What books are you reading, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.15757126]

[Anonymous No.15757158]

>>15757126
None, obviously.

[Anonymous No.15757161]

how to train dragon

[Anonymous No.15757163]

The big book of 4chan

[Anonymous No.15757180]

>>15757126
Currently reading Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki and taking a break from Giovanni's Room in the mid section.

Idunno why, but I get this weird feeling that Giovanni's room is so beloved because of the"controversial topic for it's time" wibe. I had the same feeling with Confessions of a Mask - which I did enjoy, but still I keep having that feeling.

Am I just homophobic without being aware of it?

[Anonymous No.15757186]

Just finished one. So nothing right now.

What next?

[Anonymous No.15757189]

Tao te Ching and a Ken Follett book (and no I'm not ashamed of it). How bout you fellow /lit/ bros?

[Anonymous No.15757195]

schaut aus wie das regal meiner oma desu

[Anonymous No.15757205]

>>15757195
Das war sehr gemein Brudi, sei bitte brav.

[Anonymous No.15757218]

>>15757180
Perhaps. Which is fine. Is Confessions of a Mask good? I plan to read it at some point.

[Anonymous No.15757241]

>>15757218
I liked it, but it was not my favorite of his. Though I'm a bit of a oddball because I liked Thirst for Love most of all the works I've read by him so far.

I guess the only shortcoming that is non-spoiler related is that I feel he comes of as pretentious I guess? In contrast to for example Dazai and his somewhat autobiographical works.

Might just be my own insecurities though, give it a shot!

[Anonymous No.15757242]

>>15757218
Different poster, but it's fine, especially if you enjoy confessional literature. I think it's necessary reading before you read Mishima's best, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mishima's writing is predicated on an incredibly complex outsider psychology. "Confessions of a Mask" does a great job laying the groundwork for that psychology.

[Anonymous No.15757284]

>>15757126
>The Left Hand of Darkness
First physical book i've read in a while, it's a more pleasant than electronic.

[Anonymous No.15757303]

crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.15757331]

The denial of death and coin locker babies

[Anonymous No.15757511]

>>15757126
Reading The Idiot, enjoying it and should have it finished by tomorrow. Also slowly making my way through Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. Also very good. And as you can see I've got far to many books to read in my room already so should be trying to make a dent in this pile sometime soon.

[Anonymous No.15757573]

The First Man. Given that it was incomplete when Camus died it’s kind of a fun way to see his writing process half-way through, characters’ names changing all the time and shit.
Even unfinished as it is it’s been a pretty captivating take on a grown man trying to know a father who died when he was small.

[Anonymous No.15757607]

>>15757126
>Buddenbrooks
In the early stages, definitely feels like an early work but I'm interested in where Mann takes me. The first of his novels I've read.
>History of the Peloponnesian War
Getting filtered by the first book with all these battles where Thucydides is setting the stage and making the case for why the war was important. I hope an intelligent anon can tell me how important these details are in the long run i.e. genealogy of the Hellenes etc etc
>Anatomy of Criticism
Halfway through this one, again quite a hefty work but I'm enjoying my time with it. Helps me understand the Greek tragedians better. Helps provide better contextual clues to evaluate literature.
>Troilus and Criseyde
Making slow progress but that's fine, its poetry it should be savored patiently. Language can be a bit difficult but I'm enjoying the book, Chaucer's psychology endears me to the romance.

[Anonymous No.15757619]

A little colonial American history in honor of the holiday weekend

[Anonymous No.15757628]

I've been wanting to read Make Room! Make Room! for forever but I could never find it at any of the libraries near me in the past and didn't ever feel like actually buying it. It's the book that inspired Onions Green, but apparently the cannibalism stuff was added for the movie. So far it's pretty fun. It's a kind of mystery/police story based on a complete misunderstanding about a murder that was committed. And the setting is New York during a heat wave where the city is overpopulated (35 million people, while the real population of NYC is around 8 million people today, and the book takes place in 1999).

[Anonymous No.15757634]

I'm about to consoome some new shit off of Amazon, still tryna decide tho

[Anonymous No.15757651]

>>15757619
based consoomers

[Anonymous No.15757659]

>>15757126
Quantum Mechanics and Experience, Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory, A Critical Introduction to Mao, Althusser's Lectures on Rousseau

[Anonymous No.15757660]

I'm reading Herodotus's The Histories and Fitzgerald's Iliad.

