/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10817831]

You LITERALLY cannot post a better /lit/ stack than this. Prove me wrong. Top tip: you can't.

[Anonymous No.10817839]

>>10817831
Looks nice

[Anonymous No.10817840]

>Dumas

[Anonymous No.10817849]

>>10817831
9/10 would swap out Dumas for some Joyce or Proust

[Anonymous No.10817859]

>>10817831
Ah yes the: "i swear i'm still a virgin VOLUNTARILY" stack
Anna Karenina is nice though

[Anonymous No.10817865]

>>10817831

[Anonymous No.10817872]

>>10817831
Needs at least one more Tolstoy.

[Anonymous No.10817876]

>literally
You should get banned

[Anonymous No.10817878]

>>10817831
It’s not complete without one reactionary or mystic.

[Anonymous No.10817879]

>>10817872
And at least one less Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.10817881]

>>10817831
Not bad, including the Dumas (he's fun). But why do you have the NRSV twice?

[Anonymous No.10817882]

>>10817840
>>10817849
Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo is unironically great. Best revenge tale ever written.

[Anonymous No.10817894]

>>10817831
>the only one with a marker is the one that’s less than 100 pages
lmaoing at your face OP

[Anonymous No.10817896]

>>10817831
Is this your personal stack of books you’ve never read?

[Anonymous No.10817901]

>>10817831
>>10817894
rofl

[Anonymous No.10817906]

ITT: OP getting destroyed.

[Anonymous No.10817910]

>>10817831
>RSV

[Anonymous No.10817912]

>>10817831
Where did you get the 4chan chair?

[Anonymous No.10817914]

>>10817831
>new prose translation of the aeneid
>Iliad and Odyssey not translated by chapman
You are a pleb and a pseud my friend

[Anonymous No.10817916]

>>10817914
>reading translations
>English translations at all

[Anonymous No.10817921]

Well well well, the prodigal meme returns.

[Anonymous No.10817927]

>>10817831
how about the same stack with a KJV in it

[Anonymous No.10817972]

>>10817916
>scribebat in anglicus

[Anonymous No.10817978]

>>10817972
Touché.

[Anonymous No.10818007]

>>10817831
What does Jacques-Louis David have to do with The Count of Monte Cristo?

[Anonymous No.10818022]

nice stack, but you kinda ruined it with two bibles

[Anonymous No.10818029]

>t. monolingual brainlet

[Anonymous No.10818040]

>the "I started browsing lit 2 weeks ago" stack

nice op

[Anonymous No.10818108]

>no king james bible
>no don quixote
>no shakespeare
>no milton
>no dante
>no poetry after the greeks
>easy-mode plato

Yeah, looks great to me OP.

[Anonymous No.10818129]

>>10817831

[Anonymous No.10818134]

>>10817831

[Anonymous No.10818142]

>>10818129
That's a cute toy anon!

[Anonymous No.10818147]

>>10818129

>slave of sarma

[Anonymous No.10818164]

Just got this stack from cleaning out my grandmother's house. Which should I read first? Walden is the only one I've already read.

[Anonymous No.10818165]

>>10818134
>Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Kino

[Anonymous No.10818167]

>>10818147
You have to read Blade: it's James Bond meets Tarzan/Conan/John Carter. This alpha male spy gets transported naked into random dimensions in each book, and kills and fucks everything until he gets zapped back. The complete Richard Blade series (1969-84). Adult violent/sexy fantasy junk extraordinaire! Completely shameless manly pulp on every level, like most of the series characters created to get young men to buy fiction: John Carter, Conan, Tarzan, Ka-Zar, The Shadow, Doc Savage, Mike Shayne, Shell Scott, Travis McGee, Remo Williams (The Destroyer), Mack Bolan (The Executioner, and its spin-off series, Phoenix Force), Richard Camelion (The Death Merchant), and Nick Carter (from Master Detective to Killmaster), etc.

[Anonymous No.10818173]

>>10817831
>the bible
>broken spines
>LITERALLY
>Top tip:

You are so fucking boring and about a century and a half late with that garbage.

[Anonymous No.10818175]

>>10817831
>he still hasn’t read those books

Nigga what are you doing?
Get off /lit/ and return when you’ve read them all.

[Anonymous No.10818181]

>>10818164
Alright you may still be in mourning but don't you fucking come here and post upside pictures ever again you fucking piece of shit. I'll let it pass for now since you meemaw just died, but check yourself.

[Anonymous No.10818184]

>>10817831
>the last days of Socrates
I am become disgust.

[Anonymous No.10818187]

>>10818181
lmao

[Anonymous No.10818196]

>>10818164
Iliad->Odyssey->Plutarch, then throw the rest in the trash.

[Anonymous No.10818204]

>>10817831
Will you stop posting your stack and just fucking read then.

[Anonymous No.10818207]

>>10817912
>>10817921
I'm glad I'm not the only one this site has destroyed

[Anonymous No.10818208]

I literally can.

