What are you currently reading? Do you enjoy it? What are you gonna read next?

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Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:02:33 2020 No.15226162 [Reply] [Original]

What are you currently reading? Do you enjoy it? What are you gonna read next?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:04:30 2020 No.15226170 I’m reading a picture of Dorian gray with my gf. We’re both doing a chapter a day. It’s pretty good. Next I’m going to read a clockwork orange and then some of the Buddhist Pali canon because I want to learn more about Buddhism

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:10:31 2020 No.15226209 File: 3.88 MB, 2985x2238, Epiphany-of-Dionysus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] plato's laws highly underrated

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:10:52 2020 No.15226210 >>15226162 I'm reading The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith vol.1 and Irish Ghost Stories (LeFanu was a hack). >>15226170 What the fuck was Dorian's problem?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:14:46 2020 No.15226233 >>15226162 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe. It's really brilliant. Next I'm planning a deep dive into Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:15:58 2020 No.15226244 >>15226162 Nothing for a few more days then jumping back into manga for Spanish then I'll go back into baby logic, writing and a nf

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:49:00 2020 No.15226376 >>15226244 >manga for Spanish Are you studying spanish by reading manga?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:50:53 2020 No.15226379 Quantum Psychology by RAW

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:53:56 2020 No.15226392 Molière - School for Wives it's ok, but obviously inferior to Misanthrope and Tartuffe

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:57:00 2020 No.15226406

>>15226162
Right now, Dubliners.
A question on your pic related. Is this the best translation of Thus Spake Zarathustra? I always see it posted here but I have the Wordsworth classic edition and am yet to read it.
Any anons know which is the optimal read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:14:03 2020 No.15226462 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:16:59 2020 No.15226471 The Bible Epictetus-The Enchiridion The Qu'ran Stephen A. Hoeller-Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing Rene Guenon-The Crisis of the Modern World

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:17:37 2020 No.15226474 Just finished The Odyssey Gonna read The Plague by Camus next because muh covid

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:19:34 2020 No.15226486 >>15226406 What is your favourite story from the Dubliners so far? As a person who read the whole book I can say mine is "A Little Cloud."

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:21:50 2020 No.15226499

Boswell's London Journal

It's great but I am always concerned when he falls back into the habit of cooming in diseased prostitutes. Not sure which journal to read after I finish this one, I was hoping to stumble upon one at a used book store but that isn't going to happen for rather obvious reasons.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:28:49 2020 No.15226524 Reading - Stoner Enjoying it - Yes, Stoner's life (so far) is mundane but I still feel intrigued by it Next - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 06:31:02 2020 No.15226532 >>15226162 reading society of the spectacle (debord) right now, pretty insightful also rereading the myth of sissypuss (come use)

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>>15226162
>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
Which I'm really into. I recently got a physical copy of it + the sequel in the mail so I reset my reading progress (was reading on Kindle) and it's just a much better experience on physical paper. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
>Frankenstein
It's a reread but I'm still really into it. It's an extremely fascinating read.
>Battle Royale manga vol. 2
Read it before and it's still as good as ever. I still much prefer the novel over any other Battle Royale form of media though.
>11/22/63
Call me a normie but I enjoy Stephen King, and this is probably one of the best books released in the 2010s. I'm only halfway done though, so it might change.

Thinking of reading Day of the Triffids next, or maybe something else. Not sure yet. Maybe Sylvia Plath's journals, even?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:01:39 2020 No.15226981 >>15226162 Reading through the Critique currently. Really good stuff, glad I decided to go further with Kant after the Prolegomena. Plan on tackling Schelling, Plotinus and Heidegger soon (SoTI, Enneads and Kantbuch).

