/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18765122]

what books are you guys reading at the moment

[Anonymous No.18765128]

>>18765122
Zhuangzi

[Anonymous No.18765132]

math book

[Anonymous No.18765163]

>>18765122
I'm about to start The Glass Bead Game. Thus far I've read Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, Gertrud, and Siddharta by Hesse and I loved every one of them.

Let's see how this one turns out.

[Anonymous No.18765170]

>>18765122
Lolita. I had high expectations and it doesn't meet them yet.

[Anonymous No.18765176]

https://victorianweb.org/painting/classical/humphries1.html

[Anonymous No.18765181]

>>18765122
the boatman's daughter

[Anonymous No.18765225]

Still early in
Japs are getting uppity but haven’t invaded yet

[Anonymous No.18765235]

>>18765122
Way of Kings

[Anonymous No.18765247]

>>18765122
Augustine's City of God
Guenon's Intro to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
Richard Sennett's Families against the City

[Anonymous No.18765357]

I'm about halfway through やたらと察しのいい俺は、毒舌クーデレ美少女の小さなデレも見逃さずにぐいぐいいく.
The basic plot is that the protagonist has Sherlock Holmes's detective abilities, but instead of using them to solve crimes he uses them to understand what his girlfriend is thinking.
The gimmick is pretty fun. Apart from that it's a fairly standard light novel romance comedy, but well written with likable characters and some solid comedy. Koyuki, the main heroine, might be my favorite LN heroine ever. She's adorable and lovable but also a quite interesting character with a good amount of depth.
The book as a whole kind of feels like reading one of those VNs where you can hear what all of the heroines are thinking all the time, but the story actually acknowledges that you can do that and uses it in interesting ways. Great art too. I'm going to grab the rest of the series as soon as I can find it at a halfway decent price.

>>18765170
IMO the best part of Lolita is the opening. It's not like the rest of the book is bad or anything, I think its a solid read the whole way through, but if you aren't enjoying the first part you might want to consider dropping it.

[Anonymous No.18765368]

>>18765122
CLARKSON!

[Anonymous No.18765397]

None but the Kyballion soon

[soursore !!5HEGfvI0zIR No.18765578]

Finishing up The Red Book. I feel like his revelations are mostly common sense or tailored to himself and what works for him. The dialogues get slightly repetitive, with Jung taking exception to a statement and calling names. He was quite the name caller. I don’t find the writing exceptional, like the introduction claimed, however it is intelligent. The best thing I got from was the techniques themselves. Jung was an intuitive genius on how to interact with the subconscious mind.

[Anonymous No.18765598]

>>18765357
I hate not finishinf books so I'll just grind through it. It's not like it's a particularly long read anyways. I preferred Nabakov's other works by far.

[Anonymous No.18765637]

>>18765122
Tacitus' Histories.

[Anonymous No.18765640]

>>18765122
I just read 4chan

[Anonymous No.18765649]

Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

[Anonymous No.18765732]

Molloy by becket, thoroughly enjoying it so far

[Anonymous No.18765824]

>>18765732
may i ask why you started this book?

[Anonymous No.18765836]

>>18765122
A biography of Caesar Augustus. Pretty cool

[Anonymous No.18765843]

>>18765824
Recently bought a bunch of Beckett from a second hand store. Finished Murphy and it captivated me, Molloy is even better

[Anonymous No.18765846]

>>18765357
sorry, is that available in english

[Anonymous No.18765857]

>>18765122
Notes of a dirty old man by Bukowski

[Anonymous No.18765871]

>>18765122
Fiction: The Book of Dave. I am finding it truly absurdly hilarious. It reads as if something like The Possibility of an Island was infused with the English sense of comedy.
Non-Fiction: Erving Goffman by Tom Burns. I've been reading a few of Goffman's books and this seems a good summarisation text to keep me on the right track before I read any more of his works. I have been wanting to get back into sociology and social philosophy on the side.

[Anonymous No.18765889]

>>18765122
don't ask me but same 4 books I was when I first answered a thread almost like this one

[Anonymous No.18765933]

>>18765889
this is an image board. if the other thread is dead you answer again, we have the same conversations again and again and again

[Anonymous No.18765940]

>>18765122
i just finished Narziss and Goldmund, so I just started String Theory by DFW. never read him before. so far, it's pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.18765958]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A Confederacy of Dunces
Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy
Occasionally reading a Canto or two in the Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.18766141]

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

[Anonymous No.18766158]

>>18765122
Sun and Steel

[Anonymous No.18766173]

Read The Iliad for the first time a couple weeks ago. I had planned to go right in to The Odyssey then The Aeneid but I ended up wanting a break.
Read A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe and Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa.

