/lit/ - Literature

>>18871091
there really needs to be more regulation in these stack thjreads. this nogga just pposted like 20 books. It supposed to be shit you are reading or maybe 3-5 books you just picked up. FUCK YOU

Another fucking stack thread? How about you start reading the books in your pretentious stack before seeking validation via other anons here and shitting up the board?

>stack thread
Hmm let's see what books I have yet to consoom

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>>18871276
nutrition books are a scam

Finished the Iliad two days ago, good stuff. 1/6 through the Odyssey now and I think I am enjoying it even more.

Just copped these bad boys from Bezos' Book Emporium. Starting with the LoA Melville and reading Clarel.

First time posting in one of these threads. I have yet to buy a proper bookshelf.

>>18871091
World of Yesterday is very good.

>>18871729
What are your top reads so far and what books are up next?

Went to the thrift store for furniture and an espresso cup, left with these. There was a sticky note with login information for a columbia.edu email in Naked Lunch.

>>18871459
everybody needs to read melville's poems

>>18871796
>top reads so far
Kinda cliché and normie but Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Divine Comedy, really enjoyed them.
>what books are up next
I'm making my way through Caesar and Christ in conjunction with the New Testament right now; first time reading it through. After that, I want to read Aquinas and Augustine once I've re-read Aristotle a bit. I plan on just meandering my way up from there.

>>18871729
Good shelf. Similar to mine

>>18871729
What's hidden behind those books on the right I see Patrick Buchanan and José Ortega y Gasset

>>18872159
>Patrick Buchanan and José Ortega y Gasset
The Death of the West and the Revolt of the Masses. There's a lot of books that are hidden behind the others on both sides but I'm too lazy atm to rearrange everything.

>>18872142
Thanks fren

>>18871729
retard

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>>18871729
Neat books if you actually read them and aren't just doing the zoomer grand tour

>>18873047
>aren't just doing the zoomer grand tour
I'm 22. I've read close to half but still have a long ways to go. Ever since my freshman year of college, each year around Christmas I'll go buy a bunch of new books and plan out which books I'll read for that year. I didn't do so well the first two years but read a lot last year because of COVID and a fairly decent amount this year as well. I take notes and journal as I read too so that significantly slows down the reading process, but I retain a hell of a lot more of what I read when I do that.

Finished The Magus and Conan The Adventurer, currently reading Meridian then going to finish the Prince of Nothing trilogy.

>>18873528
Fixed hopefully

>>18873543
I fucking hate this website

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Kek

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Ugh finally, fixed.

>>18873624
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It's the right side up on my end. I've had that happen before when the images are too big so that's why I shrank it down. I'm probably just fucking retarded though.

>>18871091
Always nice to see Pavese in anglo pics

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi, diofà

>>18873634
next time just crop the width. 4chan doesn't like images that are too wide.

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>>18873624
hey everyone, check out the retard

>>18871859
>There was a sticky note with login information for a columbia.edu email in Naked Lunch.
Excellent, did you check if it works?
Also, what's Troubles?

>>18873528
kek this nigga just glued his books to the ceiling

>>18873784
It does not. There's also a phone number with a Manhattan area code and I thought about texting them cause I found the book in a thrift shop 1500 miles away but I don't know what I'd say.

I hadn't heard of Troubles but I liked the synopsis and the first few pages about the fate of a once grand hotel. And I like NYRB.

>>18874029
Hmm not sure the plot interests me. There's something intriguing and other stuff that I really do not care about. How much did you pay for it?

>>18874168
$2.50

>>18874235
Fair enough

Bump

>>18874029
> A tour de force…

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>>18871276
Unfathomly based

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>>18873624
lmao

>>18875520
How is your reading of Montaigne going?

>>18873624
It's okay my man. We can still read the upside-down titles anyway.

>>18871222
>that meme
XD

yeah i gotta be stacked before the next lockdown

>>18871091
Bedside table right now. I like switching between books. Keeps things interesting

>>18873648
So is blood meridian worth reading or is it a meme? I liked The Road and all the pretty horses

>>18875520
Based polish literature chad. Why no Mickiewicz?

>>18875815
>Far out on the desert to the north dustspouts rose wobbling and augered the earth and some said they'd heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again and there perhaps to watch the thing that had destroyed them lurch onward like some drunken djinn and resolve itself once more into the elements from which it sprang.
It's one of the greatest American novels. But considering your obvious impressionability you probably shouldn't read it because retard.

>>18875815
>only reading one part of a trilogy

>>18875577
Well I'm on holiday rn and I didn't bring it with me, but I have read a couple essays already and I can say that Montaigne's unique voice comes through very strong even in translation, and both were exceptionally pleasant to read. Going back home tomorrow so I'll be back to reading him then

>>18875822
Already read Pan Tadeusz and just haven't gotten round to reading any more yet. I'm thinking the next thing I'll read will either be Konrad Wallenrod or his short verse and then I'll get to Dziady after that.

Does anyone have link for Born to Fear by Thomas Ligotti? Fucking thing is unfindable.

>>18875698
Make sure you have a familiarity with Aquinas and various other Aristotlisms before reading Dante anon.

>>18871091
Can you comment on Flaubert/Pavese/Boswell/Gaddis/White/Hughes letters and diaries? U have a very impressive collection though its doubtful you read any

>>18875815
The style is different but if you liked Atph and aren't bothered by plotlessness and violence you may enjoy it.

>>18875865
the first two books in The Border Trilogy are basically standalones, you need to read both of them if you want to read the 3rd though

Books picked up today at 2nd hand store

Some great Swedish novels I've wanted to read a long time, a swedish translation of Brothers Karamazov (read it in English already) and then some poems by one of our more famous poets.

>>18876637
I just want him to not-stop at ATPH. The Crossing is the true masterpiece.