Stack thread

[Anonymous No.12899822]

Could we get one of these going? This here is my couch-side stack that I'm perusing tonight. I really love Tolkien's shorter, more playful poems about random cute things, nothing in particular. I love his poem "Cat."

[Anonymous No.12899916]

>>12899822
From the books and knives thread, because I'm too lazy to take another picture.

[Anonymous No.12899940]

Stack posters are the worst.

[Anonymous No.12900100]

>>12899822
What's the bottom Tolkien Newsweek thing about?

[Anonymous No.12900221]

>>12899822

[Anonymous No.12900230]

>>12899916
What is the difference between your copies of Decline?

[Anonymous No.12900738]

>>12900221
>The art of war
Yikes lad.
Props for anime Alice in Wonderland though

[Anonymous No.12900740]

>>12899822
Comfy Englishman OP

[Anonymous No.12900744]

>>12900230
One of them is just a catalogue of anime body pillows

[Anonymous No.12900754]

>>12900221
Hell yeah, Dorohedoro

[Anonymous No.12900823]

>>12900230
Volume I and II. Why do people always ask this about two volume sets?

[Anonymous No.12901222]

>>12899822
yike

[Anonymous No.12901332]

>>12899916
Can you give isbn for the declines pls

[Anonymous No.12901475]

Are these threads for recent purchases?

[Anonymous No.12901520]

>>12900221
That's a great bird book. I keep track of when the first Oriole scout shows up every year on the front cover, they are within a day or two every year. Simply amazing!

[Anonymous No.12901579]

>>12901475
I have never seen a synopsis on a spine before.

[Anonymous No.12902022]

No pics but lately picked up over the past couple months:
Four Past Midnight-King
Different Seasons-King
Insomnia-King
Turn of the Screw and Other Stories-Henry James
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler
The Lost Europeans-Emanuel Litvinoff
Gillespie-J Macdougall Hay
Irvine Welsh Omnibus-Irvine Welsh
Butcher's Crossing-John Williams
The Rainbow Stories-William T Vollman
Lud in the Mist-Hope Mirrlees
The Bone Clocks-David Mitchell
A Brief History of Seven Killings-Marlon James
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Short Stories-Akutagawa
The Worm Ouroboros-Eric Rücker Eddison
Foucalt's Pendulum-Umberto Eco

Got all that for around £25 or so. No idea whether or not The Rainbow Stories is a decent place to start with Vollman. Don't know whether or not I should save it for later and get one of his more accessible books or not.

[Anonymous No.12902111]

>>12901579

Nobody is going to pick up a book by Russell to check the back. Just looking at his name evokes an immense tiredness within me.

[Anonymous No.12902566]

[Anonymous No.12902575]

>>12900221
Jesus Atlas is a thicc boi. Makes me glad I am not a libertarian.
Actually scratch that, my side of the political spectrum is far worse than that.

[Anonymous No.12902646]

Couple short ones cause I’m unironicly reading infinite jest right now as well. In London at the moment a the Brit weirdos call it “the outsider” for some reason.

[Anonymous No.12903229]

/r/ing a clear picture of a french commie lit stack to impress a girl i like

[Anonymous No.12903432]

[Anonymous No.12903469]

>>12900221
>KJV
>Atlas Shrugged
>Lewis Carrol manga
embarrassing
>>12901475
>Russel
good luck, you may very well end up killing yourself
>>12902022
post pic
>>12902566
>How to Read a Book
>Elon Musk
>pic is sideways
literally what the fuck?
>>12902646
>upside down pic
stop doing this

[Anonymous No.12903476]

>>12903432
you're going through an orthodox phase. before you've even finished two of those, you'll be over the phase and you won't bother reading the rest.

[Anonymous No.12903513]

[Anonymous No.12903534]

>>12903513
>another sideways pic
what the actual fuck is wrong with you people?

[Anonymous No.12903553]

>>12900823
The current popular version of the Decline is the abridged one

[Anonymous No.12903556]

Some of the books read cover to cover within the last few months.

[Anonymous No.12903627]

>>12903476

After having studied and finished these in the past few years?

[Anonymous No.12903683]

>>12903627
impressive, but also highly autistic

[Anonymous No.12903779]

[Anonymous No.12903791]

>>12900221
>anime Alice in Wonderland
>Art of War
>Atlas Shrugged
each to their own I suppose

[Anonymous No.12903810]

>>12903779
I will reply to every single sideways and upside down picture until you motherfuckers stop

[Anonymous No.12903825]

>>12903810
Idk why it formats it that way

[Anonymous No.12903851]

>>12903556
comfy bedside bookshelf anon

[Anonymous No.12903914]

Rorty is the newest arrival, the two library books on the bottom are stolen

[Anonymous No.12904045]

Was going to go shopping today, but the store was closed :/

[Anonymous No.12904161]

>>12903914
sideways
>stealing library books
read S(hip of Theseus) by Abrams and Dorst

[Anonymous No.12904894]

[Anonymous No.12904901]

reposting bc i fucked up

[Anonymous No.12904906]

>>12904894
delete this

[Anonymous No.12904909]

>>12902566
>How to Be Black
kek

[Anonymous No.12904927]

>>12904909
Step one: don't read books

[Anonymous No.12905847]

>>12903683
go suck Pope toes

[Anonymous No.12906742]

>>12903627
What other religious texts have you read?

[Anonymous No.12906752]

>>12901475
>Kizumonogatari
Based...

[Anonymous No.12906778]

>>12899822
Rate

[Anonymous No.12906783]

>>12903556
But what are the CDs?

>>12903825
How is the Crowley book?

[Anonymous No.12906784]

>>12906778
THE I CHING ISN"T THAT FAT!

