Current reads pic thread

[Anonymous No.12919614]

Hey, like, what're you reading right now, /lit/?
Post a pic of your book. Bonus points if we never heard of it. More bonus points if it's good.

[Anonymous No.12919618]

[Anonymous No.12919623]

A book from the year 1202

[Anonymous No.12919765]

>>12919614
It's good I'm lovin it

[Anonymous No.12919799]

I love this german grandpa.

[Anonymous No.12919948]

I haven't read a book in months lmao

[Anonymous No.12920032]

>Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.

[Anonymous No.12920082]

>>12919618
planning on reading Hegel next?

[Anonymous No.12920093]

>>12920082
Hegel isnt successor of Kant

[Anonymous No.12920097]

>>12919614
A little known tome titled the Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
It is a very vividly written book and, despite the oddities, feels very real.
Pleasantly surprised.
No pic as i am posting in the dark.

>>12920032
Three times I have tried to read HoD and three times I have failed. Conrad's writing feels so unbearably stuffy to the point of suffocation.

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[Anonymous No.12920150]

Less Than Zero
BEE
>holy fuck mang these rich LA fuckers are fucked up and all on coke and ten different cocks at once

[Anonymous No.12920770]

Bump

[Anonymous No.12920776]

>>12920093
retard

[Anonymous No.12920778]

Just started this

[Anonymous No.12920787]

I love chapter 22, haven't read a book in a while where I can point at a chapter and say that I absolutely adored it.

[Anonymous No.12920791]

Most fascinating biography I’ve read yet. Quarter of the way through.

[Anonymous No.12920800]

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[Anonymous No.12920849]

>>12920800
Hot Ziggedy!

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[Anonymous No.12920880]

I skipped ahead to the Metamorphosis, but I'll read the other stories too, though probably not in order

[Anonymous No.12920893]

>>12920791
Is that the book that you guys are getting all these batshit anecdotes from. I started to suspect they were fake ever since day one when people started spamming the hot ziggety cheese copypasta. Are these actual anecdotes about him? Holy mother of God, I need to read this book.

[Anonymous No.12920939]

Both are pretty damn good. Told by an Idiot is a lost generation book written by a woman and centering on the the turn of the century England. Eterna is one of the most 'meta' books you can ever read, and it's written by Borges mentor

[Anonymous No.12920946]

Picture of my nightstand stack

[Anonymous No.12921015]

Read the first half of this after finishing steppenwolf and being somewhat underwhelmed. Seems good but I’m just a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12921143]

>>12920865
That picture on the lake looks comfy as fuck. Anyone know any books where a sort of suburban youth or adolescence is suffused with mystical or fantastic imagery, I guess something like Bridge to Terabithea but more literary in the vein of Alain-Fourier’s Le Grand Meaulnes

[Anonymous No.12921157]

>>12920946
what are the carrots for

[Anonymous No.12921204]

>>12921157
Earplugs?

[Anonymous No.12921217]

>>12920097
>Three times I have tried to read HoD and three times I have failed. Conrad's writing feels so unbearably stuffy to the point of suffocation.
same here ...sadly. I really want to but it's just lacks humor or any self-awareness...dry af

[Anonymous No.12921225]

>>12920800
based witty

[Anonymous No.12921263]

Im reading the master and margarita right now. Interesting book.

[Anonymous No.12922006]

I'm at psychological types which I wanted to skip but it's interesting, more esoteric than I thought it'd be.

[Anonymous No.12922079]

>>12920787
This is sweet. I can't remember chapter numbers, but the whole forest warden section is top Americana

[Anonymous No.12922182]

>>12919765
I've started this book like 5 times but the first 15 pages are so retarded that I have to put it down

[Anonymous No.12922233]

>>12920893
No that’s Malcolm’s memoir. Duty of genius is a serious biography

[Anonymous No.12922695]

Good shit but every page I read makes that old Lukács' critique of modernism more compelling.

[Anonymous No.12922754]

>>12922079
The Juarez part, where he says there is no better place to sleep than in the cold desert while being tucked in your warm sleeping bag. But not only that, really everything about the chapter. Sometimes he communicates the idea of freedom so well during the book, it's a joy.

[Anonymous No.12922777]

Author tries to explain the emergence of the self by using recent findings in neuroscience. Pop Sci without all the usual downfalls of Pop Sci (ie oversimplification, dumb metaphors, saying stupid shit while masqueraded as le science, etc)
If I were a new york times reviewer, I'd say it's a "tour de force".

[Anonymous No.12922781]

>>12922777
I can't upload the picture for some reason. The book is the self comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.12922787]

This and Capital Vol. I. This is my first exposure to Nietzsche's actual writing and I find it very uplifting. It also really makes me want to read more Greek tragedies.

[Anonymous No.12923310]

>>12919614
Huckleberry Milton. Recommended to me by an anon. Read 4 chapters and still don't know what to make of it.

[Anonymous No.12923433]

>>12922787
I tried ecce homo this morning and it just pissed me off. it's extremely self-masturbatory and narcissistic. this shit eating googly-eyed g*rman subhuman pampered academic louse honestly thinks he's some supreme gentleman and an upstanding symbol of strength and virtue. there's nothing gayer than sitting there reading some guy rhetorically jerk himself off.
Reminder max stirner was the only good g*rman to ever live and he fucking despised g*rmans.

[Anonymous No.12923853]

>>12919623
English trans? How is it?

[Anonymous No.12923875]

>>12923853
Yeah it’s an English translation. Luckily, you don’t really read this sort of thing for the prose. It’s a bunch of simple multiplication/addition tricks that I was already aware of. I have read two interesting things thus far: (1) his explanation of Italian merchants’ hand signals for mathematics and (2) his Euclidean explanation for how ‘long multiplication’ actually works. I find ratios and proportions within mathematics interesting, so it has been worth it for that. For the most part thus far, however, it has been unbelievably easy. I’m assuming it gets more complex, as the famous Fibonacci sequence is in this book as well as Diophantine equations.

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[Anonymous No.12924241]

>>12922006
Do you see yourself at any of the types? I'm Introverted Intuitive.

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[Anonymous No.12925472]

>>12922182
You have to struggle through about 40 pages before it gets interesting

[Anonymous No.12925484]

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[Anonymous No.12925566]

just got done with this one, and i liked it a lot.
the interviews are especially great:

>You know, PR is dealing with all the things that we deal with every day in our private lives, but on a much larger level. I mean, there is a certain beauty to it. It’s reflective of what we all do each day. We do something wrong and we try to explain it. We get drunk and we act badly; we have a fight and we use abusive language. Well, [Company X] got drunk, drunk with money and power and abused its employees and then covered it up. That’s a terrible thing, but it’s not all that different from what we all do. I think that what people don’t like about PR is that we remind them of themselves, on a grand scale, on a large screen where they can see all the ploys they use to manipulate others in the little dramas of their own lives. They see all the duplicity and all the storytelling of their own lives writ large. It makes them very uncomfortable because we remind them of themselves.

[Anonymous No.12925656]

You may call me "based". I myself like to call my self "Beleg"

<:^) >

[Anonymous No.12925701]

>>12924241
Definitely intuitive introvert

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>>12921204
You use carrots for earplugs?