/lit/ - Literature

Lol!

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>>11982341
what's the golden book on top? is the the real "my diary desu" everyone is always talking about ok seriously tho im guessing that's a bible?

>>11982353
Yea it's a bible. Specifically, the Lincoln replica bible from the Library of Congress gift shop. It's very pretty.

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>>11982341
ayy, nice Vonnegut. Galapagos was my favorite of his when I was younger. overall based and americapilled.

>>11982262
anons have seen it already.

>>11982262
Cringe and hardenedheartpilled.

>>11982369
entirely, entirely based.

>>11982377
y-you too.

>>11982348
what's mde's book like?

>>11982262
nice stack. desu im sick of all the christfags here

>>11982262
I know this is a meme but imagine being this butthurt about Christianity

>>11982556
The reason why people here and elsewhere attach onto Christianity is because they seek for meaning, comfort, mythology, philosophy, and moral objectivity. Atheism by itself has none to offer.

>>11982572
Wrong. The Father draws them to him

John 6:44 KJV
>No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

>>11982366
That's some top quality stuff. Did you get a deal on those Loeb editions? They'd cost a bomb otherwise.

>>11982722
Thanks. Nearly half were bought used. I'm curious about your collection. If you had to recommend one translated work to start with from your top shelf, which would it be? And one companion?

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>>11982348
cringe and bluepilled

>>11982366
based an redpilled

>>11982722
learn sanskrit anon

>>11982722
>NRSV
>NAB
>ESV
>NASB
>No KJV

>>11982741
Gavin Flood's Introduction to Hinduism is very informative and clearly written, I'd absolutely recommend it. The only downside is some bad typos. R.C. Zaehner's Hindu Scriptures is the most bang for your buck, it has some well-known canonical hymns and most of the early Upanishads which are accepted as scripture by all Hindus. It also includes the entire Bhagavad Gita, which is used as scripture by most Hindus today and is more widely read than the Upanishads.

>>11982742
>learn sanskrit anon
I would ideally, but this is a hobby, I'm not training to be a brahmin.

I hope the quality turned out good. Here's my shelf.

>>11982788
Thanks mate.

>>11982819
/petersoncore/

>>11982750
>KJV

>>11982892
I would've expected /Žižekcore/ instead, but okay.

>>11982366
I've been meaning to read it but I wonder what will a Christian get out of reading the Sacred and the Profane?

>>11982819
Why so much left wing writings?

>>11982902
Keep reading corrupted scripture then anon.

>>11982916
KJV is the kiked up version. It's based in large part on the masoretic text. Redpill niggas only read Septuagint based translations.

>>11982913
Because I think its theory is harder to justify, especially in today's society. I wouldn't say that I'm a leftist in any capacity, but I do find some leftist theory, at least, authentic leftist theory, to be a lot more interesting than right wing theory.

>>11982935
Tell me about Rene Daumal. Keep hearing about him. How are those books? What are they about?

>>11982946
Septuagint is a Jesuit conspiracy and is only attested to in the letter of aristeas

>>11982366
Beautiful

>>11982952
No idea anon. this is my gfs bookshelf. I don’t read

>>11982954
that's the most retarded thing ive ever heard

>>11982979
Also the Masoretic texts are vindicated by the Dead Sea Scrolls.

>>11982979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4vwLiX7oE

>>11982910
It's been a few years since I read it, and mostly I chose it to get a better grasp on the relation of the person to the cosmos. If you have read Campbell or Jung and were paying attention, you won't get much out of it. If you're new to religious study it may introduce some new ideas: city as center of the world or axis mundi, man as relative to divine, why sanctity is important and must be periodically refreshed. It may give you a new perspective or context on first century Temple sacrifices, and how the rituals of Catholicism are more than just empty motions. The way Eliade talks about spaces reminded me very much of Bachelard.
Overall it's a good "glue" book for putting together various ideas from other anthropologists and recognizing the ancient threads in contemporary mystical practice.

In the same vein, some further reading would be Girard's The Scapegoat.

>>11982992
Huh? I thought it was the other way around

My camera isn't good enough to get my whole shelf. I have a lot more plebby stuff but this is what I'm reading right now.

