/lit/ - Literature

>another whitehead shilling post
Go back to discord, tranny.

either you've just bought all of those books and are showing off your recent purchases, in which case that seems like an awful lot of books to get all at once given that it'd take you months to get through them all, or you're proudly showing off all the books you own, in which case that's a kind of small and extremely weird collection and you should get a bookshelf, or you just chose those particular books to post to try and either troll or impress anonymous people on /lit/, in which case oh no/good job

>>12438665
looks like you got all the memes :^)

>>12438665
5/10

Both wordsworth editions are not only crappy editions, but could be read online for free.

>borges
>perec
>bernhard
>sebald
>lautreamont
>baudrillard
based and redpilled fren

>>12438665
wow, look at all those books you'll never read

>letting a 4chan board dictate your personal tastes

>corrected edition
bin that trash

>>12438721
I read online things 30% of the time i prefer physical books when i read online too long i start straining my eyes

>>12438665
>A Terrible beauty is born

>>12438797
>i read online too long i start straining my eyes
you sound like a pussy

based meme recommendations

>>12438665
look at renaissance man over hear, obsessing with more than one author. you make me sick.

>>12438800
have fun ruining your eyesight

fairly based

>>12438828
false

>>12438819
are these lined up on their side?

>>12438819
>stacking your books on their pages and bending them all out of shape
>literally nothing but Nietzsche
>"hear" instead of "here"
what the FUCK are you doing? you're in no position to be shitting on other people

Is p&r the best place to start with whitehead?

>>12439038
op here. i read modes of thought and the concept of nature first you will find them on b-ok

>>12438665
I got a lot of the same books recently too. Society of the Spectacle is one of my personal favorites. I'm reading that Perec book right now, really loving it. Enjoy! :)

stack

>owns physical books

Why?

Would you guys recommend reading Moby Dick? Is it enjoyable and//or insightful? Could I learn a lot about writing from it?

>>12439508

Moby-Dick is a masterpiece of American Lit and possibly one of the best novels ever written. So yes.

>>12439598
Despite not being American, I'm aware of the status surrounding the book. What I'm not aware of is why it is so acclaimed. Could you answer my other questions here >>12439508?

>>12439641

Okay, so if you're aiming for "factual knowledge" about whale anatomy you're looking at the wrong book and some of it does drag. That said, Melville's command of language and characterization is masterful; you can't teach someone how to do that. The book is one massive allegory.

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>>12439659
>command of language and characterization is masterful
Nice. I look forward to taking out my copy that was given by my English professor who eventually moved to France and turned out to be gay

>>12438665

Nice choice with that Zen Poems collection. It’s a great volume. I like to read some poems everyday before I turn off the light to sleep. They tend to calm me down.

>>12438665
I like your taste OP. I recently read The Rings of Saturn and it blew my socks off.
Bernhard is also great.

r8 my little brothers shelf

>>12439809
>tarantino
>b&n exclusive editions

>>12438665
I love it, a lot of interesting stuff. Throw a Shakespeare play in there and it's 10/10

>>12439809
pretty good except the fault in our stars

>>12438665
>Yeats
Based & redpilled
>Foucault
Cringe & bluepilled

>>12438665
Instead of reading WB Yeats read some Dick Yeats instead

>>12439508
The prose in it is almost unmatched

Just read a few excerpts and you'll quickly see why

>>12440220
t.

>>12440245
Nice try but no. More like this

>>12440293
not sure why you wouldnt like foucault

That Foucault book is tough. It became much more digestible for me after I read discipline and punish

what is my worst book, and what is my best book

>>12440698
Rand
Donkey Hoetay

>>12440698
b: don quixote
w: atlas shrugged

>>12439809
>a john green book
Throw it in the trash. He'll thank you in the future.

>>12438665
go back to discord tranny

>>12438665
You know you can books used right?

I buy books as I need one to read, so I never have a stack. Can I post a single book instead?

>>12440967
sure :)

>>12440994
okay fren

>>12441016
How are you liking it so far? If you're enjoying it, then you should definitely check out his other books. They're all great.

>>12439508
just finished it and can say the prose was some of the best ive read I will definitely read again

>>12441063
I'm enjoying it, though I'm at the part where Stoner just got married to Edith and I can't understand a lot of the ways she acts. She puzzles me more than Stoner ever could.

