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>>9590066
Pic related.

I don't often read non-fiction but its pretty compelling so far so I'll stick with it.

Next up is Heart of the Dog.

>>9590066
Currently unironically reading Infinite Jest for the first time

>>9590099
This. It's okay. DFW is clearly a very sheltered person.

The Savage Detectives
It's nice but I'm not sure about the format. But then again I'm only at 30% or so. Great atmosphere, at any rate.
Not sure what's next, might finally finish Outlaws of the Marsh.

A collection of Ezra Pound's poetry.
I don't get it.
The Greeks.

>>9590066
Glass Bead Game

So far it is a very fascinating read but as I'm only 200 pages deep I feel like I haven't come across the part of the work that makes it as praised as it is.

Next up is Butcher's Crossing

Correction

It's very much in line with the standard Bernhard formula of someone obsessing over an artist, scientist, or other sort of eccentric figure who's either dead or dying along with their ideas and the (typically quackish or absurd in some way) "work" they left behind.

I'll probably read The Tunnel next.

oresteia, psalms and book of disquiet.

finished agamenmon yesterday, will read choephoroe today and some psalms or maybe I even finish oresteia with eumenides.
have started recently with the greek playwrights, read the others by aeschylus and they have been very comfy, I specially enjoyed prometheus bound, my favorite so far.

the psalms (kjv) are pretty comfy too, I was pretty excited to get to them, so now I am slowly enjoying them.

on the book of disquiet, to be completely honest I am at the point I just want to finish already, I am not enjoying it as much as I did in the first 100 pages, it has some really great pieces but (gonna get some heat for this) all the sad babbling gets old (at least for me). its a good book overall though.

I was going to just go through all playwrights, so I was going to sophocles after oresteia, but I will do the moby dick reading group, so I will finish oresteia, finish the book of disquiet and finish psalms before june 17, and then will start moby dick. If I manage to finish these 3 books a while before 17, I will probably read the stranger or woolf's the waves. along with moby dick will keep reading the kjv and maybe re-read divine comedy, since I will be on vacation and I will have plenty of time.

>>9590166
I felt kind of the same way with Disquiet. Its a beautiful book but, like, I get it?

Norwegian Wood by Murakami-intriguing so far, since I haven't ever read any Japanese literature, contemporary or otherwise.

Next up is the Glass Bead Game

The American Civil War by John Keegan is my main right now

Also: Camp of the Saints

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith by Rothbard

Human Action by Mises

>>9590174
I might read that later in the year. How is it?

The Dragons Of Eden: Speculations On The Evolution Of Human Intelligence
By Carl Sagan

It follows the proliferarion of extrageneric and extrasomatic information systems through the evolution of the brain.
It's written for the layperson and was pretty easy to pick up. Dr. Sagan's storytelling is humorous, entertaining and instructive.

>current
Warlock by Oakley Hall

>what do you think of it
I'm enjoying it. Lot's of plot for a /lit/ meme book

>next
The Book of Disquiet

>What are you currently reading?
Siddartha

>What do you think of it?
I'm enjoying it. The problem of the self and not living for other things has been on my mind lately. It is the first religious text that has been useful to me.

>What's next on your reading list?
Steppenwolf
I'm curios to see the differences to Siddartha.

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>currently reading
this
>what do you think
great
>what's next
bhagavad gita

>>9590066
>What are you currently reading?
The Soulforge.
>What do you think of it?
Pretty good, going by fast tho.
>What's next on your reading list?
Crime and Punishment

>>9590654
The problem I had with Bhagavad Gita was keeping all the names and weird hindi words straight. fucking confusing language.

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>>9590066
Just finished The Stranger by Camoo
pretty pleb when compared to other existentialist authors such as Dostoevsky
Nothing yet, would like suggestions though.

>>9590066
The Republic by Plato.
Pretty retarded imo

>>9590066
Primarily reading Gaddis' The Recognitions right now. It's astounding, his prose is austere. Aunt May felt very real, I shall miss her.

