To talk about your weekly readings, be it books, textbooks, papers, etc.
I’m still halfway through “Pale Fire” (been kind of busy this week), but I’ll probably finish it in the next few days. I have to say this is the strangest book I’ve read so far, though it’s fascinating me a lot. I restarted from the beginning and while on my first reading of the “Forward”, Kinbote seemed to be a creepy stalker, on my second reading he’s giving some sociopathic vibes. I’m reading the “Commentary” wondering how much of what Kinbote says is real and considering Shade’s death days after finishing the poem, 
is just writing it on a jail cell or psych ward. Plus, all of the “Zembla” bullshit country he talks about. Though Shade’s poem did mention Zembla, so maybe it’s real? Or maybe Kinbote took it from the poem? 
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I am still reading thru the entire Asimov future timeline series in diagetic chronological order:
The End of Eternity
Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
The Stars Like Dust
The Currents of Space
did not read
Pebble in the Sky
Prelude to Foundation
did not read
Foundation
Foundation and Empire <== I AM HERE
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Forwards the Foundation
I know some people don't like the newer books that he wrote in the 70s and 80s but I read all of them years ago and I recall they were OK. The Stars Like Dust stinks tho- Asimov trying to write an EE Doc Smith adventure except instead of cool lazer gun fights and space battles, there's just people sitting around talking. That is, of course, what happens in all his books but in the others people talk about something interesting.
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I read Foundation after watching the show and it was really interesting. There’s like 7 books in the series though so I didn’t read the whole story
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The core three of Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation are considered to be the most significant.
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Tragic lol. I didn’t like the show at all but glad you got into the books from it!
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The Salvor storyline on the show is so bad
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It was bad
Also
THIS ISNT MY DANEEL
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I can partially accept foid Demerzel, as Daneel supposedly took different personas throughout several millennia, but I didn’t like the actress playing it. After thousands of years Daneel was supposed to be indistinguishable from humans, yet show Demerzel has less personality than Sonny from the “i, robot” movie.
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That’s the biggest problem with the show imo. Zero subtlety. We have an android character? Make them Spock ultra non-emotional.
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“Three laws? What are those? I just kill people when told, and sometimes not even that”
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Fricking lol. It’s on me for expecting Hollywood was capable of a good Asimov adaptation but I was looking forward to the show so much and it just made me annoyed every 5 seconds.
I hope one day his books can be done justice by someone like Villeneuve. I personally really enjoyed how he handled the Dune adaptation. He’d be perfect for a Caves of Steel adaptation
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I liked parts of the show, as a whole it kinda sucked but I love the sci-fi stuff like the tower exploding
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I can understand that. The aesthetic for the show as a whole was very good.
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Just started blood meridian
. Shit rocks
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That’s a really good one, love Cormac
I went on a whole western rabbit hole after reading that one
Lonesome Dove trilogy by Larry Mcmurty was my favourite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove?wprov=sfti1
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I want to read that one this year, heard so many good things about it
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Wendigoon makes a video now everyone's read it
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Yo are you in a reading group
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Do people still do those? I thought it was only housewives and academics that had book clubs
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I have a Bible study if that counts.
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Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Been reading it for the last month, it’s long but I found this new Russian translation (louise aylmer maude anna karenina translation) that’s is really close to the original Russian. The first translation I read the first few chapters, the Popular American translation, wasn’t as snippy or interesting.
On the surface it’s a lot of upper class foid drama (“im a
debutante but I have 2 suiters and can’t choose, life is so hard!!”). But it’s so well written and has good characters.
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Kitty right? At least it fits her age, plus her arc is great. Anna on the other hand is a grown up woman in her early 30s behaving as a debutante.
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Yeah I’m still pretty early in the book so not sure what happens, been dragging my feet reading it ADD style.
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It’s a great book filled with
moments. The male characters are very memorable too.
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Levin is a great character
I saw some clip they made in that 2012 movie and they made Levin some ginger long haired looking loser. Alicia Vikander as kitty is hot tho
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Levin is literally a Tolstoy self insert, but yeah, he’s great. That movie was awful, Anna Karenina requires a 6 episode miniseries in order to be faithful.
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Had to read this for school back in 12th grade. It was so boring I couldn't force myself to get halfway through it. Had to write a report on it at some point which I completely made up, referencing the deep themes of the work, like 'struggle between love and manly duty in the face of war', or the 'dillemma of choice', all presented through a lens of Russian high society in the 1800s. I avoided referencing characters by names because I couldn't even remember who was who, it was that forgettable. Yet I got a good grade for it, which leads me to believe that work is just as vapid and pointless as I perceived it to be.
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The translation they use in schools sucks. It’s watered down and simplified, so it misses a lot of the quality of Tolstoys writing. Plus Being forced to read a book like that is not fun.
Tolstoy is a really good writer, you have to read a lot of books to recognize that which most kids haven’t developed that taste.
