/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16993361]

stack thread? stack thread

[Anonymous No.16993650]

>>16993361
Another one of the Christmas lot came in today, still waiting on one book to come in, and I might end up getting even more still. Bought my dad his presents for Christmas so I'm happy because I've now got everyone that I needed to summat. Still don't know what to get my mum for her birthday which is on New Year's Eve tho.

[Anonymous No.16993658]

>>16993650
Of course I forgot to post the actual books like an absolute twonk

[Anonymous No.16993668]

>>16993361
Books I'm currently reading:
Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations Blue Book
Kant's Pure Reason
Hegel's Philosophy of History
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Plato's Republic
and Heidegger in 90 minutes

consider the size of my penis

[Anonymous No.16993689]

>>16993361

[Anonymous No.16993800]

>>16993689
please add mein kampf or tech slavery on top pls pls

[Anonymous No.16993979]

>>16993689
>TI-36x
my nigga

[Anonymous No.16993988]

[Anonymous No.16994052]

>>16993361
Are Plato's complete works and Homer's good?

[Anonymous No.16994064]

Bro you bought a prose translation of Homer?

[Anonymous No.16994074]

>>16993689
T. Very small penis

[Anonymous No.16994095]

>>16993361
Is Manufactured Consent still relevant with the internet? Is there a book that should be read after it?

[Anonymous No.16994097]

>>16994064
If you can't read ancient greek, read prose. Not some made up faggot shit that takes way to much liberty trying to make the translation fucking rhyme

[Anonymous No.16994101]

Currently reading:
Introduction to The Hindu Doctrines
Storm of Steel
Magic Mountain

[Anonymous No.16994130]

>>16993361
lmao fuck the presocratics

[Anonymous No.16994152]

Hello good morning. I'm reading the usual + some new books I bought last night on First Nations art and mythology.

[Anonymous No.16994167]

>>16994052
Yes. Start with the presocractics and then proceed to the 5 dialogues. Homer is excellent and feel free to just pick up and start wherever.

[Anonymous No.16994803]

Where are my swedebros?

[Anonymous No.16994818]

>>16993658
Have you started Journey to the End of the Night? Is it good so far?

[Anonymous No.16994846]

>>16994818
Yes I'm about 120 pages in, and enjoying it tremendously. Definitely recommend it.

[Anonymous No.16995006]

>>16993361
I have that same exact edition of The Iliad & Odyssey, how do you like? I loved reading it partly because of the physical book itself

[Anonymous No.16995026]

>>16994803
jajemen, gubben

[Anonymous No.16995038]

>>16994846
It goes to shit in the second half. When he returns to Paris just close the book and pretend it ends so it’s perfect in your mind

[Anonymous No.16995139]

[Anonymous No.16995157]

>>16994097
i won't bust your balls because that prose translation is actually good, but i hope you at least read it in verse at some point

[Anonymous No.16995163]

>>16994095
It's super relevant my man. They only changed their tools, the methods are the same.

[Anonymous No.16995184]

>>16995139
Unbelievably based

[Anonymous No.16995268]

>>16994152
your suicide would benefit society

[Anonymous No.16995335]

>>16994803
Här! Läser Lagerlöfs översättning av Iliaden just nu och fixar den typ inte, riktigt trist läsning

[Anonymous No.16995358]

>>16995268
:( not very nice anon

[Anonymous No.16995362]

>>16995268
why would you say this?

[Anonymous No.16995365]

>>16993668
based
>>16993689
trying too hard

[Anonymous No.16995368]

>>16993361
>bell curve
pseudoscientific discredited racist trash

[Anonymous No.16995388]

>>16993361

[Anonymous No.16995392]

>>16993658
I love Will Durant’s work and haven’t read that book on philosophy. Definitely need to add it to my list

[Anonymous No.16995397]

>>16995392
be sure to get the 2nd edition instead of the 1st one. the 2nd edition adds in additional sections on Bacon and Spinoza and that aren't in the 1st edition, so quite simply the 1st edition is obsolete

[Anonymous No.16995399]

>>16993689
Based LCRbro
Will post my stack later when I finish wagecucking

[Anonymous No.16995427]

>>16994152
Are you a cute art girl with bangs?

[Anonymous No.16995429]

>>16993361

[Anonymous No.16995430]

>>16995335
Jag köpte Odysséen på bilden och Illiaden av samma översättare på ett antikvariat för 16 spänn styck utan att öppna dem. Visade sig att det var prosaversioner. Får läsa Lagerlöfs översättning eller liknande vid ett senare tillfälle. Men om du inte fixar att läsa den på vers så kan jag rekommendera att läsa den på prosa.

