What has Veeky Forums read so far this year?

Why?

I bet none of you can remember anything important from what you've read besides the plot. Or maybe I'm the odd one out. If I quickly read through a book. Give me a month, and I've almost completely forgotten about it.

Oy vey, why am I even typing this out, let alone posting it.

we must imagine sisyphus happy

It's not difficult to have read 20 novels in 4 months dude

Theres no point listing so many, the best two i read were
>Book of Sand
>Invention of Morel
>Man Without Qualities

P.S Gravity's Rainbow was over-rated

3! THE BEST THREE

>Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of The Locust

That's it. :/

Reading them in 4 months is not the issue, I can easily do that. The issue is taking something, remembering anything or having an impact on my life. Reading speedily does not do that, at least for me.

I almost bought that book today. Should I have?

sure, if you're interested in it

Thank you...

>Moby Dick
>Agape Agapē
>Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
>Why We Can't Wait
>Things Fall Apart
>Manon Lescaut
>King Lear (again)
>Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
>Junky
>a number of Heinrich von Kleist short stories like Michael Kohlhaas, Marquise of O., etc

also enough scholarly articles on education and poverty to count as a book

Is Unbearable Lightness any good?

not everyone is retarded like you

You have absolutely no reason to post such a comment, not even considering the rudeness of your comment. There is nothing to it, nothing constructive, nothing of meaning, nothing to make it worth typing out. The only reason I can comprehend as to why you posted it is to make yourself feel better, a way of projecting your feelings of incompetence, which most surely are real and accurate.

I really hope you get some help and do something meaningful, or at least enjoyable to you, with your life.

ok retard

Thanks for making me laugh.

>King Lear (again)
Nice. You should read Keats's "On Sitting Down to read King Lear Once Again."

My list:

Faulkner - Soldier's Pay
Faulkner - These Thirteen
Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (again)
Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (again)
Faulkner - Sanctuary
Faulkner - Light in August
Faulkner - The Wild Palms
Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner - The Bear
Keats - Endymion
Keats - Selected Poetry and Letters

that sounds like a pretty great year to be honest
what else do you have planned?

Retard

I had a great time reading it again. Tackled it for a British lit course and we talked a lot about the socialist themes of the play, the duality of the Edmund/Edgar family situation to the Lear/daughters, etc.

Havent read that Keats, but i'll have to give it a go sometime

Godspeed on that Faulkner friendo. Youre in for some goodies

1. Count of Monte Cristo
2. The Great Gatsby
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude
4. L'Étranger
5. The High Mountains of Portugal

Currently reading
1. To the Lighthouse
2. Le Petit Prince

I read slow but I try to read 1 book a month.

1. The Tempest - Shakespeare
2. The AntiChrist - Nietzsche
3. Absalom Absalom - Faulkner
4. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (waste of time)
5. Essays & Aphorisms - Schopenhauer
6. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
7. Infinite Jest - DFW (waste of time)
8. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (meh)
9. Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche
10. Wuthering Heights - Bronte (meh)
11. Illuminations - Rimbaud
12. Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
13. Selected Poetry - Rilke
14. The Waves - Woolf
15. Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
16. A Confession - Tolstoy
17. Ulysses - Joyce
18. Beyond Good & Evil - Nietzsche
19. The Oresteia - Aeschylus
20. Master & Margarita - Bulgakov
21. Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
22. The Iliad - Homer
23. Ezra Pound: the last rower - Heyman
24. Complete Poems - Catullus
25. Paradise Lost - Milton (still reading)
26. The Cantos - Ezra Pound (still reading)

Ok, keep on with that, friendo. The more you keep trying to mask your own foolishness, the more I laugh :^)

fag

Not even me you just sound retarded

You're a fucking retard.

Stop dropping your books on me.

no one is coming out of this well desu

Why in the earth did move you to waste your time and energy on writing a comment of that kind, useless and childish as it is? Your life must be pretty hollow, mate. Go read something.

I meant what in the earth*, I beg your pardon.

