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>age
>the last book you finished and what you thought of it
>the current book you're reading and what you think of it
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>26
>the picture of dorian gray, ok but a bit too much exposition. second half was very good
>the hobbit, barely started
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Mount Chicago by Adam Levin. I thought it was pretty good, certainly funny and certainly had some gut-wrenching chapters, but not as good as his other novels, especially in terms of character.
Volume 1 of The Annotated Text of The Poems of T.S. Eliot, by John Hopkins University. 400 pages in. It's absolutely superb, including the commentaries and textual histories.
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>23
>Welcome to the NHK by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.
I managed to get an original english copy on ebay as I love the anime and the manga so much. I was living as a semi-hikikomori from September 2024 to October 2025 and in that time nhk became very important to me. It was great to finally read the original novel. It's a lot darker and more grounded than the adaptations but the final message hit just as hard (maybe harder than the manga). One of the few occasions where source material, manga and anime are all 10/10
>Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Only 40 pages into this one but I'm enjoying it so far. I love the Tarkovsky film and the games so I thought I ought to read the original novel. I knew going in that it would be nothing like either of the previously mentioned but I thought that if it was a book that inspired Tarkovsky then it must be worth checking out. Plus I've read the Strugatsky's before and enjoyed their style
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>45
>the hungry caterpiller, i think its too hard book to read
>the hungry catarpiller, i think its one little easier to read this time
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>>25462150
>22
>Hegel's On Tragedy
When Hegel analyzes Sophocles's Antigone, he ultimately arrives at tragedy as the highest form of tragic beauty. For him, that means the clash of two valid but mutually exclusive ideologies, ones that refuse to see eye to eye and never do, a clash that ends up destroying both sides. That's the GENERAL gist of the theory. I'm probably missing a lot of nuance, which I plan to catch up on in an eventual re-read Otherwise, I really like it.

>Demons (or The Possessed)

I'm enjoying it, but damn is it hard to read properly. The one saving grace is that the text is sectioned, so it's slightly easier than usual to find my way back to where I left off, but I still end up re-reading passages because it's so dense and packed with tangents. I know what the words mean individually, and even in sentences, but the way Dostoyevsky strings them together leaves me with no clue what I'm being told.
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>>25462150
>21
>Rules for Radicals. Absolutely hated it, dog shit book.
>The hobbit. I've read it a few times when I was 9-13 but haven't since. I've mostly been enjoying thinking about reading it to my son in a few years when he's older.
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>>25462241
Damn you're 21 and a father? Fair play. Some of my treasured memories from my childhood are my dad reading the Hobbit to me. Memories of him reading it to me in bed, in the living room and sat in our car in the countryside with tea and gingerbread men. Golden memories
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>>25462258
Barely its a pretty recent thing, and same, I'm half reminiscing about being read it as a kid, and half about reading it myself to mine.
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>>25462150
>30
>La gaya scienza from Freddy N.
>I loved it!
>currently I'm reading Metamorphes by Ovid; it is a very slow read, but very rewarding, too; I enjoy it but I have to genuinely concentrate and it is tiring
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>>25462241
>looks forward to reading tolkien bedtime stories to his son
You're a good man, anon, best thing I've read on the four chanz in a while.
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>>25462150
28
Bleeding Edge. Very much a lesser Pynchon novel. The humor was a bit hit or miss and I found myself just not caring about the plot as it went on.
Ulysses. I've tried reading it when I was younger and got filtered by Proteus, but I decided that since I've gained more experience as a reader to finally read it all the way through. I'm reading it on the online Joyce project and the notes are helping understand anything I have problems with. Just got to the part where he's looking at the statue's assholes. The thing that helped me finally "get it" was when it clicked in my head that despite the reputation it has of being a "serious book" it's fundamentally a comedy.
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>nope
>Naked Lunch, Burroughs
ive never connected with fiction very much so it didnt give me any kind of emotional reaction outside of a couple "i have no fucking idea whats happening" laughs... also the amount that pynchon pulled from Burroughs for GR is shocking. i had no idea that THIS is where he got it from
>currently reading Clockwork Orange, A Modern History of Japan by Andrew Gordon, and The Sirius History by Robert Temple
Clockwork is really fascinating because the worldbuilding is done through how Burgess mingles Russian words and Brummie slang
the japan book is pretty dry but its getting close to WW2 so itll be fun soon
The Sirius Mystery is actually getting me to believe in aliens... thanks Robert Anton Wilson!!
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>>25462322
>The thing that helped me finally "get it" was when it clicked in my head that despite the reputation it has of being a "serious book" it's fundamentally a comedy.
Excellent mindset, anon. Ulysses is an extremely funny book if you know what to look out for. Many people will tell you that rereading the novel is such a joy because you can focus more on the humor and the godlike puns and wordplay, instead of just worrying about Homeric structures, Tennyson allusions, etc.
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>>25462338
>nope
Underage spotted
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>>25462150
27
Depending on what counts either a three play shakespeare volume (the first) or Tennyson's In Memoriam AHH. The latter was such a deeply moving lament and I think it's under-read, some of it is surpassing but a lot is also a little overindulgent. For shakespeare, The Tempest was good but I need to read it again to judge it better, 2 gentlemen of verona was ok, comedy of errors was hilarious
The Iliad, fantastic, I've read it before but this time it's even more enjoyable, a culture remembering itself as it fights.
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>36
>America by Jean Baudrillard
Hypergay euro blabber, but... I should take a roadtrip soon.
>Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Fun story, much more flowery than expected. Sometimes it's too clunky, but it does well getting that boyhood nostalgia across.
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>>25462173
Man, I saw the first two volumes at a used book store in good condition but balked at the price, it was gone the next time I had made up my mind that it was worth it.
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>>25462150

