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>> No.13529665

based and Megan Boyle-pilled

>> No.13529722
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>> No.13529725

What is the fucking point of stack threads?
Can't you just use paint to copy and paste the covers of the books you like best, if your goal is to kindle discussion on your favorite books?
Why post a picture of the physical books for any other purpose other than to use 4chan as you're sad little replacement for facebook or instagram where real people give you your prized validation? Why ship new books which you'll perhaps never read, if that last wretching impulse that makes you click buy is knowing that you'll get to post a picture of a pristine fucking door stopper that you'll never get to actually fucking read to an online anonymous imageboard whose majority of users never read anything past 1984? Who the fuck are you actually trying to fool here other than yourself, all of those books exist on libgen and will take you exactly 5 minutes to download to your fucking phone, why, why do you buy them and then post a fucking picture of it to the lowliest of social media online? do you think fucking Nietzsche would post his Schopenhauer 16th edition hardcover with the black and white photo to the fucking internet, much less to fucking 4chan, to fake himself into feeling good about himself?
fuck you

also I'm sorry I have a problem with people who are financially comfortable enough to spend money on books, probably reflects my inner complex in feeling superior to everyone else because I grew up poor and still am poor

>> No.13529860

>>13529725
have sex

>> No.13529869

>>13529725
>do you think fucking Nietzsche would post his Schopenhauer 16th edition hardcover with the black and white photo to the fucking internet, much less to fucking 4chan, to fake himself into feeling good about himself?
yes

>> No.13529902

>>13529725
>too poor to afford a stacc lololol

>> No.13530008

>>13529662
wow. you like wasting money, don't you? I don't even mean your taste is bad, just that all those books are massively over priced

>> No.13530067

>>13529725

Go to a fucking library

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>>13529662
Well you've got one based book. The Peterson makes me want to vomit.

>> No.13530186

>>13530008
Poorfag

>> No.13530225

>>13530186
Why do you waste money? Are you brainless?

>> No.13530680

Based and 2017 pilled.

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>>13529662
Ditch that edition of Beyond Good and Evil and upgrade to the chad Basic Writings of Nietzsche.

>> No.13531328

>>13529725
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0d6xCX8jbAw

>> No.13531372

>>13531328
Not only did you waste your own time but you wasted mine as well with this shitty non-addition waste of a vocaroo. Why can’t you just type bluepilled with a picture of a destitute Pepe? Why do have to waste ten minutes plodding along in your Cheetos-eating great courses-bingeing mocking spongebob voice making no addition whatsoever? If I’m going to waste my life on the internet I’d at least like it to be entertaining.
Also the poorfag should have sex.

>> No.13531390

>>13531372
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1srJjpKXxJY

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here's my stack

>> No.13531416

>>13531411
>leather pouch
pseud

>> No.13531441

>>13531416
I usually read without it tho, using it mainly for transport

>> No.13531486

>>13531411
>Wyznania
Based. How do you like 1,2, and 5?

>> No.13531714

>>13529725
Just stop being poor.

I'm reading: Iliad, Moby-Dick, The Everything Store, Fanged Noumena, Meditations, Dune, The Day of the Locust and Lolita right now.

Afterwards I've got quite a stack. In queue is a Dev Ops book, Capital (Pikety), Thus Spoke Zarathusta(sp), qu'aran and Arabian Nights

>> No.13531851

>>13531129
Is that small ring-bounded notebook a book? Is it for notetaking?

>> No.13531888

>>13529725
I've read four doorstoppers the past 12 months.
Thus I presuppose that I'll read the other 10.

>> No.13532010

>>13530225
What to spens money on of not books? What kind of brainlet does one have to be value other things above books?

>> No.13532015

>>13531411
Name of the app??

>> No.13532026

>>13529725
>Can't you just use paint to copy and paste the covers of the books you like best
Way more effort than just taking a picture

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>>13529662
do you even have a personality or an identity?

>> No.13532066

>>13529722
based

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>> No.13532179

>>13532075
Interesting, why this particular field?

>> No.13532224

>>13529662
A lot of people are giving this anon shit, but I'm just glad he found time to get one fiction book.

