/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11662402]

Post your stacks

[December !!TY0+NRMplWe No.11662413]

How bout I stack these nuts on your face

[Anonymous No.11662414]

Fix you’re grammar

[Anonymous No.11662774]

Purchased these over the last two months at used books stores in the LA area. Total cost $71. Rate? Pls no bully.

[Anonymous No.11662797]

>>11662774
everyman is sewn rite?

i want to start collecting books in hardcover so I do not have to worry about the glue in paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.11662804]

>>11662774

[Anonymous No.11662876]

The Elementary Particles
The Man Without Qualities
Faust
Death in Venice

how’s my stack?

[Anonymous No.11662909]

>>11662414
>Completion of the conics
What're those?

[Anonymous No.11662920]

>>11662797
The ones I have are sewn. Online some people have reported purchasing copies that were glued. Everyman is definitely my favorite series for collecting. The choice of translators for non-english books is usually a good one.

[Anonymous No.11662940]

Is a stack what you're reading or what you've bought
This is what I'm reading and I love them all. The Sound and the Fury is incredibly difficult (I thought it would get easier after Benjy lol), I'm done with the major works of Plato minus Republic (on book IV), Moby Dick is comparatively fast despite having to Google definitions every so often, and Descartes is very easily readable compared to the Greeks and Romans. Shame because from what I understand easy reading is an exception rather than a rule in philosophy

[Anonymous No.11662978]

>>11662876
What's your translation for Faust, and how do you like it?

[Anonymous No.11663012]

>>11662402
I don't stack books.

[Anonymous No.11663019]

Rate my stack

[Anonymous No.11663027]

>>11662909
Mathematics.

The mathematician Ibn Al-Haytham wrote an eighth book to ‘On Conics’ by Apollonius (because the eighth book is lost to history). Oddly enough I was just reading some Lemmas to book 8 of On Conics by Pappus (those have survived) but his lemmas are mostly about triangles, so it’s hard to tell what book 8 would’ve looked like.

[Anonymous No.11663332]

>>11663027
I'm a math brainlet, any book reccomendations?

[Anonymous No.11663408]

>>11663332
A community college or university class if you're serious. Maybe YouTube videos but seems iffy to me.

As someone who is pretty good at math (STEMfag reporting in), teaching yourself mathematics is absolutely no substitute for having a teacher or, at the very very least, someone to bounce questions and demonstrations off of.

[Anonymous No.11663542]

>>11663019
Meme/5

[Anonymous No.11663584]

>>11662774
>>11663019
9/10, nice books

[Anonymous No.11663701]

there's also The stricken deer, an excellent biography of Cowper's, that I just finished.

[Anonymous No.11663715]

>>11662804
Very patrician, anon. How's Russells book? Barzun was really a good read, gonna buy the hardcover of it as well as the pocket version looks pretty bad already.

[Anonymous No.11663974]

>>11662909
bump!

[Anonymous No.11664062]

>>11663332
apostol calc

[Anonymous No.11664379]

Some Thomas Hardy,Osbert Lancaster,Marianne Moore and Clive James

[Anonymous No.11664426]

>>11662402
No Ong? No Innis?

[Anonymous No.11664780]

>>11664426
Basically all the books I have on hand right now.

[Anonymous No.11664820]

>>11663408
Engineer?

[Anonymous No.11664847]

>>11662774
Are you the same person who was shilling Barzun about a week ago? Would you recommend that book?

Also, which translation of Herodotus is that edition?

Really nice books, I have a pleb tier bookshelf with maybe 10 hardcovers and 200 paperbacks of the cheapest kind.

[Anonymous No.11664848]

[Anonymous No.11664856]

>>11663019
That Arden Shakespeare is the one where they cut out all introductions and footnotes right?

[Anonymous No.11664860]

[Anonymous No.11664975]

>>11664847
No that wasn't me. The Histories was translated by George Rawlinson, The Divine Comedy by Allen Mandelbaum, and Plutarch's Lives by John Dryden.
Try visiting used book stores anon. If you live in a major city there will usually be plenty of stores and the books are often in good shape. This is how I was able to afford starting my own collection.

[Anonymous No.11665013]

>>11664848
don't you find it depressing to spend some of your time working for those who are inferior ?

