Quickly list every book you have read in the first slightly more than three quarters of this year and note whether you...

Quickly list every book you have read in the first slightly more than three quarters of this year and note whether you would recommend it or not.

>Outer Dark
Ye.
>2001 A Space Odyssey
If you're into that sort of thing
>Catcher in the Rye
If you enjoy the character for the first chapter
>Notes from Underground
Probably not
>Siddhartha
Absolutely
>Heart of Darkness
No
>Blood Meridian
I think people should start with Suttree
>Stoner
Yes
>Mrs. Dalloway
Hell yes
>Kafka on the Shore
Idk. I liked it the first time, but after rereading, it's total shit.
>Frankenstein
Yes
>A Good Man is Hard to Find
Yes
>Crime and Punishment
Of course

Human, all too Human - Yes

The Gay Science - Yes

Beyond Good and Evil - Yes

Genealogy of Morals - Yes

Ecce Homo - Yes, probably my favorite book of the year. It constantly insults the reader's intelligence, mocks the entire genre of biography while providing a satirical, grandiose version of Nietzsche's life and works. Yet in between the sarcasm he offers some very real aid in interpreting some of his works, Zarathustra in particular, that may completely turn your understanding of at least parts of his message on their heads.

Notes from the Underground - Yes, but I am not the biggest fan of Dostoyevsky. Were this a longer work I would likely say no, but it is a nice afternoon's read.

Birth of Tragedy - Double Yes, read this before anything else of Nietzsche, I only didn't because I got the others at a local book store for dirt cheap and kind of regret it. It provides context for Zarathustra in particular.

Untimely Meditations - Schopenhauer as Educator and On the Use and Abuse of History are incredible and the others so-so.

The Republic, Symposium, Gorgias, Phaedo, Apology, Timaeus - Partial rereads for an e-mail discussion I was having with a friend about democracy, dialectic, love, and numbers. Of course you should read these.

Brave New World - Yes, it's fine for casual bedtime reading, a great way to show utilitarians the light to boot.

Decline of the West - Maybe. I set it aside for now. Something about this book is annoying me and I can't quite pin down what it is.

Will to Power - Yes. A lot of expansion on some of his less well described ideas. It's notes so you can't necessarily determine what he thought of them but if one privileges the reading over authorial intent there is much of value here.

The Histories - Yes, the most fun book I've read all year. I actually feel like Tolkien took a lot of cues from Herodotus in building his own world which would make sense given his background as a philologist. It's a seamless mixture of legend, counter-legend and some practical histories, almost like a more well researched version of the Old Testament or Homer, but narrated by a rambling old man who loved to describe details of things and go off on tangents.

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - Currently finishing this up. Some of it is review for me since I know quite well the early history of the EU, Bretton Woods and Nixon kicking Europe in its balls, but his firsthand accounts of how the negotiations between Greece and its lenders took place were illuminating. This is a very good introduction to the history of the 20th century world economic order.

>first slightly more than three quarters
You mean slightly less than first three quarters? baka desu senpai

>Blood Meridian
Should definitely be read eventually, or at least given an earnest attempt.

>Hegemony or Survival
It's a good survey of American foreign policy motivations and actions post-19th century. If you're unfamiliar with that (as I was), it's a good introduction; probably not necessary if you've already delved into the subject, in which case you'll surely arrive at the same conclusions as Chomsky, anyway.

>The Sound and the Fury
Essential reading. Not something that everyone will love, or even like, but it's a monumental work that's essential to understanding and tracing modernism in America (and fantastic writing, to boot).

>Dubliners
The stories, in quality, vary between decent to excellent. It was my introduction to Joyce, so if you're trying to get into him, I figure it makes for a good introduction. I'd recommend it regardless of whether you particularly care about getting into Joyce, because you'll find at least a few stories here to be fantastic (for me, they were "The Dead", "Araby", and "A Little Cloud").

Just started reading Mrs. Dalloway, so hopefully it's as good as suggests.

