/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22009439]

ITT: What you're reading rn

[Anonymous No.22009451]

>>22009439
Pretty gud so far

[Anonymous No.22009454]

Parallel Lives by Plutarch, unrevised. Over 1000 pages.

[Anonymous No.22009460]

i’m also reading anna karenina, about 200 more pages to go. it’s been a snoozefest mostly

[Anonymous No.22009463]

>>22009439
use of weapons

[Anonymous No.22009492]

>>22009439
Working through a lot of shorter works and poems atm with a couple longer books

>Richard II by Shakespeare
>The Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
>Henry Miller-Lawrence Durrell Letters
>Baudelaire’s poems and essays
>Poe’s tales and poetry
>Illuminations by Rimbaud

[Anonymous No.22009494]

>>22009439
for the reading group. it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.22009503]

>>22009494
I've been thinking of picking this up. Glad to hear it's good

[Anonymous No.22009506]

My own book

[Anonymous No.22009511]

Tolstoy Collected Shorter Fiction volume 1 and French for Reading by Karl Sandberg
I am 280 pages into Tolstoy and 150 pages into French for Reading

[Anonymous No.22009523]

>Neuromancer
Lit bros... it's actually amazing. I feel a sense of guilt in that it appeals to my most primal male aesthetic sensibilities. Sure the technology is cool, but I mainly love the gritty sleaze, the sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, the slang, that feeling of ephemerality that comes with rain, slipping through a crowd, seeing trails in your vision. But I don't care. It's been a while since a book gratified me this much, since it scratched a badly needed itch. I imagine afterwards I'll return to some reserved food-for-thought classic. I usually commit myself to a 600+ page tome over the summer.

[Anonymous No.22009526]

>>22009492
The Miller-Durrell letters interest me. How are they?

[Anonymous No.22009530]

Currently reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Really sad story involving time travelling chair

[Anonymous No.22009561]

>>22009526
Really good. It’s heartwarming to see how their friendship develops throughout the 45 years starting with a young nobody Durrell writing to Miller. The reader gets an inside look at their struggles, heartbreaks, successes, the publishing industry and their friendship. One of Miller’s letters to Durrell, when the latter was asking if he should cater to his audience, was amazing. It was included in a book called Art and Outrage. One thing I like about Henry Miller is that he talks a lot about books and writers. He has been a goldmine for me as far as finding authors to read goes. That is no different here. I’m about 100 pages from finishing it and I think it’s my 2nd favorite letters book (first is Van Gogh but my books don’t have Theo’s letters). The book has shot Durrell up my TBR list but I’m not sure where to start. Probably The Alexandria Quartet.

[Anonymous No.22009636]

>>22009439
A little bit mediocre, but fun at times

[Anonymous No.22009638]

Kierkegaard Either/Or

[Anonymous No.22009722]

>>22009439
>>22009460
Same with me. Can't for the life of me finish the last 200 pages. The first part was absolute kino. But the lack of real conflict makes the second part unbearable. I know Anna is gonna get jealous and it will blow up her relationship with Vronsky, but I after 600 pages I don't care about the bitch anymore.

Reading pic related right now, and the prose is terrible. Saw an anon saying it last month and I didn't believe it then. Will try to get through it because of the cyberpunky feel, can anybody recommend me cyberpunk books similar to neuromancer which is written better?

[Anonymous No.22009737]

very close to the end of Don quixote, then on to Tolstoys "the death of ivan ilyich and other stories" and "the cossacks and other stories" which includes the Sevastopol Sketches and Hadji Murat.

[Anonymous No.22009739]

>>22009439
>>22009460
>>22009722

Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one. I wish I'd never started it, but it's been looming on my shelf for 7-8 years. I feel like Tolstoy could've condensed this into 300 pages. I know that's not the Russian fashion, but there hasn't been much significant action or character changes throughout the book to justify its length, and the events of each chapter aren't vital by any means. It's been a chore to read. I imagine War and Peace isn't any better.

[Anonymous No.22009742]

>>22009722
the end stretch of the book is the best part brehs

[Anonymous No.22009746]

>>22009439
Kafka's Castle, Lady Chatterley's Lover and juggling between Madness and Civilization and The Second Sex

[Anonymous No.22009747]

>>22009739
war and peace might have a little bit more going for it for you since it has a few battles and other war-related sequences, and the character drama is much more dramatic, and theres just plain more characters with different stories to switch between

that being said, if you hated AK so much you didn't finish it, it might just not be for you

[Anonymous No.22009753]

>>22009439
This. I'm trying to go through all of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's books. Very good primer on both the al-falsafah (philosophical) and the al-hikmah (theosophical) dimensions of Islam.
Concurrently, also reading through Jalal al-din Rumi's Masnavi when I can.

[Anonymous No.22009755]

>>22009753
Apologies, wrong image

[Anonymous No.22009760]

>>22009722
Neuromancer is ass. I read 100 pages and can barely remember anything.

[Anonymous No.22009763]

>>22009739
>I feel like Tolstoy could've condensed this into 300 pages.
Book would be worse if he did, or at least less popular, the appeal of the book is to get insight in the characters' psychology by putting them in lots of social situations, internal monologues and political discussions. Many find it comfy to read, but I and need the plot to keep tension, or my feeble-mind gets bored.

[Anonymous No.22009771]

>>22009760
I feel it too, am 60 pages in and the main character just aimlessly waddles around with a hot chick like a moron. The pacing is bad. I feel like people only like the aesthetic it tries to present (poorly) mega cities, neon lights, technology, sleez and drugs, and mistake it with liking the book.

[Anonymous No.22009777]

>>22009439
Thanks for making this thread, the fact that there isn't one going at all times is a good indicator of the pseudishness of this board.

I am reading far too many things at once but most recently I've been focused on Proust and rereading Paradise Lost, in addition to regularly revisiting bits and pieces of the Chinese classic of poetry. Just finished Bouvard et Pecuchet.

>>22009561
What authors have you learned about through him? Good choices btw, Baudelaire and Rimbaud are obviously great and Richard II is just such an immense pleasure to read.

[Anonymous No.22009787]

>>22009753
is that Madhuri? man! I stopped watching Bollywood movie from like 2015 and onwards cuz they were just putting out shit and shit and shit and shit mix with romance and shit

[Anonymous No.22009805]

I'm rereading The Brothers Karamazov right now. I'm thinking about picking up The Scarlet City by Hella Haasse after I finish.

