/lit/ - Literature

They're not that bad, OP. I don't know why you'd buy them in the first place if you resent them so much. Granted, 1984 is somewhat "reddit-core" or "highschool-core" but - hey - we've all gotta start somewhere.

>>4976370
Those are wonderful purchases anon! I bought myself Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Baudrillard's System of Objects. I just finished Malabou's Ontology of the Accident today.

What was your last read Anon?

>>4976370
Why didnt you buy the entire collection on short stories? The adulterous woman is basically a leaflet

>>4976405
Why do you say that anon?

>>4976405
Why do you say that the Adulterous Woman is basically a leaflet?

Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
Imperium - Ryszard Kapuscinski
A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Herzog - Saul Bellow

I've recently bought:
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
11 books by PG Wodehouse (one of those cheap collections)
"Paradise Postponed", "The sound of trumpets", and "Titmuss Regained" by John Mortimer (again another cheap collection)
1984 by George Orwell (have read before but it was free with a voucher in timeout)

I've almost finished Oblomov so am wondering what to read next. Also on my shelf at the moment waiting to be read include : Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Anthem by Ayn Rand and Kaviler and Clay by Michael Chabon.

I'll probably try one of the PG wodehouse books next.

junky is fantastic in its own right but elevated further if you read naked lunch after

>The Time Machine

Oh boy more books that won't be read!

The Idiot
Stoner
Mao: The Unknown Story

>>4976370
I see you have a book depository bookmark. What condition were the books you ordered from them like? I ordered Interpreting Dreams last week and received it yesterday in horrible condition.

>>4976414
he's saying the adulterous woman is like 2 pages and you get more bang for the buck with exile and the kingdom instead

The Plague
Eumeswil
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

willie masters' lonesome wife - gass
nobodaddy's children - schmidt
happy days - beckett

>>4976397
wut

>>4976370
who publishes the Junky version you have there?

>>4977204
Penguin--- Not OP but I own the same edition

>>4976370

>Paradise Lost

Good choice, can't go wrong with muh Milton.

>>4976479
and if you read queer between the two you see how his style progresses from one to the other

>>4977344
White Noise is fantastic. Write things that you find significant or profound down in a notebook as you're reading - you'll thank me later.

Just got back from vacation. I went overboard in a goodwill.

>>4977469
I already finished it. I absolutely loved it. The parts with Heinrich were hilarious and reminded me of /lit/. I bought Underworld as a result of enjoying this book so much. I hope it as good.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Discourse on the Method and the Meditation
The Republic
Early Greek Philosophy
The Idiot
The Prince

I spoke to /lit/ a while ago about how I will be educating myself for the next year and these were some of the first few books I decided as part of my curriculum. The Idiot, which is what I want to read the most, is actually pretty late into the curriculum.

I barely started Early Greek Philosophy since I'm currently in the middle of another text I began before starting this.

>>4977505
Not shown because it hasn't come yet, I also got "The Trivium" by Sister Miriam.

>>4976370
Only had the Iliad in poem form so I purchased the prose version. Along with a better translation of the Odyssey of what i already had. Aeschylus is the next I'm reading.

>>4977482
Nice job but where the hell do you live that goodwill has anything besides Fabio and Twilight

>>4977650
I was visiting friends in New Hampshire. The Goodwill in Amherst usually has a fair amount of gems, I think it's because there are some wealthy old people in that area.

Just bought this today, had some money left over on a Barnes & Nobel gift card.

It's got most of his major shit wrapped up neatly, so I like it.

>>4976370
I'm somewhat a fan of his narrative views of history. Somewhat disappointing near the end of Rubicon as it focused more on Caesar vs Pompey when the start explored many good periods.

>resent perchase

Is this a meme now?

found at a thrift shop for a couple dollars

>>4976370

Those mini-modern classics are wonderfully cute, it's a shame that they cost the same as an actual novel on eBay. I wanted to collect them all, but I don't think it's worth it.

>>4977482

How useful is that copyediting book?

I couldn't finish junky. It was too close to home... It's still very accurate.

>>4978960

You should have read it at the library

Why do people buy so much philosophy? 10 minutes of researching on the Internet will tell you all you need to know.
I can understand following 1-2 philosophers, but anymore is just stupid.

I'm 1/4 through and it's good but I don't see yet why it's so raved about.

>>4976370
I dunno, it's been a while.

Haven't bought anything recently. I did take out The Book of Sand by Borges from the library yesterday if that counts for anything.

>>4979012
to own it, not to read it

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Collected Poems of Yeats
Proust's Fat Novel Part 1
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Ann Porter

All these buys were influenced by William Gass' list in Temple of Texts (except Proust, he doesn't really like Proust). He just talks about books in such a loving manner.

