Stack thread. Make assumptions about me based on this. I'm

you dont read and you're a faggot

>>9758283
:(

>>9758279
You crossboard with pol and lit and are under 23 years old

>>9758279
pseud and resentful reactionary
these are not necessarily related, but in your case they are

>>9758279
White male in his 20's who browses /pol/ but isn't completely sold on all points of alt-right ideology. Uses the word "cuck" more than a reasonable amount.

>>9758279
literal manchild

>>9758290
Epictetus and Umberto Eco are definite signs of pseud, so you got me there. I assume reactionary comes from Junger.

>>9758293
Isn't alt-right more of an umbrella term that could encompass anything right-wing that isn't either mainstream conservatism (neocon or paleocon forms) or libertarianism? So alt-right could range from being a monarchist to out right fascist? BOTOH, I guess the alt-right also has plenty of Trumpian civic nationalists.

>Pinker
Imbecile

>>9758279

>War Before Civilization

I'm curious, where did you find out about this book?

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take the redpill

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How patrician am I?

Books:
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Philothea
The Art of Writing in 20 Lessons - Antoine Albalat
Introduction to Number Theory
What is Mathematics? - Richard Courant

>>9758279
When you try so hard to be so "deep"

I almost fell for it until I saw all that Pinker garbage.

>>9759600
>>9758549
I dislike Pinker as a person, but what is wrong with his books?

>>9759622
If you have to ask, you haven't done the slightest bit of research into his non-rigorous claims.

>>9759635
Thanks for the answer

>>9759635
I hope you could point me to critique, I can find it myself but perhaps you know it better

>>9758279
You are englandman.

>>9758797
>Art of Writing
>in 20 lessons

Do you think Shakespear would have enjoyed reading this?

>>9759704
This book is pretty good, it's meant for people like you and me who aren't literary genius like Shakespeare.

>>9758279
There is no wear and tear on any of those books. You're probably one of those people.

>>9758776
What edition is that of the pale king? It seems so thin.

>>9758742
I first learned about it years ago in an essay about Hobbes and Rousseau. Then I saw it cited by Simon Baron-Cohen in The Essential Difference so I added it to my reading list. I figured it'll be a neat contrast to Schelling's Arms and Influence (war in primitive societies versus the role of nuclear weapons in 20th century grand strategy).

>>9759600
Some of you guys have a really odd insecurity about appearing "deep." I'd also take your disdain of Pinker more seriously if you offered actual reasons for why he isn't worth reading, not dumb opinions.

>>9759740
The only books I have yet read in that stack are Epictetus, The Essential Difference, Frederick the Great, and Storm of Steel. The others I just bought in the last week. Right now I'm reading the 10,000 Year Explosion.

>>9759806
I've also read Amusing Ourselves to Death.

>>9759885
I like that stack.

>>9760026
I'm sorry but I don't read Klingon sir!

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>>9758279
Rate friends

>>9760026
Leave now, fucking jew.

>>9760061
That Holy Roman Empire book is pretty good. I started reading it recently.

About time someone published something readable + authoritative about the HRE

>>9758776
i finished extension du domaine de la lutte last week. my first houellebecq and i loved it

>>9760108
enlightened/10

>>9760026
How do you enjoy Buddenbrooks and the Bradivechski?
also nice on getting Gabriel García Márquez book for 20nis

>>9759788
im sure its just a UK penguin ed.
i bought it in France

>>9760061
>The Purple Revolution - Nigel Farage

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Validate me

>buying physical books just to collect dust on your bookshelves and show off on /lit/

I'm pretty disgusted desu but I'll keep it to myself

>>9760277
I can barely see any of the books because some hairless ape in heat is blocking the view with her intentionally seductive (?) poses. Ask her to go do something in another room and take the photo again.

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>>9760265
You got a problem buddy?

>>9760303
wow I bet you get laid

lol jk nerd i dont

>>9760224
Buddenbrooks was demanding as you can guess but I liked it, as oppossed to "The Magic Mountain" which I stopped reading after 200-ish pages.
Berdyczewski was very interesting, his grammar is so unique and his style gives the theme of "WOW GIRLS ARE SO PRETTY" a new prespective. But the main point of interest is his language.
Marquez was nice, but slightly overrated :)
I highly reccomend S. Izhar ("Hirbat Hiza'a", "Mikdamot"). He writes so beautifully.

