/lit/ - Literature

>>12380225
I've made it already

>>12380225
>Dictatorship
Nice, just read it. Good analysis, though very scholarly and indepth in its examples.
Keen to read more Schmitt, wish his books weren't so expensive though.

>>12380225
Today I bought this.

>>12380320
Kek

>>12380225
>Hegel
>Deleuze

You're not going to make it.

>>12380320
>wish his books weren't so expensive
I bet you do. Ha!
>wish his books weren't so expensive

>>12380581
>You're not going to make it.
>implying I have to agree with anything a writer says to have an interest in reading them

>>12380225
You're never going to read any of those.

>>12380597
reddit filename

>>12380603
wrong

Btw could anyone reccomend me books on music theory and/or history of art?

>>12380581
>I bet you do. Ha!
?

>>12380623
>Music theory
What's your instrument?
Learning music theory without having an instrument to try it on is a little bit useless to be honest.

>>12380606
just used it to seduce a reddit female

>>12380661
I can play the guitar and the harmonica, and I have a flute, but I am not very good at any of those. I just want to make music with Sibelius or something similar. I also wanted to learn simply to increase my appreciation of music.

>>12380597
Buy shelf please, also are you a film student?

>>12380762
i've taken a few film courses

>>12380225
Imagine spending time and money on that pile of boring ass psued shit.

>>12381023
>literally a sentance
Give me the details anon. Which of those books are "boring ass pseud shit" and why? It's not like Spengler, Schmitt, or Kollerstrom have very much in common with Deleuze and Guattari but both sides are inheritors of Hegel to some degree so which one is the pseud? Or are you some kind of enlightened contrarian centrist? Try saying something constructive instead of throwing your verbal shit like a nigger. Try again.

>>12380225
whose side are you on?

>>12381068
Take a guess

>>12381070
i don't gamble.

Rate my latest stack

>>12380738
>Guitar
I play too since quite some years so maybe I can give you some advice.
Personally I did "read" many books on music theory over the years but it never quite interested me so I forgot most stuff again.
For music theory it is important that you do something with the knowledge you gather otherwise you forget it again. What helped me the most with it was "writing" my own melodies and songs.
When you are in the process of putting together your own melodies and tracks you have a much better understanding of what sounds good or bad.

This here helped me the most in understanding about music theory even though the theory isn't 100% the focus.

>>12381074
Fair enough. I wouldn't necessarily call myself a conservative revolutionary or anything but I certainly find myself agreeing with Schmitt/Spengler/Heidegger/Junger more than anyone else. Deleuze's metaphysics are pretty interesting though and worth reading imo. Guatarri seems like a faggot and both of their politics were shit. Hegel can be an interesting read from the perspective of the right. A lot of MAGA tards don't realise that you can take from Hegel without taking (much) from Marx. Both are worth reading though.

the red one is the collected poetry of Rilke

>>12380225
r8 my latest stack

>>12381113
>German, Russian, and English
Nice. You fluent in all 3? What's your mother tongue?

>>12381116
8.5/10 pretty based
Luther was right about the Jews but dead wrong on theology. Methodism is a meme. Old testament apocrypha and Deuterocanons are good. Are you pretty new to Christianity? There is a pretty big gap between C.S. Lewis and Blessed Augustine. It seems like you're a smart guy who is diving in the deep end. Good luck

>>12381128
Thanks. I've been Christian most of my life just I've never read anything about it except the Bible.

>>12381120
No, I'm fluent in English and German, German being my mother tongue. Currently taking a Russian course.

>>12380225
>>12380344
>>12380517
>>12380597
>>12380623
>>12381083
>>12381113
>>12381116
t. pseuds

>>12381109
Enjoy and I can relate and I'm slightly envious that Schmitt's texts are available as collected works in English without "critical commentary" added to it.

>>12381216
>I'm slightly envious that Schmitt's texts are available as collected works in English without "critical commentary" added to it.
Do you only have "denazified" versions? All the copies of Mein Kampf I could find in English had some kike adding snide remarks and comments to every page. Mein Kampf is pretty shit to start with but seeing them add these stupid comments instead of letting me just read the book by myself proved Hitler right in terms of who controls the press.

>>12381261
>Do you only have "denazified" versions?
You can still buy his short pamphlets, but considering this man's influence, he deserves a proper attempt to have his main works collected into one hardcover. Might happen soon, since more and more people are getting interested in his positions.

