What are you reading currently? Are you enjoying it? What do you plan to read next?
The Book of Leviticus. Yes. The Book of Numbers.
a book about Saint Francis by an Italian historian
I'm reading Struggle for Empire. It's a book about Louis the German. It's pretty fun actually, I thought it'd be more of a drag but as my first book on the Carolingians outside of Charlemange it's actually really clear. Next I'll be reading Marco Polo and then finish off Plutarch's lives.
>>24818226Currently reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it. To be vague enough, I'm currently at the part involving Hopton Stoddard. Ayn Rand can be a bit wordy, sometimes too much, but she's definitely a great writer. I love the characters in this book.
>>24818226Reading The Cossacks by Tolstoy and Buddhas Little Finger by Pelevin. I'm only 30 pages into the cossacks but I'm enjoying it so far. Buddha's Little Finger is really good. It's my first Pelevin and it's fantastic. I have omon ra which I haven't read and I'd also like to read genreation p as well.As for the next book I want to read it'll probably be The Map and the Territory by Houellebecq. Got a really nice edition of it off ebay the other week. Been a long time since I read him so I look forward to it
story of your life by ted chiang. Only halfway through so far. babylon was good, spooky alien octopi with non-chronological thought and language was good, the chuuni big brain duel was not, humans ending in five generations had some neat ideas but execution was eh.
>>24818230No way you’re enjoying Leviticus, what do you like about it?
>>24818253I like learning about the laws and will of God. Of course, knowing in hindsight many of these Laws are not to be obsessed over due to Christs covenant and teaching.
>>24818226wheel of time 7yes I'm happy to have beaten the sixth one because it went on foreverWheel of time 8
>>24818255>I love reading about things that are completely irrelevant and serve no purpose or functionSounds like fun
>>24818259Anything that broadens my understanding of my faith has purpose and function.
>>24818265Fair enough
>>24818226>Argonautica (Francis Fawkes)Actually pretty fun. You can see the parts Virgil imitated from Appolonius>Bible or Divine ComedyI'm not sure if I should finish the Bible first or get straight into Dante, which itself I only plan to read because I want to get into Paradise Lost
>>24818226Gravity's Rainbow. It might be the best novel I've ever read, possibly beating Moby-Dick in my personal ranking. Sleepwalkers (Broch)
Currently re-reading "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau.>Bonaparte's may talk of the three o'clock courage in the morning, but it is nothing to the courage to sit down cheerfully at the same hour in the afternoon over against one's self whom you have known all morning, to starve out a garrison to whom you are bound by ties of sympathy.I like this quote.
>>24818226Dialogues and Essays by Seneca, which my cousin got me for my birthday, Selected Stories from Katherine Mansfield, and Armance by Stendhal. The first two are enjoyable, naturally, but Armance is the weakest Stendhal I've read yet. I'm reading Belly of Paris by Zola next.
>>24818394This is not to be interpreted as a broader defense of Sartre
>>24818226Currently I am reading the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin, specially book 4, a feast for crows. After I’m finished with the series (which has been great so far by the way), I was thinking about picking up some Ancient Greek histories that I have avoided because of their length (Herodotus)
>>24818226Currently reading Wuthering Heights and I'm really enjoying it. Not sure what I'll read next, but I've been thinking about either something by Machado de Assis or something "spooky" for Halloween.
>>24818611>After I’m finished with the seriesAnon...
>>24818226haha OP I love froggo XD
Currently reading Considerations On France by de Maistre. I feel a bit late to the party, since it was "hip" to read it when NRx was first becoming a thing back in 2014. But I'm really enjoying it so far. It's surprisingly unromantic; de Maistre is actually pretty cold-blooded and hard-headed, not given to flights of fancy like I'd think a right-winger would be. For that reason I'm really enjoying it.Probably going to reread Macbeth next. I like to read short works in between long works, and after finishing de Maistre, I'm going to go with a Shakespeare play before I tackle my next big book.
I got memed into reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. It is boring and none of the arguments make sense.
Hello to the guy reading Seneca. So few concerned with elementary knowledge. Aesop, Gracian, Seneca, Epictetus. yuck at these selections.
>>24818226 Shadow Ticket by TP. Yes. Florida Palms by Joe Pan.
