/lit/ - Literature

>>20060708
Carl Schmitt and Frederick Nietzsche

Based I'm pretty much the same.

I do not own a single book

Probably Tolstoy. I have 12 volumes of collected works + 2 volumes of War and Peace + 1 volume of Anna Karenina. I also had Resurrection but I haven't seen that in awhile, I don't know where this one disappeared.

>>20060708
Shakespeare, probably? He wrote some 40 works.

>>20060708
I've got everything of William Gibson's
After that it's Dostoevsky with five books, Tolstoy with four, Steinbeck and Nabokov with three

I’m embarrassed to admit it’s Yukio Mishima. I’m not even particularly fond of his books, but when I first encountered him I kept buying books precisely because I couldn’t decide if I liked them or not.

>>20060708
Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolkien, Melville, London. Lovecraft, (easy one here, still counts!.)

Stephen King - 40
2nd is Dean Koontz with 35

>>20060729
Nigga get yo shit collected wtf

>>20060734
>After that it's Dostoevsky with five books, Tolstoy with four
Subhuman
>Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolkien, Melville, London. Lovecraft
Not even going to be mean because I sense the dadness through the post, hope the senpai is well king

>>20060838
sigh... *family

What an embarrassing inquiry. I don't think I'll be obliging you with an answer my friend.

>>20060716
Sell me on Schmitt
and where do I start

Brautigan all of his prose works, think 13 books.

>>20060708
Tolkien, dan brown, tolstoy

about 15 thomas bernhard books give or take

Individual volumes? Henry James (3), Kant (3), and Plato (3). Collections of works? Shakespeare (his entire plays) and Montaigne (all of his essays).
I used to own all of Charles Dickens' novels too, but I gave them (along with hundreds of other books) away after I had to move houses across the country. I remember I used to have an omnibus of Oscar Wilde's complete stories and poems, and 5 different books by Leo Tolstoy too (one of which was a collection of short stories and novellas).

20 guenon books and I've only read like half all the way through and I've only read the other 10 or so as reference material to his other books

>>20060723
that's ok /lit/ doesn't read books anyway

>>20060734
>Dostoevsky with five books,
The only Dostoevsky novels I've been able to finish were Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. I tried reading The Idiot and Demons too, but never got through either of them more than 1/4 of the way through.
Demons is still on my bookshelf, however.

I own every books by Michel Houellebecq.

I own all avaliable English translations for gustav meyrink

I'm currently owning 20 Peter Sloterdijk books.
Pretty sure I've read most worthwhile stuff by now though.

>>20060708
I have the complete works of Kafka and the complete works of Beckett, and I have read both in their entirety. I also have The whole Sloterdijk Spheres trilogy, though I’ve only read the first book.

>>20060997
>>20061012
Sloterdijk synchronicity. Nice

first place is Tolkien at 7, runner up is Dostoevsky at 5

Bolaño

>>20061034
Based Bolano chad.

Tolkien and Hemingway

>>20060708
I own every guenon book brother

>>20060979
just read the green face
I enjoyed it

>>20060854
Concept of the political, talks about the friend/enemy distinction and why its important in geopolitics

>>20060892
based...!
which one are you currently reading?

I put off the man and his becoming according to vedanta for a while + /shankara/core because guenonfag had already went down that path so I wanted to explore his other works first.

finally diving into it and have been digging into the /lit/ archives over the past couple weeks cracking up over peak 2020 guenonfag autism

Second place is Italo Calvino with six (counting the three-volume Fiabe Italiane as one)…

… first place is Terry Pratchett with 34, everything from The Colour of Magic to Thud. Preteen obsession trumps literary pretensions I guess.

>>20060708
George Bernard Shaw whom I insist on calling by all three names, I got this older set in perfect condition of all his plays

Joyce and Kafka.

HG Wells

>>20061597
Really blew my mind to learn he was the uncle of Orson Wells

Karl Marx & Engels (about 50 volumes)
Vladimir Lenin (About 50 volumes)
Joseph Stalin (13 volumes)

I voted for Trump in both elections.

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>>20060838
>Not even going to be mean because I sense the dadness through the post, hope the family is well king
Thank you, fren.

>>20060708
Also Jung for me. Liber Novus Reader’s Edition is higher up on this shelf, and the facsimile is on a different one. Next on my list is the Black Books.

