>18
>Frankenstein
>It's shit

25
What It Means to Be Protestant
It's okay. It's not as academically rigorous I was hoping for, but it's clear, accessible, and well presented.

>>23970089
>29
>Cicero's Republic and Laws
>Pissed off because of the lost pieces that seem to have held a wealth of knowledge are probably gone forever. I've just started the laws and it reverts back to Plato's arguments on virtue and the nature of man, quite looking forward to finishing it desu.

19
Xenosystems by Nick Land
It's pretty good. I think it will get better later on (roughly 1/3 in rn)

>>23970089
>25
>Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History
>By Jove he was right about everything

>>23970089
>21
>Wuthering Heights
I'm really liking it, the drama between the characters even early on is very exciting, and the novel is written beautifully in a way that really paints the picture of the moors of Nothern England.

>30
>the sorceress of darshiva
it's slop but I'm too far into the series to stop. going to read something with substance once I finish the last book

>>23970089

>18
>Adam Heberberg
The plot is pretty simple. However the dive into th psychology of the main character is just... great.
It is usually my kind of thing, and I'm delighted as I didn't expect this from this rather 'obscure' book.

>>23970091
Why tho?

>>23970089
>22
>the Death of Ivan ilych
>I might be too young for this

>>23970253
How so

>>23970262
I'm not dying, and I've never contemplated my own death in any significant way.

>>23970171
actually I take it back, I just read some really good books so frankenstein just felt like another high school classic, it was pretty comfy tho especially these during cloudy november days

>>23970089
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1945 by Robert Conroy.
This is supposed to be my light reading after I finished the brothers Karamazov. It turned out to be 400-something pages long.
Not that it's boring. I like the action, but some plots are too stupid that it's funny.

>>23970089
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[REDACTED]
it's quite good, i['m waiting for the style to unfold, the guy's a real genius. it's interesting reading a book that is not solely contingent on plot. and no, it's not proust.

>24
>Infinite Jest
Pretty good, although the sweat from my hands is smearing the cover. Anyone else have any tips?

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Very comfy. I think it might be better than Walden. I especially like it when he goes on tangents and mixes poetry in with his musings on the colors and natures of fish.

>>23970089
37
Knowing God, T.I. Packer
A must read for fellow followers of Christ

39
Nine Princes in Amber
Novel by Roger Zelazny

Trying to get through a few pulp classics that I haven’t read.

>>23970089
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Dandelion Wine
Actually really enjoying it so far. Other than this I’ve only read two fictional novels this year so I wanted to squeeze one more in there before year’s end. I’ve never read Bradbury outside of Fahrenheit 451 in school. It’s one of those instances where you can just tell that someone is a master of their craft.

>>23970089
18
2chainz lyrics
Some lines are better than others

>>23970535
drunk and high at the same time, sipping champagne on an airplane (jokes)

>19
Letters for Algernon
I like it

>>23970548
flowers for algernon*

>>23970535
>she got a big booty so I call her Big Booty

>>23970089
22
Plato's Republic
The state should have the power to ban con artists, posts, story tellers, and songwriters who don't strictly deal in good old fashioned heroic epic themes

>>23970089
29
Feminism for Everyone
This book is strictly composed of anecdotal evidence, if this is representative of all Hooks' work then hard pass on that

>>23970089
32
Anna Karenina
So far so good, only about 200 pages in. Really liked the scene at the restaurant with the tryhard waiter. It could be because of the translation, but I find it to be more accessible than Dostojevski.

>>23970089
24
Dream of the red chamber
I like it
>>23970171
A woman wrote it
>>23970526
>>23970532
>>23970475
Why is everyone here so old :<

>>23970596
26
Drawing of Three
King might be an annoying fag on Twitter but I like what I'm reading.

>28
>Infinite Jest
I don't know what to think so far. I just finished Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment and I have no idea why that chapter was given that title. It seems to be an glimpse into the mind of a neurotic, 4chanoid goober, so I can see why /lit/ likes it. DFW's writing feels kinda joke-y, and the characters are obviously all meant to be ridiculous.

