Most of you don't even read

>>507481313 (OP)
I don't know how to read

books are for gay english cucks. Men only reads fables

>>507481313 (OP)
I don't know about the others. I read a lot. Read a couple of Hesse a decade ago, Steppenwolf was okay but most of his other novels were boring (Demian, Narcissus and Goldmund).

>/pol/ is one person
Says the one-post bot.

>>507481313 (OP)
Reading kills creativity.

>>507481313 (OP)
Reading is for faggots

>>507481313 (OP)
I read this and did not get it.

>>507481313 (OP)
NEETcore

>>507481313 (OP)
i read about 13 pages and stopped

>>507481313 (OP)
Reading is for psuedointellectuals so they can namedrop and try to assert false dominance through "knowledge". Any time you see a nerd with a book, his face should be smashed in with medieval weaponry.

>>507481313 (OP)
God that was such a stupid book. I love how Hesse thought he was making some huge philosophical point about identity, but came off as more of a pretentious teenager with a tumblr account posting about being spirit kin or whatever.

>>507481313 (OP)
Lately I've read a lot of Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe.

>>507481611
I love Celine. Any other French recommendations? how is Michel Houellebecq?

>>507481611
Narcissus and Goldmund had a lot more forbidden homosexual schoolboy love than I was expecting.

>>507481313 (OP)
I've always read a lot but
>read more books
is a midwit cope. Being well-read can only take you so far and can even be detrimental

>>507481313 (OP)
I read technical books

>>507481313 (OP)
I read Siddhartha (reeee says the pretentious reviewer you dont really get eastern philosophy mannn its way above you) and some of Steppenwolf

>>507481313 (OP)
there's an unabridged audiobook of this read by the guy who plays robocop

The more you read, the more you realize that there is not much worth reading.

>>507483340
this. France, Russia and England have a few good writers. The US has none. Women and jews can't write either.

Fantastic book choice OP

>>507481313 (OP)
that book is ass

>>507483497
>The US has none
>Melville
>Faulkner
>McCarthy
Nigger please

>>507481313 (OP)
I did read it, but it's been a couple of decades.

>TONIGHT AT THE MAGIC THEATER. FOR MADMEN ONLY. PRICE OF ADMITTANCE YOUR MIND. NOT FOR EVERYBODY. HERMINE IS IN HELL

It appears you chose to enter the theater.
Will you make it out alive?

>>507484049
>Melville
overrated
>Faulkner
over complicates shit to the point of fatigue
>McCarthy
Blood Meridian is ok I guess, the rest meh

>>507481313 (OP)
wasnt a great story
ivanhoe better story

>>507481313 (OP)
I read this when I was 15, forgot all about it. Is this about the writer guy who sits in his room the entire time and whines around?

>>507482474
>I love Celine
He certainly wouldn't love you.
Elementary particles was quite good
Try Bataille and Camus

>>507484639
>Houellebecq
He's famous here because he hates muslims and supports Israel. I s he actually on the level of Celine?

>Camus

Bore me to fucking sleep

>>507484916
>I s he actually on the level of Celine?
No and he's too incely but won't bore you

>>507484219
you are literally a fucking jew, your opinions don’t matter

>>507481313 (OP)
I've been reading the john Carter barsoom series, shit is tight

>>507481313 (OP)
> Most of you don't even read
Do you know where you are?
This isn’t Reddit or kikebook.

>>507485724
Any modern Greek writers?

I read some classics to see what the hype was all about and it's exactly like this anon says here>>507482248.

None of them are deep or even remotely thought-provoking. Let alone actually fun to read.You can literally find the exact same stories in anime and vidya, but way better written. Of course, those can't be allowed to be better than """"""real"""""" literature, so people aren't allowed to say that they are better, even though they are.

I'm honestly convinced you have to have a IQ between 100-115 to think books are good, because if you're smarter than that, you'll grow to detest reading.

As burgers like to say, reading is for faggots.

>>507481422
based

>>507482474
>Any other French recommendations?
Yes, but I mostly enjoy french writers from the late 19th/early 20th century. I really dig Anatole France, the Tharaud brothers, etc. not sure if they're resonate with foreigners... or if they've even been translated at all.
>how is Michel Houellebecq?
Poorly written and decadent to me. I guess that's what people like about him. I suspect most of his "readers" buy the book only to put in to their bookshelf to look decadent.
>>507482652
Yeah. I think Hesse had a chubby writing some parts.

>>507484916
>He's famous here because he hates muslims and supports Israel
You could try Maurice Dantec, then. Roughly the same thing. He started with crime fiction and SF writer before going weird.

>>507482001
I didn't get it until I reread it as an old man

I think the biggest mistakes novice readers make is that they think what they're getting out of a book depends on the author, when really it depends on themselves and their ability to read.
So the brown skinned polchud will pick up a 'classic', not get anything, and then conclude that reading itself is a waste of time.

