picnic

[Anonymous No.12778148]

>>12778105
It's quite good. Jünger manages to convey the horrors of the trenches without seeming cheap or gratuitous. There is a real weight to his writing and you really get a sense of what the experience was like for the thousands of men who served back then.

[Anonymous No.12778193]

>>12776325
22
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
A Poetry Handbook
Lolita
Stoner
Notes from the underground

[Anonymous No.12778214]

21

Stoner (currently)
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and The Fury
Distant Star
The Crying of Lot 49
2666

>>12777277
>>12777314
>>12777333
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>>12777391
>>12777501
>>12777517
>>12777533
>>12777545
>>12777550
>>12777613
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>>12777705
>>12777788
>>12777838
>>12777938
>>12777967
>>12778105
>>12778113
Cringe

>>12777315
>>12777358
>>12777410
>>12777426
>>12777439
>>12777513
>>12777580
>>12777636
>>12777728
>>12777881
>>12778067
>>12778137
>>12778193
Based

[Anonymous No.12778216]

>>12778193
>fell for lit's meme books.png

[Anonymous No.12778225]

>>12778214
>considers himself to be elite and able to judge everyone because he read meme books and has now convinced himself he is "enlightened"

[Anonymous No.12778230]

>>12776325
18
>Crime and punishment
>Submission
>A Hero of our Time
>The Spanish Tragedy
>Whatever

[Anonymous No.12778235]

>>12778214
I agree with these ratings desu, based af

[Anonymous No.12778248]

>>12778216
I just started reading a few months ago, so i think those charts were pretty good as a starting point

[Anonymous No.12778252]

>>12778214
why is >>12777517 cringe?

[Anonymous No.12778257]

>>12778216
stoner is good

[Anonymous No.12778258]

>>12777548
It is excellent my friend
Read and enjoy

[Anonymous No.12778259]

>>12778214
>Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.
>an anon here actually decided to read a book about a gold digging attention whore
I don't know what I expected since you did a mass response.
Be honest, how many dicks do you take daily?

[Anonymous No.12778272]

>>12778252
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is automatically cringe desu

[Anonymous No.12778276]

>>12778272
but >>12778193 also has one

[Anonymous No.12778287]

>>12778248
Anon reading what you're told to read is foolish. You're reading what others are intrigued by rather than what you are intrigued by. It will leave you a hollow shell with no voice of your own. You'll ignore books because they aren't on one of lit's charts. You'll copy what others post here blindly rather than crafting your own opinion. You'll be a hive mind faggot if you don't choose on your own

[Anonymous No.12778290]

>>12777938
I have nothing against genre fiction and everyone should have read their LotR but beyond that, why do you read the most generic genre fiction?

[Anonymous No.12778295]

>>12778276
But Stoner basedness' outweighs Solzhenitsyn's cringe. It's basic math.

[Anonymous No.12778308]

>>12778287
Not really, I didnt have an idea of what i wanted to read. After reading some recommended books know i know what i like and what i don't. Of course i know that lit will recommend the classics or whatever meme bbook is popular. But know i feel i have a bit more understanding of what i want

[Anonymous No.12778312]

>>12778295
The Things They Carried and Storm of Steel both outweigh Stoner in terms of badassness

[Anonymous No.12778317]

>>12778290
because I aim to write fantasy when Uni's through, anon, and I'm educating myself

I've read outside of fantasy. Prior to those five, I'd been reading Great Expectations and North and South, and both were fantastic.

What are you reading

[Anonymous No.12778326]

>>12778295
I don't know how is Solzhenitsyn cringe. To me he was boring and uninspired ,or at least in the one book that i read.

[Anonymous No.12778330]

>>12778312
Yeah, war novels tend to be more badass than campus novels. BUT I was talking about 'based-ness'. I think you misread it as 'badassness'. Obviously Stoner is way more based than those two you mentioned.

[Anonymous No.12778335]

>he called me based!!!!

[Anonymous No.12778336]

>>12778326
Anti-communist propaganda Is cringe af my dude

[Anonymous No.12778338]

>>12778214
>I only read highly esteemed and critically acclaimed literary fiction classics as befits an intellectual of my caliber
cringe

[Anonymous No.12778345]

>>12778067
who reads political biography in 2019?

[Anonymous No.12778352]

>>12778330
I don't think it's obvious that Stoner is more baseder. Stoner is a great novel, but come on. Edith woman bad.

[Anonymous No.12778354]

>>12778336
cringe: the post

[Anonymous No.12778358]

>>12778336
Oh I see. Well if it was interesting, at least i could appreciate that.

[Anonymous No.12778530]

>Aleksandr Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
>Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
>Houellebecq - Whatever
>Lev Shestov - Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
>Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground

Currently reading:
>Mishima - The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.12778558]

>>12777024

[Anonymous No.12778566]

>27
Whatever
A Confederacy of Dunces
Submission
Death on the Installment Plan
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.12778643]

18 yesterday 17
American psycho
The stranger
Catcher in the rye
Dziady
The plague

[Anonymous No.12778673]

>>12776325
odyssey
illiad
madame bovary
anna karenina
crime and punishment

ive been reading both the illiad and the odyssey in swedish by lagerlöf and ive been very impressed with the style and the rythm he is able to create with the swedish language. highly recommended

[Anonymous No.12778682]

>>12778673
woops im 22

[Anonymous No.12778696]

23
Finn's hotel
Justine
Dracula
The recognitions
Stoner

[Anonymous No.12778704]

>>12776336
'murican kino, 10/10

[Anonymous No.12778708]

>23
>Inherent Vice
>No Country for Old Men
>Sapiens
>Dance with Dragons
>Feast for Crows

[Anonymous No.12778718]

>>12778673
based 22 yo tryhard

[Anonymous No.12778812]

>>12778225
>yike poster
You're a fucking yike.

