/jp/ - Otaku Culture

yes

why 10

>>38238041
for patchy, yes.

>>38238041
I've become very lazy and listen to audiobooks now

>>38238041
Yes patchy. I’ve been accruing a nice book collecting. Right now i’m rereading Beowulf and reading Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. What is /jp/ reading?

>>38238041
Does manga count?

>>38239911
No

>>38239945
Come on, Patche, just looking at a bunch of words is boring. How am I supposed to know what the characters and the world look like if I can't see them?

>>38238041
I read 60 last year. I'm 5 down for this year and I'll finish the 6th this week.
>>38239848
Das Kapital, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the english translation of Musashi, and I'll be starting The Taming of the Shrew today. There's a Shakespeare reading group on /lit/ if you're interested.

>>38240052
Read the Vagabond manga and then read Musashi.

>>38240052
Anon, it’s called your imagination. You have that right? For me, imagining Shakespeare's, and even ancient, tragedies as a Kirosawa movie (the ones he hasn’t already adapted) make them alot more enjoyable. Or you can imagine the book scenes as manga panels

>>38240065
I really enjoyed Musashi, which I also read because of Vagabond. And because of Musashi I read the Book of Five Rings. I find it insightful since I do MMA. Is it any good over of /lit/? I haven’t browsed there in quite some time.

>>38240120
I read Book of Five Rings a few years before Vagabond, I really enjoyed both. I want to read Musashi's other book "On Walking Alone" I think?
/lit/ is complete shit, their "memes" are just spamming shitty authors who advertise there. I think at most 10% of the board reads regularly. I happened to see the Shakespeare group on NYE and thought it would be a good chance to read more of him.

>>38239848
I used to read a lot during college commutes and work lunch breaks, but now I don't have an excuse to crack out books.
Soldier of the Mist, Flowers for Algernon, and Shin Sekai Yori are forever on my backlog.

If you haven't read these, do you really belong here?

>>38238041
I really need to start reading more.

>>38240161
I’ve begun reading Shakespeare as part of a general interest in tragedy. I’ve read a few Greek tragedies, but what really kicked it off was watching Kurosawa’s Ran. I used to go on both /fit/ and /lit/ but it’s as you said

>>38240251
Everyone should. I read alot as kid but as I got older I began to really see that literature, especially the old classics have things that just don’t exist anymore in our word, or at least that what it feels like. And literature just has so much more depth than film or manga. Reading for me is a somber experience

>>38238489
I am bad with PS/gimp

>>38240680
>Not SICP
What the FUCk are you doing anon???

that bitch reads like 10 books per minute

i haven't read a book in at least 10 years. might start the bible soon.

>>38240065
>I read 60 last year. I'm 5 down for this year and I'll finish the 6th this week.
You're scanning books, not reading them, you are a literal, actual speedreader

>>38240322
I've never heard of Kurosawa, I'll have to look into him.

>>38240251
I think classic literature is much better than any modern media. It's far less stimulating though which makes it difficult to start with.

>>38240805
No, I'm just a shutin NEET. It's very easy to crank out a book per week if you don't watch tv, play games, social media, etc.

>>38240775
Get the Orthodox Study Bible.

>>38240872
Akira Kurosawa famous director, influenced Hollywood alot too
> I think classic literature is much better than any modern media. It's far less stimulating though which makes it difficult to start with.
Personally I believe that the reason for this is that despite all of our fancy technology and doodads and gizmos, we really live in a dark age. That is, a dark age of the spirit. Men today are a shadow of what they were. Not that there hasn’t always been the masses, the normalfag, and even the NEET. But that there used to bed with such magnanimous souls, which shined so brightly, that they made up for all the meanness and baseness in the world

>>38240967
>Akira Kurosawa famous director, influenced Hollywood alot too
He got influenced by the old Hollywood Detective Noir films.
Full circle

I wonder, if Gensokyo had films, who Patche like them? Or does she only read dense tomes about magic that only an autist could understand?

>>38240967
I completely agree with you, but I think even normal people were better than some of our best today. Reading de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death it was pretty depressing seeing how the average American was only 200 years ago. It paints the image of a farmer walking behind his plow while reading Shakespeare; now you have the fatty on his mobility scooter hunched over his smartphone.
Unfortunately there is no inclination from the top to rectify this and in fact this is exactly what they want. The only solution I can see comes from individuals deciding to shine so brightly as to completely eclipse the dark and dreary world around them.

>>38241071
I doubt it, books are the most information-dense form of media, watching movies would be a waste of time for her.

i haven't read in a while because my roommate bullies me when i do

>>38241160
Start lifting and read between sets. Then when he bullies you you can pin him down and do as you please with him.

>>38241160
As the other anon said, strengthen yourself physically so when your uncultured boor of a roommate says anything you can simple beat him up

>>38241177
i'm sickly and frail so no lifting but i've been exercising as much as i can recently
i'll just train till i can read and run away at the same time

>>38241212
Then get a friend who's strong and get him into reading.

>>38241144
That’s why the NEET is in a good position. It’s no wonder that more and more people don’t want to subject themselves to soulsucking waging and prefer to withdraw from society entirely. But because they don’t have to wage or do anything else, then have all the time in the world to train themselves and to read. And who knows, maybe a time come soon when things get shaken up, and the sclerotic institutions so rotten leave space for bands of like minded men to build something new for themselves, as once happened frequently. I like touhou and other otaku stuff because it’s an escape from this dreary time, but that’s all it really is. Literature and the classics especially make me dream of something better

>>38241212
How sickly and frail are you anon? The object of strength training is to overcome frailty

>>38241227
oh shit great idea
>>38241235
frail enough to get winded bringing my instacart order in from the porch
atrophy from a few years of bullshit, getting better though

>>38240249
I think I counted 7 Murakami novels? How good is this guy? Is he the Japanese Dickens or something?

