your country?what do you usually read?for me it's non-fiction
most of the books I've read are fiction
Non fiction I L O V E platon
>>215611466mostly short horror novels
>>215611466Urban fantasy, epic fantasy and horror. I got over 2500 books on my e-reader right now.
>>215611573>e-readergay
>>215611638I'm not gonna pay $30+ for each book I read. Fuck that, I pirate everything.
>>215612222libraries exist
>>215612290yeah, until they accuse you of not bringing books back and making you buy a new copy, never again
>>215612290>libraries existMy local library has fucking nothing and the books they do have are usually translated into Swedish. No thank you.
>>215612290Not him but our libraries went to shit with the first rapefugee wave. They are unusable now.
>>215611466All children of Bharat
>>215611466Mostly fiction. Luv me TWoT. Luv me Robby Jordies.>>215611530>Unironically reads philosophy GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Currently reading pic related, in the past i read way more but in the last 5 years i didnt finish a Single book, idk what it is
>>215611466I read mostly Ancient and Medieval History. My favourite periods are Late Antiquity and Anglo Saxon England
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>>215612793I also put a bunch of books in some boxes, mostly Bronze Age history and the Ancient Greeks. Thucydides my beloved is in a box. I have another bookshelf as well but that's a shared one with my dad's cookbooks
>>215611466found this at the local library book sale.
>>215611466Fiction in the morning, often scifi but I'm currently reading books about hunting in India. Rest of the day I read theology, religion, the occult etc. Currently reading the Qur'an>there's a bit that says you can fuck your wives doggy style
>>215611466I don't read
>>215612730>>215612793>>215612837Great collection m8
>>215612730>>215612793>>215612837Kino. Do you take notes or anything when you read? Whenever I read non-fiction history stuff I feel like I always forget it a day later.
>>215611466Usually fiction, but I started Martin Bubers "Ich und du" (I and though) yesterday.
>>215613294I don't write notes. I tend just to argue about it in my head, like what is a good question somebody might ask and how can I defend it? Usually I don't actually remember exact details but instead the arguments. I remember the details when I see something similar, or if I'm trying to find something relevant and it pops into my head. Right now I'm reading about Louis the German and his brothers rebelling against Louis the Pious. All the details I probably won't remember exactly 3 months from now but if I see something about Louis or that period I'll remember it.
>>215612793Seen yo ass on /lit/. Either that or you’re stealing the post for attention
>>215614299Yea that's me. /lit/ doesn't really talk about history books so I tend not to find much outside of /clg/
>>215614451is /his/ just as bad?
>>215614485Nobody reads on r/his so it's worse actually. You don't really find many good threads since 70% of the board is some sort of religious shitflinging, genetics or 'humanities' threads which are all shit.
>>215614578ripI think history is interesting but there is a lot to read, too bad you can't find people who are as familiar with it as you
>>215614680I tend not to really talk about it. If there is a thread on /his/ that talks about stuff I like I tend to take a dive in, but outside of 'fall of the Roman Empire' sort of threads I don't see much. At the very least it's something and I can test my ideas against people.
>>215615028at least you're not completely hopeless, I don't know where else you could go to talk
>>215611466I'm in rehab right now, so I can't read as much as I would like too, but I Just got this from the small bookstore that is around the corner.
>>215615883what that? the magic mountain?
>>215611466>LARP history booksYou chuds are all the same literal npcs
>>215616085Gib /lit/chad recommendations. If it's not as easy to read as Christopher Clark's works then it's gay highbrow closted homosexual /his/slop.
>>215611466Mostly Persian poems, now reading Shahname Ferdowsi.
>>215616021Tonio Kröger + Mario and the magician.
>>215616394I found the book in the meantime, thanks
>>215612730>>215612793>>215612837nice collection anon
Bump because it's a good thread
I like fantasy fiction.Like uhhh lord of the rings.But sometimes history is also good, especially ancient.
Bump (please i need book recommendations and can't read /lit/'s walls of text)
>>215623792the blind owlthe ice palacethey're both short reads
>>215623870Thank you. I'm currently reading 11/22/63 (by Stephen King) and i should probably get around to finishing Radu's Dracula. Got bored around the second chapter and dropped it because the author spent more time talking about Dragon heraldry than T*rkroaches being impaled on spikes. Matei Cazacu wrote another biography of Dracula's life but it's in French, do you think it's worth it (has more stakes and fewer descriptions of the HRE's flag and banner conventions) to suffer through French or should i just try to soldier through the boredom until i reach T*rks being impaled?
