/lit/ - Literature

I hate these threads
Fuck off """18""" year olds reading Brother's Karamazov like you will be able to even somewhat understand it

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Silence
Canticle for leibowitz
Roadside picnic
I am legend
Warlock

>>10631854
>22

>Iliad
>Omensetter's Luck
>The Recognitions
>As I Lay Dying
>Notes From Underground

>>10631854
early 20's
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Brother's Karamazov
Politics - Treitschke
The Odyssey

currently reading some Hume because I have no more Dostoevsky

>>10631872
>>10631877
>>10631857
Why the fuck is everyone reading Dostoevsky. HE"S MINE YOU HEATHENS

>18

>The Fog of War
>1984
>The Great Gatsby
>The Churchill Factor
>Diplomacy

>>10631883
>1984
>Great Gatsby
good enough for your age, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 went down smoother though

19
>Winter's Tale
>Anna Karenina
>Oathbringer
>Neuromancer
>Republic
>>10631857
>le dostoevsky is hard
no you fuck off

>19

>Daisy Miller
that's all i can think of.
>tfw too retarded to read more often

>>10631892
there it is again. I'm beginning to believe in Solitary Idealism here, all these people reading my russian waifus

>>10631890
We don't read those in high school as you might have in the States.

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>Catcher In The Rye
>Inherent Vice
>Stoner
>Bagombo Snuff Box
>Look At The Birdie

>>10631854
17

1. Macbeth
2. Pale Fire
3. a Season in Hell
4. the Crying of Lot 49
5. As I Lay Dying

>23
>Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
>Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
>The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
>Elective Affinities by Johann Goethe
>Roughing It by Mark Twain

>>10631909
understandable

>>10631917
6/10

>>10631910
>Catcher in the Rye

my favorite book, you phony

27.
Confronting the Classics. M Beard.
Religions of Rome. Beard and others.
Hell West and Crooked, T Cole
TCOL49
Assassins Question (Third book of Farseer Trilogy) R Hobbs.

>>10631910
I've only read Inherent Vice. Am I missing out on much?

>>10631917
how was the Goethe? I've only read Faust and a bit of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

>>10631916

>>10631934
What does he mean by this...

>>10631930
>I've only read Inherent Vice. Am I missing out on much?
Missing out on what, Pynchon? IV is basically just Pynchon-lite, so if you're looking for something more demanding, then read on. GR obviously comes to mind.

>>10631854
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>The Game
>1177 B.C.
>Brood of the Witch Queen
>Pasolini on Pasolini
>A History of Japanese Literature

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My Antonia, Huck Finn, The Cat's Cradle, Journey to the End of Night, Norwood

>>10631968
No, out of the books you (or whoever) listed. Always looking for more recommendations and the only other book I'm more than vaguely aware of from his/your list is Catcher. Which I've never had the urge to read.

>>10631981
3/10

>>10631892
>>le dostoevsky is hard
>no you fuck off
It's not about difficulty you nonce, you won't get the themes of death, love and faith; you just won't

>>10631987
Ah. Catcher + Stoner are pretty standard "You should read this"-type books. Bagombo Snuff Box + Look At The Birdie are just short story collections by Vonnegut. Pretty comfy reading (before bed, etc.).

>>10632004
Cool. I like short stories, so i'll check those out.

>>10631993
I'm not going to argue over who "gets" it more but honestly if you're this caught up in pretentious intellectual dick measuring what do you even read for
No doubt when I read it again at 25 I'll find more in it than I know now, and again at 30 and 40 and 60 and so on but that's still no reason not to read it now

22

A Confederacy of Dunces
Dubliners
The Crying of Lot 49
Problems of Philosophy
Hunger

>>10632028
You have the reading habits of a 19 year old.

>>10631854
30
the two towers
the return of the king
superman for all seasons
a knight of the seven kingdoms
the king of elfland's daughter

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>Aurélia by Gérard de Nerval
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
>The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
>The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I'm currently reading the top 3. I hadn't read a book aside from textbooks in years and decided to start investing time in it this year. Thinking of reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick or Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson next.

>>10632074
2/10

>>10632070
wowww three year age diffeence

>>10632071
0/10

>>10632084
A lot of books should be read in 3 years time. Your smartass response shows that you have the reasoning skills of a 19 year old as well. You should be far away from the books you mentioned at your age.

>>10632080
Suggestions?

>>10631854
bugs... easy on the methamphetamines

>>10632099
No read what you want. My ranking is based on assigning points out of 2 for each book. It gets 2 if I like the book, 1 if I only like the author, and zero if I don't like either. I wasn't saying like "fail".

