/lit/ - Literature

>>10549127
you again
you'll probably get more replies this time since you didn't include the rest of those stoner books

>>10549131
I just like these threads, man.

>>10549127
did you not get the second half of book of the new sun? hope you enjoy it anyways. took me over a month to read just the first half.

>>10549229
I got Shadow & Claw for Christmas, and since it was my pleb sister who bought it for me on direction of our mother, she had no idea there was a second half. S&C was twenty Canadabucks anyways and my sis probably wasn't willing to spend double that. I spent about the same amount of money on her anyways. I'll just buy the second half myself eventually.

Castaneda really isn't worth anyone's time. I suppose you can read it when you're too stoned for anything else, though.

Here's mine.

>>10549127
>Stack most likely to have a few sheets of LSD tucked into the pages

>>10550029
shit i forgot to attach it

I'm reading shadow and claw now too. I'm suprised by hiw good it is, I was half expecting this to be some big meme like how /tv/ has BvS, but it's actually very well written, and imaginative. It's one of few genre fiction books that doesn't just feel like "muh dragons" or "muh spaceships"

>>10550033
Well, if you want to sabotage train lines, I guess...

>>10550049
I've never even been to Tarnac

>>10550044
I actually like BvS

>>10549127
>Not adding Stoner to that pile
I liked the Illuminatus trilogy and I've been pot free for 2 years. Acid on the other hand....

Hello how are you?

>>10549181
Have you started reading that book by Schiller? I'm not as familiar with aesthetics as I would like, would it be useful to read without that great a grounding in German Romanticism.

>>10550228
>English version of Hesse
>German version of Goethe
why?

>>10550405
This

>>10550405
The Goethe was a gift from my German aunt after a suicide attempt and I haven't read Siddhartha yet in English, which I've found helps my reading comprehension.

>>10550524
How did you attempt suicide and why?

>>10550256
Most of the arguments and terms Schiller uses are Kantian in nature. German Romanticism might be a useful suppliment while reading, but a good grounding of Kant is more important.

>>10550166
>The Kybalion
>Not the Corpus Hermeticum, The Aesclipius, and the Emerald Tablet
Fucking dropped!

>>10551583
>hot cop's buns
10/10

>>10550524
>Getting Werther as a gift after attempting suicide

Read it and hopefully you'll try again.

>>10550166
Haven't browsed /lit/ in about a year, is this a new meme

>>10551743
It is not that new, I think it has moar than 6 months

>>10550166
Thanks.

>>10551759
Why would one want to be "greenpilled"?

>>10551823
because it's the best pill?

Has anyone read this essay collection by William James? Are they good?

>>10551949
The essays.

>>10551902
DUDE what if MAGIC lmao

let's start stacks of books we've actually read

>>10552015
>>10551768
here
ive read all my books

>>10551768
That dj book is really good

got these all for $9 the other day. apparently Laws of Form is worth a decent amount online

>>10551902
what the hell is ironpill

new boks
whadayathink

>>10552369
most spooked stack i've ever seen

>>10552342
it's a silly /pol/ meme

>>10552371
you're supposed to say
impressive
very nice

Add Things Fall Apart, which hasn't arrived yet.

>>10552369
impressive
very nice

>>10552420
let's see Paul Allen's stack

Hello.

>>10550033

Hey! I love those Semiotext(e) books! I've got The Coming Insurrection and Introduction to Civil War on my desk right now. I just read The Agony of Power - Baudrillard, and I highly recommend it.

Have you cracked any of them? Thoughts?

>>10550033
Tiqqun is the biggest meme ever

>>10554824
sorry for bad formatting just tilt your head

>>10554712

Have you read any of On War yet? Wondering if it's worth reading.

>>10554863
Not yet. Sorry.

>>10554138
I'm working my way through Preliminary Materials and I've glanced at Bloom in the past. There's not much explanation for their reasoning but it's definitely interesting stuff, really strikes a chord with me. At least when I can wrap my head around what they're saying.

>>10552342
Spiritual and Physical enlightenment for yourself in order to achieve 14 words

>>10552342
Traditionalism, the best pill.

Most recent pickups. Found the Dumas at Goodwill for $3.

Not sure which book I should get to start off my year. I've been really enjoying Krazsnahorkai and Kobo Abe lately so I'll probably pick up another book by them tomorrow, any recommendations? I'm mainly into the surrealism and central European literature at the moment.

