What's your reading plans for 2026?Suggest a book to read in 2026 collectively. I'll add dubs (Jan to Sep, 11 to 99) and trips (Oct to Dec, 111 to 333) to the chart.
00 means you start the calendar over
Rolling for Les Chants de Maldoror
>>24948587The Golden Bowl, Henry James
rolling for VALIS
Upadesasahasri
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24950523>Orberg was not the first to do margin notes, look at these other books by the same publisherDude google “nature method institute” right now. I’m familiar with Arthur Jensen’s work.>this is youNo. Totally different person. I came here spur of the moment assuming I wouldn’t get any French at all so it’s been a pleasant surprise.>>24950627It’s a website with a bunch of easy texts that gets posted here a lot>Looks great to meyou have discovered what I think scholars call “an opinion”>>24950633Thanks
>>24951059Looks great. Thanks for sharing. It can be read with google translate. The translation doesn't seem perfect but if you look at both the original and the translation even without knowing Portuguese you can sometimes guess what's going on. For example it translated "menina" to "little girl" which is confusing but when you see that it's one word in Portuguese it makes more sense.https://archive.org/details/paulo-roacutenai-curso-basico-de-latim-gradus-primusIt looks a little similar to these:https://archive.org/details/latinfortodayfir0000grayhttps://archive.org/details/Latin_method_Most_1stYearOxford Latin CourseCambridge Latin Coursebut maybe simpler and more succinct, which I like, so it's maybe better in my opinion.I like reading language textbooks in other languages, because you learn two languages at once. Here's one in German for Latin:https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=136898262
>>24951175>Dude google “nature method institute” right now. I’m familiar with Arthur Jensen’s work.I wasn't talking to you only, but to anyone reading the thread. Many people here think Orberg's books are one of a kind, when in fact there are almost identical books for other languages which came decades earlier, and the method overall is from the 19th century.>It’s a website with a bunch of easy texts that gets posted here a lotYeah I found it, but you said "side reader" which seemed to imply any of the multiple books in the Lingua Latina series which complement the main books.>you have discovered what I think scholars call “an opinion”There is a difference between a proposition and an argument. An opinion can be backed up with anything at all, or it can be just a statement/proposition with nothing whatsoever backing it up. I asked in order to get anything whatsoever backing it up.>ThanksThat link was bad. This is better, but not great either, there might be a higher quality download somewhere:https://annas-archive.org/md5/85af4a5d243cf0bab2be900c872b29e1
>>24951244>There is a difference between a proposition and an argument. An opinion can be backed up with anything at all, or it can be just a statement/proposition with nothing whatsoever backing it up. I asked in order to get anything whatsoever backing it up.none of this needed explanation retard
Every time I spend time focusing on extensive reading I feel like I make dramatic jumps in ability to just read a paragraph and lose a substantial amount of memorized grammar entirely, but the grammar becomes much easier to relearn. Very much a 2 steps forward, 1 step back feeling.
I like to read philosophy although I don't understand like 70% of what is written. Actually I like to read smart people, people with soulfulness, I like to learn the truth about reality even if I can't grasp it with most of the part.I'm currently reading Spengler's main work and it's good for the part I do understand.Thanks for reading my blog.
>>24949062same here. i'm retarded but i do absorb some of the good parts.
>>24949062Xenophon Memorabilia
A lot of modern shit doesn't make sense because it is based on falsehoods and degenerate passions. They key thing to know is that one does not gain understanding merely by "being smart," reading the opinions of others, and arguing. This only leads to sophistries. The key tools of the lover of true wisdom are fasting, vigils, prayer, meditation, breath prayers and mantras, and all other manner of askesis.The teachings of the greats, who get at least something essential right, such as Plato, Laotze, Aristotle, or Epicetus are accessible even to the unlearned and simple, but they are also deep beyond fathoming. Of course, the fullness of revelation dwells in a deeper gnosis held by those saints who grew closest to the Logos.
>>24951262>fasting, vigils, prayer, meditation, breath prayers and mantras, and all other manner of askesisSome of these are useful in moderation, some are mostly useless.Mysticism has never achieved anything of substance. In rare cases, it can be hijacked as a symbol for an external creed, but it can also lead a society to a coma.
