>age >location >current book you're reading

25
here
Penis and Balls sundae
It's good

>>8795692
20, Ithaca, Neuromancer
I'm early in but it's pretty alright so far.

18
Central Europe
The big Gatsby
It's fine, however there are a lot of english words i'm not familiar with, which makes it a bit harder to read. i have kindle with a dictionary though, so it's not really a problem.

20
Chicago
The Castle by Franz Kafka
It's interesting.

>>8795692
20
Portugal
Trout Fishing In America
it's damn great, lads

>>8795692
20
Mexico
The Imaginary Institution of Society by Cornelius Catoriadis
The Big Rich by Brian Burrough about Texas Oilmen
Homo Zapiens by Viktor Pelevin

So far, so good

>>8795692
23 i think
winland
the giver

its okay, entry lvl utopia stuff. i havent really looked into literature much at all and thought this is a good utopia novel for starters


it is

44
No.
Several, but The King Must Die, at the moment.
Kind of schlocky fun for those starting with the Greeks.

25
Ljubljana
re-reading the First Philosophers, the presocratics

It's very cool because it outlines the beginnings of philosophy and how subsequent philosophers, most notably Plato, build on their theories and the questions they posed.

22
Sweden
Brave New World

Haven't come that far, the opening factory scene left me in a surprisingly disturbed/disgusted mood

>>8795735
>The Castle by Franz Kafka

That's next on my to-read list. How does it compare to his other works?

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>22
>DC
>Moby Dick

I like it, really. The opening chapters were extremely comfy. And I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the novel. The only complaint I have is that the prose can be a bit tedious and superfluous at times. But what do I know? I'm just a brainlet.

>>8795692
23
Indiana
Hopscotch
Loving it so far, has potential to become one of my all time favorites.

>>8795692
23
Mexico
Post Ofiice Girl by Stefan Zweig
Pretty good so far

20
usa
naked lunch

I really like, I've never read anything like it, I can't wait to read more beat literature. It just makes so much sense to me but on the very surface it's objectively nonsense.

Favorite segment so far:
>Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face. They open zoos, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, file elevator cables to one thin wire, turn sewers into the water supply, throw sharks and sting rays, electric eels and candiru into swimming pools (the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman’s cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru’s life-cycle in situ), in nautical costumes ram the Queen Mary full speed into New York Harbor, play chicken with passenger planes and buses, rush into hospitals in white coats carrying saws and axes and scalpels three feet long; throw paralytics out of iron lungs (mimic their suffocations flopping out on the floor and rolling their eyes up), administer injections with bicycle pumps, disconnect artificial kidneys, saw a woman in half with a two-man surgical saw, they drive herds of squealing pigs into the Curb, they shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe their ass with treaties, pacts, alliances.

39
Prague, CZ

Rereading: For Honor We Stand
I adore it.

Sed and Awk
Boring as hell but useful

Syntopicon
Interesting but time consuming

>>8795873
how can anyone like this ? it can't be just the shock value but I don't see anything here

>>8795692
22, Colorado, Station Eleven

It's pretty heavy on the feels.

>>8795873
Gross.

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21
Cambridge, MA
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Béla Zombory-Moldován

It's okay.

>“Ensign! You will present your sword when you report! Perhaps you’re not aware that you’re in the field of battle?”
>I yank my sword out, and endeavor to comply sufficiently with Regulations to stop us from losing the war.

>>8795783
Nice. Parmenides was my favorite to read, though I confess I probably didn't understand him too well. Still need to read the Parmenides dialogue.

>>8795873
my nigga

>>8795692
27
Marseille, France
Pauline by Alexandre Dumas

So far, I'm liking it. It does have some action and not just a series of random stuff happening.

>20
>Winnipeg
>LotR
It's an effort to get through, desu. At points I feel Tolkien's passion for the subject matter shining through and I feel like I get it, but his compulsive need to account for the minutiae of every part of the journey is kind of killing it for me.

>>8796303
I'm reading LotR too!
>23
>Parana, Brazil
>LotR
My main problem is the excess of references to locations and history, and i can't understand that map (the font is too small), but besides that i'm really loving it. Its my first high fantasy book and i really like how "optimistic" Tolkien write is.

btw, they localized all the names to portuguese which i really don't liked (and it probably made it harder for me to memorize, mostly because some names don't work well in my language)

>20
>Southampton, UK
>To the Lighthouse and The Recognitions

I've read about a third of TTL before but ended up putting it aside. Woolf is probably the most impressive writer of prose I've ever read, but then again I'm a pleb who hasn't read much. I'm surprised at how relatable Mr Ramsay is, and how a women was able to render what I assumed to be male-specific thoughts and emotions so vividly.

