/lit/ - Literature

>>18633305
May I ask why you have the gertrude stein books? nice john hawkes section.

>>18633305
Is johncowper powys good?

Have a somewhat old but still recent enough stack, it is too hot to do much else.

>>18633353
Anyone who likes later James, Perec, Beckett, Faulkner, and that ilk is probably going to appreciate Stein. She is pretty great.

>>18633305
>not pictured, Tree of man

New Bruce, are you a cunt?

>>18633472
what is the loa above agape agape?

>>18633596
Collected novels of Carson McCullers, great stuff.

>>18633596
Nevermind, I see you do not know the difference between Everyman's and LoA, I assumed you did. That is Cormac McCarthy - The Boarder Trilogy.

>>18633643
oh my bad

>>18633305
Jesus. That's a lot of James.

>>18633305
nice LOA Stein. Get these on a shelf asap before those slipcovers cave in.

my to-read and to-watch stacks are getting out of control

I haven't updated my stuff in a while but here you go

>>18633305
>all that Henry James
someone enjoys being bored

>>18634501
lol at hiding Atlas Shrugged behind the Bible

>>18634494
filtered

>>18634501
Based Christian poster. I love this stack.

>stack
Immediate disqualification
Post shelves

>>18633902
Not enough imo

>>18635054
What more does he need?

>>18634501
LARP, but still based

>>18633305
currently reading The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

>>18633305
>literally a third of his stack is William James and Henry James
>Evidently obsessed with authors simply because their last name is James
Serious question (not trying to be mean or anything): do you have autism?

>>18635153
What's the problem? He likes the greatest American novelist and greatest American philosopher.

>>18635153
you do know william james and henry james are brothers, right? it’s not like it’s two random guys with the same last name.

I'm working and I want to take them out the bag.

>>18635437
Show us the spines mouthbreather

>>18635437
I don't want to*

>>18634501
based to-read atlas shrugged and bible anon

>>18633372
yes

>>18634451
if this is real, kys

Reading "The Greek Tragedy" at the same time as Oresteia. Then I'll read Moorx followed by Sowell's "Marxism". Finally, I have to finish Borges.

Started reading The Temple of the Golden Pavilion yesterday, and I might end up finishing Sklepy Cynamonowe today if I've got the energy after work.

>>18634428
>>18634451
This must be a joke my dudes

>>18633305
>>18633472
Stack you read or are you about to read? It's cancerous to keep buying books without reading them. I have six unread books in be self and I do feel bad about that.

Don't become a normie woman who buys books for aesthetics!

>>18635932
Nice

>>18636156
so instead of the crazy cat lazy we get crazy thick tomes lady

>>18635932
Are you a Pole living in England?

Enjoy Demons when you get to it anon; it's one of my favourites.

>>18634501
>Random Yotsuba volume in the middle

>>18636156
>This must be a joke my dudes
how so?

>>18636292
Yes mate. Fucking tough trying to get books in Polish here, either at all or without spending a small fuckin fortune each time, which is why I've so fraudulently got the Tolstoy and Dosto in English.

>>18636477
Avengers? Marvel? What kind of literature is that. We have limited time here on the Earth. There is far more books that we are able to read throughout the life, you should choose wisely how are you spending your time.

>>18636517
You seem to be reading relatively involved books in English; why do you care if they're in Polish? Do you just prefer using your home language?—also, how long have you been speaking/reading English anyway?

I'm moving to the continent for a time and am wondering whether it would be a sensible idea to stock up on English-language books now and bring them over with me. or, just seek to import them from over there I suppose. Is it easier to get English books in non-English speaking countries do you think?

>>18636635
oh yeah, that guy's stuff is messed up. I mean this stuff
>>18634428
All that stuff is good.

>>18636673
>why do you care if they're in Polish?
not him but I imagine it's because Polish is closer to Russian

>>18636673
Basically this >>18636786, goes for any Slavic language really. To give an example I've read all of The Good Soldier Svejk in Polish, and little bits in English and there really is a big difference in quality and humour, even if Polish still isn't the original language. That being said though, I've only ever read Dostoyevsky in English, in a different translation each time and still loved almost everything I've read of his, and the Maude translation is the one that was bigged up by Tolstoy himself so yeh should be alright. To answer your questions, I do think I have a slight preference for reading in Polish, which become a clear one with regards to reading poetry, even if it is a much slower and more difficult for me than reading in English. Moved to England when I was 5, so that's like what 14 years of reading in English, although I've only really been like actually into reading and literature for just over 2 years, before that I didn't read at all, and for reading in Polish it's only been about a year. Was fucking horrendous when I first started reading Polish again after so long, and the first book I chose to read was Chłopi so I was twice fucked.

