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Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:29:37 2013 No.3923069 [DELETED]

What are you reading now? What is the next book you're reading? Feel free to rate the above anon's book.

Finished reading "A Really Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. At 500 pages, it was a long read. It talks about the evolution of humans, and ends with humans destroying other species. And it stops there. It was well written. Would I read it again? No.

Next up, sampling some books, including "Working" by Studs Terkel and "The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life" by Jesse Bering.

There are so many books to read. I'm addicted to reading. I want to read, oh, a minimum of 60 minutes per day is good. At the end of the year I should accumulate to 365 hours.

I forgot when I bought the kobo mini, but I have logged 107.8 hours so far. I hope to log about 1,000 hours in 3 years or so.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:33:37 2013 No.3923079 Prose Edda Melmoth the Wanderer

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:34:37 2013 No.3923080 Right now I'm reading gravity's rainbow and death on the installment plan. Both are pretty good. I got into Celine after journey to the end of the night (amazing book by the way).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:37:37 2013 No.3923087 >>3923079 Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) by Charles Robert Maturin. It got 17 reviews on Amazon.

Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:40:38 2013 No.3923099

Jude the Obscure, it's very well written, I can see lots of /lit/izens relating to Jude. As I write this i'm just about to read part six it didn't take me long to read(2 days maximum). The book reminds me of a Romanticism version of Good Will Hunting. My first Hardy novel and I loved it.

Will probably read Shelley's The Last Man next.

None !!lZetafI6z8s Tue Jul 9 21:40:38 2013 No.3923102

i finished seven controlled vocabularies and obituaries 2004. the joy of cooking and now i'm just waiting for rene daumals 'a fundamental experiment' to show up, rereading 'a serious night of drinking' in anticipation and some of 'mount analogue'

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Tue Jul 9 21:41:38 2013 No.3923105 >>3923102 >obituaries obituary* jesus

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:42:37 2013 No.3923108 A User's Guide to The Brain 1984

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:48:38 2013 No.3923125 >>3923102 >the joy of cooking I heard it's a good book. Will put it into my "to read" list.

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Tue Jul 9 21:51:38 2013 No.3923129 >>3923125 wait the actual joy of cooking or the AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:54:38 2013 No.3923133 >>3923069 >painted white face.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 21:58:37 2013 No.3923141 File: 290 KB, 912x663, 1334709972882.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3923129 The actual joy of cooking ... >>3923133 That's how women trick to get men. Or plastic surgery.

>>	None !!lZetafI6z8s Tue Jul 9 22:00:38 2013 No.3923147 >>3923141 oh. well i have that one too, it's not as good but good if you want to cook stuff i guess...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:01:37 2013 No.3923150 >>3923141 that's creepy

MrThrills !aAnvD.FqpM Tue Jul 9 22:05:37 2013 No.3923161

>The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
>Into Woods by Bill Roobach
>Orlando Innamorano trans. William Stewart Rose

Got into Pamuk after I read Snow. I feel like I enjoyed Snow more, but Black Book is still pretty good.

Roobach is a top-tier essayist and nature writer, so I totes recommend Into Woods for anyone that's looking to get into personal essays.

I have a hardon for The Song of Roland, so I wanted to keep reading about Count Roland's adventures.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:08:38 2013 No.3923169 >>3923141 what kind of makeup do you need to change the structure of your chin?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:08:38 2013 No.3923170 Last: The Invention of Solitude Current: The Master and Margarita Next: Poetics

Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:17:37 2013 No.3923191

Last book finished: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Currently reading?
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole, Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland.

I may have some slight attention span problems.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:17:38 2013 No.3923189 >>3923169 It's plastic surgery...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:26:37 2013 No.3923200 Reading: "The Trial" by Kafka "The History of the World", by J. M. Roberts Plan to read next: "Leviathan", by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:31:37 2013 No.3923208 Right now I'm reading Tao Lin's Taipei. Next I think I'll read The Idiot.

