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20334029 No.20334029 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading currently?

>> No.20334032

>>20334029
Just started Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.
I don't like books that start with 90000 pages of descriptions. I don't even know what the book is about, i don't care about the shape of a fucking island. Fucking retardation.

>> No.20334054

>>20334029
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Really enjoying it so far and nearly finished. Read Steppenwolf so many years ago I've forgotten the plot but I remembered that I enjoyed it quite a lot. Would recommend Siddhartha to anyone that feels lost and at a crossroads in their life.

>> No.20334060

Don Quixote in the read along
Master and commander

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>>20334029
The Hobbit although I read like 20 pages a day and I don’t really read books too often. I do like visiting and lurking on /lit/ from time to time but never post here so.

>> No.20334080

>>20334029
Das Kapital
The Plague

>> No.20334111

>>20334029
Rn I'm reading these words as I'm typing them out, and just before that I was looking at your post. The cat is cute, ty for posting it.

As for books, I try to keep away from them.

>> No.20334175

>>20334029
I've started Das Boot by Lother-Günther Buchheim and The Charioteer by Mary Renault. Still undecided which to continue first. I like the language in Das Boot and have watched the film a dozen times, so that one, probably.

>> No.20334710

>>20334080
Jew

>> No.20334715

>>20334029
The Bible (just started yesterday, genesis 29)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
also have Invisible Cities by Calvino here but i don't think i can handle more than two books at once

>> No.20334718

>>20334029
Last night I finished Portrait of the Artist. God damn, Joyce can write a sentence. Tonight I'm starting on Anna Karenina.

>> No.20334724

>>20334111
Checked and baste

>>20334029
Just finished crime and punishment
Started robinson crusoe
Will start the kalevala when it arrives
Also bought a book of every painting by van gogh so I'm gonna bite off my own ear and read that too

>> No.20334737

>>20334079
Same here, that book was a bit of a drag sometimes but read it in 3 days nevertheless
I liked how characters especially evil ones acted more logically in it than in movies and plot is more consistent but still when it comes to moral message movies done it right and entertainment-wise they're much better.
It's a shame hollywood doesn't adapt books faithfully even if they have budget for 3 3-hour movies in which they could cover literally every line in the book. If that were the case there would be no reason to read them.

>> No.20334760

>>20334029
„To Have or to Be?“ by Erich Fromm

I like mystics but man some of his arguments are circular as hell.
Also he believes in Hegel lol

>> No.20334777

Alfabeti, Magris
Quixote, Cervantes

>> No.20334792
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Eli Manning: Making a Quarterback. It's good. Next I will read Heir to the Empire

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Wait, you guys actually read?

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>> No.20334829

The Goshawk by TH White and Hellenika by Xenophon

>> No.20334842
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Almost done. Hopefully gone finish today.

>> No.20334848

Dracula
Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology

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>>20334029
Justine by The Marquis de Sade, one of the best books I've read from a literary standpoint. I'll probably pick up 120 Days of Sodom some time soon.
Anyone have any recs for books that match The Marquis de Sade's elegance? I've been looking for more but can't see to find many.

>> No.20334878

>>20334848
>Dracula
It sucks ass, doesnt it? The first act in draculas castle is good, but after that the quality drops off massively.

>> No.20334880

I fell for the Tao Lin meme and began reading "Leave society". It's without a doubt the laziest, stupidest, most narcissistic piece of writing I've ever read in my life. It is literally just his diary. Banal conversations with his parents he recorded over a period of four years and his obsession with "health". He's a Google doctor that constantly interrupts what little story there is to fill pages with pseudoscientific crap. He unironically believes in all that new agey stuff about ancient civilizations, female worship etc etc. At one point in the book, he and his girlfriend are fucking and she starts bleeding from her period and he licks it and calls it sacred and natural. For some fucking reason he and his mom don't talk about things, they email each other. They only make small talk irl. Anything else is communicated through email. Guy is a total retard. I'm so done with this. I'm at page 270 and I cannot take this anymore.