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in a thread that should have 1:1 parity you fucking retards.

i'm sorry, i just really enjoy interacting with you people

it's scary that book, really scary.

ive just started reading it today. it seems nice enough. it's quite easy though. i'll give it to my girlfriend to read tomorrow.

>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men- DFW
>The Stranger- Albert Camus
>The Girl Who Was Plugged In- James Tiptree
>No Longer Human- Osamu Dazai
>Ubik- Philip K. Dick
>The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
>Meditations- Marcus Aurelius
> Babyfucker- Urs Allemam
>Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne
>Family Happiness- Leo Tolstoy

Nothing fuck you

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
Lolita - Nabokov
Anthem - Rand
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
Great Expectations - Dickens
Brave New World - Huxley
The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro
Ubik - Dick
Night - Wiesel
The Optimist's Daughter - Welty
The Fountainhead - Rand
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Bell Jar - Plath
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Carver
Wuthering Heights - E. Brontë
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
The Screwtape Letters - Lewis
Plainsong - Haruf
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - A. Brontë
Norwegain Wood - Murakami
The Unvanquished - Faulkner
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Mason & Dixon - Pinecone
Geek Love - Dunn
The Collected Poems - Plath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis
Fates and Furies - Groff
Perelandra - Lewis
For the Time Being - Dillard
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
The Ladies of the Corridor - Parker
Spiritual Writings - Kierkegaard

Currently reading

Brooklyn - Tóibín
The Complete Poems - Sexton
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra - Us

I agree with this user, I prefer to absorb things.

Morrison - Beloved
Ferrante - Days of Abandonment
Henwood - Wall Street
Smith - Just Kids
Banks - Look to Windward
Weisbrot - Failed
Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Lem - Solaris
Le Guin - The Word for World is Forest
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Butler - Dawn
Cortazar - Hopscotch

samefag

Reading this right now, can't get over how good Dostoyevsky's writing is

Well I'm definitely done with Faulkner for the year, safe to say (though I've enjoyed it immensely). I plan on rereading dubliners and portrait and then tackling Ulysses now that I'm out of university for the summer. Other than that, probably just some light non-fiction. Then I'll be reading more serious stuff come August when I'm back in school (I'm an English/French major).

same senpai

>Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
>Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
>The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
>A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
>The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
>Hunger by Knut Hamsun
>Congressional Politics: The Evolving Legislative System by Leroy N. Rieselbach
>The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
>Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
>Blood and Grits by Harry Crews
>The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence ed, by James M. McCormick

Haven't had a lot of time between school and a research fellowship I was working on, but both are done as of this week, so I should be able to catch up some now

1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by
James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind
6. V by Thomas Pynchon
7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
8. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle

Reading Lanark by Alasdair Gray. I'm enjoying it immensely. Thank you to the Scottish user who recommended him a few months back

Thanks for reminding me about Harry Crews, user. I really enjoyed feast of snakes. I will have to read Blood and Grits.

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Car, and The Gypsy's Curse are all also quite good!

>Kalevala
>Dubliners

I started a whole load of books but didn't finish them. Feels bad man. I used to read voraciously

1. Anna Karenina (250 pages in at start of year)
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
4. The Iliad
5. Lament for a Nation
6. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
7. The Old Man and the Sea
8. The Crying of Lot 49
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
10. Stoner
11. The Odyssey
12. The Chysalids
13. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
14. A Brief History of my city
15. Falling Man

Reading the Karamazov Brothers right now. Going to read more Greek stuff after.

The Gypsy's Curse was excellent. One of a kind.

What's strange is that the first novel I wrote starts very chaotically, then eases into a parallel structure, but straight forward, this-then-that narrative. I thought it was unique until I read Feast of Snakes. That whole story out of chaotic word miasma thing is cool. In a way it is a compression of The Sound and the Fury's stylistic trajectory, except the first confusing part is much shorter.

