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Post what book you're currently reading

>> No.16620925
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>>16620778

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I don't want it to end

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I put it down for a while but it's time to finish it.

>> No.16620946

>>16620931
How is it? I read Silas Marner and TMOTF last year and got some serious whiplash from those endings. Both we fantastic.

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It's painfully boring but I need it to tick it off the starter pack chart and collect that sweet /lit/ cred.

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Pretty depressing desu, almost done with it after one sitting

>> No.16620978

>>16620970
It's worth a 1000 (you)'s

>> No.16621157

>>16620970
This. I started For Whom The Bell Tolls, This Side of Paradise and As I Lay Dying, with plans to rotate between them. I'm almost finished with the first, a hundred pages into the second, and ten pages into the third. It seems like one of those books I'll have to force my way through, but thankfully it's short.

>> No.16621760

>>16620943
Hah. Honestly I keep this in the toilet and read it when I shit. Its good though.
>>16620778
Confession of Augustine. I'm enjoying it.

>> No.16621785

>>16620943
Just finished I, Claudius now reading this

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>>16620778
It's pretty good

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This and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

>> No.16622170

>>16620778
Based. Fuck wh*te women

>> No.16622180

>>16620938
Underrated book, similar to Coming Up for Air

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As soon as it came in the mail threads about it and Augustine started popping up a lot. Strange.

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almost done :) it's alright

>> No.16622402

Samael Aun Weor-Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology

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>>16622205
Reads like a fanfic

>> No.16622413

>>16622411
Didn't mean to reply to >>16622205

>> No.16622473

>>16620970
You don't belong here

>> No.16622477

>>16620946
I haven't read anything else by Eliot yet but I am enjoying Middlemarch. The way her characters interact is fascinating

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it's aite; kind of predictable.

>> No.16622838

histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt

>> No.16622855

>>16621785
I have I, Claudius but never read it. Is it any good? Why should I read it?

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>> No.16622899

>>16622855
Its actually pretty fucking amazing, I will be certain to grab Claudius, The God soon. Honestly if you are remotely interested in Roman or general history then its one of the best fiction books out there on it. Also it kinda reminded me of GOT in many ways but even more insane adding to the fact its based on real people (albeit probably heavily embellished).

>> No.16622912

>>16622790
I bet he even dies at the end

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>> No.16622994

>>16622980
how is it

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>> No.16623093

>>16620946
Not the anon who posted it but I liked middlemarch a lot. It's my only exposure to Elliot but her ability to write and analyze a character is top notch.

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When he was 15 he was more cultured than I am now at twice his age. I find him very annoying.

>> No.16623168

>>16623135
I read it a few Summers ago and enjoyed it thoroughly so I'm feeling more than a little irony in your comment. Sad circumstances, great book.

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very good!

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Pretty interesting, 230 pages in over the last 48 hours. Pretty well read in Greco Roman and Chinese history, so I'm currently breaking into the medieval era

>> No.16624519

>>16624505
I will say he is a bit too cautious for my taste on picking a side of what likely happened. Every page he debates whether a,b, or c happened because the three sources all say different things.

One of the things I like about reading more top of their field historians is that they are more likely to just tell you their point of view straight up.

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almost halfway through this. pretty fun, enjoying the world building and themes.

reads like a pynchon take on neuromancer

>> No.16624534

>>16622980

Great book, I'm reading Temple of the Golden Pavillion currently

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Have like 50 pages left. It's good, I liked the first half more a bit more. The sons are kind of annoying but I guess that's the "point"

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Dude, killing is badass. Run on sentences are going to give me a stroke. 10/10

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>> No.16625202

>>16625078
This book is so fun. What if anti-semitism is just one crazy schizoposter?

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Bobsleds.

>> No.16625336

>>16625250
Can someone explain the appeal.

>> No.16625372

>>16624534
What do you think of it? I dropped it after the woman squirted breast milk in the tea. Not because of it, I was just done by that point.

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>>16620778
>>16620925
>>16620931
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>>16620953
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>>16621807
>>16622189
>>16622411
>>16623189
>>16624568
>>16625078
>>16625180
>>16625250

Could anyone please clarify what these folks are in for? Thanks.

>> No.16626806

>>16623093
>>16622477
Time to bulldoze my reading list to clear out some space.

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Very complex material here.

>> No.16627170

>>16626959
that is the most abtruse and obscure american opus. you must be a genis to read that

>> No.16627371

>>16623135
>When he was 15 he was more cultured than I am now at twice his age.
In what ways?

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Was in a sci-fi mood when I bought this.

I dig it.

>> No.16627394

>>16627375
how is it? do you have to know a lot of biology/neuroscience to understand?

>> No.16627400

>>16620778
If you're actually and unironically reading that: How embarrassing.

>>16620925
Not bad

>>16620953
Based

>>16620977
Based

>>16622980
Hella based

>>16624568
Good

>>16625063
Hella based

>>16625419
Hella based

>>16627375
Based

>> No.16627401

>>16620778
I feel like you could make some easy money writing under a black pen name and writing one of these popular books about black victimhood

>> No.16627435

>>16627394
It is seriously interesting. I am a complete noob, and it's comprehensible for me. Enjoy if you read it anon

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>>16620925
I fucking hate The Great Gatsby with a fiery passion. I worked a sign walking job in high school (waving a sign at traffic for 8 hours) & bought it on audio book to pass the time. I fucked up and bought the "ye old English" version. hours and hours, pacing back and forth trying to piece together what was going. Some lady gets hit by a car and Gatsby gets shot at the end was all I could make out.

Fuck this book.

>> No.16628071

>>16628029
>I fucked up and bought the "ye old English" version.
What does that even mean?

>> No.16628081

>>16628071
Why does that even exist is the real question

>> No.16628123

>>16628071
I can't really explain it without sounding like a retard, so I won't bother. It's like it was written by some fruitcake. No-one ever says anything normally, no-one speaks in plain English.

>> No.16628143

>>16628071
I went back and listened to a bit so I could better explain. He just says oddball stuff. At one point he describes the war as a "Delayed Teutonic migration" What the hell is that supposed to mean?

>> No.16628178 [DELETED] 

>>16628143
That's just how the book is written. If I remember it correctly, he's just saying that he fought in WWI, where he slowly made his way into Germany. Is English your first language? Fitzgerald can be a little dense at first, but his prose is beautiful once you get used to it.

>> No.16629193

>>16628029
> hatchet
Fucking based Gary Paulson is a great writer and his books are peak wilderness comfy

>> No.16629793

>>16628029
I remember reading hatchet in like 4th grade. Pretty good

>> No.16629799

>>16626616
Retard

>> No.16629884

>>16626616
Why not just google the books if you're curious?