/lit/ - Literature

>>22165870
Dya-Na-Sore as the precursor to Nietzsche and the Book of the Dead because you gotta start with the Egyptians.

>>22165870
/lit/ finally convinced me to read Blood Meridian. So I checked out a copy from my library, and I'm about halfway through it. It's ok. I've learned a ton about various types of geological formations endemic to the American southwest.

>>22165870
Dipping in and out of a lot of stuff: Herodotus, Byron, Jung, Montaigne, Marcus Aurelius, and Rabelais

Mason and Dixon. Getting filtered really hard so i'm just reading a chapter a day. Curretly in the America segment

>>22165870
Pure image of someone who has transcended the slavery of onanism.

>>22165870
primarly just some volume of platos collected works & don delillos the names which i've almost finished.

other than that i have bookmarks in kierkegaards either/or, thomas bernhard's extinction and plotinus' enneads; but i'm a lazy cuck and i keep autistically never finishing books or changing what book i read every day because the internet fried my brain

>>22165870
The Nazi and The Barber
not very comfy, very funny somehow

>>22165905
be sure to check out the pinch wiki
https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

>>22165870
Was reading A Tale of Two Cities earlier.
Finally got to the storming of the Bastille, DeFarge is my homme. It’s interesting how Dickens will write most of the book in a very mild, proper English tone and then have brief bursts gruesome violence. Like someone getting their head blown open in a PG movie.

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Don Quixote just started part 2

Before that finished The Silence by Delilo kind of meh but the paranoia and tension were well done

currently getting my history renovated

>>22165928
Nah, thanks.

>>22165948
why is this book being shilled all over /lit/? Is it some kind of meme?

>>22165870
Selections from his books and letters. Good advice if you want to write sff.

>>22165953
The author or schizo is spamming it. It’s possible a publisher thinks it will appeal to readers here which says a lot

>>22165953
it's a good book, anon. i bought it because I saw it posted on here months ago. apparently it has a growing following on twitter

>>22165898
gotta love that chaparral

>>22166011
Go away, Wendy. We’re not buying your shitty book.

>>22165870
I had a very nice blót at Odinshof this weekend so I've been finishing up pic related.

>>22166322
Whoops

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, translated by George Chapman.

I'm really intrigued about how this is going to go. I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey before in "purer" translations, and I already know everyone says Chapman's translation doesn't really have the same vibe as a more direct translation. But I want to check it out regardless. If Keats liked it, it can't be all bad, right?

So far I'm just powering through the intros, where Chapman is rather cattily defending himself from people accusing him of not knowing enough Greek. Also spending a lot of time flattering this one particular earl, whom I assume was a patron of his.

>>22165870
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire and HP Lovecraft short stories

>>22165870
Halfway through it and I'm hating it. The book is as slice of life-y as it gets and I'm surprised to how boring that is, especially when compared to Hunger by Knut Hamsun, a novel I've just finished. It has a similar structure if you consider it describes the routine of its main character, but it's written in a much more fluid and gripping way.
In the end, it's much more interesting to follow the tribulations of a hungry schizophrenic man than of a bachelorette.

>>22165953

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Law Text Books because i will face my law exams.

>>22165870
White fang
Took a chapter to get used to the writing style but once I did it's so far very enjoyable.

Emancipation after Hegel - Todd McGowan
How to read Lacan - Zizek
I’m gonna try for the Brother’s K next, I just needed a break from dense fiction for a bit before delving back underneath.

>>22166402
I find I like a lot of Japanese literature while reading it, but my memory of every book evaporates as time goes on. They are like smoke in the wind. I’ve read this book 5 years ago and remember nothing

Emerson
Whitman
Thoreau

The trinity

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Gonna go see a minor Shakespeare play with mum in the next few weeks, reading that one on work breaks over the next few days to get the gist.

>>22165870
really enjoying this. it's my first dostoevsky

I just started Barrabas by Par Lagerkvist. Before that I was reading Doctor Glas. I happened to find both books for cheap and thought I’d finally give myself an intro to Swedish literature.

