/lit/ - Literature

I want to read House of Broken Angels. Looks comfy.

Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes
of Signs and the Philosophy
of Representation

Place, Ecology
and the Sacred:
The Moral Geography of
Sustainable Communities

What does /lit/ think of my stack? Spent two days downloading and formatting my entire physical library and things I want to read, and I still have space for thousands of more books.

>thousands of books in one hand
>all my commentary and bookmarks backed up to the cloud
>easy to switch between and search books for research
>integrated on- and offline dictionaries and encyclopedias with sound for reference
>can adjust brightness, text size, font, etc.
>no stains, no dogeared pages, and no paper cuts
>no need to buy shelves and take up space
>don't have to carry around a bag or hold on to a book in public
>not being bothered when reading or being self-conscious of presentation since people think I'm just dicking around on my phone

>>10982031
But how is anyone else going to know what you're reading?

>>10982050
Here's the cool part. They don't have to, and because they can't know what I'm reading—well, what I'm even doing on my phone—I can maintain some privacy, reduce self-consciousness, and invest myself more fully in what I'm reading. Pretty neat stuff, anon.

>>10982031
Have fun coming here instead of reading

>>10982031
>not having access to 98% of scholarship on the Greeks
Why even read?

>>10982077
Only come here before bed. Spent the entire day reading. Got a third of the way through The Magic Mountain and did some supplementary research on Mann. On the same device. Feels good, anon.

>>10982098
Do your eyes hurt?

>>10982090
Much of the research is scanned and can be downloaded if you're part of the right communities.

But different strokes, anon. Right now I'm working through a few general recommendations from a friend. That's my reason to read.

>>10982108
Not anymore than they did when reading paper books. I rest my eyes every 30 - 60 min. no matter what I'm reading, so eye strain isn't a big deal.

>>10981836
Yeah I heard it was a super delicious book.

>>10982031
>tfw I read both physical and digital books without following any logic
get on my level plebs

>non-digital fags don't know about inverted colors

>haven't read anything in months
>the last things you remember reading are Nip Isekai shit and David Irving
HELP

>>10982031
>My eyes after an hour

Sorry but I think it’s not for everybody just newfags

>>10982387
Turn down the brightness, extend your arms, and increase font size if you need to. Also take regular breaks. You can do it, anon.

>>10981810
looks like you basically do whatever the New York Times Books Review tells you...

Have you read any of those books yet? how are house of broken angels and circe?

>>10982050
lol

>>10982260
How do Emerson and Walden fit in here?
Just curious I don't know anything about them except the openers of their wiki articles now.

>>10981810

I've seen piles of horseshit with more literary worth.

>>10982031
>not being bothered when reading or being self-conscious of presentation since people think I'm just dicking around on my phone
Pathetic

>>10982098
>Spent the entire day reading.
Useless NEET steals books because he can't afford to pay for them

got these all for $10 at a library sale

>>10984442
i am jealous

>>10984442
$10 is a pretty bad deal for a pile of worthless trash. I expected there'd be at least one book worth reading in that pile, but nope!

What's the point of these stack threads anyway? Do you show your most recent purchases or do you show a selected stack of your best books? I already shelved my recent purchases so if I'm gonna have to take em down for a photo it best be werf it.

>>10981810
>john butman
>mark hymen

I noticed all those books are published by Little Brown. Was there a sale on or something?

>>10985923
Recent purchases and to-be-reads in general pretty much.

>>10985975
Alright, these are my most recent (to arrive, got more coming), as well as being probably my nicest looking as I’ve just become serious about collecting this year. Can you believe I bought all these with Australian welfare money? Instead of buying food or anything I spent all my payment immediately on books then deal with the consequences of having no money for the rest of the fortnight.

Currently reading Artorius Rex (Latin for Arthur the king), the green book is Geoffrey on Monmouth’s history of the kings of Britain from the 12th century and 2 books from Welsh historians Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett on King Arthur and dark age Britain. The 4 volume set innabox is obviously Plutarchs Lives from the folio society.