>>4979012
This is Gass' description of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

"A lightning bolt. Philosophy was not dead after all. Philosophical ambitions were not extinguished. Philosophical beauty had not fled prose. I remember that we approached this text (as we did Bertrand Russell’s and Alfred North Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica) with all the reverence due a sacred, arcane work. From the resonant and dark opening lines, “Die Welt ist Alles, was der Fall ist,” to its stunning conclusion, we are in the presence of logic delivered as music. How flat the translations are: How unmelodious, unmystical, unmysterious is “The world is everything that is the case.” Who would want to consider seriously such a flat-earth remark? Well, a great many, apparently. Wittgenstein’s project was akin to Spinoza’s (who wrote his own Tractatus), and, as Spinoza’s does, it puts us in the presence of the philosophical sublime. The fact that the Tractatus’s fundamental assumptions may be quite wrong seems almost beside the point."

Really rigorous philosophical argumentation isn't just divine in the edification sense but has its own beauty like poetry or prose.

Not exactly a purchase but won an early copy of the new First Law book a few days ago

Yeeow

>>4976370
huh, the Time Machine looks like a good read. I think i'm going to download the epub of it. Anyone have thoughts about it?

>>4977482
Thank you for smoking is fucking awful

>>4978953
Not sure yet, but it goes over the subject in decent detail. Hoping I can put it to use, if not it was 99 cents.

>>4980514
Really? Heard it was good, and the movie was okay. Whatever, I can pawn it off onto someone else I'm sure.

>>4980554
It's just my personal opinion. I thought the ending was bad, and the satire was too in your face, but it was kinda funny, especially the Oprah scene.

>>4979022
The first quarter is actually the best part of it. It nosedives after that.

I think its popularity has come about because of a liking for misery stories (usually 'non-fiction') in the general public. The villainous characters in Stoner are so ridiculously over the top at grinding down the tedious main character that it's just hilarious.

>>4977505
What else will be part of your curriculum?
After Descartes, the Empiricists are a really brilliant read. Seeing how the Empiricist response to Descartes is developed by Locke, transformed be Berkley and concludes with Hume is pretty fascinating.

>>4981679
After Descrates is Spinoza, then Stirner and finally Nietzsche, which pretty much concludes the philosophy section, but I will take your recs into account.

This is some of the wisest shit I've read

>>4981799
>review on the front cover

>>4976578
I love how every thread with pics some assblasted faggot has to impotently imply only he, the autistic champion of piracy and marxism, actually reads bookd.

>>4981760
What I would recommend and in what order:

Early Greeks
Plato
Aristotle
Sextus Empiricus
Descartes
Leibniz
Spinoza
Locke
Berkeley
Hume
Kant
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Early Heidegger
Aristotle
Early Greeks
Later Heidegger
Nietzsche
Marx
Freud
Deleuze
Spinoza
Leibniz
Hume
Deleuze + Guattari

>>4981901
Why would you bother with that retarded, economically illiterate yid Marx and not great economists like Friedman and Hayek?

>>4981918
>Marx
>not the smartest person of the last 2 centuries

Pls r8

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell by Jorge Amado
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

>>4981918
>Friedman
>not a yid
rofl

just bought the 'station hill blanchot reader' which has 6 novels - death sentence, thomas the obscure, the madness of the day, vicious circles, when the time comes, the one who was standing apart from me

tomorrow i buy a very rare and exciting (and secret for now) $100+ book once there's more money in my account

Purchases this week:

The consolation of philosophy
The Republic
1984
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Meditations
Pride & prejudice

>>4982001
Also, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

i said novels but i meant works, not all of those were novels

>>4981990
When did I say he wasn't a yid? I just said Marx was.

The Testemony - James Smyhte
Through The Window - Julian Barnes
Psycho - Robert Bloch
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Hiroshima - John Hersey

>>4982001
Great buys. I suggest reading Meditations first; it's very simplistic in prose and straight forward. Aurelius is a beast.

>>4981948
tasmania/10

>>4982105
>Moby Dick - Herman Melville
What is your edition of "Moby Dick" like?

Op you know like...all of those books are free on any device.

>>4982219
That oxford classics edition of Paradise Lost looks pretty aesthetic though. I wish every publisher would use their book cover material. Feels so good.

>>4982001
worst cover of dorian gray ive seen

>>4981948
saved

>>4982105
>Book before author

>>4982001
blep

Just got these

>>4982213
Has a whale on the cover

>>4981901
Why did you repeat so many?

>>4976370
I also "bought" a few books recently. Can't wait to start reading.

20'000 Miles Under The Sea by Jules Verne
The Gambler by Dostoyewski
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>>4984242
Why do people say "blep" in /lit/? What do you mean by it?

>>4984471
bleppit pls go

>>4984471
Ebin ;^) sinbly ebin

>>4986583
i wouldnt buy any book with those hideous covers

>>4984468
>20'000 Miles Under The Sea
It can't possibly be.
Enjoy it though, and The Gambler too.