>>22166635

I was in high school at the time, and so this memory may be unfair, but I found Lagerkvist's "The Dwarf" to be very dull and tedious. Oh, huh, this guy got the Nobel. Whoop-dee-doo, I thought. His little book is still boring. Why did they give him that?

I should probably give it a re-read if I want to be fair (it's quite short), but I would prefer not to be fair. I would prefer to hang on to my ossified opinion. Why waste my time a second time? I got it right when I was a teenager.

>>22166651
Unsure if sarcastic but I’ll bite. What you get and appreciate from a book is just as dependent on you as a person, where you are in life and your mindset. You are not the same person you were as a teenager. Some of my favorite books I wasn’t overly fond of at first, but I’m glad I gave them another chance. Sometimes it just isn’t the right time for some books, but it is something beautiful when you read the right book at the right time

Ulysses
Second time reading it. Ineluctable modality

>>22165902
Herodotus is really funny

>>22166577
Based. I Hope you’re reading them in an appropriately wooded area

Sucks. Worst Pynchon. Not a huge fan of Inherent Vice or V. which I read last summer.
>>22165898
I tried reading this last month and gave up, deciding to listen to the audiobook instead. Ended up making the experience slightly more enjoyable. But only slightly.
Pynchon and McCarthy (GRHS) both seem practically like they could be written by the same author to me.

>>22165870
Reading my Bible as always. Acts now where Paul becomes the MC of the NT. Also reading the Psalms parallel to it.

There was a Dante's Divine Comedy reading group that got me started with Inferno, but I think it failed. I'm in Canto 14 and am gonna keep going on my own. My second reading of Inferno since I read it 4 years ago. It's much better this time around.

Finishing up Confessions. Beautiful work.

Gonna start The Death of Ivan Ilyich soon.

>>22165870
"How Champions Think". Picked it up by chance from the library on post. Usually I'm much more into classic fiction, and I loathe self-help type stuff, but something about this one caught my attention.
I'm a good ways into it and there's already a bit that has literally changed my life and worldview more than any philosophy or something similar ever has.
He begins by pointing out the importance and logical superiority of optimism. This is something I had already discovered and known for myself, it was apparent to me that the greatest people in life were the ones who never let themselves be kept down, no matter what.
But he goes on to talk about the importance of confidence, which I had always known as important, but still failed at. The main thing holding me back was that I had fallen into the whole "success begets confidence which begets success" mindset (which I have seen echoed on this platform often), and this lead me to struggle with confidence throughout most of my life.
This struggle has been answered with a simple thought process I can't believe I have never though of or addressed.
A lack of confidence guarantees loss. In anything. The only thing it allows you to do is be a tiny bit more graceful of a loser. While confidence does not guarantee victory, it does make victory possible. There is no point in not putting your guts into things at every given moment unless you want to resign yourself to pathetic mediocrity your entire life.
I have started applying this, this try and maybe succeed instead of resign and guarantee a fail mindset in every aspect of my life, and the difference has been night and day.
No matter who you are I recommend this book to you. In less than 100 pages it has completely changed my life for the better.

Reading Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed right now. It's amazing, it is basically a Jewish Summa Theologica in some ways. It seems hard at first because he clarifies a lot of Hebrew terms for a while, but that's just to clarify that when God is described using corporeal or this-worldly language it's always metaphorical.

Greek tragedies

>>22165870
nothing

>>22165898
>I've learned a ton about various types of geological formations
I learned the word "promontory", and now I think of it at random times throughout the day.

>>22165870
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen

I decided to read it based on some comments in this thread >>22164966. I'm about 50 pages in and it's pretty enjoyable. It's got the most neurotic narrator I've ever seen.

>>22166758
>I have started applying this, this try and maybe succeed instead of resign and guarantee a fail mindset in every aspect of my life, and the difference has been night and day.
I can appreciate this type of advice but it always seems abstract to me. Would you mind providing an example or two of how you're approaching things with more optimism?

>>22166758
It’s always better to be optimistic than pessimistic. Glad you’ve seen the light. You can do it with other things too. Try and see people’s good traits instead of bad. Try to see the positive in bad situations

>>22166771
based enlightened poster

Do you guys even enjoy reading? I like classics too but they're not ALL I read.