[Anonymous No.22009822]

Just finished pic related, my take is

>essentially a very well-written medieval fanfiction with a borderline Mary Sue

I really enjoyed it nonetheless. 5/5

[Anonymous No.22009823]

Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.22009871]

>>22009439
Not that far in but has some pretty famous people in it so I'm looking forwards to it.

[Anonymous No.22009881]

I am reading in the order they were written, not the order of the story.
Going through Antigone now. Having been to a couple of old greek amphitheatres, I am trying to imagine viewing it from the crowd.

Though maybe someone can help me out, is "LEADER" the lead vocal of the chorus? Pls no bully

[Anonymous No.22009884]

>>22009755
Unrelated but that's a pretty screenshot

[Anonymous No.22009888]

>>22009881
Based, don't forget to imagine the satyr plays too.

[Anonymous No.22009915]

I've just started Slaughterhouse Five

>>22009737
Sounds like a good time. I just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich a month ago, it was depressing but good.

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[Anonymous No.22010205]

Treasure Island.

Got it from my local library, and I'd like a copy of it. I wonder how Kidnapped is.

[Anonymous No.22010206]

>>22009439
Ghostmaker by Dan Abnett

[Anonymous No.22010207]

>>22010205

[Anonymous No.22010208]

Mary By Vladimir Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.22010210]

>>22010207
Also half considering this one. The premise sounds very goofy.

[Anonymous No.22010218]

>>22009722
Cyberpunk is simultaneously the most relevant genre today and also the worst written.

I have yet to find a work that satisfied me and I think a major problem is the attraction leftists have for it.

It's still my favorite genre to write in though.

[Anonymous No.22010243]

>>22009439
I'm also reading it, halfway into part 2, and not having a good time. I didn't know it was a story about cucking.

[Anonymous No.22010473]

Taking my time with it. Its very enjoyable and my mind wanders off on tangents regularly envisioning life inna woods. 100 pages left, will be sad when its done

[Anonymous No.22010495]

>>22009523
You just made it sound cool

[Anonymous No.22010499]

if I read Anna Karenina and didn't like it, I'd probably have an existential crisis knowing I was tasteless
thank god it turned out to be among my favorite books

[Anonymous No.22010500]

>>22009439
Just finished The Abortion by Richard Brautigan. First half was good, second half conceptually interesting but not all that successful I think.

[Anonymous No.22010511]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22010529]

Halfway through. Some interesting ideas but ultimately vapid. Will stick with it because I can't tell if it will get better or worse and I want to know. Wouldn't normally try but after I got memed into reading Sayaka Murata and she was actually good, I figured I'd take some more chances

[Anonymous No.22010557]

>>22010499
I liked about 75% of it. A few subplots seemed a bit lacking while everything Oblonsky and Lenin were packing. Am i tasteless or just midwit?

[Anonymous No.22010564]

>Lenin

[Anonymous No.22010569]

>>22010564
Fuck you. I made a spelling mistake. So what? Levin is a Jewish name too by the way.

[Anonymous No.22010582]

>Fuck you. I made a spelling mistake. So what? Levin is a Jewish name too by the way.

[Anonymous No.22010584]

>>22010582
These jaks are so dated. Get new meme material, buddy.

[Anonymous No.22010588]

[Anonymous No.22010600]

Starting this today, looking forward to getting into it.

[Anonymous No.22010739]

>>22010600
Cool cover

[Anonymous No.22010813]

Been reading "I Am a Cat" for like a month+ now and need to just drop it. Don't hate it, but it's killed all motivation for me to read.

[Anonymous No.22010815]

>>22010600
Nice IG photo

[Anonymous No.22010817]

>>22009439
Having a blast

[Anonymous No.22010836]

I don't think I like this man.

[Anonymous No.22010837]

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

[Anonymous No.22010842]

>>22009722
Read Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams. His prose is significantly better - even to the point that I bought his book over Neuromancer when I was looking for cyberpunk kino to read.

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[Anonymous No.22010849]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22010854]

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[Anonymous No.22010972]

>>22009777
>what authors have you learned about through him?
Some of these I’ve read before but reading about them made me take a closer look and many are now among my favorites
Mysteries by Hamsun, Cellini’s Autobiography, Blaise Cendrars, Van Gogh’s Letters, Decameron by Boccaccio, John Cowper Powys, Rabelais, Rimbaud, de Nerval, Unamuno, Spengler, Whitman, Nietzsche, Tao Te Ching, Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann, Jean Giono, Celine, Emerson, Lautreamont, DH Lawrence, Krishnamurti, Anais Nin, DT Suzuki, Strindberg, HL Mencken, Seraphita/Louis Lambert by Balzac…

And yeah, What Are You Currently Reading threads should be stickied. Most of this board is about intellectual dick sizing unfortunately

[Anonymous No.22010976]

>>22010972
Retard

[Anonymous No.22011014]

Maybe I'm a midwit, I don't care.

[Anonymous No.22011020]

>>22010854
i always thought that √-1 would make a great name for a strip club.

[Anonymous No.22011031]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22011123]

>>22009439
finished journey to the end of the night two days ago, and will start pic rel this evening

[Anonymous No.22011126]

>>22009871
They already lost me at the strawman cover. That thing on the right only contains some meat. It is not the meat itself.

[Anonymous No.22011138]

>>22009439
Better than GOW

[Anonymous No.22011140]

>>22009915
>I've just started Slaughterhouse Five
When they get to the scene where the dude's wife is talking to Vonnegut about the war, keep in mind that the ''children'' that we sent to fight were largely 18 to 20 year olds and the ''children'' they were fighting were often literal civilian children fighting for their homeland. At first it comes off as very sympathetic. Once one considers all of the context, it comes off as being very crass. So it goes.

[Anonymous No.22011153]

>>22010205
>I'd like a copy of it
Bro, you can score the Junior Illustrated Library version in good used condition for ten dollars. They are Smythbound. Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.22011190]

>>22010218
Read Headcrash by Bruce Bethke. Keep in mind that a lot of what he wrote was still fiction because of its early publication. He predicted the rise of the PDA. He had to give it a name, since none existed yet. He called it the Personal Information Manager. I got no commie vibe out of it. There is a lot of comparing/contrasting of online/AFK personas.

[Anonymous No.22011197]

>>22010473
Just keep in mind that it is significantly fictionalized. Also note that his ideal society would likely not be able to produce the axe that he so cherished. He had a reasonable take on vegetarianism, but it falls short of accounting for biology. I enjoyed it when I read it. My appreciation for it fell consistently thereafter.