>>10632095
What the fuck? I'm gonna kill myself now.

>>10632115
Ah, makes sense. Which book did you like?

>>10632124
technically you're killing yourself whenever you do anything -- such as going outside, when you're inhaling the fumes of 1.015 billion cars, or when you drink alcohol, or when you impregnate your girlfriend and your kids reduce your number of years by way of stress. You kill yourself every day, friend.

>>10632132
the Jung

>>10632138
>tfw oxygen slowly degenerates your cells
>tfw the air you depend on for life from second to second is also what will eventually kill you from old age

28

East of Eden
Crime and Punishment
Hadji Murat
12 rules for life
Bridge to teribithia

>>10632172
3/10

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Stoner
The Broom of the System
The Tunnel
The Lime Twig
Autobiography of Red

28
hyperion
judas unchained
pandora's star
in a sunburned country
how to fail at everything and still win big

>>10631854
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Oleanna by David Mamet
Last News of Mr. Nobody by Emmanuel Moses
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
How Tucked in the Corner Was Sadness by Teenagers in King County Juvenile Detention

>>10632178
0/10

>>10632179
0/10

>>10631854
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Muerte Sin Fin
El llano en Llamas
Los de Abajo
Scipio's Dream
Apology

>>10631910
You gotta love that Mnemonics story KV wrote in BSB

>>10632178
8/10 i'd be yo friend

>>10632194
i'll still win big

>>10632197
2/10

>32

Jung Extracts : the undiscovered self
The Brothers Karamazov
Nineteen Eighty-Four
An Essay on Typography
Mastery

>>10632214
4/10

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I don't read

>>10631871
cool, Roadside picnic is on my to read list. good?
>>10631872
pretty heavy stuff man, you should read for fun too
>>10631877
dont be vague
>>10631883
seems right
>>10631892
wish I read Neuromancer when I was younger
>>10631910
you are on the right path
>>10631916
I hope Pale Fire doesn't make you want to quit reading
>>10631917
so far best taste, weakest spongebob
>>10631930
seems like you know what you are doing, but man TCOL49 is in all introductory lit
>>10631981
simply not my bag baby, do you
>>10631982
hope some of these are rereads
>>10632028
good start keep up, abandon Joyce
>>10632071
*shrug* man I do not like Tolkien, and so I can only be ignorant here
>>10632074
why read three books at the same time? it makes no sense to me at all. AT ALL
>>10632172
...................
>>10632178
never heard of some of this stuff, can't rightly judge
>>10632179
Judas Unchained sounds like a badass christian hardcore band

as for me 32
>In Watermelon Sugar
>Hollywood
>Invisible Cities
>The Spire
>The New York Trilogy
>

>>10632221
10/10

>>10632224
2/10 for Auster who I thought was alright in that trilogy at least. More brutal than I expected going in. Something a little frivolous in its air though.

>>10632023
>I'm not going to argue over who "gets" it more but honestly if you're this caught up in pretentious intellectual dick measuring
Not at all what was happening

>>10632244
What a superfluous reply. Don't worry about getting the last word in a childish argument.

>>10632224
>seems like you know what you are doing, but man TCOL49 is in all introductory lit
I read around two books a week. Probably around 25% of all books are re-readings.

How many other people dedicate such a large portion of what they read to second or even third readings?

>>10632191
>>10632194
Aw, look, he's trying to fit in. Can't stay mad at the little fella, can you?

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Art of War
Mysticism and Logic
Meditations
The Quran
Age of Reason

>>10632250
Most of my reading is rereading.

>>10632253
Huh?

>>10632256
0/10

>>10632224
>why read three books at the same time? it makes no sense to me at all. AT ALL
Yeah I came to that conclusion a few nights ago, so I'm focusing on Aurélia right now. I had acquired a few fairly large nonfiction books all at once and wouldn't commit to starting with one and reading it to the end before starting another one.

>>10632261
0/10

>>10631857
What do you all think? Can someone who takes the time to post a comment this idiotic truly understand literature? Or is the meaning derived from art more about perspective, inherently subjective? In other words, does anyone besides me really want to read this moron's analysis of any novel he claims to have read?

>>10632265
Grow up.

>>10632267
I don't care what he has to say but I'll give it a look if I'm here.