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>>13529725
>he hasn't read Borgmann

>> No.13532509

>>13532179
I spend a lot of time in the field and love living things, field biology has been a no-brainer for my whole fucking life, and I like to look at pretty pictures. Bateson is also my guy, I'm into epistemology and semiotics, and wanted an introduction to cybernetics. All no-brainers

>> No.13532520

>>13529725
It's to show and tell what you are doing to other anons, and hopefully have a conversation. Why would you make this post? It's more attention seeking than any of these stacks. Have secs you disagreeable autist.

>> No.13532619

>>13532075
How's the entomology book?

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>> No.13532632

>>13529662
>>13529722
Jungians are faggots
>>13531129
bro get the pens and notebooks out they don't count
>>13531411
cringe and foreign pilled
>>13532075
based, although Bateson is a bit of a clown and, obvious as it is, Weiner is still the best intro to cybernetics.

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>> No.13532702

>>13532686
Grossman>>>>Solzhenytsin

>> No.13532706

>>13532702
I've read both. They aren't too similar.

>> No.13532739

>>13532625
Going to give Thucydides and the tragedians a try?

>> No.13532747

>>13532619
It's great, the id guide is better than the botany book's. Definitely need to supplement it with specific field guides and identification keys. Borror and DeLong is what to read if you want an introduction to entomology proper, I've browsed a poorly formated PDF and was impressed but the book has been outside of my budget.
This link covers the basics of field work
https://wiki.bugwood.org/FD-ENT

>> No.13532763

>>13532739
Yea I have them too. I bought theses before discovering libgen.

>> No.13532773

>>13532747
https://bugguide.net/node/view/3/bglink

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>>13529662

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>>13532786
Oh great this sideways shit

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>>13532795
My shit is getting out of control

>> No.13532842

>>13532686
Based Stalingrad

>> No.13532846

>>13532795
Based asf

>> No.13532848

>>13531714
t. ADHD anon

>> No.13532897

>>13532632
Yeah, Weiner is on the list. I chose Bateson due to the relevance to my interests, specifically biosemiotics, and his life experiences doing field work in New Guinea and Cetology. I'm drawn to iconoclasts, clowns do more for my imagination. haven't read enough to pin Bateson down. He seems presumptuous and his heavy-handed use of scare quotes is off-putting, if not an outright red flag.

>> No.13532965

>>13532747
>>13532773
Thanks. I've read "for love of insects" and am interested in general entomology. I'll check those out.

>> No.13533040

>>13532795
how is Solaris?

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Feast your eyes, plebs. This one-book stack is better than any shit you have.

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>>13531411

>> No.13533083

>>13533040
Its what ever. Pretty good for SciFi though.

>> No.13533197

>>13532509
Based.

>> No.13533207

>>13529725
Im with you. It’s because /lit/ is really shallow and stacks are about posturing and showing off. Most people on lit don’t care about discussing or engaging with their readings, it’s just about cultivating an aura of culture and intellectualism. I would rather see an interesting discussion of one book rather than a thread of stupid pictures of dozens of books.

I know a lot of other anons responded to you with shit, but they’re all fucking faggots that are here to jerk off their broken self-image instead of actually reading.

This place is such a shithole. Fuck all of you faggots

>> No.13533213

>>13531411
Based and fuck

>> No.13533229

>>13533059
I thought that was Mao's book from the thumbnail

>> No.13533391

>>13532795
>>13532808
I think it's time to buy a bookshelf, anon.
Nice collection though

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>> No.13533598

>>13531851
Yup, journalling in general.

>> No.13534621

>>13533207
Thank you for understanding anon, I'm out of here

>> No.13534694

>>13529725
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0YD4MmCJ3yM

>> No.13534796

>>13533439
nice stack

>> No.13534866

Jung is hippy nonsense.

>> No.13535348

>>13530183
Don't go so deep, bro. Stick your tongue out flat if that helps.

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>>13529662
>Gulag Archipelago
>Abridged
ew. Read the full 3 volume version for fucksakes. Gulag Abridged is like reading the cliff-notes or Reader's Digest version for fucksakes.

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Is maps of meaning good?

>> No.13536144

>>13532075
nice feet

>> No.13536168

>>13536129
Yes and no. There are some fascinating insights, but Jesus fuck can Peterson beat a concept to death for way too long.

