/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20231715]

What are you currently reading?

[Anonymous No.20231860]

Sheepfarmer's daughter. Plan to read the trilogy. I know for a fact I read it as a child but I was too young and retarded to really absorb it so it's like reading it for the first time again which is definitely comfortable.

[Anonymous No.20231886]

>wife gets pregnant, starts craving fresh milk and meat, dreams about fresh food
>husband says his wife wanting more than the customary dried fish and coffee and sugar must be an indication of a heart problem
are Icelandic people really like this?

[Anonymous No.20231922]

I'm reading Walter Scott's novels in order, currently on picrel, which is the best so far.
The main character is an antique book collector, an autist with an obnoxious personality, a /lit/fag basically (except he reads and isn't Indian), I enjoyed this description of his book buying adventures:
>These little Elzevirs are the memoranda and trophies of many a walk by night and morning through the Cowgate, the Canongate, the Bow, St. Marys Wynd,—wherever, in fine, there were to be found brokers and trokers, those miscellaneous dealers in things rare and curious. How often have I stood haggling on a halfpenny, lest, by a too ready acquiescence in the dealer's first price, he should be led to suspect the value I set upon the article!—how have I trembled, lest some passing stranger should chop in between me and the prize, and regarded each poor student of divinity that stopped to turn over the books at the stall, as a rival amateur, or prowling bookseller in disguise!—And then, Mr. Lovel, the sly satisfaction with which one pays the consideration, and pockets the article, affecting a cold indifference, while the hand is trembling with pleasure!—Then to dazzle the eyes of our wealthier and emulous rivals by showing them such a treasure as this” (displaying a little black smoked book about the size of a primer); “to enjoy their surprise and envy, shrouding meanwhile, under a veil of mysterious consciousness, our own superior knowledge and dexterity these, my young friend, these are the white moments of life, that repay the toil, and pains, and sedulous attention, which our profession, above all others, so peculiarly demands!”
There's also a funny bit that reminded me of interactions on /lit/ where the Antiquary has dinner with his one and only friend, who shares his obsession about history and literature, but naturally they can't help but contradict each other over the most minute things which leads to full on verbal chimping and rage quitting

[Anonymous No.20231924]

mao was the GOAT at killing other chinese niggas

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[Anonymous No.20231928]

>>20231715
Only 40 pages in. Haven't seen it talked about. Feels very underrated

[Anonymous No.20231933]

>>20231715
Deuteronomy. Its fascinating.

[Anonymous No.20231938]

>>20231715
Believe it or not I am reading it right now. And yes I bought it because of Jeremy

[Anonymous No.20231940]

Anti-oedipus

[Anonymous No.20231941]

>>20231715
Petersburg by Bely, Furor and Mystery by Rene Char, and Mrs. Dalloway.

Petersburg is really cool, too bad I don't know the context and I'm too retarded/mentally checked out most of the time when I'm reading to make a lot of the probably important connections, not to mention the historical-context-dependent stuff, but it's still pretty cool and there's fun concepts and fun aesthetics and character dynamics and pretty descriptions.

[Anonymous No.20231943]

>>20231715

[Anonymous No.20231955]

>>20231715
The German Ideology by Marx & Engels. I've read Kant's critiques, Hegel's Phenomenology and both Logics, Stirner, and all three volumes of Capital. This is the first work by Marx that has actually got me turning pages like it's a fucking thriller, I'm really enjoying it. Even as a longtime Marxfag who has marinated in the dot-point versions of ideas like "the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class", the stark OG approach of Marx to the origin of ideas/ideology is really fascinating, and I think it provides a really good pre-refutation of later Marxist trends (Frankfurt school, Situationists, Marcuse) that lean too heavily on "it's your ideas that keep you oppressed, just free your cock and your brain will follow, it's all in your head maaaan just ditch your hangups" rubbish.

I was in the National Gallery of Australia the other day, and I read some shitty sentence in one of those art blurbs on the wall next to an art, and it said something like "the artist is commenting on the violence of the capitalist gaze" and I had a very profound moment of realisation about how empty that statement is, it's not the capitalist gaze that's violent, there's no such thing as a capitalist gaze, it's the regular old violence of capitalism that is the violent bit, you can't just wish that away by commenting on shit and getting it hung in a national gallery.

[Anonymous No.20231977]

>>20231941
As for the others, let's see... Furor and Mystery is kinda word salad a lot of the time but he does go into his poetic theory semi-explicitly in one section; he is into Heraclitus and lots of contradiction, much like Maurice Blanchot.

Mrs. Dalloway is poetic but relatively understandable. Lovely prose, interesting characters and intense emotions, plus lesbian nostalgia kino.

>>20231886
I started reading this once when I was quite young. Seems based though I hope to come back to it one day, reading stuff from totally random countries is always fun (I know they had sagas or some shit but in modern literature I've only ever heard of Laxness).

