/lit/ - Literature

Eat da poopo

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Street of Crocodiles
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
6
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Proust, McCarthy, Atwood, Whitman, Tennyson, Hirsch, Kinnell
>4. Favorite genres?
Literary fiction, sci-fi, poetry
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Slaughterhouse-Five
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Rebel Angels
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
House of Leaves
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Fine

>1. What are you currently reading?
Madame Bovary

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
five

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka, W. Somerset Maugham

>4. Favorite genres?
Literary Fiction: 19th century French and Russian Realism; Early European Modernism

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Any Graham Greene novel

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Fernando Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet"; Ovid's "Metamorphoses"; Thomas de Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Kerouac's "On the Road"

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
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>1. What are you currently reading?
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
It all depends. I could read probably between two to seven.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Huxley, Vonnegut, Joe R. Lansdale, Heller, Saki, Sagan, Michael Shermer
>4. Favorite genres?
Any and all i suppose expect things like Teens and supermarket romance novels
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Ape and Essence - Huxley
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Catcher in the Rye, Palahniuk Books, Bukowski Books.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I think it will be obvious, but brave new world.
>9. How are you? :)
Extremely Depressed.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Exploration Fawcett

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Beats me. Never really thought of it that way.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Pratchett is the only one that comes to mind.

>4. Favorite genres?
History

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Rubicon by Tom Holland

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Anonymous Rex. The shame will be my shadow into eternity.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Hanging in there, thanks for asking.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Red Harvest
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
I'm really inconsistent so it's hard to say.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Don't have any.
>4. Favorite genres?
Noir, philosophy, and anything about samurai, but I enjoy all genres.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Animorphs, peasants and kings enjoy them.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Depends on what you want to focus on, but the Bible would probably be a good starting point.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
LotR: Fellowship of the Rings. Not the worst just most overrated.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984 I guess.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Anansei boys and 5 others
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
10ish
>3. Who are your favourite authors?
Nabakov, Irvine Welsh, Orwell, PKD
>4. Favorite genres?
surrealism, sci-fi, war
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Stop using that fucking word
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Discovering Genomics,Proteomics and Bioinformatics (2nd Edition)
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Confederacy of dunces
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Cynical

>1. What are you currently reading?
All things shining
By night in chile
A universal history of infamy

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Around 4

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Camus, Nietzsche, Borges

>4. Favorite genres?
Philosophy, PoMo, magical realism, absurdist

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Dharma Bums

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Consider the Lobster

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Castle

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I haven't read 1984 so I'll go with Brave New World

>9. How are you? :)
I am okeydokey

>1. What are you currently reading?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Anywhere between 4 and 20, so 12.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dazai, Beckett, Abe
>4. Favorite genres?
Not a useful way of examining books
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Introducing Translation Studies (I'm looking at you reviewers, fuck you and your "flow")
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
“You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But..."
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Neither or both, depends on my mood.
>9. How are you? :)
I'm just dandy, you? XP

>1. What are you currently reading?
Winesburg, Ohio.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Minimum two, maximum six.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Mishima; Hamsun; Dostoevsky; Oe; DeLillo.
>4. Favorite genres?
90% of what I read is "literary fiction", but I also indulge in some mindless escapism every now and then.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Catcher in the Rye.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Satantango.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
On the Road.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty-Four by miles.
>9. How are you? :)
That's none of your business.

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Third Reich At War - Richard Evans

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends, if I'm reading history books it's a lot less, but if it's just novels, probably anywhere from 3-6, never really tried to measure it.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevsky, Ian Kershaw

>4. Favorite genres?
Russian, Science Fiction, Fantasy, History

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Catcher In The Rye

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
For Whom The Bell Tolls. Not bad, but I really didn't find it very interesting or engaging at all.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
That's a tough one, read both in the span of a day, probably have to go with BNW though.

>9. How are you? :)
I'm wonderful actually, thanks for asking.

>1. What are you currently reading?
me me me me me me me me
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Nobody will read this
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Im just using this because its about me
>4. Favorite genres?
me me me me me me me
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?

>1. What are you currently reading?
I'm in between books as I await my order to arrive. I'll soon be reading Narcissus & Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, though.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
About one per week, so, four.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Hesse, Gogol, Hemingway, Nabokov
>4. Favorite genres?
Fiction, Non-fiction
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Stranger, by Camus, maybe. I don't know.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Steppenwolf by Hesse.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I read the first Twilight book, it was awful and overrated. Same for the Hunger Games.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
In terms of what? I enjoyed BNW more.
>9. How are you? :)
Unhappy.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Sentimental Education
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends a lot. Sometimes I read four, five books per month. Sometimes I read none.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Hesse, Chejov, Schopenhauer, Joyce, Bulgakov, Flaubert, DFW
>4. Favorite genres?
Mostly fiction.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Nausea
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Infinite Jest
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
100 Years of Solitude
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World
>9. How are you? :)
I've seen better days

>1. What are you currently reading?
V by Thomas Pynchon
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
5-8
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
McCarthy, Hemingway, Dostoevsky
>4. Favorite genres?
don't really read based on genre.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
To improve them? All the Pretty Horses?
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Gravity's Rainbow
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Brave New World
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
oh. 1984 easily.
>9. How are you? :)
I'm great thanks how are you? :)

1. Rereading L'ecriture et la difference.
2. On average thirty, but a lot of those are rereads. Furthermore that's only if you consider plays and poetry anthologies as books.
3. Proust is probably my favorite. I really enjoy Joyce and Henry James as well.
4. I consider "classic" literature to be my favorite genre, although I am unsure as to how specific you want me to be.
5. If you're new to reading, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Lawrence Stern would be a good starting place. (Assuming you know English).
7. The book that was least enjoyable was probably Marx's Das Kapital.
8. False Dichotomy. You need to read both, and there is no real difference is quality.
9. I'm thirty years old.

>1. What are you currently reading?

The New York Trilogy by: Paul Auster. Then Closing Time by: Joseph Heller

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?

Probably 3 or 4

>3. Who are your favorite authors?

Pynchon, DFW, Heller, Philip K Dick, a bunch of poets

>4. Favorite genres?

Sci-Fi, Horror. Although I like pretty much anything provided it's well-written

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.

