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C'monnnnnnn

Usually these things are bumpin

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>>9108284
can I play physical-bros?

>>9108284

The City and the City-China Mieville
Perdido Street Station-China Mieville
Existentialism is humanism-Sartre
Human All Too Human/ Beyond Good and Evil-Nietzsche

I got the wordsworth edition of the Nietzsche book. I should be fine, right?

I'll post when I get home, my 3 recent ones are memetastic as fuck

>>9108284

Is illuminatus good?

>>9109520
>Abridged

hahahahhahahahahah

>>9109526
Give me 1(ONE) reason not to read the abridged version

>>9109559
>Give me 1(ONE) reason not to read the abridged version

Because it is disgusting pleb behavior. Its not like Les Mis where explication on the paris sewer system takes 50 pages, the whole work is of value and contains pertinent information and anecdote throughout.

If you think thats acceptable you might as well read the fucking wikipedia page.

>>9109520
>Watchmen
Nice
>Trevor Noah
Dude wtf

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>>9108284

>>9108284
Nice stack, Dr. Bloodmoney is one of Dick's better books and Illuminatus is a favorite as well. I have that Celtic Miscellany book but haven't gotten to it yet

>>9109324
Yeah, though it's really pulp-y

>>9109572
Okay there Mr. Supreme Arbiter of What Is and Isn't Worth Reading

>>9109520
>Trevor Noah
kill yourself

bamp

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Recently bought are these

First is "peasants" by Wladislaw Reymont
Second is "A moment in Peking" by Lin Yutang
Third is "Between tears and laughter" by Lin Yutang
Last one was a gift,it's "Thoughts" by Blaise Pascal

What do you think?

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>muh wordsworth

regret nothing buying the waves and ulysses, have already read ulysses translated, now in english

a bit apreehensive buying war & peace for the translation and a bit the cover, but it was cheap as fuck so...

>>9110561

Joyce wordsworth doesn't actually look too bad. I quite like their Dubliners cover.

>>9109520
>trevor noah
I cant stand that little fuck. Ruined a great show
>hurr durr trump!!
Ok? Is there any commentary or at least a joke coming?
>hes dumb!
Oh. I guess ill go read

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Couch side stack.

>>9111300
Nice stack.

Probably going to finish The Education of Cyrus tonight myself. I really loved it.

How is Great Irish Short Stories?

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beyond this I'm thumbing through other non-fiction texts I've completed, a few poetry collections, and every once in a while read a bit of a novel to lighten my burden.

>>9111353
Have you read any Kierkegaard before?

>>9109520
>p&v
>abridged
>screenwriting guru book
>trevor noah
>comic book

oh my god

>>9111324
I haven't gotten very far in it but it has Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and a bunch of people I've never heard of. Liking what I've read so far though.

Good to hear about Cyrus though cause i havent read it yet.

>>9109572
You make the assumption he's going to read it farther than the first ten pages.

>>9109623

>Kelly Link

MAH NIGGA

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Here's what I have bought the last few weeks.

>>9111376
no. i was deciding between this, fear and trembling, and christian discourses. i dont think of myself as an idiot, dont have that much time, and didnt want to buy a selected works, so I chose Practices. Hopefully it turns out to be a good decision.

>>9108284

Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner

Finished Pale Fire and I'm most likely going to finish The Unvanquished by tomorrow.

Crucible of War, however I am going to have chip away at for a while. I'm mostly reading it to be able to build more historically accurate details/setting for something I'm working on.

>>9109572
It was abridged by the author, I don't know what more you can want

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>>9111455
I started with Fear and Trembling then got the attached pic. I haven't read the full Christian Discourses yet.
He's pretty easy to read compared to most philosophy / theology.

>>9110561
Anão, onde você encontrou esse calhamaço em inglês e muito barato ainda por cima?

>>9111573
Ha, I almost bought that. I figured I'd end up buying 2 or 3 of his complete texts eventually anyways so I didn't want to make the investment.

Glad that he's supposedly easy on the eyes, philosophers from up north tend to be obtuse.

>>9111667
He can be pretty funny at times too.

>>9111636
Hard Boiled is so good.

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Trying to chip away at some lesser known primary source ancient histories.

>>9111774
I have their Sallust w/ Bellum Jugurthine and Bellum Cataline, it is really good.

>>9111797
Yeah dude Sallust is great. You might also like his (or "pseudo-Sallust's") letters to Caesar in the second loeb volume.

>>9111564
The rest of the book.