Recently read this but it was pretty bad, the video game was unironically better
>>215624157maybe you should look for other books that are more graphic and gory if that's what you're into, usually when I find something boring I drop it and forget all about it
>>215624247No i did want history just the weird unnecessary fixation on Germ symbols instead of Romanian history (what the book is about) is weird desu. It was really off-putting that most of the 1st and 2nd chapters focus on everywhere but Romania and i felt that its history was given as much attention as Western Europe's various civil wars that could've just been summarized into footnotes or something. I'll try again when i finish my novel though
>>215624462yeah, maybe they tried to put things into perspective from an international point of view but ended up too focused on a certain idea, it happens, give them the benefit of the doubt
>>215623792Have u read I Claudius
>>215625088they made a tv show after that book
I am doing a Maupassant read through and have started reading Shakespeare's sonnetsGenerally I like realist, naturalist and modernist prose but I've been trying to get into poetry recently I read non-fiction occasionally but only because I find reading about history to be addictive, I try to avoid it
>>215624240it has a decent atmosphere but the ending took a nose dive, felt like the whole these irradiated ayylmaos are a new evolution of life on earth was extremely rushed. I also didnt like the 2-3 psychological chapters where he has delusions and some metro rando goes off the deep end into psychology it just felt out of placeI give it a 6.5/10 and I add the .5 because of the vidya games
>>215625088Nope. Never got into Greek or Roman history because I'm intimidated by the classics. All of them seem huge and exclusively for serious readers. I mostly read history to make better shitposts and schizoposting on 3balls anyways.
>>215612572Why would refugees cause unrest in libraries
>>215611466This a pic of my reading table, where I put my current reads for the month.
>>215612730>all those pristine spinesyou haven't read a single one of them lol
>>215625516What you just described is the soyest, most cucked description of modern "history" buffs reading.If you actually want to learn and read something, don't be afraid of putting down a book, you can always pick it up later on, in fact, most big books (500 < pages) shouldn't be read from beginning to end. Try reading something you like, leave it, then come back to it the next week, depending on how you're feeling.If you "forget" what you read or are afraid you'll miss out on details, you'll still have that book and can later read and quote anything you want. Don't be a midwit.There is no "serious reader", just readers. An advice for history, stay away from Classics as much as you want, secondary sources are just as good if not better.
>>215613198>doesn't read.>Guatemalan.axiomatic.
>>215611466are these types of books "good" for historylets? I want to read about ancient greece and rome
>>215628313I don't think they'll be any good, if you want to read something easy, yet entertaining and that will be a gateway drug to Classical Antiquity, read these:The Greeks: A Global History (The Hellenic period is quite long and this book will tell you everything you need about the greek-centric world after the Bronze Age).Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (This book tells you the story of the rise of the Roman Empire and the drama of its civil wars, a must read, above SPQR).
>>215628478thank you my Mexican friend. The Hellenic periods involves the Mycenaean wars yes?
>>215628698Sadly no, what you're referring to is the Bronze Age, but the book on the Greeks that I recommended does touch Mycenaean Greece and the Greek Dark Ages.
>>215629013thank you. I will look into themgracias amigo
>>215628313Start with biographies about the biggest figures which will make you want to learn about the world they came from. Look for podcasts about topics you like the most, some of them are run by professors or authors.
>>215629313that's too much effort. I only have a small window of time between gaming and gooning to fit some reading in, so I was looking for a "dummies guide" type of book
>>215611466When I read books like those I understand 40% of the information and retain 10% of it, basically the equivalent of a popsci article or youtube essay
Self-help & programming
>>215628313Anything by Tom Holland or Adrian Goldsworthy for Rome. Greece is a bit harder Robin Waterfield has some good intro works. He also translates everything
I don’t have the money to afford physical books, but this is what I usually read
>>215628313I'd say sothose books very much about normal people living their lives, you know farmers and merchants doing their thingyou don't need detailed knowledge about the Peace of Nicias to get why cheaters get the radish
Light novels
>>215631402Neat. Any recommendations? I can get by just fine with most manga, but I don't know if LNs are that much more difficult.
>>215631230LOL
>>215631897Unno, read something you're interested in already Maybe regular novel is better, finish story in one book not 20
>>215626610Are those personal choices or is it a reading list for uni? I remember had to read some of those when I was studying (Birth of Biopolitics, History fo Sexuality and The Protestant Ethic)
>>215633593Personal choices, I am a STEM student.I just like to keep up with history and our times.
>>215634196>>215633593Plus, foucault is, like, supercool.
>>215630945¿estudias software o qué pedo?
>>215625516That's exactly how I Claudius is, go read it nigga>>215625319Yeah, how is it?
The last book I read was Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
>>215625655That's the traditional gathering place of demure pink pussies.
I normally read fiction but I’m currently reading a book by this 16th century egyptian scholar about the rules behind the basic islamic practices. Before this I reread the book of Dede Korkut and before that I read the first Poirot book of Agatha Christie.
>>215634372same incel who wanted an Asian gf?
