What have you guys been reading lately?

[Anonymous No.16883559]

[Anonymous No.16883568]

>>16883559

4th Generation Warfare Manual

[Anonymous No.16883672]

>>16883568
seems interesting, how is it?

[Anonymous No.16883969]

>>16883559

>Moby Dick
>The Trial
>(currently) The Secret Garden
>(currently) Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.16884163]

>>16883559
>The Shape of the Ruins
>Antkind
How do you like Borges?

[Anonymous No.16884174]

>>16883559
How's the Japan book?

[Anonymous No.16884432]

>>16884163
He’s a master, I get goosebumps pretty frequently with him and that’s not common for most other authors.

>>16884174
Really good. It’s exhaustive in scope and detail, but Jansen is a solid writer so it doesn’t drag too much. I wouldn’t call his writing stylish or flowery, but it’s tight, economical, and gets the job done. Definitely recommend it if you’re interested in the subject.

[Anonymous No.16884515]

>>16883559
Unironically just finished both Borges' Labyrinths and Science and the Modern World. Now I'm reading Boswell's life of Johnson.

"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though we are satisfied, his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'"

It's quite based.

[Anonymous No.16884721]

>>16884432
Goosebumps?
Only music give me goosebumps.

[Anonymous No.16884803]

>The Study Qur'an
>Islam and the Destiny of Man (Gai Eaton)
>Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon (Patrick Laude)

Laude's book is excellent, might even require a second reading.

[Anonymous No.16884839]

Bleeding Edge

It's quite a bit easier to read than his other work.

[Anonymous No.16884857]

>>16883559
>Lord of the Rings
I thought I could speedrun through it, but it actually takes some time to let descriptions of something no man has ever seen sink in

[Anonymous No.16884871]

>>16883559
Alan Ford by Carolyn Wells
Not really impressed, would make for a nice TV series, but as a book it's not really captivating.

[Anonymous No.16885585]

>>16884803
Where were you yesterday when I made a thread asking for recommendations on Islamic /lit/?

[Anonymous No.16885606]

[Anonymous No.16885619]

>>16885585
Wagecucking most likely.

Learn from my mistake and read Gai Eaton's book before Schuon's Understanding Islam, both are good but i think i read them in the wrong order... and read the Muhammad bio by Lings either before or after Eaton's Destiny.

These three will introduce you to a great number of traditional writers on the subject too. My to-read list is enormous.

[Anonymous No.16885624]

Tantra Illuminated by Christopher D. Wallis.
1/3 through and pretty good so far

[Anonymous No.16885629]

>>16885619
>My to-read list is enormous.
Tell me about it. Currently have about 50 books at various stages of progress. I don't think I've actually finished a book in years. Somebody send help.

>thanks for the recommendation tho

[Anonymous No.16885686]

>>16885619
>>16885629
Let me just check to see if I made the correct list. What do you think?

>The Study Qur'an
>Islam and the Destiny of Man (Gai Eaton)
>Muhammad Bio (Lings)
>Understanding Islam (Schuon)
>Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guenon
>Schuon (Patrick Laude)

[Anonymous No.16885741]

>>16885686
as i said i'm no expert but yeah i think that's a good list

1. Islam and the Destiny of Man (Gai Eaton)
2. Muhammad, His Life According to the Earliest Sources (Martin Lings)
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from here on read simultaneously alongside Study Quran
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3. Understanding Islam (Frithjof Schuon)
4. Pathways to an Inner Islam (Patrick Laude)

of course as you read you may discover other related books to read before the next in line. the Laude book is as challenging as it is rewarding, but if you've made it thru Schuon's you'll have no problem

[Anonymous No.16885787]

>>16885741
>as i said i'm no expert but yeah i think that's a good list
Excellent, thank you. I needed some kind of a template on where to begin. As I progress further in understanding I'll form my own ideas and see how it goes.

[Anonymous No.16885923]

>>16883559
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz zafon it's pretty cool, not exactly high art but its fun.

And speedboat by renita Adler which reads like a fever dream but in a fun way. Good to just pick up and read a couple pages as there doesnt seem to be too much of a coherent story.

[Anonymous No.16886278]

>>16883568
Found HST - 'The Curse of Lono' in a second hand bookshop yesterday. Really looking forward to read it tonight.

[Anonymous No.16886672]

[Anonymous No.16886722]

recently finished second readings of perfume and ubik. perfume i enjoyed very, very much. ubik i also enjoyed though it was quite different to what i remembered, and honestly not as good as i remembered either.

i started reading augustus by john williams but got sidetracked. currently reading wolf solent by john cowper powys.