>>9111378
P&V Demons is the best translation out there.

>>9109520
>Trevor Noah
Fucking kill yourself

>>9111819
Sallust, "Lesser Known" WEW LAD

>>9111949
When did I say Sallust is lesser known?

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Gonna be my first Pynchon and first Dostoyevsky, but I'm familiar with Camus.

Picked out some short books, since I just got done with Don Quixote

>>9109294
Go away

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>>9111998
Bro. Not a recent stack or anything, just happen to own the exct same versions

>>9112086
Nice, book bros for life

>>9112091
Totally

>>9110277
This pic is grandma and grandpa's dusty spring vacation home core

>>9112125
Do you mean it in a good or a bad way?

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Library had sale.

Where did I go right/wrong?

>>9111300
I read the Running Man in jail. Comfy as fuck.

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This constitutes my reading from about Christmas. Please excuse the abridged version of Don Quixote

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Just got these the other day

>>9112695
I just finished it last night. I thought it was really quite sad. I mean, the end was satisfying to a point but overall just depressing. Probably doesnt help that i have a 15 month old daughter with a lingering cough.

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I'm new, please recommend me stuff, currently reading Solzhenitsyn.

>>9113276
Darkness at Noon is a good followup to Gulag Archipelago.

>>9113287
Thanks, so Day in the Life, Gulag Archipelago and then Darkess at Noon?

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>>9111597
Livraria Cultura, amigo. Eu li o Ulisses traduzido pelo Antonio Houaiss e tava planejando importar o Ulysses da Wordsworth, aí fui na loja física da Livraria Cultura pra buscar a minha encomenda (The Waves da Virginia Woolf, tinha importado 1 mes atrás junto com Infinite Jest e Livro do Desassossego) e por sorte, achei não só Ulysses mas também War & Peace. Recomendo MUITO a Cultura, preço muito bom e tem MUITO livro. Todos os livros da Wordsworth são só R$ 10,00 cada, ou seja, Ulysses e War & Peace (tradução boa), acredite se quiser, apenas 20 contos de réis.
Geralmente, though, esses livros da Wordsworth tu tem que importar, difícil ter nas lojas físicas, mas se tu importar, tu pode escolher ir buscar na loja você mesmo, aí não precisa pagar frete (btw, paguei apenas 63 reais no Infinite Jest, mais barato que comprar dos EUA).
Godspeed, anão.

>pic relatada, único lugar que econtrei gravity's rainbow, 2666 e infinite jest foi na cultura, todos na faixa de R$ 60,00.
>inb4 shilling

>>9113773
i hate infinite jest and ulisses so much, fucking hate that i got memed into reading them both

>>9113276
Where do you download well formatted ebooks with covers and everything?
I hope you aren't buying them.

>>9113845
What's wrong with buying?

They're stored on an account and I can read them on multiple devices, and I'm paying the distributors.

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>>9113845
not him, but mobilism, libgen, and soulseek, and then download metadata with calibre

>>9113868
lol

>>9113868
Why would you spend money on things that you can easily get for free?

>>9113884
As reward, and because I can switch to my phone and read anywhere.

>>9113928
>As reward
? It isnt a reward to spend money.

>>9113936
I reward by paying, and it gives me incentive to finish the book. It's not that expensive.

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these 2 arrived 5 minutes ago. now I have 4 volumes of britannica great books and had good luck buying them, they are all in great condition and it seems that they have been read 1 time, if at all

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Currently reading these

>>9112788

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Picked up Mythology at a local thrift store. Actually pretty good.

>>9113845
>>9113884
If you don't purchase ebooks, companies will stop making them. Supply and demand.

It isn't a bad thing to buy ebooks. It's a good thing.

>>9115175
who the fuck cares? like there was/is anything worthy for them to "make" in the last decades

>>9112086
>>9111998
Bro, it's not like those aren't the first results you find when you type those titles into Amazon

>>9115175
>i dont read contemporary literature so there is no good contemporary literature

Worst /lit/ habit

>>9115175
If I don't purchase ebooks, morons will purchase them.
There are plenty of imbeciles funding everything these days, we live in times of abundance.

I bet you have a job too, instead of just comfy welfare NEET life.
Fuck it, I am actually slowly accumulating money without having an income besides handouts.

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my library had some great stuff come in this week. got all of this for 5 bucks. there's a hitchhiker's complete guide to the galaxy hardcover there too, but it's late and I'm too tired to retake the photo.
I picked up a bantam classics edition of portrait of the artist as a young man that day too, but gave it to a friend of a friend because the cover was ugly and I already has a copy.

