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Post your currently reading stack boys

>> No.12968385

>unironically reading about muh negroes
jesus, american education, I suppose?

>> No.12968408

>>12968385
>dismissing a work because of your own racist views

lol

>> No.12968413

>>12968408
burger confirmed, say no more.

>> No.12968518

>>12968385
Ironically enough you would benefit the most from reading it.

>> No.12968523

>>12968518
Good one, mate.

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R8

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>>12968339

>> No.12971153

>>12969652
bottom one is god

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Woke

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Bully me please so I can read some better stuff

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>>12968339

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>> No.12971342

>>12971197
Nausea is so fucking terrible

read Austerlitz instead

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>>12971329
>doet god ertoe

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>>12968339
These uns

>> No.12971667

>>12969635
>>12971180
Very nice, lads

>>12971430
Some good ones as well. How many have you read?

>> No.12971692
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I'm a high school English teacher.

>> No.12971727

>>12971692
>Elements of Style
That's gonna be a yikes from me, dawg.

>> No.12971766

>>12971692
Pls be a girl

>tfw no slightly trad /lit/ teacher gf

>> No.12971794

>>12969635
>>12969711
Nice.

>> No.12971797

>>12971766
Nope, the female teachers in my cohort are teaching Hunger Games and Pride and Prejudice.

>> No.12971826

>>12971692
>Saki

Based, do you like him?

>> No.12971840

>>12971197
Don't think I don't see that unbroken spine on the Odyssey+ Camus and Sartre are lefty meme lit and shouldnt be read above the age of 16. Do read the spiritual Russians to compensate.

>> No.12971876

>>12971797
Do you like being an English teacher? I've always wanted to be a middle school history teacher but being a dude makes teaching too risky

>> No.12971942

>>12971876
Yeah, though it's only my first year, and it's a huge time-sink. However, I would not be happy teaching middle school. At that age, your focus is more on classroom management than teaching. I teach 9th and 12th grade English, and the contrast is night and day.

>> No.12972005

>>12969635
based

>> No.12972009
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>> No.12972101

>>12968385
To be fair, out of the twelve books I read in high school English about slavery and the 20+ I read in college, Frederick Douglass is by far the most valuable. Really the only one that needs teaching desu.

>> No.12972193

>>12971840
I’m 10 years behind on my meme books and want to catch up before I start reading big boy books

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Top: Grabbed at a used bookstore for two bucks. Might read more of it when I travel to Ireland this summer.

2. Haven’t read much yet, though I chuckle every page or so. Comfy.

3&4. Books I’m using for a research project that I’ve barely touched.

Bottom: I know it’s one of those pretentious B&N deluxe classics, but it was the cheapest way to get Longfellow’s translation of the poem at the store. I’ve already read the Inferno, and I’m hesitant to start the other two parts because I hear they’re a slog to chew through.

>> No.12972554

>>12972009
>Beowulf
Based. Probably the biggest chad in Anglo literature

>> No.12972574

>>12972554

What about Eric the Red? He discovered America and "forgot" about it

>> No.12972698

>>12972388
Man I remember reading Don Quijote as a kid. I couldn't get through a single page. I wonder if I could go through it now like 12 years later lol

>> No.12972718

>>12968339
I neither have a smartphone or a digital camera, but on my bedside table lie sprawled more books than I care to admit. The topmost is kiergegarrds either/or, the other titles I can barely make out are a dictionary of english, a dictionary of german, checkov, proust, austere, heinrich boell, karl kraus, and notes of poetry nobody will ever see...there's also sleeping pills, a half pint of lager still...please end me...

>> No.12972723

>>12972718
what are you posting from?

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>>12972388
Oh yeah, almost forgot about these gift books. Most of these I’ve only glanced through. Is Albom’s work any good?

>> No.12972774
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Especially interested in what /lit/ thinks of Sarah Kane

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Almost finished with Céline, plans to start "Belle du seigneur" or "Les liaisons dangereuses" after that.
Which one would you recommand?

>> No.12972821

>>12968339
what translation of the odyssey is that

>> No.12972969

>>12972821
TE Lawerances

>> No.12973012

>>12971279
schizo-stack

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>> No.12973184

>>12968339
>Douayrheims English/Latin bible
>Wheelocks + LLPSI (can read latin easily but still fails tests due to grammar focus of class)
>Kierkegaards - Works of Love

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>>12973155

>> No.12973226

>>12971279
I read that pre socratics book not too long ago,

is good.

>> No.12973242

>>12968385

How sad is it that this nigger dwarfs you in every conceivable way. Enjoy your desperate scramble at relevance. The most you will do is fallaciously gloat in having reproduced. Every generation they become less of you until it is noise.

You are nothing, will always be nothing and will be remembered for what you are- Nothing.

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>>12968339
Posted this in a previous one but

>> No.12973274

>>12973155
What is that? Some Touhou shit?

>> No.12973300

I just started reading so I only got high school-core right now
Farenheit 451 and To Kill a Mockingbird

>> No.12973365

>>12973300
I'll give you a summary
>Censorship is bad
>Niggers are good
There.

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>> No.12973447

>>12973300
I'll give you a summary
>If you don't read, you're literally an NPC
>Why judge someone harshly in the court of law just because he has more melanin in his skin?
There.

>> No.12973479

>>12973274
yup

>> No.12973538

>>12973300
Literally the only two books I enjoyed being forces to read in high school.