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:08:25 2020 No.15227018 >>15226376 Yes. I can read a few pages without needing to look up a word. It took me 3 mangas to get there. I'll binge yt español after I can go a few chapters without translating

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:09:36 2020 No.15227024 >>15226162 Hamilton's Mythology, it's okay a bit brief. Next up is the Epic of Gilgamesh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:16:58 2020 No.15227055 >>15227018 Why don't you read comics written by spanish speaking authors? Mafalda, El Eternauta, La casta de los Metabarones, Salvador Sanz's comics (Nocturno, MEGA, El Esqueleto, Angela Della Morte)

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:21:08 2020 No.15227065 >>15227055 Because I love manga. I read very few comics

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:23:19 2020 No.15227071

>>15226162
I'm reading Swann's Way right now and very much enjoying it. Proust's sentences can be very long, and quite complex, but they possess a flow that is very different from Mann who's another favourite of mine; HIS sentences on the other hand are more like knots that need to be loosened by the reader.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:28:01 2020 No.15227089 i'm going to read some C. Rodgers on humanistic psychology.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:37:10 2020 No.15227122

>>15226162
Currently reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra, halfway through it and not liking it, i tried reading it many times through the years but never completed it, I dont really like it that much, I can see the influences Deleuze had from it but i dont vibe with it.

Next i'm either gonna read :
-Brothers Karamazow
-Don Quixote
-Zizek's new book but not in my native language
What do you suggest anons?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:38:02 2020 No.15227124 >>15226379 is it good? did you read anything else by him? im gonna read illuminatus because pynchon wasnt crazy enough. >>15226162 Blood Meridian. the chapter title has [Spoiler] tree of dead babies [/Spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:38:57 2020 No.15227129 >>15227122 Don Quixote sounds like a perfect summer holiday read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:41:22 2020 No.15227138 >>15227124 ctrl+s gives you spoiler tags newfriendo

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:49:58 2020 No.15227173 Le comte de Monte-Cristo. That's well written and captivating, one you get over the strange succession of unlikely events sending the main character in a pretty bad place in order to launch the story.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:52:13 2020 No.15227184 Seneca's letters. And yes, my dick IS 8.4 inches

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:53:17 2020 No.15227189 Magic Mountain by Mann It's kinda boring.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 08:57:25 2020 No.15227212 >>15226162 >blood meridian >yes >the count of monte cristo

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 09:33:40 2020 No.15227440 Idiot Yeah Either 2666 or portrait of the artist, can't decide

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 10:16:21 2020 No.15227705

>>15227440
Read 2666. A much better, richer, deeper novel than Portrait, which is essentially just a by-the-numbers coming of age story differentiated solely by the style. It has some nice passages, but isn't going to really give you anything to think about.

2666, on the other hand, paints a really unique, beautiful, haunting, and unsettling picture of the world. I still think about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 10:54:35 2020 No.15227955 >>15226162 conquest of bread kropotkin is based

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 12:29:28 2020 No.15228722

Currently reading Pan Tadeusz, by Mickiewicz. Trying to read it in the original Polish, and the fact that its a poem gives it a nice sense of flow, so it's actually pretty enjoyable to read.
Will probably read Krzyzacy next, though I'll read a translation because fuck Sienkiewicz and his antiquated language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 12:33:37 2020 No.15228768 >>15227705 Ty for the rec, will be reading both over the next week or two

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 13:43:40 2020 No.15229387
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Cant enjoy lit anymore unless im trying to acoomolate knowledge. Just prefer watching good kino series/movies is just so much more enjoyable and induces an inner change , a feeling of heightened sense of reality

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 15:19:24 2020 No.15230038 >>15226162 t

>>	Keynes Wed Apr 29 15:53:56 2020 No.15230256 File: 188 KB, 800x1200, Zara-Special-Occasion-2019-Lookbook04.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15226471 >The Bible >Epictetus-The Enchiridion >Rene Guenon-The Crisis of the Modern World Hello, based deparment?

