Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3257
>What are ya reading now Capital , good lord is the third chapter a slog. Luckily I'm almost finished, and I've been told that it gets easier from there for the most part.Breakfast of Champions not too long ago, and it's so good. It's about a small incident where one of the main characters goes nuts and starts assaulting people, and the writer having his views changed about humanity. The incident it's self is a very small part of the book that is built up almost as if it's not that important in the grand scheme of things, and most of it is about all of the things inter-connected things in society and history that lead to that moment in time happening, almost as if by inevitable accident, and through it explores inequality, poverty, and race. The same goes for the author's view of people which undergoes a synthesis between what he believed before, and what a character in the book believes that convinces him to look at humanity differently. It's very much worth a read.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3258
>>3253 Reading a lot of shit right now: Marx's 1844 manuscripts (currently on the Rent of Land) , Towards a New Socialism, Dialectic of Enlightenment, something about Historical Materialism by Bukharin, a lot of articles mosty from LeftComs, and On Contradiction by Mao. I also had physical copies of Society of the Spectacle and some translations of Trotsky's Notebooks but I misplaced those.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3259
Anyone else growing increasingly disillusioned with art and /lit/ since being redpilled? It all just seems so hollow and pointless, or, at its worst, downright harmful in the way it reflects the ruling class's values and economic relationships. I guess I'm starting to understand how people like Sartre became skeptical of fiction in general.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3261
>>3253 I’m gonna read Crito, and “Poor folk” by Dosto if I have time tonight.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3262
>>3260 I read it in high school - most of book in one night. It was great, I was reading much more fiction back then, those were some harmless times. I remember chapter about dead being burried in mass graves, pretty similar to situation right now
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3263
>>3259 >Anyone else growing increasingly disillusioned with art and /lit/ since being redpilled? Yes i've found the remedy to this is that whenever you want to read something that is fiction or that won't help you learn anything then you should read it in another language that you're weaker in. This way of consooming helps you learn a language while you're doing it so it's not a complete waste of time
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:41 No. 3264
>>3259 are you talking about the chan board or literature in general?
I think there is just as much reason to be disillusioned by literature as to find it a revolutionary vehicle. I don't know if it has always been the case, but literature and education have a link that perhaps a lot of other arts do not, and so it is a medium for the educated. The educated also happen to be more likely to be bourgeois, capitalist sycophants, so it's natural that a lot of literature, at least within the western-anglo cannon, should fall in line with boujee values. That said, There is a significant amount of authors that also look at class relationships critically. Melville, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, etc. While I think something about the process of literature leads one to refrain from making outright political gestures and proclamations through literature, there are many heralded texts that you will find sympathetic, if not supportive, of the working class and some kind of revolution or systemic change.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3265
>>3253 >What is your favorite book? Hmmm hard to say but my favorite one I read in 2019 was Moby Dick. The His Dark Materials series was probably my favorite as a kid.
In terms of my actual life? Maybe the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver or Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. In terms of how I write? The books that made the biggest impression on me stylistically where War and Peace by Tolstoy, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and basically everything that Kafka wrote.
I guess I will finish capital some day. The Grunderise or however you spell it might be another priority.
Yesterday I read anti-duhring. I might read it again today. I will finish the german ideology soon. I've been slowly working through leviathan by hobbes but it is a bit of a slog.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3266
>>3253 >What is your favorite book? My favourite recently has to be The City and The City. Mieville runs with the concept of border gore and somehow manages to think up nationalist spooks worse than our own.
In terms of writing style, I'm still trying to find my voice. I had a phase after high school where I tried to write like David Foster Wallace (I forced myself to finish Infinite Jest when I had cholera). In hindsight, DFW's nested and spangly prose is probably most of the reason people drop the book, but I still find his flawed and addicted characters compelling.
There's also the wilful stupidity in Don Delilo's White Noise. Delilo is something of a broken record and I learned this when I picked up his other books, but if you only read White Noise then he's perfect. In a nutshell, it's the Vaporwave book. It's easy to read despite how hateable the main character is.
In the end I like to write SF but I tend to hate the views and characters expressed inside. My big dick idol in terms of prose is still William Gibson. I remember trying to read Neuromancer back in elementary school and failing, and later picking up one of his hack imitators (Zack Parsons' "Eastwood" on SA) and thinking "shit, this is the future of writing". I went back to Gibson with a new lens and have loved his style ever since.
Nowadays I find it hard to be as enthused about anything as I was as a young'un, but I'm trying to get back into writing.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3267
How do I become a /buddhist/?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3269
what is your favorite book?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:42 No. 3270
Anyone ever heard of Wizardrous?
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.
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