/fa/ book thread

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/fa/ book thread Anonymous Wed Mar 15 19:57:08 2017 No.12319389 [Reply] [Original]

do any of you still read books? reading is such an effay way to kill time, post /fa/ books

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:00:49 2017 No.12319399 >>12319389 i guess the book is /fa/ enough but that edition definitely isn't. NYRB and Penguin Classics are v effay basically any good /lit/ is /fa/ tho

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:00:57 2017 No.12319400 File: 18 KB, 228x346, 2F3AFDE4-4289-4BD8-B224-9BB998DCB4E8-1801-00000173B100A0BE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:01:57 2017 No.12319405 >>12319399 I agree, i posted that cover because it's the copy I own. original editions always look more aesthetic

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:08:21 2017 No.12319424 File: 784 KB, 350x516, 58943F79-EA17-4599-B70D-FBBD30DA1256-1801-000001764BF17CA5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related is what I'm reading right now. no one fucking spoil it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:12:53 2017 No.12319440 IQ84

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:34:01 2017 No.12319505 File: 129 KB, 564x938, a5e73d7a19f0239a83434f4a7ca89a7e.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Actual plebos ITT

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:41:05 2017 No.12319531 >>12319505 Never seen this cover, is it a Hans Bellmer drawing?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 20:48:11 2017 No.12319547 >>12319424 holden caulfield kills himself

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 23:49:38 2017 No.12319968 >>12319389 I love F&L but i wouldn't consider it /fa/ at all

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 23:58:55 2017 No.12319980 File: 15 KB, 212x320, 81BhLMl7iAL._AC_UL320_SR212,320_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 00:13:50 2017 No.12320018 >>12319547 > lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 01:22:34 2017 No.12320137 File: 1.05 MB, 1200x1920, god_dammit_sal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my dad made me read this when i was 16. it has always been one of my favorite books ever since

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:05:22 2017 No.12320225 >>12320137 ever read dharma bums?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:33:38 2017 No.12320283 File: 166 KB, 1018x1607, 71WOAvLWBxL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Almost finished. Great read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:36:31 2017 No.12320289 File: 132 KB, 220x321, TheSailorWhoFellFromGracewiththeSea.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12320283 This is next in line.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:38:39 2017 No.12320292 File: 29 KB, 640x427, Chuck-Palahniuk-Snuff-.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Counter-culture

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:41:29 2017 No.12320300 >>12319424 What's there to spoil about this shitty book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:42:10 2017 No.12320302 >>12319505 >Actual plebos ITT >bataille >history of eye implying >>12320137 you better be reading uncensored version

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:43:09 2017 No.12320304
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>>12319424
Fucking funny book!
>>12319400
Did you enjoy reading this? It's on my list this year.
>>12319980
Started my year by reading this. Read one of the racier bits while surrounded by 12 year old girls on the train. Thank god it was on the kindle and the cover wasn't on display.
>>12320137
I saw the original scroll a while back in the British Library, was pretty impressive.

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:54:19 2017 No.12320311
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>>12319980
Shit dude, I was going to post this one!
My number one favourite book. I collected copies for a while. I still buy any print I come across if I haven't already copped it. A great read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 02:55:22 2017 No.12320315 >>12320311 Sorry I should make myself more clear- *Lolita is my number one favourite book. Not Catcher in the Rye, but it's good and pretty edgy/effay.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 03:01:47 2017 No.12320324 >>12320311 w2c hat

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 05:57:51 2017 No.12320526 >>12320302 >History of the eye >History

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 06:09:28 2017 No.12320534 >>12319389 >reading books because its fashionable wow can u really be more pretentious

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 06:14:10 2017 No.12320538
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Call it a meme all you want but it changed my life and I struggle to understand how someone could not love it if they read it. Everyone i've talked to who slagged it off always ended up saying "Oh it was so boring I dropped it or oh I listened to it as an audiobook while on a long drive" which just proves they didn't pay attention

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 06:32:47 2017 No.12320558 Why do you faggots have to try and ruin everything?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 06:51:13 2017 No.12320583 >>12320558 Why do you insist on posting just pointless shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 07:33:12 2017 No.12320649 >>12320302 w-what ? there is a censored version ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 12:28:27 2017 No.12321041 >>12320649 'Censored' maybe isn't the best term, but there's the original, rambling, scroll version, and the version edited for palatability.

