Age

>23

>The Idiot
>Moby-Dick
>Death of Ivan Ilyich, and also Confession
>Thousand Cranes
>Dubliners

Currently reading Ulysses. Excited because about to start Nausicaa

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musashi
moby dick
meditations
zen teachings of huang po
silmarillion

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The Twelve Chairs Ilf and Petrov
hamlet/macbeth Shakespeare
Day of oprichnik Sorokin
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
Belkin-story Queen of Spades Pushkin

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*22
fuck, I keep forgetting my age god damn

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Mishima - Sun and Steel
Schelling - Clara
de Jouvenel - On Power
Conan the Cimmerian Chronicles
The Bell Jar

Oh hey I read queen of spades too. what did you think? did you buy the £1 penguin edition as well?

Is The Idiot good?
I've yet to read a "big" book from Dostoevsky besides Crime and Punishment.
I have read a lot of his novellas though.

I buy big one. When read i think about how it was refers to Gogol and Dostoevsky. I really like the briefness of Pushkin's prose.

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Who Moved my Cheese?
Masters of Doom
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
these are the last books I can remember finishing recently; I need to read less articles and blogs and more literature (it's an occupational hazard, fuck computer programming)

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Nana - Zola
Short Stories - Maupassant
Hard Boiled Wonderland - Murakami
The High Window - Chandler
Bliss - Carey

Fantastic bunch there

>21

White nights by Dostoyevsky

Demons by Dostoyevsky

Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoyevsky

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Either/or by Kierkegaard

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Based

Based

Cringe

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Old people and the things that pass - Louis Couperus
Journey through the monkeyland - J.A. Schasz
Notes from the underground - Dostoevsky
The life on earth - Slauerhoff
Typee - Herman Melville

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The Red and the Black
Elective Affinities
Complete Works of Horace
Wuthering Heights
Brave New World

>27

>what is power? - byung-chul han
>immaterialism - graham harman
>on the concept of anxiety - soren kierkegaard
>chaosmosis - felix guatarri
>thinking of the other - emmanuel levinas

what think about The Red and the Black?

How did you like maupassants short stories? heard many good things about it
Also how do you feel about Zola's work? I've been curious

how was typee?

>The Man in the High Castle
Well I understand the plot, but I don't understand the ending and the meaning of the book.
I didn't like it, I don't like history and dystopia. It was the only Dick book in the library and I got baited into reading it because I didn't know it's atypical Dick.

You're reading it in Russian? That's awesome. I like Pushkins prose too. Have you read Dead Souls by Gogol yet? I want to read it soon
Happy you liked it, my friend

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I loved it, it instantly became one of my favorites. It got me interested in Stendhal's other works and I'm currently reading Love.

Dead Souls is like Hamlet/Faust for russian lit. Realy good prose, read it, you will love it

thank, fren

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Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Crying of lot 49
Pluckoon
Good Solider Svejk
Bleeding Edge

Nice stuff
fuck col49 though

tryhard retard

no problem, fren

>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

any good?

30. I don't read.

Good, but doesn't hold a canlde to Moby Dick. I was gonna read all Melville books in order, but I'll probably skip Omoo, unless I hear it's far more interesting than Typee.

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Why we sleep - Matthew Walker
13 essential rules of selling - Joe Girard
John D. Rockefeller biography - Michael Simmons
How to get rich - Felix Dennis
The compassionate mind workbook - Chris Irons

All I think about is money

>20

>steering the economy
>roots of appeasement
>Munich 1938
>hayek socialsm
>swanns way

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Song of Solomon
On the Road
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Empire of the Sun
The Sorrows of Young Werther

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The critique of judgement
Nathan the wise
Life and Action
The myth of sisyphus
The rebell

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>Trumpet
>Oroonoko
>The Master and Margarita
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Hero and Leander

What's the unbearable lightness of being like?

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Call of the wild
Less than zero
Grapes of wrath
All the pretty horses
David Copperfield

>25
>haven't finished a book in about a year but come on Yea Forums every day

sometimes I read the book of revelation. sometimes I see a hooker/tinder thot.

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>A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
>Kull: Exile of Atlantis
>Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
>Dubliners
>The Great Gatsby

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Caligola
The Stranger
V.
De Vita Beata
The notebooks of Serafino Gubbio

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>The Waste Land
>Meditations
>The Way of The Shaman
>The Death of Ivan Ilych
>Ariel

Notes from underground was really good I felt, especially the first half struck me.

>34
>The Culture Industry
>Simulacra and Simulation
>The Odyssey
>Constructing the Self, Constructing America*
>Based on a True Story
I am pretty sure this is accurate.

*This book is garbage for retards and made me antisemitic.

Really good.

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Illuminatus!
Inherent Vice
Walden
Walden Two
Blood Meridian

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Storm of Steel
Cancer Ward
The Things They Carried
The Rape of Nanking
Meditations

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I actually recently got the Constructing America book, haven't started it yet but the author does clearly have an axe to grind, I'm going to read it regardless of what you say but do you feel that it has any merit for somebody interested in American history and psychology even if I disagree with or ignore his core thesis?