(Question not aimed at the German philosophy fans, you're subhumans to me)

Just read The Great Gatsby for the first time. I relate to Nick the most, I pity Gatsby to say the very least. Too much more to say but it's a very good novel

>>22165870
Some old Chinese poetry translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Simple, beautiful, relaxing, and subtlety profound

>>22166831
If I didn’t enjoy what I read I wouldn’t read it. I have nothing against genre fic readers but I might as well watch tv instead of reading genre fic. Just my opinion. I’m guessing you are newer here because this board has always strongly been geared towards “the classics”. I respect genre readers but you should respect “the classics” readers. It runs both ways. Different strokes for different folks

>>22166831
I enjoy stories and the art of storytelling.
Reading is a means to a end in getting that sweet sweet well crafted detailed story content.
If it was possible I would probably prefer most books in the form of a audio drama or audiobook, but for most books even if there is a audio version it's paywalled and cost like 30 dollars.
So I read books because they are easier and cheaper to obtain.

>>22166775
absolute gold. which part are you reading right now?

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

>>22165870
I’m reading 2666 and Don Quixote right now, then will go on to read The Mad Patagonian after I finish 2666.

Anyone who has read The Mad Patagonian please tell me what you thought of it.

>>22166775
incredibly based

>>22165870
frankenstein
very comfy so far

Going on a trip to England. I don't want to. 11 days. I'm bringing my tablet with some books I'm planning on checking out, or finishing.

>Gilded Needles by McDowell
>The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories by McDowell
>Cold Moon Over Babylon by McDowell
>Blackwater series by McDowell
>Paradise Lost by Milton
>Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
>Player Piano by Vonnegut
>Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
>Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
>How Scotland Invented the Modern World by Herman
>Blindsight by whatshisface

absolute schlock but me and my girlfriend have found all of this authors books for around 20p so we're going through them together, its cosy.

Two books:
The Big Goodbye, which is the making of Chinatown
William Faulkner, Light in August, which I'm digging a lot.

>>22167525
McDowell is so fucking good. I like The Elementals the most. Need to reread his stuff.

>>22167734
I've read none of his stuff, but your excitement makes me happy. Enjoy the reread!

I am reading the 'Poison King'. It's a fun book. I also finished reading about Carthage and Hannibal so it fits in line with current reading trends.

>>22167734
>Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas
huh

>>22167735
>>22167761
Not in terms of style but in terms of content and aesthetic, he's like if Faulkner wrote horror novels. Elementals is a haunted house book on a beach in Alabama, and follows a southern gentry type family.

He also has an interesting thesis I read ages ago called American Attitudes towards Death, which is kind of the theme that permeates all his work

My own shitty book.

>>22167887
same as me :D

In Canto 20 of Dante's Inferno. Hard read but Im stupid so

>>22165870
Finishing up The Arabian Nights then will finish up the biography of Napoleon Bonaparte that I am reading.

>>22165870
Pretty good. I've got the last third of the book left and plan on finishing it tonight.

>>22165870
About 80 pages into my third Bernhard novel. My summer vacation begins in a few weeks which means I'll be able to go down to the botanical gardens every other day to lie on a grassy hill and read and listen to music. Bernhard's repetitive prose has a poetical quality to it that pulls you along; the latter half of sturm und drang. It's filled with much less vitriol than the other two works of his that I've read, and I am curious to see how it develops, though there's as little plot as always.

About 1/3 of the way through
Segur claims Russia deliberately burned Moscow to the ground. Tolstoy claimed it was French looting out of control that started it
Who you going to believe?

>>22165870
Mason and Dixon. My first Pynchon. It’s beautifully written but I have zero desire to read anything else he wrote. Maybe GR one day.

>>22167516
It’s great. Very unappreciated here

>>22166717
Yeah he is way better read than Thucydides, who I respect, but can find very tedious and dry at times

>>22165870
I just finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and it was pretentious and unrelatable. You can tell he first wrote it when he was a dumb teenager. I am losing interest in reading fiction because of it. Please recommend me something guaranteed to reignite my interest in this hobby.

>>22168925
Sure you're not mistaking the latter chapter's for Joyce's own voice? It's my least favourite part of the book, but it's perfectly in line with what he's doing; they're the pretentious thoughts of a ridiculous college student, not a serious writer.