[Anonymous No.18766187]

Im reading Monkey. I love the Biblical-style prose and its pretty funny sometimes

[Anonymous No.18766210]

Valis by Philip K Dick
The Gnostics by Jacques Lacarrière
Life and Energy by Isaac Asimov
To Live and Think Like Pigs by Gilles Châtelet
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot
The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold
Alchemical Active Imagination by Marie-Louise von Franz
The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles
Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics by Robert L. Forward
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
The Cold Six Thousand by Jame Ellroy
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert O. Becker
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation by Joseph Campbell
The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution and Human Nature by Michael S.A. Graziano
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Pretzold
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
The Red Goddess by Peter Grey
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Clarence L. Johnson
Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism by Serafinski
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl
Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism by Lani Rinpoche
The Psychology of the Transference by C.G. Jung
Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis by Paul Cohen
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

and many fucking more on my list

[Anonymous No.18766253]

The Great Fiction, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

[Anonymous No.18766284]

>>18765122
Bhagavad Gita
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Those are my moods and books that reflect so.

[Anonymous No.18766297]

>>18765397
Dont let anyone poop on your parade the Kybalion is a fun book to deprogram yourself from millenia of ye old (((normie))) cancer. Its gripping. It is hard to put that book down. It just feels refreshing. Try the Gita or Upanishads after which have really short chapters. I always read faster when I have another book I want to read because my will follows through.

[Anonymous No.18766303]

>>18766210
Less is more

[Anonymous No.18766331]

Just finished East of Eden and loved it. Just began Sprinting Through No-Man's Land and I don't know what to say about it yet.

[Anonymous No.18766342]

Just started reading Light in August by Faulkner. Previously, I have read As I Lay Dying, If I forget thee Jerusalem and he Sound And The Fury, and liked them all, so I have high hopes for Light in August.
Took me a long time to get into Faulkner, I had read all the classic works of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Proust, Mann, Musil etc. before I started on him. I adored the early works of Mario Vargas Llosa, and read that they are very similar in style to Faulkner, so decided to give him a shot.

[Anonymous No.18766462]

>>18766303
Uhhh no. That’s an absute meme for brainlets.

[Anonymous No.18766498]

>>18765122
just alternating between wodehouse and chesterton

[Anonymous No.18766529]

>>18766284
"Aunt Agatha could be here" he thought, "I've never been to this Manor before. There could be Aunts anywhere" The cool wind felt good against his well-dressed chest. "I hate the old war axe" he thought to himself. Sonny Boy reverberated from the neighbouring bandstand,making his car pulsate as Jeeves Special circulated through his fineley-tuned veins and washed away his(merited) fear of marriage. "With a two-seater, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself outloud, to Jeeves in particular

[Anonymous No.18766847]

Dead Souls

[Anonymous No.18766850]

poop

[Anonymous No.18766862]

>>18766529
Based Woosterposting

[Anonymous No.18766893]

German for Reading, and Sun and Saddle Leather by Badger Clark. I'm sort of reading the Faerie Queene and The Secret of the Hittites by CW Ceram, both very good as far as I got. But I'm easily distracted, haven't gotten back to those in a couple weeks.

Badger Clark is wonderful by the way, more people should read him. Cowboy poet, probably the most American writer I've ever read. Very charming.

[Anonymous No.18767975]

this just came in. gonna savor it when i get to it

got a pile of campy 40s - 70s sci-fi i wanna do first though, admittedly.

[Anonymous No.18768033]

>>18765122
A History of the Christian Chruch - Williston Walker et al

[Anonymous No.18768053]

Evening in the Palace of Reason - Frederick the Great meets Bach.

James Watson - The Double Helix

[Anonymous No.18768056]

>>18765122
The Man in White by Johnny Cash.

[Anonymous No.18768072]

>>18765247
>Augustine's
I read some of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms last year.
It is interesting to see how someone who had personal knowledge of persecution view the scriptures.
Did you know that when 'testimony' is mentioned, it is a reference not merely to what one says, but actually to the testimony of the martyrs' deaths.

[Anonymous No.18768087]

>>18768033
>A History of the Christian Chruch - Williston Walker
I'll take a look.

[Anonymous No.18768251]

>>18766529
>>18766862
I dont get it

[Anonymous No.18768252]

>>18766529
Superb.

[Anonymous No.18768326]

>>18768251
Read Wodehouse

[Anonymous No.18768336]

>>18765122
1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.18768354]

>>18765357
sir.... we read books here

[Anonymous No.18768700]

>>18765122
Early Irish Myths and Sagas: I'm reading on the train and in the "office".
La Pasión Turca: Reading at home, I started a few minutes ago while I was stretching out my legs.
Wuthering Heights: I finished it right before midnight.

[Anonymous No.18768890]

I don't read. It made my head feel tingly in a bad way.

[Anonymous No.18769840]

>>18768700
Wuthering Heights is really boring

[Anonymous No.18769867]

Just started.

