Post current reading or your favorite books. Guess letters and make assumptions, avoid lazy posts.

>https://topsters.org

take that book by cohen and chuck it into the rubbish bin please and thank you

>>40484216
It's a good and thoughtful treatment of the underlying assumptions of theories of exploitation, whether left or right.

Especially a good read for "dialectical materialists" that somehow manage to believe that their theory of exploitation does not rely on normative assumptions.

>>40484202 (OP)
Liberal mtf, in a good way

>>40484270
>Especially a good read for "dialectical materialists" that somehow manage to believe that their theory of exploitation does not rely on normative assumptions.
Do you actually, genuinely believe that the “everything is socially contingent” crowd need to be told that their beliefs are normative?

>>40484300
Yes, Marxists (not necessarily Marx/Engels) eschew the notion of normative reasoning, despite the fact that the commonly applied Marxist theory of exploitation is rooted in liberal theories of self-ownership.
>>40484276
Initially thought cisgay, but the Didion/Moshfegh makes me think mtf, possibly transbian?

>>40484202 (OP)
Sorry I have never heard of these :$
>>40484276
Mtf?

Tbh a lot of webtoons and ao3 lately haha

>>40484202 (OP)
>econ major
Male. Based if chaser

currently reading picrel, finding the hegel to be surprisingly clear and airtight, probably the best book of his ive read so far. The gaddis is great but not as funny as it's made out to be, more depressing than anything out; beautiful though.
>>40484202 (OP)
bi male
>>40484276
depressed transbian purely from the mishima, though sophocles is great
>>40485691
Transbian, note the capital T, though great Shakespeare pic, read it in school and enjoyed it quite abit (tho i am boring, my fav play of his is hamlet)

>>40485720
>finding the hegel to be surprisingly clear and airtight
man with schizophrenia

>>40485691
Don't know much here beside the Votlaire, Pushkin and Shakespeare. Will commend you on the Shakespeare pick :)

I'd be very surprised if not MTF.
>>40485720
Gaddis definitely the best encyclopedist. Gonna go out on a limb and say FTM here. You were wrong about me though.
>>40485744
That one's actually not that difficult!
>>40485710
Wrong on both major and letters.

I have this relationship with reading where I get into books every two years or so and completely burn myself out and end up not finishing, last book I finished was Chapterhouse: Dune like three years ago.

>>40485744
wrong, that and its really clear (the phenomenology was brutal though, could be that worked up a muscle for hegel and its making philosophy of right easy from it)

>>40485798
He's amazing from what ive read so far though I feel I prefer pynchon as an encyclopedic novelist, he just seems so much more alive in his novels and they just seem to be able to do more for it. could just be me, though I feel his best books seem living (gr and m&d mainly) in a way the recognitions isnt so far, though that isn't to say it's bad, pynchons my favorite author so no slight on gaddis, hes brilliant but pynchon just does something for me yknow. I'm not ftm btw, im guessing nb for you now

>>40485829
you could try short stories or poetry

>>40485840
True, it doesn’t help that I like sci fi and a lot of sci fi authors are autists with bad prose (Frank Herbert especially)

>>40485862

>>40485798
>That one's actually not that difficult!
>>40485834
>that and its really clear

Bruh I took a class on this book and didn’t understand anything

>>40485691
ftm
>>40485720
mtf or gay, top either way
>>40485887
ftm

i’m currently reading aberration in the heartland of the real and some martin gardner book i got from the library (love his stuff)

>>40485829
Have you read borges?

>>40485981
No but I’ve read some people influenced by him like Murakami

>>40485998
Ohh yeah ok asking because his speculative fiction is really interesting and he keeps it very short. You can just read one or two stories and return it to the library

Currently reading War and Peace and The Ice-Shirt.

>>40485720
>>40484394
i am not a goddamn transbian!!

I have a pretty normie catalog of books I've read over the years, though I still have quite a large backlog of books I want to read. The last three are all ones I'm partway through, besides watchmen, which I'll read after nausea

>>40484202 (OP)
I don't know any of these but judging by the covers you're probably some kind of leftist and some type of trans.

>>40484276
Seems like a good selection, definitely gives trans lesbian vibes (as opposed to transbian vibes)

>>40485691
Transbian or fujo, or both.

>>40485720
Bi male vibes

>>40489224
repper. you should read from hell by alan moore.
>>40485720
ftm
>>40485691
transbian
>>40484276
repper....mishima :)

>>40484202 (OP)
goat.

>>40489755

never before have I felt more like a normie then putting together this list

>>40485691
100% fujo

>>40490465
great picks except the communist manifesto
>100% fujo
hehe yes

>>40489601
Bottom chaser but props for Werther

>>40490465
Mtf, early 20's

Currently reading:

Suttree
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Don Carlos
Beethoven (Maynard Solomon)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Le Colonel Chabert

reread The Things They Carried (ik v malebrained but I like how it talks about how people process trauma) and it’s so fucking good. I’ve read it like 4 times since I had it assigned in high school and it’s one of my fav books. It’s so well written and in this read thru I’ve been noticing a lot of elements of shame in every story he tells that have really resonated w me

This is a good thread. 11/10 hope this one keeps going.

my chart makes it seem obvious but i'm really not what it looks like
>40484202
>40484276
educated bay area transbian or at least something equally insufferable
>>40490465
something in between
>40485691
>40489224
somewhat less annoying brand of mtf (probably also transbian)
>40485720
gay or bi male, probably on steroids
>>40489601
gay male (incel)
>>40490957
le esoterique trannie, i thought your kind died off in 2021

I actually mostly read visual novels and manga nowadays......
>>40484202 (OP)
Gay and very annoying
>>40484276
Bi mtf
>>40485691
Ftm. I avoided putting comics on mine but god the summer hikaru died is so good. The anime adaptation so far as some of the best direfrion ive seem in years
>>40489224
Transbien, all good but pls read more ellison besides i have no mouth
>>40489601
Twinkhon

>>40484202 (OP)
Favourite book: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham