/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10442742]

Did /lit/ get any books for christmas?
Post your stacks.

[Anonymous No.10442746]

>>10442742
It's not Christmas yet, fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.10442749]

why didn't you ask for mein kampf fucking kraut

[Anonymous No.10442753]

>>10442746
Be sensitive, OP may live in a single parent home and have to see the disgraced parent a few days prior to Christmas proper

[Anonymous No.10442755]

>>10442742
John, if you're reading this thread, you know what to do.

[Anonymous No.10442766]

>>10442746
>>10442753
Germans celebrate Christmas on the evening of the 24th.

[Anonymous No.10442768]

>>10442746
Some places open their gifts on Christmas eve.

Weird, I know.

[Anonymous No.10442770]

>>10442746
>>10442753

Or he lives in schnitzelland you unobservant boobies

[Anonymous No.10442786]

>>10442766
>>10442770
Didnt know that

[Anonymous No.10442790]

>>10442746
what are datelines

[Anonymous No.10442791]

C-Can we talk about about the books you got or have wished for now?

[Anonymous No.10442819]

I would really like the new English translation of Die Einzige und sein Eigentum, but I will provably have to buy it myself. Ho hum.

[Anonymous No.10442835]

Gelehrtenrepublik is amazing, especially the part where he is screwing a centaur-girl

[Anonymous No.10442864]

>>10442835
Looking forward to reading it!
So far the only Schmidt I've read are Schwarze Spiegel and Leviathan.

[Anonymous No.10442874]

>>10442864
yeah I enjoyed Leviathan as well, I suppose his early works are way more comprehensible than his later ones, like Zettels Traum for example. As of now I'm afraid to go near that thing

[Anonymous No.10442882]

>>10442874
Yes it's very daunting.
Should I read more Anglo literature before jumping into Gelehrtenrepublik?
Not too familiar Poe, Joyce etc.

[sin No.10442883]

>>10442755
My name is John, and I don't know what I should be doing.

[Anonymous No.10442904]

>>10442883
My name is also John. I have a friend named John, another named John, and a third named Jonathan.

[sin No.10442925]

>>10442904
I don't recall ever meeting another John in my life.

You and your friends must either all be middle-aged or are all living in Britain.

[Anonymous No.10442940]

>>10442925
Not so. I'm a millennial.

[Anonymous No.10442945]

I have £50 left over in birthday money. What should I get? I've got my eye on Schmidt lately but I have no idea where to start.

[Anonymous No.10442949]

I sincerely hope no one's been lurking my wish list and has bought me anything off there. I don't want to buy anymore until I consume the one's I've already amassed over the years.

[Anonymous No.10442974]

>weeks before Christmas
>give my mother hints that I'd like to read Dubliners
>say it's Christmas so she can afford to buy me a good edition and not a cheap paperback
>spend the next few weeks talking about how magnificent an author Joyce is
>Christmas
>mother shows me a present in the shape of a nice hardcover book
>feel good about this, proud of my mother for the first time in my life
>as soon as she hands me the book, all that goes away
>feel under the wrappings a shitty floppy paperback
>open it and see it's a fucking Penguin edition
>sternly tell mother that Everyman editions are the books that are aesthetically beautiful and long lasting
>she keeps telling me that my present is a centennial edition and that the artwork looks pretty, as if that makes it better
>tell her this Penguin piece of shit will fall apart after only a few rereadings
>demonstrate my point by opening and closing the poorly made Penguin edition just a few times
>it rips apart really easily and turns into a pathetic pile of paper on the floor
>tfw she won't buy me the Everyman version because I've been acting bad

She told me I could have just made an exchange if I didn't "destroy" the book I had, but I don't want another poor reader to suffer.

[Anonymous No.10442985]

Got this from my grandfather, better get to learn german.

[Anonymous No.10443014]

>>10442985
fuck, I'd jizz everywhere if I got this

[Anonymous No.10443039]

Judge me, bitches

[Anonymous No.10443064]

>>10443039
You Norwegian? I actually have two of those books waiting in my bookshelf. Murakami is pleb-tier though.

[Anonymous No.10443069]

>>10442985
>Brecht
Literally the most overrated German language author.

[Anonymous No.10443073]

>>10442974
and that's why your parents don't love you

[Anonymous No.10443076]

>>10443069
Yeah

[Anonymous No.10443082]

>>10443064
Danish. My sister said the bookkeeper recommended Kafka on the Shore based on the other books I wanted.

>>10442974
lmao gtf back to /r9k/

[Anonymous No.10443091]

>>10443082
reddit

[Anonymous No.10443100]

>>10442746
Central Europeans get their presents on the 24th from little baby Jesus. (It's not just you, you fucking Krauts)

[Anonymous No.10443125]

>>10443069
pleb

[Anonymous No.10443136]

>>10443125
You are.

[Anonymous No.10443176]

I only got a gift-card with roughly 16 Euros on it. I think I might buy the new translation of L'etranger to see what it's like. Maybe some cheap pocket books if anything catches my eye.

[Anonymous No.10443182]

>>10443136
no u

[Anonymous No.10443194]

>>10443125
>>10443136
>>10443182

Mature.

[Anonymous No.10443228]

The two on the top is Brand and Peer Gynt by Ibsen.

[Anonymous No.10443240]

>>10443228
Originals or translated?
top-tier books anyways

[Anonymous No.10443252]

>>10443240
Ibsen is in the original Norwegian.

[Anonymous No.10443253]

I received these from my parents and siblings.

[Anonymous No.10443268]

>>10443253
wtf is that pleb manga shit to the left

[Anonymous No.10443276]

>>10443268
Manga is patrician. Anime is pleb. Get it straight. Hentai is for the ubermensch.

