I am a post 2015 newhomosexual, but I have never used reddit nor facebook. I just had a really terrible nazi phase, which has now ended thanks to good book that you guys recommended me here.
I hate this place but I also thank you a lot, you don't know it but you made me less worse (not better).
Most of Henry Miller
Most of DH Lawrence
The Letters of Van Gogh
Tao Te Ching
The Chuang Tzu
I Ching
Kenneth Rexroth (mostly his Chinese and Japanese poetry translations, and his essays
Leaves of Grass by Whitman
Lots of William Carlos Williams
Lots of William Blake
Siddhartha by Hesse
Dhammapada
Bhagavad Gita
Lots of the Upanishads
Lots of Sophocles
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Cellini’s autobiography
Casanova’s autobiography
Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
The Dharma Bums/Big Sur by Kerouac
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
Most of Nietzsche
Montaigne
Kafka
Gogol
Stendhal
Rabelais
Boccaccio
The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
Edmund Wilson essays and reviews
The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
The Notebooks of Joubert
Gerard de Nerval
USA Trilogy by Dos Passos
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Saint Exupery
Mysteries by Hamsun
Seneca
Henry James short stories
Great Expectations by Dickens
Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautreamont
Plutarch
Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
Illuminations by Rimbaud
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hemingway’s short stories
The Rings of Saturn by Sebald
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton
Germinal by Zola
Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
A Glastonbury Romance by JC Powys
Most of Henry Miller
Most of DH Lawrence
The Letters of Van Gogh
Tao Te Ching
The Chuang Tzu
I Ching
Kenneth Rexroth (mostly his Chinese and Japanese poetry translations, and his essays
Leaves of Grass by Whitman
Lots of William Carlos Williams
Lots of William Blake
Siddhartha by Hesse
Dhammapada
Bhagavad Gita
Lots of the Upanishads
Lots of Sophocles
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Cellini’s autobiography
Casanova’s autobiography
Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
The Dharma Bums/Big Sur by Kerouac
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
Most of Nietzsche
Montaigne
Kafka
Gogol
Stendhal
Rabelais
Boccaccio
The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
Edmund Wilson essays and reviews
The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
The Notebooks of Joubert
Gerard de Nerval
USA Trilogy by Dos Passos
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Saint Exupery
Mysteries by Hamsun
Seneca
Henry James short stories
Great Expectations by Dickens
Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautreamont
Plutarch
Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
Illuminations by Rimbaud
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hemingway’s short stories
The Rings of Saturn by Sebald
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton
Germinal by Zola
Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
A Glastonbury Romance by JC Powys
I don't even know how to pick favorites. I just don't know anymore. Making this kind of list just feels like trying to show off and present an image of myself to strangers on the internet. When in reality, I read a book, and rarely ever come back to it, even if I liked it.
I just don't care enough to list 'favorites' anymore.
Religious studies in undergrad was the best decision of my life. One that didn't quite make the list is Terror in the Mind of God. Amazing book on religious violence that I used when I assisted on a terrorism class. I also almost included Liezi because I translated a chapter of it for a grant to attempt to reconstruct the philosophy of Yang Zhu. We have like one section of it that's supposedly legitimately from a conversation Yang had with a student of Mozi.
That all sounds vaguely familiar, did you post about it in /clg/? I remember reading something there about Yang Zhu coincidentally right after looking him up because I came across a reference to him in Du Fu (the anecdote about crying when he came to a crossroads). Very interesting and unique figure.
Anyway the more I’ve read and learned the more it’s become obvious to me how much literature and art, not to mention philosophy, are intertwined with religion, it’s fascinating to me to understand those connections.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I did. I've been obsessed with Yang for six years. There just isn't much about him. The best explanation I've seen is that he's sort of the anti-Mozi, that there's a sort of Mozi-Confucius-Yang Zhu continuum. Mo is all about universal love, Confucius makes it into concentric circles of importance, Yang's primary concerns seem to be about self preservation and health at all costs. Thinking about the Warring States period, all this makes a lot of sense.
The connections run so deep. An example I often use in relation to art is how Orthodox Christians eschew strict hyperrealism to connect with the spiritual. Another one is the stark difference between Shingon and Zen Buddhisms in Japan. Icons and Iconoclasm by Winfield gives an amazing overview of that one.
