So am I interested in seeing whether there's a correlation between beliefs and one's choice of literature...

Nice job OP, you had me for a second there.

>not representative of what I would consider a catholic taste

He never claimed it was, you pseud

HEY FAGGOT

They're pleb-tier

I've only recently gotten into reading after having not read a single book for 10 years. I don't give a fuck what you think is pleb, they're all great books.

Yeah, had me going until
>Abuse will not be tolerated (my own boyfriend even berated my list, but he's always been abusive and has harsh rhetoric so I'm used to it, whatever).

No, it's the "everything is subjective don't be mean"

Anyway for me:
Political writings of Thomas Aquinas
Eveything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Children of Hurn by Tolkien
Divine Comedy by Dante
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Republic by Plato
Stoner by John Williams
A Scanner Darkly by Benis

I'm a libertarian trending toward anarchist. I'm also a Christian. My top five prose works are:

Ulysses
If on a winter's night a traveler
At Swim-Two-Birds
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

normie facebook redditors think they're great works

It's not supposed to fully represent my views, it's just the books I enjoy the most, either for their commentary or the beauty in how they're written. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that

>they're all great books
Mediocre at best

Usually with Catholics you can tell his religious views based on the books the person likes, it's pretty specific.
Not the case with you, which is for Veeky Forums a bit unusual.

Are you redpilled by any chance?

I really like your list

Nope.
I'm conservative if that's what you are asking, but I loathe the /pol/ shit.
Unless we are talking their memes, no one tops their meme game.

Bit disappointing desu

What books come to mind? I haven't gotten around to getting into Aquinas/Augustine or theological stuff

If I was redpilled I wouldn't read at all mate

Chesterton, Miller, Greene, Flannery O'Connor, two you mentioned, but also Feser as the big name in philosophy atm.
It's usually a sentiment or a pattern in reading, not necessarily a list of xy authors.

Anyone care to guess my political leanings? :^)

>J R - Gaddis
>2666 - Bolano
>L'Écume des jours - Vian
>The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Higgins
>Suttree - McCarthy

Very conservative

very homosexual

The Unnamable - Beckett
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Sabbath's Theater - Roth
American Pastoral - Roth
Lost Illusions - Balzac

I'm a librul

I'm a philosophical pessimist

>The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
>Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
>Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
>To Build A Fire by Jack London
>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

I feel the Balzac love but what's to like about Roth? I personally hated Sabbaths Theatre, what do you think we're its merits?

Agreed. erudite momcore novels

you dont need to try that hard to make trump fans look autistic

King Lear
Darkness at noon
The just (Camus)
Devils
Autumn of the patriarch

Commie

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Histories by Tacitus
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Waverley by Walter Scott

I'm probably a classical liberal, I guess

This.
This is either shitty bait or your boyfriend is a pretentious piece of shit.

I find it impossible to believe that someone truly passionate about the most artistically masterful classic literature could simultaneously be a "vociferous Trump supporter"

>not loving Sabbath's grinding vitalism which carries him past the edge of madness in erotic fury

>"The walking panegyric for obscenity," Norman said. "The inverted saint whose message is desecration. Isn't it tiresome in 1994, this role of rebel-hero? What an odd time to be thinking of sex as rebellion. Are we back to Lawrence's gamekeeper? At this late hour? To be out with that beard of yours, upholding the virtues of fetishism and voyeurism. To be out with that belly of yours, championing pornography and flying the flag of your prick. What a pathetic, outmoded old crank you are, Mickey Sabbath. The discredited male polemic's last gasp. Even as the bloodiest of all centuries comes to an end, you're out working day and night to create an erotic scandal. You fucking relic, Mickey! You fifties antique! Linda Lovelace is already light-years behind us, but you persist in quarreling with society as though Eisenhower is president!" But then, almost apologetically, he added, "The immensity of your isolation is horrifying. That's all I really mean to say." "And there you'd be surprised," Sabbath replied. "I don't think you ever gave isolation a real try. It's the best preparation I know for death."

ROth has placed Sabbath near the outer limit of organized society: a beggar, a vagrant, and a courter of death. It does not matter: Sabbath is redeemed through sheer vitalism.
Also, it's pretty hysterical at times.

Anarcho-capitalist here.

My Struggle 1-5 - Knausgaard
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Song of Solomon - Morrison
Lolita - Nabokov
IJ - DFW

...