>What are you currently reading?
Right now, I'm reading volume 1 of Capital, along with Harry Cleaver's notes/guide
>What do you think of it?
Overall, I think it's great- can drag a bit at times, but that doesn't stop me.
>What's next on your reading list?
Just more leftist literature- Harvey's "The Limit's to Capital", some Lukacs, Rosa Luxemburg, etc

>>9590066
Ivanhoe.
Really rad, shouldn't have avoided it thinking it would be an autistic medieval tale for m'lady types.
Kim by Kipling.

just started the prince, really digging it. The hype was definitely warranted. Next I am thinking either Decline of the West or All Quiet on the Western Front, maybe Catch-22. Decisions man

Current: The Story of Civilization: The Life of Greece
>very well written historical biography of Greek civilization by Will Durant; too many details to wrap my head around.

Next: Mythology by Hamilton, then Iliad and Odyssey reread, then maybe some Lord Macaulay for a change of pace (especially his essay on History which is a prerequisite for tackling Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon), and then Histories and History of the Peloponnesian War.

>Last: The Once and Future King

>Current: The Name of the Rose

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Just read the part where he is living on the street in Tarbean. One da yhe goes to the rich site and is almost beaten to death by a police guard because of begging. All what follows after that, in the snow, refusing to sleep next to the fire are so touching. I literally had tears in my eyes.

>Being and time
>Intresting more for the method than for the resoults
>Something of quine

>What are you currently reading?
The Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
>What do you think of it?
It's horrible. I keep having to put it down because it's too depressing. This deformed guy basically has his life fall apart and ends up homeless in the middle of war-time South Africa. Right now he is eating insects to stay alive.
>What's next on your reading list?
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

>>9590784
Make Catch-22 your next read. It's the best of the three by a mile.

First volume of Coplestone History of philosophy. I only have two complaints so far: the author is a tomist, and the untranslated greek terms.

>>9590066
I am currently reading:
>The Romanovs by Smon Sebag Montefiore

What do I think of it:
>Really enjoying it at the moment, always wanted to learn more about Russia since I first learned of Ivan the terrible

Whats next on my reading list:
> One of the following:
>The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft
>The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
>The holy Roman empire by Peter H. Wilson

>What are you currently reading?
St.Augustine's City of God.

>What do you think of it?
It's pretty good. His writing is very clear, yet still informative, and the edition I have has very good footnotes. Also he has BTFO my inner greco-roman, the first few books utterly dismantle Hellenistic Paganism. He is very convincing.
>What's next on your reading list?
The Angelic Hierarchy, then the Infernal Dictionary, and then Paradise Lost.

>>9590784
Decline of the West is about cool shit but it's not a fun read. Catch 22 is pretty good wordplay.

>>9590066
>What are you currently reading 1?
Nikolai Gogol, the Complete Short Stories
>What do you think of it?
A colorful and witty image of rural Ukraine and its tradition. The folkloric element in the stories shows Ukrainian mentality as their perception of morals and the Devil. Although it's simple and sometimes predictable structure, Gogol manage to make the stories as enjoyable as if they were told in person. Another element that adds value is the fictional narrator Rudim Pañko, an elder and charismatic landlord who tell us the stories. Such addition goals to craft the perfect ambient to the stories.
>What's next on your reading list?
War and Peace, by Lev Tolstoy
>What are you currently reading 2?
The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros), by Mario Vargas Llosa.
>What do you think of it?
Definitely one of the greatest surprises of my 2017 readings. The change of narrators, the street-talk language and the crudely way of telling the story make the novel a great exposition of some aspects of reality in a believable but literary form. One thing I appreciate is the fact the Vargas Llosa not only present the POV of the harmed but also of the harmers so it makes you question if it was really that cruel or if the victim should have done something else.
>What's next in your reading list?
The Green House, by Mario Vargas Llosa.

