Stack Thread

[Anonymous No.14324459]

Post your stacks and book hauls.

[Anonymous No.14324462]

nah

[Anonymous No.14324480]

peep the DK Little Book of Philosophy

[Anonymous No.14324500]

>>14324459
>>14324480
>translations
lol

[Anonymous No.14324514]

Penguin classics are basically disposable books. Only people who hate books would buy them.

[Anonymous No.14324523]

>>14324514

and you're a pseud who can't back this up, but could you give it a shot? those editions aren't common in my country but seem fine

[Anonymous No.14324559]

>>14324523
What's to back up? The binding is shitty in terms of build and how much of a pleasure it is (or in this case: isn't) to hold, and they're aesthetically displeasing. If you want cheap books and you have options, Oxford classics are the absolute lowest you go. Things that are priced $5 are $5 for a reason. You'd be better off printing the PDF at a library and stapling the pages together. It will last 3x as long as the discount bin glue Penguin uses.

[Anonymous No.14324699]

>>14324500
Based. Just 20 more years of latin, french, german, russian, Chinese, japanese, ancient sanskrit, Spanish and Portuguese and ill be ready to start reading. Cant wait.

[Anonymous No.14325228]

[Anonymous No.14325363]

>>14324559
Why is this the case? Are oxford and penguin bad just because of the paper quality? Are their translations bad too?

What is a publisher you recommend?

[Anonymous No.14325486]

>>14325363
No Oxford is actually really quite nice imo. The paper is very limber, not stiff, and it unfolds nicely in the hand. I just say it's the lowest because on the power ranking of publishers, it's the lowest in tier of "actually acceptable bindings". I hate every Penguin book I own. Even the hardback penguins are as stiff as lumber, it's fucking weird and unpleasant.

My personal favorite in terms of build quality and price is Everyman's Library. Unfolds nicely in the hand, binding is seen rather than glued, cloth cover feels nice in the hand (faux leather/laminate softback make my hands hot as fuck), and it has the tassel bookmark. Problem with EL is translation selection sometimes, for which Oxford might actually be better.

I really just hate Penguin lole

[Anonymous No.14325605]

>>14325486
Based Penguin hater

[Anonymous No.14325659]

>>14324699
You forgot Italian.

[Anonymous No.14325732]

>>14324559
You know, sometimes people read books for what’s inside, not its binding

[Anonymous No.14325739]

>>14325228
How much did it set you back and where’d you get them?

[Anonymous No.14325992]

>>14324559
Are you retarded? Penguin classics are at least the quality of oxford world classics or better in terms of materials and binding. They are a huge publisher and they have the best introductions/commentaries to books, because writing an introduction for a penguin classic is an massive honour.

I can't tell whether you're trolling or whether you're just a brain damaged Amerimutt.

[Anonymous No.14326165]

>>14324514

What would you suggest then?

[Anonymous No.14326204]

>>14325992
My HS had us get penguin classics. I still think the overall aesthetic of the books is unparalleled and offers the best introduction to taking literature seriously. In college my profs typically had us use Oxford classics, which were bound better and used higher quality material although I always found the included criticism lacking. In grad classes they had us use Norton critical which got my literary dick hard.
The real question, at least for reading in translation, is who offers the most fitting translation for your needs. Generally, penguin uses the most approachable and “readable” for lack of a better term, Oxford uses the most stylistically striking translation, and Norton uses the most literarily accurate, often with excellent footnotes going into depth about word choice and alternatives.

[Anonymous No.14326321]

>>14326204
Are you sure that you have a decent sample size? Of course the Oxford trumps the other two in that pic because it’s Faust and the David Luke translation is probably the best rendering of Goethe into English, ever. But I’ve found penguin to be stylistically amazing for other works, namely Sophocles and the Oedipus cycle.

[Anonymous No.14326374]

>>14326321
Not to say that the illustrated translation differences are exclusive of one another (i.e. a penguin translation will not be stylistic, an oxford translation will not be approachable, etc.) but rather the main demographic each publisher produces for falls roughly in line with those goals. Penguin’s aim is exposure, oxford’s is literary, and Norton’s is of course critical/expository.

Granted I can really only speak for German Romantic era, where my course work was comparing translations of Goethe, Tieck, Novalis, and Hoffmann, but that’s what I noticed when reading in comparison with one another and the originals

[Anonymous No.14326434]

>>14326321
Also, Luke’s translation is the literary standard becuse of how he retained the poetics, but I still find Arendt’s superior becuse he somehow kept closer to Goethe’s poetics and intention than Luke while maintaining at least a comparable level of style. Atkins’ translation might be the best overall but I don’t have that one on hand. Although to be honest I don’t even like Faust anymore, and it’s pretty overrepresented in the canon if I can be so opinionated

[Anonymous No.14326651]

The Portuguese ones on the right are, from top-down:
>Zeno's Conscience
>Our Ancestors
>The Complete Cosmicomics
>Invisible Cities
>Confessions
>The Seven Storey Mountain

[Anonymous No.14327779]

Bump

[Anonymous No.14328704]

>>14325992
The intent of Penguin, Oxford and Norton is extremely different though.
For Penguin it's all about disseminating affordable classic books and having it as approachable as possible.
Oxford and Norton are far more literary or critical.

