Last 5 books you read

>last 5 books you read
>other anons give you feedback

War and Piece, Galapagos, Letters from Seneca, The Ego and His Own, and currently reading Van Gogh's letters

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I, Claudius
Pictor's Metamorphosis and other stories
Tales of ETA Hoffman
Silence
Orfeo

The Cantos by Ezra Pound
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade by John Hawkes
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
Omensetter's Luck by William Gass (2nd reread)

the recognitions
mason and dixon
the sound and the fury
Solaris
what we talk about when we talk about love


come at me niggers

IJ, Selected Tweets, Americana, IJ, Fear and Trembling

I don't read

+Tolstoy
+Seneca
-Stirner (you probably don't have the Hegel background)

+Beckett
+Hesse
+Toole
-Kundera

meme hard brother

The Road
The Martian
Stone of Tears
Hitchhiker's Guide
Wizard's First Rule

kys

>War and Piece
I wanna start it soon. Seneca made me mad when I read parts of On The Shortness of Life because he basically said "lol dont work!"
My local half priced book store didnt have any Pound : /
I loved sound and the fury. Just found Against The Day for like 2 dollars, Ill get to M&D one day

Some serious reading dude. Did Stirner live up to the memes?

Looks like some fun reading

I literally haven't heard of any of this

More serious stuff. Good on you anons.


My last 5 were the Karamazov brothers, falling man, history of -------, sunshine sketches of a little town, and the chrysalids, I read the odyssey before that as well.

The Aleph
Sallys söner
Alice in Zombieland
Moby Dick
Journalisten

>I literally haven't heard of any of this

Robert Graves
Hermann Hesse
ETA Hoffman (lol)
Shusaku Endo
Richard Powers

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Ferrante
The Formation of Muscovy - Crummy
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Arendt
The Story of a New Name - Ferrante
Season of Migration to the North - Salih

Poseurs/Beginners

At least you are trying

Notes From Underground
Iphigenia in Aulis
The Argonautica
Dead Souls
The Trojan Women

Solaris
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Frankenstein
Bleak House
The War of the Worlds

>My local half priced book store didnt have any Pound
I've never seen a single thing by Pound at a physical bookstore, chain or local; so you're probably better off using amazon or something.

Crito/The Apology/Euthyphro
Metamorphoses
The Catcher in the Rye (reread)
The Metamorphosis
Julius Ceasar

the public burning
quiet flows the Don
life and fate
mama day
life a user's manual

The Bone Clocks- David Mitchell
The Fireman- Joe Hill
Haunted- Chuck Palahniuk
Two Serpents Rise- Max Gladstone
Connectome- Sebanstian Seung

total pleb

That's a mighty fine book selection, especially The Public Burning and Life a User's Manual; no one ever talks about either of them here.

>Atlas Shrugged
>A Collection of Kafka's Short Stories
>As I Lay Dying (I dropped it halfway, tho)
>Bad Girl
>The Catcher in the Rye

yeah they were both really damn good and I wasn't expecting to get blow. away going into them.

Was life and fate as good as it sounds? I love the first few pages, i just can never commit to the whole thing

>I dropped it halfway, tho
its on my shelf, what made you stop?

The plot and dialogue was cliche, imo. I'm also not a fan of Stream of Consciousness.

Same. The Public Burning is one of my favorite books now.

Orlando Innamorato
Social History of Art Volume I
Social History of Art Volume II
Social History of Art Volume III
Social History of Art Volume IV


Good.

Trojan Women sucks.

>Zero K
>White Noise
>Runaway Horses
>The Setting Sun
>The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Freud Reader
The Ego and His Own
Part One of Divine Comedy (why did I buy it like this and why do they print it like this)
Trancework
The Portable Nietzsche

9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray
12. Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth
13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

And I fucking love it senpai

Now read Orlando Furioso

yeah dude it was great

ABC of Reading by Pound
A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
Four Major Plays (A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder) by Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
Infinite Jest by Wallace

Also read The End of the Affair by Greene midway through IJ.

I've actually read it first, Boiardo doesn't even compare.

Nothing ever lives up to the memes, but I find its a good philosophy to further justify the sort of people who take to master over slave morality.