>>18633305
Question for those who know ITT: where to start with James?

>>18637207
Portrait of a Lady

>>18637347
thank you lad

>>18636156
>It's cancerous to keep buying books without reading them.
Nothing wrong with a large backlog as long as you keep on working through them. I probably average around 100 unread books on my shelves, I like a selection to pick from. Also, stack threads can be most anything, what you are reading or just a stack of books you would like to share, they are a way to find books, anons can look through the stacks and if they see one that is mostly stuff they like they can be fairly confident that the other books in the stack is something they will like.

>>18634501
Based

>>18634428
>Jacques Demy
Based

Guys I have a $10 birthday credit to my bookstore what should I get ? I've been yearning for an eastern classic, particularly Chinese. They only have 1 of the 4 Staples (red chamber).

>>18634501
Really like Jekyll and Hyde version you have, who is the publisher?

>>18637994

>>18638141
Ehhh seems a little political

>>18633305
Four years, four charity book sales.

>>18638658

>>18633305
Stop posting this shit.

>>18638663

>>18638670

>>18635850
How's Otras Inquisiciones, anon? Is it worth it?

>>18638658
I want to The Greeks, is Euripides good after I finish with Homer?

>>18638693
I’d start with Aeschylus or Sophocles, since they’re a couple generations earlier. But I’m a completionist, so if you want to jump right in to Euripides, go for it.

>>18638701
Thanks, I'll start with Sophocles after Homer. What's your opinion on Aristophanes?

>>18638714
Worth it if you like dick and fart jokes. His portrayal of Socrates in The Clouds as just another sophist is interesting as well if you intend to read any Plato.

>>18638753
Oh I've read Plato. Okay seems I'm not missing out on anything. Thanks.

>>18638770
You can always have another Plato
Another plate o' pie!

>>18635932
BASED AS FUCK

>>18637994
If you're looking for a good novel I recommend "To Live"by Hua Yu.

>>18638972
Hah, nice.

>>18638677
I have a retarded, brainlet tier question.
I want to read the old works, like Dante's Inferno and Shakespearean stuff. Are there "translations" available, from the old english style text to how we would normal speak today? I'd like to be able to immerse myself in the story rather than having to dissect sentences and words to understand them.

>>18638677
Read V recently and was surprised at what a fun read it was. My first Pynchon

>>18638667
>stop posting books on the book board!
t. faggot

>>18634494
he bought all of those like 2 months ago and made 10 topics about them. he hasn't read any of them

>>18635932
vol 1?

>>18639290
>from the old english style text to how we would normal speak today
did you go to middle school? that's how they teach them in english class

how was death on credit?
i loved journey to the end of night.
looking for something to read after the tartar steppe.

>>18639434
Yes, I did. My reading capability is exceptional, and it always has been. The first and only time during grade school that I read anything in old English was in my senior year, where we read Dante's Inferno. Just don't see the point, aside from cultural preservation, to continue printing these books in some outdated speak.

>>18639500
>Just don't see the point, aside from cultural preservation, to continue printing these books in some outdated speak.
because the "outdated speak" is the book you fucking retard. translations aren't real literature

here's my list. i don't buy until i'm nearly finished with the one before it. also these aren't all 100%, i'll look into them a bit more before buying/reading, but ones that have caught my eye.

***Death on the Installment Plan
Libra by Delillo
(Revisit Hemingway)
Thomas the Obscure
Mr. Tasker's Gods
Underworld (about baseball?)
The Tartar Steppe
The Hunger
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Oblomov
Caraco
Hemm's Fiesta
Les Chants de Maldoror


The Golden Ass
Democracy in America
Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry
Hamlet -> Dubliners -> Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -> Ulysses
Lot 49 -> V -> Gravity's Rainbow -> Vineland -> M & D
Aenied
Paradise Lost

>>18638658
>A bunch of classics and The Chrysalids
A man after my own heart. Well done.

