How is your 2019 reading challenge going so far, Yea Forums?

How is Berlin Alexanderplayz it is on my nightstand

Infinite Jest and Hamlet
I'm slow

Not really. Infinite jest is at least a 6 week read

I was expecting a bit more politics (there is some communists vs Nazis stuff but its pretty anti-climactic). I did enjoy the whole backdrop to it. It reminded me of Dos Passos’s USA Trilogy with the use of newspapers and advertising montages.
It wasn’t quite what I expected but I still enjoyed it.

>The Storm of Steel
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Plato: Five Dialogues
>Crime and Punishment
>Laurus
>Convenience Store Woman
>The Rings of Saturn
>Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
>Song of the Nibelungs (Frank Ryder’s rhyming verse translation)

Not as much as I’d like to have read by now, but work is just too busy during tax season.

Is A Night To Remember worthwhile reading in your opinion, user?
I enjoyed both Titanic movies (plus ALL documentaries)...

Infinite Jest is like a thousand pages my man, no you’re good lol

It's interesting solely because of the material covered, but if you're already up to speed on your Titanic history you won't get much out of it. It's written in a very dry, factual sort of way, effectively just a longform timeline of the event.

>My Work is Not Yet Done
>Diary of a Madman
>The Songs of Distant Earth
>The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
>The Tartar Steppe

Now: Infinite Jest

Hegel's Aesthetics.
Thus spoke Zarathustra
The birth of tragedy
Frost by Thomas Bernhard

how did you liked gogol? one of my favorite authors!

On the Road Jack Kerouac
Siddhartha Herman Hesse
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
The Road Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying Faulkner
Invitation to a Beheading Nabokov
The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon
Five Dialogues(Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs

Currently reading 2666, trying to read the meme books this year.
11/52

He was alright.
I was kind of underwhelmed after hearing every other Russian author worship him.
He did do a great job of portraying a broken mind.

his approach to narrative was pushing boundaries at the time and he was much wilder than Pushkin's attempts at weird fiction.
I would strongly recommend his play The Government Inspector (REVIZOR) if you are into absurdist theater, his long short story Viy, could be interesting if you are into horror like Poe's.
His stylistic approach in his other short stories like Nevsky Prospekt is much more dense and dramatical.
what other Russian authors have you read?

I meme

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I've read
Dostoyevsky
Solzhenitsyn
Bulgakov
little bit of Tolstoy
and the Strugatsky bros

How how was The Magus?

bump

You should check out Mayakovski and the futurist movement, as well as the early symbolist movement in at the dawn of the 20th century,

I'm a big fan of Pushkin and Lermontov and Turgenev as well. Pushkin is an poetry maestro, Lermontov's works are pure genius in terms of variety and historical context and Turgenev features some of the best soft loom and gloom you can find after Chekov.

10 down, with a goal of 40 for the whole year. I'm no speed reader, half of these books I had started earlier and am no getting around to finishing.

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Noctuary,
Descartes,
Sabato Heroes and Tombs,
Nabokov Bio Vol I and II,
Nabokov Short Stories,
Wittgenstein in Exile,
Moby Dick,
Jameson Postmodernism,
The Luzhin Defense,
Rigadoon,
La Dolce Morte,
The Gift,
German Modernism,
High Windows,
HPL Tales,
History of Buddhism

How's Laurus?

That better not be the condensed Gulag

400%

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How’d you like wind up bird

How to win friends and influence people, and The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

>switched from reading fiction to hard non fiction involving my studies
>Focusing on anatomy , EMT procedures and relevant federal laws, polysci, and history now

I feel good, like my career is finally coming along and I'm finally growing as a person instead of using books as a method for escapism.

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I like the idea of setting up a series of pre-planned books to read, but many of the best things I've picked up in recent years were found on a whim, when I was just looking through the stacks at the library for anything I'd never heard of that sounded good.

