This thread was fun the last time. You take 5 outta your stack, anons tell you which one to go for next. I'm new to reading so I'm going over the basics
- Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
Slaughterhouse 5. Easy choice. Vonnegut is such a common thread in pretty much every reader of good books person I've met. He comes up in conversation often enough it is worth it to read his, possibly, best or at least most talked about book. Do it.
A little Life by Hana yanagihara
I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
Notes from the underground by FyDo
Frost by Thomas Bernhard
The Savage Detectives by Bolano
Nostromo
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Rainbow
The Tartar Steppe
Cool, I'll hit it tonight. Cheers my man
I was in love with nostromo at first but as the plot started moving I lost track of why I should care. Probably definitely my fault but heart of darkness didn't do it for me either.
The Rainbow is sublime.
BNW, then S5
The Double
The tartar steppe - buzzati
Humiliated and insulted - Dostoevsky
War and war - krasznahorkai
Pale fire - nabokov
Judas Iscariot - andreyev
We could both read tartar steppe and make a thread about it in a week or 2..
Titus Groan
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Catch-22
Amerika
The Third Policeman
Pale Fire is unfuckwitable.
Catch 22
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Trilogy of New York by Paul Auster
22/11/63 by Stephen King
Malazan book of the fallen (full series)
The bell jar by Sylvia Plath
Notes from the underground, absolutely.
I have read and would recommend A Little Life, but it's quite heavy (in terms of length and subject matter), so I'd agree with starting with something smaller if you want.
Catch 22 is great
The bell jar
Then what!
Goethe
>Pale Fire is unfuckwitable.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
The Iliad
Moby-Dick
Oedipus plays
Paradise Lost
Don Quixote
Iliad
What a meme you are.
Brave New World changed my life
I've been memeing too hard man
-Blood Meridian
-Collected excerpts of Marx
-Iliad
-Revolt Against the modern world Evola
Read Steppenwolf OP
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Libra by Don Dellilo
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Ice by Anna Kavan
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It means that other books can try to fuck with it, but cannot because they are less. It's at the tippity top.
Continue with the Greeks or Resume with the Modernists?
I've only got four in my stack atm
Der Römerbrief- Karl Barth
Eumeswil- Ernst Jünger
Fanged Noumena- A Meme
And the collected writings of William Blake
I'd say libra
Of the top 4 Charterhouse, easily the best. Haven't read the 5th, however.
Eh just pick new books dude
Imo modernists then go back
The Fountainhead, Rand
Catch-22, Heller
On the Road, Kerouac
Pale Fire, Nabokov
I, Robot, Asimov
Anna
Cat's cradle is good, albeit a bit on-the-nose with the main metaphor
Oops, I misunderstood the thread and just posted 5 books I've read expecting a new rec.
Everyone should read Ice, though.
Place the Fountainhead in the trash.
Walden
The Cancer Ward
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises
All The Kings Men
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Chingiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
The Tao te Ching
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Danton's Death by Georg Büchner
Der Römerbrief and then open a thread about it, fampai
I would go with Catch-22. Everything besides the Rand is excellent
Thoreau then Hemingway
That's not how those work. You're supposed to give it to a girl in college, very seriously, that you are trying to fuck to make sure she never fucks you and will always tell the story about exactly that whenever that silly cunt's books are mentioned. I've met a few women relating this exact story over the years.
Zinn or reroll
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I thought the point of Rand was to become a pseudo-intellectual in middle school
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Prince
Either/Or Volume I
The Myth of Sisyphus
Definitely read the Prince before Zarathustra
It's a stepping stone to becoming a Scientologist.
Libertarianism is the political equivalent of the flat earth theory
If you're depressed then read Camus. If not Nietzsche
Martian chronicles
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha
We
Brave new world
Foucault's Pendulum
Lincoln in the Bardo
Hard Rain Falling
Potsdam Station
Killers of the Flower Moon
Change your life already, read Siddhartha.
don't be a psued.
Ulysses
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Jerusalem
Magic Mountain
the Tao my nigga
is it that cool?
Anthony C. Yu - The Monkey and the Monk
Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels
Justified Ancients of MuMu - 2023: A Trilogy
WIlliam S Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Cervantes - Don Quixote (Motteux translation)
All Quient on the Western Front - Erich Ramarque
The Sea - John Banville
The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin
H is for Hawk - Helen McDonald
A History of Knowledge - Charles van Doren
finishing stoner now
confederacy of dunces
warlock
the corrections
big book on american architecture
or a big book of art (the story of art)
Dubliners
Heart of Darkness
The King In Yellow
The Three Musketeers
Underworld
I'm about to finish Stoner if that makes any difference.
BNW or S5.
Catch-22 or The Third Policeman.
22/11/63 or The Bell Jar.
Moby-Dick or Don Quixote.
Blood Meridian. Can't comment on the others.
Invisible Man or The Bell Jar.
If you haven't read Rand leave the Fountainhead for now and read Anthem or We The Living first. Or, read I, Robot.
Zinn or Tolkien. I can recommend more on American Exceptionalism if you want.
Orwell or Mishima.
Don't know about Jerusalem but you need to be intimately familiar with Joyce, DFW and Pynchon to read those books. Read Death In Venice before you read Magic Mountain (if Mann).
Naked Lunch or Don Quixote. Couldn't assess the translation.
First two.
Hello Stoner bro. Just finished Dunces too and I heartily recommend it. Walker's introduction doesn't spoil anything so read that if you want.
