/lit/ - Literature

I find that photo is oddly pleasing to look at, totally /comfy/. Anway, To Kill a Mockingbird.

>>7277530
I was sitting in my car, waiting for some friends while reading the first few pages of Know Your Beholder. It was pretty comfy.

Enjoy the book, anon. I have yet to read it myself.

>>7277512
We /comfy/ now.
I just purchased The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan

Campus book store had some of Michio Kaku's books for $0.25 each, so doing with those at the moment.
Kind of interesting, in an un-challenging sort of way.

>>7277588
Hoh its like the second time ever i see Point Counterpoint here, its great, hope you enjoy.

>>7277622
Different anon, but what is some of Huxley's best work, outside of BNW? I wouldn't mind reading more of his.

>>7277761
Island is pretty great.

>>7277512
Les Miserables
Airplane!

>muh materialism

>>7277512
Pic of the cover of the Borges collection please.
Also, these are mine, with some still on their way.
Nearly finished with ''No Longer Human''.

>>7277807
Heh. Always at least one poorfag in these threads.

I stole a Collected Works of John Ashbery from a charity shop today. I plan on gifting it to my boipussy crush.

>>7277820
Love those Dazai covers. So aesthetic.

>>7277820
Here you go, anon

>>7277900
The picture doesn't really do them justice either, they have a very weird matte effect to them, it's pleasant to look at. Good author so far as well. No Longer Human has a very strange mix of bland writing and poetic touches, almost like the protagonist himself. I can vaguely relate to Yozo, which is exciting yet worrying at the same time.

>>7277861
>stealing a living author's book from a charity shop
nigger tier

>>7277767
>>7277761
I agree

read Island

>>7277861
>tfw you will never receive stolen shitty ashberry poems by an ugly dude lusting after your tender boipuss

local library had a sale

5 bucks for a tote-bag full of books

>>7278042
>5 bucks

Jesus Christ, that's a great haul. Jelly as fuck.

>>7278042
The picture makes it look like their your first books ever.

>>7278042
Nice haul!

>>7278042
Whoa nice.

David-Hillel Rubens - Explaining Explanation
Terence Horgan - Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

>>7277767
>>7278018
Thanks, I'll check it out

Stoner-John Williams
Journey by Moonlight-Szerb
A Drifting Life-Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The New York Trilogy-Paul Auster

Already finished Stoner, might start The Pale King soon or Journey by Moonlight next.

>>7277512
South of the Border, West of the Sun is a pretty fun and quick read.

I finished Fahrenheit 451, it wasn't as good as I'd expected it to be.

>>7278992
Good to hear! I saw it on the shelf, and vaguely remembered it being mentioned in a positive light on here, so I went for it.

Is anything else by Murakami worth a fuck?

>>7279062
Murakami is overrated.

Pic related is most recent purchase. Really enjoying Sowell's writing here. It's basically the complete annihilation of every possible argument a radical lefty could raise. He's doing a really good job of showing how a lot of leftist policy which was rooted in justice has been an net abject failure.

>>7278994

I found Fahrenheit's message profound. I see your copy of 1984, though, and mine is much newer. I ordered one of those neat aesthetic hardbacks with the giant blue eye on it -- my other copy of 1984 was completely falling apart because I'd read it through so many times.

On the contrary, I find lord of the rings a complete snoozefest. I couldn't possibly care less about the endless descriptions about the minutia of things. I don't know how people get through it. I guess I'm more of a nonfiction guy when it comes to reading for pleasure.

>>7279062 I would say the Wind Up Bird Chronicle and some of his weirder syfy/fantasy stuff like Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World are worth a read. I've read the majority of his works and he does get a bit samey, bit still they're fun to read. Especially tWUBC.

>>7279081
Yeah he is overrated, but still I find him very enjoyable to read.

>>7279082
The message behind Fahrenheit was fine, but it was something about the writing style that made the book hard to get through. And Ray's constant repeating of words got annoying. I wish I'd gotten a hardback edition of 1984 as it's my favorite book.

I've only just finished the second chapter of the Fellowship of the Ring, and it's not bad so far. I really liked reading through ASOIAF so I hope that I'll like LoTR too.

Is the dover thrift editions a shit ?

It's not here yet, but I ordered this H.P Lovecraft collection for $40 from Amazon.

What are some nice pretty hardcover collections?
I'm looking for some like >>7279082

Enjoying Borges quite a bit.

>>7279427

I bought that too recently. It's really well made. The pages are nice and the binding is good quality.

>>7279484
How is Feynman's stuff?

>>7279492
I have yet to read it as I just received it the other day, but skimming through it he seemed to explain things In a pretty understandable way as long as you know the basics of the particles he talks about.

>>7279487
That's good to hear, I watched a youtube video with someone showing the book and it looked really good so I decided to pick up this edition.

>>7279492
QED is pretty readable even if you're not STEM masterrace

>>7279456
For mainstream reader type books go with everyman's library. They are unbeatable for their price.

>>7278042
FUCK YOU

I want that red copy of Light In August but NOOOOOOO.

