What book are you currently reading?

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Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:26:41 2023 No.21865955 [Reply] [Original]

What book are you currently reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:31:58 2023 No.21865969 >>21865955 Judas, by Amos Oz. >inb4 jewlover i'm reading it because a /lit/ chart implied it's got some smutty scenes involving a grad student and a milf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:33:14 2023 No.21865973 >>21865955 Porträt einer Klasse. Arno Schmidt zum Gedenken by Ernst Krawehl

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:35:51 2023 No.21865979 Surprised by Scripture. My mom really likes NT Wright, so we did a swap, she gave me that and I gave her Fear and Trembling

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:36:43 2023 No.21865981 >>21865955 journey to the end of the night. i like houellebecq and i can see how celine influenced him but journey is a little too fever dream for me. i just finished thucydides which i was reading in parallel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:47:18 2023 No.21866008 About 50 pages until I'm done with The Book of the New Sun: The Claw of the Conciliator. Also reading The Dubliners. Also reading Mistborn Shadows of Self.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:50:23 2023 No.21866013 >>21865969 jewlover jewlover

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:52:27 2023 No.21866027 From Plato to Platonism Does anyone know any books about a guy that falls for a woman with a partner? I've already read about David and Werther.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 00:59:45 2023 No.21866050 >>21866027 Some Flaubert novel

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 01:32:22 2023 No.21866131

Rereading Gravity’s Rainbow for the second time. Gotta say, makes a lot more sense the second time around. Not constantly having to decipher Pynchonisms and being able to focus more on the ideas he’s developing and his prose is much more satisfying than the first read. Inb4 >dude pynchon’s prose sux lol. Not only are his zany bits a pleasure to read, and pretty funny in a Tom&Jerry kind of way, but they only account for like 30% of the novel. Most of it is written in a very measured, diverse, and emotional way. The ease with which he can institute analogies and metaphors in the novel almost as a sidenote and have them carry on under the surface for the rest of the book is insanely impressive. He has a section early in the book where Jamf compares the structure of molecules with the structures of control developing from its crude application in modernity to its subversive near-imperceptible ubiquitousness today which lies beneath all the rest of the novel’s discussion on chemistry. Even Psychochemie AG (the shadow-company for IG Farben) shows a progression from less domineering drugs to ultra-refined forms of heroin as the war goes on. (Mirroring the development of control networks)

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 01:43:41 2023 No.21866163
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>>21866027
The book you're looking for is called Aurelien by Louis Aragon. If you can read French, read the original, otherwise I'm sure whatever the current translation is is fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 01:47:52 2023 No.21866175 File: 422 KB, 571x540, dexterdunno.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Oleander Sword It's okay. Sort of like a smaller-scope aSoIaF set in not-India.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 01:50:48 2023 No.21866181 >>21866027 The Red and The Black

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 01:51:35 2023 No.21866184

>>21866163
Damn, I guess I should inform myself more as to the availability of English translations before I recommend a book next time. A quick Google search revealed that there appears to be only ONE English translation and ONE printing of Aurelien.

Good luck finding it if you can't read French. I'm sorry to recommend you such a damn good novel and you probably won't ever be able to read it. It really perfectly fits what you're asking for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:10:18 2023 No.21866229 I’m in the middle of Stoner

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:15:26 2023 No.21866250 >>21866229 Put the peace pipe down Lightfoot Who Walks with Bears. Don't you have a pipeline to protest, or an uncle to bury who died of liver failure (alcoholism)?

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:18:52 2023 No.21866258
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Pic related. One of my sisters gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago. Nonfiction outside of philosophy is not normally my thing, so it's sat on my shelf for years. But I decided to finally be a good big brother and read it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:20:08 2023 No.21866264 >>21865955 Blood Meridian. I pretty much have been reading it over and over continuously for the past several years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:20:55 2023 No.21866266 A Pynchon novel but i won't tell you which one

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 02:27:01 2023 No.21866291
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>>21866264
I just read it but I'm on my second read because I could barely comprehend it. Was just mesmerized by the writing style. I would call it purple prose but he does it so well you dont care.
>>21865955
I am schizophrenic so I am flipping through a couple books. A textbook about astrophysics, rereading Germania by Tacitus, and Don Quijote. Also reading the Diamond Sutra and the Quran

