Whar are you currently reading and is it any good?

[Anonymous No.14479228]

[Anonymous No.14479265]

>>14479228
fight club. its pretty good

[Anonymous No.14479289]

Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist

It's very charming. He has the Aristotelian guy in the dialogue call the new Paracelsian/alchemical chemists "sooty empirics ... having their eyes darkened, and their braines troubled with the smoak of their own furnaces."

[Anonymous No.14479317]

Anonymous - L'anomie: Un Romane Existentialiste, ou le Tumulte des Tapirs
It's pretty funny so far. You guys did well, I'd recommend it.
The fact that it's also considerably shorter than LoTiaT, so it'll probably not outstay its welcome. (That really dragged on in some parts.)

[Anonymous No.14479324]

A Colony In a Nation by Chris Hayes

It's very good

[Anonymous No.14479337]

>>14479228
War and Peace
I don't know yet, it has that great characterization its known for but i'm 120 pages in and nothing has happened except aristocrats talking.

[Anonymous No.14479341]

>>14479289
Cool rec.

[Anonymous No.14479438]

Invitation To A Beheading
Yes it is very good I'm going to leave this thread and finish it right now in fact.

[Anonymous No.14479448]

>>14479228
imagine the threesome, walking round the liberry finding places to fuck them on doggy style

[Anonymous No.14479768]

Light In August, and some Macbeth on the side.

My first Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.14479808]

iliad
lotsa names

[Anonymous No.14479835]

>>14479228
The Master and Margarita
Kino book

[Anonymous No.14479859]

The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945
Hilarious, Positivism is fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.14480795]

>>14479448
But anon one of them is clearly underage.

[Anonymous No.14481053]

>>14479228
Anne Frank's Diary. Makes me wish I was a little horny bi-curious girl.

[Anonymous No.14481070]

>>14479228
I like these girls no matter their breast sizes :)

[Anonymous No.14481085]

>>14481070
well that is good since they are like 6.

[Anonymous No.14481095]

>>14479337
Without ruining anything, people do die and things do happen. The first few hundred or so pages are just getting you used to the characters and their world.

[Anonymous No.14481100]

>>14479448
I wonder why this disgusts me. I'm not opposed to sex. It just feels dumb and nothing else.

[Anonymous No.14481124]

>>14479228
i got this in the mail today, i'm enjoying it so far

[Anonymous No.14481266]

>>14481085
The girl on the right is 6, the girl on the girl looks 10 years her senior :)

[Anonymous No.14481294]

>>14479228
its so gay that books don't look like that anymore. its all plastic-filmed, brightly-colored paperback garbage.

[Anonymous No.14481300]

>>14481266
Arisu is actually 12 :^)
And Fumi-chan is 19

[Anonymous No.14481476]

>>14479228
House of Leaves. I enjoy it's chaotic nature and dual narrative.

[Anonymous No.14481814]

>>14479228
God Emperor of Dune and a biography of Charlemagne. Dune is incredible, biography is enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.14481835]

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Had it on my shelf for years without reading it, quite enjoying it now though

[Anonymous No.14481969]

The world as will and representation -great

Master and margarita -pretty good so far

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14482686]

This. Yes, I like it very much

>Melancholy, an emotion nurtured in the Zen world, was used as a whetstone on which to sharpen spiritual awareness; this was not a self-indulgent form of self-pity but rather a sadness tinged with an intangible longing. It was in the face of the most undesirable of human conditions that real beauty could be found and the chords of the unconscious spirit, so aware of our fragility, can be touched very deeply when our worlds are put into context. Some, like the great Zen academic Daisetz Suzuki, suggest that it is a longing for the world we left as children, the world of the here and now, undefined by language or values, just a pure experience of reality. It is a world that, at some point in everyone’s childhood, is surrendered for the world of logic—a world that is constantly being analyzed and explained by intellectual machinations, a world that is no longer in direct contact with the present.

[Anonymous No.14482853]

>>14479228
>>14479337
Also reading War and Peace. Really enjoying it, way comfier than I initially thought it would be. I may be interpreting the intended tone and storytelling wrong though.

[Anonymous No.14482898]

>>14481053
Well it was written by a man.

[Anonymous No.14482930]

>>14482898
So?

[Anonymous No.14482934]

Reading this book, it's a blast. Don't take anything as extreme speculative history, just sit back and enjoy the ride.

[Anonymous No.14482943]

terrific

[Anonymous No.14483000]

Jim Dodge - Not Fade Away

it's an outlaw road novel much in the same vein as Kerouac, Robbins, or HST but with a more analytical, philosophical bent to it. It's about a tow-truck driver/car thief for insurance scams delivering a car to the big bopper's grave and the hitchhikers he picks up along the way. I like it a lot

here's a passage from it:

"North Beach itself was no longer a consolation. Grey Line had scheduled tours to look at the Beatniks, even though the germinal core were long gone to other parts, leaving young and awkward heirs who seemed more enchanted by the style than the substance, and leaving behind as well the low-life despoilers and cut-and-suck criminals who seem to thrive on exploiting freedoms they're incapable of creating. Jazz clubs closed to become topless joints, silicont tits swinging on the same stages that had once featured music so amazingly real you didn't want it to ever stop. Now you just wanted to leave."