>>12441079
anon... he raped her

>>12441098
Thanks for spoiling it for me :3

>>12438665
>No Dostoevsky
Hmmmm

>>12441111
It's not really a spoiler since it happened for a part you should have already read

>>12441111
This person>>12441098 is lying. There's no rape

>>12438665
There's no theme or worldview behind this stack. What are you trying to do? Confuse yourself into a nihilistic cornucopia of contradictory bullshit?

Pick a theme and stick with it.

>>12441188
>Pick a theme and stick with it.
You'll become a narrow minded person, if you do this.

>>12438800
>prefers reading online
absolutely unpatrician

>>12438819
Behold! I shall show you the Last Man....

>>12441188
retarded advice. you want to read as many things as you can.

>>12438819
when will you actually read nietzsche instead of wasting your time with translations tho

>>12441176
There's kind of rape. He's fucking her while she's semi-asleep.

great stack senpai

>>12438665

I have both that Lautréamont and that Debord.

Fun fact: the exact same quote (translated) is in both.

>>12440336
He has absolutely nothing of interest or value to say, that's why.

>>12438665
My stack now includes the Stranger and the outsider because I didn't realize they were the same book.

I read The outsider last week and thought I'll buy a load of Camus's work so I picked up The Rebel, exile and the kingdom stories, the stranger and the fall.

Feel like a bit of a clown desu but I guess I've now got a nice hardcover of it

>>12438665
>no Infinite Jest
0/10

>>12438665

there seems to be no correlation to thought here, just literature tourism.

Enjoy Lautreamont, he's the best out of the lot (though that is a shit translation)

>>12439809
He’s got the court of owls, based

>>12440698
Worst: breakfast of champions
Best: Bluebeard

>>12438665
>>12438733
>>12439053
What does Perec write like? What author does he compare to? I haven't heard much about him, but I've seen Un homme qui dort and loved it. Also Life: a user's manual sounds like a great title.

>>12440698
Worst: Fahrenheit 451
Best: The Odyssey

>>12438665
A few of those books I've read and they are mad decent. It's a shame you'll probably never read most of them.

>>12444669
which ones did you read

>>12444508
I dunno what author I'd compare him to. The one thing I dislike about the Life: A User's Manual so far is that in some parts he spends far too much time describing banal things rather than spending time with the characters, and those parts are often excellent. There's little to no dialogue in the novel. He describes all different kinds of people, some of them living strange lives, some sad things, some funny things, all different facets of life are represented. It's unique and as a whole really captivating. It took a while to acclimate to his style but I'm loving it so far.

>>12444508
perec is one of a kind

>>12444677
While not those exact editions, I've read The Gay Science, Borges Collected Fictions, a Yeats Poetry collection, Simulation and Simulacra, and Moby Dick (though I read MD 10 years ago (at 17) and didn't really get a whole lot out of the experience, so it'd probably be worth revisiting).

>>12445665
holy shit I wouldn't want to walk on the same side of the road

>>12438733
This

>>12445665
>>12438819
based and well rounded

>>12445665
cringe but basedpilled

inb4 I get bullied

>>12438665

Prease rate

>>12446740
Is the Briggs translation any good?

>>12446782
I found it easy to read, but I haven't read the other translations

>>12446740
What do you think of Ishmael? I read it when I was 16 in one sitting and loved it but I wonder how I'd interpret it now at 21. Is it worth a second read?

In what age are you living?
Have not you heard about Kindle?

>>12446919
Kindle isn't comfy.

>>12446868
I've yet to read it, sorry

>>12438665
>>12438819
>>12439071
>>12439809
>>12440698
>>12444313
>>12445665
>>12446612
>>12446706
>>12446740
You niggas ain’t going to read any of those mafucking books

>>12446949
How many of those books have you read? None?

>>12446957

I'm: >>12446612. Had to read half those books for school.

Stacks don't mean SHIT if you don't actually read all the books.

>>12447027
this right here

>>12443915

Pray, what translations have you read?

t. not the OP

>>12446740
get a bookshelf/10

>>12447007
I've read 3/4 of them. The eastern philosophy books are from my early college years. The only ones I haven't read are Ishmael, The Road, A Farewell to Arms, and From Beirut to Jerusalem. If you couldn't tell, some of them are in used/shitty condition... because I read them

>>12447206
what am i looking at here

sorry for being a brainlet

>>12438665
heavy. take care of your back and don't overwork it, man.

btw, is that rilke bilingual?

