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2013-06-16 06:41 3855208 Anonymous (1333567626614.jpg 1608x2001 329kB)
Last three Currently reading Next three Post 'em

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>Last Three The Metamorphosis The Trial Farenheit 451 >Currently Reading Moby Dick >Next Three Red Badge of Courage Dubliners (Those two are because I'm about to marathon some John Huston films and I want to read the books before seeing his adaptations) Blood Meridian

56 min later 3855310 Anonymous
You recently started reading the classics?

1 hours later 3855328 Anonymous
Last 4 Finished: Inner Chapters of Chuang Tsu (Feng and English translation) Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran translation) Erich Fromm's The Art of Being The Book of Five Rings Currently Reading: I read too many at once but here are some: The Anatomy of Self by Takeo Doi The B.S. Factor by Arthur Herzog The Tale of Genji The Lord of the Rings Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch The Mafia is not an Equal Opportunity Employer by Nicholas Gage Howard the Duck by Ellis Weiner The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine Strong and Fearless by Phil Nuernberger Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino and Bill Reynolds How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom Ready Player One The Stuff of Thought Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Familes Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England by Lisa Wilson Awareness by Anthony de Mello Psycho-Cybernetic Principles for Creative Living Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville The Intellectual Devotional by Kidder and Oppenheim Next Three: On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Adrienne Rich The New Well-Tempered Sentence by Karen Elizabeth Gordon A College Looks at American Values

1 hours later 3855338 Anonymous
>Last three Ulysses Notes From Underground Homage to Catalonia >Currently reading The Odyssey >Next three War and Peace Moby Dick Crime & Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov

1 hours later 3855349 Anonymous
>>3855338 Reading Ulysses before The Odyssey What

1 hours later 3855355 Anonymous
>Last Three The Drunkard's Walk The Plague The Double >Currently Reading The Signal and the Noise >Next three Wittgenstein's Poker The Fall Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Some Anon recommended Pale Fire after finishing The Double, so I may or may not sneak that in before Russell's work. Borrowed it from the library, so it depends on whether I have enough time.

1 hours later 3855361 Anonymous
>>3855328 does anyone else have my problem of reading too much shit at once?

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>>3855361 How much time do set aside for reading?

1 hours later 3855367 Anonymous
>>3855364 depends on the day, at least an hour a day I work 7 days a week and very variable hours so I don't have a fixed schedule.

1 hours later 3855368 Anonymous
>Last Three Gravity's Rainbow Trout Fishing In America Life Of Pi >Currently Reading A Song of Ice and Fire >Next Three (will probably intersplice these with the ASOIAF books) We Inherent Vice Days Between Stations my next three are rarely reliable, as they change more or less every day

1 hours later 3855370 Anonymous
>Last Three Deliverance Dispatches Notes From Underground >Current 2666 >Next Rabbit, Run I kinda feel that /lit/ exaggerated about how good 2666 is, but then again i'm not super far so i'm hoping it takes a turn for the insane/better. After that is going to be my first Updike novel, supposedly its really good.

1 hours later 3855372 Anonymous
>>3855355 How was The Plague in comparison to The Stranger? Also, unless you love long winded philosophical ramblings, The Fall can get kinda boring

1 hours later 3855373 Anonymous
>>3855370 You read classic war novels?

1 hours later 3855376 Anonymous
>>3855349 R U foolin? ??? i hope ur foolin

1 hours later 3855378 Anonymous
>>3855373 I take it you mean Dispatches? I was told it was the best book written on Vietnam, though I think The Things They Carried was better. Still really good though, can't say i've met too many people who've heard of it

1 hours later 3855380 Anonymous
Lolita The Book Thief East of Eden Doctor Zhivago The Bell Jar Don Quixote Mary

1 hours later 3855401 Anonymous
>Last three The Rings of Saturn Popol Vuh Tao Te Ching >Currently reading Infinite Jest The Kojiki The Odyssey The Mahabharata The Qu'ran The Tanakh/Bible The Faerie Queene >Next Three The Divine Comedy: Paradiso Lin's Taipei & Pynchon's Bleeding Edge A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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>>3855401

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>>3855376 not like it matters

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>>3855405 I'm getting the essentials down, faggot. It's called scholarship.

