/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Tue Jul 19 23:45:42 2011 No.1942055 [Reply] [Original]

Random mindless survey time, /lit/:

>Favorite book(s):
>Favorite author(s):
>Favorite genre(s):
>Favorite publisher(s):
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
>About how many books do you read per year?:
>About how many books do you read per month?:
>Last three books read:
>Currently reading:
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 23:46:42 2011 No.1942057 holy shit too many questions. I'll answer none. brevity is the soul of surveys OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 23:50:42 2011 No.1942062 >>1942057 Its only a dozen. That should be nothing for someone as handsome and smart as you, anon.

scout !!1wBNr3mLJL+ Tue Jul 19 23:54:42 2011 No.1942069

>Favorite book(s):
Our lady of the Flowers
>Favorite author(s):
Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, W.S. Burroughs
>Favorite genre(s):
I like books about the underworld criminal or otherwise
>Favorite publisher(s):
Grove Press, Gallimard
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
France
>About how many books do you read per year?:
~20?
>About how many books do you read per month?:
Varies--honestly it's quality not quantity (of reading, not of the writing necessarily)
>Last three books read:
let the right one in, the wanting seed, a book about a pedophile sex ring where European royalty are heavily involved--can't remember the title (it was a manuscript) nonfiction, toovery disturbing
>Currently reading:
The Gulag Archipelago
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
never plan this in advance
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:goodreads.com/argentumastrum (not updated in a long time)
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.

Anonymous Tue Jul 19 23:56:42 2011 No.1942072

>Favorite book(s): Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov, Leaves of Grass
>Favorite author(s): Pynchon, Chekov, Dostoevsky
>Favorite genre(s): Fiction, Poetry, Drama (all of them)
>Favorite publisher(s): No Comment/Dont care.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: USA 20th Century.
>About how many books do you read per year?: ~200
>About how many books do you read per month?: ~20
>Last three books read:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - D.F.W.
The Glass Menagerie - Tennesee Williams
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
>Currently reading: In Cold Blood - Capote
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Some stuff from Emerson and Thoreau
More Essays
Tobias Wulff, David Foster Wallace, and Chekov short stories.
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
University Library/E-Reader/ebook user here.

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:03:42 2011 No.1942083

>Favorite book(s): Look Homeward, Angel; Paradise Lost; Leaves of Grass
>Favorite author(s): William Blake; Flannery O'Connor; Walt Whitman
>Favorite genre(s): Poetry; Southern gothic
>Favorite publisher(s): Don't care, but Norton Critical Editions are pretty cool.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: I unfortunately don't have reading knowledge of any other languages besides English. I would say American, though England has quite the advantage time-wise.
>About how many books do you read per year?: This is hard to say, it's been growing over the past years. I would say around 25-30 in the past year.
>About how many books do you read per month?: This is a redundant question, but I'll just note that I actually tend to read less during my free time in the summer than I do during college semesters.
>Last three books read: The Marriage of Figaro; The Bacchae; Ulysses
>Currently reading: The Prelude (Wordsworth)
>Book(s) you plan to read soon: Going to start busting through chunks of various Norton anthologies actually, I need to round myself out.

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:04:42 2011 No.1942086

>Favorite book(s):
A Clockwork Orange, Of Mice and Men, Cat's Cradle, The Catcher in the Rye ("entry-level" crap, I know)
>Favorite author(s):
Vonnegut, Steinbeck
>Favorite genre(s):
Science fiction is the only genre I have really read.
>Favorite publisher(s):
Penguin, Random House
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
America, but I haven't read much Russian, French, or German literature.
>About how many books do you read per year?:
~40-50
>About how many books do you read per month?:
Considering trends within the past six months, 3-5.
>Last three books read:
A Breakfast of Champions, The Trial, Slapstick
>Currently reading:
Nothing. I have to run to the bookstore.
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Some more Kafkha and Naked Lunch, with a little bit of pulpy crap mixed in
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
N/A
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
N/A

