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What you just finished reading:

What you're currently reading:

What you plan on reading next:

1.) Ham on Rye
2.) Metamorphosis
3.) The Stranger

>> No.1824513

1.) The Old Man and the Sea
2.) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3.) Infinite Jest

>> No.1824515

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (fucking great)

The Gay Science

Fat City by Leonard Gardner (movie's sweet)
Godel, Escher, Bach
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

>> No.1824516

>>1824515

Shit, I am high. Whoops.

>> No.1824519

1.) Oedipus Rex
2.) A Clockwork Orange
3.) Theogony

>> No.1824521

1) The Big Sleep
2) Storm of Swords
3)Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

>> No.1824525

What you just finished reading:
>Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
>Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima
>Ten Nights' Dreams by Natsume Soseki

What you're currently reading:
>Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai
>To Live and To Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers

What you plan on reading next:
>Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar
>The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue

>> No.1824527 [DELETED] 

Rendezvous with Rama
Brave New World
The Hammer of God.

(I found those two Arthur C. Clarkes by completely unrelated means, kinda cool)

Eating the Dinosaur

>> No.1824534

Finished: The Odyssey, Lattimore
Current: The Illiad, Fagles
Next: Odyssey, Fagles

>> No.1824538

Finished: House of Leaves, hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, VALIS.
Currently reading: Alternating between rendezvous with rama, brave new world and eating the dinosaur because I haz the ADD
Planning on: the hammer of god and the plague.

>> No.1824540

>Last Book: Generation A by Douglas Coupland
>Reading Now: The Gum Thief by Coupland.
>Next: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

>> No.1824541

This month I intend to binge on Ondaatje, Vonnegut and Atwood. I cannot hardly wait.

>> No.1824542

1) KOLYMA TALES - SHALAMOV
2) DIABLOLIAD - BULGAKOV
3) PROFESSOR DOWELL'S HEAD - BELIAEV

JUST HAD A RECENT REVIVIFICATION FOR RUSSIAN LITERATURE.

>> No.1824544

Just finished: Dubliners (finally fucking worked my way through Ivy Day in the Committee Room; boring fucking story)
Currently reading: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Next: VALIS

>> No.1824546
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1824546

Finished: Giuseppe Leopardi's "Canti"

Reading: Andrey Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" (trans. Chandler and Meerson)

Next: Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"

>> No.1824559

1. Sophie's World
2. Clash of Kings
3. Discipline and Punish

>> No.1824561

Just finished: Machine of Death, by assorted authors

Now reading: The Stranger, Albert Camus

Next to read: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Vol. 2

>> No.1824571

this threads are pretty masturbatory, everyone posts but no one reads on anyone elses. or they don't comment and it's just a big list.

>> No.1824572

>>1824571
THESE THREADS SOMETIMES GIVE ME NEW IDEAS FOR BOOKS TO READ, OR BUMP UP BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN SITTING ON MY 'TO-READ' LIST FOR TOO LONG

>> No.1824574

>>1824571
>complains
>doesn't comment on anybody

>> No.1824578

>>1824571
I read them, but most of the time people are just reading the same old shit.

There's a variation on these threads where you're required to suggest something to the person before you, but that usually fades off after the first dozen or so posts. It makes for slightly more discussion though.

>> No.1824580

finished: The Rum diary
Currently: Life - Keith Richards
Next: Metro 2033

>> No.1824582

>>1824580
Oooh. Metro. Have you played the game?

>> No.1824589

1- Norwegian Wood
2- Dance,Dance,Dance
3- some Bukowski i guess

>> No.1824592

>>1824578
I'M ALWAYS READING SHIT THAT DEVIATES FROM THE 'NORM' OF /LIT/, BUT THE ONE CONSISTENT THING I DO IN THREADS LIKE THIS IS COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT YOU JUST SAID "SAME THREAD, SAME BOOKS"

>> No.1824598

>>1824592
Why, when you have a valid point to make, do you make people not read it? It's very illogical.

>> No.1824604

What you just finished reading:
>Small Unit Action in Vietnam: Summer 1966 (West)

What you're currently reading:
>Armored Combat in Vietnam (Starry)
>The Army and Vietnam (Krepinevich)
>On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context (Summers)

What you plan on reading next:
We Were Soldiers Once.... And Young (Moore, Galloway)
The Pentagon Papers (Herring, ed)

>> No.1824612

>>1824574
i didn't complain, just commented.

>> No.1824615

>>1824598
NOT READ WHAT

>> No.1824616

1. Eleni - Nicholas Gage
2. A Criminal History of Mankind - Colin Wilson
3. not sure

>> No.1824627

>Last Read
Jeffery Deaver - Carte Blanche [new James Bond book - beyond awful. One of the most awful books I've had the misfortune to suffer through]

>Currently Reading:
Michael Chabon - The Final Solution.

>Next Book:
Infinite Jest

>> No.1824649

>>1824627

I stick to the policy "If it isn't Ian Fleming, it Isn't James Bond."

