/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21671540]

Post current reads or gtfo

[Anonymous No.21671550]

hmm, im curious about the small leather bound book between the keys and money
you should open it up and show it to us

[Anonymous No.21671565]

>>21671540
Are you reading two books at once?

[Anonymous No.21671577]

Just finished this yesterday.

[Anonymous No.21671603]

Page 130, first time reading

[Anonymous No.21671746]

>>21671540
Why do you have pentagrams and hexagrams on a cross?

[Anonymous No.21671771]

>>21671540
Philosophical Troubles (Kripke)
A treatise of Human Nature
Critique of Judgement
Crime and Punishment (I know, I am a basic bitch, but I like it)
New Testament.

>>21671746
It is the Rosicruc of the hermetic order of the Golden dawn without the Jewish foreskins on it. Some really _e_d_g_y_ shit imo.
OP, for research purposes, may I ask whether you feel sexually attracted to people of your sex from time to time? No judgement involved, but I see that you read Kierkegaard.

[Anonymous No.21671794]

>>21671540
Words of radiance

[Anonymous No.21671993]

superstitious / 10

[Anonymous No.21672009]

Stoner, and Death On Credit. Might start Radetzky March or some introductory philosophy.

[Anonymous No.21672036]

>>21671540
La tía Julia y el escribidor

[Anonymous No.21672052]

War of the Worlds
Unsure what to read next, I have too much fucking SF

[Anonymous No.21672060]

>>21671771
Please never post on this board again

[Anonymous No.21672090]

Desert Solitaire
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

[Anonymous No.21672272]

>>21671577
How was it anon? I'm planning to read it, but I cannot bring myself to do it.

[Anonymous No.21672297]

>>21671540
>Buddhist
>Paying money for books
>Having money at all
>A fucking car
>American........
The road to enlightenment truly is a one step at a time proposition.

[Anonymous No.21672321]

Which lesser know authors from antiquity would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.21672375]

The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch
The Magus - John Fowles

[Anonymous No.21672429]

>>21672321
Terence
Apolonius Rhodius

[Anonymous No.21672507]

>>21671603
Same here. Not sure what page, just finished the chapter with Quequeg's fasting.

[Anonymous No.21672533]

>>21671540

[Racist No.21672542]

[Anonymous No.21672562]

>>21672542
i have the same earbuds

[Anonymous No.21672565]

[Racist No.21672568]

>>21672562
Bob Marley.

[Anonymous No.21672600]

>>21671540
2/10
>>21671577
3/10
>>21671603
5/10
>>21672321
6/10
>>21672533
4/10
>>21672542
7/10
>>21672565
4/10

[Anonymous No.21672614]

>>21672600
Hurrumph >:-(

[Anonymous No.21672674]

The Theory of a Multi-Polar World

[Anonymous No.21672935]

>>21671540
Just finished these two this week, both were quite good

[Anonymous No.21673444]

imagine being an american lmao

[Anonymous No.21673515]

Harda Horda, a collection of short stories by a polish grouo of female writers. Unfortunately, mostly pop fantasy/sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.21673518]

>>21673444
Feels good

[Anonymous No.21673530]

Reading Kafka's America because I hate myself

[Anonymous No.21673539]

>>21671540
Capítulos de sentença - cândido rangel dinamarco
Also the wikipedia pages on chinese history. I am in the five dinasties and 10 kingdons period.

[Anonymous No.21673541]

>>21673539
Also superman future state

[Anonymous No.21673543]

>>21672297
Who said he paid for the book?

[Anonymous No.21673544]

>>21671540
It's pretty great.

[Anonymous No.21673569]

First volume of an unabridged 6 set

[Anonymous No.21673570]

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton
US Money vs Corporation Currency by Alfred Crozier
Hail Mary by Andy Weir

[Anonymous No.21673593]

>>21671540
More of a stack and "reading list", but yeah

[Anonymous No.21673602]

>>21673593
>can read Shakespeare in the original
>reads Darwin in translation
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.21673621]

first time reading, half way through. It was pretty rough for the first few cantos as I had to look a bunch of words and the list of ships was putting me to sleep but I'm liking it quite a lot. Can't wait to finish this and jump straight into the Odyssey
also I've read like 6 chapters of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and I like the atmosphere and setting but I thought I would like more that kind of slow aimless slice of life type of story.

