rec me any book you like, or your top 5 favorites. I don't have a stack and nothing is really catching my eye lately
rec me any book you like, or your top 5 favorites. I don't have a stack and nothing is really catching my eye lately
rec me any book you like, or your top 5 favorites. I don't have a stack and nothing is really catching my eye lately
The Mind Parasites, Colin Wilson
The Morning of the Magicians, Pauwels/Berger
The bible
wouldn't it make sense to read the others as well? or can you read them on their own?
You might miss some of the reincarnation stuff if you skip the first but there’s plenty enough story of it’s own in Runaway Horses
I wouldn't. If you're gonna read the sea of fertility you should read them all. Spring Snow is the best of the lot anyways, aside from the ending of the fourth.
Ada, or Ardor
The Sorcerer's House
Sentimental Education
The Things they Carried
Steppenwolf
Just some random works I've liked.
>Ada, or Ardor
couldn't get into it. what other nabokov would you rec? I've read e-girlta, Despair, Pale Fire, and his dream diary
loved the things they carried though, one of my favorite reads from high school
Invitation to a beheading is his best work before he went to America. Sebastian Knight, King, Queen, and Knave, and Speak, Memory are also absolute must reads. Even his earliest work, Mary is worth a look.
what about the defence? it seems like a major work but i don't hear much talk about it
i won't lie, i read the opening few pages to the defence and for whatever reason it didn't click with me. i either got dumber or moved on from his stuff.
It's one of the ones I haven't read. Chess really isn't my bag so I never gravitated towards it.
i thought the defense was very good and it's more of a story about obsession in general than a book about chess
anyway check out The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
just read runaway horses, spring snow is snobby IQfy crap
No dont fricking skip spring snow.
Just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck about ten minutes ago. If you're looking for something quick and pretty simple, almost "slice of life," I'd say to check it out.
If you're into crazy psychology type stuff, I'd vouch for Aion by Carl Jung.
I read Galactic Pot Healer by Phillip K. Dick a week or two ago, it was good but not one of his best.
Also, the Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. Haven't read it recently of anything, just thought of it off the top of my head.
Just popped by to say I read the first two Hyperions and they sucked ass. Got a little into the third and called it quits. Cowa frickin piece of dog shit.
Latro in the Mist
Cat's Cradle
Catch-22
I like Lord of Light a lot too, but its really just more of a fun read than anything else.
Cellini’s autobiography
12 Cтyльeв, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Un homme qui dort, Extension du domaine de la lutte, Sherlock Holmes
Altazor by Vicente Huidobro
“Why be happy when you could be normal?” Is a favorite of mine
amazing that those Vintage Contemporary covers were considered aesthetic in the early-mid 1980's
thought he was skiing in the thumbnail
The Passenger by McCarthy was very enjoyable for me.
Same.
only mccarthy I've read is The Road and I thought it was okay but nothing I'd seek out again on my own. I know IQfy went nuts when stella marris and passenger came out
>I know IQfy went nuts when stella marris and passenger came out
Like 6 of us read it anon.
I bought Passanger and dropped it 30 pages in... I could not read it without falling asleep
Works and Days by Hesiod
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Clouds by Aristophanes
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
The Lord of The Ice Garden, all four volumes, because they are amazing.
never a big fantasy or sci fi guy. the closest i ever got was the hobbit and maybe brave new world. i'll look into it
if you like anything with combat and find the platonic ideas of 3 states interesting, then it might be a good read
I don't really have favourites, I had books I liked growing up.
Ender's Game
Dune II
Starship Troopers
Voyage of the Jerle Shanarra (series)
Nine Princes in Amber (series)