>>20231924
This stuff is surreal to me, China in general is just a weird phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.20232040]

>>20231715
Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.20232164]

>>20231977
>I started reading this once when I was quite young. Seems based though
it's very interesting, starting to feel I'm getting to the part where I'm only going to be able to stop to sleep. rough men struggling to become independent (as opposed to serfs), and the only way to make it in a frigid unwelcoming country like Iceland is through pure obstinacy.

[Anonymous No.20232174]

Hooked by Michael Moss
It was being sold in the cookbooks section of the store

[Anonymous No.20232177]

>>20231941
I love Mrs Dalloway. I felt the dread of passing time. All of the characters were sympathetic and likable despite being flawed. I loved the adventurous guy who failed to live up to his potential. I think Woolf was funnier and more self aware than many give her credit for. Like she is writing a parody of a stuffy version of herself

[Anonymous No.20232187]

>>20231938
are you enjoying learning about all the different times mr nice got high to differing extents?

[Anonymous No.20232646]

I'm reading Dostoevsky's A Writer's Diary, I've enjoyed it more than some of his novels.

[Anonymous No.20232654]

Winds of War by Herman Wouk and The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

[Anonymous No.20232815]

I have started reading the Expanse series of book by James S. A. Corey. Unfortunately I don't have the hard copies and have to read it over my phone, and I can't find books 7-9 anywhere(I'm not paying to read an ebook)but hopefully they'll pop up before I finish the first 6.

[Anonymous No.20232825]

>>20231928
I am 50% through that. I have been reading it on and off for like a month, which is unusual for me as I normally finish things very quickly. I'm not sure if me taking my time indicates my dislike for it (it normally does). It's true that I have been bored at times, but it's also true that at other times it has been either hilarious or profound, or both at the same time.

[Anonymous No.20232829]

Just started. Never read anything by him before.
Lovecraft liked him

[Anonymous No.20232832]

>>20231715
How to Read a Book.

[Anonymous No.20232833]

Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne and the collected works of José Martí.

[Anonymous No.20232834]

>>20231715

Is pussy just a myth?

[Anonymous No.20232838]

4chan posts.

[Anonymous No.20232878]

>>20231922
Very neat anon.
You've convince me to pick up a copy.

[Anonymous No.20233020]

>>20231715
I like it.

[Anonymous No.20233032]

>>20231715
Post 20231715 on /lit/

[Anonymous No.20233063]

>>20231715
Feels similar to 2666. I am not well versed in Bolano's works, but I'm beginning to think that a pervading sense of dread with no clear centre is a quality of all his writing.

It's frequently dismissed as a work only for the true fans, but to me it would seem an excellent introduction to his writings, and a good preparatory piece for 2666.

[Anonymous No.20233084]

>>20231715
The dad and the sea. Read it as a kid and didn't like it but holy shit, this is probably the greatest mumin book.
It is just so sad that Reddit and Tumbler have tried to take over the franchise.

[Anonymous No.20233156]

>>20232832
how?

[Anonymous No.20233166]

>>20233084
Moomin Papa is literally /lit/: the character.

[Anonymous No.20233178]

>>20233156
Idk, I still on the part where it tells me in detail to analyze the title and table of contents.

[Anonymous No.20233183]

This. Poem about death: a Book about my Father, by Søren R. Fauth. Its good in a depressing way. A sort of auto-fiction long poem about life, death and the authors family history. His grandfather died on the Eastern Front.

[Anonymous No.20233190]

>>20233178
r/woosh

[Anonymous No.20233263]

>>20231715
Submission, by Houellebecq. Because of memes.
It's fun so far, I like the humor and what I surmise are the core ideas.
>>20233063
>I'm beginning to think that a pervading sense of dread with no clear centre is a quality of all his writing.
I've not read your pic or 2666 but it does feel that way. It's specially noticeable in his short stories I think

[Anonymous No.20233270]

>>20233084
I just read the first moomin book after reading your post. it was okay.

[Anonymous No.20233381]

expected more from hemingway, its only ok

[Anonymous No.20233404]

>>20231715
> the Iliad
> the world is not enough
> Oswald: the return of the king
> The life and death of my lord Gilles De Rais
> Katherine

[Anonymous No.20233426]

Count of monte cristo. I just finished the chapter where dantes pretended to be injured to his smuggler friends jacopo and company to stay on the island of monte cristo and then he finds the treasure.

[Anonymous No.20233442]

Uzbek novel

[Anonymous No.20233461]

>>20231715
Rereading Death and the Dervish. It amazes me that bosnia produced such a great author.

[Anonymous No.20233469]

>>20233063
>>20233263
Status update: I literally just got gifted 2666 so I guess that's next

[Anonymous No.20233471]

I took Flowers for Algernon out at the library a few months back on someone's recommendation here. I have been really busy so just kept renewing it.

