Age

I'm not that guy I'm only 19

Are you good at handling bullying and intimidation?

oh

i'd eat ass if i had ass to eat

>15
>NYC
>Anti-Oedipus

I work from 8-6. Most mornings I'm in court, which means I have to prep in the evenings when I'm home. I'm getting a bit older so I want to start dating for purposes of meeting someone I can settle down with, but I hardly have time. I want to make friends, too, but I hardly have time. When I pursue either of these, my hobbies are tossed by the wayside. I went from reading a book a week to a page a week, and from wanting to write a book to wanting to get some sleep.

All that said, as far as careers which are interesting and stimulating in and of themselves, law has to be up there. It's just horrible sacrificing your life to it. And before you say "oh, well I just won't do THAT type of law," understand that you will, because there is no alternative. The better you are, the more work you get. And nobody can afford to be anything but great because of the state of the market.

Sorry for the rant. Another long fuckin' day.

I appreciate it. Thanks for being honest about it

>22
>california EUGH
>voices from chernobyl
i fucking love it. the few stories of selfless heroism inside are worth wading through the endless despair that is humanity

>18
>New Orleans (going to Loyola next semester)
>The Guns of August by Tuchman
>Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville with The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith as a companion text.
>Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Guns of August is great, but it's fucking infuriating how stupid WWI was.

Democracy in America is surprisingly easy to comprehend, along with Wealth of Nations

Persepolis is an interesting and informing view into female life in Iran. Entertaining too, though I started it yesterday, and I'm almost finished now. albeit it's a graphic novel, it's still very educational.

>21
>Australia
>Demons

Only at the intro chapter, I can see potential.

New Orleans guy hereI've read every book by Dostoevsky except The Idiot and Demons, the latter of which I've been trying to get my hands on a copy for a while. I know nothing about it though because I want to go in blind.

>19
>mx
>Nausea by Sartre
This is my 7th try to read it but I still can't get through it
send help

>24
>Toronto
>Bleeding Edge

Eh, it's enjoyable, but definitely Pynchon lite like everyone says. Honestly all the pop culture nerd shit doe capture the moment, but almost feels too cliche sometimes, like a step above big bang theory.

23
texas
1805 version of the prelude by wordsworth and joe by larry brown

larry brown, barry hannah, eudora welty. all southern writers.

>22
>Constantinople
>Walden by Henry David

Really comfy. Could only probably do it justice by reading it in the isolation of a country. Sometimes too digressive.

Here is a picture in the classical style to make me look smart

Thorty sal ks
Below the salt
By Thomas B Costain
Picked it up with a 1st edition
QB7 by leon uris, they were free

There is a great read-guide for Moby Dick out there which will help you out with all the references and give you page-long explanations of it. I can look it up if you care for me to

>25
>Buenos Aires
>Danielewski - "The Familiar" vol 2
The characters, places, and relationships are becoming less random and more evident and in the second volume i am getting used to the experimental Format where you are really interacting with the text through various mediums less than strictly "reading" it.

If you liked gravitys rainbow or Ulysses you'll like this series if you can ride out the confusion and just stick with it. It makes more and more sense as you progress in the series

19
USA
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant and A Brave New Word

Both are great

Not him but I'd appreciate it if you could post it. I just finished reading it a few days ago, and I want to see everything I missed

>20
>IL
> Crime and punishment

Wtf is his problem? I was empathizing with him up until he gets super butthurt his sister is getting married and that sets him off and he chimps out and murders his land lady.

I mean Christ sake he just spent a night listening to former clerk that ruined his family's life talk about how worthless he is and then Raskolnikov acts like his life's over because his sister will be getting some dick.

>that post
>anime reaction pic
I don't like you.

What is his problem? From what I've seen so far this guy has it made. He just has to play nice with his brother in law and he can live an easy life. Why does he act like his sister got whored out?

>I was empathizing with him up until he gets super butthurt his sister is getting married and that sets him off and he chimps out and murders his land lady.
That's not how that worked you simpleton.
Raskolnikov is triggered by the idea that Dunya will be married to provide for the family monetarily, which adds a driving insult to his standing discomfort with living in poverty and being unable to produce a career from his time at University. Dunya's marriage (or rather, the circumstances therein) are merely the catalyst for Raskolnikov's undertaking the murder of the old woman which he had already intended to do - believing himself to be capable of forcibly transcending morality through strength of will, a nihilistic conceit similar to Nietzsche's Ubermensch.

