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>24
>Montevideo, Uruguay
>Ghost and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends; Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things; The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays.
The first two books are similar, but the former has a more theoretical approach and starts with a rather long introduction Japanese culture and study of legends, nearly half of the book is devoted to this, leaving the third and last chapter devoted to short stories and commentaries.
Kwaidan is just a collection of old japanese legends. Very good so far.
TWoP is a collection of Quine's essays. I had to read Posits and Reality for a class, so I decided to keep reading the other essays. I've liked everything I read, although I don't agree completely with some of his points. Interestingly enough, the second essay, On a Supposed Antinomy, has a "solution" to the unexpected hanging paradox which I don't find very convincing.

kys pretentious tripfag undergrad faggot

20
Sudan
I'm not reading anything right now. The last book I read was Zorba the Greek.

at the behest*, ق.

19
memphis tn
as i lay dying and homage to catalonia

i like faulker's prose although it can be hard to follow sometimes

catalonia is interesting overall. right now orwell's mostly talking about battle, but i prefer hearing about the political aspects of the war.

>18
>Yellowknife, NWT

Currently reading my first Jane Austen book, and I can't believe I was spooked into believing it was a novel for girls. This book is hilarious, and I plan on reading everything by her in the near future.

i have such a us-centric view of the world until i come to threads like this and see how many foreign people frequent this site.

22

Long Island NY

East of Eden: I'm around 300 pages in and curious about where all of this background is leading up to. The downside is the length of the book, it has taken a little dedication.

>18
>Italy
>Bertrand Russell - A History of western philosophy, just started it

20
UAE
Looking for Jake and other stories, an anthology by China Mieville. I've only just started but I enjoyed Perdido Street Station even though the world building got a bit mastubatory, hoping to post about him on lit when I'm done with more of his stuff

>20
>Sudan
>I'm not reading anything right now. The last book I read was Zorba the Greek.
يا زول

I tried Perdido Street Station and could not get past sex with giant bugs. Silliness.

>its a narcissism thread

You might like Inventing New Orleans- it's a collection from when Hearn was in New Orleans.

> (You)
>I tried Perdido Street Station and could not get past sex with giant bugs. Silliness.
Tbqh it grossed me out a bit but I was doing the audiobook version before getting the actual copy so I just sat through it

Not entirely, I enjoy reading through the other posts.

>25
>Dover, NH

just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. will start either On the Road or Slaughterhouse 5 tomorrow

F&L in LV was really fun. The Hangover of books imo

You get some good recs desu

Considering the author looks like he's in Libkin Park, it felt like he was pushing a genderfluid anything-goes narrative and it ruined the fun if the rest of the great worldbuilding and lore

> (You)
>Considering the author looks like he's in Libkin Park, it felt like he was pushing a genderfluid anything-goes narrative and it ruined the fun if the rest of the great worldbuilding and lore

Kek, there's so much more going on I didn't care much about the bug thing. Does that sort of thing usually turn you off in novels or was it just his unique take on it?

>19
>USA
>Omensetter's Luck

Liking it fairly well so far. Sometimes the prose feels overdone, sometimes it's amazing. It seems like it was written very methodically and that can be both a strength and a weakness in my opinion.

45
seattle
Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars (reread)
Joanna Russ' The Female Man

When he makes the protagonist a bugfucker, who other people in the fictional society don't even like, I can't get behind him. It makes the main character a weirdo, not somebody I'm pulling for, and therefore I lose interest in the story despite the impressive setting

>19
>Southern California
>The Histories of Herodotus
It's not bad and pretty much a must-read for anyone interested in ancient history. Takes me back to the ancient history curriculum we did in the sixth grade. Nostalgia feels.

Your school might offer Waterfield's translation through ProQuest and I recommend that over Gutenberg's translation by Macauley.

28
Male
Texas
For Whom The Bell Tolls

On the final chapter now, it's good the last few chapters leading up to the end is strong but I haven't enjoyed the book as much as I thought I would after reading his other stuff. Any suggestions for what I should read next? Something western or southern or Summer-y is what I'm looking for.

>One of my favorite books of all time.

I'm currently reading Lolita. Definitely one of the strangest books I've read. Strange, because I'll laugh at something Humbert says even as I'm disgusted by it. The beautiful language and the dark subject matter can be disconcerting.

>24
>Miami, FL
>The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

It's really interesting and educational. A bit dense and hard to read but rewarding.

If you enjoy humorous novels and find Lolita funny you should definitely check out Pale Fire if you haven't already. That and CoD are probably the two funniest novels I've read.

28
New York
Just finished Steppenwolf for Herman Hesse a few hours ago. I appreciated the message and themes, but as far as the read itself goes I didn't enjoy it.