>>	No Thu Mar 16 12:55:11 2017 No.12321082 File: 46 KB, 760x1088, cxf8ev9gnirpn3snta83.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] saw some other good mentions like On the Road and Lolita, both effay as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 13:33:30 2017 No.12321161 File: 23 KB, 322x499, being.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 19:32:00 2017 No.12322119 File: 179 KB, 893x1360, 714b8-+K3EL (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just finished The Prince and recently started this

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 19:38:21 2017 No.12322147
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Reading the manifesto for the 5th time, reminds me of what i work towards everyday(not the ideal communist state, but more of a state with free healthcare and a semi-free market)

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:08:45 2017 No.12322575 File: 56 KB, 510x680, c7bc35f579799a5973f2b66937bcd3af.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12322119 Just finished it today too, and gonna start on Albert Camus.

Anonymous Thu Mar 16 22:20:23 2017 No.12322610
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>>12322147
>hurr I'm such a socialist guise, I love free healthcare lolz XD
Take that fat capitalist dick out of your ass for 5 minutes and read 'Wage Labor and Capital' instead you fucking social democrat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 16 23:41:16 2017 No.12322771 File: 173 KB, 398x600, gotm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can exclusively reading fantasy be effay?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 01:05:46 2017 No.12322904 >>12319424 He never catches the 22

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 04:55:28 2017 No.12323206

I can't believe it those are all very good books you guys read/like.
Regardless of that every day there is a new thread about branded sports shoes and ghetto wear.
How can people with such a well trained taste for lit. have such little sense for /fa is beyond me

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 05:01:05 2017 No.12323209 File: 17 KB, 226x346, 51dHQI5BUFL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] An amazing read, definitely recommend.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 05:28:05 2017 No.12323241 >>12319424 the only book I ever laughed out loud while reading

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 07:31:22 2017 No.12323369 /lit/ here, thanks for the laugh, faggots.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 07:37:14 2017 No.12323376

>>12319389
Crime & Punishment is probably my all time favorite, just finished the Idiot, it didn't really get that good until the second half honestly but still fucking great.
If you want HS Thompson type stuff I can recommend some books, I read ton of that type of transgressive drug infested shenanigan books at one point.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 09:18:07 2017 No.12323498

>>12323376
Have you read BK yet? I started with Karamazov and regret not starting with C&P because apparently a lot of his arguments in it are developed and polished in BK and I would like to have experienced the growth of Dosto's philosophy more naturally rather than having to go back and examine it. BK changed my life though, made me a Christian again.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 09:37:44 2017 No.12323542

>>12323498
>Have you read BK yet?
Nope, planning on reading it next probably, love Dostoyevsky.
>BK changed my life though, made me a Christian again.
In a way Dostoyevsky makes lot of good arguments for Christianity but he also gives the best arguments against it, though yeah I haven't read BK yet. He did probably influence me to see Christianity in bit different light, it's hard to see it 'objectively' when it's so intertwined in your own culture and traditions and it's something that you were more or less 'forced' to take part being child and young adult.
But the general moral and existential contemplating in his books is my fucking jam. The suicide note of Ippolit in Idiot was absolutely fucking hilarious, tragic, sad and made you think at the same time, probably one of my favorite parts of the book.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 09:41:36 2017 No.12323546
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>>12323542
Oh and currently reading this, it's pretty interesting, not only as Waits fan but I think anyone doing any creative things would probably get something out of it, just really interesting to read where one can find inspiration from really anywhere.
Another one I'm reading through is this book about history of artfield in my country through 20th century, lot of interviews with artists talking about other artists, insightful journalism and research, crazy good read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 11:27:40 2017 No.12323716 File: 20 KB, 301x500, 9780141037301-us.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reading classy smut in public is pretty effay. Honestly though, read what you like. Reading something just to seem cool is very un-/fa/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 14:04:06 2017 No.12324058 >>12322610 You're an idiot if you really think communism works you fucking mongoloid

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:16:37 2017 No.12324231 >>12320538 its definitely a great book, just disagree with it philosophically

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:19:11 2017 No.12324239 >>12323716 >Reading something just to seem cool is very un-/fa/. It's true. Though lot of the renowned classics are considered such for a reason, doesn't hurt to at least some of them a try.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:22:52 2017 No.12324251

I'm reading Aristotles Poetics and Rhetoric. It's not very fun. I also have A Farewell to Arms to read and Joseph Cambells stuff.