>>22168961
Yeah I get that but its still annoying to read. I guess I just expected more from the whole thing. Maybe my opinion will soften once it sinks in.

>>22165870
978-0977476084

>>22165878
Unironically this.

the perfect summer read

>>22165870
Debating on Keats’ letters, a different translation of Ovid, or rereading Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe, as I’m finishing up what I’m reading now

I've been reading a book a week. This is the current one. Just finished the shock doctrine before this one.

>>22166743
I started Gravity’s Rainbow 2 weeks ago, not bad. After this I’ll check out some more Pynchon

Also Stendhal - The Red and the Black

>>22165870
I'm reading "The seven madmen" by Roberto Arlt and was reading a very underground book titled "Solsticio de la serpiente" (it wasn't even translated) by Cristian Mitelman but had to lend it to my grandfather

Still reading this for the reading group. Not sure if anyone else still is.

>>22165870
I basically read the same way that >>22165902 describes, but my "primaries" at the moment are The Faerie Queene, Proust, the Aeneid, Oliver Twist, and the poems of Wang Wei - each of which is overwhelmingly beautiful in its own way.

>>22166841
Fuck yeah nigga. The Shijing is great if you want to understand the roots of Chinese poetry, not necessarily as consistently enjoyable as the more polished Tang-era stuff but it shows you the original form of the initial basic innovation of Chinese poetry, the implicit metaphor, already a very pure and powerful technique, which allowed for the eventual advent of imagism when the transition from primitive paganism to philosophical awareness took place.

>>22168589
Yeah I'm in the middle of this one at the moment, I was a little too naive in my general understanding of aesthetics when I read Concrete so I didn't really "get it" but now I very much see the way in which he is deeply poetic. I'm currently at the part about the roaring of the Aurach, which I really love.

>>22170493
I’m actually the first two anons you quoted. I’ve been trying to read a few Chinese poems before bed every night. That makes a lot of sense what you say. It is the rawest, simplest poetry I’ve read but it is extremely effective. I also have Rexroth’s Japanese poems which I’m not as keen on. They are still good but I’m thinking it’s a translation issue because of the shortness of the poems. I’d imagine it’s a lot more effective as a few symbols instead of 10-15 English words. I’m definitely a bigger fan of the Chinese though. I’m planning on buying some individual poets books from the classical(?) era like Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu-I and all them guys. I also want to get Rexroth’s other two translations: women poets of China and 100 More Poems From The Chinese

>>22170521
Wang Wei is from the same era (Tang, which is certainly the "classical" era for this sort of poetry) as those others, he was also a painter - which became a very common combination in later dynasties - so that informs his focus on imagery. You'd probably want a selected edition though, there's a fair amount of "filler" in the sense that he wrote a lot of poems to other officials that are of much more niche interest (by virtue of containing lots of references to historical anecdotes) than his more visually descriptive poems. I keep thinking the imagistic style will get old after a while, but thus far I'm only enjoying it more and more as I go on.

>>22165870
I find a lot of the philosophical reads here are things that are talked about to death so I've been reading thia book over the past month. Other thank the first story, which is a weird and rather shite personal retelling of some guy going to a Rush concert as a teenager, the book has been good about connecting the musical, lyrical and the philosophical content Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have been preaching for years. I highly recommend it but skip the first tract (the page is an anthology of papers/chapters written by various authors). It's just bad but not indicative of the quality of the rest of the book.

A few days ago I caved and picked up a used ereader, since it's hard to find good and decently priced books in English where I'm living in Germany. I have a number of books written down on a list I came across here, this being one of them. It's really fantastic, well written, funny, ect. Anyone with even a pedestrian interest in food and cooking should read it. The translation for this edition might be my favorite of any translated book I've read, maybe even exclusively because of the mostly tangential remarks the translator has on the text. I don't think I've read something so cozy since A Month in the Country, following the musings of an old french lawyer on food, death, history, with short excursive anecdotes from his life is peak comfort. I wonder as well if DFW was familiar with it, given that his Consider the Lobster is a reference to a book written by M. F. K Fisher, the translator. Her method of using endnotes feels somewhat similar to Foster Wallace's.

