/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14466313]

What are you currently reading and is it any good?

[<negarestanipoopoo> !gDrA1n2Fhc No.14466346]

>>14466313
I'm reading "All Or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism" and I think its good. German Idealism is probably the most complicated/intricate school of philosophy there is, and the book is very good at ordering the explanations of concepts such that the development of the ideas in the project always seem motivated, and the entire project seems directed towards something, instead of just being a massive web of strangely defined concepts, that magically result in weird opinions of morality and politics.

[Anonymous No.14466348]

>>14466313
Kafka on the shore, it really is as comfy as I expected

[Anonymous No.14466590]

>>14466313
American Psycho. It's hot and hilarious.

[Anonymous No.14466599]

Ben-Hur started off pretty eh but is getting better towards the middle. Never seen the movie from 59 but heard its kino so cant wait to check that out after.

[Anonymous No.14466610]

>>14466313
Nothing, I'm waiting for Marabou Stork Nightmares to arrive in the mail, then I'll be reading that.

[Anonymous No.14466623]

>>14466599
It's the next greatest film after the The Ten Commandments 1956.

[Anonymous No.14466630]

>>14466313
I just finished the Hyperion Cantos last night. Liked it. Good world-building, nice mix of fun and romantic action and philosophical exposition, and it surprisingly dealt with technological themes that have been the talk of this past decade, despite being written decades earlier. 4/5

[Anonymous No.14466654]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Nietzsche is kind of an autist, but his ideas are good. His writing style is striking but it does make it a bit tricky not to misinterpret him. Though that might be the point since I came across an essay in a Cambridge Nietzche companion that he believed that knowledge cannot be in objective fixed conditions, making it thus an interpretative act. Would appreciate if he wrote less autistic honestly

[Anonymous No.14466743]

>>14466313
Pic related, it's okay. Mainly reading it so I can get a prom date. My mom also constantly threatens to kick me out of the house, so if I seduce a woman I'll have somewhere to crash.

[Anonymous No.14466782]

>>14466313
>What are you currently reading
The Koran
>and is it any good?
Yes, but it generally lacks context in itself if you don't have a tasfir or sira of Muhammad.

[Anonymous No.14466785]

>>14466313
piano teacher, ehh. halway done and there still is no plot, its all character exploring, idk wasnt really expecting this, id like someone to do something

[Anonymous No.14467424]

[Anonymous No.14467861]

the rules of attraction

it is....kind of fun

[Anonymous No.14468465]

Reading Picnic at Hanging Rock. It's decent fun.

>>14467861
American Psycho was the best book. Rules was okay. Like you say, kind of fun. Most his other books just didn't click with me and I thought they were trash. Still some I haven't read for that reason.

[Anonymous No.14468506]

>>14466346
All fucking tripfags must fucking hang.

[Anonymous No.14468734]

>>14466313
It's incredibly informative and therefore very good.

[Anonymous No.14468757]

Finishing War and Peace.
Its really good. My favorite characters are Pierre and Andrei.

[Anonymous No.14468830]

>>14466313
Aristotle's Ethics.
I can read a lot more of it in a sitting than I could with Plato even if it doesn't have the same charm. I'm enjoying the straight forward contrast to Plato. Probably gonna read Politics after and maybe the Organon, how long is it?

[Anonymous No.14468851]

An enquiry concerning human understanding. I honestly thought Hume was some fat retarded Anglo, but it turns out he was Scottish and based. The book is great in terms of philosophy, for it serves as the source to Kant's thought.

[Anonymous No.14468870]

>>14466313
the idiot
im 1/6 through and the scene in the ivolgins' apartment was very fun to read. i like the book so much i dont want to rush it but oh well there are only so many books you can read in one lifetime.

[Anonymous No.14468879]

LOTR. Why do the movies have to be so middling bros. I just want to live with Tom Bombadil forever

[Anonymous No.14468892]

Don Quixote

My girlfriend broke up with me a half hour before midnight on New Year’s Eve and then threatened suicide a half hour afterwards after she left our party so to be honest, I probably have too much on my mind to give this work the thought and attention it deserves.

I feel so empty and can’t shake the feeling of constant unease. Going back to work on Monday as well.

Sorry OP, I know this wasn’t exactly what you were looking for but I needed to get that off my chest to someone.

[Anonymous No.14468915]

>>14468892
forget about her. if she threatens suicide she is obviously crazy and wouldnt have made a good wife.

[Anonymous No.14468921]

>>14468892
I didn't read OP but i read your post while scrolling and I thought you were writing a letter to Don Quixote. God damn it was funny

[Anonymous No.14468936]

>>14466313
"Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism" by Camile Paglia, based af

[Anonymous No.14468937]

>>14468892
fuck that bitch, clearly unstable and an attention whore. or else you're both still kids. either way, things get better

[Anonymous No.14468972]

>>14468892
>probably have too much on my mind to give this work the thought and attention it
Chill out nigga it's basically a sitcom
>threatened
>suicide
Pick one

[Anonymous No.14469017]

Lassie Come Home. Yes it is good

[Anonymous No.14469594]

Just finished Ethan Frome. Decent story with forgettable prose. Enjoyed the sense of dread built up throughout the story but didn't care much for the ending.

[Anonymous No.14469670]

>>14466313
where big boooby lady>:( this lady has no booby

[Anonymous No.14469687]

>>14469670
NoFap™ sponsors these threads now so no more big titties.

[Anonymous No.14469774]

>>14466313
ward no.6

[Anonymous No.14469799]

>>14469687
:(

[Anonymous No.14469808]

>>14469799
You must learn to love 2D women for who they are on the inside anon. Not just the outside.

[Anonymous No.14469832]

>>14466313
I'm currently reading A Wild Sheep Chase and Man's Search for Meaning. Sheep Chase, so far, has not impressed me as much as the other Murakami books I've read in terms of prose style, but I've had an oddly good time learning about sheep. It's also brandishes a fantastic sense of humor. Man's Search for Meaning is invaluable as a insider account of inhumanity in war and as the germ of existentialist psychotherapy.

[Anonymous No.14469974]

>>14469808
You're right :) even if they have no boooby, anon like 2D qt pies :)

[Anonymous No.14470247]

The copy of The Decameron I picked up has translations of reactions and critiques of the stories in them, so the Decameron stories themselves are barely half the book.
I'm enjoying the stories, though.

[Anonymous No.14470260]

>>14466313
DFW essay collection. It's alright, he really matured as an author in the years in between these and IJ though.

[Anonymous No.14470274]

infinite jest. why did none of you faggots tell me it was a dude weed lmao book

[Anonymous No.14470298]

Just started, but a very fun read so far.

[Anonymous No.14470314]

>>14470274
get to page 300 or so

it's more of a dude drugs lmao book

[Anonymous No.14470848]

>>14468936
Why are you reading this?

[Anonymous No.14471028]

>>14468879
Same but these fucks sing about every 2 pages and its getting on my nerves,

[Anonymous No.14471076]

reading seminar on the purloined letter
it's pretty hard, i enjoyed reading the purloined letter itself and plan on reading the first dupin tale as well now
lacan has really challenged and i think improved my reading ability in a way hegel kant derrida etc have not

>>14466346
boy howdy that is an expensive book. sounds good though
>>14466654
read his nonfiction then, it is more straightforward than 'die sprach'
>>14468830
i've read the prior and posterior analytics of the organon, they were quite hard for me and also pretty frustrating to read if you have had a taste of first order logic