/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1416929]

Thought I'd continue on a thread from earlier.

Game is, we post the books within our immediate vicinity and get brutally blanket-judged by everyone else as to what we might be like as people.

Okay me first. There's a few, but here goes:

>Jewish Antiquities
>New York Trilogy
>Bible
>Japanese for Busy People
>Asimov's Guide to the Bible
>Practical Ethics (Peter Singer)
>Fortran 95
>The Harlot by the Side of the Road
>Dictionary of Jewish Lore & Legend
>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
>The Bible as History
>Introduction of General Relativity
>Introduction to Elementary Particles
>Quantum Optics
>Capitalism an Freedom (Friedman)

Pic of unrelated shemale.

[Anonymous No.1416939]

OP is a kike.
Also
>mfw all my books are upstairs

[Anonymous No.1416940]

Weeaboo Jew. A Jeweeaboo.

[Anonymous No.1416944]

>>1416940

Can't work out if this is better than Christfag or not

[Anonymous No.1416949]

>Complete Works of Plato
>Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. I & II
>Merriam Webster's Dictionary
>Analects of Confucius
>Canterbury Tales
>Complete Works of Shakespeare
>The Arabian Nights
>4 Books of Nietzche
>Communist Manifesto
>Beowulf
>The Art of War
>The Prince
>Aeneid, Illiad, Odyssey
Some more shit etc

[Anonymous No.1416950]

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
World of Our Fathers (history of eastern european jewry in the US)
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Language Truth and Looic by AJ Ayer
Citadelle by Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery

>>1416929
Jewish Studies major who recently moved to New York?

[Anonymous No.1416951]

Well I'm fucked. I've just boxed all my hardcopy in the loft.
Kindle FTW.

[Anonymous No.1416958]

>>1416949
the books that every one is supposed to read and that makes me feel like vomiting with rage.

[Anonymous No.1416961]

>>1416950
Failure at life, appealing to pop-metaphysics for comfort.

[Anonymous No.1416970]

>Their Eyes Were Watching God
>Heart of Darkness
>a couple Animorphs books

[Anonymous No.1416974]

>>1416970
High school.

[Anonymous No.1416975]

>>1416961
Yes on the first count. What else you got?

[Anonymous No.1416976]

>>1416950

>Jewish Studies major who recently moved to New York?
Completely off

[Anonymous No.1416978]

Roadside Picnic by the Strugatskys and 7 Gothic Tales by Karen Blixen.

Go ahead.

[Anonymous No.1416980]

>>1416975
thats it, all I know is that the only people I know who read Jung are recovering drug addicts/alcoholics--castaneda points to you being a pothead at some point and that is never a good indication--don't feel bad, i speak from experience ;_;

[Anonymous No.1416981]

jesus christ, i go to sleep expect the old thread to go a way and you post this shit... wtf?

[Anonymous No.1416985]

>>1416975
Who's this gay guy with Mandella?

[God Waitings !!KJNFTNo2Sxw No.1416987]

Lemme see...

The Federalist Papers
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
The Year of Obama by Larry Sabato
Plato's Republic
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
Leaves of Grass by duh.

[Anonymous No.1416994]

Hell's Angels
Life Of Pi
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Catch-22
Roadside Picnic
3 Volumes of Sin City
House Of Leaves
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Neuromancer
Spook Country
What Dreams May Come

[Anonymous No.1416995]

>>1416987
you on the debate team?

[Anonymous No.1416996]

>>1416987

FlowerGirl

[Anonymous No.1416999]

>>1416994
fucking adolescents! so many of you. I guess at least you're reading and not listening to Ke$ha, but then again you probably never get pussy.

[Anonymous No.1417003]

>>1416994

Hipster.

[Anonymous No.1417005]

>>1416999
Right on all counts.
Especially the bit about not getting any ;_;

[Anonymous No.1417008]

>>1417003
I'm too cutting edge to be a hipster.

[Anonymous No.1417013]

>>1416987
20 yr old male poli sci major who thinks he is better everyone else. (but isn't that every poli sci major?)

[Anonymous No.1417015]

>>1417005
Words of wisdom: use drugs--they are nearly as fun as books and if you are around drugs you will get laid somehow..you can still read, too. (Don't do heroin, though, the sex stops after you become a junky)

[Poke !CYPkLy.IFw No.1417017]

Ok...

All to my left:

Necrópolis - Santiago Gamboa (my current)
A "mexican short stories" anthology by Mario Muñoz. (my professor)
La jornada de la mona y el paciente - Mario Bellatín
No one writes to the colonel - Gabriel García Márquez
Ícaro - Sergio Pitol (a compilation that includes his essays, short stories an letters)
Beyond the boom - VA (a study about the latinamerican literature after the boom)
La lengua vasca y el Vascuense - Miguel de Unamuno (some essays about cataluña and its lenguage)
La radio en el pecho - Eduardo de Gortari (Radiohead based poetry, Gortari says his poems are covers of the ok computer songs)
Castillos de Cartón - Almuneda Grandes
Glamourama - Bret Easton Ellis
100 years of solitude - García Márquez
The Trial - Franz Kafka

[Anonymous No.1417018]

>>1416980
Most books that I read I buy used from a local library for like fitty cents. So if I just happen to have castaneda and jung, so be it

For the record, I used to smoke but not a lot. And I enjoyed the Castaneda book as a work of fiction although it was obviously bull.

[Anonymous No.1417024]

yeah, I'm pretty unique

Masterpieces of Primitive Art
Nightclub Nights: Art, Legend, and Style, 1920-1960
The Visual Dialogue
Dante's Divine Comedy
A Graphic Guide to Aesthetics
Jon Stewart's "Earth"
The Early Work of Philip K. Dick Vol. 1
Ax Manga #44
Kakuh: The Undiscovered Magazine #8
How to Survive 2012

[Anonymous No.1417025]

Complete Robot - Asimov
The voice of the fire - Moore
Crooked Little Vein - Ellis
Infinite Jest - DFW
Flow my tears, the policeman said - Dick
Man in the high castle - Dick
Tau Zero - Anderson
Company of Liars - Maitland
Saturn's Children - Stross
Olympos - Simmons
Pattern Recognition - Gibson
Tinker tailor doctor spy - Le Carré
Snow Crash - Stephenson
Anathem - Stephenson

[Anonymous No.1417028]

>>1417017
obvious beaner

[Anonymous No.1417029]

Ulysses
Ulysses Annotated
Light in August
Neuromancer
The Making of the Atomic Bomb

[Anonymous No.1417034]

>>1417024
fucking college kid. neo-liberal tendencies because you smoke weed, but will inevitably do what suits you best--suburban but try to diminish that by affecting "eclectic"..god you motherfucker! favorite band is something rated high on pitchfork.
>>1417025
hardcore scifi nerd, not ugly but low self esteem anyway--probably smart as hell but not intuitive about other people--the mystery of social life is sublimated into a fascination with speculative ideation.

[Anonymous No.1417036]

>>1417025

Not bad

[Anonymous No.1417039]

>>1417017
you that hot girl on the /lit/ tinychat? that likes beirut?