>>22165870
The Book Thief , almost done

Just started. Only about 25 pages in.
So far so good

>>22170459
yeah, but it'll take more time than expected. my edition is nothing but pure walls of text for 1000 pages.

Currently reading through The Sound and the Fury, almost done with Quentin's section. It's my second Faulkner after As I Lay Dying in high school. I'm really loving it, though it's hard not to see As I Lay Dying as a more expanded version of some of the themes, especially the stuff with the mother only loving one of the kids since he's not like her husband. The Benjy chapter also isn't nearly as difficult as it's hyped up to be, I can understand why it had that reputation in 1929 but I feel that it should have diminished over time, it's not that confusing after you put together the general idea of things a few pages in.

>>22168925
I enjoyed the first half of the book but dropped it after 10 or so pages of "I went to a whore but then I felt guilty and confessed but then I got horny so I went to a whore and then I felt guilty etc. etc." I like some of Joyce's short stories but man I just couldn't put up with it any longer.

>>22166558
EaH unironically changed my life. You won't get much out of the Zizek book unless you're fairly familiar with his thought.

Picrel is literally me, its beyond based. Feels like everything written there I've unconsciously carried with me.
>>22168700
Based
>>22171615
I'm constantly filtered by Faulkner no matter how ppl say its good etc. Too plain, too boring for me.

>>22165870
I'm reading The complete essays by Michael de Montaigne.

Really enjoying it. Presented and plays out like a surreal fairy tale that has one foot in horror.

>Like quills, dreams can mark you, dreams can stripe your back.

Love that line in this.

>>22165870
East of Eden
The Tin Drum
>>22165878
how's pretending to understand it going?

the collected short stories of roald dahl

borges labyrinths.
i read fictions and the aleph many many years ago. now i'm reading this and i think it's mostly the same stories but i'm so glad to be reading him again

>>22165870
I think I made a mistake and began to read to many book at once and now I don't know how to finish them.

Gonna finish The Dunwich Horror (on Kindle) and try to finish The Cyberiad (which I'm listening to and is a hoot).

>>22165870
the Ginger Man. It's ok so far

>>22171667
EaH is the best secondary material I’ve ever read on Hegel. I’ve only ever failed at reading him primarily and relied on Kojeve and Zizek for the longest as my way of understanding him. I unironically think that McGowan may have fixed that. Once he put it in the terms that contradiction is just the necessary indeterminacy inherent in every conceptualization it made perfect sense. Likewise, I always shirked from his ontology as a longing for pre-Kantian epistemological simplicity, but in actuality it’s the purest expression of Kant’s own system that his recalcitrance to posit anything he wasn’t absolutely certain of blinded him from: that contradictions and paradoxes must first be ontologically possible before they can be denied by reason. He makes it seem so simple that it’s embarrassing that I’ve so thoroughly missed the point this far. Absolutely astounding work for any interpreter of philosophy and even more so from a film professor!

>>22165870
Nothing. I have no desire to read.

Working my way through 48 Laws of Power and at the tail end of The Hobbit.

McCarthy’s text on Habermas as I’m involved in a summer course. In my spare time I have been enjoying the poetry of Novalis, Hölderlin, and Coleridge. Also, Technically Man Dwells Upon this Earth by Ulysse Carrière

>>22165870
This.

I started An Adultery by Alexander Theroux yesterday.

>>22173638
Yeah lmfao I was just amazed at how simplistic but unfathomably profound McGowan's demonstrations were in that book. He's a better Hegelian than Hegel.

>>22173730
I’ve read a few translations and this is my favorite one

>>22165905
You may get mad at this suggestion but the pynchon subreddit reading groups really helped when I was reading V.

>>22165886
Got an Ancient Egyptian /lit/ guide? Where do I start with the true Kangz?

>>22165870
Almost done with 2666 :3

>>22175861
I'm halfway through The Savage Detectives :)

Currently reading Confessions

>>22165870
Ancient Rhetoric still

>>22166077
Wendy looks like she’s into black metal or something. I like black metal too but I’m not into walled whores

>>22173721
>Novalis, Hölderlin, and Coleridge

Wonderful.

