What are you reading?

>>1723629
>cringe.jpg

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>>1723629
>reading
>books

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>>1723629
Right now, the Essential Kierkegaard and White Nights

>>1723629

Blood, Goats, and Children: A History of Modern Pornography.

A biography on Julius Caesar.

Currently reading Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking
Penguin ver.

>>1723894
For some reason I find this image to be very, very grating. Very punchable face this guy has.

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>>1723919
me too senpai

I remember my first week of university and actually doing the set & additional reading.

>>1723629
For uni or pleasure?

Like 20 books at the same fucking time not including research for papers for the former, Demons by Dostoyevsky for the latter.

>>1723629
this thread atm senpai

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about to start this

>>1723894
go back to /pol/ and yes i know you are from /pol/, the image is a redpill guy from youtube

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>>1723629
The Book of Lord Shang. I'm still amazed how 400-300 B.C. Chinese philosophy is so much better than anything from Greece.

If you want a quick summary of the book:
>Warring State period.
>Shang Yang wanted to be a minister. His home Wei didn't want him so he worked for Ch'in instead.
>Told the duke of Ch'in to stop being a pussy and that if he wanted an empire, he had to listen to him
>Started his own wierd dictatorship where the state ruled over everything and peasants had to do everything for the state
>Ch'in became strong as fuck
>He eventually conquered Wei
>Eventually, the duke died
>Duke's son was an asshole and killed Shang

Fun.

>>1724836

I'm taking a class on Modern Asia aka the only time us westerners give a fuck, but the East is incredibly interesting. China has existed as a consolidated state for about 1500 years, yet people act like the Roman empire is the shit and nothing else matters

>>1723629
Holy shit I am reading the exact same books as you! What a coincidence! Are you going to the Communist banquet this Weekend in Moscow? I can't wait for it. It's gonna be my first time in Mother Russia :D

>>1724888
memes aside one of my professors is about to go to moscow for a soviet history conference

they might have to leave the country because putin's government pushes a very strict interpretation of soviet history

Pre-Socratics, Hegel, and Schopie.

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is SO BORING. I want to get into it like I did with Ben Franklin's autobiography but it's just SO lame and dry and uninteresting. I don't wanna know so much about troop movements and the rivers that flow through Tennessee and all that shit. I've given up on it twice now and I'm still not halfway through.

>>1725002
Why are you reading it?

>>1723916
Can't find a source

>>1723629
Calculus by Larson
Fluid Mechanics by Hibbler

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wtf i love trains now

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It's pretty good, but I have to say I'm not that much of a fan of natural deduction. The absurdity thing has no place in formal logic.

Stirner.

Not even trolling, I want to see what's behind the memes for myself, then I'll read Nietzsche's philosophical corpus and a lot of Camus.

>>1723629
The Iliad. I'm finding it hard to get into though. And diactylic hexamater isn't coming easy to me.

Anyone got any tips?

>>1725860
Read some intuitionistic logic then

>>1725869
Focus on the badassery.

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It's noooooothing like the movie. It's really creepy and I'm having a hard time believing it's nonfiction

>>1725874
I still like mathematical logic, it's just that I don't particularly like the deduction method of natural deduction. There are several other deduction methods or proof methods I enjoy.

>>1725878

The reading is what gets in the way. Picture it like a movie. and try not to keep track of the number of times it says "...and he bit the dust, his eyes closed forever, and his armor fell, ringing around him."

I really don't understand people who borrow 10 monographs at once. There is no way you can read them all in the allowed loan period and at the same time make those books unaccessible to others who would actually read them.

To answer your question OP, currently I am reading The Habsburg Monarchy: From Enlightenment to Eclipse by Robin Okey.

A Genius For War: The German Army And General Staff, 1807–1945

>>1723966

Also reading this. Goldworthy's style is highly informative although can get a bit dull when he discusses the minutiae. The first 100 pages are a slog.

>>1725909
>There is no way you can read them all in the allowed loan period and at the same time make those books unaccessible to others who would actually read them
Not OP but does your uni have super short loan periods or something? I can hang on to most ILL books for a month and I usually order 5-10 at a time and I often read one a day or more. You either read too slow or your library sucks dick.

>>1725909
Cross reference and ofcourse posing are possible reasons.

>>1725909
If you study History, you'll get very specific assignments that you will have months to work on, looks at the books he got, My Life in Stalinist Russia isn't specific
Speaking from experience, you'll rarely get more than 20 pages that you will really use for your paper in this kind of books
Also most libraries have more than one copy of the most useful books.

Some shitty Japanese WN novels.

>>1726443
>WN novels
*Web novels.

>>1725397
because I wanted to read autobiographies of historical figures
and because I liked Ben Franklin's so much

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>>1723629
I'm in the middle of Atlas Shrugged, The Quran and Hadiths, Waking up by Sam Harris. and whatever my professors make me read for class

>>1726607
Kill your professor

>>1723629
the catcher in the rye and watamote

Romance of Three Kingdoms.

>>1726715
is it interesting and readable? i was considering starting on the moss roberts version but never did

>>1726758
I must say that I only just started reading it. But the first few chapters are certainly very interesting and promising. Though I wish I knew a little more about the whereabouts of Chinese cities.

This website.
Though seriously, I haven't been reading very much recently. I need to force myself to use my textbooks. This semester just hasn't been very good for me.

>>1726804
>tfw playing victoria 2 has prepared me for this situation

War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin

>>1726607
>Zoolander
Stop while you can. Also you should probably stop reading Atlas Shrugged, but you'll probably do that on your own given how fucking awful that book is.

>>1726804
Tough tits. Many of the cities & provinces of the Han Period have changed names. Though famous locations such as Luoyang, Chang'an (currently Xian), Jinzhou, Chengdu are still around and visitable (well, except Luoyang, its a dirty industrial city nowadays.)