[Anonymous No.22011200]

Took a long break from literature of any kind out of sheer laziness, and figured why not jump back into it with some avant garde art bullshit? It's pretty good so far.

[Anonymous No.22011222]

>>22011190
I've added it to my wishlist. I'm a bit suspicious of it, given that audible doesn't have an audio version though.

[Anonymous No.22011256]

>These jaks are so dated. Get new meme material, buddy.

[Anonymous No.22011272]

>>22011200
>literature
It’s pretentious crap like House of Leaves that turns people off from literature at all

[Anonymous No.22011273]

I forget how good Walden actually is until I start rereading it. I should make it part of my yearly reading cycle.

[Anonymous No.22011281]

>>22011272
I've not read a lot of pretentious crap so a bit of it is refreshing, and it is so far pretty excellent prose. Also apparently, although I may be wrong, it touches on the concept of eternal recurrence, not actually existing and being in hell/purgatory without knowing it, all of which are deep seated fears of mine, so it's all the better.

[Anonymous No.22011297]

>>22011281
ignore this fuck >>22011272
read whatever you want as long you're enjoying it

[Anonymous No.22011333]

>>22011281
>I've not read a lot of pretentious crap so a bit of it is refreshing
This is an underrated point. Somehow /lit/ seems to think that the last book you read defines your whole personality. It's ok to branch out. Some books I've read were not the best but they were still worthwhile to gain a different perspective.

[Anonymous No.22011356]

>>22011222
>I'm a bit suspicious of it
I never said that it was popular, just that it was one of the better of the genre. Escaping the genre a bit, there is Stealing the Network. This was actually a fictional work that was used as a delivery vehicle for IT knowledge base for non-IT people. Good luck understanding it on audiobook format. It has sidebars where the plot is explained in technical detail. It is the Infinite Jest of technological fiction.

[Anonymous No.22011443]

>>22009881
>Antigone
read them all back in January. Antigone is probably my favorite.
Sophocles' chorus had 15 people: 2 halfs of [6 + 1 corypheus] and 1 main corypheus, which is the one called Leader in your book.

Finished reading some a Discworld book – Hogfather (death #4) yesterday. #2 and 3 were ass
Have been reading some Discworld, the latest ones – #2, 3, 4 of Death. Finished #4 Hogfather yesterday, was pretty good. #2 and 3 were ass. Haven't picked up the next book yet, will probably read Slaughterhouse 5, Haunting of Hill House or some sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.22011478]

>>22009439
About to finish les mis.

[Anonymous No.22011482]

>>22009439
War and Peace and Candide.

[Anonymous No.22011526]

Envy by Yuri Olesha. Soviet novel.
Very funny and also introspective work of art. You can see the shadow of Dosotoyevsky on its pages but the satire is just as good as Dosto's or even better at times while also dealing with different themes than Doato. Very short novella. You can read it in a day easily

[Anonymous No.22011809]

>>22010813
The translation is the drizzling shits as well. Hard to see the intended tension between traditional Japanese cultural elements vs emerging western cultural elements when literally everything is translated to read like UK slang. Absolutely head scratching

[Anonymous No.22011810]

>>22009439
ITS GOOOOOOD

[Anonymous No.22011991]

>>22011809
>everything is translated to read like UK slang
So sad. Many such cases. I expect to at least learn some transliteration from a translated piece. I feel robbed every time.

[Anonymous No.22011994]

Not sure what to think of it so far
Easy, pleasant read

[Anonymous No.22012036]

>>22009439
Xanth books.
They aren't great and I am bored with the nonsense/silliness of the world building.

[Anonymous No.22012042]

>>22009439
Rereading this. A lot better than I remember.

[Anonymous No.22012051]

>>22012042

It's actually spelled "Batlord". How was her immurement btw?

[Anonymous No.22012072]

NGL, slightly disappointing given its status as a "classic".

[Anonymous No.22012115]

>>22011020
nice

[Anonymous No.22012139]

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>>22012072
Haven't read the book but the game is actually very delightful and fun to read. Maybe give that a shot, you might enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.22012266]

Pynchon’s V.

Disliked it the first time, I think b/c I was expecting it to be more like GR. But now I’m really enjoying it

[Anonymous No.22012272]

>>22009915
worst book ive ever read

[Anonymous No.22012336]

>>22011443
Thanks mate

[Anonymous No.22012369]

>>22010972
Nice, I've never read him but clearly he has interesting and well-developed taste. Honestly I think most /lit/ users would do well to explore multiple authors who write in that fashion, i.e. freely associating discussion of different authors they (the author, that is) appreciate. It can serve as sort of a mentorship in taste, and if you try out a few different "mentors" you can gain a much broader, less Dunning-Kruger-ized view of things. Harold Bloom is a decent enough start but there's so much more out there.

>>22011478
How is the style/prose?

[Anonymous No.22012372]

>>22009454
I Just started Plutarch yesterday so far so good. Only problem for me is Plutarch is in the modernist period for his culture and doesn’t seem to believe in the gods.

[Anonymous No.22012377]

>>22010854
I am pretty sure Lagan was a fraud.

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>>22012139
Read Demons right after you finish it.

[Anonymous No.22012434]

>>22010473
i read this while living in the deep bush (aus) nothing but a campfire tinned goods and a swag(sleeping bag)

maximum comfy

[Anonymous No.22012443]

The Odyssey (re-reading)

and

The Grapes of Wrath

GOW is a bit boring so far but I'm not far in, odyssey is always a classic

[Anonymous No.22012464]

>>22009439
5% is useful information, 95% is intellectual masturbation by a 17th century French aristocrat with too much time on his hands, combined incredibly specific advice about women and their lovers. I was reading one maxim per night for about 8 months, now I'm reading it outright to get it over with

>>22009737
Whoa I love Cossacks, how many Cossacks are in that book

>>22009753
>>22009755
Based Indian woman fetishist

>>22009915
It's better than /lit/ gives it credit for

>>22010473
Thoreau is my favorite author. If you want more of him, A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers is equally as good and can be found pretty easily. It's written in a similar variety style to Walden, except the account ledgers and scientific measurements found in Walden are replaced with local lore for northern MA and southern NH

>>22010600
I hear this is his second best after Moby Dick

>>22010813
...isn't that book written at an elementary school level? Just finish it bro

[Anonymous No.22012485]

>>22012369
I’ve often found certain writers or themes to be lynchpins of sorts and Miller is definitely one for me. I read Vincent Van Gogh’s Letters because of him and now it probably my favorite book. Mysteries by Hamsun is up there too, and my favorite Hamsun out of 6 I’ve read. You have any recommendations for writers talking about books/writers?

