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Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
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>>64932>>60032>>54504 No.69421
>>69411Things get even worse after God Emperor, Frank just jumped the sharks, read until God and stop, just read for yourself and see if you like God or not, for me was really shitty and convoluted
No.69466
>>69027I don’t contribute to these threads because I find it very difficult to write about the books I’ve read, but I enjoy reading your book “reviews” very much.
No.69482
Did anyone here tried to read philosophy, specially the primary sources like Kant?
No.69484
>>69482I've read some of the early shit. Like pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. I've also read a LOT of christian theology. Some Descartes, but other than him, I didn't get that close to the present other than theology.
No.69489
>>69482Honestly not since college. My tolerance for convoluted word games and spending whole books on something that can easily be explained with a well written paragraph to page of text at most.
There is just so much horribly written intellectual wankery to make arguments for ideas that are fundamentally not functional in objective reality. Far too many just make shit up and then play word games and faulty premises to construct false logic to support their make up nonsense. Results don't matter, the real world doesn't matter, reason doesn't matter, it's all just mental masterbation and intentional overcomplication because if they just came out and said their point even a small child could point out how fucking stupid all of their premises and conclusions are.
God damn did I waste too much time on that bullshit in my late teens and early 20s.
No.69517
decided to read the bible cover to cover
just finished genesis
it's actually a lot more entartaining than i thought it would be
there's some really crazy shit in it
No.69519
>>69518
nova vulgata
but i occasionally check out other translations to compare such as the niv and nrsvue
No.69520
I can't read fiction for the life of me, I can only read nonfiction. I try reading fiction and I immediately lose interest.
Which puts me in a difficult position because I've been learning russian in order to read Dostoievsky and Tolstoi in the original language.
No.69526
>>69520You have the curse of being a productivefag, only read stuff if "productive" or "have value", I bet you are one of those simple minded people that doesn't like animation because "its for kids".
No.69528
>>69526While you're not entirely wrong, animation is my favorite form of cinema.
No.69538
>>69526This comes hand in hand with anhedonia. If you can't enjoy things anyway, the thought process is that you may as well do things that are productive.
No.69539
>>69410>>69411>>69421I honestly think you both should give dune another chance. It's one of those book series that get better on a reread.
It's easy to tear a story down saying it's convoluted or that frank jumps the shark, but what are your actual issues? It feels like you don't understand it and you're lashing out because it's 2deep4u
Don't read Brians books though.
No.69545
>>69539What's deep about a fucking man-worm moaning about not being human anymore and everything being boring because he knows all the psychological variation of mankind?
No.69550
>>68412I know this post is several months old, but i bought an edition of "the ballad of the salty sea around a month ago.
I started reading today, and while the art isn't that great (especially when compared to other 70s comics), i found it to be pretty enjoyable overall.
My dad is a really big fan
No.69556
..I mean, just because it's called "The unbearable likeness of being"…
No.69593
I'm reading a book about FDR called Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands. It's one hell of a doorstopper and I'm not sure if I can finish it even though the book is well written.
I enjoy reading biographies like that, they mix historical facts and anecdotes and it makes you know the man rather than a historical figure and learn more about the historical period, both the facts and how people lived.
I have some more presidential biographies in my backlog. I'm not even American, but I likr US history and I'm slowly learning about the presidents.
Anyway, the book is great, but I came to hate FDR the man. His presidency was complex, but I mean him as a person. I can't put my finger on it, but something makes me disgusted with him. He wasn't a very intelligent man, sort of a nepobaby, a shallow normalfag and an incestous lecherous fuckward who fucked up everything he did, from business to law practice. Or maybe it's how I see him… I think he was a bad man, as a person, idk.
No.69597
>>69593I met H.W. Brands and he signed my copy of his biography of U.S. Grant which I never finished
No.69670
Need easy reading recommendations for when I am too weak and brainfogged to read real books but it can't require too much or attention so I don't get intimidated back into doomscrolling again. Doesn't even have to be books. It can be websites or anything one rung higher intellectually than reading about controversies on 4chan.
No.69671
>>69670Manga/doujin/comics?
No.69684
>>69670I like audiobooks for this. You can get public domain ones at
https://librivox.org/ (although whether the reader is pleasant or unlistenable is always a dice roll) or torrent proffessional ones at
https://audiobookbay.lu, or myanonymouse if you can deal with private tracker stuff.
