/lit/ - Literature

/x/ /10, OP

This is my current stack. What I am reading momentarily

>>10059599
I personally had a really hard time following "We Can Build You", but thought it was a very interesting story with quirky ideas. I give Dick credit for writing it while pumped up on drugs. Maybe at the 200 year reunion we can have animitronic Lincolns.

>>10059599
that GD book is great don't give ashit about the rest

>>10059649
/k/ /10 but you probably already knew that

>>10059649
How's your reading on that gun going? Any good?

>>10059698

I'm a "read the manual first" guy, comes with the /lit/ territory as I'm sure you guys know.

In regards to the gun, I now know it inside out, if you're referring to the books under it, I'm really enjoying "The Woman in the Dunes", never really read Asian literature before, different but not bad. About to pick up and start "Meditations".

Bought these today. Found the Lipsky brand new in a 50¢ bin.

>>10059922
Reddit.

What am I in for?

>>10059712

What I had nearby

>>10060287

>>10060292
>the trump book
why though?

Got my hands on a copy of "The Scholars" by Jingzi Wu.

>>10059649
Most people don't know shit about boxing and assuming you do you won't gain anything from Dempsey's book other than some illustrations and historical information about outdated techniques

>>10060377
Which Homer translation? I have Cuckman but I heard it was crap, looking for Lattimore myself based on recs

Trying to decide which to start with.

>>10060812
>karamazov
the only good part is "great inquisitor" chapter

>>10059599
Nice stack for a 15 year old boy.

>>10059599
I don't see we can build you a lot on here but I really liked it

It completely astounds me that people are actually willing to buy paperbacks.

It's like throwing your money in the garbage.

>>10060812
Vocabulary expander.

>>10061061
Because hardbacks are often 3 the price if you buy them new.

>but buy used
No. I don't want to touch someones balls by proxy.

>>10061105
Pubic hairs give used books character.

>stack
>not pile

>>10060812
You've been posting the same stack for like 3 weeks now anon. It's time to actually start reading them.

>>10061176
>not literature

>>10061473
>muh greeks

>>10061176
Clean your room

>>10060513
Get the sweet oversized edition with the Baskin drawings

Got mine for like $20 on ebay

>>10059599
>Dick

>>10059649
>Marcus 'Cuck' Aurelius

>>10059922
What was it like to be interviewed by DFW?

>>10060206
>What am I in for?
Lib shit, pol shit, pseudonym shit

>>10060292
What edition of Dune is that?

>>10060325
Gook job

>>10060377
>Kunt
>The Cuck Odyssey

>>10060812
Start reading you cuck.

>>10061886
>Dune
BN deluxe or whatever. Probably the only book from that whole collection that actually looks good.

>>10059599
>Flavoured rum
what a faggot

>>10060311
I wanna fap. Who dat.

>>10061176
>filename

>>10060513
The leatherbound is always Pope, as it should be
>>10061885
I actually got that one for the Iliad, it's Lattimore, it comes down to whether you want most accurate or most poetic. Imo because these are ancient oral poems that have been changed throughout the years before getting translated, you might as well just go with Pope's "interpretation". Ideal is to read them both ofc

>>10060206
>reading plays

>>10061176
You should kick them around for a while and then post again.

>>10060812
Basic college mathematics first.
You can't even be a pseud if you don't know junior high level math

>>10062257
I don't live there anymore.
Here's what's currently laying on my floor though.

Please, go on, its okay to hate!

>>10061886
Get a load of this guy

>>10062361

>>10061915
Little Caprice iirc

Cross post from the recent purchases thread. Pls rate.

>>10062743
That Junger is most definitely the PC junger.

>>10062361
>>10062473
Whyd you get Norwegian wood twice?

>>10060292
Thanks for the meme pick, pleb.

From top to bottom:
>Dead souls
>The great gatsby
>Book of disquiet
>Portrait of the artist as a young man
>Fathers and sons
>Babbitt

Already read portrait, finishing gatsby soon. Dunno what to read next. Probably dead souls.