Is it as unreadable and fucking pretentious as of house of leaves?

How do you even afford those books in argentina?

Thank you for pissing some wisdom on me. I've only just started reading so 19th century philosophy is not something I pick up on quickly.

Go read Notes From Underground first, Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, including the foreword. It sets up the dichotomy of Humanitarian Socialism followed by Social Nihilism in 19th Century St. Petersburg that is the central undercurrent of Dostoevsky's oeuvre. Plus its 200 pages soaking wet.
I first read C&P at 18 and while I felt I understood it pretty well, it rapidly opens up when you know the historical and philosophical background.

I will do just that. Arigato amigo.

>22
>NC
>Conversations with Ulrich Beck

I'm finishing out my Sociology undergrad soon. Need to figure out which theorist I should write a paper on in comparison with Beck's ideas on modernity. I'm leaning Foucault or Bourdieu at the moment because they seem the most contemporary, but it might be better to go earlier and compare similar ideas about structure across time with Durkheim, Weber, or Marx. Any thoughts?

>18
>sf
>catch22/fellowship of ring/iq84

I hate this place

Age:25/ location: Vancouver, Canada/Book: Crytonomicon

>19
>UK
>Cibola Burn (Expanse book 4)

Good shit. I'm going to be disappointed when I get to book six. I'm thinking of picking up some more classic scifi stuff.

>20
>the Netherlands
>Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, translated to Dutch, and it's pretty awful (which I assume is so because of the translation)

>19
>GERMANY
>dune

It is pretty nice

>24
>SoCal
>The Sound and the Fury

Absolutely amazing.

>22
>Australia
>Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro

Really nice, I went in pretty blind so seeing the plot unfold is enjoyable. Ishiguro's writing style is very comfy too.

21
Alabama
I,robot

Really good so far. Uni work has been difficult so it's been nice reading something fun

>35
>hungary
>Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West

Astonishing. Completely changes your perception of history.

>23
>Austria
>The Pale King

22
France, Paris
Currently reading Les Chants de Maldoror

>17
>NZ
>All the Pretty Horses

Just finished, a testament to anyone who craves a lifestyle no longer liveable

>22
>Australia
>Peter Carey's Collected Short Stories

Thoughts: Some guy he is. Style: Intelligent. conceptual at the level of Pynchon, but with a far more structure of narrative and focused thematic range. My one gripe is his authorial voice: cynical and detached. It bugs me that he's too afraid to show any passion. No surprise, though, since he's Australian, and a mixture cynicism+pessimism and a sprinkling of skepticism is our national spirit.

>23
>Ha
>I don't read books, I just come on here to shitpost like i know something about anything you faggots are talking about. I just take dismantle your arguments by forcing you to question the validity of your own statement. I know I've won when You stop responding. I hope it's because your readdressing your beliefs.

>24
>London
>Fathers and Sons.

Great writing style and very amusing. Translation by Rosemary Edmonds seems good and my edition contained a 70 pg lecture by Isiah Berlin which was very interesting

What is and how is 1Q84? I found a copy of it in a collection I got from a garage sale but I haven't picked it up. I heard it was pretty good, but that's about it.

>25
>NYC
>In Search of Lost Time; ask reading the War of Art by Steven Pressfield. They're both excellent.

26
chicago
the ontology of time - alex chernyakov
most in-depth read of aristotle and heidegger's temporalities i've ever come across. it's good

>20
>Liverpool
>Space Race/On Intelligence
Von brauns escapades through collapsing nazi Germany is pretty interesting. Jeff might be on to something with his memory theory but I feel like he's missing something, maybe that's always going to be the case when you try to fit such a complex task into 300ish pages.

>20
>Luhndun
>Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino

It's good. Not his best works, but I'm having trouble writing my own short stories right now so I've decided to revisit some of his for inspiration and guidance.

19
New York
Metaphysics by Aristotle

Good. Critiquing Platonism from a brand new system is unconvincing if that system has failed to sway you, but I can't really see the Forms as the substance/essence of instantiated particulars anymore. Reading the Organon and Physics first helped.

>24
>New Jersey
>The Idiot
Dostoevsky is one of my favorites, and this is one of his few long works I haven't read yet . I know this is unpopular here, but I think I prefer good old Constance Garnett to the P & V translations I've previously read.

>18
>Leaf land
>the crying of lot 49
It's good but I don't think i'm getting everything from the book

>22
>DC
>Heart of Darkness

It's interesting.