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:01:08 2023 No.21866387 >>21865955 Not so much a book but St John Chrysostom’s homilies on John’s Gospel

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:11:08 2023 No.21866421 >>21866229 What are your thoughts so far? I’m reading Krakatoa by Winchester

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 04:57:00 2023 No.21866699 File: 88 KB, 461x357, 431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Plato's Republic, just started Book 6

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 05:11:12 2023 No.21866737 File: 1.48 MB, 3024x3024, 79F02455-D4E0-48E5-9A5B-EB8B3C888251.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865979 >>21866258 cuties >>21865955 Pic related, "all about love" by bell hooks and a collection of Althusser essays

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 05:15:10 2023 No.21866749 >>21866699 Nice. Thats the one where he talks about eugenics.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 07:18:55 2023 No.21866967
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>>21865981
I just finished that recently. It got me pretty down. I get that there's some kind of optimism beneath it all, but it still feels very pessimistic and dark overall. Some parts I liked, some I didn't. In the end, whatever, I guess.

>>21866008
Based.
Sword was my personal favorite. Have fun!

>>21865955
I just finished the third book in Lewis' space trilogy, that hideous strength. The whole trilogy was absolutely wonderful! Full of SOVL
Also am reading to the lighthouse by virginia woolf. It's alright, but it feels a little pretentious. It insists upon itself. Only a quarter of the way in, tho
Also reading dosto's short stories before I pick up one of the big novels again. They're okay, some are intresting, but nothing on the same level as c&p, obviously, atleast not so far. I am excited to get to notes from underground, tho. As that seems to be the best of his shorter works.
Soon I will pick up Tolkien again and go through the more auxiliary items. Children of hurin, Unfinished tales, b&l, etc.
I also want to start on the greeks soon, with illiad and odessey
Also I have to begin my reread of Lewis' Till We Have Faces (the greatest book of all time). I'm going to reread it every year for the rest of my life
I should also start writing soon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 09:11:46 2023 No.21867130 >>21865955 Finished Dune, because I give all seminal genre fiction a chance. Don't know if I'll read any of the sequels though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 09:17:33 2023 No.21867142 >>21865955 Freud as Philosopher. Maybe I'm just excited about my current read, but I feel ready to call it my favorite book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:22:45 2023 No.21867420 I just read The Dunwich Horror. It was OK

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:38:46 2023 No.21867453 File: 31 KB, 554x554, images (7).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler. I'm not even a fascist. His proses are just enjoyable with great substance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:44:18 2023 No.21867459 >>21865955 The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:52:04 2023 No.21867470 Sodom & Gomorrah by Proust, but I'm losing my inspiration to read consistently

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Anonymous Mon Apr 3 12:58:45 2023 No.21867485

>>21865955
Just finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks. A well written but overly preachy historical novel about Lexington, considered by some as the greatest American racehorse of the 19th century. Would recommend if you like horses or would like to learn more about them, and anyone looking for an easy read. Would not recommend if you're looking for something more literary; her prose, while beautiful, can come across as editorialised, especially when she writes about race.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 13:00:09 2023 No.21867486 The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 13:13:37 2023 No.21867512

>>21866131
>He has a section early in the book where Jamf compares the structure of molecules with the structures of control developing from its crude application in modernity to its subversive near-imperceptible ubiquitousness today which lies beneath all the rest of the novel’s discussion on chemistry.
This is how I imagine STEM NPCs think how good prose shpuld be like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 13:16:55 2023 No.21867519 >>21865955 Absalom, Absalom! (only 60 pages to finish this masterpiece)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 13:46:31 2023 No.21867602 File: 1.76 MB, 4160x3120, 20230403_084259.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 13:50:40 2023 No.21867619 >>21865955 vampire hunter d raiser of gales, i just got done reading the inferno from the divine comedy and i needed something light to read

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:32:07 2023 No.21868670 File: 15 KB, 360x455, 0691138702.01._SX360_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 Interdasting

