Catch-22. My second time right now and I suspect that when I finish it, it might become one of my favorites this second time around. What are you reading, OP?
Which translation are you reading? I have the red cover book, not the one translated by Ginsbury (green cover). Some say that Ginsbury is the definitve English version
meditations on the tarot because i thought we were all reading it together but now i can never see any meditations on the tarot threads. frick you guys. only the first chapter is any good anyways
I'm finishing Master&Margerita tonight. It's great so far
Right now, nothing. I finished Solaris a few days ago. I'll probably start The Kreutzer Sonata today or tomorrow.
Catch-22. My second time right now and I suspect that when I finish it, it might become one of my favorites this second time around. What are you reading, OP?
Lol look at these npcs making it look like there are people on this board. This reality is an illusion done with NPCs to torture us. We're in a loosh farm.
3 weeks ago
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Take meds
3 weeks ago
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That's an NPC reply. I've talked to so many fake humans, they don't even have souls. They're being controlled by AI.
3 weeks ago
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You are like a namegay without name lol, like a ready made archetype all on your own. GTFO
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when did they remove the ability to view # of posters on a thread?
meditations on the tarot because i thought we were all reading it together but now i can never see any meditations on the tarot threads. frick you guys. only the first chapter is any good anyways
A collection of short stories and novelettes by a Spanish author from the second half of the 19th century who was mainly known for one Bovary-esque doorstopper novel he wrote.
Groosham Grange. Is about a kid going to a boarding school were teachers are monster people and students are witches and warlocks, I can easily image this as a tv show from the mid 90's back when kid-friendly horror franchises were popular.
I started L'histoire de L'érotisme than I stopped, went back to Montherlant's Les Jeunes Filles, 90 pages to go I quit, tried essays by both those 19th century Americans with similar sounding triple names. On Self Reliance was phenomenal. On walking was the comfiest read ever. I think I'll go back to finishing Baltasar's Criticon and his Agudeza. My heart is no longer in it. Poetry wise I took a crack at Les Amours Jaunes and Émaux et Camées and got utterly filtered by the former. Émaux is lovely. What do?????????????????
Locke - Essay on Humane understanding. enjoying getting into Anglo philosophy (already read a few works of Berkeley, Hume, & Russell), and his psychology was referenced in quite a few of them.
I can't stop reading Brian McNaughton. A truly slept-on contributor to American letters. He is the best. I'm not sure how or when I'll find an author that gets my dick so hard.
There's only a couple more works that I haven't found - a 10k word manuscript posthumously published in a dead zine, and re-write of a novella from the 80s that also died with him.
Rereading The Lord Of The Rings for the third time. My reading days are Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and I take it a chapter a night. Just finished "A Knife In The Dark" this evening.
I am about to finish Inherent Vice. Not my favorite Pynchon book but the dialogue is funny enough. Ending ties it together well (so far), although Doc is a bit of a cuck to Shasta and her whorish ways.
brief interviews with hideous men . Im around halfway in and i have to say im not that thrilled. While i really liked the depressed person's part the whole thing feels i dont know how to describe it . I do not like his prose and the whole tangents he takes feel wasteful to me , the whole overwraught feeling of exhaustion from the description of life's minutia to give the sense of dread a depressed person must feel. And while the more i listen to his interviews the more i empathise with him and his vision of the world his work pushes me away. I'll certainly read good old neon, girl with curious hair , broom of the system and everything and more before giving up on him.
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Operation Vampyr by David Bishop
The first one is a novel about a country doctor dealing with the future of his niece.
The second is a supernatural war novel from the point of view of three brothers who are German soldiers (Luftwaffe, Landser, and Panzercorp respectively) during WW2. The action takes place during Operation Barbarossa when a mysterious Romanian Corp is sent to 'assist' the German advance.
Started the Songs of Chu, getting closer to finishing up with Du Fu. Encountering Sorrow was perhaps not quite what I expected, but I think it's probably even better in the end. The tension between the beauties of the setting/allegory and the bitterness of the sentiment is absolutely sublime. The best parts of the Nine Songs, especially the Xiao/Xiang goddess songs, were absolutely enchanting. Now on the Heavenly Questions, which are pretty cool. I don't think the translator's comparisons to Job are entirely unfounded, though it's certainly a somewhat different approach and perhaps not nearly as evocative.
I finished reading The Idiot a few days ago, despite having some boring parts and filler, it was a very good novel.
Soon I will read Netochka Nezvanova.
Frankenstein.
It's the work of a very talented, very well-read amateur, and it shows. Great plot and ideas, prose that doesn't work. Maybe I just don't have the romantic spirit...
I feel something rare about old books that I cannot find information about on the web. I can finish them in a few days due to my desire to find what they hide.
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani. It is compelling reading to me, but I don't quite know what I am supposed to understand. The academic elevated language reads as if the book is a socio-historical treatise, even though it is a type of science fiction horror story. Will finish it in a day or two because I need to see how this ends.