[Poke !CYPkLy.IFw No.1417042]

>>1417039
i'm a hairy mexican man.

[Anonymous No.1417043]

Next to my bed

>Everything J.G. Ballard ever wrote.

What does this make me, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.1417048]

>>1417042
even better
>>1417043
It makes you gay. Or bi, at least. You read Genet yet?

[xraybt No.1417056]

>>1417039
who liked beirut on the tinychat?

[Anonymous No.1417057]

>>1417034

>>1417025 here

I only mentioned books that other people will have heard of.
I doubt many people will have heard of the first sci fi book I ever read, "Earth Invaded" by Nathan Elliot, or "The very slow time machine", or "The Antarctica Cookbook".

You're not far from the mark. I can deal with people, but am just as happy here in my comfy chair.

[Anonymous No.1417059]

>>1417048

>You read Genet yet?

No but thanks for the recommendation

[Anonymous No.1417061]

>>1416949
troll

[Anonymous No.1417066]

>Blood Song by Eric Drooker
>Opening the Dragon Gate: Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard
>The Sailor Who Fell Out of Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
>Island, Perennial Philosophy, and Doors of Perception by Huxley
>The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

[Anonymous No.1417067]

>>1417056
This girl, i forget what she went by..she was spanish I think.

[Anonymous No.1417076]

>>1417057
well, don't sell your self short ;)
>>1417059
no problem :)) I'm reading "Our Lady of The Flowers" right nao.

[Anonymous No.1417081]

>>1417066
Either young and curious or old and sad. I hope it's the former.

[Anonymous No.1417082]

>The Fountain Head
>Twilight (got it for free)
>Anthem

[Anonymous No.1417087]

"An appeal, to the toiling oppressed and exhausted peoples of Europe" - Leon Trotsky

"Three days before the shooting" - Ralph Ellison

"Harbour" - John Ajvide Lindqvist

"Boy" - Roald Dahl

"The American Character" - Margaret Mead

[Anonymous No.1417096]

>>1417082
troll
>>1417087
hard to read..mid twenties? slightly /fa/?

[Anonymous No.1417098]

Les Miserables
The Brothers Karamazov
The Hobbit
1984
The Master and Margarita
Notes From Underground
The Cossacks
Catcher in The Rye
The Road to Woodstock
Wilco: Learning How to Die
Infinite Jest
Only Revolutions
Man's Searching For Meaning
Brief Interview With Hideous Men
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
Invitation To a Beheading
Animal Farm
Siddhartha
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Running Down a Dream

For what its worth I also have a stack of guitar magazines, but those aren't books

[Anonymous No.1417099]

>>1417076

Hard to sell six foot three short.

I also have a delightful book from the 30s entitled "The Story of The World In Pictures". It's from a time when political correctness was unheard of and as such the captions for all of the photos are tremendously funny.

[Anonymous No.1417100]

>>1417048

How come everyone assumes that because Ballard wrote one book on pyscho-sexuality that got made into a fucking film so the author and all his other works must therefore be complete perversion.

[Anonymous No.1417105]

>>1416929
Infinite Jest - D.F.W
Debt for Honor - Clancy
Ulysses - Joyce

[Anonymous No.1417107]

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott

[Anonymous No.1417111]

>>1417098
>Brief Interview With Hideous Men
FTW
Get Oblivion if you haven't already

[Anonymous No.1417114]

>>1417100
Uh, I'm basing it on two different books, and a selection of his short stories--I haven't even seen the film because it has that cocksucker from The Secretary in it (james spader?)..so yeah..lurk moar.
>>1417099
you should watch the movie "mondo cane"--same kind of humor.

[Anonymous No.1417115]

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: Specialized Issues
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money Vol 1.
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money Vol 2.
Standard Catalog of World Coins.
Elegant plate, 3 centuries of precious metals in New york city.
Silver and gold commemorative coins.
United states gold coins, an illustrated history.
United states type coins.
The walking liberty half dollar.
The morgan dollar, a history.
Standing liberty quarters (revised)
A guide book to United States coins.
A pile of pamphlets from the coin collector's journal.
Some old "Grey sheet" coin dealers newsletters.
etc...

[Anonymous No.1417118]

>>1417107

>Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Read "The Body Snatchers"? Normally in the same book. Always liked that one.

[Anonymous No.1417119]

The Associated Press 2008 Style Guide
Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau
History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson

and a box of back issues of Maximum Rocknroll

[Anonymous No.1417123]

>>1417114

What other novel and stories?

[Anonymous No.1417125]

>>1417115
You are a serial killer.
>>1417107
This is like what I read in 9th grade, are you in 9th grade?
>>1417098
420 friendly?

[Anonymous No.1417126]

>>1417039
What tinychat?

[Anonymous No.1417127]

>Joan of Arc (Twain)
>Dream Visions and Other Poems (Chaucer)
>Freakonomics
>The Physics of Consciousness (Evan Harris Walker)
>The Sickness Unto Death
>The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

And many others...those were the closest.

[Anonymous No.1417134]

>>1417123
The atrocity exhibition and stories I can't remember the names to.

[Anonymous No.1417135]

>>1417096
Yeah pretty much bang on unfortunately.

>>1417098
Uhhhh I would immediately say at first late 20's early 30's from the taste. Instead I'll go with late teens or early 20's

[Anonymous No.1417139]

>>1417114


"THE TRIBAL DANCE AT A JU-JU FEAST

Superstition is the motive for many native dances, which are often performed to placate the wrath of a god or in honour of a favourite ju-ju. Here are youthful Ibo natives of Onitsha in Southern Rhodesia performing one of their tribal dances."

As a geographer, this tickles me.

[Anonymous No.1417144]

one hundred years of solitude

i think that's it, it's what i'm reading currently

[Anonymous No.1417145]

>>1417126
tinychat/lit2 (one of the first ones)
>>1417127
College student with not much time for recreational reading. Probably B average and I can't tell if you're a girl but I'll go with my gut and say no because girls never know who kierkegaard is...

[Anonymous No.1417147]

>>1417125

No, I'm a physics undergraduate. I have a pile of books which I've never got round to reading in 2010, and I'm working my way through them. I find it hard to believe that 9th graders would read Heart of Midlothian.

>>1417118

It's only that one short story, it cost me 50p to buy. I like Stevenson, so I'll make a note of it.

[Anonymous No.1417151]

>>1417139
lol "rhodesia"

[Anonymous No.1417155]

>>1417139

An anthropologist might an hero if he saw this.

[Anonymous No.1417156]

>>1417147
9th graders who read that and more difficult works even are not the kind of people you meet in the Physics department, they are wasting their time getting a library card and starbucks job

[Anonymous No.1417162]

>>1417147

Try to grab "Olalla" too

[Anonymous No.1417175]

>>1417155

It's copyrighted 1934. It's all gravy.

"THE RAIN-MAKER INVOKES HIS GODS

The magician of a Zulu villiage calls to heaven for rain to save his people and their lands from the agony of thirst."

