What are you currently reading and is it any good?

[Anonymous No.13470454]

[Anonymous No.13470466]

>>13470454
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, I accidently sleep asleep for 2 hours while reading it yesterday.
It gets pretty boring.

[Anonymous No.13470482]

Five books

Witelo’s Perspectiva, Adler and Kelso’s Capitalist Manifesto, Alhazen’s Configuration of the World, Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Aristotle’s Prior Analytics.

Just made it to book Two of Prior Analytics. Fascinating stuff really. The people who say Prior Analytics is only really trying to say something about equivalency are very wrong. The whole book is so much more detailed than a simple analysis of causality or equivalency. It requires the length of the book that it is, trust me.

Witelo’s Perspectiva is my least favorite geometrical treatise I’ve read thus far, and I have read many. I dislike his proofs immensely and consider a couple of them outright incorrect and one of them to be falsely proven but otherwise correct.

I know, I know, you’re thinking ‘oh cool, the autist responded to my thread’, but if I knew you’d have that emotional reaction I’m not much of an autist am I? Maybe the Ubermensch...:3

[Anonymous No.13470500]

Just started, but I'm enjoying it so far. I'm big on memoirs from Middle Easterners and Africans for some reason.

[Anonymous No.13470516]

>>13470454
Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer

The first part is pretty bland, but the rest of it is interesting enough, though the chapter on Jews started to wear on me by the end.

[Anonymous No.13470525]

Memefinite Jest

Is it good?

[Anonymous No.13470529]

>>13470454
The Female Persuasion, which I was given as a gift. It's quite a safe and boring book, pushing J.K Rowling tier feminism and dutifully just hinting at more "radical" stuff.

[Anonymous No.13470556]

Ernst Jünger - Strahlungen (don't know the English title)
Interesting in a mundane way, although the way he tries to extract some grandiose maxim from every single thought is a bit confusing. He also reads too many terrible Frenchmen.

[Anonymous No.13470566]

>>13470454
Dwarf by Per Lagerkvist. Bland eurotrash, but at least it's short.

[Anonymous No.13471376]

>>13470482
Ubermensch is an abstract idea, don't be dogmatic about Nietzsche.
>>13470454
Reading blood meridian and it's great, for it's prose, historical accuracy, depth and breadth, it's plot, and for everything. It's dense and great, 10/10. I've read sound and the fury and as I lay dying, didn't care for either to much, but this book feels like the real deal. Put down the Faulkner and pick up blood meridian.

[Anonymous No.13471418]

>>13470454
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. It's splendid and has brought me closer to true living. Abba Anthony is based.

[Anonymous No.13471429]

>>13470454
Kant's Prolegomena and The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe is very enjoyable, and I'm making progress, however slow, on Kant and his philosophical terms.

[Anonymous No.13471481]

>>13470454
Just read Mishima's Patriotism. A very short read but extremely well written. Now I'll read a play or two by him and then I'll read something by Hemingway and Augustine.

[Anonymous No.13471506]

>>13470454
I am re-reading Plato’s Five Dialogues for the ninth time in five years. Every re-reading is richer than the last. Eurythphro is still a little bitch ass hoe. Apology is still the most based text in human history. Really one needn’t read much more in one’s life than the dialogues.

[Anonymous No.13471575]

>>13471429
I loved the Sorrows of Young Werther! I just finished the Mabinogion and I'm interested in the progress our sentiments on romance and love have taken across the ages. Before it seemed to be, at least in the tales, a thing of impersonal excellence and moral character, but around Goethe it evolved into a more individual and spiritual phenomenon.
I'm reading pic related in a few hours. I'm also wondering, because I'm thinking of reading the Book of Enoch, if anyone here who has read it can tell me their thoughts. I'm interested in gradually studying Kabbalah.

[Anonymous No.13471622]

>>13470454
Reading a collection of Meister Eckhart's sermons. Very interesting, especially considering how similar some of his thoughts are to Eastern religions.

[Anonymous No.13471634]

>>13471429
How is Prolegomena compared to Critique of Pure Reason? or, if you haven't read the critique, to other works of philosophy? I'm interested in reading it too, and am fairly new to philosophy

[Anonymous No.13471721]

Reading the Critique of Pure Reason. Finished the transcendental deduction today. Proud, but still a long way to go. Pray for me anon.

>>13471634
The prolegomena is exactly what the title implies: Kant 's introduction to the CoPR, written after the CoPR. He used the opportunity to clear up common misunderstandings as well.
Wouldn't have gotten this far into his work if it hadn't been for the Prolegomena; so I highly recommend it.

[Anonymous No.13471764]

Just finished Fate's chapter in 2666. Unremarkable novel so far. The remaining two chapters must be absolutely genius and amazing for this to justify its place as one of the best novels of the 21st century. This is literally the worst Bolaño novel I've read so far, not even kidding, and I've read The Savage Detectives (his best work in my opinion), Distant Star (his second best), By Night in Chile, Amulet, and The Third Reich. All of them pretty good. The comparisons to Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian are literally just "dude pale evil thing lmao xD". Totally underserved. Even I could've literally written a better novel than 2666, not even kidding, but we'll see, I'll judge it completely after I'm finished. I hope it astonishes me in the coming chapters.

[Anonymous No.13472193]

Just started listening to the audiobook of Outland by Dennis E. Taylor. I don't know if audiobooks are looked down upon on here, first time posting on lit. It's been pretty good so far, but it's only really getting started at around 2 hours in. Can recommend his other books too

[Anonymous No.13472554]

I just picked up and started reading Ursula K. Leguin's translation of the Tao Te Ching and I love it.

