Age

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The Name of the Wind
Lolita
The Road
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Sapiens

I like to mix up serious lit and genre reading.

Basic bitch who started yesterday.

Trying hard?

But seriously, how was Trumbo?
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>East of Eden
>The Grapes Of Wrath
> Butcher's Crossing
>No Country for Old Men
>The Harder They Come

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Death in Venice and Other Stories
Narcissus and Goldmund
My Antonia
Dubliners
The God of Small Things

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>notes from underground
>the diary of a young girl
>groundworks of the metaphysics of morals
>the taming of the shrew
>euthyphro or Lolita

>age
18.
>last five books I read
1. Infinite Jest
2. Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Crime and Punishment
4. The old man and the sea
5. Charlotte's Web
Nice.
Nice.
All the others are also nice.

Turned 18 on Friday

>Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
>Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
>Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
>Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Idk what to read next, gents. As I Lay Dying, Cat's Cradle, or 2666?

My friend, I've been meaning to pick up either East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath. Which do you recommend?

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>Infinite Jest
>The death of Ivan Illitch
>Notes from the Underground
>Crime and Punishment
>Brothers Karamazov

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The Melancholy of Resistance
V.
Story of the Eye
Hopscotch
2666

Nice
Strange combo, but still nice
Haven't read Trumbo, but pretty list taste otherwise.
Brief Interviews is the most tedious thing DFW wrote IMO
Nice
If the last thing you read was The Unbearable Lightness of Being, tackle 2666.
Dosto a best.

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>TBK
>ghosts(Ibsen)
>heart of darkness
>fathers and sons
>the rainbow(Marie Hamsuns autobiography)

>the romanovs

Is it good? I have it, but haven't looked at it yet.

Trumbo was suprisingly very good for what I was expecting. I went in expecting some sort of typical story recounting the terror of war and what he went through , but it's really all about the after effects of war, and lots of thinking about how no one is really willing to die for any cause once they're staring down the barrel of a gun. And begging for death, lots of that as well.

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Iron Shirt Chi Kung by Mantak Chia

The Dhammapada (teachings of The Buddha) translated by Gil Fronsdal

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Sadhana Guidelines by Yogi Bhajan

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Yeah the Romanovs are great

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>lolita
>death of a salesman
>crime and punishment
>the plague
>dharma bums

How was death of a salesman? Been wanting to read for a while

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>God's Philosophers - James Hannam
>Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
>Liberty Defined - Ron Paul
>From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
>The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam - Jonathan Riley-Smith

Cool.

>data mining
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Ramayana - Valmiki, trans. William Buck

Reading: The Recognitions - William Gaddis

Nothing but memes
Quarter-life crisis?
+Ibsen +Turgenev +Conrad, good reads user
I like it
Pretty good
Neat that we were reading similar things, but not personally a fan of Hemingway or Vonnegut

Okay I'm done rating

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>Das Judentum in der musik, by Richard Wagner
>Aurelius' Meditations
>I fondamenti dell'astrologia medica by Ciro Discepolo
>The Bhagavad gītā as it is by Srīla Prabhupāda
>Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes

Im growing tired of life. Those five are all i've read since december

Excellent. Really sad and it'll make you look at your family in an entirely new light. I really would love to see a performance of it because the stage directions are so meticulously presented and add a lot to the story.

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>Jane Eyre
>The Symposium
>Discipline and Punish
>Grapes of Wrath
>Jasper Johns: From Plate to Print

It'll also take you only a couple of hours to read.

East Of Eden is fun to read and also highly intriguing.

The Grapes Of Wrath is tremendously sad but also somehow highly vigorising.

Read both.

> Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
> In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Filbrick
> More Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
> Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
> Slouching Towards Nirvana - Charles Bukowski

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
The Conquest of Bread
Scandalous Obligation: Rethinking Christian Responsibility
War is a Racket
Precarious Life: The Powers and Mourning of Violence

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>The Idiot by Dostoevsky
>Siddartha by Hesse
>Sweating Blood by Leon Bloy
>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
>Dead Souls by Gogol

You managed to read through three pieces of that perverted boozer whose writing looks as if he chunked it all down in a single sitting while jerking off with his left?