>>9115175

>If you don't purchase ebooks, companies will stop making them

I hope that's what happens, ebooks are for fags.

>>9117008
best cover of the master and margarita, and actually a decent translation too

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>>9118433
My version has this cover and I really like it.

>>9110561
I love wordsworth.
it's perfect for original- English texts.

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Scored some late-50's Random House pubs. They were pretty cheap and didn't have copies of any but S&F so I figured I'd grab them while I could, may add on to the set in the future if I can find more.

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It's not a stack but just got this.
"Lectures on the Philosophy of History" by Hegel.
It even has the guarantee note from the publisher.

>>9108284
>watching rick mercer

literally lmaoing @ your life rn

>>9111636
is Battle Royale any good?

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I love old books they are cheap, look and smell great

>>9119011
That can be a mixed bag.
I have some that smell like absolute ass.
But then again,you van find stuff in pristine condition.

>>9115699
>all those beautiful new books
go to hell rich fag

>>9115699
Maybe I should read some Kosztolányi.
I just need a Hungarian copy.

>>9119147
i agree with the message of this post

>>9119102
putting a book in a ziplock bag with some baking soda and leaving it for a week there kills the funky smell on old books, have done this, works well, the baking gets off the book easily and doesn't harm the book at all

Got these for my birthday, most glad to have The Red Book i think.

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>>9119228
shitty compression

>>9119201
That is nice to know.
Most of the time the smell goes away after reading it halfway trough,

>>9113958
The Aristophanes translations are appalling (bowdlerized like crazy) and none of them have any footnotes which means you will miss out on a decent amount of context.

>>9119243
wait a second

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>>9119323
now it's perfect

>>9115149
I just finished part 1 of Don Quixote, so fantastic.

>>9110277
really cool

>>9111439
Nice, Kobo Abe's great. Just finished Woman in the Dunes myself, will have to read that next.

>>9119511
As someone who just finished Part 2, I'd say Part 2 is even better, so you're in for a treat

>>9118987
I just leave CBC on 24/7 so I'll have some company.

>>9109520

>Trevor Nigger

Mcfucking kill yourself.

>>9119331
I found that funny

>>9109520
>trevor noah
go kill yourself

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>>9109520
I know this has been said many times but
>Trevor Noah
You are Trash

>>9121180
What's a good place to start with James Baldwin? I mean, aside from his short stories. I tried reading Go Tell It on the Mountain but it didn't take.

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>>9108284
OP here with a fresh stack. Can I get some opinions and recommendations?

>>9121237
I would recommend Dude Weed Lmao Drugs by Danky McStoner

>>9121226
The Fire Next Time - its short and powerful.

>>9120467
Thank you for the positive feedback,but could you elaborate please?

>>9112788
>Worst cover of Infinite Jest

>>9113773
>Worst cover of Gravity's Rainbow

>>9109520
>Trevor Noah

whats wrong with you?

>>9121932
>implying I care enough about the cover to pay 2x the price
xD

>>9119511
>Qui""x""ote
Stop butchering my language please

>>9122176
Donkijóte

>>9122180
That is a little bit better

>>9122185
That is how we pronounce it.
My copy actually has "Don Quijote" written on it,

>>9119511
>Don Quicks Ot

>>9121237
ok ok. wow. just... ok. every single book in this stack is a complete waste of your fucking time. just get rid of all of it. donating it to your library would be a fucking insult to your community, just throw it away or use it to weigh shit down if you need it for some obscure reason. or fire wood. otherwise they are useless pieces of paper taking up space in your life. you fucking gigantic faggot.

>>9110561
thats so fucking weird the only wordsworth classics book i own are war and peace and ulysses

maybe i should get the waves to complete le collection

>>9123067
I have:
>Ulysses
>Two Lovecraft collections
>Wind in the Willows
>Canterbury Tales
I think they are pretty good for English texts

>>9122176
>spics no longer know their own language
beautiful

>>9123098
my ulysses is fucking falling apart but it has a good introduction which helped me a lot on my first reading so im thankful for it

>>9112679
Gatsby and Woolf are god-tier imo

>>9114272
How are you finding Starting Point? I have it but it's fairly low on my list. Should I bump it up?

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Currently reading the gulag archipelago.

>>9122176
>>9122513
>mfw I use to pronounce the word 'quixotic' is kee-ho-tic.

