The Books thread.

[Jeff]

do you lot read one book at a time? seems like I always have 2 audiobooks and 2 textbooks going on at the same time and randomly juggle between them

most of the books I've read this year have been mediocre and a bit boring, but am going through a few juicy ones at the moment, feels nice

[SenisterDenister]

I read one book at a time, yes. I can get through them faster and focus on them more. In college having to read multiple books all at once was always frustrating in that regard. I felt like I could never give them a proper amount of attention.

[ExtremeDrinker]

I read one book at a time. Slowly. Out loud.

[Jeff]

reading The Crying of Lot 49, liking it very much, five thumbs up

I didn't read much besides DAC as a young'un, so it's pretty cool to discover books all the time, there's a whole lot of them I tell ya. I feel like I've listened to most of the music that I like that's readily available, and seen a lot of movies and tv shows, but I'm reading all kinds of shit for the first time. I'd say 90% of the books I've read, I've read in the past 3 years or so

Still, most of the time I prefer discovering them over actually reading them

[Jeff]

started reading this, seems p.cool maybe, nice cover

[Jeff]

I just realized that the guy in the cover art is Ellison, why does he have to be such a self-indulgent moron
anyway I read some of his short stories, either women are prozzies or they get raped,
he writes like an incel who reads online guides about why women like bad boys

[SenisterDenister]

Been reading the Hyperion/Endymion science fiction books. Bretty gud.

[Hyacinth]

I am illiterate.

[SenisterDenister]

Nobody's perfect, that's why audiobooks exist.

[Jeff]

heck yes. are there any other good sites for audiobooks besides AudioBookBay?

[Jeff]

Reading a book about the history of modern esotericism and occultism in Finland, it's a dumb history book so no spells or mana potion recipes or anything, but I guess reading history is good otherwise we'll repeat the same mistakes like shoot Franz Ferdinand in the face again

[Hyacinth]

That's true. I was thinking of listening to the first edition of "A course in miracles", autodidacted Crowley style.

[Jeff]

let me know how it sounds, Jesus was pretty good with the Word, sermon on the mount is fire, str8 fax

[SenisterDenister]

A friend gifted me Tarantino's book, and holy shit my backlog of movies to watch tripled in length. The amount of movie knowledge the man has is absolutely astounding.

[Jeff]

I have to read this book for uni, it's by Chad Meister, proper name that

[Hyacinth]

Good name, A course in miracles was to heavy on Christian nomenclature so I'm reading the Bhagavad Gita instead

[Jeff]

ah good to know, thanks for the heads-up

[Jeff]

i wanna read homer and plato and bible and quran but seems like a lot of work compared to dac

[Jeff]

update: i read a bit of homer and plato and bible and gave up on them
been reading Infinite Jest instead, seems aight

[Jeff]

Good name, A course in miracles was to heavy on Christian nomenclature so I'm reading the Bhagavad Gita instead

how was the gita? i have some krishna buddies irl and theyre like, "yea its good" but maybe theyre biased
i read the dhammapada the other week, wanna read B.G. and upanishads as well, im going: