/hobby/ - Hobby

I am currently reading The Leaves of Grass by Whitman and What is to be done by Lenin.
I really love Whitman, even though he was a man of many contradictions ( a thing he himself admitted) and despite his over romantization of the American spirit, I find his style to be beautiful and his thoughts and insights quite lucid and admirable. He reminds me of William Blake somewhat, not only because of similar sentiments they express, but also their incredibly human style as well.
What is to be done is a book i started last year but couldnt bother to finish then, so it got postponed till now. A fun read, Lenin was a funny man and his style mirrors it. His insights on spontaneous class consciousness, or the lack of it, I find very interesting.

I'm reading Zizek's The Universal Exception right now. I know he's heavily fallen out of favor with leftypol in recent years but I think he can still offer insights, even if accidentally.

Early on he starts off with an anecdote about how he got asked a question and he didn't have an answer to it, so he just made something up on the spot that he thought sounded good, or at least sounded complicated enough that he thought it would save him from follow-up questions. I don't think it's damning evidence that he's only a huckster but it does firmly establish that whatever he says should be taken with various amounts of salt.

>>45592
I don't really know anything about Zizek except for the fact that he likes Lacan and Hegel, but from what i know he seems like a liberal. He i think was once of the founders of a slovenian liberal party iirc. I like him though just because in some of his public discourses and interviews he speaks serbo-croatian

>>45594
Yeah the only books I've liked from Zizek are the ones where he does film critique instead of philosophizing.

>>45592
Was reading "The Sublime Object of Ideology", was able to get through the Marx and Hegel derived first section, but once it got into Lacan was drowned in something was completely unfamiliar with, despite having read a little Freud.

>>45594
>he seems like a liberal
He's purely a critical apparatus imo. This is ideology too of course.

>>45594
He gets lots of criticism for his politics past and present. Anons in the past have criticized him for siding with nato on milosovic, and he seems to be doing the same today regarding Putin. I'm not really in love with his both sidesing of the Palestine issue either.

>>45596
I haven't read that one yet, but I'd like to. Zizek is really a mixed bag to me in that his insights are sometimes questionable, but he rambles over so much territory that he's a source of some good information sometimes, or at least interesting subjects to look into in more depth. For example he mentions in one of his works how after the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a resurgence of diseases in Eastern Europe that the communist states had otherwise eradicated, which was an interesting fact.

>>45595
unironically

>>45599
lol.

I'm around 200 pages into Hegel's Science of Logic. He's just dunking on Kant, over and over. I love it. He makes so much sense.

All this being said.
I NEED A LITERATURE BOARD, I NEED IT NOW.
WHERE ELSE AM I GOING TO DISCUSS PYNCHON

>>45608
I wish /edu/ would be turned into /lit/. At least its purpose would be more honest.

>>45608
This is why I made this thread lol. 4chan at least had one even though it was flooded by Evolatards and other such creatures, but it had some interesting stuff on there. We need leftylit NOW

>>45608
I'm reading the savage detectives but it's boring me and I really just want to get Mason and Dixon or Against the Day. I've only read GR and TCoL49 so far. Which would you recommend?

>>45639
Would love a /lit/ but lets try to make something of this thread.

I am currently trying to read some of Theodor W. Adorno’s work and understand the early Frankfurt School and critical theory before they became a CIA project.

For fiction I just started Nueromancer! I love how its written very similar to my own fiction writing voice.

Gonna read Marx's On The Jewish Question today

>>45825
>For fiction I just started Nueromancer! I love how its written very similar to my own fiction writing voice.

I love Neuromancer. I haven't read the second one but Mona Lisa Overdrive is really good too.

>>45585
Im reading a lot of Tchaikovsky these days (started when I read children of time, which is really good SF). I like him a lot, he hit all the good thing I like, good plot, exploring interesting philosophical question, funny writing. He is pretty good at writing non human intelligence. Heard his fantasy book are good too (only read spiderlight which was neat, very d&d campaign feel, good deconstruction of the genre)
I also mix some classic now and then, just finished the island of doc moreau today, its pretty good
thank god for e-readers, I wouldnt read half as much if I couldnt dl any book I fancy

Started reading "State and Revolution".
Have a feeling it's going to a while if am able to complete it at all.
Don't have the energy for reading as much as used to.

Thinking of finally tackling Capital. Will most likely fail, however it’s a book which has to be reread many times I think. >>45830
Read it three days ago. A very interesting read. Should read more of Lenin, especially now since I’ve fallen for the bordiga meme

>>45887
I highly suggest the audio book version of capital if it seems like too thicc a physical book. If you commute or drive a lot it becomes something you just throw on all the time, like a radio show or podcast. Eventually, a few months go by, and you'll be done. You can even then pick up your physical copy, flip through, and really dig into sections you didn't quite catch the first go round. It def is a book meant to be reread.

Any books I should read before turning 20? I feel the need to read as much as possible

>>45905
Songs of Maldoror.

where is the best place to upload fan fiction?

>>45977
AO3 is still the king by far

Invisible Cities. Feels like hearing bedtime stories from Borges.

>>45748
Mason and Dixon is Pinecone's best book. His most beautiful prose (I find GR's prose repetitive), his most creative, his best characters, etc. It does, admittedly, lack the wild transgressive vigor of GR.

>>45905
This is just a rambly and incoherent off-the-cuff list but since you say you want to read as much as possible you might as well go for it.
Non-fiction
>The Principles of Communism (assuming you haven't read anything else from M&E)
>Hobsbawm's Age Of books (incl. Extremes)
>The World as Will and Representation (both volumes) (don't get too blackpilled by it though)
Fiction
>Hamlet and Twelfth Night
>Dubliners
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Naked Lunch
>First and Last Man
>Catch-22