/lit/ - Literature

>>17800939
3/10

>>17800939
dog shit. go play video games

>>17800939
Weak version. You want the literary study version or the theological study version idiot.

>>17800939
don't listen to the anons trashing you, nice stack anon

>>17800939
all garbage, specially that Bible version.

>>17800966
Thank you brother.
>>17800978
You don't see all the good books in the Kindle though, anon ;)

>>17800939
Based anon.

>>17801105
Not the Eco I'd read, but sure.

>>17800939
Why do people get paperback bibles? It wont last and i'm pretty sure I've seen hardback versions cheaper than that oxford one that also includes the Apocrypha....

Almost done the 2nd tl of Divine Comedy. I really feel like I need to read the Thebaid next, I've been staring it down for a couple months since I got it, but I also just got a new collected William Blake that looks reeeaaallly interesting. Aiee

>>17801192
Like all paperbacks they're usefully disposable.

>>17801105
>Juan Rulfo
Did you like it? I'm planning to buy it, but it's too expensive in my country right now.

>>17801240
Patrician stack, fren

>>17802119
Put them all in a stack

>>17802105
I like it a lot.
Where are you from anon?

>>17802130
No. I use them to cover the stains on my carpet

>>17800939
>bond
>bible
based
>>17802119
what i've read here
>celine
>crime and punishment
>tolstoy
>grapes of wrath
>on the road
>homer
>bukowski
>catcher n the rye
>tale of two cities
>hemingway
lots of good stuff. and stuff for me to read still

>>17802282
Oh man I can't recommend Burmese Days by Orwell enough, super underrated, very comfy

>>17801240
You wouldn't happen to have the 1st edition Dante copypasta, would you?

>>17802320
The only pasta I have is the Marco Lombardo speech in Purgatory, I'm not sure I know which one you're speaking of.

>>17800939
Jesus fucking christ, another thread of this?

>>17802562
It's about some guy who let his girlfriend borrow this ancient copy of Dante's inferno he inherited from his dead father and how she and her second boyfriend destroyed and/or smoked it

>>17801105
based

>>17800939
Why do I always see these threads with thousands of pages of books? I really do not believe that there are so many people on /lit/ who casually read this much. Are these stack threads supposed to be "some books I'm working through" or "some books I added to my collection?"

>>17802668
I have read all but four of the books in my pic (>>17802119) and I'm twenty-one.

Problem?

>>17802668
Thousands of pages isn't all that much

>>17802668
Have (You) ever tried reading? Thousands of pages honestly isn't very much at all.
But, yeah, generally stack threads tend to be about recent purchases and about books people are currently reading through.

>>17802668
It's not difficult to read a 500 page book in a week.

>>17802689
Anon hate to break it to you but all of your books are neither long or very difficult, the only one I consider to be a challenging read is Marx which looks like you read it once

>>17802548
Holy based. My first Pound volume should be coming today, very excited because they're extremely hard to get in my country.

>>17801105
Spic pilled

>>17800939
The only good book there is the Bible and it's a bad version.
>>17801105
Good taste. That edition of Salammbô is surprisingly small, is it abridged? What do you think of Flaubert?
>>17801240
Nice. Have you began to read Jerusalem Delivered? I've been meaning to read it for a long time but Leopardi tempered my excitement about it.
>>17801325
>the little book of atheist spirituality
it's called going shopping on Sunday sweetie
>>17802119
That's not a stack. Basic tastes but you're doing your homework, good.
>>17802548
Nice.

>>17802119
Stop buying new books and try to read the ones you have

>>17802119
Wild to see Velleman’s work on this board. I wrote a paper on that book where I tried to argue against him, but the book in conjunction with my writing on it/ thinking about it blackpilled me into being a relativist. I try out error theory and constructivism but I still just always think “yeah these reasons are arbitrary” and give up. For anyone who’s interested it’s upper leftmost book. If you look up JD Velleman free book” you’ll find it from open book for free.

>>17800939
Another pointless thread.

>>17801240
Which is the better translation

>>17801325
What’s the best book on the Reformation?

>>17803735
And yet you gave it a bump

>>17801192
For me, it's cheaper and easier to transport. I have hardback versions, but this has been my go-to Bible for going on 4 years now. It cost me $2.50 and I can cram it (in only the most reverent and loving way) into any of my bags at a moments notice. I take it virtually everywhere with me on all my travels and I read it nearly every day. I've read it enough times that nearly every word is underlined, so I resorted to marking the things I found most important with symbols and shorthand in the margins.