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:34:45 2023 No.21868678 File: 170 KB, 820x877, 1680460653186639.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm reading the 25 additional chapters of Ted Kaczynski's "Industrial Society and its Future" that chatGPT-4 wrote for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:35:59 2023 No.21868686 Die Vogelscheuche by Tieck

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:36:34 2023 No.21868687 File: 36 KB, 460x414, 1657341139534.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 rereading witcher series cause I really want to play witcher games again

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:36:39 2023 No.21868688 I'm reading Le Mage du Kremlin, A elite do atraso, and Kant's lessons in Ethics.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:37:54 2023 No.21868694

>>21865955
Finished Young Werther in the weekend. Currently halfway through Houellebecq's Submission and I'm on the last hundred pages of Crime and Punishment. Hoping to finish both before the week is out so I can move onto that Camus book I got as a gift and later get into some Borges. I was also reading Kramer's Sumerian mythology but it reminded me too much of uni work

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:53:46 2023 No.21868770 >>21865955 James Hayden Tufts (w. John Dewey) - Ethics. It’s good, a bit dry

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:54:47 2023 No.21868774 >>21866737 Terrible

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:56:10 2023 No.21868780 The Count of Monte Cristo paperback and also Mistborn because it's easy and I'm plowing through the epub on my phone while I'm in bed or at the gym in between sets.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 20:00:29 2023 No.21868800 >>21865955 My self written stand alone fantasy book

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 20:26:45 2023 No.21868903 >>21866027 Anna Karenina, but of course that’s mostly from the perspective of the woman

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:32:18 2023 No.21869116 File: 41 KB, 335x500, 9788363944483-it.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 >Futu.Re Makes me depressed and scared of old age.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:35:36 2023 No.21869132 House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:38:39 2023 No.21869153 File: 38 KB, 300x474, R-262617-1149524572.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 Water and Dreams by Bachelard

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:40:42 2023 No.21869159

i'm re-reading conspiracy against the human race. it's a nice quick trip through the hell of our own making. i don't necessarily agree with pessimism, but i like how ligotti is able to shrug off all the mundane shit. i'm trying to be agile like that, where something fucked up happens and you just kind of roll with the punches because nothing surprises you anymore

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:45:41 2023 No.21869184 >>21867453 What is it even about? Does he talk about his political believes or is more like an biography of his life from start to end?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:47:48 2023 No.21869191 >>21865955 East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 21:49:40 2023 No.21869204 >>21865955 Poetics Infinite Jest, though I've been taking a break from it. I find the description of the AA meeting so exhausting bros.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:38:26 2023 No.21869370

>>21869184
It is about both his personal journey and polical belief. The book tells the readers about particular aspects that shaped his point of view and how finally he understood the masses and used them for his ideological agenda.

Highly recommended.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:44:07 2023 No.21869389 >>21869370 You know I believe you, its just that I dont want Mein Kampf on my bookshelf. Especially because I live in Germany.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:44:56 2023 No.21869392
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Been reading this, on a short trip to Munich and have been unable to put it down. Any other books worth reading about the polish underground during ww2?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:57:30 2023 No.21869452 >>21869389 Okay. I like germany btw. Kafka, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer are enjoyable to read. Would u like to recommend me books to understand your country better?

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:09:20 2023 No.21869490

>>21869452
>Would u like to recommend me books to understand your country better?
Im afraid that I mostly read fiction. However I can tell you that Germany is pretty crap right now to live in. Wages are bad, living is way too expensive, people are very rude etc. But its great to visit.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:18:14 2023 No.21869512

>>21869490
>However I can tell you that Germany is pretty crap right now to live in. Wages are bad, living is way too expensive, people are very rude etc.
Must be a stressful experience to deal with these on daily basis. Great to know you are still survive, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:21:07 2023 No.21869521 >>21869512 Hey thanks man. Hope you also do fine. Wherever you are right now.

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:24:43 2023 No.21869530

Just about done with Dubliners for the time being
Thinking about either reading John Milton, William Blake or The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or maybe even Blood Meridian
I'm thinking of The Artist since I've already read it once and I found my re-read of Dubliners increased my enjoyment of it a lot

Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:27:12 2023 No.21869536
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Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar, also known as Rayuela.

