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Stack thread

Let's see whomst is patrician.

>> No.10652357
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Sure, why not

>> No.10653401

>>10652357
Australian poster detected

>> No.10653458
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Trying to get back into reading now that I have more free time, which if these should I start with?

>> No.10653473

>>10653458
start by throwing away your 3ds, then read hamsun

>> No.10653496

>>10653473
There is nothing more zen than shiny hunting in Pokemon.

>> No.10653498

>>10653401
top kek
never gets old

>> No.10653529
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>>10652343

>> No.10653550

>>10652343
Is that one of those off-brand honey comb cereals that comes in the bags, OP, near the two bishops and the knight?

>> No.10653698

>>10653496
>shiny "hunting" past gen iii
take off the training wheels, buddy

also
>playing the new pokemon games

>> No.10653790

>>10653458
Kokoro, obviously.

If you are a man it is the book that will move you the most.

>> No.10653796

>>10653458
Dosto

>> No.10653816
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my ‘stack’

>> No.10653839

Someone post their editions of Georg Trakl

>> No.10653846

>>10653458
Stoner.

>> No.10653850
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Megapatrician coming trough

>> No.10653854

>>10653816
what translation is that? I was reading C&P in Spanish the other day and the translation was so bad it made me want to read it in English instead.

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Reading "Mémoires d'Hadrien" right now.

>> No.10654230

>>10652343
>see through chess pieces
>doesn't have THE PALE KING in his stack
Fucking pleb

>> No.10654238

>>10653458
pseud
>>10652357
pleb
>>10652343
pleb
>>10653529
pseud
>>10653816
pleb
>>10653850
retard
>>10654154
pleb

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>>10653816

>> No.10654493
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Current stack, but still got like three times as much on my shelf...

>> No.10654702
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I don’t mean to sound whiny guys but don’t you miss when games had manuals that felt like books, it’s a real shame I think because now all we get is some sort of code to redeem and a shitty safety warning amirite?

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>>10654493
Is this a good edition for Paradise Lost?

I'm looking to buy a copy myself but not sure what's the best edition

>>10654702
I agree, I miss hefty game manuals too

>> No.10654841

The Bible, always in the stack though I don't read it as often as I should.
Wilhelm Meister
Some Poertry books I browse sporadically
The Prose Edda
Couple of comic book
A folklore collection

>> No.10654926

>>10653854
Cátedra’s. I read cátedra’s version of C&P too and I thought it was fine. They have a lot of footnotes regarding some choices in the translation, historical context, etc.
>>10654471
My greatest achievement is not being an amerimutt

>> No.10655142
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found these in a second hand bookshop the other day

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>>10655755
My b

>> No.10655778

>>10655142
"The..." is my favorite book ever

>> No.10655786

>>10654493
why the fuck are you reading Isabel Allende?

>> No.10655788

>>10654154
why are french spines so patrician?

>> No.10655800

>>10655764
vi borde ta en bira

>> No.10655825

>>10655800
Min broder.

>> No.10655836

I don't get 'stack threads', when I want to read a book I take one of my shelf and put it back when I'm finished. I don't have these stacks.

>> No.10655838

>>10655786
this

>> No.10655863

>>10655836
this but unironically

>> No.10655904

>>10655786
it's like reading a latin american john green or some shit

>> No.10655924

>>10655836
Some people keep unread books in a stack and only place them in the bookshelf once they're read.

>> No.10655926

>>10653458
Read Zarathustra, then Gravitys Rainbow. Read Karamazov last, it's shit

>> No.10655975

>>10655863
I wasn't being ironic.

>> No.10655984

>>10655764
>Norm
patrician tier

>> No.10655986

>>10655836
I thought these threads were about recently purchased books.

>> No.10656020

>>10655975
Okay DFW

>> No.10656023

>>10655836
It's about books you recently purchased. Are you mentally challenged?

>> No.10656043
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Who is your favorite Homer translator? I like Fagles.

>> No.10656079

>>10655836
Its about posting what you just got or are about to read so people who have read them can tell you something about it or ask something about it

>> No.10656152
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>>10652343

>> No.10656163

>>10652343
what edition of IJ is on the top?

>> No.10656182

>>10654702
year one is great, for the rest of that shit you seriously need to reconsider your life, you're the typa nigga whose favorite artist is banksy

>> No.10656194
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Currently rereading King Lear for my dissertation. Also reading "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, but that's on a Kindle.

I'm wondering what should I resd next. Perhaps will finish the first volume of the Complete Works of Octavio Paz.

>> No.10656200

>>10656182
The thesaurus is the only good thing in that pic

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>> No.10656315

Not you that is for fucking sure

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>>10655975
i know

>> No.10656425
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Am I gonna make it lads?

>> No.10656438

>>10653816
really nice, cuál es la editorial?

>> No.10656448

>>10656438
nevermind i'm blatantly blind

>> No.10656496

>>10654702
burn that michael moore book, you'll get more out of it

>> No.10656508

Plutarch, Roman Lives
John Williams, Stoner
DFW, Infinite Jest
Shusaku Endo, Silence

>> No.10656579
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Selected writings of kirkegaard

>> No.10656606

>>10656579
min broder

>> No.10656697

>>10656606
såg han som posta kirkegaard på svenska och ville inte vara sämre

>> No.10656724

>>10656152
why is The Penal Colony that big?

>> No.10656739

>>10654782
The Norton Critical Edition is the best one. Not too expensive if you get it from bookdepository

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got these today for $2

>> No.10656878

>>10656724
It's one of those "and other stories" collections, Shocken Books did it for his 100th birthday in '83. (Old people yard sales have great /lit/ sometimes).

>>10656809
>Wealth of Nations without Kapital

>> No.10657176

>>10655142
>Steppenwolf
Mein Bruder.

>> No.10657959

>>10656809
Blood Meridian is an insanely good read

>> No.10658168

>>10654238
post yours bitch

>> No.10658187

>>10654926
Cátedra es muy buena editorial. Hay que saber elegir libros entre su su catálogo. Tienen la mejor edición, traducción y aparato crítico de algunos libros, pero de otros son regulares.

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>>10653529
3/10, the Greek's early work is just bronze age barbarism and doesn't really get good till Herodotus.

>>10653816
>leyendo en traslación
Sientes orgulloso de eso?

>>10654154
Pas mal du tout...bien que les livres folio sont moche 7/10

>>10655764
10/10 would sit next to on the bus

>>10656252
Highschool/10, cheers on the Bulgakov though

>>10656809
Meh

>> No.10658478

>>10658448
>>10658448
>traslación
kek. Hay varias traducciones también en tu foto. Estás orgulloso de eso? :^)

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Le stack is much diminished due to the new baby. He's nursing now so I have a free moment. Why am I browsing /lit/ again?

>> No.10658567

>>10658546
was going to say something really mean but you have The Worker so whatever

>> No.10658584

>>10658448
>the Greek's early work is just bronze age barbarism and doesn't really get good till Herodotus.
please kill yourself

>> No.10658648

I'm going to get torn to pieces but:

Mistborn: The Final Empire
It
Dagon
Sabriel
Neuromancer
The King in Yellow
Lord of Light

>> No.10658682

>>10658648
The King In Yellow is great, really wild stuff. I hope you enjoy it.

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>>10652343
not a stack, but it's a tough read