I know nothing about Carte Blanche but a quick google search indicates that Deaver was at no point an operations planner for a wartime clandestine assault unit, and as such, is not qualified to write Bond.

>> No.1824657

>>1824627

>Infinite Jest

YOU BETTER NOT PUSS OUT ON ME BRITFAG

>> No.1824665

LAST READ: DIABLOLIAD - BULGAKOV
CURRENT: PROFESSOR DOWELL'S HEAD - BELIAEV
NEXT: PEASANTS - CHEKHOV

RECOMMENDATIONS APPRECIATED GUYS

>> No.1824683

1. half finished brave new world, before that clockwork orange

2. the trial

3. either finishing brave new world or i dunno lol

>> No.1824689

1. Revolutionary Road

2. The Recognitions, Lost in the Funhouse

3. The Human Stain, Middlemarch

>> No.1824698

1. The Hunger Games
2. Fallen Angels (weird sci-fi book I found beaten up on a basement shelf)
3. Catching Fire (sequel to Hunger Games).

>> No.1824699

1) Censorship

2) one of a zillion Star Trek books (this one in particular because Captain Pike is in it)

3) another chunk of Bulfinch's mythology then Dune and Philosophy i think.

>i love these lists, its fun to see the patterns in people book choices

>> No.1824702

>>1824665
Captivating as always Capsguy. You a tripfriend in all but name.

Last read: American Gods
Currently reading: John Dies at the End
Reading next: Maybe some literature again if I can bring myself to care.

>> No.1824706

>>1824702
SORRY FOR ASKING FOR BOOKS TO READ ON A LITERATURE BOARD :(

>> No.1824718

1.) The Stranger
2.) Metamorphosis
3.) Rant

I'm op's life in reverse.

>> No.1824721

1. Tropic of Cancer
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Pale Blue Dot or Death By Black Hole or one of the Terry Pratchett novels idk yet

>> No.1824725

>>1824706

ignore them caps guy, ide day thus far pick any of the books listed in this one

>> No.1824749

What Ho, Jeeves!
The Heroes
The Psychopath Test

>> No.1824752

>>1824706
No, you misunderstand me! I love you, capsguy. Your posts are always relevant and have good content. I wasn't being sarcastic.

>> No.1824828

1. Lolita
2. Guns, Germs and Steel
3. Contact

>> No.1824848

Against All Things Ending.
Kil'n People.
I dunno. Suggestions on good SciFi/Fantasy from the peanut gallery?

>> No.1824855

>>1824752
OH, SORRY, I AM USED TO THE TERM TRIPFAG BEING INSULTING IN NATURE.

ALSO, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND KOLYMA TALES, IT'S CERTAINLY A DIFFERENT TAKE ON SOLZHENITSYN'S DOOR-STOPPERS. THEY ARE WRITTEN IN MORE NEUTRAL TONE BUT SHORT AND VERY SHARP, YOU'RE INHUMAN IF THEY DON'T EVOKE ANY EMOTION IN YOU.

>> No.1824860

-2061, Odyssey Three
-The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
-Huckleberry Finn

>> No.1824879

Game of Thrones (fuck the haters)
Independent People (because Iceland)
Clash of Kings (again, fuck the haters)

>> No.1824881

1. Mr. Palomar
2. Terra Amarta
3. The Man Without Qualities

>> No.1824890

1) Night and Day - the only Virginia Woolf novel I'll never touch again. She herself later said, "I can't believe a human being can get throught it."
2)Tropic of Cancer
3)Bleak House

>> No.1824896

>>1824848

I totally recommend Gun, With Occasional Music buy Jonathon Lethem. It's unusual sci-fi, but sci-fi. If you haven't already read Iain M. Banks' culture novels then do yourself a favour and check them out. Likewise the Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series.

Last Read: Moving Pictures, Pratchett,
Currently Reading: Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova
Next up: I just got Embassytown by China Mieville - looking forward to it.

>> No.1824905

>>1824896

I've read Revelation Space, and found it dispassionate.

>> No.1824909

1. Jane Eyre
2. Bleak House
3. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

>> No.1824920

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Fountainhead
3. Brave New World

>> No.1825022

1.) The plague
2.) as i lay dying
3.) white noise

>> No.1825028

1) Cosmos Weinberg
2) Observational Cosmology, Serjeant. Dune Messiah
3)The Ode Less Travelled, Stephen Fryman.

>> No.1825031

1.) Lolita
2.) The Name of the Rose
3.) The Sea

>> No.1826251

1) PROFESSOR DOWELL'S HEAD - BELIAEV
2) PEASANTS - CHEKHOV
3) THE SEAGULL - CHEKHOV

NO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LITTLE CAPPIE?

>> No.1826259

1. Sphere (DON'T JUDGE ME, I KNOW CRICHTON SUUUUCKS)
2. In Defense of Food
3. No Country For Old Men

>> No.1826263

1. Wake (Robert J. Sawyer)
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
3. White Noise (Don DeLillo)

>> No.1826266

>>1825022
>>1826263

Am I the only one who wasn't a fan of White Noise? Like, freal freal?

