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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I'm almost finished it. I saw the film for the first time when I was around 14 and I've seen it many times since and only recently decided to read the book. As great as the film is, the book is vastly superior. It's got many more layers and everything from the characters to the plot or the setting has so much more depth to it. It's a great critique of authoritarian bueracratic power structures and a social critique of what it means to be normal. The scene where shock therapy is compared to death by electric chair as both being cures for what society deems as wrong or unwanted stood out in particular. Great book

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The Satanic mass
What the fuck is with the French?

>>25206170
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Gil Blas
It's quite good, great adventuring, and it's much simpler to read than Don Quixote (less obscure references)

Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?

>>25206170
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Old Masters from Thomas Bernhard
Only page at page 50. I always have trouble with finding a good point to put the book down. It is an inconvenience that the whole book is only one paragraph. But it reads very smooth. Really entertaining despite not really much happening. Although there is more happening than in Frost or Woodcutters. Seems more happy than these two too.

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>26
>pic related
>enjoying it much more than I ever imagined

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>>25206170
>28
>Dune: Messiah
Too much yapping

>>25206170
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Ada, or Ardor
Absolutely delicious writing. It straddles the line between majestic use and terrible abuse of English so well. I want to keep reading just for the prose. Our two love birds are fun too, I suppose.

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The three musketeers
Ive only got 50 pages to go but i think I like it more than Count of Monte Cristo, boys

>>25206202
>Jihadist foot soldiers do a lot of reading, do they?
My thought was it was leftie Kurdish type, but I don't know how many of those read recreationally in Turkish.

>>25206170
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Beren and Luthien

God I hate prose narrative and rhymes

>>25206170
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Capital v.1
Iron John
Complete Poems of John Keats
*Capital is good, it's been rough getting through the beginning, almost through chapter 3. It's the most stimulating read I've ever had, gotta appreciate that feeling.
About sixty pages into Iron John, i like his description of encountering the wild man at any age of your life and basically deciding for once in your life to be daring enough to commit to a dangerous act (my words, not his) and stealing the key from under your mother's pillow. I hadn't considered that men have been turning "soft" since post WW1.
As for Keats, it's my first real nosedive into poetry so I'm just trying to adapt and develop an understanding of rhyme and meter, but i do like the content so far. Read 'O Solitude! if i must with thee dwell' this morning. I don't have anytging significant to say here, other than that I'm enjoying the journey.

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>>25206170
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John Gray - Seven Types Of Atheism
Dunno, just started it after reading Stripping Of The Altars as a palette cleanser

>32
>The Shadow-Line
>Love it even more than the previous two in this collection, and I already thought Nigger of the Narcissus was a 8.5/10 and Typhoon a 9/10

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>19
>Loop by Koji Szuki
The whole series has been a blast so far. Much better than the movie(s) (I've only seen the 1st but a ton of the original content was rewritten. Basically everything with Ryuji is cut, i don't even know if they include Ryjui in the movies).

Fuck off with your blatant attempt at data mining, cunt.

>47
>Paradise Lost
>I left reading this FAR too late in my life. I’d already read Dante, Homer, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Virgil, Chaucer, Ovid in my younger days but never got around to Milton. After picking up poetry again in recent years through Hölderlin and then Blake it felt like a natural progression, despite going backwards.

It’s quite possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever read. Just finished Book X and the resolve of man after falling so far is inspiring, though it’s often a rather depressing poem. Book IX is the greatest tragedy I’ve ever read and it’s where Milton’s poetry reaches its peak, in my opinion.

>>25206170
>32
>Dune Messiah
God, Alia made me hot and bothered. Also fuck the space Jews and fuck midgets.

>23
>Say Nothing
First history book I've read that I felt like I shouldn't tell someone fully about what happened to not spoil it
>>25206202
My ethno guesser autism has to agree with the other anon, the nose shape isn't typical of arabs.

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35 in three days
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
It's alright, I'm on the last chapter. There's been some interesting bits like where Cortes tried to convince the natives that the Spanish cannon and horses were sentient and pissed off at them by firing said cannon and driving a horny stallion into prancing madness by giving him a whiff of a mare in heat and the posthumous smear campaign about Bortello the conquistador "astrologer and caster of lots" that swears a flock-stuffed leather dildo was found among his personal effects after he was killed.

