List off the last three books you've read, others will rate your taste

...

J R (one of the best books I've ever read)
angle of repose (meh)
the easter day parade (meh)

Hello cynical depressed faggot

The Ego and Its Own - Max Stirner

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

The King Must Die - Mary Renault (Starting on)

>Light Novels aren't literature

>Clear Your Doubts About Islam: 50 Answers to Common Questions
>Submission
>Our Lady of Fatima

i usually hate you but I've been meaning to read Memoirs of Hadrian and the work of Renault, recently. nice.

Even YA has more literary merit than your autistic anime scripts. Deal with it.

The Good Soldier
A Passage to India
The Rainbow

Literary merit based off of...?

>A volume of plays by Euripedes
>Another volume of plays by Euripides
>The ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

And I still have five or so more plays by Euripides to read.

Anti-Nabokovian.

>Miss Lonelyhearts
>Portnoy's Complaint
>Madame Bovary

Ulysses
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury

...

But why do you usually hate me?

The Bluest Eye
The Trial of God
After Dark

lol

The Everlasting Man
Titus Androticus
Macbeth

Nice. Be sure to read Go Down, Moses and Absalom, Absalom! Without a doubt the best Faulkner wrote.

miss macintosh my darling
Cartesian sonata
agape agape

Did you really read MM,MD? What's the big deal?

Don't reply, it just encourage them.

The Iliad (Fitzgerald translation)
Shakespeare's Memory
Cymbeline

>[Rate someone before posting]

Fuck you.

>Symbols of Transformation, Carl Jung
>Thinking Architecture, Peter Zumthor
> Everything that Rises. . , Flannery O'connor

>Hitchhikers Guide
>Don Quixote
>The Son Also Rises

Oddessy is better.

Rate muh dick
I disagree, but they're both masterpieces

The Unpossessed, Tess Slesinger
Caterva, Juan Filloy
Witch Gass, Raymond Queneau

>Shakespeare's Memory
You mean Borges?

This is me. Cartesian Sonata is better than In the Heart. Too often I felt like Gass was talking down on his subject in the earlier work. In CS you can feel his ideas germinate and sprout; something which comes with experience, I guess.

What did you expect from a bunch of try-hard illiterates?

>ZAMM

I remember being 16

I wish people would talk about Utopia more. Good stuff.

Why are you here if you're not reading the meme canon?

back to your containment thread

tryhards

seems ok

tripfag

>a /pol/ migrant

gay

Pseud

Patrician

mememaster

woman

newfag

Making Comics by Scott Mccloud
A journey round my skull by Frigyes Karinthy
The Stranger by Albert Camus

Well?

Obviously they're both fantastic. I've always had a preference for the adventure stories like huck finn, lord of the rings, etc.. Probably why i prefer The Oddessy.

So what are you reading?

The Stranger
The Tartar Steppe
The Complete Cosmicomics

>Magic Mountain
>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
>The Insufferable Gaucho

Good taste OP. I really liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

20 Years After
Great Expectations
The Analects

Blood Meridian
Lolita
Prior Analytics

on it m80

yes, woman, but more because i was just doing some faster, easier reads before school. im still in the middle of less light reads.

Yup. Some cozy late Borges.
Iliad is just more emotionally affecting imo. Also the plot (inb4 >plot) is so complex and gripping. I like the more linear structure and I feel that the characters are more fleshed out.
How would you compare Cosmicomics to Calvino's longer form work? I've been meaning to read it.

>*but it's more that i was just doing

You actually tackled the meme.
I'm impressed

shit

personally for me:
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

If only the rest of the illiad series still existed

you get a 3.3333 NGNL is pretty good the other two are utter shiet though why did you waste your time with them

the quality of the writing is irrelevant for it to be defined as literature

2/10 Bild dir deine eigene meinung

>False Gods
>Der Antichrist
>Also sprach Zarathustra

The Eye in the Pyramid
Ride the Tiger
If on a Winter Night a Traveler

>Naked Lunch
>How Music Works
>Wuthering Heights

Working on Perdido Street Station currently.
Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Snow Crash before that.

>Blood Meridan
It's actually the one big McCarthy books that I haven't read. I imagine it's equally as good though?

It's extremely good

How is the naked lunch, I've been thinking of reading it.

it's a giant long mindfuck. that's about it. the writing quality also holds up well for such a big book. it's like reading a dream about memory.