[Anonymous No.16995435]

>>16995139
Thoughts on the killing of history?

[Anonymous No.16995446]

>>16995429
how many of those have you read so far anon, is it 0? I bet it's close to 0.

[Anonymous No.16995452]

>>16993988

[Anonymous No.16995485]

I plan to finish these four before the year ends, but maybe I'll manage to fit in something else. Currently in the middle of Paz's poetry (some good stuff in there, but other poems are just so-so), started Niebla yesterday and I'm already 1/3 in, really good novel.

[Anonymous No.16995486]

>>16994152
Based. Native American culture was cool, I wonder what could've been sometimes.

[Anonymous No.16995487]

>>16994846
Thanks anon, I'll give it a chance

[Anonymous No.16995490]

>>16995397
Thanks for the heads up, anon.

[Anonymous No.16995498]

>>16995446
Spare me. I haven't organised them.
I've read 40 of the roughly 65 pictured.

[Anonymous No.16995515]

>>16993689

[Anonymous No.16995523]

>>16993668
12 incher. For sure.

[Anonymous No.16995534]

>>16993361
Same from yesterday, gonna buy an essay and a story from fitzcarraldo editions for Christmas, recommend cute looking philosophy books

[Anonymous No.16995544]

>>16995534
Tell me about 'Passwords'? Anything will do.

[Anonymous No.16995562]

>>16995139
Based anti-modernist chad

[Anonymous No.16995563]

Crisis of the European Mind was the best in this whole stack. Aristotle’s Ethics and Avon Hildebrand’s ethics are close behind.

[Anonymous No.16995564]

>>16995534
>the xenofeminist manifesto
what's it about?

[Anonymous No.16995584]

>>16995430
16 spänn var ett schysst pris! Var dum som blint köpte denna... men ska definitivt satsa på prosaversionen istället, så att man får den läst. Lagerlöfs får damma lite innan jag ger mig på den igen hehe

[Anonymous No.16995657]

>>16995564
It’s about refactoring feminism for the current age in digital culture. It sucked, but it’s kinda prophetic in its understanding of political movements as fluid, vertical organisms.

[Anonymous No.16995678]

>>16995427
No gross.
>>16995429
Based literature reader.

[Anonymous No.16995689]

>>16995435
Actually very good. It definitely has a pro-Enlightenment Universalism bias that I don’t agree with (read MacIntyre), but it’s excellent for explaining what the difference between things like Structuralism and Poststructuralism is and how it’s relevant to other fields, and has some cogent critiques of their logical difficulties. It’s also funny because the great majority of the academics he names and critiques for destroying the foundations of science/the humanities are Jewish, though he doesn’t seem to realize this.

[Anonymous No.16995730]

>>16995544
Post structuralist critique by French philosopher JB. Takes a wide view of the exchange that takes place between material and symbolic.

[Anonymous No.16995752]

My new e-stack. Why doesn’t this fucker number his chapters? Makes it such a pain in the ass to find things

[Anonymous No.16995766]

>>16995730
Nice. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.16995771]

Insane thread. These stacks are combinations of high school reading lists and what people think "smart people" read

[Anonymous No.16995777]

Are you seriously going to sit at a computer long enough to read that shit? Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.16995785]

>>16995771
post stack if you're gonna whine about the books of others

[Anonymous No.16995814]

>>16995771

[Anonymous No.16995848]

>>16995785
You must be one of the guys reading through a Barnes and Noble edition of the Iliad

[Anonymous No.16995884]

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[Anonymous No.16995905]

>>16995848

[Anonymous No.16995927]

>>16995771
I agree with this but you really should post yours. Kinda just being a dick if not.

[Anonymous No.16995928]

>>16994152
What is the one bound in green?

[Anonymous No.16995956]

>>16995771
What kind of stack is acceptable to you then?

[Anonymous No.16996010]

>>16995534
based

[Anonymous No.16996014]

>>16993658
based and warlock pilled

[Anonymous No.16996015]

>>16995771
talk smack post stack

[Anonymous No.16996021]

Currently reading Silence

[Anonymous No.16996051]

>History of the Byzantine State
>Feudal Society by Bloch
>A Confession by Tolstoy
Based or cringe?