[Anonymous No.13472575]

They’re all library books so I’m reading them all at once before they have to go back

[Anonymous No.13472929]

>>13470454
This book and boy oh boy does it make me feel stupid, I honest to God am highlighting sentences and need to take frequent brakes for something recommended to me by a friend. This book is very challenging to me at least but hopefully I'll see the light at the end of the tunnel with this book.

[Anonymous No.13473574]

reading "Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism" by Algis Uzdavinys and it is based as fuck. Requires a little bit of background knowledge but is otherwise shockingly readable and clear despite how dense the subject matter is. It's also only 99 pages. Would highly recommend.

[Anonymous No.13473617]

>Select Sermons of George Whitefield.
Bringing me to tears desu

[Anonymous No.13473628]

The Thirst for Annihilation - Nick Land

So far, it's pretty damn good. I'm in love with Land's writing style and accurate synopsis of previous philosophers.

The World as Will and Representation - Schopenhauer

Not as dense as Land, but pretty dry... there are some great gems of wisdom here and there but it's hard to focus sometimes because of the verbose writing style.

Essays and Aphorisms- Arthur Schopenhauer

No wonder Schopenhauer's essays gave him fame in his late age; these essays are actually interesting and well-written.

Civilization and its discontents - Sigmund Freud

Loving this book so far. Very insightful, a tad dry at times, but the dryness can be completely overlooked by Freud's engaging ideas and discussion.

CCRU 1997-2003

This... this is confusing and I'm not sure what to make of it. When read very slowly and carefully, it gives you a rather voidful feeling and a fair amount of insight into cybernetics and brings you closer to Nick Land and his emphasis on "the peripheral."

[Anonymous No.13473741]

>>13470466
>It gets pretty boring.
I hope you like accretions.

[Anonymous No.13473774]

I've been reading The Windup Bird Chronicle (78%) and Democracy in America (16%). After reading Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood (which is not that good) and now this, Murakami can make for an intriguing read but seems to not benefit from the extra length in The Windup Bird Chronicle. On the other hand, Tocqueville's Democracy in Amerca is based.

[Anonymous No.13473797]

>>13471376
I read As I Lay Dying and it's one of my favorite novels ever.

[Anonymous No.13473801]

>>13470454
Some crabby isekai novel series by a fuck all author from cleveland. Dude's a doctor and writes fantasy, his name's Stephen Donaldson. I wouldn't reccomend his works. His use of language is frutratating. His fantasy has a self contained language with fake words that bar any and all growth. When any terms are forgotten there are directories in the final pages to remind you of his irremediable autism. While none of tge charcters speak the language directly to one another, the shit is peppered generously enough to piss me off and detach from any sense of immersion.

[Anonymous No.13473807]

>>13472929
Hate to break it to you but that book isn't going to lead you to a "light" -- it's just Nietzsche's notes organized in a somewhat systematic manner. I'm not saying you shouldn't read it, but you should definitely come back to it after reading Nietzsche's actual works, should you choose to do so.

[Anonymous No.13473814]

Wuthering Heights. It's pretty good but why does everybody keep ejaculating?

[Anonymous No.13474200]

Sinuhe the Egyptian. It is probably the best book I've read so far

[Anonymous No.13474224]

>>13474200

Waltari's later historical novels like The Dark Angel and The Wanderer are better in my opinion. I find medieval and Renaissance era history more interesting than Ancient Egypt. He also wrote a novel about the Etruscans and two about the Romans if you are more interested about Ancient history.

At the moment I am reading Demons by Dostoyevsky, as translated by Constance Garnett. So far it has been quite dry, I have a hard time remembering the names and patronymics of all the characters, but some of the philosophical dialogues in this novel have been interesting.

[Anonymous No.13474273]

>>13474224

I find Medieval milieu boring but I guess I should read more Waltari after reading this masterpiece

[Anonymous No.13474277]

The Screwtape Letters. A very interesting read about a demon advising his nephew in the ways of properly keeping people from God.

[Anonymous No.13474294]

I am almost at the end of The Ma Without Qualities. It seems clear to me that it is the greatest book I have read, but one that will require many re-reads in the coming years. Underrated, no doubt - easily up there with Ulysses, The Sleepwalkers, Remembrance of Times Past, Brothers Karamazov etc. It is stunning to me how thoroughly modern and up to date it feels.

[Anonymous No.13474588]

>>13473774
Screw the meaningless adjective of based.

Democracy in America is the foundation for many authors interpretations of the progress in society. Many who write do not wholeheartedly state that the principles of Democracy are unequivocally beneficial. Many of the Principles, after all, are incredibly dangerous if handled improperly.

I have found having read that book, I am extremely pleased with the influence it has had on every other writer I’ve read, including some Economic theorists.

[Anonymous No.13474801]

The Worker by Ernst Jünger
Just started it but it's already great

[Anonymous No.13474819]

Just finished reading Thucydides, not sure what I thought about it yet

[Anonymous No.13475135]

>>13474277
>>13472670

[Anonymous No.13475148]

I finished it in one sitting. Amazing novel.

[Anonymous No.13475160]

Botchan, it's quite good

[Anonymous No.13475173]

Lolita, about 70%

Amazing book

[Anonymous No.13475180]

>>13470454
Solaris

So far I'm about 60% in, the intrigue within the base is cool but I got bored through the "scientific" rant in the middle about the planet.