It's true that it's rougher than it used to be, but it still works great for me. I don't mind the roughness, I think the best sorts of Bibles are the well-used ones. The overall structural integrity is still there, but once that starts to go, I'll probably retire it to a place of honor on the shelf and get a new one.

>>17803552
> very excited because they're extremely hard to get in my country.
hard to get everywhere. I lucked out with it for 14$, hardback in excellent condition.

>>17803885
> was gonna say the Steiner is even more difficult to find .

>chantards larping as Christians.

I suppose, in many ways, Christianity's flexibility and ambiguity has always been is strength. Lol.

>>17801105
el idiota...

>>17803517
>books have to be long and difficult to be good
I think his stack (pile?) has some good stuff in it.

>>17803897
Why is it a larp?

>>17803751
Longfellow is more lofty, and if you can read the English of that era I think its more elevated language makes it the translation to aspire to reading. The Mandelbaum is crass in a couple of eras but the modernized language made it far easier to parse some of the more lengthy and complicated exegesis that starts to unfold in Purgatorio and Paradiso.

>>17803588
Haven't started it yet, I've had it for a couple years but I've been on a bit of a Roman/Italian thing for a few months so it seems like fitting time.

what i could cram into the photo

>>17802174
Brazil. They're selling Pedro Páramo for 40 when his complete works used to be sold for the same price.

>>17802668
I used to read +200 pages a day until I lost my job and couldn't afford many books anymore. Now I read ~50 pages until the end of a chapter.

>>17801192
OP here. I just thought it was kino. I have a hardback NIV study Bible but I suppose I should buy a decent hardcover in NKJV or some other translation...

This is the stack I am reading right now.

>>17803867
Should donate it to thrift store, some people like seeing annotated work

>>17805999
Those little poetry volume are such a joy to read.
I have a beautifully bound collected Auden that i scarcely if ever read because i always reach for the few dozen slim first editions i've managed to collect .

Big books can suffocate under their own weight .

Lucky jim
Howards End
Ada
The Bostonians

k
the city and the stars
one flow over the cuckoos nest
the quiet american
no country for old men
fight club
survivor

>>17802668
not being a neet with hours of reading time a day

>>17800939
I guess one book doesn't exactly count as a "stack," but this is such a nice looking book I'll post it anyway. I have a fucking mammoth stack arriving either this weekend or Monday that will make up for this single book "stack."

>>17803927
because 96% of people on 4chan don't live in accordance to the rules of their own religions

not to mention how most of the problems the western world is facing now can't be fixed by being a good christian

Paperback bibles should be illegal

>>17808869
>bibles should be illegal
fixed that for you

>>17808847
I think your perspective is seriously skewed.

>>17804685
>lutheran
is that still a thing?

>>17806028
That may be true, but I'll likely hold onto it. By now it's something of a mess of shorthand that only makes sense to me! Plus I'm a bit sentimental about it, it's been a close companion through a great deal of journeys and challenges.

>>17808847
i'd rather be a bad christian than a basement-dwelling zogbot pseud such as yourself

>>17808847
If I could just stop maturbating 5 times a day, I would be a great Christian

>>17809805
The bible advises you to get married and have sex ift that's your problem

>>17803732
>Zeno's Conscience
Nice

>>17803694
have sex sweetie

>>17800939
Not in the photo: King Solomon’s mines
Ebooks: The Shadow of the Torturer, Ubik, The Enneads, The First Heretic

what im currently reading

>>17802548
>>17803694
>>17801240
>>17810429
good stacks

>>17810429
I like the look of that Dune edition.
What do you think of your edition of War and Peace(also which is it)? I've been wanting to read it for some time and am mulling over the various editions.

>>17801240
>>17804685
>>17805999
Based anons

>>17809565
>I think your perspective is seriously skewed.
Oh is it? I am in no way against you believing in God and Christianity.

