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List of my favorite "outdoors" books for anyone who cares

Very tight, been meaning to read Sand County Almanac for a while.

This is a great book in the outdoors genre I read a couple years ago, but sadly don't have a copy on hand.

 

[Yabba]

Right now I'm reading book 2 of the Southern Reach Trilogy. It's about a secret organization that studies a place called Area X. I also just started rereading False Kotsatsu on my Kindle because it sadly never had a physical release.

 

[BLOODMAGE]

finishing up american psycho right now

 

[RealTomCruise]

Finishing off a small collection of Plato's shorter dialogues (pretty much Trial and Death of Socrates + Meno), Phaedo so far is by far the best among them because imo Plato is at his best when he focuses entirely on the transcendental and not ethics, the last few books of the republic stood out to me as the best for this reason from what I remember.

 

[幽邃森林]

I'm picking up the Dark Tower series again and am currently on Wizards and Glass. The pacing is starting a bit slower than I expected, but I really appreciate the uniqueness of King's world and how he tries to build his own subgenre of fantasy.

 

[kultra]

Read Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl this week and I'm still comfortably digesting it. It's reminiscent to Sartre's Nausea but with sexual impotency and more disassociation. MDD diagnoses will find this book charming.

some excerpts I bookmarked on my e-reader:

• "The sensation of horror as usual aroused in me a feeling of exquisite, intoxicating pleasure which made my head swim and my knees give way and filled me with nausea."
• "I saw that pain and disease existed and at the same time that they were void of sense and meaning. Among the men of rabble I had become a creature of a strange, unknown race, so much so that they had forgotten that I had once been part of their world."
• "[...] the alterations I daily observed in myself should normally have been the work of years, whereas the satisfaction I should have derived from life tended, on the contrary, towards zero and perhaps even sank below zero."
• "Long past days of my life came back to me, but all these memories, in some strange fashion, were curiously remote from me and led an independent life of their own, in such a way that I was no more than a passive and distant witness and felt that my heart was empty now [...]"
• The narrator describing that the other locals "consisted only of a mouth and a wad of guts hanging from it, the whole terminating in a set of genitals."
• Spoiler

  The passage where her eyes gaze up at him from the rot of the suitcase.

 

[rubber-slang]

Im currently reading "The Temple and the Lodge". Im about half way through and just got to the part were they start to talk about the Freemasons. The crux of the book is them trying to connect the exiled knights Templar to the Freemasons via scottland, and although there seem to certainly seem to be connections the book doesn't seem to want to make any big leaps or go into conspiracy witch seems to be for the better. I like it so far but it's not giving me the dirt on the freemasons that i wanted when i picked it up from the thrift store, still intresting though. Im also reading Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution" but thats not intresting.

 

[Vitnira]

Im currently reading "The Temple and the Lodge". Im about half way through and just got to the part were they start to talk about the Freemasons. The crux of the book is them trying to connect the exiled knights Templar to the Freemasons via scottland, and although there seem to certainly seem to be connections the book doesn't seem to want to make any big leaps or go into conspiracy witch seems to be for the better. I like it so far but it's not giving me the dirt on the freemasons that i wanted when i picked it up from the thrift store, still intresting though. Im also reading Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution" but thats not intresting.

If you're into the occult I've been reading "The Secret of the Temple: Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry" by John Michael Greer off and on lately. Good stuff. Greer is a Mason and I know he's well up there with Scottish Rite...at least 30th degree I think? He's also a Druid, Hermetic Occultist.

It's not exactly "conspiracy" but he goes into how the Masons connect to European Mystery traditions, describes the Masonic mythos, and talks about the mystic technology of pyramids and temples.

 

[rubber-slang]

If you're into the occult I've been reading "The Secret of the Temple: Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry" by John Michael Greer off and on lately. Good stuff. Greer is a Mason and I know he's well up there with Scottish Rite...at least 30th degree I think? He's also a Druid, Hermetic Occultist.

It's not exactly "conspiracy" but he goes into how the Masons connect to European Mystery traditions, describes the Masonic mythos, and talks about the mystic technology of pyramids and temples.

