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AWWW SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS.
THIS IS THE MOTHERFUCKING BOOK CLUB.

Let me run through the rules again for you faggots.

You have 3 options of books to read.

1)Neckbeard Mode: Genre/Contemporary book
2)Hipster Mode: Classic
3)Illiterate Mode: Short Story/Essay
[Are you a bad enough dude to read all 3?]

Books will be assigned every SUNDAY night.
You have 1 week to read the book, we will discuss the book on SUNDAY aswell.

Books should be roughly 500 pages. No War and Peace.
The wildcard(illiterate mode) is a short story/essay for those who dont have time to read a whole book.

This thread is for discussing what books we will be reading. The official first thread(first two dont count) will start tomorrow.

While this thread is for discussing what we will be reading the final decision belongs to me. If youve got a problem with that you can just DEAL WITH IT.

>> No.1119885

God damnit, this is exactly how you fucked it up last time.

Fucking decide on the books yourself. Post saying "This is what we're reading. Don't like it? Too fucking bad".

Nobody will agree on what to read, you have to decide for these retards.

>> No.1119887

>Essay

So Schopenhauer's 'On Genius' essay and his other essays are in the realm of the illiterate?

Myopic idiocy.

>> No.1119891

Contemporary: Franny and Zooey. I know it's not 500 pages, but wtf, you should start out with an easy one.
Classic: Finnegans Wake!
I will not respond to the other categories, as I am not a faggot.

>> No.1119895

>>1119885
I would but this is all spur of the moment.
Im just looking for ideas.
I still make the decisions, if people dont like them then they CAN SUCK A DICK.

>> No.1119898

>>1119885
This is an excellent point. Please tell me what to do. Or, just give us two options for each, so we feel like we're deciding something.

>> No.1119896
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1119896

1) I'm not a philistine.
2) Lolita - Nabokov
3) The Castle - Kafka

>> No.1119902

>>1119895
the "system" doesn't have to be perfect or even workable the first time.

Just continue with this & take the criticisms into account for improvement.

>> No.1119907

>>1119896
I think the majority of introverted c/lit/s will be too scared to go into a bookstore and buy Lolita. Just ... saying ...

>> No.1119909

>>1119907
I first heard the word on fucking 4chan & people that work in bookshops aren't necessarily well-read.

Lastly
>buying books

>> No.1119910

Courage Wolf learn what the fucking word 'text' means plz

>> No.1119913

>>1119895
Oh good.

On that note:
1. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons. His first novel, award winning, and only about 320 pages.
2. Lolita
3. Anything by Harlan Ellison. May be too genre, but whatever.

>> No.1119916

I hope you're serious this time, Courage Wolf. This is exactly the motivation I need to read more =D

>> No.1119919

There's no way I can read 500 pages in a week. And I don't even have a life or anything.

>> No.1119920

1) Dean Koontz - Shattered (0/10 troll harder, me)
2) Albert Camus - The Plague
3) Benjamin Franklin - The Whistle

>> No.1119923

The Satanic Verses
Lolita
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

>> No.1119926

>>1119919
Yeah I would prefer a monthly thing or maybe two weeks at least.

1 week would suffice for the short story but I'm not sure if having blocks for each category would be wise.

>> No.1119929

>>1119919
71 pages a day. The average American reads 30 pages an hour. Read a bit over 2 hours a day.

Think of it as a challenge.

>> No.1119931 [DELETED] 

All of these books ITT are stupid and it's bad enough that there are threads about them 100 times/day

>> No.1119932

>>1119919
Seriously, especially with school being in session. I just don't have time to do school reading, attend classes, work 20+ hours a week, and still fit in 500 pages of leisure reading.

>> No.1119936

>>1119926
No, that might work.
Week 1: Contemporary
Weeks 2-3: Classic
Week 4: Essay

>> No.1119944

>>1119936
No I meant category 3 would change weekly. The longer ones monthly. That way the faster readers could maybe stick to the weekly one, slower monthly?

You could maybe even group the categories according to length rather than genre by I'd find that less enjoyable myself.

>> No.1119949

1) Middlesex
2) Les Miserables
3) The Hunger Artist

>> No.1119961

Also no defined philosophy/non-fiction choice?

Part of "philosophizing" is discussing stuff with other people & I'm guessing most people here don't have much friends, nevermind ones to discuss stuff with.

>> No.1119963

>>1119920
seconding The Plague

>> No.1119971

bump.

>> No.1119983

>>1119961
well responses. i've even seen alot of people on /lit/ say they have a problem with reading fiction as opposed to non-fiction.

it should be a category for those that want it.

>> No.1120003

Yeah, /lit/ will never decide on anything. Isn't the way a book club generally works is the members take turns deciding what will be read next?

>> No.1120016

>>1119961
I wanted to have this section but the vast majority of people said that they would not read it.

Perhaps in the future?

>>1119910
I miss stag. Newtrolls are failtrolls.


Also I, want to try and make most of the books books that are available online or that can be downloaded. And on that note I can almost garnuntee you the first Neckbeard book will be
>A Scanner Darkley
Just because I have the pdf on my hard drive already.

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>>1120016
>he thinks stag is gone!

>> No.1120041

So, Mr. Wolf, what time do you plan on posting the reading list? Please give time zone as well.

>> No.1120051

>>1120041
Roughly this same time.
4chanz teim.

