nothing. i finished the beautiful and the damned 2 days ago. then i started to read the man without qualities yesterday but instead i've been refreshing IQfy the whole day.
How do you not like lord Henry? Unless you do, but I assume you don’t.
Portrait of an artist is pretty good. Honestly the story itself is a bit dull but Joyce’s best prose even shows up here occasionally. Still doesn’t hold a candle to Ulysses
I like his personality but I don't agree with what he says.
The dinner scene in portrait was hilarious and beautifully written. Also, I see that Catholic school hasn't changed much since the book was written.
Okay so I don’t agree with him either half the time but for me that just makes him an even greater comic relief, and maybe you feel similarly. Yeah the dinner scene was great. I love cybil as a character too
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Shit I just realized you meant the dinner scene in the Joyce book, still agree. Sorry trynna rush reply on my break
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Yeah, should have specified. That impressed me more than the dorian gray dinner scene although both were interesting.
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No it was pretty clear upon actually fully reading. Plus picture and portrait are so similar at first glance. Anyway yeah the Joyce one is def better for it but I still love hearing lord Henry argue with the women. And yeah catholic is as catholic does, I have mixed feelings on the church as I grew up in it.have you read any other Joyce yet?
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No. Why do you think I'm reading these two books? I'm a novice. I want to read Dubliners and Ulysses.
Second time I've seen this book mentioned on IQfy tonight.
Only read his short stories, but they are beyond based. Gotta add this to my reading list too ...
The Bible. Making my way through the New Testament, almost done all of Saint Paul's Epistles. It's been interesting learning about what life was like for the early Church, the issues they were struggling with, the theological matters they were debating about, and St. Paul's arguments for certain doctrines. After I finish up the NT I'll probably take a break and then go on to read the Old Testament, breaking it up into chunks.
NAB. Wanna get a Douay-Rheims one day
[...]
That's why I figured I'd break it up into chunks. I've gotten through almost all of the first five books before but that was a couple years ago.
The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical. It's always a shame when otherwise intelligent people see the scripture as simply a surface level collection of stories, yet are able to search for deeper themes in secular literature.
This is the most glaring intellectual flaw of the "new atheist" movement, which claims the ideoligical fathers of zionism such as Theodore Herzl and David Ben-Gurion. You would think such celebrated intellectuals were capable of reading the Bible beyond the level of a child, but it is that immature intellectual pride and arrogance that blocks faith and understanding.
>Layered with meaning that is still being* uncovered to this day.
6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
>The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical.
There is also the Qabalistic aspect, which anti-Semite Christgays on IQfy prefer to ignore.
Norwegian Wood. First Murakami, I like it but I didn’t expect it to be as slice of life. Everyone also talks more poetically in a way that sometimes seems forced, but I enjoy the prose enough to shrug it off.
Is it a Mishima to start with? I don’t know where to start with him but I want to read him soon. I have Sun and Steel on my Kindle but I want to read his fiction specifically.
start with confessions of a mask. you'll recognize a lot of events that occur in it in the books you read later, like the visit to the brothel in temple of the golden pavilion.
How far into it are you and what do you think of it? I read it a long time ago when I totally lacked the conceptual framework to get what he was trying to do, and I haven’t really revisited it enough to feel like I get it in any meaningful way, but I found it very compelling and interesting.
Fair enough, especially since some designers don't even try to correspond with the book's themes and moods. But the problem with Folio editions is not only that they're ugly but also very cheap and not enjoyable to read. When i first got a penguin editions book I was amazed at how the book was much more qualitative, bigger size, higher quality pages, smooth covers etc
Aside from scripture study, have been studying war books, incredibly powerful and practical works.
Today, I read that Võ Nguyên Giáp taught himself the art of war, even studied the American Revolution.
Here is a brief list reading list I've compiled, am reading, have read, or will read. None of these are fiction novels.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Fry the Brain by John West
Invisible Armies by Max Boot
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevera
On Protracted War by Mao Zedong
On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Zedong
Guerrilla Air Defense by James Crabtree
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
FM 4-25.11 First Aid: Army First Aid Field Manual
These are mainly focused on guerrilla warfare, which is my main interest for practical reasons.
