/lit/ - Literature

>>18016240
What's your opinion on cambell? I see that you have a lot of his books. I was trying to read the book that's the interview with him and while half of what he says seems very insightful there are these fundamental ideological undertones that make me feel very uncomfortable. Like a religious zealotry of American exceptionalism and I'm concerned how much of that bleeds through to the other parts that feel useful/insightful/knowledgeable. I feel like I may be coming from a completely different position on things that you, as I can see from the rest of your books, but I still have to ask if you see the same outdated mode of 1950s type thinking in his more serous work.

>>18016240
>don't tread on me
Yikes anon......

>>18016240
shit collection desu

>>18016402
It sounds like you're describing The Power of Myth, which is a fine primer. It scratches the surface of understanding world myths through a modern and comparative hermeneutic, a good introduction to the timeless qualities of good mythmaking. Useful if you're writing, just don't stick too close to any formula or you'll produce hollywood hack trash like Star Wars.

No doubt Campbell's Masks of God is a bit dated. Yeah, it's a bit 1950s and Campbell strikes me as a guy from that era who was imo too enamored of eastern gods. His analysis of western myth (incl the bible) is thorough and archaeological record is considered throughout the books, though he relies a bit too heavily on Ananda Coomaraswamy. I don't believe Campbell's thesis about a single origin for eastern and western myths, but he does a neat categorization that is somewhat convincing.

He's worth a read, but don't stop there.

>>18016240
Good shelf bad cup

>>18016425
>>/r/eddit is that-a-way

>shelf
My townhouse has been reduced to piles of books. I need to move somewhere bigger this summer and put up some nice(r) shelves. Its becoming an obsession.

>>18016240
These Loeb's must have cost you a small fortune. Too bad I'm a poorfag from a 2nd world country who cannot afford them ;-; Very based shelf bro

posting again

>>18016506
Interesting. Thanks for the feedback, anon.

>>18016517
>>18016425
imagine being mad about a cup.

>>18016607
No problem anon.

>>18016597
>Landmark
chad desu.

good shelf. ever read Narnia? I just started it but it's fuckin great. dang ol clive staples lewis.

bump

>>18016240
umm sweaty? y'all know that capitalism is antithetical to christianity right

>>18017307
can you explain how what you say is true

post shelves nerds

Shelf kinda sucks cause you can't put books vertically on the lower shelves

>>18016240
my god that's a nice collection

A-J
Haven't read most of it yet

>>18018205
K-Z

>>18018169
>>18016240
BASED. are you guys theology students? id upload my shelf but its 99% in line with yours.

>>18016240
At last, a nice shelf of books

>>18018218
>>18018205
based asimov poster

is that greg bear Eon good? i've heard of him before.

>>18018235
>are you guys theology students?
yes. this is by no means all my books, but it is my main bookcase. the rest are politics/D&D/military. post your shelf anon.

>>18018260
>>18018195
thx frens

>>18018169
how is the seven storey mountain, anon? bishop barron praises it so much im tempted to read it.

9000 hours in MS paint to crop all these photos together, only for it to say I can't upload an image larger than 4mb, so then I kept shrinking it and it's probably lost all detail and you probably can't read the titles to anything. Awesome.

>>18018294
Unfortunately Eon is one of the ones I haven't read yet. I've been on a serious used book store binge lately, picking things up that seem interesting.

I've read the David Farland stuff, Dune 1, a ton of Terry Goodkind stuff (wouldn't recommend it), maybe the first half of Wheel of Time overall, Dark Tower 1, A Plague of Demons, Flight to Thlassa Mey, The Magic of Recluce, Kingkiller 1+2 and Frankenstein.

>>18018320
>Law School
>getting in, getting out, getting on
wow anon it sounds like law school gives people PTSD

based title redactor, btw. nice collection. can you tell us something you enjoyed from it?

>complete bowhunting
cool

>>18018338
>Dune 1
AYO!

keep reading, they're great. at least 2 and 3 are. if you really love it keep going until 5. or stop.

dark tower was also great. i don't like King but highly recommend his book The Talisman if you enjoyed gunslinger. Insomnia was cool too. and the regulators / desperation.

>>18016597
Nice. Have same editions of Iliad and Leviathan. Are Barnes and Noble editions alright?

>>18018373
Thanks for the recommendations. I do want to continue with Dune at some point in the near future but I keep trapping myself into other long series. For Instance, I just started Ringworld and depending how you look at it there's either five or nine books in the series overall.

I don't like King either and I read Dark Tower years ago. I don't remember thinking highly of it but I wanted to give it another try so I'm collecting it as I see it.