>> No.20334893

>>20334792
>videogame books
Finally I’ve found that guy who reads these. Explain yourself.

>> No.20334905

Middlemarch

>> No.20334908

>>20334880
>authenticity
The biggest meme in literature. Budget James Joyces with 1000 pages of navel gazing nothingness. If you can’t understand if it was even about anything that means it’s good. All those “woman goes on a self discovery journey and confronts her slut nature doing something incredibly mundane and this is a life lesson” belong on this trash heap also.

>> No.20334939

>>20334908
Authenticity is fine when you're an interesting person. Have your read any Robert Walser novels? They are great

>> No.20334946

>>20334893
I like video games and I like learning more about the world/characters.

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Tao Te Ching :)

>> No.20335018

>>20334908
Reading Joyce thoroughly makes me acutely aware of how hard he strove to capture very specific feelings and epiphanies. It seems other people try to ape that but try to keep authorial distance and "let the feeling permeate the writing" or some fag shit.

>> No.20335036

>>20335013
Based
Read the Zhuangzi next (or Chuang Tzu, or whatever)

>> No.20335047

Augustine's Confessions

>> No.20335049

>>20334029
several short sentences about writing klinkenborg
it's a book on how to improve your writing

>> No.20335075

>>20334029
War and peace but I’ve been stuck in the middle for ages. Good book but I wish I could just move on already

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>> No.20335441

Stone Junction by Jim Dodge

>> No.20335451

>>20335018
Joyce is a meme, read better books and stop being a pseud

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>>20334029

>> No.20335511

>>20335451
He really isn't. Give me some recommendations.

>> No.20335589

fuck reading. watching tv series right now

>> No.20335591

>Three Body Problem.
Completely underwhelmed. Maybe it was better in the native Chinese, but the translator is also a well known scifi author so I doubt it. It felt I was reading a wikipedia summary of some videogame plot. Everyone just says exactly what they're thinking at all times

>> No.20336044

>>20334029
"Projective Methods" by Anzieu, and
"The Wandering Shadows" by Quignard

>> No.20336050

The service manual of my sewing machine.

>> No.20336054

>>20334029
The Misogynist's Guide to Torturing Small Animals, Chapter 9: Cats

>> No.20336071

>>20334029
The Book of Genesis
Daily flipping through Aesop's Fables
Recently finished Washington: A Life

>> No.20336079

>>20334032
then you have chosen the wrong author

>> No.20336090

>>20334029
just beginning scenes from provincial life by william cooper.
i've never heard it/him mentioned except by two of my favourite writers (kingsley amis and p larkin) in their letters which is really the sort of thing i'm looking for

>> No.20336114

>>20334029
Starship Troopers.
It’s fantastic. I’m going to read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress next. It’s easy to see why Heinlein is considered one of the great SF authors; he’s brilliant.

>> No.20336126

>>20334029
The Road. It's the first McCarthy I'm reading. Liking the language so far.

>> No.20336139

Augustus by the stoner guy. Arrian’s account of Alexander’s campaigns just arrived, I’ll read that next. I’m trying to read more inspiring books, any recommendations? I’ve got a book about Genghis Khan on my TBR.

>> No.20336187

the rules of attraction by Bret Easton ellis

>> No.20336239

Aristotle's Metaphysics.

>> No.20336490
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>The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Very good so far. Funny and interesting.

>> No.20336503

Erewhon

>> No.20336517

>>20336490
Wait till you get to the end. One of the best endings ever.

>> No.20336523

the '100 years of american short stories' anthology edited by lorrie moore

>> No.20336524

>>20336490
good book. shame we can't quote the first four lines of that poem at the beginning out loud anymore
did you read the intro by kingsley?

