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r8, h8, get validation from internet strangers. you know the drill
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>>9000282

2666-Roberto Bolano(2/3rds of the way done)
The Ice Trilogy-Sorokin
The Little Demon-Sologub
Samarkand-Amin Maalouf
White Noise-Don Delilo
City and the City-China Melvile
Samuel Becket-Complete shorter plays
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Not pictured, the Complete Works of Machiavelli.

>>9000282
Why anyone would buy a "portable reader" is beyond me.
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>>9000300
I'm not opinionated enough to be against this group or that group, I just like history.
>>9000308
how do you like 2666?
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>>9000326

I'm nearly done with the part about the crimes but I love it so far. Only thing I'm really not complete and utter certain about is the timeline since it seems to jump ahead really haphazardly at various points, the first two parts may as well take place roughly around the same time but I thought everything with Amalfantino's wife cucking him was boring until he started rambling about geometry but I loved how cozy the friendship was between the three critics and Liz was a top qt. I'm looking forward to the final part.
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purchases this week
spent around $30 total
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>>9000375
Hah! I used Design Basics in a stonecarving class I took. It's a really nice textbook, I've never seen it since though.
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Not a stack but whatevs
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>>9000282
plus Flann Obrien collected works.
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I got memed.
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>>9000647
>Gore Vidal
Every time I see him mentioned I think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX123HJVLc
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>>9000643
The Third Policeman and At Swim-Two-Birds are great.
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Christmas stack
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>>9000633
nice bible brother
>>9000643
should I read stein? also how's that mcelroy book
>>9000647
yeah you got memed, but the greeks are legitimately great. I know I will enjoy them the rest of my life
>>9000726
how much of this have you read?
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>>9000776
I'm not the fastest reader, and only read once at a time but I've read so far "Growth of the Soil" and a good deal into "Into the Darkness". Also thumbed through a bit of "Weapons of Chess" that is less of a novel though and just chess strategy
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>>9000785
How did you like Hamsun?
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>>9000792
Really really liked it. I plan to pick up most of his other works now, going to get Hunger soon. I'm not the most well read yet but I'd say at this point he is my favorite author
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>>9000308
noice bit of Beckett, have you read Happy Days or Waiting for Godot? are his shorter plays worth the read?
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>>9000856
Nice choices my man.
Gotta love the russians. I just finished TBK (Greatest book I've ever read) and am planning on picking up The Master and Margarita.
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>>9000282
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>>9000856
> master and margarita

bought this one recently as well. No idea what I'm in for tho
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>>9000282

If the top is Kaufmann's 'The Portable Nietzsche' then congratulations, I own the same one - albeit an older edition.

It's great, but just a heads-up: Kaufmann's sanitized, liberal and 'politically correct' interpretation of Nietzsche has been more or less revealed as the sham that it is.

You will have to embrace the fact that Nietzsche says and believes things at odds with what I presume are your modern, Western liberal democratic sensibilities. He believed in a sort of meritocratic eugenics, for example. He believed in euthanizing the sick, that Great/Higher Men should be beyond the remit of the state, that equality is fundamentally not a good thing, that war is fundamentally a good thing, and so on.
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How /lit/ am i Anons?
>>9000856
>picador m&m
Show us that cover boy.
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>>9001434
Is it special in some way?
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>>9000647

Have any of you read Creation before? Looks interesting.
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>>9001497
I was hoping it would be this one
Sorry for shit pic.
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>>9000282
good call with City of God
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>>9000300
put on a trip so i can filter you already
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>>9000282
bless me
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>>9001576
Fucking suicide squad? What sort of bullsit is this? GTFO!
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>>9000319
Make sure to read Machiavelli's Discourses. If you've read about early Roman history (mainly Livy but in general as well) you'll have more fun, but I think even without the ancient background it will be accessible, much like how Montaigne mentions recent history but actually says what happened and doesn't assume you know all the details.

