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Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
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>>60032>>54504 No.67514
>>67513https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fictionyou can start by reading the wikipedia first
and here's a chart with gothic books
No.67521
Going to start reading philosophy. Are Plato's dialogues a good start? I watched a summary of the pre-socratichs
No.67522
>>67521>>67521Why read some irrelevent, outdated philosophies from some uptight aristocrat when you can instead experience the world for yourself, ponder it, come to conclusions about why things are what they are and how they ought to be, and then record these ideas? Reading philosophy is just entertainment for those who can't reflect. Philosophize for yourself instead.
No.67524
>>67522Plato was a virgin
No.67525
>>67524So was Elliot Roger but it doesn't change the fact that his rich boy delusions and status-related butthurt is all a crock of whiny horse manure
No.67526
>>67525Yeah but Elliot Rodger would hate being platonic friends, but Plato founded it
No.67527
Ive been reading what the unwashed masses call fine literature. Stormlight Archive book 4 Rhythm of War
No.67530
>>67527I've tried many times to read Rythm of War but I couldn't finished the first couple or chapters, even tougu I read all the tree before, but this one is slog to read, 20 pages of Kaladin trying to fight the Parshendin or Shallan having a personality disorder. The first book was kino as fuck.
No.67549
Just discovered him, while looking for books similar to Cioran
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Disquiet No.67550
>>67549I'm surprised you found him through wikipedia instead of wizchan, we've been talking about this guy for 6 or 7 years in these threads at this point.
No.67551
>>67550well tbh I'm mostly into nonfiction philosophy not literary novels, so I mostly ignored all fiction books. But this book seems more like a stream of consciousness like Cioran
I had no idea
No.67552
>>67551I hope you enjoy the book, it's one of my favorites.
No.67560
>>67549“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
No.67677
I have recently finished "King Solomon's Mines". This is an old book, one of the first to popularise the lost world/adventure genre in the english language. I thought it was okay, by today's standards it is quite average, but at the time I can see how it was quite ground breaking.
It is a proper boys adventure novel, just pure fun and adventure, no sex or excessive swearing that I've come to loathe in modern novels, and it is kind of a product of its time though I'm not bothered by that. You can see how it could have influenced future adventure writers, including Tolkien.
My biggest gripe about it is how little the characters prepare. For example, they knew they were going to cross a vast desert and the supplies they packed were a huge amount of guns and ammo and two days worth of water. How the hell was that a good idea to the leader who has spent most of his life hunting in the wilderness? Is this another product of its time thing when the Victorians believed in Divine Providence, or is it a lesson the reader is meant to pick up on themselves or what? Either way, I enjoyed it, a fun and easy read, a simple story but plenty of action packed into 250ish pages.
No.67710
I'm reading Star Trek Vanguard, for now it's a ok reading, liking so far.
No.67748
I have The trouble with Canada… Still on my stack right now and am leafing through it. Boomer junk from the 90's rewritten for a new audience as if there's some stable continuity. I really have to stop picking up whatever book I see in the thrifter without deeply researching the authors or spending a few minutes seeing the quality of arguments. This guy wrote a 400 page book that reads like a boomer talking about whatever daily happenings hit his newspaper diet while codifying it in worthless, abstract philosophy. And of course… small government is the essence of conservatism! There's so much junk nonfiction in the world these days, like podcasters who really don't know much about a subject talking to a video with maybe a few hundred views.
No.67810
What's the essential /wiz/ fiction and non fiction books?
No.67811
>>67810we need a chart about it. I suggest the metamorphosis by kafka. the main protagonist get in trouble and became a burdden for the family. sounds like wizards that turn into neets/hiki who become a burdden for the family
No.67812
>>67810To me? Cosmic horror.
No.67832
>>67810My list:
Mars - Fritz Zorn
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
Skylark - Dezső Kosztolányi
The Bet - Anton Chekhov
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Confession - Leo Tolstoy
Also, though I haven't read it, Book of Disquiet gets recommended pretty much continuously here
No.67841
>>67289Charles Bukowski, but you have to ignore all the succubi parts and focus on the solitude and life parts.
Check "You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense", it's perfect for Wizards as you can tell by the title.
No.67842
>>67521Yes it's a great place to start, most are short and interesting and only a few, like The Laws, are very boring and you can simply skip them.
The Republic is not short, but it's the best one. If you like that one, folow with Politics by Aristotle, he was Plato's student and he comments on The Republic on it.
After that, I suggest you check the Stoics.
No.67843
>>67569Here the link to download it if some one wants to check it out:
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=No+language+but+a+cry No.67875
Read the first two books to Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A short but fun read, imaginative with lots of things going on. My only gripe would be Arthur, the MC, being so brain-dead, just stumbling along from one event to another without really adapting to his situation.
No.67879
>>67522there is good sight to be gained that you would not have come up with yourself or simply would take too long to do it and it would be a waste of time. I agree with you that most of it is worthless though.
