Have you created a list of books you're going to read for 2017?
Here's mine: >January - The Iliad >February - East of Eden >March - The Adventures of Hucleberry Finn >April - A Farewll to Arms >May - Wuthering Heights >June - War & Peace >July - The Divine Comedy >August - Moby Dick >September - The Odyssey >October - Crime & Punishment >November - The Brothers Karamazov >December - Infinite Jest
What's yours?
Easton Sullivan
Mines loose and subject to change >The Waves, Woolf >The Door, Szabo >The Last Interview with James Baldwin >Gass >Tolstoy >Silas Marner >Fathers and Sons >Light in August/Absalom >Dostoyevsky's short stuff >Butcher's Crossing, Williams >Silence, Endo >The Nigger of the Narcissus, Conrad >Chekhov >various nyrb's >Bible >Wise Blood, O'Connor >Ulysses maybe finish Borges' complete fiction. Maybe Kafka too.
Cameron Roberts
I read mostly classics this year so in 2017 I am going to catch up on a lot of pleb fantasy shit that I want to read.
But there are a few classics I want to read in 2017:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Fantasy pleb shit I want to read: The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The Scar by China Mieville Iron Council by China Mieville Un Lun Dun by China Mieville The City & the City by China Mieville Kraken by China Mieville Embassytown by China Mieville The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
looks like your'e gonna read 0..000001 of the canon.
Ethan Stewart
i'm gonna start a Ulysses reading group this spring break. 3 weeks, one chapter per day, six days per week, catch-up on Sundays.
Gavin Taylor
PLease do
Lucas Wright
Where is this happening? Genuinely interested.
Blake Flores
My goal is to read 100+ books in 2017.
Austin Barnes
>list of books you're going to read for 2017
what a profoundly boring idea
Carter Cox
get a girl and eat her pussy
Adrian Hernandez
Here.
I'll make a chart and post about it beforehand. at least read Portrait beforehand and be familiar with the Holy Bible and Homer's Odyssey or else get left behind in the discussions.
Juan Green
>Don Quixote >Les Miserables >The Idiot >Moby Dick >Demons >Dune >2001 >Kafkas novels (besides The Trial which i have already read)
Those are the ones I have on my shelf and have been wanting to read, so I should get to them eventually
David Bailey
My goal is to read 40 books in 2017. No idea what they will be.
I usually read about 12 books a year, I wonder if I can do it.
Samuel Lee
>The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Fucking fantastic book. Hopefully none of it's been spoiled for you yet
Andrew Brooks
Not yet. I plan on reading at least 100 books in 2017, with ideal results in the 150 range. I will probably read more French and Greek classics, and I want to read more Latin-American literature.
Eli Williams
January >Herodotus - Histories (less than 200 pages to finish) >Hesiod - Theogony, Works and Days (less than half to finish) >Homeric Hymns >Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica >The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
February/March/April >Plato - Complete Works
May >Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War >Plutarch - Greek Lives
June >Xenophon - A History of My Times >Xenophoon - Conversations of Socrates
July >Xenophon - The Persian Expedition >Arrian - Anabasis of Alexander >The Discourses of Epictetus, The Handbook, Fragments
throughout the year, when I have time: >Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander
if i have the time >Apollodorus - THe library of Greek Mythology >Greek Lyric Poetry >Pindar - Odes >Theocritus - Idylls >Apuleio - The Golden Ass
Parker Diaz
>writing out a specific list
I hate to sound like a lofty faggot but I find never stick to such lists. Books seem to choose me.
Elijah Bennett
Sowell - Basic Economics Sowell - Black Rednecks and White Liberals Camus - The Plague Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil Melville - Moby Dicc Kafka - The Trial Dostoyevsky - Brothers K
and if i get to them
Ellis - American Psycho Rand - Atlas Shrugged Proust - In Search of Lost Time and maybe some Asimov
Grayson Campbell
>reading things other than the canon
Brayden Hughes
Whatever I feel like fucking reading. Also, I hope none of you faggots actually read only one book a month unless they are some fucking big books.
Michael Long
>he doesnt read a book every day/two days
come on now
Benjamin Nelson
this is fucking gay
Jose Morgan
If I don't read more than 100 books next year I'll kill myself op. Huck Finn takes literally 2 hours to read, it's better that way. As far as resolutions? I'm going to try and read everything from a single author, mark Twain or kurt Vonnegut for example, or maybe someone with less notable work.
Cooper Perry
Veeky Forums babby, so I'm going to do this list for 2017
Thomas Collins
I've read a shittonne of these and I can tell you your life's not going to get much better. Everyone here approaches life wrong, it's like, "Wow, I'll read all the classics and be super smart and learned and have meaning in my life!"
