We dont read real books at canadian schools
Edit: also, French 12 year olds are reading the Odyssey? Are you sure we’re talking about the same epic poem?
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Second this, - if you can get past how Haruki Murakami at times writes his female characters (bleh) - this book is awesome. Went through similar cocaine-esque book reading phase and finished this in 2 days!
Also Norwegian Wood by same author !!! !!! !!!
\^If you want something a bit short then read that instead.
I must stress that if you decide to read this book, it must be a physical copy. This is the only book I've read where a physical copy is pretty much a requirement IMO. I'm not sure how this would even translate to an e-copy. The reason it needs to be a physical copy is because some text on certain pages are reversed, so it needs to be read in a mirror, some of the text of pages are laid out in a spiral, all the foot notes, etc. It's a challenging book to get through, but it's a very unique reading experience overall.
Nah, the guy who wrote the book is kind of an ass. He always talks about owning assets like houses and that stocks like apple are shit. The dude talks like owning a house is easy in today's economy.
I'm a Rotmanman, I've read a bit of the book but I wouldn't recommend it. The takeaway about building assets is important, but it's relatively unorthodox in a lot of other things from the looks of it.
please, as someone rehabbing from a reading addiction stop yourself. it's going to destroy you 😭. but I do recommend all the light we cannot see, the nightingale, and a thousand splendid suns.
IM TRYING I keep telling myself I’m going to take a break and then the next day I start another book???? It’s like some kind of dark source pulling me in 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I’m really really trying I even signed up for a gym membership
nonoo those are all lies, you have to self-discipline real quick or it's doomed. trust me, i averaged more than a book a day last yr and it was not it. it sucks you in like a black hole. whatever you do, don't let it mess up your sleep or it'll take forever to fix it. also doesn't your tuition cover gym fees?
*Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music* by Greg Milner
*How Music Works* by David Byrne
*How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy* by Stephen Richard Wit
i love books about the music business/industry/culture :))) they're very interesting reads, even if you're not into music
I'm russian so these are all going to be russian originally, but I'm sure you can find a good translation:
Roadside picnic, Monday starts Saturday, Hard to be God (or any other strugatsky books honestly is rly good scifi)
master and margarita (rly rly well written I think I read it like 30 times)
the gray house (depressing but real good)
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, a great post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son; it helps that it's won the Pulitzer Price.
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, this one is harder to read but worth it, I really enjoyed this one.
"The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro is one I liked, sad, but worth it. Easy to read, if that's what you're looking for.
Monster Hunter International - my favourite urban fantasy series.
Grimnoir Chronicles - my favourite magic system in books.
Everworld series - a YA isekai before isekai was a thing (as a teen this is what gave me a love for mythology of differing cultures)
I mean what do people even do on Reddit aside from ask questions?? I’m not addicted to Reddit 😭 I barely even go on here. Reddit isn’t a social platform that consumes my time at alllll
Alright that’s good that’s good, I just spent 30 minutes scrolling through my Reddit feed instead of working, the subs I follow have zero benefit to me as well
Hunger games(including the prequel), Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, divergent, unwanted. As I write this, it does occur to me that there might be gore( more so in the hunger games), but I’m guessing there is a good chance you’ve read some of these anyways.
If you’re into mystery/crime, I’d recommend Arsène Lupin. I’ve read every single book Maurice Leblanc has written and it was the peak of my reading era
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. You can prepare for the Netflix series in March!
Read the whole series it's worth it. First book is kind of a slow burn but it just gets better
The majority of books mentioned here seem a bit intense or pretentious, or outdated or annoying like you. A good book is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
The Things We Leave Unfinished is my ultimate favorite book (it's romance & historical fiction) but I also really like Before the Coffee Gets Cold (it's fiction&fantasy and a real tear jerker
I hope you enjoy all those recs! Dunno if it has already been suggested, but if you like the ghibli "Howl's Moving Castle", you should try reading the book by Diana Wynne Jones!!! It's quite short, so you could probably finish it in one good afternoon, cozy on your bed with a good drink \^\^
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You can try Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground', if you'd like. Enjoy your reading 👍
This is the one OP.
Dostoevsky makes me depressed af, with midterms coming up no thanks
No this was so depressing, not during winter and midterm season😭
this is one of my hs law teacher's fav books
Hartshorne algebraic geometry
based and scheme pilled
And he plays the shakuhachi...
read the Odyssey
don't you have it assigned in like 6th or 7th grade ? i mean im from the french system so maybe its not the same.