[Anonymous No.16886854]

>>16884515
What did you think of science and the modern world? I'm enjoying it, and I think he makes some good points. I do think I'd have gotten more out of it if I read 'process and reality' first though

[Anonymous No.16886910]

>>16884515
>"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though we are satisfied, his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'"
>It's quite based.
Do you realise how retarded that anecdote is? Johnson's tantrum doesn't pose any sort of challenge to Berkeley's idealism at all, it just shows him to be an idiot.

[Anonymous No.16887249]

>>16883559
>Recently finished Pnin
Absolutely cozy and kino. Professor Pnin was one of the most likeable characters I've ever encountered.
>and Convenience Store Woman
Not a huge fan. Main character felt like a non-human entity. Ending was kind of lame and predictable. Don't like the path the story took nor the general vibe of the book.
Currently reading:
>Plato's Five Dialogues
More enjoyable than I though it would be, I find myself chuckling at how cheeky Socrates is. Lots of big brain analysis too, which is why I wanted to read it.
>and Growth of the Soil
I'm only a few chapters in but I can already tell that this may be one of my favourite books of all time. Too cozy for words

[Anonymous No.16887259]

>>16887249
If you want a better female Japanese author read Kawakami.

[Anonymous No.16887271]

>>16887259
I'm going to go through Mishima for my next Japanese /lit/ but I'll put her on the list too.

[Anonymous No.16887452]

>Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s
>Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours (Against Nature, trans. Margaret Mauldon)

If you're reading this Decadencebro, thank you for introducing me to this wonderful period.

[Anonymous No.16887478]

>Heart of Darkness

Pretty dope

[Anonymous No.16888020]

>>16884721
Music is more likely to give me goosebumps, but I've gotten it from pretty much every medium.

[Anonymous No.16888030]

>>16887478
Thanks anon, it's looking good so far

[Anonymous No.16888081]

I'm just about to finish Eric Hoffer's the true believer
Very insightful desu, articulates a lot of thoughts I've had and most of it rings very true

[Anonymous No.16888133]

>>16883559
Currently working through The Sound and The Fury. The schizo babble hits really close to home.

[Anonymous No.16889425]

>>16887271
Mishima is great. any idea which book of his you'll read first?

[Anonymous No.16889471]

Going through Ellul's Technical Society now. I have planned a goal of 50 pages per day, but the book is so dense that I've only hit 15 consistently yet. Despite that I've learned quite a lot.

[Anonymous No.16889479]

reading a book I took from a book-exchange about a woman from England who was sold as a teen by her dad to be a housewife in rural Yemen. It's pretty interesting hearing her talk about the life there. it's pretty trad-y to say the least. hard work. it seems a lot of the people are really very nice, which is pretty surprising given the circumstances of her time there, but the man who bought her is basically the town bigwig/asshole. In terms of prose and all of that it's very straightforward, I'm mostly reading it to learn about rural islam desu

[Anonymous No.16889492]

>>16889479
whats it called?

[Anonymous No.16889501]

>>16889492
Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery - Zana Muhsen

[Anonymous No.16889502]

>>16889501
thanks

[Anonymous No.16889812]

Got these today. Where should I start?

[Anonymous No.16889927]

>>16888020
>but I've gotten it from pretty much every medium.
Lucky bastard

[Anonymous No.16890728]

Reading Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths, Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth, Virginia Woolf - The Waves. Finished reading J. G. Ballard - Crash & Christina Rosetti - The Goblin Market and Other Poems fairly recently.

[Anonymous No.16890737]

>>16889927
didn't realize it was all that strange. fuck man I've played video games that gave me chills (though they were all on the artistic end of the spectrum)

[Anonymous No.16890759]

Been reading "Nothing to Envy". Non-fiction book about accounts from North Korean defectors. It's interesting so far, would recommend.

[Anonymous No.16890895]

Slonkin through. Tedious but democracy has some pretty lit passages with really great prose. The econ book is dry as fuck but there's some interesting bits.

[Anonymous No.16890898]

>>16890895
Why's everyone talking about that econ book? Fill me in.

[Anonymous No.16890973]

>>16890898
From what I've heard it's actually a really great intro book but also a meme from Ben shapiro/magatards trying to dunk on libtards by implying they don't understand econ. Sowell aka based black man, is one of the rights favorite libterian econ nibbas because he's 1. Actually intelligent in regards to econ but 2. Is black and is willing to make the claim that minorities are less successful then whites because intelligence/culture.

[Anonymous No.16890987]

>>16883559
Dan Simmons & more Dan Simmons