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Just started reading the hungarian translation of Infinite Just, translated by my hungarian waifu (pic related).
Maybe if I like it I will read the English version, but I prefer my mother language, would feel traitourus to our literary history and culture

>> No.20336700

I am the Monarch. Just some korean webnovel genrefic to skim before I fall asleep.

>> No.20336728

>>20334710

How do you know your right when you are too afraid to engage with the text?

>> No.20336813

>>20334029
I might catch shit for this but I read a bunch of stuff simultaneously.
>Jewish Magic and Superstition
>Symbols of Sacred Science
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Being and Time
I'm ADHD and I really enjoy bouncing around to different topics. I shoot for 3-5 pages of each every day, more if I find something particularly interesting. Schizo bonus for writing in journal about tenuous connections between them.

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>>20334029
Pic related. I was surprised too see so many words I didn't know and I have only read the first chapter so far. I guess I don't know English as well as I thought. But it's also fun looking up, writing down, and learning all of these new words.
Also is it just me, or does this Mr. Lockwood talk and observe things like a woman?

>> No.20336967

>>20336916
It was written almost two hundred years ago. Canterbury Tales and Hamlet were only written two centuries apart, and they're considered to be in different languages. It's frankly more amazing that we've managed to petrify English as much as we have.

>> No.20336984

>>20336967
I suppose so. I do hate however how modern versions of long-going languages have become so square and robotic.

>> No.20337003

>>20335013
>>20335036
I'm going to read these

>> No.20337008

>>20336984
My understanding of the linguistics is that it's less about their age than the number of people that have to speak it. Languages in isolation consistently grow more complex, while languages exposed to new groups of learners tend to simplify as adults fail to pick up more than what is necessary. So the lingua franca of any given region is always easier than its neighbors, and English especially so as it's been run through this process almost constantly ever since the Norse invasion in the 9th century. English probably really is easiest to learn of all organically developed languages.

>> No.20337068

>>20337008
And because of how simple it is to learn, it only spirals downwards faster. The degeneration of the language only accelerates. Just look at the way zoomers and whatever generation is young now talk. It's only going to get worse.

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I'm reading Magus by John Fowles and The Denial of Death. I hoped they'd be a mild tonic against the death anxiety I've been feeling recently, but they've not been effective. Both are enjoyable so far, though.
>>20336490
Great book, this.
>>20336187
How's this? I read Less Than Zero as an edgy 17-year-old but have not visited his other books.

>> No.20337098

>>20337087
comfy book, recommend it

>> No.20337121

Wuthering Heights. Recommended by Jordan Peterson.

>> No.20337154

>>20337068
I guess it depends on what you mean by downward. Much of what younger generations introduce to the language is actually an increase in complexity. Like, when you hear blacks say
>He be making that bread
by conventional, simplified, English rules it sounds like nonsense grammar. But it's not, really, it's a reintroduction of the habitual form of conjugation, which English dropped centuries ago. When they replace "is" with "be" in this context, it's a way of signifying that this is an ongoing action.
Similarly, it's really common now to hear women end emphatic sentences with a sort of muted "-uh". So, if someone asks them a question, and they want to get across how obvious the answer is, an affirmation will sound more like "Yess-uh" Depending on if this sticks around, and how it develops, this is how languages get assertive particles like the Japanese よ.
Inherently, any reintroduction of complexity to a language is going to sound wrong to native speakers initially, because it's different. It's a change to the prescribed rules. But subsequent generations almost never make a language simpler.

>> No.20337162

>>20337154
Dit you just write a defense of ebonics? Anon are you okay?

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>>20334029
storm of steel by jünger
crisis of the modern world by guénon

>> No.20337176

>>20337162
There's a lot of it that's obviously the result of stupidity, plenty of idiots out there who just don't understand basic conjugation. But I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore the aspects that bring back linguistic elements we had to drop because of the vikings and the french

>> No.20337221

>>20337176
I wonder if it will all matter when the world is only speaking Chinese.