I'll put those other two on my list of King books to look for; thanks again.

>>18018366
Law school was pretty amazing and awful all at the same time. The redacted titles were highschool year books I forgot to take out of the stack. I have about 40 textbooks related to the law I didn’t bother posting that are the big statutory or case law bois. As well as a few other assorted shelves that just don’t have good enough books to bother posting. I just bought that bow hunting book for 2 bucks from half price. Pretty neat stuff after I had just bought a bow for fun a few months back. Not really a hunter but really cool that I found the autistic book on the exact subject.

My favorite books recently have been Graeber’s 5000 years of debt and infinite jest. White noise and the divine comedy have been kinda fun so far.

>>18016597
Based

>>18016240
Why on earth do you have two omnibuses of Plato?

>>18018169
Holy based

>>18018476
different translations, and the Cooper was showing its age

>>18018418
>Graeber’s 5000 years of debt
this looks really cool, thanks anon

>>18018491
Hamilton's is a few decades older than Cooper's, anon.

>>18016240
We need an online self image maker for people like me who live in Hotel rooms. if you had scans of the front and back covers and the Spine‘s, then you could make an image that supports books in a variety of configurations, some books packed neatly, and some placed irregularly.

>>18018519
i mean its physical age, it was wearing down and had some damage.

>>18018380
>are barnes and noble editions alright
The count of monte cristo I got was abridged. It doesn't even warn you on the cover. I only found out till I finished it. TBK was fine though.

>>18018562
crime and punishment* not tbk

most have been bought new in the past 2-3 years. trying to get a decent stash of soon-to-be or already banned books, not a giant collection but a shelf or two of some eye opening stuff.
currently reading the latest book i've bought, "the unknown warriors". all the stories are interesting to read, and the thoughts on life in Britain as it evolved from wartime to present are practically unanimous across the entire generation. 9/10 letters are stating what we already know. so it's a sad one, but nonetheless engaging. one old lad had to stop writing about it all because he started tearing up and shaking and had to abruptly finish what he was on about..

>>18018572
*tips visor*

m'kommando

>>18018604

>>18018610
i dont see em there but maybe i missed them, check out Codreanu's For My Legionaries and Kemp's Mine Were of Trouble. excellent war diaries from fighting communists in Romania and Spain.

>>18018623
yeah im keeping those two in mind for when i get more shelving space. especially kemp's book. and then accompany that with a mosely book

>>18018562
THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE FUCKING INTRO IS THE FIRST TIME IT MENTIONS ITS ABRIDGED. IM SO FUCKING PISSED. THE SAME GOD DAMN THING HAPPENED TO ME. FUCK BARNES AND NOBLE. FUCK THEIR SHITTY ASS PUBLISHER THAT DOESNT PUT A FUCKING WARNING ON THE COVER. REEEEEEEE. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES.

>>18016240
i need to see the full pic of that dog

>>18018890
he's long dead, creep. i would post my cat instead but you're obviously brain damaged.

>>18018932
Strangely defensive over something so innocent

reminder you're required to include your age and the last time you had sex in order to post shelfs in this thread

>>18019210
29, 3 years ago.

What did I buy?

>>18019210
28, yesterday
>>18018205 is me

>>18019210
39yo
2014
t. OP

>>18019231
kino

>>18016597
I wish I had a hardback landmark Herodotus.

>>18016534
says the lolbert

>>18018320
in future if you have a large image just upload it to tinypng
it will compress without losing detail.
that 4mb file would be compressed down to around 400k

>>18020759
Based. Thanks. Will do. What do you think of my array of books spread across my home in strange nooks and shelves?

>>18016240
None of your Loebs look touched. Did you just buy them to pretend you know Greek and Latin? If so, that's kind of based.

>>18020745
>Chronicles of Prydain
Based. Favorite books as a kid, mandatory reading for every kid imo. Also, what version of Romance of Three Kingdoms is that? Any good?

>>18020745
>Tintin au Congo
Unbelievably based and redpilled.

>>18016240
>say something about them.
Woah getting a little ambitious there for /lit/ aren't we?

>>18018320
Bro, your Sandman volumes 2-10??

>>18020994
Don’t have the money to buy them new and it wasn’t engaging enough to hunt for them. If I ever feel the need to finish reading that story I’d probably just find them online.

>>18016240
Nice shelf. I'd like to have a person like you as a friend, OP.

>>18021060
>I'd like to have a person like you as a friend, OP.
A person who buys books and doesn't read them and takes pictures of them to post online for bragging rights for strangers hoping they won't notice he doesn't read them?