[Anonymous No.22012537]

>>22012372
>I Just started Plutarch yesterday
Which one? Lives?

[Anonymous No.22013038]

-AD Melville's translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis
-Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
-Eugene Wolfenstein, Citadel of the Autarch (I am pleasantly surprised at how good Book of the New Sun turned out to be, I wasn't sure if it was gonna be another gay meme or not)
-Got about 500 pages into Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow over the last year and a quarter or so but recently have found myself reading it less and less because it's just so demoralizing, disturbing, and confusing. More because of the demoralizing and disturbing aspects than the confusing ones, I think. That's a book I have to read when the sun's out. It's basically Bad Vibes: The Book, along with Crying of Lot 49, which is his only other book I've read.

[Anonymous No.22013046]

>>22009439
I'm still reading Stifter and Meyern but thanks for checking in :)

[Anonymous No.22013082]

>>22013038
I'm also reading Invisible Man for the third time, but I'm reading it to my girl in little bits and pieces.

[Anonymous No.22013103]

>>22009805
Oh man you're in for it. How deep into the book are you? If I remember correctly, it's like 900 pages right? I fell in love with the characters, especially the three brothers (naturally)

[Anonymous No.22013104]

>>22011197
Its of particular interest to me as what he advocates for is exactly what my country tried to implement after expelling the British. Eamon DeValera had a vision of a simple happy Irish farmer who wanted for very little. It goes against human nature in some way and Platos Republic points this out. Once the basic needs are covered, should man simply lay in the dirt content? I believe i would enjoy and even benefit from living like Thoreau for a few months of the year though so the book is still very interesting

>>22012434
Sounds like a good fucking time Anon. Think id pass on the snakes and scorpions though

>>22012464
Thanks for the recommendation Anon. Ill check it out

[Anonymous No.22013454]

>>22013104
>my country
I started wondering which country.
>Eamon DeValera
Ah, the country where we sent the New Yorker. I slept outside for 28 days a few years ago, about 15 miles inland from Sligo. Small world the internet makes, fren. My family still owns the farm we bought out from the state after The Rising. We were already farming it about 70 years or so before independence. In a lot of ways, I think the climate might support a Thoreau style adventure. Keep in mind that Thoreau probably had free will to cut down a lot more trees for his venture than you will. We only have one grand tree on our farm and I would not dream of killing it for lumber.

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>>22009439
Just finished the red and the black by Stendhal. What should I read next bros?

[Anonymous No.22013607]

>・

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>>22012377
What do you think he lied about? The unconscious is indeed, structured like a language.

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>>22012485
Dr. Johnson is the father of English criticism, of course, and Coleridge another great, Hazlitt wrote wide-ranging essays as well as being a major critic. Eliot and Matthew Arnold are two classic poet-critics (Pound, Hulme, and the Leavises also having written Modernist criticism in the same vein as Eliot), Valery and Sainte-Beuve being somewhat similar on the French side. Bely and especially Khodasevich represented Russian Symbolism in both poetry/prose and criticism, and Solovyov wrote (eccentric) works of criticism. Walter Pater wrote idiosyncratic works in beautiful prose, combining criticism, philosophy, and fiction, Forster wrote about most of his major contemporaries in addition to writing theoretical criticism, Cyril Connolly was a failed novelist turned critic/essayist, Huxley wrote critical essays though he was more inclined to broader literary theory, Orwell published contemporary book reviews in which he also referenced classic authors, Galsworthy wrote short critical "notes" on authors he liked, Ford Madox Ford wrote various critical works in addition to publishing and promoting many authors, Arthur Quiller-Couch mostly wrote fiction for fun but he was a serious and great critic/scholar, Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf) was a great scholar of 18th century literature and philosophy and a thinker in his own right. Many authors of the later 20th century were/are extremely erudite and wrote essays or gave lectures exploring their thoughts on literature; I haven't delved into these as much, as I tend to remain quite skeptical of the poetics of the era in general, but honestly if you're just looking for recs they can probably steer you in very interesting directions. Nabokov too, but he's already a known quantity on here (the only one besides Bloom that has enough meme potential to get popular). And lastly it goes without saying that authors love to opine about other authors in their correspondence.

These are just random examples I've picked up by osmosis in the course of building my own reading list, fueled by an unhealthy collector's mania for the infinite promise offered by a new and mysterious author's name; I'm sure a more systematic search would yield many more examples. I do think many of them base their opinions and taste on strongly founded worldviews, though perhaps some that would conflict with Miller's. Regardless, they are all different and with that comes the possibility of discovering new recommendations as well as new interpretations. Given the availability of all these resources it's a bit sad that the average level of discussion around here isn't better but I suppose there are a lot of factors at play. Even if people just actually read the sticky though, imagine!! Imagine the possibilities for improvement! Truly intoxicating stuff.

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>>22013528
How did you find it?
I finished the same yesterday. The ending felt a bit too sudden to my senses. It should have been longer, I felt. But then again maybe he had exhausted all his characters. Excellent book nonetheless. Try Charterhouse of Parma. It is way more adventurous and a lot funnier.

[Anonymous No.22013845]

>>22010813
A lot is lost in translation since there isn't a good English equivalent for the language used in the cat's narration, but I'm nevertheless enjoying the book.

[Anonymous No.22013851]

Do people actually read novels?

[Anonymous No.22013858]

>>22012443
finished GOW a few weeks ago. it picks up once you get to the gas station chapter but i still like East of Eden better

[Anonymous No.22013944]

>>22009439
is pretty reddit, though i still have 2 routes left

[Anonymous No.22013969]

halfway through zarathustra and just started 2666 yesterday.
I'm on a rant to finish Nietzsche, have Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human and Will to Power to go. It has been a nice read but I think this book has some ups and downs, some very nice moments followed by some boring ones.
About 2666, I lovo big pomo novels but hadn't read one in more than a year. It was on my shelf for a long time so I'm finally reading it.

[Anonymous No.22013995]

learning about them blue-eyed white devils

[Anonymous No.22014073]

>>22013103
Well, like I said I've already read it (several times), so I do know what happens. You do notice new things every time through, though. I'm just about at the part where Ivan and Alexei have their talk in the tavern, which is one of my favorite parts of the novel.