[Anonymous No.10443277]

>>10442985
Get ready for heavy-handed political allegories

[Anonymous No.10443287]

>>10443268
I like to read some manga, Berserk is something I've enjoyed to read over the years and having physical copies of it now is nice, I'm happy with it.

[Anonymous No.10443296]

All are self-bought except for bridge on the river kwai

[Anonymous No.10443304]

>>10443296
Nice to see some Yates. The rest will make good kindling.

[Anonymous No.10443310]

got a pretty aesthetic book

[Anonymous No.10443313]

>>10443296
Nice stack, never read Cities of the Plain before but I enjoyed other books by Cormac McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.10443325]

>>10443296
>lmao he fell for the dosto meme

Medea is cool, I don't know the rest.

[Anonymous No.10443328]

>>10443313
Well it's the last book of his that I don't own yet, and I've never read the border trilogy so I'm looking forward to finishing his works

[Anonymous No.10443331]

I bought myself a video game for Christmas.

[Anonymous No.10443337]

>>10443313
He's a two-bit fraud.

[Anonymous No.10443342]

>>10442742
Rate.

[Anonymous No.10443347]

>>10443325
Dosto is okay as far as guilty pleasures go. More people on /lit could stand to internalize some of his themes. But he should only be used as a supplement to great works when you want to take a break but need entertainment.

[Anonymous No.10443351]

>>10443337
Care to explain? What's fraudulent about him, mind you I don't know much about the other himself but I've read a couple of his works.

[Anonymous No.10443357]

>>10443325
>Dosto the Yevsky is a meme

Argue for this.

[Anonymous No.10443363]

>>10442985
>hey guys I have this incredible new idea
>what if...we made audiences realize that they're at the theater?
>I am the first to come up with this brilliant innovation!
>before me, audiences were so enraptured by the plays that they completely forgot they were watching a play
>w-what do you mean Shakespeare has a dozen """""""""""""""""""""""brechtian"""""""""""""""""""""""""""" jokes in every play?
>btw let's genocide some kulaks

[Anonymous No.10443370]

>>10443351
I can't really explain it. I feel strongly about it but it's hard for me to articulate my convictions sometimes. His work just strikes me as having a grandiose appearance but with nothing inside it. I never feel like he's saying anything of substance. Which is fine, but it also seems like he feels he is.

[Anonymous No.10443394]

>>10442974
you don’t deserve anything anon, I hope your atherosclerosis gets worse and worse

[Anonymous No.10443427]

>>10443357
>lmao he fell for my "dosto is a meme" bait

The man can't write, his plots are dull and pretentious and really overrated in general desu. White (k)nights literally seemed like it was written by a whiny incel on /r9k/.

[Anonymous No.10443489]

Little sister got me a poetry collection by Theodor Storm.

[Anonymous No.10443519]

>>10443489
she single ?

[Anonymous No.10443595]

>>10442742
:)

[Anonymous No.10443600]

>>10442974
happy to see this pasta again

[Anonymous No.10444236]

>>10443342
i want to read the king in yellow

[Anonymous No.10444243]

>>10443489
tell her I want her toes inside my foreskin

[Anonymous No.10444380]

>>10442974
Fuck you I love the penguin covers.

[Anonymous No.10444649]

>>10442974
kys jfc

[Anonymous No.10444670]

>>10442786
It's sickening

[Anonymous No.10445208]

>>10443595
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.10445251]

I was given Carry on Jeeves and Runaway Horses, by Mishima.
I know that's the second in the series but is it okay to start there? If not then I'll just go buy the other one, it just might take a while to find it.

[Anonymous No.10445303]

I got a couple others too, fahrenheit 451, something on jfk assassination and an anthology of short stories

[Anonymous No.10445315]

>>10445251
>I know that's the second in the series but is it okay to start there?
That won't do, you have to read it in the right order to get the best of it.

[Anonymous No.10445333]

I'm going for new year to give my mom first wither book and my grandma some "stories from priest"

[Anonymous No.10445349]

mine

[Anonymous No.10445392]

Plz no bully, they are from my parents.

[Anonymous No.10445396]

>>10445392
nice holmes book. i got one but doesnt look quite as nice as that

[Anonymous No.10445403]

>>10445396
yea its the Barnes and Noble one, leather back and gold edges, looks really nice. Not sure its gonna be nice for long reading tho.

[Anonymous No.10445410]

>>10443039
snyggt. Jag köpte Gravity's Rainbow på svenska i somras, helt clueless

[Anonymous No.10445412]

>>10443253
why your City of God is so big?
Can you tell me the difference of your version to other smaller version?

[Anonymous No.10445431]

I'm not from an english-speaking country. I was very happy about them, the ones I look forward to the most are the Kafka on the Shore, Naked Lunch, the Ray Bradburry novel and all of Borges.

[Anonymous No.10445432]

>>10445431

[Anonymous No.10445448]

Ordered Ovid's letters and poetry from exile too

[Anonymous No.10445481]

Got this from mother.

[Anonymous No.10445485]

>>10445481
nice. do you like to collect books signed or was this a special treat

[Anonymous No.10445498]

>>10445485
It was an unexpected surprise. I'm very happy with it.

[Anonymous No.10445501]

r8

[Anonymous No.10445549]

>>10443228
>mushroom spore prints for augustine
por que?

[Anonymous No.10445556]

>>10445501
nice

[Anonymous No.10445563]

>>10445556
very nice

[Anonymous No.10445609]

bottom 4 were from classics professor mommy

top 4 were from english major gf

:3

[Anonymous No.10445612]

>>10442742
i got the ego and its own, odyssey, and the iliad

[Anonymous No.10445618]

>>10443039
>clockwork orange
>cover has a glass of milk
i hate when they do this, make some reference about some minor detail to the novel itself.