I can never find it. I have that whole collection EXCEPT Light In August.

>>7279546
How hard can it be for you to do a simple search?

http://www.amazon.com/Light-August-William-Faulkner/dp/B000NO6PDE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1445750565&sr=8-4&keywords=Light+in+August

>>7279559
Nice. Finally somebody who reads what I read. I could spend hours discussing a few of those books.
One thing though
>no based Sowell

>>7279583

>yfw I'm the same poster as >>7279082

>>7279587
haha noice. Wish I knew more people with our similar literature interest. Even the fucktards at my university political club read pleb-tier right-wing diarrhea like Savage or Shapiro. Have you read any more Charles Murray? I'm thinking with Losing Ground, but In Pursuit seems more contemporaneous and relevant, although a slight different topic.

>>7278042
solid

>>7279606

I've read his Curmudgeon's Guide, What it means to be a Libertarian, The Bell Curve, and Losing Ground. In Pursuit is high on my list of future reads right now along with his "Human Accomplishment".

Like anything Murray writes, Losing Ground was wonderful. But, and per the year published, the actual data is a bit dated -- but this didn't discourage me. I've read other critiques of the bloated state and the message of the data stays the same despite what welfare epoch we're talking about.

Honestly, The Bell Curve was the most poignant and relevant to my personal politics. You grow up on the internet and all you hear about is evil conservatives and conservative denial of science, your taught unabashedly false liberal talking points in university, so on and so forth -- but when I read The Bell Curve everything seemed to click for me. Here was a man purveying facts about our society who received such disproportionate, vitriolic backlash from both academia and the public. I didn't understand it. Science is science -- you can sacralize equality if you like, but that doesn't change facts.

That's when I really started seeing partisan bias and incessantly searching for truth. I also think that intellectuals too readily overlook IQ when studying societies. I think the stratification of society by IQ needs more attention than we give it; i.e. the cognitive elite become the wealthy and elite, but you know this. I don't know. It just had an affect on me. That was years ago though.

As for people like Shapiro or Coulter, I don't really mind. I guess it's a pretty good thing that during their stay at the indoctrination hotel they're at least exposing themselves to forbidden fruit, albeit the fruit is rather stale. Folks like Shapiro and Ann are too partisan in their thinking for me -- the whole denying of evolution, willingness to enter nuclear war, fundamentalism, etc. kind of irks me. That said some of the stuff they say is spot.

>>7279562
>ruining the fun by buying it offline


You fool. The whole point of finding books you want in independent and used bookstores is the qt3.14s you meet and fuck.

Bruh, do you even read?

>>7279774
Your greentext and your non-greentext contradict themselves.

>>7279782
Welcome to Post-Modernist-Sincerity

>>7277961
Oh, sorry, my post didn't go through yesterday or something. That looks nice, anon, cheers. Does it have the jagged paper edges like Penguin Deluxe has for the Iliad and Odyssey? I'm wondering if it's an ancient lit thing or a strange stylistic preference.

>>7277578

>I just purchased The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan

rare to see taste this good around here

>>7279583

I could talk for ages about Murray and Hernstein's Bell Curve. I did a massive paper on their book in relations to identity politics and the philosophy of science. Interesting stuff.

>>7279997

Stratification of society by IQ is one of the most transparent and interesting truths I've come upon.

It just... all makes sense. I really wish fields like sociology would lift the constraints of neoliberal orthodoxy so we can talk about it without inane scrutiny.

It explains a lot of things. Culture, immigration, income, personality, etc. It desperately needs more attention.

As a moviefag I had to read The martian, too bad I couldn't find it in English, I'm trying to read more books in their original languages ( I'm a frenchfag ).

Zero to one was a blind buy, I don't know what I'm getting into.

>>7280069
Forgot the pic

>>7279882
It does have that style of paper, which I also love. Can't wait to jump in and read some of it.

>>7277820
I literally just checked out Iran: Empire of the Mind from my school library. If you enjoy Axworthy's writing style, which in my opinion is great as it's not dry and boring, check out his amazing biography on Nader Shah.

>>7279082
>radical left

I'm confused as to how you could annihilate every possible argument of the radical left within one logically consistent system without falling into emotivist justifications. To destroy a far left communist, you'd surely legitimize a far left anarchist to some degree, for one example.

>>7280027
You've got it backwards. Society doesn't stratify by IQ; IQ is a more-or-less arbitrary test designed to detect patterns that already exist in social stratification.

>>7280172

This presupposes Sowell uses one "logically consistent system"; the comment also assumes Sowell must use emotion in deconstruction. It also assumes Sowell is using a "system" to rebut.

I mean, and no offense, but your comment is basically gibberish. Articulate a point coherently and sensibly or don't articulate it at all.

>>7280235

I have to respectfully disagree. Therefore those patterns may be causal for stratification.

I can say, "on average, the wealthy wear expensive shoes" -- that doesn't mean expensive shoes are the causal of wealth, but with something like IQ, "on average, the wealthy posses IQs which are 1-3 deviations above the norm" -- IQ can be seen as a causal of wealth.