I don't have a shelf, so like a week ago I saw quite a nice one just for free on the street. I was about to take it but then remembered the virus :/

>>18016240
What's with the cringe coffee mug?

>>18020941
>rate my books
It's like a who's who of the average /lit/ poster which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd lose the following;
>Art of Manliness
>any and all Michael Moore books
>Monty Python Speaks
>the pseudo selfhelp eg. Dale Carnegie plus 7 habits of Highly Effective People
Those are all incredibly cringeworthy

>>18017307
*blocks your path*

>>18021236
idgaf

>>18018572
Filtered

>>18016240
>Isis holding the child Horus would inform artists depicting the Madonna up to the present day. True fact.
They're all based off of St. Luke's depiction pagan ass Boi

I begrudgingly admit that maybe the pagans somehow intuited the metaphysical necessity of the mother/child thing

>>18016402
dude he's not a scary right winger lol. If anything he's just... un-rigorous. and that's ok(tm)

>>18016624
it's never the cup but the retarded shit which it stands for

>>18016425
this is an effeminate response to his gayness

>>18016597
When I saw that Liebniz it was like someone tracing their fingers against my stomach. Otherwise based

>>18018169
>merton
sus
>bhagavad gita 2wice
why

Otherwise good. also ditch the quaran, no need for it.

this is all you get

>>18020967
my thoughts exactly. the sheer cheek of owning the racist one

>>18021236
chance of transmission from contat with surfaces is like 1/10,000 IIRC

but good on you for having big conscientiousness

Just reorganised stuff a bit yesterday.

>>18022072

>>18022072
>>18022080
What language is that?

>>18022095
Stinky Chinky

>>18022095
Hungarian.

>>18022095
>magyar
Hungarian

>>18022072
>>18022080
bro? why aren't you larping as a n*zi? you don't even need to speak german...

>>18022080
What did you think of the penguin Lu Xun edition?

>>18022122
It's decent. Could use more footnotes. Didn't find the prose clunky or anything.
It has basically everything you'd want unless you're a scholar. Though I enjoyed his essays more than his fiction.

>>18022072
>>18022080
Based and sinopilled. You self studying entirely or taking classes?

>>18020962
It's from Tuttle, can't really tell you much more as I've never read anything translated from any Asian language before. I only got it coz it's in brand new condition and it was 50 cents. The first owner paid 60 bucks. Pages are like single leaf toilet paper but that's probably true for any Chinese book.
>Tintin in the Congo
This book has been cancelled in English. You can only get it now as a cucked 'collector's edition. I'm collecting Tintins in French hardcover anyway even though I read them originally in English. Hergé toned down the blatant racism in later volumes but the Chinese and Native Americans are depicted as yellow and red respectively. I'm curious about Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, if it's as bad as in the Congo.

>not using closed shelves
Filtered

>>18021985
>representing the inalienable right to defend oneself and community from tyranny
>"retarded shit"
lmao ok if rights and responsibilities are too difficult for you retard go move to mainland china then, cease your subversive faggotry the west is already infested by plenty of your kind

>>18022072
>>18022080
very cool anon. i like your inkwell holder figurine guy.

>>18022001
why turned around? nice painting birds are cool.

>>18022447
ngl i've been thinking about that a while. next bookshelf i build will have lockable doors.

>>18018235
Took classical liberal arts but have interest in religion, there was some overlap

>>18018932
Bro he just wants to see that dog

Let him see the dog

>>18018572
based

A little outdated.

>>18022080
>>18022072
i've seen these shelves before, where did you hide your evangelion manga, magyarbro?

>>18024186
>that nissan handbook
gets me every time

>>18024189
I didn't hide it. It's right next to the other Japanese books.

>>18018169
What books of Guenon are worth reading?
>>18016240
What should I read from Campbell? Also this is unbelievably based. Any esoteric recommendations? Theological?

>>18024343
>esoteric recommendations
Esotericism is cringe; secret knowledge is a cope propagated by seething incels. That said, purely for entertainment reasons, check out Uzdavinys' Philosophy & Theurgy in Late Antiquity. Compare with Campbell's chapters on the Egyptians and Levantines in Masks of God, and Eliade's Rites and Symbols of Initiation. This isn't properly speaking philosophy, it's anthropology and the study of myth and ritual. Demons are real, secret arts of magic are just a fancy way of communing with them. Don't bother.

>Theological
Now we're talking. The truth speaks and reveals itself to man, it doesn't hide. God said to Moses: "I AM THAT I AM."