How is Illuminations? I own it
Benjamin is one of the best Marxists. He's brought me to tears in the past. I have a life goal of visiting the memorial to him in Portbou, Spain. He is extremely relevant. On the Concept of History is one of my favorite things ever written. We've got to subdue the Antichrist and awaken the dead to make this world whole.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Oh yeah I just meant it in more direct terms of how most arts began by dealing with religious subjects or literally being part of a ritual, but specific theoretical stuff like you're talking about is really cool too. If you're interested in Orthodox art you should definitely watch Andrei Rublyov. >Icons and Iconoclasm
Sounds really cool, I'm very interested in how this manifests in China in terms of popular religion vs. the iconoclastic tendencies of Confucianism.
[...]
The Aeneid (besides Caesar of course) was the first work that I read in Latin at school so it has a lot of sentinental value because I'm becoming a Classicist. But beyond that, I prefer Vergil's artistry to Homer because he is not only an imitator of Homer but of the other Greek poets up to his time, such as the Attic dramatists as seen in the Dido episode and the Alexandrian poets with his focus of aetiology. To me, Vergil is the Classist's Classicist.
[...]
I really enjoyed it as a compilation, a fine collection. I was especially pleased by its handling of Gilgamesh with it's inclusion of both the Standard Akkadian and Old Babylonian versions. Can never beat Oxford annotations and introductions for such a cheap price compared to Penguin and the others. With Coogan's Stories From Ancient Canaan it's a very fun way to understand the cultural and religious contexts that gave rise to Judaism and its descendants.
Nice, I've mostly read the Sumerian stuff (which is almost all Old Babylonian period anyway) but afaik there's a lot of overlap. The Dumuzid cult stuff is really fascinating and beautiful, obviously it's not too different from something like Horus/Osiris but it's cool how naturalistically they portray it (and, speaking of Attic drama, it's probably a distant ancestor of that).
Can't say I agree about Homer vs. Virgil btw but I respect your understanding and reasoning.
2 months ago
Anonymous
My bachelor's was in religious studies and Asian studies. I could talk about them for days. My Asian studies capstone was a comparison of strategic thought in Greece and China. I loved reading about strategy in Homer and the Archaic period. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society by Detienne and Vernant is really good. Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy by Naas is great if you can get ahold of it. Naas is a Derrida scholar and the book is a reading of the Iliad. My religious studies one was on Buddhism and the deep ecology of Arne Naess. >Andrei Rublyov
I'll check it out, thanks!
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Asian studies
That's awesome, I've been exclusively focused on Chinese stuff lately, there's such a huge wealth there to explore.
Anyways I just started getting into reading last year these are the books I've read so far, minus 'Before the Coffee gets Cold' which was atrocious slop written for teenagers. Wasn't much of a fan of 'The Road' (or The Passenger, which I dropped) but I have All the Pretty Horses which I'll read eventually.
I just noticed I accidentally only put 12, oh well. As far as Eckhart goes, no, hes a mystic you wouldn't need to understand scholasticism
2 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks, mate.
2 months ago
Anonymous
It is incorrect to say that Eckhart was not a Scholastic
While he is better known for his mystical works, which he wrote primarily in German, he also wrote a large body of scholastic works in Latin, and as a Dominican he was very clearly influenced by other Dominican scholastics, primarily St. Thomas Aquinas (who was also a great mystic)
2 months ago
Anonymous
Possibly but I tend to separate the two regardless
>post a favorite passage from second skin
I love the prose of both the opening and ending; beyond that it's hard to pick favorites. All the Fernandez stuff is killer, and I adore the scene where it feels like Cassandra is about to be gang raped but she isn't.
Such a shame that hardly anyone reads Hawkes any more, and most of those who do never get to SS.
In no particular order
Candide
Master & Margarita
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy,a Gentleman
Gay Science
Madame Bovary
The Sailor Who Fell from the Grace with the Sea
Messiah (Gore Vidal)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
All the King's Man
The Time Machine
The Book of Disquiet
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
Hunger
The Main Currents of Marxism
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
e-girlta
Against Nature
Journey to the End of the Night
Franny & Zooey
Submission
The Wanderer & His Shadow
The Tale of Things to Come
Paradise Lost
Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
Book of Numbers
Ecclesiastes
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Numbers (Joshua Cohen)
Book of Joshua
Book of Daniel
Book of Sneed
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Moses
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Sirach
Book of Haggai
Book of Joel
Yeah I did. I've been obsessed with Yang for six years. There just isn't much about him. The best explanation I've seen is that he's sort of the anti-Mozi, that there's a sort of Mozi-Confucius-Yang Zhu continuum. Mo is all about universal love, Confucius makes it into concentric circles of importance, Yang's primary concerns seem to be about self preservation and health at all costs. Thinking about the Warring States period, all this makes a lot of sense.
