/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17813596]

what are you reading bros

[Anonymous No.17813612]

>>17813596
Read 60% of it.

[Anonymous No.17813620]

>>17813596
collected poems of marianne moore

[GODCOCK No.17813823]

finishing th ligotti's conspiracy against the human race and neil postman's amusing ourselves to death; reading 2 of dawkin's essays per day, and gonnda speed thru the second half of daniel munro's the naked truth; if there's time, i'll start two new ones.have too much to choose from, and have to get back to 1.5 books a day, because the list's growing..

[Anonymous No.17813831]

klara and the sun
i love the robot but don't give a shit about all the human drama i'm meant to be inferring

[Anonymous No.17813836]

If on a winter's night a traveler. Loving it

[Anonymous No.17814288]

>>17813620
very nice
did you manage to get a collected poems that actually has all the poems? when I bought it used, notable works were missing

[Anonymous No.17814420]

dude

[Anonymous No.17814829]

I've got a dab pen but nothing to read. If I found The return of the king's appendices boring should I even try the Silmarillion? I read the first page and the prose seemed interesting and aesthetic

[Anonymous No.17814880]

>>17814829
Silmarillion is way better than Lotr IMO

[Anonymous No.17814914]

>>17814880
nice

[Anonymous No.17815782]

>>17814880
just started It, the first chapter was beautiful, much better than expected. My dad hates it and LOTR is probably his favorite fiction book

[Anonymous No.17816139]

>>17813596
Reading this, so far it's been alright, but very, very slow going (I've only managed to read the first 60 pages in the past three days out of fucking 800), because I know absolutely fuck all about history and so every fourth line has me reading up on new shit that I didn't know about for twenty minutes or referring to maps of mid-17th century Europe because I don't know where anything is or was at that that and then taking pages of notes on all this so I don't forget it straight away. But the stuff that I have managed to get and understand first time round I have enjoyed quite a bit, and at least I'm learning some interesting history and basic geography and that.

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[Anonymous No.17816213]

>>17816139
I know how you feel. i've been reading nothing but russians the last month or so and it's taking a long time because I'm virginal not just to Imperial Russia but 19th century Europe in general, so there's a lot of catching up I've been doing alongside reading.

[Anonymous No.17816231]

Notes from the House of the Dead. When is it gonna pick up it’s been a tad repetitive so far.

[Anonymous No.17816240]

Anti-capitalism is a feature not a bug of the capitalist world. Makes you think.

[Anonymous No.17816338]

>>17813596
Dude WEED
How does it feel to know you are a drug addict? If you read while smoking weed you are not taking anything in.

[Anonymous No.17816360]

>>17813596

[Anonymous No.17816379]

>>17816240
Doesn't make me think at all desu. Feudalism was also like this, any hegemonic ideology needs to have inbuilt mechanisms to control opposition or it's doomed, capitalism is just way better at it than previous societies, and I personally think a large reason why is the compulsory school system. The meme is that school is there give kids knowledge, but it's mostly there to make them learn to accept society as it is presented to them, and to give them pre-approved ways to oppose society that isn't destabilizing to it.

[Anonymous No.17816428]

>>17816231
you probably won't like the rest if you don't like what you've read already

[Anonymous No.17816586]

>>17816428
I do like it, but the plot just seems to be going nowhere. That could be deliberate though as it is a prison novel.

[Anonymous No.17816596]

>>17813596
this has been pretty good
didn't know I wanted pirate low fantasy but it's waht i got

[Anonymous No.17816606]

>>17816596
is this like pirates of the carribean? only other pirate fantasy i can think of

[Anonymous No.17816646]

>>17813596
is that a strawberry ice vape cart?

[Anonymous No.17816652]

>>17816646
blackberry cream

[Anonymous No.17816682]

>>17816606
not even a little bit.
its the second book in the gentleman bastard series
It's about some theives/conmen in a low fantasy world.
p good.

[Anonymous No.17816700]

>tfw haven’t smoked in over a month because of PVCs (heart palpitations) and anxiety
I miss doing drugs everyday

[Anonymous No.17816784]

>>17816682
I am too autistic to read a book about theives.

[Anonymous No.17816794]

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

[Anonymous No.17816856]

Rainbow Six

S'aaight

[Anonymous No.17816860]

Fanged Noumena and The Time Machine

[Anonymous No.17816864]

The Dispossessed- Ursula K. Le Guin
it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.17816867]

I'm reading christian apologetics and unfortunately it's more dodging hard questions and thinly veiled misanthropy than reasonable argument. very disappointed because I want to be convinced

[Anonymous No.17816884]

>>17816867
what did you expect?

