Currently reading thread

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they just beheaded the right whale and described it in it's entirety

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>>9304898

I'm reading this book. Okay, have a nice day!

:)

>>9304904
honestly, I tried to pay the closest attention to the anatomical sections but I don't fight my eye glazing over anymore

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The Loser by Bernhard. Before that Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee.

Lagerkvist, the Sybil.

>>9304909
is it good so far? it's on my list

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it's very good

>>9304932
not that guy but it's murakami's best work imo. kafka is great too though.

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about half way through

pretty good

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Comparing it to the TV series, it is a nice read.

>>9304910
you might as well commit intellectual suicide

>>9305000
>outdated references to the body of a whale
>be me, likes animals, enough to learn about them, enough to know what the fuck a whale looks like
>I don't need mr moby to tell me how many fins he has
>be you
>think the build up of the book is to be found deciphering the summit of a sperm whales head

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I just finished Othello and will start Titus Andronicus later this week.

Currently reading a bunch of essays on the poetic structure of the Book of Job.

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i google everything he mentions because i don't want to "miss" anything (except the astronomers and scientists because there are a fucking lot), now i'm an expert in stellar parallax and south african cuisine

On Friendship - Nehamas
Cane - Toomer
Wallace poems
Works of Euripides

I need to graduate. Juggling texts like this is fun for a bit, but I'm getting a little burnt out. I need a while to just relax with one book.

franny and zooey by salinger

reads like a wes andersson movie

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im a little past halfway. pretty interesting book, if not a little slow at points (the scene where walter drones on about birds). havent read the correctoins tho so idk how it stacks up

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Unironically starting this today.

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>>9304932
d/a, but I really liked it. I love these slice-of-life descriptions and I also feel it packs more emotion than some of Murakami's other works; but still in his own, detached way.

It also hit pretty close to home.

>>9305223
kys yourself

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>>9305287
I will after I finish it.

I am reading Norman Davies "Forgotten Kingdoms" a history book. Some chapters were more interesting as others, I skim readed most first chapters.
The part about Belarus and Kalingrad were highly interesting.

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The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon

>>9305223
>>9305287
>>9305295
he was telling to 'kiss yourself' anon! be dandy

>>9305030

This chart is wrong. For example, NRSV is an objectively more accurate translation than the KJV.

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Interesting philosophy, LaVey just needs too cool it on the exclamation points and stop being so damn smug about everything.

Histories - Herodotus
Orlando Furioso
Statesman -Plato
With that order of priority

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It's beautiful but I hate poetry and it's already a drag for me after 40 pages

>>9305053
thats the way it should be done

case for christ-lee strobel
end of faith-sam harris

>>9305376
I'm currently reading "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and I'm planning to start this next, pretty excited about it too.

>>9304898
I don't fucking know. I fished my last book yesterday and now I'm stumped. I have 700+ books of all kinds, any kind. From classic literature to trash- anything. I can't think of anything. This is hell, truly.

>>9305376
What's that text on the bottom? Welsh?

Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Pretty disappointing, really. I was expecting an extra layer, but it seems a very bland retelling so far.

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>>9304898
It's pretty good.

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Nearly done with this.

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Really PoMo but Lethem is goddamn good

>>9305504
haven't read Werther as I detested his personality and considered him a pussy but that was in early high school when I was really into Kneechee. Bad times, will read it in the future for sure.
>>9305513
are fucking serious?

>>9305714
>Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.

Ya, this sounds -

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>>9304904
I will never understand why this book is so popular.

I read pic related, 700 pages in. The chapters with Iwan talking to his brother about God (like the grand inquisitor) were one of the best things I have read over the last months.

>>9304932

It's totally without any magical realism, so it's a little bit different from his other stuff but not by much. I'd recommend it though, I enjoyed it.

Hard boiled wonderland and wind up bird chronicle were really good as well, if you haven't read those

>>9305850
>are fucking serious?
it's sure as shit not german

>>9305593
how is it? 10/10 title BTW

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pretty damn good

>>9305934
I'm not telling you, you'll never know whether it's welsh or something else

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

It's really enjoyable, the prose is endlessly detailed and requires patience, but it's interspersed with really intense dialogues and short, almost essay-like passages about all kinds of topics. Generally it's also more accessible than I would have thought. Would recommend

>>9305934
It's a book publisher in Poland.
I'm not sure why that guy is being such human garbage.

