Hey nerd

[Anonymous No.21987105]

Watcha readin'?

[Anonymous No.21987237]

Put the gun away an' I'll tell ye pardner...

[Anonymous No.21987268]

Kinda depressing desu
We extincted a lot of stuff
Some of them were cute

[Anonymous No.21987287]

>>21987105
Second, more thorough pass of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The absolute gall of those faggots -
>we gave you a religion and a god and this is how you repay us?

[Anonymous No.21987311]

>>21987105
Fitness books

[Anonymous No.21987333]

>>21987105
Steppenwolf, after it was mentioned in another thread. I am glad I paid heed to its endorsement by anon

[Anonymous No.21987617]

About to read the fifth Canto of Pope's Rape of the Lock and then finish Call of the Wild

[Anonymous No.21987736]

>>21987333
I said to skip Steppenwolf and go straight to Magister Ludi. You need to learn to listen.

[Anonymous No.21987879]

A collection of Bukowski poems. I like it well enough so far, trying to read more poetry since I've neglected it.

[Anonymous No.21987896]

[Anonymous No.21987910]

>>21987268
get wet desert.
seems like you'll enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.21987938]

The Last Airbender sequel comics. Pretty underrated, i must say.

[Anonymous No.21987957]

>>21987105
Really interested in literature about early and mid Cold War conflicts, any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.21987964]

1984

[Anonymous No.21987978]

>>21987957
for fiction, the hunt for red october.
i think Forsyth's dogs of war is also in that time frame, and quite kino nonetheless.

get the fischer-spassky match for the most kino cold war conflict.

[Anonymous No.21988006]

[Anonymous No.21988007]

>>21987978
Many thanks fren

[Anonymous No.21988010]

>>21987311
fitness dick in your mouth lmao

[Anonymous No.21988092]

>>21987105
your diary desu

[Anonymous No.21988118]

I LOVE MURAKAMI HARUKI

[Anonymous No.21988191]

>>21987879
Check out pale fire

[Anonymous No.21988211]

>>21987736
Ok boss

[Anonymous No.21988225]

Stifter - Studien
Meyern - Dya-Na-Sore

[Anonymous No.21988236]

>>21987105
Dostoevsky - Demons.
not sure where to go from here, any recs anons?
i've got anna karenina on the burden for later, and i've read most of Tolstoy, Dosto, Chekhov, Turgenev, and a bit of Lermontov.
i also liked Leblanc's Lupin a bunch, and Lé Carré.

[Anonymous No.21988276]

>>21988211
If you read the Cliff's Notes for the rest then you are squared. They are all the same basic theme over and over with different plots, at least for these -
>Narziß und Goldmund
>Der Steppenwolf
>Siddhartha
>Demian
>Magister Ludi

[Anonymous No.21988355]

>>21987105
I'm reading Desert Solitaire and I'm not sure I'm that into it. He seems kinda preachy. Reading it all these years later he has the tone of those annoying nature youtubers . I haven't read any other nature writing. I'm not that into fiction and don't read much. But a lot of these nature guys just seem off to me. Like they're outsiders to nature i guess? I'm not really interested in Walden at all because I assume it to be annoying.
People recommend these books all the time though so maybe I'm wrong.

[Anonymous No.21988440]

Catch-22.

[Anonymous No.21988444]

>>21988440
go get something properly humorous.
the russians are great at it, if you'd like a suggestion.

[Anonymous No.21988453]

>>21987105
I'm marathoning The Borrowers Afloat , The Borrowers Aloft and The Borrowers Avenged in my parents in law's house. I don't have anything better to do.

[Anonymous No.21988474]

>>21987105
Finishing up Aaron’s Rod by Lawrence. Very uneven and corny at times but I love everything I’ve read from Lawrence to some degree

Halfway through the letters of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. I like it a lot and this correspondence has finally made me decide to stop putting off reading Durrell. I’ll probably start the Alexandria quartet in the next couple months

Bunch of poetry by John of the Cross, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Rexroth

[Anonymous No.21988480]

>>21988474
ever heard of Canticle for Leibowitz?
Lord of the World, also.

lastly, and one of my favorites, Father Sergius by Tolstoy.