The Metamorphosis by Kafka
It's interesting even if i don't think i pick up all the subtleties
American Psycho

Marathoned a couple pages of Meditations, too banal that it feels like I'm wasting time

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>>9590066
biology textbook (1500 pages)
its dry but informative
taking time to learn a second language

>>9590066
The Conspiracy - Paul Nizan
It's boring but I'm coming off a period of slow reading so it's difficult to get back into it.
Up next is A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

>>9590088
Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov? That's a great book. A quick read too, like a humorous Soviet Frankenstein.
>>9590701
Stranger is overrated. I might reread it some time to make sure I didn't miss something but I got very little out of that book. I feel like Kafka was more similar to Camus than Dostoevsky but much better at capturing existential angst. Dostoevsky did a good job in some of his books.
>>9590763
Did you read any Marx before Capital? I have the early writings of Marx to read before the more technical works of Marx. The ideas of alienation, objectification, and commodity fetishism are much more appealing to me than economics.
>>9591134
Kafka is not as subtle as people on this board seem to think. His stories are vague and disorienting and that's the point. He is expressing the anxiety felt by people in an industrialized society which is amorphous. People have a general feeling of unease that they can't describe but they can feel constantly. If you're getting that feeling of unease then you're probably getting the full effect of Kafka.

Currently reading Barbara Tuchman's series on World War 1, I'm about halfway through The Guns of August. This series is fantastic, very well sourced and cited, extraordinarily detailed. I'm thinking of swinging to the complete stories of Sherlock Holmes to switch genres a bit. What do you guys think?

>>9591455
>>9590701
Camus is one of my favorite authors and I was really underwhelmed with The Stranger when I first read it to, I suggest trying his other works, like The Fall, The Plague, The First Man, or even his short story collection, Exile and the Kingdom, which is absolutely fantastic, before you write off Camus.

>>9590066
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
Absolutely hilarious, really loving it. Dr. Benway is a riot and his rant about doctors using more and more machines in surgery is one of the funniest moments in any book i've ever read.
I've already read Queer, The Yage Letters and The Electronic Revolution by Burroguhs, so next on my list is Interzone, since it's the early version of Naked Lunch.

>>9590654
The Bhagavad Gita is great

>>9590691
You should get a version with a glossary, lad.

>>9590066
>What are you currently reading?
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
>What do you think of it?
The only negative is that parts of it are written in a Southern Accent with the corresponding "redneck grammar". I usually don't mind that kind of stuff but he just uses it way too often and not just for dialogue either. But other than that it's pretty good.
>What's next on your reading list?
Haven't quite decided yet. I have Stoner, Blood Meridian and Three Body Problem all lying around. Might also pick up some non-fiction and read something from Mises.

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>>9590066
pic related.
basically "hello sadness".

Like.

She was 17 and compares hedonistic bourgeoisie (her father) and intellectual bourgeoisie (pretentious surrogate mother, couture artist).

Existentialism was very popular in the 50's, in was the new thought current (fashion) for the youth. As a teen girl, she thinks about how wanting to be herself would'nt make sense, because existence precedes essence.

>>9591483
>The Plague
you can't honestly like that book

>>9590960
Rothfuss's books read like honey, went through them in a couple of days.
If there ever comes a itch for something similar, try Sinuhe the Egyptian by Mika Waltari

>>9591455
I did read a lot of his previous works before diving straight into Capital- his basic critiques of political economy (Wage Labor and Capital, Value, Price and Profit) along with his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 are pretty essential. It also helps to read some ancillary guides, and I've really enjoyed both Cleaver's online guide and Harvey's companion to Capital.
https://edensauvage.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/reading-list-for-aspiring-ultra-lefts/
This list has a lot of the necessary reading material, if you're interested.

Currently reading Absalom, Absalom! which is fantastic.

Up next is Le Morte D'Arthur

Current: The Outsider by Camus
I just started it since I just finished Ru. Nothing much happened yet except the mother dying, so I have no comments
Next: Memory Theatre by Critchley

>>9590066
The Master and Margarita
I don't get it.
Maybe Moby-Dick

Great Gaspy
Pretty chill. Autistic as fuck.
Probs Confessions of a Mask

Dr Zhivago. It's making me remember all the stuff I forgot from the Russian Culture class I took freshman year of college which is cool. I like the way it's developing so far, but sometimes wish I could spend a little more time with certain characters before the book breaks off to another perspective.
Next, I'll probably pick up Gass' "In the Heart of the Heart..." volume.

>>9592431
>the mother dying
wow you made it this far.

>>9590066
I'm reading two books, one on history, and a novel.

>The Conquest of New Spain
>It's a great primary source on Hernan Cortez and his men taking over the Aztec empire. It's actually really beautiful. It challenges the way I've viewed the Spanish imperialists. They aren't evil zealots like I thought they were. There are some inconsistencies in their thinking that as a modern person I can notice, but for the most part they were just very nationalistic and very concerned with spreading Christianity and stopping human sacrifice.
>Africa's World War (it's about the Congo wars and the Rwandan genocide)

>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>I'm only a few pages in, but it's packed with so philosophy. It's much different than I thought it was going to be. As a Christian, I didn't expect the book's philosophy to be as convincing or at least appealing as it is. The book is about 300 pages long. I'm only 30-40 pages in and it's already given me so much to think about. It's crazy to think I'm only less than sixth into the story.
>Sword and Citadel, the second half of The Book of the New Sun.

Just finished Crime and Punishment and that was a fun intro to Dostoevsky. Not sure what to read next. I was thinking of reading Stoner but I'm tired of reading depressing novels all the time so maybe something fun.

Cosmos by Gombrowicz
I like it a lot. It's the first polish novel i've read. I thought because polish seems very complex, it would be hard to translate, but that's not the case.

>>9592486
>Africa's World War (it's about the Congo wars and the Rwandan genocide
Is it good? I've been thinking of reading some non-fiction and this one seems interesting. Does it cover only those two conflicts you mentioned?

>>9592486
> It challenges the way I've viewed the Spanish imperialists. They aren't evil zealots like I thought they were.
That's because it was written by the spaniards themselves. It's a good read but full of inaccuracies.

>>9592503
>Is it good?
I haven't read it yet. It's the next on my history reading list though.
>I've been thinking of reading some non-fiction and this one seems interesting. Does it cover only those two conflicts you mentioned?
The front of the book says "Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe". I'm fairly certain it's just about the two Congo Wars and the Rwandan Genocide. A lot of the people on /his/ recommend Dancing in the Glory of Monsters which is also about the same conflicts. However, I bought this one because the author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters was a political activist, so I thought his book might be more biased. But people on /his/ seem to like it, so you might want to buy that one instead.

>>9592528
Yeah, it does come from a biased perspective, but most of the books that condemn the actions taken by the imperialists were written by people who weren't there, so it's hard to tell which narrative is more reliable. Also, when the writer misplaces an event or names the wrong city, the translator adds a footnote explaining the inaccuracy. But he hasn't added footnotes for the things that challenge my perception of these people, so I don't really know what to think.

But another important thing to note is that the soldier who wrote this book wrote it after reading a lot of other historian's accounts of the events. He sometimes talks about the errors in their accounts. And at one point he does actually defend the actions he and the other soldiers took against what a historian accused them of doing. So, the book is sometimes a defense of their actions, so maybe it is true that some of it is inaccurate. But I doubt it's "full of inaccuracies". It's just a few inaccuracies.

>>9592503
>Gombrowicz
I liked Ferdydurke a lot.
It's like Holden Caulfield grew up and realized that there was an opposite danger to being a phony : being kitsch (borrowing the word from Kundera).

Never heard about Cosmos.

PKD's A Scanner Darkly. Finished it today, and it was absolutely beautiful. The way he lays down the structure lf the story really pays off in the last few hallucinatory chapters, like a flower that crumbles as soon as its petals open. Not a single word out of place.

Hippie lingo aside, its an amazing book with a really touching sentiment.

>>9590682
>The Soulforge.
Is The Soulforge or whatever series it's from worth reading. How does it compare to other fantasy books/series?