>>9760108
aaah aha hahaha

>>9758279
I don't stack my books because the gravity may eventually cause the text to compress and become illegible. You're supposed to keep books vertical like vinyl records.

>>9760327
I stack my books to save time, if I stack like 20 books on each other after like a week all the information will sink into the bottom book so I just have to read that.

>>9760321
I will check Berdyczewski and S. Izhar out.

I now reading Buddenbrook it is quite engaging
oh what did you got to shvua hasefer?
It was mostly uninteresting to me myself though got יהושוע אריאלי היסטוריה ומטה-היטסוריה and צונץ piece on the midrash from Mossad Bialik booth which i was looking for a while which are quite good

>>9758776
> he reads Michel "i have a fetish for islamic domination" Houellbecq

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r8 my stack.

I don't own physical books and only have a Kindle so how can I contribute to this thread?

>>9760493
Just post your list of books you're reading

>>9760026
How much did you enjoy Pu Song Ling, and what did you like about spooky chinese tales?

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Here's my growing collection

>>9760559
Is Blindness any good?

>>9760559
How did you find Hegel?

>>9760559
Take a better photo

you're using literature as part of an identity and you will probably not read half of those

>>9760581
>you're using literature as part of an identity
What?

>>9760281
validated

What is a "stack" thread for? You can't have that many recent purchases.

>>9760622
Currently reading/to read pile.

>>9760648
OK cheers, that's a little weird though. I leave everything on its shelf, except for the most recent 2-3 that I have on my desk at a given time to read.Maybe it's different if you have hundreds though, I only have ~50 books.

>>9760655
I don't get it either. I keep two or three books max next to my bed. Anything else that I come across that piques my interest I'll just make a note of it.

Compulsively buying every book that sounds like something you'd wanna read just leaves you with huge piles of unread books. Used to do this myself for years, it's just not possible to keep up, better to just buy one at a time so you know for sure you'll read it.

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Superior taste comin' thru.

>>9760668
The only reason I have 3 on the go is because I'll buy in pairs (I don't have a local shop, so I grab 2 a time) and I've generally got one book I got bored of but expect to eventually go back to.

Otherwise it's pretty clear what I am or am not going to read.

>>9760108
3 masterworks, good taste

>>9760026
How can you read Arabic? Is it common?

>>9760704
not sure about him but in government school you never really asked to be proficient in arabic to the level of reading but some paths might lead you to learn it to such capacity.

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greetings lads

>>9760771
What book by Mishima is that?

>>9758776


gay guy?


Cant help but notice your bedding

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Currently what I have laying on the floor right now. R8

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Havent started wind up bird yet
>inb4 murakami is shit

>>9760491
>forgotten soldier
good shit, anon.

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Got a giftcard for my local used book store and I'm going to buy something today, they have pretty much everything.

Recommendations on what I should buy?
Already on the list is a copy of "Jazz" by Toni Morrisson. Feel free to make a recommendation based on what little is in my shelf or something completely unrelated. I usually read fiction but I'm interested in poetry and non-fiction too.

>>9760820
Los años verdes ( 青の時代)
i think that the only translation is the spanish one

>>9760912
The stars my destination
Borges Ficciones
blake poetry

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>>9760570
Blindness so far is pretty good.

>>9760576
Just at my local Chapters surprisingly.

And here's a birthday gift from a friend/recent purchase

>>9760930
Thanks friend

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immediate backlog

some of you guys plan really far ahead

>>9760859
I rate it 1491/1493

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kafka short stories
camus the myth of sisyphos
camus the plague
sartre nausea
homo deus
sapiens a brief history of humankind
thinking fast and slow

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>>9758279
tell me about myself anons

>>9760847
lmfao its not mine

>>9760899
I'll probably start that once I finish Morgan's memoir.

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picked these up from a library book sale for next to nothing. rate

>>9761390
Utter garbage. Greeks suck. Chaucer sucks. Never heard of King Dick.

>>9761390
Someone's unwashed pissing hand touched those pages. I hope you enjoy giving a handjob for every one of those pages you turn, fag.

>>9761430
2bh I sometimes read library books after/while jerking off without washing my hands. It all works out

>>9761455
Thanks for boosting my immune system.

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pickups of the last two weeks

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>>9761758
fuck

>>9758797
Pode comentar sobre a tradução de Os Miseráveis, anon?
Also, would you be kind enough to share a picture of your shelf?

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current reading, forbidden colors is an all time fave

>>9758279
You have a dark past and keep many secrets. Something is driving you, but that something is also weighing upon your soul and you will never find relief until you confront that "something". I see a woman in your future-a blond with green eyes. Remember, anon, we don't all get second chances, embrace this one.

>>9760559
Why do you have Kant and Hegel without having done any prior reading?

>>9761870
who to read immediately before hegel?

>>9761888
Idk but for Kant's CPR you need to read at least Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and before these maybe a little Plato and Aristotle for a general introduction to philosophy.

You can get almost all of these in collection books called "The Rationalists" and "The Empiricists"

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dumb plebs kant into philosophy of physics

>>9761916
>you need Spinoza for Kant
Spinoza was totally ignored by the tradition until like the mid-to-late 19th century

>>9762039
learn the requisite maths and learn actual physics instead of fucking around

>>9762096
You need to know both for those books fag. This isn't pop-sci

>>9760912
>that atlas shrugged spine

>>9761811
great taste

>>9760491
>malaparte

based

Only read The Skin so far, but have Kaputt on my shelf. My literary critic buddy adores Malaparte, and my pleb opinion agrees. Skin had the single most jarring scene I've ever encountered in a book.

>>9761027
babby's first loeb

good start, keep going

>>9760677
>Chesterton
Best taste.

>>9762022
Absolutely terrible.

>>9762215
I got Kaputt because I went on a website that would tell you what you should read next and it was one of the top I've never heard.

What scene was that in Skin?

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Crossposting brainlet here
pls no bully

>>9761021
You still think drinking black coffee and smoking camels makes you look less of a dweeb. When it doesn't.

>>9762635
You're either a woman, or you're weeaboo who likes pop history

>>9762704
The latter.
I prefer the no-nonsense style of japanese authors, almost all the european authors I've read to date try so hard to sound smart or fancy it's downright laughable.

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>>9762635
>guns germs and steel
>not mcneill's pursuit of power

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purchases from over 2 weeks or so

>>9760556
I was disappointed by it. I mean it was OK and nice but I was expecting more (Maybe unjustly so), the stories are somewhat repetitive.

>>9760704
It's quite uncommon :). various reasons made me knowledgeable (And high-school can't get you that far). To be honest I'm not putting enough effort into it as I would like to.

>>9760377
That's nice to know :) I haven't heard about these two (I'm not that much into Non-fiction..)
I got the new translation of A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and also Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Rousseau.

>>9762772
About >>9760556, If you want something oriental, you can try Yoshimura's Shipwrecks.

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Does anyone else here only buy beautiful books, and then actually read them once bought?

>>9762906
>Beautiful
>Penguin

>>9762729
Mirin that OOP Beckett Everyman.

>>9762608
It's not a major plot point, but the narrator/main character/literally Malaparte within his own semi-autobiographical story--that guy has a dog, and it dies in a really distressing, upsetting way. I won't give all the details, but it was bad enough that I almost cried, had to walk away from my book for like 15 minutes, and couldn't read Skin for the rest of the day. It still makes me sad when I think of it sometimes, and it's probably the single obstacle keeping me from reading Kaputt, as I really enjoyed the rest of his writing in The Skin.

I'm a bit mushy and am a dog person to boot, so I don't know if it would be as bad for you, but it really knocked me down.

>>9761021
Snap out of this shit

>>9759635
>1: I like X
>2: gh! Imbecil
>1: why?
>2: I can tell you are an imbecil because you don't already agree with me.

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22 years old pseud

>>9760884
Chussodovsky nice. IMO Globalization of Poverty is a far more insightful read than what you have there, but nice to see a familiar book

>>9763247
>Greene
>Coelho
What are you, some kind of masochist?

Keep LOTR, Meditations, Arabian nights, Old Man and the Sea, Metamorphosis. Burn the rest.

>>9760108
get meme'd

>>9758279
5/5 list OP.

>>9761769
Não posso comentar a fundo sobre a tradução, já que não sou fluente em francês, mas parece-me que a tradução do Ozanam é muito boa sim, foi-me recomendada por pessoas de confiança, além de ser editada pela Cosac que faz um trabalha excelente nos livros publicados. Sem falar ainda nas centenas de notas de rodapé que contribuem bastante para o melhor entendimento da história e de certas passagens.