>>9122176
> "Donkey-Hotty"

>>9123259
mirin dante

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>>9123229
>stickers

>>9123219
30~ pages in.
Miyazaki brings up some good points about animation.(Like how the industry works what to pay attention to if you decide to work in the business etc.)
But in typical fashion he keeps talking about how bad the industry is and that "otakus" are disgusting.How mecha is soulless.
I'm no expert on japanese animation but I think it's a pretty good,light read.And it has a nice little biography in the back.
Worth it if you are interested in his work or anime in general.

Bumping it up on your list depends on
a)How interested are you in the subject matter
b)How interested are you in the books you are currently reading/are before it

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>>9123358
Thanks bruh. It was a pickup from the flea market last summer

>>9123259
>Paulo Coehlo

Do a favor for your community and burn it

>>9123544
Have yet to read it. I heard it was critically acclaimed so I picked it up. Why do you feel that way?

>>9123555

It's essentially a modern self-help book, in the vein that you can get anything if you just want it hard enough. Complete with a trite new-age spirituality.

It's a quick read though, so you might as well read it to cure yourself of any want in reading Coehlo ever again.

>>9123229
But abridged, right? Because mine's six volumes, albeit smaller ones

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>>9111774
Beautiful. I have Statius' Thebaid, printed in Latin and gorgeous English. Good picks, anon.

>>9108284
Pic related. Dipping into anarchism and freedom for reasons. Stirner's Ego and His Own and Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays are en route.

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>>9123784
Nah I'm reading the unabridged version of the gulag archipelago. I accidentally destroyed the book today though.

>>9123834
shamefur dispray

>>9123834
How?

>>9123850
left it on top of my friends car this morning after my chem lab.

>>9123893
>>9123896

>>9123896
What?
You left it on top of the car and then what happened?
Pigeons bombarded it like the Brits bombarded Dresden or what?

>>9123906
She drove away and the book fell off the top and split in two. The covers are destroyed and a few of the pages around where it split are slightly ripped.

>>9123943
Did she drive over the book?
Or was it already in shit condition?

>>9123953
The book was in pretty good condition. I think it hit the ground on its spine and then the two halves slid on the concrete.

>>9123974
Weird.
I used books to smack people and nothing happened with them.(And that was a shitty commie paperback)

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>>9108284
Got a new job recently, so I have not been reading as much as I would like to. Excited for starting with "On the Marble Cliffs".

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>>9124048
It's a very short read, but it reads like a really beautiful parable or fable, and it's a little bit surreal as well.
The only other book I can think of which has the same fairytale-like setting and deals with war trauma is Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, but as a Bildungsroman it's way more massive and not really like a fable.
On a side-note, Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt have written some fucking funny plays/stories based on their experiences.

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me rate

>>9113958
Nice, i have the complete works of Aristotle from this set.
They're really nice but the translation was so dated I felt like there was something wrong with me because I was having so much trouble with them. (Granted I got them as a senior in HS)
I read through the entirety of what I wanted to read of Aristotle with that translation before realizing how much more accessible more modern translations are.
But on the bright side i think it improved my comprehension skills in addition to my knowledge of how to approach philosophical works.

So even its the same situation for these volumes I'd just grit my teeth and try to push through them regardless of the language, as soon as something doesn't make sense stop and make sure you full understand the term they use in the context they use it and you'll benefit way more than you would from more watered down translations.

>>9124140
Yes the book is, from what I've gathered, very much a heartfelt statement of Jünger's own feelings regarding return to civility, and a razor sharp commentary on Germany and contemporary german society's deep personality split regarding The Great War. On one hand they hated the war, it ravaged their country, broke the "fairy tale" of an ancient Germania. On the other hand they want revenge administered through that exact thing that broke them, and so they seemingly have not learned a bit. Really quite an interesting perspective, expecially when it is taken into account that the book was realised right on the cusp of war in 1939.

I liked Jünger's WW2 diary. Though it was pretentious and artsy at times, I like Jünger's way of writing, he managed to put words to moods, sensations and feelings, somehow capturing the essences of experiences, I myself find so hard to pin down. Is the prose in "On the Marble Cliffs" sort of like that, airy, dreamy sort of... aethereal?

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My Breadpill Stack

>>9124247
Nice stack anon. Where's the Holy Quran tho?

>>9124203
Those are some nice new books... .. .. . . .. .

>>9124314
In a storage unit, unfortunately. Left a box of books in there when I moved, haven't brought them out yet. It's a nice edition too. Green cover, thin wisp pages. Arabic in the margins.

