Obligatory /lit/ stack thread

[Anonymous No.12571886]

I just recently got this stack from the Phoenix VNSA book fair. Top left three are my prized finds

[Anonymous No.12571892]

>>12571886
Gonna read any of them?

[Anonymous No.12571896]

>>12571892
na

[Anonymous No.12571928]

>>12571892
Today I received these. It's my first time buying from Amazon, they just tossed the books into a box. Fuck them, but still way cheaper than buying them at local bookstores.

[Anonymous No.12571929]

>>12571892
No, but they might look cool on my shelf

[Anonymous No.12572155]

>>12571892
I might like to read them at some point, its good to know I have the option to now.

[Anonymous No.12572253]

>>12571892
HA

[Anonymous No.12574090]

Bought this on a whim because I like the construction. Thick paper cover with a leaf, raised lettering, deckled edges, and the pages have a nice texture.

This is the only thing I've read by Gaiman and I enjoyed it. Reminded me of becoming totally absorbed by books like A Wrinkle In Time in my childhood.

[Anonymous No.12574690]

>>12574090
(((Neil Gaiman)))

[Anonymous No.12574704]

>>12571886
>David Irving

ew

[Anonymous No.12574715]

Got this at my library

[Anonymous No.12574723]

[Anonymous No.12574829]

>>12574690
Oh no! I have been been compromised by The Jew because I read a single fairy tale!

[Anonymous No.12574846]

>>12574715

[Anonymous No.12574927]

>>12574090
>deckled edges

[Anonymous No.12575050]

>>12574704
>The lucky country
Have you read it yet?
I really ought to as an Aussie

[Anonymous No.12575061]

>>12574723
nice taste

[Anonymous No.12575062]

>>12575050
Not yet, but it is actually the next book I'll be reading once I finished what I'm reading now. I'll probably be shit posting about it here once I've started so keep an eye out ;)

[Anonymous No.12575312]

>>12574090
Yes, I rather enjoyed this little book. It transported me back to my childhood for 100 pages. Unfortunately I don't have much love for the rest of Gaiman's work. But I'm jealous that he gets to bang Amanda Palmer each night.

[Anonymous No.12575536]

>>12574704
>Eric Ambler
based

[Anonymous No.12575611]

>>12575536
Never read him, just picked it up on a whim. What's he like?

[Anonymous No.12575948]

>>12574715
Goodread, anon.

[Anonymous No.12576048]

>>12575611
Pessimistic, exciting, quite paranoid about governments and corporations. His books are thrillers usually about a fairly average protagonist getting swept up in some conspiracy that threatens his life.

[Anonymous No.12576091]

>>12571886
The idea of reading a big history book seems comfy but you, I, and everyone that sees your shelf knows you'll never touch those math and science books

[Anonymous No.12576140]

>>12576091
Kind of rude. If he wasn't going to read them, why did he buy them?

[Anonymous No.12576149]

>>12571886
>the burke reader

GIB

[Anonymous No.12576163]

>>12571886
>Ayn Rand
that pretty much sums up your entire worldview based on this stack

[Anonymous No.12576329]

my current to-read stack. Not pictured is Betnay's propaganda.

[Anonymous No.12576335]

>>12571928
I'd have just tossed that shit in the box, too. warehouse robot clearly has taste.

[Anonymous No.12576340]

>>12576140
to impress all the cats he's going to bring home from the shelter

[Anonymous No.12576522]

>>12576329
Whats that darwin book

[Anonymous No.12576559]

>>12576522
It's Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade, by Douglas A Irwin.

not Darwin.

[Anonymous No.12576641]

>>12571928
low tier bait

>>12576329
Pretty decent

>>12574723
At least half of the those books require a fair bit of metatextual familiarity. This is an iceberg stack. The reader of it should have a body of reading extending significantly deeper.

[Anonymous No.12576843]

God how I hate all you faggots who buy (and probably don't ever read) philosophy/science books to post in these threads. I've tried to put into words just how pathetic and disgusting I find all of you, but it's by no means an easy task.

[Anonymous No.12576947]

>>12576843
Dude as if you dont read chemistry textbooks from the 1970s?