[Anonymous No.14330123]

>>14325228#
Those look nice! A few Christmases back I asked for those but ended up getting the abridged Oxford version, lol.

[Anonymous No.14331392]

>>14324459
> Sippin’ through the canon

[Anonymous No.14332433]

Most recent purchases, am I cool?

[Anonymous No.14332475]

>>14324699

If you're smarter than pic related, it takes only one week of study, maybe an hour or two a day, to learn a language to fluency.

[Anonymous No.14332528]

>>14332475
Lol.

[Anonymous No.14332902]

>>14332475
Oui, j'ai agreeable monseignor :)

[Anonymous No.14332911]

All this is from last night. Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.14333061]

>>14325363

[Anonymous No.14333200]

>>14324559
Is this a meme? Penguin classics are fine. I wish they would release Casanova's memoirs though. I would buy that.

[Anonymous No.14333206]

[Anonymous No.14333286]

>>14333061
redpill me on Easton and Arion I don't think I've read them

[Anonymous No.14333396]

>>14332433
yeah, you're cool

[Anonymous No.14333399]

>>14324459
I’m posting my charity book sale hauls from the last two years. They’re every six months, and they’ve got a real good spread of different stuff.

1/4

[Anonymous No.14333406]

>>14333399
2/4

[Anonymous No.14333410]

>>14333286
Theyre like $2000 a book, anon.

[Anonymous No.14333413]

>>14333406

[Anonymous No.14333418]

>>14333413
I read Vanity Fair and it didn't leave much of an impact on me. I hardly remember it.

[Anonymous No.14333420]

>>14333413
4/4

[Anonymous No.14333427]

>>14333410
Arian Press are that much, Easton are entry level fine press books. $ 120.00 or so new and 35 bucks on average for used.

[Anonymous No.14333473]

>>14333061
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-book-of-the-new-sun.html
>TFW even if stop being poorfag will never be able to get this

[Anonymous No.14333475]

>>14324480
Is this in australia?

[Anonymous No.14333484]

>>14326204
I prefer oxfords translations.

[Anonymous No.14334534]

>>14324459
I've stopped buying books since I started hoarding ebooks. In fact I've scaled down my book collection and I mean to scale it down further to just my favourites and various editions my favourites, but few books I haven't read.

[Anonymous No.14334541]

>>14333061
What's wrong with Penguin? Their paperbacks are inexpensive and I think they feel pleasant to hold, plus the art is often well-done.

[Anonymous No.14334565]

This is my stack I guess

[Anonymous No.14334587]

>>14334565
Those editions of the Gulag Archipelago are so gaudy. Why not just buy a used single volume copy? I found one in a thrift store last summer for $5.00.

[SR. No.14334609]

>>14326651
how is "After Dark"
also
>basado Augustinian poster

[Anonymous No.14334645]

>>14334587
Because they're the only ones Amazon ships in my country. I don't care for them either but the only other volumes that they retail are abridged.

[Anonymous No.14335074]

[Anonymous No.14335080]

[Anonymous No.14335090]

>>14335074
>>14335080
gpt most of these before my Kindle

[Anonymous No.14335094]

>>14335080
I'm not sure if I really like those covers or really hate them.

[Anonymous No.14335107]

>>14335094
well, some of these aren't even a decade ago, yet others were bought in the 80s, so you got some fussy taste, my dude
also
>judging a book by its cover
wew

[Anonymous No.14335370]

>>14335074
>>14335080
Don't be a fucking retard, anon.

[Anonymous No.14335393]

>>14335080
How is Colorless Tsukuru?

[Anonymous No.14335477]

>>14335393
I read it quite a while ago. It'a about some kid whose friends ostracize him all of a sudden, for no apparent reason. They guy suffers a whole lot bc of it, since he understands nothing of what happened. Years later, he tries to find out the reason why. Kind of a protagonist-meets-oneself novel.

I do recommend it, it's comfy to read, and catches your attention pretty quick,

If you are a Murakami fan, can you tell me about his "After Dark"?

[Anonymous No.14335702]

>>14333200
Did they not release this? Saw it at a local used book store months ago

[Anonymous No.14335964]

>>14332911
I found this funny anon

[Anonymous No.14336027]

>>14324459
4/5
>>14324480
5/5
>>14325228
5/5
>>14326204
5/5
>>14326651
5/5
>>14331392
2/5
>>14332433
4/5
>>14333206
1/5
>>14333399
3/5
>>14333406
3/5
>>14333413
2/5
>>14333420
2/5
>>14334565
4/5

[Anonymous No.14336034]

[Anonymous No.14336050]

>>14336027
Wow, you read Ortega y Gasset. Where are you? I thought only Spaniard philo students knew him

[Anonymous No.14336108]

>>14325228
how much famalam?

[Anonymous No.14336397]

>>14324523
Do you buy them in spanish? Spanish penguin classics are ten times better than english ones.