>>10632234
yeah man totally agree, it was like a thrill ride, just as soon as I felt in the groove with a story or a theme it was trying to convey BAM he fucking switches the track making it not quite a different ride but all the same unsettling until it all merges into one mindfuck which is a pleb term I know but is apt here because my gosh the fetish of modern is this happening just kind of clangs home like a hammer on sheet metal at this point, yeah
>>10632250
I reread books all the time. a fool is someone who reads a book once and pretends to understand it. for instance I have read TCOL49 4 times and described and recommended it to everyone I know who had the slightest inclination towards literature

>>10632269
Are you the 0/10 poster?

>>10632260
And now he's trying to understand things... Good God, how fucking adorable. Reddit transplant or no, I welcome our new friend.

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A Hero of Our Time
The Turmoil
Alice Adams
The House of Mirth
The Good Soldier

>>10632280
0/10

>>10632277
The ending of the first book really caught me off guard. Not in a plot sense necessarily but just the fact that an author would steer his story in that direction. I had expected him to be some wry, mannered, fancy boy but it turns out he has courage. And he writes about interesting things. I'm considering reading his new one but it sounds a little silly.

>>10632280
Yes A Hero Of Our Time! so good. short and to the point. sadly it has failings in the tour guide department. Russia is fucking ugly. but there are pirates and near death experiences. anyway, read The Manual Found At Saragasso

>>10632294
dude he set it up, a noir detective story with no payoff, the smart aleck didnt win. I enjoyed the book less the more I read, which is not a good sign, but by jezus he kept me entranced

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on the fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason
book of disquiet
crime and punishment
notes from the underground
and then im almost done with gravitys rainsbow its been taking up alot of time I could have spent with more philosophy I want to read but this has been pretty enjoyable. not sure what I’ve got out of it yet, definitely a fun ride.

>>10632305
Yeah but just imagining him living in an alley for months for a case that doesn't need him is so brutal that I was in awe. I thought then that Auster must be slightly crazed which I admire in a writer.

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Skag Boys
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Soft Machine
Electric Acid Kool Aid Test
Beyond Good and Evil

>>10632307
4/10

>>10632313
0/10

>>10632307
Yo I feel you. I'm half way through Infinite Jest. It's Good but I can't wait to get back to my list.

>>10632321
Damn brutal. So you hate all those books?

>>10632325
I've never heard of Skag Boys. I dislike the rest.

>>10632328
amazing

>>10632312
Of course the case needed him! forgive my yelling but at the train station he was given a choice of following a certain person. this decision affected not only the first story but every story after it. the whole theme of the trilogy is losing oneself, and the questioning of identity. let me know if I am losing you

>>10632328
Fair. Skag Boys is done by Irvine Welsh who did Trainspotting, Filth, Porno, and Acid House.

I don't know man The Stories We tell Ourselves was a decent perspective on H.S.T

>>10632344
Sure. I just meant that by the time he was in the alley the case had resolved or started to, didn't it. It's hard for me to remember these books mind you. I have only read them one time and it has been a couple of years.

>>10632348
That's fine. I've always felt an aversion to HST. But I don't care what people read of course.

>>10632354
Why the aversion?

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Social Philosophies in Conflict
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The Future of Power
Candide
Leviathan

>>10632366
When I read him (a long time ago, admitedly) it just seemed to me like his perspective was shallow.

>>10632374
0/10

>>10632382
it was the Hobbs that did it

>>10632385
He's a necessary read. At least if you're a polisci fag like me

>>10632385
I've detailed my rating system here >>10632115

>>10632393
had you liked hobbs as an author you would have given him 1/10, thus it was hobbs' inclusion that pushed your score down to 0/10

>>10632352
jeez you really only read books once?

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Lolita
The Myth of Sisyphus
Cat's Cradle
Pale Fire
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>10632399
You could say that about anyone on the list. Why single him out.

>>10632405
more like the myth of syphilis

>>10632391
oh no I'm beginning a Polsci course in March

>>10632405
8/10- my highest rating yet.

>>10632412
he's a little gay little goblin boi and i hope he dies

>>10632419
meant for
>>10632407

>>10632413
take it like a man anon
I know I did

The Stranger for fun
The Metamorphosis by OVID for school
The Agamemnon for school as well
Watership down with my lil bro because I had never red it myself
The Idiot because it was gifted to me

I'm 18 btw

>>10632428
0/10 but +2 for reading with your brother

>22

>Le Petit Prince
>25 Kafka short stories
>The Raw Youth
>Amerika by Kafka
>Notes From the Underground

>>10631890
Is it true Fahrenheit starts well and ends bad?

>>10632447
1/10

>>10632415
Thank you, I suppose

>>10632412
The amount of people who said this to me while I was reading it was high.

