>book you last read, what did you think of it?
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
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>book you last read, what did you think of it? >book youre currently reading, how is it?
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its unbearable. but don't dare look away.
For those just joining us, the "buttcheek" on the left is the dad's head, leaning down to kiss the baby.
Wtf are you seeing?! Go to a shrink
Wut?
>>book you last read, what did you think of it?
The Maltese Falcon. It was underwhelming. I don't get why people think it's a good detective book. The prose is stylistically forgettable, the plot is aimless and doesn't grip well, and only Sam Spade is really worth a dooley as a character but even he doesn't amount to much. I guess as a prototype of real gritty detective stories I have to give it a pass but I don't think I'll reread it.
>>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
I got this great copy of Lady in the Lake recently. I'm two chapters in and it's so much more refreshing reading Chandler over Hammett. I just like the way he does things much better.
>>book you are planning to read next? Why?
The Little Sister will be my last Chandler novel outside of Playback which I'm not entirely sure I want to read. But once I'm done with The Little Sister I don't know what I'll do with myself. I'll have a head full of the best hardboiled detective writer's works and no where to go but down.
Wtf did you type in the AI generator for that picture?
Frick nevermind finally realized what it was. Haha god damn.
This is an IRL picture that was posted to reddit like half a decade ago.
newbie kys
>An Arab Philosophy of History (excerpts from Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena)
Definitely interesting. It reminded me of some ancient encyclopedia-style works like Pliny's Natural History, but with more focus on theories of social science. His
historical theory of "initial tightly-knit conquering faction -> powerful empire -> imperial decadence -> conquered by another tightly-knit conquering faction" is still widely accepted in political science afaik
>High Church by F. W. Robinson
I've barely started it, but it seems like a fun little forgotten novel. VERY Victorian and English, even by Victorian English standards
>Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction
It was a recommendation
>last
-the Tao Te Ching translated by Addiss and Lombardo. I’ve read it a bunch of times and it’s one of my favorites. This version and Lau’s are my favorites
-Trilogy by Fosse. Jumped on the bandwagon because of the Nobel. It’s a short read and can be done in a day or two comfortably. Depressing book but optimistic at the same time. There is always hope and a sort of mystical quality about it. Not sure if it’s a translation thing or Fosse’s style but the repetition took me some time to get used to but once I did I found it effective. Loved the fiddler’s fate, the conversation with his father, and the soaring (you’ll know). I liked it enough I will check out some other books of his
>current
-Civil Wars by Appian. Covers Roman history from the Gracchus bros to Augustus vs Antony. Interesting and violent period. I like the book a lot. A good balance of academic but not too dry. Entertaining in parts
-The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton. I’ve been reading this for a while picking through it a few pages at a time. I love it. I’ve said before but it reminds me of Montaigne and to a lesser extent Rabelais. Lots of references and quotes. Burton seemed like a cool dude with a good personality
>next
-The Prophet by Gibran. Normie core but it’s short and some of the comparisons I’ve seen are to books I love. If I don’t like it, I didn’t waste much time or money. Quite a few normie books like Siddhartha I love so I don’t judge by fans, only the book
-The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Want to reread it soon. My favorite of his and I’ve read the big ones. Something about it just struck a chord with me
-Tacitus if I want to continue with the Roman history
-lots of shorter essays, poems, and such by Lucian, Plutarch, Seneca, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Zhuangzi, I-Ching, Upanishads
>Brave New World
I had tried to read it several times before but found Huxley's prose to be too impenetrable, so this time I read it on audio. I liked it but it only got really good towards the end. Almost everything up to after they get back from the reservation was pretty boring. John and Bernard were good characters though, despite Bernard's cowardice. I liked John's steadfastness to tradition. Mustapha Mond was also a cool, foreboding antichrist kind of character. The ending felt a bit rushed. Michael York's narration really added a lot to it with the different voices he did. Overall I liked it and I'm glad I read it cause it's a bonafide classic but I would only give it 3/5.
>Communion by Whitley Strieber
Wanted something to read for Hallowe'en time. Reading this one on audio as well. I'm enjoying it.
>Next up
I've got to finish reading e-girlta and a few other academic books I'm perusing (including picrelated). Not sure what I'm going to read after that. I may read another horror novel after Communion.
>book you last read, what did you think of it?
