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Crying of lot 49
Slop and waste of time desu. Might be the first and last Pynchon for me; are any of the others worth it?
> you are not smart enough
Wrong. Apart from the "difficult" writing, I feel like I'm reading teen fiction

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Once and Future King
I liked it a lot when I was younger and wanted to read it again. Still enjoy it.

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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: Alphabetical Collection
God have mercy

The Great Gatsby (finished yesterday)
Nice dreamy love triangle novel

12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation
(Chapter 7: Obedience)
Yeah, I'm just not gonna give a fuck about votign anymore. Didn't matter anyway and might as well take the will of god.

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Darconville's Cat
Thought it was just gonna be over hyped owing to its reputation but man this book is good. Beyond its humor and the beauty of the language, the way it examines darconville's interior life is so thorough yet it never seems to take up too many pages. Something about how Theroux describes his impulses of love and intellectual searching, this book does so many different things at once and it never manages to lose the throughline or the attention of the reader.

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The Cyborg Tinkerer
My girlfriend got it as a joke, and while it's shit, I can see the appeal in that. I'd sooner read it again or the other books in the series than I would touch The Crying of Lot 49 like that poor guy. >>24824370

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currently reading Plato's Dialogues, American Indian Stories, Sufi Path to Love/Rumi, and Marx's early writings in response to Feurbach and Hegel.
I think Socrates was an amazing person in some ways, Zitkala-Sa is a wonderful author, Islam gets a bad rap, and Marx misses the mark on Idealism but has some great criticisms of capitalism. I enjoy Marx's grounded/man-for-himself parallel of necessary revolution as a response to irreconcilable socioeconomic conditions in relation to Hegel's dialectical pathway for consciousness/self-consciousness's self-education and absolute transcendence through sublation

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Roots
It's written so fucking poorly.

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my book
decent first effort. probably needed professional editing. author likely has no future as a professional writer.

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No real book right now. I have no idea what to read. Nothing seems appealing. I start falling asleep when trying to start most books. I wish there was something as addicting as manhwa/webtoons I could read.

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Mistborn
Its great. I like the magic system. I like the setting. I have on complaints, and I don't get the hate. Maybe I'll see it once I get deeper in. I read The Emperor's Soul at the beach over the summer. That was the most mediocre book I've ever read, but Mistborn blows it out of the water. Hopefully Sanderson can keep his shit together in the next books.

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Metamorphoses, Garth translation
Wonderful. The Bacchus stories are peak. Ovid is a bit weird, though, in what he spends time detailing. I'm on Book 7 and Jason just slayed a dragon, the whole thing being covered in 20 lines. Then he asks Medea to make a potion of youth for his dad, and it's like 300 lines.

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>The Sound and The Fury
This is the first Faulkner novel i’ve ever read, and at first I found his style to be quite disorienting, especially the Benjy section. But it has been quite an interesting experience, piecing the story together from little snippets of memory feels as if I am wiping away the dust from a mirror to reveal the surface beneath, Benjy and Quentin’s sections especially, being able to contextualise old information when new information feels like a fun reward

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Chekhov’s selected stories
He is a wonderful writer. I’ve enjoyed every story so far save one. Looking forward to reading more by him.

>>24824550
nice, anon. Quentin's section is peak writing for internal turmoil

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The Crossing
Sobbed at the end of the first section. Been slow burning for a while but can see it building and expecting to sob again

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>>24824527
>Hopefully Sanderson can keep his shit together in the next books.

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Wuthering Heights
It's quite good, devoured volume 1 in about two days. Going through 2. A rather violent and dismal novel, though, and so far I don't think it'll exceed Jane Eyre for me.

>>24824573
IU detected

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The Two Towers
I'm enjoying it. The Frodo and Sam chapters are boring, but everything else is engaging.

>>24824370
Funny because I'm
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Crying of lot 49

I read inherent vice and now I'm reading this. His writing does pull me in but I feel like I'm maybe missing things. Idk inherent vice (the movie) I love and have watched many times but I still feel like I'm missing things from that, same with that book. It seems like that's sort of the point but also not. I really like his writing style and I think some of the bits that PTA emphasized from IV by making them Joanna Newsom voiceovers that I basically have memorised, crying of lot 49 is making me realise how much I enjoy his style.

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Three actually: Varieties Of Religious Experience by William James
The Kings Two Bodies by Ernst Kantorowicz
Books Of Blood volume 1 by Clive Barker
So far so good on all three, but I have to read more so I'll say later

>>24824312
>lust provoking image

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Norwegian Wood
I like it, very comfy read.

>>24824312
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Struggle for Empire
Learning about the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century is a lot of fun. I've read about Charlemagne but never his son or grandsons. I thought the civil wars would be worse but it's only really (so far) the wars under their father Louis the Pious and right after he died. Then so far 15 years of an uneasy peace.

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The Mirror and the Light
Loving it, thought the pacing is much more glacial than Bring up the Bodies

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Soldiers Live (Black Company #9)
I really enjoyed this series more than I initially expected. Not far into the currently last one, seems a bit tame so far but not dull.

What book is she reading? It looks interesting.

>>24824312
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Swallows by Natsuo Kirino
very different than the other three things I've read from her. Grotesque is still a cut above the rest. Enjoying it for what it is, and it's funny in some sections.

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Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassaunt
Very fun read

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Dracula
Kinda fun read. A tad slow at the start. I wasn't expecting it to be in a 'journal' format.

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>>24824370
Huh
>28,
>Also lot 49
It's fun but also feels like very much a product of its time. Pynchon being aware of mk ultra as it was happening is interesting but the story and characters are just shallow enough that they feel like a college freshmans gateway to postmodernism.
It's also really hard to not read Metzger as Lionel hutz
7/10. Don't regret it at all but it's less than I expected.

