/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6752491]

>list the last three books you read
>age

and anons try to describe what kind of person you are

[Anonymous No.6752502]

sound and the fury
portrait of the artist
>did not finish 100 YOS
and temptation of st. anthony (which was daaaaaank)

[Anonymous No.6752506]

>William Gibson, Neuromancer
>Kafka, Der Prozess
>Bataille, L'expérience intérieure
good luck

[Anonymous No.6752509]

>>6752506

you're a dishonest person

[Anonymous No.6752510]

>Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
>The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
>Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
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[Anonymous No.6752514]

>Amerika-Kafka
>East of Eden- SteinGOAT
>The Forgotten Soldier-Sajer

>21

>>6752502
I couldn't finish 100 years of kek either, m8

[Anonymous No.6752515]

The Myth of the Eternal Return
Macbeth
An American Insurrection

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[Anonymous No.6752524]

>>6752510
you sound like a girl, so I'd probably hang out with you, tbh

[Anonymous No.6752528]

>>6752515
>myth of the eternal return

more like objective fucking truth of the eternal return you pansy

[Anonymous No.6752532]

-Screenplay -- Syd Fields
-Rework -- Fried & Hansson
-Management --Drucker
Age: 25

[Anonymous No.6752539]

>A Doll's House - Ibsen
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Mishima
>The Bell Jar - Plath

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[Anonymous No.6752541]

The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
Lolita

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[Anonymous No.6752542]

>>6752541
you come off a NEET, tbh

[Anonymous No.6752547]

>>6752542
Neets would have already read that by 12

[Anonymous No.6752549]

>>6752528
Archaic man detected

>>>/inillotempore/

[Anonymous No.6752550]

>>6752542
Really? How so?

[Anonymous No.6752556]

>>6752542
naw son

>>6752541
is a mostly regular guy, bordering on introverted, but enjoyable to be around. felt like he was missing something in his life in university and picked up reading. he came here for book recommendations, and is glad he did. he's thinking about writing something someday, but he doesn't expect to become immortal. he's a good, humble guy, who was mildly nauseated by Lolita.

[Anonymous No.6752564]

>>6752532
I need to read some fiction

[Anonymous No.6752570]

>King Solomon's Mines
>Heart of Darkness
>Infinite Jest

>21

[Anonymous No.6752575]

>>6752532
such a dry personality. type of guy who jokes about the ol' ball and chain, but in earnest. doesn't even know how lonely he really is.

[Anonymous No.6752576]

>>6752502
Either you or someone very close to you went to Catholic school. In spite of your best efforts, you find yourself inexplicably a slave to social trends

>>6752506
You use Twitter. You have more than 10,000 tweets.

>>6752510
You didn't read a lot in high school, or you read mostly genre fiction and you're slowly trying to develop a literary taste you secretly think you should have established like 5 years ago

>>6752514
You like sugary food, but smoke a lot so you're still thin (or at most average)

>>6752515
You have problems with emotional intimacy

>>6752532
You resent your job

>>6752539
You have brief but intense struggles with the concept of personal identity. You also have tattoos.

>>6752541
You're a goal-oriented person. You don't like unstructured time.

Anyway,
Inferno - Dante Alighieri
This is a Book - Demitri Martin
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Lydia Davis

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[Anonymous No.6752581]

The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
Dubliners - Joyce
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh

[Anonymous No.6752587]

>>6752581
Shoot, forgot age: 18

[Anonymous No.6752594]

Propaganda
Public Opinion
Economics

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[Anonymous No.6752595]

>>6752575
I do know how lonely I am... I just get bored with fiction. Just about to start 'The Green Line' - Sullivan

[Anonymous No.6752596]

>>6752556
orignally from /fit/. can't function properly if you are literally dead inside with no cultural knowledge. thought it was time for a change. pretty lost in this jungle of literature though. i guess i am the equivalent of what we call dyel on fitness boards.

[Anonymous No.6752601]

>>6752594
you sound like an indoctrinated faggot who is entirely unable to form his own thoughts

REEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.6752604]

>>6752570

looks up frequently while reading to see if any cutie pie literary girls have noticed his inclination to intellectual pursuits.

hates himself for it, however; sometimes wishes to God he was an asexual. 'pussy prevents productivity, and perforates perceptual prowess' is his mantra; he is weak, however, as we all are.

[Anonymous No.6752606]

>>6752491
>The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
>Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme
>Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

14, huehuehue

[Anonymous No.6752607]

>I Am A Cat
>Pale Fire
>Pale Fire

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[Anonymous No.6752611]

>>6752587
>>6752581

You're British and you just finished a SICK year of English A2 and yer about 2 go to SHAGALOUFE with the LADS

[Anonymous No.6752614]

The Brothers Karamazov
Meditations
The Myth of Sisyphus

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[Anonymous No.6752617]

>>6752576
good guy. intimate with working class folks. as intellectual as you can get without being pretentious. good writer.

[Anonymous No.6752621]

>>6752576
>You have brief but intense struggles with the concept of personal identity.
This is correct.

>You also have tattoos.
This is not.

[Anonymous No.6752627]

>>6752596
the jungle of literature never thins out, my man. if anything, every book leads to two more. don't get down on yourself.

[Anonymous No.6752634]

>>6752607
got gay married this weekend

[Anonymous No.6752635]

Catch 22
Lord of the flies
Guns, Germs and Steel
>17

[Anonymous No.6752641]

>Confessions (Augustine, reread)
>The Birth of Tragedy (reread)
>Finnegans Wake

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[Anonymous No.6752649]

>>6752604

>trying to make fun of someone on /lit/ by accusing them of being a "LOOK AT ME" intellectual

Almost took the bait. What's wrong with my choices? Because other people have heard of these books and they're discussed on this board I should hunt for something more patrician that only you know about?

