ITT: post your stack; rate other anons' stacks

[Anonymous No.8388385]

Don't mind me if I make yet another one of these.

...The stack of books I currently have beside my couch. How am I doing? Constructive criticism, please! But, a few shitposts never hurt anybody.

[Anonymous No.8388452]

>Jack Keroac.

Wew lad.

[Anonymous No.8388467]

>>8388385
dear diary i was at big sur like 2 months ago, you ever been? almost all of it is one big memey tourist destination but if you go there you have to camp out on naciomento-fergusson road; literally the scariest cliffy road you'll ever drive on because it's pitch black and night and there's a fog so thick that even your non-high beams reflect back at you and the road is like 2 of your body thick with like a thousand foot drop on one side it's spooky but you can literally camp on the side of the road

amazing view of the ocean and cliffy valley, and there's always spots open, you oughta go there i can't do it justice

[Anonymous No.8388916]

bump

[Anonymous No.8388921]

>his to read list isn't register based

[Anonymous No.8388926]

>>8388385
>constructively critique this random stack of books

What are you hoping for here, exactly?

'Wow, nice purchase, bro! Awesome stacking skills!"

17-year-old/10

[Anonymous No.8388944]

>>8388385
>What consititutes a stack?
>Are they 'reading' or 'to reads'?
>When a book is comleted is it immediately removed from the stack or is there a time limit?
>You say that these books are beside your couch, but we don't know if you just put them there 5 minutes ago?
>Will you have already moved them somewhere else? The kitchen?
I would appreciate it if you could answer these questions and currently frantically searching my near vicinity for available stacks, providing that the above rules are qualified.
Many thanks

[Anonymous No.8389770]

1/4
library stack

[Anonymous No.8389771]

2/4
'shelf' of some to-reads (1/2)

[Anonymous No.8389773]

2/2 shelf

[Anonymous No.8389777]

actually lies, i have read faust and am reading the green grene/lattimore greek tragedies.

4/4: books im making my way through

[Anonymous No.8389947]

>>8389770
>>8389771
>>8389773
>>8389777
how do you even read all those books at the same time?

[Anonymous No.8389959]

>>8388385
you forget the weed, waste of flesh.

[Anonymous No.8390009]

>>8388385
Interesting stack. I'd probably like to have a cup of coffee with you

[Anonymous No.8390050]

Taking a stack away on holiday (6 days)

>Anatol Lieven - Pakistan: A Hard Country
>Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
>Comarc McCarthy - Blood Meridian
>Curzio Malaparte - The Skin

[Anonymous No.8390281]

is Big Sur worth reading? I do like K.

> inb4 why don't you read the fucking book and find out jesus christ

[Anonymous No.8390304]

1/3 through 1984

hope to finish the rest in a couple weeks before classes start

[Anonymous No.8390323]

>>8388385
>>8390304
simply epic

[Anonymous No.8390359]

>>8390323
?

[Anonymous No.8390550]

>>8388385
>i keep my books in stacks cause like, shelves are so restricting of my free spirit brah

[Anonymous No.8390559]

Here's basically everything. It's stacked now but wasn't when I took this picture, too lazy to rearrange so the spines all face the same way though.

[Anonymous No.8390597]

>>8390304
Kafka stories, good job

[Anonymous No.8390989]

[Anonymous No.8391042]

>>8390559
>Fear of being called a cuck online is my sole impetus for reading

[Anonymous No.8391064]

>>8390989
>its a poster takes iphone pic of book and doesn't know how to post without image being flipped

[Anonymous No.8391069]

>>8390559
>It's stacked now but wasn't when I took this picture

thank god i now have this information

[Anonymous No.8391079]

>>8389947
what? the four of those? i'm not really making progress on Either/Or right now because I'm reading some other philo stuff first. I am reading IJ slowly and when i feel like it, L'Étranger when I'm studying french. and i read pieces of prometheus bound when waiting around for olympic events. The thing I'm most actively reading right now is Plato.

[Anonymous No.8391550]

>>8390559

Did you ride the tiger today my fellow aristocrat of the soul?

[Anonymous No.8391563]

che guevara was amass murderer

[Anonymous No.8391707]

Going to rehab for 2 months and am actually really excited to munch through all this mulch. And before you berate me for the Robin Williams biography just know that I'm interested in him psychologically—his comedy I could take or leave.