>> No.1826288

last read:

1)Henry James - 'The Turn of The Screw' (novel)
2)Ryszard Kapuściński - 'The Emperor' (nonfic)
3)T.S.Eliot - 'The Wasteland' (poem)

>> No.1826291

1. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
>>read it for history class, a very well written story of the Belgian Congo and how awful white people can be.
2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
>>its like prose pornography. Jesus, how was this man able to write this...
3. Either more McCarthy or Let the Right One In.

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>>1824721
Loved the Rum Diary when I read it a couple years back. What did you think? I know they're coming out with a movie adaptation where once again Johnny Depp will be playing Hunter. I'm very excited and plan to read it again before seeing the movie because I own it. Again though, did you love it like I do?

>>1824580

Isn't Tropic of Cancer one of the best novels of all time? I definitely think so and after reading it I picked up virtually everything by Henry Miller and devoured them. What do you think of ToC and Henry Miller?

As for mine:
1.) The second half of "The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway" because the first time around I had a library copy and didn't finish so I went and bought it.
2. "Death In Venice and Seven Other Stories" by Thomas Mann (Loving it so far.)
3. "Against Nature" by J.K. Huysmans...Anyone read it? I've heard good things.

>> No.1826362

>>1826301

Me again. Actually interested in what these two people have to say about the works they mentioned. So if you two cocks are still around lets discuss!

>> No.1826372

What you just finished reading:
Monkeyluv
What you're currently reading:
Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers
What you plan on reading next:
The Black Hole War


Fuck your fiction shit. You're a fag for reading fiction.

>> No.1826377

>>1826288
I would love to hear what you thought of The Wasteland, honestly.

>> No.1826381

>>1826372
why are nonfiction readers ALWAYS assholes?

protip: being real is irrelevant

>> No.1826384

>>1826381

because fiction sucks unless the books are enormously good. something they rarely are

>> No.1826390

>>1826377
I couldn't follow half of it :(

>> No.1826394

>>1826384
No one cares about your opinion. You're an idiot. Every word you type only cements that impression. Stop, and fuck off.

>> No.1826415

What you just finished reading:
>Satires by Juvenal
>As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

What you're currently reading:
>Tristes Tropiques by Lévi-Strauss

What you plan on reading next:
>Something by Lem
>Silmarillion, The hobbit and the LOTR trilogy

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>>1826390
Well, shit. I had the same problem.

>> No.1826421

What you just finished reading:
>Essays (Seneca the Younger)
What you're currently reading:
>On Learned Ignorance (Nicholas of Cusa)
What you plan on reading next:
>Outline of Skepticism (Sextus Empiricus)
or
>More Nicholas of Cusa (On the Vision of God, and various essays)

>> No.1826430

1.) The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged)
2.) The Elegant Universe
3.) The Shock Doctrine

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1826438

>>1826430
>The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged)
>(Abridged)

>> No.1826441

What I just finished reading:
Notes From Underground

Currently reading: Invisible Man by Ellison

What I plan on reading:
Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Stendahl, The Red and the Black, re-attempting
Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
Joyce, Dubliners

Foucault, The Order of Things
Gardner, The Art of Fiction
Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach

>> No.1826451

1) PEASANTS - CHEKHOV
2) THE SEAGULL - CHEKHOV
3) WINTER DREAMS - FITZGERALD.

I'M TRYING TO READ ESSENTIAL SHORT CLASSICS. IDEAS GUYS, GIVE ME THEM

>> No.1826457

>>1826451
Hemingway's Nick Adams stories.

>> No.1826461

Just Finished: The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Currently Reading: As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Next Up - Sons and Lover - Lawrence

>> No.1826465

>>1826457
I'M THINKING OF SAVING HEMINGWAY SHORT STORIES UNTIL I AM IN JAPAN

>> No.1826471

>lord of light
>canticle of leibowitz
>the pleasure of my company

>>2666

>> No.1826491

>>1826438

Honestly, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the few books that I think it's acceptable to read in abridged form. It's hella long with a ton of filler. That said, I'm not really sure why you'd want to read an abridged version, because the filler is really entertaining filler.

>> No.1826499

Fathers and Sons

Love in the Time of Cholera

For Whom the Bell Tolls or The Three Musketeers

>> No.1826502

1. Woof Totem- Jiang Rong
2. Yiddi Popo Club- Mikey Chabs
3. The Penguin History of Modern China

>> No.1826536

1) The Great Gatsby
2) Crime and Punishment
3) Dubliners

>> No.1826552

1.) The Metamorphosis
2.) Invisible Monsters
3.) Anna Karenina

>> No.1826572

1) Amerika
2) Lolita
3) Journey to the West

>> No.1826598

>>1824525 here, updating

What you just finished reading:
>Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai
>To Live and To Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers
>Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

What you're currently reading:
>Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
>Country Teacher by Katai Tayama

What you plan on reading next:
>Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar
>My Friend Hitler and Other Plays by Yukio Mishima
>The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue

>> No.1826629

>>1826421
original languages?! just wondering because I'm a classics student, it seems like nobody on /lit/ reads classics

>> No.1826640

1 ) Anna Karenina
2 ) War and Peace
3 ) The Death of Ivan Ilyich or Resurrection

I'm on a Tolstoy kick

>> No.1826653

What you just finished reading:
Slaughterhouse-Five, Don Quixote

What you're currently reading:
Dubliners, The Sound and The Fury

What you plan on reading next:
Lolita, On The Road

>> No.1826665

>>1826653
Those are some fantastic novels you have in that list.