[Anonymous No.6752652]

>>6752532
What dis you think of Rework? Would you recommend it?

>>6752601
>Implying

[Anonymous No.6752662]

>Bleeding Edge
>The Passion Artist
>The Crying of Lot 49

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[Anonymous No.6752696]

>>6752652
Yea, check it out sometime. It's a quick read. It's almost a rehash of all the same moto business "hacks" that you read in other books but it's got a few good ideas.

[Anonymous No.6752720]

>Bleeding Edge
>Siddhartha
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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[Anonymous No.6752729]

>>6752720

Wait shit nevermind.

It's actually:

>Siddhartha
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Bell Jar

I'm still 21.

[Anonymous No.6752734]

The Goldfinch
On The Beach
The Virgin Suicides

[Anonymous No.6752738]

The Plough and the Stars
The Good Person of Szechuan
Portrait of the Artist
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[Anonymous No.6752747]

The Goldfinch
On The Beach
The Virgin Suicides

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[Anonymous No.6752752]

Infinite Jest
V
UBIK

[Anonymous No.6752781]

>>6752581
>>6752587

>You found 4chan like 2-3 years ago
>You are fairly self-conscious to the point of wanting to read literature to bolster your intelligence/intellectual credentials
>You really enjoy most of the things you end up reading after finding them here
>You don't fully comprehend the literature you read, but you know that, and you're eager to learn and enjoy reading anyway

[Anonymous No.6752788]

I don't feel content trying to guess when I haven't read all three of the books people have read.

[Anonymous No.6752807]

>Invitation to a Beheading
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Mao II

>19

[Anonymous No.6752825]

The Lion's Grave: Dispatches form Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson
Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
Collusion 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the future of elections in America

[Anonymous No.6752966]

>On Being Blue
>The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
>The Reformation of the 16th Century

>22

[Anonymous No.6753005]

>On the New
>Making of the Indebted Man
>Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

[Anonymous No.6753148]

>It's a hell of a catch
>That
>Catch -

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[Anonymous No.6753157]

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Patrick Modiano - Chien de printemps

[Anonymous No.6753178]

>>6753157

21 btw

[Anonymous No.6753187]

The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
Flyboys

[Anonymous No.6753190]

>>6753187
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[Anonymous No.6753193]

>>6753157
>Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

you sound based as fuck, and I would totally go get drinks with you and mack on some bitches, tbh

[Anonymous No.6753194]

A Gentle Creature
Macbeth
The Gambler

[Anonymous No.6753218]

>PKD - Do Androids Dream...?
>Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
>Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
>Bonus: Albert Camus - The Plague
>21

[Anonymous No.6753244]

>>6752966
>On Being Blue
Thanks for this. Just ordered it. Pretty psyched.

[Anonymous No.6753284]

>A Clockwork Orange
>The Picture of Dorian Grey
>1984
18 yrs old

[Anonymous No.6753348]

The Bell Jar
Dispatches
In Cold Blood

[Anonymous No.6753363]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Land Breakers by John Ehle
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

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[Anonymous No.6753366]

>>6753348
Forgot age

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[Anonymous No.6753388]

>Zero To One: Notes on Startups
>Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
>Predator's Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Junk Bond Raiders

>23

[Anonymous No.6753402]

>the atrocity exhibition by jg ballard
>crack-up at the race riots by harmony korine
>infinite jest by david foster wallace

69 years old

[Anonymous No.6753407]

No Longer Human
A Scanner Darkly
If on a winter's night a traveler
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[Anonymous No.6753413]

>Last three books
Beckett Trilogy
Love in the Time of Cholera
Midnight's Children

>Age
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[Anonymous No.6753414]

>Philoctetes
>The Trachtenberg System of Speed Mathematics
>Frankenstein

[Anonymous No.6753423]

>>6753414
Don't know what to make of you but that math book is really cool. I'm looked through it years ago. Never really did it too much but the little I did was interesting.

[Anonymous No.6753429]

>>6753423
It's worth a second or third read. My goal is to get it to the point where I can do everything in the system in my head really quickly.

[Anonymous No.6753432]

>Survivor
>Slaughterhouse-Five
>Peril at End House

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[Anonymous No.6753496]

>>6752491
Epiphany of the Long Sun
On Blue's Waters
In Green's Jungles
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[Anonymous No.6753537]

Dune, In Cold Blood, No Country for Old Men
Not saying age

[Anonymous No.6753538]

>Slaughterhouse Five
>This Side of Paradise
>The Red Badge of Courage
>19

[Anonymous No.6753551]

>Ordinary Men
>When We Were Orphans
>Farewell to Arms

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[Anonymous No.6753559]

>The System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Misery - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
>On the Heights of Despair - Emile Cioran
>The Art of Asking - Amanda Palmer

>22

Do your worst.

[Anonymous No.6753566]

Master and Margarita
Less than Zero
Myth of Sysiphus

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[Anonymous No.6753576]

Anna Karenina
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Brothers Kharmazov

[Anonymous No.6753582]

1984
The Iliad
Blood Meridian

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[Anonymous No.6753586]

- The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence

- On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

- On Vision and Colors

25

[Anonymous No.6753622]

Thus spoke Zarathustra
The picture of Dorian Gray
The catcher in the rye (didn't finish - ought I?)

