What are you reading RIGHT NOW?

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Anonymous Fri May 15 10:36:48 2020 No.15369684 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading RIGHT NOW?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 10:37:28 2020 No.15369689 Blood Meridian

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 10:40:29 2020 No.15369707 The city of God

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 10:41:15 2020 No.15369712 >>15369684 The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 10:45:34 2020 No.15369743 File: 286 KB, 1080x720, 5362E050-D623-4587-B15B-C008849A514C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 The Night Land

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 10:47:57 2020 No.15369762 >>15369689 The Judge is Jewish

Anonymous Fri May 15 10:50:04 2020 No.15369770
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>>15369684
I haven't been this engrossed in a book in years. So far the book is basically an Isekai written in 1890. No one would bat an eye if the plot was near directly lifted from this book and adapted for the 2021 anime season.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:06:33 2020 No.15369872 >>15369684 War and Peace

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:19:00 2020 No.15369957 File: 40 KB, 331x500, 0470891750.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:26:35 2020 No.15370010 File: 268 KB, 1088x616, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 Better Angels Of Our Nature. Got it some 3 weeks ago.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:30:57 2020 No.15370046 I'm reading Invisible Cities Very fun read and way more thought provoking than I could ever suspect it to be

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>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:45:45 2020 No.15370136 File: 173 KB, 1400x729, come and see.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 11:53:59 2020 No.15370175 >>15369684 So what's the deal with the Flashman books? How many are there, what genre are they, what to expect? I see them posted from time to time but never actually read them

Anonymous Fri May 15 12:09:57 2020 No.15370254

>>15370175
There's like 10 or so

They're very well researched historical fiction told from the perspective of an antihero (originally the bully character in a 19thC British school novel)

Basically he becomes involved in various 19thC conflicts and earns a reputation for being a brave and gallant soldier while actually being a terrible person and total coward

They're fucking great

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 12:18:20 2020 No.15370290 >>15369684 Reflections on the Rev. In France by Burke.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 12:19:04 2020 No.15370296 Flashman is so based

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 12:20:20 2020 No.15370303 File: 110 KB, 768x1005, magic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] well not right now... im at the part after the dr.'s lecture about warped love being the catalyst for sickness where hans and chauchat trade constant glances at breakfast times

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 12:38:24 2020 No.15370393 File: 39 KB, 492x388, 1546750885533.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15370010 >pinker >audiobook

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 13:51:53 2020 No.15370920 >>15369684 (You)'re post

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 13:57:35 2020 No.15370952 I've just finished Elementary Particles by Houellebecq and started A Heart of Darkness.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 13:58:48 2020 No.15370963 Rereading Walden for the 20th time

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 14:01:49 2020 No.15370979 >>15369684 Leave It to Psmith

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 14:03:29 2020 No.15370986 File: 25 KB, 333x499, 51IRF4fVDeL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty straightforward but pretty darn based so far.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 14:40:51 2020 No.15371257 Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 14:43:36 2020 No.15371281 File: 3.67 MB, 4032x3024, 20200515_124205.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 660 pages in. It's really started to settle into that groove of not wanting to put it down. The Traverse family are wonderful characters

Anonymous Fri May 15 14:50:46 2020 No.15371344

>>15371257
I started that a few months ago (I've paused about 50% through). How are you liking it so far? I only recently came to appreciate just how major a role the state plays in industrial policy even in the "free market" societies. Ellul takes this as a given, which gave me some confusion initially.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:01:04 2020 No.15371412 Master and Margarita pretty funny tbdesu

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:03:55 2020 No.15371432 >>15370175 12 novels Historical Fiction A roaringly entertaining romp through various historical periods and events during the Victorian England age

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:03:56 2020 No.15371433 File: 2.19 MB, 4032x3024, 7B0394DA-1B5F-41A2-98B2-410F5DEEEB89.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 Trying to decide what to read next, which of these would you guys rec? Just finished Spring Snow if that matters.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:05:11 2020 No.15371439 >>15371281 My only Pinecone I’ve read is Crying of Lot 49 and I struggled to get through it because I was not engaged. Are all of his books similar?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:05:29 2020 No.15371442 >>15371433 Runaway Horses Throw the Peterson book in the garbage. It's pseud stuff

Anonymous Fri May 15 15:09:02 2020 No.15371467

>>15371439
I think theres a distinction of periods of pynchon; pre- and post-vineland. The books before vineland like lot 49 and GR are great in their own way, in that they did things for literature that weren't really being done like that, but they were more focused on a kind of postmodern cleverness that sometimes gets in the way of the narrative imo. His books after vineland (which contains his best work - mason and dixon) retain a lot of the postmodern suspicion of grand narratives but with a renewed focus on actually developing interesting, complex characters. I cried at the chapter of m&d when they're old men visiting each other.