[Anonymous No.15757663]

>>15757659
Get a load of this pseud

[Anonymous No.15757676]

I'm trying to read books to assuage my Hobbesian cynicism, but it never really works.

[Anonymous No.15757690]

>>15757511
How's the Musil one? Also
>TBK in 2 volumes
Ew

[Anonymous No.15757695]

Currently reading metamorphosis I got two days ago, on the last part and love it. Was expecting a guy trying to live his normal life as a giant bug, learning to travel to work and such, it is a lot more depressing than what I was expecting but it is a great read so far. Have the rest of pic related waiting to be read, just got back into reading.

[Anonymous No.15757703]

>>15757663
yess thx for the (You) ;)

[Anonymous No.15757704]

>>15757126
Ask the Dust

[Anonymous No.15757709]

>>15757126
I'm currently reading Theogony and Works and Days

>>15757660
just finished Herodotus, is interesting at first but gets old about halfway through. But then again my attention span has been fried by the internet

[Anonymous No.15757732]

Tropic of Cancer, quickly becoming one of my favorite reads

[Anonymous No.15757736]

>>15757186
idiot
therese raquin
bel ami

[Anonymous No.15757803]

>>15757195
Wie ich sehe tummeln sich ebenfalls kultivierte Männer auf /lit/ herum.

[Anonymous No.15758053]

>>15757126
20,000 leagues under the sea as a break from the three musketeers

[Anonymous No.15758243]

>>15757126

Enjoying this a lot

[Anonymous No.15758260]

>>15757126
Right now:
>The Outsider by Stephen King
>Visual Intelligence by Amy herman

Next:
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (just need to finish it; I put it down near the end, but I will finish it here in a bit)
>The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

[Anonymous No.15758342]

Quran. I should be done soon since I'm getting down to the super short surahs.

[Anonymous No.15758363]

>>15757126
Right now:
St. Augustine - Confessions
Aristotle - Posterior Analytics
Wreckers of Civilization - Simon Ford

Been reading the Meditations on and off but i haven't found it too interesting. Next i'm looking to go for the Topics and Noise by Jacques Attali

[Anonymous No.15758477]

>>15757126

[Anonymous No.15758483]

>>15757511
>he reads Gibbon

[Anonymous No.15758494]

Waiting for my 5 volume copy of the Summa Theologica to be delivered today to start that.

[Anonymous No.15758549]

>>15757303
read therese raquin next

[Anonymous No.15758792]

dead souls. what a shame that he burned part 2, im reading the first chapter of it (part 2) now and it's 10/10

[Anonymous No.15758918]

>>15758792
exactly how I felt when I finished it mate, genuinely tragic that he decided to bin it and throw the rest up a chimney. Don't worry to much tho all of part 2 before you get the first big gap in the story is absolute peak comfy reading and I'd say as good as part one is. Also the ending, or what there is of an ending, is also genuinely great, and also that fuckin speech that gets given right as the book ends mid sentence is fucking deadly.

[Anonymous No.15758953]

>Don Quijote
150 pages in, it's so violent it hurts my feefees
>Aristotle's Metaphysics
a lot less dry than I expected, I'm starting book 6.

[Anonymous No.15759007]

Been reading J R, around 30% through with it and holy, this here book was so surprising to me when I started reading it. It's the first Gaddis I've read and when I started it I thought it'd just be a meme book but it ended up being hilarious and entertaining and making me burst out laughing nearly every page. I think it might be the funniest book I've read so far.

Every scene with either Bast or J R, and the scenes where Gibbs is drunk and incoherent have all managed to make me burst out laughing, and there's funny shit on nearly every page that makes me crack a smile. Gaddis kind of has a reputation of being absurdly difficult so I never expected the book to be so fucking funny.

It's a book I'm surprised isn't that popular. It definitely deserves to be held up there as one of the greats, but perhaps I will reserve my judgment to when I hit the ending. Definitely gonna check out The Recognitions after this.

[Anonymous No.15759027]

>>15757126
I am reading No Country for Old Men but it's not grabbing my interest as swiftly as Blood Meridian.

[Anonymous No.15759213]

>>15757695
I've yet to read the Metamorphosis, but if it's as depressing as you claim, I'd avoid directly following up with 1984. Amazing book, but man does it scare you for the world.

[Anonymous No.15759233]

>>15757126
Plato's Dialogues. Enjoying it so far but a little much at times.