>draws attention to himself
>to call other people narcissistic

wew

>calling out others on their narcissism is narcissistic

by the way you're drawing attention to yourself you narcisistic cunt

22
DFW, TX, USA
Canticle for Leibowitz

It's fun so far. Really scratches that apocalyptic itch I've been having. The stuff about copyists is really fascinating to think about. Also I've been surprised at how springy the dialogue is.

>DFW, TX, USA

>20
>Ohio
>The Sound of Waves; it's a fast read and lovely thusfar 100 pages in

>21
>DC
>Atlas Shrugged. It's honestly the most inspiring book I've ever read. The hate it receives from this board is unwarranted.

21
Mex7c0
Blindness, by J. Saramago
Kind of slow paced so far, but I'm only about one quarter in.

27
toronto capitol of the universe
what we talk about when we talk about love
3 stories in. no idea wtf is going on

Try Demian instead. I liked it more than Steppenwolf.

24
Vienna
Dharma Bums
Yes

Ah, shit pham. Me too. Did you check out any of the Zendos here?

Alright Ayn stop deadposting

Kys, you uncultured swine

It is notable that Veeky Forums mainly has US American users and almost none of those frequent Veeky Forums

20
California
Ham on The by Charles Bukowski and I like it

23
Orlando
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

It's an alright collection, and I'll probably finish it soon. But it's just pretty middle-of-the-road contemporary lit.
>muh somewhat weird, shitty situation
>occaisionally interesting turns of phrase
>muh family problems
>muh unique moment of connection with family along with a pretty standard personal revelation
I'm planning to trade it in to a used bookstore. It's a very solid 6/10.

Same here. I always forget that this board isn't exclusively American.

18
Austin, Texas
The Hobbit

goodreads.com/user/show/57055232-alice-mizuki

20
Germany
Zauberberg

Very nice.

well the fact that everyone speaks english reinforces that view. im surprised so many people from south america speak english fluently. i can speak some spanish but not enough to maintain a conversation on a message board.

This board should have flags displayed like on /int/, and have generals for each major language (including Latin for the board's autists).

If the only relevant message boards were in Spanish, you'd become quickly fluent in Spanish.

>19
>denver
>george's mother, it's pretty bad but also only like 80 brief pages so you may as well read it

24
taiwan
>Ulysses
I just finished up with Portrait, I kind of powered through the end of it(otw to Finnegans Wake) even though it was the best part. I'm on page 10 of Ulysses, and I'm already enjoying it and quite excited for the story.

30
Dallas, TX
"Morning Star"
Loving it. The actual prose is kinda tryhard, but the plot is too damn engaging.

25
US
The Letters of William Gaddis

So many fucking letters to his mom. And the book doesn't even have all of them. Sheri Martinelli wasn't kidding when she called him a mama's boy. Still, it's pretty interesting to see what his life was like and how excited by everything he seemed to be in his younger years.

23
Germany
Sternentagebücher (lem)
Like it

>tryhard
You left high school twelve years ago. Keep this idiocy in gym class

>25
>wellington, new zealand
>shame, salman rushdie

2 chapters in and it's excellent

20
"the six"
Platonic Dialogues (Symposium)
>tfw no bf
Infinite Jest
>a week or so ahead of infinite summer's schedule, i sorta hate my life but at least i'm not suffering like the boys at ennet house
Vineland
>born in '96
>feeling nostalgia for the 80's nostalgia for the 60's

22
Seattle
Hyperion

Been on a long Stephen King kick reading the Dark Tower series and the Stand, it's amazing to remember that authors can be eloquent. Simmons has six distinct writing styles (one for each character) and keeps an Asimov feel while being modern sci-fi.

>20
>Edmonton
>Have a few pages left of The Pale King
TPK has been my least favorite book of DFW's that I have read so far but I guess I can't be too hard on it since it's unfinished. Flashes of brilliance bogged down by stuff that probably wouldn't/shouldn't have made the final cut make it kind of frustrating.

No, I was told there isn't much here.
You may write me btw. www.AxiomsOfChoice.org

19
Budapest
Chinese philosophy volume I

It's great!

>25
>Brittany
>Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday

This book is a steaming pile of shit tbqh.
I somewhat had a good memory of another book of his, Wilberforce but this is poorly written, full of clichés, there's a cringeworthy forced romance in it and the satire is only slightly funny when he depicts politics.
Ugh, really struggling to finish it, maybe twenty pages left.