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>>9124335
This answer was unexpected.

Uhh well, where's your Nag Hammadi library???? What now smart guy?

>>9123570
>>9123555
havent read the alchemist but every single depressive teenage girl pretended to read that book when i was in high school. needless to say i dont plan on reading it anytime soon.

>>9124324
Yes I just bought them and now I will read them, are you having problems?

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>>9119354

>tfw nobody comments on your stack

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>>9124457
>tfw you respond to your own stack talking about how no one responded to your stack in an attempt to get someone to respond to yourself

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>>9119354
>>9124457
(You) will enjoy Hunger.

>>9121959
>>9120971
>>9120969
>>9120956
>>9111942
>>9110743
>>9109648
>>9109579
Whats wrong with Trevor Noah?

i'm just trying to learn more about peoples experiences with apartheid

>>9124457
learn to take a picture that doesn't look so fucking pixelated

I do like the Dostoevsky book tho

>>9124457
next time say this but dont reply to yourself. that way people go back and reply pics with no replys and you dont look like a youwhore.

>>9124203
good stack

>>9124638
Literally nothing and that was the same dipshit reposting his stupid meme.

Also no stacks. I'm a slow reader and hate having a backlog. Just reading Great Shark Hunt.

>>9125141
so are the other books to help you understand the science chapters in gravity's rainbow?

>>9125141
>thermofluids
mah mecha

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I picked these up from the second hand book store for $15.20 in total today. It pains me to remember always buying brand new.

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Stack threads are the best to browse while taking a dump.

>>9123397
Thanks for this. I'm currently reading IJ and Nothing else so it'll probably make a good lighter read.

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this is just the stack next to my bed & bookcase

i'm also listening to Gaiman's recent norse myth book. i've been listening to more audiobooks lately just because reading for long periods of time gives me migraines.

>>9126129
how's saga? if youve started it.
i also checked out kingcity but quickly stopped after reading a little bit. it just seemed kind of bad. interesting artwork though.

>>9124203
Cancer Ward is honestly one of the most underrated Russian novels there is. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

>>9126176
I read it before from the library, I wanted my own copy

>>9124048
Norskjävel!

Great stuff though, especially Jünger. Marble Cliffs is very different from Storm of Steel both in prose and theme. It really shows how Jünger matured as an author imo.

Thought Soumission only became great in the last 50 pages or so. Definitely worth the read though.

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>>9115175
>>9113868
>>9113884
>>9113928
I used to buyfag because I love purchasing physical copies but I now enjoy owning as few possessions as possible. In addition, since having children I can't justify buying anything that isn't necessary. Not because having children is expensive, it really isn't, but because I want the security of no debt and money in the bank. Its a comfy feeling and one I haven't had for some time.

Only spending money on things which are completely necessary feels somehow psychically cleansing, like extraneous objects and purchases somehow muddle my mind. I don't quite know how to explain this and I'm aware it sounds bizarre. Sometimes I think I have OCD.

Anyway, Kindle Paperwhite is nice and calibre is a nice way to organize books.

OP likes to go by Brenda

>>9124246
On the Marble Cliffs is very dreamy.
Being a danefag mysef, if you're interested in war, I can recommend Krestens Dagboger og Breve. It's a Danish conscript from post-1864, pre-1920 Germany and who wrote some very heartfelt letters and diaries back to his mother. It's not really about politics, but about having drawn the shortest straw and being forced to eat it, and his plan was to go on to be a teacher at a Hojskole, meaning he was relatively literary and that the diaries aren't without their occasional flourish either.
He died at the Somme I believe but you follow him all the way through boot camp.

>>9126162
i've made it about 3/4 through Saga, it's alright. i really like its atmosphere and just how the story is kind of handled in the medium. i didn't really seem to take much away much from it, but that might just be because i didn't finish it.
i'm planning on setting aside an afternoon to reread it from start to finish, though. my friend who has similar taste to me swears that saga is one of the best series that he has gotten into.
i definitely bought Kingcity for the art, i collect certain artbooks & comics. i don't really feel too strongly towards the story, but i sometimes open it and look through a few pages every now & then.

>>9124214
nice man, thanks for the heads up, will definitely do that.

>>9126162
Kingcity is very touching towards the end and improves all the time, in terms of artwork & story. I'd advise you to give it another go

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About halfway through Eva & Bruce, yet to start Han Kang

>>9126543
The anime was touching,but I heard the manga is a lot different.Is it any good?