>>10555409
Kornel Esti, Petersburg, Cosmos

>>10555513

Already read Petersburg in fact planning a re-read of it at the end of the month. I'll look into Kornel Esti since I enjoyed Skylark a lot.

>>10550166
>chomsky

Just finished ij. What next

>>10555813
Finish your other damn books? Who the hell stops halfway?

I read a few chapters of the Silmarillion and it was kinda meh. I guess I'm not autistic enough for it.
Giving it another shot after I've finished Beowulf though.

>>10551768
very nice

>>10555813
gravity's rainbow or ulysses. youre 1/3 of the way from becoming a certified /lit/izen

American finally learning a 2nd language

>>10556000
Cocaine nights is the O lyrics halffinished. I was reading whilst travelling.

Kafka is just between short stories.

>>10556923
>American
>Learning Spanish

Why would you learn illegal English.

>>10557365
It might as well be our official secondary language, plus I can learn French and Italian a little easier afterwards

>>10552342
/fit/

>>10555338
>The Greek Musketgeers

It's all trash and I can't wait to read it

>>10552369

Who published that copy of ride the tiger.

I'm in love with it and I can't find it anywhere

I just have they faggot ass yellow Cover one

>>10549127
My dad has that Illuminati book.

>>10557365
Cervantes, the wealth that is Latin American lit, and understanding signs in major American cities.

>>10551768
I was severly disappointed with Art Sex Music. She didnt even go into full detail on all the shit/piss/puke eating/drinking. How is Englands Hidden Reverse? I have been thinking about getting it.

>>10551743
Its an /x/ meme that's been around for a while

>>10549127
illuminatus is great

>>10550033
great stack but why the fuck do you have kill all normies?

>>10551768
how's the Keenan book? I love his stuff for the Wire but not that into Current 93 so i never really checked out his book

>>10559996
I'm going to put it with Expect Us, This is why we can't have nice things, TLoTiaT and Hypersphere.

>>10560009
I'm sorry i ever doubted you

>>10559996
>>10560067
No problem. Why is Tiqqun suddenly fashionable? You, me and seemingly some others have been mentioning it a lot recently but I've not really seen it discussed on /lit/ much before this year.

>>10550166
>How to become a pompous ass hole

I have to stop buying books off Amazon instead of pirating and thrifting. I wanted a specific version of Altered Carbon and I made sure my selection was the right year and ISBN and I still got this fucking "Soon to be a Netflix series!" cover. These Joyce and Huxley books are giant and ugly with compression artifacts on the covers.

>>10560169

I also got that edition of AC, it's kinda awful

How do I stack?

>>10560231
Open Sources is a good book (collection of essays) if you like CATB

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/

>>10560238
Thanks, will check it out.

My bedside stack

>>10559265
>Encouraging the propagation of the cuck language: illegal english

>>10560169
I had a similar experience with Steven King's It. I tried to order the original cover and still got the "now a major motion picture" version.

>>10557614
>implying we have an official primary language.

>>10560154
I've been a fan of almost everything semiotext(e) since around 2011 when I read The Coming Insurrection. Had no idea that Tiqqun was suddenly chic, it always seemed to be the least read of those publications. But, if I had to guess I'd say that it might be the fact that The Invisible Committee put out something last year and there's that bogus theory that they're a bunch of ex-Tiqqun writers, so that might have generated interest. That, or people have finally caught on to situationist philosophy

>>10560464
They put something out last year? You think it's bogus? Please tell.
It's possible it's just been you and I running into each other a few times. I've been meaning to buy the hardcopies for a couple of years but only now had the cash to spare.

>>10549127
Nice dudeweedlmao

>>10549127
Slowly building up a collection

>Swift, Complete Works
>Swift, Gulliver's Travels
>O'Brien, At-Swim-Two-Birds
>Beckett, Waiting for Godot
>Beckett, Endgame and Act without Words
>Hesse, Siddhartha
>Marcuse, Negations
>Krasznahorkai, Melancholy of Resistance
>Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On
>Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
>Foucault, On the Government of Living
>Foucault, On the Will to Know
>Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
>Moore, Jerusalem
>Israel, Revolutionary Ideas
>Gracq, Balcony in the Forest

Combination of books I needed for classes, books received for Christmas, and books I purchased with Indigo gift cards.

>>10560586
Leave this board, and never come back.

>>10560677
What's wrong?

>>10560474
https://mitpress mit edu/books/now
here's their latest release, it's sort of a more pessimistic followup to To Our Friends that clarifies and refines some arguments that they made in that volume. It's much more dense and philosophical than their other writing.

