Age

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simulacra and simulation

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The Shadow over Innsmouth,
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
The Road to Serfdom,
Proglema To Any Future Metaphysics, and
Moby Dick.

thanks for sharing user

do you actually mean that? it doesn't matter if you don't

>19
>les chants de maldoror (halfway through it)
>The Trial
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Blood Meridian
>Naked Lunch

i read the trial when i was 16 and it fucked me up

I mean, I'm not being ironic or anything. I know over sharing can be a symptom of loneliness but I guess that's why we come on this board.

old

The Wealth of Nations
The Aeneid
The Three Great Virtues - Three Essays by Emerson
Agamemnon
Hospital Sketches

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The entire three body trilogy
Cat's cradle
Midnight's children

>22
>Your Favorite Band is Killing Me by Steven Hyden
>Dispatches by Michael Herr
>Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
>The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
>Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics by Mark Thompson

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>Ovid: Amores
>Ligotti: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
>Dunham: Not That Kind of Girl (don't laugh, a friend gave it to me... she's not a terrible writer)
>Brook: The Empty Space

The Color Purple
Fight Club
Lolita
Eyes Wide Shut
Blade Runner

I'm 18.

>36
why are you here?

Good shit my friend

Literature is my passion and not one person in my life reads books or likes challenging themselves with philosophy/psychology/difficult fiction/poetry. You guys are my last hope for literary discussion ... and I teach English. My colleagues would rather discuss TV shows or sports or what kind of siding they're getting on their houses

i'm this guy
currently getting my license in teaching secondary ELA. is it worth it? I love working with the kids and I have a passion for the content, but occasionally I have doubts

>20
>sickness unto death
>twilight of the idols
>sun and steel
>dubliners
>hopscotch
ay

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Zettel's Traum
Being and Time
The Recognitions
Critique of Pure Reason
Phenomenology of Spirit

>31
>The Very Hungry Caterpillar, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Corduroy
technically these are the last books I've read

what did you think about cat's cradle?

Teaching is a much-maligned profession (of late? for a while? not sure) and not a path to riches, but if it fits your personality the pros should outweigh the cons. Be prepared for kids who don't care - actually, many of them won't care - and administrators who are clueless. But there's an energy to a classroom that's unmistakable, and you're seeing people in the process of 'becoming themselves'. Most of my friends work in technology or business and when I hear about what they do everyday I'm glad I'm not trapped in a cubicle.

the teachers i'm working with are telling me i'm dedicating my life to poverty but its worth it

It depends on their definition of "worth it." I can't stand Martin Shkreli, but he made a good point quite a bit ago: he said Warren Buffett was worth billions and earned every dollar he ever made, but as far as society's concerned, he's less important than a kindergarten teacher (I'm paraphrasing).

"Poverty" is a strong term (I prefer to refer to myself as "economically disadvantaged") but you have to decide how you want to spend your days in order to earn a living: soul crushing desk work where you speak to maybe three different people or multiple classrooms with a variety of kids (many of them have problems)?

>Age: 23
>Closing Time by Heller
>The Sacred Canopy by Peter Berger
>Oleanna by Mamet
>Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
>One Dimensional Man by Hebert Marcuse

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>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Fathers and Sons
>Great Gatsby
>A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage
>Silence
Finished Silence and started Lolita today, reading along with The Book of Disquiet.

I dont read i write.

Can someone recommend me novels if probably the only author I love is Don Dellilo?

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Sayings and Anecdotes - Diogenes
The Art of Happiness - Epicurus
Europe Central - Vollmann
Politics - Aristotle
Poetics - Aristotle

>19
>House of Leaves
>The Golden Age
>Red Mars
>The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
>One Two Three... Infinity

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>Cigarettes / Harry Mathews (current)
>Assisted Living / Gary Lutz
>The Becoming / Rem+Rom
>Hikikomori: Adolescence without End / Tamaki Saito
>The Lost Scrapbook / Evan Dara

++maldoror
You read any Oulipo or Breton-brand Surrealism? How's it compare if you have?

>Silence
Shusaku Endo or John Cage?

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Albert Camus - The Fall
Frank Herbert - Dune
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
Howard Fast - Spartacus (foreign translation)
Alex Haley & Malcolm X - Autobiography of M.X

Endo. Watched the film right after, very good adaptation.