20

Ender's Game
The Martian
Neuromancer
Fahrenheit 451
The Deep

>>10632188
Did you read Rainbow in native language?
>tfw will never read it because it will never be translated to native

>>10632483
Goodnight, everyone/10

19
>'Salem's Lot
>Flowers for Algernon
>And Then There Were None
>Stoner
>Animal Farm

>27
>The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Nancy Drew Secret of the Old Clock, Nancy Drew The Hidden Staircase, Nancy Drew The Bungalow Mystery, and Nancy Drew Mystery at Lilac Inn

23

The Bow and the Lyre, Octavio Paz
Complete Poetry, Rimbaud
Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
Confessions of a Mask, Mishima
Men and Gears, Ernesto Sabato

>>10631854
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Kafka's the Castle
The Iliad
The Hobbit
LOTR Fellowship

>>10632378
I can see that. I think it depends on which price of work. 72 was a good dig into politics through journalistic eyes and the inner gears of it all. Fear and Loathing was a bit shallow but I think it more about the birth or continuation of American hedonism.

>>10632519
lmao that pic is fuckin killing me man wtf

29

Narcissus and Goldmund (good but overlong)
From Dawn to Decadence (epoch of meh)
The Green Carnation (fun)
Essays in Existentialism (garbage)
The Baron in the Trees (ZzzZZzZzzZz)

>>10631854
>88
>Theozoologie
>Ride the Tiger
>Decline of the West
>Mein Kampf
>St Petersburg Dialogues
>Imperium

I’m training to be a shadowreich minister

>>10631854
>19

>Gorgias
>The Prince
>Old man and the Sea
>The Road
>Something from highschool

Been slow getting back into reading after the swill they make us read in highschool, but I've got a small stack of classics and other odds/ends I mean to get into. Trying to read some nonfiction as well.

>>10632607
your mind is failing you, you posted six books instead of five, time to die

>>10632485
yep

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>Dubliners
>The Metamorphosis
>Siddharta
>Anna Karenina
>1984
currently reading The Trial. I wanted to read some of the short books on my backlog before getting into something as big as Anna Karenina again (still deciding between 2 books though)

>>10631854
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The Idiot
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Stoner
Notes of a Native Son
The Crying of Lot 49

>>10632778
Is Anna Karenina still worth reading if I know she kills herself at the end?

>>10631854
I only read one book 5 times

>>10631854
>22

>The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>Nicomachean Ethics
>A Farewell to Arms
>Diary of a Superfluous Man
>A Confession

>18
>Life on the Mississippi
>Gatsby
>Devil in the White City
>My Antonia
>These Shallow Graves

This is very spread apart, probably over the past 1.5 years. I’ve been taking a break but want to get back into it. I’m thinking about tackling Paradise Lost next, I read about 1/3 in high school and loved it.

>23
Snow Country
The House of the Dead
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
The Same Old Story (Goncharov)
Men Without Women

I need to get into a good tome soon

>>10632789
Not him but it definitely is, Anna's story is only about half the book anyway.

>>10631854
>23 yo
The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Three Musketeers.
The Mysterious Island.

>>10632814
>I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
absolute pleb

>27
>Mrs Dalloway
>Silas Marner
>Loitering With Intent
>A Fine Balance
>Jesus' Son

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Sirens of Titan (first read in early teens never re read it)
Dandelion Wine (first time)
Nausea (first read in late teens never re read it)
The Founding Gardeners (first time)
Sands County Almanac (re read)

>>10632526
The Castle - what did you think?
>>10632778
The Trail - wasnt that his last book?
>>10632803
A Farewell to Arms - 10/10
>>10632809
Devil in the White City - I thought it recieved too much hype
>>10632585
Essays in Existentialism (garbage) - they usually are garbage depending on who writes the essay's

>>10631854
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>Hard Drive: Bill Gates and Microsoft
>Becoming Leonardo by Mike Langford
>Paypal Wars by Eric Jackson
>Iliad until book 2 in the original greek
>[insert 90% complete tech/math books here]
>The entire Sword of Truth Series

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>Austerlitz - Sebald
>Frost - Bernhard
>Brave New World - Huxley
>Moscow to the End of the Line -Erofeev
>Pale Fire - Nabby
Austerlitz and Moscow were by far the best, Brave New World being trite garbage

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Zeno's conscience
Dune
Il fu Mattia Pascal
The name of the Rose
The prisoner of Heaven
The Stranger

I'm excluding the non fiction books I had to read for Uni like a very boring one about the condition of the woman at the times of Rome

>>10634078
Wait I fucked up

24
>Mansfield Park
Someone on /lit/ said this is Austen's best. I think I need to read more of her because I cannot see it. Seems like Austen can't write a decent ending for shit.
>The Count of Monte Cristo
Pretty good, but I still think it's a tragedy. Poor Edmond will have to settle for the Turkish qt, but there is no other woman for him than Mercèdes. A good book if only to alert you to the danger of letting revenge take hold of you.
>Jane Eyre
Actually pretty good, although I think I'm a pleb for not getting the supernatural moment where she hears Mr. Rochester's voice.
>Too Big To Fail
I'm slowly backing down from classical liberalism, and this book is a good reason why.
>Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Great book. One has to love the commitment of Russians to preserving the history of their country. Even when it threatened their lives.