Check out Finan and Twomey's The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, or look up anything written by Dr. Peter Kreeft for a primer. Whatever title strikes your interest. Other than the Bible of course, would recommend reading the early Church Fathers. Those on the top left shelf are mostly Cappadocian. Also, Wilken's Christians as the Romans Saw Them if you want a little more historical/mundane view of early Christianity. Goes well with St. Chrysostom's The Cult of the Saints. And of course start with the Greeks.

>>18023038
No.

>>18024186
>DA Rifle Marksmanship
based anon, that's a good guide. nice shelf.

>>18018320
WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYONE I KNOW WHO HAS THE SCOTT PILGRIM BOOKS MISSING VOLUME 1???

>>18024557
>Esotericism is cringe; secret knowledge is a cope propagated by seething incels.
Based.
I have Eliade's Shamanism that looks good and read Campbell's HWATF, but those a great reccs.
>Check out Finan and Twomey's The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, or look up anything written by Dr. Peter Kreeft for a primer. Whatever title strikes your interest. Other than the Bible of course, would recommend reading the early Church Fathers. Those on the top left shelf are mostly Cappadocian. Also, Wilken's Christians as the Romans Saw Them if you want a little more historical/mundane view of early Christianity. Goes well with St. Chrysostom's The Cult of the Saints. And of course start with the Greeks.
Can you go into the angles of the different theology on these and or why I should pick up different volumes?

>>18024587
I gave it to a family friend's kid to see if he would like them. Zoomers can't even read comics.

>>18024743
>Can you go into the angles of the different theology on these and or why I should pick up different volumes?
Well I don't know where anon is starting from, how much he knows or what his interests are. Kreeft is just an excellent guy all around and I enjoy listening to his lectures. He's written oodles of books for the general reader.

Finan and Twomey did their small book and it's a good primer as well on the title subject. Would be interesting to someone who is walking backwards from Aquinas into antiquity and Christian/pagan thought aside from religious practice. The more abstract and intellectual side, which imo is great for developing faith. It helps to *know*, for a fact, that God exists. That's where the Greeks come in as well, spesh Aristotle and Plato. They anticipated knowledge of God, but didn't expect him to come as a man.

Wilken and the Church Fathers I mentioned are more a historical/humanities look at early Christianity. Some theology, a good deal of it is Christianity as mystical practice / mystical body in the vein of the letters of Paul in the NT. But mostly they transported me back to a time and place, gave me a sense for living in (as PKD put it) "hateful Rome."

>>18018169
>The Easwaran Bhagavad Gita
Anon...

>>18024186
Do you own a 300zx?

>>18018169
>penguin classic edition of Xenophon's Anabasis.
Is this an alright edition to read and enjoy? Kind of cringe that it's entitled The Persian Expedition on the spine though, is it marketed for American zoomers?

>>18016624
imagine having a retarded cup

>>18024948

Imagine a TV show about a retarded cup

>>18016240
it was based until i saw sowell and that terrible mug. kill yourself.
>>18016597
nice
>>18018169
based guenonchad
>>18018205
>>18018218
yikes
>>18018320
only one of those frames are based. the rest are cringe.
>>18018572
yikes. try reading about something other than wwii for a change.
>>18019679
based
>>18020745
>tintin au congo
based
>>18022072
>>18022080
extremely based
>>18024186
virgin incel detected

>>18025009
>he doesn't like sowell
what have you got against genius IQ successful black men, anon?

>>18025009
post

>>18016240
>gadsen flag

>>18024890
Of course.

>>18025009
>virgin incel detected
Why?

>>18017375
not him, but capitalism is based on usury

>>18024186
Lefties and normies alike would have a seizure if they saw that bottom shelf kek. Very based.

>>18016240

>>18025532
Sexy. Post the rest

>>18025842
Tradlarp

>>18024557
>Esotericism is cringe
Seethe, theologian.

>>18024343

>>18025890
That's all my books my dude - the shelf to the right is music

>>18025532
Pretty good

Massively downgraded over the last 5 years. Some of these are Christmas presents or stuff given to me by people. I'll probably keep 75% of these. For example, haven't read any Joseph Finder and hell, I gotta keep Triggered by Don Jr. because it was a well-meaning gift. If it's paperback, it's just in my small collection temporarily. Finally building my longterm collection since things are more stable.

>>18023038
here, i'll give you my dog in place of his

>>18025009
13/56 books are WWII related.

>>18021985
You don't even know what it stands for. You see an image and seethe without thinking to understand its roots.

Its just about freedom and rights.

