What books do you own but have not read?
What books do you own but have not read?
About a hundred historical tomes.
A metric ton
Well, it starts with the Iliad tbqh.
Ayn Rand, War and Peace, Don Quixot
Everything starts with the Iliad
lord of the rings
The last and first men, a brief history of time
A lot, nearly 800 books. Fairly different kinds of stuff, from Mikhail Zoshchenko to Kobo Abe.
all of them
i tend to give away most of my books after i've read them so at any time most of the books i own are ones i haven't read
unfortunately i acquire books faster than i read them so the chances are that the ones at the bottom of the mountain will never be read
The Greeks
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A whole fucking lot of them, let me tell you. But I've bought a lot of books in the past year and making use of them will be a life's work.
don't sleep on don quijote de la mancha, mi phamiglia. it is weighty but hilarious.
Aeneid and the divine comedy
About a sixth, the largest of which is Zimbaldone.
My diary desu
this is a rare pepe and I am stealing it.
juliette by marquis de sade
Loads. I buy stuff at estate sales and online bargains much faster than I can actually read it (which I suppose means I'll eventually bury myself under a pile of TBRs).
>The Penal Colony and Other Stories
>Scaramouche
>The Turn of the Screw + The Aspern Papers
>Hard Times
>Jerusalem
>Invisible Man (Ellison not Wells)
>The Man Who Was Thursday
>Foucault's Pendulum
>Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
>The Baron in the Trees
>Oblomov
>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
>Radio Free Albemuth
>The Best American Essays 2007
>The Master and Margarita
>Papillon
>This Town Will Never Let Us Go
>1776
>In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
>Elmer Gantry
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe
>Chess Story
The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
Pinochet File
Stalin - Simon Montefiore
Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the only somewhat interesting Rothfuss
les heureux et les damnés
paris est une fête
moby-dick
fondation
les enfants de hurin
le jeu des perles de verre
Too many.
I'd need an 'I Am Legend'-style apocalypse event, or else sequester myself in a secluded log cabin, to be sufficiently free of distractions to read the books I have and want to read.
>tfw weak will-power
Remove your computer's power supply user. Make it a pain in the ass to waste time onlin, simulate a cabin experience. Go for a walk. Alter your idea of a typical day until distractions are just a thing you used to have.
Divine Comedy
Mansfield Park
Portrait of the Artist as a young man
Melancholy of Resistance
Lady Chatterleys Lover
Pale King
V
Bleeding Edge
Nichomachean Etics
Complete Plato (Only read 400 or so pages).