| Read almost all of Brando Sando's stuff some time ago, pretty impressive even tho they vary from meh to one of the greatest books period.It's still a mystery how Brandon puts out a book a year on such a high quality level. Definietly the current GOAT of fantasy and probably the all time GOAT when he finished Stormlight, wich is also by far is best series, puts the word epic in epic Fantasy and has everything i want from a novel, some philosophical elements, great Character writing while also focussing on the story wich would be my only complaint since we still don't know that much about Roshar and its connection to the cosmere etc. Currently getting my mind blown by Thus Spoke Zarathustra by that mustache guy from germany. Pretty interesting but still don't know how to feel about it. Also starting Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence, heard the Protagonist is a nice dude ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). |
-Mullerio-Sep 8, 2019 12:21 AM
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Thanakos said: I had no opinion of her before now, but I did do some digging, and what I felt wasn't too contrary to the intellectuals. I mean, if it wasn't a destructive thought, it's contradictory.After years of shitting on Ayn Rand because intellectuals hated her, I'm now reading her precisely because intellectuals hate her. So far, I'm loving what I'm reading. Mullerio_ said: Imo it's a shitty series. The protagonist is badly written and the characters are all morons. The events also aren't all that interesting. I don't understand how Mark Lawrence got his popularity. Maybe because his Broken Empire actually have good cover visuals.Also starting Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence, heard the Protagonist is a nice dude ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). |
| Currently reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz Annie_Goo said: I'm currently reading "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. I started reading it because I was having thoughts about the futility of doing things that won't last forever. It has helped me make my outlook on life more positive I would say. Definitely sounds like a book I need to read. Never read a philosophy book before but the synopsis resonates with me so might as well be my first. |
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-InfiniteLoop- said: If you wish to start Camus, then I propose you go through his books by date written. Camus is one of those writers in which his views skew and shift with every book; they change. I haven't done that, but I've read The Fall first, then The Stranger, The Plague, and I'm currently reading The First Man. I highly suggest you get into The Fall at some point in your life. It's a mesmerizing book.Currently reading Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz Annie_Goo said: I'm currently reading "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. I started reading it because I was having thoughts about the futility of doing things that won't last forever. It has helped me make my outlook on life more positive I would say. Definitely sounds like a book I need to read. Never read a philosophy book before but the synopsis resonates with me so might as well be my first. |
Yarub said: Thanakos said: I had no opinion of her before now, but I did do some digging, and what I felt wasn't too contrary to the intellectuals. I mean, if it wasn't a destructive thought, it's contradictory.After years of shitting on Ayn Rand because intellectuals hated her, I'm now reading her precisely because intellectuals hate her. So far, I'm loving what I'm reading. Be more concrete. Explain. -InfiniteLoop- said: Definitely sounds like a book I need to read. Never read a philosophy book before but the synopsis resonates with me so might as well be my first. If you aren't depressed, don't read it. |
Thanakos said: Frankenstein is still fucking shit and I will die on this hill. No need to insult the novel and attempt to cramp the style of its reader plus you can make like a tree and leave for trolling kid. FYI, you're talking to someone who's been reading classic literature before you reached and even peaked puberty. |
Kurt_IrvingSep 8, 2019 8:43 AM
Kurt_Irving said: Thanakos said: Frankenstein is still fucking shit and I will die on this hill. No need to insult the novel and attempt to cramp the style of its reader plus you can make like a tree and leave for trolling kid. FYI, you're talking to someone who's been reading classic literature before you reached and even peaked puberty. I don't care if you're the age of a fucking turtle if you got the mind of a turtle too. Frankenstein is like that badly done anime that got popular simply because it's the first one to deal with its 'cool' themes. In reality, the story makes less sense than depressed white girls posting 'love laugh live' over the bed they got banged 100 times on. It relies on too much Suspension of Disbelief to even pose the so-called moral quandary cogently. PS If you're still reading classical literature, get a life and do something actually valuable, old geezer. |