I'll freely admit that I'm a beginner. I arguably just started reading seriously a few years ago and I regularly go through depressive spells where and I read nothing and sulk about the fact that I read nothing for months.

plebs

infinite jest
infinite jest
infinite jest
infinite jest
fight club

you should check out infinite jest
throw in some marx to round out your "how2modernism"
pleb
>doesn't finish as I lay dying
>finishes atlas shrugged

Gilles Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed - Claire Colebrook
Carmilla - Sheridan le Fanu
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction - Todd May
Crash - JG Balls
Blindsight - Peter Watts

A Visit from the Goon Squad (gf recommendation), The Trial, Candide, The Magic Mountain, and The Road

>(gf
RÉÉÉ

I fucking hate Atlas Shrugged. Your thoughts?

1. Stalin: Volume 1
2. Mythology - Edith Hamilton
3. The Iliad - Homer and Fagles
3.5 reread the Odyssey, doesn't really count
4. Histories - Herodotus
5. The Name of the Rose

Hill William - Scott McClanahan
Cezanne: A Life - Alex Danchev
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Taking Care - Joy Williams
The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs

i like that you joked about the other user's "how2modernism" when you seem to be boarding the "how2postmodernism" train.

The Dwarves
The War of the Dwarves
The Revenge of the Dwarves (Stopped halfway through)
Roadside Picnic
Currently reading Dune.

I've never been a big reader but I've been reading a lot more recently

Currently reading IJ

Cuckleberry Finn
The Metamorphosis (reread)
Collected works of HP Lovecraft
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
My most recent novel

>i like that you joked about the other user's "how2modernism" when you seem to be boarding the "how2postmodernism" train.
i like that you like that. you board trains much more efficiently when you don't deceive yourself. btw wuthering heights is shit.

>btw wuthering heights is shit
I thought to myself, "hey, this user is pretty cool and funny" up until you said that dumb shit.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I Am Legend
Black Beauty
Communion Town
The Urth of the New Sun

But Wuthering Heights is shit

>le moor
>le heathcliff
>hanging puppies off the back of a chair is characterization

user plz

gotta stay on your toes my man. why did you like it? it has been a very long time since I read it.

I Am Legend is written quite poorly but it's still one of my favourite books.

last words from montmartre - qiu miaojin
a heartbreaking word of staggering genius - dave eggers (i think)
m train - patti smith
tres - bolano
some ether - nick flynn

is fear and trembling a meme? i thought it was just a pretty cool kierkeegard

That dog really fucking annoys me

Elantris
Mistborn
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Way of Kings

I recently discovered Brandon Sanderson and read these all in the past 3 weeks, currently reading Words of radiance

I thought the characters were interesting and complex, if unlikeable. The novel's general atmosphere is relentlessly dank and gloomy which I'm into. I found the dynamic between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange compelling. I enjoy Bronte's prose the way I enjoy Melville's or Hawthorne's. I like novels about gender politics.

>Selected Tweets
memes aside, selected tweets is cool.

The sun also rises
The book thief
The crying of lot 49
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Neuromancer

I liked them all but the sun also rises, any recs?

House of Leaves
Cloud Atlas
Battle Royale
The Sound and the Fury
The Martian

>A Scanner Darkly
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
>The Old Man and the Sea
>The Dharma Bums
>Satori in Paris

The Dead/Joyce
The Trial/Kafka
Petersburg/Bely
Remembrance of Things Past/Proust
Pale Fire/Nabokov

Read Ubik/Dick if you haven't.

Hitchhiker's Guide is awful.

Moby Dick is a masterpiece.


Only Beckett's trilogy is worth reading.

Just ordered Silence myself. What did you think of it?

Lombardo's translation is better. Don't really like Fag-les.

Good choice on The Trial. It's a masterpiece.

Stay away from Freud, unlearn him whatever you do.

TCoL49 is Pynchon's best work.

Good reads; awful opinions. Don't be so loud next time, will ya?

Theogony/Works and days-Hesiod
Volverás a Región-Juan Benet
The Sickness unto Death-Soren Kierkegaard
Iliad-Homer
Complete short stories-Hemmmmmmmingway

Had you read the trial before? What did you think of it? I'm thinking of rereading it, I wasn't crazy about it.

They're all good opinions, don't know what you're talking about.