>41
>How To Interpret Literature
Was alright. Been on a literature theory and analysis kick lately.
>How to Read Literature Like a Professor
I like this book. The guy who wrote it not only knows his stuff but its not too technical and reads like someone excited to talk about literature.
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>>25462150
26
>Fight Club
It was good. Felt almost exactly like the movie but with some parts swapped around and a few key scenes being different. Felt like Marla was a more important part of the story in the book. Despite it being my favorite movie and the book being a very close experience, I wasn't as charmed by the book
>The player of Games
I wanted to check out the Culture series and heard this was a good start. I'm not super far into it but I'm absolutely hooked on the world. Normally worldbuilding or lore is low on the hierarchy for me, but in this one I've noticed that don't give a fuck about the story or characters, but seeing how they're interacting in this world is carrying me.
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Dogs of Summer, a book about disgusting preteen Spanish lesbians from the Canary Islands playing with poop and vomit. It was pretty entertaining.
Half into Mein Kampf, it's bretty good so far.
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>>25462150
>29
>Horus Heresy: Descent Of Angels
Was ok.
I think it is one of the better story driven warhammer books I have read.
But I can understand why people frown upon it because it doesn't really continue Horus Heresy.
>Lord Of The Rings.
Within 100 pages I understand why people learn Tolkien's works academically.
It is easy to see it as a gateway drug to history and world of folklore, fairy tales, paganism, christianity, folk beliefs, germanic and finnic mythology and mythology in general.
There is even linguistic aspect.
Lotr, seven brothers and kalevala are among first books I read, when I had just learned to read.
But I didn't have folkloric and mythological knowledge I have now.
I still do not know any foreigners who have read kalevala without reading lotr first.
Kalevala is a rough ride without knowledge on mythology.
And I still haven't found a good english book on finnic mythos to recommend.
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>>25462150
>23
>Teddy K's book
The man was on the money about most things, even though he usually speaks in very dry, vague, clinical terms, but de-industrialising is impossible because those that remain industrial will conquer you. I suspect he knows it.

