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>>2513306526Mein KampfThe greatest book I have ever read. If you brush past the general views, what you see is the perfect marriage of literature and politics. It is a perfectly constructed manifesto, powerful in its clarity, shocking in its beauty of prose. But finally it offers a grand vision of the world. One we were offered and chose to reject. All along he was proven right. Soon people will look back and read this book, and wonder why it was censored, why you couldn't find it in the library.
22The Bible Christ is King
>>2513306526Ada, or ArdorFull of wonderful puns, parodisaic and otherwordly but i'm rage quitting a bit because the guy throws in a botched cypher
>>2513306526A Clash Of Kings It's decent but I'm definitely enjoying it less than the first. I think it was a mistake to read it straight after finishing the first aswell as I'm feeling slightly burnt out but I'm too far in to stop now. I've had As I Lay Dying on my shelf for a while and I'm looking forward to reading it when I'm done with this.
>>25133068>/pol/tard>>25133075brown tradlarper>>25133077Acceptable>>25133078fantasyslopper/lit/ is dead
21The Vatican CouncilI love preconcilliar authors. The dialectic between the liberals who want to work within the enlightment world and the hardliners who want to deny it root and branch regardless of practical realities still applies today.Note to anyone who wants to read Catholic books just don't touch anything written after 1955. There is a noticeable difference.
>>25133065153The corpus of Joseph P. FarrellI will never be a Catholic, but this man knows a great deal, and deserves respect. I want to have a dinner with him, professor Jiang and Kurt Metzger
>>25133065(─ ‿ ─)Stones of Venice, vol IGood. I like that Ruskin is actually using architecture as a support to speak about the shifting of ideas occurring between the medieval period and the industrial revolution. He makes a compelling point that Venice is architecturally important and singular as a case study because it sits in between all big architectural schools, Christian Roman, Gothic, because of its location but also Byzantine and Arabic because of its trade relations with Constantinople and the east.
>>2513306526just finished siddhartainteresting but i feel a lot of the spiritual ideas in it sort of went over my head
>>25133085>>/pol/tard I do not use that board, I only use /lit/ and /vst/. I came to Mein Kampf on my own accord with an open mind. I suggest you do the same, you might be surprised.
>>25133065you're supposed to add location, faggot>27>North Carolina>Natural History by Carlos Fonseca / Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard PoltOnly about 50 pages into Fonseca's novel but loving it so far. Haven't seen a writer pull off the "each free-floating paragraph is in a different time in the overarching story" thing in a while. The novel's strange and propulsive and Fonseca's nailing the narrative jumps. Clear Sebald influence, which is cool. The Polt intro's fine, I tried to read Being and Time and got filtered hard by the fucking introduction so I retreated to secondary literature. Polt's explaining das Man right now. >>25133068>Mein Kampf is the greatest book I have ever read. this is the kind of opinion you say because you want to shock people, not the kind of opinion you should actually hold lmfao. beyond parody>>25133078get off my board>>25133077wanted to read this for a while but it's always intimidated me>>25133095ruskin is kino. retarded philosophy of aesthetics but still fucking kino. you read the seven lamps of architecture yet?
>>25133065its great
>>2513306534grapes of wrathgood story, engaging enough to get through the 500 pages, nowhere near a favorite though
>>2513306538just finished Brightsuit MacBearfun, slightly juvenile tone, some obvious but shallow sociopolitical commentary, but i love the main character
>>2513306521Metamorphoses (Ovid)It's wonderful, and thought provoking.
27The Dream of the Uncle, DostoievskiIt's okay, I'm just trying to do a 100% run of Dostoievski at this stage but there seems to be a noticeable difference between his pre exile and post exile works
>>2513306526Onee-san is into Elementary School GirlsBad, the art sucks
>>2513306585Dracula I'm actually a time-traveler from the future but I won't say which year. Suffice to say that all fiction is banned and books and book hoarders are destroyed on site. A few of us used the machine to collect books from you guy's used book stores and bring them ba
>>2513306535Confessions of a MaskSuperb, moving, heartbreaking. The prose is very stylish and occasionally stops me in my tracks
20Phantom of the Operai dislike the over the top descriptions, which i think is standard for the french since i also hated dumas' tangents on random pieces of furnitures in monte cristo. that aside, it's bretty gud, hating christine at the moment for how harsh she treats raoul.
>>25133065Goddamn I love Asian girls.
>>25133065Beautiful legs. God I love a good set of gams.36The SilmarillionEnjoying it immensely. Thought it'd be more of a slog than it really is. The difficulty of the text was just from word of mouth. I have always enjoyed Tolkien's prose. Lots of names and locations which bogs it down a bit, but it isn't nearly as bad as I had been told/heard about. I will read anyone who has a powerful relationship with nature. It is becoming lost in this "modern" world, and, I think it more important than ever to commune with nature. The way he describes the passion and care taken in the building of the world and the giving of life to the flora and fauna of the world is beautiful.
>>25133381Relax unc
>>2513306529Joseph and his brothersBeautiful elegant prose. But for my taste too detailed in everything. But worth reading.