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:31:42 2011 No.1942144

>Favorite book(s):
A Hero of Our Time, Sentimental Education, Fathers and Sons
>Favorite author(s):
Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster
>Favorite genre(s):
Victorian and Edwardian era literature
>Favorite publisher(s):
I don't know.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
France
>About how many books do you read per year?:
~20
>About how many books do you read per month?:
~2
>Last three books read:
Love in the Time of Cholera
>Currently reading:
A Passage to India
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
The Man Who Was Thursday, Persian Letters, Tender Is the Night, Meditations
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4426428-cory

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:42:42 2011 No.1942160

>Favorite book(s):
-The Remains of the Day, The Age of Innocence, Snow Country
>Favorite author(s):
-Kazuo Ishiguro,Cormac McCarthy, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima
>Favorite genre(s):
-No preference, but I read mostly "classics"
>Favorite publisher(s):
-New Directions, Grove Press
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
-Japan
>About how many books do you read per year?:
-about 20-30, depending on the length
>About how many books do you read per month?:
-2-4
>Last three books read:
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sound of the Mountain, Temple of the Golden Pavilion
>Currently reading:
-The Sound of Waves

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:42:42 2011 No.1942161

>Favorite book(s):
Dispatches, Survivor, Chickenhawk
>Favorite author(s):
Chuck Palahniuk, Doug Adams
>Favorite genre(s):
Fiction
>Favorite publisher(s):
N/A
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
N/A
>About how many books do you read per year?:
10-20
>About how many books do you read per month?:
1-2
>Last three books read:
A Brief History or Time, Rant, Death at Intervals
>Currently reading:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Catch 22, The Grand Design
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
N/A
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
Nope :(

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:49:42 2011 No.1942176

>Favorite book(s):
Moby-Dick
>Favorite author(s):
Melville, Shakespeare
>Favorite genre(s):
None.
>Favorite publisher(s):
Don't have one.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
Can't really judge yet, but I mostly read works from UK and US.
>About how many books do you read per year?:
Quite a few..
>About how many books do you read per month?: This last month I have been reading a book a day. I have a lot of free time right now.
>Last three books read:
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut
>Currently reading:
Steppenwolf by Hesse
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Democracy by Henry Adams
A Light in August by Faulkner
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5142765-matthew
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
lost my webcam

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:50:42 2011 No.1942181 >>1942176 Knew I was going to fuck up the green text, oh well...

Anonymous Wed Jul 20 00:56:42 2011 No.1942197

>Favorite book(s): A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
>Favorite author(s): Camus, Orwell, Dostoevsky
>Favorite genre(s): history and philosophy
>About how many books do you read per year?: 8-10 nonfiction; commuting to work
5-7 long novels; in the evening, try to read at least an hour every night
10+ novellas; read lighter stuff if I go to the beach or for a walk or shit like that
>Last three books read:
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Mindsight by Colin Mcginn
>Currently reading:
Demons by Dostoevsky
History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
Feudal Society by Marc Bloch
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
War and Peace by Tolstoy (been putting it off for a year)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 20 22:59:42 2011 No.1944558 >>1942069 Does anyone else not like this guy?

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 00:01:06 2011 No.1944713 [DELETED]

>Favorite book(s):

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Bas-Lag series by China Mieville, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Abarat series by Clive Barker, Faust by Goethe, Dante's Inferno, Beowulf, A Short History of Asia by Colin Mason, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt.

Favorite author(s):

China Mieville, Daphne Du Maurier, Jeff Vandermeer, Mervyn Peake, H.P. Lovecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Donna Tartt

Favorite genre(s):

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror when it doesn't suck. Also some History and classic literature.

Favorite publisher(s):

Penguin, Bantam, Ballantine/Del-Rey

Favorite country in terms of their literature:

Mother England

About how many books do you read per year?:

Between 20 and 60

About how many books do you read per month?:

Between 3 and 7

Last three books read:

The Maltese Falcon, Things Fall Apart, The Penguin History of Latin America

Currently reading:

Dance With Dragons by GRRM

Book(s) you plan to read soon: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Likeness

I like it when women and gays are attracted to my taste in literature. This happens more often than you'd believe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 00:05:42 2011 No.1944719 >itt hipsters and kids who wish they were stuffy middle-aged academics

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 00:10:42 2011 No.1944727

Favorite book(s):

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, Bas-Lag series by China Mieville, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski, Ambergris series by Jeff Vandermeer, Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington, Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice, Abarat series by Clive Barker, Faust by Goethe, Dante's Inferno, Beowulf, A Short History of Asia by Colin Mason, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt.