1 hours later 3855424 Anonymous
>>3855372 Very different stylistically. The Stranger is told by M. Meursault from the first-person perspective, and he only details empirical facts and sensory experiences in the world (the sun is hot, the woman is soft). Emotions are mentioned in passing but are little more than puffs of breath on the page. Every sentence flares into existence as you're reading it and then is snuffed out when you read the next, creating this disjointed feeling that closely mirrors the protagonist's mindset. The Plague is told from a limited third-person perspective by Dr. Rieux as he documents Oran's experiences for future generations as a reminder that the plague--clearly a metaphor for death generally--can happen to anyone at any time. The habits we enjoy otherwise--movies, cafes, and other pleasures--are mere distractions to occupy time until we meet our end. As a disguised narrator--he reveals himself at the end--Dr. Rieux claims the tale is fully objective, but he weaves in his own worldview and distinct sentimental asides despite himself. Thanks for the info about The Fall. Unlike The Plague, I own it, so I may as well finish my current Camus streak.

2 hours later 3855435 Anonymous
Last three: Blood Meridian, The Marriage Artist, Naked Lunch Currently reading: Infinite Jest, but I bought The Stranger today and will most likely have that done within the night. Next three: Slaughterhouse Five, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

2 hours later 3855436 Anonymous
>>3855401 damn boo, u a deep bitch, must be why the negroes luv u #rekt

2 hours later 3855504 Anonymous
Last: A World Lit Only By Fire Things Fall Apart Il Principe Current: Infinite Jest Next: Don Quixote The Stranger The Book of Disquiet

2 hours later 3855541 Anonymous
>last 3 War and peace treasure island alice in wonderland >current 3 musketeers > Next 3 White noise Clockwork orange Heart of darkness

2 hours later 3855553 Anonymous
The Road A Simple Plan The Alienist American Gods For Whom The Bell Tolls One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Lolita

3 hours later 3855586 Anonymous
>last three The Daylight Gate The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Stand >Currently reading The Master and Margarita >Next three A Game of Thrones The Great Gatsby The Black Dahlia

3 hours later 3855588 Anonymous
Last 3: Confabulario - JJ. Arreola Mexico en la frontera del caos - Oppenheimer Presidencia Imperial - Enrique Krauze Reading: Tropic of Capricorn - Miller Next 3: Raiz y Razon de Zapata - Jesus Sotelo Los recuerdos del porvenir - Elena Garro The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3 hours later 3855595 Anonymous
Alain de botton - consolations of philosophy Schopenhauer - essays and aphorisms Sartre - Nausea The karamazov brothers Virtue of selfishness Aurelius Meditations Montaigne Essays

3 hours later 3855655 Anonymous
Last three: The Gallic War - Caesar The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthorne Imperialism - The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin Current: Revolt against the modern world - Evola The mask of dimitrios - Ambler Next three Why I write - Orwell The man without a country - Hale Christ Stopped at Eboli - Levi

3 hours later 3855681 Anonymous
>Last Three Infinite Jest Pale Fire Inherent Vice >Current Crime & Punishment >Next Three Memoirs of Hadrian The Brothers Karamazov Dorian Gray

5 hours later 3855831 Anonymous
>>3855681 Nice

17 hours later 3857390 Anonymous
>last three The girl with the dragon tattoo Some random philosophy book I don't know >Currently Reading Infinite Jest Random philosophy book >next three Pulp The metamorphosis The Street of Crocodiles

17 hours later 3857425 Anonymous
Last: Dharma Bums Naked Lunch Lockpick Pornography Current: The Wild Boys Next: idk lol

17 hours later 3857429 Anonymous
>>3855208 But that's not the right picture for this thread OP

23 hours later 3858234 Anonymous
Last three The Trial - Kafka Der Steppenwolf - Hesse On the Road - Kerouac Currently Reading The Stranger -Camus Next Three A History of Western Philosophy - Russell Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -Joyce Candide - Voltaire

23 hours later 3858239 Anonymous
>Last Three Is There a Text in This Class? The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories A Room with a View >Currently reading From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected by Michael Ondaatje (I am a very boring person shut up) >Next Three The Eternal Moment and Other Stories The Concept of Law The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

23 hours later 3858248 Anonymous
Last three: The Mandrake, Machiavelli The Beautiful and Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway Currently Reading A Farewell to Arms What should I read next? I thoroughly enjoyed TSAR and so far enjoy A Farewell to Arms

23 hours later 3858250 Anonymous
>Last Three The Life of Pi A Long, Long Way The entire Hitchhiker's Guide series (counting all 5 as 1) >Currently Reading Guns, Germs, and Steel >Next Three Lord of the Flies Cannery Row Secret Scripture

23 hours later 3858255 Anonymous
Last three: My Life and Hard Times - Thurber Murder in the Cathedral - Eliot The Gallic War - Caesar Current: The Blithedale Romance - Hawthorne The Mask of Dimitrios - Ambler Next three: Why I Write - Orwell A Gun for Sale - Greene The Man Without a Country - Hale

23 hours later 3858291 Anonymous
>Last 3 Atlas Shrugged Stranger in a Strange Land The Sun Also Rises >Currently Reading A Short History of Nearly Everything >Next Three Guns, Germs, and Steel dunno dunno

24 hours later 3858295 Anonymous
the bonfire of the vanities ecclesiastes the metamorphosis currently: Nothing as of yet, but will be picking up Pilgrim's Progress. The metamorphosis was quite depressing for me. Next Three: Madame Bovary A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Three Theban Plays

24 hours later 3858297 Anonymous
>>3858291 >Guns, Germs, and Steel Lol. Make sure to get a second opinion.