[Anonymous No.22014387]

[Anonymous No.22014405]

>>22009530
I keep seeing this book everywhere and the premise sounds interesting. Recommend?

[Anonymous No.22014415]

im going to marathon a 30 hour audiobook of aristotles stuff. what will i think of it?

[Anonymous No.22014440]

This book marked my childhood, because I listened first a radio-novel of this. Now that I'm reading it, I'm having a blast.

[Anonymous No.22014482]

>>22009439
Just started the second book of the Bill Hodges trilogy, very much enjoyed Mr Mercedes despite it being my second favourite King book starring a protagonist who has Bill in their name, not as good as Billy Summers.

[Anonymous No.22014574]

>>22013995
Keep reading their stuff. Eventually they get wise to the ''Jews''.
>we give you religion and a god and this is how you repay us?

[Anonymous No.22014710]

>>22014574
>their
>they
Malcolm X was a man, he was not some ambiguously sexed gender goblin

[Anonymous No.22014754]

Right now I'm mainly reading Book of the New Sun but also occasionally reading a bit of the Anatomy of Melancholy

[Anonymous No.22014761]

Reading John Keay's China: A History. Pretty good.

[Anonymous No.22014787]

>>22014754
Is this your first run through of New Sun? I'm on my first reading, just got to Citadel of the Autarch. BOTNS is prettttty damn good; you just have to stick with it and let yourself be confused sometimes and lean into the sense of wonder. Let your imagination run off with the names and the concepts for the first two books or so, and a good deal of it will start to come together later on, maybe not in the way you expected though.

[Anonymous No.22014866]

>>22014482
>enjoyed Mr Mercedes
can't say the same. Really weak simplistic prose that screams "yo bro I'm still cool aren't I". The Hogdes / investigation arc is not bad, but does it really say much? I'm sure most bestseller goyslop detective books aren't worse. The antagonist is a laughable caricature of an incel school shooter with mommy issues, who hates fucking femoids so much it's unreal. Extreme cringe! This book would be better without the killer POV, but I guess the 300+ pages won't fill themselves.
There's also a mandatory token nigger for diversity, and 7 laptops that boot sequentially to create a cool hacker vibe.
I should've re-read/re-watched The Mist instead.

[Anonymous No.22015086]

>>22014787
Yea this is my first real attempt at it, I've been pretty hooked by it. I'm at the part where Agia and Sev are going through the gardens

[Anonymous No.22015103]

Just finished what I already posted earlier in this thread so I’m rereading Ecce Homo by Nietzsche. It’s probably my second favorite Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.22015145]

>>22015103
what is your favorite?

[Anonymous No.22015168]

>>22012372
>the modernist period of his culture
You don't know anything and don't read books. Modernism was one of the single, most fertile periods for human culture, comparable maybe only with classical Greece in terms of the sheer innovation in all branches of the arts and the sciences.
To despise modernism from the height of a Jordan Peterson 9 minute video on youtube complaining about "moral relativism", without having the decency to even check the wikipedia page for "modernism", which alone would suffice to show you the amount of innovation and radical advancement of humankind is the pinnacle of all stupidity and should you ever feel the desire to utter your take on modernism in a university classroom in whatever undergraduate course you are taking right know, just know that I will make the personal effort of finding you and shaming you in front of all your peers.
In addition to the fact that it makes absolutely no sense to compare modernism and Hellenism, since the latter is signed by decay and involution in all intellectual things with very few exceptions (the only worthy hellenistic philosophers being Plotinus) and the first is not, you should also know that relativism and lack of faith were absolutely not a feature of that age, given the effort that each and any philosopher made into engineering the most autistic synchretic religious philosophical systems ever created (see Proclus). Plutarch highly contributed to this, and all you have to do is read is Delphic dialogues, which you didn’t read, having started yesterday, or you would know that not only he “believes” in the gods, but he takes care to connect many religious beliefs to each other and frame them all within platonism, which your equally autistic favorite authors (Guenon and/or Evola, judging from how little you seem to know about anything) also expounded.
There was rarely in human history a period where people believed in so many gods as during Hellenism, where they took care to revive obscure oriental shit and mix it with classical religion for the sake of having something to believe – except maybe today’s world, which is pestered by traditionalist, neopagans, ironic and unironic medieval Christians, all of whom (much like people in hellenistic times) read nothing, study nothing, think about nothing and are on a steady course to throw the world as a whole into the Dark Ages once again.

[Anonymous No.22015246]

>>22015145
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.22015277]

>>22015168
Damn. You certainly came at his throat. Kek

[Anonymous No.22015408]

>>22013528
What do you want to read next?

[Anonymous No.22015502]

>>22009805
>>22013103
Which translation? I've been reading the McDuff and I'm very close to finishing, and I've gotta be honest, it's not really all that remarkable as so many people claim. I'm not really sure if it's actually just the translation, though.

[Anonymous No.22015551]

>>22009494
>Vintage Mann
wat

[Anonymous No.22015562]

>>22009494
If that is the Porter-Lowe translation, throw it out and get Woods

[Anonymous No.22015624]

>>22015168
nigga plz be jokin...

[Anonymous No.22015656]

>>22015551
>>Vintage Mann
>wat
fucking Vintage didn't dare pulling that trick with PKD. Their 1992 covers suck anyway

[Anonymous No.22015671]

>>22011809
>>22011991
Why don't you guys (Americans) just make your own translations?

[Anonymous No.22015689]

>>22012426
For what reason?

[Anonymous No.22015696]

>>22009439
Just finished Animal by Lisa Taddeo

Picks up significantly in the last 3rd, but can't help but feel like it's a pale imitation of stuff Bret Easton Ellis pulled off 20-30 years ago.

[Anonymous No.22015702]

>>22015689
Both deal with nihilism, I guess

[Anonymous No.22015749]

>>22015656
>VINTAGE DICK

[Anonymous No.22015772]

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wasn't sold for the first few chapters but I'm starting to really like it. Pretty pretty prose and fun dialogue

[Anonymous No.22015782]

>>22015689
They've got similar plots with different conclusions reached on the ideas investigated. Demons in a lot of ways reads like it's parodying Fathers and Sons and Turgenev in particular.

[Anonymous No.22015804]

Reading the Patrician Webster's New International Dictionary (1913 edition). For example, here is the entry for the simple word, Flash:
Flash (flăsh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flashed (flăsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Flashing.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.] 1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles.

Talfourd.