Anonymous Tue Jul 9 22:36:37 2013 No.3923216

Reading: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Will read:
Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Judgement
The Metaphysics of Morals (possibly)
Language, Truth & Logic
From a Logical Point of View
Monadology
Some sort of anthology of Leibniz's correspondences
Ethics

>>	MrThrills !aAnvD.FqpM Tue Jul 9 22:56:37 2013 No.3923239 >>3923208 How is it? I've been thinking of picking it up, but Richard Yates was pretty disappointing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 23:08:38 2013 No.3923275 >>3923069 Babylon Revisited The Will to Power Ludwig von Mises' Classical Liberalism The Road to Serfdom

Anonymous Tue Jul 9 23:09:38 2013 No.3923276

Last book I read was Lolita, then I listened to the audiobook read by Jeremy Irons on a long drive. It put me in an actually dreamy state. That prose. Dat Voice.

Now I'm reading Impossibility by John Barrow, a nonfiction book speculating on the limits of science, philosophy etc.

Next, I think I'm going to read Speak, Memory or maybe some Hiedigger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 23:13:38 2013 No.3923283 >>3923208 >Tao Lin >The Idiot Made me lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 23:26:37 2013 No.3923308 >>3923069 Essays of E.B. White Im curious

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 9 23:46:37 2013 No.3923366 Last books I read: How Few Remain, Turtledove Jam, Croshaw Currently: American Front, Turtledove Next: Ada or Ardor, Nabokov Fatherland, Harris The complete Jane Austen collection and whatever's next after American Front

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:05:37 2013 No.3923410

Just finished knocking out Memories of my Melancholy Whores. I love Gabo but it felt kinda underwhelming, and seemed to rehash a lot of themes from Love in the time of Cholera but without the bonus of having the time to really flesh out and make you care about the characters.
I did enjoy it though.

I'm also finishing up Blow Up: and Other Stories by Cortazar, and after that I'm not sure what to go into.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:09:38 2013 No.3923417 File: 147 KB, 987x718, list.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm going to have to read these for my next class, what do you guys think?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:11:38 2013 No.3923418 Dan Brown's Inferno After I want to read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons or something by Stephen King

>>	Celebes !!NWFwVGUkpTc Wed Jul 10 00:16:37 2013 No.3923426 >>3923418 top fucking lel

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:20:37 2013 No.3923435 >>3923426 why lel? Inferno is a very profound book full of history. I think it will be considered an classic in 50 years

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:40:37 2013 No.3923477 >>3923418 Takes a brave man to admit reading Ban Drown on lit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:42:37 2013 No.3923482 Currently reading: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green & After Dark by Haruki Murakami Up next: One Hundred Years of Solitude or East of Eden (any recomendations?)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:43:38 2013 No.3923484 Reading: A Study in Scarlet About half way through. Enjoying it so far. I feel like I've had it spoiled for me a bit because I've seen BBC's Sherlock. Next up: The Sign of Four

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 00:44:38 2013 No.3923485 >>3923482 East of Eden

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 01:55:38 2013 No.3923611

>>3923482
John Green is way, waaay overrated with the crowd that bothers reading him. He writes about teenagers because that's where the money is, and his work does its very best to fake artistic integrity (which it succeeds at in the eyes of most his readers).

Murakami is more of a mixed bag. He has a standard set of concepts that he tends to fall back into again and again, but 1Q84/Hard-Boiled Wonderland/Wind-Up Bird are all actually great novels. Not sure about After Dark, though.

I'd go with East of Eden next.

As for myself, exploring PKD's more acclaimed novels (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/The Man in the High Castle/The Three Stigmata...) and Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tim Robbins.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 01:58:38 2013 No.3923619 i liked "a fault in our stars" but thought "paper towns" was complete and utter shit. like it couldn't have been written by the same person

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 02:03:37 2013 No.3923623 Reading: >Art of Poker - David Sklansky >The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Next: >Heart of Darkness or >Naked Lunch or >Tropic of Capricorn

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 02:15:37 2013 No.3923650 File: 20 KB, 288x360, America's Greatest Living Author.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3923611 >Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tim Robbins That one was good, but I liked The Shawshank Redemption better.

