/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17028909]

We stack a few books and other Anons rank them

[Anonymous No.17028919]

Divine comedy>paradise lost >metamorphoses>Aeneid>>>Fahrenheit

[Anonymous No.17028990]

>>17028919
Based Christian

[Anonymous No.17029108]

>>17028919
Switch the Aeneid and Metamorphoses and that's correct.

[Anonymous No.17029124]

>>17028909
Right, let's see if anyone manages to rank all of these then.

[Anonymous No.17029148]

OK do me

[Anonymous No.17029275]

this is fucking stupid you stupid consoomer

[Anonymous No.17029292]

[Anonymous No.17029705]

>>17029148
I only know the Gulag Archipelago because it was recommended by Jordan Peterson, what do you think about it anon ?

[Anonymous No.17029733]

>>17028909
8/10, not a bad book there

>>17029124
8/10, that Goethe book is fantastic

>>17029148
6/10, Cancer Ward is great but his other stuff is just okay

[Anonymous No.17029843]

>>17029275
you don't know what a consoomer is you low iq negroid zoomer

[Anonymous No.17029878]

>>17029148
why do you have so many copies of the gulag archipelago

[Anonymous No.17029893]

>>17028909
Mom I posted it again

[Anonymous No.17029901]

Latin bros, Aeneid must be good in the original right? Because it's absolute trash in translation.

[Anonymous No.17029909]

>>17028909
I've only read the Ted Hughes limited translation of Matamorphoses, what am I missing out on?

[Anonymous No.17029915]

PL is a library book but just finished it and it was superb.

[Anonymous No.17029984]

>>17029843
You don’t know what a zoomer is you consoomer boomer doomer

[Anonymous No.17030429]

>>17029705
Worth reading despite its girth and tiny font. Slow moving car crash. It's not stream of consciousness but it's prose is very hypnotic
>>17029878
Idk maybe because it's a fucking trilogy anon.

[Anonymous No.17030461]

>>17029292
I

[Anonymous No.17030470]

>>17028909
451 is actually shit novel

[Anonymous No.17030565]

>>17028909
Why did you crack poor Miltons spine?

[Anonymous No.17030574]

>>17030470
>hue hue hue, I shall call a popular, well standing novel bad without further comment whatsoever
>I am an undisputed genius, hue hue hue

[Anonymous No.17030603]

>>17028909
just bought suttree, excited to spend my time off doin some reading

[Anonymous No.17030664]

>>17030574
hes right tho lol

[Anonymous No.17030677]

>>17030603
Have you already read The Elegant Universe?
'
Fabric is pretty much a dumbed down version.

[Anonymous No.17030702]

>>17029901
It's silly fanfiction in any language

[Anonymous No.17030708]

>>17030677
I'm really enjoying this so far but it's definitely a bit too hand wavey. I'll add elegant universe to the list

[Anonymous No.17030711]

>>17030470
I just finished the 2nd chapter and its pretty meh. There are flashes of something interesting, but they don't last long. It is some weird middle ground between a novel and short story where the characters and pacing isn't developed enough for a novel, but still too long for a short story. Beatty seems like a character though

[Anonymous No.17030746]

>>17028909
R8 mahfuckas

[Anonymous No.17030784]

>>17028909
Nice to see Ray Bradbury finally being shoehorned in with the timeless classics.

[Anonymous No.17030803]

>>17030746

[Anonymous No.17031129]

>>17028909

[Anonymous No.17031131]

>>17028909
Bought these for my father. I don't live in Argentina anymore so I told the seller to ship them to his workplace.

[Anonymous No.17031412]

>>17028909
0/10

[Anonymous No.17031475]

>>17029275
>>17029843
>>17029984
shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.17031509]

>>17030470
It's entertaining but it's not deep or anything. What is it about dystopian fiction that attracts so many lit babies? You know what I mean? It's like a stepping stone between YA lit and more respectable literature.

[Anonymous No.17031518]

>>17029292
Origin of Consciousness, CCRU, and the divine comedy are all based. Unfamiliar with the others but the Tibetan book looks quite good too.

[Anonymous No.17031685]

>>17030711
Agreed, the book really underwhelmed me. and beatty is my favorite character lol

[Anonymous No.17031692]

>>17030746
>kerouac
babdsesed

[Anonymous No.17031784]

>>17031412
Get the fuck out of my thread or I'm going to call the cops

[Anonymous No.17031952]

>>17030746
OTR & TOMATS are BORING

[Anonymous No.17031960]

>>17030746
nice. I love hemingway and kerouac

[Anonymous No.17032019]

>>17029292

[Anonymous No.17032731]

>>17031131
Too much information pal

[Anonymous No.17033955]

Bump

[Anonymous No.17034080]

[Anonymous No.17034158]

>>17031131
Basado argiebro

[Anonymous No.17034169]

>>17028909
One of these is not like the others

[Anonymous No.17034200]

>>17028909
Norton... Ovid... is that the magnificent Charles Martin translation? Anon, you're a man of taste.

