/lit/ - Literature

Stacks aren’t just for recent purchases.

This is my stack from a previous thread. Pretty beautiful.

>>11559221
Forgot to post img

Second from top is Hayek.

Proclus’ Elements is near the bottom

>>11559217
All the books about/by Spiro Agnew I could find

memes

General reading stacc

Not pictured: La Casa de los Espíritus by Isabel Allende

>>11559429
Nice Spanish bro. ¿Cuál país?

>>11559429
una vela jajajaja

I need the empire series but those are really hard to find >:(

>>11559468
Chile
>>11559476
pic

>>11559457
>Kill all normies
why?

Starting with the Greeks edition

Did I fall for any memes?

>>11561268
Forgot pic cus I'm retarded

bought these last night, also Hamsuns Sværmere, in norwegian.

>>11559217
Good stack. Seems like you have a nice shop for used books at hand.
>he's starting with the greek
I will at some point, read the Iliad and The Odyssey. Where should I go from there, though?
I started reading Stirners einzige, and found it annoying that after the first chapter or so, he would reference a lot of greek philosophers I had no clue about.
>>11559497
My little brother is obsessed with Asimovs sci-fi. Any good, in your opinion?

meant to quote this boy
>>11561274
>>he's starting with the greek
>I will at some point, read the Iliad and The Odyssey. Where should I go from there, though?
>I started reading Stirners einzige, and found it annoying that after the first chapter or so, he would reference a lot of greek philosophers I had no clue about.
>>11561268

AM I PEAK SCHIZO YET LADS?

>>11561306
Hamsun is the man. Are you also a Norwegian on /lit/?

>>11561385
Yes. We had to read some Hamsun/Ibsen in high school, but I had very little interest in it back then. I think it's quite appropriate to reapproach classics I'm lucky enough to be able to read in the original language.

By the way, fellow norwegian, have you read any Knausgård? I'm curious if i should start reading his Min Kamp series.

>>11560624
found the normie

>>11561332
Anon listen, I know what you like. I have all of those. But you need this: Madness and Modernism by Louis Sass and 1910 Emancipation of Dissonance. And then you can politely go mad.

>>11559217
Old pic, I've since read the Chaucer and Gogol. I picked out Ulysses today for my next read having also finished Odyssey recently.
No bully pls

I'm loving the Dick of Moby, should I upgrade to a quality hardcover?

(Also, horay for used bookstores)

>>11561895
Upgrade to the glorious master-race Everyman's with the delicious creamy, acid-free paper

>>11559217
Summer reading

reposting

Everyone has a pretty good stack. Y'all know what you like.

Posting the purchases from this week

>>11562660
i like this

>>11562651
Good classy stack. What's the bottom book?

>>11562567
That's a big fucking stack. What books are you going to read first?

>>11562679
Currently halfway through Cancer Ward.

After that, I think I'll read The House of God.

How come people on this board are so incredibly stupid if they buy all these books? I'm getting the impression that they get them, get excited for a couple of days, then get bored and drop them entirely.
Also what do your families think of you having all these books? Do they think you're big brained intellectuals? Do they tell their friends and acquaintances how smart and well read their kid is?

>>11562707
You are projecting.

>>11562651
MDE book?
What the fuck?

Elaborate. I love sam hyde

>>11562707
this>>11562762

People actually read books.

To answer your last question, they don't really know. I've long since moved out, and live abroad. They only ever see me reading if we go on holidays together / travel, and I usually just read one or two books, which isn't crazy. Also my family's quite smart. Narrow minded, but intelligent. Reading books is something we all do, and I was very much encouraged to read from a young age.

summer reading

>>11562651
>>11562791
HOW TO BOMB THE US GOVT

>>11562762
I'm honestly not. People on this board are undeniably stupid. How can they be so if they read all these books?

>>11562809
Elaborate please, what's it about

>>11562830
Because the format of this website promotes low level discussion. There are definitely some smart people on this board, especially compared to other boards, but that doesn't mean that smart people don't enjoy dumb shitposting from time to time.

You honestly think that the people who post their recently purchased stacks have no intention of reading them? You haven't thought things through, friendo.

>>11562830
Your posts are undeniably stupid.

the "I just moved to suburban CT bc of my hedge fund job, god what am I doing with my life" starter stack

slightly ashamed that I didn't even have to put it together for the thread, it was just lying on the coffee table

have less plebtastic stacks in my study I swear

>>11562660
ahahahhahaha wasn't expecting another stack itt to have Principles in it.

hope you also have the excuse of working for the guy

>>11562842
I think most of them don't to be honest, as evidenced by the fact that we keep seeing the same books being purchased over and over again. If they've read them, they would've moved on to new things, and you would get less moby dicks and mason & dixons in these threads.
And I don't completely buy the argument about the site's format either. I've talked to people on this board who had absolutely no clue what they were talking about, and i don't mean that figuratively; just the other day I had a guy argue with me over austrian economics even though he admitted he never read Mises. Sure, you get the occasional intelligent bloke every now and then, but mostly it's just people in their early twenties who feel confident to discuss things they have interest in but no intention of putting effort in studying.

>>11562868
Good luck getting through Capital

>>11562830
You conflate people who post books with people who elsewhere say stupid things because they share the same name. Also the people who are reading are not posting, the people who are posting are not reading.