This afternoon I grabbed it and drove to the park. I planned on reading for about 30 minutes before running some errands. I ended up staying there for over two hours. What a fantastic book. I did not expect it to be so creatively written and fill me with so many emotions.

[Anonymous No.20233476]

The Tightwad Gazette
Vor dem Sturm

[Anonymous No.20233864]

>>20233442
Tell us more about it? Uzbek literature isn't really known here

[Anonymous No.20233897]

Catch-22

[Anonymous No.20233904]

>>20233442
I read that last year. I really liked it. I wanted to read The Tin Drum afterwards because of the obvious similarities, but got waylaid by other things, of course. The Dead Lake has an unusual ending. I remember it being very funny too, and bawdy.

[Anonymous No.20233905]

>>20231715
I might stop reading it

[Anonymous No.20233910]

>>20231715
Time Regained
Fathers and Sons
Psychological Types
The Six Enneads
The Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.20233911]

>>20233471
Great book.

[Anonymous No.20233930]

>>20231715
How Music Works by David Byrne

[Anonymous No.20233934]

>>20231715
Comfy with good illustrations

[Anonymous No.20233937]

Rereading Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.20233947]

>>20231715
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony

[Anonymous No.20233960]

>>20233471
I loved this book so much. I would really appreciate it if someone could reccommend me something similar. Engaging, easy to read, short... I love books that you pick up and can't put down, but aren't 800 pages.

[Anonymous No.20234007]

>>20231715
The Old Man and the Sea and A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

[Anonymous No.20234018]

1/2
This is my for fun read. I dig it so far. It's one of Delillo's funnier books. Some of the stuff goes over head but I think I get the general gist of it. I see why mathematics is of interest to delillo, considering his thematic concerns with language in all his books

[Anonymous No.20234025]

>>20234018
2/2
I'm rereading Macbeth for work. Start teaching it to sophomores on Tuesday. This'll be my third time teaching it.

[Anonymous No.20234028]

>>20231715

5th grade social studies book

half way through it

[Anonymous No.20234072]

>>20234028
Are you in the 5th grade?

[Anonymous No.20234081]

>>20234072
no

but you can still learn stuff from it. a lot of adults don't even have a 5th grade level history education

[Anonymous No.20234096]

>>20234081
I'm sure, I just find it peculiar to read such a thing for kicks. Interesting!

[Anonymous No.20234143]

Not him but it is kind of sad really how youngers often know stuff and then it's all completely forgotten when they're adults. Stuff about history or geography or animals or nature sometimes, it's as if they never learned it, what a waste.

[Anonymous No.20234157]

Han Solo: The Hutt Gambit. I thought The Paradise Snare was great, and I'm enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.20234173]

>>20234157
Aggressively plebeian. I feel like you must take some sort of sick joy in perverting the world with the existence of your shit taste.

[Anonymous No.20234176]

>>20234173
It's great for shitposting. I take screenshots of the most vociferous reactions to save and laugh at later.

[Anonymous No.20234302]

>>20231715
Ben-hur

[Anonymous No.20234328]

Simenon's Pléiades
Paradise lost
L'anomalie by le tellier
Monkey by wu cheng'en
Nimzowitsch's My system
Romance of the three kingdoms by Luo guanzhong

I always read about 5 books at a time

[Anonymous No.20234338]

Half way through Leisure by Josef Pieper. It's not very often I read philosophy but I like it, though I doubt I am really soaking it all in. I'll finish it tomorrow and then I may read The Three Musketeers at last. I'm sure that's a good novel but anything over 200 pages immediately has me feeling restless desu.

[Anonymous No.20234426]

>>20231922
Do you recommend this? Looks good.

[Anonymous No.20234456]

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>>20231955
>Australian
>Marxist
>Well read
Can I keep in touch with you anon? I'm not as well read as you are but I'm Australian and don't have anyone to talk to about such things. It would be nice to have someone who I could shoot off an email to every now and again to rebound my thoughts off of. Also please don't direct me to the aus general on leftypol, I really hate it there.

[Anonymous No.20234552]

>>20231955
Good post.

[Anonymous No.20235423]

Rereading this. What a banger

[Anonymous No.20235424]

>>20231955
I haven't read Marx in a while, I will try to get it.

[Anonymous No.20235426]

>>20235423
I should add that if you don't have autism and an appreciation for violin-making you won't enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.20235437]

>>20231715
Which book should I read next between Starship Troopers, The Left Hand of Darkness, or The Shadow of the Torturer?

[Anonymous No.20235440]

>>20231927
nice

[Anonymous No.20235445]

Submission
A Feast for Crows
Inside the Third Reich
>Runaway Horses (on pause)
>Demons (on pause)
>Man & His Symbols (on pause)
I was also reading Stalin's Scientists but it's probably going to be a DNF (not as dense as I was hoping it to be).