Discourses is like the Prince but more thorough and less meme-y. Also contains a very famous chunk of commentary on conspiracies which is worth reading on its own. Hope you like it!
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>>9000282
Nice Eusebius choice brotha
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>>9001503
Also would like to know
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>>9000375
all that for $30? where at?
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>>9000282
>"Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants", Goodall
>"The Lime Works", Bernhard
>"The Art of War", Sun Tzu
>"The Plague", Camus
>"Ecclesiastes"
>"Sun and Steel", Mishima
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>>9001434
eh, sort of lit
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>>9001651
I like that this version has commentary for every chapter, looking forward to reading it
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>>9001047
Why did you get tommorow when the war began?
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>>9001517
I have this copy, best cover 10/10
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Also recently purchased a book by Bourdieu, one by Durkheim and Epicurus's letter to menoeceus
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>>9000282
I also recently brought City of God.
I have no idea what I'm in for.
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Since everyone's reposting old shit so will I
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Mainly stuff i picked up at a thrift store sale. The Idiot is new though.
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>>9001867
>Gene Wolfe
My nigga
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"New Confessors of Russia" -- Archimandrite Damascene (Orlovsky)

"Shop Class as Soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work"-- Matthew B. Crawford
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>>9001923
>Clarice Lispector

Im brazilian and proud.
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>>9000856
Surprised to see a copy of Cyropaedia. I think I've seen only two other copies of that edition on lit, one being my own.

Very cool choice. Consider buying Loeb editions in the future for lesser-known ancient texts like that one, especially those like Cyropaedia which aren't offered by penguin/oxford.

Hope you enjoy it!
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>>9002117
What is The Idiot about?
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>>9002250
Fuck, is this a meme already?
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>>9000665
I think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
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>>9002250
An idiot
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Left pile is what I found in my Nana's book pile that didn't seem like romance smut after she passed away. Of variable and dubious worth.
Right pile was a ~$15 Goodwill killing.
M&D and AtD are my last two Pynchons. Which first?
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>>9002290
>rise and fall dust jacket with the swastika on the spine removed

I see that a lot at used bookstores, like they're afraid of keeping it on.
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Here
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>>9002290
me

>>9002117
Please read Idiot and HoD before any of the others.

>>9001867
I read the Oxford edition of Dubliners a while back. The annotations were almost useless. I hope you find them more useful in those volumes.

>>9001842
I have language envy

>>9001576
Haha you have a future as a standup comedian!!! Literally can't even stop laughing!!!!

>>9001434
Some good stuff in here regardless of what people say. CoMC is some good eats
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>>9002310
>livy

based as fuck. books 21-30 are the most exciting, but 1-10 are still very interesting. 31-45 are the "worst" but still very good.
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>>9001842
C'est vraiment intéressant de lire des livres des sociologues ?
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HAI GUISE ANON HERE WITH ANOTHER BOOK HAUL xDD
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>>9002336
well, where's your book haul xD
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>>9001087
who would you rather recommend, anon ?
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>>9002334
I'll be getting to livy in a few weeks, and translator recommendations?
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>>9001745
I was reading it alongside Thales to Dewey, made it stick a bit better
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>>9001842
Just finished Seducer's Diary, make a thread on it when you're done so we can chat
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>>9002649
Aubrey de selincourt is relatively famous (as much as a translator can be, I think) for his translations, but he only did books 1-5 and 21-30. His versions are the ones offered by penguin (at least the newer, post 1990s versions, entitled "the early history of rome" and "the war with hannibal," respectively). Even the non-selincourt translations from penguin (books 6-10, "rome and italy," and 31-45, "rome and the mediterranean") are solid, and I didn't notice a real drop in quality from any translator to the next.

The only alternatives are Loeb (expensive, no need unless you read latin) and oxford press. Never read the translations of either, but I had so much fun reading the penguin editions that I'd heartily recommend those. By far one of my favorite ancient writers, and probably the most fun ancient historian.

>Either conquer, or, should fortune hesitate to favour you, meet death in battle rather than in flight. Think on these things; carry them printed on your minds and hearts. Then — I repeat — success is already yours. God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Hope you like him, and please post about him when you start reading!
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>>9002335

Yes my man. In Cégep, (google it) my sociology teachers were, along with my philosophy teachers, the most literate and the most knowledgeable. This made me very interested in sociology.

Of course, as you know, the human sciences right now are looked down upon because a good portion of the student population is of very mediocre intelligence, but the founding fathers of sociology as well as a few key modern sociologists are very interesting to read.

Reading Durkheim's on suicide is what really convinced me of the value of the field.
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>>9002354

It's difficult to say.

