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15505872 No.15505872 [Reply] [Original]

Do you people even read?

>> No.15505887

I just finished a long book, I'm taking the week off.

Haven't gone out to buy a new stack because viruses and riots.

>> No.15505901
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>>15505872
My bookshelf is fucked so I'm having to put all my newly read books in a stack for now. Here's all the books I've read since I had to start doing this

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>>15505872
I mainly read ebooks and library books, so I have no idea.

>> No.15505915

idk what to read

>> No.15505928

>>15505872
amazing that people actually read books instead of just posting consoomer pics about them. don't they know this is lit?

>> No.15505930

>>15505915
well what sort of stuff have you liked in the past?

>> No.15505933

>>15505915
read Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen

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You call those stacks? This is a stack

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>>15505938
OP again, thank god someone here reads
>>15505901
also quite good

>> No.15506050

>>15505938
>all those awful books

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>>15505872
I don't read physical.

>> No.15507243

>i ching
Based, I'd love to read it too. How's it? Have someone read it?

>> No.15507276

>>15505938
Congratulations on spending a shit ton of books you'll never grasp the meaning of, faggot

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Check it, /lit/.

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>>15507527
I have that edition of Moby Dick.

>> No.15507653

>>15507140
based

>> No.15507762

>>15505872
>Do you people even read?
Infrequently.

>> No.15508220

>>15505930
russians, Thomas Mann, Musil, 19th century french writers. Nietzsche

>> No.15508237

>>15505905
She so cute :')

>> No.15508251

>>15507276
Why are you so angry

>> No.15508288
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>> No.15508308

ebooks are enough, my ego is fine

>> No.15508316

>>15508288
all that medieval lit/history made me coom in my pants
great stack anon

>> No.15508346

>>15505872
Those Shambhala publications look beautiful, how's the quality?
Might grab a few for myself.

>> No.15508355

>>15508316
Thanks anon I'm an MA student in Medieval studies currently

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here's muh stack, bros

>> No.15508553

>>15507577
Based leatherbounds. Mirin' that shelf, anon.

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>>15508394
uh fucking based

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>>15505872

>> No.15509218

>>15505872
>I Ching
bless you my nigga

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>>15509201
Saw this in another thread, definitely a good stack my dude

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>>15508288
Based enough.

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>> No.15510074

>>15505938
What’s in that von gothe book? May add that to my list
>>15509201
You tainted this stack by putting fight club in it. Otherwise not bad
>>15509937
Based Flann O’Brien

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>>15505872
I have shelves. I read books (maybe 1-3 at a time). Wtf are these stacks all about?

>> No.15510122

>>15507276
everyman library is pretty cheap.

>> No.15510194
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An anon in a previous stack thread commented on my Proust stack, give me some encouragement, and suggested I check out Eric Karpeles translation of Józef Czapski's Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp. I look it up online and found it absolutely intriguing, so I decided to go and order a hard copy.

So, thank you for the tip, anon.

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>>15510194
>give
gave
>look
looked

Can't write properly tonight, I guess.

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my cath stack. don't have high hopes for cath republic or decadent society, but i really enjoy reading bad books anyway, so that i can shit on them.

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>>15505872

>> No.15510380

>>15509201
why are your LOTR books that thick? Would like to know what's added or different from others since mine are much smaller. Based stack tho.

>> No.15510794

>>15510273
Your stack is baud and you should feel baud

>> No.15510818

>>15508251
Jealous he can't even afford Everyman's Library books

>> No.15511211

>>15510074
>What’s in that von gothe book
Don't know, I just wanted a hardcover replacement for my copy of Faust and Young Werther specifically (which are included), and it seemed the most economic edition of Goethe I could purchase considering no singular work of Goethe is particular easy to find or cheap in hardcover when it's by itself. Hell, even the Oxford edition of Faust (which comes printed as two parts for whatever reason) cost half as much as that Everyman's binding, and the Oxford is not just a shitty paperback binding, but also contains only 1/4 of the content of that Everyman's edition as well.

>> No.15511257

>>15510818
Which is really weird because especially in the case of the lengthier titles they're usually only like $5 more than a Penguin

>> No.15511289

>>15505938
you've posted this same stack in the last 8 stack threads. why don't you start reading them and stop posting them, bitch?

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>>15510794
Every day I feel baud

>> No.15511663

>>15505938
based Everychad poster

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Local church was clearing out their library

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>> No.15511753

>>15511747
Didn't mean to post it sideways RIP

>> No.15511760

>>15511289
That's not the same stack, you just don't pay attention. I've posted that one in maybe three threads, here included. I've been reading M&D the last two weeks.

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Not a stack, because I actually read my books, but i just got this in the mail today

>> No.15511791

>>15508652
I am a disgraceful phoneposter (lurker) as well. I’ve probably had over 30 unfinished threads open over the course of weeks at one point. You have to do what you have to do when an interesting topic reveals itself on a slow board.

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>>15507527
Have a Stephen Walt in my current stack too.

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Getting through The Poet and the King which hypes La Fontaine

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Working with these right now.

Fitness, sports/exercise psychology and martial arts books.

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>> No.15513221

>>15507243
it's an ancient divination manual, not a book to be read

>> No.15513352

>>15506007
That top shelf is pretty shitty my guy. Bottom shelf is negligibly better.

>> No.15513643

>>15505872
Do you?

>> No.15514996

>>15510818
Do the covers on these fall off? I always take them off my hardcovers because it gets annoying but everyman covers look /fa/ as fuck.