A Farewell to Arms by: Hemingway

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

The Recognitions by: Gaddis

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?

American Psycho

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World

Brave New World, though that isn't an easy decision. I liked We by: Zamyatin better than both.

>9. How are you? :)

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>1. What are you currently reading?
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and various poetry compilations (T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost_
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Anywhere from 5-15, obviously depending on the length of the books I choose
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevsky, Emile Zola, Betrand Russell, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Graham Greene
>4. Favorite genres?
shitty question
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Twilight
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Worst? Hard to say. I don't really read books that are usually considered terrible. Most overrated? Of Mice and Men
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984, by far
>9. How are you? :)
20

1. Catch 22 (super late on this one)
2. Anywhere from 3-15 (been doing 11 in the summer, usually about 5)
3.Dostoyevsky,DFW,Shakespeare,Vonnegut
4.Postmodernism,Philosophy,Literary Fiction,Narrative Nonfiction, Occasionally sci-fi
5.It by Stephen King
6.The Recognitions by Gaddis
7.The Trial (I just don't fucking get Kafka)
8.1984
9.Good, thanks.

> current readings :

Early works of F.S. Fitzgerald

>Books per month ?

3

> favorite genres ?

fiction ( jazz age mostly ) , poetry , philosophy

> A book for pleb ?

the old man and the sea

> book for scholars ?
Brother Karamazov .


> worst / overrated ?

de profundi

> brave new world

> extremely depressed

>1. What are you currently reading?
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
During the summer, when I have no responsibilities: 4
During the school year: 1-2

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Dostoevsky

>4. Favorite genres?

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Snow Falling on Cedars. Had to read it in high school, was surprisingly good.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Petersburg
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
On The Road
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
BNW
>9. How are you? :)
Eh.

>this thread

>1. What are you currently reading?
Kimberly's Flight

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Counting plays and poetry collections, about ten. Otherwise, 1-2; I don't have much reading time.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Jack London, Ayn Rand (I'm not an Objectivist), and Ernest Hemingway

>4. Favorite genres?
Realistic fiction

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Sun Also Rises

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Fast Food Nation

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Medium Rare

>1. What are you currently reading?
Le rouge et le noir

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
3-4 depending on the length

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevskij,WIlde,Wells

>4. Favorite genres?
FIction

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Treasure Island

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.


>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The catcher in the rye

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
I'm okay, thanks.

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Possessed by Dostoyevsky

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1-3, I'd say. I read more short story collections than novels.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Chekhov, Kundera and Borges all stand out at the moment.

>4. Favorite genres?
I don't know how to answer this.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
BNW

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Bible

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I can't think of a book I didn't like.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Huxley > Orwell

>9. How are you? :)
Okay, I guess. Not great.

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Sun Also Rises
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4 or 5
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Orwell, Kafka, Camus, Hemingway, Dostoevsky
>4. Favorite genres?
Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Man in the High Castle
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Crime & Punishment
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Catch-22
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Good, thanks for asking.

>1. What are you currently reading?
(re-reading) Neuromancer
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Two
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Cormac McCarthy, William Gibson, Joe Abercrombie
>4. Favorite genres?
Cyberpunk, fantasy
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
I'm a pleb, so I can't do that.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Huck Finn. Maybe I'm just an incredibly anal reader, but I couldn't handle the spelling.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I haven't read either
>9. How are you? :)
I was good until I figured out OP is a faggot who uses emoticons.

Funny how many /lit/erati either answers age on how they're doing or is misreading the question.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Destiny Disrupted: History of the World Through Islamic Eyes and American Stories by Nagai Kafu.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
About ten or twelve.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Richard Brautigan, Yasunari Kawbata, Kenji Miyazawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Bohumil Hrabal, Tove Jansson, Barbara Comyns, Leonora Carrington, Pu Songling, others.
>4. Favorite genres?
(just gonna go with random categories, not genre) Surrealism, magical realism, contemporary, East Asian, Eastern European, novellas, flash fiction.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Grooks by Piet Hein
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Tao of Pooh
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I don't care.
>9. How are you? :)
Alright! Just got my interlibrary loan account reopened and ordered a shitton of books.

>1. What are you currently reading?
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
7-10, depending on their length. Usually always above 400 pages.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert, Bill Bryson
>4. Favorite genres?
History, Science Fiction, Travel literature
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien. It has a little something for everyone.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
War and Peace. Not the worst, just overrated.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
They're both hamfisted and terrible.
>9. How are you? :)
Can't complain.

1. I'm rereading Dune by frank Herbert
2. 3 or 4
3. Frank Herbert, Douglas Adams, and Terry Pratchett
4.Sci-fi or fantasy
5. The hunger games. Absolute shit.
6. The fellowship of the ring
7. The hunger games
8. Brave new world
9. I'm k

>1. What are you currently reading?
Farewell to Arms & Milton
>2. How many books do you read per month?
4-5
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Melville, Black people
>4. Favorite genres?
Not SciFi/Fantasy
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Plato's Republic, Mauss' The Gift
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Leaves of Grass
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>8. 1984 v. BNW
1984
>9.
I am hungry, it's dinner-time.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Mark Twain's Autobiography (Unabridged), Code Complete, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (fanfic)
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
0.25
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain
>4. Favorite genres?
Fantasy, realistic fic, physics
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Looking For Alaska
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics (Reif)
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Toss up between Twilight and the Great Gatsby
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I'm only a wannabe reader... never read BNW. 1984 was ok.
>9. How are you? :)
Ok - wondering if I can get books from the university library without being a student anymore

>1. What are you currently reading?
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
2-3
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Aldous Huxley and Cormac McCarthy
>4. Favorite genres?
Romance
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
House of Leaves
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Lord Jim
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
American Psycho
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World
>9. How are you? :)
I'm well, however there's an irritating itch just above my anus which is proving stubborn

>1. What are you currently reading?
Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Perhaps two at the most.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Jose Saramago, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon

>4. Favorite genres?
magic realism, satire, science fiction

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
All the Names by Jose Saramago

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Being not in the least a scholar, I have no idea.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Unsure, really.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World. Much more fun.

>9. How are you? :)
Mildly content, thank you very much.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Too many to list, they include Moby Dick and a text book on Quantum Mechanics. (Physics Student) Nazi Literature in The Americas.

