/lit/ - Literature

>>4353791
>war and peace
pls go

Spent all my money on books for a few months straight and had nothing left over. Only read one.

War and Peace is avaialable in Gutenberg. What a retard.

>>4353815
siggity some prefer niggnity not to riggity read for extended periods of time on the computer

>>4353791
every book i've ever bought

books suck

du cote de chez swann and madame bovary

neither bad but it's a lot easier it on an ereader w/ a builtin dict.

i have an oxford bible that is just collecting dust

>>4353791
>Be me
>On page 672 of Atlas Shrugged
>Hate this fucking book
>Feel the need to finish it

>>4353970
Then why are you here?

bought Pilgrim's Progress from the Salvation Army for $2.

and INTO the trash it goes. jesus, this isn't even ironic. did people really believe that shit, ever?

>>4353791
Didn't buy Mein Kampf but regret spending time to download it.

>>4354563
You do realize that PP is an allegory, yeah?

>>4353791
Is this an attempted raid? Looks like you told everyone to come streaking and only now see that you are the only guy running down the street naked.

>>4354588
Sorry, wrong thread...

Harry Potter

(inb4 massive hate)

>he actually bought mein kampf

hitler didnt even write it you massive retard

Lord of the rings the history of middle-earth box set

it fucking cost me 150 dollars

>>4354612
he didnt? Who did? I dont find anything that says that. Source?

>>4354611
I can understand buyers remorse - but mostly only if you paid anything more than $5 for the whole set, or was expecting something ridic.
>>4354612
>he actually bought a book
why are you here?

>>4354615
nah solid get man.
>tfw lotr box set cost be $5 on ebay
the lady was clearly pissed they didnt bring more (esp seeing as the hobbit that was in the box set was bringing about 15 on its own

>>4354026
I got about 500 pages in before I gave up.
By far the furthest I have gotten into a book without finishing
no regrets

>>4354623
>the history of middle-earth box set

can't you read?

Bit off topic but can you just walk into any bookstore and buy Mein Kampf where you live?
>german here, I can't

>>4354633
get it from your grandma. Every household back then had a copy.

>>4354633
It's one of the perks of freedom.

>>4354629
I can, can you read that I was on a tangent? I wish I could afford history of middle earth.

>>4353791

>Mein Kampf

Good thing that people still buy that book and find out what a real rambling retard Hitler was, as opposed to actually dangerous theoreticians of the third reich like Carl Schmitt.

>>4353819
>he doesn't have an e-reader

>>4354708
That gif is a little more aggressive than I'd intended, sorry, anon.

>>4354633
Mein Kampf will be in public domain in 2015, in that year the German government will publish an annotated edition, and you'll be able to download the German language version without any legal troubles.

>implying there's legal troubles when downloading books

>>4354633
Yeah, most people I know have a copy (Australia).

>>4354713
I legit laughed out loud (mostly because growing up as a rural Australian, I would not be surprised)

>>4354722
To be published next year:

Mein Ute

A Western Sydney man describes his war on dem leboes.

>>4354726
looks like it's Aus hour all up in here

can a fellow compatriot explain why browncardigan has gone to shit

is it the money or the bitches, kthx

I know that you are allowed to buy it everywhere except for germany. What I meant is, do a lot of shops have it in stock, let's say barnes &nobles? I'd find it weird to go in a regular book store and see people casually standing around and reading Mein Kampf.

>>4354748
>do a lot of shops have it in stock, let's say barnes &nobles?
Yeah they stock like 30 different versions of it.

>I'd find it weird to go in a regular book store and see people casually standing around and reading Mein Kampf.
Me too.

>>4354618
mein kampf was propaganda by the nazis, hitler's second book is the one that wasn't published, and not ghost-writter to be used as propaganda material

don quixot in the original spanish - fuck is it hard to read

On the upside, now you know they suck and you can be smug about it for the rest of your life.

>>4353791

>reading Mein Kampf expecting to be swayed

You're not supposed to have any suspension of disbelief, it's a historical document and should be understood and processed within a historical context.

moby dick, fuck all the whaling terms

Lord of the Flies

$200 vape pen
fml

The Satyricon of Petronius, completely morally infuriating. Trash that should not have survived antiquity.

>>4355103
>$200 vape pen

Ouch. Coulda bought a lot of cigarettes with that.

I bought some Jane Austen novels, an academic friend of mine praised her prose-style.

>>4357575
get the stick out of your christian ass

>>4354633

It startles me a bit everytime I go to a bookstore and see just how much shelf space is allocated to Mein Kampf. It's like this in every bookstore I've ever been too.

>>4357575
>Trash that should not have survived antiquity.

mfw it did and you're mad about it

>>4357622
I had to read Mein Kampf for a class while I was an undergrad.

I think it's the chic thing to put in reading lists for history classes of that time, nowadays. (This means a money-maker for bookstores, btw.)

>>4357575
>>4357575
of course its morally infuriating, idiot. its a menippean satire. you pay attention to the decadence in sexuality and oppulence as portrayed in thw satyricon but you fail to pay attention to the later part of the rescued "novel" where supernatural consequences take place

Rambling, tedious, long... hardly dented it. A mess.
Kinda like Unab*mber Manifesto.

>>4353791
War and Peace
b-but why?

>>4357647
anyone read it in german? is it better?

>>4358006
No.

>>4358006
It's terrible, didn't read the English version though.

A bit of needless info: in Turkey Mein Kampf is advertised as a "Classic of Anti-Marxist Literature"

Second paragraph in Mein Kampf starts with hurr Germany and Austria together nao!

Stopped reading there.

>>4357647
>>4358006
it's already been mentioned in this thread that this book isn't even written by Hitler, it's just nazi party propaganda, fucking idiots, never heard of propaganda or ghost writers?

If you want something written by Hitler, which I assume is what you're looking for, not some propaganda piece of shit from the 30s, then read Hitlers Second Book

>>4358037
Why?

War and Peace is great though. What's wrong with you?

>>4358045
I wasn't prepared in high school for what I thought was going to be an onslaught of Anschluss and hating Jews.

>>4354052
not that guy, but I like discussing books, despite not liking them.

Plus, /lit/ doesn't discuss lit, they just wank over already stated opinions and then say 'you're wrong' for not agreeing.

>>4353791
Weird story. But Blood Meridian at one point.

Got it at a recommendation from a cousin who got the recommendation from a friend and just told me it was brilliant.

Read it, thought it was crap. Went here, read up on why Blood Meridian was great. Read up on it some more. Now it's no longer in the ''buyers remorse'' pile.

>>4354633
yeah chances are ur gonna get a censored edition
dont bother with these bro

i bought a mug last month that changes colour when you pour hot water into it. it has a map of the world on it, and when it is cold it is night, andwhen hot it lights up to day.

it is the most useless, consumerist thing i have ever bought and i really like it

>>4358152
Sounds great, where did you buy it?

>>4358154

satan's warehouse amazon

The Prague Cemetery

>>4358172
Link plox

>>4358222

http://www.amazon.co.uk/thumbsUp-Day-and-Night-Mug/dp/B006ODBWOK

say a prayer before you add to cart lest you be lost forever

also tfw i copped that for £8 :D

also tfw i spent £8 on a fucking mug :|