I've only read the complete cosmicomics and invisible cities. I haven't read any of his longer form work. Although there is a connection between all the cities in invisible cities I reckon I'd class it as short stories. I preferred it to cosmicomics, anyway.

You'd really class Invisible Cities as short stories? I thought the whole point was the connections and narrative being told through the vignettes. You should read If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, though. Probably the most purely fun book I've ever read.

heh
>Frankenstein
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

Three fairly good books, Perdido Street Station is the weaker of the three but it's a nice read anyway. Think I've gone through it in a night.

>Hamlet
>Hamblet (a meaty, nihilistic rewriting of Hamlet that meshes English, Italian, French, Provenzal, Latin and German)
>Introduction to the History of the Byzantine Empire

>especially those considered of superior or lasting merit

Literally the first definition you fucking sperglord.

>Perdido worse than Snow Crash
What

>Pale Fire
>You Can't Go Home Again
>The Sound and the Fury

especially doesn´t mean only you fucking sperglord

>he's this mad that his chinese cartoon books aren't literature

that book is terrible

noice straw man

Why?

>Jesus' Son
>Look Homeward, Angel
>The Silence of the Lambs

I disagree. It's a bit slow, and can often have big rants of nonsense but it's interesting and descriptive

>Bhagavad Gita
>Richard III
>The Merchant of Venice

I like Chesterton and Shakespeare. We could be friends.

You seem like an insufferable teenager.

One and a half/3
0/3
One half/3
3/3
-0/3

Etc.
Nothin' personal kid

It's legit. I never "memed" it

you make me wonder
what is it that makes you fear the reality that light novels are literature?
and based on what do you disqualify them?
it can´t be quality since if it were that you would not do this blanket statement
so it can only be the medium
but why?
Light Novels are usually the equivalent of western "youth books" in serialized form

so what do you base your qualification for literature for

on a seperate note
i can attest these men to have a valid taste in books

i´ve been reading
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
and Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Meh

>Notes from the Underground
>Stoner
>Death of Ivan Ilyich

>1984 (inb4 meme book)

> Henry IV (both parts) followed by Henry V

>Le Morte D'Arthur

Fuck that's a cool pic

Seveneves
Heart of Darkness
Camp of the Saints

Confederacy of Dunces
The Idiot
Red Mars

this thread literally doesn't make sense
reading a book doesn't mean you liked or disliked it so how could it reflect your taste

>Ablutions
>Moby Dick
>In the Heart of the Sea

In order from latest to earliest

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Agapē Agape
A Frolic of His Own

All exceptional choices. I like you guys. Hope you all have a great time reading these wonderful books.

You can judge someone by what they chose to read.

What is this "chose" you speak of?

>What my niece & nephew told me to read
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Puss in Boots
The Pied Piper

>What my English teacher made me
Grapes of Wrath
Lord of Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird.

>What my sisters wanted me to read
The Hunger Games trilogy
The Divergent Series
50 Shades of Grey

>What my book club selected to read
Mystic River
Dragonriders of Pern
Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code, Angels&Demons

>what my cousin suggested
Ann Rice

>what my grandpa was reading
Tom Clancy

>Yellowing books the library was getting rid of
Edgar Rice Burrows | Tarzan (various volumes)
Space Odyssey 2020

>The last book I actually bought for myself
A Darker Shade of Magic
Fearsome Journeys (Short Stories by different Fantasy authors)
Falconfar trilogy (that I regret buying but forcing myself to finish anyways)

neuromancer - gibson
four-day planet - piper
the warlord of mars - burroughs

Neuromancer
Foundation and Empire
Catcher In The Rye

Samuel Beckett's trilogy
Marcus Aurelius' Meditiations
Foucault's The Order of Things

Would it be better if I said that Light Novels are not art?

Good stuff. 4/5

Personally thought Neuromancer was garbage. Rest is good though. 3/5

Still don't get why people like The Idiot so much. Doesn't even come close to Dosto's other books. 3/5

>Camp of the Saints

wew lad

Great stuff. 5/5

Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. 5/5

italo calvino - mr palomar
han kang - the vegetarian
fyodor dostoyevsky - the brothers karamazov

you need to find a better cook club

Ulysses
Naked Lunch
Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man

The Celtic Tradition
The Stranger
and I honestly can't remember what I read before that