do anons here read? what have you been reading recently?

I'm going through Baudrillard's Cool Memories. Its basically a bunch of short stray thoughts on America where he rambles about everything from porn films to Stevie Wonder. Highly recommend.

I was recommended 'Journey to the West' by a friend there's a monkey who sets out on a journey for immortality i havn't gotten very far and it's quite long so i don't know how much i can recommend it, but i've enjoyed what i've seen

the frank herbert pandora sequence. the first, destination: void, and the last, ascension factor, are especially good (altho, i have no idea how the last would hit without the other 2. destination:void is great in isolation.

roland barthes' a lovers discourse ... the foreword by wayne koestenbaum delighted and intrigued me in a way no foreword has before. the book itself is a collection of considerations upon words with relation to love hence the title, a lover's discourse. i have trouble reading very much of it at a time, which i dont find to be a problem, because the sections are quite short and they leave me with a lot to think about.

Dialectic of Enlightenment is the ultimate blackpill. That book is extremely depressing.

East of Eden was one of the best books I've ever read, is kind of got boostraps mentality as the theme but other than that its a viscerally enjoyable read. Its also one of the main inspirations for jojo weirdly enough.

I'm also reading Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulaiton, but I don't understand anything about it. Maybe I'm retarded or maybe it's actually this opaque. Probably the former.

>>6 yeah east of eden is fantastic

>>6 check out some other lesser known steinbeck stuff if you havent, log from sea of cortez is really good

Emil Cioran

why all these washed up philosophers? read some real philosophy - clifford the big red dog.

i’ve been reading lots of baudrillard lately as well, the transparency of evil is a pretty good read for what it is.

we should have a baudrillard thread lol

if audiobooks count : 1q84 in japanese for immersion. i can understand a whole 3 words per minute!

I'm reading The Tragedy of Hamlet (Arden2), Hegel's Science of Logic, and a book about Festen (1998 Danish film) that I probably won't finish.

I am reading Vydūnas "Probočių šešėliai" (no English translation), Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata and all of Haruhi Suzumiya volumes.

pasakyk daugiau

i am once again begging y0u to read daniel suarez's Deamon and Freedom(tm)

*daemon

Reading Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics. Its amazing but not something you can't just sum up easily. Highly recommend it.

>>20
well put it down and pick up daemon. >:[

>>21

post-cyberpunk

No

>>22
read it then tell me why it's bad. form an opinion rather regurgitating blurbs designed by and for the machine.

>>23
I don't read fiction sorry

>>9
Oh ill check it out now

you can drag a horse, kicking and screaming, to the river, nearly drown it, but still not make it drink. apparently.

I read Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Government, some of his poems, and his two transgender fatwas.
Short story. Raises good points but sucks when it comes to solutions. His poems are mediocre to bad. The type of stuff you'd expect anyone halfway decent with a pen to write. The trans fatwas were surprisingly practical and probably very useful for a certain crowd. I've been looking for the public lectures he gave on mystical philosophy he gave in the 80s. Nowhere to be found. Damn.

The type of mystical occulto-radicalism of Khomeini was too common sense, too ordinary, too much leaning towards orthodoxy. Cut out the boring half and inject some madness and chaos and you get a pure revolutionism. A revolutionism for the sake of revolt. A revolt that's targeted at everything. Great. Now I can apply that from everything from jerking off and making movies to music and playing sports. Rioting is good.

I’ve been reading this porn novel written by the guy that wrote Bambi (yes that Disney movie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Mutzenbacher

It’s pretty fucked. It’s about how a girl was raped and became a prostitute. Then she goes through a laundry list of taboo sex like rape, child prostitution, incest etc. would make a good eroge.

>>28
I fucking love this book now

Porn scum ruined this thread

>>28
You should kill your family and put yourself in a fire

threads are easy to fix. just post something in the direction you want things to go instead of making things worse for no reason :)
watch.

have you read daemon and freedom yet? i've given you plenty of time. tick tock mfs.

so many unfinished books, i was supposed to read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers along with a friend but he just overtook me and finished it and since then I just didn't bother to pick it back up

i read L***ta (the 1955 novel, by Vladimir Nabokov) when i was in the hospital for a stomach flu and got up to about after the motel hopping arc and didn't pick it back up after being released

got about 3/5ths - 2/3rds through Gravity's Rainbow and moved computers and haven't bothered moving my PDF collection to the new one

i also have Wuthering Heights that i got alongside L***ta, the only two physical editions of the books i named here but i haven't even gotten started on that one yet

>>33 stop getting book recommendations from the retards on lit and read what interests you, i like video games so i read a book about game devs called Blood Sweat and Pixels and it was great

>>34
i didnt get any of those from lit though

I have recently picked up Gulliver's Travels, reading it before bed makes me feel giddy

Romantic manifesto by Rand. Great book!

the mirror of production. expected schizopost, got actually grounded critique.

books r 4 fags

I read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It was pretty good. The ideas are pretty good too.

Bergson's Matter and Memory and Baudrillard's System of Objects, both really good. Lot of Baudrillard readers here it seems.

books!