Funnily enough, this copy used to belong to Cliff of Better Than Food Book Reviews. I bought it off of him for like 10$

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:40:17 2023 No.21869574 >>21869389 English translations smoothed out his prose. In the German original it's bumpy bordering on incomprehensible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:43:40 2023 No.21870012 >>21865955 Crime and Punishment, it's my first Dostoyevsky book. I'm at the last chapter before the epilogue.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:46:36 2023 No.21870029 File: 20 KB, 263x378, ShelteringSky.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The sheltering sky by Paul Bowles

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:47:34 2023 No.21870033 >>21865955 The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki. It’s great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:48:13 2023 No.21870038 >>21870033 Why is it great?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:49:26 2023 No.21870042 >>21866229 Lucky you, one of my favorites.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:51:29 2023 No.21870050 File: 41 KB, 399x650, OIP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like it a lot. Hopefully I'm on an upswing, as I fell out of reading for like 3 months straight. Between both jobs I have and other life stuff I just couldn't be bothered.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:54:40 2023 No.21870059 >>21870038 Just a great depiction of a dying time and beautiful culture. The plot is slow but the writing is excellent. An amazing literary classic that makes me excited to read more Tanizaki novels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:56:39 2023 No.21870067 File: 400 KB, 1200x720, tibet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] on china by henry kissinger pretty gud so far

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:04:04 2023 No.21870101 File: 144 KB, 525x812, 12431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The cover from this edition is so cool for a book of criticism, some 12 year old in the library was probably very disappointed and bored.

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:06:34 2023 No.21870113
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The Last of the Mohicans
The descriptions of the landscapes are beautiful and while the English is new enough that it's not a really tough read, its old enough there's some words I'm actually learning from it, like lineaments

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:11:46 2023 No.21870142 >>21870113 Nice. I recently saw the 1936 film adaptation starring Randolph Scott. It was fun.

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:14:07 2023 No.21870153

I'm in between books right now and can't decide on anything. The book I finished was a business book because I wanted to burn through that stack quickly but I've already burnt out from it and wanted something more fun and jovial that I haven't read before but looking at my shelves, literally nothing I own fit the bill so not sure what to read. What I really want is a more modern Pickwick Papers or Canterbury Tales.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:16:02 2023 No.21870162 >>21865955 Infinite Jest and the Secret History

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:17:21 2023 No.21870167 >>21865955 The Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:33:32 2023 No.21870201 File: 292 KB, 1486x491, Austen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jane Austen juvenilia

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 02:38:15 2023 No.21870208 >>21865955 Weaving my way through Loeb's 12 volumes of Plato and Book of the New Sun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 03:07:03 2023 No.21870259 Cherry Ingram by Naoko Abe

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 03:41:17 2023 No.21870361 Angel Tech by Antero Alli

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 03:47:42 2023 No.21870384

The Odyssey. I'll follow that by going through Hesiod's short ouevre. Then it'll be on to other Greeks, some Egyptians, the Desert Fathers and other pre-Bible stuff, then the Romans and the Bible, then classic Italians, followed by late Italians and Middle English.

I'll probably save Sumeria, China, India, etc. for some years down the road. I want a full understanding of Western canon first.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 04:14:42 2023 No.21870441 >>21866250 lolwut >>21866421 Like talking a walk through the park. It feels so modern and familiar for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 04:16:38 2023 No.21870449 >>21865955 The Birth of Tragedy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 04:23:42 2023 No.21870475 >>21865955 Just finished Porno by Irving Welsh. Finished Trainspotting not too long ago and am about to start Skagboys. Really having a lot of fun with Welsh’ characters and writing

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 04:44:56 2023 No.21870534 Just finished Stoner, about 50 pages into Growth of the Soil.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 13:50:56 2023 No.21871347 File: 73 KB, 680x538, A1C0570D-DFCA-4561-AE67-B2D8A1599CFD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I, Claudius by Graves. Would recommend for anyone interested in that period. Hardly historically accurate but enjoyable nonetheless

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 13:54:13 2023 No.21871354 >>21865955 > Le roman de renart, middle age original complete texts > Les chants de Maldoror > The lord of the rings > Across the river and into the trees > The dream of the red chamber

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Anonymous Tue Apr 4 14:17:26 2023 No.21871430

No I won’t finish any of these.
>Brothers Karamazov
I’m trying to force myself through it. It’s fucking boring. It might be because it’s something of an obligation, I want to study the translation for something I’m translating myself.
>Three-body problem
Just starting to pick up around the middle. Cool.
>In the Miso Soup
Boring
>Genealogy of Morality
Better than the Birth of Tragedy. But I’m not reading the last Wagner-wank essay.
>Lolita
Wondering why I haven’t read it earlier.
>Blood Meridian
Dropped after one page.