>>9305934

Looks Polish to me famalama

>>9305934
its polish
you can tell by how fucked it is

i'm about 300 pgs into the recognitions

>>9305956
in english or in

>>9305973
german

>>9305976
can't read german. wary of reading it in english.

Vol II of the Gulag Archipelago. Really fucking glad I never lived through any of that.

>>9305951
you're a monster

>>9305965
>>9305968
thanks dudes

>>9305984
I've never read the english translation or any englihs translation of any of Mann's works, so I can't help you, intuitively I think it should be fine, as I said, the prose is very detailed so the danger of something getting lost along the way isn't as great as it maybe could be.

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I wanted something easy to read and this seemed like the lowest of the low trash lit which turns out to be true. It's also pretty brutal. Makes you wonder how many 74 year old grandmas have read this.

I don't read books. I just read wikipedia articles of books and everybody thinks I read a lot. :)

>>9305964
he could've googled it, not like it's in Cyrillic or arab, wykopku

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Cause I'm a newfag that's gotta start somewhere.

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I'm having trouble finding anything by Jack Vance that I don't enjoy immensely.

>>9304898
I just finished A Farewell to Arms. It sucked. Hemingway was a hack.

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Better than I thought it would be

>>9304898
I finally started A Song of Ice and Fire
It's every bit as good as people made it out to be, but then again I'm only about 100 pages in to A Game of Thrones.

I kind of just want a spinoff series where Jon, Arya, Ghost, and Nymeria go off on an adventure and have happy lives without all the bad stuff :(

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>>9304904
Just finished that bit, about to start chapter 78. Also reading this and would recommend

>>9304898
The immoralist.
Am I in for a treat?

>>9306091
luvly book cover.
But

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>>9304898
>my Phiz when mechanickal Ducks

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AMA

>>9305223
My sister unironically loves this book and suggested I read it.

What do?

Just finished If on a winter's night a traveler, think I'm gonna re-read Family Ties by Lispector (NOT the Dodson translation, good christ that woman can't write)

>>9304898
120 Days of Sodom by Sade

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Very enriching.
>>9304904
I've read half, dropped it (2 times). Determined to pick it up where i left off and actually finish it
>>9305956
wasn't Mann a pedophile or something? How can you feel good about his words?

>>9305197
How do you like Franzen? I've considered picking up one of his books. He's supposed to be good for contemporary lit

>>9306290
>wasn't Mann a pedophile or something? How can you feel good about his words?

I think you're on the wrong board, friendo

>>9305356
That's kinda the point, tho

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Has five of Cicero's defence speeches. Really good stuff, recommended for anyone interested in Rome

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The series as a whole is much more literary and just generally good than I expected of a fairly mainstream grimdark fantasy trilogy. I'm really liking it

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>>9306296
well I know a little about Mann, and I'm intrigued and thought about reading Buddenbrooks. But how do you get past his thoughts on little boys? Or is that irrelevant?

Also reading some pic related on the side

>>9306331
>But how do you get past his thoughts on little boys?
I don't care about his opinions or personal life if he writes a good book.

That's like not reading hamsun because he gave his Nobel prize to goebbels. It has nothing to do with art.

>>9306331

To me, the author's life isn't very relevant to what I think of their works. You can kind of see what you're talking about in Death in Venice I guess, but still, just separate the two, he's worth reading

>>9306342

Holy shit did Hamsun really do that? That's funny as hell

>>9305402
but is it really? do you think that's what pinecone wants from us?

>>9306353
>Holy shit did Hamsun really do that?
Yes. And a lot of people don't read him because of it.

>>9306331
Is the New Criticism a complete joke or what? I feel like it might have helped lead to the "outrage culture" fad being prevalent today

>>9306248
Read it you pansy POS.

>>9306091
Newfag or not it is a fantastic book. Gonna reread it myself soon enough.

>>9306248
Read it. It's unironically good.