Last book, before this year, I read was when I was in the army in 2016. So far I've read

>Tremor of intent by Anthony Burgess
>2001 space odyssey
>One flew over cuckoos nest
>Stoner
>Year of the hare (COMFY goodreads.com/book/show/656876.The_Year_of_the_Hare)
>The picture of Dorian Gray

I'm not sure what I should read next.
I have
>Camus' novel "The plague"
>Herman Hess' "Steppenwolf"
>"Augustus" by John E. Williams.
>and the dark tower (I-III) by Stephen King.
Might just read the dark tower series.

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13/40

It’s great. Drenched in Orthodox spirituality so you might miss some of the nuance if you’re not Orthodox. Luckily I am so that wasn’t a problem for me.

Skip the Dark Tower books, jump right to Hesse.

I'm not but it looks really interesting - will bump it up on my list thx user

Were you also disappointed with Wind up Bird Chronicle? I liked the WW2 era parts a lot but the rest of it was meh.
Is a hundred years of solitude as good as it's hyped up to be?
Your reads remind me of mine a bit. I need to read Pale King eventually and some more Kissinger, I've only read IJ and Diplomacy respectively.

I'm 8 for 35 and almost done with 9 (Time out of Joint). Very short books though, the longer reads I have planned for the year haven't hit yet.

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What site is this?

Not so great tbqh.

I'm trying to ascend from the much and mire of plebianhood, so I decided I'd make it my goal to read more books each year. Last year I read 35. Right now I am halfway through three books that I've been trading off between. Leaves of Grass, Gravity's Rainbow, and Meditations. I usually enjoy them if I can get into them but I really have to quite my unquiet mind and focus. Just keeping chuggin bros.

That's Goodreads. Go to your profile and click "year in books".

I'm only 2 out of 25 right now, but I've been reading 3 books recently. Hopefully that trend will help me catch up a little.

Les fleurs du mal
The holy bible
Complete poems of WB Yeats
Heike monogatari
The repubblic
Liber null
The complete murder she wrote season 8 transcripts
Tristram Shandy

11 books ahead of schedule but i'm going to be slowing down a bit.

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I wasn't reading a lot lately, but then I found Yea Forums recommendations about Political Philosophy. I am thankful for your recommendations, anons!

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The Story Of Jacob
Young Joseph
Joseph in Egypt
Joseph The Provider
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Sleepwalkers (reread)
The Satanic Verses
Sinuhe The Egyptian
The Count Of Monte-Cristo (reread)

Thus far, I've liked the Joseph and his brothers -series of books the best. Truly some of Mann's finest, almost on par with Doctor Faustus, which I have before held as the best book I have read.

nice

10/70. 2 books behind i think

I have read the first three volumes of "The Capital" by Marx. 20 to go...

BOOKS READ IN 2019
1.RESUREECTION- LEO TOLSTOY
2.HEGEL- BEISER
3.THE DEAD- JOYCE* (RE-READ)
4.STRUGGLE AGAINST SUBJECTIVISM- BEISER
5.FREEDOM AND ITS BETRAYAL- BERLIN
6.HEGEL- HOULGATE
7.SPRING SNOW- MISHIMA
8.PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE- BERKELEY
9.ATALA/RENE- CHATEAUBRIAND
10.PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FTURE METAPHYSICS- KANT
11.MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY- DESCARTES
12. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK- POPE

Nearly finished Democracy in America and The Fate of Reason

>writing your personal stuff in all caps

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I don't have any challenges. It's like making a movies/songs list to listen to/watch.

Also

>~10 Philip Dick shorts
>Ubik
>some poetry
>Aleph collection (Borges)

Books so far:
>Norwegian Wood
>Les Miserables
>King Rat
>Something Happened
Dropped:
>Re-read of To Kill a Mockingbird
>A Tale of Two Cities
>Magic Mountain

Currently re-reading Catch-22.

Have you read Closing Time?

>Whatever
>Platform
>No Longer Human
>Godfather
>Meditations
>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Kind of stuck on Karamazov now, but nonetheless I really enjoy it.

