BOOKS

[artificialpasta]

Do you read? Share what book you're reading now, or what book you want to read or recommend, or just anything about books you want to talk about!

I'm not as wide a reader as I'd like to be, but when I can I will pick up a good book and read it. Two of my most important beliefs were influenced by books: first my belief in God, back when I was younger and devout, and recently, around the same time I found SS, my understanding of suicide. Right now I'm reading a global health worker's biography.

 

[Reiraku]

There are a lot of books I would certainly like to read, mainly the classics, but I noticed I just do not have the attention span for it, nowadays at least. I read like 5-10 pages and then just go on my computer to play video games, or browse the internet inbetween chapters and it's not really fun. Also if I could choose between picking up a book or watching videos, playing games, jerking off etc., I never choose the book. I used to read quite a lot but I guess it's just not for me anymore. Last book I finished was No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, IIRC and that's years ago.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

I started cross reading a lot a while ago. Right now I'm reading the critique of pure reason, the gay science, the plays of Sophocles and the world as will and representation.

It's a weird method of reading philosophy for sure and has its pitfalls, namely becoming disinterested in one of them and having to start over at a later time to figure out what the fuck is going on. On the upside though, these people were all responding to each other and referencing each other, and it is a deeper experience to delve into all of them at the same time.

 

[TheSoulless]

I used to read a lot, even if I didn't internalize everything I read.

Sartre's Nausea has been sitting on my table for a few months, untouched. I plan to read it some time, but I have no motivation.

 

[artificialpasta]

I used to read a lot, even if I didn't internalize everything I read.

That's OK. I find that eventually one or two of those ideas catch up to me.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

I used to read a lot, even if I didn't internalize everything I read.

Thats just residual guilt from a bad education system. You are interested in what you are interested in. What jumps out to you is important and will stick, the rest was entertainment or not that important.
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Nausea has one of my all time favorite characters in a novel.
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Excuse my rambling: but school has really destroyed all my intellectual curiosity. In six years of physics lessons, for example, not once were the fundamental and fascinating questions posed: what is space? what is time? what is matter? what is energy? why does a triangle necessarily have an angle sum of 180 degrees? etc ... and the few teachers who didn't kill off any curiosity we had left were the teachers of the humanities. But they, in turn, were in blissful ignorance of natural science and philosophy.

And the same goes for languages. I don't know a single person who could speak french after his six or eight years if french lessons, which is nothing short of a pathetic failure on the side of the system.

It took five years for me to recover and restore some semblance of my childhood sense of wonder for the natural world, and that I did on construction sites and in warehouses working for minimum wage.

 

[xalltoowell]

I used to love reading. It's much harder for me to quiet my mind enough to read now. I have tons of thrift store books that I'd love to tackle some day. They're like my little library that I'll probably never get to.

I'd love to read Normal People next though, since the series was 10/10.

 

[FinalDestination]

Oh my I have so many books I'm trying to reading at once . I've been on and off of Sartre's Being and Nothingness (love this one so much), been trying to read more Lacan. Also this book on Grotesque (routledge) and some others for my Uni course. For fiction I'm reading finally girl with the dragon tattoo and ( though I'm on a long hiatus from right now) Recursion. Lastly, whenever I can I do some Kafka. I just wish I could be more consistent with my reading..

 

[SpareWheel]

This one, I'm almost finished.

 

[ForensicallyAware]

Serial killers , Nazis, music biographies mainly.

For some reason I cannot read fiction anymore.

 

[ForensicallyAware]

I've read Mein Kampf.
I've got Might Is Right on audio book but not heard it yet.

 

[NoSentimentality]

I've read Mein Kampf.
I've got Might Is Right on audio book but not heard it yet.

What did you think about it?
Have you read the highly "controversial" yet extremely important book The International Jew by Henry Ford?

 

[Green Destiny]

I've read plenty of Stephen King novels, my personnel favorite being "It". I'm currently reading the Lord Of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien. I'm also a fan of reading online fanfictions from cartoons and Anime i've watched.

 

[noaccount]

Reading The Past Didn't Go Anywhere - highly recommend - free pdf here:

https://84f2d87c-60f4-4478-87d0-6980c5e46521.filesusr.com/ugd/4dc342_10d68441b6c44ee0a12909a242074ca6.pdf

Also just got a copy of Hoshi And The Red City Circuit - sci fi novel following a detective on Mars - seven dollars for the e-book.

