Have you been reading any good books recently? - I crave knowledge.

[Finger Pistols]

I have been trying to read more this year. I have started by reading "Industrial Society and its Future" By Theodore Kaczynski. Honestly, It was a very good read and it provided some insight into current societal issues.

Here's some books that I am planning on reading this year (I may add some books by HP Lovecraft if I get far enough into this list.):

• The Metamorphoshis (Re-read).
• Wuthering Heights.
• The Stranger.
• Demian.
• Hell Screen.
• American Psycho (The book).
• No Country for Old Men (The book).
• The Vippu Drawing Manual.
• Realistic Figure Drawing by Joseph Sheppard.

Are you reading any books or planning on reading any? Is there any that you would recommend?

 

[Lemmingwiser]

The prestige is a fantasticly good book. It's interesting how both the movie and book are good in very different ways. Several key plot points are different. Yet they share of ideas as well.

In general I like comparing movies to their books. Children of men has some fantastic ideas, especially considering the male fertility drop of the last 7 decades.

Kubrick is always interesting to compare movie to book, and I would recommend Traumnovella as well.

 

[wet legs]

I'm also trying to read more this year and I recommend the best book I've read on this mission so far, the masterpiece - East of Eden, by John Steinbeck.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

Jame Ellroy at his best. Incredibly violent and full of great old-timey racial slurs.


~1300 pages about an asshole self-hating jewish bureaucrat who ended up shaping 20th century NYC. One of the best biographies ever written.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

I'm on the introduction of "Plagues and People" by William H. McNeill. FYI it was already published when we were treating AIDS

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

Hop on Pop is always a riveting read

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

American Psycho the book was good, I definitely recommend that one.

 

[Feefee81093]

Strange Planet

 

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

I've been flicking through Richard Brautigan's works again. He's one of my favorite American authors, he writes in this oddly affected and casual tone that feels like he's just randomly accosted you and decided to give you an anecdote from his long and eventful weird life.

It never feels like a proper narrative written and planned out, but instead almost a casual stream of consciousness that rarely ends in any moral or message or even point. Yet it's incredibly drawing and appealing, it's oddly addicting. Here's a short sample of his more purpose-filled "Actually has a punchline" prose from his collection of vignettes titled "Revenge of the Lawn."

 

[melty]

COVID-19: The Great Reset

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

Take a look at the Austrian school of economics and Libertarianism. It‘s a fresh approach to economics that has never been used by any government. All books are listed with their authors.

Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises.

Democracy: The God that Failed, A Short History of Man,The Myth of National Defense, The Great Fiction, and From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy by Hans Hermann Hoppe.

For a New Liberty and The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard.

 

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]

I've been perusing various volumes of The History of Middle-earth series of books. They're quite insightful in how Tolkien formulated his world, and they also help me to understand my own writing. I've also been looking into poetry—particularly the elegies of Catullus. If only because I want to better-understand the form such poetry takes.

 

[SandyCat]

 

[0ctober lust]

im a bit of a history weirdo so I've been lately reading Maus. They way they used the Cat & Mouse Metaphor on Hitler, the nazis (cats) and the jews (mice) is pretty cool + the 2nd part showing how they coped/ the effects is interesting.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Sharpe's Command. And Lords of the North. Both by Bernard Cornwell.

 

[marlboroman]

The Trial is another great Kafka read. I also don't hear Letters to Milena being talked about nearly enough.

 

[dick brain]

Yup.

 

[SofondaCox]

Father of Lies, from Brian Evenson. A Collapse of Horses as well from the same author.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

readings for pussies, i get all my knowledge from youtubers and video games, im basically at the tail end of a very long human centipede

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Rambling Man, by Billy Connolly. I love that man, like a grandad I've never known.