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I'm new to real books
>Last read
The Stranger (Camus)
The first half of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzche)
>Currently reading
The Jungle (Sinclair)
>Next Reading
Discipline & punish by foucault (if I'm not too much of a pleb)
Batman: Year One (Miller)
The Gay Science (Nietzsche)

>Last Finished
Myth of Sisyphus
On the Heights of Despair
>Currently reading
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Brothers Karamizov
>Plan to read next
The Rebel
Gardens of the Moon

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Last read:
The truce - mario benedetti
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzchie
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Currently reading:
Hopscotch - Cortazar
Ther Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley Holland

Next reading:
Behold a pale horse - william cooper
Essays in Persuasion - Keynes
Island - Aldous Huxley

Last Read:
>Couldn't Say, Might Be Love - Gil Orlovitz
>Milkbottle H - Gil Orlovitz
>Cannonball - Joseph McElroy

Currently Reading:
>A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis
>Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
>In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

Next Reading:
>Take Five - D. Keith Mano
>Lunar Caustic - Malcolm Lowry
>The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes

LAST
>THE CASTLE - KAFKA
CURRENT
>THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER - MERRILL
>DISCOURSE ON METHOD AND MEDITATIONS - DESCARTES
>JAMES JOYCE - ELLMANN
NEXT
>ULYSSES - JOYCE (RE)

Foucault isn't that bad. I just made the mistake of trying to read the entirety of History and Madness

Last:
>Great Gatsby

Current:
>Don Quixote

Next:
>The Sun Also Rises

Last: The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Current: Les Miserables
Next: The Last Unicorn

LAST READ
>OF MICE AND MEN
>BLOOD MERIDIAN
>SIDDHARTHA

CURRENTLY READING
>OBLOMOV

NEXT READING
>TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM BUT PROBABLY DUBLINERS OR THE BOOK OF DISQUIET

FIGHT ME YOU GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Last read:
>The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
>A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick

Currently reading:
>Dune - Frank Hebert
>The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
>Essential Celtic Mythology - Lindsay Clarke

To read next:
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
>The Once and Future King - T. H. White
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton

You must have truly met madness

>the shipping news - proulx
>ideas: a history of thought and invention from fire to Freud - watson
>dunno, maybe I will Continue With The Greeks, read some poetry or sci-fi,bot just listen to some academic podcasts

Last: The Metamorphosis
Current: The Metamorphoses (Coincidentally)
Next: Dubliners, POTAAYM

how was under the volcano

also how is goshawk

>last
Ubik - Dick
>current
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Dick
>next
Not sure, maybe The Bell Jar, maybe I, Claudius, maybe Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Will decide later

Last read:
>Dubliners
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Walden
Currently reading:
>Don Quixote
Next reading:
>Brothers Karamazov
>War and Peace
>Paradise Lost

Last
>Falling Man - Dellilo
Current
>The Karamazov Brothers - Dostoevsky
Next
>Three Thebian Plays - Sophocles

Last read
>Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Currently reading
>The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti
>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
>Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz

Next reading
>A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
>Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
>The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

I am tres satisfied with this list.

>Super Karamazov Brothers
>Thebian

The Karamazov Brothers is what the book is called. Ignat Avsey translation.

>Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
>H is for Hawk by Macdonald

>Through the Looking-Glass
>Nana by Zola

>next
Don' know, m8.

Under the Volcano was brilliant, though a bit difficult at times. The drunken stupor sections are the best, im not sure I've really had a handle on how debilitating alcoholism is until now.

The goshawk is a gem--the subject matter is so unique that im interested just picking it up for a few minutes in the morning before work. I had absolutely no notion of how people trained birds for falconry before this. It reads a bit like a more interesting, more humorous Walden. White was also one of those solitary misanthropes who lived in the wilderness. Not to say Walden is bad, I quite liked it--I just prefer this work so far

Not him, but Under the Volcano is probably the best portrayal of alcoholism ever put to page, and, in addition to that, contains some of the most clever and well-done usages of stream-of-consciousness I've ever read. Honestly, the only reason why Lowry isn't as popular as authors like Faulkner is the fact that most of his works were destroyed in a fire.

>Reading Picketty's Capital
>Confirmed Left Wing propaganda

Don't even waste your time senpai

Im not interested in his solutions, just the data. I'd rather make my own conclusions

No its his organizations of data that are biased. The entire viewpoint is whats skewed

I've heard from even my right-minded friends Woth degrees in Econ that his data/presentation is solid, but his solutions are dubious. do you have examples?

Check out the footnotes. He makes a lot of bold claims that arent actually backed up by his citations. Thomas Sowell has solid comentary on it. Its not about his solutions its his presentation of the data that misleads you

Hmm, I'll try and find Sowell's commentary once im finished. It's certainly possible, I'll just have to see

excuse me comrade but you have made the mistake of using Capital as the name of pikettys 'book'. a man who has only read the communist manifesto and used the title capital ( in the 21st century) to give some edge to his spineless keynesianism. in future you should only refer to Marx's magnum opus as Capital to prevent confusion with that Gallic nonentity. thank you

Also, does Sewall despite the notion that capitalism breeds inequality or does he suggest that it isn't as extreme as Piketty paints it to be?