Just bought the following this afternoon for around £20 or so:

Kafka on the Shore-Murakami
Norwegian Wood-Murakami
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
Platform-Houellebecq
On the Road-Jack Kerouac
Paris-Zola
The Remains of the Day-Ishiguro
The Madhouse-Aleksandr Zinoviev
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
The Outsider/The Stranger-Camus
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind-Yuval Noah Harari

Never heard of Aleksandr Zinoviev but The Madhouse sounds like a really interesting book. Looking forward to reading it.

>>12380517
Is Dickens good or do English majors love it just because it criticizes capitalism and they don't like the way capitalism fairly treats English majors?

Sorry. I use a Kindle.

>>12381518
How do grills react to this?

>>12381322
I love catcher in the rye

>>12381522
I don't know, but I also drive a Porsche, so it isn't hard to make them remove their panties.

>>12381536
fair point
porsche trumps harcover pseudery any time.

>>12381083
Ayyy amuseer u met de examens poseur

>>12381083
poseur/10

>>12381322
Who did Salinger tell you to kill?

>>12381613
>>12381587
Lol merci ma wrm poseur?

>>12381536
you know when someone drives the cheapest porsche that is probably nearly two decades old they refer to their car as just a porsche. What you got boy? A 98 boxster you bought for 5 grand? Wow, colour me impressed.

>>12381954
Nah a cayenne my parents bought for me :^)

>>12381983
>an SUV
I was envious for a moment but now I'm laughing, thanks for that anon.

>>12382006
>>12381983

Wtf somebody posted in my persona, i own a 911 from 2016

>>12382041
what, no that's not me. I own a GT3 2020, it's not even out yet. Porsche gave it to me just for me, estimated to be worth $4,000,000 easy.

>>12382070
Whoah lucky man, how did you fix that ??

>>12381322
I’m about to start Franny and Zooey. I meant to read a lot of Salinger when I was in high school but my lazy ass never got around to it.

>>12382070
>>12382090
Friends, this is a literature dick comparison thread. Please only post stacks of books you aren't going to read and abstain from other kinds of comparing your wee-wees. Thank you for your understanding.

>>12380344
How old is this image?

The only read the finest spiritual leaders

Got a bunch of German books from the store. I read "Das Spinnennetz" by Joseph Roth and it's trash, right now I'm reading "Menschheitsdämmerung" which has some great poetry and "Die Andere Seite", which seems like it will be trash as well.

>>12380225
Philosophy is a waste of time, those giant books look especially horrible.

>>12381113
Has Seratonin been translated into German? or what language is your copy?

>>12380623
waste of time

>>12380225

>>12380623
if you've got the basics down, 8-bit Music Theory on youtube is honestly a pretty good place to look.

>>12381203
I'm a pseud because I only read books by authors whose first name is William?

>>12382125
About six months.

>>12382341
Are you a native German speaker?

>>12380225
these threads represent the worst of /lit/. Nobody cares what obscure authors you know/pretend to read. What we here care about is knowledge. You have to be able to formulate your own opinion about a book, doesn't matter which, could even be Dr. Seuss for all you care for. You have a bright mind - mind like that of a child. That is until you read a lot of books. Then you age and become an old man. Old man mentally, that is - your "money situation" doesn't change. But after you have become an old man, you will not post threads like these, you will begin to actually read all these books and your brain begins to actually rot. That's when you become like me. See, I do not post my shelf in this thread. Can you gess why? I thought so. Now go read Peterson's 12 rules for life because your life needs a ruler - and the more rulers the better. Might as well invite me on board - I will help shape your head, of course, but ONLY if you want to.

>>12380597
>wasting all this money
>only buying 1/6 Akira books

>>12382733
Sort of, English is my mother tongue, but German was my father's

ITT: 70% of books will never be read completely or will be read, misunderstood, and forgotten.
The conspicuous consumption and display of it for social standing on an anonymoose cartoon forum is cringe and bluepilled.

>>12382157
pitiful

>>12382341
>Philosophy is a waste of time, those giant books look especially horrible.
this is true, and they are

>>12382779
>Peterson's 12 rules for life
cringe

>>12382805
thanks

>>12382373
Yes, the German translation was released three days ago. Pretty solid.