>>18639531
>The Tartar Steppe
>Hunger by Hamsun
>My Struggle
>Les Chants de Maldoror
these are on my tbr too. Good luck with Joyce, you're in for a great time.

>>18639513
>I’d rather not read a book than read it with a slight loss of fidelity from the original.

>>18639500
Well Dante didn’t write in English, so just buy a more recent translation. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English, which really is not far off from modern English at all. I’m sure there’s a bunch of current English versions of his plays in any bookstore’s YA section. It’s not nearly as hard to parse as Middle English like Chaucer. Rewarding things usually take a bit more work.

Already finished The Glass Menagerie

>>18639500
Why not knock down the pyramids and replace them with some cinderblock brutalist monstrosity? Changing the language of Shakespeare to 21st century English doesn't work. The plays would be unrecognizable, all the humor hacked apart and ruined. Shakespeare's English is unique. It amounts to so much more than just the regular outdated English of his day. It was actually really innovative, incredibly so. He invented a sizeable percentage of our modern vocabulary. Study Shakespeare, put some time into it, move past that high school English class "this sucks" mindset and you will be rewarded.

>>18639290
I think you should look for "contemporary english" or "modern english" versions. I have a CEV Bible myself (which I read in conjunction with a King James one)

>stack
I keep my books on a bookshelf

>>18639721
yeah, i'm stoked for joyce
also for tartar steppe, sounds deliciously depressing, i'm hoping it's the one that finally puts me over the edge

>>18639780
How did you like it?

Is Henry James that good?

>>18639957
I thought it was pretty solid. Reminded me a lot of something Eugene O'Neil would write at first but by the end it became clear that Williamson is nowhere near as cynical as O'Neil is.

Read all of these except the Civil War and Morrissey's autobio

>>18635850
Mano, aprende espanhol aí, é bem facil, eu aprendi portugues lá e estou lendo a machado de assis, leer em o idioma original é foda

>>18639424
Its the one I've already read. Right now I've got it planned out that for every volume of Churchill I'll read two other books in between. Thinking I'll do the same for The History of England after I finish all 6 volumes of Churchill's, but with one big book in between

>>18638681
I'd say so, yes. His philosemitism sometimes is anoying, but he's a very erudite man, who brings out a great many topics and themes.
>>18640872
Eu pensei em adquirir aquele volume em espanhol; porém não estava disponível...
Mas sim, concordo que o original é sempre mais gratificante que a tradução.

>>18639290
Picrel is Old English. Shakespeare is modern English.
Shakespeare really isn't that hard to understand. I really feel sorry for you if you didn't get to study a few plays in school. No Fear Shakespeare do editions with Shakespeare on the right and a "modern" translation on the left. They have a website too
I think you'll be surprised by how easy you find Shakespeare. Start with Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, two of his best and simplest plays

>>18635065
His collected thoughts and dialogues

>>18634516
Intervisual Books Classics

>>18638048
>>18642778

holy shit we are this far into the thread and nobody has posted mein kampf? is /pol/ on vacation?

>>18642789
Dutch edition inherited from my grandfather :)

Beauvoir
>Second Sex
Celine
>Death on Credit

>>18642789
Forgot pic

bump

Most of my physical books.

>>18643974

>>18643985

Finished Lincoln in the Bardo. Brilliant once you get the hang of the structure. Uses formal tricks to disguise a heart wrenching tale.
Once upon a time in hollywood was entertaining trash
Gave up on Freedom a little over halfway through. Franzen is technically skilled but extremely hollow
Making my way currently through the McKee because I'm teaching creative writing this fall and using it for lesson plans (teaching high schoolers fyi) and the David Markson. The Markson books are part of tetralogy of collected anecdotes and allusions assembled into small novels with similar themes. It's good shit

>>18642789
See the shiny pink book in >>18643985

This is my summer reading. I have read Napoleon's, Cortes's, Jackson's, Wellington's, and Teddy Roosevelt's.

>>18644673
Why the interest in biographies, anon?
Also, when you finish it, please do tell about the Louis XVI biography; I've been looking for one and who knows, that might be it.