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The sea of fertility tetralogy
Sailor who fell from grace with the sea

I'm in awe of mishimas descriptions

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SlaughterHouse 5- Vonnegut
On Crimes and Punishments- Beccaria (not the dosto one)
Philosophical Investigations- Wittgeinstein
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire- Bukowski
A Heart of Darkness- Conrad

just started Jung's autobio and No Longer Human

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Forward the Foundation by Asimov
Überfahrt by Anna Seghers
Das Odfeld by Wilhelm Raabe
Siddharta by Hesse

And currently reading/nearly finished The complete plays of Sarah Kane. I'll probably also reread some of those.

how's Death of Ivan Illych? saw it on a bookstore yesterday and kept wondering if it was worth it

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>Marcin Kołodziejczyk - Dysforia
>Stefan Żeromski - Labors of Sisyphus
>Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
>Joseph Heller - Catch 22
>William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Definitely read it. There are some interesting things in it especially in the first 1/3 or so and how he talks about advertising/consumerism as a sort of healer-cult in our society. I was very frustrated with it because I thought I was going to get all this arcane knowledge about how human beings have conceived of themselves through the ages and like 100 pages was dedicated to minstrel shows and how evil white people are. The author seems to think he is some sort of Howard Zinn of psychology (complete with absolute basic bitch boomer socdem sentimental moralism) and even at this modest task he fails. Also every chapter starts with an epigraph that is like song lyrics which made me want to kill.

But don't take my word for it!

>25
>The Kindly Ones
>Hunger
>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
>Submission
>The Magus

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>Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
>...and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Tyranny of Debt)
The most interesting book i've read this decade
>Blood Passover
>The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man
Skimmed over some pages, very heavy on diligent documentation
>Inside the South African Reserve Bank: Its Origins and Secrets Exposed

Been lately trying to get a hold on to the increasing number of books being banned from being sold at Amazon, quite uneven field of works... several extremely interesting volumes that can be held to a high scholarly standard but also some poorly written garbage with no value whatsoever.

Also slowly but surely listening through audiobooks of Malazan while doing chores and exercising, currently on Midnight Tides.

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The Sickness Unto Death- Soren Kierkegaard
The Soft Machine- William S Burroughs
Phenomenology of Spirit- GWF Hegel
Philosophy in the Bedroom- Marquis De Sade
On the Genealogy of Morals- Friedrich Nietzsche

Planning on reading the rest of The Border Trilogy?

>..and Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Tyranny of Debt)
Is this like a better version of Graeber's Debt? Read that and found it somewhat wanting, though interesting.

It's a lower tier than Crime and Punishment and TBK, but it's good.

Is The Kindly Ones good? I purchased a copy years ago based on a recommendation.

>29
>Assassin's Apprentice (currently reading)
>Vita Nostra
>Last argument of kings
>Before they are hanged
>The blade itself

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The Girl With All The Gifts
The Juliette Society
Bright Lights Big City
Dear Life
The Soft Machine

It’s absolutely fucking revolting at times (quite often actually) And the military jargon is heavy but I really like the book a lot

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The Quiet American
A Farewell to Arms
The Public Burning
A collection of short stories by T.C. Boyle
Neuromancer (this was probably cool 25 years ago but holy fuck was it hard to get through)

I've read revolting books before and military jargon works for me. Thanks.

>Is this like a better version of Graeber's Debt?
Pretty much, Hudsons research is considerably more in-depth and he takes a lot more matter-of-fact approach instead of philosophical one

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Prolegomena to any future metaphysics kant
An enquiry into human understanding hume
The underground man dostoe
Wuthering heights by some hoe
Phaedo plato

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Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota #2)
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
Notes from Underground
The Cynic Philosophers

Good mix of Yea Forums-core and other.

Existentialism/10, you depressed yet?

damn that is what i wanted out of Debt. Guess I got another to add to the backlog. Thanks.

White nights was pretty good, but I already forgot the ending.

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Steppenwolf (currently)

The Stranger
The Master and Margarita
Blood Meridian
Crime and Punishment
No Longer Human

>24

>Omar Pasha Latas by Ivo Andrić
>First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
>Exemplary Stories by Miguel De Cervantes
>Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann

Uh,

Age: 22
The Dragon Reborn
King of Thorns
The Return of the King
Prince of Thorns
The Hobbit

go nuts

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A Good School by Richard Yates
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti
The Puritan Dilemna by Edmund S. Morgan

same

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The Shock of the New
Thief of Time
Gladstone: A Biography
Why We Sleep
Pale Fire

I love feet

They're one of the few reasons I haven't killed myself

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Fellowship of the Ring
Mein Kampf
Hillbilly Elegy
Sun and Steel
The Stranger in the Woods

I'm a noob and still haven't even started with the Greeks so don't judge too hard.

How was Storm of Steel? I plan to read it soon.

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Han Solos revenge
The Iliad
Marine: Life of Chesty Puller
Two lives of Charlamane
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy

How's Katharina Blum? Does it get more interesting after a few dozen pages? I tried reading it but the prose felt weird and the plot wasn't too exciting, at least at the beginning.

Did you also read the play 'The misunderstanding' that is sometimes published along with Caligula? I really loved it, more than Caligula actually.

How's Anna Seghers? Hardly ever talked but about, but apparently she's important. I really wonder if her works are weird and poetic or can be read like any regular novel.