[Anonymous No.20235596]

>>20234426
I love Walter Scott's novels, but it depends on your own tastes. Do you like meandering 19th century novels?
Powys, one of my favorite writers, who also loved Walter Scott, wrote this, which I think's a fair assessment, and will give you a clue as to whether or not he's worth your time:
>The large, easy, leisurely manner of Scott's writing, its digressiveness, its nonchalant carelessness, its indifference to artistic quality, has in some sort of way numbed and atrophied the interest in his work of those who have been caught up and waylaid by the modern spirit. And yet Scott's novels have ample and admirable excellencies. In his expansive and digressive fashion he can give his characters—especially the older and the more idiosyncratic among them—a surprising and convincing verisimilitude.
>He can create a plot which, though not dramatically flawless, has movement and energy and stir. The sweetness and modesty of his disposition lends itself to his portrayal of the more gracious aspects of human life, especially as seen in the humours and oddities of very simple and naïve persons.
>Under the stress of occasional emotion he can rise to quite noble heights of feeling and he is able to throw a startling glamour of romance over certain familiar and recurrent human situations. At his best there is a grandeur and simplicity of utterance about what his characters say and an ease and largeness of sympathy about his own commentaries upon them, which must win admiration even from those most avid of modern pathology. Without the passion of Balzac, or the insight of Dostoevsky, or the art of Turgenev, there is yet, in the sweetness of Scott's own personality, and in the biblical grandeur of certain of the scenes he evokes, a quality and a charm which it would be at once foolish and arbitrary to neglect.

[Anonymous No.20235616]

btw, I like this bit I read last night about a grift still popular to this day
>...when he is among fools and womankind, he exhibits himself as a perfect charlatan—talks of the magisterium—of sympathies and antipathies—of the cabala—of the divining-rod—and all the trumpery with which the Rosicrucians cheated a darker age, and which, to our eternal disgrace, has in some degree revived in our own... Ah! were I caliph for a day, as Honest Abon Hassan wished to be, I would scourge me these jugglers out of the commonwealth with rods of scorpions. They debauch the spirit of the ignorant and credulous with mystical trash, as effectually as if they had besotted their brains with gin, and then pick their pockets with the same facility.

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Just started The Seducer's Diary, first thing I've read from Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.20235718]

>>20231715
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. I almost dropped this one but it has really grown on me recently, so I'm glad I stuck with it.

[Anonymous No.20235791]

Devils (demons) by Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.20235886]

>>20231715
Lord of dark places by hal bennett. He's just about to join the army and get shipped off to war so I hope this picks up now. So far not much more than muh blacks and muh cock and muh fucking and sucking. Entertaining enough but will get stale if nothing new happens soon.

[Anonymous No.20236016]

already planning my next James book.

I don'r remember who it was, E. M. Forster maybe, who said the HJ stripes his novels of everything that lives. Well im not sure how he can say that here. If anything it goes the other way around, towards how little we know, and how much our feeling control us.

[Anonymous No.20236065]

>>20233905
I did too, very dull

[Anonymous No.20236184]

>>20231715
very slowly working through spinoza's ethics. i'm nearly done with chapter 4 and it's fantastic. felt like some of the earlier chapters were a slog but now i see how necessary they were to the later argument. eventually i'd like to read some secondary literature on it and then give it another read through with a firmer grasp of what his philosophical project is in the first few chapters. picrel

also about halfway through the educated mind by kieran egan. got recommended the book by the egan anon that made a few great threads about education theory. very interesting book, i've read a few philosophy of education works before but none were quite as engaging or outside the norm of current educational thought as this one. looking forward to trying some of it out in practice.

probably going to read metamorphosis by ovid next.

>>20231955
good post even though you're in canberra. that vapid empty theorising turned me off marxism after being balls deep in it, but i still have a ton of respect for the works of marx himself.

>>20233442
looks very interesting, pls tell us more anon

>>20233905
it's not for anyone over the age of 20. it was the first book i read to get me back into reading when i was 17/18 and i loved it, but i re-read it around 21 and wasn't impressed by it.

>>20233937
based

>>20233947
very based, i've been meaning to read this. how is it?

[Anonymous No.20236221]

>>20236016
It's ironic because James conveyed the same sorts of things Forster tried to convey, only with deep subtlety and sensitivity in place of Forster's heavy-handed moralizing by way of one-dimensional characters.

[Anonymous No.20236236]

white noise

[Anonymous No.20236242]

Hind's Kidnap

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>>20236184
Bro you only read crap lol

[Anonymous No.20236255]

>>20236244
i like it. what do you like to read?