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Probably about 4 or 6, maybe more.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Kerouac, Bolano, Melville, Borges, Phillip K Dick.

>4. Favorite genres?
Stupid question.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
ditto

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
ditto

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged, not over rated but probably worst.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Never read BNW so i'm going with 1984

>9. How are you? :)

Tired, i'm goin to bed

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Escape by William Wells Brown. It is the first play to be published by a black author it is for class.
I am reading the The Pale King currently for pleasure which I very much enjoy. Once you catch hold of the comedy it gets so much better
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4 usually. I read a book a week. I read pretty slow and pleasure so I don't try to read a bunch of books at a time (though I most likely would need to do that since that I have 4 English classes)
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Cormac McCarthy
Thomas Pynchon (I have a weird love hate relationship with him really. He is too smart for me)
Edgar Alan Poe because he basically ushered me into reading.
J.D. Salinger. (he isn't really necessarily a favorite but I did love Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye (inb4 edgy 15 year old))
>4. Favorite genres?
Literary fiction is what I mainly read but I don enjoy Philip K. Dick's stuff as well.
>5. Recommend a book for [the common folk].
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. It is a nice and easy druggy book/
>6. Recommend a book for [advanced readers].
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. It is filled with well thought out plot lines and ideas.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Harry Potter. When I was a freshman in high school i never read any of them before (I didn't really like reading that much) but I read the second, the third and I think the fourth book and thought it was boring lame
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Never read any of them so I would say the Time Machine
>9. How are you? :)
Surprisingly fine I am usually depressed.

1. A tale of two citys
2. ID fucking know
3. Tolkien, Vonnegut
4.fantasy, sci fi, historical fiction
5. similarion
6. War and peace
7.all the jason bourne books
8.1984
9.my mom just died

>>2936859
Fuck. man I feel like a piece of shit. I forgot Franz Kafka. I love that guy.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Stranger in a Strange Land
Electrical engineering textbooks.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Full length novels? 2-5
Short stories? 1-7 per week
Manga/LNs? 1-7 per week
obviously, I don't read everything at once all the time
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>4. Favorite genres?
SciFi, anything character driven, scifi manga
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Cat's Cradle
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Human Action by Mises
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Wuthering Heights
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
both
>9. How are you? :)
Happy! Done with summer classes and off of work, I have reading time!

>1. What are you currently reading?
Jumping around between poems of Blake, Dickinson, Donne, Eliot, Keats, and Whitman. Also chipping away at Capital Vol. 1

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Maybe two or three

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Melville, Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, etc

>4. Favorite genres?
Transcendentalist/American Romanticism

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Frankenstein

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Moby-Dick

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Anything by Dickens. Oliver Twist is probably the absolute worst.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World, though not crazy about either.

>9. How are you? :)
Quite well, thank you.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Mortal Engines - Stanislaw Lem. Just started it so I can't say a lot about it although Lem is quite the chap.

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
I really don't know. For example, last month I read, what, just like 7-10. This month I starte reading nothing but last week I read like 5 in a row because of a depressive episode. So it varies greatly.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Heh, difficuly questions. Anyhow, Kundera was my favorite for a while. If we talk non-fiction maybe Asimov. I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of dudes but my memory is really scarce. Pessoa, some local bros.

>4. Favorite genres?
Anything. Novels, poetry and non-fiction is okay with me depending on the mood. Plays are more rare but I fancy some artaud or beckett every once in a while.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Just one? Well, maybe Feyerabend - Against the method. It is important. Plus is the only one I can think of right now.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Well, Feyerabend too, Popper, etc. Scholars are assholes.

>>2936904

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>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Oh man you're making my head spin. I don't know... No, I really can't think of anything. OH YES. I read the Issa Valley by a polish dude with a complicated last name. Aside from the translation being HORRIBLE, I couldn't finish it. It wasn't bad but goddamnit, like 100 commas per line.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Have just read BNW. Seemed bland, not particularly impressive.

>9. How are you? :)
Glad you ask. I'm not that well these days. I've been too nervous about everything around me. I can't stay up at night without getting really scared by the night. Every single noise I hear ignites a chain reaction of thoughts and in a couple of minutes I take off and leave reality. I've been controlling it with meditation but it seems to be getting stronger everyday. That apart from the slight depression I've had lately. I don't even know why, I have a gf, I see her often.

It's like an empty space inside me that flees at every attempt I make to fill it. I keep myself entertained but that void is unavoidable. Keeps showing up.

But yeah, I can't wait to get a job. (Maybe in a month.)

>>2936893
Dat Mises

Mahnigga.jpg

>1. What are you currently reading?
Gravity's Rainbow.

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
2-3

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Don't really read multiple books by same author, sorry.

>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-fi.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Lolita.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Lolita. Everyone should know the pleasure.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Ayn Rand's the fountainhead. Just unbearable. I hope she was a better philosopher than writer. Focault's surveillance and punishment was unreadable also.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984 was more entertaining, BNW had ideas that were more interesting.

>9. How are you? :)
I used to be pretty bad, but I'm getting better.

1. Snow country
2. Depends on how busy I am. With an ideal amount of free time maybe 5 books a month.
3. Tolstoy, O'Brien, Mishima, Pynchon
4. idk don't focus on genres
5. Vonnegut is good for plebs
6. fuck scholars in their tight anuses
7. On the Road
8. Let's say Orwell
9. I need 2 poop

>1. What are you currently reading?

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing by Leszek Kołakowski

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?

3 to 5

>3. Who are your favorite authors?

Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sterner, Marcuse, Adorno, Benjamin Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Žižek, Bergson, Pierce, Dewey, James, Rorty

>4. Favorite genres?

Continental Philosophy and American Pragmatism

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.

Illuminations

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

Time and Free Will

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World

1984

>9. How are you? :)

Surprisingly sleepy

>1. What are you currently reading?
Middlemarch

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Fictionwise, probably 1-2 a month or less.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Conrad, Fitzgerald, Nabokov

>4. Favorite genres?
Hard SF, Great American Novel, etc.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Future Was Here by Maher

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Einstein's Bridge, a SF novel written by a physicist. Could not get through more than a few pages.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Typical pleb question.

>9. How are you? :)
Procrastinating.

