/lit/ - Literature

>>7978555
I forgot to add that I bought this shirt today, can't wait for it to be delivered!

https://readingfury.com/products/do-you-even-read-bro

Us readers, huh?

Why did they change the name of the first Harry Potter book for the US market?

>>7978563
Editors inventing problems to justify having a job

>>7978563
americans don't know what philosophy is.

Now I have to read all the books it talks about.

bump

>>7978563
They figured philosopher's stone was too difficult for US kids.

>>7979231
>not reading Maupassant in original French
>not reading Nabokov in Russian
>not reading Chandler in Italian

come on now

Snagged these for a pal interested in postmodernism/lit

All 1 buck

>>7979493
Whoops

She was a chubby girl, I approached her gently. We sort of like cooking, went back to her flat.
Ok made love, wrote haikus

>>7979502
I haven't read a single post-modernist book but Sokal's critique is up next on my to-read list. I'm worried thats gonna make me get started on the wrong foot, what do you think

>>7978558
Sadly it only goes to single XL. It would have been an epic addition to my collection.

>>7979521
There's some debate on if post-modern is even a thing and whether we're beyond what "post-modern" is, ao really I just say read the books. Whatever catches your eye

Not sure which to read next, but it'll probably be either Don Quixote or Suite française.
>tfw still haven't read Don Quixote

>>7979537
I started it but being unfamiliar with chivalric stories, a lot of the humor/intent went over my head

>>7979537
>letters to vera
it's pretty bad tbqfwy

>>7979544
You should fix that and check out some Chrétien de Troyes, anon.

Why do you guys buy so many books at once? Who are you trying to impress?

>>7978555
You suck at books

>>7978571
>>7978571
Actually the problem was that americans don't know what alchemy was.

>>7979733
I'm going to have a language arts classroom in two years, so i'm building up a library

>>7979733
Not him but i'm more inclined to read them if I see them on my bookshelf every time I go "What to read next?"

>>7979733
>leaving the house more than once a month

>>7978555
Are you a 14 year old girl?

>>7979231
>Lolita English translation

you fucked up

>>7979762
This is going to sound absurd, but when your comment gave me a strange feeling. The action of looking at a shelf packed with books and choosing which to read gave me a nostalgic feeling. Not one of reading, but eating. As if you were to eat a book, in a bite. A bite-sized cubed book. And the books were crunchy, but had an inner caramel consistency.

I'm pretty sure I'm autistic. Fuuuck

>>7979527
Just ask for an XXL. Im sure it will fit you fine

Tao Te Ching
Still.
I don't buy a fucking book every day.
I read them,and then I pick up 1-2 new ones.
This way you don't get flooded.

>>7979925
>lolita is translated meme

>>7979936
what

>>7979516
Writing haikus with a sweaty big girl seems dull

>>7979936
That's not autistic babe, it's cute

>>>7979231
>>not reading Nabokov in Russian
nice b8, fæm

Most of my recent additions within the past few weeks. I might have left one or two out but I'm not sure. How'd I do?

>>7979527
kek

>>7979481
hahahah ebin, simply ebin

>>7979936
dafuq

>>7981359
The sequels to Dune aren't worth reading, which is an opinion of the both SciFi lovers and literary lovers; I'd recommend just reading Dune. Moby Dick is an excellent buy. Of Twain, I would only recommend reading Huck Finn, The Mysterious Stranger, his collected short stories, or his nonfic. Lawrence of Arabia is a bad book, go watch the film instead. I wouldn't know anything about Mann or The Rat since I don't read translations. What Tolkien book is that?

>>7979521
The Sokal/Bricmont book is excellent. It will get you started on the *right* foot, so you'll know what to avoid.

Picked up these this week.

>>7979502

Underworld was a borefest.

>>7979759

>keeping books where kids can put their grimy hands on them

Fuck no. I used to steal my teachers books all the time.

>>7981511
>reading for plot

>>7978566
No Moby dick? gay pleb.

