What are you reading? Gay of Thrones here

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Anonymous Sat Jul 27 22:56:51 2013 No.3975586 [Reply] [Original]

What are you reading?

Gay of Thrones here

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 22:58:51 2013 No.3975587 File: 9 KB, 128x153, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975586 The bible, in exodus at the moment, god just drowned some Egyptians.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 22:59:51 2013 No.3975590 Bunch of Flann O'Brien stuff. Specifically his newspaper columns that he published under the Myles na gCopaleen name. It's amazing. Seriously, it's genius.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:01:52 2013 No.3975593 >>3975586 I'm reading this post right now. Bookwise I'm reading 4 or 5 books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:02:52 2013 No.3975596 Walden & Civil Disobedience Never got around to reading it before, but I'm really enjoying it. Not exactly mind-blowing stuff, but its refreshing and filled with good advice to keep in mind.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:04:51 2013 No.3975602 File: 474 KB, 283x213, faces.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975593 >I'm reading this post right now. HAHA MY FUCKING SIDES

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:06:51 2013 No.3975609 >>3975599 How far are you? This is one of my favorite books. I especially loves how he ties it all up with the midget at the end.

Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:08:51 2013 No.3975613

>>3975596
I remember when I re-read Civil Disobedience for the first time since high school. I was in a restaurant and as I finished reading the part about men who are used by their governments I looked up and there was a marine staring at me from another table.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:10:51 2013 No.3975624 >>3975609 So far i've red 116 of 240 pages. I was hoping to finish it in a couple of days so i could start reading Dubliners.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:12:52 2013 No.3975631 File: 356 KB, 1280x1707, 1374980596860.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Game of Grunts Why do people read these book?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:13:52 2013 No.3975635 I'm wrapping up Confederacy of Dunces right now. It's such a fast read but ADHD and school work stretched it out over a whole year.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:13:52 2013 No.3975636 >>3975631 She's probably cooler to talk to than 8 out of 10 people on here (my own impeccably mannered and impossibly interesting self aside)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:15:51 2013 No.3975638 >>3975636 Nah, she's probably just as bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:15:51 2013 No.3975639 Inherent Vice It's an entirely different Ruggles than the one of Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:15:51 2013 No.3975640 Ulysses. I think most of it is going over my head.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:18:52 2013 No.3975649 File: 13 KB, 200x294, metaphor-practical-introduction-zoltan-kovecses-paperback-cover-art.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And Daumal's Pataphysical Essays.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:21:51 2013 No.3975652 titus groan. 70 pages in and so far it's ok but I hope it gets better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:23:51 2013 No.3975656 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:27:51 2013 No.3975663 File: 109 KB, 600x642, 1292563212821.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Yes after I saw the film. Yes I'm aware of how much of a pleb I am.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:32:51 2013 No.3975674 >>3975663 Don't feel the need to qualify your posts because spergs here are quick to angst up. Everyone has to start somewhere, it doesn't matter m8.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:34:51 2013 No.3975681 >>3975663 >Watching films >Reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at all >"Yes I'm aware of how much of a pleb I am." How about you go fuck yourself, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:34:51 2013 No.3975682 Harry Potter and the Fifty Shades of Thrones

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:38:51 2013 No.3975690 I'm reading Starship Troopers and The Blood Meridian.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:39:51 2013 No.3975694 Blue Beard, from Vonnegut Cool so far.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:46:51 2013 No.3975716 File: 4 KB, 236x234, cruise control.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] On The Road, with audio tapes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:48:51 2013 No.3975719 Finishing up "Washington" by Ron Chernow. It's a pretty good read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:51:51 2013 No.3975727 Origin of Species, I'm on a science binge. Just finished A Brief History of Time, next is Contact.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:58:51 2013 No.3975740 File: 162 KB, 1920x1080, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Plague

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 27 23:59:51 2013 No.3975743 The Secret. You should all read it. It is about how you can make all your dreams come true by just wishing for them. It's awesome.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:03:52 2013 No.3975752 George Saunders Lorrie Moore soooo american