DO. NOT. REC

19
San Diego
Library of America's Ashbery collection - impossible to understand but still quite enjoyable, I'm loving it tbqh

18 in a month
kent, england
just finished a levels and finishing all the books i had to stop reading to study:

a collection of bernard shaw. quite funny. arms and the man is fun, candida is a bit shit.

consider the lobster, DFW. ive only read the porn essay. ehh, its somewhat shit. just a lot of information really i dont care about, not that humorous. i hope it gets better.

just read king lear today. top notch obviously. cant say anything profound about it. deserves all the credit it gets.

a collection of john donne. his early stuff was funny and clever, his religious poems are a bit dry, but i can appreciate what he was trying to do. im just not into religious poems in general. i find them pretty repetitive.

shopenhauers essays and aphorisms. i have a reasonably strong background on kant but havent read will and representation so going into this a bit blind. im confused about On Women, not because its sexist but because it doesnt really fit with the rest of his philosophical system which considers will as a wholly-immutable homogeneous substance. it would be fine really from nietzche or aristotle or a materialist. maybe ive missed the genderedness of will, so i wont judge him too harshly till ive read W+R.

thats it basically. i dont normally read this many books at once but ive suddenly come into a lot of free time after being quite busy for a few weeks.

sorry for the long post, im sorry if someone bothered to read all of that.

also a collection of italian short stories because im trying to learn the language

reading a collection of hg wells short stories and they're actually really good. Meanwhile was one of the best drama pieces ive read. the characters were pretty well written which isnt something i would have expected. i wasnt really a fan of Time Machine surprisingly, but i can see why it would be his most famous novella.
can anyone rec me some early sci-fi, something like frankenstein.

also a shit load of textbooks but thats pretty boring stuff

how did you do? did you do a levels?

>Library of America's Ashbery collection

nice taste for a dude as young as you are

you gon make it, son

be careful mio amico. its certainly biased. you probably no but just in case.

19
España
The Iliad. I'll probably finish it today. Love it. As funny as the Odyssey, but with more emphasis on characters, their feelings, the human condition and shit, while the Odyssey is more of an adventure book. Also similes are great. Seriously considering learning ancient greek desu.

18
Shanghai, China (from Los Angeles though)
Phenomology of Spirit

MODS MODZ MODS MODZ MODS MODZ

calm down mate, also what about this guy , assuming x>0

>22
>Portugal
>Thoreau's Walden

It's pretty good, nothing mindblowing, but it has some pretty great quote material in it, and it is GOAT comfy-tier. Also I love the way he writes, interposing the material with the spiritual. His metaphors can be quite brilliant at times.

I much prefered the Odyssey tbqh, the Illiad had way too many moments of people throwing spears around and eating the ground.

>and darkness covered his eyes

18
Chicago
Moby Dick. It's difficult, especially since I'm new to reading, but I sill want to stick to it

You should consider rereading it after some time has passed, even if you dislike it now. I think Moby Dick is one of the richest books around, in terms of depth. You can only truly appreciate its images after you have read many books and lived a lot.

Yeah zio, i mean Russell himself said that in the introduction.

yeah scuza mi . its just i know too many people personally who treat it as an unbiased overview of philosophy.

It's not that hard. Some parts are just really tedious, especially for beginners.

21
NYC
Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin

I always wonder what people from the US think of Thoreau and Emerson and co. They have such an outsized influence here (not that I don't love them) that I feel like people from other countries have never heard of them or would mock the collective American love/hate affair with the transcendentalists.
You got this bro. It's worth it.

> 23
> West Yorkshire, England
> Blood Meridian - torn on it, to be honest. McCarthy can have beautiful prose, and the book can be highly unsettling (not just because of the violence), but there's also stretches in the book that test my patience and are exhausting to read. Will have to re-read it sometime, a few years from now.

Keep at it, it's immensely rewarding, my man. One of my personal favourites, although I appreciate that the chapters on whaling methods and whale anatomy are going to slow people down.

23
Australia
The Thirteen Gun Salute, by Patrick O'Brian
Comfy

>Some parts are just really tedious

Only the parts where he tries to show off his enciclopedic knowledge, tbqh. Those were amusing at first but got annoying pretty fast.

The rest is only boring if you don't get the images and themes imo

Those were the ones I was talking about. Dude cetology lmao, etc. It's fine when it's the characters themselves interacting or things happening in general.

I want to read Emerson eventually, what should I read first?

Thoreau isn't particularly innovative in his themes (I mean, most is just Hinduist/Buddhist philosophy basically), it's the way he exposes them is what makes him good imo. He really sounds like someone who lived for the values he expounded, and was a very chill guy overall. Seems like a cool dude to have a beer with tbdesu

>21
>Sydney
>For Whom the Bell Tolls / I just want it to be over

I did GCSEs
They were quite easy but i had over 20 exams to prepare for