Greekfag here, from top to bottom
>Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>Divine Comedy by Dante
Already started with Underground, considering what to go for next

>>10060206
No one takes Gun, Germs, and Steel seriously desu. Ignore the other guy btw, it's not pol shit, and it's not lib shit either.

>>10060812
>Trying to decide which to start with.
You've been trying to decide for several weeks now.

>>10062919
I sincerly hope that this whole collection, the games included, was put together just to troll.

>>10063223
>sincerely

I should stop the 2AM shitposting

>>10061176
>nuclear eng meme

>>10061176
unless u live in a third world dump that doesn't have the bomb yet why bother? lawyers and doctors make more money and are more respected

>>10063254
Because there's more to nuclear engineering than muh bombs.
I've developed designs for direct energy converters for magnetic fusion based power reactors and adaptive/predictive cruise control systems with collision detection and avoidance (which also work in stop and go traffic).
Currently I work for a company that develops and manufactures LDR brachytherapy sources for treating prostate and other cancers.
If I wanted to be a doctor or lawyer, I would have done that instead.

>>10062308
Who are you trying to impress on an anonymous image board

>>10063313
You. Please love me.

>>10063275
why would u waste your life doing corny shit like that when u could stacking paper

>>10063313
the saddest part is thinking anyone is impressed by some nerdy bullshit any indian could do, kys you're self

>>10063342
I enjoy what I do, I have free time for hobbies outside of work, and I'm not struggling to make ends meet.
Why would I purposefully impose upon myself added stress, dept, etc. for the future potential for a greater salary, when my current salary is more than enough to support my lifestyle and I enjoy my work life on top of that?

>>10061061
Get a load of this dork.

>>10061105
It must suck being poor.

I only buy leatherbound or clothbound hardcovers, and I deacidify the pages if they aren't already acid-free, and slip the books into plastic protective jackets that protect the covers and dust jackets from wear and tear. My books remain mint even after dozens of readings over decades.

>>10063377
Enjoy your "books" cracking a folding and crumbling to dust after a few years. Paperbacks are for mentally deficient serfs.

>>10059649
nice to see a Kobo Abe in the stack. Really enjoyed Ark Sakura and Box Man. Not read this one yet.

>>10060292
You bought a book just to get (you)s?

>>10059599
You have had the same stack for the past year, dude.

>>10063001
>reading Joyce in a language other than english

>>10063901
>reading Joyce
>reading

Pile o' books

>>10063901
It's in English, I just thought I'd list it out

>>10063001
Continue with Dubliners, then Dante. How much did Divine Comedy cost?

>>10062755
One is probably a translation, the title doesn't get translated because it's a Beatles song.

>>10059599

>>10064463
ultrafag

>>10064463
You didn't have an old film SLR you could fit in there next to the meter?

do any of you actually read them or just buy and post pictures

>>10064597
I read 90% of literature from my PC, phone or Kobo and I generally only buy the ones that I've read digitally but really want to preserve/save/own.

>physical books
>2017
hit me.

>>10064601
digital books aren't going to be thrown on a bonfire or anything, don't worry

>>10064602
>not using e-reader
YIKES

>>10064614
I make do with what I have.

>>10063001
Καkη μεταφραση της Θειας kομωδιας .Κατα τα αλλα γαμησε

>>10064602
HAHAHAHAH RICHARD DAWKINS HAHAHAHAAHA *WHEEZING* HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHA

>>10062473
Do you subscribe to the belief that Pynchon ghost-wrote The Nix?

>>10064602
Bait

>>10062743
Quran?

Are you a terrorist?

>>10065750
No, I'm not Muslim either. I just think reading fundamental religious texts is important in developing ones self.

>>10065955
ew

>>10063901
This anon is right, Joyce is woeful in every language.

>>10064405
24 euros. Wasn't cheap, but it's a nice hardcover

>>10064463

>ipod mini

Everybody know it's for girls!

currently reading from this stack:
Caucasian Battlefields
The Last Empire
Soviet Combat Divers (not pictured)
Russian Fairy Tales (not pictured)

>>10067365
What the fuck is this?