[Anonymous No.12778818]

22

Geuss - Philosophy and Real Politics

DeLanda - A New Philosophy of Society

Jaeggi - Alienation

Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology

Derrida - Spectres of Marx

[Anonymous No.12778823]

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beowulf- heaney trans
the two towers
fellowship of the ring
dune
man in the high castle

inb4 antigenrefictioncels

[Anonymous No.12778834]

>>12778823
also, man in the high castle was pretty shit. really only finished it so i could figure out what i dont like

[Anonymous No.12778841]

>>12778673
but did you read bovary in french?

[Anonymous No.12778858]

>>12778137
Überfahrt was pretty ok. You have to buy into the whole "eternal love" thing a bit, which I don't, but it had some pretty comfy passages with the sea travel. At some points her status as a "official" GDR writer were also obvious. Wasn't weird though and a pretty easy read.
I think her importance lies more in her early work as exile writer, and Transit is considered a key roman of that movement. This is also how you will must like come into contact with her, especially here in germany. Can't speak of the quality there though.

[Anonymous No.12778948]

Journey to the End of the Night
Storm of Steel
Lolita
Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso
The Nigger of the Narcissus

[Anonymous No.12778952]

>>12778948
Fuck, 22

[Anonymous No.12779039]

>>12776336
Boring
>>12776341
Lame.
>>12776367
Makes sense.
>>12776507
Childish.
>>12776620
Why?
>>12776931
Decent.
>>12776940
Held back in school I hope.
>>12776947
Acceptable.
>>12776949
Tryhard and boring.
>>12776950
Meh.
>>12776958
Understandable.
>>12776997
You are annoying.
>>12777005
Decent aesthetic.
>>12777008
Acceptable, bonus for chinese cartoons rep.
>>12777026
Why?
>>12777030
Slacker.
>>12777042
Unpalatable.
>>12777108
Boring.
>>12777277
Waste.
>>12777314
Unnecessary esoteric.
>>12777315
Decent.
>>12777333
Hard meh, ironically.
>>12777333
Lacking.
>>12777358
Waste.
>>12777391
Lame.
>>12777410
Truant?
>>12777426
Gross.
>>12777439
Boring.
>>12777501
Exceedingly boring.
>>12777513
Acceptable.
>>12777517
Forced and lame.
>>12777522
Meh.
>>12777533
Very acceptable.
>>12777545
Lacking.
>>12777550
High school dropout?
>>12777580
Understandable.
>>12777613
Why?
>>12777636
Boring.
>>12777700
Prison time?

[Anonymous No.12779044]

18
Medea - Eurípides
The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
Cárcel de Amor - Diego de San Pedro
Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre - Manrique
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrete - Chrétien de Troyes (it was either this or Antigone)

Currently reading the Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.12779045]

>>12777705
Awful, dreadful, terrible.
>>12777728
Lame.
>>12777788
Ehhh, decent.
>>12777838
Decent.
>>12777881
Meh.
>>12777918
Acceptable.
>>12777938
Very lame.
>>12777967
Acceptable but bland.
>>12778067
Boring.
>>12778105
Genuine chuckle, and then a bad taste in my mouth. In future don't fucking tell someone not to judge you harshly. You're basically saying sorry for being who you are and that is just pathetic and in the way non-necessary information. Either stick up for who you are and what you have done or sit in the corner and don't bother.
>>12778113
Meh.
>>12778137
Acceptable.
>>12778193
Lame and bland.
>>12778214
Decent, kind of.
>>12778230
Don't lie.
>>12778530
Forced.
>>12778566
Boring.
>>12778643
Colorful and acceptable.
>>12778673
Boring.
>>12778696
Acceptable.
>>12778708
Meh.
>>12778818
Decent.
>>12778823
Very meh.
>>12778948
Boring.

[Anonymous No.12779051]

>>12779044
Lame.

[Anonymous No.12779070]

27

The Republic, Plato
The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus
On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
Ethics, Spinoza
The Master and his Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

[Anonymous No.12779075]

>>12776940
do you like the phantom of the opera

>>12778643
welcome to 4chan

[Anonymous No.12779081]

24
Way of men
Chaos protocols
Your first 100 million
Boxing e. Haislet

[Anonymous No.12779085]

>>12779045
shock of the new ain't boring

[Anonymous No.12779089]

>>12779075
I was waiting so long to get here

[Anonymous No.12779103]

>>12779089
I hope you enjoy your stay!

[Anonymous No.12779125]

>>12779103
*spits in your face*

[Anonymous No.12779150]

>>12779125
I beg you to degrade me
Is there waste that I could eat

I am a secret lover
I am your little girl
Please spit into my mouth

[Anonymous No.12779152]

>>12779075
>do you like the phantom of the opera
Yes, I liked it a lot.

[Anonymous No.12779155]

18
Moby Dick
Blood meridian
Whatever
The picture of Dorian Gray
Stoner

Inb4 newfag. you would be right, just started a few months ago

[Anonymous No.12779159]

>>12779152
nice. it's a cool book.

