>age>location>current book + what you think about it27, NC USA, War and Peace -- about 200 pages from the end, getting tired of Tolstoy bloviating about his philosophy of history but want to see what happens to Pierre and Natasha
22, Iowa, Braiding Sweetgrass.3 quarters of the way done. You could read any chapter of this book and youd get the same messages and themes, no need for it to be 400 pages. It's a good reminder to be more present and in tune with the world around you.
>>2506924231, rural Texas, been reading an intrο philosophy textbook from the old sticky and Samuel 1. Enjoying both but I'm getting the itch to re-read The Stranger and write something inspired by it
>>2506924240, NYC, >My Year of Rest and Relaxation by MoshfeghFeels bad to read about a beautiful woman just exit life, like when a pet stops cleaning itself, you know the end is near.
>>25069242>29>NYC>The Machine by KingsnorthIt's cozy to watch a orthobro get upset about technology but also I agree with most if not all of what he says (he predictably doesn't realize that technology is a moral neutral either used for good or bad because schism brain but otherwise it's trenchant). It's good for the quotes and criticisms regardless.
>>25069242Fresh off their monthly LIT meetup NYC thinks they run shit, let's show 'em how ALABAMA represents, tap in fellow cousin fuckers
>>25070004>40why are you still on this board? shouldn't you be making a mortgage payment or something
>>25070776I do, got an amazing place, woman, job, I just work with normies who don't read and would have me fired for saying faggot.
>>2506924243, Ohio, After Hegel + Stripping Of The Altars1. Good so far, a lot of technical jargon. Talks about the material naturalist versus metaphysician debates in late 19th century Germany.2. England used to be a magical placeI plan to write extended book reviews of both on my blog later.
>>25072043>blogMind posting a link?
>>2506924228, south of franceclarice lispector, the passion according to g.h.on my third reread & every time i open it the book opens me back. she watches a cockroach die in a wardrobe & by page 80 she's eaten the white paste from its body & lost the ability to distinguish herself from matter. people say it's about god. it's about what happens to a woman alone in an apartment when she stops performing the woman & lets the thing underneath look at her. the thing underneath has compound eyes & no gender & it's been waiting. i read it in the bath & i got water on the pages & it improved them. the stain on page 64 looks like a small mouth. every woman who reads this book either puts it down on page 30 or never fully comes back from it & i didn't put it down.>>25070004the pet thing is wrong though. she's not dying she's pupating. the sleep isn't an exit it's a cocoon & moshfegh never tells you what comes out because what comes out wouldn't be readable as a woman anymore, wouldn't clean itself or eat yogurt or perform the small rituals men use to measure whether we're still alive. the beautiful woman exits life is how it looks from outside. from inside it's: the beautiful woman finally stops performing aliveness for the camera she can feel but can't find. reva is the camera. you felt bad because you're reva.
>>25069242>age>location
20m Calgary, CanadaEeeee Eee EeeeRefreshing, really.
>>25069242>21>Saxony, Germany>Solaris from Stanislaw LemIts probably my first SciFi book, but I like it very much so far. I am about 100 pages in and want to finish the other 140 pages today or at least tomorrow. Don't know if the book is supposed to be kind of scary, but it builds up a very solid eerie feeling. Maybe the fact that I was drunk every time I have read it contributed to that feeling. Or that there are 2 other dudes I barely know living in the apartment with me. But I guess it has solid prose, good story telling and nice psychology aspects.
63north Atlanta metroMartin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauseronly two chapters in, but good so far. I don't read many 'difficult' books anymore, only like things that are fun to read, but still smart, which is hard to find. hope this book works out
>>25070004>40 >with such shit taste Grim
>>25072437there's no fucking way you're 63 years old>>25072109>lispectorgreat book. you read the cronicas? I still haven't gotten around to them
You mean I've been destroying people that are older than me in arguments for a decade? Jesus, anons. Get it together
>>2506924221, unitedstatesia, Beyond Good and EvilI find it a little difficult to approach because of the formatting but I think that he has a point in chapter 1 (the only one I've read) that there are all kinds of hidden presuppositions and desires underlying philosophy and even what seems most evident to us as individuals. I suppose that would justify his claim that psychology is/should be the queen of the sciences, given that it underlies and directs all other inquiry. I'd like to be able to piece together whether the search after truth would ultimately be successful if we understood why we blinded ourselves, but I suppose that for Neech it wouldn't really matter because truth isn't a good in itself and could be actively detrimental to the good life. I don't appreciate his Spinoza hate though.
