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What are you reading?
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what exactly about this are you "reading" ? The time?
Why are you gay?
Well it's a dedicated audiobook player that I actually paid for, so I got what I wanted.
>0.95x speed
i didn't know you can get this precise
Is that the 90s recording with the old guy who does all the cool voices?
Yessssss. The single narrator who does all the voices. All the sequels are an ensemble.
I'm all for people enoying things the way they want too, but audiobooks in particular are a plague on humanity that have done more harm than good. And it's not reading.
Seethe kek
you couldn't give me an accurate three paragraph summary of the chapter that quote is from because you don't take in books KEK
I agree somewhat, I find it silly how people "read" classics whilst at the gym or cooking food and still believe they're taking the book in 100%; but I can imagine some non-fiction can be absorbed well through audio; also poetry really needs to be read aloud to be appreciated. This is also the same for Ulysses and Finegan's Wake. Joyce was obsessed with how words are said and intentionally wrote those books to be as lyrical as possible.
BASED audiobookchad making all the snobs seethe endlessly. while I prefer actual reading I do enjoy supplementing with an audiobook when i'm in the car or at work.
this exact edition, there are quite a few printing errors. i saw an apostrophe face the other way, very strange
halfway through
The manicure complainer is based on his ex btw.
at last i truly see
How are you liking it
it's funny, i think he's really good at poking fun of people in general
It's amazing how many ripoffs of Brave New World exist across all forms of art nowadays.
At Swim, Two Birds, finally.
My mother got me a six book collection of Roger zelazny short stories and I'm on book 2 atm. Stuff I haven't even heard of and it's all pretty darn good. He's criminally underrated.
Herodotus and the Bible
(I'm not a tradlarper tho)
What are the titles on the bottom left shelves?
They're books with lots of pictures.
You are not mistaken. I wish I had a different solution.
Is this your home library, or are you locked in the basement of some lodge?
It's my home, my studio, and my private library with 2500 books. It's nice here.
How much do you make a year?
Not that much but my rent is rather cheap and I don't spend my money on much outside of books. Although recently I had to admit I have most of what I need for the next decade or so.
I'd recommend a reading stand of some sort for big books like that, along with a proper chair. Sure, sofa's are comfy for smaller books, but you're not doing any justice for your back by hunching over. Pic somawhat related, browser tabs before browsers.
I have enough books on books to know all sorts of options. But it's just this one Bible that's so large and heavy so I'll not get specific furniture for it.
Ironically I read most of my books just standing, on leg to make sure I properly develop my muscles.
I imagine the posture needed to read in that setup is pretty uncomfortable.
beksinski is cool
*was
;_;
nice library
Thought about using logos.com for studying the bible?
Just finished Steel World by B.V. Larson
Am on to 'The Maltese Falcon'.
Kafka on the Shore
Very nice. You’re gonna make it
>Also Spracha
>Spracha
They couldn't even copy paste the name correctly?
I think Nietzsche would have approved an arso spracha and been a massive yugi stan
The Name of the Rose, The Commanding Self, and The One and the Many.
The Name of the Rose is a great novel, a microhistory almost, The Commanding Self is really clarifying the Sufi view (more people should read the Sufis), The One and the Many is a dogmatic Christian Platonist engaging in a grotesque contortion of thought to "falsify" non-dualism. Granted, there are some good points here and there, but it's mostly like you're looking at the Uruk-hai version of philosophy. Damn crank, I had never hate read a book before.
Doctor sleep by Stephen King. It's pretty good, till it wasn't.
Pale Fire
No bully
Are you 18
I'm way older
Sex.
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis
Are you enjoying it? I thought it was very funny.
I’m also on Lewis, finished rereading the revenge for love last night and am about a quarter the way through apes of god. Thinking I might give childrmass another try after while I’m in the groove.
Halo Outcasts by Troy Denning
Lots of William Carlos Williams lately. Some Rexroth essays. Rereading Chuang Tzu every night
post bookmark
It's quite rustic, but it is handmade. Can't remember where it's from (I didn't buy it).
