What have you read this year?

What have you read this year?

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Just noticed "A Study in Scarlet" is there twice, what the fuck Goodreads? Full of bugs since they introduced the rereading feature.

>Veeky Forums
>actually reading

you are on the wrong website desu senpai

>He thinks we actually read books

Well there were a few decent discussions before /pol/trash invaded the board, admittedly I haven't been here too much lately but I guess the board has become even shittier.

The Old Testament

So far I've read:
>No longer Human
>The Iliad
>Stoner
>C&P
Currently reading Blood Meridian and afterwards I'm gonna read Atlas Shrugged. I'm not a very fast reader, unfortunately.

Read The Bible last summer, really enriched my thoughts about certain books and motifs. In literary terms the book wasn't as impressive as I expected it to be except for certain parts like the Book of Job but it's crucial to understand Western culture.

Speed doesn't matter and it will come eventually anyway if you read consistently, don't fall for the quantity meme. Those are pretty good choices, not sure what you thought about Stoner but I think it's one of the more overrated book here, not bad by any means but people like to sell it as a masterpiece.

>Camus - The Outsider
>Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
>Plato - Republic
>Homer - The Odessy

All of Nietzches major works, all of H.P Lovecrafts works, the majority of Carl Schmitts bibliography, "total mobilization) and "about pain" by Ernst Jünger, art of Stalinism by Boris Groys and I've begun reading Time and being

Michael Ende

>orangutans exist

:thinking:

>The Bell Jar
>100 Years of Solitude
>Stoner
>The Old Man And The Sea
>Crime & Punishment
>Perfume
>Satori In Paris

read more in 3 months than i have in the entirety of any previous year of my life.
i only recently got into lit though.

No that much really

>Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
>Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
>Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New Sun
>Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)
>Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
>Shakespeare - Hamlet

I've been really digging Wolfe. Just finished Urth yesterday, was good but not as great as BotNS. Just started Long Sun and I think I'm gonna read the entire Solar Cycle in addition to some of his other work.

nah

Forgot
> A bunch of stories by H.P. Lovecraft
> Machiavelli - The Prince

i'd rec home fires.
i read shadow & claw earlier in the year. it just gave me the realization that fantasy novels probably aren't my thing. it was neat though.

fuck off hack soul you weeb

Mostly journal articles for school or the Economist, but I have got a few books in:

Tao Te Ching
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Toqueville
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fannon
Expectations of Modernity by James Ferguson (heavily abridged)

I'm halfway through Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche.

After exams start, I'm thinking about finally going through the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man by Joyce

The History of Magic and the Occult by Kurt Seligmann

Currently reading Confessions by Augustine

Not a whole lot, my semester has been very busy so I haven't had much leisure reading time.
>New York trilogy
>in the country of last things
>pale fire
>Borges collected fictions
>bleeding edge
>stoner
>the remains of the day
>Rimbaud complete works

Ethics and Politics by Alasdair MacIntyre
Saved in Hope by Pope Benedict XVI
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Summa Contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas
Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God Is Love by Pope Benedict XVI
Apostolic Fathers III. by Anonymous
Where is the new theology leading us by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Last Testament by Pope Benedict XVI
The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Apostolic Fathers II. by Anonymous
Apostolic Fathers I. by Ignatius of Antioch
A History of Philosophy 3 by Frederick Charles Copleston
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Essential Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Culture Industry by Theodor W. Adorno
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustina Kowalska
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Edith Stein by Edith Stein
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (reread)

Slower than last year, I'm studying more sadly.

Thanks, I'll check it out!
I've always enjoyed fantasy and sci-fi so I guess seeing Wolfe merge the two in a way was really interesting. Also helps that his writing is much better than most genre authors.

Not pictured but also read this year:
>Thank you for being late by Thomas Friedman
>The Stranger by Camus
>Tenth of December by George Saunders

>Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Last Wolf & Hermann
>Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family
>Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
>Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View
>Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
>W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil
>Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
>Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
>Elmore Leonard - Killshot
>Ivan Turgenev - Spring Torrents
>George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

favourite so far is probably the sheltering sky

How was Lincoln in the Bardo?

it was great. it managed to feel heartfelt and zany at the same time. made me laugh, made me cry

the colonel by mahmoud downlatabadi
a bad character by deepti kapoor
antigone by sophocles

is achebe's novel as good as people say it is??

