Cross out the ones that you've read Veeky Forums

Don't be lazy now.

Green - Good
Blue - OK
Red - Bad
Black/Gray - No plans to read ever unless something drastic changes my mind.

wait fucked up some colors. edited

72/100

favorite is gravity's rainbow

Green pepper = what I've read
The sun = what I'd like to read and will
Black star = what I'd like to read but won't

I don't read translations.

>I don't read translations.
this! serious, i dont know why people bother

now this is flair!

Oh I agree! I agree! Oh verily how I agree!

Translations are a waste!

this.

Last time I did this I had more crossed out. I like the latest changes to this list.

why is there no plato's republic?

Also not a Veeky Forums fiend like you all, not as well read i guess. What would you recommend.?

forgot something baka

>30/100

That's bad.

You may as well finish off Dostoevsky, unless you feel a need for some change.

Personally, Wolfe and Calvino are gaining my attention. However, having read a selection of essays on writing from Kundera, my next selection will be "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

If you can't pick something, read an essay on literary theory or a critique that captures your interest. Then find the closest match on the list and dive in.

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Have not read: In search of lost time, the sun also rises, tropic of cancer, the name of the rose, the remains of the day, society of the spectacle, a farewell to arms, unbearable lightness of being.

+ Madame Bovary and Invisible Cities

>8/100
oh no

I honestly hate this chart.

another too us centric list, but that's to be expected

the Western literary canon is US centered especially in the past century

Can a list of compiled favorite books be too anything centric though? It's not like we tried to compile a canon of the best and most representative of world lit.

Only US centered in the US. Don't know how you'd manage to think otherwise

So stop being a whiny bitch and make your own meme, family.

That's fucking orange, you fuck!

16/100

Fuck, I knew I was bad but didn't know it was this bad. How do you give yourself a decent reading schedule?

>I dont read translations
>Green pepper on the bible
Oy Vey

24/100. Infimeme jest is under construction though.

>implying 18/100 is bad
It's a very select list and doesn't mean shit about being well-read or not. I mean:
>don dellilo
>pynchon
>vonnegut
>that much hemingway
>that much american literature

If you've read Decameron, some Zola novels I would consider you more well read than a guy that've read 3 Pynchon and 2 Don DeLillo.

fuck / kill / marry

They should have given everyone 5 votes so that we didnt end up withs tuff that only got 2 votes on the list...

What's next? I assume just do the top 10 ones I haven't done yet...

15/100

When am I considered patrish?

>bait
So you read the odyssey and the illiad in ancient greek? There is honestly no reason to avoid translations if you don't have the time to learn a language. I have LEARNED to read two languages in my free time while at 16 credit hours at uni, there is a very good reason flr translations and avoiding them is losing out on the value of experience more cultures and ideas than you otherwise could have.

respectable opinions
read bloodmeme though, it's actually good

51/100
Fuck, that is way too many

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like 35/100

i think my name for this is "quirky, precocious north american male in their early 20s" core

i'm sad about all the long books i read half of, like the bible, don quijote, in search of lost time

some day, some day ...

i'm trying to only read books i enjoy now though, so i dont know how likely i am to start forcing myself through the bible again. god that was shit boring. once i quit school i wont have to read heidegger and stuff like that anymore though, so i guess ill have to fill the yearly masochist quota on my own with stuff like that.

best books on the list, imo: wuthering heights, in search of lost time, crime and punishment

idk what that says about me

>idk what that says about me
fagget
hope that helps

yes, thank you.

s-sorry senpai

the yecarthy posters have got to me desu

i also dont like the mccarthy kind of american lit that much in terms of subject matter

I cannot make it through a book when I discover the point is sex, sexual liberation, sexual repression, sexual expression, sex parodies, sex satire, prahic sex, sex with fruit, homosex, general degeneracy, etc. I want books that tell a compelling story that makes me go "whoa". Last book I read like that was... ummm Don quixote? Maybe? It's been a while. I mean, I don't mind if there is sex in it, but if it's been made into a movie staring Kieran knightly opening her legs for 2.5 hours I'd really rather read painthe dry. Any list suggestions.

about 1/3 through Don Quixote atm

Why lol bible?

1 thumbs up

I did mine but I'm not going to post it because it makes me look like I haven't graduated from grade school.

I'm so ashamed.

32/100

i wasn't expecting 52..

a lot of the books on here aren't worthy of being read

>infinite jest (not sure why the fuck that is #1)
>vonnegut (fucking seriously?)
>murakami (fuck you)

4/100 get on my level
Nice digits

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oh, Karamazov is green and C&P is red as fuck

Green=Red
Black=Started Reading and lost interest

Also who the fuck seriously thinks Fahrenheit 451 is their favorite book.

I cant even conceive of it.

lot of shitty books on here

>tfw

Also fuck the color thing, I just used red for the ones I read.

>nothing polish
Why are edgy teenagers making those lists?

I strongly appreciate your use of green peppers.

im fairly new,

what should i read

>Catcher in the Meme

>I don't read translations
>Green pepper on Iliad & Odyssey

What are they from? They're so familiar.

>tfw don't like fiction
the fuck do I do now

it really does

cure your autism

I don't either, there's plenty else to read. The only fiction I read is stuff like Finnegans Wake now.

Not too bad

26/100
Not bad, got plenty of time left to read some more.

30/100
Shit I gotta read more Veeky Forums
Fugg!!

23/100
wew lad, is this decent for a non-anglo?

I have only read 1984. Read half of monte cristo and disregarded it as trash. I still say that I like books on dating websites.

blue square- own
checkmark- read
currently reading portrait and catch 22

pls bully

25/100

Heart = Loved it
Star = Liked it
Bolt = Disliked it

Reading Shadow of the Torturer right now.

Fuck, I forgot I read Fahrenheit 451 in school.

Working on IJ right now

I'm a great pleb, Veeky Forums.
What should I read next?

infinite meme

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It's been a long time since I last read a fiction book, I kinda miss it.

>he's not fluent in ancient greek

>that legend
what the fuck is wrong with you?

Green – liked;
Yellow – meh/read it a long time ago;
Red – disliked;
Purple – have it, but haven’t yet read it.

I read 80% of War & Peace when I was twelve, but haven’t touched it since.

Why is Kafka on the Shore red?

because it's not good?

He meant why is it not good. Come on.

just search the archives for murakami this has been discussed to death. tl;dr is "middlebrow as fuck" and "repetitive"

fwiw i've read his big 3 (norwegian wood, kafka, wind up bird) and i thought wind up bird was ok. norwegian wood was awful and kafka was somewhere between the two. i have colorless tsukuru and ill read it at some point.