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[Anonymous No.15419866]

halfway through GR, reading phenomenology Really slowly and consuming secondary material as I go along. what am i in for, /lit/? Also yes I let 4chan run my life

[Anonymous No.15419889]

>>15419866
>cringe
>cringe
>cringe
>cringe
>based
>cringe
>based
>cringe
>based
>cringe

[Anonymous No.15419915]

>>15419866
Dostoevsky and that's about it

[Anonymous No.15419916]

>>15419889
prob accurate, the self-help at the top was actually gifted so i have to read it :( looking forward to the rest tho if even for hatereading

[Anonymous No.15419937]

[Anonymous No.15419954]

880 pages into Against the Day
272 into Cider House Rules
Havent touched the others

[Anonymous No.15419989]

>>15419866
>no Guévola

[Anonymous No.15420000]

>>15419866

[Anonymous No.15420006]

I'm reading the three on top. The one without the spine is a bilingual anthology of poems by pessoa

[Anonymous No.15420032]

>>15419866
giving this ted dude a try

[Anonymous No.15420039]

>>15420000
nice quads anon

>based Malkiel
a passing interest in the markets?

[Anonymous No.15420046]

>>15420032
respectable stack, glad to see schools still teach some of these

[Anonymous No.15420050]

>>15420006
por que no lees en ingles?

[Anonymous No.15420055]

>>15420000
I just finished blood meridian and brief interviews. I hope you enjoy them. A lot of brief interviews made me uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.15420070]

>>15420046
yep, we spent a whole month on Dickinson. she got me into poetry

[Anonymous No.15420071]

>>15420050
se me acabaron los libros en inglés, lo último que leí fue A Portrait of the Artist as a young man

[Anonymous No.15420307]

>>15420039
I actually studied econ and try to read pop science/info books regularly
>>15420055
Blood Meridian was OK, I like DFW's writing style but can understand how it would make me uncomfortable.

That's what I like about it though

[Anonymous No.15420436]

>>15419866
I can only afford the library

[Anonymous No.15420466]

>>15420000
Journey and Atomised are such a great double bill of French misanthropy.

[Anonymous No.15420519]

>>15419866
Fanged is a meme and you're retarded for buying it instead of glancing over the PDF. Most of Thinking Fast and Slow is disproven because of the replication crisis. There's two I saved you from

[Anonymous No.15420566]

>>15420519
I know about those pages but I heard from a guy irl who read it that it actually had valuable things to say. Maybe he was making fun of me

[Anonymous No.15420589]

>>15419954
How is against the day? I've heard mixed things

[Anonymous No.15420605]

>>15419866
You got memed you dumb zoomer

[Anonymous No.15420637]

Phenomenology of Spirit is surprisingly based. Shame practically no one understands it.

[Anonymous No.15420646]

>>15420566

You're alright

[Anonymous No.15420678]

>>15420307
have you ever read any of Warren Buffett?

[Anonymous No.15420681]

>>15419866
Among the worst stacks I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.15420705]

Brazil bros where are we at

From bottom to top:
Otto Maria Carpeaux - History of Occidental Literature (Vol. 1/4)*
Stephen Jaeger - The Envy of Angels
Euclid - The Elements
José Lins do Rego - Fogo Morto*
Graciliano Ramos - Barren Lives
Napoleão Mendes de Almeida - Grammatica Latina*
Emilio Mira y Lopez - How To Study and How to Learn*
Fernando Pessoa - Poetic Works
Luís de Camões - The Lusiads (two editions, the one of the bottom being the first volume of two)
*: Without any translated edition to English

[Anonymous No.15420709]

>>15420589
Parts of it are a slog but it has incredible moments to it. The Traverse storyline is like a melancholic, beautiful western, the chums of chance sections are funny as hell. the yashmeen and cyprian stories are the most boring part imo, but that's only a bit of the book. It really makes you work to unpack a lot of it, but it's worth it

[Anonymous No.15420714]

>>15420681
This.
I thought it was one of those bait memestacks people post but it's a unique image kek

[Anonymous No.15420748]

>>15420519
Only one chapter has been affected by the crisis.

[Anonymous No.15420808]

>>15419937
Based The Stack poster

[Anonymous No.15420818]

Installed a new bookshelf

>>15420436
Based Gass

[Anonymous No.15420825]

I've finished Butcher's Crossing, Blood Meridian, and Confederacy. Currently about one third into M&D and finding it surprisingly difficult; I think it's one of those books I won't really properly enjoy until probably the third read. I first read Demons about three years ago as my first foray into Dostoyevsky, but I need to revisit it after now having gone through his major novels in proper order. I may read Monte Cristo next or the Long Ships, but I'm more predisposed to the first.