Sounds like vintage Saunders, thanks I'll read it soon

1. the cossacks by leo tolstoy
2. crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
3. david copperfield by charles dickens
4. the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
5. siddhartha by hermann hesse

I didn't think it was bad. I thought the perspective it gave was pretty meaningful, but I didn't find it life-changing or anything. Could just be my taste though. Achebe seems to be pretty fair when describing the cultures of both the Nigerians and the Europeans.

>gilga mesh
>a clash of kings
>inherent vice
>antigone
>the road
>no country for old men
>monkey
>the art if war
Gotta pick up the pace

no u

Nothing

Have you considered structuring your reading? Your list has no apparent cohesion. Perhaps you would be inclined to read more if you read chronologically or syntopically; read with an aim, select books from a certain period or with a certain theme; this will help you form more connections, achieve greater understanding, and so derive more pleasure.

>The Invisible Man & The Time Machine.
>Blood Meridian (re-read).
>Two Gentlemen of Verona (re-read).
>Slaughterhouse-5.

Currently reading:
>The Third Policeman (11:00-11:20, 12:00-12:20, any extra time added on past 9:00P,M).
>The Silk Roads (13:00-13:20 and such for each hour until 9:00P.M.),
>The Essential Hayek when playing grand strategy in the background, as I usually sit back and watch the chaotic construction of a new world through the AI rather than my own input.

I'm quite new to Veeky Forums, anything I should try next? Definitely going to read through Vanity Fair and some other books that I got in my backlog. Probably a couple books I missed since I didn't have Goodreads until a couple weeks ago. How should I rate stuff on there by the way? Should I rate based on my enjoyment of the book or how well it is structured/how well it utilizes language devices?

Sounds autistic desu

Quite the contrary.

>Should I rate based on my enjoyment of the book or how well it is structured/how well it utilizes language devices?

Do whatever you want.

God damn haven't seen so much autism in a while.

>rating books

An endeavour utterly devoid of meaning. Write a review if you have to, but don't waste your time with numerical ratings.

>Chabon, Moonglow
>Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
>Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock
>Eugenides, Middlesex
>Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
>Lowry, Under the Volcano
>McCarthy, Suttree
>Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>Wallace, Consider the Lobster
>Whitehouse, The Underground Railroad

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Strindberg:
>In Defense of the Fool
>The People of Hemso
>Inferno
>Getting Married
>The Red Room
>The Servant's Son
>Black Banners
>Days of Loneliness
>The Scapegoat
>Tschandala
>The Road to Damascus
>The Father
>The Dance of Death
>Lucky-Per's Travels
>Realized Utopias
>Small Catechism for the Lower Class

Kant:
>Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
>Prolegomena

Schelling:
>Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom

Mill:
>On Liberty

Erasmus:
>Praise of Folly

Strindberg is really good guise.

>Tao Te Ching
>4.42 average
>literally incomprehensible

some stuff i dont think theyre all here

>Strindberg is really good guise.

I tried Inferno after Hamsun's Hunger, but its second-rate.

my 2017:
> Dante: Paradise
> The Trial
> The Castle
> Ordinary Men
> Gulag Archipelago, vols 1-3
> The Collapse of Complex Societies
> Plagues and Peoples
> Under a Green Sky
> A Vast Machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
> The ecological approach to visual perception
> Noman's Land
> The Way of Men
> Journey to the End of the Night
> A Hero for our Time
> In the Penal Colony
> Cancer Ward
> Man's Search for Meaning
> Kolyma Tales
> Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
> Huysmans - Against Nature

Now read East of Eden.

dyer

I read the translated version.

Most of it is comprehensible to some extent. A second or third reading would probably help to get more out of it, though.

what?

DYER

dyer = do you even read

I've read Tistou of the Green Thumbs and some nonfiction books on oil painting and horticulture.