The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.

M. Arnold.

A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.

Tennyson.

3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

Every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other.

Shak.

To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett.

Syn. -- Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister. Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.

Flash (flăsh), v. t. 1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

The chariot of paternal Deity,
Flashing thick flames.

Milton.

2. To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

3. (Glass Making) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

4. To trick up in a showy manner.

Limning and flashing it with various dyes.

A. Brewer.

5. [Perh. due to confusion between flash of light and plash, splash.] To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.]

He rudely flashed the waves about.

Spenser.

Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

Flash, n.; pl. Flashes (?). 1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

2. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

Shak.

No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.

Wirt.

3. The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.

Bacon.

[Anonymous No.22016109]

>>22011200
>>22011281
I did the same thing, didn't read for 10 years and came back by reading this, I loved everything except the Truant parts filtered me a bit.

didn't expect to actually get spooked by a book but wow

[Anonymous No.22016186]

>>22016109
So far it's great and really creeping me out in a lot of ways, although I've been reading a shitty online pdf for the first few chapters, and since that's probably the worst way to experience this book in particular I'm just gonna stop reading and go and buy the actual paperback.

[Anonymous No.22016222]

>>22015502
That's what I read too. I'm >>22013103 by the way. For me, I think it's the personal intrigue, the mystery element, the psychological exploration of a group of distinct people in a distinct historical period and location, and the threads of melodrama, spiritual turmoil, and the struggle to love unconditionally that tie it all together. Plus, it's interesting to me as a document of one man's understanding of a particular subset of Russian society, and I find Russians as a whole strange and fascinating. I don't think it needs to be that long, but it's a good, rich book that really challenges the reader both intellectually and spiritually.

[Anonymous No.22016949]

>>22015502
I read the Garnett translation.

[Anonymous No.22017008]

>>22015772
I've never understood that book. Come back and help us make sense of it.

[Anonymous No.22017042]

>>22009439
Reading Fountainhead, I'm around 10 chapters in and it reminds me a lot of mad men lol.

[Anonymous No.22017200]

>>22014710
>he was not some ambiguously sexed gender goblin
I was referencing the rest of his ilk combined. He is not a monolith. That quote was from The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. That is a text that post-dates Malcolm.

[Anonymous No.22017206]

>>22015671
We do.

[Anonymous No.22017235]

>>22017200
His ilk? The Nation of Islam?
also
>He is not a monolith.
Not to be a pedant, but that's something you say about groups of people, not one single man. Are you ESL? If not, are you autistic?

[Anonymous No.22017621]

>>22013858
>it picks up once you get to the gas station chapter
good to know so far it's just chapter after chapter of describing how everything is covered in dust

[Anonymous No.22017671]

>>22017235
>The Nation of Islam?
Yeah, man.
>Are you ESL? If not, are you autistic?
Call it what you will. Everyone has their own style. You don't like mine. So it goes. Regardless, people have sort of hyper refined and separated him from his context to make a super independent icon out of him. Sure there was division and separation, but there was a certain amount of congruity. No man is an island and all that. Maybe he was a peninsula, but no more than that. Yeah, he made the trip to Mecca and came back with different ideas. Whatever. Farrakhan went over to the Middle East as well. You might want to check out his experiences. You sound like you are just looking for excuses to disagree and disparage. I see him differently than you do. We'll just have to let it ride because you are not going to convince me otherwise than how I see him in the short span of this thread unless you have some whopper of a story for me.

[Anonymous No.22018419]

>>22009439
Silas Marner by George Eliot

[Anonymous No.22018430]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22019060]

>>22017042
It's kino af

[Anonymous No.22019221]

The Motorcycle Diaries. I just got to the part where he accidentally shit on the drying peaches.

[Anonymous No.22020411]

>>22015656
Shut up, these covers were bad ass.

[Anonymous No.22020580]

>>22010569
It's literally a self insert by LEV Tolstoy you cornsyrup guzzling yankee

[Anonymous No.22020591]

>>22018430
Great book

[Anonymous No.22021666]

>>22011014
one of the most pompous and boring things i've read

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[Anonymous No.22022369]

>>22018430
I hope you're enjoying it, anon. I found it a very comfy book.

[Anonymous No.22022446]

>>22020591
>>22021968
Thanks, around 100 pages left and I liked it. I'll read his other works as well.

[Anonymous No.22022448]

>>22020591
>>22022369
Thanks, around 100 pages left and I liked it. I'll read his other works as well.

[Anonymous No.22022449]

[Anonymous No.22022451]

I can't find anything to read, everything seems so obnoxious and boring.

[Anonymous No.22022456]

>>22022451
You don't have to read if you don't want to lmao

[Anonymous No.22022457]

>>22022456
I'd want to, I haven't read a page in years because I can't find anything to read.

[Anonymous No.22022469]

>>22022457
Tbh if you think that everything seems obnoxious and boring then it sounds more like you have depression than anything. I don't read much fiction though. Maybe you just need to read a completely different kind of book. Still, I wouldn't read if I didn't have something I want to read. If there's nothing I want to read then I simply don't read. I only read because there's stuff I want to know that is only really complete in book form

[Anonymous No.22022470]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22022474]

>>22022470
That's on my list. Partly because I'm in analysis right now, but also I just find it a very interesting way to understand the mind and human behaviour. Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.22022498]

>>22022474
I like the introspective parts that try to find underlying motives. The rest is typical psychobabble. Worth reading just because Freud has influence culture so much.

[Anonymous No.22022502]

>>22022469
I meant not everything everything but every book, there's just nothing interesting. Mostly I don't like the characters in fiction, and the fact is too opinionated or just boring. If I'd want to read f.e. something about about archeology I don't want to know about the writers morning coffee or what he thinks the color of the cesars pubes were. But also just reading straight facts is also boring.

[Anonymous No.22022534]

>>22022498
What do you mean by psychobabble? How do you differentiate the psychobabble from the parts you like?

>>22022502
Read a book about archeology then. Like idk what you want bro, if you are not interested in the content of any book then why do you want to read a book? Wanting to read a book as a totally abstract entity makes no sense. People read because they are interested in the content, not because they are somehow interested in books in general

[Anonymous No.22022545]

>>22022534
>People read because they are interested in the content
I know, and there's plenty of books that seem interesting but are ruined just from reading the synopsis mainly because I don't like the characters.

[Anonymous No.22022570]

>>22022545
Then just don't read fiction you autist

[Anonymous No.22022584]

>>22022570
The fiction plots are interesting, there are no non-fiction books that are.

