/lit/ - Literature

this is really embarrassing.

>>16192364
Post fizeek.

>>16192339
Great stack of tinder

>>16192339
Internet books are the worst

>>16193175
>>16193345
Did I trigger the fat liberal untermensches of this board?

>>16192339
I appreciate your honestly OP

Sad stack

>>16192339
>Bronze Age Mindset
Super cool Neoconservative Zionist book!

>>16192339
That’s basically as pleb as it’s possible to be.

>>16192339
dunno if you're baiting but that isnt "patrician"

i'll post what i want quite frankly

>>16193701
If roasties were better read, I bet Ted Hughes would still trigger them so hard

>>16193780
i studied him in high school along-side Plath, they were seething every class. i think they even implied 'Hawk Roosting' was his mysogynist patriarch god-complex. and ofc they thought he killed assia and sylvia

>waits 30 years to give his side of the story
>dies
ultimate troll

>>16193429
The g in MAGA stands for Gay

>>16192339
Dude how do you keep your books so free from wear? My books are kinda worn out.

>>16193429
Don't lump me in with the other retard

>>16193898
OP doesn't read

>>16192339
jesus man
>>16193969
bringe

>>16192339
No Based Deleuze?

>>16192339
its all pretty cringe but that doon guy is on another level. he was bullied for a bit and suicidal but his grifterbros had his back

>>16193554
Reminder this is not /bap/ and trannies are still seething about thinking he's this guy.

>>16194627
Bap himself is a tranny

>>16192339
pseuds eternally btfo

Got more books to be read but only next ones to be consooomed on stack

>>16193554
Seriously. This book sucks I dunno why so many people bother reading it, leg alone recommend it.

r8 my stack that I just ordered

>>16193429
Untermenschen, not untermensches

>>16193969
Have you read Concept of Anxiety? Should read that before Sickness Unto Death.

>>16197108
>shit
>based
>based
>shit
>shit

>>16198069
Not the stack guy, but say why, shit-for-brains.

>>16198098
It was revealed to me in a dream

>>16192339
Sperg-tastic post, truly.

>>16197375
Untermenschies.

>tfw even an introduction to delezze is too hard for me to fully understand
feels bad bros

>>16198328
where did you get welcome to the NHK from , most places I've looked sell it for around £80 or more.

>>16198051
Why?

>>16199002
The concept of anxiety discusses anxiety in a general way, which is about agony of the future and the employment of freedom in the infinite potential of choices. Sickness unto death discusses anxiety with special reference to one's relationship before God and Death. Its very much a follow on and builds on Concept of Anxiety.

>>16192339
>>16193969
Memes
>>16193701
Cozy
>>16195371
>roof framing
Is it’s actually about roof framing?
>>16198328
>Debord
I hope you stole that book

>>16192339
A book being an e-book is unironically a massive pleb filter. “It was written by an online personality so it must be automatically bad!!” It is the Sequence and Paul Town’s books in general are some of the most sensible, down-to-earth, genuinely helpful reflections on life to be written in our current era and would especially appeal to cynical channers like in this thread. Which is all especially impressive considering that at first thought he’s not exactly someone you’d think would have healthy and upbuilding advice.

BAP and Mike Ma are nowhere near the level of actual realistic analysis of our world that Paul Town writes, but they’re certainly a lot of fun. Just don’t get too carried away. Delicious Tacos can be a bit of a depressive so be careful but he’s still a funny and catharthic voice of the modern world of sex and romance. Doon isn’t an especially good writer (unlike these others) from what I’ve seen though he’s a nice guy and on a healthy track in life. Skallas is a great Twitter account but his books are poorly made scams. Don’t know about the others

>>16199350
This is all what the “Alt-Right” should be and should have always been, by the way- art that isn’t even that dedicated to being political. Not dumbass activist catastrophes

>>16199331
>translations
yikes

/pol/ack here, please don't bully too hard.

>>16198500
it's the german edition. Bought all 8 volumes for 35€ on ebay

>>16198328
The manga is good but the ping pong anime is much better imo

>>16199920
I actually only bought the manga because I love the anime so much. Definitely my #1. 10/10 adaptation

Do stackers read their books one by one?

>>16200020
I'm currently reading welcome to the nhk, ghosts of my life and sound and the fury at the same tme. I've heard that it's weird but I like it so far because I don't feel pressured to finish a book before reading the next

this is the new stack thread

>>16199472
>we wuz vikangz an shiiieeet

>>16199472
Where can you even buy Which Way Western Man?