[Anonymous No.12906879]

>>12903556
>>12903825
>>12906778
Why is there so much Crowley in this thread?

[Anonymous No.12907161]

>>12906778
Based occultist

[Anonymous No.12908672]

[Anonymous No.12908802]

>>12906742

>CS Lewis
>Kierkegaard
>Book of Mormon
>RA Torrey
>A Confession by Tolstoy
>The Upanishads in toto
>Plato
>some contemporary Buddhists
>some contemporary New Age gurus
>selections from the Koran

[Anonymous No.12908881]

>>12908672
terrible taste

[Anonymous No.12908892]

Stacking is a sign of autism. Just an interesting thing I learned.

[Anonymous No.12908934]

>>12908881
What's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.12908943]

>>12908802
>Book of Mormon
Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.12909008]

>>12908672
>Carlson
Everything else is great.

[Anonymous No.12909022]

The Everyman is Ficciones IFI

[Anonymous No.12909033]

>>12908934
over half of it is:
A,) Greek
B.) translated into English
either one of these alone is bad enough to indicate a plebe; with both together it's actually kind of surprising how brainlet this anon is

[Anonymous No.12909118]

>>12909033
I'm just trying to learn new things. Never said I wasn't a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12909261]

>>12899916
The few dover thrift books I have are printed on what amounts to toilet paper, is their non-'thrift' catalogue any good when it comes to quality of printing, translations and paper? Asking cause I see your copy of the spook book is a Dover version and I'm interested in their Schopenhauer books.

[Anonymous No.12909283]

>>12908672
Why not just get the big Plato and Aristotle antologies at this point? Also: why tf would you want to read anything Tucker Carlson has commisioned to be written for him? I can kind of understand reading Memerson cause he's popular so you kinda owe it to yourself to know what's up but the only people watching Carlson will die off in the next decade or two.

[Anonymous No.12909336]

>>12909283
I don't really want to read any more Plato or Aristotle. Also I thought Carlson brought up good topics to think about. I learned some new things from it if nothing else.

[Anonymous No.12909447]

>>12909336
I can get that but honestly there's better thinkers to get that from than a less grabby version of Bill O'Reilly.

[Anonymous No.12910062]

>>12909447
Well the thing is, to me, it doesn't matter where the ideas come from. As long as I can reflect upon certain ideas, I'm glad somebody brought then to my attention.

[Anonymous No.12910246]

>>12910062
What I'm saying is that what you have is not only an inneficient way of getting new ideas, Carlson not even provides a good way of evaluating these new ideas since he's a talkshow host instead of an actual political thinker.
I'm not a right winger but at least writers like Popper read theory, even if, like with his readings of Hegel and Marx, it is piss poor

[Anonymous No.12910250]

>>12910062
>>12910246
I'm serious, give me any idea he put forth and I can name you a writer who not only put it forth in a more nuanced and better way, but also who provides good argumentation for his specific viewing of said idea.

[Anonymous No.12910287]

>>12910246
Right. I'm only saying that he brought the idea to my attention. Nothing would please me more than to get a better take on it. What grabbed my attention was the idea that a people involved in a political association need a common belief or some similar kind of common ground.

[Anonymous No.12910329]

>>12910287
Wait, the fact that people in a political union are united through a set of common beliefs was a new idea to you? Yeah, Carlson might just be your level.

[Anonymous No.12910543]

Reading the Bowie book right now. It makes my eyes hurt

[Anonymous No.12910752]

>>12910329
You realize a lot of people don't think that? Go outside and talk to normal people. You'd be surprised.

[Anonymous No.12910759]

>>12910329
Still waiting on that suggestion you promised. Who said it better?

[Anonymous No.12911097]

[Anonymous No.12911224]

>>12904901
>Kalevala
Based

[Anonymous No.12911332]

>>12908672
90% good but you seem wildly reactionary

[Anonymous No.12911395]

>>12910543

the Van Gogh book is real good

[Anonymous No.12911424]

RATE ME

[Anonymous No.12911713]

Plenty of penguin books in here so might aswell add to the list. What's missing is Ghosts in the fog and Elephant run.

[Anonymous No.12911718]

>>12909022
I really want that Lovecraft book

[Anonymous No.12911796]

>>12910543
is that a lou reed biography?

[Anonymous No.12912299]

>>12910543
I'd understand why you'd want to read Bolaño in Spanish but why Eco and Bulgakov?

[Anonymous No.12912303]

>>12910543
>>12912299
Actually I just noticed a bunch of other books in Spanish too but I'm still curious.

[Anonymous No.12912312]

>>12910246
>DUDE LOOK AT ME! HERE! DEBATE ME PLS!
chill your autism and give the guy a break

[Anonymous No.12912625]

>>12911395
I like it because its a hardcover and I could hurt someone with it. Very excited to read it too
>>12911796
Yes
>>12912299
>>12912303
I'm a native spanish speaker. I ordered those books before I knew what bookdepository was, but I think some authors are too hard for me to understand in english so I read them in spanish. Other authors wrote their books in languages that are more similar to my own, like Pessoa and Eco, therefore the translations will be more similar

[Anonymous No.12913001]

>>12910543
>It makes my eyes hurt
Why is that? It seems interesting.

[Anonymous No.12913004]

>>12901475
Russell is bad. I recommend instead:
A History of Philosophy (Copleston) but is long
the story of philosophy bryan magee
>>12903432
Very nice stack

[Anonymous No.12913039]

>>12912625
I see, I was curious because I do the same thing so I was kinda expecting that answer. If I find basic stuff in Spanish, I don't mind it but usually I try to go for English nowadays thanks to Bookdepository too so we're kind of in the same situation.