Current Stack

[Anonymous No.10568452]

What's up guys and gals ?

Wish I was at home finishing up th blade itself but I just got a 347$ consumers bill so I'm pounding out a 12 hour double time shift.

[Anonymous No.10568471]

>>10568452
This stack is truly the worst thing I’ve seen posted here. Maybe you should invest your time in video games.

[Anonymous No.10568472]

>>10568452
I don't mean to direspect or offend anyone but why do you guys choose to buy physical copies of books when you can buy digital (which is cheaper) or just download a pdf for free.

Are they for display, or do you think that staring at a screen for ours will make you blind ?

[Anonymous No.10568482]

>>10568471

I modded my snes classic

Might do a chrono trigger run soon here.

But working around 70 hours a week right now.

But hey , I'm glad you hate my stack .. thanks for being a bully.

[Anonymous No.10568487]

>>10568472

I like the feel of a physical book.

It's not like I have expensive hobbys or anything so it's not a big deal.

All I do is work and come home to my family.

Sitting in my lazy boy with a nice book is so comfy.

I do own a kindle too though

[Anonymous No.10568490]

>>10568472
>You can read the book wherever you want
>Get away from screens
>Looks nice having a shelf of books you have read
>Digital is for plebs

[Anonymous No.10568493]

>>10568472
It's basically like vinyl hipsters over in /mu/. No difference.

[Anonymous No.10568494]

Current stack for the first few months of 2018 here.

[Anonymous No.10568496]

>>10568472
To get away from the Screen

[Anonymous No.10568500]

>>10568494

Milo is the only finished book in my stack

Have you read it yet ?

I really enjoyed It .. trying to get my wife a little more interested in politics .. she agreed to read it at some point.

[Anonymous No.10568509]

>>10568494
Wow, you have a stack worse than OP's, that's quite an achievement.

[Anonymous No.10568525]

>>10568494
Is the Murray book as pseud as it looks?

[Anonymous No.10568527]

I'm currently reading The Confessions by Augustine. My next books in line are:
Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
Discourses by Epictetus
Discourse on Method, The Meditations by Descartes
In what order would you recommend i read them?

[Anonymous No.10568539]

>>10568452
>how to read books
>meme right
>Joyce
>>10568494
>m'lady-core

[Anonymous No.10568552]

>>10568525
No it's not pseud in any way.

[Anonymous No.10568569]

>>10568509
This is a troll stack thread.

[Anonymous No.10568572]

>>10568509
>>10568539
>>10568569

[Anonymous No.10568578]

>>10568569

Op here.

Not trolling.

That's my stack and I'm excited to finish it all. 1984 is a reread and milo is finished .. on page like 400 of the blade itself

[Anonymous No.10568579]

>>10568482
Seems like a good stack. Throw the "how to read" books out the window.

[Anonymous No.10568587]

truly awful thread

[Anonymous No.10568589]

>>10568509
Agreed. I’m just waiting for the Ron Hubbard book stacks to start showing up.

[Anonymous No.10568600]

>>10568579

Whys that ? I am actually pretty excited to dive right into it.

[Anonymous No.10568601]

>>10568494

[Anonymous No.10568613]

Scored these for $27

[Anonymous No.10568621]

>>10568578
This is probably the most pathetic shelf I've ever seen on /lit/

>video game manual
>white power
>WW2 nazi autism
>pristine unread entry-level novellas
>Art of the Deal
>shitty fantasy

[Anonymous No.10568648]

Picked up a few new books today:

Cancer ward
Day in the life of Ivan D
The inner circle
Buddenbrooks I & II

[Anonymous No.10568652]

>>10568552
Confirmed pseudity

[Anonymous No.10568657]

>>10568621

You would hate me even more if you seen all the other fantasy I have on the shelf .. but I'm ok with that

[Anonymous No.10568666]

I’m not in my house right now, but the stack would consist (I don’t really have them stacked, they are in my shelf, I’m not autistic) of:
>Siddharta (currently reading it)
>The Trial
>The Metamorphosis
>The Idiot
>Doktor Faustus

[Anonymous No.10568669]

>>10568666
entry level but acceptable depending on publisher/edition

[Anonymous No.10568723]

>>10568613
nice

[Anonymous No.10568725]

>>10568652
Confirmed lacking knowledge yet commenting on things which he knows nothing about

[Anonymous No.10568728]

>>10568472
Everyone criticizing ebook screens has never read a kindle, there is no strain on the eyes from the screens of modern e-readers. In terms of cost, I find ways to torrent most books for free or find direct download links in share threads like the ones we have here, so kindles are also economically superior (unless you happen to have a good library near you that actually stocks new releases that are worth their weight in salt, which is unlikely in my area.)
I do prefer the “feel” of a book. As much as it sounds like bullshit, it does provide an unnecessary luxury of comfort however I do not believe it enhances my reading experience but will tend to be a distraction in more cases. Kindles are just words on a screen and for me that makes it easier to focus. I can only put so much value on the aestheticism of physical books at the expense of convenience of space, price, and efficiency but with that being said I do have an extensive physical collection of my favorites, or books I simply can’t find in digital format or simply can’t be read in digital format, such as certain text books or books with many footnotes or experimental books with house of leaves type format. I find no excuse however to actually purchase with money a physical copy of a classic work readily available from any library in the world.