Anonymous Fri May 15 15:17:53 2020 No.15371528

>>15371344
I am still early on, ~100 pages in. I've mostly spent those wrapping my head around what he means by "technique." I think there is something lost in translation between the French and the English. I think a better phrase in English would be "technical method." But once you have an understanding of that, I think it becomes easy to see the orientation towards technique in so many parts of western society thanks to his examples through history.

Overall, it has more of a historical approach than I was expecting, at least to this point. I think I was prepared for more of a philosophical/political text. Nonetheless, I am finding it interesting.

Anonymous Fri May 15 15:22:20 2020 No.15371565

>>15371432
I think he meant to be careful with the historical starting points and that's why it drags on through that topic for a bit. It becomes more focused on the current era relatively soon after the first 100 pages or so. Some of his handling of history seems shaky to me -- specifically the conditions which allow "technique" to arise seem like a selective reading and, of course, his emphasis on the contributions of France seem a bit overblown. Something like "technical method" seems a bit more appropriate perhaps in English but yeah, the collective body of techno-scientific approaches to organization and problem solving seems more or less what he is getting at.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:23:16 2020 No.15371572 File: 1.87 MB, 1523x1348, 1587249289682.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lotr

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:27:33 2020 No.15371601 >>15371433 depends on your mood, they are very different books. Master and margarita is probably what i would go for. Its something you would not expect if you know nothing about it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:28:20 2020 No.15371603 >>15371572 same, really want to fuck a femboi elf now

Anonymous Fri May 15 15:34:29 2020 No.15371642

>>15371565
agree wrt the somewhat selective reading of history and his parochial focus on france and england. perhaps he uses these because he believes his audience is likely to be most acquainted with those technical histories, and discussion of those thus provides him with the lowest friction way to introduce his analytical methods and structures. but the idea that "eastern" societies were not ever interested in seizing upon technical advancement in any of the five avenues he identifies as intersecting in the rise of the modern technical society seems ahistorical to me, although admittedly I am not a historian by any means

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:35:20 2020 No.15371648 rereading last and first men by olaf stapledon and reading for the first time the iliad in the fagles translation

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:36:14 2020 No.15371657 >>15371601 What sort of moods would you assign to each book?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:37:44 2020 No.15371670 >>15371648 how is the iliad going for you?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:39:56 2020 No.15371688 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:43:16 2020 No.15371707 >>15371657 beta male -12 rules, but dont even bother fun adventurous - flashman surreal russian soul - M&M failed love/gambling - The gambler gay stuff ? - nah havent read mashima

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:45:13 2020 No.15371719 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.

Anonymous Fri May 15 15:49:00 2020 No.15371738

>>15371670
it fucking great
it's a story i've known forever but never read properly. i bounced off a couple of translations before i tried this one and it's so much fun, so direct and raw and full of energy.
also why does no one talk about based diomedes who is so fucking hardcore he fucks up the gods and makes them go home crying to their mommas

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Anonymous Fri May 15 15:51:07 2020 No.15371750

>>15371642
I am not an historian either but I think the endemic conflict in European societies was at least some kind of driver of technical development. As he mentions at some point early on, military technique is one of the oldest and most highly developed. But I think there was a lot of chance factors that converged at the right time. Once societies stepped on the first rung of the ladder of technique I think Ellul would argue (probably rightly) that there is no going backward. It takes on a kind of natural law type logic.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 15:51:44 2020 No.15371754 >>15371738 Read the Iliad in proper form for the first time myself about a month ago but like you was familiar with the story from children's versions etc. Hadn't even heard of Diomedes which is a tragedy as he's the biggest Chad in the story

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Anonymous Fri May 15 16:03:05 2020 No.15371814

>>15371738
i really enjoyed it, although i read the homeric epics "backwards" so to speak. appreciated it much more once I came to approach it as a psychological personality conflict rather than a war story like it is so often pitched.