[Anonymous No.18769918]

>>18769867
>dude weed lmao

[Anonymous No.18769964]

>>18769918
>>dude weed lmao
finished and stoner was amazing.
This guy was smoking weed before it was cool and smoking out his dorm on the daily with the blazy

[Anonymous No.18770046]

I like a lot of books. I like reading books. I don’t have the time to read very much now in terms of the books, but I like reading them

[Anonymous No.18770085]

>>18770046
>I don’t have the time to read very much now in terms of the books
meanwhile I am a NEET that does nothing but lay in bed reading and I am hating! truly hating that after having read a book I am tired and need to nap so I can wake up and read another.

Why don't you just quit your job and quit talking to everyone you know online and offline to read?

[Anonymous No.18770106]

>>18769867
i loved stoner. the ending made me tear up

[Anonymous No.18770161]

Phenomenology of spirit. I probably should've read Kant's critique of reason first.

>>18765132
which?

>>18765170
It's mostly praised for the prose, which is just purple wank really

>>18765640
An honest man

>>18765649
It's ok, I think spergs here overdo it.

>>18766498
'The man who was Thursday' is an overlooked masterpiece. Also laughing at 'my man jeeves' got me my first gf

>>18769918
lol

[Anonymous No.18771220]

>>18765122
someone help me find this book
>>18770485

[Anonymous No.18771234]

[Anonymous No.18771328]

>>18771234
everyone should read this or suggest it to others.
Keep in mind the target audience and it does a very good job.

[Anonymous No.18771338]

>>18765122
"Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol

[Anonymous No.18771567]

>>18768053
Dude! What a coincidence! I read the Palace of Reason a year ago and was surprised at how good it was (bought it in Germany because of the title). I kept putting it off because I thought it'd be about some random encounter and that's it. But it proved to be an excellent read.

I will, however, point out that the vocabulary is a bit hard if you are not a native English speaker (my case)

[Anonymous No.18771594]

>>18768251
Or you could just watch a few episodes of Wooster and Jeeves on YouTube
It’s whatshisface and whatshisface
House and Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.18771863]

>>18768251
>>18771594
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3SvM-aG04

[Anonymous No.18771873]

>>18765128
Based

[Anonymous No.18771889]

>>18765122
Piranesi and The Years of Rice & Salt. Fuck these "avoid fiction" faggots.

[Anonymous No.18771893]

>>18765122
Once upon a time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino and coincidance by Robert Anton Wilson

[Anonymous No.18771903]

>>18765122
Honestly? Finished Call of the Kappa last night for a video I'm working on and then I'm waiting for my copy of Rise of the Rams to get here because it looks like a trashy zombie novel lol.

I'm seriously craving good horror atm.

[Anonymous No.18772540]

speaks the nightbird

[Anonymous No.18772548]

>>18765122
Gods emperor dune

[Anonymous No.18772558]

>>18765122

[Anonymous No.18773301]

>>18765122
The Assassination of Julies Caesar: A Peoples History of Ancient Rome
Fall (a recent book on Robert Maxwell)
The Hollow Men

[Anonymous No.18774207]

>>18769840
The first couple of chapters are a bit boring, but things got interesting when Heathcliff returned seeking revenge.

[Anonymous No.18774347]

>>18765122
Five weeks in a Balloon, Jules Verne

[Anonymous No.18774353]

Glass Bead Game

[Anonymous No.18774528]

>>18765122
Descartes' Discourse on Method
Joyce's Dubliners
Sophocles' Antigone

[Anonymous No.18775157]

all of these
it's kinda comfy to have a bunch on the go to dip into depending what I'm in the mood for

[Anonymous No.18775182]

A Philosophy of Software Design
The Sun also Rises (but my dick won't)
Exhalations

[Anonymous No.18775247]

>>18765122
Calculating God. Alien show up in Toronto and ask to see the fossil record of earth and realize all mass extinctions happened on all planets at the same time, starting a quest from 3 sentient species including humans to find God.

[Anonymous No.18775268]

Pan - Hamsun and The Outsider after that by King.

[Anonymous No.18775783]

>>18775268
>The Outsider

Lower your expectations for the ending.

[Anonymous No.18777378]

>>18765122
brock biology of microorganisms
I got exams

[Anonymous No.18777404]

I am reading german graded text form an underrated youtube channel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW8aYxXIgwM&t=393s

[Anonymous No.18777414]

Mysteries - Hamsun

[Anonymous No.18777441]

Trying to read The Republic, but I can't get past the intro, I'm such a spastic lads, my attention span has totally gone to shit

[Anonymous No.18777450]

>>18765122
2666

[Anonymous No.18777459]

[Anonymous No.18777475]

>>18765122
The Foundation Pit by Platonov
The Master and his Emissary by McGilchrist
very good stuff so far

[Anonymous No.18778527]

>>18765122
Progress and Poverty

[Anonymous No.18778571]

1984. Never had the chance and it’s an easy read so far. Next is Brave New World, then Das Kapital, and maybe Mein Kampf. I don’t know, what’s quintessential fascist literature?