[Anonymous No.10568751]

>>10568578
No offense dude, but you create the alt-right virgin stereotype you see on the news that makes other conservatives cringe

[Anonymous No.10568765]

>>10568751

Anon , But I'm married with 2 beautiful children

[Anonymous No.10568793]

>>10568725
Then please extol the merits of it

[Anonymous No.10568796]

>>10568452

>Milo
>part-time alt-right dipshit detected

[Anonymous No.10568802]

>>10568796

Upboat

Upboat

Upboat

[Anonymous No.10568838]

>>10568496
Same for me. It isn't so much for eye strain or anything like that. It's purely psychological. My attention span goes up when it's physical paper.

[Anonymous No.10568960]

>>10568452
>>10568494
>>10568572

[Anonymous No.10569013]

Currently reading the Foundation series, considering dropping IJ, already dropped HtWFaIP. I've taken a break from Meditations, but will finish it next.

[Anonymous No.10569047]

>>10568525
Depends if your political compass clouds your rational judgment.

[Anonymous No.10569113]

>>10568796
He's apparently reading The Handmaid's Tale though, lol

[Anonymous No.10569162]

Sorry for the shit tier camera

>>10568648
Please tell me you've at least read Gulag Archipelago?

[Anonymous No.10569172]

>>10569162
Bottom is "The Island of Sakhalin" by Chekhov is anyone was struggling to make it out.

[Anonymous No.10569195]

>>10568621
I actually agree with you--OP might be the biggest faggot I've seen post on this board in weeks

[Anonymous No.10569211]

>>10568494
Fucvking kys faggot

[Anonymous No.10569212]

>>10568452
>needs books on how to read books
>>10568494
>fell for the ayn rand meme
>milo
>>10568613
least gay stack posted so far
>>10568648
enjoy not having fun reading these
>>10569013
pleb roulette
>>10569162
Is Grossman good or just another Israeli writer meme?

[Anonymous No.10569222]

>>10569162
>Please tell me you've at least read Gulag Archipelago?
Nope, but that one's on my list too.

[Anonymous No.10569232]

>>10569047
politics is a meme

[Anonymous No.10569241]

>>10569212
>enjoy not having fun reading these
Thanks, but from what I've heard I have this feeling I'm going to enjoy at least some of them.

[Anonymous No.10569259]

>>10569162
best stack posted so far

[Anonymous No.10569273]

>>10568527
Epictetus - > Descartes - > Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.10569288]

>>10568494
if you bought these books because you're edgy, you're a dummy. if you bought these books for the memes, you're a dummy.

[Anonymous No.10569296]

>>10568579
the Adler book is the best one in the stack...

[Anonymous No.10569304]

>>10568657
Mistborn good man... or teenager XD

[Anonymous No.10569315]

Stack from last time. Only halfway through as I got distracted and ended up reading a bunch of other shit as well.

[Anonymous No.10569348]

>>10568578
Reddit spacing and shit taste?
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

[Anonymous No.10569359]

Roast me

[Anonymous No.10569367]

>>10569359
>doesn't believe in God

Also wtf is up with the small WoN? Is it only book one or something?

[Anonymous No.10569369]

>>10569273
Thanks. Any good reason why that is the best order?

[Anonymous No.10569375]

>>10569369
chronological desu

[Anonymous No.10569381]

>>10569369
Do you listen to a podcast by skipping around to arbitrary sections of the conversation?

[Anonymous No.10569384]

only this one
It's the first book I bought in like 8 years or so

[Anonymous No.10569389]

>>10568452
>Yiannopoulos
>Trump
>Abercrombie
If you are reading this without having to, but out of your own interest, please proceed to fucking kill yourself you imbecile fuck.

[Anonymous No.10569395]

(((((((((((Attention: Patrician coming through.))))))))))))))

This is my most recent purchase. Currently about to finish up Book II of Emile.

On Conics Books V - VII is in the mail.

[Anonymous No.10569399]

>>10569367
Im agnostic atheist. I don’t go around bashing godly folk or anything and I can acknowledge that belief and structure of religion are beneficial in many respects.

The wealth of nations I think is an abbreviated case study booklet or something, I named a few books for Christmas and that’s what I was given so I guess they got the cheapest version lol

[Anonymous No.10569420]

>>10568472
Because I work in a SCIF and cannot bring electronic devices in.

[Anonymous No.10569434]

>>10569359
Decent stack desu until Dawkins, switch it for the Extended Phenotype

[Anonymous No.10569455]

>>10568472
PDFs are awful, if you're making a case for digital don't use PDF as an example.

