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22807723 No.22807723 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading?

>> No.22807732

>>22807723
Plotinue

>> No.22807733

I'M NOT READING YOUR BOOK

>> No.22807737

Frank Gardner has been shilling his books since 2018 here. Incredible right? 5 years and instead of doing ANYTHING with his life he keeps making these threads, FIVE YEARS on, and no one gives one fuck about his life. Even mom and dad won’t look him in the eye. Happy Holidays Frank

>> No.22807756

>>22807737
It’s incredible he wrote ten of these things. I can’t even imagine how inane and insipid the contents of the books must be.

>> No.22807758

>>22807723
still Discipline and Punish, it's taking a while to actually grasp the scope of all the things one can derive from Foucault's definition of a soul and the idea of micro-physics of power

>> No.22807770

Gardner the only nigga to come out the mud. From the streets to the stage. Respect.

>> No.22807779

>>22807723
i wonder if people would like Gardner books more if they had an actual ending. not really congruent

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>>22807756
They’re pretty bonkers. Gardner apparently has 16 books now. Pic related from a thread about the plot of CotC

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>>22807723
Brian Evenson's Alien book. it's pretty dope.

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Was recommended the Second Apocalypse as an aSoIaF fan looking for more autistic worldbuilding fantasy, but I wasn't super impressed with the first book and the frequent references to boy-rape put me off. I didn't like the amount of sexual violence in aSoIaF either. Might pick up the second later, but I'm not scrambling for it right now.

>> No.22808066

>>22807723
4chan

>> No.22808072

>>22807723
fuck, this one was subtle, I'll give you that

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>tfw the depression comes back and can barely read a chapter or two

I could have easily made this a thread and decided against it, so give me some (You)s to commend me for my better judgement. Also, the book I'm reading is still Catch-22.

>> No.22808458

Gardner's first 16 books are unedited pre-kindergarten gibberish & aren't worth the electrons it takes to store them on Amazon's servers.
But somehow, his 17th book is a vast improvement! Vastly fewer spelling/grammar/punctuation errors!
The MC is the usual self-insert, and the plot is the usual meandering dream-like incoherent babble, but you can't have everything.
So skip the first 16 garbage-tier books, and read Call Of United Airlines instead.
Even better, you can download it for free! https://files.catbox.moe/aw9gz2.pdf
And until Frank decides, once again, to commit abusive lawfare, you can buy a copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKB7QZ3B

>> No.22808541

>>22807723
Slowly making my way through The Golden Bowl. Also reading Conversations with Kafka by Janouch. Both good so far

>> No.22808555

>>22808458
End your fucking life, Frank.

>> No.22808567

>>22808555
Are you having reading comprehension issues? That did NOT cast Frank in a good light.

>> No.22808581

>>22808567
And yet you shilled his (your) book. Being self-critical while still trying to sell the product is not a new marketing technique. Trying the Dominos strategy doesn't make it any less transparent.

>> No.22808629

>>22808581
Call Of United Airlines isn't one of his books. Sarcasm is completely lost on you. Probably a consequence of being an incel NEET shutin with a room-temperature IQ.

>> No.22808754

>>22807723
Democracy the god that failed

>> No.22808843

>>22807723
I finished Perfume by Patrick Susskind (thank you anon who recommended it very enjoyable)
I am now starting on The Trial by Franz Kafka.

>> No.22808859

I am reading the French translation of the first Harry Potter book
It has taken me 2 days to get through the first two chapters and I've read nothing else but this

>> No.22808922

>>22807723
Wolverine Road of Bones. It's not very good.

>> No.22808929

>>22807723
Crime and punishment. Chapter two is holy shit levels of good. I like how Russians write :3

>> No.22808944

>>22807786
That sounds right up my alley. Holy schizophrenia.

>> No.22808950

>>22808629
>room-temperature IQ
I live in Florida, where it's HOT.

>> No.22808967

>>22807723
Rereading Gravity's Rainbow. Much easier to process on a reread

>> No.22809167

>>22807786
Uhm, hello, kino department?

>> No.22809178

>>22807723
The book of the new sun, I am at the 4th book

>> No.22809181

Whatever by Houellebecque

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I just finished pic rel in one sitting because I knew that I won't pick it up again once I've laid it down. It could have been an interesting novel but ultimately it is merely more then disgust porn which fails to show or uncover something meaningful. There were some redeeming moments though, like when one of the cows called the protagonist a nigger.

>> No.22809419

>>22809413
This is only book made him known. Nobody brings up his past books and his present books.

>> No.22809420
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I bought this book about owls.

>> No.22809430

>>22809181
depressing ass book. I was reading it at a hotel bar and left it there when i finished because it made me sick

>> No.22809453

>>22808178
Read Man and His Symbols and start turning your depression around instead.

>> No.22809463

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science by Stephen Stich
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

I try to read one fiction and one non-fiction book at a time. But the Stich book is fucking dry so I only do one chapter at a time and switch to the Lembke book.

>> No.22809489

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne.

I set out a few months back trying to learn about the origins of human morality. That lead me to some books that talked about things like hunter-gatherer societies and great ape hierarchies.

It's interesting stuff, but some of the concepts this literature took for granted were lost on me. I later figured that if I'm going to do this properly, I should start from the very beginning. With that in mind, I'm reading this book to learn the basics of evolution.

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>>22807723
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Have one third of it left. Very comfy.

>> No.22809509

>>22809504
Pretty sure I tried reading this exact book, but the first four pages were spent autistically describing some building with flowers in front of it or something.

>> No.22809547

>>22807723
The setting sun by Osamu Dazai
For the first half of the first chapter I thought the MC was a guy lmao.
Reading it because I liked No longer Human.
Also I find it bizzare how Japs are so dramatic about everything. Reminds me of anime. Bitch burned some eggs and thinks it's the end of the world.

I also plan on reading some Pynchon. Which book should I start with? No really felling like starting with GR can I go the lot 49 first?

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>>22809547
forgot picrel

>> No.22809565

>>22809420
Sick! Please keep us posted what the owls know,

>> No.22809832

>>22809547
I started with Lot, then V.. Lot is a good short taste of what you're in for.

>> No.22809852

>>22807723
>One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Babtshenko.

Fun to see the Russian army is as shit now as it was 20 years ago.