>Name the last book you read
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.It sucked
The Táin Bó Cúailnge. I'm an author and was writing a piece about my time in Ireland, I had a dream about something and decided to write a story about it. I googled "Irish legends with [thing I won't name to avoid doxxing myself] in them", read a short summary of it, and started writing figuring I'd finish it later and assuming it would be a couple pages like most Irish Tales I'd read. It was 300, so I had to stop larping as a person who was knowledgeable about Irish myth and folklore and actually become one.Decent read. Basically some greedy fucks hear that their neighboring kingdom has a giant magical bull and raise their army for a giant cattle raid, then due to some magical stuff the defending army is all incapacitated by illness, so teenage demi god Cú Chulainn decides to face down the enemy army alone(well, him and his chariot driver).There were some repetitive bits that didn't really translate well into modern English but it was interesting overall, could work as a movie. Clearly heavily inspired by the Iliad.
The International Jew
I’m reading To Rescue The American Spirit (Teddy Roosevelt bio) now. It’s pretty basic but still good
Hostage, about a Jew spending 500 days in Hamas captivity
You guys wouldn't know it, some indie fantasy writer
Dune. Was gonna read the whole series but got bored in the second book
>>224286193The Count of Monte Cristo (again)
i read carpenter's gothic by william gaddis which made me want to kill myself. i'd recommend iti've been lately splitting myself between hobbes' leviathan (so dull it makes me want to weep), ulillillia's "legend of the 10 elemental masters" (sui generis but objectively kinda shit) and walden (it's nice)
>>224286193a refrigeration manual
Despair by Nabokov Would make a good flick.
>>224286193The Castle. The romantic subplots were a real bore.
>>224286394Are the first two also good?
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom. It is prescient, and more relevant to our contemporary condition than ever before.
Nineteen Eighty Four
>>224286193Marmel and his lemon
Hungry Hungry Caterpillar.Pretty thought provoking.
Day of the Jackal. I think its movie might be my favorite film adaptation ever.
Process and Reality.
>>224286731you can just say 1984
>>224286193Rise of EndymionIt fucking sucked
>>224286193The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda by Nathalia Holt
>>224286753glad to see a carle scholar in this cultural wasteland
atlas shrugged. it was a piece of shit and i'm never reading again
>/tv/ - What Book Should I Read?I'm not making fun. I think the demise of Hollywood is a good thing.
Buddenbrooks
>>2242861931066: the hidden history in the bayeux tapestry
>>224286864>reading Ayn RandThere's your mistake.
>>224286357It's really cool that you're an author anon. That's hot.
>>224286193This author is fucking weird and really glosses over the fact he just overlooked the Afghan police smuggling young boys into their stations to use as sex slaves.
>>224286774No way.
Manufacturing Consent
Siege.
Mistborn: The Final EmpireDungeon Crawler CarlReady Play OneEDIT: thanks for the gold everyone!
Underwood by Dan Delillo
>>224287041delilloGOD spotted. have you read anything else of his?
>>224286193Fevre DreamWhat a fun ride until that shitty midpoint twist. George just can't finish. I still hope HBO adapts it.
Satan's World by Poul Anderson. I really liked it (:
>>224286906Ist das gut, ja?
Fahrenheit 451 back in high school
>>224286193A Confederacy of Duncesmade me think about all my /tv/ friends
The one I actually sat down and read was 'We Used to Live Here'. But the last audiobook I heard was 'All Smiles Until I Return'.
>>224287274was it good? or classic "oooh mystery twist" slop?
>>224286193Like finished or just read?
>>224286593Is it a comedy?
>>224287258I worked for a doctor who proudly displayed his copy of it on his desk. I wasn't sure what to make of it.
>>224286193Bill Goldberg's autobiography. Got it in one of those free libraries people put out. It sucked
I really should get back into reading uncle john's bathroom readers
>>224286971It's good stuff. Very insightful. I'm gonna read about spiral dynamics next, though I know it won't be anywhere near as interesting.
>>224287416Process and Reality is already complicated for an amateur or even decent self educated philosophy reader. I just can't reasonably believe anybody on /v/ is reading it unless memeing. But if you really did, good for you bro. Genuinely respectable. Philosophy is very hard
>>224287416>Process and Reality.You've got my interest, anon.How rigorous are his arguments, I like thorough arguments rather than just idealistic musings.
>>224286193Lando by Louis L'amour. I enjoy easy to read western adventures or Agatha Christie mysteries when I go on a trip.
>>224286193LolitaIt's the funniest thing I've ever read.