>>4984471
>Why do people say "blep" in /lit/? What do you mean by it?
A 'blep' is the opposite of a 'brat' or 'prat'.

Inb4 shit covers

>>4976370
Dubliners
The Argonautica
Orlando Furioso
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico

$10. Not sure how I didn't have Dubliners yet.

i spelt my melk

>>4976370
>Resent purchases [sic.]
Lit. I am not disappoint, nor shocked because I have expectations commensurate with a Mongolian Image Board that imitates reddit now for some reason. But that this sp wasn't addressed by some autist or other grammarian NSDAP within 20 posts is lamentable.

>>4986665
>666
>Satan of Spelling Errors

>>4986665
>that this sp wasn't addressed by some autist or other grammarian NSDAP within 20 posts is lamentable
It was addressed in the very first post. Read more carefully.

>>4986670
#datIRONMAIDENSONG
I am routinely accused of madness here and IRL: dasz ist nicht gut mang

>>4986698
I wish I was accused of madness, no one in my life has picked up on my lunacy quite yet.

>>4986688
>nice dubs
Recall
>They're not that bad, OP. I don't know why you'd buy them in the first place if you resent them so much. Granted, 1984 is somewhat "reddit-core" or "highschool-core" but - hey - we've all gotta start somewhere.
Unless that first poster is sublimely sneaky, then no --he did not address it (the forst poster that is)
>respectfully: no YOU READ MORE CAREFULLY
#toodrunk4dis

>>4986699
It'll happen mang, just look at does double trips!!!M fuuuuuuuu

>>4986716
Damn, dubs again, must be some weird sign that I'm going madder. Pretty sure my family (besides my mother) thinks I'm insane at this point. My friends haven't caught on yet.
I'm this anon >>4977482
, by the way

>>4986712
He got the resent part, but apparently not the perchase part.

>>4986781
Lel, dat poster but slightly soberer
>perchase
Oh man, top lel, I was indeed too drunk fo dat --If only I wrote it sarcastically jejeje

>>4982213
The Wordsworth Classics edition. It was $6.50 and I needed another book to buy.

>>4976397
>"reddit-core"

sometimes I think you guys are worse than /mu/

>>4986583
noice contemporary selections

>>4987558
it's literally the /mu/ posters infesting /lit/ that come up with dumb neologisms like that~

"Selected Stories" collection by Anton Chekhov
"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Going to buy Gogol's "Dead Souls" and Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground" once I finish up the aforementioned.

Just got back from the 30th annual Printer's Row Lit Fest.

How did I do?

>>4989707
faggot

>>4989719
Thank you for your input, again.

Could you perhaps expand on what precisely leads you to that opinion?

>>4977482
It didn't hit my stupid ass until now how Goodwill might actually be good for things other than putting together a last minute costume for an event.

>>4989756
Depends where you live. I live in Plebville and there isn't shit most of the time--aside from Faulkner with Oprah;s Book Club stickers.

>>4989762

This. In my local goodwill they only have romance novels and Crichton-tier shit.

On the plus side, they have a lot of quality polos.

>>4989756
I got all those in NH. I live in NC and the Goodwills here are shit in terms of books, however, the Rescue Missions are a different story.

>>4989707
I really hate those "hip" modernist cover designs for philosophical foundation texts. And putting fucking quotes on them too. Like I need a fucking quote on the cover to entice me to buy Being and Time.

Cambridge Texts or Oxford World Classics. Hackett if you're poor.

>>4984428
Because they should be revisited given new approaches by subsequent thinkers.

>First edition Ginsberg, The Gates of Wrath
>Selected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry
>First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
>some first edition Canadian poetry books, David W. McFadden, Irving Layton, Michael Ondaatje
>Les Faux-Monnayeurs by André Gide
>De l'amour by Stendhal
>L'hiver de force by Réjean Ducharme

I am a filthy philistine, and I enjoy it.

>>4976370
Not too shabby.

>>4976415
A list of authors whose works I've never approached despite hearing subtle remarks of genuine praise about them, among thousand of worthless, kiss-ass commentaries.

>>4976580
Mao was hugely influential on the previous generations, but I heard nothing but bad reviews for that book.

>>4977344
Get rid of the Sarup book and any other technical guide. With Borges, you can learn to enjoy reading literature, whereas textbooks and reference guides only deter. So do annotations, footnotes and note-taking. Trust your memory and good writing to leave a lasting, meaningful impression.

>>4977482
At a book fair, I recently got about 200 books for $30, of literary fiction, biographies, philosophy, essays and poetry. But I have no comment for any individual book you have in your photo. I only caution you of the burdensome guilt of owning too many books and hold firm the belief that you can't read too many books in a lifetime. Good luck.

