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Hi /kind/
What are you reading? What have you read recently?
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No.30959
Just finished Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Society and started on Roger Scruton's Thinkers of the New Left.
I'm interested in Sowell's Basic Economics, but sadly it's not available in my country and I can't find a .pdf anywhere.
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No.30963
>>30959
I want to help you by posting it, but it feels like giving vodka to somebody at Anonymous Alcoholics.
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No.30967
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No.30992
I'm reading through Edgar Allan Poe stories, and I have listened through "Chronicles of Jakub Wędrowycz".
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No.30994
I'm just reading doujins and manga online.
>>30963
Nice. I want to read more by Sowell, have any more?
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No.32244
I've just finished reading some science-fiction short stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. They were very good, light and entertaining.
I've read them in this public domain ebook: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/stanley-g-weinbaum/short-fiction
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No.32269
The Dark Tower series by King, I've finished book 3. I like post-apo.
Yesterday I read "Polska 2.0", which is basically a political tract pretending to be a sci-fi novel.
It's divided into two parts - in the first, Poland is at the brink of collapse due to a "national-Catholic" government getting into debt and gutting the military to pay for assorted socialbux, but is saved in time by a military coup led by an ex-politician who bases his program on a fictional book that is pretty much the author's way of inserting his theories (that Poles have become a materialistic and pessimistic nation due to the intelligentsia getting slaughtered in WW2, etc), fixes the country with a series of reforms and a war against professional politicians, then proceeds to create a full-fledged Intermarium out of the Visegrad pact and embraces a doctrine of Prometheism against Russia, that is, to offer liberated Russian vassals and conquered Russian states a clean slate, economic prosperity and a competent administration so as to defeat the "Mongolo-Byzantine culture" that is, in the author's opinion, the reason why Russia has always been authoritarian in one way or another (the implication is that Poland is "Latin" and European). Then the Turks want their own empire and the mulatto bastard protag whose identity angst is his backstory is stuck in a bunker defending Warsaw it ends happily though due to Burgers having moon artillery.
The second part is an alternate timeline where the coup fails and the populist government basically runs the country into the ground, with the young emigrating, the old dying of hunger, food rationing, the power grid collapsing to 19th-century levels, student uprisings, and a holocaust against elderly citizens who cannot be fed on the food aid from the EU and the States, with a corporation escaping to Micronesia and building an underwater mining colony called "Poland 2" as a plan B and a base to recreate the country when the world collapses due to an impending natural calamity.
Then in the epilogue the author basically calls you out on expecting the second part to come true (however ridiculous the idea is) - "see, I told you you were pessimistic as fuck, now go make the Commonwealth great again".
Interesting read/10, but I doubt that Russia would not blow us the fuck out in a land war, and the populist party is a pretty thinly-veiled "logical conclusion" of the guys currently ruling us, and they've been pretty OK, refusing refugees and giving out cash for having kids. Might just be me being a defeatist :^)
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No.33766
Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart and The Bible. Both I'm very glad to be reading.
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No.33786
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No.33851
Free books on engineering reliability
http://www.weibull.com/
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No.34581
How do I start reading? I have extremely short attention span, everytime I start reading, after a couple of pages lose attention and don't even know what I'm reading anymore. All of the sudden sentences turn into individual words, I hope this makes sense I don't know how else to describe it. I even bought a Kindle 3 years ago to start reading, but haven't finished a single book. Not that I don't have time, I have all the time I want, but still somehow don't find appropriate time for reading. Every once in a while I get motivated again to start reading, but every single time drop the book after two day or so and don't touch it for a couple of weeks. In that time I forget what the book was even about and just delete it.
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No.34584
>>34581
I hate reading on electronics like my phone or a kindle because I always do the same thing. I can only read for any length of time with old-fashioned ink and paper, for some reason.
What sort of books have you tried reading?
What sort of TV, movies, and vidya do you like? So maybe we can help give you recommendations.
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No.34585
>>34584
>What sort of books have you tried reading?
I tried all sort of books from Dostoevsky to H.P. Lovecraft.
>What sort of TV, movies, and vidya do you like?
I like sci-fi, fantasy and stuff about going on adventures. The problem is even though I like the concept of the book I still can't finish it. This problem started occurring even in other mediums such as movies, anime and vidya. I lose interest so quickly.