"A CANOE HOLLOWED OUT BY FIRE AND BY FLINT

Here are natives paddling a canoe on the Amason. The only convenient method of travelling in these forest regions is by boat--not elavorate boats, but canoes, in most cases, merely tree trunks hollowed out by fire and axe. In very inaccessible places out of touch with traders the axe is nothing but a sharp stone, a modern reminder of the Stone Age."

These are gold.

[Anonymous No.1417182]

>>1417175
Honestly, I feel kind of sad whenever I see "tribal people" wearing Nikes nowadays--do you think this is a sort of racist sentiment?

[Anonymous No.1417185]

>>1417175

Really want to see the photos that go with the guy talking in black and white crackly footage in my head.

[Anonymous No.1417186]

>>1417111
I have Oblivion laying around somewhere, but I did enjoy Brief Interviews much more. I think I was sick of reading DFW after going both IJ and BI so I should probably read it again sometime
>>1417125
Actually I've never been interested in any drugs. I have no issues with them, but its not my thing.
>>1417135
and you'd be right.

[Anonymous No.1417203]

>>1417185
LOL yeah and he's got one of those hats on you know what im talkin bout.

[Anonymous No.1417212]

>>1417185

YOUR LUCKY DAY.

I'm going to take a picture of the contents should anyone want anything specific from this awesome old school book.

[Anonymous No.1417214]

the myth of sisyphus

nietzche compendium

la confidential

communist manufesto

critique of pure reason

the equation that couldn't be solved

in my vicinity

[Anonymous No.1417221]

>>1417214
fucking pseudo-intellectual angry young man. classic /lit/

[Anonymous No.1417223]

>>1417034
wow that last sentence was a beautiful declaration of that which i couldn't put into words myself

[Anonymous No.1417226]

>>1417221
touche, although angry doesn't describe it exactly

[Anonymous No.1417229]

Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Irish Freedom: A History of Irish Nationalism
Collected Works of Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon)
The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America
Yoga and the Luminous
Yoga Body

[Anonymous No.1417235]

>i couldn't put into words myself
although not a misuse of the word myself the sentence is redundantly awkward.

[Anonymous No.1417236]

Contents page of "The Story of the World In Pictures", Copyright 1934.

Anything anyone'd like to see? The comments and pictures are deliciously old school pre-political correctness. Lots of "under the guidance of the white man" sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.1417238]

>>1417236
Hurp Durp works better when you attach an image

[Anonymous No.1417242]

>>1417235
thus the sentence has its meaning

[Anonymous No.1417243]

I keep everything on my desk, so...

>Plato - Republic
>Homer - The Iliad (Fagles)
>Homer - The Odyssey (Rieu)
>The Norton Shakespeare (Complete Works)
>Ovid - Metamorphoses
>Apollodorus - The Library of Greek Mythology
>Hesiod - the Works and Days/Theogony/the Shield of Herakles
>The Homeric Hymns
>Barry B. Powell - Classical Myth (Fifth Edition)
>G.S. Kirk - Myth: Meaning and Function
>Claude Lévi-Strauss - the Raw and the Cooked
>Edmund Leach - Lévi-Strauss
>Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince
>A. Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
>The Selected Poems of William Blake
>William Wordsworth - The Major Works
>Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge
>The Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>Salaman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
>Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories

annd, quite ashamed about this one, but:
>Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle

[Anonymous No.1417247]

>>1417238

do it

[Anonymous No.1417250]

>>1417214
this is why i'm not a philosophy major.

And I'm in bed, so
The Mind's I - Fantasies and reflections on self and soul

[Anonymous No.1417255]

>>1417247
What do you want to see?

Have a tiger.

[Anonymous No.1417257]

>>1417243
you're just lying

[Anonymous No.1417261]

>>1417247
What do you want to see?

Have a tiger. It is ferocious.

[Anonymous No.1417266]

>>1417226
it's cool I was that way too then i got a girlfriend lol but seriously, keep on wit your bad self.

[Anonymous No.1417269]

>>1417229

Trying to stick to New Years resolutions. Don't actually read all that much, but it was a holiday. Also, recently went through breakup.

[Anonymous No.1417271]

>>1417261
That tiger is most epic.

[FlygonJinn !!XZYISedUxjy No.1417288]

I'll give it a go..

>Devices and Desires
>The Reality Dysfunction
>The Neutronium Alchemist
>Red Rabbit
>On Basilisk Station
>Shirley
>Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication


Judge me.

[Anonymous No.1417297]

>>1417288
You read escapist fiction and some quirky non-fict (believe me, i did use google for your post) in order to assuage the grinding banality of your daily life (as an IT professional) and you just won't talk to girls.

[FlygonJinn !!XZYISedUxjy No.1417306]

>>1417297
So close it hurts...

[Anonymous No.1417311]

>>1417306
it's easy because I know I'm on 4chan...

[Anonymous No.1417312]

>Heart of Darkness

That's it.

[Anonymous No.1417315]

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
Puddn'head Wilson - Mark Twain
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel - Robert Heinlein

[Anonymous No.1417316]

>>1417261

post the most outrageous ones

[Anonymous No.1417320]

>>1417257

no.

[Anonymous No.1417322]

>>1417315

wtf is Heinlein doing there

[Anonymous No.1417334]

>>1417312
1970's hippy in the year 2011 unemployed and living in san francisco

[Anonymous No.1417340]

>>1416929

can't decide on OP. it's like hardcore science with dogmatic godfag.

[Anonymous No.1417346]

is that eggchan?

[Anonymous No.1417354]

Shit, too many to list all. Titles only.
>The Bell Jar
>Three Tragedies
>The Prince
>The Bonfire of the Vanities
>Spring Moon (ooh gonna check this out right now)
>Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced Japanese
>The Golden Compass
>The Amber Spyglass
>The Subtle Knife
>Bhagavagita
>THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD
>Bid Me to Love
>Dangereuses
>Being and Nothingness
>Jude the Obscure
>Passages
>Captain's Courageous
>Understand Japanese Historical Figures
>Malcom X
>Patterns and Culture (oooh)
>All the king's men
>The Last Picture Show
>The Call of the Wild
>The Razor's Edge
>David Copperfield
>The Color Purple
>Sir Larry
>Rebecca
>True Women
>The Tin Drum

and so on

Some are mine, some arent, some I have read some I have read not.

[Anonymous No.1417358]

>>1417346

it is indeed

[Anonymous No.1417359]

Everyone in this thread has some of the gayest books ever, these are real mans books.

>Time of legends: Malekith
>Time of legends: Shadow King
>Time of legends: Nagash the Sorcerer
>Time of legends: Nagash the Unbroken
>The Thin Executioner
>Catching fire
>firestorm
>Warhammer Hero's: Sword of justice

[juxtaposer !6eo0Cr.dwA No.1417360]

>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Vol. 1)
>The Maltese Falcon
>The Idiot
>The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

[Anonymous No.1417363]

>>1417359
>>1417359
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpEfzGjDU0

[Anonymous No.1417364]

>>1417359

[Anonymous No.1417366]

>>1417316

This is the most outrageous one I've found so far.