24
Florida
Musashi

>>8795873
Henry Miller does similar work with more substance.

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>>8795692
26
Neza, México
Pedro Paramo

All those feels and the awesome descriptions.

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>23
>Pernambuco, Brazil
>Dom Quixote, Amadis de Gaula and Gil Vicente's plays

Just doing a good 'ole Iberian tour.

>>8795692
>22
>Quebec
>Plato's Republic.

One of the greatest books ever written, even if it isn't necessarily "fun".

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17
Argentina
Dracula
I can't see where's the good part and I'm about to finish it.

>>8796940
>Dracula
filler, the book

17
Pennsylvania
Heroes Die

It's getting good now that the plot has finally started.

>20
>washington dc
>stoner
bretty good. If I finish it, it will have been the first book I read for fun in 4 years

28
Seattle
Antigone. meh.

>>8795783

Ljubljana is one of those cities that I most want to visit.

>>8795941
Sounds like Hasek. Wasn't aware of this, I'll look it up.

>>8795692
>18
>Australia
>Dead Souls - Enjoying it.

>>8795692
19
Spain
Dead Souls
One of the comfiest books I've read since Confederacy of Dunces but not nearly as entertaining or engaging. i'm forcing myself trough it, I just see no point, nothings happening and I still don't understand whats Chikhikovs angle.

>>8795692
>29
>Ohio
>The Dharma Bums
I love it, it's reminding me of why I everything I owned twice now to move across the country and back when I was younger. I want to do it again, but where to go?

>22
>Nottingham, just moved here
>Saturday Night & Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
It's basically Working Class Banter: the book. Heartily recommended.

>>8798314
enjoy your stay on reddit

18
england
inherent vice

it's... groovy

23
DC
The Gateless Gate

I'm interested in Zen, and this book hits the spot. Love the commentary too; Yamada is obviously convinced of the truth of Zen

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27
NJ
Tsotsi

It's not bad. Maybe the most unlikeable protagonist I've ever read about, but the writing is very suspenseful.

19
Mexico city
Women
"Bukowski"

>>8799095
Stop being young.

>>8799095
>>8799044

>>8799095
I played that character once.

Too bad you're too young for me to help you

>25
>Hungary
>Moby Dick

pretty fucking great desu

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>>8795692
18
Western Hemisphere
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Seven Seas edition)
I actually just finished the first book. It was a pretty fun tale about a girl with a strange imagination. The anime art may be off-putting but the text is 1:1 with the original.

>19
>Ecuador
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The prose is delicious

the average /lit/ poster is male early 20s, hails from a 3rd world spic country, bleak postcommunist eastern europe, or failing that a hick town somewhere in flyover USA

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>>8799163

>>8795692
26

Ohio, USA

Gravity's Rainbow- It's pretty good, it has a very interesting/funny concept, though the math talk is over my head.

>>8795770

It's very entry level.....it's meant for young teenagers. Still a good read though.

>>8795692
18
Israel
Oblomov
Much more draggy than I expected but still quite enjoyable. I'm not even halfway through tho, so I probably haven't reached the real shit yet.

>>8796303
>>8796491

His details are tedious....but honestly, if you've seen the movies, it's actually a bit easier to visualize.

20
Oklahoma
Immortality by Milan Kundera
Just started but seems very promising.

>>8796940

Literally the only good part is the first 1/4 of the book where he escapes from the castle

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>>8799213
>Israel

22

Kentucky

Uhuru. It's a good book with a great concept behind it.

>22
>Spain
>La guerra del fin del mundo by Vargas Llosa.
I am enjoying it quite a lot
>>8796916
Nice

19
Northern Europe
T. Mckenna's Food of the gods

>>8799216
It's really good. Even more ensayistic than Lightness, but less political.

23
Iraq, can't be more specific than that
The Hero With A Thousand Faces; it's good shit senpai, real 'greenpill' shit if you get my drift, opens the perspective on how the collective subconscious constructs narrative and how man understands the world through those narratives

>>8796491
>Paraná
My nigga

reading Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, brilliant, as are all Assis' books

>>8795692
21
Poland
Polska jesień by Jan Józef Szczepański

>>8799595
>>8799044

22
Sweden
Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, having fun reading this one - I've noticed certain character similarities to Ubik by Dick

25
US
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

I've only just begun but I do see why VS-W became a minor writer from that era and hasn't the prominence that some of her friends still enjoy.
It is worthwhile if you are interested in the period and class that she wrote from and about.