>> No.13536175

>>13536129
>B&N Classic
>clearly creased spine
why

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birthday stack

>> No.13537246

>>13532075
Sedges have edges

>>13532632
>Bateson
>Weiner
If you want a time sink you can always take up speedrunning

>>13532786
>>13532795
>>13532808
Once I see a certain critical mass of meme books, I know I won't find any hidden gems

>> No.13537358

>>13533207
Pseuds BTFO

>> No.13537377

>>13529725
I never understood these posts. Do people get butthurt over people's movie or cd collections on other boards too?

>> No.13538133

>>13529662
>Peterson
STOP RIGHT THERE

>> No.13538160

>>13529722
the pocket oracle is fantastic

>> No.13538314

>>13536175
I wanted to read plato and that was what they had at B and N. I didn’t realize people think those editions are shit until after I bought it.

I am actually reading it though.

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Mine

>> No.13541284

>>13532848
I have add yes but I still finish at least two chapters a night in three of those books. I do about 5 books a month.

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>>13529662
holy fuck great stack faggot lmaoooo

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>> No.13541486

>>13538314
nah I was actually surprised the book had a clearly creased spine because in my experience B&N classics don't crease unless you really force it. But it could also be the size of the book, i don't have many B&N classics that big

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>>13535348

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>> No.13542573

bump

>> No.13542600

>>13531411
so based.

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>>13541472
>the idea of the labyrinth
I have never heard of this but I'm very interested. Thank you anon

>> No.13542911

>>13532848
He said he was going to read a devops book, should have been obvious.

>> No.13543152

>>13541472
>labyrinth book
been curious bout thsi one gimme deets

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Been mostly focusing on 2666, which is excellent. I've been going through Early Greek Philosophy and The Great Gatsby slowly, a chapter a day. The bottom two I just got from the library.

>>13533439
I hope Frost is a good intro to Bernhard. I just picked it because it's his first novel.

>> No.13543264

>>13529725
posting a stack doesn’t imply the books are new. they are recent purchases. i read physical copies as i dislike using e-readers.

you are such a mad virgin my dude. not everyone that reads is financially well off.

>> No.13543461

>>13531714
franken/lit/

>> No.13543642

>>13532795
>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
based boomer

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>>13529662
>abridged gulag
Pathetic

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>> No.13545053

>>13543751
>reading Solzhenitsyn
Cringe. An abridgement is the lesser of two evils.
(You should unqualifiedly drop him immediately, and read Herling-Grudzinski instead)

>> No.13545076

>>13534866
Explain

>> No.13545089

>>13529665
>Megan Boyle pill
What does the pill do to the ingester?

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Just what I had on my desk when I saw this thread

>> No.13545406

>>13529662
>stack
>is actually books laying flat in a row
really, anon?

>> No.13545415

>>13532625
Didn't know they deliver books down in Australia. Also wtf, you complete works of Aristotle books look nicer than mine. Mine have no shine to them.

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Currently at Leviathan. Should I throw in Montesquieu before the feds?

>> No.13545752

>>13545089
Cures your drug addiction and replaces your borderline personality disorder with manic depressive consumption of self help literature and a quasi religious reverence for your psychoanalyst.

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>> No.13545832

>>13545454
cool Leviathan what do you think about his argument that loyalty to the State supercedes loyalty to God? i think he's full of shit his reasoning is how we get epidemics of pedo preachers and international pedo rings

>> No.13546034

>>13545415
this

>> No.13546124

>>13545832
I haven't got to that part yet, but I think that the things you mention wouldn't be allowed in a Hobbesian state anyway, so it's probably not fair to blame him.

>> No.13546225

>>13532795
>Murdoch, The Bell
That is one based, underrated little book

That is a very good collection, though you should try to read in more than one language, it's the next step

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I'm in the middle of consider the lobster. Grammar essay is the best so far. 9/11 essay surprisingly poignant

>> No.13546522

>>13546225
I no longer read translations. Once I'm done all the English books. I'll move on to another language.

>> No.13546571

>>13544085
How's The Tunnel?
Concept sounds really interesting but I'm scared of "postmodern novels" after Melancholy of Resistance kicked my ass

>> No.13547259

>>13545454
6.5/10
Thats a lot of political philosophy anon. What makes you so interested in politics?

