/lit/ - Literature

Last three:
the fall
the myth of sisyphus
exile and the kingdom
meh

Currently:
one day in the life of ivan denisovic
meh

Next three:
I want to read Pierre Guyotat's eden, eden, eden and tomb for 500,000 soldiers but I can't find them to buy anywhere

Jesus Christ those fucking caps

>>3882235
BEAUTIFUL

>>3882244
SHUT THE FUCK UP

>>3882289
YOU

LAST THREE:
NIGGER
NIGGER
NIGGER

CURRENTLY:
NIGGER

NEXT THREE:
NIGGER
NIGGER
INFINITE JE--ACTUALLY, NIGGER

last three:
Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground
HP Lovecraft - The Color Out Of Space
flicked through my old book of Arthur C Clarke short stories

currently reading: Jane Eyre

Next three: Portrait of the Artist
The Bell Jar
Borges - Labyrinths

>LAST THREE
La vita nuova
The Divine Comedy
Candide

>CURRENTLY READING
Pride and Prejudice
The Shallows
Don Quixote
1984

>NEXT THREE
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Moby-Dick

>>3882375
Who wrote The Shallows?

>>3882385
Nicholas Carr, it's nonfiction.

>>3882389
With all the classics, what prompted you to read it?

>>3882394
Honestly, I'm not sure. A few months ago I started reading a bunch of classics because I wanted a better foundation in literature. Anyway, I was at my local library and saw it sitting on a cart as I walked out, I'd seen it discussed on here a few times so I checked it out on a whim. Interesting stuff.

>>3882410
Fair enough bro

Happy readings

What is the point to these threads?

>>3882453
To satisfy the curiosity one may have about the reading plans of their fellow peers. Perhaps to get some recommendations on what to read next or helpful discussion on a book/author. No?

>>3882218
>Last Three:
Armored Hearts by David Bottoms: 10/10
Intruder in the Dust: 8/10
Lord of the Flies: 9/10

>Current:
Stranger in a Strange Land
A Coney Island of the Mind

>Next Three:
Catch-22
The Descendants
Neon Vernacular

ice palace
confession of the english opiate eater
paris spleen (again)

ludvig vittgenstein philosophical investigations

i dont know

>last three
Valis - Phillip K. Dick
A Little History of The World - Gombrich
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
>currently reading
Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck
>next three
Love In The Time of Chollera - GG Marquez
Roger's Version - John Updike
Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis

current and next three are all lends from a friend, he usually provides me with good books

>>3882458
No, it's more about showing off what youre reading, and see if anyone reads the same

Last Three:
Frankenstein
The Monk
Candide

Currently Reading:
Beowulf

Next Three:
Crime and Punishment
The Martian Chronicles
The Time Machine

>last three
1984
Animal Farm
Nausea

>Current
The Selfish Gene

>Next three
The Pearl (Steinbeck)
Lord of the Flies
The Stranger

Am I a pleb, /lit/?

>>3882882

Only for asking. Stop caring and enjoy your shit.

>>3882882

yes

Last Three:
The Instructions - Adam Levin

kinda derivative but massively entertaining and really well written. 8/10

Inherent Vice

I liked it, not as good as V. or TCOL49 (the only Pynchon I've read thus far) but really funny and with a great noir storyline. plus the movie's gonna be great. 7.5/10

The Crying of Lot 49

Fantastic. I know Pynchon himself hates this book but I disagree. I thought it was fascinating, with great characters, a killer plotline, and fantastic prose. 9/10.

Currently: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

about halfway through, seems pretty autobiographical (though obviously not the fantasy elements). it's a great story with really good worldbuilding and it really gets inside the 7-year-old mentality. Too soon to rate.