[Anonymous No.10569504]

>>10569420
Lazy fucking CT.

[Anonymous No.10569526]

>>10569315
Thread redeemer

[Anonymous No.10569530]

>>10569434
that's a fun stack. enjoy yourself anon

[Anonymous No.10569692]

yes entry/beg-tier stax pls no bully

[Anonymous No.10569699]

>>10568765
Your wive’s children have nothing to do with this.

[Anonymous No.10569756]

>>10569315
Are there any other books on architecture that you'd recommend? I've always loved the subject but avoided buying books on it because most are ridiculously expensive.

[Anonymous No.10569783]

>>10568452
>2018
>still insisting on cumbersome physical media
You do know that for the price of all of those books, you could invest in an eReader and never pay for a book again? Fucking retards.

[Anonymous No.10569785]

>>10569389
Trump is mildly excusable given he's currently in charge of one of the most dangerous countries right now. It's beneficial to try to understand his thought processes.

[Anonymous No.10569804]

Sorry about the poor quality of the photo.

[Anonymous No.10569817]

>>10569395
that's the worst translation of democracy in america.

[Anonymous No.10569824]

>>10569783
>>You do know that for the price of all of those books, you could invest in an eReader and never pay for a book again? Fucking retards.
Yeah these inexpensive purchases are really pushing me to the edge of bankruptcy.

[Anonymous No.10569912]

>>10569783
I buy most of my books at library sales, and thriftstores. It's not like buying books is killing my wallet.

[Anonymous No.10569918]

>>10569162
>The Conquest of New Spain
That was a very fun read desu

[Anonymous No.10569978]

digi-stack

[Anonymous No.10570034]

do people actually stack up books they're planning on reading like that? why not just keep them on the shelf until you're literally holding the damn thing to read it then put it back? can you not remember which you want to do unless you stack them? in that case maybe you're ready for big boy books

[Anonymous No.10570062]

>>10568472
Screens are fucking gay. I like physical pages.

[Anonymous No.10570091]

>>10570034
I generally read more than one book at a time, and keep those in a stack.

[Anonymous No.10570176]

C O M F Y :3

[Anonymous No.10570210]

>>10569384
Do you like the 3d glasses that came with it anon?

[Anonymous No.10570250]

>>10568500

>Grapes of Wrath
>Handmaid's tale

and...

>Trump and Milo

Why do you read anything with political ideas like that? You aren't even a refined conservative like Buckley; your political heroes are literally retarded, have nothing new to offer...

[Anonymous No.10570310]

>>10568472
Not everything is available for free, and like hell I'm paying for a digital book. Further, sometimes the conversions from PDF to different formats don't work correctly and it looks like shit on the device.

Any book with diagrams/charts/maps/etc is very hard to read on an e reader.

[Anonymous No.10570374]

>>10570176
Can't wait for the movie!

[Anonymous No.10570454]

>>10570210
I feel cheated that mine isnt 3d :(

[Anonymous No.10570550]

All second hand

[Anonymous No.10570576]

>>10568452
This is an incredibly embarassing thread.

[Anonymous No.10570623]

>>10569315
Just googled supreme city. Looks good, gonna try to find it. Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.10570631]

>>10570576
Stack, I meant. OP's stack is embarassing.

[Anonymous No.10570634]

>>10569384
I'm reading it now. Good boom to ease back into /lit/ with

[Anonymous No.10570811]

yikes

[Anonymous No.10570832]

>>10568452
2 different books on how to read books. brainlet

[Anonymous No.10570835]

>>10568482
lmfao... seriously? I look away for a second and this is something you really wrote here?

[Anonymous No.10570837]

>>10570550
nice

[Anonymous No.10570840]

>>10568613
nice stack! makes me hard..

[Anonymous No.10570850]

>>10568728
yeah man. got the kindle paperwhite so I can read anything wherever i am. physical books are better if you're somebody who plans on spending his life at home.

[Anonymous No.10570873]

>>10570837
thanks senpai

[Anonymous No.10570889]

>>10569504
This.

>>10569420
Get to work faggot.

>>10568472
Because I expect the end of the world is coming and the internet/power infrastructure will soon be a thing of the mythic past.

[Anonymous No.10570890]

>>10570832
Well, once he had "How to read literature" he realized he would need "How to read a book" to understand it

[Anonymous No.10570899]

>>10568452
>>10568482
You don't need to read books you're clearly very smart, possibly the smartest.

>>10568494
You are very smart as well, but not as smart as OP

>>10568613
Hot

>>10568648
Cool

>>10569013
How do you like the trilogy? I dropped it at the third book, but the first was definitely a cool book.

>>10569162
Actually good stack

>>10569315
Nice stack as well

>>10569359
Lel at dawkins, everything else is pretty nice.

>>10569434
Yet another nice stack

>>10569804
Currently reading GR, pretty good so far.

>>10570550
Noice stvack

[Anonymous No.10571046]

>>10569785
>one of

[Anonymous No.10571062]

>>10569817
WHAT.