[Anonymous No.17034264]

>>17034200
an award winning translation... Emily Wilson, Robert Fagles, all the giant of the classics bow down and worship him

Excerpt #1
Your rhymes are fake: accept our wager
Learn which of us is minor and which is major
There’s nine of us here and there’s nine of you
And you’ll be nowhere long before we’re through
Nothin’s gonna save you ’cuz your songs are lame
And the way you sing ’em is really a shame

Excerpt #1
’Cuz Jupiter laid low as the leader of a flock
And Delius his homey really got a shock
When the Giants left him with no place to go:
“Fuggedabout Apollo—make me a crow!”
And if you believe that Phoebus was a wuss
His sister Phoebe turned into a puss

[Anonymous No.17034606]

>>17034169
Yes, the Divine Comedy is a hardback

[Anonymous No.17034680]

>>17029124
very good taste, on what website do you buy books in english?
>>17029915
are you familiar with all of western philosophy or do you just dive in to Being and Time? Kinda jelly about the Baudelaire book
>>17030746
2/5 Farewell and storm are good

[Anonymous No.17034812]

>>17034680
Cheers mate, I just get them off of Amazon or Ebay or wherever Bookfinder says I can get a book cheapest. For me it's way harder to get books in Polish, I've only just recently found a couple of different places where I can get some decent stuff from so I'm no longer solely dependent on my nan and uncle sending me a few books from Poland on my birthday and for Christmas. Oi and how's the Baudelaire in Polish mate? I've read a load of his poetry in an English translation, I've enjoyed his work tremendously, and I just like reading poetry in Polish quite a bit more than I do in English so yeh

[Anonymous No.17034868]

>>17034812
Oh and forgot to mention that there's a Co-op sort of near my house that's had a charity sale going on for months now, and whilst there is usually nothing at all worth buying I have managed to nab some really good stuff for very cheap, like that big book of Orwell's non-fiction, the Shakespeare History and Poetry anthology that's like some sort of special edition made for the army in the 1920's and a copy of Walden from the fuckin 1800's and they all only cost me a quid each

[Anonymous No.17034965]

>>17034680
>Bataille
Absolutely based. I'm going to start reading him soon. Just got a copy of the Accursed Share.

[Anonymous No.17035042]

>>17029915
based charlottebro, Villette's my favorite

[Anonymous No.17035149]

>>17034965
Wanted to read The Story of the Eye, but got this one for free shipping on my other deliveries. It seems like I should like Bataille very much. I'll read it over the next couple of days or so. Have you read TSotE?
>>17034812
Ohh that changes everything actually, I thought you were in Poland like me so nevermind the question hah. That makes the collection all the more impressive, how is your Polish bro? is it your first language or something you learn to connect with your roots?
>Baudelaire
This is the 'poems in prose' work of his so I thought I wouldn't miss all that much, but I'm not sure about it. I'll probably compare it with the original since I've been studying French for quite a while, it's a pity foreign books are rather expensive in Polish currency.

[Anonymous No.17035272]

>>17035149
No I only read Batailles Peak which deals with his philosophy. I really liked his ideas and now want to start reading him. Accused Share was referenced a lot so I am starting there.

[Anonymous No.17035309]

[Anonymous No.17035343]

>>17034606
Funny.

[Anonymous No.17035361]

>>17035309
So this is Geunons legacy

[Anonymous No.17035941]

>>17028909
>>17030603
>>17034200

A particularly bad translation of Ovid, good luck anon.

[Anonymous No.17035959]

[Anonymous No.17036112]

How’s this

[Anonymous No.17036150]

>>17036112
7/10
I smell an american

[Anonymous No.17036185]

>>17034680
bardzo sympatycznie anonku

[Anonymous No.17036218]

>>17035959
Do you speak Hungarian and Polish?
>>17036185
dzięki senpai

[Anonymous No.17036227]

>>17036218
Only the former, Quo Vadis is also a Hungarian translation.

[Anonymous No.17036249]

>>17034680
I’m pretty under-read, familiar with Kant and Husserl enough so that I’d never felt lost reading B&T. Also kept a Heidegger glossary handy along with video lectures accompanying each chapter, I feel competent so far (I have about 150 pages or so left). I’ve been able to discuss Heidegger with more astute readers than myself without feeling lost so I think if you have a background similar to mine you should be good. Baudelaire is fun, mainly got it to practice French though he’s not my favorite.

>>17035042
Villette is underrated as hell. Sometimes I think I’m falling in love with Lucy Snowe (or maybe Charlotte herself).

[Anonymous No.17036270]

>>17036227
What are top 3 most influential books by Hungarian authors?
>>17036249
Yep I also think that if you surround yourself with secondary sources you'll be mostly fine to discuss it. I've got a long way to go when it comes to philosophy.

[Anonymous No.17036399]

>>17036270
What do you mean by influential? Hungarian literature very rarely had an effect on world literature, but there are a ton of great works none the less. Poets were always more celebrated in Hungary than writers, but Kosztolányi was both a writer and a poet, I'd say he's the most celebrated literary figure here.

