/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14234436]

convince me not to buy pic related right now

[Anonymous No.14234447]

Wait until friday to see if there is a price drop. Other than that, this collection looks like it sucks. It was 100% manufactured to be sold to pseuds, decorators and sad attorneys.

[Anonymous No.14234452]

>>14234436

>paying that much to read a bunch of dead white guys

yikes

[Anonymous No.14234455]

>>14234436
Seems pretty pricey for a bunch of shit some old middle American jew considered 'great'. Probably way too much boring ass shit nobody cares about anymore like Stendhal in there. Develop your own taste brick by brick.

[Anonymous No.14234456]

>>14234436
the translations are shitty

[Anonymous No.14234460]

>same price and far more patrician

[Anonymous No.14234468]

>>14234455
>>14234452

The duality of /lit/

[Anonymous No.14234479]

>>14234436
ugly editions, most of the texts are available free online, extremely cheap used, or from public libraries
immediately identifies you as someone who is unable to form their own opinions about what they like
you will likely never read most of them

[Anonymous No.14234491]

>huge ((("G r e a t B o o k s"))) larger than the title on each spine
turn your entire shelf into (((Great Books(tm)))) property today, you too can be a massive fucking pseud with a tacky pseud library

[Anonymous No.14234497]

>>14234491
seriously do you realize how fucking retarded it looks to have "Great Books" printed a hundred times right next to each other on every book?

[Anonymous No.14234503]

1) I highly doubt you could even read 517 books without getting burned out heavily
2) The visuals are horrible. No covers to convey the mood, all the same color and instead of having the author name or the name of the book as the biggest thing on the sleeve so can find it quick it just says "Great Books" 517 times. Visually unpleasing.
3) You will not like all books. Even if you only dislike 1 in 5, that is over 100 books you hate and would lile to throw away but can't because they are numbered.
4) When you buy books indovidually or in a small packet you can always be happy and focus on them, look forward to them. If you have 517 books at home you can not decide what to read when and feel a constant pressure like "Damn I still have 400 unread books here".
5) Organisation/visual issues: Where will you store 517 books and how will they be sent? Imagine the dust and how bad the design is. Do you have enough place? What about cleaning, moisture etc.?
6) The individual piece price is cheap but, again, what about all those books you do not like? It is more simple to spend low two digit money every month instead of 1200 dollars all at once. That is a lot of money
I would advise against it.

[Anonymous No.14234507]

>he doesn't have a kindle
>he doesn't have a library card
>he can't google "book title pdf" and read it on his computer
>he doesn't homebrew
>he doesn't take the bus to his destination
>he doesn't eat rice and beans
I swear you fucking retards every god damn day

[Munro, Alice Was A Black Man No.14234532]

You have shit taste and you’re probably a pseud. Most of those can be acquired for free or significantly cheaper. And at the pace you’d probably read them at, you don’t really need more than 5 at a time, and that’s being generous. Don’t be a retard, save your money anon.

[Anonymous No.14234540]

>every book you buy seperately will not be a great book, and therefore won't be worth reading

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.14234546]

>>14234436
you can find that set for 1/6th the price used, at least. i've seen some anons here walk away with it for free just for moving it themselves.

[Anonymous No.14234557]

>>14234532
aren't we all, anon?

[Anonymous No.14234562]

>>14234491
Based

[Anonymous No.14234570]

>>14234436
You're never going to read them, and nobody is going to think you're smart because you've got them on your shelf.

[Anonymous No.14234571]

>>14234436
>Read ebooks for free
>Buy nice additions of books you like and feel like rereading, or to build a library demonstrating your superior taste
And unless you live in the house you're going to die in, that's a shit load of weight to shift between shitty rentals.

[Anonymous No.14234651]

>>14234455
Stendhal is based you pseud

[Anonymous No.14234664]

>>14234436
Pretty sad to imagine the kind of people who would buy this. Just buy the individual books that you are interested in one by one and not with some ugly edition with the series title dominating the back of the book

[Anonymous No.14234688]

It is amazing to me that 8 years later, I'm still here telling people not to buy these books.

Someone shoot me in the head.

