What are you reading at the moment?

[valiums]

Whether or not I'll finish any of these is debatable.

[SrsSam77]

Man I've been burning through books lately


2 good, really enjoyed reading this one, sartre's notes on perception and one's existence reinforced my own experiences.


I found it easy to read, but I didn't look deep enough reading through, so I might read through again




It felt okay, I felt a few vibes about a few subjects but I do not currently now enough to look into them, might need to reread


Great, great read, HG wells knows how to write a captivating novel


This book, was something else, it spoke to me, or at least my inner nihilist, and godamn did I burn through it, read it in about 3 hour-long sessions
would recommend for the man that feels content with life, cuz you got some shit to burn down mah nigga

[Sef]

2 good, really enjoyed reading this one, sartre's notes on perception and one's existence reinforced my own experiences.

got this brick from the library today

[SrsSam77]

got this brick from the library today

wha? it wasn't too long, basket said the physical copy is like 3mm thick, but that doesn't matter because it is a goldmine of thought

[Sef]

wha? it wasn't too long, basket said the physical copy is like 3mm thick, but that doesn't matter because it is a goldmine of thought

sorry the image fucked up. What was supposed to appear was


I know Nausea is actually quite short.

[Necronomitr0n]

just finished reading confederacy of dunces last week, really damn funny and also gives a good insight into the mind of the fedora

and i just picked this one up

[Bamyasi]

It's great.

[Gladius]

ok

[SrsSam77]

my brother

[Bamyasi]

i finished reading this book and got a bit #motivated

This man now allegedly works for Google.

Take note, young TBAlings.

[Unless]

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My kid brother bought me this for Christmas. I'm 73 pages in, I think. It's about what I expected going in — the writing is unspectacular and unchallenging, though not notably non-engaging; the pre-existing characters seem a little bit wooden, as though somebody were trying too hard to emulate somebody else's characters and source material (which is probably because this is somebody trying to emulate somebody else's characters and source material (though considering the TV series has many different writers anyway, it could just be I'm noticing it more specifically because I'm not used to reading this series and the change is jarring)); the sci-fi ideas are sort of interesting and sort of fun.


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i finished reading this book and got a bit #motivated
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This man now allegedly works for Google.

Take note, young TBAlings.

Likely the author had always dreamt of writing works which impact their readers strongly, stirring deep emotional feelings at which most novels can only hope to achieve with today's ever-unappreciative society zombie drones. This is why he gave up writing books and took up a job writing error messages.

[basketweaver]

Working on The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

good shit thas some good shit

[Unless]

What's it about?

[basketweaver]

It's a story about everyday existence and the subtle differences between male and female sexuality

it's kind of like Sartre's Nausea crossed with Murakami's Norwegian Wood

the writing style is also really clever and interesting. at one multiple points the author goes into etymological differences between Czech, French, and German (which is exactly the kind of dumb useless shit that i love reading about) and at another point he embeds musical notation into a paragraph.

the book is basically an mix-and-match combination of different modern european novel traditions and it's awesome

[Unless]

Working on The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera ...

It's a story about everyday existence and the subtle differences between male and female sexuality ...

the writing style is also really clever and interesting ... and at another point he embeds musical notation into a paragraph.

the book is basically an mix-and-match combination of different modern european novel traditions and it's awesome

Oh marvellous — that sounds right up my alley. Thank you kindly.

[Bamyasi]

Seconding the Kundera recommendation.

Also dumping these because they're some of the best western books I've read and maybe everybody hasn't heard of them:





Plus they have the snazzy covers to really grab your attention like grrrr.

Likely the author had always dreamt of writing works which impact their readers strongly, stirring deep emotional feelings at which most novels can only hope to achieve with today's ever-unappreciative society zombie drones. This is why he gave up writing books and took up a job writing error messages.

Isn't a 4-hour work week the default in Europe *snort* what would you know about our suffering.

[basketweaver]

I've been wanting to read some Pessoa since I thought his background was interesting, so I'll check out Book of Disquiet.

@Unless lives in Europistan? Where u from bruh?

[Shida]

Started reading this on a two-hour train journey, now reading in bits before bed.
I never thought I'd be snickering at a book about Hitler, but here we are...

[Bamyasi]

I've been wanting to read some Pessoa since I thought his background was interesting, so I'll check out Book of Disquiet.

@Unless lives in Europistan? Where u from bruh?

Let me know if you need an .epub.

Unless is from Ireland.

[Gilthwixt]

Do comics count or should I make a separate thread for that? I recently got back into western print comics and I picked up Deadly Class, Rat Queens, Southern Bastard, and Paper Girls. All are pretty excellent, except for maybe Southern Bastard which is more of a ymmv kind of thing.