[Anonymous No.20237077]

>>20232815
Hey Anon, check out ebook-hunter.org

[Anonymous No.20237084]

>>20231715
This thread

[Anonymous No.20237129]

Leviathan, a friend fiction novel, translations of the Dead Sea scrolls.

[Anonymous No.20237135]

>>20234081
Hm... interesting

[Anonymous No.20237172]

>>20231943
>>20233032
>>20237084
Imagine how many thousands of times this same post has been made on /lit/ and then marvel at the pride and joy of the poster that comes in to repeat it one more time as though it were the height of wit.

[Anonymous No.20237199]

>>20232834
This book filled me with immeasurable amounts of knowledge

[Anonymous No.20237240]

>>20231927
Based.

[Anonymous No.20237257]

>>20234456
oh wow that's really funny hahahah

[Anonymous No.20237273]

>>20232815

I read the first one, don't know what you've read so far but I felt it started off pretty strong then went into the dumps. Can't be bothered to try book two.

[Anonymous No.20237354]

>>20234081
I’m glad you’re going back and getting the education that was withheld from you anon. Good job

[Anonymous No.20237558]

Imagination: a study in the history of ideas by J. M. Cocking

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>>20231715

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>>20234028
based

[Anonymous No.20238332]

Trying to read through all the books they were supposed to teach us in English class but didn’t in favor of some black or female author.

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[Anonymous No.20238596]

Just finished Norm Macdonald's book.
Went into it not knowing much but kind of expected it to be more 'real' than it ended up being.
Was funny, Adam Eget was written hilariously. Enjoyed the book.

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>>20231715

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>>20231928
I read it a couple of years ago, it has its moments, I really liked the illustrations, but I wouldn't read it again.

[Anonymous No.20238635]

>>20231715
just finished zothique, great book

[Anonymous No.20238644]

Never once seen it mentioned here. Its great.

[Anonymous No.20238654]

>>20238332
Nice. Try The Spire too.

[Anonymous No.20238716]

>>20233910
what are your thoughts on time regained? what on other volumes of ISOLT?

[Anonymous No.20238719]

>>20231715
>What are you currently reading?
A /lit/ classic.

[Anonymous No.20238777]

>>20231715
It's incredibly weird, but it's exactly the kind of weird I was looking for.

[Anonymous No.20239181]

>>20238332
I have this still, exact cover. Have had it since the 5th grade and I'm now 30.

[Anonymous No.20239207]

>>20231715
shakespeares hamlet.
it blows my mind how beautiful some of the writing is considering most his plays were written in the 16th and 17th centuries, yes i am an ignorant normie when it comes to older texts but the characterisation of some individuals in the play are surprisingly relatable even 400 odd years later.
it just feels strange knowing what your reading and still able to understand was written by another person hundreds of years prior.

[Anonymous No.20239241]

>>20231924
Frank dikkoter is a very biased historian.
i fully recommend you read some other authors around Mao before taking dikkoters "50 million dead" gospel as truth.
he even realistically fails to address precisely why Mao had success in rising to power through the communist uprising and his trilogy of books start to read more like torture porn than they do an account of mao's rule in context with the history before and after his leadership.
there are very valid reasons why mao was put into power and despite dikotters portrayal of communists as unthinking gestapos, not all of them were purposely cruel.
tldr: FUCK frank dikotter, he's not a balanced historian.

[Anonymous No.20239273]

>>20233471
charlies speech at the scientific conference is the personal highlight of the book for me, a real sad book anon, makes me think of old people who know they are starting to get dementia

[Anonymous No.20239283]

>>20233960
the man who fell to earth if you haven't read it yet, barring that pic related is a fantastic collection of short stories between 20 - 40 pages long each.
not the most out there storys but all very human and all very good.

[Anonymous No.20239327]

>>20231927
>4.9 rating on good reads
what is this?

[Anonymous No.20239633]

>>20237077
I found them thanks fren

[Anonymous No.20239665]

>>20237273
I really wish I had read the books first before watching the series. The first book Leviathan Wakes, did start off strong and kind of got frumpy towards the middle, but did pick back up in the end. I don't like how Holden is portrayed as somewhat of whimp, and uses everyone as his crutch, and I liked how on the show the crew of the Roci weren't in league with any certain government and kept themselves as a crew for humanity as a whole. I've started the second book and about 100 pages in so far and it's starting as good as the first. Hopefully it will keep its momentum up throughout the book.

[Anonymous No.20239730]

>>20238521
based foliochad

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>>20231715

[Anonymous No.20240704]

>Intelligent Investor
I'm a blue collar guy and my whole family and friend circle are intellectuals. Really trying to understand stocks and investing, something that I've neither been taught, or had the courage to try. This is the 3rd or 4th book on stocks I have read and it's full of good knowledge I can apply right as the markets open.
Now I am investing on my own and feel good knowing the jew isn't taking a(s much of a) cut anymore. Will be able to afford a cabin in the woods now with the money I have made.
Feels good bros.