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A book of five rings
some random survival guide

i don't remember any others

>26
>Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee
>Travels in the interior of Africa
>A Brief history of the Celts
>Dancer From the Dance
>Culture of Critique

this made me sad

Legitimately how is the altered carbon adaptation further along the pipeline than the Neuromancer adaptation this makes me so mad that book is so fucking cartoonish

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La larga marcha (Rafael Chirbes)
Los siete locos (Roberto Arlt)
Partir (Lucía Baskaran)
El estado natural de las cosas (Alejandro Morellón)
Leaving the Atocha station (Ben Lerner)

How was the Tarkovsky book? I've been interested in it for a while now.

>19
>donald ray pollock - the devil all the time
>peter handke - die angst des tormanns beim elfmeter
>matthew stokoe - empty mile
>thomas bernhard - beton
>william gass - the tunnel

>25
>Beside the Ocean of Time
>Satantango
>Death in the Afternoon
>Graveyard Clay
>I Married a Communist

Reddit/10

>Notes From Underground
>Anna Karenina
>Hadji Murad
>Stoner
>The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
A Maze of Death by K.Dick
Ubik by K.Dick
The Symposium by Plato

aside from that I binged the Sunstone comics

>34
>The Sound and the Fury
>Resurrection
>Egenmäktigt förfarande
>Moby Dick
>Viper's Tangle

I am new to reading books, as I had little patience for reading in my free time while I was in college. Now I'm getting Veeky Forums and trying to improve myself.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A New History of Western Philosophy Vol. 1 - Kenny
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Invisible Man
Mythology - Hamilton

Motorcycle maintenance was great except I had a very weak philosophy background. I'll re-read once I've read the Greeks, Kant and Tao Te Ching.

>19
>Kafka - Die Verwandlung
>Wong - What the Hell Did I Just Read
>Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
>Sagan - Dragons of Eden
>McKenna - Food of the Gods

Currently on A Universal History of Iniquity; some fun shit.

How's Carver? There's an old copy of his works (including What We Talk About) in my uni's library. Looks like it'll crumple to dust if I do so much as look at it the wrong way. I'd like to pick of some of his work after I finish my current backlog.
>HoL
Tried this numerous times, haven't been able to get thru it yet.

>23
>Henry VI, part 1
>Julius Caesar
>Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
>Collected Works of T.S. Eliot
>Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia

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Adorno - Negative Dialectics
Terry Eagleton - After Theory
Sophocles - Antigone (reread)
Jean Anouilh - Antigone
Foucault - Discipline and Punish (reread)

This board really skews young. Explains a lot.

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The German Prisoner by James Hanley
The Riddle of Scheherezade by Raymond Smullyan
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
The Planiverse by A.K. Dewdney
No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger manuscript by Mark Twain

some of these I just can't stop rereading. Someone please send help.

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Ben Shapiro-Bullies
Graham McNeill-False Gods
Ben Counter-Galaxy in Flames
Friedrich Nietzsche-Beyond Good and Evil
John Green-Turtles All the Way Down

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Book of Dissent
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
The Philosophy of Marx
Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe

19 M Toronto (pls I need friends)

The Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
Freedom Club - Industrial Society and Its Future (aka Unabomber Manifesto)
Debord - Society of the Spectacle
Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology
Fisher - Capitalist Realism (re-read)

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antonio di benedetto - zama
ryu murakami - piercing
jerzy kosinsky - being there
yasunari kawabata - beauty and sadness
philip k dick - do androids dream of electric sheep

>jerzy kosinsky - being there

jesus christ after seeing the responses in this thread i will never come here again

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Lord of the flies
Divine Comedy (fragments, mostly hell)
The Art of War
Roadside Picnic
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

I've been trying to catch up with the classic recently. The Saragossa Manuscript was particularly amazing and I recommend it.

>16
>Brother’s Karamazov
>Stoner
>The Divine Comedy
>Infinite Jest
>Ulysses

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Man who Flew the Memphis Belle Robert Morgan
Gifts of the Desert- Markedies
Defense of icons-- St. John of Damascus
The Illustrated Man-- Bradbury
Fighting for the Soviet Motherland by Dimitri Loza

Pic for attention

Absolutely disgusting.

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>The Odyssey
>The First Philosophers
>Paradise Lost
>Dubliners
>Les Miserables

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Against the Day
At Swim-Two-Birds
Nostromo
The French Lieutenant's Woman

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>Brothers Karamozov
>Blood Meridian
>The Best of HP Lovecraft
>Book of 5 Rings
>Generation Kill

Fucking hell you're old

Hah

>25
>Buddha: Life & Teachings
>Fight Club
>Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism
>It
>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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>1984
>Animal farm
>Brave new world
>The Fall
>Crown and country

Shit nigger I literally just finished the fall. What did you think my man?

