What book is /r9k/ currently reading?
>>39067222
rereading Machiavelli's The Prince until I can get all my books back
Welcome to Night Vale: The Novel
>>39067222
the prince by machiavelli along with discourses on the first decade of titus livius
>>39067222
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
>>39067247
>>39067252
wtf the fuck machiavellian hive mind
I've been reading a lot of Bret Easton Ellis. Just finished "Imperial Bedrooms", the sequel to "Less Than Zero". So fucking good.
"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."
>>39067222
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, for a book from the 50's its pretty funny and does a good job making me dislike war.
>>39067222
I'd be reading Assassin's Fate by Rob Hobb if I wasn't too miserable to be able to enjoy it
>>39067312
>I'd be reading Assassin's Fate by Rob Hobb if I wasn't too miserable to be able to enjoy it
Why not anon?
Reading sometimes makes me feel better when I'm depressed.
I'm reading 1984. Some anon recommended "Whatever" by Michel Houellebecq. It seems intressting to me, is it good? Seems to have alot of difference opinion, but i happend to like dark and depressing themes
Anyone looking forward to Oathbringer?
>>39067304
I liked the second half a lot more than the first
>>39067222
Inherent vice
Just finished rereading 'Without Conscience' by Robert D Hare. Planning on reading a Gentleman In Moscow.
I've been reading through Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
It's certainly an interesting read.
>>39067222
I never much liked Fiction but adore all things non-Fiction.
Right now the list is
"The structures and dynamics of the Psyche" - Carl Jung.
"Multiple controls in human thought and action" - Hilgard
"First person plural , multiple personality and the Philosophy of mind" - Stephen E. Braude
"The limits of influence" - Braude
"Thinking and experience" - H.H Price
"States of Consciousness" - Charles Tart
If you have a scientific interest in Parapsychology these books are amazing.
>>39067379
I have the adopted the habit of drinking at late night, which was my optimal time to read
>>39067222
I read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch this morning. It was really good, I'm shocked at how quickly PKD's stories become compelling and coherent.
>>39067222
Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment.
The sun also rises.
Feeling like we could identify with "the lost generation"
No wonder we are all fucking losers.
>>39067416
yeah
fucking stormlight archive appeals to my basic dbz tier sense of taste
>>39067807
Amazing book
ORIGASM
Trying to finish the Trial but it's taking forever
Getting a head start on required uni reading.
Do not harm by Henry Marsh.
It is easy reading but a good insight into the mind of a neurosurgeon.
>>39068017
Lol are j**s even trying to be subtle anymore
Not a single one of you fuckers is reading anything post-sophomore year?
You guys are young, fuck.
>>39068280
Go and play with your hoop and stick Grandpa.
A million little pieces
Interesting and well written alcohol and drug rehab story.
I'm reading Our Mutual Friend for the second time. It's been 10 years since I read it last.
>>39068280
I am 28 and I havent read a book in years and it was something like divergent or hunger games i read last.
Has nothing to do with age.
Why dont you post som big brain literature though?
Currently reading Dune.
>>39067383
Hey, you said you wanted something somehow similar to PunPun
>>39067222
Today finished
Jacques Ranciere - The Ignorant Schoolmaster - Five lessons in intellectual emancipation
http://abahlali.org/files/Ranciere.pdf
A must read for any autodidact. Or for anyone who takes one's reading even a tiny bit seriously.
>>39067222
the revenant - super comfy /out/ bookish, way better than the movie
broken angels, altered carbon was a bit weird at first until all the tech got explained but it's getting much more enjoyable now i get how most of the stuff works
i was planning to start parahumans (the web novel) but the sheer length is putting me off, how do you guys approach reading this kind of stuff
very originally comfy
>>39068353
It's fucking garbage and he made it all up.
http://exiledonline.com/a-million-pieces-of-shit/
>>39068391
Also resding Dune. I don't normally read genre fic, but I had to rinse my mind of the shittiness of GoT, which I read sporadically over the past year.
nished The Castle hy Kfka before that, which wasbpretty good, even despite its lack of proper ending. Either gonna read Amerika after Dune, or otherwise Watt by Beckett. or Dune Messiah, or whatver the second one is. /lit/ told me to stop after that one
Just fi
>>39067222
Im reading With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.
Im a really big fan of pacific war history and the campaign's.
After this ill pick up a copy of Helmet for my Pillow.
>>39068615
Haha this came out so poorly. Trying to post from psvita while beating off on the toilet
I just started with Demons by Dostojevski. I'm also reading Mysliwski's latest novel, Carullus' poems, some short stories from Herman Hesse and a book about composting by Alwin Seifert.
Why do women pretend like they enjoy reading? why do they pretend to like star wars and video games? why do they pretend to understand game of thrones?
Lolita by nabokov. Pretty good
>>39067222
I don't read anymore, I barely have the attention span to play video games.
Last time I tried to read I got halfway through the first chapter of Wealth of Nations and gave up. And this was in like 3-4 sittings. I am legit fucking dumb
The Philosophy Book and Spice and Wolf's omnibus
I plan on reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and checking out some stuff by Protagoras afterwards.
>>39069361
So uhh... what kind of book is that? A-asking for a friend...
I stopped reading when I realised it in no way increases my chance of success unless I am operating in a very specific field. Fuck all y'all time wasters.
>inb4 why are you on 4chan
To challenge my views, brainlets.
>>39067222
CS Lewis' "screwtape letters"he calls out normies on their bullshit and idiocy
Heart of Darkness since I saw Apocalypse Now Redux for the first time recently.
>>39069424
It's where the term "Loli" came from.
A classic.
>>39068663
>>39068615
>>39068391
Yeah, indeed, im the same poster from last night. Thanks for the recommend, i'll prob read Whatever, will also look into Dune.
>>39069424
An absolute classic. It's oscillating between pure degeneracy and utter brilliance.
>>39069639
>>39068663
I've a vita too, but don't use it as much as i wish for. I played both Steins:gate VN on it though. Good VN if you havent read then. Never finished the second VN, yet. Still, comfy handhold, but not too much for em.
This at the moment. Been reading a lot more books recently.
I'm reading "Mathematics for the Non Mathematician." I feel like I've gimped my way through math so I don't have a true understanding of it. Hoping to change that.