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the "what should i read next" thread Anonymous Thu Mar 3 00:46:59 2011 No.1598182 [Reply] [Original]

post your book stash
give and receive advice
I have:
Lem-Solaris
Casanova-History of my Life
Dune 1
LotR trilogy
terry eagleton-the matter of life
Anais Nin - delta of venus
Zarathustra
the bible
poetry by rilke

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 00:54:59 2011 No.1598200 >the bible mos definately this

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Thu Mar 3 00:55:59 2011 No.1598205 What the fuck is a book stash?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 00:57:59 2011 No.1598207 >>1598205 dk. to me it has no essence yes, it just exists right there, in front of me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:03:59 2011 No.1598215 >>1598182 I'm voting you read the Lem next.

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:05:59 2011 No.1598216

I'LL JUST ASSUME THIS IS A GENERAL READING THREAD, BUT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS

LAST THREE READS:
WHAT MEN LIVE BY - TOLSTOY
OLD-FASHIONED FARMERS - GOGOL
THREE YEARS - CHEKHOV

CURRENTLY READING:
THE FATAL EGGS - BULGAKOV
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH - TOLSTOY

NEXT UP IN MY LINE-UP:
MOBY-DICK - MELVILLE
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - DOESTOEVSKY
THE STREET OF CROCODILES - SCHULZ
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS - CAMUS
FATHER SERGIUS - TOLSTOY
THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS - CONRAD
EVERYTHING FLOWS - GROSSMAN (ONE OF THE FEW POST WW-II AUTHORS I'LL READ)
THE WHITE GUARD - BULGAKOV
AGAINST NATURE - HUYSMANS
THE FORGED COUPON - TOLSTOY
HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED? - TOLSTOY
THE SECRET AGENT - CONRAD
ON THE EVE - TURGENEV

AND AS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS (WHICH PEOPLE HARDLY EVER GIVE OUT IN THREADS LIKE THIS) I SUGGEST ISHMAEL, BUT I'VE READ PRETTY MUCH NOTHING IN HIS LIST, SO IT'S HARD FOR ME TO REALLY RECOMMEND HIM SOMETHING BASED ON HIS LIST.

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:09:59 2011 No.1598226

My immediate to-read list:

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Plague by Albert Camus
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:09:59 2011 No.1598227 >(WHICH PEOPLE HARDLY EVER GIVE OUT IN THREADS LIKE THIS) yes. people! read more tolstoy and kropotkin

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:12:59 2011 No.1598233 >>1598216 try cyrillic. i cannot read allcaps

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:13:59 2011 No.1598237 1200 books stashed on my kindle. yeah u all jelly

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:21:59 2011 No.1598254

>>1598227
BUT I DIDN'T EVEN RECOMMEND ANYTHING RUSSIAN?

>>1598226
PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECOMMEND, OR WHAT I FORETOLD WILL ALREADY COME TO FRUITION!

>>1598237
A VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON /LIT HAVE KINDLES, AND GETTING EBOOKS IS EASY AND FREE. KINDLES ARE CHEAP AS FUCK THESE DAYS TOO. SO I DOUBT ANYONE HERE IS 'JELLY'.

>>1598226
HELLO AGAIN

YOU HAVEN'T HAPPENED TO CHECK OUT ANY GROSSMAN, OR READ 'RED CAVALRY AND OTHER STORIES BY BABEL HAVE YOU?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:24:59 2011 No.1598263 >>1598254 You compare Red Cavalry to Grossman?

>>	Orange !F2ute/4yPo Thu Mar 3 01:25:59 2011 No.1598266 >>1598182 the bible, or casanova

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:26:59 2011 No.1598268 >>1598254 >BUT I DIDN'T EVEN RECOMMEND ANYTHING RUSSIAN? lem. you did.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:27:59 2011 No.1598274 >>1598263 NO, I ASKED IF ANON HAS READ EITHER, IF NOT, I WAS GOING TO RECOMMEND THEM, NOT FOR THEIR ALIKENESS.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:28:59 2011 No.1598276 >>1598268 YEAH, I DID, AFTER I RESPONDED TO YOUR QUESTION. SEE THE ORDER IN WHICH I TYPED OUT MY REPLY?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:29:59 2011 No.1598280 >>1598274 why would you do this? babel would make sense if anon listed puzo, grossman wouldn't at all. why would you do this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:29:59 2011 No.1598282 >>1598254 I did recommend. I recommended to the OP that he read Lem. I just did them in different posts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:30:59 2011 No.1598286 >>1598276 you did say lem, not mel. the order is alright

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:30:59 2011 No.1598285 >>1598280 BECAUSE I GOT A COPY OF 'EVERYTHING FLOWS' TODAY, AND IT WOULD BE NICE IF SOMEONE READ IT WITH ME BABEL BECAUSE HE DOESN'T RECEIVE ENOUGH MENTION.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:34:59 2011 No.1598296 >>1598285 but he does. see? i know him. he certainly does. it involve Jesus getting the clap and spreading it to the entire village

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:36:59 2011 No.1598299 >>1598285 >A COPY OF 'EVERYTHING FLOWS' what is it about? have you read life and fate?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:37:59 2011 No.1598302 >>1598299 YEAH, LIFE AND FATE WAS MY INTRODUCTORY WORK TO GROSSMAN, READ IT WHEN I WAS IN JAPAN. ABOUT A WEEK OR SO AGO, I READ THE ROAD BY GROSSMAN TOO. YET TO START READING EVERYTHING FLOWS, AS SHOWN IN MY LIST.

Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Thu Mar 3 01:37:59 2011 No.1598303

I will suppose that "stash" means books that I have in hand and plan to read in the near future. I guess my stash would look something like this:

All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
The Moon and Sixpence by Maugham
Nostromo by Conrad
Under Western Eyes by Conrad
Mathilda by Shelley
The Knight with the Lion by Troyes
(Insert random Shakespeare play here)

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:53:59 2011 No.1598324

>>1598302
On boards like /lit/ the need to tell the individuals apart is very strong, much stronger than anywhere else on 4chan. But what I do not understand, anon, is why you wouldn't use the namefield and take a name. Why would you shout? If you are trying to project a ballistic, repugnant personal, pictures that would do the job are aplenty. Google, for instance, for Otto Muehl.
So how long is this "everything flows"? start a thread on >>>/book/. It is significantly slower. I might be willing to read it as well. How have you found V.Grossman? Are you Russian?

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:58:59 2011 No.1598326

>>1598324
I BECAME CAPSGUY FROM A THREAD MID LAST YEAR.

I AM NOT RUSSIAN, BUT SINCE AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT I BECAME CAPSGUY, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE GOING ON ABOUT DOSTOEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, SO I DECIDED TO CHECK OUT SOME OF THEIR SHORTER WORKS. CAME BACK, AND ASKED FOR OTHER SUGGESTIONS, PEOPLE PUT FORTH GOGOL, CHEKHOV ETC., AND IT STEMMED FROM THERE. I DON'T JUST READ RUSSIAN WORKS THOUGH.

I HAVE FOUND GROSSMAN TO BE ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS AT CREATING AND PORTRAYING BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS. HIS OWN EXPERIENCES AS A WAR CORRESPONDENT AND STRUGGLES TO GET HIS WORKS PUBLISHED AND LIFE IN GENERAL IN USSR MUST HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON HIS WRITINGS. PROBABLY THE ONLY OTHER 'DOOR-STOPPER' BOOK THAT I WAS SO ABSORBED INTO THE STORYLINE AND CHARACTERS WAS TOLSTOY'S WAR AND PEACE.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 01:59:59 2011 No.1598328 >>1598326 it is straining the eyes. why don't you just call yourself the capsguy?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:02:59 2011 No.1598329 >>1598328 I CANNOT BE FILTERED, AND I CREATED AN IDENTITY WITHOUT BEING RECOGNISED AS A TRIPFAG.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:08:59 2011 No.1598334 >>1598329 WHAT REASONS DO YOU HAVE TO SIDESTEP FILTERS? RIDDING 4C FROM ALL THE FABULOUS PERSONALITIES IS THEIR VERY INTENT. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO ENFORCE YOURSELF IN SUCH AN OBNOXIOUS TONE?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:11:59 2011 No.1598336 >>1598334 I DON'T KNOW, IT'S JUST BECOME A HABIT NOW.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:27:59 2011 No.1598357 >>1598336 >A HABIT TRY THIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:43:59 2011 No.1598375 >>1598336 SEE YOU ON >>>/book/1299138085/1-40 IN A WEEK

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:43:59 2011 No.1598376 >>1598375 WAIT, NO. IN TWO OR THREE WEEKS, BYE!

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 03:31:55 2011 No.1598427 >>1598303 troyet. We need to have someone who read him

Anonymous Thu Mar 3 03:39:59 2011 No.1598437

books ive bought and read recently:

fantasy: sword of truth series(entire)
heir of autumn

comedy: hope they serve beer in hell
world according to garp

science: the selfish gene
the adventures of capt cook

other: hitch-22
1984
candide
the life of pi
foreskin lament

im most fond of funny books. any suggestions to what i should get next?

this is what OP wanted anon to do. this isnt a "pick a book from the list that i should read" thread, its "suggest a new book(unlisted) that is akin to my previously read list" thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 03:41:59 2011 No.1598439 >>1598326 stop yelling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 04:21:59 2011 No.1598447 >>1598437 foreskin lament sounds lulzy >>1598303 >The Knight with the Lion by Troyes we absolutely need an expert on troyes

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 04:34:59 2011 No.1598456 books ive bought in the past 3 weeks that im yet to start/end: complete enderby moveable feast moby dick (havent read it since my dad read it to me) one day dharma bums the sea wolf lolita ( i really loved reading "mary") the short stories of gogol

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