Reading Lists

Currently reading/upcoming reads. Thoughts?

Looks patrician.

Currently reading
>William Gaddis - The Recognitions
>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow

Going to Read
>Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazof
>John Barth - Lost in the funhouse
>William Gass - The Tunnel
>Kafka - Metamorphasis and Amerika
>Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
>Pynchon - Frying Latka and V

HGWELLS
>men of the moon, time machine, doctor moreau, invisible man, war of the worlds, extraordinary journeys, around the world in 80 days, journey to the centre of the earth
>arabian night's entertainments, wuthering heights
Latest books I bought, haven't arrived yet. Gonna read through Wells first.

Im planning on making my way through some Of those books next year, I have too many on my plate this year.

Those last two books are Jules Verne's. Is this bait?

No Milo?

Yeah, I forgot to write the name. Verne and Wells.

currently
>book of disquiet
>sun and steel
>the republic

next on the backlog
>to the light house
>tale of genji
>nich ethics
>richard iii
>the sound of the mountain
>the trial
>metamorphosis

>William Gaddis - The Recognitions
>Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow

oops it looks like you meant to include Infinite Jest in that list as well. Would you like me to fix that for you?

I already read IJ. Twas good

Ahh good you had me worried there. You should read the Calvino after those, give your poor brain a rest after those doorstops and before the others
maybe even read a little Auster

Keynes does require an understanding of marginal economics before you read it. That’s all you need though. Seriously. I know people sometimes don’t do this but you GOTTA understand what he means by marginal when he uses the term.

I would suggest either two books to learn marginal economics: Léon Walras’ Elements or Carl Menger’s Principles. I am reading Elements right now. It requires calculus-level knowledge of math to understand. By Walras’ own admission however, Menger is a good substitute, just read Menger OP. Just add Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics before that one in your list. That’s all.

Jevons also teaches Marginal Economics, but Walras says he is flawed. Don’t worry about Jevons. Skip that Englishman, but don’t skip Keynes, that guy was smart.

Currently reading Joyce's oeuvre because it is February, the month of his birth. I am halfway thru Portrait. Occasionally I go to ReJoyce by Burgess for fun supplement.

Next
>Outline - Rachel Cusk
>Transit - Rachel Cusk
>On Looking - Berger
>The Trial - Kafka
>Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Marquez
>Speak, Memory - Nabokov
>Last Orders - Graham Swift

>Reading
The Brothers Karamazov

>Next
The Death of Ivan Illych
Doctor Faustus (Mann)

I almost wondered if he did graffiti on the side but I don't think so.

Currently:

Apollonius - On Conics Books V - VII
Léon Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile’s
Nicomachus - Introduction to Arithmetic

Upcoming:
Ibn Al-Haytham’s reconstruction of the eighth book of On Conics
Irving Fisher - Mathematical Investigations into the Theory of Value and Price
Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy In America
Plato - Laws (all books)

I dunno Veeky Forums, I’m kind of looking forward to Laws.

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is FAS a real thing? i work with a lot of dumbass kids and i'm always checking them out for various disorders and pathologies, but it feels sort of like phrenology cuz some kids that look that are ok students and others that look normal are dumb as shit

Yes, it is.

coming soon
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life
>Minding the Modern
>The Threepenny Opera
>Snow Country
>The Failure of Presidential Democracy

woah you got something to say say it to me, leave the waifu out of it she's fuckin russian it can't be helped

Newfag so don't bully me please

Recently read / reading:

>Siddhartha
>Dorian Grey
>American Psycho

Upcoming reads:

>No Longer Human
>The Dhammapada
>Mythology (Edith Hamilton) (Started, it bore me to death so I may have to wait for this one)

Future reads:

>Nausea
>A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
>The Hobbit and TLOTR (I've been meaning to read these pretty much all my life)
>Mindfulness in plain English

These are all books that stood out to me the most to begin reading. Depending on which I enjoy or which fulfill me the most, I will continue with similar books. Hopefully I can get through Mythology since I would like to get into the Greeks. I've also been curious/doubtful of Buddhism and eastern philosophy, so that's why I'm giving that a chance. I will also keep reading fiction and other classics / essentials.

Philosophy Is So Bogus

How are you liking GR so far, user? Were you also part of the reading group? ;_; Frying of Latka 49 gave me hearty chuckle. I can't believe no more recordings of his voice exist other than that little bit on the simpsons.

Anyway, here's what I'm currently reading along with a bunch of books I hope to read or at least start in 2018. Should be a good year. just kill me already, but pls no bully

It's García Márquez, or plain García. Márquez is his maternal surname.

There's also an Inherent Vice book trailer where he narrates as Doc Sportello, look it up on youtube.

simping pseud brainlet

youtu.be/RjWKPdDk0_U

Here ya go, user.

Shit, I never knew about this, thanks! Man, he sounds pretty much exactly how I pictured.

>nietzsche
>kierkegaard
>goethe

>teenage girl-tier shit

Y’all need to get a fucking grip.

just finished Notes from the Underground.
up next:
Cartesian Meditations - Husserl
Being and Time - Heidegger
Against Epistemology - Adorno
Treatise of Human Nature - Hume
Demons - Dostoevsky

in no particular order. I was also thinking of reading William James' The Will to Believe

reminds me when i was 18, and had something to prove...

Pleb.

Last read: Suttree
Current read: Journey to the End of the Night
Next read: Whatever

Have read this year:

Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Don Quixote - Cervantes

Still to read:

Decline and Fall - Waugh
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Lucky Jim - Amis

Elevate Either/or right up to the top, my man. It is the shortest in your list, and the conclusion you might arrive at after reading the rest of what you've listed. Might as well make it your point of departure instead.

Is suttree worth it?

Books I'd like to read this year:

One Thousand and One Nights
Amado Nervo's poetry
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Troilus and Cressida
Upanishads
Tao Te Ching
Start with the Greeks.jpg

sure is. very nihilistic

This isn't exactly a reading list but I can't find a better thread to post it in. Pic related is a stack of nonfiction books my dad left in my room a while ago. I haven't read any yet but I was hoping someone here could direct me towards a first choice.

Second from bottom is called Science and Human Values.

those all look absolutely wonderful, good for you. believe it or not i have a copy of science and human values, same edition if im not mistaken. thrifted from a giveaway pile in my department, never read. so maybe, because of that, read it first.

If you don't finish all of Shakespeare's plays in a year I'll beat the shit out of you

I bet u haven't even read the five great tragedies, white boi

fite me irl fag, I'll make u cry more than Claudio in Measure for Measure

finished stoner havent decided next book yet

fiction pick something off of non fiction something off of

Recently read:
The Stranger
The Republic
Twilight of The Idols

Upcoming:
The Sorrow of Young Werther
The Brothers Karamzov
King lear

Been reading too much philosophy and need some good stories in my life right now