To this list, I will add books on American military history, modern conventional war, and US military doctrine.
These eight books and two manuals are not very long, I'm writing my own book with the help of converted spies.
Outside of war, have been doing practical reading on cybersecurity and long range precision shooting as well.
Am returning to the cybersecurity profession and am organizing my own commercial hunting operations.
These are lucrative professions that involve intelligence gathering and utilizing advanced weaponry.
Non-fiction books are incredibly useful, taught myself financial economics by studying textbooks.
This was enough for a salary on Wall Street, but I quit over a disagreement on war profiteering.
Right now, my profession is to write books and articles, but am moving on to a different life.
Salughterhouse-Five
The whole time travel thingy did make me dizzy, but the book's been enjoyable. At first I thought I didn't get it, and now I just see it as a silly story of some dude writing about some dude who was a soldier, orno-whatever the frick doctor, an animal in a zoo, etc.
Reading Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions adds a little bit extra to the story. Reading them isn't necessary, but made it a bit more enjoyable for me. I really enjoyed those books on their own as well.
I like to read books anons write. so far I'm reading animated amphetamines. Pretty funny at times but also pretty pretentious at other times. Also the paper back is really big for some reason. So far my favorite part is that it has a reference to dashcons ball pit in it which the part its in fricking killed me.
yeah it's making it a lot worse. like digging into an open wound. I also just read Whatever by Houellebecq which was unnervingly relatable and depressing.
E-readers are actually really good. >free books >can pick the font >can pick the font size, margin size etc. >easier to get lost in the text since there are no visual indicators of progress if you just hide them >can read on your side in bed and the page you're on is always in the comfy position
The future is now, old man.
I'm also reading this and I want to drop it. I'm at the Kirillovich, the prosecutor's speech and it's so boring now. The best parts have already been read.
Reading my first meme trilogy book, Infinite Jest.
Only just started but I love some storylines while not caring much for others. mostly has to do with how it's written. The Arab medical attache being an example of annoyingly written.
Where did Land get this from? How did he get into it?
"No message should inhere in the length of a word, excepting only the broad pragmatic trend to the shortening of commonly used terms. It is immediately obvious why this exception has no pertinence to the case in question here, unless stretched to a point (for instance, expecting the smaller numerals to exhibit the greatest lexical attrition) where it is straightforwardly contradicted by the actuality of the phenomenon.
So, proceeding to the ‘analysis’ – PN of the English numeral names: zero=4, one=3, two=3, three=5, four=4, five=4, six=3, seven=5, eight=5, nine=4. Is there a pattern here? Several levels of apparent noise, noise, and pseudo-pattern can be expected to entangle themselves in this result, depending on the subsequent analytical procedures employed.
To restrict this discussion to the most evident secondary result, not only is there a demonstrable pattern, but this pattern complies with the single defining feature of the Numogram2 – the five Syzygies emerging from 9-sum twinning of the decimal numerals:3 5:4, 6:3, 7:2, 8:1, 9:0.
In the shape most likely to impress common reason (entirely independent of numogrammatic commitments) this demonstration takes the form: zero + nine = one + eight = two + seven = three + six = four + five – revealing perfect numerolexic-arithmetical, PN-‘qabbalistic’ consistency.
The approximate probability of this pattern emerging ‘by chance’ is 1/243, if it is assumed that each decimal digit (0-9) is equiprobably allotted an English name of three, four, or five letter length, with 8-sum zygosys as the principle of synthesis. 7-sum or 9-sum zygosys are inconsistent with any five or three letter number-names respectively, and thus complicate probabilistic analysis beyond the scope of this demonstration (although if everything is conceded to the most elaborate conceivable objections of common reason, the probability of this phenomenon representing an accident of noise remains comfortably below 1/100).