[Anonymous No.12576983]

>>12576843
So much this. You look at these threads and you think /lit/ is some symposium for highly erudite intellectuals, when reality is the exact opposite. The sad thing is that their parents probably think they're smart for having all these fancy books.

[Anonymous No.12577750]

I finally managed to pick up all the packages I wanted.
Got these:
Iliad and Odyssey
Before Sunrise by Mikhail Zoschenko
Selected poems of Anna Akhmatova
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq

Started reading Whatever (done with Part one), but schoolwork got in the way.
What can I say, it embodies the zeitgeist pretty well. It's vulgar, yet actually well written, unlike some other books that talk about sex and the human body. Maybe it's that Houellebecq talks more about out souls and the little social games we play to fool each other.

[Anonymous No.12577850]

>>12571886
>culture of narcissism
I can't tell you how much shit this book put in perspective for me. It mapped the issues with my early home life to a T.

[Anonymous No.12577871]

>>12571892
>>12576091
>>12576340
>>12576843
Is this the standard on /lit/? Why wouldn't he read these books? The only reason you would jump to that conclusion is
a) You yourself only read stories and have resentment about it
or
b) You're extremely disenfranchised about people who read due to past experiences
Either way, why not discuss some of the books posted and contribute instead of shitpost and bitch? And what's with the complaints about philosophy? Don't we read for viewpoints, perspective and thoughtful analysis in the first place?

[Anonymous No.12578018]

>>12576983
this is a stacks thread. not a shelves thread. hard to judge what everyone reads from one stack. I have a spectroscopy workshop coming up and will be reading a couple books on that soon. I also JUST finished Overbye's Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, and have read other science-related works, including biographies of Einstein, Oppenheimer, and von Braun. now I'm not saying I'm smart, because I'm fucking not. just pointing out that these stacks are not representative of an entire body.

[Anonymous No.12578038]

>>12576641
why Turkish?

[Anonymous No.12578064]

>>12576641
Whoa, K-Punk is fuckin T H I C C

[Anonymous No.12578448]

>>12576335
>>12576641
Why don't you two go to touch each other while you read your pseudo intellectual shit?

[Anonymous No.12579329]

>>12571886
Picked these up at a free book stand on my campus. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.12579600]

>>12577750
geci

[Anonymous No.12579835]

>>12579329
Vasari is good, enjoyable and unique books. I'm using it as inspiration for my novel as the characters are artists.

[Anonymous No.12579910]

>>12578038
because I am a KARA BOĞA

>>12578448
I finished my previous stack already, just on the final page of difference and repetition in this one

[Anonymous No.12579931]

>mfw I have over 60 books on my shelf that I haven't read yet
>I read an average of 1.5 book a month


What are some books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.12580172]

currently reading A Farewell To Arms even though its not in this stack

[Anonymous No.12580175]

>>12579931
All of the books in your backlog. Don't be a pseud. Get offline for a few hours and read, maybe then you'll have something to contribute to the conversation.

[Anonymous No.12580457]

>>12580172
What the fuck is that copy of Ulysses

[Anonymous No.12580510]

>>12580175
I exaggerated the number of books a bit. lm almost done with The Idiot then I have a couple of Mishima books up next.

Don't worry anon, I won't let you down.

[Anonymous No.12580563]

>>12580172
Hmm

[Anonymous No.12580583]

>>12580510
Oh, nice. I also have a Mishima book in my backlog, Spring Snow.

[Anonymous No.12580584]

>>12571886
r8

[Anonymous No.12580597]

>>12579931
>>I read an average of 1.5 book a month
>What are some books for this feel?
use audiobooks. Can get done with 2-4 books a day with proper speed

[Anonymous No.12580654]

>>12580583
Yeah I have that one too. Found Spring snow, confessions of a mask, and golden pavilion at a library sale last week.

[Anonymous No.12580690]

>>12580584
Seinlanguage is based. The rest of trash, throw it in the trash

[Anonymous No.12580746]

>>12580690
>the rest is trash

elaborate, that is if you aren't trolling.

[Anonymous No.12581780]

>>12579600
>Szarmagyar kommentminőség

[Anonymous No.12582114]

>>12577871
>Why wouldn't he read these books?
Because most people tend to believe they can buy themselves a personality and I'm sorry, but I'm just not convinced when I see someone posting a stack with fifteen books on various different sciences and fields. We know you're full of shit.

