>age>current book>your thoughts on it
>>2520617023One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestI'm almost finished it. I saw the film for the first time when I was around 14 and I've seen it many times since and only recently decided to read the book. As great as the film is, the book is vastly superior. It's got many more layers and everything from the characters to the plot or the setting has so much more depth to it. It's a great critique of authoritarian bueracratic power structures and a social critique of what it means to be normal. The scene where shock therapy is compared to death by electric chair as both being cures for what society deems as wrong or unwanted stood out in particular. Great book
32 The Satanic mass What the fuck is with the French?
>>2520617028Gil BlasIt's quite good, great adventuring, and it's much simpler to read than Don Quixote (less obscure references)
Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?
>>2520617021Old Masters from Thomas BernhardOnly page at page 50. I always have trouble with finding a good point to put the book down. It is an inconvenience that the whole book is only one paragraph. But it reads very smooth. Really entertaining despite not really much happening. Although there is more happening than in Frost or Woodcutters. Seems more happy than these two too.
>26>pic related>enjoying it much more than I ever imagined
>>25206170>28>Dune: MessiahToo much yapping
>>2520617033Ada, or ArdorAbsolutely delicious writing. It straddles the line between majestic use and terrible abuse of English so well. I want to keep reading just for the prose. Our two love birds are fun too, I suppose.
39The three musketeers Ive only got 50 pages to go but i think I like it more than Count of Monte Cristo, boys
>>25206202>Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?My thought was it was leftie Kurdish type, but I don't know how many of those read recreationally in Turkish.
>>2520617027Beren and LuthienGod I hate prose narrative and rhymes
>>2520617039Capital v.1Iron JohnComplete Poems of John Keats*Capital is good, it's been rough getting through the beginning, almost through chapter 3. It's the most stimulating read I've ever had, gotta appreciate that feeling. About sixty pages into Iron John, i like his description of encountering the wild man at any age of your life and basically deciding for once in your life to be daring enough to commit to a dangerous act (my words, not his) and stealing the key from under your mother's pillow. I hadn't considered that men have been turning "soft" since post WW1.As for Keats, it's my first real nosedive into poetry so I'm just trying to adapt and develop an understanding of rhyme and meter, but i do like the content so far. Read 'O Solitude! if i must with thee dwell' this morning. I don't have anytging significant to say here, other than that I'm enjoying the journey.
>>2520617043John Gray - Seven Types Of AtheismDunno, just started it after reading Stripping Of The Altars as a palette cleanser
>32>The Shadow-Line>Love it even more than the previous two in this collection, and I already thought Nigger of the Narcissus was a 8.5/10 and Typhoon a 9/10
>19>Loop by Koji Szuki The whole series has been a blast so far. Much better than the movie(s) (I've only seen the 1st but a ton of the original content was rewritten. Basically everything with Ryuji is cut, i don't even know if they include Ryjui in the movies).
Fuck off with your blatant attempt at data mining, cunt.
>47>Paradise Lost>I left reading this FAR too late in my life. I’d already read Dante, Homer, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Virgil, Chaucer, Ovid in my younger days but never got around to Milton. After picking up poetry again in recent years through Hölderlin and then Blake it felt like a natural progression, despite going backwards.It’s quite possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever read. Just finished Book X and the resolve of man after falling so far is inspiring, though it’s often a rather depressing poem. Book IX is the greatest tragedy I’ve ever read and it’s where Milton’s poetry reaches its peak, in my opinion.
>>25206170>32>Dune MessiahGod, Alia made me hot and bothered. Also fuck the space Jews and fuck midgets.
>23>Say NothingFirst history book I've read that I felt like I shouldn't tell someone fully about what happened to not spoil it>>25206202My ethno guesser autism has to agree with the other anon, the nose shape isn't typical of arabs.
>>2520617035 in three daysThe True History of the Conquest of New SpainIt's alright, I'm on the last chapter. There's been some interesting bits like where Cortes tried to convince the natives that the Spanish cannon and horses were sentient and pissed off at them by firing said cannon and driving a horny stallion into prancing madness by giving him a whiff of a mare in heat and the posthumous smear campaign about Bortello the conquistador "astrologer and caster of lots" that swears a flock-stuffed leather dildo was found among his personal effects after he was killed. Glad to see genuine cheeky pettiness was alive and well 450+ years ago.
>>25206351how can you tell it's that vs someone wanting book recs?
>>2520617029The Hunchback of Notre DameSo far, it is very enjoyable. Funnier than I would’ve expected and the chapter describing Quasimodo and the cathedral is genuine kino. I know this probably won’t last long as I’ve heard the story is brutally dark. If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other work
I feel so old… there must only be like 4 other Gen Xers here.
>Gen Xer goes into a millennial space>YEAH, WELL UMM... I'M A GEN XER SO..Nobody cares. Fuck off.
33MoominIt's alright but vastly worse than other children's fantasy like Tolkien
>>25206170>22>Thomas Traherne -- Centuries of Meditations>Better than every other book
>>25206809Try OurTime or SilverSingles, grandpa.
>39>finished Flights by Olga Tokarczuk today Enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would recommend. Starting The Death of Artemio Cruz tonight most probably
>23>(Re-reading) Red Harvest by Dashiell HammettOne of the coolest books i ever read.