Partisans of common reason can take some comfort from the octozygonic disturbance of the (novazygonic) Numogrammatic reference. How did nine become eight (or vice versa)? Lemurophiliac numogrammaticists are likely to counter such queries with elementary qabbala (since digital cumulation and reduction bridges the ‘lesser abyss’ in two steps, 8 = 36 = 9, as diagrammed by the 8th Gate connecting Zn-8 to Zn-9).
III. AGAINST NUMEROLOGY
Consider first an extraordinarily direct numerological manifesto:
When the qualitative aspects are included in our conception of numbers, they become more than simple quantities 1, 2, 3, 4; they acquire an archetypal character as Unity, Opposition, Conjunction, Completion. They are then analogous to more familiar [Jungian] archetypes … "
The millenium saga, pretty decent. I am sure anos would hate them cause they are about a small woman outsmarting and beating the shit out of a bunch of white dudes.
I have found angry commets of incels mad about the book in normie social media. i cant imagine how butthurt an average IQfyner could get
Nothing. I hit a wall with reading after smashing Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment and a shitload of other books over the span of a few months. Nothing is drawing me in at the moment, it sucks.
Lmao you went from c&p to moby dick thats moronic you should've went notes from the underground then moby dick now that sounds kino, a book over 500 pages needs dedication
I am writing my master's thesis on Ulysses so I have spent the summer wading through secondary literature on it. Currently plowing through this thing. It's almost 500 pages long and it's not exactly light reading. I'm making headway, though.
I wrote my master's thesis on my research developing novel metal oxide nanocomposites but I guess doing a master's in literature where you are basically writing a long book report is cool too.
It's not so bad, my thesis advisor believes I may have a bit of an original approach to the last couple of chapters of the book. He thinks that if I do a good job I might even be able to get it published, which would be a nice feather in my cap.
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski. Is it true he was a plagiarist or was that some journo nonsense? Enjoying the book, seems like he must've been a loathsome guy regardless.
can you recommend me some books on real life stories dealing with radiation and stuff like that? e.g. chernobyl or los alamos' demon core. i need more like this
haven't read a book since middle school when i had to finish that book report (im 28 now)
can't stand reading, i can never concentrate
audiobooks sped up are alright tho
Flowers for Algernon. I'm about 1/3 of the way in and I really don't know how much more to this story there could be. It really feels like it's almost at a climax already. (Charlie just took Alice to the concert and started freaking out about boners.)
3 relatively small ones
Easton Ellis's White (finished The Shards late last week)
Sloterdijk's Rage and Time
Daniel Harris's The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
Only a chapter out of finishing 1 & 3; just read the first chapter of 2.
it impressed me.
Short, tight read. Different and enjoyable.
I was *amazed* to "see" the foundation character, upon which so many of my book I had read as a teenager and young adult, were all based on this character.
I *loved* Clive Cussler and his inimitable Dirk Pitt as a teen...
in this book? I see that if I simply took away Dirk Pitt's big money, and big connections?
He would be Travis McGee renamed Dirk Pitt.
I'm an amateur writer for many years, and I am adopting as many of his techniques as I can.
stokoe's high life
based
blood meridian
nothing. i finished the beautiful and the damned 2 days ago. then i started to read the man without qualities yesterday but instead i've been refreshing IQfy the whole day.
Man your fed minder was have sent your file to the next level.
>Man your fed minder was have sent your file to the next level.
........what?
>Good sir. That list that you posted surely must have sent the federal agent tasked with monitoring your activity to the next level.
ascended ESL
Gigakek
This is not a good list of literature anon, I'm sorry
shucks
続ける力―仕事・勉強で成功する王道
Written by a Japanese lawyer, the title roughly translates to The Power of Continuing: The Noble Path to Success in Work and Study
I'm not a frog.
>french
>not a gay
citation needed
I'm reading in frog language, but I'm not a frog, dude.
>i only let him blow me i didn’t blow him so i’m not gay
I have unironically had a Black of the homosexual persuasion try to connive me with this same rhetoric.
based anon , im also learning french, on my 48th book now. Cant wait to see how my french will be after i read 50 or 100 more books.