>>11562885
Thats a coincidence. My excuse is that I switched out of business school and o wanted to still see what others were learning. Also earlier I had a stack with capital in it so y'all are getting that repost too

>>11562831
>>11562791
I'm the stack anon--it's pretty good, man. If you're craving Sam's line-of-thought after you've watched all his better videos--KSTV, the speeches--then get the book if you can. At least the pdf. I'll be honest though, as one of the bigger Sam fan's who knows the guy's well-read, the only thing I find a qualm with is how FAR he goes on his quest to equalize us from a certain way of thinking. To use words or phrases that I'd be better off not using, but which I have to use to make my point clearer: in Sam's job in getting us to be more open-minded, he makes the reader stop thinking like a liberal and an atheist, which he so obviously was as a younger man. It's the only way he can be so righteously polemic, and at certain points you can tell it's personal for him. It's like Kant advises: learn either side (here, left-leaning and atheism; right-leaning and a believer), and then and only then can you be a skeptic, and then a critic. Sam's way of equalizing us though can go pretty far sometimes, and it's our job as readers to see where and when he might being go to far, possibly like pic related. If one sees this he's liable to say ALL WOMEN are bad, but Sam, elsewhere, says that this is not the case, like when he advises to marry a cute OR UGLY OR FAT girl, a sweet girl, a christian girl. Sam Hyde like other brilliant fucks (like Nietzsche if you'll allow me) get a bad rep from fuckers who like to jump to conclusions and not examine everything they've ever done. For further reading check out that pink book I had in my stack too, it examines shit like that.

>>11561332

dont read nick land, read what nick land reads.

then you go full t-total.

>>11562970
Makes sense, but only to a certain extent. This board is weird. All threads are started by imbeciles and newcomers (do a quick scan and find me one remotely intelligent OP), but they still get genuinely intelligent replies, even though most comments are idiotic ravings by people who pretend to know more than they actually do. I mean i've seen Phenomenology Of Spirit posted in these stacks threads a million times despite being an incredibly difficult text. If everyone who purchased it actually read it, then you would get some truly bright discussions on this board, which is obviously not the case. Again, many intelligent people on /lit/, but they A- don't start threads for some reason (too proud maybe?) B- usually aren't as knowledgeable as they pretend to be.

>>11563146
Here's a slight and rough example of how he balances my former pic related. I think the best example comes from a page in the book though where he's ranting on how a sweet-looking girl could ever go for some goober-looking guy. I can't find a scan to show you but in it Sam not only writes like David Foster Wallace, but also outright admits and writes in a sentence: "I'm not the type of guy that says women will only open their legs for a guy who's the ultimate alpha, but look at this dude."

>>11563156
smart people don't tend to respond to posts posted by stupid people

Why are you even here?

The lack of patrician stacks is absolutely reprehensible.

>>11563050

>>11561274
>no Odyssey
>no Hesiod
>no Pre-Socratics
>no Plato
>no Aristotle
>no Herodotus/Thucydides/Xenophon
You're not gonna get through with it. Get yourself a copy of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, and read them before the Iliad.

>>11563309
>no JBP
>no Dawkins/Hitchens
>no Memefinite Jest/Pynecone
>no Zhuangzi/Stirner/Land
>no /sip/s
>no pop history/contemporary American politics books
You have failed at mastering the art of b8.

Not featured are
>Master and Margarita
>Armenian Sketchbook
>Heart of Darkness

>>11559217
just swinging by to say that I find this to be the homosexuallest thread on this board. Thank you.

>>11563309
>deletes post because one anon made fun of you
Tripfags are pure ass cancer

>>11563349
You're such a braindead, rank-and-file, echoing, plebian, faggot

>>11561306
well that's a good stack

Not technically a stack I know sorry, didn't want to take them off the shelf to pile up bc it's really tiring and gets me sweaty

>>11563514
A towering monument to patricianship.

>>11563438
Great stack, anon. I'm planning on reading Babel, Grossman, Shalamov soon too.

>>11561274
is Roche a good translator?

>Brothers Karamazov (in progress)
>On Dreams, Frued
>The Ego and the Id, Frued
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul
>The Trial, Kafka

hoping to finish these by the end of September

who else here /thicc/?

>>11563050
>Beauvoir
[From Man & People by Jorge Ortega y Gasset]

>>11563860
>by the end of September
I just pissed and shat myself with laughter. You weakling. Get off my /lit/ right NOW

>>11563947
eh, I guess that might be optimistic, if I go consistently probably be done sometime in October

>>11563928

>>11559425
Why?

>>11563952
LMAO son that's a reading list for a week tops. grow some balls please.

>>11563981
I'm too busy posting on /lit/ to read all that in a week though

>>11563666
I'm almost done with Shalamov and Babel. They're both great. I read part of Life and Fate, it was very good so I'm excited to read it again.

>>11563983
Alright then. You're patrician.

>>11563050
Kill yourself.

>>11559241
>>11559221
yawn

Here’s a few. These are some of my favorites and regular reads.

>>11563622
fuckin nerd. i like it

>>11563050
Stephen King is so overrated.

>>11561523
Not him, but I just finished en tid for alt, and it’s one of the best contemporary norwegian novels I’ve read. Very imaginative, fun, beautiful. If you(or anyone else) want to get into contemporary norwegian lit, I recommend Thure Erik Lund and Tomas Espedal as well.