I read it in German so I don't know how good the translation is. Like I said, my opinion is that it's a masterpiece. My favorite of Kafka's so far, haven't read The Metamorphosis yet though.

>Stay away from Freud, unlearn him whatever someone with shitty taste is afraid of Freud? guess I know what I'm reading next

I liked the metamorphosis more, much more eventful for me, and more concise.

It's strange though, even though I didn't like the trial very much there is something about Kafka that seems almost magnetic to me.

sein und zeit
wahrheit und methode
doktor faustus
the sickness unto death
Either/Or

They're not, really: Hitchhiker's Guide is, when you consider it for what it is, not that bad (not great, of course, but not that bad); How It Is and Ping are just as good--depending on the person, maybe better--as Beckett's trilogy, and you would know that if you actually read them; giving yourself background and context for an entire field of study is, in no way, something that should be avoided; and TCoL49 is, even by his own account, one of Pynchon's weakest novels, especially when you compare it to Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and, in some aspects, Against the Day. Again, good books, but you should really chill with the opinions, especially because you didn't even bother to back them up.

i'm reading being and time right now
heidegger is my favorite nazi.

he's a nazi like the conservative revolutionary "nazis" (Schmitt, Juenger, etc)

I've only read Waiting for Godot beside his trilogy and didn't like it, and I've read Nabokov's criticisms so I was partly basing my opinion on his. I couldn't finish Hitchhiker's Guide and I like both humor and science fiction, the prose put me off. To me TCoL49 feels the most unique of his novels which is why I like it the most, it was the most Pynchon. The reason I didn't want to back my opinions was because I don't think they're actually "good," I said that jokingly and my opinions tend to be unpopular.

weight of glory, prose edda, a christmas carol, psychology as religion, portrait of the artist as a young man

Things Fall Apart
Ice
Siddhartha
10:04
Brave New World

how did you like 10:04?

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Summer Book
Slaughterhouse-Five
Infinite Jest
Steppenwolf

listen to more drones and read less lerner. also don't see kavan much on here (if we're talking about the same book) good taste m8.

Kingdom of Fear
Hell's Angels: A Strange And Terrible Saga
The Outsider (Colin Wilson)
The Hobbit
The Great Gatsby

Morning Star, Golden Son and Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Starship Troopers and Tunnel In the Sky by Robert Heinlen.

Most is somewhat above average, except for the war scenes with the cut-off detachment, which should have been the whole book.

Alamut
Waiting for Godot
Kafka on the shore
A hunger artist
Anna Karenina

Deliverance
The Informers
Desolation Angels
American Tabloid (re-read)
The Cold Six Thousand (re-read)

>patti smith
based

for me:
>franny and zooey by salinger
>the bell jar
>the liars' club by kary karr
>to the lighthouse
>a sort of life by graham greene

>The Sergeant In The Snow - Rigoni Stern
>Inherent Vice - Pynchon
>Stoner - Williams
>Portrait Of A Lady - James
>Nausea - Sartre

Soul platonov
Bukharin and the Russian revolution Cohen
Edward II Marlowe
Massacre of Paris Marlowe
The power and the glory Greene

Big Sur - Kerouac
Post Office - Bukowski
Notes from a Dead House - Dostoevsky
The Essential Ginsberg (majority of it)
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry 2nd Ed. - Whitman, Dickinson

Not all in that order, intermingled.

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V.
Paradise lost
Kafka on the shore
The ego and it's own
Gravities rainbow
2666
Ride the tiger

What next?
Reading Nick land atm

europe central
Giles goat boy
a frolic of his own
cannonball
in the heart of the heart of the country

>>patti smith
>based
>>the bell jar
>>to the lighthouse
are you a cuckold

nah just queer

Karen Blixen - Babette's feast
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaugtherhouse 5
Ernest Hemmingway - To have and have not
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice

Travesty that Gadamer is what we get after Heidegger

babies first book read

Taipei by Tao Lin
Berkeley literature lectures by Julio Cortázar
El Aprendizaje del Escritor by Borges
My Struggle #1 by Knausgård
La Gallina Ciega by Max Aub

1. Faust I & II - Goethe
2. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
3. Furiously Happy - Lawson
4. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway
5. House Made of Dawn - Momaday