>>25069242>32>Bumfuck nowhere Bavaria >War and war 2/3 into it, it's a good read 7/10, the long sentences felt a bit pretentious at the beginning but I get what he's doing with them now, it helps to empathize with the protagonists thoughts
>>25073161>I don't appreciate his Spinoza hate thoughHe doesn't hate Spinoza at all, really. He was one of the only philosophers Nietzsche respected. From his letters -- >I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct.” Not only is his overtendency like mine—namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness.
>>25072058Not a promotion site but whatever https://adolfsbookreviews.substack.com/
>>25073333Genuinely embarrassing
>>25069242>34>chicago>lolitathe writing is amazing at times, Humbert is really funny, the story had me hooked for a while, but the majority of part 2 has been kinda boring for me. I'm like 20 pages from the end but I went from thinking this book was amazing to thinking it was just really good. Maybe the ending will change that
>>25073335Cool. Duly noted, however.
>>25069242>28>New England>The Intellectual Life by A. G. SertillangesI'm not liking it not one bit, at this point I'm just forcing myself to read it because I have an autistic obsession with finishing things no matter how much I hate them. I don't know if I'm just reading a bad translation but the prose is messy, with sentences that drag on and on for so long that by the time you reach the end you have already forgotten what point the sentence was trying to make. Sometimes the paragraphs are just word salads of the author's masturbatory musings about how catholicism and god are the only thing that can truly make one an intellectual.There are some pretty good passages here and there, but so far 80% of what I've read has been nothing but schizo ramblings.
34Oregon The SADF In The Border WarIt's alright, I guess it's the most thorough comprehensive account of the conflict available, I've been fascinated with this conflict for a few years now but reading about it never makes it seem all that interesting. I'm almost finished and I would have liked if he had delved a bit more into the actual border counterinsurgency operations. He's not the greatest writer in the world but maybe the fact is that the conflict itself isn't really all that interesting.
>>25072112You really think someone is going to find your ass based on your age and state alone, huh dipshit?
>>2506924222, also NC (Raleigh.)Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow. Crossed the halfway mark, just the Buenos Aires cast shows up. It's growing on me. I'm gonna read either Solaris or Vacuum Diagrams next, then Negative Space and Empire of the Vampire.
>>2506924242. Brisbane, Australia. Three Body Problem. I normally only read Wikipedia articles about science topics but thought I'd give a novel a try, haven't read one since high school.
>>25073121I was born in 1962, trying to work seven more years until retirement. What, you expect us oldfags to read normie book pages?
>>2506924224, Lombardy, PicrelGod, I hate women, but they are smarter than men.
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>>25073513>RaleighOP here, Durham. Wild. Pleased to run into another triangle resident. I’m assuming NC State for you? How’s Gravity’s Rainbow so far? I’ve only ever read Lot 49. >>25073333>tripsChecked>>25074508There’s just no way a 60something knows what /lit/ is, let alone posts here
38, fuck off, Western Esotercism: Counter Normativity and Rejected Knowledge.An interesting set of snippets of historicity with arguments that mostly hang together. It basically gives a short history of major figures in western and 'western' Esotericism, some reasoning behind tbe definitions, methods of categorising knowledge, explanations for and a reasonable framework for esotericism and why. It's actually very interesting.It bills itself as a handbook for the layman. This is a lie, I once spent twenty minutes on a page because it needed me to keep looking up definitions. I think to the book a layman is a philosophy undergraduate. The author frames it as an inclusive narrative, redefining the west to feature north africa, the middle east, etc. But he mostly spends his time shitting on Christianity. That could be because of the perception of the church being so crucial to what became rejected knowledge, but I doubt it from his other opinions. I think he's just a raging lefty. I very much like the bibliography - the author quotes himself a HUGE amount of times and also David Icke. Shame it's like 40 percent of the book.
>>25073333How is your own existence ok with you? You should really consider killing yourself asap.
27Goymoney Slaughterhouse 5: Pretty funny as of yet, funny characters.The Gay Science: I like the style of free-flowing thought provoking shards of philosophy. Sometimes hes a dense but a lot worth thinking about.
>>25074544>smarter than men.Not necessarily
>>25075198Ill have to look that up
>>25075214Nah. I'm homicidal not suicidal. You probably already have AIDS so telling you the same thing would be redundant.
>>2506924222. In transit (homeless, continental europe). Death on the Installment Plan by Celine, his style is really refreshing
>>25074885Yup, NC State for CpE. I don't know a ton of /lit/ people, but the one I do pushed me to read GR (she read it in Chinese.)It's very slow, all over the place, and Pynchon's writing is on crack here with all of the themes and the gags going in, making it tough to follow. It is enjoyable however, and the mystery keeps me reading.Awesome to see Triangle people around!
>>25075333Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge. Haanegraaf, 2025. Big owl on the cover.
>34>South Brazil>A Tale of Two CitiesChallenging because of the Victorian english. I just got to the part where the uncle is stabbed after running over the pleb kid. I had to read the last paragraph two times because the way Dickens writes is confusing for my ESL brain.
>>25072437How is Martin Dressler? I love Millhauser's short stories but I'm not sure if he'd work for me in novel length.
>>25075431There's more of us than you'd expect, but not many more. You should marry the woman who read GR in Chinese, anon. Good to know about GR -- I have a copy kicking around somewhere but I've never opened it. Maybe I'll read V. first, I hear that's a good intro to GR. >CpEthoughts on Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead? seems too fantastical to be real IMO but otoh his predictions have held up so far
>Middle age>Europe>David Copperfield - First Dickens book for me, it has some very strong moments and characters, but also sometimes it loses a bit of steam. I feel I can sense the underlying serialization, but maybe I'm imagining.>Children of Hurin - I like it, and it might be a better read than Silmarillion for those who have finished Hobbit and LotR and want to continue reading Tolkien, as a far gentler introduction to the First Age.
>35>New Jersey>Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert Getting a chubby from the proseIt’s set in Ancient Carthage after the first Punic War and Carthage can’t pay their mercenaries. Hijinks ensue Only about 20 pages in but really enjoying the sensuous prose.
>>25069242>30>CT>1001 Arabian NightsFor the most part it's a lot of fun. I've seen the Richard Burton translation get hate but I love the humor and wordplay regardless of if it leans into stereotypes or exoticism - which idk if it even actually does. The tales also can often recycle tropes and entire events between them and the Arabs in their mythology had an odd fixation with evil dudes that live on islands and climb onto their poor victim's back and strangle them with one leg while beating them with the other, but the seafaring, monsters, romance histrionics, genies, etc., are cool.
data mining thread
>>25077767Faggot you just posted in the thread, that gives them all the data they'll ever need>>25069242>24>buttfuck nowhere SC>The Bad Side Of Books: Selected Essays of DH LawrenceNever read any Lawrence before, figured I'd start here. Lawrence is sometimes exhausting and sometimes exhilarating. Can any lawrencefags itt tell me if the novels are worth reading or not? I've heard good things about the stories but never read any
>>25077117Great to know!I'm in frequent contact with her and we hang out a bunch. I recently got her into Vodolazkin actually.>SITUATIONAL AWARENESSInteresting read, if highly theoretical/non-practical. We'll have to wait and see.