Portrait of the artist as a young man
The picture of dorian gray
I have a feeling that dorian gray appeals to women more because I find it pretty unappealing. Best part has been the theatre scene.
How do you not like lord Henry? Unless you do, but I assume you don’t.
Portrait of an artist is pretty good. Honestly the story itself is a bit dull but Joyce’s best prose even shows up here occasionally. Still doesn’t hold a candle to Ulysses
I like his personality but I don't agree with what he says.
The dinner scene in portrait was hilarious and beautifully written. Also, I see that Catholic school hasn't changed much since the book was written.
Okay so I don’t agree with him either half the time but for me that just makes him an even greater comic relief, and maybe you feel similarly. Yeah the dinner scene was great. I love cybil as a character too
Shit I just realized you meant the dinner scene in the Joyce book, still agree. Sorry trynna rush reply on my break
Yeah, should have specified. That impressed me more than the dorian gray dinner scene although both were interesting.
No it was pretty clear upon actually fully reading. Plus picture and portrait are so similar at first glance. Anyway yeah the Joyce one is def better for it but I still love hearing lord Henry argue with the women. And yeah catholic is as catholic does, I have mixed feelings on the church as I grew up in it.have you read any other Joyce yet?
No. Why do you think I'm reading these two books? I'm a novice. I want to read Dubliners and Ulysses.
Pretty good so far
what's this about?
chad schooner captain dunks on some virgin for 300 pages
A shipwrecked ‘gentleman’ is rescued at sea by a ship of seal hunters captained by the brutal but highly intelligent Wolf Larsen
Hijinks ensue
Second time I've seen this book mentioned on IQfy tonight.
Only read his short stories, but they are beyond based. Gotta add this to my reading list too ...
The 1941 film version is pretty good.
Why would anyone watch a movie that old?
Sure bro it's totally normal to watch movies released over 30 years ago
It is for non-tiktok brained zoomers. You wouldn't understand
It was made for the tiktok brained zoomers equivalent of that era. You are not special.
Because old movies can be good
The capeshit generation, ladies and gentlemen.
You are 24, dumbass
I'm 53, but so good-looking that your mistake is forgivable.
You wish, moron
Ooh, burn.
>i'm good looking
>surely that will show them
53 yo anon made a light hearted joke
you sound like a bitter joke of a person
he wins
Samegayging
>doesn't know how to detect samegays
Oh dear.
cringe
Call Of the Crocodile
2666
frank hennig klimadämmerung, the so called energy transformation is a huge scam. never vote green.
The Bible. Making my way through the New Testament, almost done all of Saint Paul's Epistles. It's been interesting learning about what life was like for the early Church, the issues they were struggling with, the theological matters they were debating about, and St. Paul's arguments for certain doctrines. After I finish up the NT I'll probably take a break and then go on to read the Old Testament, breaking it up into chunks.
Which translation?
NAB. Wanna get a Douay-Rheims one day
That's why I figured I'd break it up into chunks. I've gotten through almost all of the first five books before but that was a couple years ago.
The Vulgate is the only legitimate translation.
OT is a drag
The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical. It's always a shame when otherwise intelligent people see the scripture as simply a surface level collection of stories, yet are able to search for deeper themes in secular literature.
This is the most glaring intellectual flaw of the "new atheist" movement, which claims the ideoligical fathers of zionism such as Theodore Herzl and David Ben-Gurion. You would think such celebrated intellectuals were capable of reading the Bible beyond the level of a child, but it is that immature intellectual pride and arrogance that blocks faith and understanding.
Why even mention the new atheist movement? Isn't it pretty insignificant or is it because they are the main critics right now?
The zionists are killing my Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine right now. These ideas have shaped our present reality.
How does that answer my question?
>Isn't it pretty insignificant
I gave you the significance
My people are being killed by godless oppressors
And it is pride and arrogance that leads them to reject faith and the Torah
In the Hebrew scripture, this happens over and over again, and when they do not repent, judgment arrives
That's my last word here
You don’t have a people because your faith isn’t in your race, it’s in christisraelitery
Log off bro
Your brown brothers and sisters
Don't be shy, say the whole truth
>Layered with meaning that is still being* uncovered to this day.
