Post stacks, let's see what you guys are currently reading

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Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:14:40 2020 No.16463217 [Reply] [Original]

Post stacks, let's see what you guys are currently reading

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:23:22 2020 No.16463260 File: 2.76 MB, 3024x3024, 68092444-50E3-4982-A9E7-8834F17F735E.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 >Lolita: Penguin Essentials Nice. I’ve been looking for a good edition of Lolita that doesn’t have an overly suggestive cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:27:27 2020 No.16463279 >>16463217 >libgen gang No stacks Currently reading Plato

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:39:12 2020 No.16463360

>>16463279
How do you like to read it my lord?
I've found that staring at computer screens may yet be of some disservice to our tired eyes when years and heaps of abuse should come to collect on those sad won cataracts.
Perhaps my fears are unfounded, or perhaps you have found some greater alternative, wholesale printing not withstanding.
I should admit to you kind sir I use Calibre on a laptop there do I read many great works for free but still my mind, and especially mine eyes, do yearn for the soft specter of paper in the flesh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:40:44 2020 No.16463370 >>16463360 hehehoho i use the funny language

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:43:50 2020 No.16463386

>>16463370
I beg your pardon?
>Look you not on this ungentle ethiop sir, he's mad, and unlearned. A savage biped of a bygone age. I prithee sir pay him no mind.
To think, seven passages through the gates of Heracles and now in my eleventh hour to come even as I am now dressed before such unrepentant anarchy as we should find here. Farewell foul creature, the Devil take your soul and havoc be thy creed.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:46:58 2020 No.16463401

>>16463217
>Maimonides
>Lolita
Well that’s.. fitting...
Maimonides has some egregious quote in some religious commentary that says it’s not a sin for a Jew to have sex with a non-Jew as young as 6 years old because the non-Jew is not a human. Can’t believe people still read the guy (unless you’re Jewish, but still)

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:50:14 2020 No.16463417

>>16463401
Or it might be this that I’m thinking of:
>Thus did Maimonides rule (Laws of Forbidden Intercourse 1:13-14): One who has sexual relations with a girl younger than three is exempt from punishment, even if he did so with his own daughter, and one who has sexual relations with a boy of under nine is exempt from punishment, even if she did so with her own son

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>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 10:53:43 2020 No.16463432 File: 630 KB, 590x426, 877734.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's me digital stack.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:00:36 2020 No.16463460 File: 1.95 MB, 4032x3024, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 My current stack. This bible edition is incredibly comfy and has some really in-depth theological and literary commentary.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:06:19 2020 No.16463482 >>16463260 Everyman's Library has an edition of Lolita

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>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 11:10:36 2020 No.16463512 >>16463460 Is Evola good at all? I've heard pretty mixed takes on him. I'd like to read some fashy lit but idk where to start. I already have almost everything he's written but I haven't cracked them open yet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:13:25 2020 No.16463520 >>16463423 How are you liking Greg Egan's stuff? I've been wanting to read some hard sci-fi and I've heard his name being tossed around a lot

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:14:49 2020 No.16463533
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>>16463512

Evola's an interesting guy. Personally, I'd start with his autobiography (The Path of Cinnabar: An Intellectual Autobiography). What better way to learn about the man and the turbulent times he lived in?

Here's a random page to give you an idea about what it's like.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:15:18 2020 No.16463537

>>16463460
>ESV
glad to see you approve, as that's the version I'm intent on acquiring.
What is your interest in Hermeticism, though? I've yet to give Evola's 'The Hermetic Tradition' a second read, and would prefer to have a much broader knowledge base before I return to his works to appraise them.

>>16463512
If you're looking for "fashy lit", you're really not going to find it in Evola. Calling Evola "fascist" is what the far left do without reading him, and what the far right do without understanding him, and is based solely on the historical happenstance that he had hoped to be able to sway Mussolini on some key issues prior to the war.
More generally, I would advise you read with a mind to inform, rather than merely reaffirm your worldview.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:18:23 2020 No.16463548 >>16463520 They say Nick Land likes him...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:19:25 2020 No.16463555 File: 117 KB, 1431x507, greg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463548 Forgot my picture...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:20:27 2020 No.16463558 >>16463520 I hear it's really good. Haven't had a chance to start reading it yet.

𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 11:22:18 2020 No.16463571

>>16463533
Ty I'll look into that.
>>16463537
>I would advise you read with a mind to inform, rather than merely reaffirm your worldview.
I always try to go into political literature with this mindset. My personal views are kind of hazy and only vaguely fash, so this shouldn't be an issue. Later on if I wanted to read some "actual" faslit, do you know of any introductory must-reads?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:24:55 2020 No.16463587 >>16463545 >Blood Meridian I just snatched the last copy the seller had online. How many pages does that edition have? I'm pretty sure that's the same one I ordered

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:26:14 2020 No.16463597 >>16463587 351

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:28:34 2020 No.16463609 >>16463597 Huh, that's only like, 50 pages more than No Country For Old Men, which I thought was really short to begin with. For some reason I thought Blood Meridian was much longer.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:31:46 2020 No.16463636

>>16463571
I'm probably not the best one to ask for fashy lit recommendations. I haven't read with a political focus in years. Besides, what exactly are you after when you refer to fashy lit? Dry political theory in the context of the early 20th century? More recent works detailing, for lack of a better word, "post-fascist" ideas in the alt-right, neoreactionary movement and nouvelle droit?
What interests you about fascism? Nationalism? Statism? Ethnocentrism (which was more proper to national socialism than to fascism proper)?