>>11982857
No problem, fren

my public shelf

>>11982366
very nice
>>11982819
i got the same shelf from ikea it was $30. impressive.

>>11983150
my hidden esoterik knawledge cabinet

>>11983150
Very ecclectic. You into esoterica?

>>11982341
>The essential Kierkegaard
Yikes. I imagine you as the type of person who tries to speed read himself through philosophy in an effort to look "well-read".

>>11983166
it's time to stop posting on /lit/, you are becoming a living meme

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>>11982819
Nice, inexpensive, sturdy shelves.

>>11983169
yeah, but my studies have been all over the place and rather shallow. also see
>>11983160

Right now I'm reading the Bible, since I've never read it cover to cover, and Plato's Dialogues since I still haven't read a bunch of them. My study plan is basically
Bible + Plato ---> Apocrypha (including Enoch) ----> Corpus Hermeticum -----> Nag Hammadi ------> reread Enneads -----> ?

any suggestions?

>>11982819
How are those books in the middle forward floating like that?

>>11982819
Have you read Hegel and Heidegger? They would fit in right along with Kant, Marx, Žižek, Nietzsche, Arendt, and Merleau-Pointy.

>>11983253
Picture is rotated.

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>>11983304
I haven't directly read their work, but I've been meaning to. Nietzsche and Žižek reference them often, though. I have a pretty good idea of what Hegel was about; I'm really interested in Heidegger, especially after reading Arendt, as well Žižek's "The Ticklish Subject."

>>11983356
Rate

>>11983356
tactful and tasteful obscuring of the meme trilogy

>>11982472
It's kinda weird. I got it just for fun really. Probably should have sold it when they were going for 1k but I like to have it.
>>11983178
I imagine you as a dumb nigger

>>11983395
>I imagine you as a dumb nigger

>>11983366
Really? That edition of the Bible? Fucking cringe.

>>11983160
> mfw I've read a lot of these

anon, i wish we were pals irl. no joke. ;-;//

>>11982935
>juni ito
nice

>>11982788
>2018
>not training to be a brahmin
You're not gonna make it brah

I haven't read any of these books.

>>11982916
Ah yes, the Bible that is written the way Jesus spoke: the English King James Version.

>>11984087
Okay anon. What is the perfect word of God?

>>11984074
nice!

>>11983150
looks like a pile of junk

How are books even real like nigga just buy an ebook

>>11982341
imagine being this fucking boring

>>11982369
tired and boring

>>11982935
>jordan peterson
loser

>>11983233
probably one of the better collections in this thread

>>11982935
you must be rich for having math and IT books

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>>11985025
>having one of those onions poppers

>>11984074
Who published that edition of The Divine Comedy?

>>11985025
Bait

>>11982262

My bookshelf is very small because I just got back into reading (I used to read heaps in my childhood, I guess it slipped away from me).

So other than the ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ and that ‘Jasper Jones’ novel I recently bought all these books. I’m finding ‘The Master and Magarita’ a really enjoyable book, my favourite I’ve read so far.

What do you guys think about my taste and what should I get in the future (go easy on me I’m new)?

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>>11982421
>Blueprints in metric

>>11985498
Read Goethe's Faust before margarita. I'd recommend Grapes of Wrath. It was really enjoyable all round. The image of the final scene still warms my heart.

>>11982341
oooh this is so annoying
you buy a reasonable quality book and then the text block sags

>>11985531
easy, big fella... those measurements are in hundredths of an inch. powder charges are measured in cc.

>>11985534

I’ve read Grapes of Warth (albeit years ago, still I remember it and I have no money to buy another copy), I agree it’s a really good book. I like Of Mice and Men a lil more though.

Also I’ve already started The Master and Magarita, I’m about 1/4 through. I do want to get Faust in the future though, it’s in my Wishlist.

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>>11982341

Where do you guys buy your specific hardback’s from? My local store doesn’t have many (I saw a Hardback Don Quixote but it wasn’t the translation that I wanted).

I live in Australia though so my options are basically Booktopia and Dymocks and that’s it. Amazon is pretty shitty here imo.