[Anonymous No.20240840]

>>20232834
Just finished his second book. Immeasurably based

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>>20234535
Hi, you can reach me over on the r/cuckold subreddit, I'm a regular poster there

[Anonymous No.20240928]

>>20240704
Are books like these actually decent?
I always thought it was just fragments of the knowledge that the overlords filter down to keep the simpletons happy.
Esp. considering the entire financial system is rigged.

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>>20239327
It's from Peep Show.

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>>20231715
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. I'm reading the plays at the moment and they're great. After only having previously read Dorian Gray many years ago, Wilde is becoming one of my favorite authors.

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>>20240924

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>>20235437
Shadow of the torturer. Book of the new sun series is honestly one of the best things I've ever read, and I'm really not a fan of fantasy shit

[Anonymous No.20241699]

I’m reading
>The Holy Bible
>The Republic
>Wuthering Heights
>Anna Karenina
>Spring Snow
And I recently finish Right Wing Women.

[Anonymous No.20242229]

Reading Gatsby

Its alright

[Anonymous No.20242260]

>>20231927
kek

[Anonymous No.20242477]

Twelfth Night. Trying to read all of Shakespeare's works before the end of the year and I just finished some of the big tragedies so thought I'd read some comedies to "get them out the way" but I'm actually really enjoying it. Who knew comedies could be funny?
Next, I plan to take a break from Shakespeare and read a big fat novel. Was thinking maybe The Portrait of a Lady but I have mixed feelings on James so not sure if I want to commit myself. If not I'll probably fall back into good ol' Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.20242553]

>>20234328
Do you also jerk yourself off and pat your back at the same time as well?

[Anonymous No.20242577]

>>20239241
>everyone who doesn't suck my communist hero's dick is biased
Way to oust yourself, Chang. Why do you keep defending him even though he killed more of your hive than the Mongols and Japanese combined?

[Anonymous No.20242580]

I'm not. I just come here to pretend I read

[Anonymous No.20242586]

Lolita.

[Anonymous No.20242749]

Anyone read George Harrison's autobiography?

[Anonymous No.20242762]

>>20240928
>Are books like these actually decent?
Absolutely, depending on how financially literate you are. My parents/teachers only taught me the basics (e.g. credit card is for borrowing money, pay it back and if you don't, you'll get charged interest). So depending what you want out of these books, they can teach you various things. For example, Richest Man in Babylon is your basic "how to" book on saving money. It's sub 100 pages, tongue-in cheek and has easy to follow steps that will make you accumulate wealth. Rich Dad Poor Dad takes it a step further and teaches you the difference between real wealth (assets, real estate, reoccurring income, etc) and fake wealth/liabilities (cars, electronics, etc). It also teaches you the importance of having your own business for tax purposes and pitfalls of wagecucking. Then if you want to get into the financial investments, depending on where you live (US/CA for me), The Simple Guide to Wealth is amazing and sets you up to do your own investing. The Intelligent Investor I would say fits around here in terms of knowledge and difficulty in understanding. I'd have no clue what Graham was saying unless I read the previously mentioned books.
>considering the entire financial system is rigged
Again, you're absolutely correct. It is rigged, but so is everything else. This is exactly why the books are a huge red pill and so beneficial. It is no different than the rigged sex/dating pool for chads, but working out, having a good job, goals, and being confident will bring you into that rigged circle. Letting someone else invest your money is bullshit, paying interest is bullshit (picrel - awesome book), and paying taxes is bullshit. I've never felt more free than when getting rid of debt and having my own business.

[Anonymous No.20243861]

>>20240924
I just want one (1) australian person to talk to who reads marx and isn't an oversocialised retard

[Anonymous No.20243953]

>>20231938
Haha

[Anonymous No.20243960]

"The red room", August Strindberg

[Anonymous No.20244029]

>>20231715
I just finished this. What's weird is I bought it for 30 dollars a few weeks ago. Now it's about 150-200 dollars.
It was good. It explains the biodiversity differences between old-growth forests and secondary growth. Old-growth forests did not undergo human disturbances whereas managed or secondary growth were disturbed by logging and other human activities like chemical run-off. Old-growth forests tend to have more fungal, plant, amphibian, and so on biodiversity. They also store more carbon and are more abundant in biomass of birds, snails, and so on. The underground mycelium networks also tend to be more complex with the trees looking majestic with greater trunk volume, complex branches, and so on.
I would like to visit Oregon's old-growth forests in the future and hug some ancient trees.

[Anonymous No.20244647]

Kingdoms of Death, the 4th book in this modern scifi-opera series

[Anonymous No.20244666]

>>20233471
I admit I cried when I read this book

[Anonymous No.20244773]

>>20241699
What do you think of Wuthering Heights? Imo it was pretty great in that it made clear to the reader the ugliness of the whole situation but still allowed you to sympathize on some level. Won't spoil the ending but it's really beautiful.