27The Lathe of HeavenOne of my favs from Ursula so far. It has a gay undertone much like The Left hand of Darkness. This time it's more spicy because the main character is obviously submissive.
>>25133065>20>Zero to One by Peter Thiel>gay German Stanford investor just putting another dead end to my potential academic career in econ and convincing me to part way with my quixotic dream of being another Proust
>>25133065>age 32>current bookThe Stone of Farewell (#2 in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)>your thoughts on itI can tell this is the awkward second book in the trilogy. The Dragonbone Chair was great, a nice slow burn with really fun prose. This is much the same, but I find it a dragging a little in places, which book 1 didn't. Looking forward starting To Green Angel Tower, that seems to be everyone's favorite anyway. Great slow burn high fantasy so far.
29GermanyDemons (Maguire translation)This was probably the hardest Dosto to get into yet (I'm reading him in chronological order) because of the way the narration works and how it seems to struggle to get to any sort of point, but currently, around 200 pages in, it doesn't seem as opaque anymore. I've read before that the first part barely has anything to do with the rest of the book and I'm curious as to how that's gonna play out. In any case, and as always with Dostoevsky, I'm devouring this book to the point where I'm gonna go read another hour or two now even though I just stopped 15 minutes ago.
>>25133065>>age28>>current bookbatailles *my mother, madame edwarda, dead man* >>your thoughts on itgood enough, wonderful prose, but i fail to see how people can work themselves up over batailles fiction likes its some revelatory orgasm of degeneracy . honestly its quite tame in terms of vulgarity and perversion. i remember reading *the accursed share* some years back and found it very enlightening and an interesting read, but these stories are just kinda mid. idk. maybe i should read *story of the eye*
>>25133391I watched that Opera live like 2 weeks ago, you’d be doing a major disservice to yourself if you’re only reading it.
>25>naked lunch>masturbatory attempt at “experimentation”i want to put it down cause it fucking sucks and makes me not want to read anything
>>2513306524Metamorphoses of OvidIt's actually a lot better than I thought it would be. I love it, but I'm disappointed that I can't keep the names and genealogies straight. My knowledge of classical mythology isn't as good as I thought it was. Ovid > Virgil
>>2513306526Jung: Four ArchetypesExtremely fascinating, Jung often makes me raise my eyebrows with his enormous intelligence. He soars to the clouds and falls between this valley and that mountain top from one paragraph to the next and it all makes sense.
>>25133888Glazing Jung is a huge red flag for rampant midwittery.
>>25133889Posting on 4chan is a huge red flag for rampant midwittery.
18Suttreeits the great american novel.
>/lit/ is mostly populated by zoomiesThis explains so fucking much about this board. Especially the high number of unironic butt pirates.
29The Diary of a Country PriestVery good, i don't know about the english translation but being a french catholic man it's getting me more and more into my own faith. at solid 8.5/10
>>2513306527Moby Dick I've been putting off reading Moby Dick for far too many years, despite having read Melville before—Bartleby and Benito Cereno—and finding him, at the very least, an entertaining author. I don't know why I took so long to pick up MD, but in the short time I've read it, it's been a surprisingly light, enjoyable, and interesting read. I haven't been able to make much progress over the last month, but I hope to pick up the pace starting next week and finish it soon.>>25133226You're literally reading my diary desu
>>25133065>42>A Fire Upon The Deep>I sure hope my itchy butthole is just hemorrhoids and not worms
>>2513306522The Gift by Nabokov and Beyond the Pleasure Principle.Taking a trip to the Nabokov archives soon. Freud is just stuff i'm skimming honestly. I've read him plenty of times before but most of my books are in storage so I've been oscillating between a few of the same books.
>>25133065>33>Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk >Decent but Flights was better written somehow despite lacking plot and structure. She writes very poetically but doesn't know how portray psychologically interesting characters.
>>25134157yeah okay uncdon't have an avocado toast to eat with spider-man comics
>>25133068Meme faggot.>>25133078Your time to grow up is running out. Not a bad book thoughbeit. >>25133264The filler chapters threw me off but otherwise good book. East of Eden is better though. >>25133539It's the only 5 star book I wouldn't recommend to anyone. It's too much of a good thing and he is annoyingly self-aware of just how talented he is. >>25133365>>25133885Only truly worth it to read it in Latin imo. Ovid is a master wordsmith and he plays with sounds really wonderfully to make his stories come alive.
>>25133065>40>If it's brown, flush it down by OP is a faggot semite>So far so good, pic related is how masonic semites are brown and "jews" too.
>>25133152>ruskin is kino. retarded philosophy of aesthetics but still fucking kino.His ideas on art are clearly brilliant. Saying this as someone who's considered brilliantly talented by the handful of people who have seen my art
>23>Infinite jest>I'm only 100 pages in but I'm enjoying it. The parts about drug use, addiction, depression are captivating. However, sometimes it seems as though DFW is being verbose just to troll me.
>>25133098I like that book a lot. What ideas did you struggle with? Maybe we can talk about them.