>>11982377
>223
>it apparently measures 224
i mean jesus fuck remington learn to fucking measure

>>11982722
woo i bet you think you're so fucking mystical and spiritual
when in fact you have just wasted your precious time

>>11985550
the rifling in the barrel has to grab onto something, anon

>>11985552
There’s nothing wrong with trying to have a more worldly view of cultures and faiths.

It’s the same reasons some people might have both a KJV bible and a Gnostic bible.

How the fuck do you guys read paperbacks without creasing the spine?

>>11985570
the chad 60 degree hold open

not the virgin fold pages over cover to cover

>>11985570
For me, neuroticism.

>>11982421

Hey. I have a Swedish Mauser. Got it for $250 burger bucks. You reminded me I need some ammo for it.

>>11985575
>not the virgin fold pages over cover to cover
I audibly cringed thinking about that.

>>11985575
What about for chunky B L O C K tier paperbacks?

>>11985570
Paperbacks vary dramatically in quality

>>11985498
I have The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge too. I haven't finished it.

>>11982819
What's the point of reading these books and gaining all this so called "knowledge" and "enlightenment" if you do nothing with it except boast on an anonymous anime image board?

>>11983253
Those books are just full of hot air

>>11985835
>"what is the point of knowledge"

>>11985835
You talk about this shit in real life you absolute fucking retard.

I’ve had awesome conversations about Euclid or Hayek or Tocqueville or whatever I’m reading with real life people and we get along well and discuss actual shit. It’s why nonfiction is better than fiction. Do some work yourself and actually actively try to talk to people, not everyone is a brain dead loser who spends most of their time here wasting their life away like you faggot. Go kayak with friends, fish, get a job, a girlfriend.

Jesus fucking christ

>>11984074
Out of all of those books that you have that I have read (in other words, practically all of them, aside from a few modern history and contemporary literature books you've got there), the ones I remember enjoying the most are:
Herodotus' Histories
Plato's Dialogues (including The Republic)
The Divine Comedy
The Karamazov Brothers
Plutarch's Lives
Beyond Good and Evil

>>11985977
having read Plato, how could you possibly take kneechee seriously?

>>11985983
I said I'd enjoyed them, not agreed with them.

>>11983392
What meme trilogy?

>>11985025
How many books have King actually wrote? What are some other authors whose books you can fill the whole shelf with?

>>11986020
ulysses, infinite jest, gr

>>11983356
Wowowow what edition of Plutarch is that? Could I please have an ISBN?

Shit quality pciture coming through

>>11985552
No, my interest is academic, I don't pretend to have any mystical insight.

>>11982750
I would take you seriously if you weren’t a LARPer who won’t be interested in the faith once the fad passes on in /lit/.

Begone.

Please rate my book shelf be nice.

Which bookshelf? I have too many cases in the house. Here's Fiction A-D, but the double-stacking obscures many of the best books (all the Calvino, for instance).

>>11986190
And here's E-H. So that's one case.

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>>11986215
Considering the fact you have Sartre's Being and Nothingness, why don't you have Heidegger's Being and Time too?

>>11986229
I bought the Being and Nothingness for £5, I've not read it yet, I've just being buying them second hand when I find them cheap. I'll buy Heidegger new when I'm ready to read it or for cheap if I see it first.

>>11982262

Okay, now , this is epic

>>11983160
>Alija Izetbegovic

Major kys my friend.

>>11986072
cant_see_shit_captain.jpeg

How is that Osho book? He comes across as a scam artist to me, does he say anything interesting? And what do you think of the God Delusion, I read a few pages of it but found it a chore, and I'm not religious.

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>>11986224
You've stuck close to those /lit/ charts. Have they worked well as a reading list?

>>11983233
Jealous of your edition of Proust

>>11986425
>owning a book means i agree with it
major take a break from posting and reconsider the direction your life is headed in, my friend

>>11985563
>There’s nothing wrong with trying to have a more worldly view of cultures and faiths.

>>11986605
Yeah I've been finding it really enjoyable so far.

>>11982361
Last time I was at the Library of Congress gift shop they were selling tote bags with punked out cartoons of Virginia Woolfe, Mary Shelly, and Alice Walker on it.
As well as the quran and Dovetskityteefyis novels.
The Mark Twain novels were printed on what must have been the cheapest looking paperbacks Ive ever seen.