6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6-14
>The Hebrew scripture is incredibly rich and mystical, layered with meaning that is still be uncovered to this day. There are lessons beyond the surface level stories, which are often symbolic and metaphorical.
There is also the Qabalistic aspect, which anti-Semite Christgays on IQfy prefer to ignore.
I tried reading the Bible but I do better by reading random books out of it than reading it in order
To answer OP On Religion by Friedrich Schleiermacher
Hopscotch
The Technological Society
Crime and Punishment. First read ever, about 150 pages in. I didn't like it at first with the bleakness and exposition but it's grown on me.
Edmund Wilson and George Steiner. Have also been rereading Proust for a while and it will continue for a while
Thank god I'm not a murican reading always the same five meme authors in the only language I know.
I think a lot more authors get read than posted here. Little incentive to start threads that aren’t part of the IQfy meme team
Which Americans do you know personally?
Madame Bovary. It’s great, but, I mean… It doesn’t touch the Russians.
Confessions of Saint Augustine. It's a lot comfier than I thought it would be
Runaway Horses by Mishima
Norwegian Wood. First Murakami, I like it but I didn’t expect it to be as slice of life. Everyone also talks more poetically in a way that sometimes seems forced, but I enjoy the prose enough to shrug it off.
Is it a Mishima to start with? I don’t know where to start with him but I want to read him soon. I have Sun and Steel on my Kindle but I want to read his fiction specifically.
Runaway Horses is the second part of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, so start with Spring Snow if you want to read that.
start with confessions of a mask. you'll recognize a lot of events that occur in it in the books you read later, like the visit to the brothel in temple of the golden pavilion.
I am reading Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Tolstoy and French for Reading by Karl C Sandberg
I make time for a Stoner and Blood Meridian chapter a day and at night I read Van Gogh's Letters
Stoner is amazing, I thought the "perfect novel" thing was just a meme but it really is not
Empty box and zeroth Maria, I like it.
>inb4 light novels
Yeah, so what?
Call of the Crocodile
Short Breaks in Mordor by Peter Hitchens
War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
>War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
How far into it are you and what do you think of it? I read it a long time ago when I totally lacked the conceptual framework to get what he was trying to do, and I haven’t really revisited it enough to feel like I get it in any meaningful way, but I found it very compelling and interesting.
A Vision by Yeats
Parallel Movement of the Hands by Ashbery
also finishing up Moby-Dick, which is an absolute GOAT
Was reading Heart of Darkness but I got filtered so hard
How do you get filtered by that? It reads so easy.
86
The Great Gatsby.
I am relatively new to reading and I learned three new words already.
Nice 🙂
Brother by Ania Ahlborn. Next is either the Troop by Nick Cutter, Johnny Got His Gun, or Blood Meridian.
Anéantir
The Passenger by McCarthy
Only 35 pages in and very impressed. Giggled a few times already which is unusual for McCarthy
Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Moritz - Götterlehre
I am currently reading the Steppenwolf.
Georg Feuersteins Gita
I haven't had the ability to sit down and read seriously, hence the shameful percentages.
Dead Souls
I've noticed that most french book covers are incredibly dull and boring
That's how it should be. Let the text speak for itself. I don't need some junior designer's ugly Adobe project on the front.
So true! Wish more publishers understood this. I think that Penguin Classics and Oxford World's Classics do a nice job of this.
Fair enough, especially since some designers don't even try to correspond with the book's themes and moods. But the problem with Folio editions is not only that they're ugly but also very cheap and not enjoyable to read. When i first got a penguin editions book I was amazed at how the book was much more qualitative, bigger size, higher quality pages, smooth covers etc
Peasants by Reymont
I'm currently listening to The Outsider by Stephen King, after this, I'm gonna physically read The Funhouse by Dean Koontz.
