/lit/ - Literature

>>21430139
>Sound of waves
It's very underrated, i very much hope you enjoy it.

>>21430139
10/10 stack desu

>>21430139
I have a bunch of gift cards so I’m not sure yet. Since it’s like house money I might gamble and get the JF Cooper Leatherstocking Tales box set from LOA

>>21430139
I would be concerned if someone gifted me Lolita.

>>21430139
What does /lit/ think of drake's stack?

I'll tell you tomorrow morning.

>>21430185
>Faggotry and communism
He's a half nigger jewish faggot so...

>>21430185
putting his shoe on top of all those books and not even thinking about what that could symbolize

>>21430139
You’re going to read those? You would read, perchance; no, on the contrary, there aren’t any hours long enough for you to read those when you post here and game all day, disreputable wretch.

>You’re going to read those? You would read, perchance; no, on the contrary, there aren’t any hours long enough for you to read those when you post here and game all day, disreputable wretch.

>>21430471
That is indeed what I just said, sirrah.

>>21430139
I've decided to embrace being a pseud

>>21430139
Gift card purchases so waiting for them in the mail:
>Confessions by Rousseau
>Rimbaud: The Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller
>The Decameron by Boccaccio

Still deciding what else to get

>>21430240
i thought that was the point and he did it on purpose

I got,
The Principal Upanishads by S Radhakrishnan

The Essentials of Hinduism by Trilochan Sastry

>>21430139
are you from the future?

>>21430139
I bought Jung's Answer to Job to my mom and Le Guin's The Dispossessed to a close cousin. I gave some original pictures of a 1930's photographer from my city to my dad.

>>21430139
Nice Dick

>>21430545
>The Principal Upanishads by S Radhakrishnan
Niiiiiice

>>21430185
The Timothy McVeigh book is excellent. The shoe on top of the stack makes me ill.

>>21430599
No from europe

My parents got me that 6-volume pack of In Search of Lost Time popular on Amazon.

>>21431750
These are nice. Very nice indeed.

Atlas Shrugged
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Art of Fielding
The Essential Plotinus
the penguin Tagore book
The stranger
Paradise Lost Norton critical edition

>>21430139
I got 4 books:
>Infinite Jest
>Dostoyevsky in Germany
>The Daily Watchwords for 2023 by the Moravian Church
>How To Be A Man
That last one is a joke (hopefully) and I got it by my soon to be MIL

>>21432456
Anon, I hope you enjoy infinite jest. It took me 3 times to really get into it, but once you do it's a wonderful experience. It's funny when youre in a good mood, it's empathetic when you are in a bad one. It's a puzzle when you want it to be. It's my favorite book, but I refuse to rec it to people. It's hard to explain to normies. "oh yeah it's a scifi book about drug adddicts and tennis with end notes."

No pic, but

The Conduct Of War 1789-1961 by J. F. C. Fuller
Crisis And Leviathan by Robert Higgs
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris
The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray
More Guns, Less Crime by John Lott
The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan

>>21432517
Vomit

>>21432529
Lefty retard detected

The Silmarillion (from mom)
Tender is the Night (from gf)
Typee (from sister)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (from gf's brother)

Plus some additional ones from my gf's parents we're not opening until the final night of Hanukkah starts.

>>21430185
I know where Drake lives and his security is a scrawny Somalian that I could easily beat up. Thats my resolution for the new year

What am I in for?

>>21430139
I just got Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino, but I came prepared by mailing myself some /lit/ gifts of my own:
>Columbine - Dave Cullen
>Soumission - Michel Houellebecq
>Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Also going to get the audiobook of Lolita read by Jeremy Irons (I’m afraid to possess a physical copy).

>>21432334
Cool. Robin Lane Fox's bio is also good reading.

>>21430139
Pleiades edition of Louis-Ferdinand Celine's works.
Won't read them this Winter though.

don't have the stack here but I finally got myself Gadamers Truth and Method, David Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel and Language, Joseph Campbells The Masks of God, and a bunch more books going into that direction. All of the anthropologist and linguistc literature I've previously pirated and/or started reading, finished but now want to study more closely.
Feels good to buy a stack of books I already know what they're about.

>>21430185
Do those shoes have a flashing light that activates whenever you take a step?

>>21431750
That's very nice !

>>21430139
>asking for books when you haven't even read the ones you own

anon...