>>24824312
>33
> Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
>I'm Catholic and I think this woman was incredible. She deeply understood the faith. She talks about grace in a way I haven't seen before. You can ignore all the bad reviews on goodreads saying she's depressing. They don't get it.

>24
>God Emperor of Dune

I’m enjoying it with the awareness that it’s not actually a great novel like the first book in the series. It’s a little masturbatory at points but the concept is awesome and some of the dialogues between Leto and Duncan/Moneo are cool

>>24824527
you're a 37 year old guy reading a book for teenage girls kek

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>>24824312
this image is sus

>>24825125
He needs to be more popular. I have a big volume of all his short stories and they’re great.

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>picrel
>it's good lol. Love the kitties and the dreamlike quality

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The Red and the Black, Stendhal
I'm only 60 pages in because uni is busy, but it seems right up my alley.

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Nothing currently, just finished Wuthering Heights and I'm not sure what to read next.
I really enjoyed Wuthering Heights and it became one of my favorite classic books, the writing, the atmosphere and the characters were all very good. The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff was well written, and I really, really liked how unhinged Heathcliff became. The ending and the parallels between their relationship and Cathy/Hareton was also very sweet, and I enjoyed the romance plot a whole lot more than I expected to.
I got interested in more Gothic stuff after reading WH, so maybe I should read Dracula or another gothic novel next?

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A Feast For Crows

GRRM is underrated as a technical writer. Also the prologue is multiple puzzles wrapped in each other and I bet almost nobody noticed it beyond the obvious.

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Thomas Legotti - Grimscribe
kino weird horror lit.
i like legotti's writing style as he is a master of description and he makes it easy to grasp what he is trying to convey in the writing without explicitly spoon feeding you dense narrative.

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Bakemonogatari
Love the name, first time reading the novel. The dialogues are funny.

>>24824312
Those feet

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Wuthering Heights
Having a good time with it, pacing is a bit slow at times but it’s the nature of the book so I’m vibing with it.

>>24826134
Damn didn’t see you posted this before I posted mine but yeah any other gothic literature recommendations would be great.

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Letters of William S. Burroughs
The man was based.

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>Age
30
>Current Book
Shadow Ticket!
>Thoughts?
It’s fast and fun. Very music-centric. Idk I can’t help but shake the feeling that it’s a clever R*ddit person’s impression of Pynchon. All the elements are there- shitty songs, conspiracies, nods at the supernatural and all that- but the level of writing is considerably lower than the others I’ve read (which is only CoL and GR, and a bit of Against the Day). The bit in the beginning of GR where he traces Slothrops’ lineage and discusses Fate- the pointlessness of the war, comparing the arc of a rocket falling to the hand of God, the hand of Providence- it literally moved me to tears the first time I read it. There’s nothing like that in Shadow Ticket.
>Everyone sleeps with everyone and the good guys are just mirrors of the bad guys!
>It’s all very complicated and there’s converging and diverging interests and spies and crime!
Again, it’s fun. But he doesn’t give you a whole lot to chew on- and the fact it’s so devoid of substance made me skeptical that he actually wrote it. The critics of “there’s not much there” are actually right, but not for the reason they believe.

>>24824312
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>The Blood of The Fold
It's OK, I guess. Third book in the Sword of Truth series, so things are getting a bit repetitive and it's also really easy to guess what's going to happen forget on in the book. I think street this in hoping to go back to the Expanse series. I'm currently on book 3 of that one as well.

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shadow of the torturer
there's probably a lot going over my head but it's not as daunting as i was led to believe. maybe it helps that i read the latro series and wizard knight before.

>age
none of your business
>current book
none of your business
>your thoughts on it
none. of. your. fucking. business.

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Mirror's Truth (Manifest Delusion #2)
Fucking loving it, I can't have enough of it

>>24824312
>33
>Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann
>Just over 100 pages in and I highly regret starting this even though it is objectively good.

I had a lot of issues with The Magic Mountain as well, but found myself being overall very impressed after I was done with it, despite all of the unbearably slow passages spread throughout.

>>24826286
I haven't read a lot of them, but I made a list of books I do want to check out.
https://youtu.be/z4c8I0S9kho
This video is very good, and it basically tracks the evolution of the genre from Ann Radcliffe until more subtle gothic influences in works like And Then There Were None and 1984. I want to check out works like The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. Also I've heard good things about Michael McDowell's Blackwater series.

>>24824390
>might as well take the will of god
dangersouly close to fatalism there

>>24825569
kek

>>24824312

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Paradise Lost

I'm enjoying it, but I'm having trouble parsing through it. I've read classics like "Frankenstein" and others in less than a week, but I'm only halfway through this, and it's already been two weeks. Not sure why I'm struggling.

>>24825233
>> Everything that Rises Must Converge
cocks rising... oh no they are converging

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>>24826586
bro really waited 120 seconds and solved a captcha to post nothing

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Schopenhauer in general
The Will moved me to to hate women professionally.

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>>24824312
>age
22 ans
>current book
"De Profundis" ~ Wilde
>your thoughts on it
Fundamentally arresting; a sort of rapturous pause.

>>24827217
Based

>>24824312
>32
>long drawn non-fiction articles on city states, a burgeoning technocracy, global governance etc.
>

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>age
31
>current book
"The Girl Who Played With Fire"
>your thoughts on it
Overall I like the series, the second one started off strong considering it's crimi-slop but I'm struggling to keep reading it regularly. Overall my weakest reading year in the last decade so far.

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Anna Karenina
A little too good. I think I peaked in my literature experience too early