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[Anonymous No.6753634]

>>6752641
Nobody? Really?

[Anonymous No.6753640]

>>6753582
You get your boipussi pounded regularly by hairless old men.

[Anonymous No.6753642]

>>6753634

>27
>posting again so someone will respond to his first faggy /soc/ post

what are you even doing son seriously

[Anonymous No.6753644]

The Plains by Gerald Murnane
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser

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[Anonymous No.6753649]

>Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
>Dune - Frank Herbert
>In The Dust of This Planet - Eugene Thacker

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[Anonymous No.6753652]

>>6753642
What?

[Anonymous No.6753662]

>>6752491
No logo
Desert solitaire
Invisible cities
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[Anonymous No.6753666]

Anna Karenina
Love in the Time of Cholera
Candide
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[Anonymous No.6753669]

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> Invisible Cities
> The Serpent and the Rainbow
> The Book of Diquiet

[Anonymous No.6753671]

>>6752570
An interesting mix of high school and meme literature for a guy who left high school and is slowly entering the non adulthood of the NEET world. You are probably lactose intolerant

[Anonymous No.6753682]

The Crossing
In Cold Blood
What we talk about when we talk about love

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[Anonymous No.6753696]

>"Lanark: A Life in Four Books" by Alasdair Gray
>"Stoner" by John Williams
>"al-Mutanabbi: Voice of the 'Abbasid Poetic Ideal" by Margaret Larkin

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[Anonymous No.6753703]

>Lolita
>Ulysses
>Second Foundation

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[Anonymous No.6753715]

>Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
>Count Zero (William Gibson)
>Bolo! (David Weber)
>18

[Anonymous No.6753722]

Station Eleven
The Girl on the Train
Art and Fear

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[Anonymous No.6753723]

>>6753703
The type of person who tries to attract attention by causing a scene. You are a strongly believer that being hated is better than being ignored. You are american, white, male, and without being a feminist myself, I'd say you're a priviledged little shit.
You never really knew struggle and although you consider yourself smarter than your peers, deep down you fear you're actually dumber.
You like color blue, pretend to like classical music (in truth you only like a few pieces and the short, dramatic segments of other pieces).
You spend your time on 4chan a lot and when at it, you act as if you actually don't do it all that much.

>now me
The Hero of Ages (book 3 of the Mistborn trilogy)
The Metamorphosis
The Brothers Karmazov

[Anonymous No.6753730]

>>6752491
Gary Gutting's "Thinking the Impossible"
Russ Shafer-Landau's "Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?"
Karen Armstrong's "Buddha"

I'm 24

[Anonymous No.6753744]

>>6752491
Wittgenstein : Tractatus
Wittgenstein : On Certainty
Cioran : The Book of Delusions

age : 18

[Anonymous No.6753757]

Tough Choices - Sigal Ben-Porath
Les Jeux de la petite Thalie - Alexandre Guillaume Mouslier de Moissy
Minds on Fire - Mark C. Carnes

B O N U S
O
N
U
S

Theory of Communicative action vol 1 - Jurgen Habermas

Good luck fellow plebs

[Anonymous No.6753760]

>>6753757

Oh, and I'm 27

[Anonymous No.6753768]

House on the Borderland
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange

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[Anonymous No.6753771]

The Killer, Ionesco (It's a play, whatever)
Bloodsong, Melvin Burgess
Dubliners, Joyce
I'm 20

[Anonymous No.6753822]

>> Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
>> Infinite Jest (chronological re-read)
>> Love lies bleeding - Don DeLillo

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[Anonymous No.6753827]

The Sirens of Titan
Moby Dick
Naked Lunch

18

[Anonymous No.6753834]

>stoner
>inherent vice
>blood meridian
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[Anonymous No.6753835]

The bel jar
Island of dr Moreau
I robot
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[Anonymous No.6753839]

Blood Meridian
Stoner
Dreams of Amputation

[Anonymous No.6753845]

>>6752491
A Game of Thrones
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Odyssey (middle school teacher would skip parts for the sake of finishing fast, so now I've read it all.)
and now I'm 100 pages into Les Miserables, it might be the greatest novel I've read so far besides Genji.
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[Anonymous No.6753879]

>>6752491
Non-fiction, and actual last three books:
>Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga - Schopenhauer
>The Rape of Nanking - Chang
>Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide - Hinton

Fiction:
>The lily theater - Wang
>Hadji Murad - Tolstoy
>Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.6753882]

>>6753879
Forgot age as well.
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[Anonymous No.6753883]

Homage to Catalonia
Crying of Lot 49
The Metamorphosis

[Anonymous No.6753885]

>>6753883
shit, 21

[Anonymous No.6753901]

>>6753723
>now me
>The Hero of Ages (book 3 of the Mistborn trilogy)
>The Metamorphosis
>The Brothers Karmazov

not even the guy you replied to but holy shit
>he was projecting all along

[Anonymous No.6753907]

>>6752649
ew man, i changed my mind. you're a salivating groveller. getting upset over some silly internet shit god damn

[Anonymous No.6753911]

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- mark twains mysterious stranger manuscripts, i count all three as one book since none were really complete
- the disaster artist by greg sestero, somewhat biographical story about getting into showbiz, meeting and working with tommy wiseau on The Room
- the savage tales of solomon kane by robert e. howard

[Anonymous No.6753918]

-falling man, don delilo
-for those whom god has blessed with fingers, ken sparling
-brothers, yu hua

i'm 21. brothers was amazing, idk if i can get behind sparling as real lit, falling man was a thousand times worse than anything else by delilo

[Anonymous No.6753921]

>>6753744
what did you think of on certainty? i read the tractatus aand it was difficult for me to understand.

