What are you reading right now /r9k/?

>>36193192
The Late Mattia Pascal . By Pirandello.
Pretty good for now.

books are for nerds

Arabian nights

Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird.

neuromancer by William Gibson

>>36193285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNpjCFSkZw
normie out.

Un homme qui dort. Read 4/5 this morning, will finish it tomorrow. After that I'm going to read some Dazai so I can shitpost in certain threads on /a/.

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>>36193192
Infantry Tactics by Erwin Rommel

>>36193192
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Workbook. I want to get out of depression and anxiety.

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king james bible the good book

>>36193192
i don't read books

>>36193729
Why not anon?
Books are interesting.

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I'm about to get into The Horus Heresy after buying the Humble Bundle for it. I only read manga, western comics, and trashy sci-fi and fantasy novels.

Finishing Brave new world tonight

>>36193192
Joan Perucho's Natural History
Historical fantasy is some of my favorite shit ever.

>>36193773
you might hear that often, but it's really hard for me to immerse into a book. Perhaps I haven't found an interesting one yet

What is property by Proudhon

>>36193192
Lab techniques in microbiology

I dropped out of highschool.

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"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin.

God is in control of everything that happens in the World. Choose Christianity robots.

>>36194082
If God is in control of everything, wouldn't he also be in control of my choice to not be a christian?

>>36194082
Then by the Lord's hand and will I am now calling you a faggot. Faggot.

The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar is a good robot book
http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Vilar,Esther/The_manipulated_man.pdf

I just noticed it's on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcAWn2D8EsM

>>36194189
What a stupid question.

origig

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>>36194082
>God made me jerk it to traps again

SSSTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPP!!!!1!

>>36193192
I'm trying to get into modern philosophy do you think Hegel is a good start? I've heard his work is boring and lengthy and I'd better off reading someone else's interpretation of his Books. What is your opinion?

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>Paradise Lost is required reading for class
>have almost no idea what's going on because it's a poem
>have to look up Sparks Notes to understand what's going on

david hume, treatise of human nature
it's shit and wrong of course but i need to retrain myself to read long things

The Closing of the American Mind
I just feel angry instead of sad now

Ur thread xD

I'm listening to "The Story of our Civilization" as an audio book at work. At home I'm trying not to be such a brainlet by reading "Mathematics for the Non Mathematician".

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, its comfy

I'm not a good reader, but a girl gave me Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, so I'm trying to read it.
It seems to be about an antisocial dude who becomes soft after meeting a girl.
I have barely read 10 pages so far.

>>36193798
Read Mechanicum as soon as you can please. It's an excellent book if you're curious about something other than meat marines.

The Gaunt's ghost series is also excellent.

>>36193798
>>36195106
Second Gaunts Ghosts. The Ciaphas Cain books are also great.

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UN HOMME QUI DORT
the only book worth reading, the only film worth seeing

Tales of a Dying Earth.

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Gravity's Rainbow

>>36193339

Nice. The whole sprawl trilogy is really good.

>>36195498
this film was like looking into a mirror for roughly 2 hours and watching myself watch myself watching the world pass by
good stuff

"The Geopolitics of Emotion" by Dominique Moisi.
Basically an updated version of Huntingtons "Clash of Civilizations" for a post-9/11 world. Very interesting.

>>36193192

meditations on audiobook and the burma campaign on real book

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Been reading this for a while but I'm a little stuck at the moment

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>>36193192
This is by a Danish poet

>>36195928
Man sku' ha' vaeret taxachauffoer..

Snow Crash
This book is fucking gr8

Gravity's Rainbow...

I have no fucking clue what's going on. I know there's a dude that works for a spy agency, and his co worker has this weird form of pavlovian conditioning that creates a response before the stimulus is applied, and the stimilus being rockets and the response being sex.
At the same time, there's a movie being made about some black germans by the british to demoralize the nazi.
At the same time, there's a guy who's fucking an attached girl, and he's fucked a married girl before, and thought about that while laying with her.

Makes no sense. I like the prose, and I like the different strands of story, even though I don't understand them all.

>>36196285
I'm planning on checking that out in the library.

Dragon Ball Z, full color edition. Just finished the Saiyan saga, and when I finish the Freeza saga, I'll finish my Viz Bigs. By the time I finish, my english copy of Super should arrive.

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>>36196545
Anon, Japanese comica don't count. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEREERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTREEEEHSIDI38IE92O28EIE
I can't wait for Super to come stateside

>>36193192
your fucking gay post

Of Human Bondage. It is pretty robot-tier.