I don't fucking advertise what I read as some sort of faggy attempt as signaling. Social media is gay as fuck and is a psychological vector against good thought.

i just use goodreads as an easy way of tracking what I'm reading.
I'd be using notepad or some shit otherwise.

The Crying of Lot 49
The Name of the Rose
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
On The Road
Beloved
Treasure Island
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Plague

Read 6 books this year. That's as much as last year.

I think you would like more to read Atomised than Whatever (in case you havent read them) the plot and messages are much much better.
I also got my hand on TBK but since its so big i think im gonna leave it for the summer because uni classes suck up all of my free time.

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What you think of Butcher Boy?

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Yeah there's no way you have read all those books since the start of this year lmao

I read it a long time ago and liked it. On the reread I appreciated it twice as much. Wonderful narrator – funny and at times extremely uncomfortable in a cringy way. Definitely not the last time I'll read it.

A tentative to-read list. Making these little charts is sort of narcissistically gratifying.

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So far I've read Siddharta and Woman In The Dunes, as well as John Waters (the journalist, not the filmmakers) new book. Currently reading 2666

You're so cool and above it all

Most of the time, I read 50 pages in the morning, 50 in the afternoon and 50 in the evening. Also I used audiobooks to do some books.

Also, I left out some books that I could understand, I didn't found or that were too long and dense for me to read, like:

- New Science of Vico: Very hard for me to understand it.
- City of God of Augustine of Hippo and the Bible: Boring and long.
- Political Writing of Vitoria and Bodin on Sovereignty: I couldn't find those online. I read "the Six books of the Commonwealth" and a paper of Francisco of Vitoria instead.

What did you think of the magus?

Never seen anyone here talk about Convenience Store Woman before. How was that?

I read because I like it, no because of any challenge by some thinly veiled social media.
Regarding how many books I've read thus far in 2019: 7

Dont remind me, I am behind my schedule.

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Challenge yourself, nothing wrong with that

Atomised is my close second favorite book of his after Possibility of an island. I think it was about a week after i finished Whatever that I had a dream about sitting with and talking to Houellebecq in the cafe where Platform ends. Looking forward to when they translate the book that was publish in January 2019, though it probably won't won't be his best.

About TBK it's probably what I will do as well, since I'm trying to dig myself out of a hole in uni.

150 pages in a day is pretty impressive.
I can only ever manage about half of that in a day for dense political theory, though this includes frequent stops to write down quotes and reflections.

I feel like Platform would be much better received if it was released this decade opposed to last. Very underrated Houellebecq book and it seems pretty much forgotten. I would recommend John Fowles to anyone who is a fan of Houellebecq.

I'm finishing up The World Goes on. I've got a couple more short stories left after the Yuri Gagarin one which is probably my favourite so far. Not sure whether to start Foucalt's Pendulum next since I bought it yesterday or Rashomon and Seveteen Other Stories.

The Magus is an amazing book. A 9/10 for me. Never had a book give me anxiety before but The Magus masked you question reality.
>were disappointed by Wind Up Bird
Yes. The book kind of falls apart in the final act. The actual end is alright but the last 200 pages or so seemed to lose focus.
It’s kind of soul crushing. I flew through it (no pun intended) in about a week and never lost steam, which says a lot to me about the book in retrospect. Overall, I would recommend it to pretty much anyone, but it is really heavy. Reading about a man whose marriage has failed strikes fear into my heart for the future.

Smooth

>currently reading 2666

What do you think so far? I'm thinking about reading that next; is it worth it?

>2666
Me too user, about 100 pages in. I like it so far, and excited to see where it goes after reading the dust jacket.
Also gonna read some of the memes this year too. Mason and Dixon is next.

>84 pages
That's a novella, user

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Yes, that book is a novella.

I absolutely fell into the dark tower series, even called in sick to work to finish book 7. King might be pseud trash (or not) but that series was very compelling for me.

