/lit/ - Literature

did someone drop ropes onto her eyes

>>3552541
she's crying cos my dick is too big

I'll bite
Hell's Angels
Lord of the Flies
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Basic Writings of Freud

Naked Lunch
Brave New World
Alice in Wonderland

Shit. Trying to remember...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Stieg Larsson)
Songs of the Gorilla Nation (Dawn Prince-Hughes)
Beyond Civilization (Daniel Quinn)

Animals in Translation (Temple Grandin)

The Toughest Indian In The World (Sherman Alexie)
The One-Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka)
... not sure what to read after that. I'll think of something; I always do.

>LAST THREE
Rendezvous With Rama
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Anarchism: A Collection Of Revolutionary Writings (Kropotkin)

>CURRENT
The Collected Stories (Pushkin)
Crime And Punishment

>NEXT THREE (subject to change)
Demons
The Idiot
The Trial

>>3552613

Also, The Defense is one of my favourite books, OP. Great stuff. One reason why I really like Nabokov is his love of chess, as I'm a pretty big chess fan myself. (And I really liked this part of Pale Fire too, in the poem:

"And now what shall I do? My knight is pinned.")

Hope you will like it as much as I did, OP.

Street of Crocodiles (schulz)
A scanner Darkly (PKD)
Ficciones (borges)
Ape and Essence (Huxley)

Island (huxley)

Flow my tears (PKD)
Sanitorium under the sign of the hourglass (schulz)
Vox (nicholson baker)
Aleph (borges)

The Black Swan
Naked Statistics
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

A New History of Western Philosophy

Infidel
Into the Wild
The Road

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Name of the Rose
A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Brothers Karamazov
The Decameron - will probably never finish this

Lord of Light
The Black Count
who knows

>>3552528
LAST
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Stranger
Jelena, zena koje nema (short story by Ivo Andric)

CURRENT
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath

NEXT
East of Eden
The Sound and the Fury (still not sure if I should start here with Faulkner..)
Of Mice and Men

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Healter Skelter - The true story of the Charles Manson murders (sort of - the copy I bought off of Amazon has 40 pages missing. Looking for another)
At the Mountains of Madness (finished 4 hours ago)

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (you mean it's fucking longer than "Mountains"?)

The Black Magician trilogy - The High Lord
Chickenhawk
Trainspotting

LAST
To The Lighthouse
Invisible Man
The Feast of the Goat

CURRENT
The Corrections

NEXT
not sure right now

the stranger
fear and loathing in los vegas
existentialism is a humanism

stoner

sirens if titan
the ego and its own
DADOES

The Fall
Gulliver's Travels
Siddhartha

V.

Gone with the Wind
Gravity's Rainbow
idk probably a non-fiction book

100 Years of Solitude
The Power and the Glory
As I Lay Dying

Dubliners

The Grapes of Wrath
The Sound and the Fury
Stoner
Or what ever I find I don't really plan my next reads.

History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Flowers for Algnernon Daniel Keyes

Endymion by John Keats

The Silmarillion
The Stranger
Helliconia Spring

>>3552799
>The Corrections
how is it?

>>3552813
I seriously hope you dont read Marquez in English

Aurelius' Meditations
American Gods
A Clockwork Orange

Chronicles of the Black Company

Epictetus' Discourses
Lord of Light
Most likely the next trilogy of the Black Company.

Been reading a lot since I got an e-reader. So comfy.

Last 3
>Jack London Collection (White Fang, COTW)
>A Hero of Our Time
>Meditations
Current
>Madam Bovary
Next 3
>Fellowship of the Ring
>Blindness
>I dunno

>>3552975
>Madam Bovary

I'm so sorry.

>LAST THREE
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

>CURRENT
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

>NEXT THREE
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursala K. Le Guin

>>3552979
I know. It's almost over.

evenin' /lit/

>last
On the Road
The Crying of Lot 49
Crime @ Punishment

>current
Dead Souls and Steppenwolf

>next
dunno

>LAST
Syndrome E. by Franck Thilliez
Tears in the Rain by Rosa Montero
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis

>CURRENT
Necrophilia Variations by Supervert
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

>NEXT
The Consumer by Michael Gira
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
and either something by Bruno Schulz or Iain Sinclair

>>3553014
did you like good omens? A guy in my class was telling me how he was constantly laughing out loud at the book. I read it and didn't find it very funny.

Moravagine (Cendrars)
The Third Reich (Bolzano)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)

Ham On Rye (Bukkaski) (this is the same book as Of Human Bondage)

A Little History of the World (Gombrich)
The Problems of Philosophy (Russel Brand)
maybe some DFW

>>3553027

I'm only a few chapters into that one, but yeah. I've chuckled at a couple parts, but it's not really making me laugh that much. I guess Gaiman sucks the fun out of Pratchett...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Mother Night
Black Hole(/co/)

Don Quixote
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Plato
Dhalgren
Candide

>>3553038
>The Problems of Philosophy (Russel Brand)

>>3553039
so pratchett is the funny?

>>3553053
i'm doing working towards math phd so people sometimes people believe me when i tell them he's the namesake of Russel's paradox

LAST THREE
The Duel
Moby Dick
Nausea

CURRENT
Myth of Sisyphus

NEXT THREE
Blood Meridian
For Who the Bell Tolls
The Idiot

Which one should I read next? I got about 100 pages into the Idiot last week and gave up. I thought it was ok but I had no idea what was going on cause I had a lot on my mind. I am not sure if I should keep going with it or move on and start over another time. Also For Who the Bell Tolls or Blood? I loved Farewell to Arms but I have never read Cormac before so not sure

>>3553068
it's purely based on what you personally find funny

but I certainly think so

I kind of hate gaimen's writing though so grains of salt should be taken

I also read it years ago now, so I don't have the best memory for it. If you like both authors, though, it seems crazy not to read it.

>>3553088
oh I've read it. I guess I should just find out who wrote each chapter.

>>3553068

Unfamiliar with Gaiman's novels, but his short stories never struck me as particularly funny. More often than not he's trying to balance somewhere between urban fantasy and horror.

>>3553078
Blood Meridian. I pity you for reading FWTBT, it's incredibly dull.

>>3553078
just listen to the idiot, read FWTBT and then kill yourself

>>3552916
marquez himself said he preferred the english translation dog

>>3553303

>1990
>beliving publicity

He probably said that to appeal the english speaking readers. You simply cannot appreciate Marquez in English. Plus spanish is not that hard and it's always useful knowing more than one language.

also
>2013
>only knowing one language