The Technological Society by Ellul
Critiques of "the capitalist machine" by writers who aren't all in on the Marxist kool-aid are always kino.
The right wing critique of capitalism comes from a place of genuine concern and not merely "but I want that!"
Aside from scripture study, have been studying war books, incredibly powerful and practical works.
Today, I read that Võ Nguyên Giáp taught himself the art of war, even studied the American Revolution.
Here is a brief list reading list I've compiled, am reading, have read, or will read. None of these are fiction novels.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Fry the Brain by John West
Invisible Armies by Max Boot
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevera
On Protracted War by Mao Zedong
On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Zedong
Guerrilla Air Defense by James Crabtree
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
FM 4-25.11 First Aid: Army First Aid Field Manual
These are mainly focused on guerrilla warfare, which is my main interest for practical reasons.
To this list, I will add books on American military history, modern conventional war, and US military doctrine.
These eight books and two manuals are not very long, I'm writing my own book with the help of converted spies.
Outside of war, have been doing practical reading on cybersecurity and long range precision shooting as well.
Am returning to the cybersecurity profession and am organizing my own commercial hunting operations.
These are lucrative professions that involve intelligence gathering and utilizing advanced weaponry.
Non-fiction books are incredibly useful, taught myself financial economics by studying textbooks.
This was enough for a salary on Wall Street, but I quit over a disagreement on war profiteering.
Right now, my profession is to write books and articles, but am moving on to a different life.
>that is my last word here
If only, wanted to share my reading list.
I'd recommend the Art of War to anyone honestly.
It's not just about war, it's about discipline and self-control.
As a fellow war enthusiast I appreciate your book recommendations. Some of them look worth checking out.
Stoner
the waves, by virginia woolf
das boot. just ending prostitutehaus chapter
nearly finished its better than the first book in the series would recommend
synthetic philosophy of contemporary mathematics
limited inc a b c
and vakil's algebraic geometry
Blood Meridian.
Not that impressed so far. Feels like it's trying too hard and being grotesque for the sake of being grotesque.
Not sure about the trying too hard, but the "grotesque for the sake of being grotesque" is precisely what the book is getting at
Yeah not a fan
love me some Maupassant
Notes from the Underground and The Double. Going to read some more short stories by Dostojevski before all his longer and more famous works.
Children of Dune. I've been going through the series in preparation for Dune Part 2 coming out.
The Fellowship of the Ring
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I am just 250 pages in but I recommend it
I finished Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus today, and now I'm onto Plato's The Republic
Salughterhouse-Five
The whole time travel thingy did make me dizzy, but the book's been enjoyable. At first I thought I didn't get it, and now I just see it as a silly story of some dude writing about some dude who was a soldier, orno-whatever the frick doctor, an animal in a zoo, etc.
So it goes.
Currently reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
Reading Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions adds a little bit extra to the story. Reading them isn't necessary, but made it a bit more enjoyable for me. I really enjoyed those books on their own as well.
gothic violence
I like to read books anons write. so far I'm reading animated amphetamines. Pretty funny at times but also pretty pretentious at other times. Also the paper back is really big for some reason. So far my favorite part is that it has a reference to dashcons ball pit in it which the part its in fricking killed me.
Crime and Punishment
A Court of Mist and Fury
the denial of death and the conspiracy against the human race. I'm not feeling too good.
wont that make you feel worse
yeah it's making it a lot worse. like digging into an open wound. I also just read Whatever by Houellebecq which was unnervingly relatable and depressing.
The house of doors
The cattle killing by john edgar wideman
Les Cent-Jours ou l'esprit de sacrifice
Les Miserables
Ashamed to admit that I had yet to read Joyce. Currently going through Dubliners and enjoying it.
I, Claudius (or is it Clavdivs?).
Speaking as an amateur classicist, this is the most gripping page-turner I've read in years.
Amber Waves by Catherine Zabinski, it's on the history of wheat and it's impact on human history.
Pride and Prejudice. My first time. Keep your eyes open for a shitpost thead when I finish it.
Don't be too harsh. It's pretty funny by chick-lit standards.