>>23970089
29
Firestarter
100 pages in and I like it just fine so far

>>23970089
feeeeeeeeeeet

>>23970628
26
Wikifeet
I like the Anya Taylor-Joy page

>>23970089
23
L'età fragile
I'm finishing it and it started pretty nicely, very sharp and drieect in its exposition. It got progressively worse because of its focus on the plot itself.

>>23970089
>32
>Children of Dune
>A revelation every other chapter it seems. a serious mind fuck.

>>23970089
23
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Long live the Republic of Costaguana!

>>23970089
21
The Claw of the Conciliator
I like it, but it is dense. I should've gone straight into it from the first but took a break for a bit.

>>23970089
>24
>Human, all too Human
I didn't realise that Nietzsche wrote mostly in aphorisms/short paragraphs rather than a more conventional coherent structure. Even though I've read Dosto before I struggle a bit with the language and terminology.

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>23
>the rise of theodore roosevelt
>the politicking is boring but his energy is infectious

>>23970596
>so old
When this aspect of the site began the average age of posters on this board was about yours now (Humanities majors and grad students ftmp) which, desu, is itself considered 'old' on most of the other boards except a relative few, e.g. /sp/.
Santayana, Persons and Places, v. 1
t. 40's, who checks in from time to time

>>23970253
You're just retarded.

>>23970596
KYS

>>23970089
>21
>Fear and Trembling
>Pretty good. I need to set aside some time over the next week to finish it. Gonna read Anna Karenina next. Looking forward to that

>>23970089
>34
>(Just finished) Master and Margarita
Very enjoyable, the more fantastical chapters feel like absolute fever dreams but are still easy enough to follow. Wish i had read it earlier in life.
Youth is wasted on the young, experience is wasted on the old. Both are wasted on me.

>32
>Crime and Punishment
>tfw no Dunetchka gf

>20
>stoner
>is it normal to feel this way at 20 years old

Nice arch. I would kidnap her and start the Trojan War for that arch

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>32
>Lacanian psychoanalysis : a clinical casebook
>I do not understand anything but I'm fine with this

>20
>Die Walkure Libretto
>Never has reading stage directions felt so grand. Listened to the music many times over before every actually learning the story. I like that it is essentially a series of intimate conversations between otherwise grandiose archetypal characters, yet still manages to live in an epic universe. Makes me want to learn German.

>>23970263
sry but dont all 16 year olds pass a phase of suidical ideation ?

>>23970089
30
I don't read
It's shit

36
Hel's Eight
Goes alright for a woman writer

>>23970337
when I reread it I'm going to order a second copy and cut the spine at the footnotes and then cut the remainder in half. no need to add the physical struggle when the brain is already doing PRs ya know?

>>23970108
>Here’s a summary of Cicero's Republic and Laws in five bullet points:

Philosophical Basis of the State:

In Republic, Cicero argues that justice and the common good are the foundations of a state. He presents the idea that the best government is a mixed constitution combining monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.
Virtue and Leadership:

A virtuous ruling class is essential for the stability and success of a state. Leaders must prioritize moral excellence and the welfare of the citizens over personal gain.
Natural Law:

Cicero introduces the concept of natural law in Laws, emphasizing that laws should align with universal moral principles derived from nature and reason rather than mere human decree.
Role of Religion:

In Laws, Cicero highlights the importance of religion and traditional Roman values in maintaining social cohesion and guiding ethical behavior.
Education and Citizenship:

Both works stress that an educated and virtuous citizenry is vital for sustaining a just and prosperous state, with emphasis on philosophy and rhetoric as tools for public service.

not worth reading.

>>23970089
>25
>Paradise Lost, I'm enjoying it quite a lot but not in the sense that I'm becoming immersed in it. It's very clearly a monument of achievement in a literary sense and I love to read Milton's prose but it just hasn't gripped me like I thought it would.
>Blood Meridian, having a blast with this one honestly, the desensitisation to the violence, the short blunt prose, interspersed with occasional snippets of really beautiful passages. Gonna check out McCarthy's other stuff after this.
>Ada, or Ardor; Whil I'm enjoying Nabokov's style in this particular novel, I think I may have jumped the gun. It seems like a Finnegan wake type of deal, like a c0da that I should read after most of Nabokovs other works so that I can really understand the themes and references.
>Lolita, my favourite book of all time, I reread it once a year at least, what more can I really say about it? You guys already know/have heard a thousand times before everything my midwit brain wring out of it.

