Currently reading (or last read)?

[Ezri_Muldoon]

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzimiya - Nagaru Tanigawa (Original light novel)

The CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender - John V. Quarstein

Mahoromatic - Bunjūrō Nakayama (Manga, currently on Volume 3)

Whilst I keep in on the downlow, my interest in the US Civil war is just as deep routed as weeb power level.
It makes my bookshelf seem schizophrenic

 

[Boo Man]

currently reading the posts in this thread

 

[Potapota]

James Rolfe? What's it about? I thought he only did that autobiography one.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

While I'm not reading any books currently, I have been reading some of the Gabriel DropOut spin-off manga Tapris Sugar Step.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

I kinda just started so I was expecting a modern take on Oblomov type of character but it turned out to be a Don Quixote who fights for making society go very backwards and live a more primitive life than they already do something akin to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain mentality that aims for a nonsense improvement that actually aims for deteriorating the society that can only destroy it, however when you see the big picture this is how the usual Americans are. As anyone who doesn't live under Plato's Allogotary of the Cave knows for Americans every person should be a Don Quixote who even start war against windmills just because existence of windmills doesn't obey their subjective sense of right and therefore personal preference and that's why they "look like a monster" that should be defeated because a Don Quixote person doesn't care about facts and objectivity and therefore they are driven by their own insanity and what rights and wrong their insanity decides in a very childish mentality, they only demand and want everything in the way they want. A Don Quixote person was always what the whole world made fun of and it was the definition of a "fool" and "clown" type of people that symbolizes what kind of person you shouldn't be and it was a fundamental tool for comedy but for some reason it is the type of character deemed "superior human" in American society so much even their whole human sciences fields like business and psychology normalizes being a Don Quixote in a way when you are a non-Don Quixote they don't wanna marry you, hire you, they won't make business with you and they will think you have medical conditions and insanity ayy lmao. So in a way the writer makes fun of the whole American society in the sociology level as a persona to make fun of the way the whole country is whether he actually intended or not, still it is a very funny book.

 

[DanCalibur]

After finishing the Hobbit for a second time, I'm now rereading The Fellowship of the Rings.

 

[skramz]

fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72, by my hero, HST.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I recently found a Geronimo Stilton section in Internet Archive, so i am giving the ones i missed as a kid a catch up

 

[Spyrone]

The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus. I'm enjoying it a lot more than the first time I tried reading it- a lot of the bits about automation and over-reliance on technology leading to humanity's death and subsequent reanimation hit a lot harder now than they did four years ago.

 

[diet_orange]

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

I kinda just started so I was expecting a modern take on Oblomov type of character but it turned out to be a Don Quixote who fights for making society go very backwards and live a more primitive life than they already do something akin to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain mentality that aims for a nonsense improvement that actually aims for deteriorating the society that can only destroy it, however when you see the big picture this is how the usual Americans are. As anyone who doesn't live under Plato's Allogotary of the Cave knows for Americans every person should be a Don Quixote who even start war against windmills just because existence of windmills doesn't obey their subjective sense of right and therefore personal preference and that's why they "look like a monster" that should be defeated because a Don Quixote person doesn't care about facts and objectivity and therefore they are driven by their own insanity and what rights and wrong their insanity decides in a very childish mentality, they only demand and want everything in the way they want. A Don Quixote person was always what the whole world made fun of and it was the definition of a "fool" and "clown" type of people that symbolizes what kind of person you shouldn't be and it was a fundamental tool for comedy but for some reason it is the type of character deemed "superior human" in American society so much even their whole human sciences fields like business and psychology normalizes being a Don Quixote in a way when you are a non-Don Quixote they don't wanna marry you, hire you, they won't make business with you and they will think you have medical conditions and insanity ayy lmao. So in a way the writer makes fun of the whole American society in the sociology level as a persona to make fun of the way the whole country is whether he actually intended or not, still it is a very funny book.

I've got a copy that I really need to finish, I always trail off once Ignatus starts working for Levi Pants. I love Toole's eclectic narration style

fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72, by my hero, HST.

Again, got a copy that I really need to spend time with. LOVED Great Shark Hunt, absolutely gobbled it up. My favorite part was when drunken Thompson was preaching scripture from the balcony of a hotel because he thought he had some kind monster on his back that would kill him if he didn't continue

 

[FlowersSunRain]

I recently finished the 3rd Monogatari Light Novel, which was wonderful and NISIOISIN's writing is always fun, punchy and beautiful.
I've been making another attempt to read Don Quixote too as of late, but I think I might put that off, as I've had a desire to start engaging with Philosophy for a while, and I wish to check out Bertrand Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy."

 

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[Adachi_08]

Read throug Albert Camus "Happy Death" and currently reading "The Killer House in the Ring of Fire" by Tatsuki Atsukawa. Im kind of a slow reader tbh, while growing up never liked reading books, but as of late i got my self a pile of books that i wanna read, but it keeps growing faster than i can read through it

 

[Jiang]

Share what you have been reading/listening to and what you thought of it.

I'm currently halfway through "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows (audiobook version).

I find it super charming and interesting, genuinely funny, and even brilliant at times. Truly surprised by this book that, at first glance, really didn't seem to have much to offer... I guess there's a reason why that one saying is eternal.

What about you?

Freesia and I am A hero, both are a fun read. Definitely recommend both

 

[Badseed Badseed]

I've been reading A Clockwork Orange. It's a rather difficult read because a good half of the words are a conlang that Burgess made up as a language teens adopted so that their parents couldn't understand them. That said, you can suss out most of the meanings from context.

I've also been re-listening to an audiobook of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

"How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!"

Myself, I just finished reading Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Absolutely terrifying book.

 

[Adachi_08]

Update! Im reading "Blood Meridian" right now. So far enjoying it.