>>820 (OP) Yep, it's a buttload

My second dostoevsky after notes from underground that I read last year

Reading picrel currently. Halfway in and it's already one of my favorite books.

>>820 (OP) just added two audiobooks

>>820 (OP) what is hilarious about it

I'm reading the second book in the Sun Eater series, Howling Dark, after I it mentioned in sffg in 4/lit/ It's been slow going because I haven't had the energy to read from work recently. I've been enjoying the book but I can't get the energy to relax into the world when I'm tired.

>>820 (OP) I'm currently reading Houellebecq's Whatever. I've reached the end of the second part, and I like it very much. I think much of it holds true today. However, some arguments are held back by a seeming disinterest to engage in potential misogyny, and the progression of the modern sexual market seems more toward a system of Orthodox Marxism than Liberalism. I don't hold it against Houellebecq for this disinterest in engaging with potential misogyny. It wouldn't fit the main character.

I'm reading Harassment Architecture now. Mike Ma makes some good points, but I can't tell if he's really making these points or if I'm extracting them from his writing. Some parts make me wish he would die because of how retarded he is. >>1019 I finished it. It was amazing. Unfortunately, Part 3 retcons the ending of Part 2, and Part 3 is far too short.

>>1019 >the progression of the modern sexual market seems more toward a system of Orthodox Marxism than Liberalism Could you elucidate a plebian as to the differences between the two in the context of buying and selling of meat?

>>1023 I don't think that I can. The novel is actually less about sex and more about love and purity and honesty in society and human relationships, and how through Sexual Liberalism these have degraded with the separation of individuals into almost interchangeable things, and how people now look for greater and greater market value in interactions, especially sex, and how the lines between the divisions between masculine and feminine pursuits are blurred due to material demands, even turning ardent priests into prey for fetishization, and how many people have been driven into madness because they simply don't have anyone who they can build a world view between them with. Globalization, the internet, foreigners, market liberalism, industrialism, etc contribute to this. The book explains these things better. I've only finished it recently and am certainly not giving the best representation of it. The work provides far more examples and far better explanations. I seriously recommend that it if the subject interests you, you should read it. It's not very long, and it apparently provides a very good foundation for the rest of Houellebecq's works.

Hour of the Dragon is unbelievably good. The last Conan story Howard ever wrote I think, and easily his finest.

>>1024 The subject matter sounds miserable, but at the same familiar. I feel like a fish being told he swims in water, and what kind-of water it is that he swims in. I'll make an attempt at reading it Anon, I can't promise I'll finish it. From what you've written it sounds like an enlightening read on the separation, and gross individualism in contemporary western society; but also a very sad one, Houellebecq explains why it is, but I don't see any way out — on a social or individual level — other than to grit one's teeth and keep going. I do apologize if I sound too sullen, you've written a short, perfectly understandable summary of the book — an interesting one at that. Thank you.

>>1022 I finished Harassment Architecture. Mike Ma is prone to magical thinking, hypocrisy, and fatalism, but some points he makes are interesting. For example, Hurricane Katrina being what ended the 90s, and the decay of aesthetics and sincerity in society causing psychological decline. However, I wouldn't hold him as a great, or even good, writer from this work. Not only is it barely a work, it slowly dissolves any narrative form until the very end as he expresses fantasy after fantasy beginning with an overly long manic episode by his self-insert protagonist. Many of his points are trite, and quite a few come off as wignat-ish. For someone who had all of the Unabomber's works on his website, he doesn't understand the points conveyed in those works, and what he does understand isn't expounded upon further than pseudo-religious babble and repetitive critiques made by others in better form for over a century. The violent scenes and descriptions of people were entertaining. I don't think I could recommend this book to anyone. How he opens the book, with disclaimers that someone smarter than him should and could make a better narrative out of his work, is masturbatory on his part but necessary for anyone who wishes to read it.