>>9126621
It's great so far! There are a few minor changes, I think it has a bit more slice of life stuff (which I love) and more Kaworu, which is good because he always felt underdeveloped in the show

>>9126628
This might be somewhat of a rude question,but how much was it? (Is that the 3-in-1 editon btw?)

>>9126644
No bother. It was $15
https://www.amazon.com/Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-Vol-1/dp/1421550792/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487511035&sr=1-1&keywords=evangelion+volume+1

And yeah, it's the three-in-one edition. There are still a lot of them but I feel like I'll end up picking them all up

>>9126677
Looked at that and I still find it a expensive.
Oh well,I will read it online and get it if I really like it.

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>>9126694
You're missing out bro.

>>9126711
I planned on taking the conservative approach of
>See how it is
>Then buy it if I like it

Maybe I just got used to cheap books in the last 6 or so months.
Also,stop making me jealous.

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>>9126722
Am I? Sorry.

>>9126729
I see I would get plenty of quality for my money.
I will keep these posts in mind

>>9126310
I've got the first 3 trades of Saga on my bookshelf. Is it really as "progressive" as it seems? The type of people who are into it make me think its going to pander to blue-haired "gender fluid" teenagers.

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recent purchases, all new bar the mansfield & moby-dick which i took from the school library (before you judge no one has read it since 1999)

also thought these copies of the iliad and the odyssey would be matching - odyssey i bought ages ago and iliad the other day from book depository, iliad is verse and odyssey is prose REEEE. odyssey is also suspiciously thin i'm worried it's abridged or some shit

>>9127282
The odyssey is pretty short.
I have a tiny pocketbook verse translation of it in two volumes.

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Most recent buys for me. Reading Gulag Archipelago volume 1 now. Also have the Principles of Economics by Mankiw textbook I'll get to first before Sowell.

>>9119228
>>9119243
no one has anything to say?
fuck you, tell me what you think

>>9128381
High five for Nietzsche, I've only read a little of that particular book but in general I like his philosophy a lot and feel like I can relate to it, he's helped shape a lot of my views and helped me emerge from a nihilistic state.

Is this your first Nietzsche or have you read some of his other work? I'm reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the moment and can definitely recommend it.

>>9128393
I've tried reading Zarathustra back in high school but i was too lazy and depressed to put in the effort required to read. I've emerged from my "nihilistic state" on my own, so now i'm reading philosophy mostly to learn how to neatly put all those ideas which i understand intuitively into words.

Besides that english Nietzsche one i also got a bunch of philosophy translated to my native language, since all that shit wasn't written in english anyway and i need to polish my Polish speaking skills, they've gone stale from never talking to anybody. So far i've only read "An Introduction to Metaphysics" by Bergson, right now i'm just reading Frank Herbert's Dune.

>>9127282
>iliad is verse and odyssey is prose...odyssey is also suspiciously thin

If it's in prose, it's gonna have a smaller page count just because there isn't so much empty space, as opposed to the verse version. Notwithstanding,
>would be matching
>REEEE
Indeed.

Also, Mansfield is seriously underappreciated both here and in general. She writes in the same vein as Kafka and Woolf but without the genius that makes the other two great.

>>9126772
desu, i really doubt it is as progressive as a lot of people say it is, it just seems to be the entry point for a lot of people who have never gotten into medium outside of superhero stuff.

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>>9127356
>new books
go to hell richfag REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>9128498
also >>9127282

>>9110561
The Waves is the greatest book ever written

>>9127356
Is this out of personal interest or are you studying economics?

If it's interest and you want an intro to inequality issues try Piketty. The Economics of Inequality is a good start. Short and fairly easy to read if you have a solid basic understanding.

>>9116971
that edition of pale fire is worth good money

>>9124352
I love you anon

>>9109294
what do you use to read those? I've been looking into getting an ereader

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Most recent acquisitions.
I am absolute slut for mythology, spooky shit, and other general garbage.

I have the following books and am not sure which to read next.
Confessions of a Mask (Mishima)
Critique of Judgement
The Reformation (Will Durant)
Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
Anathem (Neal Stephenson; recommended by a friend, I'm skeptical)

>>9111636
>Pygmy

I read that while I was on a submarine the Pacific ocean. It was certainly an interesting read. Palahniuk plays with the syntax in an almost stereotypical, first generation, Korean-American way. Fun to read, you'll enjoy it.

>>9129720
It's great that you are self aware about it.

>>9129720
Routledge is general garbage. Unless you're a high school student or undergrad (which is the same thing) you should consider academic publishers who don't write their books for children.

