What are you currently reading and is it any good?

[Anonymous No.13406613]

[Anonymous No.13406671]

>>13406613
Found a book called “no hero” lying around in my dorms, no one claimed it so I took it. It’s pretty standard in the “SEAL writes a book” category. Also going to finish “ on killing” later

[Anonymous No.13406683]

>>13406613
Just started reading Gravity's Rainbow after finishing V. and The Crying of lot 49. I had read some of it before, but never got back to it. It's much more enjoyable and easier to understand now that I've read the two books that came first.

[Anonymous No.13406696]

>>13406613
Suicide Note by Mitchell Heisman. I'm currently on the part about the spiritual penis of Jesus.

[Anonymous No.13406714]

>>13406613
“At the Existentialist Café” (I know, I know, but I needed some more supplementary secondary texts as I was out of my league for Kaufmann’s collection) and it’s okay. Just started it, but it’s fine, though focused more on their personal lives of Sartre, Beuviour, etc rather than theory.

[Anonymous No.13406744]

Reading Hunger by knut hamsun
It reminds me of notes from the underground but with a character that i actually feel less connected to and more sorry for him.

[Anonymous No.13406794]

A Hunger Artist

[Anonymous No.13406803]

I am reading Leo Strauss´ lecture on Nietzsches Zarathustra. Its pretty good, i guess :-)

[Anonymous No.13406822]

The Bible
No

[Anonymous No.13407091]

I’m reading many books but my main focus is James Joyce’s Ulysses. I have to say that I find the book (like most of Joyce’s works) is amazing, it’s unique style allows great psychological insight of the characters and it also has interesting philosophical themes. However it is also difficult, very difficult; but the challenge is very interesting.

[Anonymous No.13407104]

The body keeps the score
By
Besser Van der Kolk

Yeah it really is good. My only complaint is that it leans to much into the neurological side of it all.

[Anonymous No.13407117]

Currently:

Witelo - Perspecitva (Bks. 1 and 5)
Oskar Morgenstern - On the Accuracy of Economic Observation
Ibn Al-Haytham - On the Configuration of the World
Adam Smith - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Aristotle - Prior Analytics

After:
Roger Bacon - Opus Majus
Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler - The Capitalist Manifesto
Nicole Oresme - Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum
Jeremy Bentham - In Defense of Usury
Aristotle - Posterior Analytics

:3

[Anonymous No.13407144]

The Wolf and The Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag. Actually it's pretty alright and it's a nice break from what I normally read.

[Anonymous No.13407162]

>>13406613
De Kooning : An American Master

It's very good!

[Anonymous No.13407198]

>>13406613
the last of the Hyperion Cantos, Rise of Endymion. Quite good, but not as good as the rest of the series (especially the first two).

[Anonymous No.13407229]

>>13407198
I started Endymion and I just couldn't get into it. The vibe of the first two was just too good for the interruption to be anything but jarring

[Anonymous No.13407265]

>>13407229
it took me a little bit to really sink into it. once it started going into things from the vatican's POV it started to grip me a little more. still not nearly as good as Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, though. You're right, the break is jarring (and I just can't seem to like the character of Raul as much as literally any of the characters from the stories of the pilgrims)

[Anonymous No.13407282]

Lord of the barnyard
yeah it's good

[Anonymous No.13407301]

>>13407265
I looked into it but I felt that Fall of Hyperion already completely wrapped the story up. I'd like to read more Dan Simmons though.

[Anonymous No.13407314]

>>13407301
i'm working my way through what he's written but I would recommend The Terror and Ilium. Next on my list is the Hollow Man.

The Terror is historical fiction with some fantasy elements, but is otherwise brutally realistic. Loved it. Ilium is more scifi but mixed with fantasy and mythology. Looking forward to reading the sequel, Olympos, eventually, but i haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Anonymous No.13407335]

>>13407314
I have actually seen a full documentary on the expedition The Terror is based on with how the winter was extra cold and the ice didn't break up or I already would have.

[Anonymous No.13407397]

Pnin by Nabokov
its kinda funny in the sense that i say in my mind "haha thats funny" but never laugh which isnt a bad thing, and i really like the way the narrator talks about the subjects in the story. he makes the world seem like a little dollhouse while he cheerily watches on, and i get the same feeling when youre flying and things seem miniscule.
im about a 1/3rd through so i cant say if its good or not but im still reading it somewhat frequently so thats a good sign.

[Anonymous No.13407444]

>>13407314
hi

[Anonymous No.13408472]

Im enjoying it

[Anonymous No.13408474]

Mason and Dixon

Pretty good but i fail to understand why Pynchon wrote this. Does he really care about America so much?

[Anonymous No.13408631]

>>13406613
currently reading Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens and Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History, by H.E. Jacob.

Our Mutual Friend is amazing. I'm on page 550 of 800. Enjoying every page.

Just began Six Thousand Years of Bread (on page 20-something) and I'm optimistic. The first 10 pages were anthropological speculation bullshit about how man first came to cultivate plants, but that can't be helped. On page 20 and I'm already into recorded history, thank god, and it is MUCH better. Very interesting.

[Anonymous No.13409873]

The Gospel According to St. John
It is great

[Anonymous No.13409874]

>>13407444
h-hi?

[Anonymous No.13409893]

>>13408472
i'm planning on reading that - just recently read The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James. Written a generation or so earlier, it's mostly a collection of anecdotes and quotations looking at religious/spiritual experiences from an outside/proto-psychological point of view, but it also goes into the role that myth and religion play in societies and with people's individual lives.

[Anonymous No.13410265]

>>13406613
The myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Ive been meaning to read it for a good while, but Camus's books in spanish arent that easy to find over here apparently. Its really good and Ive been taking alot of his theory to heart lately.

What does /lit/ think about Camus?

[Anonymous No.13410274]

>>13410265
Sharing pic because I really love my edition's cover art lol