Death of a Salesman - Miller. Meh.
Cathedral - Carver. Yeah.
Collected Stories - Faulkner. Yeah.
Hunger - Hamsun. Yeah.
Oblomov - Goncharov. Yep.
Dubliners - Joyce. Hell yeah.
Stories - Conrad. Yeah.
Fathers and sons - Turgenev. Yep.
El juguete rabioso - Arlt. Yeah
El beso de la mujer araña - Puig. Yeah.
Wise Blood - O'Connor. Yep.
El libro de arena - Borges. Yeah.
Odyssey - Homer. Hell yeah.
Taras Bulba - Gogol. Meh, yep, why not.
Artificial paradises - Baudelaire. Hell yeah.
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard. Yeah.
Several of Plato's dialogues. Yeah.
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne. Hell yeah.
Anabasis - Xenophon. Hell yeah.
The violent bear it away - O'Connor. Meh, yeah, why not.
Las fuerzas extrañas - Lugones. Yeah.
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus - Wittgenstein. Yeah.
V - Pynchon. Hell yeah.
Sorrows of Yung Werther - Goethe. Yeah.
Light in August - Faulkner. Yeah.
Violence - Zizek. Meh.
Under the volcano - Lowry. Hell yeah.
A portrait if the artist as a young man - Joyce. Hell yeah.
Stories - Hemingway. Yeah.
The sickness unto death - Kierkegaard. Yeah.
Volverás a Región - Benet. Hell yeah.
Theogony, The works and the days, Herakles' shield - Hesiod. Yeah.
Iliad - Homer. Hell yeah.
The spleen of Paris - Baudelaire. Hell yeah.
El señor presidente - Asturias. Yep.
Historias fantásticas - Bioy Casares. Hell yeah.
Hamlet - Shakespeare. Hell yeah.
The clouds/Lysistrata/Money - Aristophanes. Hell yeah.
Ulysses - Joyce. Hell yeah.

The Pearl - Yes
Of mice and men-Yes
The Sun also rises- Yes
Fahrenheit 451- yes
Stoner - yes
A monster calls - no

>Whatever by Houellebecq
If you liked other works of his, yes. I don't and didn't like this one either.
>Metamorphosis by Kafka
Yes
>Herr Sommer bei Süskind
Yes
>Morrissey's Autobiography
If you're a fan
>A Supposedly Fun Thing
If you're intersted in Wallace
>Summer Crossings by Truman Capote
Yes
>Superposition by Kat Kaufmann
No
>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Yes
>Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko
Yes, even if you're not a fan of RP
>Imperium by Christian Kracht
Yes
>The Crying of Lot 49
Yes
>If on a Winter's Night
Yes
>Point Omega by DeLillo
Yes
>Andy Kaufman Revealed! by Bob Zmuda
If you're interested in Kaufman
>In The Dark by Laymon
No, not even if you're a fan of Laymon. His worst I've read so far.
>The Bell Jar
Yes
>The Unabomber Manifesto
Yes
>Brötzmann by Christoph J. Bauer
If you're interested in Euro Free Jazz
>The Pale King
Yes
>Notes from the Underground
Didn't like it personally but yes
>The Stranger
Yes
>Miss Lonelyhearts
Yes
>Choke by Chuck Palaahoadjknkjc
No
>Signalman Thiel by Hauptmann
Yes

Catcher in the Rye - yesss

>Aquinas, Feser

Yes

>Meditations, Descartes

Yes

>Ethics, Spinoza

Yes. Good read, but I only read the first two sections because I'm just interested in the metaphysics.

>Political Order and Political Decay, Fukuyama

Yes. It's interesting, especially his critique of the structure of the US gov./Constitution, but I was failed to be convinced of his anti-anti-statism because he doesn't give much of an argument for it. He takes it a priori that the modern world needs large, robust governments.

>Philosophical Essays, Leibniz (read the Monadology, etc.)

Yes, but he is sort of an insufferable autist.

>The Closing of the American Mind, Bloom

No. I couldn't be assed to go very far in it because of the overly poetic prose which seems to be there to hide the lack of arguments.

>An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke

Yes. I read sections of it. I didn't realize it was so damn long.

>Treatise of Human Nature, Hume

Yes. Again, I was just there for the metaphysics/epistemology.

>Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume

Yep

A global world gov't of eco-fascists should have come to pass by now. It's too late... Antinatalism is the death throes of the planet and our guilty conscience.