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:32:05 2020 No.16463639

>>16463537
Not sure how my pic got rotated. Yeah I'd say the debate is between the ESV, KJV, and NKJV for the most part. Catholics prefer the Latin translation set, and it kind of depends on what denomination you are (if any) but you can't go wrong with ESV. It's the translation of choice for (e.g.) Baptists and Reformed groups, while the KJV is more Anglican. But there's a strong case for the ESV being more true to the original texts than the KJV set, because even the NKJV is working off of the limited materials the KJV writers had (although on literary merit alone these are top tier). I'm not really a Christian but I like the Protestant translations and commentary because I love Kierkegaard and the whole Pietist tradition to which he somewhat belonged. If you're going through the bible on your own, there's a sense in which your personal interpretation is Protestant in nature, and Protestant writers tend to give you free reign to do so. Pietists especially believe in the complete supremacy of one's own "relationship" to God, outside of any religious community and doctrine. I also was interested in Reformation history for a while and loved the story of the Calvinist reformers. That's why I like ESV and especially this edition.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:32:58 2020 No.16463643

>>16463609
For some reason for awhile I thought Blood meridian was around 700 pages. Don't know how I got that notion into my head. I had the same thing happen with Pale Fire, could have sworn that book was like 700 pages too until I got my hands on a copy.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:34:57 2020 No.16463662
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>Blood Meridian

>Like all his previous work, Blood Meridian did not sell well. Blood Meridian had an initial run of five thousand copies of which only 1,478 were sold. The unsold copies were pulped.

Makes you think

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:40:03 2020 No.16463686 File: 1.67 MB, 4160x3120, 20200928_123759.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 Not currently reading the Metaphysics, just using it as reference for the Posterior Analytics

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:40:05 2020 No.16463687
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>>16463662
fucking hell

>https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blood-Meridian-by-Cormac-McCarthy-1st-Edition-First-Printing-NF-NF/383633147518?hash=item595251467e:g:NiAAAOSw-uVfDln9

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:41:52 2020 No.16463695

>>16463512
>>16463537
And by the way I don't have any opinions on Evola yet, this is the first work of his I'm getting through. Hermeticism is also kind of a nebulous term but it's basically an extension of my broader interest in religion and occultism

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𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 11:51:01 2020 No.16463758
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>>16463636
>What interests you about fascism?
My complete lack of faith in democracy. Back when I was ~16 I volunteered to work at a voting station during the 2015 Canadian federal election. The absolute state of some of the people who would be deciding the fate of my country was profoundly disheartening. I had several (adult) voters ask me (a retarded 16 year old) why they couldn't find Justin Trudeau's name on the ballot. For non-leafs, we don't directly vote for our head of government like Americans do but instead vote for individual local MPs. The fact that these people didn't even understand the basic mechanisms of our democracy made me incredibly angry. I KNEW that they were making their decision based on what each candidate promised them on CBC interviews. I realized that votes coming from these lazy, low-iq fools counted the same as votes from highly-informed voters, PhDs, people with a REAL stake in the country, etc. I stewed on this for a while and came to the conclusion that universal suffrage was a mistake and that democracy was incredibly easy to manipulate and subvert because the average voter is swine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:56:24 2020 No.16463787 >>16463758 >highly-informed voters, PhDs, people with a REAL stake you mean leftists that have "educated" themselves into retardation and ideology?

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:57:46 2020 No.16463795
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what I picked up the past week. I'm reading the Bellow I checked out from the library just for Mr. Sammler's Planet which is fantastic, so I might read Humboldt's Gift too.

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>>	Lon𝖊 Int𝖊ll𝖊ctu𝖆l !xVZee/J6YQ Mon Sep 28 12:06:25 2020 No.16463856 >>16463217 I don't need to post my stack to feel intelligent. In fact I'm laughing at all the pseuds here posting their stacks, things they're likely not even reading and have just scrambled together to look smart.

𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 12:07:49 2020 No.16463863

>>16463787
Maybe, but I meant people who actually had some inkling as to what was going on politically. As I see it, the overarching issue goes something like this:
>Leftists promise gibs and make feel-good statements about "love and acceptance"
>Lazy, uneducated voters see these promises on TV or Faceberg or wherever
>Don't care about consequences, just want gibs and to stick it to the evil racist r*ghtoids who talk about Euro-Canadian values and intercultural incompatibility
I feel like the average voter is ill-equip to make political decisions precisely because they don't care about politics and toss their vote at whoever promises to give them the most free shit. I think that if we're going to go with democracy, there should be some standards for who can vote. LITERAL retards are currently able to cast a vote that counts the exact same as anyone else. That's an issue.

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 12:08:19 2020 No.16463865 >>16463856 Faggot.

>>	Lon𝖊 Int𝖊ll𝖊ctu𝖆l !xVZee/J6YQ Mon Sep 28 12:09:43 2020 No.16463874 >>16463865 You are not intelligent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:10:12 2020 No.16463879 >>16463856 >>16463863 nu-trips leave

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:11:43 2020 No.16463884 >>16463217 HOLY FUCKING BASED

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:12:16 2020 No.16463888 >>16463856 Here's your (You)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:15:49 2020 No.16463903 >>16463217 Reading Pharma by Gerald Posner

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:18:51 2020 No.16463918

>>16463639
>it kind of depends on what denomination you are (if any) but you can't go wrong with ESV
I've been sitting in on some Eastern Orthodox introductory conferences, and they recommended ESV, RSV and NRSV for English monolinguists. There were a couple of caveats with the RSV and NRSV that put me off those, hence why I'm mainly interested in the ESV.

>>16463758
I have generally lost faith in humanity's ability to remedy our political situation by human means, so I don't see the point in a lot of the fringe and reactionary (or indeed progressive) solutions being proposed. We may disagree with the democratic process, but it's unproductive escapism to wish for a return to theocracy or absolute monarchy. It cannot realistically be implemented and so I switched my focus from the worldly to the divine.

𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 12:22:05 2020 No.16463934
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>>16463879
Not that new and you'll learn to love me.
>>16463918
>it's unproductive escapism to wish for a return to theocracy or absolute monarchy
You're absolutely right, which is why I've slowly been taking the greenpill. All I can do is live an inexpensive low-consumption life and prepare for the worst. I don't think the HABBENING is coming too soon, but I'll be ready when it does.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:29:13 2020 No.16463981 >>16463686 based neofolk aristotelean

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:41:07 2020 No.16464046

>>16463217
Adamson is a prof at my uni, and the most insufferable. Hes one of two specialists on ancient philosophy and he has the esoteric field of islamic world philosophy as well, which one might find an interesting view point, but holy fuck he is such a fucking american academia faggot.
During an opening lecture to first year students he asked the students to guess where he is from. He has olive tone skin, black hair so students guessed MENA countries (where he ethnically is from!) but said "no" to all and then revealed:
>Boston
right after he asked the students to guess the most important midieval philosopher and win 2€. So the students went through all the typical names (mostly from the christian chruch) and he always shook his head. After a while when no one responded he said:
>Any female philosopher would have been the correct answer

He is also the only prof (prof not simple lecturer) who brings race/sex(and gender) into his seminars.

He is the ONLY american we have here but he is such a fucking pretentious self-righteous faggot it is baffeling. Plus the contrast between him and the actually acclaimed professors we have makes his appearances not jsut cringe but laughable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:45:51 2020 No.16464077 >>16464046 A lot of those 'very short introductions' are written by annoying people. (Julia Annas with the Plato introduction for example) It's like they went with scholars good at drawing attention to themselves. They all have giant heads.

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>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 12:49:51 2020 No.16464100 >>16464086 Come now, do you really read ten books a time?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:57:36 2020 No.16464133 File: 189 KB, 757x839, book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464100 I'm reading ten books right now. Is something wrong with me?

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 13:09:43 2020 No.16464208 >>16464133 How could you possibly follow and consistently read 10 books at once? I never read more than 3 at a time. Am I a brainlet??

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:13:34 2020 No.16464230 File: 483 KB, 1080x691, Screenshot_20200928-131050_Gallery.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Currently reading Bergson's Matter and Memory. Stack is of recommendations a friend asked for last week.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:14:25 2020 No.16464238 >>16463217 >>16463260 >>16463423 >>16463432 >>16463460 >>16463502 >>16463545 >>16463686 >>16463745 >>16463795 >>16463813 >>16464086 >>16464133 Pseuds

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:15:42 2020 No.16464250 >>16463217 I'm reading Tom Jones at home and Ellul's Propaganda at work.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:15:56 2020 No.16464252 >>16464133 To be honest, I probably focus on four or five at a time. The rest are non-fiction on the backburner. So we're probably not that far apart in terms of reading habits.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:16:58 2020 No.16464260 >>16464230 >>16464230 The more I hear about Bergson, the more I want to read him. Sounds like a very interesting philosopher.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:19:04 2020 No.16464265 >>16464238 >literally reading a cormac mccarthy book, moby dick, and a book about the civil war >pseud what

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:20:01 2020 No.16464270

>>16463512
I read Evola a few years ago when I had a phase but thinking about it now he is basically a cross between Nietzsche, Guenon, and tradcath twitter. So I would read Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morality first, then the Crisis of the Modern World, and Reign of Quantity, then whatever Evola you think you want. Also his stuff on Buddhism and Tantrism is top rate and good for getting a non-hippy Californian perspective on Indian religions, which so many people seem to have out of sheer ignorance or vapid orientalism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:23:50 2020 No.16464287 >>16464260 I find all the writers who influenced Deleuze to be easier to parse and more convincing than he is: Bergson, Nietzsche, Bataille, Uexküll, Saussure...

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 13:26:08 2020 No.16464296 >>16464270 I think I'll do some foundational reading before delving into Evola. I've got all that Nietzsche so I'll start there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:27:17 2020 No.16464300 >>16463217 i fucking love maimonides

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:33:50 2020 No.16464342 >>16464046 what uni?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:45:27 2020 No.16464419 >>16464086 ok, which kundera is your favorite?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:46:38 2020 No.16464425 File: 3.31 MB, 4160x3120, 20200928_112149.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 Not reading but enjoying.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:49:30 2020 No.16464444 >>16463686 Why arent you reading Aristotle in ancient Greek?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:50:13 2020 No.16464447 >>16464342 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, apparently

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:51:18 2020 No.16464459 >>16464046 did he named any female medieval philosopher? was there any female medieval philosopher?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:18:37 2020 No.16464619 >>16463758 So the solution is fascism instead of say, properly fund and overhaul education so voters can be informed? Alright.

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>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 14:20:15 2020 No.16464628 >>16464619 >properly fund and overhaul education so voters can be informed? Unironically I think camps would be easier than this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:21:30 2020 No.16464635 >>16464086 >Kundera I'm reading "the joke" at the moment. Sadly I can't say I'm enjoying it anything like as much as I enjoyed "the unbearable lightness of being".

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:24:30 2020 No.16464655 >>16464621 Your books are about to fall off.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:28:36 2020 No.16464673 >>16464628 You're a Chinese bureaucrat, not a fascist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:29:52 2020 No.16464680 >>16464459 No. He was jsut trying to make a pointm like he was trying to do the entire lecture. >was there any female medieval philosopher yeah sure, but their importance is subject to criticism.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:30:27 2020 No.16464683

>>16464444
Way too much time to dedicate to it, won't do it unless at some time I decide that I enjoy Aristotle enough to specialize and look at his work in good detail. I still make sure to keep track of the most important words and their usage, or at least how different words in greek might signify the same concept in english and what reason the translator might have for that

𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 14:34:14 2020 No.16464708

>>16464673
wo bu shi zhong guo ren. I'm actually moving to China soon, maybe they'll let me into the party :)). I'm still developing my political views but I'm pretty certain that they're not democratic and they're not compatible with what most people think, unfortunately.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:35:14 2020 No.16464714 File: 661 KB, 2660x3802, IMG_20200924_150510.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rate my shelf pls