[Anonymous No.21673629]

>>21672600
no one is concerned with your ratings or opinions.

[Anonymous No.21673636]

>>21673593
>reading the origin of species
>in 2023
for what purpose?

[Anonymous No.21673666]

Interesting

[Anonymous No.21673671]

>>21673629
Yet you still honored me with a (You). Lol!

3/10 for your post

[Anonymous No.21673691]

>>21671540
Mason and dixon
The long ship
Kjv bible

[Anonymous No.21673695]

>>21673602
I bought Darwin in my home country, Shakespeare in the Netherlands (aka the most anglo non anglo country)
>>21673636
Big history of science nerd and i love Darwin as a "philosopher"

[Anonymous No.21673724]

>>21672297
>buddhism means no economy
spot the brainlet

[Anonymous No.21673783]

>>21671550
That's a wallet

[Anonymous No.21673832]

[Anonymous No.21673956]

>pic related
>Gogol's Plays
>Plato's Hippias Major
>Nagarestani's Cyclonopedia
>>21673621
Good shit on Homer, make sure to read the Greek playwrights, Hesiod, and Vergil's Aeneid as well
>>21673530
How is it?
>>21672321
Callimachus, Tibullus, Propertius, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Theognis, and Sallust

[Anonymous No.21673987]

>>21673629
i am..

[Anonymous No.21674042]

About halfway through this
They’re halfway up Mount Everest and still no sight of a yeti.
Was I rused lads?

[Anonymous No.21674058]

>>21674042
anon, it clearly says in the title it's about the abominable Dan Simmons

[Anonymous No.21674082]

Black Dhalia - James Ellroy (Noir cop drama)
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Human Magnet Syndrome - Ross Rosenberg (Psych shit about narcisissm)
Warrior, Magician, Lover, King - Rod Boothroyd (Male archetype stuff)

[Anonymous No.21674109]

What do Indians think of pic related? I’m six chapters in and I’m amused by the pajeet speak but then I’m a sahib

[Anonymous No.21674220]

>>21674082

[Anonymous No.21674225]

>>21673636
It's a fantastic book

[Anonymous No.21674239]

[Anonymous No.21674264]

>>21674239
how's that coming along anon? I for some reason can't stand Libertador editions (i've got durkheim's suicide) my editions of longseller and gradifico are superb

[Anonymous No.21674297]

Lots of spanish speakers in this thread, based.

>>21671540
These two, currently. I'm starting out at literature as a hobby, please don't bully.

[Anonymous No.21674307]

Where my nonfiction bros at?

[Anonymous No.21674310]

[Anonymous No.21674758]

>>21674297
I think Catcher in the Rye is a great choice to start off with anon

[Anonymous No.21674835]

>>21672321
Xenophon, he's a lot better than Plato imo. He also wrote about Socrates because he was one of his disciples

[Anonymous No.21674850]

do you people only buy physical books? where? is it all delivered to you? thats expensive.

[Anonymous No.21674894]

>>21674850
Yeah I usually buy used books off eBay or just ebooks from Amazon if they’re two dollars or less

[Anonymous No.21674893]

>>21674850
Used book stores. Haven't paid for a new book in years. For specific titles, I look for it at my state library system. If it's not there, I check my uni library system.

[Anonymous No.21674921]

>>21672272
Why not? It's a very easy and short read. Its main appeal is exactly that: Athanasius' clarity and simplicity. He was quite young when he wrote it (early 20s) so it has an almost amusing polemical tone. Honestly, it's just fun. He made me think of young Berkeley who had a similar writing style, but I'd like to read something from an older Athanasius at some point.

[Anonymous No.21674926]

>>21674893
>>21674894
i have no clue how to get books to read. im stuck rereading the same ones

[Anonymous No.21674929]

>>21672507
Nta but I’m at the encyclopedia section

[Anonymous No.21674934]

>>21674850
I use abebooks or I read the PDF

[Anonymous No.21674940]

>>21671540
Enjoying it desu.

