Year is almost over, so what have you read this year, what did you particularly like, what are you planning to read next year...?
My reading year was particularly shaped by Mishima and my introduction towards plays, which also served as an introduction towards Schiller, who has turned into quite a big guy for me. My time with mishima was just stunning, i felt as if i was getting lost in the aesthetized world of his images and words.
Next year i want to get rid of my backlog, so outside of intense studies of film theory, classical greek culture and all volumes of The Man without Qualities, there isn't much planned.
Nathaniel Morales
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Josiah Howard
This year starts with Der Wehrwolf.
Particular favourites (with the exception of books by the authors i already mentioned) were the following: >Salammbo >Illusiones perdu >Le Rouge et le Noir >Die Zerissenen Jahre >A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again >Libra >Brief Interviews with hideous men >Byung-Chul Han >Schopenhauer >Deutschland, Ein Wintermärchen >Euripides in general
Blake Collins
>>Byung-Chul Han nice
Ryan Smith
>what are you planning to read next year The first two parts of the meme trilogy and some basic overview of western philosophy so I can join in on dem memes, and formal logic because autismo. Other than that just whatever i feel like reading at the moment.
Cooper Powell
My best reading year yet, 77 books so far. I've never been a big reader until now, and my book choices are mostly informed by Veeky Forums.
Some favourites; Colourless Tsukuru, Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Lord Horror, White Noise, War and Peace, V., Blood Meridian, The Handmaid's Tale, Lolita, All the Pretty Horses and Gravity's Rainbow. I read Taipei and really didn't like it I'm sorry!
As for future readings I kind of pick as I go. Next up is Wolf Hall, The Remains of the Day or The Three-Body Problem.
Jaxson Thompson
>needing to study logic get a glossary of nomenclature. if you need anything else youre never gonna make it
Christian Powell
What's your opinion on the Sea of Fertility tetralogy? How does it compare to the rest of Mishima's novels?
Ryder Thompson
I read a whole bunch of children's books this year. I'll probably be going through a lot next year too.
Aiden Torres
You don't need to read anything to be a memer
Cooper Allen
I don't remember all the books I read but The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark and Stoner by John Williams were the best ones.
Camden Garcia
read maybe 20 books. I couldn't read until about March, I was hospitalized. I was already a reader, but this is my first year on Veeky Forums, which influenced my reading heavily. Virginia Woolf became my favorite writer. Dostoyevsky became something above that. I feel a bit better about my disenchantment with Vonnegut and Murakami. Hesse was mind-altering reading. If I had to pick a top five >Crime and Punishment >Mrs. Dalloway >To the Lighthouse >Steppenwolf >Stoner I hope to finish The Idiot before the new year and start 2017 with The Waves. I'd like to cover more Veeky Forums essentials, but definitely more stuff that's off the map. 2017 will be a good year
Evan Edwards
How are you liking The Idiot user? First time I read it I was 18 years old. Read it again at 25 and loved it. One of my favourites.
Dylan Lee
Books I read in 2016
1. The Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks 2. Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote 3. The Lime Twig by John Hawkes 4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald /The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson/The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad 5. The Pigeon by Patrick Susskind 6. V by Thomas Pynchon 7. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 8. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson 9. The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne 10. This Is the Ritual by Rob Doyle 11. Lanark by Alasdair Gray 12. Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth 13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 14. Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse 15. Là-bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans 16. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene 17. Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux 18. The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet 19. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine 20. Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi 21. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates 22. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 23. The Recognitions by William Gaddis 24. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
I'm 1/3 of the way through The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Chekov. I should finish before the end of the year
Matthew Cruz
This year was good, I think. My readings were mostly shaped by Shakespeare. I also plan to read Crave and Blasted, by Sarah Kane, before the year ends. I don't know exactly what I will read next year, since there are so many things I want to read, but I know it's going to be fun.
Carson Johnson
I loved part 1, part is a bit of a drag but I'm almost through it. I don't like it as much as C&P, but that's because I prefer the psychological themes. The characters are great, I'm really looking forward to part 3
Matthew Murphy
sounds like a bad year, sorry man
Zachary Rogers
Reminder that grown adults reading children's books are fetishising the genre.