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Mary, Nabokov
Job, Joseph Roth
Demian, Hesse
Franny & Zooey
Roadside Picnic

It's quite good. Jünger manages to convey the horrors of the trenches without seeming cheap or gratuitous. There is a real weight to his writing and you really get a sense of what the experience was like for the thousands of men who served back then.

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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
A Poetry Handbook
Lolita
Stoner
Notes from the underground

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Stoner (currently)
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and The Fury
Distant Star
The Crying of Lot 49
2666

Cringe

Based

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>fell for lit's meme books.png

>considers himself to be elite and able to judge everyone because he read meme books and has now convinced himself he is "enlightened"

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>Crime and punishment
>Submission
>A Hero of our Time
>The Spanish Tragedy
>Whatever

I agree with these ratings desu, based af

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I just started reading a few months ago, so i think those charts were pretty good as a starting point

why is cringe?

stoner is good

It is excellent my friend
Read and enjoy

>Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.
>an user here actually decided to read a book about a gold digging attention whore
I don't know what I expected since you did a mass response.
Be honest, how many dicks do you take daily?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is automatically cringe desu

but also has one

user reading what you're told to read is foolish. You're reading what others are intrigued by rather than what you are intrigued by. It will leave you a hollow shell with no voice of your own. You'll ignore books because they aren't on one of lit's charts. You'll copy what others post here blindly rather than crafting your own opinion. You'll be a hive mind faggot if you don't choose on your own

I have nothing against genre fiction and everyone should have read their LotR but beyond that, why do you read the most generic genre fiction?

But Stoner basedness' outweighs Solzhenitsyn's cringe. It's basic math.

Not really, I didnt have an idea of what i wanted to read. After reading some recommended books know i know what i like and what i don't. Of course i know that lit will recommend the classics or whatever meme bbook is popular. But know i feel i have a bit more understanding of what i want

The Things They Carried and Storm of Steel both outweigh Stoner in terms of badassness

because I aim to write fantasy when Uni's through, user, and I'm educating myself

I've read outside of fantasy. Prior to those five, I'd been reading Great Expectations and North and South, and both were fantastic.

What are you reading

I don't know how is Solzhenitsyn cringe. To me he was boring and uninspired ,or at least in the one book that i read.

Yeah, war novels tend to be more badass than campus novels. BUT I was talking about 'based-ness'. I think you misread it as 'badassness'. Obviously Stoner is way more based than those two you mentioned.

>he called me based!!!!

Anti-communist propaganda Is cringe af my dude

>I only read highly esteemed and critically acclaimed literary fiction classics as befits an intellectual of my caliber
cringe

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who reads political biography in 2019?

I don't think it's obvious that Stoner is more baseder. Stoner is a great novel, but come on. Edith woman bad.

cringe: the post

Oh I see. Well if it was interesting, at least i could appreciate that.

>Aleksandr Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
>Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
>Houellebecq - Whatever
>Lev Shestov - Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
>Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground

Currently reading:
>Mishima - The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

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Whatever
A Confederacy of Dunces
Submission
Death on the Installment Plan
Infinite Jest

18 yesterday 17
American psycho
The stranger
Catcher in the rye
Dziady
The plague

odyssey
illiad
madame bovary
anna karenina
crime and punishment

ive been reading both the illiad and the odyssey in swedish by lagerlöf and ive been very impressed with the style and the rythm he is able to create with the swedish language. highly recommended

woops im 22

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Finn's hotel
Justine
Dracula
The recognitions
Stoner

'murican kino, 10/10

>23
>Inherent Vice
>No Country for Old Men
>Sapiens
>Dance with Dragons
>Feast for Crows

based 22 yo tryhard

>yike poster
You're a fucking yike.

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Geuss - Philosophy and Real Politics

DeLanda - A New Philosophy of Society

Jaeggi - Alienation

Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology

Derrida - Spectres of Marx

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beowulf- heaney trans
the two towers
fellowship of the ring
dune
man in the high castle

inb4 antigenrefictioncels

also, man in the high castle was pretty shit. really only finished it so i could figure out what i dont like

but did you read bovary in french?

Überfahrt was pretty ok. You have to buy into the whole "eternal love" thing a bit, which I don't, but it had some pretty comfy passages with the sea travel. At some points her status as a "official" GDR writer were also obvious. Wasn't weird though and a pretty easy read.
I think her importance lies more in her early work as exile writer, and Transit is considered a key roman of that movement. This is also how you will must like come into contact with her, especially here in germany. Can't speak of the quality there though.

Journey to the End of the Night
Storm of Steel
Lolita
Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso
The Nigger of the Narcissus

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Fuck, 22

Boring
Lame.
Makes sense.
Childish.
Why?
Decent.
Held back in school I hope.
Acceptable.
Tryhard and boring.
Meh.
Understandable.
You are annoying.
Decent aesthetic.
Acceptable, bonus for chinese cartoons rep.
Why?
Slacker.
Unpalatable.
Boring.
Waste.
Unnecessary esoteric.
Decent.
Hard meh, ironically.
Lacking.
Waste.
Lame.
Truant?
Gross.
Boring.
Exceedingly boring.
Acceptable.
Forced and lame.
Meh.
Very acceptable.
Lacking.
High school dropout?
Understandable.
Why?
Boring.
Prison time?