We even see this play out in our society. High IQ children almost invariably grow up to fall into an income pattern which matches their IQ.

While expensive shoes might be an arbitrary measurement of wealth -- just as arbitrary as IQ -- one can't ignore the coincidence of IQ correlating so highly with wealth and class, and downward along class lines IQ too defines the middle class and poor.

got it from a second hand shop.

I've heard it's one of his best, what do you guys think about it?

>>7279559
I really liked thinking fast and slow, it was a pop-sci book that actually paced itself well.

>>7279427
lovecraft seems to have such a massive bibliography that he's pretty daunting to get into, is he worth it?

>>7277820
those dazai covers are beautiful!

>>7280244

I'm saying his "annihilation" of the entire radical left has to boil down to "err but i don like dis, but I do lik this" because within the radical left there exists ideologies which are polar opposites. To discredit one end of the spectrum is to legitimize the other, which means he must choose some arbitrary point within this which he approves. If he's not systematic his arguments are going to boil down to I like this or I don't like this. Same problem with Sowell's other material I've read. I'm definitely going to get my hands on this one though.

>one can't ignore the coincidence of IQ correlating so highly with wealth and class

People have been trying to prove causation for a long time and still come up empty handed. Shoe size correlates highly with income, you know because babies and children don't earn money.

>>7277512
>What have you picked up, /lit/?
Havent bought a book in a decade. I'm reading The Subtle Knife. Its alright.

>>7280263
I sure hope so, I've literally never read any of his work and heard so much about Call of Cthulhu among other works of his so I decided to make the plunge and purchase his whole collection.

>>7280124
Yeah, I read a Penguin modern classics collection of Borges recently, it's a real treat. One of my favorite authors.
>>7280144
The reviews are very praising of his novel-like way of writing history, so it sounds good. I've had some uni courses on the Middle East, but it was mostly the Levant, so Iran always got left out, but it sounds like a very interesting country, especially with the proxy position is has in Syria atm. I think Iran might be one of the big winners of the conflict.

>mfw i don't intend to read any of these, i just bought them so i could post on /lit/ in one of these threads

>>7280349
I hope I get a 4 to accompany this post.

>>7280272

(1)

>I'm saying his "annihilation" of the entire radical left has to boil down to "err but i don like dis,

Yes. The conservative Stanford economist doesn't rely on fact, but emotionally charged argumentation. If only a liberal member of the intelligentsia had pointed this out at an earlier point in time we would all understand Sowell's pernicious mistake.

Except Sowell is one of the least rebutted scholars alive today solely because so much of his work is rooted in facts and data. Have you read a Sowell book? Every other sentence is a datum point with an accompanying citation.

And then there's your fallacy of because viewpoint x is a liberal idea it cannot be rebutted with fact, only other ideological predication. Do you not see the total non sequitur here?

>>7280272
>>7280399

(2)
>People have been trying to prove causation for a long time and still come up empty handed. Shoe size correlates highly with income, you know because babies and children don't earn money.

Postmodernism makes for nice sophistry, but your idea that correlation isn't equaling causation for the stratification of society along IQ deviations is false.

You used a shoe example. "Shoe size correlates highly with income, you know because babies and children don't earn money".

This example may state 1 or 2 things: that statistical data can be shoddy, which is true, or that correlation and causation cannot be discerned -- especially when it pertains to IQ.

For the former, or that shoddy statistical methods are used to fixate duplicitous results regarding occupation and IQ, I'd challenge you to find a study wherein the labor force includes toddlers and babies thereby lowering the average IQ of the poor.

The fact is, someone with an IQ of 85 isn't capable of being a doctor or lawyer (without copious affirmative action). And study after study shows us this -- unless we assume all these studies are heavily agendized and false, which is the proposition it seems you're taking.

As for point number two, or the idea that correlation cannot equal causation when discussing IQ and occupation, then that is your heavily liberal-lens choice.

What you're essentially saying is that you refuse to believe that society is stratified by IQ.

Fine, we can use absurd examples, like your shoe size one, all day. Or others.

But let's suppose people who get heart disease are more likely to wear black socks than white socks. We have no reason to believe that black socks are the cause of heart disease -- fine. But let's suppose people who've been stricken with heart disease are vastly more likely to be overweight? Do we ignore this correlation as well? Even though we can observe the fat constricting the heart? Even though we can observe that fats from an overweight persons diet being the cause of their arteral sclerosis? Your proposition is that we can ignore the accompanying evidence of the latter correlation.

Let's try with IQ. Those with an IQ above 1SD are more likely to wear black socks. We have no reason to believe their preference for blacks socks is due to IQ. Correlation two: Professions which pay higher wages and require greater cognitive ability are invariably occupied by those with a higher IQ -- after we've controlled for any statistical fuddling. Again, your proposition is that even though these jobs require greater cognitive ability, we can ignore this correlation and repudiate its position as a cause for stratification?

I'm sorry sir, but that's some of the greatest postmodern sophistry I've seen -- you're truly a revolutionary in the field of social justice.