[Anonymous No.11665025]

>>11664848
This guy is autist on autism

[Anonymous No.11665108]

>>11664848
>tfw psychology is shitty because psychologists are the kind of people who read joyce's fart letters and shitpost about nick land

[Anonymous No.11665190]

>>11665013
No, I can take time to talk if you want.

[Anonymous No.11665357]

>>11663701
Cowper seems an odd poet to be spending so much time on. What kind of poetry do you usually enjoy?

[Anonymous No.11665969]

>>11665357
Well, first of all he was a great translator, of the kind that is as focused on the poetical value of the work as much as any scholarly accuracy. I prefer my Homer in rhyme.


But in Cowper case there's is also the appeal of reading the distraught life and slow unraveling of a madman. Cowper was connived that he was himself damned, abandoned by god, he was petrified that he was going to go to hell. And in his later life he wrote partly as therapy and partly for his own salvation . It’s not the mad rhetoric of Donne but rather the voice of a poet living in the age of enlightenment and feeling the to justify his madness.


His two famous poems about receiving his mothers portrait and the Castaway are good examples of the therapy and the despair

[Anonymous No.11666013]

>>11662413
Got 'em!

[Anonymous No.11666194]

>>11664856
sadly yes

[Anonymous No.11666237]

>>11662414
sjc core

[Anonymous No.11666513]

recent stack
what should i read first?

[Anonymous No.11666591]

>>11663019
yo what the fuck where is the paradiso

[Anonymous No.11666647]

>>11665969
That sounds fairly interesting but the poetry itself seems so bland. I find Bunyan to be the most moving of the 'damned souls' in English literature - I don't think Cowper is particularly powerful in his expression of those kinds of sentiments.

>Now I blessed the condition of the dog and toad, yea, gladly would I have been in the condition of the dog or horse, for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weight of Hell or Sin, as mine was like to do. Nay, and though I saw this, felt this, and was broken to pieces with it, yet that which added to my sorrow was, that I could not find with all my soul that I did desire deliverance.

[Anonymous No.11666886]

>>11662413
Holy shit it's another great post from the tripfag ladies and gents!

[Anonymous No.11666916]

These are the books I brought on Holiday. I usually buy books used, but I'm probably going to get The Histories and The First Philosophers before I touch Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides.

[Anonymous No.11667039]

just started reading again

[Anonymous No.11667084]

>>11664860
Nice selection and patrician Tarkovsky.

I hate Fukuyama but I like his books.

[Anonymous No.11667097]

Newfag checking in

[Anonymous No.11667116]

Here's a bunch of crap

[Anonymous No.11667123]

>>11662402
So what anthro subfield you gonna specialize in my guy?

[Anonymous No.11667129]

Here's some more crap

[Anonymous No.11667133]

>>11662402
>all those uncreased spines and books you can get on libgen
feels good to be free to spend doesn’t it anons!

[Anonymous No.11667145]

>>11663715
Russell's history of philosophy is pretty poorly regarded all around

[Anonymous No.11667150]

>>11667129
That burton is kinda not worth it....way too many latin passages that make you flip to the back. Best read in random excerpts since it’s not really a narrative anyway. The Herodotus is also pretty boring, but with some weird nuggets

[Anonymous No.11667186]

>>11667150
herodotus is comfy though, it's good bedtime reading

[Anonymous No.11667189]

>>11667150
Burton is a pseud fap machine and nothing more its for people whose seratonin receptors don’t work who have 99th percentile verbal and nigger tier spatial reasoning (because sensitive smart people will statt fidgeting and get bored within 10 min of picking it up; like all garbage tomes the literati use as suppositories)

[Anonymous No.11667199]

>>11666513
of those I've only read to the lighthouse but I adored it and it's one of my favorite books. if you value prose and lyricism I really recommend it

[Anonymous No.11667210]

>>11666237
I should just throw away that version of the Almagest.

The best version of the Almagest is Toomer’s translation (with the Astrolabe for the cover). The Saint Johns one is abridged. Sad!