>>12447397
You should apologize for being a weeb first

>>12447421
no

>>12447397
don't be ashamed

>>12438819
>owns more than one stanford neech
respect anon. who’s the translator for the cambridge TSZ?

>>12447411
no

>>12447397
How is kokoro?

>>12447476
A very comfy read despite it's underlying dark themes

>>12438665
I see your Gass and Yeats, but you need more Williams.

>>12447754
there is also a wordsworth in there

>>12447836

So what's the difference between stack and bookshelf threads? I thought stack threads were for showing what you've bought recently and bookshelf threads were for showing off your whole collection. Are they the same?

>>12448423
In theory, you are correct

Have some new additions like Kierkegaard and some Kant, as well as moby dick.

Not really a stack more a poor people’s shelf

Is the /lit/ poster who posted about being an Aussie teacher here? I'm looking into it and would love to chat x

>>12448934
Nah don't mate we don't need any more poofta teachers

>>12438721
How the fuck can you stand reading on a computer screen? After 15-20 minutes my eyes get tired as fuck and my head aches
The most I can do is a smartphone screen but even that cannot compare to a fucking book

>>12438665
How to fall asleep the thread.

>>12439809
>two The Hobbit books

>>12448529
>Tower of Swallows
Have you read the previous ones though?

>>12449294
You didn't see my collection. And I have more.

Now stop buying and start reading.

>>12449275
they look like fun books to me. what books arent boring to you?

>>12449268
I put it on my kindle

how am i doin' /lit/?
recs?

Pretty good op but you shlold learn another language after this stack

>>12446957
I red half of them for school and the other half for pleasure. Why dont you go back to ur stack of self help books and read so you can feel better about ur small penis you fucking degenerate neanderthal

>>12440698
not bad for a jr. high school student

2019 reading list. I'm having a crisis of faith, and I'm trying to figure out if the God of the Bible exists.

>>12451058
tom clancy

>>12451058
Not enough Andy Mcnab

is whitehead worth reading?

>>12451903
read chink philosophy

>>12451143
I think i saw you eating spaghetti out of a plastic bag on the bus yesterday

>>12449509
Nice, I collect Tolkien books as well wish I had more hardcovers tho

>>12446612
>POO

My university book shelf
give me recs pls

>>12452896
Any recs?

>>12453534
zhuangzi is based
the I ching is based
lao zi is good
journey to the west is great
alan watts is a pretty good intro the way of zen and taoist the waterway books are nice

Recent purchases

>>12449507
Yeah I’ve read them all in English, they’re alright but the games are better.

>>12438665
books I got in the last month

Destroy my stack. Started shopping at thrift stores and these are all thrift finds. My stack is getting out of hand because of that as I used to keep only a handful of unread books but it's hard to resist picking up $1-$2 books.

Anna Karenina is the Maude translation which I'm midway through. A Patriot's History is a response to A People's History by Zinn which I've read. Found Patriot's and figured I might as well read the response.

>>12440293
I know deleuze and heidegger, but can someone tell me who the rest on this image are?

*dabs on lefties*

>>12458745
yikes and cringepilled

Bump

>>12447397
did you steal that copy of bleeding edge from the library

>>12458338
>ambrose
I am reading Rise to Globalism, which he co-authored with Douglas Brinkley. Pretty good anon.

>>12453161
That Kelman strikes me as being in the tradition of Faulkner. Read Faulkner.

>>12458466
St. Maximus the Confessor, Mircea Eliade, Fr. Seraphim Rose,
Gilles Deleuze, Aleksandr Dugin, Georges Sorel,
Martin Heidegger, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Carl Schmitt

>>12451903
Add Augustine's Confessions, in that case.

>>12457271
Nice

What are stacks?

>>12461510
I read it recently, but it definitely warrants many re-reads. It's a beautiful and profound work.

>>12461684
I solely read it once, yet I have a friend that has read it many, many times. It changed his life once and it does every time he goes over it.

>>12438665
How do people like Baudrillard? He and Foucault are so unbelievably boring even when they're right.

>>12460947
Thanks friend. I've even read Eliade but just didn't know what he looked like, the rest I haven't read

>>12438665
Yeats and Borges are exquisite. Dickens' "Pickwick", his first novel, is brimming with the energy and high spirits of youth - one of the funniest books I've ever read.