/lit/ - Literature

>>10852146
>Didn’t see one in the catalogue.

For good reason, brainlet.

>>10852200
>david irving

>>10852252
David Irving was only silenced because the truth hurts (((them))). History will vindicate him.

>>10852146
neuromancer any good?

>>10852200
lots of history, i like that.

>>10852265
(((them))) being a court of law?

should get me through the year

>>10852146
>didn't see a stack thread
>better make one

kys

>>10852200
post cat

>>10852146
Here's your fucking stack: *grabs crotch*

>>10852286
I've yet to read it, but I can say both Ulysses and The Odyssey are pretty great.

Read Ulysses second

>>10852311
that's depressing. you won't read a good book all year

>>10852311
I've read The Recognitions a couple months ago.
10/10 would recommend you start with that.

>>10852286
have you read the iliad

>>10852146
I hope you get the 2nd volume of that Stalin biography as well my dude. The first one heavily focuses on the fall of the Romanovs and rise of Lenin, as any early-20th century chronological analysis of Russia naturally would, only seguing to Stalin in the last few hundred pages as he takes over the rule of "Communist" Russia. The second volume is so far (~400 pages in only) a far more cohesive study of Stalinist policy. Besides that I'd still say it's an alright read.

>>10852293
The Holocaust is the only event in human history that it's a crime to deny happened.
If that doesn't seem suspicious to you, then you are a brainlet.

>>10852200
incredibly aesthetic photo until you see the xbox

>>10852364
i have not anon, should I read it before or after the odyssey?

>>10852379
wwii changed europe forever. it may sound pedestrian to me and you but anti-semitism and fascism used to be very very serious topics. think about it. that's why those laws only exist in european countries

>>10852389
it doesn't really matter but the odyssey happens afterwards. and remember they're both basically tragicomedies written as entertainment, in the line of shakespeare and cervantes (and not virgil, dante, or milton)

>>10852412
Dante is not comedic?

>>10852286
>>guns germs steel

>>10852446
he didn't have an entertainment motive

>>10852460
what is wrong with ggs? i'd love to hear your input.

>>10852146
Lit hates stacks now. White people used to be fine with black people, but then they saw black dick. Now they hate black men.

>>10852474
It's evolutionary. Most evolutionary material is (rightly) deprecated on here.

It's kind of a movement against academia in that direction. Economics is fine, especially scientific. And history as well, but there's a reason why it is said we were created. Inside us is a blueprint for something much greater, not a result of competitive forces throughout time.

SUPER DRY

>>10852311
nice

>>10852534
Why are the big books at the top and the small ones at the bottom

>>10852691
Ah fuck, why's it done that

Are there history books about anything other than Nazis, the Soviet Union, Ancient Greece, Rome, or the US politics? Serious question.

>>10852717
Don't forget Napoleon, Mongols, and the English navy

>>10852717
Nope

>>10852717
yep

it was a good day

>>10852739
>all those $1.50 each tags
What store is that?

>>10852739
Nice haul, looks like a better selection than my local shops. Mostly just stacks and stacks of Picoult and Cussler here

>>10852718
oh of course, how could I forget
>>10852739
right on time

Rate me boyos

>>10852286
Not the OP, but I have the same paperback edition of Neuromancer that he does, and I can say it's one of my favorite books.

Forewarning that it's a little ... odd. Gibson has a strange way of writing about concepts that don't occur until a couple pages after their mentioned. Granted, if you can get through something like Ulysses you won't have any trouble with Gibson.

It's definitely considered the de facto standard for cyberpunk reading though, so if you're into the Matrix and shit, give it a shot and see if you like it. After that, read the rest of his Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer is technically the first book) and then read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and the Altered Carbon series by Richard K. Morgan. Phillip K. Dick as well, has some great cyberpunk-y books.

>>10853186
>Analysis of jewish

hmm

>>10853312
>vocabulary expander

How's the Lost World?

>>10852474
you can domesticate zebras

>>10852146
til Catholic priests are opposed by pseuds

>>10853581
>Are Numbers Real

>all this plato in the thread

bueno

>>10852146

nice dude. i've already read neuromancer but i never read count zero or mona lisa overdrive, so i am re-reading before tackling those.

Between Past & Future is good

>>10853593
That's a nice book

>>10852739
The Age of Reason has one of my all time favorite lines "I never knew I was young." Have no idea who said it or why, because the book is trash, but goddamn that phrase makes me smile

>>10852200
>Le holocaust denial man book.

Literally why? He got BTFO.