[Anonymous No.15759536]

>>15759213
I already have a nihilistic outlook on the world, I read the synopsis on the back and it sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the heads up though.

[Anonymous No.15759577]

>>15759536
Good stuff, happy reading then.

[Anonymous No.15759767]

I'm reading Explosion in a Cathedral, by Alejo Carpentier. I know everyone says The Chase is his best, but I'm loving this one more.

[Anonymous No.15759785]

>>15759577
Thanks. Just a side note, the text of metamorphosis is not inheritangly depressing but upon reflection the story is. In my experience anyway.

[Anonymous No.15760485]

>>15757126
american psycho
butchers crossing
The idiot
I was reading the count of monte cristo too but i decided i already have enough for now

[Anonymous No.15761141]

Rather interesting discussion of scientific progress and how it occurs. Kuhn breaks it down into phases and discusses each one. Reading through Chapter 7: Crisis and the Emergence of Scientific Theories.

Apparently he popularized the phrase "paradigm shift".

I feel pretty nice that I had the same ideas of how we approach problems through an agreed upon paradigm, but I applied it to technological development rather than scientific progress, which are closely related.

[Anonymous No.15761194]

>>15757511
there are like 3 books here i their original language, just embarassing anon.

[Anonymous No.15761366]

>>15759027
Watch the film instead.

[Anonymous No.15761376]

>>15757126
Spending my summer reading the Romans

[Anonymous No.15761515]

>>15757218
I personally didn't like it, maybe it was over-hyped to me but it was just bland. A young man grows up unable to properly understand that he's gay in interwar-post war Japan. Thta's about all I got out of it.

[Anonymous No.15761528]

I got six chapters into Ulysses before taking a break from it and reading From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming.

[Anonymous No.15762006]

>>15757126

[Anonymous No.15762097]

>>15757126
juggling lolita, for whom the bell tolls, inherent vice and fear and loathing on the campaign trail right now.

[Anonymous No.15762153]

>>15757303
I bought Demons today and I'm gonna start tomorrow

[Anonymous No.15762236]

>>15762097

-lolita - just started, wild that Nabokov writes in his what third language like that

-FWTBT - I like it but I find it drags. So tired of Pablo scenes. Let's get to the bridge

-IV - Liked COL49 when I read, it but had to read it twice to get a grasp on it. I'm having a hard time following the story, but I've seen the movie so I'll skip the re-read

-F&L 72 - HST gives a great look at how disfunctional and depressing US party politics are. Feels like politics are exactly the same in 2020, minus the internet.

[Anonymous No.15762863]

>>15757241
thirst for love is horribly underrated.

[Anonymous No.15762870]

>>15757126
The Wandering Inn, The Well Tempered Sentence, Succubus Lord, and Promise of Blood

[Anonymous No.15762892]

>>15762236
>wild that Nabokov writes in his what third language like that
In his family English and French were spoken on par with Russian. He also graduated Trinity.

[Anonymous No.15762976]

>>15757511
Nice Rabelais

[Anonymous No.15762978]

>>15757126
Mapping Ideology

[Anonymous No.15762986]

>>15757695
Are you in high school?

>>15759213
Weak. Try reading no longer human while your life is going to shit

[Anonymous No.15762992]

>>15762986
Post your physique RIGHT NOW.

[Anonymous No.15763001]

>>15757695
how did you not read these in school?

[Anonymous No.15763182]

>>15762992
Cope

[Anonymous No.15763198]

>>15762986
>>15763001
>school
I am 26 and live in Ireland, we never got to read any classics in school except for holes, boy in the striped pyjamas and one or two others I can't remember. Never the great gatsby or stuff like that though.

[Anonymous No.15764643]

>>15757126
bump

[Anonymous No.15764663]

Wizardrous by J. A. Hinsvark

[Anonymous No.15764690]

>>15757126
>tfw someone safes your guilty pleasure shelf

[Anonymous No.15764691]

lolicon

[Anonymous No.15764870]

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

[Anonymous No.15765815]

>>15758243
What a cute book. Putting it on my to-read list.

[Anonymous No.15765918]

Mother Night

[Anonymous No.15765939]

>>15757126
Lattimore's Iliad. It's dense but I'm really enjoying it. He does a great job at translating epics, which are very difficult to translate well.

[Anonymous No.15766308]

>>15765939
Have you read Fagles?

