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>>8609275
>'I'm incredibly insecure and need to constitute my idealized self-image by posting pictures of books, so please validate me, internet strangers!'

>>8609284
Exactly.

>>8609287
10/10. Now you can hopefully fuck off

>>8609293
I don't belive you are being sincere

>>8609284
Kill yourself.

Books for the rest of the fall:

Charisma on Command: Inspire, Impress and Energize Everyone You Meet by Charlie Houpert
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Media Control by Noam Chomsky
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer to Frost, Collected by Harold Bloom
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa Edited by Robert Hass
I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt (it's a collection of essays by musicians about Townes, collected by Brian T. Atkinson)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Basho: The Complete Haiku
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field by Nathaniel Branden
Bob Dylan: The Lyrics 1961-2012

>>8609363
The documentary about Moore is better than the biography, if you feel want a more enjoyable exploration into his mindscape.

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Validate my existence please.

I generally avoid these threads, what's in the stack? Books you recently read? Books you intend to read? Recently acquired books?

>>8609439
Yes.

>>8609444
Sounds fun

>>8609439
Currently reading, TBR or recent cops.

>Current
Infinite Jest
>recently acquired
A Frolic of His Own
JR
Heart of Darkness
100 Years of Solitude
1984

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>inb4 manga

Currently reading Infinite Jest, as well as A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine (not pictured)

>>8610770
Also, that's dried paint on my desk.

>>8610770
the manga there is literally the best thing of the stack, my redditor friend

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i read 1 book at a time
i'm crazy like that

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>>8610772
k

>>8609284
^

>>8610770
You should read at least most of the standard 20th century classics (that means l'Estranger etc.) before you delve into any post-modernism, preferably a lot of 19th century classics too. It looks like you're jumping into Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest way too fast if you are only reading Camus right now.

>>8610770
For anyone who's read it already

Is Look Who's Back actually good or is it just the meme book of the season?

>>8609275
So you dropping Portrait or what?

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Birthday haul

>>8609439

Presumably any. My 'stack' is anything that isn't on my shelf, which usually means one of those three things you listed.

>>8611216
Sorry for sideways image
The books are
The Old Man & The Sea
A Farewell to Arms
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Life and Fate (by Grossman)
Moby-Dick
Lectures on Russian Literature (Nabokov)
A Supposedly Fun Thing... (>mfw it's DFW)

>>8611068
Find the kid who started reading a year ago at best and followed charts

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Currently reading IJ. Why don't you guys do me a favor. Pick one book from the left and one from the right and those will be the next two books I read.

>inb4 these books are so random
Why do you guys always say that? Who reads just one type of book?

>>8611409
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>>8611068

>>8611424
Are you memeing me? I've already read the stranger, plenty of other shit on charts and whatnot. I don't need to read certain books in a certain order just because you did it that way

>>8611434
you have literally the fall, slaughterhouse five, moby dick and V. on your stack.

I guess you're more well read than what you are showing us, because your stack is telling a different story.

>>8611444
I didn't say I was well read, if I was I probably wouldn't be asking for advice here. I read col49 and now I'm planning on reading v., don't even own gravitys rainbow yet. As far as IJ, it's hardly pomo nor difficult. DFW himself said it wasn't pomo. How can you write pomo on accident? There, I took your bait. Have fun following a chart instead of just reading what you want friend

>>8611409
The Sound and the Fury and Moby Dick my friend. Great, great books. Enjoy.

>>8611444
Moby Dick is the only one of those a so called well read person should've definitely read. What the fuck are you talking about? Literature is both older and bigger than 4chan charts you monkey.

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>>8611526

>>8611516
Thank you for a real answer :)

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Just a couple pickups from the long weekend. Please forgive the shit quality photo. One day I'll stop being a Luddite, but not today. Due to various circumstances I think this is like, my fifth copy of Siddhartha?

>>8609417
you exist!

>>8611068
I've already read a lot of what would be considered classics, and the Camus is to actually have one on my shelf, since the last time I read it was when I was in high school.

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My current reading list, I'm a pretty slow reader so it will take me a while. Almost done life a user's Manuel and have been reading through Arno Schmidt's and Borges' short stories slowly. Gravity's Rainbow on the side because at some point I'm just gonna jump in.

>>8611068
>l'Estranger
D R O P P E D

>>8612193
you have broken the seal, hahaha

>>8611102
No.
I need an english book and I don't have any besides that one currently.
I'm stuck with it

>>8609417
You need more Vollmann.

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>>8609284
>'I'm incredibly insecure and need to complain about internet strangers with meme arrows'

>>8612205
Nice. If Life a good book?

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I'm now reading the Chomsky

>>8613069
You should consider cleaning the lens of your potato before taking a picture, anon.

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Current reads.

>>8609417
Nice to see someone else reading The Painted Bird. Very intense and upsetting book but worth it in the end. Also, Blood Meridian may be seen as a meme around here but it's also a worthy book to read.

>>8611454
>>8611526
where the hell do you guys get the idea from that I am talking about charts?

And saying IJ isn't post modern because DFW says he's transcended is is like saying King doesn't write Horror because he calls it suspension.

>>8609275
cheers, magyaranon

>>8609275
>LoGH

BASED

Lőrincz László
nigger mi van veled? (tudom, a tudományos munkássága vállalhatóbb, de akkor is)

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Cheggum

I like seeing all the different topics y'all are interested in!

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>>8609275
Here's my stack. r8

>>8609361
>Bob Dylan

hey i know he just won the prize but don't be so fucking gay about it

>>8613115
I get the idea you're talking about charts because you're telling everyone to read books that have nothing to do with each other in a specific order and using the stranger as your example, a meme on this board. You're not contributing, you're not discussing, you're imposing the way you do things on everyone else because you wish you hadn't done it that way. Leave this board, promptly

>>8613757
>because you're telling everyone to read books that have nothing to do with each other in a specific order
point me to were I did that

> using the stranger as your example

What the fuck, point me to THAT especially.

>you're imposing the way you do things on everyone else because you wish you hadn't done it that way

See above, what the hell are you even on about?

>>8612853
Honestly it's not really doing it for me

>>8613957
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>>8611068
This is you? If it isn't you then no one was talking to you in the first place

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>>8611768
Siddhartha is one of my favorite books.

Do you have a picture of your Siddhartha collection? I find it crazy how you have five copies of it, yet I have only ever seen two editions of it: the one you have, and the B&N re-skin.

We're rating each other's paper weights?

>>8609275
nah

>>8614258
Sorry to disappoint, but I don't have five copies on me. I just keep losing it- had a copy, gave it away to a friend, got another copy, gave that away, got a third copy, realized it had a bunch of marginalia, which triggers me. Bought a fourth copy, but didn't like the translation (Shambhala Classics), so now I'm back to the original Hilda Rosner version (is it the best version? I don't know, but it's what I'm used to).

Hopefully this copy will stick around longer than the rest, it's one of my favorite books too.

>>8609275
nah

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>>8609275

>>8613325
Érdekeltek a mongolok egy kicsit és ez volt a könyvtárban.

LoGH kurva jó volt,csak rövid.

>>8613741
noice

>>8613748
He won the prize today, I posted that list two days ago.

>>8610770
I would
>manga
but there's a certain charm in Ultraman being right next to IF on a shelf that even DFW would appreciate

It's like someone having Sgt. Keroro next to Ulysses, I can't hate that

>>8613069
Neat selection.

I'm currently reading:
Anna Karenina (2nd time)

This translation is so much better than P&V

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>>8617677
forgot pic

This is the one I'm reading. It is incredible compared to P&V

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Currently reach the bottom 2 and need to read the top 2

>>8618017
pleb as fuck m8

>>8618017
reddit is that you?

>>8618023
>>8618055
>getting ripped on for posting good books

fuck /lit/

>>8618033
malcolm x bio is fireeeee

>>8618121
poor redditor:(

>>8618121
>Getting butthurt for being pleb.
>Reading shit that teaches you nothing of value.
>Reading for plot.
>Reading for escapism.

>>8614382
nobel/10

>>8618017
nice gaystack loser >:-D

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>>8618017

How are you liking No Country?

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Here's some I've been working on, my girlfriend got me born to run, I love bruce springsteen but i'd never have bought his book, looks real neat though.

Also got recognitions in a used bookstore for $5, another book i'd never have gotten around to but was so cheap and in decent condition.

>>8618336
This stack made me flip out with rage but I can't put my finger on why.

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I'll preface this by saying I'm a biologist and not an angsty teenager.

I read at the pace of a dyslexic child so this will take me like 5 years.