>>16199472
Classy and tasteful considering what it could have been

>>16192339
virgin skizzo
>>16194645
redditor
>>16195371
based. how's the redmi? been thinking of buying one since its like 200bucks

>>16199772
V nice

moving stack

>>16198113
Kek

>>16200120
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT

>>16193701
> it's all fiction

>>16192339
Got these three recently in a bundle. I've been awfully slack with my reading lately. Wish I wasn't, because I've really enjoyed what I've read so far. Will definitely try get the other volumes at a later time

>>16200574
>translation
waste of money

>>16200584
>learning a language when someone else can do it for you
waste of time

>>16200593
r*ddit opinion, go back

>>16200599
>responding in 34 seconds
>censoring "reddit"
literal cope

>>16200678
ok r*ddit

>>16200584
Agreed

>>16200678
>counting how long it takes someone to reply

>>16200733
>writing a reply

>>16200120
Not nearly well read enough, and from what I can make out poor taste to boot

>>16192339

>>16200852
Please excuse the potato quality and orientation

>>16200860
>please excuse
no. learn how to phone post.

>>16200852
Is reddit patrol going to call him out on buying translations of Moriele

So far so good

>>16201035
>gigantic book in translation
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>16201045
I mean, 99% of people who have read the book probably did so via translation, I dont feel overly guilty

>>16201078
touché, but you are learning french right anon?

>>16201085
Someone already did. That person translated the book.

>>16201085
ive been thinking of it since im a leaf and already started it in school

>>16201100
the book is in russian you fucking retard amerifatt

Being a true patrician is reading what you want

>>16201106
my classmate at college gifted me that Benjamin book right before graduation ;___; miss you bro

>>16201105
It has been translated to English, Paco :^)

>>16201203
didn't realize until now that the translation meme is a Mexicope. makes sense.

>>16197108
>yeats
nice desu

>>16193429
Wow, she is extremely cute. I think the Q stuff it basically nonsense but I'm glad she's into it because I think it means she is more likely to get married and have a large family. I hope she has at least 4 kids.

>>16195371
Would be good without Hunter

>>16197108
Very respectable.

>>16198328
I love Debord but don't really know anything about the other stuff you have here, probably because it looks like it's manga.

>>16199472
Better than I'd expect for a /pol/lack. The Decline of the West is great. It's dense and I think Spengler is wrong about a lot of stuff but it's still worth reading for anyone interested in our civilization's decline for the insights he provides. I'm just glad to see you're reading about our old myths and actual nationalist/third position philosophy instead of dumb wignat shit.

>>16192339
lmao, wait did Terror House really fuck up the spelling of masculinity on the spine of Landry's book, that must sting... imagine writing something for months (regardless of how good it is) only for it to be treated so carelessly by the "publisher"

>>16200315
I bought it from here:

https://cosmotheistchurch.org/product/which-way-western-man-by-william-gayley-simpson/

>>16198113
Based

>>16192339
Does a duffel of books count? Bonus points if you can guess the partly covered ones

>>16202915
Rilke, Marx-Engels Reader, Capitalist Realism, not sure about top left or bottom

>>16200574
>that particular Proust translation

waste of money

>>16203034
Antonin Artaud selected writings and mentor book of major American poets. There’s also a society of the spectacle and science of logic peaking out from under the upanishads and capitalist realism

>>16202915
Those look interesting, show us the lot

>>16193429

I'm enthusiastically voting Trump but she does have that thousand-cock dead stare. the SPQR hat is interesting.

>>16203043

There is something far worse than a waste of money. And that is the waste of time spent by an English speaker to learn another language, for no other reason than to read a particular book.

You can get your money back. You can't get your time back wasted on learning a superfluous thing. Nor does the knowledge gained justify the time wasted, which is the central point. It's already been translated. Ya got it already.

>>16203061
>>16203061
I would but it took awhile to pack up and I’ve got enough to get ready. I can list off a couple more gems in there for you tho.

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Naked Lunch
Panegyric
And the ass saw the angel
Les champs de Maldoror
Absolute recoil
Phenomenology of spirit
Capital
Being and nothingness
Nausea

>>16202915
The society of the spectacle and the science of logic.
Borges is eternally in my stack. I love him so much.

>>16203082
That’s an alluring stack. I’ve got the phenomenology in there too (and the notebook is for the SoL) but I haven’t cracked open my Hegels in a hot minute

>>16199472
How's that Dutch edition of Spengler? Deciding whether to get that one or an English translation.