[Anonymous No.10445630]

>>10445609
living the dream senpai

[Anonymous No.10445633]

>>10443069
triggered /pol/ack, neck yourself

[Anonymous No.10445682]

>>10445609
Classics professor mother? That sounds super cool. She single?

[Anonymous No.10445693]

>>10444236
honestly not worth the time. the repairer of reputations is okay, but the ending is pretty stupid and undermines the whole thing. the other stories you can make a pass on. I don't think this is an unpopular opinion, the only people I see defending it are august derleth-tier lovecraft mythos shills

[Anonymous No.10445698]

>>10445609
kinda jelly desu

[Anonymous No.10445704]

[Anonymous No.10445708]

I got Ulysses, the idiot and Meditations

On a scale of one to ten how much do you want to reply to me?

[Anonymous No.10445719]

>>10445708
ten because i got pic related. it's tiny

[Anonymous No.10445720]

>>10445719
oops!

[Anonymous No.10445722]

>>10445704
I read The Wake a couple years back and absolutely loved it.
It’s one of those books that makes you feel a real sense of loss once it’s over and you realize there isn’t anything else quite like it.

[Anonymous No.10445724]

These, along with David Lynch: The Art Life, Logan, and Leviathan on Blu Ray.

It was a pretty good Christmas.

[Anonymous No.10445733]

I got Zizek - Lenin 2017

[Anonymous No.10445738]

bought myself Moby Dick and the penguin collected works of HG Wells

[Anonymous No.10445742]

>>10445722
is it easy to understand the writing once you get used to it?

[Anonymous No.10445771]

I got a Dan brown novel. My family knows nothing about literature, and I didn't ask for anything. It's the thought that counts. Still, Tfw no litfu gf to surprise me with good books

[Anonymous No.10445787]

I've also got Aristotle De Anima and Brothers Karamazov.
I like Alexander.

[Anonymous No.10445795]

>>10445742
I would say so. When I started, the going was very slow, but once I got used to the syntax and could start placing things via context, I tore through the last two-thirds or so.
I envy anyone with the opportunity to read it for the first time.

[Anonymous No.10445804]

>>10445787
jelly

[Anonymous No.10445845]

>>10445787
Should have gotten all of Plutarch's Lives

[Anonymous No.10445849]

Got 100$ B+N gift card what should I spend on?

[Anonymous No.10445851]

>>10445708
8, I got Meditations too

[Anonymous No.10445863]

>>10445795
thanks lad

[Anonymous No.10445873]

>>10442742
My girlfriend spoiled me

>>10443310
This looks interesting.

>>10445303
Byrne is a musical genius, I want to read that eventually.

>>10445609
I didn't know that Landmark published an Alexander.

>>10445724
That Homer looks like a nice edition. What translation?

>>10445787
I just finished the Aeneid. It was amazing, of course. A lot of us got Landmark editions.

Merry Christmas, faggots.

[Anonymous No.10445881]

>>10445873
>your girlfriend bought you Evola

Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.10445895]

>>10445392
Dracula is a flippin good read

[Anonymous No.10445899]

>>10445724
I really wasn't expecting it but The Iliad is one of the hypest things I've read.
Homer goes full anime multiple times.

[Anonymous No.10445900]

>>10445845
How is the rest of it? I might get it sometime soon.

[Anonymous No.10445905]

>>10445724
What edition of Homer is that? Looks neato.

[Anonymous No.10445907]

>>10443039

Det er sgu da ikke Soren Kierkegaard. Hvad gik der galt?

[Anonymous No.10445915]

Anybody else get some random quotes book fior every christmas . My parents know I read, but no idea what

[Anonymous No.10445924]

>>10445915
usually some joke meme book for me. The top 10 CrAziEsT speeches, top 100 shit jokes.. that kind of thing

[Anonymous No.10445929]

[Anonymous No.10445932]

>>10445873
>My girlfriend
AKA your /pol/ butt-buddy?
>>10445720
oops~

[Anonymous No.10445952]

>>10442766
i think a lot of hispanics do the same here in the united states. we get together with extended family on christmas eve for dinner and presents and then everyone fucks off back home, goes to bed, wakes up christmas morning and opens presents.

[Anonymous No.10445966]

>>10445952
spics are monkeys, one cares what they do you fag

[Anonymous No.10445967]

>>10445873
>What translation?
I tried to find out, but it wasn’t readily apparent. I’m planning to look more into it later. It’s a solid little book, though.

[Anonymous No.10445978]

>>10445966
>/pol/ack calls other people monkeys
kek

[Anonymous No.10446019]

[Anonymous No.10446020]

Poe Collection and The Aeneid.

[Anonymous No.10446065]

>>10442974
>>10443600
:^) Merry Christmas anons, another year gone
God Bless

[Anonymous No.10446068]

[Anonymous No.10446071]

>>10442974
iignatius?

[Anonymous No.10446072]

[Anonymous No.10446077]

No books. But I got a fidget spinner.

[Anonymous No.10446088]

my cameras quality is shit

[Anonymous No.10446094]

>>10446088
Take some more pictures plz, good taste
what is that box set?

[Anonymous No.10446102]

>>10446094
Folio Societies: Empires of the Ancient Near East

[patsies are fuck No.10446105]

>>10443296


why so much red

[Anonymous No.10446108]

>>10446102
>>10446094
heres the rest of them

[Anonymous No.10446118]

>>10446088
>father ted
patrician spotted

[Anonymous No.10446123]

Only got one this year. Gift from my uncle as he's a huge old school D&D fantasy nerd who loves this shit. Probably won't be reading it anytime soon due to all the books that I'm currently reading, but it looks nice and I'll get to it eventually.