>25>The Qur'an: A Verse Translation>MashAllah
28War And PeaceBook 1 was a slog. Both because it felt like a Jane Austen book and also because it's hard to keep track of and remember everyone. It really started to click for me with how much more focused books 2 and 3 are. Just got up to Andrew/Andrei being captured and, while I want to read more, my eyes hurt and I'm worried I'll get burnt out trying to power through the rest of it.I'm going to take a break with something easier.
>>25206351You schizos are always so fucking dumb. He didn't even list a geographical location. What "concrete" fact about your lame, faggy little life will some glowie gleam from knowing your current age and what book you read lately?Shut up, you fucking wacko.
>Secret>The Screwtape Letters>Nice little devotional book. I appreciate how easy it is to read Lewis' prose compared to someone like Chesterton.>>25206186Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists." Do occultists actually do anything (with it or in general) or is it all larp?>>>25206255This book is pure kino
>Ficciones>Pure kinoIt's just "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" if it were fucking mundane.
>>25206907Filtered by short stories?
>>25206932It's lame shit, dummy.
>33>The Fellowship of the Ring>the is simply a vehicle for Tolkien's autism-induce mythos, but it's cool
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe.Interesting look at it from the inside of a residual cultural mnemotype, even if it's far more residual today than it was at the time of writing. I don't read or interact with japanese culture enough for it to add to anything but I'm enjoying reading it all the same. The prose is serviceable and a little understated. The ideas are communicated clearly, though I very much doubt such ideas were ever given more than surface level consideration by most of its adherents. It's also quite short, I suspect I'll be done today and I fired it up this morning. It makes a nice chance from my recent delves.
>>25206800Probably because these turn up often qnd usually come with personal questions. This one is admittedly the only one I've seen without a location/gender/political orientation tag or whatever. Age is telling.
>>25206906>Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists."That’s a poor understanding of the book unless you’re taking inspiration from the details of black masses for your LARP but the book itself is just an account of cases of Satanism throughout history. Again, majority being French.
38Blood Meridian A little over half way through, Glanton and his gang are ruthless curs. Why’d they have to run all them mules off the cliff, upset me. The kid is an interesting protagonist. The judge is a pretentious twat, if devil incarnate. I’ve had to use the dictionary a lot, and my meager understanding of Spanish has been put to the test. Really enjoying McCarthy’s prose a lot more than I thought I would having only read The Road by him prior to this.
>21>bible NABREI’ve been reading it front to back (I know not recommended)until I got to the prophet section which isn’t arranged in chronological order which killed a lot of my motivation reading through it. So I’ve went and looked to see when each book takes place and started reading from there.
>>25207110Oh yeah the prose in BM is great. For all the memeing and recent vitriol surrounding it—which can tend to blind people to the quality of the work—it’s really well written.
>>25207030Ah ok got it. I like they included the age because I can compare what I'm reading
>32>no country for old menIts alright but cormacs other books are better imo. I’m gonna watch the movie when I finish and I feel the movie will be better than the book.
>26>the talented mr. ripley>he's literally me
35Cousin BetteJust started it but it's alright so far.
26Crime and punishment Raskolnikov Is a really fun protagonist and Raz is peak bro. Love em.
>HUUUUUURRRRRR, DATAMINING!!!This dipshit is in EVERY thread.
52Dune on my bed side table. Brothers K coming in the mail.tomorow..(I'm testing my ability to make a post. )Dune: 200 pages in they're walking through a desert and it's starting to get choppy to read, as if parts of the action were lost so I'm losing my mind trying to keep up. I hate this glossary where he throws out terms just to make me view the glossary (two words for poisons in different state of matter, when "he was scared of a poison" woild have done the same work, do they ever come up again?), not every term is defined there. Maybe gonna drop it.
>29>I only read the first 15 pages of any book and then stop readingI'm kinda depressed. But I'm gonna start working out tomorrow though.
>>25206806>If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other workPretty much all his books follow the same themes; unrequited love and/or class struggles. I'd recommend Toilers of the Sea if you like the 'man on a boat' setting.
>>25207749Noted. I do like a man on a boat. Thanks anon
>>25206170>30>Confessions of a Mask>The protagonist, just like in The Golden Pavillion, is shaping up to be a massive fag just like the protag in The Golden Pavilion. Mishima's prose is great but god DAMN I can't stand some of his protagonists.
Old (I grew up in the 80s)The Piano TeacherJust finished. A bit of a slog. Stodgy writing and mostly boring. The film is better.Just started The Death of Grass. How have I missed this? I'm a fan of apocalyptic / disaster novels and this one is rolling right along. So far, it reminds me of The Day of the Triffids in tone, but it's early days yet.
>>25207407Naive retard.
> By Night in Chile by Bolano>23>Only 25 pages in but enjoying it so far. Beautiful prose.
67Against MethodThe thesis is incredibly important and changed (maybe coalesced is a better word) my thinking quite a bit, but the text itself is full of mistakes and extremely dated, cringe leftoid sentimentality. Overall a great book but it feels like it could be rewritten by someone else with modern knowledge and become even better. About halfway done with it now, might skim the rest as I'm already convinced and dont find much of the argumentation all that compelling in detail.
>>25206827Moomins appeal is just wallowing in coziness with a touch of the mystic fear of the finnish forest. It's for pretty young kids, although I still find it very charming.
>>25207944Stop signing your posts.