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 14:20:37 2023 No.21871438

>>21865955
A Clash of Kings -- total mistake to read this, 900 pages in the version I have, not worth it. Could have read so many books in the space of this one. Also reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton. Going to read the Iliad next. And I'm reading some instructional texts.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 14:37:12 2023 No.21871475 >>21866967 Never heard of this book. Seems interesting, I'll read it

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 14:57:50 2023 No.21871529

>>21865955
Liverani M. - Uruk. The First City (2006)
Cozolino L. - The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. Healing the Social Brain (2017)
Turner S.P., Risjord M.W. - Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology (2007)
Auletta G. - Cognitive Biology. Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds (2011)
Bowen J., Lewis M. - Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian. An introduction for complete beginners (2020)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 18:06:24 2023 No.21872026 >>21865955 Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky. Very entertaining Soviet era magical realism short story collection.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 18:11:14 2023 No.21872042 The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 18:16:04 2023 No.21872058 >>21865955 The Holocaust Handbook series. I'm amazed how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 18:27:55 2023 No.21872106
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>>21865955
Ballots and Bibles by Evelyn Sterne. Excellent local history book about Catholics in Rhode Island, and their effect on the electoral and economic history of the state. Reading it because it's Lent and because mvh ancestors

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 18:37:35 2023 No.21872133

>>21865955
I'm making my way through lit's top 100, for now I'm reading hunger by hamsun but since I have a really shitty attention I'm posting on here instead of reading. After that one I will probably read Musashi by yosikawa or lolita, really hope I don't take too long to finish those like I doing with hunger

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 20:34:19 2023 No.21872500 >>21867479 A little too thriller, not enough cool history of publishing. It was alright.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 20:39:37 2023 No.21872520 >>21865955 Cleo by Charles Peguy

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 20:42:25 2023 No.21872533 as i lay dying by william faulkner this is the worst shit i've ever read but i want to be able to say i've read it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 20:42:27 2023 No.21872534 i cant read one book at a time because im retarded so: Zhuangzi Anti-Oedipus House on the Borderland Revolution of Everyday Life

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 20:52:54 2023 No.21872570 File: 90 KB, 998x1000, 1535907211054.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Moby Dick and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. After I finish it I wonder if I should join the /lit/ read-along of the Old Testament or start Journey to the End of the Night.

Anonymous Tue Apr 4 21:10:26 2023 No.21872638

>>21865955
Family Happiness by Tolstoy. Only read the first 1/3 but the descriptions of blossoming love, melancholy and nature are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever read. Just incredibly tender and humane, the sincerity of it is so refreshing compared to most media I’m accustomed to today

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 23:41:40 2023 No.21873100 >>21872058 Debunked: https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 01:56:17 2023 No.21873563

>>21865955
Currently I'm reading the Rise of the West by William Mc Neil as well as 100 Atrocities by Matthew White
Can someone recommend me a book on Andrew Jackson that's compelling and made prior to the 1940s? I want to get a good grasp of the man without having an ear full of "muh tear trail"

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:05:26 2023 No.21873614 bouncing between less than zero and on the marble clips

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:09:31 2023 No.21873630 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:10:38 2023 No.21873637
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Pic related. With having to constantly legitimate my discipline/job (teaching lit and comp) this has been invaluable in both reflecting on my field and articulating its value