The sorrows of young werther. I can relate with werther for the unrequited love and it was hard for me to read because it reminds me of the time when I get rejected by my crush.
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
Anna Karenina(currently reading part two). This book reminds me a lot of Mdm Bovary. I'm afraid to get into relationship because of girls like Anna and Emma. What if she finds me boring? I don't wanna get cucked.
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
Maybe Alice in wonderland, because I watched a documentary about Carroll Lewis was in love with a kid.
Or Silmarillion. idk. Haven't decided yet.
Don't stop reading brother i just got up to part 4 a few hours ago and its getting even better somehow, levin in the rain was some of the most beautiful writing I've ever beheld and then chapter 1 of part 4 just knocked my wiener and balls off, vronsky is unequivocally me
>Last
Compilation of Lovecraft short stories. They were all very kino, though some are more thought-provoking and speculative than "scary"
>current
A book on the history of the Boer War and how it influenced the formation of modern South Africa. It's very good so far
>next
In Search of the Indo-Europeans, because I heckin love history and linguistics. Recommend me fiction, anons
>book you last read, what did you think of it?
Rilke's Book of Hours and New Poems. Very, very beautiful, if obscure
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
Shusaku Endo, Silence. The beginning is somewhat slow and boring, I hope it gets better
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
For Halloween vibes, either the Lovecraft omnibus or Jan Potocki's Manuscript Found in Zaragoza
I might read Story of the Eye again idk just something about it seems right to read by candlelight on an October evening.
that shit sucks
i remember some moron i worked with at a call center telling me about it.
It wouldn't make sense to a brownoid. It's a pvrely Evropean perspective.
You’re a spiritual Black person.
Shalom!
I thought the accusation was that I was brown?
The book is pretty israelitey.
For people who don't get the picture, it's a bald shirtless man kissing his baby, it's an optical illusion that makes it look like someone is showing their butthole to the child.
>last
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Fun, sexy at times but the haunting is handled a bit too easily. Not spooky enough. 6/10.
>current
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. Not particularly spooky but I was at least enjoying the carnival setting. Only problem that’s only about the first third of the book and they move away from carny life. More noir than horror. It is kind of bleak and depressing in its view of humanity but I can’t go so far as to say it’s wrong. Not a fun read but probably honest. 7/10
>next
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman. Will be my third collection of Aickman stories. I enjoyed the first two.
>book I last read:
Old Dragon 2, a TTRPG system based on AD&D, which actually felt really pleasant. It's Brazilian.
>book I'm currently reading:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton. What can I say? Start with the greeks.
>book I'm planning to read next:
The Illiad by Homer. Well, why do I wanna read it? Start with the greeks, anon.
I'm planning to read How to Read a Book next. I just don't have the one with the based cover. I'm currently reading IJ and The Halakkhic Mind, and the last book I finished was the Organon audiobook but I will probably have to go through it several times.
You sound moronic I'm sorry.
>last
All the pretty horses. It was pretty good even if I couldn't understand half of the dialogue
>currently reading
The Crossing. Just started but I'm guessing gonna not understand most of the characters again.
>next
Cities of the Plains
I just finally getting to the Border Trilogy. Iiked most of McCarthy's books except for No Country and The Road; both just felt like screenplays.
Last - Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman. Incredible read, need some time before starting Life & Fate.
Current - Third book in the Red Rising series, I liked the Roman influence to begin with, but the novelty has worn off. Feeling tired of fantasy lately.
Next - I got a reading proof of J.M Coetzee, The Pole. I enjoyed his other works, especially the Life and Times of a Michael K.
>book you last read, what did you think of it?
the bloody chamber by angela carter. i read it because i liked the company of wolves (1984), but the book was worthy of being dropped early on. a sentence or phrase here and there were fairly well written, but it wasnt worth finishing. the movie is far, far better than the short story (it barely takes anything from it anyway).
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
david lynch: interviews. highly recommended to anyone interested in lynch or his movies, especially considering it includes interviews previously only in french and those that were lost to time and no longer exist on video.
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
my confession: recollections of a rogue by samuel chamberlain. i reread blood meridian earlier in the year and this was finally put back in print, so i didnt have to pay a king's ransom for a copy.
