How's everyone doing today? whatcha readin?

how's everyone doing today? whatcha readin?

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Gogol's Dead Souls - It's fantastic. Perfect humor without ignoring serious themes.

Something Happened by Heller - Reading it for the second time. I felt like there was something in it for me now. It's awfully pathetic. The protagonist is so much obsessed by facts that he doesn't realize that they are true but that they don't need to matter. Also, the only time that he feels like he's in control is, when he's approaching that new girl from the art department, or during other sexual encounters. That struck a chord with me.

The Book of Disquite - still not past the introduction.

The Remains of the Day - someone recommended it here, I thought I would give it a try.

I somehow made it a habit to read multiple books simultaneously, is this good or bad?

The Remains of the Day was excellent imho, also got it when someone recced it here, enjoy user!

thanks for extending the recommendation, I missed on a lot of contemporary literature because I was busy with other classics that I missed out on, the ride never ends

Shirer is so annoying. Usually i like authors butting in and giving their opinions but shirer is such a fucking dimwit.

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The Good Earth: finishing tonight. Found on one on Veeky Forumss 100 best lists. Really simple yet satisfying read.

Flatland: had a copy for a while and finally decided to crack it. really fucked with my head once i realized what it was driving at.

Camus' The Stranger and Hesse's Steppenwolf: these were recs from here for mild philosophical stories.

If you get around it, read Camus' The Fall. It's not that long but the ending paragraph hits me every time. What the hell am I doing with my life!

Daniel Dennet - Consciousness Explained. It's pretty interesting.

The Dispossessed - Le Guin. Woman is incredible. The depth of the writing, the style.

Marx. I used to be a radical centrist who unironically identified as a neoliberal and laughed at communists. Now I realize that Marx is arguing on a whole different plane than my old group was (what's best for man vs what's "economically optimal"). Now I find myself saying wtf I'm a marxist now!

For the record most internet socialists are still morons. Venezuela is not what Marx had in mind.

I find it interesting that system that are invented to bring order into the world manage to result in a disaster. I guess the world is meant to be chaotic.

I still get the shudders when I think about Kirrilow's suicide.

Yeah man I'm still doubtful that any of this shit is possible to implement. The failure of every allegedly socialist country does not fill me with hope. Perhaps in a few hundred years we'll be ready.

>socialist
>country

I WARNED YOU ABOUT STATES BRO

I think that people let themselves get dragged by the wave when it comes to ideologies. This is really a soft tone. In some of the states during the transition period of the late twenty century, you had people go from commie/atheistic to religious only to stay relevant and in power.

Just finished lovestar.
Kinda cute story.
At some point it escalates bang on to some real surreal stuff, babyfucker kinda scenery.
Has some cool wolf appearances.
4/10

I'm doing well. Today is Naw Ruz, Persian New Year. Just got back from the movies with the family. I'm sitting in front of my fireplace in my basement alcove reading Lord of the Rings and drinking some tea. I'm signing up for piano lessons tomorrow, it's too difficult to learn on my own. I start law school in August and I'm doing literally nothing until then except reading, writing, practicing the piano, and doing a bit of drinking.

I bought this and haven't even read it yet but I keep it on my shelf to scare normies

Clean your room

How much money did JB make with that shit? He's really milking the cow. That's true psychology!

Tired. The nicotine and caffeine are barely noticeable anymore. I'm reading Orwell's " Homage to Catalonia "

OP here.

i'm a 1/4 way through book of disquiet. great stuff. lots of pausing and laying the book down to think. bought a book of Pesosa poetry while traveling recently...

hope you have fun with piano classes, user. very cool skill to learn.

feeling the same way. you feel like it's time to quit once you hit that point? haven't read any nonfiction Orwell, I've heard it's terrific.

I've been faithfully torn between Book of Disquiet and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, and i just purchased a biography on Richard Yates.

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