/r9k/ book club

>r9k book club
>female author

you didn't think this through too well did you?

>>35175480
there is literally nothing wrong with books written by women

You would be better off selecting a short, publicly available for free 'classic' text, OP.

Something like Procopius's Secret History

http://sacred-texts.com/cla/proc/shp/index.htm

>>35175531
While I have nothing against female authors for the simple fact of being female, I have read very few books written by women that are at the calibre of medium-tier male authors. They're (mostly) just not as good

And anyway, where do you think you are? Reddit? Tumblr? This is r9k. Any fool knows robots won't choose on a book written by a female, and much less a modern Oprah book-club-tier book.

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Uh? Contemporary? Classics? Fiction? Anything?

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian'sbeauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat'shedonisticworldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.

Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues alibertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful; all the while his portrait ages and records every sin

>>35175480
>>35175561
Whatever you guys wanna read I am fine with but maybe when more people come it would be better

see, the reason I wanna read is because I haven't read a book since high school and I find it hard to motivate myself to just read a book on my own

since I spend all my time here if there was a little community of people who read a book together there would be more incentive for me to read, and I think there would be for many others as well

and I think most short, public texts like that aren't gonna be too interesting, no offense anon. They are written in hard to read text from centuries ago and I think we are gonna have a p high attrition rate of readers if we choose something which doesn't retain interest

Something more modern would be better

Being publicly available isn't that big of a deal in my opinion, most books can easily be found online for free

>>35175594
>muh we are legion meme
ok

what about Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

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>>35175755
>Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

I am highly interested in learning about this manlet faggot

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I'm halfway through this book. Fucking amazing.

>>35175594
>Any fool knows robots won't choose on a book written by a female, and much less a modern Oprah book-club-tier book.
im a robot and im reading a stupid 17 year old female hunger games-like novel just based on the fact that i was gifted the book.

only a dumbass would choose not to read a book based on the author's gender. im personally reading this one because a little bit of a different perspective never hurt anyone.

>>35175743
>Dorian Gray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray
I am fine with this

>>35175594
>Any fool knows robots won't choose on a book written by a female
yeah I'm gonna have to agree with the other guy anon
you sound like a dumbass

I heard that Notes From The Underground by Dostoevsky is a very good book robots can identify with.

just another suggestion to throw in the pile. i dont know how you're supposed to come up with an agreement here.

>>35176191
>just another suggestion to throw in the pile. i dont know how you're supposed to come up with an agreement here.

what do you recommend? strawpoll?

If there's only like 2 people who actuallydo the reading it might not be that great of a thread so there needs to be consensus

I still think we should choose behind the beautiful forevers desu. I heard it was a really good book

You could do 'Welcome to the NHK' the book, this would draw some interest.

>no one mentioned The Man Who Sleeps

I'm reading it in French because I'm more fluent in French.
You should read it, you may really like it.
I just began yesterday, but the average robot will manage to recognize himself in the character's traits.

>>35176338
>/r9k/ book club
>we read a fucking manga
no

>>35175323
I don't want to seem like a pussy but that book looks too hard for me to read and there isn't much that I as an individual who is lower middle class can do.

The world is a cruel place.

>>35176363

No, there's a manga but the original was a book. It's the book I'm suggesting.

>>35176191
I agree with Notes From The Underground. I'll throw in Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, Stoner by John Williams, and No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. The book needs to be either depressing or have a robot character, preferably both.

>>35176363
You do realize that the manga and anime were based off of a book, right?

>>35176426
>Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

I've heard good things about this book

I choose this one as well

can we all agree on kokoro

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http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ns/soseki.html

here's the McClellan translation of the book

read this one, not the McKinney translation

Here's a short excerpt from Kokoro to give you guys the gist of it.

"Have you ever been in love?"
I said no.
"Don't you want to be in love?"
I said nothing in reply.
"It isn't that you don't want to fall in love, is it?"
"No."
"You made fun of that couple, didn't you? But actually, you sounded to me like a person who is dissatisfied because he has not yet been able to fall in love, though he wants to."
"Did I sound like that?"
"Yes, you did. A person who has been in love himself would have been more tolerant and would have felt warmer towards the couple. But--but do you know that there is guilt also in loving? I wonder if you understand me."
I was surprised, and said nothing.

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how u weed da bok

Notes From the Underground:

The narrator introduces himself as a man who lives underground and refers to himself as a spiteful person whose every act is dictated by his spitefulness. Then he suddenly admits that he is not really spiteful, because he finds it is impossible to be anything, he can't be spiteful or heroic; he can only be nothing. This is because he is a man of acute consciousness and such a person is automatically rendered inactive because he considers too many consequences of any act before he performs the act and therefore never gets around to doing anything. In contrast, a person who is not very intelligent can constantly perform all sorts of actions because he never bothers to consider the consequences.

The man of acute consciousness finds that he cannot even commit an act of revenge because he never knows the exact nature of the insult. Such a man is plagued with an active imagination which causes him to exaggerate any type of insult until it becomes fantasized out of all proportion to the original insult. By this time it is ridiculous to try and perform any act of revenge.

Behind the Beautiful Foerevers:
Takes place in a Mumbai slum - an undercity near the modern, international airport - and follows the lives of several people in the slum from 2007 to 2011. Overall, conditions in Annawadi are poor, with people living on top of each other, amenities like running water available for only two hours a day, and a nearby "sewage lake" prone to flooding. In the Annawadi slum, it is every man for himself - and often, every child for himself, too. Those who do not learn how to navigate the slum and play by its rules face starvation.