Glad to see genuine cheeky pettiness was alive and well 450+ years ago.

>>25206351
how can you tell it's that vs someone wanting book recs?

>>25206170
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

So far, it is very enjoyable. Funnier than I would’ve expected and the chapter describing Quasimodo and the cathedral is genuine kino. I know this probably won’t last long as I’ve heard the story is brutally dark. If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other work

I feel so old… there must only be like 4 other Gen Xers here.

>Gen Xer goes into a millennial space
>YEAH, WELL UMM... I'M A GEN XER SO..
Nobody cares. Fuck off.

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Moomin
It's alright but vastly worse than other children's fantasy like Tolkien

>>25206170
>22
>Thomas Traherne -- Centuries of Meditations
>Better than every other book

>>25206809
Try OurTime or SilverSingles, grandpa.

>39
>finished Flights by Olga Tokarczuk today
Enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would recommend. Starting The Death of Artemio Cruz tonight most probably

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>23
>(Re-reading) Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
One of the coolest books i ever read.

>25
>The Qur'an: A Verse Translation
>MashAllah

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War And Peace
Book 1 was a slog. Both because it felt like a Jane Austen book and also because it's hard to keep track of and remember everyone. It really started to click for me with how much more focused books 2 and 3 are. Just got up to Andrew/Andrei being captured and, while I want to read more, my eyes hurt and I'm worried I'll get burnt out trying to power through the rest of it.
I'm going to take a break with something easier.

>>25206351
You schizos are always so fucking dumb. He didn't even list a geographical location. What "concrete" fact about your lame, faggy little life will some glowie gleam from knowing your current age and what book you read lately?

Shut up, you fucking wacko.

>Secret
>The Screwtape Letters
>Nice little devotional book. I appreciate how easy it is to read Lewis' prose compared to someone like Chesterton.

>>25206186
Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists."
Do occultists actually do anything (with it or in general) or is it all larp?

>>>25206255
This book is pure kino

>Ficciones
>Pure kino
It's just "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" if it were fucking mundane.

>>25206907
Filtered by short stories?

>>25206932
It's lame shit, dummy.

>33
>The Fellowship of the Ring
>the is simply a vehicle for Tolkien's autism-induce mythos, but it's cool

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Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe.

Interesting look at it from the inside of a residual cultural mnemotype, even if it's far more residual today than it was at the time of writing. I don't read or interact with japanese culture enough for it to add to anything but I'm enjoying reading it all the same. The prose is serviceable and a little understated. The ideas are communicated clearly, though I very much doubt such ideas were ever given more than surface level consideration by most of its adherents. It's also quite short, I suspect I'll be done today and I fired it up this morning. It makes a nice chance from my recent delves.

>>25206800
Probably because these turn up often qnd usually come with personal questions. This one is admittedly the only one I've seen without a location/gender/political orientation tag or whatever. Age is telling.

>>25206906
>Amazon reviews say this book is "for occultists."
That’s a poor understanding of the book unless you’re taking inspiration from the details of black masses for your LARP but the book itself is just an account of cases of Satanism throughout history. Again, majority being French.

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Blood Meridian
A little over half way through, Glanton and his gang are ruthless curs. Why’d they have to run all them mules off the cliff, upset me. The kid is an interesting protagonist. The judge is a pretentious twat, if devil incarnate. I’ve had to use the dictionary a lot, and my meager understanding of Spanish has been put to the test. Really enjoying McCarthy’s prose a lot more than I thought I would having only read The Road by him prior to this.

>21
>bible NABRE
I’ve been reading it front to back (I know not recommended)until I got to the prophet section which isn’t arranged in chronological order which killed a lot of my motivation reading through it. So I’ve went and looked to see when each book takes place and started reading from there.

>>25207110
Oh yeah the prose in BM is great. For all the memeing and recent vitriol surrounding it—which can tend to blind people to the quality of the work—it’s really well written.

>>25207030
Ah ok got it. I like they included the age because I can compare what I'm reading

>32
>no country for old men
Its alright but cormacs other books are better imo. I’m gonna watch the movie when I finish and I feel the movie will be better than the book.

>26
>the talented mr. ripley
>he's literally me

35
Cousin Bette
Just started it but it's alright so far.

26
Crime and punishment
Raskolnikov Is a really fun protagonist and Raz is peak bro. Love em.

>HUUUUUURRRRRR, DATAMINING!!!
This dipshit is in EVERY thread.