[Anonymous No.15766481]

>>15759007
literally can't obtain this in the UK for less than £40 ($50)

waiting for the NYRB reprint in October

[Anonymous No.15766517]

>>15766481
U havin a giggle la

[Anonymous No.15766560]

>>15766517
click on them, they're all from Germany and in German. No meme.

[Anonymous No.15766616]

>>15766560
alright I might have got egg just ever so slightly on my face, however I've bought books on ebay that were shipped from Germany before and they still came in English.

[Anonymous No.15766675]

>>15766616
and from the same sellers as I see the J R's are being sold by. Forgot to mention that.

[Anonymous No.15766825]

war and peace
pretty neat

[Anonymous No.15767013]

>new reader
>Want to read Shadow over Innsmouth
>Never read Lovecraft before
>Cheap on Amazon but 1-2months shipping
>Everywhere is regular shipping but expensive

Not interested in the Kindle version, not sure if I can just read that on my computer? Should I just pay double the price for the book to arrive in a sensible time frame

[Anonymous No.15767024]

>>15767013
where the fuck do you live that it takes two months for a delivery?

[Anonymous No.15767059]

>>15767024
UK. They must be out of stock or something, says 1-2 months and I'm a prime member. Next seller has it within 3 days to me but double the price

[Anonymous No.15767077]

>>15767013
Lovecraft's stuff is public domain. You can read his stuff on Wikipedia and plenty of other sites. If you want a physical copy of things make sure you look for good collections since most of his stuff is short stories (including Shadow Over Innsmouth) with a few novella-length things. I recommended in the chart thread earlier the Arkham House collections but I don't know how much shipping on them would be and they're already $30 per book.

[Anonymous No.15767135]

>>15767059
Alright well with that specific one it's up to you because idk, however I've just seen you can get this bigger collection of his work that also has Shadow Over Innsmouth in it and gets delivered in a lot less than 2 months

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141187069/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_N95.EbQ10C69X

[Anonymous No.15767173]

>>15767135
Thanks senpai, I did consider getting a bigger collection but since I'm not familiar with his work I don't know which book is the "complete" collection and which is just a best of

[Anonymous No.15767179]

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's point about how reality is fundamentally one subject, and how the phenomenal world is the manifest appearance of that subject to itself, is immensely profound and a more compelling alternative to Berkeley's idealism.

[Anonymous No.15767220]

>>15767173
You're likely only going to find mostly best of collections. The only complete collection (it seems to say on their site it's complete, though I haven't verified it) I know of off the top of my head is the Arkham House 3 volume release. The top 3 books here http://www.arkhamhouse.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PLST

Those versions were edited by friends of Lovecraft and the company was founded by them. You might be able to find other complete collections but like I said his stuff is public domain so anyone can go and print off a shit quality book and sell it. The Amazon link you posted even had reviews saying how that book felt cheap and like a bootleg. If you can (considering the virus) you should probably go to a bookstore and see what they have so you can look through the book and actually hold it before you buy it but I have the Arkham House releases and they're good quality hardcover with dust covers and stuff. And the stories are grouped in a good way.

[Anonymous No.15767264]

>>15757126
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. Either gonna read CS Lewis Space Trilogy or reread some Calvino next.

[Anonymous No.15767329]

[Anonymous No.15767980]

>>15757126
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

[Anonymous No.15768039]

Pelandria; the second book in C.S Lewis ”cosmic trilogy”. I like it. Especially the depiction/realization of satan/the serepent through the possessed character Dr. Weston as being not so much diabolical or sinister, than like a spoiled, indulgent kid, ripping the feathers of birds and being an annoying bully.

[Anonymous No.15768048]

Human Action, by Ludwig von Mises, The Bible, The Hobbit (with the gf), Thucydides's The Peloponnesian War, The Geneology of Morals (again, but this time for a reading group with some friends), and Anselm's Monologion for an essay I'm writing. I'm enjoying them all and I'm going to be sad when law school begins and I can't read as much for pleasure/self-study.

[Anonymous No.15768100]

>>15767264
I’ve just been reading the second book “Pelandria”. I like it. A nice allegory over the Adam and Eve mythos while not getting to ”on the nose” or pretentious. The triangle dialogue/ polemic between modern human (1900s British man), Satan and the primordial woman is pretty fascinating. Especially the part where “Satan” introduces a hand-held mirror to “Eve” and teaches her/“makes her older” about death, shame and fear.