Got all these bad bois for $1.50

>>11565629
Wake up, sleepyhead

>>11565651
How good is Trump's actual business advice?

>>11563165
>>11563146

Is it even possible to get a hold of a hard copy without spending a fortune?

>>11567611
It's practical, but common advice. There's nothing in his books that you can't find from someone else, but it's alright stuff.

>>11567274
>burgers can get used books practically for free because burgerniggers can't read
>everywhere else used books are like half the retail price
truly God only gives bread to the toothless man

>>11563904
Very nice stack

>>11561306
Nice, well rounded stack. Are you new to /lit/?

>>11568693
thnx senpai

Please no bully

>>11562660
Fastlane was pretty good

>>11568954
>reading all of that in spanish

Why not do it in english? I'm also not native english but will read 97% of all books in english to improve my proficiency.

>>11568974
Why someone would do that?

>>11569028
>Why would* someone* do that
You're proving my point here.
Read the last four words of my last post.

>>11559497
based, i never read stuff he wrote after the trilogy, are they any good?

>>11569057
I'm the anon who posted the stack, I do most of my reading on my Kindle (English translations), my physical books are mainly for collecting/annotation purposes.
Usually I read the English version of a book first and then for my second reading (or clarification) I use the Spanish (physical) version.

Is this a stack?

>>11562567

Your taste is much like mine.

so, you guys going to actually read any of these?

Norwegian Wood
The recognitions
Wind up bird chronical

Fuck your pictures.

>>11569596
>he actually reads his room decorations

>>11559217
my stack

is my rack

deep.....

I have a collection of obscure Lemurian time fishing texts friend

I SHIT ON BOOKS WHEN IM FUCKING DONE THEM BECUASE FUCK YOU TGHRARS RRIGHT GFFUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK YOU

>>11569596
lol we're not fucking nerds here, calm down

>>11569492
THAT'S A SHELF! REeee! (srs, though, how's Oblomov?

>>11562707
>I'm getting the impression that they get them, get excited for a couple of days, then get bored and drop them entirely.
Whoa there buddy, easy with the projection.

>>11570812
It's incredible, though perhaps a little long-winded and tedious unless you're used to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, etc.

If you get it, don't read the foreword. In my opinion the novel is beautiful because of how relatable Oblomov is for me, but another beautiful part is the suffering that Oblomov goes through, and that's much better experienced by reading the novel without much of an idea as to the plot beforehand.

>>11569492
>nothing but paperbacks

>>11562528
>gramsci
>adorno
>de maistre
>the memebook to end all memebooks
pretty insane stack. i like it. Not even a lefty, but the culture industry is a great read.

Rate.

>>11571975
you got the ugly cover version of gr

>>11571982
I think it's pretty nice, like where's Waldo

>tfw getting teacher discount at stores now
20% off everything in the pic was amazing yesterday

>>11571990
I agree, I think it really reflects Pynchon's masterful randomness and whackiness. Not to mention the contents of the book

>>11563050
>y'all
Nigger detected.

>>11572260
>y'all
>confined to black people
how dumb can you be

>>11562528
>Adorno
>Marcuse

Disgusting.

>>11563438
>Väinö Linna

mah niggah!

Funny how everyone keeps posting classics like Moby-Dick, Brothers Karamazov etc. in stack-threads, proving once again that no one here actually reads.

>>11573148
you mean many people are buying and acquiring classic books? Bonkers.

>>11568954
>Homero

is this for real?

>>11569596
buddy, that would take time away from posting on /lit/

>>11573046
You don't need to be black to be a nigger.

>>11573156
Buying classics just to post them in stack threads while never reading them is quite bonkers or, as I like to say, bananas.

>>11573185
why do you assume that's what happens? are you such a brainlet that you think reading and enjoying those books is impossible?

>>11573185
I'm half way through The Brothers Karamazov. I didn't read in my teens and now that I am a bit older I am reading the classics. You seem to be projecting a bit there anon

>>11573193
The fact that more than half the posts in every single one of these threads contain the exact same books proves that this board is full of posers who don't actually read, yes.

>>11573213
I don't see how that follows.

>>11571964
Leftists often have good critiques of enlightenment, civil society, and societies based off of transaction

>>11573213
it's almost like they are different people

>>11573304
Kill yourself commie

>>11571230
Sorry, I prefer to read my books and don't care much for the decorative aspect

>>11573763
I also prefer to read - which is why instead of flaccid flippy floppy fucky fucky little paperbacks for little boys I buy sewn comfortable manly hardbacks, which can open all the way without cracking and which I will pass on down to my children.

>>11573763
No, it's proof you bought them all on Amazon instead of going to a used book store. It means you bought them all online, new. You might as well have bought a full sized ereader.

>>11569492
Nice books anon

>>11573702
Actually read you troglodyte

>>11573792
You sound like a little bitch being so picky. I don't have trouble reading any of the books there (save for the Anna Karenina), in any situation.

>>11574432
Oh you're right, I hate how used bookstores only sell hardcovers so I buy them new on Amazon (which only sells paperbacks). That's why they all look so nice and flawless. You can forget the CT scan you've shown me all I need: you're brain-dead

>>11575357
If you bought them used, there would be at least 1 hardcover.
You would think that you would acquire at least one.
Your whole shelves are softcover which tells me you bought them all new either online or at books and nobles.