>>18026388
not him, but with covid I realized most people don't deserve freedom (in the Enlightment, individualist sense).

>>18025906

k

>>18026596
Anyone have good non-pozzed books on Franco?

>>18026596
based ted poster

thanks anon i'm gonna be looking into some of those spain books

>>18018320
Could you post a few extracts from your Divine Comedy? That translation would be very cheap for me but idk if its any good

Haven't read all of them but I read other books that aren't here, like the Reign of Quantity. Going to buy the rest when I will have money.

>>18026728
HOLY BASED

>>18026115
>Trump books

>>18016597
Jimmy Akin
Finally, someone with some taste.

>>18016240
I don't buy books

>>18018572
How do you like Knight's Cross?

>>18027016
cringe, desu

>>18026728
>guenon
nice meme but islam is indefensible

>>18026749
Trumponomics is interesting. Behind the scenes on his trade policies. I'd read that about a lot of presidents. Art of the Deal is a classic, period, even before his presidency. The Little Book of Trumpisms is a collection of his tweets with context. Was meant to be making fun of him but it's awesome. Triggered I can't defend, Christmas present.

> also, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Marion, John Calhoun, and Andrew Jackson books.

and by that I mean read Luxenberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syro-Aramaic_Reading_of_the_Koran

>>18024343
For Guenon it depends on what you want to learn about. Intro to Hind Doctrines gives a good intro to his thought in general. If you want more Metaphysics do Symbolism of the Cross and Man and His Becoming. For traditional critiques of the modernity do Crisis of the Modern World and then The Reign of Quantity. Then there's other stuff for symbolism and esoterism in Taoism, Christianity and Islam, but I'm less familiar with those.

>>18026457
Regardless of what most people deserve, "Don't Tread on ME" is a perfectly good slogan for any self-respecting individual.

>>18018320
What? 9000!

>>18027599
Except we've all been tread on and we've done nothing. It should be renamed "Please don't tread on me anymore."

>>18022095
Canadian.

>>18025532
What book is this?

>>18027482
Huh, I'll have to check those out then.

>>18027918
which volumes are those LOA Faulkner

>>18016240
E-readers are the ultimate pleb filter. The eternal pseud has to make it clear to everyone that he's a reader and to that end he amasses tons of unread books. with e-reader the only way you can prove to other people you've read the book is by telling them clearly about its content

>>18028724
Looks like His Dark Materials

I have posted this before, but it is the only one I have on my phone.
>>18016240
Good selection, Godspeed in your study.

>>18029378
Seems to be it, thanks, anon! I have a few friends that have been reading this series and suggesting it to me so I might pick this version up. I'm a sucker for books with cat covers.

>>18029463
Based occultist

I got more books on my desk and kindle

>>18029463
Thanks anon.

>>18029506
>spanish language shelf
>Borges
based

>>18016240
Did you really read all that shit? I'm not gonna lie it looks extremely boring.

>>18030198
I've read a good bit of it, some of them twice. Not all. Nah it is not boring. There is no activity more proper for a man than the contemplation of the highest one.

>>18027922
What is the publisher of the two tan hardbacks under Sartre?

>>18028903
1930-1935 & 1942-1954

>>18030330

>>18030310
You mean this guy, or some "one" else?

>>18030529
He is one, yeah. His dad too. And the helper they sent. And their persons before they were recognized as persons.

>>18030517
Thanks.

>>18016240
You must be rich with all of those Loebies.


Based.

>>18016240
Based Loeb Classical Library purchaser.
What Loeb series should I get next?

>>18030529
back to /pol/

>>18031617
anon's image is pretty cringe but not actually too far from the truth: banks and corporations and political parties colluded in 2020 to use covid as an excuse to scoop up massive amounts of wealth and property and a presidency. a side effect was Catholic churches beind closed and the blessed sacrament being denied to the faithful. priests could not visit the sick and dying because of covid rules. these are great wrongs that cry out to heaven for vengeance.

>>18031494
whatever you like anon. the lyric poets collection you see there is good, as is the Pausanias. if you just want to get one, the Argonautica is great.

>>18030916
not at all. they were collected over many years, the majority of them were bought used and as sets. pretty affordable desu.

1/3

Liked Terry Eagleton and Levi-Strauss

2/3

Nietzsche, Camus, and Cervantes Quixote and "novelas ejemplares"

3/3

The bible, PKD books, Lem and learned that I Ching is a cool oracle, also War dogs and more.

>>18026206
cute!

>>18016240
>stacks of Loeb editions
fuck you.