>>12380225
Rate

This thread is basically /lit/stagram

>>12382341
>Die Andere Seite", which seems like it will be trash as well.
Lol normally it gets the same reaction as an Edward Gorey book. What provokes such a strong dismissal?

>>12381322
Pdf of airplanes book pls

>>12382157
What an almighty cunt. Are you 15?

This thin book on the bottom is "80 days around world"

>>12383623
>Edward Gorey
Haven't read him, but I've only read the first few chapters and I don't like the premise since it seems like one for a children's book. His writing isn't that interesting or challenging as well. But I may change my mind as I've only finished the first part and the theme may develop in an unexpected direction.

anything else in this vein

>inb4 a hating /pol/tard criticizing me for reading Engels.

>>12381113
>Umberto Eco
Based. Foucault's Pendulum is great, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did anon

>>12384281
> needing a book to teach you how to read a book

Never gonna make it!

>>12384281
>how to read a book
>needs a book on how to read a book
>while posting on a literature board
Pfffft

>>12380225
>physical copies
beautiful, very nice, digital distribution should not be paid for

>>12381116
>>12381128
Christianity is a literal Jewish cult

>>12381514
I have no idea. I've never read him, yesterday I bought that book and a few days ago I bought another for less than a dollar. I'll give them a try, I hope they are good.

>>12384281
>how to read a book

My stack for the first few months in 2019

>>12384899
I know this is bait but it still made me squirm.

>>12384899
The shoe on top of the vase really brings the whole picture together

>>12381090
Thanks, I'll certainly check it out.

>>12382389
Great rec! I usually watch Adam Neely but I don't understand much of what he's saying. This guy is way more accesible

>>12383774
You are jealous of my profound spiritual depth.

>>12384899
Is the Prince good?

>>12385242
Adam also has some good book recs once his stuff is more accessible for you.

>>12385274
He wouldn't know because he's had the same stack for over a year now.

zoomer checking in

Finished The Turn of the Screw and working on The Difference Engine. Going to get back to In the Cage later.

>A Patriot's History of the United States, Schweikart, Allen
I recently read A People's History and on my latest visit to the thrift store I found Patriot's so I picked it up to get the far right view. Looks like Hail State: The Manual from the introductory interview done by Rush Limbaugh with one of the authors.

>A Distant Mirror, Tuchman
Something I've wanted to read for awhile, another find at the thrift store so I grabbed it. Can't resist $2 books

>History of Philosophy, Marias
English translation. Looks like a good overview of philosophy. "Adopted throughout the Spanish-speaking world as the standard classroom text" according to the back cover text.
Looking forward to getting in to this as I've had an interest in philosophy for awhile but haven't started. I'd like a nice overview before I start reading all the primary texts.

No picture, sorry.

>>12384281
>Author feels the need to include ", PhD" in their name.

All stack posters who include books they have not read cover to cover should be banned.

This is nothing but a way to brag about work you have yet to undertake. Any moron can buy a book. Nobody cares. Embarassing.

Ministack. Reading Childhoods End on my Kindle.

>>12385663
>>12385671
Nobody cares. A child can buy each of these books with as much difficulty.

Were you hoping someone would compliment you for doing what a child can do? Grow up.

>>12385676
It's a stack thread fucktard what do you want

>>12385690
Threads by people who have read books, not threads by people who own books.

>>12385700
This isn't a shelf thread. This is a stack thread. Cool it with the autism.

>>12380225

>>12385713
Books are not trophies, shelves are not cases. Its easier to point, than wrestle with pages. Slowly within them, a way out of cages, built by soft flesh, and attention so wasted. To enter a mind, takes great dedication.

To possess the mind of another
You must look beyond a cover

>>12385767
Hello nu-tripfag. How long do you plan to stay around and shit up threads for? A month maybe?

>>12385796

I've been posting here like a madman for 5+ years so in all likelihood longer than a month. Maybe I'll get lucky and get stuck by lightning or get even more bored of this latest phase of 4chan(nel) interaction (characterized by tripfagging) and be rid of your horrible, awful, loathsome company once and for all. I wouldn't count on it. It is an endless pleasure to see one's own thoughts being read by other people. A sick pleasure, for sure, doubtless dependent upon the minimal difficulty of shooting fish in a barrel, but a pleasure nonetheless.