Connor Lopez
>"reminder that" >inevitably followed by some stupid shit why are tumblrfags constantly reminding everyone of how fucking dumb they are
Jace Moore
I'm reading them in preparation for a kid, user. I'm not going to expect a baby to be able to read on its own; I'll have to read them out loud for a couple of years.
Thomas Davis
It was not. I spent more than 12 years reading classics and I've already read the works some of you are enjoying for the first time. These are books I've never read before. I feel extremely identified with Stoner and The Sleepwalkers is one of the best history books I've ever read.
Kevin Myers
Blew me away. Runaway Horses is easily one of my favourite books of all time. Had a very heavy impact on me. Have a weird love-relationship with Mishima though, the novel that i'm planning out in my head, while working on my writing, relates directly to him and his writing.
Gavin White
>if you need For what? I'm gonna read about it for interest not memes. That's why I put it after the comma but I guess should have made it it's own sentence.
Carter Hill
1.-Tragedies-Aeschylus 2.- Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll 3.-Alice Through the Looking-Glass-Lewis Carroll 4.-The Greek Way-Edith Hamilton 5.-La Tumba-José Agustín 6.-The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Sallinger 7.-L'étranger-Albert Camus 8.-Genet-Edmund White 9.-Naked Lunch-William Burroughs 10.-The Nurture Assumption-Judith Rich Harris
Connor Sanchez
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Wyatt Nguyen
This makes me happy. Good luck
Jack Collins
Do you even lift, bro?
Gotta step it up in 2017.
Cooper Taylor
Dürrenmatt is good shit. Have you read der Besuch der alten Dame?
Evan Hughes
>banks >hawkes >suskind >roth >llosa
Man you've read some good stuff dude holy shit
Asher Roberts
Nay, i've got it in my shelf though. May be a decent time to read it during the holidays. Really liked Romulus.
Justin Brooks
1. The Master and Margarita 2. The Life of Monsieur de Moliere 3. The Republic 4. Oh (Albanian Post Modernism) 5. Tregtar Flamujsh (Albanian Modernism) 6. Most of Shakespeare's Comedies 7. Richard III, Macbeth, Hamlet 8. Reread Dubliners throughout the year 9. Reread parts of Ulysses throughout the year 10. Guermante's Way 11. Sodom and Gomorrah 12. Confession - St. Augustine 13. Calvino's American Lessons 14. The Book of Disquiet 15. Beckett's Dramatic works 16.The File on H 17. The Palace of Dreams 18. Zeno's Conscience 19. Montaigne Essays
I haven't read a lot, I know, but this year I really got into poetry, which I ignorant about. Started appreciating it a whole lot. Some of my favourites are Rimbaud, Verlaine, Cummings, Yeats, Stevie Smith, Apollinaire, Prevert, Shakespeare, Shelley. I also enjoy learning poetry by heart a whole lot, I use it as a kind of meditation, to cleanse my mind. So far I have memorized Clair de Lune by Verlaine, Ophelia by Rimbaud, The Tyger by Blake, She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron as well as Sonnet 18, ''To be or not to be soliloquy'' and ''All the world's a stage'' soliloquy by Shakespeare.
I would really like to start reading, and working to understand as much as I can of Finnegans Wake through the next year.
Ian Parker
Just got into reading good lit this year.
>C&P >The man in the high castle >Lolita >The stranger
I plan on next year reading:
>The idiot >Do androids dream of electric sheep >The plague >A canticle for leibowitz
Luke Williams
I'll try better next year.
Eli Cook
How was The Master and Margarita? I have read Heart of a Dog and found it quite entertaining, but i'm not sure what to expect from The Master and Margarita
Chase Morris
>Infinite Jest - DFW > War & Peace - Tolstoy >Ulysses - James Joyce > Casino Royale - Ian Fleming > To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway > The Martian - Andy Weir > The Physics - Aristotle > The Metaphysics - Aristotle
It's been a long year
Xavier Hughes
It is one of the most entertaining/funny/disturbing books I have ever read. It keeps you hooked in a way few novels do, it has a vast cast of characters, it's plot is lush and colourful, moving at an extremely fast pace and somehow never having you struggle to follow it. It is something unique, nothing else like it in my opinion.
Joshua Jones
Did any of those books help you improve as a person/ view things differently in a manner you are aware of?
