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what book are you currently reading?

>> No.21913173

>>21913164
Titus groan

>> No.21913175

>>21913164
None of your business

>> No.21913327

Brothers by Yu Hua.

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>>21913164
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

>> No.21913393 [SPOILER] 

The Count of Monte Cristo

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>> No.21913421

>>21913393
Same, nice.
Also reading a biography of Napoleon.

>> No.21913429

>>21913164
Lost illusions by Balzac
The last letters of Ortis of Foscolo
Poems by Browning

All in their original languages of course

>> No.21913453

>>21913164
the turner diari-
i mean, Till We Have Faces
it's crazy how quickly you can read a book when you actually enjoy it

>> No.21913467

>>21913164
Fear And Trembling, taking a break from my other tomes to try and run through this book in one evening (I can hope). Kierkegaard’s prose annoys me though but I get the point so far.

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after a recommendation from someone, 400 pages in
to be fair it has a nicely flowing structure, decent exploration into some issues of modern society
but pretty uninteresting prose and style, boring at most parts, feels like a lengthy fictionalized lecture from someone on instances of oppression/injustice that could be reduced to a page-long list of 'x is bad, y is bad, z is bad' and so on

4/10 idk why shit like this gets prizes. uninspired and patronizing.

>> No.21913473

>>21913470
>idk why shit like this gets prizes
do you REALLY dk?

>> No.21913512

>>21913164
I don't really read books bro

>> No.21913515

Anna Karenina

I'm a fourth of the way finished. I'm assuming it gets better given its status as a world classic, but so far it's been a really slow story.

>> No.21913565

>>21913336
Overweight woman based on hand

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Don Q, really enjoyable read

>> No.21913586

>>21913580
>reading Don't Quixote in English instead of Spanish
Nigger tier shit, as evidenced by your paw

>> No.21913589

>>21913565
:(

>> No.21913591

>>21913586
Spanish is nigger tier language so my paw and I are living it up in the kings English

>> No.21913598

>>21913164
My own story I wrote

>> No.21913600

>>21913173
Based

>> No.21913611

>>21913591
English is a white man's language, you should be doing clicks in Africa monkey boy

>> No.21913616

>>21913611
You are mistaking a shadow on my hand for melanin anon

>> No.21913632

>>21913616
Do not gaslight me negro, I can see a darkie from a mile away. You know what? I'm calling the buck breaker, I just realizrd a negro learned to read so we got an uppity one.

>> No.21913642

>>21913580
>>21913616
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

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>>21913642
>>21913632
Behold my nigger foot

>> No.21913665

>>21913660
Post your turner diaries and we'll accept that you're white

>> No.21913668

>>21913660
Holy edgy

>> No.21913669

>>21913660
Who did you steal that white man's foot from you dirty nigger?

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>>21913665
As you wish

>> No.21913674

>>21913515
I feel the same way and I’m on page 130

>> No.21913677

>>21913164
Cephalopology by Zulu Alitspa, it’s a really well done multi perspective sci fi novella.

>> No.21913681

>>21913673
Fine fuck you

>> No.21913684

>>21913164
Master and Margarita

>> No.21913689

>>21913164
Nothing. I just finished The Great Gatsby and I'm unsure what I want to read next.

>> No.21913692

>>21913689
Any of the books posted itt next to a foot are worth reading

>> No.21913703

>>21913689
Based, no other book itt comes to that one.

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>>21913692
Lots of good things out there

>> No.21913715

>>21913660
>>21913673
>>21913708
Cringe

>> No.21913720

>>21913715
This is a chud safe space, take your shaming tactics elsewhere

>> No.21913721

>>21913673
You aight white boy.

>> No.21913723

sartre nausea

>> No.21913724

Dubliners
Book of the New Sun
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
The Bands of Mourning

>> No.21913725

>>21913708
>There are racist babies among us posting on this very board.

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>>21913715

>> No.21913731

>>21913726
This racist chud has already procreated and me, a plus size gentleman gamer of color is still a virgin. Fuck this gay earth.

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>>21913725
Oh noes i been called a racist

>> No.21913746

>>21913731
Get fit, get White, and get racist and you’ll get there anon

>> No.21913749

>>21913724
I’m halfway through Dubliners, I read one story each night before bed. Pretty comfy, how do you find it?

>> No.21913765

>>21913749
I too have been reading a story a day. I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would for stories about everyday stuff. I just finished Counterparts, I liked that one a lot.

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>>21913164
The Bible
Macbeth
Tender is the Night

>> No.21913862

>>21913660
Cringe books but another based footposter. I haven't struck in a while

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>>21913164
I'm about halfway through this. Don't really like it, but I don't like to give up on books either.

>> No.21913887

>>21913880
how'd you get tricked into reading this?

>> No.21913903

>>21913887
I got it at a thrift store. I wanted to understand why this was so popular in the 70s.

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>>21913164
King Lear

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I'm rereading Murata's short stories, A first-rate material, Life ceremony and A clean marriage are amazing.

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>>21913164

>> No.21915866

>>21915850
Based

>> No.21915876

>>21913327
Tell me about Yu Hua, why does he repeat what happened 7 pages ago all the time?

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I just read this in a couple hours.
Pretty good desu but the one character speaks a little too white even though he has a college degree.
Made me wish I had learned a trade rather than becoming a cubicle drone with a marginally relevant degree.