I just finished Discourse on Method and that was fun. He basically talked in circles about how he isn't super smart except yeah I am that smart lol a lot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:24:04 2017 No.12324254 >>12320538 I got through the first book of it and got bored. She hamfists her point too much. I gave it away to my girlfriend to read. Dune is my favorite book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:31:29 2017 No.12324273 File: 27 KB, 198x300, SoTheWindWontBlowItAllAway.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] foreignfag here what do people think of Brautigan in his american homeland ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 15:34:01 2017 No.12324278 >>12320538 Cool story and all, but Rand is a wretched writer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 17:01:55 2017 No.12324464 >>12320283 >>12320289 will I like these if I like murakami?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 18:53:39 2017 No.12324680 >>12324464 Maybe. Either way they're worth a read. Mishima gets pretty dark though, be warned. I mean, the guy attempted a military coup in real life and committed public sudoku, so his work isn't exactly full of whimsy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 19:02:33 2017 No.12324706 >>12319424 He fakes his death to get out of the army.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 19:48:33 2017 No.12324799 File: 55 KB, 392x651, Neuromancer_(Book).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just finished this and count zero & mona lisa overdrive are in the mail

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 19:57:04 2017 No.12324814 >>12324254 literal pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 20:48:20 2017 No.12324929 File: 238 KB, 1317x2048, rawImage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Great so far.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 20:50:05 2017 No.12324935 Came here to laugh at you faggots.

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:03:44 2017 No.12324971

>>12319389
If you liked Fear and Loathing I'd recommend High Rise by JG Ballad, similar themes minus the LSD but still very trippy.

Other favorites are the Book of Disquiet, the Atrocity Exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus, Either/Or, Streets of Crocodiles, Altazor and Ulysses.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:43:18 2017 No.12325061 File: 25 KB, 640x950, souls[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] any suggestions for comfy books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 21:45:47 2017 No.12325068 File: 86 KB, 554x380, walker-percy-moviegoer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12325061 the moviegoer

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:47:59 2017 No.12325272 >>12320137 this

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:50:14 2017 No.12325276 File: 232 KB, 1034x1576, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] thoughts?

Anonymous Fri Mar 17 23:57:32 2017 No.12325282
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Started this series last week, been too crammed with work to get some quality time. Opinions??

>>12320283
>penguin
Rough times indeed, anon.
>>12320538
This and Fountainhead were dreadful because I couldn't get her absolutely atrocious views out of my head while reading. Trudged all the fucking way through and never touched either again.
>>12321161
:)))
>>12322771
Anything is possible

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:04:27 2017 No.12325297 >>12324971 >Thinking /fa/ will understand deleuze and guattari >Taking postmodernist philosophy seriously

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:06:40 2017 No.12325302 >>12325282 My friend raves about Foundation and Asimov in general, I never made it past the begining because I lost interest in reading altogether. I'm finishing up Dune now and it's been really good, so Foundation is now on my list.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:31:30 2017 No.12325338
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Been reading this for quite some time now. I'm almost done.

I've found myself reading mostly what you might call 'great literature' the past few years.
I think I need something lighthearted and not too dense next.

I dig Proust, Dylan Thomas, Frank Herbert, and Alain Fournier.
Recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:33:55 2017 No.12325340 File: 499 KB, 1653x2560, 81KBldResmL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12319389 i think im the first person to ever read this book

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:36:07 2017 No.12325341 >>12325340 There used to be a tumblr called People Holding Infinite Jest. It was pretty hilarious to see everyone affecting an aloof posture while blatantly trying to show off the cover of the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:42:29 2017 No.12325350 File: 551 KB, 635x707, dubs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why the fuck hasn't anyone posted this yet?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:44:30 2017 No.12325352 File: 52 KB, 1000x562, getting-high-from-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-1455900747.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12325341 that sounds really funny, do you think the pictures are still around somewhere?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:47:35 2017 No.12325358 >>12324799 Cyberpunk af >>12325350 Good pick >>12325340 Pretty /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:51:30 2017 No.12325362 >>12322575 dont

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:53:37 2017 No.12325365 >>12325282 foundation is good, but tends to lose resonance after a while. It presents a paradigm for history that is valuable. The story line gets wrung of drama after a while.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:56:50 2017 No.12325369 >>12325352 I kinda doubt it. This was years ago.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:57:02 2017 No.12325370

>>12324231
which actually means in some ways you agree with her philosophically. It's critical that you form your own opinion under objectivism.