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 14:37:23 2020 No.16464735 File: 83 KB, 921x735, 1595885856391.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464714 >Die Olympischen Spiele 1936

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:39:01 2020 No.16464749

>>16464619
>properly fund and overhaul education so voters can be informed?
There is no 'informing' without indoctrination.
You seem to be operating on some antiquated assumptions about human beings, i.e. that they are rational actors who, if supplied with accurate enough information will converge on the 'correct' opinions. There is a lot wrong with this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:42:38 2020 No.16464768 >>16464714 >furry art >YA Fiction >1936 olympics Are you one of those ethots who LARPs as trad for /pol/ orbitters

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:43:34 2020 No.16464776 >>16464708 Ironic, in a democracy you can have whatever political views you want since your individual political opinion is worthless in aggregate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:45:06 2020 No.16464784 >>16464776 Does that really matter when most people have dumb as shit opinions that don't matter?

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 14:45:52 2020 No.16464790 >>16464776 With the aggregate being something vaguely along the line of: gibs blease.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:51:11 2020 No.16464820 File: 23 KB, 604x516, 123124124.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464683 I like this approach. Good luck with your studies, fren.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:56:32 2020 No.16464852

>>16464784
The point is that there are a lot of latent authoritarians in any democracy and people like chinaposter are just the tip of the iceberg. If you really want to reify your elitism into an alienating political philosophy I suppose you can, just know that it is no different than picking a new gender and you can only get other people to respect it under compulsion. You have no such power to compel people to respect your views, quite the opposite; im fact the louder you are about them the more antibodies democratic society will spit at you. This keeps all the latent authoritarians in line. But the history of every polity is cyclical and the Western democracies are under a great deal of stress. Some form of authoritarianism will become politically necessary, regardless of your attitude toward it. In the United States for instance, the Supreme Court may be packed by the Biden administration so that it becomes a super-senate. Should Democrats control the House and Congress as well, you now live under a one-party state which will naturally start to entrench itself, congratulations. If Trump wins he will attempt to vastly expand his powers to put down widespread race riots. So there is no need for you personally to develop a premature intellectual relationship with authoritarianism, since it won't ask for your consent anyway, and it will be anything but the elitism you are imagining.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:59:10 2020 No.16464878 File: 2.92 MB, 4032x3024, 20200928_135635.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Currently going through these along with some books I'm reading for college.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:03:08 2020 No.16464902 >>16464749 How is learning about critical skills is indoctrination? That's most of what you need to properly participate in a representative democracy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:05:00 2020 No.16464914 >>16464902 Critical thinking *

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:08:51 2020 No.16464937 >>16463217 Is Goodreads worth it? Is there a better app I should use?

𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 15:10:17 2020 No.16464945
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>>16464852
>So there is no need for you personally to develop a premature intellectual relationship with authoritarianism, since it won't ask for your consent anyway
> But the history of every polity is cyclical and the Western democracies are under a great deal of stress. Some form of authoritarianism will become politically necessary, regardless of your attitude toward it.
Not false. All I'm saying is that developing an understanding of what the coming authoritarianism might look like BEFORE it arrives can't be a bad thing. Democracy is having rather a hard time coping with the the turbulence of the modern world, so some shade of totalitarianism feels inevitable. That said, the character of this totalitarianism will largely be determined by who facilitates it. A leftist-style redistributive "eat the rich" totalitarianism feels worse (to me) a rightist-style populist "get on the train" totalitarianism. Based on the recent waves of populism in the US and Europe, it seems like the latter is more likely. With all that in mind, I don't think it's absurd to think that individuals can play a small role in tipping the scales.
>>16464878
Haven't bought a book in years.
>>16464902
>That's most of what you need to properly participate in a representative democracy.
Obsolete soon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:11:07 2020 No.16464954 File: 782 KB, 1901x1442, 20200928_130813.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464714 Meme >>16464603 Good >>16464238 Post stack >>16464133 Meh

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:11:38 2020 No.16464959 >>16464937 It's ok but the rating system kinda sucks since it's 5 stars and you can't give half stars

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:14:09 2020 No.16464983

>>16464902
Critical thinking assumes some capacity to reason to an optimal decision given the proper data. This is what we would like to think we do. Instead, go turn on your television and watch some commercials. You might notice you are given very little objective information about the goods and services being advertised. That is because the multibillion-dollar advertising industry, which knows more about psychology than you do, knows that the consumer, i.e. the average person, the public of the res publica, is not at all rational and responds better to a series of myths and promises than any sort of evidence.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:39:08 2020 No.16465161 >>16464945 >I don't think it's absurd to think that individuals can play a small role in tipping the scales. Sure they can, go volunteer for a campaign office in Florida or Pennsylvania.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:41:08 2020 No.16465178 >>16463260 based burger

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:57:22 2020 No.16465295 File: 2.38 MB, 4032x3024, book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:36:25 2020 No.16465595 >>16465530 holy shit what a faggot

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 16:59:08 2020 No.16465813 File: 14 KB, 255x248, 1590950351636.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16465595 Be nice. >Funko collection holy shit what a faggot

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:51:48 2020 No.16466178
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>>16463856
>I don't need to post my stack to feel intelligent. In fact I'm laughing at all the pseuds here posting their stacks, things they're likely not even reading and have just scrambled together to look smart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:59:07 2020 No.16466213 >>16463217 >islam >lolita you having a giggle m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:14:52 2020 No.16466331 Currently im reading YOUR MUM lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:23:55 2020 No.16466392 I go into these threads, check out if there's something new and cool posted, download from gen.lib and come back two weeks later.