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~100 pages in. Promising so far. Was easier to get into than I thought.

but:
> 10th edition
> typo on the first page

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The Apology of Socrates by Plato
Just finished, actually
Great read. Very intriguing.
I recommend the Benjamin Jowett translation.

>>9306248
give me your sister's number so i can give her some private lessons about the importance of this book

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Pic related. Very good, very dense. I try to read a passage a day, but given my strange work scheduled it's tough to do sometimes. Worth reading though.

Best Short Stories by Maupassant

In Search of Lost Time. It's a painfully boring read, I'll probably stop soon.

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Just finished Member of the Wedding (McCullers) I'm on The Tain now

>>9307386
Why aren't you reading the fucking Frame translation

>>9307405
Don't have it and I have this one. I'll probably pick up other translations later.

>>9307405
Screech is the best translation tho

>>9307460
No.

>>9307463
Yes.

>>9306309
What makes you enjoy it so much? I dropped it halfway through Prince because of how little description there was of any of the scenery or characters, as well as the actual syntax, which was mediocre.

>>9304980
I'm reading this too and I'm 44% on kindle. When do they stop randomly traveling through abandoned Mexican towns and do something? Other than that, I see why people would say it's overwritten, but I'm liking it

>>9307495
No. Screech is an abomination. The worst translation in any language.

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It went way off topic for an entire chapter.

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It's relatively new but I think thisll be one of the greats

>>9307738
>I think thisll be one of the greats

you're going to be sorely, sorely disappointed

t. read the whole fucking stupid thing

the tempest

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Quickly moving up my list of all-time favorites.

>>9306309
I didn't like these as much as I expected. The protagonist gets out of every situation with luck or something equally ridiculous. I dropped it after the second one.

>>9306135
Nice-- I read Pinker's Words and Rules and enjoyed it quite a bit.

>>9307771
I've heard he's a hard author. Is this book "hard" or just long (kind of like Infinite Jest)? To compare: I think Gravity's Rainbow is a hard book.

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>>9304898
The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay and Demosthenes' speeches.

>>9304904
just finished, can confirm classic status

>>9307817
can confirm? Give him gold too.

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>>9307400
are you able to get into it?
inb4 that's not how it's pronounced

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>>9304898
>>>LOL SHE TURNED HER INTO AN ANIMAL/PLANT/INANIMATE OBJECT AD INFINITUM

>>9305884
i've read a number of his works including this brothers K-

i thought the plot was weak, but it has some gems in there like the grand inquisitor and a few other sections that were excellent quality.

i liked the characters- i thought the brothers were drawn very well.

overall, i preferred crime and punishment to be honest.

im reading notes from the underground right now- about half way through (like 130 pages +/- total) so far so good.

for whatever reason though i get a lot out of reading him, no author gives me as much as dostoevsky him...

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Really liking it, though I'm sadly not reading as often as I'd like. Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before this. Been trying to build up a base of classic books.

>>9305513
Looks like Polish.

>>9306091
S'purdy gud to be desu.

>>9306287
What do you think of it?

I was optimistic going in (I like edgy shit) but by the time I finished it I decided it was a colossal waste of time.

>>9304909
get off my bored idiot

>>9305011
>outdated references to the body of a whale
this post is 0% woke
truth: books are written within a historical context. think about how 'scientifically inaccurate' information might still be able to inform the reader as to other aspects of the work.

>hurr durr Timaeus is altogether useless because we know there are more than 4 elements

>>9305964
because he's a fucking Pole
you should have come to expect it from those "people"

>>9306091
to be honest when I decided to start getting back into reading this was the first book I picked up.

I'm not a tremendous fan

>>9305964
>I'm not sure why that guy is being such human garbage

Well, he IS a Slav.

>>9307957
Could description like that also be of value to those that knew little to nothing about the details of a whale? I don't know what sort of people were reading the book, but I'm sure proper whale photos were scarce in 1851.

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I'm reading pic related and Confessions by Augustine right now.

>>9308013
drop that shit and focus on Augustine

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>>9304898
You're probably going to hate me, but I'm having a great time with pic related. Pretty funny, imo.

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>>9306223
>>9305053
should i read this next
>>9305884
just finished this one before, the grand inquisitor part was good, but overall i thought the book felt lackluster, so many parts could've been cut out

Reading hunger at the moment. It is fantastic.

