Thread 211625467

What was the last book you read (iyc)? Do you read books in anything other than your native language?

Reading is for dorks imagine letting another man's ideas go floating through your own mind.

Lolita .... in Russian.

>>211625717
Why? Nabokov wrote it in English.

>>211625467 (OP)
If we count like books - books, then it was probably some of the last books of Castaneda or some Dostoevskiy shit I read in school program.
>Do you read books in anything other than your native language?
I wanted to try, but never get to that. Because I'm too lazy.

It's harder to read in terms of posture. Standing in front of a book is more tiring than standing in front of a computer for some reason.

The last book I read was The Gods Themselves by Asimov. Very rarily I read books other than my native language.

>>211625467 (OP)
Just finished The Devils by Joe Abercrombie.
I only read books in English. Swedish translations suck ass most of the time and take years to be published.

>>211626629
Based Lithuanian schizo.

once i tried to read a book in french
had to stop after a few pages, it was impossible (it had a lot of verlan because it was about thieves)
i used to read a lot, now not so much
also in both english-spanish (and in both languages i need a dictionary next to me when reading)
last book? it was one by stephen king, very cringe, wont touch his books again

>>211626629
YOU'RE RIGHT WE SHOULD YELL AT WOMEN

>>211626736
>I CREATE STORIES IN MY OWN MIND MORE GRAND THAN ANY TAME BOOK ABOUT COOKING.
Also based. I can create some stories in my mind, but I want to write some music. And I feel like I'm just unable to think of my own melody and all of the accents to that.
I became less creative since I finished the school and it gets only worse year by year.

>>211625467 (OP)
I'm currently reading Operation Shylock by Philip Roth, which is basically 400 pages of diferent characters going on shizo rants about Jews and Israel. Feels like a more sophisticated version of /int/posting.

>>211625467 (OP)
been reading william gibson lately, the endings are all unsatisfying but i love his characters. the theme of each seems to be the latest/next tech buzzword trend (like nanotechnology,VR in his 90s books...)

>>211625467 (OP)
I only read fiction so Swedish is out of the question.

>>211626974
Thank you for the advice, wise man.
I like classical music btw, especially the early ones like Bach. The people who created it definitely had the idea in their mind. It evolved from church and therefore they had the idea to reach God with their music. To try to send a message to him or touch him. I admire them for their effort and for how it sounds.

>>211626974
>, SO THE BEST SOUND IS LISTENING TO ONE'S OWN WIND.
Yeah, the people who write masterpieces write it from their heart and their soul. They portray how they see the world, their inner self and emotions.
Unfortunately my mind is detached from any emotions.

Actual mighty one visited upon the Earth to plague it itt. Hope you live forever guy keep making noise and causing problems they need to suffer the rod for what they did. I can't even remember the last physical book I held in my hands and read. It was highschool for sure so it was probably some gay shit like Night or To Kill a Mockingbird. I just read the Internet and listen to let's plays of Playstation 1 games while I jerk off.

>>211625467 (OP)
India by Mircea Eliade
It's kind of like a travel journal about Eliade's time spent in India.

Finished pics related a couple days ago. I liked it, but the first half was so much better than the second to me.
Now reading Fathers and Sons and enjoying it so much.

Eikon Basilike

Islam in the USSR by Amir Taheri, read it 2 years ago.

>>211627056
is swedish fiction not to your liking?

I reread confederacy of dunces on a flight a couple of months ago
I don't read much anymore but when I was 20 I had a pseudointellectual phase and read most of the western canon
english only, I've never needed to learn anything else since I was already blessed speaking god's own tongue

>>211629966
>Los hermanos
Lmao this shit cannot be real

>>211627476
>edna
beginner mistake

The Arcades Project. It sucked; was supposed to be an original blend of nonfiction and aesthetic writing that prefigures postmodernism and it was just a Jew whining about old malls. Totally timecucked by that recommendation

>>211630443
British you.

Dubliners and no

why would I need to read anything but Quran if it includes all wisdom of the world?

>>211625467 (OP)
1st Corinthians. No.

I. Corinthians 1:18-20
>18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
>19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
>20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

I've been meaning to read pic related though.

>>211630542
>the sun sets in a wet marsh
>mohammed was illiterate
>claimed to follow in the steps of Moses and Jesus, contradicted basically everything they wrote or taught
>if you want to remarry your divorced wife, you must first marry another wife, then divorce her, then you can return to your first wife

>wisdom

>>211630542
Doesn't quran promote literacy and education though?

>>211630755
How does it promote literacy when their greatest example from their book was illiterate (who also raped a child)?

>>211631416
Somewhere in quran, supposedly, people are told to read and educate themselves, and in some muslim countries like Lebanon they do read a lot. But I'm christian so I can't point where it is taught

>>211631834
Quran actually has some good teachings in it. It's not a completely evil book written by satan like christians and atheists portray it. It's human made for sure but you can still get some things out of it
>>211631834
Yeah I think there is a part that goes like ''those who know and those who don't know can't be equals'' or something like that