>> No.20337244

On China
The TikTok Boom

and just finished reading Poems of William Blake

>> No.20337343

Started Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal a few days ago. I've been slow as fuck so I am barely into the plot but I'm enjoying the set up so far.

>> No.20337907

>>20335036
Thanks man. I mostly posted to bait with my shitty typeset, but I'll check it out.

>> No.20337937

>>20334029
White Noise

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Just started picrel. I am reading it on my phone while I wait for my Kobo to arrive, which is a little painful.

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>>20335013
Holy font size, Batman!

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>>20334029
The Intellectual Life: It’s Spirit, Conditions and Methods by Fr. Sertillanges OP. I’ll learn to study and sift through the /lit/ garbage-heap.

>> No.20338129

>>20334029
The Master and Margarita. I'm not really feeling it.

>> No.20338205
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>>20334029
Wrapping up Speer's book. Started twice 10-15 years ago but got bored halfway through both times. Third time's the charm, it's actually getting interesting as everyone jockeys for position in what they imagine the post-war world will be like when Germany is victorious and Hitler needs a successor. The boys are starting to show some strain as the war drags on and things start to look not so good.
I can't wait to see how it ends. Don't spoil it for me you fuckers!

>> No.20338258

>>20334878
That's a meme by retards who go in thinking it's going to like average YA action-horror-fantasy and find that it's a real book instead (though it's certainly not a masterpiece and the first act definitely is better than the rest).

>> No.20338445

>>20337176
>>20337154
Go away nigger-lover

>> No.20338496

>>20334029
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

>> No.20338523

>>20337154
>blacks
>He be making that bread
Now say it like a pirate.

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Finally got round to Milton's Paradise Lost

>> No.20338582

>>20336503
what a snoozer

>> No.20338583

>>20336916
This book is so much better than you'd think it'd be. Its truly nuts

>> No.20338585

>>20334029
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

>> No.20338591
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>> No.20338607

The Illiad. I'm (re-)starting with the Greeks.

>> No.20338610
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A Perfect Spy by John le Carre.
It's really really good. Also very comfy.
Only other Le Carre I've read before was The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which I thought was okay. This is very different and much better. Apparently Philip Roth considered it the best English novel since the WW2.

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20338625

very pleasing prose and plot pacing.

>> No.20338736

>>20338258
I didnt go in with any preconceived notions, but I remember being distinctly disappointed.
I was gripped in act one. I was less interested during the Whitby act, though it wasnt so bad. Then it just seemed to get progressively worse until it just sort of ends abruptly.
Maybe I should revisit it, I read it a few years ago.

>> No.20338738

>>20334029
Will You Please Be Quiet Please by Raymond Carver

>> No.20338823

Finally getting around to Ulysses, never read Joyce for no particular reason other than not getting around to him. Loving it so far, Proteus is up there as one of my favorite things ever.

>> No.20338830

I just finished it and found it very enjoyable. My only previous experience with Hamilton was reading "Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky" which featured a lot of the same themes (loneliness, simping, rampant alcoholism) but was a far less adventurous novel.

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>>20338830
Forgot to attach image

>> No.20338844

nothing. reading is for faggots

>> No.20339373

>>20338582
it's very good

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>>20338205
Looks interesting, might read

>> No.20340042

Olavo de Carvalho, Intelligence and Truth: Essays on Philosophy

>> No.20340054

>>20334029
Paris 1939-1944 by Beauvoir.

Great example of how pacifism really gets you nowhere when your opponent is ruthless enough.

>> No.20340064

>>20338129
Why not? It's brilliant, but takes a bit to get to the good parts (the biblical times).

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>> No.20341137

>>20337154
African-American Contributions To Humanity!
1) peanut butter
2) reintroduction of an archaic, unneeded grammatical tense

Okay, we're up to two now.

>> No.20341141

>>20334029
A Very Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis. It's kind of a palate cleanser, because I've been reading Plato, and after this I'm probably going to continue with Plato.