>>18032297
>he doesn't like classics
(You) / ngmi (not gonna make it)

>>18031938
>>18031967
did you enjoy PKD? cervantes was a hoot. nice shelf anon.

>>18032360
>(You) / ngmi (not gonna make it)
no I'm just jealous because they're expensive as fuck lol

>>18032569
Buy mismatched loebs used, and they become much less expensive. Sometimes the dust covers wont be in great condition, but the books are usually fine themselves. If you only care about reading this shouldn't be a problem.

>>18032606
One day I'll get Loeb Enneads. At the moment I've just got the big Cambridge edition by Gerson.

>>18032777
I'm saving up for Loeb Pliny's Natural history. You'll get it someday, bro

>>18032360
Thank you anon, yeah I really liked PKD novels, next thing i will do is to buy Valis.

>>18025009
I assume the based frame is the philosophy section?

Post your partially read Roosevelts

>>18022591
>buying a plastic cup that represents the inalienable right to defend oneself and community from tyranny

>>18033568
How is it? I want the Teddy Trilogy.

>>18018169
>Placing the Quran above all of the books
BASED

>>18033629
the cup is just to broadcast to normies who don't know that they have rights. lots of seething smoothbrains itt.

>>18032777
desu you don't really need them unless you're studying in Greek and want to get exact meanings right and work from there for some academic reason. translation is fine for learning.

>>18032606
this anon knows how to do it. that's what i did.

>>18029463
what's that hermetica about? do you enjoy it? also ha i didn't notice the 1911 the first time. excellent choice anon.

>>18034306
Hermetica's a collection of Hermes Trismegistus' writings iirc.

>>18026206
How is it with reading and pets? does your dog support your reading habits or distract you?

>>18034306
>drinks out of a yellow plastic sippy cup
>calls others smoothbrain

>>18034306
If you aren’t reading the original Greek/Latin, you aren’t getting the intended experience or information.
Translations are fine but they aren’t optimal. Academia understood this before it got pozzed.
Also if the cup is plastic, stop drinking out of it; It will make you retarded.

>>18035011
>Translations are fine but they aren’t optimal.
Good I'm glad we agree.

I don't read alot but here are some of the books that interest me.

>>18034306
As other Anons have said, the Hermetica is the compiled core texts of Hermeticism. The 4 volume Scott translation I have comes with the original Greek, which is very nice.
To answer your question I deeply love what is written there. I have had to toil for a spiritual connection with Christianity, which isnt a bad thing, but with Hermeticism it was like an immediate lightning strike.
Also, thank you. It was the first pistol I ever bought.

>>18035030
>Jung
Holy based, anon.
Dig deeper!

>>18035139
I don't know of if I will. But I love his ideas

>I’ve read 60% through

>>18035370
Which is your first language?

>>18035370
The wrighting is on the wall, below the vasaline.

why the fuck are copies of gr with this cover so hard to find reasonably priced and not totally fucked-up-level used
idgaf if its hardcover or paperback just want this version
any anons got links to sales / copies for sale

>>18016240
I don't even have a shelf I just put everything around and under my bed

>>18036091
My first language is Mongolian. I just happen to know a good deal of English and Russian

>>18036167
>I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore I demand of myself persistent, continuous action towards its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such actions - Bruce Lee

>>18036864
Based steppeAnon

>>18036309
bro just print a personal copy with that cover on lulu.com

>>18036309
I got one from Abebooks for about $20

>>18021236
Faggot

>>18035370
why do you have security cameras to protect your books?

>>18035074
Thanks for your post anon.

>I have had to toil for a spiritual connection with Christianity, which isnt a bad thing, but with Hermeticism it was like an immediate lightning strike.
Not judging you, and thank you for your honesty, but I should be concerned about this if I were you. Recognizing that toil and suffering is good, then choosing what seems easy regardless of its truth.

I'm curious what the ultimate end of hermeticism is supposed to be? What is its purpose, its final cause?