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No.34589
>>34581
When I wanted to get into reading again, I read mostly children's books like The Phantom Tollbooth and The Wind in the Willows before working my way up to more difficult books. Maybe there are other reasons why you can't finish something, but reading is also a skill that can be practiced like any other and you need to think about what's appropriate to your level. Dostoyevsky and Lovecraft aren't exactly the easiest authors.
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No.34598
>>34589
My mind just wanders elsewhere, it happens with everything now, I just can't concentrate. There are always thoughts in my head from which I can't escape no matter how hard I try. But I guess you're right about reading being a skill, The Phantom Tollbooth looks interesting I will give it a try, thanks for suggestion.
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No.34608
>>34598
For what it's worth, I can relate to your concentration problems and I wish I knew what the cause was. Even now, I tend to zone out a lot, either staring into space for 10-20 minutes or reading several pages before realizing I'm not paying attention. Sometimes I find that really focusing on the details, trying to create a vivid picture of the scene in my mind, helps. Reading in a public place like the library has helped too, maybe just because it's awkward to zone out and accidentally stare at someone.
Good luck, friend.
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No.34609
>>34585
You could try reading short stories, I know sci-fi has tons of them. Try "I, Robot" by Asimov (not the film!) or the book recommended in >>32244 both are great.
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No.34610
>>34609
how similar is it to the movie?
i don't remember much about the movie except for it being cliche and crap
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No.34643
>>34610
Not him, but I read the book some years ago and really enjoyed it. I haven't seen the movie, but I've heard it has zero to do with the book. The book is just short stories exploring different aspects of the relationship between people and robots. No action in it, but some quite interesting and original scenarios
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No.34644
>>34610
>>34643
You are entirely right about the movie. It was a middling action romp with a slightly grimy robotic veneer.
Luckily, the movie has zero pretense about even being related to the book.
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No.35884
My goal this year is to read 100 books, but so far I've only read six.
At the moment, I'm finishing up the final book in Ken Follett's Century Trilogy. After that I'm probably going to start my annual rereading of Harry Potter. Once I'm done with all that, I'm going to try to read something that's actually good. Maybe Daniel Deronda, I'm not sure.
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No.35889
>>34598
>There are always thoughts in my head from which I can't escape no matter how hard I try.
I have a heard time with that too. Even with books I like, I tend to put them down every few pages, pace around, and fantasize about it rather than sit there and read properly. It's a real pain when you're trying to enjoy something, almost like an obsessive tic or something.
I don't know if we're dealing with the same stuff, but there's some hope on the horizon. Self control exercises and starting with easier books have helped me make a little progress. I made it through the Iliad last month, and I'm reading 48 laws of power right now, it's slow going but around this time last year I'd be hard pressed to read more than a 20 word shitpost.
Ganbare ~
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No.36708
I'm reading a couple books. One is about drawing people, the other is a fantasy book called Inkspell I read once as a kid.
It's about a German family who can read things out of books, and can even read people back into them. There's an Arabian boy who gets read out of a book, and if he ends up with the blonde German daughter it will ruin my childhood tbh.
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No.36732
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No.36739
I'm reading Much Ado About Nothing. At first it was great because of Beatrice and Benedick sassing each other but right now it just feels like The Merchant of Venice. Hope it picks up again.
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No.36746
I've been trying to get into Frankfurt School stuff recently, like "Escape from Freedom", and reading shorter essays by Marcuse. I also plan to make way through Marx's "Value, Price and Profit" because I've finished "Wage Labour and Capital".
>>29527
Animal Farm is nicer in my opinion.
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No.36752
>>36739
> it just feels like The Merchant of Venice
what do you mean?
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No.38066
Recently read:
<The subtle art of not giving a fuck
Good book. It was a little painful at times because the premise is about giving a fuck about what matters to you. But chasing what you truly admire or desire in life is very scary. Once you give a fuck about one or two important things, then its easy to be nonplussed about almost everything else. Thus you can live peacefully not giving a fuck.
I could be misinterpreting the book but that's what i got out of it
<Brave New world
This book made me sick to my stomach. It was degeneracy ten fold. I see a lot of parallels to how society lives in that book to how society operates today. Thought about quitting the book but i kept at it. Glad i read it out but i don't think I'll ever re-read it.
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No.38071
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
I'm on the second book in the series now
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No.38090
Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/wings/index.html
One of the most mind-breaking books I've read in my life. I'm only maybe 15 pages in and I can only read maybe a handful at a time before I have to put it down and let whatever it is they're talking about drop down and digest. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand Buddha.