>>2936959
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.

Illuminations

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

Time and Free Will


>rimbaud?
>bergson?

>>2936990

Walter Benjamin not Rimbaud. I think he is a good point of entry into the Frankfurt School especially for someone who is more used to literature than philosophy.

>>2936995

Also Benjamin literally wrote for (the cause of) the plebs.

Henri Bergson wrote Time and Free Will as his doctoral dissertation. It was literally for scholars.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Das Kapital - Karl Marx.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
It depends. If I'm on break, I can burn through about 20. When I'm at uni, probably half that.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Mishima, Dostoyevsky, Philip K. Dick when he's coherent and not pulpy, John Donne, Vollmann when he's not rambling too much, Marcus Aurelius, Spinoza, Don DeLillo, Faulkner, McCarthy Philip Larkin, Nabokov, Flaubert, Solzhenitsyn. That's a good start for now.
>4. Favorite genres?
All.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Roughing It - Mark Twain
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Well, it depends. Either The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi or the big Dostoyevsky biography by Joseph Frank.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Most recently, it'd have to be The Kindly Ones. A bloated worm of a book.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Read both. Which one is 'better' depends on your circumstances.
>9. How are you? :)
Very good, thank you for asking. I'm going to go to bed.

>Everyone posts, no one reads
these threads are always so pointless

>>2937034
I would like to be friends with you

>>2937048
speak for yourself tripfag. I was pleased to see I'm not the only one not impressed with On the Road .

>>2937060
It is one of those things that you need to read when you are still in high school I feel.
If you read it by then your sense of adventure and lust for life is high

>>2937048
shut up /mu/

>1. What are you currently reading?
Ullyses
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
depends
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
borges, garcia marquez, castaneda, joyce, yeats
>4. Favorite genres?

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
quantum
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Confessions by San Agustín.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Siddharta (not bad, but overrated.)
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
BNW, what the fuck man
>9. How are you? :)
Sentimental but overall happy as shit. I love being happy.

>tfw you read all the replies and write your own, but then the thread is dead and you don't want to bump it

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4 or 5

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Goethe, Nietzsche, Bataille, Cioran, Mishima, Maistre, Rilke, Guenon, Evola

>4. Favorite genres?
Lit. fiction, history, philosophy

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The one I'm reading now. The Concept of the Political would be good for most anybody

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Persuasion and Rhetoric - Carlo Michelstaedter

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Hunger Games trilogy is probably the most overrated, but I've read worse. Like Hegel.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
BNW

>9. How are you? :)
Fucking ecstatic

>>2937167
>quantum

by who?

>1. What are you currently reading?
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends on the size of the books and my available free time. I have a hell of a work/grad school schedule.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevsky, Yeats, Hugo, Joyce, Homer, Vonnegut, Hesse, Kafka, etc.
>4. Favorite genres?
I'm just a whore for lit fic. I like the odd, clever science fiction work though. I've always been fascinated with mythology and works heavy on philosophy or theology.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Demian by Hermann Hesse
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Crock of Gold by Stephens.. or if I want to stick with Hesse again, Journey to the East is a mindfuck.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
McCarthy's The Road.. Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World both gave me the same sort of sci-fi letdown where it felt they just didn't quite "get there."
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984 most definitely... though I appreciate the concepts in BNW, just hate the prose.
>9. How are you? :)
Being chill pretending I'm not about to have a hurricane in my backyard tomorrow.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Hans Wollschläger - Herzgewächse

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1-3

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
James Joyce, DFW, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Mann, Arno Schmidt, Michael Ende, Carrol Lewis, Thomas Bernhard

>4. Favorite genres?
Postmodernism, Expressionism, Philosophy

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
dictionary

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Ulysses

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
120 Days of Sodom ... so boring!
Don Quijote
Crying of Lot 49

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Fine!

>>2937172

You must agree that Hegel is a necessary evil that one must read in order to understand a great deal of subsequent philosophy. Without Hegel there is no Marx.

>>2937202
>without Hegel there is no Marx
God knows I'd be all broken up about that.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Miles: The Autobiography

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
2-3

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Bukowski, Ken Kessey, Vonnegut, PKD

>4. Favorite genres?
I don't overly like any particular genre, I just like certain stuff from all genres.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Norwegian Wood (just finished it and was pretty dumb)

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Ishmael

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Dragon Tattoo

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Not drunk enough

>1. What are you currently reading?
Starship Troopers
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
PK Dick, Huxley, AC Clarke, rand
>4. Favorite genres?
Scifi
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
a scanner darkly, catch 22
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
any rand book
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
na
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World
>9. How are you? :)
30

>1. What are you currently reading?
La chute, Camus

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
I usually don't read much for a few months then I suddenly book-binge for a few weeks...
Overall, 4/month.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Le Clézio, PKD, Perec

>4. Favorite genres?
Oulipo

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
American psycho for fiction, The Art of war for non-fic.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Le procès Verbal for fiction, The notebooks of Da Vinci for non-fic.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Catch-22. Matter of taste though.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Far 451, bitch.

>9. How are you? :)
Really tired, trying polyphasic sleep and it's hard to bet used to it.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Dune for the first time

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
2-3 (although last month I went crazy and read 20 sci fi novels...)

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Calvino, Asimov

>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-Fi, Mystery

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Lorax

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
From Russia, With Love

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
>reading

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
t-thanks i will

>>2937257
voulez-vous coucher avec moi

>1. What are you currently reading?
Everything Matters by Ron Currie Jr.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Anywhere from 2-4 on average.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Asimov, Vonnegut, King, Hesse
>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-fi
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Am a pleb
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Am a pleb
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower book 1)
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I've only read 1984 so I can't say
>9. How are you? :)
I'm slightly sad at the moment but overall am doing great

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Maybe 3 or so? Not sure
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Calvino, Kafka, Mieville, Camus, Mitchell
>4. Favorite genres?
Science fiction, 'literary fiction'
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Metropole
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
American Gods
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Empty

>1. What are you currently reading?
a Clash of Kings and Fifty Shades of Grey, kind of hopping on the literature bandwagons..

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1-3, depending on the size. I'm typically a slow reader.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Margaret Atwood, and uh..Margaret Atwood. Tolstoy as well.