Why? What's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.10571075]

>>10568452
>Milo Yiannopoulos
i don't say this quickly but you might need to consider suicide

[Anonymous No.10571150]

>>10569785
I would say fair point but
>implying its not ghost written

[Anonymous No.10571201]

Here's my new stack. Cost'd me atey sense.
>>10568452
I just finished Grapes of Wrath. The ending surprised me. I put down How To Read a Book a quarter of the way through. I'll get back to it, eventually.
>>10568472
We can't have personal electronics at work, so I bring physical works. Besides, I pay 10-25 cents a book. Look through liquidation sales and thrift stores.

[Anonymous No.10571210]

>>10571201
>can't have personal electronics at work
waa? are you NSA?

[Anonymous No.10571212]

>>10570899
Rate me you coward >>10569978

[Anonymous No.10571217]

>>10571201
>dawkins

[Anonymous No.10571235]

>>10571210
Nah, nothing that exciting. It's just bossman's policy.
>>10571217
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles"

[Anonymous No.10571246]

>>10570899
>How do you like the trilogy?
I'm about halfway through the second. Not sure yet.

[Anonymous No.10571251]

>>10569013
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.10571273]

>>10568452
>how to read a book

just fucking read it you dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.10571646]

>>10568666
Pls, if you are going to read doctor faustus, read Marlowe's one before Goethe's

[Anonymous No.10571680]

>>10568500
Is this a fucking joke? I honestly can't even fathom what it's like to be dumb enough to read a book by Milo. Jfc I thought this was a meme

[Anonymous No.10571690]

>>10568621
This

[Anonymous No.10571692]

>>10571251
34

[Anonymous No.10571863]

>>10569978
>>10571212
Digi-crap. And by that i mean I've never heard of those books and am therefore scared.

[Anonymous No.10571882]

>>10571646
sadly I already read Goethe’s and the one I’m going to read soon is Mann’s.
On the other hand I just finished Siddharta 5 minutes ago, and the bit when he sees the reflection of his face on the river and it reminds him of his father made me tear up.

[Anonymous No.10571888]

>>10568525
If you don't have a very nuanced idea of what intelligence is, you'll enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.10572059]

[Anonymous No.10572106]

>>10569756
I picked Vitruvius as part of my preparation for studying Renaissance art, so I don't have much to offer in that regard. There is also the Four Books by Palladio which I think might be cheap as well but I can't be sure.

>>10569978
>Japanese Gothic Tales
Seems like this could be a refreshing diversion. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.10572114]

>>10568452
>>10568494
>>10568578
>>10568613

[Anonymous No.10572807]

>>10568494
>Yiannapolous
>Rand
>Macchiavelli
Uh oh, we got a bad-ass here.

[Anonymous No.10573022]

>>10568613
>midnight plowboy
lost my shit there

[Anonymous No.10573063]

>>10572114

If you want to talk shit about me at least try and hit close to home.

I would fit a dumb redneck stereotype a lot better than the soyboy one.

[Anonymous No.10573079]

>>10568494
This has to be bait

[Anonymous No.10573241]

>>10568494
wtf, disgusting

[Anonymous No.10573322]

Bookstacks are dumb. Shortstacks are the future.

[Anonymous No.10573355]

I can't take a pic but here is my newfag stack
>Odyssey(Iliad already done)
>Magic Mountain
>V.
>Portrait of an Artist(Dubliners already done and it was trash)
>The crying of lot 49
>Dicky Moe
>Stoner
did I get memed?
>>10571882
I didn't read Goethe's(only knew how its plot evolves) but Mann's retelling was great. Hope MM is just as great or better

[Anonymous No.10573419]

>>10573355
go away

[Anonymous No.10573619]

>>10571046
China also exists and is pumping out excessive amounts of poison into our environment while being a nuclear armed superpower.

[Anonymous No.10573620]

>>10572059
tuchman is pretty kino i gotta say

[Anonymous No.10573622]

>>10573355
MM was pretty comfy. I didn't finish it but it was good to pick up when I was going through tough times.

[Anonymous No.10574084]

>>10570310
>Not everything is available for free

tell me one book you can't find a free epub version of.

[Anonymous No.10574099]

>>10574084
The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov

It's not some rare book.. It's popular classic that is nowhere to be found in epub or mobi

[Anonymous No.10574105]

>>10574084
Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow
#Trans: An Anthology about Transgender and Nonbinary Identity Online by Evelyn Deshane
NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance Penley

[Anonymous No.10574203]

>>10570550

Enjoy Stoner, anon

[Anonymous No.10574239]

>>10574084
Here is a list. I would greatly appreciate if you could find any of these works in ANY electronic format. PDF, HTML, TXT? Idc anything. And I promise none of these books are new.