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Dune on my bed side table. Brothers K coming in the mail.tomorow..
(I'm testing my ability to make a post. )Dune: 200 pages in they're walking through a desert and it's starting to get choppy to read, as if parts of the action were lost so I'm losing my mind trying to keep up. I hate this glossary where he throws out terms just to make me view the glossary (two words for poisons in different state of matter, when "he was scared of a poison" woild have done the same work, do they ever come up again?), not every term is defined there. Maybe gonna drop it.

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>29
>I only read the first 15 pages of any book and then stop reading
I'm kinda depressed. But I'm gonna start working out tomorrow though.

>>25206806
>If Hugo is usually like this I’ll definitely check some of his other work
Pretty much all his books follow the same themes; unrequited love and/or class struggles. I'd recommend Toilers of the Sea if you like the 'man on a boat' setting.

>>25207749
Noted. I do like a man on a boat. Thanks anon

>>25206170
>30
>Confessions of a Mask
>The protagonist, just like in The Golden Pavillion, is shaping up to be a massive fag just like the protag in The Golden Pavilion. Mishima's prose is great but god DAMN I can't stand some of his protagonists.

Old (I grew up in the 80s)
The Piano Teacher
Just finished. A bit of a slog. Stodgy writing and mostly boring. The film is better.

Just started The Death of Grass. How have I missed this? I'm a fan of apocalyptic / disaster novels and this one is rolling right along. So far, it reminds me of The Day of the Triffids in tone, but it's early days yet.

>>25207407
Naive retard.

> By Night in Chile by Bolano
>23
>Only 25 pages in but enjoying it so far. Beautiful prose.

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Against Method
The thesis is incredibly important and changed (maybe coalesced is a better word) my thinking quite a bit, but the text itself is full of mistakes and extremely dated, cringe leftoid sentimentality. Overall a great book but it feels like it could be rewritten by someone else with modern knowledge and become even better. About halfway done with it now, might skim the rest as I'm already convinced and dont find much of the argumentation all that compelling in detail.

>>25206827
Moomins appeal is just wallowing in coziness with a touch of the mystic fear of the finnish forest. It's for pretty young kids, although I still find it very charming.

>>25207944
Stop signing your posts.

>>25206202
Behold the Americanoid respond with anger the second he percieves a random guerrilla as 'Jihadist', as he has been well conditioned to do by his pedophile overlords. This despite the fact that the man is clearly not reading in Arabic nor displaying any Islamic symbols or cultural markers. Luckily, the Americanoid cannot read, for his overlords have dismantled all institutions of learning in his country.

>28
>on the marble cliffs
>just finished solenoid
>book club on white noise starts next month

>>25207127
the movie is fantastic. enjoy it anon

>>25208939
am fucking idiot who forgot to include thoughts

only a couple pages into marble cliffs so no thoughts yet. solenoid was pure schizo hallucinations. some were beautifully written (the first protest at the morgue or the mite colony messiah, for example). the larpy "yea bro i totally have sex" sections got tiresome though

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Solaris
its really slow paced, the descriptions of the planet are interesting but the descriptions of solaristics is boring. I also didnt expect that it would be fully about main character falling in love again with the copy of his dead wife. I expected something more ambitious like some deep questions about the nature of the ocean (which are still in the book but i hoped it would be the main thing about the story). I am still enjoying it tho, I almost finished it.

>32
>Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
>it was alright

>>25208320
Goated book. Love Bolanos prose.

>>25206170
>21
>Lord of the Rings (about halfway through Fellowship)
This is my second reading, but my first was back in middle school, I think. In the past few years I've done a cursory tour of Classics and a few /lit/ memebooks like Infinite Jest (which I loved). Going back to Tolkien, his writing is just great. He has this way that he makes the world itself feel alive, as though every rock, tree, hill, valley and river has a story to tell and a song to sing. It really is a tribute to the folklore and poetry of the Old World.
Also the more I read the more I realize the movies, though good, don't quite live up to the novels.

>>25206906
Screwtape letters is one that it's been a few years since I've read, but it keeps coming back in my mind the more experiences I have. I'll definitely have to go back to it one of these days. I read Mere Christianity and the Space Trilogy last year and both were great.
By the way, this might not be the right place to ask, but does anyone have that screencap of some anons writing a Screwtape letter about a patient that's a /lit/ user? I downloaded it ages ago but lost the file somewhere and haven't seen it here again.