Okay, I'll refer to it as Piketty's Spineless NonBook from now on

dispute*

Its quite a large book.. if the first 20 pages, the premise of the next 600, are lies why even bother

>last read
Aspects of Occultism by Dion Fortune
TBOK

>currently reading
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Imagined Communities

>next reading
Idk, probably Dubliners.

He does explain that inequaliry exists in any system. And yes Piketty is fearmongering with data that isnt even accurate and ideas that arent even economically solid. Dont even trust a modern econ major these days because theyre all brainwashed with Keynesian ideas as well. Consider the fact that contemporary leftists look to do things without considering the repercussions. Think the rise ofthe Welfare state its all part of.the same downward spiral

>last
Double Star (Heinlein)
Farewell To Arms

>currently
Wind-up Bird Chronicle

>next
idk yet

The funny thing about that sequence in reading is that in "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", Okada describes his state of mind being the opposite of the main character in the end of Farewell To Arms. I had finished 'Farewell' two days after I started Murakami's. I was astonished by the coincidence.

>last read
1984
Macbeth

>currently reading
Everything from Horace
Faust I again

>next reading
Faust II

Last Read
>Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka
>The Stranger by Albert Camus
>The Prince by Machiavelli
>The Crying of Lot 49
Currently Reading
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
>V by Thomas Pynchon
>The Plague by Albert Camus
Reading Next
>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
>The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
>Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

How is oblomov? I am excited to read this. I bought the schwartz translation

LAST READ
Wolfe--The Fifth Head of Cerberus

CURRENTLY READING
Shakespeare--Hamlet

READING NEXT
Faulkner--Absalom, Absalom!

I like to read plays in between books, usually Shakespeare.

Nice idea. I do the same thing with nonfiction/philosophy

BIG BOOKS MAKE ME BIG MAN

Last
Demon - Hesse
Thank You Jeeves - Wodehouse

Current
The Well of Ascension - Sanderson
The City of Dreaming Books - Movers

Next
The Twig Trilogy - Stewart
something Nabokov

>Last read
Outer Dark - McCarthy
Stoner - Williams
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Mishima
By Night In Chile - Bolaño

>Currently reading
Naked Lunch - Burroughs

>Next Reading
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño
2666 - Bolaño
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Book Of Disquiet - Pessoa

LAST
FRAGMENTS BY HERACLITUS
SOLILOQUIES BY AUGUSTINUS

RN
A FEW TRACTATS BY PLOTINUS
WHAT IS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY BY PIERRE HADOT (recommend to anyone starting with the greeks)

NEXT
AMERIKA BY KAFKA
THE SAVAGE MIND/DICLIPINE AND PUNISH/THE DECLINE OF THE WEST

What was your favorite short of Kafka's? The answer is A Country Doctor

>fragments by heraclitus

Congratulations on reading one of the worst, most inaccurate translations of Heraclitus

What's the best one

>Last Read
The Restraint of Beasts by Mills
Cockroach by Hage
Arthur Mervyn by Brown

>Currently Reading
The Vivisector by White
The Familiar 1-3 by Danielewski
Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon

>Up Next
The Vegetarian by Kang
Mona Lisa Overdrive by Gibson
The Bone People by Hulme

>last
hamlet, tempest, and as you like it

>currently
a sort of life by graham greene

>next
virginia woolf, gertrude stein, or more shakespeare

What of Woolf do you have planned?

to the lighthouse is the one i have, also interested in mrs. dalloway, the waves, orlando, between the acts, and moments of being

from her, i've only really read the voyage out & some of a room of one's own

To the Lighthouse is pretty brilliant. Very one hypes Mrs. Dalloway, and to be fair it's ggood, but I prefer Lighthouse. If you find yourself into it I recommend Howard's End by E.M. Forster.

what makes you mention howard's end m8? i'm interested

Tbh I read it for class. But I found it to be a good balance between Bloomsbury-esque modernism and Victorian Era novel sentimentalities. To the Lighthouse and Howard's End fall close together for me for whatever reason, though. They're both terrific, even if the former is a bit more... impressionistic.

Check out Thus Spake Zarathustra

thanks m8 I'm imagining like something between like middemarch and sons and lovers, I'll look into it when I get back to woolf

>Last Read
Imperial - William T. Vollman
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
My Struggle Book 3 - Karl Ove Knausgard
>Currently Reading
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Next Reading
Complete Short Stories - Anton Chekhov

>Letters from a Seducer - Hilda Hilst

Did you read that in English? Paper or ebook?

My copy of Journey... did not have any chapter breaks.

>last read
Iliad
Odyssey
Hamilton's Mythology

>currently reading
Hesiod

>next reading
Aeschylus & the gang

Yep, starting with the memes.

>LAST READ
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
>CURRENTLY READING
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
>NEXT READING
help me choose between:

Lolita
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Peter Watts - Blindsight

what
why do you want to go away from your tolerant ways
your next book should be by a gay author

>what
>why do you want to go away from your tolerant ways
>your next book should be by a gay author
no thanks

what do you think of imagined communities so far?

what's TBOK?

answer you faggot

>last read
Faulkner- absalom, absalom
joseph conrad - heart of darkness
gene wolfe - shadow and claw

>currently reading
Gaddis - A frolic of his own

>next
mcelroy - women and men
gene wolfe - sword and citadel
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

What version of heosid do you have?

last read
>The Opposing Shore - Gracq
>Miserable Miracle - Michaux

currently reading
>History of the World - Roberts
>Autoportrait - Levé

next up
>Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson (1950 ed.) - Gurdjieff
>Odyssey - Homer

I've read it in my native, Lithuanian, language, how the fuck do you know if it is worst?

I started C&P at the same time, am now about to start Part 4. Would seriously recommend. I'm going to read Underground next. Holy shit dude.

Am I pleb if I prefer him to Tolstoy by a lot?

Last
>As I Lay Dying- Faulkner

Current
>The Crying of Lot 49- Pynchon
>Crime and Punishment- Dostoevesky

Next
>Dubliners- Joyce
>Hamlet- Shakespeare
>The Death of Ivan Illych and Other Stores- Tolstoy
>The Man in the High Castle- Dick

Lolita if you want something heavy
Big Sleep if you want something lighter that's surprisingly complicated

how good is My Struggle?
your list looks a bit like mine
would you recommend the Plague?

What have you read by Tolstoy

Last Read:
>Steinbeck-The Red Pony

Currently Reading:
>Hemingway-The Sun Also Rises

Really enjoying TSAR rn, pretty absorbing

>Last read
I Claudius/Claudius the God

>Current
Crying of Lot 49

>Next
Musil's Posthumous Papers
Burke's French Rev stuff

Long fiction: only War and Peace

Medium length:
Hadji Murad, Kreutzer Sonata

Short stories:
Prisoner of the Caucasus, Sevastopol in May, Sevastopol in December, Father Sergius, Alyosha Gorshok, The story with Nikita who is saved from freezing to death, maybe some others that are slipping my mind

Essays:
Why men stupefy themselves (title might be a bit off, something similar), Confession (i don't really know what else this would count under), The Wisdom of Humankind

Also some letters to his family

Oh yes, I forgot Ivan Ilyich & God Sees the Truth But Speaks Not Soon, maybe missing more

Will that be your first Tolstoy? I would not recommend starting there

>Last:
Five Dialogues (reread)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of History (reread)

>Current:
Zarathustra
The Portrait of a Lady
La Carte et la Territoire

>Next:
Gravity's Rainbow
Metamorphoses
Oblomov
Paradise Lost

>last
Sozaboy, Ken Saro-Wiwa

>current
Moral letters to Lucilium, Seneca

>next
Noctes Atticae, Aulus Gellius

Well that's a pretty informed opinion, honestly. If you like Dostoyevsky over Tolstoy, that's understandable. Different strokes for different folks

I think you quoted the wrong comment of mine, but thanks I guess. I did like War and Peace, and some of the earlier artistic work, but I just can't stand his philosophy. It really makes me feel like an edgelord but I love the vibe of Dostoevsky so far. Any further recs on how to explore him post C&P? I know I have to do Underground.

The Delphi classics I believe it's called.

I think I like your tastes, user. Tell me what you thought about the Gracq and Michaux you've read.

Yeah I quoted the wrong comment. I'd recommend Brothers Karamazov. It's longer and a bit more dense than C&P or Notes, but it's considered by most to be his Magnum Opus. IF you know you like Dostoyevksy, I would suggest this work. Maybe read Notes beforehand and then jump in. It's a bit more sentimental than his other works and there's no shame if you cry a little

Alright, thanks. I've definitely heard of that one before. But I think those are the only 3 works of his I've ever heard mentioned. Any of the other long works worth it?

LAST READ
>All Fires the Fire - Cortazar
>King Rat - Clavell
>Solaris - Lem

CURRENTLY READING
>Don Quixote - Cervantes

NEXT READING
>Dekameron - Boccaccio
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Dick

Miserable Miracle was good but not worth it IMO if you personally aren't relatively experienced with psychedelics. The books value is in how Michaux is skillful at describing the inner psychedelic experience in a poetic way so if thats something you are into its worth it.

The Opposing Shore was top-notch, one of the best books I've read in the last 12 months. Its a surrealist novel but the surrealism isn't overt, its created through the mysterious atmosphere, the descriptions and the foreboding which was really nice. The one I read was an English translation of the French original because I don't know French but I thought the translation was really good. Wikipedia says that "Gracq's literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary" and I found that description was entirely true for the translation. It was like swimming at night through a warm scented pool lit by violet-colored underwater lights.