[Anonymous No.1417374]

>>1417366

[Anonymous No.1417376]

>>1417366

>savage
flol

[Anonymous No.1417382]

>>1417374

"Impervious to the sun"

[Anonymous No.1417387]

>>1417366

I'm so saving this image

[Anonymous No.1417389]

>>1417363
>>1417364

Typical haters. Because I have so much taste in my book choices and you have a compulsive need to act like total douchebags and an inability to admit that I am superior to you in the ways of book choosing you seek to ridicule my taste. Typical.

[Anonymous No.1417402]

>>1417382

I'm hitting a chapter called "RACES AND PEOPLES", prepare for shitstorm.

[Anonymous No.1417405]

>>1417366

Uploaded this to my Facebook (inb4 faggot) and tagged my anthropologist friend.

[Anonymous No.1417416]

>>1417402

Oh dear.

[Anonymous No.1417423]

>>1417416

[Anonymous No.1417425]

>>1417363
>>1417363

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD0CUex6_3k&feature=related

Autotune version is bettar

[Anonymous No.1417434]

>>1417423

lmao
I must have this book

[Anonymous No.1417441]

A lot of mangas (20-30 probably more)
Gone With the Wind
Au bout de l'éventail (At the end of the hand fan) - Jocelyne Godard
The Science of Discworld II : The Globe
Discworld : Equal Rites
The last concubine - Lesley Downer
Tara Duncan - Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian

[Anonymous No.1417445]

>Another Bullsit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
>The Next American Essay by John D'Agata
>IV by Chuck Klosterman
>The Sound and the Fury
>As I Lay Dying
>Absalom, Absalom!

[Anonymous No.1417447]

>>1417358
such a cute girl with zero sex appeal for some reason--i guess i would be her friend, but then again it would be insufferable because she would want so much attention.

[Anonymous No.1417451]

>>1417434

I picked it up at a market for £2. I did not expect it to be this hilarious.

To be fair, it was written in the 30s, and has some really sweet pictures.

[Anonymous No.1417461]

>>1417447

I would fuck her passionately and consume her flesh from within. Ever read Richard Laymon's The Beast House? Yeah. I'd do that.

[Anonymous No.1417475]

>>1417423
>advertising themselves for marriage
shit, sign me up

[Anonymous No.1417476]

In order of proximity:
Hamlet
English Grammar book (Huddelston/Pullum)
Norton Anthology of English Literature, volumes 1-2
Korean 1 (Seoul National University)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Language. Its structure and use (Finegan)
Catch-22
Hegemony or Survival

I feel inadequate reading some of the lists posted here...

[Anonymous No.1417482]

>>1417354
you are a 20 yr old female who thinks that reading a lot of books makes you smart, but you don't understand of them in fact you should probably get back into the kitchen.

[Anonymous No.1417483]

at the office

Inferring Phylogenies - Felsenstein
Homology: The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology - ed. Hall
Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs - Kielan-Jaworowska, Cifelli, and Luo
Paleobiology II - eds. Briggs and Crowther
Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Data - ed. Wiens

folders of article print outs. this seems much more appropriate for /sci/...

[Anonymous No.1417485]

Republic
What Makes Us Tick?
Infinity in Your Pocket
Mother Night
World of Warcraft Handbook

And on my computer:
Fight Club
The Portable Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.1417486]

Oh hi guys, you talking about me?

[Anonymous No.1417489]

>>1417482
Men cook better than women do.

Women should make babies and go back to work the next day. Let men stay home and do all that stuff better.

[Anonymous No.1417490]

>>1417486
yuck
>>1417483
Yeah pretty boring, not sexy, but you knew that when you got into it, I guess.

[Anonymous No.1417493]

> A Clash of Kings ~ George R.R. Martin
> Slaughterhouse Five ~ Kurt Vonnegut
> Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens
> The Grand Design ~ Stephen Hawking
> Elminster in Hell ~ Ed Greenwood
> Digital Fortress ~ Dan Brown

[Anonymous No.1417495]

>>1417489
i just wish the state would take care of all the brats so we could all just have a good time.

[Anonymous No.1417498]

>>1417486
I wouldn't fuck you if your cunt was the fountain of youth that also granted 10 wishes.

Congratulations on being damn ugly.

[Anonymous No.1417500]

>>1417486

Damn
That egg looks like House

[Anonymous No.1417504]

>>1417483
look at mister phd in paleontology. you probably revel in all of your supposed glory and think that all of the little hot coeds taking your class as an elective secretly desire you.

[Anonymous No.1417506]

I just moved, so I have some books in a box beside me. I will now move them onto my shelf and list them as I go.

>On Beauty
>Lolita
>Consilience
>Godel, Escher, Bach
>The Sot-Weed Factor
>Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
>An Introduction to Quantum Computing
>The Demon-Haunted World
>Oblivion
>On Liberty
>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
>Pale Fire
>To Say Nothing of the Dog
>The Difference Engine
>Introduction to Computer Theory
>Chomsky on Anarchism
>The World in 2050
>The Finkler Question
>A Mathematical Introduction to Logic
>Elements of Set Theory
>The Logic of Scientific Discovery
>Antarctica
>Infinite Jest
>Our Kind of Traitor

[Anonymous No.1417511]

>>1417322

dat foot

[Anonymous No.1417513]

>The Mimic Men
>A Bend in the River
>The Enigma of Arrival
>The Masque of Africa
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late capitalism
>Orientalism
>Civilization and Its Discontents
>Poor People
>The World is What it Is

[Anonymous No.1417515]

>>1417506
male late twenties computer geek living in the bay area. you and your budies probably go out for beers on thursday cause that's when you get the deals. you sit around and check out the waitress but none of you have the balls to ask her out.

[Anonymous No.1417518]

>>1417506
>Demon-haunted world
>everything else
>does not compute
isn't that book just telling you what you already know?

[Anonymous No.1417531]

>>1417513
why don't you hug the world a little bit more you 20 something social worker female.

[Anonymous No.1417537]

>>1417485
Hey guys. Here's my post. Do me. Give me attention. I want it. Pleassssssse.

[Anonymous No.1417540]

>>1417531

lol'd irl

[Anonymous No.1417548]

>>1417485
neckbeard

[Anonymous No.1417552]

The Stranger
Zot!
Life (Kieth Richards bio)

[Anonymous No.1417554]

>>1417531

>>1417513 here
I loled heartily. Although you are wrong.

[Anonymous No.1417557]

>>1417537
fine>>1417485
your a 21 year old male asocial computer geek, who wants to go out and meet people but can't because you get scared whenever you try to talk to someone.

[Anonymous No.1417559]

>>1417554
i am never wrong, you just don't want to admit it.

[Anonymous No.1417568]

>>1417552
shouldn't you go back to /b/? you wincest thread starting btard.

[Anonymous No.1417573]

>>1417568
Huh?