[Anonymous No.6753924]

>On The Road - Jack Kerouc
>Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
>Animal Farm - Orwell

[Anonymous No.6753927]

>>6753924
Forgot
>19 years old

[Anonymous No.6753934]

>>6753921
I actually started both at the same time, On Certainty is really easier to get into. I would say that they complete eachother.
The Tractatus can be really obscure sometimes but those parts weren't really interesting in my opinion (for me it was the parts where he uses formal language).
I mostly enjoyed his view on the relation between the thoughts and the language (the language being inherently flawed).

[Anonymous No.6753952]

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Melville - Moby Dick
Camus - The First Man
Murakami - 1Q84 (part 1 & 2) and part 3

[Anonymous No.6753966]

>>6753934
you sound interesting, i'd like to get to know you.

i like your taste. i think its really weird how wittgenstein was super religious but thought we couldnt really speak of morals. and how he hated Russel's intro to his book, and always swore nobody ever understood his ideas.

[Anonymous No.6753985]

>>6753966
>i think its really weird how wittgenstein [...] hated Russel's intro to his book, and always swore nobody ever understood his ideas.
Really? Because that's a very common thing for smart cunts.

Not that guy, btw.

[Anonymous No.6754016]

>>6753985
yeah, it is something i've heard a ton of times but nobody was really as angry about it as wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.6754036]

>>6753966
Mhh, when you read the Tractatus you understand how Wittgenstein became so religious.
As I see it I understood that the idea he wanted to convey is that the language in inhenrelty flawed and the conclusion to that is the famous 7th proposition : "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent". (as I understood it for example it is for a human being impossible to describe the beauty of a landscape and useless to try to desribe it).
He understood that there is a new real beyond language that is the realm of the toughts, much purer but also egoist since you cannot 'show' it. Thus his 'religious' view (btw I would rather say that he is a mystic).
As for me I think that this 'realm of thoughts' can be expressed through art (music, poetry or painting etc.) thus making it more 'objective' so that people can interact with it.
Then to go back to mysticism that's why I read Cioran after Wittgenstein, it's because he takes Wittgenstein's quietism further and, I think, proves that the only state of mind a human being could want to obtain is melancholy (which is totally different from depression).

Those dudes are for me the guys that mostly 'finished' philosophy, which amazes me everyday.

>pic somewhat related

[Anonymous No.6754046]

beware of pity - stefan zweig
a wild sheep chase - haruki murakami
good omens - NG/TP

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[Anonymous No.6754071]

Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station
Frank O'Hara - Collected Poems
Anton Chekhov - The Lady with the Little Dog & Other Stories

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[Anonymous No.6754075]

>>6753966
>wittgenstein was super religious

[Anonymous No.6754211]

>Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd
>Ballard - The Kindness of Women
>John Brewer - Understanding Social Research

>23
Non of them are study related really.

[Anonymous No.6754363]

The Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
The red and the black by Stendhal

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[Anonymous No.6754414]

Der Steppenwolf
The Fault in Our Stars
Stoner

22 years old.

[Anonymous No.6754422]

>Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
>Warhammer 40k The War for Rynnsworld- Steve Parker/ Mike Lee
>The Tao of Pooh.l- Benjamin Hoff

[Anonymous No.6754427]

>>6754422
FORGOT: 19.

[Anonymous No.6754456]

Bulfinch's Mythology
The Modern Middle East
Game of Thrones
>22

[Anonymous No.6754547]

>Man in the High Castle, PKD
>Shamanism, Mircea Eliade
>Hyperion, Dan Simmons (currently reading)
>30

[Anonymous No.6754557]

>>6752515

You could by my friend anon-

>>6752528
>>6752549

my sides. it's true though

[Anonymous No.6754574]

>Age of Extremes - Hobsbawn
>An Essay on Man - Cassirer
>Ham on Rye - Bukowski

22 and currently reading War and Peace

[Anonymous No.6754585]

>richard yates - eleven kinds of loneliness
>margaret atwood - alias grace
>vladimir sorokin - ice trilogy
>31

[Anonymous No.6754586]

>>6752491
>Lolita
>The Back Dahlia
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

[Anonymous No.6754588]

>Origin of Species
>Candide
>Paradise Lost

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[Anonymous No.6754595]

>>6752491
William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
Rodolfo Usigli - Corona de Sombra (Shadow's Crown)
Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great

[Anonymous No.6754596]

>>6754586

You enjoy delicious cake every now and then, possibly a line of coke too. who doesnt?

Also, you are immortal.

[Anonymous No.6754598]

>>6754595
19.

[Anonymous No.6754608]

>goncharov - oblomov
>ken follet - the man from st.petersburg
>dostoyevsky - the house of the dead

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[Anonymous No.6754610]

>I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
>Dubliners - Joyce
>Invisible Man - Elison
>23

[Anonymous No.6754648]

> the world of yesterday (zweig)
> the joke and its relation to the unconscious (freud)
> the quantity theory of insanity (will self)
> twenty-three years

[Anonymous No.6754672]

Baudrillard - Intelligence of Evil
Putnam - Collapse of Fact/Value Dichotomy
Gadamer -Truth and Method
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[Anonymous No.6754684]

>>6754648
Dadaist.
>>6754610
Mediocre college student.
>>6754588
You're conscious of Degrasse Tyson.