>4. Favorite genres?
Can't really say I have one, I've been pretty big into historical for the past year though.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
>pretty big on historical
>Memoirs of a fucking Geisha...read it, faggots.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
A Tale of Two Cities. Shmur.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Life of Pi. Finished that shit to the last page and hated every second of it.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Haven't read either...should I leave the thread?

>9. How are you? :)
Sick and sleepy but pretty gosh darn good, regardless :)

>>2937257
>Oulipo

>>2937213

Enjoy having the price of your labor dictated by those who do not have your best interests at heart, you imbecile.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Winesburg, Ohio
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Anywhere from 3 to 20
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Faulkner, Beckett, Kafka, Pynchon
>4. Favorite genres?
literary fiction
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
All plebs should be required to read Catch 22
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
All scholars should read In Search of Lost Time
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Less Than Zero/ On The Road
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
They both have a salient message.
>9. How are you? :)
Terrible

>1. What are you currently reading?
Bleak House

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4 or 5

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Fitzgerald and King. That's right.

>4. Favorite genres?
Speculative fiction.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Ummm, Little Brother.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Illusions.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Atlas Shrugged.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Never read either. That's right.

>9. How are you? :)
I'm fantastic.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. It's surprisingly good for a YA book.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
5-8
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Chine Mieville, Brandon Sanderson, GRRM, Vonnegut, G.K. Chesterton, Douglas Hofstadter
>4. Favorite genres?
Fantasy, psychological
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Railsea, Warbreaker, or Cat's Cradle
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Embassytown, Perdido Street Station, or GEB
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Hitcherhiker's guide to the galaxy
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984, much funnier
>9. How are you? :)
Depressed. No-one wants to give me a job :(

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Death of Bunny Munro
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
2
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
McCarthy, Hemingway, Matthiessen, Huxley, Vonnegut, Nietzsche
>4. Favorite genres?
Fuck a genre
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
John Dies at the End
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Road
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Never Let Me Go
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World
>9. How are you? :)
Meh

>1. What are you currently reading?
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Dostoevsky, Burroughs, Palahniuk, Pratchett (don't judge me it was my childhood and I still love him), Faulkner
>4. Favorite genres?
Don't really have any.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Boris Vian - Heartsnatcher
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Trick-ass Hoes: An Illustrated History
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Three Comrades by Remarque
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984 for literary value; love both Orwell and Huxley though
>9. How are you? :)
fine, thanks. trying to motivate myself to go out for a run

How the fuck do you guys read more than 1 book a month? I mean I try to read quickly but I just can't it takes hours. Any techniques or just general advice from experience on how you guys were able to read this quickly?

>>2937306
>Margaret Atwood

Is it me or is Oryx and Crake actually a much better book than The Handmaid's Tale? Also it appeared to be influenced by The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq a lot, which is a good thing to me.

>>2937596
read more. It also depends on the length of the book, obviously. but a light novel I can usually finish in three evenings, but I don't watch TV.

>tfw slow reader

>>2936056
>1. The Rebel
>2. One or two
>3. Dostoevsky, Kerouac and Dumas
>4. I mostly like philosophy essays
>5. Catch 22
>6. Fuck if I know
>7. 50 Shades
>8. BNW
>8. 18

>>2937596
just a lot of free time. my reading is slow as fuck.

>>2937596

How long does it take you to read 100 pages of a simple book?

>>2937664
Probably 2 to 2 and a half hours

>>2937669

I can usually manage it in an hour-hour and a half. I know there are people who can read loads faster than both of us. Maybe you just need to practice more? Retaining information is a skill that needs to be built up like any other.

harry potter and the philosofers stone
hardly even one (lol)
JK rowling
post modernism
dunno
chamber of secrets
dunno lol i love all the books i read!
never heard of either of them!
GREAT! THANKS FOR ASKING :)

>>2937687
1/10 parody

>>2937687
Psh. It all falls apart when you tell us you've never heard of 1984.

>>2937687
>"philosofers"
incorrect spelling
>"(lol)"
in brackets? you serious?
>Favorite authors: names just about the worst possible
>post modernism, yet you quote rowling as your favorite author, what?
>cannot recommend a book for plebs...
>thinks JK rowling writes for scholars
>again the usage of "lol" in sentence infers uncertainty and childlike behavior
>Has not heard of those two books. please leave /lit
....

>>2937703
is this counter-trolling or people on this board are retarded? even if it's the former, you're still retarded

>>2937709
How dare you attack this brave man? Did any of us dare to speak out?

>1. What are you currently reading?
Gravity's rainbow
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends on how busy I am, usually just one
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
DFW, Oscar Wilde, William Burroughs, Vladimir Nabokov
>4. Favorite genres?
Uh generally all with the exception of sci-fi
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Hard one, maybe Joyce?
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Since Im no way near a scholar, I couldnt recommend one...
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Quite possibly grapes of wrath
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Disliked both of them, but Id go with 1984
>9. How are you? :)
Marvelous!

>>2937506
>GEB
>scholar

pick 1 you pop-sci reading fuck

>>2937709
youre forgetting that this is 4chan, and judging by the initial post, Id go with some sort of samefagging

>>2937728
DFW's work is overrated in my opinion, much more so than any of Steinbeck's... Especially Grapes of Wrath.

>>2937703

>>again the usage of "lol" in sentence infers uncertainty and childlike behavior
>picking on surface things like "lol" instead of the fact that he doesn't have opinions
>implying "lol" is the uncertainty factor in that sentence, and not "dunno"

>>2937749
>>2937749
For someone who appears eager enough to attempt to disprove one's brief analysis of the persons post, I would like to inform you that you yourself have made critical errors in judging the errors that I have pointed out myself.
Firstly, the use of "dunno" is more obvious than the use of "lol" as a factor of uncertainty, hence your attempt to classify "lol" as being more "surface" is incorrect.
Secondly, you clearly do not understand what opinions are, as they have mentioned to have an opinion of their current mood. However as this probably was not the intent of that line of argument in your post, I assume that you did mean his opinion of "worst book" was lacking, however the lack of specificity reinforces my claim that you don't seem to know what you are talking about.

>>2937749
>>2937687
>implying that I wasnt trolling
1/10 for reply

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends. Normally 2-3.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Joyce, Fitzgerald, Sartre.