Buddenbrooks
Hit too close to home as I grew up in a somewhat rich and solid merchantile family only for my parents and their siblings to fumbled the bag.
Also got me piqued for more literature that has revolution as a backdrop.
Still chewing on Plato's Republic.
For fun i read a fantasy saga about elves (it's from a german author, so no translation i think)
and for knowledge, a book about biochemistry processes in the human body.
Henry III 1258-1272
Loving it. Best biography I've ever read. Usually after I read a book, let alone such a thick one I go onto another topic but I enjoyed the first part so much that I went straight into the second one. 700 pages down 700 to go
I am one third through extension du domain de la lutte
Honestly I love Houellebecq but I also hate him
I don't know how people can just read his books back to back
The Consolation of Philosophy. Michael Sugrue mentioned it before he died, and I came across a very nice copy at a second-hand booksale recently. Been a very enlightening read.
Almost done with Remains of the Day
Stevens' flavour of being weird in social situations hits very close to home for me so I actually enjoyed the novel a lot more than I would have if I read it for the antifascist message
Next I'm reading Suttree because of no particular reason
The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox, trying to get through my tertiary sources before I get into the secondary and primary ones on my study of the period, next I think I'll go backwards to the bronze age. I think I also want to look into the precolombian American civilizations
Paradise Lost.
Before that I read No Longer Human. It is very enjoyable read. I didn't get a life lesson out of it like some people claim. Although it did feep very relatable in a way few things have.
I also read in the Mouth of Madness. "Read" I listened to an audio book while driving.
Catch-22. My second time right now and I suspect that when I finish it, it might become one of my favorites this second time around. What are you reading, OP?
I'm finishing Master&Margerita tonight. It's great so far
Which translation are you reading? I have the red cover book, not the one translated by Ginsbury (green cover). Some say that Ginsbury is the definitve English version
Lol look at these npcs making it look like there are people on this board. This reality is an illusion done with NPCs to torture us. We're in a loosh farm.
Take meds
That's an NPC reply. I've talked to so many fake humans, they don't even have souls. They're being controlled by AI.
You are like a namegay without name lol, like a ready made archetype all on your own. GTFO
when did they remove the ability to view # of posters on a thread?
P A T H E T IC
Right now, nothing. I finished Solaris a few days ago. I'll probably start The Kreutzer Sonata today or tomorrow.
meditations on the tarot because i thought we were all reading it together but now i can never see any meditations on the tarot threads. frick you guys. only the first chapter is any good anyways
the bible
A collection of short stories and novelettes by a Spanish author from the second half of the 19th century who was mainly known for one Bovary-esque doorstopper novel he wrote.
Perez Galdós?
I’m reading C&P and it’s really good, the author makes you work for it though which I like
melouth the wanderer. it's less like the Kane books by Karl Edward Wagner and more like monk torture; monkspoltation
Groosham Grange. Is about a kid going to a boarding school were teachers are monster people and students are witches and warlocks, I can easily image this as a tv show from the mid 90's back when kid-friendly horror franchises were popular.
War and peace. Pretty good. It’s essentially Gossip Girl except in 19th century Russia
I started L'histoire de L'érotisme than I stopped, went back to Montherlant's Les Jeunes Filles, 90 pages to go I quit, tried essays by both those 19th century Americans with similar sounding triple names. On Self Reliance was phenomenal. On walking was the comfiest read ever. I think I'll go back to finishing Baltasar's Criticon and his Agudeza. My heart is no longer in it. Poetry wise I took a crack at Les Amours Jaunes and Émaux et Camées and got utterly filtered by the former. Émaux is lovely. What do?????????????????
The Crying of Lot 49
It's not exactly coherent, but damn if it isn't fun.
Locke - Essay on Humane understanding. enjoying getting into Anglo philosophy (already read a few works of Berkeley, Hume, & Russell), and his psychology was referenced in quite a few of them.
Locke was very important
wouldn't you like to know
I can't stop reading Brian McNaughton. A truly slept-on contributor to American letters. He is the best. I'm not sure how or when I'll find an author that gets my dick so hard.
There's only a couple more works that I haven't found - a 10k word manuscript posthumously published in a dead zine, and re-write of a novella from the 80s that also died with him.
Rereading The Lord Of The Rings for the third time. My reading days are Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and I take it a chapter a night. Just finished "A Knife In The Dark" this evening.