[Anonymous No.14234702]

>>14234436
If you do it then something bad might happen to your mom

[Anonymous No.14234786]

>>14234436
I've never had so much money

[Anonymous No.14234793]

>>14234460
Oh damn I'm tempted to nab at least a few of those

[Anonymous No.14234798]

>>14234436
The translations will be a mixed bag, for sure.

[Anonymous No.14235107]

>>14234503
all good points

[Anonymous No.14235160]

>>14234436
>Public domain translations
>Tiny as fuck print
>no scholarly notes, footnotes, appendices, glossaries, etc.
>only useful to show off for pseud cred, and serious readers, classics scholars, and /lit/izens will immediately know you're a pseud

[Anonymous No.14235169]

Buying a pre-curated selection of almost anything seems like insanity to me.

[Anonymous No.14235224]

>>14234651
If you want to pretend to have some kind of elite taste for old fashioned authors hitch your faggoty little wagon to Vivant Denon or Jean Paul or anyone instead of an long-winded melodramatist that was considered a hash even in his own era. What's next, Victor Hugo?

[Anonymous No.14235228]

>>14234455
>Nobody cares about Stendhal
Anglo spotted. He absolutely mogs other novel writers from the same time period no contest

[Anonymous No.14235260]

>>14234436
I have the ebook versions. Give me an hour and I'll upload them on mega

[Anonymous No.14235411]

>>14234436
Buy the used ones

[Anonymous No.14235435]

You can get the complete harvard classics set for ~300$

[Anonymous No.14235448]

>>14234436
Reminds me of how my local book store sold dantes "inferno" with a big pseud cover with aesthetic ridged pages for 30 dollars while they had Dantes triology with pictures, but no pseud "Im smart" signals which was 10 bucks.

[Anonymous No.14235724]

>>14234436
buy an ereader and pirate them

[Anonymous No.14235752]

>>14235260

Lurking for this.

[Anonymous No.14236167]

>>14234436
My tiny library serving a community of ~10,000 has this set. Just find editions at your local library. You’re in it for the content and not for pretending you’re smart by having these on your bookshelf, right?

[Anonymous No.14236197]

>>14235224
La Bruyere
fight me

[Anonymous No.14236233]

>>14235752
https://mega.nz/#F!2aYQ1AQS!8cT0gd7gp7pWT9LwtIQ6jg
Who ever downloads is a pseud

[Anonymous No.14236307]

>>14236167
but i like having them for future reference

[Anonymous No.14236316]

>>14234436
You could have a beautiful bookshelf filled with different shapes and sizes and the individual character of all those books in seperate volumes that you hand selected based on your own preference, or you can have a soulless collection of books that all look exactly the same.

[Anonymous No.14236352]

>>14236233

Thanks Kanye, very cool!

[Anonymous No.14236381]

>>14234436
It's only 60 volumes. That's 19 per book. All of these you can get for free because they are old. All of these you can get cheap used. This is 1.2 grand for a decoration

[Anonymous No.14236880]

>>14234436
>the year of our Lord 2019
>buying books
A fool and his money.

[Anonymous No.14236893]

>>14234460
May as well pay the extra £50 for air freight if you're in the US or wherever.

[Anonymous No.14236896]

>>14236381
This.
OP for Christ's sake they don't even look nice. They're kind of ugly. It's terrible.

[Anonymous No.14236899]

>>14234507
Hey, I've never eaten rice & beans although I'd like to try it, seems nice.

[Anonymous No.14236907]

>>14236307
Do you want your own personal library on a municipal scale, nigga?

[Anonymous No.14236971]

>>14234436
dude, i bought the exact same set at a used book sale for $26, look around at yard sales and used book sales for the same thing

[Anonymous No.14237143]

>>14234507
Based Thoreau poster

[Anonymous No.14237145]

>>14234447
This is Mortimer Adler's list. Probably slightly altered after his death, but still.

[Anonymous No.14237156]

The mathematics one is worth it :3

[Anonymous No.14237187]

It's better to just look up what his great works list was and then research what the best version of each thing is. The actual collection doesn't have that great of quality control if I recall, it's more a proof of concept - you could have years of high art education sitting on one shelf and in one collection, ready to educate whoever was curious enough to figure out what was up.

>>14234447
Mortimer Adler was more passionate about the western canon than le canon man himself.