Christmas Stack Thread

[Anonymous No.22877746]

Post’em

[Anonymous No.22877793]

I've read the first chapter: the stack.

[Anonymous No.22877808]

>>22877746
I gifted them to myself and they are all in the mail. I’m upgrading some favorites to Everyman’s Library hardcovers: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, Ulysses, Sophocles’ Theban Plays, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

I got a couple other books I never read before: The March of Literature by Ford Maddox Ford, and The Golden Ass by Apuleius

[Anonymous No.22877817]

Pretty lame OP. Hopefully one day you have formed your own personality

[Anonymous No.22877820]

>>22877746
Yes, but do you read anything for fun or is it all work?

[Anonymous No.22877828]

>>22877820
Philosophy is fun, also I've got Gravities Rainbow at the bottom.

[Anonymous No.22877838]

>>22877828
Philosophy IS fun, but I for one can only read 1-2 philosophy books in a row before I'm burned out and need to detox with some fiction while I think about what I read.

But hey, each to their own. If you do enjoy it then go ahead man.

[Anonymous No.22877843]

>>22877828
>approved genre is fun, but I’ve also got approved novel on the bottom

[Anonymous No.22877847]

>>22877838
>>22877843
I'm a philosophy major so I enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.22877854]

>>22877746

[Anonymous No.22877873]

My Christmas haul.
Plus I got a 25 dollar Amazon gift card , so I ordered Between Two Fires and PrairyErth

[Anonymous No.22877879]

>>22877854
This is a joke post I hope

haha so funny

[Anonymous No.22877890]

My Christmas haul is …
>goes to stack a bunch of unread books in my room and take pic

[Anonymous No.22877891]

>>22877746
i read remains of the day earlier this year and sent it to my mom because i thought she'd like it and she said it was one of the most beautiful things she's ever read. for christmas she sent me "the buried giant" even though she hasn't read it and thought i would like it. very cool!

[Anonymous No.22877912]

>>22877891
based mom

[Anonymous No.22877943]

>>22877828
Have fun!

[Anonymous No.22877975]

I got a rare German copy of an old book called "Der Jude", Homer's Odyssey Illustrated (summary unfortunately), Schwarzenegger's Be Useful (was that a fucking hint?), and Isaacson's biography of Benjamin Franklin.
How am I doing?

[Anonymous No.22878173]

>>22877975
youre based and solid

[Anonymous No.22878195]

I went to a few thrift shops that were nearby and picked up 4 norton editions and an arden shakespeare edition
I love collecting arden even though I do not read them

[Anonymous No.22878557]

>>22878195
Shakespeare made up half the words

[Anonymous No.22878608]

I only got one. Came today from Amazon. I'm happy I guess.

[Anonymous No.22878710]

>>22877746
I got a giftcard so I just ordered a few books
>Vineland
>Growth of the Soil
>Look Homeward, Angel
>Charterhouse of Parma
>Snow Country by Kawabata
>Lake by Kawabata
>Oblivion: Stories
>Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen

[Anonymous No.22878712]

I got these for myself in the month of December. I didn't get any books for Christmas.

[Anonymous No.22878848]

>>22878712
Nice!

[Anonymous No.22879122]

Got these in a second hand book store in Berlin yesterday.

[Anonymous No.22879129]

Just ordered these with some money my mum gave me.

[Anonymous No.22879150]

>>22877746

[Anonymous No.22879296]

>>22878173
Thank you, that was a nice Christmas message.

[Anonymous No.22879554]

>>22877746
kripke is excellent
deleuze is a retard

[Anonymous No.22880278]

>>22879122
>leatherstocking tales
Unfortunate. The Last of the Mohicans is popular for a reason. It's the only one worth reading.

[Anonymous No.22880326]

>>22880278
I have a couple other Cooper books. The only one missing now is Ned Myers. One day I might even read a Cooper book. (Probably next year.)

[Anonymous No.22880412]

All 3 are used

[Anonymous No.22880875]

>>22879122
You went to St.Georges´s? I've been there today and grabbed a copy of McCullers' novels.