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Medea - Eurípides
The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
Cárcel de Amor - Diego de San Pedro
Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre - Manrique
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrete - Chrétien de Troyes (it was either this or Antigone)

Currently reading the Divine Comedy

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Awful, dreadful, terrible.
Lame.
Ehhh, decent.
Decent.
Meh.
Acceptable.
Very lame.
Acceptable but bland.
Boring.
Genuine chuckle, and then a bad taste in my mouth. In future don't fucking tell someone not to judge you harshly. You're basically saying sorry for being who you are and that is just pathetic and in the way non-necessary information. Either stick up for who you are and what you have done or sit in the corner and don't bother.
Meh.
Acceptable.
Lame and bland.
Decent, kind of.
Don't lie.
Forced.
Boring.
Colorful and acceptable.
Boring.
Acceptable.
Meh.
Decent.
Very meh.
Boring.

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Lame.

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The Republic, Plato
The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus
On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
Ethics, Spinoza
The Master and his Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

do you like the phantom of the opera

welcome to Yea Forums

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Way of men
Chaos protocols
Your first 100 million
Boxing e. Haislet

shock of the new ain't boring

I was waiting so long to get here

I hope you enjoy your stay!

*spits in your face*

I beg you to degrade me
Is there waste that I could eat

I am a secret lover
I am your little girl
Please spit into my mouth

>do you like the phantom of the opera
Yes, I liked it a lot.

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Moby Dick
Blood meridian
Whatever
The picture of Dorian Gray
Stoner

Inb4 newfag. you would be right, just started a few months ago

nice. it's a cool book.

>Truant?
Wut. No just a nerd (in the original sense, work a STEM job and socially autistic).

Based, but you seem you like you could try taking life less seriously every now and then

Absolute mongoloid

Very cool, newfag, yes, but starting of on the right foot.

Here's mine

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Hannibal's Oath by John Prevas
Il Primo Amore by Giacomo Leopardi
Classici per la vita by Nuccio Ordine
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass

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Cows by Stokoe
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Trial & Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Plague by Albert Camus
Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
> mfw bad memory specifically for names and titles
I hope all titles are correct in English.

> The picture of Dorian Gray
nice. it was the first book in English i've read, the language is flamboyant but comfy
> stoner
thought it's some 80-90's book about junkies at first, lel. the description seems like a relaxing read
> Divine Comedy
patrician, i also want to read it soon. tried a couple pages of Ovid as well, not as difficult to understand as i expected.
currently the oldest thing i've read (aside from school program) is probably Faust by Goethe
i've noticed Dostoyevsky is really popular among English speakers here, it's surprising

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>Makes sense
Why does it make sense?

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>Lolita
>Dracula
>Frankenstein
>Crime and Punishment
>Book of Numbers

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Complete works of Aristotle
Complete works of plato
Copleston history of western philosophy (Still working on this)
Orestian trilogy
Epic of Gilgamesh

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Lord Jim
Youth
Joseph Conrad Biography
Nostromo
Austerlitz

>18
The Ego and His Own
Meditations by Descartes
Crime and Punishment
Reasons and Persons
The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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Aristotle's Metaphysics
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
Roadside Picnic
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
Anna Karenina

> every single lit poster has read Crime and punishment
> i'm russian and i haven't
it amazes my how school makes us hate Russian classics by default, they make it unbelivably boring. i did reread some stuff from school program and was surprised at how good it was.

I think it's like that with most people. As an American I think most of our literature is boring.

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>The Fountainhead(actually wasnt too bad I loved the architecture more so)
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>American Psycho
>A singular man
>On the Road
Nice, Frankenstein and Dracula are underrated.

it has to be some exceptional superpower to make even the best books seem very boring. depends on teacher a lot, i had a very cool Russian&Lit teacher during the last year of attending school, but the tasks were still bland.
then we had a really professional (teaching-wise) woman a couple years before that, but she was crazy irl, kept telling us shit like "ukrainians sell fruit punch at school fairs labeling it 'blood of russian infants" and "i'd watch the execution of ukrainian president" (we were 5-8th graders, laughed at that but it was sad when she left anyway)

>excited because about to start nausicaa
Jelly, wish i could read for the first time again

I'm Swiss and I found Wilhelm Tell to be pretty boring.

Dostoevsky is really good and I think it's so popular for multiple reasons:
It strikes a cord with lonely, introverted persons, since Dostoevsky was one himself.
Nietzsche praised Dostoevsky, so edgelords can read Dostoevsky, because Nietzsche is too hard for them.
And unironically Jordan Peterson.

I have read a fair amount of Dostoevsky's books and found them to be really good.
To find out if he was overrated though, I read other Russian literature from around the same time period. It was good, but Dostoevsky stayed the best one.

Why do you assume that everybody is a (native) English speaker here?

