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What are you currently reading, anon?

>> No.17881569

Life in the Woods, Thoreau

>> No.17881587

>>17881557
Neuroscience by a collection of ppl, and Modern Physics by Kenneth Krane. I read About Certainty by Wittgenstein before this.

Textbooks are dry as hell but a philosopher should not limit himself to theory and metaphysics.

>> No.17881593

>>17881587
Are you a phiosopher?

>> No.17881615

>>17881557
america is in the heart by carlos bulosan
it's a recent penguin classics, i'm actually a bit surprised they reprinted it. and of course they gave the forward to the author who named her book after it so she could shill her work

>> No.17881623

I miss Kat so much

>> No.17881625

>>17881557
Why does she read all these dogshit airport bestseller books?

>> No.17881641

>>17881557
French Decadent Tales and Moll Flanders.

>> No.17881642

i love emmie

>> No.17881646

>>17881557
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
I like the part where the dude finds videos of his Japanese trophy gf getting fucked by dogs. Old man's definitely been keeping up with contemporary cultural trends.

>> No.17881657

>>17881557
• Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion

• Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño (didn’t like my paisano’s work for years, but now am suddenly finding it moving and relatable)

• In Memory of Memory by Marina Stepanova (my second time; one of my fav books of 2021 so far)

>> No.17881658

>>17881646
how's the rest of it?

>> No.17881666

>>17881642
Who?

>> No.17881673

>>17881593
that's the goal

>> No.17881679

>>17881625
I used to be impressed at just how much she actually reads (compared to the average /lit/izen) but its not hard to read a lot when the stuff you're reading doesn't require you to think too hard about it

>> No.17881695

>>17881625
Because she’s a cute girl.

>> No.17881711

• Journey to the End of the Night (in translation T_T)
• Poetic Edda (Jackson Crawford translation, kys old norsefags)

>> No.17881713

>>17881557
Dracula and the short stories of Flannery O'connor
>>17881679
Did she read any classics?
All her videos seem about YA books desu

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>>17881658
If you like Houellebecq you'll like Serotonin, simple as. He's a one-trick pony but to his credit he's very, very good at that one trick.
If you haven't read him before and just want to read one of his books before you die, I'd rather suggest you read Submission.

>> No.17881744

>>17881737
submission it is then

>> No.17881747

>>17881713
>Did she read any classics?
>All her videos seem about YA books desu
IDK, you'd have to go through her channel; I remember she says she likes horror, romance, and YA, but strongly dislikes fantasy/science fiction

>> No.17881767

>>17881747
>strongly dislikes fantasy/science fiction
what a pleb

>> No.17881844

>>17881747
does she do facial or swallow

>> No.17881858

>>17881767
she's a woman, what do you expect? I don't hold it against her

>>17881844
she's a lesbo

>> No.17881866

>>17881569
Based

>> No.17881895

Norwegian Wood and Capitalist Realism

>> No.17881925
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17881925

almost finishing Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.17881926

>>17881557
Nothing. Waiting for books to come in the mail right now

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>>17881844
Facial

>> No.17881942

>>17881695
Hardly

>> No.17882047

>>17881936
who is she looking at, god?

>> No.17882058

>>17882047
Brian Gozzling

>> No.17882068

>>17881557
Stoner

>> No.17882076

>>17881569
I read this book exactly a year ago in quarantine

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this shit

>> No.17882092

>>17882058
based

>> No.17882104
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Currently this. Very kino so far. I wish we treated nature with more respect bros

>> No.17882157

>>17881557
catcher in the rye

>> No.17882187

>>17882076
do you like it?

>> No.17882291

>>17881925
What edition is that?

>> No.17882328

>>17881557
King Lear
The Perennial Philosophy
The Will to Power
The Jews and Modern Capitalism

>> No.17882361

>>17881557
Gottfried Bammes

>> No.17882374

>>17881642
Emmie it the ideal lit gf.

>> No.17882376

>>17881925
Have fun, m8. I read it last year and absolutely loved it.

>> No.17882391

- Eumeswil
- Washington Bullets
- Revolt of the Elites

>> No.17882441

>>17881557
Fanged Noumena and Stirner.

>> No.17882451
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>>17881557
The Lord of the Rings

>> No.17882457

Attention Merchants, Tim Wu.

>> No.17882475

>>17881557
PALS Provider Course
The Sisters Brothers
La Pista de Hielo
School Rumble

>> No.17882481

>>17881711
I read Celine on a Spanish translation and it was awful desu. My French is too undeveloped right now to go at it.

>> No.17882549

>>17882481
the (English) translation I’m reading has endnotes explaining innuendos/references/entendres that get lost in translation. It’s pretty fucking cringe ngl

>> No.17882567

>>17882481
>>17882549
I mean, Céline is fucking hard to translate right from the very first paragraph lol I compared both the Spanish and English translations and both can even have vastly different versions of the same phrase.

>> No.17882574

>>17881925
E essa mãozinha gorda? Faz a cama e lava o seu pênis, desgraçado.
>>17882291
BR Amazon exclusive.

>> No.17882625

The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger

>> No.17882641
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I'm reading a swedish book on the poetry of Yeats called Be Secret And Exult (but in swedish).

>> No.17882646

>>17882641
what inspired you to learn swedish

>> No.17882664

>>17882646
Felt it would be practical to know as I was born in Sweden to swedish parents.

>> No.17882933

Klara and the sun
Pretty new to reading

>> No.17883014
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>> No.17883028

Guide to English Literature from Beowulf Through Chaucer and Medieval Drama by David M. Zesmer. It's comfy as shit bros...