What I am against is a immoral society acting like hypocrites to make themselves feel good in a world that's indifferent to their existence.
In my country I think statistically around 98% of people identify as Christians, in general Christianity teaches good morals for society to function yet the one I live in is morally corrupt and the churches are never more empty (unrelated to covid, the were empty before 2020). How many of these people have sex before marriage? How many don't lust after others partners? How many steal? How many worship idols? Adultery? Lie? Usury was banned for the most of the christian medieval ages and for a good reason yet all of our economies run on if and so do all our lives and then all these dirty people I see go once every three months to sunday mass and their conscience is clear because God is forgiving? He does everything wrong and bad, screws over multiple people and then as he is sick and at death's door he shows remorse and all is good? Fuck off with that. For me that is a unjust God. If people actually followed their religion as they claimed to we'd all be living very good lives.

I'm not even going to comment on what's happening to Europe with issues such as immigration. Yeah keep getting replaced and import more muslims don't worry about it Jesus would've loved them all.

Not to mention God's "mysterious ways" when 4 year olds die from horrible diseases like leukemia.

>>17809594
Either be a good christian or not one at all because otherwise I too and everyone can make up whatever we want to cope.

>>17810999
>backpeddling so much after writing this braindead post >>17803897

>>17811011
I never wrote that, I only left >>17808847 before going to sleep

>>17810162
No thats too much effort

>>17802119
Pretty good list. I've only read like half of what you got but it's cool.

>>17803694
Amerika isn't his most polished work but it's still comfy.

>>17812875
Yeah thats what I though it would be like. I'm mainly interested in reading it cause my great Grandpa was a czech jew that Immigrated from Prague to new york around that time.

I've got one story left in Age of Decayed Futurity.
Anon, decide what I will read next!

This is fun.

>>17801240
What's the ISBN on that Dante?

Nearly 21 btw

bump

>>17809569
the one holy catholic and apostolic church is eternal anon

>>17813634
where is your copy of fanged noumena?

>>17813634
you're not yet 21 and you're already on HRT? very troubling

>>17813634
>project horizons
that's the ministry of image one right? pretty fucking based, i would love to get my hands on the new 4 book FOE set from them

>>17801105
How are those translations anon? El Idiota en particular

>>17816062
Flaubert and Eco are awesomely translated. Most french/italian-Spanish translations are accurate tho.
Austen and Kafka are good but not great.

El idiota is ok too, the translators of this edition are Augusto Vidal and Jose Lain Entralgo.
According to the Wiki, both of them were communist and fought in the Spanish civil war and after the end of the war, they went into exile to the Soviet Union.
Vidal was a Philology teacher there (Moscow State University), and Jose Entralgo Lain (his brother Pedro was a fascist and also a translator) was a private Spanish teacher and translator. So they knew Russian pretty well.

>>17804685
>Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid not being all from the same publisher
Cringe

>>17803732
>>17810042
how is it? I've been interested in it for a while

Read about half. I go through 1 or 2 essays a day so they're more spaced out. DFW makes a fresh change after Montaigne, Orwell and Woolf

Orthodox Theology collection so far (few other books strewn about my room that I was too lazy to put back on the shelf)

>>17813634
faggy weabu

>>17800939
that bible is too thicc

Started reading in my mother tongue again after being terminally online for years

GF got me the Complete Works III from a thrift shop. Has nothing I read before of him, it's mint condition and it was incredibly cheap, I'm very happy about it
>>17816386
That's helpful to know anon. Also that's quite the life story. Thanks a lot.
>>17804685
I see those editions of The Aeneid/Iliad everywhere. Are they actually good?
Also
>2666
Next on my list

>>17803694
>reading two books from the same author at the same time
why

>>17801105
OE que haces aca mano

>>17813615
Top or bottom

>>17817806
The illustrated one

>>17802119
yikes/10

>>17818420
That translation of The Master & Margarita is based off a censored version of the text, just so you know

>>17818461
It's a shame we can't just go into a book store and grab a book that you've seen recommended without fear of a sub par translation.
How different will it be?

>>17818420
Hey I own the same version of Blood Meridian
>>17813284

>>17818496
I can't say, because when I found out I immediately ordered a different copy, but supposedly it cuts out large portions of certain chapters. One chapter I think is usually like 15 pages and in the censored version is only about one or two.