>>24951262>fasting, vigils, prayer, meditation, breath prayers and mantras, and all other manner of askesisDont confuse conduct with what is conducive.>>24951294This anon is correct.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24946749I am circumcised and therefore not physically capable of pleasuring a woman, so unfortunately I will have to pass on this one
>>24948751who's gonna tell him
>>24951007>You argueeh? who's arguing? i'm not arguing, i'm telling. specifically, i'm telling you that you're weird. it's ok anon this site was basically invented as a holding pen for dysfunctional mouthbreathers who don't fit in to society. you are at home here. weirdo.>foidweirdo
>>24948842agree
>>24951346projecting?
I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24951240This is megarian philosophy. You're 100% correct: when these people are pointing at something and saying it has become something else, theyre literally saying that "it is what it is not".Combine this with melissus, who points out that if we accept these stories of one thing becoming another, what we need to understand is that each thing will always be what it is. So we can say a piece of raw meat is raw meat, a piece of cooked meat is cooked meat, and these two can stand in some chronological relationship as part of some metaphysically-static eternalist continuum. But one must recognise that it is utter nonsense to say that a thing is what it is not, that the raw meat is the cooked meat. You are doing philosophy while the rest of the anons are clinging to the mere traces of prestigious failures like aristotle.
>>24951266So at some definite point in the gradient between raw and cooked it's objectively cooked? A completely different thing?You're playing with language not meaning, confusing the map and the territory.I cooked the meat, it was raw, now it's cooked. It's the same meat.
>>24951277You don't get it - the issue isn't with telling a story about raw meat and cooked meat, but rather you need to recognise that the raw meat is raw meat and the cooked meat is cooked meat and never is one the other (ie what it is not). If you want to place these two things along some gradient, where you tell a story about raw meat that gets hot and is cooked meat, that is ok. But you aren't talking about any one given data point (raw meat, cooked meat, heat, whatever). Rather, you are showing how they all hang together, subsumed in a complete story.The raw meat is and always will be raw meat. The cooked meat is and always will be cooked meat. Everything where it is, as it is, eternal and unchanging. Identity demands this. All you are doing is taking the different data points and discussing how they relate, not how a data point "is what it is not".It's not the same meat, except by convention. You can only define "same" here to mean different points that are in closer proximity than other points. If they were literally the same thing, they'd either be raw meat or cooked meat, because those two are different. The truth is to break through and recognise that the "persistent meat" is just you casting a net over two different details and treating them as a broader, subsuming entity. Just like reality is one big all-subsuming entity, of which everything is a detail.
>posit the existence of something that doesn't exist>it doesn't work (obviously)>conclude that the existence of non-existing entities isn't real>but non-existence isIf you can't understand this, get the fuck off of my ship.
>>24951290>is just you casting a net over two different detailsThat's how words work. Reality is never contained in them.
>7 books completed>12 books behind schedule
>>24949373ngmi
>>24950372Same
>>24949373I TRIED SO HARDAND GOT SO FARBUT IN THE END IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
>>24950171they are separate books but they only take a couple hours to read
>>24949384>Magic Tree House>9th grade
Should I reread this series as an adult?
Also, a surprisingly kino cover for a YA novel.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24951345>not reallyYes, really. The next time you see or write something like that check to see if you can flip terms around. If they make just as much or more sense that way it's 100% certain it's retarded.
>>24950716>Why don't women ever run a train on a man?that would be cool.
>>24951353fuck off, pseud.this is just another "king bad" thread.we get these daily, *all* SK should be in ONE continent thread to limit the sprawl.
>>24951367>"sex can exist without horror, but horror usually not without sex">[calls person making fun of him for that a pseud]Projection.
>>24951345>not really.Yeah I came the first time I read Ben Drowned
Picrel is very interesting. I started it today and considering the level of technology- and bureaucracy and the accelerated development of AI, this seems to be super relevant. Note that I don’t have a stem background and wasn’t interested in it for most of my life. But now I’m hooked.What books develop these or similar themes further?