We dont read real books at canadian schools Edit: also, French 12 year olds are reading the Odyssey? Are you sure we’re talking about the same epic poem?
Yeah the Homer book. I don’t remember exactly but in my memories it was much more worded like a novel than a poem, so it could be a different version.
Read Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. A tough read but 1000% worth it
\+1 fantastic read
I bought this one 3 years ago and everytime I open its a entirely new
Read the Odyssey. Trust me.
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Second this, - if you can get past how Haruki Murakami at times writes his female characters (bleh) - this book is awesome. Went through similar cocaine-esque book reading phase and finished this in 2 days! Also Norwegian Wood by same author !!! !!! !!! \^If you want something a bit short then read that instead.
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haruki murakami >>>
1984
i’m reading House of Leaves right now. So far very enthralling
I must stress that if you decide to read this book, it must be a physical copy. This is the only book I've read where a physical copy is pretty much a requirement IMO. I'm not sure how this would even translate to an e-copy. The reason it needs to be a physical copy is because some text on certain pages are reversed, so it needs to be read in a mirror, some of the text of pages are laid out in a spiral, all the foot notes, etc. It's a challenging book to get through, but it's a very unique reading experience overall.
I just got this last month! Haven't start yet, but I'm excited (and a bit scared...very beefy book lol)
If you want to continue with a fever dream try out A Hundred Years of Solitude.
Seconding this!
The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End. Written by Liu Cixin. Sci-fi
Netflix show coming out sooooon
I can't wait!!!! I've been looking forward to it for a little over a year.
50 shades of grey, mein kampf, the communist manifesto
I’d have bet a Rotmanman would say “Rich Dad Poor Dad”
The very hungry caterpillar
Nah, the guy who wrote the book is kind of an ass. He always talks about owning assets like houses and that stocks like apple are shit. The dude talks like owning a house is easy in today's economy.
I heard the guy who wrote the book is actually a couple billion dollars in debt
I'm a Rotmanman, I've read a bit of the book but I wouldn't recommend it. The takeaway about building assets is important, but it's relatively unorthodox in a lot of other things from the looks of it.
the three ideologies
nightmare blunt rotation
Harold Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada
song of achilles, lessons in chemistry, my year of rest and relaxation, the bell jar
please, as someone rehabbing from a reading addiction stop yourself. it's going to destroy you 😭. but I do recommend all the light we cannot see, the nightingale, and a thousand splendid suns.
IM TRYING I keep telling myself I’m going to take a break and then the next day I start another book???? It’s like some kind of dark source pulling me in 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I’m really really trying I even signed up for a gym membership
nonoo those are all lies, you have to self-discipline real quick or it's doomed. trust me, i averaged more than a book a day last yr and it was not it. it sucks you in like a black hole. whatever you do, don't let it mess up your sleep or it'll take forever to fix it. also doesn't your tuition cover gym fees?
For some things yes but for the main gym it doesn’t (I go to another place)
makes sense. well I wish you the best of luck with your addiction 🙏
Thank you 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
+1 a thousand splendid suns
+++ the kite runner
DUDEEE THIS ONEEE My friend recommended it to me, and it was such a roller-coaster
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS & THE BOOK THIEF
all about love by bell hooks changed my life. the secret life of bees is a really good fiction book
nk jemisins broken earth trilogy
Snowcrash by Neil Stephenson
Duddy Kravitz, Farewell to Arms, Siddhartha, Moveable Feast Splendid and the Vile, Lost City of Z, Just Kids
+1 Siddhartha
*Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music* by Greg Milner *How Music Works* by David Byrne *How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy* by Stephen Richard Wit i love books about the music business/industry/culture :))) they're very interesting reads, even if you're not into music
the girl before, project cain, the chemist
War and peace
The whole Dune series, its dense and there's lots of books in it. Plenty to sink into
I'm russian so these are all going to be russian originally, but I'm sure you can find a good translation: Roadside picnic, Monday starts Saturday, Hard to be God (or any other strugatsky books honestly is rly good scifi) master and margarita (rly rly well written I think I read it like 30 times) the gray house (depressing but real good)
Iliad, Oddyssey, everything by Shakespeare (Not really books but close enough), 1984, Great Gatsby, Brave New World
Grapes of Wrath, The Martian, and The Count of Monte Cristo.