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 15:56:31 2020 No.15230275

>>15226162
Finished V. I really liked it, definitely gonna have to give it a reread at some point though, at least a couple of the historical chapters. The only Pynchon books I haven't gotten to yet are Against the Day and Bleeding Edge so I assume I'll get to them before the year is out.
I got my hands on an ARC of Charlie Kaufman's Antkind and I'm about 120 pages in and loving it so far, it comes out in July but I treated myself over quarantine. Reading Don DeLillo's Libra too and I haven't gotten far enough into it to decide how I feel except that I like the Lee Harvey chapters more than the government official ones. This'll be my seventh DeLillo and already it feels much more cogently "narrative" than the others I've read. I love his stuff but I've found (much more overtly in his later work) his plots tend to be more like set pieces for exploring certain ideas. Granted, I think he does it really well, but this feels like a departure for him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 16:29:37 2020 No.15230580 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Thought I'd read something short that I can blitz through. Haven't decided what I'll read after.

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I'm reading Beloved and Intrude In The Dust. I just started Intruder but i'm liking it so far, that scene with the dude falling from the bridge and not falling towards the ground but away from the sky was really amazing. Beloved is good too. I really like the way Morrison moves the reader around through her character's pasts with their flashbacks.

Before these I read The Hobbit, Of Mice and Men, The Guest Cat, and Wolf in White Van (which I want to hear some thoughts on if anybody's got them). It's been quite a month.

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>>15226162
>What are you currently reading?
nausea by sartre
> Do you enjoy it?
I'm still in the first pages but it sort of getting annoying how he describes objects frequently
> What are you gonna read next?
I'll probably start with the greeks, I'm waiting for Edith Hamilton's Mythology to arrive in mail.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:22:02 2020 No.15231029
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Started yesterday. English is not my native language so it's a bit tiresome to read. fyi I bought the english version because the german translation has one of the ugliest covers I've ever seen.
I've stopped on page 3 because I want to rewatch children of men so I can understand the references better.

Besides that I've been reading Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto. Really cozy and sad manga. Loving it so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:23:05 2020 No.15231041 >>15231029 forgot to mention that I will read coin locker babies by ryu murakami next.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:24:22 2020 No.15231051 Dracula, is quite good. But, back to serious after he vampire is kill

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:24:59 2020 No.15231054

>Don Quixote
Just passed page 800. One of my favorite books I’ve ever read
>Republic
BOOOOOOOORING but I’m determined to finish it
>Mein Kampf
Really fascinating stuff. Hard to read for more than a few pages at a time though except for when he starts ranting about Jews. For some reason I find that extremely engrossing

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 18:42:29 2020 No.15231708

>Ham on Rye
My first Bukowski. Enjoying it quite a lot, it's a good break from harder to read literature, and every bit as interesting.
>The World as Will and Representation
Just in the beginning, my first Schopenhauer book. Makes me question if I should've read his book the Principle of Sufficient Reason, as it's referenced to quite a lot and I'm left confused and having to re-read sections frequently.
>Crime and Punishment
First big Dostoevsky book, I've only read Notes from the Underground before, which I found fantastic. It sometimes becomes dense on information that seems unimportant, so I'm slacking on it some. Nevertheless, an enjoyable book thus far.
>Book of Disquiet
Reading it in Portuguese. Going at slower pace on purpose, as I've found I have to be in a specific state of spirit to really enjoy it.
>The Plague
Reading in French, which I'm not fully fluent in, so it's a very demanding process. Taking my time with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 18:53:52 2020 No.15231807 >>15230038 Classic strokeposter

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:13:24 2020 No.15231958 Bleeding Edge. It's pretty good, my last Pynchon book. What should I read next, bros? >Moby Dick >As I Lay Dying >White Noise >Underworld

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:15:19 2020 No.15231978 >>15231958 Moby Dick or As I Lay Dying I cannot recommend White Noise. It sucks

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:22:37 2020 No.15232044

>>15231978
I just finished White Noise like 2 weeks ago and I gotta agree. I didn't hate it, I just couldn't fathom why this was his massive breakout book that everyone knows about because there's like half a dozen more of his books I've read and enjoyed more. Maybe I'd have appreciated it more when it was contemporary, who knows.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:23:58 2020 No.15232053 >>15232044 I thought the first part was really good. I read it all on a Saturday. I really thought the plot was going somewhere, but the second part was just repetitive and anticlimactic

