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I finished Mysteries by Hamsun recently better than Hunger
>>25000737I always thought Hunger was one of Hamsun's worst books. It's not terrible, it's just not as good as Growth of the Soil, which is excellent.
Just finished Wuthering Heights. I understand people who think that Frankenstein was written by a man, but this novel was told almost entirely through maid gossip with an approach to romance clearly from the feminine perspective, so I'm not convinced by the people who say a woman didn't write it.Next read is finishing the Monkey Wrench Gang, as well as finishing Why Nations Fail
>>25000719I'm halfway through picrel (10/10 book btw, literally best prose from an american author I've ever read).I finished one of the Amichai Yehuda's poetry collections, and the two volumes of Louis Royo's Dead Moon.
>>25000719>reading your own body weight in "nonfic" /x/
>>25000765Go back to r*ddit you worthless fag
The original Conan stories.
>>25000719I'm at the 100th page of this book and it's dogshit. Does it get good ? I fell in love with "the dream of a ridiculous man" and I wanted moar, but man this book is just a super slow story about a drunk and it's kids ? Is there anything more to it ? If not I want my money back Fydor !!
>>25000719You should check the CIA UFO papers by Dan Wright, OP.>>25000779Based.
>>25000786I've also started this shit, and (not to flex kek) I have a literal PhD in robotics engineering, I'm well versed in the technical shenanigans and historical engineering parts of this book, but the way this faggot writes is unbearable to me. Why every "it's the best book of it's time" is dogshit ? Am I the retard ?
>>25000786I've almost finished this one too, I audiobook. The energy machine is genius, but the story gets boring very quickly.
Finished picrel yesterday. Absolute kino, though my favorite of Llosa's work is still The Feast of the Goat.
>>25000786i dropped this one at page 500 because it kept repeating themes as filler.
>>25000774>Starts talking about the most conformist website ever when he spots someone who doesn't conform to /lit/'s board cultureHow ironic.Maybe you should go back there, you filthy NPC. Gook moot might as well substitute you with a fucking bot, it would make no difference.
>>25000828Like what ? Elaborate I don't want to waste my already limited time
>>25000810you will enjoy this one. it takes place in colombia.
>>25000719Now I get why people who read books were called nerds
>>25000799Yes. Go back to playing video games.
>>25000719>The New Roman Empire: Attempts to make the case that Byzantium is an extension of Rome>Heart of Europe: Discusses the Holy Roman Empire's history by concept rather than chronology. >Clark Ashton Smith short stories: Just got into him after reading pretty much everything Lovecraft.>Robert D Howards Conan: Just now on Red Nails and have a few more after that.>The History of the Kings of Britain: I'm convinced Geoffrey included historical details that actually do line up with the Roman histories by Zosimus and Orosius.Have some new books coming but I don't know if I'll get to them.
this is what I'm currently reading
>>25000922projecting much ?
>>25000883What even is this anon? Image search does not bring up any books
>>25000719Reading a lot of Murakami right now. Something about his books is just so comfy.
>>25000928>>The New Roman Empire: Attempts to make the case that Byzantium is an extension of RomeLol it was always Rome.
>>25000799>I have a hecking literal PhD>doesn’t know the difference between its and “it’s”Your credibility is shot, unc.
>>25000953Murakami is FUBU for those with an extra chromosome.
>>25000719impressive chudstack
>>25000719That's a good stack to get inspiration for writing weird fiction. Lovecraft read theosophical literature, didn't believe but took elements from it.
>>25000967The author calls Byzantium "Romania", which I think is just confusing for most people. My own opinion is that you're both full of it. Leo 1st is the first Roman imperial representative to use Greek for administrative practice and he does so in the 5th century AD. The language split between Leo I and Justinian in the 6th are what culturally divide the empire because the common weal cannot converse regularly, leading to division, not to mention the amount of translation then required. Byzantines also had mutilation culture, mass imported Armenians and easterners to replace its rapidly declining population, and even though it's legal basis carried over in large part comparatively speaking, the rise of Orthodox Christianity and the later severance with the Catholic church led to increasingly unique identification. For me it's language and we can point directly to 476 AD as the official rise of Byzantium.
>>25001035NTA but it comes off as pathetic that you probed that post for the smallest out of place comma. Out of all the grammatical problems on this board and you picked him because he mentioned a credential, in a place where people come to shitpost. You reek of envy. Besides, robotics engineers don't need to write. They need to work out logic gates and maybe do some math. Writing technical instructions is for other guys.
>>25000719An 11th century Persian romance about Chad and Stacy cucking an old king. Every character is a horny retard. Pretty good.
>>25001142>doesn't know the difference between a comma and an apostrophe
>>25000967>Lol it was always Rome.Not in any way that matters.
>>25001161I have four tabs open and you're at the bottom of my debate list right now. Say something provocative and you'll get proper attention
>>25000719I'm hoping to spend this year getting through Kant. I'm really excited. :)
>>25000942oh sorry, you wll have to wait a week or two
>>25000719My bedside stack at the moment.
