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there it is again. I'm beginning to believe in Solitary Idealism here, all these people reading my russian waifus

We don't read those in high school as you might have in the States.

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>Catcher In The Rye
>Inherent Vice
>Stoner
>Bagombo Snuff Box
>Look At The Birdie

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1. Macbeth
2. Pale Fire
3. a Season in Hell
4. the Crying of Lot 49
5. As I Lay Dying

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>Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
>Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
>The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
>Elective Affinities by Johann Goethe
>Roughing It by Mark Twain

understandable

6/10

>Catcher in the Rye

my favorite book, you phony

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Confronting the Classics. M Beard.
Religions of Rome. Beard and others.
Hell West and Crooked, T Cole
TCOL49
Assassins Question (Third book of Farseer Trilogy) R Hobbs.

I've only read Inherent Vice. Am I missing out on much?

how was the Goethe? I've only read Faust and a bit of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

...

What does he mean by this...

>I've only read Inherent Vice. Am I missing out on much?
Missing out on what, Pynchon? IV is basically just Pynchon-lite, so if you're looking for something more demanding, then read on. GR obviously comes to mind.

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>The Game
>1177 B.C.
>Brood of the Witch Queen
>Pasolini on Pasolini
>A History of Japanese Literature

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My Antonia, Huck Finn, The Cat's Cradle, Journey to the End of Night, Norwood

No, out of the books you (or whoever) listed. Always looking for more recommendations and the only other book I'm more than vaguely aware of from his/your list is Catcher. Which I've never had the urge to read.

3/10

>>le dostoevsky is hard
>no you fuck off
It's not about difficulty you nonce, you won't get the themes of death, love and faith; you just won't

Ah. Catcher + Stoner are pretty standard "You should read this"-type books. Bagombo Snuff Box + Look At The Birdie are just short story collections by Vonnegut. Pretty comfy reading (before bed, etc.).

Cool. I like short stories, so i'll check those out.

I'm not going to argue over who "gets" it more but honestly if you're this caught up in pretentious intellectual dick measuring what do you even read for
No doubt when I read it again at 25 I'll find more in it than I know now, and again at 30 and 40 and 60 and so on but that's still no reason not to read it now

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A Confederacy of Dunces
Dubliners
The Crying of Lot 49
Problems of Philosophy
Hunger

You have the reading habits of a 19 year old.

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the two towers
the return of the king
superman for all seasons
a knight of the seven kingdoms
the king of elfland's daughter

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>Aurélia by Gérard de Nerval
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
>The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
>The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I'm currently reading the top 3. I hadn't read a book aside from textbooks in years and decided to start investing time in it this year. Thinking of reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick or Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson next.

2/10

wowww three year age diffeence

0/10

A lot of books should be read in 3 years time. Your smartass response shows that you have the reasoning skills of a 19 year old as well. You should be far away from the books you mentioned at your age.

Suggestions?

bugs... easy on the methamphetamines

No read what you want. My ranking is based on assigning points out of 2 for each book. It gets 2 if I like the book, 1 if I only like the author, and zero if I don't like either. I wasn't saying like "fail".

What the fuck? I'm gonna kill myself now.

Ah, makes sense. Which book did you like?

technically you're killing yourself whenever you do anything -- such as going outside, when you're inhaling the fumes of 1.015 billion cars, or when you drink alcohol, or when you impregnate your girlfriend and your kids reduce your number of years by way of stress. You kill yourself every day, friend.

the Jung

>tfw oxygen slowly degenerates your cells
>tfw the air you depend on for life from second to second is also what will eventually kill you from old age

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East of Eden
Crime and Punishment
Hadji Murat
12 rules for life
Bridge to teribithia

3/10

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Stoner
The Broom of the System
The Tunnel
The Lime Twig
Autobiography of Red

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hyperion
judas unchained
pandora's star
in a sunburned country
how to fail at everything and still win big

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Oleanna by David Mamet
Last News of Mr. Nobody by Emmanuel Moses
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
How Tucked in the Corner Was Sadness by Teenagers in King County Juvenile Detention

0/10

0/10

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Muerte Sin Fin
El llano en Llamas
Los de Abajo
Scipio's Dream
Apology

You gotta love that Mnemonics story KV wrote in BSB

8/10 i'd be yo friend

i'll still win big

2/10

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Jung Extracts : the undiscovered self
The Brothers Karamazov
Nineteen Eighty-Four
An Essay on Typography
Mastery

4/10

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I don't read

cool, Roadside picnic is on my to read list. good?
pretty heavy stuff man, you should read for fun too
dont be vague
seems right
wish I read Neuromancer when I was younger
you are on the right path
I hope Pale Fire doesn't make you want to quit reading
so far best taste, weakest spongebob
seems like you know what you are doing, but man TCOL49 is in all introductory lit
simply not my bag baby, do you
hope some of these are rereads
good start keep up, abandon Joyce
*shrug* man I do not like Tolkien, and so I can only be ignorant here
why read three books at the same time? it makes no sense to me at all. AT ALL
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never heard of some of this stuff, can't rightly judge
Judas Unchained sounds like a badass christian hardcore band

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>In Watermelon Sugar
>Hollywood
>Invisible Cities
>The Spire
>The New York Trilogy
>

10/10

2/10 for Auster who I thought was alright in that trilogy at least. More brutal than I expected going in. Something a little frivolous in its air though.