[Anonymous No.18779348]

>>18765122
The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy
Ethics by Spinoza

[Anonymous No.18779474]

Saga of Tanya the Evil, in between volumes, currently at volume 8
So I'm a spider so what? In between volumes, currently at volume 11
Konosuba, in the middle of volume 12
Ascendance of a bookworm, just started volume 1

Yes I like my Jap light novels I know.

[Anonymous No.18779534]

>>18777441
lol no dude it's a hard thing to keep your attention on. I have a philosophy degree and I still struggle to stay on track. But the Republic has a lot of fun moments to keep you going, and book VI is such hype for anyone who likes philosophy. Forgive yourself for taking it slow, and keep in mind how happy you'll be to have read whatever you will have read

[Anonymous No.18779661]

>>18765122
Republic

[Anonymous No.18779674]

The Book of Ebenzer le Page, disappointing desu
>>18777450
how do you like it so far?

[Anonymous No.18779705]

>>18765122
Just finished A Scanner Darkly by PKD. Currently reading Walden by Thoreau and The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. So far, the former is very enjoyable to read, and the latter is quite challenging to read.

>>18766210
>Valis by Philip K Dick
How are you liking it? I stopped halfway through because it kinda felt like it had no direction. It's a pretty strange book; a lot more disorganized than other PKD novels I've read. Will probably pick it back up tonight before bed now that you've reminded me that I stopped reading it. Thanks.

>>18766158
I've been wanting to get a copy but can't seem to find one in print... are you reading a physical or a digital copy? Worth reading?

>>18778571
You didn't read 1984 in high school? Anyway, classics are classics for a reason. Same goes for BNW.

[Anonymous No.18780450]

firestarter by sk
some resident evil book
gonna start shogun probably tomorrow

[Anonymous No.18780477]

I just finished rereading Paradise Lost, I will probably continue on by rereading Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes again, and I may after that reread a couple of books from City of God. As far as new content I've had the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville in my stack for a couple of months, but I've also debated just taking it easier for a couple of weeks and reading a nice story, I'm just not sure what. I was thinking of reading Huck Finn, Three Musketeers, or even rereading Don Quixote. Hard to decide.

[Anonymous No.18780739]

>>18771234
I watched a presentation the author did at that conservative hoover college thing and she came off like she had an agenda. At first I thought all those trannies were shooting abunch a smoke up everyone asses when they instantly labeled this as trans phobic, but maybe they were onto something.

[Anonymous No.18780834]

The Old Testament
Sapiens
You Shall Be As Gods
Twelve Against the Gods
Atomic Habits

And pic related.

[Anonymous No.18781836]

[Anonymous No.18782124]

>>18765397
Same I just read esoteric shit and ancient philosophers and maybe rarely someone modern like Nietzche but only if they’re shitting on modern society

[Anonymous No.18782195]

>not reading business secrets of the pharohs instead
NGMI

[Anonymous No.18782210]

>>18765122

[Anonymous No.18782225]

>>18781836
hey I'm reading that right now too. what do you think of it? I'm enjoying the characters and pace and how many different things he can say and do with the cancer/tumor/radiation idea.

[Anonymous No.18782508]

>>18765122
>How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci,
> 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
> Man and His symbols by Jung

I am juggling alot of books rn

[Anonymous No.18782520]

>>18765357
Read a real book

[Anonymous No.18782545]

>>18765122
Science, politics and gnosticism by Eric Voegelin

>>18765128
great stuff, it baffled me how deep and entertaining his writing was. his constant rip-offs on confucians and alchemists are kino

>>18765163
It will be interesting to find out your view. I found the book nothing like the others; quite a piece actually. Fringe schizo

>>18766210
good list except marx but I really hope that is a backlog/recent reads, not a concurrency list

[Anonymous No.18782723]

>>18782225
I'm only 100 pages in so I don't think I can accurately judge most parts of the book at this point, but I am really enjoying it. I will admit I'm struggling a bit with the Russian names as this is my first Russian to English translated book.

[Anonymous No.18783153]

What am I in for guys

[Anonymous No.18783166]

>>18765122
Foucault - The Order of Things
Magee - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
Ungaretti - Collected Poetry

[Anonymous No.18783169]

>>18777459
It's very repetitive and takes a lot of pages to explain shit that could be explained in 1-2 pages. didn't really like the books.
3/10

[Anonymous No.18783735]

Moretti - Modern Epic
Pound - The Cantos
Laughlin - Pound as Wuz

[Anonymous No.18785005]

>>18765640
not a book