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:32:26 2020 No.15232121 >>15231978 >>15232044 Damn, that's disappointing. I've only read Cosmopolis by him, and I thought that was fucking awesome. Underworld and White Noise are sitting on my shelf rn

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:56:49 2020 No.15232303 >>15231029 er erwähnt children of men nach den ersten seiten nicht mehr wirklich, fellow germanon

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 19:57:25 2020 No.15232314

>>15232121
Honestly a lot of people pan it but I thought Underworld was a joy to read. It's got hands down some of the best prose of any novel I've ever read. It's good throughout but I think the prologue alone might be the best piece of American short fiction of the last 25 years

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:00:10 2020 No.15232332

>>15226162
Ive been reading invisible cities lately, im really enjoying it cause of how absurdly good calvino is at indirectly commentating on an aspect of human existence by describing a city. Next i plan to read metaphysics of war since evola is pretty based.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:01:39 2020 No.15232344 Lord of the Rings, I'm trying to practice my book reading abilities Want to read kirkengaard once done

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:12:20 2020 No.15232410 Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage. Learned that some of his books contain bits of plagiarized content. Nevertheless, it's been a great read so far; nicely communicates the need for expansionism within political elites as well as commoners.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:18:21 2020 No.15232450

Currently reading The Man without Qualities. I would describe it as an antithesis to Ulysses. It is extremely chaotic with a loose sense of passing time and narrative. 99% of the novel is made up of beautiful philosophical ramblings and oddly fascinating descriptions of feelings.

next:
>Iliad
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Moby Dick
>Anna Karenina
>The Idiot

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 20:18:59 2020 No.15232456
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>What are you currently reading?
A Portrait of the Artist as a young man
>Do you enjoy it?
Yes, it has some beautiful passages, it's very fragmented but I guess that's part of the point. I'm ESL so some parts were more challenging than others, overall I'm satisfied with my understanding.
>are you gonna read next?
I'm between The Gay Science and The Savage Detectives

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:40:25 2020 No.15232938 >>15232303 ich werde ihn mir trotzdem anschauen und nochmal von anfang an lesen nur um sicher zu sein

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:43:55 2020 No.15232956 Dante's Inferno. Currently loving it. took me a few tries to get into the style because ive never read any true classics before.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:49:30 2020 No.15232996 Reading the elementary Particles and small is Beautiful. Going to read some teddy k when I'm done the latter, and maybe more houellebecq when I'm done the former

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:04:30 2020 No.15233110 The History of the Peloponnesian War recorded by Thucydides I am enjoying it thus far. Pericles based mode. I plan to read Augustine's City of God

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Wed Apr 29 22:20:00 2020 No.15233214
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The Well at World’s End by William Morris
The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Söyinka
Leisure | The Basis of Culture by Joseph Pieper

Yes of course. I highly recommend

Not sure what’s next, but I have started on a few.
Permaculture by Bill Mollison
The Impossible Community by John P. Clark
Chaos by James Gleick
And The Unnameable Present by Roberto Calasso, which I had to put down for frustrating me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:20:06 2020 No.15233215 Reading Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology. Some of the myths are really good but some are super boring. I'm gonna read On Heroes by Carlyle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:38:32 2020 No.15233320 Was going to read Tarzan somehow ended up with a pidgin version

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 23:38:20 2020 No.15233690

>>15226162
The world, the flesh, and father smith
Yes, it is very comfy. Feels like you're actually living in mid 20th century europe. I'm only 2 chapters in, but it's pretty funny too.
I don't know what I'm going to read next, I'll find out when you do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 23:40:42 2020 No.15233702 >>15226474 Read it. It's great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 23:47:26 2020 No.15233745 File: 1.36 MB, 1242x2208, E265BE85-80A1-4A96-9FCA-DE7495D5CBF8.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Canetti - yes but no. Musil- no but yes. Hastings - absolutely.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 23:52:17 2020 No.15233771 Absalom, Absalom! I started reading it many years ago and then put it down. This time, I am totally engrossed in the Sutpen family. When I have completed this novel, I would like to read Paglia and then return to Faulkner.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 23:59:43 2020 No.15233807

Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

I'm still not sure what it's about but it reminds me of Eco with the whole idea of "theory-fiction". It reads like a social science academic journal was put through a blender with various facets of last decade's internet culture. Chock full of postmodernist overwrought verbiage, geopolitical references, petropolitics, Chthonic necropolises, Middle Eastern esotericism and archeology, and much more gibberish besides.

The writing isn't great but I enjoy mulling over this kind of overly complex technical academic prose and it's creative enough. I think I like it.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:01:58 2020 No.15233820

>What are you currently reading?
Finished 1)Assorted tales of Ambrose Bierce; 2) Gibran's The Prophet.
>Do you enjoy it?
1) Yes. It was fun, and witty in some parts. 2) Meh. Some good truths, but a lot of pseudo - religious psychobabble.
>What are you gonna read next?
Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft and Cicero's Orations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:02:50 2020 No.15233824 >>15232956 The inferno is pretty good. If you get bored in the middle, don't worry, stick it out. The last four or five cantos are excellent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:03:12 2020 No.15233827 >>15226162 Xenophon's Anabasis >war campaign, soldier drama, royal/noble diplomatic drama, the corn was overpriced it's pretty much what I expected. nothing mindblowing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:08:49 2020 No.15233854 >>15230580 the dude is pretty much a 4chan (futaba, rather) incel

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:25:07 2020 No.15233935

Currently reading Campbell’s the masks of god book 1. Fascinating for the most part (I get slightly bored by the archaeological stuff), right now he’s showing how the basic dying god myth has diffused over the earth (isis is innanna who is also aphrodite), very cool for me.

Next book is The Doctrine of Awakening

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:28:35 2020 No.15233959 >>15232956 also reading this, i like looking at dore's illustrations after i finish each canto

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:33:22 2020 No.15233978

>>15226162
I'm (finally) reading Brave New World. I'm not enjoying it all that much currently. It was perfectly enjoyable up until chapter eight and everything since then has been fairly uninteresting to me if I'm honest. I only have about 75 pages left so I'll finish it, but I'm looking forward to moving back to some non-fiction once it's done. I want to read some more philosophy, and also dive into some reading on architecture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:34:01 2020 No.15233981 The Trial, for the 59345793453745th time it's the best, ofc

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 01:41:35 2020 No.15234284
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Call of the Wild, definitely a book a should have read in high school, am enjoying it a lot. Spitz was an asshole and I'm glad of his outcome.

I want to read another novel after I'm done maybe White Fang to continue the mountainous comfy or one of the Halo books I have. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sounds temping too. I also have C&P but I'm worried It will be too dense and will need to read other books to get my comprehension up before I tackle it.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 02:20:25 2020 No.15234467

>>15234284
>or one of the Halo books I have
About to start my first Halo novel next, once I finish what I'm reading currently. Gonna read through the series whilst playing the games from Reach through 5. Always been a competitive Halo nerd but never read any of the books before so I'm looking forward to it; I read the first few pages of TFoR the other day and it's interesting reading a fiction book whilst already having a sort of predetermined art style in my head.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 02:25:23 2020 No.15234486 Trying gravity's rainbow again. Dropped the first time about 400 pages in. Shit's super fun even with a lot of stuff flying over my head.