Can you imagine what it feels like to be a real aristocrat like myself and to come here and look about stacks of paperbacks by hipster authors being posted here by the STD infected scum froth that makes up this ‘community’?

Give me your virgin daughters and die pls.

>>10986021
Cuck phone turns my pics sideways even though they’re not in the gallery, OF COURSE!

Here’s the faces of the nicest ones for all those into book porn. Go check out reamce channel on YouTube btw if you love quality book porn.

>>10986030
Cuck phone just crashed after typing out a detailed summary of this book so I’m just gonna rapid post out the 2 pics they describe themselves anyhow.

>>10986040

>>10986021
>>10986030
>>10986040
>>10986043
That was a struggle. Phone crashed 3-4 times but I got there in the end.

While I was posting all that it made me wonder why book porn threads aren't more common here. Is it because no one here has nice books? Do you only collect piles you got for $10 that otherwise were headed for the dump? Are you all under 6' tall and weak af?

I really don't understand why all this is so. Once again, I'm a fucking NEET on welfare and I'm collecting all these nice things that are the best reads in the world that I want to pass down through my family and yet this entire board has nothing for me, NOTHING!

I get my next fortnightly payment in 12 hours and am buying a 5 art book collection for about $415 including delivery ($55 from USA to Aus), and will thus leave be broke for the next two weeks but It'll be worth it when I show you plebs just what these books are and how rare and collectable they are. Not even to mention the absolute beauty! Art books and photography books are so underrated. I had all these pictures online already and wasn't sure if having a book of them was a good idea but I got one recently and its so much better than than on screen. Its like comparing a pdf to a physical book. Or even a jpg to an actual framed piece of art on the wall. I can sit for an hour + just staring are my beautiful collections and escape this degenerate world.

pic is a book I bought a month ago and already showed off here when it arrived. Fucking beautiful, isn't it? 16th century British work of art in a brand new limited edition 2 volume box set. BABY BABY WONT YOU PUT THIS BURKA ON? YOU BEEN LIVIN' YOUR LIFE LIKE A THOT FOR FAR TO LONG!

>>10986021
Rotated for justice.

>>10986066
>no femanons beg for your contact
>they dont even notice how virtuous you are

This is why I must rape.

>>10986059
Say hi to the goldfishes waiting their turn on the books

>>10986249
You mean silverfish?

I've seen these fuckers crawling around before on the floor in my garage but not on my books. I check over my books every few months anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajLlpac9TSg

What I want is a French maid with a fleather duster to keep my nice things clean and in good condition. WHo here a grill and wants to wear french maid lingerie and be my loyal servant?

I’m gonna finish up book IV of Arithmetica, hopefully get a few pages farther in the ridiculously complex mathematical analysis of the appendix of Pareto’s Manual, and also read the entirety of book Beta by Aristotle

>>10986059
But you'll never have a family to pass it on to, anon...

>>10983381
I find that that transcendentalism has a lot of parallels with zen Buddhism. Of course they are very different, but provides sort of a western insight to learning eastern concepts, which generally don't seem to resonate as easily as westerners who spend their whole lives learning to think by reason and logic

fuck these stack threads.

there are like 10 in the catalogue at any given time. lit has fallen. we are no better than booktubers that make bookhaul vids

>>10982031
>not being bothered when reading or being self-conscious of presentation since people think I'm just dicking around on my phone
Why are people self-consious to read in public? I never got this meme. No one gives a shit if your reading.

>>10983284
I also want to know how circe is. Id like to read it but didn't get it yet.

>>10986380
Nice.

>>10981810
How the fuck is someone supposed to read all that in a day?

>>10987156
Improve your reading speed

>>10986380
Are you planning to read the entirety of summa?

t. tried to read summa of the summa but quit

fabulous

>>10986059

I bet you're a fat neckbeard.

>>10987367
nope. pic related
>>10986208

Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus rising
Kaarlo Forsman: mythology of greeks and romans
Elias Lönnrot: Old kalevala
Kaarle Krohn: Finnish religion of poems

>>10981810
thin, i've ran out of books that really intrigue me

i'll be ordering new ones soon though, these are in my basket right now:
>Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
>William Shakespeare - Hamlet
>William Shakespeare - Macbeth (both Oxford editions)
>Gene Wolfe - Shadow & Claw
>Charlotte Bronte - Vilette

any opinions/recommendations?