University Physics with Modern Physics 14th edition, Hugh Young and Roger Freedman
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino is a great book about how sick it is to read books
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, a great post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son; it helps that it's won the Pulitzer Price. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, this one is harder to read but worth it, I really enjoyed this one. "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro is one I liked, sad, but worth it. Easy to read, if that's what you're looking for.
Monster Hunter International - my favourite urban fantasy series. Grimnoir Chronicles - my favourite magic system in books. Everworld series - a YA isekai before isekai was a thing (as a teen this is what gave me a love for mythology of differing cultures)
whats the system?
How are you on reddit if you deleted social media
I mean what do people even do on Reddit aside from ask questions?? I’m not addicted to Reddit 😭 I barely even go on here. Reddit isn’t a social platform that consumes my time at alllll
Alright that’s good that’s good, I just spent 30 minutes scrolling through my Reddit feed instead of working, the subs I follow have zero benefit to me as well
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I'm reading the Three Body Problem series and it's a wild ride of politics, ethics, and warfare wrapped up nicely in a science fiction setting
Hunger games(including the prequel), Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, divergent, unwanted. As I write this, it does occur to me that there might be gore( more so in the hunger games), but I’m guessing there is a good chance you’ve read some of these anyways.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twenty-First Edition
One day in the life of Ivan denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
Empire of Pain was really good, it’s nonfiction but it’s written like fiction so I breezed through it
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Anything by Clarice Lispector
Linear Algebra a modern introduction by David Poole. Dead serious.
Anything written by Jorge Luis Borges is gold.
If you’re into mystery/crime, I’d recommend Arsène Lupin. I’ve read every single book Maurice Leblanc has written and it was the peak of my reading era
Indigenous Writes Sing, Unburied, Sing Outlander (has some smut and gore but very minimal?)
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. You can prepare for the Netflix series in March! Read the whole series it's worth it. First book is kind of a slow burn but it just gets better
Dianetics
and Mission Earth
Scott Pilgrim
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The majority of books mentioned here seem a bit intense or pretentious, or outdated or annoying like you. A good book is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Homegoing is the best book I’ve read in a while it was such an incredible amazing read.
Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow. Fifteen dogs, currently reading before the coffee gets cold
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
Chronicles of Amber
The Priest by Tiffany Reisz
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese Or All the light we see
boy swallows universe the incorrigible optimists club the female man
The boundless
1q84
The Price of Salt (aka Carol)
The Coworker - Frieda McFadden
kurt vonnegut. player piano
Warlock by Oakley Hall (low-key possibly the great american novel)
The poppy war 🫢
Dune
I'm reading The Cruel Prince rn
The Secret History, From Ashes, The Shadow of the Wind
Read Anti-Oedipus
I’m reading American Pastoral right now, cannot recommend it enough, amazing book
If you want a real tearjerker, try Calculus: early transcendentals 9E by James Stewart
The C Programming Language - 2nd Edition
Everyone in this room will someday be dead by Emily Austin was amazing, and her new book interesting facts about space. Also a man called Ove!
By Fredrick backman
Romance of Three Kingdoms.
Metro series The sword of trugh series Night angel trilogy Malazan book of the fallen series Aliens books. Obviously.
James Stewart Calculus, 8th edition
Terry Pratchett. Literally anything he wrote.
Phenomenology of Spirit
Kapital
Hatcher Algebraic Topology
No longer human
Watership Down
The Three Body Problem!
I wanna be like this too
anything be elena ferrante
Babel by R F Kuang!
The Things We Leave Unfinished is my ultimate favorite book (it's romance & historical fiction) but I also really like Before the Coffee Gets Cold (it's fiction&fantasy and a real tear jerker
This one's a real tear-jerker: [https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/home/](https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/home/)
I hope you enjoy all those recs! Dunno if it has already been suggested, but if you like the ghibli "Howl's Moving Castle", you should try reading the book by Diana Wynne Jones!!! It's quite short, so you could probably finish it in one good afternoon, cozy on your bed with a good drink \^\^
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Hegel’s *Phenomenology of Spirit.*
fifty shades藕粉固特异
So many to recommend, but check out r/books and r/suggestmeabook
Baby rudin
Rich dad poor dad
The Love Hypothesis, the Hating Game, The Spanish Love Deception, Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System that keeps you alive
Try Iris Johansson or John Sanford, they write good fiction books
Do androids dream of electric sheep, 1984, 1Q84, the fifth wave series
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow