/lit/ - Literature

>>15463618
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
based

Also reading Get Shorty on my kindle

>>15463690
>The Young Desire It
What is it? Cock?

>>15463618
>Not the lattimore translation
cringe

>>15463726
Quote at the beginning: 'To be free to choose is not enough. Though the young desire it, they cannot use that freedom, but must be forced into the decision of choice by good or evil circumstances which while they can percieve them they cannot control'. Basically youth is wasted on the young, I guess. But also the main character has some homo tendencies, so you're not wrong.

>>15463738
>Not the Pope translation
cringe

>>15463738
>>15463971
>δεν το διαβάζω στα ελληνικά
μαζεύομαι

>>15463618
Reading volume 3.

Accidentally made a thread.

>>15463618
I only read ebooks, like a cunt.

>>15464023
Imagine bringing a girl or friends over and not being able to show them your intellectual prowess? Also not being able to lend them books as a way of extending your reach into their lives. They are made to read your reading feed.

>>15464023
post ebooks plox

>>15463618
Interested in people's thoughts on this.

>>15464553
Pseud.

>>15464569
what makes you say that?

>>15464553
>marx
>biography
>hugo in english

>>15464721
Explain yourself

>>15464553
> picking books in the hope that internet strangers will like you

>>15465412
we desire acceptance anon

>>15465412
I'm not hoping anybody likes me. I stumbled across this thread, and happened to have my stack sitting behind me. I've never posted before but thought it might be fun. I'm honestly just interested in people's opinions of any of these books in particular or the stack generally. But obviously I was naive, as it turns out everyone on this bored is a cretin.

>>15463690
>Murnane
Patrician choice.

bump

Just got these in the mail today

>>15463690
thought those were GTMs from the thumbnail

>>15466300
It's good so far, seems influenced by Borges

this is the last of my stack, i’m running out of books to read. never thought i’d see the day.

>>15467986
well, zhuangzi is around my 4th rereading, and obviously i've got to read book 3 of the rosy crucifixion after that, but beyond that i've cleaned out my backlog of books. what evils hath quarantine wrought?

>>15467986
>i’m running out of books to read
can't really relate.
I have a room filled with unread books, but sudden inclinations mean I'm reading pdfs from libgen, or books on archive dot org

>>15463618
I got stacks of pdfs I need to print desu

>>15468049
>print
???
why? you can keep hundreds of them on your phone, or you can copy thousands of them onto a few usb flash drives with only a few gigs on them

>>15464553
will be interested to hear about Crash

>>15468044
i'm a fag that can't handle reading for long periods of time on a screen for pleasure. i can fake my way through it for work/school but if i really want to absorb something and appreciate it i need a physical copy of it in front of me. an ode to materialism?

>>15466727
based Chandler, enjoy!

>>15468055
I inherited bad eyesight from my mother desu. I'll probably get lasik soon though.

>>15463618
ambitious
>>15463636
What's up with the visit? nice Faulker
>>15463690
How's the Eco?
>>15464015
this is very ambitious, interesting choice of most recent Zizek and greeks
>>15464597
thrifty anon, ligotti is legit

here's what i've gotten through since starting work from home

>>15468093
fair enough. I'm way more into physical media too, but I just can't wait for books to be delivered to read them - lest my enthusiasm flag before I've actually finished them.
don't you ever have expensive books you want to read that you can only find on libgen?
>>15468100
>lasik
it's worth it. I had prk, and it's probably the best expense I've ever incurred my whole life.

>>15468150
>thrifty anon, Ligotti is legit

The book is making me really sad but I also like the way Ligotti digs through and develops his argument. It's interesting how much the genre fiction side comes through in his philosophical writing. It makes it more interesting than most other philosophy I've read

>Your Stack
The Long Goodbye is slow and drags in the middle but gets great
I studied the Murder of Roger Ackroyd for a detective fiction class. It's fucking brilliant and probably among Christie's best.
White Noise is interesting. It made me fall in love with Delillo the first time I read it, but the second time I read it It felt stilted.
Cat's Cradle is great.

>>15463690
>Eco

Choice excellent, my friend

>>15463988
I’ve only read volume 1 so far. How are the stories in volume 2?

I have made minor modifications to my stack since the last time. Some of you may recognize parts of it.

>>15468357
what translation is that Rabelais?