>>4979067
Stendhal is pervasive, deeply ironic, masterly and sentimental. His writing felt inevitably enjoyable.

>>4986583
Paul Auster has a very approachable, if not altogether inconsequential voice.

>>4987597
J'adore ces éditions-là !

rate my cops

1/3

>>4989859
>>4989903
My photo uploaded strangely. Here's another take.

By the by, the French fiction I bought (about 100 books of fiction) is already shelved among my 200 other books of French literature.

>>4989907
2/3

>>4989912
3/3

>>4989907
Sounds like fun!

>>4989914
To read Finnegans Wake is to submit yourself to the domination of temporary madness, much like a dream.

>>4989912
>finding forrester
lol

>>4976370
I'm just going to assume that you meant ''recent'', I don't resent these as of yet. They'll most likely be arriving tomorow or the day after.

>>4989934
>literally photographing the monitor
>being this dutch

>>4989946
I cba to screencap it and crop all the shit out in paint, mayn. It's hot as fuck outside, aint nobody got time for cropping.

Jansen- The Making of Modern Japan
Keene- Anthology of Japanese Literature
Keene- Modern Japanese Literature
Tanizaki- Naomi
Tanizaki- Some Prefer Nettles
Roth- Portnoy's Complaint

rotate your pictures you far lazy fucks

Charity shop purchases from Saturday and book sale this morning.

WW2 book is from osprey essential histories series, look great inside but that cover is awful.

Yes, I need to hoover …

Gogol's Short Stories
War and Piece
Miscelánea - J L Borges
La Invención de Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares (signed)

Graham Harman - Towards Speculative Realism
Saul Kripke - Philosophical Troubles
Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Idea
Alain Badiou - St. Paul

>>4987597
Can you actually read it ? Is it not exhausting ?

Bought these a week or so ago, read ten of the plays so far, but I suspect it's going to take me st least three readings per play, along with a viewing or two and a lot of criticism. I torrented three of the TTC courses on Shakespeare too.

I admit this doesn't look quite as impressive as having a bunch of books on my bed, but I haven't really bought a physical book in years.

>>4986590
stupid me forgott that it was called "twenty thousend leagues..." in english.

pics the edition i got

>>4991300
A league is 5.5 kilometers right?
So there it'd be roughly like "40,000 miles under the sea"

>>4986611
Why is there a Raphael on the cover?

>>4991432
a league is usually equivalent to 3 nautical miles, so 5.5 km. (although is was different in every country) But french leagues at the time where more or less 4km. So 80km in total

dont know why the german translation of the title is that sloppy concerning the metrics

>>4976370
I wish I was smarter and started stealing books sooner. I could've saved tons of money.
Chess was amazing. For some reason the books I've read recently turned out great, despite me having no high expectations.

>>4991275
I have that Complete Shakespeare too ;_;. Bloom's The Western Canon is good buy, introduced me to a lot.

>>4992155
Hey, I've been meaning to get Fathers and Sons. How's the translation?

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick

>>4992220
I haven't read it yet, sorry. Still on the Pilgrim's Progress.

I'm almost halfway through Kafka's Stories. Also, was buying IJ worth it? I've yet to start it, but some people laud it as if it's like the greatest thing ever, and then other people tell me it's complete shite, and I'm really not sure who to believe.

>>4992250
What's Infinite Jest about?

>>4992250
IJ is great

People on /lit/ like to be contrarian

You will not regret reading it

>>4992250
Those Kafka covers are gorgeous.

>>4992251
I'm honestly not sure. From what I've gathered, it has something to do with the pursuit of happiness in an extreme sort of consumer-culture-driven future America.

I could be completely wrong though.

>>4992224

> dat Glamorama cover
> dem gemstones

>>4992251
People who do drugs and people who play tennis.

>>4991655
what.
>80km

Friends, I'm growing tired of 1984... am on chapter 9 and I just don't feel like picking it up to read. I just feel like moving on to another one. Any recommendations?

>buying books

>>4986583

>buying that cover of blood meridian

ruined the whole image

>>4976370

Only bought Weaveworld and The Forever War on holiday at the moment. Spain has a pretty poor choice of books.

>>4976370

>>4984438
either you and I have very similar tastes or I lost some time somewhere

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Story of the Stone Vol 3 by Cao Xueqin
The Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell

Please tell me how shit my tastes are.

It was like a dollar at the local second-hand shop.

Nothing right now. Going to a big used book store today again though so maybe something there. It's almost the size of a department store

>>4998515
>reading the Sagas without first reading the Eddas

ISHYGDDT

>>4976370
I can see why you resent your purchases

>>4989707
>ambrose bierce
mah nigga. Are those all of his short stories? I read a copy of his complete stories and though he's known for his civil war stories there were some hilariously absurd ones as well. I remember one of them was called A Shipwreckollection.

The one on the right is Turgenev's Fathers and Sons