[Anonymous No.12779172]

>>12779039
>Truant?
Wut. No just a nerd (in the original sense, work a STEM job and socially autistic).

[Anonymous No.12779209]

>>12779070
Based, but you seem you like you could try taking life less seriously every now and then

>>12779081
Absolute mongoloid

>>12779155
Very cool, newfag, yes, but starting of on the right foot.

Here's mine

25
Hannibal's Oath by John Prevas
Il Primo Amore by Giacomo Leopardi
Classici per la vita by Nuccio Ordine
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

[Anonymous No.12779258]

>>12776325
18
Cows by Stokoe
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Trial & Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Plague by Albert Camus
Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
> mfw bad memory specifically for names and titles
I hope all titles are correct in English.

>>12779155
> The picture of Dorian Gray
nice. it was the first book in English i've read, the language is flamboyant but comfy
> stoner
thought it's some 80-90's book about junkies at first, lel. the description seems like a relaxing read
>>12779044
> Divine Comedy
patrician, i also want to read it soon. tried a couple pages of Ovid as well, not as difficult to understand as i expected.
currently the oldest thing i've read (aside from school program) is probably Faust by Goethe
>>12778673
i've noticed Dostoyevsky is really popular among English speakers here, it's surprising

[Anonymous No.12779271]

>>12779039
>Makes sense
Why does it make sense?

[Anonymous No.12779288]

>>12776325
18
>Lolita
>Dracula
>Frankenstein
>Crime and Punishment
>Book of Numbers

[Anonymous No.12779295]

26
Complete works of Aristotle
Complete works of plato
Copleston history of western philosophy (Still working on this)
Orestian trilogy
Epic of Gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.12779301]

27
Lord Jim
Youth
Joseph Conrad Biography
Nostromo
Austerlitz

[Anonymous No.12779303]

>>12776325
>18
The Ego and His Own
Meditations by Descartes
Crime and Punishment
Reasons and Persons
The Pearl by John Steinbeck

[Anonymous No.12779336]

30
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
Roadside Picnic
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.12779337]

>>12779288
> every single lit poster has read Crime and punishment
> i'm russian and i haven't
it amazes my how school makes us hate Russian classics by default, they make it unbelivably boring. i did reread some stuff from school program and was surprised at how good it was.

[Anonymous No.12779345]

>>12779337
I think it's like that with most people. As an American I think most of our literature is boring.

[Anonymous No.12779369]

>>12776325
18
>The Fountainhead(actually wasnt too bad I loved the architecture more so)
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>American Psycho
>A singular man
>On the Road
>>12779288
Nice, Frankenstein and Dracula are underrated.

[Anonymous No.12779392]

>>12779345
it has to be some exceptional superpower to make even the best books seem very boring. depends on teacher a lot, i had a very cool Russian&Lit teacher during the last year of attending school, but the tasks were still bland.
then we had a really professional (teaching-wise) woman a couple years before that, but she was crazy irl, kept telling us shit like "ukrainians sell fruit punch at school fairs labeling it 'blood of russian infants" and "i'd watch the execution of ukrainian president" (we were 5-8th graders, laughed at that but it was sad when she left anyway)

[Anonymous No.12779398]

>>12776947
>excited because about to start nausicaa
Jelly, wish i could read for the first time again

[Anonymous No.12779419]

>>12779345
I'm Swiss and I found Wilhelm Tell to be pretty boring.

[Anonymous No.12779452]

>>12779258
Dostoevsky is really good and I think it's so popular for multiple reasons:
It strikes a cord with lonely, introverted persons, since Dostoevsky was one himself.
Nietzsche praised Dostoevsky, so edgelords can read Dostoevsky, because Nietzsche is too hard for them.
And unironically Jordan Peterson.

I have read a fair amount of Dostoevsky's books and found them to be really good.
To find out if he was overrated though, I read other Russian literature from around the same time period. It was good, but Dostoevsky stayed the best one.

[Anonymous No.12779467]

>>12779258
Why do you assume that everybody is a (native) English speaker here?

[Anonymous No.12779469]

>>12779452
> mfw haven't read any novels by Dostoevsky
guess that'll be one of my next read. there should be some of his books around the house

[Anonymous No.12779478]

>>12776325
20
Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart
Humiliated and Insulted
The Name of the Rose
Homer's Odyssey
The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

[Anonymous No.12779509]

>>12779103
first time two anons in a row had been nice to me /lit is dope

[Anonymous No.12779513]

>>12779469
yes, found it in "Russian literature for 9th grade".
searching through bookshelves still leads to some discoveries, i really should arrange the home library

[Anonymous No.12779521]

>>12779478
> The Name of the Rose
how'd you rate it? (no spoilers plz) just purchased it recently because i liked the supposed setting (medieval times and religious themes)

[Anonymous No.12779551]

23
Aesthetics by Hildebrand Von Dietrich
Science, Politics, & Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
In Defense of Sanity by Chesterton
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[Anonymous No.12779574]

>15
>Heidegger by Micheal Inwood
>Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
>The Communist Manifesto
>La Nausée by Sartre
>Meditations on Fisrt Philosophy by Descartes

[Anonymous No.12779592]

>>12776947
>Nausicaa

The one by Miyazaki?

[Anonymous No.12779596]

>>12779336
>Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
If the book piqued your interest i'd recommend reading Capital... and especially Marx's Theories of Surplus Value, which should be absolutely necessary reading for anyone before they can call themselves economists.