>4. Favorite genres?
Hahahahahaha

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Anything by Charlotte/Emily Brontë

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Not a huge fan of either. If I had to choose, probably 1984 because I prefer Orwell's writing style.

>9. How are you? :)
Pretty good thanks. How are you, OP?

>>2937776
Shut the fuck up. We're trying to have a serious discussion about the use of "lol" and "dunno" in reference to Harry Potter's scholar credibility. We don't need your outsider attempts to derail this into a "troll" discussion.

This so obviously has nothing to do with trolls.

>>2937774
>Firstly, the use of "dunno" is more obvious than the use of "lol" as a factor of uncertainty, hence your attempt to classify "lol" as being more "surface" is incorrect.

lol, by itself is not an uncertainty factor. the fact that it was next to "dunno" led you to believe it denotes uncertainty

>Secondly, you clearly do not understand what opinions are
>I assume that you did mean his opinion of "worst book" was lacking
the fact that he said that likes all the books he read as much, means he can't form personal opinions

>>2937785
this.
we have a serious discussion, please keep your childish autism contained

Is catch 22 really that overrated?

>1. What are you currently reading?
the silmarilion and 'the nigger of the narcissus' by joseph conrad

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
probably one. I normally read a book over a weekend, across the two days but rarely have a free weekend unfortunately

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Josheph Conrad, I like the beat generation guys, Kerouac and Neal but havent read much so i could hardly call them favourites. I'm more into poetry than novels in all honesty

>4. Favorite genres?
i dont really. I like some of that old science fiction, HG Wells, Jules Vern and such

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
George Orwell - Animal Farm. Or catcher in the rye

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
the bible. no seriously, i'm not religious but i found it absolutely gripping

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I'm no scared, by some italian fucker. or the boy in striped pyjamas. i had to read both of them at school. fucking shit

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I'm gonna say 1984 because I'm a fan of socialism and enjoy all the theory there. Ask me on another day and I might say BNW though, thats how close it is

>9. How are you? :)
i'm well thanks :)

>>2937792

Nobody's saying that

>>2937808
Did you even read the thread?

>>2937809
Of course not

>1. What are you currently reading?
I came here for my next book.

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
About a third of one, although I'm looking to change that.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Phillip K. Dick, Anthony Burgess, H.G. Wells

>4. Favorite genres?
Science-fiction, philosophy, pretty much everything except for mystery and crime.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Phillip K. Dick.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Holy Bible.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I guess Dune, I wasn't that into The Great Gatsby either.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World.

>9. How are you? :)
My life is terrible, but I'm a very spiritual and optimistic person.

I'm pretty sure this jpeg contains the text, though I don't remember exactly how these things work.

>>2937809

Yes, i did.

A book you would recommend to a pleb isn't necessarily bad or overrated.

>>2936357
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
>Treasure Island
>I just started Treasure Island

>>2937731

Holy shit! Someones angry about somebody enjoying something! You know GEB won a pulitzer fucking prize, right? It isn't pop-sci.
Regardless, what's wrong with pop-sci?

most of you are happy what the fuck

>>2937835
>implying the smiley doesn't indicate this is a real life simulator question where you have to appear alright

>>2937835
>>2937837

>1. What are you currently reading?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Three in an average month, five to eight in one with a long break.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Thompson, Murakami, Soseki, Kafka, Carson McCullers, William Gibson, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Tom Stoppard, Banana Yoshimoto

>4. Favorite genres?
Existential-ish realistic fiction, near-future cyberpunk, nonfiction by angry drunkards and awkward European-Americans

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Wonder Spot

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
In the Penal Colony. I just read it after seeing the exibit on it at the Kafka Museum a few weeks ago, and now it's keeping me awake at night ._.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Pride and Prejudice, one of the only two books (the other being a pretty bad translation of The Makioka Sisters) that I've ever been unable to finish.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Fucking jet-lagged, at the moment.

>>2937888
>reposting because he misread the last question
>thinks anyone actually cares

>>2937889
> "edgy "nobody cares" post
> evidently cared enough to make said post

>>2937895
>implying i cared if you are jet lagged or 27 which is what i said it's irrelevant

1. Just finished Heart of Darkness
2. Two short ones or one long one
3. Mishima and Dostoevsky
4. Not fussy, most fiction
5. Anything by Dan Brown
7. Worst: The Secret River, Overrated: The Great Gatsby
8. 1984
9. I don't know.

>>2936056
Might as well.

>>1. What are you currently reading?
Treasure Island.

>>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Not as much as I could.

>>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Kafka, Raymond Carver, Hemingway

>>4. Favorite genres?
No real preference.

>>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Gravity's Rainbow

>>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Bhagavad-Gita

>>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The worst would have to be novelized versions of comics. It's just horrible.

>>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
>giving a fuck

>>9. How are you? :)
Procrastinating when I could be doing very easy work.

>1. What are you currently reading?
El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Anywhere from 1 to 5.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Cortázar, Joyce, McCarthy.
>4. Favorite genres?
I dunno, lol.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
A Song of Fire and Ice.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
A Song of Fire and Ice.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Dialectic on Enlightenment - Adorno & Horkheimer
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Depends. Barely read at all during the summer. During Uni upwards of 6.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Fiction:P. K. Dick, Murakami, DeLillo, Hesse, Mishima, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Auster, Proust, Celine, Dos Passos.
Non-Fiction: Foucault, Virno, Deleuze, Guattari, Negri, Badiou, Marx, Hobbes, T. Kuhn .... and so on.
>4. Favorite genres?
Fiction: Science Fiction
Non-fiction: Political theory/philosophy
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Society Must be Defended
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Magus - John Fowles
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World (The Trial is better than both of them)
>9. How are you? :)
I'm good thanks. How are you?

>>2936056
>1. What are you currently reading?
Bastiat's The Law
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
3 or 4
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Josheph Heller and Alexandre Dumas
>4. Favorite genres?
Mystery
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Twilight
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Moby Dick, or The White Whale
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Can't think of one, I have impeccable taste
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Go fuck yourself

>>2938026
Shit, I still had the fake CLT tag on. Don't mind that, I was just making fun of him.

>>2938027
You think this is fucking funny?

