Post age and last five books you read. Others will shit on your taste. I'll start

Nope.

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> Who rules the world
> A collection of Borges works, title (in german) Die Zwei Labyrinthe
> Modernity: an unfinished project
> The History of Western Philosophy
> Die Welt im Rücken (recent book by a german author)

If you're not a female then you watched DH because you had a close relationship with your mom. Also given that you read highly formal books, I'd guess that you're probably fairly lonely and use your mom as a replacement for a girlfriend. This makes you feel bad because you know it's true and it's not your mom's fault and you kind of resent her for it

>STILL using assumed superiority of being above "using literature as a means of projecting an identity" as a means of projecting an identity

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A Deeper Blue
Gertrud
The Roof Tile of Tempuyo
The Conquest of Gaul
The Loser

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Crime and punishment
1984
Man's search for meaning
48 laws of power
Beyond Good and evil

These are the last books I've read

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>Stoner
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Euthyphro
>The Fall of the House of Usher
>Germinal

Oldfag here.

God damn, man. Good for you for being 19 and already confronting such complex material. I was reading LOTR and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. And maybe a bit of Plato if a professor assigned it.

You're going places.

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>La chute
>Molloy
>Un barrage contre le Pacifique
>Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
>The Sun Also Rises

come on, only the last one is to a some degree demanding

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The Brothers Karamazov
Skylark
A personal Matter
Selected Short Stories of Robert Walser
Exile and the kingdom

Crime & Punishment, read on ones own and without some bullshit 11th grade idiot teacher trying to explain it to you, is also demanding.

Also I guess complex isn't the right word, but heavy/profound/impactful. It's obviously the list of someone headed in a particular direction, toward virtue maybe.

>It's obviously the list of someone headed in a particular direction, toward virtue maybe.

more like suicide

The Republic
Oedipus Rex
Discourses of Epictetus
The Divine Comedy
Aenid

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>A Hero of Our Time (Lermontov)
>The Confusions of Young Törless (Musil)
>Autobiography of a Corpse (Krzhizhanovsky)
>Doktor Glas (Söderberg)
>A Minor Apocalypse (Konwicki)

t. peterson

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>The Opposing Shore
>The Tartar Steppe
>Photography: A Middle-Brow Art
>Thinking Photography
>almost done with Barthes' Mythologies

>tfw grad school

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A Portrait
Hamlet
Gravity's Rainbow
Omensetter's Luck
Ulysses

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>Outer Dark
>The Saga of Grettir the Strong
>Anna Karenina
>Tacitus's Germania and Agricola
>Beowulf

nah my girlfriend just likes it so ive watched it.

Haven't read any Gass. Is Omensetter a good place to start?
How was Outer Dark? Slowly reading every McCarth novel and that is next on my list after Child of God.
What did you think of Tartar?

Also has anyone here read Three Lives by Gertrude Stein? Meant to read it for a class but keep putting it off because it doesn't seem appealing to me.

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>siddartha
>notes from the underground
>crime and punishment
>faust
>the master and margarita

Literature already died, kid.

fpbp

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> The Kalevala
> Sirens of Titan
> I Have no Mouth and I must Scream
> I, Robot
> Beowulf

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Kafka on the Shore
A of Aeschylus' drama
A book of Sophocles' drama
A book of Euripedes' drama
"Mastering the teachings of the Buddha" or something like that

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>the witcher saga

They were boring and unengaging. What a waste of time. The person who memed me into reading this should have his balls stitched to his thigh

How is "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?"

I am weirdly obsessed with buying a copy and reading it 100 times.

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>Harry Potter
>Ice and Fire
>American Gods
>Speaker for the Dead
>Leviathan wakes

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>Being and time
>Yoga sutras
>Vijnanabhairava tantra
>Les Fleurs du mal
>Anti-edipo

Hey I'm 26.

Are we old?

Also, never read any of those.

Pretty good
I actually like some of ellisons other stories more, even though ihnmaims is the most popular. I'd honestly recommend reading paingod and other delusions over ihnmaims

Thanks user. Will check him out.

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>Thinking fast and slow
>Basic Writings of Nietzsche
>Portable Nietzsche
>Sophocles Ajax
>The World as Will and Rep Vol. 2

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the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
to each his own
still life with woodpecker
six four
white noise

what do i read next?
>GR
>stoner
>confederacy of dunces
>warlock
>east of eden

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>doctor faustus
>Ficciones
>Joseph and his brothers (1)
>Joseph and his brothers (2)
>Joseph and his brothers (3)

inb4 Jospeh (4)

East of Eden. It is a masterpiece.

Read steppenwolf or some Thomas Mann

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>The Castle
>Company
>Endgame (by Beckett of course)
>a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf
>Historia universal de la infamia

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>After Strange Gods
>Loving
>The Priory
>No Fond Return of Love
>Good Morning, Midnight

thanks for making that easy. how are his other works? i've heard if you've read one, you've read pretty much everything else.

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>poetics
>Ion
>Augustus
>Stoner
>Blood Meridian

I disagree with that assessment. He did, too. In his journals he said something like "it's the only book I've ever written." It stands out.