>>9307809
Harder than Gravity's Rainbow, in my opinion, but not as consistently. If that makes sense?

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Anyone read this before? I found it when my brother moved out seems interesting so far

>>9305376
Oh man I really liked that book would recommend

>>9308160
nigger its like 80 pages, just read it

>>9308160
Well, let's just say it'll give you the healthy dose of theology and geometry you're so sorely lacking.

Also, legend says it's better grasped if you read it inside a bus station bathroom.

Picked up Platos Republic today, Penguin Classic.

Enjoying it so far.

>>9308211
Let's not get to pretentious now

>>9307585
They'll keep doing it for a while longer it seems

>>9305053
im pretty sure there are guides and stuff for every one of his books.

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Off and on for about a year now.
I also read some of his other books at the same time. I hope to get through infinite jest and his other short stories and essays at the same time, then finish with The Pale King.
Is this the best way to read his work?

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>>9304898
That has to be the ugliest book cover ever.

Also, I'm reading Mason and Dixon

Freaking out because i have to use the wiki every 45 seconds. Why is Pynchon so hard?

>>9307892
Are you disliking it or just memeing? I have just finished hunger and I am hype as fuck to start metamorphoses.

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Not the best
but good nonetheless.
Gonna start Lolita next

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The last line really got me

I'm reading Death With Interruptions by Saramago, not the English translation though

Mistborn

>>9307771
that is one sexy looking book, i looks like it's just in its underwear, and those look like tattoos what a little slut

>>9308876
One of the first things I did when I got it was take a few pictures without the dust jacket, as there doesn't seem to be any online that I could find.

;^)

>>9308385
gutter-tier post

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>>9309345
Forgot pic hehe

>>9305197
I'm gonna start this tonight; judging by the backblurb it should be good at putting me to sleep.

>>9309351
worst edition. It even lacks some pages.

>>9309351
>
such a cool edition

i'm reading la femme de trente ans by balzac
it's going better than i expected
the first chapter gives you a bad impression but if you keep up a little you'll b surprised

>>9309348
excellent post

>>9309419
>>9309430
>this meme again
it has been corrected

>>9305884
>I will never understand why this book is so popular.
you don't have the life experience yet and it sounds like you haven't even completed it.

>>9304980

>three different fonts
>title is in two different fonts for absolutely no reason
>blurb from some random critic takes up a third of the page

Whoever designed that cover should be dragged into the street and shot

>>9304948

Crome Yellow is pretty great too if you want to read more Huxley.

>>9307941
>bored idiot
That's really nice that you want anon to get off your idiot. You're taking really good care of your idiot.

>>9309351
Shit tier edition, is literally another book with GR in the title.

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It's the only require reading for my [research paper] class. It's written well enough to be entertaining although I wouldn't have bought it on my own

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about 200 pages in

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Just started part two

>>9309726
>muh racism

>>9306307
Just finished reading this for one of my classes.
Offical power rankings for anyone interested :
1. Pro Caelio
2. Pro Milone
3. Pro Roscio
4 = 5 Pro Murena Pro Archias

>>9309658
okay rad. i got that book in a bundle of second hand classics recently. i think i'm going to read the doors of perception as well.
i finished point counter point last night, the ending was weak but overall i loved it.

>>9309808
>>>/pol/

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Currentlly in volume 3. Comfiest book confirmed

51 pages into GR, Papa Pynch sure likes his bananas and the paranoia is building up. I also love the prose consistency, just like in TCoL49 but with steroids.

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Only survives in fragments but good shit for anyone who likes smutty ancient novels ripping on Nero.

>>9307400
Is 'Member of the Wedding' good? I love the heart is a lonely hunter, is it equally as good?

>>9308094
Have you read The Recognitions? I think of it that way (harder than Gravity's Rainbow but not everywhere).

>>9305376
i found that too. it's kind of a diamond in a haystack thing, where most of it is pretty uninteresting but you've got to read all of it carefully to get the most out of it.
you'll be glad once you've finished it. i've only read part one but there was a lot i liked in it.

