What are you reading right now?

[SneedleDee&SneedleDumb]

Couple Franz Kafka rereads (The Trial and Metamorphosis), Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums (highly recommend), and book 2 of the Escape from Tarkov lore. I was just recently convinced to read 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and I must say that it is the worst fucking book I ever read, gets a gunt/10.

 

[SneedleDee&SneedleDumb]

Also was gifted the entire 007 Ian Flemming collection, because I've always loved James Bond movies (Goldeneye and all previous, and Casino Royale) and I can not stand his writing style, it's just utterly obnoxious in many ways to me. Tom Clancy is a much better alternative for that genre IMO.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I've been reading over Goddesses in everywoman and God's in everyman. Both of them are pretty interesting Jungian pieces on the Greek Gods and translating them to the average persons development.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I’ve discovered litrpg completely by accident, so I just finished “Kaiju: Battlefield surgeon”, it’s a pretty gross book but engrossing.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

 

[Meat Target]

I've started on The Shadow Rising (4th Wheel of Time book), and the Ukraine war got me playing Stalker, so I also decided to pick up Roadside Picnic.

 

[SneedleDee&SneedleDumb]

Just picked up Parable of the Sower from my sister's shelf when visiting, was a good read. Post-apocalyptic story. Most interesting aspect IMO was a group of people they called "paints" who do a drug that makes you, essentially, bust a nut when you see fire, thus making them set fuckin everything ablaze. Makes me wonder what inspired the author for them lmao. Interesting story for sure.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

I'm about half way through The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton and this absolute monster spent the entire first half world building it's sc-fi setting and doing character set-up which is probably too much considering it is over 1000 pages... but hell, I can tell you a lot abut how the universe works because of it. Only at this point is the primary conflict about really evil body snatching entities taking over the planet they appeared on (which involved a legit Satanic ritual) and covertly starting to spread into the wider galaxy. It'll be interesting to find out what they are if we get past trade arrangements and one captain's goal to fuck literally every girl in the galaxy.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

Emma by Jane Austen because I need to cleanse myself of that shitty 2020 movie.
I feel like period dramas died in mid 2000s. Everything these days has to be woke, washed out and "modern audiences" approved.

 

[TurdFondler]

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I read this book and I found the author's constant breaking of the 4th wall jarring and the self aggrandizing descriptions were a little gratuitous after the first chapter. The narrative arc is strange too, very post modern. The protagonist turns out to be the villain, and the "villain" just an innocent bystander. The ending lacked any kind of climax or catharsis.

Worth a read, definitely, if only for the unique prose.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Not my first time reading this, but still as vivid as I recall. About a man who takes his newspaper job to martyr-like proportions. Imagine a cynical version of Flannery O'Connor.

 

[Homo neanderthalensis]

Bleeding Edge by Pynchon

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

Almost through with War and Peace. It surprisingly took me a couple of weeks to read it.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Adolf Hitler by John Toland.

 

[Shidoen]

Some gay ass atheist book that i'm gonna throw at a gay ass atheist and then beat them with a Bible.

 

[Foltest]

The first LOTR book.
Have come to the council of Elrond.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Bleeding Edge by Pynchon

Is it any good? I've read Crying Lot (I recall jack shit) and Vineland (the one nobody reads) and I enjoyed it. I want to read Mason & Dixon, but so many other long classics to read first.

Almost through with War and Peace. It surprisingly took me a couple of weeks to read it.

Read Cossacks because I'm a lazy cunt and I want to say I've read some Tolstoy. Excellent work though, but it was years ago.

Some gay ass atheist book that i'm gonna throw at a gay ass atheist and then beat them with a Bible.

I read God Delusion and thought Dawkins might actually be retarded, but then I bothered with his biology books and realised he only has something to say on one topic.

Just started these two.

About the change from an oral culture to a literal culture and how that affects consciousness. Has a lot to say about the internet age.

One of Nietzsche's shorter works. If you ever wanted to brag about reading the entire work of a philosopher, Nietzsche is the one. I only have a few left now and none have been a bother. Except The Birth of Tragedy which I don't like at all.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Finished Franz Kafka' s "Metamorphosis"
Started reading "A Mind of Your Own" by Kelly Brogan, M.D. (a book detailing how Big Pharma screws up people; some things I knew of from pevious books regarding enthusiastic prescribing) and skimming C.S. Lewis "The Reading Life"

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

Read Cossacks because I'm a lazy cunt and I want to say I've read some Tolstoy. Excellent work though, but it was years ago.

This is my first Tolstoy book, funnily enough. I've always wanted to read some Russian classics (pardon the username lol), and this one just happened to catch my eye at the library.

I'm lazy, too, but I seem to read the most when I happen to be around other people than when I'm alone. Another similar circumstance is when I finished Fellowship of the Ring last year in over a month and a half, when I was sure I chalked that shit up as boring after I first got it.

Atheism is bound to be retarded one way or other.

 

[Homo neanderthalensis]

Is it any good? I've read Crying Lot (I recall jack shit) and Vineland (the one nobody reads) and I enjoyed it. I want to read Mason & Dixon, but so many other long classics to read first.

People not familiar with American culture, NY in the 90s will certainly need wikipedia as a companion while reading this beast.