>> No.1826668

>>1826665
FANTASTIC = GENERAL /LIT/?

>> No.1826670

Just finished reading:
Stranger than Fiction Chuck Pahlaniuk
Hot, Flat, and Crowded Thomas L Friedman

Currently Reading:
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
The Last Dickens Matthew Pearl
Snuff Chuck Pahlaniuk
Cryptonomicon Neil Stephenson
The Collected Short Stories of Amy Hempel
The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler
Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins
(I know I have a problem I go in 50-100 page intervals)

Next:
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy (what do you think of his style?)

>> No.1826671

>What you just finished reading:
The Phenomenon of Man - Teilhard de Chardin

>What you're currently reading:
The Birth of Biopolitics - Foucault

>What you plan on reading next:
Anathemas and Admirations - Cioran

>> No.1826674

1.The Doors of Perception
2.Infinite Jest
3.Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.1826691

>Recently finished
Peter Straub - The Throat (3/5)
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons (2/5)
Daniel Suarez - Demon (4/5)
H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds (2/5)
Michael Crichton - The Great Train Robbery (2/5)
>Currently reading
Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt (2/5)
>Next reads
Isaac Asimov - The Stars, Like Dust
Terry Goodkind - The Law of Nines
William Drinkard - Elom
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space

>> No.1826719

LAST READ: THE SEAGULL - CHEKHOV
CURRENT: WINTER DREAMS - FITZGERALD
NEXT: GHOSTS - IBSEN

>> No.1826773

What you just finished reading:
Don Quixote

What you're currently reading:
Franny and Zooey

What you plan on reading next:
1) Decline and Fall
2) The Importance of Being Earnest
3) Blood Meridian

>> No.1826776

1) A Raisin In The Sun
2) The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3) The Rose That Grew From Concrete

>> No.1826777

>>1826773
>Franny and Zooey

I hope you're enjoying that.

>> No.1826799

ADDING FOLLOWING BOOKS TO IMMEDIATE TO-READ LIST:
SALAMMBO - FLAUBERT
TO BUILD A FIRE - LONDON
MELMOTH RECONCILED - BALZAC
THE SHUNNED HOUSE - LOVECRAFT
LOUIS LAMBERT - BALZAC
WIELAND'S MADNESS - BROWN
BORIS GODUNOV - PUSHKIN
AN ANONYMOUS STORY - CHEKHOV
SARRASINE - BALZAC
IVANOFF - CHEKHOV
EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN - TWAIN
THE SLANDERER 1901 - CHEKHOV
A LITTLE HERO - DOSTOEVSKY
TYPHOON - CONRAD

I LIKE TO THINK IT'S A NICE MIX THERE. READING SHORTER WORKS SEEMED TO BE A GOOD IDEA TO ME SINCE FINAL EXAMS ARE AROUND THE CORNER

>> No.1826805

>>1826719
How do you like Winter Dreams? It's my favorite.

>> No.1826810

>>1826805
I'LL START IT JUST BEFORE I GO OUT TONIGHT I GUESS.

>> No.1826813

1) The Poetic Edda

2) A Canticle for Leibowitz

3) Angles and Demons

>> No.1826815

>>1826777

I am.

>> No.1826841

>>1824519
How are you finding clockwork so far?

>> No.1826897

>>1826629
Nah, I just read philosophy. Right now I'm doing a summer marathon of ancient and medieval. After reading some modern, I'm going to try and learn Greek.

I know a couple of languages already, but I hear it's a tough language.

>> No.1826900

1) American Psycho
2) Brave New World
3) Either Galapogos/Fear and Loathing/Fight Club

>> No.1826905

1.) The Elements of Style
2.) The Art of Styling Sentences
3.) The rest of The Color of Magic, hopefully

Yeah so I'm that guy. So what, wanna fight about it?

>> No.1826913

>>1826905
>Yeah so I'm that guy. So what, wanna fight about it?

No, but I suggest you read The Elements of Style again.

>> No.1826916

1) Lolita
2) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3) 1)

>> No.1826918

1.) The Big Sleep
2.) Dune
3.) The Raw Shark Texts

>> No.1826922

Eye of the Needle
The Psychopath Test
Freedom

>> No.1826941

Read about 100 pages of the vampire lestat, dropped because I've read it at least five times.