[Anonymous No.11667219]

>>11667199
cheers ill get on it
i found mrs dalloway charming

[Anonymous No.11667411]

>>11667199
Gonna read lighthouse also thx

[Anonymous No.11667966]

Current reading list :
1. Hume
2. Euler - elements of algebra
3. Euclid - elements
4. The Basic works of Aristotle
5. Kant lectures on logic
6. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
7. Critique of Pure Reason

[Anonymous No.11667997]

I would like input on my reading list

[Anonymous No.11668002]

>>11667189
i feel personally attacked you mentally geometrized lupa

[Anonymous No.11668081]

>>11666591
The Paradiso is beautiful, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.11668097]

>>11664848
>the complete guide to aspergers' syndrome is upside down
oh the triggering

[Anonymous No.11668100]

>>11667039
good choice anon, alex's adventures in numberland is a great book

[Anonymous No.11668221]

>>11663019
I want to get my hands on that Lovecraft compilation.

[Anonymous No.11668450]

>>11663715
I haven't gotten to it yet since I'm still working my way through The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.

[Anonymous No.11668478]

>>11666591
Amsterdam.

[Anonymous No.11668798]

>>11664975
Oh I do visit used bookstores. For the Histories, I compared most translations and decided that I liked the Tom Holland translation the best (probably a bit biased, since I've also seen a few of his lectures and read his Persian Fire) but that's quite new, so no second hand market yet. I might look into that edition of Plutarch though. How much did you pay for Russell?

[Anonymous No.11668852]

>>11667189
>>11667150
Yeah this. I really wanted to like it because it sounded like such an interesting book, but the whole thing is just tedious to read through. His prose isn't even as good as someone like Browne whose complete works you could read in no time at all.

[Anonymous No.11668854]

[Anonymous No.11668855]

>>11667966
trying too hard, pal.

[Anonymous No.11669325]

>>11662402
I'm a messy reader, these are some of those I'm currently engaged with.

[Anonymous No.11669335]

>>11669325
If you like Hannam, check out pis related.

[Anonymous No.11669497]

>>11662402
>>11669335
I'm aware of author and book but I usually buy them cheap and I haven't had the opportunity to get it. + I propably have read too much about this stuff already, the Hannam book is alright but I'm halfway through and didn't really learn anything yet. I would have to go for the academic literature but there's so much to read already.

[Anonymous No.11669530]

>>11663019
>those ratty penguin books
>DeLillo
Cringe/10

[Anonymous No.11669544]

>>11669497
I would say Hannams isn't really well structures, you would get far more from the Stark one. Check out used book shops. I rarely spend more than 5€ on a book and those are mine:

>>>/lit/thread/11664715
>>>/lit/thread/11664716

[Anonymous No.11669557]

>>11669497
I would say Hannams isn't really well structures, you would get far more from the Stark one. Check out used book shops.

[Anonymous No.11669586]

>>11669557
Problem is that I don't live in an English speaking country. The book market in general is far less vibrant and I don't like German translations of English books. Good thing is that Russian sounds a lot better better in German than in English.

[Anonymous No.11669745]

>>11669586
Ha, well, I'm a german too. How much would you like to spend on a used softcover copy?

[Anonymous No.11669748]

>>11669586
>The book market in general is far less vibrant
Falling for Anglo propaganda this much

[Anonymous No.11669762]

>>11669748
>ignore your own experiences! its just anglo propaganda!

[Anonymous No.11669810]

>>11669762
It really depends, in most fields you can get far better stuff in germany. History in general. Religious stuff on the other hand is really a american speciality. At least the traditionalist content.

[Anonymous No.11669819]

>>11669810
>Religious stuff on the other hand is really a american speciality
don't think so, most important theology stuff has been historically written mainly in krautspeak
>>11669762
>confusing Anglo propaganda with reality
sad!

[Anonymous No.11669842]

>>11669745
I couldn't say, it really depends. In general I can't resist a classic in reasonable quality for 3-6 Euros per book, I buy a lot and than I haggle the total. I'll pay significantly more for a nice edition. If you're lucky enough you find a library sale where you can get shitloads for nothing. I once bought 20+ desirable books for 10 Euros. For some reason they have no understanding of prices. Some book chain I went to had a sale by weight. I've bought like 4 kilos of English classics propably at 1-2 Euros per book, all of them new penguin editions. I used to buy a lot on amazon but for some reason the prices exploded. You used to be able to get a nice book from Britain or the US for 4 Euros now it's more like 8. So that sucks. Where I live they don't really have any good bookstores so I search for them whenever I travel.

