Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3271
>>3253 I'm reading the Faerie Queen and its really fucking good like goddamn, but its making me feel like an absolute brainlet, I have to keep stopping and rereading bits because I miss the implication of a line and misunderstand what happens then only cotton on a few stanzas later when something happens that's out of line with what I think is happening, I can't seem to understand poetry unless I speak it out loud for some reason, so I'm also destroying my throat reading this thicc bitch
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:52 No. 3370
>>610 You're already on a list if you use this site.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:54 No. 3381
>>674 I bought a remarkable e-ink tablet. I really like the large display and the ability to write on it.
I haven't tried other e-ink readers, but I'm satisfied with this one.
My biggest problem with kindles was the tiny fucking screen. Drives me fucking mad because most books I have are PDF letter size books, which are impossible to read on a kindle. The tablet I have is large enough so that pages are usually large enough to read.
I haven't had problems with it. I've been reading much more since I got it. I love taking notes on it. I mostly use the highlighting pen though.
I've also used it to a lesser degree for note taking.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:54 No. 3383
I'm a much faster reader using a big screen than with pocket-sized ereaders. You kids know nothing of pain. I used to read whole books on a shitty CRT…
>>3381 >I bought a remarkable [b]e-ink tablet[/b] That's what I need! Name of the thing?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:54 No. 3386
>>3383 lol, the name is 'remarkable'. sorry for the confusion, I don't usually use the word 'remarkable'.
https://remarkable.com/ A friend that was learning classic Chinese scripture recommended it to me. I mostly use it for highlighting shit from pdfs. Sometimes I make notes on random subjects.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:54 No. 3387
>>3386 Forgot to add, if you click shop, you can buy the old version if you want it now. I think they said the new version is shipping in October, but I wasn't going to wait so long.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:01 No. 3468
>>621 Should have bought The Road to Serfdom as well. But then you'd probably receive a job application from the feds for organizing fascist militias in leftist countries.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:22 No. 3676
I usually go to used bookstores to find stuff. If online, I use Amazon. It's pretty good for finding related books, even if you decide to not buy from there although I often do.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No. 3694
>>3675 Well when I had to start somewhere it was lists and recs from boards. Like one time I came across a quote from Hesse's Siddhartha on 420ch and ended up reading a bunch of his work. Or I'd visit what I've heard is canon/classic, so I did that and would then see where the text ramifies out to, like contemporaneous or within the same nation (e.g. enjoyed Dostoyevsky, went on to Tolstoy and Gogol). It's much easier to decide where to go next when it comes to philosophy and theory.
2 yards linen = 1 coat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:04 No. 4097
>>3711 Solzhenitsyn's
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an excellent book.
>…inventing his own neologisms, meandering prose with no rhyme or rhythm, and endless exposition dumps with ambitions of a wannabe 20th century Leo Tolstoy constantly fall flat on their face. This does not describe the book at all.
2 yards linen = 1 coat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:04 No. 4101
>>3675 >What is your process? When I had access to a university library + a lot of time, I searched through the library catalog for certain topics then skimmed various books on a single subject, discarding the ones that didn't seem useful and noting the names of the rest for further study.
What I do now (since I only have access to what I can find on the internet) is to do the same thing by searching online using whatever platform is available, plus using authors sources and footnotes to find more books to read.
This is a good way of compiling info on specific topics.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:05 No. 4103
Usually recommendation from friends. But if they got none, I go to boards that make recommendations I'm interested in and I start reading from there.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No. 4237
>>670 >What is your favorite book? Gotta be between:
Caliban and the Witch - it's a Marxist feminist analysis of the witch trials throughout history and the subjugation of women
Towards a New Socialism - Do I have to explain myself on this one? Everyone here talks about it
Hard to say, I feel like I always seek out books that fit my general internal development and they just act as a catalyst. Books that I've connected with the most when I've read them would be:
Conquest of Bread
The New Revolution
Towards a New Socialism
One Straw Revolution
I learn stuff I guess, feels like I'm doing something important, idk
Not sure atm, chugging through a couple atm and I have a big reading list to choose from. Probably against the grain.
How the World Works by Cockshott
How to make a food forest
The Unique and Its Property - the new translation, much better read than the original
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No. 4249
It was Chomsky's Profits Before People in High school, when I was about 16 or 17. The path to Marx and Lenin was very quick after that
TheThingNoticer 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:49 No. 4659
>>670 I'd say my favorite book was the original Thrawn novel, from the Star Wars universe. In terms of actual political literature, though, I thoroughly enjoyed TANS by Dickblast. Said book has been my biggest influence to date.