"Of secrets that he teaches, first shall be
To blend deceit with magnamity,
And with the ardour of a passionate man
To fall in love, - according to a plan."

>>9308034
One of my favorite books, Woody Allen is a great writer desu my friendo

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about ~200 pages in, this is some good shit.
>>9307771
what the FUCK is this ive never seen this edition before? have dzanc finally got off their asses and reprinted it?
>>9308687
the last few chapters of this are exceptional. i love the descriptions of the derelict macondo.
>>9309726
>>9309794
i have both of these but havent read them yet. what are they like?

>>9309870
Yes, and that's a good comparison. It's a bit more demanding than The Recognitions, though.

>>9309945
Nope, it's the original hardcover without the dust jacket. I took that picture because I couldn't find any online without the dust jacket and it bothered me.

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>>9309953
it looks better without the dust jacket imo. idk if i prefer your pic or the dalkey edition cover

>>9309972
Yeah, it does. It's the only book I read with the dust jacket on, though, because I'm so worried about damaging it at all.

I think I like the hardcover more, but I'd love to get my hands on the Dalkey edition. It's more expensive, generally.

>>9308687
I read this book a couple months ago, and it was still lying next to my bed when my girlfriend visited me for the first time. She laughed about the title and me reading it, asking, "Living in solitude for a hundred years is your big plan, huh?".

Those names, though. My edition included a family chart that I had to look up occasionally in order to realize who's who again.

>>9308752
Is it worth reading? My dad got me the trilogy for christmas a few years back but I still haven't gotten around to it.

>>9310068
If you're 12, yes. If you're an adult, no.

>>9305376
you hate poetry and find it a drag but it's beautiful?

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very good. he's channeling Deleuze tho so maybe that's why

>>9309945
Ada starts out pure fuck but after the first few chapters it evens out into more recognizable Nabokov, really enjoying it so far. Less incest than you'd expect from a book about incest, which isn't to say there isn't plenty. It's long

>>9305956
Reading a collection of his short stories, and I agree on the bit about detail.

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Just finished McCarthy's Child of God and now a third of the way through Rabbit Run. Updike, um, just turned my BBW fetish back up to 11 (and ripped that knob off).

I'm really enjoying the back and forth between Rabbit and Ruth. His needy attempts to attach to her and her repeatedly shrugging him off, and the narrator following his point of view despite her obvious resistance.

And yeah, yum sweaty fat chick sex.

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>Currently reading Dune

is it worth it?

>>9310438
No.

>>9310481
Elaborate

>>9310492
Space Muslims win

>>9304904
That's the best part.

Second best part is the dialogue between Stubb and the Captain of the Rose-Bud

>>9308567
Nah, just memeing, I'm enjoying it. But the "changing people into things" is pretty constant.

Probably why it's called "Metamorphoses" eh?

>>9305714
>Chase Insteadman

Fucking DROPPED.

>>9305956
It's pretty amazing how many history books I've read that refer to this book and it's plot.

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>>9304898

>>9310438
First two books were GOAT in my opinion, I enjoyed Messiah far more than Dune though.

Didn't go further than that though.

Muslims in space yaddah, yaddah, yaddah.

>>9309871
yeah I know, bore...bore...bore and suddenly few magnificently crafted verses and I'm all excited.
>i've only read part one but there was a lot i liked in it
In the introduction of my copy they mention that 2nd part was always considered inferior up until mid 20th century when intellectuals like for example Thomas Mann started to appreciate it openly.
>>9310099
correct, these two things doesn't contradict themselves. I hate it, but can appreciate it's beauty in the same time. Imagine a bitchy, bipolar qt3.14 with 10/10 looks; you detest her character but surely can appreciate her looks.

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This and Tender Buttons. I prefere Alice B. Toklas to this autobio, though.

>>9310674

one of my all-time favs

>>9305593
cool. i want to read this.

>>9306241
how big is your e-peen?

>>9307738
Loved it 5/5

>>9310438
God that cover looks retarded. I hate minimalism so god damn much.

>>9310983
It makes it look so much cleaner

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It's a cool and nice read

>>9309874
Indeed. His essays are always hilarious, however, his best book is Getting Even, imo.