[Anonymous No.1417578]

>>1417573
i just tell it like it is

[Anonymous No.1417582]

>>1417568

I'm OP over here

[Anonymous No.1417589]

>A few Philosophy of Language textbooks
>Renaissance Drama Anthology.
>Fry Chronicles
>King James Bible
>Women in Love - DH Lawrence.
>Romantic Moderns

[Anonymous No.1417593]

>>1417589

OP here - Nice. Except for the last one.

[Anonymous No.1417596]

Do your worst, judgmental faggots.

Demian - Hermann Hesse
L'Etranger - Camus
Candide - Voltaire
Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
A Very Short Intro to Classics
Faces in Places
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
The Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy

[Anonymous No.1417600]

>>1417593
Forgot the author, A Harris. Not a fan of Modernists in general, or the book?

[Anonymous No.1417602]

>>1417589
you're definitely a woman liberal arts major, 19. you're smart but you don't really give a shit, and liberal arts just seemed to be the thing to do.

[Anonymous No.1417608]

>>1417602
22 year old Male English undergraduate. Could quite easily have been anything in the traditional humanities, though and you're correct with the attitude.

[Anonymous No.1417616]

>>1417596
you're a well rounded guy, who likes to read, but also has a good social life. everybody wants to be your friend.

[Anonymous No.1417617]

Savage by Richard Laymon
Sophie's World
A Brief History of Time
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Namaah's Curse
The Perennial Philosophy
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Porno by Irvine Welsh
Visions by Michio Kaku
Soon I Will Be Invincible
Pygmy
The Heretic's Daughter

...and a bunch more

[Anonymous No.1417625]

>>1417617
you're the guy who says "fuck it" to the rest of the world you march to the beat of your own drummer, and no one can tell you differently. women adore you. men admire you. you are fantastic.

[Anonymous No.1417626]

A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Story of The Eye, Bataille
From Hand To Mouth (a book about industrial workers in 1970's Germany), Herzog
One Arm, Williams
Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
Complete Works, Rimbaud
Duino Elegies, Rilke
Naked Lunch, Burroughs
Book of Lies, Crowley
Let The Right One In, Lindqvist
Desert Islands, Deleuze
etc.

[xraybt No.1417633]

>Programming in Python
>Pale Fire by Nabokov
>Enquiry....Human Understanding by David Hume
>Bleak House by Dickens
>Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
>Ulysses by Joyce
>Kafka novels collection
>Golden Bowl - Henry James
>King Lear - Shakespeare
Do your worst /b/!

[xraybt No.1417634]

>>1417633
*programming in Python 3 obv

[Anonymous No.1417635]

>>1417626
19 year old male, either gay, or questioning your sexuality. you want people to like you for who you are, but no seems to get the "real" you.

[Anonymous No.1417636]

>>1417616

I'm pretty happy about what you say but you couldn't be more wrong - Nobody wants to get to know me :/

[Anonymous No.1417639]

>>1417636
you sure it's not the other way around?

[Anonymous No.1417642]

>>1417625
I know you're fucking with me, but thanks, I am pretty fantastic, although not a guy

[Anonymous No.1417643]

>>1417636
you called me a judgmental faggot so i decided to be nice.

[Anonymous No.1417646]

>George Orwell - Burmese Days
>George Orwell - Essays
>Robert Service - The Modern History of Russia
>John Keats - Selected Poems
>Tolstoy - Master and Man and Other Stories
>T.S Elliot - Selected Poems
>Oscar Wilde - The Importance of being Earnest
>Shakespeare - Hamlet
>Albert Speer - Inside The Third Reich
>Teach Yourself - Beginner's German
>Teach Yourself - Beginner's French
>W. Bradenburg - Grammatik

[Anonymous No.1417649]

>>1417642
>fucking with me
i would never. you've hurt my feelings, oh wait, i don't have those, never mind.

[Anonymous No.1417656]

>>1417639

I do have friends and some semblance of a social life but when I try to branch out and make any new ones, nobody bites. It doesn't help I'm massively socially retarded.

[Anonymous No.1417658]

>>1417646
you're a 17 yr old male who reads what everyone else tells you to read. you can't come up with a single original idea if your life depended on it.

[xraybt No.1417659]

shelf change

>Programming in Python 3
>1000 movies you must see before you die :/
>a dictionary of politics
>jules holland autobiography
>anna karenina
>enquiry...human understanding - hume
>wealth of nations
>pale fire
>potrait of the artist as a young man

[Anonymous No.1417662]

>>1417635
I'm 23, decidedly bisexual, but yeah old books you know? And people STILL don't get me!

[Anonymous No.1417663]

ok i'm done. have fun you fucktards. *grin*

[Anonymous No.1417669]

To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Anonymous No.1417670]

Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan
Without Remose by Tom Clancy
The Abs Diet by David Zincenzko or something like that
A dozen or so roleplaying books (White wolf mostly)
A dozen or so gun magazines (Combat handguns mostly)

[Anonymous No.1417678]

Looks like
The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
History of Stow, Ethel Childs
Trapped! The Floyd Collins Story, Bruckner and Murray
American Gods, Gaiman
The Odyssey, Homer
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert O'Brien
The Secret Agent, Conrad
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
German-English Dictionary
House of Leaves, Danielewski
Outer Dark, McCarthy

>>1417646
German student with independent interest in other languages, maybe thinking about a career in linguistics.
Alternatively, you just have all that shit around you.

[Anonymous No.1417680]

>The wind up bird
>Kafka on the shore
>Let the right one in
>The lost symbol please forgive me
>Out
>Pappersväggar "Paper Walls" (Hasn't been translated to english yet)
>Handling the undead
>Shutter Island
>Paganinikontraktet
>Lilla stjärna

[Anonymous No.1417926]

>>1417557
Other than the age you're completely correct.

[Anonymous No.1417956]

Catch-22
The Godfather
A large book with several stories by Mark Twain
A large book with several stories by Edgar Allen Poe
House of Leaves
It by Stephan King
A biography of Vince Lombardi
The Last of the Mohicans

[Anonymous No.1418255]

My Kindle.

u jelly?

[CalamariSafari !Y4SoHX4AQw No.1418267]

>>1417956
More than likely in highschool, only reads books his teacher recommends. You're in love with this one girl, but it's because she is the only woman willing to smile towards your direction instead of shudder and hide.

[Anonymous No.1418288]

>>1417678
Second year university student who reads books at the dinner table.

[Abstinant !IbGPTODmSc No.1418291]

T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds
The Portable Hawthorne
H. W. Fowler - A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
The Nabokov - Wilson Letters (Edited by Simon Karlinsky)
Erich Heller - The Disinherited Mind
W. G. Sebald - Austerlitz
Henrik Ibsen - Four Great Plays
Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage

[anonymouse No.1418297]

umm, the revolutionist by robert littell, the iliad translated by fitzgerald, and The Hotel New Hampshire by Irving.

[Anonymous No.1418312]

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Salamander and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse
The Magus by John Fowles
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
White Noise by Don DeLillo

[Anonymous No.1418323]

"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
"2666" by Roberto Bolaño
"How to Brew" by John J. Palmer
"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace

[Anonymous No.1418326]

But... I have a LOT of books near me... and they're all mine...