>> No.20341384

>>20337121
Nice. Heathcliff is based.

>> No.20341834

>>20334032
Take it back you motherfucker

>> No.20341838

>>20340911
remember reading that one, can't remember anything except that I liked it

>> No.20341844

The castle by Kafka

>> No.20342428

got half way through "Things Fall Apart". gave up and reread the whole thing

>> No.20342462

>>20334029

I need a well documented source on egyptian heiroglyph. Do you know of any?

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Same book that the 2000 Leo movie is based on
Same Alex Garland that directed Ex Machina (2017)

>> No.20342790

>>20334029
Rereading Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence

>> No.20342791

Moby Dick
it sucks
but I wanna finish it

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I just finished Eli Manning: Making a Quarterback. It was great. I'm now going to read Star Wars Revenge of the Sith or Rebel Dawn.

>> No.20342805

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
Not sure if I should've read The Stranger first but oh well

>> No.20342826

Pickwick Papers
Of course it's messy, but it's lively!

>>20342791
I can't imagine what goes through the mind of someone who doesn't like Moby Dick.

>> No.20342846

>>20342826
something like
"I don't give a shit who got the best whale engravings"

>> No.20342852

The Pale King and a Night of Serious Drinking

not sure what next as I'm close to wrapping those up.

>> No.20342853

>>20342846
Just admitting to being a brainlet out here on /lit/? Damn man.

>> No.20343036

>>20336683
she's so cute dude damn

>> No.20343045

I read through Mindhunter because something reminded of the show adaptation, and like damn near every book I've ever read the book was much better. Really interesting read, there were quite a few serial killers in there that I had never heard of before.
When I finished it it reminded me of a book my father told me about reading which was about interviewing killers/crazy people, and when I asked him about it he said it was called Interview with the Devil or something along those lines. When trying to find it, all that comes up is religious literature, Outwitting the Devil is some old self help book, Conversations with the Devil is is some fictional thriller. Anybody know what book this is?

>> No.20343063

>>20334029
Stoner by John Williams.

>> No.20343083

Don Quixote
Steppenwolf
The Temple In Man
Plato

>> No.20343094

High-Rise by J. Ballard
I am preparing for the unified state exam, and we practice mainly British English.

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Finished this a month ago (I don't read nearly as much as I should) and it's been festering in my mind the whole time. The last page completely re-contextualized the story for me and I'm discovering more about it the more I think of it.

>> No.20343122

>>20338834
haven't read the book, but the movie is pretty good, would recommend it.

>> No.20343238

>>20338543
Same, truly divine

>> No.20343247

I’m gonna catch shit for this, but whatever, I read for fun now, and I’m a twenty something woman.

The invisible life of addie Larue

And

The song of Achilles

>> No.20343255

>>20342846
The whole book is merely a prelude to the final handful of chapters; they have a purpose, even the inane descriptions of whale physiognomy.

>> No.20343564

Revolt Against the Modern World. Pretty fun read. Dunno if I should go for Ride the Tiger next or one of his books about alchemy/magic/the grail (the main reason I wanted to read Evola at all was because I like esoteric and occult stuff)

>> No.20343570

I just finished La symphonie pastoral/Isabelle. Should I read Pedro Paramo, the Mask of Innocence, or Balcony in the Forest next?

>> No.20343584

>>20334029
the other site by alfred kubin

>> No.20343585

>>20343247
Hello madam please post breasts thank you

>> No.20343601

>>20336126
you finna cry at the end fr fr

>> No.20343622

>>20343238
I don't know what I expected but its blowing my mind and is just so delightful to read.

>> No.20343631

>>20343247
>The song of Achilles
Why read gay romance?

>> No.20343632

>>20343094
Great choice, great book

>> No.20344137

>>20343103
It's a perfectly good and unique book. I had a good time with it

>> No.20344164

>>20343247
why do people say twenty something/in my twenties. is it just what you say when you're 29

>> No.20344172

>>20342777

Oh man, loved that fiml and book in my late teens. Unironically changed my life.