The connections run so deep. An example I often use in relation to art is how Orthodox Christians eschew strict hyperrealism to connect with the spiritual. Another one is the stark difference between Shingon and Zen Buddhisms in Japan. Icons and Iconoclasm by Winfield gives an amazing overview of that one.
[...]
Benjamin is one of the best Marxists. He's brought me to tears in the past. I have a life goal of visiting the memorial to him in Portbou, Spain. He is extremely relevant. On the Concept of History is one of my favorite things ever written. We've got to subdue the Antichrist and awaken the dead to make this world whole.
I was torn between beloved and the bluest eye but I think the latter edges out because of its focus on internalized racism. It helped me recognize the unseen effects of racism on the psyche.
Best in thread
post a favorite passage from second skin
[...]
These are based. I'll save them.
https://i.imgur.com/VbB4zT3.jpg
Recommendations plz
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll the Gaviero, Heart So White by Javier Marías, and Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by Francois-René de Chateaubriand---all of these gave me a similar feel to 2666, and that's my favorite book of all time.
The Aeneid (besides Caesar of course) was the first work that I read in Latin at school so it has a lot of sentinental value because I'm becoming a Classicist. But beyond that, I prefer Vergil's artistry to Homer because he is not only an imitator of Homer but of the other Greek poets up to his time, such as the Attic dramatists as seen in the Dido episode and the Alexandrian poets with his focus of aetiology. To me, Vergil is the Classist's Classicist.
Not bad at all. What'd you think of the Mesopotamia book?
I really enjoyed it as a compilation, a fine collection. I was especially pleased by its handling of Gilgamesh with it's inclusion of both the Standard Akkadian and Old Babylonian versions. Can never beat Oxford annotations and introductions for such a cheap price compared to Penguin and the others. With Coogan's Stories From Ancient Canaan it's a very fun way to understand the cultural and religious contexts that gave rise to Judaism and its descendants.
I'm sympathetic to a lot of Marxism even though it's overall very dated and was clearly a mistake, but Bell Hooks was the worst writer I had to read as a philosophy student. Even against other major feminist "philosophers" her writing was abysmal.
Do it anon. It's one of the comfiest books I've had the pleasure of reading. I've been told that the audiobook is well-narrated too, if that's your thing
It's gigaschizo stuff, but to me it kind of represents an end of the project of institutionally-guided synthesis in continental philosophy and a lot of the seeds of what we have today in terms of decentralized internet writing. It plays a lot with the question of how seriously we should take their philosophical writing, and I like that. Some of the best thinkers you can take absolutely seriously, like Heidegger, and some require you to grapple with irony, literary devices, and cultural disconnect, like Plato. CCRU trains you to do the latter in a way where moderns can still get through to insight.
The secret lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
Storm of Steel
The Bloody White Baron
After the Banquet
Kama Sutra
Ubik
The Amazing story of Adolphus Tips
Manifesto for the abolition of enslavement to interest on money
The secret teachings of all ages
Atlas of the Eastern front
The city and guilds textbook level 2 NVQ diploma in Plumbing and Heating
Might is Right
One up on Wall Street
>both Kropotkin and Marx >both Parenti and Chomsky >both bell hooks and Adolph Reed Jr >also a few Buddhist works thrown in
Your reading list is insanely contradictory, and throwing in a dash of Western-targeted "Eastern spirituality" just seals the deal.
Very word-drunk, macaronic (many a passage in French, German, Italian), "still much under the influence of Joyce's maximalism" would be the old saw, but with his own pessimistic bent.
My mom says you're a homosexual.
She says homosexuals go to reddit.
This attitude needs to die.
You have to go back.
get the frick out of here
Where's the fiction, anon?
I read very little fiction and when I do I'm pretty indifferent towards it. I love Star Trek books but I couldn't fit them on this list.
>liberalism
Lol no. What book on there is liberal? It's all anarchist, socialist or Marxist.
>you came from reddit, didn't you?
No.
>Basketball books
>Halo books
Good shit.
>Aquinas
>New testament
>Mushishi
All essential spiritual texts.
Yet you still replied...
pacifism, liberalism, marxism, moralism, you came from reddit, didn't you?
every post2015 newhomosexual comes from reddit and 95% of anons still lurk and post there, newhomosexual
have a nice day back there.
and this is supposed to be a bad thing, der summergay. mass immigration ruins cultural cohesion.