Favorite author(s):

China Mieville, Daphne Du Maurier, Jeff Vandermeer, Mervyn Peake, H.P. Lovecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Mark Z. Danielewski, Donna Tartt

Favorite genre(s):

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror when it doesn't suck. Also some History and classic literature.

Favorite publisher(s):

Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge,Bantam, Ballantine/Del-Rey

Favorite country in terms of their literature:

Mother England

About how many books do you read per year?:

Between 20 and 60

About how many books do you read per month?:

Between 3 and 7

Last three books read:

The Maltese Falcon, Things Fall Apart, The Penguin History of Latin America

Currently reading:

Dance With Dragons by GRRM

Book(s) you plan to read soon: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Likeness

I like it when women and gays are attracted to my taste in literature. This happens more often than you'd believe.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 00:20:42 2011 No.1944744
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>Favorite book(s):
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
>Favorite author(s):
Yasunari Kawabata, Ivan Turgenev, Daniil Kharms, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Phillip K Dick, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Izumi Kyoka, Kenji Miyazawa
>Favorite genre(s):
Literary fiction? I read a bit of science fiction and fantasy stuff sometimes too. I also really like children's literature.
>Favorite publisher(s):
New York Review Book Classics, New Directions, The Folio Society
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
Japan
>About how many books do you read per year?:
~100
>About how many books do you read per month?:
~8
>Last three books read:
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories by Shinichi Hoshi
>Currently reading:
Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
The Assistant by Robert Walser
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi
and the other stuff in >>1944612
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
goodreads.com/sriq
librarything.com/profile/sriq
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:04:42 2011 No.1944988 >>1944744 Japanese lit student here. How are Natsuo Kirino's books? Some of her books (at least Out) has been compared to Gogol and Dostoevsky (two of my favorite authors). Are they worth checking out

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:09:42 2011 No.1945000 >>1944988 I honestly haven't read any of hers yet, since I'm mostly a Meiji and Taisho lit person. But, Japanese lit student! What classes are you taking next semester, if you're still in college?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:13:42 2011 No.1945009 >>1944719 This describes me pretty well and I'm surprisingly okay with that (didn't post in this thread before now though)

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:15:42 2011 No.1945015

>>1945000
Where I go to school, the Japanese program is quite small (in Kentucky), so they don't offer too much courses now, but I'm taking an 20th century art/film/fiction course that has Kokoro and Woman in the Dunes on the reading list. I am hoping to go more in-depth with my studies in grad school. My favorite Japanese authors are Soseki, Kawabata, Endo, and Mishima (my area is 20th century and the Japanese bildungsroman)

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:20:42 2011 No.1945027

>Favorite book(s):
David Copperfield, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Til We Have Faces, The Woodlanders, Don Quixote
>Favorite author(s):
Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, H.G. Wells
>Favorite genre(s):
I can't say I have favorite genres. I have favorite periods.
>Favorite publisher(s):
Penguin, Hesperus, Oxford
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
England
>About how many books do you read per year?:
Since I started keeping track, about thirty-five
>About how many books do you read per month?:
It varies too much to say for sure.
>Last three books read:
Cranford by Gaskell, Seize the Day by Bellows, History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
>Currently reading:
The Decameron by Boccaccio
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, The Lake of Bees by Theodor Storm, Transformation by Mary Shelley
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
Nah, I'm good.
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
N/A

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:24:42 2011 No.1945032

>>1945015
Hah, I love Kawabata as well :D I suppose you already saw my favorites up in my post.