>>10066941
Yeah it looks good, kazantzakis translation too eh? Enjoy

my emulation

>>10067743
looks like an autistic interest in a region of history

>>10067365
>The Forgotten Soldier
Good book mate

>>10067365
Kaputt is great

>>10066835
>using woeful instead of diabolical

Typically I buy and read books I see recommended on either this site or others and other people alike since so far I've enjoyed most of what I've read.
Spent a couple hours yesterday browsing resale stores and grabbed a handful of books I hadn't heard of before, but their descriptions seem interesting.
>anyone here read any of these books?
Probably gonna start with The Regulators, since the description reminded me of something Pynchonesque, but I'm curious if anyone else here has read any of these and how well you enjoyed them if you have.
Also, Only Revolutions seems pretty far out there in terms of style; going to be either an interesting read or overdone doodoo pie.

Boys.

Good English releases for Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Homer, Sophocoles, Virgil?

>>10064330
you really crippled that poor Erikson book

Fiction Stack(s)

>>10064602
Do whatever you feel like friend.

Non-fiction & German stacks

>Karl Marx
End yourself traitor.

>>10070178
This. Can we IP ban all marxists already?

>You're feeling sleepy
>Sympathize with the retard
>*cackles*
What did they mean by this?

>>10070070
Hey da liest ja doch tatsächlich noch jemand hier den Ranicki. Auch sehr zu empfehlen sind da die Gedichtbände mit Interpretationen aus'm Insel Verlag (Ich persönlich mag besonders den zu Heine: "Ich hab im Traum geweinet").

But muh stack

>>10070305
ist MRR der deutsche Harold Bloom

>>10070070
guter stack brudi

>>10070193
>>10070178

It was a gift my dudes. Probably won't end up reading it at all.

>>10069748
It's not mine, I borrowed it from my father. He doesn't take good care of his books lmao.

>>10070265
i-i-is deak ok

>>10070063
The Name of the Rose is superb.

>>10063408
You sound like a pseud Patrick Bateman

please be gentle

Nearly done with Vineland, hope to move onto The Sea soon. Real excited about the de Maupassant.

>>10061176
Are you an oldfag my dude. Nuke engineering is a dead field right now. Im doing mech rn

R8

>>10070366
Also irgendwie ja schon.

>>10070783
No I just actually have respect for books.

>>10059649

why not just go to a gym instead of reading about it?

Can anyone recommend more books like this? Especially Eco, Nigel and Marrs?

>>10072196
>>10072196
big hardbacks are so uncomfy to actually read desu

>>10059599
>>10059666
We Can Build You fucking sucks, one of Dick's worst

>>10063275

Yeah well you're too fucking dumb and autistic to figure out that hard science books aren't literature.

>>10072980
>Oxford Shakespeare.
Is there any difference between the actual texts of Shakespeare (in play format) between the English releases?

Rate my stack.

>>10072196

Is Faulkner any good in that or is it just like AILD?

>>10073871
Pretty nice looking scifi stuff :DD

>>10073886
xD

finished last stack, here's my up next. where should i start?

No recent purchases, but here's all the books I've borrowed from my parents

>>10073873
Do you mean my specific edition or The Sound and The Fury in general? Because my edition smells like fucking cigarettes

>>10074009
Nice stack, anon. Start with Notes or To The Lighthouse, maybe read some Plath on the side.

>>10073871
>Blade Runner

>>10074192
thanks friend. I will start notes rn! I got it cause a friend wanted to read it and talk about it with someone, so he'll be happy that i started it.

did you post a stack yet? I wanna see what you got

>>10074348
also check this captcha

>>10074348
Nice, it's a good start for Dostoyevsky and a short one from your stack to start with, good to talk about with someone too! I haven't posted yet, but yesterday I ordered Dubliners and 3 Anna Kavan books (another anon on a previous stack thread talked about her and her book Ice and got me interested, so I ordered it, along with Asylum Piece and A Scarcity of Love.) Currently I'm reading An Artist of the Floating World by Ishiguro, and Family Happiness by Tolstoy.
>>10074352
checked. I didn't get a captcha for this one

>>10074009
Dostoevsky or Pushkin

>>10070070
>Sämtliche Gottesbeweise

habe ich mir vor einem Jahr bei Amazon bestellt, auf Empfehlung eines deutschen Anons. Das buch roch so schweinewiederlich nach Raucherhaushalt, dass mir jeglich lust daran vergangen ist.