>>18040731
>no bends in books

>>18040731
Check out Hinterland by Phil A Neel, you’ll probably like it

>>18036864
Holy based Mongol

It's been on my list for awhile, looks really interesting

>>18039642
Forgive me for mispeaking. I have had to work under Hermeticism, and it is just as demanding as being a genuine Christian, but it is like taking up drawing and taking a long time to reach competency, then trying digital painting and finding you have a talent there. You still have to work for it, often in a different yet similar way and it behooves you as an artist to hone both skills, but much of it just clicks.
I was raised in a stereotypical flipflop Southern Baptist household so I had a strange relationship with the faith. I say Hermeticism struck like lightning because when I found out about it, I had already thought of half the things it touts. That being that man, being in the image of God, and being endowed with gifts physical and mental, has an explicit duty to create and hone such talents for good. That earth and the cosmos are a fallen machine of God which must be put to right, and that one of the most offensive things spirhtualy is not just hedonism, but a life which has its state of development unfulfilled due to material temptation, or even worse personal hubris.
I would even go so far as to say that Hermeticism has given me a greater perspective and deeper apreciation of Christ and the sacrifice He made for man, for it broke me out of the literalist and almost mundane shell of my spiritual life growing up. I have felt a calling to pursue Christian Hermeticism, though I am not adept enough yet to compare myself in similarity to those of old like Ficino or Tomberg.
In short, the goal of Hermeticism is regaining knowledge and station under of the supreme God, who is the heavenly father of man. Much like Adam and Eve, God created man to help him tend to the cosmos. Man, after recieving primacy and gifts from the 7 Archons, the classical celestial bodies, beheld Nature unfinished and was seduced into falling by her, where he now resides in a material existence, forgetting both what he was, what God intended for him, and of God. Man is then charged for the sake of his soul in relearning all three.
There is more, but that is the gist of things.

>>18040731
Capitalism is living rent free in your head

>>18041392
Thanks for the well considered reply anon. Sounds like you are on the path to developing cardinal and theological virtues. I would ask you in all sincerity to go speak with a Catholic priest. I think there are many things you would appreciate about Catholicism if you cracked open the catechism (its available for free online), no doubt you could immediately conjure some questions about the faith. Especially the parts near the beginning about improving ourselves through grace to be more in concert with the image of God.

You're right the world is fallen, but it's not in our power alone to right it. Sanctifying grace acts through us to help others. Nice hearing from an actual guy with brains on lit.

>>18040731
>cultural marxism
wypipo bad!

>>18040731

>>18042092
Anytime, Anon. On the flipside, I heartily reccommend Meditations On The Tarot if you want an incredible work by a Catholic Hermeticism. There are no Catholic churches that speak English where I live, sadly, but I will try to find the Catechism when I have time.
Amen to the nature of the Lord working through grace for the sake of men. God be with you, friend.

>>18040731
what version of the prison notebooks is that?

>>18042106
your brain is dog shit

Very small snippet of my stuff, but I had to show off my 'fuck you'-sized, unabridged Merriam-Webster.

>>18042793
Could've straightened the bottom shelf, but I don't want to be disingenuous to strangers on the internet.

>>18026596
thoughts on the osama book? was thinking of getting it.

>>18042895
it was quite disappointing i was expecting an Islamic ted and got repetition

Saving up for more. Thoughts?

>>18043620
[ handrubbing intensifies ]

>>18043749
A History of Central Banking and The Creature call (((them))) out on several occasions, though??

>>18020952
Based

>>18036875
Based water like fren

>>18040731
Laid the brick in your very own prison with this shelf.

>>18042153
>Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism Paperback – June 10, 2002 by Robert Powell (Translator), Hans Urs von Balthasar (Afterword)

very interesting. von Balthasar is a fellow that is often namedropped by Bishop Barron. this is a very bad look, but desu he's already a bishop of Los fucking Angeles who claims that hell may very well be empty when Jesus Christ said sinners would be sent there.

>>18044088
The book was written and published sometime in the 1940s. I really have no clue why he is giving an afterword.

>>18042793
i like it. that's a great flatland, and pauling is excellent. based dover reader.

>>18042806
good taste anon, except for the rand and gaiman

>>18043620
Based

>>18016597
Seems like you just bought a bunch of shit based off /lit/ charts, and most of the books look unread

>>18042806
Why is “the art of war” so thick

A few of my books

>>18016240

>>18045289
>sir arthur conan doyle

>>18045212
This edition comes with a bunch of extra commentary and such.

>>18048278
what did you think of the isis reader?

>>18048504
>>18042806
Sorry for the sideways pictures, by the way. Stupid Windows 'Your Phone' app displays them properly and then downloads them sideways.

>>18048512
A good self help book

>>18048534
unironically found that to be true

>>18040731
why are you posting here? this board is for racist incels only

>>18045289
Chaotic

so this board is either greek and hebrew speaking theologians or science fiction readers.

>>18048278
Carl jung is super fascinating and I am glad more people are discovering his work. Also don't see alot of e reader posts on here

>Also allegedly Isis holding the child Horus would inform artists depicting the Madonna up to the present day. True fact.
isnt that just how mothers hold their kids?