>>224286193Heroes by Stephen Fry.I had been told a lot of Greek myths when I was a kid... Turns out they left out a lot of the sex and bumming. Did you know that Herecles was a complete and utter shit-stabber and shirt-lifter? Did most of his adventures and labours acompanied by his mincing gay lover. Atlanta was basically a dyke until she was beeten in a footrace by a man who distracted her with Apples, then when he fucked her she liked it so much she started asking to get railed on the alters in temples, one day she angered the wrong goddess and got turned into a lioness, meaning she could no longer get man dick.Many such examples.
>>224286193V for VendettaMade me realize how much I fucking hate the movie version. Alan Moore is still a cringy commie faggot
>>224286193All the Pretty HorsesI really liked it. Started Claw of the Conciliator last week.
>>224287313I liked it, but I like "oooh mystery twist" slop. If you want clean, straight-forward answers, avoid it. If you don't mind fever-dream logic and weird shit happening with barely any explanation, go for it.
Started reading Brave New World per /lit/s recommendation, but the first chapter is a bit of a slog
The Winter of our Discontent I love John Steinbeck but this wasn't his best. Ends with a wet fart as well. Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row and East of Eden were far better
>>224286193Gotrek and Felix omnibus 1.
>>224286193I thought it was good
>>224287258everyone on 4chan should read this novel
>>224286193La Bas
>>224287674>fell for the /lit/ huxley gatekeep psyopoh no no no...
>>224287471We're on /tv/ not /v/. But to tell you the truth I've been working on my own book for the past couple years where I'm trying to present a model of reality where everything is comprised of nested patterns of recursive emergence. While trying to establish the process through which that model itself emerges someone on /sci/ recommended that I check out Alfred North Whitehead. This was the first I'd heard of him but I immediately saw parallels between the basics of his work and the things I was trying to work out myself. I've been studying his work for several months now. As for why I'm on 4chan, I have been coming here for fun since I was a teenager and just never broke the habit. >>224287472I'd say he's very thorough overall. It's all very internally consistent and does not leave much of anything unaccounted for. His system isn't really a logical necessity with no room for criticism or skepticism but it also isn't easily refutable by any means.
>talk to someone who’s really into reading>they just only bring up high school level fiction and greek philosophy
>>224286193The last thing I read was An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge. It's a short story - a decent episode of the Twilight Zone.Last book? 1177 BC, which is about the Bronze Age Collapse.Prose needed work. I tend to stick to non-fiction or short stories if fiction.
book of jeremiah
>>224286193Read or listen to?
>>224287889Audiobooks don't count btw
>>224287889It doesn't really matter whether you're taking the information in through your eyes or your ears as long as the information is the same either way.
>>224287940False
>>224286193The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>>224287944You're just being pretentious. Drop the act. You'll get more out of life.
>>224287674>>224287740the setting outlined in BNW is the highlight but as a story it's deeply uninteresting
The Violent Bear It Awaypretty good for a femoid author
>>224287985Reading a book and listening to a book are fundamentally different experiences, particularly with fiction.
>>224288043The biggest difference is just hearing the words in someone else's voice rather than your own, but to act like it doesn't count is silly.
The Life Of PiThe movie is stupid but I figured the book must have better because the premise was interesting.
>>224288067The biggest difference is seeing an entire page in front of you instead of waiting for the narrator to read every word individually.Unless, of course, you're bad at reading.
Ancillary Sword.Meh.
>>224286193Far from The Light of Heaven.decent kind of locked room mystery on a deep space colony ship where the captain wakes up and shit is fucked
>>224288126This is a weird point to argue. I'm not even sure what you're trying to say. Seeing the words on the page is an essential part of enjoying a story? You want to be able to take in information at your own pace? Idk but these are definitely personal preferences of yours and not anything fundamental to storytelling or enjoying books. Also if you're saying that you're a speed reader then I'd suggest focusing more on comprehension instead. There is tremendous value in taking your time.
Bonfire of the Vanities, fun read! Now I'm listening to Wolf's othe book The Right Stuff and it's pretty good tooAlso does anyone have the greentext that is something along the lines of "be me, American Dad writer, Seth works us like dogs while the Family Guy writers come in at noon drunk every day"?
We have to go back
Dune Messiah, before that, Dune; and picrel, but I didn't finish it. need to go back to it.
>>224286193Heat 2
>>224286930>he just overlooked the Afghan police smuggling young boys into their stations to use as sex slaves.pretty sure it's claimed that many US servicemembers objected to this going on but were told by their superiors to ignore it. The ANA+Police were the most useless, disgusting pieces of shit in history.