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About halfway through the first critique. I wanted to read all 3 together, but it's been slow going so I'll probably need a break from Kant. I am enjoying it though, i actually enjoy Kant's writing despite the meme of him being a bad writer, even if it can be dry at times.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 06:48:04 2020 No.15235407 >>15234486 the zone is the best part tho

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 06:55:49 2020 No.15235425 Reading Beauty and Sadness. I really like it but it feels too YA. Going to read To a God Unknown next. Oh, and the Moby-Dick chapters for the upcoming group

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 06:56:11 2020 No.15235427

>>15226162
Thus Spake Zarathustra coincidentally. I’m enjoying it a lot actually. Nietzsche’s prose is great and Zarathustra’s roundelay is an incredible piece of poetry. I don’t jive with everything he has to say, but I got frisson multiple times throughout each book. It’s taking me awhile to get through, but it might become one of my favorite books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 07:24:51 2020 No.15235515 >>15235427 Would Zarathustra be a good place to start with Nietzsche? I've been thinking of starting his works lately, but have heard that you simply cannot jump in at certain places (like Beyond Good and Evil).

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>>15235515
I think if you're really serious about learning his philosophy probably not. This is my first time reading Nietzsche. I'm able to comprehend the majority of what I've read so far, but I also don't consider myself a serious student of philosophy in the way that most of /lit/ does. I was vaguely familiar with a lot of the more abstract concepts that he brings up throughout the book, so that made it easier for me. I'm sure there are better introductions to Nietzsche, but if I'm able to get through Zarathustra and enjoy reading it I'm sure you can too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:07:41 2020 No.15236292 >>15235711 Interesting. Thanks for the advice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:14:58 2020 No.15236339 Kafka on the Shore. I am loving this book and am engrossed in it. There doesn't seem to be a dull chapter or storyline. Next up is the Odyssey

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>>15226162
I was reading the complete sherlock holmes. I got through the study in scarlet, the sign of four, scandal in bohemia, the red haired league and a case of identity before I got bored
pic related you can see how little I actually managed to do.
Next I will read Hölderlins Hyperion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:18:16 2020 No.15236354 >>15226162 Almost finished the witcher books, before went through the red rising books. Anyone got suggestions for a book series kind of like those? Some heros journey with a fleshed out world. Im gonna look into riddick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:53:15 2020 No.15236597 >>15236339 Murakami is always comfy

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:53:46 2020 No.15236604 >>15226162 I study a lit course at uni and feel writing is the only skill i can give. I feel so expendable and worthless. People say the writing is good but say they dont know how to market it . I want to suicide

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:00:02 2020 No.15236654 >>15226162 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This Phil guy is pretty good, someone should make a movie about this book. Next? Either Pynchon or some Joyce, had to take a break from the Russian lit

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:15:01 2020 No.15236780 >>15235515 It's the worst place to start with Nietzsche, despite the beauty of the book itself. Start with Genealogy or Beyond Good and Evil.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:16:48 2020 No.15236794 >>15233771 Just read Absalom recently and I was blown away

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:24:34 2020 No.15236856 >>15233702 I'm already on page 100, so far its amazing

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:27:04 2020 No.15236874

I’m reading Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep and I’m not a big fan. I don’t really like dust-core lit. I’m just biding my time for the moby dick threads in May
>>15226170
Oh hey, I was just thinking about picking that book up like ten minutes ago. Would you recommend, anon?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 11:32:23 2020 No.15236923 >>15226561 >Call me a normie but I enjoy Stephen King Based and wholesome, anon. Good on you for reading what you enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 14:08:37 2020 No.15238019 >>15236353 >Next I will read Hölderlins Hyperion Based. It's one of the most beautiful works I've read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 14:19:18 2020 No.15238096 >>15238019 I am afraid I won't 'get it' because beyond school I haven't read any poetry but it's supposed to be the best poem of the german language so I feel obligated to try

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 14:19:35 2020 No.15238100
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Notes from the Underground, Dostoievski. I plan to read poetry and small, old, prose books next, until I finish my project Os Filhos de Lir and become able to return to the reading of The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances. I plan to read, also, books in Spanish

(My native language is, as you already may have guessed, portuguese, so to learn spanish I only have to use a dictionary, be patient and pay attention to the text)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 14:25:56 2020 No.15238153 File: 428 KB, 1988x1396, Americooner.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15226162 Finally using some free time to make a serious run at Proust, loving Swann's Way.