>>11575357
The cheapest option for new books is always softcover. So my theory makes sense. If you bought them all online, softcover would be the best way to go price wise.

>>11575449
House of Many Ways on the bottom shelf looks like it's a hardcover.
You sound like a total fag though

>>11575469
Doesn't look hardcover to me, bucko.

>>11575449
Pic related

>>11575452
The best way to go price wise for me is my used bookstore, which, believe it or not, I get most of my books at

>>11575482
Oh and I included the Kafka even though it's paperback cause it has a really really good laminate job on it and an indestructible spine for a paperback

>>11575476
see
>>11575482
You must feel really stupid right now, bucko.

>>11575531
Listen here, I don't a blood damn. I'm a clinical psychologist, a bloody successful one if I might add, and lecturer and I happen to own hardcovers in the dozens.
Here you are on a literature website, insecure about the lack of hardcovers trying to prove something to me.
Listen, I mean man, you need to listen to this because I'm only gonna say it once. Your mind tells you that you don't own hardcovers. Yep. In your own mind, you are having a bloody crisis about the perceived lack of hardcovers and the one number it is crying out is ZERO. You're your own worst enemy.

>>11562651
I wish they would print the book again but sam seems like he never will again

>>11563438
are you in that dostoevsky goodreads group?

>>11568488
> has a population larger than any singular European state
>doesn’t have to worry about producing books in various languages and can pump out English copies of the same books en masse
>one of the largest book manufactures in the world throughout (modern) history

“Lmao burgers are too retarded, they get free books because nobody reads hurr durr durr”

First two physical books I've acquired in almost 2 years, kindle+iphone sync is just too patrician. Pale King is a special book I've been meaning to read so it deserves a place in the stack, Franzen was just really cheap so i grabbed it too.

>>11567969
I don't think so. He's done doing prints atm.

>>11562905
>what are new anons
>what is complete anonymity with long as shit wait times between replies
If you baited me into this shit then good job if this isn’t bait however please leave

>>11562803
Surprised no one's dinged you for the Grossman translation, being where we are; don't have anything against it myself. And I'm always happy to see Taoism anywhere

>>11575708
Man, who the fuck puts the price tag on the front top of an uncoated dust jacket?

>>11575708
>dfw
>franzen
you're a walking meme my man

>>11563146
wtf is that shit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAozHRKzxI

>>11562651
Nice
>>11563146
I've got the original fuck-off-chunky red yellow one and it looks pretty stupid in comparison to the rest of my books but it's worth it.
It's absurdist satire cloaked in traditionalism, it's pretty handy to look at when you're sure everyone is going batshit insane with tech and that, I love how the boys cut right into the shit and combine a sort of childish youthfulness with complete radicalism, in a way it's basically tumblr/twitter-generation: the antidote: the book.

>>11562803
F.Scott is great, enjoy.

>>11571975
based

Brainlet here.

R8 my stack

>>11578571
You know what they say....
Soft covers for soft brains.

>>11578624
Based. Take the yellow pill and go full ancap.

>>11578625
Just because a book has a soft cover doesn't mean shit, fair enough if it's bound horribly but some decent unabridged religious texts are made paperback, so long as the cover has a good quality, gloss / matt or otherwise, it beats out a lumbersome neglected falling apart hardback everytime.
>>11578624
Also good just don't overdose on the social side of things, it's tempting to want to uphold your "people" or others but by in large people love their problems and generally this makes socialist leaning gov's crumble unless they kick out the victim complex asses. What's the saying, in a perfect socialist world everyone would have 10 million quid and still value money.

waddup

>>11562651

>2nd edition How to Bomb the US Gov

hehe nothing personal kid

>>11578717

>>11578624
reddit basedboy who thinks he's getting redpilled/10

>>11578624
Ok. Throw away the Mill.

Have you read Human Action?

>>11578678
I'm on my way

>>11578683
The ludwig von mises book 'socialism' doesn't advocate for socialism its a coprehensive argument against it. I'm also halfway through basic economics and sowell has already shown so many examples of how socialism is 'an inefficient allocation of resources with alternative uses'

>>11578854
lol

>>11578877
No but i'll put it on my list

>>11562651
Fuck man i really want to get that mde book but can't

>>11578624
>On Liberty
>Road to Wigan Pier

10/10

>Atlas Shrugged
>Basic Economics

0/10

>everything else

~5/10

>>11578624
R8 what I read earlier this year as well

>>11578948
>lol
did I perhaps hit the bullseye, my reddit friend-o? ;)

>>11579113
Lol because its funny not because its true

>>11559217

>>11579111
You could've just read Dorian Grey to understand the problem of postmodernism's focus on aestheticsm but oh well.

>>11579111
>Brave New World
>Man's Search for Meaning
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul
>Brothers Karamazov
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
I've read all these this year as well, what are you on now/about to read?

>>11579111
I really liked Origins and History of Consciousness though it wasn't at all what I expected. A stimulating discourse in Jungian dialectic tho

>>11579150
consider suicide

>>11579111
stoner who decided he's going to become well-read because of McKenna and Peterson/10

>>11579174
at least he chose to become well read, does it matter why?