Was studierst du/was bist du von Beruf?

Roast me

Not pictured Blumenberg's "legitimacy of the modern age"

>>10074727
Rest in piece my man Brian

>>10071451
>Nuke engineering is a dead field right now
No.
I'm actually working in the medical field currently, after I was offered my dream job in fusion power R&D only to have the offer rescinded.

>>10073218

I think that when he died he left several different versions of some of his plays.

>>10074775
Hamlet has three I think.

When do I get wizard powers?

>>10073871
I have the same Dubliners edition. Love the artwork

>>10061886
He's not reading Kant you imbecile, he's reading Deleuze's book on Kant, which is 99.9% going to be studied for Deleuze, and not Kant

>>10062361
>wilderäng
häng dig
>>10062473
hur var the nix?

>>10073871
Read Dune first. And take time with it, you'll have to soak a lot of information.

>>10074929
I love the recent Penguin Deluxe Editions. Beautiful artwork, deckle edge, and solid paratexts.

>>10073871
Throw Dune away, it's trash meant for psueds

>>10073873
>Implying Light in August is a bad book

>>10059599

psyop/10
>taking (((drugs))) and getting (((sexually liberated)))
those guys were all cia you know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qedZ51Vik

the art of the deal is shit btw

>>10074727
Fifth Business is the only book of the deptford trilogy really worth reading

>>10075592
I think it explains his fight with the NFL

>>10074720
>hitler's table talk
Intrigued.

>>10075592
>the art of the deal is shit btw
I'm not terribly surprised given all the hype that's surrounded it in recent months.

Here's my shitty offering to the trash fire.

>>10064463
Good taste in Bach.

>>10060325
jó

>>10062361
>Norwegian Wood
varför anon

>>10070063
The Teachings of Don Juan is an okay read until you've hit the 75 page mark after which you'll realize it's absolute shit

>>10069132
Harper Lee really didn't want Go Set A Watchman published. It's based on an unfinished draft too. It's been pretty polarising with people who loved To Kill A Mockingbird. If you love To Kill A Mockingbird, I don't think I could recommend it, and if you didn't care for it much either I don't know if I could recommend it because it really is for Harper Lee completionists (which isn't say much, she only published two books). It's a bit of an anomaly really. I would buy it solely for that.

>>10070063
dang, the bible is a thicc girl

>>10070978
simulacra and simulation and thus spoke zarathustra have my philosophy curiosity piqued but i don't think i could read them and retain much at this point, but they'll probably be good

unironically dying to read gucci mane's autobiography, the guy is full of nasty stories and i want to read about his time in prison and his falling out with other colleagues especially waka flocka

Which one next?

>>10076446
Pynchon. Leave Proust for last, and keep up with the next volume.

>>10070507
>not reading das kapital
pleb

I really want to find a good translation of Virgil's Aeneid, but every critical review of any translation I've checked has made me really cautious.

>>10076446
Is that the recommended translation for ISoLT?

>>10074727
Any of you Hegel readers getting the new Pinkard translation when it gets released?

>>10075592
> a book written by an orange chimp
> shit

Why am I not surprised

JUST spent $130 on books. Has anyone else paid this much at once before?

>>10076733
Nope, you're the first.

>>10076733
I bought books with 300 euros.
It had four fresh Kant translations, entire works of Descartes, Tocqueville's DIA and something else.

>>10064602
>The Satanic Bible
Literally vomit inducing

>>10076446

reading that pale fire now as my first nabokov

its so fucking kino i wish a nigga had let me know before

>>10062743
M8, I wouldn't trust the translator of that Quran. He himself is a Muslim. If you want a translation locate the Quran translated during Thomas Jefferson's time.