>>10634071
Brave New World is kind of all over the place. I don't know if you hated every aspect, but if the underlying philosophy of the society they live in at least interested you, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society is worth a read.

>>10634078
What did you think of Dune? I read it early in high school and still have my copy but I'm not sure how much it would interest me these days. I also know there's zero chance I'll read all those sequels.

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Peter Sotos - Index
Peter Sotos - Special
Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Andrea Dworkin - Heartbreak
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (reread)

>>10634120
I'm an huge fan of Sci-fi and I've to say that I didn't appreciate Dune as much as many people do. Interesting plot, and a nice and most important, a detailed and well made setting, that didn't convince me fully. Also I didn't like the edgy teen protagonist and these space Muslims apparently invincible. Still, maybe someday I will read at least the second and the third book

Euripides - Trojan Women
Aristophanes - Lystistrata
Horice - Odes
Hemingway - Sun Also Rises
Jew Name combined with Harumumbai or something - Sapiens

20

The Birth of Tragedy - Neechee
The Death of Virgil - Broch
The Horizon of the Absolute - Despot
One-way street - W. Benjamin
Phaedrus, Symposion, Politeia, Ion - Plato

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W.Shakespeare - Hamlet
M.Gorky - The Snitch
M.Gorky - The Reader
J.Genet - Querelle of Brest
J.Conrad - Lord Jim

>>10634178
Dune is more fantasy than it is scifi. And it is some high test shit you wouldn't understand unless you bench 2 plate or more.

>>10631854

How to Read a Film
The Japanese Film
Pedro Paramo
Dubliners
The Tools of Mathematical reasoning

>>10634240
What is the point of how to read a film? Obvious mise en scene and framing shit? Lmao this aint a play lololol is film

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>The Republic (Plato)
>Le cimitière marin (Valéry, P.)
>Poems (Cavafy, C.)
>Poémes (Gautier, Th.)
>Les abeilles et les araignées (Fumaroli, M.)

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سعادة الدارين في الصلاة على سيد الكونين
Lyrics Alley L.Aboulela 7/10
Milk and honey -pirated pdf- 0.5/10
Snow O.pamuk 5/10
لطائف المنن

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>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Witggenstein
>Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
>Celestial Navigation - Anne Tyler
>Pecado - Laura Restrepo
>Berserk vol. 39 - Kentaro Miura

>>10634235
>Dune
>High test

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Rattenkrieg - Bob Taubert
Fireforce - Chris Cocks
The Emden and The Ayesha - Hellmuth von Mücke
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? - Lee Iacocca
Joan of Arc - Mark Twain

>>10634442
>Chris Cocks
You'd think he would've gone for a name change before publishing something.

>>10631893
Daisy Miller is better than what everyone else has posted tho - just read more james it's all you need

>>10631854
>25
I tend to read multiple books at once I'll give you five I'm working on rn
>Politics by Aristotle
>poetics and rhetoric Aristotle
>All Quiet on the Western Front
>Locke's 2nd treatise on government
>The Tao of bill Murray

21

Never Let Me Go
Jitterbug Perfume
Voltaire
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Symposium

>>10634538
>Voltaire
meant Candide

>>10634296
Nigga kys

>>10632095
many people dont read at all, or at least very rarely. if we're to take you seriously then that means the majority of the population has a maturity considerably lower than what you consider they should have. if thats the case, then how do you know what you're ideal 19 year old should be reading if comparatively few cases exist compared to the standard person, who still isnt considered developmentally retarded as you suggest

>19
>The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
>The Stranger - Albert Camus
>The Metamorphosis - Kafka
>Notes from Underground - Dost
>Edgar Allan Poe Greatest Hits

>>10631854
>21
>The Savage Detectives
>American Psycho
>The Cloud of Unknowing
>The Agony of Power
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>>10631854
21, currently reading Gravity's Rainbow. Recommendations welcome. I'm thinking of starting White Noise soon.
Last 5:
Stoner - Williams
The Stranger - Camus
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
V. - Pynchon
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations - PKD

Collected Poems, Lowell
Selected Poems, Levertov
There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyonce, Parker,
Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle
Just Kids, Smith

19

Confessions
The Road to Serfdom
The Grapes of Wrath
The Social Contract
Beyond Good and Evil

19(20 in four days)
Wuthering Heights
A New England Tale
Hyperion
Golden Compass
I don't remember

22

Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
At the Mountains of Madness
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Hobbit
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

>>10631854
>21

Lolita
Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
No Longer Human
Stardust

>>10634648
>>10634697
Nice
>>10634746
Bad.