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:06:52 2013 No.3975756 Sirens of Titan. I love the whole concept and I had to force myself to put it down

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:08:52 2013 No.3975759 >>3975635 >over a whole year Holy shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:09:51 2013 No.3975760 >>3975743 >not sure if serious

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:14:52 2013 No.3975769 >>3975756 that book is maybe the best-plotted book I've ever read, possibly my favorite vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:21:52 2013 No.3975787 >>3975586 I'd probably just knock that shit out of her hands.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:30:52 2013 No.3975810 >>3975636 Fat chicks are usually terrible people, in my experience. Pic related is what I'm currently reading, I don't usually read non-fiction but I've been wanting to read a few history books for some time now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:39:52 2013 No.3975839 I'm reading A Scanner Darkly. I fucking hate reading books after I've seen the movie, it's like I already know what's going to happen so why am I reading it? Whatever, it's still a good read so far.

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 00:47:52 2013 No.3975857

>>3975759
i just finished it now!

it's now the most recent book i've actually finished reading since House of Leaves in 12th grade. i'm going into my junior year of college now. i'm really trying to get back into reading, i devoured books when i was a kid.

>>	UGLY Duc (The AZ Bay) !wGRi2lXBc6 Sun Jul 28 01:25:52 2013 No.3975913 >>3975586 Fucking Fatty Fat McFatso needs to cover herself up better, no one wants to see that. Nasty ass plebette. Currently Reading "The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Radcliffe.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 01:28:52 2013 No.3975922 pride and prejudice

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 01:32:52 2013 No.3975928

>>3975590
I've been meaning to read him for ages. A truly great Irish writer, or so I have heard. Those Irish Times articles are meant to be brilliant!
Do you know Brendan Gleeson is directing an adaptation of At Swim Two Birds? Stellar cast including Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Fassbender. I am looking forward to that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 01:34:52 2013 No.3975934 File: 24 KB, 197x320, a moveable feast.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 02:04:53 2013 No.3975969 >>3975913 I'd tap it, lightly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 02:04:53 2013 No.3975970 >>3975922 I've read Pride and Prejudice twice, though that was quite a few years ago. Just got through Sense and Sensibility and am wondering if anyone else thinks S&S is better than P&P, or if I'm just without good memory.

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 02:14:52 2013 No.3975988

>>3975928
He's absolutely fantastic, I haven't read the articles yet but looking forward to it greatly. I've been checking in on that movie about every two weeks for the past year it seems and there's been no discernible progress. I really hope it happens. It could be so fantastic. I could also imagine it being awful given the crazy source material but it will be quite an experience either way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 02:19:52 2013 No.3975996 >>3975599 >>3975740 Do you like it? For me was really bored but someone told me that it's about nazis and then change a little

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 02:48:53 2013 No.3976063

>>3975996
Ehh, I don't think the nazi comparison is a really an analogy that fits. It's like "oh there's a metaphor for hard bad things in life, it must be related to nazis." The Plague was weird, it seemed boring half of the time and then at certain parts it was just spark up and everything would fit together and be really impactful. The twist at the end is so dumb though. Really fucking dumb. "The writer of this book has been kept a secret, until know. The writer of the book is... the protagonist!" Jesus Christ.

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 03:26:52 2013 No.3976136 [DELETED]

>>3975586
Gibson and pretextual constructivist theory

“Sexual identity is fundamentally dead,” says Lacan; however, according to Finnis[1] , it is not so much sexual identity that is fundamentally dead, but rather the dialectic, and therefore the stasis, of sexual identity. The characteristic theme of the works of Gibson is the fatal flaw, and eventually the genre, of materialist reality. However, if postcultural narrative holds, we have to choose between pretextual constructivist theory and deconstructivist capitalism.