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Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:13:23 2020 No.15238891

Started getting into /lit/ when quarantine started, and so far I've read:

>Fahrenheit 451
>1984
>Animal Farm
>Metamorphosis

Currently reading:

>The Trial

Next on the stack:

>Atlas Shrugged
>Dorian Grey
>Great Gatsby
>Brave New World
>Unabomber Manifesto
>Collected Works of Bastiat

I know, I know, babby's first. Anyway, I also wanted to start reading some philosophy stuff, anyone got recommendations for good starter books on that front?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:14:20 2020 No.15238898 >>15226162 Currently reading Plato's Republic. Thinking of reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics just because I have it laying around, but does anyone have a better recommendation?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:16:47 2020 No.15238922 >>15238891 Also philosophy babby. I just started with Plato's Republic and it's very easy to follow, but still very interesting. I'm reading the Grube/Reeve edition and it explains everything that may be confusing in the footnotes. Highly recommend

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:34:50 2020 No.15239067 >>15238096 it's not a poem but a novel à la Leiden des jungen Werthers (letters)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:36:24 2020 No.15239083 >>15238891 just curious, are you intentionally starting with the classics because everyone told you they're good? no offense btw

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>>15226162
Im about halfway through brothers karamazov. Im enjoying it and its getting more and more interesting as I read. Ive just been reading very slowly lately, i think i need to get rid of some distractions.

I might read stoner next but id kind of rather read The Fasting Cure by upton sinclair right now as ive been looking into fasting and health stuff a lot again lately and it seems like an interesting read.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:40:56 2020 No.15239121

>>15226162
The Iliad. I have one book left so I’ll probably finish it today. I thought it dragged slightly in the middle while Achilleus was throwing a tantrum and refusing to fight, but the last third has been excellent. Nestor gives Antilochos some extremely based advice on how to properly race chariots which I enjoyed.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:42:49 2020 No.15239135

I just finished Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal. It was ok.

Next books on the list are:
>A Long Day's Evening
>The Tale of Genji
>On the Soul and the Resurrection
>The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

I also have a copy of No Longer Human in Japanese that I might try to sit down with at some point.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:44:00 2020 No.15239147

Ready Player One, I borrowed it from a friend. What a load of utter garbage. I'm a sucker for the dystopian worldbuilding, but the world inside the game gets the most attention. The prose is mediocre at best, and the characers are cringe as fuck.

Next up is Snow Country, I'm excited for that one.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:44:37 2020 No.15239153

>>15239083
1984 and Animal Farm I'd been curious about for a while, especially 1984 after seeing so many people refer to it as a "manual" for what some governments are doing these days. Metamorphosis and The Trial, funnily enough, I found while clearing out my parents house's pantry, my mom said they belonged to my grandma. The rest yeah, I got from some /lit/ starter packs, and Atlas Shrugged because I like Bioshock

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:45:48 2020 No.15239163 >>15239147 I might read Ready Player One because it sounds funny. Is it so bad that it's worth reading for a laugh or should I not waste my time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:47:47 2020 No.15239177 juliette by marquis de sade so i can finally start dialectic of enlightenment

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 16:50:07 2020 No.15239192 >>15239163 It is a little funny from time to time, I must admit. It's a very easy read, and if you're just looking for a laugh you might like it. If you've by chance lived through the 80s I can imagine it would be more enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 17:16:50 2020 No.15239397 >>15226162 I currently have A Farewell to Arms on my desk, ready to start reading later. Some of the things i've read on this board have me doubting whether or not it's worth it. I guess I'll find out myself.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 17:57:17 2020 No.15239687

>>15238891
The first philosophy book I read was Schopenhauer's Studies in Pessimism and I thought it was great. Depending on your own beliefs you will either agree with most of it, or else you'll like a lot of it and at least find humour in the things you don't agree with. It covers a lot of different topics and never feels confusing or laborious so I think it's probably a good one to try.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:29:11 2020 No.15239908

>>15226162

Got halfway through "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl.