>Vintage / Penguin editions.
Might as well burn your cash.

>>10074534
Anglistik, daher auch der Englische Stack doppelt so groß wie der Deutsche. Schade aber wegen deinem Buch.

>>10076827
yeah, we get it, you like to pretend to be a Christian zealot on internet forums because it you think it gives you a smug high ground.

>>10074020
Funny. I just got that exact edition of The Collector. In the same shitty condition.

>>10077009
Ich fange nächste Woche auch mit Anglistik an! Wie ist es so? Viel literary theory? Macht medievel literature spaß? Hat man da noch Zeit und Lust für eigenständiges lesen?

>>10076463
Yea, I think I'm going to do that. Thanks anon

>>10076507
Yep, I bought the whole set.

>>10076864
Good to hear! But uhhhh what the does kino mean besides cinema in Norwegian?

>>10074992
Jag gillade den

>>10076512
Oh for sure. I've glanced at the pdf of it he has online, but haven't read through it cuz hate screen reading.

>>10077754
What do you make of his sketch translation (I think the one available in Internet is from 2013).

>>10062919
They lie on the amazon description, its not 90 but actually
>80 pages
I know bc I read it

>>10078214
Fuck my phone desu
already read a few but I wanted some copies to keep

Already started with Heine, Garrett (portuguese romantic) is next.

>>10076733
I spent around $150-175 on a stack of books.

I also made several $60+ one hand purchases.

>>10078493
>>10076733
Not memeing or calling anybody out, but what exactly is the justification for spending this much at once, aside from textbooks? Rare editions?

>>10078892
I bought the $150 books at a symposium and bought 3 stacks of $50 books each + a $20 icon.

>>10075592
I don't know what else you were expecting

>>10078892
semi-relevant: lads, should I put out $60+ for Bottom's Dream?

>>10059599
You're scum. I am a random ghost being on the indra net, and you must listen to the opinions of my vague origins. You gave yourself over, the value of your soul, to something as trite as this. You deserve nothing worse than total annihilation... may you find it soon. God be with you.

>I spend more time researching new books to read than I spend reading books.

>>10059649
nice airsoft gun

whole stack was $10 how did i do lads?

>>10063408
you must have shit tier plebian taste if you can buy leaterbound editions

>>10074720
I see you watch Peterson.

>>10075688
That pagan mysteries book looks interesting. Are the plates in colour, or are they monochrome? Is it true the author writes and quotes in 5 different languages?

>>10079896
Looks like a pile of shit, except for maybe one or two of them.

I don't have a camera

>Ficciones, Borges
>La cena de le ceneri, Giordano Bruno
>Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, Calvino
>Aeneid

>>10061525
>>10061176
>>>sci

>>10078892

I just like to buy stuff. It's 2017 after all, we have a duty to consume in order to keep the economy going.

>>10078892
New books, new translation, very good binding / stylish hardcover, statistical anomaly (I don't normally do it)

>>10078892
Yes. Sometimes a work you are looking for isn't in print, or only available in an expensive one.

>>10060812
master margarita

>>10077668
Kino is just another retarded buzzword used by /tv/, and like any other buzzowrd on 4chan is the glaring sign of retards (the same goes for frog posters), avoid it, just like you should avoid:

>cuck
>pleb
>patrician

>>10073871
is "the literature book" any good?

I've been reading The Consumer lately. It's pretty demented, and Michael Gira is a really good writer. I've also been taking my paperback copy of the book of disquiet on the bus with me, on the way to college every morning.

Learning the final language from the patrician's trinity. I know nothing from this language (Russian) yet so not sure what to expect.

>>10076733
I did when I had more money through my student loan. It was a mixture of academic text books for my course, novels I really wanted, some expensive pomo shit, complete Shakespeare and ancient texts/poetry anthologies. Kinda wanted to get that binge purchasing out of the way when I had the money for it as now I don't earn much at all but at least I have enough books to last me the next few years which I am slowly working my way through.