> mfw haven't read any novels by Dostoevsky
guess that'll be one of my next read. there should be some of his books around the house

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Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart
Humiliated and Insulted
The Name of the Rose
Homer's Odyssey
The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

first time two anons in a row had been nice to me /lit is dope

yes, found it in "Russian literature for 9th grade".
searching through bookshelves still leads to some discoveries, i really should arrange the home library

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> The Name of the Rose
how'd you rate it? (no spoilers plz) just purchased it recently because i liked the supposed setting (medieval times and religious themes)

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Aesthetics by Hildebrand Von Dietrich
Science, Politics, & Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
In Defense of Sanity by Chesterton
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

>15
>Heidegger by Micheal Inwood
>Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
>The Communist Manifesto
>La Nausée by Sartre
>Meditations on Fisrt Philosophy by Descartes

>Nausicaa

The one by Miyazaki?

>Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
If the book piqued your interest i'd recommend reading Capital... and especially Marx's Theories of Surplus Value, which should be absolutely necessary reading for anyone before they can call themselves economists.

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All Quiet on the Western Front
Stoner
Democracy: The God that Failed
Lost Horizon
The Trial

My grandfather has a lot of books too that are very interesting, but most of them are non-fiction.
He even has a Mein Kampf version from 1933.

If you like the medieval shit, you will surely love this book. It also makes one realise how little he knows.

Age: 31

Current: Pride and Prejudice - Austen

Last five:
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
O Is for Outlaw - Grafton
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Wollstonecraft
A Winter Haunting - Simmons

You're lucky you can read all of Russian literature in its original language.
I have to stick to the German translation, which is still better than English though.

that's probably worth a lot.
my mother's side of family had a massive library too, but they gave away most of it when moving out of old flat. what i have now is only a small fraction of it, the oldest book is something in hebrew, 1856
sounds just right. that's how you feel reading this kind of book, memorising the hundredth useless medieval fact
won the lottery here. i can read most English authors, learning German now so that'll probably be possible to read in a few years, and some translations are better than original (Clockwork Orange comes to my mind)

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The Magic Mountain (4,5/5)
Man of Straw (3,5/5)
Catch-22 (3/5)
If on a winter's night a traveler (4/5)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (5/5)

lol this kid. the plague and catcher and the rye are the only things that he considers good. please dont take up so much space on my board kthx sweatie

>memorising the hundredth useless medieval fact

So much of Eco feels this way desu, particularly his non-fiction. It's really put me off him even though I know he's a great writer.

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Swanns way
The sun also rises
The nature of things
Republic
Zarathustra

it's a matter of taste i think. you'd only like being fed with medieval facts if you're obsessed with medieval shit
also those aren't entirely useless, you can make subtle medieval references no oe will understand - just like Bible before the reformation

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Ashland & Vine
Strange the Dreamer
The Devil in the Flesh
Silk
A collection of Philip K. Dick's short stories
and I'm reading Undertones of War right now.

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>Picture of Dorian Gray
fucking amazing
>Walden
decent
>Philosophy of mind
fucking amazing
>Dharma bums
eh
>Player piano
absolute dog shit

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The Wind that Came from Nowhere
Strange Weather in Tokyo
L'etranger
Junky
1,000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Help me

Hella based

Massive cringe

Somewhere in between

Nice, I get my own category, the rest of you are sheep

I nearly forgot about All Quiet on the Western Front, nice one user

everyone of these are what I call read between good book books. You must branch out your tastes or else suffer insanity.

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Persian Fire
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Children of Time
House of Leaves
[Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, Dreaming/Temporal/Evolutionary Void, Abyss beyond dreams/night without stars] All part of same universe so eh.

Persian Fire is amazing, Tom Holland kills. I'm reading Rubicon right now and that's also brilliant.

> read between good book books
fuck, glad to know i'm not the only one doing this. i read less interesting books between the ones i really anticipate to read to keep the excitement up.

Pretty comfy yeah, though the very early persian stuff was rather dry. Not too many records of those days left though and a lot of 2nd/3rd hand etc., so I guess that's what we get.
How much does Rubicon actually cover? From Caesar's crossing to what, his death?

Actually the crossing is near the end, I'm at that exact part right now.

Holland frames it as being about the collapse of the Republic, so it starts with the Third Punic War and ends with Octavius I think.

I think Holland puts too much of an emphasis on that early Persian stuff because the main source for it is Herodotus, who I've seen him name as his favourite author.

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>Hereticus
>Malleus
>Salvation’s Reach
>Xenos
>Blood Pact
Rereading Ghosts of Onyx, but I don’t believe that counts.

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Art of War (second read)
The first Philosophers
The Histories
Odyssey
Iliad
Correctly on Plato, and want to get to Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark. Anyone read it?

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A Canticle for Leibowitz is fucking fantastic. Funny at parts, melancholy at parts. Very 60's. Also one of the few Christian science fiction books where God show sup and dicks around. V. cool.

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The Education of Henry Adams
Beloved
Walking, Henry David Thoreau
Poetry of Sappho
Book I of the Faerie Queen

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Socrates Defence
The Republic
Beyond Good and Evil
The English by Jeremy Paxman
The Prince

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> The poems of Georg Trakl
> Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
> The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
> The Complete Dramatic Works Of Samuel Beckett
> Notes from Underground

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The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
How Music Works (David Byrne)
Alice in the Wonderlands
10 reasons you should quit social media

O.M: a essays collection from DFW called "ficando longe do fato de já estar meio que longe de tudo", including This is water and his essay about a cruise called "uma coisa supostamente divertida que eu nunca mais vou fazer"

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Underage and b&

Currently*

I love Joe Abercrombie too

I apologized because I'm not that experienced in literature. I apologized because I am not satisfied with where I am in my literature journey, and I wanted people to know this.
Why should I stick up for who I am if I'm not satisfied in myself yet. I'm still young, I have time.
And who are you to tell me "sit in the corner" when all you have done is judge other people and not even posted your own list.
Pathetic.

based

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Hobbit
The prince, Machiavelli
The wasp factory
Spice and wolf vol 16&17

Uhh, mods

Never listen to mass repliers; in fact, I wouldn't listen to most detractors on Yea Forums.
Clearly the big mistake here is to write what you have actually read recently and not just compile a list of 5 pre-approved Yea Forums books.