The primary theme of von Ludwig’s[2] model of dialectic neocultural theory is a structural reality. The characteristic theme of the works of Gibson is not discourse as such, but subdiscourse. Therefore, Sontag uses the term ‘pretextual constructivist theory’ to denote a mythopoetical paradox.

Foucault suggests the use of modernism to challenge hierarchy. In a sense, Debord uses the term ‘pretextual constructivist theory’ to denote the role of the poet as writer.

The premise of postcultural narrative holds that government is part of the economy of art. However, an abundance of theories concerning not narrative, but prenarrative may be discovered.

Werther[3] implies that the works of Gibson are postmodern. Thus, a number of discourses concerning modernism exist.

Lacan uses the term ‘subdialectic theory’ to denote the bridge between narrativity and society. Therefore, the subject is contextualised into a modernism that includes art as a whole.

Anonymous Sun Jul 28 07:38:52 2013 No.3976430
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finished the drawing of the three in a few days, now reading this one. the tower fever got me.

but not a lot of people seem to read the dark tower. at least not the people I know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 08:12:52 2013 No.3976462 File: 35 KB, 385x500, 519ZMQMHD5L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX385_SY500_CR,0,0,385,500_SH20_OU02_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 200 or so pages into. Bridge is not destroyed yet

Screwtape !!tdBUE9PLvpz Sun Jul 28 08:29:54 2013 No.3976492

>>3976136
I'd like to read that if it were an actual paper though
you could go into Burckhardt too, even

still reading D&P but I'm skimming a little more cos people keep saying the end is more important even though Foucault writes really nicely and builds his thesis for the rest of the work there
I think Foucault is more important than even people who give him credit give him credit for and I think a lot of people skim his work but I don't know

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 14:28:52 2013 No.3977212 >>3975586 HP: Prisoner of Azkaban And no, I am not 12...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 14:59:52 2013 No.3977268 Crime and Punishment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:05:52 2013 No.3977274 Beckett's 3 novels. Just finished Molloy and I am now on Mallone Dies

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:12:53 2013 No.3977289 File: 29 KB, 852x480, 1374762607371.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975787 >He likes to hit on girls. >He actually physically hits them. I think you're doing it wrong mang.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:26:52 2013 No.3977301 >>3977289 Is that Tao Lin?

>>	Omar B !xeS.CIM.Jk Sun Jul 28 15:29:53 2013 No.3977306 >>3975787 You sound like a really pleasant person. Knocking stuff out of people's hands because you don't like it for some reason. 1/10 for Human interaction powers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:35:52 2013 No.3977315 >>3975586 is this some kind of meme? saw this thread yesterday too

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:38:52 2013 No.3977319 Nausea by Sartre

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:48:52 2013 No.3977350 >>3975996 I'm enjoying it. Surely not the best book i've ever read but it's at least readable, i also like La Peste more than La Nausée.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:55:52 2013 No.3977364 File: 55 KB, 450x338, 1368390572138.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rome's Last Citizen: Life and Legacy of Cato

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 15:57:52 2013 No.3977374 Notes from the Underground I feel like I'm reading a spaghetti thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:00:52 2013 No.3977380 >>3977374 lel it's next on my to read book better not be r9k tier

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:02:52 2013 No.3977390 File: 108 KB, 614x409, wt1BsFH.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Catch-22 John Dies at the End Loving both of them

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:11:52 2013 No.3977415 The Complete Essays of Michel De Montaigne

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:13:53 2013 No.3977421 File: 90 KB, 160x120, dogbert.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3977364 I'm reading Terra Nostra.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:19:52 2013 No.3977444 File: 187 KB, 886x999, Mistaken_Identity_by_ken_wong.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just started reading the Dice Man, but I've only read around 50 pages so I can't say what I think about it yet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:24:53 2013 No.3977455 >>3977444 no1currs anywayz :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:26:53 2013 No.3977460 >>3977455 i kno ur mum currs ;p