>>25208956
Anyone ever told you that you sound very effeminate? In a good way

>21
>Moby Dick
Beautiful prose that is just a treat to be read aloud and I really love how Melville/Ishmael can arrive at profound soliloquies from seemingly mundane and dry descriptions of a particularly niche subject (cetology and whaling in 19th century America). So many memorable passages (The Lee Shore sticks out the most to me, dedicating an entire chapter to an epic eulogy for a non-character that, by way of his own lack of identity, stands for the innumerable, faceless perishings at sea, is a stroke of genius; and many more examples that are just too many to list). My only complaint is that the prose is way too dense. I practically have to read each chapter twice with notes alongside for me to feel like I’ve properly “grasped” the full meaning that Melville is trying to get across. The more narrative driven sections are also very fun to read. There’s a lot of cheeky humor to be found.

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The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Its amazing. You wouldn't get the book completely if you dont live in the US south. McCullers and Faulkner both capture this deep rooted southern dread that still pervades to today.

22
Piranesi
I just finished it a few minutes ago. It's not the sort of thing that's going to change my life but it shares an aspect with some of my favorite books-for-pleasure in that it gives you a thrilling sense of having discovered something secret about the world which is exciting and dangerous. enjoyed reading it quite a lot. The protagonist is a very amusing person to be in the pov of. It was a worthwhile use of an afternoon.

>>25207178
It's quite mediocre and melodramatic, much like everything else by Balzac. I'm not sure why I read it.

>69 lol
>The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

I like it when he is describing Greece. When he ‘s whining about how bad America is it gets a bit repetitive and dull.

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>>25209366
That's one of the better books I read last year. Glad you liked it too, anon.

>>25206170
>22
>Siddhartha and Julius Caesar
>I finished both within the day. Thus Spake Siddhartha was a good read, but I wouldn't necessarily subscribe to the monism posited by Hesse. Regardless, it's a life affirming work. Julius Caesar was rubbish, with it being a dramatic recount of the famous death of Julius. However, it is less interesting than the actual event it was based on. From delving deeper into Shakespeare's catalogue, the only masterpiece that I have thus discovered is Hamlet. I'll read King Lear next.

>>25206361
I prefer the other epic poems that predate Milton. The first half of Paradise Lost has some of the best English verse to ever exist, but it is inconsistent. Every section with Satan is wonderful. Still, to deny Milton's genius is to be stupid, and the work is thematically complex. However, if I had to re-read a Book in which one of the angels vouchsafes Adam, I'd find it more interesting to commit suicide. Not to say that the "impious war" wasn't interesting, but everything after the midpoint section seems lame in contrast to the greatness of Books I/II.

>>25208956
The Tarkovsky film is one of my favourites.

>>25209461
I've never really enjoyed reading any of shakespeare's plays; they're much better, in my experience, being watched as plays.

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white noise by delilo
only on page 30 but so far its good

>>25209493
Really? I heard it was crap, or at least I interpreted it that way.

>>25209476
I've seen four film adaptations of Hamlet, including the great soviet one, but I have enjoyed it the most when reading it. There is true literary merit within the work itself. I can re-read each monologue a billion times. I haven't necessarily found the same level of existential depth within Shakespeare's other works, but I imagine King Lear being similar. If anything, everything else I've read by Shakespeare has felt shallow in comparison, and this would not be remedied by merely watching a stage production (most of which would likely be poorly performed).

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>>25209069
Nevermind, found it on warosu

>30
>Journey to the West
So, so, so kino... for the first 200 pages. Tripitaka and Sun Wukong recently started their pilgrimage, and the mythological anecdotes leading up to the journey were pure joy. But then all of a sudden Sun Wukong is nerfed for plot. The monster fights are kind of cool but not nearly as awesome as the mythological vignettes and I've heard it's episodic like this for the rest of the book which is disappointing

>>25208760
You sound awfully triggered thirdie.

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>>25208956
Ah, to be 19 and a hot twink again... Cherish these moments anon, total twink death comes sooner rather than later.

>>25209072
Yeah, both in a good and in a bad way. Why are you asking?

>>25209571
your request for concession has been received and accepted.