>currently reading The Wood by Chelsea Bolulski
genreslop. easy reading but at least 48 pages in, nothing much has happened. Author's spending too long on how the character's magical job works.
And bizarrely I couldn't tell until 17 pages in whether the main character was a guy or a girl? It's first person, that's probably why.
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>>25462241
Sorry brah for asking this but don't you feel like you've wasted your early 20s by being a father so early? I'm 24, close to my 25 and I don't want kids until I'm 30 or close
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>27
>Nietzsche - Human All Too Human
All metaphysics and religions strive from man's striving for meaning and the source of all of our actions are reducible to pleasure affects. I'm not sure that Nietszsche thinks that we have any agency at all or if he only thinks that the landscape of choices is predetermined. In any case he has very interesting ideas on moral "progress" of civilizations through free spirits. What I find disagreeable is obviously that the concept of free spirit lends itself to brutality that might violate moral law but tacitly reinforce existing systems and institutions. Egotism goes hand in hand with capitalism and in our time the immoral egotist gains most by fitting itself to instrumental reason.

The writing is superb. It is strong, evoking but also probing its own theses. Really makes me want to start writing aphorisms. While there is a lot that I agree there is a lot that I'm not so sure about. His psychological observations are usually on point and probably your average misogynist /lit/ter would very much enjoy the chapter on women.

Here is an excerpt for writers (a dogshit translation by me because Annas archive is down):
>Writer should be seen as a pest who only in the rarest of cases deserves pardon: a medicine for the overabundance of books.

Also as a sidenote I find it very funny that some conservatives laud Nietzsche when he is the absolute breaker of custom and institutions.

>Dialectic of Enlightenment by A & H
Incredible book. It feels like anything I write is going to do injustice but if I can get at least one other anon reading this then I guess its worth it. The central question is on how the 20th century managed to birth atrocities such as the holocaust and the rise of facism but even more importantly for our time: how the modern instrumental reason of self-preservation has become this all-pervading machine that reproduces itself through society. The answer that they give for us is enlightenment but this is situated in progress that goes back to the ancient greeks and mythic thinking. Especially Odysseus plays a big part as an example of how the "I" has been torn out of the undifferentiated unity of nature and subjected to the same dominating principles that we use to control nature through natural sciences and concepts.

This book is relentlessly pessimistic but in doing so as a critique of modernity it sees farther than any other critique of the current condition that we live in. This is not a light read and you'll have to do some thinking while reading but it is worth it. I suggest doing some light homework like listening a podcast on it before tackling it if you are not sure what Adorno and Horkheimer are up to in general. I think Moral Minority had three episodes on it. Alternatively check at least what Adorno means by identity-thinking
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37
>A Tale of Two Cities
Not as good as Bleak House, and for my taste not enough details about the French revolution, but still pretty good. Madame Defarge is a top tier villain
>Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
Expects you to have a grasp of latin, as well as the exploits of Elizabethan adventurers, but otherwise really enjoying it. Refreshingly patriotic about England, even to justifying laying waste to the (misguided) Irish and plundering the Spanish papist dogs. Hereward the Wake was also great, got the recommendation from /lit/.
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>24
>Just finished: Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
I think Turgenev is becoming my favorite Russian. I read this after Sportman's Notebook. I've had a good stroke of luck with translations too, both of them read very well. Turgenev always reads like a romance even when no such thing is happening, he has a tenderness for his characters I really enjoyed. Nabokov's famous critique of Dostoevsky as a low-brow sentimentalist objectively applies moreso to Turgenev with all his tragic peasants and tragic landowners and tragic young women, but that sentimental shit works on me. I was reading it out of a collection so I was not prepared for how short it was, though.
>Reading: Lincoln and his Generals, T. Harry Williams
Perfectly fine lowbrow Civil War nonfiction. I've been seeking out midcentury Civil War content out of interest in seeing how the historical memory changes. McClellan is getting a pretty fair shake, which I appreciate.