It is also a good lesson as to why authors should use paragraph breaks when the speaker changes.

>>8799595
why dont you just write 18 faggot

>19
>Texas
>Way of the Pilgrim
Probably uncovered more wisdom from this book about God and His love for us than any book other than the Bible that I have read so far.

21
Northeast Florida
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor,
and I love it.

>>8796929

20
Quebec
枕草子

>>8795692
24
Czech republic
The Anatomy of Melancholy

I will construct a time machine and travel back to kick Robert Burton's ass. I swear to God, the guy was autistic. The book shows how completely disconnected from reality he was. His vision of a utopia, his personal "Atlantis", is a clusterfuck of unreal notions and ideas that could never translate into reality. On one hand, he demonstrates a decent knowledge of geopolitics and economy, but then he goes full retard saying
"damn, people are poor and sick, but I know the way out! Let's cure and feed everyone!" or
"damn, people are easily corruptible lying cunts, let's build some courts'n'shit to keep them checked", and my favorite
"war is terrible except when it's waged for a good cause, but even then, war is a terrible nasty thing, many young Christians are warmongering, because they want to fight for a cause, but that is nasty and disgusting. Damn, soldiers in armor are cool."

I don't understand this; he was obviously intelligent and read a lot, why is it then that his theses are ignorant and could be bested by cognitive skills of a 15 year old?

Even then, I appreciate his academical approach. Citing source to every fart that gets mentioned. More than anything, the book shows a complex portrayal of his time. What surprises me is how everyone was obsessed with Greeks.

Also
>yellow bile, black bile
>liver kidney lungs
>sad people have dry brains
>when your soul is in your ass you have autism
The four temperaments was such a bullshit, top mental gymnastics. I though they got rid of it much earlier.

>>8795692
21
Czech Republic
The Guermantes Way + Atlas Shrugged
Proust is amazing... Rand I've been reading for almost a year now because it's sooooo fuckiiiiiiing aaaaawfuuuuuul. I just can't get myself to finish it. And I haven't even reached that Galt's dreadful monologue yet.

>Only reading one book at a time

30
Ohio
The Problem with Socialism - Thomas DiLorenzo
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology - Leah Remini

I'm liking them all so far. Troublemaker is much interesting than I thought since I don't pay attention to any of that Hollywood. I've always had a passing interest in Scientology so I didn't expect to learn anything new but I've been surprised.

The Screwtape letters are great. If you're a Christian it's a must read, I'm only a quarter of the way through it and I'm constantly finding myself doing exactly what Screwtape would have wanted for me.

The Problem with Socialism speaks for itself. It's easy to read and understand even for somebody like me that had no real knowledge of economics.

18
Chicago
The world as will and representation
Not a dry as I thought. 7/10 for the writing, 10/10 for content

>>8795692
Age x=(25+0,5*10)/6-(2,2+1,4*2)+18
East-Helsinki, Finland
Confederacy of Dunces (It's pretty funny, I think it can be better and I think it will get better), Putkinotko (Lehtonen is fucking fantastic, haven't even finished and I think this might be the greatest finnish book I've read), Les Illusions Perdues (in the very beginning, not ready to say anything) and The Origins of Order (It's very interesting if you're interested in theoretical biology and overall how the constructions of the world are forming/formed)

>>8799657
are you serious

20+4-2*4=/=18

>>8800182
Dunces is a masterpiece, I hope you enjoy it.

>>8795692
>18
>Great Planes, United States
>Inherent Vice--interesting, sometimes confusing. love the conversational narration

>>8800242
Oh and I guess Portrait of the Artist, which is very good

and The Pickup, which is good (I guess) but so depressing and I hate Julia

>20
>Canada
>Infinite Jest

It's good, I like it. It's not as difficult as I was led to believe, but I've been balls deep in Chaucer studies this whole semester so idk.

23
Brasil
The new science of Politics, Voeglin; Pretty comfy desu

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19
Dallas
The Brothers Karamazov, i like how its divided up. it reminds me of the bible. It's pretty funny sometimes too.

>21
>Portugal
>"Erotism: Death and Sensuality" and "The Sailor Who fell from Grace with the Sea"
Erotism is quite good. I'm at the beginning, but it clarifies many elements of Bataille's books.
Sailor is beautiful. The prose is poetic and very delicate, with carefully crafted analogies and descriptions.

