What have you read this year?

Jules Verne - Steamhouse Tigers and traitors
Talbot mundy - The Devils Guard

I'm no expert, but I know you can find better right wing authors than fucking Anne Coulter and O'Reilly

Grant's memoirs are supposed to be really good and I've also heard positive things about Hersey.

Debt - 9/10
Wise blood - 9/10
The New York trilogy - 8/10
The Black Dhalia - 7/10
Train Dreams - 9/10
Libra - 10/10
2666 - 9/10
Blow up and other stories - 8/10
Midnight in the Garden of Good and evil - 8/10
High rise - 6/10
Leaves of Grass - 10/10
The Recognitions - 10/10
Moby Dick 10/10

Bumping because this is a very relevant thread on this board.

>very red pill

You read to reinforce your embarrassing beliefs

Shameful

Moby Dick
Agape Agape
King Lear (again)
Othello
Twelfth Night
The Way Through Doors
Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation)
Manon Lescaut
Things Fall Apart
Junky
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
Frankenstein
short story collection by Heinrich von Kleist
Why We Can't Wait
The Pearl

Best: Moby Dick, Agape Agapē, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

Currently reading: Inferno/From an Occult Diary — Strindberg, Gargantua & Pantagruel

>At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
>A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - PKD
>The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
>The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
>Satori in Paris - Kerouac

Gonna read Tristessa and Big Sur next, and Lonesome Traveler if I find it. I've been on a real big Kerouac kick lately.

Have you read Kerouac's Beat Generation play? I picked it up and havent looked at it but i'm curious if its worth my time

>The Chrysalids
7/10 Only Wyndham I've read, Nice writing Style
>Introduction to Marxism - Tom Bramble
6/10 Easy to read Analysis, formatting of book bugged me tho
>Dimboola - Hibberd
7/10 Drama instructor made it out to be better than it was. Decent Australian writing style
> A Stretch of The Imagination - Hibberd
8/10 Best Hibberd imo. The Characterization of Monk being a reclusive bum was excellent, aswell as Monk renacting scenes from his life by talking to himself
>Less than Zero - Ellis
5/10 The main character seemed like a hedonistic, less autistic version of Mersault. Did not like much

I thought the Chrysalids, which I read earlier this year, was terrible

oh and
>The Whisper in The Darkness
8/10 Very Enjoyable. I understand why Lovecraft is acclaimed. Nice setting and keeping of atmosphere. Writing Style and plotlines were a little lacklustre.

>Will Self - Dorian
Was the only Self in my town's library. Has some nice things to it, mostly just edgy for edgyness sake
>Beckett's trilogy
10/10
>Cercas - Soldiers of Salamis
Good read about the Spanish civil war, also Bolano is in it
>Caraco - Le Bréviaire du Chaos
Aphoristicy short essays about our impending doom. Went deeper than Cioran
>Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers
Cohen is a surprisingly good writer. Comfy and feelsy
>Mészöly - Megbocsátás
80 pages of 2deep4u, hard to crack symbollic novella
>Nabokov - Despair
Memes the shit of Dostoyevsky
>A collection of Borges short stories
it's fuckin Borges m8
>Puig - Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
"..."
>Ádám Bodor - Az Eufrátesz Babilonnál
Mostly dark and atmospheric short stories in an unknown but somehow familiar place (tho mostly shit villages)
>Pelevin - The Clay Machine Gun
Reread, my fave from Pelevin
>László Cholnoky - Bertalan éjszakája
Novellas about crippling alcoholism. Great. Protohajnóczy, for hunanons out there
>Augustine - On Happy Life/On Free Will
'Twas a little hard for me
>Nádas - A Biblia és más régi történetek
Early short stories of Nádas, some of them are precursors to The End of a Family Story
>Ádám Bodor - A Zangezur-hegység
Same as before
>Dostoyevsky - The Devils
Butthurt rants about muh liberals ruining the country. Kirillov is based. Shigalyev is Stalin
>Claster - Archeology of Violence
BTFO's the marxist historic dialectics
>Vargas Llosa - The Storyteller
tasurinchi/10, also some wankery to Kafka
>Imre Kertész - Fiasco
Beckett and Kafka having a circlejerk on Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus
>Viktor Cholnoky - Trivulzio szeme
Sometimes Krúdyesque short stories, sometimes Borgesque (it's now a word, fuck you) short stories about the fin-de-siecle Budapest and Balaton and some good ghost stories too

Currently: Tristam Shandy, and Angyali Gigi! by Szentkuthy

You can't fucking make this shit up

how old are you? I wish I was good at reading authors not posted on Veeky Forums ad nauseum

23

Shit, fucked up, it's Clastres not Claster

where do you find out about these author fellows?