>>507481313 (OP)
>Top shelf

>>507481313 (OP)
I got 3/4 though this book and it literally killed my drive for reading. Holy shit. I never saw something turn so dogshit so hard.

>>507481313 (OP)
Wtf, I'm in the park reading this book right now. Stop gangstalking me!

>>507481422
Good
I don't want to be sharing an imageboard with some faggy literate city slicker

>>507487702
If you want to say anything, say it to my face, faggot.

And, yes, reading is a waste of time. And, no, I perfectly understood everything that was written, and I just didn't think reading, for example, 1984 or Crime and Punishment was a good use of my time.

>>507483497
You forgot Germany.

>>507481313 (OP)
>touch grass Weimar edition
There you go. Don’t read unless it’s worth your time. If you don’t enjoy it, don’t read it. Reading to enrich yourself will rob you of the enrichment. Read to enjoy and you will be enriched as a byproduct.

>>507487940
>1984 or Crime and Punishment
Baby's first dystopia and baby's first poser novel. Wow.

>>507487940
The big problem here is that you are
a somalian.

>>507486654
"the classics" are useless trash for 99% of them
But there are some books that will change your life.

>>507481313 (OP)
I like Steppenwolf

>>507488221
And this

>>507486654
Republic is still good, Iliad, Odyssey, Lives. All good and fun to read.

In order the fully appreciate all of the classic literature from the last 300~ years, a knowledge of greek and roman literature is necessary. Its just too much

>>507487745
ever try reading Heinlein? He is notorious for books that start strong but end like shit. Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers are great examples.

Man!!! I love Magic Carpet Ride!!!

>>507488211
Don't care. That's what I read. Go be an elitist somewhere else. Your hobby is garbage. Fucking breaking bad is better than Crime and Punishment.

>>507488215
You really think a fucking somalian would even be aware of the existence of these books?

Don't talk to me any further. You are a waste of my time.

>>507488221
>But there are some books that will change your life.
I won't deny that, I simply don't care to search for them when I can simply do something I actually enjoy.

>>507488506
also starship troopers is SHOCKINGLY based.
>Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.

I’m reading about gayreeks right now

>>507488211
theyre good books, youre probabably just a snob, typical french

>>507488506
>Stranger in a Strange Land
Oh man, what a let down. Turns out it was peak 60s hippy free fuck community when I expected the alien guy to realize that it was stupid and tear it all down.

>>507481313 (OP)
I’m reading about how I don’t read right now

>>507488728
I agree with you 100% on that, I was so excited at the start but everything after the lady with the snake just kept getting stupider

>>507481611
>Hesse is boring

>>507481313 (OP)
I just finished reading the Laxdæla saga, and have gotten to Purgatorio in La Divina Commedia.

>>507488592
judging by the attitude, you're probably too young enough to appreciate a book like that, you should have read it when you actually got some hair on your balls

>>507486138
Papadiamantis is good if you like stuff like Dostoevsky. Karkavitsas too. Kavafis if you like poetry

>>507488860
Some of Hesse is boring, yes.
>>507488824
Pretty ironic now that people mostly see Heinlein as super conservative.

>>507481313 (OP)
I haven't read this but I have read Siddhartha, that was a good 'un.

He goes from the two extremes of hedonism to extreme asceticism, neither of which satisified him spiritually.
He finally finds enlightment through becoming a boatman, by finally, and for the first time in his life, he learns to properly listen.

>>507488938
>judging by your attitude
Could you even talk more like a woman?

>um sweetie, you just don't understand
Be quiet, you fucking sub-130 IQ brainlet.

The things you consider profound now where things I was already thinking about when I was 12.

>>507481313 (OP)
Steppenwolf
I love that song
born to be wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIILD

>>507481611
Siddhartha is peak, Gertrude is great cuz it shows how women become whores

>>507489432
Since it's the second time someone mention this book, I'll read it later this year. Thanks.

>>507489174
Heavy metal thunder!

>>507484916
Read Gilad Atzmon and stop being jewish.

>>507481422
> profound mental retardation

I’ve probably read more than anyone on this board.

>>507481611
The Glass Bead Game is my favourite Hesse novel. You should try it.

>>507481313 (OP)
this book is so trash, genuinely laughed out loud during multiple paragraphs. whiny, obsessively narcissistic, insufferable.

>>507483497
>the US has none
Philistine.

I read Steppenwolf last week and, while it was nice, I just can't relate to having that much sexo and a manic girlfriend.
Yes, yes, search for your inner self, felt like Paulo Coelho.

>>507481313 (OP)
Hesse was a massive faggot IRL.

>>507492208
Allright, I will. Thanks (if I enjoy it).

>>507481313 (OP)
Strange, I was thinking about this book this morning and that I needed to read it again.

>>507488221
>alliums done been shovin' things up muh butt yo
LOL

>>507488221
Isn't whitley strieber jewish?

>>507493859
This might sound silly but don't read too far into a synopsis because it's pretty spoiler sensitive. Hope you enjoy it.

and?