No.67894
Reading Star Wars Force Awakens novelization, seems a shameless rip-off of New Hope
No.67897
Any good NEETdom novel?
No.67898
>>67897beside welcome to nhk, I don't know any. maybe japanese authors are more so to write a book about hikkineet because the phenomenon is a japanese thing studied for years so now hikkikomori are well known. but I don't know if a non-japanese has already wrote a book about neet and telling you to search on internet would be like a pain in the ass because it is non-existant or 1%
No.67905
>>67902>r9k litdo not read these crab shit, it's poison to your brain. do not feed your brain with poison.
do not describe/identify yourself as an crab. as you do this, you going to relate on this books and you legitimize being subhuman and cope like that.
>inb4 le reddit image>inb4 le i have very low iq and i think every positive thing i do is for society and normiesstop this childish bullshit please. and time is flowing, remember that before you make a choice of how you identify yourself.
No.67906
>>67905you are the vegan faggot who makes being a vegan his whole identity and hates anime and writes like a fucking redditor, nobody should take advice from you, you are also mentally ill lmfao.
No.67911
>>67907>>67906>you this you that, because you press enter while writing a post>you like (insert childish delusional stereotype here) because my ass hurtsgrow up.
No.67912
>>67905>>67905Like it or not, original wizardchan was a off-shoot from old /r9k/ before the crab took over, so many of those book are indeed related to wizarddom
No.67917
>>67916The Second Apocalypse series, peak dark, it's a mature dark, even more dark than song of ice and fire, very dark, bleak, almost nihilistic in a sense, read the first Trilogy to see if you like it.
No.67919
>>67917ok thank you very much
No.68011
Just finished Seneca's 'On Anger' and plan to read 'On Mercy' soonish. First I want to make more progress on:
>'Slenderman' by Kathleen Hale
Supposed to be an in-depth investigation/study of the stabbing in Wisconsin a whole-ass decade ago and the crazy bitches who did it, a crime almost as heinous as the movie 'Slender' released a few years afterward!
>'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien
I am *finally* reading this fucker after way too long, the copy I bought in 2011 having read The Hobbit in 2010! And you know what, it's alright. 70 pages in and the Hobbits are finally getting the fuck out of the Shire, let's go.
No.68047
LDAR and suicide by diet in Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut:
What the Englishman said about survival was this 'If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.' He said that he had seen several men die in the following way: They ceased to stand up straight, then ceased to shave or wash, then ceased to get out of bed, then ceased to talk, then died. There is this much to be said for it: it is evidently a very easy and painless way to go.' So it goes. The Englishman said that he, when captured, had made and kept the following vows to himself: To brush his teeth twice a day, to shave once a day, to wash his face and hands before every meal and after going to the latrine, to polish his shoes once a day, to exercise for at least half an hour each morning and then move his bowels, and to look into a mirror frequently, frankly evaluating his appearance, particularly with respect to posture
Billy Pilgrim heard all this while lying in his nest. He looked not at the Englishman's
face but his ankles.
'I envy you lads,' said the Englishman.
Somebody laughed. Billy wondered what the joke was.
'You lads are leaving this afternoon for Dresden-a beautiful city, I'm told. You won't be cooped up like us. You'll be out where the life is, and the food is certain to be more plentiful than here. If I may inject a personal note: It has been five years now since I have seen a tree or flower or succubus or child-or a dog or a cat or a place of entertainment, or a human being doing useful work of any kind.
A resentful anti-war book full of friendless characters.
Spoilers:
»What had been missed was a Tiger tank. It swiveled its 88-millimeter snout around sniffingly, saw the arrow on the ground. It fired. It killed everybody on the gun crew but Weary. So it goes. Roland Weary was only eighteen, was at the end of an unhappy childhood spent mostly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had been unpopular in Pittsburgh. He had been unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed. He was always being ditched in Pittsburgh by people who did not want him with them. It made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It was a pattern … 'You have friends?' Derby wanted to know. 'In the war?' said Lazzaro. 'Yeah-I had a friend in the war. He's dead.' So it goes. 'That's too bad.' Lazzaro's eyes were twinkling again. 'Yeah. He was my buddy on the boxcar. His name was Roland Weary. He died in my arms.' Now he pointed to Billy with his one mobile hand. 'He died on account of this silly cocksucker here. So I promised him I'd have this silly cocksucker shot after the war… With regard to the whereabouts of Kilgore Trout: he actually lived in Ilium, Billy's hometown, friendless and despised. Billy would meet him by and by«
No.68048
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_the_Galactic_RailroadI bought this book, it has inspired leiji matsumoto' ge 999 (my favorite anime). I hope I'll enjoy it
No.68059
>>68058>On BullshitA classic right up there with such barcade gender-neutral bathroom softcovers like "The Art Of Not Giving A Fuck", "Having A Normal One", and "What Your Zodiac Sign Says About Your Vibes"