>John Montague - Selected Poems
A small selection from a local writer but some really beautiful ones

>Heart of Darkness
Didn't really get into it because of the prose until near the end but certainly left a lasting impression. Brilliant character study

>Sean O'Casey - Plough and the Stars
Eh, never read him before. I'm interestied in the topic and it was quite modern and controversial for its time but it never drew me in

>Dugin - 4th Political Theory
The Memes were on point. He's fascinating and I like his analysis, especially on Hedigger

>James Connolly - Selected Works
A great figure but not much to be found apart from a feel for his character

>Patrick Pearse - Collected political pamplets and speeches
Excellent, undoubtably one of the best nationalist writers in Europe at the time, highly quotable

>Mishima - Death in Midsummer and other stories
One of the best collections of short stories I've read, highly romantic

>Swift - A modest Proposal
meh, a mild giggle but gets old fast

>Tom Sunic - Against Democracy and Equality
Didn't like it

>Spengler - Prussianism and Socialism
Han't read his other stuff so not sure I fully grasped it

>If on a winter's night a traveler
Super comfy. The chapters in second person remind you why you love reading. The short stories were a little hit and miss. 8.5/10
>Blood Meridian
Better than I was expecting. I finished it before the onslaught of corncob tortilla memes, which probably saved my opinion from being corrupted. 9/10
>The Dalkey Archive
Funny enough, but the weakest of O'Brien's I've read so far. 6/10
>Hocus Pocus
Boiler plate Vonnegut. Gave me exactly what I was looking for. 7/10
>The Plague
Disappointing. I'm a big fan of the Stranger and was surprised how underdeveloped these characters are compared to Mersault. 4/10
>Ready Player One
Only read this because a qt suggested it to me. Boring and predictable. The only conceivable way you'd like this is if you have an 80's fetish, which I definitely do not. 2/10
>Vineland
Went in with low expectations thanks to Veeky Forums and was pleasantly surprised. Not Pynchon's best but I still enjoyed it. 6.5/10
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Lots of fun and much more intelligent than I was expecting. The passage about the "high water mark of the hippie movement" is incredible. 8/10
>Oscar Wao
I really hated the way the narrator wrote about Oscar, which is supposed to be the best part of the book according to reviews I've read. Just came off as pretentious. 5/10
>A Little Life
Really, really loved this one, and I'm sure Veeky Forums will give me shit for that. I've never been so deeply invested in a character like I was with Jude. It made me cry several times, which almost never happens, and I often found myself reading hundreds of pages in one sitting, it was just so engrossing. I know it has its flaws, but I love it anyway. 9.5/10
>Norwegian Wood
Having read a few other Murakami novels, this felt like he was phoning it in a little. It's basically the same story as Wind-up Bird Chronicle but without the Lynchian qualities that made that novel so great. 5/10
>In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
The Pederson Kid was the only story that really stood out to me, the rest were passable. 6/10
>Fight Club
Simply awful. 1/10
>An Irish Eye
I've wanted to try something by Hawkes and this just happened to be the first one I found in a bookstore one day. Learned later it was the last one he wrote before he died, so even though I wasn't very impressed I'll probably give him another shot, since it did show some glimmers of promise. 4/10
>Deadeye Dick
See Hocus Pocus. 7/10
>To the Lighthouse
Woolf obviously has a way with words, but that's not enough to completely replace a plot. Even though it's only 200-some pages long, it felt like a real slog. 5/10

Currently reading Foundation.

Mostly through classes and friends, some on Veeky Forums and I spend a lot of time on wikipedia and also by not living in the anglo-saxon bubble

I wish I wasn't such an uncultured Canadian :(

You're reading all that stuff and still got all the way through ready player one? I read five pages in a bookstore and can barely hold back laughter when I see it now. Literally among the worst writing I've ever seen. I mean there were two or three pages devoted entirely to a list of nostalgic videogames and movies that were only there for masturbatory "wow, this character likes things that I also like!" bullshit.