>25
>Love in the time of cholera
Halfway through. Another lushly detailed and masterfully crafted banger from the Colombian master

>>23970089
>27
>Polostan by Neal Stephenson
It's just ok, it isn't a great historical story nor does it have good characters so I'm not sure what the point is. I've only ever read cryptonomicon by this author before and I liked it, saw this just came out and figured I'd give it a shot

>>23970089
22
The Book of Disquiet
I’m highlighting something on almost every page because it’s ludicrously good

this board is so fuckin dead now holy shit

>>23970688
Do you have any thoughts on the book?

>37
>Gulliver's Travels
>"hehe, funny politics opinions wrapped in travel fiction" (I have read lots of these by now)

>27
>the Catcher in the Rye
>man, those silent generation types were bored as fuck. Imagine being so bored you spend the entire book just asking for trouble all the time. I can't remember the last time I've been bored, probably during some class. I can have limitless fun on the tips of my fingers whenever I want. I don't even have to leave my bed to have more fun than those 90 year-olds had in their entire youth.

>>23970089
>30
>Time Shelter
It started off interesting but is getting progressively weirder and I have no idea where it's going. Depressing as fuck too.

>>23970089
>42
>The Last Man Takes LSD
>Foucault really fucked up the modern world

>>23970838
I never went to college and I’m over 40 myself.

>>23971973
I think we lost something when we lost that forced boredom. It seems like if you’re never bored then you’re never forced to acknowledge your self in an introspective way.

>>23971932
No one reads here

>>23971973
>>23972113
Only boring people get bored.

>>23970089
24
Re-reading The Recognitions
Genius, too complex and very comfy and funny at times.

>>23970089
Fuck those are some nice feet.

>>23971939
What do you want to know in particular?

>>23971932
>>23972530
Speak for your fucking selves, you myopic retards.

41
Herscht 07769 by Krasznahorkai
It's pretty funny so far but isn't grabbing me as much as some of his earlier ones. I have to wonder if Angela Merkel has read it (the plot is about this simple minded guy becoming convinced the universe is about to end after misconstruing a physics lecture and obsessively writing her letters about it)

31.
Vril.
If the book was released today, it would have been mocked for offering very little beyond dry worldbuilding. Considering when it was originally released, I assume it was supposed to be like those books about foreign cultures written by explorers and missionaries.

>32
>Suttree
>imagine if mccarthy wrote a cozy buddy sitcom

>27
>Crime and Punishment
It started off slow but now i'm about a third way through and throroughly enjoying it. I guess I expected a more overt and constant philosophizing, but the more apperant empahsis seems to be on psychology. I feel like some aspects of the book are lost on me through my own fault though, maybe I'm not being reflective enough of it's bigger picture.

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>>23970089
this and arsenic under the elms

>18
>W.J.F. Jenner translation of Journey to the West
I've been enjoying it. There are probably nuances I'm missing about Chinese history, Buddhism and Taoism, but I'm mostly in it for the whimsy.

>20
>Márquez's Collected Stories
>it's fun I guess

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>27
>To Live
It feels like Chinese Hemingway. The straightforward prose is endearing, emotional, and fits the rural setting. The Communists are depicted as embarrassingly clueless, even in the eyes of literal peasants, who carry on in spite of successive governments of bad leadership. In a way, that makes it feel very human. There's also a movie with a pretty actress which I'll watch after I finish the book.

