We're getting close to the end of the month. What have you read so far this year?
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We're getting close to the end of the month. What have you read so far this year?
is this real? looks fictional, like that library in the foundation series in trantor
Haven't touched any "high-brow" shit this year, burnt myself out a bit from it last year.
>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Loved the film, loved the location, loved the era. The book was just as entertaining with it being basically the film but filled with new scenes, more background and a few twists and turns. Tarantino must mention dirty bare feet at least 15 times though.
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I've come to appreciate it more and more, the movie was a filter of sorts and the book probably more so. Love Thompson's prose.
It's the library at Trinity College Dublin. Basically a tourist destination though. I wander around it when I'm bored sometimes.
i should hit 31 by the end of the month at this rate, although i've just started solenoid which is fricking huge
Do you have a job
yes, but not a life
It can be done, at least theoretically, but you have to sacrifice all of your free time. No social life, and very little to no other forms of entertainment that might distract you. You can also throw in a bit of reading into your work break if the conditions allow it.
>Finished Herodotus' Histories, but that was something I had been working on for a while
>Roald Amundsen -- The South Pole
>Hunter S Thompson -- Better Than Sex
>Poetic Edda
>Tom Wolfe -- Bonfire of the Vanities
Currently reading a collection of Epictetus' writings
>Wolfe - Soldier of the mist
>the epic of Gilgamesh
>Hölderlin - Der Archipelagus
>now reading The map and the territory by Houellebecq and pre-socratic fragments
I haven't read much because I had exams tbh
I've just finished Blood Meridian.
I liked it.
In reverse order
>black rednecks and white liberals
>old man and the sea
>i, robot
>a scanner darkly
>1984
>dismantling america
>bnw
>serotonin
>heart of darkness
>hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
>anthem
>history of central banking and the enslavement of mankind
>white knights
>notes from the underground
>brief interviews with hideous men
>antichrist
>confederacy of dunces
Stella Maris
The Counselor (screenplay)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
All’s Well That Ends Well
Tao Te Ching
I’m just staring Book VI (of VII) of Anabasis by Xenophon. So I should finish that up either today or tomorrow.
Based Xenophon reader. I never understood why Anabasis didn't get as much acclaim as other Greek texts, I thought it was amazing.
Agreed. I’m glad it made it into the alternate top 100, which is why I picked it up. It’s an amazing story with betrayal and intrigue and reversals of fortune. It’s like a modern adventure novel only it’s 2400 years old and it’s a true story.
Could you or anyone else post the alternative top 100? I was in the sowing thread but missed the harvest.
Here you go.
I was incorrect though. Anabasis was in the main top 100
Tao Te Ching was in the alternate though
Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
Harry Potter et la Coupe de feu
I'm 40% of the way through Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix
I just want to be a fluent reader of French already
What are they like in french?
I only compared the translation to the original text for the first book and not very consistently, maybe 2-3 times a chapter especially when I wanted to check my understanding
There's a bit where Harry has to ask what a préfet is which is added in the translation and I did find sentences that were missing in the French translation here and there but nothing major
Apparently there are people who think the translation is terrible but apart from the Jedusor thing it seems perfectly fine to me
Actually I suppose one thing that's different is that there are no accents until the 4th book whereas in the English original Hagrid has an accent from book 1 but honestly thank God because that would make the text much more difficult
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Lady Susan
Currently reading The Non-Existence of the Real World by Jan Westerhoff.
>end of the month
I read this as ‘end of the earth’
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Bukowski - The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg Ohio
And some books on technical writing. Tried to get into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I despise the writing style.
Kitten Clone by Douglas Coupland
The Scientist as Rebel by Freeman Dyson
The Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
John Von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing by William Aspray
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
Looking for recs!
I'm a beginner reader because I finally take some of my new years resolutions seriously and one was to read more.
I read so far in January:
Cyberwar: Die Gefahr aus dem Netz - Kurz, Constanze & Rieger Frank
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (reread)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (reread)
Soundless: Final Verse (It's a VN)
The Great Gatsby - Scott K. Fitzgerald
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
DEEP WORK - Cal Newport
Ningen Shikkaku - Dazai Osamu
50 Pages of 120 Days of Sodom - M.d.S
Die Welle - Morton Rhue
Reached Part II of e-girlta - Vladimir Nabokov
Part I of Hyperfocus - Chris Bailey
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
(140 pages) The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
(50 Pages) The Psychology of Stupidity - Jean-Francois Marmion
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(32 pages) DUNE - Frank Herbert
(50 pages) Atomic Habits - James Clear
(20 pages) Nemesis - Philip Roth
Can't hurt me - David Goggins
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (currently at p.41)
I think I'm doing ok, but I'm still too afraid to start anything massive, but crime & Punishment looks great.
what a massive nerd
You could throw away all of those books and lose nothing of value
Based twilight chad
Based sui chad
>Based twilight chad
I actually got the entire boxset. The only book it doesn't contain is the one that's actually the genderbent version of the first book.
And before you ask, no, I don't know why the image got turned sideways. It was okay on my phone.
I'm a Slav, so you won't even be able to read half the titles in the first place, yet alone actually recognize them. For those, I included title translations. The other half is in English and it's stuff I ordered on eBay.
>Kad student zatrudni (When the Student Gets Pregnant)
>Američka ideologija (American Ideology)
>The Great Gatsby
>Anthem
>Od demedikalizacije do istospolnih brakova (From Demedicalization to Same-Sex Marriages)
>V for Vendetta
>Twilight
>Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
>Chesterton, St. Francis
>Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
>Fischer, Capitalist Realism
>Zabin, The Boston Massacre: A Family History
Garden of Seven Twilights (bout half of it continued from last year)
The Exorcist
A Borrowed Man
The Iron King
A Scanner Darkly
Dropped 1Q84 at the end of the first book and started Moby-Dick immediately after.
It's a hard read for an ESL like me. I have to stop and look at a dict for almost every pages. Weird, since my vocabs aren't that large, but I didn't have this problem with contemporary authors.
good man starting with the greeks