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 18:24:31 2020 No.16466397 >>16466392 Right there with ya bud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:26:55 2020 No.16466412 >>16464868 What app is that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:42:50 2020 No.16466808 >>16466412 Not him but it's Read Era, pretty good to read ebooks but not so comfy to read PDFs

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:45:13 2020 No.16466822 File: 710 KB, 1080x2260, Screenshot_2020-09-28-20-43-41-956_org.readera.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:49:32 2020 No.16466848 File: 1.69 MB, 3600x2296, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I use the cardboard and plastic wrapping from old packs of juicy fruit as bookmarks

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:51:57 2020 No.16466860 >>16465530 holy shit I kinda feel sorry for him. He probably hates black people

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:00:14 2020 No.16466900 File: 3.89 MB, 4608x3456, 20200928_165528.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:10:07 2020 No.16466952 >>16464714 Pretty basic stuff but enough sheleves to get some personality on there. Picture is kind of weird Olymischen Spiele 1936 is pretty cool tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:20:58 2020 No.16467016 >>16463512 for more overtly fascist literature I strongly recommend For My Legionaries by Corneliu Codreanu. Very good stuff in that.

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 20:29:36 2020 No.16467059 >>16467016 I've got that on the docket. One of my Romanian buds recommended it to me too.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:33:34 2020 No.16467075
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Inb4 I went camping and it rained and fucked up my Plato book

Please give me motivation to read the rest of the republic because it is getting slow as hell.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:18:14 2020 No.16467325 >>16463217 Do people read multiple books at once?

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 21:22:51 2020 No.16467348 >>16467325 I go for two at once. One is usually kind of dry and academic, the other is usually fiction or just less intense than the other thing I'm reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:31:55 2020 No.16467396 >>16463401 Sorry I don't believe in cancelling someone just because of one thing they said.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:32:28 2020 No.16467399 >>16467348 Lol same

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:36:51 2020 No.16467427 >>16467325 Yep, I'll read up to three at a time. One shorter fiction, one longer fiction, and then one non-fiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:37:31 2020 No.16467430 File: 114 KB, 640x756, jean-baudrillard-616266.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463808 He describes modern life very accurately. I liked his quote in pic related. Everything is artificial; nothing is real.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:41:26 2020 No.16467444 >>16464954 OP said post your stack, i.e. what you're currently reading, not your whole damn library

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:54:52 2020 No.16467501 >>16463758 Based. Write a book about this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:55:37 2020 No.16467505 >>16467325 I'm reading 5 novels at once for university and it's hard to keep up with all of them at once, do not recommend.

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 22:22:36 2020 No.16467631 >>16467505 You're in 5 separate English courses? I was usually able to break up my core courses with a few electives here and there. Sounds ruff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:25:27 2020 No.16467642 >>16463217 these threads are gay af. none of you faggots read.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:50:05 2020 No.16467775

>>16467631
I study hispanic literature and I could not avoid taking four literature courses this semester, otherwise I would have only taken two lit courses. Normally it's only three novels per week but this week the load was particularly heavy so I gotta slog through.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:51:22 2020 No.16467777 >>16467775 fuck accidentally spoilered the whole sentence

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:59:37 2020 No.16467828 >>16467775 Imagine paying money to read book when the library (and the internet) exist Do you dream of being a teacher or did you just fall for the college meme?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 23:06:02 2020 No.16467863 >>16467828 >Do you dream of being a teacher yeah i've always wanted to become a professor, otherwise I would not mind working at some independent publisher so my degree would help me either way.

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 23:08:50 2020 No.16467876 File: 220 KB, 1000x584, 73756865985677456.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16467828 >>16467863 >Do you dream of being a teacher /his/ fag here. Me too, fren.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 23:10:12 2020 No.16467884 >>16467876 Motte and Bailey they call it not?

>>	𒂊𒊑𒀁𒌅 !!ph+3gMFUUxd Mon Sep 28 23:12:50 2020 No.16467900 File: 141 KB, 842x948, 1598375239389.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16467884 Ye that's a Motte and Bailey. AFAIK more often than not they wouldn't have that outer palisade, but I could be wrong.

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Anonymous Tue Sep 29 00:50:01 2020 No.16468421
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>>16464619
it'll take a "fascist" to completely overhaul our system. Do you know how many things need to be considered when formulating a curriculum for this subject matter? Where will this funding come from? Every great invention is an entity -----going against the masses(in terms of methods)-----.

-Recognize where the information you consume gets it's funding
-Research the track record of "y" (a third party establishment) and check where this institution gets its funding to avoid having an indirect bribery occurring favouring "x"
-We would need to have an incorruptible decentralized, transparent system containing records where those who do maintenance get recycled every ~month to counter bribery
-Every idea you propose needs to have counter ideas brought with it and every idea that is digested needs to be digested after hours of criticism
-Always go to the source of the information otherwise you are listening to a biased perspective (the news)
-People would have to cultivate themselves(idontseethishappeningwithourcurrenttimeconsuminglifestyle)and become aware of important aphorisms and the underlying ideas in history such as Divide and Conquer and give them bread, sex, and a circus and they wont revolt........ to name a few

It takes seconds for me to realize normies can't think for themselves

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 01:59:44 2020 No.16468694 >>16463502 How's 'Making the European Monetary Union' treating you?

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 02:03:14 2020 No.16468700
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No picture but I'm reading
>The Banished Immortal: A Life of Lo Bai, by Ha Jin
>Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, by Peter Marshall

Next I'm reading:
>Amsterdam Stories, by Nescio
>The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi
>Water and Dreams, by Gaston Bachelard

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 08:46:41 2020 No.16469936

>The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, >The Pale King by David Foster Wallace and >Oblomov by Goncharov.