You imagine that? I once hoped to be a published writer, and now find myself a miserable wretch bent on gathering yous from severely misguided teenagers and hopelessly deaf man children.

What a terrible board, and I am sorry for being able to contribute to it.

>>12385739
wow this is awful

>>12385883
Jesus man...

>>12381322
kill ronald regean
kill ronald regan
kiLL RONALF REGAN
KILL RONALF RAEWUHRAJODFHCAFSJLNKJSADFKLHSDBF KLHSDFSBDLKJF HSDFHLKJSDHF ...................
Hol up, whats going on. im back in reality did i just want to kill ronald regean

>>12381261
>All the copies of Mein Kampf I could find in English had some kike adding snide remarks and comments to every page.
Get the Stalag Edition

>>12385739
I was going to shitpost but i'm curious. What's with all the newspapers? And out of those books is there anything you'd recommend in particular?

>>12386278
>Get the Stalag Edition
I would but the book really isn't that good. Not worth re-reading unless you are a historian or a larper

too many krauts in this thread. what the fuck...

>>12383226
I wonder how many of them buy these philosophy books and what-not just so they can post in these threads. It's funny and pathetic.

>>12386440
>the book really isn't that good
and that's where you're wrong

>>12383850
solid stack of lit

>>12384215
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
and other books by those authors, they are more serious than your stack

>>12385767
books are aesthetic and their role as an ornament is underrated, it seems only /lit/ appreciates a filled up shelf of unread books

>>12385274
It is.

It's a really concise rundown of statecraft. Relevant to a lot of fields.

>>12385298
yikes

>>12385298
>wordsworth

>>12385658
Nice. i got some old books as well I would like to display eventually like that.

>>12380517
That's swell, Anon. I have heard it is a good read.

Do I get The Ice Trilogy or Kenji Miyazawa's short story collection for my next purchase? I've been interested in both for a while.

>>12380738
Oxford's History of Western Music is pretty great if you want to get your goggles on and deep dive into the subject. Learning chorale writing is probably the most complete way of learning music theory, but most musicians do fine with just learning the basics surrounding their instrument rather than learning the 4 voice chorale form and extending it outward to whatever instruments they plan to write for.

>>12380225
'ello laddingtons

everything I've bought this month, trying to get through the /lit/ canon and enjoying it

>>12384358
Thanks mate. 250 pages in and looking forward to it picking up. Did you read Name of the Rose, too?

>>12387702
Yeesh, seems like a waste of time tbhwyf

>>12387803
based normal lit reader

>>12384215
>Not reading Linkola in the original language
Just kidding, nice to see people outside of Finland reading Linkola too.

Don't have a picture of my stack, but -

Pic related
The Swastika and the Rune, a study on the esoteric culture within the Ahnenherbe
Novel of the Phenotype, a collection of Gottfried Benn's prose
Dialectic of the Enlightenment

>>12385739
>Gucci Mane
>Stephen King
>Neil Gaiman
>Brandon Sanderson
>All those magazines
>Talking Heads poster
You're an avant-teen who already listened to all the entry level /mu/ records, got tired of that board and is trying to find a new home.
I hope you're underage because if you're an adult, and this is your stack, you're an embarrassment who doesn't deserve to reproduce.

>>12387803
>A Farewell To Arms
Prepare your anus

No picture right now but:

1. Naked Lunch -- Burroughs
2. Breakout At Stalingrad -- Heinrich Gerlach
3. Killing Commendatore -- Murakami
4. The Poetics of Space -- Bachelard
5. Journey To The End Of Night -- Celine

>>12385615
Someone judge me, please.

>>12388998
No, anon, don't ask us to judge you, our opinions shouldn't matter to you that much, they shouldn't matter at all. Ask yourself: why did you buy those books in the first place? Are they for your entertainment? Is your final goal to know more than you knew before reading them? Do you seek knowledge or pleasure? I don't care about your answers, but I hope you do, and I hope you find what you seek in those books.

Former /mu/tant here, slowly converting into a /lit/ fag
also if anyone has recommendations for other music related books that would be nice

>>12388145
>Did you read Name of the Rose, too?
No, but I will when I find an affordable copy. They're all very expensive online, and I don't plan on leaving the house for the new few months

>>12389046
>Please Kill Me
It was a fun book but I mostly enjoyed it because it was focused on TVU

>>12389052
Haven't started it yet but that's good to hear considering TVU are a favorite of mine

>>12380623
You buddy you borrow them books from your college, dont you?