44South PhillyGiovanni's Room by James Baldwin though it's so short it shouldn't take me long, so I've got The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood up next
>>25075686Looking up a pdf no can find since its new
>>25075686hear >>25078188 's plea and upload it to AA/zlib/libgen>>25078137>VodolazkinKnow nothing about him, what's his deal? Wiki says Russian, wrote a novel about god? Get that girl a copy of picrel and she'll fall in love with you>wait and seeShit yeah lmfao guess we'll all find out
>>25078277Unfortunately, I bought a physical copy.
>>25074544Is this about a whore?
>>25077855Lawrencefag here. The novels are worth reading but only after you acclimate to Lawrence's style and thematic concerns. Start with these stories>Odour of Chrysanthemums >The Prussian Officer>The Horse Dealer's Daughter>The Fox
>>2506924235SH, GermanyThe Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish Vol. 1The premise seemed funny. It's better than some other danmei I've read. The problem is that translating chinese into english sometimes ends up just sounding ham-fisted and weird, but this one apparently had a good, professional translator. I'm just a few chapters in, but I'm entertained. Pretty interested how they're going to establish a relationship between a human and a fish.
>>25069242>The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhardfuck konrad, all my niggas hate konrad
>>25078419Damn I was hoping to check out his scholarship....:(
>>25069242>35>SE>LOTRTechnically a re-read since I read it in Swedish like 22 years ago. This time in English. No idea what some of you are complaining about, I'm loving all the singing and nature descriptions. Maybe I'm just hobbitpilled.
>>25079554The previous version, a guide for the perplexed, is a pdf. I've not read it though.
>>2506924223North of IrelandI'm 50 pages into As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I've been very much getting into American lit this past year, especially Southern Gothic but this is my first Faulkner. I'm loving it so far and I can see his influence on McCarthy who I am big fan of. I particularly like how the different chapters/characters are written so that you have a variety of pages in different vernaculars and then the Darl chapters intersperse it with that wonderful luscious prose. I look forward to reading The Sound and the Fury which I have a copy of
>>25069242>27>finlandMy own, which I'm translating to english. Feels like a slog to read through, with the occationally funny event or witty piece of dialogue.
19PolandGuermantes wayI simply adore this book and proust's prose even if it is sometimes quite challenging
>>25069242Old,UK,To The Lighthouse. My first Virginia Woolf and probably the last. It has its moments, but I'm not getting on with her writing style.
>>25069242>29>bavaria, Germany>cancer ward by SolzhenitsynThe realism is brutal, but the portrayal of inevitable suffering and death is done masterfully, while at the same time not falling into complete bleakness and rewarding the reader with touching humanity. Very well worth reading.
>speedboat - renata adlerI should have known it was gonna be like this when you fags said it was great
23Coast of Norfolk, England Claudius the God i just finished up I, Claudius which was fantastic and now i'm on a roman history rush but the beginning of this is just going on about Herod Agrippa for endless pages and it bores me
>>25069242>37>Көкшeтay>Women by Charles Bukowski, it goes hard
The OP picture reminds me of this one I took once
>>25080866that's a nice picture anon where is it
>>25080920Tampere, Finlandhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/cRJiNdX4s76FZ4JW9watching southeast
>>2506924224, Kentucky, The forgotten language by erich fromm I thought dream interpretation was bullshit but this is making a little sense, minus the big assumption that dreams are always meaningful. I am working my way up to the red book by jung.
>>25072437Are you the Sci fi writer?
>>25069242I kissed a girl on that bench. She was an art student with glossy black hair. I broke up with her soon after because I didn't love her.
21, NC USA, Sun and Steel - Yukio MishimaReally a great motivational book, and his writing style really accentuates the beauty of the human body and how divine it is. I was always a “I work out at the library” kind of person and this book helped me see differently
>>25082251three north carolinians in the same thread this has to be some kind of record
>>25083632Our numbers grow by the day…
>>25069242>21>NYC>Sherlock Holmes complete stories Pretty comfy desu
25Lodi, California The Pickwick Papers
>>25078141Damn bumped down to second oldest.