[Anonymous No.22022586]

>>22022584
You're fucked then. I guess the only remaining option is to kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22022599]

>>22022534
>What do you mean by psychobabble?
Circular interpretation of symptoms using sexual metaphors (but not really, as those metaphors are sometimes taken to represent real psychic structure).
>How do you differentiate the psychobabble from the parts you like?
Introspection has a start and an end. You have finished introspecting when you've identified the primary motive behind some behavior (even an unexplainable motive). Then you can change those behaviors, not run back to your analyst for their authoritative "insight."

[Anonymous No.22022605]

>>22022599
> You have finished introspecting when you've identified the primary motive behind some behavior (even an unexplainable motive).

But isn't that motivation in the id, and thus not accessible to our conscious experience?

[Anonymous No.22022618]

>>22022605
The aim of introspection (and purportedly psychoanalysis) is to access those motives through observation and interpretation, ie to make them conscious.
Don't throw around terms like id withoutr knowing what they mean.

[Anonymous No.22022728]

>>22009997
goated

[Anonymous No.22022799]

>>22010557
>lenin
wait i don't remember any scene where the entire cast got together for a picture and were never heard from again

[Anonymous No.22022946]

sublime.

[Anonymous No.22023169]

>>22009439
Fun coincidence. Who's your favorite character so far? Mine is Constantine Levin.
>>22012139
Ah that's a good book. Best novel to deal with Nihilism I've read.

[Anonymous No.22024023]

>>22022449
How is it? Orwell’s early fiction work has always seemed like an interesting phenomenon to me, the fact that there’s such a disconnect in terms of conceptual style and how unknown it is.

[Anonymous No.22024063]

Just got this and about to start tonight

[Anonymous No.22024102]

Just started it. Those Qin had some interesting ideas with making enemies of all the local aristocracies, hope it works out for them.

[Anonymous No.22024779]

>>22023169
Anna is bae

[Anonymous No.22024854]

>>22009439
;)

[Anonymous No.22024936]

I'm surprised just how creepy and comfy this is. I'm only halfway through but I'm really enjoying it. Almost feels like something between The VVitch (movie) and a Hansel & Gretel tale.

[Anonymous No.22024941]

>>22009494
What book is this? I'm looking up "Vintage Mann" and nothing's coming up

[Anonymous No.22024943]

Ya phonies

[Anonymous No.22024944]

Just started East of Eden. Liking the prose so far

[Anonymous No.22024954]

>>22024102
Spoiler: the dragons arrive.

[Anonymous No.22024955]

>>22009722
Try Voidstar. The author is a prodigy computer science genius with an obsession with classical greek literature

[Anonymous No.22026237]

The Plains by Gerald Murnane

[Anonymous No.22026277]

>>22009439
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.22026590]

>>22024941
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

[Anonymous No.22026641]

I was reading The Stories of Raymond Carver. Shirley had recommended it before we split up because of my drinking. I never liked our daughter anyway. I didn't like the way he spelled cigarette 'cigaret'. The whole thing made me remember every hangover I'd ever had. I have no salad in my refrigerator

[Anonymous No.22027512]

>>22010205
Kidnapped is a nice adventure novel, not as good as Treasure Island though. It has an unfinished last part. The ending is abrupt and uninteresting

[Anonymous No.22027518]

>>22010208
One of my favourite books

[Anonymous No.22027628]

The Charterhouse of Parma. Almost done with it. Novel is very sloppy in parts, you can tell Stendhal knocked it out in a month and a half without heavy revision or outlining. Even so, it does get at the heart of the characters psychology in a way that most other novels of the period fail at. Fabrice himself is as frustrating as much as he is entertaining. Gina and Mosca are a bit more centered but just as interesting when they're caught up in the political webs, webs they don't really care nearly as much about as their opponents seem to think they do. We'll see how it ends but so far I still prefer The Red and The Black purely for how psychologically complex Julien was, and how his intellect was constantly clashing with his passion and his lack of social grace.


>>22024944
It's a good work. Simple, but evocative.

[Anonymous No.22027737]

>>22027628
Mmmmm, that Ingres... so lovely.

[Anonymous No.22027973]

>>22009439
The Night Manager by John le Carré (a standalone le Carré novel).

[Anonymous No.22028027]

Read some good books instead, /lit/,

[Anonymous No.22028062]

>>22024779
man anna is easily the worst of the main charachters

[Anonymous No.22028112]

Finally finished Magician by Raymond E. Feist.
Didn't like it overall and I think I am tired of psudo medieval fantasy in general.
Not exactly sure what I will read next but it certainly won't be more rift war saga.

[Anonymous No.22028253]

Picked up to read on a airplane as I have seen this book being shilled in every bookstore I walk into the past couple of months, and I like time-travel so why not. The book feels like a play as it's all set in one small cafe with the same characters, as it turns out the author is a play writer so makes sense. The book comes in four intertwined short stories, The first is fucking terrible but the other 3 are surprisingly comfy. Good light read but quite simple.

[Anonymous No.22028273]

>>22009439
Just finished pic related. Probably the best book I've ever read on alcoholism. It really captures the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a chronic alcoholic. Unfortunately, I am just like the main character, though trying again to stay sober.

>There isn't any cure, besides just stopping. And how many of them can do that? They don't want to, you see. When they feel bad like this fellow here, they think they want to stop, but they don't, really. They can't bring themselves to admit they're alcoholics, or that liquor's got them licked. They believe they can take it or leave it alone – so they take it. If they do stop, out of fear or whatever, they go at once into such a state of euphoria and well-being that they become over-confident. They're rid of drink, and feel sure enough of themselves to be able to start again, promising they'll take one, or at the most two, and – well, then it becomes the same old story over again.

[Anonymous No.22028278]

>>22028273
Woops, forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.22028543]

>>22010208
Are you enjoying this? Looks intriguing

[Anonymous No.22028601]

>>22009439
Protagoras and Noonday Devil

[Anonymous No.22028735]

[Anonymous No.22028739]

>>22028543
Yes. It's not as ornamental and as rich in the department of prose as his later works but it's definitely worth a read. Do pick it up, anon. It's giving me heavy feels.

[Anonymous No.22028779]

>>22028278
Looks fascinating. I'm gonna read it next. Thanks for the rec man.

[Anonymous No.22028888]

>>22009439
Pretty based. I like the description of sparta but its a little gay for my tastes.