>hesse fanboysame

The ideas are great and what he does with his characters is interesting. The narrative is enticing and I suppose Kundera is constantly challenging you every so often to decide between Nietzsche or Plato. The prose itself isn't spectacularly rich or enlightening but I would say it is very much worth reading if you're curious

>read
barth - the floating opera
barth - the end of the road
barth - sot weed factor
barth - lost in the funhouse
dante - inferno
dante - purgatorio
dante - paradiso
pkd - transmigration of timothy archer
pkd - martian time slip
pkd - the divine invasion
bolano - savage detectives

>reread
melville - moby dick
kafka - trial
kafka - amerika
kafka - castle

and some other unimportant shit

philistine

Did you like Lispector?
Is Johnny got his gun any good? I remember watching the film as a kid and still haven't read it.

How are Welty short stories?

Would you recommend Child of God?

You going to read LETTERS next?

How much do you read per day? I do 2-4 hours. Not even NEET. I'm around 40 novels by now. Retention is far from perfect, but I got something from each and everyone.

I've been reading a lot of Hesse. I thought Siddhartha was amazing, Demian was great, I fucking hated Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldmund is alright so far.

I don't know about her short stories; all I've read by her is The Optimist's Daughter, which was fairly mediocre but really funny. Should've been called The Optimist's Wife, really.

I've mostly been starting with the Greeks and reading Shakespeare.

not in any immediate future, but I'd love to read some more Barth sometime down the road

1. Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski.
2. Germinal- Émile Zola.
3. Illuminations- Arthur Rimbaud.
4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles- Murakami.
5. Silk- Alessandro Baricco.
6. Novecento- Alessandro Baricco.
7. San Manuel Bueno, Mártir- Miguel de Unamuno.
8. Poesía reunida- Jon Juaristi.
9. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
10. Doce cuentos peregrinos- Gabriel García Márquez.
11. Monkey's Mask- Dorothy Porter.
12. La metamorfosis- Franz Kafka.
13. The Levant- Mircea Cartarescu.
14. Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote.
15. Aura- Carlos Fuentes.
16. Women- Charles Bukowski.
17. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men- David Foster Wallace.
18. Fervor de Buenos Aires- J.L Borges.
19. Discusiones- J.L Borges.
20. La Felicidad Inminente- Pedro Salinas.
21. Heike Monogatari- (Murasaki Shikibu, I think)
22. The Death in Venice- Thomas Mann.
23.Consider the Lobster- David Foster Wallace.
24. Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela- Elena Poniatowska.
25. Lulu- Mircea Cartarescu.
26. Altázor/Temblor del Cielo- Vicente Huidobro.

Currently reading Dante.

'Master and Margarita' and 'Cat's Cradle' were underwhelming while 'Lolita' and 'A Confederacy of Dunces' were way better than I expected.

Everything else has been as good as expected.

Very little but here it goes:

Juliette by Sade
Siddharta and Demian by Hess
History of greek philosophy by Guthrie V.1 and 2
Treatise on Human Understanding by Hume
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
Frege, i don't remember by whom (it was an introductory book)
Collection of Short Stories by Twain.
The treatise of Desperation by Kierkegaard
Human All too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche

I only lose a good grasp on the novels I didn't enjoy all that much. I get through between 50 and 100 a year, maybe of that 30 or so are worth really thinking about. I just don't bother thinking about the rest. Also the act of reading itself is a huge part of literature, not some amorphis realisation that comes after the fact.

1. Joyce - Ulysses (began 2015)
2. Hesse - Siddhartha
3. Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
4. Dostoevsky - The House of the Dead
5. Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
6. Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Reading Blood Meridian now

Grey is for books I've read, light for non-fiction and dark for fiction and purple is for books I'm reading.

Back when I was in highschool, they were in the process of throwing out old books, The Idiot being among them. I grabbed it because "LoL this is my autobiography XD" and never read it because I was a massive faggot at the time. Years later, digging through my old junk I found this copy, and I've decided after I finished my current book I'll read it next.

tl;dr How is it? What am I in for?
Also, I've never read any Dostoyevsky before, and the translation is by Constance Garnett in case that one is known to be terrible.