Second book by a female I've ever read (behind The Fountainhead) and the second book where the main character got raped

[Anonymous No.21674951]

>>21674082
good books weird edc especially the leather sphincter thing wtf is that (and do I want one?)

[Anonymous No.21674988]

Enjoying all three to variable extents, Ulysses the most, the parts I think I understand make those I don’t much more tantalising. The bible is slow going but I’ll get through it eventually, I definitely want to read the OT first because I think that I’ll enjoy the NT more. Dumas is just entertaining
>>21671603
Remember that cetology is thematically important, it’s a rough adjustment to hit the non-narrative chapters for some people
>>21673636
Can’t speak for the translation into Dutch but it’s a well written, even occasionally beautiful, book. It’s interesting to see how Darwin presents such an early formulation of natural selection. I also think some people assume it’s somehow nihilistic or atheistic because of modern associations with Darwin, which isn’t the case, Darwin became an atheist later in his life but it’s apparent from reading it that he wasn’t when he wrote his most famous books. Darwin’s writing contains a great deal of appreciation for the beauty in the natural world and his presentation of ideas is easy to follow. Though admittedly biology is part of my academic background and profession so I guess I just enjoy the history of the field.

[Anonymous No.21675008]

>>21674926
What part of South America or Eastern Europe do you live in?

[Anonymous No.21675011]

>>21675008
the states

[Anonymous No.21675015]

>>21674926
If you don't know of any local used book stores, go to any thrift store. Usually you get a more interesting selection near cities, and the best selection is in college towns.

Alternately if you're super remote you could fellate Jeff Bezos and get big name titles through the used section on Amazon. Oftentimes thrift stores will sell overstock books for a literal penny plus shipping because they don't have shelf space for them. This usually only works for really big name classics though, like Wuthering Heights or The Great Gatsby (or mass-market high circulation books like The Da Vinci Code if you're into those). More niche classics you might have to pay a dollar or two plus shipping

[Anonymous No.21675023]

>>21675011
poor bastard

[Anonymous No.21675033]

>>21675011
How are people this retarded? You can’t figure out how to order $3 books on eBay/amazon? You don’t have goodwills or thrift stores? Every podunk small town in America has them, and they have piles of books.

[Anonymous No.21675071]

>>21675033
>calling me retarded
ISHYSGDDT

[Anonymous No.21675165]

>>21675071
Well what’s the problem?
Lookup a book you want to read on eBay. Sort by price. Some of the places on eBay have sales where you can buy 3 and get the fourth free. That’s how I got these

[Anonymous No.21675169]

>>21672297
Money is the root of all evil so why not blow it all on btd5

[Anonymous No.21675269]

>>21671540
Poe is next

[Anonymous No.21675286]

>>21674951
Heckin' yes you want one (it is pressed leather that holds my coins) cashiers very often point out how cool it is. My uncle made it from a piece of trash leather 20 years ago. And my EDC is not weird, it's actually based as heck dawg.

[Anonymous No.21675365]

>>21671540
Running Through Beijing, Xu Zechen
Snow, Orhan Pamuk

[Anonymous No.21675374]

>>21674307
despite being a meme I like pinker the ass man, Better Angels of Our Nature is one of my favorite books.

Pic related is an amazing book on evolutionary psychology, probably more up to date than what you're reading.

[Anonymous No.21675382]

>>21675286
Yeah it's pretty cool, it makes you look a bit like you are involved in a club that may or may not worship moloch or touch kids though

[Anonymous No.21675386]

>>21675374
he better talk about differences between sexes and genders in that tho

[Anonymous No.21675393]

>>21675386
If you want that take this, the thermo-nuclear blackpill.

[Anonymous No.21675402]

>>21675393
thanks fren I think I will I enjoy hating women

[Anonymous No.21675565]

>>21673783
thanks einstein

[Anonymous No.21675584]

>>21674758
You didn't lie, it was a really enjoyable lecture. Really like the revelation about him being abused, a lot of his past behavior makes sense after the fact, like how he acted like a kid at times or that part about always stopping dry when a girl told him to stop right before sex.