Hygiene and the Assassin
Read 86% of it.
Ask me how I know you're using an e-reader.
E-readers are actually really good.
>free books
>can pick the font
>can pick the font size, margin size etc.
>easier to get lost in the text since there are no visual indicators of progress if you just hide them
>can read on your side in bed and the page you're on is always in the comfy position
The future is now, old man.
>not amassing a personal library as a physical monument to your soul
You can't furnish a room with e-readers.
>soul
I think you mean your ego, anon; but yes, I do both.
I'm a Junggay, and I absolutely mean my soul.
look upon my personal library, ye pseuds, and seeth.
This has been sitting on my shelf forever but I can't bring myself to start it. I enjoyed crime and Punishment though so hopefully I get to it soon
I'm also reading this and I want to drop it. I'm at the Kirillovich, the prosecutor's speech and it's so boring now. The best parts have already been read.
Bronze Age Mindset
pretty tame. also obvious yellow peril zionism, 0 mentions of JQ
Reading my first meme trilogy book, Infinite Jest.
Only just started but I love some storylines while not caring much for others. mostly has to do with how it's written. The Arab medical attache being an example of annoyingly written.
Almost done with it, liked it a whole lot more than I expected.
language, metaphysics and death. it's been a while since I've read any sort of philosophical work, so it's been slow going.
Catch-22
Where did Land get this from? How did he get into it?
"No message should inhere in the length of a word, excepting only the broad pragmatic trend to the shortening of commonly used terms. It is immediately obvious why this exception has no pertinence to the case in question here, unless stretched to a point (for instance, expecting the smaller numerals to exhibit the greatest lexical attrition) where it is straightforwardly contradicted by the actuality of the phenomenon.
So, proceeding to the ‘analysis’ – PN of the English numeral names: zero=4, one=3, two=3, three=5, four=4, five=4, six=3, seven=5, eight=5, nine=4. Is there a pattern here? Several levels of apparent noise, noise, and pseudo-pattern can be expected to entangle themselves in this result, depending on the subsequent analytical procedures employed.
To restrict this discussion to the most evident secondary result, not only is there a demonstrable pattern, but this pattern complies with the single defining feature of the Numogram2 – the five Syzygies emerging from 9-sum twinning of the decimal numerals:3 5:4, 6:3, 7:2, 8:1, 9:0.
In the shape most likely to impress common reason (entirely independent of numogrammatic commitments) this demonstration takes the form: zero + nine = one + eight = two + seven = three + six = four + five – revealing perfect numerolexic-arithmetical, PN-‘qabbalistic’ consistency.
The approximate probability of this pattern emerging ‘by chance’ is 1/243, if it is assumed that each decimal digit (0-9) is equiprobably allotted an English name of three, four, or five letter length, with 8-sum zygosys as the principle of synthesis. 7-sum or 9-sum zygosys are inconsistent with any five or three letter number-names respectively, and thus complicate probabilistic analysis beyond the scope of this demonstration (although if everything is conceded to the most elaborate conceivable objections of common reason, the probability of this phenomenon representing an accident of noise remains comfortably below 1/100).
Partisans of common reason can take some comfort from the octozygonic disturbance of the (novazygonic) Numogrammatic reference. How did nine become eight (or vice versa)? Lemurophiliac numogrammaticists are likely to counter such queries with elementary qabbala (since digital cumulation and reduction bridges the ‘lesser abyss’ in two steps, 8 = 36 = 9, as diagrammed by the 8th Gate connecting Zn-8 to Zn-9).
III. AGAINST NUMEROLOGY
Consider first an extraordinarily direct numerological manifesto:
When the qualitative aspects are included in our conception of numbers, they become more than simple quantities 1, 2, 3, 4; they acquire an archetypal character as Unity, Opposition, Conjunction, Completion. They are then analogous to more familiar [Jungian] archetypes … "
What part of this rabbit hole is fictional and what not? Where to draw the line?
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Gravity's Rainbow and I'm actually enjoying it. Didn't think that I'd be into it.