[Anonymous No.10446125]

>>10446118
thanks man, im just glad it was on sale for christmas

[Anonymous No.10446126]

>>10446068
>ayn rand
>teaching people to write

[Anonymous No.10446128]

>>10443082
Fuck off slav, this is an English yarn board site

[Anonymous No.10446146]

Nothing particularly interesting on my end, a National Parks photograph book and another about "Blue Zones" from my mother (healthy living, etc).

>>10443228
> De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals [Minerals]) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text.

I'd never heard of this, but seems interesting. Neat collection anon!

>>10443310
Cover looks like a wojak edit.

>>10443342
Not really my taste, but looks like a good collection none-the-less. Even ignoring the book on English politics, a very British stack.

>>10445609
Pretty neat familia. Even though I'm not a huge Mishima fan anything by Perigee is solid (I have their Kawabata collection from the 80s).

>>10446072
Good luck with the language learning! /a/ and /jp/ have solid threads on learning to read.

>>10446102
> Vintage Folio Society

Peanut Butter & Jelly

[Anonymous No.10446157]

>>10446102
>>10446108
Thanks for the share mate, Merry Christmas
btw father ted is top tier, make your children watch that to become great humans

Here is mine for anyone to critique

[Anonymous No.10446160]

>>10443039
Edith Hamilton
Nice job based anon!

[Anonymous No.10446209]

>>10445929
I loved Fermat's Enigma! Only "math" book i'll ever read.

[Anonymous No.10446234]

>>10446068
6/10 clever bait anon

[Anonymous No.10446241]

>>10446157
>What Happened
lmao

[Anonymous No.10446257]

>>10446241
got my brother the art of the deal last year, this is his rebuttal
art of the deal is actually a fun read tho

[Anonymous No.10446272]

>>10443427
wow ur so woke

[Anonymous No.10446275]

>>10446157
Is What Happened really that much of a bloated piece of shit?
For how many pages can one stretch the simple facts of "I was a weak candidate who made a shitty campaign, full of conceit, divisiveness and unwarranted security of victory, coupled with shady business and warmongering"?

[Anonymous No.10446279]

>>10446146
>Good luck with the language learning! /a/ and /jp/ have solid threads on learning to read.

Thank you! I'll check those out

[Anonymous No.10446288]

>>10446072
interdasting
memrise is really useful for japanese, i don't know a great deal though

[Anonymous No.10446289]

>>10446123
Never thought I would say this on /lit/, but watch the anime too, the 13 ep OVA, if only for the stellar art alone

[Anonymous No.10446290]

>>10446275
anything but her fault desu
not looking forward to forcing through this

[Anonymous No.10446297]

>>10446290
>Those Damn Emails

Priceless

[Anonymous No.10446300]

>>10446157
kinda want to buy what happened, if only for a keepsake to remind me of the wild ride that election was

heard it wasnt very good though

[Anonymous No.10446301]

>>10446290
>Idealism and Realism
Plato v. Aristotle, 2000 year redux, let's go :^)

[Anonymous No.10446309]

>>10446290
>Electon Night
>Why

lmao

[Anonymous No.10446317]

>>10442742
Got Musil too! Anyone have an opinion on Zweig? Dont know what to think about it

[Anonymous No.10446325]

>>10446088
That Napoleon book is really fucking good.

[Anonymous No.10446358]

Got a bunch of cash, temptation to buy books is strong. But one must resist.

[Anonymous No.10446361]

>>10446317
On Zweig in general or on that particular book?

[Anonymous No.10446374]

>inb4 learn German

[Anonymous No.10446380]

>>10443337
Fake comment

[Anonymous No.10446389]

>>10445432
Kytice je základ. Doufám, že je to dárek ze sběratelských důvodů, ne teprve k prvnímu přečtení.

[Anonymous No.10446416]

>>10443595
How's that JC book?

[Anonymous No.10446419]

>>10446317
Read "Le Joueur d'échecs" for school in lycée, and i loved it, even though i was an edgy teenager who didn't like reading. Je l'ai lu en français, bien évidemment.

[Anonymous No.10446433]

>>10443595
>The Middle-Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook
>Generation Allah

[Anonymous No.10446435]

>>10446419
Au collège, pas au lycée, pardon.

[Anonymous No.10446448]

>>10444380

[Anonymous No.10446454]

>>10445873
>>10445905

Seems to be Fitzgerald.

[Anonymous No.10446463]

>>10446361
Idk both? My father gave me Amok to read a few weeks ago
>>10446419
Nice. Mais ça n'est pas allemand à la base ?

[Anonymous No.10446499]

Step aside plebs.

[Anonymous No.10446500]

>>10445873
Imagine asking for Evola, Thucydides and Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.10446503]

[Anonymous No.10446517]

>>10446290
Russia already getting the blame by para 2. on the dust flap

[Anonymous No.10446529]

>>10446499
>cannonball
fair enough, nice pics lad

[Anonymous No.10446543]

I bought some books for a few anons on here last week, and I was rewarded in kind from friends and family (pic related). Finally got a hardbound version of Landmark Thucdydides, which means I now won't need to hold it open while reading it (the hardbound landmarks are much superior to the paperbacks for ease of reading; see next picture).

[Anonymous No.10446548]

>>10446543
(Hardcover Landmarks are the way to go)

[Anonymous No.10446553]

meme

[Anonymous No.10446557]

>>10446543
>fourteen Haidty Haidt
He hits the nail on the fucking head I'll give him that.