Should be reading the once and future king and naked lunch. I wanted to re-read all of LoTR and the first three books of Dune and finish Les Mis and the Merry Gentry series.

>>1826301
I always found it really funny that people accused Anais Nin of only being famous because of Henry Miller, and I won't even know he existed unless I had read Henry and June.

>> No.1826942

>>1826913
Maybe you should reread the part about conversational writing.

>> No.1826951

LAST READ: WINTER DREAMS - FITZGERALD
CURRENT: GHOSTS - IBSEN
NEXT: TYPHOON - CONRAD

REMEMBER, SHORT CLASSIC RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED.

>> No.1826971

>>1826951

Last: The Trial - Kafka
Current: Divisadero - Ondaatje
Next - Something Vonnegut (recommendations?)

>> No.1826977

>>1826951
>>1826951
So, how did you like it?

I recommend:
>The Tree of Knowledge - Henry James
>The Horse Dealer's Daughter - D. H. Lawrence
>The Open Window - Saki
>Innocence - Sean O'Faolain

>> No.1827002

1.)Demons - John Shirley
2.)The Tower of Fear - Glen Cook
3.)The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby

>> No.1827078

>>1826977
ANON CONFIRMED FOR AWESOME.

I PREFER FITZGERALD'S 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN (WHATEVER HIS LAST NAME IS, I FORGOT, DOO HOO)

WILL CHECK OUT RECOMMENDATIONS NOW

>> No.1827084

>>1826674
i found the doors of perception difficult to read. If a book doesn't grab my attention within the first 100 pages I put it down, how did u finish it?

>> No.1827086

1. Thousand Cranes
2. Chain Mail
3. Sea of Poppies

>> No.1827087

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMNOWPHTp6c

>> No.1827099

1.) The Road
>was pretty good. My least favorite McCarthy book. Heartwarming and sad though.
2.) Blood Meridian
>It's a lot different than No Country and the Road. His prose is like... an evil Nabokov or something. Awesome.
3.) Speak Memory

>> No.1827102

>>1827078
Enjoy the stories. They're good.

And if you want to try Asimov (in order of awesome):
>The Billiard Ball
>The Dead Past
>Nightfall
>Marooned off Vesta (and Anniversary)
>The Last Question

>> No.1827159

>>1827102
SORRY, I'M MORE INTO PRE WW-II STUFF.

1) GHOSTS - IBSEN
2) TYPHOON - CONRAD
3) EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN - TWAIN

>> No.1827166

Ken McLeod - Newton's Wake

Unknown - Memoirs of a Sergeant

Not sure I have 4 books waiting, Bronze Age history, medieval archery, a Pax Brittania novel and The Spartans by Paul Cartledge

>> No.1827675

1. Hideaway (Dean Koontz)
2. Hamlet
3. Maybe something H.P Lovecraft -esque

>> No.1827689

1. Cat's Cradle
2. The Crying of Lot 49
3. Catch-22

>> No.1827693

1. Disturbing the Peace
2. White Noise
3. Good Bones

>> No.1827700

1. The world as it is
2. food rebels, guerrilla gardeners, and smart-cookin mamas.
3. The Social Animal

>> No.1827720

A Clash of Kings. That's it, haters.

>> No.1827783

>White fang
>ASoFaI: GoT
>ASoFaI: CoK

>> No.1827999

1. The Sun Also Rises
2. The Scarlet Pimpernel
3. The Princess of Burundi

>> No.1828009

1) L'Etranger
2) Steppenwolf
3) Tales by Tchekhov

1)Dune
2)The Plague
3) Call of Cthulhu and other weird Tales
4) Good Omens

1) Dubliners
2) Memories of the House of the Dead
3) Heart of Darkness

>> No.1828018

1. Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
2. Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp)
3. Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)

>> No.1828031

1.) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
2.) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
3.) The Box Man by Kobo Abe

I've only got about 90 pages of The Fountainhead left. I'm really ready to be done with it.

>> No.1828034

1. Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City
2. ASoIaF - AFFC
3. David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

or Dance with Dragons, maybe.

>> No.1828047

1. Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
2. Hidden Empire by Kevin J Anderson
3. No idea

>> No.1828078

Just finished: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Currently reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Next: probably Catch-22

>> No.1828477

Arthur C. Clarke - 3001: The Final Odyssey

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

David Foster Walalce - Infinite Jest

>> No.1828495

Last: An Instance of Fingerpost

Current: Battle Royale

Next: A week from today is the start of the Infinite Jest thing. Giving myself a month on that, then right into Dance with motherfucking Dragons.

>> No.1828501

What you just finished reading:
>I Am a Cat, books 1 and 2

What you're currently reading:
>I Am a Cat, book 3
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Rendezvous with Rama

What you plan on reading next:
>Infinite Jest
>Look Homeward Angel
>The Left Hand of Darkness
>?