Jaxson Richardson
Well I believe in God now largely due to Plato.
Aiden Bell
>believing in God Being religious I get, but actually believing? Smhtbhfam.
Camden Ross
pure ideology
Jacob Scott
It's sort of sketchy at the moment desu. I don't know where I am.
Lincoln Reed
I thought SFAP was really funny in a deadpan faux-profundity Tim & Eric/MDE sort of way, but I heard Taipei was more conventional so idk if I'll bother reading it. Or are you not actually Tao Lin? I'm assuming you are because I know he browses Veeky Forums and normally a thread wouldn't have gotten this far if it was started by a trip.
Brayden Bell
Books of 2016:
1. Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism 2. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3. Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea 4. Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler 5. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 6. Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death 7. James Joyce - Dubliners 8. Edith Hamilton - Mythology (Comp. 28 April 2016) 9. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Comp. 23 May 2016) 10. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (Comp. 05 June 2016) 11. Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful (Comp. 12 June 2016) 12. Don DeLillo - White Noise (Comp. 28 June 2016) 13. J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey (Comp. 02 July 2016) 14. John Williams - Stoner (Comp. 16 July 2016) 15. J.D. Salinger - Nine Stories (Comp. 09 August 2016) 16. Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd (Comp. 20 August 2016) 17. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (Comp. 11 September 2016) 18. John Steinbeck - East of Eden (Comp. 13 September 2016) 19. Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Comp. 19 September 2016) 20. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant (Comp. 21 September 2016) 21. Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents (Comp. 25 September 2016) 22. W. G. Sebald - The Emigrants (Comp. 30 September 2016) 23. Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin (Comp. 26 October 2016) 24. Colm Toíbín - Brooklyn (Comp. 03 November 2016) 25. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (Comp. 27 November 2016) (2) 26. Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond (Comp. 30 November 2016) 27. George Eliot - Middlemarch (Comp. 19 December 2016)
Oliver Perry
what do you use to generate these images
Julian Adams
Goodreads or LibraryThing
Robert Cooper
>The Martian
I'm sorry
Grayson Wilson
100 Years of Solitude Love in Times of Cholera Heart of Darkness Guns, Germs and Steel Superintelligence Stoner Rayuela The Stranger Death in Venice (and other stories) The Trial Why Nations Fail 2666 The Savage Detectives Distant Star The Flowers of Evil The Book of Disquiet Amulet Nazi Literture in the Americas Crime and Punishment Notes from the Undergound Death of Ivan Ilych The Songs of Alfred J. Purfrock and The Waste and (They came together in the same book) By night in Chile Portrait of the Artist as a Young man Dubliners All of the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges The Time of The Hero The Rebellion of The Masses The Republic and other dialogues Hunger Pedro Páramo El Llano en Llamas The Sorrows of Young Werther The Old Man and the Sea The Setting Sun No Longer Human The Tunnel (Sábato) Huasipungo Borges oral (a collection of classes in a college by Borges) The two first Hitchhiker´s guide books
Lots of poetry from Rimbaud, Borges, Pessoa, Neruda, Pizarnik, César Vallejo, Octavio Paz, Whitman (Leaves of Grass, but i haven´t finished it), Joyce, Nicanor Parra, Benedetti. Short stories from Cortázar, Bolaño, De Maupassant, Chekhov, Juan Villoro, Pynchon, Onetti, Kafka, Urmuz, Faulkner, Kjell Askildsen, García Márquez.
David Reyes
what were your favorites?
Joshua Smith
Mine has been a life of much shame
Christian Gutierrez
>Herodotus >The Pre-Socratics >Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo >The Sun Also Rises
Embarrassingly my most Veeky Forums year ever.
Xavier Murphy
>Not knowing about formal logic Kek mate, I'm guessing you don't know too much maths, eh? Formal logic is a branch of math that's closely related to set theory, lambda calculus, model theory, and proof theory if you're familiar with any of them.
Bentley Brooks
I really am Tao Lin. Taipei is maybe structurally more conventional than my other works, but i think that i pushed my prose really to the edge with this one. My prior works had their unique style of course, but on the level of prose were somewhat minimalistic. Here i went, even if at first glance it may seem differently, since my work mediates a sort of detachedness and autistic non-affection towards reality, here i went much further.