Most Nietzsche 'scholars' - those who have dedicated themselves in some way, almost invariably read him through the lens of a political ideology. That is to say, in the service of a political ideology - and here I quote Bloom, "If you're reading in the service of an ideology, you're not really reading at all."

Kauffman aside, most 20th century Nietzsche enthusiasts were French psychanalytical/post-modernist/post-structuralist hacks.

My honest advice is to just read Nietzsche directly. Spend time on him. That is the best preparation for dealing with the many shitty interpretations that came after.
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>>9000856
>The Master and Margarita

Based as fuck.
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>>9002310
>>9002334
>>9002649
can someone redpill me on livy, are there seriously 45 books? please tell me that there are at least like 5 books per book or do people actually buy 45 books?
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>>9001712
O widze polaki-robaki jednak czytajo!
Mishima w przekładzie na ang?
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>>9003383
No and kinda yes.
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>>9003383
pic related contains books 1-5, is about 500 pages. Keep in mind that the organization of a work into books in the past is different than our modern conception of a book
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Has anyone ever gotten bedbugs from a used book? I had a friend get them once from buying from a yard sale, how can you tell?
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>>9003650
Is a bedbug a spook?
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>>9002692
Wow, thanks for the help.
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>>9003462
That cover lol.

>Did two human babies just suckle me wtf
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Got all for about $3.00 at my local thrift store
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Got the whole stack for $3 at a local thrift store sale today.
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>>9003383
The books go up to 45 (all the later books are lost), but 11-20 are missing, so 35 total books. But these are "books" more like chapters rather than volumes, ranging from 40 to 100ish pages each. Like how Herodotus is 8ish "books," Thucydides is 7ish "books," etc. All of Livy put together is about 2100 pages. Nothing to sneeze at, but not impossible.
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>>9003800
Stranger is a fantastic book.
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>>9001703
Most of these look seconhand, so maybe he just got them at a flea market.
Just bought the bilingual (Old French and Modern French) edition of Pantagruel, No Longer Human, and The Political History of France by H.Néant.
>>9002335
The pleasantness of the experience really depends on the author, most of the times they make it quite easy for you to understand, like H.Becker and most of the people from the School of Chicago, but I don't think everyone can appreciate some of the most theoric works of Durkheim as they would a good literary book.
Still, if you have to work on it, it's not that complicated.
Economy is way worse, especially Walras. Smith is actually fun, like reading Swift except all the stories are economical metaphors.
>>9002290
Getting books from my dead grandma scarred me for life. She was a literature teacher, and she's the one who got me into reading, but her notes and analysis were so bad in each play it kind of destroyed the image I had of her.
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>>9002303
Is this not normal? I just guessed the dust jacket on a book from 50-60 isn't a likely thing to have survived.

>>9004408
Luckily in my case she didn't seem to read much. I sorted through 1000+ books and only half of them showed signs of attention...
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Thoughts?
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Only got one book recently.

Memoirs from the house of the dead - Dostoevsky

Never seen it recommended here before, but it will actually be my first dosto. I got it because I like stuff about prisons.

Just finished The count of monte cristo, which was prison related. Now I am reading 'The stars my destination' by Alfred Bester, which, I didn't realise before reading, seems like sci-fi monte cristo. Next comes memoirs, more prison.

Please recommend me interesting prison books. I am looking for something about prolonged periods of solitary confinement.
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>>9002250
Faithful man vs. degenerate russian society
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>>9004634
In addition, since I read it a long time ago and only remember vaguely the whole plot, the main character wants to get into a relationship with a woman who is a 'gold-digger' out of pity and need to change her. However, the woman, thinking she's too impure for him decided to have a orgy at a party to show who she really is. There rarely was any positive moments and its full of characters with their own troubles in pursuit of happiness, wealth, or honor.
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>>9004608
House of the Dead is great. It's an outlier of Dostoevsky's works. You might also want to check out One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzehnitsyn too.
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>>9004700
thanks anon
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Fifth down is Euripides Vol. I
The Choeporoe is in Greek so it'll be years before I read it
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Came in the mail today. I have horrors of the dancing gods coming also to finish the set. That will take me to 32/55 chalker books.
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>>9005910
It's okay bro, personally I think buying books that are still out of reach is a good encouragement to learning whatever you need to make them accessible. I've bought history and philosophy books that sat unread for months and years, always pestering me to get a move on.
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>>9000282
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>>9003451
>Mishima w przekładzie na ang?
Tak, bardzo dobrym swoją drogą.

