Stack thread

[Anonymous No.17167380]

Hi friends. Don’t see one in the catalog and I like these threads so here we go

[Anonymous No.17167385]

>>17167380
lol

[Anonymous No.17167391]

>>17167380
good stack, maybe a little too poseur, but other than that it is good

[Anonymous No.17168547]

Got these a bit late as a Christmas gift.

[Anonymous No.17168587]

My sole book lads

[Anonymous No.17168693]

My Christmas haul

[Anonymous No.17168795]

Got these for christmas, almost finished Aeneid, looking forward to Ovid.

[Anonymous No.17168798]

>>17168795
>All those translations
YIKES

[Anonymous No.17168810]

>>17168587
>be me, Thoreau
>larping on my friends land
>mom sends me snacks
>write in my diary
>profit

[Anonymous No.17168816]

Consumerism thread

[Anonymous No.17168824]

>>17168816
Gift thread

[Anonymous No.17168825]

>stack threads
>everyone posting a bunch of used 800th edition paperbacks that are barely worth the paper they're printed on

Unless you own some books that are actually valuable and/or rare, who gives a shit? 99% of the stacks that get posted in these threads never even get finished.

[Anonymous No.17168895]

>>17168825
It’s interesting to see what other people are reading. Also gives a good idea of how long some books are from the side.

I tend to buy used books, I see no point in buying an expensive version of the same book.

I’m sorry you don’t finish your stacks anon.

[Anonymous No.17168934]

>>17168895
>Also gives a good idea of how long some books are from the side
Who fucking cares?

[Anonymous No.17168949]

>>17168934
me

[Anonymous No.17168990]

I got Anthony Kenny's History of Philosophy, LLPSI, and Wheelock's Latin.

Hopefully, I can finally get around to doing the /lit/ meme path properly, and so on, I know Latin is not Greek, rather than just skimming random journal articles etc.

[Anonymous No.17169915]

>>17167380
Pale Fire, very nice. That and Ada are Nabokov's best novels.

>>17168547
>The Sot-Weed Factor
Very fucking nice.

>>17168795
Really good shit all around. I know some people don't like Murakami but he's writes some of the most simply enjoyable novels I've read.

[Anonymous No.17170149]

few of these i've already read but I thought i'd be vain and make it look pretty and pseudy

[Anonymous No.17170152]

No Exit is a shit play

[Anonymous No.17170166]

damn i'm such a vain bitch
>>17168795
you'll fucking hate Italy by the start of next year
>>17168693
couldn't get more East Coast than this

[Anonymous No.17170186]

>>17170149
6 being under 5 triggers me

[Anonymous No.17170197]

>>17168810
>>profit
indeed.

[Anonymous No.17170212]

>>17170149
have you already read the ones from Lem? if so, how are they? I only read Solaris from him and its still one of my favorite sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.17170218]

>>17168693
Watcha gonna be writing in that moleskin?

[Anonymous No.17170237]

>>17170212
I watched the Solaris movie and thought it was too subtle, I read Cyberiad and thought it was a blast and i'm definitely looking for a reread.
As for Fiasco, i'm currently beginning to read it. Seems more serious.

Lem generally is the best sci-fi author normoïds have never heard of.

[Anonymous No.17170240]

>>17168693
oh nice, i've been trying to find a nice looking copy of wiseblood myself

[Anonymous No.17170271]

>>17170212
Also to clarify on Cyberiad: it's basically two friends being ironic and going around being whack with a lot of technobabble from an author who's scientifically educated

it's a medieval setting parodying modern archetypes like intellectuals and decadent countries
there's a part about dragon hunting and probability of dragons existing and not existing at any given time and it makes for some funny, yet retarded reading

another part is about this king who has been dethroned for being a tyrant and then one of the tinkerers pitying him, invents a computer game simulating a kingdom which begs the question what conscious really means and also has inspired Sims, apparently

[Anonymous No.17170278]

Some stuff from christmas and the COIL book that just came in which is super nice

[Anonymous No.17170286]

>>17170278
what's the symbol book left?
also you're probably gay?

[Anonymous No.17170307]

>>17170286
it's basically a giant art and archive book on the group COIL. It's called "THE UNIVERSE IS A HAUNTED HOUSE : COIL through their art & archives".

[Anonymous No.17170803]

bump

[Anonymous No.17170818]

>>17168798
what else can we do to read books that weren't written in our languages? learning the language is a whole other monster, and looking at summaries feel disingenuous

[Anonymous No.17170916]

>>17170818
learn the language

[Anonymous No.17171421]

>>17170818
Learn the language.

[Anonymous No.17171428]

>>17170916
>>17171421
Fuck that, I'm not learning another language just to read a book

[Anonymous No.17171779]

>>17171421
>>17170916
Cringe and fedorapilled

[Anonymous No.17172187]

>>17171428
Do you only know English? If you have time to read you have time to learn

[Anonymous No.17172285]

>>17170916
>>17171421
not everyone is a neet faggot, some people have jobs, responsibilities and hobbies

[Anonymous No.17172307]

my haul

[Anonymous No.17172376]

>>17172187
It takes a huge amount of time to become fluent in a new language.