Next Three:
House of Leaves
Mason & Dixon
The Last Unicorn

Last three:
The Inferno, Dante
The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner

Currently:
Libra, Don DeLillo

Next Three:
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze

Last 3:
ringworld - meh
the great gatsby - great
hamlet - p. cool

currently:
mere christianity - disagree heavily with lewis about some things but i'm finding myself liking it a lot

next three:
the tao of pooh and the te of piglet
the aeneid
the motorcycle diaries

last 3:
storm of swords
the horla
the guinea pigs

current:
the plague
works of bruno schulz
feast for crows

next 3:
journey to the end of the night
benito cereno
borges fictions or something but who am i kidding, dance with dragons

Last three:
imperial germany and the industrial revolution - thorstein veblen
the golden bough (new abridgement) - james frazer
mysteries of mithra - franz cumont

Currently:
crusade against the grail - otto rahn

Next three:
athens and jerusalem - lev shestov
harmony of the spheres - joscelyn godwin
everyday life of the aztecs - warwick bray

currently in occult mode

>>3882921
Just read Sickness unto Death, going to read the Sorrows of Young Werther next.

This is funny to me because i can relate to this website

Read what you enjoy

>LAST THREE
To the Lighthouse by Viriginia Woolf:
'stream of consciousness' thing but less claustrophobic than James and much less poetic than Joyce. defo closer to James, her narratives feels really domestic or sociological, a comment on age, family or gender. quite liked it.

>Metamorphoses by Ovid
expected this to be more inaccessible because of it's age and language but the translator's free verse seemed pretty easy to follow. i'd recommend it as a really fast and hilarious way to learn some of the roman mythology.

>Batman:Killing Joke by Alan Moore
my first comic. it wasn't trashy or anything, kind of Nietzschean right? even actual novelists can end up compromising their main art when tacking philosophy onto it, here it just fit the characters. I don't know which one to do next but maybe the Watchmen.

>CURRENTLY READING
Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare.
one of his funniest ones so far <3 mendelssohn

>NEXT THREE
something non-fiction
more Henry James short stories
Steppenwolf or Gravity's Rainbow

hi cappy : )

>>3883459
HELLO

I USED TO MILK THREADS LIKE THIS FOR BOOKS TO READ. BUT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE READ MOST OF THR CLASSICS THE GUYS HERE READ

PITY

>>3883505
doesn't that mean you could suggest a comic or non-fiction for me then?

>>3883459
I remember you. How are you?

>>3883511
sometimes I don't know what pertains to me and what doesn't.. but in a prescription/prescribed way.. I'm not -that- degenerate.. ok?

>>3883518
What???

>>3883522
shameful topics, sorry. but it's ok! best wishes to you : )

>>3883508
I DO NOT REALLY DEAL WITH COMICS. ESPECIALLY WITH PRE-1950 RULE.

10 DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD IS WORTH A LOOKSIE

>>3882846

how was Frankenstein?

>>3883531
ok, thanks. cya

>>3883531
You should read Krazy Kat and Little Nemo.

>>3883545
WHY?

Last Three

Peter Singer - Animal Liberation
It makes clear the etical rights of animals in the eyes of men, philosophically.

Tom Robbins - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
A good personalization of western and eastern culture.

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Explains reincarnation and buddhahood with a good story.

Current

Hakan Günday - Az

Next Three

P.M. - Akiba: A Gnostic Novel
Micheal Foucault - Fearless Speech
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar - The Time Regulation Institute

>>3883587
You read funny stuff

>>3883587

U kebab m8?

>>3883613
vegetarian in turkey from adana

Last three:
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
The Trial
V.

All in the eight to nine out of ten range, i'd say the trial was the best though

Currently reading:
The Street of Crocodiles
(fuckfuckfuck it's so good)

Next three:
Day of the Locust
Maldoror
2666

>Last 3
Inherent vice
Hamlet
The Sun Also Rises
>Currently Reading
V.
>Next 3
A Farewell to Arms
Henry IV
Crying of Lot 49

Trying to balance reading for pleasure and next year's university set texts

>>3883021
I have read Borges' fictions and they are incredible. From one anonymous person on the internet to another, read it.

