Reading List

>he was an asshole
How desu

Last 3:
Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Please Sir by Frigyes Karinthy
Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách

Currently reading:
Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann
The novel of the coming century by Mór Jókai
Confucianist stories
War of the worlds by H.G.Wells

>anthology of greek plays
>New Atlantus & The Great Instauration
>Waiting for Godot

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy (P&V translation)
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Lisey's story was actually pretty ok as far as king goes.

Mine are

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Agapē Agape
Player Piano

Currently reading

Sweet William

>Paradise Lost
>Canterbury Tales
>Moral Letters to Lucilius

When will people realize that Seneca's writings are far superior to Marcus Aurelius?

It is good to pursue. Read Homer, the Oresteia, Sophocles's Theban plays, and a select few plays by Euripides; top it up with Virgil and you'd have a very workable Classical literary grounding. It will allow you far greater understanding of any Western work, as well as give you exposure to some of the best works of Western literature.

Karenina
The Aleph and Other Stories
Rien de moi

Fuck you, now I have to fap to Shimakaze-kun porn

Also, I find Lattimore's translation of Homer to be marginally better than Fagles. If you ever want to re-read the two epics, which you should, definitely try Lattimore.

>have to
nice spook faggot

what, what what?

mine are:
>the chessmen of mars
>the stars my destination
>the forever war

Last 3
Odyssey
The scarlet letter
Orlando

CR
The collector, John fowles
Walden
A confederacy of dunces (hating it)
Practicing new historicism
Thus spoke zarathustra

Currently debating between finishing my cr list and starting ulysses because it's been eyeing me from my desk

Finish your CR list.

Probably wise, I guess

Roads to Santiago - Cees Nooteboom
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away - Kenzaburo Oe

Crime and Punishment
Catcher in the Rye
Dubliners

Currently reading Portrait

Butchers Crossing
Under the Volcano
Myra Breckinridge

Under the volcano
Alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass
The Adventures of Augie March

Veeky Forums! Uneducated community college dropout/drug addict here. Recently got clean and that meant detaching myself from the life I was living. Ive started reading a lot, originally to keep my mind off of things, but now it's turned into a kind of journey of comparing the lives and situations of fiction to the life I've led.

Looking for your recs on what to read next, keep in mind I wasn't joking when I said uneducated, I've probably only seriously and maturely digested about 10 books.

Last 3 read:
Tartar Steppe
Pereira Maintains
The Mezzanine

Thanks!

Frankenstein
Death of a Salesman
Dubliners

Runaway Horses - Mishima (In Japanese because I'm patrician)

Blood Meridian - McCarthy

The Melancholy of Resistance - Krasznahorkai (In Hungarian because I'm patrician... just kidding, in English)

>Plato - 4 Dialogues/the Death of Socrates
>Small is Beautiful - EF Schumaker
>Dubliners

Reading Portrait now, hoping to finish tomorrow as Ulysses just arrived...

Good luck dude, had the misfortune of losing a family member to addiction -- glad you're moving forward.

Have you read any Dostoyevsky?

Sample:
>The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
colorado.edu/studentgroups/shortfiction/RidiculousMan.pdf

Last: The Wind-up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
The Luminaries - Eleneaor Catton

The Wind-up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
Shiloh, 1862 - Winston Groom

3 shorties:
> Peace- Bausch
> Beowulf- Fucker
> Last Words From Montmarte- Miaojin

Currently Reading:
> Burial Rights- Kent
> The Silent Epidemic- Lockwood
> Quantum Mechanics and Experience- Albert

read Ficciones not long ago. It was fucking amazing. Either El Aleph or Book of Sand will be next.

Thanks for that! I had seen the name, but hadn't read any Dostoyevsky. Will definitely look into him. Had an ending I wasn't expecting after those first images.

Sorry to here about your loss.. It took a really fucked up series of events for me to cut the cord from that life. In hindsight I was slowly but surely (yet intentionally) tearing myself apart just to be able to live with myself. Cliche and ironic at the same time right? But you don't just wake up one day and see what you've become and how to fix it. You see who you were, who you're not ever going to be and just want to shut that thought out anyway possible. Further and further down the rabbit hole and you just don't care anymore. You end up like the protagonist before the dream.

Thanks again

Bleak House
A Tale of Two Cities
Infinite Jest

Lacan and the Political- Stavrakakis
In Defense of Lost Causes- Zizek
The Sublime Object of Ideology- Zizek

Last 3
>Life a User's Manual (one of my absolute favorite books now)
>the Dialectic of Enlightenment
>the Beetle Leg

Current 3
>Lacan's Ecrits: a Selection
>Women and Men
>Penguin Freud Reader

I haven't read any of your books, though I'd like to, but maybe you should read the Master and Margarita. Also, what was the drug?

someone fell for the continental meme

>ecrits
lmao

maybe I actually like reading it

>The Ego And His Own
>The State And Revolution
>The Social Contract

Save Aleph for last, trust me.

>The Sorrows of Young Werther
>Underworld
>Butcher's Crossing

Tragedy of Man is the GOAT in Hungarian tragedies, though reading Jókai is like trying to eat a big piece of clay. Otherwise, great taste user.

Pesti vagy ember?

>Sound of the Mountain
>Spring Snow
>Runaway Horses

Budai,abból is agglomeráció

I dropped the Jókai book.
One twist made me mad as fuck.
I will let it rest for a few weeks.

Tragedy of Man was great.A true work of art.

Kelenföld reporting in.

Mikszáth and Móricz are much better from that time period IMO

I've choosen to read that book because of the theme,not because I like jókai.

how old are you?

Unhappy the Land - Liam Kennedy
Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Prince - Machiavelli
Cicero - Selected Works
A New History of Western Philosophy - Anthony Kenny

That's about it for now. Wasting lots of time and money on a Politics degree, but I'm wanting to take it seriously.

Le salut par les Juifs by Leon Bloy.
Los detectives salvajes by Bolaño.
A tale of two cities by Dickens.

I'm currently taking a class on the Brontës, so
>Jane Eyre
>Wuthering Heights
>just started Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Jane Eyre was a tad sappy for my tastes, though well written and overall enjoyable.
Wuthering Heights I enjoyed a lot more.
So far liking Tenant about as much as I did Wuthering Heights, maybe a little more but I'm only 10 chapters in so who knows.

>Ada
>Moby Dick
>currently reading 2666

And in between read UFO books.