I am a post 2015 newhomosexual, but I have never used reddit nor facebook. I just had a really terrible nazi phase, which has now ended thanks to good book that you guys recommended me here.
I hate this place but I also thank you a lot, you don't know it but you made me less worse (not better).
>post2015 newhomosexual
Get a gf and leave this place old man
man, these post2006 newhomosexuals are really getting uppity.
You get some perverse satisfaction from being criticized for your lowly tastes, don't you?
>star wars
ye your taste is shite
psued
pleb or maybe bait
incel
gay moron for posting unreadable thumbnails
15 books
not bad
There's a readable version later on in the thread, troglodyte
can't read shit on this image bro 🙁
Ahh shit, here's a less compressed image
thank you anon
Not bad at all. What'd you think of the Mesopotamia book?
the 19th century poetry here is really good
Another bait thread or for real?
A bunch of my old favorites and new favorites
Most of Henry Miller
Most of DH Lawrence
The Letters of Van Gogh
Tao Te Ching
The Chuang Tzu
I Ching
Kenneth Rexroth (mostly his Chinese and Japanese poetry translations, and his essays
Leaves of Grass by Whitman
Lots of William Carlos Williams
Lots of William Blake
Siddhartha by Hesse
Dhammapada
Bhagavad Gita
Lots of the Upanishads
Lots of Sophocles
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Cellini’s autobiography
Casanova’s autobiography
Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
The Dharma Bums/Big Sur by Kerouac
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey
Most of Nietzsche
Montaigne
Kafka
Gogol
Stendhal
Rabelais
Boccaccio
The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
Edmund Wilson essays and reviews
The Waste Books by Lichtenberg
The Notebooks of Joubert
Gerard de Nerval
USA Trilogy by Dos Passos
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Saint Exupery
Mysteries by Hamsun
Seneca
Henry James short stories
Great Expectations by Dickens
Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautreamont
Plutarch
Paris Spleen by Baudelaire
Illuminations by Rimbaud
Rainer Maria Rilke
Hemingway’s short stories
The Rings of Saturn by Sebald
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton
Germinal by Zola
Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
A Glastonbury Romance by JC Powys
have a nice day
That's more than 15 you fricking Black person
I don't even know how to pick favorites. I just don't know anymore. Making this kind of list just feels like trying to show off and present an image of myself to strangers on the internet. When in reality, I read a book, and rarely ever come back to it, even if I liked it.
I just don't care enough to list 'favorites' anymore.
Is that Gitanji by Tagore?
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Zen Buddhism
Based anon.
what is bottom left?
Naess>Linkola, in my opinion
How is Illuminations? I own it
solid
Here's mine
Is there a particular translation / version of Herodotus' Histories that you recommend?
The site's not working properly, the books aren't coming up
I recognize you from the Japan thread. Based list; what's your favorite bird species?
Love Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, religious studies, Beckett, Frazer, old Asian stuff, and Spengler. Really high quality picks overall in this thread.
Religious studies in undergrad was the best decision of my life. One that didn't quite make the list is Terror in the Mind of God. Amazing book on religious violence that I used when I assisted on a terrorism class. I also almost included Liezi because I translated a chapter of it for a grant to attempt to reconstruct the philosophy of Yang Zhu. We have like one section of it that's supposedly legitimately from a conversation Yang had with a student of Mozi.
That all sounds vaguely familiar, did you post about it in /clg/? I remember reading something there about Yang Zhu coincidentally right after looking him up because I came across a reference to him in Du Fu (the anecdote about crying when he came to a crossroads). Very interesting and unique figure.
Anyway the more I’ve read and learned the more it’s become obvious to me how much literature and art, not to mention philosophy, are intertwined with religion, it’s fascinating to me to understand those connections.
Yeah I did. I've been obsessed with Yang for six years. There just isn't much about him. The best explanation I've seen is that he's sort of the anti-Mozi, that there's a sort of Mozi-Confucius-Yang Zhu continuum. Mo is all about universal love, Confucius makes it into concentric circles of importance, Yang's primary concerns seem to be about self preservation and health at all costs. Thinking about the Warring States period, all this makes a lot of sense.
The connections run so deep. An example I often use in relation to art is how Orthodox Christians eschew strict hyperrealism to connect with the spiritual. Another one is the stark difference between Shingon and Zen Buddhisms in Japan. Icons and Iconoclasm by Winfield gives an amazing overview of that one.