>>25210362
I accept your mother is a whore, yes

>48
>Sermons on the song of songs , Bernard of Clairvaux
>good

>>25206170
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Musashi
Takehiko Inoue is a fraud for dropping Vagabond and starting a new sportsslop manga.

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>25
>Rising Sun
Only a bit over a third of the way into it, I don't know if I should say it "aged poorly", but every time a Japanese term, phrase, or cultural artifact is explained I have to take a break to laugh, it's just so much less believable or exotic nowadays. Otherwise I'm enjoying it, I'll finally get around to reading Crichton's stuff.

>>25210347
He wants to suck your feminine penis, anon.

>>25206170
>age
22
>current books
Lolita, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Bataille's Eroticism
>your thoughts on it
I'm reading the first two for school. I've read Lolita before and adore it. The Kreutzer Sonata is good and I'm fresh off of Anna Karenina so seeing Tolstoy's moral system evolve is really something. The Bataille book is just some random book I got on a whim, but it is chock full of surprisingly fascinating things to say about transgression and seeing his borrowing of concepts from gnosticism is pretty cool too. I think they kind of fit together considering they're all in dialogue with one another.

>>25210296
I had more appeal to women once I left that phase of my life… around when I turned 23, I believe. Before that, I got told I looked like a girl on my ID photo by bouncers, faggots calling me cute, Asian women over twice my age finding me attractive. It’s flattering but not what I was looking for. I had a friend who was a girl who’d call me a twink daily. I did have one gf and even her gay best friend tried it on with me. Nowadays, well, I’m single right now, but at least they call me rugged and shit.

>>25208956
Solaris had a really cool atmosphere and tension early on, only to be drowned in yapping about the ocean for 40% of the pages.

>23
>Great Expectations

I was extremely hyped and I'm finding it very boring. I'm like 1/3th through, when Pip arrives to London, and things seen to start getting interesting, but God. I'm normally a very patient reader but the stupid plot, the retardation of every single character and their fagginess made me almost drop it.

>>>Threadly schizo that thinks people can figure out who you are or where you live by knowing your age, what book you're reading right now and how you currently feel about it having a melty as usual
Why are schizophrenics like this?

>>25211080
>retard thinks because he's posting on an anonymous website that he is anonymous
>doesn't understand how building a profile works
>didn't even say hello to his handlers

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The Birth of Tragedy (Stanford translation)
I think I'm too stupid for this book, or at least I'm not familiar enough with Schopenhauer to understand the framework that Nietzsche is working in here. I'm reading it very slowly, maybe two sections a day, sometimes re-reading them again later that day if I really felt lost the first time. I'm traveling right now but once I'm home I think I'll re-read everything I've read up to this point in full and take notes down.

>>25206266
>Dune: Messiah
>Too much yapping
If you don't like it you're going to have a rough go withe the later novels. From Children and onwards it's more or less a dissertation on messianic figures and the nature of dictatorships.

>23
>The Decay of the Angel
Just finished the tetralogy, which took me almost six weeks bc my attention span is fried
I've seen a lot of criticism of the ending, but I thought it was flawless and makes perfect sense if you've actually been paying attention to the lengthy discourses on Yogacara throughout the series

>>25207823
You should try Runaway Horses, it's meant to follow Spring Snow but works well enough as a standalone novel

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American Psycho
Why am I reading this?

19
a door into summer
The time travels and cold sleeps (sleeps that lasts like 30 year (or more)) moments make it hard to follow, I guess the cat was cool. It's a little weird that Danny, the main character, get married with Ricky when she was like 11 at the start of the novel but they both use long sleeps, so that makes her 21 and him 30 something at the end.

19
a door into summer
The time travels and cold sleeps (sleeps that lasts like 30 year (or more)) moments make it hard to follow, I guess the cat was cool. It's a little weird that Danny, the main character, get married with Ricky when she was like 11 at the start of the novel but they both use long sleeps, so that makes her 21 and him 30 something at the end.

>>25206892
You mean glean, player.

40
Name of the Rose
I don't understand any of the Latin

>37
>The Name of the Rose
I am really enjoying it. My buddy said that Umberto is some kind of commie, which I don't necessarily doubt, but that doesn't mean the book can't be cool.

>>25211627
Lol wtf.
I have made guesses at the latin and looked it up and been close.

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For whom the bell tolls
Hemingways prose pairs well with my walk home. A scenic landscape that makes me wonder what it means to love and to be with someone.

