/lit/ - Literature

>babbies first books

>>15732559
Nothing stands out, but I'm not complaining. I hope you enjoy your books. Remember to read what you're interested in; don't read for bragging rights.

>>15732559
I've not got them yet as I only bought them on Saturday, but what I did get was:

>Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (Melville)
>Ulysses (Joyce)
>The Confusions of Young Torless (Musil)
>The Pickwick Papers (Dickens)
>The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
>Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe)
>Diary of a Madman & Other Stories (Gogol)

I've really got to lay off of buying so many books, not counting these lot I've already got about a dozen books in my room that need to be read. I reckon I'll try to abstain for at least a month.

>>15732599
im mostly interested in sci fi and exploring western canon so im sure I'll be busy enjoying myself. got a head start of reading canticle and im already 1/3rd into it and loving it so far

>>15732559
Make sure to be in a public place full of females anon, so people see that you've started reading.
(Proud of you tho)

You won't regret Don Quixote. That translation is easily my favorite work of fiction. All 940 pages are worth it.

>>15732652
that's good to hear, hopefully the others are decent translations too which is admittedly what im mostly interested in finding out here

That's pretty based anon, keep going.

>>15732628
That's good to hear. I hope you continue to find and enjoy good books.

>looking for validation from anons

neck yourself op, but also enjoy the books. as you already know they’re indisputable classics

>physical books in 2020

>>15732559
This dude loves pewdiepie. I just know it.

>>15733766
ps
that is a bad thing

>>15732559
Consider purchasing an ereader.

This is today's pick up from good will.

>>15733932
Sudoku and Chakras.......

yea, im thinkin BASED

>>15733975
lol, stop busting my chops. The Sudoku book doesnt have a single mark in it. Why not.

>>15732559
I lifted this lot from my grandad's house. I'm too embarrassed to show the books I actually paid for recently.

>>15732559
Yeah that Don Quixote translation is tied with the John Rutherford as the best one I think. And that edition is so nice with the introductions and notes and whatnot. Great choice

Moby Dick is my favourite book and I’ll always feel happy for someone about to read it, but is that one of the cheap editions from Indigo? The price is decent but I hate those editions, they feel so cheap to me. Either way jump right into Moby Dick and enjoy yourself

>>15732559
Good, now just to read them.

>>15732559
With the exception of Dante there really good (and that is more an issue of the edition rather than the work itself)

Bought these shelving units last Thursday and set them up over the weekend

>>15735770
>disliking Dante
Utter pleb.

>>15736707
>unable to read
utter retard

>>15736636
damn that's cozy bro

>>15732628
I just read ACFL myself and really liked it. And I agree with >>15732652 about Don Quixote

>>15736636
>funko pops
>lsd poster
>dying plant
>marvel toys
>xbox

is this a fucking joke

I found this for free in a book drop off on the street. I always find good shit in my area, and I try to return the favor and drop stuff off but I'm a couple behind.
>>15734410
cozy
>>15732759
also cozy

>>15736892
>"there" instead of "they're"
Utter retard.

>>15737049
Man I paint apartment buildings for a living and every once in a blue moon ill get a big bag of books to look through and scavenge that someone left in the suite or by the garbage when they move out. I've gotten some pretty good shit including a big complete dialogues of Plato in great condition. also got a dozen strong 10% beers recently which was nice

>>15735770
god dammit is it really that bad a translation?

>>15732559
Enjoy

>>15738010
Judging by the generic cover that a lot of ebooks on Amazon have, it looks like a translation from the public domain (probably Project Gutenberg), meaning it's a shittier version of a Wordsworth copy, possibly.
>>15734410
Why would there be a 2012 copy of a SF book in your grandma's house?

>>15738045
its translated by Charles Eliot Norton if that means anything to anyone

>>15738063
It's alright if you like prose translations, I guess. Personally I would've chosen Longfellow or Cary, both of which are also in the public domain.

>>15733687
>reading classics while poor

Heinlein is overrated.

>>15738096
well as long as its serviceable I guess. I can always check out better ones later

>>15732559
Jesus Christ Anon, all of those books are like 800-1,000 pages long. Don't buy food the next 3 months and get through these.

>>15733687
>e-books

Should I overdraft my bank account to order the complete Nausicaa set?

R8

>>15739455
>the anime dies
wtf i love gogol now

These came today. Trying to get back into reading and have not read any of them.

>>15737049
The amount of quality books I get from my local book drop off is insane. Really interesting obscure stuff too. As just a sample: Hunger, The Fairie Queen, Buddenbrooks, Mrs. Dalloway, Book of Disquiet, Naked and the Dead, The Waves, Birthday Letters, Solaris, Light in Autumn etc. etc.

The list goes way on

>>15738045
>why would there be a 2012 copy of a SF book
he's not dead

>>15739807
Light in August* Faulkner's - also Absalom, Absalom / An Everyman's collection of Wodehouse / Molliere / Jean Genet's Blacks / The Khazar Dictionary / Borges / Bolano / Marquez / Beckett's Watt

I mean, really, it's obscene

>>15739696
Stick to it anon, brings a happy tear to an old Mariner's eye to see a young sea dog setting sail

Bad quality pic, but I got some shit from Japan. Mishima, Bakemonogatari part 1 and 2, and Lord of the Rings in jap with all the kino illustrations.

>>15732559
Is that a Dover Thrift Edition of Dante?