>>12385615
>>12388998
I have never read those books or even heard of the authors. Sorry :(

Nick Land is what I'm currently going through and the only one that I have signed out from my Uni

>>12389543
How much did you drop on that copy of the Thrist? Shit's expensive

Also, that book on free jazz looks interesting, any more details on that?

>>12389642
My bad, just saw you got it from your uni library

>>12389642
not him, but it looks like a library copy

>>12389642
Library copy

>>12388967
for the end? I already read that one and only got minor feels from it
probably because I'm a KHV

>>12389642
that's a library copy anon

>>12389397
Actually, from my local public library. I'm a stemfag so my college's library is mostly boring math textbooks.

>>12387803
Have you read Wild Sheep Chase?

N boi - beyond the good and evil
burroughs - the western lands, junkie
bolano - the savage detectives
houellebecq - soumission, elementary particles, the map and territory
dostojevski - c&p
clarke - rendezvous with rama

>>12390259
ajjdjshfj bolANO

>>12390305
Huh?

>>12381113
Basiert

Coming in the mail:
The Man Who Sleeps
The Crying of Lot 49
A Farewell to Arms
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Birth of Tragedy
Brave New World

Currently reading:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Torless

>>12382108
Have you read Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters? I think that's his absolute best. Franny and Zooey is really good too.

>>12385671
based and boomerpilled

>>12380225
All I could find this week of op shop shopping. Is the Jospeh Heller one any good?

>>12385298
Based

>>12389046
Read Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus. It may be a bit difficult but it’s probably the greatest intersection of music and fiction ever put on page. Mann was being arrogant when he said it was on the same level as Ulysses of course, but he does have a point. There will never be a book like it again, history just won’t allow it

>>12383062
Literally the first anon on here with patrician taste. The praise of folly is laugh out loud funny. Dostoevsky is patrician as well (ESP pevear/volohonsky translation). Pascal can be boring at times but is also generally interesting. You're alright, anon

Also, are you as depressed as I am?

>>12383672
I see you also suffer from depression, anon!

Brothers Karamazov saved my life btw

>>12380225
Picked up the sailor who fell from grace with the sea and confessions of a mask today while I wait for the rest of the sea of fertility to be delivered to me, which should I start with?

>>12391113
Sailor is a great starting point. Easy to read and shows you exactly what Mishima is all about

>>12389642
not that anon you asked but my copy cost almost $100AUD for the paperback. feeling pretty ripped off desu

>>12392612
damn, I've been trying to get a copy of it for a while but haven't found anything decent that isn't hugely expensive
that and stirner seem to cost a shitload for some reason

>>12383623
I changed my mind about "Die Andere Seite", I still haven't finished the book, but a funny passage about a fat doctor, his eating habits, and his beautiful wife were very entertaining and the narrator possessed a funny selfishness throughout the entire scene, despite it's morose implications (it happened after his wife died). And the dull-metal eyes of Patera have my attention.

>>12392612
Hahahaha you fucking moron, everybody post and laugh at the idiot philosopher. Perhaps I too shall write utter nonsense and charge the Australian fool $100AUD for faux enlightenment.

>>12392786
>everybody post and laugh at the idiot philosopher.
>implying i'm even a philosopher
nigga im just another pseud trying to figure shit out. Please don't presume I have any actual training in this field lmao

>>12392799
>Please don't presume I have any actual training in this field lmao
Oh then I apologize my friend, since you lack "training" you are much better off than the university educated fools. Who spout their academic "knowledge" (actually just state approved nonsense).

Please, don't invest in "philosophy" and instead buy yourself a big stack of literature and poetry. You'll find that ideas of enlightenment, dual realities and subjectivity are found within Goethe's Erlkönig, a much shorter and more beautiful piece of writing than most "philosophers" have ever produced. And nothingness was pondered more fully by one of Shakespeare's characters and expressed more beautifully in a soliloquy than by the academic bowel movements of a "philosopher". Go look into sociology, the science of people instead of investing into the "science" of sophists who have never been exposed to the rigors of non academic life. And don't, I repeat DO NOT go to college for a degree in "philosophy".