Post yours, so your jugdment has some value.

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The Denial of Death
Meditations
Notes from Underground
The Book of Disquiet
The Last Days of Socrates (penguin)

Maupassant was fantastic. Almost every story managed to grip me in some way and many of them weren't even 10 pages long. Zola was pretty good too, although definitely not as much so. I'm interested to read a few more of his books to get a better feel for how he is as an author.

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Mary Poppins
Michael Jackson : Success Story
How to Cook Clams
Piero Scaruffi’s History of Rock Music
Green Eggs and Ham

BASED

Do you even enjoy literature?

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The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
Eunoia - Christian Bok
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
Do Not Sell At Any Price - Amanda Petrusich

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Lolita
Hyperion
Klondike Tales
A Canticle for Leibowitz

is this loss?

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Pedro Paramo
El Hacedor
Los Detectives Salvajes
The Divine Comedy
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

lol

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Sevastopol by Tolstoy
Chamber Music by Joyce
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Kant
In Praise of Desire by Arpaly & Schroeder

Peloponnesian war
The music (Mishima)
Divine comedy
Mishima Biography
History (Herodotus)

>A Canticle for Leibowitz
extremely based

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Novel With Cocaine
Infinite Jest
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The Loser
Kingdom of Fear

> The Metamorphosis
how easy was it to understand? i really want to read this one as well.

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The Gulag Archipelago
The Kremlins Canidite
The Dresden Files
Rainbows End
Story of Civilization

> The Gulag Archipelago
how was it? did you read the translation?
i tried to read it from phone but it was far too heavily-written. his Cancer Ward did a great impression though, also tough to read at first but you get used halfway through

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Pitch Dark -Renata Adler
Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
1q85 - Haruki Miyaqzaki
Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Stoner - John WIlliams

>age 23
>"Destiny" by Koji Takazawa
>"Closely Watched Trains" by Bohumil Hrabal
>"Wonderful Fool" by Shusaku Endo
>"Iron Fist from the Sea: South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988" by Douw Steyn and Arne Söderlund
Currently reading the Pure Land sutras and finishing off "Decline of the West" by Spengler." I am already aware that the /k/ history shit is autistic as all hell.

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Apuleius - Asinus Aureus
Horatius - Sermones I & II
Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy
Σοφοkλῆς - Οἰδίπους Τύραννος
Πλάτων - Πρωταγόρας

... get outta ma swamp
cant believe people still fall for the IJ meme (so many in this thread)
what'd you think of chamber music
what did you get out of "the nature of things" lmao
vindication is fire
how's in defense of sanity? im reading heretics by him rn and have mixed feelings. it would take a long time to get into it, but his lack of rigor combined with how commonsensical his sweeping conclusions are makes me a bit skeptical. yet I find many of his observations impressive when viewed in the light of them being made in 1905. he's definitely a talented rhetor who dazzles on the spot, yet I find that his observations are only fashioned to seem profound. and, if some suppose his tidbits to have staying power, I have not been feeling it. nevertheless I ordered his book on aquinas and plan on checking it out.

Is Oidipus Rex any good?
You faggot.

Why are we so sad
Smart lad

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Brothers Karamazov
One hundred years of solitude
The lonesome traveller
Death of Ivan illiych
Fear and trembling

Nah, I meant Nausicaa the twelfth chapter in Ulysses

Oops, meant to write thirteenth

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Sot weed factor
Mort
Flee by Evan dara
The easy chain by Evan dara
The lost scrapbook by Evan dara

currently on mason n dixon to continue on sot weed themes

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Gulliver's Travels
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Fantomina
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Protagoras

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>Ulysses (2nd reading)
>The Republic
>A Hero of our Time (2nd reading)
>Hamlet
>Crime and Punishment

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Dubliners
So long, see you tomorrow
Moby-dick
Notes from underground
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

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Friedrich Nietzsche-Beyond Good and Evil
Ayn Rand-The Fountainhead
Friedrich Nietzsche-On the Genealogy of Morals
Jordan B. Peterson-12 Rules for Life
Henryk Sienkiewicz-Quo Vadis

Been a bad year for my reading die to moving back home.

>are you depressed?

Yeah :)

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>why are we so sad?

We can be good friends, eh ?

