/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14504776]

Stack Thread, post em.

[Anonymous No.14504782]

>>14504776
what a massive waste

[Anonymous No.14504785]

>>14504776
I'm better than you and it's because of what I read.

To the anon that asked last thread: I'm 31 and I spend $150 on books per month.

Also missing blood meridian.

[Anonymous No.14504790]

>>14504785
>I'm better than you and it's because of what I read.

[Anonymous No.14504889]

>>14504790
Pretty baller right? Feel free to tell me how much you wish you were me.

[Anonymous No.14504890]

>>14504785
is that hardcopy of Industrial Society and its Future any good? I was gonna pick one up but I dont really like the cover

Does anyone know if there are print versions with pic related as cover, or at least something without "The Manifesto" or "The Unabomber" on the cover?

[Anonymous No.14504893]

>>14504776
Spangler is the only thing worth reading in that stack. Seriously do some soul searching and find better books.
>>14504785
basic but decent

[Anonymous No.14504897]

>>14504893
also I'm cleaning my room rn so don't comment about that

[Anonymous No.14504908]

>>14504893
what edition of the social contract is that

[Anonymous No.14504914]

>>14504890
The quality is OK but I don't like the plastic softcover. The print is good and the size is decent. I read it on the train and no one's given me side eye or bullshit yet and I'm actually like- done with it.
>>14504893
OK but hermit-pilled
>>14504897
Clean your room faggot.

[Anonymous No.14504925]

>>14504908
modern library
>>14504914
thanks

[Anonymous No.14504928]

>>14504908
>>14504925
wait nvm sorry its Everyman Library

[Anonymous No.14504943]

>>14504889
Your 31 act your age boomer

[Anonymous No.14504964]

>>14504943
Kill yourself you little nigger

[Anonymous No.14505043]

I'm a /lit/ newfag, but I'm gonna assume this is shit you're reading right now.
>Fuck you Gary Larson and Shel Silverstein are fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.14505074]

>>14505043
So....

You just read kid's books now huh

[Anonymous No.14505090]

>>14505074
nah, I'm just honest about what I've picked up over the last few weeks. Cleaned out a lot of old shit and found a bunch of books I had buried, among it some pretty funny boomer shit, and some of the best goddamn feel good poems ever fucking written. If you can't appreciate Shel Silverstein you've died a little bit inside.

[Anonymous No.14505103]

>>14505090
You're probably right about that one my guy

[Anonymous No.14505119]

>>14505103

[Anonymous No.14505258]

>>14505119
How did you find a picture of me, you jewish?

[Anonymous No.14505308]

>>14504776
>all that political shit

[Anonymous No.14505318]

>>14505258
Ve have our veys, ja?
Not oy veys

[Anonymous No.14505328]

>>14505318

[Anonymous No.14505354]

>>14504893
is the mark van doren piece any good? i like some of his poetry and didnt know he wrote this

[Anonymous No.14505412]

>>14505308
Politics rules your life regardless if you like it or not or admit to it. Its there.

[Anonymous No.14505417]

>>14505308
Some people really have no personality outside of their opinions. I really wish I could find a way to tell them that no one cares but they've put so much effort into it that they're incapable of seeing any other way.

[Anonymous No.14505425]

>>14505412
if something goes down, i can pick a side, i dont need a million books to turn me into something im not

[Anonymous No.14505433]

>>14505412
seeking external answers to your life's problems
oh wait do you live in Syria? I dont think so.

[Anonymous No.14505437]

>>14505354
its probably the most passionate book about Shakesphere you'll ever read. If you like literary criticism then I would recommend it for sure

[Anonymous No.14505466]

>>14505425
>just pick a side
heh

[Anonymous No.14505565]

>>14504776
>bell curve
>culture of critique
>the decline of the west
>race and culture

[Anonymous No.14505989]

Yeah

[Anonymous No.14506004]

>>14505565
>race and culture
not even a /pol/ book, it's a great book for understanding different ethnicities and what makes a culture a culture, as well as the effects of values etc on a group's outcomes.
t. cuckservative

[Anonymous No.14506047]

i wish i could afford books but im homeless and unemployed. i guess i could move back in with my mother and sleep in a corner. she's a hoarder and her house is knee deep with .... objects.

[Anonymous No.14506069]

>>14504776
I sincerely hope you didn't actually buy all those books. Also, Frank Dikötter guy is CIA without a doubt.

[Anonymous No.14506088]

>The Bell Curve
You are subhuman

[Anonymous No.14506097]

>>14506088
says the sub human

[Anonymous No.14506316]

Very based OP. The leftoids claiming those book are shit have most definitely not read them. I can also recommend you Kevin McDonald's new book about the West.