Há ainda outra edição, feita pela Martin Claret, diretamente a partir do francês, porém creio que esta não possui notas de rodapé, apesar de ser em capa dura. Se possui interesse na tradução do Ozanam, recomendo esperar a nova edição da Companhia das Letras que será lançada este ano, já que esta da Cosac Naify está esgotada em todos os lugares.

Sobre a foto, desculpe pela qualidade mas acho que dá para ler o nome da maioria dos livros. Se possui alguma dúvida sobre o título de algum livro, não hesite em perguntar.

http://imgur.com/a/KwdYk

>>9760108
those perfect spines

>>9760061
>Nigel Farage
lol

>>9760947
I think he means what you made of Hegel's writings, not where you found the physical book.

>>9763863
You're reading a book about reading books. Full meta

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>>9759885
That's a good stack but can you really read Heidegger? I doubt this. The translations are filled with German words and not being familiar with the language makes it impossible to clear through. Even if you handle German the ideas are so broadly spread that he is extremely hard to follow.

This was my opinion few years back when I loaned one of his works for a while. It was quite fast that I realised to return it since it was near impossible to grasp yet

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Both Pynchon's are first editions.
Top left book, Everyman's Library of Selected Essays, is the oldest book I own to date, being printed in 1912. Spent about 25$ on the lot.

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>>9764066
Where do people buy such cheap book?

>>9764590
Bookfairs for one. Often they do deals where you pay a flat five dollars for a cardboard box and you get however many books you can fit in it.

>>9764066
Can you recommend me some books on your shelf that are 9 inches or taller? Thanks.

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My recent purchases and on-demand stack.

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>>9764678
Fuck, *On-deck
Also, these just arrived

>>9764590
Goodwill, $1 hardcovers and $0.50 paperbacks

>>9764691
That one is a masterpiece. Also, how has Gibson's book on the Roman Empire aged?

>>9764704
I just got that so I haven't read it yet, also I ordered both 3 volume sets and only received 4-6, so I'm waiting on the rest to start it.

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>>9764639

>>9764730
>treating those precious D&D 3.5 books like that

shame.

>>9764678
Nice! I've been looking for a collection of In Search of Lost Time for years locally, no one has it. I've got Jean Santeuil which I guess was an early go. Enjoy it.

>>9764797
I ordered that one, because book stores near me are basically nonexistent. It was only 60 dollars on Amazon. Worth it.

>>9764590
what the fuck man
Books are basically the easiest thing to find for ridiculously cheap

>>9760061
Is the Romanovs book good

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R8 me family

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>>9760026

>>9765063
College sophomore / 10

>>9764797
Yeah well I don't collect them, I use them. I love campaigning in 3.5 and making campaigns for 3.5.

>>9762635
Why is Underground so thick? My edition is like 200 pages

>>9759885
Its a meme you dip

>>9765063
why the fuck are those editions of the iliad and the odyssey so huge?

>>9765817
Those editions are pretty popular. They have thick paper and a lot of white space. That is why they are so thick

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go easy on me ;)

>>9765894
Sweet jesus

>>9765894
I should kill myself. Why live if I know I'll never experience such happiness, but see and hear evidence that Chad does? No book could give solace, no writing session remedy.

>>9764704
It hasn't aged super well, assuming you mean his thesis, but it's absolutely still worth reading if you're interesting in the roman empire.

>>9765063
10 out of 10 kid. Enjoy the graves, hes great.

>>9765894
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

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>>9758279
Currently reading Paradise Lost. Really really good.

>>9765894
>braaaap

>>9758279
yoooooooooo my niggah i read war before civilization and used it in my senior thesis. shit was pretty tight, though some of the data he cites can be a bit dry. you can also skip over the shock and fire tactics chapter

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r88
been reading the notebooks recently

>>9766816
Is Proust good?

>>9766839
Yes. He has his moments

>>9766816
What version of Stirner "The Ego and his Own" is that?

>>9767205
dover, numbnuts

>>9763796
Wind in the Willows is patrician as fuck.

>>9763796
le carre mfn

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One of my "bookcases" is basically just a huge stack.

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Thinking about reading this; would anyone recommend it? A novel about a baseball player sounds like it could be "comfy," for lack of a better word.