[Anonymous No.15769044]

>>15757126

[Anonymous No.15770486]

I got more on my list, but i want to do a no electrónic month.

[Anonymous No.15770505]

[Anonymous No.15770616]

Ive been reading some of the Sisyphus' Myth by Albert Camus and sometimes switching to Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.15770860]

just finished hunger games (it was terrible), some stephen king short stories, a murakami biography and some fanfiction

[Anonymous No.15771371]

>>15767264
What did you think of Steppenwolf? Have you read any other Hesse? If not I recommend you read Demian immediately

[Anonymous No.15771655]

>>15770860
Underage fag

[Anonymous No.15771701]

Infinite Jest currently, and will be for quite a while. Scarily accurate depiction of today's world despite being filled with hyperbole. DFW really was a genius.

[Anonymous No.15771726]

>>15771371
Not him but Hesse is terriblly gay in the most boring way possible. If it wouldn't be for the post-war love of everything antinationalitic and the american 60s with all their hippy-shit he would have remained a nobody.

[Anonymous No.15772520]

Les fleurs du mal - Baudelaire (in French)

Haven't really read poetry aside from 1-2 books in college that I didn't enjoy but it's really good. I think I just like melancholic authors.

>>15757161
This was unironically really good when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.15774038]

>>15757126
The mysterious flame of queen loana by umberto eco
An introduction to scholastic philosophy medieval and modern by maurice de wulf
An introduction to philosophical principles by brian kemple

[Anonymous No.15774502]

>>15768100
This post is getting me hyped to read.

>>15771371
Incredible. I've read Siddhartha as well and really liked it. I'll definitely give Demian a read soon, heard lots of good things.

>>15771726
What don't you like about him?

[Anonymous No.15774527]

Trying to figure out how to put my narcissism to use and learn how to observe it in others more closely.

[Anonymous No.15774655]

I cant decide which one to start with and its bugging the hell out of me

[Anonymous No.15774715]

>>15757126
Kierkegaard (5 paragraphs/week)
and
Alexandre dumas (the three musketeers) (1 chapter/day)

Honestly, i dont recomend reading them together, they dont go along well.

[Anonymous No.15775398]

>>15774502
>What don't you like about him?
Especially Steppenwolf is just unbelievably boring and pseudo-deep with a side of ridiculous indian nonsense. Hesse is a bad writer and only embraced either due to a lack of knowing better authors or politiclalignment.

[Anonymous No.15775796]

Current:

Roger Bacon - Opus Majus
Jacob Marschak - Economic Information: Decision and Prediction
Nicolaus Copernicus - Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings Vol. II
Porphyry - Introduction to Aristotle's Categories

After:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Geometry
Gerard Debreu - Mathematical Economics: 20 papers
Galileo Galilei - Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive
Aristotle - Physics

[Anonymous No.15776065]

>>15775796
Are you having fun?

[Anonymous No.15776308]

>>15776065
Hmmmmmm.... I find that it is a little fun to read about the adjacent categorizations of Porphyry after dwelling long upon Aristotle's Organon. I quite enjoy it.

I spend a total amount of MAYBE 1 hour reading per day so I have time for other things, like driving around and having a good time with other people. It's not bad.

But yeah, it IS pretty dry. Bigfoot is mentioned in Bacon's Opus Majus though. Discovered that a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous No.15776488]

>>15776308
pseud detected

[Anonymous No.15776508]

>>15776308
>Bigfoot is mentioned in Bacon's Opus Majus though. Discovered that a few weeks ago.
Neat

[Anonymous No.15776612]

>>15759007
I fucking love this book. Read it freshman year when i had loads of time and there is nothing like it. Gaddis may not have been a very consistent novelist, but JR is doubtless one of the great masterpieces of post-war lit.

[Anonymous No.15776741]

>>15776508
Yeah it was describing them interacting with societies in the area around the Himalayas. Same as where the Yeti is purportedly found. Just kind of interesting to have so much documented evidence for them :3.

I've recently had some experiences which lead me to believe he exists.

[Anonymous No.15776761]

>>15776741
>I've recently had some experiences which lead me to believe he exists.
You should document your experiences
I'm trying to keep an open mind about yetis, maybe they are real

[Anonymous No.15777473]

>>15771655
i'm twice your age son
kill me

[Anonymous No.15777523]

En Route - Huysmans

[Anonymous No.15777647]

im about 1/3rd the way through inferno and its kind of boring desu

[Anonymous No.15777661]

>>15763198
>holes
>classics

[Anonymous No.15778745]

Am reading these two. Just getting a start on reading for personal interest for the first time since eighth grade.