[Anonymous No.17816889]

>>17816867
What have you been reading?

[Anonymous No.17816905]

[Anonymous No.17816941]

>>17816889
articles from literal whos, famous authors like CS Lewis and Dostoevsky, and other stuff from members of different churches. Right now I'm reading The Problem of Pain and it's not doing a very good job at convincing me.

[Anonymous No.17816968]

>>17816379
The idea being made is capitalism has controlled anti-capitalism ideologies built in. So people can feel they are anti-consumerism while they are fully cognizant of being consumers. I don’t think the education is teaching that at all, almost all colleges are left leaning and have Marxist protests constantly which is, as I’m learning, by design.

[Anonymous No.17816973]

>>17816379
Actually you hit the nail on the head with the last comment. I’m just surprised by how blatant it is. Counter culture is literally culture now.

[Anonymous No.17817031]

>>17816586
yeah it goes nowhere. Its rlly good tho

[Anonymous No.17817040]

>>17813612

Worth the time? I haven't got a stick in my ass over Chuck.

[Anonymous No.17817050]

The Count of Monte Cristo. Mindless fun.

[Anonymous No.17817055]

>>17816864
I used to be interested in LeGuin, but a friend of mine taught it in her high school English class and her worksheets used it to push her woke ideology. Kinda cast an ugly pall on LeGuin's work.

[Anonymous No.17817073]

has anyone here read Gone With the Wind? I loved the movie, and the book won a Pulitzer so i'm curious

[Anonymous No.17817196]

Crime & punishment (audiobook)
Working while listening to a book is comfy

[Anonymous No.17817390]

>>17813596
Edward Snowden's memoir titled Permanent Record.

Pretty good.

[Anonymous No.17817399]

Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.17817401]

>>17813596
This atm

>>17817050
>The Count of Monte Cristo.
Very good book, I started reading more in 2020 and that book got me hooked.

[Anonymous No.17817408]

>>17817073
Thought it was great when I read it in high school.

[Anonymous No.17817508]

I just finished reading 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory' which was a pretty easy to read and lighthearted book. It cited Becker's 'Denial of Death' which I started today and this book is on a completely different level. This is like dense hardcore psychological shit. I am enjoying it so far but the effort required to read it is easily double that of the previous death book.

[Anonymous No.17817668]

>>17813596
I just started the Iliad. I don't think we read more than some excerpts in burger high school... I just finished Book I. I know people say its fun but I'm really having a good time already. It's refreshing to read something that isn't wankery and sets out to do nothing but tell a really good story. If I was a little Greek kid listening to the old man of the village telling this around a campfire, I'd sit there all night.

[Anonymous No.17817688]

>>17816379
>and to give them pre-approved ways to oppose society that isn't destabilizing to it.

I just wish they could at least go back to giving us Grateful Dead concerts instead of BLM riots and COVID...

In case you didn't know, a lot of people say that the Grateful Dead were created by the CIA to give kids something harmless and time wasting to do instead of staging protests against the government.

[Anonymous No.17817714]

>>17813596
Doctor Copernicus

[Anonymous No.17817774]

>>17816905
>Thomas Taylor
Exceptionally based, anon.

[Anonymous No.17817790]

Only 30 pages in, I haven't gotten to the unhinged parts yet

[Anonymous No.17817798]

[Anonymous No.17817808]

>>17817050
>>17817401
Anyone know of any other easy to read page turners that also happen to be fucking massive classics 1000+ pages so that I can ridicule normies? I've been carrying the same book around for years and they are getting suspicious.

[Anonymous No.17817816]

About to finish the First Critique.

[Anonymous No.17817818]

>>17813596
Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

and

Neuroscience 6th ed

[Anonymous No.17817822]

>>17813596
I don’t read anything I just post here pretending I do

[Anonymous No.17817840]

>>17817822
why?

[Anonymous No.17817847]

>>17817399
Same.