>I'm not going to argue over who "gets" it more but honestly if you're this caught up in pretentious intellectual dick measuring
Not at all what was happening

What a superfluous reply. Don't worry about getting the last word in a childish argument.

>seems like you know what you are doing, but man TCOL49 is in all introductory lit
I read around two books a week. Probably around 25% of all books are re-readings.

How many other people dedicate such a large portion of what they read to second or even third readings?

Aw, look, he's trying to fit in. Can't stay mad at the little fella, can you?

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Art of War
Mysticism and Logic
Meditations
The Quran
Age of Reason

Most of my reading is rereading.

Huh?

0/10

>why read three books at the same time? it makes no sense to me at all. AT ALL
Yeah I came to that conclusion a few nights ago, so I'm focusing on Aurélia right now. I had acquired a few fairly large nonfiction books all at once and wouldn't commit to starting with one and reading it to the end before starting another one.

0/10

What do you all think? Can someone who takes the time to post a comment this idiotic truly understand literature? Or is the meaning derived from art more about perspective, inherently subjective? In other words, does anyone besides me really want to read this moron's analysis of any novel he claims to have read?

Grow up.

I don't care what he has to say but I'll give it a look if I'm here.

yeah man totally agree, it was like a thrill ride, just as soon as I felt in the groove with a story or a theme it was trying to convey BAM he fucking switches the track making it not quite a different ride but all the same unsettling until it all merges into one mindfuck which is a pleb term I know but is apt here because my gosh the fetish of modern is this happening just kind of clangs home like a hammer on sheet metal at this point, yeah
I reread books all the time. a fool is someone who reads a book once and pretends to understand it. for instance I have read TCOL49 4 times and described and recommended it to everyone I know who had the slightest inclination towards literature

Are you the 0/10 poster?

And now he's trying to understand things... Good God, how fucking adorable. Reddit transplant or no, I welcome our new friend.

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A Hero of Our Time
The Turmoil
Alice Adams
The House of Mirth
The Good Soldier

0/10

The ending of the first book really caught me off guard. Not in a plot sense necessarily but just the fact that an author would steer his story in that direction. I had expected him to be some wry, mannered, fancy boy but it turns out he has courage. And he writes about interesting things. I'm considering reading his new one but it sounds a little silly.

Yes A Hero Of Our Time! so good. short and to the point. sadly it has failings in the tour guide department. Russia is fucking ugly. but there are pirates and near death experiences. anyway, read The Manual Found At Saragasso

dude he set it up, a noir detective story with no payoff, the smart aleck didnt win. I enjoyed the book less the more I read, which is not a good sign, but by jezus he kept me entranced

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on the fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason
book of disquiet
crime and punishment
notes from the underground
and then im almost done with gravitys rainsbow its been taking up alot of time I could have spent with more philosophy I want to read but this has been pretty enjoyable. not sure what I’ve got out of it yet, definitely a fun ride.

Yeah but just imagining him living in an alley for months for a case that doesn't need him is so brutal that I was in awe. I thought then that Auster must be slightly crazed which I admire in a writer.

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Skag Boys
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Soft Machine
Electric Acid Kool Aid Test
Beyond Good and Evil

4/10

0/10

Yo I feel you. I'm half way through Infinite Jest. It's Good but I can't wait to get back to my list.

Damn brutal. So you hate all those books?

I've never heard of Skag Boys. I dislike the rest.

amazing

Of course the case needed him! forgive my yelling but at the train station he was given a choice of following a certain person. this decision affected not only the first story but every story after it. the whole theme of the trilogy is losing oneself, and the questioning of identity. let me know if I am losing you

Fair. Skag Boys is done by Irvine Welsh who did Trainspotting, Filth, Porno, and Acid House.

I don't know man The Stories We tell Ourselves was a decent perspective on H.S.T

Sure. I just meant that by the time he was in the alley the case had resolved or started to, didn't it. It's hard for me to remember these books mind you. I have only read them one time and it has been a couple of years.

That's fine. I've always felt an aversion to HST. But I don't care what people read of course.

Why the aversion?

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Social Philosophies in Conflict
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The Future of Power
Candide
Leviathan