[Anonymous No.22880975]

>>22877746
This is what I got SO FAR. might get two more soon.

[Anonymous No.22881112]

>>22880875
Yep, that's where I was. I touched every single LoA book by the way so yours has my finger fat on it. Enjoy. :^)

[Anonymous No.22881152]

>>22879122
How much did those cost you?

[Anonymous No.22881156]

>>22881152
74 bucks. They were all 20 euro shekels or a bit lower.
I will never forget how I got a hardcover copy of FW for 7 bucks in that shop.

[Anonymous No.22881740]

I just got cookbooks

[Anonymous No.22881790]

>>22877746

[Anonymous No.22881946]

>>22881740
More like COCKBOOKS AHAHAHAHAA

[Anonymous No.22881954]

>>22881790
Get the Penguin City of God. I was intimidated, but you’re given enough to jump right in with everything before the text. Interesting, and we get Augustine’s history of philosophy up until that point.

[Anonymous No.22881962]

>>22881954
Thanks for the recommendation, I was trying to figure out which version I should go with.

[Anonymous No.22881967]

>>22880412
>All 3 are used
unbelievably based

[Anonymous No.22882163]

>>22879122
I bought the Iliad there some time ago.

[Anonymous No.22882327]

>>22882163
Just that one book?

[Anonymous No.22883100]

>>22877746

[Anonymous No.22883130]

>>22883100
Autism

[Anonymous No.22883132]

>>22879129
I’m gonna check both of those out

[Anonymous No.22883700]

My mom got me a Kindle ereader and I've been looking at stuff that comes with Unlimited. I got sick of shitty YA slop (Not Even Bones, The Poppy War), so I'm trying out a book called The Last Flight.

[Anonymous No.22883709]

>>22877828
>gravities

[Anonymous No.22883744]

>>22883130
It's based though.

[Anonymous No.22883851]

>>22883100
based husserl reader

[Anonymous No.22884112]

>>22881740
My mom got something ("The Monk"?) about a Nip who makes pizza in Kyoto.

[Anonymous No.22884117]

>>22877873
I bought my sister The Gate for Christmas. Why'd you buy it?

NYRB always have lovely covers; I feel silly but I've genuinely bought a few purely on that alone.

[Anonymous No.22884525]

>>22884112
The cookbooks I got are
4 ingredient meals
Different pasta dishes
Easy/ier/iest cookbook
A 1998 Betty crocker cookbook


Though I did manage to find Spengler for cheap at an antique shop here in FL.

[Anonymous No.22885131]

I got Fox in Socks and To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street from my little sister.

[Anonymous No.22885208]

>>22880875
Nice shelf behind. Where did you find that hardback Austerlitz? Is it the German?

[Anonymous No.22885576]

[Anonymous No.22886102]

[Anonymous No.22886126]

>>22885208
Yes, it is the German version. I bought it recently on Amazon I believe.

[Anonymous No.22886153]

>>22877746
Got these a week ago, will probably last me a year or two

[Anonymous No.22886201]

>>22886153
How much have you paid?

[Anonymous No.22886230]

>>22877817
what a gay comment. since when is trying to read the western philosophical canon "not having your own personality?" you are probably a midwit genreshit consoomer

[Anonymous No.22886241]

i downloaded all of library genesis and my life goal is to read all the nonfiction titles on my hardrive. wish me look anones.

[Anonymous No.22886273]

>>22886153
>>22881790
Seeing a lot of City of God being posted on lit and elsewhere. Is Christianity becoming popular again?

[Anonymous No.22886281]

>>22877746
Badiou worth it?

[Anonymous No.22886311]

>>22884117
>Why’d you buy it?

I needed 75 dollars worth of books to qualify for free shipping. I had most of the burger and bong books I wanted so decided to try a Japanese author.

[Anonymous No.22886343]

>>22886273
Again? /lit/ has been mostly Christcucks for years now ever since atheism became dominant on the internet and theism was the "counter culture" online. If anything it should be swinging back to atheism in the next couple years.