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:39:15 2023 No.21873730

Just finished Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy by Scott Sumner. I think he lays out an interesting case, but I'm not deeply embedded enough in economics to know what the obvious rebuttals might be. His thesis is basically: as it stands there are two schools of thought on monetary policy, that employment and inflation are driven by either interest rates or the total money supply. These are both useful tools for analysing and influencing the economy, but that they mistake the steering wheel for the direction that's actually being traveled. He lays out examples of times when high interest rates/money injections have been associated with both expansionist and contractionist regimes. In other words, although printing tons of money is generally associated with inflation, throughout the 00's Japan printed huge amounts of yen, but remained at nearly 0% inflation.
He continues by arguing that the better solution would be to target the price of money. That in all instances, currency devaluation leads to inflation, and vice versa. However, because there would obviously be weird and terrible feedback loops if every country were to do via exchange rates, another method of evaluating the price of your currency is needed. He purposes using Nominal GDP, specifically NGDP futures contracts in order to have a practical method of reaction without relying entirely on backwards looking data. The specifics of how NGDP differs from real GDP, or how this escapes the pitfalls of measurement we experience with CPI were lost on me as a reader.
Regardless of whether his third way is viable, I got a lot out of this. Much better understanding of the thought process behind the actions the Fed takes, as well as the course of events that led to and out of The Great Depression.
Thanks for reading my hasty attempt to commit the relevant facts to memory via summarization.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:42:42 2023 No.21873735 >>21873730 Oh, and I mostly read it because I was bored at work and it's free online: https://www.themoneyillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Sumner_AlternateApproachesMonetaryPolicy_v1a.pdf

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 02:56:24 2023 No.21873778

>>21872533
AILD is often used as entry level Faulkner but I honestly haven’t reread it since I was a teenager because I find it too grotesque. If you’re at all interested in trying more Faulkner I’d recommend his short stories. The Selected Stories published by modern library is a pretty good survey of his works, or jump into the deep end with TSatF and Absalom, Absalom (I reread these every year or so and always find them refreshing).

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 03:30:06 2023 No.21873880
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>>21873778
Forgot to mention, I'm currently rereading JR for the second time (as in, its the third time I'm reading it through). I am laughing my ass off at some of the things these characters get up to, like Bast cutting Stella's(?) turd with his piano hammers or Gibbs telling Beamish to pull up a stock report for a seat and get comfortable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 03:36:12 2023 No.21873902 >>21866967 >Till We Have Faces (the greatest book of all time) this has been sitting on my shelf for ages, perelandra might be my favorite book so i'm going to read this one now

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 03:40:57 2023 No.21873919 >>21865955 The Horus Heresy Book 9 - Crusade

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 03:52:22 2023 No.21873958 >>21873902 I will also pipe in to say that it is my favorite by Lewis and in my top three all time

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 04:17:25 2023 No.21874056
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Just finished yesterday and I loved it. It’s got a little bit of everything and can be interpreted endlessly, plus it’s a really fun story on the surface level. Definitely gonna read the original Russian version at some point to compare

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 04:32:16 2023 No.21874104 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_of_Good_Will on Volume 5 right now, starting t feel the fatigue, although the quality does improve with time. The first four books are basically just setup. After this, I'll take a break and read some more weebshit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 05:17:31 2023 No.21874228 >>21865955 whatever ChatGPT tells me to sound smart

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 05:18:38 2023 No.21874233 >>21874056 i've been meaning to read this for years and i always forget about it. glad to see a favorable review

