/lit/ - Literature

How are those B&N classics?

>>22671025
NTA but I've had misprinting and some machine damage on the pages in my copy of Herodotus but otherwise every B&N classic I've purchased has been very nicely printed and bound. Annotations are not remarkable but are sufficient for an introductory level - in other words, they are perfectly fine for private reading or if you are focused on the main text, but for academic purposes or deeper study you may want to find a better caliber of annotated publication.

>>22671025
they're pretty good. a little bulkier than they need to be, but they have good footnotes and endnotes (the only book I've seen use them simultaneously was Paradise Lost)

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>>22671138
Man you should genuinely kill yourself, you're already braindead

>>22671018
You disappoint family and friends. >>22671138
Nice sci Fi opera. I read many of those sw books as a child.

>>22671138
No matter what anyone says about this collection, The Fall of Reach is a genuinely good book.

built one out of scrap wood a few months ago

>>22671442
rest of pottery, some comics, green basket has all my zines. theres another stack of books in my basement but don't have a pic.

>>22671138
like the other anon said, Fall of Reach kicks ass
I reread it at the beginning of the lockdowns
unless I'm missing it, you should get a copy of the star wars book Tales of the Bounty Hunters
I think you'd enjoy it

how are all the spines seemingly pristine?

>>22672214
NTA but if you look at my library all the spines are pristine too because when I read a book I'm genuinely autistic about leaving it in the best possible condition

>>22672214
I am not rough with my books
At most I have some creases on my book spines

>>22672214
I don't open my books, I peek inside

>>22671018
Great shelf anon, it's like looking at my own. Good job.

>>22672214
You're not supposed to actually open and read books, Anon. The idea is to look well-read but just reading synopses online so your tomes remain mint.

picked up the following today at a book sale for $12
>Crime And Punishment
>Anna Karenina
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
>The Confessions of Saint Augustine
>Gulliver's Travels
>Earnest Hemmingway's first 49 short stories
I do not own a bookshelf.

>>22672603
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>>22672662
upon lookin at my own shelf i'm realizing that most of my paper backs aren't creased up unless they're exceedingly old. even my B&N Paradise Lost is find despite being cracked in half a lot.

the only book that shows the most wear is my copy of Finnegans Wake held together with duct tape because I threw it at a wall in a fit of rage and it burst apart.

>>22674009
lmao is that true? if so it mirrors joyce's fit of rage with portrait of the artist
the only time i've ever thrown a book is upon finishing gravity's rainbow because it was such an epic exhausting read and i was so glad it was over

>>22672214
Not everyone is an obese ape like you who handles books like they do donuts

>>22671018
>Only one book on the mysticism
>Prometheus Rising
Congrats my nigga, when you went through the /x/ metaphysical reccommended reading list you literally picked the worst option

>>22676154
It's not THAT bad. RAW is just kind of a pratt.

>>22676160
Fair, that was the worst part.
Still, unless you're in the specific scenario of trying to convince a hardline atheist that there may be spiritual elements to this world, there are probably better books on the subject out there for you.

>>22676170
desu that's kind of the view point i went into it with

>>22671138
legit better than 90% shelves posted here. actual personality.

>>22671138
>mostly new canon star wars

Fucking yikes dude

>>22671018
>Guests
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA

>>22671138
guaranteed replies

>>22672214
call me a retard but i only read on kindle and buy books that I already read and liked enough to buy a physical copy. So most of my bookshelve books are brand new.

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>>22671442
second shelf from bottom about to middle to the left of Ulysses. Duct taped Wake next to a fresh copy. i'd been writing a short paper on the tailor and the sailor section relating to pound when my computer crashed. lost the whole thing and a good amount of notes. in a frustrated state i was in no mood for any more of Joyce's polyglotal shitcumjokes

>>22671018
Holy shit, i have that exact same shelf, for a moment my heart stopped at the thought of an enemy having broken into my room and taking a picture just to let me know how useless my series of carefully placed safety mecanisms are

Moved to another country this year. These are the books I have in my new place. The rest are in my previous house. 1/5

>>22677725
2/5

>>22676409
Retard

>>22677725
3/5

>>22677021
What’s the Fragebogen book about?

>>22677725
4/5

>>22677725
5/5
My phone sucks...

>>22677757
A questionnaire Von Salomon was required to fill out by the US Army of occupation post WW2.
He then accounts for his life in the Freikorps and his part in a right wing revolutionary cell that assassinated Walther Rathenau. He wound up serving a few years in prison for providing the getaway car to the assassins and another year tacked on for assaulting an informer.
After the Nazis took power, He turned down an offer from Ernst Röhm for any job he wanted in the SA.
He liked Röhm but didn’t care for the cult of personality surrounding Hitler in the Nazi party and declined the offer and never joined the party. Instead he became a screenwriter and avoided the Night of the Long Knives.
Post WW2 the US army asked him if he denied his part in Rathenau’s assassination. He replied he wrote a bestseller book about it (The Outlaws)
He was detained for a while for questioning but never charged with any war crimes.