I agree with the other anon that the people who don't like it, haven't read it and digested it. Instead they mostly ape their college professors opinion that it's trash.

The thing is Ayn's not the best writer, but fountainhead is the better novel on many counts. The clunkiness of atlas shrugged just makes her philosophy easier to negate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:22:36 2017 No.12325628 File: 951 KB, 1500x2156, wind-pinball-murakami.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12325061 read these two. other murakami books are comfy too, but these two are the most comfy. make sure to read the intro / preface.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:26:52 2017 No.12325632 /fa/ book list coming through: pride & prejudice critique of pure reason hippias minor madame bovary wuthering heights white noise de rerum natura metamorphosis of plants

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:32:11 2017 No.12325636 >>12325628 Just started reading these yesterday.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:15:42 2017 No.12325676 >>12324251 Why bother reading Poetics? Are you doing a literature degree?

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:19:05 2017 No.12325680

>>12323542
I'd have to say Dosto is my favourite author. He's hilarious, but you're also spot on with how he portrays Christianity as a monolith in society that civilisation has had to grow around. If you don't get round to reading the entire BK, read The Grand Inquisitor, its excellent and was the part of the book that changed my mind the most. The ending to BK is absolutely beautiful as well, felt a weird mix of destitution and joy at the end of reading it, which I've never felt before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:49:03 2017 No.12326025 >>12320137 god I hate this book

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 13:48:01 2017 No.12326349 >>12325350 Rules of attraction and Less than Zero deserve a mention.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 13:50:42 2017 No.12326352 >when /fa/ likes reading more than fucking /lit/

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>>	Mandy Sat Mar 18 14:50:51 2017 No.12326498 File: 310 KB, 552x620, 2b3852d67756268bbd010c51025ec74b28a04ee687ac2f7fd7dde7af5afed6de.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12324058

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 14:55:11 2017 No.12326506 >>12324814 She's so hamfisted it's ridiculous. If you don't get atlas shrugged by chapter 4 you're probably retarded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 14:56:12 2017 No.12326508 >>12325676 Screenwriting

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:37:12 2017 No.12327105
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a little life is my favorite fucking book, it hurts to read so much but god damn

>>12325276
i liked that one jordaan mason album, what's the book like?

>>12325340
i spent a summer working on a farm and didn't have internet and read this in like five weeks, i actually really liked it and i wish it weren't so overhyped by people that never finished it

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:19:05 2017 No.12327770 File: 63 KB, 960x720, 1489893543466.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12325282 >reads sci-fi/ fantasy trash >fell for the retarded anti-penguin meme What a surprise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:17:33 2017 No.12328297 >>12326025 why ?

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 11:15:54 2017 No.12328886

>>12328297
I just find Kerouac insufferably vain. Dharma Bums was almost bearable, but On the Road comes off as nothing but "look at me, look at how cool and free and better than everyone else I am, look at all the cool people I know". And I get his importance to the beat movement, that's all fine, but personally I can't stand him, sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 12:52:08 2017 No.12329111 >>12327105 it's pretty abstract and maybe too "try-hard", but an interesting read for sure

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 12:54:48 2017 No.12329118 >>12326506 How does that invalidate the other facets of the book like the plot, characters etc? Did you get molested by a train when you were younger or something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 13:32:15 2017 No.12329174 >>12320538 Shit tast famalan

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 17:12:29 2017 No.12329730 >>12324251 A farewell to arms is my favorite hemingway novel

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 00:05:09 2017 No.12330641 File: 22 KB, 328x499, 41chpl2r0QL._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] not necessarily /fa/, but i feel like Oblomov resonates with people who spend a lot of time on 4chan it did with me

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 00:13:08 2017 No.12330657 >>12320538 are you 14? or just an unbearable autist?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 00:29:59 2017 No.12330697 >>12319424 I've read many books, this is probably top 5 /fa/ of them all

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 00:36:52 2017 No.12330702 File: 16 KB, 289x443, pkd-stigmata.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what do y'all think of pkd?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 20 00:40:13 2017 No.12330705 >>12328886 agreed

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