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>>9310983
>minimalism
>Roman mosaics

*Sigh*

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Been a while since I read something comfy, feels good bros.

>>9309666
hook, lime, and sinker.....

>>9311254
How is it compared to the movie? Is the movie much different?

>>9305053
You're reading that book the right way. Good job!

>>9311272
Yes, the movies and books are nothing alike really

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>>9304898

Book depository needs to step up their bookmark game, I've already got 85,000 black and white colouring book style bookmarks.

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I don't know why I expected to enjoy reading a book about suicide. An Unquiet Mind was less taxing to read.

>>9311272
OP here, yeah it's pretty different. They follow the same arc and visit the same places but some of the iconic moments from the films simply don't exist in the book and likewise.

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American Psycho. So far, enthralled. There are clearly some stylistic devices I've seen from Dostoyevsky.

>>9311288
>>9311277
Good to know.

I've read The Hobbit and then I saw how different The Hobbit movies were. But, the LotR movies aren't as different from the books as The Hobbit trilogy was, right?

>>9311289
Tbh I've never gotten a Dostoyevsky feeling from Ellis, considering one of the literary touchstones he's talked about the most is Didion. Any examples? I'm really curious.

>>9311302
Well in the Hobbit movies they added a lot of material from other Tolkin works, so you actually had a movie which contained about four books of different source material.
So it's not very comparable, the story of LotR in the movies is essentially there and any differences tend to be expanding on things alluded to in the books.

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>>9311281
>85,000
What the fuck nigguh? You bought 85 thousand books? If you have that much cash just buy some nicer fucking bookmarks.

>>9309726
same, about 350 in for me.

despite >muh racism, it is unironically good

>>9307809

It's incomprehensible IMO.

>>9311312
Don't know. I've read Dosteyevsky in German, and am reading American Psycho in English, so it's a little hard to tell after only 30 pages. What I can say is that Ellis adapts a likely psychologization; in American Psycho it is rather implicit through excessive materialism and through extensive dialogue. Since Price did most of the talking for now, I could feel through his thorough dial-- pardon, monologues what kind of person he is. Everything in speaking and developing situations are carefully nuanced so far, in a way that resembles Dostoyevsky's writing style.

Same went for The Godfather from Mario Puzo, but Puzo was a little more blunt, therefore a little less cunning.

Heck, I might be imagining things since I read that Puzo and Ellis took inspiration from Dostoyevsky.

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>>9311337

>nicer fucking bookmarks

Any recs? What's the patrician's choice?

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Act of the Damned (Auto dos Danados) by António Lobo Antunes. In portuguese.

Incredibly difficult read. 4 different narrators (so far), who are part of a family of ~30 characters(I'm drawing a family tree as I go); 4 or 5 timelines. One sentence can have more than one narrator, speaking of different stories, in different timelines. All this in highy metaphorized prose.

But I'm used to Lobo Antunes and I love his style.

Overall fantastic read.

>>9311387
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/259755672/the-matching-set-bookmarks-custom-design?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_au_en_au_a-books_movies_and_music-books-book_accessories&utm_custom1=b00f3f70-180e-4016-959e-5754162757a9&gclid=CLfRwqXm_NICFQ4GKgodlBAC9w

This works if you're on a budget.

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Finished this yesterday, now deciding whether to reread Moby Dick or finally get to Ulysses. Suggestions?

>>9304898
Dead Souls
I didn't expect it to be this funny

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Most bloody, brutal and violent novel I've ever read (well second, to Night by Weisel)

>>9309862
Too bad that so much is lost that makes it disorienting. It was interesting to read about Roman degeneracy firsthand though

Apollonius - On Conics
Léon Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
Plato- Symposium

On a side note, I know the secrets to the universe, it's a cool party trick. Ask me anything

>>9308385
Go back to Instagram you cretinous female.

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Get on this level

>>9309844

Yeah Crome Yellow doesn't really offer a whole lot in the way of plot but it's goddamn hilarious. It's supposed to be satirizing posh British culture of the early 20th century, if I remember right. It's been a few years since I read it.

>>9311900
Is this a real edition? I can't find it anywhere and this is the second picture of it that I've seen today.