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i cant afford as many books as you guys

>>9131651
I buy mine used for a buck or two usually.
You should hit up a local used bookstore if you want a huge stack like most of us.

>>9131692
i live out in the country and would need to get a train into the city to find a used book store, which costs money itself

im alright with just buying a book after i finish one

>>9131715
That has it's beauties too.
For one,you don't get unread books piled up like I do,

>>9131651
From which publisher is that Kybalion?

>>9131765
aziloth books, the cover is nice but "The Kybalion" thats written on the spine is the wrong way round

>>9122176
IS IT KEY-HO-TAY OR KUAH JHOTE?

>>9130623
<3
>>9131002
It's a place to begin.

>>9129661
kindle touch

>>9133699
Nice page ten save. V brave, p cute. Wanna take my sickness out and have you lick it

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Picked these up today, gonna start with Machiavelli after studying.

>>9128381
How's Dune? Heard it's pretty good.

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Top to bottom
>Tolstoy - Master and Man, The Prisoner of the Caucasus & God Sees the Truth, But Waits
>Plato - Hippias Minor & Ion
>Dostoyevski - Notes from Underground
>Huxley - Brave New World
>Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Bought these in the last two months

>Drummond - 70 historinhas
>Guimarães Rosa - Sagarana
Stole these recently from dad

>The Philosophy Book
This was gifted

Currently reading Dorian Gay and the Philosophy Book. Read all the others except for Ion. Didnt like Brave New World as much as I thought I would, was expecting more from it.

>>9129336
I'm studying business and I'm also interested in economics. Other books are personal interest. I'd consider that book, also anything Marx but I'm highly speculative of leftist economics. Not to say I wouldn't read but I can't critique without having read them.

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I just started reading as a hobby recently. Been wasting my life's freetime away as a gamer/guitarist for probably the last 15 years. So forgive all the plebshit.

>>9131715
Do you live in a trailer park? How is there not a used book store, an antiquary, a Salvation Army, or anything of that ilk? If you do live in a trailer park, you can still browse the yellow pages or some more modern internet alternative.
The best book bargains I find when I'm visiting my parents in the countryside. You not only have less collegefags like myself to pick them up, but a lot of people who want to get rid of their old books as well in general, like old people dying and leaving widows and widowers with libraries too big for their own liking. One widow practically gave me Goethe's completed writings (an almost pristine Tempel-Klassiker edition) as well as an assload of other books, something like 70$ dollars for two-three Ikea bags worth of books.

>>9112801
Embarrassing

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Right stack is recently read and currently reading, not sure what books to read next.

>>9135695
I live up in the highlands in scotland with not a lot of people around

there is a bookshop but all it sells is catholic books and paraphernalia

>>9109623
>>9109623
I like you

>>9135892
If your town truly has only one bookshop and nothing else at all that carries books, and if you don't ever see any private listings either, then I don't know why you don't get the fuck out of there because it sounds like a hellhole.

>>9136015
its just a small village m8, not chernobyl

it seems like living in the city has made you oddly hostile to places that dont offer instant gratification

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Left: just bought
Right: currently reading

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weeaboo passing through.

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>>9136115
>books
>instant gratification

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>>9136290
H.C. Andersen is actually really great, his fairy tales are often or always more serene, weirder, or darker etc. than their different adaptions by modern media.
The guy was a total creep, though, I'm sure he's bee excoriated by literary psycho-analytics, and Dickens thought he was weird as fuck.

>>9136523
I spy "No Longer Human" and "Snow Country". Wish my Japanese was better, but kanji are sheer witchcraft.

>>9137524
Kusamakura by Soseki
Tsugaru by Dazai
Rashomon and Nose and other stories by Akutagawa

>>9137462
you still dont have to wait to be able to own them

but you knew thats what i meant anyway

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>>9137683
>own them
>not read them
Good to know why you buy books

>>9137761
if i had a bait picture id post it

read isnt the right word in the context i was using because i was talking about waiting m8. if i had said wait to read then somebody would just ask "why not read them online", because i also want to own the books themselves

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>>9137512
I haven't read or watched something Andersen related since I was a child, can't wait to start reading these. I'm reading a couple of short stories a day. I should be done with the Sherlock stories in a month or so, then I'm starting Andersen.
Also yeah, he seemed pretty weird, found it pretty funny how he overstayed his visit to Dickens by five weeks and then didn't realize why Dickens cut off relations with him.