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 02:22:37 2013 No.3923666

>>3923611
>John Green is way, waaay overrated with the crowd that bothers reading him. He writes about teenagers because that's where the money is, and his work does its very best to fake artistic integrity (which it succeeds at in the eyes of most his readers).

don't hold YA lit to the standards of normal non-YA lit, dummy

For YA lit, Green is fantastic. He isn't fucking dostoevsky, but holding him to that standard is stupid

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 02:47:37 2013 No.3923717

>reading: Jacques the Fatalist and his Master

Delightfully light and random, plenty of good thoughts included in the anecdotes. Positively surprised since I was really sceptical about Diderot.

<next: Smiley's People

Gotta finish the Karla trilogy. Best enjoyed with whisky.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 03:05:38 2013 No.3923755 >>3923069 Marx. Capital 3. [penguin]. "As expected from the Master." Dave Eden on Autonomy. Honestly, there's a bit of milking here to do, but that's because our research domains aren't coaligned sufficiently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 05:08:37 2013 No.3923940 >not giving john green a quick read It's like you fruits don't like fucking lit major qt's in droves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:22:37 2013 No.3924156 Reading: Ready Player One Going to read next: A Game of Thrones (is it worth it?)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:30:37 2013 No.3924176 File: 170 KB, 650x421, painting_medeival_feasting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3924156 >Going to read next: A Game of Thrones (is it worth it?) prepare for the feasts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:33:38 2013 No.3924188 >>3924176 I take that as a yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:39:37 2013 No.3924198 >>3924188 You'll understand, eventually, after a sufficient number of feasts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:49:37 2013 No.3924214 >>3923940 People over 16 read him?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 07:50:37 2013 No.3924218 Ham on Rye

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 08:44:38 2013 No.3924278

Finished reading:

All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel - It's very good

War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - It's great but I prefer the Melancholy of Resistance and Satantango

All the Names by Jose Saramago - Excellent

The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar - Something above excellent but demanding and dark.

Now reading:

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago - Excellent

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa - Great

The Cyclop by Ranko Marinkovic - it's wonderful as usual in the case of ex-yugoslavian writers

Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kis - it's very poetic and beautiful

Reading plans:

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes - it will be my second time. One of the greatest examples of world literature.

Hourglass by Danilo Kis

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 08:48:38 2013 No.3924279
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>>3923623
>>Art of Poker - David Sklansky

Tried to find the title on Amazon, can't find it. You don't mean "The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One" by David Sklansky, do you?

>tfw no fat girlfriend

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 08:51:37 2013 No.3924282
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>>3923069
>Finished reading "A Really Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. At 500 pages, it was a long read. It talks about the evolution of humans, and ends with humans destroying other species. And it stops there. It was well written. Would I read it again? No.

I would like to add, the book is about science - it overs (almost) everything, from how the universe was created, to evolution, to earthquake to the solar system.

It's not a dry academic book but written for the layman with a humorous undertone.

Recommended.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 17:24:37 2013 No.3925426 File: 98 KB, 634x777, 1345851511469.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3924282 >average /lit/zen

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 17:29:37 2013 No.3925440 >>3923417 Portrait of an artist is short and gives some insight into Joyce since the main character is a parallel of him. I liked it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 18:45:38 2013 No.3925610 Finished The Secret Life of Bees because it is one of the set texts for the Cambridge proficiency exam this year Next one I think will be Stranger in a Strange Land because the title is catchy and it gets mentioned in /lit/ all the time

Anonymous Wed Jul 10 18:54:38 2013 No.3925634
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Yesterday I was in the casino washroom, and I was taking a shit while reading on an e-reader. It's so relaxing. The fluorescence light made reading enjoyable while pooping.