[Anonymous No.6754693]

>>6754586
Just starting.
>>6754585
In search of a canon.
>>6754574
Rightist,

[Anonymous No.6754705]

>>6754547
Stoner.
>>6754422
Barnes and Noble shopper.
>>6754456
Traditionalist.
>>6754414
/lit/ enabled.

[Anonymous No.6754718]

>Ariel by Plath
>Aleph by Borges
>Emma by Austen

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[Anonymous No.6754726]

>>6754684
>Dadaist.
nah, not at all. but those books weren't really a good sample of what i generally read, i just got them for cheap

[Anonymous No.6754727]

>Ariel by Plath
>Aleph by Borges
>Emma by Austen

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[Anonymous No.6754738]

>>6754727
why

[Anonymous No.6754752]

>>6754738
I was unhappy with the picture I previously selected

[Anonymous No.6754755]

Sabbath's Theatre
All The Pretty Horses
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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[Anonymous No.6754763]

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Confessions of a Mask by the'shima
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry by B.S Johnson

[Anonymous No.6754765]

>Infinite Meme - DFW
>Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kunera
>Hyperion - Dan Simmons
>22

[Anonymous No.6754771]

>>6754763
21 I forgot to say

[Anonymous No.6754773]

>Finnegans Wake
>Maledicta 10
>To Himself - Marcus Aurelius

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[Anonymous No.6754774]

>>6754752
Girl you want the D.

[Anonymous No.6754780]

>>6754752
First pic was better tbh

[Anonymous No.6754784]

>>6754774
i'm a dude, but i like this zooey

>>6754780
alright
there

[Anonymous No.6754808]

>>6753388
cash/work worshipper/fetishist

get money
get money

>>6754648
oi oi oi

[Anonymous No.6754814]

Mein Kampf
Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Die Tagebücher der Anne Frank
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[Anonymous No.6754834]

>>6754684
>mediocre college student

Ouch. Pretty accurate but could you maybe expand on that?

[Anonymous No.6754850]

>>6754834
Nothing really to expand on. Don't take it too seriously.

[Anonymous No.6754876]

>>6754814
I'm guesing you are german

[Anonymous No.6754893]

I love how these threads only have around 30% of the posts responded to

[Anonymous No.6754894]

>In the Miso Soup
>Jung's Red Book
>Spring Snow
>29

[Anonymous No.6754918]

>implying we aren't all skinny white boys in their 20s who are mildly smart and love memes

[Anonymous No.6754939]

Reminder not to post in these threads. No matter what you've read you will be called one of the following:

>pleb
>memester
>highschooler
>tryhard intellectual
>/lit/core
>etc

Just enjoy reading what you like and don't feed into the worst aspects of this board.

[Anonymous No.6754944]

The Green Hills of Africa
The Garden of Eden
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.6754956]

>>6754944
Forgot age. 21. Apparently retarded.

[Anonymous No.6754961]

>>6754939
shut up you stupid tryhard meme-loving pleb memester. I bet you're in highschool

[Anonymous No.6754962]

Four laws that drive the universe
The age of radiance
Annals of a former world

23

[Anonymous No.6754966]

>House of Leaves
>The Raw Shark Texts
>Kapow!

[Anonymous No.6754968]

>>6753388
motivated young man with either a business or science degree

[Anonymous No.6754970]

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
Inorganic and Organic Chemistry - H. Stephen Stoker
The Dalai Lama at Harvard

27

[Anonymous No.6754977]

>>6753671
>lactose intolerant
kek

[Anonymous No.6754994]

>>6752491
schopenhauer on the suffering of the world
sabato el escritor y sus fantasmas
Dostoievski Crime and punishment

29

[Anonymous No.6755003]

>>6754970
softie mcfagface

[Anonymous No.6755004]

>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
>John Fowles - The Magus
>Umberto Eco - The Name Of The Rose
18

[Anonymous No.6755006]

Turned 18 today (:

Madness and Civilization
Infinite Jest
Portrait...

I'm currently reading The Development of Freud's Thought. Pretty basic but interesting nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.6755007]

>>6753696
pretty unique

[Anonymous No.6755013]

>>6755004
Gravitys*
Fuck my mobile phones autocorrect feature it only comes in when it isn't needed

[Anonymous No.6755015]

>>6754970
gay face and taste

[Anonymous No.6755029]

>>6755003
bodied

[Anonymous No.6755036]

Kokoro
The Ark Sakura
The Castle

[Anonymous No.6755039]

>>6755036
Also I'm 25, I can't follow simple directions clearly.

[Anonymous No.6755050]

>1984
>Norwegian Wood
>Faust

I'm 17, turning 18 soon

[Anonymous No.6755062]

>>6754046
Twee
>>6754071
top taste
>>6754608
russboo

[Anonymous No.6755065]

>The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
>The Stranger (Camus)
>Justine and Juliette (De Sade)

19

[Anonymous No.6755105]

>The metamorphosis
>The fifth child, Doris Lessing
>The curse of Yig, Lovecraft
18

[Anonymous No.6755228]

>>6754918
Joke's on you I'm obese!

[Anonymous No.6755236]

>>6754755
I think we would be pals

[Anonymous No.6755305]

>Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
>The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
>Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

I'm 25

[Anonymous No.6755323]

>A Dance with Dragons
>The Stranger
>The Martian

21.

[Anonymous No.6755599]

>18
>The Road
>Atomised
>Blindness

>>6752614
You're probably somewhat like me.
>>6753722
I read Art and Fear too. Cool.
>>6753845
>it might be the greatest novel I've read so far besides Genji
Now I've got to read Genji.

