Rate my birthday haul /lit/

4/10

>>9613506
Not familiar with the top one, but not bad bad overall.

>>9613506
You won't read all of it.

Also

>softcovers
pleb

>>9613506
This is the perfect "you will never read them" book haul

>>9613520
>>9613528
Just finished Gravity's Rainbow the other day, and I have a job that allows me to read 2-4 hours a day don't see why you think I won't read them unless you're projecting

>>9613537
i believe you

>>9613506
>secondary literature

>>9613514
It's just a shitty book about Athens in the day and age of Socrates. Mostly for entertainment and supplemental

>>9613537
why wouldn't i be projecting?

>>9613548
Some people on /lit/ like to pretend that they read

>>9613506
Pathetic and pretentious

>>9613551
>calling things pretentious on a literature board

>>9613551
this

They are all very good books but you should design for yourself a more focused curriculum instead of just reading meme tome after meme tome.

Obviously the whole "start with the Greeks" thing is a bit absurd, you don't have to go that far, but say you read up on older classics and authors instead of just reading one postmodern doorstopper after another: that would be a good idea.

Heidegger's Being and Time, for instance, might be worth doing some homework for. Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Husserl, etc. etc. are all important authors I would look into before attempting such a work.

Pynchon as well is probably best tackled after reading modernist 20th century novels.

>>9613595
>you should design for yourself a more focused curriculum instead of just reading meme tome after meme tome
Fucking this

Why is this the only edition of V. I can find?

>>9613595
Making a curriculum would take 1. effort, which kids these days seem to think they can't afford to exert even the slightest amount of, and 2. time, which kids these days seem to think they don't have

>>9613595
I've finished Being and Time's introduction and I think I've got a handle on it. Been taking notes and looking up interpretations and shit.

the Pynchon boat has already sailed, I just finished Gravity's Rainbow and got that readers guide to figure out wtf exactly was going on, even tho I enjoyed the book.

As for right now I'm gonna read Russel's history, specifically the pre-socratics, then I got the five dialogues on deck and then probably aristotle

>>9613612
why are you doing this?

>>9613608
I've got one, these were just books I found today, not necessarily what I'm going to read soon.

>>9613612
Please upload a digital copy of that reader's guy

>>9613619
*guide

>>9613595
Postmodern Doorstopper would be a good band name

>>9613619
It was in a fucking special section of Half priced bookstore like roped off and I'm not sure why since it wasn't that expensive. Is it hard to find?

>>9613616
What do you mean?

>>9613635
why do you read what you do?

>>9613635
>Is it hard to find?
I don't know because I don't live in an English country. I'd like to read it tho

>>9613643
I'm a nerd. And one of my favorite classes in college was my philosophy class so I want to get back into that..

As for literature I wasn't into it much until I read IJ and some Franzen (IK IK t. Pseud) but that made me realize how great literature could be.

Why do you read what you read?

>>9613659
pls shut up

>>9613659
>I'm a nerd.
omg kill yoursell

>>9613612
>reads introduction
>thinks he has a handle on it
No. No, you don't. You really, really don't.

>>9613537
if u read being and time youll learn that im constantly projecting

>>9613679
Not the whole book but the laying out the question of being and the ontico-ontilogical priority of dasein
>>9613673
Will do pal

0.8/10

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>>9613506
i got a polo from my parents

milf at work went out and got me a makers mark box. that was nice of her

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Why are you guys being so mean to him? It's obvious he reads because he wants to gain pleasure and knowledge. It's okay if he doesn't go by the "western academic way". He's not a humanities academic.

Anyway, OP, I think it's great, even if I wonder what you're going to understand of Heidegger. I mean, he's really difficult, and I hope you know your philosophy if you want to understand any of it.

if you read them all and truly absorb their message, your life will become much richer for it.

happy birthday!