LAST THREE:
The High Window-Chandler
Nightmare Town-Hammett
Redshirts-Scalzi

CURRENTLY:
The Glass Key-Hammett

NEXT:
The Big Knockover-Hammett
The Gone-Away World-Harkaway
Absalom, Absalom-Faulkner

LAST:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thinking Fast and Slow
How to Read a Book

CURRENT:
Oliver Twist

NEXT:
I don't think that far ahead

>Last Three
Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
Lolita
REALLY ENJOYED THESE

>Currently Reading
The Death of Ivan Ilich
PRETTY GOOD SO FAR. SET MY STANDARDS A BIT TOO HIGH FOR IT THOUGH.

>Next Three
Crime and Punishment
Mother Night
Pale Fire
EXCITED ABOUT THESE.

>>3882679
A Coney Island of the Mind was fantastic. Hope you're enjoying it.

>>3883649
THANKS FOR POSTING. HADN'T READ MUCH OF THE HARDBOILED YOU POSTED

>>3883694
You're welcome. Try The Long Goodbye or The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

>Previously
Henry IV Part 1 - Enjoyable, not as good as Richard the second but it really helped me like Shakespeare's prose more with the falstaff and prince Hal scenes
Moby Dick - holy hell what a monster and such a crazy ending, nothing I can really say, except that it really blurs the fiction non fiction line which plays great with the narration especially in the end, combining it with a sense of adventure, still very hard to get through at points
A canticle for Lebowitz - alright, I don't really read sci fi but I picked this up for the catholic angle and it was interesting, but while the first story of the 3 was pretty amazing the other 2 were very lackluster and the last few chapters got kinda preachy in a bad way

>currently
Ulysses - fun as hell, it's a lot like an Irish as I lay dying but bigger and better, much more straightforward and accessible than its made out to be, not too hard to comprehend the basic plot even if a lot of the allusions go over my head
Henry IV part 2 - just started and it already seems to be the worst Shakespearean history I've read, really lackluster, maybe it picks up in the end, hopefully Henry V is better

>Next Up
Henry V
Possibly Against the Day
Maybe some Burroughs, Bolano, or even some Russian lit - really unsure about what to read next, it'll just be whatever I'm drawn to in the moment

>last 3
man and superman
the sot-weed factor
decline and fall of the roman empire

>currently
ware's the orthodox church
faust among equals

>next 3
conquest of gaul
marble faun
wings of a dove

>LAST READ

Steppenwolf, Narcissos and Goldmund, Notes from the Underground

>CURRENTLY READING

The Stranger

>WILL READ

Siddhartha

Really loving Hesse. Also rekindled my interest in Dostoyevski - read Brothers Karamazov, C&P and The Idiot last year, and after Notes I thought I should try out his other novels, too.

>>3883727
Do it

>>3883727
I read Notes from the Underground a few months ago and while part 2 was enjoyable to read, part 1 was a bit too difficult for my tastes. Are Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov easier to get through than part 1 of Notes?

Last 3:

The Post Office
Ham on Rye
Factotum

Current:

The Pale King

Future:

Infinite Jest
Dark Tower book 1
Dark Tower book 2

>>3883738

Same guy... My buddy had a copy of the pale king. I was reading it over, I enjoyed it alot from what I saw. I have an accounting degree and I'm going to get a CPA so I feel like I can take more out of it.

Also it's cool to see a novel take place in Central Illinois. Do any other novels take place in Central Illinois, /lit/?

>>3883736

I'd say so, though BK has a couple of parts just as difficult - for example, Father Zozima's teaching.

>>3883790
TBK is a thriller

>>3883823
Good to know

>>3883823
It's also a comedy.