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Less Than Zero
The Big Sleep
Burmese Days
Rules of Attraction
The Duchess of Malfi

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The Politics - Aristrotle
The Republic - Plato
Ethics - Aristrotle
Starship troopers
Brothers Karamazov

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How to be a conservative - Roger Scruton
F. Nietzsche - Aarne Kinnunen
Michel Foucault - Didier Eribon
Kill all normies - Angela Nagle
The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt

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Aeneid
Augustine's Confession's
Fellowship of the Ring
Book of Disquiet
Works of Love

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Time out of joint
Essais (500 page penguin version because I am a pleb)
Shadow and claw
Flatland
Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass

Currently going through sword and citadel. I thought shadow and claw was meh but sword of the lictor was really good.

Very nice
Meh read primary sources
Good
Disagree with other the user, IJ is fine. It is tedium to the max at some points (Marathe takes a while to pay off for example) but there is some great stuff in there. It’s really funny at some points like Orin’s mail back to their mom or Marathe’s wife being jellybrain.

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Giorgio Bassani - The Smell of Hay
Olga Tokarczuk - Flights
Raya Dunayevskaya - Marxism and Freedom
Ray Monk - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being

Odd choices, nice Woolf and Plato though

Nice. I'm not at all interested in IJ though, to be honest

Cool choices, I read J&H a long time ago and would probably enjoy it more now

Not a lot of variety obviously, but fair enough. If you're enjoying Dost then good for you

IDK about Tolkien (I've only read the Hobbit) but the rest of these are really cool

Not keen on these choices personally. Nagle and Scruton kinda suck in my opinion

Aristotle is great

Cringe

My brains fried
Don’t know why I told you to read primary sources

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Never Let Me Go
Machado de Assis: Todos os Contos
In Cold Blood
Buddenbrooks
Of Mice and Men

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the Catcher in the Rye
Wolves of the Calla
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Dark Verse - Volume I
Storm Front - Dresden Files

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Travel in the Ancient World
The Pickwick Papers
I, Claudius
Great Expectations
Moby Dick
Interesting
Very Nice.
Ulysses again? I have to reread it some day too.
Is Hyperion any good?

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Maria by Jorge issacs
Missing 411 by David paulides
The world of ice and fire by George r r martin
The forever war by Joe haldeman
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

>Green Eggs and Ham

Shit, if we're counting kids' books, then my whole list is Llama Llama Red Pajama.

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the old man and the sea
valis
boogiepop and others
the little prince
notes from the underground

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>rise of athens
>the presocratics
>on free will (augustine)
>some meme book on Sulla
>on duties - cicero

>"18"
>anna karenina (i know, i feel guilty taking so long to get to it)
>Finn's hotel
>Pale Fire (i know)
>Phaedrus
>the complete poems of sappho
Seeing a lot of older people (20+) guys here. Surprised me, I don't see the point of reading past 20. After that your life should be doing, not wasting alone contemplating the ideas of dead people. Explain yourselves.

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>tfw 21yo gramps being replaced by upcoming teenager-prodigies just as I replaced my predecessors as a upcoming teenager-prodigy
u'll understand someday... then again Yea Forums is for the growth of young minds, the decay of old ones...

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Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask
Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Anita Mason Bethany
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

Unironically, most people don't figure out how they want/should live their life till their 50 if they ever do. It might seem like you have it figured out at 18 (I thought I did) but if you're conscious you'll change rapidly after the echo chambers of school/university and reading helps put things into perspective.

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Justine
The Fall
Hadji Murad
Pimp
Roadside Picnic

actually i read Sound of the Waves and then Letters from a Stoic after Justine

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Saki's Short Stories
Chesterfield's Short Stories
Human, All Too Human
The Three Musketeers
Ivanhoe

>boogiepop
I like you
Are you doin okay bud? Great books other than the Ayn Rand one but the way you listed them seems like you're pretty down.

Don't really know what to comment on all the other books either they're too popular and I don't think I can add anything new or I haven't read em

>18
>The Last Day of a Condemned Man
>Theogony
>Works and Days
>Odyssey
>Iliad
uWu

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You truly are a scholar and a gentleman

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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
A Good Man is Hard to Find (and other stories) by Flannery O'Connor
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

Currently reading The Trial by Kafka.

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Ice
The King of Elfland's daughter
The Notebooks of Malte Laudris Brigge
The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
The Loser

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The Road
Blood Meridian
Lolita
The Decline of the West
Fight for Berlin

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Reason, Truth and History (H. Putnam)
Aureus (Rodrigo G. Marina)
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (B. Stroud)
If on a winter's night a traveller (I. Calvino)
Apocalyptic and integrated (U. Eco)

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Thus spoke zarathustra
Heart of darkness
Moby Dick
Kafka on the shore
1984
Reading the great gatsby currently,i have infinite jest and stoner next up and waiting on crying of lot 49 to arrive in the mail

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Mein Kampf
Myth of the 20th Century
Might is Right
Reflections on European Mythology
The Shining
The Old Testament

I would die to lick those feet.

The only reason why I hadn't hidden this cringefest of a thread is because of the feet.

its ok but misses so big things like the Brandenburg Africa Company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburger_Gold_Coast
and is sometimes less than perfectly written.
oh yeah and there are like 3 chapters solely devoted to jews and jewish-Kantianism

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The House of Government
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Discourses on Livy
Napoleon the Great
Rub'aiy'at of Omar Khayy'am

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I thought Chamber Music was charming. It didn't blow me away, but a few of the poems were beautifully written. Definitely would have enjoyed it that little bit more if I hadn't read his letters to Nora first

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Don Quijote
The Capital in the 21st century
Eurypides' Cyclops
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
Xenophon's Symposium

Not really doing too well right now, but I'll be ok.