Top 3 are current reads, rest are my next in line.
I'm almost finished Frankenstein, trying to decide wether to start Dubliners or tCoL49 first.
Also just picked up a copy of W. B. Yeats' Complete Poems, I think I'll start adding a poem per day to my stack.

The Origin of Consciuosness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
No More Secondhand Art
High Weirdness
Journal
Faust

>>15466413
Just finished American Psycho. I wish that it was about 100 pages shorter. It sort of lost tempo. 9/10 still.

>>15468427
wtf is that the inside of a microwave

>>15466188
are you 6 months old?

>>15468427
wtf did you get paint drops all over your books?

>>15468150
god i haven't read a vonnegut novel in so long i miss it.

>>15468357
>spending a ton of money on big honking volumes you can't anywhere

good work

>>15468150
>How's the Eco?
At it's best its very good but there are some sections that drag on. They're integral to the story but they could have been done better I think. My overall enjoyment depends on how good the last 100 pages are. What would you recommend from your stack? I've only read White Noise

>>15468388
Motteux, who is not exactly lauded for the efficacy of his translations, bur I find him to be very fun to read. I did want to get a copy of a complete works of Rabelais modern translation for comparison purposes, but it's still around $60 and paperback to boot.

>>15468472
What's wrong, baby hands? I'll bring any of my 1000 page books to read with me anywhere I go if I think I'll be able to get some reading done there. There's nothing to it.

>>15466413
We is a great book, I hope you enjoy it.

>>15464015
History of the Peloponnesian war is actually quite boring desu. Some of the speeches are good and the Sicilian campaign is relatively interesting, but much of the minor stuff is boring af.
Eichmann in Jerusalem is great.
And that better not be the first book from Nietzsche you're planning to read.

bump

>>15463618

>>15463618
pomo shit, some meme philosophy, metaphysics, oh and Kant's Prolegomena, Baudrillard's System of Objects and Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology Vol. 1 on the side amongst others

>>15470587
that's an aggressive stack

>>15470605
Yea anon its fugging doing my head in
at least with Land, The Upanishads, the Gita its a re-read so should be smooth sailing.
Also MacIntyre and Baudrillard's writing styles are really nice but the rest is just killing me but seems worth it.
Too scared to touch Derrida and Husserl ngl.
Souseki is comfy tho

>>15464553
Virgin. Why Marx was right book. Explanation. If you read Marx, you don't need an other book to explain why he was right. You only need to read classic adversaries like Schumpeteer, Mises, Sowell, and the classic economists like Hayek and Friedman, to understand that yes, he was right.

>>15465412

“Because...I … want … to … fit … in.”

woah a stack of books
most people just read one or two but you guys got whole stacks
thats like so smart omg

>>15471573
It's essentially a "to read" list, no one is saying they have the whole stack on the go simultaneously. Unless I'm rarted desu

>>15471573
why thank you kind sir we truly our the intelligentsia

>>15468412
I have the same Hardcover of M & D. Great book, enjoyed it thoroughly. Would rate it higher than GR personally but that may because I enjoy the Enlightment setting more than WWII

Have I been meme'd, /lit/

>>15472419
Gawd. Yes, you've been memed hard. The one on far right is pretty decent but the other books are just utter garbage. All of them. Please anon, save yourself the embarassment and sell them on ebay, or hide them in the basement where nobody else can see them. Pretend you never got those books so people on the internet think youre cool.

>>15472517
/lit/ is always wrong, so surely that means these are good
thx anon!

>>15468634
interesting - Motteux has been roundly condemned both in the wiki for G&P and in the intro for my Penguin edition - though they all say the Urquhart translation of the 1st and 2nd books (of which the Motteux translation completed the last 3 books) typically improve the work

>>15472419
what am I looking at here

what does 'stack' mean? Books you're currently reading and/or the next couple books?

Why are people posting unstable towers of 7000+ pages? vanity?

>>15474099
it's that and recent purchases
both are vanity lol

>>15474005
Hawkes - Lime Twig, Second Skin, Travesty
Hoffmann - Tomcat Murr
Kafka - The Trial
Mishima - Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Patchen - Sleepers Awake
Schwob - Book of Monelle
Tokarczuk - Flights
All of these books/authors have been recommended from /lit/ while I have been furloughed, I probably won't be back in work for a while too

>>15474155
>bird by bird
My writing & english lit course had that book on the recommended reading but it didn't actually come up on the course, so I haven't read it yet. The other books recommended were good, though.