Agrippa is next on my buy list. Found myself an old copy at my local bookstore that I'm having them hold for me.

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Critique of Judgment, Kant
Hrafnkel's Saga
The Sound of Waves, Mishima
Ubik, Dick
The Simulacra, Dick

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>Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
>The Winter's Tale
>Timon of Athens
>Romeo and Juliet
>Eugene Onegin

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>The Trial
>The Tavern Knight
>Inferno
>Love in the time of cholera
>Norwegian Wood (ongoing)

just going through the more entry level things because I haven't read them before. Also what else by Kafka is worth reading? I really enjoyed the trial

It's one of the most insightful books about making movies (and the countless problems that go along with it) I've read. Make sure you've seen most of his work first and then you might want to rewatch a few of them afterwards. It made me like Nostalghia.

Kafka's short stories are god-tier. "The Metamorphosis" and "The Hunger Artist" are two of the great works of the 20th century imho

>24
>Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
>Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Prufrock and Other Observations by T S Eliot
>Civilisation and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
>Statutory Interpretation by Ruth Sullivan

Am I a meme yet?

the crow-girl
sin noticias de gurb
call me by your name (the movie's coming out next month!!!!)
the vegetarian
everything i don't remember

i've just read light stuff lately
20 yo from brazil

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The terror
The beautiful thing that awaits us all
Titus groan
The library at mount char
Weaveworld

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thinner
do androids dream of electric sheep?
epictetus' enchiridion
the book of the law
armageddon in retrospect

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waking up to the dark
joyce's book of the dark
the poetics of space
the red book
the ascent of humanity

>Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism
Occult Herbalism sounds pretty interesting
Gain any practical knowledge? Did you enjoy the book?
Lol.. that's some heavy anti-civilisation reading you got going on. I've read the coming insurrection and society of the spectacle.
You might like Charles Eisenstein.

eros the bittersweet - anne carson
an oresteia - anne carson
down below - lenora carrington
duino elegies - rilke tr snow
a hero of our time - lermontov
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next step is reading every major translation of the trial before learning german... orrrrr his short stories like other user said.. metamorphosis the hunger artist the judgement etc. not kafka but camus' short story the stranger will appeal to you if you liked the trial. if you want to go novel route, read the castle first. and of course his dairies. and his letters. all pretty necessary if you want to understand kafka imo. also, the 1962 orson welles film adaptation of the trial is fantastic (and better than citizen kane)

Yes, books on occult herbalism are a dime a dozen nowadays, but this book (and other works by Daniel Schulke), are definitely the most informative. This book is an introduction to his forthcoming work, and deals more with the philosophy and symbolism rather than practical workings. If you're really interested in the subject, The Serpent and the Rainbow is a great place to start to kind of get the feel for how herbs are treated in traditional practices. More in-depth books on the subject can vary greatly according to specific traditions. A lot of the new-agey type books on the subject tell mostly the "hows" but not the "whys" of the practice, and Schulke's works explain both very well. The Liber Falxifer series does a very unique spin on the practice as well, but delves into what many would deem to be questionable practices associated with many of the African Traditional Religions.

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In search of lost time vol 5-6
night
all's well that ends well
riddley walker

friends are overrated, keep working

de occulta philosophia worth it? i read some Paracelsus for an undergrad project and it was pretty turgid

>early-mid twenties

>Anna Karenina
>The Upanishads
>One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
>Dubliners
>The Madman: His Parables and Poems

Currently Reading:
>Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>The Language Instinct
>Les Miserables

>18
>La casa de Bernarda Alba
>The Great Gatsby
>Heart of Darkness
>Animal Farm
>Wonder

Noice

Lovely, thank you, will look into Schulke

>blade runner
Is nabokov actually normie tier now?

Republic of wine by Mo Yan
Selected essays of Lu Xun on literature
The Analects of Confucius
Destruction and sorrow beneath the Heavens by Krasznahorkai
Mulberry and Peach by Nie Hua-ling

(It's pretty wew-lad tier if I think about it now)

Also read Snow country and no longer human recently.

I didn't really like snow country after I finished it but now that I've let it sink in it wasn't that bad.

Ok.

>24
>1984
>Norwegian Wood
>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
>No longer human
>A tale for the time being (Ruth ozeki)

>20
>Collected fictions by Borges
>3 books for uni all in Swedish I'm not going to bother naming them
>The Recognitions by Gaddis