[Anonymous No.22886525]

>>22886153
Nice stack.
>>22886273
I read some books by Christians about Christianity this year but being a Christian is lame I was just looking for some help in finding peace with myself.

[Anonymous No.22886610]

>>22877808
Got 4 of them in today. Decided to start The Golden Ass as that’s the only one I’ve never read. I kinda knew what to expect but so far it has surprised me early on. Why is this book not more widely known? Why did it take me over a decade to pick it up?

[Anonymous No.22886624]

>>22886343
/lit/ is all christians now because normies are christian and this place is full of normies

[Anonymous No.22886626]

>>22886153
How much for the the whole deal? And where did you find them

[Anonymous No.22886719]

[Anonymous No.22886833]

What can I say, I like schlock

[Anonymous No.22886947]

>>22879150
based and goodbook pilled

[Anonymous No.22887256]

>>22886833
Based JP Melville enjoyer

[Anonymous No.22887279]

>>22877746
>Gravity's Rainbow
Very nice. Although I read that edition, a copy from the library, and the binding fell apart on me about midway through. Took it back and got another one. Hope that misfortune doesn't befall you, OP.

[Anonymous No.22887339]

>>22883100
>metaphysics
Are you transgender?

[Anonymous No.22887616]

>>22886624
Pretty sure it's spammers from discord who got lost on their way to /pol/ or who want to larp as intelligent.

[Anonymous No.22887814]

R8 my taste in books and chips br0s.

[Anonymous No.22888055]

>>22877746
Can't take a photo at the moment but I'll send the update I posted to my website.

[Anonymous No.22888066]

>>22887814
based spicy chips enjoyer, based gustave dore appreciator

[Anonymous No.22888079]

>>22886626
Uce kupuvav na yakaboo, zaplativ bagato, u nich zazvichay natzinka u sto-dwisty grivniv z toiy tziny scho na amazoni

[Anonymous No.22888181]

>>22888079
Thanks fellow europoor

[Anonymous No.22888207]

>>22886833
le samourai was supreme kino

[Anonymous No.22888440]

I got physical books after a long time and I gotta say objectively digital > physical. I'll get through those books but damn I'm never buying another book again.

[Anonymous No.22889396]

Awww yeah Ratbrains

[Anonymous No.22889426]

>>22877746
gotta love used book store.

[Anonymous No.22889440]

>>22877854
the best part about this picture is the funko pop.

[Anonymous No.22889552]

[Anonymous No.22889563]

>>22886153
>>22885576
>>22887814
>>22889552
>>22879150
>>22888055
Very nice. Very nice. I hope you all enjoy your new reads, especially the Emerson and Malory anons.

[Anonymous No.22889680]

[Anonymous No.22889785]

All the books I got are in mp3

[Anonymous No.22889786]

>>22888055
what's your website anon?

[Anonymous No.22890049]

>>22889786
I'll keep it off of /lit/ for now. It's under my legal name and isn't fully functional—it breaks when accessing it through a web-kit browser for whatever reason. I'll most likely link to it in the future in a shelf thread.
Here's the bookkeeping I did for my bookshelf if you're interested. I've mainly been using my site to function as a library for friends and family.
The LC formatting could be wrong in some aspects. I'm a lazy twat and wrote a script to automatically sort it.

[Anonymous No.22890154]

>>22888055
>>22890049
>>22888055
>>22890049
And a proper image for my /lit/bros out there.
Enjoy looking at my third copy of The Brothers Karamazov.

[Anonymous No.22890746]

>>22890154
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

[Anonymous No.22890801]

>>22890049
What a weird assortment

[Anonymous No.22890823]

>>22890154
Exquisite stack anon. Btw, is that the edition of The Sound and The Fury with the rushing "reddish" water on the cover? I've been trying to find the high res picture online because I thought it looked aesthetically pleasing, but couldn't track the source and the online previews of the book all as one do not show the back where the source of the cover art is usually mentioned. Could you share a photo of the back of the book please?

[Anonymous No.22890833]

>>22890049
It seems pretty cool and you have a great mix of stuff there. Looking forward to when you eventually post a link to it, cheers.