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I think you are mistaking Anna Karenina with War and Peace
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Nah I've never read War and Peace because I heard that it was dragged out and boring. As for Anna Karenina I was never told that, but it turned out to be so because it's literally just the 'ugh but which man do I choose?' foid (non)problem in book form
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Not really. The main foid is in a loveless marriage, but her husband is not abusive or anything like it, and they have a 10 year old son. She chooses to leave her husband and travel with her lover, and she’s ostracized from high society because of it. She kills herself near the end by jumping in front of a train . Tosltoy self insert on the other hand is also a main character, and has a happy ending in the countryside.
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I just finished Anna Karenina. It was fun while it lasted but tbh I didn’t find the last portion of the book that exciting.
The whole book is about Russian upper class drama btw, both from the men and women.
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God’s Bible, the only book that matters
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What translation
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The one with the fewest apocrypha (most based)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Tewahedo_biblical_canon
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Lolita and the Bible, simultaneously, for the purpose of spiritual centrism
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I picked up A man and his symbols by Carl Jung and started reading that. Im only on the first part of the book where he discusses how dreams are symbols of our unconscious and carry meaning that we should try to understand. It's an interesting idea and i think the there's some truth to it, but some of it sounds like pseudoscience.
One example he gives was he had a client who had reoccurring dreams of herself walking in the countryside alone. Then one day (in the real life) while she was on a hike a man tried to r*pe her, and Jung used this as evidence that her dream was trying to warn her but im just thinking
that sounds like an ad hoc justifcation.
Either way i enjoy. I also read "the horror on dunwitch" by lovecraft and thought that was a great horror short story
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Yeah that’s what I felt when he was talking about all the dream->reality examples…the cancer woman and the skier are ones I could remember. I do think there is deeper meaning in our dreams, but if I had a dream with tons of booba and poopa, I don’t think a Jungian “psychoanalysis” of it would be very useful lol.
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post ur face when u will never get to be a university professor who calls in all his bros to kill an alien
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Critique of pure reason because I want to seem smart but I don’t fricking get it
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Someone mentioned the show Silo in /h/kino and that there was a book, so I started reading that. I'm about half way in the first book. Pretty good so far.
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Solid series. Stick to the core trilogy though (Wool, Shift, Dust). Anything else is rubbish. Also had audiobooks available on abb.
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I already bought the 3 base books on Kindle cause it was pretty cheap. Wuts abb?
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audiobookbay , the audiobook torrent-site equivalent of thepiratebay
I go through about three books a week when I'm on an audiobook kick at work and that budget gets out of hand
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Sissy BBC gangbang erotica
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The number one ladies detective agency.
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Someone recommend me some interesting non-fiction that isn't political
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Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman
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Hey that actually looks very interesting thank u
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I got it on thriftbooks for real cheap
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Project Hail Mary by Weir was some pretty fun "near sci fi".
And the audiobook is probably the best production I've ever heard, for an audiobook. Very well done. Heard there's a movie coming.
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oh shi is that u in the pic bb?
Anyways I'm still reading this book on ancient Roman history (The Romans: From Village to Empire). Shit's starting to get real with political murders; I'm currently reading about the first century BC as the Roman republic appears to be sliding into a snafu.
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The fall of the Republic is a much more exiting period than the early imperial era, especially the Marius/Sulla disputes.
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I am reading Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness). It’s written ~700 years ago by some Japanese monks. Supposedly back then if you were an older man (40+) - no kids, no wife, etc., the only thing you could really do with your life is join a monastery. A lot of these monks weren’t like those you’d imagine sitting on a mountain all day…rather they still went out to do “normal” people things, so this book is a collection of shower thoughts from these men. Their thoughts really resonate with me, so it’s been a really enjoyable and comfy read.
What turned out to be not as enjoyable in the end was Anna Karenina. It started feeling like sitting on train tracks and waiting for something to run you over. Anyways, Kitty is definitely best girl (actually, her Russian-German friend is a sweetie too, but we didn’t get much of her).
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The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie has been really good
I finished the first trilogy in like 6 days cause I was taking a long trip with lots of flights. My dad told me to read it, now I’m obsessed
Gearing up to start the second trilogy in the series. It’s nice to read something that gets finished. Feel like a beaten wife after waiting for George RR Martin and Rothfuss
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Dead Souls by Gogol
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Read? Jocko reads to me through his podcast.
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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition by David J. Griffiths
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I'm reading an Edgar Allen Poe collection right now and I've enjoyed him so far. The Balloon Hoax, MS. Found in a Bottle, and A Descent into the Maelström are what I've read so far. Good stuff, I knew Lovecraft was heavily inspired by Poe but I never knew Poe did horror-sci-fi as well.
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Currently reading The Plantagenets by Dan Jones, honestly a really interesting historical read presented narratively well
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Reading a collection of Alister Crowley's work and Mein Kampf. Switch up genres depending on my mood.
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Just started a re-read of The Blade Itself because I finished the second Malazan book and had no fricking clue what I'd just read in either of the past two books. Thought I was ready for another big butt epic after The Second Apocalypse but I haven't been able to retain anything from Malazan.
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