[Anonymous No.11669882]

>>11669842
I know, I usually buy on booklooker or ZVAB, sometimes Kleinanzeigen. On booklooker you can get the classics easily under 5€ with shipping.

Well, if you're interested, I wanted to get a Hardcover from pic related (still sharp edges and unbroke spine) and if you've got some copies yourself which you would want to exchange, gib mal Bescheid.

[Anonymous No.11670343]

>>11663019
We used wheelocks too, recently all I've seen is Ecce Romani

[Anonymous No.11670832]

>>11668854
Are u still in uni(I'm asking cause of the comp sci book)

[Anonymous No.11670918]

>>11662402
Are you familiar with Langdon Winner? You might like his stuff.

[Anonymous No.11670919]

>>11670832
No, graduated in CS tho

[Anonymous No.11672122]

Just bought these, rate

[Anonymous No.11672166]

>>11669882
That title makes no sense
Western civilization was already started hundreds of years before that jewish cult even existed.
The "western" civilization after christicuckiny took over is not western civilization, it is a semitic abomination

[Anonymous No.11672173]

>>11672122
>James "Brap Connoisseur" Joyce
based
are the James Joyce sewn or glue bindings?

[Anonymous No.11672293]

>>11672173
They're both sewn

[Anonymous No.11672681]

>>11662414
Fix, you're a gamer.

[Anonymous No.11673382]

>>11672166
Have your (you).

[Anonymous No.11673409]

Is this where i post my Kindle?

[Anonymous No.11673415]

>>11672173
>there are still posters who don't know the pleasures of the GOAT Everyman's Library bindings
i feel bad for u son

[Anonymous No.11673471]

Purchased today

[Anonymous No.11673480]

Purchased hoy

[Anonymous No.11673490]

>>11673480
stained book is For Us The Living by Josephine Powell Beatty, top is The Saddest Book In The World

[Anonymous No.11673498]

>>11673480
btw stained book is For Us The Living by Josephine Powell Beatty, top is The Saddest Book That Ever Was by John Gibbons

[Anonymous No.11673511]

>>11662402
>post your stacks
>posts the stack

[Anonymous No.11673525]

>>11664848
Thank you for your hard work as an educator (I'm assuming).

[Anonymous No.11673633]

>>11668221
Amazon, I have the exact same one.

[Anonymous No.11673929]

Thrift shop finds from a couple days ago

[Anonymous No.11673975]

>>11673929
You shouldn't really read Zinn without a prior study of American history. It's very anti-American and as such of course the most widely used history textbook in schools.

[Anonymous No.11674204]

>>11668854
Interesting mix.

[Anonymous No.11675052]

>>11664848
Based. I find child psychology fascinating. If I wasn't doing law I would do psychiatry.

[Anonymous No.11675182]

Not an actual stack because I don't actually do that, Shakespeare and Chaucer are only there to flatten Pynchon.
This is just an excuse to bitch about this purchasing regret
>know a good online bookshop that sells most books cheaper than Amazon and the books always arrive pristine
>only buy these off Amazon because I'm desperate to dive into (no, in all honesty that's not it, I'm desperate to OWN) Pynchon and it's one day delivery
>they're delivered
>waved to fuck, brown pages, covered in dark spots and shit, many scuffs and scrapes, and a few cut pages
>tfw not even gonna start reading them for a few days, by which time they would have arrived from the better site anyway

Yes I am quite aware I'm a fucking pseud.

[Anonymous No.11675204]

>>11675182
Serves you right for buying mass market paperbacks. They’re all like that.
Pynch is good though, you should read him.

[Anonymous No.11675241]

>>11675204
I genuinely prefer paperbacks. That Complete Works of Shakespeare is the only hardback I own, just for the sheer enormity (both in size and importance) of it.
Don't worry anon, I'm gonna.

[Anonymous No.11675254]

>>11667116
The Man Who Was Thursday was legitimately one of the worst books I've ever read

Fittingly got recommended it on r/books

[Anonymous No.11675279]

>>11666513
beckett beckett beckett beckett beckett beckett

[Anonymous No.11675324]

>>11662414
How readable is the Almagest for a mathlet like me?

[Anonymous No.11675364]

>>11668478

Paradiso is kanker. Melkweg is objectively GOAT

[Anonymous No.11675424]

[Anonymous No.11675428]

>>11673480

>The Photo Book

Confirmed great taste

[Anonymous No.11675606]

Recent purchases.