>> No.17883042

>>17881936
you're disgusting

>> No.17883050

>>17881557
Hinterland by Phil A Neel

>> No.17883057

>>17883042
She's the one getting jizzed on, redditor.

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17883076

Been trying to find something that sticks after I finished Infinite Jest.
I read the first 30 pages of Man in the high castle.
I read the first 100 pages of the Iliad.
I read the first 20 pages of the Bible.
I read the first 30 pages neuromancer.
I read the first 30 pages of count of montie cristo.

Nothing seems to be sticking right now. Help anons.

>> No.17883085

>>17883076
Bible is wack, yo. boring as shit

>> No.17883097

>>17883085
stfu nigger

>> No.17883106

>>17883085
That doesn’t help!

>> No.17883114
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17883114

Moby Dick translated into Finnish. I'm 200 pages in and thinking about switching careers to a monomaniac whale hunter, what a great read so far.

>> No.17883125

>>17883097
and every time I go to church that old bald faggot spoils a huge chunk of the story

>> No.17883131

>>17883125
kek

>> No.17883132

>>17883042
what you posted is disgusting and you know it so stop being arrogant, dont be a fuckin /b/degenerate or stay there and dont come here

>> No.17883136

>>17881557
Analects

>> No.17883139

>>17881557
Mist, by Miguel de Unamuno

>> No.17883147

2666
I got recommended it by you guys, and it's pretty good. I'm currently on the part about Archimboldi, and I'm impressed by how well Bolaño manages to tie together so many different stories.

>> No.17883150

>>17883114
i always wondered how moby dick would translate into other languages.

>> No.17883168

John Lukacs, The Hitler of History
i realized my favourite books to read are books about other books

>> No.17883336

>>17883136
>Anal ects
eehh

>> No.17883347

Complete works of Plato
Buddenbrooks

>> No.17883384

>>17881679
>when the stuff you're reading doesn't require you to think too hard about it
I think these type of books can be useful for me.
>t. esl pro

>> No.17883392

>>17881557
Mount Analogue - Daumal
It's amazing

>> No.17883457

>>17881679
>>17883384
I think these type of books can be useful for me.

t. brainlet

>> No.17883488

>>17883457
>esl
I will start reading Geoffrey Chaucer immediately then.

>> No.17883494

>>17883132
>nooooooooo my e-celeberino wholsomino
cry my a river, faggot. she's just another whore.

>> No.17883515

Why are people reading multiple books at once? Why not just read one book and finish it and then start another

>> No.17883530

>>17883515
Because some people like to. Deal with it.

>> No.17883533

>>17883515
the vast majority of books are written to be read for only 1 hour at a time, not on purpose but naturally. this is why chapters exist, you fucking moron, if you actually spent any time reading, you'd know this already.

>> No.17883544

>>17883530
>Deal with it.
deal with what? it's not an issue.

>> No.17883581

>>17881557
Journey to the end of night by Celine. Halfway through, it's not bad. Could have used smaller chapters to make it more readable.

>> No.17883617

>>17883530
>>17883533
why did this question make you so emotional?

>> No.17884502

>>17881858
Why wouldn’t you hold it against her? My gf loves fantasy.

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This.
Honestly finding it hard to stay motivated reading it for some reason, might just be the slow start. But it's just not pulling me in.

If it's doing what I think its doing, it's kinda cool though. But I'll hold of recommendations til I'm finished.

>> No.17884621

>>17883533
Pseud

>> No.17884638

>>17883114
>thinking about switching careers to a monomaniac whale hunter
Depending on which chapter I was reading, Melville had me dreaming of becoming a whaler, then a whale biologist/conservationist, then a whaler again etc. Wonderful book.

>> No.17884669

>>17882574

é de tanto comer a diabética da sua mãe.

>> No.17884706

>>17882104
We do. Incidentally it’s the poor people and the lefties with their retarded policies (e.g. wind and solar instead of nuclear, electric cars) that are destroying nature faster than conservatives

>> No.17884730

>>17884540
That looks cringey as fuck desu. I have no idea what it is or supposed to be. But how do you get to something like that?

>> No.17884750

>>17884540
Drop that crap and grab a real book anon.

>> No.17884813

>>17884730
Books are for enjoyment. And cool heroines doing cool shit is fun.

You learn to ignore shit that's plastered all over covers anyways. The book itself is well written so far and the characters are interesting even if they are playing up cliches. If I am correct in my early analysis of it though I think the point of it is playing with those common themes of fantasy novels and legends so the slightly cliche characters and odd choices may be done to fulfill that purpose.

>> No.17884872

>>17881557
this post

>> No.17885144

>>17884872
that's not much

>> No.17885259

>>17881557
Mythologies by Roland Barthes

>> No.17885346

>>17884813
Fair enough. I hope you enjoy

>> No.17885416

>>17881557
What's her name again

>> No.17885417

>>17885416
paperbackdreams

>> No.17885420

>>17883050
Based

>> No.17885437

>>17882104
Fr. Have you read Murray Bookchin?

>> No.17885511

>i read books so other people can tell me what to think and how to think it
I hope you don't seriously do this.

>> No.17885577

>>17881557
Started Naked Lunch today but I think I'm going to drop it. Also working through History of the Peloponnesian War.

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>>17885511
I read books so I can tell other people what to think and how to think

>> No.17885951

Absalom, Absalom

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Just finished this and it was amazing. The next book I’ll read will be the unconsoled.

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>> No.17886125

I could not possibly read anything other than that which is written by my own hand. To read a book, I must write one. To have sex, I must consult my hand.