Co tam czytasz anonie?
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>>9007332
Where did you buy your 4th Edition Spivak? For some reason I can only find 3rd Editions.
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>>9000864
Hamsun is a legit pick, you'll most definitely enjoy Hunger because any young man should/will be able to relate. I can recommend Hamsun's fairy tale-like tragedy Victoria as well.
Also, if you ever pick up an interest in the guy's biography, Thorkild Hansen's 3 volume work on Hamsun and his trial is a must. Hansen has been criticised for his sometimes less than professional research, but like in Hansen's work on the Danish slave trade it should be obvious that have a slight but definitely noticeable belletristic leaning, and so he takes some liberties. At the same time, he does/did research his books to a great extent and Processen mod Hamsun (1978) is no exception.
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>>9007800
*that Hansen has a slight...
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>>9007332
I like your coaster
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>>9002303
Bookstore I work at keeps it on, but it's a small store with no corporate to report to.
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>>9000282
What translation of Nietzsche is that?

Also /lit/, what is the best English translation of Nietzsche?
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>>9007882
Kaufman, if you get the portable Nietzsche along with modern library's essential writings you'll have pretty much every major thing he's written
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>>9007901
This is exactly what I did. Now if only I actually would read it...
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Picked these up yesterday. The alexander McQueen book is for the wife.
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>>9008835
how is she holding up?
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Fine. He died a long time ago.
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>>9009025
who are you talking to?
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>>9009411
This guy.
>>9008985
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>>9001087
Is it really possible to tease out what Nietzsche believed from what his sister said he believed after he died in order to ingratiate herself with the Nazis?
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>>9004608
Good book, good intro, good translation.
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>>9010142
>why do I exist: the stack
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>>9010142
I just picked up BGE and its pretty legit
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bretty gud deal on these 3$ for the stack. Hope I didn't get memed tho
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My weekend haul. W&P is the Maude translation. I liked their AK well enough thought it's been years since I read the Garnett. C&P is Mona's and BK is Garnett.
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>>9010354
I didn't know those were a set. I used to own the first volume. I never read it, but I think it's funny how I could've gone my whole life thinking it'd ended 1/3 of the way through.
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>>9007332
why are you even on /lit/
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>>9010354
where? i've been watching ebay for ages and the set is never less than 40$
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>>9010527
Found it by chance at a local book store. I wasn't even looking for it. I was super excited, tho because I've never seen any Solzhenitsyn irl.
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>>9010572
fuck, why'd I put that comma there.
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>>9001047
>owning a physical thesaurus
is this the height of pretentiousness in the internet age?
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>>9010572
I've never seen any either. Lucky indeed.
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Still trying to find new things to read now that I'm past my psychedelic phase, mostly interested in History and poetry if you guys have any suggestions.
I really want to expand into classic literature. Kafka & Huxley, ect. Not sure of where to start.
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>>9010735
>classic literature
>Kafka & Huxley, ect.
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>>9010835
>ect.
>Not sure of where to start.

I don't know if it could be any more obvious I'm just looking for suggestions to improve on my knowledge of lit
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>>9000282
Tao Te Ching
Meditations
Ulysses
Paradise Lost
Ficciones
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>>9010399
Very nice.
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>>9003383
This is washtub redpillmeans, e.g. red pill me on the sale. is it 2 for 5 or something else?

Are you fucking serious millennials?
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>>9000864
I read Growth of the Soil before Hunger as well. I don't know if it was just due to different translators but the writing of Hunger felt immensely less elegant than Growth. There was something special to Growth, a sense of cohesion and pace, I guess, that I don't think Hamsun had developed yet in his earlier years. Hunger is certainly memorable and worth the read, but I don't think I'll easily forget the feeling I got reading the opening pages of Growth, that image of a man alone in a quiet, waiting world.
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Spending the night in.
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>>9011056
Which editions did you get for each book?
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>>9010735
Try symbolist poetry, like early French ones or later German ones (e.g. Rilke and Stefan George who were both influenced by a guy like Verlaine). I enjoy psychedelics as well and I'm sometimes reminded of Rilke and George's poetry when I'm tripping because of all the colours, and I think some symbolist poetry has a vibe you could definitely call trippy.
Hesse's Steppenwolf is probably also a must. The protagonist does a bunch of stuff and with varying effects.