>>8609275
>shite edition of portrait
>anime
>asian philosophy
>translations
wew

>>8618987
What anime do you see there?
And what is wrong with asian philosophy?

>>8618480
Born to Run is a great read.

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>>8618997
>Asian philosophy.
>Mexican intellectuals.

>>8619123
Not an argument.

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Found this first edition for free

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Will most likely read a bunch of other stuff inbetween these as some of it is dry af.

I always get cringe when someone post manga and anime figures on these threads. Is it only me?

>>8618480
B R U C E
R
U
C
E

>>8619198
I have failed to notice such things.
The shelf thread usually has a couple of them

>>8619176
What are the odds. Another swede reading black earth. nice!

>>8619132
bbbut here's a meme, instead

>>8619256
and?

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Judge me. Is this gay?

>>8619198
Me too. Also when people have bookshelves covered in shitty knick knacks.

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>>8618727

"To read" stack:
* The Bible (NET Bible translation)
* The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (part of the Shadow & Claw omnibus)
* Within a Budding Grove by Proust
* Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy

I have no idea what to expect of Purdy, so I think I'll read that first.

Also, I literally just had a "stopped reading here" moment with McCann's Let the Great World Spin -- at least that's one less book on my stack...

>>8619217
Probably gonna hold on reading it a while though since i read Blood Lands at the beginning of this summer.

>>8619176

You all need to make sure your books are turned upright before you take these pics. I can't bothered to link all the other ones that did this but its a problem

>>8611551
Based Suhrkamp. you studying philosophy or is that "light reading" to you?
If the former, enjoy not getting a job

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it's going to be quite a few sleepless nights

>>8618756
>call of the Wild
Oh lord, the memories.
We had to ready this in 5th grade. Good times.

>>8621226
>ready
*read whoops

>>8620365
Buttrustle! Sounds awesome

>>8619383
>the libertarian reader
its le reddit

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>>8609275
Now when you say stack I'm guessing you mean a random stack you have around your house. Here is the one next to my bed
>inb4 metro 2034
It's hard to come across in a book store

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Paid $30 for these three bad boys. Already posted this to Reddit months ago but I figured I'd remind y'all that this board is never safe from King fans.

>>8620365
Man, those books are pretty...GAY! HAHAHAHA!1!!1

>>8621509
>>8621511

Reminder that plebs like these are on this board as well.

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Faust because of school, but actually interesting

>>8621521
What is your idea of a 10/10 stack?

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This is the greatest stack of all time

>>8621509
>>8621511
>>8621531

Fuck outta here.

>>8618480
lmao wtf is that man without qualities an abridged version?

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My dad handed down some of his books to me.
>The one with the ripped of spine is the exorcist

>>8619383
That Didion "biography" sucks ass. You'd do better to just (re)read all her stuff.

>>8621628
Just need Atlas Shrugged on that stack and you'll be set.

At that point you can shove all three straight up your ass.

>>8621628
>Reading meme """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""economists""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""".

>>8622016
you don't deserve to read
>of

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>>8609284

>>8610773
This desu senpai

>>8611216
>Life and Fate

Good taste

>>8612862
I remember that book about gnomes with the Allan Lee art from when I was a child

It's very beautiful

My October reading list: Dracula, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.

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looking forward to bakhtin and sterne in particular

>>8621772

nah its just volume 1, it has the best translator so i got it over the modern library version.

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>>8610770
>>8611068
>>8611409
>>8609481
>infinite jest

>>8609363
Chess story is amazing.

>>8622933
> infinite just

>>8609363
Why is that edition of The Penal Colony so thick?

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New entries in our top 100, so a bought em'

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>Bottom three are reference/already read
>Just finished Euripides 4
>Just started The Histories
>Almost to Republic in Plato Complete Works

>>8623267
I like this stack, brother.

>>8622104
Fuck of, mate :^)

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Current reading. No particular order.

>>8623231
this is embarrassing

>>8623267
What uni are you at?

>>8621509
>illuminatus! trilogy
10/10 m8

absolutely loved that book.

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Recently bought, in Dutch except for the Calderón de la Barca one.

>>8623530
Thanks for ruining my day.

Rand - the romantic manifesto
Kandinsky - concerning the spirituality in art
Pessoa - the book of disquiet
Nietzsche - beyond good and evil
Mill - on liberty
Wallace - infinite jest

>>8623714
>of/of

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I moved to a new area recently with a trove of used book stores and places that sell pamphlets. Fucking awesome. Not pictured is some of the local literature they sell.