>>36196508
>Makes no sense. I like the prose, and I like the different strands of story, even though I don't understand them all.
I'm glad to hear someone say this, it's basically how I read it. At one point he is writing poignantly about the effects of war, then at another point a man is literally eating a woman's poop.

nothing at the moment. I've been trying to get into philosophy lately but I find it boring and hard to follow. Last book I finished was Thus Spoke Zarathustra and I had no idea what was going on for the last third or so of that book.

>>36196831
Never start with Nietzsche. If you want to get into philosophy, read the Greeks.

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Just finished Roadside Picnic for the first time, and it might be my new favorite book. It's up there, at least.

>>36196916
like Plato? There's so many I don't know where to start.

>>36193192
it's a harrowing tale of perseverance and family, it's called Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

>>36196938
Can't go wrong with good ole Pluto. I'd recommend any introduction on Greek Philosophy. There's a multi-volume set on the early Greeks by Laks & Most, that's what first year students get to read at university here. Gives you a good overview.

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>>36196831

pleb

oregano

>>36197273
I listened to a Great Lectures course on intro to Greek philosophy which was a nice overview but I wanted to dig into the meat of philosophy a little more. Should I just pick one of Plato's books at random and start reading, or is there like, an order to them?

>>36193192
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
because I am gay for Spain and reading a lot of Spanish history at the minute

>>36193192
if you read books you're a homo

>>36196938

meditations of marcus aurelius is a good place to start

>>36197319
Read the dialogues,allthe dialogues, in the order I assume they were intended to be read, that is:
1st tetralogy (getting started):Alcibiades I + Lysis/Laches/Charmides
2nd tetralogy (the sophists):Protagoras +Hippias major/Gorgias/Hippias minor
3rd tetralogy (Socrates'trial):Meno + Euthyphro/Apology/Crito
4th tetralogy (the soul):Symposium + Phaedrus/Republic/Phaedo
5th tetralogy (logos):Cratylus + Ion/Euthydemus/Menexenus
6th tetralogy (dialectic):Parmenides + Theaetetus/Sophist/Statesman
7th tetralogy (kosmos):Philebus + Timaeus/Critias/Laws

>>36193192
I've been reading Huckleberry Finn lately. Not a huge fan of e books but it was a free download on my phone, so I thought "fuck it". I think I'm on chapter VIII right now, where Huck's dad takes him to the cabin, started reading around a week ago.

>>36197422
thanks for the tip. That's a whole lot of reading. Might be a few years before I can get through all that.

>>36197459

are you enjoying it?

orig

>>36197459
Never mind that, it was chapter 7.


AM I COOL ENOUGH FOR YOU NOW BOT!?

>>36197485
Yep, I always did like the more classic writers like Twain. Hell of a lot better than people like Rowling that's for sure. And having one of his most well known and impactful novels as a free download is rather nice, though I'd still prefer a physical copy. If only they could get some Ambrose Bierce on there.

>>36197479
It takes some time to get into but once you're in the right mindset you get used to it pretty nicely. And they are definitely interesting reads.

>>36193192
Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

The Angel Esmeralda by Don Delillo

La Peste by Albert Camus

Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver

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Roadside Picnic, it's pretty good.

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>>36198410
>Roadside Picnic
Fuck yeah.

Anna Karenina

I am not as fond of it as I was hoping to be, but I really like Kitty's story and Levine's story. I find myself almost completely disinterested in Anna and Vronskys story, though.

Dostoevsky is objectively better

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>>36197397
>marcus aurelius
>greek
solid rec tho

>100 Years of Solitude
I was warned beforehand but this incest is out of control, fun read though

>The Idiot
Really enjoyable, the plot is a bit less interesting than TBK or C&P but the characters are interesting enough to drive the story.

>>36196831
>boring and hard to follow
That's because you fell for the meme. Philosophy is supposed to read like that until you go through enough mental gymnastics and convince yourself that you're intellectual for reading it. Then you become a pompous asshole and the enjoyment you get out of reading it stems from being able to feel superior to those you think are plebs.

Just read novels f.am

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover. Trying to sort myself out

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

>>36195997
hvem er du
come back anon

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>>36198738
KEK
Like anyone would believe anyone else to be superior just because he "understands philosophy". Nobody falls for the philosophy meme.

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The Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and commander). It make me wonder if some robots are just meant for the sea...

>>36196285
Fuck I loved that book. Such a cool setting/premise.

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Christ, this book is long(~1200 pages)

>>36194356
If Nietzsche and Kant countsas a modern philosophers I would recommend them. Wittgenstein has some rather interesting and provoking ideas as well.

You can find videos on YouTube that skim over pretty much every modern philosopher. I just found videos of some people that amused me and started reading into them. Perhaps you might find one as well.