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:27:52 2013 No.3977463 The Golden Compass. Read it (but not the other two) when I was a kid, and decided to go back and read the whole series. I find Pullman's prose to be a bit blunt, but I generally like it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:38:52 2013 No.3977492 >>3975586 we are our brain, Dick Swaab Seven pillars of wisdom, TE lawrence the enchantress, michael scott (for relaxing)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:39:52 2013 No.3977496 >>3977380 it is

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 16:54:52 2013 No.3977528 >>3977444 as far as my opinion goes, it's pretty good, but at one point you just really want him to end.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 17:03:53 2013 No.3977561 getting tired of sartre's bullshit in nausea

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 17:20:52 2013 No.3977630 On The Road by Jack Kerouac and The Maias by Eça de Queirós.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 17:28:52 2013 No.3977664 Prose Edda reporting in.

>>	Screwtape !!tdBUE9PLvpz Sun Jul 28 17:31:53 2013 No.3977677 File: 347 KB, 1298x1201, astronaut_book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Asimov's Guide to the Bible (New Testament)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 17:33:52 2013 No.3977684 4chan

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 18:45:52 2013 No.3977877 Just finished Crime and Punishment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 19:36:52 2013 No.3978048 >>3975631 Because they're good?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 19:39:52 2013 No.3978060 Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?: A Debate

>>	pineapple !!etjUP7/V3a6 Sun Jul 28 19:44:52 2013 No.3978074 >>3975649 what would you recommend for getting into pataphysics?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 23:09:53 2013 No.3978581 Starship Troopers. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 06:49:54 2013 No.3979314 File: 19 KB, 360x360, d77.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3976136 http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ I'm reading A Storm of Swords, TV-tie in edition. Most of the other editions have pleb maps.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:00:53 2013 No.3979417 >>3977374 I felt like it was a mixture of nineteenth century fight club and 4chan. Loved it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:02:54 2013 No.3979423 How to win friends and influence people. I want to be social when I start college.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:07:53 2013 No.3979430 Oliver Twist Epic of Gilgamesh And for uni: Myth in the Ancient World some of Plutarch's Lives >>3975586 Are you enjoying it op? I'm in a very small minority that loves those books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:08:53 2013 No.3979431 >>3979423 that seems like a book on how to be a sleazy douche. which is perfect for college

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:18:53 2013 No.3979439 Invisible Man, Ellison

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:17:54 2013 No.3979649 900 pages into ADwD Enjoying it, but will be glad when its finished as I have more interesting novels to read

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:25:54 2013 No.3979661 >>3975586 >you will never meet this qt on public transport who just so happens to be reading your favourite book Feels bad man

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:29:53 2013 No.3979668 >>3979661 If Atlas Shrugged is your favourite book, then you might as well as castrate yourself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:30:53 2013 No.3979671 File: 47 KB, 330x480, oscar_wilde_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Picture of Dorian gray. Nigger knows how to write dialogue

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:30:53 2013 No.3979673 File: 94 KB, 332x400, ayn-rand-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3979668 Too intellectual 4 you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:32:53 2013 No.3979677 File: 42 KB, 500x354, brain-problems.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3979668 solid argument m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:38:53 2013 No.3979684 >>3979314 >TV-tie in edition why would you do that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:38:53 2013 No.3979686 >>3979661 I like the freckles on her shoulders.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:39:54 2013 No.3979688 >>3975586 Not enough child rape. I am a progressive. >>3979681

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:39:54 2013 No.3979689 Crime and Punishment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:40:54 2013 No.3979692 >>3979688 Would Jew fuck off?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 22:55:54 2013 No.3981813 File: 41 KB, 325x496, ItsTotallyOkayToBeADouchebag.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975586 How the fuck did she read that far into that piece of shit? I got to page three hundred and had to quit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 22:58:09 2013 No.3981824 >>3981813 Oh, and I'm reading the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. It's breddy gud, just as long as you don't expect too much of it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:40:54 2013 No.3982439 Dragons of a vanished moon, been on a slight dragonlance kick, also reading Feynman's QED and Skinner's Walden 2