[Anonymous No.17817945]

>>17816379
>Feudalism was also like this
Feudalism never existed. It's a somewhat malicious anachronistic invention over a huge variety of unsystematic relations and customs that developed organically and practically statelessly compared to what we have today. Compared to what those who invented the concept gave us with their grand, self-serving arrogance and vision: mental illness, totalitarianism, initially flimsy and as a result inevitably meaningless distraction/consumption (grasping for whatever arranged artifice that may spike some hint of sincere feeling and real meaning), and an unstoppable wordorder (irreversible entrenchment of power, no hope of even temporary remedial reform).

>>17816379
>>17816973
>>17817688
>Counter culture is literally culture now.
It has been since the 60s. And it was always fake anyway. There is no grassroots anything in the context of modern society.

Also, they need novelty because things get lame after a while. The establishment happily gives them novelty. They don't mind the same establishment that they pretend to be wary of telling them what to believe and do, so long as it has the right dressing and allows the LARP to continue. These same people will eventually default to the losers that they are and stop or move on and get a 'real life' e.g. career, family, etc. (which to be fair is a lot better and they do mature, even if it is totally conformant by apathy, it is better to care about personal things and real relationships and experiences than just bouncing to the beat directly).

[Anonymous No.17817964]

>>17817808

Pick up Carvell's "Shogun".

[Anonymous No.17817968]

>>17817964

*Clavell

fuck iphones

[Anonymous No.17817979]

>>17817964
Pick up Hemingway's "Shotgun".

[Anonymous No.17817986]

>>17817979
>For sale: shotgun, used once

[Anonymous No.17817990]

Just finished 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and now I'm re-reading Dune. I can safely say that Captain Nemo is literally me.

[Anonymous No.17817996]

>>17817979

One day friend. Maybe when your mom drys up.

[Anonymous No.17818014]

>>17817996
>t.

[Anonymous No.17818205]

>>17817847
I don’t think I’m quite at where you are. Kitty just met Varenka where I’m at. So so cute, Kitty is adorable. I imagine Varenka looking like Audrey Hepburn and Kitty as Léa Seydoux. Great book so far

[Anonymous No.17818211]

Biography of Napoleon up to his coup

[Anonymous No.17818218]

>>17817798
based, im reading philip dwyers 3 volumes on Napoleon atm, how u finding this one?

[maya No.17818301]

My Year of Rest & Relaxation, The Second Sex, & The Art of Human Nature

[Anonymous No.17818325]

>>17818301
no girls allowed

[maya No.17818347]

>>17818325
no please im a boy i promise i do typical boy activities such as developing a porn addiction and getting indoctrinated by the alt right pipeline just like you

[Anonymous No.17818375]

>>17816240
awareness of anti capitalism being a feature in capitalism is but another feature of capitalism, anon, designed to convince yourself of having transcended the system through gnosis when nothing could be further from the truth. you merely engage in a false dialectic against a simulacra of the System provided by Itself.

you can never escape; it was as such from the beginning. babylon is forever. you helplessly lash back at the System for centuries and they only massacre your people more and more. how God weeps as the serpent eats you and its own tail, death unto birth for eternity.

[Anonymous No.17818393]

>>17817945
based

[Anonymous No.17818427]

Baudrillard, its too advanced for me but i still read it.

[Anonymous No.17818476]

>>17818218
Not the guy bit i hated it.
It's not even that it's bad in some obvious way, it's just completely without distinction. Particularly after A. J. P. Taylors Bismarck, the writing felt flat and i dont remember a single arresting or amusing sentence. Roberts it also too in love with his subject so that he feels personally slighted whenever Napoleon fails to live up to his own myth

mah ... . will not read again.

[Anonymous No.17818716]

>>17818476
ah sucks to hear, ive seen some clips of Roberts talking and he does come off as a massive fanboy ..

[Anonymous No.17818802]

>>17813596
Petersburg by Bely

[Anonymous No.17818845]

>>17818716
How is Dwyer?

[Anonymous No.17818921]

Just started book two of the Republic, read book one for the third time because every time I read it I think Socrates is being BTFO and don't understand why they think he's right, or why Plato wrote it in a way that obviously makes the whole thing look fake.
What should I read after Republic? Laws?

[Anonymous No.17819160]

>>17817945
>It's a somewhat malicious anachronistic invention over a huge variety of unsystematic relations and customs that developed organically and practically statelessly compared to what we have today.

lol, the same can be said of capitalism. When I used feudalism in that sentence, what I meant was the expressed ideology of the time, which was the divine right of kings. Practically everyone believed in the divine right of kings, and those who didn't still had to live under it, just like everyone today believes in private property or don't, still have to live under it.

