/lit/ - Literature

>>21605521
>The decline of the west
>Abridged version

>>21605530
If I like it I’ll get the 2 volume edition

>>21605530
If the premise of the book is true, there's no time to read the full version. If not, who cares?

>>21605530
Pottery

>>21605521
>spengler's decline of the west
frankly embarrassing. the rest is kino especially thoreau's journals

>stacking books horizontally
ishygddt

>>21606930
Figured I’d give him a whirl. I’m not the typical neo Nazi, I just want to see what the fuss is about. Henry Miller raced about him in the end of his Rosy Crucifixion trilogy and he’s been a link to a lot of books I’ve liked

>>21605521
Okay. It's been years since I've been here. I'm reading the Sot weed factor. What a hilarious adventure.

>>21607043
Wow I'm still retarded.

>physical books
cringe
become an e-reader chad today and have the entire catalogue of human knowledge at your fingertips

>>21607051
Nice. Glad to see another Brief History of Seven Killings enjoyer.

>>21607051
I don't believe it. post timestamp

>>21607053
>t. basic normie /lilt/babby automaton

>>21607091
You can buy it on Amazon for 30 bucks, ya dingus

>>21607135
post timestamp of book wall

>>21607138
Why do you want a timestamp of my 200 books?

>>21607091
What do you mean lol.

>>21607128
Not an argument.

>>21607053
>e-reader chad
>have the entire catalogue of human knowledge
You have to actually read them first, anon

>>21607053
Not an argument

>>21607051
>two copies of Kafka on the Shore

Pourquoi?

>>21607176
He said he had a catalogue, but he didn't say anything about possessing any breadth of knowledge.

>>21607202
I will buy the first editions of books I have in paperback. That is just my paperback stack.

I hope to god a fire never breaks out. I would be broken by my collection being burnt. I'm not a rich fag who can rebuy all my shit again.

>>21608152
become an ereader chad today and get all your books on your tablet or computer

>>21605521
>how about a stack thread
Why? It's just vanity photos in the end.

>>21608335
hello

>>21605543
>there's no time to read the full version
Retard

>>21605521
What does /lit/ think of drake's stack?

>>21607053
>e-reader chad
Also called poor people.

>>21609579
You can't make communism a science. A soft social science at most.
At any rate, works of Graeber, Clastres, Kaczynski are more important than Marx or early 20th century tankies, or any tankie ever.

>>21605521
How about you fuck off faggot

>>21605607
How’s the Montesquieu if you read any yet?

I have read the Moorcock book and am nearly done with the intro to buddhism

>>21607230
Seems good for a newcomer to lit

collection complete.

The library of america is the first volume of henry james’ short stories. there are five total and i saved this one for last expecting disappoint relative to the rest of his output.

>>21611266
Have you read any Unamuna before? I’ve debated trying him for a bit

>>21610591
It's quite good. It's an epistolary romance, as the name suggests. Some of the letters are hilarious, such as one of the friends of the protagonist Usbek sending him a letter from Russia, telling him how Russian women love to be beaten and how they feel unloved when their husbands don't beat them. Another letter is a reflection on the nature of different peoples: Frenchmen and Persians are quite different from each other, but Jews in France and Persia are absolutely the same.
It's an easy read. I believe the French youth read it for their university entrance exams.

>>21611292
I’ve read a couple of his works and have a couple more on backlog. Tragic Sense of Life is probably his most famous but I just started so don’t have much to say.

His Life of Don Quixote is amazing as part philosophy, part essay on spanish identity - but the whole disguised as chapter by chapter commentary on don quixote as a story dealing with a real person.

For his fiction, Fog / Niebla is the place to start. It’s early meta-fiction that feels like Pirandello or O’Brien but with a more serious philosophical undergirding.

>>21611325
Nice. I’ll have to move him up my long list of writers to read. I always love seeing O’Brien’s name being mentioned here as well

>>21611229
Enjoy. Hate how I rejected Austen in my youth to be a contrarian but now that I turn 30, her wit and writing are remarkable.

>>21611390
She's dull. In the modern era she'd write for netflix

>>21611519
Cope.

>>21611526
Can't you reply with something of substance here? I'm trying to have a dialogue

>>21611555
Penis

>>21611555
>In the modern era she'd write for netflix
Yeah, you’re a /tv/ tard who has never had a single thought of substance in your entire life, hence you collapsed into “muh netflixerinoo” propositions that onlt midwits who think they’re clever say.