[Anonymous No.1418329]

But... I have a LOT of books near me... and yes they're all mine...

[Anonymous No.1418330]

>>1418323
DeLillo sucks.

[Anonymous No.1418334]

From Hegel to Existentialism, Robert Solomon (collected essays)
Star Trek: Dreadnought, Diane Carey
Sword & Citadel, Gene Wolfe
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Exiles, Howard Weinstein
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Erich Auerbach
Cultural Amnesia, Clive James

IN MY DEFENSE I picked up the two Star Trek novels out of a free books pile outside my local bookstore.

[Anonymous No.1418348]

the old man and the sea
fear and loathing in las vegas
hunger
ham on rye
factotum
without feathers
call of the wild
the stranger

[Anonymous No.1418350]

Just to name a few...

Voyage au bout de la nuit
Ivan Denissovitch
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
Tonio Kröger (Thomas Mann)
House of Dolls (Henrik Ibsen)
The Adolescent (Dostoevsky)
The Metamorphisis (Ovid)
The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
Le Testament français (Andrei Makine)
War and Peace
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Full Theatres (Tchekov)
Death of Ivan Ilytch
Le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal)
The Illiad and The Odyssey
Les Bienveillantes (Jonathan Littell)
The Road
Yvain et le chevalier au lion, Lancelot ou le chevalier à la charette, Perceval and all the other French classics written by Chrétien de Troyes
All the Jules Verne Stuff
Les Fleurs du mal
Anthology of Verlaine's poesy

etc.

[Anonymous No.1418355]

>>1418348
i know! you're the personification of /lit/!

>>1418350
:smugdog:

[Anonymous No.1418360]

>>1418350

I forgot a major detail: I also have all the Asterix and Tintin's comics, from 1970.

[Anonymous No.1418366]

>>1418355
>i know! you're the personification of /lit/!
aaaand, what does that mean?

[Anonymous No.1418369]

>>1418360
Okay, that's pretty fuckign cool

[Anonymous No.1418370]

>>1418355

Stating facts.

[Anonymous No.1418385]

The Count of Monte Cristo
Moby-Dick
Paradise Lost
The Prince
Middlemarch

[ruby vajeen No.1418390]

the vicinity, fiction only.
>the Brothers Karamazov
>Greek and Roman short prose
>Collected Works and Letters, Georg Büchner
>Collected Works, Strugatsky
>the Star Diaries, Stanislav Lem
>From my Life, Giacomo Casanova
>Judean Antiquities, Josephus
>John Barleycorn, Jack London
>Se questo è un uomo, Primo Levi
>Tonio Kröge/Mario and the Magician, Mann
>120 Days of Sodom, Sade
>Djami at-Tavarih, Rashid ad-Din
>Collected plays, Brecht
>Realist Drama (Tchekhov, Ibsen and some token nebbish)
>Aischilos
>Genghis Khan, V.Yan
>Zarathustra, Nietzsche
>Erinnerungen eines Soldaten, Heinz Guderian
>Annals, Histories, Smaller Works, Tacitus
>Les jeux sont faits, Sartre
>Infinite Jest
>Quiet Days in Clichy, Henry Miller

[Anonymous No.1418404]

>>1418390
ruby vajeen u know u are my dude. what do you think of levi? also, that's the panzer commander guderian, right? what are you reading him for / what's your impression?

[Anonymous No.1418411]

>>1418390

There are some pretty shitty authors on that list...

[Anonymous No.1418414]

>>1417354
I thought I was the only one to have the bell jar and the tin drum.
also, kundera.

[Anonymous No.1418469]

>>1418390
22 yr old female who's sexual proclivities range into the unusual. you are a humanities major who likes to sit in the back of the classroom and roll your eyes at the stupid things your classmates say.

[Anonymous No.1418479]

>>1418385
16 yr old lurker on /lit/. you don't have any friends and you need someone to recommend books to you thus why you are here.

[Anonymous No.1418488]

>>1418350
you are a 21 yr old male francophile. in fact you love the french so much you give yourself evian enemas daily.

[Anonymous No.1418501]

these assessments just got funnier, too bad my list was earlier

[Anonymous No.1418503]

>>1418501
where is your list?

[Anonymous No.1418512]

All 11 Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandr Dumas
A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

SCI-FI, SCI-FI EVERYWHERE

[Anonymous No.1418513]

>>1417617
and now there's all kinds of build-up for my crappy list, but I'm curious

[Anonymous No.1418537]

>>1418513
wait, yours was done already. fine. i'll do it again.
you are a 17 yr old somewhat chubby ren fair girl who likes to wear the corsets because it shows off your ample bosom. you love the nerdy guys who only have eyes for the cheerleaders, yet if they just noticed what they could have, you would make them very very happy.

[Anonymous No.1418547]

>>1418537
haha, nice
I like it

[Anonymous No.1418549]

>>1418512
16 yr old male with social anxiety issues. you have been diagnosed with severe adhd and it seems the only way you can cope with it is by reading. you are on several medications, but sometimes you purposefully forget to take them.

[ruby vajeen No.1418560]

>>1418404
>what do you think of levi?
the best book you can have on that topic
>also, that's the panzer commander guderian, right?
insightful. mostly technical. aside from the apologetics (like all nazis spared he was an radically antifascist pacifist. he saved warsaw from total annihilation and costantly chided his subordinates for unnescessary brutality.)
the finns are cowards and the nazis were all stupid, decadent and homosexual. the war was lost because nobody listened to the panzergeneral
>what are you reading him for
why not? this guy invented blitzkrieg, and he was the one to disveil all who were involved in the generals' plot, he masterminded everything done on the eastern front and did all that being a notoriously bad liar, reactionary and outrageously sentimental.
you could watch kubrick and read vonnegut or get the real thing. at home i also have skorzeny. skorzeny was, at least, skipping the parts that would make him sound like a grotesque caricature to any sensible reader. skorzeny was a better author in general but guderian is just so much more important.

[Anonymous No.1418567]

>>1418547
happy to oblige.

[Anonymous No.1418568]

>>1418560
>why not?

i meant more in the sense of "is it for a class or just because you're interested" but yeah i completely agree with all of what you said there. guderian was absolutely a genius, blitzkrieg is real interesting & i should probably read this book.

[Anonymous No.1418588]

>>1418488

I'm 19, French is my first language and I do think it's by far superior to English in the context of litterature, well played.

[Anonymous No.1418600]

>>1418588
>French is my first language and I do think it's by far superior to English in the context of litterature
>French is my first language
>French

Your argument is invalid.

[Anonymous No.1418601]

>Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>A History of Russia - Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
>Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
>Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
>Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
>A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
>Maple Leaf Legends: 75 Years of Toronto's Hockey Heroes

[Anonymous No.1418604]

>Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>A History of Russia - Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
>Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
>Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
>Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
>A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
>Maple Leaf Legends: 75 Years of Toronto's Hockey Heroes - Mike Leonitti

I don't keep my books in my room so there weren't many.

[Anonymous No.1418611]

>>1418600
your using a language that is basically a bastardization of french and german. quit your bitching.