24 hours later 3858312 Anonymous
>>3858295 Follow up Madame Bovary with Sentimental Education.

24 hours later 3858401 Anonymous
>>3858312 Okay!

25 hours later 3858466 Anonymous
>>3858312 Thanks. Will Do.

25 hours later 3858471 Anonymous
>>3855208 >Last three Taipei (loved it) As I Lay Dying (second time reading it. Made more sense than before, easily one of the best books I have ever read in the stream of conciousness style.) Nazi Literature in the Americas (Funny, entertaining and sometimes extremely sad) >Currently reading The Recognitions (One of the most difficult and most rewarding books I have ever read so far. Gaddis truly understands how to frame a conversation and his parties remind me a lot of Pynchon parties but much more darker and much more mean hearted and critical) The Book of Disquiet (Amazing. It feels like you are navigating through the sensations of a very lonely and imaginative man) >Next three Dead Souls??? Crash?? Crime and Punishment? It really doesn't matter since I hardly ever pick what I am going to read and stick with it. Also The Recongnitions is going to take a long time to get through

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>>3858471 I highly recommend Crash, it's one of Ballards very best and much better than the film.

25 hours later 3858507 Anonymous
>>3858476 I read something like 50 pages of it but quit due to school work. It definitely had a lot of potential also the language moves very beautifully.

28 hours later 3858703 Anonymous
>Last three Oksanen: Näin syntyy kyyneleet Candide Can't remember the third >Currently reading Hemingway: For whom the bells toll Kundera: Life is elsewhere >Next read Marianne Alopaeus: Sweden's Enchanting Laura Ingalls Wilder: The First Four Years

30 hours later 3858783 Anonymous
>>3858466 Happy to help

32 hours later 3858965 Anonymous
>The last three: Dearly Devoted Dexter #2 The Old Man and the Sea The Postman Always Rings Twice >Currently reading On The Road >Next Three A Brief History of Time Lolita The Color of Magic >>3855361 Yes! I'm currently reading 8 different books, but I'm mainly reading On The Road.

32 hours later 3858988 Anonymous
> last three Forrykt Den kreative logn Nellies bog > Current Hærværk Mod kunsten God and the State Gjentagelsen Stadier på livets vej A history of french secret societies 1830 -1848 Rings of saturn >next The Anarchist reader Fugls fode Death in venice

32 hours later 3858995 Anonymous
>>3858988 Any political works you'd care to recommend?

33 hours later 3859026 Anonymous
>>3858995 No

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>Last three Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke >Currently Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King >Next three From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Some science fiction novel

33 hours later 3859036 Anonymous
>>3855310 I wish I could be more like you.

33 hours later 3859038 Anonymous
>last three Romeo and Juliet Fahrenheit 451 Siddhartha >current The Hobbit >next three Inferno Frankenstein The Kite Runner

33 hours later 3859043 Anonymous
catch 22 by heller letters to a young contrarian by hitchens philo of friedrich nietzsche by mencken woyzcek by buchner what do you care what other people think by feynman the art of always being right by schopenhauer galileo by brecht

33 hours later 3859052 Anonymous
If you're reading more than 2 or 3 books at one time, you're either a genius or a nincompoop and there ain't no geniuses on this board.

33 hours later 3859054 Anonymous
>>3859052 What if you're reading non-fiction?

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>>3859043 >letters to a young contrarian >what do you care what other people think >the art of always being right Someone sure has a complex.

33 hours later 3859058 Anonymous
>last 3 Cold Hearts by Gunnar Staalesen Dont Look Back by Karin Fossum The Dunwich Horror by H.P Lovecraft >Currently reading Around the world in 80 days and Five Weeks in a Balloon, both by Jules Verne(bought a book that has both of those tales in it) Next three: Silmarilion by Tolkien Collection of St. Olav sagas Hitler by Ian Kershaw

33 hours later 3859061 Anonymous
>>3859057 What kind of complex?

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>Last Three Haunted The Time Machine Dune >Current Devil in the White City >Next Three Dubliners Count of Monte Cristo Stranger in a Strange Land

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