I haven't read a single book this year

I would read a few books each years not that long ago. Now I can't even finish one, my brain is mush, I can't concentrate and I lost the will to do anything else but shitposting and watching tv. Even video games are too much effort and seem boring

I read fiction sometimes ...

Tell your nono I eat pasta with meat.

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Just a chapter?

All my grandparents died during the world war before I was born

Im reading poilu which is a compliation of diarys of a french ww1 soldier who was conscipted i 1914 and survived the entire war
Its pretty fucking insightful

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Yes, I'm reading Cartas Marcadas and Dolina does all kind of weird things. When Argenti is around, the novel becomes a drama and some chapters are fake.

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you still have some time, user

im like a quarter of the way through 5 books, i have problems with commitment
if you can't find it translated online try somethign like this: translate.yandex.com/ocr

I started browsing /lit/ and started reading. I've finished 4 books and close to finishing 5, but i might have skimmed them.

I've read 9 physical books this year. If I include audiobooks, at least 30, if including audiobook compilations of books.... over 9000!

Actual books:
Friedrich Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Slavoj Zizek - Violence
Eyal Weizman - The Least of All Possible Evils
Mark Greif - Against Everything
The Marquis de Sade - 120 Days of Sodom
Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
Cockshott & Cottrell - Towards a New Socialism

Audiobooks were Kafka, Borges' collected fictions, some Saramago, the Johannes Cabal series, some Stephen King, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, a LOT of horror shorts and compilations, a little Barthelme (he's a bit too out there for me), whole lotta Dune, and Chris Hedges' Wages of Rebellion.

I don't really read fiction, but I listened to audiobooks at work and philosophy books in audio form just get too drawn out eventually, so I really started to "read" a lot of fiction at work.

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Please don't send any shitters to /lit/ its the last good board

half of the discourse isn't even literature related anymore.

/lit/ isn't very different.
>/lit/
>random thing
>recommend me a book
>Jow Forums
>country
>random thing
But I can't deny that /lit/ has more decent people. A few days ago an user was giving away books.

Out of the books mentioned in my post I recommend these foremost:

1.
>Eyal Weizman - The Least of All Possible Evils

Extremely eye-opening book. This book is just such a wake up call, and I guarantee you will agree. As a lifelong reader of philosophy, political philosophy etc. I had never been made to see things in such a light as in this book, it's a whole new view on things and extremely refreshing although also massively depressing

2.
>Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle

"If you haven't read this book, you suck!" I'd heard that a million times so I did read it, it is necessary reading but extremely depressing, it will expose everything about our society that you think you know but you don't really understand. Only Baudrillard's "Simulacra & Simulation" is more depressing, and that book made me so depressed and angry I threw it at the wall and stopped reading it.

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>X is a waste of time
There, I just summed up life for you.

fgt

yeah and you took one!!

Very good readings user, I've recently tried to read Kant but I can't understand a single fucking thing. Am I just stupid?

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philosophy is for the white man

s-stop it

>I've recently tried to read Kant but I can't understand a single fucking thing. Am I just stupid?

No, Kant is extremely hard to read, the trick with philosophy reading imo is to get the dumbed down version from YouTube or whatever first, get to understand the ideas and the terms and then read the actual text.

Kant is hard to read but nothing is harder than Deleuze, Deleuze and Guattari's "Thousand Plateaus" made me want to exhume the authors and punch their corpses in the face for being so hard to understand.

Then when you finally begin to understand it, you could NEVER hope to explain it, the people that do know how; just sound like they're babbling some word salad.

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honestly jump out of the window

Why do you like philoshopy so much? you feel like literally redpilled or something? Just curious

I just feel so stupid having to watch youtube videos to understand them instead of reading and understanding.

I also read some Kafka, to be more precise I read the Metamorphosis, interesting fellow that Kafka to say the least

try reading some loki instead

s-stop

>Why do you like philoshopy so much? you feel like literally redpilled or something?

I started getting into philosophy by reading Nietzsche and Marx at like 16-18. The problem is that nearly all philosophy is constantly referencing other philosophy so you always "have to go deeper"

Philosophy imho is the only real thinking, the only real understanding you can get in this world. Math, biology, physics etc. are just things for computers to do, just registering, cross-referencing and calculating.

Then you have the arts and the humanities, the arts are just doodling and the humanities are nothing without philosophy.

To give it to you brief and raw: the more philosophy you understand, the more value you have imho.