[Anonymous No.10446558]

>>10445609
>paperback landmarks

It seems like a gift, but it's actually an insult.

[Anonymous No.10446565]

>>10445873
Excellent.

[Anonymous No.10446577]

>>10446548
Any idea why landmark arrian and herodotus hardcover are so expensive these days? Will they get cheaper? I've got the other 3 harcover landmark editions, but I'm not paying $200+ for a these two books

[Anonymous No.10446594]

>>10446548
Did you print the web essays yourself?

[Anonymous No.10446598]

>>10446577
I assume it's just because they're out of print at the moment (for no real reason that I can tell). I just buy new landmarks when they come out though (I have since Xenophon).

[Anonymous No.10446599]

No one bought me any books for Christmas. I bought myself a few but they haven't arrived yet. Here's the stacks of books next to my bed though.

[Anonymous No.10446605]

>>10446594
I did, through lulu. It's much more convenient to have them on hand in a physical form than it is to access a pdf online. They really should have been included in the volume itself, but that ship has sailed unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.10446631]

>>10443253
Peeping that Mystical City of God.

[Anonymous No.10446652]

>>10445412
It's not St. Augustine's, it's Ven. Mary of Agreda's.

[Anonymous No.10446713]

>>10445873
I'm sure I've seen that stack before, are you lying boy?

[Anonymous No.10446719]

>>10445932
Muh ol

[Anonymous No.10446722]

>>10446599
good shit, my dude

[Anonymous No.10446727]

r8

[Anonymous No.10446744]

>>10446557
Isn't Haidt a center left lib?

[Anonymous No.10446746]

>>10446727
quite memey, seems like you probably read what /lit/ tells you to

[Anonymous No.10446750]

Mom got me two from Folio Society.

[Anonymous No.10446753]

>>10446744
Yes, but his analysis of conservative and liberal mindsets are absolutely spot on, particularly the analysis of the disgust reaction. The far right likes to meme that he's a secret nazi.

[Anonymous No.10446754]

+That specific printing of Confessions
+Woman in the Dunes
+I Am A Cat
+Unabridged Genji

-Kafka on the Shore, book is fine but I prefer the previous cover (guy with glasses)

9/10 overall.

[Anonymous No.10446755]

>>10446744
He's also Jewish, lol

[Anonymous No.10446767]

>Steppenwolf
>Mitt liv som hund

and I got myself some shit from the Verso Books sale:
>Dialectic of Enlightenment
>Quasi Una Fantasia
>Reading Capital, complete edition
>The Weight of Things

[Anonymous No.10446781]

>>10446463
The Royal Game (or whatever the english translation is, die Schachnovelle) is just an example of competent and economical storytelling. I loved the book for its simplicity, and although I'm fundamentally skeptical of (and often also bored by) any serious literature dealing with WW2 and Nazi occupation (those just seem to get overrated immensely, a good example for that is Patrick Modiano, in my opinion) it just really worked well. Zweig is like that, not thaat interesting as a psychologist or a stylist, but a very good storyteller with enough imagination to make his stuff very readable.

I gave up on my first attempt at the Man without Qualities a few months ago, but I might just be 85IQ and I'm planning to try again at some point. It didn't seem like a bad work, I just didn't have the patience, so I can't really comment on it. Read both in the german original.

[Anonymous No.10446798]

>>10446500
Imagine not

[Anonymous No.10446801]

>>10445704
Are you in Australia?

[Anonymous No.10446806]

>>10446500
>/ourhistorian/
>wacky banana breakfast guy xD
>overrated esotiricist idolized because of the lack of serious alternatives

You're being unfair to big T

[Anonymous No.10446817]

Oh shit I didn't see this thread. Yeah I got this. Read it a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.10446821]

>>10446817
What an embarrassing post. Don't think I won't remember this. You'll be the subject of ridicule on /lit/ for years to come for this faux-pas.

[Anonymous No.10446822]

>>10446817

[Anonymous No.10446832]

>>10446817
What plebs, I'd burn it in front of them

[Anonymous No.10446833]

>>10446821
Suck a dick faggot. my dad has no idea what I read now he just knows that was the first book i ever read as a kid. Yeah it's pleb af but what am I gonna do. He doesn't come over and see my books.

[Anonymous No.10446842]

>>10446817
Good shit.

[Anonymous No.10446866]

>>10446833
You shouldn't have posted this, and you'll regret it I swear to God.

[Anonymous No.10446899]

>>10445410
svenskersatan

>>10445907
Kierkegaard kan sutte min fede rov

>>10445609
Living the dream anon. Is ur mum or gf single?

>>10445618
And it's such a dull cover. If I saw a book with that cover in a bookstore and I didn't know the book, I wouldn't even bother to read the back of it.

>>10446108
>imagine caring so much about the crusades that you read 4 big-ass books about them

The fourth crusade is the only interesting one.

>>10443595
>>10446433
>The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook

B-but being a vegetarian for non-medical reasons is haram.

>>10446553
I never knew someone on /lit/ actually read books other than Infinite Meme by DFW.

>>10446727
Decent stuff, it looks like you used one of those intro to jap lit charts on the /lit/ wiki tho.

>>10446755
Who cares that he's jewish? We're not /pol/.

[Anonymous No.10446904]

r8 these two bad boys
they're really expensive for some reasonable, so I was delighted to receive them in exchange for good-boy-points.

[Anonymous No.10446909]

>>10446899
>Who cares that he's jewish?

>>10446557 implied he was a nazi

[Anonymous No.10446918]

>>10443039
just read mythology ITS SO COOL MAN SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE IN ONE BOOK

[Anonymous No.10446931]

all i want is the death of frank olson book for christmas but no one got me it so i guess I GOTTA GO OUT AND BE A MAN AND BUY THAT SHIT FO MY SELF

[Anonymous No.10446935]

>>10446599
>two different editions of the recognitions

[Anonymous No.10446945]

>>10446599
>war and peace in the human village

what's that one about?