>>8795792
I'm not sure, this is my first Kafka book.

>>8795692
>20
>Colorado
>nothing
I'm an English major and it's sucked the fun out of reading. At least I'll only have to read Gatsby and other high school trash for the rest of my life.

>>8795692

18f
new york
lolita
it makes me horny....

>23
>Mexico
>Books of Blood vol 1 by Clive Barker

Very good, high quality prose even if the ideas are not that engaging so far.

>>8800313
If you truly love reading, it will come back to you.

I got burnt out too, lots of reading as a history major.

But a year after graduation I decided I wanted to read for fun again.

>26
>Dallas, TX
>The Brothers Karamazov

So far, so good. Fyodor Pavlovitch reminds me of my own father and I wish I could be as kind hearted and forgiving as Alyosha. Im on the part where Ivan is reading Alyosha his meme poem.

>>8800334

>18f
> lolita
> f

nobody asked for gender so you know the rules

>>8800262
Whats Voeglin's deal with Gnosticism? Ive only read an essay by him and he was really hard to understand.

>>8800345
true, med school burned me out for 4 years but once you pick a book up you feel the difference between reading for pleasure and for work.

>>8795692
18
Morgantown, West Virginia
The sun also rises
Its good so far, first hemingway I read

>>8800345
Yep, history major too. I didn't pick up a book for probably two years after graduating. My urge to read has slowly worked its way back to beyond what it was in school.

Though I'm back in school now for an education degree and it kind of killed the momentum I had, especially because the reading are just boring studies...

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>24
>Spain
>Las ciudades invisibles, from Calvino

Pretty good so far (half the way through). I love how talented writers can take any seemingly shitty-boring themes, objects and whatsoever and make great deep points out of them.

>>8800355
true story

>>8800365
damn man. at least you know now it will always come back. you won't be in school forever.

25
St. Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom by Schelling
It's a mother fucking bastard and makes me want to shit blood

>>8799098
Accurate. I'm coming to Mexico City this winter break, fun place?

I'm not expecting a yes, but who knows

Why are there so many Czechs on here?


Reee, etc.

19
Ohayou
The Master and Margarita

I'm sorry to admit that I've only been /lit/ for a few months and only been notified of the board because of books like Blood Meridian. I do have most of the highschool readings like 1984 and Catch 22 out of the way, but damn, reading Master and Margarita now is like I've never read a good book in my life. Particularly the chapter on Pontius Pilate and whenever Woland is involved

>24
>Edinburgh
>Daniel Martin, by John Fowles

More accomplished than his previous works, but probably less enjoyable.

24
Southwestern US
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

It's very interesting so far. A mix of Salinger New York and Faulkner stream of consciousness.

>>8800422
I loved the Magus, are any of his other works worth reading?

>>8799523
>can't be more specific than that
t.ISIS

>>8800450
The Collector

>>8795692
>19
>Western Norway
>Platform by Michel Houellebecq.
I have a lot to do lately and I've been lacking motivation, but I'm not liking it very much this far. At the point in the novel I'm now it almost seems content with the current state of society and existence in general thus it's not as bitter and depressing as the last book I read by him, whatever, and that's really what he seems to be good for.

>>8800370
Hey fellow Spaniard. I read it a few weeks ago as well. Las ciudades sutiles were my favourite ones.

>>8795873
He should have stopped halfway into that paragraph. The rambling visions lost their power and originality and became stale.

18
New Orleans
Walden

Thoreau was pretentious. Am I pretentious for reading this?

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>>8799523
*flies in US warplane*
Heh, nuthin personal kiddo

>>8800352
A lot of his terms are kind of vague and, for the most part, symbolic.

His use of the gnose is more of a critique for the men as the mean for its on salvation, to be the most simplistic as possible. That's what he called the 'modern gnosticism'.

"Science, Politics and Gnosticism" is a good read about the subject.

>>8800182
>(25+0,5*10)/6-(2,2+1,4*2)+18

You bastard

>>8795692
>21
>Usa/SC
>Story of the Eye
I wasn't aware it would be such a strong erotic novel. I really do like the writing though.

25
Ohio
Gravity's Rainbow. I'm enjoying it a lot.

>>8799201
what's up

>>8800746
>>8800746
Oh shit man. Small world.

Yea the book is really interesting. I feel like Pynchon is emulating James Joyce....a lot. Sometimes it's a little frustrating because the book goes off in wild tangents, but like any difficult read I think it will be worth it in the end.