At least you speak french by default, most of reads were
>le translation meme
and one in English

Well it only took me like two days to get through, so no harm no foul. Plus, like I said, this qt gave it to me and he sucked my dick later so it was worth it.

I Love Dick - 10/10
Aliens and Anorexia - 8.5/10
One Hundred Years of Solitude - 9/10
Beloved - 9/10
V - 9/10
Siddhartha - 6.5/10
The Trial - 7.5/10
Denial of Death - 9.5/10
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - 9/10
Godel, Escher, Bach - 9/10
Under the Volcano - 7/10
The Cannibal - 6/10
New York Trilogy - 6/10
Simulation and Simulacra - What the Fuck is a Hypercommodity/10
Picture of Dorian Gray - 8.5/10
The Stranger - 6.5/10
A Clockwork Orange - 6.5/10
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Bad Argument/10
Immortality, by Stephen Cave - 8.5/10
Labyrinths - 10/10
Don Quixote, Part I - 7/10

>Mason & Dixon
Pinecone but lots of fun 9/10
>Mao II
Still can't get into Delillo still convinced hes the real head of ISIS 6/10
>On Being Blue
Great. Lucid and illuminating took me 3hrs to read it all. 9/10
>How the Scots Invented the Modern World
7/10 increased my nationalism and boasting about how everything great is Scottish, much to the chagrin of my Greek girlfriend
>Cathedral
Bored me immensely. I like melancholy and whatnot but this felt like a suburban Hemmingway. 4/10
>Journal of Albion Moonlight
So goddam good. Poetic, intense, surreal and dazzling unlike anything I've ever read 10/10
>Suttree
Ye. 9/10
>Even Dogs in the Wild
I have a love for all sorts of detective fiction, but this wasn't Rankins best. It was cool meeting him 6/10
>High Mountains of Portugal
Mum suggested this, dunno why she knows I hated Life of Pi and this was more of the same 3/10
>And the Ass Saw the Angel
Love me some Nick Cave and this was frightfully weird 7/10
and right now >Infinite Jest
Hasn't got me in its grips, some good passages others I can see a huge Pynchon influence. The fuck is up with >Wardine be cry
part?

Forgot one
Ubik - 1/10
Just overwritten. A lesson in the dangers of inventing plot devices. Wanted to be innovative to the point of meaninglessness.

You want me to read things I will not have fun reading? Why can't I just enjoy reading what I want?

Good taste
>>Mason & Dixon
>Pinecone but lots of fun 9/10
Have you read any other Pynchon? How does this compare to, say, Gravity's Rainbow? I'm thinking of starting it soon.
What's fun about pseudointellectual political circlejerking

Completely different to GR. Personally I liked GR more, maybe its because its a bit more cynical and rollicking. I think start with M&D when you wanna tackle Pynchons doorstoppers.

Is Robison Crusoe worth picking?

"I am 16, redpilled alt right wing and my intellect is fking superior" tier

the little maniac - 2/10
the giant lunatic - 1/10
my house stink - 4/10
my house - 2/10
my house 2 - 1/10
i'm a giant lunatic - 10/10
giants fighting with marcelo - 2/10

No, sorry. Nice digits doe.

Can you write your thoughts about godel escher bach?

Beyond Good & Evil
Ulysses
On The Genealogy Of Morals
Wise Blood
The Idiot
I Am A Cat
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Republic
Symposium
Against Nature
Death In Venice
Tibetan Book Of The Dead
Against Interpretation & Other Essays
Bleeding Edge
Crying Of Lot 49
The Second Sex
The History Of Sexuality
On The Reproduction Of Capitalism
Course In General Linguistics
The Sound & The Fury
Hesiod
Herodotus
Remains Of The Day
Neuromancer
Beckett's Trilogy
Waiting For Godot
Endgame
Happy Days
Illuminations: Essays & Reflections
The Maltese Falcon
The Trial
Under The Volcano
To The Lighthouse
A Room Of One's Own
Ham On Rye

I think that's it...
I don't see the point of ratings so I won't do that, but I liked most of what I read. I especially enjoyed Molloy from Beckett's trilogy of novels, Wise Blood & The Trial because all three managed to be amazing and hilarious at the same time. If anyone could recommend me more lit that fits this description it would be much appreciated.

Candide is the only book I in that stack I would ever touch with a 10 foot pole.