Thanakos said: Yarub said: I had no opinion of her before now, but I did do some digging, and what I felt wasn't too contrary to the intellectuals. I mean, if it wasn't a destructive thought, it's contradictory. Be more concrete. Explain. Well, some articles I have read quoted some lines and ideas proposed by the author. Namely: 1-Calling people who adhere to collectivism as primordial savages: It's as if she was against the coming of modern states. She mistakes ideal collectivism to practical collectivism. There's a difference. 2-She advocates for extreme individualism: the irony of the situation is that when you advocate exactly that, you directly interfere with the individualism of the human. Though these are just my thoughts. |
Thanakos said: I don't care if you're the age of a fucking turtle if you got the mind of a turtle too. Frankenstein is like that badly done anime that got popular simply because it's the first one to deal with its 'cool' themes. In reality, the story makes less sense than depressed white girls posting 'love laugh live' over the bed they got banged 100 times on. It relies on too much Suspension of Disbelief to even pose the so-called moral quandary cogently. PS If you're still reading classical literature, get a life and do something actually valuable, old geezer. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I could care less (even critics could care less) what you think of Frankenstein. Btw, I do have a life (and I can hold out on my own in contributing to society) and you are still just a kid. Meanwhile, I'll move on with real world stuff, reading some cool poetry or high-school level novels and leave you crying on the internet. |
| Oregairu light novel 1 in English, It is so different from the anime. I like it a lot. |
| the outsiders by stephen king. Its the first ever western novel that im reading. ive finished reading 60% of it in 2 days lol. i might finish it in the day after tomorrow. I might read some fantasy novel after this. Anybody have suggestion for a fantasy novel with a little bit romance in it? preferably with a male lead. |
Kurt_Irving said: Thanakos said: I don't care if you're the age of a fucking turtle if you got the mind of a turtle too. Frankenstein is like that badly done anime that got popular simply because it's the first one to deal with its 'cool' themes. In reality, the story makes less sense than depressed white girls posting 'love laugh live' over the bed they got banged 100 times on. It relies on too much Suspension of Disbelief to even pose the so-called moral quandary cogently. PS If you're still reading classical literature, get a life and do something actually valuable, old geezer. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I could care less (even critics could care less) what you think of Frankenstein. Btw, I do have a life (and I can hold out on my own in contributing to society) and you are still just a kid. Meanwhile, I'll move on with real world stuff, reading some cool poetry or high-school level novels and leave you crying on the internet. Yea, I couldn't care less about the fucking critics. Like who the fuck are they, purveyors of mankind's artistic taste? That was a lame appeal to authority. It's the second time now, old man, that you've failed to make a point about why Frankenstein is so deep. I even gave you something to chew on but damn. Go back to your 7/11 job and read classic literature to shield your self-esteem from reality. Yarub said: Well, some articles I have read quoted some lines and ideas proposed by the author. Namely: 1-Calling people who adhere to collectivism as primordial savages: It's as if she was against the coming of modern states. She mistakes ideal collectivism to practical collectivism. There's a difference. 2-She advocates for extreme individualism: the irony of the situation is that when you advocate exactly that, you directly interfere with the individualism of the human. Though these are just my thoughts. What is practical collectivism? If it's something like cooperating based on mutual interests then Rand already supports that. |
Thanakos said: Yea, I couldn't care less about the fucking critics. Like who the fuck are they, purveyors of mankind's artistic taste? That was a lame appeal to authority. It's the second time now, old man, that you've failed to make a point about why Frankenstein is so deep. I even gave you something to chew on but damn. Go back to your 7/11 job and read classic literature to shield your self-esteem from reality. Do I see you crying again? huh, mini mouse? xD I could cry about on Frankenstein and look like you (yeah! you little man), but I got some really cool s**t to read instead. Btw, I think someone should write a novel about your weeping upon Frankenstein, I sure would love that drama. |
Kurt_IrvingSep 9, 2019 2:02 PM
Thanakos said: Not only that, but it also resembles something like a business relationship. A boss in an office has total command of the premises and the employees that work in his office. Rand, by her definition of collectivism, shows the boss to be "unable to conceive of individual rights, etc..", even though he's probably the only person in the whole company holding the shit together. What is practical collectivism? If it's something like cooperating based on mutual interests then Rand already supports that. What Rand portrays is the actual tribal notion of collectivism; there's a guy on top who judges the matter of his underlings (no matter how qualified he is, he just has to be strong) and calls it a violation for that person to be in-charge of other people, simply because it opposes her idea of absolute individualism. While she is right in this scenario, it just doesn't add up in modern ones. |