Everyone in Annawadi is trying to elevate themselves from their situation and get out of the slum. The nearby international airport is a source of some options for success - in waste and recyclable scavenging, in metal thievery, and, for a lucky few, regular service jobs in the hotels. A wall plastered with the words of an Italian tile company (beautiful forever... beautiful forever...) separates the affluent area near the airport from its surrounding slums. Annawadi is a society that subsists on the leftovers and castoffs from this affluence, and a society where corruption runs rampant. Residents must make payments to police officers and even to each other, as a sort of Annawadi insurance policy: Pay today, and I will help you. Don't pay, and your family will suffer.

>>35176863
no one will want to read it. I'm sorry mr. robot

>>35175323
Let's read Catcher in the Rye

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>"I always called him Sensei, and so I shall do in these pages, rather than reveal his name. It is not that I wish to shield him from public scrutiny-simply that it feels more natural. "Sensei" springs to my lips whenever I summon memories of this man, and I write of him now with the same reverence and respect. It would also feel wrong to use some conventional initial to substitute for his name and thereby distance him." (Mckinney)

>"I ALWAYS called him "Sensei." I shall therefore refer to him simply as "Sensei," and not by his real name. It is not because I consider it more discreet, but it is because I find it more natural that I do so. Whenever the memory of him comes back to me now, I find that I think of him as "Sensei" still. And with pen in hand, I cannot bring myself to write of him in any other way." (McClellan)

If kokoro was our choice we would need to choose one of the two translations, the classic McClellan or the slightly updated Mckinney

I agree with you anon, the three options you posted are all good with me, which one would you prefer?

When this thread dies, I think rather than giving an option, I'll just start the thread saying this is the book we will read, that way it will be much easier to get people on board with the whole book club idea

>>35176992
>Let's read Catcher in the Rye
I think most people have already read this in high school although it most definitely is an interesting book to return to a few years later

>>35176863
they deserve it, instead of valuing freedom like america and standing up for themselves these countries always vote for commie socialists, I find it difficult to shed a tear except maybe for the kids who don't know any better

>>35177059
>I agree with you anon, the three options you posted are all good with me, which one would you prefer?

>>35176590
>>35176714
>>35176863
replying to you this time

In No Longer Human, the first-person narrator, Yozo, traces his development and experiences from childhood through his twenty-seventh year. Using the device of a journal kept by the narrator which has been recovered and is being read by someone else, the author has made this book a revelation of his innermost self and a confession of his increasing alienation from society. In fact, the book is highly autobiographical and belongs to the "I novel" genre, a style popular in Japan.

Yozo learns very early as a child that he is apparently quite different from the people around him, and he consequently fears these people. Yet he wants to be accepted, so by constantly playing the role of clown, he makes himself popular. He observes in general that people live in mutual distrust and are insincere. On the way home from a political rally sponsored by his father, he overhears family friends saying how idiotic the meeting was; these same friends then congratulate his father on a "wonderful meeting."

something to note is that the author commited suicide

>>35176973
im just posting the basic plots of some of these books so we can (hopefully) make a decision, maybe through strawpoll

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>>35177122
Considering you seem interested, anon, I highly encourage you and some other interested anons to just make a decision

we both know that the end result of a straw poll will be many voters who don't actually care enough to do the reading, so putting it to a vote doesn't seem like a good idea to me rather than just coming to a consensus via discussion here

the people interested enough in the idea of a book club to talk about it in this thread will do the reading, not the lurkers who choose some random answer in a strawpoll

>>35177203
welp, i already made it, might as well try. hopefully what you said wont happen, we'll see. http://www.strawpoll.me/12432380 this post is gonna be saged in order for it not to get unnecessary attention.

>>35177101
I think Kokoro (McClellan) is the way to go. It's not a difficult read and its perfect robot material. A kind anon even posted a link to the damn thing so there's no excuses there.

Notes From Underground is good too, we can easily move onto that next or No Longer Human if this actually goes anywhere. The only books people don't seem to back is Behind the Beautiful Forevers so into the trash that goes.

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>>35177383
seems like i made my post way too inconspicuous. only 2 votes so far.

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These are the only books I have help me choose one to read

if youve ever watched the movie the room you need to go read the disaster artist. the funniest book ive ever read

I'm writing a short novella myself in the style of a journal. Anyone want to follow my blog and stay tuned for when I publish it on Amazon?

>>35177743
If /lit/ has taught me anything at all then you should start with Brave New World

>>35177915
Don't they hate it like a meme or something?

>>35177950
Not quite as far as I know they hate every dystopian book including Brave New World. 1984 is much much worse. They refuse to believe that Fahrenheit 451 exists for the most part, and they will scream till their dying breath that "We" is the only dystopian book ever worth reading. So by lit standards it's the top of the shit pile, which makes it not that bad.

You gotta love that every board has it's own little meta and elitism.

well, so much for your idea, op. next time you make the thread, i suggest you include a discord or something like that in order for the community to stay together.

x2

>>35177383
I voted, and I would read what is decided upon, but I kinda agree with this guy>>35178229
if it was gonna be something fairly serious...

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>>35175323
Coiling Dragon

http://www.wuxiaworld.com/cdindex-html/

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>>35175323
Going through this right now, the protagonist truly is a robot. I read War and Peace before that and I'd also recommend it.