I'm waiting till grad school for my Japanese lit degree (though I'm thinking of doing a general East Asian literature one) and just focusing on language learning right now. My main focuses, besides just general Meiji and Taisho lit, are modern Japanese women writers (Higuchi Ichiyo and her kind~) and Japanese children's literature. I'm doing a lot of reading/research into Japanese theatre and the Tokugawa period lately too, but that'll be a while before I'm very well-read in those.

Did you have a Goodreads or any of those things?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:26:42 2011 No.1945035 This isn't /soc/, get this shit out of here.

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Thu Jul 21 02:27:42 2011 No.1945036 >>1945027 >The Decameron by Boccaccio How is that? >Seize the Day by Bellows How was that?

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:29:42 2011 No.1945043
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>Favorite book(s): The Sound and the Fury.
>Favorite author(s): None in particular.
>Favorite genre(s): I'm ok with anything at this point.
>Favorite publisher(s): None in particular either.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: None
>About how many books do you read per year?: Not many ):
>About how many books do you read per month?: One to three, then spend a month without reading any.
>Last three books read: Portnoy's Complaint, Orlando, One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Currently reading: Nothing at the moment.
>Book(s) you plan to read soon: Bolaño's 2666, Sada's Almost Never or Urroz' Friction.
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one: http://www.librarything.com/profile/alejandro00
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
Don't have one a picture right now. Have a bear instead.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:36:42 2011 No.1945060

>>1945036
The Decameron is very good so far. It's one of those books that you read for a couple of hours and don't even realize how much time is passing.
Seize the Day, I thought, was decent, but not as moving as everyone made it out to be. It reminded me quite a bit of Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, which as I mentioned, is one of my favorite books. But I felt like it just lacked. . .something. I just didn't get that much out of it.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 02:38:42 2011 No.1945063

>>1942055
That image always was an ultimate dream of mine. That place just looks beyond amazing.
But then my logical side kicks in with things like "oh the paper would deteriorate so quickly in such a situation, your allergies would be the death of you, it is filthy, etc."

Reality can be a harsh mistress.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:00:42 2011 No.1945102
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Fresh out of High School collegefag here, I've been browsing for two years though, and so far /lit/'s treated me fairly well. I apologize in advance for my shitty book list. Since I don't have a picture of my bookshelf, here's a pretty wallpaper for you.

>Favorite book(s):
Dune, Anything by Pratchett whatsoever, Use of Weapons

>Favorite author(s):
Frank Herbert, Terry Pratchett, Iain Banks, Agatha Christie, William Hope Hodgson

>Favorite genre(s):
Science Fiction and Mystery

>Favorite publisher(s):
Harper, Tor and Ace, I suppose.

>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
I aint learned 'nuff to know what countries I care about, literary-wise

>About how many books do you read per year?:
50-75 books, only counting my pleasure reading

>About how many books do you read per month?:
3-10

>Last three books read:
Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Lost World, Consider Phlebas

>Currently reading:
Ill Met in Lankhmar

>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Hyperion, And Then There Were None

>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
I don't have one of those at the moment, it's on my to-do list.

>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
Fuck, they're scattered about. I moved out of my parents house, so it's all in disorder, otherwise I would.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:04:42 2011 No.1945110 >>1945102 HOPEFULLY NOT BROWSING /LIT/ FOR TWO YEARS SINCE IT ISN'T EVEN THAT OLD.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:05:42 2011 No.1945112 >>1945110 Of course not. Between /tg/, /v/ and /lit/ I get my daily dose of rage, shitposting and entertainment.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:07:42 2011 No.1945117

>>1945102
William Hope Hodgson! What have you read of his? I tried reading through The Night Land forever ago and just couldn't make it. Though later on I read The House on the Borderland and quite enjoyed that one. Would you suggest I go back and try The Night Land again now, or try for The Ghost Pirates? Or something else by him?

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:09:42 2011 No.1945125

>>1945117
THE NIGHT LAND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS I READ AFTER COMING TO /LIT/ AND GOD WAS IT REPETITIVE.

I LOVED THE BLATANT SEXISM IN IT THOUGH, THAT WAS PRETTY BAD-ASS.