[Anonymous No.12779603]

18
All Quiet on the Western Front
Stoner
Democracy: The God that Failed
Lost Horizon
The Trial

[Anonymous No.12779619]

>>12779513
My grandfather has a lot of books too that are very interesting, but most of them are non-fiction.
He even has a Mein Kampf version from 1933.

[Anonymous No.12779623]

>>12779521
If you like the medieval shit, you will surely love this book. It also makes one realise how little he knows.

[Anonymous No.12779626]

Age: 31

Current: Pride and Prejudice - Austen

Last five:
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
O Is for Outlaw - Grafton
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Wollstonecraft
A Winter Haunting - Simmons

[Anonymous No.12779631]

>>12779513
You're lucky you can read all of Russian literature in its original language.
I have to stick to the German translation, which is still better than English though.

[Anonymous No.12779678]

>>12779619
that's probably worth a lot.
my mother's side of family had a massive library too, but they gave away most of it when moving out of old flat. what i have now is only a small fraction of it, the oldest book is something in hebrew, 1856
>>12779623
sounds just right. that's how you feel reading this kind of book, memorising the hundredth useless medieval fact
>>12779631
won the lottery here. i can read most English authors, learning German now so that'll probably be possible to read in a few years, and some translations are better than original (Clockwork Orange comes to my mind)

[Anonymous No.12779699]

30
The Magic Mountain (4,5/5)
Man of Straw (3,5/5)
Catch-22 (3/5)
If on a winter's night a traveler (4/5)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (5/5)

[Anonymous No.12779720]

>>12779045
lol this kid. the plague and catcher and the rye are the only things that he considers good. please dont take up so much space on my board kthx sweatie

[Anonymous No.12779726]

>>12779678
>memorising the hundredth useless medieval fact

So much of Eco feels this way desu, particularly his non-fiction. It's really put me off him even though I know he's a great writer.

[Anonymous No.12779743]

22
Swanns way
The sun also rises
The nature of things
Republic
Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.12779753]

>>12779726
it's a matter of taste i think. you'd only like being fed with medieval facts if you're obsessed with medieval shit
also those aren't entirely useless, you can make subtle medieval references no oe will understand - just like Bible before the reformation

[Anonymous No.12779773]

22
Ashland & Vine
Strange the Dreamer
The Devil in the Flesh
Silk
A collection of Philip K. Dick's short stories
and I'm reading Undertones of War right now.

[Anonymous No.12779810]

30
>Picture of Dorian Gray
fucking amazing
>Walden
decent
>Philosophy of mind
fucking amazing
>Dharma bums
eh
>Player piano
absolute dog shit

[Anonymous No.12779811]

22

The Wind that Came from Nowhere
Strange Weather in Tokyo
L'etranger
Junky
1,000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Help me

[Anonymous No.12779895]

>>12779743
>>12779551
>>12779295
Hella based

>>12779773
Massive cringe

>>12779699
>>12779626
>>12779478
>>12779603
Somewhere in between

[Anonymous No.12779904]

>>12779895
Nice, I get my own category, the rest of you are sheep

[Anonymous No.12779920]

>>12779603
I nearly forgot about All Quiet on the Western Front, nice one anon

[Anonymous No.12780026]

>>12779811
everyone of these are what I call read between good book books. You must branch out your tastes or else suffer insanity.

[Anonymous No.12780053]

26, From most to least recent
Persian Fire
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Children of Time
House of Leaves
[Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, Dreaming/Temporal/Evolutionary Void, Abyss beyond dreams/night without stars] All part of same universe so eh.

[Anonymous No.12780065]

>>12780053
Persian Fire is amazing, Tom Holland kills. I'm reading Rubicon right now and that's also brilliant.

[Anonymous No.12780078]

>>12780026
> read between good book books
fuck, glad to know i'm not the only one doing this. i read less interesting books between the ones i really anticipate to read to keep the excitement up.

[Anonymous No.12780112]

>>12780065
Pretty comfy yeah, though the very early persian stuff was rather dry. Not too many records of those days left though and a lot of 2nd/3rd hand etc., so I guess that's what we get.
How much does Rubicon actually cover? From Caesar's crossing to what, his death?

[Anonymous No.12780122]

>>12780112
Actually the crossing is near the end, I'm at that exact part right now.

Holland frames it as being about the collapse of the Republic, so it starts with the Third Punic War and ends with Octavius I think.

I think Holland puts too much of an emphasis on that early Persian stuff because the main source for it is Herodotus, who I've seen him name as his favourite author.

[Anonymous No.12780138]

>>12776325
23
>Hereticus
>Malleus
>Salvation’s Reach
>Xenos
>Blood Pact
Rereading Ghosts of Onyx, but I don’t believe that counts.

[Anonymous No.12780258]

>>12776325
20
Art of War (second read)
The first Philosophers
The Histories
Odyssey
Iliad
Correctly on Plato, and want to get to Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark. Anyone read it?

[Anonymous No.12780297]

>>12780053
A Canticle for Leibowitz is fucking fantastic. Funny at parts, melancholy at parts. Very 60's. Also one of the few Christian science fiction books where God show sup and dicks around. V. cool.


