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Cole is on page 190 of 289 of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Some parts are normal to understand and I get into it and then it goes back to gibberish again. There’s not enough context to even try to piece anything together, and nothing before it that would make trying to feel worth it.

But when I get it, it’s good.
Jan 26, 2026 10:37PM Add a comment
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Cole
Cole is on page 43 of 164 of Simulacra and Simulation
Precession of Simulacra:
Disneyland, Watergate, Reality TV, Nuclear Warfare
Simulacra: events or spectacles that hide the fact that behind them, there is no real. All working towards a social order with no discernible source of power. “Illegible violence.”

It’s tough to get through but exhilarating writing all the same. Just trying to swim through it.
Jan 19, 2026 12:47PM Add a comment
Simulacra and Simulation

Cole
Cole is on page 84 of 289 of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Quiteee a bit more gay sex than I expected in here. Pretty violent gay sex too.
Jan 16, 2026 12:43PM Add a comment
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Cole
Cole is on page 66 of 289 of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
If they make books more disturbing than this I’m good.
Jan 08, 2026 04:43PM Add a comment
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Cole
Cole is on page 20 of 289 of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
I don’t know what any of these words mean and when I do they are not very pleasant to read while eating. Not a breakfast book.
Dec 27, 2025 02:52PM Add a comment
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Cole
Cole is on page 303 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
Just want to finish this before break ends. I wish you could adjust the page count on here if your editing is different.
Dec 23, 2025 11:36PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

Cole
Cole is on page 147 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
Sometimes I’ll read a page and it’s shocking how relatable it is of those cold and lonely feelings that I’ve never been able to put into words.
Nov 30, 2025 09:42PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

Cole
Cole is starting The Portable Nietzsche
Finished Twilight of the Idols. Since Nietzsche pulls from pretty much all of philosophy and of 19th century German culture, a lot goes over my head. But there is also a lot of gems here. I can also see why he’s known as “edgy”: this is basically a drive-by on the Greeks and Christianity and all our values stemming from them
Nov 30, 2025 09:29AM Add a comment
The Portable Nietzsche

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Cole is starting The Portable Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols: A lot is going over my head. I see why people recommend a background in Greek philosophy and Christianity especially. But I do understand enough to see how Nietzsche presents the opposite of these, how these ideologies have suppressed the human spirit.
Nov 20, 2025 09:35AM Add a comment
The Portable Nietzsche

Cole
Cole is on page 215 of 254 of Letters from a Stoic
Almost done, reading a letter at a time. A reductive philosophy, but most people would be better off if they adopted at least some of these principles.
Nov 20, 2025 09:33AM Add a comment
Letters from a Stoic

Cole
Cole is on page 115 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
Slow going. This guy's diary is filled with disquiet and abdication. I do like the idea of giving up everything to dream. Removing yourself from life. Stoicism in that everything real should be looked at with indifference. Becoming so internal, so sensitive that real life becomes too much to bear.
Nov 20, 2025 09:31AM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

Cole
Cole is on page 150 of 254 of Letters from a Stoic
Reading this a bit again, but I’m getting a bit tired of stoicism. Time for Nietzsche finally?
Nov 09, 2025 02:19PM Add a comment
Letters from a Stoic

Cole
Cole is on page 50 of 544 of The Book of Disquiet
A lot of this in reading and rereading unable to discern any meaning. This is made up for by the passages that have had a choke hold on my psyche the last week.
Oct 29, 2025 10:35PM Add a comment
The Book of Disquiet

Cole
Cole is on page 553 of 671 of Crime and Punishment
Feeling that it's sort of winding down; Raskolnikov's fate about to be sealed?
Oct 06, 2025 03:23PM Add a comment
Crime and Punishment

Cole
Cole is on page 4 of 81 of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
First nonfiction book since starting grad school! I've realized I do have some extra time for this, and I don't want to put all of it off until I'm finished. Just taking it at a slower pace.
Oct 06, 2025 03:22PM Add a comment
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Cole
Cole is on page 432 of 671 of Crime and Punishment
All this happened in two days?
Sep 15, 2025 10:38PM Add a comment
Crime and Punishment

Cole
Cole is on page 328 of 671 of Crime and Punishment
Progress slowing due to school and having less in me to read after reading textbooks all day. Stuck in kind of a slow part but it looks like it’s about to heat up again. Overall thrilling so far.
Sep 01, 2025 10:40PM Add a comment
Crime and Punishment

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Cole is on page 34 of 216 of Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Let’s see if I can finish this before starting grad school.
More of a personal reflection kind of style, so less dense = easier to get through than POTO. Heavily influenced by the latter, so a good next stop.
Aug 06, 2025 05:13PM Add a comment
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Cole
Cole is on page 153 of 671 of Crime and Punishment
Blessed with some paid free time to get into this book. One of my most exhilarating reads in awhile. Dostoevsky is surpassing DFW as my favorite author as of right now; his dramatic style is infecting my text messages. Some unforgettable scenes already in this book: dreary, dramatic, brutal stuff so far. Perfect!
Aug 04, 2025 12:28PM Add a comment
Crime and Punishment

Cole
Cole is on page 50 of 183 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Repetition to drive the points home.
Oppressors are dehumanized while dehumanizing, treat oppressed as objects, drive to possess.
Revolution must come from the oppressed, avoid reverting to oppressor relationship (which is internalized).
Banking model mimics oppressive relationship. Does not create thinking beings, the true purpose of genuine education.
Jul 06, 2025 12:20PM Add a comment
Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Cole
Cole is on page 54 of 368 of Lolita
Yeah um, in starting to think this guys a little strange…
Jun 09, 2025 10:56PM Add a comment
Lolita

Cole
Cole is on page 40 of 368 of Lolita
Slow progress, only reading a bit and night and takes a while to get through a page with French translations and many new words.

It’s predictably quite disturbing, but with some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read. Quite the mix. It’s funny in an ironic and absurd sense, a beautiful sentence employed to describe a pedophilic fantasy. Imagining how much time Nabokov had to embody this mindset.
Jun 08, 2025 10:56AM Add a comment
Lolita

Cole
Cole is on page 100 of 188 of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Reading Zizek long form unsurprisingly allows for a more thorough understanding of these Lacanian concepts. The media examples are helpful, and I’ve been keeping these concepts in mind when consuming media.
Jun 08, 2025 10:54AM Add a comment
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

Cole
Cole is on page 50 of 188 of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
Difficult, but helpful to actually read the thought process behind the psychoanalysis of film that I’ve only heard in speech form. Starting to understand the basic concepts of lacanian PA, and seeing how this can facilitate a materialist understanding of psychic phenomena
May 31, 2025 12:27PM Add a comment
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

Cole
Cole is on page 376 of 1112 of Sadly, Porn
Almost done, only a couple footnotes left and should be smoother sailing from here. This book as affected my mind greatly in the way I see people’s behavior in relationships. How we use defenses, avoid fantasy, want to be told how to want, to be compelled to act, balancing ledgers, depriving others — all these things serving as a barrier to true love.
May 17, 2025 12:45PM Add a comment
Sadly, Porn

Cole
Cole is on page 294 of 1112 of Sadly, Porn
Reading this primarily this week. Ideas aren’t necessarily new at this point, just being reinforced with more examples.

E.g., creating an elaborate fantasy for an omnipotent entity to deprive another since they enjoyed more than you, being resentful of being depended on, doing things for an audience and letting them be the judge.

A simple thing that’s stuck: one day, no matter what, I will be depended on.
May 01, 2025 10:05PM Add a comment
Sadly, Porn

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