what is /lgbt/ reading at the moment?
>>42099079i recently finished this. it was pretty fun, really short. Currently i’m in between books, waiting for Persona to come out in January
>>42099079I'm currently reading multiple books. Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Die Schlacht im Atlantik 1939-1945 by Jörg Hillmann and the German translation of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev
>>42099079Sisters of Dorley
Good post by the way, we need more /lit/ culture on this board
I've recently really wanted to read infinite jest i just haven't ordered a copy yet
>>42099079han kang's the vegetarian. actually kind of a trans allegory so far. the main character has a revelation and feels disgusted by her past as she ate meat. hasnt got good coping mechanisms, starves and attempts suicide. havent gotten further yet.
>>42099079fight club!! highly recommend if you liked the film, imo its even better
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>>42099079I'm reading 1984 and Maus1984 wasn't as interesting as people made it to beMaus is an interesting read, but I can't stop thinking about how the father is an asshole all the time
>>42100500was the honor levy book any good? i heard mixed reviews
>>42100488idk, I never liked Fight Club. really stupid imo
>>42100540damn okay fair enoughany particular reasons you dont like it?
>>421005041984 imo isn’t as interesting of a read in 2025 because so much media and even our politics are derivative. It’s already properly absorbed into cultural memory to the point of being trite>>42100515It’s really not good imo. It’s amazing that Dimes Square hasn’t produced a single good book or author.
I’ll be so ready for 2026
>>42099079i have given up on reading. not enough time with a full time job maybe i will get back on it next year
>>42100565I don’t really “get it” desu, it’s about men and for men. Marla as just a narrative device. I dont really resonate with violence as catharsis or male grievance and paranoia at all. Like sorry youre getting cucked by your imaginary friend or whatever
Just finished Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler it feels very /tttt/ relevant. Protagonist is a tranner in spirit
>>42099079my storygraph favorites. i mostly read trans-lit stuff
"Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" by Joe Armstronghttps://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
>>42100575I don't believe in the idea of something just being normalized in society makes it's source now not that interesting desuThe originals concepts of a lot of thing that are now commonly used for literature or arts are still something you can look and appreciate not for being the first ones, but because of the quality and mastery they had and will continue to have regardless of the pass of time
>>42100670This reminds me: every /tttt/er should go read Amygdalatropolis. Good book and a large part of it has the MC rotting away on an image board
>>42100677How is Serious Weakness? I know it’s by the lady who coined HAL. It seems pretty gut-wrenching I’ve been considering whether I can handle
>>42100724it’s in my favorite so i absolutely love it lol. i’ve read most of heartscapes stuff and its definitely my favorite. lots of violence and some rape and i didn’t super like the ending but really really liked it overall. if you want something lighter it’d highly recommend her other book Paycho Nymph Exile
>>42100677What do you think of Adorno? And have you ever read Paul Preciado’s “Testo Junkie”?
>>42100853Is this Lacanian?
>>42100488To me there is something trans about fight club. The masculinity it depicts is uneasy and self conscious. I think it feels relatable to anyone who has repped intensively. I definitely liked it a lot.
>>42100805I will check it out!
>>42100822i love adorno. i think minima moralia is like by far the most readable philosophy work. I’ve never read testo junkie but ive seen him referenced a lot
>>42100879does it ever feel weird to engage with something so ontologically masculine? The further I get in my transition the less relatable and more silly that whole masculine purification ritual seems.
>>42099079highly recommend this book for the /tttt crowd
based thread so far zamn
>>42101012will reading this cure the unending shame
>>42100603Bagel did you get a job as a swe?
>>42101142mind yo bidness
>>42099079Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It could be slower, but it's a relatively short book, so I can't complain. Before that, I was reading Wuthering Heights and I honestly agree with everything Heathcliff did.And are you reading The Count of Monte Cristo? Good luck! It's a good book, and it has an implied lesbian relationship.
>>42101094You have to accept yourself
>>42099079Recently re-read picrel. It was better than I remembered. I liked that the author doesn't explain everything right away (like e.g., Star Wars and Blade Runner do); instead, she introduces a fictional term (e.g., rakunk, snat) and doesn't define it until several (or in some cases many) pages later. In this way, she lets us participate in the worldbuilding ourselves. Another thing that she does that I like is mention important worldbuilding info off-hand (because the characters in the book take it for granted), e.g., that the Watson-Crick Institute is as prestigious as [spoiler]Harvard used to be, before it was drowned (thereby implying that everything to the east of Harvard, including all of Boston, has also been drowned by the rising seas).[/spoiler] I had to stop reading for a minute after that banger of a sentence.>>42100879Cis men feel like that, too. https://youtu.be/UOhs9jxe4lM
>>42099079ayn rand atlas shrugged tbdesu it makes me feel like less of a tranny and more of a normie when i read libertarian slop
I'm reading Flannery O'Connor's collected works by Library of America and a collection of Gautier's short storiesFinished Le Passe-muraille by Marcel Aymé last week I bought this and the edition containing D'un château l'autre, Nord and Rigodon last night, I'm very excited t. malebrained
>>42102176i can accept everything except myself. the soul is the only fissure in the divine tapestry of being
>>42099079fanged noumena
>>42100488Chuck Palahniuk is fucking hilarious. You should read Invisible Monsters and Choke by him too
starting infinite jest right now!
I like it so far, i'm also highly autistic
picrel and Gravity's Rainbow. i quit the latter to read this one bc i fucking haaaaaaaaaate it but i'm going to finish it anyways lol. i managed to get to chapter 2. I'm nearly to part 3 of Demons, which i should be reading instead of posting here.>>42099742Infinite Jest is good, i think. i read it earlier this year and really enjoyed it even though it's literally not about anything>>42100504i would like to read Maus. i read 1984 earlier this year and felt the same about it.>>42101012what is this about? the title is intriguing i will see if i can get ahold of it
>>42099079Reading the Madoka Magica LNs in Japanese to practice my reading skills in Japanese.There's a translation being worked on by Isla Execution Squad so it serves as a nice way to verify my understanding is correct.I have a "controversial works of the era" shelf at home I'm adding to. I have Mein Kampf, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Aunt Phillis' Cabin, American Psycho, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting. It's slowly growing which is nice.I have a lot of the Limbus Company books but put them down and I am probably going to stop reading them for a few years because the Limbus community and my friends put me off reading them with how pretentious they acted. The Stranger was nice along with Hell Screen.
>>42099079Playboy magazine.In braille.
I like learning about things