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 14:27:57 2023 No.21875219

>>21865955
>The Sot-Weed Factor
Been reading this one for years now. It's a delight, but it's just such a big tome I don't turn to it often.
>The Secret Parts of Fortune
Fascinating collection of articles. Only a few down so far, but the one about nuclear silo operators will stick with me for a long time.
>The Ancestors Tale
Richard Dawkins is not a good writer. I'd have to revisit it, but I feel like Selfish Gene was well written and hopefully remains the masterpiece I thought it was. But reading this it's clearly it's success ruined this guy's brain. This book is full of rambling tangents and potshots at fundamentalists and it's just a chore to read, but still I'm learning some interesting things.
>Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
I understand this has a cult following and I get it considering the time it came out, but that cult is destined for the dustbin of history because this is simply not a good book. Paper thin characters in a paper thin world engaging in tensionless action and cringe humor, it's like the MCU of fantasy.
>Journey of the Mind
Fascinating book on psychology. The writers claim this guy Stephen Grossberg has actually done it and cracked the math of the mind. Excited to finish this one.
>Golden Fool
Love, love, love this series. I ate up the previous one, Fools Errand, but between that one and this one I read the Prince of Nothing trilogh which blew my fucking mind, and going back to the soft, feminine world of Elderlings is proving a struggle after being so immersed in the raw violence of Ballers world. So it's kind of on the back burner right now.
>Unfinished Tales of Middle Earth
Finally picked this up and god damn no one does it like Tolkien. I didn't know if I would be captivated by the stories in here but turns out even fragmentary Tolkien possesses a magic no one else can conjur. How does he do it.
>Good Wives
I read Little Women last year and thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. I'm trepidatious about this one. I expect I'll like them better as girls then I will as boring ass wives.
>Gormenghast
Read Titus Groan in like 2012 and it's been one of my favorites since, i was always hesitant to pickup the sequel in fear of spoiling the magic of the first one but I've finally made the plunge.
>A Matter for Men
Heard good things ages ago about this sci-fi, decided to finally try it and see if it lives up or it I can free the space on my shelf
>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
I thought I had a good idea of life in slavery but the banality of everyday evils recounted here still has the power to shock me. Like casually mentioning how white men would convince slaves to run away then turn them in for the reward money. So many insidious facets grow out of an evil institution like that. Truly think everyone should read this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 14:30:10 2023 No.21875222 The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 16:37:03 2023 No.21875597

>>21873778
i'll give his other stuff a try but i need to take a break after reading AILD. i'm not the most advanced reader but it felt like i was reading every other word in the book and i could just barely understand what was happening. i checked online for chapter summaries and i realized i had been understanding the plot but it made me ask myself why would faulkner write in such a way that makes things unnecessarily confusing to understand.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 16:40:59 2023 No.21875617 Starting the second volume of Euripides today.

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Anonymous Wed Apr 5 19:44:04 2023 No.21876373

>>21875597
I am an ESL and I have recently read his "Absalom, Absalom!" (my first ever Faulkner), I confess that it is by no means an easy read mainly because of the non-linear narrative and the experimental prose, but it remains a rewarding read nonetheless... Faulkner can easily stretch a sentence for a whole page or two, and the narration shifts each time, so it is really hard to follow what's going on. I think that reading previous hard literary works helped me get through it without any frustration.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 21:15:00 2023 No.21876686 >>21865955 Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem I really dont know how I didn't find this before. Its a good combination of humor and thought experiments.

Anonymous Wed Apr 5 21:36:30 2023 No.21876756

>>21873100
I have read some of that too, namely the work on action Reinhard. It isn't convincing in the slightest but any anon can judge for himself. There was a counter debunk book of it.
Might as well read the og extermination writers rather than subpar failed attempts at le debonnk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 5 21:42:10 2023 No.21876777 >>21875656 That movie could have been 10/10 if the main actor was someone actually good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 04:10:43 2023 No.21878222 >>21876777 checked

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 04:14:55 2023 No.21878235 don quixote, chapter 39 im simultaneously enjoying it but also going really damn slowly and haven't been reading much lately

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 04:16:40 2023 No.21878243 >>21865955 im starting with the greeks, again, after failing 11 times to even finish the iliad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 04:17:28 2023 No.21878246 >>21878243 adderall

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 06:16:45 2023 No.21878488 >>21878243 High School is the best place to read books like the Illiad or the Oddesy because its structured and organized. You can do it in college but it doesn't have the same magic and no one cares.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 08:10:07 2023 No.21878695 >>21865955 John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts - Ethics Emmanuel Swedenborg - Heaven And Hell Max Stirner - The Ego And Its Own

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 09:07:50 2023 No.21878771 >>21865955 GR

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 10:17:41 2023 No.21878875 Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck. So enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 10:28:21 2023 No.21878894 >>21866027 not a book but your question reminded me of gate of hell(1954)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 11:29:01 2023 No.21878997 >>21865955 Game of thrones and The Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 11:38:13 2023 No.21879019 >>21868687 What's your thoughts on them? I read most of the first book and it seems good. A lot of people say the first is the best, but I don't know personally.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 11:45:04 2023 No.21879038 File: 72 KB, 500x776, jan-cossiers-prometheus-carrying-fire_3_orig (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was all his doing...

