I'm reading old gaming magazines from the early 2000s, but pdfs are so fucking soulless compared to holding the magazine in your hand and flipping through pages, i hate it so much. I wish i bought more of them back in those days.

>>1288
I never thought of doing something like that but it sounds neat. I remember getting computer magazines back then but they probably all got thrown out at some point. Reading through them now would be a nice trip back to the past and not something you would be stressed about finishing.

>>1287
The last book I read was The Chrysantheum and the Sword. I haven't finished yet because I've misplaced it and can't find it for the life of me, but it was a very interesting analysis of the Japanese.

>>1293
I had to read that for an anthropological comparative for college like 15 years ago.
At the time I liked it then I learned it was considerated to be really dated but I still see the merits, it was one of the first serious studies of japanese mindset, a country they were at war with in a context of generalized racism, and had to do it without field work, for obvious reasons. Overall it was a really good job.
Another war study, while not anthropological, like "The mind of Adolf Hitler" was full of made up bullshit like ascribing him coprophagic tendencies.

I read books 2 to 3 hours a day. Yesterday I finished the first Dune. The non-fiction I am currently reading is a bit boring so I am stretching it way out whereas Dune I managed to complete in exactly 2 weeks.

The last book I read was "Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes" by Kris Hollington. Since I don't know too much about world history, I found the book interesting. Personally, I enjoyed reading about the many failed attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and the life of Uday Saddam Hussein. However, I have a feeling that someone who is really into history would find this book a little too "entry-level". Anyway, I guess it's a good introduction to many fascinating topics.

>>1288
>pdfs are so fucking soulless

Totally agree. Whenever I'll play through a game with a pdf strategy guide I always find it's nothing like a physical copy. There's very little in life more pleasurable than studying a real game booklet and using it to complete a game. Some of my fondest childhood memories are methodically playing through ocarina of time and pokemon with a trusty strategy guide.

Recently I have read the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey. I am trying to read some more classics. I have to say it is quite a comfort to read ancient literature, it's sort of a fantasy world but not really that much different. At the least, people have always been much the same.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh they even blame Enkidu's problems on a succubus

I've been wanting to pick up the habit of reading books again lately. I recently downloaded The Roman Empire by Isaac Asimov, but I haven't taken time to read it yet. I'd like to read some books about the history of my country too.
>>2246
I haven't read the Epic of Gilgamesh but I know the story. I find the way in which it addresses the subject of mortality/immortality curious, especially for the time period.

I most recently read Mind is a Myth by U.G. Krishnamurti. I've gone from reading ideological literature to spiritual literature. I've realized that ideology does not hold the solution to whatever unknown I seek. It's fun to read ideological books as a mind game, but they are nothing more than that. The best ideological books are the ones that attack the ideological way of thinking.

I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. It took me over a week to finish. I bought a box of science fiction books in about 2014 and this is the first one I read.

>>2336
I started on another and I guess it's full of mildew because I get allergy symptoms when I open it. Damn. The rest of the box is probably the same.

>>2337
That sounds quite annoying. Only once have I had to deal with a book with those problems, and what I did was to clean it very carefully and try to ventilate it before reading it.

>>2338
It's my own fault for leaving them to rot for years instead of reading them. So I feel kind of guilt if anything. I tried leaving them out but they made my whole room stink. It seems that people are using ozone to disinfect them but I don't have an ozone generator.

>>1287
Just finished "The Plague" by Camus, it was ass, I may have skipped a lot. Working on "Priory of the Orange Tree", but I keep putting it down and not picking it back up. Not enough time to read :(

>>2359
>Priory of the Orange Tree
I just did some research on that book, and it looks like it is over 800 pages long. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I can't remember the last time I read something that long. How do you like it so far?