31
The Education of Henry Adams
Beloved
Walking, Henry David Thoreau
Poetry of Sappho
Book I of the Faerie Queen

[Anonymous No.12780348]

18
Socrates Defence
The Republic
Beyond Good and Evil
The English by Jeremy Paxman
The Prince

[Anonymous No.12780369]

16
> The poems of Georg Trakl
> Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
> The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
> The Complete Dramatic Works Of Samuel Beckett
> Notes from Underground

[Anonymous No.12780371]

18

The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
How Music Works (David Byrne)
Alice in the Wonderlands
10 reasons you should quit social media

O.M: a essays collection from DFW called "ficando longe do fato de já estar meio que longe de tudo", including This is water and his essay about a cruise called "uma coisa supostamente divertida que eu nunca mais vou fazer"

[Anonymous No.12780377]

Underage and b&

[Anonymous No.12780380]

>>12780258 Currently*

[Anonymous No.12780421]

>>12777700
I love Joe Abercrombie too

[Anonymous No.12780464]

>>12779045
I apologized because I'm not that experienced in literature. I apologized because I am not satisfied with where I am in my literature journey, and I wanted people to know this.
Why should I stick up for who I am if I'm not satisfied in myself yet. I'm still young, I have time.
And who are you to tell me "sit in the corner" when all you have done is judge other people and not even posted your own list.
Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.12780481]

>>12780464
based

[Anonymous No.12780549]

17
Hobbit
The prince, Machiavelli
The wasp factory
Spice and wolf vol 16&17

[Anonymous No.12780580]

>>12780549
Uhh, mods

[Anonymous No.12780623]

>>12780464
Never listen to mass repliers; in fact, I wouldn't listen to most detractors on /lit/.
Clearly the big mistake here is to write what you have actually read recently and not just compile a list of 5 pre-approved /lit/ books.

[Anonymous No.12780680]

>>12779039
Post yours, so your jugdment has some value.

[Anonymous No.12780700]

21
The Denial of Death
Meditations
Notes from Underground
The Book of Disquiet
The Last Days of Socrates (penguin)

[Anonymous No.12780703]

>>12777050
Maupassant was fantastic. Almost every story managed to grip me in some way and many of them weren't even 10 pages long. Zola was pretty good too, although definitely not as much so. I'm interested to read a few more of his books to get a better feel for how he is as an author.

[Anonymous No.12780714]

>>12780680
32
Mary Poppins
Michael Jackson : Success Story
How to Cook Clams
Piero Scaruffi’s History of Rock Music
Green Eggs and Ham

[Anonymous No.12780728]

>>12780714
BASED

[Anonymous No.12780796]

>>12779045
Do you even enjoy literature?

[Anonymous No.12781054]

32
The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
Eunoia - Christian Bok
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
Do Not Sell At Any Price - Amanda Petrusich

[Anonymous No.12781119]

33
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Lolita
Hyperion
Klondike Tales
A Canticle for Leibowitz

[Anonymous No.12781131]

>>12780258
is this loss?

[Anonymous No.12781188]

22
Pedro Paramo
El Hacedor
Los Detectives Salvajes
The Divine Comedy
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

[Anonymous No.12781194]

>>12780714
lol

[Anonymous No.12781237]

24
Sevastopol by Tolstoy
Chamber Music by Joyce
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Kant
In Praise of Desire by Arpaly & Schroeder

[Anonymous No.12781870]

>>12776325
Peloponnesian war
The music (Mishima)
Divine comedy
Mishima Biography
History (Herodotus)

[Anonymous No.12781871]

>>12781119
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
extremely based

[Anonymous No.12782041]

18
Novel With Cocaine
Infinite Jest
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The Loser
Kingdom of Fear

[Anonymous No.12782593]

>>12780371
> The Metamorphosis
how easy was it to understand? i really want to read this one as well.

[Anonymous No.12782661]

25

The Gulag Archipelago
The Kremlins Canidite
The Dresden Files
Rainbows End
Story of Civilization

[Anonymous No.12782709]

>>12782661
> The Gulag Archipelago
how was it? did you read the translation?
i tried to read it from phone but it was far too heavily-written. his Cancer Ward did a great impression though, also tough to read at first but you get used halfway through

[Anonymous No.12782723]

25

Pitch Dark -Renata Adler
Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
1q85 - Haruki Miyaqzaki
Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Stoner - John WIlliams

[Anonymous No.12782730]

>age 23
>"Destiny" by Koji Takazawa
>"Closely Watched Trains" by Bohumil Hrabal
>"Wonderful Fool" by Shusaku Endo
>"Iron Fist from the Sea: South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988" by Douw Steyn and Arne Söderlund
Currently reading the Pure Land sutras and finishing off "Decline of the West" by Spengler." I am already aware that the /k/ history shit is autistic as all hell.

[Anonymous No.12782777]

>>12776325

22
Apuleius - Asinus Aureus
Horatius - Sermones I & II
Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy
Σοφοkλῆς - Οἰδίπους Τύραννος
Πλάτων - Πρωταγόρας

>>12782661
... get outta ma swamp
>>12782041
cant believe people still fall for the IJ meme (so many in this thread)
>>12781237
what'd you think of chamber music
>>12779743
what did you get out of "the nature of things" lmao
>>12779626
vindication is fire
>>12779551
how's in defense of sanity? im reading heretics by him rn and have mixed feelings. it would take a long time to get into it, but his lack of rigor combined with how commonsensical his sweeping conclusions are makes me a bit skeptical. yet I find many of his observations impressive when viewed in the light of them being made in 1905. he's definitely a talented rhetor who dazzles on the spot, yet I find that his observations are only fashioned to seem profound. and, if some suppose his tidbits to have staying power, I have not been feeling it. nevertheless I ordered his book on aquinas and plan on checking it out.