>>10853603
>there is an argument against something, therefore i have absolutely no reason to familiarize myself with it
wow, galaxybrain.png

>>10852474
GGS is a bugbear of the alt-right because it does an excellent job of demolishing the notion that white people are genetically superior to non-whites.
Much gnashing of teeth and many memes and infographics have been devoted to debunking it chez les alt-right.

>>10853595

thanks anon

got it practically unused at my library for $1

has some full-page illustrations. it has double-column type but everything's super clean and legible/readable otherwise

>>10853563
care to provide any evidence for that claim?

>>10852146
Book of Symbols is breddy good so far. You would expect it to be brainlet tier, but the essays on each symbol actually inspire a bit of meditation as you read them.

>>10853645

>>10853623
>172 pages of HC judgement text from Irving v Penguin is not enough.

>>10853651
Upper shelf loeb-ful, lower Uzdavinys and Proclus’ on Timaeus, I remember you and will take your recommendation to the bank as gold. I hope you’ve been enjoying yourself.

>>10853320
Thank you so much for the input. I normally like medieval fantasy but cyberpunk sounds super refreshing. Closest thing i've read would be Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson. I really liked the first two parts surviving the moon debris and the challenges of living in space.

>>10853645
Domestication of an animal involves breeding the animals with human friendly traits. Basically to be reliable able to domesticate any species you have to first breed them, some speices more generations than other. The problem with zebras (and horses) is that they have a long lifespan. So breeding them on that scale that is required would not be economaly viable whenin context of research.

Basically what I'm saying is that the whole hard to domesticate zebras meme stems from from people trying domesticare random samples of an unbread zebra population. (with some level of success [1])

The best research we have in the field of domestication when it comes to larger/more inteligent mamals is the Belyayev experiment where they bread foxes to dog in a span of a couble of generations. [2]


[1] https://erenow.com/common/gunsgermssteel/11.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)

>>10853728
Thanks for the well wishes, kind anon. Have some pics. Do those stars look familiar?

( hint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0BjFl-a1Y )

>>10854603

>>10854611

Got these in a library book sale for $5 last week

>>10853645
>Imagine unironically believing you can't domesticated zebras

>>10854667
>europeans domesticated Aurochs

>>10852311
>he fell for the Pynchon meme

>>10852460
Historians absolutely hate the book because it is a simplistic argument made with sweeping generalizations that ultimately is a Euro-centric jerkoff.

Books that are actually good that do Diamond's job for him are
>Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet Abu-Lughod
>Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 by Prasannan Parthasarathi
>The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz

>>10852474
Derp, see
>>10854818

>>10852286
>neuromancer any good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6kUOfSNTc

>>10854870
what are booktubers so fucking retarded. sound warning, anons.

>>10852739
>>10852749
I also want to know. Answer us!

>>10852311
Are you me I have the same stack

>>10855044
uh bro this is a mess

>>10855552
They aren't going into a blender. They're strong books, I just have a broader ground than you.

>>10854870
I only made it 6 or 7 seconds in
I always thought the jokes about youtube personalities were overblown.

I didn't think they were actually like this

>>10852398
Really (does) make you think. When my ancestors were wasting time lynching the coons, Euros were dying in passionate street fights and struggling for a mighty purposelessness that was later mindlessly destroyed by those unthinking cooncrushing kin in the later wars. Your post is edifying and benefitting us to remember the fact inside of it.

>>10853628
What a strange remark. to put it in so many words- you are misinformed

>>10852676
Might makes right. >>10852691

>>10852717
French Revolution, but the whole purpose of every one of those books is to prelude Napoleon.

Am I boring you?

>>10856270
uh bro no way jose that looks interesting

>>10852146
This is my super stack

>>10852389
I started with the Illiad and from my own experiences, its less entertaining than the Odyssey.

>>10852311
too much in such a short time. you're just completing a checklist to achieve pseud status. Unless you're over 25 and already read hundreds of works of literature.

>>10853312
>The Secret Garden

>>10852749
>>10854885

run of the mill american thrift store lads

got these from the 'deluxe' $2 section...

>>10856754
the Indigo books near me was selling the KJV Bible for $16, went down to the nearby used book store and they wanted $20 for their copy, and it wasn't even hardcover. It was that sorta-flimsy hardcover, not sure what its called.

Went to another used book store today and got a hardcover KJV Bible, a hardcover Sense & Sensibility, pkb Mansfield, and a coffee table book of 100 Saints all for $8.

used prices are weird.

i found a first edition for $8 today, feels good man

>>10857198
my picture wasn't rotated like that, i don't know why it posted sideways

>>10857198
Hard cover for 8? Nice.