[Anonymous No.22890845]

>>22886153
I love Essays in Idleness

[Anonymous No.22891260]

Waterlog (Deakin)
A Month in the Country (JL Carr)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)

[Anonymous No.22891409]

>>22886153
Love John Fowles. If you like The Collector, try The Magus (assuming you haven't already). It's excellent.

Here's what I got:
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincy
The Glory of the Empire by Jean D'Ormesson
The Golden Pot and Other Tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

[Anonymous No.22891433]

>>22877746
>Invisible Cities [done]
>Earthsea (all-in-one) [currently reading]
>Blood Meridian
>Clouds by Storm Dunlop
>Life in a Medieval City by Gies
>Burmese Days by Orwell

[Anonymous No.22891465]

>>22884117
NYRB don't feel silly it's by design
the covers are superb, the title box on the
covers, something about the juxtaposition of the utilitarian, clear, strong font in the title box and the cover art in the back ground arouses the consooomer in me.
Same goes for Vintage paperbacks and the grit texture of their paperback book covers.

[Anonymous No.22891494]

>>22890801
Every novel I own from middle school through University. I've gone through a few phases over the years.
Pretty easy to see the 16 year old that just got into politics phase.

[Anonymous No.22891495]

>>22890833
Will do! Once I figure out how to host the software I've made for my free list work I'll post a link alongside a photo of my bookshelf. Cheers mate!

[Anonymous No.22891498]

>>22890154
Did you get scammed with that paradise lost copy

[Anonymous No.22891522]

>>22890823
Of course. Transcript for your ease, anon.
>Cover design by John Gall/Cover lettering by Jon Contino. Front cover photograph by William Eggleston. Eggleston Artistic Trust.

[Anonymous No.22891527]

>>22891522
Forgot to link the image. My apologies, mate!

[Anonymous No.22891529]

>>22889426
Used book store Chad
Those who know, know.

[Anonymous No.22891534]

the red scare girls and their fans aren't going to fuck you because you read some christian theology

[Anonymous No.22891538]

>>22891498
Think it's just one of those “print on order” publications that Amazon does.
Always happy to have my Mum gift me a novel so I can’t complain—my girlfriend's dad also gave me a penguin copy.

[Anonymous No.22891559]

>>22891538
Is it actually the norton edition though?
I mean does it contain annotations and essays

[Anonymous No.22891956]

Second hand haul.

[Anonymous No.22891971]

>>22891534
Where do you see Christian theology in the OP post m8?

[Anonymous No.22892011]

>>22891971
Deleuze and Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.22892018]

>>22883132
I cancelled them :/ couldn't afford them unfortunately. I'll buy them when I get GST, probably.

[Anonymous No.22892116]

>>22892011
...

[Anonymous No.22892539]

[Anonymous No.22892546]

>>22877746
Looks like madness unless if your mind could comprehend it. I know you are an air balloon, though girl

[Anonymous No.22892587]

>>22892546
Post more stacks, I'm trying to find something to gift my dad. Unless you got some police mystery slop to recommend and make my life easier.

[Anonymous No.22892603]

>>22877854
Get the fuck off my board

[Anonymous No.22892612]

>>22891956
>My Secret Life
saw that in a charity shop t'other day, but I'd left my wallet at home
when I went back it had gone
if you live in yorkshire then you may well have wronged me

[Anonymous No.22892615]

>>22886153
Best stack in the thread

[Anonymous No.22892719]

I present to you the KJV Rock of Ages Family Edition Holy Bible made by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries

[Anonymous No.22892891]

>>22891522
>>22891527
Thanks a lot!

[Anonymous No.22893265]

>>22886273
Yeah, a superficial and vain belief in Christianity is becoming edgy and cool because people want to react to atheism’s rise.

[Anonymous No.22893291]

>>22893265
>believing in sky daddy to own teh libs!

[Anonymous No.22893301]

>>22889563
Yeah i started the first volume yesterday i'm enjoying it so far. I hope you're enjoying your reads too anon, happy new year!

[Anonymous No.22893322]

>>22892539
Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms is awesome, hope you enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.22893343]

>>22877746
1st Year Uni stack. Grim state of this board.

