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A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 2026-08-04 11:04
The Wretched of the Earth 3.5/5 Frantz Fanon
The Word for World Is Forest 3/5 Ursula K. Le Guin
The Stranger 3/5 Albert Camus
The Ohlone Way 2.5/5 Malcolm Margolin
The Fountainhead 4/5 Ayn Rand
The Bell Jar 4/5 Sylvia Plath
The Alchemist 4/5 Paulo Coelho
Steppenwolf 5/5 Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha 4.5/5 Hermann Hesse
No Longer Human 3/5 Osamu Dazai
Man's Search for Meaning 3.5/5 Viktor Frankl
Demons 3/5 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Demian 4/5 Hermann Hesse
Capitalist Realism 3/5 Mark Fisher
Anna Karenina 3/5 Leo Tolstoy

Acts of Worship

2.5/5

Yukio Mishima

I’m too old for self-loathing, it’s getting old.

Anti-Oedipus

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

I hope I will be able to read this book at some point in my life, I’m afraid I won’t.

Confessions of a Mask

4/5

Yukio Mishima

Was fun when I read it as a sophpomore in college. I don’t think I’ll be able to read it again.

Crime and Punishment

5/5

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Classic.

Letters to a Young Poet

5/5

Rainer Maria Rilke

Such a good read. Beautiful prose.

Slowness

4.5/5

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is hilarious.

The Brothers Karamazov

4/5

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fun read. I love Dmitri!

The Maldoror

3/5/5

Comte de Lautreamont

this book has very interesting prose but the ideas have very little substance. i think this is very clear in the very last canto, where lautreamont spends all this time building up to some climactic event, that ultimately is quite underwhelming.

i think the first 2 books are worth the read and maybe some of the final one. the cantos i particularly liked were the hermaphrodite, shark fucking, and the one about the pedarasts. also the one where god is a drunk.

he can be so dramatic speaking of the most ordinary things, i found it very fun to practice doing the same in my day to day.

also he is so mega neurotic i understand why he has such a disdain for humans and morality. if you’re so sensitive to everything that the bug, a thread of hair, a bird, a tree can speak and talk and feel pain and you can empathize with them, it is only natural to be so disgusted by humans.

The Trial

4.5/5

Franz Kafka

Reminds me of my dad.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

3.5/5

Milan Kundera

Need to reread this one.