>>15739665
haha right anime means souls in italian.
>>15739902
why are jap covers so confy? Mishima covers in Italy are either erotic or boomer POV of japan like geisha or samurai

>>15732559
>Starship Troopers

Based and totalitarian-pilled

>>15739696
>1984

Have fun anon.

>>15739884
>>15739966
Cheers lads, looking forward to reading them.

>>15739807
>>15739874
holy shit, where do you live that it's that good?

My summer reading has been cool, so far I finished Name of the Rose and A River Runs Through It. I'm almost done with Lost Horizon, and I'd also add Wind in the Willows and some junger to the stack but they're all packed. Just ordered an english copy of on marble cliffs so that'll be my next read after one or two of these.

>>15732559

>>15732559
You're on a great path man. The Illiad and Starship Troopers are the books I've re-read more than any others.

>>15742746
>took the esoteric meme seriously
Lmao, heads up it's just a prank

>>15737049
Wow that's a good find

>>15732628
Sci-fi is 99% garbage, why are you concerning yourself with that rubbish?

>>15743089
>scifi is 99% garbage
You just said a depressing thing right there. What did Asimov do to you? Did papa Sagan molest you? Where's your childlike sense of wonder?

>>15741933
Love Norman MacLean. Nice, anon.

>>15736992
It is yeah, i saw this photo a couple weeks ago.

>>15732559
>all these old canonistic west-centric books

/lit/ has always been like this but its only recently that ive started to seriously criticize this place.

>>15743164
Asimov and Dick are pretty much the only good apples. Herbert and the rest can suck a fat dick

The only good applications of Sci-Fi are philosophical demonstrations, but like I said, 99% don't even think to do that and are childrens entertainment or fail miserably in its attempt.

>>15732559
Good selection OP. Lovecraft is based. I’m about to start Iliad myself. What translation have you got?

selected poems by
>wordsworth
>keats
>yeats
thought i'd give poetry a try and these guys seemed interesting

>>15743687
I respect your opinion. I almost ignore all commercial science fiction, so I can see where you're coming from.

>>15743633
Thanks fishfren, I can't stress enough how important it is for you to also read Lost Horizon if you like Maclean. It's more comfy adventure tier with some great writing!

>>15742904
Shut up faggot I’ll cast a spell on you

It's the last batch, but not very new, like two weeks ago. I'm hoping on getting some Gaddis in a couple weeks.

>>15739696
Wow the cover for that edition of "The Metamorphosis" is atrocious. Don't let it distract you though, the book is great.

poorfag here. Been downloading some Le Goff, Regine Pernoud, Christopher Dawson, Etienne Gilson, Hillaire Belloc etc since i feel my computer is going to die at any moment. I'm converting pdfs through ABBYY to read on my kindle. I accept requests

>>15739366
Can someone tell me if by the standards of /lit/ I'm allowed to read Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

>>15743850
>"uh uh I'm gonna... gonna GNOOOSIS!"
You have fag auras all over your shit

>>15743969
you can do whatever you like and if /lit/ insult you just call them retards

>>15744016
What's that silky background anon? Looks cool.

>>15744077
my bed

>>15744105
let me try it out? ;)

>>15744105
>my bed
Oh, looks like something one would put a Ouija board above.

>>15744016
how is hegel compared to kant? i've been working through critique of pure reason, and whilst a little obscure at times, i generally end up grasping his points

>>15744866
no idea since I'm in the same position as you. heard he's harder though

>>15736636
dam boiiiiii

>>15736992
whats you're problem bro those things are dope

>>15744118
>let me try it out? ;)
I don't know anon, something tells me you're not a cute girl

>>15732559
Pretty epic anon

>>15744966
lol

>>15743941
Yeah it is pretty bad, and I was surprised the book is only like 60 pages. Gonna start it today.

>>15736636
Why do you own so many toys

>>15744899
>I don't know anon, something tells me you're not a cute girl
I'm the first one to ask about it...I'm a trannie...what about me? Can I try it?

>>15732559
You did ok, but the presence of Heinlein and Lovecraft betray your lack of strong background in reading. Read the Iliad first and then either the divine comedy or Don Quixote

>>15737049
Great find! Have you read it yet?

>>15732652
the red edition of the Grossman Quixote edition wasn't available when I bought it so I went with pic related because it was cheap and it turned out to be the ugliest edition of a book I've ever seen.

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman

no pics because I bought them online and I haven't received them yet

>>15732628
Canticle gets soul-crushing towards the end. It is a profound read

what was the weird fucking barley, cheese and wine soup that nestor's slave girl made?
kinda want to make it

Didnt come yet but I copped
>The Virginian
>On The Black Hill
>War and the illiad from nyrb
>DH lawrence american literature essays

>>15743687
I agree the Dick is good, but so is Herbert for many of the same reasons.

>>15736636
8/8 bait
already a few on the hook

I hope the funko pop meme dies...

Excuse the phonepost, but this just came in the mail today. 1947 first english edition.

>>15748086
I just vomited

>>15748064
I have not, it will probably be a while before I get to it. But I have read Wiener's more popular-leaning book, The Human Use of Human Beings, which is quite good, very intelligent and humane.

Just bought these:

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/riddley-walker.html

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-door-in-the-wall.html

>>15751038
money can't buy taste, truly

Also, Folio Society is currently having a half-off sale for those that are interested in literature with a higher production value (of course I do realize that not everyone cares to differentiate a hardback from a paperback, much less bindings and page stock and so on—to each his own):

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/sale

>>15751056
You're entitled to your opinion, anon. I doubt you know much about either work.

>>15748086