>>9760026
is it compulsory to learn this language when we all move to Mars

>>9760061
> Nigel Farage
> Purple Revolution
> Revolution

UKIP's dead, lad. Rest of your books are fine but shit nigga that's genuinely embarrassing. If I saw that on your shelf I would pray to mecca five times right there in your living room.

>>9767533
You're thinking of German, anon.

>>9760108
Memes aside, all very good books and I think you'll enjoy them a whole bundle if you spend the time trying to understand them. Genuine fun.

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>>9760912
> Atlas Shrugged book
> made of duct tape

>>9761390
Good books but the anon's other post about unwashed hands triggers my OCD and so I would have to burn those books too.

>>9762729
> only volume one of Les Mis

Damn, that kinda hurts to see, but I notice it's cheapskate Wordworth so I kinda expect they would do something like that. Looks like an older edition though so it should be fine as long as you can find volume 2 from their publisher. Nice stack, no idea what The Holocaust Industry is about though, sounds conspiratorial.

>>9763796
Wind in the Willows and Watership Down are wonderful. Read them to your grandchildren when you're done, anon.

>>9763863
The 1001 series is actually nifty coffee table book-core with some genuinely good recommendations.

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Stack

>>9767994
Drecks SJW!

>>9768035
/pol/ soll verschwinden

>>9768041
Nein du. Ich werde nicht zulassen das ihr unsere Gesellschaft noch mehr zerstört als ihr es bereits getan habt. Ohne Hurensöhne wie dich wäre ich nie auf /pol/ gelandet. Wer glaubt das Geschlechterrollen (ganz egal ob nun weiblich oder männlich) ein Werkzeug der Unterdrückung sind, ist legitim geisteskrank. Frauen und Männer sind von Grund auf verschieden. Das bedeutet nicht, dass man Individuen die nicht in diese Rollen passen dazu zwingen sollte, jedoch ist es fatal die komplette Gesellschaft in Stücke zu zerschlagen nur weil das System unfair zu einigen Minderheiten war. Frauen als solches waren im Westen noch nie unterdrückt. Die Unterdrückung beschränkte sich auf diese die eben nicht in ihren Rollen aufgegangen sind, das waren aber die wenigsten. Ihr habt die Familien zerstört und jetzt kopieren die dummen verbitterten MRAs eure Rhetorik um das zu demolieren was noch von Tradition übrig geblieben ist und am Ende wird nichts bleiben als Asche und aus dieser wird zwangsweise ein totalitäres System auferstehen da die Menschen verzweifelt nach Halt suchen. Du findest es schlimm das mehr und mehr Leute rechts werden und /pol/ wächst wie ein Krebsgeschwür? Gut, denn ihr seit daran schuld. Ihr habt unsere gesellschaftlichen Grundsätzliche infrage gestellt und dadurch Millionen Menschen ohne einen Handlungsrahmen zurück gelassen, den sie nun mit Nazi scheiße füllen da deren Antworten im Vergleich zu eurem Dreck wenigstens Sinn ergeben. Gut gemacht.

>>9759635
lmao nice cop out pseud

>>9767994
>all of the books follow the same physical aesthetic
>all of the books lack spinal creases
>high brow
You're clearly a pseud who hasn't even read any of those books and mostly keep them as ornamental pieces.

>>9768112
No I haven't read those. I thought a stack is a tbr pile?

>>9768099
Ich bin kein SJW, weder rechts noch links, genauer gesagt in der politischen Mitte.

>Frauen und Männer sind von Grund auf verschieden
Einverstanden

>Frauen als solches waren im Westen noch nie unterdrückt
Dein Ernst?

Wer außerhalb heteronormativer Rollenverteilung nicht funktionieren kann ist eine Marionette.

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>Reading opposing viewpoints is hard

>>9768125
>Poor little white Renaissance Man

>>9758300
All the political shit makes you a reactionary because the material more right-winged.

>>9768124
>heteronormativer
Wenn du dieses Wort unironisch in den Mund nimmst bist du zumindest ein proto SJW.