Also, is it as good as this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-q0F7oWnU

>>9590066
The Odyssey (Classics Club)

I absolutely love it. It's almost biblical. It's the oldest book I've ever read but the characters are still relatable and likable.

Candide
Pretty good, surprised by the speed of it.
Moby Dick, probably

>>9590960
It goes downhill after that. I found Kvothe to be a hardcore Mary-Sue. His girlfriend is a cunt too. The world is really interesting though.

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>>9592685
If I hate how smug Voltaire is, will I still be able to enjoy Candide?

>>9590066
>À la recherche du temps perdu (welp, finished just today)
>one of the most enthralling books i've ever read
>as much secondary literature on it as possible

also, i'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of the place where i could watch/download Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (Marcel Proust's Time Regained), a film released in 1999, for free

>>9592702
sure
it's very short and quite humorous (until you realize that it's actually very, very sad)

>>9592702
maybe, as long as you don't read the annotations

>Currently reading
A Writer At War: Memoirs of a war correspondent on the Eastern Front by Vasily Grossman translated by Beevor and L. Vinogradova

>How do you like it
it's interesting perspective of the war, through the eyes of many and is often written in a broken monologue, would make sense as it is mostly translated notebooks word for word, space for space with breaks with the history going on behind the scenes.

>Next on Reading List
Either Fighting for the Motherland by Dimitry Loza or New Confessors of Russia haven't decided yet.

>>9591513
Im reading blood meridian and is great so far.

>>9590066
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>9590066
I'm currently reading The Trial by Franz Kakfa.

I find it really depressing, and (despite its short length) kind of a slog to read through.

Next up is The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

>>9590066
>currently reading
Eden by Lem
>what do you think
I've bought it for the "Orwell-like planet", but so far it's planet exploration and what not, but it's cool too.
>what next
Most likely Quicksilver by Stephenson.

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>Recently Read
I just finished the Stranger, enjoyable journey of a man dejected with reality and being question on his faith.

>Next to be Read
100 years of Solitude, i heard great things about really eager to start

Currently reading Oblomov. Story is good but the talk about love gets very boring. Next up is Xerxes from Louis Couperus or Het Verdriet van België from Hugo Claus.

>>9590174
Not the one you replied to but personally, I liked The Rat triology more than Norwegian Wood.

>A Plato Reader
>First time reading philosophy and its really good.
>The Odyssey or Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

Makioka Sisters. The original is divided into three books and I'm only almost done with the first but I enjoy Tanizaki's prose greatly. It goes back and forth from page-long sentences to short dialogue smoothly, as well as a lot of word and dialect play that probably doesn't translate well. Can't wait to finish the rest of the trilogy.

I started reading The Political History of the Devil - Daniel Defoe and kind of stopped. I thought it was gonna be about what "the devil" represented throughout history and for all I know that might have been exactly what it's about, but I couldn't tell with all the rambling. Many, many pages of rambling.

Then I started 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk and so far, meh. I like his writing style but the whole 'sex addict' thing put me off, it seemed forced (though I get the feeling that it's the pivotal element of the book, in the first few chapters it just feels like a mcguffin). So I kind of stopped reading it too.

I also tried to read Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion because I wanted to read more stuff by female writers. I liked it, but because it's a collection of essays the stories can be a little hit and miss. I like her writing style though.

That's it folks, I'm a serial book unfinisher.

Wirginia Wolf- To the Lighthouse

heavy bite

Just finishing 100 Years of Solitude. Second time reading it and it's still incredibly beautiful. Going to read Kafka on the Shore next.

>What are you currently reading?
The Waves by Woolf and Cryptonomicon by Stephenson

>What do you think of it?
Almost finished Waves it has been fantastic. Want to re-read it in the not so distant future so I can get a better handle of it. Crypt is also pretty good i'm enjoying it, can drag tho.

>What's next on your reading list?
Cormac McCarthy — All The Pretty Horses
Georges Perec — Life: A User's Manual

>>9593758
It's great though. If you're liking it, add Mrs. Dalloway to your list.