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>Meditations, Aurelius
>Short Stories of Dostoevsky
>The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
>Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
>The Prince and the Pauper, Twain

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>A Short History of Ethics, MacIntyre
>After Virtue, MacIntyre
>The Unholy Consult, Bakker
>Taiko, Yoshikawa
>From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Dennett

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>Making History
>Waiting for Godot
>The Summer I Died
>Dare Me
>The Space Between

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>Junky by William S Burroughs
>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
>Sidharta by Herman Hesse
>The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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In no particular order:

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

Yeah, I know, not overall particularly Veeky Forums. Current book is The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, then The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, then Atlas Shrugged by David Mitchell (the last two are as part of a book group). Not sure what to read after that. I've ordered a shit load of Robert Ranking books, so I might just power through then, or I might go for Ulysses.

Fucking casual, you make me sick.

I knew I'd get this but that's fine. I'm not the most Veeky Forums of people. I read for enjoyment and what interests me.

Rate other's posts, otherwise this is just masturbation

Look at the other posts. These threads are full of people reading basic shit.

I've had several existential crises already. Lol. Is that version of Ramayana worth reading?

>Is that version of Ramayana worth reading?
Yeah it's very entertaining, not what you'd want to be reading if you're trying to be scholarly about it. Not sure how good it is for existential crises either, but who's to say?

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Crime & Punishment
Swann's Way
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Within a Budding Grove
Forty Stories - Anton Chekhov

His narratives set the stage for his poetry. A look into the life and id of a damaged man. He makes me not feel so alone in this world.

>all these 20 yos stupid enough to read meme books
kill yourselves kiddos. if you were smart enough you would've read them 6 years ago, and given that you didn't, you're too dumb to get them until you're in your 40s or 50s

>kill yourselves kiddos. if you were smart enough you would've read them 6 years ago, and given that you didn't, you're too dumb to get them until you're in your 40s or 50s
can someone explain this meme to me? I guess I just don't get the joke

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The Kite Runner
It's Kind Of A Funny Story
Pride and Prejudice (cheated with audiobook about 2/3 way in)
Beloved
The Great Gatsby (also audiobook cheats, semi-required).
Byrd.

Sure, but they're typically 18 years old.

assigning a rating to anything is more masturbatory than jerking somebody else off

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The Portrait of a Lady
The Stranger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Blind Assassin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

if I told you which books I'd last read there's a good chance someone would know who I am.

how was the portrait of a lady? I didn't like The Turn of the Screw, but I liked James' prose.

insufferably boring, but that's how I feel about most 19th century fiction. The characters are extremely well written though so if it's your thing then I'd recommend it

I'm more of a character guy than a plot guy, but I agree. Most 19th century fiction is so character driven that the absurdly long page count doesn't ultimately doesn't justify itself.

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>Dubliners
>Portrait
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Omensetter's Luck
>Ulysses

I'm a sucker for the memes, clearly

similar to my reading list last summer

its lit bruh

98% ßased

good lord, Capital? really, how much do you hate yourself

heavy list

it sounds like you genuinely enjoy reading desu

good shit

timeless classics, good taste

ez lit

sounds like highschool alright

you can do better

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The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Lake by Kavabata Yasunari
Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians in 1848-49 by István Deák
Mulberry and Peach by Nie-Hualing
Bánat és rombolás az Ég Alatt by Krasznahorkai László

English titles used where applicable
Currently reading Mo Yan's "The republic of Wine"

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>The Sailor Who Fell...
>Roadside Picnic
>Molloy
>The Woman in The Dunes
>Vineland

All books I enjoyed bar Hesse as I haven't read that one.

Just about to start that Death In Venice collection. Which ones did you enjoy?

What did you think of The Beloved? I read Funny Story years ago and thought it was pretty bad.

All good books bar fear and loathing imo. Which one did you enjoy the most.

Let me be yet another one:
Don Quixote
Communion (Whitley Strieber)
Moby-Dick
The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
Dune

>The Woman in The Dunes
How was it? Does it hold up well to the movie?

Haven't actually seen the movie. I think for the most part I enjoyed it but was promised a very existential Kafkaesque trip but instead received something more like Kafka-lite. Interesting novel but not something I'd read again.