>>10987431
>Elias Lönnrot: Old kalevala
>Kaarle Krohn: Finnish religion of poems
My man, that's the real good shit. Out of curiosity, you a Finn by any chance?
I'm a Finn, yet I have never read the Old Kalevala myself, have read the New one several times. I probably should read the Old one at least once.

>>10987549
Yea I'm a finn.

>>10981810
It looks like this. I figure this way I can show you what I'm not gonna read without actually having to pay for it. How'd I do?

>>10987631
It's great, are you a cosmology student ?

>>10987638
yeh i get my license to cut hair in three weeks

>>10987651
wow. how much did that cost you

>>10987656
too much for what it pays brother ain't it the truth tho

>>10987536
pls respond

>>10987164
Lemme guess, you're a cop?

>>10987290
Shouldn't you take the time to digest and think out what you just read?

If all you're doing is going through books as fast and as much as you can, you won't retain anything worthwhile.

>>10988183
You would think that, brainlet.

Little did you know, what really gets your noggin joggin and increases the IQ is boosting those stat numbers on goodreads

t. 100 books a year masterrace

>>10982484
>not reading the entire book in one sitting
this is why paper books will always win

>>10987536
I recommend Arthur Machen if you like Clark Ashton Smith.

>>10988357
thanks
i do intend to read Machen and Blackwood too eventually but i haven't read any of them except Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith intrigues me the most right now

These are my current books
Am i lit enough?

>>10989098
si

>>10989098
Is that Grey's Anatomy?

Holy fuck dude, props.

My Book Depository order came in, yaaaaaayyy

>>10989600
checked
please off yourself

>>10989600
Did you buy that Peterson novel just to shitpost?

>>10989625
No, I'm curious to read it.

>>10982031
enjoy your myopia fucking retard

>>10989876
What made you opt for a fancy Bible?

>>10985923
bait

>>10989935

It was on sale and it looked nice. I don't usually care about hardcover or ornateness for a book, since I try to get stuff second hand (lots of great stuff at local Goodwills/thrift stores). Generally my order of operations for a new book is:

1. Translation (if relevant)
2. Price
3. Margins (for notes)

But a gold-leaf illustrated Bible of that size, hardcover, for $20? I'll pay that. I'm not a devout Christian myself, but I respect my Catholic heritage. It just seemed right to me.

>>10990079
That Bible is one of the few fancy-pants hardback editions of that variety that actually look any good.

>>10986777

I found the same thing reading Emerson. Eastern feel to a lot of his sentiments, especially the individual in nature and the concept of the over-soul. Also reminds me of the Stoic logos.

>>10990091

100% agree. The Art of War doesn't look too bad and I think maybe the Sherlock Holmes one struck me as classy, but most of them are god-awful.

>>10986380
wow a literal stack of antiquated trash and then Wittgenstein
1/10

>>10987631
>aquinas and merleau-ponty in the same stack
dont kid yourself anon. youre not impressing anyone.

>>10989876
This is the only good stack in this thread.

>>10990122

>complimented on /lit/

This is the happiest moment of my life. If only it was for my own writing.

Wow I can’t believe this post is still going!

>>10989600
how the hell is that shakespeare so small?

>>10982193
you know that burns out your ink in like 1 year right?

>>10981810
Nice trap hands. Now post feet, sxc.

>>10990728
>plays and sonnets take up a lot of space
Large hardbacks like that can fit a lot of text on one page, and I bet they cut out a lot of annotations and interpretations (which I get in my single play books).

>>10990116
why's that? you suppose their investigations conflict? or am I just too intelligent for you?

>>10985923
it's like those manchild soyboys with giant collections of video games they never play because theyre "Gaymers". those are the sub 120 iq soyboys. the sub 130 iq soyboys collect books instead, but exhibit the same characteristics.