>>16202251
those two at the bottom and the top are manga. sound and the fury is a classic, not sure how you don't know about that one. The big dark book is a German translation of Mark Fisher's "ghosts of my life" and the one below is a German introduction to deleuze's ideas

>>16193701
I read The Monk a few months ago. It was good but can be repetitive in its language.

>>16202915
Bottom left is the American poetry book I had to read in high school. A Child says what is the grass is on page 420 if I recall correctly.

>>16203194
I've only read the Dutch one, so I can't compare it to English. But it's a fairly complicated work, so best go with whatever language you're good at.

De Blauwe Tijger has a Dutch version of Man and Technics as well.

My 'now until 1st October' stack.

>why yes I’ve read every one of Paul Skallas’ books. How could you tell?

Recent purchases.
>Friedrich Schiller - William Tell
I read a very inspirational quote from it, so I put it on my reading list. Found this bilingual, facing-page edition for two bucks, so I can better my German a bit too.
I really like the spirit the writing espouses, based on preliminary glances.

>Liu Guojun, Zhou Yicheng - The Story of Chinese Books
A small book about the history of how book were made from the oldest times, to the early years of the People's Republic.
Found it accidentally while looking for the third book I got recently. Got it because it was relatively cheap, and I had some surplus cash.

>Zsolt Tokaji - The History of the Chinese Book
Another book on the same topic, it's a few decades newer. Already read this one, and it's pretty good. Has plenty of illustrations, gives the name of every term, person or concept it uses in Hungarian, Pinyin and in Hanzis.
It's not necessarily in-depth most of the time, but I guess this is still more than most people would care to know about the history of bookmaking in China.
The author is a prolific Sinologist and it's not the first of his books I've read, and it's up to his standards, has a good bibliography as usual in the back, so I can read more about the topics that interest me. (Though some of the books he mentions and uses I've already read.)

I hope this picture doesn’t turn sideways

>>16204882
>reading crowley
based

>>16204882
>kybalion
why not read actual hermeticism instead of this worthless shit?

>>16205162
I saw it at the top of one of those pictures that tell you what to read to get into a subject, wasn’t bad at all desu. Then I got this
>>16205154
It was better than expected

>>16203082
>Organon
Why?

>>16203614
Dutch is my native language but due to being an internet era bitch I've read far more books in English - guess I'll try to find a preview copy and see which I prefer. And yes I saw that but I've already read the English version of M&T by Arktos. I appreciate what De Blauwe Tijger does though. Thanks for the input.

>>16205422
I read Kant’s prolegomena a few months ago and he said he bit most of Aristotle’s Categories for his system. Plus, it seems important to Aristotle’s Metaphysics, and it’s one of the founding works in philosophy of logic and language, with sections that have yet to become outdated, and besides all of that it’s a fun read if you are into this sort of thing.

some I recently got for free

>>16203070
why are translation readers so defensive about it and accuse those who learn languages of wasting their time? its almost like they are aware they are bottom-feeding scum and are ashamed of it...........
>It's already been translated. Ya got it already.
translations are a joke on monolinguals, anon. Fortunately, monolinguals deserve it.

>>16203082
>Borges is eternally in my stack. I love him so much.
Do you have the non-fiction sister to that volume that penguin published, anon? v comfy reading.

>>16206152
I don’t own it, but finished it in between classes in my school’s library, and I’m thinking about giving it to myself as a birthday present this year. Is the penguin poetry volume worth reading? I was going to wait on that side of him for a few years until I improve my Spanish.

>>16206314
>giving it to myself as a birthday present this year
you should! perfect self-bday present
>Is the penguin poetry volume worth reading?
I had, then got rid of, and now kind of wish I had it again
I can't speak that much for the poetry bc I was interested in borges before I got interested in reading other languages, so I was just reading it in the translations like a pleb
and I dont know any spanish to this day so even if I had it again I'd still be reading the translations like a pleb (yes, I accept all the shade I threw in my last post at translation readers)

I will say that his poetry feels quite different to his fiction or non-fiction prose; for one thing, women (almost unheard of in the fiction) and love have a much stronger presence
it's also quite classical, structured, formal,etc; there are quite a lot of sonnets in there iirc, as well as some libre vers
and it's a bilingual edition, so at least you know they didn't fuck that up

hope that helps, anon

it's not much, but i've been chipping away at it for a little while now.

>>16200020
I don't like to read more than one novel at a time, but I'll typically be in the process of reading a novel, a nonfiction book of some sort (usually history), and a philosophical text and just switch between them depending on my mood. Maybe sprinkle some short stories in as well.