 

[ForensicallyAware]

What did you think about it?
Have you read the highly "controversial" yet extremely important book The International Jew by Henry Ford?

It's a bit of a ramble isn't it?
Hitler said he wouldn't have written it if he knew he'd become leader of Germany .
Not read the Ford book but heard of it.
You read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Turner Diaries? Hunter ? Camp of the Saints ?

 

[a.n.kirillov]

National Socialism*.

Are you trying to whitewash the NSDAP? There's a reason for the term Nazi.
Nazi is the agreed upon term by the side of history which disagrees with committing genocide.

 

[strand]

I'm not a regular reader, but I've been trying to catch up with classic literature mostly. I read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in January. It was very difficult to read, even in my own language (I usually prefer reading books in English), too dense, too metaphorical, but it was very engaging. I'll read Moby Dick next.

 

[HelensNepenthe]

Serial killers , Nazis, music biographies mainly.

For some reason I cannot read fiction anymore.

Check out Norman Ohler's Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. I bet there's something you may have not known about the Nazi and the heavy amount of substance abuse. Good read, too.

 

[ForensicallyAware]

Check out Norman Ohler's Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. I bet there's something you may have not known about the Nazi and the heavy amount of substance abuse. Good read, too.

I have the audio book not had time to listen yet

 

[Chiyuki99]

Currently I'm reading Start with Why and A Dog's Purpose.
I also just ordered Correction.

My favourite books are Pachinko, Extreme Ownership, The Go-Giver and How to win Friends and influence people.

 

[ArtySchopenhauer]

I'd love to read, and used to read a slight bit. But mainly I have no mind or attention span for books, unfortunately. But as far as what I like, I love the works of Emil Cioran, Doestovsky, Schopenhauer and classic horror writers like Lovecraft and Poe. I also loved what I read of Dickens and Turgenev.

I'm not a regular reader, but I've been trying to catch up with classic literature mostly. I read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in January. It was very difficult to read, even in my own language (I usually prefer reading books in English), too dense, too metaphorical, but it was very engaging. I'll read Moby Dick next.

Bruh, Conrad is amazing. One of the greatest prose writers in English.
Moby Dick is also an amazing book.

 

[Heart Shards]

I'm reading Darcy Coates Haunting of Ashburn House at the moment. It's okay--just a generic haunted house story.

 

[Sinai Silence]

Currently reading The Hobbit for the hundredth time. After that I'm gonna read A Silent Voice :)

 

[GravityUtilizer]

Sartre's Nausea has been sitting on my table for a few months, untouched. I plan to read it some time, but I have no motivation.

You have to read it! I've just finished Camus's The Plague: it was very good but I prefer the more immediate prose of Sartre.

I'd love to read Normal People next though, since the series was 10/10.

The show was actually better than the book. For me it was all about the story (and the acting), not so much the writing.

Basically I tend to read either early-mid C20 novels or else modern fiction if only to see what people sell as lit these days.

 

[Csmith8827]

Oh my I have so many books I'm trying to reading at once . I've been on and off of Sartre's Being and Nothingness (love this one so much), been trying to read more Lacan. Also this book on Grotesque (routledge) and some others for my Uni course. For fiction I'm reading finally girl with the dragon tattoo and ( though I'm on a long hiatus from right now) Recursion. Lastly, whenever I can I do some Kafka. I just wish I could be more consistent with my reading..

Dude Recursion was badass! I absolutely love Blake Crouch!!!! He's like my favorite author!!! I'll pm you to see what else you've read by him.

I'm currently reading The Count Of Monte Cristo and I know i'm going to enjoy it because I can relate to the plot 100%. Never saw the movie though. But books are always better than movies. Honestly.

 

[Fullof pain]

The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland. A great bit of medieval sorcery and intrigue.

 

[Angina]

Just about to start reading "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.

 

[Alucard]

Cf Jean Liberté, A Manifesto for the right to painless suicide.

 

[Sakura94]

Is it ok if I bump this? I found it in search and I can't see another book thread and I'm new and fairly shy about making a new thread.
I like fantasy fiction. Currently reading through the Chronicles of Prydain novels.

 

[Disappointered]

Chronicles of Prydain novels

I loved those as a child along with the Narnia books and Piers Anthony. I usually don't like reading if I can do something lazier like tv or video games but I really connected with a few authors. There were only ever a few that I liked. later it was Balzac, Dickens and Robertson Davies. also loved Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye. I haven't read them in a long time though. I'm currently reading a French book about the jewish mafia. Recently finished a book by Evola that I found disappointing.