[Anonymous No.12782874]

>>12782777
Is Oidipus Rex any good?
You faggot.

[Anonymous No.12782889]

>>12777008
Why are we so sad
>>12777042
Smart lad


20
Brothers Karamazov
One hundred years of solitude
The lonesome traveller
Death of Ivan illiych
Fear and trembling

[Anonymous No.12782907]

>>12779592
Nah, I meant Nausicaa the twelfth chapter in Ulysses

[Anonymous No.12782914]

>>12782907
Oops, meant to write thirteenth

[Anonymous No.12783000]

19
Sot weed factor
Mort
Flee by Evan dara
The easy chain by Evan dara
The lost scrapbook by Evan dara

currently on mason n dixon to continue on sot weed themes

[Anonymous No.12783025]

>>12776325
>24
Gulliver's Travels
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Fantomina
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Protagoras

[Anonymous No.12783116]

20
>Ulysses (2nd reading)
>The Republic
>A Hero of our Time (2nd reading)
>Hamlet
>Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.12783123]

22
Dubliners
So long, see you tomorrow
Moby-dick
Notes from underground
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.12783126]

33

Friedrich Nietzsche-Beyond Good and Evil
Ayn Rand-The Fountainhead
Friedrich Nietzsche-On the Genealogy of Morals
Jordan B. Peterson-12 Rules for Life
Henryk Sienkiewicz-Quo Vadis

Been a bad year for my reading die to moving back home.

[Anonymous No.12783138]

>>12777838
>are you depressed?

Yeah :)

[Anonymous No.12783142]

>>12782889
>why are we so sad?

We can be good friends, eh ?

[Anonymous No.12783229]

18

Less Than Zero
The Big Sleep
Burmese Days
Rules of Attraction
The Duchess of Malfi

[Anonymous No.12783317]

>>12776325
20
The Politics - Aristrotle
The Republic - Plato
Ethics - Aristrotle
Starship troopers
Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.12783376]

>>12776325
18
How to be a conservative - Roger Scruton
F. Nietzsche - Aarne Kinnunen
Michel Foucault - Didier Eribon
Kill all normies - Angela Nagle
The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt

[Anonymous No.12783418]

24

Aeneid
Augustine's Confession's
Fellowship of the Ring
Book of Disquiet
Works of Love

[Anonymous No.12783459]

19

Time out of joint
Essais (500 page penguin version because I am a pleb)
Shadow and claw
Flatland
Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass

Currently going through sword and citadel. I thought shadow and claw was meh but sword of the lictor was really good.

>>12783418
Very nice
>>12783376
Meh read primary sources
>>12783317
Good
>>12782041
Disagree with other the anon, IJ is fine. It is tedium to the max at some points (Marathe takes a while to pay off for example) but there is some great stuff in there. It’s really funny at some points like Orin’s mail back to their mom or Marathe’s wife being jellybrain.

[Anonymous No.12783464]

19
Giorgio Bassani - The Smell of Hay
Olga Tokarczuk - Flights
Raya Dunayevskaya - Marxism and Freedom
Ray Monk - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being

>>12776507
Odd choices, nice Woolf and Plato though

>>12776620
Nice. I'm not at all interested in IJ though, to be honest

>>12776931
Cool choices, I read J&H a long time ago and would probably enjoy it more now

>>12777008
Not a lot of variety obviously, but fair enough. If you're enjoying Dost then good for you

>>12783418
IDK about Tolkien (I've only read the Hobbit) but the rest of these are really cool

>>12783376
Not keen on these choices personally. Nagle and Scruton kinda suck in my opinion

>>12783317
Aristotle is great

[Anonymous No.12783466]

>>12783317
Cringe

[Anonymous No.12783472]

>>12783459
>>12783459
My brains fried
Don’t know why I told you to read primary sources

[Anonymous No.12783506]

>>12776325
21

Never Let Me Go
Machado de Assis: Todos os Contos
In Cold Blood
Buddenbrooks
Of Mice and Men

[Anonymous No.12783524]

25

the Catcher in the Rye
Wolves of the Calla
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Dark Verse - Volume I
Storm Front - Dresden Files

[Anonymous No.12783525]

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Travel in the Ancient World
The Pickwick Papers
I, Claudius
Great Expectations
Moby Dick
>>12777881
Interesting
>>12783418
Very Nice.
>>12783116
Ulysses again? I have to reread it some day too.
>>12781119
Is Hyperion any good?

[Anonymous No.12783535]

>>12776325
>33
Maria by Jorge issacs
Missing 411 by David paulides
The world of ice and fire by George r r martin
The forever war by Joe haldeman
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

[Anonymous No.12783544]

>>12780714
>Green Eggs and Ham

Shit, if we're counting kids' books, then my whole list is Llama Llama Red Pajama.

[Anonymous No.12783615]

>>12776325
21
the old man and the sea
valis
boogiepop and others
the little prince
notes from the underground

[Anonymous No.12783636]

>>12776325
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>rise of athens
>the presocratics
>on free will (augustine)
>some meme book on Sulla
>on duties - cicero

[Anonymous No.12783653]

>>12776325
>"18"
>anna karenina (i know, i feel guilty taking so long to get to it)
>Finn's hotel
>Pale Fire (i know)
>Phaedrus
>the complete poems of sappho
Seeing a lot of older people (20+) guys here. Surprised me, I don't see the point of reading past 20. After that your life should be doing, not wasting alone contemplating the ideas of dead people. Explain yourselves.