>> No.1828740

BUMPING WITHOUT UPDATE, BUT WILL BUMP LATER WITH UPDATE LATER

>> No.1828755

1) Paper Towns
2) Of Mice & Men
3) The Grapes of Wrath

>> No.1828762
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1828762

1) Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
2) A book of Baudelaire's poetry
3) Either Tolstoy's the Death of Ivan Ilych or a book of short stories called The Book of Other People

>> No.1828777

1: Wizard and Glass

2: Cell

3: Point of Impact

>> No.1828792
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1828792

1) Dead Beat
2) Wolves of the Calla
3) Song of Susannah or a Game of Thrones

>>1828777
Fuckin' loooooove Wizard and Glass.

>> No.1828802

1: Sleepless by Charlie Huston
2: A Crown Of Swords by Robert Jordan
3: Foundation by Isaac Asimov

>> No.1828805

Slaughterhouse Five
Prelude to Space
Cat's Cradle or All the Pretty Horses

>> No.1828815

1) The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
2) Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
3) Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

>> No.1828817

1) Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - Final report

2) Oxford guide to library research

3) Labyrinths by Borges

Sweet sweet summertime, I can finally squeeze in something not related to education.

>> No.1828823

1.) The End of the Affair, Life of Pi
2.) The Tiger, I Am a Cat, various short stories
3.) Whatever comes my way, though I was thinking of either re-reading Cloud Atlas or Number9Dream

>> No.1828846

>>1828823
>>1828501
Two people reading I Am a Cat at approximately the same time, crazy. Have you guys read Kokoro already?

>> No.1828851

>>1828846

No, is it the same author? I work at a library and had just happened upon I Am a Cat when shelving a cart. The title made me laugh, and when I started reading it I immediately fell in love.

I'll check out Kokoro if it's by the same author.

>> No.1828858

>>1828851
It is! By Natsume Soseki. Though Kokoro is a lot different than that one; I'd check out Botchan by him next if you want something more similar I Am a Cat. And definitely get the version translated by Joel Cohn if you do, because the older one is horrid.

>> No.1828860

1. Norwegian Wood
2. The Philosophy of Motion Pictures (Carroll), Oxford History of Cinema, random macroecon textbook
3. I'll start This Side of Paradise, Sons and Lovers, or Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World tomorrow

summer <3

>> No.1828887

1: House of Leaves
2: The Neverending Story
3: The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.1828897

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Gravity's Rainbow
2.Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
3.Godel,Escher,Bach seems interesting so probably that.

>> No.1828898

-The Idiot - Dostojewski
-Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
-Kafka's collected works or The Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa

>> No.1828907

1. The Unix-haters handbook
2. Lolita (if I can ever find a good pdf)
3. Atlus Shrugged or Don Quixote

>> No.1828975

1. TYPHOON - CONRAD
2. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN - TWAIN
3. TO BUILD A FIRE - JACK

FUCK YEAH SHORT CLASSIC FICTION

>> No.1828977

>>1828975
Do you think his name is London Jack?

>> No.1828979

>>1828858

I will definitely look into it. Thank you.

>> No.1828993

>>1828977
I WISH IT WAS.

>> No.1828998

1. The Maimed by Hermann Ungar
2. The Tartat Steppe by Dino Buzzati
3. The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski

>> No.1829136

>>1828998
OH WOW, THOSE ARE BOOKS I FOUND AND MADE THAT THREAD FOR, HOW ARE THEY GOING? FOUND THEM ONLINE OR WHAT?

1) EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVEN - TWAIN
2) TO BUILD A FIRE - LONDON
3) WIELAND'S MADNESS - BROWN

PLEASE RECOMMEND SHORT CLASSIC FICTION.

>> No.1829450

1.
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Haruki Murakami - After Dark
2.
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Edward Said - Orientalism
3.
Martin Amis - Money
William Gibson - Zero History

>> No.1829477

The Piano Teacher - Jelinek
Carpenter's Gothic - Gaddis

Either The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov or Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, not sure yet.

>> No.1829486

Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffensomething
Master and the Margarita - someone Bulgakov

>> No.1829491

>>1829477
>>1829486
Two Bulgakov mentions in 3 minutes. I'm okay with this.

>> No.1829518

- can't remember
- Operation Shylock
- not sure

>> No.1829530

>>1829491
YEAH BUT IT'S LIKE THE ONLY BOOK THEY READ.

>> No.1829617

LAST: WIELAND'S MADNESS - BROWN
CURRENT: MELMOTH RECONCILED - BALZAC
NEXT: A LITTLE HERO - DOSTOEVSKY

REMEMBER GUYS, SHORT FICTION RECOMMENDATIONS ALWAYS GO WELL WITH CAPSGUY

>> No.1829621

1) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
2) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
3) The History of the Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

>> No.1829722

>>1824508
Needful Things
The Girl who loved Tom Gordon
Fatherland

>> No.1829728

1. Candide
2. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
3. Othello

>> No.1829748

1) Notes from the underground (2 years ago)
2) First as comedy, then as Farce (8 months now)
3) Nothing.

Reading is for fags.