>>3882846
Currently reading Beowulf too

Last Three:
King Lear
Dubliners
The Joke (Kundera)

Next Three:
Don't know, I want to read some early French surrealism but I don't know where to start

CURRENTLY READING
Brideshead Revisited(85 pages in)
Nicomachean Ethics(66 pages in)

LAST THREE:
Rimbaud's poems
Nausea
Kafka complete short stories

NEXT THREE:(lit decides)
For Whom The Bells Toll
Edwin Drood
Spring Snow

>>3884854
Spring Snow is the best

>LAST
The Passion According to G. H. - Clarice Lispector
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Leaves of Grass 1855 Edition - Walt Whitman
>NOW
The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Collected Poems - Robert Frost
>NEXT
In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami
Taipei - Tao Lin
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello

>Last Three
Demanding The Impossible: A History Of Anarchism
Oblomov
Tao Te Ching

>Currently Reading:
The Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal

>Next Three
Invitation To A Beheading
Lolita
Pnin

>>3885010
Nice books

>Last Three
Candide
Jane Eyre
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

>Currently
To kill a Mockingbird

>Next Three
Life of Pi
South of the Border, West of the Sun
1984

>Read
Borges - Labyrinthes
Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Chinua Achebe - Man of the People

>Reading
Frye - Anatomy of Criticism
Ghandi's commentary on the Gita
DFW - Brief Interviews w/ Hideous Men
Ha-Joon Chang - Kicking away the Ladder

>Will Read
???
Rilke mb

>Last three
Villiers, Le convive des dernières fêtes (don't know the title in English, sorry)
Pole to Pole, Michael Palin
Barbe Bleue, Amélie Nothomb

>Currently Reading
The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littel
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Proust
L'écume des jours, Boris Vian
History of Japan, Kenneth Henshall (slow reading)

>Next three
The Player, Dostoievski
The Sound of the Mountain, Kawabata
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche

Previous:
>Book of Sand
>Hapworth 16, 1924
>Under the Dome

Current:
>Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Next:
>Hearing Trumpet
>Street of Crocodiles
>Dark Spring

Last I read were Gatsby, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and the deus ex tie in novel. Currently reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. As for next, I guess I could pick Neuromancer back up and see if it grabs my attention this time. Realistically though I'd probably go for The Trial, or something Hemingway.

>>3882921
how's Libra?

Previous 3:
Crying of Lot 49 (a'ight)
Martin Amis- Einstein's Monsters (Enjoyable and quick)
David Rhode (roahd? Rode?) - Beyond War (fine ideas, shit book)

Currently: Gravity's Rainbow, thanks /lit/.

Next: Either more pynchon or some Garcia Marquez

>>3883677
My copy of Pale Fire is rigid with dried cum.... in other words, I liked it a lot, and I love all Nabokov

Previous 3:
Le Misanthrope - Molière
Winesburg-Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
La Chartreuse de Parme - Stendhal

Currently:
Walden - H.D Thoreau

Next 3:
Nature - R.W Emerson
Moby Dick - Melville
Valjoie - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Previous Three:
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Current:
Infinite Jest - David Fo- hey, stop the tomatoes!

Next Three:
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon

>>3890628

>David Fo- hey, stop the tomatoes!

nigga u corny

LAST THREE

THE GHOST SEER - SCHILLER
MR NORRIS CHANGE TRAINS - ISHERWOOD
VILE BODIES - WAUGH

CURRENT
RED HARVEST - HAMMETT

NEXT THREE
THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS - ARISTOTLE
THE PICKWICK PAPERS - DICKENS
OIL! - SINCLAIR

>Last three
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Much Ado About Nothing & Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

>currently reading
The Poetic Edda

>next three
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Baudolino by Umberto Eco

>>3890628
feel like reading postmodernism?