>>9613506
6/10

The best are Yeats and Plato.

most of them will sit with uncreased spined on your shelf for eternity/10

>heidegger
I guess your loved ones want you to be retarded

>>9613506
happy birthday anon enjoy the books

>>9613612
if you haven't read kant there's literally no point for you in reading B+T. Take it from someone who was taught being and time in a course without reading kant, reading kant, and then rereading b+t and realizing that all of my thoughts were completely unformed. Not to mention that Hegel and Neech are also really important

>>9613514
>>9613543
I really enjoyed Socrates parts of The Hemlock Cup. My only complaints are when the author goes on that tirade about a female figure from the time. It takes up at least a fifth of the book.

>>9613506
Why would you buy paperbacks? They suck.

>>9613506
happy bday :)

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Is today your birthday OP? Happy birthday, mine was yesterday.
pic related

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>>9613608
ah yes, the old kijdeezdaze

>>9613659
jesus christ, i can't believe you think that anyone would want to listen to you speak words. you're like the aggregate of all 17 year olds

>>9613984
>W.B.Yeats, DFW
Has there ever been more mediocrity condensed in one photo?

Uh, and no one cares about your birthday

>>9613996
do you feel superior now, bud?

>>9613506
how old are you? 10? XD
my parents made me read all those books before my 6th birthday

>>9613506
JR is fun. Enjoy OP

Kek, you're going to read about 100 pages of all of them then get another book haul.

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>>9613506

>J R by Gaddis

you did well lad

>>9613506
Pretty FUCKING solid, my main man

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>>9613996

get outta here u hothead

>>9613506
kys op

you should try this board >>>/mu/

>>9613996
How is it possible to dislike based yeats?

>>9614580
He didn't say he dislikes Yeats, he said the anon who posted the picture is mediocre, which is true. I would have even said "a memeboi"

>>9614587
Ok, phew!

>>9613506
Does Being and Time really change the way people think and inspire them, or do people just read it because they hear that it'super tough to understand?

>>9614728
The latter, on here at least. Being and Time is a really dense and tediously complex book analyzing the history of philosophy. For some reason, probably from its grandiose title, people must think it contains the super secrets of life, instead of being the incredibly tedious german philosophical treatise that it is.

>>9613595
What if I just read for fun? for the beauty of language and the wonder of the story? do i really need to treat it like a school project?

>>9614728
There is no dichotomy in your question. People can read it because it sounds difficult and then once they have read it become inspired by it.

>>9614811
It is clearly more than an analysis of the history of philosophy

>>9613635

A lot of used bookstores have a "beat literature" section that is either behind or near the counter. They do this because these books are frequently stolen.

>>9613506
Cool stack anon. I really need to get around to reading JR.

>>9613506

I know people in this thread are memeing, but I unironically rate your haul 9/10, I'd be very proud of it myself.

Those are the most important dialogues, and the best ones to start with. Pynchon with a reader's guide will be perfect - though you'll want one for V. I've been looking to find myself a copy of The Great Chain of Being, but from what I've heard it should give you a really great understanding of real philosophy. Being and Time will be challenging, and you're a bit of a pleb for reading a translation, but that's ok. Yeats is based af.

>>9613506
Tell your mom she did okay.

>>9613550
That's me, it is too easier to just pretend that I read and still roll you guys when you disagree with me. Been here since the beginning and still haven't read a single book.

Being & Time is a lot of fun, hope you enjoy it and realize Heidegger is always right

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how's my birthday pile? too many memes i guess

>>9616624
I want to read Evola, but his weird sex stuff makes me think he was just a shitposter

>>9616634
So was Kierkegaard but he's mostly well regarded anyway

>>9613506
It looks like an amalgamation of some works brought up in the last couple of weeks' threads on /lit/. Do you really have such a lack of independence?

>>9613506
I think we have similar likes. Just got the same copy of V today actually. Made a thread about it earlier.

>>9613659
philosophy rules, my man. rock on cold hearted woman

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>>9616624
>Gestalt therapy
>buying self-help ''''''literature''''''

>>9613506
happy birthday

>>9613506
Your family thinks you're the biggest pseud, believe me.

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>>9619344
it's a good way to find source material. I learned about pic related from it, very interesting book