>>15473638
He has likewise been condemned for his translation of Don Quixote but comparing it to the modern translations that typically get recommended, I find his work riotous fun. I don't mind it at all.

>>15474099
7000 pages is only like 3 months of reading.

>>15474495
It's as good of a book as you can find on getting your shit together and putting words on a page. Super fast read also.

>>15463618
I'm reading Blood Meridian rn myself :)

>>15463636
hahaha weiner

>>15468150
Cats Cradle is peak comfy

I don't have a picture but my stack includes:
>Faust Part II
>Butcher's Crossing
>Moby Dick
>The Bible: Authorized King James Version
R8 and h8

>>15474630
nice
I recently found my way to the end of tobias smollett's 18th century translation of Don Quixote, and it was one of the great literary experiences of my life

>>15468150
Based having a Chandler novel. White Noise is fucking unbearable, don't read it

>>15466727
You posted these at least 3 times already

I am up to my last 3 books , I need new material. I dumped my crush in new years during a fit of anger (She made a comment which triggered me). I left her there in midtown Manhattan, she was also my coworker . We don't work there anymore. Apparently I have chaos in me, trying to incorporate dionesian affirmation. Fortunately I apologized because I felt like raskolnikov lol. Anyway pls share with me new coping material. Thx

>>15466900
lol same

>>15468412
Franken is kino

>>15466900
>>15476438

Text Classics, they publish Australian novels that can be hard to find elsewhere. Very cheap too, $13 aud

>>15468468
was in the same boat, really enjoyed dipping my toe back in the water
>>15468524
what brought you to Foucault's P over others?, is Text Classics an Aussie publisher? afraid i don't have enough of your interests at heart to recommend, but what's a good aussie read?
>>15474846
was my second time reading it, had read it in high school and was much comfy and funnier now
>>15474155
nice stacks, Levi-Strauss is really interesting. i bet you're a good conversationalist

>>15476278
Smollett is the one who typically gets recommended over Motteux for their stylistic similarity, and from the excerpts of each that I've read side-by-side they seem relatively close. I'm actually super interested in reading his translation for that reason, and one day I will. That 17th/18th-century English seemed so much more endearing to the content and the era of the book, that the modern translations like Grossman didn't feel whimsical enough.

>>15476619
I'd only heard of Foucaults Pendulum and the Name of the Rose by Eco, I didn't have any particular reason for choosing one over the other. The two Aussie novels in my stack are good, Voss by Patrick White is another good one. You'd do well with any of those. Voss is probably the most overtly Australian of those, it's about a guy trying to cross the entire country and there's lots of discussion of the outback.

I read from tales of horror from time to time, atm I'm working on invisible man but I realized too late it's not THE invisble man, so I'm half-assed reading it

>>15471366
Have fun understanding Gravity's Rainbow.

>>15478377
That's actually a pretty good stack, anon.

This plus my backlog of about twenty.

>>15478740

Is it tough?

>>15478905
My english professor called it the one book on every teacher's shelf that they barely understood.

Am I based or cringe?

>>15478928
It would have been based if you didn't ask, anon.

>>15478377
Good stack anon. Funny thing is, Invisible Man is a good book as well, so you shouldn't be too discouraged that it isn't the H.G. Wells book.

>>15478928
ok for teens/early 20s

So are your stacks all books you're reading atm or are they you're backlog?

>>15479757
Shit, here's a better pic

>>15472419
Trial sucks

I might read Moby Dick next, but I’ve only been reading heavily for about a year
I’ve read stuff like Notes from Underground, Crime & Punishment, Crying of Lot 49, and Journey to the End of the Night. Will I be fine understanding Moby Dick?

>>15463690
>>15466300
good to see Murnane getting around this board, he deserves it.

>>15463980
top kek

>>15478752
>>15479351
Tnx senpai, i'll give it another shot, it was one of those "I didn't get my order right but i'm already eating, so I might aswell finish it".

>>15479968
Dunno why you can't say f_amalam

>>15479893
Yes, just make sure you get the Norton Critical Edition so that you understand the countless allusions Melville makes. It also has a fuck ton of extra resources in the back of the book for reference if you're interested.

>>15479837
What about the rest?