[Anonymous No.14483174]

On Heroes and Hero Worship by Carlyle, pretty nice, I have a pocket book edition from early 1900s, the prose is excellent so far.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche, good, not great, isn't fleshed out fully

[Anonymous No.14483657]

Currently reading The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa. While it doesn't feel quite as good as The Time of the Hero, it is still a masterpiece in its prose and writing style. I love how vivid the story is because of how often the author skips between different times, narrators and places.

[Anonymous No.14484193]

The third book in the Mistborn series "The Hero of Ages."

It's ehh...alright. Not great, but not bad either.

[Anonymous No.14484240]

Story of my life by Casanova
It's a pageturner since his whole life seems to have been tumultuous and his countless love affairs are described pretty well. Not sure if I'm gonna make it to the end though since it's so damn long.

[Anonymous No.14484671]

Musashi

It's comfy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14484704]

>>14479228
The Handmaid's Tale.

One Thousand And One Nights as written by a hysterical Canadian woman.

[Anonymous No.14484715]

>>14482853
Nah you're doing it right. W&P is very comfy.

[Anonymous No.14484721]

In Search of Lost Time. It's fantastic so far. I've found that I read this book more slowly than others, it might be the sentence structure.

[Anonymous No.14485019]

>>14479228
Harry potter.
Because other books kinda complicated for me(i'm learning english)

[Anonymous No.14485046]

>>14485019
What is your native language?

[Anonymous No.14485061]

>>14485046
Russian.

[Anonymous No.14485093]

>Robert E. Howard - The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

A collection of tales, fragments and poems by the author of Conan about his other popular character, a vengeful and kinda autistic English Puritan. Some of the tales like "Red Shadows" and "The Moon of Skulls" are very good, others I've read range between fine and medíocre. Also there is some hilariously over-the-top racism typical of the 1930s.

>Tom Holland - Dominion

English historian tries to prove most contemporary morals and ethics come straight from Christianity, he makes a good case, but it would be better if he wasn't so anachronistic at times, like when he calls Roman senators "billionaries", it's very obvious what his agenda is, though, to give a Christian veneer to liberal progressivism and maybe convince some gullible ones to support it in the name of their faith.

>Bernard Cornwell - Sword of Kings

Just began reading today, seems good so far, still to be seen whether this book will advance the plot of the Saxon Stories or if it is just another filler.

[Anonymous No.14485096]

Stoner. It was not what I expected. Not bad though.

>>14485061
Good luck with learning English, ruskyanon. It gets easier the more you read. Don't squirm away from playing video games too, that helped me a lot when I was a kid and didn't know a lick of English.

[Anonymous No.14485102]

>Antifragile
Very entertaining so far
>Flashman’s Lady
Amazing series. Everyone on /lit/ should read The Flashman Papers
>Shelby Foote’s Civil War A Narrative, vol 1
Amazing history book. Reads like a novel. Very fun
>Herodotus Histories
Good. I wish I bought the Landmark Edition because having maps to look at while reading it would really make it much better

[Anonymous No.14485316]

> The Nuclear Age by Tim O'Brien

Rereading this. I really liked it when I was younger. Now of course it's lost some of what made me love it then. Still it's an easy read and fun and it's an interesting story too.

> Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo translated by Benjamin Jowett

My first experience with Socrates. A lot of fun but I've found myself slowing down in Phaedo with all of the arguments for the afterlife and such.

> Ugaritic Narrative Poetry edited by Simon B. Parker

Not enjoying this per se but I'm interested in ancient Near East culture and religion and the fact that I can get these translations of three thousand year old poetry is incredible to me.

[Anonymous No.14485322]

>>14485316
Up next is Le Mur by Sartre, Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, and The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

[Anonymous No.14485365]

>Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Melancholy of Resistance
Very good so far. Krasznahorkai's (and the translator, Szirtes') prose is incredible. He really makes me feel like a depressed Hungarian man. The mood is pretty much the same as in Satantango, so hopefully his books aren't all kind of one-note.

>Plato - Gorgias
I've read a handful of Platonic dialogues and decided to tackle the first long one, the Gorgias. It starts out being about rhetoric but ends up being about ethics. The arguments and the back and forth are more two-sided than in something like the Euthyphro. I haven't actually picked it up in more than a week but I hope to get back to it.

>Riley - Neo-Latin Reader
A bunch of selections of Renaissance and later Latin. Right now I'm reading a letter by Erasmus. Very interesting stuff, there's definitely vocabulary that's new to me but Riley is pretty good about glossing things that wouldn't be found in Classical Latin works. Don't know if I'm going to read the whole anthology, I might dip after I finish the Erasmus section and read more Erasmus.