Also, I haven't started gravity's rainbow yet.

The Marrano poets book is cool. I'm attempting to learn more Spanish, and the poems are in original Spanish on the left page, translated English on the right. The translator made an effort to keep the poems lyrical.

I only recently picked up a Harvard Review for the first time. I fucking love it. Some of the work is shit, some is awesome. I've spent too long reading dead men.

Not pictured: most of my books. Duh. I'm also picking through Politics and Passion by Walzer at a very slow pace. I just finished American Psycho; I'm working through some classics, and I read slowly.

I've recently taken to short story and essay collections, as well. If you're nice, I'll show you some of the interesting limited production things I've picked out of local bookstores. Some you'd call shit, and that's 100% fair, but it's my first encounter with a kind of anarchic literature scene, and my immediate impulse was "GRAB IT!!! ARCHIVE IT!!!! DOCUMENT IT!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!!!!!!"

I've also been doing personal work, kind of shitty writing and planning for writing, which has eaten into my reading time. That, and GRE work (mostly math, which I actually have to study for) and the fact that I need a job, and that I'm mid-move.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

I think I'm a bit manic right now.

Also, I'm most consistently reading the Tsanoff book, which is like a primer on ethics in the Western tradition. It's useful to me in reintroducing and reframing old philosophers that I've long since read, however might be too basic for some of you. That being said, I enjoy surveys of thought, as they help me further my own thought, and sometimes prefer them so that I can touch on many different thoughts and philosophical methods while only going in depth on the subjects I find particularly interesting.

>>8623547
at the risk of embarrassing myself: UNLV

>>8623516
Funny, the only self-help books I like are the ones like Art of War, The Prince, The Bible, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, etc.

You know? Thus Spoke Zarathustra, etc. Wisdom literature kinda stuff. I've never read a "real" motivational book. No intention to. What drove you to pick those up?

Zen Mind: Beginners Mind by Suzuki
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Brothers Karamazov
Portable Nietzsche
Complete Writings of Nietzsche
Siddhartha again

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>>8624204
I like reading them.

>>8615139
Én még csak tizenvalahanyadik résznél vagyok, innen kurva hosszú.

>>8625269
Az OVA az 40~ óra kb.(És amúgy marha jó még akkor is ha az animáció helyenként enyhén szólva is kérdéses minőségű)
A könyv az első 15-20 részt lerendezi eléggé gyorsan.
Remélem a köcsög amcsik lefordítják mind a tízet,mert eléggé szomorú lenne ha megállnak a harmadiknál.

>>8623179

Bigger letters.

>>8623774

Hey! I just picked up Mill's On Liberty for a buck in a bin outside a used book shop. Read any of it yet?

I read about 400 pages of IJ about a year ago and put it down. I occasionally carry it with me when I travel, but as I usually travel with multiple books I read the other books and leave IJ for another day. It's got great ideas, it's simply an exhausting read.

Which is to say, your stack looks similar to one I'd have, including the other bits of writing.

>>8625307
Honnan rendelted? Bookdepó? Vagy volt elfekvőben a Trillianban?

>>8625430
Bookdepó,mondjuk egy hónap volt mire ideért.
Trillianról még nem hallottam.

>>8609284

You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.

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There is nothing wrong with Stephen King pre1990s

>>8625540
saved

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>>8625540
God speed, o pinnacle of autism. We salute you o7

>>8625540
fucking saved

>>8625441
Egy képregénybolt Pestországban

>>8625768
Gec néztem az áraikat valami listáról.
>1 dollár 450 forint
Akkor már inkább várok 2 hetet.
Ez kurva drága.

>>8609361
M8, Townes Van Zandt is so amazing. I'm truly glad that I had a father that introduced me to neat musicians like him at a young age.

>>8618756
>this will take me like 5 years
This is why I majored in math instead of philosophy or classics. It takes me an hour to read 30 pages. The struggle is real.

>>8625790
Gondolom azon az áron adják, ami képregényre van írva (mármint ha 10 dollár, akkor 4500), csak így rejtik bele a hasznot és a szállítási költséget

>>8625547
>>8625570
>>8625588

>>8623418

It's a new copypasta from an angry autistic Dante reader apparently.