>>16199462
>>16200584
Is this "translations" meme that's in every thread serious? Do you actually expect everyone in the world to be highly fluent in French, Spanish, German, Russian, and English? Or do you genuinely think it's better to not read a novel at all than to read it in translation?
And I never see these people complaining about translations from, say, Japanese.

>>16206543
>and it's a bilingual edition
Oh cool! That might actually be a fun way to practice. How can someone who read so much Borges be so anti-translations, given that he spent so much time writing and writing about translations?

>>16206152
>translations are a joke on monolinguals
This doesn't really make sense though. Say someone can speak 30 languages, but doesn't speak Russian, or at least doesn't understand it well enough to read Russian literature. You would still give them shit for reading a translation of Dostoevsky?

>>16202915

You seem like a guy I'd like to hang out with

>>16206744
no

>>16206689
>buying disgusting barnes and noble leather editions

>>16206744
I for one only complain about translations from Japanese

>>16206773
no cause dostoyevsky's prose is trash anyway lmao
t. hemingway

>reading 4 books at a time but slow as fuck

>>16206745
>How can someone who read so much Borges be so anti-translations, given that he spent so much time writing and writing about translations?
thats true, his essay on translations of the arabian nights is nice
I will note that he learnt german just to read schopenhauer in the original, though

>>16206744
ok I was probably meming a little too hard on translations above
I read translations (though I have the decency to feel a wee tiny bit dirty when I do so), and I don't judge someone for reading translations in and of itself
the bit that rubbed me the wrong way was the assertion that learning a language to read is a waste of time, and that
>It's already been translated. Ya got it already.
as if nothing is lost

>>16206773
>This doesn't really make sense though. Say someone can speak 30 languages, but doesn't speak Russian, or at least doesn't understand it well enough to read Russian literature. You would still give them shit for reading a translation of Dostoevsky?
I would not, because such a person would never say something as monolingually retarded as
>It's already been translated. Ya got it already.

>>16207246
fair point about about who you were responding to. that kind of sentiment comes across as ignorant. I would prefer to read anything in it's original language, and I think everyone should be able to speak more than one language, but I think for most people (who are reading casually) it isn't practical or reasonable to learn languages for the purpose of reading literature, and it's ok to settle for a translation. unless you're a serious critic or an academic studying these works or something like that

>>16208547
Aren't you worried about your books getting dirty?

>>16208589
Just set em there for a quick pic and they went back in the bag before I sat down to finish Dubliners. That moss was quite plush and clean, though.

>>16207246
Some translations great in their own right.obv a Proust translation isn’t going to stand up to the original but the Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation has better prose than many books written in English for example

>>16205945
On Heros and Tombs is pretty good.
Weirdly similar to The Savage Detectives in some aspects, though. If you read it, you will get what I mean.

>>16192339
Got this stack for free.

>>16206872
I have La Ciudad y los Perros in one of this Spanish Royal Academy editions. 40% of the thing is the book per se. more than 300 p. in introductions and afterwords. never got around reading any of them.

>>16199472
Where can you even buy these books?

>>16208547
ok, so you saw this tread, took your books from the shelf, went outside, walked up to the woods, found a nice fallen trunk, framed the picture, maybe even edited it, who knows, and then posted it online, for some people you will never meet to see? why?

>>16193429

>>16208791
I stopped in the woods after bookshopping. My bad for contributing to the thread.

>>16202242
Based, particularly Acker, Fisher and Kharms.

Have you read any of the Kaufman yet? I have an inherent suspicion of it because movie-man-book, but he's one of the few writers in that sphere who I can imagine maybe not writing complete shit

>HEY GUYS CHECK OUT MY SICK STACK!!!! I DEFINITELY READ ALL THESE BOOKS IM SO FUCKING LIT BROOOOO!!!! DOSTOEVSKY, CAMUS AND NIETZSCHE ARE JUST LIKE MY MOJO!

>>16208947
I've read it twice. It's going to be a classic. Definitely pick up a copy, he's, surprisingly, a much better writer than screenwriter.

>>16208547
qr on Ultramarine?

>>16200020
I just posted all the books I own...

>>16209221
Haven't read it, as I just bought it today. First novel by Malcolm Lowry who wrote Under the Volcano. It's about a guy on a ship.

>>16200120
who

>>16204882
Pretty fucking based

>>16200120
>>>/fit/57092437/
Stay the fuck in your board for retards and closet homos.

>>16209201
>this is the true meaning of “rent-free”