Iliad
Odyssey
Homeric Hymns
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
(4/24, on track)

Also read ~1/3 of Herodotus' Histories and I'm slowly working through the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Currently reading The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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Dark Tower is the only King thing I've enjoyed, a fun pulpy read

gravity's rainbow
leaving the atocha station
the brothers karamazov
the emerald tablets of thoth
candide
reading david copperfield now its great

A lot of those are pretty short and could be read in a day

I got the big omnibus edition of Joseph. Does it count as four books or only one?

>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>As I Lay Dying
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Invisible Cities
>Naked Lunch
What did you think of them?

>Lucky Jim
>No Longer Human
>The Great Gatsby (reread)
>pic related Kafka collection
>Faust Part One
>Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
>Mrs Dalloway
Currently reading
>Don Quixote (350 pages in)
>The Book Of Disquiet

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Am I wrong for adoring Malcolm Gladwell? He reads so fast and insightful.

Read more than 4000 pages so far. Not too bad considering I practically didn't read anything last year.

Finished The name of the Wind
First Mistborn book.
The Way of Kings
Warbreaker
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer
Currently 250 pages in Oathbringer.

Is Submission good? I read Whatever by Houllebecq and really enjoyed it.

Invisible Cities is my favorite out of the bunch. While all of them were enjoyable reads something about Calvino's prose and storytelling just stuck out to me, never read anything like it before. I picked up his Complete Cosmicomics and that is excellent as well.

You're never wrong for enjoying what you enjoy. Gotta drop that high school attitude sometime user. Be you.
I like what I've read of glad well too by the way. You would also probably like black swan by talieb (sp?)

No, I haven't! It's got your rec, I imagine?

It's definitely worth it. I'm three parts in and can't stop reading it, great story and characters.

Nice, have you read anything else by Pynchon?

6/30 Good so far, the 7th is a bit of a long one though

We're reading similar books user.

Mine is:
Nigger of the Narcissus Conrad
Heart of Darkness Conrad (revisited
White Noise Delillo
Mao II Delillo
Personae Sergio De La Pava
The Republic Plato
Satantango Krasznahorkai
2666 Bolano
Whatever Houellebecq
Notes from Underground Dostoevsky
Marcovaldo Calvino
Steppenwolf Hesse
Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon

Planning on reading Lolita next and other Nabokov essentials

Read Marcovaldo next user
It's the coziest book
Enigmatic fellow with goofy hijinks in a poor Italian town and his yearning for nature and simpler times

everybody make fun of me for reading comic books, MLP comic books, and genre fiction

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Inhale the memes
Exhale the memes
Inject the memes into my bloodstream

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Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
Essays in Idleness and Hojoki - Kenko and Chomei
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Fathers and Children - Ivan Turgenev
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
Unknown Pleasures - Peter Hook

Nope. Don't know a thing about it going in, except that it's got about a 9.7/10 on Yea Forums haha

Make a seveneves thread when you finish. He's one of my favorite authors. Just finished #2 in the Baroque Cycle, he's simply great. That and anathem I want to read

You are doing alright friend.

off yourself

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Just started truly reading about a week or so ago:

>Brave New World

Currently reading American Psycho and have three more upcoming books:

>1984
>Crucible for Conservation
>Finishing House of Leaves

2/15, I'm currently reading Travels With Charley. Are there other travel novels as comfy as this?

Seveneves is essentially an engineer's wet dream. Would also highly recommend Cryptonomicon(treasure hunting, submarine evasion, cryptography)

I'm currently reading Dracula.

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>Is a hundred years of solitude as good as it's hyped up to be?
No, but it's still very good

1 of 25.
I've only managed to read Faust Part 1.

But I'm nearing the end of:
Othello
Faust Part 2
Paris Spleen
Kokoro
Principles of Mathematics

I'm hoping to have read by august:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Nibelungenlied
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Flowers of Evil
The MaddAddam Trilogy
Guns Germs and Steel

I'm a little bit behind.

I also dip into and out of the Bible reading the occasional book, but I've no intention of rushing through it or setting an objective by which to have the entire thing read by.