>> No.20344178

Don't read anymore. No time or money. I always wondered why my dad didn't read that much when I was younger and I see now why. Reading is either a luxury on account of wealth of and time or a cope to ignore your condition. I see many neurotic types that were poor that read, and they're just looking for distractions.

>> No.20344192

>>20342826
kingsley amis didn't like moby dick

>> No.20344205

>>20343122
I was planning to watch it this weekend, so this will raise my expectations

>> No.20344213

Just started Return of the Native

I completely forgot just how much Hardy loves spending pages describing the scenery.

>> No.20344219

>>20344192
Never heard of him. Must not be that important.

>> No.20344267

>>20334029
Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang. The content is good so far, but he has a tendency to repeat himself time and again stressing the same points, and the language is very simplified to be accessible. Still worth a read imo for a critical, but nuanced view into the whole free trade discussion

>> No.20344376

>>20334029
I've almost finished Within a Budding Grove.
The Technological Society

>> No.20344388

>>20334029
Spring Snow, planning to get through entirety of Mishima's bibliography

>> No.20344404

>>20344219
could be more indicative of you than him

>> No.20344656

>>20343247
>Woman
Me too lol

>> No.20344690

>>20334848
I really liked Dracula
>>20334878
I found the rest of the book even better, but the ending was not really satisfying (or rather short)

>> No.20344971

>>20334029
Book of The New Sun
Wheelock's Latin
Thinking of starting Spinoza's Ethics this week

Listening to Mythology by Edith Hamilton on audiobook

>> No.20345022

>>20334079
This was the first book that I read for fun. Very light read and it's fun to watch the movie afterward to see the differences.

>>20334080
Tremendously based. What chapter are you on of Kapital?

>>20334710
Loser fascist.

>>20337121
Good author. Cringe Peterson.

>>20338445
Post body

>> No.20345282

>>20335591
Yeah the characters are all flat as fuck

>> No.20345296

>>20334029
2666, just finished the part about the crimes
It's really good

>> No.20346969

>>20334029
Finished Don Quixote last night and I started reading the Tao Te Ching today.

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20346977

>>20345022

>> No.20348452

>>20342805
If you want to follow Camus' release cycle of novel-essay-play then The Stranger first, but desu you'd probably have a greater appreciation for it /after/ reading Sisyphus. Just make sure you read the Matthew Ward translation of the former; as for the latter there is only one definitive English translation afaik so edition doesn't matter

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20348471

Therese et Isabelle, precious little thing.

>> No.20348489

>>20345022
Shut up stupid marxturd, your gay opinion is worth less than nothing. Meaning I would pay you to fuck off from my /lit/.

>> No.20348590

ESPN article for basketball

>> No.20348612

i was in the don quixote read along but i have shit attention span, been studying gothic and germanic languages lately. im sorry cervantesbros...

>> No.20348643

>>20334029

Unexplained Economics byTimothy Taylor, The Great Courses.

Conspiracies, and Conspiracy Theories by Michael Shermer, The Great Courses.

The Joy of Nature by Readers Digest.

How to Achieve Financial Independence and Retire Early by JD Roth, The Great Courses.

The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo PhD, The Great Courses.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan

>> No.20348657
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20348657

>>20348643
>Conspiracies, and Conspiracy Theories by Michael Shermer, The Great Courses.

>> No.20348659

>>20345022
Peterson is based.

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20348746

Catch 22

>> No.20348764

>>20337121
I've been meaning to read it for ages. One afternoon I read the first few chapters so I'm well-prepped.

>> No.20348885

>>20334842
How do you like it?

>> No.20348900

>>20348657
Wtf is your point?
Btw Dawkins is based, no matter how many jets he rides on.

>> No.20349242

>>20334029
Los mitos de la guerra civil, by Pio Moa