>The Odyssey
I am very much enjoying it so far, even more than I did the Iliad. It seems to be much grander than the Iliad, and funnier as well.
>The Waves or The Penguin History of The World

>>9590066
the second sex

about 100 pages in, if anything i'm more sexist now (or maybe i'm becoming aware?). those parts about man being transcendent made me proud lol. then again there were some sweaty moments that hit a nerve eg: >the most mediocre of males feels himself a demi god as compared with women
it's been a much more enjoyable read than I anticipated so far.
Will read Butcher's Crossing next.

I am only now getting into this whole reading thing, at 18. Starting with The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I like it so far, the prose is pretty.
Lord Henry seems like that one friend that influences you to do stupid things. Very likeable character though, for me. Am definitely seeing a bit of myself in Dorian. How easy it is to influence me, how many dumb things I've done to enjoy my youth.

After this book, I plan on continuing the /lit/ starter kit.

>>9591455
>Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov? That's a great book.
Yep, that's the one. Probably been reading too many /lit/ recs recently but they are pretty good

>>9590066
>>What are you currently reading?
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
>>What do you think of it?
Having just finished Go Tell It on The Mountain, I'm also enjoying this and feel that it is a more tempered work. Baldwin writes better than most writers I've come across and the subject matter is interesting.
>>What's next on your reading list?
Either The Peregrine or Bonfire of the Vanities (already read 100 pages but put it down for exam season)

>Currently reading
Sportsman's Sketches. Love it so far. Turgenev become such a bore at older age. The peasant milieu is so much more interesting than Baden-Baden.

>Next
Going to dip deeper into Seneca. Not sure which piece exactly. I've only read letters to Lucilius.

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>Currently Reading
pic related

>What do you think of it?
It's got a lot of eye-openers for an ignorant burger; I knew basically nothing of British politics before picking this up for the current election. JC himself comes across surprisingly relatable, though there is of course a certain amount of partisanship on the author's part.

>What's next on your reading list?
Probably Papillon or some poetry

Current read: "Seventeen & J: Two Novels" by Kenzaburo Oe

Next read: Any of George Lincoln Rockwell's two novels

>>9590101
>DFW is
was


and he was just a hack

also, reading Ulysses. Cool as fuck. Greatest book i've ever read. Up there with Moby Dick and Shakespeare.

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>The Adolescent - Fyodor Dostoevsky
>7/10 It's Notes from Underground with more characters
>Either Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by DFW or Mother by Maxim Gorky

>>9591124

My fucking nigga. Read Dead Souls if you haven't yet (Also, Mikhail Bulgakov for more Gogolesque soviet lit).

Also, Lev Nikolaevich is amazing. War and Peace, Ana Karenina, the list goes on...

>currently reading

wild surmise - dorothy porter

>what do you think of it

yeah not bad, really like the ecology metaphors and stuff like that. i read the monkey's mask last week and this is less funny but probably better overall.

>whats next on your reading list?

dunno probably the rest of dorothy porter's verse novels

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>>9590066
Confessions by St. Augustine, alongside the biography of Augustine by Peter Brown. Also reading through a complete collection of Yeats' poetry and loving it, it's the first book of poetry I've ever read. Book of Job too, which is completely not what I was expecting but still good.

>>9590066
Jurassic World fanfiction.
(the amount of people that want chris pratt and the absolute shitheap teenager to fuck is very upsetting)

Le Morte Darthur. Loving it.

>>9590099
Same

>>9592670
It's rather simple and set in a D&D universe, based on the backstory of characters from a campaign that was actually played.

My roommate just raves about it and so I gave it a shot and I'm impressed. Doesn't take itself too seriously for what it is, and delivers a solid story, but has a slow build.

>>9591124
It sounds like you haven't gotten to the "Russian Stories" of his collection yet. Those are the ones that make his name

>>9592431
>Nothing much happened yet except the mother dying
Ahahahaha

>>9593758
Didn't know Woolf was German

>>9591090
shit taste desu

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>The Pale King by DFW

>It is fantastic I'm enjoying much more than infinite jest

>The bible is next on my list to then be able to read paradise lost.