>>2938026

That guy really must have struck a nerve with you

>>2938028

Fuck off

>1. What are you currently reading?
Sprawl-trilogy by William Gibson
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Ian Watson
>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-fi, dramas by contemporary Hungarian writers (e.g. Lajos Szilvási)
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
They don't need recommendations
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Alchemist by P. Coelho
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World

>reading more than 4 books / month
you either have too much free time or you don't pay attention to writing style and reread paragraphs you liked

>1. What are you currently reading?
Story of O
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
3-5
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Murakami, Shelly, Pullman, JCO, Gibson, Austen
>4. Favorite genres?
Bildungsroman, Magical Realism....and whatever JCO does. Not sure it has a name.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Norwegian Wood
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Pale FIre
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I really disliked Joyce. Probably 2 deep 4 me.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave
>9. How are you? :)
I'm alright, thanks.

>>2938011
>THE SIREN SONG OF CAPITALISM ALSO METAPHORICALLY REPRESENTED BY THIS GREEK SAGA!

I tried that for a while before running out of time and having to drop it. Worth reading? I got the impression half of what they say is running gibberish

1. Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management

2. 18

3. Gordon S. Linoff, Michael J. Berry, Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall, Nisbet, Max Bramer, Matthew A. Russell, Jiawei Han

4. Manuals on data mining

5. Principles of Data Mining (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

6. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

7. Data Analysis with Open Source Tools

8. 1984

9. Get fucked.

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Lord of the Rings (rereading just because).
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
5-6 when I used to, before going to college, I started reading again only recently.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Goethe, Homer, Dante, Petrarch, Ancient Greek poets.
>4. Favorite genres?
No.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
TLotR.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Goethe, Faust.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
G.R.R. Martin's shit series.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Don't know, haven't read Brave New World yet, looking forward to.
>9. How are you? :)
Not as good as I wished to be.

>>2940168
LOTR is a million times closer to Faust and Dante than it is to Martin.

Honestly, you people -- do you even read? And when you do, is it just so you can pat yourself on the back with your meaningless hipster achievements, or do you actually understand what you're reading?

>1. What are you currently reading?
Foundation's friends
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
5 to 8 (~1800 pages)
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Asimov, Brussolo, Van vogt, Zelazny, (bunch of french authors).
>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-fi, mythology, sciences
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Empire of the Ants - Werber
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The lucifer Effect - Zimbardo
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Martian Chronicles
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
I'm ok.

>1. What are you currently reading?
American Gods
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
It varies. One month it could be nothing, the next twenty.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Gaiman,
>4. Favorite genres?
Science Fiction and Fantasy. I read for the plot and escapism, come at me.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Belgariad.
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Dune.
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Fahrenheit 451
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World.
>9. How are you? :)
21

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Magician and Ulysses
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1-3
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
William Gibson, H.S.Thompson, sometimes DFW, Iain M. Banks
>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-Fi
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Pillars of the Earth
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Infinite Jest
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Usually stop in the middle if its been shitty the whole time.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
I'm aight, I guess.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Moby Dick. two months now. the philosophizing and outdated scientific detailing is boooring. pic related.
Amigo Warfare by Eric Gamalinda
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
usually 4-7

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R.L. Stevenson

>4. Favorite genres?
right now, classics. i'm following a must-read list

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
anything Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, Chuck Palahniuk. Stephen King. also, LOTR and Harry Potter

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
anything outside of their culture. if Latin American, read Southeast Asian lit. If South African, read East European lit. If Muslim, read Jewish. If Christian, read Nihilist.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
anything Paolo Coelho. i liked the Alchemist. it was like reading a children's story. until people claimed how life-changing it is, full of philosophy shit. regretted having his other books

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
have not yet reached these two in my list

>9. How are you? :)
if fine. thank you for asking, OP

- infinite jest
- prob 10
- vonnegut, salinger, orwell
- lit. fiction
- flowers for algernon
- infin. jest
- emma
- 1984
- virgin

>1. What are you currently reading?
L'écume des jours by Boris Vian.

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Woolf, Zola, Hugo, Maupassant, Dickens, Joyce, Plato...

>4. Favorite genres?
I must assume that I prefer Fictions and Philosophy.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
I don't read pleb books.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Republic by Plato or A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Proust

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The worst overrated book I've red was Le club des incorrigibles optimistes. Some plebs gave me it telling me it was «sooooo edgy.» Well, without any conviction I red it. Boy ! It was a narcissic text where the writer was talking about himself every two lines.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World is nearer from reality, but I prefer 1984 for the style.

>9. How are you ?
Like you.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Lake Wobegon Days
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
between 1-5 depending on length/depth of the book and what i have going on at the time.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Hemingway, Vonnegut, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams

>4. Favorite genres?
I read a lot of autobiographies and memoirs because I enjoy hearing about peoples lives
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Outsiders
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Asimov's Guide to the bible
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Perks of being a wall flower
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
could be worse I suppose

>>2936056

>1. What are you currently reading?
'Blood Meridian'

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4 or 5

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Ralph Ellison, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe

>4. Favorite genres?
Genre classifications are for plebs.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
'A Song of Ice and Fire'

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
I'm sorry, but real scholars read scholarly non-fiction almost exclusively.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Tied between 'Ulysses' and 'Absalom, Absalom'.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Both are equally crap. (Dostoyevsky's 'Demons' opened and closed the subject of anti-utopias quite conclusively.)

>9. How are you? :)
Too sexy for my shirt.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Varies kind of widely depending on length of what I'm reading and what else is going on in my life. I guess like 2-10.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
A random selection of those that pop into my head: Borges, Sebald, Dostoevsky, Cortazar, McCarthy

>4. Favorite genres?
Modernism 4lyfe

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Depends on the type of pleb but maybe some Murakami, maybe some Austen, maybe some Hemingway - all easy to read but worthwhile.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Hopscotch by Cortazar.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
BNW

>9. How are you? :)
I'm having trouble maintaining an erection if I've already ejaculated that day, it makes me feel old.

>>2940484

Whoops, I missed one:

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>1. What are you currently reading?
100 Years of Solitude (again)

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
0.3

>3. Who are your favorite authors?

>4. Favorite genres?

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
A Scanner Darkly.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
From Dawn to Decadence, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
American Psycho.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Mostly shitty.