>21
>The Road Less Traveled
It's pretty good, just trying to get pass the part where people have all these religion problems

>36
>The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
>just started it to test the waters to see if I want to read it now. The idea of 18th century Poland seems like something I would like as I enjoy books that transport me to a time or era I’m not too familiar with. I recently read her Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and I thought it was just okay. It was a quick read but wasn’t really what I was looking for. The idea of an eccentric tree hugging woman who’s into astrology and brings up William Blake a lot was pretty cool. Kind of reminded me of the movie Fargo in a way but more noir and quirky. The quirkiness sort of detracted for me but it was a really unique book. I’m hoping The Books of Jacob is more serious. The concept of a wide panoramic historical epic sounds intriguing

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>21
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Pretty good so far, I really like Alexey as a character

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>>23970089

the window-door frame itself is disdainful of this dumb bitch staging a photo. It is also disdainful of the apparent confusion over whether it is a window frame, or some sort of door.

>>23974132
Were you hoping it was a creepshot?

>>23974132
I saw some whores taking photos of each other today and it made me dislike women a lot. I wanted to spray them with a hose.

>>23974148
My Twisted World by Eliot Rodgers?

>>23971766
did Cicero ever consider the blacks?

>>23970089
>23
>the great gatsby
it's just okay until now, I'm almost halfway through. I think I'll finish it tonight.

>>23970089
>23
>evocations and talismans of the golden dawn
>I'm not sure just yet, let me get back to you after a few pages.

>>23970563
utterly poetic

>>23974111
>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
I read this recently too. I was expecting it to be really serious and depressing but I was pleasantly surprised at how witty and funny it could be.
>MC was the murderer all along
I honestly wrote off that possibility pretty early

29
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
It's surprisingly disgusting and predictably boring. I'll likely force myself to finish it. I'm not sure what the point of it is yet but the novel brims with spite - maybe it's because I'm in a bad place mentally but there's something almost nauseating about it that I can't put my finger on. I fear that the author does well capture the psyche of the young urban female and the archetypal personalities of art and finance bros, and I give her credit for a pretty brief but astute satire of modern art. Silver lining aside, what an ugly book so far.

you guys are old

>>23970089
Flaunting her pink feet—pedestrianward.
Eating twenty green grapes—as a reward.
Posing for pictures—not planned and not forced—
with a book, but not a single read word.

>>23974642
Terrible
*claps*

The last verse is WOAT level.

>>23974646
>west of all time
Thank you so much

>>23970593
All the Dostoevsky I’ve read feels like a fever dream so you’re not alone in that. I like it, but Tolstoy is definitely a more… palatable? style.

>31
>we who wrestle with god
>still worse than maps of meaning schizobabble

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>29
>Whirlwind by James Clavell
I really like it. Its the second book in the Noble House series I’ve read. Tai-Pan was first, I skipped Noble House for Whirlwind because I have been learning Persian.

>>23974446
I actually thought the ending was a good possibility. I don’t think it was a bad book I just wasn’t expecting what it was because I went in blind, and that type of book wasn’t what I was looking for. I can’t think of any book I read even remotely similar to it. It was like combination of genres and topics not usually seen together. I respect it as Tokarczuk made it work pretty seamlessly as a fusion

>>23970089
>52
>Cicero, De oratore
>just reading the introductory pages, but can already feel his style is making me very happy [first time I read Cicero]
Good thread.

21
Augustus by John Williams
Really like it so far, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and the book being an epistolary novel is interesting

>>23974132
>the window-door etc
It's probably an AI image

>32
>hard rain falling
Not in love with it so far. Dialogue is meh and I was hoping for richer settings. Maybe I find things like pool hustling inherently goofy, but it feel like it’s not as serious as it’s trying to be

>>23974132
You have autism.

>>23970089
35
Le hussard sur le toit
Neat

>>23970089
>20
>blood meridian
>not that far in it but enjoying it thus far.

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>>23970089
21
Last book was “the knowledge machine” by Michael Steven’s
Great book that explains the nature of scientific inquiry, but it probably could have been 20% shorter and still gotten the same information across.

28
Vineland by Pynchon
This would have gone hard for me if I was born 30 years earlier. I vaguely remember seeing something about someone saying he would watch Brady Bunch repeats for hours on end.

>>23974949
I picked up Gravity’s Rainbow by Pynchon but haven’t started it yet. I will have to give Vineland a try if I find a cheap copy.