LAST THREE:
Giovanni's Room-Baldwin
Clockwork Orange-Burgess
Crying of lot 49-Pynchon

Now:
The Stranger-Camus

Next Three:
V.-Pynchon
Only Revolutions-Danielewski
Catch-22-Heller

>LAST THREE

Confucius - 'The Analects'
>old chinese men running the world

Cormac McFarty - 'Blood Meridian'
>the odyssey-type comparisons on the back of the book are pretty accurate: mythopoetry out the wazoo. a beautiful, violent book but I never felt like I could really get into it because of the biblical form. McCarthy never really allows you to get into the heads of the characters or get to grips with what they're feeling, which of course suits the form but still feels very cold. Judge Holden is cool but I think he ends up stealing too much of the show, which is again because the rest of the characters are dumb tough sons of bitches we're not allowed to care about.

Stuart McRobert - 'Brawn'
>HARDGAINER HARDGAINER HARDGAINER HARDGAINER HARDGAINER HARDGAINER. haven't gotten into fitness literature much but it seems reasonable enough when emphasizing that a lot of routines fail for the common man because they're based on advantageous genetics or roids. Stuff that is just common knowledge on /fit/ but a good beginner's book.

>CURRENTLY READING
Blaise Pascal - 'Pensees'
>2wretched4me
>guy couldn't deal with boredom.

GRRM - 'ASOIAF: A Game of Thrones'
>using italics to emphasize what a character is saying
>2013
>Whenever a Catelyn or Daynyrees chapter comes up I put the book away in disgust
>I like the show better

Miyamoto Musashi - 'A Book of Five Lings'
>Still on the ground book, not seeing the relevance to business yet unless it's normal to get ahead in japanese business by dueling and killing people.

>NEXT THREE
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 'Nature'
Yury Dombrovsky - 'The Keeper of Antiquities'
Alan Watts - 'This Is It'

>last three
richard yates - tao lin
the savage detectives - roberto bolano
the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides

>currently reading
the gone-away world - nick harkaway

>next three
the general in his labyrinth - gabriel garcia marquez
the sailor who fell from grace with the sea- mishima
the fuck-up - arthur nersesian

>>3882218
To a God Unknown is my favourite steinbeck book. it is what East of Eden should have been. much more concise, and tell the tragic story of the downfall of a man, his family, and the land he lives on. a fantastic novel.

Last three:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
The Bhagavad-Gita

Currently Reading:
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
The Grand Chessboard
The End of Alice

Next three:
Islam: Second Edition
Short Oxford History of Europe: The Seventeenth Century
Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law

>>Last three
Robert Musil - The Confusions of Young Torless
Aphra Behn - Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave
Jacques Roubaud - Some Thing Black

>>Currently Reading
Thomas Bernhard - The Loser

>>Next Three
Dostojevskij - Notes from Underground
Julio Cortazar - All Fires the Fire
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities

>>3890628
>>If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Amazing book

Last Three
* Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
* The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
* The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov

Currently Reading
* A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
* Ubik - Philip K. Dick
* Childhoods End - Arthur C. Clarke

Next Three
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
* The Once and Future King - T.H. White

>>3882218
Last Three
-Breakfast of Champions
-Catcher in the Rye
-Stoner

Current:
-Man and his Symbols
-Fear and Trembling & Sickness Unto Death

Future:
Plato's Republic
Naked Lunch
Ape and Essence

Why does he need all those caps?

>>3891644

LAST THREE:
Underworld
Huckleberry Finn
A Clockwork Orange

CURRENT: Lolita

NEXT THREE:
Dubliners
The Crying of Lot 49
Either Steppenwolf or Norwegian Wood

>Last three
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
The Plague by Albert Camus

>Currently reading
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

>Next three
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fall by Albert Camus

Statsfag by trade, so that explains the heavy math focus. And though Russell's work was destroyed--no, eviscerated--by both Gödel and Wittgenstein, it remains a milestone in mathematics.

>last three
breakfast of champions by vonnegut
infinite jest by DFW
good omens by pratchett and gaiman

>currently
sweet Thursday by steinbeck

>next three
some dumb sci fi book
the idiot by dostoyevsky
dunno