Hows the 2019 reading going?

I'm 9 books in so far, currently reading number 10 (Sword & Citadel).
Mishima is great. Some of the most engaging work I've read in a long time. Last book of his that I finished was Spring Snow and I have Runaway Horses lined up after I finish Sword & Citadel. I can't wait.

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I was never a reader although in past years i tried to be but i always ended up giving up after a few weeks.

I've read 2 books this year. They were not amazing and both were pretty small but i like the feel of actually complete reading a book so i think i'll stick with this format for the start.

>Hows the 2019 reading going?
really well :)

Read a few good books.
Two major disappointments, One Hundred Years of Solitude (but it's ok I'm gonna read it slowly switching between boks) and Moon Palace (extremely boring, when does anything start happening?)

A very based list, user. My compliments on not falling for Yea Forums memes and reading what you enjoy.
If you liked Roadside Picnic, don't forget that Strugatskies wrote many other novels, nearly all of them of a very high quality. There is also Sergei Lukyanenko for a more contemporary Russian author, but only his shit books are translated into english, so if you do not speak any eastern european languages, I am not sure if you should try to get into him.
If you managed to get through Anathem, perhaps you will enjoy Jerusalem, by Mr. Moore and tell us how good it is? I can't find a decent review of that book online, but it looks tempting.

Pretty good, 8 books already but University is slowing me down.
>brothers Karamazov
>a vida que vale a pena ser vivida
>when Nietzsche wept
>the case of Charles Dexter Ward
>emperor of thorns
>the outsider
>Hercule Poirot's christmas
>hear the wind sing & pinball 1973

pick a short one.

the pearl by steinbeck (90 pages*),
the death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy (53 pages*),
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway...

*depending on edition

Is it better to learn Latin or Classical Greek?

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one hundred years of solitude disappointed my, too I'm still salty about it. for all the hype, it was a huge letdown.

Currently on fear and trembling of Kierkegaard.

It's okay, but I don't resonate with that kind of philosophy, in a way faith is scary.

Good shit my guy

Some Derrida: Of Grammatology, Positions, Deconstruction in a nutshell, Force of Law, University in the eyes of its pupils, tried Politics of Friendship but switched to The Beast and the Sovereign now. Curious about what he wrote on interpretations of authors like the nazi appropriation of Nietzsche in his Éperons.

Catherine Malabou on the Future of Hegel her introduction, which was great, I think

Next to that
>Bernhard
>finished Mann's Magic Mountain
>Alvarez his book on suicide which was mostly interesting for his account of Sylvia Plath
>Dostoievski's White nights
>Schiller's Maria Stuart
>De Unamuno his Love and Pedagogy.
>A few of Flannery O’connor her short stories

Reading Season of migration to the north by Tayeb Salih at the moment

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>19 so far:

Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Bob Dylan - Chronicles Vol. 1
Nick Cave - And the Ass Saw the Angel
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
St. Augistine - Confessions of a Sinner
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
David Lynch - Lynch on Lynch
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Martin Conboy - Journalism in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
John Williams - Stoner
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground

>Also 3 Graphic Novels:

Raymond Briggs - When the Wind Blows
Alan Moore - From Hell
Dave Sim - Cerebus Book II: High Society

Thanks for the reccomendations, I'll check those out. I enjoyed Anathem but it was pretty difficult to get started, very dense book.
Unfortunately I don't speak any eastern european languages, but I'll take a look at Lukyanenko anyway.

>Pale Fire
>Notes From Underground
>Resurrection
>Nightwood
>The Counterlife
>Molloy
>Three Pioneers
>A Mercy
>The Master of Petersburg
>Housekeeping
>Blood Meridian

Middlemarch by George Eliot
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
The Farm in the Green Mountains
The Puritan Dilemna by Edmund S. Morgan
The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

Just started A Good School by Richard Yates. I enjoyed Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade, so hopefully the streak continues.

All these people here. If you really read so much in such a short time you dont get much out of it. There is no experience or soul in such consumption, especially if it is philosophy. You could spend all this time reading and rereading, pondering about one philosophical short book or classic and it would be of more worth than this. Instead I imagine some guy speed reading and looking at page numbers while grasping nothing but few bits and going: YEP I UNDERSTAND, YEP BASED AND REDPILLED!

I have never read so many books so quickly. It is weird.

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Good shit. Do you plan on reading the rest of the Sea of Fertility books? They're really something else.

well

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this probably outs me as a pleb, but i like to set myself a reading target (say, 30 books this year), and then i'll spend the first few months burning through novellas and short story collections so that i'm ahead where i need to be (in terms of books read). then in late april, i start on the weighty stuff and i find that because in terms of number of books read, i'm ahead of schedule, i stay motivated.

once i meet my goal i stop reading for the rest of the year
what's the point?

>O Guarani
>Norwegian Wood
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Bet and Other Stories (Tchekhov)
>Book of Disquiet
>The 120 Days of Sodom
>El espiritú de la ciencia-ficcion
>The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
>After the Banquet
>Gravity's Rainbow
>La ciudad y los perros
>La autopista del sur y otros cuentos
>Taras Bulba
>The Name of the Rose
>Selected Writings (Aquinas)

I'm definitely going to read the rest of the Sea of Fertility. I'm hooked on Mishima.

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Assuming you read the books in the language you wrote the title, are you Brazilian/Portuguese? I have interest in a lot of books in your list, but I wondering if portuguese translations would be good or not

>All these people here.

you're an idiot.

You're not wrong. I am still processing stuff I have read and will return to certain texts, and when time comes I'll make threads about it on Yea Forums because I don't have friends to discuss it with.

Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
Machiavelli - The Prince
Machiavelli - The Discourses
Machiavelli - Letters
Thomas More - Utopia
Henry James - The Spoils of Poynton
Castiglione - The Book of The Courtier
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy - Cities Of The Plain
Leo Tolstoy - Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Michel de Montaigne - Complete Essays
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrocks
Francis Bacon - The Major Works
Jane Austen - Love and Freindship
Patrick O'Brian - The Nutmeg of Consolation

Get gud. It's not that hard to read and understand 100-150 pages a day, it's not some feat beyond the limits of human conjecture

The Metamorphosis
The Demolished Man
The Machine Stops
The Stranger
The Demolished Man
Im pretty new so I think Im doing well for myself. Any recs for my next book?

Also forgot to add The Last Question and I'm currently reading King Lear on the side

Yes (Brazilian) and yes.

Tim Powers: The Drawing Of The Dark
George MacDonald Fraser: Royal Flash

I like comfylit, so sue me.

forgot this:
Kurt Vonnegut: Mother Night

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The Philosopher's Stone

>you betrayed our Mongol race, gramps

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