It's clearly bait, but I don't doubt there are people who are simultaneously well read and intelligent yet completely self-deluded enough to believe Trump. After all, there were plenty of smart people who admired a hollow dullard like Reagan.

this was me in middle school

>Mann - The Magic Mountain
>Eliot - Middlemarch
>Woolf - To the Lighthouse
>Sophocles - Antigone
>Beckett - Waiting for Godot
>Flaubert - Madame Bovary
>Stendhal - The Red and the Black

I'm of the leftist orientation

Moderate here who will not be voting. I am more of a Hillary hater than a Trump supporter. I think both would be fine as president tbqh, but I absolutely hate the fakeness of Hillary, at least Trump is real. But I'm quite indifferent to the election, none of it matters as much as people think.

That said, here are my favorite books (fiction/non-fiction) in no particular order:
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
>Letters From A Stoic by Seneca
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein
>Siddhartha by Hesse
>In Search of Lost Time (all volumes) by Proust
>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
>Mason & Dixon by Pynchon
>Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon

>at least Trump is real.

Bit insulting to Trump that.

"tolerated"? Fuck off, you lying troll.

>the only person in the thread whose taste displays any intellect whatsoever
>does not give a fuck about politics

i see a correlation

>Siddhartha
>Infinite Jest
>Pynchon
>displays intellect

Well meme'd

I respect the way you see it but I found it amusing at best, garrulous, tedious and pompous at worst. 2/5, first and last Roth.

oh well

>Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
>The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by EA Burtt
>The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
>The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Ideology:
>legalize it

>I find it impossible to believe that someone truly passionate about the most artistically masterful classic literature could simultaneously be a "vociferous Trump supporter"

protip: this is a "pretentious piece of shit" thing to say

and i'm not an american nor a trump supporter before you try to meme at me.

He's right, though.

this post really made me think

Roth is so shit. Dialogue should be beautiful and witty if it's going to be unrealistic.

I'm economically rightist, but can't stand social conservatism (more libertarian in that area) and am nonreligious. Dislike both prez candidates. My favorite books are:

>Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
>Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
>Complete Poems of William Blake
>My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
>Voice of the Fire (Alan Moore)

>Roth is so shit

I support trump
He's a hack
>you need to be deluded to support x
when will this meme end

i think it's silly to say you're a character supporter
>implies you agree with character's implications in policy
just support policy yourself
1984 and BNW are stepping stones to greater things but this bait and those who fall for it give /literallyretarded/ a bad taste

Right wing traditionalist
>Fausto Goethe
>Plume dans le plafond Henri Michaux
>Alain Elements de philosophie
>Ulisses Joyce
>The mad adventures of Ulysses, his gang, and some war in troy
>Hunger Hamsun
>A la recherche de l'absolut Balzac
>Kafka El proceso
>Ovid's metamorphoses
>Don quijote Cervantes
>A la recherche du temps perdu Proust
>Kant CPR
>Nietzsche Thus spoke Zarathustra
I don't get the ''you must only read from people who think like you'' meme
Or the ''only read what aligns with you'' meme

This is the list of an intellectual. what do you think about women and blacks, my friend?

>what do you think about women?
In truth equal, yet still mentally or arguably socially inferior, in the sense of a Schopenhauer form. Women denying their purpose of reproduction is contraproducent. But none shall ever infringe free-speech
>blacks?
Oh boy, here we go
There is a really strong cultural trend calling to the ''underdog'', the gangster, the lazy welfare nigger.
And this is not my analysis, this is an analysis made by ''uncle toms'' or black intellectuals.
A quote from Frederick Douglass
>"What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with
us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!

In short, negroes are the undoing of themselves and the white man, but not of the cruelty of the white man, but from the pity of him.
When they stop calling themselves Afro-americans and start saying I am American, people will stop looking at them with pity, and accept them as one of kin.

In the end, I believe that a flag and a border are important.

I like you.

Good stuff.

What should we do about racemixing?

libertarian

I will never encourage imposing to a free person.
But if this free person damages the group, see the definition of Evola of fascism, it should be stopped.
Is race-mixing inherently bad?
Well, to a point race mixing is quite rare, normally people align themselves with people of their own looks. And even if race-mixed jew with nigger, or nigger with white, but still do a contribution to society, it's not truly bad.
Yet it is true that a homogeneous society would be perfect, since retards wouldn't throw race at every discussion, and value character. But the real question, is it possible without the zionist jews unleashing NATO all over the legislation?
Now this degenerate hedonist society is a problem.
Solution? Education.
And no, liberal arts degree or gender studies is not a real education, just a pandering circle-jerk.
I believe you can do whatever the fuck you want, but please, don't drag other people into it.