>>17816510
>The Metaphysics
ahahahahahahaha Neoplatonist detected

>>17800939
>paperback bible
Christcucks SEETHing

>>17817872
Not the poster, but I wanted to get that edition ages ago
10: 1631061569
13: 978-1631061561

>>17813274
Basic bitch

>>17815992
Yeah it's from ministry of image, got the 4 set and first volume of Horizons a few days ago. Shipping is something like $10 a book iirc

>>17816469
Did you see the John Berger doc on youtube before reading? I really enjoyed the doc on its own, but I also found it to help me get more out of the book

>>17813634
I turn 21 in 2 days :^)

>>17816675
i prefer them over the regular paperbacks because regular penguin books are going to break and age much faster than the special edition versions

>>17816971
I'm only reading the Roth book atm the rest are what I'm planning to read next

>>17818496
Man, I straight up hate that
Missed a couple deals because of getting burned before

>>17800939
Who the duck does even read books these days niggardly ? Everything is online niggard

>>17800978
Not OP, but I just picked up that same Bible edition. Why's it bad and what would you recommend instead?

>>17802668
Just a stack of books anon, it can be whatever you want it to be as long as it's a stack of your books.
And why would you assume that people don't read there own books?
Most of these are out because I was writing/editing a short research paper.

>>17803897
>>17808847
>literally admitting you aren't from 4chan
>expecting anyone to give a shit about your "enlightened" opinion

>>17819291
based

>>17813284
i like the first short essay in Amida's Unviersal Vow

Fuck it come at me /lit/ bros

>>17801105
Post modernist
>>17801240
>Music's, divine comedy
Has become exJordan Peterson fan because he's actually reading the books suggested to him
>>17801325
White urban hipster
>>17802119
Not a stack, and change your socks
>>17802548
I should read henry james
>>17803694
Has had or will have an identity crisis
>>17803732
No clue
>>17803867
Has yet to question his existence or five into philosophy
>>17804685
Aspiring intellectual
>>17805999
Is the tennis court oath any good? I remember talking about that in ap euro
>>17807860
Not a stack
>>17808765
Don't listen to huxley hating pseudes
>>17808847
Can I have a cookie?
>>17810429
>Dune
I've never read it, not have a met a likable person who has
>>17813274
Anon is an Existentialist
>>17813284
Based eternal golden braid
>>17813634
>Manga
Filtered

There are so many stacks

>>17816510
I feel disappointed with Metaphysics

>>17818420
>Blood maridian
Meme book, filtered

>>17819291
You have to be 18 to post here
>>17821743
Are you planning on joining the iww?
>>17822306
Existentialist

>>17822429
God dammit I'm such a pseud

>>17822493
I put way too much effort into this

>>17822493
>Has had or will have an identity crisis
The closest thing to an identity I have is not really having an identity so no need for crisis

>>17822612
Yes

>>17822740
Lucky you

>>17822429
based anarchist

>>17819167
I did! It was great.

>>17822493
>>17822612
I appreciate it actually even if you skipped mine

>>17823031
Which one? let me be judge

>>17822863
>If I say anymore, they might be at my door

>>17823140
This one >>17816675 pretty basic stuff I know

>>17816675
Idk those books
>>17816469
I hear consider the lobster is an entertaining read
>>17813634
Might drop all my academic aspirations and play fallout 3 and new vegas again. Never played 4 but maybe I should
>>17810765
Not a stack
>>17800939
I have yet to masturbate to a book

>>17823154
>>17823192
I will not disappoint you anon


Hot damn I need to read borges. Dan sennett mentions the library of babel in "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and I've been curious ever since

>>17803720
Thank you will read

>>17819291
ok this is epic, i remember my small town school of less than 300 kids had a tiny ass library with the whole collection of these bitches, and I read every single damn one. the only other childrens book series that rivals them in my opinion is the redwall series

>>17800939
last few books i've read fave was Iliad cuz of the killing and the guts and shit

>>17823220
He's really good, imo. Ficciones (Collected Fictions) and The Aleph are very easy reads and the stories are all great. Library of Babel is included in The Garden of Forking Paths, which is turn included inside Ficciones.

Finished Technological Slavery, reading Evola, Elements arrived today. Uncle Ted made me interested on reading again.

>>17824225
>maths
Uncle Ted would dissaprove. Are you gonna try and learn from it or just have it as a curiosity?

>>17824380
I'm a Math + CS undergrad, first semester. I bought the book because it looks really cool and because I'm having an euclidean geometry class. Also it was cheap compared to actual textbooks.