>>21611229
I might read jane austin when I'm like 50. It's just not for me while I have high test.

>>21612585
You should read it sooner.

>>21612625
Nah there are far more important things to read and learn before you get all the way down to married women squabbling.

>>21607086
A friend mailed me that book a few years ago. She said she didn't like it but that I would probably. I never even read because at the time I had a reading slump. Can you sell me on the book? I know nothing about it. Why is it worth reading?

>>21609579
Kinda bussin, can't lie

>>21607051
the kind of person to buy GEB and never read more than a page

>>21607230
oddly thick edition of naked lunch

You guys know of any good naturalist writers? I'm currently reading Arctic Dreams about the arctic.

>>21605521

>>21607051
The mandatory infinite jest meme always gets me.

Wp.

>>21605521
>>21607051
>>21607230
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>>21611266
>only english
cringe anglos
>>21611379
Basé

Tired of all these pseuds shitting up /lit/, decided to make myself an intellectual juggernaut

>>21605521
You are like babby.

>>21609579
Why did he shove a fucking shoe on top of his stack?

>>21614945
that's a rather dramatic cover for a chess opening

>>21611379
>all of these french books when all it really takes is one natural language book
i hope you didn't spend money on those

>>21615139
he's half white, half black, so there's books but also overpriced sneakers in the image, hope that helps

>>21615139
The books are for show, as the shoe also is. Niggers can't read.

>>21611266
I read my first Giono a couple months ago, A King Alone. The first half was amazing. The atmosphere created was top notch with a noir and surreal vibe. I wasn’t a fan of the second half. Unsure if I should read more of him

>>21615028
American website

>>21607051

>>21616332
Your memes are mid, zoom zoom

>>21605607
Have a bump for Carlos Alberto Nunes.

>>21605521
I just want to add that in Thoreau’s journal he has some unexpected funny parts, particularly with animals. I’m not sure if I believe him. I’m going to see if I can find one

current stack that i'm half-way through

>>21616332
That's not even everything desu senpai. It's missing my mass market paperback shelf and my first edition shelf lol.

>>21616474
Are you really or are you lying?

>>21616536
not lying, read surplus enjoyment, the third unconscious, infocracy, going to finish and then tonight. not pictured is the philosophy of zen buddhism by byung chul-han, loaned it to my neighbour but that was part of the stack too. planning to read otherwise than being next

>>21616466
Thoreau and the woodchuck

>>21611229
oh no

>>21616453
I enjoyed that collection of Kenji Miyazawa stories a lot. My favorite one is probably 'Gorsh the Cellist'.

>>21616546
Nice

>>21607230
Fool spending money on individual paperback copies of McCarthy when he could have bought all 3 books of the trilogy together in the Everychad's Library hardcover

>>21607230
is last exit to brooklyn good?

>>21607202
Can't blame him, it's a damn good read

>>21615161
chess is pure kino

>>21617315
You play it?

>>21615189
>Jew
>white
Lol

>>21605521
You're so based anon. Is this what you wanted to hear?

Current reading/to read stack.

Still too new to literature and not fluent enough in english so I lack the courage to pick up anything longer than novella-length.
I'll be picking up Thomas Hardy's complete short fiction once I'm done with conrad/poe.

Bunch of filthy casuals itt.

>>21617547
Girl detected. The throw pillows are a dead give away

>>21607053
I like to make walks to the library. Gives you time to think and is a healthy exercise if you take a bunch of heavy books.

>>21617547
what is your native tongue bb?

seethe

>>21618440
>>21619134
Sorry boys that's my ex's mark on my apartment.
I still keep them around because they make for comfy back-cushioning while lay down to read and I occasionally sniff them
>what is your native tongue bb
it's in the picture sir

>>21614026
naturalist as in literary movement/style or naturalist as in writes about the environment? I think you mean the second; John McPhee's work, especially Coming Into The Country (about alaska), Encounters with the Archdruid (about three men with strongly held and differing views on building a dam in the West), and Annals Of The Former World (about the geologic history of the continental US) are amazing. def recommend those

>>21616917
My man

>>21619209

>>21621196
OP here and I think we have very similar taste. Emerson is a writer I hold close to my heart

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>>21621196
have yall read Emerson: The Mind On Fire? I have a copy of it but I've never gotten around to it. also while we're on Emerson, what's the best edition of his journals?