>>21432955
No such thing as too many books. As soon as you get a sizable library there will inevitably be books you haven’t read. Sometimes you take a shot in the dark and the book just isn’t for you or a book isn’t what you are hoping for. There are too many books out there to force yourself to read something that isn’t clicking with you. Sometimes you’ll lose interest in a book before you get around to it. You’ll see as you get older and read more

>>21430185
Only thing he's reading is the show's tongue tag.

>>21433174
The cover art on the Argento blu ray is really nice. I looked it up and Candice Tripp did it in case anyone else is interested.

The Shining and Lolita

>>21430490
Best stack in this thread, enjoy and Marry Christmas

The other thread I posted mine in died, so I’ll share again.

>>21430240
drake is a metamodernist

no photo,
robinson jeffers poems
anna ahkmatova poems
wyndham lewis apes of god
gentleman in moscow
preamble by alvin feinman

thank you santa

>>21430498
Added a couple more:

James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking Tales Library of America box set

Poe Tales and Poems Library of America

>>21430172
Why? It’s not the 1950s anymore. It’s not explicit.

>I’m on 4chan but someone gifting me a 70 yr old literary classic tragi-comedy about some middle aged guy falling for a young teen is very concerning gosh darn it.

Eat shit

>>21434265
This. It is literally one of the most famous classics and is very popular. As long as you don’t look like a diddler reading it outside of an elementary school with your hand down your pants, you’re fine. I brought it with me to a coffee shop one time as a joke and 3 or 4 women approached me to talk about it

>>21430185
holy based commies BTFOd

>>21434277
>This. It is literally one of the most famous classics and is very popular. As long as you don’t look like a diddler reading it outside of an elementary school with your hand down your pants, you’re fine. I brought it with me to a coffee shop one time as a joke and 3 or 4 women approached me to talk about it
-S-s-Sir could you please close your zipper and stop looking at my sister?
-Oh hahaha don't worry it's a joke *tips fedora* haha
Woman rushes embarrassed out of the cafe and calls Chris Hansen.

>>21433150
damn you got his ass

Mao II and Bleeding Edge, going into the city tomorrow to get some more

>>21432574
Don't worry too much about Lolita, my GFs read it lmao

>>21430139
Santa hooked me up

I only got 2 books but honestly I'm satisfied because I have too many books already
Will post in a few cause I'm seshing outside
One of them came absolutely filthy too, which I should have expected since it came from Amazon, but oh well I got most of the gunk off

>>21432574
>afraid to possess a copy of Lolita
This is the gayest meme on this site.

>>21434743
Mistborn is so good brah, I've reread it like a dozen times.

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>>21430139
I ended up buying all the books I've added to my list but couldnt pirate online from the last several years. I know its not a contest but I'm still pretty sure I won. There are another 10 books still arriving in the mail but this is good enough. I love buying used books, some of these I got for $5 when they're $30-$50 dollars new.
Anyone know what I'm getting into with the Deptford Trilogy?

>>21434265
This, plus among non-readers (95% of the population) noone knows Lolita anyway.
Moderately annoyed by r/literature and booktok fags who only know these books for their alleged shock value, too.

>>21434839
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>>21433826
I only buy books that need a physical form to be read properly or can't be downloaded online and loaded on a kindle. whats the point of buying this basic shit for anything more than a buck at a thrift store?

>>21435613
>I only buy books that need a physical form to be read properly

So all of them?

>>21435632
? Not it's stuff where you have to flip back and forth between footnotes and stuff or like house of leaves or pale fire or textbooks which don't display enough of a page on a kindle screen to be able to go back and forth from the top of the page to the bottom to reread pertinent information. I just had to buy the Mezzanine in physical form because half the book is footnotes and it doesn't load properly on kindle.

>>21430185
This stack is lowkey bussin

>>21433826
I also got American Psycho! I’m excited to read it, especially after seeing so much about the movie

>>21430490
Why does this edition of Either/or look so thin? How many pages is it? Mine's a bit smaller format but twice as thick.

>>21435646
God you're pretentious.

>>21435929
you don't know what pretentious means

>>21435900
Book is superior imo, have fun

>>21436073
I know what faggot means tho!! Someone who doesn't like physical books!!!!

>>21435900
that weird tales collections looks cool. definitely check out snuggly books and dedalus books for tons of other great collections in the same vein. Snuggly Books has a collection they call Satyricon thats a bunch of weird tales about Satyrs, and another one about Sirens. Dedalus has a ton of Decadence/symbolist collections which is a precursor movement to weird tales.

>>21430192
I got The Remains of the Day. I've read one Ishiguro before so I'm looking forward to another.

>>21432955
I haven’t read most of the ones I own. The thing is, I plan on reading throughout my entire life, and continuing to buy new books ensures I’ll always have something to read.

>>21436134
Will do! Thanks for the recs, Anon

No books this year's but I got a pretty good stack from last year, anybody wanna see?

I got pic related. Very nice.

>>21432532
Based Biden?

>>21434743
Abercrombie is based

>>21436500
>ESV
send it back

>>21436535
Why would I do that?

>>21436541
it's not beautiful

>>21436547
I'm willing to sacrifice some beauty to have a solid modern translation. I don't really want to read the KJV regularly.

>>21436582
that's fair

I got the bottom one last christmas and still haven’t finished it. Hate being a slow reader

>>21436500
>crossway

I got their "Archaeology Study Bible" myself. Totally blown away by the amount of additional content, and the production quality is very high. Annotated throughout with historical context, archaeological evidence, maps and timelines.

It feels like the most academic take you can get from Christian believers on the bible (while you get to read between the lines and watch their constant mental gymnastics as they maintain its all still "the word of God"), as opposed to a bunch of snarky atheists just dunking mercilessly on a 4000 year old book.

Rate, LotR will be part of it

>>21436496
sure

>>21435613
what are some good books that can't be downloaded online? pretty sure most books worth reading are already available in public domain

>>21436500
Looks awesome.

>>21436073
No, he's right. You sound pretentious.

>>21437114
It's pretty neat. I've always had trouble reading the Bible due to bad layouts and the thin paper, so I got this specifically to deal with that, since it's formatted like a normal book on normal paper. Pic is what it looks like on the inside, but it's a bit inaccurate as the newer versions have the chapter and verse numbers included, but in an unobtrusive way.

>>21437108
most books in my picture here.
>>21434984
mostly translated books from indie publishers that have come out recently for the first time in English but not always.
Wakefield Press and Snuggly Books both publish first time translations of turn of the century European works that have rarely if ever been translated into English. Pretty much every book from them isn't online. So yea basically just obscure works from indie publishers.

>>21437115
if you honestly think pointing out that you can download most books for free and focusing on buying books you can't is pretentious you're retarded. I've long since stopped caring about what people who call anything they don't understand pretentious say. You people are really weird.

>>21437454
right, it will never stop weirding me out how normies act like they need to feel and smell a book before they can enjoy it. Just fuck the damn thing already you bibliophilliac

>>21437454
Getting called pretentious in this place should be worn like a badge of honor considering what most people on here are like. It's the best confirmation you're not braindead.

Only book I got was civil war in Virginia.
I really hate Christmas. It's a terrible time and gift giving is an awful experience.
Every year I have to try coping with things I dislike and don't want just so I don't feel guilty.

>>21430139
I got:
.On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
.The Fathers of the Church vol XXXVII -Saint John of Damascus
.Oblomov

Pretty solid I'd say.

>>21437491
Seriously one of the few posts in this thread that isn't indistinguishable from a post on r/books is the stack Drake posted. Wtf happened to this place lmao.

>>21430165
>JF Cooper Leatherstocking Tales box set from LOA
have it, recommend it. lmk if you want any pictures of the thing to solidify your decision.

>>21437130
i'm seething just looking at that monstrosity

>>21437638
Why?

I didn't get any books for Christmas, and that's a good thing because my to-read shelf is simply far too big.
I'm gonna get the whole thing read over next year, and I'm setting a rule for myself that I can only buy one new book for every two I finish

>>21430139
Got this. So far it's pretty good.

>>21437649
pretty good shelf. I see you're an history enjoyer as well

>>21430139
here we go /lit/
first response picks my next read. would be stoked about any of them. help me out /bros/
Christmas blessings.

>>21437751
yeah I'm more of a 20th century guy but I thought I should learn more about that stupid part of European times when every war was about whose cousin was in charge of a tiny part of Europe that's now primarily known as the site of an unmemorable episode of Rick Steves' Travels in Europe

>>21437757
Absalom, Absalom

>>21437757
Read White Noise. I haven't read it but the movie was pretty good so I assume the book must be even better

>>21437767
nice! cheers mate. have an album reco.

