Thread 82227065

You do read books, right anon?

>>82227065 (OP)
Yes, but almost exclusively non fiction.

>>82227065 (OP)
https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html

>>82227065 (OP)
FUCK NO
oreganoo

>>82227238
>public domain
who cares, just use zlibrary

>>82227065 (OP)
now post a version that isnt super low quality also if these are all just le depressing books then ill be disappointed

>>82227065 (OP)
Only read the stranger no longer human and a little bit of notes from the underground. i can't really remember the story anymore

>>82227065 (OP)
a confederacy of dunces is great, I read it earlier this year

>>82227065 (OP)
I read Crime and Punishment. Kino. One of my favorite books. Tried reading Notes From the Underground. Dry and boring. Thought provoking for sure, but not about subject matters I care about. Can't bring myself to finish it. How come? It's not like I was particularly interested in the subject matter of Crime and Punishment from the outset, and yet I enjoyed it.

PS: "Whatever" is essential reading for every incel. It tends to meander a bit and be all over the place, but the points being made are very relevant to the incel condition. It's prophetic in a sense, and touches on concepts that weren't in the public consciousness at the time of writing, like the idea of the sexual marketplace. Not that you'll agree with everything in that book, but it's very thought provoking nonetheless.

Read many from that pic and I enjoyed every single one.
Oddly enough I found Notes from the underground to be really depressing when I read it for the first time years ago, but treading it again a couple of months ago felt like pure comedy once he got past the initial rambling.

>>82227263
Inconvenient

>>82227532
Journey to the end of the night was really funny imo.

>>82227065 (OP)
I literally work in a public library but I basically never read books

i want to read highly literate fiction from people around my age, or at least people with my concerns. it's not quite the same if it's not highly literate

>>82227065 (OP)
I don't read that slop anymore. I read kino Arthurian Knight and Charlemagne Paladin romances. I'm tired of being depressed, I want to be on a fucking horse and fighting wizards and shit

I wish I had the patience to do it. I also suffer from choice paralysis which doesn't help. I think it's realistic to play most good video games and movies, but there are so many books being published every day it's impossible and overwhelming.

>>82227908
>I also suffer from choice paralysis
No need to pathologize being an idler and a dunce

>>82227908
You don't need patience, you need to find a book you really like.
Also paralysis analysis is easy to overcome. If you have absolutely no idea where to start find one of those top 100 /lit/ chart and roll a dice. I used to have that problem before with movies and books and once I've built a backlog most of the time I just pick them randomly.

>>82227980
It doesn't negate it. How do you get past the thought that there are probably a million better books than the one you are reading?

The other part being, I step foot in a library and basically everything I see interests me and I feel frustrated that I can't read it all.

I write too

>>82228032
What do you write? I started with a sort of mixup or my journal entries with a detached and somewhat funny style but I want to move to something else.

>>82228022
It depends on what you are trying to get from reading a book. For me it is essentially about having a good time and taking a break from life.

>>82228056
I write a lot of short stories. Working on a play right now. Oh, and I dabble in nature writing too.

>>82227065 (OP)
A lot back in the day.
Now I don't really consume much fiction anymore. And if I do it's more likely to be in movie, video game, or anime form.
I do read nonfiction semi-frequently but it's most likely to be True Crime related, focusing on the lives of serial killers and stuff.

>>82227065 (OP)
Out side of comic books and manga I don't read books. The only three novels I bought on my own are John dies at the end, Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, and Frankenstein. Never really got far into them due to doing other stuff.

>>82228071
That's cool, I want to write about nature too using my fishing experiences as an excuse. Do you think about getting published?

>>82228125
Nice. I used my encounter with some badgers as the starting off point of the last one I wrote. Sent it into a competition. Also waiting for the results of a short story competition in mid-September. The most prestigious in my country. I have self-published with a writers' group last year. An anthology. It was launched in a library and a prominent media figure in my country was there. Yes, I want to be published. With the way things are going it looks like I may be. Also, I'm doing English Lit in uni come September, so I'm looking forward to that.

>>82227065 (OP)
>incel loser reading list
>no White Nights
It's literally about the average /r9k/ incel loser, and it's a pretty good read imo

>>82228022
>How do you get past the thought that there are probably a million better books than the one you are reading?
It's just not possible. Even in my highly curated book collection most of it is crap, I have to admit, and even in the best quality books, most of the pages are crap, and so on. In the best paragraphs, maybe only one or two sentences really strike you. The only exceptions are when you have an outside motivation. Students probably peruse their math textbooks intensely. A Christian reads the Gospel so much he takes a pocket version with him on trips. Etc. If you like cycling, your manual on bicycle maintenance probably sees a lot of use.

The amount of books in a lifetime that can have an effect on you can be counted on the fingers.

>I step foot in a library and basically everything I see interests me
Yeah I used to just read wikipedia constantly as a kid before I became an adolescent and promptly used the next 15 years of my life to obsess over internet porn

