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What books are you reading?

>> No.21335496

Collected Shorter Works by Tolstoy

>> No.21335497

>>21335486
Levicitus, Numbers, Deuteronomy KJV
For leisure and poetics

>> No.21335539

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

>> No.21335559

>>21335486
Emmanuel Swedenborg - Heaven And Hell but not getting enough quiet time to read it. Also my apartment is a mess and we have hardly any food or drink

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>>21335539
She was hot. How's the book?

>> No.21335704

>>21335486
Blood meridian. Then idk what im gonna read next.

>> No.21335723

>>21335539
>Jennette McCurdy
She wrote a book.

>> No.21335734

>>21335486
book? read? no book. no read. just post.

>> No.21336074

>>21335486
Collected Shorter Works by Tolstoy

>> No.21336079

metamorphoses

>> No.21336099

>>21335704
Me too.

>> No.21336198

>>21335539
Is it any good?

>> No.21336313

Goethes Werther

>> No.21336402

Great classic library. Charles Dickens, great expectations, hard times and the cricket on the hearth. I'm interested to read arthur conan doyle's the adventures and the memoirs of sherlock holmes.

>> No.21336434

>>21335486
Monte cristo (again)
American Buffalo
Last of the Mohicans
Wild Sports in the Far West
Expanse 5

>> No.21336507

finally got around to starting crime and punishment. its great so far, though its not playing out how i expected it to. it really jumps into the killing pretty quick without talking much about his philosophical outlooks and motivations. I feel like i would probably be very confused if i didn't know anything about the book ahead of time

>> No.21336891

>>21335486
100 Years of Solitude and Notes From Underground.

>> No.21336925

The analects of confucius, dhammapada, what the buddha taught, and neuromancer

>> No.21336986

kay dick "they"

>> No.21337006

>>21336891
>100 Years of Solitude
for the first time? Man, enjoy.

>> No.21337012
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It finally coomed in the mail
The actual text is only about 65 pages
The rest is forwards and afterwords
I only read about 20 pages last night before dozing off.
If I don’t finish it today I should be castrated for being a tard.
Tarka the Otter is up next.

>> No.21337245

>>21336986
I read this earlier in the year. I liked some of them. But from what I remember they all felt very samey. Didn't love it.

>> No.21337590

Wet Goddess by Malcolm Brenner
It's about a guy who fucks a dolphin, by a guy who fucked a dolphin

>> No.21337612

>>21335486
On Interpretations by Aristotle
Odyssey by Homer
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The Westerne Canon by Harold Bloom

>> No.21337619

>>21337012
What do you think about what you've read? First time I've heard of this book but I'm intrigued.

>> No.21337662

>>21337619
Well it’s a bit archaic. (Written in the late 1600’s). He seems to take it all pretty seriously for an Anglican minister. Almost like an anthropological study of the wee folk. (Or at least what the Scottish Highlanders thought of the little folk.)

>> No.21338264

>>21335486
Gravity's Rainbow
Democracy in America by de Tocqueville

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21338271

Better, plainer speak than Marx.
Like reading Thomas Paine really.
Highly recommend. Please stop bringing up government psyop bullshit about trans. This is still a very important book bigger than any of that shit.

>> No.21338276

>>21335704
literally me, probably musashi next.

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>>21336434
>American Buffalo
based rinella reader

>> No.21338672

>>21335486
thomas bernhard's extinction

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>>21337619
I finished it. I was a little disappointed. Only about a third of it dealt with the little people. The rest dealt with seers, and charm makers and defenses of them against accusations of witchcraft and necromancy. (the defense of the charm-makers seemed pretty flimsy to me. I’d burn them as witches)
He also claimed that elves stood less than 48 inches tall. Personally, I prefer Tolkien’s elves.
Oh well, onto Tarka the Otter.

>> No.21339223

A Course in Miracles

>> No.21339227

Prince Caspian and 60 Stories (I'm always reading 60 Stories).

