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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, magazines, papers, etc.
I restarted “Pale Fire from the beginning a few days ago and finished Canto 3 of the poem yesterday. And thanks to recommendations I also bought myself a nice printed English edition of “Lolita” for a future reading.
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Been reading a lot of Updike recently
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What's Updike?
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Nothing much, strag, what's up with you?
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Lmao owned
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nm, sup wichu
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chris-chan once again roams the earth
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Warhmammer 40k: Pariah from Dan Abnett - the God writer of 40K nerd shit
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I'm reading The Idiot per dramautist recommendation a few days ago
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How are you finding it?
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It's a little weird and vaguely reminds me of Kafka stuff, which I like, so I'm enjoying it. I'm thinking I'll stick in Dostoevsky's world for a bit and do Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov next
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The Idiot is one of the first books with BPD representation
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lol I clocked Nastasya almost immediately as a Cluster B menace
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All of Dostoevsky's female characters have late stage BPD; Grushenka from Brothers is the absolute worst. My man Fyodor knew about Russian women and his books were merely to warn humanity.
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lol interesting to know. Sounds like every film noir and hard-boiled detective book ever made
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C&P is pretty cool since it deals with nihilism before nihilism was a “thing”. Nietzsche said something Dosto was “the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn”.
Having said that, I liked TBK better…enjoyed the philosophy more.
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What is Kafka’s work like? I haven’t read him yet.
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does an audiobook count as reading because i started the living dead by george romero
but i'm also reading berlin by theodor plievier if that doesn't count
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I think it does count.
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i spent a lot of time outside fishing or bicycling or kayaking in the spring/summer/fall and audiobooks are the best thing ever. YER WELCOME REST OF THE WORLD FOR AN AMERICAN INVENTING AUDIOBOOKS.
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Listening audiobooks while fishing sounds very peaceful and comfy.
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I don't think Americans invented reading to your children, they were just the first to be lazy enough to outsource it to electronics.
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It counts insofar as you have experienced the book and can discuss it, but it isn't reading. Reading is something you do with your eyes (or fingers I guess)
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The Dwarf by Pär Lindkvist and I quite like it so far
It's about a court dwarf who hates humanity
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Have you killed a fellow man?
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I finally finished Count of Monte Cristo, really genuinely good book, worth the 1100 pages. Now I'm onto this bad boy
Though months of using a kindle like some soyboy or woman have no doubt given me wrists too weak to lift this weighty tome
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Just started Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Only picked it up because it had a nice cover lol (plus I wanted to read some modern literature)
Like it so far even though the writing style gets some getting used to.
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Off Armageddon Reef, by David Weber
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I just finished Serotonin by Houllebecq. The beggining is a bit stale, but it gets a lot more interesting towards the later half of the story. Depressing as frick though, why do I keep reading this stuff?
I also have read both Pale Fire and Lolita, Nabokov's writing is really good. I should read more of his stuff eventually.
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I read “Soumission”
and thought it was great. Houellebecq works seem to be all about societal decay from the point of view of middle aged men.
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I have that one by my side, it's going to be my next read probably, either that or Steppenwolf.
A lot of the stuff he writes ressonates with me, which makes the books even more depressing
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Finished Blood Meridian a few days ago, now blasting through No Country for Old Men. Like night and day in terms of difficulty. I read The Road years back and thought it was meh, but I really enjoyed Blood Meridian.
I'm realizing that I would probably enjoy NCFOM more if I hadn't seen the movie first. I don't like my imagination being limited by the fact I "know" what these scenes/characters look like.
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I'm reading a couple of books with the common theme of depicting mythological heroes in fictional and non-fictional stories. One such series is Stephen Fry's Great Mythology Series which annotates (or rather retells) the old classics and tells the fascinating tales of the Greek gods, heroes, and men who still echo today. It's pretty neat and while I do not necessarily share the author's humour I do find his style of writing kinda intriguing and very entertaining.
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Spreading lies on the internet and then reacting with glee when people take them seriously is no more morally defensible when the aim is to create 'drama' than it is when the aim is to smear a political opponent, undermine a political cause that costs your business money, or damage the reputation of an enemy. This 'the internet is the wild west' nonsense is a truly bizarre way to rationalise that kind of behaviour. Especially when we've seen this year how misinformation costs lives in the US and beyond. The dude who says 'in real life I am a democrat on the internet I am a misogynist blah blah' is an absolute moron. What he means is, 'on the internet I can be a misogynist, I can be a liar, and there's nothing anybody can do to stop me.' This idea that's not 'who you are in real life' is self-deluding teenage level nonsense.
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Finished Notes From Underground the other day, started reading The Gay Science. Pretty funny how the forward wastes no time getting the no homo out of the way
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i'm starting to wonder why dramatards seem to love Dostoevsky so much. All of these threads are replete with him.
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I’m reading The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach. About halfway through. Pretty cool concept so far and very curious to see where it goes. Would recommend.
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I'm reading where the crawdads sing right now. Its for a class but im honestly really into it. It sets up a murder mystery right at the start but goes back 20 years to show the main character growing up in a remote marsh w/an abusivedad that eventually abandons her at 7 years old. It takes place in the everglades and it was written by a zoologist so all the setting descriptions are very vivid. Idk what it is specifically about it but ive never been more entranced by a book, its a joy to read. Highly reccomend.
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