>>9129720
Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology,
That might be really interesting. Could you take the picture of the first page?

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Haul from the recent trip to Harvard book shop.

The three black ones are short analyses of various topics for general reader by MIT. The neuroplasticity one is pretty good. Also Oxford Press makes a nice feeling book.

>>9139037

Those MIT books look very nice.

>>9139402
Highly recommend except for the price (15$ each)

They are very concise and filled with sources, diagrams, and pre-highlighted lines. Of course they are not extremely comprehensive but its worth the trade-off in readability

>>9139037
Have you been to raven used books? If you're in the Harvard area definitely check it out. It's across the street from campus, and apparently gets a lot of overflow books from the professors, so it's stocked with mostly new/like new books at very good prices. Also has a fittingly great selection for philosophy and more academic topics.

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All from a charity shop for under $10.

The Fagles editions were damn lucky find. They were about to be thrown out.

>>9140328
I have those editions in hard cover

>>9115175
Many e-books have user right limiting DRM which prevents the user from sharing or making copies of their own purchases. These practices should be avoided at all cost and a dollar towards these freedom restricting e-books is a dollar spent to put yourself into an artificial digital prison.

>>9140328
That's pretty good.
That Ivanhoe is pretty.

>>9133811
please, I need feedback.

I hate myself

>>9140568
I honestly don't see the point of reading Machiavelli.
I read The Prince,but it was
a) Fucking boring
b) Common fucking sense half of the time

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These are my most recent reads. Recent enough for me to have not placed them back on the shelves yet. Stack was originally in reverse order in which I started with Perfume and worked my way down.

>>9140134
I walked by it but didn't have time to go in

they had copies of the entire meme trilogy lined up in their display window though lol

>>9140703
v comfy stack

>>9129831
Read Confessions of a Mask next.

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Slowly getting through Gravity's Rainbow

Reading a story or two a day in the Lovecraft collection

I've got All Quiet on the Western Front, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, and Slaughterhouse-Five in an Amazon cart but I haven't ordered them yet.

>>9133811
>Bulfinch's Mythology

Good man

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>>9124203
Manly books

>>9143171
this photo is aesthetic af

>>9143171
If you enjoy Remarque, you might want to check out the six story cycle on WW1 by Arnold Zweig (no relation). They're all different narratives and showcase different aspects of the war so you can them separately and in the order you please.
I recommend Education before Verdun, it centres on a few characters, can't remember them all, but one is a dreamer and Alsatian conscript who gets entangled in a feud/tale of vengeance between some members of the German aristocracy (their commanding officers). Zweig mixes romantic and realistic depictions of warfare not unlike Remarque and you get a similar feel of camaraderie at the front. He was party-approved in the DDR but the book is not a manifesto, and the communists depicted in the book are mostly botched and pathetic figures.

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Thoughts?

>>9146538
>Classical Literary Criticism

What's that about?

>>9146538
shit stack

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>>9135460
>Lords of Chaos
Stop reading that garbage. In fact, burn the book, then go watch Until the Light Takes Us instead

>>9123067
Wordsworth meme trilogy

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Mostly History with Paradise Lost thrown in.

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Just got back from the bookstore. Everything here is fresh, excluding the ends (which are what I'm reading currently). These copies of The Iliad and The Odyssey make me so happy. The copy of The Hobbit is brand new, but everything else here is used. Can I get some feedback?

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Currently taking the green pill. I will be one step closer to spirtual enlightenment by the end of the month.

>>9135460
Same, i realized a couple months ago i was wasting my time with dota. Dont give up on guitar though, music is a worthwhile endeavor.

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ahahah

>>9148728
Hi, >>9129720 here. CAN WE BE FRIENDS. (Your stack looks fun af.)

>>9135460
Don't worry about pleb shit right now. Focus on reading becoming something you genuinely consistently enjoy doing. Once that's established, go from there.

>>9149545
So nice you bought it thrice?

>>9149617
This rhyme,
For me it's worth a dime!

>>9149626
You think my rhyme was not a work of art?
Go suck on Mr Gass's fart.

>>9149617
i actually only bought it once but due to a shipping error i ended up with three copies.

anybody want a peanut?

>>9135695
>being urbanite scum
plebian

>>9111998
I have the exact same copies of Nausea, Myth of Sisyphus and Notes from the Underground.

Nausea is my favourite book. I gave it to my ex to read and she skipped the country with it.

>>9109520
>trevor noah
JUST

>>9109520
>Trevor Noah.
Kys.