/lit/ - Literature

>>19906812
yawn

>>19906812
Only fell for the meme because you picked up The Republic before Plato's early dialogues and Metaphysics before Organon

Little babystack, hyped for reading A Sentimental Journey. It's been a while since I bought such a nice quality book, material-wise.

>>19906812

>>19906812
On muuten aivan hirveää luettavaa tuo nikomakhoksen etiikka.

>>19906812
Bible CHAD here. I have $10,000 dollars in premium highland goatskin bibles printed in the Netherlands and bound by RL Allan

>>19907860
pic rel. Bible CHAD out.

bought these 4 this week and am hoping to read them over the next month but uni work is starting to get quite heavy

>>19907860
Stop calling yourself a chad because you spent $10,000 on bibles, how vain.

Fuck yeah $60 for ISOLT, score!

>>19909609
Oops

Currently making my way through the new klosterman and the pta book.

>>19906842
Republic is a fine introduction to Plato.

is a stack for what you've recently bought or what you're currently reading? heres what im reading

>>19910014
>Physical copy of Memories
Based

>>19906812
Still grappling on the transcendental analytic

>>19907814
Cool and masculine stack

>>19911441
I'm glad there's a few stacks on here which diverge from this toxic groupthink prevalent on this board

>>19911583
>toxic groupthink
Kek--fuck off. It's literally a meme book thread.
>>19906812
Books I've read because of /lit
>Conversations With Friends (Rooney)
Not as terrible as I thought it would be but still banal drivel. It's not "literature," it's pretty lowbrow, but it's well written. Basically on the same level as Atwood but with less skill. However, Rooney is better at rounding her characters than Atwood is--with the qualification that Rooney's characters aren't very complex in the sense that they have cliched internal lives.
>The Bow and the Club (Evola)
I've only read one essay so far so I honestly can't give a fair opinion on it.
>L'Academie
It was a huge slog and without the threads it wouldn't be funny enough to read on its own.
>David Foster Wallace (Oblivion)
I'd read a book on math he wrote a long time ago and it convinced me he was a pseud. I gave him a second try at the behest of his popularity on this board and I've enjoyed his work so far. I started IJ about 5 years ago and couldn't get into it...but I'm going to read it eventually based on the strength of his short stories.
>Mishima
Liked Mishima before 4chan (heard about him originally in a reading guide I bought in a used bookstore, "Cult Fiction" which is great btw). I appreciate the fact he is popular on here but I think a lot of people are filtered by the fact he started a cult and don't necessarily appreciate him being a complex figure with great talent (i.e. they just like the nationalism shit (as well as the quality of his work)).
Books I'm going to read because of lit:
>Storm of Steel
>Revolt Against the Modern World
>IJ (mentioned above)
Not that many because /lit doesn't influence the majority of my reading habits. Mishima wasn't because of /lit but I enjoy the discussions and the memes.

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>>19911779
>filtered by Rooney
Tragic, but unsurprising having read the rest of your post. You seem to be in the minority of /lit/ users actually who read, but unfortunately no better for it, and seemingly worse off since you actually put effort into it. By all means keep going if you enjoy yourself, but quit with the smarmy posts, ok?

>>19906812
Go back to ylilauta.

>>19910252
Bro you got the shitty translation

>>19906842
>Metaphysics before organon
and before the physics

>>19911005
bad picks all around

>>19911005
SLAYER??

>>19913110
>SLAYER??

>>19911441
Thought that was a freight train driving through early morning mist from the thumbnail

getting a bit out of hand

>>19913126
>homotopy theory
The patrician guide to topping femboys. Great choice anon.

>>19907892
nice bongos

>>19913121
you are right, it realy looks like that

>>19906812
Can't wait to get the next volume in Kotkin's Stalin biography, volume 1 has been very enlightening.

>>19909715

>The Fisherman

Kino

Best stack right here

>>19911779
>a reading guide I bought in a used bookstore, "Cult Fiction"
who's that author?

>>19912395
You mean Kant? I'm esl so cannot entirely judge the work. It's coherent at least. Some parts are difficult but isn't that what everyone tells of the Critique?

>>19906812
Folio Society haul

>>19916136
reddit as fuck

>>19913110
I don't like Slayer other than their first album.

>>19912511
I stopped caring about the awful depressing bullshit metal that /mu/ talks about and learned to just enjoy what I enjoy.

>>19916211
Shut the fuck up sneed. Go back to twitter

>>19916136
THIS MAN is putting his BOOKS on a CD STAND

>>19916219
just call me a chud why don't you?

chud

>>19916136
in this whole thread you are the poster i would least like to go to bed with.

>>19916307
I don't sleep with election tourist chuds anyway. YWNBAW

>>19916314
You can decide whether you'd sleep with me.

>>19916339
Anon, I actually really like this photograph itself, and also I'd love to read those books too. But why the fuck do you have Dryden upside-down?

>>19916351
the Sciascia is upside down too. =(

isn't the Dryden lovely tho, i bought it on a hunch, with no picture for 4$. The dorothy osborne letters are FS too BTW, but it's from the 60's, back when they were a proper publisher

>>19916368
It is lovely. And yeah, they've definitely become mass-produced, but in my experience it's reasonable quality for your dollar (and they don't call you a chud when you order, unlike Arion, so there's that).

f

>>19912369
Say something or fuck off retard.
>>19915155
>pic related
Andrew Calcutt/Richard Shepard. It has nice little mini-bios of 250 or so authors. At the bottom of each, it cites their key works and recommends similar authors (even ones that aren't included in the book). I think it has been out of print for decades but you can find it used for like $4-$6 on amazon.

>>19912369
>You can't criticize Sally Rooney! Sh-she...she...uh. You were filtered!
Retard.

>>19917451
u

>>19913126
what pen do you use?

>>19912369
>Complains about smarmy posts in the thread
>Writes the most smarmy of posts in the thread
?

>>19911005
those are mostly great albums