19
a door into summer
The time travels and cold sleeps (sleeps that lasts like 30 year (or more)) moments make it hard to follow, I guess the cat was cool. It's a little weird that Danny, the main character, get married with Ricky when she was like 11 at the start of the novel but they both use long sleeps, so that makes her 21 and him 30 something at the end.

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>The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
picrel. It's not often that I'm thinking about a book while I'm not reading it, twisting and turning the motifs in my head. Fowles is perfectly challenging for a midwit like me, his characters are fascinating. One of my favourite authors and I'm definitely going to go through the rest of his bibliography.
>>25206906
Screwtape Letters is wonderful. I credit >>25209534 with making me read it.

>33
>The Tragicall Hiftorie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, by William Shakespeare, or just Hamlet if you’re not a pompous faggot like me
>There’s nothing better.

>33
>Same Bed Different Dreams

I’m into it! Don’t do much historical fiction but it’s been interesting learning more about Korea’s origins. Also it is relatively experimental

>24
>Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Queen is Dead kind of blew me away. The absurdity and perversity for the most part don't come across as gratuitous, unlike the violence in the first chapter and the veniality (particularly at the end) of Tralala. The descriptions are vulgar, emphasizing the animal aspects of each of the characters and the sordidness of the surroundings, in which the action, ludicrous in another setting, is able to unfold with surprising naturalness. The meshing of dialogue, internal dialogue, and narration is done really well, and is complemented by the steadily increasing effect of Georgette's drug induced delirium. His mental appeals to Vinnie and delusions of seducing him, his preoccupation with being the center of attention and gaining the respect of his peers, the constant rebukes and the ever renewed attempts in spite of them, etc. contribute to a vision of a life that is pathetic to the point of humor, a humor tempered and ultimately subdued by its grimness of prospect. Strike is dull by comparison (so far), though Selby's characterization of Harry is quite good.

>>25211572
Because it’s a funny little book that is pretty easy to read despite being tedious with the descriptions of decor and dumb products.

>>25206170
>21
>A Feast For Crows
It's fine, but I could honestly care less about the Ironborn.

>>25206170
>34
>Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (or The tale of tales)
I'm just finishing the first day and so far I'm liking it a lot, although I'm reading an English translation; I can read and understand some Italian, but reading XVIIth century Napolitan tales in the particular style and dialect of that region would be the kind of literary strain I'm not prepared to take
One thing that surprised me is that I remember being told some of these stories as a child from people claiming they were traditional folktales without a real actor, especially The Flea's Skin
And Basile was a really good writter, to boot, and a honest one. He was fed up with the upper class's bullshit and general stupidity and sometimes it shows if you look closely, but he made it look more like playful mockery on his part

Too many twenty-something Timmies on this website.

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>30
>Myth Of Sisyphus
I'm two thirds through and I'm kinda regreting it as I don't know shit about phylosophy (I only read some Plato dialogues a few years ago) and I constantly feel like most of the stuff goes above my head. I thought it was something approachable like The Stranger but I guess I was quite wrong. I think I had it on my list because I read some post that said it could be considered a self-help book or something like that lmao

>>25212626
Good morning sir

>>25206170
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The Count of Monte Cristo supplemented with Growth of the Soil.
I prefer the latter.

>>25206170
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>Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
>Its alright. I have read worse.

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The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales
It's fun, but gets kind of tiresome sometimes.

>>25213124
What do you think about The Count? I've not read it but a few of my acquaintances who are getting into literature are starting off with this book, which is surprising as its over 1000 pages.

>>25206170
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Oliver twist
I like it. Dickens caricature work, humor, and perambulatory sentences are enjoyable. Pretty dark but also comical.

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Oneirosophy by Triumphant George
Truly mind bending shit, but very fun read as well.

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>>25206170
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>>current book
The Follows by T. Kingfisher
>>your thoughts on it
I'm half way in and I should've dropped it a while ago, but the idea of seeing something cool kept me going, only to realise I'd picked up the wrong one of her books. I think it should be a cancellable offense to steal another persons 30 page work, only to fill it with millennial dialogue, pop-culture references, all under the guise of something you call "remixing older books"

Every two minutes, I feel like that audiophile trying the headphones he does/doesn't like. I hate people that devise serious situations, and undercut every little thing with humour. You shouldn't have a man being constantly turned inside out / a man playing with his guts be followed up by the main-character de-stressing by quirkily thinking about arguments she got into with her gay fanfiction.