>I just feel so stupid having to watch youtube videos to understand them instead of reading and understanding.

Yeah me too, but you gotta hax it first, at least it has always helped me with some of the more "concept centric" philosophers.

Hegel, Kant, Marx f.ex. are not really that complicated if you know what the concepts are/mean, but they only very briefly explain the concepts in the actual books with like 3 lines then talk about then forever...

>I also read some Kafka, to be more precise I read the Metamorphosis, interesting fellow that Kafka to say the least

"The Trial" is the very best Kafka imo, I've read everything by him, "Metamorphosis" I didn't like, "The Castle" is just "The Trial: Electric Boogaloo". Definitely read "The Trial"!

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>Philosophy imho is the only real thinking, the only real understanding you can get in this world. Math, biology, physics etc. are just things for computers to do, just registering, cross-referencing and calculating.

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Thanks fren, almost finished metamorphosis so I might get the trial next

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I... I just can't do math DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance.

-Schopenhauer, a man with a higher IQ than everyone in this thread

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You are living a fullfilling life right now? I used to read a lot but then I go full materialistic and I don't remember those days anymore. I feel empty 2bh. I want something more and I think I can find it in reading again
Also I remember I quit books because I feeling very useless for suck at math, it's a huge inferiority complex I have

dont worry icebro
im terrible at math too

just ignore it and move on to other things so you can get on with your life

I started 3 books and didn't finish a single one.

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You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

Meh, you can't start from a blank slate nowadays.

Not reading today, and just "thinking for yourself" is the first step to just completely buying into the dominant ideology of passé cynicism or ancient aliens bullshit.

>You are living a fullfilling life right now? I used to read a lot but then I go full materialistic and I don't remember those days anymore. I feel empty 2bh.

Don't even get me started hahah, I started reading because I need to have something to meditate on.

I used to be always on the brink of suicide for years because whenever I would not be doing anything, I'd just start thinking "You are going to die, every day is a day closer to death" on repeat and have panic attacks. No sleep, just that, again and again. Reading let me go to sleep thinking about something sort of interesting and emotionally neutral, not just constantly panic over my mortality.

Since then, I know a lot of interesting things and I can always have very interesting conversations with people irl. Unless you're studying philosophy or something, there's bound to be only one "philosophy guy" in every group of friends, at most.

Thanks m8

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what's his iq? i bet mine is higher

im reading this book right now
im 5 chapters in
its pretty good so far

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>too lazy to read during the day
>reading before bed makes it hard to fall asleep because i'm reading from my phone
It wasn't meant to be

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I read books out loud to an audience of 0 viewers on Twitch TV every night. I'm reading Don Quixote right now. I would shill my stream here but I don't want to get b& for advertising.

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thank you for your contribution to the effect of what phone technology do

Couldn't believe there's a book titled kill all normies.

Hegel and Cockshott are both on my list I suppose.

hello iceland me

i read 9 so far
math sucks, its pure autism

>Hegel
>Zizek
>Nagle
>Deleuze
>C&C
>de Sade

You literally couldn't have picked more books that scream PSEUD.

>Then when you finally begind to understand it, you could NEVER hope to explain it
Then you don't understand it, you pseud.

LOL it's pretentious shits like you who've ruined /lit/.

Math is really cool, in a philosophical way as well.
It's using immaculate ideas and concepts to reach other, immaculate truths. Very platonic.
Not only that, it's perhaps the field of study that priorotizes the thinking and participation of the student the most.

>book thread
>let me tell you about what wikipedia articles on philosohpy ive read
cant you retards stay in your hole on /lit/ Jow Forumsbadphilosphy no one cares about your reddit hobby

based

Will finish my 30th book either today or tomorrow. Started reading again this year after a long hiatus, and I'm hoping I'll keep up this tempo next year. I read almost exclusively fiction these days though.

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I read 3. A new low for me.

Based Žižek

I've never read a novel in my life.

Reading Sylvia Plath right now.

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I'm lucky to be bored enough to prefer reading over other activities.

currently reading two P.K.Dick at the same time (inb4 fgt riding two dicks) and starting verrrry slowly the Ulysses, I'm currently at chapter 8.

i read only manuals
Fuck fiction books, i can watch tv series, fuck non fiction books, i can watch youtube or fucking ted

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I think my current book is the 22nd or 23d book I'm reading this year.
Every single one fiction/horror.

How does one focus on audiobooks, I just forget everything that was said instantly

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