[Anonymous No.17819169]

>>17813596
Pic rel at the moment.

[Anonymous No.17819172]

>Maupassant - Bel-ami
Not reading enough these days because I try to make it as a software dev.
Book's good check it out

[Anonymous No.17819191]

finally finishing this. it sucks

probably because im reading a translation

[Anonymous No.17819221]

>>17819191
The language is even worse in the original.

[Anonymous No.17819235]

the presentation of self in everyday life, have atomised lined up for afterwards

[Anonymous No.17819296]

>>17819221
dont say that. part of why im learning the language is because i want to read dostoyevsky in the original

[Anonymous No.17819354]

>>17819296
Kek

[Anonymous No.17819386]

>>17813596
Next page mate?

[Anonymous No.17819408]

>>17813823
The funniest thing I ever saw in biological academia was the Rice University study of professional biologists resoundingly as a population stating how they don't like or take seriously the work of Dawkins or think he presents the field accurately and is too sensational while being inaccurate, not having even been asked about him specifically by name. Lol:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/richard-dawkins-atheism-criticism-atheist-study-rice-university-science-scientists-a7389396.html
https://news.rice.edu/2016/10/31/most-british-scientists-cited-in-study-feel-richard-dawkins-work-misrepresents-science-2/

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[Anonymous No.17819549]

>>17819160
>When I used feudalism in that sentence, what I meant was the expressed ideology of the time, which was the divine right of kings.
But this is not true. You can trace the divine right of kings and it only applies to a few societies later on. And the imperial form of king didn't exist in most of Europe because this is modelled on Roman emperors not traditional kings. There is actually a notable secularisation of kings coming into Christianisation because part of the role was as a kind of high priest, upholder of custom. And the gods kings once claimed descent from (one precondition for being a king) were reduced to mere heroes. Furthermore, kings were never autocrats even in the imperial form (it's note even possible to be with everything unsystematic and decentralised).

[Anonymous No.17819623]

>>17813596
Hopping between Ride the Tiger and the Corpus Hermetica

[Anonymous No.17819625]

>>17813596
Just started a Scanner Darkly upon my buddy's recommendation, also reading Reverdy and the rest of Kafka's short stories. Reverdy is very good really in love with his poetry.

[Anonymous No.17819699]

>>17817668
What translation is the best? I’ve ordered the lattimore one.

[Anonymous No.17819835]

>>17813596
It's good so far

[Anonymous No.17819873]

>>17818205
Yes that is pretty far ahead. About 3/4 of the way through. She is definitely a cutie, and so is her husband

[Anonymous No.17819917]

>>17816139
war books are always eye catching

[Anonymous No.17819944]

>>17817790
translated?
but hitler's ideology is not something you should give any precious time to

[Anonymous No.17819955]

>>17819169
app name?

[Anonymous No.17819961]

>>17819412
great title

[Anonymous No.17820130]

>>17813596
how do you read stoned? I used to rip pen a couple summers ago and I read knausgaard and eco but I don't remember much of it

[Anonymous No.17820245]

>>17818218
It’s really fucking good

[Anonymous No.17820334]

>>17820130
Reading on salvia is easier

[Anonymous No.17820372]

>>17820334
good joke anon

[Anonymous No.17820415]

>>17813596
The Idiot. Not nearly as good as C&P but it has its brilliant moments.

[Anonymous No.17820495]

>>17819169
app?

[Anonymous No.17820641]

>>17813596
Waiting on pic related to come in today

[Anonymous No.17820686]

>>17813831
Read this a few days ago and enjoyed it.

I've been reading Little, Big and enjoying it but it's really showing me how damaged my attention span has become in recent years.

[Anonymous No.17820720]

The Golden Chain by Uzdavinys. Pretty based but very dense work. I can spend ten minutes on one paragraph looking up definitions and thinking about it all.

[Anonymous No.17820765]

>>17820720
I just put that on my to be read list recently. Do you need any prerequisites? I’m new to philosophy

[Anonymous No.17820827]

>>17820765
I don't think reading other literature would really help. Maybe Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism by the same authro, which is easier to read and very short, but honestly there's not a shallower place to dive in. The Golden Chain will be a hard read but there's not much else to choose from to start that would be necessarily easier. Just don't give up. It's okay to read slowly.

[Anonymous No.17820896]

>>17820827
Thanks anon