>>15371750
Yeah, I am interested to see where it goes. I have been reading some other stuff that argues against modern techno-productive orientation like E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful and Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Hoping I'll stay interested.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 16:11:24 2020 No.15371876 File: 3.09 MB, 4128x3096, 20200515_160921.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 Imagine being able to travel around with no money and without getting hassled

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 16:20:17 2020 No.15371952 >>15371442 This

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Anonymous Fri May 15 16:48:39 2020 No.15372180
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I just finished pic related and while the climax was incredibly entertaining to the point of making me impulse buy Dark Tower III, the last chapter or so was a letdown and I probably should have bought something else (I've been meaning to get into Lovecraft) and taken a break from the series for a bit like I did after the first DT entry (which was amazing)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 16:50:53 2020 No.15372197 >>15371787 based dumfuck

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 16:51:29 2020 No.15372203 >>15371787 I want middle girl to suck me off in the bushes

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 16:55:01 2020 No.15372237 Oscillating between Whitehead's Process and Reality, and the Book of Job in the Bible.

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Anonymous Fri May 15 18:04:51 2020 No.15372717
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>>15369684
Just finished Vol. 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time right before hopping on here. I wanted to hate it but it's sheer brilliance.

>>15369689
By far the best book I read last year.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 18:15:06 2020 No.15372781 Meditations - Marcus Aurelius. Barely past the intro but I like it. Tryna fix my people skills

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 18:31:21 2020 No.15372880 >>15370010 he said reading retard

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 18:45:35 2020 No.15372957 >>15372717 How do you like Proust? Is it in translation? I have the Everyman’s complete set but Due to my fear of commitment I haven’t read it yet

>>	Anonymoos Fri May 15 18:46:12 2020 No.15372961 >>15372880 do not bully anons with info processing disorders

Anonymous Fri May 15 18:47:50 2020 No.15372976

>>15372180
do people who like King's fantasy generally like his horror? or vice versa? i have tried reading both. i have liked all the horror i have read especially 'classics' like the Shining and Pet Sematary, but his fantasy (Dark Tower, the Stand, etc) has left me wanting.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 18:54:01 2020 No.15373018 >>15370296 I’ve been taking my sweet time reading the books because I don’t want the series to end. I have to limit myself to reading one Flashman, then reading another book before I start another Flashy

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>>15372976
I like both although my entry to King was The Gunslinger and its probably one of his best works.
The only thing close to horror I've read by him was IT and admittedly some of the early parts about the whispers in the drain did spook me.
I enjoyed the Stand for the meta-physical stuff (I'm also a Christcuck) but I don't really associate it with his DT series aside from Randall Flagg being a bad guy

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 18:59:25 2020 No.15373056 File: 207 KB, 1023x605, 1024px-Ilja_Jefimowitsch_Repin_-_Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks_-_Yorck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 The Cossacks - Tolstoy

Anonymous Fri May 15 19:05:15 2020 No.15373102

>>15372957
I just picked up the Modern Library set since I got furloughed for a while. It's the Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation.

While it can be exhausting and tedious during certain stretches, it has been one of my most rewarding reading experiences yet. His sentences are often convoluted, which requires a lot of concentration if you're not used to longwinded writing, but if you just let it sort of flow off the page and eliminate distractions there is profundity everywhere. He also makes great use of short sentences once in a while, aphorisms or not, that tend to reinforce his elaborations quite succinctly. Proust endlessly ponders memory, sensory input, aesthetics, social customs, and internal emotions (and yes, lots and lots of flowers) in a way that seemingly explores the entire gradation of whatever he is talking about. It is unbelievable that a person could sit down and write what he did while not experiencing all of those things recently enough to naturally think of them. It really shows that he had an immense intellectual capacity and an almost unmatched aesthetic compass. Sure, some sections drag a bit, but so far it has been an extreme pleasure to read.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 19:28:18 2020 No.15373291 should I read Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Oblomov, The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell to Arms next?

Anonymous Fri May 15 19:39:17 2020 No.15373371

>>15373291
Either A Farewell to Arms, the only book I liked that they made us read in high school, or Moby Dick, a book I still really need to read at some point.

