The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
The Sorcerers Apprentice by Francois Augieras
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Romaji Diary by Takuboku Ishikawa
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun
>The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
this has to be the most moronic thing ever written by a woman after harry potter
the navel gazing nature made me vomit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I have never even heard of this. I need to look it up, at the very least.
1. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Iliad by Homer
5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
6. Emma by Jane Austen
7. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
9. Ulysses by James Joyce
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's kind of similar but with gay books like Austen's and Waugh's. Dante is a kino choice and an improvement. Don't know what to make of the genre fiction (Wolfe, Tolkien, Borges).
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Auster's list is better because it doesn't have women or genre fiction!
so you don't read either, kek
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Borges is considered genre fiction?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
He writes fantasy, self-admittedly. But because he's not anglo it's considered literary or whatever.
confederacy of dunces
tom jones
warlock
songs of a dead dreamer/grimscribe
suttree
the dwarf
king Solomon's mines
the Conan chronicles
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
1. Ecce Homo, Nietzsche
2. Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy
3. Finnegans Wake, Joyce
4. On Last Things, Weininger
5. Paradise Lost, Milton
6. The Cantos, Ezra Pound
7. Civilization and its discontents, Freud
8. The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith
9. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
10. Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
>Proust >not a gay ass degenerate
lol lmao he was worse than Dosto, he literally fricked boys. >Moralism wins every time.
No, it doesn't.
1: A History of Warfare, J. Keegan
2: Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII, Jenz and Doyle
3: A History of World Societies, Hill McCaky & Buckler
4: Dark of the Sun, W. Smith
5: Out of the Mouth of the Dragon, M. geston
6: Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
7: Sword of Rhiannon, L. Brackett
8: Pretty much anything by R. E. Howard
9: The Stars my Destination, A. Bester
10: The Spanish Civil War, A. Beevor
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Blood Meridian - Cormac MemeCarthy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
One, None, and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
I'm a newbie to reading (I started literally this year) so these are all the books I've read AND liked thus far.
I've read The Great Gatsby and found it mediocre.
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4. crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (trilogy) by Samuel Beckett
10. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
1. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
2. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (yes I've read the whole thing and no I'm not
joking)
3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevesky
5. Native Son by Richard Wright
6. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
7. Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
8. Bullet Park by John Cheever
9. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
10. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
what's cringe about it and while you're at it, post yours.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Already posted
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
The Sorcerers Apprentice by Francois Augieras
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Romaji Diary by Takuboku Ishikawa
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun
, pleb
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
holy hell you have bad taste and are a homosexual. Keeping pretending to like Lispector and Adler bro that arthoe you've been chasing will eventually notice you I'm sure
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
nta but #1 is a giga pseud choice. Pretty much cancels out the rest of the list
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
How so? Have hou read Hopscotch or are you just being a moron? what's your number 1?
It doesn't need to be obscure; it just needs to show some individuality. This list told me very little about his literary tastes, apart from the modernism (Joyce, Proust, Beckett).
Our of these I've read >W&P >C&P >Moby Dick >Ulysses (halfway, couldn't finish it)
It's insane to me that anyone who likes those first two could even tolerate the second two. Moby Dick and Ulysses are leftist horseshit, antiwhite garbage
This reminds me of Robert Eggers' favorite movie list where yea, they're great books and everything but they're all safe, expected choices. The only thing that has barely any personality is Tristram Shandy.
Meh. You can definitely see beckett's and other modernists influences in the new york trilogy but needless to say, he falls short
First episode of the trilogy is the best as far as I remember, some meta stuff about Don Quixote
For a guy who can write pretty experimentally and poetically in prose, he can be quite a square sometimes. I read his corespondence with Coetzse and boy is that earnest and 'we are literary.' They wrote their letters knowing anyone interested would be reading them soon in a book form with a spring release
it's common for people to pursue literature (and self-serious cinema) as a kind of pseudo-spirituality. Meanwhile they believe the universe to be essentially meaningless, but they hold onto literature as a beautiful consolation that they feel themselves noble (and superior to others) in dedicating their lives to. It is perhaps permissible when a great writer views literature in this way, but one cannot help but find it ridiculous when these views are held by a middling talent. And very often a great writer feels at odds with these values (one can easily imagine Nietzsche mocking the "literary" types).