>>24818226A collection of Stephen Crane's works. I'm halfway through Maggie, and I'm enjoying it so far. I'm not sure what to read next, maybe Madame Bovary.
The Stand, I’m in part 3 and I’m enjoying it.I’m thinking Shakespeare’s complete works next but idk.
I'm rereading The Shards
>>24818226>What are you reading currently?Spring Snow and The Philosophy of Art(Stephen Davies)>Are you enjoying it? Yes, but I really hate people who are dishonest with themselves, I have a hard time relating to/understanding Kiyoaki in that sense.I had hoped The Philosophy of Art would focus more on aesthetics as for some reason everyone says "Philosophy of art and aesthetics are the same". However, it is much more about the definition of art as opposed to understanding aesthetics. It is still interesting thoughbeit.>What do you plan to read next?Maybe On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger.
Finished Flowers for Algernon. Decided I'll blow my brains out if I ever realized I got dementia.
>Current read Shadow Ticket! >Are you enjoying itSo far, yeah! It’s goofy and it’s silly, it’s fun! I gotta go back and re-read that part in the beginning where Hicks meets w the medium lady. >Its easy to interact with things outside ourselves. >Sometimes “fate” or the future or whatever intervnes. >Next Up? The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
>currentlyFry the Brain>EnjoyingGets slightly repetitive, currently on the DC Sniper chapter which I think is more what I expected. The war chapters are very biased. Seems to have recently been removed from archive org.>nextSecond Skin by Hawkes or Swift to Chase by Barron. I've read the latter's Imago Sequence Occultation which were great spooky runs. Nothing by the former.
>>24818226>What are you reading currently? A Series of Unfortunate Events, currently on book 6>Are you enjoying it?Surprisingly yes. Started reading it because I was looking for kids books I could recommend to my little niece but this series turned out to be surprisingly fun to read for adults too.>What do you plan to read next?Not sure. A few weeks ago an anon recommended Peter Sloterdijk's The Art of Philosophy and I've been interested in giving it a read
Currently Dracula. Pacing is a bit too slow for my liking. The death of one of the characters dragged longer than it needed to and a lot of time is wasted with character constantly praising each other. I still enjoyed it for what it is; it's nice to read the original story. Apparently Stoker later reedited the novel and the second version is 15 percent shorter which might be better.
>>24818226I last finished House of the Sleeping Beauties. I'm perusing Apollodorus and Hyginus after having recently finished the Odyssey, but I wouldn't say I'm reading them cover to cover. I'm going to start The Night Land by Hodgson in the next few daya
>>24818226I'm reading Northanger Abbey because it's supposed to be a satire of Gothic novels and it's October. It sucks ass.
>>24821085Next one will be Fiasco by Stanisław Lem. I enjoyed Solaris and Invincibe and I heard Fiasco is as good as Solaris.
>>24818226I am currently reading The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. I love Robertson Davies, and I will never forgive my country for abandoning him as our man of letters in favour of Margaret Atwood. I'm planning on reading Pickwick Papers in the lead up to Christmas, but might start something else first.>>24818242I find some of her plotting nonsensical and her 80 page monologuing court scenes are a bit much, but I do like how she writes about art.>>24818364The Argonautica is interesting, especially in how different Jason is among other epic heroes. If you want more obscure epics, try the Dionysiaca.
>>24818226Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance>Are you enjoying it?At times, sure. He seems very long winded and could get to his points (if I'm understanding them correctly) a lot quicker. I'm 300 pages into it but I've lost all desire to continue reading it and I'm not sure I will.>What do you plan to read next?I started Shadow Ticket before Zen but that hasn't really been grabbing my attention either
>>24818226>What are you reading currently? Volume 5 of Gibbon.>Are you enjoying it? I read the preceding four volumes of Gibbon. What does that tell you?>What do you plan to read next?Volume 6 of Gibbon. What do I win?
>>24818226Slow learner by Pynchon and Recognitions by Gaddis. Slow learner is fun but I find Pynchon a bit frustrating to follow (not just these early stories of his). He can be a bit heavy on jargon which kills my interest. I was disappointed by 'Entropy', a concept I understand very well. He makes it into something it isn't. Chaos != Entropy.It's charming in a way I suppose, him swining his intellectual weight around. I see it mostly as stories of a young men finding their way between the sterile order and exhausting chaos. A battle between indifference and the longing to care for something.Gaddis, I've only just begun, we'll see.Next will be some Borges and Saunders I suppose.
