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What are the books on your coffee table that you dont touch

Just curious what you frickos pretend to read.

Mine are

  • The Coming of Neo Feudalism by Joel Kotkin (Never read it, just have it so I can bring it up as a hailmary to force people out of my house if they over-stay)

  • War Diary of Yi Sun-sin (no reason except to prove my gook superiority over other gooks)

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (I read 5 pages and called it a day and haven't opened it since 2016)

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (/lit/ meme book I kinda like)

Might throw on Journey to the End of the Night by some Frenchman so I look fancy.

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The Frolic Of The Beasts By Yukio Mishima - I've read a few of Mishima's novels but this has been sitting idle for a while :marseyjapanese:

Why Nations Fail by Acemoğlu and Robinson - Never really finished it yet, been reading a few chapters sparingly. @kaamrev actually motivated me to finish it lmao :marseyflagsouthafrica: :marseysmug:

Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris - badass book on bejewelled Christian cult treasures (skeletons of martyrs venerated as relics and adorned in gold,silver,jewels etc..) :marseyskeleton2: :marseypope:

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my coffee table book is memento mori by the same guy!! :marseywave2:

it’s really neat, especially the pictures of fully gilded buddhist monks. :marseygolden2:

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Macabre KINO books. Empire Of Death was pretty good too :marseyembrace: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16854706978497288.webp

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Man that cover slaps.

Maybe I'll buy one.

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Momento Mori

Empire Of Death

Heavenly Bodies

Those are the 3 main books of his that are great. :marseyexcited:

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I was considering reading some Mishima but Pewdiepie recommended his books and then I was like "I will never read a book recommendation from a weeb youtuber"

How do you like his books?

Those are some cool skelly boys

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There's an intensity to his prose I quite like. I guess him being from a literal ultranat samurai family injects a lot of personality into his writing.

It's very modernist in some respect with confessions of a mask especially. There's a huge effusive dialogue in Confessions of a Mask where Kochan sees Guido Reni's painting of Saint Sebastian and goes full RETVRN TO TRADITION & HONOVR :marsey300: :samurai:

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