[Anonymous No.12783665]

>>12783653
>tfw 21yo gramps being replaced by upcoming teenager-prodigies just as I replaced my predecessors as a upcoming teenager-prodigy
u'll understand someday... then again 4chan is for the growth of young minds, the decay of old ones...

[Anonymous No.12783692]

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Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask
Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Anita Mason Bethany
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

[Anonymous No.12783703]

>>12783653
Unironically, most people don't figure out how they want/should live their life till their 50 if they ever do. It might seem like you have it figured out at 18 (I thought I did) but if you're conscious you'll change rapidly after the echo chambers of school/university and reading helps put things into perspective.

[Anonymous No.12783708]

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Justine
The Fall
Hadji Murad
Pimp
Roadside Picnic

[Anonymous No.12783711]

>>12783708
actually i read Sound of the Waves and then Letters from a Stoic after Justine

[Anonymous No.12783733]

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Saki's Short Stories
Chesterfield's Short Stories
Human, All Too Human
The Three Musketeers
Ivanhoe

>>12783615
>boogiepop
I like you
>>12783126
Are you doin okay bud? Great books other than the Ayn Rand one but the way you listed them seems like you're pretty down.

Don't really know what to comment on all the other books either they're too popular and I don't think I can add anything new or I haven't read em

[Anonymous No.12783754]

>18
>The Last Day of a Condemned Man
>Theogony
>Works and Days
>Odyssey
>Iliad
uWu

[Anonymous No.12783799]

>>12778102
You truly are a scholar and a gentleman

[Anonymous No.12783910]

>>12776325
25

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
A Good Man is Hard to Find (and other stories) by Flannery O'Connor
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

Currently reading The Trial by Kafka.

[Anonymous No.12784827]

>>12776325
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Ice
The King of Elfland's daughter
The Notebooks of Malte Laudris Brigge
The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
The Loser

[Anonymous No.12784836]

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The Road
Blood Meridian
Lolita
The Decline of the West
Fight for Berlin

[Anonymous No.12784854]

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Reason, Truth and History (H. Putnam)
Aureus (Rodrigo G. Marina)
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (B. Stroud)
If on a winter's night a traveller (I. Calvino)
Apocalyptic and integrated (U. Eco)

[Anonymous No.12784932]

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Thus spoke zarathustra
Heart of darkness
Moby Dick
Kafka on the shore
1984
Reading the great gatsby currently,i have infinite jest and stoner next up and waiting on crying of lot 49 to arrive in the mail

[Anonymous No.12785431]

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Mein Kampf
Myth of the 20th Century
Might is Right
Reflections on European Mythology
The Shining
The Old Testament

[Anonymous No.12785466]

>>12776325
I would die to lick those feet.

[Anonymous No.12785499]

>>12785466
The only reason why I hadn't hidden this cringefest of a thread is because of the feet.

[Anonymous No.12785500]

>>12780258
its ok but misses so big things like the Brandenburg Africa Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburger_Gold_Coast
and is sometimes less than perfectly written.
oh yeah and there are like 3 chapters solely devoted to jews and jewish-Kantianism

[Anonymous No.12785530]

>>12776325
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The House of Government
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Discourses on Livy
Napoleon the Great
Rub'aiy'at of Omar Khayy'am

[Anonymous No.12785791]

>>12782777
I thought Chamber Music was charming. It didn't blow me away, but a few of the poems were beautifully written. Definitely would have enjoyed it that little bit more if I hadn't read his letters to Nora first

[Anonymous No.12786300]

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Don Quijote
The Capital in the 21st century
Eurypides' Cyclops
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
Xenophon's Symposium

[Anonymous No.12787099]

>>12783733

Not really doing too well right now, but I'll be ok.

[Anonymous No.12787249]

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Hunger
Ik heb altijd gelijk
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
La ville incertaine
Man's search for Meaning

[Anonymous No.12787401]

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Swanns Way
Ada
Glory
The Red Priest
Snooty Baronet

[Anonymous No.12787403]

>> 19
>> The Brothers Karamazov
>> Book of Disquiet
>> V.
>> Hamlet
>> Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.12787460]

>>12776325
21

conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
histories by Herodotus
evolution of Civilization by Carroll Quigley
state in the Revolution by Lenin
the enchiridion by epicurus

Currently reading
The Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
Great Tales of Horror by HP Lovecraft
Cerebus the Aardvark: Church and state part 1 by Dave Sim

[Anonymous No.12787483]

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How to stop time
The Nix
Nausea
Brave New World
The Metamorphosis

[Anonymous No.12787485]

>>12787403
Did you like to book if disquiet? I'm going to read it in rehab.

[Anonymous No.12787491]

>>12783754
Is Homer any good?

[Anonymous No.12787609]

>>12787485
It is interesting. I don't know if that circumstance would be a good time to read it. It honestly get's pretty fucking sad and tragic in some of the 'stories'. You can tell that he was a deeply troubled man who was just beaming with thoughts about our reality. He manages to put beautiful, beautiful words to some feelings I have felt but could never imagine enumerating all the sensations that go along with them like he does.
The book is teeming with things like:
"My only regret is that I am not a child, for that would allow me to believe in my dreams and believe that I am not mad, which would allow me to distance my soul from all those around me."