I think the most enjoyable time to read is either at a coffee shop - while sipping on coffee like a pretentious faggot, of course - in a bathtub, or sitting on the toilet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 10 19:09:37 2013 No.3925681 Reading: 1984 Next: The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 07:32:37 2013 No.3927133

>Finished
The Road - I've nearly completed Cormac's whole bibliography by now. The Road probably in his top five; good stuff.

>Currently reading
The Savage Detectives - Only just started reading, but it has a nice feel to it. My first Bolaño.

>Next
I dunno, maybe Invisible Cities or The Feast of the Goat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:02:37 2013 No.3927175 >>3923141 To the left: Shitty hair and moping To the right: More than adequate hair and smiling

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:03:37 2013 No.3927177 File: 167 KB, 996x695, 1360144504056.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3927175 >the feel no average korean gf

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:04:37 2013 No.3927180 >>3923141 And doesn't the nips, chinks and gooks understand that we think that the chinky eyes are attractive? We like when they smoke so much weed that they squint all the time (and are able to enjoy the fuzzy graphics of Sega Master System).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:05:37 2013 No.3927182 File: 153 KB, 768x1024, 1361650043554.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3927180 >And doesn't the nips, chinks and gooks understand that we think that the chinky eyes are attractive? They're doing it for them, not for you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:08:37 2013 No.3927185 File: 211 KB, 1280x720, 1361168451828.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3927182 >the feel no average Korean gf to read books with :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:09:37 2013 No.3927188 >>3927182 >ching chong logic I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:10:37 2013 No.3927192
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>>3927185
>tfw you'll never be a rich old man in a yacht, where there's 8 average Korean girls dancing around you while you read your book, then they start to suck yo dick ;__;

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:12:37 2013 No.3927194
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>>3927192
>the feel no average Japanese girl to read books to you, while you snuggle under a tree on a breezy summer afternoon ;__;

I did that once, but with a Chinese piggu, so it feels like a cheap experience.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:12:37 2013 No.3927195 >>3927192 >hi-heels on a boat >8 little captains but no helmsman, navigator nor sailors >ching chong logic

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:40:37 2013 No.3927222
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>Currently Reading
The Plague. So far it's brilliant. I really love it.

>Next Up
I think I'll read all of Camus' books (I have only read The Stranger). After this I'll read Journey To The End Of The Night, Fathers And Sons, Blood Meridian and The Road, I think, as I recently ordered them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:41:37 2013 No.3927224 >>3927222 Get on Blood Meridian ASAP.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:43:38 2013 No.3927225

>>3927224

I actually ordered The Road and BM after two recommendations in some thread a few days ago. Those last four books haven't arrived yet so that's why I'm doing Camus in the meantime. I'm really psyched for Blood Meridian though as /lit/ seems to love it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:53:38 2013 No.3927238 File: 261 KB, 258x418, Screenshot_4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3927194 Curse you... now i have to go satisfy my animalistic urges...

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 08:56:37 2013 No.3927245

Just finished Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, first of his I've reaf. Made me very uncomfortable. These Russians have a way with capturing the small cruelties we inflict on each other.

Next I'm starting either Murakami's After the Quake or Calvino's Our Ancestors Trilogy, can't decide. It'll be during a vacation in Hiroshima so Murakami seems fitting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:06:37 2013 No.3927262 >>3927225 Oh yeah, I remember you from that thread. A little bid of advice though: start with The Road and when reading Blood Meridian stick with it, it can get extremely boring but you'll be greatly rewarded in the end.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:13:37 2013 No.3927276 >>3927262 Yeah, the plan was to read The Road first. I kind of like 'boring' books though, so long as the prose is good, which, in McCarthy's case, I assume it is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:18:37 2013 No.3927284 >>3927276 Yeah, his prose is sublime. It's a lot more sparse in The Road though.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:26:37 2013 No.3927306

>Currently Reading
A Feast for Crows

>Next Up
I don't know... i heavily invested months of reading all the Anita Blake books and even though it went side ways around Obsidian Butterfly, i continued reading although the series just went to more shit....
So either Anita Blake book 22 or Neil Gaiman's new book The Ocean at...