>>25214044
Also I may as well add
>Last book you read
I read the Hunter by Parker last week and it was awesome. I totally get why he managed to put out 15+ of these novels. Parker is so compelling and I'm always guessing whats gonna happen next.

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The Ugly Swans
That was a quick but enjoyable read. It touches upon different topics such as evolution, past vs present (as in time/society and especially generations), parenting and so on. I would also recommend the 2006 film adaptation, I think it captures the mood of a soviet provincial town with weather anomalies quite well. Just started 2666 and I'm also enjoying it.

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Iris by Andrew Gates
First self-published book I've read and it shows, unfortunately. The writing itself is basic and repetitive, and the characters spend way too much time worrying constantly worrying about how they look and how much "confidence" they're projecting. Might drop it soon because of this.
Interesting world though.

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>>25206170
Not very far into it so far, I am wondering why I'm attending an editorial meeting for a fraudulent newspaper. It's not like Foucault's Pendulum for sure.

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Nazi literature in the Americas
True beyond facts

>>25206170
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Dante: Poet of a Secular World by Erich Auerbach
It makes me want to read Dante's non-Comedy poetry. It makes me feel a little ashamed that there is no passion in my life as great as those that Dante had for his work of Auerbach has for Dante.

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Lucifer Praxis
The problem with setting up a publishing company to publish your own work is it must be too tempting can to skip the copy editor. Ambitious but poorly written.

>>25206274
This is one of the few VN books I haven't read yet. Am looking forward to it, though I've got about 70 more years of novels to get through before I get back to this. (I'm reading every novel worth reading, chronologically.)

>>25206361
It's an absolute stonker and it's never too late, anon. I spend 6 months reading this every decade or so and am overdue now actually. Hope you're reading aloud.

>>25206874
Honestly once you get past the first third it's an absolute page-turner. I wouldn't bother breaking it up myself, you'll just have to relearn all those names again.

>>25213077
>as I don't know shit about phylosophy
Don't worry neither did the author. Just try and relax into it, it's a bit dull in 2026 but shouldn't be too hard to grasp if you liked the novel.

>>25213077
Don't overthink it too much. Read through it once as is. If you find that it resonates with you on any level you can do a second read through. If some reference feels hard to grasp, write it down and look up the philosopher or quote Camus is referring to.

I can also recommend watching Gregory Sadler's lectures as a companion piece https://youtu.be/_js06RG0n3c?is=iYwmGiJWFl7sxxHd

>>25215093
To add to this, if you don't find any real meaning in what Camus is writing in The Myth of Sisyphus then that's completely ok. He writes very nebulously on the topic of existentialism and keeps referring to a lot of previous existential philosophers throughout, which is why it can be a tough read if you aren't familiar with those thinkers beforehand.

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>>25206170
>age
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>current book
The Stranger, from Camus
>your thoughts on it
So far from reading the book, I concluded that the protagonist is autistic.
It's a very short book (just over 100 pages) and it's written (or at less translated) in a very simple way, making it easy to read. There are no dialogues between large groups of people, so you don't need to make mental notes in your head of who is present and stuff like that.
So far I am enjoying the book, but I don't know why.

>>25215807
>So far from reading the book, I concluded that the protagonist is autistic.
I got the same impression. Frankly, Camus overall works are 'tism-core.

>>25215807
>Autistic guy just casually makes friends, gets women, works, navigates social situations well and shows courage
I'm sorry but this can't be right. His coldness can be attributed to some psychological disorders but it's not 'tism for sure.The book is kino tho and I'm very glad you're enjoying it.

>>25215825
nta but if you're an attractive autistic your tism can come across as nonchalantness, which can be attractive in good looking people.

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Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

Wish I could read arabic, I don't think this translates very well. I think it's been a cool look into daily life and drama of a war era Cairo community with all sorts of weird turns and characters, but the sentence level writing is very basic and plain in a way that doesn't capture me.

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Elantris
I started reading this because a friend that loves fantasy insisted. So far I'm 1/3 through it and I don't see the appeal. None of the characters are interesting and imo the usual resource of modern fantasy of coming up with a bunch of random names for factions, religions and characters to make the whole thing look deep and complex is just cheap writing that any idiot can do.