One of the stage directions was “the dog looks up when Ben enters the room”.
Is this cracka serious?

>> No.21915945

>>21915876
Brothers is the book he wrote to copy Mo Yan. Neither used an editor.

>> No.21915968

>>21915945
I've read 4 Mo Yan novels and none of them do that.

>> No.21915988

>>21915889
This is lowkey one of his best works. A closet play with weird structure and form.

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I'm halfway through this.
I don't mean to sound condescending but most of what I've read is what I already know. But when I think about it, no one really taught me any of the emotional first aid stuff. Neither my parents ,siblings or my friends. Yet I know it somehow.

>> No.21916016

>>21913352
What are you 16?

>> No.21916030

>>21913589
Dirty bitch.

>> No.21916032

>>21916016
No, I just never read it, and I was curious.

>> No.21916209

>>21915889
>Made me wish I had learned a trade rather than becoming a cubicle drone with a marginally relevant degree.

Hauling stones around in a Louisville Kentucky summer would make you long for your air conditioned cubicle

>> No.21916212

>>21913164
The Shadow over Innsmouth
Money by Sullitzer
The 120 days of Sodom

>> No.21916228

>>21913708
Are you buying your shoes at Carter's?

>> No.21916487

Reminder to boycott the gypsy carpetbagger and all his PR shills who are employed to manufacture his reputation. Chris via "asshole" is a plant. He has taken money from deep vellum to shill cartarshitcu on his channel to his gullible audience of 21 years olds. They even got his review published in a semi-decent magazine, something he was unable to do himself for 10 years. The fraud is so obvious and bad taste.

>> No.21916494

>>21916487
what book are you currently reading?

>> No.21916532

>>21916487
What on God's Green Earth are you talking about?

>> No.21916545

>>21916487
what

>> No.21916568

>>21913164
Requiem for a Nun

>> No.21916591

>>21915876
Idk. Brothers is the only book I read from him. And if he did repeat what happensed 7 pages ago, I don't remember it and it wasn't an issue to me.

>> No.21917330

>>21913470
you read 400 pages of this shit?
this is not a book in the actual sense, it is a victory parade celebrating the renovation of britain to a 'country of immigrants', dancing over the corpse of old english identity. or idk maybe thats the only way I can see it being british

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>>21913164
I don’t read

>> No.21917801

>>21915850
same. its so fucking funny

>> No.21917808

>>21916494
Gerald Murnane.

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just started this bad boy

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Just one chapter in
People are already dying of some sort of plague

>> No.21917892

>>21913689
Have you considered reading something good this time?

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Finally giving it a shot because everyone keeps raving about it.

>> No.21918054

>>21913164
Mason & Dixon, I'm getting filtered as hell...

>> No.21918196

>>21918054
i want to throttle every one of you fucks that reads these oversized meaningless american novels

>> No.21918408

>>21913164
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>> No.21918422

about to start part 2 of Don Quixote

>> No.21918467

I have no mouth, and I must screem. Going to start The buried giant next.

>> No.21918480

>>21913352
Based

>> No.21918487

>>21913164
Moby Dick. It's completely lived up to the hype so far for me.

>> No.21918505

Plato's Timaeus

>> No.21918512

>>21913164
The Stranger. The French sure are indifferent about their dead moms.

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>>21913164
Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas

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>>21913164
War as an inner experience by Ernst Junger and Metaphysics of war by Julius bad boy Evola.

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Romances viejos españoles
The Second Invasion from Mars

>> No.21919005

>>21913164
Gateway by Frederick Pohl
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

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This is good. I really wish it had more lurid details though.

>> No.21919010

I started a short 100 page book about Homer, which I'll probably finish today.

I have so many books to choose from as next and I've narrowed them down to:
>History - Herodotus
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Stoner (a shortie, maybe I could read that in a day or two to get the meme over with)
>Blood Meridian (another meme book that I feel I'm missing out if I haven't read)

>> No.21919026

>>21919010
Keep up the Greeks, my friend. I really enjoyed Herodotus, especially when he gave his thoughts on Homer. He was convinced that Helen was never at Troy and was instead in Egypt, which has some mythical evidence.

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Just started reading this. An anon here put me onto it.
>ywn have an iron hand made to smite peasants with
why even live

>> No.21919038

>>21919028
Wait I've watched a couple youtube vids on this guy. He wrote an autobiography about himself?

>> No.21919043

>>21919038
Yes.

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First thing I've read in French in a while (I'm intermediate). Only got through the first part so far but its good even though I don't understand everything. Haven't really gotten to the main narrative yet but the descriptions of Syrian temples and rites are pretty vivid, I can picture a lot of it as a darker version of Fellini Satyricon.

>> No.21919070

>>21919043
Holy shit nice. I'm surprised a guy like that could even read desu.

>> No.21919076

>>21913164
Started reading Bartleby at work

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>>21913164
Pic rel and Conquest by Hugh Thomas

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>> No.21920687

>>21913164
Just finished one hundred years of solitude, starting The metamorphosis by Kafka

>> No.21920699

Graham Oppy - Arguing about Gods

>> No.21920708

>>21919314
I always find it weird when editors put anything other than Ecce Homo at the end of their compilations on Nietzsche