It's kind of interesting, though I definitely take issue with his individualistic approach. It almost feels as though he equates survival with being moral/virtuous, which feels a little gross idk like he's suggesting those who died in the Holocaust where weak in some way. & the focus on attitude & free choice seems as though it potentially justifies the camp itself maybe, like if prisoners are miserable because they're subjected to a horrendous environment of constant terror the problem isn't the people doing the camp, well that's a you my problem.

Planning to continue reading "The Interpretation of Cultures" by Geertz if I finish.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:31:49 2020 No.15239928 >>15238898 Aristotle is super hard to read wouldn't recommend. You're basically reading leftover lecture notes lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:34:54 2020 No.15239947 >>15226162 Middlemarch by George Eliot, 50 pages left, my new favorite of all time book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:35:01 2020 No.15239948 >>15235515 People say Genealogy of Good and Evil is a good place to start, but honestly I found "Beyond Good and Evil" easier to read though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:37:39 2020 No.15239968 >>15239948 Ah, guess I heard wrong then. Thanks anon.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:41:18 2020 No.15239988

>>15226162
nothing but the night, its john williams technically first work but i understand why its not included in the trilogy. its pretentious but it has the same universal kinda feel of catcher in the rye. you can tell john williams was not a good drunk writer, im glad he got significantly better after this. still kinda cool seeing how he used to write before he got comfortable with his later writing

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Only one paragraph remaining. I'm not too crazy about it. Cool idea, but the execution is unimpressive. The plot is getting more and more ridiculous each chapter. The best sections were the letters of Marana and the diary of Flannery. The main character basically seems non-existent. He might as well not be in the novel since he doesn't do shit. Ludmilla is also unnecessary. The only novel should be about Marana since he's the only interesting character. I'm hoping nothing happens in the last chapter that makes everything I'm saying right now look stupid, but yeah. I'm very happy to be putting this one down finally.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:44:54 2020 No.15240018

Moby-Dick. It’s going to a long and arduous read from what I’ve gathered. I haven’t necessarily noticed enjoyed it so far but there are quite a few terms I’m unfamiliar with and I’m not as well acquainted with the bible so I fear this will hold me back and I may require a second reading of it sometime in the future.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:48:11 2020 No.15240039 >>15240018 not that arduous bro just get cozy with it. It deserves a few passes anyway. There's some lecture series you can use to supplement your read

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 18:54:49 2020 No.15240083 >>15240001 Sorry, I meant *chapter, not paragraph. lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 19:44:50 2020 No.15240407 >>15226162 Infinite Jest and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (by Nancy McWilliams) . I’m enjoying them both a lot and will definitely reread them both at some point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 19:48:51 2020 No.15240448 >>15240018 Once you get into it, the imagery and aesthetics are mind blowing. It paints an incredibly vivid picture in your mind

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 19:58:01 2020 No.15240513

I'm reading Sorrows of Young Werther and On the Genealogy of Morality, simultaneously. I'm enjoying Goethe's novel a lot; but I can't give an opinion on Nietzsche's book yet, as I'm still in the very beginning of it.

I just bought some other books today, and they'll be the next ones on my reading list. The books are: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Rebellion in the Backlands, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and The Brothers Karamazov.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 20:08:07 2020 No.15240572 >>15226162 Fisiognomica, an introduction to it by some professor at my country's capital university ( Chile ). Its from the 80s, Its fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 23:44:59 2020 No.15242054 >>15239928 Oh shiiiet. Do you have something else you'd recommend instead?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 01:11:13 2020 No.15242591 >>15226471 You are a walking (reading) meme

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 01:14:32 2020 No.15242617 >>15238153 what the actual fuck. I quit /pol/, started lurking /fit/ and /lit/. I have the same t-shirt and go to sauna 5 days a week

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