>> No.21339310

>>21335486
Piercer
A Writer in His Time

>> No.21340650

>>21335539
Camus did it better

>> No.21342022

>>21338271
Book was nice and sweet, but I feel like I wasted my time more or less as the marxists did everything much better.

>> No.21342024

>>21335486
Kogalniceanu's works. He was a proto SJW romanian

>> No.21343142

Just finished Anna Karenina. Unsure what to read next.

>> No.21343375

>>21335486
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by Fr. James Martin S.J.

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21343384

Dead Souls. learning a lot of new words

>> No.21343390

>>21335486
catch-22

>> No.21343394

magic mountain by mann, comfy so far

>> No.21343404

You guys read a lot of books at the same time?

>> No.21343415

my confession by sam chamberlain. really fun. i had to get it as an e-book because its 400 dollars.

>> No.21343430

>>21336313

Tell me, does Goethe deserve the century-spanning unanimous praise?

>> No.21343449

>>21335486
Looks like this painting is based on The Alchemist.

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>>21343384
SOVL

Pic related. Lots of people having extra-marital affairs and a chapter trying to explain the meaning of the czech word 'litost' which seems to translate to 'incel-rage'.

Also reading 'Nomad - Alan Partridge' for the laffs, and 'Interviews with History: conversations with power' by Oriana for Fallaci,

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>>21335486
If I was smart I'd be working through the dark operator books, but fuck me the second book is such a slog.

>> No.21343566

The Bible
Essential Dialogues of Plato

>> No.21343577

>>21343566
I sleep.

>> No.21343591

>>21335486
i don't read ma nege

>> No.21343602

>>21343466
>Kundera
this looks interesting, would you recommend it or is it pedantic slog?

>> No.21343615

>>21343466
>czech word 'litost'
You mean lítost?
>incel-rage
What the fuck are you talking about retard? It just means regret or remorse, or pity. Typical amerimutt thinking he knows it all and is smarter than everyone else.

>> No.21343655

>>21343615
>It just means regret or remorse, or pity.
Milan says it's the sudden torment of witnessing one's own misery. Which is swiftly followed by rage as expressed by various male characters in the story. A man slaps his gf because she doesn't put out, a student experiences great anger at what the author calls 'the terrible litost of hypercelibacy'. He says it's like a two stroke engine for young minds that drives anger at one's own pathetic state. Maybe it's wrong to say it translates to incel rage but it's certainly a critical component in it imo. Anyway just my two cents ;).

>> No.21343672

>>21343602
>this looks interesting, would you recommend it or is it pedantic slog?

Not at all a slog. Like all his novels, it's a breeze. He had an approach to writing novels that treated the product like a kind of feast with lots of different dishes. He jumps around a lot but if you're happy with that I am sure you'd enjoy it. There's a lot of humor and the occasional moments of sublime beauty. Also some very good quotes.

FYI Immortality is my favourite of his, followed by 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and then 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' then followed by 'The Joke'. I haven't gotten round to reading his other stuff.

>> No.21343752

white nights - dostoevsky

>> No.21343753

>>21336434
u reading all those at once??

>> No.21343754

>>21343655
I don't understand why you try to somehow force this word to have some political meaning (incel-rage). I agree with the author that a completely fitting translation doesn't exist but you can't just make up translations/meanings for it as you wish.

>> No.21343777

Forgotten language by Fromm

I'm literally doing the intro reading from a /lit/ flowchart abt Carl Jung Im such a loser

>> No.21343780

>>21343777
I'm also reading Metamorphoses by Ovid Im so based

>> No.21343861

>>21335486
Fiction:
Notes from the Underground

Non-fiction:
The Rise and Fall of The Global Powers
Oxford’s History of Medieval Europe

>> No.21344120

>>21335497
Interesting.

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this fucking thing.