>>8625540

awww, you missed the other half.

I'm sure opie is proud, tho

>>8626206

Tbh the other half is specifically about Dante, it wouldn't have fit.

>>8622016
All of those books were required reading at my high school, what are the odds?

>>8626349
subtle troll 7/10

>>8627266
Extremely low, which is what makes me think you're lying in a pathetic attempt to feel better about yourself by putting others down

>>8627431
This, to kill a mockingbird was the only one required to read out of that stack

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>Tfw everything is reversed

Sorry lads, good luck reading those titles :/

>>8626349
>>8627422
I don't get it.

>>8627583
Fucking nice resolution as well, I'd have trouble reading that even if it wasn't reversed.

All I have is my sister's cheap webcam from like 6+ years ago.

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Biiig stack of mostly SFF books on the table beside my downstairs reading spot (along with Chai tea). Right now I'm reading The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Hobbit (rereading), and VALIS. I've already read The Dharma Bums and am also currently perusing a book of excerpts of Kerouac's works. I really feel more comfortable with books around and near me, so that's why I have so many lying beside me. Anyways, what does the stack thread think of my taste in literature?

>>8627583
>>8627687
And the only one I think I can make out isn't in english...

Les Fleurs du Mol

>>8627961
Oh, am also reading Frankenstein as well. Not very far into it, however.

>>8627961
>dont know that he is saying tea tea
>all that ellison
faggot

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>>8627968
>du Mol

>>8627973
"Chai tea" is a colloquialism.

>>8627992
is a retarded pleonasm

>>8622063
Heh, butthurt commie

>>8609284

The only thing worse than your projection is the idea that someone has to instantly insult any form of socialization and relation to a hobby and interest. And what's worse than that, is the person I just described (you) won't kill themselves and free the world from their petty self-loathing whiney bullshit.

>>8612205
Underworld is the biggest bore in literature since The Brothers Karamazov.

>>8621542
Unread Greeks paired with wikipedia/4chan summary of each. Also, a community college education of once opened Blake, Byron, and Coleridge.

>>8623231

I get it. I get it. You're trying to be apart of something. The problem is that there is a hierarchy. Now, will there be condescending remarks sometimes about you being a prospect? Naturally. That's how life works. You're a nooby piece of shit. Here's the thing! You can't just go buy the top-tier new happening thing and think you are going to be apart of the group. No. You will never be apart of that generation. You must (here is where it gets hard) focus on YOUR self and your peers. Then, one day, you'll set the cutting edge.

This is a bad place to start.

>>8627973
What's wrong with Harlan Ellison?

>>8609275
Stable, most books are around the same size, 9/10

>>8609363
Awkwardly shoved into a corner, some books stick out in an unsightly manner, 3/10

>>8609417
Book on top looks like it's teetering, 6/10

>>8610770
Excellent sorting, books in stack are strong and thick, 10/10

>>8611216
Moby-Dick supporting all that weight on its edge sticking out, 4/10

>>8611409
Multiple stacks instead of one, placed on an unstable mattress 1/10

>>8611551
This is an array. Technical disqualification

>>8611768
Unambitious, 2/10

>>8612205
Interesting use of buttressing technique, 7/10

>>8612862
Horizontal stack? Disqualified for retardation.

>>8613069
Heart books picked for stack, reminiscent of a Doric column 7/10

>>8613105
Stack acting as a pedestal to headphones - never allow music to be elevated above literature, you fucking plebshit 1/10

>>8613365
Is this wrapped in a blanket? It looks like you're opening a breadbasket, not building a stack 4/10

>>8618017
This site is for 18 and over. Reported.

>>8627968

They're all in French lad.

>>8627471
>>8627266
>>8627431
To be fair, my dad said he got some of these books in high school. And sorry for the spelling errors.

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i'm starting to worry it's going to fall over and kill me in my sleep

>>8628117
good post, you're all right

>>8628403
I hope so

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>>8628547
Not that pic

>>8611022
How is that book? I saw it in a store in the summer and thought that I should buy it but I didn't...

>>8628117
Good post, anon

>>8611097
Read it 2 years ago but it didn't leave a strong impression on me.

>>8628552
Do you live in Russia, or are you that british anon of Russian descent? Why would you buy this shitty "КAPO" edition White Fang?

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Stack in my living room. Reading lone star currently. It rushdie book is what my wife is reading.