[Anonymous No.1418618]

>>1418600

English makes good movies (this is why Hollywood) and songs (this is why New York). French makes good litterature: this is why Paris.

[Anonymous No.1418625]

>>1418604
oh, god a canadian, well that's your first problem. 26 yr old male who can't go out because you're snowed in, you love america so much you want to live here, but we won't let you. have fun freezing.

[Anonymous No.1418629]

>The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
>Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
>Beloved - Toni Morrison
>Infinite Jest - DFW

[Anonymous No.1418631]

>>1418611
and german is just an italic bastardization. big deal. if anything english gets versatility by being germanic and then incorporating a vast norman/romantic vocabulary.

bitch. i'll win this argument (new poster comin in)

[Anonymous No.1418632]

>>1418611
You're using my language.
French is such a failure it needs the academie francaise to stop English terms superseding it's own.

[Anonymous No.1418640]

Dubliners - Joyce
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Less Than Zero - Ellis
The Road - McCarthy
Survivor - Palahniuk
Tender Is the Night - Fitzgerald
Silence - Endo
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkein
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Housekeeping - Robinson

I'm a hipster faggot and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Anonymous No.1418651]

>>1418631
i would argue with you, but i am having way to much fun making shit up about people. actually that's not true, i wouldn't argue with you. i don't care enough.

[Anonymous No.1418657]

>>1418651
Typical cheese eating surrender monkey.

[Anonymous No.1418670]

>>1418625
>Canadian
That's a bingo.
>26 year old male
20 year old female.
>Snowed in
Toronto's past two winters can hardly be called that by our standards; barely any snow and sweater weather on many occasions (Eastern seaboard is jell as hell).
>Love America/want to live there
You guys are bros, but I'm quite content in America's hat.

[Anonymous No.1418671]

>>1418631

French is an improved version of Latin. Both are the languages of the poets. It's all about complexity.

[Anonymous No.1418672]

>>1418657
God damn it. I don't want to get involved in this argument. It's stupid. A language is a language, the're all good for something, and arguing over which is best is fucking pointless.

But for God's sake, don't call the French surrender monkeys. It's untrue. And it betrays a fucking shocking lack of historical knowledge. Only a real fucking moron would make these claims about how the French have 'always surrendered' while ignoring the fucking CENTURIES when France was the pre-eminent military power of the world.

I don't have any special care for France - lovely place, nice people, kind of arrogant. But bringing up this shit is just fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.1418674]

>>1418629
you are a 27 yr old male who has a girlfriend with a vice like grip on your nuts. you would like to read more, but she complains that you don't pay enough attention to her, and you dutifully comply, because you are a whipped bitch.

[Anonymous No.1418680]

>>1418657
i'm a fucking red blooded american you dumbshit. lol

[Anonymous No.1418682]

>>1418672

[Anonymous No.1418689]

>>1418670
you can be my hat anytime

[Anonymous No.1418691]

>>1418682
yah post about a battle which the french lost because of their commitment to valor and individual courage over tactics and technological innovation. good way of proving that the french are cowards.

[Anonymous No.1418693]

Eye level on nearby shelf, first few

come at me

>gravity's rainbow
>island - Huxley
>neural networks and learning machines
>bio inspired AI
>encyclopedia of electronic circuits
>PADI open water manual
>david copperfield

come at me

[Anonymous No.1418694]

The only book The Catcher in the Rye (which I always keep in my jacket pocket) that's near me is Lolita

[Anonymous No.1418697]

>>1418694

*only book that's near me

[Anonymous No.1418700]

Pride and Prejudice
Idiot's Guide to Italian
A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness
A Flower Does Not Talk
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
John Donne: Selected Poetry
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Cuentos Completos 1 - Cortázar
The Scarlet Letter
Sudden Fiction Latino
The Winter's Tale

captcha: Kerouac's cutteke

[Anonymous No.1418701]

>>1418694

>Always keeps a copy of The Catcher in the Rye in his jacket pocket

Wait, why?

[Anonymous No.1418703]

Crécy was a battle in which an Anglo Welsh army of 9000 to 10,000 (depending on source),[citation needed] commanded by Edward III of England and heavily outnumbered by Philip VI of France's force of 35,000 to 100,000 (depending on source), was victorious as a result of superior weaponry and tactics, demonstrating the importance of the modern military concept of fire power. The effectiveness of the English longbow, used en masse, was proven against armoured knights, contrary to the conventional wisdom of the day which held that archers would be ineffective and be butchered when the armoured units closed in.

In the battle, the French knights, protected by mail reinforced with plate, nearly exhausted by charging several miles into the fray (against their king's wishes) and having to walk through a quagmire of mud to charge up a shallow hill into English and Welsh arrow storms, were cut down. The result was that much of the French nobility died, perhaps even a third (estimates of the actual numbers in each army vary considerably, depending on the source)
>commitment to valor
>rank stupidity
>have been pussies ever since

[Anonymous No.1418705]

>>1418549

>16
Nope. 19.
>Social anxiety issues
I can be a bit socially awkward at times, but don't have any anxiety issues
>ADHD
Nope.
>The only way you cope with it is reading
Nah, I read because I like reading.
>Medications
Nah, don't take any meds. Cough syrup is probably the closest I've come.

0.5/6.

[Anonymous No.1418710]

Best American Essays 2010
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Arms length anyways, I've a huge stack of books on a coffee table a few feet away.

[Anonymous No.1418712]

>>1418693
alright, you are a 30 something male computer geek living somewhere around the silicone valley. you listen to electronic music because anything like that reminds you about how much you want to be a machine.

[Anonymous No.1418713]

>>1418694

>The Catcher in the Rye (Which I always keep In my jacket pocket)

...Why?

[Anonymous No.1418716]

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Road to STalingrad by John Erickson

[Anonymous No.1418717]

>>1418705
this is not up for argument, you are what i say you are. deal with it!!!

[Anonymous No.1418721]

>>1418703
>>have been pussies ever since

cool yeah let's just ignore you know the entirety of european history up through wwI

when the French whipped the entirety of europe - EVERY OTHER NATION - for 20 damn years after the French Revolution they were being pussies? yeah they eventually lost but only after, again, defeating every other nation in continental europe. when they were a military superpower in the reformation and through the 18th century, they were being pussies. when they endured horrific casualties and the devastation of half their damn country in WWI, they were being pussies.

But no, they lost WWII, 20 years after the devastation of WWI, against one of the most overwhelming, successful military forces of history. And they opposed American military action. So CLEARLY they're pussies.

[Anonymous No.1418722]

>>1418712

Thanks but I'm 21and live in PA.

[Anonymous No.1418726]

>>1418721
>yeah they eventually lost

[Anonymous No.1418729]

>>1418701

Fuck you, it's personal

[Anonymous No.1418735]

>>1418694
you are so worthless that god questioned himself when making you. you are a 15 yr old boy who likens himself to holden, and believe that you can rescue all the children from falling over the cliff.

[Anonymous No.1418741]

Wilson by Dan Clowes
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris
The Instructions by Adam Levin
Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux

[Anonymous No.1418744]

>>1418700
you are a mid twenties male middle school english teacher, who constantly wonders "how the fuck did i wind up here?"