[Anonymous No.22893375]

>>22893265
"Trad" caths are starting to make it look uncool again, not that you should care that if it's unpopular or not "cool", it's just that all the normies and e celebs are making it look like another MAGA thing instead of doing something useful

[Anonymous No.22893476]

>>22893265
I dunno about you but I love God.

[Anonymous No.22893481]

>>22893375
4chan was always a contrarian hipster hangout if that’s the case. I’m sorry but I’m over cynicism these days

[Anonymous No.22893489]

>>22887339
You don’t have to be a tranny faggot to enjoy metaphysics

[Anonymous No.22893531]

>>22893265
In the post-truth era people are flailing around and grasping for anything that will give them a feeling of meaning and stability. For a while people worshipped Science, but it has proved unable to answer the Big questions and has lost its objectivity in regards to smaller questions. Science has given us material goods, and left us spiritually sicker than ever. People have recognized the error of their ways and are returning to the one Truth.

[Anonymous No.22893696]

>>22893476
Which God?

[Anonymous No.22893729]

>>22892612
I'm approximately 9,416 km away from Yorkshire.

[Anonymous No.22894047]

They are coming in the mail so no pics

The Oresteia penguin
Paradise Lost NCE
Moby Dick NCE
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe collins

[Anonymous No.22894303]

>>22891559
It has everything in it. It's just formatted awfully.

[Anonymous No.22894596]

>>22893729
I don't understand kilometres, but have fun xx

[Anonymous No.22894602]

>>22877854
I can picture the scenario here. You've already read these on your iPad and only bought them to show off to your Tiktok fagolina frenz. Eat shit.

[Anonymous No.22894616]

>>22894602
>>22892603
>>22889440
>>22877879
Hivemind. I bet they all think of themselves as free-thinkers, too.

[Anonymous No.22894619]

>>22877746
I just keep buying more Everyman’s Library’s of books I already have

[Anonymous No.22894630]

>>22877746
Got Herodotus' History, a collection of Pushkin's plays, poetry and short stories.

[Anonymous No.22894649]

Newfag, but trying my best not to be

[Anonymous No.22895082]

>>22894649
Dosto is massively overrated but The Plague is quite good, a little slow in the start if I remember but a good read.

[Anonymous No.22895137]

>>22889396
when will tyler perry adapt his works?

[Anonymous No.22895253]

>>22894616
I am the freest thinker on this board

[Anonymous No.22895277]

>>22894649
Nah this is a great start ignore the psueds they havent read any dosto anyway. And who wouldnt want to read mishima? The guy is way too interesting of a person for someone not to be curious about his work.

[Anonymous No.22895950]

>>22893696
Every single one

[Anonymous No.22896084]

>>22893476
“A woman is always by herself the terrestrial proof that God doesn't exist, that God doesn't have to exist. It is sufficient to look at a woman, to do what is called to take a look, to be immediately convinced that one can well do without God. This is why in traditional societies women are hidden. Things are here more serious than a vulgar sexual jealousy. Tradition knows that, in order to keep God alive in whatever way, women have to be kept absolutely invisible." - Alan Badiou

[Anonymous No.22896345]

>>22894649
Good choice with the Mishima. Read Confessions of a Mask when you get the chance. It's brutally intimate. One of my favourites by him. If you get a chance let me know how the Portuguese translations hold up!
>>22895277
Well said, Anon. We all start somewhere. Good picks, lad!

[Anonymous No.22896794]

>>22896084
Borderline homosexual drivel

[Anonymous No.22896797]

>>22886833
>my neighbor totoro
Discordance Axis

[Anonymous No.22896911]

>>22894619
Based

[Anonymous No.22898350]

Bump

[Anonymous No.22898405]

>>22877746
Stack bros it's beautiful

[Anonymous No.22898432]

>>22877746

[Anonymous No.22898652]

I've bought 60+ books but read like only 4 of them. Is this okay?

[Anonymous No.22898661]

>>22898652
Average adult reading experience

[Anonymous No.22898691]