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What are you reading, plebs?

>> No.6518533

The Most High -- Blanchot

>> No.6518539

the best of sj perelman

>> No.6518541
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A Clash of Kings

>> No.6518550

>>6518522
The phenomenology of spirit

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>>6518522
I'm gonna start into Nausea. I have no idea what to expect, and I know basically nothing about his philosophy (I've heard "radical freedom" in conjunction with him). Any guidance?

>> No.6518565

I'm high as fuck trying to read about Theoretical Arithmetic and Pythagorean theory,

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>>6518522

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>>6518522
shitty gay erotica

seriously

>> No.6518578

>>6518550
how's that going for you? what's your strategy? i was hardly able to make it to page 100 before i gave up in defeat. i'm gonna give it another more serious go once my school schedule dies down.

>> No.6518581

>>6518572
Dude, I tried reading The Soft Machine once. It's the only book I consider to have "defeated" me. How are you finding this one? I still want to understand him.

>> No.6518592

>>6518581
its my first Burroughs
(bad choice maybe) but i don't find it too hard, except for the last pages, fuck.

maybe because he don't use the cut up in this one.

>> No.6518596

Ressurection from Tolstoy

>> No.6518598

Aeschylus - Agamemnon
William Shakespeare - Comedy of Errors
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
Nietzsche - The Antichrist
Frantz Fannon - Black Skin, White Masks
Jacob Burckhardt - Judgements on History and

Historians
Fontenelle - Conversations on the Plurality of

Worlds
Laura Mulvey - Fetishism and Curiosity
Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology

>> No.6518603

>>6518592
>no cut-up
Oh, so you were spared. I can't shake the suspicion that The Soft Machine is incomprehensible even without cut-up. Or it would just read like a shitty sci-fi novel.

>> No.6518604

>>6518522
Ulysses

>> No.6518609

the technological society - ellul

and

the myth of the machine - mumford

>> No.6518616

>>6518598
You are just naming books. Which book are you reading right now?

>> No.6518623

Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas

I've been a /g/ fag for too long, have a lot of classics/required reading to catch up on.

>> No.6518635

i am a cat - soseki natsume

so funny. recommended for friends who don't read often. also, this has to be listened to once a day while reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dbz4BpiPmU

>> No.6518700

I finished reading The Stranger. I liked it

>> No.6518715

>>6518522
I am half way through the brothers karamazov and I like it so far. I am also trying out re:Joyce, a podcast that goes over everything in Ulysses.

>> No.6518727

>>6518623
Former /g/entooman here. I like reading more since women are more inclined to like a literate man than a tech savvy one. Also, I wanted to expand my own thought process through Buddhism, and this seems like the board most apt for that.

>> No.6518732

Love in the Time of Cholera

I really like it so far

>> No.6518734

>>6518522

Dance to the Music of Time

aka one of the 2 or 3 longest novels ever written in English

you guys have probably never heard of it because of your endless circle jerk of Proust

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>>6518734

>> No.6518799

>>6518734
This is one of the cringiest posts I've read on this board today.

>> No.6518816

The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse.

It's OK I guess.

>> No.6518819

>>6518623
The count of Monte Christo is one of my favorite novels, a treat and a delight.

>> No.6518830

>>6518715
I'm the quarters of the way through, it only gets better! >>6518715

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>>6518819
I cannot understand people like you.

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>>6518819
>a treat and a delight
who are you, nabokov or something
who talks like that, about books, save that glorious man
i want to date you, if you sincerely feel that way

>> No.6518846

The Illuminatis Trilogy
it just namedropped Stirner and I had a giggle

>> No.6518862

The Crying of Lot 49

I'm about halfway through and will finish in a short while. It's my first time reading Pychon, and I think it's an amazing read. Intelligenly funny at times, and it just seems like the plot grows thicker with each page.

>> No.6519009

Goethe - Faust
>so Faust now that you've made your pact withh satan what will you do first?
>im gonna bang the first ugly peasant girl I see!
>mephisto sighs heavily

>> No.6519020

>>6518616
All of them. The first five are all just about done and the last four were all started this week.

>> No.6519029

>>6519020
I call this bullshit. By your logic, you can be reading all the books in the world in a week by reading their first page.

>> No.6519042

>>6519029
>By your logic, you can be reading all the books in the world in a week by reading their first page.

What? I think you've misunderstood.

The first five books on the list all have less than fifty pages remaining, I'll likely finish them by Monday or Tuesday. I'll finish The Antichrist tonight and, if I get around to it, Agamemnon. Usually when I'm on the verge of finishing a book, I'll let myself start another book. And the cycle continues.

>> No.6519049

going to finish up van gogh's letters today.

great read. even better than i thought it'd be.

>> No.6519057

>>6518734
>endless circle jerk of Proust

Endless circle jerk, yes. But Proust? The circle jerking here is usually all over DFW and Pynchon.

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Aquinas by Edward Feser

>> No.6519068

>>6519057
That person is retarded. Ignore him.

>> No.6519072

>>6519057

he is showing the namedroppers how fake they are by namedropping to spite them

dynamite logic all round

>> No.6519078

>>6518565
BRUH are you me?

>> No.6519081

>>6519049
did you learn anything about art?

>> No.6519086

Looking at reading Ulysses but I don't know if the Iliad is a pre-requisite. Inb4 "read the Greeks"

>> No.6519096

>>6518581
I finished it, there's a lucid part somewhere in the middle. I got into the groove of it after a while, but it's pretty far out man.