[Anonymous No.15420855]

What I plan on reading once I finish the human stain

[Anonymous No.15421045]

>>15420818
>The what's happening to my body? Book for girls
If that's exactly what it says on the cover. Based.

[Anonymous No.15421070]

>>15419866
Does the vintage print on GR have all the mistakes the penguin prints do?

[Anonymous No.15421094]

>>15420705
Actually good, nice. One of the first non-cringe stacks I've seen in a long time. Beautiful edition of Vidas Secas, too bad it's so expensive to buy.

[Anonymous No.15421142]

>>15419866

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[Anonymous No.15421278]

>>15421142
Holy based is that orange one L.K. Dutch? One of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.15421368]

>>15421094
Are you non-brazilian? This edition is not expensive at all in here.

[Anonymous No.15421381]

>>15421368
Yeah, I'm American. Eu vi um livro parecido, mais barato, mas da cor diferente, gosto da cor que você tem :( mas o preço é dobrado, fico triste mas tá bom hahah vou comprar o mais barato acho

Sorry if my Portuguese sucks, I've barely been learning for like three months

[Anonymous No.15421401]

>>15421236
based introductory Jung reader

[Anonymous No.15421491]

>>15421381
Oh shit, that's fucking cool. A capa é bonita mas é bem desconfortável. Não sei que material usaram na capa, meio emborrachado. Parece-me que a melhor edição é a da Record, nos anos 80. Tenho essa, só que do São Bernardo.

Congratulations for learning it for 3 months and coming up with no mistakes at all. Keep it up. Do you have any experience with romance language?

[Anonymous No.15421508]

>>15421491
>A capa é bonita mas é bem desconfortável.
HAHA assim é um livro que tenho de Machado de Assis, é muito rijo
>Tenho essa, só que do São Bernardo.
É muito bonito esse livro, espero que não se desfaça algum dia, dado que é tão velho kkk

Hey thanks! And yeah, I know a bit of Spanish too, which helps with vocabulary but also hurts my accent haha I don't know how to speak Portuguese really, there are too many accents and I'm not sure which one to focus on, so my accent is really bad

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[Anonymous No.15421556]

>>15421508
I'm from the north of Brazil (specifically Manaus), our accent is the least different of them all, and it is somewhat similar to the accent of Rio de Janeiro (weirdly enough, being so distant from one another).
There are basically six accents: norte, nordeste, mineiro (center-west? I don't think that's correct), paulista (São Paulo), carioca (Rio de Janeiro) and sulista (south). Norte sounds ok, nordeste sounds cool (cabra macho), mineiro sounds bad, carioca is the coolest one, paulista is bad and sulista is gay as fuck. Since you're an english speaker, the paulista accent will be easier, specially the consonants like r. Nordeste will the most difficult to learn, but it's the 'most brazilian' of them all.

[Anonymous No.15421621]

>>15421556
>Since you're an english speaker, the paulista accent will be easier, specially the consonants like r
It's actually funny you should say this because I always thought people from SP sounded like Americans speaking Portuguese lmao it's a very Germanic sound. I don't really have trouble with Rs but I sometimes imitate people from SP out of laziness and also because it sounds so silly haha

So the cool ones are nordeste and carioca, I'm going to try to aim for these ones. Maybe I should just start imitating Tim Maia ahahaha

[Anonymous No.15421652]

>>15421621
Unfortunately I don't have any carioca or nordestino in my to imitate. That's actually a pretty cool thing to think about. I aim to teach portuguese and other languages like latin around the world, and someone to sound to other than the teacher is a good point.

Actually, I just remembered this movie with Manuel Bandeira declaiming his poetry. He's nordestino, but sounds carioca. And he's one of our best poets of the last century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWHzVBs394&

[Anonymous No.15421778]

>>15421652
I think you'd be a good teacher, pretty sure you're the same anon working to promote lusophone literature on this board, right? I decided to learn Portuguese to read Pessoa, now I'm reading a book by Machado de Assis, and I plan on continuing exploring more works from the Lusophone world. Portuguese is probably the most underestimated major romance language in my opinion.

That clip sounds really nice, I don't think I've heard anyone speak like that before, sounds more French and old school

[Anonymous No.15421840]

>>15421778
I'm not the OP of the torrent post, but I tried to talk about Pessoa a few weeks ago and got like 3 replies.

I study latin, greek, chinese, german and french. Portuguese is definitely the most beautiful sounding language among these. And both portuguese and brazilian literature are really reach, specially the portuguese, that not only has Camões, Pessoa and Eça, it has a lot of rich scholastic philosophy, unfortunately very obscure to non-researches in the field of iberic philosophy.

