What are you currently reading, and what are your thoughts on it so far?
>>25300388Truth by Felipe-Fernandez Armesto Not bad so far, apparently dualism is older than monism according to him.
Sound & the Fury re-readgreat as always, better evenHurricane Seasondropped. The multiple pages long run on sentences feel like a gimmick that add nothing. No paragraph breaks annoyed the hell out of me.
>>25300388I JUST started Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, only a few pages in so I don't have much to say yetI'm not sure if the humour will land with me as I'm not versed in the ways of mid-century British academia and campus life, but at least the book itself is gorgeous>>25300392>multiple pages long run on sentencesI can't believe authors still attempt that shit, it's the kind of thing that's only interesting the first time you encounter it
>>25300413I dunno I'm liking it so far.
>>25300388>Shinto: A Short Historywas the wrong book for an introduction going to have to read sometihng else after i finish
>>25300388Villette by Charlotte Bronte. About to finish the first volume and it feels like a more refined Jane Eyre but it lacks all the engaging bits. Maybe I just haven't reached them yet but so far the best bits are the main character interacting with her bimbo students
Island of Doctor Moreau.Pretty decent Jurassic-Park-Before-Crichton. Science is harder than I expected.
>>25300684>Island of Doctor Moreauthat shit is fire hella underrated it's too bad the movie with val kilmer whiffed it so hard
>>25300413>FoliofagLol
>>25300724>How dare he like aesthetically pleasing things
>>2530038812 months by Jim Butcher.In for a penny in for a pound.
>>25300758Forgot pic
>blatant data mining thread Fuck off wumao.
Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End, good so far, not his best work
>>25300787That's a fantastic book, probably is his best in my opinion.
>>25300388Just started Goethe Faust. The prologue and prelude were fine. First scene was the quality I expected although I wasn't expecting a random Earth Spirit to appear. At least I think it was an Earth Spirit. I thought Faust would start all that stuff after meeting Mephistopheles
I finished reading Invisible Cities earlier today. I don't know. I guess it was alright. The city descriptions were interesting but I don't really think it was my thing.
Robin Hobb Assassin’s Quest. Hopefully it isn’t as utterly shit as the preceding novel, but given they’re both 600-850 pages long, I have little hope left.
I finished reading the short story "a short stay in hell" by Steven Peck. I read it because it was mentioned multiple times on this basket weaving forum.quick rundown>people are stuck in the library of babel>it's a massive library>every book has 410 pages and is completely randomized >Q.O-9u(Nq,Al1oHi(H;Ba:+g&G/k type of books>You get out of this hell if you find the story of your lifeNow why the FUCK did it take them over ONE THOUSAND YEARS to calculate the amount of books? Are they retarded?>After 52 years a group of people decide to walk in one direction and their plan was to only return after they had found the end of the library (they gave up after 9 years of walking)>after 102 years they finally found a book with one (1) nice coherent sentence (they slowly start to realize how long it will take to find a full coherent book)>FINALLY after 1000 years they grasp how doomed they are because someone decided to calculate the amount of books>>the library is billion lightyears deep I understand that the author wanted a slow build up. But realistically they would have figured out the number of books within the first day.
>>25300874After it got revealed how many books there were the author tried to explain why the protag and his friends didn't come with that number on their own.>Our university, despite some people trained in calculus, had no one versed in probability theoryReally?I'm gonna show you right now how easy it is to calculcate the amount of books.Trying to figure out the amount of possible books is the same question like trying to figure out the amount of possible passwords >a password only has one digit. The only allowed symbols are 'A' and 'B'>how many possible passwords are there?>>A>>B>>there are only 2 possible passwords >Now imagine the password is two digits long>how many possible passwords?>>AA>>BB>>AB>>BA>>4 possible passwords>imagine a password with 3 digits>>AAA>>ABA>>....and so onThat's all you need to figure out the formula! The formula is the amount of symbols to the power of the amount of digits.Now figure out how many symbols a book can use and how many of them are in one book. And boom. You got it figured out.
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkIt’s interesting but I can’t tell yet if the setting is good or a copout for a lack of story.
>>25300883It's still an enjoyable book tho. I finished it in one sitting.
I'm reading Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor. It's cool and all and books about black ops coolguys mowing down terrorists appeal to my inner teenager, but Naylor's habit of skipping around in time according to what he thinks makes for the most dramatic telling of events is a little annoying.
>>25300388The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanCurrently a few chapters into volume 3; this was probably considered an absolute knee slapper of a comedy back when it was released but it's a bit verbose for my taste. There's also a lot of archaic vocabulary and references that frequently send you to the lengthy annotations section. Still, I don't regret the time I've spent on it.... yet. There's a lot of book left and I don't know where it's headed, which I realize is half the point of the book but still.
>>25300684I just finished reading The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. I’m not sure it was a nod to Moreau or not but it’s similarly about an inventor on an island. Was a pretty good little novella
>>25300874That seems like the library is bigger than it should be.
>>25300874Sounds like this guy stole his plot from my nigga Borges story The Library of Babel
>>25300948There is a sign in this hell that says>Welcome to Hell. This Hell is based upon a short story by Jorge Luis Borges from your world called 'The Library of Babel.'
I'm about to finish it and I don't understand it. But it's okay, I'm not supposed to.
>>25300388Knut Hamsun, The Last ChapterNothing is happening. People seem to be dying like flies. I know that Hamsun wrote this while he was heavily depressed. But even though there doesn't appear to be an actual story or anything else, it is somehow amusing and not really boring. Not funny, but amusing. I like it. I have the feeling that Hamsun does a little self insert as the suicidal guy. The debate whether intellectualism is good or bad is interesting. It seems to constantly appear throughout the book, as expected of Hamsun.
>>25300388The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga GrushinStory's good so far, I'm impressed by the transitions from memory to the present moment. It's also pretty comedic how much of a little bitch Sukhanov is.
>>25300388I just finished reading Project Hail Mary. It was fine, the alien broship was cute. Not sure what to read next. Toss up between Under the Dome and Mandibles.