>>38241262
Even you can become strong, anon. I believe in you

>>38240247
You’ve got to make an excuse then! I like to do it right before bed, even just a few pages. Better than looking a screen, which interferes with sleep

>>38241283
thanks, anon. i believe in me too these days
in the meantime i need to buy a doorknob with a lock for my room so i can read in peace

>>38241231
>I like touhou and other otaku stuff because it’s an escape from this dreary time, but that’s all it really is.
I think if you have enough loose screws to have a waifu and
>do it for her
it can be much more than that. Never underestimate the heights that faith and women can drive a man to. Unfortunately we all know that one can't say the same for 3dpd, they're just hedonists at best and libertines more often than not.

>>38238041
I don't think I've read ten books in ten years.

Patcho read all of these books today jay pee, how many have you read today?

Read a book about someone who is alienated from others to the point of suicide. Realize that he has more interpersonal connections than most /jp/sies ever will.

>>38251681
Kant will be remembered for 10000 years. We need more celibates.

Anyone enjoy any books about Freddie NEETzsche?

>>38251963
About? No. I've read Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra though. They weren't anywhere near as good as I was led to believe.

>>38239848
gorinnosho (very slowly because i tie it together with my kendo and fechten practice)
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (Stirner)
Plato's Phaedo
hesiod's theogony
glimpses of an unfamiliar japan by lafcadio hearn (aka koizumi yakumo, a must read)
thinking about reading ryunosuke's kappa, but i dislike stories that are too dark.
got a massive backlog of greek and roman authors already

i wish i had more time and motivation to read, but studying all day ruins me in both body and spirit so i cannot even stand to look at a book when i come back home. once i get my degree i will shut myself in my room and finish my entire backlog.

I read this (well-reviewed lol) chick novel and it was probably one of the bottom three worst books I have ever read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45732027-fake-accounts

>>38251963
Nietzsche is incoherent as a whole.
Nietzsche is all about imposing your will upon the world and other people.
The Genealogy of Morals, the third essay What is the Meaning of Aesthetic Ideals.
It specifically addresses the idea that freedom requires a freedom from truth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was basically Buddhism for the western man.
"the ubermensch" a person that needs no ethical guidelines because he has an inherent knowledge of the "true good" for himself and others, is pretty much Taoism really.
Now what is this "true good"? Apparently we can't know because we've yet to become ubermensch, quite a cop-out that one.

>>38240249
I'll second Hojoki. It's a short poetic work that you can read in 45 minutes and it's the best piece of Buddhist literature I've ever read.

>>38252368
>On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone an ...
>Readers also enjoyed How to be an Antiracist
>written by a woman
You should have known.

>>38240249
The only one of these I've read is Battle Royale. It figures that the one Mishima book I've read isn't on there.

>>38251963
I like Nietzsche and forms of his idea in other places. I can’t say that I really understood him fully, but I feel attracted to what he says anyway

>>38252342
I just bought a little copy of Five Rings and i’ve read it multiple times. I constantly think about the passages since i’ve been practicing martial arts

>>38251635
A good book, but very sad

I have been reading some Lafcadio Hearn unironically because of Touhou. I want to study Japanese and Chinese mythology further but the more original and older sources really take a lot of prior knowledge to fully understand.

>>38254353
as opposed to reading it ironically?

>>38250966
Honestly I credit touhou to being able to prevent no gf from altering my mental state. I seldom ever feel lonely or like I need a woman. Touhous are just so much better anyway

>>38239848
I'm always reading Montaigne's essays. It bring me great satisfaction pondering his musings. Like a good meal you savor each bite, considering the saltiness of the beef or softness of the potatoes.

I'm also in the process of reading:
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, John J. Mearsheimer
The Civil War, Julius Caesar
Winny The Pooh, A. A. Milne

>>38254446
No, I meant to imply that it is Touhou which got me to read Hearn. I would have read Hearn either way in a serious manner but I am just emphasizing the fact that I took an interest in it because of Touhou, which has a small degree of absurdity to it.

>>38254870
personally I preferred the gallic war

>>38240247
I used to do the same with power outages. But now I live in a place with a much more stable grid- so it's only when the power gets knocked out by a bad storm.
Still, reading during a storm by candlelight is very comfy. Even make some tea. Gas is still on after all.

>>38238041
y-yes

>>38238041
>book
this isn't pre-2000

>>38241144
>It paints the image of a farmer walking behind his plow while reading Shakespeare; now you have the fatty on his mobility scooter hunched over his smartphone.
Lad that is because the farmer was the dude who owned the land, he wasn't actually doing the hard labor.

>>38265647
Only in the civilized areas. If you'd read de Tocqueville you'd know that he focuses on the frontier. He said that every log cabin had a Bible and some volume of Shakespeare. Those men were in fact doing their own labor. I highly recommend reading Postman's book if you want to see how far America has fallen.

>>38238041
I read educational books only, mostly STEM

>>38254870
Nice anon. Soon I plan to start the Gallic Wars in Latin

Yesterday I started Anna Karenina and have already read 70 pages. It’s so good. I tried to read it a couple years ago but I was too stupid and found it boring, now I can’t put it down. Anna herself so enchants me, probably because I understand that there are probably only a handful of women like that in all America.

I just want to say, friends, that this thread has so far been very enjoyable. And I daresay that I doubt there is better literature thread on the whole of /lit/ right now