There is only one thing it's weirding me out. After finished reading I got the urge to smack this lousy guy and all, he seems like the phoniest bastard to me, he really does.

[Anonymous No.21676022]

>>21675374
Evopsych is an awful meme field

[Anonymous No.21676162]

>>21676022
If you're opposed to evidence based reasoning, sure. All opposition to research in this field is sociopolitically motivated, but often couched in terms that seem authentic.

[Anonymous No.21676168]

>>21676162
>All opposition to research in this field is sociopolitically motivated
Quite the contrary, all research in this field is sociopolitically motivated

[Anonymous No.21676181]

>>21674758
Catcher in the Rye is a terrible overrated snoozefest, no wonder a jew wrote it.

[Anonymous No.21676200]

Just finished Book 4 of the 2003 Penguin version but I just know I'll need a shit ton of addendums for when I start writing notes in full

>>21674239
Alyosha is husbando as fuck, I'd ask him out if I were a girl

[Anonymous No.21676206]

reading this

[Anonymous No.21676410]

>>21676022
Yeah it reveals bad things about muh heckin jewerinos

[Anonymous No.21676513]

i'm in the middle of this book.
it's good and quite interesting to see in what way he was involved in the spanish civil war. however i think i will stop reading it since it has already satisfied what i wanted to know. i was mainly interested in it to get a better understanding of the war, especially the anarchists' side of things. i already read some things on that before starting this book

[Anonymous No.21676645]

>>21675386
Biologists teach this in university classrooms, so he probably does. Behavioural biology classes at normal universities with a few tweaks sound like they could be coming out of lonely young men on 4chan, only the latter are less factual and based more in seethe rather than comprehension
>>21676022
>t. Jew or woman
Evopsych isn’t always called evopsych, when it’s studied on animals other than humans it is called “behavioural biology” and nobody ever complains about it, not even the most delusional social scientist complains about it until the moment it’s applied to humans as well. It’s already here, a d it’s going to be more accepted than modern bullshit psychology in our lifetimes
>>21676168
You’re a retard if you think this, or you’re one of the groups that evopsych continues to reveal unsavoury information about the behaviour of. Much is made of Jews because of Kevin MacDonald but most of the seethe comes from people who want to pretend that the sexes aren’t psychologically distinct from one another

[Anonymous No.21676653]

>>21676645
>most of the seethe comes from people who want to pretend that the sexes aren’t psychologically distinct from one another
How do these people explain the fact that gays are attracted to feminine occupations and lesbos to masculine ones? Especially since they are not 'socialised' that way, but in fact (at least in the past) punished for their deviance

[Anonymous No.21676655]

this shit is great. it shows what a farce expanding education and credentialism is, and makes you want to reduce it. yet, at the same time, it makes the reader want to get as much education as possible, since while it may be against society at large's interested to have everyone maximally educated, it is currently in your person interest to get as much education as possible.

[Anonymous No.21676689]

>>21676653
"occupations" are a social construct.

[Anonymous No.21676694]

>>21676410
Jewerinos are the biggest proponents of evopsych
>>21676645
Almost all of its results are wild conjecture. The only value it provides is inflammatory baitposting for chuds and artificial excuses for worldwide genocide for the globalists.

[Anonymous No.21676695]

>>21675374
are people really seething about sapolsky? he's one of the safest libbest tedtalkinest dudes to ever do it, if he's making you seethe, your whole world must be built on extremely flimsy copes.

[Anonymous No.21676707]

This one

[Anonymous No.21676712]

Punainen Viiva - Ilmari Kianto
just started
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
just finished

[Anonymous No.21676730]

>>21676707
I can only find pre-order options for this, did you read it in the original Dutch or something?

[Anonymous No.21676737]

>>21676730
Yes, I am reading it in Dutch, because I am Dutch

[Anonymous No.21677026]

Just started the metamorphosis, I'm really enjoying kafka so far and glad i started reading him

[Anonymous No.21677055]

>>21677026
this. I also finished metamorphosis and im almost finishing The Trial.

