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What do you intend to read over summer, /lit/?

I'm going to try to read War and Peace, followed up by Life and Fate.

>> No.2628235

>>2628234

2666
The Crying of Lot 49
Anna Karenina
Don Quixote
The Pale King

give or take.

>> No.2628240

Paradise Lost
Dune
Kafka's complete short stories
Song Of Roland
Infinite Jest
Camus omnibus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
World War Z
Sound and the Fury
Leviathan
Thomas Paine's works

i'm on the fence about Infinite Jest. i'm almost done with Brothers K and I really don't want another doorstopper at the moment. I think I will save that for fall.

>> No.2628282

Los detectives salvajes, Bolano
Justine, Sade
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Le mythe de Sisyphe, Camus
Seven Memories of the Future, Krzhizhanovsky
After Babel, George Steiner
I Trionfi, Petrarca
Poetics, Aristotle
Wisdom of the West, Russell
The Library of Alexandria, forget the author off the top of my head
The Bible in Hebrew
a load of contemporary poetry books and novels for review on my website
all the Shakespeare I have yet to read (just over 33% through already)
the rest of my Greek poetry anthology
Jin Ping Mei, Sheng
Moby Dick, Melville
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Don Quijote, Cervantes
Don Juan, Byron
German Oxford poetry anthology
Canadian Oxford poetry anthology
American Oxford poetry anthology
Chaucer's poetry
John Donne's poetry
William Carlos Williams's
Catallus's

plenty of others for sure, just can't remember everything I have to read for my long summer

>> No.2628305

>>2628282
>Jin Ping Mei, Sheng

Hell yes, I'm thinking of going after this one this summer too. Will you be reading the David Tod Roy translation (though it is incomplete)?

>> No.2628341

In no order (and it's becoming winter here)
The Most Dangerous Game - Connell
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
The Victim - Bellow
I, Claudius - Graves
Goodbye to All That - Graves
Pan - Hamsun
Tun-Huang - Inuoe
The Belly of Paris - Zola
Molloy - Beckett
The Dunwich Horror - Lovecraft
The Prisoner of Zenda - Hope
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Orwell
Ugetsu Monogatari - Akinari
The Face of Another - Abe
The Odyssey - Homer
The Shadow Over Innsmouth - Lovecraft
Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai - Tsunemoto
The Old Curiosity Shop - Dickens
Egil's Saga - N/A
Nostromo - Conrad
The Valley of Fear - Doyle
Flatland - Abbott
The Pianist - Szpilman

Nice variation I s'pose.

>> No.2628353

VS Naipaul House for Mr Biswas
Anatole France, corpus
Beckett -- Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
Tolstoy - Childhood Boyhood Youth
Dostoevsky - Notes from the House of the Dead
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons, Notes from a Hunters Album
Isaac Babel - stories (in Russian and English)
Chekhov - stories (already read about 25% but gotta keep going)
De Maupassant - stories (5% in)
Nabokov - Speak Memory, and the rest of his stories
Rouseau - Confessions
Tristam Shandy
Education of Henry Adams (33% in)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
March of Literature - Ford Maddox Ford
Kosinkski - the Painted Bird
Wind-up Bird Chronicles
Parallel Stories - Nadas (100 pgs in)

Possibly re-read Finnegans Wake

Also: Life and Fate - have OP pic edition

Also: want to do more readings in the original, so that may push out some books from this list, but I like to tackle as much as possible and get the highest % read

Also for SF people: Gene Wolf, Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2-4. Already read the first one. You can tell i'm not an SFfag, but I love this book.

>> No.2628354 [DELETED] 

Here's my super hopeful summer to-read list, of about 75 books.

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Here's my super hopeful summer to-read list, of about 75 books.

>> No.2628386

ITT: People on /lit/ who actually read literature.

>> No.2628404

Out of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Seven Taoist Masters (translated) by Eva Wong
Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom et al.
Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles
The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne Valente
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Ursula K. LeGuin (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) edited by Harold Bloom
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

That's the list so far. I've already read some, and I'm just sort of making it up a I go along.

>> No.2628406

More Russians (Gogol, Tolstoy, Bulgakov)
More Joyce
More Hemingway
More Dutch and Flemish classics (Multatuli, Couperus, Elsschot)
More Latin American classics (Borges, Vargas Llosa)
More scientific classics (currently reading Origin of Species)

>> No.2628417

>>2628386
ITT: People who post about how they will read literature
Not posting ITT: People reading literature

>oh shit i'm ITT

>> No.2628423

Hegel's Phenomenology
Kant's Pure Reason
Something by Rorty
Melville's Pierre/Confidence Man
Pope's Dunciad and Rape of the Lock
Nozick's Anarchy, Sate and Utopia
Morrison's Song of Solomon
Updike's Couples/Centaur
Maybe Finnegans
Tristam Shandy, if I don't get to it before term ends

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>>2628417
lol
>>2628423
definitely finnegans. doittttt
>>2628406
yes more joyce. finnegans. doittttt
>>2628341
>>2628353
>>2628404
>beckett = brofist.jpg
>beckett knew joyce

fw is real right now, the world could be gone who knows when, listen lit do iiiittttttt