>>82227065 (OP)
here's an unironic list of everything I've read over the last year (square brackets around favourites, numbers in round brackets are number of times read in last year):
>The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (4)
>Socialism101, by azureScapegoat (3)
>Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
>The Three Sources and Component Parts of Marxism, by Vladimir Lenin (2)
>Value, Price, and Profit, by Karl Marx (4)
>[Wage Labour and Capital, by Karl Marx (4)]
>[Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, by Vladimir Lenin (2)]
>Principles of Communism, by Friedrich Engels
>Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, by Friedrich Engels
>Communism and The Family, by Alexandra Kollontai (2)
>Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxemburg (2)
>Critique of The Gotha Program, by Karl Marx (3)
>Blackshirts and Reds, by Michael Parenti (2)
>The State and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin
>Part 1 of The German Ideology, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (2)
>"Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder, by Vladimir Lenin
>Ludwig Feuerbach, and The End of Classical German Philosophy, by Friedrich Engels
>11 Theses on Feuerbach, by Karl Marx
>[Fascism and Social Revolution, by Rajani Palme Dutt]
>Socialism and Nationalisation, by Paul Lafargue
>The English Revolution of 1640, by Christopher Hill (2)
>Introduction to A Contribution to The Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, by Karl Marx
>England's 17th Century Revolution, by Karl Marx
>Preface to A Contribution to The Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx
>[Origin of The Family, Private Property, and The State, by Friedrich Engels]
>RSS and Varna Caste System, CPI(M) (2015)
>The ENKM - Some Methodological Considerations, CPI(M) (2015)
>On The Final Victory of Socialism in The USSR, by Joseph Stalin
>Stalin: The Myth and The Reality, by Bill Bland
>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx
(cont.)

>>82228227
(cont.)
>[On Practice, by Mao Zedong]
>On Contradiction, by Mao Zedong
>On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People, by Mao Zedong
>Speech at The Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work, by Mao Zedong
>[Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?, by Mao Zedong]
>The Inaugural Address of The International Working Men's Association, by Karl Marx (1864)
>What is to Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin
>[Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with An Exposition of Marxism, by Vladimir Lenin (2)]
>The Proletarian Revolution and The Renegade Kautsky, by Vladimir Lenin
>The Historical Destiny of The Doctrine of Karl Marx, by Vladimir Lenin
>Opportunism, and The Collapse of The Second International, by Vladimir Lenin
>The Collapse of The Second International, by Vladimir Lenin
>Imperialism, and The Split in Socialism, by Vladimir Lenin
>Certain Features of The Historical Development of Marxism, by Vladimir Lenin
>Marxism and Revisionism, by Vladimir Lenin
>Marxism and Reformism, by Vladimir Lenin
>The Bourgeoisie and The Counter-Revolution, by Karl Marx
>Anti-Duhring, by Friedrich Engels
>[Foundations of Leninism, by Joseph Stalin]
>[On The Question of Dialectics, by Vladimir Lenin]
>[Chapters 1-15 of Capital, by Karl Marx, over the course of the rest of these]

>>82227065 (OP)
That is 2014 r9k reading, the identity of this board has changed. Here's what you got now: you've got trannies, females, and people crying cause the only chicks they can pull are fat.

>>82227065 (OP)
no but maybe I should, maybe it will give me something to talk to people about so I won't always be alone because I am not interesting and have nothing to say or maybe it will give me something to think about when I am bored as hell and nothing else is fun so I won't be so bored
I am afraid I am too much of a brainlet to understand the actually interesting books though

>>82227065 (OP)
>You do read books, right anon?
I love fiction novels. Mostly fantasy and sci-fi. Got back into reading recently.

>>82228321
Most of the books in that chart aren't hard to understand and you may relate with the characters.
If you want to give it a shot I suggest A Confederacy of Dunces because it is really funny and The Book or Disquiet because it is really relatable and even if it is rather long it's pretty much a collection of short chapters with the author thoughts so you can read it over a long time and in between other books.

>>82227065 (OP)
The only books worth reading on this list are Stoner, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Stranger.
>The Collector
>Steppenwolf
>No Longer Human
>Oblomov
>Whatever (instead of The Elementary Particles?)
>The Tunnel
>Sex and Character
are all especially rubbish

>>82228451
I have yet to read Oblomov but I agree with The tunnel and specially with No longer human.

>>82227065 (OP)
Yeah. I read 17 books from August 2024 to August 2025. Pic related was really good.

>>82228669
Storm of Steel is one of my favourites

>>82228710
I found it very enjoyable. I haven't read All Quiet on The Western front but from what I understand it isn't as good. Pic related is also a good read but it's very short and maybe a bit more political than what you're interested in.

I read cultivation slop but I wanna get into nonfiction. Planning to read the Ego Tunnel, Facing the Dragon, Denial of Death and some of the central Daoism x Buddhist books.

In an effort to better understand things, I've spent the last 6 years hitting the high points of the western cannon. This is what I've learned so far:

>over 90% of the "great classic books" are a complete waste of time
>99.999% of all books belong in the trash
>theres nothing new under the sun
>its better to read a good book 100 times than to read 100 different books
>most of history is unknowable

>>82227722
nfti was definitely a comedy
>>82228760
aqotwf was like the gay version of Storm. You aren't missing anything.

>>82227065 (OP)
Reading anything that isn't non-fiction is a complete waste of time.

>>82229483
This, Im not into made up fabricated fantasy slop. If I really want to read about cool warriors or whatever I just read history.

>>82227065 (OP)
i read 1-2 books a week and i've only read Confederacy of Dunces off that list. got some good chuckles from that one, pretty good.

>>82229483
>Reading anything that isn't non-fiction is a complete waste of time.
Everything is a waste of time

>>82227065 (OP)
used to only read for school, unless you count manga and shitposts, but last few years i'm getting into bookform of my interests
just finished norah vincent's selfmade man, easy and intriguing, finished faster than most
i'd recommend lee kuan yew's autobiography to any anon

>>82228669
You're jewish 100%

>>82227065 (OP)
I found the fragment at work today. If I can find out which book it's from, I'll read it.

>>82227065 (OP)
I read a book once.
It was awful.

>>82230241
You're wrong but I'm curious. What makes you say that?

>>82227763
how and why did you even get hired

>nothing but overrated shit recommended
As expected.

Ye ye ye but it has to be real world non-fiction, I dont give a single FUCK about fiction novels or gay philosophy