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dim aaaaa/zzzzz House Retard  1yr ago (text post) Edited 1yr ago 266 thread views #154676

What are you reading this week?

I just finished La Peste by Camus but tbqh I thought L'Étranger was better.

How 'bout you?

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The Gulag Archipelago, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Sword of Destiny!!!!

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I read Gulag recently. I quite enjoyed it and got Cancer Ward as well. My favorite parts were when Russians got put in concentration camps and then scammed the government. The chapter on escapes was the most entertaining. However, parts of the book were a little repetitive. I'm not going to blame him too much considering how the book was constructed.

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I had never even heard of Cancer Ward, I'll put that on my list. I'm actually beginning Gulag tonight, some friends of mine absolutely hate it so that meant I had to read it.

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Based frick them tankies

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lol i just speedread ACOTAR because my friend LOVED it and really wanted to talk with someone about it. i didn’t find it particularly compelling but i’d do anything for my girlies :marseymarseylove: including reading bad romance novels and finding nice things to say about them. a plot happens in the 2nd half and it gets more interesting.

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This post

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rdrama.net

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:marseyagree:

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i can't read

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Same tbh

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bank statements

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The electricity bill

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Usually i listen to audiobooks as i travel around/sit in the office not working.

However, recently I have been listening to Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast. It's from years ago but it's still great.

Whole thing here:

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I'm still getting through Homage to Catalonia.

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reading is queer

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Yes, and?

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!chuds look at this queer with his kissable lips darn he got me thinking

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:#marseyhesright:

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Art of the Deal

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Reading The Hobbit to my 2 year old at night before bed.

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Serotonin by Houllebecq. About halfway through, I read extension of the domain of the struggle first and I'm kinda annoyed the main characters are so similar in both books

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How are Houllebecq’s other books compared to Submission? I thought Submission was a great read and never quite understood what was controversial about it.

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Those are the first two I'm reading. I really liked Extension and Serotonin is fine, but I hope it gets better.

Submission is the next on on my read list.

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how do you pronounce that guy's name anyway?

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The End and the Death: Volume I because I'm a 40k lorecel. I've been reading this neverending, money-milking series for 17 years, and I can't give up with only two books left. :marseyemperor:

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You and your little "drama" buddies are too busy staring at men's bussies to know an attractive woman if she swam up to you in anthropomorphic-shark form and let you frick her on a cold, windy cape cod beach.

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Ah, Snappy, I take it that's a reference to Les Chants de Maldoror. Have you been reading French literature as well?

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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

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Wow I just finished Lila an inquiry into morals last week

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"Treatise on the Gods" by HL Mencken.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58135/mode/2up

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Tomie and Heat 2

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Working on Lawrence In Arabia right now, really interesting read since slogging my way through Seven Pillars of Wisdom (though it was fascinating and often deeply profound)

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Steel rising seriesz or A Land Fit for Heroes

It's basically gay Conan the Barbarian and a Mongol twink skull fricking the Hyperborean slave industry

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he wasn't gay before?

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Kafka: Toward a Minor :marseygoodmap: Literature :marseyelli: - Deleuze and Guattari

:!marseybarrel: :marseybarreldrunk:

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Dimension X, a book of Sci-Fi short stories from the 70's

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A Peace to End All Peace - History of the Middle East from 1910-1922 or so, detailing the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and how the French and British set up the terrible system in place there today.

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someone recommended me harassment architecture, copy came last week. gonna start it once I'm done with class

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Roman Lives by Brian Harvey

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If you didnt read it in the original tongue you didnt read it

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still Mysteries of Udolpho.

Good example of a book where the plot and characters aren't too interesting, but the prose elevates it far above. This will be my go-to when explaining to people why prose is the most important quality of a novel. Should be obvious but apparently booktubers didn't get the memo.

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i have this hefty tome called The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk that i’m about to start. idk if it will be good or not.

i just dug up an old iPad from 2008(!) and got it working so i can try to download PDFs and read them on it. pls gib suggestions for websites i can steal books from without having to use any extra apps. the iPad is too old to update and will not let me connect to the app store.

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Les Mis. Probably take me a while to get through. I saw the movie when I was like 8 or so and I don’t really remember much from it except Cosette and one bar of a song. So far it’s been very good but I have a hard time remembering the French names compared to Russian names.

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Im still reading Anna Karenina (70% done) and it’s been great so far. Maybe I’ll read War & Peace next or diversify with other pieces of Russian literature not Dostoevsky (maybe Heart of a Dog?) because I’ve liked the limited selection that I’ve read so far (Dosto and now Tolstoy).

@dim, do you recommend La Peste to someone who’s already read The Stranger but wasn’t that interested in Camus’ philosophy?

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I would say that La Peste would be of more interest to you than The Stranger if you aren't interested in his personal philosophy. There are obviously currents of it but they aren't as much in the forefront as with the incident with Mersault. Rather, it's in many ways an allegory for Vichy France.

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A textbook

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2nd witcher book, s'ok! kinda slow

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16787450639353976.webphttps://i.rdrama.net/images/1678745063396352.webp

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