>>11579180
didn't say that's bad

>>11578624
>>11579111
Get yourself some Hofstadter, man. He's clearly up your alley

>>11579162
I posted another photo a bit earlier of what i'm about to read, but those ones you listed were some of my favourites. I've heard The Idiot is Dostoyevsky's best so if you liked TBK you could read that? I'm also looking forward to getting to Star Ship Troopers

>>11579174
It's funny you mention that because I actually thought petersons book was underwhelming and terrence mckenna's book was the worst book i've read so far. After reading Neumann as well you can just see that Mckenna barely knows what he's talking about. Some bits were interesting though

>>11579211
Thanks for the recommendation man, just googled him and he looks like something i'd like

>>11579153
Explaining postmodernism is more about how it emerged as a response to the philosophy before it, but its interesting what you say about dorian gray because when i read it i didn't make the connection i thought it was about decadence and vanity

>>11579239
It's in Wilde's intro essay to the book. (Weirdly enough the foreshadowing of the two appearances in postmodern society (the self vs. the projected, manipulated, "self-painted" internet appearance is there too)

>>11578571
Why is wealth of nations so thin?

>>11579169
Why does it trigger you boomers so much to see self-determined, self-educating young adults? Your time is finished, go back to the geriatric asylum, grampa.

>>11579332
But we're the rebels! We're the underdogs! Why can't young people see that? Why don't they stick it to their great grandparents' corpses like us?

>>11578624
Great way to radicalize yourself, but unless you throw in some Marx, Keynes, or Galbraith into the mix, you won't understand the other side or why they disagree

>>11579389
I learned everything I need to know about marx from sjws

>>11579419
He's worth more than they make it seem

>>11579389
>"oy goyim, better read Marx, elsewise you'll not have the full pictcha"

You should read Mein Kampf, sounds like you don't have the whole picture of WWII

>>11572000
Looks like you are on a Baldwin kick. Have you read any of his fiction? I noticed a lot of people are conflicted about his later novels after Another Country, which is itself his most polarizing work after Giovanni's Room.

I wish I had that copy of Black Reconstruction by Du Bois.

>>11579389
Thats a good point. Even if i read it and don't agree with it it would still allow me to understand where the people who do agree with it are coming from

>>11579419
Yeah marx doesn't carry much actual influence anymore, except in Asia. But it's never a good idea to listen to only one side of a debate.

>>11579542

>Max Striner

lmao how

>>11575331
nice post

Tree fiddy

>>11580368
And history for another tree fiddy. The civil war book has the craziest illustrations and pictures I've ever seen, best purchase by far

>>11580289
Moldbug is Horkheimer's grandson, not many people know this

>>11561853
It would have been a pretty decent stack if you hadn't put down Arendt or Solzhenitsyn. By the way, you might want to read some of Nietzsche's other writings (Human All Too Human, Beyond Good and Evil, The Twilight of Idols, and The Genealogy of Morals, and Ecce Homo) if you want to understand Thus Spake Zarathustra better than you otherwise would, since TSZ is written in a very abstract, aphoristic style in imitation of proverbs or the Gospels, with his other works offering more or less the same concepts, explained much more directly.

>>11569596
>reading
go clean your glasses geek

>>11578624
12/13
>Rand?

>>11578624
All of this, but Dostoyevsky, Vonnegut, and Heinlen deserve to be burned

>>11580925
>>11580957
Why whats wrong with them?

>>11579012
Based, redpilled, and epic

Saved, screenshottted, and memorized

Printed out, pinned on the board, and masturbated to.

Took my dick, slammed it in a microwave, and screamed the post aloud while I nuked it for ten seconds

Cried, wept, and wrote and exhilarating yelp review to it.

Well done, I agree completely

>>11581067
Hayek, Mises, Hayek were all grown in the same petri dish, Rand is a deranged cult leader, and Pinker, Haidt, and Popper are empty-headed liberals

>>11580177

What do you mean how? Stirner is the most popular philosopher on this board.

Anyone here like
D O S T O E V S K Y
?

>>11581578
Good shit. How’s the translation in the everymans editions? I’m currently reading the collected works edition and it’s pretty good, although reading on a kindle can be straining to the eyes

>>11581607
I have no problems with the translations. I've heard other people dislike them for some reason... but to me, there was no noticeable difference between the translation of Crime and Punishment (by Garnett) and P&V which Everyman's uses. That said, I'm by no means an expert in the matter, and I can't compare it to the original, of course.

>>11581647
I envy readers of Dostoyevsky in the original Russian but I could never see myself learning a language for the express purpose of reading, perhaps Latin or Greek are the exception.

>>11581657
I learned Russian specifically for people like Dostoevsky and lermontov and i regret every day i didnt learn Greek or Latin instead. i tried to do both those recently but my early 20s energy is gone, and i don't have 3 years of compulsive effort to put into them now.

Seriously learn Greek or Latin, ideally both, the wealth of human substance you will be exposed to is priceless

reading dosto in Russian is quite something though, the familiarity combined with the new shades of meaning from the language is very satisfying

>>11581671
I'm in my early 20s and I've never studied a word of greek or latin.
Should I learn greek/latin? Is it worth it? I'm not a student of literature, I study physics, but I do have some free time on my hands that I often waste. Why is greek/latin so much better than the translations?