[Anonymous No.21677089]

>>21677055
How is the trial? The only bad part about the edition of pic related is it lacks the trial, the castle and america
It does contain all his other stories though

[Anonymous No.21677704]

I'll miss my college library a lot, Momo is mine tho

[Anonymous No.21677738]

>>21676181
Some people really enjoy it and some do not. I'm not sure the people who do not enjoy it have have an opinion of it that is more valuable than the people who do.

[Anonymous No.21677739]

>>21673621

[Anonymous No.21677946]

A bunch of them, but mostly this.

[Anonymous No.21677959]

>>21677704
Bandidos looks like a porno

[Anonymous No.21677996]

>>21671540
I'm almost finished.

[Anonymous No.21678300]

>>21677704
Based Payno reader.

[Anonymous No.21678435]

>>21676645
>Behavioural biology classes at normal universities with a few tweaks sound like they could be coming out of lonely young men on 4chan
Kek when I took an ornithology course we covered reproductive behaviors. Was a very easy section as birds operate off Chad/Stacy/incel rules and even have looks matching.

[Anonymous No.21678491]

>>21671540
Curious if anyone here read this one.

[Anonymous No.21678659]

>>21672321
I wouldn't say that Plutarch or Suetonius are particularly unknown, however they are well worth reading.

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[Anonymous No.21678818]

>>21671540
I'm currently reading "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas", I'm also reading The Holy Bible when I go to sleep.
I was reading "Journey to the West" but I'm taking a break because it was too long.

[Anonymous No.21678853]

>>21674264
The letter is pretty tiny but I don't really care about editions, it was the cheapest one and I'm a broke college student.

>>21676200
He makes me smile/happy whenever he does literally anything
I'm also really enjoying Mitya and Fyodor as characters

[Anonymous No.21678975]

>>21674042
Holy fuck I did get rused.
Some seriously Scooby Doo shit ending

And Ze Reich vould haff gotten avay with it too if not for you meddling alpinists

[Anonymous No.21679291]

>>21671540
I'll start reading it now. What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.21679498]

>>21674835
I can't find a copy of White Fang that doesn't have a faggot cover like in your pic

[Anonymous No.21679538]

>>21671540
Li Hung Chang's scrap book by Hiram Maxim
https://archive.org/details/cu31924022954436/page/n56/mode/1up
Just started it. It Hiram's attempt to explain Christianity to the Chinese Emperor.

[Anonymous No.21679796]

Got this for free from bookstore.
Gonna read it.

[Anonymous No.21679803]

[Anonymous No.21679907]

>>21673444
>imagine being an american lmao
Whites will always be superior. Keep coping.

[Anonymous No.21679922]

>>21676694
It provides ultimate causes for myriad human behavioural patterns. The need to develop the field further to better understand those patterns doesn’t change that.
The only rational way to deny evopsych is to be a creationist, which no doubt lots of leftists are going to be forced to revert to in future decades when the conceptual realities of evolution come knocking
>>21678435
Most animals do, nearly all in fact operate on that principle of only the most attractive males but almost all the females mating. It’s really just the iceberg tip for the subject because it’s so widely discussed online but it’s eminently observable.

[Anonymous No.21679928]

>>21679907
>whites
>american

[Anonymous No.21681074]

>>21671540
Riddles of the sphinx - FCS Schiller
Just finished Myth of the 20th century
Also my diary desu

[Anonymous No.21681138]

>>21672935
What are your thoughts on his ‘transcendental argument for god’. I can understand why he would think that only God would be a sufficient justification for logic/induction/immaterial objects but after that point he loses me. Why is the Orthodox God ‘better’ than the God of the Philosophers because He’s personal? Also, it seems to be a cop out for him in some instances. He said that he would use the argument in debate against physicists/biologists who disagree with Creationism or textual scholars who cast doubt on traditional views of scripture, but this just seems intellectually lazy in a way.

[Anonymous No.21681263]

>>21671540
The Two Towers and Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.21681269]

>>21674835
Sew Wolf is Jack London’s best

[Anonymous No.21681372]

Picrel. Have 50 pages left. Great read, Wrangel was a great man and a greater leader. The Russian people truly have gone through Hell throughout their history. You can feel the pride and love for nation on every page as much as the lament and despair for what came to be. Also, the British really helped fuck over White Russia.