Also, I picked up Don Quixote at a thrift store but it's just the B&N Classics one and I'm not sure if that's a good translation or not. What are you leaning towards?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 19:52:31 2020 No.15373458 >>15373371 Started reading Don Quixote, translated by John Ormsby. He wrote a pretty convincing translator's preface about staying true to the original so im rolling with it. Should've downloaded the version with pictures though.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 19:54:33 2020 No.15373473 >>15373291 Don Quixote is a long read, so I’d almost recommend starting it at the same time as one of the others and just reading a few chapters a day on the side

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 19:54:35 2020 No.15373474 >>15369684 Feudal Society by Marc Bloch, currently on Vol 1

Anonymous Fri May 15 20:43:13 2020 No.15373776

>>15371964
im currently reading this as well anon; should I just not read the chapters where he explains how to read certain types of books? The latter half of the analytical reading rules is straight up propositional logic 101. I just cant see myself finding useful information on those later chapters until dialectical reading

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>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 21:19:05 2020 No.15373995 >>15369684 Worm, the web serial.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 21:20:02 2020 No.15374004 File: 11 KB, 307x475, 208657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just came in the mail

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 00:26:12 2020 No.15375015 I’m currently reading V. by Pynchon. I love it, but I’m definitely going to take a break from him for my next book. I’ve been on a Pynchon tear and his writing is starting to get a touch stale.

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>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 00:41:55 2020 No.15375073 >>15370010 cringe

Anonymous Sat May 16 00:45:50 2020 No.15375092
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It's really good but confusing/hard as fuck sometimes. I wish pinecone could take some extra time to actually explain most of the lore he
's chucking at me and expects me to understand it. I was cringing so hard at the youknowwhat scene.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 00:48:38 2020 No.15375108 >>15369684 >what are you reading RIGHT NOW? "what are you reading RIGHT NOW?" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NMDmoujfo

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 01:03:30 2020 No.15375148 >>15369684 How is flashman OP? I want to read the one with indians in

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 01:11:55 2020 No.15375179 >>15375148 Depends on the book, but start with the first book (deals largely with the Retreat from Kabul, which was one of the most humiliating incidents in Bong history), it's great

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>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 06:35:25 2020 No.15376366 Flash and the Redskins is one of my favourite light novels, so vivid and interesting

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 06:56:22 2020 No.15376439 >>15371964 Rereading this as well

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>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:00:18 2020 No.15376461 >>15370010 Don't do this anon, don't make me...

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:01:21 2020 No.15376469 >>15371572 Go back to sci you fucking nerd.

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>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:17:26 2020 No.15376521 >>15370046 Based Calvino poster, have you read If on a winter's night a traveller? It's his fictional magnum opus no question.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 07:40:17 2020 No.15376590 >>15376453 I love Don Quixote.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:04:43 2020 No.15376658 File: 25 KB, 279x498, 41nq4PBrFaL._SX277_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 >surprisingly based

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 08:15:36 2020 No.15376694 File: 316 KB, 2016x1512, 20200516_201247_compress21.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty good, lots of nice nature writing

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Anonymous Sat May 16 08:30:37 2020 No.15376747
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>>15371433
>unironically reading 12 rules of life
I'll sum it up and save you the time
>Clean your room
>Shave your penis
>Bathe
>Stand up straight
>Keep a journal/log
Pic related is far better for self-improvement

Anonymous Sat May 16 09:27:12 2020 No.15376986
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Just started TBK, before that I was reading The Naked And The Dead, around 150 pages in, it hasn't been all that engaging. Does it get better later on or should I drop it?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:32:05 2020 No.15377000 >>15376986 filtered leave it for when you get older

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:38:54 2020 No.15377018 >>15377000 Which book are you responding to? I worded my post in a pretty retarded way.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:39:55 2020 No.15377024 >>15377018 tbk

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 09:41:01 2020 No.15377033 >>15377024 That explains it, I meant to ask if I should drop the other book, I only started TBK yesterday.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:00:26 2020 No.15377119 File: 21 KB, 313x499, E1EF7161-9A41-43F2-BAD5-EE84E43A6A6F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It’s pretty good, but goddam Russia is a third world shithole with fighter jets.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:23:04 2020 No.15377231 >>15376453 Based. I have that copy but I didn’t like that it’s novels 1, 3, and 5

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:31:49 2020 No.15377282 >>15375092 No I don't know This books got hella cringe

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:33:06 2020 No.15377289 >>15377282 Probably where General Pudding in greedily slurping up that girl shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:35:39 2020 No.15377303 >>15369684 Warhammer 40k eisenhorn trilogy

