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Lately I've been struggling to find interesting books to read - this could be anything: fiction, nonfiction, novels, classics, philosophy, etc.
I went to /lit/ for recommendations, but the board seems to be mostly inhabited by chuds.
Therefore I am making a thread for you literature enthusiasts of /tttt/ to post recs, recent reads, bookshelf pics, or really anything related to literature.
I will start: yesterday I finished reading The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. This book explores the malleability of gender roles, androgyny, and the intricacies of the three-way relationship had by the main characters. I really enjoyed reading something like this written by one of the greats like Hemingway. It has me thinking he was probably an ultramasc repper, which makes sense if you know about his daughter, Gloria Hemingway, who trooned at 60, and what he said to her after discovering her wearing her mother's stockings:
>"Gigi, we come from a strange tribe, you and I."
Though I wish the original manuscript of this book was available, which apparently had 130,000 more words that were cut from what was released, it was beautifully written and should be of interest to all you /lit/rannies.
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>>43260250
I wish this could be a recurring thread.
At the moment on my work break I've just been reading Cioran (Anathemas and Admirations) over and over. Fun to reread my old notes and how much I disagree with them.
Also been reading Artaud's 'Heliogabalus' which is utter filth (in a good way) lol. He is reminding me a lot of Paglia in the way he 'interprets' gender (immortal, pre-sexuated forms)
Definitely going to be checking out Garden of Eden now. I had heard of the 'strange tribe' story before but it hadn't previously motivated me to read Hemingway
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bought a lot of books recently to read to cool off from stuff. everything from daoism to sophiology
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i just picked up some new books the other day
the columbia history of western philosophy
on translation by john sallis
middle english lyrics
the long encounter: self & experience in the writings of herman melville by merlin bowen
typee by melville
& the confidence man by melville
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>>43265357
wrong pic! oops! that's my weird floppy copy of chaucer
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In the book "the giver" children are given pills starting at puberty to prevent them from having sexual thoughts. Presumably this also prevents masturbation, though this isn't directly addressed. Only selected women are allowed to breed, that is their designated job in life. The author views this world as dystopian, for trannies, this is their dream.
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>The International Jew by Henry Ford
>On The Jews And Their Lies by Martin Luther
>Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
>The Talmud by Jews
>The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Jews
>Epstein Emails by Jeffrey Epstein
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>>43265451
it's awesome ishmael is such a good character and the whole storyline is so fucking cool i like how ahab is portrayed as this old captain and the whole chapter about the color white is SO FUCKING AWESOME !!! BLOOD AND THUNDER!!!!!! VENGEANCE ON A DUMB BRUTE!!!!!
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I have been reading the collected poems of Robert frost lately but it feels like he's kind of falling off towards the end. the first couple books were unrefined but I liked what he was going for, and I think he really hit his stride after that and around the middle of the connection. I'm on the last book now though and like it feels like he kind of stopped writing his really good poetry about nature and now it's all more about philosophy and politics and stuff. and it just feels so much less interesting because of course all those wonderful nature poems were also about philosophy and politics, but it was implicit rather than explicit. idk, I'm ready to be done with it
do you guys like transgender lit? I love Nevada and detransition baby, and I really want to find some more stuff like that to read next. I think I've read too many books written by cis men lately
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Torrey peters has a (relatively) new novel out called Stag Dance. It's a follow-up to Detransition, Baby. I haven't read either but I'm planning to at some point.
The only transgender lit I ever read was a horror novel called Brainwyrms I read for english class a couple years ago, written by a british tranny (my english teacher was incredibly based to put it on the reading list). It was very gory and also funny at times, though I don't know if I would call it good.
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Started reading picrel, but then I got distracted by an audiobook (Hitler by Ian Kershaw). I'll come back to it later.
Might post a pic of my bookshelf & favorite books later.
>>43268420
Started reading that a while ago and it just seems like a pozzed version of the Illiad for foids? Just read the original tbqh
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>>43260250
Great thread idea
Been reading Roberto Calasso's Ka recently
It's a retelling of Indian mythology, the way it genders reality and sometimes androgyny pops up is very interesting.
You should read it because it's a delight
I have no idea how good the English translation is but I imagine it gets the job done
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shipping fitzgerald as the passoid hsts and hemingway as the bitterhon agp in a t4t relationship. I read a moveable feast awhile ago and the fitzgerald chapter where they compare dicks was the hilarious, you can tell the way he wrote it that hemingway was deeply jealous of him.
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might as well also post my favorites stack
I actually not that much of a reader (ADHD)
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>>43260250
Read through The Sluts by Dennis Cooper last week. Was pretty good, finished it in two days which is a first for me in a while. Reading Super Cannes by JG Ballard at the moment, then moving on to Leviathan by Hobbes. I got reminded to read some of Schopenhauer's works. I read snippets of 'On Women' quoted in something else I was reading years ago, was it something from Nick Land? I think. And it was pretty funny.
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Demian by Hermann Hesse. Short read, less than 200 pages. It's good. The only Hesse book I've read, but I've heard The Glass Bead game was his best work. It was one of the inspirations for Megalopolis... lol.
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>>43271838
You're a chaser aren't you? I'd guess homofascist based on the Mishima and the modernism but for some reason I think Evola is more chaser coded. Also just read Guenon or Heidegger
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>The Souls of Black Folk
I've been thinking a bit about how du Bois' notion of double consciousness might apply to tranners, if at all. We certainly do tend to observe ourselves and gnc behavior generally through the lens of cissiety, and see not passing or doing masculine things as heckin trans women as being disgusting. but I wouldn't want to be some kind of gender blob, and passing appears intrinsically desirable even if every tranner decided it didn't matter. Maybe the future lies in normalizing twinkhondom and not caring quite so much about ffs and just generally creating the conditions where a transgender person can be happy without passing perfectly. I dunno though.
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>>43272130
nah, I'm a mostly gay bi guy. In theory only, of course (I don't have sex)
>Heidegger
I took a class in uni on him blegh I'm good
>Guenon
Yah, been meaning to pick one of his books up. But I have other interests rn
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>>43268390
yeah!!! it's just the book of all time to me :) other than it the only melville i've read though is his short stories plus billy budd. so really excited for the confidence man!!!
ALSO i'm reading mobydick with my boyfriend soon, he hadn't read it yet. can't begin to describe how much i'm looking forward to it
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>>43271838
ooh i see the DDJ. have you read the zhuangzi? brook ziporyn's translation is one of my ffavorite ever books. DDJ is good too but IMO the zhuangzi is unparalleled in early chinese philosophy. just an unbelievable text
big fan of the mishima i've read too, though that's just confessions & the sailor. i've got a copy of spring snow too but haven't gotten around to it
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>have you read the zhuangzi? brook ziporyn's translation is one of my ffavorite ever books
Only the first 100 pages or so, but I remember liking it. Not sure why I put it down. I have Palmer & Breuilly, don't know if that's a good translation
>big fan of the mishima i've read too, though that's just confessions & the sailor
Confessions & Sailor are both better than Temple of the Golden Pavilion anyway imo, but Temple of the Golden Pavilion is still an amazing book desu
>spring snow
Do you mean Snow Country?