[Anonymous No.8391902]

>>8391707
we have the same c&p! hope it goes well in rehab

[Anonymous No.8392013]

>>8391902
Thanks man. It was actually my initial decision so I feel pretty good about it. Better to nip this sort of thing in the bud now before I'm 31deadbeat trust-fund baby loser oxy-moron.

[Anonymous No.8392022]

>>8391902
Thanks man. It was actually my initial decision so I feel pretty good about it. Better to nip this sort of thing in the bud now before I'm a 31 deadbeat trust-fund baby oxy-moronic loser who only gets fucked by his own manic depressive reputation of a girlfriend who'll inevitable take the devil by the hand and put a glock in the other to the dome.

[Anonymous No.8392025]

Yours all suck peep mine

[Anonymous No.8392029]

>>8392025
I have that copy of grapes of wrath the color is very comfy

[Anonymous No.8392106]

:^)

i just finished travels and hyperreality (again) and i figured i'd finally crack into don quixote before reading labyrinths, and then it's on to name of the rose for the first time in a few years

[Anonymous No.8392570]

>>8392106
Do you like cross-dressing?

[Anonymous No.8392595]

I'm pretty new here, so don't roast me to much :v

[Anonymous No.8392600]

>>8392025
>falling this hard for memes

[Anonymous No.8392608]

>>8392025
Think took the same course as you, famalamajimjam.

[Anonymous No.8392662]

[Anonymous No.8392684]

>>8392662
Karl kung bast kung fa.m

[Anonymous No.8392695]

Still dont know how to post non-reverse photo tbqhfam

[Anonymous No.8392699]

>>8392695
What is the book with the blank spine?

[Anonymous No.8392714]

>>8392699
Illiad

[Anonymous No.8392793]

>>8392684
lol

[Anonymous No.8392835]

>>8392570
no

[Anonymous No.8392882]

>>8392022

Release your inner infant my friend.

[Anonymous No.8393799]

Posting stack of chillers

[Anonymous No.8393941]

>>8392793
All I see is a dick and balls

[Anonymous No.8393943]

>>8391707
Rehab for what? Shit taste? Jk

[Anonymous No.8393946]

>>8392595
Little brother wasn't bad but I was like 15 so

[Anonymous No.8393989]

just started wojnarowicz today

[Anonymous No.8394212]

kek

[Anonymous No.8394467]

>>8393799
oo Almost Transparent Blue..been wanting to read Ryu Murakami, specifically that one. Have you gotten into it yet?

[Anonymous No.8394472]

>>8393989
is there something i don't know about Eugenides that qualifies him to write an introduction to a classic?

That Proust looks nice.

[Anonymous No.8394909]

>>8393943
Opiates, which really just symbolized my addiction to being a lazy piece of shit. Anyway, leaving tomorrow and actually pretty excited.

[Anonymous No.8394938]

Rate please :^) (1/3)
>>8394212
How is Cioran? Have you read all those?

[Anonymous No.8394952]

(2/3)
>>8393989
I notice you have a couple Penguin editions. Do you find they are good editions? Why?

[Anonymous No.8394974]

>>8394952
how the fk do you find a book on armenian at a thrift store? tfw when im a poor pleb and 99% of the stuff in savers near me is spanish...

[Anonymous No.8394978]

(3/3)
>>8392595
These are all fine but not really literary imo

[Anonymous No.8394980]

[Anonymous No.8394987]

>>8394974
I didn't find it at a thrift store actually; I was at a convention for an organization I was in, and a couple people were selling used books for cheap, so I bought this. I do do a lot of thrift shopping though, and you will find stuff like this if you look hard enough. I usually visit used bookshops 4-5 times a monto, and there will always be some neat little book like this you'd never think to buy on your own. Just keep searching.

[Anonymous No.8394992]

>>8394987
yeah i guess its more of a long game, i need to visit more frequently probably. i found a hebrew book today (berlitz self-teacher) which absolutely stunned me, but that isn't too normal. like i said, i just need to visit more often i guess..

have a good night anon

[Anonymous No.8394995]

>>8394980
Haven't heard of most of these authors (besides McCarthy and Herbert). Any recs from among the others?