>> No.15515491

>>15511664
Mirin' that stack. You get a discount for those gems?

>> No.15516267

>>15513013
Good to see that you are actually reading some of the Tragedians mentioned, but some Aeschylus and Aristophanes would be necessary to get a sufficiently broad picture imho.

>> No.15516376

>>15510380
The pages are pretty small that might be it. I don't think there is that much extra in them apart, the index is quite long which could be why.

>> No.15516747

>>15514996
>Do the covers on these fall off
You mean the dust jackets? Uh, yeah, you're supposed to remove those while you read.

>> No.15516789

>>15514996
>zoomer discovers dust jackets

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>> No.15516959

I have the feeling people here simply really do not read. Always the same ~50 books discussed and shown here, in every thread, every day. Have none of you developed personal taste?

>> No.15516970

>>15516959
which one is yours?

>> No.15516988

>>15516970
I don't have a stackm

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>>15505872
Yes I read

>> No.15517190

I want to read but all the books I want are out of stock (or have shipping estimates of >a month). I thought the plague was supposed to be fun.

>> No.15517234

>>15505872
stack? no, i use e-readers and piracy

>> No.15517243

>>15517152
fuckin BASED

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>> No.15517288

>>15517243
Thanks babe

>> No.15517370

Every time I come into threads like these, I get reminded that none of you faggots actually read.

>> No.15518232

>>15516988
Baser non-reader

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>>15517370
whatever helps you sleep at night, babydick

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>>15518239

Imagine unironically taking valuable time out of your short time on this earth to create an account on some shitty social media site to brag about the number of pages and books you read, to feel self validation and good about yourself, even though you probably understood about 10% of what you read, it will not fill the empty void in your soul, and no one on the entire planet gives even the slightest of shits that you read 17 books so far this year.

>> No.15518346

>>15518239
i've read roughly half that and i barely read at all. these aren't bragging numbers.

>> No.15518611

>>15516959
I tried to discuss war diaries of the XIX century once, it was a short-lived thread.

>> No.15518693

>>15518611
>>15516959
>PEOPLE DON'T READ THE SAME BOOKS AS ME SO THEY MUST NOT READ AT ALL!!!
do you fucking pseuds realize how many books there are? a lot.

>> No.15518723

>>15512737
do you think the iconic cover of phenomenology of spirit played a part in making hegel so popular today?

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This just arrived in the mail. (Arktos)

Current read: The Passion of the Western Mind -Tarnas. (Ballantine)

Next read: Anthropomorphics: An Originary Grammar of the Centre - Bouvard. (Im,periumPress)

>> No.15518848

>>15509201
How is Starship Troopers anon? Wanted to check it out for a long time

>> No.15518887

>>15518280
>>15518346
The sound and the btfo

>> No.15518900

>>15516959
if everyone read different books how would we discuss them??

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>>15505938
>You call those stacks? This is a stack

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>> No.15519413

>>15519242
Based I have that same edition of Fathers and Sons. How’s that Onegin translation? I’ve been wanting to read it but don’t know which version to buy

>> No.15519739

>>15519413
Easily one of my favorite books ever. Not as "compelling" as the more venerable Russians but the story is more close to my own life so I greatly appreciated the narrative. Very warm and familial.
The onegin translation was nice. My first Russian prose translation so I can't say if it was good or not. I was able to understand easily and the flow was fantastic. Great story and the character building was insane

>> No.15519954

>>15511664
how do people hear about shit like this? i feel like it's only once in a blue moon i hear about these sorts of local fire sales. is there a good way to track these short of following literally every organization in town on facebook?

>> No.15519983

>>15516918
Libra whips and is probably my favorite DeLillo. Enjoy.

>>15517152
I keep putting off Book of the Long Sun. BOTNS was incredible, and I even enjoyed Urth of the New Sun, but just haven't brought myself to start Long Sun. I have heard it's a lot different, though.

>>15517234
oh ok cool

>>15519242
I was surprised by Fathers and Sons when I finally read it. Really smooth book. Enjoy.

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I've got a shit ton of random books of varying quality from my dead grandfather who was a hoarder, here's a few. I'm thinking about making my way through his collection without regard for quality

>> No.15520213

>>15511760
U add one or two books but it's mostly the same

>> No.15520439

>>15518693
Yes I do realize how many books there are. Want to try and read my post again? >>15516959

>> No.15520719

>>15512737
junkie mattress

>> No.15520792

>>15511664
Nice comfy stack, I have only read the of Imitation of Christ sadly.

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>>15507527
>he fell for it

>> No.15520910

>>15508288
that book is literally hitler

>>15510794
pleb

>> No.15520992

>>15518794
How is the Klages book? I liked the Biocentric Worldview but not sure how good a collection of random aphorisms will be.

>> No.15521074

>>15518280
Nice projection there, fag.

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>>15510273
>All that Baudrillard
>Especially The Agony of Power
We're reaching based levels never thought possible.

>> No.15521160

>>15517252
Those are some sexy volumes

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>>15508220
Joyce, Woolf or Proust

I can never keep to a stack, I'm currently reading Nietzsche and Gravity's Rainbow and will probably delay the stack for more of Freddy.

Should I read Buddenbrooks before Doktor Faustus even though I'm obsessed with classical music?

btw that Vintage edition of Don Quijote is the ugliest book I've ever seen (it was the cheapest Grossman translation)