>le /pol/ boogeyman

Haven't had much time, so I've mostly just read poetry.

Thanks boys.

100 and something pages of the Chronicle of a Death Foretold are not counted. But yeah, I should read more literature.

go back to your board you triggered nancy

But I am already here

>Of Human Bondage (currently)
>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
>Prometheus Rising
>The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
>The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper
>The Secret History of Twin Peaks

how do you get that view

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wayne dyer

I was originally going to try to read 100 books this year but that's not working out. Instead I'm going for like 20,000 pages. This allows me to read my long meme books

My favorite so far has either been Sound of Waves or Carpenter's Gothic

>Dubliners
>Pre-Socratics and Sophists
>Candide
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>blaming /pol/ for the low quality of Veeky Forums
You'd of been better of blaming the fags that post the top 100 charts on reddit year after year.

The /pol/ meme is so trite at this point, and is it was incorrect from the beginning. The board sucks because every other thread is "iz it gud?" or "wuz it awtism?"

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>Heart of Darkness
>Othello
>M. Butterfly
>some miscellaneous Wallace Stevens poems
M. Butterfly was trash.

Is Underworld Worth It?

Teach me.

goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017

nice desu

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I hope you accept that argument from the "migrants" as well.

same, got into books last year but only into reading like late february.

>Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle +++
>Prunty - The Sorrow King ++++
>Bernlef - Hersenschimmen +++
>Brooks - The Bunker Diary --
>Mellick - Sausagey Santa +
>Dazai - No Longer Human +++
>Baum - Wizard Of Oz ++(+)
>Hansen - HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! ++
>Hershey - Hiroshima +++

Barely fucking anything. My attention span is shit. Where I could once read a book a day (as a kid/teenager) I can barely get through two pages a day now.

Fucking hell.

Have you tried to sit down and actually fucking force yourself to read? If not then don't act like you don't like your current state.

Learning to read and having the patience is very hard if you grew up/got used to the Instant Gratification of the Internet era.

/pol/ hardly has an affect on this board. The booktuber shit and threads about book covers and shelves are what bring down discussion.

This. This board is literally too irrelevant to matter to the zeitgeist boards and vanguard of Veeky Forums.

this and the elitism
like we can be edgy if we want but a bunch of autists screaming at each other about who can post the biggest brained wojak is common

>tfw to smart for Veeky Forums

Elitism is the only way to hold together a good discussion in a culture board.

Look at the /tv/. It went to complete shit in 2011 when elitism got eradicated in there.

/tv/ is a fucking disaster, literally 9gag, reddit and facebook.

1.the broom of the system
2.return of the king
3.the two towers
4.inherent vice
5.the crying of lot 49
then some other shit books like the circle and the drawing of the three.

stop reading trash genre fiction

How's MacCulloch's History of Christianity? I was thinking of picking it up after watching his BBC doc.

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nonfiction:
Richard Beck - We Believe the Children
Helen Castor - Joan of Arc
Douglas P Fry - Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

fiction:
Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 (reread)
Celine - Journey to the End of the Night (reread)
Gibson - Neuromancer (reread)
Heller - Something Happened
Huxley - Brave New World
Ligotti - Noctuary
Mary Wilkins Freeman - The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories

currently reading Celine - Death on the Installment Plan

Do you literally read all day?

I thought it was great but honestly I barely read non-fiction that's not philosophy (trying to change that) so I can't really compare it to other similar works. Anyway it was detailed and comprehensive my only concern was that he could have been a little more objective, he was quite sarcastic a lot of times but that didn't affect the facts.
Also this is only my pet peeve since I'm Hungarian I was really annoyed that even when they were very important for some reason he never named the Hungarian kings just used the generic title even though he named every other not so significant people.

What did you think of Snowcrash?
I was suprised I didn't really like it.

Why?

because i said so

Damn dude, good shit. I read The Book of the New Sun a couple months ago and it was pretty legit. I'll have to read it again sometime. How did you like Aquinas, Aristotle and MacIntyre? That's a pretty interrelated group of philosophers.