Especially if they are not banal choices like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, etc; so we could all discover some interesting books we might never have heard of.I'll start: 1) Civilization and Capitalism: The Structure of Everyday Life: 15-th18th century - Fernarnd Braudel. 2) Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis3) The Luneburg Variation - Paolo Maurensig4) Earth: An Intimate History - Richard Fortey5) River of Darkness - Buddy Levy
1688: the First Modern Revolution by Steve PincusEdward I: A Great and Terrible King by Marc MorrisConquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger CrowleyThe Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
>>24782050Infinite jestDucks Newburyport 1Q842666The books of Jacob 3/5 will be rereads but I count them anyways
>>24782050>>24782054Trying to hard I know you guys aren't actually having fun reading thesePersonally I've been wanting to readThe gears of war novelsExpanse seriesChoke chuck palahunikBastard out of Carolina Star wars path of destruction
>>24782050World Order - Henry KissingerWhite House Years - Henry KissingerAlbion's Seed - David Hackett FischerUnderstanding Media - Marshall McLuhanTekWar - William Shatner/Ron GoulartFor what its worth I have already started on both of the Kissinger books.
Fuck off with your data mining.
>>24782050RecognitionsVinelandSleepwalkersCanterbury TalesClarel
>>24782146Understanding Media is awesome, enjoySome stuff for me:- Nietzche and Philosophy- A Thing of this World: a history of continental anti-realism- American Lion- The Federalist Papers- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
In the Miso Soup by Ryuu Murakami L'illusion du bloc bourgeois: Alliances sociales et avenir du modèle français by Bruno Amable Dogra Magra by Kyuusaku YumenoTeatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti Le mal napoléonien by Lionel Jospin
>>24782075holy projecting manchild
1) The Idiot, dropped it after like 250 pages when life got busy2) Brothers Karamazov, same as above but after 1503) The Ancient Gods, some cool book on pre-historic religion I found4) Man and his symbols5) Zarathustra, read it out of order, bit by bit, now I want a full run through.
An Apology for Raymond Sebond - MontaigneSchopenhauer and Nietzsche - Georg SimmelWorld as Will and Representation - SchopenhauerConversations with Eckermann - Johann EckermannThe New Science - Giambattista VicoConsidering learning German. I just want to understand things.
>>24782050Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at WarA Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057Washington's CrossingA War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian WarEleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles>>24782054>1688: the First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus>The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526I want to read both of those>The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William DalrympleThis one is very good
>>247820501: The Orchard Keeper2: The Passenger3: Stella Maris4: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter5: MouchetteOn my southern gothic phase. The last one is probably the only lesser known book on the list; I watched the Criterion collection restoration of the Robert Bresson movie, and it got me interested in the book version and the author (Georges Bernanos).
>>24782050>Hunting Trips of a Ranch Man & The Wilderness Hunter - Theodore Roosevelt>Jardin de Flores Curiosas - Antonio de Torquemada >City of Bones - Martha Welles >The CIA as Organized Crime - Douglas Valentine >Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life - Philip Jose Farmer My current TBR list is 918 entries long.
>>247820501. The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth2. Rabelais and His World - Mikhail Bakhtin3. Rising Up and Risind Down (abridged) - William T. Vollmann4. Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon5. Love - Stendhal
>>24782050>LiteratureDivine Comedy - DanteParadise Lost - MiltonFaerie Queene - SpenserBook of Enoch (to understand Evangelion)Argonautica - Appolonius>Philosophy/othersPlato's Complete WorksAristotle's Complete Works (unlikely)Plotinus' EnneadsCritique of Pure Reason - Kant (unlikely)George Sandys' commentary on Metamorphoses and Wisdom of the Ancients - Francis Bacon (to understand what Ovid's getting at in Metamorphoses)
1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro2. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch3. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel4. Peter the Great by Robert Massie5. The Stories of John Cheever
>>24782075Please please be a joke.
>>24782050>1) Civilization and Capitalism: The Structure of Everyday Life: 15-th18th century - Fernarnd Braudel.Based. I recommend his other book “A History of Civilizations”.As for 5 book I want to read:A Secular age by Charles Taylor Esotericism and the Academy by Wouter J. HanegraaffThe Church Against the State by Andrew JonesThe Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt BaldwinFire in the Minds of Men by James Billington
>>24782376Interesting. I've read 4 of your 5, and the author of the one I haven't read is on my list:The Sociology of Money, SimmelAugustus, WilliamsBlonde, OatesKnickerbocker History of New York, IrvingTarr, Lewis
>>24782708>the author of the one I haven't read is on my listI've been reading the aforementioned book all morning and afternoon, and I realised he's a social scientist, an academic, and not so much a philosopher. He's not really doing metaphysics, but is attempting to consider the German metaphysicians in a civilisational context, which is not exactly what I was looking for. Plus, I'm not sure if it's the translation, but he has a really obscure writing style. I can't recommend it so far, frankly.What do you think of WWR and/or New Science?