>And even if race-mixed jew with nigger, or nigger with white, but still do a contribution to society, it's not truly bad.
>I will never encourage imposing to a free person.
>I believe you can do whatever the fuck you want

Just lost my respect for you

Please bear in mind that this is realistic.
I would love living in a fascist country, see Evola form, but not warmongering.
If you have a formula of erasing kikes, niggers, mudslimes, chinks and whatnot, without getting zionist'd , I will follow blindly.

Nah, you sound like a liberal at heart, mate

>Nah, you sound like a liberal at heart, mate
[Spoiler]At heart I'm a dumb anime poster[/Spoiler]

>Veeky Forums traditionalist
>animeposter

'bachelors are unmarried'

Nice talking to you anyways
Have a good one user

Classical liberal, Protestant Christian

Top 10 favourites, no particular order:

Middlemarch - Eliot
Transformations - Sexton
The Dead and the Living - Olds
Ulysses - Joyce
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
My Ántonia - Cather
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory

>tfw I'm half black/half Asian lurking this discussion with an odd mixture of apalled amusement at how a well-read and presumably socially and academically involved person could harbor such myopic views
>"at heart I'm a dumb anime poster"
hahahah I have presumed far too much of you

>he's even a vociferous Trump supporter, ugh
Kill yourself

> phew for a minute there I almost questioned my own worth

>implying my self worth ever came into question
>projecting this hard
wew

>tfw I'm half black/half
proof
>myopic views
elaborate

If only you had listened.

>they're all great books.
incorrect

It doesn't matter what laugh you try, you're still just a nigger.

>blasian
Damn son, that's even worse than mulatto.
I'd have killed myself way before now if I were you. You're a stain to a proud family line. Well, I suppose unless you're Malay, cambodian, or flip.

proof
>elaborate
I'm having drinks at a friend's, I'm not gonna have a Veeky Forums discussion with a redpilled kid that watches cartoons

I'm an agnostic atheist and I have no political affiliations whatsoever.
>Dubliners by Joyce
>Basically any of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories
>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde (and pretty much all the rest of Wilde's work desu)

>try to engage in discussion
>get condescended
>nah m7 i woul destroi ye but 2busy
suprising

Hmm if I had to put myself inside a political ideology I would say I'm a conservative but I really don't care too much, I'm more for anow efficient administration.
On the other hand, I consider myself an absurdist and an existentialist but my taste in books is really diverse so I dunno.

Here's my list:
Caligula Albert Camus
Faust- Goethes
Le fantôme de l'opéra- Gaston Leroux
The world of yesterday- Stefan Zweig
Le diable et le bon dieu- Sartre

(And yeah, I'm HP shot but that's another story)

Caligula is a wonderful play
I personally love it
Have you seen it or just read it?

You thought for even a millisecond that the author of those pretentious thesaurusposts is socially and academically involved

first mistake is a Veeky Forums animeposter socially involved
second is believing that reading = first class literature professor
>pretentious thesaurusposts
sorry that the books i like the most bother u

Classical liberal, culturally Christian agnostic who is fascinated by religion

KJV Bible

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Moby Dick

Piers Plowman

Paradise Lost/Paradise Found

The Odyssey

Pale Fire

Barabbas

Ulysses

I should note that I've been far more influenced by mathematics books due to my profession, but these are a small sampling of my favorite works of literature.

The fact you thought 'pretentious' referred to your listed readings shows how stupid you really are

Read it and seen it. I love it both ways. Camus finale is one of the best I've ever read. :)

btfo

Libertarian, esoteric inclinations

>William Blake
>Borges
>Tolkien
>Frank Herbert
>Plato
>Heraclitus

Have you read Attendant Godot?
You'll like it
Or Fin de Partie

So was it mom or dad who disappointed their parents?

M8! I love Beckett's Fin de Partie! Have you read/listened to All That Fall?
I'm sure as hell gonna read Attendant Godot.
What else do you like user? Have you posted your list already?

Not sure exactly what to call my politics (not really educated regarding politics), but I love John Locke and live by his Three Natural Rights). I'm also in a same-sex relationship and love America and guns, if those mean anything to you. I guess I'm a moderate? I'm not voting in this election, anyways.
>Vineland by Thomas Pynchon favorite)
>The Castle by Franz Kafka
>A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
>The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
>Orlando by Virginia Woolf
>Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot