Last book you read

>last book you read
>currently reading
>next book on list

>Mythology, Hamilton
>Iliad of Homer, Lattimore
>Odyssey of Homer, Lattimore

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Le Morte D'Arthur - Malory
Not sure yet what to read next, maybe Look at the Harlequins by Nabokov

>>last book you read
Dune
>>currently reading
The Lime Twig
Street of Crocodiles
>>next book on list
Moby Dick

>Things: A Story of the 60s/A Man Asleep - Perec
>The Plague - Camus
>Still deciding between Lolita and Pale Fire. Want to try out Nabokov, usually you start with an author's most popular/accessible work but Pale Fire seems much more interesting.

Lolita is really his best. There are a lot of people who will say Pale Fire is better but it's usually because it's the less well known work. This is coming from a huge Nabokov fan and someone who has read most of his work.

Lolita's prose is beautiful, i'd honestly just start out there.

>>last book you read
The Count of Monte Cristo
>>currently reading
Lolita
>>next book on list
A Tale of Two Cities

>the portrait of a lady
>none because i literally just finished it
>gravity's rainbow once it comes in the mail

Last Read: Sophist - Plato
Current: Ancient Rome - Baker
Next: Parmenides - Plato; The Aenied - Virgil

>Last books read
Journey by Moonlight by Antal zerb
Legend of the Galactic Heroes novel 1 by Yoshiki Tanaka

Szerb paints a good scenery of Italy and makes me want to just travel, the scenes involving death and anything to do with dying are a little memorable if not entirely edgy especially in the beginning.
I'm pretty happy we've finally gotten LOGH available in the west and I was thoroughly pleased with how well the translation flowed.

>Currently
Great Expectations by Dickens
Mythologies by Roland Barthes

I have some big nostalgia for Dickens since I remember reading it around the time I was doing GCSEs a decade or so ago but I love his sense of imagery he gives off, some really wonderful scenes and I really crave a pork pie now. He did a damn good job of making us feel how starved the convict was in the first couple chapters.
Mythologies is great so far but a little short, love Barthes use of allegory. It's just outright amazing.

Nabokov has never really written anything completely terrible, some dull stories here and there but otherwise he's pretty well rounded.

>last book
Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail of '72
>current
Mrs. Dalloway, War for the Oaks, The age of insight: Vienna in 1900, Bury my heart at wounded knee, and a smattering of essays from modernists.
>to read
everything. Probably Nabokov, might start another Malazan book.

>last book you read
Notes from Underground
>currently reading
Death of Artemio Cruz
No Longer Human
>next book on list
Stoner

>Huxley - Brave New World + De Sade- Philosophy in the Bedroom
>Schopenhauer - Metaphysics Of Love
>didn't decide
Say hi to newfag

>lattimore
Ew
Go for fagles or Fitzgerald

>last book you read
Eichmann in Jerusalem
>currently reading
The Formation of Muscovy
>next book on list
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Ulysses
Kafka's short stories
The Trial probably

Lattimore is God tier.

>last
Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
Pynchon- The Crying of Lot 49
>current
Joyce- Dubliners
Mishima- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
>Next
Pynchon- V
Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury

>Silver Screen Fiend
>Infinite Jest
>So You've Been Publicly Shamed

>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>White Noise
>Butcher's Crossing

>last
divine comedy
>current
skaboys
next
>trainspotting and porno

>last book you read
Solaris
>currently reading
Role Models by John Waters
>next book on list
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead and Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

May I ask what makes Tess next on your list? I haven't hear anything good about it but maybe the reviews ideas were bs.

>last
you too can have a body like man by alexandra kleeman

>current
the unnamed by joshua ferris

>next
the lonely island by dawn powell

oh gosh

i meant "the happy island" by dawn powell, not the lonely island

>last
2666
>current
Death on the Installment Plan
>next
Swann's Way

>Journey to the end of the Night
>One hundred years of solitude
>The death of Artemio Cruz

>he fell for the hamilton meme
should be reading biblioteka like a true patrician

good shout with the lattimore translations though

redolent of my route into the greeks

>Dune
>Man and His Symbols
>Lords of Chaos

It was In Our Time on Radio 4 a few weeks back and sounded ok. Picked up a copy off of a friend and I've read the first 20 pages and it's pretty comfy.

Basically, from what I've gleamed, a lot of it's about desire and how Tess can't control how her body communicates with others. Like she can't help being this incredibly attractive woman and the men it attracts and life just slowly destroys her. If that sounds fucked up we have to remember it was written by a man who writes about having an erotic experience as a young man watching a woman hang.

Did you like Dune? I liked Dune.

I felt it circumvented a lot of my personal hang-ups with messianic fiction by kind of implying the whole myth could have been seeded in past as a ploy. Also the names Paul and Jessica lasting thousands of years into future bugged me until I realised they've literally already done exactly that.