>>25463317
NTA but I had a kid at 20 and I think it was a great choice. I'm a 4chan user so it's not like I was going to go clubbing & fucking in my 20s if I was single and childless. What am I even missing out on?
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>>25462487
how on gods turdstained earth could i be underage if im reading Burroughs Pynchon and the RAW crowd (Hyatt/Alli/Crowley.) the average 16 year old is scrolling their shitphone. i just want privacy
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>>25462150
>22
>Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Ok but I would have enjoyed it more when I was 14
>Stoner
I have read one chapter and it is brilliantly dull
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>>25463518
>thinking you'll doxx yourself by posting your age
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>>25463601
>brilliantly dull
It doesn't get better
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>age
27
>last book you finished + thoughts
The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector. Woman finds a cockroach in her sculpting studio, squishes it, has something between a psychotic break and divine revelation about the ineffability/terror/mystery of being alive. Would strongly recommend
>current book you're reading + thoughts
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. Not super far into it but like it a lot so far
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Age: Old enough to show your mom a good time
Been on a noir kick lately, read the following four titles over the last two weeks:
The Thin Man/Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Nothing More Than Murder by Jim Thompson
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

For all you gents that whine about the epidemic of chicklit, this might be the salve. Action men and dangerous dames, surprisingly funny and lots of great one-liners. The plots are tight (they have to be), and they get you into the action and bring it in for a landing; rarely over 200 pages. Maybe a good suggestion for someone trying to get into (or back into) reading.
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>>25463317
I spent early 20s taking care of a crippled parent. Would rather have taken care of young children at that age instead.
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>21
>My body knows all (or something) (Mein Körper weiß alles) by Banana Yoshimoto - sweet bunch of short stories by a pretty emotionally driven lady, nice beach read
>Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - holy fucking shit this book is thick . probably shouldve gotten it as an epub for my ereader, this has been cumbersome to lug around, but i enjoy reading it. About 100 pages in, the german in the translation im reading (picrel) is a little aged but its not hard to read. Some nice lessons in there and nice for practicing making mental images of Paris and a lot of the characters. Havent seen/read any other media related to it before
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>>25462199
interesting, i was curious if other people reread books but didnt think some did the same book back to back
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>>25463724
>Lispector and Faulkner
Talk about omega based
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>>25462691
I agree with you on fight club. They take a lot of the book verbatim in the movie which leaves the book feeling almost the same as the movie but emptier because the lack of good descriptions.
>>25463317
I don't. Sometimes I've wished I could drop stuff and travel more, but I've been on a few short trips this year anyway. I wouldn't be doing anything better with my time instead.
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>>25462150
>28
>Mission to America by Walter Kirn—enjoyed it. Pretty easy read, likable narrator with a strong unique voice, ending is bittersweet and sticks with you. Road novels always get me
>American Psycho—Thought I was going to hate it after the first chapter but you just have to let it pull you in and then it’s fucking hilarious. Bateman is way more autistic than he is in the movie
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>>25462150

>34
>Nevada by Imogen Binnie
I want to say it was terrible, but it was mildly interesting from a cultural standpoint, reads like a YA book for adults. I can't believe this is the best of troon lit currently.

>Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf.

Incredible. Reignited by passion for literature.
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>31
>Heretics of Dune

Herbert is clearly a giant among sci-fi writers and its amazing that the books hold up this well so many decades later, but past the first three books he seems more blatantly taking the piss

He wrote a whole book book jerking off Duncan (who is clearly a bit of an author's proxy, not that I mind since it's been quite well toned and his fetishes are based), this one is also jerking off Duncan with a whole chapter about what a sex machine stud he is when he outfucks this evil corrupted sex obsessed anti-gesserit

and then Miles Teg hijacks a no-ship and then arrives on Arrakis in like 2 pages with a handful of picked veterans, which he refuses to detail

I understand refusing to masturbate the violence of a scene for the sake of not reducing the thematic impact of a book, but come the fuck on dude, thats horseshit and you know it

anyways, Dune is good but I have a hard time believing they will be able to keep adapting these to film by book 5, this literature seems too psycho-sexual and esoteric for the average film goer in america and thats not even mentioning the absurd budgeting it will take to get even this far