[Anonymous No.17036582]

>>17035149
Alright thanks mate, and good luck with your French studies. My Polish is yeh fluent and that, I was born in Wejherowo and knocked about there until I was like 5 and then got shipped off to England. I did get made to go to a Polish school on Saturdays for a few years, which definitely helped me learn and not forget how to read and write, since all I did was a bit of nursery back in Poland. So I did that until I was 10 and we moved all the way from a little shithole town outside of London to the south-west of England where I'm still at now. And then fuckin 10 and 11 is that age where basically everyone who was well into books stops reading them altogether, so I've only got back into reading anything at all in the summer of last year, when I was on holiday in Poland, my uncle gave me some books and I was reading like The Hobbit and Animal Farm na działce (idk what a działka is in English) and enjoying reading for the first time in years, because of course school and I'd say especially English school really fucks you off reading. So yeh started, I've only got into Polish lit probably about 6 months ago, I was really, really fucking bad and rusty at it at first, it was taking me fuckin 15 minutes to read a single page, I'm still a fair bit slower at it than I am reading in English, but I enjoy just the language itself more, and I'm only 18 so I've got a lot of time to catch up and that.

[Anonymous No.17037074]

>>17028909

[Anonymous No.17037263]

r8 me up bros

[Anonymous No.17037356]

>>17028909
I'm using an ereader, so here's my virtual stack.

[Anonymous No.17037696]

>>17037263
beyond help

[Anonymous No.17038734]

>>17035309
What would Guenon think of this?

[Anonymous No.17039864]

read recently

[Anonymous No.17039887]

>>17037356
get off that fagles shit. get lattimore iliad

[Anonymous No.17040273]

>>17039887
I might read Poe after I read Fagles.

[Anonymous No.17040390]

>>17028909
9/10 because no Bible but still epic

[Anonymous No.17040517]

>>17036249
B&T is one of the best things I've read, and I read him with about the same background as you. it's weird that people say he's impossible to understand, he actually seemed pretty clear to me

[Anonymous No.17040872]

>>17029124
This makes my sad because It reminds me that Poland didn't have a epic movie trilogy since ogniem I mieczem

[Anonymous No.17042248]

>>17031129
>the pillow book of sei shonagon
based

[Anonymous No.17042257]

>>17035959
>utas es holdvilag
Very nice, he was right to leave that slut of a wife

[Anonymous No.17042495]

>>17028919
ovid above virgil...? anon...

[Anonymous No.17042510]

>>17037356
Kinda based but is that "Courage to be disliked" not just some airport circlejerk?

[Anonymous No.17043795]

>>17037263
They made eight leprechaun movies?

[Anonymous No.17044004]

>>17030461
G

[Anonymous No.17044137]

>>17029124
two of your books say wojak lol

[Anonymous No.17045522]

>>17034080
Anon... I don't see the letters "KJV" anywhere... Would you like to explain?

[Anonymous No.17045532]

>>17039887
>lattimore

kys

[Anonymous No.17045563]

>>17039887
>that 30yo boomer who still denies Fagles' superiority

[Anonymous No.17045575]

[Anonymous No.17045670]

>>17030746
is that Hemingway an Easton Press?How much did you pay?Either way, it looks nice

[Anonymous No.17045687]

The book on the bottom is a Douay-Rheims bible I read the daily Mass readings from every night.

>>17028909
Really nice
>>17029124
A lot of Polish stuff I can't comment on but the English stuff is solid
>>17029148
Never seen a Solzhenitsyn stan before
>>17029292
These all look really interesting
>>17029915
Nice
>>17030746
7/10
>>17031129
>Loeb Horace
>Pillow Book
>Rereading A Christmas Carol
Best in the thread
>>17031131
>120 Days of Sodom
Your dad wants the big coom
>>17034080
Weird neo-puritan
>>17034680
No opinion on the titles but the stack itself is aesthetically pleasing
>>17035309
Manga or LNs?
>>17035959
How the FUCK are there this many Poles on this board?
>>17036112
A lot of nice titles there
>>17037074
Eh
>>17037263
Based fa/tg/uy
>>17037356
Good on you reading the Iliad but yeah, Lattimore is really good as a translation >>17039887
>>17045575
bait/10

[Anonymous No.17045911]

>>17042510
It's like stoicism but as psychology. I'll have to read some opposing viewpoints and see why Adler's ideas aren't mainstream, because this book is personally helpful, but very biased.

[Anonymous No.17045927]

>>17045687
>Manga or LNs?
the latter,

[Anonymous No.17047146]

>>17045687
Mistaking Hungarian for Polish, baka

[Anonymous No.17047158]

>>17044004
G

[Anonymous No.17047160]

>>17028909
Fahrenheit ruins the stack

[Anonymous No.17048169]

>>17045687
Pliny the Elder's delightful, anon; a kind of Roman Herodotus except the subject's natural not social history. Can't make out the bottom volume but assume it's a Bible; if so, which?

[Anonymous No.17048196]

>>17048169
>>17045687
Ok, got it there
Based

[Anonymous No.17049299]

Bump

[Anonymous No.17049382]

>>17028919
>Ovid over fucking VIRGIL
Virgil should be number 1 retard. Your number one submits himself to Virgil, take notes