/lit/ - Literature

The Edmund Wilson is such a delight to go through. Up there with Auden as far as critics go.

OP here, also anyone have any opinion on the Alexandria Quartet (forget author's name) and Hard Times by Dickens? I chose not to get those, but if you guys think they're any good I might go back today and buy them.

>>12790516
Dickens is nice

>>12790516
>Alexandria Quartet
God, yeah i've read it, well some of it; it was maybe a mistake to read it right after Anthony Powell but it's reputation is so enormous that i just bought the whole set without reading any of it beforehand.

Sorry to say it, but, It's a dull turd.

>>12790516
I would go back for the Alexandria Quartet. Leave the Dickens. Not one of his best efforts.

>>12790547
Would you recommend Anthony Powell?

>>12790547
Oh and another mistake i just remembered was C. P. Snow's Corridors of Power,. Dull, but at least i had forewarning on that one.

Still, There was a time when you weren't considered 'literary' if you hadn't read these.

>>12790567
Yes.

It's may be cliche now to compare Dance to the Music of Time to Proust but it's wholly justified. The depth of feeling there is in parts just as complex

>>12790560
Thanks. The back cover of the Dickes said as much, itself, which is why I didn't get it.

>>12790479
I want to read Tropic of Cancer.

>>12790622
>>12790479
just bough it a couple days ago, want to read it soon
it was 400rub (6.20$) but i bought some other books and the seller gave it for 300

Ford Madox Ford is a good choice

>>12790502
I don't see Waugh get enough love around here so I added it to my stack even though I bought it a while ago. Did you like Waugh Abroad?

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

post some stacks, you fags

>>12792861
Make me, fag.

>>12793716
I don't want to force you. It has to be completely voluntary. I respect your independence and freedom of expression. Please post a stack, but only if you really want to.

Be gentle.

>>12793862
Extremely reddit. I suspect this post is a joke. Repost the stack with a timestamp and rearrange the books to prove this is real

>>12793876

It's real.

>>12793955
cool stack bro. what are you reading first?

>>12793955
Ok, well enjoy i guess. What are you currently reading?

>>12793959
I'm finishing up Astrophysics. From there I'm not sure. It's clear I've made poor choices.

What do when the only people in your area who read are middle class and poor housewives so the second hand market is shit tier poetry and romance 'novels'?

>>12793955
Don't care what they say, a lot of those books are really enjoyable.

>>12794000
Metamorphosis and Animal Farm are currently my favorites out of what I've read so far. They were very enjoyable.

>>12794042
Well this board generally regards Kafka very highly, except for that one poster that's obsessed with the fact that Kafka is Jewish, so you're off to a good start.

Yes, I AM a hippie.

Stoner is super good, im gonna finish it now actually.

>>12793955
>Milo Yiannopoulos
O O F

no photo but:

1984
the metamorphosis
love in cholera's times

i'm just getting into /lit/.

>>12793987
meh 70% of that looks worth reading to me. I'd probably drop some of the longer Lenin works unless you're really game for them and probably skip the Nietzsche, Carlson, Milo.

The rest is just comfy lit no?

These just arrived with the mail.

>>12790668
>that cover
What did they mean by this?

>>12794206
>actually buying Lolita
Based. Make sure to read it in public, preferably in libraries and at your local Starbucks.

>>12795164
>plato - oxford
>plato - penguin
Wild.

Just getting into Kafka and exploring different stuff

>>12790479
>Didn't see one of these threads up
and you felt you had to make one?

>>12793955
>12 memes for life

Just acquired these today. What am I in for lads?

>>12790479
Someone know a good site to get cheap philosophy books if you are in central or east europe and dont have accept to good stores? Amazon is too expensive in delivery fees and local books stores are shit. I was using wordery and bookdepository but those are not cheap at all. It seems used books of any worth are not attainable if you are not in west or america.

>>12795411
That's not your stack big guy

>>12795419
The most obvious answer is to just pirate them. I guess you could also ask local bookstores to get them for you, they should not have any problems with delivery fees.

>>12795427
4u

>>12795419
you can also try abebooks.com there are many international sellers. and aside from some portion going to the website, you are supporting small businesses. I get many of my books on there.

>>12795164
>>12795178
Gotta flex that shit wherever you go

Have a lot of reddit-tier stuff from a couple of years ago, but here 1/3

>>12795687
2/3

>>12795693
3/3

Commodity fetishism

>>12795184
>no country for old men
I hope you haven't seen the movie yet, it's a great reading.

>>12795074
>no photo but
Then what am I supposed to fap to?

Anyway, make sure you check out 100 Years of Solitude if you enjoy Love in the Time of Cholera. Then keep exploring South American literature, it's great.

>>12795224
Yes, that's right.

>>12795411
irony and tennis

Bought this stack this past weekend at my library's book sale for $4

>>12795164
> What did they mean by this?
no idea. i don't even know the general plot of this book, it was on my readlist so i bought it

>>12796377
First time I’ve seen a thin version of Notes From athe Underground

>buying books
>not having access to a library
>reading more than one book at a time
shig the dig

>>12796977
No one is stopping you from posting your library stack.

>>12796977
>not buying every book someone recommends and putting it on your bookshelf to read when the times right.
>not having books to pass down to your children and friends