>>20240493
I read this book around the same time I read Celine's Journey and compared to that one it made little to no impression on me but I don't even really remember it much so I should probably at least revisit it.

[Anonymous No.20244847]

>>20244666
>those digits
Ok anon, I will read it as well.

[Anonymous No.20245234]

>>20244666
>Flowers for Algernon
If it made Satan cry, I'm afraid to read it

[Anonymous No.20246575]

>>20231715

[Anonymous No.20246598]

>>20244029
that's a nice cover. you have a woman's thumb btw. i have a few books on mycelium i have been not reading.

[Anonymous No.20246605]

>>20234072
I do it too. one day you realize you haven't read those books when you had a chance and then you realize it's very light reading you can learn from, because it's explained as if it's for children.

[Anonymous No.20246914]

>>20231715
Latter day Pamphlets
The Great Deception
The House of Saud
The Managerial Revolution

[Anonymous No.20247045]

Las ilusiones perdidas, Balzac

[Anonymous No.20247091]

>>20231715
Taking a break from more serious novels and reading Bakemonogatari (currently on Nisenmonogatari) because I need something lighter.

[Anonymous No.20247103]

>>20231715
I just finished Moby Dick, I'm reading "Hacks" by Donna Brazile, and the bible (Douay–Rheims). I can't decide what to start next. I have "Once upon a white man" I really want to read. I might do something lighter than trying to dive into Journey to the West or Decline and fall of the roman empire.

[Anonymous No.20247373]

Re-reading

[Anonymous No.20247385]

>>20246598
I finished and wrote a review on Entangled Life.
I probably looked more masculine and stronger than you during my prime, POS.

[Anonymous No.20247397]

>>20247385
Dont be so insecure about your extraordinarily effeminate thumb anon

[Anonymous No.20247400]

I'm reading Miles Davis' autobiography right now. Very illuminating and ridiculously entertaining. Would recommend even if you aren't a fan of jazz or have never listened to Miles' music.

[Anonymous No.20247402]

I am reading The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

[Anonymous No.20247455]

>>20247397
I don't have a feminine thumb. It's just small but not smooth like a female's. I've just always had skinny arms even when I had a powerful chest, lower back, and upper back. I could bench 250 at 145 and do 20 pull ups during my prime with new issues. I could lift very heavy sandbags twice my body weight without issue too. I could squat competitively on powerlifter levels too. However, I've always had skinny arms.

[Anonymous No.20247460]

>>20247385
>>20247455
methinks the lady's thumb doth protest too much

[Anonymous No.20247465]

>>20247455
>new issues
no issues*

[Anonymous No.20247473]

>>20231715
I'm not sure if you have to understand quantum physics to appreciate this book, because I'm getting absolutely filtered. It just seems like random events happen one after the other

[Anonymous No.20247487]

>>20235718
Looking for my Sebald posters. Rings of Saturn is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. I'm currently reading through Vertigo right now and it is growing on me in the same vein as The Rings of Saturn did. Exquisite taste.

[Anonymous No.20247496]

>>20247460
It's not feminine. Just small.

[Anonymous No.20247504]

>>20247455
Anon theres nothing wrong with having a thumb that is so inordinately effeminate that it makes others burst into laughter at the sight of it
Let it go

[Anonymous No.20247534]

>>20247504
You're literally the only person to ever say my thumb is feminine.

[Anonymous No.20247544]

>>20247534
We need a timestamp to prove thats really your thumb and that you aren’t just photoshopping a woman’s thumb onto your hand

[Anonymous No.20247574]

>>20247544
Most white women look like men anyways.

[Anonymous No.20247676]

just finished dune
now notes from underground
then no longer human

[Anonymous No.20247699]

Interesting topic

[Anonymous No.20247731]

>>20247699
Looks like a book for edgy brainlets

[Anonymous No.20247760]

Just finished Walden and was thinking about what to read next.

[Anonymous No.20247984]

>>20231927
Lmao

[Anonymous No.20248001]

>>20231715
Thomas Browne collection.

[Anonymous No.20248283]

Lessons in Tanya from chabad.org

[Anonymous No.20248287]

>>20231715

[Anonymous No.20248308]

>>20240975
Do you like it? I did not, personally. Mercifully short, but I still struggled to finish it. Some great lines here and there, but few and far between

[Anonymous No.20248341]

>>20240704
If you want something rigorous try Ivo Welch or Valuation by Wiley

[Anonymous No.20248401]

>>20247496
Holy fuck bro whats up with your thumb XD
Im reading Gravitys Rainbow rn

[Anonymous No.20248412]

I'm thinking of starting snowcrash. Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.20248467]

>>20248287
extrafriededition

[Anonymous No.20248534]

>>20248287
a daring synthesis

[Anonymous No.20248579]

Belchamber by Sturgis

An aristocratic incel is an embarssment to himself and everyone around him in the very early 20th century. I like it and some on /lit/ might sympathize with the MC

[Anonymous No.20248621]

Vineland

[Anonymous No.20248802]

>>20231715
Anne Frank

[Anonymous No.20248807]

>>20248412
I don't know, I've never read it.