| Hellboy for graphic novels and Lord of the Flies for real literature. |
Yarub said: Thanakos said: Not only that, but it also resembles something like a business relationship. A boss in an office has total command of the premises and the employees that work in his office. Rand, by her definition of collectivism, shows the boss to be "unable to conceive of individual rights, etc..", even though he's probably the only person in the whole company holding the shit together. What is practical collectivism? If it's something like cooperating based on mutual interests then Rand already supports that. What Rand portrays is the actual tribal notion of collectivism; there's a guy on top who judges the matter of his underlings (no matter how qualified he is, he just has to be strong) and calls it a violation for that person to be in-charge of other people, simply because it opposes her idea of absolute individualism. While she is right in this scenario, it just doesn't add up in modern ones. What you're saying doesn't add up in context. Rand is one of the 'champions' of Capitalism, if you will, and she constantly likes to extol the virtues of business and business-people. The professional businessman is the field agent of the army whose lieutenant-commander-in-chief is the scientist. The businessman carries scientific discoveries from laboratory of the inventor to industrial plants, and transforms them into material products that fill men's physical needs and expand the comfort of men's existence. By creating a mass market, he makes these products available to every income level of society. By using machines, he increases the productivity of human labor, thus raising labor's economic rewards. By organizing human effort into productive enterprises, he creates employment for men of countless professions. He is the great liberator who, in the short span of a century and a half, has released men from bondage to their physical needs, has released them from the terrible drudgery of an eighteen-hour workday of manual labor for their barest subsistence, has released them from famines, from pestilences, from the stagnant hopelessness and terror in which most of mankind had lived in all the pre-capitalist centuries -- and in which most of it still lives, in non-capitalist countries. - For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand Maybe you're misinterpreting her, but either way it doesn't matter because even if she said what you think she said, her belief system simply doesn't add up on top of that so we can consider a momentary slip or whatever you like. Kurt_Irving said: Do I see you crying again? huh, mini mouse? xD I could cry about on Frankenstein and look like you (yeah! you little man), but I got some really cool s**t to read instead. Btw, I think someone should write a novel about your weeping upon Frankenstein, I sure would love that drama. Cool shit like Franskenstein? Please stop tormenting yourself like this, you're already hanging from a thin thread. I'd like for you to experience the pleasure of reading a truly good book, that might perhaps change your life, before you die, so in all seriousness, please read ''How to Win Friends and Influence People''. K thnx bye |
Thanakos said: Cool shit like Franskenstein? Please stop tormenting yourself like this, you're already hanging from a thin thread. I'd like for you to experience the pleasure of reading a truly good book, that might perhaps change your life, before you die, so in all seriousness, please read ''How to Win Friends and Influence People''. K thnx bye I didn't say Frankenstein was the cool shit I read very recently, you assuume I did aaaand did Frankenstein do something to hurt your feelings again? awww! you poor baby! *pats your back in extreme delight* Oh! and the thing about Frankenstein is that you can't take it. Let me say it again as I poke your "manly Tarzan pecs", can't... take it. :P Btw, I'd like to thank you for recently pointing out the fact that there is an early 20s dude with baby balls. xD |
Kurt_IrvingSep 10, 2019 8:46 PM
| I'm currently reading Walter Wager's 58 minutes for the 3rd time. |
| Rokujouma no Shinryakusha the 19th light novel and this series is so brilliant. I love all the characters. |
| Konosuba 9 it is just as funny as always. Megumin is just so cute. |
| I started reading A Song of Ice and Fire a few months ago. I recently started A Feast for Crows, but I'll have to put it off for a while until I finish the book I was assigned for English class. |
| Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows. REST IN PEACE KENTAROU MIURA |
| Rokujouma no Shinryakusha 22 this series never ceases to amaze me in its quality. The story is just great. |
| I am currently reading 4 books The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett,Furyborn by Claire Legrand, Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman, and Descendant of the Crane by Joan He |