What I’ve read this year so far
Go on, try and make me feel bad about it

>>10857208
>phone poster newfriend doesn’t understand

>>10859867
>coelho
why dude why

>>10859879
A friend recommended it. It was a cute story but I’m glad it was short

The books beside my bed.

>>10860131
Are you 22-23? Not trying to be mean or anything, it's just I had a very similar stack at that age

>>10856275
end this gimmick immediately

>>10861469
damn you are a fucking brainlet

>>10860131
Favorite trippy drug books?

Not asking for any literary growth but I'll eventually be in the mood to read some book like that eventually and I'll most likely default to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>>10853628
>>10852474
https://www.livinganthropologically.com/archaeology/guns-germs-and-steel-jared-diamond/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2bv2yf/guns_germs_and_steel_chapter_3_collision_at/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2cfhon/guns_germs_and_steel_chapter_11_lethal_gift_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/6owzax/bad_history_of_writing_guns_germs_and_steel_chp/

>>10856270
>Plato on Plato
Why

>>10861648
Welcome to /lit/ my friend :) You're going to do well here.

>>10861517
uh bro what you want some bro huh you wanna dance bro

>>10861593
must.....not..take................BAIT

>>10861603
not him but

Have you read
>Illuminatus!

um, yeah, Fear and Loathing really took this category for all time. HST may have been a degenerate pedo scum fucker, but that asshole could write some goddam prose

>>10861648
Have you read the Secret History? is it any good? what is it even about man

>>10861775
based

>>10856270
intellectual boner=present

>>10861929
No, it sounds kind of interesting but from the description that I read I wouldn't put it at any high priority. I'm not a huge series guy either.

>>10861936
No, but it sounds like Dead Poet Society except the students are edgier.

>>10862143
that sounds comfy desu

>>10862156
word. if anything was lacking from DPS (was it even a book lol?) it was that the students were too in line. maybe it was the age

Hey guys! Check out my most recent book haul! XD

>>10862132
>>10862132
OK then, read
>Promethus rising
or just pick up the nearest Gurdjeff. or don't. it's your mind.

Do you want to read about others' drug experiences, or are you a space cadet yourself?
Burroughs
Castaneda

>>10852534
How is Plato and the Older Academy? Is it worth it as a companion if I have the Complete Works?

>>10862186
One of my favorite aspects of reading is seeing different perceptions of reality, so that's why drugs and others' experiences interest me. I'm not so much of a druggie myself because I fear addiction (how I feel) and lack of access (the reality of my situation).

>>10862304
Carlos Castaneda might be a good start for you. Start with The Teachings of Don Juan

>>10862466
On my list. thanks anon

>>10862519
just be careful

>>10862292
bump. Also in the same situation and wondering this as well.

I got a Maude translation of War and Peace and the Modern Library Proust set for my birthday.

>>10861648
Very nice collection. Is verbal self defence worth going through?

>>10860131
You read what you like, respect. Though none of your books piques my interest. keep on reading

>>10859867
-neitzshe :)
-orwell :D
-peterson D:

>>10852146
I dont have "stacks" i take my library on my phone. Bitchtits.

>>10852311
>year
Half a year at most, surely?

>>10863830
Nobody cares

Fuck me, There seems to be no used bookstore on Long Island. I always end up having to buy new.

>>10863948
Ur mom doesnt care m8

>>10861648
What is that version of the Odyssey? It looks tiny

>>10852146
I like how Jung has become a supposed expert on spirituality even though he couldn't stop cheating on his wife.

>>10852311
>comes to lit once

Too lazy to take a picture

>The Dialogues of Plato
>Hamlet
>The Fountains of Paradise
>The Sun Also Rises
>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
>The Idiot
>Your Brain on Porn
>Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control
>The Nicomachean Ethics

>>10864051
Did I get the "wrong" version or something?

>>10863768
Yes, it's straightforward and informative. Comes with exercises and situations. Got it for a dollar soooo

>>10864226
The Fagles translation (the only good one) is 700 pages.

>>10864244
Oh, I'll just start with this one then. First time reading the greeks

Highly recommend The Righteous Mind

>>10864277

>>10864277
fuckkk, I forgot to check out the non-fiction shelf when I went to get books

>>10864054
Explain how this Chad Daddy is supposed to keep those temptress Aphrodites off himself

>>10864284
The abridged Gulag is highly underwhelming my guy, it only made me want more.

>>10864248
But what is that version?