Library booksale haul: Visions of Cody, Light in August, Lolita, Blue Highways, A Moveable Feast, a few others

>>7277820
Hey I read that book while travelling through Iran. It's a very enjoyable read but also leaves you hungry for more detailed works on specific periods of history. I mean it's very introductory, going from one century to the next in a few paragraphs.

I also read Axworthy's Revolutionary Iran, which has a lot of overlap but deals more extensively with the revolution, the events leading up to the revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, and contemporary politics. But MY GOD, it is detailed. So good though, but so detailed. I now know more about Iran than about my own country.

>>7277512
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Technology by Lewis Dartnell
and Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock which hasn't arrived yet.

>>7280401
Poverty actually makes peoples IQ decline, the more money you take away from someone the stupider they begin to act. If you take the wealth away from a random millionaire they would begin acting more like any other slob on the street. There's actually a lot of research done on this in behavioural science, read this article:
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/05/the-science-of-scarcity
>The answer came from fieldwork he and his colleagues were already conducting in India. Sugarcane farmers, they discovered, get their income in one lump sum at harvest time, just once or twice a year. That meant farmers were poor during one part of the year, and flush with cash during another. Because harvests took place at different times for different farmers, researchers could rule out seasonal weather, events, and their accompanying obligations as bandwidth-usurping factors. And when the researchers conducted a study there similar to the New Jersey mall experiment, the results mirrored their original findings: the Indian farmers performed worse on Raven’s Matrices tests before their harvest, and better after they’d been paid.
>The conclusion was clear, Mullainathan explains: poverty itself taxes the mind. And in the case of the Indian farmers, he adds, the data were even more convincing: unlike the New Jersey “lab” study, where subjects were compared to other people, the farmers were compared to themselves. The only variables that had changed were their financial circumstances.
>During the last half-century, the effects of stress and distraction on attention and self-control have been well explored by social scientists: psychologists like Roy Baumeister of Florida State University (formerly of Case Western Reserve University) have done extensive work on willpower and mental depletion, for example, showing that people who had forced themselves to eat radishes instead of tempting chocolates quit working on unsolvable puzzles sooner than those who had not. At Stanford, another study on decisionmaking found that subjects asked to memorize long strings of numbers had a harder time choosing healthy snacks over sweets than subjects asked to remember just two or three digits.
>It’s a phenomenon scientists can see even in the chemistry of the brain: during periods of stress and tough self-control tasks, glucose levels plummet in the frontal cortex (the region associated with attention, planning, and motivation). Low blood sugar can deplete physical capacities; a struggling mind can create similar chemistry in the brain, and trigger the same debilitating results.

>>7277512
Borges is great. Stay away from his poems though, those are shite.

>>7278042
throw out memoirs of a geisha

>>7279082
I think the minutia of LoTR is what makes it so interesting. J.R.R. Tolkein just thought of this stuff out of pretty much nowhere. The maps he drew, the pure history of everything is very impressive. Not to mention that his writing style is pretty great too. George R.R. Martin is basically Tolkein part two, no question there. I only with that LoTR had a T.V. show like GoT has...alas, I'll settle for the trilogy movie. (Hobbit movies don't count, they are a bastardization of the series).

>>7279374
Yes, but if it's not a translation then get it, they're okay.

>>7280627
>George R.R. Martin is basically Tolkein part two, no question there.
Stop making an utter fool of yourself.

>>7279559
Wow, so your plan is to find books you agree with and read them while nodding to yourself?

>>7280244
>This presupposes Sowell uses one "logically consistent system"; the comment also assumes Sowell must use emotion in deconstruction. It also assumes Sowell is using a "system" to rebut.

Sowell uses deconstruction? Against radical leftists? I doubt it esé.

>This presupposes Sowell uses one "logically consistent system"

The alternative is a logically inconsistent system of belief, I hope you realize that.

>I have to respectfully disagree. Therefore those patterns may be causal for stratification.

yeah q.e.d. amirite?

The top two were from B&N for around $30 and the rest I got at a library sale for around $4

I'm building my own little /lit/core collection

Literally $1 each at a resale shop. There were tons more, too. I'm tempted to go back just because they now look out of place with the rest of my books. I was only really interested in having the nice copy of Ulysses, the others were just impulse buys. I'm reading Sons and Fathers right now and enjoying it, though.

>>7281842
jelly
Why the hell would someone sell these for a dollar, though?

>>7281847
Dumb old ladies. Paperback $.50, hardcover a dollar all around. I'm kind of kicking myself for not grabbing them all to sell on ebay.

>>7281855
Or, y'know, to read. All the ones you got are very interesting. Can you post some covers?

>>7281279
>>7281842
Did you check which manuscript version of Ulysses they are? If you didn't you might have to throw out the book

>>7282015
What would I be looking for in a throw away and what version should I keep?

>>7282069
first you have to collect every single different version
then you read them all
then you throw out the ones you don't like

>>7281912
True, true. Times are tough, that's why I buy most of my everything in thrift stores. Here are the covers.