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Currently this, and then A Canticle for Liebowitz. So far this serves as a decent easing into the thought of Freud, of which I plan to explore in depth, alongside Jung.

>>9306612
Isn't this painting actually from the Phaedo

>>9312027
Got it off amazon it didn't advertise that cover

>>9311387

go visit indie bookstores and hoard their custom bookmarks.

its my touristy thing to do every time i travel. bonus if you can find older or "rare" ones in used books.

>>9308385
>Pose book with "le ebin glass of wine!!111oneoneone"

Goddamn, almost cringed hard enough to break my back.

>>9305714
This cover has intrigued me. What's it about? How are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it?

>>9310696
lol. your posing.

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You guys seem to be pretty patrician.

I've been reading only scifi and fantasy, but I want to read some more realistic stuff. I liked Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, and The Great Gatsby in high school.

What should I start with to get into regular fiction?

>>9312377
nobody will agree but my picks are:

Robinson Crusoe
The Theban Plays
Billy Budd

>>9312377
This list is a meme, but I nevertheless recommend Stoner, Lolita, or Crime and Punishment. All three possess beautiful prose (and assuming you don't know russian, you can at least obtain a translation of C&P with good clarity), and could turn you on the formal literature.

>>9311387
either an index card, a post-it note folded in half, or the receipt from the book

>>9312377
Given the books you like >>9312620
>Robinson Crusoe
seems like a good bet.

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I'm getting kind of a gay vibe from it but that's okay.

Basically everything I can find that's written by Wildbow/JC McCrae. Finished Worm yesterday and I'm starting Pact as soon as my head stops spinning from mr wildbows wild ride.

>>9312662

No surprise there, the author himself was bisexual

>>9312664
I was making a funny. I've always entertained the notion that he got married and had children as a formality, stemming from his sense of duty. I could be completely wrong on this though.

In the book he writes that he was completely disinterested in the princesses in the fairy tales he read, he only cared for the princes. He was even disgusted by Joan of Arc after he found out she was a woman, which I found amusing.

Catch-22 currently. Gone through around 20% of the book. The shit load of characters is confusing, but I dig the humor. Had some true laugh out loud moments.

>>9304904
The part before Ishmael and Queequeg get on the boat is the best part of the book

>>9312705
Have a good time with catch-22. Regardless of what the memers here may say it is a great book with some of the most belly laugh inducing humor I have read.

>>9312698
>He was even disgusted by Joan of Arc after he found out she was a woman
I have similar memories. I missed out on the militaristic father and being taken away by my grandmother, thankfully.

>>9311478
>64 dollars for a fucking bookmark
there's nothing patrician about being a fucking moron

>>9304898
Bread book by that Growpotkin guy.

>>9313045
Wow. I even chose something affordable you fucking poorfag. Jesus lower class scum please remove yourself.

>>9311589
Go for Melville.

>>9313076
If you're going to spend money on a bookmark, the only patrician thing to do is to buy the materials and make it yourself.

You embarrass me, you consummist fuck.

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That and the captain's verses by Pablo Neruda. Apologies if im a pleb, I dont come to this board very often.

>>9306241
How much, if any, of Johnson's works have you read?

>>9311478

That's a girly as fuck bookmark. Give me something that's a bit more manly.

>>9313087
>>9313045
Listen, I am going to tell you something. If you are going fall for obvious bait, do it in a way that doesn't make you look like an angry poorfag. Also nothing faggier than a DIY bookmark, unless you use a hundred dollar bill coated with cocaine or something.

>>9313136
You at least fell for the bait acceptably. I cannot help you anymore but I will plant in you the seed of my knowledge. There is one thing you must do to find a more masculine bookmark: search expensive ass bookmarks in google shopping, and scroll until you find the right product.

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Got it today, is pretty good so far.

>>9304904
If Moby-Dick doesn't blow your fuckin mind out your asshole and blast you to the WHAT dimension every other sentence you aren't smart enough to read it yet

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Pic related and "Gifts of the Desert" by Kyriacos Markedies Which is about the Author's visit to Mt. Athos

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Damn you fuckers never made the Greeks seem like this much fun!

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I'm up to St. Augustine, very interesting so far.

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storm of steel. kino prose desu

Glamorama. The only Bret Easton Ellis novel I haven't read previously. So good.