> The Catacombs by William Demby

> The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara

> Tropismes by Nathalie Sarraute

> Malpertuis by Ray, Jean

[Anonymous No.10574351]

>>10574239
> Tropismes by Nathalie Sarraute
https://libgen.pw/item/detail/id/831739?id=831739

> Malpertuis by Ray, Jean
http://www.mediafire.com/file/w53zw99qmg7r1qr/Malpertuis+-+Jean+Ray.epub

>>10574105
cuck books

still, if your books are that hard to find you could just buy them on amazon and strip the drm.
or get access to private trackers, those have literally any book.

[Anonymous No.10574359]

>>10574099
http://a.pomf.se/annkjk.pdf

[Anonymous No.10574367]

>>10574099
>Search "The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov epub" on google.
>Click first result (archive.org)
>download acs encrypted epub

It's got a DRM which i dunno how to remove but i hope it helps

[Anonymous No.10574374]

>>10574351
I need to hop on one of those private trackers. I must have missed the libgen download but thank you for that rare and quality mediafire link

[Anonymous No.10574390]

>>10574367
calibre dedrm plugin

[Anonymous No.10574434]

>>10574367
drm removal in calubre wont work because the book is on loan, you dont actually own it

[Anonymous No.10574898]

>>10574084
The logos of Heraclitus by Eva Brann

[Anonymous No.10574920]

test

[Anonymous No.10574939]

Niggas reading a book called How to Read a Book

[Anonymous No.10575101]

On paper I only own the Holy Bible and Silmarillion.

[Anonymous No.10575191]

>>10568452
>and gals

Get the fuck out normie.

[Anonymous No.10575281]

Just ordered these, can I get some feedback?

[Anonymous No.10575429]

>>10568494
I can already picture how much of a faggot you are.

[Anonymous No.10575455]

>>10575281
You could have bought those used for like $10 total.

[Anonymous No.10575478]

>>10575455
I had a gift card tho.

[Anonymous No.10575486]

>>10575191

>he thinks every board is r9k

Kys faggot

[Anonymous No.10575489]

Getting through babylon's ashes, I feel like the series might be on an upswing after the last two books.

[Anonymous No.10576294]

>>10575191
/lit/ has the highest concentration of female posters dude

[Anonymous No.10576323]

>>10576294
No, that's /co/ and /cgl/.

[Anonymous No.10576702]

>>10575489
>Brandon Self-Insert Sanderson
>Andy Weird XD

[Anonymous No.10577116]

>>10568452
Read this my dude

[Anonymous No.10577124]

>>10569359
[dips bedora]

[Anonymous No.10577893]

>>10568472
I am much more likely to finish a book if it's physical. Too often do I download a Kindle book and only make it 10% or 25% before something else interests me. That said, Kindle is great for travel.

[Anonymous No.10577934]

>>10568452
Just got into the Yoga game. Figured I’d learn the history of it n shit

[Anonymous No.10577943]

>>10575455
>tfw bought all the /lit/ memes for .75 a piece

[Anonymous No.10578016]

>>10568452
Bought a bunch of Louis L'amour books at the thrift store.

[Anonymous No.10578044]

>>10575281
Why the fuck is this order worth so many plum points?

[Anonymous No.10578424]

>>10568452
>>10568482
>>10568487
Is this whole thing a joke? A reddit thread with reddit spacing and a reddit picture of reddit books?

[Anonymous No.10579483]

>>10578424
holy shit you fucking faggot what the fuck even is reddit spacing? it's aesthetically pleasing to have actual separation between two different paragraphs rather than some amorphous wall of text. I've been "reddit spacing" since before the site even existed. That's the most ridiculous shit to try and out someone as a redditor.

Half this board is probably reddit anyway with the abysmally shit taste and ridiculously overdone memes. /lit/ cancer is honestly worse than that stupid plebbit arrow to the knee garbage.

[Anonymous No.10579557]

>>10578044
5x the points muthafuckaaa

[Anonymous No.10579811]

>>10568578
>>10575489
I love Brandon Sanderson's work

[Anonymous No.10579867]

Reading Donne and TMM currently, the orange one is Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue if that's not clear.

[Anonymous No.10580100]

Currently reading Galactic Pot-Healer. Not sure what to read next-I'm thinking of that "Story of Philosophy" book followed by Gulliver's Travels. Left Hand of Darkness has also been on my to-read list and now that LeGuin is gone I figure this is as good as time as any to pick her up.

[Anonymous No.10580111]

>>10571201
best stack here desu

[Anonymous No.10581057]

>>10568728
Yeah I recently got one too. I mainly use it for larger books that I can't be arsed to carry around with me.

It's extremely useful for the amount of academic books I have to read at uni.

[Anonymous No.10581078]

>>10568452
>two books on how to read books

>the state of /lit/

I bet you have a book to practice your A B C's

[Anonymous No.10581151]

>>10568494
>>10568452
I hope you are at a book store baiting and not be this cringy aut right meme

>>10568509
LMAO my thoughts exactly

[Anonymous No.10581161]

>>10568751
>stereotype
but isn't it true? This kids are retarded.
t. real nationalist

[Anonymous No.10581632]

>>10572807
Definite prince among men

[Anonymous No.10582077]

>>10581012
I got
>meditations
>discourses
>moral letters to lucius
>life of philosophers
>history of rome

[Anonymous No.10582218]

>>10570899
Would you say that op is a very stable genius?