>20.
>Australia.
>War and Peace.

Book one started off really slow and I was getting bored, once Pierre joined the Freemasons in book 2 it started to get better. There was a part where Princess Marya had to decide if she wanted to get married and it really hit me in the fee fees.

Roughly 450 pages in now and will definitely finish it.

>>8801574
>hit me in the fee fees
I hope you're alright and it didn't take too much of a chunk out of your bank account anon...

>>8800554
In the context it doesn't seem quite as jarring but I think you're right.

I would make the argument that while he's certainly one of the best Beat authors, that isn't his best book. It's his easiest to read, it's a fantastic book and a good introduction to that style of writing but The Nova Trilogy is better and Junkie as well depending on how you look at it. I would say that Howl should be your next once you fully finish Naked Lunch. Maybe even read some essays and commentary before moving on although there's not a WHOLE lot there and it's likely your edition of the book has the most relative commentary spliced in or in the appendix.

A lot of people have the problem that they read too much into it, it's definitely something that you feel more than fully comprehend. The words he writes could serve any number of purposes outside of strictly conveying meaning.

21
California
Tokyo Vice
It's pretty good. The narration is funny and I get an interesting look on how the police beat was in Japan from a gaijins perspective. There is supposed to be a movie soon with D Radcliff.

>>8801780
I think I responded to the wrong person somehow

>>8800528
is who I meant to reply to

>>8799135
I sorta wanna buy this but I can't figure out whether to put it in my weebshit bookshelf or my /lit/ bookshelf.

>>8795692
20
Central Europe
Mein Kampf (no joke)

I actually find some ideas quite interesting and if you skip some racist parts the book is quite relatable to the current happening

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>>8799533
20
Brazil

Finished Brás Cubas, really loved it.
Started pic related today.

>>8801780
>The words he writes could serve any number of purposes outside of strictly conveying meaning.

youre the problem with this board

20
Brasilia
The art of being right, Schopenhauer

22
Ohio, U.S.
Misery by Stephen King, I haven't read many King books so this is new to me. Last night I read half of it and I plan on watching the movie afterwards to compare. Enjoying it so far.

21
Munich
Die Elixiere des Teufels, Hoffmann
Collected Novellas, Hebbel
Feels like I should have read these while I was still in school. Enjoyable nonetheless, especially after reading a bunch books in foreign languages recently.

>>8799832
uchicago?

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>>8800334
post feet

25<x<30
ny
currently reading:
dhalgren
gene wolfe, book of the new sun volume 3
invitation to a beheading, vladimir nabokov

>>8805995
Northwestern actually, apartment in the city though

>>8795692
>21
>Fort Worth
>Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse

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>>8795692

Sure, these are always fun.

22, St. Augustine, FL. How to Win Friends and Influence People

Reading something I've always seen lauded but never bothered to pick up out of my staunch belief that all self-help books are pseudo-psych nonsense and/or some variation of get-rich-quick-fueled scam artistry. I still maintain this, but this book is too giant to be ignored while being markedly different from the usual, shammy, pop-psych "How Positive Thinking Can Will You Into Fucking 30 Supermodels a Month" book.

I will tell /lit/ outright that I think I'm correct. Most self-help books, regardless of their slant, are filled with page after page of banal, obvious things like, "think more positively!" and then marketed towards insecure people.

But How to Win Friends and Influence People is not one of those books. It's a nuanced look at human psychology. There's nothing in the book so far, about 4 chapters in, that should shock anyone. It is honest to God common sense, which is normally what I rail against from these books.

Yet it's common sense that has been lost on us through our utter, emotion-driven irrationality and failure to be decent, virtuous human beings. We're all being held back by our own shortcomings. It's not necessarily that we don't understand how to charm others, but we step on our own dicks, to be more precise.

Like I said, it's not going to blow your mind, but it'll open your eyes if you read it introspectively enough. It'll teach you good things, too -- like how to be less of an asshole on 4chan. Ironically, it's not gonna help any autists hoping to gain something from it. What pops off the page as intuitive understanding for most will be undecipherable social nuance for an aspie.

If it were required reading for anyone in a management/leadership position the world would be a noticeably more wondrous place. So that's good.