[Anonymous No.10818215]

>>10818208
Is this pic from r/donald or /pol/?

[Anonymous No.10818218]

>>10818215
believe it or not that picture was once posted unironically

[Anonymous No.10818239]

>>10817831
>Top tip:

One.

[Anonymous No.10818249]

Have you ever stolen books from a library?

[Anonymous No.10818310]

Step aside, peasants

[Anonymous No.10818313]

Why do you guys take pictures of your books and post them here?

[Anonymous No.10818331]

[Anonymous No.10818334]

>>10817831
Oh look it's le 4chin seat guy

kys

[Anonymous No.10818337]

>>10818310
Wew, this one is spicy

[Anonymous No.10818364]

>>10818208
>>10818310

nigga pls

[Anonymous No.10818370]

>>10818313
Because the whole point of this board is to discuss books?

[Anonymous No.10818386]

>>10818370

And when does the discussion start? All I see are carefully orchestrated pictures.

[Anonymous No.10818407]

[Anonymous No.10818451]

>>10817831
>Meditations
I believe that is the one where he used the word "accretion" so many times that I found myself in suspense wondering how he would apply the word next. It was like spending the day with a baby that just learned a new word.

[Anonymous No.10818472]

>>10818196
I would save the Epictetus but I would double up on disposal of Meditations. Burn that fucker. You do not want a hobo pulling it out of the trash.

[Anonymous No.10818482]

>>10818386
>And when does the discussion start? All I see are carefully orchestrated pictures.
Lead by example.

[Anonymous No.10818493]

>>10818482

So you admit there is no discussion in this thread where people are posting pictures of their books. Then my question stands. Why do you guys do it?

[Anonymous No.10818494]

>>10818129
How's that translation of Nights, by the way?

[Anonymous No.10818511]

>>10818493
I was poster >>10818451 so, though my contribution was shit, I did contribute. You do not appear to be doing anything but complaining - and causing your purportedly hated thread to get bumped.

[Anonymous No.10818516]

>>10818493
Wow what's your problem. We like showing each other our book collections and seeing what other anons are reading. What's wrong with this.

[Anonymous No.10818520]

>>10818511
>>10818516

At this point all I've done is ask a question. You're reaction is more telling than anything. You're obviously insecure about it. The truth is you're no better than teenage Facebook or Instagram girls spending their nights carefully arranging selfies for attention. That makes you the worst sort of loser.

[Anonymous No.10818521]

Rate my shitty stack.

[Anonymous No.10818534]

>>10818520
>That makes you the worst sort of loser.
Flattery will get you dick pics.

[Anonymous No.10818538]

>>10818520
>you're losers for sharing literature on the literature board

[Anonymous No.10818544]

>>10818521
Walden gets a bad rap. To truly appreciate it you need to read it to see Thoreau's personal failures. That is where I found half of its worth.

[Anonymous No.10818547]

>>10818538

You're a loser for fetishizing books rather than reading them. All you are is a consumer.

[Anonymous No.10818556]

>>10818544
>To truly appreciate it you need to read it to see Thoreau's personal failure as a writer
fixed

[Anonymous No.10818566]

>>10818547
Why are you assuming I don't read the books I've posted?

[Anonymous No.10818568]

>>10818544
What personal failures?

[Anonymous No.10818575]

>>10818566

Because you're not talking about them or analyzing them. All you're doing is posting pictures of the physical product because they're like trophies for you.

[Anonymous No.10818621]

>>10818575
Firstly, there is discussion in this thread. I had never heard of the Blade books, now >>10818167 I have. Here are some opinions on Dumas >>10817882 >>10817881 and in general there are anons >>10818196
>>10818472 saying in a humorous way what books they favour.

But more importantly you may have noticed that 4chan is an imageboard i.e. a forum geared towards the posting of images to compliment and drive discussion. To deride the posting of images of physical literature on the literature board effectively strips the mask of your pretension to reveal what lies beneath: the most base and lowly character to disfigure the pure nature of our beloved internet community since Tao Lin last went to sleep.

[Anonymous No.10818623]

>>10818568
I read it twice on account of this - with a spread of a couple of years. The text was littered with examples and I only retain a few of them in memory along with the general gist. Here is a disorganized stew of a few: He makes a big talk about the axe head and how it should be shared with no analysis of production of the axe head by specialists. Again, a big talk about the virtue of vegetarianism without consideration of the differences of a lifelong vegetarian diet versus an adult transitioning to a vegetarian diet. (He does mitigate this with an acknowledgement that everyone has the need to kill something significant during their lifetime.) He makes a mockery of physiology comparing oxen to humans. He made no accommodation for getting laid and the whole thing looked like what it was - a temporary experiment from which he would walk away. These are what I remember but there were dozens of observations that I made at the time. I do not entirely disagree with >>10818451. Some of his value is found in him being an average fuck with related foibles and ignorance.