>>23975118
NTA but when I went through my Pynchon phase as a young buck it was the only one I dropped. It felt like a bunch of deleted material gathered together to put out a book, not to mention I couldn’t stand the female ninja story which went on forever

>>23975124
Gravity’s Rainbow or Vineland?

>>23970089
>23
>Dune
>All fucking Harkonnens must fucking Hang

>>23975455
vineland dumbass there's no "female ninja story" in gravity's rainbow holy shit

19
Spring Snow, Mishima
It's not bad. I quite like the prose, but it isn't very engaging either.
I still don't see the point of the book, although I am only about 20% in.
My guess is that the book will be characterised by obnoxious ambiguity and a plethora of misunderstandings that could easily be avoided with just a tad of honesty.
I also predict that the mc will either kill himself because he didn't get what he wanted (due to the aforementioned), or he gets killed or involved in some kind of murder suicide plot as the result of adultery.
I want to finish the book, but it's kind of a drag and I'm only able to complete like 2 chapters in one sitting at most.
I'm contemplating putting it down and quickly reading through "A good man in Africa" just to entertain myself a little, to contrast the depressing broodiness of ss.

>18
>The Beach
>We're gonna escape from the embassy roof

>>23975455
I probably should have specified better but Vineland. It just felt like a book of random leftover material

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>>23970091
>>23970109
>>23970160
>>23970535
>>23970548
>>23974004
>>23975493
>>23975502
>I'm now the boomer (20)
make sure you get friends and have sex before you're a decrepit KHV elder who missed out on teen love

>>23975570
says you. I'm the oldest one so far at 42.

>>23975491
I haven’t read Gravity’s Rainbow yet so how the fuck would I know that? Kill yourself ASAP.

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29. I am re-reading The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk for the second time. I did a three month backpacking journey across Central Asia last year and read it before I went. Reading it again now makes me appreciate the sacrifices the men in the story made to explore the region. Highly recommend for anyone interested in the region.

>>23971766
Thanks blinkist. I just finished the book and would say it definitely is worth the read when considering external context. Cicero didn't really buy into Roman religion, however he did see it as useful for implementation of virtue among the vulgar people. The laws effectively detail what he considered to be the best forms for embedding virtue via religion and also constructs what he would consider an adequate religious hierarchy for it's purpose. The laws also outline a lot of Roman law that was in operation during that time, considering his occupation and impact on the Roman government we can observe what he thought to be beneficial to the people in terms of the mixing of constitution to ensure the appropriate freedom's for the states inhabitants. I quite enjoyed Scipio's dream too and thought it was relatively profound in the aspects of establishing the wise, virtuous man as the protector of his people and thus it being a reason for his being and existence among people instead of relinquishing oneself to death in the hopes of acquiring transcendency. Good stuff desu

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>>23975570
Most of those posts besides the spring snow one are exactly the kind of pointless, nothing to say opinions you’d expect from someone in that age and I don’t even say that to be rude because everyone as a teen was like that. There should really be an age limit to literature. Before a certain age it is just pointless. I mean the one guy didn’t even get the title of the book he’s reading correct (Flowers for Algernon).

>>23970089
27
salems lot
it's fun

>>23970089

26

How People Think (a psych textbook for teachers from 2000)

I think it's too optimistic about self-driven learning, but it's got good insight about the balance between rote memorization and cultivating a thought process with the information that's transferrable to different contexts and disciplines.

>>23970089
>33
>Giono's A King Alone
>Good, I originally thought the second half dragged on a bit but it was necessary for the ending in hindsight.