[Anonymous No.10582261]

Current stack...

Im too slow of a reader for the Pynchin a Loaf /lit/ group

The Pyncher loves his shit lemme tell ya. Also secks. Lots of secks

his dreamy tone shifting from scene to scene magically is comfy. Crying of Lot 69 was ok but this is refined Pynching right here

[Anonymous No.10583013]

>>10582261
Why is the Penguin Deluxe version of Gravity's Rainbow so small? Aren't Penguin Deluxe's usually printed on think paper?

[Anonymous No.10583244]

>>10582261
I'm chugging along through V. first but I loved the beginning of GR and I can't wait to resume it. Even in his first novel he can really invoke a dissociative surrealism in his description of things, like the mirror-time paragraph.

[Anonymous No.10583283]

Here’s me stack, reading 2666 at the moment.

>>10568471
Not that guy but I’ve been playing way of the samurai 3. Grinding for weapons and weapon parts can be annoying also move sets :(

[Anonymous No.10583313]

>>10568452
>High school tier literature
>Milo
>Trump

Jesus Christ OP..

[Anonymous No.10583326]

>>10583313
trump is good tho famalam, he's the most competent politician in DC right now

[Anonymous No.10583333]

>>10569384
dude what if we live in a brave new world lmao fuking hedonists

[Anonymous No.10583341]

[Anonymous No.10583345]

>>10569162
>Calasso
Based
>Bassani
l i a l e

Read Manganelli

[Anonymous No.10583348]

>>10577116
Good taste

Currently reading Imperium

[Anonymous No.10583351]

>>10583341
g-old

[Anonymous No.10583364]

>>10583326
C'mon son, you gotta try harder than that.

[Anonymous No.10583368]

>>10569013
I don't remember The Count of Monte Cristo being so big

[Anonymous No.10583413]

>>10583364
I know, but I am sincere, I believe in Donald Trump

[Anonymous No.10583437]

>>10583413

[Anonymous No.10583465]

>>10583437
pls don' bully i dont want to return to irony

[Anonymous No.10583973]

>>10583465
>tard pep
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.10583979]

>>10583465
>tard pep
WEW LAD >>>/the_donald/

[Anonymous No.10584077]

>>10579483
idk but have this

[Anonymous No.10584162]

>>10584077
oh fuck, I've always heard that term thrown around and had no fucking idea what it meant...
I'm seeing that everywhere now.

[Anonymous No.10584188]

>>10568494
if austism came in a series of books

[Anonymous No.10584196]

>>10568578
clockwork orange meme, the most overrated phillip k dick book i have read (actually like the movie better) and many autistic works
Based on this stack i want to pat you on the back and tell you "your gay, and thats perfectally ok, dont worry")

[Anonymous No.10584204]

>>10569804
What edition of GR is that? This is the one I'm currently reading. It's also my entire stack. I can't imagine reading anything else alongside this. "Hurr durr, Penguin sucks!" You're absolutely right, but it was $8 and it was the only decent copy I'd seen in months

>>10569804
>>10570899
>>10582261
Are any of you part of the GR reading group? The threads have been pretty quiet lately. Any and all discussion is welcome, regardless of where you are in the book.

>>10583244
Enjoy V, anon. I read it last fall.

[Anonymous No.10584263]

>>10580100
Not bad, anon.

[Anonymous No.10584294]

>>10568452

Not pictured are the next two books in the Expanse series and Old Man's War by John Scalzi, as I have traded them to a friend for Neuromancer, and Dune which are sill in my car.

[Anonymous No.10584458]

>>10584196
>the most overrated phillip k dick book
That would be Man in the High Castle

[Anonymous No.10584465]

Unadjusted stack. Have read some want to read others. a couple I'll probably skip.
What should I read next? Thinking of these:
>Meditations
>Beyond good and evil
>Modern Man in search of a soul
>Outliers

[Anonymous No.10584483]

>>10584294
I've read none of those but the intro to Wake. Want to return to it but I've been finding it hard to read fantasy again.

[Anonymous No.10584491]

>>10584077
>tfw doing this naturally and had no idea Reddit was related
So it's hated because it's Reddit, not for any valid reasons.

I'll keep that in mind.

[Anonymous No.10584508]

>>10583283
Read Hyperion immediately
I liked it better than Dune

[Anonymous No.10584516]

>>10580100
How's Galactic Pot-Eater

[Anonymous No.10584587]

>>10568472
I spend too much time on my phone/watching tv so when i read i prefer paper over digital

[Anonymous No.10584593]

>>10584483
>Leviathan Wakes
>Fantasy
Sci-fi, anon?

[Anonymous No.10584603]

>>10584593
Scifi and fantasy are the same thing.