[Anonymous No.21988505]

>>21988480
I’ve heard of the first but have never read it. Second doesn’t sound familiar. I’ve read the Tolstoy but it was years ago so I don’t remember much. All of his short stories and novellas have kinda blended into a homogeneous blur as the years have passed. Sorry I can’t be of much help

[Anonymous No.21988515]

>>21987617
how's the rape going

[Anonymous No.21988523]

>>21988444
I tried Russian literature. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. Oblomov. Anna Karenina. I usually only read about 2/10 of the book. It always bored me. I feel quite sad honestly because I wish to be able to discuss about Russian literature.

I just find it boring. I don't know why. I know the topics are deep and made you ponder but I just got bored by it. It's just so... unrelatable.

How do you guys get around reading all the pages in Anna Karenina I don't know. It's funny because I studied the Russian language.

Ok now I'm just ranting, but I just... can't with Russian literature. American is number one to me. Then, French. Then, Japanese. I wish I could put Russian literature in my heart somewhere but it just didn't work.

I feel like the prose for Russian literature is way too dry for me.

You may be asking, oh, but you like Jewish author novels? Truth be told, their books are thought-provoking. That's why I read Catch-22, The Catcher In the Rye. A Series of Unfortunate Events.

[Anonymous No.21988541]

>>21988523
You should give Gogol a shot. He is anything but dry. He’s sorta got that Seinfeld precursor humor going on but in the early 19th century Russia. He can have a strange blend of horror, folk tales and humor in his early short stories. Everyone knows Dead Souls and the Petersburg tales which are great but some of his Ukrainian stuff is unfairly glossed over. I read The Night Before Christmas a few weeks ago and loved it. He always makes me chuckle aloud every so often

[Anonymous No.21988603]

>>21988505
oh, no no. i'm suggesting them.

[Anonymous No.21988624]

>>21988523
ever read Dostoevsky's The Double?
most of their works have humorous scenes, or very dry humour, which i find hilarious.
my list would likely be Russian, German, and Portuguese.

how was it learning russian? i want to do so at some point. i reckon there are free courses around too. don't know any though.
btw that just gave me ideas of what to read. i've heard Oblomov is quite a nice read.
any suggestions? (also made >>21988236)

also also, >>21988541
Gogol is great.
Lermontov is another light read, and Turgenev is pretty comfy.
try Sketches From a Hunter's Album.

i kinda wanna leave all these other ideas to read in the original russian, far-fetched as that may be.

[Anonymous No.21988629]

>>21988191
Alright, will do. I've been putting more Nabokov off for years. I love Lolita and The Enchanter was alright. Thanks for being that last push.

[Anonymous No.21988634]

>>21988629
>I love Lolita
(ToT)

[Anonymous No.21988719]

>>21987311
Why? Are you trying to get fit? I am pretty fit myself, so ask away if you have a question, fren

[Anonymous No.21988739]

>>21987105
blood meridian, 4th chapter in. really unique book, feels like watching a movie

[Anonymous No.21988768]

>>21988523
>It's just so... unrelatable.
This is really your problem, I think. You need more (real) life experience. You need to feel directly and indirectly the immense suffering and pain in every corner of every human psyche, everywhere on Earth. If you start reading some of these books, especially Dosto, too early, you're just not going to get it. It will feel alien and unrelatable. That's normal.

[Anonymous No.21988788]

>>21988768
How condescending

[Anonymous No.21988794]

>>21988788
I'm not putting that poster down. They might be highly intelligent, what I said has nothing to do with intelligence. Psychological insight requires personal suffering and tribulation, theoretical knowledge will always be insufficient. And personal tribulation always takes time, because time is a coefficient of all pain. If the coefficient is zero or closer to zero, the real knowledge gained about yourself and others, in real, non-theoretical terms, will either be zero or much closer to it. The point isn't to be condescending, it's just to let them know that it's ok to not immediately "get" some of these Russian authors. When I say "real" life experience, I obviously do not mean what is typically meant by that today. Having a job, wife, etcetera, these are not necessarily what you need. You could spend your life as a borderline hermit, but as long as your mind and intentions are sent in the right direction, then you can gain that experience.