>>10078214
Never seen those blue spined Penguin books before. How much are they? Are they usually bitesized philosophy and history texts?

>>10079896
> history of australian bushranging vol 2

What on earth is that
I'm curious enough myself to have picked that up, even if it is only vol 2

>>10081047
>patrician's trinity.
Which is?

>>10080915
>implying the meaning of kino is *retarded buzzword*

it clearly refers to either unironical higher tier cinema or ironically to crap depedning of use

None of y'all go to UNC Charlotte right?

>>10074811
anon, is Hamilton's Mithology any good for a beginner?

also nice statues :)

>>10081405
English German Russian is obviously the holy trinity of languages. With these you have access to the best literature of the ages.
>inb4 dead languages
>inb4 brown people languages

>>10059599
Just bought the Fagles Penguin Deluxe box set of Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. How does this sound for an ancient epic poetry starter stack?
>Epic of Gilgamesh
>Myths of Mesopotamia (w/ enuma elish)
>Theogony and Works and Days
>Argonautica
>Metamorphoses
>Bonus: new edition of Hamilton's Mythology

>>10081609
im quite jelly of your bookstore

>>10081671
What about French? I feel like you'd be missing so much without Balzac, Baudelaire, and Flaubert just to name the big ones. For Russian, where should one start to grab a better hold of their literature? I don't know much past the obvious Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, and some lesser authors like Kharms and Olesha.

>>10082244
I plan on learning French better later desu. If I achieve my goal of being fluent in English, German, Russian, French, Italian, one dead language (Latin/Greek), and one Asian language (Chinese/Japanese) before I die... well actually I don't know why I'm bothering with my so far 32 years of meaningless existence.

How are all of you anons doing tonight?

>>10062361
>NHK
Great taste, my friend!

Where do you lads usually buy your books? I need to find a local book store some time. Amazon is too impersonal, Books a Million has some good stuff and plenty of non-book things like cards, but I need to find a good local store, with discounts, 50 cent books, whatever else.

>>10059599

Just what I picked up used today. Had some store credit, so I spent roughly 5 dollars

>>10071397
Is Vineland any good? I finished V. a few days ago and started The Crying of Lot 49 today.

>>10064602
this tbqh

>>10062743
i have that trial and death of socrates. the phaedo is soooo good. best socratic dialogue imo

>>10079957
Sorry for the late reply, my dude. The plates are monochrome, and the author's footnotes are in several languages - I haven't counted them all, but they are extensive.

>>10060206
TKaM is memorable high school stuff. GGS is skimmable. Enjoy Othello and Macbeth, personal favorites.

>>10083618
Thanks. I've recently become really interested in how renaissance writers viewed the ancients and classics. I've slowly been going through Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and contemporary translations of the Roman poets. Fascinating stuff, and I'll definitely add this to the list.

>>10080963
this image creeps me out. you seem like a weird dude.

Large stack. Almost done GR so that's exciting. I've really enjoyed it but I'm definitely ready to be done with it.

>>10083444
Where do you live? I prefer secondhand books so I use abebooks online and the Bücher-Brocki irl in my city. People go there to drop off bags of books for free and you can buy them for the equivalent of $2. You can find some gems there so I tend to go every other week.

>>10083444
a charity here does huge sales to raise money a few times a year

>>10078892
to fill the fucking void on my chest

>>10083901
just finished too! did you notice that paranoia took on a positive form in escaping solipsism? used it in such a way that you could know that you weren't alone? what a madman, making paranoia a form of comfort.
also, the concept of training away a pavlovian response to a point beyond zero is a compelling thing.
a lot of people say the ending was sad or depressing, but i have no fucking clue why. last 200 pages were the best in the book, and the last 60 were absolutely incredible. 93 millionmile roar

>>10079608
I know that feeling man, you aren't alone.

>>10076733
Many times

>>10084093
POO
IN
INDIAN
OCEAN

>>10079896
It has Clash of Civilisations so good job.