Terry Pratchett
I was a big discworld fan as a teen and they're very nostalgic to me

>>20060909
Demons is a very slow burn, especially the first 3rd. I read it in summer 2020 and it felt very on the nose. The old generation are basically boomers who turned their back on their native culture to ape the aesthetics of more exotic/enlightened continentals, and who raised their children to have this same attitude but are horrified to realize their children despise them for not actually believing their own bullshit. The younger generation, taught to look down upon Russia and being irritated with their parent's lack of action in changing/destroying it, turn to radical politics to take matters into their own hands (you could easily read this as having analogues to Antifa or The Alt Right, both are equally applicable). The bizarre, degenerate bullshit that some of the youngsters believe, and the cringy idealism and elitism of the older generation feels very contemporary in a very depressing way desu.

>>20061729
lol

>>20060708
r u gay?

>>20061101
Walpurgisnacht is my personal favorite so far. Have to read the White Dominican next

>>20060708
Ryle

>>20060708
R.L stine. I used to love goosebumps as a kid!

Junger
Tocqueville
Schmitt
Strauss

foucault

>>20061604
I kneel.

>>20061601
First r8 b8 m8

>>20060708
PKD, I own 9 of his books.

>>20060716
I'm sorry.

>>20061604
Simply epic

>>20060723
same. Books are for boring pretentious cunts who think they're special for wasting their life staring at long texts other men wrote.
And oddly enough most people who read a lot of books have nothing interesting to say of their own.

They collect books as if they're trophies just so they can show off to others.

>"You see that 600 page tome? I read every page of that. Most people would be too bored to read that much but I sure did. Aren't I amazing?"

>>20060708
Lovecraft, Tolkein, HG Wells, and then Riordan because I still have the Percy Jackson books from when I was a kid. John Flanaggan for the same reason, read most of his books when I was little.

>>20061770
Nice to see another Graham Hancock enjoyer.

>>20062639
why are you people here?

Shakespeare - 14 in individual Arden editions
Updike - 11 with 7 novels/ short story collections + 4 non fiction
Henry James - 7 LOA volumes

I've read more then half of it, say 60% or so. .

>>20062686
To get (you)s

>>20060716
Based

>>20062312
PKD for me as well, I own 32 of his books. Would have been 36 but I stupidly gave away some while clearing shelf space a couple of years ago.

>>20061716
bradchad

>>20060708
I'm not 100% sure but I think that would be Ernst Jünger and Hemingway. I'm not even a huge hemingway fan but his books are a nice easy and entertaining read for when you haven't yet decided what what you want to read next or when the shipping takes a while etc. that's why I have a bunch of them on hand.

>>20060997
What's a good place to start with Sloterdijk?

Wagner

>>20060708
Lee Child

>>20062187
Bases macaco

I guess I'll just list the authors that I have more than five books for.
As far as number of separate books goes:
Adorno - 6
Aristotle (Including the volumes of his Complete Works) -5
Berlin - 7
Derrida - 5
Foucault - 9
Hegel - 5
Kant - 7
Marx - 6
Russell - 5
Spinoza (Including the volumes of his complete works) - 5
Zizek - 5
Copleston - 5
Freud - 7
Chomsky -7
Pynchon - 6
Mishima - 6

>>20062691
Based Updikefag

What's your favorite of Updike's?

>>20060708
Philip K Dick, Friedrich Nietzsche and Harlan Ellison. I also have the complete works of many poets but they seldom exceed one volume.

>>20060708
Patrick O'brien - 20

>>20060708
i try to buy complete or collected works when possible so i have a decent amount of large, single volume books from one author. always on the lookout for more of those. most books from one author is probably tolkien at like 6 or 7 i think.

Walter Scott: 30 novels, 5 vols of biography, 2 vols of poetry

Terence McKenna.

>>20062891
I like his more lyric style, so In the Beauty of the Lilies, the last 2 Rabbit books and Of the Farm.
I also love his criticism and nonfiction. He was an Edmund Wilson follower and he's got that same sensitivity as Wilson. There were a few years when i only read books based on Updike's recommendations, and he still seems like a good guide to me.
What do you like about him?

>>20060708
I have Ernst Jüngers collected works, everything I could get by Mishima in english or german except for star i think and everything i could get by Alain de Benoist in german.

>>20062901
Same here

11 each for Cormac and Hemmingway
Hopefully the New York Times article about the The Passenger and Stella Maris is accurate and Cormac takes the lead in November.

i think it may be a tie between hemmmingway, tolkien, and gene wolfe at four books each. i have a pretty small collection.

>>20060708
My rather small collection is far from impressive, and I didn't really bother to keep track, but the biggest part of my collection of physical books is a selection of Agatha Christie books (6-7 titles), selection of mystery books that dad bought for me (12 titles), some Lovecraft (4-5 titles) and some cheap thrillers I keep for my dad and didn't bother to count.
My ebooks are mostly Leblanc's Lupin, Fantomas and Maigret by Simenon. For some authors I got collected works ebook, like Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and William Hope Hodgson, so I got everything (or at least most) in one place.

>>20060708
Lenin

>>20060708
Cormac McCarthy. Everything he has written

Jin Yong

pdf files btw

>>20060742
complex answer, beats all the cookie-cutter pseuds hollow.

>>20061604
How did these commie fucks write so much? Didn't some of them have a revolution to oversee, a state to run? Plus, they also seem to be voracious readers too. How?

>>20060708
Terry Pratchett

>>20060708
Kurt Vonnegut.

>>20063137
You getting the new novels this year too?

Alastair Reynolds. 11 books.

Aristotle comes as a close second though. 7 books.

>>20063225
Most of those volumes would be essays and think pieces in Pravda for Lenin. Marx would have had similar documents but he definitely wrote more philosophy and histories than Lenin or Stalin combined. Lenin wrote one philosophical book that undoes idealism of the mind but it’s not as watertight as Marx. Stalin wrote some philosophy but it’s mainly short stuff.

Emil Cioran

>>20062813
7 Chomsky fucking yikes

>>20060708
Tolkien, pretty much everything with his name on the cover (multiple times).

>>20060708
Whitehead and Bachelard

I own most of Christopher Hitchens' books. As much as I don't agree with his neocon politics and in hindsight the anti-religion stuff was also pretty cringe, he was a pretty good writer and very entertaining to read.

>>20063225

You need to understand that the majority of their works are basically:

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

and then you start thinking to yourself: "Holy fuck, do I really need to read all this shit to understand HISTORICAL MATERIALISM ?"

Just read Proudhon - What is Property.

And whenever you meet one of those stinking communists from third world shitholes or college students, you say to them................................................................................................... you go to HELL

These people that align themselves with quasi political regimes on the extreme left and right live on illusions.

>>20062739
There are two main works I would always recommed, are translated into English and are available as pdf on the regular sites. Spheres Trilogy and "you must change your life"
Spheres are three pretty massive books but they start at the very beginning and are a very complete body of work that could be used as a framework for all kinds of thoughts, ethics and metaphysics. For me personally it was an absolute joy to read.
The second is basically a book on Nietzsche and Sloterdjiks life-long engagement with spirituality, asceticism etc.
I think it is a good idea to engage with "You must change your life" first to see if you like the way Sloterdjijk writes. He has a the habit of going on broad historical tangents to explain why something is relevant which I found rather interesting and educating but others kinda dislike.
If you fall in the later category then spheres wont be much fun either and you probably wont finish it.

If you can speak German then there are other books which I found pretty good and substantial (Nach Gott and Nicht Gerettet in particular) in understanding P. SL. especially his use of Heideggerian ontology which really comes to life in Spheres. But they are optional and the two books I mentioned before are very standalone and don't particularly need secondary literature because his usage of footnotes is very excessive and clear.
He also has a few stinkers imo but you wont name them now since it's probably not relevant.

If been thinking about making a Sloterdijk /chart/ since quite some while now if people are interested.

>>20060963
Based

>>20063353
I counted Manufacturing Consent as one of them, two of them are linguistics books, and another is an anthology that had some pieces I wanted to read. The others are just political books. I picked up most of them at used book sales where everything is so cheap that I would grab anything remotely interesting.

>>20063225
They spent far less time shitposting and fapping to tranny porn

>>20063459
Tbh I put down bubbles because I was disappointed in the inherent dualism, but I'm having trouble disintegrating the dual myself, I'm more interested in polarity, but polarity still implies bipolarity which is borderline dualism, did I stop reading too soon?

>>20063225
I guess you could say a lot of it is filler. Stuff like a letter Lenin sends discussing party organisation or a speech by Marx to the working mens association are of interest to scholars but for a general reader they're not that great.