I hope Chapterhouse caps the series off well enough, I know it's the last Frank wrote and I'd appreciate being able to cross the books off my list with a consistent satisfaction
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>29
>The Sargent in the Snow - Mario Rigoni Stern
Italian WW2 novel of the Russian campaign, enjoyable and funny, reminiscent of Catch-22 in places
>Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
I finished this today, really good, reminiscent of Pynchon in its best pages and Robert Anton Wilson in the rest. All-around two-thumber
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>>25464620
read lighthouse and waves after, theyre much better
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>age
43
>the last book you finished and what you thought of it
Mother of Learning on Royal Road. Beyond excellent. Exactly what I want.
>the current book you're reading and what you think of it
Anna Karenina. I don't get the hype; and may DNF it, if the plot doesn't get more interesting, or some excitement comes along.
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>>25465030
>Anna Karenina
>plot
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Fanny and Thwwowy

The Odious/Odorous
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>>25465030
>>25465057
That goes in there and that goes in there and that goes in there and then you're done.
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>>25464620
>Incredible. Reignited by passion for literature.
Hell yeah. A lot of people here seem to hate on Woolf for one reason or another but just based on Dalloway and Lighthouse she's my favorite author by far. I'm saving The Waves for when I really need it since many people seem to say that's her masterpiece, but I'd rec Lighthouse if you haven't read it yet. I like it more than Dalloway personally.
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>wumao dating mining thread
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Whwugh hfgh hyeaaaaawww

iiiiīeeuuussphullll nnnnummmmie dataaaaaaaaaaaaaas
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>>25465030
I did not finish Anna Karenina, I got to about page 400 then switched to something more interesting and never picked it back up
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>23
>The Island where Spider Lilies Bloom / 彼岸花が咲く島
Amazing, what resonated with me the most is this idea of learning a foreign language as a way of freely choosing a new identity, finding a place within another literary culture, and experiencing things that might otherwise remain inaccessible to you.
It’s also impressive how Li Kotomi manages to weave so much of her own personal history into such a short novel, despite its setting being so far removed from our contemporary lives. And the writing is beautiful: you can really feel her love for the Japanese language, especially in the way she uses its particularities to build the novel’s imagery.
>Swann's Way (reread)
I love this first volume so much. There’s such tenderness and humor in the way Proust writes about childhood, his hometown, his family and all their little foibles. I’m currently at the passage where he describes the steeple of the church, and the prose is just so powerful yet gentle.
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>>25462187
>NHK
based
>>25464068
>Les Misérables
BASED
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>>25462150
I haven’t gotten around to reading Hegel both because I tend to dislike reading German authors, so I’ve only extensively read works from a few, but especially because everyone I know that has told me stuff about Hegel has been a turbo autistic wordcel who can’t explain anything of meaning behind the text. This makes me think that the book is either amazing and just flies over these fags heads or it’s trash that impresses fools. Either way I’ll probably get around to it eventually.
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>>25466247
Oh yeah to answer the question. 25. Gesta Francorum. Unadulterated fun kino adventure primary source throughout, with nonstop action and blatantly slandering the author’s foes. I had it on my bookshelf for a while but it’s all in Latin so I waited for my reading level in the lang to be a little higher first. Well worth reading in translation and can highly recommend.

Caesar’s De Bello Gallico is what I’m currently reading in Latin. I read it a long time ago in English in high school, also well worth reading. Deep examination of a text some see as dry will yield a much better grasp on Roman attitudes and culture towards politics and foreigners. Full of adventures and exciting episodes. Just got through a section in Book 3 where a legion is camped out for the winter in a small village in the Alps and makes a desperate last stand against a force 6x their size, ultimately causing a turn of fortune in a last ditch effort to break out of the enemies encirclement and defeating them entirely.
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>>25465467
fuck they're going to put all our ages in a big list and then find out the average age range of people using this site is the average age range of the people you expect to be using this site!!!
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>>25464620
>I can't believe this is the best of troon lit currently
Nevada isn't good but it is important, if that distinction makes any sense. Stone Butch Blues is a bad novel but if you want to get any sense of modern gay/lesbian literature you have to read it because it was the first through the wall and cleared the path for everything else after it. Nevada's the same kind of thing, I think. "Detransition, Baby" is another trans book that I thought was better than Nevada if you're curious
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>>25462150
>26
>A Short Stay In Hell
It gave me the most uneasy feeling and some vivid nightmares for a couple days. I think it's a good way to represent the impossibility of the exact truth in a religious context.

