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What are you currently reading?

>> No.12979336
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The Imitation of Christ

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>>12979329

>> No.12979394

>>12979329
Mr Nice

>> No.12979443

Plutarch, Hamsun, and various essays

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really enjoying it so far

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really enjoying It so far

>> No.12979472

>>12979459
wtf me too. liking it so far?

>> No.12979480

Liber Abaci. Fibonnaci.

Not bad. Pretty interesting. He’s on major and minor currency right now. I find it more historically informative than mathematically challenging.

I bought his Book of Squares on Amazon yesterday so I should be getting that in the mail soon. :3

>> No.12979489

>>12979329
The sisters karamazov

>> No.12979491

Logavina street and sputnik sweetheart

>> No.12979515

>>12979459
any pdf available?

>> No.12979542

The adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe

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Wow. Lits a toofer!

>> No.12979559

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

>> No.12979564
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Mishbooghuvdunny

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This! Simply amazing.

>> No.12979581

>>12979329
What is Jez reading in the OP pic?

>> No.12979586
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im reading principle skinner's book Last and First Men

>> No.12979588

Bulfinch's Myths of Greece and Rome, The Book Of Disquiet and Hunger.
I also have Crime and Punishment and Snow Country from the library

>> No.12979602

lol i used the wrong prinicipal on /lit/ am i going to jail now?

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Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein, again.
http://ascentofhumanity.com

>> No.12979622

>Fiction
Brothers Karamazov - Garnett translation (don't know if that's the best, it was just easiest to find an epub of)

>Non-Fiction
Nietzsche and Philosophy - Deleuze

>> No.12979642

Loneliness: human nature and the need for social connection
It is so boring bros. How can anybody read nonfiction like this unironically

>> No.12979672

>>12979581
He was trying to read Wuthering Heights

>> No.12979683

The rebel by camus

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>>12979329
Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton. A man who was truly Chaste and Breadpilled.

>> No.12979870

Karamzin - Natalya, Boyar's Daughter

>> No.12979895

A Passion for Books edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan

Basically a collection of essays, stories and such on collecting and enjoying books.

>> No.12979904

The count of Monte Cristo and Kafka on the shore

>> No.12979907

Lolita, 1984, Beloved, Bible, and Iliad

>> No.12979908

Les Miserables. 50 pages in. Still no songs.

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I don’t understand the cover

>> No.12980041

>>12979329
homage to catalonia

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this exact copy

>> No.12980317

>>12979394
It doesn't sound like another Howard Marks book...

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>>12979672
>>12979581
>>12979394
>>12979329
Peep show is /lit/

>> No.12980347

>>12979329
Oh come on! Wuthering Heights is not a love story, it's a fucking fuck story!

>> No.12980354

>>12979329
Also Blood Meridian. Kill me.

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>pic related

It's really good

>> No.12980543

>>12979612
I read this when I was young and a bit more idealistic. Brain dumped everything from him except the whole idea of negative interest in Sacred Economics.

>>12979725
What's his theology in a nutshell? He seems similar to the wack-job De Chardin. Am I wrong?

Reading "Inventing Human Rights" by Lynn Hunt. The hour-long lecture on YouTube is all you need; this book is *very* basic.

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really enjoying It so far

>> No.12980591

Les Miserables and Boccaccio's Life of Dante

Very comfy

>> No.12980646

>>12979387
I saw those two perform the play in DC. They were great.

>> No.12980737

>>12980543
>What's his theology in a nutshell?
not the guy who posted that, but from what I've read of Merton he's an ecumenical universalist 'Catholic'

>> No.12981039

The Charterhouse of Parma

>> No.12982700

>>12980343
Based, one of my favourite lines

>> No.12982711

A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.12982842

too many to count :( should i really just pick one book and hunker down on it lads will that help with finishing them? what if im not particularly interested in that one at the moment?

>> No.12983020

i am a cat
pretty funny, but as usually is the case with translated japanese the prose feels weird and clunky

>> No.12983105

>>12979329
Halfway through Plato's Complete Works. Never expected it to be so comfy.

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>>12979329
Greetings from Outer Space by Shinichi Hoshi.

>> No.12983364

Freud

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>>12979329
unironically about to start slaughterhouse 5
i bought it used several months ago for about 1.3$ because i've briefly heard it's a cool surrealist work, didn't know it's a lit meme back then

>> No.12983398

Fiction - The House of the Dead
Non-fiction - The Bible

>> No.12983403

P&V demons idgf get at me

>> No.12983413

About to finish no longer human, nearly cried when they put him in the hospital and that this nigger is only 27 and that much of a wreck.Gonna finish the epilouge at lunch today. Thanks for memeing me into this book /lit/

>> No.12983628

>>12979329
/pol/

>> No.12983831

>>12983376
read half of it, pretty good 2bh. i wouldn't call it normie shit.
the alien & time theme reminds me a lot of Arrival (movie)

>> No.12984074

>>12979329
I hate seth rogen

>> No.12984077

>>12979329
The Crossing by McCarthy, 50 pages in and enjoying it.

>> No.12984095

I just finished reading Decision at Doona. Wasn’t that great. I need a new book now

>> No.12984108

I'm digesting the Landpill as we speak; reading Fanged Noumena, and then suffered an eye injury, so I'm taking a break until my vision stabilizes. I'm about 200 pages in, and realizing I have a lot of follow reading to do after this. I'm no philosophy major, but I find the style of rhetoric; basically diatribes spliced with schizo free-writing, very inspiring. I'm looking for material written in this style, but maybe not so academically driven. I'm not quite there, yet.