18

Incheon S. Korea

Atomized by houellebecq

refreshing piece of thought of our 'atomized' society and the struggles of the individual.

a tender story of two different people but both poignantly tells something unique about our society.

it made be reconsider the benefits and impacts of human progress and the state of our society and my position within it

21
Colorado Springs
A few books right now uh
>Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
I'm only a short hundred pages in. took a little bit to get acclimated to the writing. Overall funny and rewarding so far
>Dubliners - James Joyce
I've read five of the stories so far. All of them seem very wistful and existential, but more overall there's a certain warmth Joyce gives off with these stories, like sitting by the fire on a cold, snowy evening kind of warm
>Bloods: an Oral History of the Vietnam War of Black Soldiers - Terry Wallace
This is more so related to my senior thesis on vietnam war literature but its still a great read (undergrad in senior year of college, moving on to grad school soon after)

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24
UY
Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all? (Hacking), Remains of the Day (Ishiguro).

The latter is great, but I don't like Hacking's book, Hacking cover a wide number of topics, making most of the treatment superficial.

23
Mexico
No longer human, Dazai
Neuromancer, Gibbson
Kappa, Akutagawa
Boogiepop and the others, Kadono

>>8795692
22
Germany
Harmony
damn i never expected that i would enjoy reading a book with code-snippets in it but damn i need more of this

>>8795873
i dislike the last sentence as it feels like "if you didn't get it already by now, anarchy lol" but the "throw paralytics... (mimic their suffocations)" bit is some fucking great imagery.
immediately reminded me of that webm of the black kids(not /pol/ but context is the point) beating up the girl with her kid on the bench and then the one kid doing that fuckin hilarious little dance over her
culture is a great dumb beast and its always hungry

24
Oklahoma
The Prince of Nothing (series) by Scott Bakker

love it. my paranoia is fucking with me though because right as I seem to grasp the main theme's purpose (suffering is absolution/suffering wakes you from the dream) it explodes into pretty much every other piece i have consumed past and present
im a huge mentally deficient fag though so whatever

>>8795908
sharp, sharp imagery and like, i assume, the purpose of all beat-lit is the sound of it read aloud. shock value, yes, but only if decontextualized. Does this not bear any fruit of analogy in your life? Have you never seen the horrible violence of youth, the kind that can only be done in youth? Old men cannot crack a whip with the strength of a young mans arm.

19
Asturias, Spain
Direction of Marketing, by Enrique Ortega

>>8807626
Also Ubik by P. K. Dick and I am not understanding a single thing

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>>8796857
the manga is pretty good too desu. deaf samurai-san's backstory made me bawl like a little bitch. even though the mangaka doesn't know how to draw kids, the emotion on his adoptive father's face when he realizes hes deaf obliterated me into a little piece of baby shit

>>8799097
why the fuck would you post anything but the edit where he falls into infinity

>>8799163
>hick town somewhere in flyover USA
I'll have you know

>>8799216
im the only one from here

>>8799662
were there any children in sodom and gomorrah?

>>8799687
my brain is a desert and the only cure is piss
PISS

>>8800334
this bait is original and well thought, planned, executed

>>8800182
math can be fun especially when the answer is cutely placed

>>8803519
its important to preserve literature of all kinds, even more so suppressed or controversial literature.

>>8806455
>If it were required reading for anyone in a management/leadership position the world would be a noticeably more wondrous place
I (me, opinion) think you mistake the mechanisms of morality
The book, an axe, can chop wood, can chop people
That is, 'Goodness', 'Decentness' can not be leveraged or upheld by outside sources- only from within can nature be changed.
As an exercise: Imagine a psychopath reading the book and then utilizing its tools.
This isn't meant to be "muh human nature" or "muh first sin" kind of philosophizing, though. I just think it's a mistake to think repeatable, recreatable 'actions'- rather than the brutality of circumstance- are what absolve our nature

>>8795709
Cornell, IC, or townie?

21
Ft Lee, NJ
Odyssey, the prose Penguin translation. I'll find a good hexameter translation later but for now I'm reasing mostly for plot so I can understand allusions to it etc. it's way more engaging than I thought and its way less action-y than I thought

>>8795692
24
Greece, Patras
The Deep Range by Arthur Clark
It's awesome when a sci fi novel has a calming effect. Read it if you like submarine adventures.

>>8795692
>19
>Boise Idaho
>Mein Kampf
>fucking loving it

Storm of Steel by Junger is next

>>8808857
>babby wants to be a kraut

>>8808857
holy reddit...

>>8808859
You're not wrong

>>8808862
And fuck you too

>>8795692
26
eastern euro
The History of Sexuality
more boring than I expected, but it has its points

24/NYC/ The Last Wolf by László Krasznahorkai

like it a lot

>>8795783
>Ljubljana
*sniffs*