>>9313362
Oh hey I've been to Mount Athos. Would you recommend the book? I have some very fond memories of my trip there, highly recommended to anyone who's Orthodox

>>9313377
>Ovid
>Greeks

I've been reading The plague by Camus for a long time now.

>>9312068
does yours have the Hitch introduction?
could you post photos of it ? i'd love to read it.

>>9312161
>>9311765
I just got it off google. It's not mine. What's wrong with you people? Jelly virgins?

Why can't a man enjoy watching the sexy prose dance on the page with some madeira?

Losers.

Hero of our time. I forgot that reading can be fun, and this book reminded me about it.

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen.

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>>9304898
: )

>>9313675
Yeah, funny decision using a roman to start with the Greeks huh? Its not the most straightforward way, but hey I thought I would take things differently than most.
or maybe I realised my mistake soon after my post, got embarrased and didnt want to correct myself.
Just finished book one though and am having a bloody good time.

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>>9304898

>>9313742
Hitchens' intro is nothing impressive in my opinion. It's only 10 or so pages and discusses the effects of WWI on Freud and other intellectuals. This edition does have a nice, short biography at the end though, which is worth copping this edition over another for a person just starting to read Freud. The book quality itself is nice, too, for a <200 page paperback.

>>9304898
Fanged Noumena

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>>9313724
Not enjoying it I take it? I don't actually remember much of novel but it definitely improved in the second half

Reading pic related atm, pretty good

>>9313422
Read Mountain of Silence first as to give an overall view of the practices there on the island and then read Gifts of the Desert.

T. Orthodox

Tom Wolfe - A man in full.

Reminds me of Ellroy

>>9314746
Is it readable?

>>9315125
I don't know about readable but it's certainly entertaining.

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I'm only 100 pages in, but I've enjoyed the style so far. Plus I've already read The Collector and I enjoyed that.

>>9305276
how is nausea. I want to read it but my library doesnt have it. I tried reading "The Age of Reason" but didn't get far in because of exams.

Guys!! I think he >>9310554 is on to something!

But seriously, love that book; nicer in the latin though.

Just finished:
On the Road
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Reading now:
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Winters Tale
Purgatory from Divine Comedy

>>9311631
umm, missing something?

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Stupid question, I know, but if Plato only wrote about dialogues between two other characters what makes him a philosopher? I am just getting into Greek philosophy, and all his works I have read so far are about other people saying things.

>>9311664
if you know the secrets of the universe why do you feel the need to read apollonius?

Also the symposium is excellent.

>>9305934
Man Polish is the easiest to guess. If it looks vaguely slavic and has shit ton of w's it's Polish.

>>9308013
this is the most boring book of the series

>>9315611
its only the form in which he chose to present his ideas. if the ideas are there, why not call him a philosopher?

>>9313379
>Bertrand Russel
Does his bias show in the book?

>>9315611
Because he used them as a vessel to put forth his own ideas. Nothing in any of the speeches were recorded verbatim, nor were they intended to be.

>>9315808
god yes

>>9315817
That's a shame. It sounds like it would be a intriguing book if it avoided judging the different philosophical movements.

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The first three half of this book was damn fun. Any similar books?

>>9315827
You can still read it, just be as critical with Russell as I assume you would be reading any other text. In particular, after his discussion of Hume - which from what I remember is the last chapter in which he at least attempts some kind of impartiality - take the rest of the content of the book with a huge grain of salt.

>>9315947
what he said.

his discourse on Nietzsche is just...bad. he completely missed 3/4ths of the dudes philosophy and focused on one tiny portion of it and used that for his whole basis.

also Russell infamously left out Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, and I'm making the assumption that it was because they were both christians. I do know the last time Russell spoke with W. was when he was released from prison in Italy. W. told Russell he'd converted to christianity and Russell thereby dropped him. I think they spoke in letters from there on only. this left a really bad taste in my mouth for Russell. he has strong biases that he does not care to overcome.

>>9310068
I enjoy it.

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it's alright, much longer than it needs to be.

I think I'm going to take a break from fiction after I finish it.

>>9315611
Written philosophy was a new concept, drama was popular at the time