Got them this week

Excuse the shitty camera.
The 2 books on top of Moby-Dick are "I am a strage loop" and "De parte de la princesa muerta"

>>7981707
nice pick ups desu

>>7979502
>>7981707
>falling for the DeLillo meme

good to know I wasn't the only one

Hey, anyone know a site like Thriftbooks but for us Eurofags? Thriftbooks still works and all but it's double the price for every book.

Waiting for this to come in the mail. Also just bought a Russian grammar book.

Candide by Voltaire.
This is how you write ("Így írtok ti") by Frigyes Karinthy.
It criticizes/parodies the hungarian literature of the 1900s.

Both were really cheap and new.
Guess I was just looking for a good laugh.

What do you think of the covers?

>>7979936
Dude, that's in an episode of Jimmy Neutron.

>>7978555
Rate

>>7984111
10/10. Well executed.

>>7984111
dem trips tho

didnt take this for the thread so i had some cds on there too

and fuck you i know im pleb but ill read books about rockstars all i fucking want

>>7984154
the first guy was trolling but u arent

I never buy books because they are usually really expensive but this was with a low-cost

>>7984258
NICE SCARF

>>7979217
Why don't you just pick up some Malcolm Gladwell while you're at it?

>>7979217
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN: WHY NIGGERS ARE TOO RETARDED TO DO ANYTHING ON THEIR OWN AND SHOULD HAVE JUST STUCK TO HUNTING ANTELOPES

>>7984154
>now a major motion picture
Why would you do this?

Also been reading Dune on my boyfriend's kindle. Good stuff.

>>7984983
Tao Te Ching is nice.
Worth multiple re-reads.

Where do you intend to start with Lovecraft?(if you are starting to read him just now)

Nice catch 9/10 overall.

>>7984258
nice scarf faggot.
Why did you have to be such a faggot hipster?
Nobody pictures themselves with a book in the thread.
Everyone uses a blanket

>>7979578
Radical

>>7984111
ebin and fine

>>7978555
I'm actually pooping right now and I could've just given you shit for free.

>>7984983
Nice. Is Anne Franks diary desu actually good?
I always saw kids reading in middle school.

>>7978555
Why can't the bloody harry potter books be the same size?
For Heaven's sake,they are a series.

>>7979217
Does anyone have the edition that includes the bit on Bergson? All the libraries I've access to only have the editions w/o and this goes for the torrents I've tried as well.

>>7985190
and I'm talking about Fashionable Nonsense, by the way

Don't h8 pls

>>7981707
That's a really good Hesse, far superior to any of his hippie proto-beatnigger shit like Steppenwolf or Siddharta

>>7979231
Why is it that in every meme thread some faggot has to fuck it up and post seriously?

>>7985319
What do you mean "post serously"?
I posted seriously.
Only a few fucks memed.

>>7978585
hey there qt

>>7978566
>Buttrustle!
Sounds like one of those images people used to make with smug anime girls and a bunch of grammatically fucked text talking about how rekt you just got

Nothing too special recently. Most of my shit is ebooks now

>>7981707
>that edition of moby dick
post a pic of that one only pls
also where can i get it

>>7978566
>This was written
>This Printed
>This was released
>Stores sold it
>Someone bought it
>Read it
>Jerked off while holding it
>Then he sold them
>Then the shop sold them
>You bought it
I don't know which is the saddest.

>>7985425
Sure, here it is.
It was sheer luck, I found it on a used bookstore in México for like 6 usd (The owner is american so most of the titles are in english)

>>7985053
So far I've read The Beast in The Cave, The Alchemist, and The Tomb, all have been fantastic.

With Lovecraft, I'm just reading what strikes my fancy. I can take my time since I have so much of it. I'll tackle the Dunwich Horror and Call of Ctulthu soon

>>7985159
Haven't started it. I'm excited to read it though.

>>7985406
I like spice and wolf because boobies.

>>7986239

That is fucking gorgeous. Where do I get one?

2$ each. Don't know if I'll ever read them.