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| I've been plowing through J.A. White's The Thickety series lately. I'm on book three now, and I must say... what a criminally underrated series. It is so high-octane and also really angsty for a kids' series. Plus, the male and female leads being siblings means no romance!! I'm most likely going to start his new Shadow School series afterwards. |
| got interested in reading books, so right now I'm reading Land of Rain by Jurga Lago. It's decent, it's mostly about Lithuanian mythology. |
| I'm currently reading Master Your Motivation by Susan Fowler. Very insightful, and it's successfully made me ponder the motivations behind some of the things I do, especially my studies. |
| Oreigaru Light Novel 2 and Spice & Wolf 13. |
| Just finished Good Omens by Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman. Fourth book written by Gaiman I've read, love his style. May check out Terry Pratchett to see what he's like when not writing a collaborative with Gaiman |
| Krewe of Hunters: i will never finish it |
| i explain the therapy seated on the gold chest |
Arbre said: Great book, most of Soseki's novels are really good. Hope you continue with his others.Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. My first time reading one of his books and I like it. |
| I never read Ten Nights' Dreams, but Botchan is pretty funny. It's funny you mentioned Kokoro, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've recently seen it be taught at the undergraduate level and was pretty disheartened when the vast majority of the students were bored/didn't understand it. ;[ |
| Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China [363/900]Very solid book if you want to read about power struggles and internal politics.Pleasing read so far .Though there are 1 or 2 historical revisionist line which sadly to to be expected form a western scholar such as,''ÚSSR pulled out of cuba because of fear from superior american military''.Good book nonetheless. |
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| Currently reading the Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai Light Novel, pretty good so far, but the lack of Dekomori and Touka bugs me a bit... :/ |
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| I'm currently reading Satsuriku ni Itaru Yamai. |
| I am reading A sister's all you need 5th light novel and it is hilarious as usual. |
| Dracula's bad. The epistolary style of the novel juxtaposed with the plot makes it extremely unrealistic and almost comical. Also don't think Stoker's much of a writer |
| Do LNs count? At the beginning of the season I got hooked on Ascendance of a Bookworm (aka Honzuki), so I marathoned all the web novel translations. Alas, I ran out of them, so I've been reading it in Japanese instead. |
| started on good omens, rereading the books of earthsea. planning to go into orson scott card next; i never read the books after ender's game... i'm also trying to find some decent hard sci-fi reads, but that's on the back-burner right now. |
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| Reading 'Good Omens' by Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett right now. It's definitely good and a lot of fun to read as expected from those two, but compared to the discworld novels (the last of which I finished recently) it lacks a certain, idk, grace in it's wit. While Patchett was a talented writer from the start there's definitely more stylistic finesse in his later works compared to his earlier stuff. |
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Stellapuer said: Ender's Game was originally written as a prequel for Card's "real" book, which was Speaker for the Dead, which is superior in almost every way, so I highly recommend it. I'd say Children of the Mind and Xenocide are less good, but once you're into Speaker for the Dead you might as well finish.started on good omens, rereading the books of earthsea. planning to go into orson scott card next; i never read the books after ender's game... i'm also trying to find some decent hard sci-fi reads, but that's on the back-burner right now. For hard sci-fi, Revelation Space, Three Body Problem, Ringworld, Rendevous with Rama are all good reads imo |
| Night on the Galactic Railroad |
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| I am starting If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord tomorrow. |
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| I've been trying to get into some older, classical literature for a while now, so I'm currently halfway through 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne. According to the forward, this novel's had a bit of a sordid history regarding its English translations taking too many creative liberties and the version I have is supposed to be the new, accurate one. So far, I'm really enjoying it. I can see how it's stuck around this long and inspired so many people despite being published in 1870. It's definitely inspired me in my own writing and I haven't even finished it yet, despite a very victorian case of racism in one of the chapters I just read. Other than that, it's great. |
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