Benjamin is one of the best Marxists. He's brought me to tears in the past. I have a life goal of visiting the memorial to him in Portbou, Spain. He is extremely relevant. On the Concept of History is one of my favorite things ever written. We've got to subdue the Antichrist and awaken the dead to make this world whole.
Oh yeah I just meant it in more direct terms of how most arts began by dealing with religious subjects or literally being part of a ritual, but specific theoretical stuff like you're talking about is really cool too. If you're interested in Orthodox art you should definitely watch Andrei Rublyov.
>Icons and Iconoclasm
Sounds really cool, I'm very interested in how this manifests in China in terms of popular religion vs. the iconoclastic tendencies of Confucianism.
Nice, I've mostly read the Sumerian stuff (which is almost all Old Babylonian period anyway) but afaik there's a lot of overlap. The Dumuzid cult stuff is really fascinating and beautiful, obviously it's not too different from something like Horus/Osiris but it's cool how naturalistically they portray it (and, speaking of Attic drama, it's probably a distant ancestor of that).
Can't say I agree about Homer vs. Virgil btw but I respect your understanding and reasoning.
My bachelor's was in religious studies and Asian studies. I could talk about them for days. My Asian studies capstone was a comparison of strategic thought in Greece and China. I loved reading about strategy in Homer and the Archaic period. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society by Detienne and Vernant is really good. Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy by Naas is great if you can get ahold of it. Naas is a Derrida scholar and the book is a reading of the Iliad. My religious studies one was on Buddhism and the deep ecology of Arne Naess.
>Andrei Rublyov
I'll check it out, thanks!
>Asian studies
That's awesome, I've been exclusively focused on Chinese stuff lately, there's such a huge wealth there to explore.
>The Dark Domain
Very nice, one of my favourites too. Maldoror is also pretty good.
What a garbage slow site & shitty thread
Anyways I just started getting into reading last year these are the books I've read so far, minus 'Before the Coffee gets Cold' which was atrocious slop written for teenagers. Wasn't much of a fan of 'The Road' (or The Passenger, which I dropped) but I have All the Pretty Horses which I'll read eventually.
Check out some mark twain, great gatsby, Charles Bukowski, and if you get into Pynchon, start with lot 49, then V, then GR
Thanks, never heard of Bukowski before
I plan to read Pynchon eventually, so I'll follow that order
Thanks again
This was a lot of work; it's hard to compare recent favorites to big books I read 10+ years ago
Cool selection I can’t get through brothers k
Extremely tryhard list
why wouldn't you like those are you stupid
What else would I like?
Best in thread
post a favorite passage from second skin
>What else would I like?
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal maybe.
I've wanting to read anything by Meister Eckhart for quite some time now. Do I need to be familiar with Scholasticism to understand him or nah?
I just noticed I accidentally only put 12, oh well. As far as Eckhart goes, no, hes a mystic you wouldn't need to understand scholasticism
Thanks, mate.
It is incorrect to say that Eckhart was not a Scholastic
While he is better known for his mystical works, which he wrote primarily in German, he also wrote a large body of scholastic works in Latin, and as a Dominican he was very clearly influenced by other Dominican scholastics, primarily St. Thomas Aquinas (who was also a great mystic)
Possibly but I tend to separate the two regardless
>post a favorite passage from second skin
I love the prose of both the opening and ending; beyond that it's hard to pick favorites. All the Fernandez stuff is killer, and I adore the scene where it feels like Cassandra is about to be gang raped but she isn't.
Such a shame that hardly anyone reads Hawkes any more, and most of those who do never get to SS.
>What else would I like?
Calvino, Pessoa, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Moravagine, TS Eliot, Eugenio Montale.
t. very similar taste
i like pessoa and ts eliot, never got the appeal of calvino. Eugenio Montale is new to me, will check out
In no particular order
Candide
Master & Margarita
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy,a Gentleman
Gay Science
Madame Bovary
The Sailor Who Fell from the Grace with the Sea
Messiah (Gore Vidal)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
All the King's Man
The Time Machine
The Book of Disquiet
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
Hunger
The Main Currents of Marxism
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
e-girlta
Against Nature
Journey to the End of the Night
Franny & Zooey
Submission
The Wanderer & His Shadow
The Tale of Things to Come
Paradise Lost
Hey news flash Black person: that's more than 15, read the title
Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
Book of Numbers
Ecclesiastes
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Numbers (Joshua Cohen)
Book of Joshua
Book of Daniel
Book of Sneed
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Moses
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Sirach
Book of Haggai
Book of Joel
lame
when is this fake digital christianity shit going to end
As soon as you repent
I'll check him out
I was torn between beloved and the bluest eye but I think the latter edges out because of its focus on internalized racism. It helped me recognize the unseen effects of racism on the psyche.