>never play game, never read book
>take photo for social media to earn "social credit"
>have strong opinions on minute irrelevant things
>completely insular world view, couldn't tell you anything outside of their ghetto
>devote all disposable income into their collecting hobby
>miserable, depressed, on medication, suicidal thoughts
>always dreaming of making a game, always dreaming of writing a book
>procrastinators never do anything, dead end jobs
>terrible relationship with parents, rarely talk
>no children
>facial hair for males, colored hair for females
>brush teeth less than once a day, poor hygiene, poor nutrition, disgusting personal habits


the point of these threads is to gain acceptance from their social peers, other clones of themselves. it's like hot girls posting their butts on instagram, and uglier girls commenting "wow ur so pretty!" hoping for a comment on their slightly worse butt pictures.

>>10990750
my projection-o-meter just blew up

>>10989876
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBQw63gX1Q

THICC BIBLE

>>10990728
Most complete works of Shakespeare aren't going to be much bigger than his at least by judging with his bible for scale.

>the catcher in the rye
>the gambler
>stoner
>east of eden
>the red pony & the pearl

>>10986380
Nice stuff my man.

>>10991020
Why read english works in translation if you know english?

>>10990736
I don't use epaper I use OLED

>>10991041
Because I'm not the only one reading literature here

>>10990728
Got the smallest edition I could find without onionskin paper. Dense but clear text, not too much in the way of commentary. I do like the footnotes, but I also don't want to have to devote nine thousand pages' worth of shelf space to Shakespeare if I can avoid it.

>>10987536
>>Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Nice choice!

>>10988357
>I recommend Arthur Machen if you like Clark Ashton Smith.
Seconded.

>>10986297
I can be a "grill" and I have experience dressing as a French maid. If you can get past the benis, sure, I'd clean your place, anon.

>tfw born without a womb and cannot be a dutiful mother and housewife

>>10989635
That's what the library is for.

>>10989876
Mommy approves.

>>10990750
Preach, anon. Collecting is a euphemism for hoarding, that's what I always say.

Did everyman's library just not put ribbons on their books in 2004?

>>10989876
How's that bible? Was thinking of picking up that version of the Doré engravings when I get through my Greek books.

>>10991268
Post boipucci

>>10989876
How's that bible? Was thinking of picking up that version for the Doré engravings when I get through my Greek books.

>>10991504
Lewd. This a SFW board, a place of culture and learning. If you want my B O I P U C C I you'll need to butter me up, anon. Where's my poetry?

What should I read next? Just finished my yearly re-reading of the Lord of the Rings.

>>10991791
The inheritance of Rome! Such an amazing book. It's also the text in the Open Yale Course for the Early Middle Ages. I'm going to re-read it sometime, maybe even buy a copy, because there's a lot to digest.

Finished re-reading The Odyssey and nearly done of my re-read of Bely's Petersburg. Absolutely love Bely's descriptions, there's something very poignant about them. Anyway no photo but here's my current stack:
Paris Peasant-Louis Aragon
Bakemonogatari part two-Nisio Isin
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Book Two-Yoshiki Tanaka
The Sun King-Nancy Mittford
Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson

>>10991791

I had a great time reading Moby Dick last summer. Go for that.

>>10991791
Moby Dick, personally

>>10992278
**Lmao!! Pleb definitely absolutely surely positively detected**

>>10992343
imma get you bitch

>>10991285
>collecting is hoarding

No, it isn't, not even close.

>>10988314

advice on what to read first pls

>>10992522
Precalculus

>>10991921
Yeah Wickham is great! Ive read it twice. thinking about reading his Framing the Early Middle Ages although Ive read it deals with economics a lot and I dont know too much about that.

>>10982260
I had a copy of that Emerson book in HS. My group of friends would praise it for its magic wisdom. We would ask it questions and flip to a random page. It always gave something that could be interpreted as advise.

>>10992522
>bulgakov

Not featured (sits at bedside table; it's my before bed book): Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

>>10993655

What Dialogues?

>>10993667
Read Meno, Ion, and Euthyphro prior. Next on list is Apology, then Crito, then Phaedo.