>>8612205
>Krasznahorkai
ayyyyyyyy

>>8623516
Should I get Ratzinger's theological stuff?

>>8628038
>The Brothers Karamazov.
>Boring.

Wow. Pick one.

>>8618125
>>8618124
at least one of those books is on the stupid lit suggested reading the rest i can't speak for. I read IT when I was 12 and i think kurt vonnegut is an american thing because I'd never heard of him before he became a reddit meme

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Acknowledge my existence.

Also not on there because it's in my ibooks

Leaving The Atocha Station - Ben Lerner

Sad I haven't seen any Ben Lerner

>>8613741
Touché

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Who /uni/ here?

>>8631640
turbopleb
>>8632046
did you start ulysses? is this edition any good?

>>8632046
how's the norton anthology of theory and criticism?

>>8632090
I'm slightly less than one-hundred pages in to Ulysses and it seems to be a good edition so far and the annotations are helpful. That being said, this is my first time reading it so I cannot say whether it is the best edition; I was merely advised to buy this version by my lecturer.

>>8632046
>2016
>still no death penalty for people who does not rotate their pictures

>>8632138
>2016
>still no death penalty for people who does not grammer

>>8632104
It's immensely helpful and has a very wide range of criticism. It certainly helped me get essays written in first year.

>>8631471
Highly recommend it. You can't go wrong with anything he's written, though I would put the interview books as "extra" reading.

A good starting package is his Introduction to Christianity, the encyclical Deus Caritas Est, and his Spirit of the Liturgy.

>>8632046
Anon, I'm not a formal student of literature - I just like reading books and doing my shit best to write some, so I'd like a little help/clarification on literary theory and criticism:

Am I thinking right that theory is about what we think literature or a work of literature is and can be, and criticism being the ways we can read or look at a text? Such that, when we write our views, insights, and interpretation of a work, we are performing a literary criticism, making use of the tools and insights of literary theory?

Just trying to make sure I got the gist of it.

>>8611551
Are you studying sociology?

>>8630132
> Do you live in Russia
Yes.

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My reading stack

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>>8633869
>Reading a Pynchon translation.

>>8633678
Which translation of AK do you prefer?

>>8633878
I read the p&v one last year. Marian Schwartz' is much much better. I feel like I've never read the book before.

>>8633878
you sure are the one to talk with all those translations

>>8633678
Is the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation good? I read a bit of Crime and Punishment by them, but ultimately ended up reading Garnett.

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R8

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>tfw you're completely happy with being a plebeian and can enjoy writing with little to no literary value

What I've read of these has been good so far, perfect for the season. I've read House of Leaves a couple times, but I enjoy giving it a read through every October, as the trees start to turn, the air grows colder, and you can feel Halloween taking a physical presence in the world, for at least a few short weeks.

I've also got Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt and Swift to Chase by Laird Barron on the way, and I'm looking forward to diving into those once they arrive.

>>8633981
No it's not compared to other options available. Marian Schwartz had the best translation I've read

Currently; Hegels Introductory Lectures On Aesthetics

>>8625337
haha what it must be like ten words a page

>>8634107
Not the anon you replied to but I'm also looking for a good translation of Crime and Punishment. Can you give an ISBN or something because I cant find any trace of one by Schwartz.

It isn't even on the list of her publications on her website.

>>8634871
She hasn't done any Dostoevsky yet I don't think. But her oblomov is incredible if you haven't read that.

>>8634891
shit my bad i misunderstood. and thanks I'll look into that.

>>8634064
>that Lovecraft EZine-core

Nice. Also Slow Regard is the only Rothfuss I actually like

>>8633678
Hmm. I didn't even know that translation existed. I was about to buy the Oxford Maude translation, but I like the sound of that Schwartz one. Plus the cover looks nice.

>>8634965
I really enjoyed Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear, despite them seeming to be unpopular around here.
Like I said though, I'm a genre fiction loving pleb. I would enjoy a cheapo hamburger just as easily as a filet mignon.

>food metaphors

>>8622531
>Buying a Where's Waldo edition Pynchon

>>8609363
Chess Story is wonderful, bump that to the top of the stack, plus it only takes an hour to read.