[Anonymous No.14336446]

>>14335074
>>14335080
Bro those philosophy books are shit I have all of them and they're really basic lmao I seriously hope you're not just gonna read those and pretend you have knowledge on Hegel or Heidegger might as well read the wikipedia page on them

[Anonymous No.14336479]

>>14336446
bought them as a teen.

[Anonymous No.14336617]

[Anonymous No.14336648]

>>14336617
you gotta be >>14334652

[Anonymous No.14336679]

>>14324559

[Anonymous No.14336689]

>>14336050
D.C, and not from school, I’m just a curious lad.

[Anonymous No.14336908]

>>14336689
how did you come across him? Any insights you wanna share on the man?

[Anonymous No.14336936]

>>14334565
Calm down Jordan Peterson

[Anonymous No.14336946]

>>14334541
Agreed. Plus some good translations. Always nice and professional quality. Far as I'm aware people are just hating on them because they're popular

[Anonymous No.14336959]

Recent purchases I got cheap. I want to read all the different viewpoints otherwise I can't argue against them

[Anonymous No.14337427]

>>14336959
how'd you get so many new books for a low price? Black Friday?

[Anonymous No.14337449]

>>14336397
This. Their covers and spines are more durable.

[Anonymous No.14337484]

>>14332433
Yes

[Anonymous No.14338242]

>>14336936
I'm very sorry that you can't enjoy Russian lit because some completely unrelated secondary source has spoken of them.

[Anonymous No.14338254]

>>14336959
based pseud

[Anonymous No.14338257]

>>14324514
I have penguin books printed in the 70's, the spine is intact, the book is, overall, in great condition. Your argument is invalid.

[Anonymous No.14338318]

>>14338257
Curveball: "they don't make 'em like they used to". Have fun trying to pad out that personal library with editions of Penguin that were only bound in or before the 70s. I hope their previous owners cared as much about books as you lol

[Anonymous No.14338335]

not really a stack, more like THE stack. This is my "currently reading" stack. I usually never read more than one book at a time, but got carried away.
Reading the divine comedy in italian for the first time, takes quite a long while to get through each Canto. I use a bi-lingual edition with portuguese and italian (the big green paperback) and the english copy I use to look at Doré's illustrations.
The tunnel, I enjoy it quite a lot but it feels very laborious for me to get through it. Started it a while ago but 200 pages to go I took a long break. Will finish it next.
Bottom two are Prometheus Rising and Schoenberg's Harmony. Black one at the top is Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, enjoying it a lot, most of my energy is going to this one right now.

[Anonymous No.14338374]

>>14338318
I also have penguin copies from the 90's.
These are all from between 94 and 97, except for dubliners, which is from 76. The spine in Poe's Tales and Crime and Punishment is a bit creased, but it makes no difference, the spine in all of them is tight and firm, no pages loose or in danger of falling.

[Anonymous No.14338377]

>>14338374
another shot of dubliners.
Only damage is the natural wear of time. The cover is still beautiful and straight.

[Anonymous No.14338389]

Traded in some books today

[Anonymous No.14338463]

>>14338335
Homosexual post

[Anonymous No.14338527]

>>14338463
why did you say that

[Anonymous No.14338552]

>>14338389
>finnegans wake
literally terry davis reading sequences of randomly generated english words tier except without the divine inspiration

[Anonymous No.14338902]

>>14338374
It's a shame they had to change the cover art. Those old penguins are pretty aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.14338933]

r8

[Anonymous No.14338956]

Im a monogamous boi

[Anonymous No.14339008]

>>14324459

[Anonymous No.14339309]

>>14335080
Eyy

[Anonymous No.14339538]

>>14338902
eh kinda remind me of dover thrift editions i used to read in hs and when i had no money so i can leave them

[Anonymous No.14339549]

>>14325992
I like the intro essays in many of my penguin classics, usually read then reread after the book is done since they are usually written for an audience who knows the material.

But for notes i def prefer oxford, the counte of monte cristo comes to mind, the notes for every little detail are amazing

[Anonymous No.14339737]

>>14325739
>>14336108
$60 bucks, Ebay

[Anonymous No.14340363]

>>14339309
OMG, let's be friends
>No homo

[Anonymous No.14341152]

since this thread shows no sign of pseuds. what y'all think of pic related?

[Anonymous No.14341162]

The Magus-John Fowles
Humboldt's Gift-Bellows
John Keates Complete Poems-Keates
Run, Rabbit-John Updike
Caleb Williams-Godwin

Going to order some Seneca for my birthday since I share the same birthday as Nero.

[Anonymous No.14341232]

>>14332475
>translation from a knowledgeable scholar with a master's grasp on the language
vs
>your inept 'fluency' and ignorance of the topic

Not that you shouldn't learn languages.

[Anonymous No.14341465]

>>14324459
le stack

[Anonymous No.14341473]

>>14341152
V should not be hard tier

[Anonymous No.14341487]

>>14341465
très blyat

[Anonymous No.14341492]

>>14341152

War and Peace and The Magic Mountain aren't difficult either just really long.

[Anonymous No.14341653]

>>14341492
War and Peace has so many characters and stories mingling among themselves. It deserves to be there. Also, the lenght, as you note.