>>11581698
It's very hard to describe what reading in a different language is like to someone monolingual, but it's like an entire other world of perception. I grew up bilingual french and english because of my country but I didnt properly understand the impact language has on the architecture of awareness until i actively learned a language. It's like an entirely new set of building blocks of meaning that miraculously correspond in portrait to your old way of seeing things but in a different shade.

And Greek or Latin are the absolute best because of the immensity of content there is in those two languages and how relevant there are to our history.

it;s a serious effort though, beginning you have to do a lot of rote grammar work, and then alot of hour every day no matter what work, and then you start having those moments of sudden recognition where you fluidly understand what you're reading and it's beautiful. Be structured about it, but you also have to be genuinely desirous of it in a more instinctive way, it has to be fun for you.

>>11575656
why do you say that?

Is he sad MDE was jewed?

>>11581708
I'm not monolingual. I speak Dutch, German and English, but I guess those are all mainly germanic languages. I speak a tiny the tiny bit of french I remember from school too, but that's far from fluency. I've read books in German, but I just felt that I was missing tons of the harder words.
Perhaps (a) latin (language) at least would not be bad, though I always hated learning languages in a school environment. Isn't it extremely hard to learn a language that isn't really spoken anymore?
I'll think about it. I guess you do have a point.

>>11581736
well you probably already have the mindset to learn if youre trilingual, but there is a real difference in consciously learning a language vs picking it up instinctively as child

it really makes you change how you think about words and concepts.

and learning to read a language is one thing, learning to speak it is another. My spoken russian is abysmal, but i can read high russian lit. the old clasical curriculum had people learn to speak and write latin and greek verse, but i doubt many people do that now. you can still learn to read them fairly easily. by easily i mean with immense effort but essentially on your own if you have the discipline

>>11581578
All those ELs, and you cheap out on Crime and Punishment
Come on, dude.

>>11581578
My god man that Wordsworth Classic looks like shit

The books are not stacked but I just bought them yesterday

how hard am i sucking eggs guys

>>11578684
your bookstore is where i belong

>>11581578
Hard covers. Truly the sign of a genuine intellect. I salute you sir.

>>11581506
Hayek is vastly better than Mises.

Hayek thought some government intervention is necessary in the economy sometimes. Mises was more of the opinion that none at all was preferable

>>11568954
>Todos los libros en malas ediciones
Jesucristo anon, ¿conoces la editorial Gredos?

>>11581578
God bless, anon. Enjoy that delicious creamy, acid-free paper

>>11582920
Looks really nice having all those books from the same publisher. I'm still waiting for Modernista to re-release some Dostojevskij books like Demons and The Idiot, then I can also build a nice collection like that!

>>11582920
How is that edition of Histories? Does it have maps?

I just can't stand hardbacks. I feel like intruder, phony because of it. If you have ever seen comic book collector house with all those expensive shit stacked everywhere, it just makes me sick. Any type of deluxe, colorful, heavy, deckle edged (god forbid) book makes wanna trow up. Even shittier paperbacks annoy me, I will eventually go full digital.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>11582974
You and >>11575555
Should date

>>11582968
No maps but I'm a pseud and they wouldn't have helped me understand anyways. Histories is so rich with families and cities and politics and locations that it just sent my head spinning, at least up until the expedition of Xerxes when it finally came into a nice little, straightforward narrative with much less jumping around between personages or even back and forth between periods of time. God damn Histories was tough...

Be honest, did I get memed?

>>11583018
Nah mate, they are all interesting in their own right. What's the first one?

>>11583018
H*ck no, that's a solid array

>>11582965
>Brothers Karamazov 1 & 2

what?

Also, based stack, not a single bad book there. Well done anon.

>>11583023
From the left, Graph Algorithms by Shimon Even, 2nd ed. Textbook of Discrete maths/Comp Sci.

>>11582994
That's what I figured. I read the landmark version of Thucydides, and it helped out so much.

r8 my stack pls
s/o to the Schmitt/Meier thread some anons were discussing in a while ago, lead to my most recent purchase
>>11583018
>might is right
quite possibly. You can out-meme the memers by reading very intently tho, don't let any of it just go over your head, critically analyze what it's saying, find what you agree/disagree with
>>11582965
>>11582920
>>11581578
wtf is yinz's reading pace at? stacks like that seem impossible to a brainlet such as myself.
>>11582223
moderately so
>>11582211
v nice anon
>>11580368
>>11580374
not bad at all
>>11579542
okay, I'm the absolute fool who didn't know Stirner had any other written work than TE&IO. How is The False Princ in comparison?
>>11579237
absolutely memed
>>11579111
clean your room
>>11578684
not bad
>>11578624
liberal/10

>>11583038
It's just part 1 and part 2. Don't know why they did that, but I love the publisher so what the hell.

>>11583197
>wtf is yinz's reading pace at?
I'm not in a hurry, I'll be done reading them when I'm done. I doubt I'll have the time to read all of them this year, but that was never the plan anyway.

>>11583197
I'm the small Everyman's shelf guy. I've read about 15k pages this year, or about 70 pages a day every day (it actually varies sometimes I read a lot more to make up for days off, but generally my target is in fact ~60-70 pages per day so I'm very on target). I didn't buy them all to read right away anyway, I buy shit when I see a good price if I feel like I'll read it in the future (that W&P box was only $14).