>On the Road
Dropped it about 20% through. I'd feel like I'd read 10 pages & realise it had only been 2. Shame as I would like to read an account of someone's travels but this just bored the shit out of me
>American Psycho
Needed something fun to rinse off with after enduring OtR & recently re-watched the movie so thought I'd finally give the book a go. Enjoying it thus far & liking it even more than the movie which is in my top 5
>Next
Haven't done much reading so I'll probably follow up with another classic, probably e-girlta
You didn't like On the Road? GAY.
I just finished blood meridian I really liked it was a little longer than I wanted it to be but I think that added to it. The ending really stuck with me I've re read at least 20 times since I've finished it.
Now I'm switching between Frankenstein and Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. I'm enjoying both classics always surprise me with the choices they take. I was really surprised Frankenstein is a story in a story in a story. Hollywood Babylon is a fun pop read.
Going to try to read some phillip K dick next or whatever peaks my intrest
>in a lonely place by Karl Edward Wagner
Solid horror analogy. Most of his stories feel like they could have written in the 19th century, which is how strong his gothic influences are. I’ll say sticks, in the pines, and .220 swift are my favorites just for its haunting depictions of rural America. That one story with the struggling actors was the creepiest. If Karl was little more with his descriptions, it could have been the 80s equivalent of the Ukrainian nugget copypasta.
Currently reading a collection of Clark Ashton smith, hopefully I will be able to finished it before the Halloween season ends. I also have other books currently in the back burner:
>that devil forest
>sot weed factor
>the bibble
I've been reading old cifi pulp fiction magazines
>last read
Farwell, Cowboy. It's a contemporary post-modernist novel written in poetic fragments and lacks a concrete plot, or so it seems at the beginning. Once you reach the middle, what appears to be aimless ramblings of the main character, start making sense and all the pieces fall into place and I really loved it, particularly because it applied western (as in cowboy stories) conventions to Croatian literature that seems really far removed from something as American as that. It's a novel I always wanted to write because it details the death of a city in such an interesting and explicit manner, it really spoke to me in that regard and is purposefully written as a representative of a lost generation after the war that doesn't know its place due to various socio-political circumstances in post-Homeland war Croatia. There's lots of poignancy and sadness throughout it, yet also lots of frustration and anger aimed at our government and all the scum dragging the world down the abyss and making it a worse place for all. I picked it up on a whim and was immensely surprised that it became one of my favorite novels, ever.
>currently reading
Mann's Doktor Faustus, 2/3rds in and I love it. It's very dense, dense in the sense most modernist novels are and has the complexity of Melville's Moby Dick, for an example, in terms of various cultural references and the themes it is covering it. It is also very German in spirit and displays Mann's philosophical wrestling with what transpired in the first half of the 20th century and what lead to the rise of fascism in Germany and ultimately lead to the horrors of WW2 and Germany's cultural suicide. It's a very haunting, beautiful read filled with overwhelming guilt, sadness and tragedy, as well as love for the German culture and all of its heights before the ardor of war consumed the nation. Mann's love for classical music is also something that took me by surprise since it is such an integral aspect of the novel, and he really gets deep into it and there's lots of technical stuff pertaining to it. It's a novel I will definitely revisit multiple times and get a lot out of it with each new reading. Suffice to say, easily one of the best things I've read and one of the best novels ever written. Mann is a really brilliant author and I can't wait to read The Magic Mountain once I'm finished with Doktor Faustus.
>reading next
Either The Magic Mountain or I'm going to revisit Alan Moore's comics from the 80s (V for Vendetta, A Small Killing, his Swamp Thing run, Watchmen and From Hell) and going to read his novels - Voice of the Fire and Jerusalem, for the project I'm hoping to put in motions in the next month or two.
>last book
Actually a series, Wyatt North’s History Of The Popes. Pretty good kind of showed how the church evolved from reactions to different creeds that popped up, from Gnosticism to Islam and the Enlightenment. It’s reaction to modernism is clearly not going well but it’s a miracle it’s lasted this long.
>current book
History Of Christian Thought
nice book, I get to learn the trajectory of theology. I’m on the Reinhold Niebuhr chapter, almost done with the book
>next book
Several down the line, but I haven’t purchased some of them yet, but I’m thinking of taking a break from church studies to read about the English Civil War by Blair Worden.