>>24821302>I was disappointed by 'Entropy', a concept I understand very well. He makes it into something it isn't. Chaos != Entropy.Isn't that the story where the temperature stabilises? Isn't that what entropy does?
catcher in the rye, yet to read about rye fields
>>24821357That is one portion of it, I feel like there's a lot of thermodynamic parallels he's attempting at the same time. The two apartments mirror open and isolated systems. The party sort of serves as accumulated heat dissipating, a radiation of heat. Whereas the closed system is stale and dead, steady state. As for entropy, no temperature stabilization is not really entropy. It follows from entropy but it is reductive in a quite banal and naive way. Entropy is merely the systems drive towards its most probable configuration. With heat, I heat you up, you heat your neighbour up until we are all in equilibrium, it's more so the 0th law of thermodynamics than the 2nd.
>>24821414This is why chaos gets confused with Entropy, chaos is likely, order can only be made in so many ways... symmetry can only be achieved in so many ways, chaos is infinite.
Gorky's "Three of Them". Got the book in one of those "donate a book, get a book" boxes. It's my first work by him and I do like it but I plan on going back to Dostoyevsky afterwards. Either Brothers Karamazov or Demons
>>24818226William Blake's Collected PoetrySome interesting stuff there but it's a slog to read without his art, still going to finish it because I don't want to leave the book halfway through.After I finish it, I'm getting into Alejo Carpentier. Don't know which novel though.
>>24818226Historia Brittonum. Online sources are conflicted when Nennius lived while an opening preface refers to the year 858 in the reign of Merfyn Frych, who apparently died in 844 according to the Annales Cambriae. Meanwhile, there's every clue that he actually lived two centuries earlier in the 7th. A letter referring to a fire and a man named Nennius listed among the survivors, a first edition book reportedly written in the 630s, and the last writer he lists as inspiration is Isidore- probably of Seville who lived around that time. As for his history, it is refreshing after leafing through the lamentations and British hatred held by Gildas and the two-faced approach of Bede, who runs cover for his little rats just because they're in the same church as him, and refusing to write history about major figures because they were pagan (his own words).Nennius is more organized and actually covers the ancient stuff too. Next I'll finish a full reading of Annales Cambriae, then a few works of churchmen who reference mythological heroes of Britain, and after that the History of the Kings of Britain.
Reading The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco Pretty trippy but not too spooky so far. Kind of enjoying the surreal atmosphere though. I will probably read The Wine Dark Sea by Robert Aickman next.
>>24818226pepe alert !!
>>24819577I'm cooked.But have you considered reading it in tandem with some guides? That's what I plan to do.
>>24821401you'll get there dw
Sodom and GomorrahIt's gay and ragebaiteyThe next book I guess
The Wheel of Time book 1, “The Eye of the World”Yeah it’s good, Robert Jordan knew all about the roastie problem. It’s incelkino.The Wheel of Time book 2, “The Great Hunt” and subsequent books in the series
Augustine's Confessions.It's pretty interesting as a window into how people lived in this time period. The constant asides of 'oh my god my god you are so awesome and I am so lame' make it feel like a parody of itself.
finishing up baudrillard's screened out
>>24818226I'm reading The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux and Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo. I'll probably read John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor after I'm done with these
Currently reading picrel. Enjoying it so far as something different and something that's been on the shelf since high school. Thought it would be more attempted and failed interaction between groups rather than just violence, but it still makes sense and im liking it.Next is either Redwall or All The Pretty Horses. Nobody I've talked to IRL knows about Redwall which surprised me a bit, but would love to hear if people consider a worthwhile read as a sort of break from denser stuff.>>24818256>>24822948Two WoT people in here as well, I got through book 4, The Shadow Rising last year, should I pick it back up/is it worth getting to when Sanderson takes over (which I've heard is a reasonably strong finish)
can someone redpill me on the religion about me i dont know anything about it and im too lazy to pay my brazilian hocus pocus spirtual leader $500 for an instance
>>24818226python for finance was lit by yves