[Anonymous No.21988795]

>>21988794
Its condescending to assume they havent had those experiences

[Anonymous No.21988810]

Just finished The Quiet American. Greene almost always manages to have both fascinating characters and a solidly entertaining plot in his novels.

[Anonymous No.21988814]

Just left the Seahorse in Mason & Dixon, third reading. What a novel.

[Anonymous No.21988826]

>>21988355
Its not that he's preachy, he's passionate. If you read his letters you'll see that also. He's a passionate guy but he also has a good sense of humor. Walden is good but you might not like it. Very beautiful prose though and it's a book that will make you truly appreciate nature in a way that nothing else will

[Anonymous No.21989102]

>>21987105
the martian chronicles by ray bradbury. it's good.

[Anonymous No.21989128]

>>21987105
Starting Radetzky March by Joseph Roth today.

[Anonymous No.21989135]

>>21987105
Siddhartha but there's 5 pages left
And then idk what to read

[Anonymous No.21989189]

>>21988523
Bulgakov is probably your easiest in. Ilf and Petrov may work too (they're a team) but I think more of the jokes won't translate out

[Anonymous No.21989327]

I'm reading a lot of stuff right now but right now I'm focusing on a biography of Aleister Crowley, The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall, and Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts on audiobook.
>>21988440
Fantastic book.
>>21989135
May I suggest The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac? Thematically it's very similar and I read it around the same time I read Siddhartha. You really should read On the Road as a prerequisite however.

[Anonymous No.21989330]

>>21987105
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

[Anonymous No.21989339]

>>21987105
Blood Meridian because it was shilled to hell here

[Anonymous No.21989370]

>>21987105
State almighty by Mises or whatever it's called in english

[Anonymous No.21989639]

Imitation of Christ, just started this morning.

[Anonymous No.21989645]

>>21987105
Anabasis, it's ok

[Anonymous No.21989762]

I enjoy the Classics.

[Anonymous No.21990099]

>>21988541
I'll try. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Anonymous No.21990111]

>>21988624
>>21988624
>ever read Dostoevsky's The Double?
No, like I said my experience with Russian literature is not good. But perhaps for the sake of discussion, I would.

I'm thinking of trying Russian literature again. Perhaps that's why I learned the language, to understand the literature more profoundly.

Honestly, Russian felt easier than Arabic, I'm still surprised. I study the language spontaneously tho, not formal.

[Anonymous No.21990123]

>>21988768
You might be more right than you think! But I definitely don't want to suffer. I'm trying to understand what's it's like to be in Solzhenitsyn's shoes. I couldn't force myself to, but I'm genuinely curious.

[Anonymous No.21990139]

>>21989189
Bulgakov plays interested me. Maybe I can start with that.

Ilf and Petrov, these guys sounds like my kind of book

Thank you for the suggestion.

[Anonymous No.21990164]

>>21987105
"6 books on the theology of plato by" Proclus. Its pretty neat. Im nearly finished with it.

[Anonymous No.21990245]

>>21987105
Madame Bovary for the fourth time and poems by Leon Fargue.

[Anonymous No.21990260]

>>21989639
>All Holy Scripture ought to be read with that spirit with which it was made

this single page could convert or rebuke basically every single 4chan fedora.

[Anonymous No.21990293]

>>21987105
This.

[Anonymous No.21990364]

>>21987105
>the Bible authorized kjv with Apocrypha
started out kinda boring but it's going good. on 2 kings
> sorrows of young wether
it's the 18th century version of literally me. but seriously, this the fore runner for things like notes from the underground and taxi driver. wether is pretty obsessive.
>the expedition of Humphry clinker
second time reading it. I remember quite liking it, I guess that's why I'm reading it the second time. it's like early South Park made from an 18th century scotsman.
>the dragon waiting
I'm only in the beginning and it's starting out alright. it's a fantasy alt. history but im not knowledgeable enough for ancient history so it's all a blur to me. I want to read more alt. history books, like guns of the south, I want to read that one.
>Eric brighteyes
I just finished the introduction. I guess Tolkien likes this book and the other book the author made, she; which I also read. but this looks promising, I really liked king Solomon's mines

[Anonymous No.21990396]

I generally read non fiction but last year I read Blood Meridian and really enjoyed it so I decided to give some more fiction a chance. Currently I'm reading Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Delillo's Libra. I've also read Moby Dick, McCarthy's The Road, and Anna Karenina recently. I loved them all but Moby Dick especially.