>>17822493
"The Tennis Court Oath" is good if you like super surreal and difficult poetry. It is very inaccessible at times, though I personally really enjoy the absolute bonkers metaphors Ashbery comes up. If you're thinking of reading Ashbery, I'd definitely would recommend reading "Self Portrait In A Convex Mirror" first. Way more accessible and the poetics are grounded better.

>>17824225
does taschen print the other 7 books? i was thinking about getting the barnes and noble one which has all 13 unabridged for $25. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/elements-books-i-xiii-euclid/1106233501

>>17824883
>does taschen print the other 7 books?
Don't think so. It's supposed to replicate Byrne's edition, which uses colored figures for the proofs, to make them easier to read (also it uses long s). A quick glance at Wikipedia shows that the other books are not that focused on planar geometry, which is probably why it's only the first six books.
>i was thinking about getting the barnes and noble one which has all 13 unabridged for $25.
If you find it cheap you should go for it. I didn't because I only found one worth $350.

>>17824725
Makes sense. But what modern books would you use, anyways?
Also does your version has annotations and such? I heard Euclid was not quite correct on some assumptions and such

>>17801105
>el proceso
extremely based

>>17825568
Well, as for what modern book I would use, I am using my professor book on the subject. It's not very proof-heavy so having the Elements as a supplement should be good.
You are right, he was not correct on everything, such as using superposition as a valid method of demonstration. It does not have annotations, since it seems to be trying to replicate as perfectly as it can the original book. However, it has some complimentary texts at the end of the book, one of which is called "Euclid's geometry - (not) a Via Regia?" so I guess they say something about it there.

>>17802119
did you get that BIgavita Gita from some random monk too? because that's how i got mine

New haul. The Plato is a "I plan to read this all before I die" sort of purchase. I've already read Republic and Gorgias but I have a long way to go. The Roman fiction I will start soon since I'm in a big Romaboo phase right now.

>>17801105
>El Pendulo de Foucault 2
What do you fucking MEAN there's a Foucault's Pendulum 2???!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!????

>>17803694
7/10

>>17822429
David Graeber will make you resentful

Only started reading in the last year or so.

>>17827099
>that ugly vintage classics' mason & dixon
why just why

>>17803897
>>17808847
You have to go back.
>>>r/eddit/

>>17803897
>>17808847
You have to go back.

>>>/r/eddit

>>17827941
bump

>>17825888
I know it sucks

>>17824645
New to reading, probably works in sale
>>17824725
>>17824225
Self proclaimed math/C's major
Take a class on Philosophy of Science for a trip, my friend
>>17823911
If american, votes republican
>>17825820
A reasonable intellegent person who understands his limits
>>17827099
The jordan peterson meme really misguided people

Currently reading

>>17829720
>science and religion
Is it any good?

>>17825820
let us see the cover of the plato collection

>>17822429
pretty jewy selection. are you an econ major

>>17829740
yeah, its quite substantive. some good parts are the depth explanation of the case of Galileo - which shows it to be far different from the r/atheism trope -, a complex English Christian tradition of denominational and intra-denominational divides over philosophy and specifically whether science should be used to prove God or not. Also learned that Newton thought poetry was "the infant rattle of primitive mankind"

>>17818621
>>17822493
shouldn't be in that stack but had nowhere else to put it

>>17829896
No anon :)

>>17829761
Philosophy, but fuck off anyway

bedside stack

>>17830169
What edition of Uncle Adolf is that?
That font is sexxxyy.

>>17829987
Oy vey

>>17825843
it's an edition splitted in two volumes

>>17816510
God bless you anon, may your theological pursuits be profitable. Glad to see a fellow Orthobro here

>>17830506
split*

Bin stolz auf meine kleine Sammlung (I am proud of my small collection).

My favorite book is "Die Anderswelt: Eine Annäherung an die Wirklichkeit - Jochen Kirchhoff"

Dover Thrift baby

>>17830838
La casa de los espíritus is a very cute book

>>17831216
Just out of German highschool?

>>17821380
Seconded, looking at the 2012 Norton Critical Edition......

>>17830251
Sorry, I get triggered by "hey" because of how much nazis have dominated much of the underground of the internet. I feel like I need to lash out when people use that word or words like it

>>17831442
Out of Highschool phahaha! I'm 28 and started reading with 18. So I'm 10 years into that shit bruh but I also have my own life. I still remember, I started with Hermann Hesse - Der Steppenwolf