>Dein Ernst?
Ja. Mein ernst. Wenn es Unterdrückung ist das die Frau am Herd bleibt und die Kinder großzieht ist es genauso Unterdrückung wenn der Mann in der Fabrik arbeiten muss und für den Militärdienst eingezogen wird. Newsflash: Keins von beidem ist Unterdrückung. Die strikte Trennung von Geschlechterrollen hat sich entwickelt weil es nützlich zum überleben der Spezies war. Das heißt nicht das es nicht Leute wie homo und transsexuelle gibt die nicht in diese Strukturen passen. Gut, nicht mein Problem. Für diese Leute hätte man alternative Strukturen schaffen müssen, aber was ihr stattdessen getan habt ist die Strukturen die für 90% der Bevölkerung funktioniert haben einfach nieder zu reißen, ohne Sinn und Verstand. Reiße niemals eine Zaun ab wenn du nicht weißt warum er aufgestellt wurde. Und übrigens: Wäre das das 19 Jahrhundert und ich in der Arbeiterschicht wäre ich lieber eine Hausfrau als ein Fabrikarbeiter. Da kannst du aber Gift drauf nehmen! Scheiße, ich hätte sogar nichts gegen eine Alpha Frau als Partnerin die das Geld anschafft und ich mich dafür um die Kinder und den Haushalt kümmere. Aber leider ist dies eine Rebellion gegen die Biologie und es wird fast keine Frau einen Mann heiraten der schwächer unter weniger dominant ist als sie selbst. Euer Weltbild bricht zusammen sobald man die Mehrheit und nicht die Minderheiten betrachtet.


>>9768125
>evola, alinsky and marx
You fell for all the memes.

>>9767561
Holocaust industry is fascinating. Norman Finkelstein taking people to task for trying to browbeat other people with the holocaust as well as tearing into frauds who published entirely fabricated "memoirs" and "autobiographies"

>>9763804
Do you know how to poo in loo though?

>>9768125
Nice selection, "know thy enemy" and all that.

You are studying your enemy, aren't you, Anon?

>>9767253
good now let's see the back stacks

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>>9768328
>he fell for le new counterculture meme

>>9768231
I'm keen to read Beyond Chutzpah, have you read it yet, anon?

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r8 my nonfiction stack m8s

>>9768802
Nah I'm caught up reading other stuff. But if anyone can handle that topic well I'm gonna give Norm the benefit of the doubt. Dude is great at backing up his claims.

>>9758279
I bet you were never in the military.

>>9769349
>galipoli
good taste

>>9769349
What's Rev Ideas like anon? I'm trying to read up on the French Revolution before my course starts

>>9769608
I only got to read the introduction before I picked it up. Currently trying to read through some of my fiction stack so I can't really give a proper recommendation.

On the other hand Chess Story by Stefan Zweig I just finished and I wholeheartedly recommend.

>>9769608
That being said if you wanna know about revolution I'd recommend an actual history book like the oxford history of schama's citizens

>>9769652
That of is supposed to be or

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R8 and h8 pls

>>9766816
This is good content

>>9769699
>he got memed on

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>>9768313
<3

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>>9769699
The NDP version of Confessions is the best version of confessions.

>>9766845
Did you read the whole thing? I'm starting it soon and I am pretty hyped

>>9769608
Read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution

>>9759635
you're real life brian griffin

>>9771055
Yup, I hope you enjoy it, it has certainly had a strong effect on me

>>9759704
>>9759717
This fool doesn't read French well enough to know who Antoine Albalat was, nor the absolute pedagogical genius of his works on writing.

Kudos to you, hispanophone anon: I am rereading his series (maybe 4-5 books) on reading and writing and am amazed at the insight he provides. It's a great pity there isn't anything remotely similar for all the monolingual pseuds on here, it would make a difference.

Albalat was a decidedly right-wing French literary critic who put his money where his mouth was and wrote a series of books on how to write more efficiently. Available partly on Gallica, partly on Internet Archive.

>>9771514
my post should have read 'lusophone'. Oh well.

>>9760677

Unironically /myguy/

>>9761027
move onto Brillat-Savarin next

>>9768802
I leafed through BC and was a little disappointed - Its scope is narrow I was hoping it would cover more history at least from the late middle age/renaissance, its focus is almost exclusively on the modern state of Israel and its relations with Palestine. I didn't find it nearly as insightful as THoloIndustry.

>>9771571
thanks for this rec anon. i can't read french, but it's good to know this guy exists.

>>9771613
English translation here: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/brillat/savarin/b85p/
>you're welcome

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>>9771622
you're alright anon. here is a roast i prepared once with mirepoix and traditional bouquet. love old french cooking.

>>9771749
Well straight away you can chuck the Said, and read Sombart instead of Weber.