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 01:50:54 2013 No.3982462 File: 360 KB, 884x1200, Vlad_Taltos_by_ShardGlass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Vlad Taltos series. Vlad is a fucking badass.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 03:57:54 2013 No.3982667 File: 114 KB, 1440x900, 1353213491081.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Hunger Games

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 03:58:54 2013 No.3982670 >>3981813 I read the book in a week, it really isnt as "intense" as it looks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 03:58:54 2013 No.3982671 >>3982462 Yeah I enjoyed those two. Good shit. Currently reading Dubliners.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 03:59:54 2013 No.3982673 1q84. Almost finished the third book, this is the best work I've ever read.

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:25:54 2013 No.3982724

New to reading.
Finished crime and punishment, metamorphosis, the stranger, breakfast at tiffany, old man and the sea, steppenwolf, women in dunes, alchemist, brothers karamazov
Reading: les misarables and man without qualities(fav so far)
Is this good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:28:54 2013 No.3982737 >>3979684 Did you miss the part about other editions having pleb maps? Well, they do and they look like some fucking vector art. E.g. one map lacks the river that connects the lake by Torrhen's Square (Cold Lake?) to the sea. Unbearable!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:30:54 2013 No.3982744 >>3982724 >new to reading >reads classics I hope you're enjoying it m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:31:54 2013 No.3982749 >>3975586 >reading Ayn Rand >on public transit Is this supposed to be ironic?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:32:54 2013 No.3982750 >>3975587 Have fun with the begat sections.

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:39:54 2013 No.3982769
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>>3982724
I thought I was the only one that jumped balls deep in to classics when I first started.

It's intimidating as hell, and I don't understand what the hell is going on most of the time.

I sometimes just want to go and read arry poer or something equally as easy reading.

But I will battle on. One day, I will understand what is actually going on in a book.

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 04:55:55 2013 No.3982816
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Ah, yes my fellow patricians, with this post here we have the perfect example of a plebeian attempting to look hip and "with it" by posting a picture of a young woman who seems to be a... Oh what are they called... Ah Yes, a "Q T 3.14," or "cutie pie" just because she is on a public transit with a copy of Ayn Rand's seminal work.

Well, I must say, I shrugged. It's complete pleb garbage if you ask me, and worst of all it's considered by so many to be high literature, but usually only by the baristas at the local coffee houses who dropped out of college in there second year of pursuing a liberal arts degree. Hah!

Oh yes, I've see dregs of miss Rand's work in the hands of many a dredlocked young man behind the counter of Cafe Nervosa during his 15 minute break.

I mean really, why would you read on a bus ride, unless you were only doing it for attention? What a sad lonely cry for help, if the only way to get people to attempt a conversation starter is to have a copy of Ayn Rand as a little test for young men to apply themselves to your intellect by seeing if they in fact are familiar with that, ahem, "work" of "literature."

I am not however saying that those who use public transit are beneath me, I have to admit every now and then I too like to go slumming, in fact my brother Niles and I went on an expedition on the Seattle public transportation system just a few years ago, just to soak in some of the local color.

And yes, it was quite "colorful" indeed, given the multicultural diversity of our fair city.

But I digress, if you were really going to go somewhere and read on the public transit, why read something so typical? Why not spicy things up and read James Joyce's Ulysses, that's seem very original!