And you need to read Infinite Meme by Bandanna Mememan, all memes aside.
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read it for me pls
new testament and on happiness by tatarkiewicz
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>>9011841
It says fuck you >>>/diy/ - Do It Yourself
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There are way too many books I have to read in this world
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>>9011086
>the cannabis companion
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>>9010735
Goldbarth taught a bunch of my classes in undergrad. Brilliant guy, slept with 3 of my classmates
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>>9011056
Man, I dont know what it is but Growth of the Soil was literally just beautiful. I have never really felt that way when it comes to a book you know?
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>>9011104
The penguin edition for Growth of the Soil is I think known as the best one. Well the translator for that one at least. Sverre Lyngstad is the translator.

Don't bother reading the introduction though if you do end up getting the Penguin edition. The guy who does it just shits on Humsun the whole introduction basically saying he thinks he was mentally ill for being in favor of Nazi-ism
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Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Nabokov Lolita
Kafka The Trial
Mann The Magic Mountain

should all arrive tomorrow
not sure what I'll read first though
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>>9013236
I thought slaughterhouse five was a bit of a let down. Maybe because it has been talked up. I would start somewhere else.
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Just bought these yesterday. Did I do good /lit/?
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got these
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>>9013073
That's the edition I was looking at, and I will at the very least be guarded against the introduction if I read it. Thanks very much!
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>>9001867
The only good author there is based HOGG
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pls be gentle /lit/ it's my first time..
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>>9014793
Not bad.
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>>9013833
I see, I was interested in it simply because I really wanted to hear about the Dresden bombing from someone not German, I don't really known what to expect plot or turn of phrase-wise.
I'm most excited about Lolita though so I'll start with that I guess.
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Fucking cocksuckers from worldofbooks sent me different Edition of Gravitys Rainbow Reeee, I ordered Vintage 2007 and have received picrel
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>>9000375
>Peter Berger
Great choice anon!
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>>9013866
I'm not familiar with C.H. Beck, what are their editions like? Is that Gilgamesh annotated, for example? I usually go for dtv/Reclam/Suhrkamp students' editions
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>>9010354
Honestly the abridged was better to read
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>>9015728
My eyes
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>>9013951
VOLLMANN <3
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>>9016337
Is it this bad? ;_;
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Apologies for terrible pic, etc. The bottom book is Schreber's Memoirs.
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>>9010399

Fuck is the point of buying so much at once?
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>>9017400
I'm not as bad as him but I have 6 books coming in the post, and my current physical backlog is already unmanageable.

People like us are just stupid. I will probably run out of money soon anyway. Then I'll probably get an e-reader and load it up with thousands of pirated books I'll never read.
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>>9017400
It's dopamine rush to buy them.
Adding them to my collection is a great feeling, even if I won't read them any time soon.
I do the same with 40k minis, I buy new ones sometimes, even though I have a huge backlog to finish painting, because it makes me feel happy to get them.
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>>9017379
Very patrician stack, my friend. Did you happen to read some Deleuze recently?
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>>9017774
McElroy is patrician af
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>>9017985

Yes and no. I'm hoping to read Anti-Oedipus and the Memoirs in parallel.
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>>9017774

My man. Notebooks of MLB are sublime.
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Felt so edgy reading the black and red Beyond Good and Evil in public. Worth it tho great bundle deal
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>>9019916
Forgot picture
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R8, h8, congratul8
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>>9010604
> is this the height of pretentiousness in the internet age?


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>>9015115

I read Slaughterhouse Five for the same reason. Prepare to be disappointed.
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>>9004474
My niqqa!!! Start with that John D. MacDonald.
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meme stack
IJ arrived today, 1 month waiting

3/4 through ulysses (translated), already ordered ulysses in the original to re-read later on
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>>9004140
That's a steal. Especially for a novice
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>>9020745
mate a si mesmo
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Nothing in these stacks are new, this is just what's on my desk currently
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>>9021241
posting your school assignments are frowned upon
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Think I posted this before but haven't buy more. I'm waiting for a package with 10, though.
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>>9021154
lambe meu cú
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>>9020745
Espero que tenhas comprado o Bolaño também no original anão.
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>>9021324
If you can read English, why on earth read a German author in Spanish...
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>>9022453
Because he's Spanish and not English?
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