I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY TIMES IT WAS WRITTEN THAT HE USED HIS MIND POWER OR WHATEVER THE FUCK IT WAS CALLED. OVER AND OVER.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:10:42 2011 No.1945130

>>1945117
Night Land was my first book by him, I picked it up at a second hand store and it totally hooked me. I'd re-read it again, because that's what I consider to be my favorite book of his. I've picked through his short stories and those were entertaining, but I still find Night Land to be the best. Personal preference though, so I can only suggest it.

>>1945125
I'd love to hear you scream book reviews like that. You remind me of Yahtzee, and that's a good thing. You should upload your voice to Vocaroo so I can listen to you degrade my favorite books for shits and giggles.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:16:42 2011 No.1945139 >>1945125 lol, I never felt that at the time but you have a point. Epic environments, nightmarish ghouls, and constant fear of death made it a winrar IMO Sexism was like the worst part of the book for me

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:22:42 2011 No.1945154 >>1945139 You should read Ill Met In Lankhmar. I tried to take it seriously, but after like, the second chapter it was more like a bad, sexist joke that I couldn't stop reading.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:26:42 2011 No.1945164

>Favorite book(s): As I Lay Dying. Or Pale Fire.
>Favorite author(s): Philip K. Dick or Bill Faulkner
>Favorite genre(s): Horror
>Favorite publisher(s): Scholastic. Goosebumps and Harry Potter? Fuckin' A.
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: America for the moment, I suppose.
>About how many books do you read per year?: Let's go with 70 or so.
>About how many books do you read per month?: Eh... 5-10.
>Last three books read: The Brothers Karamazov, The Regulators
>Currently reading: The Name of the Rose, Things Fall Apart
>Book(s) you plan to read soon: Rebecca, Sylvia Plath's journals, All Quiet on the Western Front, et cetera.
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one: Nope.
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one: No pictures.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 03:32:42 2011 No.1945180 >>1944719 Fuck off. As if there's anything wrong with that what-so-ever. Don't be one of those people who contributes to the mass hedonism and apathy in our culture because you make it unsatisfying.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 15:10:42 2011 No.1946275 Not a bad thread at all. Continue posting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 15:36:42 2011 No.1946393 >>1945180 >typical disaffected hipster

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 15:58:42 2011 No.1946458

>Favorite book(s):
Anna Karenina

>Favorite author(s):
Hard to say, I shop around a lot. I think I've enjoyed everything I've read by Michel Houellebecq.

>Favorite genre(s):
Don't care about genree. It has to have some sort of philosophical or psychological depth to it though. I rarely read just for the sake of pure entertainment.

>Favorite publisher(s):
I'm Scandinavian, so I doubt you'll care about my views on local publishing, and I'm not well-versed enough in anglo-american publishing to pretend to have anything serious to say on the matter.

>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
Country seems irrelevant to me.

>About how many books do you read per year?:
20-30

>About how many books do you read per month?:
Obviously, that will depend on the length and difficulty of the books. Somewhere around 800 pages of medium difficulty material, I guess.

>Last three books read:
Daniel Sjölin - The World's Last Novel (don't think that it's out in english)
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors We Live By
Plato - Cratylus

>Currently reading:
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Foucault - Discipline and Punish

>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Calivino - Cosmicomics

>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
None.

>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
Nah.

Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jul 21 16:49:42 2011 No.1946614

>Favorite book(s):
Foundation, Second Foundation, Gone With The Wind, Oscar Wao
>Favorite author(s):
King, Asimov, Murakami, Bolano, Allende, Salinger, Card, Atwood, Mitchell.
>Favorite genre(s):
Bildrungsroman, postmodern, literary fiction
>Favorite publisher(s):
Random House, Virago, Faber and Faber
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
America
>About how many books do you read per year?:

70

>About how many books do you read per month?:
10
>Last three books read:
Conversation in the Cathedral, Of Love and Shadows, The Convent
>Currently reading:
Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Zorry, The Bad Girl, Kafka short stories
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
n/a
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
n/a

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 16:49:42 2011 No.1946615 Everyone posts No one reads

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 16:52:42 2011 No.1946624 >>1946615 OP here, and yes, I'm reading them. As several people have had conversation related to the questions in the thread, I guessing at least a few other people are reading them as well.