Also, they weren't constantly pushing for revolution, this is true after 1848 for Marx, and after 1905 for Lenin. They spent a lot of time in exile, so they spent a lot of time writing pamphlets and letters. There's a cynical aspect to it too, Lenin writes a shit tonne of philosophical stuff after 1905 as a way to get Bogdanoff kicked out of his faction.

For Stalin especially a lot of it is ghostwritten or filler. There's a whole volume in Stalin's collected works that's just 'orders of the day' from the second world war. It's a lot less interesting than that description might make you think essentially amounting to 'shoot the guns at the enemy'.

>>20063225
They hated cooming.
Marx smoked cigars like a fiend.

>>20063886
>I was disappointed in the inherent dualism
The dualism between child and placenta which then becomes this relationship between the human and his enviroment?
He does eventually break up this dualism especially when he arrives at Part two where the human inhabitation of the different spheres becomes important and the topic is basically man in relation to his surroundings. He also doesn't come back to it too much during the rest of the trilogy.
He does dwell on this duality quite long though I have to admit but I suspect that this is mainly because he really wants to drive home the point how much of a catastrophe birth so that Heideggers Geworfenheit (thrownness) becomes really rooted as the core of his ontology. It is this Geworfenheit which also made P. SL. so interested in gnosticism, a topic which he discusses from time to time in his books.

>did I stop reading too soon?
In my opinion he really picks up the pace in Globes (spheres part 2) and for many people on /lit/ this is probably the most interesting part too because it all really starts with the greeks. But it's really for you to decide if you want to continue. If you didn't finish book one you still can start book 2 and see where it takes you and still drop it if he fails yet again to catch your interest. They are all more or less self-contained.

>I'm more interested in polarity
Then maybe "you must change your life" is more interesting because there his self described role as "onto-kineticist" is more prevalent.
It's a big book on why and how we "strife" for something. An upward motion.

>>20063128

Unfathomably based

>>20063413
Proudhon?
>Property is theft/robbery!
Didn't Marx and Stirner shit all over him for rightly pointing out that property presupposes theft as a conceptual category, making it self-refuting nonsense?

I own most of Evola and Guenon's books in English.

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>>20063128
based

For me it's maugham
12

>>20060708
C.W. Ceram :)

>>20063156
I still don’t know if I like them or not, if you were wondering at all.

Kenneth Roberts as of recently. Just finished Boon Island. Disgusting and great. I think he would have been tempted to make a larger book and narrative if he had started work on it earlier, as Captain John Deane was a very interesting guy who led quite a life beyond merely shipwrecking on a rock island in winter.

There's a newer Boon Island book out that takes Langman's side of the story, claiming to correct the record. That book is bullshit even moreso than Roberts' book is historical fiction.

phillip roth

Don Delillo

30+ Harlan Ellison. Dude's a trip.

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>>20061770
Tranny moment.

>>20060708
Jack London

>>20063245
First I've heard of them. Any links?

>>20060708
Clancy

>>20060997
holy fucking based. i own 4 of his books but im planning on only growing the collection

>>20060708
William Faulkner
Christopher Hitchens

>>20060762
I hope this is bait.

Own pretty much everything published by Dostoevsky. After that it's probably Conrad.

>>20069144
Nope

>>20063244
You must be 18 to post here.

>>20060708
Nietzsche then Dosto... Wait, I'm slowly turning into Jordan Peterson, aren't I? Just need some Jung and I've completed the holy trinity

Melville, Austen, Conrad, Dosto

>>20060708
Frank Herbert

>>20069389
Favorite Koontz book?

>>20069502
Hmmm.... I think Dark Rivers of the Heart

>>20062187
gigapardo pretomaster detected

>>20065407
Thanks for the detailed response, I think I'll give him another go.

>>20061770
Are those nice Princeton paperbacks decent translations?

>>20062187
Finalmente, gigatraveco.

>>20062187
Eu me pergunto o quanto deve foder com a cabeça do cidadão ler essa quantidade de Foucault.

>>20061604
Get out of 4chan, Olavo de Carvalho!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIJbb2OrIU

>>20060708
Henry James

>>20070186
Which period of his writing do you prefer? Fave short stories?

I own all of J. G. Ballard's novels and both volumes of his collected short stories

I own 15 Lemony Snicket books.

>>20063128
name one good lenin trait