After this I'm gonna be reading
The Anatomy of a Story
Godzilla on My Mind
Legion
Books of Blood.

I've always been a movie guy. And mark my words, I will make a movie. And then once I do I'll probably an hero.

[Anonymous No.15779058]

Eugenie Grandet by Balzac

[Anonymous No.15779093]

Guns, Germs, and Steel. Only upto Part Two however I'm enjoying it. It's an easy read and vey informative and I like his arguments.

[Anonymous No.15779097]

>>15757695
Lord of the Flies as dry as fuck. Didnt care for it.

[Anonymous No.15779707]

>>15771701
that sentence hurt to read, are you 14?

[Anonymous No.15779884]

finished neuromancer, didn't care for it
also reading mount analogue, this one is really good

[Anonymous No.15779979]

>>15770486
you had one job

[Anonymous No.15780118]

manufacturing consent

[Anonymous No.15780128]

>>15779884
I know a bunch of people who are way into Neuromancer, they are all Americans though so I suppose they don't read much

[Anonymous No.15780184]

>>15780128
i read a fair amount, 2-3 books a week depending.
i liked it. i think the cyberpunk aesthetic is very cool. the book isn't high literature or anything, it is a very american book and not incredibly well written. but i read for fun and i enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.15780189]

>>15757126
I'm thinking if I should start with Decline of the west. Should I? Or does it make more sense to get into other books before

[Anonymous No.15780195]

>>15757126
Vathek and Lolita.

[Anonymous No.15780571]

>>15767013
Go to a fucking library degenerate I can smell your new to letters so just go borrow the book and see if you like words on paper if not return the book dont waste some poor amazon warehouse workers time to ship you a gay fic novel for you to put in a dusty shelf degenerate scum

[Anonymous No.15780619]

>>15757126
took a break from reading. getting back into it with Notes from Underground.

[Anonymous No.15780785]

>>15757126
Just bought the sea of fertility.
Starting it in a few

[Anonymous No.15780836]

starting the septuagint & slowly plodding through brothers karamazov. Alyosha is my favorite among the brothers I think

[Anonymous No.15780875]

>>15780836
Alyosha is based

[Anonymous No.15781501]

The Rig Veda and the Iliad.

[Anonymous No.15781524]

>>15780571
Nigger, most of us don't live in anglolingual countries. Here in germany most public libraries are trash made from self-help books, childrens lit from the 90s and unproblematic normie classics. Without a privat library you'll never make it.

[Anonymous No.15781563]

Tears and Saints by Cioran
The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
American Folklore
On Peace of Mind by Seneca

Those were the last few I read. All were solid, but none were life changing or anything. Happy to hear reccs if anyone has anything.

[Anonymous No.15781611]

Watership Down. The fox just interuppted the Black Rabbit story

[Anonymous No.15781640]

>Master of Margarita
>when Harry became sally

Good books so far

[Anonymous No.15781687]

>>15761141
added this to my reading list

[Anonymous No.15781697]

>>15771701
this book is a total meme but DFW was completely right about where we were headed

[Anonymous No.15781711]

>>15781524
as an american the situation is the same. public libraries don't have shit worth reading these days

[Anonymous No.15782014]

>>15781711
Growing up poor in eastern europe I always dreamed of a giant library smelling like history to just be able to pick up something and know that it will be a new world, with a nice grey bunned lady with glasses helping me out from time to time. At least that how it was, minus anything problemtic or pro-western in Poland.

In reality western european public libraries are full of smartphone tipping kids, boomers and homeless on PCs and mid 30s danger haired problem glasses wearing fuckfaces getting butthurt of you disturb them with a question and if you're able to shut it all out you are left with YA, outdated school books, minority shit as well as degeneracy promoting propaganda. After visiting my first western library, I swore I'll have one myself in the future and I'm on a great path. Just today I ordered an 1920s edition of a classic german canon book, to expand it even further.

[Anonymous No.15783060]

Why yes I'm a low-wit how could you tell!

the top three I'm reading currently

[Anonymous No.15783085]

>count my unread books
>93
oh fuckkkkkkkk what did i doooooooooooooo

[Anonymous No.15783646]

not reading them quite yet but i just picked these up today