[Anonymous No.21681410]

>>21679922
>It provides ultimate causes for myriad human behavioural patterns.
It provides convenient oversimplified excuses for complex chaotic problems. It's catnip for midwits.
>The need to develop the field further to better understand those patterns doesn’t change that.
If the field is undeveloped, then why are you shilling a book from it, without emphasizing that it's undeveloped?
>The only rational way to deny evopsych is to be a creationist
There are other alternatives to (neo)darwininsm (as you evopsych fags love to continually pound everyone with social darwinist single golden road to supremacy crap) than creationism, like the stabilization theory. If psychology was deterministically linear and there was but one optimal way to succeed in the world, we would only see a single animal species, instead of thousands to millions. Ever thought about that?

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[Anonymous No.21681629]

Warlock
A Confederacy of Dunces
Mason & Dixon
Post Office
Three Hearts and Three Lions

[Anonymous No.21681663]

>>21679291
Amazing read. Enjoy

[Anonymous No.21681699]

>>21674042
This was a bit shit when you realise it's the Shrike all along.

[Anonymous No.21681737]

>>21673629
2/10 post

[Anonymous No.21681874]

>>21674307
I'm reading this

[Anonymous No.21681879]

>>21674850
Just steal them from the bookstore. Anyone can outrun ot outfight a fucking bookstore security guard.

[Anonymous No.21681888]

Also reading this one.

[Anonymous No.21683138]

>>21671540
Just started this one today. Started the year by rereading Ender's Game and Shadow. Just finished reading for the first time Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. Really enjoyed the Shadow series so far. Am trying to read them in as close to in-universe chronological order as possible. Except that I'm gonna read the books about the first and second formic invasions last.


Once I'm finished with this series I'm gonna switch gears and read something non-fiction but I haven't decided on what yet.

[Anonymous No.21683284]

I’m not usually a fantasy reader but I enjoyed Those Across the River and Amazon thought I might like this as well. And I’m a sucker for cheap ebooks.

[Anonymous No.21684806]

>>21673621
I skipped over the ships mostly lol. I also experienced having to look up some words (I have the same edition).
Eventually I just went to the Odyssey though because I was more interested in it. Currently on pause because I left the book home

[Anonymous No.21684810]

>>21674239
Never trusted those translations

[Anonymous No.21684812]

>>21673783
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.21684843]

>>21676655
I'm waiting on mine from the Princeton Press sale.

[Anonymous No.21684853]

I just finished American Psycho this weekend. Not sure what I wanna read next; either another postmodern novel since I quite enjoyed that or science fiction space type stuff. Throw me a rec if you feel like it.

[Anonymous No.21684931]

They sure had a lot of sex

[Anonymous No.21685187]

>>21681138
He doesn't actually lay out the argument in the book but I get the gist of it from his debates. It works well against the materialist or post-modern type because you need a "final category" (God) in the train of logic in order to justify anything. And that category must ultimately be circular, i.e. justify itself. Evolution can't be a final category because it doesn't justify itself. Evolution doesn't answer the question of why it's neccessary for things to continue survining, what is the purpose of survival? So this is a good argument for breaking your average western person's naive empiricist world view. Arguing specifically for the orthodox christian God as you said seems harder, I don't know enough about theology or philosophy to do it

[Anonymous No.21685648]

>>21674307
A book on why you should redpill normies.
>Key Features:

>Shows that we have not just a right but a moral duty to publicly share what we know.
>Argues that discussing your unique ideas with others is essential for developing as a critical thinker.
>Explores the value of intellectual honesty and independence in the writings of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Nietzsche and connects their thinking to contemporary problems.
>Argues that avoiding cultural blind spots today is important for the fate of future generations.

[Anonymous No.21686054]

>>21671540
t. ATE enjoyer

[Anonymous No.21686100]

Really like this one

[Anonymous No.21686243]

Working my way through this after reading the other John Dies at the End books.

Pargin is consistently funny and clever but I think he started to repeat himself in the third book. Liking this one so far, though.

[Anonymous No.21686306]

>>21686100
Smooth Twinks are always nice additions to Seneca

[Anonymous No.21686310]

>>21674307
Pinker is a hack