/lit/ - Literature

>>18823859
Wow, incredibly based. No wonder this place helped produce Beckett, Berkeley, Burke, Swift, and Wilde.

>>18823859
Nice stack

>>18823859
mogged by the internet
any subhuman basement-dweller with a shitty internet connection and an e-reader can become more educated and more well-read than any other person in history has had the opportunity to

>>18824169
Except for the fact that modern life permits no one but the rich the time necessary to do so. Even in working for a academi, you’re for ed to hyper specialized in one thing and the dreams of breadth remain dreams. Reminder that for hundreds if not thousand of years, even peasants only actively worked 1/3 of the year.

>>18824184
I work security, I read during my whole shift, come home, read some more and if I really wanted I could reduce my work week to 24 hours a week

>>18824169
>any subhuman basement-dweller with a shitty internet connection and an e-reader can become more educated and more well-read than any other person in history has had the opportunity to
Why isn't it happening then?

>>18824215
it is. just look at /lit/.

>>18824184
so go be a peasant and work 1/3 of the year

i got vidal's narratives of empire series for a $1 each. (forgot to include one, there are 7 total).

>>18824184
>even peasants only actively worked 1/3 of the year.
imagine believing this meme

>>18823836
>Ellmann's Joyce bio
>Letters of Gaddis
bretty good.
>>18823859
hmm I've been here. Nice lie-berry.

pic related is a recent haul

past stack

Just picked up The American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood.

What do you think?

>>18824899
You got meme’d but +1 for Golem

>>18824899
Good. A fellow meyrink reader

Newfag here. This is a recent acquisition from my local used book store. I’m currently just reading stuff that I see recommended on /lit/.

>>18823836
>Biographia Literaria
extremely based

>>18824899
Let's see Paul Allen's stack

>>18824184
>but the rich
You misspelled NEETs, the true modern aristocrats.

>>18824671
It's scientifically validated, not a meme. Crops and animals do not require that much time to tend except on special occasions (like harvesting or sowing).

>>18824950
Only good book in here is lolita

>>18824282
>>18824671
Peasants worked the fields. it isn't that time consuming, city-slickers. Though the average peasant definitely could not read

I ordered them on the same day. I hate multiple packages on multiple days. Stop making me go outside.

>>18824169
Yeah but it looks so comfy in there

>>18825068
thanks

>>18824196
Oh shit its you again, security-anon. Is the pay good?

Bump

>>18824280
>it is. just look at /lit/.
Yeah, only masterpieces come out of here.

this month's buys

>>18825856
From top to bottom:
Nietzsche's birth of tragedy
Foucault's birth of Biopolitics
Benoit's International relations from 1800 to 1871
Baudrillard's Paroxysm
Aristophanes' Birds
The Pre-socratic philosophers - G S Kirk, J e Raven, M Schofield

>>18823836
>gundam the origin
>lone wolf and cub
unfathomably based

>>18824950
if you're new to reading I would highly recommend not just listening to /lit/ and hyperfocussing on classics

try out random stuff for now. If you see some random book at a used book store and it seems cool to you, read it. And read it without looking up beforehand what le internet thinks of it.
Of course it's good to read classics but you will appreciate them more if you've read some other stuff first imo.
Nobody's first book should be dostoyevski

>>18826047
Cringy masochist

>>18826063
sheep

>>18823836
Gundam and Joyce? Truly patrician taste, have a (you)

>>18826105
Could you tell me why you're reading Deleuze? I'm >>18825902 and am reading Foucault out of curiosity (pretty disappointed hitherto). My main question is: should I read Deleuze?

>>18826151
Hi anon, my advice would be that u should first read deleuze's collab with guattari. Start with Anti-Oedipus and treat it as a literature. (As what Foucault stated on the preface lol). I would recommend reading foucault's birth of the clinic so you would have a grasp of how he structures his ideas and theories. Hope this help anon

>>18826151
same anon here, i read d&g because I like how they write lol, I would recommend that u read them too anon

>>18826215
Thanks, much appreciated. I'm not a particular fan of (most) of their ideas, but I have come to find them very interesting to understand our contemporary situation. Out of the French Po-Mo's my favorites have been Bataille, Baudrillard and Ellul. Can you recommend me any other that you find interesting?

>>18826247
OK thanks!

>>18826250
based on your interest i would recommend reading Tiqqun anon

>>18826322
Looks very interesting (although I'm not neither an Anarchist nor a feminist), thank you for the rec!

>>18826047
Yeah, I don’t want all of my reading just to be stuff on /lit/‘s “Top 100 Books” list, but I am having fun so far. I think the next time I go book shopping I’ll look for a wildcard to buy.

>>18824169
Not so - and not for the reasons other replies have claimed
The internet materially allows for massive literary consumption but the format of ideas affects the structural nature of our minds. Though nearly infinite books are available online, they’ll be read less compared to times when there were fewer available, our attention spans are decimated and our attention distracted in a million directions, to Netflix, to useless forums, to YouTube audiobooks, and no, the passive consumption of an audiobook is not a replacement for the active energy taken to read a book. In fact, the modern world is defined by passive, rather than active, consumption of media, like you’ll passively consume my cock you dumb zoomer.

>>18823836
I don't buy b00ks, seethe

This big boi just arrived

>>18824730
Pancake rules

>>18823836
I don't recognize that Coover spine, can you show the front?

>>18825902
BTW, I'd didn't mean to respond to [856], that isn't me.

>>18826989
I don't feel like getting out of bed. It's the hardcover Viking and it didn't come with a dust jacket.

>>18827204
Oh I'm a dumbass, I thought that was a jacket

>>18824899
What's Cows? I like the other four books/authors

>>18826835
based

Bump

>>18824950
I more or less do the same. However I think >>18826047 is right insofar as dipping into a context is better and more fun than randomly choosing classics, and that taking a risk on a book is fun

>>18827288
edgy shit like Guyotat

>>18826417
why

Bum0

>>18823836
nice stack, OP

>>18824671
it is true think retard you are planting crops and waiting for them to grow

>>18829491
They're doing shit the entirety of the year. There's a lot more that goes into farming beyond 'plant seed get crop'. You're tilling soil, you're processing harvest, you're maintaining animals and their enclosures, constructing an additional barn. The list of shit that needs to be done on any given farm is endless, just ask a farmer.

>>18829516
i have you are a low iq city boy don't talk about things you know nothing of

>>18824215
Because there's too many distractions. Occasionally there'll be a person who is as well read as the people of the past but that was rare even back then. Now you have to find someone who doesn't use the internet that much, doesn't play video games, doesn't watch TV, and doesn't use social media. And then that person has to choose books as their passion instead of something else.

And even if you find a person like that, he won't be welcome in the universities unless he follows a certain beliefset. And he will most likely will not have a cushy middle class professorship waiting for him.

Even in a place like this which is supposed to be a place to discuss literature, it's very apparent that most of the members don't even read that much. If you make books even a moderate priority in your life, you should easily clear 50 books a year.

>>18825194
>muh immediate gratification and convenience
disgusting