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>What are you currently reading?

The Count of Monte Cristo

>What do you think of it?

I think it's a fine book (Monte Cristo). I couldn't put it down while Dantes was in prison. Ever since the ten year timeskip after saving M. Morrel's shipping company, it has felt a little slow. Maybe it's just buildup, who knows?

>What's next on your reading list?

I just got back into fiction reading after a four year hiatus. I believe that my American education robbed me of going over the classics so I'm starting with the Western canon. Since I heard Monte Cristo was a fun read (it is), I thought that it would be a good place to slip back into reading fiction. Next on my list is Crime and Punishment.

>>9590806
I loved the Story of Civilization series. My favorite was part 4, the age of faith.

>>9595965
im also reading this rn. very relevant to my life atm. its kinda funny. i would say its good but definitely not great.

next is tropic of cancer. im trying to read more contemporary and toxically masculine books- anyone have suggestions? i dont want to be a pussy

>>9590066
six four by hideo yokoyama
its pretty good, almost done. twist was worth it. im getting pretty emotional about this ending.
still life with woodpecker

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>Currently reading
Pic.

>Thoughts
Quite good. Starts a bit slow, but the narrative is quite strong.

>Next up
Probably Snow Crash or Seveneves.

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>>9590196
Not that anon, but Norwegian Wood is by far Murakami's most 'ordinary' story. I would say it's a perfect way in if you haven't read his other works yet. It's a cosy story without being too sentimental, very character driven.

I'm reading Anna Karenina currently.

I haven't read any Tolstoy before (I know) and my friends said this was the one I should begin with. The prose is very charming. I'm only a hundred pages in at the moment though, so i don't have much else to add, yet.

Next is either The Goldfinch or The Blind Assassin, I haven't decided yet.

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>What are you currently reading?
Pic.

>What do you think of it?
"Seraphite" – the main work of Balzac in the genre, which can be conditionally called a mystical novel, – is a book almost unknown to the modern reader, although Balzac attributed it to the best examples of his work. But this book, obviously, inspired by the visionary works of Swedenborg, which, nevertheless, does not make it less interesting.

>What's next on your reading list?
I'm going to re-read the surreal and esoteric "Louis Lambert" of the same author.

>>9596185
As a Russian who read almost everything of Tolstoy, I would advise you to start with "A Confession", and only then read the "Anna Karenina."

>>9596080
>I believe that my American education robbed me of going over the classics
As a European I can tell you that it's not just American Education. I might have read more German classics (Goethe especially) but we still read way too much trash and not enough important literature. Hell, we never even read anything by Hesse during all my time in High School and he is arguably one of the most important German-language writers of the past century. I never even heard of most classics that were not written in either German or English in school. Thankfully, we now have the internet to educate us since schools fail us.

>>9590066
Reading Hyperion for the first time and then thinking of trying to read Dune again because I quit in 7th grade because of all the names.

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>>9596209
Currently reading pic related. It's pretty good but also kind of odd. I figured there would be a lot more active theology going on from the second century writers but it's mostly apologies and generic epistles. It is interesting to see how the main worries are marcionite and proto-gnostic heresies.

>>9593819
This was one of the first pieces of literature I intentionally read as well. It's a fun read with catchy, memorable quotations.

Currently: Tindall's reader for Finnegan's Wake & Finnegan's Wake
Thoughts: reading this on a qt3.14 reccomendation and its dawning on me she's never fucking read it
Next: Virginia Woolf's The Lighthouse

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currently 160 pages into pic related, already one of the best books ive ever read, if not soley for delillo's prose

next up is probably something light, maybe a collection of julia cortazar stories i found

>>9592688
How is she a cunt?

>>9590066
>Just Read
The Sailor who fell from grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima. Very interesting take on the illusion/danger of ideals within the context of the spread of American influence in Japan.
>Currently Reading
Eumeswil, Ernst Junger. Only other Junger book I've read is Storm of Steel, so I don't know what to fully expect.
>What's Next
Utopia, Thomas More.
>>9592439
What is there to not understand?