I'm reading two books.
>The Rifles by William T. Vollmann
>Schrader on Schrader
The millenium saga, pretty decent. I am sure anos would hate them cause they are about a small woman outsmarting and beating the shit out of a bunch of white dudes.
I have found angry commets of incels mad about the book in normie social media. i cant imagine how butthurt an average IQfyner could get
Lisbeth had a hard life
On book 3
Nothing. I hit a wall with reading after smashing Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment and a shitload of other books over the span of a few months. Nothing is drawing me in at the moment, it sucks.
Too much heavy reading cloys the palate.
Try something lighter, like Wodehouse, or some escapist historical novel.
Yeah, I tried all that. I just can't find the sweet spot right now, frick it
Lmao you went from c&p to moby dick thats moronic you should've went notes from the underground then moby dick now that sounds kino, a book over 500 pages needs dedication
churchills war volume 1 by david irving
book =)
I am writing my master's thesis on Ulysses so I have spent the summer wading through secondary literature on it. Currently plowing through this thing. It's almost 500 pages long and it's not exactly light reading. I'm making headway, though.
I wrote my master's thesis on my research developing novel metal oxide nanocomposites but I guess doing a master's in literature where you are basically writing a long book report is cool too.
It's not so bad, my thesis advisor believes I may have a bit of an original approach to the last couple of chapters of the book. He thinks that if I do a good job I might even be able to get it published, which would be a nice feather in my cap.
nice, anon. we believe in you
Das Kapital volume 1
bout to pick up Ulysses for the first time
Bend your knees, not your back.
>first chapter
>dead mother trauma
Yup this is some heavy shit
Darkness Weaves by Karl Wagner
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski. Is it true he was a plagiarist or was that some journo nonsense? Enjoying the book, seems like he must've been a loathsome guy regardless.
The New Testament (with Psalms and Proverbs). It's great to finally embrace the underpinning of my faith
Comfy
Endurance: Shackletonʼs Incredible Voyage
Finished Friday by Heinlein. Spoiler: she's a hoe.
Need a new audiobook.
can you recommend me some books on real life stories dealing with radiation and stuff like that? e.g. chernobyl or los alamos' demon core. i need more like this
And other stuff like agent orange for example?
Cow Country by Adrien Jones Pearson.
A Clockwork Orange
brigade, a personal matter, and gypsy breynton
Science of logic
haven't read a book since middle school when i had to finish that book report (im 28 now)
can't stand reading, i can never concentrate
audiobooks sped up are alright tho
Faerie Queene book 4, Henry V, Man of Law's Tale, Deuteronomy.
Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
the road by cormac mccarthy and angela's ashes
Augustus - John Williams
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Haiku
Flowers for Algernon. I'm about 1/3 of the way in and I really don't know how much more to this story there could be. It really feels like it's almost at a climax already. (Charlie just took Alice to the concert and started freaking out about boners.)
Farsa de la Costanza
Picked this up today, enjoying it so far
Will definitely check out his other works
I have just started The Escape Room by Megan Goldin
Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
Dune by Frank Herbert, I've heard mixed things (great impact but outdated was the general idea) but I'm loving it so far.
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
and Essential Math for Data Science by Thomas Nield
Define "reading"
I literally can't
3 relatively small ones
Easton Ellis's White (finished The Shards late last week)
Sloterdijk's Rage and Time
Daniel Harris's The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
Only a chapter out of finishing 1 & 3; just read the first chapter of 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_than_Amber
it impressed me.
Short, tight read. Different and enjoyable.
I was *amazed* to "see" the foundation character, upon which so many of my book I had read as a teenager and young adult, were all based on this character.
I *loved* Clive Cussler and his inimitable Dirk Pitt as a teen...
in this book? I see that if I simply took away Dirk Pitt's big money, and big connections?
He would be Travis McGee renamed Dirk Pitt.
I'm an amateur writer for many years, and I am adopting as many of his techniques as I can.
Moby Dick and The Oxford Book of English Verse. Reading both very slowly.
I just started barbarian days