>>7281842
Who is the publisher of those? I bought several hardbacks by Franklin Library that look pretty similar to yours.

>>7282356
Yep, they are Franklin Library.

a Kindle basic 7th..

About halfway through the last Livy book; stumbled on Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" and figured I'd give it a shot next.

>>7277512
Im enjoying it

Where do I start? I was thinking I'd begin at the gay science.

I figured I might as well see what all the rage about this guy was over.

>>7282812
Nice. I've always liked the Penguin covers.

>>7278042
>$5
Goddamn

Here's mine - ignore the quality from my awful phone.

I picked up Shadow & Claw. I usually don't buy into /lit/ memes but I had a dream I met Gene Wolfe so I thought I'd give it a go.

>>7280293
couldn't you have just gotten At The Mountains Of Madness from the library or something so you know if you like him or not?

>>7283227
did you fuck?

>>7283322
no but he stared into my eyes lovingly

>>7277512
hope you kept the receipt.

>>7282101
ha ya, that's what my 2 dollar agatha christie collection resembles

>>7277512
I'm jealous as fuck of that Borges collection.

I recently bought Let Me In.
I wish it hadn't been the version with "NOW A MOTION PICTURE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CLOVERFIELD" on it but it was a bit of an impulse buy. I'm enjoying despite the frustrating cover.

>>7280263
>>7280293
You should start with Dagon. Its rather short, and if you enjoyed that I'd recommend Shadow Over Innsmouth. That one is my favorite Lovecraft story.
Mountains of Madness is good if you really like Lovecraft but its not for everyone.
The Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a good one that hardly has anything to do with typical Lovecraftian monsters

>>7283766
I'm assuming you've seen the original Swedish version, right?

>>7281842
how the fuck is ulysses so thick?

>>7283797
*movie

>>7283797
Yes. I shouldn't have watched the movie first, but watching it was also an impulse decision. Haven't seen the American remake, since there's no way I can imagine it being worthwhile

>>7283824
it's a 750 page book dude, all the others on that shelf are in the 250 range I imagine.

>>7280349
Who published that mishima book?

>>7281279
Which edition of Moby Dick is that? It looks pretty nice.

What is his best work, and why is it "The Condemned of Altona"?

Sorry no pics. Have primitive /lit/ tier cell phone.

>The Plague by Albert Camus
>Rayuela by Julio Cortazar

About to dump funds on Thriftbooks for some Dosto and Borges

Last night I dreamt that I bought hundreds of dollars' worth of /lit/-tier books just so I would have something to post in one of these threads. I think I should probably take a break.

>>7277588
>not Woodworth
>>7278994
I remember you from your thread. I'm the guy who recc'ed the Dune Trilogy.
>>7281279
>Norton Critical Edition
Mein negro. The Brothers Karamazov by them was superb

I bought for 2 dollars Churchill's WW2 Memoirs, first edition second printing with dust covers a few weeks back. They have pride of place in my history book case

>>7284520
Being and Nothingness.
First 100 pages are easy. Then it gets difficult...

>>7284534
Keep going
Never stop

>>7277588
Stockholm?

>>7277512
Picked up a whole ton of books from some sale going on, they were 25 cents to a dollar and i must have gotten like 30 before i had to leave suddenly. notable pickups: Swann's Way, Portable James Joyce, Sun Also Rises, East of Eden, Leaves of Grass, Portable Conrad, V, Crying of Lot 49, and a shit ton more all for like 16 bucks. a whole lot of books I should have read a long time ago. Very excited to dig in

>>7283863
penguin, it says right there

>>7278994
I always liked those LOTR covers.

Mein Kampf is a little seventeen-years-old core right next to them but hey.

>>7280263
There are a solid portion of Lovecraft I'd regard as not worth it. But I like it. Its not as "eldritch twisting of the mind into insanity by cosmic beings outside our understanding" as people assume going into it though. But its fun. All the big name ones are worth a quick read.

Keen to start with the Greeks

completely filling one of my shelves in one day feels great

>>7286956
not for your wallet though

I too bought 'Nausea'.
I'm really excited to start Sartre, but first I'm reading my Plato and a smattering of Nietzsche

>>7282883
When I read the intro for "birth of tragedy" it points you to "the case of Wagner" as a good starting point. I'm starting it tomorrow!

>>7287185
>>7277512

Nauseau is a great, haunting book.

"suffer in rhythm"

>>7287185
>nietzsche, pirsig, and sartre
you are like every film student trying to grasp philosophy ever

>>7287199
Actually, I pretty much grabbed anything interesting off the philosophy shelf at Half Price Books.
I didn't put up the other literature I got but here's a brief list:
Visions of Cody, A Moveable Feast and Fiesta, TS Eliot's Selected Poems, Chaucer, a Complete Shakespeare, some Burroughs, a few McCarthy's...
anyway, that's not exhaustive bu Nice been buying books like crazy. These were the PHI books I bought and was excited about.

>>7286283
It's one of the most important political texts of the 20th century, just because you think it's edgy doesn't mean it isn't important.