>>25000719Reading Theodor Mommsens' five volume history of Rome. Its a bit hard to follow.
>>25001168I accept your concession
Right now I'm reading Armance, Stendhal (Critical Lives), Poèmes en prose and the New Penguin Russian CourseI may continue reading Stendhal or I might stopI am thinking of reading Flaubert, Maupassant, André Gide, Aymé, Fontaine, Molière, Giono, Colette and Daudet
>>25000719My priest friend has been urging me to read this for over a year so I think I'll finally start it after I finish my current book about Roman coinage. Fr. Knox is a good writer but 650ish pages about Early Modern Catholic heresies seems a bit dense...
>>25001675What's the one with the blank spine?
>>25001882A journal/notebook.
1)I FOMO'd in on the booktok trend. I'm really curious.2)Slopwell is a hack and I feel gaslighted.
>>25000799>Why every "it's the best book of it's time" is dogshit ? Am I the retard ?No, you're not retarded: his cardboard characters and whoopee cushion sense of humor is very polarizing. The book does have interesting things to say if you can push through that.
>>25002124You are such a cucked faggot.
>>25000786I like it, but it doesn't change. If you don't like it now, you aren't going to like it later
>>25001675I've read most of these but I could re-read them again.
I am going to read all Nabokov's english works in chronological order.
>>25002760Why not in order of popularity?
>>25001638Buy an ad faggot.
>>25002763chronological because Nabokov's writings are like a puzzle. Within his works are hints at his own abuse
>>25000786Just started this one too lol, I don’t know I’m hooked, I like Fyodor’s character in a grimey sense.
>>25000719performative OP
>>25000719
It's finally time
>>25000786>I keep thinking--from time to time, of course, not all the while. It's impossible, I think, for the devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die. Then I wonder--hooks? Where would they get them? What of? Iron hooks? Where do they forge them? Have they a foundry there of some sort? The monks in the monastery probably believe that there's a ceiling in hell, for instance. Now I'm ready to believe in hell, but without a ceiling. It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is. And, after all, what does it matter whether it has a ceiling or hasn't? But, do you know, there's a damnable question involved in it? If there's no ceiling there can be no hooks, and if there are no hooks it all breaks down, which is unlikely again, for then there would be none to drag me down to hell, and if they don't drag me down what justice is there in the world?if you can read shit like that and NOT get invested in it then yes, just stop reading.you either love ole dosty or you hate him
>>25004572dostoyevsky is an aquired taste but if you like brothers karamazov you'll probably like the rest of his books.i find him to be one of the best introspective writers and is especially good to read between 18 - 23 when you are figuring out people and the world still.
>>25004593post stack
>>25001675I got recommended that Steve Coll last year. He's a good writer and it's an interesting subject but I really struggle to differentiate the Arabic and Russian names. I made it about a third of the way in and set it aside because I can't keep track of who's who.
>>25000786It's actual shit. I read the whole thing hoping it would get better but it never does. Most chapters are all the same: some guy goes to some other person's house. One or more of them go into hysterics like a woman, complaining and crying and generally throwing a fit. Rinse and repeat for 800 pages. But muh Grand Inquisitor! That was good but the way the book is hyped up I was expecting it all to be like that. Nope.
>>25000807Tell me how this is>>25001803Have you read Norman Cohn "Pursuit Of The Millennium", Hillaire Belloc "The Great Heresies", Alister McGrath "Heresy", Christopher Hill "The World Turned Upside Down" or Eamon Duffy "The Stripping Of The Altars"? If so, what did you think?
After this I'm diving head first into the Campaigns of Napoleon
>>25000719I'm starting the year with this
>>25000799PhD in robotics engineering huh? It's not like rocket science is it?
>>25000719Left is what I'm currently reading, right is what I'll be reading next.
>>25002124Divergent is one of the worst YA Dystopian novels out there. My mom gave me it in highschool around when it came out and I was much, much too old for it even as a 15 year old.
>>25000719Iliad, Odyssey, then something else Greek. After getting through the Bible, I don’t imagine it will be much harder to hit the important stuff of that millennia
Almost finished. I've read a number of Bronte biographies (including another about Emily) and I suspect this is the closest we'll ever get to really knowing her (unless a major discovery is made). A little academic in places but overall a good read. I would say a must for Bronte fans (also his book on Anne is very good).
>>25005727you should visit the yorkshire moor's if you ever get the chance to visit bongland.it really contextualises the sense of isolation in wuthering heights.
>>25000719I loved the Gods of Eden. It's been so long I forgot I even read it. Thanks for reminding me OP.
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>>25005874I live in the SW of England. Its on my to-do list.
>>25005896The long ships is so good
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>>25005879What are your thoughts? It sounds a little more Alex Jones-tier than what I usually read.
I’m on an asylum reading list starting at the bell jar and girl, interrupted but i don’t know where to go after
Just the irl stack, I mostly read on my kobro