>>10632452
I'm not him, but in my opinion yeah.

It's pretty interesting. Like everything about the world that's happening. But the last chunk of the book is just him running away from the cops, if I remember correctly. It kinda runs out of interesting things to say, if that makes sense.

>>10634756
I'm new to reading books. How is this bad?

>>10631854
26

currently on augustus
>stoner
>butchers crossing
>to each his own
>the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
>still life with woodpecker

>>10634784
>Pedophilia and full retard capitalism
>Inb4 commie
Nah I just believe in a nuanced capitalism.

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animal farm
Parfume
Great gatsby
Brave new world
Fahrenheit 451

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Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Sam Beckett - Trilogy
Pynchon - V
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Biography of Bertrand Russell, forget it's name. (Good one though, he was a hero - 'A Political Life' I think)

Recs appreciated :)

>>10634697
More Nabokov, less Rand mmkay

>>10634649
Dickens I suppose

>>10631892
This. I like Dostoyevsky as a storyteller, but Karamazov is just a moralistic wank-rag for all the annoying Christians on this board

>>10631857
It's literally in most highschool curricula. Get over yourself brainlet.

>>10634649
I love Wuthering Heights.

I've been re-reading it for twenty years. Gets me every time.

27
Colossus, Sylvia Plath
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Kaddish, Allen Ginsburg
Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff is it?
Road to Serfdom, Hayek

I knew by all the half baked philosophy threads that this board was filled with the recent graduates of teenagerhood.

>>10633123
The Castle - hated it, Kafka may just be not for me. I'll try Metamorphosis before I completely give up on him but this was just too much "let me explain to you about muh bureaucracy" for 30 pages at a time. I didn't get what was "surreal" or "dreamlike" about his writing, unless I suppose how sometimes in a dream you're on your way to a destination but can never actually make it there, and get REALLY frustrated - then yeah, I guess it was dreamlike, with all the accompanying frustration in full.

34
>Elleander Morning
>The Anubis Gates
>The Club Dumas
>Gateway
>The Crying of Lot 49

>>10634833
>>10634746
>>10634649
>>10634630
>>10634575
>>10634566
>>10634538
>>10634388
>>10634338
>>10632814
>>10632809
>>10632483
>>10632500
>>10634842
>>10634877
All gay

>>10631854
23
La Pietra Lunare - Tommaso Landolfi
Otras Inquisiciones - Borges
Il Libro dei Sogni - Fellini
Vino al Vino - Mario Soldati
Gravity’s Rainbow - Tommy P

>>10634800
You think reading a book means you support the author? I think you might be retarded anon.

>>10634955
They're kinda a waste of time is more what I'm saying.

>>10631854
27

American Psycho
Snow Country
Stephen King - On Writing
The Elementary Particles
The Handmaid's Tale

>>10634842
>Dickens I suppose
I'm actually reading Hard Times right now. i''m very entertained

>>10634189
Lysistrata is great, funny as shit.
>>10634833
Assuming this isn't a shitpost, Parfum is alright.

>>10635021
Glad to hear Anon, he entertains me too

>>10634919
ok daddy

>20

The Decline of Pleasure - Kerr
Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
The Birds and Other Plays - Aristophanes
Dialogues and Essays - Seneca
Kingdom of Fear - Hunter Thompson

19
>liber null & physconaut
>modern magician
>the occult art of war
>initiation into hermetics
>the greater and lesser keys of Solomon

>>10635173
>2$pooky4πe

>>10631854
23
Tristram Shandy by Sterne
Blow-Up by Cortazar
Black Sun: bio of Harry Crosby (p trash compared to most stuff I read)
Light in August by Faulkner
Play and Reality by Winnicott

20
>State of the Union - Albert Jay Nock
>Walden - Henry David Thoreau
>The Iliad - Homer
>Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
>Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo - Plato

>>10631854
21
>Crime and Punishment
>The Bible (front to back)
>Mario and the Magician
>Brave New World
>The Merchant of Venice