>>21437769
k I'll queue it up too

Not really given to me for Christmas, but I was able to snag these from a used book store for $3 a piece today.

>>21430139
I received this. The journal and memoires of General Wrangel, a White Army General who fought bitterly to prevent Jewish funded Communists fostering a Communist Revolution in Russia.

Has anybody read it, if so what were your thoughts?

>>21438116
It's a really good memoir.
>>21438116
>Jewish funded Communists fostering a Communist Revolution in Russia.
all of the soldiers executing their officers at the beginning of the revolution were slavs, Wrangel explicitly recognizes this

>>21438116
didn't fight bitterly enough, I guess

>>21430139
I have that edition of Moby dick. If you haven't read Frankenstein yet it's so fucking good you should begin there.

>>21438153
>all of the soldiers executing their officers at the beginning of the revolution were slavs, Wrangel explicitly recognizes this

You seem to have trouble understanding what I said, sir.

>>21438167
It is hard to compete with a man who was set up with almost half a billion in gold and currency and allowed free reign to destabilize a ailing and troubled nation.

>>21434277
>pedophilia is good because it's popular
nope. kys

>>21430139
Here is one of the books i got.

>>21433955
I've come from the physical media thread to tell you that I approve of those BD purchases.

>>21438194
I've read it years ago, just in german, re-reading a lot of things in english now. But yeah, I loved it then. This edition of moby dick is really great too, one of the nicest books I own now.

>>21436830
Pléiade absolutely must start publishing original versions beside their translations. Apart from that it's very good. Nice books, very good annotations. I have close to 30 Pléiade, this year I got Céline. Next are probably Corneille, Racine or Flaubert.

>>21437757
Within a Budding Grove's original title, A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur, translates to 'In the shade of blooming young maiden'. I love this.

>>21436659
I have this coming in the mail. Hopefully this week.

>>21437649
>to read shelf
Not to read room
Brah ngmi

>>21432470
Thanks anon, I will take my time with it

That's a Maude Karenin, virgin, untouched.

>>21432538
My gf's parents got me Cormac McCarthy's new novels in a nice slipcase for Hanukkah, plus my gf got me the Homeric Hymns, wheee.

>>21430185
I literally cannot believe this is actually what drake reads

Family member who got me these said they spent hours looking for books that they thought I'd like. What do these say about my personality?

>>21438194
I have that edition of the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I bought it last year, while on vacation, certain for some reason it was a very small book. I didn't have time so I only read 70 pages or so. I did the same mistake a few years ago with Lord of the Flies.

>>21439218
How old are you? Are those gifts common in Jewish families?
I (32yo Christian European) used to have a German gf, we would give each other novels or poetry. Other than that only my parents (and a sister once) would gift me literature for Christmas.

>>21431750
fuck that HJ novel, schizo jibber-jabber dressed up in pretentious prose with no substance. Thomas Hardy BTFOs him in literally every aspect.

>>21436659
is that better than this one? which should i get? these both look highly dank.

>>21438051
what's the gardening book about anon?

>>21434984
I read Red Plenty years ago. Good read. It definitely held my attention.

>>21430139
That Moby Dick edition looks so nice. I just recently started the book and I’m already loving it.

>>21430185
Fake

>>21439777
I don’t know but you are lucky to have such good family members. Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever had a family member that truly thought about things I might like.

>>21439777
Multiply your trips together to get the amount of dicks you've sucked.

>>21440084
I'm 35. I'm not Jewish, that's just my gf and her mom. I think it has less to do with them being Jewish and more to do with them being big readers.

>>21440243
it seems like one of the few contemporary historical fictions that has a decent amount of literary merit. I started it recently and its quite good.

>>21440564
for real. My entire family spent my entire childhood getting gifts for the person they desperately wanted me to be (not a nerd) and they would often go out of their way to get me stuff I didn't ask for and didn't want because "it has to be a surprise! I can't get something you asked for!"

now they wonder why me and my brother despise them and will be wishing them the best of luck with whatever retirement home their dwindling retirement savings can afford them.

>>21440124
Apparently it's a revised version of a book from the 1930's titled "The Fragrant Path"
I figured it would be a decent book to have for referencing come the Spring and I can get even more into gardening. Right now I'm focusing on berry plants, but with having bees getting more pollenating plants and flowers would be a smart move.