I want to stop reading Anita but i keep deluding myself that it will get better, how do you guys stop reading a series when the first 8+ has ensnared you?
I've successfully weened myself off of Cassandra Clare, but i didn't invest much time into that hack.
Maybe if i can find proof that Hamilton had a Ghost writer and when they left the series died..

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:30:38 2013 No.3927317 >>3923417 >3/7 are 'diversity' literature Are you serious? What course are you fucking taking?

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:40:37 2013 No.3927342

>>3927276
>A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

Just an example of McCarthy's prose.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:46:37 2013 No.3927355 >>3927342 That was intense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:51:37 2013 No.3927369 >>3927342 Gratuitous, vulgar, unrefined, pedestrian. Only a plebeian can have any kind of serious respect for McCarthy after gaining breadth and depth in the Western Canon. So which are you? A plebeian or just not very well-read?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:54:37 2013 No.3927379 >>3927369 By your logic, a plebeian.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:54:37 2013 No.3927380 >>3927369 epic tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:54:37 2013 No.3927381 I planning to start The Recognitions. I really don't care if the book is difficult or not, but I really expect this to be compelling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:56:37 2013 No.3927388 >>3927369 You're probably the kind of dude who postures and jacks off to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake pretending to love it while dismissing other slightly 'different' or experimental works or ways of writing. In any case, you're pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 09:59:37 2013 No.3927394 >>3927369 Harold Bloom is a lot more well read than you'll ever be and he loves Blood Meridian. If he's a pleb, then I don't know what you are.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 10:01:37 2013 No.3927399 >>3927380 >>3927388 Did I hurt your feelings? I'm sorry you're taking the bitter truth about your favourite author so badly. >>3927394 Harold Bloom is well-read, but a plebeian. Revisit the criteria.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 10:10:37 2013 No.3927416

>>3927394

Harold Bloom read a lot and learned nothing: his books of criticism are horrible, almost unreadable.

Compare his book on Shakespeare with the one by Mark Vand Doren to see what's the difference between a real critic (and a person with knowledge of life and empathy) and Harold Bloom, who lives just spitting concepts and philosophies names.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 10:18:37 2013 No.3927432

Right now I'm reading The First and Last Men. It's kind of hilarious because it's supposed to be a "fake history" written in the distant future, and since the book was published in 1930 it makes "predictions" of the 20th century and he got absolutely everything wrong. Next up I'm gonna read Running Dog.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 10:41:37 2013 No.3927480 I have read about 30% of Storm Front (Dresden Files #1). I hope something interesting will happen soon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 12:34:36 2013 No.3927671 >>3927480 I doubt it, it's kinda drab the first couple books but the series picks up. Continue and when November is here you will be able to join your fellow readings in the new Dresden Files General.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 12:35:36 2013 No.3927672

Finished "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe earlier today, but I'm considering re-reading it to understand it better. Not sure what I'll read next - might have a go at "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

Has anyone here read Grossman's "Life and Fate"? What did you think of it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:01:58 2013 No.3928762 File: 281 KB, 748x1110, 1361211214759.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3927238 >tfw she probably has a boyfriend in real life, and he cums inside her vagina - buckets of them - every night ... >tfw it's not your penis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:02:58 2013 No.3928767 >>3928762 Buckets of vaginas? Eww.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:03:58 2013 No.3928769 I'm dragging myself to the end of Snow Crash. But also I'm sort of enjoying Midnight's Children now. No idea what's next. Probably Life Of Pi.

Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:06:58 2013 No.3928777
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>>3927369
>Only a plebeian can have any kind of serious respect for McCarthy after gaining breadth and depth in the Western Canon.
>So which are you? A plebeian or just not very well-read?