My year of rest and relaxation
Liveblog would be a good companion novel for this
Waiting till the work week is done to start something longer so I’ve been reading poetry the past few days
I am currently reading a Folio Society edition of I, Claudius
nuremberg the last battle by david irving and some old greek shit thats gay and boring
Paradise Regain'd
I am about to finish Inherent Vice. Not my favorite Pynchon book but the dialogue is funny enough. Ending ties it together well (so far), although Doc is a bit of a cuck to Shasta and her whorish ways.
brief interviews with hideous men . Im around halfway in and i have to say im not that thrilled. While i really liked the depressed person's part the whole thing feels i dont know how to describe it . I do not like his prose and the whole tangents he takes feel wasteful to me , the whole overwraught feeling of exhaustion from the description of life's minutia to give the sense of dread a depressed person must feel. And while the more i listen to his interviews the more i empathise with him and his vision of the world his work pushes me away. I'll certainly read good old neon, girl with curious hair , broom of the system and everything and more before giving up on him.
Fiction Factory by John Milton Edwards.
Epictetus' Discourses
a novelization of rome total war
Nothing. Recommend me depressing shit that is about 200 page ish
The loser by Bernhard
Will judge them by their cover. Thanks frends
Le Grand Meaulnes
Anna Karenina, I’m halfway through
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Operation Vampyr by David Bishop
The first one is a novel about a country doctor dealing with the future of his niece.
The second is a supernatural war novel from the point of view of three brothers who are German soldiers (Luftwaffe, Landser, and Panzercorp respectively) during WW2. The action takes place during Operation Barbarossa when a mysterious Romanian Corp is sent to 'assist' the German advance.
A mass-market paperback copy of A Rasin in the Sun that's even older than I am
wow you must be a young hot guy
Novum Organum by Bacon.
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
luv hardboiled simple as
finished the tartar steppe yesterday, now i'm going to read stoner.
Death on the Installment Plan.
Started the Songs of Chu, getting closer to finishing up with Du Fu. Encountering Sorrow was perhaps not quite what I expected, but I think it's probably even better in the end. The tension between the beauties of the setting/allegory and the bitterness of the sentiment is absolutely sublime. The best parts of the Nine Songs, especially the Xiao/Xiang goddess songs, were absolutely enchanting. Now on the Heavenly Questions, which are pretty cool. I don't think the translator's comparisons to Job are entirely unfounded, though it's certainly a somewhat different approach and perhaps not nearly as evocative.
I've been feeling kinda down lately, so I decided to read some Pratchett.
I finished reading The Idiot a few days ago, despite having some boring parts and filler, it was a very good novel.
Soon I will read Netochka Nezvanova.
Simplicissimus <:-)
Frankenstein.
It's the work of a very talented, very well-read amateur, and it shows. Great plot and ideas, prose that doesn't work. Maybe I just don't have the romantic spirit...
I feel something rare about old books that I cannot find information about on the web. I can finish them in a few days due to my desire to find what they hide.
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani. It is compelling reading to me, but I don't quite know what I am supposed to understand. The academic elevated language reads as if the book is a socio-historical treatise, even though it is a type of science fiction horror story. Will finish it in a day or two because I need to see how this ends.
Sandworms of Dune, it is unfiltered kino though you have to read an absolute shite book to get to it
A bit flowery so far. Still hasn’t gotten out of Serbia. Hope the pace picks up soon.
The Idiot, Kissing the Mask, and The Golden Ass.
Last one caught my attention. What is it about?
NTA, Golden Ass is about a man getting turned into a donkey in Ancient Rome. One of the few novels from that era.
“The Black person of the Narcissus” really great
Buddenbrooks
Hit too close to home as I grew up in a somewhat rich and solid merchantile family only for my parents and their siblings to fumbled the bag.
Also got me piqued for more literature that has revolution as a backdrop.
Still chewing on Plato's Republic.
For fun i read a fantasy saga about elves (it's from a german author, so no translation i think)
and for knowledge, a book about biochemistry processes in the human body.
Finished Oblomov yesterday and started reading Naomi by Tanizaki
Trumpet Jackie Kay
Henry III 1258-1272
Loving it. Best biography I've ever read. Usually after I read a book, let alone such a thick one I go onto another topic but I enjoyed the first part so much that I went straight into the second one. 700 pages down 700 to go
I am one third through extension du domain de la lutte
Honestly I love Houellebecq but I also hate him
I don't know how people can just read his books back to back
The Consolation of Philosophy. Michael Sugrue mentioned it before he died, and I came across a very nice copy at a second-hand booksale recently. Been a very enlightening read.
Almost done with Remains of the Day
Stevens' flavour of being weird in social situations hits very close to home for me so I actually enjoyed the novel a lot more than I would have if I read it for the antifascist message
Next I'm reading Suttree because of no particular reason
The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox, trying to get through my tertiary sources before I get into the secondary and primary ones on my study of the period, next I think I'll go backwards to the bronze age. I think I also want to look into the precolombian American civilizations
Paradise Lost.
Before that I read No Longer Human. It is very enjoyable read. I didn't get a life lesson out of it like some people claim. Although it did feep very relatable in a way few things have.
I also read in the Mouth of Madness. "Read" I listened to an audio book while driving.