[Anonymous No.10446949]

>>10446918
brah, I read some Greek /lit/ and wanted to know more about the gods they refer to all the time, so I put a /lit/-approved book about mythology on my wishlist.

[Anonymous No.10446963]

>>10446781
Oh ok, that's what it seemed to me. Good easy-reading, comfy little books. I'll read them in-between the man without qualities then. And yeah, Modiano is a little bitch

[Anonymous No.10447006]

>>10443039
Fuck yeah, Edith Hamilton.

[Anonymous No.10447055]

Merry Christmas /lit/

[Anonymous No.10447070]

>>10446949
You better not have read Homer without understanding mythology

[Anonymous No.10447072]

no camera but I got
Don Delillo - The Names
Don Delillo - Underworld
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
and Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathurstra

[Anonymous No.10447079]

>>10446935
One for reading/notes. The other is a first edition. Same with GR, Pale Fire and several other books I have.

>>10446945
Marshall Macluhan stuff. Basically about how mediums affect human behavior and in some ways are responsible for re-tribalization. Very relevant, but Macluhan is pretty obtuse in his writing. It's more just an interesting idea than strong theory.

[Anonymous No.10447081]

>>10447055
>THE CASE for CATHOLICISM

lmao he fell for the pope meme

[Anonymous No.10447101]

>>10447070
>understanding
lmao just look it up on wikipedia

[Anonymous No.10447136]

>>10442791
NO

[Anonymous No.10447143]

>>10446448
that's fucking satanic

[Anonymous No.10447151]

>>10445609
where 2 find english major gf ;(

[Anonymous No.10447152]

Purchased this with gift cards. I'm thinking about adding In Search of Lost Time or one of the Chinese Great Novels to the list?

[Anonymous No.10447175]

>>10442985
>stack of marxist filth
who knew your grandfather was such a pussy

[Anonymous No.10447176]

>>10445633
>if you don't like my derivative and autistic marxist """thinker""" you must be a literal nazi /pol/ack
you don't sound ridiculous at all, friend

[Anonymous No.10447184]

>>10443228
>Metallica
brutal, dude

[Anonymous No.10447194]

>>10443296
>Faulkner
>Yoshikawa's Musashi
>Dostoyevsky
patrician taste, 友達

[Anonymous No.10447200]

>>10443427
>The man can't write
well he is dead
he wasn't one of the greatest authors of all time for nothing though

[Anonymous No.10447207]

>>10443310
>The feel generation

[Anonymous No.10447225]

>>10445609
>Mishima
>Borges
marry her immediately if you know what's good for you, anon

[Anonymous No.10447239]

>>10447175
Bitch, my grandfather worked in construction for over 30 years, go call him a pussy to his face. Most commies older than 50 years old bear little resemblance to the useless "marxist" college students you mostly see.

[Anonymous No.10447249]

>>10447239
i'm from an actual communist country; my grandmother is a communist (god bless her soul)
i can tell you that marxists of any era are pussies of the lowest calibre and lack the strength of both the rugged individualist and the nationalist zealot

[Anonymous No.10447264]

>>10446899
>it looks like you used one of those intro to jap lit charts on the /lit/ wiki tho.
that's pretty much the case. I would consider it a decent intro to eastern lit

[Anonymous No.10447270]

>>10446899
>it looks like you used one of those intro to jap lit charts on the /lit/ wiki tho.
that's pretty much the case. at least its a decent intro to eastern lit

[Anonymous No.10447273]

[Anonymous No.10447278]

>>10447273
Fucked up picture on upload, idk

[Anonymous No.10447279]

>>10447249
>everyone is from a communist country on the internet
well I guess I'll just take your word for it then, my grandfather is a pussy

[Anonymous No.10447281]

>>10447273
You must be australian.

[Anonymous No.10447284]

>>10447281
You caught me m8

[Anonymous No.10447295]

>>10447081
yeah, I fell for the Church established by Jesus

[Anonymous No.10447298]

>>10447279
>people from communist countries don't exist, couldn't have possibly emigrated, and certainly don't have access to the internet
yes, remain in your bubble
the world is exactly as you envisioned and everything that challenges your world view is a lie

[Anonymous No.10447317]

>>10447239
>starting a sentence with bitch
You sound like the marxist college student you describe.

[Anonymous No.10447325]

Purchased with a gift card.

[Anonymous No.10447327]

>>10447070
that would be a crime bretheren

how read physics if no understand da mafh?

You simply cannot, and you will understand shit. Better know the gods before you read about heros nd shit

[Anonymous No.10447330]

>>10447325
>Rise and Fall
AAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH

[Anonymous No.10447332]

>>10447239
>Most commies older than 50 years old bear little resemblance to the useless "marxist" college students you mostly see.
W r o n g

[Anonymous No.10447337]

>>10446317
Read Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday to better understand his world. The writing is phenomenal even in that

[Anonymous No.10447344]

>>10447298
No, some of you do exist, but I just find it peculiar that as soon as an argument about communism shows up, someone from Russia or whatever who knows whats up, when in most of those countries, most people got positive feelings towards socialism.
Now I would be glad if you could "challenge my worldview" with some actual arguments, and not just baseless accusations.

[Anonymous No.10447348]

>>10447344
No

[Anonymous No.10447349]

>>10447344
russia is a shithole. they have nothing to lose. of course they would vote yea

[Anonymous No.10447351]

What is it with so many people get the landmark historians for christmas?

