“The Philosophy of Existentialism” by Gabriel Marcel. It’s honestly been pretty dry for the first 50 pages, so I’m hoping it becomes more stimulating to read as I continue.
Also FRICK random bans, this is like the 8th time I've been banned for posts I didn't make on board I don't frequent for things I didn't say.
>no comfy IQfy life? it was all fake?
when has this board even been comfy, judging by most OP's it might actually have the highest amount of bad faith OPs on the entire site
It’s probably the best book this board has recommended to me at least for pure entertainment. The overall plot is insane and the twist is the strangest I think I’ve ever encountered in anything. I get why it’s memed so hard now.
Samegay. Stop promoting your book. You've already been exposed elsewhere for fake reviews.
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Call of the Kappa and Call of the Arcade are significantly better. If you actually thought Call of the Crocodile was that good (the endings is why it leaves an impact) you’re going to like those a lot more. The series is weird in the sense that Call of the Crocodile isn’t exactly the best despite being the first in it.
I’ll probably start Abelard’s Misfortunes of my Life and his letters to Heloise, or Walter Pater’s Renaissance. I’ll probably finish Henry Miller’s Letters to Emil today. Still reading Born Under Saturn by Wittkower
Read a couple chapters of Guns germs and steel. The introduction itself was reddit af but I hope to finish it, however odds are I'd just drop it tomorrow and move on to Foucault's pendulum
Halfway through the moon is a harsh mistress. I’ve been really enjoying it even though there are several words every few pages that I’m clueless to their meaning. Half made up slang from the Luna colonists and the other half absurdities. Still, the story is very gripping and probably the most unique idea I’ve read in my very short adult life
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa. His shtick of having a ton of different personas/heteronyms with different ideologies and written works is quite interesting. I wonder how "real" they were to him.
I'm not quite sure of what to make of the book yet. Sometimes he's witty and thought-provoking, and sometimes he just sounds like a massive edgelord.
The Human Factor by Graham Greene. It's great in all the ways most Greene is without quite reaching the heights of his best work. The "lonely spy who cannot reveal his secrets" thing always works well with how Greene writes characters.
Dracula. tbh quite interesting how I was familiar with most of the elements in the story but I've never read or seen any version of it and I had no idea what the actual plot is going to be.
I read that book like 15 years ago, and I remember enjoying it, but not understanding it as anything more than a bunch of things happening. Then I go online and there's a ton of in depth analysis and themes and so on. I guess I'm a brainlet. Can't be helped.
the shit where he daydreams about what questions Rebecca could ask her and what to respond to sound cool and then she's just spilling spaghetti when actually sees her is exactly what I do every day of my life
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Reading Ulysses for the first time. Reading each part with a 2-3 day break to fully digest it, while taking notes and having two guides to look at. Also, I'm reading The Snow Leopard for something more mellow when I'm not thinking about Ulysses
Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs
An analysis of the means and extent to which the US presidency influences the legislative process, starting with the Eisenhower administration and going through Clinton
Tender is the flesh, it's average.
henry kissinger and the american century
“The Philosophy of Existentialism” by Gabriel Marcel. It’s honestly been pretty dry for the first 50 pages, so I’m hoping it becomes more stimulating to read as I continue.
Also FRICK random bans, this is like the 8th time I've been banned for posts I didn't make on board I don't frequent for things I didn't say.
Man Against Mass Society was breddy gud
As for me, picrel. Bit of a slog and I normally like philosophy of law
no comfy IQfy life? it was all fake?
>no comfy IQfy life? it was all fake?
when has this board even been comfy, judging by most OP's it might actually have the highest amount of bad faith OPs on the entire site
Not expecting much but in the mood for some easy going non-fiction so a memoir it is.
Any good?
It’s probably the best book this board has recommended to me at least for pure entertainment. The overall plot is insane and the twist is the strangest I think I’ve ever encountered in anything. I get why it’s memed so hard now.
Samegay. Stop promoting your book. You've already been exposed elsewhere for fake reviews.
"Most blatant example of fake positive reviews I've ever seen on Goodreads"
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/uqq77c/most_blatant_example_of_fake_positive_reviews_ive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Call of the Kappa and Call of the Arcade are significantly better. If you actually thought Call of the Crocodile was that good (the endings is why it leaves an impact) you’re going to like those a lot more. The series is weird in the sense that Call of the Crocodile isn’t exactly the best despite being the first in it.
Histoire des Treize and Pygmalion
I’ll probably start Abelard’s Misfortunes of my Life and his letters to Heloise, or Walter Pater’s Renaissance. I’ll probably finish Henry Miller’s Letters to Emil today. Still reading Born Under Saturn by Wittkower
Chekov, Foundation and Conan
>Sword of the Lictor
>Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
feet
The Crying of Lot 49. It's funny in parts but I struggle to find Pynchon's various tangents anything but annoying.
No longer human. 20 pages in, so far goes hard.
Noon: 22nd Century by the Strugatsky brothers.
Read a couple chapters of Guns germs and steel. The introduction itself was reddit af but I hope to finish it, however odds are I'd just drop it tomorrow and move on to Foucault's pendulum
Phenomenology of Spirit and Finnegan's Wake. For class some of Lacan's lectures and probably Plato's Parmenides.
gi
ga
chad
Demons by Dostoevsky
The Bloody Chamber
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace. I typically read chick lit on the weekends so, this is a change of pace.
hes literally me
a great book, not his best but a must read to any enthusiastic reader of his most acclaimed novels
Fante's Ask the Dust
Halfway through the moon is a harsh mistress. I’ve been really enjoying it even though there are several words every few pages that I’m clueless to their meaning. Half made up slang from the Luna colonists and the other half absurdities. Still, the story is very gripping and probably the most unique idea I’ve read in my very short adult life
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa. His shtick of having a ton of different personas/heteronyms with different ideologies and written works is quite interesting. I wonder how "real" they were to him.
I'm not quite sure of what to make of the book yet. Sometimes he's witty and thought-provoking, and sometimes he just sounds like a massive edgelord.
IQfy
The Human Factor by Graham Greene. It's great in all the ways most Greene is without quite reaching the heights of his best work. The "lonely spy who cannot reveal his secrets" thing always works well with how Greene writes characters.
Dracula. tbh quite interesting how I was familiar with most of the elements in the story but I've never read or seen any version of it and I had no idea what the actual plot is going to be.
I understand you, man.
I started reading 'The Great Gatsby' as soon as I finish a chapter I watch the movie until that part.
I read that book like 15 years ago, and I remember enjoying it, but not understanding it as anything more than a bunch of things happening. Then I go online and there's a ton of in depth analysis and themes and so on. I guess I'm a brainlet. Can't be helped.
Isn't analysis highly subjective though? I mean it's not like they can ask the author whether they're correct or not.
Oh, why must you torment me so
she's literelly me if I was a woman and thin
the shit where he daydreams about what questions Rebecca could ask her and what to respond to sound cool and then she's just spilling spaghetti when actually sees her is exactly what I do every day of my life
"Goodreads takes down thousands of fake 5 star ratings from horror book series"
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Reading Ulysses for the first time. Reading each part with a 2-3 day break to fully digest it, while taking notes and having two guides to look at. Also, I'm reading The Snow Leopard for something more mellow when I'm not thinking about Ulysses
What part of Ulysses are you on I just finished it the other day
Just finished Telemachus last night. I still need to read the first chapter of a guide I got, then reread the chapter with Don Glifford in hand.
How did you like the book, and do you think I'm doing a good job reading it this way?
Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs
An analysis of the means and extent to which the US presidency influences the legislative process, starting with the Eisenhower administration and going through Clinton