>> No.12984223

>>12979329
that japanese book about having a retard son you want to kill so you can go to africa

>> No.12984231

>>12979566
kys

>> No.12984285

>>12979329
"Teuz ann abati", published in "Feiz ha Breiz".

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Green Hills of Africa

not a big fan of Hemingway but he has his moments I guess

>> No.12984423

Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

>> No.12984429

>>12984223
Wait, the one by Oe? Rise Up or something

>> No.12984517

>>12979329
Runaway Horses by Mishima. It's been an incredibly sad and mournful book so far and I can't wait to get to Temple and Decay.

>> No.12984610
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Just finished this today. Did not disappoint.

>> No.12984871

>>12984429
a personal matter by oe

>> No.12984937

>>12979329
The Trail

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About half way through.
I didn’t like it at first. Too episodic and too big a cast of characters but post revolution the focus narrows to the main characters.

>> No.12985064

Percy Jackson

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breddy good

>> No.12985100

Recently finished the First Law and waiting on the standalones to come in.
In the meantime reading PKD's Martian Time-Slip. My next 12/13 books are planned out beyond that.

>> No.12985109

>>12985100
>Martian Time-Slip
How is it? I wanted to start getting into some of his more obscure works, although I'm not sure MTS counts as 'obscure'. I've got Dr. Bloodmoney on the way.

>> No.12985126

>>12985074
Read this in two days while driving 300 miles a day. Tasty, but too much garnish. You are obviously a very introspective man, David, to ask yourself so many rhetorical questions.

>> No.12985264

>>12985109
About a third in so it's hard to say. Somewhat gloomy with morose characters but it seems like it'll build up similar to his The Penultimate Truth.

>> No.12985285

>>12985264
>Somewhat gloomy with morose characters
I wouldn't expect anything less. That seems to be a theme is most of his works. Although, Tim Archer ended up becoming one of my all time favorite characters.

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confessions of zeno. some sections are a great character study yet most of the plot is pretty unengaging. the story is just a vessel for our character instead of a journey of sorts

>>12983376
its not bad
very cool cover there

>> No.12985426

Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmael Reed

>> No.12985474

>>12979329
the left hand of darkness

>> No.12985492
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A History of Eternity

>> No.12985628

>>12979443
What are you reading by Hamsun? Some of the translations of his greatest works are awful.

>> No.12986491

>>12979329
brothers karamazov

>> No.12986507

>>12983413
No Longer Human is one of the many reasons I want to learn nip, I could tell the book was great and I still overall liked it but the Translationese was woefully apparent

>> No.12986693

>>12985126
overall did you enjoy it?

>> No.12986838

About to finish The Housekeeper + The Professor, thought it would be way darker and uncomfortable based on other Yoko Ogawa books but turns out it's a nice wholesome book. Probably going to read The Outsider next

>> No.12986947

>>12979329
The Iliad. Just got to book 14 and loving it. Also reading an overview/introduction to classical literature.

>> No.12986979

Beautiful and damned. Pretty great, can’t imagine being married to Gloria, gives me a giggle that Fitzgerald based her on his wife. Dude had interesting taste.

>> No.12986982

>>12979336
Hello Casey

>> No.12986994

Melmoth the Wanderer
In Search of the Miraculous

>> No.12987001

>>12985074
That book is great and probably made me feel more intense emotions than any other work of fiction I've read

>> No.12987029

>>12984517
The ride just gets wilder from there on, have fun

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This. Sorry /lit/, I am late.

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Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

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don kwiksoat

>> No.12987376

The Republic

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>>12979329
This post.

On the Road, and Mencius

>> No.12987427

>>12979336
that thing is proof that catholicism is fucking wack

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It's not bad. Little bit long in the sideburns if you know what I mean

>> No.12987459

Epictetus (epic tits lol)

>> No.12987576

Does it matter which edition of Storm of Steel I read?

>> No.12987693

>>12985285
Two-thirds in and it's getting weird.
>Gubble, gubble

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I'm in the 5th chapter of the second book now.
Pretty good so far

>> No.12988335

>>12979329
Above the Clouds by Takie Sugiyama Lebra. Fuckin dry as hell formatting wise, it's essentially a long ass essay filled with citations, but I'm interested in the topic and the writing is good.

>> No.12988349

How To Read A Book
it's a little exhausting

>> No.12988458

>>12979329
sum buhsheeit on chanz nigga

>> No.12988481

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

>> No.12988527

>>12980358
yes, it is

>> No.12988559

Gravities Memebow, Basic Economics, World in Depression 1929-1939, and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in ‘72

>> No.12988645

beyond good and evil
the myth of sisyphus
just finished no longer human, wasn’t bad. yozo was super chad

>>12987459
the art of living by sharon lebell?

>> No.12988682

>>12979329
The Hobbit.

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>>12979329
Reading pic related and so far I'm enjoying it.

>>12984423
Based, started hitting the gym because of this one.

>> No.12988940

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov

Some anon recommended it in a thread about literature from obscure countries I think and I'm blown away by its beauty.

>> No.12989140

John Williams - Augustus

it's shaping up to be my favourite of his after Stoner

>> No.12989208

>>12979329
this

>> No.12989403

I wonder why my I am Legend thread was deleted, I just wanted to discuss the book

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Crime novels are like my literary comfort food. Something I read in-between more serious works which works as a palate cleanser of sorts.