I'm enjoying Shadow and Claw the most so far, but I haven't even finished Shadow so far. The Pale King is good and unlike anything else, I'm over 400 pages in. Oblomov is the one I like the least and can't get into so far. There's something about the way some Russian writers write, like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, that irks me. My personal favorite so far is The Book of the New Sun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 09:28:55 2020 No.16470105 >>16464954 get a bookshelf you lazy nigger

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 09:35:52 2020 No.16470132 >>16466808 What's a better app for PDFs?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 09:36:27 2020 No.16470136 File: 1.25 MB, 3648x2736, IMG_20200929_213449.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] After the verbiage of Ulysses I needed a palate cleanser and poetry seemed ideal. I know it's a bit entry level but I got to start somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 11:13:24 2020 No.16470541 >>16467876 >>16467863 the idea of fellow shitposters becoming professors or other important authority positions is so wild to me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:15:01 2020 No.16471207 >>16470541 In the end most of us are just normal people who happen to browse lit. There's many people I know who I suspect browse 4chan too but I just don't ask them if they do, so it's nothing out of the ordinary

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:16:22 2020 No.16471216 >>16470132 Idk, i use pdf reader

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:51:21 2020 No.16471469

>>16468421
Even a little bit of progress towards those objectives would be better than fascism. I'm a school teacher and I teach a course in "cultivated wisdom". There's a few schools that do this and it's absolutely possible to sow the seeds in young minds for a wiser approach to life, a better attitude to self-learning and to good decision making, all of which I believe are linked to making informed political decisions. There's a good chapter about it in "the intelligence trap"

If every high schooler just read "thinking fast and slow" and "the psychology of judgement and decision making" it would be a great first step.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 14:00:31 2020 No.16471524 File: 104 KB, 1080x1088, 1601326534706.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464086 Based

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:33:25 2020 No.16472490
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>>16471469
If the institutions were to go in depth into this topic then it would be self-sabotage, therefore it will take an outside force (the initiator>then it melts into many voices once the idea is grasped) to do change. I agree, a little is better than nothing but, I don't agree with the surface level, big ideas approach because

1. The purpose is to teach the mechanics, everybody knows that they should think prudently to an extent
2. Big ideas are more difficult to defend(compared to knowledge in the following:) if you don't know the sub divisions and the arguments against the sub divisions of your big idea, then you self sabotage

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:42:20 2020 No.16472544 >>16464425 I also keep my books on the stove

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:50:45 2020 No.16472594 >>16467430 What work? Google was fucking useless

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 16:55:23 2020 No.16472615 >>16464425 based

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:37:36 2020 No.16472903 >>16472653 How is Mazower? I'm always looking for more WWII lit.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:51:58 2020 No.16473001
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Poetry or prose lads? I just bought these copies of the Odyssey and the illiad and I'm worried I fucked up. They written in prose, but I thought the whole point was they were epic poems.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 17:57:41 2020 No.16473024 >>16472653 How’s the commentary in heart of darkness?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 20:34:12 2020 No.16473983 >>16473119 Cringe stack

>>	goldelk Tue Sep 29 21:02:07 2020 No.16474144 I can only read one book at a time

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 21:02:23 2020 No.16474145 File: 426 KB, 1575x2100, D81B8FE7-758A-4DDD-8B46-1D660CB3D778.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] finished the rest >>16464621 journey is so great

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 23:03:05 2020 No.16474520 >>16473024 I haven't gotten to it yet, footnotes are helpful for context around figures of speech and language but they don't overdo it which is nice. It'll be interesting to read through once I finish the main book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 23:08:08 2020 No.16474541 >>16463808 where should i start with baudrillard?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 23:41:38 2020 No.16474702 File: 3.28 MB, 4032x3024, 2020094037.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No bully

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Anonymous Tue Sep 29 23:59:56 2020 No.16474794

>>16474541
Not that guy, but I jumped into Simulacra and Simulation and it's not that hard. Same for consumer society. The neat thing I've seen so far, and anons can correct me on this, is that his method is far more real world observational as opposed to working with and constantly referring to other philosophers. Like, I just finished Sublime Object of Ideology and the last third was lost on me because I hadn't read hegel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:25:33 2020 No.16474912 >>16474520 I’ve always liked reading commentary on semi-vague open ended books like HoD and moby dick.sometimes Norton critical has questionable commentary that seems to support an agenda so I’m always iffy on them

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:26:52 2020 No.16474914 >>16463795 I just read Train Dreams, it was comfy

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:41:21 2020 No.16474982 File: 2.12 MB, 4032x3024, F0FB75EF-4808-43C4-9AC0-3D6454FEBB1D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Who else Brit lit

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:41:53 2020 No.16474984 >>16474982 >eue wot m8

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:45:06 2020 No.16474998 >>16474984 tally ho

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 00:49:16 2020 No.16475016 >>16474914 Jesus’ son is another you should check out

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 03:16:07 2020 No.16475424 >>16473119 Based

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 03:39:40 2020 No.16475487
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Mostly getting into Pynchon. Have V. on the way. Thanks to whoever recommended the Death/Corner podcast.

Celan is always great, although I prefer Pierre Jorris’s translations so far. Some loose leaves of a local poet thrown in there for good measure.

Have been neglecting reading D&G (babby’s first) but it is very transformative when I do get to it. I like how it engages spatio-visual thought. The translation into my native is pretty tight as well, quite inventive.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 03:48:43 2020 No.16475500 >>16463386 big cringe

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 08:14:55 2020 No.16476187 >>16464133 Yes, Your attention is scattered and you wont be able to read deeply into any one of them

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 08:41:11 2020 No.16476278 File: 1.91 MB, 3024x4032, being and nothingness.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 Not a stack but I'm currently reading this. It's kinda pissing me off though.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 09:15:04 2020 No.16476447 >>16473001 they are epic poems, in ancient greek. theres no need to put it into the same form in a different language rather than being precise with the meaning

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 09:25:52 2020 No.16476503 >>16463260 Funny how it always has a sexualized kid on the cover and never a pathetic middle-aged loser, huh

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 09:27:47 2020 No.16476514 >>16473119 >edgy teen with no friends, the stack

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 09:48:49 2020 No.16476612 >>16473119 grow up dude lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 09:56:29 2020 No.16476652 Wait, do people read multiple books at a time...?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 10:06:42 2020 No.16476703 >>16476652 I'm reading one for pleasure and another to learn the language. The rest of the stack is just recent purchases I'm planing to read next

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 10:11:25 2020 No.16476731 >>16476652 stack threads are about books you recently bought that you are either currently reading or planning on reading next. though there are some madlads who read like 5+ books at a time

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 10:30:07 2020 No.16476818 >>16466900 Mysterygrovepilled.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 10:43:17 2020 No.16476876 >>16467075 >republic is slow he starts kidnapping children

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 14:08:14 2020 No.16477921

David Douglas's William the Conqueror. Working my way through the monarchs.