>>10993695
I think Apology is pretty weak, Crito is short but sweet I guess, Phaedo is great of course though

>>10993770

I really enjoyed Meno, personally. The question of whether an individual can merely be taught to be good is really important. Kept thinking back to that reading Jung, when he was talking about the importance of firsthand meaningful experience in cultivating a healthy spiritual outlook.

>>10993797
Meno has been my favorite so far, yeah.
But virtue is a topic of interest to me.

>>10993695
They aren't in order of preference, just in order of the system I am following.

>>10993797
Meno has been my favorite so far, yeah.
But virtue is a topic of interest to me.

>>10993770
They aren't in order of preference, just in order of the system I am following.

>>10992689
Twice? Damn, I better catch up, senpai :p

>>10991791
>Hardcover Edith Hamilton
Very nice. Is Mists of Avalon as good as The Once and Future King? It's been on my to-read list for a while now.

>>10994730

I read both of them back to back in high school and remember liking both of them.

I re-read The Once and Future King about four months ago at the age of 28 and it's now one of my favorite novels. I plan on re-reading Mists at some point. If I recall it correctly, it was a "feminist" interpretation of Arthurian legend in the vein of "this is the story as imagined from the perspectives of prominent women from within the legend" and was still highly enjoyable because it aimed to tell a good story foremost. It wasn't a contemporary "feminist" adaptation wherein all the men are morons and the women are superior.

>>10986059
Is this pasta?
I haven't seen it yet

>>10993655
Should I get The Story of a Soul? Have you read any other good biographies of the saints?

R8 don't h8

Laff at me

I don’t read but y’all can rate my girlfriends stack

>>10995595
Her stack is really sexy and juicy.

>>10995445
>Lattimore translation
No one will laugh at such good taste

>>10981810
Currently reading The Nix, each of the textbooks, and Notebooks. Feel free to ask me about them. Recs for where to go after that?

>>10996040
"We"! Hooray!

Haven't read that Zweig.

>>10995411
anyong haseyo

>>10996040
How's the Nix?

>>10996051
It's his memoir, I'm keen to sink into it

>>10996056
It's not bad, though I'm only some 200 pages into it. Some parts come off as him wishing he was DFW though, and sometimes he just rambles about video games and it starts to feel like Ready Player One or something. Besides that, relatively decent (as far as contemporary fiction goes)

>>10995411
nice

>>10995595
I recognize the shelf with three copies of Memerson.

>>10986059
Samefag here. The 5 art book collection didnt materialize because one of the books in the collection, the best one, had just been sold because the seller was also selling each book individually but for higher prices.

So instead I bought The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (8 volumes) by the Folio Society.

Also Chronicles of the Dark Ages 3 volume set: The Coming Of The Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Lore And Learning, The Fall Of The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. Also by Folio Society.

Total 11 high quality history books for $300 Australian. Glad the 5 art photography books feel through now because they wouldnt costed me $100 more just for some nice pictures (by David Hamilton).

Once I read these I'll do book reviews on youtube and maybe even some jimmy rustling history to troll everyone from people who believe cuck history to the German worshipping Alt Right circle jerkers. Eye'm too big brained for them all and am researching ancient British history from the oldest sources themselves to put together a far more inspiring version just like Adolf wanted in Mein Kampf.

>>10987536
>Doesn't've the complete collection of Shakespeare's works

If you want to discover more great books you don't know of yet, go on youtube and watch different book collection videos and book reviews untill you find a youtuber who has similar tastes as you. I've found out about so many great books that way I feel ashamed how small minded I was last year thinking I had obtained all the books I'm interested in.

I recommend Reamce on youtube as a start. Look through his book collection updates playlist and singular book reviews.

>>10996235
>book VI placed out of order
RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>10983699
Nope. Employed teacher who can afford but doesn't choose to pay for books because I'd rather spend it on live music, though I envy the NEET life.

>>10986948
I'm personally don't care, but I know some who make a big deal out of it, so I threw it in. I know I was when I was younger and really did care.

