To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm finishing Blood Meridian so I'll post my thoughts on it Sunday.
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moby peepee. the writing is very dense and i have to re-read a lot of the time
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How do you like it so far? I just finished my first reading of it a few weeks ago. The density, and the amount of references, is really hard to get used to.
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I did a double take when he mentioned elephanta caves. whenever i read older authors im shocked at how well educated they are
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Melville in particular impressed me, remember we became too accustomed to having information in the tip of our fingers but that guy had an encyclopedic knowledge on almost every subject and that back in the 1850s. I also found his enthusiasm about cetology and whaling to be quite contagious.
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Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
It's interesting
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Ancient Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor is also really good
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I will get this next
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Just finished Fall of Hyperion, not as good as the first but still 5/5 scifi
Into the second third of A History of Western Philosophy, I don't think I made for philosophy, the Greeks make my head hurt, hopefully the Papists are easier
Just started the collected fictions of Borges, A Universal History of Iniquity was kino
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Ficciones has wonderful tales too, I haven't read Historia universal de la iniquidad yet., I recently bought a volume containing all of his poems, “Son los ríos” has become one of my favorites.
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Is History good? I read will durants story of philosophy but i much preferred reading the originals
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i just finished antkind by charlie kaufman
way too long, but the ending was nice. probably one of the funniest books i've read
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"The Last Man" by Mary Shelley.
The premise seemed interesting and I like Frankenstein but I'm ~100 pages in and honestly it's pretty
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Remember to read the sequel The End of History and the Last Man
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Her best work came from a frenzied binge writing session and sadly I don't think she could ever replicate that success again (in my opinion)
also look at the newest /h/lit post
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I've really enjoyed how he blends the totally mundane with the supernatural.
Reading Blood Meridian too but I'm very behind
Also reading ULTRA-CHUD
Ray Peat's Articles on nutrition and chemistry.
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/dark-side-of-stress-learned-helplessness.shtml
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I finished reading Manufacturing Consent (accidents), now trying to finish Heaven and Heck: A History of the Afterlife and start reading Dialectics of Enlightenment by Theodore Adorno. My goal is to finish this reading list I found on 420chan (RIP)
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Adorno is wonderful, particularly Aesthetics. Read some Walter
Benjamin. He's one of my favorite 
critics for his writings on Kafka and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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Remember to read the exact opposite chart
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Smil's Energy and Civilization: A History
good book
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I've been reading these two books simultaneously and they are both pretty good
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Second one looks interesting, what is it about? In more details
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The book has a three pronged approach to violence:
1. The concept of war through antiquity to today covering mainly the theory of war in the post industrial world. Clausewitz, Napoleon and WW2, that war is simply politics by other means, war is total encompassing whole society etc
2. The psychological and genetic predispositions (if any) towards violence we have as a species. Why we take alcohol, drugs, chant ourselves into a trance like state etc before going to shed blood.
3. The curse society as a whole deals with post bloodshed in the form of images and totems- from holocaust imagery to girl covered in napalm in Vietnam, to ancient societies seeing the heads of their vanquished enemies on pikes.
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that sounds good but i can't listen to a german woman explaining that shit to me
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After murdering the actress, Lumian (The MC of Circle of Inevitability) is playing with his loser friends in his loser friend's basement. Killing spiders and burning wax statues.
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Everytime you post about this chink
trash it seems less real, please continue
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I'm reading the weekly “what are you reading” thread #28
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I just finished reading Letters from a Stoic by lucius seneca, and am halfway through Into Thin Air by jon krakauer.
Letters from a stoic is literally just a worse version of Proverbs except the author waffles on way too much, but there are some parts where he talks about the application of philosophy to Roman life which can be interesting. 7/10
Into thin air is good if you like to read about r-slurs dying pointless deaths. 8/10
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Fiction: The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat. Someone on here recommended it a while ago. It's a trippy magical realism account of a scrote murdering a foid. People compare it to Poe but I've never read him, so it reminds me of a foreign language Clark Ashton Smith.
There's a lot of references to Persian history that are probably going over my head, but I'm enjoying it anyway.
Non-Fiction: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards. I wanted to get a better insight into all the sandshit stuff. I assume every book on this conflict is going to carry a bias, but she goes around interviewing people inside Gaza and Israel on their opinions over multiple decades, so you at least get to see a lot of perspectives.
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Just finished Submission by houllebecq and now started Steppenwolf.
The second half of submission was a lot different than what I expected from the first half, but it was a really interesting read will definetely read more houllebecq in the future
I have only read like 30 pages of steppenwolf but I still have no clue what direction it's going.
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Lmao, the second half of Soumission was the depressed main character going all “Islam is right about X” meme. The conversation with the University guy who convinced him to convert was great.
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not very surprising considering we're talking about the french here
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Blindsight by Peter Watts I thought it'd be spooky, but it's just kinda nerd shit.
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I'll read it too! It's been on my list for a while.
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Lost Gods - Brom.
Straight Man - Russo.
Under the Sign of Saturn - Sontag.
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Currently reading Ruble: A Political history by Pravilova Ekaterina. It's been pretty interesting so far, albeit not something I'd normally read.
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