[Anonymous No.1418765]

>>1418710
how is the herbal tea your sipping as you languish on your leather couch reading your laptop? you are a late twenties male liberal elitist who thinks of the poor as something that needs to be taken care of like a pet, but you would never let them into your home.

[Anonymous No.1418771]

>>1418716
25 yr old male who loves anything history, you have a ditzy liberal girlfriend who loves to make you read the latest book she and her friends are ranting about.

[Anonymous No.1418777]

>>1418765
fucking your... lol obviously you're... i'm an idiot

[Anonymous No.1418782]

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

[Anonymous No.1418798]

>>1418782
so many goddamn weaboos up in here, yeah, you're trying to hide it with all the russian authors, but we all the truth, you are a 21 year old male who secretly wants to be japanese.

[Anonymous No.1418815]

Communist Manifesto
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Great Shark Hunt
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing on the Campain Trail '72
The Rum Diary
And a shit load of non /lit/ books like Bridgeman's Complete Guide and other art books.

In b4 liberal, etc.

[Anonymous No.1418816]

>>1418798
I still wonder why everyone seems to latch onto the Japanese names more than anything, even if there's only one or two. But yeah, 21 year old female, though I don't particularly want to be Japanese.

[Anonymous No.1418832]

>>1418816
do not refute my truth. i am an amplification of objectivity. you can not escape it.

[Anonymous No.1418836]

>>1418832
Psh. But yeah, I kind of want to conduct some experiment to see how many Japanese authors I can name in a list of many other authors before being called a weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.1418844]

>>1418815
so where is your copy of the electric kool-aid acid test? would you like a little more pot with your pot? you are so drugged out you think apocalypse is upon us you 24 year old male gun totting freak.

[Anonymous No.1418850]

The Illuminatus! trilogy
The Communist Manifesto
Angels and Demons
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Lies, Lies, and More Lies that the American Government Tells You
The Da Vinci Code

[Anonymous No.1418859]

>>1418850
You forgot
Foucault's Pendulum

and I'd say, you are Dale Gribble, if he read books

[Anonymous No.1418863]

>>1418836
did you just psh me???!!!

on a side note i would be interested to see what others would do, but as i am just making everything up you could write only one japanese author and i would call you a weaboo for shits and giggles

[Anonymous No.1418870]

>>1418859
>dale gribble
i lol'd

[Anonymous No.1418873]

>>1418844

I'm liking this board already. I think I'll stay.

[Anonymous No.1418879]

The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardener
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
and all the way across the room is The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.1418918]

>>1418879
oh, if only someone would come into your room, and see how much of a thinking man you are! alas, you are too much of an elitist to have any friends at all, an thus no one will see your greatness. this does not mean you will wallow in self pity, no, it is their loss, and you will be greater for it.

[Anonymous No.1418942]

not even joking:
The adventures of Captain underpants
The easy way to stop smoking (Alan Carr)
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

[Anonymous No.1418948]

>the catcher in the rye
>a clockwork orange
>a collection of short stories by Kafka
>post office by bukowski
>the third policeman
>the woman who walked into doors
>some school books

[Anonymous No.1418954]

>>1418942
how about instead of surfing the net you raise your fucking kids you sorry excuse for a parent!!!!

[Anonymous No.1418955]

>>1418850
>Lies, Lies, and More Lies that the American Government Tells You

lol is that even a book?

[Anonymous No.1418961]

Harry Potter
Fight Club (before i knew of anonymous)
Bruce lee fighting method self defense techniques

Come at me bro

[Anonymous No.1418968]

> On Killing: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
> On Combat: Lt Col. Dave Grossman
> Warrior Mindset: Lt Col. Dave Grossman
> Cost Accounting: Horngren
> The Cleric Quinten: R.A. Salvatore
> Operations Management: Reid
> FM 3-07.22 Counterinsurgency Operations

[Anonymous No.1418979]

>>1418948
i forgot to add
> the importance of being earnest
> the shining
> fear and loathing in las vegas

[Anonymous No.1418981]

>>1418948
you are 15 years old, why are you sitting at your computer on lit when you should be out trying to get into every girls panties you possibly can? those panties won't come off by themselves. i know, i know, all the girls are bitches and you can't really talk to them: look in the mirror, the girls you are going for aren't going to be interested, go for the not so good looking ones. getting laid is getting laid.

[Anonymous No.1418983]

>>1418981
>former not so good looking but horny girl detected

[Anonymous No.1418984]

>>1418961
do you even know how to read? are you sure you don't have picture books lying around? does your mommy come in and read them for you? try some books in the grown ups section.

[Anonymous No.1418987]

>>1418983
lol.
fuck you asshole. how about i fuck you with my girl dick

[Anonymous No.1418989]

>>1418984
Holy shit, we got a tough guy right here. You should probably do as he says, he's probably on steroids or something.

[Anonymous No.1418991]

>>1418968
please do not track me down, break into my house and kill me. thank you.

[Anonymous No.1418992]

>>1418918
close. not an elitists. but I don't have as many friends as I'd like. What am I doing wrong?

[Anonymous No.1418994]

>>1418989
tough guy? what the fuck were you reading? this is made up shit, quit getting butt hurt.

[Anonymous No.1418996]

>>1418987
I'm afraid I must politely decline your kind offer, ma'am.

[Anonymous No.1418997]

>>1418981
kinda close.
im 18, and i do go for that second group of girls (or go for girls who seem to have an interesting personality, and not base approaching people solely on looks)
also, bifag

[Honest_Objectivist !2E1ogQqRO. No.1418999]

Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

[Anonymous No.1419002]

>>1418994
I hurt your mom's butt last night.

Ohhh yeahhh...

[Anonymous No.1419004]

>>1418992
dude i'm just making shit up. if you really don't have friends, but you are that intelligent. i feel sorry for the people around you who can't see what a class act you are. no bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1419003]

>>1418984
trololol

Seriously though, first time on /lit/ and the only things you'll catch me reading nowadays are online articles and the newspaper. I'm more into writing anyway.

[Anonymous No.1419006]

>>1419002
i heard about that. she told me she liked it, you should come by tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.1419009]

>>1418996
i don't know, you seem like you want a nice butt plugging.

[Anonymous No.1419010]

>>1418948
You smell like Chicago. Some University, but not so important. You smoke American Spirits. HP: 152. Exp. until Lvl 32: 1311.

>>1418288
Not even.

[Anonymous No.1419014]

>>1418984

[Anonymous No.1419027]

>>1419010
what the hell does chicago have to do with those books?

[Anonymous No.1419030]

>>1419027
nah man, it wasn't the books, he smelled you through his computer.

[Anonymous No.1419049]

The Communist Manifesto
Iron Man: The Ultimate Guide To The Armored Super Hero
Lord of the Rings: Twin Towers

[Anonymous No.1419062]

>>1419030
he can smell his c/lit/

[Anonymous No.1419550]

Hey guy, what's going on in here?