>>10989896
No problem, anon. Currently don't have it, but if it were to develop, well, I've heard about glasses. Apparently they're stylish and make myopia a non-issue. Strange, huh?

>>10995445
Nice

>>10996251
i considered getting a complete edition but decided it would just be cumbersome to read

as for booktubers, thanks for the advice but i don't think i'll take it, i'm not that desperate for finding new things to read
i have a respectably sized list of things i want

>>10990750
Kek. I have been spending all my money on books recently but thats because I keep finding out about greater and greater works the more I get into researching and hunting for good editions and prices.

I had never even heard of Ivanhoe before today and now that's another classic must read on my list.

>>10991516
I'd butter you up (literally) and plough you on the kitchen counter.

>>10991488
>14/88 digits
Hail Hitler, brother. But anyone who buys from everyman's library is a low energy degenerate. Their edition of The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire doesn't even have the illustrations. I dont think any of their books do. Fucking disgusting. They're literally selling cheap reprints of books in the public domain with bland covers.

A book case should be a work of art. You should want to stand before it and look in awe for hours day dreaming about the epics you've read over the years. Visitors will be mesmerised, if they have a mind to take in what they're seeing. If they just glance and keep moving or talking etc then you know you have a degenerate brainlet on your hands you must get rid of at once.

>>10995411
ㅋㅋㅋ

I seriously hope you all read the Greeks before purchasing anything else.

>>10995595
>two copies of TBK

For what purpose?

>>10995096
Thanks for thinking my shitpost is worthy of copy pasting :3

>>10996254
Ha, I didn't notice that when I bought it. That was just the stock photo from the seller. Books wont arrive till late next week.

I'll make sure they're put in order when they're here. I'm autistic when it comes to keeping things in order. Pic related.

>>10996258
>Employed teacher who can afford but doesn't choose to pay for books because I'd rather spend it on live music

Glad to know the plastic mounded brains of our youth are in such wise hands to choose to piss away money on short term gratification rather than invest in knowledge... You're a women, aren't you? Sad, twisted world.

>>10996343
aesthetic as heck, nice

i see you bought that leatherbound 150 dollar edition of John Dee's conversations with spirits, how is it? worth all that money?

>>10996355
molded*

>>10996360
*notices 4chan filename*
it appears i have been rused, i retract my compliment

>>10981810
20 copies of the Death of Ivan Ilyich
which one do I read first

>>10996360
Yes, so glad I bought it before they're gone. I got #3 of the 1,500 printed as shown here >>10986059

I wanted to look into John Dee since early 2014 but got distracted and forgot about it. Only remembered recently after hearing Jason Louv and Terrence McKenna talk about Dee and went online as saw that beautiful but pricey piece. Wasn't sure if I should buy it or not but, as if by fate, that very week someone on youtube made a complete review of the book in detail. Sold me on buying it and glad I did.

Parts of it are in untraslated Latin though, as originally written by Dee himself, so you either have to learn Latin or do what I did and type those parts out into google translate.

Go watch the complete book review here. shows you everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6GnnVBidw

>>10996377
I saved the pic to my computer from here after posting it on my phone, which I took the pic with, nigger.

>>10996377
>>10996404
If you want more proof you can see the books I posted here >>10986066 are also in the collection but the original sideways pic has the phone file name while the rotated has the 4chan file name because after posting the pic from my phone I rotated it from my computer.

I don't need to lie about my greatness. Honesty in itself has made me this way to begin with.

>>10996355
>>10996371
Not a woman. I invest in knowledge through time and effort. I use money to support smaller musical groups and projects, especially experimental acts in whom I'm personally invested or whose efforts I find worthwhile. I teach, read, support live music, and occasionally cook. Those don't conflict.

>>10995595
>"Humans" of New York

>>10996404
>>10996413
s-sorry senpai
you can still take the compliment if you want to, i give it back
>>10996396
cool, thanks
i'm a poorfag so i probably won't be able to buy it myself unfortunately, wish i could
in a few months i should have some money to spend, i hope there will still be some copies left then

btw thanks for the photos of cute girls, saved to my folder of guaranteed success OP pictures

>>10996416
>especially experimental acts in whom I'm personally invested

Oh God, you're a Jew who funds modern degenerate art.

