/lit/ - Literature

All my new books are on the computer!

>>12140882
What’s some good recent German literature that’s been translated to English

>>12141308
why is this so funny to me

>>12140882
my humble collection

>>12141308
>Mere Christianity
>Catholic University of America
>Christianity and Culture
>The American Puritans
>Lolita

I love the contrast

>>12140882
Today I bought this.

>>12141833
Are you new to reading or are those just books you bought recently?

>>12140882
One day I will be reading German literature.

For now, I stick to A2-B1 level graded readers :(

>>12140882
fucking plebs

Fuc da bolice

>>12141833
>/lit/ memes
>Stephen King

Some recent acquisitions.

>>12140882
0/10

>>12141308
1/10 because you stacked it high

>>12141370
0/10

>>12141833
5/10

>>12141840
4/10

>>12142085
6/10

How is Azar Nafisi, if you've had the chance to read her yet? Was gifted the same book a while back by someone whose family fled Iran in the 70's, but I haven't started on it yet.

>>12143064
2/10 trying too hard

>>12143064
where do I start with Lem?

>>12143064
Nafisi is okay. You should really be familiar with all of Nabokov's works if you want to get anything out of her memoir, because every other page is her gushing over how much his books helped her survive Iran.

>>12140882
>Benoist
>Schmitt
nice, make sure to read Carl Schmitt first though. Better yet, start with the concept of the political. If you want to read more by Benoist, try to get your hands on a copy of "Aufstand der Kulturen", great book.
>Davila
why does this guy get memed so much by german right wingers?
>Spenglers man and technics
>paying out of your ass for that arktos aesthetic instead of just getting the 3 euro amazon copy
>huber
no idea
2/4

>>12144164
Bajki robotów albo wczesne eseje

Not pure /lit/ as I still read a good amount of scifi and fantasy.

>>12143939
Appreciate it, buddy!

>>12144164
I'm personally a big fan of his more lighter books, with more comedy. So far I've really enjoyed 'Tales of Pirx the pilot', 'More tales of Pirx the pilot' and all the books with Ijon Tichy (The futurological congress, Memoirs of a space traveler, The star diaries etc.). They're mostly collections of shorter adventures the characters go through in space, featuring very likeable characters.

>>12144165
I've read Lolita, Ada and Pnin - should I read more before jumping in or would that suffice?

>>12141877
>Abridged Edition
Why?

>>12144305
Yeah, you'll be fine with Nafisi. Enjoy it! It's not a terrible read.

>>12144362
Cheers, anon, much appreciated!

>>12140882
>Imagine buying books

>>12144833
how are the japanese tales?

>>12144839
Decent

>>12144265
Why does Arktos charge so much and why are some of their covers, hell, most of their covers, so cringy?

I wish Davila were published in English - I'd like to see what the fuss is about.

>>12144833
>Imagine keeping all your books on a surveillance device

>>12144903
>imagine caring

My most recent acquisition

>>12144929
How am i going to run for public office if it gets out that i read mein kampf on my kindle?

All from the past month Some of these are for school

>>12144953
Yeah, much better owning a copy am I right ?

Should I buy IJ just to have it?

>>12145018
It’s one of those that you keep on your shelf so people on /lit/ will suck you off but never read in public because people will think your an asshole. Also it’s really good

All of these are second hand except for Farabeuf and Los siete locos

>>12145011
Paperback Library of America ouch.

A /k/ommando’s to read stack.

>>12146038
>Putting the world to rights with hired guns
Good lord the delusion.

Recent purchases

>>12140882
Me encanta que don Nicolás sea leído en lengua germana.

>>12140882
Warum liest du etwas von JungEuropa Verlag? Du bist ja ein Larper...

>>12140883
Kys

>>12146464
Warum nicht?

>>12146054
It certainly seems kinda edgy, but it’s an anthology of various adventures. I saw reference to Rhodesia and decided to pick it up.

No pic but recently bought as of today:
Mikhail Bulgakov-- Heart of a Dog, Fatal Eggs
St. Benedict-- Rule of St. Benedict
Dostoyevsy-- Demons
Fr. Seraphim Rose-- God's Revelation to the Human Heart

>>12141308
> This guy walks into the club and smacks your girl’s ass what do you do

>>12146864
Nice, enjoy Heart of Dog - it's a short but funny read, made more interesting if you know anything about Russia and communism during those times.

Do let us know how Fatal Eggs is. That one I still haven't read.

>>12140909
Mein Kampf

>>12140882
Davila and Spengler are great, unlike the rest.

>>12143064
>NYRB
-3/10. That's a negative three. Out of ten.

No pic because i'm lazy but picked up today:
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveller
Kafka: The Castle, Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Beckett: The Unnameable

>>12144301
what did you do with naomi klein?

>>12147998
LOL. Did someone working there steal your gf or why the hate?

>>12148001
Why is /lit/ memeing Kafka all of a sudden? It normally only stans obscure books and Dostoyevsky. Does it think Kafka is obscure? Are Kafka’s neuroticism and dark subject matter enough to convince pseudo intellectual incels that they’re reading something high brow?

>>12146038

PROTIP:

Read something by Mike Hoare pronto. You'll love it.

Got everything for 3 € at some charity church thingy. Thank you Jesus.

>>12148368
What a worthless post, made by a worthless pseud.

Just got these cheap at a book fair, I got the Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird because my younger siblings want to read them

>>12148524

>>12148521
no u

>>12148509
You're welcome my son.