[Anonymous No.14506324]

Great troll.

[Anonymous No.14506325]

I just started Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.14506329]

>>14504776

[Anonymous No.14506337]

>>14505989
How's that Pelevin? I liked Omon Ra

[Anonymous No.14506384]

>>14506325
>read that title as N I G G E R S

[Anonymous No.14506385]

What happened to the other thread? Either way I will probably read the map & territory after this stack so I’m completely finished with Houellebecq.

[Anonymous No.14506408]

>>14504893
That arcade project edition is god tier. Great text as well

[Anonymous No.14506637]

>>14505565
Spengler is cool

[Anonymous No.14506658]

Embarrassed myself posting this last time.

[Anonymous No.14507207]

>>14506658
Solid selection man, just make sure to read it.

[Anonymous No.14507266]

>>14504776
>how the west won
The west lost and you know it. You have lost, it's over. It's either the turn of the Chinese or the Muslims now, time will tell.

[Anonymous No.14507278]

>>14506658
You did it anon!

[Anonymous No.14507335]

>>14506329
Pretty based, anon.

[Anonymous No.14507724]

[Anonymous No.14507734]

>>14507266
>thinking that just because whites were socially whipped to accept mudslimes into their countries they will just sit and do nothing once the war starts

[Anonymous No.14507743]

>>14506325
Your mom just started My Dick

[Anonymous No.14507764]

>>14507734
no one is more apathetic than modern whites. americans have been saying this shit about how they will rise up if rights are violated, but the governments called their bluff. you will do nothing.

[Anonymous No.14508244]

>>14507734
You will do nothing. Your nations and peoples have been declawed and you sat there watching. Times are changing, I dont say this because of ill-will but such is the nature of life. Allahu akbar.

[Anonymous No.14508250]

[Anonymous No.14508278]

>>14506047
Have you tried getting a job?

[Anonymous No.14508780]

Got this one for free at the School buffet.
I'm always looking to develop my English further.

[Anonymous No.14508828]

>>14506325
Enjoy Shogun. I love Clavell's Asian saga books.
>>14508780
Prepare to be extremely underwhelmed.

[Anonymous No.14508965]

>>14505989
>yokai watch
patrician

[Anonymous No.14508975]

>>14508244
Keep dreaming shitskin

[Anonymous No.14509195]

>>14504776
read some fiction dork

[Anonymous No.14509734]

Ñfag

>>14504776
Hmmmm

[Anonymous No.14509887]

[Anonymous No.14509893]

>>14506337
Is on my to read list bro lol

[Anonymous No.14509952]

>>14509887
>*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.14510024]

>>14504776
you seem basedd

[Anonymous No.14510060]

Read the top, bout a hundred pages left of the bottom. Four of these are rereads actually, now that I think about it. Only the Tolstoy is new to me.

[Anonymous No.14510609]

>>14509887

[Anonymous No.14510676]

>>14509734
pretty hardcore stack senpai
Deleuze alone would keep me busy for half a year

[Anonymous No.14510801]

>anything over than a stack of ebooks

[Anonymous No.14510840]

i love threads like this where people post the books they don't intend to read

[Anonymous No.14510863]

>>14510840
I assure you I intend to read 91% of the stack I posted

[Anonymous No.14511113]

>>14510840
I am a nufag here in /lit/. Is it normal here for people to buy books and not read them?

[Anonymous No.14511215]

>>14504897
>also I'm cleaning my room rn
Then the philosopher J. B. Peterson should be on your stack.

[Anonymous No.14511360]

>>14511113
It's probably normal, the sheer volume of purchase and the relatively slow pace of reading means that most will end up reading only a few books they've purchased.
I'm pretty much stuck in a cycle where I read a book a week but might end up buying 3-4 books the same time if they catch my eye.
Naturally this means my stake of 'to be read' grows far too quickly.
The only way for me to get caught up is to read more quickly and institute a ban on purchases.

[Anonymous No.14511400]

>>14509887
pretty weak anarchy shit. having bookchin and no kropotkin/bakunin/goldman/berkman/malatesta is pretty bad

[Anonymous No.14511408]

Here's my stack

[Anonymous No.14511415]

>>14508250
How is the Case for Christ? Currently on my reading list.

[Anonymous No.14511423]

>>14508250
Same question as >>14511415 but for the bottom two Jewish books.

[Anonymous No.14511471]

>>14511400
AK was having a fifty-percent-off sale anon, but here's the have read stack since you inquired xP

[Anonymous No.14511516]

>>14511400
That's an lgbt nu-anarchism. The old anarchists are probably all problematic now. Coz they were mostly white men that wouldn't have liked smartphones.