[Anonymous No.21990405]

>>21987105
Nothing. I don't read.

[Anonymous No.21990531]

LBJ: Architect of American Ambition by Randall Woods.

It's a decent biography on LBJ. Not the best political biography I've ever read but it's decent

[Anonymous No.21990560]

So close to finishing it

[Anonymous No.21990565]

>>21988355
Abbey is an ass hole. He's preachy because, like the other anon said, he's passionate. His shtick about industrial tourism is spot on. Currently in the process of trying to reserve a campsite to hike Katahdin 3 months in advance and it's a fucking nightmare. Compare this to Thoreau's journaled experience and it's depressing. Nature writing made me hate my fellow man. If you're not in love with Thoreau's prose, there are plenty of other nature writers to choose from (Abbey can be pretty abrasive if this is your first go at the genre). Aldo Leopold comes to mind. If you're looking for more in-depth "roughing it" types, you can check out Cache Lake Country by Rowlands. Depending on your tastes, you might enjoy nineteenth century travelogs, which blur the lines between nature and travel writing.

[Anonymous No.21990584]

>>21990364
Fine I'll bite: reading 5 books at once? Yuck

[Anonymous No.21991146]

Tristram Shandy. I'm halfway through volume 3 and he still hasn't been born.

[Anonymous No.21991222]

Picked it up out of interest because of Evola's book on the Grail and have been enjoying it a lot. Not sure what I'll move on to after I finish, might stay on the medieval German kick and give the Nibelungenlied a go.

[Anonymous No.21991412]

Aнa Кapeнинa, i'am around 200 pages in and hoping Vronsky has a painful and slow death.

[Anonymous No.21991465]

Reading this bad boy.
Conclusion so far is that Sartre is a commie

[Anonymous No.21991937]

>>21987105
Inherent Vice

[Anonymous No.21991947]

>>21990123
imagine yourself getting a fat cheque from the CIA

[Anonymous No.21991965]

>>21987105
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.

Great and completely different from Cuckoo

[Anonymous No.21991970]

>>21991947
Lmao I wish lol

[Anonymous No.21991999]

It's laugh out loud funny. I'm not joking.

[Anonymous No.21992172]

Just read this - it was very elegant and strikingly deep. I suggest it if you want to get lost in a character study.

-I think I will read A Wind up Bird Chronicle next. I've just started it.

[Anonymous No.21992201]

>>21992172
the short story of a windup bird chronicle in the elephant vanishes is infinitely better

[Anonymous No.21992219]

the secret history by donna tartt. not high lit or anything, but man this is fun. glad i got memed into it, senpai. every /lit/ head should check it out.

[Anonymous No.21992221]

>>21992219
>forgot you cna't say f a m
man wtf

[Anonymous No.21992228]

Reading moby dick after much recommendation

[Anonymous No.21992252]

>>21987105
Little Dorrit. I like Maggy, she's nice so far.

[Anonymous No.21993257]

>>21987957
Those books about MACV-SOG are good. across the fence, secret commandos, SOG: the secret war's of america to name a few

[Anonymous No.21993289]

Count of Monte Cristo
Napoleon, A Life

Probably going to read Gargantua and Pantagruel next because I am on a le French kick, apparently.

[Anonymous No.21993541]

I finished up the Last of the Mohicans yesterday

It was pretty good but that ending hurt. Made me want to read Coopers other stuff and honestly some of it sounds pretty good.

I've been finding I like early American literature. And the fact he does adventure stories with beautiful descriptions of landscapes is a bonus.

[Anonymous No.21993587]

>>21993289
>Count of Monte Cristo
how is it? I've been wanting to read it and the 3 muskateers

[Anonymous No.21993709]

>>21993587
I really like it. It is too long though, and there is a certain point in the book where the plot slows to a crawl, but despite that it's still a lot of fun.
Dumas is really good at building tension and intrigue, maybe it's a meme to say but I had a hard time putting it down. When you read it, keep in mind that it'll bog down in the middle, but it'll start ramping up again.