It ... doesn't work out. I did the same thing it seems a lot of people here are doing (forcing oneself to read "classics") and it's just ... not worth it, hilariously enough.
Michael Sanders
Gay, there's a reading list of like 1k novels but do you think everyone sets out to complete that?
Xavier Miller
If you've barely read anything before jumping right to the greeks is not a good idea
Jose Cook
Stop posting this. It's literature propaganda, not everyone's bookshelf looks the same
Adam Gray
dickens really not that great, if you don't like great expectations definitely don't force yourself to get through tale of two cities. read something a little, less, choppy, maybe
Jason Lopez
Why
Ian Martinez
I've already read stuff like Joyce and Dosto, and I've already read the Odyssey and Republic, so I can do this
Sebastian Foster
For real, if I'm not almost finishing a book I'll go crazy. It's nice if I can finish multiple novels in the same day
Chase Price
Pseud detected
Jaxon Jenkins
>being this pleb Either you didn't actually read them or you just didn't spend enough time on them. Nonetheless I guarantee you if you actually understand what you're reading there are a few classics out there that will have a profound influence on you and will teach you things about yourself.
Give pic related a shot if you don't believe in the value of the classics.
Levi Phillips
>Many of the most influential/profound/aesthetic works of all time >propaganda kek
Michael Foster
Put Isaiah on that Bible list. Read it before the Gospels.
Jayden Myers
If you cannot dedicate yourself so much as to read a work within two days of reading, that's pathetic. You're the pseud
Lucas Wright
That shitty list again. I bet you're the idiot that made it and you've not even read them.
Ryan Sanchez
I try not to plan out an exact order for reading so I can jump into something on a whim, or so that it feels less like a chore, but I've got some books I'm excited to get into starting in the new year (provided I stagger out of the last few hundred pages of Moore's 'Jerusalem' in the next 2 days)
The Magic Mountain - Mann Ada - Nabokov Complete Fictions - Borges Histories of Herodotus 2666 - Bolano One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich & the Gulag Archipilago - Solzhenitsyn Dubliners & Portrait - Joyce Short History of Byzantium - Norwich Dune trilogy - Herbert A History of the English Speaking Peoples - Churchill Assorted fictions & essays - Ellison
In addition, I've also been making use of a nifty Science Fiction Book Club collection which includes 10 favorite novels of the 50's, 60's and 70's, and reading these when I don't feel in the mood for the drier writing. (stuff like Heinlein, Pohl, Dick, Clarke, Asimov, etc.)
Other stuff I might consider, is perhaps more Melville (Omoo and Typee perhaps), as well as authors i've had recommended to me, exploring other books by authors i've enjoyed, or have been meaning to get at. >Ariosto >Virgil >Kawabata >Yasushi Inoue >Michener >Dostoyevsky >Shirer >some other niggas I'm forgetting because its 2 AM >MAYBE the rest of the meme trilogy just to get it over with Oh, and also finishing up the last of reading everything PKD ever published. Somehow I've put off Scanner Darkly and Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and that I can't allow any longer
Grayson Rivera
Is there a Veeky Forums mega please? I got a kindle for Xmas and want to fill it.
Jason Jones
kys, you fucking casual
Camden Lopez
Your year looks like it will be similar to mine
Matthew Ross
>Pale Fire
Noah Brooks
I don't like to plan all of my reading, so I have a list of some books I will read, and I will just append to it ad hoc.
Aristotle - Poetics Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer Herman Melville - Moby-Dick Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family Don Delillo - White Noise (maybe) Emile Zola - Therese Raquin
This year, I read: James Joyce - Dubliners Thomas Pynchon - V Raduan Nassar - A Cup of Rage Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground William Shakespeare - Hamlet Renata Adler - Speedboat William Shakespeare - Othello James Joyce - Ulysses
Jordan Smith
id also be interested, make it happen, il be looking out
Dominic Foster
Is there an ebook version of this? I've been looking for while but couldn't find it even on #bookz.
Asher Cook
I don't plan my reading, I'm aiming for something like 40-50 books but I just read whatever I feel like.
Chase Stewart
>Books I will read for sure in the near future Hamlet Othello King Lear (reread) Macbeth (reread) To the Lighthouse
>Books I plan to read througout the year All of Beckett's novels (Watt, Murphy, Trilogy, How It Is, etc) A biographical novel on Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna La vida es sueño (Life is a dream, by Calderón de la Barca) Pride and Prejudice Casi un objeto (Almost an object, by Saramago) A bunch of Basho's haikus Lorca's Romancero gitano
Liam Carter
Mieville is super weird, I'm probably going to read City myself. Otherwise, I've lined up:
>Chess Story - Stefan Zweig >A Collection of Essays - George Orwell >The Pope and the Heretic - Michael White >Voice of the Fire - Alan Moore >The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pinecone >The Pickwick Papers - Chuck "The Dick" Dickens >Book of the Damned - Charles Fort
Jack Fisher
>my cherished brainwashed child-murdering psychopaths in arms, I miss you so much..