Finished the current book just now
>last book
Ashes by Grazia Deledda
It's about a kid whose mom got knocked up by some dude who left her and then got thrown out of her house by her dad and eventually abandoned the kid at his dad's doorstep once she could no longer raise him, the dad turns out to not be such a bad guy after all, just a stupid naïve kid like his mom, and is married to an older lady for familial/economic reasons who raises the kid like her own son, but he never gets over his abandonment issues (pic related). It's an absolutely emotionally devastating book and an easy 9/10 or even 10/10 for me and you can expect to catch me shilling this book here in the future. I don't remember the last time I read a book so dramatic and yet portrayed all that drama in such a sober manner, there's rarely any melodrama (except some manic episodes by the main character later on), usually authors like to drive home just how tragic the events you're witnessing are but there's none of that here, just brutal realism, just completely stone cold.
>next book
I'll probably just read some pulpy horror Halloween stories to unwind for a bit after this.
I had a dream after I farted. Woke up, farted.
>book you last read, what did you think of it?
Treasure Island. Loved it!
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
Moby Dick. Pretty slow start but it's hooked me in, 100 pages in and they're just now getting on the boat.
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
Either going to break the streak of boat books or read The Wager. My wife got it for me.
>book you last read, what did you think of it?
well... i don't renember, it's maybe the Confession d'un masque by Mishima
>book you’re currently reading, how is it?
Crisis of the modern world by Guénon. It's great, it's the first book of this kind i read
>book you are planning to read next? Why?
Le Soleil et l'acier by Mishima or The king of the world by Guénon
Booomp
>Just read, Citadel of the Autarch
Extremely good. Series is kino.
>Reading, the Urff of da New Sun
Gotta finish the series.
This series has been up there with Dune and Culture for me. First time I read it I dropped it because I thought the intro was boring. Glad you gays keep pushing it.
Next book, probably just roll the dice in the following. Any suggestions welcome.
Against a Dark Background
Bakker
Marzlan (finished GotM)
Book of the new sun
Disc world (finished Rincewind)
Xeelee
The Damned
Too Like Lightning
The Troop
Shadow of the Torturer
Peter F Hamilton
A Fire Upon the Deep
The Fleet at Flood Tide
Project Hail Mary
Ciaphus Cain
Brothers Karamazov
The Silver Waterfall
The Quantum Thief
Winds of War
Eaters of the Dead
Red Rising
Lovecraft
Superfreakonimics
The Hot Zone
Abara
Uplift Saga
Foundryside
LOTR, etc
Dresden files
Philip K Dick
Jutland 1916
With the Old Breed
The Black Company
The Wizard Knight
Otherland
Reverend Insanity
>last
Picrel. Very strange. Seems badly written on purpose giving it a very emotionally naïve quality which somehow then rolls around and makes it quite powerful.
>currently
Moby-Dick. First time reading it. It's amazing.
>next
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Work-related.
>Work-related
That is cool. What do you do anon?
Not currently working for them but I’ve applied to an EU-funded non-profit which claims that technology isn’t neutral and aims to design and promote technology uses that actually benefit people and society instead of Big Tech.
The great wall of china and other stories - kafka. Mid
Crime and punishment. Kino
Maybe lonesome traveler by jack kerouac
>The Oresteia by Aeschylus
It changed my view on tragedy and I think about it very often.
>Poetics by Aristotle
Only from the chapters that I read up to this point, I get the feeling that I will have it by my side for a long time.
>Salammbô by Flaubert
One of my professors keeps talking about it every time we meet so I got curious.
>Treasure Island. I thought it was fine, nothing mind-blowing, I don't think it's meant to be though and that's fine. I think I would've enjoyed it slightly more if I didn't have to constantly stop to look up the different words and parts of the ship that I didn't know.
>Haven't started a new one yet.
>I've got a bunch that I want to read but I haven't started on any of them yet.
>Marcel Proust, in search of lost time
Very little happens, it's one of the greatest books ever written.
>Anonymous, the high history of the holy grail
Pretty weird for Arthurian romance, but nice and violent
>Hanya Yanagihara, a little life
Some guy at work gave me a copy so now I have to read it or get a new job before the "have you started it yet?" questions
Brother of sleep by Robert Schneider. It's crazy as hell but I read nearly the entire book in one sitting, so pretty good!
The Doors of perception by Aldous Huxley. I'm not too far in but it's interesting.
German Mythology by Jakob Grimm. I want to be able to understand my own cultural heritage better.