ITT share what books you are currently going through and discuss with others about theirs.This is my new batch that just arrived. I'm gonna get into them as soon as I finish my current book.
Koran, Hadith, Tafsir of Ahl al-Bayt.
>>24739728I'm currently struggling with Don Quixote.The book is very funny, but it's not the kind of book I'm always in the mood to read, and even when I read it, I stop after one hour or so. I think the episodic nature of it makes it a bit hard to read for longer periods of time.
>>24739728Alexander the Great by Philip FreemanNice overview of his life.
I just ordered the entire Nabokov bibliography after reading bits and pieces here and there. As usual, the coward in me went for the Italian translations even though I'd rate my English 6,5/10. Knowing the guy's position on women authors, it's funny how most of the Adelphi translations are female.
Critique of Pure Reason
>>24739728Peter Berger - Sacred Canopy. Not a bad read so far.
>>24739728Finished reading this, an examination of an executioner's life in the 1500s and those he executed. Unfortunately you don't get too much of the executioner's own thoughts on matters since he didn't write down much other than those he killed and what they did to break the law. But it does well in showing you the depravity of man and vaguely tells the story of how the executioner Frantz Schmidt regained his family's honor.This was after I finished reading a manga abut a samurai executioner (fictional), also highly recommend that. https://mangapill.com/chapters/3723-10001000/samurai-executioner-chapter-1
>>24739728Finishing The Sutra of Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vows because I'm halfway through the Labyrinth of the Demon King and I wanted to read some sutra about the Buddhist hells and also picrel because anon posted the standardbooks website and I have Fable and it uses standardbooks files for their free ebooks.The first one is Morrowind: Sutra Edition and the second one is Dark Souls: Baudelaire edition.
>>24739728Almost done with the Alexander book, very interesting and quite well written not dry at all, been reading The Manuscript Found in Saragossa out loud to myself because I'm scared of losing my Polish because I never speak it anymore, and the Vorrh I'm about a third through it and its probably the first time I've really enjoyed a fantasy/sci-fi type book since reading the solar cycle all the way through last year
>>24739728>I'm gonna get into them as soon as I finish my current book.sure you are
>>24739728A lot of your stack leans towards the Enlightenment. Any reason for this in particular?
>>24739728Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age by Peter HarrisonThe New Science of the Enchanted Universe by Marshall Sahlins Tragedy and hope: a history of the world in our time by Carroll QuigleyAll really good books
>>24739785How's that Sahlins? I heard somewhere he's a noble savage kind of guy but I want a second opinion.
>>24739769I gotta finish with Hume first, it's the last book from the previous batch. I'm slightly less than halfway through, I reckon I'll get through it this week.>>24739774I'm trying to take it in chronological order starting from the 18th century onwards, while also reading the classics and sprinkling in some more modern stuff or other books I hear about on /lit/ for extra variety. I got the Melancholy of Resistance because some Anon here recommended it.
>>24739769Think of how good they'll look on his coffee table, though.The guests will love 'em!
>>24739797I've probably read over 80 philosophy books or so i ended up mostly graduating to sociology, theology, history and psychology soon after.
>>24739728Divine Comedy
>>24739797>I gotta finish with Hume first, sure you do>it's the last book from the previous batchsure it is >I'm slightly less than halfway through, I reckon I'll get through it this week.sure you will
>>24740156Why would one buy a book that he does not plan to read?
>>24740179are you joking? people do this more often than not, especially people who post their "to read" stack rather than their "read" stack