[Anonymous No.14511526]

I haven't been posting on /lit/ very long. Are stack threads recent buys? Recent reads? Or stuff you're about to try to get through? Help me out here fellas.

[Anonymous No.14511625]

>>14511415
Only halfway through but pretty good so far. He's very biased towards Christianity and so he suggests some things that aren't really backed up by research but it's pretty interesting and makes some good points.

[Anonymous No.14511636]

Are stack threads supposed to be books you've finished recently or your reading list?

[Anonymous No.14511640]

>>14511636
>>14511526
Reading list

[Anonymous No.14511641]

>>14511625
The bias is unfortunate, but also somewhat expected. Will keep an eye out for it as I read through it. Thanks for the reply, friend.

[Anonymous No.14511651]

>>14511641
Be sure to double check a lot of what he and the people he interviews said. A lot of it is pretty accurate but there's some parts that are very obviously wishful thinking.

[Anonymous No.14511669]

>>14504776

[Anonymous No.14511753]

>>14511640
Thank you sir.
In that case I just finished the 47 Ronin Story, kinda trash but the ending redeemed it.
I've nearly finished Confessions of a Yakuza, very interesting.
I'm in a weebish mood so the rest of my list is mostly Japanese stuff including finishing The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea which I got nearly halfway through last year.
I fell out of reading for pleasure a few years back so my goal is 50+ books this year to work out those brain muscles again.

[Anonymous No.14511867]

>>14511113
That happens to be the case for everyone who has books.

[Anonymous No.14511869]

>>14506325
Wi-five for Aeschylus!

[Anonymous No.14511884]

>>14505989
I love Philip K Dick, is the Exegesis worth reading? Kinda worried its just hundreds of pages of insane ramblings

[Anonymous No.14511937]

>>14509887
I'm going to assume this is a joke because I see Captive genders in there, truly the stereotype can't be this common.

[Anonymous No.14511948]

>>14511400
Bookchin is the only respectable libsoc

[Anonymous No.14511953]

>>14511471
Do you have any books that will tell you how an anarchist society will survive when the rest of the world is imperialistic states with jets with bombs and big armies?

[Anonymous No.14512031]

>>14511953
They would do it by investing in their own capacity to fuck imperialistic states shit up. Sometimes a situation requires violence, why would anyone need to write/read an anarchist oriented book on that?

[Anonymous No.14512033]

>>14506069
Dikotter is right regardless if he is CIA or not.

[Anonymous No.14512040]

>>14505565
Race and Culture is based. Sowell in general is very based.

[Anonymous No.14512083]

thots?

[Anonymous No.14512104]

>>14512083
the plauge is great if you havnt gotten into that one yet, its also a pretty quick read

[Anonymous No.14512113]

>>14512104
halfway through it now. love how he goes into detail how each city/region was infected and how they specifically dealt with it/were affected by it. very cool.

[Anonymous No.14512116]

>>14512031
God I want to fuck this moth

[Anonymous No.14512138]

>>14512031
So how do you expect to build a country wide army with people who have control of missiles and arms without it becoming a state? Does the entire country vote on whether or not to use a missile each time they decide to shoot one. Seems kinda inefficient or are you gonna suggest the people are going to delegate a single person or group that has a monopoly on violence (not a state ;) )

[Anonymous No.14512145]

>>14509734
>l'etranger en espanol

[Anonymous No.14512151]

>>14512138
Look if you want to fight about this we can, make a relevant thread and I'll go to it, but I refuse to shit this one up with this anymore.

[Anonymous No.14512153]

>>14504776

[Anonymous No.14512154]

>>14512083
fuck man remined me my faggy ass sister lost my copy of the plague fucking need to go get a new one now

[Anonymous No.14512160]

>>14512151
>>>/pol/239202489

[Anonymous No.14512164]

>>14506658
How did you embarrass yourself, friend? These are all respectable decent selections. Perhaps you are too hard on yourself!

[Anonymous No.14512361]

>>14511953
In a round about way I guess there's books on the external violence that helped undo Anarchist Catalonia, the Ukraine Free Territory, the Shin Min autonomous region and what's currently happening in Rojave. I guess you could learn from past examples of what you're talking about but no, I don't think left anarchists have ever addressed the problem of having no authoritative hierarchy in their paramilitaries while facing large clusters of very diverse enemies (fascists, Bolsheviks, western democracies, theocrats and terrorists) who all agree on one thing, they don't like left anarchism and don't want it to succeed.

[Anonymous No.14512390]

>>14512153

[Anonymous No.14513038]

>>14512164
I had trouble orientating it right.