>> No.1120058

>>1120003
The problem of anonymity aside (that could be pretty easily fixed by just requiring a trip for the bookclub), we'd inevitably get a bunch of people who would use their turn to be like, "TWILIGHT DURR HURR" or "ATLAS SHRUGGED, DOHOHO." We could always just veto that, but of course that would open the door to vetoing anything that people just don't want to read for whatever reason.

What ought to happen is that CW just goes through this particular thread, collecting ideas in order (one per poster per rotation through the list), then post threads on the /book/ text board. 2 weeks is so much better than 1 week (except in the case of short books/stories), but keep the time frame variable (in the event of long works). Threads can just pop up here as they will, and people who are interested/involved can post/make threads as they see them (or want to).

>> No.1120357

Bumpity-bump-bump

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1120377

>mfw Lolita will certainly be the classic

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Bump for great justice!

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1121357

>>1120377
>mfw you all have me to thank

>> No.1121358

>>1121357
>implying I didn't vote for Lolita as well

>> No.1121364

>>1121351
Did you pick the books yet or what?

>> No.1121366

>>1121358
>implying I didn't start off by voting it, inspiring others to do the same
>implying I didn't defend us reading it here >>1119909

sheesh.

>> No.1121372

>>1121364
He'll probably post them in like 6 hours.

>> No.1121376

>>1121372
Oh ok.

>> No.1121375

>>1121366
Oh, I see.

Yeah, I wouldn't have voted for it, but then I saw it in the thread and was like "....yeah."

>> No.1121383

Voting for anything that isn't Lolita, I wouldn't want to waste any e/lit/es times with such a terrible book.

>> No.1121385

Hipster Mode: The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.1121387

Alright, all of you shut your gobs.

First book is The Big Sleep by Phillip Marlowe.

Why? Because I'm already on Chapter Nine.

>> No.1121390

Short story: Any short Sherlock Holmes story, any short Edgar Allen Poe story

>> No.1121397

>>1121385
>implying it isn't fucking incredible

>>1121383
Is it really that bad? I hope I'm not too disappointed after Ada.

>> No.1121401

>>1121397
Yes it's terrible I put it down like 70 pages in

>> No.1121406

>>1121401
Other people on /lit/ love it.

>> No.1121411

>>1121397
Nah I love it. I'm about 100 something pages in.
I didn't name the categories.

>> No.1121414

>>1121401
have u read ada to compare?

>> No.1121437

I'm game for all three. What are your current nominations, OP?

>> No.1121439

>>1121437
Well that's emberassing.

>> No.1121443

>>1121439
delete post, bottom right

>> No.1121455

>>1121414
No I haven't

>> No.1121457

>>1121455
for shame. & you call urself a literary expert.

>> No.1121471

lol

>> No.1121476

i wanna read lolita but i dont wanna seem like a pedo

>> No.1121483

1. Freedom by Franzen
2. Ulysses by Joyce
3. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury

>> No.1121488

>>1121483
>Ulysses by Joyce

Although I really want Lolita, I'd hope Ulysses is next time.

>> No.1121489

Im all for this, but it really should be once a month. It'd give people time to also be able to pick up the book too if they don't already have it.
Maybe weekly checkups or something? Have to use spoiler warnings and what-not, but I think this could work.

>> No.1121491

>>1121476
>i wanna read lolita but i dont wanna seem like a pedo
People in a library won't even know what it's about. You get anyone working at the desk.

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1121492

Collected works of Raymond Carver are really all I've been reading lately.
Damned school and Valkyria Chronicles series having my attention.

>> No.1121505

>>1121489
People would forget over a month's time. If you can't get to a library and read a sub-500 page book in a week, then I don't know what to say. Once the stories are chosen, we could post an electronic version for those who have trouble finding an actual copy. I have that 7000-book download that was posted on here a few months back, plus around 20,000 fantasy and sci-fi novels in PDF.

>> No.1121508

>>1121476
My library has self-checkout things so nobody has to know.
Bookstores? If it is a true book store, they shouldn't care. If it is a Borders or B&N, they probably get 3 college aged kids a week buying Lolita for school.
You could also buy online or even torrent.

>> No.1121509

>>1119913

I just finished Hyperion and I liked it a lot. I wouldn't mind having to something he did earlier. I also wouldn't mind Lolita. I managed to catch the last half of the black and white film years ago and although I've already got half of the plot spoiled for me I still don't know what happened at the start.

I pretty much second your list.

>> No.1121518

>>1121397
Lolita actually isn't that terrible, the prose is excellent, but the plot is a little slow and at times boring. Plus there really is nothing engaging about the work, it's just very aesthetically-written and if you're an aficionado of French culture you'll appreciate the allusions and French phrases thrown in throughout.

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>>1119887
>So Schopenhauer's 'On Genius' essay and his other essays are in the realm of the illiterate?
YES YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE

>> No.1121528

>>1121526
*MISOGYNIST

>> No.1121538

>>1121528
>misogynist
Nonsense, I love women. Do you have to hate dogs to recognise that they are inferior in many aspects to yourself? Of course not. And thus it is with women, and niggers.

>> No.1121558

Hello ladies and ladies, i`d like to join in but i have better things to do.

Unless it`s short.

>> No.1121573

So....4-5 more hours till the book club starts?

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1121610

1) Twilight
2) Atlas Shrugged
3) The lyrics to a 50 Cent song

Pic related

>> No.1122200

>>1122172
FAGGOTS ALL OF YOU