I don't actually like books very much, and prefer PDFs. I plan on reading more of Cockshott's books, a few of which I've already covered. I'm normally too busy with trade school to read much, but it's still going bit by bit. That said, I'm not currently reading anything.
Anonymous 2021-01-28 (Thu) 14:38:54 No. 4924
>>670 >What is your favorite book? Zaregoto: The Kubishime Romanticist, love it for how it flips the idea of the protagonist on it's head, and the mystery is less the murder in the novel, and more the ideology that leads him down the path he walks.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, I read it as a kid, and some of the ideas of fair play that I missed out on in terms of writing lessons were something that, conceptually, I internalized after reading it.
As a means of ideal communication it's n embodiment of easy to learn, hard to master. It's a craft that attracted me as a child, and never lost it's luster, same as other crafts which have attracted me.
Everything I'm currently reading. More political theory as well.
Infinite Jest, Boogiepop, House of Leaves, Nekomonogatari Shiro, etc.
Anonymous 2021-02-25 (Thu) 14:02:41 No. 5057
>>670 >What is your favorite book? El reino de este mundo by Alejo Carpentier, its beautifully written. Don Quijote is a great novel too.
>What book influenced you the most? Capital. It was incredibly clarifying.
>What do you like about books? Books can be an escape, I started out reading fantasy, "graduated" to science-fiction, and came back to fantasy with LOTR and ASOIAF. Books can educate you, they can help you become a master of any field. Books can make you think in new ways, exploring reality in ways you could have never imagined. Books are the congealed form of human imagination and experience.
>What are you planning to read? The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
>What are you reading now? In Defense of Lost Causes by Zizek. I'm in part 2 and despite its deficiency of organization I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone.
Anonymous 2021-03-21 (Sun) 19:37:12 No. 5213
>>670 An Alchemy Of The Mind by Dianne Ackerman
Rule By Secrecy by Jim Marrs. It's a conspiracy theory book that I picked up in middle school.
It kind of wasted my time and mental energy, because I was constantly looking for confirmations and contradictions to what he said everywhere, but it turns out that that's kind of a never-ending pursuit, and it's unfruitful, and there probably aren't aliens using humans to fight proxy wars or whatever the fuck that book was trying to get me to believe.
It was an influential book because it ruined my intellect and wasted my time and ruined my life, drugs are probably safer.
They change your mental state and are rewarding to read. I can go back to sleep if I drank too much the night before, or I can let the sunrise of being entranced yet awake dissipate the mental fog obstructing my perception of my imagination.
And if they're paperbacks, they're soft.
unf The Body In The Mind by Mark Johnson
The New Left Revisited
>>704 > Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Holy shit this was my favorite book when I was in like 3rd or 4th grade
Anonymous 2021-03-26 (Fri) 18:20:58 No. 5302
>>670 >What is your favorite book? Don't really have one so much, although Brothers Karazamov, Death of Ivan Ilyich, Checkov's short stories, Pessoa and Saramago I enjoyed it a lot.
>What book influenced you the most? I'm poortuguese, so "Levantado do Chão" (roughly translates to "Risen from the ground") by José Saramago. Unironically was a novel that turned me into a convicted socialist and later Marxist and believing in a revolutionary methodology.
>What do you like about books? It's a very uniquely useful way for an autist like me to understand other humans if it's fiction. They have a lot of information to help me understand things in non-fiction.
>what are you planning to read? Currently reading Capital and other Marxist. Will continue to do that as well as some philosophy and psychoanalysis, and more canon Portuguese language authors like Eça de Qeuirós atm.
>what are you planning to read? Other than what I've already said above, Cidade e as Serras, by Eça de Queirós.
read_a_fucking_book Read a Fucking Book Anonymous 2021-03-26 (Fri) 18:23:19 No. 5303
>>5302 *>>what are you reading now?
Other than what I've already said above, Cidade e as Serras, by Eça de Queirós, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and Casa-Grande & Senzala by Gilberto Freyre.
read_a_fucking_book Read a Fucking Book Anonymous 2021-03-29 (Mon) 20:30:14 No. 5338
>What is your favorite book? >What book influenced you the most? >What do you like about books? >What are you planning to read. >What are you reading now?