>>10996421
Thy're photographs from David Hamilton. That art book at the bottom by itself in my collection pic called La Danse is one of his focusing on the beauty of ballerina's.

A huge collection was put into a torrent, here.

http://en.btbit.org/list/david%20hamilton.html

>>10996422
You're cute.
>Oh God
>Jew
>modern
I'll give you that.
>degenerate
lol

Protestant American background. Fell in love with sound design and music theory when I was a teenager. Graduated university; moved to Tokyo, the best city for experimental music; and started exploring the scenes. Still going strong. I read on average four to six hours a day, study Japanese, and enjoy a childhood passion that's been with me for over a decade. Life is good, anon.

>>10995384
It's the only one I've read so far and I'm only about 30% through it. I do like her a lot, though.

"The Golden Legend" is a pretty big one (not an autobiography though) if you're into saints.

>>10996437
>Protestant American
>Graduated university; moved to Tokyo
>I read on average four to six hours a day

DEGENERATE, NEW YORK VERMIN!

>>10996456
:) Below the Mason-Dixon, chief. Didn't meet a Jew until I was 20.

>>10996464
Now you're a catlady with a sexual history documented only by your STD medication.

Still have to finish a couple on my digital stack before I get to them tho

>>10996471
We already addressed gender, but I like where you're going. Allergic to cats, though, and my dick is clean. You'll get there eventually. Don't give up, bud!

>>10996487
Some big boy books, nice. What are you finishing up digitally?

>>10995595
this has to be a deliberate attempt to piss people off

>>10996530
Actually impresses me that anon got himself an East Aryan gf.

>>10996513
Dispatches from the Weimar Republic and Modern Times. I like to go a chapter a day in MT but progress is really slow that way. what's your stack, anon?

>>10996513
I'm the anon who wrote the smartphone post above. Current stack (to read) is The Magic Mountain, Oblomov, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and Nadja. A friend recommended his favorite novels, and I'd rather read through those until I eventually have to address his recommendations of Jurassic Park, Einstein's Dreams, and the 2001/2010 Odysseys. Seems like you're into nonfiction pretty heavily. Why lead you to picking up the Dialogues?

>>10996343
I remember your posts. You're really just autistic about everything

>>10996617
rude

>>10996487
Bright man...

Local used bookstore haul. First chapter of David Copperfield was really great. Plan on reading Lattimore Iliad before Pope.

>>10996617
By autistic you mean intense, focused, mastery. Ordered this yesterday. Easton Press doesnt ship to Australia so I had to find a copy on ebay and the fucking postage costed twice as much as the book. Not sure whats going on there as books from Britain and France cost half as much to ship.

Look forward to reading it and love the cover which is why I had to have this edition. British lion is my spirit animal.

>>10996580
i was reading The Open Society and its Enemies where he talks a lot about the Republic and the Statesman. Awesome book. Magic Mountain actually looks pretty cool at a glance, don't know why but it reminded me of Simplicius Simplicissimus

>>10991223
If you want ever more, afterwards, then I recommend looking Robert Aickman.

>>10991516
Not him but I write poetry in my mother language, does it count? I just want to make you feel good and contemplate that femenine penis.

>>10990750
>spending money on things you enjoy

>>10996371
ha bro it’s funny how you fixed the molded thing but not the “women” thing

This post is still alive?

>>10988314
Reader Boy Tell 'Em!!!!

>>10993655

>vagina demon spotted

Yuck.

>>10995595

>chink
>investing in real estate

Pottery.

Memes aside though that's rather impressive for a young girl. She seems to be relatively high IQ, take good care of her and breed her like a prized sow anon.

>>10996386
spoiler: he dies

This is most of the shit i finished in 2017 and early 2018, currently reading the top 2 plus a reader on Guenon.

The 100% indecipherable red book is the history of the USSR.

>>10982031
>battery dies
oops!