>>23974111
>The Books of Jacob

So I’ve continued reading it and so far am really liking it. It is a much more mature novel than Drive Your Plow, at least in concept and execution. At least so far. It is much “loftier” and there seems to be underlying themes that haven’t really emerged yet. It feels like Gnosticism is poking its head out. It doesn’t seem to be as quirky or funny as DYPOTBOTD. Tokarczuk portrays 18th century Poland as a meeting of cultures, religions, and languages. There is a hint of magic realism (I know it’s frowned upon here) where a dying (dead?) woman leaves her body and can view other happenings. It isn’t a huge plot device so far though

I’m like 60 pages in and the plot hasn’t really begun yet, which is a historical messiah figure who tries to unite Jews, Muslims and Christians. It’s a very sprawling novel taking you from person to person with a huge cast of characters. It’s a very “Jewish” book in the way that Joseph and his Brothers, more biblical than what anons stereotype Jewish writing as. There are hints of the Kabbalah and Zohar which I’m interested so I hope it goes more in depth. It’s a giant novel that starts at page 1000 and goes backwards down to 1 and Tokarczuk apparently put a ton of research into the book

>Ulysses by Joyce

Picked it up to reread on a whim and starting Nausicaa now. I’m not taking it as seriously and getting hung up on every reference or thing I don’t understand and it’s a much more enjoyable read than my past one. I forgot how funny Cyclops is. Love that chapter, especially the ending. Enough has been said about the book so no point in going on

>>23975731
>besides the spring snow one
Thank you for the compliment, I guess.
>age limit to literature
Not an age limit to read literature, but rather one to engage in discussion about it maybe?
>didn’t even get the title of the book he’s reading correct
To be fair, the book is written in a way that it's like a collection of letters (or progress reports), so I wouldn't blame him too much for misremembering the title in this manner.

>>23975599
No, this anon is 52:
>>23974855

>>23970089
>25
>Lucky Per
>Kino, I just wish Jakobe weren't a jew

>>23970089
30
The Time Machine
It's an ok read, there's an element of mystery. Let's see how things turn out

>>23970285
S?

>69
>Pedro Páramo
>It's like the third time I read it but the whole bleak hellish fever dream atmosphere always gets me. The deceptive simplicity of its prose is like nothing else I know.

>>23974862
are you retarded

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>21
>Dharma Bums by Keruoac
I like his spontaneous writing and ability to describe a soul of historic period. It's very entertaining to read. But all main characters are just bunch of idling idiots. Is it how teenage years should look like?

>>23977313
Do you have some proof that it is not AI? Do you have a source for this picture? The image has many signs that points to AI, in fact the picture hardly makes sense – do I really have to spell the details out?

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>>23977313
>>23977423

>>23977460
you are not very familiar with ai pictures if you think that's ai, there's not even 1 imperfection in it

>>23970089
>28
>Norwegian Wood
>This type of stuff isn't for me anymore

>derail thread with AI obsession autism

>>23971911
>Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he sees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.

>>23977310
Based late middle-aged contributor
Hope to achieve that year count with general health intact
>The Hatred of Music, Pascal Quignard
>40

>18
>the decline of the west
>half way through. very blackpillng and based

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>>23977617
>very blackpilling and based

>>23974862
it's a litttle bit too sophisticated to be AI.
There's cars in the background as well.

>>23977617
sounds about right

>26
>The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
Very quippy and flamboyant tone that borders homosexual but not quite. Very obnoxious when he starts listing analogies to make his point, it's rarely humorous though it's supposed to be and so I skip over the text every time he decides to waste ink doing so. At the minimum, it's a good cursory introduction to the history of modern art. He points out the irony between the subverted motive of the modern counter culture artist by the wealthy culture-making art exhibitionists, and later in the book, how modern art requires narration to make sense despite the deconstruction/removal of narrative elements from itself being cornerstone to the genre. I find the points salient. It's a tiny book so will finish it next chance I get to read.
>No Country for Old Men
What you'd expect from McCarthy minus the dramatic narration seen in BM. Enjoying it thus far.

>>23974132
welcome to britain

>>23975731
Garbage opinion. Tons of authors have written their most important works in their younger years. There should rather be an upper limit to get all the seniles outta here.

>>23970089
>29
>Crying of Lot 49 (for class)
Honestly just really speaks to me in terms of psychosis and/or obsessive relationships (I've known both in my early 20s). It's wild how far and deep human fancies can go:

"he might even have tried to survive death, as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy against someone he loved."

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>>23970659
>The Piano Teacher has no dialogues.
How am I supposed to cope?