[Anonymous No.10584613]

>>10568500
>Milo is the only book i finished
Fucking poser

[Anonymous No.10584711]

Weebs and Peterson (/r/books) posters need not reply.
>>10584465
Awful, read "Beyond Good and Evil" and move on.

>>10584294
Awful.

>>10583341
Here is a (you) for the Blake.

>>10583283
Jesus.

>>10580100
>kurzweil

>>10579867
Hope you enjoy Donne and the MM. That O'Donohue book seems interesting.

>>10577116
lol

[Anonymous No.10584778]

>>10568500
Jesus dude start with something older than Milo

[Anonymous No.10584784]

>>10584711
>catch 22
>Meditations
>awful
Who are you trying to impress, spaz

[Anonymous No.10584806]

>>10584784
I said /r/books posters do not need to reply

[Anonymous No.10584824]

>>10584806
>t. poemfag

[Anonymous No.10584883]

>>10584824
lol

[Anonymous No.10585063]

>>10568500
absolute scum baka

[Anonymous No.10585065]

>>10584603
Are they really? I was somehow under the impression that they were two different genres of books, often associated with one another due to being make-believe.

[Anonymous No.10585074]

>>10584711
>Bernhard
>Omnibus of poetry
Are you real? What is this garbage?

>Inferno
Perhaps not as bad as I thought. I hope you got a more direct translation of inferno and not some edited-to-death crap though.

[Anonymous No.10585096]

>>10580100
>Kurzweil
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.10585166]

>>10585074
I've read several translations of the Inferno/Divine Comedy, I heard Pinsky's was interesting and I got it for $3 at a store. And what's with autists complaining about buying poetry.

[Anonymous No.10585171]

>>10584711
>Jesus
How should I interpret this?

[Anonymous No.10585238]

>>10568452
Serious question why do you have books that tell you how to read books?

[Anonymous No.10585376]

>>10584491
It's just a meme, no one even knows what it actually means. That image might have been created to mislead too, to become a meme in a meme. I've never personally confirmed it, as I've never posted on Reddit. Also, something because "Reddit" refers to a type of poster, not it being just another website. Although, the staff and users that are so derided by 4chan, do comprise Reddit. It's hyperbolic, but has some merit if you've ever browsed a wide selection of Reddit subs (I have).

[Anonymous No.10585508]

>>10583341
how much did you pay for the consumer?

[Anonymous No.10585568]

>Immediate stack
The Lord of the Rings
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Faust part I & II
Milton - Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes
Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered
Augustine - City of God

>In the mail
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Herodotus - Histories
Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Augustine - Confessions

[Anonymous No.10585579]

>>10585568
patrician

[Anonymous No.10585622]

[Anonymous No.10585626]

>>10572059
I have that same edition of the Iliad. It's great.

[Anonymous No.10585640]

Here’s my list. I’ve read the top four so far this month.

[Anonymous No.10586027]

>>10568494
>>10568452
>Milo Cuckopoulos
>Trump
>Is learning how to read
It's obvious that those are babys first books (if you even manage to read them).
It's not that difficult to find out which books are a pest you should avoid, at least when getting into reading for the first time. Just ask people you're certain they've read A LOT and they are closely related to scientifical practice, as those are most likely the ones who have developed a critical thought.
The problem with the kind of books you've chosen as your first read, is that they're somewhere in the boundary between knowledge as such and entertainment literaure. This makes them utterly dangerous as you may find yourself believing everything written on them without skepticism and building the frame from which you observe the world through them.
TL;DR Avoid propaganda disguised as social science and even worse as truth.
It's not my motherlanguage. Forgive the mistakes.

[Anonymous No.10586151]

>>10586027
Good post.

[Anonymous No.10586162]

>>10585640
>And tho hippos were boiled in their tanks
Lolwut
I must be a pleb cuz i only even recognize the first book

[Anonymous No.10586775]

>>10568452
i didnt know they stacked shit that high

[Anonymous No.10586860]

[Anonymous No.10586913]

>>10569399
>(((I can acknowledge that belief and structure of religion are beneficial in many respects.)))

[Anonymous No.10586989]

>>10571201
all that transcendentalism and mans still doesnt believe in a god :-( sad to see

[Anonymous No.10587038]

>>10586162
its about that dude lucien carr killed
the guy from dexter played him in a movie about it

[Anonymous No.10587080]

I'm taking a greek lit class and have to read ovid and juvanal and shit

[Anonymous No.10587095]

>>10577934
I just started yoga too. I lift and swim laps but my flexibility is shit.

[Anonymous No.10587196]

>>10587080
>greek lit
>ovid

[Anonymous No.10587411]

>>10585508
190 dollars.

[Anonymous No.10587688]

>>10586860
this is like the pseud essentials

[Anonymous No.10587750]

>tfw the books i really want have to be ordered new and some aren't even on libgen

anyone else know this feel

[Anonymous No.10588465]

>Walk up to counter with stack
>QT starts putting the books through
>”Nice stack”
>Y...yo..you too
>Grab free bookmarks and leave

How’d I do lads?

