My summer reading

Since this is a summer backlog thread, how is mine looking?

Hard to be a God-Strutgatsky
The Woman in the Dunes-Kobo Abe
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Rise of the Roman Empire-Polybius
The Melancholy of Resistance-Laslo Krasznahorkai
The Book of the New Sun-Gene Wolfe
Moby Dick-Herman Mieville

Very much looking forward to reading Melancholy since it is my second Kraznahorkai book.
Very much looking forward

I want to read "Hard to be a God" as well, I heard about it in a recent thread.

Mon Reading List as well;

The Bible (in german so obviously the Martin Luther translation)
Moby Dick
Buddenbrooks
If on a Winter's night a traveller
Father and sons
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Der Prozeß -Kafka

Here's mine

The Odyssey
A Portrait of a Man as a Young Artist
Death of Ivan Ilyach
Oragnon
Nichomachean Ethics
Metaphysics
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Mythologies
Gogol Short Stories

t. Never read Steppenwolf

>Herman Mieville
o im laffing

Here's mine:

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
Why Nations Fail
Dubliners
Crime And Punishment
Fanged Newmona

Thousand Cranes is harder than you think.
t. writing a dissertation on it

>Crime and Punishment
>Dubliners
>Fanged Noumena
Me too user

Do you read anything other than top Veeky Forums meme books?

Forcing yourself through yheir prose won't make you appreciate them or remember anything about them. You will probably just use them for decoration.

You should experiment reading a couple of paragraphs of various authors, styles... find what you like and go from there. Literature is better when you actually enjoy it and lose yourself while reading.

Veeky Forumseratti buy books for ego stroking and lit-points. If they really cared about reading they would pirate epubs and pdfs and buy cheap books online.

Remember Veeky Forums is just /consumerism/ and those brand new books serve as tokens of intellectuality.

In my experience those who brag about epubs and such almost never read.

pls rate:

>The Illuminatus! Trilogy (already partly read)
>finish Dune from last summer
>The Man Who Was Thursday
>The Last Temptation of Christ
>The Time Machine (reread)
>Childhood's End (reread)
>Pot Stories for the Soul (reread -- it's a very fun little book)
>Martian Time-Slip
>The Gospels + Acts of the Apostles
>Silverwing series (reread)
>Harry Potter series (reread)

Veeky Forumsonly reads meme books.

Since YAs read that book to death when they are first getting their footing for literature. And it is particularly that book they start with.

>The Republic (halfway through)
>The Odyssey
>Resurrection
>Discourse on Method + Meditations
>Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
>Decline of the West
>Penguin Freud Reader
>To the Lighthouse
>A Confession (Tolstoy)

Was going to read Aristotle after Plato, but I hear he's incredibly dry and i'm not in the mood for reading Aristotle for the sake of chronological order any longer. If I have a decent pace and I can finish all of above, i'll add him in.

I'm pretty sure thats an abridgement of the Medications.

Also, this is what I got unread on my shelf. I've only read Woolf and Eco before, but I love both. The rest are firsttimers for me. What's good?

Epubs are a pain to read. Spending like $10 for a book online is not a big deal, especially if you supplement with $1 used books.

(and yes, it may be consumerism to want to have books, but I like books)

early and mid hesse (like steppenwolf) is YA

Goal for the rest of today. #Nowledge #Vorcaciousaurus #0to100realquick

Do yourself a favor and don't read the organon

Nice blogpost you retarded pseud.

Why?

It is kind of YA in its subject matter. The main character is middle aged, but he never entirely grew up. I'm 20 and I totally related to him in his struggle and redemption throughout the book. In that way I think it is a YA novel, although it's much more advanced than anything from today.

Currently in my to read for the summer

Stop taking such high quality photos

I heard that the Luminaries is just convoluted modern bay bullshit written to sound old. We already have Mason & Dixon for that and I have no doubt that Pynchon is a better prose stylist. That said the Glass Bead Game is good though I've read that a long time ago. What cover is that?

My immediate backlog is looking like

>Nausea
>A Night of Serious Drinking
>Mirrorshades
>The Palm-Wine Drinkard
>The Fall
>Griftopia
>Organon
>Physics
>Metaphysics
>CCRU Collected Writings
>Fanged Noumena
>Cyclonopedia
>Mao II
>Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
>White Fang
>The Crystal World
>Invitation to a Beheading

Realistically I don't expect to get through all of these by summer's end and imagine the Aristotle in particular will be stretched out to fall or winter, but let's see.

Just my phone man, can't really help it.

Too much re-reading. Also
>harry potter

I steal all my books.

literally why don't people just use libraries

*tim heidecker voice* it's free books

this one

I don't use libraries for two reasons, they usually don't have the books I'm looking for (I live in a small-ish town), and second, I like having my own copies so I can re-read and refer to them at any time.

I've also got a deluded dream of passing on my collection to posterity

Aristotle is shit anyway.

My reading

>Considerations on France - De Maistre
>Generative Principle- De Maistre
>St Petersburg Dialogues - De Maistre
>On Sovereignty- De Maistre
>Meditations - Descartes
>Essay Concering etc - Locke
>Treatise Concerning etc - Berkeley
>An Enquiry etc - Hume

Then I'll probably read some Kierkegaard and a bit more of Plato if I have time.

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Let's see - I'm currently reading Moby Dick
Then:
I need to finish The Crying of Lot 49, and move on to:
To a Lighthouse by Woolf
Tai Pei by Tao Lin
Fictions by Borges
I bought a nice copy of Portrait, but I've already read it twice so I'd rather read something new

Camus is dope.

Rest are ehh

What phone? Those are pretty crisp.

Also, I may be wrong, but isn't Thucydides supposedly a liar or say very misleading things?

Google Pixel, and I was under the impression that Thucydides was extremely factual, and in regards to his HotPW, he was apparently on of the few to look history without any influence of the gods, but I could be wrong.

DIRTY CONSERVATIVE GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEE

Yea looks like I was wrong. Probably thinking of someone else with a similar name.

Still like this quote from him.

"Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments of our empire which we have left. Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. "

Had to write an essay this past Monday and used this quote to support the Greek Ideal with the Parthenon

Guys there's really no such thing as classical history but he's as close as you'll get. He wasn't writing history in the modern sense (which is a relatively modern idea) but there's likely a lot of factual stuff in him - sometimes called the first historian. So, sort of.

This is why you have to learn Greek - literally half of what we say about classical scholarship is anachronistic. It's like trtying to do advanced math without numbers.

>no such thing as classical history

Could you explain what you mean by that, sorry I'm a noob.

Not the same guy ,but in the way history was not written in the same way back then as it is now, in terms of how objective and, this may be the wrong word, completely based in reality. Such as in Herodotus, a more extreme example compared to Thucydides, includes a lot of the local fables and stories etc. to the reigons/periods he writes on.

cuckboy

How is that edition of Steppenwolf so thicc?