>22
>Rome
>Orientalism

Postcolonialism is God tier

>show off
nah, he just read so much and so widely that that was how he thought, those allusions were what immediately came to head

you'll feel that way with any Pynchon

>20
>UK
>Crime and Punishment

In the last quarter of the book now and I'm really enjoying it, I'm loving everything to do with Raskolnikov torturing himself about things that have happened.

>26
>BRhue
>How to make friends and Influence people

It's helping me a lot, trying to use every wisdom from this book.

23
Cambridge
Troilus and Criseyde - Chaucer

I read the first book today while sitting on jury service, but wasnt really concentrating and sort of zoned out trying to interpret old english. Might have to reread that again tonight. I read some of his other non canterbury tales stuff previously and enjoyed it, especially the house of fame

Or middle english as i meant to write

Where do you struggle?
I enjoyed a german translation a few months ago (austrian, don't speak french). It helps to know a bit about existentialism beforehand.

Perfect, I have 4 of his books.

Do you watch a lot of anime? Not being judgemental, just curious.

Am him, would also appreciate it. Thanks friend-user

>25
>Southern California
>Heart of a Dog

Nah it's liveable, go to a poor country.

>22
>Wisconsin
>Roughing It by Mark Twain
It's a fun collection of adventures. About to go on a 5 month hiking trip so I'm glad to be getting into more Twain, he's my style.

>he chimps out and murders his land lady
Whew lad. People actually believe this nonsense.

22
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Marathoned the first 20 pages, very enlightening.
So far it has gone over common fallacies in economics and he debunks them very clearly.
Spooky how well he describes Bernie and other economic lightweights.
Wanted to know more about the economy, it's the first book on a list I'm planning to read.

21
Italy
Gravity's Rainbow which I'm liking a lot, it has some really funny moments
Also Borges' Book of Dreams

>19
>Bumfuck Connecticut
>Spring Snow by Mishima
I like it a lot, it's a nice blend of slice of life and tragedy, really comfy. I love the way Mishima describes every scene, it's vivid and the characters are interesting.

I just added this to my Kindle, looking forward to it.

I want to read this. Im curious as to why its in bizlit recommended reading. How do you like it so far?

If you like movies like Tokyo Story you definitely won't regret it

>23
>Brazil
>IJ

I've just reached the middlepoint of it, picking up my pace. It's been good so far, despite the initial slog of first hundred, two hundred pages.

26
London
Oliver Twist

Enjoying it more than I expected. I always avoided Dickens because I thought he'd be dreary, but it's pretty good.

I really liked True History of the Kelly Gang.

>25
>Midlands, UK
>Spring Snow by Mishima

reading at work and had to go to the bathroom for a little cry when he the princess almost smiled

same reason Das Kapital is there; it's good fiction
>eyy

24
California
The story of Christianity by Justo Gonzales and some introductory poetry anthology I got for cheap on kindle. They're both fun and interesting

Do you have any prior knowledge of Marxism and Psychoanalysis?

>18
>OK, USA
>Atlas Shrugged (40% in): It's an amazing story I don't care if Rand was a bitch
>JR (70pages in): Funny at times but makes me feel retarded

>18
>Bumfuck Connecticut
>East of Eden by Steinbeck
This is the third time trying to read it since 2014 but I will finish it now and it's still as comfy and biblical as I remember it to be

22
Lexington, Kentucky
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

26
six four by hideo yokoyama
its good, touches on a lot of public and private information and how people deal with it when its outside and personal. i would recommend but it gets confusing with the characters. a lot of reviews online say its slow but thats only if you are pulled in by the six four case or the MCs daughter. otherwise it really hits you each chapter. very clever book IMO

>18
>just west of NYC
>Infinite Jest
On about page 320 and starting to find it hard to keep going.
Some of the banter is pretty amusing but nothing has really happened yet, I might have to DROP

Perfect in every way. Bachelard has a wonderful little commentary on the imagery. Sleep tight.

>21
>north of Toronto
>Mimesis by Erich Auerbach

It's pretty interesting, and it's introducing me to thinking about literature in different modes that I hadn't previously considered. I hadn't fully considered the simple fact that literature is just a representation of reality, and the way that Auerbach explains how different genres and time periods dealt with this representation is greatly engaging/mind-opening.
Can anybody else recommend any other good criticism/theory books?

>26
>Germany
>Satantango

Preddy gut.

>I was empathizing with him up until he gets super butthurt his sister is getting married and that sets him off and he chimps out and murders his land lady.

you're reading the wrong book broseph