Fucking lol, 4chan trolls.

Anyways ...

Currently reading "Working" by Studs Terkel, which talks about what people don't talk about - their jobs. From the menial to the interesting, like the cashier and garbage man, they talk about their jobs. Because you gotta work to eat ... even if it means punching the cashier machine 40 hours a week, for decades ...

>see this guy? Later that night, he fucked all their vaginas and asses.

>>	mothergoose !!DUwV6rmVW4k Thu Jul 11 21:16:58 2013 No.3928808 currently: God Is Not Great next: either War and Peace, Anna Karenina, or A Struggle for Power only considering Tolstoy because my great great grandfather was penpals with him, so i'm interested.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:31:58 2013 No.3928840 >>3928769 You're setting yourself up for ultimate disappointment. After a masterpiece like MC, you need to come down to a mid-brow book before the crap that Martel churns out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:38:58 2013 No.3928868 File: 52 KB, 640x480, 1322197514519.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3928808 >currently: God Is Not Great

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 11 21:41:58 2013 No.3928878 >>3928868 >>>/x/

mothergoose !!DUwV6rmVW4k Thu Jul 11 21:51:58 2013 No.3928923

>>3928868

>implying i'm not on /r/atheism right now
>implying i'm not working on my essay on why men don't need women and how aspergers is a made up condition created by the liberals
>implying i'm not wearing my lucky fedora as i type this

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Currently reading pic related, it's a pretty extensive modern commentary on the satipatthana sutta by a German born theravada monk, this sutta is the main source for Buddhist meditative practice. I'm also reading Grapes of wrath, I usually tackle a non fiction and a fiction book at the same time.

I'm not exactly what I'll be reading next, probably Epictetus' dialogues.

Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:40:58 2013 No.3930046
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>>3928940
Very nice, you'll enjoy the book.

>tfw no average Korean girlfriend to read a book too, and than kiss her vagina good night ;__;

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:41:58 2013 No.3930047 File: 145 KB, 746x497, 134479395719.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3930046 >tfw no average olympic Korean girlfriend to split her vagina in half with your mighty penis

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:41:58 2013 No.3930050 File: 503 KB, 480x640, 1360878953186.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3930047 >Friday night ... >No average korean girlfriend to hang out at the coffee shop with to read a book on your e-reader (kobo mini)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:43:58 2013 No.3930052 File: 1.07 MB, 2014x1440, 1361165740929.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3930050 >tfw no group of average Korean girlfriends to hang out on a hot summer day >tfw somewhere, out there, an alpha male is banging their asses and vaginas.

Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:44:58 2013 No.3930055
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>>3930052
>tfw no average Korean girlfriend
>who loves to read with you
>I had this feels ... I know her, she was my ex-girlfriend
>she loved to read, especially greek literature ;__;

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 08:58:58 2013 No.3930075 File: 41 KB, 558x418, 12648950909643899935.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no gf

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 09:23:58 2013 No.3930123 >>3930052 >implying they're the average The one in the blue-checked shirt, red-striped shirt, and red-checked shirt (far right) look like actual clones. That whole plastic-surgery epidemic really has to end.

Anonymous Fri Jul 12 09:55:58 2013 No.3930199

>>3928840
I finished Snow Crash this morning. Was this guy ten years old when he wrote it? I am so disappointed. Thanks for the Life of Pi info...after watching the movie it is striking some chords in me in terms of a parallel situation in my life, like I'm trapped on a boat with a tiger, and their relationship is very interesting to me. So it may not be a great book, but I'm just exploring concepts here and not looking for a new thrill or to be impressed with prose or anything. Kind of like how I might read a self-help book (though I don't recall ever reading one).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 12 10:00:58 2013 No.3930209 File: 34 KB, 558x419, 11041045484025830576.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3930075 >tfw no Dostoevsky gf

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