Uh, what else. I read Lord Jim last week, which I actually mistook for HoD on several occasions. Been reading through Karin Slaughter's Grant County series, finishing Indelible 2 days ago, solid read. Thinking about Bardacci's Oliver Stone books afterward.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 14:20:22 2020 No.16477995 Reading Plato on my laptop, and Thus Spoke Zarathusta in book form.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 14:33:17 2020 No.16478102 File: 3.33 MB, 4032x2446, 20200930_143239.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got these recently. the Loeb Virgil was from a school called Pershing College that apparently only existed for 5 years

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 15:55:23 2020 No.16478677 >>16463787 still bitter about that postgrad rejection huh

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:03:21 2020 No.16478713 File: 190 KB, 960x1280, stakk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 just finished huysmans, currently halfway through hamsun

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:14:56 2020 No.16478777 File: 2.46 MB, 4032x3024, 8893CCF3-1B42-483E-84C2-4925D325E601.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is what I’ve been reading through out the year. Pls no bully.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:22:15 2020 No.16478833 >>16478777 Finally another blessed autist like myself. Why do you have Thucydides thrice? Also, why did you get the Penguin versions over Oxford? Penguins are such shitty prints.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:26:56 2020 No.16478864 File: 2.62 MB, 1708x1389, stack.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Have to study 9 subjects for an Admission test so I can't read anything besides this. I want some modern erotism because I just can't with medieval shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:27:24 2020 No.16478869 >>16478833 Not him but penguin has improved the quality of their books a lot recently

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:35:34 2020 No.16478917
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>>16478869
I have a handful of those books pictured and they vary wildly in quality, whereas the Oxford's are consistently pleasant. The bottom is a relatively recent print (2006) and while the font is crisp unlike the garbage above, the text is vertically off center on most pages for no good reason.

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:42:52 2020 No.16478957
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>>16478833
I like to read the Penguins first and come back and read different version. That’s why I have three different Thucydides. It’s something I do. I like to compare them and make note the differences between them. See what’s left in and left out. The reason why they would replace certain words and the structure of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:47:04 2020 No.16478985 >>16478957 What are your favorite translations of Thuc./Plut./others and why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:48:32 2020 No.16478995 >>16478777 tell me about Nigger

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:50:45 2020 No.16479011 Remember: everyone that's posted in this thread is an irredeemable pseud.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 16:51:56 2020 No.16479014 >>16463217 so much cancer

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 17:10:20 2020 No.16479127 File: 458 KB, 2048x2048, EeWs6xZXoAAfs3V.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 No one here has shown actual literature above undergrad level except me

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 17:12:26 2020 No.16479140 >>16479127 >irrelevant midcentury pseudoscience go back to twitter, kiddo

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 17:49:08 2020 No.16479417 >>16466900 (checked) Nice.

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:00:36 2020 No.16479535
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>>16479127
Anyone could post a bunch hyper-specific academic Journal articles but anyone who would be interested in your niche subject would already have access to those journals and know how to find them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:39:50 2020 No.16479833 >>16478713 Based, good taste and Cyrilicpilled. What's the Бeлый book about?

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:45:51 2020 No.16479865 >>16476503 Everyman's put Nabokov on the cover so there's that

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:46:22 2020 No.16479869 >>16466808 Moonlight

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:46:30 2020 No.16479870

>>16463918
>It cannot realistically be implemented and so I switched my focus from the worldly to the divine.

That is the place I'm moving towards.

I believe in Divine power and blessing, and so the best thing I think we can do is to genuinely a virtuous character and a relationship with God.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 18:48:14 2020 No.16479885 >>16473298 Klages, Schmitt, Dugin and Plato? I think based. How is that Klages translation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 19:08:27 2020 No.16480048 >>16473298 Envious of the Klages.

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 19:20:59 2020 No.16480149

>>16479833
thanks fren. it's called "petersburg" and is basically a haphazard portrait of the city. lacks a traditional structure in favour of a chaotic, hallucinatory exploration of people, places, politics, history etc etc, jumping through all these alleyways, bars, homes. it's penetrating and violent, and describes the contradictory russian character very well, and is steeped in the culture of st petersburg. lots of references if that's your thing.

it is an immense pleasure to read, comfy in a strange way, but quite gruelling. if you read russian i would definitely give it a go, and if not then i hear the Maguire and Malmstead translation is halfway decent.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 19:24:14 2020 No.16480167 >>16475487 V. is kino. Lot 49 on roids

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 19:54:14 2020 No.16480377 >>16474982 ikea shelf

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 20:06:38 2020 No.16480453 >>16478917 The past 4-5 penguin books I’ve gotten has been nice with solid white paper that doesn’t yellow, a semi-glossy cover,good notations and the book it’s self doesn’t warp like they used to.im pleasantly surprised because they used to be trash

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 20:24:24 2020 No.16480578 File: 433 KB, 720x1520, Screenshot_20201001_082403.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464868 based readerabro

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 21:19:30 2020 No.16480894 >>16464954 >Michael Grant - Myths of the Greeks and Romans nice >>16478019 wow, fantastic haul >>16478102 What James is that? A novel, or a collection of actual letters?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 21:37:48 2020 No.16480998 File: 2.89 MB, 4640x3480, IMG_20201001_023628.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217 Finished Friedell's first volume, reading Ranke now