Literature in itself doesn't hold up to being made a way of life, as literature in its origin was something quite different than these tepid modernistic notions of self-expression--it was religious stories and ritual. Nowadays the discipline of art often just look like how to be miserable in an artistic manner--think Woody Allen. There's a reason that litbros and filmbros are a target of scorn from their promiscuous female counterparts--their values are as straw and they take themselves seriously in a manner that, being nihilists, they have no right to.
James Joyce would be the ultimate example of this except for that his mind so eminently comic and unserious that his work, if read properly, should actually be an acid to the attitudes of all the literary types who venerate him.
lmao at this thread and all the poser claiming the actually good literate author has bad picks because they're not obscure enough and he instead likes the greatest books ever written
1. Leaves of Grass
2. Moby Dick
3. On the Shores of Silver Lake
4. Trout Fishing in America
5. Crucible of War
6. Le Morte d'Arthur
7. The Jonny-Cake Papers
8. White Jacket
9. The Bible
10. Rakkety Tam
kek, exactly what someone who has never read a book but spent a few days on IQfy would say
What's yours?
hey, it takes a pseud to know a pseud
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
The Sorcerers Apprentice by Francois Augieras
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Romaji Diary by Takuboku Ishikawa
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun
>Clarice Lispector
Stopped reading right there
>Jacques Barzun
Stoped reading right there
>The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
this has to be the most moronic thing ever written by a woman after harry potter
the navel gazing nature made me vomit
I have never even heard of this. I need to look it up, at the very least.
Entry-level IQfy, m8. Try again
Not that Anon, but, fiction-only, mine are:
1. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Iliad by Homer
5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
6. Emma by Jane Austen
7. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
9. Ulysses by James Joyce
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's kind of similar but with gay books like Austen's and Waugh's. Dante is a kino choice and an improvement. Don't know what to make of the genre fiction (Wolfe, Tolkien, Borges).
>Auster's list is better because it doesn't have women or genre fiction!
so you don't read either, kek
Borges is considered genre fiction?
He writes fantasy, self-admittedly. But because he's not anglo it's considered literary or whatever.
confederacy of dunces
tom jones
warlock
songs of a dead dreamer/grimscribe
suttree
the dwarf
king Solomon's mines
the Conan chronicles
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
I made it a chart
pseud list tbh
1. Ecce Homo, Nietzsche
2. Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy
3. Finnegans Wake, Joyce
4. On Last Things, Weininger
5. Paradise Lost, Milton
6. The Cantos, Ezra Pound
7. Civilization and its discontents, Freud
8. The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith
9. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
10. Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
>No, it doesn't.
Yes it does.
>Yes it does.
No, it loses all the time.
Bohemian debauchery leads nowhere besides pseudo-poetic despair. Meanwhile, morality leads to eternal life
>The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith
lmao, ignored
Give me your top 10, homosexual
Did you enjoy Finnegans Wake
I enjoy it. Haven’t read it straight through as one would read most books. I’ve been reading it off and on for years
Nah, I never read it
You are a fricking homosexual.
1: A History of Warfare, J. Keegan
2: Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII, Jenz and Doyle
3: A History of World Societies, Hill McCaky & Buckler
4: Dark of the Sun, W. Smith
5: Out of the Mouth of the Dragon, M. geston
6: Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
7: Sword of Rhiannon, L. Brackett
8: Pretty much anything by R. E. Howard
9: The Stars my Destination, A. Bester
10: The Spanish Civil War, A. Beevor
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Blood Meridian - Cormac MemeCarthy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
One, None, and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
I'm a newbie to reading (I started literally this year) so these are all the books I've read AND liked thus far.
I've read The Great Gatsby and found it mediocre.
Read Mattia Pascal if you like Piradenllo.
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4. crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (trilogy) by Samuel Beckett
10. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
1. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
2. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (yes I've read the whole thing and no I'm not
joking)
3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevesky
5. Native Son by Richard Wright
6. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
7. Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
8. Bullet Park by John Cheever
9. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
10. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
cringe
what's cringe about it and while you're at it, post yours.
Already posted
, pleb
holy hell you have bad taste and are a homosexual. Keeping pretending to like Lispector and Adler bro that arthoe you've been chasing will eventually notice you I'm sure
nta but #1 is a giga pseud choice. Pretty much cancels out the rest of the list
How so? Have hou read Hopscotch or are you just being a moron? what's your number 1?
t. contrarian midwit
I love all these books, but come on... he should've spiced it up a little.
Why would you spice up your favorite list with something obscure? To look interesting?
It doesn't need to be obscure; it just needs to show some individuality. This list told me very little about his literary tastes, apart from the modernism (Joyce, Proust, Beckett).
Wow, what a basic b***h.
Well, he is a israelite.
>Dostoevsky over Proust
>W&P not #1
>Anna Karenina not #2
>Middlemarch not #3
>Dostoevsky over Proust
Damn right. Problem?
>W&P not #1
It shouldn't be. DQ being #1 is the most based choice in the whole list.
Tolstoy is the greatest author who ever lived. Proust is objectively better than gay ass degenerate Dostoyevsky.
Moralism wins every time.
>Proust
>not a gay ass degenerate
lol lmao he was worse than Dosto, he literally fricked boys.
>Moralism wins every time.
No, it doesn't.
Our of these I've read
>W&P
>C&P
>Moby Dick
>Ulysses (halfway, couldn't finish it)
It's insane to me that anyone who likes those first two could even tolerate the second two. Moby Dick and Ulysses are leftist horseshit, antiwhite garbage
>Moby Dick and Ulysses are leftist horseshit, antiwhite garbage
The absolute state.
you gotta be trolling
>Moby Dick and Ulysses are leftist horseshit, antiwhite garbage
This poster is a falseflagging israelite
This reminds me of Robert Eggers' favorite movie list where yea, they're great books and everything but they're all safe, expected choices. The only thing that has barely any personality is Tristram Shandy.
Never heard of any of these. Seems really pretentious
He just picked straight from the college freshman world lit reading list lol
in this day and age he should at least pretend to like something other than white men
Cervantes is latinx
nice b8
wow he's probably an actual good writer
Meh. You can definitely see beckett's and other modernists influences in the new york trilogy but needless to say, he falls short
First episode of the trilogy is the best as far as I remember, some meta stuff about Don Quixote
>Tolstoy
>Dostoevsky
It's terrible.
Its just the most stereotypical selections from the western canon. Probably better than a list of obscure works that arent as good
Sure but the other selections at least have some praiseworthy qualities.
For a guy who can write pretty experimentally and poetically in prose, he can be quite a square sometimes. I read his corespondence with Coetzse and boy is that earnest and 'we are literary.' They wrote their letters knowing anyone interested would be reading them soon in a book form with a spring release
>and boy is that earnest and 'we are literary.
All great literature is anti-literary in this sense.
>and boy is that earnest and 'we are literary.'
What do you mean.
nta
it's common for people to pursue literature (and self-serious cinema) as a kind of pseudo-spirituality. Meanwhile they believe the universe to be essentially meaningless, but they hold onto literature as a beautiful consolation that they feel themselves noble (and superior to others) in dedicating their lives to. It is perhaps permissible when a great writer views literature in this way, but one cannot help but find it ridiculous when these views are held by a middling talent. And very often a great writer feels at odds with these values (one can easily imagine Nietzsche mocking the "literary" types).
Literature in itself doesn't hold up to being made a way of life, as literature in its origin was something quite different than these tepid modernistic notions of self-expression--it was religious stories and ritual. Nowadays the discipline of art often just look like how to be miserable in an artistic manner--think Woody Allen. There's a reason that litbros and filmbros are a target of scorn from their promiscuous female counterparts--their values are as straw and they take themselves seriously in a manner that, being nihilists, they have no right to.
James Joyce would be the ultimate example of this except for that his mind so eminently comic and unserious that his work, if read properly, should actually be an acid to the attitudes of all the literary types who venerate him.
I have read don quixote and moby dick and I liked them
There is no way someone actually picks these as their top 10. That's the ultimate educated NPC opinion.
lmao at this thread and all the poser claiming the actually good literate author has bad picks because they're not obscure enough and he instead likes the greatest books ever written
>Ulysses
like fricking hell
characteristically dull
1. Leaves of Grass
2. Moby Dick
3. On the Shores of Silver Lake
4. Trout Fishing in America
5. Crucible of War
6. Le Morte d'Arthur
7. The Jonny-Cake Papers
8. White Jacket
9. The Bible
10. Rakkety Tam
why did everyone start posting their top 10s