[Anonymous No.8394999]

>>8394992
Yeah, it's definitely a game of dedication at least in part. Happy to hear about the Hebrew book though :)

Good night!

[Anonymous No.8395001]

>>8392595
Read alot of that stuff in my youth. Loved Salvatores battle scenes, they get even more epic in later books, but he piles on more and more nauseating Drizzt moralizing. The Entreri and Jarlaxle trilogy was good, chaotic neutral fun though.

[Anonymous No.8395033]

>>8394995
Shoe Dog was written by Phil Knight, the founder of Nike. So it's an autobiography.

Red Platoon is a memoir on the authors time in the middle east when his army base was ambushed by a large group of infidels.

I believe both of them are first time authors.

As for Agatha Christie, my favorite book of hers is And Then There Were None, although Murder on the Orient Express is awesome too.

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a look at Alfred Hitchcock's film career through interviews and writing done by the French film director Francois Truffaut. Great book if you're a film buff or an Alfred Hitchock fan.

[Anonymous No.8395038]

>>8395033
Those sound interesting; I may pick up Shoe Dog and maybe Hitchcock once I'm done reading what I am now. Thanks for the recs anon!

[Anonymous No.8395049]

>>8395038
No problem dude. I'm glad I could be of any assistance. Shoe Dog is really interesting, I hope you enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.8395227]

>>8394467
A bit ,It's pretty lewd

[Anonymous No.8395468]

>>8394978
How's the quality of the James Joyce book?

[Anonymous No.8395839]

>>8395468
Pretty good, it's kinda annoying to have to lug around the whole thing to read any one of the books, but it was only $10 so

[Anonymous No.8395963]

What is it with Dune, Infinite Jest and Ulysses?

It's like that scene in Conspiracy Theory where Mel Gibson has 300 copies of Catcher in the Rye, because he's been brainwashed to buy a copy once a month so the government can track him

If I ever find myself buying those three books I'll have to go seek help or something

[Anonymous No.8395965]

>>8395963

They're just popular books, Anon. Not every thinks they're literal memes.

[Anonymous No.8395985]

[Anonymous No.8397251]

>>8391707
Congrats buddy!

[Anonymous No.8397259]

>>8391042

Well I mean, I'm a 240 lbs mentally ill transsexual otherkin, so not really.

[Anonymous No.8397349]

my ever growing precarious stack of books I've started and haven't got around to finishing yet...

[Anonymous No.8397733]

>>8388385
Why do you stack them? Why don't you read them? It seems like you care more about what people think you're reading than what is in the books.

[Anonymous No.8397749]

Just got this from the store. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.8398102]

>>8397259
luna?

[Anonymous No.8398111]

Rate my (classics) stack?
>>8395985
How is DK? Good translation?

[Anonymous No.8398114]

>>8398111
Forgot image

[Anonymous No.8398130]

>>8398102

Goddamnit

[Anonymous No.8398134]

>>8397749
You could have taken a photo of French fries for free. How much did the stock image cost you?

[Anonymous No.8398172]

Bible stack

[Anonymous No.8398598]

>>8394212
well this is sad

[Anonymous No.8398657]

>>8393946
I read it when I was in 6th grade and it was okay. It was supposed to be book of the week or something at my high school the year after I left but the principal didn't allow it most likely because of the chapter where the main character basically fingers a girl, but because the book was about censorship, everyone was up in arms about it. The author of the book even made a youtube video about it which you could probably find.

[Anonymous No.8398669]

1/2

[Anonymous No.8398670]

>>8398669
2/2
I've actually already finished ATTWN but I don't feel like taking a new pic

[Anonymous No.8398679]

>>8390304
Schocken is best Kafka publisher tbqh. based on your other purchases i can only assume you bought it by accident

[Anonymous No.8398684]

>>8391707
>hating on Robin Williams comedy
I hope you relapse

[Anonymous No.8398707]

>>8390559
What's the penguin book to the right of Evola? can't make out the cover

[Anonymous No.8399508]

>>8398707

Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings, I think

[Anonymous No.8400042]

>>8399508
grazie mille famiglia

[Anonymous No.8400218]

Never gonna read them :^)

[Anonymous No.8400310]

levels of patrician previously unheard of

[Anonymous No.8400382]

>>8391707
>selling out Robin Williams just so people don't make fun of you.

Scum.