>> No.21345483

>>21335486
just finished Fevre Dream.
6.5/10. Valerie's death hit like a punch in the gut. Joshua was a dogshit character.

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>>21335486
and yourself?

>> No.21345769

Paradise lost

>> No.21345858

The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, supposedly Latin America's first published novel. Pretty good, definitely feels like something Mark Twain or Dickens would write.

>> No.21346005

I told you what I am reading. What are you reading?

>> No.21346088

Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition

Arthur Schnitzler - Der Einsame Weg

Paul Verlaine - Fêtes Galantes

Jean Piaget - Biography and Introduction to his Work

>> No.21346124

>>21343430
Not the poster but german is my native language and what I´ve read so far by him, is a class in its own way.

Very bright and clean. Some poems are like sculptures made by words. Everlasting. But in a very down-to-earth kind of way. Very clever.

If you´re able to read him in german, try his Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams
(Römische Elegien und Venezianische Epigramme)

He also had a very big influence on the german language in it´s form and use up to today.

>> No.21346131

The Simple Life of René Guénon by Paul Chacornac

>> No.21346139

>>21345447
Dios mio

>> No.21346145

Dead souls by Gogol.
Very enjoyable so far.

>> No.21346153

>>21335486
In Green's Jungles. It's getting weird even for Solar Cycle standards.

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Currently reading Insel Felsenburg. It's a Robinson/Utopia knockoff from 1731. So far I've read 700 of 2700 pages.

>> No.21346982

>>21335486
The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

>> No.21346986

>>21336313
Feel like killing yourself over your oneitis yet?

>> No.21346995

I started a ton of books, but I'm most serious about history of polish monetary policies by Woziński and Le Guin's Earthsea

>> No.21346999

>>21343467
So is this like Neuromancer meets Metroid or what?

>> No.21347038

don't know yet, but I've got way to many books lying around that I need to read and the only books I feel like picking up are ones I've already read and know I like.

>> No.21347046

>>21347038
Then do it, no one will ever know or care

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>>21335486

>> No.21347174

>>21347046
I will

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>>21335486
Guys please help, anyone have a good alternative to z-library?

>> No.21347235

>>21337012
Tarka is outstanding.

>> No.21347945

>>21336507
Yeah the emphasis is really on the punishment
THE PUNISHMENT OF HIS VERY SOUL

>> No.21347951

>>21335486
>Dostoyevsky: A Writer In His Time by Joseph Frank
>Nexus by Henry Miller
>Cellini’s Autobiography

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>>21347165
Violently based and AI-pilled.

>> No.21347965

>>21347957
"Violently based" retard that guy wants a one world totalitarian state to stop the AI, he's one of the academic high priests of ZOG

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>>21335486
> BTFOs every philosopher year to date

If you do not understand, you do not meet the requisite IQ points. Accumulate enough wisdom until you do.

>> No.21348005

Just picked up Beowulf for the 1st time.

>> No.21348010

>>21335486
War and Peach. Prince Andrei just died.

>> No.21348011

>>21336099
>>21338276
was thinking now that i'm half way through. timeline by michael crichton is next bros idk but i got a feeling :)

>> No.21348065

>>21346999
maybe? Its under military scifi. 2 of the books are intertwined with the mainline books. The other is extra fluff for the universe. The series as a whole is pretty good.

>> No.21348107

>>21335559
Decided to co-read with Grotius' Peace And War

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I started Island of Dr. Moreau but I don't know if I'll finish it. I haven't finished a book in over a year

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>>21348115
i believe in you anon. you're gonna make it fren. you can do it

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Im reading Meditations on the Tarot by Anon. I'm finding it very engaging. Its great if you've ever had an intrest in learning more about hermeticism.

>> No.21348318

>>21335486
Never read the old testament completely so I'm reading it in order. Finishing Exodus now.

Also finishing Wuthering Heights and the Divine Comedy when I feel like mixing it up.