What have you read lately, user?

>rating other peoples subjective tastes in subjective works of art
>90% of negative ratings are because the rater never read the works he's rating poorly

/faggot/ general?

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>Ladders to the Sun
>You & I
>People With Real Lives Don't Need Landscapes
>Latro in the Mist
>Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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>Implying I have read 5 books

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>À quoi rêvent les algorithmes: Nos vies à l'heure des big data
>Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest (Evola)
>The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy
>Histoire de la Musique européenne
by Jacques Stehman
>Aristophanes's Comedies

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>The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
>Euthyphro, Plato
>Germinal, Émile Zola
>The Trial, Franz Kafka
>The House of The Dead, Dostoyevsky

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>All of Sophocles tragedies
>The Brothers Karamazov
>18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
>Homage to Catalonia
>The Gambler

>What did you think of The Beloved?
I really enjoyed it, the prose wasn't the most difficult and there were scenes I could totally picture in my mind.
>I read Funny Story years ago and thought it was pretty bad.
I enjoyed it also, although I felt Craig was still pushy about depression in the end (hard to escape.)
The movie, stay away, TERRIBLE. 6.5/10.

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>Penguin Classics: Early Greek Philosophy
>Works & Days
>Theogony
>Odyssey
>Illad

Working through pic related.

I've read so little I can't give an educated opinion on what others have read, so my uneducated opinion is seems to have sense enough to read books that both left-leaning and right-leaning people would be drawn to but sounds like a depressing person.

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>Spiral, by Koji Suzuki
>The Fellowship of the Ring, By J.R.R. Tolkien
>The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
>Dracula, by Bram Stoker
>Faust Part 1, by Goethe

I read c&p at 17; and when i was done with dostoievsky and read Don Quijote i was 19. Go fuck yourself

I found the orchard keeper cheap the other day and bought it on a whim. I know its McCarthy's first novel but is it still good?

The prose is good.

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The running man by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (my all time favorite)
The dogs of war by Frederick Forsyth
Ice station Zebra by Alistar Maclean

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Crime and Punishment
The Arms of Krupp
Mere Christianity
On the Shortness of Life
The Sound and the Fury

>Faust Part 1, by Goethe
Did you like it? I hope you read it in original german.

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>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Bhagvad Gita
>Ralph Waldo Emerson essays
>Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine
> A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

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>A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
>Ubik - Philip K. Dick
>Queen of Sorcery - David Eddings
>Infinity: A Very Short Introduction - Ian Stewart
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

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>The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
>The Illiad, Homer
>Dune, Frank Herbert
>Deadhouse Gates, Steven Erikson
>Beren and Luthien, JRR Tolkien

no

I fucking love that book!

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> The Celtic Twilight - Yeats
> Le Père Goriot - Balzac
> The Conduct of The Allies - Jonathan Swift
> The Present Attempt To Dissolve The American Union - Samuel Morse (The Morse code guy)
> Battle For The Mind - William Sargent

Faust Part 1 is excellent. Knowing the historical context helps a lot, as does reading up on Goethe's obsession with the occult.
I suggest reading this for historical context, great read and reliable info: • schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2004/pres_day/hzl_keynote2.html

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>currently reading Molloy
>Book Of The New Sun
>V.
>Catch-22
>The Great Gatsby

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No Exit
Medea (Oliver Taplin)
Hippolytus (Robert Bagg)
Antigone (Anne Carson)
Antigone (Robert Bagg)

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Nothing Like the Sun
Wise Blood
Gargantua & Pantagruel
Finding a Girl in America
Skippy Dies

23.

>Primo Levi - If this is a man
>Osamu Dazai - No longer human
>John Fante - Ask the dust
>W.B Yeats - The hour glass
>Diary of Anne Frank

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Less Than Zero
The Silence of the Lambs
American Psycho
Red Dragon
Stoner

wew, lad

as if the posters reading only the first part read it in german. www.kaufmann.com

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>The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece by Thomas Cole
>The Idiot
>Houses of Belgrade by Borislav Pekic
>On the road
>the art of memory by Francis Yates

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>The Confidence-Man
>The Sun Also Rises
>Paradise Lost
>Within a Budding Grove
>The Divine Comedy