>>7287199
And please don't liken me to a film student, that's a low blow even for 4chan. I'm an English second-year dropout and deserve the respect that a second-year dropout deserves.

>>7287219
>excited about
Pirsig is a laughing stock novelist
Sartre's being and nothingness is a weird amalgam of discredited psychoanalysis and hegelian nonsense, he'd modify his theoretical apparatus weekly to suit the intellectual interests of whatever college student he was trying to bed that semester
Nietzsche was exclusively raised by women, was a meek, short, fat gentleman with bad eyesight that wrote love letters to Wagner's wife (which is why they really broke), was laughed out a university position after publishing garbage. His aphoristic style is a garbage amalgam of french enlightenment bourgeoise, heraclitus, and schopenhauer, who himself was a bitter old fart who penned most of his works out of anger against hegel, for leaving his weekly lectures empty.

Illuminations - Benjamin
Uzumaki - Ito (>inb4 go back to /co/)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Kennedy

>>7287219
>Kerouac
let strangers sleep with his wife
>Hemingway
erectile dysfunction, commited suicide
>TS Eliot
another cuck
>Chaucer
if its translated you're a pussy
>Shakespeare
poor man's boccaccio
>Burroughs
like genet, no one actually read or enjoyed burroughs, all of his books are laughable semi auto-biographical drug hallucinations. Shot his wife in the face and like Ginsberg was a member of NAMBLA.
>McCarthy
famous for being utterly incapable of finishing any book satisfactorily. The vast majority of his works are crappy southern gothics that no one would touch with a ten foot pole

>>7287289
Benjamins only enjoyable work is the arcades project
you can read the entirety of uzumaki for free online

>>7287301
Sigh.
So when you're not bashing literature you obviously don't have an even rudimentary grasp of, what do you read?
>mfw when motherfuckers on /Lit/ just can't not know it all

>>7287301
these are the worst types of posts on /lit/

>>7287301
how to tell someone is an r9k frequenter: the post

>>7287301
And another thing, your high-school commentary in these authors, especially bringing up Eliot and Kerouac's "cuckoldry", Hemingway's suicide, Nietzsche 's misogyny as a result of a woman-dominated childhood; all that just makes it more enjoyable to read and meaningful.

And relatable to you, anon.

I bought this yesterday, 100 pages in and enjoying it.

I also bought The Gambler by Dost., and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

>>7287798
>bought bantam and not the volohonsky translation
smart choice brah

Small haul, but pretty satisfied nonetheless, especially with the PKD.

>>7287819
Yea, I have to thank /lit/ mainly for that one. This translation by MacAndrew seems great so far.

>>7278994
>Recent Purchases
>This guy with shit tier collection that he has posted on threads ages ago.

OP here.
I picked up a couple more.

>>7278994
Do you still hate the Catcher in the Rye?

>>7288337
I went to BN determined to purchase something. I left with nothing but a thought to go a used book store twenty miles away.
I had the Savage Detectives in my hand at some point. Anyone know if I should feel regret?

>>7288107
>what is bait

>>7280674

>Nikolai Gogol
Well, I don't think I bought this in Russian, so I'm assuming it's going to be a translation

>>7288337
>Kaufmann translations
why

>>7288774
I figured this would be a good edition.
What's the better translation?

Boris Vian - Et on tuera tous les affreux.

>>7277512
"Seven novels" by jules verne and
"The chris farley show, a biography in three acts."
I legit cried a bit at spots in the last few chapters around chris' death and funeral.

>>7289353
inb4 "didn't even read verne"

I finished the chris farley show like an hour ago. 250 pages today. Leave me alone.

>>7287268
>amalgam

We get it anon, you like that word

>>7288407
Yep, and Fahrenheit 451 has now been added to the "pile of shit" shelf.

>>7288107
>>7284540
It's nice to know people still remember my thread. Also, it's not THAT shit. Surely my collection is better than someone else's here on /lit/. I got TKAM, 1984, F451 and Dune. Aren't those books that /lit/ likes?

>>7286956
What publisher is this?

>>7281279
reading Crime and Punishment but not the Pevear and Volokhonsky edition. Such a newfag.

>>7282839
this is supposed to be pretty good. in the running for the booker prize, i think. any thoughts on the book?

>>7277512
>buying books
>when you can get them totally free at the library

Thank God for cheap book sales.

>>7287185
Being and Nothingness is a bear to read and, from what i understand, heavily builds off Heidegger's Being and Time, which makes it difficult to understand unless your already familiar with that stuff. I would suggest skipping being and nothingness and nausea and just read The Imaginary. Its a phenomenalogical attempt to outline the structure of Image consciousness (seeing pictures in your head) and provides a pretty clear explanation of what he means by Nothingness. As for Neitzche, just read The Gay Science

>>7290029
>all libraries have all books and are always in stock with unlimited checkout time.