[Anonymous No.10818636]

>>10818623
I botched my CTRL+C and (You)d myself. I meant to agree with the correction
>To truly appreciate it you need to read it to see Thoreau's personal failure as a writer
from >>10818556

[Anonymous No.10818652]

>>10818621

If this is just an image board and there's nothing wrong with posting of books then why are you trying so hard to convince me that there's meaningful discussion taking place? The truth is I don't care if any discussion takes place. It doesn't matter to me and it doesn't answer my original question of why you take the time to carefully orchestrate a stack of books and take pictures of them to post on the internet. I've postulated that you're just a consumerist attention whore and you haven't even tried to deny it. All you've done is pretend there was something more to it.

[Anonymous No.10818663]

>>10817831
No
>Dante
>Shakespeare
>Cervantes
>Faulkner

IntoTheTrashItGoes.jpg

[Anonymous No.10818704]

>>10818652
>I seethe at pictures posted
>On the web from afar
>My vitriol brewing
>My ulcer a star
>So I tip my fedora
>And I insult the crowd
>And I jerk on my dick
>As I cum out loud

[Anonymous No.10818801]

>>10818208
very good my fellow kekistani, stay redpilled!

[Anonymous No.10818910]

>>10818331
What's wrong with this one?

[Anonymous No.10818912]

>>10818451
Depends on the translation.

[Anonymous No.10818926]

>>10817831
>monte cristo
Lol

[Anonymous No.10818930]

>>10818926
Have you read it?

[Anonymous No.10818934]

>>10818930
Yes, it's entertaining (and that's not a compliment).

[Anonymous No.10818941]

>>10818934

[Anonymous No.10818945]

>>10818941
haahaha hahahha hahah, nice meme!!

[Anonymous No.10818954]

>>10818941
That's a fair modem representation of Dantes tbqh desu

[Anonymous No.10818957]

>>10818934
Truly a patrician post

[Anonymous No.10818982]

>>10818208
/pol/tards are getting baited with this image right now and falling for it.
>>>/pol/163329791

[Anonymous No.10818985]

>>10818982
Thanks, you made my day.

[Anonymous No.10819035]

>>10818985

You're easily impressed

[Anonymous No.10819053]

>>10819035
I was just trying to be nice, u kno

[Anonymous No.10819078]

>>10819053

nek urself

[Anonymous No.10819096]

>>10818982
>posted an image
>people respond to it

damn, trolling poltards epic style xDDD

[Anonymous No.10819201]

>>10819096
T. Poltard

[Anonymous No.10819424]

>>10817831
0/10
smd

[Anonymous No.10819473]

>>10817831
>NRSV, with Apocrypha, Catholic-edition

[Anonymous No.10820676]

>>10818310
Be a true conservative. Just say no, just like Nancy told you to. You'll be better off for it.

[Anonymous No.10820742]

>>10818249
Hell no! Stealing is wrong.
I LIBERATE books from an eternity of neglect by vapid normies,

[Anonymous No.10820752]

rate my recent stack.
This is 1 of 3 stacks I have currently piled up at the moment.

[Anonymous No.10820772]

>>10817831
Bruh get on my level

[Anonymous No.10820828]

>>10818164
Are you by chance Australian?

[Anonymous No.10820863]

>>10818196
>>10818472
Duly noted. What is so bad about Meditations?

[Anonymous No.10820894]

>>10817831
>two bibles
>neither of them kjv

[Anonymous No.10821500]

>>10817872
>>10817879
I unironically do not get the hype with tolstoi. Maybe it is behause Ive read every novel by dosto except the idiot while only having read the short storys and short novels of tolstoi. Are his most Important works that much different in terms of deepth that hadgi murat for example? I did not enjoy that one at all.

[Anonymous No.10821538]

>>10820752
Looks like something I would read. 4/5 bretty gud

[Anonymous No.10821546]

>>10817831
Change the Bibles with the Satanic Bible and Nietzsche's Antichrist.

[Anonymous No.10821558]

>>10817831
>muh consumtion
good luck reading them first, you faggot

[Anonymous No.10821959]

>>10817831
Too much Dostoyevsky and the count of monte cristo.
Scrap that garbage.

There's a better version of the count of montecristo without the 800 redundant pages. Alfred Bester-Tiger Tiger

[Anonymous No.10822094]

>>10820894
He wants a COMPLETE Bible doesn't he?

[Anonymous No.10822120]

>>10820752
I schleep

[Anonymous No.10822127]

>>10822094
>catholic vers.
>incomplete

[Anonymous No.10822204]

>>10817831
>monolingual

[Anonymous No.10822215]

>>10817916
>reading at all

[Anonymous No.10822257]

>>10817831
>NRSV

[Anonymous No.10822542]

>>10820752
2 of 3

[Anonymous No.10822546]

>>10820752
3 of 3
I finished reading Nihilism: Root of Modern Revolution. from this stack.

[Anonymous No.10822578]

>>10817831
>blocks your path