>>	Civil !!fhPDS2AJYWW Thu Jul 21 16:53:42 2011 No.1946625 >>1946615 It's like, an allegory for life, mang.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 21 16:53:42 2011 No.1946627 >>1946615 the comments toward these people who posted would mostly be insulting, at least from me. i read and didnt post

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jul 21 16:56:42 2011 No.1946636 >>1946624 I've been reading some of them. Just not all. I don't want to read them all. Oh, I see.

Tom Harper !agc.6D4SKQ!!6S3i+JD8/EQ Thu Jul 21 17:02:42 2011 No.1946655

I don't think I've read enough to choose a favourite book or author but I'll just say some that I rate highly (so far).

>Favorite book(s): The Road, Amerika, The Wasp Factory
>Favorite author(s): Mishima
>Favorite genre(s): n/a
>Favorite publisher(s): Penguin from a design point of view
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: Majority of what I've read is British.
>About how many books do you read per year?:
Only really started properly reading this year
>About how many books do you read per month?:
5?
>Last three books read:
The Heart of a Dog
Kneller's Happy Campers
Have Space Suit-Will Travel
>Currently reading:
Junky
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Violence - Zizek
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
Too lazy, look up Tom Harper
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
Camera is out of juice.

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 17:04:32 2011 No.1946660 [DELETED]

>Favorite book(s):
To the Lighthouse
>Favorite author(s): Virginia Woolf, Philip K Dick, Beckett, Yeats
>Favorite genre(s): Modernism, poetry
>Favorite publisher(s): Everyman's Library
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: Ireland
>About how many books do you read per year?: 10-15
>About how many books do you read per month?: 1
>Last three books read: Molloy, High Windows, Selected Poems by Dylan Thomas
>Currently reading: Waiting for Godot, Dubliners, re-reading To the Lighthouse
>Book(s) you plan to read soon: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 17:05:42 2011 No.1946662

Favorite book: Franny and Zooey
Favorite author: J.D. Salinger
Favorite genre: horror
About how many books do you read per year?: 50-ish
Last three books read: Geek Love, The Traveling Vampire Show, Deathbird Stories
Currently reading: Everything that Rises Must Converge
Book you plan to read soon: A Storm of Swords

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 17:06:42 2011 No.1946665

Reformatted from >>1946660
>Favorite book(s):
To the Lighthouse
>Favorite author(s):
Virginia Woolf, Philip K Dick, Beckett, Yeats
>Favorite genre(s):
Modernism, poetry
>Favorite publisher(s):
Everyman's Library
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
Ireland
>About how many books do you read per year?:
10-15
>About how many books do you read per month?:
1
>Last three books read:
Molloy, High Windows, Selected Poems by Dylan Thomas
>Currently reading:
Waiting for Godot, Dubliners, re-reading To the Lighthouse
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Anonymous Thu Jul 21 17:23:42 2011 No.1946712

>Favorite book(s): Tricky one. Invisible Cities, Arcadia perhaps. Plays included? Tamburlaine. Poetry included? The Waste Land, perhaps.
>Favorite author(s): Eliot, Marlowe, Calvino,
>Favorite genre(s): Um, I don't read genre fiction.
>Favorite publisher(s): Faber & Faber
>Favorite country in terms of their literature: Um, Britain? Followed closely by Ireland. Everywhere else is shit. (Except for you, Italo! <3)
>About how many books do you read per year?: I have no idea.
>About how many books do you read per month?: Same.
>Last three books read: "Renaissance Self-Fashioning", Stephen Greenblatt. "Christian and Classical Ideas in Renaissance English Verse" (from memory, might not be quite right), Isobel Rivers. Julius Caesar.
>Currently reading: Murder in the Cathedral.
>Book(s) you plan to read soon: The Pardoner's Tale.
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one: N/A
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one. I refuse.

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