>>12140882
>Davila
Based
>the rest
cringe

I just loaned translated Ulysses from lib. Now wondering if I should just read it in english? so what i'm asking is is the language hard in that?

>>12148526
>he actually fell for the meme

>>12148069
The bullet hole? That's part of the print.

>>12148726
You should read it in english

>>12147223
I will enjoy it as soon I get to it. I've read Master and Margarita some years back and really enjoyed the writing, but didn't understand the humor. I have a good understanding of Early Communism in Russia, as it's one of my main subjects I study on my own.

bought these today, anyone read the marco polo one?

>>12140909
2 days late but Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand

>>12149032

>>12149179
how many fedoras do you own?

>>12149230
I don't wear hats

>>12149230
And in my defense, the sword was a gift

>>12149264
so you haven't studied the blade?

>>12140882
I'm confused
Is everyone here so poor that they're only able to afford a handful of books or are you all brainlets who read slow
Also what's with all the fiction? Are you fucking children?

Hello from Brazil. Some monkeys can read.

>>12149326
>fiction is for children
why are you even here?

>>12149179
A close-up of the bookshelf would be better, anon. Much easier to see the titles of the books than now.

>>12143064
Warlock made me cry

>>12149326
This might come as a shocker to you but people are actually allowed to have more pleasures in life than just reading books.

>>12141308
poor christmas carol

>>12149410
Ummm yeah. But having other pleasures doesn't make you incapable of reading before bed or when you have chances throughout the day. You're just lazy or stupid honey
>>12149365
To enlighten the childish. I only read non fiction and philosophy

>>12149326
Or, have you thought of this, people are only posting what they're currently reading or recently acquired.

My last stack photo was five books but I have nearly two hundred on my shelves. Why would I post the same shelf photo every time?

>>12149305
I have not, I am a humble soft boi

>>12141877
>abridged

>>12149440
>non fiction and philosophy
that's basically homework, and homework is for children. real growns ass men waste their brief existence reading russian door stoppers

>>12148468
I’ll give him a look. Thanks anon.

>>12149413
No, my honorable friend, please, I insist, kill *your* self.

>>12149413
>record scratch
>freeze frame
>you’re probably wondering how I got myself into this situation

Just arrived from Germany.

>>12144351
It was cheap. 336 argentine pesos and I had 10% discount.

I gay

>>12141308
phwoah thats a fuckin big stack you got there mate

>>12146918
I smack his book pile

>>12150264

>>12150616
where’s mein kampf

>>12140882

>>12149326
>I'm confused
Are you? If you find yourself confused a lot you might just be stupid.

>>12151745
you issued these from the liberry

>>12149406
That good, huh? I'll definitely be reading that before the end of the year!

>>12141877
this nigga bought an abridged edition lmao

>>12141370
based

>>12144833
imagine being poor

>>12149360
wtf didn't know Berto was that well known

>>12148509
>selling Mann at a church

>>12148526
Those are some ugly editions

>>12141800
>>12141308
i feel judged by that stack

>>12141308
How do you make such a photo?

>>12141877
Nigga you dumb

>>12152724
Imagine spending money and time on somethimg you can have for free .
Imagine buying shelves and wasting an afternoon ordering them.
Imagine all the dust and silverfish crawling in your ears when you sleep.
Imagine trying to impress people with the amount of unread books you own.

>>12153456
Imagine not being able to easily annotate your books or remember the plot based on what’s physically written where on the book.
Reading isn’t a purely mental activity. Humans need visual as well as tactile stimuli in order to really absorb things, and they remember things bestcwgeb they organize things in a spatial pattern. Anyone who knows anything about memory knows this and if you don’t notice that you absorb less from an e- reader you either lack introspection or are a shallow reader in general.

>>12154068
Who would want to annotate on a book anyway ?
A notebook is cheper, and you can take annotations and highlight parts of a book on almost every e-reader and even erase them.
Also don't come to me with your tactile stimuli and spatial pattern bullshit.
Nothing holds up and you're just butthurt because you aklready spent lots of money on books.

>>12148368
Are you new here?

I bought this today.

>>12141308

PRIME "what she sees - what you see" image. Use wisely.

>>12149179

That array of laxatives is utterly unimpressive.

>>12149360
Ja sei q comprou na black feiday da amazon. Quando vc comprou e em quanto tempo eles chegaram?

>>12153346
Probably panoramic mode on a phone camera

>>12154150
>you can take annotations and highlight parts of a book on almost every e-reader and even erase them
Not anywhere as quickly or conveniently as with a pencil on paper. It’s enough navigating and button pushing to be a hassle.
>Also don't come to me with your tactile stimuli and spatial pattern bullshit.
Eh, you don’t have to take my word for it. If you don’t know how to use your body to make your mind work better then that’s your problem. Idk how to prove to you that books are better for memorizing any more than I know how to prove that drinking caffeine raises your heart rate. If you don’t notice the effects then you’re just not paying attention, and people who pay attention invariably notice it.

>>12153384
no u

Here's mine

>>12149179
tacky in a comfy way
>>12154190
been thinking about doing Rimbaud soon, I'm interested in Houellebecq's poetry too

my citys got a real nice library

>>12150626
Te entiendo man se estan yendo a la mierda los precios de los libros :(

>>12144301
All good stuff except sanderfag and shock doctrine. Good stack mate

>>12158322
based ethnostack