23Miami3 books: Ulysses, Interpreter of Maladies, and Behind the Balfour Declaration (Robert John)Ulysses: I'm reading an episode a day. Sometimes I read a bit of Gilbert's commentary but I'm saving a proper deep-dive for a re-read. I read Lestrygonians yesterday. This book has the greatest prose I've ever read and I've been absolutely captivated even when I don't fully understand what's happening. The recent highlights are the dialogue between Stephen and Professor MacHugh in Aeolus and Bloom's reminiscence of Molly in Lestrygonians.Interpreter of Maladies: Just finished the titular story. I feel conflicted on this one. I'm keeping the book in the glovebox of my car and reading it whenever I have time. Lahiri isn't very good at exposition, her prose is middling, and many stories rely on some kind of emotional twist towards the end. Despite that, the stories have been effective so far but I don't know if they would stand up to a more dispassionate reread. Behind the Balfour Declaration: Fairly dry but very interesting.>>25133095This sounds good, I'll look into it>>25133098They probably didn't. I don't think Siddhartha is a very deep book. The Glass Bead Game is much better but still cut and dry in terms of what Hesse is exploring.>>25133365>>25133885Absolutely love Metamorphoses. Hope to read it in Latin sometime soon.>>25134183I'm in the opposite position. Moby Dick is the only Melville I've read and it's one of my favorite books.
>>25133065>24>Halfway through picrel.>Severely autistic faggot kills himself. With that as the premise of the novel, it's actually just a collection of poorly connected memories, which makes it le deep, but completely breaks the flow of the narration.
>>25133065>34>the abstainerbretty gud
>>25133068Kill yourself FAGGOT
>>25133065>35>A Lady In Black>I'll never finish writing this novel of mine
>>25133068>26You should have grown out of your edgy phase by age 21. Have sex.
>>2513306556.A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.I was looking for something light and undemanding to read before embarking on the final volume of Gibbon. This book (actually an ebook from Gutenberg) certainly qualifies. I was encouraged by the knowledge that it influenced John Norman's Gor novels (which I have long admired.) However, I must say my feelings are mixed. I do like the dying world of Barsoom, but nobody very interesting seems to live in it, except Dejah Thoris (who is /mygirl/.) The action is hokey and contrived, and the pseudoscience is risible. Even back in 1911, there were established facts about Mars, of which the author was apparently unaware. Some of his prose is also unforgivably clunky. But there's a certain heroic, masculine spirit about the tale that is completely absent in contemporary fiction, so I am inclined to stick with it, and even consider its many sequels.
>>2513306530. Mio, My Son. Cute, little book. The imagery was great. It has great atmosphere, and I enjoyed the story. There are phrases that get repeated throughout the story and I had no problem with them until the last part of the book where it got on my nerves. Didn't ruin it for me. Still loved the book.
>>25133065>22>"Agnes Mallory" -- Andrew KlavanThis is ingenious. I finished it last night and was reeling. I've not read many contemporary novels that are better than this. The concluding chapter, I lack words for . . . magnificent. 9.7/10>"Saint Joan" -- George Bernard Shaw2/3 of the way through. I'm very impressed, it's expertly crafted in spite of his socialism or whatever -- also think he's an atheist. Skimmed his intro screed -- fine. He clearly did his research. Excellent play.>Moby Dick40 pages in. Started reading it on transit . . . *Ooh-la-la!*
>>25134345"listening to the river" for examplelike i dont know if its supposed to symbolize something or if its just purely as a bridge to achieve enlightenment
>>25133085>>25133152>>25134237>>25134646>>25134658>reads many books>"le this mindset bad!!!"pls read more books ty
>>25134761grow up /pol/tard
>>2513306530 Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldRead this over 10 years ago. I've long since realized Murakami doesn't have much to offer me anymore, so I'm just finishing it partly for the sake of completion, partly because I was pleasantly surprised I'd forgotten about how the protag being trapped in his own head led to virtual immortality, and I found it rather interesting . I'll be reading Confessions of a Mask next.
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>>2513306539DublinersThis is probably my fourth time, total, to read Dubliners, and every time has been a delight. This time is no exception; if anything, this time I think I'm understanding things better because my ability to comprehend literature is more advanced than it used to be (long story here). I am picking up on the natures and nuances of the stories and their characters better, I feel, than I did the first few times I read this book.Last night I just read "After The Race" again. I've always identified with Jimmy in this story, because I come from some money, but not a lot of money, and I've definitely felt the feeling of being around people with more money than me, overspending to try and keep up appearances, and feeling awful about it afterwards.
35Gravity's Rainbow It's fun as fuck
16Metamorphosis It's written meticulously with just the right amount of details to not make it another 'A Little Life' [Would you like to read my article on it? If so, check this out: https://open.substack.com/pub/rhapsodicmaniac/p/slashing-the-skin-and-veins-of-a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7h1yp9]. I'm finding it relatively easy to get accustomed to the characters and Gregor's nuances. It has a vivid resemblance to Kafka's own identity struggles and it gives us a preamble (though we might never be able to decipher it in his intact intrinsic state) into his inner cosmos. I consider it a great read as of now. Also looking forward to more book recommendations.