>>10063408
How do you deacidify pages without damaging them? I have no clue, just a vague idea of smearing some liquid solution on them.

>>10060377
pale fire is the goat book

>>10060812
math

>>10083383
How is the Folger Shakespeare? I usually opt for Arden when I read him, but I've had people recommend me Folger as well. Do the annotations appear on the page below the text, or do they go in the back?

>>10079896
>usyd bookfair

hullo

>>10078892
- Supporting local businesses (even franchise stores in small towns now need your support)
- Consumerist interest - why don't you want to own the books you love physically if you can afford it?
- Rare editions and anthologies tend to be expensive, as do textbooks that are in-print. Out-of-print books are even more expensive.
- If you pick up one volume of a book, that little OCD inside us all wants to pick up the next volume just in case if we enjoy it, we can move straight onto the next one.

>>10080963
why the fuck did i read that as michael cera

>>10080963
>those feet

Guess something about me based on my philosophy collection

>>10085646
also, if you can guess three specific and true things about me I'll send you whichever books you want form this shelf as long as you pay for shipping.

>>10085646
You're a self-rationalizing, beta nu-male cuck.

>>10085646
>Doesn't study philosophy in university.
>Started getting into reading in the past 18 months.
>Male, 20s.

Pretty general ehh.

I only guess this because THATS EXACTLY like mine kek

>>10083452
I've liked it so far but I haven't read anything else by Pynchon other than a little of Inherent Vice. I'm into how he writes and structures the narrative but I feel, like how other anons have said, that it isn't great compared to his other works. I'm planning on reading more of him but I'd say stick with Crying and pick it up if you're really liking how he writes.

>>10085727
>true
>24 months
>true

How'd you know I don't study it in school?

>>10085763
Because the books were sprawling at individual level, there was no "order" to them like courses would have.

And because of your Kant is Penguin edition, lel.

Still wanna send me that Being and Time? How is it compared to Staumbagh translation, have you read both?

>>10085773
>Still wanna send me that Being and Time? How is it compared to Staumbagh translation, have you read both?
You need to be more specific in your guesses if you want any books. And I haven't read the Stambaugh but I've heard that it wasn't as good. The only shitty thing about M+R, or not the translation so much as the actual book on my shelf with that cover, is that the type is very tiny and very faint and slightly oblongly printed onto the page.

>>10085646
You were fed from a silver spoon, having the good fortune to have both parents stay married with your father having a middleclass income.

>>10086045
haha very wrong, my parents had a terrible marriage. Father had an okay income but my family rarely saw any of that money.

>>10085847
I was just interested of that translation, I can dl it anyways but woul'dve preferred book ;;_;

>>10085646
hm, you almost know 3 languages, you're pondering some sort of heavy orthodox religion, maybe catholicism, and you prefer dogs to cats.

Here's my e-stack lads

>>10084506

in the back

>>10083444
I usually use Amazon or eBay.
There's a Book a holic here that I use, plus some antique stores as well. I also use my local parish bookstore and some garage sales for any books.

>>10063313
>>10063342
A dude posted his stack of books on a stack thread, fuck you retard.

>>10086980
>A dude posted his stack of books on a stack thread, fuck you retard.
>A dude
Sexist much?
Its (((2017)))

>>10086105
Last one is right. Not sure why I have so many bibles

Cheap, but they get the job done. The one in tatters is so far my favorite.

Cheap, but they get the job done. The one in tatters is my current favorite.

>>10083284
How's that Chinese philosophy book? It looks interesting.
>>10083447
> $5
I'm jealous. The only bookstore within walking distance charges that much a single one of those, and at least $10 for anything of respectable quality. Where do you anons find these good bookstores?

>>10062361
Where did you get NHK and how much did you pay?

>>10088504
There should be cheap bookstores around if you look long enough, either that or you have to wait until they have a sale. Pic related isn't really recent, but I didn't pay more than half a dollar for each book. It's also very worth it to check private listings, when a lady or man is about to croak and they're getting rid of all their books then you know you've struck gold. I got between 2-3 ikea bags full of books for around 80 dollars this way once, including a mint collection of Goethe's works from the 1970's.