[Anonymous No.12787653]

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Money
London Fields
Time's Arrow
Success

[Anonymous No.12787665]

>>12787485
Since you’re going to rehab, I’m have to type and say this, read Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.12787680]

>>12787609
> You can tell that he was a deeply troubled man who was just beaming with thoughts about our reality.
That has been me for the past months if not years. That exactly why I think my time in rehab would be well-spent on it.

[Anonymous No.12787691]

>>12787680
I guess you can relate to it but he offers no solution to any of those said ills. I take it you are not looking for any self-help books, so I ask why rehab?

[Anonymous No.12787712]

>>12776325
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Infinite Jest
The red badge of courage
Into the wild
An absolutely remarkable thing
It Devours

[Anonymous No.12787721]

>>12787691
Why rehab? Because the last four months of my life have consisted of drug use, mastrubation and avoidance of everyone and everything. I effectively have stopped living. It's 4:22 am I'm unable to sleep, even though I have been exhausted for years. I'm 21 btw, until shortly ago not even NEET. Anyway, self-help never helped me before. I'm only starting to place the puzzle together now that I've started reading 'depressing' literature. I will be bringing a book on meditation though, maybe also something buddhistic.

[Anonymous No.12787726]

666
The Bible

[Anonymous No.12787731]

>>12787721
If you have some good self-help suggestions I'm still open to it by the way, just less

[Anonymous No.12788229]

>>12776325
22
Blood Meridian
The Secret History
Gilgamesh
American Psycho
Desistance

[Anonymous No.12788481]

>>12787460
9/10

>>12787483
6/10

>>12787653
4/10

>>12787712
5/10

>>12788229
7/10

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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Ian Shaw)
Jainism: An Introduction (Jeffery D. Long)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Wittgenstein (William Child)
Early Greek Philosophy (ed. Jonathan Barnes)

[Anonymous No.12788521]

From recent to older:
Typee
Confessions
Notes from underground
Dead souls
One way street (Benjamin)

[Anonymous No.12788524]

>>12779155
did u like the picture of dorian gray? i read it when i was close to quit reading, great reading, specially for young people.

[Anonymous No.12788538]

>>12780464
fuck, i hate say this, but you're truly based, man.

[Anonymous No.12788540]

>>12776325
>18
>Dune by Frank Herbert
>Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
>Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
>Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
>Web of Hate by Warren Kinsella

[Anonymous No.12788577]

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i have read more non-fiction than anything but
>El Aleph/Ficciones (really great but i need a another read, borges its like infinite layers of references, i think it needs and deserves another one)
>Amor en tiempos de colera
>Teach us to outgrow our madness (freaking amazing)
>the castle and some kafka letters.
>early blues history books
>jazz theory books

>>12779155
actually better than most tryhards who try to read whatever people like >>12779045 says is good, keep up
>>12781188
>pedro paramo
fucking based
>>12779258
good taste, since my mother lenguage is not english, some tips for reading in english? i want to read a lot of english authors but im afraid to get a wrong image of the book because of translations

[Anonymous No.12789634]

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[Anonymous No.12789688]

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Looking for Alaska
Candide
The Brothers Karamazov
Pride and Prejudice
NO Longer Human

[Anonymous No.12789704]

>>12788577
What jazz theory books?

[Anonymous No.12790045]

>>12776325

24, currently reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace, the last 5 I've finished before that are

>Storm of Steel
>A Farewell to Arms
>The Lion and the Unicorn
>Labyrinths
>All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians

Storm of Steel was my favourite and All Things in Common was my least favourite

[Anonymous No.12790765]

>>12789704
im starting with mark levine classic one and some rudiments/rhythmic based ones.

[Anonymous No.12790767]

Feet

[Anonymous No.12790806]

>>12788577
> any tips?
at first i had translator by my side (some individual words are almost exclusive to literature and you may not know them), but generally it's not hard if your vocab is vast enough.
constructions can be confusing, i had to reread some sentences, but you get used.
near the end of the book i was reading with the same speed as in native language
(i had some previous experience though, specifically a couple 100.000+ words rather well-written fanfictions)

[Anonymous No.12790810]

4
Finnegan’s Wake
Gravity’s Rainbow
Oblomov
Goodnight Moon

[Anonymous No.12790815]

>>12790810
i'm still surprised about popularity of russian lit on this board.
i wonder how it's percieved by westerners who haven't experienced this culture, especially 20th century stuff

[Anonymous No.12790851]

>>12776325
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The Iliad
The Odyssey
Herodotus' Histories
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Xenophon's Anabasis

[Anonymous No.12791101]

>>12777139
not him but I really liked it.

[The people of the Secret No.12791374]

>24
Demons, Dostoyevsky
Amusing ourselves to death, Postman
Animal Farm, Orwell
El Aleph and other stories, Borges
Dune, Herbert

[Anonymous No.12791514]

>>12791374
6/10 Good taste but not breaking patrician


>19
>The Book of Chuang Tzu
>The French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle
>Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt
>Political Theology - Carl Schmitt
>The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun

[Anonymous No.12791625]

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Master and Margarita
Philosophical Investigations
Idiota de Sapientia
Infinite Jest
Ulysses

Not rating right now because I

[Anonymous No.12791625,1]

>19
>The Fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason
>The World as Will and Representation Vol 1
The World as Will and Representation Vol 2
>The Freud Reader
>Crime and Punishment