Post the last 5 books you read and indicate which one was your favourite.
Rec books based on others' selections.
Me:
Eric Hoffer - The True Believer (fav*)
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals
Viktor E Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
(*all of them were very enjoyable, however)
Blindness - Jose Saramago (very good)
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde (okay)
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (very good)
The Long Walk - Stephen King (favorite)
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (complete trash)
The Sound and the Fury
Midnight's Children
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Against the Day (favorite)
At Swim-Two-Birds
Moby Dick - Melville. Love it.
The landlady - Dostoyevsky meh
Corsario negro - someone. Meh
The double - Dostoyvesky liked it
El llamado de la selva - Jack London great book
bump
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords (favorite)
A Feast for Crows
Berenice
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons **** holy sh*t my favourite ever
Ali Smith - Autumn
Giorgio de Maria - The Twenty Days of Turin *** this was also real good but a reread so maybe it doesn't count?
Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Satantango
Jame M. Cain - Double Indemnity
wait shit that second comment was meant to go against satantango
Dharma bums
The Great Gatsby
The old man and the sea
Epictetus discourse
The man and it's symbols
>Dharma bums. Very good
>The Great Gatsby. Goodish
>The old man and the sea. Good
>Epictetus discourse. I really like it and recommend to anyone that is into stoicism
>The man and it's symbols. Call me a pseud or a Peterson follower or anything but I actually quite enjoyed it
Dharma bums win
Stoner - Williams
Michael Kohlhaas - Kleist
Die Marquise von O... - Kleist
Heart of Darkness - Conrad (fav)
Odyssey - Homer
Hound of the Baskervilles
At the Mountain of Madness (fav)
The Trial
A Clockwork Orange
Zodiac
Moby Dick
First Love (Turgenev)
Heart of Darkness
Master and Margarita
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Ranked from preferred to least preferred. The monumental one about the whale blew me away but it's close; that Turgenev guy could fucking write a story.
the elementary particles - michel houellebecq
confessions of a mask - yukio mishima
temple of the golden pavilion - yukio mishima (fav)
the sorrows of young werther - goethe
pale fire - nabokov
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis*
The Children of Men - P.D. James
The Rule of Benedict - Benedict of Nursia
Poems - C.S. Lewis
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
I've had some really good picks for my last 5. I really liked all of these, but this is the order in which I like them most.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Gravity's Rainbow (re-read) - Pynchy
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - PKD
The Sound and Fury - William Faulkner
Submission - Michel Houellebecq
The Riddle of the Sands
The Tongue Set Free
The Willows/The Wendigo
The Hound of the Baskervilles (muh fave)
The Fisherman
>but it's close; that Turgenev guy could fucking write a story.
That's a shining rec user I just ordered it
Moby Dick
Paradise Lost
Othello
Faust
Judges,Samuel 1-2 and Kings
In order of quality imo, didn't mean for it to be so Christian. They're all incredible I loved it.
Moby Dick (favourite)
Sickness unto death
Clockwork Orange
Macbeth
The myth of sisyphus
Blood Meridian- blew my
Mind
Metamorphosis- bugged me
Cuckoo cuckoo’s nest- it was crazy
Importance of being earnest- Kinda Gay
Three women- Immaculate
Blood Meridian
A Confederacy of Dunces (fav)
Lolita
Life and Fate
Hamlet
>First Love (Turgenev)
I really really wanna get this.
I have only read F&S, Sketches from a Hunters Album and got Rudin lined up right now.
How was First Love?
>please dont unnecessary spoil it like every introduction to his works does.
first love was my first Turgenev. It convinced me to read Father's and Sons. It's a beautiful little story
Twilight of the Idols - fucking great.
Dead Souls - liked it and didn't like it. I feel as if I'd like it more if I were Russian. The themes seem to be very national in character, not very accessible to an outsider. Funny though, and liked the prose.
War and Peace* favorite. Left an impression on me.
Blood Meridian - pretty damn good. This man can write. Incidentally the only thing I've read from him besides the Road. Dense, challenging, a chore at times but the prose is fantastic. Powerful.
Streetcar named desire - liked. Lyrical, evocative.
Cheers
>How was First Love?
Beautifully and subtly crafted, like most of his work.
>Oscar Wilde (okay)
>Stephen King (favorite)
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
not really into Twilight
The Brothers Karmazov (incredible, I liked C&P less when I read it in high school and thought this would be a slog, but the characters in this book and the moral questions about guilt and forgiveness make this a necessary read)
A Deepness in the Sky
A Fire Upon the Deep (both books are excellent, albeit a bit long-winded. Good if you want more interesting ideas than teddy "anodyne" chiang, less mind-fucking than greg egan and with a little more space opera dashed in).
Hunting for Eichmann (Good quick read. Is Hannah Arendt's book on his trial worth reading?)
Portnoy's Complaint (excellent. I read this every few years after I've forgotten all the jokes. Roth does jewish guilt even better than Allen.
>Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert
Suffers from being the only one with a "planned sequel" and then the author dying, and lacked his wife's input since she died, satisfying and better than Messiah or God Emperor though
>From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty
Very interesting nonfiction looking at how the dead are treated in other cultures and how it connects with attitudes about death
>Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier - Mark Frost
Not as much content as I'd hoped for
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks - Mark Frost
Reading this after watching The Return was like "Wow that's pretty neat, shame it didn't matter at all," which made some of the typewritten Milford parts a bit of a chore to read
>Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
Probably my second favorite after the original, recaptures the feeling of it the best. Favorite of the bunch.
It
50 shades
Creature
The Hulk screenplay adaptation
Le poisson