>Blood Meridian
This book is incredibly hard to read because I'm a retard but I'm enjoying it a lot and I think that it's not for most people.
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>>25462150
>38
>Gogol, Dead Souls
haven't laughed so much all year, pretty descriptions too
>Tom Collins, Rigby's Romance
it's alright but i can see why it was edited out of Such is Life into it's own book. bit disappointing from australia's one (1) good novelist
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31
Nicomenchean ethics (or whatever the dude's name was)
I don't have the Greek's/Aristotle's mind set yet. His analysis on book 1-4 are the best parts. The rest are too much all over my head.

Currently, I'm reading the complete works of Plato.
These are much easier to read and like I'm reading fictions.
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39... empire falls
while reading i was conflicted about the content: all aspects of the story were overly mundane and 'not my business'. but as a character study/demonstration, it was great. so i read it as a hobbyist writer and took some notes.

i listened to dungeon crawl carl 'parade of horribles' (book 8) after. still fun and interesting.
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>30
>Notes from Underground
I didn't understand it.
>Lord of the Rings
It's boring.
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>>25468236
i read dead souls this year, was really good. i keep hearing his short stories are a lot better, you read any of those?
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>>25462150
>24
>Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
fun book, a nice stopping point before reading Rhythm of War/Wind and Truth. I really like Dalinar, so that probably helped it, I guess. Probably too long, but I enjoy slice of life (even when Sanderson is unfunny), so it wasn't as much of a drag as I've seen some people saying.
>Shogun by James Clavell
Almost finishing this one and I've enjoyed it so far, it's very well researched and I think the author did a good job of characterizing japanese culture at the time, although sometimes the overtly "west is le bad, east is le exotic and good" view that the author has bothers me a bit at times and the entire "British man embraces japanese culture and starts looking down on his own people" plot is somewhat funny.
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>>25462150
I am 23 years old and the last book I read was "a Parade of Horribles" which is the 8th installment in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. I liked it although it certainly isn't the best book in the series. God I wish Carl and the AI would just fuck already

currently I am reading Circle of Inevitability, which is a sequel of another series called Lord of the Mysteries. it's okay, sometimes it's even quite good. but if you want to read this be aware that this is kinda pulp fiction.
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>>25462150
>20
>Mason and Dixon
I would come home from my service job that made me miserable and read it and it would make me even more miserable. I however still enjoyed it very much and will probably reread it at only a chapter a day as I realized it was structured as a sitcom or maybe Smosh? In my mind I imagined Anthony as Mason and Ian as Dixon and it helped the comedy flow better as I was visualizing it.
>Salambo
Carthage sounds like Ancapistan. They even have the temples to Baal and Moloch which today can be found in hidden grottos on the properties of the hyper wealthy all across America and beyond! Also, Peter Thiel needs to bring back slaves hung and suspended from walls as door security at his corporate tower when the eventual libertarian revolution and true free market takeover happens.
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>>25469036
Literally my brother lol. He got off the Sanderson ride but is liking James Clavell's stuff. Like me, he's finished Shogun and Tai-pan and we both need to read the next one
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>>25467559
>A Short Stay In Hell
I read that after seeing your post. I thought the prose was good and I thought it the right length for what it was. "Evil fiction" can be fun but it's best to not overdue it. After a certain point, depictions of hell and torture get to be too much. There's a fine line between bone-chilling horror fiction and just straight up torture porn.

>You think THAT version of hell is bad? Well this story depicts a hell where every single neuron in your brain is experiencing the maximum amount of pain it can register. But every micro second, your mental capacity to experience pain and register thought multiplies, increasing your pain threshold. This will go on for TREE3 times Graham's Number times Googleplex universe lifecycles. And then the REAL hell starts.
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>>25469002
You're a bad person
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>>25462199
the very based anon
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Eminince in the shadow volume 3, was funny
Eminince in shadow volume 4, also funny, my wife looks at me weird when I start breaking out in laughter



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