>>24782050I have a pretty normie pending list, the only original one that comes to mind is El Criticón by Baltasar Gracián It's kind of a precursor of the Zarathustra
>>24782747Yeah but boring
>>247820501. Lucifers Hammer 2. War and Peace, unabridged 3. Demons4. 1634 Baltic Front or Polish Front5. Alexander I: Hero of Napoleonic Wars
>>24782050LolitaNos: The Book of ResurrectionThe Golden Thread: Esoteric Hitlerism Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsBeyond Good and Evil
>>24782075Maybe a troll, but I love reading history. I just want to know things, and I love the feeling of learning more about these topics. I don’t like reading fiction because it usually isn’t teaching you anything.
>>24782050The Secret History - TarttOblamov - GoncharovFathers and Sons - TurgenevCandide - VoltaireThe Black Tulip - Dumasr8
>>24782733Have you read Tocqueville's Democracy in America? WWR is structured in the very same way: a relatively small 'philosophical' section (pt. 1) then a bunch of illustrative essays (pt. 2). I preferred part 2.I loved The New Science though it's probably not for everyone, as it's pretty much a disorganized ramble. It's basically about the evolution of Law out of poetic thinking, and therefore it's a very speculative book. A modern equivalent is Julian Jayne's Origin of Consciousness from the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind. Vico supposably invented the discipline of sociology so you may want to avoid it if you're after more philosophical quarry.I've only read Simmel on Fashion and Urban Life ca very early 19th c Europe. Walter Benjamin got me interested in him via his Illuminations essays
>>24783605*early 20th c Europe, rather
>>24782467Nice list, anon
>>24782050ABC-CHCI-CZD
The Enigma of Arrival by VS NaipaulEnding Up by Kingsley AmisWolf Solent by John Cowper PowysCoriolanus by William Shakespeare Oblomov
>>24783605Thanks anon.In the copies of WWR I'm looking to buy, vol. 1 is 565 pages, and vol. 2 is 700. They both seem quite long?I'm looking forward to the illustrative essays as well. I've read his Essays and Aphorisms and I really, really enjoy his writing style. It's what initially got me into him to be honest.Would it be possible to skip directly to Vol. 2 if I have an understanding of his philosophy (and also Kant's) already?
>>247820505 books on my shelf that are "to read" during spook-season:1. "De Profundis" ~ O. Wilde2. "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket" ~ E. A. Poe3. "The Little Sister" ~ R. Chandler4. "The Secret History" ~ D. Tartt5. "Streets of Laredo" ~ L. McMurtry
>>24783216The Secret History is as pretentious as you can get. The characters are all unlikeable and unredeemable. Though I've never actually finished a book I've hated this much before reading The Secret History, so that's something going for it. It doesn't need much more of a review than that. Good luck with your read through.
>>247820501) It (reading now)2) Shining3) Discourses of Epictetus4) River of Doubt5) The Mountain is You
>>24783774>The Secret History is as pretentious as you can get.Have you ever considered that we like pretentious. . . and moreover that we want to be around 'the pretentious.' -- If we want to be around people with an aesthetic vision, we'll have to seek-out none other than 'the pretentious.'
Stenton - Anglo-Saxon EnglandMorris - The Anglo-SaxonsHigham, Ryan - The Anglo-Saxon WorldD'Amato, Pollington - Anglo-Saxon Kings and WarlordsKingsley - Hereward the Wake
>>247820501) What is to be done? - Lenin2) Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism - Lenin3) State and Revolution - Lenin4) Mao Tse-tung: 5 philosophical monographies - Big man Mao5) The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
>>24783869You have to be 18 to post here
>>24782054Are you me half a year ago? I read three of those books in the last months. I enjoyed the Hungarian history book the most as i knew literally nothing about it. 1688 was okayish. Edward I was well written for the detail he goes into, but the author sucked off Edward a bit too much for my tastes. He did paint a livid picture of the era though
>>24783869uhh based alert?
1) Carthage must be destroyed - Richard Miles2) El Narco - Ioan Grillo3) Princes of the Yen - Richard Werner4) The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz5) South from Barbary - Justin Marozzi