>>10864288
Yeah I've taken a break from fiction recently. It made me feel too disconnected with present day goings-on in the world

>>10864305
Fair enough, I just figured that I only have so much time and many other books to consume that I could glean the necessary data points from the abridged ish and still get the point. What crucial bits does the full version have that the abridged omits? Trying to understand if I'm going to get a patchy incomplete picture or a low resolution full picture—I'm okay with the latter

>>10864305
There are like 4 different versions on Amazon, that's the cheapest one at $8. The others are the firs two parts, with book one costing $40 and some version called "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956"

>>10864078
>Your brain on porn

Been meaning to read a neuroscientific look into pornography. Do you know if that's the most acclaimed book on the subject, or if there are more comprehensive/in-depth volumes out there? A quick search on Amazon didn't provide much

>>10864284
>Solzhenitsyn
Nice, I enjoyed One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Gonna check this out too.

>>10864054
Don't you know that no great preacher practices their preaching a religiously? Pick any great leader, prophet, or thinker and I'll show you a felonious philanderer every time. JFK, MLK, Einstein, Joel Osteen, Osho, Mother Teresa (a right cunt she was), any of them. A teacher's teachings derive not from their actions but their thinking. Hypocrisy is the bedrock of good parenting. Indulgence in human pleasures escapes no man—especially if they hold power or prominence. You try shooing off bevies of bitches when you're Jung, dumb, and full of cum.

Really, molt your pedestrian morality already and embrace the way of High-T.

>>10864054 #
Don't you know that no great preacher practices their preachings religiously? Pick any great leader, prophet, or thinker and I'll show you a felonious philanderer every time. JFK, MLK, Einstein, Joel Osteen, Osho, Mother Teresa (a right cunt she was), any of them. A teacher's teachings derive not from their actions but their thinking. Hypocrisy is the bedrock of good parenting. Indulgence in human pleasures escapes no man—especially if they hold power or prominence. You try shooing off bevies of bitches when you're Jung, dumb, and full of cum.

Really, molt your pedestrian morality already and embrace the way of High-T.

>>10860131
Do you really keep them precariously towered like that? It could fall any time, dammit! Come on man! Have some consideration for all that's right and decent in the world and buy bookends so that you can place them perpendicularly to the earth's surface rather than precariously parallel. You're mad on at least eleven levels. Godspeeds.

>>10864315

>>10860131
That crease on the Shirer book. That's the only reason I don't like thick paperbacks, I'm afraid they'll tear in the middle of reading them one day.

>>10852146
Why do i feel that every stack posted on this kind of threads is integrated by the first books the poster will (n)ever read?

>>10864401
>homo
XD

>>10864407
define cultural marxism

>>10864284
>abridged

why would you do this

>>10865169
Spacetime is money.

>>10856270
>Great Thinkers
>Russell

>>10852146

Getting quite a big stack over the week, how's my list?

The Savage Detectives-Bolano
Roadside Picnic-Arkadies
The Face of Another-Kobo Abe
The World Goes On-Krasznahorkai
The Last Wolf & Herman-Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Frankenstein In Baghdad-Ahmed Saadawai
The Nix-Nathan Hill
Rashomon and Other Stories-Akutagawa

>>10867362
Which is more reliable: a Pepsi chairperson’s opinion of Coke’s quality or a Christfag’s opinion of Russel’s quality? Part B: have you ever met a non-Christfag that has read history of western Philosophy and not thought it to be a monumental accomplishment? Part C: you, Christfag, I see you replying to this LARPing as a non-christfag, stop, Jesus is watching.

Should be able to get through this by year’s end in theory, probably will deviate a lot though.

>>10868926
before reading thinking fast and slow you should check out the undoing project by Michael Lewis

>>10859867
>Peterson
Yikes.

>>10860131
420 broooooo

>>10852384
happy?

>>10856729
>14 books in a year is too much
looks like we have ourselves a pleb here, boys

>>10856729
>too much
Are you one of those book-a-month types or do you sometimes actually have ambition in your life?

>>10869132
Picked these up in the last month or so.

>>10869173
(didn't mean to reply to anyone in particular)

>>10859867
Nice picks my dude, but warning i'm warning you about the alchemist.

>>10852146
Cringe

>>10856754
Weird. I've never been to a thrift store that didn't sell books by the pound.

>>10869448
the...ezra pound?

>>10868616
st augustines opinion who is a """christfag""" is way more reliable than russels

>>10854603
I assumed this was sort of rhetorical, but the thread is still here three days later, so i’m’a take a stab at it: mandarin symbol for big which combines the symbol for man and the symbol for one. It would be cross-cultural, but what are symbols if not cross-cultural? Or I’ll keep listening to that song and see if I can reach an answer.

Rate

>>10871523
>Hwæt, my name is Adamwulfáz.
>I am a 22 year American Karloz (a freeman for all you Gauls). I write with runes on my tablet, and spend my days praying to Deiwoz and reading superior germanic poetry.