I am curious what Yea Forums is reading ( if reading anything )
I'm reading the blank state and the way to wigan pier. Orwell is top tier man, i love his writing. Homage to catalonia is one of my favourite books. Do you like it?
Also, book "shelf" thread.
Man and His Symbols by c.g. jung. I really Like it so far.
I'm reading Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization vol. 2 by Abdullah Ocalan and it fluctuates between silly, interesting in some tidbits, and a bore.
The author is a Kurdish revolutionary that I memed myself into reading because, hey, he was fighting for solid 20 years and spent another 10 (by the time he wrote these) in prison, maybe he has something interesting to say. Turns out it's really just milquetoast left-libertarian anti-statist positions mixed with a mishmash of historical interpretation combining critical theory, philosophers in the likes of Hegel and Marx (who is atrociously misread by the author), and historians like Fernand Braudel.
One of his main theses is:
>Dude, what if, like, nationalism, is like, a religion?
Although I have to credit him for writing under the conditions he's under, it really shows. He couldn't even go over the manuscripts because he had to write it in one go, so the entire book reads like a stream of consciousness (it's really comfy and readable actually). Also his interpretation of ancient (11,000-2,000 BC) religion is interesting enough, but that's about the only good thing about his book(s).
>its a bore
>its really comfy and readable actually
I said it fluctuates and the boring part is mostly at the end. It's readable and comfy in how it's a stream of consciousness, as in you don't need to ask "what did he mean by this?" you just read smoothly without interruption.
I am currently reading:
And thus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
And some Lovecraft stories
Dostoevsky's short stories.
And an Italian text book.
God! why do so many words mean exactly the same.
Just got this bad boy in the mail today.
I’m reading
Alhazen - The Optics
John Von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern - Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Ptolemy - The Almagest
Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy In America
Aristotle - Prior Analytics
I had to take a pause because of life, but I’m back to reading again. I’ll be finished with the first two very soon, within the next month. Then I’ll be re- reading Alhacen’s Completion of The Conics, and I’ll be reading Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy soon as well (followed by some more Morgenstern, I’m on an Austrian economist-but-not-in-Austrian-school kick recently)
The other three are going to take me much longer just because I take my time
Recently finished The Castle of Otranto and now onto something quite different: The Myth of Sisyphus.
Finished The Fearful Master: The UN Plan to Rule The World, by Edward Griffin. Currently finishing The Open Conspiracy by HG Wells.
I usually dislike most of stream of conciousness readings. I enjoy biographies and philosophy when is written simple and systematic.
this
>It's All In Your Head- Suzanne O'Sullivan
Neurologist who wound up working with psychosomatic patients. It could do with better structuring but it's a wealth of case studies.
Just finished
>The Woman Who Fooled The World- Beau Donnelly and Nick Toscano
About the Belle Gibson whole food cancer treatment fraud. Obviously led on to the one I'm currently reading. Really interesting and good investigative journalism, surprisingly not just a character assassination (surprising because a lot of things about her are, but these guys fill out a lot of background
Thinking about getting Feldman's Playing Sick or Dying to Be Ill, has anyone read them? I'm still hankering for more of the same but don't want to drop the price of both if they're largely the same
About to finish The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Good book but I won’t lie, it kind of falls apart in the final 1/3 of the book. I don’t mind plotless books but this book has a plot that just seems to have...dissolved halfway through into a directionless mix of chapters
Bumo
Crime and Punishment
Almost finished the second part. Liking it very much so far
2 more chapters of Ulysses.
Just finished The Stranger after Sun and Steel and enjoyed them more than I expected.
Im just reading julio cortázar's historias de cronopios y famas, finally realizing that i mostly like short books and novels no longer than 300 pages free'd me as a reader
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition
>And an Italian text book.
Care to post it?
The two-volume folio set Greek Myths by Robert Graves.
East of Eden, not very far in but it is quite enjoyable so far.
Sure, it's babies first Italian textbook.
Ciao! 7th Edition
and
Italian Now! for more exercises and grammar.
The Fate of Reason by Beiser, Besier is probably my favourite historian of philosophy, the only person that comes close to rivalling him is Isaiah Berlin
I'm reading The Phantom of the Opera.
>Humanity, a moral History of the 20th century
(tries to offer an analysis and possible solutions to the ethical problems that were revealed by many of the 20th century wars and slaughters, using an empirical approach that looks at how those wars came to be)
Then I'll probably move on to Torture and Democracy which uses it as a reference.
>Crime and Punishment
Can't really kms before I've read most of Dosto
>The lady or the tiger and other stories
Hopefully the others stories will be as fun as the first one
I'm still wondering whether I'll read Benjamin's Images of Thought and Bachelard Poetics of Space this month or wait a bit. Also it seems the second part of Brentano's Doctrine of Judgement has still not be translated in my native language, will I really have to learn German just for that ?
Currently in Florence.
I need to do some research into optics. I'm getting into astronomical spectroscopy, and am lacking in fundamentals. I can always just plug and play what I'm told to, but knowing a bit about what's going on would be helpful.
Grazie mile user. Good luck with your italian learning. You should try Duolingo if you are just starting.