[Anonymous No.10588489]

>buying new copies of books by dead authors
This only makes sense if you already know you like it and want a new copy

[Anonymous No.10588588]

>>10577934
Superpower by 2020

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[Anonymous No.10589969]

[Anonymous No.10590146]

>>10569978
>based chuck tingle

[Anonymous No.10590174]

>>10568452
how to read literature is actually interesting and good if you have to write a paper based on symbols or metaphors

[Anonymous No.10590458]

>>10583341
Nice Blake; wear socks next time.

[Anonymous No.10590538]

Trying to get back into reading

[Anonymous No.10590875]

>>10590538
Is that a Logitech G213 Prodigy keyboard I spy in the background?

[Anonymous No.10590913]

>>10575281
First of all you already bought them, why not read them and form your own opinions?
Second you can find at least two of those books far cheaper in most second hand stores.

[Anonymous No.10590923]

Who here /Brisbanebookfest/?
Final day tomorrow cunts.

[Anonymous No.10590926]

>>10585568
I hate this image because I always click it for boobs, but her bra's pattern turns into an optical illusion when you scroll. Hurts my eyes. Ye Gods.

[Anonymous No.10590930]

>>10590923
I live in Brisbane, though I can't say I cared enough to even be knowledge of a book-fest going down.

Take that as being account on my domain being /sci/ instead of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.10590931]

>>10590875
No, a SteelSeries 6Gv2, keeping it simple

[Anonymous No.10590935]

>>10590931
By blurred image they're virtually indistinguishable from my own (aforementioned).

I see you are a man of functionality.

[Anonymous No.10590943]

>>10590930
Can recommend. Parkings a pain in the arse but honestly worth it.

[Anonymous No.10590953]

>>10590943
What if I told you I knew several parking spots around South-bank and /QUT/ Garden's point, where you can park for free, without fear of unavailability, as I occasionally do?

[Anonymous No.10590965]

>>10590953
What if I reminded you that tomorrow is the last day of a long weekend and some of the spots you have in mind could be taken up by the synthetic beach shitters?

[Anonymous No.10591006]

>>10590965
What if I told you I can assure you, your commoner is not cognizant of these locations, irrespective of how obvious once elucidated; even outside of the realm of resident-only parking areas in south-Brisbane?

Do you trust my street-smarts, as a once former long-distance runner whom would commute amongst all the suburbs of Brisbane (yes, ALL) along my treks?

Would you believe me then, anon? If I were to lead you down the rabbit-hole?

[Anonymous No.10591012]

[Anonymous No.10591050]

>>10591006
Just check it out ffs.

[Anonymous No.10591066]

>>10589905
>>10589957
Terrible covers. Getting books that are clearly part of a set is for normies.

[Anonymous No.10591097]

>>10591066
Perhaps. I had purchased and read these texts four years prior, and these are the photos that I'm using for my eBay listing to selling them, respectively.

[Anonymous No.10591116]

>>10591050
>t. brisbane book-market shill

How can fellow /lit/ Brisbanites even compete?

[Anonymous No.10591146]

>>10591066
Perhaps. I had purchased and read these texts four years prior, and these are the photos that I'm using for my eBay listing to sell them, respectively.

[Anonymous No.10591157]

>>10568472

It's to resist technology. Also physicals books are nice to hold and touch, you can fill a bookshelf with them and show off your intellect in public.

[Anonymous No.10591164]

>>10591157
>show off your intellect in public
Yes, if you're a low IQ identitarian whom judges the intelligence of those of your same ethnicity by the back drop in which they appear.

A true intellect judges a person by demonstrated ability, not presumed.

[Anonymous No.10591213]

>>10591164
>not making an initial assessment based off past experience and then changing your opinion as new evidence comes to light
Brainlet confirmed

[Anonymous No.10591313]

>>10591164

Technology has made it exponentially more difficult to demonstrate anything in public. Looking for friends, groups or a lover is a discriminatory process in which you filter out those who do not interest you at all and seek out those who check all the right boxes, with a gray area in-between. Suppose two girls are sitting in front of you reading with their kindle, one of which is reading Harry Potter and the other is reading a classic ; it's impossible to tell which girl is reading what book, but if they are reading from a physical copy you can tell easily . This isn't an issue for someone who has the luxury of living in a milieu whose taste matches his own, but that's not everyone's case. If you're a pleb trying to escape mediocrity, you need tools to differentiate yourself from your peers, and discriminate others based on their taste. It's the same reason why someone might use language more verbose than necessary when speaking in public, or other things like that. Technology inherently standardizes things.

>A true intellect judges a person by demonstrated ability, not presumed.

Agreed, but there are patterns between presumed and demonstrated intelligence, I would say.

[Anonymous No.10591589]

[Anonymous No.10591645]

First time posting in one of these threads.