Incredibly interesting. It has a reputation for being silly, but truly it isn't. Every chapter has a dialogue that is off the wall, but the bulk is very serious but not obscure or difficult. What I enjoyed most about it is that it touches on and related a lot of philosophical topics (Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, holism vs. reductionism, epiphenomenonalism, logic, paradoxes, a little semiology, AI (Truly the BEST work I have ever read on AI. Most works just seem to touch on "What if robots learned to love?" but GEB goes really in depth and explains AI in a totally new and understandable way. I thought I understood AI until I read this book.)) into one text. 760-some pages long but absolutely worth it for everything it covers.

>Oblomov
7/10

>The Go Between
8/10 affecting

>Goodbye To All that
8/10

>All Quiet on the Western Front
7/10

>Kaputt
6.5/10, powerful imagery, a tad flowery

>No Longer Human
8.5/10, dark, honest, interesting

>The Setting Sun
6.5/10

>On The Road
6/10, easy read, good sense of the time

>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
8/10, hilarious jaunt

>Fooled by Randomness
7/10, arrogant & entertaining

>Parkinson's Law, or The Pursuit of Progress
6.5/10 Witty, informative

>Kokoro

8/10. I don't tend to like Japanese literature as the vocabulary (in translations, at least) is always very simple. Nonetheless, the ending was not predictable, which is good; I guessed it wrong.

>How to be a Conservative

8/10. One of Roger Scruton's better works. The trouble is that I've since grown out of his very British/conventional conservatism in favour of something more radical.

>Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

9/10. One of the few works to convince me that American Literature has any merit.

>Ulysses

10/10. It's a classic for a reason, yet surprisingly unheard of nowadays (beyond this board).

>Chartism

8/10. Interesting little piece of work from Carlyle, which was a good example of how a conservative could reconcile his beliefs with social welfare/worker's rights/etc. As opposed to nowadays, where Socialists have monopolized these thing, whilst the 'Right' have let them.

>Beowulf (Raymond Wilson Chambers)

My favourite version. You have the technical/direction translation, then a translation in the 'spirit' of the work, and then you also have it in the original Old English.

>Fools, Frauds and Firebrands (Thinkers of the New Left)

7/10. Not bad, but I read it before acquainting myself with metaphysics and so only the beginning and end of the book were useful to me. The middle of the book, where he dealt with Sartre/etc, was lost on me.

>Dante's Inferno

9/10. Great work, as far as Christian LARP'ing goes.

>LOTR

10/10. I read it every year, so this shouldn't really count.

>The Critique of Pure Reason

9/10. Just reading the first page made me feel like a retard. Nonetheless, I powered through it; timeless work, even if Kant was wrong on a lot of things.

>History of the Anglo-Saxons (Thomas Miller)

As far as bullshit Victorian Christian revisionism of British History and the Anglo-Saxons goes, this is my favourite work. Superbly well-written, which excuses the inaccuracies for me. Spans from the original Celts to 1066.

>The Volsunga Saga

8/10. Felt good to properly acquaint myself with at least some of this mythology.

>The Moaning of Life

Funny as fuck.

>Happyslapped by a Jellyfish

Funny as fuck.

>On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

10/10. I'm a sucker for Carlyle, and he's convincing.

>The Prose Edda

As with the Volsunga Saga, a very useful read.

>Beyond Good and Evil

Jumped in the fucking deep end with Nietzsche. I think I'll have to go back to this in order to appreciate it.

>Human, All Too Human

Much more acceptable than Beyond Good and Evil. Loving it so far, as yet unfinished.

>Foundation trilogy
6/10 got worse as it went but intriguing enough for me to want to know how it ended.

>Ivan's War
7/10 interesting perspective of the war and gripping enough to want to keep reading.

>Killing Patton
7/10 more about the Western Front than about killing Patton, but informative and entertaining.

>Robinson Crusoe
7/10 not sure how this nigga survived for 20 some odd years or whatever but a good story.

>Infantry Attacks
8/10 in depth look at the early days of the Western Front and the lesser known theatres in the later years. Gripping combat sequences and overall, I can say I learned a lot.

>Starship Troopers
9/10 my second read of what's become my favourite book. Political manifesto in the shape of a science fiction war novel. Makes me want to go kill hajis in the sandbox.

So I'll buy it. I was recommended reading it a couple of times but I wasn't feeling confident enough since I was new to reading books in English, but everything is leading me to this book. I think I'll have no big problems with it. Thank you, user

Hey
No problem, dog. Enjoy.