>> No.6519110

>>6518522
Armenian history.

>> No.6519119

>>6518541
ASoS is the best one anon

>> No.6519127

>>6518862
It grows past the last page even. It never stops growing.

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>>6519119
>best
>George RR Martin

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>>6519163
>mfw all these niggas jealous of the fat man's success and superior writing

>> No.6519187

>>6519184
You don't need superior writing to be successful.

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All the Dune books put into one long Dune book.

>> No.6519212

Propaganda by Jacques Ellul. I just finished The Technological Society by him and wanted to read some more. It is pretty good so far.

>> No.6520777

Authority - Jeff Vandermeer

Bretty gud so far. A lot of people said it was a step down from Annihilation, but I think it's just different. Helps that I'm not reading them consecutively, but I'm still having fun.

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Beautiful cover, interesting story up to now.

>> No.6521017

>>6519078
Maybe. But in a different reality.

>> No.6521038

Carpenter's Gothic, by William Gaddis.

>> No.6521448

Roma Eterna
It's an alt history where Rome never falls. A bit cheesy in some places, but overall enjoyable. Still, some things make me roll my eyes, for example there's mention of Moses getting BTFO by the Egyptians and the Jews making communism happen a few millennia early, but this doesn't seem to change anything at all, the major divergence in the timeline is the ineffective emperor who would be the one to let Rome fall dying in a hunting accident so his competent brother takes over. Never mind that there's not really any evidence of the Jewish slavery thing to begin with, but whatever, the author's last name is Silverberg. Beyond that, I'm getting tired of someone going 'GEE WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF THINGS TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY, THE GODS SURE DO PLAY TRICKS ON US' every chapter.

Still, a fun read.

>> No.6521699

The Way of the World

>> No.6521705

The Sot-Weed Factor by Barth. So far I like the poem better.

>> No.6522590

>>6518522
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
No Longer Human - Dazai
The Gunslinger - King

>> No.6522604

>>6521038
don't think I've ever wanted to punch a fictional character as badly as I wanted to punch Paul

>> No.6522607

>>6521038
What do you think so far? It was my first Gaddis and I thought it was an pretty interesting concept and a good little book.

>> No.6522644

>>6518522
>reading
im drinking. i only read during the day sober because i drink every night, and i work most of the time so im only reading maybe 20 pages a month if any. i really dont give a shit about that anymore

>> No.6522651

>>6522607
>>>/x/

>> No.6522655

>>6522590
>farewell

great book

>> No.6522659

Go tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Not really enjoying it

>> No.6522701

>>6518522
moon palace

>> No.6522739

Hyperion.

>> No.6523078

>>6521448
I just finished this book, and I take it back, I don't know what the fuck I just read.


Jews literally hijacked and crashed the ending.

>> No.6523146

Pushing Ice.

>> No.6523160

>>6523078
Rome against Judea, Judea against Rome.

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Struggling through Gravity's Rainbow. This book feels, often, too cryptic to possibly mean anything. I am not for a second doubting its genius, there is at least one piece of brilliant prose every page. The writing alone lives up to the hype. But the messages, there are so many, so many unfinished or trailing off, I wonder if they all fit together somehow. It is less the plot or plots that throw me off than the ruminations and philosophizing of Weissman and the Schwarzkommando among other side characters. It feels like much of this book is written to mimic a sense of profundity without actually meaning anything at all - not that this is a bad thing, whatsoever - but it may also just be going way over my head.

Anyways I'm having fun. Fantastic book no matter how it ends. Loving the prose, the imagery and the more concrete themes. I feel as if Enzian boiled the book down to a thesis during his inner monologue on the motorcycle to find Pavel.

>This was was not political at all ... dictated instead by the needs of technology

>> No.6523308

>>6523289
everyone goes through that. once you get to the end you will smugly be laughing at your current self

>> No.6523315

>>6523289
I want a first edition so bad, fuck resellers and those $500 price tags

>> No.6523320

>>6523308
Oh I don't doubt I'll be laughing.

>> No.6523322

>>6523320
- I'm just skeptical I'll have any fulfilling insight ..

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just finished Against the Day. It took me the whole semester to get through because it was a rough one (physics undergrad). What an amazing book though; it's one of those where when you've finished it and set it down you really do feel like the characters keep going on and doing things into infinity.
>>6523322
if you don't it's your fault pal.

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Just finished We Think the World of You by JR Ackerley, now reading pic related.

I didn't care for Ackerley's writing--found it pretty bland and repetitive. Made me want a dog, though.

>> No.6523585

The Nonexistant Knight/The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino

>> No.6523590

>>6518561
it's a novel by a 21 year old. it's probably got half shit you have already thought about in it, p.s. it does.
As most people have said it feels like a long stretch even though it's short, there aren't many characters, the themes aren't complex. If it was published today it wouldn't go far, not badly written (or translated from french) but dry with only a few major plot points. Worth the read if not only as a comparison to Camus and to remind you that you won't write anything as worth while as Sartre did before 21.

>> No.6523835

Moby Dick. It started out as such a great and engrossing read with Ishmael and is pal Queequeg, but I'm a quarter of the way through and I realize now that I did not know what I was getting myself into. Holy moley.

>> No.6524931

IJ and Zaregoto vol2

>> No.6525140

251 pages into The Grapes of Wrath.

It's very good.

>> No.6525148

>>6518846
Is it good?

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I read this. Does this count as a sci-fi?