>>18042806
I like how atlas shrugged is so close to watchmen.

I
How far have you gotten in atlas shrugged anon? Or do you just keep it as a conversation peice?

>>18042793
Flatland is a pretty underrated book. Have you seen the fan film?

https://youtu.be/eyuNrm4VK2w

>>18040731
You seem very well read anon!

>>18038480
I think those are lights

>>18031967
That I Ching

>>18016240
I'm jealous of all your Loebs! I only have Virgil vol i and vol ii

>>18016425
>"yikes"
>mfw

>>>/r/eddit

>hate reading and writing with a passion because of ADHD and epilepsy
>only ever read 3 books (one was the Bible and one was for a date) by the age of 26
>quit my job of 7 years
>need something to do as this is the first summer I haven't been working or busy in 15 years
>be browsing /k/ and see a book thread
>see On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao and the IRA's Greenbook
>am fascinated
>find a new passion
>write nearly every college research paper I can on guerrilla warfare
>have a favorite author
>pre-order a book
>buy hundreds of dollars of hard copies of books that I already have digitally
>wake up early on a Saturday morning to read for fun
>am about to become a high school teacher
>hope to help my students find their passion and motivate them to read and write in the same way that I found my passion

And I couldn't have done it without you cunts.

Kind of messed up the top right but I'm not doing it again. The Readers Digest Condensed Book is the last one left from Grandpa's extensive set, so I'm keeping it just as a memento.

>>18031967
The I ching next to the big bible WTF???
>>18031938
Atlas shrugged extended version?

>>18051948
Awesome story, good to hear anon.

>>18018294
When I was young, Greg Bear was one of my favorite sci-fi writers and I think his older stuff, like Eon holds up.

>>18051948
based anon. thanks for the stack pic, i'll definitely be checking some of these out. I've been recommended War of the Flea before this is a good reminder. see if you can find a copy of Green Cognac: The Education of a Mountain Fighter

>>18051696
Virgil is great anon! Thanks, they took a while to collect.

>>18052267
thanks anon I'll be sure to find a copy.

>>18052152
penguinchad, got his roman histories started off right with livy.

nice shelf anon

>>18018521
I like this idea let’s sell it for millions

>>18040731
>makes /lit/ seethe by actually reading theory
dangerously based
replace chomsky with parenti though

>>18052275
>Green Cognac: The Education of a Mountain Fighter
Thanks.

>>18020745
are you Swiss anon?

>>18054377
I am but how did you guess?

>>18053818
>reads the theory of economically-illiterate retards

>>18016240

Based shelf, OP. But I don't see pic related.

>>18056278
thanks anon but real talk the penguin edition of City of God is behind the dont tread on me cup

tfw wherein St. Augustine describes the crisis of the third century and one cannot help but notice the extreme similarities to the early 21st century, among other things

>>18056475

Nice. And what I point out for others on /lit is how Augustine has these moments where you can see Descartes, Hume, Kant and others just bubbling below the surface. That is kind of true for Plato and the Platonists, and Aristotle, but Augustine has a very nice thread of moral psychology that I haven't seen developed so well prior to him.

>>18024186
Nice copy of Mein Kampf there

>>18029465
> I'm a sucker for books with cat covers.

Boy, do I have a series for you

>>18036309
That cover always made me think of Looney Toons

>>18056767
agreed. desu i think that's what people need these days. retards are walking around thinking natural law does not exist, aborting babies left and right because a retard judge said they could.

lots of people going to hell is my point. there's room for apologists and philosophers and publications here.

>>18016597
learn to think for yourself
>>18018205
pathetic
>>18018320
good shit
>>18018572
how do you explain this when people come over?
>>18020745
mostly good
>>18022072
>>18022080
lol

>>18022072
HOLY BASED

>>18058751
no bully dumb retard

>>18059470
>not a single book of Catholic education among them
nice memes, read them and figure out they aren't going to satisfy you

>>18057564
I confess I was obsessed with that series growing up. Still buy the books occasionally though I haven't read them in a long time. It's pretty obvious which ones I bought just to have and which ones I read religiously.

>>18059574
Good thing everything is blurry so we can't make anything out of it

>>18059603
Yeah I've got a shit phone. Don't really need a good one.

>>18059534
>worshiping a priest who kisses muslim feet and holds meetings on how to help gays
gross

>>18059660
silence bigot

>>18059846
>pretending capitalism is catholicism
gay

>>18052152
>old penguin
>eternal sonata
>cheapest Lovecraft anthology
Noise

Where are my Oxford bros at?