ITT: We list the last five books we read, and others will rate your taste

>On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, Thomas Carlyle
>One-dimensional man, Herbert Marcuse
>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron
>Repressive Tolerance, Herbert Marcuse (essay)
>Political Theology, Carl Schmitt (currently reading)
Lots of non-fiction. I'll grab me some Balzac soon, though.

No, the other one

Don't forget to rate

A death in the family
Tortilla Flat
Vertigo (sebald)
2666 (re-read)
The nik

>Tortilla Flat
What'd you think of it? I loved it, my favorite Steinbeck

Savage Detectives
Anna Karenina
Dubliners
The Stranger (reread for class)
Fear and Trembling (for class)

Odyssey
Hamlet
Dubliners
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Ulysses

Seems cool
How is Brothers K?
Tao Te Ching will fix your existential crisis
All cool

>The Idiot
>The Invention of Morel
>Franny & Zooey
>Fathers and Sons(current)
>A Single Man(current

The Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward (current)
Hyperion
Uther and Igraine
Battling Boy
All Quiet on the Western Front

nice selection of classics.
I need to read more Russian stuff

I'm only on pg 122 but so far it is great. Make sure that you get the Volokhonsky translation though. I started with the Garnett translation (What I read C&P in) and Thank god my professor corrected this mistake of mine. A bad translation takes so much away from the experience.
Ex.
Volokhosky version: "Her 20 year old face, healthy, broad, and ruddy, was completely idiotic; and the look in her eyes was fixed and unpleasant, though mild."
Garnett Version: "She had a fat stupid face."

I really recommend F&S.
I was a tad hesitant because I knew nothing of Turgenev and its not really memed here, but it's a great book. Turgenev writes nothing like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. His descriptions of settings are emotive and relevant to the scenes, his character descriptions aren't granular like Tolstoy's but utilize the same brief insight, and he sets up opposing philosophies without beating around the bush like Dostoyevsky. and he doesn't use exaggerated hyperactive maniacs to express his points.
He's actually a bit like Chekhov, now that I'm thinking about it. This book is every bit as deserving of being put on the same pedestal as Crime and Punishment as an exploration of nihilism, adolescence, and love. I really recommend it.

>The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama
Great overview on the evolution of various political systems. First time I've read Fukuyama but I can't wait to read the rest of his work. He puts a lot of focus on China as the first modern state, and makes a lot of good points supporting that. The one complaint I had was that he spoke a lot about the lack of rule of law in Chinese politics, despite its efficient bureaucracy, and seemed to imply at many points that a democratic or at the very least accountable Chinese government would be an almost perfect system (I'm exaggerating but bear with me). I felt that this was a very anti-Hegalian (while I've often heard of him called a Hegelian thinker) observation to make, as it attempted to separate the bureaucratic system from the rest of the government.

>The Black Swan, Nicholas Taleb
Great book on Taleb's theory of empirical skepticism, especially in light of everything that's happening right now, where the future seems very much up for grabs. He provides

>L'Arabe du Futur, Riad Sattouf
Self hating(?) French Arab talks about his childhood in the middle east in Syria and Libya. Interesting book, although it doesn't take itself nearly seriously enough. I'm sure Sattouf had a reason for that, but I felt somewhat underwhelmed.

>The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Probably the best book on this list. Gabriele D'Annunzio was like a god among men, and I recommend this book to everyone. Full of daring, intrigue, romance, and passion, all set with a backdrop of a modernizing Italy and the first world war.

>The autobiography of Malcolm X
The adventures of Black Hitler and why his being a piece of shit is all the white mans fault (which, to be fair it kind of was). I read this on a plane ride home after living in Brazil for some time and being exposed to/living around lots of low life nigger hustlers like Malcolm X. I've got absolutely no sympathy for him, and the way leftists fetishize him is truly dumbfounding. A few days ago I passed a table at UoT being manned by the Canadian communist party that was handing out pamphlets on him, and got in a very interesting debate where they tried to defend every single oppressive regime and racist demagogue under the planet, provided they weren't democratic or provide a decent standard of living for their citizens. It was an illuminating conversation to say the least.

>tips fedora

10/10. Hero of our Time and M&M are both amazing books, and I think its an undeniable fact that the Russians have perfected the art of literature.

A reboots changed my life when I read it. I've said this before, but I feel that no other book more accurately captures the modern condition. Are you French, or just a francaboo?

Go to bed Bannon.

'""''good""""" """"""taste""""""" in literature.

I read The Diary of a Superfluous Man a while back but found it completely unbearable. Is fathers and sons actually any better, or is it just more r9k tier whining?

I haven't read that but F&S isn't r9k-tier whining so I'll just assume so

you seem insufferable you atheist faggot

>Diary of Anne Frank, Otto Frank
>It, Stephen King
>Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
>Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami
>The Overcoat, Nikolaj Gogol

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>The Gospel of Thomas
>The Gospel of Judas
>How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
>The Man in the High Castle

My coworkers then informed me The Man in the High Castle was being made into a television series.

