ITT

Last 5 you read + current one you're reading

>Fahrenheit 451
>Fathers and Sons
>King Lear
>The Old Man And The Sea
>A Slip Under A Microscope

>Macbeth

>I’m 15 and spring break just started

Last 5 I've read
>Ulysses
>Ulysses a second time
>Ulysses a third time
>Ulysses a fourth time
>Finnegans Wake

Currently reading
>a jury duty exemption notice for being declared mentally unfit

>The Iliad
>Walden
>A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
>The State of the Union (Albert Jay Nock)
>The Odyssey

>Principles of Economics (Menger)

>The Savage Detectives
>The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
>The New York Trilogy
>The Waste Land
>1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

>Faust

>>A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
>>The State of the Union (Albert Jay Nock)
Your thoughts on these?

>Propaganda
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Shadow of the Torturer
>An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
>Ethics
The Fatal Egg

Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
Dark tower- the gunslinger
48 laws of power
Mastery - Robert Greene
The Prince

Current: 33 strategies of war

>Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
It's the first work of Hoppe's that I've ever read. His style is delightfully lucid, and I'm overall very impressed. However, his arguments sometimes feel lacking. I don't have the book on hand, but I recall that in the final chapter (on the matter of private vs. public defense), his closing argument is something like
>well, even if it doesn't work out, at least we will have experienced true liberty for a little bit
I have his book "The Myth of National Defense" cued up somewhere down the line, so I hope to find some more substantive arguments there. Overall, though, I highly recommend this as an introductory work to modern Austrian thought.

>State of the Union
Nock is a phenomenal social critic. Where Mencken excels at biting wit and criticism, Nock is much more sympathetic, often painting a better picture of how/why the average Joe thinks as he does (about art, politics, etc.), even if he is ultimately as critical towards them as the former is. His essays "A Little Conserva-tive", "An Anarchist's Progress", and "Isaiah's Job" were probably my favorites, but his apolitical stuff was just as worthwhile, if for no other reason than historical value.

Thanks user.

Last 5:
>Doctor Faustus
>Notes from the underground
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Trial
>Dubliners

Current
>The Catcher in the Rye

>Resurrection
>The Cherry Orchard
>Snow Country
>House of the Dead
>Men Without Women

>Ada

Iliad
Fellowship of the Ring
Augustine's Confessions
The Two Towers
Return of the King

Kotkin's Stalin vol. 1

>The House of Mirth
>The Good Soldier
>Don Quixote
>Stoner
>Decline and Fall

Of Human Bondage

5
>catcher in the rye
>survivor, palahnuik
>Battle Royale
>gonzo
>Liar's Poker

>LSD, My Problem Child

A very diverse list

How was confessions
>Propertius - Elegies
>In our Time - Hemingway
>V.
>Gravity’s Rainbow
>Horace - Odes
Mason and Dixon

What the fuck is this a high school reading list?? Who the fuck are you people?? Why are you posting fuccboi shoes on a literature forum??

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!

Just ordered a copy of Ulysses
Any observations you could share with a first time reader that changed\improved your perception of the novel?

Okay nigbro, post your fucking list

no one reads Ulysses or Gravity’s Rainbow or Don Quixote in HS LA classes you sperg faggot

With the exception of Pynchon who is a fucking hack, you should have read both of those and 90% of this thread if not in high school then by your freshman fucking year in college

>>Battle Royale

Battle Royale is soooo cool.

My list:
>Right and Left - Norberto Bobbio (I actualy re-read it for like, the 4° time)
>Escritos Contra Marx - Bakunin
>The Prophet - Idk how to write the dudes name
>The Law - Bastiat
>and I don't recall the 5°
I am reading several things at the moment, but I am making a special effort to read the chapter about Prussia in:
>Lineages of the Absolutist State - Perry Anderson
For my college.
I am also trying to read the Federalist Papers by the Founding Fathers of the US, and finaly end the second book of Two Treatsies of Government by John Lock.

Oh read Snow Country. Is super cute, tho it can feel a bit odd from time to time (maybe I aint sensible enought to truly get it, but I will for sure buy a copy for myself some day and re-read it.)

Genesis
Exodus
Psalms
Job
Ecclesiastes

Currently reading: Ready Player One (so nice to finally find a book that feels like it was written just for me!!)!

>Near to the Wild Heart
>The Shadow of the Sun
>The Brothers Karamazov
>War and War
>Labyrinths

Currently reading Agua Viva and not reading the instructions in the OP

Confessions made me cry. The end of it becomes very heady with his metaphysical examinations of what God and time and divinity are, and the early parts are recollections of his missteps and transgressions in his life; but the middle where he's finally teetering on the edge of casting away all the worldliness that he feels is miserable trickery, the people he talked to for advice, and the sequence of events that finally pushed him over the threshold of his materialism into accepting God and spirituality, really punched me in the feelers. Towards his final step of conversion he is in a place in his soul where he keeps telling himself, "maybe tomorrow," "maybe tomorrow," as though he is not yet ready to take the final leap and discard all his Earthly fetters. I'm sure we've all been in that place in attempting to commit to something. I advise you go read the passages of Book Eight, 8.12.28 through 8.12.29 to read his story of overcoming, if I should call it that, since it's too much to transcribe here. It was a very powerful alignment of signs that made him do an about-face of his entire way of life from that moment on. And I might recommend the Everyman's version if you can get a PDF of it, since it has an informative annotation for that part (in addition to, as a generality not specific to this section, highlighting his use of biblical verse in querying everything in his life/experience).

>(You)

High school pretty much describes Veeky Forums sadly. In my case I was going through all the stuff I got as gifts from my parents last christmas.

Thank you.

neither of those are assigned in highschool at all and most college freshman have not read Ulysses or Don Quixote which are 700 page long books

> Secret diary of Adrian Mole
> Fahrenheit 451
> The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
> Growing pains of Adrian Mole
> Of mice and men

>Dead Souls
>Notes from the Underground
>Virgin Soil
>Hadji Murat
>The Kreutzer Sonata

epic post user

>norse mythology by gay man
>gib bread pls by Peter Kropotkin
>slaughterhouse five
>hunger games (read it to see if it would be good to give to my little brother, thought it was actually a decent book)
>catcher in the rye

Current
>way of kings

>Zong (M Nourbese Phillip)
>Blood Meridian
>Eunoia (Christian Bok)
>The Boat (Nam Le)
>Moby Dick


>The Republic/The Passing
Both are for uni

My high school decided it was more important for me to read the works of P.G. Wodehouse than those of Homer.

Last five books in general? Okay...

>Apollonius - On Conics Books V - VII in the translation of the Banu Musa/G.J. Toomer
>Nicomachus - Introduction to Arithmetic
>Leon Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
>Jean Jacques Rousseau - Emile; or On Education
>Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract

Current ONE?
>reading one book

>Ibn Al-Haytham - Completion of the Conics
>Irving Fisher - Mathematical Investigations Into the Theory of Value and Price
>Alexander Hamilton/James Madison - The Federalist Papers
>Plato - The Laws

>Antigone
>Oedipus Rex
>Divine Comedy
>Seneca's letters
>Notes from the Underground

>The Stranger