/lit/ - Literature

>>18128003
God, this is such a useless and pointless thread.

>>18128003
>master and margarita
based
how did you like it?

>>18128014
yeah lmao, but /lit/ is sadly dying and extremely slow. I remember when it was flourishing even as back as a year or two ago.
>>18128016
Absolutely brilliant! It definitely made me want to open myself to more Russian novelists other than Dostoevsky. My only complaint is that the translation can be kinda weird and stiff. But apparently, that's the tone translator Burgin & O'Connor decided to go with. I kinda want to re-read the other versions of it, but to my knowledge, those are based on a censored Russian version.

>>18128052
Yeah, the translation seemed a bit.. forces? idk.
Probably one of the funniest books I've read in a while myself though, with such a strange story.
That said I've never read anything else russian or from that time-period.

>>18128064
*forced

>>18128052
>lit/ is sadly dying and extremely slow.
You mean thriving? This is how it should always be.

>>18128097
With Wojack and frog posters?

>>18128098
Not many frogposters today.

>all those virgin uncracked spines
cringe

>>18128157
>cracking your spines to impress retards
Weird flex

>>18128003
>Aristotle
>Aurelius
>Lovecraft
>McCarthy
based

>everything else
moderately to severely cringe

>>18128014
Have you ever seen a useful one?

>>18128003
Do goth girls really read Lovecraft?

>>18128052
people who think /lit/ is dying are the ones who are only attracted to and click on bad threads. There are multiple really high quality slow threads on /lit/ every day

>>18128014
This is such a “useless” and “pointless” post. Everyone get a load of this fucking guy, singlehandedly trying to reform the board with his incredibly valuable posting. This guy is definitely not pissing in the ocean at all. You really have to wonder if he thinks his post will do a jot of good. What is his end goal? What change will be enacted in the minds of people who read his posts? Perhaps they will never post pictures of their books on a literature board ever again. That’s what this board really needs, less books. God forbid people share the books they own and talk about them to any degree. Everyone take note of this simian-browed dimwit as an example of someone to not be like. What a fucking jolt-head.

>>18128003
I'm happy for you anon. I'm hoping to buy/build one for my gf soon as well.
Bookshelves are just so nice to have.
>>18128014
Stack threads and the like are just for shooting the shit. If it really pisses you off it's probably because you need to be doing something else

>>18128003
>Sophocles
BASED
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>>18128003
>tfw you order a package from Wayfair but it turns out to just be some bookshelves

>>18130157
wtf is with that conan illustration

>>18130184
god damn it anon i'll never be able to unsee that

>>18130184
yoko looks cute there

>>18130157
incredibly based books
>>18130184
kek

>>18128003
>kondo
you know she'd want you to get rid of those books anon
>>18130157
finally someone else on /lit/ who has read schumacher, my brother

>>18130184
top kek

>>18130184
Nice

My current stack of books I’m reading through.

Hold on.....
i think ive found a big stack,
Yuppp this ones definately a big one,

Get in here boys check out the size and quality of these stacks....

Currently reading the ones on the left, just bought the ones on the right

>>18128003
whats not on my shelve rn is dead souls and a short story collect of tolstoy

r8 it or h8 it

>>18130466
this is a blueboard

>>18130667
kinda autistic and I don't know how u can have so many unfinished books at once but I'm intrigued. what is this app and how is it tracking your reading like that

>>18128003
Love that Lovecraft. So glad I got it when I did

>>18130735
it's moon+ reader which i use because it's the only one i've found to have good page flip animations, even though it shows ads. the long screenshot is a feature of the default screenshot tool on whatever distro comes with xiaomi phones.
there's a lot unfinished because i get bored, or it just doesn't "feel" right.

same with tv shows e.g it took me like 8 months to watch nichijou and i've been watching star trek ds9 for at least 3. in high school i read crime and punishment to just barely before the confession and epilogue and only reread it to completion a few years later. i remember i read like 80% of the fountainhead and didn't finish it either. i was watching made in abyss last year and saw like 8 episodes and loved everything about it, still haven't finished it.
i have no idea why i'm like this.

>>18130828
hopefully because you have things to worry about other than media consumption

Meditation books

>>18130861
schizo

>>18128003
Desk books

>>18128003
Now that you have a bookshelf anon, choose your books carefully. Don't buy books just to fill up the space.

>>18128003
>Fagles Sophocles
based but you should also get Fagles Aeschylus – both the translation and the introduction are 10/10

>>18130408
>The ISIS Reader
please elaborate

>>18128003
I recently reorganized my room and I have to say the thing I’m proudest of and keeps me the most motivated is my book shelves. They’re filled with a fair bit of shit but seeing them all lined up there makes me feel something good deep down inside

>>18128052
> /lit/ is sadly dying and extremely slow. I remember when it was flourishing even as back as a year or two ago
Extremely slow is good. It gives you time to read and filters ADHD retards. /lit/ two years ago was faster and worse than /lit/ eight years ago

>>18130667
the doomed city is great fun.
but I cannot understand how someone can read so many books at the same time.

>>18131703
It's a compilation of translated writings from AQI and the Islamic State that have been captured or broadcast in their propaganda that lay out their strategic and ideological thought.

It's pretty good desu 8/10 if you're interested in how the group conceives of itself.

>>18130157
Not bad

>>18128003

>>18128003

>>18130861
le coran

>>18132505

Europe by Davies is a masterpiece, wish it was posted more often. Met a dear friend while browsing through library shelves in search for this book, turns out he was looking for the same one

>>18131597
very nice mug anon
what are those green and red book series? I can't see the text.

>>18133110
thanks anon

those are Loeb Classical Library pocket-sized books. green are Greek/Enlish, reds are Latin/English. they're mostly poetry, and Plotinus' Enneads.

>>18130484
Wait a minute, I think I saw you selling books on ebay

>>18128003
you have to go back

>>18131597
fire

>>18128003
I wish the B&N special books didn't use bonded leather, just fully synthetic.

>>18130157
Straighten those up please anon, those poor corners look miserable

>>18133524
>not just buying B&N paperbacks instead
ngmi

>>18133280
>pocket-sized books
Based cargo-short wearing anon.

>>18130184
kek

>>18132553
the better angels of our nature is a very important book. destroys the idea of the noble savage and undermines the lugenpresse's murder porn.

>>18133624
ehhh, i generally agree with the thesis of the book and think it was well written, but there have been some fatal flaws found on his statistical analysis. that's what happens when a smart intellectual tries to make a colossal interdisciplinary opus beyond their expertise, i guess.

but i agree, the myth of the noble savage and murder porn are two of the worst things we have

>>18133624
Lugenpresse? fuck you.

>>18133563
They make the same exact book collections in paperback?

>>18132505
You have tore that copy of Lolita up.

>>18133654
yeah, the nasty rotten lugenpresse

>>18132553
>stephen fry
yikes

nice shelf otherwise, i like your color categories

>>18133744
It's somewhat fitting that it being aged makes it ugly and less usable

>>18133307
>Guys I said it!

>>18133744
its 'have torn'

>>18128118

>>18134121
Tore the fuck up.

>>18130157
What edition of the Book of Five Rings is that? Gonna order soon

>>18130184

>>18134121
its ‘it’s’

>>18130667
fucking zoomin through data structures and algos eh?

>>18131597
are you an orthodox?