Kundera is one of the most horrible things that happened to literature. Novels about some mediocre love for 30 years old divorced women, so stupid that they would be the only ones who belive it has also a philosophical part. Well, it doesn't. It's garbage, nothing more than it. I'd rather read Sandra Brown, it is as stupid, but fortunately Sandra Brown is not trying to write "smart" novels.

You're in for a lot of psychological drama and a main character that's simultaneouly naive, very intelligent but socially autistic, and mystical (He's ment to symbolize Jesus.)

I found it very good, I definitely recommend it.

As for translations I can't help you since I'm reading it in spanish.

I

>Dubliners
>The Tragedy of Man
>Candide
>The Dunwich Horror
>The Shadow Over Innsmouth
>The music of Erich Zann
>The Color out of space
>Chess story
>Quarantine in the Grand Hotel
>Tao Te Ching

Looking back,it's quite a lot.
I expected less from myself.

I have nothing to read right now.Bored of Lovecraft's works,and I don't feel like reading "This is how YOU write".

You seem like you read for pleasure. I like this.

You seem like a very serious and deliberate reader. I also like this.

Unless you have an Eidetic memory you're going to forget most of the book. Think Harold Bloom. People with his level of memory and reading ability must be 1 in 10 million. It's not a realistic standard to compare yourself to.

I think reading is more of a transient experience. You're left with the feeling it gave you, moments and characters you enjoyed etc. Rereading is allowed, remember.

Most people can afford to read faster. The biggest thing is learning to use your peripheral vision effectively.

How was the master of Go?

>Ulysses, first time
>Portrait of the Artist, second reading
>Dubliners, first time
>As I Lay Dying, read while I was really sick, so it fit.
>American Psycho, hilarious
>Heart of Darkness
>Picture of Dorian Gray
>A few Aristophanes, Shakespeare tragedies
>Waiting for Godot
>The Sun Also Rises
>various short stories, essays by Orwell, Woolf, various Irish lit anthologies, DFW, TS Eliot, Coleridge's Rime and criticism,

Don't you guys at least read essays and criticisms of the books you read? There's a lot of insight to be had, especially after a second read after absorbing little details and motifs that weren't there previous.

I'm not a big reader, but I'd like to expand more into drama this summer, maybe venture into some more Southern or Irish lit. Faulker, Flann O Brien, etc. Any recs? George Bernard Shaw, Yeats, and Flannery O Connor are already on my list, my dudes.

Read:
The Door - Magda Szabo
My Struggle (Part 1) - Karl Knausgaard
Two Prisoners - Lajos Zilahy
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Tender Bar - JR Moehringer

Currently Reading:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
My Struggle (Part 2) - Karl Knausgaard
The Dukays - Lajos Zilahy

Can't get enough of my Central European Lit.

1. Le Carrè - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

2. Hamilton - Mythology

3. Miller - The Crucible

i'll read some more the week after next

It's quite different from everything else by Kawabata. That being said it's still excellent. Kawabata is easily in my top five writers.

>the Karamazov Brothers

Okay, so would you recommend beginning with another of his?

it's been translated that way too you dumb autist

>translated

Pleb coming through:

01. Critical Thinking 30 Ways to Smarter Thinking, Better Problem Solving And Improved Decison Making by Phillip Murdock Steele
02. The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment by Susan Thurman *
03. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
04. The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku *
05. Schopenhauer: a very short introduction by Christopher Janaway *
06. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie *
07. Sam Walton Made in America, my Story by Sam Walton *
08. Korea: The Impossible Country by Daniel Tudor
09. The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the world's most wanted man by Luke Harding
10. Wikileaks by Luke Harding
11. F.U Money: Make As Much Money As You Damn Well Want And Live Your LIfe As YOu Damn Well Please!” by Dan Lok.
12. At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery by Rebecca Otowa
13. Countdown to Zero Day Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
By Kim Zetter