Thanks for your post Anonymous!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 05:00:54 2013 No.3982825 >>3975586 anyone else find girl in the OP really attractive?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 05:09:54 2013 No.3982843 File: 39 KB, 208x320, Taipei Tao Lin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Taipei. I like it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 05:20:55 2013 No.3982861 File: 124 KB, 311x475, 561413.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Really good so far, I highly recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 05:26:54 2013 No.3982870 >>3978074 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide by Andrew Hugill.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 19:49:48 2013 No.3984516 Michael Jackson's michaelbigoraphy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 20:20:47 2013 No.3984568 The Tin Drum. It's the third time I read it. I just love that book, and those Kashubian adulterous characters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 20:26:46 2013 No.3984579 >>3982843 same here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 20:37:48 2013 No.3984597 Gardens of the moon Loving it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:17:46 2013 No.3984659 >>3984597 Reading Norwegian Wood again. I hadn't noticed how similar this is to Demian or The steppenwolf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:24:51 2013 No.3984679 File: 12 KB, 175x267, 175px-TheShadowOfTheWind[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pretty good so far. The prose is captivating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:29:46 2013 No.3984698 File: 650 KB, 1459x2244, Step 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975586 Fist philosophy book, I figured it was the right place to start.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:35:48 2013 No.3984709 File: 9 KB, 200x300, 200px-Cormac_McCarthy_NoCountryForOldMen[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] First McCarthy and enjoying it so far. I also will start reading some of Plato's dialogues tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:38:48 2013 No.3984722 American Psycho I'm really enjoying it currently.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:49:48 2013 No.3984757 >>3984698 What do you think so far?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:51:49 2013 No.3984760 >>3975787 >Atlas Shrugged >Shit go somewhere else socialist pig Ill keep whats mine, you won't take it from me

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:54:47 2013 No.3984768

>>3982724
>The Brothers Karamazov
just skip to Rebellion and The Great Inquisitor and Devil
I'm saving you a ton of time here
the rest is boring nonsense about hyper christian russians
it's SUCH a bore
>muh existentialism
yeah yeah, still boring as shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 21:54:47 2013 No.3984769 >>3984698 It is. Goodluck with your journey into philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:10:45 2013 No.3984826 File: 33 KB, 247x400, dublineses seix barral origen joyce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975599 Finished. Now starting with Dubliners.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:18:45 2013 No.3984860 >>3984760 atlas shrugged is shit. im sure you earned all that you have on your own and no one helped huh? Your parents or teachers or govt never helped. You amassed all your wealth on a deserted island by yourself

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:20:46 2013 No.3984866

>>3984860
>parents never helped you
they willingly sacrificed what they had. They were not told to have children, and they did not have to raise me. They chose to. Their choice
>teachers never helped you
They get paid to teach. That's their job you fucking idoit
>gov't never helped you
No, because my parents actually have jobs and don't need government support for being lazy cunts

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:27:45 2013 No.3984894 >>3984866 >implying ppl without jobs are lazy what i thought. privilaged asshole. How does the silver spoon taste?

Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:37:45 2013 No.3984934

>>3984894
>privileged
hahah, yes, I should feel sorry for others because my parents weren't lazy
top lel
people who don't have jobs don't have qualifications due to them being lazy in life
its really hard to get a job when the only thing you did was flip burgers for two weeks at McDonalds in high school. I guess we should feel sorry for them and go ahead and give them a bank to run, eh?
No, I don't care about those who are born to poor parents. Just because you are born poor does not mean you live a life being poor. If anything, they should use being poor and their families dependence on others as initiative to not ever have to be dependent of anyone again. Your bleeding heart INCREASED laziness and poverty. HAHAHA
My spoon tastes good

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:42:45 2013 No.3984949 Labyrinths by Borges Tractatus by Wittgenstein Before that, got about 100 pages in to Gravity's Rainbow (again) then gave up (again).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 22:51:45 2013 No.3984978 >>3984860 It's a family's world out there, buddy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:00:45 2013 No.3985017 The Dragon Reborn, by Robert Jordan. Third in the Wheel of Time series.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:16:45 2013 No.3985059 >>3984934 While I do agree that people deserve what they worked for Atlas Shrugged is still a shit book because it's written by a woman. It's ideas in entirety can be summarized in a third of the writing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:25:46 2013 No.3985089 File: 9 KB, 250x344, BkDarconvillesCatM.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] amazing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:30:45 2013 No.3985110 Journey to the end of the night. Honestly, the prose is absolutely magnificent. I can't believe it translated so well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:33:45 2013 No.3985124 Rather new to reading anything of actual substance beyond a textbook. Les Miserables. Pretty good so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 23:33:45 2013 No.3985128 I think I'm like 3 or 4 books away from finishing Malazan Book of the Fallen

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:01:46 2013 No.3985444
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>>3975586
>Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants and the odd corrupt politician or two.