My uni library is doing a book giveaway tomorrow (renwing collections).
Very excited but it might turn out to be shit, anyhow I'll turn up as early as possible and will post stack

>>8636314
Let's hope the stact thread survives the night

>>8636319
I should probably have posted this in the recent purchases thread anyway

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The hard to see ones are metamorphosis, black dahlia, and faulkner

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Me, please rate. Ill contribute now
>>8636979

>>8634064
Too much not lovecraft for me
>>8634021
Matching editions is nice
>>8633878
Is pale king related to nabokovs novel about a fart pale fire?
>>8633678
Is kjv a meme?
>>8632046
Aint free for me like in australia
>>8630450
Lone star also the drink pairing for that stack?
>>8628403
>silmarillion
Nice
>>8627961
>beatles mug
Christ post some ben and jerrys while youre at it
>>8623714
Wheres zizek
>>8623267
Cs lewis was a cuck
>>8622016
Worlds most entry tier stack
>>8613365
>that hair

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>>8637027
Almost out though.

>>8636979
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Crime and Punishment are both fantastic.
I can dig your taste in movies/TV as well.

>Too much not lovecraft for me
I can understand the sentiment, but once you've devoured the works of genre masters, the derivatives are all that remains.
I mostly bought those collections because Laird Barron has stories in them, and anything that man has a hand in is worth my dime and time desu

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Give it to me straight 4chan.
The one by Leo Tolstoy is The Death of Ivan Illyich.
Just finished reading the two "for dummies" books,
1/3 with mein kampf
1/2 with the prince
1/3 with crime & punishment ( it's so fucking good)
1/3 with the Bible (roast me anons, Idc, I'll be enjoying my afterlife)
I just use Grays anatomy as a reference for various needs
Done with real estate book (basic fucking common sense)
MCATs I haven't started on because I'm scared shitless to commit 4 hours a day every day till the test.
Organic chem is for class obvi.
Haven't started on the Tolstoy book.

>>8637027
Kjv is indeed a meme. There are much better translations out there. Only read kjv for curiosity, not serious study. Your stack seems decent, I don't know most of them but C&p and 1984 are good.

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...???

>>8633678
>he fell for the lattimore bible meme
absolutely brilliant. good work boys.

>>8637537
Holy kek
>>8637636
Did you notice I have pizzas book
>>8638330
>Mein kampf
>>8638370
Half is noir other half is stuff to make me feel smart. Not in pic but I have maltese falcon right now too

>>8638703
>Implying it isn't the same guy meming every Bible thread

>>8638731
>He won't read a book because its author was a mean man and who wants to hear his opinion?
Please tell me you have a better reason than this.

>>8609363
>sweeney, sweeney, SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEEEEEEEEEENEEEEEEY

>>8639122
it's not his opinion, it's a delusional fantasy that contradicts his actual biography.

>>8618124

> implying 4chan isn't reddit

>>8639811
delusional fantasy?
It was hardly a fantasy, he completed almost all of his goals, except a few in which he almost completely fulfilled them. Its lens into the mind of one of the few men who almost achieved world domination. and yes almost. had the americans waited longer, he would have solidified his power and easily brought the world under his thumb.

>>8625540
lol u wild. wyd tho

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Arrived today. Where do I start?

>>8641223
Stranger will be a "fun" and short read I say. And you'll be able to understand a few more memes. Just as long as you don't make a thread about it.

>>8641223
can you share the isbn of Camus books?

>>8641223
butcher's crossing. then the plague. then of the fall. then of mice and men. skip the stranger

>>8641630
Thick one is 978-1-4000-4255-5.

Not sure why you need them though. Just go on thebookdepository.com and search for the Everyman's Library editions of Camus.

>>8641732
>bookdepository.com

Is that where you ordered them from? If so how was the experience (shipping time, packing, etc.)?

>>8641737
Shipping takes ages, so order in advance.

Pic related was ordered on the 6th (a Friday), dispatched on the 10th and arrived on the 21st. So allow roughly two weeks.

It doesn't bother me though because they're cheap, it has free shipping and there's a massive variety of books/editions.

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mostly /his/ but books are books I spose

>>8611768
>The Secret Garden

Nice. I'm reading it right now. I've had it on my shelf for like 20 years, but somehow never got around to it.

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>>8642230
Nice. I'm almost through it myself, it's super comfy.

where do the canadians here buy their used books online? used to use thriftbooks in the states, but the shipping is too much for canada

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Currently reading lancelot by chretien de troyes