>> No.1829765

>>1829748
BECAUSE YOU'RE SO COOL, RIGHT?

>> No.1829769

Kim - Rudyard Kipling
1984 - George Orwell

Then what?

Another Classic, I suppose.

> "Definition of a Classic Book: One that everyone wants to have read, but nobody wants to read"

>> No.1829822

LAST: MELMOTH RECONCILED - BALZAC (I'M GOING TO TRY TO READ ALL OF HIS WORKS BEFORE MY DEATH, DON'T KNOW WHY HE'S NOT OFTEN MENTIONED HERE)
CURRENT: A LITTLE HERO - DOSTOEVSKY
NEXT: AN ANONYMOUS STORY - CHEKHOV

>> No.1829830

The Crippled God
The Rediscovery of Man
dunno, want to check out this murakami fag i hear so much about

>> No.1829833

> Finished: Lolita
> Currently: Hiroshima
> Planning: In the Garden of Beasts and/or Invitation to a Beheading

>> No.1829834

>>1829621
I hear good things about HDM, but i always thought it was meant for a teen audience and the movie was just shit and silly. IS it worth reading?

>> No.1829838
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1829838

The Trial— Kafka

An American Childhood— Annie Dillard (Just Fin')

Absalom Absalom— Faulkner

or & eventually

Infinite Jest

>> No.1829858

1) 1984
2) A Game Of Thrones
3) A Clash Of Kings

>> No.1829860

>Finished: Blood Meridian
>Reading: American Pastoral
>Next: Either jonathan strange and mr norell or the wind up bird chronicle.

>> No.1829861

LAST: A LITTLE HERO - DOSTOEVSKY
CURRENT: AN ANONYMOUS STORY - CHEKHOV
NEXT: SARRASINE - BALZAC

>> No.1829886

1.) Sult
2.) Anne Frank's diary
3.) Markens grøde

>> No.1829889

berlin novels collection - isherwood
one day - nicholls (last chapter now)
short stories- richard yates

>> No.1829892

>Finished
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
It was disappointing and the storytelling contributed nothing

>Currently
Middlesex by Jeffrey Egeunides
It's really slow and descriptive but it's got something in it dragging me in

>Next read
UMMM... I have to go to the bookstores, as Middlesex is the last unread book.

>> No.1829917

>>1828815
If you like Heidegger you should read Charles Guignon's On Being Authentic. He clears up a lot of shit.

>> No.1829920

Finished: The Brothers Karamazov - Dozzer (fucking excellent)
Reading: The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis (re-read, inbetweener)
Next: The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (OK, maybe a couple more inbetweeners first)

>> No.1829981

>skim thread
>hey several people are reading Balzac, cool
>oh wait it's just one guy, bummer
>but that guy is capsguy
>everythingturnedoutbetterthanexpected.TXT

>> No.1829982

1.Cocksure by Kurt Vonnegut
2. When we Die by Cedric Mims
3. Makers by Cory Doctorow

>> No.1829986

>>1829769
> "Definition of a Classic Book: One that everyone wants to have read, but nobody wants to read"
Hmm... soudns like everyone of my Math texts are classic reads.

>> No.1830003

1)the turn of the screw
2) miss marple, The Thirteen Problem
3)of mice and men

>> No.1830009

Slaughterhouse 5
The World That Jones Made
Gonna pick up Moby Dick again.

>> No.1830011

>>1829982

WTF is "Cocksure"?

>> No.1830033

>>1830011
it's how a prostitute feels when she finds a john

>> No.1830051

>>1830033
What about when she finds a Harry?

>> No.1830065

What you just finished reading:
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Pissing Off of Lot 49
What you're currently reading:
>Under the Volcano
What you plan on reading next:
>Crime and Punishment
>The Sorrows of Young Werther
>Infinite Jest

>> No.1830178

Finished: Lord of the Flies
Current: Brave New World
Next: Frankenstein

Currently in a fit of reading classics. Enjoying them so far.

>> No.1830190

>Finished:
The Amulet of Samarkand
Mort (discworld series)
>Reading
The Golem's eye
Sourcery (discworld series)
>Upcoming
samme series, next books

>> No.1830195

Read last: A clash of kings
Read now: a storm of swords
Read the next: a feast of crows
After that: A dance with dragons or Blood of Elves, whichever arrives first.

>> No.1830206

>Just finished:
Freakonomics

>Currently reading:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

>Next:
Metamorphosis

>> No.1830217

Last read: Clash of Kings
Currently reading: Whisperer in the Darkness
Planning to read: Storm of Swords and Against All Things Ending

current mode: fantasy.

>> No.1830222

>Just finished
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
>Currently Reading
Bright Lights, Big City - Jay Mcinerney
>Plan to read next
A Game of Thrones - George R.R Martin

>> No.1830229

>>1830178
I was really disapointed with Frankeinstein. Long descriptions about Nature, very slow paced plot, romantic as fuck about characters' life, themes are black or white.

Only thing that I enjoyed was the form how the story is revealed.