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 11:57:45 2023 No.21879073 >>21879038 Woops wrong bread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 12:08:24 2023 No.21879094 Great expectations by Charles dickens when Im Feeling light, week on the Concorde and Merrimack by Thoreau when I'm feeling heady.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 12:13:56 2023 No.21879111 >>21865955 Nothing at the moment but I'm tossing up whether to start Stoner by John Williams or Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

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>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 12:22:57 2023 No.21879133 >>21879123 >Kohn That aside, how is it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 13:56:21 2023 No.21879418 >>21865955 Nothing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 15:35:19 2023 No.21879696 Foucault's Pendulum

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 15:55:46 2023 No.21879764 >>21865955 I'm trying to read Skin in the Game, but it's so repetitive and boring... when is it ok to give up and read another book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 16:00:53 2023 No.21879777 >>21872570 I'm about a third of the way through and I wish I read it sooner. It's intense and also very funny at times.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 16:05:05 2023 No.21879788 >>21879696 its real shitty isn't it

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 16:33:42 2023 No.21879893 >>21866027 Three Musketeers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 16:36:45 2023 No.21879901 >>21867486 Godspeed anon. If you can survive part one you can survive anything in literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 16:46:41 2023 No.21879947 >>21870153 Lots of books on different peoples’ folklore out there if you’re feeling folksy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:42:10 2023 No.21880557 >>21879764 right now! although i think this is a great book, you are not enjoying it, why keep reading?? there are so many other books out there, more than you can ever read. life is short!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:44:05 2023 No.21880571 I'm reading Butchers Crossing by John Williams. It's decent but not great. Almost finished. Not sure what I'll read next.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:48:30 2023 No.21880590 File: 13 KB, 269x188, Quixote,jpg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21865955 Don CHADXOTE

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:52:54 2023 No.21880615 Slowly working through Les Mis, still at the beginning with the Bishop but a much easier read than I expected it to be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:56:23 2023 No.21880631 I’ve been reading To The Lighthouse for the past 3 years. I get about 100 pages in each time lose track of who’s talking who’s who and who said what and have to restart. Never been so filtered in my life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 19:58:25 2023 No.21880638 >>21870113 Did you read the book directly or did you first read Deerslayer

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 20:07:50 2023 No.21880677 I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 20:15:04 2023 No.21880709 >>21879901 I'm reading it atm and nothing makes sense at all (still on page 36). Does it get any better henceforth ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 20:17:24 2023 No.21880726 >>21871475 Which one? I named like 4 lol >>21873902 >>21873958 It's my favorite, i hope you enjoy it! Also aparently it was considered by many people, including Lewis, to be his best work and it's the last thing he published before he passed away

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 21:09:45 2023 No.21880929 >>21880557 yeah, true. I think I got what having skin in the game is. I'm going to put it on hold and get back to it in the future for more details. What do you recommend me reading next? shoot one

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 21:24:04 2023 No.21881011 >>21865955 Name of the Rose Looks interesting so far

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 22:19:06 2023 No.21881231 >>21879901 I didn't feel bad not understanding part 1 cuz yeah nigga is retarded but I felt like a complete idiot not understanding Quentins part. Much harder imo

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 22:22:26 2023 No.21881243 >>21865955 rereading the sound and the fury

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 22:35:49 2023 No.21881276 >>21865955 Faust by Goethe

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 22:45:01 2023 No.21881300 >>21865955 Sometimes a Great Notion. should be a GAN

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 23:17:41 2023 No.21881383 Almost done with Fall of Hyperion. Kinda plodded along for a bit, but it's finishing really well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 6 23:21:53 2023 No.21881401 >>21870534 I really need to finish Growth of The Soil. It's a great story. Only problem is it feels like it's 1,000 pages long

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>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 7 03:50:39 2023 No.21882222 >>21879788 not really, it's great but some parts are somewhat exhausting

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 7 03:58:29 2023 No.21882244 >>21865955 The Faerie Queen The Book of Job Spring Snow

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