>>18644708
I saw some of the paintings of Napoleon and liked them, so I read his biography, then bought some for the rest of my favorite leaders. As you can guess, I am American, so that's why there are so many presidents, but I also like generals, which is why Eugene of Savoy and Cortes are there.
As for Louis XIV, that will be in a week or two because Eugene of Savoy is next and I have 150 pages of Cortes left. I also ordered one by him by a woman, but it got indefinitely delayed during shipping, so that is why I bought the 1980s one.

>>18644673
big dad who only reads history books energy radiating from this picture

>>18642778
>>18642784
Thank you!

>>18644673
Do you (or anyone else) know of a military focused book on Napoleon that you would recommend?

>>18644875
1812: Napoleon's Defeat in Russia, which is so detailed you will learn how French soldiers went to the bathroom in freezing temperatures.

>>18644735
>I saw some of the paintings of Napoleon and liked them
Lol, what an american reason to buy a biography of Napoleo (don't take personally, haha)
>Eugene of Savoy and Cortes
You have good taste anon.
>that will be in a week or two
I'll be looking out for a stack thread during that time. If there's one up after you've finished it, please post your picture again and comment on it. I thank you in advance.

here's my summer reading list (pray for me)

Life and Energy by Isaac Asimov
Valis by Philip K. Dick
The Gnostics by Jean Lacarrière
To Live and Think like Pigs: The Incitement of
Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies by Gilles Châtelet
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work by Danny Hillis
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
The Ten Principal Upanishads by W. B. Yeats (trans.)
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll
Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 by Ccru
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings by Lawrence Sutin
The Republic by Plato
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Crime and Punishment Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Goddess by Peter Grey
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
The Psychology of the Transference by Carl Jung
Widespread Panic by James Ellroy
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil by Thomas Gold
The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. by Bardley F. Smith
Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization by Hans Peter Duerr
...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year by Hudson
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli
Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson
Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour by Karl Sigmund
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by Douglas Emlen
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
The Symposium by Plato
Realm of Algebra by Isaac Asimov
More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
The Physics of Music and Color: Sound and Light by Leon Gunther
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics by Nick Herbert
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech by Cyrus Farivar
The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 by Will Durant
Unsong by Scott Alexander
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard
Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition by Joaquin Fuster
After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic by Richard Tieszen
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Comte de Gabalis by Abbé Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir Aczel
The New Science by Giambattista Vico

>>18645104
I think it would behoove you to slow down and take in the view along the way.

>>18634501
should check out some orthodox books that are recommend by the more "general" orthodox Chrstians than books that are popular among orthodox Christians on 4chan. if you go to a parish should ask the priest for recs; they"ll all know some good ones. not saying that as a dig either but both types of books are important to read
also if you haven't you'd probably like Moby Dick

>>18644875
His military maxims are good to read; they are selected from various letters (also nice to read) he wrote during his reign. Here are the first two, for example:
>THE frontiers of states are either large rivers, or chains of mountains, or deserts. Of all these obstacles to the march of an army, the most difficult to overcome is the desert; mountains come next, and large rivers occupy the third place.
>IN forming the plan of a campaign, it is requisite to foresee everything the enemy may do, and to be prepared with the necessary means to counteract it. Plans of campaign may be modified ad infinitum according to circumstances, the genius of the general, the character of the troops, and the features of the country.
The book is called Napoleon's Military Maxims. If you read this before a book about his campaigns, you will have foreknowledge of his reasons for evaluating battles, even if he doesn't directly state them.

>>18639918
it's not that depressing. You should try Cioran or Pavese if that is what you want

I had to turn them all round and take a photo so you could see them. They were originally piled as initial photo.

>>18645104
Pick 3. Don't hurt yourself. You wont get through them all, and even if you did, you wouldn't learn or enjoy it.

>>18639918
do you like poetry? Check out Trakl and Rimbaud.
>>18645104
>this list
>The Golden Bough
who are you trying to impress, anon? That's a year's worth of heavy reading, easily.

>>18634451
Bait

>>18644934
author?

>>18633305
Based Jamesbro

>>18647132
Antony Brett-James is the author. Though the book is largely a collection of translated Frech and Russian primary sources from the eastern campaign. My copy is from 1966 so I'm not sure whether it is still in print.

bump

>>18645104
Lmao
You'll get through 5 max

Some of the books in here take at least 6 months to fully digest

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