Next up on the Kindle
Where the Wild Things Were
The Life and Death of the Great Lakes
Cadillac Desert

>>15478928
Enjoyable reading

Not exactly a stack but gonna complete Hemingway over the summer.
Some manly literature to vicariously live an exciting life through during this blazing lockdown. Rather fitting I think.
Also posting pic to show just how fucking perfect all his books fit on my shelf (ignore the one on the bottom left it's just his dogshit poetry it doesn't count)

>>15479957
>bone
Based

>>15480043
Awesome, that's the edition I got

>>15476425
Been looking for a good practical shadow work book, is 'Meeting the shadow' any good, or you haven't read that yet?

>>15463618
>Blood Meridian

McCarthy is based and this is his best work. Enjoy.

>>15463618
I've been reading Les Mis for like 3 weeks now

>>15478863
world as will and representation is life changing, great book

>>15463618

>>15480908
thanks, about halfway through and it's been pretty great so far

>>15463618

>>15468357
>The Long Ships
Absolute swedish classic, that. Glad NYRB decided to publish it (again) for the anglophone market.

My summer project is basically Proust. I'm just about done with Swann's Way and my enthusiasm hasn't run low yet, though I fear I'm being arrogant as far better readers than me have dropped out by the second volume. Last summer I made a habit of visiting the city's botanical gardens to read on some my free days, hoping I'll be able to do the same this year. As for "Paintings in Proust", it is a companion that I bought on a bit of a whim after I grew frustrated with my inability to understand most of his references to artists and specific paintings; I'm terribly ignorant of the visual arts.

So today has been my first time going out in 10 weeks, and I picked up a few Penguin Classics.
>Hunchback of Notre-Dame
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Don Quixote
What should I read first?

>>15481238
Don Quixote is prime summer reading.

>>15480849
fuck dude whos the publisher I want your exact collection. just finished his collection of short stories and I swear my testosterone levels musta jumped. gunna hit hemmingway after I finish neuromancer

>>15481424
not that anon but judging by the 'A' logo it's Arrow Books, Penguin subsidiary.

>>15481440
thanks kid. I owe ya one.

Currently on the trial. Trying to mix in some nonfiction to keep things interesting.

just getting back into it after focusing on uni for a while

>>15481472
Enjoy it bro

>>15479957
This is not a stack. Buy physical copies.

>>15481208
At least aim to make it through the second volume. And don't worry if the first portion drags for you since the second changes environment and tone - and the tone of that half is much closer to what he'll maintain through the next couple of volumes. The focus for a while will shift to social observation and analysis and that's far easier to deal with on a first reading than the obsessive passion sections (though you will have that in all volumes 5 and 6). If you want a brief and beautiful outline of one version of what it all means the best I've found - to the point that it convinced people who'd dropped out after Swann's Way to pick it back up - is Jozef Czapski newly englished Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp.

>>15481840
Thanks for the encouragement, anon! I've enjoyed Proust a lot so far, though it's with a mix of delight and terror that I think of the remaining 3000 or so pages. I think I've heard of those lectures before on some radio show covering Proust, but I didn't think to actually read them, though now I think I will. Proust's work strikes me as great enough, both in size and quality, to warrant one or two companions pieces.

>>15481238
>penguin disposable classics
You have my condolences bro

finally reading more wolfe

>>15482842
Why do you have three copies of Gravity's Rainbow?

>>15482906
already had the vintage but i ordered the orange cover one but it came damaged, so they sent another one

>>15482842
What did you pay for Sun and Steel?

>>15482976
$5 on thriftbooks, got lucky I think

Books as phallic symbols, interesting.

>>15482842
Was considering FHOC in my recent haul, but opted for Peace instead. Hope you enjoy it, and that I get to it one day.

>>15479757
For me "stack" is unfinished books. Definitely unread ones, but could also include ones in progress I suppose. Basically ones you haven't relegated to the long-term storage of the bookshelf.

>>15478928
who fucking cares... read what you wanna read. nothing more cringe than begging for approval

>>15468427
High Weirdness is super good

>>15468150
Read Lady in the Lake before The Long Goodbye because the latter is significantly better

>>15471366
Have you read The Pursuit of Glory? I read The Pursuit of Power recently and it inevitably led to curiosity about what happened beforehand.

>>15482842
>four completely different editions of the Sea of Fertility novels

Moderately triggering

Just finished up The Name of the Rose and about 2/3rds of the way through Moby Dick. I'm probably going to dive into Gormenghast next.

>>15481056
based...

>>15464553
kys