Some contemporary bullshit that I'm forced to read because of college. Hopefully I'll get to finish the Republic this year. I'm already at book 7.
Never understood why people have fancy bookmarks, I always use payment receipts instead.
>Never understood why people have fancy bookmarks, I always use payment receipts instead.
I've never understood people who think they're oh so bohemian for using random shit as bookmarks instead of a tactile, unique hand made object which you can keep for a lifetime. Literal consoomer brain. Plato isn't going to help you.
>consoomer brain is to go buy a handmade bookmark instead of using random leftover paper you find at home
You okay bud?
>consoomer brain is to use a random leftover paper you find at home instead of buying a handmade bookmark instead of using random leftover paper you find at home***
Damn, can't believe I fricked it up twice. Going off IQfy.
Just started No Longer Human, didn't realise it was so short! Think Middlemarch will be what I read next.
Pragmatism: A new name for some old ways of thinking
I just started Julien Gracq's
>Le Rivages des Syrtes
Really enjoying the prose, have my hopes up that it's going to be as good as it's hyped up to be around here sometimes
Hmmm, yes. A good book. Let me just put into my book cellar and age it like all books should be. Hmmm... Vintage...
Hmmm, delightful. My IQ hasn't aged a day in a year. I love books!
finally taking the joyce pill
Currently rereading Wuthering Heights while working my way through a half-dozen poetry books. Really enjoying all of them.
What’s been your favorite so far?
If the CSM reviews your book there's probably not a lot of fun in it
You have to read it yourself. I think it's clever
For them to endorse it like that, it can't have tackled things I'm interested in. I'm not saying it's bad (CSM is very good at what they do address) but it's just not going to be of much interest to me if it involves only things Christian Science accepts as valuable grounds for fiction or reportage.
I have absolutely no idea what you're talkin' about bro 🙂
They're a religious group, so some things which exist in most people's lives are actually hallucinations sent by the devil for them, so they don't cover them because it's spreading delusion. Kind of like how a scientologist will never tell you to take psychiatric medicine or Jehovah's witnesses will never want to watch zombie movies with you.
well... maybe I should I join a cult
Christian Science is pretty okay compared to the others but if you get sick pretend you broke a bone.
Currently:
>The Faerie Queene - Spenser
>Table-Talk (Original Essays) - Hazlitt
Next:
>Maiden Castle - John Cowper Powys
>Orlando Furioso - Ariosto / tr. Harington
>Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
Dracula, nobody told me it was so good!
Also Spracha Zarathustra.
Thus spoke zarathustra. Part one.
I don't get it. He's rejecting everything?
Literally that book in your pic.
I'm reading because of Madoka Magica
bichona
Kinda boring, but I'm very impressed by how articulate Kissinger is.
Just finished the Dune and Space Odyssey series. Decided to go for something completely different thematically as a pallete cleanser so I'm currently reading through the Poppy Wars. My younger brother just finished it last month and it's been fun chatting with him about it.
Plato's Progress by Gilbert Ryle
The Miser.
Well I finished it and now I'm moving on to J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
I'm literally Heathcliff
gay kino
Sleeping in the same bed as another man is not gay, please stop
gocomics.com
I've been trying to read three books: crime and Punishment, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Holy Bible (KJV). I need to get that hipster credibility.
Nothing atm. Been too busy, although I read The Odyssey, The Sailor who Fell, and half of Ulysses (before giving up) and Journey to the End of the Night all this year. I've been meaning to pick up The Iliad but whenever I do I'm either distracted or not in the mood
I'm currently reading five books (down from around six).
>Food A History of Taste (about two-thirds done)
>Culture of Critique (about 60% done)
>Perelandra (about 55% done)
>The Idea Factory (it's about Bell Labs, about 40% done)
>The Walkthrough (it's a memoir about working for BradyGames, about a third done)
I recently completed The Screwtape Letters, I liked it.