Also my computer date switched to the American format and for the last 5 mins I've been thinking it's already the 7th month. I completely shit myself.

Good for you user.
It's an *even* better feeling when you've actually made it and can return to books for escapism.

MFW picked it up early January.

Reading the last hundred pages now.

Truly masterclass writing for our times.
The whole dozen pages where the Canadian party is interrupted by Lentz killing the dog, and the thoughts of his addict friend. The way the environment is described, the slowing of it all, the pure cliched movie quality of the chase.

DFW was possessed by some dank muse when he wrote that, amongst other scenes.

Don’t forget Journey to the End of the Night by Celine.

Based on your taste I hope you enjoy it.

Best book I’ve read, haven’t finished it though.

Best part is when he wished he properly kissed his wife instead of chasing the only mistress men truly have—life. Great voice, ignore his anti Semitic ideas, which apparently his whole region of France had...?

u kind of deserve it

Already picked up Journey, going to read it soon. Did you forget where you are user? The anti-Semitic ideas will be what I look forward to the most.

Dubliners
The Haunting of Hill House
The Great God Pan (Penguin edition with 3 other stories)
The King in Yellow
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin with 2 other short stories)

Now reading Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, just started with Grimscribe

2/20
Invitation to a beheading was thoroughly underwhelming and stoner was great

Youll be disappointed. Theres none of that in Journey

>The King in Yellow
>The Yellow Wall-Paper
we /yellowcore/ now

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I need more yellowcore books

Not good at all, I never had a challenge to begin with, but I haven't been able to finish one book so far. This thought keeps worrying me. I just don't read at all.

Du klarer dette, anonsen!

/yellowcore/ is pretty legit

this is actually an old chart, there are some newer and more complete ones probably

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Nice pixels, user

ehhhdhededewnfwjrf

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try this beardsley art thing

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It's better than it's hyped up to be.

How'd you like Fowles?

Try Vico's shorter works first, particularly on Aesthetics! The man is criminally underrated

Reading The Rings of Saturn, my 3rd Sebald by now, magnificent prose as always. I dropped Storm of Steel halfway through, who'd thought that war can be such a bore. Does it get better? Anything worth reading for besides trenches and grenades?

How'd ya like Frost? Fucking boring, isn't it?

is this worth reading?

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Travels With Charley is peak comfy /trv/ lit. From there I'd go on to:
7 Years In Tibet
Jupiter's Travels
The Innocents Abroad
and any of the travel memoirs by Paul Theroux

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One of my friends is reading it and he loves it, so maybe

if you want some high brow normie-core/ mid-level Pomo, its good.

I'm one book behind but I just finished Lonesome Dove and it was huge so i should catch up.

>Just started truly reading
Cheers man, have fun - reading is a great hobby!

Almost a third of these are rereads, it's been fun

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>LA Fugitive
didn't know my nigga Proust was from LA too

Obviously a fugitive wouldn't publicize the fact

I have read 1 magazine and 1 book. I aim to read every Dostoyevsky.

I'm taking part in a book race with my friends. Most pages read by the end of the year wins.

Set myself a goal of 25 books, so it's going pretty well so far.

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How are Rulfo's short stories? Same atmosphere as Pedro Paramo? Are they confusing?

it's going ok
i read a lot of short books in january

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only just startet reading end of last year, so I think I'm being quite ambitious

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how'd you like moby dick?

I liked most of them a lot. The atmosphere is similar to that of Pedro Paramo, but it's not nearly as confusing. If you liked PP, you will definitely like these short stories. This is a really, really bad explanation, but they're sort of like a mix between PP and No country for old men - everything's bleak and you know where things are heading..

Is ok fren

Which version are you reading? I only ask because I’m reading the 1929 version (my grandfather sent me his copy) and I never got bored.
The Rings of Saturn was an interesting one for sure, it felt almost like I was in a dream the entire time.

I haven't really bothered with reading these last couple years T B H

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