>>10635242
Nice

20

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland
Macbeth by William Shakespeare

30
>2666 - Bolano
>Homo Deus - Harari
>Understanding the philosophy of science - Ladyman
>10:04 - Lerner (meh, the other one is much better)
>Les Deux Etendards - Rebatet (reread, best french novel imo)

>23
>The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
>The Foundation Pit - Andrey Platonov
>Animal Money - Michael Cisco
>The Beautiful Thing that awaits us all - Laird Barron
>The Monk - Matthew Lewis

>>10631854
>19

>The Makioka Sisters
>A man who sleeps
>Houjouki
>Sketches from a hunter's album
>Oblomov

18

Fellowship of the Ring
Norwegian Wood
Watership Down
Inherent Vice
The Calling of Lot 49

>>10634842
There's no Rand or Nabokov in that list...

>>10631854
>23
>I'm new to reading so the only book I've read is Suttree

25

Whatever
Candide
Fahrenheit 451
Dante's Inferno (Mandelbaum translation)
Les Miserables

>>10634889
I liked The Hunger Artist the best.

J.D. Salinger - Nine Stories
Thomas Bernhard - Ja
Arno Schmidt - Leviathan und Schwarze Spiegel
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

>>10637023
Just finished Nine Stories last night. True feels rollercoaster.

23
Plays of Sophocles
Pali Canon Anthology
The Stuff of Heroes - Delibes
44 Irish Short Stories
Gospel of John

>>10631854
>28
>Crime and Punishment
>The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>The Art of Fiction
>Sula
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

16
In cold blood
Three questions
The death of Ivan Ilyich
Hadji murad
The picture of Dorian Gray

27

Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!
The Brothers Karamozov
Brand New World
Blood Meridian
Losing Ground - Charles Murray
What Happened? - Hillary Clinton

Last group of books I've read, I also attempted the illiad but once I realized it was a legit poem poem I decided to put it off for now

>>10631854
>20
>meditations on first philosophy
>an essay concerning human understanding
>Irish myths and sagas
>Ecce homo
>archetypes of the collective unconscious

18

>Beyond Good and Evil
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Idiot
>Either/Or
>The Divine Comedy

Either/Or and Divine Comedy are favourites so far, want to read more Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard.

>21
in sylvan shadows - ra salvatore
canticle - ra salvatore
the disaster artist - greg sestero
first half of the book of the new sun - gene wolfe
slaughterhouse 5 - vonnegut

disaster artist and salvatore was just ok. wolfe and vonnegut was really good though.

>>10635974
been wanting to read watership down for a while. was it good?
>>10638235
>legit poem poem
this is what keeps me from the greeks and shakespeare. even if shakespeare uses both prose and iambic pentameter.

>>10631854
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> Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories
>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
>Darkness at Noon
>King Solomon's Mines
>SQPR

>>10635653
Laird Barron is great! What's your favorite story in that collection? Mine is Carrion Gods in their Heaven.

Also, what did you think of The Foundation Pit?
I've been sort of meaning to read that forever but it's also nowhere near the top of the list.

19
Hopscotch by Cortazar
The Map and the Territory by Houllebecq
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
IPhuck X by Victor Pelevin
The Principle by Jerome Ferrari

31
Art of Worldly Wisdom
Flowers for Algernon
Mind Illuminated
Practical Programming for Strength Training
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

>>10631854
24
Stoner
Will To Power
Ego and His Own
The Soft Machine
Dune

Last book I read was in fucking September.

I CANT FUCKING PICK UP A BOOK AND READ IT

I READ 5 PAGES I TURN PC BACK AND COME TO LIT TO READ ASBOUT OTHER PEOPLE READING BOOKS

FUCKING KILL ME GGOD

>>10635278 shit
>>10635409 shit
>>10635653 nice
>>10635750 Oblomov nice don't know the others
>>10635750 puberty is just a stage
>>10636414 puberty SHOULD BE just a stage
>>10637023 ok
>>10637165 if genuine really good
>>10637187 the art of fiction and Nietzsche together lol ultimate mediocrity
>>10638125 nice keep going
>>10638235 28 and you don't know the illiad is a "poem poem", gl
>>10638790 rather start with the greeks
>>10638790 if you haven't, start with the greeks, if you have, nice
>>10638790 ok
>>10638790 don't know these
>>10638991 nice
>>10639020 don't know any of these but the titles sound like you're a slave to reason and capital
>>10639073 ok

Me:
20

Phaedrus - Plato
Symposion - Plato
Hartmann - Geschichte der Metaphysik
Hölderlin - Bread & Wine
Despot - The Horizon of the Absolute