>>9771330
Not a good intro senpai. He's very creative in his description of the history. It's fun but you're better off reading a more historical piece.

>>9767994
>stack thread
>posts double ended queue

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>>9759934
>>9763976

>>9772115
I'll bet that pussy has seen some queer shit in its time...

>>9772121

That cat has probably gone through some horrors as well.

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>>9772125
>pic related

>>9760061

montefiore is such an awful writer, his stalin biog is criminal

>>9761021

Think this is the first stack in which I've acc read most of the books shown

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>>9771749

>mw that stack

>>9760061
How is Adrian Goldsworthy's Augustus? I've been looking to find some decent books on that nigga.

>>9771749
How does someone acquire such odd taste?

>>9759885
Thats a really (Ontologi)cool stack

>>9761002
central euro surrealism thumbs
up

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I can already feel the S.K blasting coming. My body is ready.

>>9771797
>you can chuck the Said

>>9772964
Wholesome and good

>>9772964
He's shit, but like what you like and don't let anyone ever tell you not to waste your time with hack writers.

>>9768125
why is that version of Utopia so big?

>>9773511
Good advice, friend. Thank you.

>>9764080
Most patrician stack.

>>9758279
Bought books specifically to post them online rather than read them.
>>9760559
Which have you read?
>>9760884
WInd-up Bird is actually pree good though IMO.
>>9763247
You seem like you only buy books that are set out in the front of chain stores
>>9763796
patrician choices and worn-out, <3
>>9766816
bretty good

>>9772172
because it's entry level lit and bestseller nonfiction.

>>9760061

Is the Nigel Farage book literally published by /b/? top jej

>>9760677
Gonna go out on a limb and say you do drugs

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Out of town for work. This is apparently was packed. Getting more this weekend. God, i have over 200 books in my personal library and most are shit tier crap like vampire diaries. Were can i sell this shit for the most profit

>>9775280
You can't camera

>>9763697
I know, right? Finally an adult posts here.

>>9760108
The father, the son, and the tennis god

>>9760026
I can't read this shit. It is up side down.

>>9775291
You must be a grill.

I know because i BBQ all the time

>>9775280
You seem to struggle with English. Allow me to assist.
>Out of town for work.
While this is perfectly fine, since it's the first sentence its better to start off with a distinction about who exactly is out of town so you might consider writing "I'm out of town for work."
>This is apparently was packed.
I have no idea what you are trying to say here.
>Getting more this weekend.
You should consider including the fact that you will get what I presume will be more books with the previous sentence as it will help the entire paragraph with its flow. Otherwise its just 5 short sentences.
>God, i have over 200 books in my personal library and most are shit tier crap like vampire diaries.
Never mix numerical symbols in.
Why the appeal to a higher power. Two hundred books doesn't make it a library. Vampire Diaries is the title of a series of books so should be written as such. The i wasn't capitalized. Try this instead.
Gosh, I've realized I own over two hundred books.
>Were can i sell this shit for the most profit
Again forgetting to capitalize the i. Omitting the question mark at the end is also an error. You also won't be making any profit on these books. A profit means getting back more money than what you paid for them initially.
Where can I sell all these what I deem to be worthless books for the most money?

To answer your question, just list them on your equivalent to Gumtree or Craigslist as the entire lot for $20.

>>9775381
Oh damn i didnt realize we had an english major here. Everyone, quick! This guy is literate! Youre far to pretentious for your own good. Its not becoming. Dont get me wrong, i do grasp proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. Im just on my phone and dont give a shit. If you cant read the post then its probably a good idea for me to send these shitty teenage novels to you. It helps to start with easier works then move on to the big stuff.

>>9775381
>Pedant detected

>>9775381
Oh yeah forgot to mention. I dont pay more than a couple bucks for books. People give me the shit because they know i read. So do you want the shitty books or not?

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>>9775415
But you still won't get more than a couple of bucks per book so no profit is involved. Why even use that word?

You didnt do well in economics did you? Ill explain.
If i got a book FREE then sell it for the SAME AMOUNT AMAZON CHARGES I profit. Srsly you are digging your own grave right now. Stop while you are ahead.

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>>9775443
Hey look! I'm being a retard on 4chan. Better call this guy out as digging his own grave before he says it to me first.

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I feel like an absolute fucking pleb because I'm just reading the shit i see posted on here and on Better Than Food. And Blood Meridian greatest fucking American novel I've read so far

>>9775683
get that shit into ya.