No one talks exactly like that anymore. Brazilian portuguese has been declining for some time now, alongside the inteligence of brazilians (no joke, the average IQ is declining).

Thank you for the kind words, dude.

[Anonymous No.15421890]

>>15421142
Cringe positioning of that one unstackably narrow orange book. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.15421949]

>>15421890
actually the book above it is just on an angle, which is pretty obvious if you have eyes

[Anonymous No.15421957]

>>15419889
Kahneman is good

[Anonymous No.15422394]

>>15420032
Good stack. Hunger is fucking me up. Realest thing I've read in awhile.

[Anonymous No.15424020]

>>15420678
I've got snowball but I think he uses a different writer. I also have one of his favorite books: the intelligent investor. In my younger years I also got Soros's book.

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[Anonymous No.15424049]

>>15424037
Holy cringe

[Anonymous No.15424059]

>>15421070
>>15419866 (OP)
>Does the vintage print on GR have all the mistakes the penguin prints do?
Does anyone know?

[Anonymous No.15424095]

>>15424037
>>15424049
I know it's a meme pic but it's actually not bad. Take out Levitin, Manson and Yiannopoulos and they're at the very least relevant.

[Anonymous No.15424101]

>>15419866
>>15419954
>>15420000
>>15420006
>>15420032
>>15420436
>>15420705
>>15420818
>>15420825
>>15420855
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>>15421519
>>15424037
Consider getting an e-reader.

[Anonymous No.15424130]

Does anyone have a PDF of Systema Naturae ( by Caroli Linnaei, not the rewritings) in portuguese? I've been looking for one for years and it never ocurred to me to ask here.

[Anonymous No.15424174]

>>15424101
Consider killing yourself you faggot bugman.
No great author would ever read on a bugman electric screen.
Pure cringe.

[Anonymous No.15424179]

>>15424101
I get a headache trying to dead for extended periods of time off a screen

[Anonymous No.15424230]

>>15424174
Count yourself lucky then, that you are not one of the great authors and can read and use bugman electric screen without any difficulty.

[Anonymous No.15424246]

>>15424179
Are you talking about e-ink display or regular lcd?

[Anonymous No.15424276]

>>15424101
Now is a bad time to buy an ereader. The ones with color eink screens are about to drop, so right after that the black and white ones will become really cheap because they can't compete.

>>15424059
I have that vintage classics copy in the op and it has none of the known typos.

[Anonymous No.15424292]

>>15424101
Consider not shilling an inferior method of reading.

[Anonymous No.15424304]

>>15424101
why are ereader fags so insecure

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[Anonymous No.15424488]

>>15424480
See>>15424101

[Anonymous No.15424495]

>>15424488
No

[Anonymous No.15424764]

>>15421840
>I'm not the OP of the torrent post,
Oh, I know that, that's black hand poster. But I know there was one guy awhile back who posted a list of Brazilian literature and a lot of it was super good, and he seemed to know his stuff about that country's literature and mentioned trying to spread Lusophone literature on /lit/ more, wasn't sure if he was you but it's cool that more people are giving Brazil/Portugal their literary due, because they've been ignored or buried behind Spanish language lit and French too
>it has a lot of rich scholastic philosophy, unfortunately very obscure to non-researches in the field of iberic philosophy.
Can you give me some examples? I'm curious
>Brazilian portuguese has been declining for some time now, alongside the inteligence of brazilians (no joke, the average IQ is declining).
Same phenomenon in the US; I think mostly because Brazilians/Americans used to sort of maintain a close connection to their European counterparts and that connection is just fading. In the US, AAVE has become the main influence on English, it's getting to the point where you can't really find people who don't speak a European-oriented English apart from people who talk for a living like news hosts, some actors, academics, etc. And old people of course

[Anonymous No.15424781]

>>15424020
check out his "lessons for corporate america" which is a collection of his writings (mostly Berkshire's shareholder letters) arranged thematically by Lawrence Cunningham, it's one of the closest attempts at sublime financial writing i've seen, no foolin'

[Anonymous No.15424796]

>>15424480
i admire your international selections

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[Anonymous No.15426493]

>>15425927
>female XLR
based i guess

[Anonymous No.15426606]

>>15421519
Buy a failing publishing firm so you can launder money through it and print books you want to read. It's win-win.

[Anonymous No.15426668]

>>15419954
Less Than Zero is alright but definitely the work of an immature writer. Better than anything I could write at that age though if I’m being honest with myself.

[Anonymous No.15426859]

I'm having a hard time explaining to other people what Crying Lot of 49 is about.