I'll spare the wankery and just include fiction.
These are based. I'll save them.
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll the Gaviero, Heart So White by Javier Marías, and Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by Francois-René de Chateaubriand---all of these gave me a similar feel to 2666, and that's my favorite book of all time.
Recommendations plz
Try anything written before the 1960s
Les Chants de Maldoror
didn’t ask
but your mother did
sure thing
decided to update it to 15
Twitter LARPer-core.
Any recs for me?
oh yeah forgot it was 15 only. Oh well.
I found hitchhiker’s guide insufferably annoying.
I wanted to like Rendezvous with Rama but I got filtered big time and never finished the book.
The Aeneid (besides Caesar of course) was the first work that I read in Latin at school so it has a lot of sentinental value because I'm becoming a Classicist. But beyond that, I prefer Vergil's artistry to Homer because he is not only an imitator of Homer but of the other Greek poets up to his time, such as the Attic dramatists as seen in the Dido episode and the Alexandrian poets with his focus of aetiology. To me, Vergil is the Classist's Classicist.
I really enjoyed it as a compilation, a fine collection. I was especially pleased by its handling of Gilgamesh with it's inclusion of both the Standard Akkadian and Old Babylonian versions. Can never beat Oxford annotations and introductions for such a cheap price compared to Penguin and the others. With Coogan's Stories From Ancient Canaan it's a very fun way to understand the cultural and religious contexts that gave rise to Judaism and its descendants.
I don't have a favorite
I recommend John Hawkes' "Travesty", you weirdo
Whoops, meant this for
but anyone might enjoy it~
Thanks! Will look into it. Love The Cannibal by Hawkes. Still haunted by some of the images.
Congrats - you have the most interesting in thread. I’ll be picking up a few off this chart.
I haven't even read 15 books yet. How the frick am I supposed to make a top 15.
I'm sympathetic to a lot of Marxism even though it's overall very dated and was clearly a mistake, but Bell Hooks was the worst writer I had to read as a philosophy student. Even against other major feminist "philosophers" her writing was abysmal.
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter seems like an interesting read. I was planning to buy it a year or so ago.
Do it anon. It's one of the comfiest books I've had the pleasure of reading. I've been told that the audiobook is well-narrated too, if that's your thing
can I get a qrd on the CCRU Writings?
It's gigaschizo stuff, but to me it kind of represents an end of the project of institutionally-guided synthesis in continental philosophy and a lot of the seeds of what we have today in terms of decentralized internet writing. It plays a lot with the question of how seriously we should take their philosophical writing, and I like that. Some of the best thinkers you can take absolutely seriously, like Heidegger, and some require you to grapple with irony, literary devices, and cultural disconnect, like Plato. CCRU trains you to do the latter in a way where moderns can still get through to insight.
Fixed
The secret lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
Storm of Steel
The Bloody White Baron
After the Banquet
Kama Sutra
Ubik
The Amazing story of Adolphus Tips
Manifesto for the abolition of enslavement to interest on money
The secret teachings of all ages
Atlas of the Eastern front
The city and guilds textbook level 2 NVQ diploma in Plumbing and Heating
Might is Right
One up on Wall Street
some of these are so bad. please grow up and find something you actually enjoy and resonate with.
I find them all solid, which do you think are bad then?
that was a 'you know who you are' comment. if you feel personally attacked, good.
no I just think your obnoxious cause all lists are good at minimum
Any recs?
Today I wrote nothing, Dictionary of the Khazars, Borges, The other prague
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Here are some of my favorites over the last few years. My favorite authors are McCarthy and Melville. Love the recast here.
>both Kropotkin and Marx
>both Parenti and Chomsky
>both bell hooks and Adolph Reed Jr
>also a few Buddhist works thrown in
Your reading list is insanely contradictory, and throwing in a dash of Western-targeted "Eastern spirituality" just seals the deal.
Btw Eros & Ethics is like 28 dollars anything cheaper?
any recommendations?
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Baztérrica seems right in your aisle.
Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z. Brite
I never hear anyone talk about that particular Beckett. What's it like?
Very word-drunk, macaronic (many a passage in French, German, Italian), "still much under the influence of Joyce's maximalism" would be the old saw, but with his own pessimistic bent.