>>21621303
I haven’t read The Mind on Fire, sorry. But I have read pic related from Library of America. Even the ~1700 pages I’ve read are a fraction of his total journals. It took me forever because I read a little at a time, which I think is the best way to do it or you’ll get burnt out. Some of his most memorable passages from his essays were lifted straight from his journal, so it was always cool coming upon them. I would only recommend it to a dedicated fan, and not reading large chunks at a time, because it can become tedious

>>21607230
I used to own that "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"

>>21609579
drake's stacks continute to dazzle me

>>21622444
cisgender white male/10 yaaawn

>>21622446
>cisgender
What? Is that a new buzzword for "heterosexual"?

>>21605607
>Clastes
ótima escolha, mano

>>21620911
Thanks for the answer. I meant the naturalist as in writing about nature. I have John McPhee on my list of writers to read. That one book about oranges sounds interesting.

>>21606405
kill yourself
why would you put a fucking flower pot on top of these

>>21622444
Nice trips, good ryunosuke. Peak comfy.

snagged this lot last night off fb marketplace. Had to drive an hour to get it but I was able to haggle the price down $150 less than what they were asking. Will end up selling some of them and keeping the rest

>>21611229
>author, titles and publisher imprint don't line up on the spine
>titles are different font sizes
>collect the whole set for an author you love and it looks like shit

why are they all so fucking retarded like this?

>>21624406
And let me guess, not a single one has ever been read by anyone.

>>21616332
Glad to see my books on the far right are still being spammed by this seething faggot

>>21625337

apparently they sat on someones bookshelf since around the late 70s. Maybe one or two of them had been opened but the vast majority I can tell never were. When it comes to these types of books (Easton Press, Franklin Library, etc) with the gilded page ends the pages tend to "stick" together if they aren't opened/flipped through occasionally. So I gave each one a nice 'airing out'.

Unfortunately one was heavily molded & had to be thrown away (Vanity Fair). A few have bits of discoloration/foxing so I'm debating on tossing them away or keeping them and hoping it doesn't spread.

>>21605543
brainlet

>>21622618
>heterosexual
What? Is that a new buzzword for "normal"?

>>21625528
>A few have bits of discoloration/foxing so I'm debating on tossing them away or keeping them and hoping it doesn't spread.
Just clean the covers and keep them in a low humidity environment and you're fine.

>>21625756
may I ask what is the proper way to clean/maintain leather covers and or pages?

How do I make my own leather or hard canvas dust cover for books

>>21625797
Easton Press editions are a nightmare if you live in a relatively humid place. I bought a bunch of them, brand new, back in 2019, and in less than a year they were showing signs of moulding. I live in Tokyo and this fucking city is a tropical jungle during spring and summer.

>>21609579
You are the least funny poster on /lit/

I forgot to add this to OP. It is such a great book that I’m trying to shill more often

>>21618412
>vercage

It's not pictured but I'm also reading Crime and Punishment
>>21611266
Read Giono's "A King Alone" a few years back. I don't think I got as much out of it then as I would now. I should return to his stuff one day
>>21616474
how have those Houellebecq essays aged?
>>21617531
I read The Sound of Waves over the summer. wonderful book

>>21626122
A King Alone went downhill fast in the second half I thought

>>21622444
Enjoy the Akutagawa, anon. He's like the Poe of Japan but with his own style of storytelling.
>inb4 Edogawa Rampo
He's not as good as Akutagawa, unfortunately.
>>21622446
YWNBAW

>>21626137
I felt the same way but I just assumed I was getting filtered since I had only recently started reading a lot

>>21605521
Surprised there is not more talk about the Miller book. Air Conditioned Nightmare is great. Nice taste OP.

>>21626244
Miller is my favorite author but he’s not a great writer for discussion. He is all about what you take in and absorb

>>21619209
Whoever made this photo should move their hand with that toy and show the bookshelf instead

>>21622444
how is confessions of a yakuza?

>>21605543
Based

>>21627592
I don't know, I bought two days ago.

>>21605607
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>>21616400
Existem brasileiros que leem além de mim e do meu pai? Estou maravilhado

I'm too retarded for Ulysses but too retardedly stubborn to give up.
>>21622444
>Rashomon
Very nice
>>21621196
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>>21621368
Just started Emerson. Favorite essays?

>>21609579
I HATE DRAKE
I HATE DRAKE

Working my way through Putin's biography and then I want to read a bit about Ukraine's history. Feeling stuck in my area right now cuz I want to go camping, but not during the winter, so I have that Discovering Eden book to travel a little through a person's writings.

>>21627541
That Angela Nagle book probably aged terribly.

>>21605607
>clastres
based