>>7289246
There's a /lit/ chart with translations. I don't have it, some other anon might, and I know German, so I haven't read translations, but as I understand it Kaufmann translations aren't considered top notch and they come with comments that skew Nietzsche's sayings.
However, I can give an example of blatant mistranslation in Kaufmann, although in The Gay Science where "Unthier von parodischem Stoff ihn in Kürze"(monster of parodic material) gets translated "monster of material for parody", which is ambiguous and hardly makes sense.

>>7290155
"ihn in Kürze" shouldn't have been included in that quote*

>>7282978
where did you get those ?
they look awesome!
if you've read some of them please give feedback , i'm interested but can't find much about em

>>7290029

Not op but
Library books give me mad allergies. Dustyass motherfuckers

I bought Please Look After Mom
and
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.

Anon is animation art student with big interest in ancient art and culture (especially ancient far east). Even though these two are obviously not in ancient settings, but they were looking very interesting. I already finished the first one. I cried like a little ho.

I also really want To read something on epilepsy in ancient times if anyone knows

I just bought When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase.

time to read about a schizophrenic woman with 92 personalities.

>>7289605
SFBC

>>7290221
I've been debating on getting that book on Hirohito actually.

>>7290045
Nice Hesse, can recommend his Narziß und Goldmund if you like it

>>7291365
Thanks, I was actually hoping to find Steppenwolf, but the german section was pretty miserable. I think I'll still enjoy it though. Can't wait for my semester to be fucking over so I can actually read all of that shit.

Gravity's Rainbow and a bunch of O'Brian Stephen-Maturin books

>>7278042
Good shit but,
I can-
not st-
and th-
at Fin-
nega-
ns Wa-
ke spi-
ne.

9/10 haul
>also 5$ says you never read it.

>>7281279
what is the little stapled booklet?

>>7279374
>that a confederacy of dunces cover
Nice.

>>7280281
>The Subtle Knife

I remember reading that when I was 11

I hadn't read the Northern Lights, and wouldn't for another 2 years.

I was so confused, never finished the trilogy either.

I scooped Metamorphosis by Kafka and Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, can't wait to read about heroin and gay sex

I got (besides those already visible) Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness and Shoplifting from American Apparel. I also bought The Crying Lot of 49 and Notes from the Underground the other day. I'm a student, so it's difficult to buy English literature for a reasonable price, although I try to buy my literature in the same language as of the publication.

I just begun reading Tao Lin and am enjoying it so far. What should I read next?

In Search of Lost Time.
Being and Time.
Auto-da-fé.
Phenomenology of Spirit.

First time buying books all year. I wish these were at my local library so I wouldn't have needed to pay for them. So expensive.

I wanted to get Phenomenology of Perception as well but was expensive as fuck.

Not literature but I still got plenty of those.

>>7277512
>Borges
OP is surprinsingly not a faggot

>>7291825
pretty ambitious purchases lmao

>>7291897
I'll read them between watching anime lol.

>>7291754
I'll jump in here real quick before the douchebags get here. Great choices! Burroughs is the absolute shit, Naked Lunch is still one of my favorite books. Enjoy and sleep tight. Oh and try the whole "read the chapters in any order" thing. It's kinda eerie how they collage together so indiscernibly.

As for Kafka, I'd like to go back and read more of him, I only ever got through the Trial which was a good book, so I can't touch much on him, except that his vision of the unreality we all live in is pretty great.
Good luck anon.

>>7279559
Still got that sweet lambo ?

>>7291935
>I'll jump in here real quick before the douchebags get here. Great choices! Burroughs is the absolute shit, Naked Lunch is still one of my favorite books.
Seriously shit. Hurr hurr gay sex lol, look at that boypussy. Half the book is about boys climaxing against their will by having their anus penetrated. It's actually awful. It's analogies of certain themes thrown in between all that gay rape is juvenile. it has very little worth as literature, it's basically pulp.

>>7290271
F R Y E B U R G
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>>7290029
>touching pages that have been touched by tons of disgusting cum soaked fingers

>>7291978

There really isn't that much homosex in it. He didn't really start to go overboard in that regard till his later stuff. From what I recall Naked Lunch had just as much hetero/weird stuff too.

test

Aids.

>>7292060
oh grosss, can you imagine library books of 50 shades of gray?

man I literally JUST bought the Borges collection and south of the border... , you + me in harmonee

>>7292082
It's not hetero or homosexual. There is sex, and in Burroughs' grotesque, fetish blending, psycho-analytical sci-fi style.

But it isn't the "hurr durr I'm an edge lord junkie" perspective that you can bring to this book and walk away knowing what was said. The best plot summary for the book is simply: "A drug addict becoming unmoored as he travels." Boom. That's it. Some of it is imagined, some is surrealist allegorical mania, some is gritty pulp like the other anon said.
It is this conglomerate of hysterical, gratuitous faux pas vignettes that makes Naked Lunch a very, very worthy book.

>>7291785
>Tao Lin in translation
lol just lol

>>7291392
Both Das Glasperlenspiel and Narziß und Goldmund operate on a higher level narratively and the language is more polished than that of Steppenwolf and Siddharta, and it annoys me that /lit/ recommendation charts are apparently made by entry level hippe faggots who only pretend to enjoy Hesse.