[Anonymous No.6755624]

>Men in Prison by Victor Serge
>The Trial by Franz Kafka
>The Magus by John Fowles
>almost 22

[Anonymous No.6755748]

Meditations
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill

20

[Anonymous No.6755758]

19
>There Once was a War Stienbeck
>The Fall Camus
>Leaves of Grass Whitman

[Anonymous No.6755802]

>>6755624
Thoughts on The Magus? A recent read of mine and one of the best novels I've read IMO.

[Anonymous No.6755805]

18

> Aztec / Garry Jennings
> The Silmarillion / Tolkien (again)
> Pedro Páramo / Juan Ruflo (probs best book)

[Anonymous No.6755820]

>>6752491
Franky and Zooey - JD Salinger
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
Tenth of December - George Saunders
>26

[Anonymous No.6755824]

>>6752491
This Side of Paradise
American Psycho
Filth (current)

Age: 20

[Anonymous No.6755826]

>>6755820
Cute american girl

[Anonymous No.6755836]

Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Lila - Marilynne Robinson
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

23

>I only read books whose titles are the name of the main character

[Anonymous No.6755858]

Dick - A scanner darkly
Mann - Tonio Kröger
Hesse - Demian

29

[Anonymous No.6755861]

The Street of crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe
La compañía de las moscas - César Mallorqui

18

[Anonymous No.6755868]

>>6755802
one of my fastest reads so far. it was quite suspensive as a story but i found it interesting that the narrator lacks in describing his thoughts and emotions directly even though the story is told by himself. albeit indirectly, i felt it manages to come close to the "anagnorisis" level of camus' the fall, which i will read next for the second time. certainly, a great novel.

[Anonymous No.6755874]

>>6753148
Just finished this, fucking GOAT

[Anonymous No.6755877]

> Crimen y Castigo (Dostoievsky)
> Gravity's Rainbow
> V.
33

> Seems you've gone full meme
Fairly new to English literature, and it seems /lit/ convinced me of going Pynchon finally.

> 33yo 4channer
No good answer for this one. I'm as puzzled as you.

[Anonymous No.6755878]

Knowledge and Its Limits - Timothy Williamson
Forcing for Mathematicians - Nik Weaver
Foundations of Analysis - Edmund Landau

23

[Anonymous No.6755904]

>>6755826
Oh no, englishman but with a thing for cute american girls so at least I'm playing to type

[Anonymous No.6755909]

>>6754765
Anybody?

[Anonymous No.6755929]

>>6755909
You are a cool guy.

[Anonymous No.6755991]

>>6752491
>Brideshead Revisited
>Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics
>Last Crusade: Spain, 1936

47

[Anonymous No.6756002]

>>6753966
>i think its really weird how wittgenstein was super religious
i don't understand how people can say shit like this......

it assumes someone was an unchanging form of themself that was one thing the whole 50-60 years. Absurd to me.

[Anonymous No.6756004]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Farewell to Arms
Last Exit to Brooklyn

> 18

[Anonymous No.6756006]

>Avengers: The Complete Collection by Geoff Johns vol. 1
>Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
>Talking Leaves - An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Short Stories
19

[Anonymous No.6756019]

>>6755858
tonio korger is the betaest book i ever saw

[Anonymous No.6756027]

>>6752491
The Discovery of Heaven-Mulisch
Rimbaud-Robb
Outer Dark-McCarthy

20

[Anonymous No.6756045]

>>6756027
You have one of the more eclectic tastes in regards to other art forms in thread. Probably one of the more fashionable too.
>>6756006
You're a chill guy who doesn't care too much about having high brow tastes.
>>6756004
You still haven't really developed your own tastes yet and are mainly using /lit/ (and the other boards on 4chan, possibly) as a recommendation board.
>>6755991
You're introverted, though most people on 4chan are, so that's a bad assumption to make. Um, I'm guessing you enjoy traveling around quite a bit.
>>6755878
You've always done well academically yet still feel a quest for knowledge in mathematics.
>>6755877
You feel young for your age, though not in the way of being immature. More like you just have more youth left in you compared to others your age.
>>6755861
You have a colorful bedroom.

[Anonymous No.6756070]

Echopraxia, Peter Watts
Lord of Light, Rodger Zelazny
The Memory of Sky, Robert Reed

[Anonymous No.6756072]

>>6756045

You are the guy who can perfectly describe others but feel generic when looking at yourself

[Anonymous No.6756073]

>>6756070
Oh, shit, and 31.

[Anonymous No.6756074]

Ten Days that Shook the World
Blindsight
The Brothers Karamazov

22

[Anonymous No.6756084]

>>6756072
I'm actually in that set of guesses.

[Anonymous No.6756094]

Twilight of the Idols - Le Fedora German Man
Three Teban Plays - Le Wincest Greek
A Modest Proposal and other satyrical texts - Le Witty Anglican Man

currently reading A Hundred Years of Solitude by Le Fat Argie Gommie

24

[Anonymous No.6756095]

>The Ambassadors by Henry James
>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
>The Fall by Albert Camus

>19

[Anonymous No.6756117]

>tfw /mu/ is better at these threads than /lit
You're supposed to guess other people, not just post your own books.

[Anonymous No.6756129]

>>6756094
>marquez
>fat
you need new eyes

[Anonymous No.6756140]

>>6756117
it takes 1-2 hours to listen to an album, 10-15 hours to read most of these books

if you didn't read it you can't guess what they are like

think before you post next time, please

[Anonymous No.6756148]

>>6756117
Good point.

>>6756095
You're trying hard to act like a serious adult, but I suspect there's something in you that missed out on childhood. Squeeze in more video games.