As far as his other stuff, I enjoyed The Pearl, Cannery Row, and maybe Grapes of Wrath (don't remember). None of them came close to East of Eden imho

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>Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
>Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Vol. 1 - The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity
>Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Vol. 2 - Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture
>Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Vol. 3 - Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and Contemporary Age
>currently halfway through Beiser's 'Hegel' with copious notes

I find the title of Photography: A Middle-Brow Art to be interesting, is it a good read?

For Veeky Forums? Yeah. In general? eeeh. A bit. but not much.
As for my books: Harry Potter was just my age range growing up. 11 when the first came out in 01 and 17 when the last came out in 07.
American gods is recommendable, Enders game and speaker for the dead too
The Expanse series is fun sci-fi with a touch of realism (for the most part) and I should probably have included crime and punishment in there for points and because it was my favourite when I was young.

the tartar steppe was brutally depressing but really good.
its by pierre bourdieu so lots of sociology. it attempts to outline the cultural uses of photography and the the value assigned to those uses. its dry and heavily descriptive but has a lot of insight into the ways differences in class and culture define the meaning and usage of photography as both art and not-art

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>Hamlet
>10:04 (Ben Lerner)
> My Struggle Book One (Knausgaard)
>To the Lighthouse
>The Sound and the Fury

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>Shadows Linger
>The White Rose
>Shadow Games
>Dreams of Steel
>Bleak Seasons

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>Women
>Pale fire
>IT
>The Rider on the white horse
>The Exorcist

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>a voyage round my room by xavier de Maistre
>ecce homo
>cyberfutures: culture and politics on the information superhighway
>The dream of a ridiculous man
>this book with all these movies that I should see before I die, though mostly skimmed it

also some borges and chesterton short stories here and there

What should people use to have a sense of self, user? Or are you one of those "kill the ego" fuckwits?

If any editor or press used whatever information someone could gather here, I bet that would result in decent books. You people are fucked in the head and proud about it. I wish I had of found this place in my twenties.

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Currently reading:
Gravity's Rainbow
Worldview and Mind

And just finished:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
The Happiness Hypothesis
Language and Myth

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>A short tale of the Anti-Christ (Soloviev)
>Jesus of Nazareth (Ratzinger)
>The One and the Many (Clarke)
>Socialist Thought (Fried & Sanders)
>Diary of a ghetto Priest (Lung)

>inb4 "Christcuck"

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> Complete Plays, Sarah Kane
> The art of power - freedman on strategy, Hurst Editions
> Maintenant, Le comité invisible
> some fanfics
> Some econometric papers from the Fed

How did you go with b and t? Was it a slog? I fizzled out after a couple of chapters it just felt like the effort began outweighing the benefit. Thoughts?

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Fashionable Nonsense
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Thoughts on the shallows? Is it

1. Just common sense
2. Just common sense with "Wew Neuroscience" added in.
3. Actually have something new to say.

2.

The neuroscience is pretty much common sense, too. Surprise, surprise: your brain physically changes based on repeated actions. Thus, constant use of the internet changes our brains. Thus, our brains become less receptive to linear forms of media like books.
There is also a lot of information on the history of media and how it is not just the content of media but the form of media that affects us. Sure you might think that the internet is great because you have instant access to so much useful information, but because of the nature of the internet, it is still affecting your brain as mentioned above (whether you believe that is positive or negative).
Anyway it's a long-winded book written for the lowest common denominator that doesn't really say anything new. Might be worth a read if you need convincing that you shouldn't be on the internet all day.

You read Greek / are you a classics major?

Thanks user.

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>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Slaughterhouse Five
>The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
>American Psycho
>??? I dunno, The Lost World (Crichton) maybe? Or probably something else, I really don't know

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>Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
>No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
>A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
>Rubicon - Tom Holland
>My Autobiography - Benito Mussolini

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>The Glory of the Empire: a novel, a history
>Scarecrow, and Other Anomalies
>Mr. Kafka and other Tales from the time of Cult
>A scanner Darkly
>The Bald Soprano and other Plays

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>currently reading SPQR
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
>The Iliad trans. Fitzgerald
>Things Fall Apart
Doing a proper le Greeks/Classical stretch with some sci-fi in between to cleanse my palette, have The Caves of Steel and The Histories + Meditations lined up

Also have a bunch of modern and postmodern classics sitting on my shelf I haven't cracked open yet, get burned out on minimalism and ironic minimalism too fast.

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Nichomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Politics - Aristotle
Poetics - Aristotle
Forgotten Ally: China during World War 2 - Mitter
Something Happened - Heller

shit

okay

shit

super shit

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>The Red and the Black
>The Great Gatsby
>Catch-22
>Demons
>Life a User's Manual

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Five spy novels of Gérard de Villiers, can't remember the titles, but I'm reading them all in order (200 books).

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>Goncharov - The Same Old Story
>Dick - Man In The High Castle
>Murakami - 1Q84 Book 1 (not gonna read the rest, honestly)
>Chekhov - Ivanov
>Bulgakov - Master & Margarita

I think it's about time for another tome

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>Atlas Shrugged
>Think and grow rich
>The moon is a harsh mistress
>The Antichrist
>Sun and steel

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>infinite jest
>The Aeneid (in Latin)
>HD selected works
>east of eden
>the waves