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I haven't read 3 books in my life
>>25623490>Clifford the Big Red DogA cute story, but somewhat puerile.>The DictionaryFinally finished, would not recommend - not much plot.>La Commedia I would have gotten more out of it if I knew Italian.
Michael Fried - Absorption and TheatricalityCoetzee - Slow ManA.W. Moore - Evolution of Modern Metaphysics
>>25623531Based! JL Austin recommended dictionary-reading.
>>25623535It is quite useful to go through and write down all the (nontechnical) words you do not know or never use.
The Fisherman by John Langan Fear and LoathingGustave Dore The Fantastic
>>25623490Suicide by édouard levéOblivion by David Foster WallaceMen Without Women by Hemingway
>Data mining thread
>>25623558>oh no some big data company now has a list of books that people on /lit/ pretended they read
>bible >bible>bible
>>25623531>>The DictionaryAnon, I ...
>>25623558AI is already mining all of the internet including this sentence I'm typing.Also every single thread on this board, the archives, everything.If you don't want your data to be mined, leave the internet.>>25623564kek
>>25623616What? Don't tell you've never read the dictionary. Can you really call yourself an English speaker if you have not?
>>25623531>I'd have gotten more out of it if I knew Italian.
The Catcher in the RyeSongs of a Dead Dreamer and GrimscribeThe King in Yellow
The Odyssey (Fagles)UlyssesOmeros
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>>25623564I need a demographic of autistic people that are prone to pirating and reading weird shit!
>>25623490mein kampflolitasorrows of young werther
The Glass Bead GameBrutGoodbye Columbus>>25623668>The King in YellowOld favorite of mine. What did you think?
The very hungry caterpillarStan the Hot Dog ManJackie Chan
>>25624068>sorrows of young wertheri want a blue tailcoat
The Stranger was an english translation
>>25624042Sameeeeeeeeeeeeee.
>>25623490>The Strangerloved it>The Pursuit of Loveliked it, pretty funny>Persuasionnot for me, appreciated a moment or two>>25624103nice
>>25623490The New Human by Mary Rodwell
>>25623490Making Contact
>>25623490>Iliad (Lattimore)Good, liked the last few chapters alot.>OblomovBasically me but trying to change that.>Fathers and SonsEntertaining, less philosophical than I expected but more drama and good imagery, plan to read more Turgenev in the future.
>Legend of the Sleepy Hollow>Siddhartha >Wuthering Heights
>>25624073>Old favorite of mine. What did you think?I really enjoyed the horror stories. It's surprising that it was written in the 1890s because the concepts feel so ahead of their time. I was surprised as the stories started shifting from horror to romance. Never thought I'd be the type to enjoy a romance story but they were written well enough and even the ones with non-horror elements were cute enough
>>25623490>Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus>Albert Camus - The Fall>Stephen King - The Shining
>>25624068reading up on another "i need a cool personality NOW' chart starter pack?
Peter Straub - Magic TerrorErnest Hemingway - the old man and the seaStephen King - Misery
Blood MeridianThe Adventures of Tom SawyerFrankensteinFew nonfiction books inbetween but those are boring so won't list them.
>>25623490The Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorNo Longer Human by Osamu DazaiFrisk by Dennis CooperCR: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The Box Man by Kobo AbeNo longer human by Osamu DazaiI'm thinking of ending things by Iain Reid
>>25623490Authority RinguShip of Fools
Project Hail MaryA Parade of HorriblesHeart of Darkness>I read for fun
Didn't like Terms as much as I thought I would. Emma's death just felt tacked on even though it felt like it's one of those things that just happens in life. It's the weakest of the Houston series to me so far.
>>25626809>>I read for funyikes
>>25623490The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor DostoevskyThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea — Yukio MishimaStorm of Steel — Ernst Jünger
>>25623503fpbpI've only read bible and berserk
>Venus and AphroditeVery short breezy book. I was hoping for something like her book on the history of Helen of Troy, and it kind of did that but it was so brief and general that you are left feeling kind of cheated. You would think there would be more to say about Venus/Aphrodite/Astarte vs Helen, but apparently not.>The Lost PlaysKind of blame myself for this, but I assumed this would be a collection of fragments of lost plays and while there are lost fragments in the back it is mostly trying to parse the fragments for each author we know of to try and get a clue of who they were how they wrote. There is so little information that it mostly boils down to, this compendium of authors lists this guy as having existed, but we can't really trust the compendium. We do have mention of him of Aristophanes but mostly he is taking the piss. So all we know is he like every single Greek playwright wrote plays about the same cadre of myths that Sophocles/Euripides/Aeschylus wrote about. >The Major WorksSome good some bad. I kind prefer Wordsworth though funny that they both wrote autobiographies about themselves though Wordsworths was worse to get through since it was in such a dull verse.
A Thousand SonsFlight of the EisensteinFulgrim
>>25627260All I remember from Storm of Steel is when he went to relieve someone of their post and it was just a muddy crater with a corpse that laid down in for several days listening to the artillery until someone else showed up to do the same. And also the manic red mist while they storms the trenches. Absolute madmen
>>25623490The Godfather, Stoner and In Search of Lost Time
Fat Ollie’s Book, Ed McBainTimeline, Michael Crichton The Way Station, Clifford Simak
>>25627260>Storm of SteelHow did you like it?Did you read the original or the translation?
>>25623612What books?
>>25627473I have a strong picture of the corpse of that enormous Indian. In my mind he’s still wielding his sabre, but I think I’m confusing two things. I read the whole thing in a Waterstones, standing up next to the shelf, while procrastinating university work.
The Ascent of Rum DoodleThings Fall ApartThe Blade Itself
>>25623490i can't into pride and prejudice. a bit difficult for me. i'll try again later on
Schattenfroh x3