>>6756074
Assuming that's Blindsight by Peter Watts, you've got a wide, eclectic taste. Never lose that.

>>6755878
You wish you were like the new TV Sherlock, but your attention to detail isn't that high. Books won't help you.

Now, someone do me:
>>6756073
>>6756070

[Anonymous No.6756159]

>>6756117
Would have been better if it was top three books of all time, it's easier to make assumptions about someone from that.

[Anonymous No.6756162]

>>6756140
Yeah, but most of these books are well-known enough that you can get a sense of what type of person would read/invest their time into them. There are stereotypes for DFW fans, Pynchon fans, Camus fans, etc.

It's not like most of the people in the /mu/ threads have actually listened to (or ever will listen to) the albums posted in those threads. They can just pick up on social queues.

Think before you post next time, please.

[Anonymous No.6756167]

>>6756162
>social queues

[Anonymous No.6756168]

>Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
>Franz Kafka, The Trial
>CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.6756172]

>>6752491
>Les Origines de la France moderne, Taine
>Les Diaboliques, Barbey d'Aurevilly
>Première branche du Roman de Renart, Anonyme

[Anonymous No.6756173]

>>6756095
Awkward, Prefers talking to people in the workplace/school than at parties, skewed vision of how a person should dress

>>6756074
Has been looking for a reason to live, but has come to the realisation that living is just a habit that has its perks.

>>6756006
You like going to libraries and finding random books. Probably the most socially aware people on the board.

>>6756004
If people were to ask you why you read, rather than struggle for an answer, you would think it a ridiculous question. You like reading because you do. I can imagine you getting older and taking full advantage of the tranquil moments in life.

>>6755878
Probably like maths. I can't relate to that.

[Anonymous No.6756179]

>>6756168
You have a beard and drink some kind of not-light beer.

[Anonymous No.6756182]

>>6756162
>stereotypes are personalities
any one can do that, takes no thought whatsoever

[Anonymous No.6756187]

>>6756004
You feel like you need to catch up on things

[Anonymous No.6756189]

>>6756148
you are so desperate for interaction that you've abandoned your dignity

[Anonymous No.6756193]

>>6756189
Hah, joke's on you.
I never HAD any dignity.

[Anonymous No.6756196]

>>6755824
Overweight

[Anonymous No.6756202]

>>6756179
This is the most accurate response I've ever had in one of these threads.

[Anonymous No.6756208]

>>6756173
>You like going to libraries and finding random books. Probably the most socially aware people on the board.
Yeah to the libraries part, idk to the socially aware part. TBH, it might not be as "high-brow" as most of /lit/ would like, but I think picking random books up, deciding if you liked them or not and then looking for works similar to them is a better way to develop your own taste than just looking at lists of recommendations/charts.

[Anonymous No.6756210]

>>6756162
you f5 a lot to see if people have replied to your posts.

[Anonymous No.6756257]

>>6756196
Way off m8

[Anonymous No.6756274]

The Bell Jar
Dispatches
The Brother's Karamazov

24

[Anonymous No.6756305]

>Crime and Punishment
>Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
>The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
>19
r8 me

[Anonymous No.6756315]

Absalom, Absalom!
Moby-Dick
Ulysses

21

[Anonymous No.6756357]

>>6756274
qt french grill
gibe skype

[Anonymous No.6756366]

>>6756274
>'s

[Anonymous No.6756370]

>>6756315
Three of my favorite books. Good on you, young man.

did you understand them, though?

[Anonymous No.6756384]

Sex and Marriage in Ancient Ireland by Patrick Powers
Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast
Oranges by John McPhee

19

[Anonymous No.6756390]

Catch-22
The Colour of Magic
False Gods (Horus Heresy)

[Anonymous No.6756399]

>>6756390
Oh, and 25. Skimming through this thread has made me feel old.

[Anonymous No.6756401]

>>6756370
yes yes yes

[Anonymous No.6756405]

>>6756095
Your dad is an alcoholic and your mother is anxious.

You like to learn, but you are eager to get a job and get your life going.

[Anonymous No.6756417]

>>6755929
Fuck yeah, finally!!

[Anonymous No.6756419]

>>6752491
>The Book of Disquiet
>Bed
>A History of Western Philosophy

>25

[Anonymous No.6756427]

>>6756405
Not even close about the first part, but I'd like to say that the second part is accurate. I'm sick of my current job, but I'm also a student, so I take the flexible hours.

[Anonymous No.6756430]

20
Master and Margarita
Collected Stories of Gabrile Marquez
Rituale Romanum (for practice)

[Anonymous No.6756452]

>>6755824
chronic masterbater

>>6756004
probably a bit pretentious but an all round cool guy

>>6756305
you like the films of david lynch

[Anonymous No.6756487]

>>6752491
>green eggs and ham
>elliot rodger's manifesto
>the lusty argonian maid

[Anonymous No.6756496]

>>6756173
>Has been looking for a reason to live, but has come to the realisation that living is just a habit that has its perks.

not bad

[Anonymous No.6757042]

>>6755236
=]

[Anonymous No.6757104]

V. (Thomas Pynchon)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch (Philip K. Dick)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
20

[Anonymous No.6757135]

>Transparent Things, Vlad Nabokov
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung
>Great Ideas in Modern Mathematics: Their nature and use, Jagjit Singh
But because the last one doesn't really count,
>The Coming Insurrection, The invisible committee
18

>>6752506
You're either European or incredibly pretentious. You probably spend a good chunk of your day contemplating NEEThood. Good taste in philosophy though.