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 21:54:20 2020 No.16481097 >>16463460 hows Meditations on Tarot?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:16:27 2020 No.16481531 >>16463217 currently reading your shit of an op

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:19:27 2020 No.16481545 >>16463260 I'm also reading the Introduction to Islamic Philosophy!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:50:48 2020 No.16481684 >>16480377 Student accomodation

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 00:16:27 2020 No.16481887 >>16463217 >reading multiple books at once adhd?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 00:22:18 2020 No.16481937 >>16481887 if it's nonfiction it's the only way

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 03:29:13 2020 No.16482760 >>16480149 Unfortunately I can't read Cyrilic, but thanks for advice, I'll keep it in mind. Russian books translated to my language are usually pretty good too, since I'm a Pole.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 03:30:52 2020 No.16482763 >>16479885 Excellent. >>16480048 Yeah, I got lucky and they managed to send it out after a long delay.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 03:39:19 2020 No.16482787 File: 3.50 MB, 2331x2920, klages sample.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16482763 (forgot pic)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 04:22:50 2020 No.16482930 File: 247 KB, 449x583, book-wheel-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16481887 >not multi-tabbing your dead trees like a gentleman

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 07:09:20 2020 No.16483522 File: 256 KB, 720x1560, Screenshot_20201001-130839.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16464868 based

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 07:17:36 2020 No.16483549
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I have them in the deluxe editions since it's actually cheaper. I'm just past the Eclipse which is a little over halfway.

Is it worth finishing though? I found out the Beserk author GRRMd the series and stopped putting out content.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 07:20:39 2020 No.16483558 >>16483549 its worth reading to the most current chapters, youll get over the disappointment of it not being finished anytime soon or ever

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 07:46:40 2020 No.16483642 File: 387 KB, 1011x832, IMG_0107.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] huge book sale sucked this year due to china virus

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 07:53:09 2020 No.16483669 >>16483642 Harassment Architecture sounds interesting. What's it about? I'm imagining it's an instructive text on deliberately offensive, intrusive architectural design.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 08:29:30 2020 No.16483784 >>16464077 Anyone here read the Hegel one, by Peter Singer? My university recommends it as an introduction.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 08:34:31 2020 No.16483800 >>16464635 >>16464086 Immortality is peak Kundera desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 08:41:27 2020 No.16483819 >>16483669 its a 4chan shitpost in book length

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 09:46:09 2020 No.16484076 >>16464265 Cormac Mccarthy is one of the bigest pseud authors alive you pseud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 09:50:33 2020 No.16484095 >>16464714 desu you seem pretty insufferable

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:17:47 2020 No.16484222 >>16483669 it's like if sam hyde wrote Industrial Society And Its Future

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:19:30 2020 No.16484232

>>16480894
>What James is that? A novel, or a collection of actual letters?
It's a collection of actual letters written by James and his family/friends, probably all included in complete editions of James' letters, written from Venice. Seems like a cozy travel read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:25:32 2020 No.16484255 >>16468309 You fell for the mystery.doc bait, kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:32:04 2020 No.16484281 >>16473983 >>16476514 >>16476612 >not recognizing the classics.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:34:40 2020 No.16484294 >>16484287 Why are you learning Tibetan? Are you going on a trip?

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:50:43 2020 No.16484355

>>16484294
Wanted to learn a language and am interested in Indian/Hindu/Buddhist meditation and mythology. Saw these at my local bookstore so I thought I would take the plunge. Found a website with photos of classical tibetan Buddhist texts so I want to try to use this as a jumping off point and maybe try another language (Sanskrit or Japanese) afterwards as another entry towards the literature.
The Nepali book was 2 bucks and I just grabbed it because of the devanagari script stuff in it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:06:07 2020 No.16484422

I thought these threads were the peak of attention-seeking, before i searched for "personal library tour" on youtube. I expected a bunch of professors and famous figures, but instead most of the videos were from sad millenials. They only show their shelves, not the books. Tons of books they will never read. Fucking consumers. I pirate all my books, and i'm glad i do.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:15:55 2020 No.16484467 >>16483669 It's a shitty version of fight club. Read DeliciousTacos instead, he's better.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 14:31:21 2020 No.16485774 File: 2.40 MB, 4032x3024, 16015770585149208919753923631287.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 14:36:07 2020 No.16485803 >>16484422 these threads (stacks + shelves) are about looking at what other people read and finding out about new books by comparing tastes. stop overthinking things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 14:52:09 2020 No.16485922 >>16463460 classic chud stack

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 16:21:37 2020 No.16486571 >>16474702 >Swamp thing https://youtu.be/lYNHjmnlZbA

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 17:24:59 2020 No.16487005

>>16463758
I’m about to finish T.S. Eliot’s “Christianity and Culture.” It might interest you because there is a good deal written in it (in the second of two essays) regarding the creation of a class system. This is notably different from a caste system like India’s; Eliot thinks there should be the ability for the most gifted to move up from their class into the elite, etc. you might enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 17:30:37 2020 No.16487045 File: 89 KB, 1069x720, 00989.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463217

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 17:50:16 2020 No.16487184 File: 394 KB, 1125x1362, 4DDE4C10-4A45-4360-A328-1B28F04AB3B7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Digital Stack

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 17:58:08 2020 No.16487245 File: 2.66 MB, 4608x3456, IMG_20201001_235635.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm getting lost. I need to axe some books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 18:12:21 2020 No.16487341 >>16487184 This looks like an app, what is it?

Lon𝖊 Int𝖊ll𝖊ctu𝖆l !xVZee/J6YQ Thu Oct 1 18:51:03 2020 No.16487570

>>16463217
Ca NOT be asked to take a pic of my stack but it is:
The Iliad by Homer (Robert Fagles(pbuh) translation)
Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean
Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX by Andrew Willard Jones

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