>>21440809
Based and antifascist

>>21439777
Also read Benito Cereno plz

>>21440809
Growing up I had typical kid interests that were actually easy to get gifts for. Now my family thankfully has kind of focused on things like decent clothing that I always appreciate. Once I hit my 20's I learned that getting a really nice pair of socks I can wear and keep for a long time means more to me than some superficial doodad that I'll probably never pay attention to anyway.
It would definitely be interesting to see what kinds of books my family would buy for me though. They'd probably buy those B&N hardcover versions that look kind of tacky.

>>21440809
Yeah I don’t think either of my parents ever took an interest in anything I ever did or liked. And if they tried to it was very superficial. My childhood sucked for the most part. What’s crazy if I kill myself they would probably act all surprised.

>>21440564
I suppose I should be, I'd hate to sound ungrateful though but I don't particularly care about them. I'm sure some psychologist has a fancy diagnosis, but I don't really care about the terminology.

>>21440844
It's on my list, but honestly Moby dick wasn't my favorite book I've read.

:-)
im rlly happy.

>>21442040
god. fuck mobile posting. rotated and somehow spoilered... all for not wanting to walk over to my computer

>>21442040
nice birdook

>>21430139
My father got me The Secondary Colors by Alexander Theroux

>>21434835
You a fan of Blasphemy?

>>21434839
Yeah, it isn't pro pedo but do you think the normies that see your bookshelf are going to care that it's actually about a totally self deluded man? No, they're going to spread rumors about you.
Anyway, it's best not to possess degenerate modernist shite as practice.

I got a $25 amazon card from work and bought

>St Augustine - Confessions
>St Augustine - City of God

Merry Christmas bros

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>>21442040
pro tip iphone bro, if you crop your image in your gallery, even by 1 pixel, it will post properly. nice book btw

>>21438303
Enjoy anon. If you liked it, definitely try sequel and The count of The Monte Cristo

I've saved B&N gift cards for the last few Christmases to spend them on their 50% off hardbacks sale at the end of the year. Mythology was only $15! I'm hoping to get The Decameron and some Jacques Barzun next (even though they'll probably be paperbacks). Merry Christmas & happy reading anons!

>>21436500
I got the KJV 'cause I've never read the Bible before (and also because it's the translation Cormac McCarthy uses, and I'm going to read Blood Meridian alongside my reading of the Bible in 2023) but I'd be interested in other editions. What can you tell me about the ESV and why you like it? Also that collection looks really sharp. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

>>21438681
Thank you. Watched Sweet Smell of Success tonight. Clifford Odets was a brilliant writer, as good as many novelists.

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>>21443163
Damn, I've never seen that edition.

>>21434265
Sup pedo?

>>21433826
Hey I also got the myth of sisyphus for Christmas

>>21430185
Real

>>21434265
Weird how edginess and performative moral outrage exist side-by-side on here. "I love Hitler and killing women lol rofl. But I would NEVER even THINK about reading a book like Lolita! How horridly scandalous!"

>>21430139
>be balkanoid
>retarded
>order christmas books on christmas day
>they'll arrive at the end of january
oh well

>>21442152
No one ever enters my room and i will never bring a woman home so it doesn't matter

>>21430139
gf got me The Portable Nietzsche but it's stuck in the postal system

>>21443466
it's from Lulu. I don't know why he spelled it that way.

>>21436245
LMAO
Consoooooming addict

>>21442040
Was thinking about getting this; how's the edition? Paper quality? Translation of Latin?

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>>21434628
>>21435851

you guys know this is fake right

>>21431750
love the way the clothbound classics look. Haven't found another publisher do it so nicely.

>>21442954
currently reading Mythology myself now. It's a good starting point for getting into Greek literature I think.

>>21430240
pretty good troll because the shoe makes it accidentally based

In case you can’t read it
War and peace three vol set
One day in the life of Ivan dalickavich
Anne frank diary
Les mis

>>21444589
Nice, needs some non-fiction

>>21437499
>I really hate Christmas

Shalom!

I will continue to be a soulless inquirer of the human condition. This is the only book I received, and it's enough for me.

>>21437463
I do not care. I love feeling books, smelling them, appreciating the artwork and print. I like putting them on my shelf. I love to read a physical book in front of the fire. Simple as that. I get having a thousand books in your back pocket is awesome but for books that you really just love I don’t mind spending a few dollars to get a nice copy. There’s genuine enjoyment to be had, boiling everything down to utility is just soulless.