Age

>18
>Australia
>Swann's Way
Only about a third in but the book is fucking beautiful.
Oi mate!

>19
>SoCal
>Just finished Lolita, possibly the greatest exersize in prose I've ever read in the English language. Starting Paradise Lost now

>18
>Texas
>City of God
It seems like a proper exposition of the Christian faith. I read Augustine's Confessions before this and I'd definitely recommend that. It sort of lays out who he is and where he comes from.

21
Aus
Moby Dick, very good.

20
Texas
Lolita/this side of paradise
>Enjoying Lolita it's my new favorite
> I am a poor egotistical aristocrat

I'm noticing a trend here.

There seems to be a lot of young Texans here. How y'all doing?

18
San Diego, CA
Blood Meridian

It is very good and has earned every bit of its status

What's the problem with being young?

You aren't well-read and can't offer fruitful discussion.

I'll stop being a teen in a month pls no bully

I guess Rimbaud always sucked then

You guessed right!

Sure. Let me guess: you're one of those people who thinks they can "teach" things to children through a specified, predetermined method.

20
Seattle
Kafka on the Shore

Some of the plainest prose I've ever read but the story is actual crack

same

21
Arizona
Fitzgerald's Odyssey

It's excellent. His poetry is much richer than Fagles (the only other translation of this I've read).

39
Scotland
Neal Stephenson - Seveneves
Good stuff, on par with Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Anathem.

...

>19
>Paris
>"Saper vedere l'architettura" by Bruno Zevi, I feel quit enlightened desu

>19
>Norway
>Being and nothingness

>18
>Alberta Canada
>exercises in style

Maybe my favourite book honestly

>19
>Seattle
>Beyond Good and Evil

Really enjoying it, it's become one of my favorite books

>20
>london
>invisible man (Wells)

i started it this morning and it seems like pulp victorian genre fiction :(

Mei Chan!!!!!!

>21
>Italy
>The logical structure of the world - Carnap

>22
>Georiga
>Jacob's Ladder (Levertov)

28
Nigeria
Principles of quantum mechanics

29
los angeles
straplessdildo.17.04.10.bree.haze.merry.pie.and.rossy.bush

>18
>Estonia
>The republic
It's fascinating yet tough to read

>israel
>19
>Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

This is their garden (threads like this one) in a way. A safe haven. The hatchery. It's good to see older teens contemning YA and reading good shit. Anyone over 25 should offer nothing but encouragement. Or just keep still. imo.

>18
>Ontario
> Wuthering Heights
I thought it read a little awkwardly at first, but it's beginning to get very interesting.
I'm enjoying it overall.

>24
>Ohio
>The Emigrants
I'm enjoying the exploration of memory. One of the better books I've read in a while.

How am I supposed to become well-read without reading?

>I didn't have a community to talk literature with when I was younger so neither should you!

>18
>Dublin
>The Prince/ The Definitive Book OF Body Language

The Prince is pretty hard to read so time to time i go for the body language book, its easier and kind of straight forward instead of the other one. However both of them are good.

20
Virginia
Invisible Cities
pretty comfy as fug

good taste right there mate

18
Leaf
The call of the wild, its quite nice so far

>19
>Idaho
Jointly reading
>Decline of the West by Spengler
>Imperium by Yockey
Enjoying both immensely.

I enjoyed it also. It gets a lot of heat here though.

>34
>texas
>endurance by lansing
Its go so far

>>Decline of the West by Spengler
>>Imperium by Yockey
Good lad

>22
>Tennessee
>A People's History of the United States & Runoff (a book of poetry by Clay Matthews)

I'm lefty/lit/, so People's History is really just something I should have read a long timr ago. Would probably have been a lot more mind blowing had I read it years ago, but it is still a fascinating look at individual movements and actors I'd never heard of.

Runoff is also excellent. It was written by my poetry professor from undergrad. Its four long, Whitmanesque reflective poems. One for each season, beginnng with summer which is the one I read today. I know Veeky Forums doesn't talk as much about poetry, but he really is an excellent contemporary poet (and also a cool dude).

You're a pleb kiddo

>3 3/4
>marianas trench
>Cyrus the Great

22
Germany
The circle
I like it needs more detailed sex parts and more crazy technological inventions

no u

20
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
A great bus read, I don't know if I'll end up liking it

>19
>Greece
>The Prague Cemetery

While I find the plot really interesting, the way its being executed feels beyond tiresome

28
DC
Eumeswil

It's strange, not in a good way, not in a bad way.

21
Philadelphia
2666

I really enjoyed the first and second parts but the part about the sports reporter and the killings bored me. Especially the fourth part since it was 60% "In (Month) (Year) (X number) women were killed. One was Maria Zapata she worked and blah blah maquiladora." The only interesting parts were about Klaus Haas in prison. I'm on the last part about Archimboldi though and I'm really enjoying it so far.

18
Chile
The ice rink by Roberto Bolaño

29
Currently south eastern Oregon
Amusing Ourselves to Death

I think the author makes some good points but tends to rant way too much and beat you over the head with examples. He also idolizes a past he never experienced and holds up pre-Civil War America as the pinnacle of logic and elevated discourse, which just seems like a load of bull. At the same time he glosses over the good of the time period in which he wrote the book and at one point bizarrely rants about how Sesame Street is ruining education.

I'm a little over halfway through and it's getting really tiresome to read.

22
Ontario
LETTERS: A Novel, by John Barth.

It's the most confusing book I've ever read. In terms of difficulty it easily eclipses GR, Ada, etc. and many other "hard" books I've read.

It's a set of correspondances between Barth and characters/fictitious institutions from his previous novels.

20
Baltimore
IJ

I used to smoke degenerate blunts on the art museum stairs and read poetry on late nights.

get out of that city soon

They're not trying to offer "fruitful discussion" ass-clown. They're just naming the book they're currently reading.

24.
Buenos Aires.
I'm re-reading Kafka's The Trial, but this time in its original German. The language is hard as fuck, but it is satisfying and it gives me an autistic sense of achievement when I understand a full sentence without using the dictionary.

> 21
> Edmonton Canada
> about to start either Crime and Punishment or Brothers K

Which should I read first?

chronological

Crime and Punishment. You'll want to throw it against the wall a lot less.

Should I purchase Notes and read that first then?

If you have the motivation, it's always the best. Dostoievsky is top notch from the notes to karamazov (except the adolescent), so I'd reccomend it. Don't listen to Veeky Forumstards and nabokov, both are overrated.

24
Brazil
To Kill a Mocking Bird

Will I ever find out what this book is about?

>20
>Spain
>The Castle of Otranto

A relic no one remembers, but its quite good

36
Gypsylandia
Metamorphoses by Ovid (A. D. Melville translation)
Oldest in thread yet again.

21
Aus
Culture of Critique.
I like it and will recommend it to people I know.

23
California
The Faraway Paladin along with The Great Book of Amber.

Seemed decent for an isekai at first, but getting real stupid after the first trial.
I dislike western fantasy everything seems so constrained for being fantasy picked it up since its recommended.

19
Poznan
Nicomachean Ethics

Shit, I forgot to tell what I have thought, well it is fucking aristotle, so pretty much
>makes you think

19
New York
Secrets of Mental Math

I want to be efficient as possible and this is helping me.

>20
>France
>Catch-22

I love it, it's amazing (reading it in English, obviously