26, la grave, just finished no longer human. Very interesting read, especially since I can kinda relate to being scared of people. Gonna start hunger, magic mountain or lolita now, havent decided which.
>>25069242The Foreigner, by Alber Camus.Some "scenes" still on my mind. Readed it 2 years ago. I like it because it's short (42 pages, or something, if I can recall).
>>25084916Oh I'm sorry.24, Paraguay.
>>25069242>25>USA>Invincible (Image)It's fun and a shining example of how good capeshit could be. People don't want to read a thousand comics to understand the plot of the newest chapter. The Injustice comic was literally just suppose to be a limited tie-in series that ended up running for 5 goddamn years because people would rather read about an established Justice League where people could permanently die and have real stakes.
>>25069279no
>>25084983kek, who put a stick up your ass?
>>25084995You're severely autistic and also confused.
>>2506924224Somewhere in southeast asiaVision of Excess by Georges Bataille (Language of Flowers specifically). Even though I just started reading this book a few days ago, I wish that I knew about bataille sooner
>>2506924222, Aus, Red Mars. I'm 4/5ths through and liking it. I hoped it would explore some of the themes about pluralism a little more, seems like the window for that is closing, but maybe later in the series. Otherwise the story is gripping me enough but some of the character drama feels a little repetitive. I really like the 3rd person omniscient perspective, always find it very easy and pleasant to read.
>>25069242>25>North of England, but I am from the home counties.>Callirhoe by CharitonAlmost finished, but it has been enjoyable. These so-called "novels" are not the peak of the Ancient Greek or Roman literary output, nor are they my favourite thing to read of the ancient world; but are an interesting window into simple prose-fiction of the day, stories of eros, which are quite grounded, in that roles of the gods are reduced to the currents of life; as opposed to the gods being characters which are portrayed as actively interfering in mortal concerns. Instead they will just be tangentailly refered to in terms of forces like Luck, and Love. Callirhoe much like Daphnis and Chloe etc., is centred around two young lovers who have to endure a series of trials and tribulations in order to win the happy conclusion of being united/reunited with their lover; the girl is always chaste and respectable, the boy usually is usually chaste too (Daphnis is an exception, though he was quite innocently taken advantage of). I am moving on to Leucippe and Clitophon next.
>>25069242Well I was going to call you a datamining faggot for asking location but given you're from NC I'll say I'm from there too. I'm in my early 20s and am reading 'The Gate' by Natsume Soseki. It's pretty great I'm only ~70 pages in but I quite like it. It's not very eventful but it's about an older couple living through life. It's a bit melancholy but not overbearing. I've been going through a lot of stress as of late so this book met me at a great time. I was at first going to read Cormac McCarthy's 'Outer Dark' and while I was digging it I was too stressed to read something like that, and will probably read it in the summer or something
>>25084886read magic mountain next, interesting to read on the heels of no longer human
>>25074544>Body culture
27. Chile. Moby Dick. This is my first time reading it, despite having planned to for years. The current situation really tells you how easy it is to postpone everything, and even more so how time suddenly slips away in between. I'm enjoying the book more than I expected, and I find it surprisingly immersive for its time. There's something incredibly contemporary about Melville's prose—I'd read his work before, but not with this level of engagement. It's also the first time in quite some time that I've read a literary classic. I hope to get back to many other books I've been meaning to read for a while after this.
Why are there so many North Carolinians in /lit/? Is it because of the research triangle?>31>Oregon, US>Amerika by KafkaDidn't expect it to be this funny.>>25087274Glad you're reading Moby-Dick, incredible book. It's insane that Melville wrote it in the 1800s. Feels like it could've been written in the 2000s, minus the 19th c. prose quirks. What's next on your list?
>27>Ireland >The Origin of Politics, Nicholas WadeMeme book, you guys got me. About halfway through and haven't encountered anything remotely insightful. Also, the author is English, but writes in that very annoying American tradition of every chapter being a string of quirky anecdotes loosely coagulated around one theme. It's a very irritating style of writing and a weak style of argumentation. So far the best thing I can say about this book is that it's short.