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No.38377
I need to stop being lazy, get off the computer and start reading.
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No.38443
No longer human by ozamu dazai (i know it's correct translation is called disqualified from being human)
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No.38479
I wanted to read a book by Jordan Bederson but I'm not up to it. He seems like some alt-right guru and I can't stomach that.
I just started to read Beauty by Peter Scruton a couple of mins ago
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No.38482
>>29481
I never folded my socks until this book, completely changed my life. (In regards to socks)
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No.38484
>>38479
Recently bought his book, 12 rules for life along with two books by Carl Jung: modern man in search of soul and man and his symbols.
I don't think Jordan Peterson is that bad and shouldn't be straw manned or written off arbitrarily. But I will let you know when I've read it and if it was worth the buy.
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No.38485
>>38479
>Jordan Peterson
I heard he shot up another church full of black people while screaming the 14 words just last year. Somebody has to stop this man.
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No.38486
>>38479
Don't waste your time on him, he speak a lot but says little.
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No.38488
>jordan "everything I don't like is postmodernism" peterson
>>16727
recently I read a book called The Weekend Danced by Talkot Levy. I just picked it up at my local bookstore, it was pretty good, not the best thing I've ever read but not bad at all. It's about growing up as a mod in london during the 80s. Pretty interesting stuff.
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No.38502
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>>38479
>some alt-right guru
Nah he's actually intelligent.
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No.38507
>>38479
the problem with jordan peterson is that he is definetily right about some things but people regard him as a holy prophet of which every word that comes out of his mouth is the absolute truth
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No.38509
>>38507
> but people regard him as a holy prophet of which every word that comes out of his mouth is the absolute truth
How many people? What percetage of folk agree 100% of what he says? There is no statistics on this.
He is just a psychology professor who protested the increasing erosion of free speech and capitalized upon the backlash he faced for doing what he believed was right.
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No.38510
>>38507
This day and age, anyone high-profile who proudly stands against the SJW Narrative deserves to be treated as a holy warrior. I don't care if, say, one disagrees with everything else Roosh or Vox Day believes, on that alone these folk are to be treated as enemies of your enemy and therefore your allies. Like it or not, the day of "ignore them and hope they go away" has long past and indeed this is how SJWs wormed their way into so many positions of high power where they can take away your freedoms one at a time. Sorry if that sounds >>/unkind/ , and yes it sucks, but what is is what is, and what is is we're all in the midst of a major culture war; that cake began baking in the 60's and was just taken out of the oven. Nobody can be neutral anymore. So as Manowar says: the battle's raging, choose your side.
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No.38513
>>16727
a book about amphibians and reptiles
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No.38518
>>38510
You need to leave your echo-camber, this constant fear-mongering and collective freaking out is bad for your mental health.
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No.38520
>>38518
In certain places everything is becoming hate speech.
When a man gets convicted for hate crimes because he made a silly satirical video with his pug it is no longer fear mongering.
When you can be pulled before extra-judicial, social justice tribunals and have your life ruined, it is no longer fear mongering.
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No.38524
>>38518
If you would, here's a good lengthy definition with plenty of real-world examples of real-world peoples' lives being ruined because they used a dirty word on Big Social, to help cement the fact that this hasn't been fear-mongering for at least a decade now:
http://www.rooshv.com/what-is-a-social-justice-warrior-sjw
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No.38543
>>38502
I really want to speak to jordan peterson so I can ask him to define neomarxism, explain it's relation to marx's writings, and define what he thinks postmodernism is.
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No.38544
>>38510
you don't have to be neutral to be skeptical of someone or even disagree with certain things someone says, and you can fight back without having to go all leroy jenkins on the enemy. being critical of some of your allies' beliefs is in fact what strengthens them if debated correctly. being obsessively fanatical about your beliefs is what birthed SJWs in the first place.
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No.38549
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/soma/wayof.html
I don't know why I'm bothering when I know I'll just sink whatever free time I have into lazing about on image boards instead of meditating or anything here because of a million excuses involving wageslaving and depression.
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No.38571
>>38549
"but generally hidden, power inherent in this simple mental function, a power that can unfold all the mind's potentials culminating in final deliverance from suffering"
Seems pretty good to me, I wish you luck Anon.
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