[Anonymous No.20248813]

>>20231715
I'm reading 'Forest of the Gods' by a lithuanian writer Balys Sruoga. It's his recollections of a nazi concentration camp in Stuttgart where he spent ww2. It is written in a beautiful prose making it hard to put the book down

[Anonymous No.20248822]

>>20231715
We don't read.

[Anonymous No.20248828]

Scarborough. Literally opened a new world of poverty to me.

[Anonymous No.20248829]

Reading Three Musketeers.

Thinking of reading The Club Dumas afterwards.

[Anonymous No.20248836]

>>20231715
your diary desu
sickening stuff anon, you should get help
captcha: krgay

[Anonymous No.20248925]

>>20231715
Blood meridian

[Anonymous No.20248953]

>>20231715
Submission because it's 2022
It's dragging in the middle though.

[Anonymous No.20248963]

>>20248412
sent you a pm ;)

[Anonymous No.20249020]

>>20239241
>ven realistically fails to address precisely why Mao had success in rising to power
You mean Goldman Sachs and Ya-Le?

[Anonymous No.20249206]

The story is interesting but the prose is dry as the Mojave. I'll push through it, but I can feel my eyes start to glaze sometimes while I'm reading it.

[Anonymous No.20249245]

>>20249206
The story isn't even interesting. You made that up in a feeble effort to make reading this book worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.20249275]

I started reading Steppenwolf but I’ve been too depressed lately to sit down and read.
I don’t even watch tv/movies or play vidya anymore either.
I just mindlessly scroll 4chan or drink.

[Anonymous No.20249281]

>>20249275
Steppenwolf is a good book but it will not help you. The Harry of the first half of the book is infinitely better than the bisexual, brainless Harry of the last half of the book. But, everyone pretends this isn't the case.

I hope this helps.

[Anonymous No.20249283]

>>20247473
tell me how you like it. i have it but never read it. I only read his "quantum psychology" and it absolutely blew my 16 y/o mind, but I feel like it may have been enough RAW for me

[Anonymous No.20249288]

Currently reading Joseph Conrad's Victory. It's very comfortable and earnest.

>>20247402
That book was a lot of fun, I'm excited to read more of him once I finally have a few dollars of disposable income again.

[Anonymous No.20249299]

>>20231715
Still this. Its kind of repetitive

[Anonymous No.20249315]

>>20249281
I didn’t start reading it because I thought it would help me. And I don’t know what you mean by the other half of what you said.

[Anonymous No.20249717]

>>20249275
>I just mindlessly scroll 4chan or drink.
Try just mindlessly scrolling 4chan and drinking

[Anonymous No.20249753]

I don't even like baseball

[Anonymous No.20249776]

So far its pretty entertaining. The author has no qualms about shitting on anyone and everyone.

[Anonymous No.20249808]

i may never go back to reading anything other than religious stuff. its divine

[Anonymous No.20249821]

>>20232834
>10/10 cover
>1/10 prose
>A Mike Ma Story

This faggot literally just copied /pol/ shit posts and very poorly placed them in an American Psycho story line.

[Anonymous No.20249873]

>Be white and rich
>Go to concert hall with your gf to listen to some fine art
>Arrive, there's a bunch of niggers sitting around, a lot of them
>Try to ignore them, go to your seat, you're surrounded by them
>The concert is about to start, absolute silence, suddenly...
BRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPP
>Niggers erupt in laughter
>The concert begins, it's a low and slow melody until...
BRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPP
>Another one just did it, and another one, and another one
>You suddenly realize all the niggers in the audience are farting really fucking loud on purpose
>You suddenly realize they chose this concert because it was going to be very quiet, the band struggles to continue playing but then--
BRAAAAAAPPPP
BRAPPPP
BRAAAAPPP

What do?

[Anonymous No.20249877]

>>20231924
More like LMAO amirite lads?

[Anonymous No.20249878]

>>20249873
laugh with them

[Anonymous No.20249884]

>>20233934
groomer-core

[Anonymous No.20249892]

>>20236184
Not that anon, but the horse, wheel and language was really boring, lots of archaeological details that offer no insight unless you already know about the subject. And it's plagued by such descriptions. All the bits about comparative linguistics, migrations and development of horseback riding are great, but it suffers from the aforementioned problem

[Anonymous No.20249928]

>>20231955
>muh capitalist violence
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