>>12390232
No but I was thinking of The Elephant Vanishes for my next Murakami since I hid it in a second hand book store I go to so nobody will buy it

>>12392854
>I was thinking of The Elephant Vanishes for my next Murakami

That's a good choice. Some of the stories are really neat and the ones that aren't at least don't have the chance to drag on. I mentioned Wild Sheep Chase because Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to it. Although not one that is necessary to read first it, it does add to the experience a little

>>12392891
>Although not one that is necessary to read first it, it does add to the experience a little
What "experience" and how does it "add to" such a thing?

>>12382108
Franny & Zooey is one of my favs, its perfect, just read it

>>12381116
charls?

>>12392821
I would do this, but you sound like such a faggot, it turned me off.

Out of my way fucking pseuds, genreshit coming through.

>>12384069
>>12392774
Edward Gorey writes children's books that are not for children (such as his alphabet, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, which is an illustrated book about children dying: "G is for George smothered under a rug, H is for Hector done in by a thug") He's like a very dark nonsense poet.
Glad you stuck with The Other Side, it's a fun if fatalistic fairytale. There's an old exSoviet Germany movie called Traumstadt which is a pretty close adaptation apart from the title, and I think both the book and movie have been a bit underrated in recent years.

Towards a Psychology of Being - Abraham Maslow
War and Peace - Tolstoy (Edmonds translation)
The Odyssey - Homer (T.E. Lawrence)
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse

halfway through the first and really enjoying it. Never knew that Lawrence of Arabia did a translation of the odyssey, quite excited to read having just finished some of plato’s dialogues

>>12381322
Prisoner's Dilemma is good.
You might like The Evolution of Cooperation by Axelrod (which is an in-depth look at the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma) and Logical Dilemmas: The Life And Work of Kurt Goedel by Dawson, where Von Neumann makes appearances.

>>12383672
Based barnes and noble poster

>>12384281
the antifa starter kit's looking meager these days.

>>12392612
what the fuck is wrong with you people
paid £10 for mine and wouldn't pay any more

>>12390972
This book actually sounds really interesting from the Goodreads synopsis, appreciate the recommendation.

>>12388140
Every single one of these looks interesting, nice taste anon

>>12382157

>>12385298
Ouch

>>12387803
This is tasty.

>>12390972
>The holocaust is sad goo goo ga ga waaahh waaahh
Imagine being an artist and thinking this is a worthy use of artistic expression haha dumb bitch. Mann gives Germany a bad name even though plenty of geniuses came from it.

>>12393018
hey bud, I'm not the moron who paid $100AUD for a shitty book

>>12393125
Sounds interesting I'll try and get my hands on the movie once I've finished the book.

>fell for the "bro, just read the summa" meme

My current stack

Sam Pink, Person
Bud Smith, Work
Scott Maclanahan, The Sarah Book

Zettelstraum
Final Solutions by Frederick Seidel
The Collected Poems of Stefan Georg

R8 my haul

>>12394323
Start with Tsun Tzu

>>12394323
slow down...

>>12394580
You can get the summa in a one volume unabridged edition. I recommend this format more. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/summa-theologica-complete-in-a-single-volume-thomas-aquinas/1128554255?ean=9781732190320

>>12394580
Jesus

>>12394580
>Dangling Man and Herzog
They're almost the same book. Very good if you like walking around Chicago that doesn't exist any more

Rest elsewhere
Highly recommended

>>12395016
>star wars
I liked Death Troopers, I'm about to buy Red Harvest.

>>12381514

>Dickens
>critical of capitalism

Jesus fucking christ, this board

>>12395366
how small is the text in this?

>>12384281
>Jacobin
>Reading Engels, too brainlet to read Marx
>How to read a book
You remind me of the softcore Leninists at my college's leftist club

>>12385651
Well it is a lady...

>>12392612
use textsurf you fucking chinaman

Today I bought these books.

>>12395016
>>12396749

Red harvest is good. For star wars, if you're down with the whole meme force mysticism, the Darth Bane trilogy is great. Otherwise, I'd read the Thrawn trilogy, best series in star wars imo.

Just finished these and I liked Metamorphosis the most. What should I read next?

>>12399306
How is Kawabata? I want to read all the weebcore nip authors

>>12399366
There's a heavy focus on the atmosphere and sceneries which imo gets boring after a while. They're beautifully written though.