The evidence linking Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee is at absolute best circumstantial and at worst boils down too "hey these educated french anarco-communists wrote a magazine and made a commune, what if they're the educated french anarco-communists who are writing about enacting revolution by organizing through communes!?!?!?!"

>>10560728
Thank you for all of the above.

>>10560728
$38.74 for me to order a copy of Now. Fuck that. I can't imagine they'll mind me waiting to pirate it.

>>10560799
yeah that's ridiculous, mine set me back $11, but i'm sure there's a pdf somewhere. I wouldn't read it unless you've read To Our Friends and some Foucault before though

>>10560635
It would've taken you less time to get your phone out and take a picture of that list than it did you for to you name each item on it. You even used commas.

>>10560839
The whole difference is in shipping. Absurd as I'm most likely nearer to the authors than you are. Never mind, I'll keep an eye out for a pdf or ebook. I still have the back catalogue to finish first.

>>10560265
You going vegan?

>>10560897
Not really, just less meaty. I pretty much fell for the Forks Over Knives meme - and I have a lot of weight to lose.

>>10561044
You're probably OP in the
>last meal your ate
>book you're reading
thread

>>10550524
>The Goethe was a gift from my German aunt after a suicide attempt

Is your aunt a sadist? The book inspired a rage of suicides.

>>10560217
>>10560432
I might see if they'll send me better editions. Besides the giant size and terrible cover, The Doors of Perception has the worst copy editing I've ever seen. Typos and misspellings on every page, hyphens presumably from a different layout remain, and there's a fucking HTML hyperlink on the second page.

Trying to balance comfyness and complexity

>>10549127
Are any of these good? Yard sale had a bunch of books by a bunch of nobodies, but I only paid 6 dollars for the lot of them

>>10562192
I'm pretty sure most of us would read the fuck outta that Neo-Platonism book.

Mite b cool

>>10562203
I don’t know wtf it’s about, I just like the cover desu

>>10559996
How is that david byrn book?

dont smoke kids

>>10549181
schiller's book is his letters? i've tried to read them but it's confusing as fuck without the proper knowledge of his zeitgeist

>>10550033
why are you falling for a meme ? there's a bunch of better communization writers than tiqqun

>>10550869
bueno, amigo.

>>10552129
great. don't go full formalist though.

>>10561315
you'll never balance anything with that hegel book

>>10559167
I really don't know. I discarded the cover. All it says on Amazon is that it was translated by Jocelyn Godwin and Constance Fontana.
Pic is the cover

>>10560677
Fuck you asshole, don't talk like that to my friend.

>>10554824
Nice petrarch and burton.

If you've read Augustine's confessions, check out petrarch's secretum aka "my secret book" for something a bit different for him.

>>10562192
Looks pretty off the beaten path. Would probably be worth reading only if you're already really familiar with Plato and, probably, Aristotle. At that point I suspect they would be pretty cool. Good find.

>>10562714
im not even the guy you're replying to but just post the isbn you scrub

>studies of dante
>convivo
>The life ofta dante
>divine comedy
>crime and punishment

>>10552369
Diplomacy starts good and then it nosedives to self righteous shit when it starts talking about America

No bully

>handmaids tale
Kill yourself

>>10565527
>Handmaid's Tale
>some internet-famous faggot
>Art of the Deal
0/10

>>10565680

My wife didn't believe me when I told her I was reading a book written by a nigger loving faggot.

>>10549181
>Barnes&Pleb

>>10550228
ooh bby where'd you cop that campbell?

>>10552374
>/pol/
it's a weird intersection of polacks on /fit/

>>10554863
I read the first book and a half to use in my Senior Thesis. It's interesting but I'm not much of a political realist so I lost interest after I got what I needed out of it.

>>10549127
>power levels
>outside of /pol/
leave now

>>10558993
Is Dark Matter fun? I've got the mobi

>>10563297
What the fuck is an isbn

>>10566319
Is this bait?

>>10566319

>>10566319

International standard book number you fucking spear chucker

>>10559167
It's the same book, but without the dust jacket in >>10562714 pic.

>>10549127
Those books suckkk

Here's what I've been reading in the last month - Partly trying to get back to my social science roots and trying to read more fiction

Currently reading Mushroom at the End of the World by Tsing

As with most anthropology I feel like I'm never more than a few seconds away from sending it cartwheeling across the room but it has a lot of richness and ambition in its description

>>10560841
not him
but i like making lists