[Anonymous No.10447356]

>>10442742
>getting gifts for christmas
How underage are you people?

[Anonymous No.10447359]

>>10447332
>corbyn
>commie
>not based
also, the fucker never even went to college

[Anonymous No.10447363]

>>10447317
I wouldn't know, I'm not from an English speaking country.

[Anonymous No.10447365]

>>10446727
Weaboo/10

[Anonymous No.10447366]

>>10447359
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuUFWcApifU
>corbyn
>based

[Anonymous No.10447382]

>>10447330
I'm glad you got a kick out of that. I'm excited to read it. Happy Holidays.

[Anonymous No.10447387]

>tell mom I'm into history
>she gets me this

Felt like a kid opening up a Ngage after asking for a PSP.

[Anonymous No.10447395]

I ordered books for Christmas.
>That feel when books haven't arrived in mail yet.

[Anonymous No.10447406]

>>10442749
Becasue the non-shilled version is illegal.

[Anonymous No.10447418]

>>10447351
Lots of tryhard conservatives that think reading Greek books reinforces their redpilled philosophy because they fundamentally misunderstand nearly everything they read (assuming they do actually even attempt reading these and are not simply placing them on shelf next to their unread copies of The Prince and Levithan which they got last Christmas)

[Anonymous No.10447441]

>>10447395
>same
feel reciprocated guy

[Anonymous No.10447469]

>>10447441
Misery loves company.

[Anonymous No.10447517]

>>10447151
go to english department at a uni

introduce yourself to somebody

???

profit

[Anonymous No.10447543]

>>10447332
>corbyn
>commie

lmfao get out of ur bubble sweaty

[Anonymous No.10447556]

>>10447395
Same, but in my case it was books I bought as gifts for my family members.

[Anonymous No.10447585]

Just another stack of books I’ll start and never finish

[Anonymous No.10447649]

>>10447344
i'm from cuba
your idea that people from communist or formerly communist countries have warm feelings towards marxism is prime 1st world sheltered delusion at its finest

the only honorable death left for you is suicide

[Anonymous No.10447671]

>>10447151
You don't want a lit major gf, most of them are batshit.

[Anonymous No.10447675]

My Mom volunteers at a thrift store and picked out all the books she thought I would like, plus a few specific books I wanted. Book of the New Sun is the only brand new book in this pile, and my sister bought it for me. I'm still expecting a copy of Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick to arrive in the mail. I also got around thirty or forty classic rock records that my Mom got for uber cheap, including a very nice copy of The Wall. Great haul this Christmas, lads! Cheers.

[Anonymous No.10447697]

>>10447418
Why are leftists so tetchy? You can't even see someone reading a book without getting your panties in a twist.

How do you even know that the people itt who bought Greek books are "tryhard conservatives" ?

Take a chill pill my dude.

[Anonymous No.10447726]

>>10442985
Everyone here seems kinda down on Brecht, but I read Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on the 23rd and really liked it

[Anonymous No.10447739]

Mostly expected, but I got a couple out of left field. I'm very happy with it overall! Sorry if 4chan flips this image.

[Anonymous No.10447751]

>>10447585
Get the audiobook for Based on a True Story, Norm's delivery makes it 10x better.

[Anonymous No.10447759]

>>10447697
Lmao, besides the fact that one stack literally has an Evola book and Pynchon as well as having spent more than one day here and knowing the general temperament of the people on this board? Nothing.

[Anonymous No.10447776]

>>10447759
Do you only read books that reinforce your political standpoint?
Seems really fucking stupid and narrow minded, don't you think?
I read Das Kapital even though I sure don't think communism seems like a great idea in practice

And what does Pynchon have to do with anything

[Anonymous No.10447779]

You guys, please, just call it Capital.

[Anonymous No.10447785]

>>10447779
But that's not what the book is called.

[Anonymous No.10447789]

>>10447387
>tell my mom I'm into history without specifying further
>she doesn't get me Tacitus' Agricola in the original latin

I would have probably given you something similar if I got such a vague request, although in that case J.M. Roberts' History of the World would have been a better choice.

[Anonymous No.10447796]

>>10447785
yes it is

[Anonymous No.10447844]

>>10447776
>I read Das Kapital
Hahahahahaha, holy shit.

Look, dude, I don't care about what people read. I own several of the Landmark books too, but it's obvious the type of people these books appeal to especially when they ask for a full set for Christmas. It's all these "defenders of the west" fuckers that are never going to read these but like the image they project. You have to be fucking delusional not to notice these people on 4chan these days... unless, of course, you are one of these people.

Pinecone is part of this image, too, btw. A disjointed part but a part nonetheless. I like him, btw but it's undeniable that people will buy his books, post in these threads and not read him.

Now if you want to talk about the substance in any of these books, I'm all ears though, if not though, please fuck off snowflake.

[Anonymous No.10447853]

>>10447796
I suppose you also refer to the bible as tà biblía, no?

[Anonymous No.10447870]

>>10447853
what's the bible?

[Anonymous No.10447904]

>>10447844
You have constructed a really elaborate hypothetical person to get mad about based on a bunch of two line posts on an anonymous image board huh

[Anonymous No.10447915]

>>10447904
Nope.

[Anonymous No.10448020]

>>10447844
this faggot mentions his Julius Caesar printed web essays in every thread he can

he's had it for weeks

[Anonymous No.10448034]

>>10447351
They are nice books

Also a big type of thing you would want for Christmas, makes the parents feel like they are buying something of value instead of a couple flimsy paperbacks
Depending on your economic situation they might also not be something you would regularly buy yourself

[Anonymous No.10448042]

>>10447585
I keep seeing that Norm Macdonal book getting posted once in a while. What's the meme behind it?