The Art of the Loophole - Nick Freeman
The Very Bastards of Creation - James D Young
The Social Contract - Rousseau
Behind the Myths - John Pickard
Contending Economic Theories - Richard D Wolff
>Heart of Darkness
How to read literature like a Professor
Iliad
The First Law Book 2
The Karamazov Brothers
Malazan series
Okay. I have lying around in my room right now:
Stoner, Blood Meridian, White Noise, Three-Body Problem and For Whom The Bell Tolls.
I'd go for Dubliners, but they're on my to-read list as well, so I don't know if they're any good. But it's Joyce, so it probably is.
The Story of Art's Gombrich if I'm not mistaken, so strong rec in that direction along with CoD.
Mencken's In Defense of Women
Cornwell's Sharpe's Gold (read the first two already this summer)
Boorstin's The Image
Gass's Finding a Form
Greene's Our Man in Havana
The Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
Omensetter's Luck- William H. Gass
Vineland - Pynchon
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Tristam Shandy
Barry Lyndon
Perfume
The Sot-Weed Factor
Suttree
Stoner
Satantango
Savage Detectives
Girl With Curious Hair
Ubik
This is the only list I've seen that prompts me not to recommend but to dissuade. Don't read Parfum. The other four are fabulous. I only choose Shandy because not only is it the most innovative, but was also written first. If (you) want light summer reading, however, choose the Thackery.
I was really moved by Hard Rain Falling. I had atough time with Foucaults Pendulum, not so much with the esoteric occultism, more with the one characters childhood memories and beta cuck relationship with some bimbo.
I haven't read the others.
Just the thread I was looking for.
>Crime and Punishment
>Fight Club
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Meditations
>Classic Tales of Horror - Edgar Allan Poe
-War and peace
-Steppenwolf
-Vanity Fair
-The Idiot
-Rameau's Nephew
Meditations, then beyond good and evil, then fight club, then crime and punishment
Poe is great but save him for last all the same
>Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
>On the Good Life by Cicero
>Ann Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
>Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
>Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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FUCK ME IN THE ASS, I meant to type Notes from the Underground, but somehow I instead replaced it with Crime and Punishment. Do your lists still stand lol? I've actually already read Crime and Punishment, and I loved the hell out of it.
Not him but read Beyond Good and Evil then Notes. Perfect perfect progression. Crime and Punishment as well, pretty much Nietzsche misinterpretation the fictiob. Then meditations I guess and throw out Fight Club
Her
pretty much agree about fight club desu
Thanks for the responses, I think I'll go for Meditations first, Beyond Good and Evil, and everything else sometime afterwards.
>Walker's introduction doesn't spoil anything so read that if you want.
thanks, and why the hell do all these NYRB books spoil like half of the book? i mean its not gonna ruin a novel for me, but damn NYRB
thank you. i might do COD after the story of art just because i havent had some nonfiction in a while, not since maybe college.
As I Lay Dying
Steppenwolf
Count of Monte Cristo
Norwegian Wood
Lolita
Meditations
The Count of Monte Cristo
Big Sur(Kerouac)
History of the Peloponessian War
To Build a Fire and Other Stories(London)
The Right Stuff(Wolfe)
The Sea(Banville)
Théâtre - Racine
Contes - Lafontaine
Nos, Book of the Ressurection - Miguel Serrano
金閣寺 - 由紀夫三島
Sophocles I (ed. Lattimore) - Sophocles
Thucydides is the only fantastic choice here. Pity (you) didn't start it a few weeks back so that (you) might have timed reading it's disasterous conclusion with a viewing of the solar eclipse! It's a great book.
Portrait of an artist blah blah - Joyce
Swanns way -- Proust
Molloy trilogy -- Beckett
Against the day -- pinecone
The picture of Dorian gray -- Oscar Wilde
I read about 30-50 pages of one of them a day and it's driving me insane not settling on one and killing it
Dorian Gray
Origins of Totalitarianism - Ardent
Burning Chrome - Gibson
Prague Cemetary - Eco
Annihilation - Vandemeer
War of the End of the World - Vargas Llosa
Thanks babe
Swan Song
The Fireman
Eyes of Doom
Bird Box
The Hematophages
No one has probably read these.
War of the End of the World. Picked it off name alone so enjoy.
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Savage Night by Jim Thompson
The Long Walk by Stephen King
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
LA Confidential by James Ellroy
Of the two shorter volumes pick Rameau's Nephew- it's one of those little read books that dumbfounds as to just how good it is. Then settle into War and Peace.
prague cemetary is a fun read
Walden
Under The Volcano
Beloved
Three Lives
Warlock
Probs solitude
Joyce or Wilde
Either AILD or Lolita
Crime and Punishment
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Modern Man In Search of a Soul
The Third Policeman
Man's Search For Meaning
Gombrich's a great writer and both an incredibly knowledgeable and incredibly modest scholar. THE single volume book by him is Art and Illusion. If (you) ever see a copy when browsing used books snap it up. Theyre out there.
>if you want to read philosophy
aristotle, then boethius
>if you want the only effective self-help method out there
seneca, then cicero
I, Claudius
Sword and Citadel
Franny and Zooey
Gilead
Dubliners
Warlock. Just finished it and loved it.
Breeze through F&Z and then read I, C. Though Dubliners is the best title, save it for early Fall.
why did you love it?
It has the most well developed and interesting characters of any novel I've read (though I haven't read a ton). It's an excellent subversion of character tropes of popular genre fiction, and the philosophical themes are clear and thoughtful but never hamfisted.