>>12399306
Have you read Spring Snow? You might like that.

>>12399306
How is your copy of the Metamorphosis so large? Metamorphosis is like 40 pages tops.

>>12399641
All the stuff in this stack could be interesting but most people who read this kind of shit are massive faggots. I hope you're not a massive faggot anon because this is a decent stack otherwise. Tentative 7.5/10 You lose a point for Penguin classics though

>>12399650
It includes some of Kafka's other short stories like The Stoker

>>12399617
I haven't read any of Mishima's books and Spring Snow is a tetrology, so I'm thinking of reading the Sailor first

>>12385767
nu-tripfag kys

>>12399306
Animal Farm. Quick read

>>12399742
That's also a very good book. You can't go wrong either way. Hope you enjoy them, anon.

My stacks at the moment, (they can’t fit in my bookshelf so oh well)

>>12400487
based

>>12400487
What's the metal thing on the left of the knife?

>>12400726
A harmonica, I’m learning to play if I ever go to prison.

Though I’m not black so my aesthetic might be off.

>>12400790
Based, is it chromatic?

>>12380623
>Art History

I'm reading John Berger's Portraits right now which is very enjoyable, and I'm probably going to read Linda Nochlin's Realism afterwards. Edward Said's Orientalism is also excellent if you aren't spooked by the identity politics boogeyman. It informed alot of ill-meaning scholarship today but in itself it's incredibly informative.

Those are all very interpretive however, if you want straight facts I would glean Wikipedia or Khan Academy. Though at least for myself, rote historical summaries seem to go right out of my head once read.

>>12400849
Not quite sure, has a cool bright red wood on the side, and a C engraved on it, it also says ‘jazz master’ with ‘made in Germany written underneath it.

Not going to lie I pocketed it from a mates grandfathers house after the old boy died, as well as a yellow beanie.

>>12400849
Update
Did some research it’s not chromatic

>>12401004
>I pocketed it from a mates grandfathers house after the old boy died

Lmao, wash it as much as you can, it'd be gross to get a dead man's saliva into your mouth desu

charity store finds

>>12385662
That's the whole point of a stack. You're here to talk about the books you plan to read - why did you buy it? opinions from others who already read it. maybe give some tips on how to approach the book. You're an idiot who should lurk more.

>>12388145
>>12389047
>Name of the Rose
That's probably my favorite book. Loved the whole experience. Eco does an amazing job making you feel like you're in that medieval world.
>Baudolino
Since you guys seem to like Eco, I'll mention this as a recommendation. I read it a few years ago. Definitely a different feel than The Name of the Rose. More whimsical. It was definitely a fun read.

>>12401454
Better taste than most here

>>12380225
Can you anons PLEASE tell me how the heck you remember so much? Like, you read so many subjects - history, philosophy, politics, etc - and you somehow remember it all. Personally I can't remember anything. If I read about something historical today, and some time passes, my memory of it becomes history as well. It vanishes. I also can't keep up with all the intricacies of it all - empires, rulers, cultures, peoples, migrations, dates, geography, political systems, artistic movements - its a swirling mass of information which my mind cant compute. I'm from Canada, and I literally don't even know what all the provinces of my country are. If I learnt them tomorrow, and then learnt about something unrelated after, I'd soon forget them again, and this is an eternal recurrance. My memory is solely short-term.

Am I just a born brainlet? If your memory is poor, there's not much you can do about it, right? I am forever incapable of storing sizable quantities of knowledge in me, and will therefore never be "well-read" or "learned" no matter how much I read.

>>12401670
stop jerking off

>>12401635
Will take a look. Thank you friend.

>>12386440
That's because the same kike making the snide comments sabbatoged the translation in to un readable garbage. For any one interested read either the Ford or Stalag translation

>>12401670
Take notes. Write your thoughts. Write essays. Do what you'd do in school.

>>12380597
Why is your invisible man book so big, its almost the size of infinite jest and mine is like 1/3 that size

>>12385298

>>12385739
>Oliver Sacks
At least it's not all bad.

>>12404128
You're a-okay, friend.

>>12385615
>A Distant Mirror
nice find, wish I had a paper copy. I've been meaning to tackle it, here's your (you)

>>12389046
Byrne book