[Anonymous No.16996092]

>>16995956
That shit kills me to see people who think they have to read through the entire Western Canon to show off. Read something enjoyable, Read things you like, not what you think you should read. Also wasn't Plato, Homer and Dante and all that required readings in your public schools?
>>16995927
Not working through a stack because I don't pretend to be reading 8, 700 page books at once. Finishing Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California right now

[Anonymous No.16996102]

>>16995848
Pale Fire, and you still haven't posted what amazing fantastic books you read instead. Why don't you contribute to the thread?

[Anonymous No.16996114]

>>16995368
/thread
/pol/tards out

[Anonymous No.16996131]

shouldnt you bros actually be reading right now?

[Anonymous No.16996135]

>>16995848
Actually, a recent reissue of Pale Fire by Vintage that was gifted to me. One of those strangely flexible paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.16996158]

>>16995368
>>16996114
Why? What is the claim and what is wrong?

[Anonymous No.16996197]

>>16996092
I kinda feel like criticizing a stack thread for containing stacks of books is silly. Also seeing stuff as necessary and obvious readings and then criticizing others for reading them is super elitist.

[Anonymous No.16996232]

>>16994803
Här. Nice Pesten.

[Anonymous No.16996243]

>>16996197
Don't break your brain. It's just funny for me to think about a bunch of Gamestop employees reading through Homer and Aristotle and jacking each other off to a stack of books online

[Anonymous No.16996263]

>>16996243
So you advocate people remaining gamestop employees for the rest of their lives then

[Anonymous No.16996281]

>>16996263
>living a terrible life with a minimum wage job
>read plato
>
>situation changes

[Anonymous No.16996291]

>>16996281
They should read Marxist theory instead to gain class consciousness and revolt against their exploitation

[Anonymous No.16996312]

>>16993689
>thermodynamics
based physics bro

[Anonymous No.16996318]

>>16996291
no they need to read 12 rules for life and clean their rooms. then they will become ceo of their own business

[Anonymous No.16996319]

>>16996263
Do I have to point out how retarded this take is? Yes please tell your boss or interviewer which ontological project you are reading through. I'm sure it will help you tremendously

[Anonymous No.16996337]

>>16996318
unironically there are many things you can do to improve your looks, speaking skills, and skillset, not to mention quality of life in general.

[Anonymous No.16996388]

>>16996158
It attempts to link intelligence to race for one. The whole book can't even be taken seriously as it was not peer reviewed

[Anonymous No.16996389]

>>16995139
>Blood Passover
holy fucking based

[Anonymous No.16996434]

>>16995365
>Marx
cringe

[Anonymous No.16996435]

>>16996388
Have you read it?

[Anonymous No.16996444]

>>16996434
>not reading marx
one of the most influential thinkers of all time. created the foremost critique of capitalism that remains pertinent today. his method of analysis is extremely influential and important to be acquainted with.

[Anonymous No.16996456]

>>16993361
Nice pull from thriftbooks. I paid for a "like new" copy of "as you like it" and it had pages falling out

[Anonymous No.16996472]

>>16996092
you underestimate how shit public schools are if you think fucking Plato and Homer are required reading in highschool

[Anonymous No.16996484]

>>16996444
marx is a pseud and his critique has been shit on for being fallacious

[Anonymous No.16996491]

[Anonymous No.16996517]

>>16996456
just buy from eBay

[Anonymous No.16996524]

>>16995928
It's my journal.

[Anonymous No.16996547]

>>16996491
holy based

[Anonymous No.16996558]

[Anonymous No.16996647]

>>16996558
I can't come up with a more bluepilled reading list honestly

[Anonymous No.16996683]

>>16996647
Throw in a modern pulp philosophy book about how consumerism and stoicism are totally compatible and something by Harari

[Anonymous No.16996777]

>>16996021
why not Modern Sequel to The Odyssey in this stack?

[Anonymous No.16996919]

>>16996021
Nice stack, I need to check out Kazantzakis's other works. I only read Zorba but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.16996979]

>>16995777
You dumb fuck I’m just storing the books on there i read it on an ereader

[Anonymous No.16997152]

>>16996484
t. never read Marx

[Anonymous No.16997288]

>>16993361
Got these in the mail for my birthday yesterday

[Anonymous No.16997384]

>>16997152
I've read Marx, wish I hadn't wasted my time on a pseud

[Anonymous No.16997508]

>>16995563
Terry Eagleton is an old hack

[Anonymous No.16997575]

>>16997288
happy birthday bro

[Anonymous No.16997599]

>>16997575
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.16997654]

>>16995368

[Anonymous No.16997746]

>>16997288
awesome picks

[Anonymous No.16997757]

>>16997288
yes
>>16996558
no
>>16996491
yes
>>16996021
yes
>>16995563
fuck yes