>>13546312
5/10


>>13545378
5/10

>>13544085
4.5/10

>>13543227
7/10

>>13541808
8.75/10 if real, but this looks like a stock photo

>>13541472
9/10

>>13539851
5.5/10
Shit face pic

>>13536751
6/10

>> No.13547317

>>13533439
>no gargoyles

>> No.13547456

>>13531714
Do people really read 7 books at a time? I can never juggle more than 2 or 3.

>> No.13547477

>>13536751
Happy birthday. Hope you enjoy those books anon

>> No.13547487

>>13529869
read him then

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>>13547259
no u look like a stock photo

>> No.13548192

>>13547912
That is a gorgeous cat

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>>13548192
she's my baby girl. stray kitten i found on the street, love her to pieces.

>> No.13548215

>>13531411
every fucking thread

>> No.13548225

>>13536751
>anne carson sappho

based

>> No.13548493

>>13547259
>Thats a lot of political philosophy anon. What makes you so interested in politics?
I love political phil <3

>> No.13549239

>>13546312
The Things They Carried is great.

>> No.13549314

>>13545752
The only person who could say this would be Megan, right? Who would conjur a deeply insightful and utterly personal medical history, and do so nearly in the brutal, unflinching style of Liveblog, if not Miss Boyle? I hope you are doing well. Not enough good things have been said of Liveblog but I hope you permit yourself another go at such a scale of inspiration and write much more, assuming it brings you joy or something like that.

>> No.13549515

>>13531411
Any reccomendations of good (preferably cheap) Kindle/tablet thing and best way/place/app to buy books?

I'm old and don't understand this technology but am tired books taking up space in my house.

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Recent cops.
>Yu Hua - Brothers
His essay collection, "China in Ten Words" is really good. His writing is full of soul, so I decided to check his fiction too. "Brothers" was the book he named-ropped multiple times in the essay collection, so I thought that this is probably the work he is most proud of out of all his writings.
>Lao She - Cat Country
I like She's short stories I came across in different anthologies, so I hope his longer fiction is good too. "Teahouse" is good, if a bit heavy handed.
>Lu Xun - Selected Essays on Literature (More literally "Literature, Revolution, Society - Selected Literary-publicist writings)
Read it a few years back. I think I was sixteen-seventeen at the time, and I really felt brain_exansion.jpg happening while I was reading it. Though it did had the effect of making me see a lot of literary works in the light of class-conflict for a few weeks, a feeling which I'm ambivalent about.
>The Epic of Gilgamesh and other Assyrian Poems (More literally "Gilgamesh/The Message of the Clay Tablets")
I like epics, even though I haven't read the Greeks, since I was too busy fucking around with Eastern literature when it was a subject at school, and I'm too busy fucking around with Middle-High German epics and other irrelevant epics from the Medieval era and the Baroque and Renaissance eras now.
It seems promising. Basically all of the Assyrian and Sumerian poems archaeology uncovered until the 60s.
Already read the "Dialogue of Pessimism" from it. It's interesting to see how even thousands of years ago, people were capable of such thought. It's really human and close to us.
The red volume under it is Gilgamesh too, but translated by a different bloke. It's only a hundred pages, so reading different versions of it is no big deal. (In this regard, it's like the Daodejing. Speaking if which, there was this poem about how the king should follow his own laws, how he should treat the elites with respect, and how he should not upset the people, which reminded me of Confucianist and Daoist doctrines quite a bit.)
I just want to see an entertaining heroic tale infused with mythology, using a pleasant rhythm. I don't have high expectations.

>> No.13549565

>>13529725
they're all narcissists. same motivation that pushes them into becoming pseuds

>> No.13550591

>>13533439
Strange how Bernhard has seen a surge of popularity on this board.
The Lime Works is an excellent book. He's a great author with an interesting personality to boot. When I encountered his books for the first time, he was recommended as an author who is "perfect for the Christmas season"
I hope you'll have fun with his works.

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>Wanna post my fresh stack

>Last time I posted it someone saved it and still posts it to this day 3 months later

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>>13550743
Which one is it

>> No.13551515

kinda irrelevant but whatever, i really like american psycho so was wondering if you guys knew which of ellis' books were most similar to that? thx

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guess my major

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>>13551565

>> No.13551604

>>13551565
ok this is epic

>> No.13551804

>>13545053
Soljy is great though. Reconsider your opinions

>> No.13553444

Bump

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>>13529662