>29
>Just finished The secret history by Donna Tartt
The novel really drops hard after Bunny's murder, but picks up near the end. The epilogue is nice. There should have really been more idyllic time before the murder. Characters are very bland, even the main character. Maybe that was the whole point, but it makes it difficult to care about any of them. Henry is the only one that actually stands out.

>>23970089
>23
>Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome
>It's good, but it's written for retards with no pre-existing knowledge in history

>>23970089
>26
>Manufacturing Consent
>intriguing because it manages to take the schizophrenic talking points of /pol/, focus it, and make a compelling argument for the existence of a genuine cabal of elites to brainwash the general populous
Never thought I'd like a book like this. What else should I read?

>>23970089
>23
>Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishirguro
>just finished part 1, so far it's just a pretty good plot, nothing profound or astonishing yet. It's also worth noting that I'm not super surprised by the twists in the plot because I already watched the anime "Promised Neverland" and immediately noticed huge parallels in the stories before the twist making the whole thing pretty predictable. It's pretty surface level so far. Can't say it's bad though.

>>23970089
>26
>Burmese days
>enjoying it so far. I find Flory quite relatable

>>23970091
frankenstein is great wth

>20
>Anna Karenina
>I love you Tolstoy. I dislike Anna a lot and Vronsky too but a little less. My favourite characters are Stiva, Karenin, Kitty and Levin

>>23977180
Didn’t see it, sorry

>>23970089
>24
>Fight Club
>Deranged, makes you feel like you have insomnia yourself. Good book.

>30something
>Absalom, Absalom!
Only on ch.3 but features a very compelling main subject in Sutpen. Previously I have only read Faulkner's TSATF which I found myself immediately immersed in and by the end the book had completely changed what I thought timeless, quality fiction was with it's technical prowess. A,A! on the other hand is more -normal- (?) in it's style of narration and dialogue. The sentences are steroidal in nature and will beat your brain into your fucking skull - requiring much more focus. Otherwise similar mind blowing prose and character relationships. Truly the legend of corncob.

>28
>The Recognitions
Probably gonna drop it, I have absolutely no idea wtf is going on. Does the following sentence even make sense?
>When questions of discipline arose, Gwyon’s face took the look of a man who has been asked a question to which everyone else in the room knows the answer.
Why would everyone else's knowledge have any bearing on his response? Unless it's presumed he knows everyone else knows the answer and thus feels self-conscious, but it's still a reach.

>>23970089
>25
Just finished
Seneca - on the happy life / on death &
Schrödinger - What is life
Heisenberg - Quantum theory and philosophy (all in german)

I love the connection of science (since I'm studying engineering and witnessing many very new physical appearances first hand in laboratories) and Philosophy as a whole. Everyone craves a connection to god, which is depicted in these three books. Especially seneca was a very comfy read to dive into, even more so after reading plutarch - alexander the great

>>23970263
Read the book to the end you dongus. It's not essentially about the process of dying, it's more about the expectations of society onto yourself and how you meet them. Even more so if meeting them will grant you a successful life, or if everything is just a farce. He got all the checkpoints of success, but still had a shit marriage.

>>23970091
i really liked it :(

>>23970089
>20
>Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
>used not like the idea of reading her in the past, but I have to see what the best of my country right now can do. So far, I'm totally absorbed

>28
Something Childish But Very Natural, Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

P

>>23981556
Wonderful short stories, full of Life, feelings and flowers. She's become one of my favourites, so good, give it a chance if you can

22 Okla Hannali Beautiful funny book. Pretends to bore you with detailed historical factoids then hits you with heartfelt pure gleeful moments or sad ones. I enjoyed Lafferty short stories a whole lot, they're blazingly fast and entertaining, and this feels a lot like them but in epic form. Recommed.

>>23970089
31
Lady Chatterley's Lover
I had high hopes for it, because I knew Lawrence was a based proto fascist, and I'm really liking it, but I was expecting it to be really obscene, and it's actually very classy. More than porn, it reads like a Nietzsche influenced parabole on losing our vitality to technology. Pretty great.

>>23981147
Best girl is Varenka. Your warned.

> 29
> Three Body Problem
> I hate the VR segments 90% of the time. Da Shi is carrying the story.