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Current reading pics Anonymous Fri Sep 4 05:50:55 2015 No.7070019 [Reply] [Original]

Three on the go at the moment!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 07:28:48 2015 No.7070209 I find it incredible that people can read a number of books on the go. I can only ever read one book at a time or I lose sense of what's going on. (Unless one book is fiction and one is non-fiction)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:14:43 2015 No.7070306 I don't have a big problem with it, but also only one of those is fiction. I just find it like watching different TV shows. No one else gonna post? Whatcha reading?!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:16:40 2015 No.7070308 File: 233 KB, 960x720, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also 'dragon seed' but it's on an app

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:17:39 2015 No.7070309

>>7070209
I find it only weird when the combinations include something very major, such as IJ in OP's pic. It's one of the books you develop a relation with etc etc, it's been said on /lit/ ad nauseam.

I don't read 2+ at once either, but had I to do so, I would. Unless one of them were to be some pomo powerhouse.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:38:32 2015 No.7070338 >Morrissey's autobiography >The Sorrows of Young Werther One of them fiction, the other non-fiction. I can't imagine reading more than two at a time though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:50:49 2015 No.7070349 File: 28 KB, 640x480, 12345623543.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7070209 I try to read two books parallelly, one that is fiction and one more scientific/educational to fit whatever I'm feeling like at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 08:53:37 2015 No.7070357 File: 1.70 MB, 2592x1944, IMG_20150904_155208396.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:03:34 2015 No.7070378

>>7070209
I find that the more books I read at once, the more time I spend reading. After 1-2 hours of reading one book I tend to get restless, even if I'm enjoying it, but if at that point I switch books, my interest and patience is renewed and my "timer" basically resets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:11:28 2015 No.7070394 The Baron in the Trees by Calvino

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:21:21 2015 No.7070419 The sun also rises and a Richard Dawkins book

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:23:34 2015 No.7070423 2666 by Bolano

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:26:57 2015 No.7070428

>>7070378
I feel the exact same way. I've been trying to cut down to 1 book at a time, but I feel like it would not be that beneficial. I'm usually juggling 2-3 books. Usually one is a novel and the other an essay. The third one must be an essay or anything lighthearted. Novels don't mix well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:31:44 2015 No.7070433 A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-1822 Kissinger bretty gud

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:33:20 2015 No.7070436 >>7070419 Love Hemingway but wasn't a big fan of that one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:39:32 2015 No.7070442 File: 50 KB, 359x321, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7070423 I know its a Meme book but I just read it, and I loved it. Certainly chopped down on my total number of books read this year tho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:45:33 2015 No.7070449 >>7070338 Lol, nice combo!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:46:43 2015 No.7070451 >>7070442 Btw, Black Mass is fucking great

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:48:43 2015 No.7070455

>>7070309
I still feel like I'm being memed on IJ. I'm going to power through it once, forget about it for a bit & then see if it's worth coming back to. tbh it's well written, but it's not grabbing me like books like Dante or Satanic Verses (ie books I reread & did secondary reading on). It feels like it has a sheen of YA that I'm struggling to see through.

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:49:02 2015 No.7070456

>>7070442
I'm working my way through the second to last section. A lot of people made it sound extremely daunting, that second to last section, but I'm really enjoying it. It certainly is quite a tome. I don't think it's a meme book yet, but it's on its way. It really depends how in-depth the Wikipedia article gets ;)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:50:02 2015 No.7070459 >>7070308 Niiicee.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:50:03 2015 No.7070460 >>7070455 >I'm a faggot

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:52:25 2015 No.7070463

>>7070456
I dont know if it ever will truly, just because you have to make it through the professors and Amalfitano to get to the gory part.

Do you think Amalfitano died at the end of his section? I ask because I read it like 4-5 months ago and im already slipping on details.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:53:06 2015 No.7070466 >>7070349 gddang thats a terrible cover

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:54:05 2015 No.7070468 >>7070460 I wish I could be perfect like you. Oh wait, no, no I don't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 09:57:50 2015 No.7070475 infinite jesting it up right now and enjoying it a lot >>7070349 sämsta faustutgåvan men fy fan vad svårt det är att hitta nån annan

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:02:56 2015 No.7070481 >>7070475 sämst hur, översättningen?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:04:05 2015 No.7070483 >>7070481 formatet bara. tjock, liten och jävlig

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>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:13:35 2015 No.7070497 File: 106 KB, 381x434, 542.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7070491 Very nice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:13:46 2015 No.7070498 >>7070491 Is the English translation of the Trial worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:21:36 2015 No.7070513 >>7070498 Couldn't tell you, I only speak english

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:24:13 2015 No.7070516 >>7070513 Well is it enjoyable?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:42:46 2015 No.7070568 >>7070498 I disliked it. Really try to read Kafka in German if you're up to it. It's much more desolate and haunting.

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Anonymous Fri Sep 4 10:56:05 2015 No.7070617

>>7070463
I'm not sure. I don't think so, because I'm not sure if Rosa had gone yet. It seems like the professors visit Amalfitano after Amalfitano's section and Fate's section, which makes me think he didn't. However the chronology is difficult and I'm sure I may have missed hints or clues as to when everything is taking place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 11:06:27 2015 No.7070655 >>7070585 That Portable Nietzsche is great. My first introduction to the big N. I think it has an a short piece called 'Homer's Contest' which is one of my favourites.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 11:07:36 2015 No.7070660 >>7070349 I really need to read Faust. Too many damn books to read & too little time!

Anonymous Fri Sep 4 14:25:30 2015 No.7071300
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>>7070019
I'm recording these as I go. Updates weekly

The Grand Chessboard

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu5tKfQq0iybAoqpQcrA2QDUGAGnigaCM

The Shape of Things to Come
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Tragedy and Hope a history of the world in our time.
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