>>11986605
I couldn't finish the god delusion. And osho has some insight, but its been watered down into contemporary drivel aswell. I'm not proud of having either on there.

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>>11986868
based

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>>11983233
y'all proust mufuckas got me finna fuckwit some marcel

>>11983166
how is the public burning?

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>>11986143
both of you are faggots and i will never be your friend.

>>11982262
>two copies of the same book
I always knew fedoras were retarded.

Only my most recents. Taking photos of all would take too much time. The reading percentages are not the real percentages because this is already my third kindle.

I am rereading The Wheel of Time again

1/4

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2/4

>>11987367
3/4

I love Greg Egan

>>11987374
A Canticle for Leibowitz was not as good as it was hyped up. I expected more. Also the ending... wtf.

I can reread "The Forever War" every year and it does not get boring to me.

>>11982341
Why is your book of The Prince that big? Mine is below 200 pages. Probably 160 at most.

I'm not American/British so I can't show you.

>>11987624
Not him, but it's a Norton Critical Edition, so it'll probably include several essays.

>>11986953
All those folios.

>>11987385
>wtf

>>11983233
>Fires on the Plain

Very nice.

Reading Zen now. These dont include textbooks though

Japanese book collection that is a work in progress

I decided to try move some books off the shelf and organize it a bit

>>11988482
Also got gifted some new books too.
Someone gave me this 1901 Our Japanese Cousin book.
It smells pretty mildew like so I'm airing it out.

I traded my One Billion Days, One Hundred Billion Nights for Six Four by Yokoyama Hideo which I am currently reading.

>>11988494
All my books are thrift store purchase, do I didn't actually spend a whole lot of money buying them

>>11988503
The Patlabor series was bought for cheap when I visited Japan as a kid, the transport was pretty easy since I wasn't really into omiyage and buying crap. So it fit my suitcase quite easily with room to spare. My mom got made since she wanted to buy a bunch of dashi (soup stock) for cooking but I refused to abandon the manga

>>11988511
The Japanese Imperial Navy stuff is my older brother's collection. He left it behind since had to move away, I haven't actually read them though.

>>11988517
I like fairy tales so I buy them whenever I can. I'm hoping to get my Japanese books all together in one area eventually. There are some other books laying about on other shelves which I haven't dug into look yet.
Book the far left is a very old Lafcadio Hearn book

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>>11988517
Those look neat

>>11983150
les mis

>>11982570
It was someone’s original photo. Amazing.

>>11985025
good collection, anon. a good display of self determination

>>11986953
waste of money

>>11983233
Based flannery O’Connor

>>11989597
Yeah, i do feel buyer's remorse, i went mad cause i discovered folio society and the same time as discovering literature. I actually kind of cringe at people talking about the folio society nowadays, FS usually have substandard actual editions of the text and you are getting suckered into paying for something that is not worth it.
I love the finnegans wake and War and Peace though

>>11984983
Are you self-teaching Romanian? If so, what are the best resources you've found?

>>11988482
im getting dizzy

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>>11982348
Nice collection there, especially those American library editions
>>11982366
Amazing. That must've costed a fortune.
>>11983160
Nice, but I hope you don't take all that esoteric meme stuff too seriously.
>>11988009
Very nice

>>11989821
didnt you have more halos

>>11989863
I wish

>>11989864
I remember reading the fall of reach as a teenager, it was okay.

>>11982262
>atheism for dummies

Just like not believe in god nigga, not so hard

>>11989767

Yes, though that was a few years ago. I've reconsidered returning to studying the language, which isn't difficult (plus the slavic flair is intriguing). Colloquial Romanian was my favorite book. Duolingo is my favorite app.

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>>11982959
Thanks. It's not all the books, just favorites and ones I read the most.

>>11989857
Nah, I don't think so... portions were bought used. A few stand out that are really worth the price, but for the most part they're paperbacks. Even so I mean for them all to be passed on. It's a life's worth of study.

>>11984983
>soil studies
Fascinating stuff. Are you looking to build a home, or a farmer?

>>11983366
>Riverside Shakespeare
Based. The Riverside Chaucer is worth your time! Are you interested in writing for stage?