>>10639167

I just realized I replied to the same guy like 4 times haha that's what I get for being a dumb phoneposter

20
>The Great Passage
>Home's Odyssey
>Slaughterhouse Five
>The death of the Heart
>I, Robot
And I'm currently reading a collection of Edgar Allen Poe's works lol

23
>Almost Transparent Blue [Ryuu Murakami]
>The Classic of Mountains and Seas
>The Pleasures of Japanese Literature [Donald Keene]
>The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction [Amanda H. Podany]
>The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [H.P. Lovecraft]

>20
>The stranger
>The myth of sisyphus
>Metamorphosis
>Inkdeath
>Damned

>>10631917
Great taste sponge

>>10631981
History of japanese literature sounds interesting

>>10632071
Oh dude you really like Tolkien
Did you read discworld? Its very funny

>>10632172
3/10

>>10632256
0/10

>>10632405
9/10 anon

>>10632447
Notes from underground is my favorite

>>10639797
8/10
I like weird stories

>>10639210
6/10 read some serious stories my dude

>>10638810
The divine comedy is hard as fuck to read. 5 points to you for that

>>10640216
2/10

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Pride and prejudice
The sun also rises
Childhood's end
The old man and the sea
Brave new world

26
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Stoner
The Road
Things Fall Apart
On Violence (Arendt)

Over the last 2 or 3 weeks

>>10631854
25
>Pale king
>Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
>W40k book
>W40k book
>W40k book

Based

>>10640216
Those we're all my first books.

>>10631854
23

Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
The Plague
Point Omega
Taipei

>>10634967
Shit my bad sorry. Tell me what books aren't a waste of time then.

>>10631854
>20

>Snow Mountain Passage
>Wizard and Glass
>The Waste Lands
>The Drawing of the Three
>The Gunslinger

21

Phenomenology of Spirit (still reading)
Hegel's Ladder: Pilgrimage of Reason Vol. 1 (ditto)
The Politics
Nicomachean Ethics
De Anima

does anyone have better practical philosophy than Aristotle?

>>10631854
26
>Out of the Silent Planet
>Perelandra
>The Lightning and the Sun
>Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
>Selected T.S Eliot/Four Quartets

>>10640216
2/10

>mengele zoo
>revolt against the modern world
>peer gynt
>kallocain
>1984

>>10631854
21

>Descriptive Set Theory (Yiannis N. Moschovakis)
>On War (Carl von Clausewitz)
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Phenomenology of Spirit
>Decline of the West

>>10636396
its a good book tho

>>10639167
>>10639173
a phoneposter and the kind of faggot who critiques half the people in the threads reading choices. Who would have guessed?

>18

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Antichrist - Nietzsche
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Knife - Vuk Drašković

>>10631854
>23

>The House of the Dead
>The Gambler
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
>No Exit
>The Life and Death of Ivan Illych

>>10631854
22.

Evil and the Mask
by Fuminori Nakamura

Infinite Jest
by DFW

Pulse
by Stephen King

Tractatus logico-philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Der Einzige und sein Eigentum"
by Max Stirner (dont know the english title, too lazy to look it up)

20

On the Road
Journey to the end
American Psycho
Mythology by edith hamilton

>>10639163
Fucking this. Trying to read Oathbringer right now but can't read more than 50 pages without distracting me with other things. Anyway:

21
Elantris
The Eyre Affair
The Codex Alera Series
Solaris
Blindsight

On a note I only liked Solaris, the rest are meh or bad.

>>10641015
>start with the greeks
>these are okay
>i don't know these
shit we caught the pseud in flagrante

20

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Last Messiah
The Histories
Contos by Eça de Queiroz
Meditations

28
Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis
Georges Perec, A Man Asleep and Things: A Story of the Sixties

>>10639167
>20
>thinks he's well read
>fell for the Greeks meme

sororitygirlslaughing.jpg

23
Republic
Apology
Crito
Child of God
Pulp

>>10641317
What did you dislike about Blindsight?

>>10641473
Perec is absolutely great!

>>10631854
19. 20 in just over a week.

12 Rules For Life
Don Quixote
Emerson’s Essays & Poems
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Brothers Karamazov

>>10641473
>Georges Perec, A Man Asleep and Things: A Story of the Sixties
How do these hold up next to La Vie? I absolutely loved that one.

>>10641025
interesting choices. What did you think of C&P?

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>On the jewish question
>Bogdanov's Red Star
>Catcher in the Rye
>Illiad
>Odyssey