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 20:56:18 No. 7458
>>670 >what is your favorite book? the fool, raffi
>what book influenced you the most? the right to struggle, monte melkonian
>what do you like about books? idk i like learning
>what are you planning to read wagnerism, alex ross
>what are you reading now? my year of rest and relaxation, otessa moshfegh
Anonymous 2021-09-26 (Sun) 00:26:43 No. 7459
>>670 >What is your favorite book? Probably Lord of the Rings, tbh. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a close second. Man, that book is great, I never thought it would live up to the hype but somehow it did.
>What book influenced you the most? No clue. Maybe One Hundred Years of Solitude since it got me back into reading fiction again after not having done so for several years. Or some stuff that my mom read aloud to me when I was a kid.
>What do you like about books? That I can learn stuff. And actually don't feel like I am wasting my time as opposed to when aimlessly browsing the internet.
>what are you planning to read? Debt: The First 5000 Years and a book called Mute Compulsion by a Danish marxist that just got published. Also wanna read more fiction from Latin America, I just gotta decide who and what…
>What are you reading now? Bitter Fruit, about the US intervention and coup in Guatemala in 1954. Scary stuff.
Anonymous 2021-09-26 (Sun) 11:35:52 No. 7463
>What is your favorite book?
Anonymous 2021-09-26 (Sun) 11:36:51 No. 7464
>>7463 Off butchered my post, oh well
Anonymous 2021-09-28 (Tue) 14:52:54 No. 7504
>>4230 I'm dying fuck
>>969 checked
fr why is the op image arousing Anonymous 2021-09-28 (Tue) 16:16:54 No. 7506
>>7504 Zamenhof was a handsome man.
Anonymous 2022-01-28 (Fri) 03:43:44 No. 9566
>>689 Thanks for the advice, I found one. Seems to be a largely black one as well, so perhaps I'll learn something new from them.
Anonymous 2022-02-06 (Sun) 20:33:08 No. 9668
>>670 I'm just finishing up Geek Love by Katherine Dunn and going to read verso's Oscar Wilde collection next.
Anonymous 2022-02-12 (Sat) 18:43:28 No. 9751
>>670 >favorite book The Idiot
>book influenced you the most Literature only? This sounds gay, but probably Macbeth.
>what do you like about books? They're the purest interpersonal exploration of consciousness (though I would say this is true of 'stories' in general, and is therefore not exclusive to the written tradition, but such is our particular mediation)
>what are you planning to read? A bunch of stuff idk too much procrastinating I need to read plenty of non-fiction boring theory still… endless mountains
>what are you reading now? see above
Anonymous 2022-04-07 (Thu) 02:26:21 No. 10312
>>3259 Same here. Any remedies for that?
Anonymous 2022-07-21 (Thu) 06:10:20 No. 11289
What does /lit/ think about reading groups for different genres, rather than this survey type thread of asking what your fav book is. I'm currently interested in the greeks meme (more lit less phil), below is what I've read this year.> Aristotle the Nicomachean Ethics (whatever it counts) > Agamemnon (realized I need to reread the Illiad to understand it) > currently reading the Illiad > just picked up The Histories by Herodotus
Anonymous 2022-07-21 (Thu) 07:25:19 No. 11292
>>10312 read stuff by cool ppl… lots of communisty stuff out there, its just not so easy to find cause "not-censorship"
For fiction I like joseph conrad. "English canon" type shit but he's neat, anti-imperialist at least, anti-capital + pro people power at best. Flannery O'Connor is cool. Ray Bradbury is honestly fucked and full of ideology, but the writing is fun so i fw it. Lots of sci fi short story stuff is fun tbh
even tho the fear of AI singularity and machines taking over humans e.g. is literally disgusting anti-communist and prole-objectifying ideology For non-fiction or art, i mean there's historical commie shit.
Anonymous 2022-07-21 (Thu) 07:29:51 No. 11293
>>11292 I've read a few short stories by O'Connor and Faulkner and just amazed at 1) how good they are and 2) how deeply nihilistic southern writers who came out of the Reconstruction were.
Anonymous 2022-07-23 (Sat) 15:37:08 No. 11303
>>602 Library reading halls if i need to do serious study. Audiobooks on leisure time.
Anonymous 2023-02-28 (Tue) 19:30:44 No. 12532
>>10312 Be more selective with what you read I guess. Beyond that, I once had a conversation with a friend wherein we basically said the only way to enjoy things these day i.e TV, movies, art, fiction etc etc. you kinda have to wear like ideological lenses - place yourself at a distant and just use it to numb your mind to a certain extent. Otherwise you're gonna go insane with how shitty (almost) everything is. Ideally, reading theory etc. immunizes you to a certain degree from the most glaringly disgusting aspects of the Spectacle.
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