Luke Thompson
I am not sure if i should read the Bible or full Aristotle, i think i will let Aristotle to 2018/2019 when i begin to study more philosophy.
What your year will look like?
Christopher Howard
I don't have an order, but I would like to read
(1) The meme triology (2) Anna Karenina (3) Emma (4) Crime and Punishment
I have a bunch of non-fiction books too (5) Mind and Brain (6) The Case on Qualia (7) Abandoned to Lust (8) How we learn (9) Emotions, Qualia, and Conciousness (10) The Mating Mind (11) Attention in Action (12) Demonic Possesion and Exorcism in Early Modern France (13) After Poststructuralism
(etc)
Xavier Baker
I agree with the other guy that replied to you. If you're not getting meaning out of classics, and if you're "forcing" yourself to read them, the fault is with you. I've only been enriched by reading them.
Charles Gutierrez
What's a good translation of the divine comedy? Footnotes are also a must for me
Luke Long
Longfellow is my preference. The Barnes & Noble edition has surprisingly good footnotes
Nolan Davis
You are a tard if you actually thought this way and only read classics because of this.
Isaiah Anderson
I'd like a version generous with footnotes for my first reading, so would you recommend the Barnes & Nobles edition or by Longfellow?
Christian Brooks
I'm also doing the Greek meme for 2017
I've read Martin, Hamilton, and Homer since November. I've set weekly reading goals and plan on finishing through Plato by June. Haven't planned out the rest yet.
Blake Rivera
>Moby Dick >For Whom the Bells Tomb >A Farewell to Arms >Old man and the Sea >Islands in the Stream >The Hobbit >Lord of the Rings Trilogy >Confessions of a mask
Aiden Nguyen
I plan to try and read a few of the door stoppers that i've been putting off, Les miserables, man with the iron mask, and war and peace. Beyond that though I dont know. I read so many books a year that making is list would be pretty difficult/pointless.
Nathan Clark
Oh hey, I had a plan kind of like this based around the larger works I want to get to: >January - War and Peace >February - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich >March - The Count of Monte Cristo >April - Holy Bible* >May - The Histories >June - Finnegans Wake >July - Moby Dick >August - The Recognitions >September - Bottom's Meme >October - Complete Stories of JG Ballard* >November - Gargantua and Pantagruel >December - Swann's Way And there's a bunch of short novels, story collections (including *) and philosophy works I'll be working on in between these.
Bentley Brooks
>planning your reading
Where's the serindipity in that?
Lucas Peterson
Loose plans:
>The Bible >The Divine Comedy >La Princesse de Cleves >Le Misanthrope >La Condition humaine >Les Essais (some of it, at least)
Apart from that, I'm hoping to read forty to fifty overall, with at least ten in French. If my study abroad plans work out, that last one should be easy.
Aiden Gonzalez
Also, I'd like to knock down Plato's complete dialogues, in pure cumulative page count I'm somewhere around 1/3 through it.
Landon Cook
>reading Bottom's Dream in a month
BD isn't a thing for reading. It's not like Ulysses where it's a little confusing but you can get the gist with SparkNotes. BD is more like a fucked up TV show that you can watch a little randomly to get the jist and then walk away
Elijah Morris
I want to read Oblomov, The Good Earth and My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. No plans beyond that.
You been to the National Gallery's Beyond Caravaggio exhibition?
William Clark
Yes, I'm assuming you recognised the painting from the second last room, which I thought was fantastic - as was the exhibition overall. Assuming you went, what were your thoughts?
Dominic Fisher
What do you mean it doesn't work out?
Liam Kelly
It's 50 pages a day user, it's doable with patience.
Luis Barnes
>bible (some passages not the whole thing) >jesus of nazareth book 1 - ratzinger >holy anorexia - bell >the star of redemption - rosenzweig >book of disquiet - pessoa >les chants de maldoror - lautreamont >notre dame des fleurs - genet >ragazzi di vita - pasolini >the origin of family etc. - engels >froth on the daydream - vian >amleth - shakespeare >orphean chants - campana >canzoniere - saba >philosophy of modern music - adorno >the society of the spectacle - debord >the order of things - foucault >complete poetry - rosselli >spoon river anthology (to finish)