>>22165870
>AIslop

Finished this a few hours ago. Now I want to try peyote and go to a fabric store.

>>22165870
plz no bully

>>22165870
A Scanner Darkly for like the fiftieth and last time.

>>22166775
based hesse reader. i finished glass meme game and now im reading peter camenzind

>>22176909
why and why?

>>22165870
The Stranger. It's okay.

Im listening to the Immortality Key. It was a waste of an audible credit

>>22165870
7 Greeks by Guy Davenport. It’s a nice book with translations of 7 Ancient Greek poets, philosophers and a comedian. Archilochus, Heraclitus, Sappho and Diogenes are the best ones IMO

>>22165870
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea. After that I will pick up nausea again after being filtered by it initially.

>>22165948
Redpill me on this bok

>>22165870
Lilith by George macdonald & the myth of Sisyphus by Camus

>>22167525
>C.S. Lewis
Uhh, based much?

>>22168925
Infinite jest
Ulyseese
Gravity's rainbow
The holy trinity

>>22170235
How long is this book? I got it for free a long time ago on (((google)))books but I'm not sure if it's an abridged version or not and was never able to find a clear answer when I looked it up

>>22172130
>the trojan war started over this bitch
She's not even that hot

>>22177204
Archilochus is pretty cool, interesting accounts of his personal experience of war. Anytime I try to read ancient Greek poetry it just makes me sad about how much has been lost (though I care more about the epic and dramatic than the lyric).

>>22175851

>>22167633
fuck her in the ass whilst making her read it out loud.

>>22168842
>Who you going to believe?
Segur

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl by Tomihiko Morimi.

>>22177782
my copy is 1462 pages. im halfway through, been reading 100 pages a day. Its very good, dont get an abridged version.

>>22165870
White Noise by Don Delillo

>>22166577
based

moravagine by cendrars
nostalgia by cartarescu
imperium by yockey

>>22178098
Thanks bro
I'll make sure mine is around that legnth before I start reading

>>22165870
On my 2nd read of it all, midway through that hideous strength. Prefer perelandra for the story but the pacing and dialogue is so much better in that hideous strength

out of the silent planet is just a cool intro book, nothing great nothing terrible to say about it though I do like how he depicts mars as being a sort of jetsons reality with plants and pink sand and strange creatures rather than desert rock

>>22178871
Just finished it recently
Absolutely wonderful set
Aparently Ransom was inspired by Tolkien, so I always tried to read his lines with his voice in mind

>>22178853
The penguins edition translated by Buss is the one youll want to get. It should be in every used bookstore

>>22177154
I enjoy the story. But after several reads, I realized that he's repeating stories that actually happened thinly veiled in fiction. It's basically The Sun Also Rises for 1970s burnouts.
And, I realize it's not science fiction. The science fiction elements are just drug induced paranoid fantasies and lengthy descriptions of a psychotic break with reality.
I like the book, but I think I get what it is and what it's about.

>>22165870
just finished "The guns of august" by barbara w tuchman a few minutes ago

>>22165870
Some short stories by HP Lovecraft, currently on Rats in the Walls

This collection of Tolstoy short stories and novellas is excellent but they used the most horrifying drawing of him ever. Why would anyone be compelled to buy a book with such a hideous cover

>>22165870
Crime and Punishment
I got spoiled about Raskolnikov confessing to Ilya Petrovich but oh well, I don't think it's that big of a spoiler and probably won't ruin much of the experience.

>>22178871
I was going to order that book but heard that the binding was terrible. How is it?

>>22179808
had no issues so far. just take care of it like all books should be taken care of.

>>22179800
Its about the journey, not the destination

>>22165870
I don't understand a single sentence.

Just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the two companion pieces that were added to the book

I'm currently reading Checkhov's short stories, loving them. Any other good short story writers?

Reading a collection of 5 short stories by Gogol. Enjoying the descriptions of life in 19th century St Petersburg, the way it completely subsumes the individuals who live in it, and all the customs and mannerisms surrounding the bureaucracy of the time. I’ve just finished ‘the Overcoat’, which reminded me of ‘Notes from the Underground’, although Akaky is a more sympathetic yet shallow character. Nabokov says that the story is not altogether meant to be moralising or satirical, but absurdist.

