ITT: Give a rating out of 10 for the last five book you read

>Wuthering Heights - Bronte
8/10

>Birdsong - Faulks
7/10

>Snow - Pamuk
7/10

>Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
8/10

>East of Eden - Steinbeck
9/10

Is Seven Pillars as difficult as I've heard?

>TtL 9/10
>Waves 6/10

Kafka Short Stories: 7/10, loved the more famous ones but many weren't very interesting.
Fight Club: 4/10, at least it was short
The Grapes of Wrath: 8/10, it was heavy handed but it packed a punch
The Master and Margarita: 9/10, a tour de force
100 Years of Solitude: 10/10, I couldn't put it down

>Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse 9/10
>Virginia Woolf - The Waves 6/10

Yeah, it's tough and really needs at the very least an intermediate understanding of the history and context behind it. Anyone can appreciate its literary value though, it's a beautiful book.

>100 Years of Solitude: 10/10, I couldn't put it down

Leave, Reddit.

Thanks.

Do you have any recommended reading before I attempt it? Aside from the film I have no knowledge of him or the things he writes about.

smashing them plebpinions lol

Mason and Dixon 10/10
Gravity's Rainbow 9/10
The Recognitions 9/10
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men 8.5/10
The Dying Grass 9/10

I've been on a fucking roll lately.

Take your meds user

Sure. There's a few good books which are half-biography and half-history about Lawrence, like Lawrence in Arabia by James Barr, who also wrote A Line In The Sand which is a good book about Sykes-Picot and the making of the modern Middle East.

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger is another desert travelogue/autobiography which is a shorter and easier read but much in the same vein as Seven Pillars

It definitely deserves to be read with a companion text, it'll help you appreciate it more and also will dispel some of the myths in Seven Pillars (Lawrence made a lot of shit up)

>100 Years of Solitude: 10/10, I couldn't put it down

el oh el

>Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Had some cute moments, I liked the folklore-type sections about the old village. The Ukrainian kid's way of speaking was really grating. Ultimately I don't think Foer really had anything new to say. 6/10
>Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima
One of the best written gay characters I've come across, but that doesn't save the book from being quite boring at times. 7/10
>It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Robert Fulghum
Pure, unadulterated schlock. Broaches a lot of important ideas, but when the longest story is maybe five pages, it seems he was more interested in making you feel warm and fuzzy than making you think. 3/10
>Richard Yates, Tao Lin
Hot garbage. Waste of my time and an insult to my intelligence. 1/10
>Agape Agape, William Gaddis
Seemed like Gaddis had a lot more he wanted to say and might have made something really decent out of it given the time, but what we got is rambling and repetitive. 4.5/10

Thanks very much. All added to my wishlist.

Something for Christmas, I think.

I'll tackle them next year.

Kafka on the Shore. 2/10
The Status Civilisation. 4/10
La Forêt D'Iscambe. 2/10
Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune. 5/10
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. 3/10

Maybe I should just stop reading.

>>Richard Yates, Tao Lin
>Hot garbage. Waste of my time and an insult to my intelligence. 1/10

What were you expecting, honestly? It's fucking Tao Cuck

>Kafka - 2/10

Why?

I know Murakami isn't that well liked on this board, but surely that's a bit harsh.

I try to give the memes an honest chance and decide for myself whether they're any good. Sometimes it pays off in spades, sometimes it really fucking doesn't.

Odyssey only gets a 9 chum? Not enough character development for ya chief? Contrived narrative compadre?

>Crime and Punishment 9/10
>The Old Man and The Sea 7/10
>Franny and Zooey 8/10
>The Road 7/10
>Nine Stories 7/10

Inherent Vice 8/10
House of Desires 8/10
Divine comedy 9/10
Clockwork Orange 7/10
Cosmos 7/10

>the road on par with the old man and the sea

I finished Crime and Punishment a couple of months ago. Will anything ever top it? So far, my answer is no.

Brief Interviews 8.5/10?
I feel like it had some very good parts but some of them where pure post-modernist masturbation. What did you think of "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to E"?

They're both quite comfy, though. And they're both essentially written in the same minamilist style. Besides, that's not even Hemingway's best work.

Brothers Karamazov

That one was one of my least favorites. Still solid, in my opinion, but just not on the same level as some of the others. I agree that it was self-indulgent at times, but when he is on he is on like few others. Some of the stories are among my all time favorites. Could perhaps drop that rating down a bit, compared to other books I would give that rating to, but it's hard because I'm such a fan boy.

Or maybe you should read actually good books.
My rankings were only compared to each other. Obviously it's a masterpiece. But yes, some reason I prefer Iliad are the greater depth of characters and more cohesive narrative.

Confessions - Augustine 9.5/10
Bovary - Flaubert 8.0/10
Billiards at half past nine - Böll 6/10
Notes from the underground 7/10
Siddartha 7/10

It's certainly on my to-read list. Currently reading Don Quixote, a book that's supposed to be on par or even better than C&P. Absolutely loved the first part, the second part is a bit underwhelming to be honest. Everyone is just playing tricks on him and they keep going on about the enchanters.

Disgrace Coetzee 10/10
The road McCarthy 8/10
Casi nunca Sada 10/10
Crime and punishment 10/10
Don Quixote 10/20

>Before I Go To Sleep 3/10

I will not fucking take these book suggestions from friends anymore.

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Disgrace Coetzee 10/10
The road McCarthy 8/10
Casi nunca Sada 10/10
Crime and punishment 10/10
Don Quixote 10/10

>Moby Dick
9/10
>Crime and Punishment
8/10
>Oxford's The First Philosophers
4/10
>Ulysses
9.5/10
>Infinite Jest
>5/10

>St. Augustine
My nigga (and I'm an atheist).

I dunno i guess in a way i am too but not that i outright dont believe in God as you probably but just because i am too cowardly to face the question. I think augustine sort of is pushing me towards theism though.

>reading

uhh Veeky Forums is a satire board

Yeah I agree DFw, regardless of what some people may say here, was incredible when he was at his best. That last interview still haunts me to this day, amazing.

>Christian Kracht - 1979
7/10
>Patrick Süskind - Der Kontrabaß
8/10
>Michel Houellebecq - La carte et le territoire
7/10
>Philip Roth - The Humbling
8/10
>Franz Kafka - Das Schloß
9/10

The Return, de la Mare - 6.5/10
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Conrad - 6/10
J R, Gaddis - 6.25/10
The Blind Owl, Hedayat - 6/10
Vermillion Sands, Ballard - 7.5/10

*Conrad > Stevenson

& mistake sage

It > 8.5/10
The Stranger > 7/10
A Clockwork Orange > 8/10
The Doors Of Perception > 5/10
Scar Tissue > 7/10

7/10