>>7278042
good job, but promise me youll get rid of beloved by toni morrison

>>7280508
How was travelling through Iran? It sounds pretty interesting, and it's probably one of the safest countries in the region at the moment. Did it cost you much?

>>7290050

>I would suggest skipping being and nothingness and nausea and just read The Imaginary

Well it's beyond clear you have no idea what you are talking about. I wouldn't have said Being and Nothingness is necessarily worth reading in its entirety (and frankly I'd just read a guide to it instead), but just reading the Imaginary?

>>7277512
> reading a Borges translation
>not reading the original

suicide is the only solution for you, pal!

Top 2 I got at an Amnesty second hand place, bottom 2 at a record store that did cheap books for some reason. £9 all in.

>>7293751
for fucks sake iPhone. two to the left at Amnesty, two to the right at the record store

I just bought this
Rand's literature is trash and her philosophy is pretty flimsy, but she's a goddess among humankind. I recommend finding all her talk show appearances and skipping to the end where she answers questions. Alternatively, buy this book. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll vote for Rand Paul.

>>7293637
Nausea is the most interesting and I have never had any reason to give half a shit about The Imaginary

>>7290271
i wish you would consummate your love for john green by shooting him in the back like Mark David Chapman

Arab fairy tales anthology
Blandings Castle - Wodehouse
The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith

Cba to take a pic but this is what I bought recently:
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Zettel's Traum
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
Waiting for Godot
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable
The Sound and the Fury
Rainer Maria Rilke Gesammelte Werke
Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Waste Land Facsimile

Rate please

Here you go, fuckers.

>>7281279
>$30 for Blood Meridian and Lolita
Come on anon, you could have had those for $9 each off amazon or something

>translations

>>7293788
Diary of a Nobody is highly underrated, its a great little book.

>>7294356
>implying you'd understand a thing that cock dock says without translation

>>7294107
>Fridrih Nice
>Tomas Pincon

ayy lmao

>>7294396
I bet you read Anna KArenina and Crime & Punishment in russian

ayyy lmaooooo

>>7278042
Where to start with Faulkner?

>>7294429
Sound and The Fury
its the only Faulkner I've gotten around to but it was seriously 10/10 and I don't see any reason why you would have to start elsewhere

>>7294399
Not judging, just laughing at the silliness of the names. No need to get so defensive my slavic friend.

>>7280401
>clumsy writing

>>7290012
It won. Its extremely violent, some people say its funny but I miss the humor. Its about the CIA and Jamaican gangs and Bob Marley in the mid 70s thus far, and im about a quarter done

>>7293441
Will do, thanks. It's always harder to get good advice on non English texts in their native language.

Bought this lot for about 10 or 11 euro today in the charity shops.

>>7294360
*he says while falling over the scraper*

>>7294790
Thanks man

>>7277512
Recent purchases. Although my readings been stagnant recently this is what I got
State and Revolution
Letters of Rosa Luxembourg
The revolution betrayed
1984

>>7295797
and yes i know 1984 is reddit tier, but my friend isnt going to have read something I havent

>>7277512
Le hot new mene book

>>7293415
You are a miserable human being.

>>7277512

Raymond Chandler - Long Goodbye
Murakami - Wind-up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood
Rushdie - Midnight's Children

And lately I've been reading Conservation of Shadows by Lee, but I got from the library

>>7294107
Prijevodi Homera su Maretićevi? Baš ih ovih dana tražim za kupiti.
>Tomas Pinčon
Krinđ. Pa valjda znaš dovoljno engleski da možeš pročitati original...

>>7296033
Is this a new translation?

OP again.
Final purchases for quite a while. I'm set to read through the winter.

>>7297048
>The Long Ships

I hope you enjoy my country's national epic.

these two bad boys

>>7297465
I really like Vintage Classics publications, does that make me a pleb?

>>7297472
Thinking that liking certain editions of books makes you pleb makes you autistic.

>>7297536
does being autistic make me a pleb ?

>>7279112
>The message behind Fahrenheit was fine, but it was something about the writing style that made the book hard to get through.
Really? I found this true for the first 20-30 pages or so, especially when the blood draining thing was explained (didn't know what the fuck was going on), but after that point it was pretty captivating and quick to read.

>>7279112
I really liked F451, but I found it ended quite abruptly which was slightly disappointing.

>>7291596
lol theology

>>7277530
I love To Kill a Mockingbird. I think after I finish Robinson Crusoe I might revisit that one. Either that or a few short stories from Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find". So much to read, so little time until next quarter starts and I won't have time to read anymore...

>>7278042
So much Falkner. Animal Farm too?
Oh man there's so much in there that I want.
Lucky guy

>>7280627
>thought of this stuff out of pretty much nowhere

what is mythology

>G.R.R. Martin is basically Tolkien part two

what is the War of the Roses and the French Kings

>>7297663
Don't insult tolkien

>>7299082
C S Lewis was a vastly superior fantasy author and you know it deep in your heart