>> No.1830232

1) - lord of the flies
2) - dark tower - wizard and glass
3) - dark tower - wolves of the calla

>> No.1830290

Last read-
Crime and Punishment

Current:
House Of Leaves

Next-
Either the complete franz kafka short stories or Notes from underground.

>> No.1830310

>Bright Lights, Big City - Jay Mcinerney

wow, i didn't think people read this book anymore.

>> No.1830347

What you just finished reading:
The Accursed Kings 7
What you're currently reading:
Nicomachean Ethics (in Spanish)
Is life worth living?: William Hurrell Mallock
The Last Ringbearer: Kirill Yeskov
What you plan on reading next:
Well, my 'to buy' book is pretty much what I'd like to read next, but I sometimes choose other books with no order. I should be reading Aristotle, but found the others in Internet and I read them in my PC.
But if my to buy list goes as planned, Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis

>> No.1830357

A Feast for Crows
Uhh... nothing, I've tried to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter but keep putting it off.
A Dance with Dragons

>> No.1830390

1.) Dark Tower III: The Wastelands
2.) The Wise Man's Fear
3.) Dark Tower IV: Wizard and the Glass (assuming I can find it at Borders. If not I'll get it off Amazon or finish reading IT).

>> No.1830398

>>1829769
Sure you didn't mean this:

>"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain

>> No.1830509

1) crying of lot 49
2) tropic of cancer
3) infinite jest

>> No.1830543

1.) The Time of Light, Gunnar Koperud
2.) The Caves of Steel, Isaac A. Asimov
3.) Whatever strikes my fancy next time I'm in the library I guess. Might pick up Boris Arkady's Roadside Picnic.

>> No.1830547

The Great Gatsby
Savage Detectives
Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

>> No.1830655

> What you just finished reading:
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

> What you're currently reading:
The Red and The Black by Stendhal and The Falling Man by Don DeLillo.

> What you plan on reading next:
The second Stieg Larsson I think.

>> No.1830667

1) The Physicists
2) On the Genealogy of Morality
3) Faust I

i'm glad i can read all of them in the original language

>> No.1830670

>>1830543
have you watched stalker?

>> No.1830674

1) Utopia - Thomas Moore, Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

2) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

3) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

>> No.1830774

>What you just finished reading:
Waiting for Godot

>What you're currently reading:
White Oleander

>What you plan on reading next:
Slaughterhouse Five

>> No.1830847

1.) The Stranger (Camus)

2.) Homo Clausus

3.) The Fall

>> No.1830999

1) AN ANONYMOUS STORY - CHEKHOV
2) LOUIS LAMBER - BALZAC
3) SARRASINE - BALZAC

>> No.1831338

1. Lo! - Charles Fort

2. The Room - Hubert Shelby Jr.

3. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.1831358

Queer - William S. Burroughs
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
On The Road - Jack Kerouac

>> No.1831400

1) Child of God (dug it)

2) Blindness (awesome so far, but obviously lacks in depth visual descriptions, makes me really want to see the movie just so I can get an idea of what a ward full of blind people would look like)

3) Don Quixote

>> No.1831404

American Psycho
Lamplighter - DM Cornish
Paradise Lost/Regained if I can be bothered or Cather in the Rye

>> No.1831412

Just finished The Great Gatsby a second time.
Currently reading Heart of Darkness and The Pleasures of the Damned (Charles Bukowski poetry collection).
After that I was either gonna read through my Dylan Thomas collection or Paradise Lost.

>> No.1831510

What you just finished reading:
- Blood on the Moon


What you're currently reading:
- El Aleph

What you plan on reading next:
- Children of Men
- Ana Karenina
- Ulysses

>> No.1831836

>last read
Confessions by Saint Augustine

>currently reading
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

>next read
I'm thinking either Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede or The Return of Don Quixote by Chesterton

>> No.1832114

Just finished: the magician's wife (shitty, why I came here to look up more stuff)
currently reading: Steppenwolf
next up: goethe, tolstoy, or my other backlog books

>> No.1832125

Finished reading: Leaves of Grass
Currently reading: Walden
Reading next: Dubliners (going to dublin thursday, plane material, only Joyce I haven't read yet)

>> No.1832129

>>1831836
I <3 Chesterton, his writing is so lively...

Last: The Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
Current: Shakespeare (yeah, all of his: on Richard III currently, I fucking love my kindle compilations)
Next: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

>> No.1832137

just finished: sons & lovers
currently: the idiot
next: the beach of falesa

>> No.1832157

>What you just finished reading:

Like Water For Chocolate (Uni), it was okay I guess.

>What you're currently reading:

A Confederacy Of Dunces, pretty funny right now.

>What you plan on reading next:

Metamorphosis, stuff keeps interrupting.

>> No.1832174

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Steppenwolfe (ugh, a book within the novel in the first 100 pages? wtf Hesse, I get your ideology, quit rambling!)
I'm thinking of tackling Proust's masterpiece. Already splurged on it... 3,000 pages, bros.