[Anonymous No.22028964]

>>22024023
Not him, but I absolutely loved every novel by Orwell. There's a deep pathos to them, I think the main characters all tend to be self inserts, but he also imbues them with his own internal emotional conflicts and it's enthralling to read.

[Anonymous No.22029048]

>>22028735
right now I'm reading Gravity Rainbow, I'm almost finished, today I'll start the last af the four chapters. I also read The Crying of Lot 49. I'm not the #1 Pynchon fan in the world but I definitely enjoyed those books. I'm probably going to read Mason&Dixon next year, what should I expect?

[Anonymous No.22029056]

>>22028964
Thanks for the reply, you've motivated me to take more of an immediate interest in him. I don't know him well but from what I've read by/about him he was a very sincere, dignified, decent man. One of those authors for whom the polemical usefulness of his work has done a disservice to the recognition of his full worth.

[Anonymous No.22029977]

>>22009439
Really beautiful , besides chapters 9 , 10 , 11 . How am i supposed to understand star evolution and death without any equations . Im reading whole pages of A to B to C and i cant 100% make the conection

[Anonymous No.22030879]

>>22012139
One of my favorite novels

[Anonymous No.22031010]

[Anonymous No.22031013]

>>22031010
Also this

[Anonymous No.22032039]

>>22011031
Good. But 'Augustus' is his best.

[Anonymous No.22032055]

It's really good, it's the first time a book has me glued to it

[Anonymous No.22032060]

>>22028735
>>22029048
I read son&xon a few years ago when my reading comprehension was nowhere near as good as it is now, but I loved it and I think about it often. It is a demanding book primarily because of the stylistic choices regarding language, but it is a ton of fun and very learned. If you can keep reminding yourself that you are dealing with the Pynch, the book will open up to you.

[Anonymous No.22032136]

>>22009722
>Reading pic related right now, and the prose is terrible. Saw an anon saying it last month and I didn't believe it then
it absolutely is, and the funny thing is that the chracters aren't good either. Every MC is the exact same rouge, every beginning the same too, taking place in some scummy drug-den bar/club fusion.

[Anonymous No.22032181]

Even knowing that the club of rome is involved, this book is rather unhinged in its eco-feminist globalism
I've only read the intro and first essay but it's interesting anyhow

[Anonymous No.22032203]

>>22009722
Snow Crash is a great read

[Anonymous No.22032419]

>>22009997
Ty for posting this, looks like a fascinating read.

[Anonymous No.22032448]

Solaris by Lem

[Anonymous No.22032728]

>>22009439
Love Anna Karenina, gotta be my favourite novel.
>>22009737
Good choice, I'd spring for the Everyman's Tolstoy if I were you.
>>22010813
Why's that? I'm looking forward to reading it.

[Anonymous No.22032742]

>>22024063
Also started rereading this, one of my two favorite autobiographies

[Anonymous No.22032802]

>>22028739
Thank you. I will put it in the pile

[Anonymous No.22032954]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22033105]

half way through, it's good, the first quarter is really great. But the parts in Rome dragged a bit and I picked up another book. But I'm coming back to it now. I really like it tho

[Anonymous No.22033270]

>>22009439
underworld by delillo. About a third of the way through and thinking about dropping it.

[Anonymous No.22033294]

Yes, I started reading it because of all the memes on /lit/. It is unironically fantastic, I can't stop thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.22033305]

The Guardian placed this novel in 12th place in their top 100 greatest novels of all time list from 2003. The list is generally completely absurd, but this is pretty good nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.22034259]

>>22033294
I started spitting because of this book

[Anonymous No.22034309]

the sorrows of young werther

[Anonymous No.22034373]

>>22019221
He made his way to Peru. He makes an interesting comment on the Inca defense strategy relying on mobility rather than physical fortification. I expected a lot more political observation.

[Anonymous No.22034383]

>>22033294
Toadvine is literally me fr fr

[Anonymous No.22034687]

Russians can't organize shit.

[Anonymous No.22034693]

>>22009439

[Anonymous No.22034695]

>>22034693
Based and rapepilled.

[Anonymous No.22034712]

>>22034687
Does she name the Jew?

[Anonymous No.22034737]

>>22034712
>applebaum
Big brain there anon

[Anonymous No.22034797]

>>22034737
It's only a coincidence. I trust her to uphold the requisite honesty and integrity deserved of such a sensitive topic until proven otherwise.

[Anonymous No.22034860]

>>22009439
going to finish rereading this tonight

[Anonymous No.22034880]

>>22034687
>applebaum
I feel like there's a more current and less jewish-capitalist set of evidence for the fact that russians can't organize shit

[Anonymous No.22034969]

>>22034880
>I feel

[Anonymous No.22034989]

All 140+ book of The Destroyer series, by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, and Jim Mullaney.

[Anonymous No.22034993]

Fuck all you sombre faggots.

[Anonymous No.22034998]

>>22032742
>one of my two favorite autobiographies
What's the other one?

[Anonymous No.22035058]

>>22034998
Cellini

[Anonymous No.22035150]

>>22033105
This story is great but bloated beyond belief. Dumas was paid by word count (look it up) and it shows. Do yourself a favor and pick up an abridged copy. You'll thank yourself

[Anonymous No.22035201]

>>22034712
no, not really. if she names anyone, it's the Palestinian, specifically the one who helped to construct the Gulag system.

[Anonymous No.22035780]

>>22009439
It’s good. Evola is a very good writer, even through translation, and he is exceptional in his ability to find the commonalities in other writers. He’s not really “radical,” either. The ideas he’s discussing and advocating are poetic versions or explanations of common sense, really. Maybe that says something more about the physicalist egalitarian paradigm we live in than the idealist hierarchical world of Evola.

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[Anonymous No.22036995]

>>22036991
How are they? I loved LHA but haven’t picked up anything else by him for some reason

[Anonymous No.22037008]

>>22036995
I do wish they would have pared-down the story selection a bit more, because some of them are excellent and they deserve to be rediscovered.

[Anonymous No.22037121]

Friedrich Schiller - Die Jungfrau von Orleans
Herrman Hesse - Siddhartha
Július Špaňár - Herakleitos Z Efezu
literature on Plato's Middle and Late Period Metaphysics

For years I have not been reading any fiction with just a few (ver few) exceptions. I probably still prefer reading philosophy other non-fiction though.

[Anonymous No.22037129]

It's ok but I've got about 200 pages to go and at this point I'm just reading it to finish it.