[Anonymous No.12582144]

>>12581780
>Azt az erzses amikor nincs baratno

[Anonymous No.12582225]

Which book should I start with?

[Anonymous No.12582248]

>>12576091
>>12576843
>>12576983
>>12582114
>Mommy's says I'm a special little boy and if I cant understand science then no one can
>I'm not stupid everyone else is just a psued

[Anonymous No.12582266]

the Trial
Titus Adronicus
Notes from the Underground
Why read Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.12582311]

>>12582248
Sure looks like I hit a soft spot.

[Anonymous No.12582379]

still working my way through litcore, ive read most of them except the good soldier, the idiot, and don quixote which I all had ordered yesterday, but Ive started on don quixote and so far Im really liking it.

>>12579910
hey I got War and Piss for crimbo this year
occasionally ill flip to a random page for a quick laugh

[This dawg No.12582453]

What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.12582613]

>>12582379
never heard of that turkish work

[Anonymous No.12582678]

>>12582311

[Anonymous No.12582841]

>>12574704
>Christina Stead
Hell yes anon
I've been reading The Lucky Country too, it's great and actually quite funny. Wish I could find copies of some of Horne's novels

[Anonymous No.12582887]

>>12582144
>He doesn’t know the difference between zs and sz
Brainlet

[Anonymous No.12583022]

>>12582453
Loads of characters, and loads of talking.

[Anonymous No.12583031]

>>12582887
geci
>>12582841
I just started reading Lucky Country today and I'm finding it great so far. I liked his observation that because ordinary Australian life is so dull and ordinary Australian writers tend to focus on the fringes of society and consciousness, which rings true of the Australian writers that are still read.

[Ciskwanja No.12583510]

>>12571886
Just bought some of the best works of contemporary literature in my life.


"The Man Who Shat Twice Too Often" by Tim Dersiak
"Gobs" by Kiir Mestad
"I Was Dumped For an Hitachi" by Asim Drikert
"Mirid" by K. Tase
"Red" by Mika Sitr
"Cunted" by Kami D. Triers
"Pride and Prejudice and Wilhelm Reich" by Dr Maki S. Reti

[Anonymous No.12583515]

>>12582453
The paper might rip, it's safer (for aesthetics alone) to download a PDF than read wordsworth classics

[Anonymous No.12583908]

>>12582379
That's honestly a solid selection of works, anon. Keep up the good work! Which will you read first?

[Anonymous No.12584110]

>>12583908
>solid selection of works

meme books

[Anonymous No.12584123]

>>12571886
you've stacked the strange death of europe for too long anon. there's a new updated edition

[Anonymous No.12585380]

>>12583510
This is why I love stack threads, thanks for the interesting works to look into

>>12584123
The VNSA book fair was just a bunch of old donated books for like a dollar so I just got what I could find. Though I appreciate the update

[Anonymous No.12585906]

>>12580457
I think it's called "Bad MS paint skills"

[Anonymous No.12586359]

>>12571928
There's a terrible sex scene in the second resistance book btw

[Anonymous No.12586454]

>>12583908
im going through don quixote first, then I figure maybe the good soldier svejk
on the side I have a collection of Hume essays which Ill sometimes read

[Anonymous No.12586571]

>>12586454
Sounds good. I'm going through Just My Type by Simon Garfield first. I've always had a fascination for handwriting, calligraphy, and the appearance and aesthetic of the written word.

[Anonymous No.12587618]

wealthy nations, the arctic war, the prints

[Anonymous No.12587894]

>>12571886
long of cringe selections here

[Anonymous No.12587897]

>>12586359
Yikes

[Anonymous No.12588742]

>>12571928
the sorting robot knows loathsome trash when it sees it

[Anonymous No.12588751]

>>12579329
Omeros is really decent - I really enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.12588753]

>>12571886
Kek

[Anonymous No.12588760]

>>12582453
A great book done via a bad translation, friend. Also be prepared for that book to disintegrate in your hands with even the most careful of reading. Wordsworth classics are made out of fucking butterfly wings.

[Anonymous No.12588792]

>>12576641
You need to stop buying girardfag's bullshit and go outside.