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:09:45 2013 No.3985453

Just started reading V. today, it's my first Pynchon. I kind of want to read his stuff in order just because I already have V. and The Crying of Lot 49 and I'm sure I'll want to read Gravity's Rainbow.

V. is pretty cool so far, a little bit strange. So far I especially like the passage about mirror-time and real-time in a place of dissatisfied beings.

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:31:45 2013 No.3985486
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I suppose it's interesting.

Trying some more Hesse because I liked the surreal sequence in Steppenwolfe. Especially the Robot War and his meeting Mozart. Basically I loved the idea of the eternal. The humor of those who live there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:33:46 2013 No.3985488 >>3985059 >shit because the author is a woman And all your opinions have lost validity and your posting abilities have been revoked for excessive stupidity.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:40:45 2013 No.3985502 I'm about halfway through Mason & Dixon. The prose is consistently really amazing, and it's really hilarious and poignant with great jokes and characterization. One of the best books I've ever read, possibly the Great American Novel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:42:45 2013 No.3985506 >>3984934 so you're advice to people born poor is "stop being poor" why hasn't anyone thought of this before

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:45:45 2013 No.3985510

>>3985506
some people have...mainly the 20% of poor people who as you put it "stop being poor" and move up to a higher income bracket...the new york times just had a big ass article on this the other day... they mainly did it to point out class mobility is lowest in the worthless hill billy states in the south but they bring it on themselves by being religious and voting republican so fuck 'em

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:48:45 2013 No.3985519 Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Understanding Intercultural Communication - Ting-Toomey, Chung (textbook) Bible erry day

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:48:45 2013 No.3985521 >>3985510 ok, what about the 80 percent who don't what about someone born to unemployed parents in a really impoverished area with bad schools and a high crime rate

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:50:45 2013 No.3985526

>>3985519
i wish there was a version of 7 habits of highly effective people that was read by a professional audiobook reader and not the author...he's all breathy n shit, i know that kind of breathy pause is used effectively by religious/cult leaders for inspiration but for reading a damn books it's wack

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:51:45 2013 No.3985528 >>3985521 yeah, what about them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:54:45 2013 No.3985533 >>3985486 That's strange, the surreal bits were my least favourite.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:54:45 2013 No.3985536 >>3985526 Im reading the actual book, so never heard the audiobook

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 01:57:45 2013 No.3985539 >>3985521 it's not my fault if some unemployed bums have a bunch of kids they can't afford

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 18:46:46 2013 No.3987724 Michael Jackson's michaelbiography

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:31:46 2013 No.3987828

Hey look guys its an ugly bitch reading a stupid book that's written by a stupid ugly bitch! What a coincidence!

Also Rand's work is mainly flawed in my most humble opinion by making everything so black and white. There is a happy medium some where between being completely and solely self interested and being completely interested in other well being and gainful employment. I want to do well for myself but I also want my fellow men and fellow workers to do well also.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 10:13:48 2013 No.3990010 File: 154 KB, 321x258, f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3987828 I have a feeling someone is going to call you an "edgy teenager" simply because reddit has been spilling here lately

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 15:07:48 2013 No.3990577 File: 86 KB, 186x288, Rifleman1935.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Enjoying it. Next up is One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 07:27:49 2013 No.3992931 Game of Thrones my kindle broke so now i cant read it isnt that fun

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 07:33:49 2013 No.3992939 house of leaves also i live in a fairly large weird apartment over a funeral home and i'm reading it exclusively at night by candlelight shit is awesome

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