>>6756305
Edgy, probably smokes and has tattoos

>>6756094
Trapped in emotional adolescence

[Anonymous No.6757175]

>Iliad
>Odyssey
>Mythology
18
That doesn't really give an idea of what else I read, so here's the three I read before those.
>Moby-Dick
>Blood Meridian
>V.

[Anonymous No.6757350]

Liberal Fascism - Jonah Goldberg
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - NEETzsche
Confessions - Saint Augustine

18

[Anonymous No.6757353]

>>6757135
You want to/do major in math and maybe lit/philosophy, but securing a place in academia is a house of horrors right now, and you aren't sure that's what you want, never mind all the crippling self-doubt as to whether or not you are good enough to do serious work in pure mathematics.

A lot of your time is spent plotting your future and wishing you got along better with average folk. Parties bore you, but you wish they didn't. You try very hard to be normal and give Average Joe the benefit of the doubt. You do not want to be pretentious or elitist, and you make every attempt to keep an open mind.

Still, you find it hard to clear a place for yourself in the messy youth shuffling all around you.

You fiddle with some programming and wonder what sort of job you'll be happy with if this whole "follow your passion" thing doesn't work out.

You lost your virginity kind of young, even by today's standards.

You thought you were a sociopath until you thought about how stupid it was to think you were a sociopath.

>yr books are pretty bro tier, would hang with you

[Anonymous No.6757355]

>>6752491

> House of the Seven Gables
> Under The Volcano
> Corsair by Lord Byron

19

[Anonymous No.6757406]

>>6757353
It's kinda scary how to the point that description is. I'm assuming you're similar?
any good book recs?

[Anonymous No.6757435]

>>6757350
pls...

[Anonymous No.6757454]

>>6752491
Dublinners by Joyce
Bartleby The Scrivener by Melville
Abstract Algebra by Dummit & Foote

20

[Anonymous No.6757455]

>Spring Snow - Mishima
>Eugene Onegin - Pushkin
>The Sound and the Fury - Falkner

Current: A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole

27

[Anonymous No.6757462]

Consider Phlebas
Catch-22
Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.6757464]

19

Das Kapital by Marx
Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by Lee
Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze

[Anonymous No.6757467]

>>6754705
>>6754547


It's like you knew...

[Anonymous No.6757475]

>>6753682
well just based on the related themes of the novels, you seemed to be interested in the underlying melancholy of Americana

>>6753744
You're a precocious little scamp who's striving toward the zenith of intellectualism at a very young age. It's ok breh you can slow down, life is long and there is no destination to wisdom. If I'm wrong about this then disregard.

[Anonymous No.6757477]

Ephesians
Corpus hermeticum
The phenomenology of spirit

[Anonymous No.6757489]

>>6752491

Man in the High Castle (almost done, anyway)
100 Years of Solitude
Probably a DFW essay collection before that, can't really remember offhand

22

[Anonymous No.6757572]

>>6753822
>chronologically

[Anonymous No.6757587]

Huckleberry Finn
Of Mice and Men
Jack of Spades

[Anonymous No.6757616]

>Atlas Shrugged, Rand
>Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky
>Ulysses, Joyce

[Anonymous No.6757621]

>>6757616
Forgot
>17

[Anonymous No.6757638]

25.
Dune.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Childgood's End.

[Anonymous No.6757656]

Family happiness - Tolstoy
The Devil - Tolstoy
Individualism and Economic Order - Hayek

[Anonymous No.6757667]

>>6756399

Me too, man. Me too.

[Anonymous No.6757682]

23
Paper towns
Looking for Alaska
Tfios

[Anonymous No.6757781]

>>6753284
You were in ap English last year but you didn't really belong.

[Anonymous No.6757984]

The Ticket That Exploded- Burroughs
Against The Day- Pynchon
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone - Thompson
21

>>6757104
A cool guy who loves science fiction. Probably has read some Grant Morrison comics.
>>6754814
You probably have a Hitler Youth haircut
>>6753924
You're probably the smart one out of your group of friends.

[Anonymous No.6757989]

>>6757984
>all these juvenile judgements

[Anonymous No.6757994]

>>6757989
Hey had to come up with something

[Anonymous No.6757998]

>>6752491
The Crying of Lot 49
Notes From Underground
The Brothers Karamazov
26
>extra credit: Reading Lolita

[Anonymous No.6758009]

Misc Bataille essays
Intro level Wittgenstein (Tractatus, Blue+Brown Books)
Misc Peirce essays

i don't even read

[Anonymous No.6758015]

>>6758009
21 btw

[Anonymous No.6758018]

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Slaughterhouse 5
The Metamorphosis
21

[Anonymous No.6758040]

the makioka sisters, forbidden colors, the grundrisse

24

[Anonymous No.6758041]

>>6752491
>Metamorphosis, Heart of Darkness and The Hero With a Thousand Faces
>22

[Anonymous No.6758115]

>>6757682

You are John Green

[Anonymous No.6758396]

>Faust
>Stoner
>Naked Lunch
And reading American Gods
21

[Anonymous No.6758466]

>>6758396

> Stoner

Loved that book. Thanks for the reminder, I'm going to read it again now.

[Anonymous No.6758582]

>no one will ever reply to your post

[Anonymous No.6759500]

>>6752491
Elric of Melnibone - Moorcock
Event - Zizek
Violence - Zizek

[Anonymous No.6759506]

>>6759500
Forgot age: 36

[Anonymous No.6759535]

>>6757998
You were involved in theatrical productions at school.