How many books does /lit read at a time, and how should you split up reading time?

>uhhhuuuuuuuu hey guuaayyyyyzzzz what r u reading right naow?!
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>Information:
AA2Mini Install Guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS8Ap6CrmSNXRsKG9jsIMqHYuHM3Cfs5qE5nX6iIgfzLlcWnmiwzmOrp27ytEMX03lFNRR7U5UXJalA/pub
General FAQ:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200216045726/https://pastebin.com/bhrA6iGx
AAU Guide and Resources (Modules, Tans, Props, Poses, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17qb1X0oOdMKU4OIDp8AfFdLtl5y_4jeOOQfPQ2F-PKQ/edit#gid=0

>Character Cards [Database], now with a list of every NonOC in the megas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niC6g-Xd2a2yaY98NBFdAXnURi4ly2-lKty69rkQbJ0/edit#gid=2085826690
https://db.bepis.moe/aa2/

>Mods & More:
Mods for AAU/AA2Mini (ppx format, the mediafire has everything):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vwrmdohus4vhh/Mods
/aa2g/ Modding Reference Guide (Slot lists for Hair/Clothes/Faces, List Guides, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gwmoVpKuSuF0PtEPLEB17eK_dexPaKU106ShZEpBLhg/edit#gid=1751233129
Booru: https://aau.booru.org

>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host

Previous Thread:
>>434085771
https://discord.gg/N37M9Ny

>>22180104
>How many books does /lit read at a time
Two or three
>and how should you split up reading time?
Once I get slightly bored by one I grab the next one.

I'm reading Embracing Defeat. Very good account of the Japanese experience under US occupation.

>>22179879
Tolstoy

>>22180107
This nigga don’t read

>>22165870
5th volume of In Search of Lost Time -- the captive :)

>>22180860
Is it really worth going through them all and not stopping after Volume 1?

>>22180150
>Embracing Defeat
I'm glad that you have been enjoying that book. I finished reading it this year and learned a lot. I own a copy of War Without Mercy by the same author and put off reading it, but I'll read it later.

Lotr

>>22165870
Around the World in 80 Days

>>22166797
You should work on your reading comprehension, everything you've described is something I already do. The optimism was never the part that I struggled with, the confidence was

>>22166787
It's less the optimistic aspect and more the confidence aspect. I've always had hope that things would work out for the best, but I've truly ended up unlucky in many matters of chance and circumstance.
Extremely luck in others, but mainly in ways that saved me from bad circumstances rather than ways that propelled me forward.
I digress.
The biggest issue I faced wasn't outlook, it was confidence. My self-perspective went through most of my childhood as self-loathing, combined with an extreme love for the world and people (which persists) resulted in some harsh cognitive dissonance.
I reconciled this in my early adulthood, and although I felt as validated as anyone else, there were still vestiges of insecurity in everything I did, from the way I walked and spoke to some of my habits and interactions with others.
Things like keeping my head low, or not speaking up when I have something to say, or not going out or doing certain activities in fear of judgement, or when I do partake in those letting that fear control me to the point I became extremely awkward. A lot of little things that combine major when it comes to your self-image and future behaviors.
This book was really the key to reconciling that for me, and like I described it does it with that thought process already mentioned.
As for a specific example like you asked, when I'm placed somewhere new for my job, I could remain mostly quiet during conversations. It would make me seem a bit standoffish, but sharing my thoughts and experiences has often lead to others thinking I'm strange, although in some instances has lead to people thinking I'm smart and/or funny if a little weird, so it's a way to play it safe.
With the new thought process, going boldly to speak my mind or crack a joke or tell a story (when prudent) doesn't guarantee that I'll be accepted and well-liked, but it does bring the chances up from zero if I remain quiet. And as the book further explains, it is not difficult to shake off failure and keep working towards success anyways, with the right mindset.
It lead me to realize that the only time I've really struggled with tenacity has been in relation to my self-image and in my relation to others. Applying that same tenacity and bravado to those areas of my life where I was lacking them? It really has been life changing