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Mine grows faster than I can read it. Tell me what's not worth my time and what I should add

>> No.20790872

I don't keep reading lists. I tried, but I keep not following them and whatever.

>> No.20790888

>>20790872
I use it more as a place to note down books that interest me

>> No.20790895

>>20790888
Why? I just download them and keep them in a folder.

>> No.20790907

>>20790860
mind me asking if you've learned anything effective that you can sum up for us?
anything?

>> No.20790909

>>20790860
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
The Cosmic Fragments, Heraclitus
Redburn, Herman Melville
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist, Orhan Pamuk
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust

I cap it at 10 to keep it from getting out of hand. If I want to add a book I need to take one off.

>> No.20790916

>>20790909
learned anything?

>> No.20790924

>>20790916
About managing reading lists?

>> No.20790930

>>20790907
I read the Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged and I learnt that Ayn Rand likes the idea of two men wanting to fuck her

>> No.20790933

>>20790860
I don’t know how to recommend stuff based on what you may read instead of what you actually read and liked

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>>20790933
Okay here is what I read this year

>> No.20791560

>>20790860
delete everything
add greeks

>> No.20791571

>>20790952
What the fuck is this list ahahahaha

>> No.20791576

500+ books in my Goodreads list which I'll probably never finish.

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>>20790860
Protip: drop Hyperion. It will only get worse.

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>>20790860
Skip Denial of Death unless you like perverse jewish ramblings

>> No.20791856

>>20791849
>me no like joo! joo bad! me no like joo! joo bad!

>> No.20793464

>>20790860
Demon Haunted World isn't worth your time. Read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn instead (move on to Feyerabend and Lakatos if you're still interested).

>> No.20793472

>>20791849
Take a shit while you're high on shrooms and come back and tell me he's still wrong.

>> No.20793478

>>20791856
>t. plays with his anus and sniffs feces

>> No.20793775

>>20790860
The Hebrew Bible, translated with commentary by Robert Alter
The Gospels, translated by Sarah Ruden
The Longman abridged King James Bible
The New Testament, translated by David Bentley Hart
The Norton critical edition of the King James Bible

Paradise Lost, norton critical edition

Thus Spake Zarathustra, the translation by Michael Hulse coming out in September.
Human, All too Human, the translation by R Kevin Hill coming out in 2023.

The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater
The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce
The Emotional Construction of Morals by Jesse Prinz

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945, by Richard Overy

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I actually keep a list of all the books I have that I still need to read, and mark off when I started and ended them for the year

>> No.20794975

>>20790860
I don’t have a reading list, since I don’t read.