>> No.2628452

>>2628417
Actually these list are pretty cool. Hope everyone ends up reading them and the collective /lit/mind advances a million years

>> No.2628455

Everything except Finnegans Wake

>> No.2628464

Currently reading 100 Years of Solitude, and I'm absolutely loving it.
Other stuff I'll read this summer:
The Brother Karamazov
The Divine Comedy
The Importance of Being Earnest
2666, though I can't find this in Spanish at my library so I'll have to buy it.
Catch 22
The Castle

>> No.2628466

War and Peace
Paradise Lost
The Divine Comedy
Don Quixote

Probably a few small ones in between, but these are the major ones I want to hit.

>> No.2628487

'The Pale King' for sure, but besides that nothing's really set in stone. Looking at some more Krasznahorkai, Bolano, Hrabal, Bernhard, and Tokarczuk. Ben Marcus's new book. Maybe McElroy's 'Women and Men'.

>> No.2628494

Mrs Dolloway
Lolita
Gravity's Rainbow
Moby-Dick
Inferno
Endgame
Henry IV (reading now)
I know I can definitely get at least this list read.

>> No.2628529

This thread has reinvigorated my hopes in /lit/.

Keep reading boys.

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2628980

Lucky for me I had a list already made in Word

Arkady Babchenko – One Soldier’s War In Chechnya
Issac Asimov – End of Eternity
Patrick Ness – A Monster Calls
Albert Camus – The Plague
David Foster Wallace – Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Junot Diaz – Drown
Jeff VanderMeer – City of Saints and Madmen
Thomas Ligotti – Teatro Grotessco
Kurt Vonnegut – Welcome to the Monkey House
Stephen Donaldson – The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Stephen King – Different Seasons
Leonid Andreyev – The Seven Who Were Hanged
Erlend Loe - Naïve. Super
Daniel Wallace – Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Tim Winton – Cloudstreet
Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker (good cover)
Carl Sagan – Contact
William Falkner – Go Down, Moses
David Mitchell – Number9dream
Robert Graves – Good-bye to All That

Added that last one on after reading some wikipedia entries regarding previous posts in this thread. I have some books sitting in my room that I still need to get to before summer, but I think I'll manage them in time.

>>2628353
The Painted Bird was a pretty good read. It was extremely sad and grim.
>mfw reading it

>> No.2629001

>>2628305
No, I'll be reading the more archaic Egerton translation where the erotica is written in Latin for censor's sake :P

To those reading Finnegans Wake, enjoy. It was a very unique experience reading that book, and I may give it a second read next summer, but I still need more time to get into the contemporary American and European authors and my list for this summer is more classic stuff.

>> No.2629005

I'm being forced to read Atlas Shrugged so that will be terrible, but I hope to re-read the Inhertance cycle and I've been thinking about reading The Bible.

>> No.2629019

Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin
Pynchon's V and GR
re-read Odyssey and Iliad
2666
Mrs Dolloway
The Castle (FINALLY!!!!)
And then a lot of Latvian literature for improving my ever-shrinking vocabulary.

>> No.2629025

>>2628980
number9dream is genius. People don't talk enough about David Mitchell here, all his work is worth reading, ghostwritten, cloud atlas, black swan green, bam.

I've got to do his latest, 1000 autumns, this summer.thx for reminding

>> No.2629091

Finish reading the Sherlock Holmes books (I'm currently on the second), then some Lovecraft. I'd also like to re read The Stand.

>> No.2629099

>>2629025
You liked it? I was thinking it might be about a real angsty, unlikeable teen or something. Is it easy and enjoyable, or does one have to look deep in order to like it?

>> No.2629139

>>2629099
dubs. i thought it was really very readable, engaging and fun. you have to expect that mitchell is going to throw some curveballs at you, i.e. dropping separate narrative/texts into the story, but I like that. the narrator, a 20 year old japanese kid, is pretty likable too. not much angst, imo.

>> No.2629146

>>2629139
Sounds good then, thanks.

>>2629091
If you're looking to read The Stand, may I strongly recommend The Long Walk, in place of or in addition? Also by Stephen King.

>> No.2629154

Lolita
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
100 Years of Solitude
The Setting Sun
All You Need is Kill
Of Human Bondage
Confessions of a Mask
Silence
Everything Lovecraft
A couple of Teddy Roosevelt biographies
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Through the Looking Glass
The Tale of Genji
Battle Royale
Ten Billion Days and a Hundred Billion Nights

I may reread The Old Man and the Sea as well.

>> No.2629163

Not sure, but I think I'm going to start light with Iceberg Slim's "Pimp" and Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon." After those, I think I'll move on to Henry Miller's "Tropic" books... Don't really have further plans... I may pick up Ellison's "Invisible Man" since I just picked it up at a Salvation Army store for 50 cents...

>> No.2629171

I'd like to start at the beginning.
Illiad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Then maybe Herodotus and Thucydides.
Will probably taken longer than summer.