[Anonymous No.11675701]

>>11668798
I payed $8 for the almost new Russell. Goes for $50 on Amazon in that condition. I want to get a copy of the Landmark Herodotus translated by Andrea Purvis in hardcover. I can't find a copy in very good or new condition for a reasonable price though.

[Anonymous No.11675800]

>>11675424
Is Mass Control a worthwhile read?

[Anonymous No.11676010]

>>11675606
Let me know what you think of Schmidt. Considered him for some time now.

[Anonymous No.11676038]

>>11675606
>Schmidt, Elkin, McElroy, Butor, Murnane
Good lad

[Anonymous No.11676046]

My stack

[Anonymous No.11676060]

>>11676046
cringe

[Anonymous No.11676093]

>>11673975
How in depth of a study? I got the standard US public school history classes but no college so not much followup. Bits and pieces here and there from articles and books but nothing solid.

Should I take a US history class online first?

[Anonymous No.11676121]

>>11662402

[Anonymous No.11676137]

>>11676121
9/10

[Anonymous No.11676181]

hey guys im new here

[Anonymous No.11676185]

>>11673480
>0+NR
anon are you learning japanese to watch anime without subtitles?

[Anonymous No.11676208]

guess my asl

[Anonymous No.11676278]

>>11675279
that sounds like one of his plays

[Anonymous No.11676349]

>>11669497
I have Shogun in my stack too. Haven't touched it yet though. Have you started it?

[Anonymous No.11676359]

>>11675606
great stack

>>11676121
not too shabby

>>11676181
living meme

[Anonymous No.11676642]

Spent 100$ on myself for my birthday today at used bookstore. How’d I do y’all?

[Anonymous No.11676656]

Spent 100$ on myself for my birthday today at used bookstore. How’d I do y’all?

[Anonymous No.11676722]

>>11676656
Pretty good, nice stuff.
What will you read first?

[Anonymous No.11676745]

>>11676722
One of the shorter books first. I keep picking up huge books and getting through a third before life gets in the way and I’d like to finish something. So maybe slaughter house five.

[Anonymous No.11676761]

>>11676656
that stack cost $100? all second hand? its a good stack but $8 per USED book is kinda steep

[Anonymous No.11676925]

>>11662402
Can anyone tell me what René Guénon hardback books look like and what quality they are, considering getting some.

[Anonymous No.11676969]

>>11676761
Not all were second hand and the ones that were second hand are half the label price.

[Anonymous No.11677028]

>>11676925
bump

[Anonymous No.11677042]

>>11676745
Why do you keep buying new books if you haven't finished the ones you have?

[Anonymous No.11677074]

>>11677042
Not anon, there are a few reasons but it's an addiction. I want them around me. Propably half of my books are unread and I should have around 500 at this point.

[Anonymous No.11677086]

>>11677042
I keep buying new books and never read any.

[Anonymous No.11677092]

>>11677074
try and stay monogamous to a book. it's like watching half a film.

[Anonymous No.11677107]

>>11677086
So do you actually enjoy reading? Don't try and live a life to impress yourself.

[Anonymous No.11677112]

>>11677092
>having unread books is like having half-read books that you never plan to finish
....Explain yourself.

[Anonymous No.11677120]

>>11677112
apologies. i miss read the "not anon".

[Anonymous No.11677135]

>>11677092
Nah, I seldom read just one book. I'm content if I stay under 5 at a time but sometimes it gets ridiculous. Just not how my brain works. I like big books as well. If it's just 200 pages I tend to read it in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.11677142]

>>11675182
in awe at the size of these books.

how's discworld?

[Anonymous No.11677232]

>>11663019
heh
I just started latin

[Anonymous No.11677263]

>>11676046
pls be memeing

[Anonymous No.11677298]

rate my vacation stack

[Anonymous No.11678686]

>>11676925
They look pretty nice

[Anonymous No.11679676]

>>11676656
fuck that you got robbed

[sauce(dead)pan No.11679677]

>>11679676
>>11676656
it looks okay, could have gone for a hardcover of the Hemmingway, but it's still nice.

[Anonymous No.11679698]

>>11673929
(((Howard Zinn)))