>>2940486
My nigger. I thought I was the only one who hated that book-

>1. What are you currently reading?
nothing, infinite jest is too hard so i'm looking for a copy of gravity's rainbow
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
3 or 4
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
tolkien, david mitchell, ellis, gillen & morrison
>4. Favorite genres?
fantasy, stories set in the hood
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
the raw shark texts
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
if on a winter's night a traveler
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
the kite runner, goddamn grade 12 ontario education
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984, just because i burned through it in a week while in grade 11
but really it was babby's first dystopia
>9. How are you? :)
worked out, it's win-o-clock over in /co/, gonna ride bikes until everything is scanned

>>2940479
William?

>1. What are you currently reading?
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
3

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Steinbeck and Pynchon

>4. Favorite genres?
Fiction

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Giver

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Quran

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Da Vinci Code

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you?
20

>1. What are you currently reading?
Gargantua and Pantagruel

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
4

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Thomas Pynchon, Ved Vyas, Teddy Dostoevsky

>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-fi, haven't read any for a few months, how is

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Crying of Lot 49

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Mahabharata

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Blood Meridian/ Fahrenheit 451

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984

>9. How are you? :)
Lonely

>1. What are you currently reading?
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
7-10
>3. Who are your favourite authors?
William S Burroughs and John Steinbeck
>4. Favorite genres?
Beat, Realism and Neo-Realism
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
The Mother by Maxim Gorky
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Introduction to Scientific Communism by the 7th Congress of the Soviet Union (sometime during the 70's)
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World
>9. How are you?
More Alive than Dead

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Green Brain by Frank Herbert

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
I really haven't been reading anything for a while. I'm starting to get back into reading, though, since I read Crime and Punishment and the Dune novels. I read a lot when I was little, but largely stopped because the school libraries ran out of books that interested me. As I'm starting to discover different authors (as well as having my own income), that's changing.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Frank Herbert, Jack London, Michael Crichton, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

>4. Favorite genres?
Science Fiction, survival.

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Bible, considering how far-reaching it's influence has been on the Western world.

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I'm only two chapters in and I'm already irritated how steel maker guy and how his family hates him for absolutely no reason.

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World

>9. How are you? :)
Dandy. First day of classes went great

>1. What are you currently reading?
Voltaire: A Life, by Ian Davidson
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
17
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Voltaire (obviously), Tolstoy, Keats, Dostoyevsky
>4. Favorite genres?
"Classic"
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Animal Farm
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Micromegas
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Lolita
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
1984
>9. How are you? :)
Pretty good, thanks.

>1. What are you currently reading?
I, Claudius

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
I used to read 4-5 but I've slumped to 1-2

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Iain.M.Banks, Brandon Sanderson.

>4. Favorite genres?
Sci-Fi, History

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Storm of Steel

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Gravity's Rainbow honestly it was too hard for me to read when I first bought it

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
I preferred BNW but I fear 1984 is more likely

>9. How are you? :)
Feel bad, I have a bad feeling I'm going to become depressed it again over the next week.

>>2936056
>1. What are you currently reading?
Nothing at the moment, I like to save reading for the winter. Summer is much too hot to focus on things.
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Maybe 5 a year.
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Nabokov and Burroughs
>4. Favorite genres?
Don't really know.
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Your favorite book
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Earthly Powers
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
Wuthering Heights, absolutely atrocious.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World.
>9. How are you? :)
2cool4skl

>1. What are you currently reading?
The Recognitions
>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
1
>3. Who are your favorite authors?
WB Yeats, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Philip K Dick
>4. Favorite genres?
20th century poetry and novels
>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
I don't like to think that way, but if you insist... A Scanner Darkly
>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
The Recognitions, so far it seems to fit that
>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
I don't know, I normally stop reading things that are boring.
>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Only read 1984
>9. How are you? :)
I dunno, life's being a bit of handkerchief sandwich right now.

>1. What are you currently reading?

Agato Kristof - The Proof

Narasingha Sil - Ramakrishna Revisited

Hart Crane

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?

3-5 (depends how long the books are)

>3. Who are your favorite authors?

Homer, Apuleius, Dante, Chretien de Troys, Shakespeare, Blake, Dickinson, Whitman, Gogol, Kafka, Burroughs.

>4. Favorite genres?

Mashed up sci-fi fantasy magic stuff

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.

Memoirs of my nervous illness - Daniel Paul Schreber.

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.

Pimp - Iceberg Slim

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?


>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World

As literature, both meh. 1984 was mor einfluential.important, BNW nearer the turth.

>9. How are you? :)

I'm a cyclomthymic ex-druggy with debts and no friends and I live with my parents, but my writing be getting purdier so I'm doing OK - thanks for asking.

>Yes, finally an opportunity to be as self-indulgent and vain as all my friends on Facebook! And it's totally blameless, because the pollster WANTS me to fill it in! I bet everyone will totally read my banal autobiography, and be really impressed.

>>2941323

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro

>>2941323
>Agato Kristof
Is that like an oriental Agatha Christie?

>>2941327

But this is anonymous - how can it be vain?

It's interesting to see the kind of readers lit attracts.

>>2941357
>Why would you lie about your penis size on the internet? You're anonymous.

Exact same thing.

>1. What are you currently reading?
Wolfgang Koeppen - Pigeons on the Grass
JF Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition

>2. How many books do you read (on average) per month?
Between 10 and 15, depending on length.

>3. Who are your favorite authors?
Bernhard, Goethe, Strindberg, Hesse.

>4. Favorite genres?
>implying

>5. Recommend a book for plebs.
Hesse - Siddharta

>6. Recommend a book for scholars.
Habermas - Theory of Communicative Action

>7. Worst/most overrated book you've read?
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>8. 1984 vs. Brave New World
Brave New World is far superior.

>9. How are you? :)
gr8 m8

>>2941338

Haha. Funny you should say that - she is Hungarian. They look chinky sometimes to me (pic related).

AK's "The Notebook" is awesome, can't recommend it enough. (Proof is the sequel in a trilogy).

>>2941372

>Between 10 and 15, depending on length.

I recommend you do what your parents did: get a job, sir.

>>2941327
I like this, it is quite interesting

>>2941387
Actually, sir, some of us older posters are retired.

>>2941396