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>>11982366
second rank of top shelf

too poor to buy a shelf
Any french fag here ?

>>11982371
O pessoa é o rei

>>11985025
>lawnmower man on the snes
why

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>>11982262
Finally, second rank of the lower shelves. But for lack of room Garrigou-Lagrange and a second Bible (Salem-Kirban KJV) would also be here.

>>11988009
Fellow traveler

>>11986868
damn dog u unironically got ayn rand on a shelf

>>11984098
good news bible

>>11990338

We leased a 50 acre farm for some time, and I hope to homestead in the future. My major was geography.

>>11990747

>Landmark series
Excellent. I was a doofus recently ordering oxford classics Herodotus without considering the Landmark Herodotus

>>11991436
That's my dream. Homesteading, some kind of passive solar / thermal mass home. OGB has been an inspiration ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41IXziKSCtw&list=PLJMp5K0iCc88nac8oMFPrd62TH3fsKxY- ). Maybe someday when I can do it without going into too much debt. I wish you well anon.

>>11991441
You done goofed. Landmarks are great and reasonably priced. Good footnotes and maps. Herodotus is my least favorite of the bunch, so you didn't goof too bad I guess.

>>11982262
A wild brainlet has appeared

>>11989821
>Robert Hughes

A man of good taste.

>>11990987
You caught me

>>11985375
How's Orhan Pamuk?

>>11983253
i love this webzone

>>11986219

Same

from soon after moving into my current place - still filling the gaps

brainlet here.

>>11992128
what's in the case?

>>11992167
It folds out into a chessboard kinda like pic related

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>>11992141
On absolute awe of ur Phoenix Wright + Holy Bible side by side m8, u can see the light

>>11982262
>physical books

>>11992128
>mass gainer

>>11992244
>virtual books
y i k e s

petty

i haven't washed for 4 days. My balls smell disgusting but the toe jam tastes divine

>>11983253

lmao

>>11992697
pretty*

>>11983233
unironically patrician. Nice Mishima and McCarthy

All packed to move house

>>11994111
beautiful

>>11991887
I don't think I can make a comment on him yet. Its pretty straight forward prose and the beginning is quite surreal

>>11994111
>all that pedo-lit

Disgusting.

>>11994858
Yeah I'm wary of anyone who reads Plato.

I decided to group my epics together.
Currently waiting for a copy of the Kudrun-epic and the Song of Roland.

>>11982366

How much of that introduction of Attic Greek have you done?

I see a pdf of it and am interested in learning attic greek tbqh

>>11995512
Hardly any at all. I've got the alphabet down because it's necessary for understanding LXX and the NT dictionary, and some key words as a result, but my focus this past year has been more on theology and less on poetry.

It's my understanding, however, that Mastronarde is one of the best.

>>11985025
absolutely rebarbative

>>11986217
I have the same edition of the bandanna mememan and boy do I regret it. At the time there was no way to get a copy without a foreword by Dave Eggers that turncoat faggot fuck, but on top of that a hardback is simply superior when you're flipping back and forth that much. I think I would also like the notes to appear on the page, but I'm not sure.

>>11987730
saved

>>11994872
Me too. Damn pinkos!

>>11992141
1) please tell me the book on refrigerators is a fetish item
2) how the hell is Wealth of Nations so Thin??

>>11982348
>tfw you will never see the MDE book on your shelf
it hurts so bad, my friends :'(((

heres some of them I guess

>>11985934
>It’s why nonfiction is better than fiction.
>Calls other people braindead losers
Hahahahahaha

What do you think, /lit/?

>>11996735
BURN kant and nietzsche

>>11996735
clean

>>11982722
>the baghdad vita
>not the baghdad goDDeSS

>>11982262
He still loves you

>>11997775
>not being able to tell that that's a shelf at a used bookstore.

>>11997820
does that change the intent

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>>11997831
troubling existence
scholar's realization
founding prophesies

>>11996688
Which translation of the Iliad is that? The Björkeson one?

>>11991769
I like this chart.

>>11996688
Is that an English translation of Jünger? Why?

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

>>11998786
>Frankie Kavga
>peak performance
more like peaked in high school