[Anonymous No.21993716]

>>21987105
I was reading Conan. I was really hoping there would be an erotic element, but it was just very vanilla in that regard. You could read what was happening between the lines, but I was hoping it would be explicitly stated Conan was absolutely crushing some priestess's pussy, after he rescued her from some big fucking demon.

[Anonymous No.21993904]

>>21993587
and, for the love of literature, get the unabridged, whole version.
it does slow down but it's in a bit of preparation.
it's kino.

[Anonymous No.21994935]

>>21987105
love this little guy

[Anonymous No.21994979]

>>21987105
Really enjoying it so far.

[Anonymous No.21995054]

Spring Snow by Mishima.

50 pages in, not a lot to speak of thus far. A bit of a slow starter. I thoroughly enjoyed Temple of the Golden Pavilion and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace though, so I trust in the Jap bisexual to deliver

[Anonymous No.21995069]

Still V., it's so good

[Anonymous No.21995122]

James Watson - The Double Helix

I respect that he wrote this on his own as opposed to hiring a ghostwriter, but it's so filled with jargon that you aren't going to understand what's happening if you haven't taken at least a few undergrad biology and chemistry courses, and he's an obnoxious logical positivist LARP/proto-Dawkins.

>>21987617
White Fang is a lot better imo if you like Jack London. It's kind of like Watership Down but with wolves. It's a short read too, but not as short as Call Of The Wild

>>21988118
Kino cover

>>21988453
Arrietty is a really cute Ghibli movie if you want more

>>21990245
Such a good book

[Anonymous No.21995218]

Hey nerds.
How many pages do you read a day?

[Anonymous No.21995327]

>>21987105
I’m almost finished and while the book can be extremely graphic at times which makes it a somewhat interesting read it’s super boring and I’m starting to regret having chose to read it.

[Anonymous No.21995363]

>>21995327
impressive. pretty nice. let's see paul allen's book.

[Anonymous No.21995391]

>>21988719
Thanks for this pepe anon, it brought back good memories of when I was a little kid and used to play with cowboy and Indian toys and watch westerns with my grandfather.

[Anonymous No.21995468]

>>21989762
Ah, the classic where’s Waldo, a simple yet thought provoking book. Waldo, a common man, tries to express himself by dressing extravagantly in a red and white striped shirt to express himself and draw attention but despite his efforts his identity is still lost in the crowd. The book challenges the audience to wonder where are such individualists in our modern society, to question where is Waldo. It’s one of the first great books I ever opened in my life.

[Anonymous No.21995485]

Iam Pilgrim Is great !

[Anonymous No.21995501]

>>21987105
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons. Not frightening, but quite vivid. Might read more of his work after reading this and Hyperion.
>picrel informs me that India has always been an electrocution rekt thread on /gif/

[Anonymous No.21995507]

I started reading Makioka Sisters, sister

[Anonymous No.21995630]

>>21993709
>>21993904
I try to avoid abridged versions of works. Good to know when heading in the middle will drag. Thanks

[Anonymous No.21995658]

>>21995468
i prefer the audiobook.

[Anonymous No.21995703]

>>21987105
plato's dialogues
the wars - Timothy Findley
white-luck warrior - bakker

[Anonymous No.21995710]

Mental causation stuff
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-causation/
https://iep.utm.edu/mental-c/

[Anonymous No.21995718]

Behead All Satans and Iliad [Pope]

[Anonymous No.21996593]

>>21987105
Correction by Thomas Bernhard

[Anonymous No.21996616]

>>21987105
the holy bible, collected works of jung vol.4, just finished the report from iron mountain.

[Anonymous No.21996623]

>>21995122
I bought that book due to some visions induced by LSD. flipped through but had not read it.

[Anonymous No.21996697]

>>21987311
Run and lift heavy object. You're losing 0 calories reading a fitness book.

[Anonymous No.21996703]

>>21987105
Time Regained.

>>21991222
Now watch the Wagner version, anon!

[Anonymous No.21996766]

>>21987311
Just lift bro.

[säger No.21998091]

nothin'