I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
>>24947522Yu Hua's To Live is one of the best chinese books ever, it has been in top 10 monthly bestsellers in china for like last 30 years and it is great for learning chinese. It's been nicknamed 'Chinese Forrest Gump', but it is much better and does not rely on 'epic reference' basedjak writing.Red Sorghum by Mo Yen is another modern classic, but it is far more experimental in it's non-linear narrative that is like some kind of collective flow of mind.The two books also cover similar time period - sino-japanese war and early communist times (To Live starts earlier and goes further).Start with these - they are basically an equivalent of starting american literature with Hemingway, Steinbeck and Firzgerald (which most do) - classics but not ancient. Like when you want to get into british literature you do not start with Beowulf or Canterbury Tales.Sure knowing Confucius and Lao Tse will make those two books (especially To Live) better, but they are good even without it.
>>24947877in other words, no understanding at all?
>>24951203>ConfuciusBootlicking cuck that set the world back 2000 years. This fucker should have been buried by history.
>>24951225I think you‘re being intentionally obtuse with the fact that sinologists sometimes correct his work to disregard the fact that he obviously had some understanding which the previous poster helpfully used to illustrate a point.
>>24947749>>24947747>>24947549>>24947522Quit samefagging you ugly chink and get off my board.
Mata Betty's book gave me knowledge about thisthe Ukrainian word for the town, Chornobyl, means "wormwood," referring to the plant's abundance therethis is from the Book of Revelations 8:11-12>The star was called "Wormwood," and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter.>When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them became dark. The day lost its light for a third of the time, as did the night.many people in other countries got sick and died because of the atomic explosion and its effects. the air, soil and water got contaminated
>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.Was unc spittin fax here?
>>24951245No, kill the beautiful instead. The horrifying ugly monsters must destroy the beautiful
>>24951229Thank you. But it sounds so lovely.
>>24950893>“Ora è impossibile immaginare che la ripetizione continuata dei gesti fisici che i negri fanno intorno ai loro feticci danzando, che l’avere sempre nelle orecchie il ritmo sincopato degli jazz-bands, rimangano senza risultati ideologici;>a) si tratta di un fenomeno enormemente diffuso, che tocca milioni e milioni di persone, specialmente giovani;>b) si tratta di impressioni molto energiche e violente, cioè che lasciano tracce profonde e durature;>c) si tratta di fenomeni musicali, cioè di manifestazioni che si esprimono nel linguaggio più universale oggi esistente, nellinguaggio che più rapidamente comunica immagini e impressioni totali di una civiltà non solo estranea alla nostra, ma certamente meno complessa di quella asiatica, primitiva ed elementare, cioè facilmente assimilabile e generalizzabile dalla musica e dalla danza a tutto il mondo psichico”Here's the direct quote, found it in Roberto Franchini's "Gramsci e il jazz"
>>24950751This is retarded. The inclusion of strong and persistent rhythm doesn’t eliminate the capacity for melody and longer forms. Listen to the Black Saint for an example
>>24951168A small handful of rappers from the 90‘s genuinely lived the image you‘re projecting, as could be said for a handful of artists from any genre. The fact that this doesn‘t pertain to the vitality of the music nonwithstanding. Any rap you hear published today is either a media creation or some kid with a Soundcloud.
Stephen King says it's good practice to have a goal of writing 6 pages a day. What do you think, anon? Is that doable for you?
I did that. Completed a manuscript, even. It didn't get picked up anywhere, though.
any consistent daily output on one project is going to get a novel finished
>>24951285Stephen King don’t gotta edit to sell novels.Well I do, so fuck him, and fuck Sanderson too.
>>24951323>I'm adding 1 word to my novella a day, I'll be done once I'm in my eighties
>>24951335You think I give a damn about a Hugo?
>I did not know but that, under the circumstances, such being the case heretofore, I would be left in truth, as it were, without recourse and wherefore I took care for whatsoever means that were expedient yet prudent.
>>24951322"Philosophy"
Would anyone be interested in participating? Seems like a nice alternative to Wikipedia reading
>>24951220>post cover in OP>summarize topic using chapter headings>ask some questions at the endDo this and people will participate in your thread.
>>24951220I listen to it in audio version. Can't recommend picrel enough to Americans.