Last
Sabbath's TheaterPhillip Roth

Current
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Next
Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse

>Nicomaquean ethics
>Metaphysics
>The mediocre man

>last book you read
The fourth century - Édouard Glissant
>currently reading
Exile and the Kingdom - Albert Camus
>next book on list
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

You are in for a fucking treat.

dont listen to this dweeb hes trying to throw you off. its trash, but bearable, read on.

I'm intrigued as to why you think Lolita is trash.

> Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
> J R, Gaddis
> Haven't decided what next t b h

>last book you read
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

>currently reading
V by Thomas Pynchon

>next book on list
The Plague by Albert Camus

>>last book you read
Black Hole (Burns)
>>currently reading
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman) & Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert)
>>next book on list
Freakanomics (Levitt/Dubner) & How the Mind Works (Pinker)

> So youve been publicly shamed- Jon Ronson
>Lolita- Vladimir Nabakov
> Fear and Trembling- Soren Kierkegaard

>last
Johnny got his gun

>current
Forever peace

>next
Australian big cats: an unnatural history

Last
Notes from underground - Dostoevsky

Currently
Theban plays - Sophocles
Ethics - Aristotle

Next
The idiot - Dostoevsky

Last: Down and Out in Paris and London

Now: History of the World by JM Roberts, Billy Budd

Next: Mythology, Infinite Jest

>Last
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño
>Current
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
>Next
Harry Potter 1

>Confederacy of Dunces
>As I Lay Dying, Flannery O'Connor short stories
>not sure
need more good ol american southern lit

>last book you read
Nausea by Sartre

>currently reading
Helter Skelter by Bugliosi

>next book on list
Not sure.

>Lords of Chaos
I read that a long time ago, wasn't bad. If you're already familiar with a lot of the history (church burnings, murders, etc) then you may not really find too much new information. It was almost 10 years ago when I read it though, so I might just not remember it that well.

This isn't an insult, but this list just encapsulates "basic Veeky Forums poster" so well.

>last
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzatti

>current
Fictions - Borges

>next
Under the Volcano

>last book(s)
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Molloy by Samuel Beckett

>currently reading
Gravity's Rainbow by Tómas Pinecone

>Next on list
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux

>>currently reading
>Helter Skelter by Bugliosi
how is it?

>Last
Northanger Abbey - Austen
>Current
Blindsight - Peter Watts
>Next
deciding between: Crash - Ballard, Justine - Sade, and The Forever War. thoughts?

>last
Mason & Dixon

>current
Crime and Punishment (reread)

>next
Ancient Tillage or Gravity's Rainbow

>I started this thread to prove to everyone I'm starting with the greeks! I'm really smart

>The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzatti

what did you think about my book?

im Dino Buzzati btw

So you've been publicly shamed
Lolita
Fear and Trembling

Why are you fags so obsessed with Lolita? The story sounds super unappealing. I'm guessing the message of the book is DUDE LOVE HAS NO BOUNDARIES LMAOOO. #Legalizedegeneracy

How was 'So you've been publicly shamed'?
Pick it up a few weeks ago but it is way down my to read list.

>Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
>Ubik
>Martian time-slip

>last book you read
discourse on the method (would not reccomend btw)
>currently reading
situationalist international anthology
>next book on list
discipline and punishment

So far it's pretty good. It's fairly long though, and I'm only a little over a third of the way through it.

>he reads for plot

Turbopleb.

Also, why do you hate freedom so much?

Carson McCullers and Eudora Welty are worth checking out.

>1Q84, Murakami
>The Idiot, Dostoevsky
>Crime & Punishment, Dostoevsky
or
>Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky

i only see middle brow lit itt

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>White Noise
>Ulysses
>Lolita

>last book you read
The Savage Detectives. Bolano is great
>currently reading
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>next book on list
IDK either The Idiot or Journey to the End of Night

How'd you like Perks of wallflower? My gf wants to read it but I watched the movie and I thoroughly disliked it. Also I couldn't into The Plague, I loved the stranger and the fall but for whatever reason the Plague didn't strike me
How'd you like TSD? I knew I was going to but I still found Cesarea tinajero disappointing, much more so than Arcimboldi

Haven't read many books but TSD is definitely the best I have read. Love the way the characters have their own voice, especially after you finish the savage detectives part and come back to García Madero, I felt it like going back to an old acquaintance. I read it in spanish, so Bolaño's command of the language and it's varying forms it's really noticeable. I wasn't expecting anything of Cesarea, for it was more about the trip and not the destination.

>last book you read
play it as it lays
>currently reading
the bell jar
>next book on list
mb philip roth to balance out the femlit

>Dubliners
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, or Flowers for Algernon

You haven't even read it and you're bitching about it? kys.

>Essays and Aphorisms (Schopenhauer)
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Plato's Republic

>previous
Suspended Sentences; Three Novellas - Partick Modiano

>current
My Struggle 1: Karl Ove Knuasgaard
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K. Jerome

>next
not sure. I might reread Woolf's The Waves