>>11583251
makes sense. My problem is that I seem to acquire books quicker than I read them, and they pile up on me leading to option paralysis. You seem to have the better attitude tho
>>11583429
>70 pages daily
>$14 W&P absolute steal
is this peak /lit/?

>>11582282
Dude read Keynes nigga lol

>>11582282
no government intervention is absolutely preferable, but that doesn't mean that Mises thought it possible. All of their ilk bent the economic knee for political fancy, they're quotable for stating that a government under dictatorship (Pinochet) is vastly preferable to a government with considerably more civil freedom if it just so happens to be economically left-wing.
>>11583503
>Keynes
the 70's called, they want their failed economic strategizing back

>>11583429
>W&P box was only $14
Where? I tried ordering it on ebay for $10 last year, but the douche only sent part 2 and nothing else.

>>11583452
I have the same habit. But hey, they make your look better.

>tfw half my collection consists of paperbacks and pocket books

How is Easton Press compared to Everymans, wanted a copy of Heart of Darkness but cant decide on which publisher

Only got this three recently.
I wanted to read more of Kawabata's short stories, and the German harback was cheaper than the English paperback.
Otherwise the Mishima book was cheap, and I haven't read a Mishima novel before, only a single play.

Only got this three recently.
I wanted to read more of Kawabata's short stories, and the German harback was cheaper than the English paperback.
Otherwise the Mishima book was cheap, and I haven't read a Mishima novel before, only a single play.

>>11583711
that's a very good starter for Mishima, good book it is.

>>11583711
Hey, that's not a stack!

Boys, get him!

>>11581578
Subtle yet so obvious.

>>11583733
I'm a structure rebel :^)

>>11583731
I've read his short (by that I mean 10-15 pages) biography in the preface of a collection of his dramas and he fascinated me ever since.
I probably have an overly idealized view of this, but it moved me quite a lot.
I want to know what kind of novels does a man write who gives his life for aesthetics.
Have you seen the interview where he speaks English? Truly a fascinating character.

>>11582211

good luck with the cantos lad

>>11583555
I copped it off Amazon one day. I don't know if it was a price error or what but it was legit.

>>11563155
what did he read?

>>11583197
I’m curious how the lynch book is, is it about filmmaking or maybe his meditation mumbo jumbo?

>>11561895
what is that red robot in the background? I mean, where is it from?

>okay, I'm the absolute fool who didn't know Stirner had any other written work than TE&IO. How is The False Princ in comparison?

It's actually more of a pamphlet than a full book, it started as an article written before Ego and It's Own for a magazine edited by Marx before the two fell out.

He basically says that education that teaches you 'cultural' things like in the humanities is spooked out because it just teaches you knowledge for the sake of knowledge, not something practical you can use to empower yourself.

However education that promises to teach you 'practical' things like STEM-shit is spooked out too as it just makes you a better wageslave, you don't learn how to work towards your own will so that won't empower you either.

Education should instead teach you how to create and re-create yourself in the way you see fit, not just perform well in either the humanist or realist mould.

Fun read in light of the STEM vs Humanties debates /lit/ has all day (did Stirner BTFO both sides 170 years ago?). If you liked Ego and It's Own you'll enjoy it. Plus kinda interesting in the historical context that Stirner was a teacher at the time he wrote this, and given how his relationship with Marx turned out.

>>11583197
>okay, I'm the absolute fool who didn't know Stirner had any other written work than TE&IO. How is The False Princ in comparison?

It's actually more of a pamphlet than a full book, it started as an article written before Ego and It's Own for a magazine edited by Marx before the two fell out.

He basically says that education that teaches you 'cultural' things like in the humanities is spooked out because it just teaches you knowledge for the sake of knowledge, not something practical you can use to empower yourself.

However education that promises to teach you 'practical' things like STEM-shit is spooked out too as it just makes you a better wageslave, you don't learn how to work towards your own will so that won't empower you either.

Education should instead teach you how to create and re-create yourself in the way you see fit, not just perform well in either the humanist or realist mould.

Fun read in light of the STEM vs Humanties debates /lit/ has all day (did Stirner BTFO both sides 170 years ago?). If you liked Ego and It's Own you'll enjoy it. Plus kinda interesting in the historical context that Stirner was a teacher at the time he wrote this, and given how his relationship with Marx turned out.

>>11584519
>>11584528
>>11584533
besides the redditspacing, thanks, from a different anon.

>>11584537

The first two are dead because I fucked up and replied wrong, they are the same post with stupid mistakes if anyone is looking at this and wondering.

>>11584533

>>11584623
>Understands that hierarchy is inescapable and natural

Wew, got pretty spooky at the end there.
If you're claiming to have read Stirner please go back and read what he has to say about claims regarding "human nature".

As for hierarchy:
"the uncultured are really nothing but children, and he who attends only to the necessities of his life is indifferent to those spirits; but, because he is also weak before them, he succumbs to their power, and is ruled by - thoughts. This is the meaning of hierarchy.
Hierarchy is dominion of thoughts, dominion of mind!
We are hierarchic to this day, kept down by those who are supported by thoughts."

>>11575669
Nope.