>>9775683
at least youre honest. get a goodreads so that you can get recommendations from a different echo chamber.

>>9763821
lmao

>>9774127
>You seem like you only buy books that are set out in the front of chain stores

Funnily though, only Guns Germs and Steel is the only book I bought out of the front of the store.

>>9776984
What horrid taste

>>9766304
Do you by any chance go to the University of Adelaide? Two books were in my syllabus. Paradise Lost is my fav too, I've memorised Satan's First Speech. Anon, nice stack

>>9767994
Warum ist dein Zauberberg so thinn? Meiner ist mindestens doppelt so dick und auch Fischer Klassik.

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I'm not sure that I'll be capable of making my way through Reasons and Persons, to be honest.

>>9769699

Never Let Me Go is a wonderfully spun story. Kazuo is a master of letting stories show themselves late in the game.

>>9765894
T-the books aren't even that g-good!

>>9767253
OTK is Tezuka's best manga. Maybe not even his most /lit/erary or artistically creative, but it's his best

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Good job I have a year off.

>>9777563
Reason and Persons is fucking brutal. It seems like the sort of book only a philosophy graduate could understand. I don't think it would be easy for the average person to pick up that book and make sense of it.

>>9777641
>All Quiet on the Western Front

Mah nigga. I read that years ago. Gave me feels.

>>9777705

I read the first, say, 5 or so pages....

It was fucking brutal. He throws hypotheses and theories at you like its fucking nothing, and then precedes to rip it apart and build it back up and - its *dense*, you can tell from the get go.

It isn't that the language is incredibly difficult; its that he so clearly knows these ideas inside and out, and I just cannot follow the deluge of information, argumentation, conclusion and iteration he goes through.

>>9765894

>reverse image search

Wow, you've been a busy girl posting this photo on lots of different boards and websites! How do you find time to read?

>>9777563
>strand
My niggah!

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roast me babies, or give me good recs thanks

ITT: Basic bitches

>>9779346
>City
I remember having a similar Cathedral book when I was a kid. Are they enjoyable for adults?

>>9778496

Edgelord/10

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>>9779363
It was a nice easy read, only about a small paragraph of text on most pages, big font, big pages obviously. Lots of cool informative pictures, pic related is one of my favorites. I want to get some others from the series.

>>9778496
really bad
>>9777682
okay
>>9777641
pretty good
>>9777563
meh, hows wealth of nations
>>9775683
meh, but i have a soft spot for catcher
>>9775280
nothing good
>>9774071
cool architecture stuff i guess
>>9772964
half and half
>>9771749
pretty good>>9769754
well done
>>9769699
>p&v
always hear this guys get shit on, anyone know if they're good or not?
>>9769349
i like it, good job anon
>>9768313
okay

>>9768143
ha!

>>9772455
He took the PetersonPill presumably

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please give me validation. recs would be nice too.

>>9760061
Is the nige book good? Love the bloke, but I doubt his writing is captivating...

>>9779552
Fuck. I want a copy of that blood meridian modern library edition.

>>9779552
Why can't I find that particular modern library edition of blood meridian?

>>9779578
>>9779584
i bought it off of betterworldbooks and merely took off the normal hardcover

>>9779230

Great place, its great just walking around town during the summer and somehow eventually making my way inside The Strand...good times

>>9779425

Haven't really started yet, I'm excited though. Was technically an econ major, but never really felt like I got a great understanding of macro econ or the theory: I only knew random ideas and equations with variables to solve for. It was all math, without any theoretical background to make the math more contextualized. So thats what i'm hoping for, at least.

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back to the library tomorrow :) any recommendations

>>9779765
I picked up an 8 volume (4 books, 2 volumes per book) encyclopedia of philosophy set for 8 dollars there. Fucking steal.

>>9779346
if you like sartre's work be sure to read no exit and three other plays

>>9779968

Thats insanity - was it on one of the carts outside?

>>9780234
Yupp all together too, i didn't even need to hunt through the stacks.

last time i was there i also found myself unexpectedly talking to some thot who was unsure about reading lolita. her reasoning for not wanting to read it was standard "muh pedophilia" (as though you're supposed to identify with every protagonist?). I told her it's good, to read Pale Fire to try to get a sense of Nabokov's writing ability and make the decision on her own based off that.

>>9779837
Maybe some actual literatue