Stack Thread

[Anonymous No.15566600]

Post stax. Rate stax.

[Anonymous No.15566671]

Taking over this thread. Am about halfway through Gargantua and Pantagruel since the last thread. Holy fuck I forgot how funny this was
>But where did you shite?
>In your throat, my lord
>Ha ha, you are a merry fellow!

[Anonymous No.15566713]

>>15566671
Cringed.

[Anonymous No.15566737]

>>15566671
how's hero of our time? Been meaning to pick it up but not sure yet?

[Anonymous No.15566800]

>>15566600
Not a fan of Kissinger, otherwise good stuff
>>15566671
I recall your based stack from other threads, I'm the anon that asked about your Von Goethe. How is the Rabelais so far friend?

[Anonymous No.15566946]

>>15566800
>Epic of Gilgamesh
Very based. I need a newer copy. Is penguin good?

[Anonymous No.15566992]

all my pickups from vacation

[Anonymous No.15567005]

>>15566946
It’s the most complete version that I know of. Oxford is the exact same (I think?) but more notes, but it’s big and expensive. So for a budget penguin is it

[Anonymous No.15567015]

>>15566992

[Anonymous No.15567311]

>>15566800
The first time I read Rabelais I found myself rather frustrated by the third book and Panurge's obsession of the problem of whether or not to marry, fearing he would be made a cuckold. This time however, knowing what I'm in for, I'm finding myself much more favorable to the philosophical musings expounded upon at length throughout. And I have no ill to speak of the first or second book, as I liked them well enough on the first read and having forgotten many of the jokes it is nice to perceive them again with a nearly unadulterated mind.

>>15566737
Not there yet, I always like to read my fatboys before my slimboys. A Hero may be among the latter of the books I take up from this stack.

[Anonymous No.15567411]

>>15566671
The Everyman's Library edition of G&P uses the Urquhart translation, right? What kind of supplementary material does it provide with the text?
I started reading a cheapo reprint edition of the same translation recently, and while Urquhart's writing is incredibly funny in places, in others it's hard to understand. Also, I'm pretty sure my copy has some transcription errors when compared to online versions of the same text.

[Anonymous No.15567430]

Can someone recommend me books about

-globalism and why it’s bad

-another author like Sade

-life under Stalin and the aftermath

Thanks

[Anonymous No.15567457]

>>15566992
>palm tree
>seashell
I didn't even need to look at the stack to know you are a cool person.

[Anonymous No.15567462]

stack threads have always been cringe and are only useful as proof that op will always be a giant faggot.

[Anonymous No.15567479]

>>15567430
>another author like Sade
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Venus in Furs; not because they're necessarily the same, but just so you'll have read both origins of the term sadomasochism. Essential degeneratecore.

[Anonymous No.15567488]

>>15567430
Most of Houllebecq's novels

Bataille

Anything by Solshenytzyn(idk how to spell that nigga's name.

[Anonymous No.15567503]

>>15567479
>>15567488

Thanks you very much guys, I’ll check that out!

[Anonymous No.15567875]

>>15566992
Sex drugs and cocoa puffs is a personal favorite. The others are all good too

[Anonymous No.15567892]

>>15567875
Mao II is very good.

[Anonymous No.15567902]

>>15567892
I hope so. I read White Noise for a college class and fell in love with Delillo's style.

[Anonymous No.15567920]

>>15567411
Urquhart 1-3, Motteux 4 & 5. Everyman's don't print with supplement material normally. Some exception I might call to mind is Dostoyevsky or St. Augustine but I can't recall of any others that I own which do.

Frankly however there is a ton of dispute among translators of Rabelais all more-or-less saying each other doesn't understand Renaissance-era French well enough to render a proper translation, but so I decided to keep with my current issue instead of trying a new one (I was eying up Donald Frame but it's quite expensive) despite Urqhart & Motteux being among the lowest esteemed because, as you mentioned, their rendering is quite funny in its own right.

[Anonymous No.15567926]

>>15566671
I'm halfway throught the count of monte cristo and I am utterly in love; you'll love it anon

[Anonymous No.15567998]

>go to store and collect books with the names of intellectuals
>return home; slam books on the table
>stax thread

[Anonymous No.15568439]

>>15567998
Have you considered reading them?

[Anonymous No.15568477]

>>15566992
When I was 11 there was a secondhand bookstore that had two stories full of books stacked like this. I went there to buy some old trade paperbacks, and the lady who owned the store gave me one more for free.

The next time I went with my friends, and I was one of those kids who was fine on his own, but a total dick when with 'the boys', so we went upstairs, and while they stood watch I turned on the tap in the bathroom an locked the door. Then we both left.

We then heard that the entire first floor (all the shelves, books) were ruined by water damage.

[Anonymous No.15568482]

>>15568477

[Anonymous No.15568596]

what exactly is a stack supposed to be? the books you're currently reading? the books you plan to read? I've been on /lit/ for a while but never gave these threads much thought

[Anonymous No.15568615]

>>15568596
books you're reading or on queue

[Anonymous No.15568865]

>>15568477
You cunt I hope you go to hell unironically.

[Anonymous No.15568868]

In Spanish so

[Anonymous No.15569155]

[Anonymous No.15569165]

>>15568868
basado

[Anonymous No.15569207]

>>15569155
based asf

[Anonymous No.15569326]

They're all in the mail but I want to be judged in the meantime

>Underworld, DeLillo
>White Noise, DeLillo
>The Bell Jar, Plath
>Prozac Nation, Wurtzel
>Stoner, Williams
>Serotonin, Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.15569383]

>>15568868
tengo la misma edición de kokori

[Anonymous No.15569433]

>>15566600
Movies stacks? What you boys watching?

[Anonymous No.15569551]

>>15569433
I been meaning to watch that og Forman movie I heard it’s funny

[Anonymous No.15569583]

>>15569433
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.15569598]

>>15569551
It's one of my favorites, it is very funny but in a czech husky and drunk sort of way. Probably the only comedy I like besides Fawlty Towers
>>15569583
I know fucker, I'm just trying to liven up this thread with something different.

[Anonymous No.15569801]

Stack:
Odyssey
Beckett's trilogy
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Bucolics and Georgics - Virgil
Madame Bovary
El beso de la mujer araña - Puig
Don Quijote
>>15569433
Probably gonna watch Black Orpheus or Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach tomorrow. Also been feeling like rewatching Belle de Jour lately.

[Anonymous No.15569912]

I bought an ancom flag. I'm a revolutionary now.

[Anonymous No.15569933]

>>15569912
>>>/pol/
doesn't have shit to do with literature.

[Anonymous No.15569956]

>>15569933
Here's my stack

[Anonymous No.15570266]

Currently reading More Money Than God, will do War and Peace next