Good stuff there.
Also good

>In Job’s Balances, Shestov
>The Kolyma Tales, Shalamov
>Stoner, Williams
>The Royal Game, Zweig
>Book 3, Knausgaard

How am i meant to assess people's taste if i don't know what they thought of the books?

laszlo krasznahorkai - the last wolf and hermann
karl ove knausgaard - my struggle 1
alfred bester - the stars my destination
elizabeth jane howard - the long view
richard matheson - i am legend

Good choices.

I'm too pleb to rate, here are mine though

Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung
Crime and Punishment, ya boi Dosto
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Verne
1984, Orwell

>implying people are not just posting books that they already like (and are not actually the last 5 books they read)

Modern Digital Design with EDA, VHDL, and FPGA
Archetypes and the Collective Unconcious
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
Self-Hypnotism : the Technique and its Use in Daily Living

read Nate Silver's "Signal and the Noise"

read The Yiddish Policeman's Union

read Ecce Homo

The Garnett is honestly better there.

>The Yiddish Policeman's Union
I should clarify that I didn't enjoy The Man in the High castle.
But I was expecting Land of Red and Gold/Dune stuff, not forgery and a weird love/hate thing going on with Japan.

Cool thanks for the rec!

Demons - Dostoyevsky
Man's Search for Meaning - Jung
The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
Faust pt. 1 - Goethe
The King and the Corpse - Zimmer

>man's search for meaning - jung

Lmao, I meant Modern Man in Search of a Soul. What a freudian slip, I guess I know what I should read next

>Gwynne's Grammar by N.M. Gwynne
>How to Grow Old by Cicero and Philip Freeman
>Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
>Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubacker and Doug Mahnke
>Basic Japanese Through Comics by Ashizawa Kazuko

>The Oresteia
>The Great Gatsby
>The Bible
>Stoner
>Grendel

>almost finished Don Quixote
>The Master & Margarita
>The Broom of the System
>The Stranger
>Oblivion

Book of Sand + Shakespeare's Memory - Jorge Julius Borges
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitzyn
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer – Philip K. Dick
Rules for the Direction of the Mind & Meditations on First Philosophy with critique and author's response - Descartes
Jerusalem - le fish rape wizard

The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons
Storeys from the Old Hotel Gene Wolfe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
The Sorcerer's House Gene Wolfe
The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez

Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Shogun by James Clavell
Enchiridion and Discourses by Epictetus
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein

Entry tier pleb

Meme/10

8/10

9/10

6/10

>Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell
>Oman: A History - Wendell Phillips
>The Gallery - John Horne Burns (reread)
>A History of the Middle Ages - J M Riddle
>Madame Bovary - Flaubert (reread)

Collected Fictions - Borges
The Long Ships - Bengtsson
Gravity's Rainbow - Pinecone
Giles Goat Boy - Barth
Ada - Nabokov

Nice job with Chess Story by Zweig. Check Beware of Pity by him. Wonderful novel

>The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser
>Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein
>Barbarians at the Gate, John Helyar & Bryan Burrough
>Against The Double Blackmail, Zizek
>Chess, Stefa Zweig

Currently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

>Ancient History: A Paraphase - McElroy
>The Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
>Tristana - Galdos
>Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End, Plus One - Snyder
>Double or Nothing - Federman

how was the Coover

>Giles Goat Boy - Barth
nice

everyone is fine good job everyone for reading books

knausgaard - my struggle, book 1
oliver - a poetry handbook
white - the living and the dead
shakespeare - as you like it
sterne - tristram shandy

why so many people reading knausgaard

>sterne - tristram shandy
nice

8/10
Is the Kierkegaard one hard to understand ? and what % of the Bourdieu pages require several readings ? Bourdieu can be a bitch.

>Republic - Pluto
>Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
>The Odessy - Homer
>Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
>The Stranger - Albert Camus

meme/10

I've not read that much, got to start somewhere.

>Beckett - Trilogy
>Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
>Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation
>Houellebecq - Platform
>Spinoza - Ethics

>Scott Adams - How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1
>Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
>Dino Buzzati - The Desert of the Tartars
>Michel Foucault - Discipline & Punish

Take it you're a fan of JBP?

>lolita - nabokov
really enjoyed, probably a favourite. love nabokov's writing, though for some reason i'm now stuck at about 72% in pnin, it's just not engaging me as much

>kokoro - soseki
this was average? i honestly can't remember a great deal of it but it was a nice enough read

>tender is the night - fitzgerald
enjoyable too. same as above, though i remember more about this one

>the master and margarita - bulgakov
very very good, though i know i missed a lot of nuances to the soviet etc. but definitely intend to read bulgakov's other works

>last exit to brooklyn - selby jr.
really liked this one too. something about the prose and characters and settings always gets me in selby jr's books. didn't top requiem for a dream though

currently reading don quixote and enjoying it.

>Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
>Lermontov, A Hero of our Time
>Gazdanov, Buddha's Return
>Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire
>Sorokin, Telluria

Now I'm trying to read more non-fiction, Spinoza and Kant. Also reading Snow Country and Humboldt's Gift on the side, though. Need some fiction in your life ...

literally plebbit

18yo edgelord detected

my men

Can someone please rate me, the OP.

I just woke up.

Kierkegaard yes, a little bit, but I was struggling to concentrate while reading for some reason. I'm following up with Diary of the Seducer and it's going more smoothly now.

As for Bourdieu, French is my natal language so I didn't really struggle outside of a few sentences that required careful rereading.

>After Dark, Murakami
>The Portrait of Dorian Grey, Wilde
>Neverwhere, Gaiman
>Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
>A Hat Full of Sky, Pratchett

Timequake
Taipei
A farewell to arms
The crying of lot 49
Deadeye dick

My man

>Infinite Jest
>Cloud Atlas
>1Q84
>And Quiet Flows the Don
>Ham on Rye

>Autobiography of Malcolm X

Disagree. I always had a bad opinion of him, always considered him to be a militant muslim MLK. Reading that book made me empathise a lot. I think I could have turned out extremely similarly in the same circumstances. And not just that, but that was one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.

>Rereading 2666

Because rereading rape and murder crime scenes for 350 pages that served the sole purpose of bludgeoning you with grotesque details until you didn't even care anymore wasn't bad enough the first time. I understand the point, from an artistic POV, but I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed that book. And pretty much all the other sections were annoying to read too, aside from the last one. I tried to read By Night in Chile and Bolaño started straight off with the literary professor plot again and flowery prose. I guess he's just not for me.

>Taipei

Hi Tao

>A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket
>All The Wrong Questions, Snicket
>Catch Me If You Can, Leo DiCaprio
>Roadside Picnic, Strugatskavitches
>Gravity's Rainbow, pinekone

How'd you guess?

>The Garnett is honestly better there.
Garnett is a literary butcher.
The Character that is being described there is supposed to be empathized with and is often described as a "Holy fool" (what could be an illusion to Downs Syndrome) who walks around barefoot and simple before dying alone giving birth a product of her (possible) sexual assault.

2666-Bolano
Les Misreables-Hugo
The Monk-Lewis
The Double-Dostoyevky
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men-Wallace

Now I'm reading Don Quixote by Cervantes.

How was que teen?

Im assuming youve read other Borges too? TBoS and SM contain some of his weaker (which for him still means great) works, if not read Artifices, and The Garden of Forking Paths at a minimum. Theyre probably my two favourite collections

Is oblivion worth reading?

How was Maps of Meaning?

I'm plowing my way through Peterson's recommended reading list, since it incorporates a bunch of stuff that I wanted to read anyway, and I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago right now.

>The Algebraist, by Ian M. Banks
>Beyond Good and Evil
>A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
>Consider Phlebas, by Ian M. Banks
>The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, by John le Carre

>brave new world
>crying of lot 49
>the stranger
>the fall
>white noise

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
LoTR trilogy
Heart of Darkness
Under the Volcano
No Longer Human

currently reading Gravity's Rainbow

What

Oblivion and Consider the Lobster are my two favorites of his besides IJ so I would say yes. It's probably the least DFW thing that DFW put out.

>2666
>Iliad
>Desolación - Gabriela Mistral
>Mythology by Hamilton
>On poetics - Aristotle

Nice on Hyperion, you planning on reading all the Cantos?

That poor Agamemnon
Jorge Luis* Borges m8, did you enjoy it? I preferred The Aleph (and Fictions especially) way more

Say it outloud.

Queue Teen may be a better spelling

I picked up No Longer Human a couple weeks ago, what am I in for?
Godspeed with GR

>A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
>The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
>The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
>Satori In Paris by Jack Kerouac
>The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

>Taipei
nice

garnett dost is bad, grnett tolst is good

>Under the Volcano
nice

American Psycho (reading in progress)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (re-read)
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
The Upside of Irrationality
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Oh haha. It was my second favorite Murakami I've read.

Wind Up>1Q84>Sheep Chase>Dance^3>Hard Boiled Wonderland>Kafka>Norwegian Wood

I like all of them though, NW is a good book too. HBW is tricky because the Hard Boiled part is some of the worst Murakami but the End of the World is phenomenal, in my opinion. In Kafka I thought the oedipal plot device was forced and it was one of those split-alternating-POV books where I vastly preferred one story to he other. But yeah 1Q84 was great, it gets a lot of hate but I think if you like Murakami you like it, whereas if you're not sure if you like Murakami you probably shouldn't invest all the time in it (yet).

>Kraszz
>Mathews
Noice.

>Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter)
>Zero to One (Thiel)
>Heidegger, Strauss and the Premises of Philosophy (Velkley)
>The House of God (Shem)
>The Question Concerning Technology (Heidegger)

>The Metamorphoses - Ovid
>Histories - Herodotus
>The Divine Comedy - Dante
>History of Philosophy vol.11 - Copleston
>History of Philosophy vol.10 - Copleston

Cool, I've been putting off reading it so thanks

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r8 my russian tea cup