The confessions of Young Nero
I think it's interesting, reading from a young child point of view, growing up in the Roman eras
Only got to to chapter 7 thou
Planning on getting a another fantasy book

>Just Read
The Metamorphosis and other stories. The Penal Colony and The Metamorphosis were great. I didn't get too much from The Penal Colony, but it was a very entertaining story.
>Currently Reading
Notes From Underground. It's a great look into a guy very similar to me (but with talent) and I relate to it like everyone else on this hellish board does
>What's Next
No Longer Human. Not sure what to expect but I've been recced it

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The Silmarillion. Just read The Hobbit and LOTR for the first time a month ago so I figured I should read this too, but I honestly just cannot get into this. I'm only sixty pages in and the idea of going through another two hundred and fourty pages is just draining my energy.

Now I loved The Hobbit and LOTR, but this is just a bit too dry for me. The most interesting bits are where there is some backstory on things like Balrogs, it's cool to see the origins, but those cool bits are far and few between. To anyone who has read it, does it get better? Do I just have to wait it out a little bit or am I in for a rough time the whole way through? Side note: I have never dropped a book before and I'm not starting here and honestly this isn't the worst book I've ever read by far. I'm just coming out of another book that was long and that I didn't enjoy all that much so I honestly feel like it has been a good month since I've read something I enjoy.

What's next? I don't know, but something short that focuses more on a character and their emotions. I've had enough of this plot heavy shit for a while now. Any suggestions friends?

>>9591124
>>9594150
Second this, Dead Souls is a masterpiece

>>9590099
i finished it about a month ago and i honestly loved every second of it. not meme-ing even a little bit

>>9591086
you seem like a tard

>>9596436
I'm reading something similar right now and it really seems like early Christianity was almost entirely propped up by these kinds of apologetics and relationships with the Roman governments. Gnosticism was more prevalent through ex-pagan communities and Gnostic sects like the manichaeans provided a rigid dogma that simple people could adhere to better than the Christian dogma in its extant form.

>reading
Mythology by Edith Hamilton

>thoughts
I'm not very far in, but I'm exiting the setup and entering the stories, which is exciting.

>next
The Iliad. going full greek meme

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probably the funniest book I've ever read what is next I don't know, do you guys know any more like this?

Meditations by Emperor Goodman the wise

I wanted to understand what stoicism is about and there's actually alot of very interesting ideas in the book, it's cool reading the idealistic writings of an emperor too

Not sure, I ordered some books but it's taking alot of time, if luck is with me I will read Walter Benjamin's essays on media

>Tropic of Cancer

read "Fear and Loathing in LV" and some Bukowski before as well.
I think I fell for the "its different and spits previous art standards in the face so it is good" meme.
Even as an alcohol, drug abuser I cannot see how anyone would put these anywhere near greater classics from even earlier in the 20th century.

>>9591134
Finish it in one sitting please. It is not long at all and when you are finished it the confusion will be gone and you should see its merit.

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I'm currently reading Homage to Catalonia. My grandpa has been talking about how much he enjoyed For Whom the Bell Tolls, so I thought he might like another book about the Spanish Civil War. I had never read this book before, so I thought I might as well read it before I lend it to him. I'm not sure if he's going to like it. He isn't exactly one to sympathize with leftists in general, let alone Marxists or anarchists. I'm thinking if I keep reminding him that it's by the guy who wrote 1984 and Animal Farm, he might be more receptive.

Ulysses

The Closing of the Muslim Mind
Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
Summa Elvetica

>>9590066
The Horus Hersey Book 10: Tales of Hersey.

Got this and 14 other books in the series during a Humble Bundle sale 2 months ago.

I don't usually enjoy short stories at all because they lack proper world building and tension, but this is one of the few books with short stories that add to the universe.

I did enjoy the fact that the Legio Custodes are so devoted that they would challenge a Primarch when outnumbered.