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Hunger
Ik heb altijd gelijk
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
La ville incertaine
Man's search for Meaning

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Swanns Way
Ada
Glory
The Red Priest
Snooty Baronet

>> 19
>> The Brothers Karamazov
>> Book of Disquiet
>> V.
>> Hamlet
>> Blood Meridian

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conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
histories by Herodotus
evolution of Civilization by Carroll Quigley
state in the Revolution by Lenin
the enchiridion by epicurus

Currently reading
The Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
Great Tales of Horror by HP Lovecraft
Cerebus the Aardvark: Church and state part 1 by Dave Sim

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How to stop time
The Nix
Nausea
Brave New World
The Metamorphosis

Did you like to book if disquiet? I'm going to read it in rehab.

Is Homer any good?

It is interesting. I don't know if that circumstance would be a good time to read it. It honestly get's pretty fucking sad and tragic in some of the 'stories'. You can tell that he was a deeply troubled man who was just beaming with thoughts about our reality. He manages to put beautiful, beautiful words to some feelings I have felt but could never imagine enumerating all the sensations that go along with them like he does.
The book is teeming with things like:
"My only regret is that I am not a child, for that would allow me to believe in my dreams and believe that I am not mad, which would allow me to distance my soul from all those around me."

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Money
London Fields
Time's Arrow
Success

Since you’re going to rehab, I’m have to type and say this, read Infinite Jest

> You can tell that he was a deeply troubled man who was just beaming with thoughts about our reality.
That has been me for the past months if not years. That exactly why I think my time in rehab would be well-spent on it.

I guess you can relate to it but he offers no solution to any of those said ills. I take it you are not looking for any self-help books, so I ask why rehab?

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Infinite Jest
The red badge of courage
Into the wild
An absolutely remarkable thing
It Devours

Why rehab? Because the last four months of my life have consisted of drug use, mastrubation and avoidance of everyone and everything. I effectively have stopped living. It's 4:22 am I'm unable to sleep, even though I have been exhausted for years. I'm 21 btw, until shortly ago not even NEET. Anyway, self-help never helped me before. I'm only starting to place the puzzle together now that I've started reading 'depressing' literature. I will be bringing a book on meditation though, maybe also something buddhistic.

666
The Bible

If you have some good self-help suggestions I'm still open to it by the way, just less

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Blood Meridian
The Secret History
Gilgamesh
American Psycho
Desistance

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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Ian Shaw)
Jainism: An Introduction (Jeffery D. Long)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Wittgenstein (William Child)
Early Greek Philosophy (ed. Jonathan Barnes)

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From recent to older:
Typee
Confessions
Notes from underground
Dead souls
One way street (Benjamin)

did u like the picture of dorian gray? i read it when i was close to quit reading, great reading, specially for young people.

fuck, i hate say this, but you're truly based, man.

>18
>Dune by Frank Herbert
>Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
>Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
>Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
>Web of Hate by Warren Kinsella

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i have read more non-fiction than anything but
>El Aleph/Ficciones (really great but i need a another read, borges its like infinite layers of references, i think it needs and deserves another one)
>Amor en tiempos de colera
>Teach us to outgrow our madness (freaking amazing)
>the castle and some kafka letters.
>early blues history books
>jazz theory books

actually better than most tryhards who try to read whatever people like says is good, keep up
>pedro paramo
fucking based
good taste, since my mother lenguage is not english, some tips for reading in english? i want to read a lot of english authors but im afraid to get a wrong image of the book because of translations

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Looking for Alaska
Candide
The Brothers Karamazov
Pride and Prejudice
NO Longer Human

What jazz theory books?

24, currently reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace, the last 5 I've finished before that are

>Storm of Steel
>A Farewell to Arms
>The Lion and the Unicorn
>Labyrinths
>All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians

Storm of Steel was my favourite and All Things in Common was my least favourite

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im starting with mark levine classic one and some rudiments/rhythmic based ones.

Feet

> any tips?
at first i had translator by my side (some individual words are almost exclusive to literature and you may not know them), but generally it's not hard if your vocab is vast enough.
constructions can be confusing, i had to reread some sentences, but you get used.
near the end of the book i was reading with the same speed as in native language
(i had some previous experience though, specifically a couple 100.000+ words rather well-written fanfictions)

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Finnegan’s Wake
Gravity’s Rainbow
Oblomov
Goodnight Moon

i'm still surprised about popularity of russian lit on this board.
i wonder how it's percieved by westerners who haven't experienced this culture, especially 20th century stuff

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The Iliad
The Odyssey
Herodotus' Histories
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Xenophon's Anabasis

not him but I really liked it.

>24
Demons, Dostoyevsky
Amusing ourselves to death, Postman
Animal Farm, Orwell
El Aleph and other stories, Borges
Dune, Herbert

6/10 Good taste but not breaking patrician

>19
>The Book of Chuang Tzu
>The French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle
>Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt
>Political Theology - Carl Schmitt
>The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun

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Master and Margarita
Philosophical Investigations
Idiota de Sapientia
Infinite Jest
Ulysses

Not rating right now because I