>>10088994
By private listings you mean check local gumtree like sites daily?

>>10088999
Yeah basically. You can even flip them, this other time I got a set of books worth around 250 dollars from another old lady, again I paid around 80 dollars and that was along with a shitload of other books, like 4 small crates, some of which were fairly valuable, too.

>>10089018
Guess I need to get my ass in gear and buy a new car then. I often see good deals but they required me to drive somewhere remote and have enough space to bring them back.

>>10074811
Need Castenada, Israel Regardie, Agrippa and Mirandola

Everything from the past month or so. Have only read the wasp factory so far which was excellent. Reading make room! Make room! By harrison right now but it is not pictured.

>>10059599
What's a stack?

Is it books you have read, books you are reading currently or books that you want to read?
I am only reading one book at the moment, do I qualify?

Please respond

>>10090667
It's for recent purchases, generally, but books you plan on reading, or those you'd simply like to show off are also fine, correct me if I'm wrong.

>>10090796
Oh, cool. Too bad I pirate my books because I'm a jew.
But I've been going into this little (claustrophibically so) cozy bookshop because they have neat shit tucked away there, so maybe eventually I'll show up in these threads also.
I've been meaning to buy that one little book that was about the opinion of russians on the just begotten state of Czechoslovakia. It looked pretty interesting.

>>10090807
Most anons are poorfags so we buy our books secondhand.

>>10091125
I'm not poor but i prefer second hand books. seems such a waste to spend $9-$25 dollars on a new book that I'll only ever read once or twice. I try to get good condition used books in the $2-$6 range. Another thing is that when i read a book i create creases in the spine and I'd rather not do that with a new expensive book.

Y'all slacking this is after I traded a ton of them a couple weeks ago these are all deep deep Intellectuals That's only one bookshelf and there used to be no spaces.

Maybe you should have bought a better camera instead.

>>10083284
I really want to buy No Longer Human but it's overpriced in my country for a book that's not even 200 pages. I'll probably end up reading it digitally as I've been really interested in this book, it just sucks.

>>10062919
is this real?

>>10091766
People are posting what they're gotten recently, not all they have.

Is Machevali The Prince a great book to read to get into good literature?

>>10092289
not really
try the lit starter kit on the wiki
it has less boring books for new friends

>>10092341
Thank you anon

>>10075585
>they were all cia
Any written sources for that? Not trying to nitpick, just genuinely curious and don't want to YouTube.

>>10079500
Did the ancient Greeks give up their souls in elusiun rituals as well, anon?

is any of this literary kino worth getting lads

>>10092576
They're all good to very-good but I don't understand why you would pick up a collection of James Joyce as he only has one collection of short stories and they're always in one neat package anyway, and his other novels you should definitely pick up in their entirety instead since there's no way all of Joyce could fit in there. I especially like Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, but you should save it when you're depressed as, well, that's what the title is literally about

>>10060835
>tips fedora

>>10073871
how is dick blade runner? the fuck

>>10092713
It's just Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep marketed to people who only buy off the movie's name alone

>canned spiced rum with what I assume is 'cola'
Fucking disgusting mate
Just buy rum and cola, it's not a great drink but its not terrible either. Don't get it in a damned can.

>>10064463
Spivak
You're trying too hard anon.

>>10088504

>where do you a anons find these good bookstores.?

Maybe it's the area I'm in (Winstonot Salem, NC), but books on philosophy and politics are dirt cheap. Three of those books were in the free bin, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was literally a nickel, and everything else was pretty cheap. Fiction is still generally expensive if it's contemporary. I wanted a copy of Blood Meridian and it was priced $13 used.

>>10070193
>reading something historically relevant means you actively endorse all aspects of it

Are you really this dumb??

>>10093469
Jesus. And there's zero used book stores in Malta.

>>10093546
That's the liberal way of thinking.

>>10060292
I saw crippled america the other day at my local book store, It was too expensive sadly