[Anonymous No.8401655]

>>8394909
Opiate withdrawal is one of the most profoundly unpleasant experiences your body can go through. Good luck though, I spent years trying to kick it and ended up going on a suboxone program to ditch it completely. Been clean for nearly 2 years but the feelings still linger.

[Anonymous No.8401807]

>>8400218
addict

reading a norton 'greek lyric poetry' right now. that oxford one was right next to it at the library though..

and i'm buying that presocratics soon i think. i already read some of them online though, so i dunno.

[Anonymous No.8401814]

>>8398669
mm, i haven't gotten to the man in the high castle yet but that's my favorite cover. +1 for that foucault edition as well, it looks nice imo

[Anonymous No.8401828]

Sorry I made another thread you guys just let that die, how's this stack if I'm a pleb who wants to become /lit/

[Anonymous No.8401833]

>>8401828
its fine? kind of a weird medley of popular books. have fun reading them.

[Anonymous No.8401845]

>>8401833
don't compliment him by calling it weird. it's nothing but a bunch of popular books. it's exactly what he said, a stack of a pleb who wants to become /lit/, and that's perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.8401847]

I didn't mean to click /lit/, but here I am.

[Anonymous No.8401857]

>>8401847
Fucking tablets

[Anonymous No.8401869]

>>8401847

[Anonymous No.8401993]

>>8401845
Yeah I knew I was just buying into memes, but they are good books right?

[Anonymous No.8402002]

>>8401993
For the most part, ya.

[Anonymous No.8402011]

>>8402002
Ok thanks

[Anonymous No.8402027]

>>8401828
That's kid of a weird bunch, I'm assuming you got them randomly used, I'd start with short novels and novellas first to get back into the habit and gradually work your way to tougher reads. But ultimately read what you like and don't let us dictate your habits :)

[Anonymous No.8402029]

>>8393799
>pleasures and regrets
>from les plaisirs et les jours (pleasures and days)
>missing the hesiod pun (works and days)
>full pleb

[Anonymous No.8402046]

>>8389773
>kafka, nietzsche, dostoevsky
good taste
>>8389777
>all of those
good taste

[Anonymous No.8402073]

>>8402027
Yes they were all used

[Anonymous No.8402080]

[Anonymous No.8402098]

>>8402080
I have that same copy of Twilight/Anti-Christ. Broke the spine because I was reading outside and as a bug flew past my face i reflexively swatted at it with the book in my hand.

[Anonymous No.8402757]

>>8388385
My current stack

[Anonymous No.8402799]

This is what's by my chair in the living room. On top is the Dhammapadda.

[Anonymous No.8402811]

>>8388385
that's some real pleb shit

[Anonymous No.8402825]

>>8402811
i have that same edition of The Mansion

The pages are the most disgusting shade of yellow from age.

[Anonymous No.8402830]

>>8402825
yeah I have a few of those Faulkners real shit quality lol

[Anonymous No.8402941]

>>8391707
I've got the same "A Beautiful Question" book. It's pretty good. Gets a bit bland towards the end.

[Anonymous No.8403440]

Finishing Lolita and By Night In Chile right now; this is the rest of my August reading list

[Anonymous No.8403457]

Here are the ones I'll read soon-ish

>Nuovo Commento, a philosophical investigation on the fraudolent nature of literature by a schizoid madman

>L'Ambleto, a rewriting of Hamlet in a weird, rancid and bloody variety of Italian

>A Short History of Decay, you know it, you love it, Cioran at his best

>Barattieri, a history of gambling during the middle ages

>La Luce Nera, a critical study about the author of the first book on the list

[Anonymous No.8404075]

>>8398669
>Foucault
gross

[Anonymous No.8404268]

>>8402046
ty

>>8402080
naice-u

[Anonymous No.8404628]

Focusing on oblomov and early Greek philosophy right now.

Once I'm done oblomov I'm going to read Gilgamesh from the myths book. Then another short story from Dostoevsky. Then I'm gonna read David Greenes translation of Oedipus the King.

When I'm done early Greek philosophy I'm going to read the Greek sophists. I read a chapter a day from these books usually. And at the very least 30+ pages per day from the others though I can usually manage 60-100

[Anonymous No.8404659]

>>8388467
Yeah I was there last month, was completely clogged with tourists but still really beautiful.