No.69688
>>69681Man, stoicism really became a grift this days
No.69689
>>69681>Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself, which you may keep both alone and in companyHow? i dont get it.
>We cannot control the external events around us; we can control ourselves. It is not things that trouble us, but our judgments about things.Sound Buddhist and Taoist to me.
I remember reading something about the buddhist and chinese philosophers of how they see the relationship we have with things, rather than the things themselves. You don't hate people, but rather the relationship you have with those people or things. The problem is that we don't see it and we are being deceived.
>Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them.Yep, never call you a
awaken up buddha or something. live based on your own actions, because titles are useless and do not count as merit.
No.69722
This blog is awesome for book recommendations:
www.cadaverminimal.blogspot.com
No.69783
Reading Borges. Where's my reading bros at?
No.69788
https://thegreatestbooks.org/What's the books wiz think about this site? It's a cool place to get know books.
No.69790
>>69788thanks for posting there's a lot of books I want to read after reading the summary of the books
No.69796
>>69788>Ulysses at #1holy based. Didn't expect that.
As a litfag, I'd say it's a pretty good list. Some proper classics mixed in with shit you should've really read in high school mostly. Essentially babby's first literature but by far not a terrible place to start.
If you read the top 25 you'll have some great books and experiences under your belt and you'll also be better read than 99.9% of the population. Do take it with a small grain of salt though. Some books, especially Ulysses, shouldn't be read without reading the author's other works. Also no Pynchon in the top 50 is concerning. On the other hand, no magical realism shit other than Marquez, and no "le starkly profound look at america" slice of life shit like Franzen or Delillo either, so it all balances out.
>Pride and prejudice at 12succubi must have found the list
>lolita at 13yuck. Hate nabokov. Such a try hard. Maybe that was the point- didn't like it either way.
No.69799
What's the quintessential wizNEET book?
No.69802
>>69799Notes from underground.
No.69805
>>69802the underground man had a job, he was just bitter, narcissit, and probably mentally ill, he was not a wizNEET.
>>69800What about confedenracy of dunce?
No.69808
>>69806Seems wiz-adjacent, not fully wiz, but close.
No.69815
Truth is: I hate reading classic book, it's all about "muh human condition", "muh suffering and le feelings", it's very boring after reading couple of classic book, all the same shit, the real stuff is reading sci fi or fantasy, get lost in a new world is cool as fuck, reality is already depressing, and ain't wasting time reading depressing books, waste of time.
No.69890
Is Wheel of Time worth the read? Or should I go and read the Malazan series?
No.69913
>>69815>the underground man had a jobhe quit it and isolated as soon as he received a little inheritance
No.69914
The Underground Man is forty years old remembering stuff from his early 20s.
No.69919
>>68295Somehow finished The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath despite taking months of breaks between sessions. It has a interesting ending but i wish i were fully awake to and not pissed of while reading it.
Any recommendations that are similar to that book and the first chapters of the king in yellow? Really liked first chapter/story in particular of that book.
No.69922
> In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers focus instead on selected passages — a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content will prepare students for the modern, digital world.https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/not-so-great-expectations-students-are-reading-fewer-books-in-english-class/I think this is a good thing, and I would have enjoyed English class more if it was about reading short things with a critical intensity. rather than reading long things as an endurance test. its just a timewaster. I'm a fan of Leo Straussian slow reading.
Don't get me wrong, I'm actually against abridging. Since I think authors going off topic is part of the beauty of language. So of the excerpt, you should read the full text.
But I think a slow, close, critical reading of a short text or excerpt or even a quote is better than long lazy distracted tired reading.
No.69936
>>69922I think is important to have a endurance to read full book instead of just taking part of it, if you raise people just reading on key passages instead of a full book you're bound to make people stupid
No.69937
>>69914>>69914Wasn't clear that he's not a mentally healthy person? He's very bitter, neurotic, narcissistic from the impression I had reading the book.
No.69940
>>69815>"muh human condition", "muh suffering and le feelings"Fantasy and SciFi don't have this?
The most famous fantasy book and the most famous scifi series are a both about this. In fact you'll be hard pressed to find a novel that doesn't revolve around these elements.
No.69941
>>69940It think the coat of paint of a fantasy world and such can make this idea more palatable for people, instead of creating a story about your typical XXI century human drama, it's more fun to read when it against a backdrop of like a galactic empire or a fantasy realm.
No.69942
Does anyone has a good reading guide on how to get into continental philosophy?
No.69968
>>69942>Does anyone has aNo.