>>7986493
It really is, I couldn't leave the store without it.
There's a few copies on Amazon and maybe you could find it on ebay.

>>7986520
1 to 5 is a quick read.

>>7986520
>buying books just for show
I mean, they were absolutely cheap but at least make the effort to read them

>>7978585
Shouldn't you have done that first?

>>7986520
Just read them Sven, they're great.

>>7985200
cunt

>>7986594
Out of all the authors analyzed I've read Woolf, Homer, Molière, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Shakespeare and The Bible; I'm okay with reading their parts now and reading the rest after I've read all of the remaining works Plus, I've got the book for a steal.

>>7985374
Hey, lovely.

>>7984154
What in the fuck

>>7979481
Nabakov wrote in english, dumbass

>>7978585
no lo he leido, pero está linda la edición. La edición se parece un poco a las ediciones de Einaudi

>>7985200
noice, faggot.

>>7978566
Ooh, I'm stiff.

Finally found a used copy at my local used book store for 10 bucks...

>>7978555
KING...KING!

You guys ready?

>>7978555
Why did you bother taking and uploading that photo when you could just have easily started the thread by saying "I am a pleb, please mock me"?

>>7978585
Mimesis is GOAT.

>>7988150
>Italian Folktale
I'm jelly, how much did you pay for it?

>>7988057
They seem really interesting, specially Cantos and I really dig that cover for TCOL49.
Hope you enjoy them all

>>7988207
$7 at my local Half Price Books

>>7988219
I hate you a little bit, I wish we had things like that over here... Anyway, I hope you enjoy it a lot

>>7987411
>responding to a _____

I would say, that it was a good purchase

$8 new

what a steal

Picked up Brothers Karamazov a bit ago. Could someone explain self laceration for me? I'm retarded but I have a vague idea of what it is, I was wondering if /lit/ could explain it better

pls help a retard

Why has everyone bought the same books as me?

>>7985406
Eyyyy

>>7992030
Could you tell a little about GEB? I can't find its translation for my native language anywhere and I don't know how complex the book is so I'm not sure if I'd be able to read it in english. My professor keeps asking me to read it, tho

>>7992156
I normally read books at a page a minute on average, and take pauses infrequently to digest.

This book took me a week to get through 100 pages.

It is incredibly quick to establish certain logical foundations such as isometries and Godel's 'set of all sets does not include itself' theory and then expect you to apply these, without guidance from the book, to new concepts introduced in the same manner.

I recommend the book if you have a lot of time, love puzzles/thought experiments(there are hundreds of those), and/or absolutely love learning.

Also a firm grasp on abstract mathematical concepts is a must.

>>7992016
I literally just bought and finished dune this week and am starting infinite jest tomorrow

>>7984983

Hyperion ended in a really strange place. I need to pick up the sequel eventually.

>>7992211
>Godel's 'set of all sets does not include itself' theory
You are confusing Godel with Russell's paradox.

>>7992389
True, sorry, Godel showed that no system can encompass all relationships between numbers and cannot illustrate its own internal consistency, which the book applies to Russell's paradox to bring about supersets, which are sets containing sets.
So a set of all sets does not contain itself because it is a superset rather than a set.

>>7992496
Jesus fuck, just stop.

>>7992496
Russell's paradox deals with set-membership, not set-inclusion. Two different relations. And in some flavours of set theory set-membership need not necessarily be applied to sets only. Cows and frogs work too.

If A is a subset of B, then B is a superset of A.
If A is a member of B, then B is not a superset of A.

Why not brush up on actual theory than read puffed-up pop-math take on it? It's doing more damage than good.

>>7984983

>Wild Animus

Are you a college student in California? lol

From a flea market. $10 for all of this, and $5 of that was for the sun also rises.

>>7992555
Would you rather I say meta-set, a higher order of sets, which is what the book was implying?
I'm just trying to show the ramifications Godel's theorems had on Russel's principia, which had internal inconsistency but could not determine its that inconsistency through its own axioms, that inconsistency being a matter of sets containing sets and the need for orders of magnitude of sets. More metamathematics than set theory I guess.

