This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
>>45592Was 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 liberalHe's purely a critical apparatus imo. This is ideology too of course.
>>45594He 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.
>>45596I 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.
>>45639Would 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.
>>45585Im 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
Thinking of finally tackling Capital. Will most likely fail, however it’s a book which has to be reread many times I think.
>>45830Read it three days ago. A very interesting read. Should read more of Lenin, especially now since I’ve fallen for the bordiga meme
Invisible Cities. Feels like hearing bedtime stories from Borges.
>>45748Mason 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.
>>45905This 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 Decided to reread Paradise Loft because that stuff is awesome. Will Finally read Paradise Regained also
>>46148>>45908thanks for the recommendations, will look into them
>“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria through fear of a general rising of the Slavs. They burn villages, murder, outrage women and children, they nail their prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them—all sorts of things you can’t imagine. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother’s womb, and tossing babies up in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets before their mothers’ eyes. Doing it before the mothers’ eyes was what gave zest to the amusement. Here is another scene that I thought very interesting. Imagine a trembling mother with her baby in her arms, a circle of invading Turks around her. They’ve planned a diversion: they pet the baby, laugh to make it laugh. They succeed, the baby laughs. At that moment a Turk points a pistol four inches from the baby’s face. The baby laughs with glee, holds out its little hands to the pistol, and he pulls the trigger in the baby’s face and blows out its brains. Artistic, wasn’t it? By the way, Turks are particularly fond of sweet things, they say.”
>“Brother, what are you driving at?” asked Alyosha.
>“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
Where's freudposter when you need him?
https://archive.is/20250820100131/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/08/it-girl-literary-heroines-are-all-cannibals-now
>What has happened to the literary woman? She used to slouch listlessly towards Bethlehem. Now she is eating people. Chelsea G. Summers’ 2020 novel A Certain Hunger follows a food writer who is in prison for murdering, cooking and eating several sex partners. In Ainslie Hogarth’s 2022 novel Motherthing, a woman deals with the Freudian fallout of her mother-in-law’s death by cooking a personal enemy. In Monika Kim’s 2024 thriller The Eyes Are the Best Part, a Korean-American protagonist gets her own back on white men who fetishise Asian women, by stockpiling and eating their eyeballs. This year’s Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito reads like a gory take on Agnes Grey and has its central governess joke about eating the children under her care.
>There is more. Lucy Rose’s bestseller The Lamb, published earlier in 2025, is a misery lit-adjacent tale of childhood abuse with a twist: the young protagonist must come to terms with her mother’s taste for lost hikers. Catherine Dang’s What Hunger, out later this year, promises to “[follow] the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants… as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood.” This violent power comes, as the reader may guess, with “an insatiable hunger for raw meat.” And in the Young Adult sphere there is Maika and Maritza Moulite’s 2025 novel The Summer I Ate the Rich, which uses its Haitian-American zombie protagonist to “[scrutinise] the socioeconomic and racial inequity that is the foundation of our society.”
>Inequity is the largest constant in this emerging genre. Almost every female literary cannibal resorts to cooking and eating people because of trauma in her past, and in each case the trauma is indexed to a larger political concern. Lucy Rose “explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts.” One of the women in The Lamb has her first brush with cannibalism after she is denied an abortion. “My body was a stranger,” she says, “but my father wanted me to bring the baby to term… I gobbled him up in one bite.”Unique IPs: 21