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:37:21 2020 No.15377311 >>15377033 I dropped the Naked and the Dead about halfway through. It’s jam packed full of exposition, with too many characters.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 10:41:11 2020 No.15377323 >>15369684 Your post, OP.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:01:23 2020 No.15377773 File: 20 KB, 201x306, the-egyptian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Picked this up on a whim, now I can barely put it down for some shitposting breaks.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:32:49 2020 No.15377921 >>15377773 What do you like about it?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:35:12 2020 No.15377930 Lolita, HPL short stories, Ship of Fools, and Culture of Critique

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:39:09 2020 No.15377955 File: 76 KB, 474x668, downloadfile.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The first 70 pages are in broken English and it's kinda fucking annoying

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:41:12 2020 No.15377963 File: 104 KB, 821x491, zoroastrian larping.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bretty good actually.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:41:57 2020 No.15377967 File: 48 KB, 350x485, pyrates.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15369684 Not as good as Flashman.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 13:40:18 2020 No.15378230 >>15377967 George MacDonald is a beast. I've only read through the Evenor collection and The Marquis' Secret without realizing it was from the same author. It's nice to know he handles both fantasy and period pieces with such jauntiness.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 13:41:54 2020 No.15378237 >>15378230 That’s a different person.

Anonymous Sat May 16 13:43:36 2020 No.15378242
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>>15378230
Also reading through this. Sad it sold so little. It tackles metaphysical descriptors and explores various philosophies really well for a fun read. The Gnostic allusions the author unintentionally provokes actually reinforce the fantastical elements (names and places) with sincerity, as opposed to being intended plug-ins.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 13:43:39 2020 No.15378244 >>15371433 Jordan Peterson Lol

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 13:52:37 2020 No.15378289 >>15378237 Fuck I'm a dumb head. My apologies.

Anonymous Sat May 16 14:13:29 2020 No.15378389

>>15377921
Honestly, I just find the description of the era and locations immersive as hell which is the biggest reason it's holding my interest so well. The characters' interactions between one another are also just about always fun to read as each has their distinctive personality. There's also an overarching theme related to the nature of humanity being fairly unchanging over time which I find interesting. Overall, it's very tightly written (by which I mean every word serves a clear purpose).

I've yet to finish it but so far I'd highly recommend reading the first 30-50 pages to see if it grabs a hold of you as it did me.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:16:01 2020 No.15378406 "The Philosophy of Zen Master Dogen: Egoless Perspectivism"

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:26:39 2020 No.15378454 File: 246 KB, 953x809, TN-Eowyn_and_the_Nazgul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] THE TWO TOWERS

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:29:52 2020 No.15378472 >>15377119 propaganda tier

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:32:23 2020 No.15378489 >>15378242 Do you read his other works? Cover of this edition is pure Kino

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:34:08 2020 No.15378498 File: 50 KB, 332x499, 51LJr0L05CL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:36:43 2020 No.15378514 >>15377955 Well yeah it’s from the POV of a literal retard

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:37:46 2020 No.15378518 File: 225 KB, 1200x1200, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All Quiet on the Western Front

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 14:42:17 2020 No.15378541 >>15378498 is it good? i think i started another book by him but dropped due to no interest. arabic aesthetic is my jam though.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 15:26:44 2020 No.15378762 >>15378389 Thanks man, I have actually been looking for a good book set in ancient Egypt

Anonymous Sat May 16 15:28:35 2020 No.15378775
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>>15369684
I was halfway through Swann's Way but we got bedbugs and I shoved everything in my room in a garbage bag, sealed it off, and put it in a storage unit where it will stay for a year.
Should I order another copy or wait it out?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 15:29:01 2020 No.15378776 >>15378472 Then recommend me a good Chechen war or Soviet Afghan war memoir. Not much to chose from, at least as far as I can tell. I just enjoy well written war memoirs.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 15:43:56 2020 No.15378846 >>15378775 Sorry to hear about the bed bugs, one of the worst things I ever experienced.

Anonymous Sat May 16 15:56:46 2020 No.15378918

>>15369684
Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

The thing is fucking huge. About 1100 pages, all the extra stuff included, and I'm only in mid-700s (The Whisperer in Darkness), after already having spent a couple of months reading it.

Some of the "racist" stuff in it is definitely worth at least raising an eyebrow. Otherwise, the stuff is good.

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