[Anonymous No.10448198]

>>10447739
Fucking christ.

[Anonymous No.10448200]

>>10447675
Really nice desu.

[Anonymous No.10448214]

It's getting late, so I'm going to bed.

Good night /lit/, and Merry Christmas. I love you all. <3

[Anonymous No.10448246]

>>10448020
>You have constructed a really elaborate hypothetical person to get mad about based on a bunch of two line posts on an anonymous image board huh

[Anonymous No.10448297]

>>10442742
How's this?
Was more excited for the books I gifted.
>all the pretty horses -mother
>the dark tower - little sister
>New American Bible - big sister
>A confederacy of dunces- female friend
>van gogh's letters to his brother - ex he
>master and margarita - my buddy Dom
>Do androids dream of electric sheep and a pirated copy of d.f. jones' colossus - literary hottie

[Anonymous No.10448300]

>>10448297
P.s. I'm retarded

[Anonymous No.10448323]

>>10442742
Merry Christmas guys

[Anonymous No.10448326]

>>10447406
What is the non-shilled version?
Is it the Ford translation

[Anonymous No.10448347]

>>10448300
pretty good books

[Anonymous No.10448360]

>>10446817
Jesus thats a few hundred dollars.

[Anonymous No.10448370]

>>10448300
Good stack. I'm about halfway through Broom right now. It's fantastic - a much more friendly read than IJ.

[Anonymous No.10448370,1]

>>10448323
i got schopenhauer too!!!!!! heeehehehehehe

[Anonymous No.10448377]

>>10448326
Ford and Mannheim are both fine unshilled versions

[Anonymous No.10448382]

[Anonymous No.10448405]

>>10443296
Did you go to the store and just ask where they kept the red books?

[Anonymous No.10448414]

>>10448405
heh

[Anonymous No.10448508]

>>10442742
I got a copy of Dune and Man in the High castle. Also Manga but you guys probably don't care.

[Anonymous No.10448571]

>>10445609
Average taste. It’s like she just started browsing /Lit/

[Anonymous No.10448577]

>>10445501
Someone r8 my post

[Anonymous No.10448778]

>>10445501
What's your motivation for reading Dio, but not in full?

[Anonymous No.10448810]

>>10448778
Augustus is a cool guy.

[Anonymous No.10448811]

>>10445609

[Anonymous No.10448833]

>>10446088
Would 100% not recommend Runciman's 3 vols on the crusades if (a) you're not already familiar with the general history, (b) you know how much/little went on and are willing to read ~1200 pages about it.

It's really good history. It's also boring as shit especially compared to anything from antiquity, or that Napoleon book (good choice there btw). I'd read the crusade history on the top left first (have it in my own amazon wishlist, wish I had read it before Runciman) before TRYING Runciman; just don't be afraid to tap out.

>>10446157
Nice cambridge history. Have you read Diarmaid's "christianity the first 3000 years"? Been considering that. Also nice Proclus but
>>>not getting a copy from the elite tier full thomas taylor set
http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/html/tts_catalogue.html
Someone on lit has a full set I think, pretty rad.

>>10446290
>>10446309
Fuckin lmao

>>10446361
Only read Beware of Pity but it made me love Zweig. Have a literary critic friend who adores him as well.

>>10447055
Been chipping away at the decameron (near end of day 3 now). I like it but it's not great. I think it's valuable as a step in world literature (apparently considered to be a proto-novel written a few hundred years before any novel proper) and I imagine it would have been a very exciting, scandalous read at the time or really any time until like 1950, but in spite of the fun humor the sexual spice sort of falls flat.

>>10447152
Better save your money for aristotle commentaries; you're about to get fisted. Good buys, but you're going to have to put in a lot of work. If you're gonna read those cover to cover pick up Telford's commentary on the categories/de int., Hackett prior analytics, aquinas commentaries on posterior analytics, physics. Should hold you over for the first ~500 pages. Things make more sense after the organon but stay pretty hard. Start threads if you have any trouble. Good luck, and good choice on the picks!

>>10447325
Rise and fall is great, ignore that retard. Keep in mind that it's not a history of wwii, nor is it a bio of hitler; it's exactly what the title says it is. Dry at parts but overall very interesting, often frightening, at times inspiring.
>"We will not submit voluntarily: the struggle is already under way...Resistance will continue as long as possible."

[Anonymous No.10448946]

>>10446463
Sûrement. Je tenais juste à préciser que Je parlais de la VF parce que je ne connais pas la qualité de la version anglaise.

[Anonymous No.10449038]

>>10442742
ZERO BEWKS AND I FUCKING HATE THAT
(Books for this feel?)

[Anonymous No.10449227]

>>10448833
>http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/html/tts_catalogue.html
very questionable anon, the selection is interesting but the gnostic vibe spooks me
The first Cambridge history volume is very good, that one in the pic is the second volume(of 9 I think), their choice of essays is pretty strong. Even if you aren't a fan of some of the essay authors every passage has enough references to fill a reading list.
Probably not going to pick up Diarmaid although it does look like a very solid book for someone looking for a single volume.

>>10447739
embarrassing

>>10447585
This gives me very mixed feelings, stop being a limp wristed faggot, read notes first

[Anonymous No.10449240]

>>10447359
Hahahahahahaha, you're not from the UK are you?

[Anonymous No.10449304]

>>10446157
>Proclus Elements of Theology

Very nice

[Anonymous No.10449350]

>>10447649
>don't trust polls, trust this random cuban from the internet

[Anonymous No.10449506]

I've got a 3rd ed. of 'Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung' which my great-grandfather bought in 1910 while studying theo & phil in Zürich