>>7989722
>that edition of 1984

That could be worth some money.

>>7984154
>Vineland next to those other books

>>7978555
Almost everything laying on its side is a new pick up that isn't hardcover.

>>7993112

Somebody was very happy with their recent purchases

>>7993099
Actually bought this stack in a surplus store, buried in children's toys since no one reads here anymore.

I'm not selling any of them. Thanks for noticing it! It's my best book stack bought in one day - ever.

>>7991412
Isn't it always that cheap? Bought it for 9$, the quality is shit.

>>7992656
isn't Closing Time supposed to be awful?

Anything like thriftbooks but for EU?

>>7991389
where did you get that copy of solaris? It's a nightmare to find

New to /lit/ and went on a small book buying binge after lurking for a bit. Good thing, too. I cancelled my cable and home internet.

>Brothers Karamazov (currently reading)
>Don Quixote
>Dune
>Meditations
>The Death of Artemio Cruz
>Notes from the Underground
>The Sound of Waves

Sorry if I bought a meme book.

>>7979231
pretty good senpai, i recently red bel-ami and i really liked it

>>7994678
It's a polish version, I bought it from empik

>>7994644
Idk probably, it was 66 cents though so how could I go wrong?

>>7994923
Some might give you shit about Dune, but fuck them.

>>7981432
yeah but I can't see what they are

>>7981432
You keep your books in a draw?

>>7996720
>not keeping your books in a draw so they won't get all dusty and dirty just because you want people on the internet to look at your bookshelf

How badly did I fuck up f4milia

I've just started reading books in english. What should I read after these?

I got a 63 print of virgils work in Latin

My Latin isn't that good but I am going to learn as I go

10 eurocoins.

Bastards wanted 7,50 for the fat NAI design book.
Greedy Indians.

>>7998726
Pick another few books off the /lit/ starter kit, until you've read at least 50% or so.

>>7998833
Quality photography m8. Hope you enjoy Turn of the Screw.

>>7998833
Quality photography, indeed

>>7998890
Should I also buy the books I've already read in my native language?

>>7992030
why do you have 2 copies of kizu?

>>7979748
I thought the issue was that alchemy was the devil

>>7998909

Not sure if I've understood your post, but I'm assuming that you're the Catcher/Animal Farm/Clockwork Orange guy, and your question means that you've already read a number of books from the /lit/ starter kit in a foreign language. To be honest I would consider that decision to be up to your own discretion. Translations are obviously never as good as the original, but it's the starter kit for a reason, you aren't meant to spend too much time on it. If there were any books that you read in your own language that you really liked, maybe reading them in the original would be rewarding for you. But if not, and you'd rather move onto new pastures, maybe try a Dostoyevsky (Idiot, Notes) or Joyce (Dubliners, Portrait).

>>7978555
A summer of getting turnt-up and reading Freud. Nice trips btw.

>>7998890
>>7998904
t..thanks.

>>7999147
Can you post your whole bookshelf at the bookshelf thread? I'm interested now

>>7999234

It's already there >>7998741

>>7981707
>Leviathan

>>7984154
I understand the Pynchon one and the Pale King...
but the other crap?? what is wrong with you?

>>7998618
from left to right: good, fucked up, meh

>>7984258
At least you didnt put a pic of your face next to the book.
Also the Quixo dies at the end.

>>7999261
Oh, that makes sense. I'm the guy who asked what your camera was on the last bookshelf thread

>>7989722
Nice to see someone reading Gilbert & Sullivan.

>>7988057
Good luck with the Cantos.

>>7986239
Who's the publisher of this? Does it have textual notes / annotations / an introduction?

>>7978555
Are the thoms Harris' hannibal books good to read.? Not for artistic merit or whatever but just enjoying a piece of fiction

>>7999377

I remember that.
This was just bokewhoring with a Nikon 50 1.4.