Hell yeah sounds right up my ally, ill definitely check it out. thanks for the recommendation

 

[Lonely_Ghost]

Hundreds of pages of child abuse

 

[NightsEndJourneyman]

The NazBol manifesto

 

[Voicedrew]

The Unabomber Manifesto

 

[Jodo_Fan]

I'm currently reading Starting Point by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame. It's a collection of his interviews, talks and essays covering the period of 1979-1996. While I'm not a Japanese animation devotee, it's always fascinating to get an an insight into the views and working methods of a master. On method, it was something of a surprise to learn, especially considering how well Ghibli films are executed, that Miyazaki's working proccesses are quite loose and largely guided by inspiration. Also revealing, and maybe even a little touching, are his thoughts on the importance of children's culture. Even the technical material (like how to add weight to a running animation, or achieving a sense of freedom in flight scenes) is interesting. Good stuff.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342111-starting-point-1979-1996

 

[McGovern '72!]

Been reading a lotta Pynchon, recently, because of the Vineland movie coming up. Currently working through V. It's pretty good, but Pynchon was definitely in his early days when he wrote it.

I've also been reading Vollman's Europe Central, which is kind of like if hoi4 was a book. It's really good. certainly easier than Pynchon, but it doesn't really hit the same as something like Gravity's Rainbow because of the top-down perspective.

 

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Am reasonably far into Les Misérables, on the Last Volume - Jean Valjean. Just read yesterday

Spoiler: Late spoilers for Les Mis

Javert Derailed. It was sad to see him go, even if he was such a POS. I'm sure there's some critique of instrumental reason or whatever in his sheer dedication to his social role being so central to himself that when it conflicted with his morals he was so utterly broken he killed himself. Anyway, he was very clearly a pitiable man.

Also almost done with the Monogatari Series Final Season, just have Zoku Owarimonogatari to go.
For Uni, I'm still reading Economics: The User's Guide. When done, I can hopefully pick up The Wealth of Nations again so I can get to Marx's Capital, so I can get to Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy so I can read Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money which I want to read because 1950s-1960s British history is interesting to me and they used Keynsianism back then.

 

[BLOODMAGE]

finished pet sematary about 2-3 days ago.. yet i found myself today picking it up and rereading the first few chapters. i guess i will be rereading it before i find another spine to crack open. surprisingly im kind of excited to reread it even though ive just finished it, i really like it.

 

[Soundstation116]

I've been rereading blame after finding it at my local library one fateful day. It's a dystopian about a megastructural hell scape that was left to go feral as the gene that was used to control it was wiped out. Cue the main guy Killy trucking all over the megastructure and the strata's to find any traces of it left to bring peace to the pockets of humanity left.

Also been reading houseki no kuni and durarara.

 

[Yabba]

Now I'm almost a quarter of the way through CCRU: Writings 1997-2003. I found out about it from a website that was posted here but I forgot where. Anyways I initially thought that it was going to be far dryer than it is, but even if you aren't into it's strange combination of cyberpunk and esoteric beliefs it can still be entertaining.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Now I'm almost a quarter of the way through CCRU: Writings 1997-2003. I found out about it from a website that was posted here but I forgot where. Anyways I initially thought that it was going to be far dryer than it is, but even if you aren't into it's strange combination of cyberpunk and esoteric beliefs it can still be entertaining.
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Cyberneticpunk

Cyberneticpunk is a rather modern aesthetic, though the things that influenced it are from the '90s. It's orientated around a gritty depressing existence and a state of being 'terminally online', with visuals such as old work machines, haphazard cables, and concepts such as the abandonment of...

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[WKYK]

I read Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and loved it, immediately got Diary by him and read that, pretty good. He might be my new fav author, up there with Nabakov for sure, I'm gonna read his book Choke next probably. I also read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre, first spy book I've ever read and it felt really slow for the first 2/3, however the last 1/3 was so good it kinda made up for it. Now I'm halfway through Neuromancer, forcing myself to finish it. It's been picking up a little bit but man some parts of this book make 0 sense in the moment. Gibson's style is hard for me to follow, but I respect it.