Books thread

[windowshopforlove]

Dude goes living primitive in the woods for some time (2 years or something?) and tells about it. Philosophic as fuck, love it

Standard high school English class reading in America.

Haha, I read that in my American Lit class in university. While I recognize their significance, readings like that made the class so dull at times. I'm such much more into the modernist stuff, but that was barely covered.

[untitled6]

So I haven't done much reading at all in forever, and I used to love to read as a kid, and I most certainly haven't read anything you could call "intellectual". Last book I read (but didn't finish ) was House of Leaves a few years ago, and before that, I couldn't even tell you (aside from required school reading that I would usually flake on anyway).

What would you guys consider required reading? Not really your personal favorites, but books you almost feel that everyone should have read. I've got books by Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Adorno, Foucault, & others on queue in my mind.

[Wraith]

Decided to try and finish White Noise quickly. After which I'll finish



I'm only halfway through it. I'm reading it when I'm not in the mood for literature. Up till now it was quite disappointing. I agree with everything he says except maybe with the meme theory of which I just don't know enough of to decide, but I know most of these arguments anyway and it just hasn't brought anything new to the table for me except for a way to formulate them better. I think after this I'll stick to his biology books.

I was also reminded that I still have Discipline & Punish to finish. I'll have to restart since the last time I read it was two years ago. Should I try reading it again or should I start with a different Foucault book?

[dakota fanning]

Anyone reads books by T.S Eliot,William Faulkner, Nikolaj Gogol or Tao Lin?
I have been reading Tao Lin quite much, I finished EEEEE EEE EEEE some time ago and I just finished BED. And sometimes I read short poems by Eliot. I'm about to start reading The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner, I'm really excited about it.
Great and intelligent thread this is, yeah!

[Pete > You]

Again, it's pretty much impossible to graduate from high school in America and not read T.S Eliot and William Faulkner. You non-Anglosphere, non-Southern Euros just keep getting quainter and quainter.

[jt__]

I graduated high school in 09, and all I know is there was a lot of Dickens & Steinbeck

[TehBurgerKing]

Started Ulysses today. Don't really know why I haven't read it yet. :/

[buckytoole]

Again, it's pretty much impossible to graduate from high school in America and not read T.S Eliot and William Faulkner. You non-Anglosphere, non-Southern Euros just keep getting quainter and quainter.

best thing in school was when you'd go over the books as a class... barely read a book in highschool and even less so in university (i think i read one full book) and now i have a minor in english... nailed it.

[kunoichi]

Started Ulysses today. Don't really know why I haven't read it yet. :/

I didn't finish that book. Maybe I should.

[Jakey LIAF]

I'm about to start reading The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner, I'm really excited about it.

one of the best works of fiction of all time.

about to start reading vonnegut's bluebeard right now, and am also working through george carlin's autobiography.