>>11584811
On Authority by Fredrich Engels

>>11585419
i mean why read the hack cretin lacan when you could read deleuze [/a wild opinion appears]

>>11585427
will be reading potato fascist quite soon I imagine

>>11585419
>Simone
>bothering to read a book of proclaimed wisdom by a mind flooded by bitterness and madness (basically a female Diogenes "cosmopolitian" without any of the perks).

>>11585450
honestly just reading for the threesomes with Sartre

>>11585490
sort of speaks to the wealth of her character, Anais Nin was the same. Take away the sensationalism and you have nothing.

>>11585552
I am admittedly going in pretty much totally blind to her writing, I've not even read The Second Sex

>>11583949
I've read the first 5 now. I really like them but it has taken me a ton of effort and research to understand them.

>>11584312
it's actually just about his life. Kristine McKenna went around and interviewed people in his life, strings their testimonies together in the first half of the chapters which run chronologically, and the second half of every chapter is Lynch telling his side of the story in response to everyone else's and also providing his own personal insight. Incredibly clever way to make an autobiography, would highly recommend.

>>11585133
>Ruled by authoritrian tyrant
>You rebel against them to try to impose a non-authoritarian system
>You are now somehow an authoritarian

I don't have much respect for Engles as a thinker

>>11583711
What the hell Kawabata is that? What's your favorite of his? He's such a prolific and great author. Mishima's great too, truly unique not only in this day and age but in history.

>>11585133
Is Marxism literally philosopher king: the ideology?

>>11587309
A collection of his “Palm of the Hand Stories”
33 novellas essentially.
I haven’t read all of his works, but I’d go with either Master of Go or The Lake.

>>11583018
Looks pretty good. Didn't think Ted's work was that thick

Picked up most of these at a clearance sale so couldn't be too picky about editions. Read half of the stack so far at about one book a week pace. Currently reading Cosmopolis. Heard it's one of DeLillos weaker works, but seems pretty good 1/3 through. Best book so far has been Hamsun's Growth of the Soil.

>>11587777
Have you read King in Yellow yet? I've been meaning to read it since I absolutely loved True Detective S1.

>>11564367
very nice taste.

>>11583018
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>11587230
Authoritarianism is the natural state of the world you egoist

>>11587985
Just skimmed through it, but I read half of it like 5 years ago and I remember I was impressed. It's mostly using motifs like madness, suicide and strange phenomena with a fictional play as backdrop. Scary in an eerie kind of way and quite poetic at times.

>>11559509
wena nido

>>11559429
I never read the dominoes by dostoevsky is it good?

>>11559241
Is the Almagest any good? I took an astronomy course in the past and was always interested in it but I never found a physical copy anywhere.

>>11587316
It's the natural outcome of capitalism

>>11587777
>Toshiki Okada
Judging by his wikipedia page he seems interesting.
Especially how it's contemporary, yet it doesn't seem lowbrow at all.

it was a low-key day frens

>>11589399
face of battle is kino

>>11588528
yeah it’s bretty good, it has a lot of humor in the first half and in the second some intense stuff happens
>>11588385
no

>>11588842
Yeah, the book consists of two stories and the first one was really good with one of the best openings I've read this year. I would describe it as Lost in Translation-ish with a cynical and humorous view on contemporary Japanese society. He describes the futility and apathy of modern human interaction hidden beneath fake fronts (like pretending or fooling yourself to care about current events and doing nothing about it) without getting too edgy about it. Only about 100 pages, definitely recommended.

>>11589930
Yes. The page also mentioned that his writing uses colloquial speech which is quite interesting.
I once tried writing how I hear people talk, and it was a quite eye opening experience as to how much literary and common language has separated over time, even if they're less than a hundred years old.
It's scary to see how little weight a real conversation holds and how close it is often to a "woe is me" moment from a soap opera.

Yeah, I was worried a bit that it might get lost in translation but I fount the excerpt of one of his openings to be quite enjoyable, I'd say funny but that might sound like a cliche. Comparing this neutered translated version with colloquial speech here, I've noticed that that it's as if they were moving a lot faster, the words just simply link into each other until it's one big run-on sentence essentially repeating the same few pieces of data just to make sure that you can get what you want to say trough to the thick headed partner of yours in that discussion.

>>11585419
How does it feel to have a soft served brain?

>>11584294
He isn't dead anon.

Here’s mine.

Can you retards please rotate your images

>>11584399
It looks like Char's Zaku, from Gundam. I am not that poster, though.

>>11583853
>I want to know what kind of novels does a man write who gives his life for aesthetics.

You're in for a real treat

>>11573164
Ὅμηρος

>>11591842
Kierkegaard, wallace, and Teddy are all fantastic. Still some shit in there, Anthem is pretty boring and preachy.
6.5/10

>>11588547
Yeah it is good.

Only if you like (or are interested in), mathematics. It can get very dry at times and Ptolemy doesn’t define some of the terms he uses or even how he derived some figures until later on so it can get confusing, but overall it’s very informative

>>11559457
have you read African Genesis? I picked it up recently as well and am wondering whether to start it or not

>>11591842
Fear and Trembling is on my "to buy" list

>>11561853
East of Eden is top tier. Congratulations on getting to read it for the first time.

>>11582183
You gotta start somewhere

>>11559241

>tfw too much of a brainlet for math