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about to also start The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. the Woolf is comfy as fuck, the Hofstadter is interesting if a bit to pop-sci for my tastes, and Ergativity makes me sad that there's no good place outside of R*ddit to discuss linguistics without getting bogged down by philosophical dribble like structuralism
>>12971279
>Land
good fucking luck
>>12971329
your edition of Hofstadter looks disgusting, and I haven't even seen the front cover yet
>>12971616
>Structuralism and Semiotics
are you fucking kidding me?
>>12971692
>high school English teacher
>(re)reading Orwell
why?
>>12972009
>that translation of Beowulf
why?
>>12972388
>two of them are B&N editions
why?
>>12972969
yikes

>> No.12973824

>>12968385
>not liking Fred Douglas
Fucking pseud

>> No.12973954

>>12972009
How is journey to the west? I've had it on my wishlist for awhile because it's never less than $20.

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>> No.12973992

>>12973954
Just watch DragonBall instead.

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How fucked am I?

>> No.12974267

>>12968339
Those dang suitors

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>>12968385
>MOOOOOOOM THE PROGRESSIVES ARE POSTING ON 4CHAN AGAIN IT'S A REGULAR WH*TE GENOCIDE!

>> No.12974495

>>12974195
that pynchon book is fun

>> No.12974522

>>12974273
"nigger"

>> No.12974526

>>12973242
cringe
>>12974273
Not even white, sweaty. Try again.
>>12973563
based Woolf reader

>> No.12974570

The Right Side of History, by Ben Shapiro. Also The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

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Not gonna lie, /lit/, The Interpretation of Dreams is wild.

>> No.12974608

>>12974602
where did you get that Baudelaire book? which publishing house is it from?

>> No.12974652

>>12974608
I got it at a second-hand bookstore, and it’s published by longseller as part of a classics series.

>> No.12974653

Do people actually read monkey writing?

>> No.12974684

>>12974602
It is. It was my first foray into Freudian dream analysis. I especially liked the quotations from the Old Testament, myself. I take a religious view of dreams, as I believe they are messages from God. But that doesn't stop Freudian analysis from applying, really. It just means that there might be a better way to interpret dreams.

:3

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>>12974684

>> No.12974725

>>12968339
frederick douglass has a good, plain style.

>> No.12974767

>>12971342
>Nausea is so fucking terrible
I diffier

>> No.12974978

>>12973563
I'm in my first year, and I haven't read Animal Farm in years. I'm preparing to teach it to my 9th grade class. I'm reading 1984 again with my seniors.

>> No.12975238

>>12974725
I actually quite enjoyed it.

It was hard to read in spots though. I grew up in the deep south and slavery is very romanticized here. Honestly I just figured they were treated like butlers or maids were treated.

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The only one I haven't finished is the bottom. I'm savoring that one.

>> No.12975274

>>12968408
>>12974273
yikes..

>> No.12975292

>>12974526
>>12975274
yikes

>> No.12975299

>>12973563
What's wrong with B&N editions?

>> No.12975317

>>12968408
Never read a book by a nigger in my whole life, I’m not American either

>> No.12975319

>>12968408
Nothing wrong with being racist

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>> No.12975365

>>12975299
they're tacky, and their translators are usually stock, out of date, or otherwise bottom of the barrel
>>12975319
lol
>>12975320
>Name of the Wind

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how based am i

>> No.12975657

>>12975569
>Mishima and Wolfe
>1961 Ulysses
>hardback Lord of the Rings omnibus
I'm not sure how you could be more based than you already are, this is pushing limits as is

>> No.12975980

>>12975657
What's the different between the 1961 and 1922 Ulysses?

>> No.12976012

>>12975569
I found the font in that Mishima was weirdly dark in spots. Felt like a very cheaply produced edition

>> No.12976234

>>12976012
It's vintage, of course it's shit

>> No.12976289

>>12972821
I don't have the name of the translator, but it's a prose translation.

>> No.12976677

>>12975269
Do I have to read a graphic novel now? There's a Plissken crossover? Oh no.

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>> No.12977752

>>12973155
How long have you been reading moon?

>> No.12977817

>>12969635
MA's Meditations looking good. What translation is it?

>> No.12977841

>>12977817
Maxwell Staniforth

>> No.12978104

>>12977841
I have the paperback Gregory Hays translation. You might be interested in Epictetus's Discourses and Seneca's Letters too.

>> No.12978146

>>12978104
Thanks.

>> No.12978210

>>12973563
Just a coincidence, I guess. B&N had the cheapest way to grab the complete Longfellow Divine Comedy and their version of Quixote seemed to have more footnotes to explain some of the more outdated jokes and references (I’m kind of regretting buying it over some of the other, more recent translations, though it’s still enjoyable).

>> No.12978538

>>12975980
1922 is full of unintended spelling and grammar errors, and 1961 is the edition with the most errors fixed without veering into fanfiction like Gabler did

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>>12968339
Heres a stack that my dad just gave me.

>> No.12979258

>>12978639
why is there fog in your room

>> No.12979417

>>12972388
>I’m hesitant to start the other two parts because I hear they’re a slog to chew through
Absolutely not (maybe Paradiso), Purgatorio is the height of the whole poem. It only gets richer as it goes on.

>> No.12980858

>>12972718
god what a pretentious fuck. you're real special bro

>> No.12981177

>>12972718
kek just kill yourself already

>> No.12981497

>>12979258
must have taken the picture on the 4/20

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Haven't read either. The Bible is interesting so far, but I feel like a brainlet because I can't remember names in those long "list" passages in the beginning.

>> No.12982511

>>12973365
Absolute brainlet take on F451, but spot on for mockingbird