[Anonymous No.17172402]

>>17170278
England's Hidden Reverse? Did you get the last one you bastard??

[Anonymous No.17172434]

>>17168798
t. american who barely speaks English, let alone another language. If you actually read anything you wouldn't be on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.17172455]

Right here's what I read in December

[Anonymous No.17172496]

>>17172455
So you're the based polishposter always posting on these threads. Good taste anon

[Anonymous No.17172619]

>>17170166
So East, that I'm across the pond. Wanted to supplement my reading (fiction and literary criticism) with some non-fiction to learn a bit more about the world.

>>17170218
Thought I'd start a diary this year.

>>17170240
Faber modern classics are nice. Compact size, too.

[Anonymous No.17172649]

I intend to read 100 pages of tennis book every month. The Melville collection is crazy good and my first time reading him. I think I really do need to read the whale book.

[Anonymous No.17173114]

>>17172455
Finally someone who posts shit they actually read instead of shit they'll never actually read.

[Anonymous No.17173139]

>>17168798
shut up

[Anonymous No.17173151]

>>17168934
I find it interesting.

[Anonymous No.17173160]

>>17172496
thanks luv

[Anonymous No.17173170]

>>17168693
>Guns Germs and Steel

[Anonymous No.17173175]

>>17172434
>>17173139
t. monolingual cucks

[Anonymous No.17173208]

>>17172307
so english it hurts lad

[Anonymous No.17173276]

>>17173170
It's not that bad.

[Anonymous No.17173288]

>>17172307
I don't mean to be rude anon, but do you have down syndrome? I only ask because this haul is almost identical to my cousin's, and he's quite a high functioning downie.

[Anonymous No.17173801]

>>17170307
Whoa that's so fucking sick I love coil

[Anonymous No.17174185]

>>17173175
t. larp

[Anonymous No.17174217]

>>17168798
>tfw you don’t know ancient greek or latin but enjoy the translations anyway

[Anonymous No.17174398]

>>17172402
Already have owned that one for a few years now actually. You should deffinetly get it when you can it's great.

[Anonymous No.17174669]

Current stacks 1/2

[Anonymous No.17174680]

>>17174669
2/2
Also fuck this lab rat book, goes downhill with the author's personal bias

[Anonymous No.17174697]

I've basically only been re-reading and re-reading Homer, Virgil, and Ovid since September, so I decided to go deep dick. Pic is old but Euripides IV and a complete plays of Aristophanes arrived to cap it all off some time after this.

[Anonymous No.17175040]

>>17168547
The War with the Newts is a good pickup. I don't know how good translations are of Tres tristes tigres because it's an extremely esoteric Cuban book with a lot of Cuban idioms and expressions.
>>17172649
So 3 pages of Infinite Jest a day? It's really not that hard anon.

[Anonymous No.17175085]

>>17174680
how is The Myth of German Villainy?

[Anonymous No.17175141]

Christmas haul:
>Infintie Space on a Palm's worth of Silk - On classical Chinese poetry in Hungarian translation
I've been meaning to get this thing for quite a while now, because the topic itself is interesting, especially how the author examines the translations of giants like Kosztolányi.
>Saltykov-Shchedrin - The Golovlyov Family
It was a recommendation, but I think you can't go wrong with 19th century Russian lit.
My literature teacher used to say
>A mediocre artist in 19th century Russia is equivalent to a great western artist
>The Analects of Confucius
It's a bilingual edition. I read the analects in different translations three times already, and hopefully in the coming years I'll be able to tackle the original too.
>Mo Di - Writings
It's a small selections Mo Di's writings. It was pretty cheap.

[Anonymous No.17175316]

>>17175085
It's pretty good, deffinetly worth checking out for sure.

[Anonymous No.17175437]

>>17174697
Damn Theogony is is not as long as I had imagined

[Anonymous No.17175941]

>>17175141
nearly perfect framing on the pic. nice job anon

[Anonymous No.17176103]

>>17175141
Aesthetic

[Anonymous No.17176180]

>>17175316
qrd on it?

[Anonymous No.17176385]

>>17172649
>100 pages a month
why bother? it's not worth a year of your life, anon.

[Anonymous No.17176582]

>>17168810
Never in the book did he LARP about anything. It was not a book about isolation retard, it was about simple living.

[Anonymous No.17177860]

Bump

[Anonymous No.17178061]

I'm really enjoying the shadow of the torturer

[Anonymous No.17178064]

>>17168693
Cool

[Anonymous No.17178083]

Didn’t get any books for Christmas
:(

[Anonymous No.17178677]

>>17168587
>why doesn't everyone just be a spoiled rich boy and fuck off to the woods for a little while bro?

[Anonymous No.17179249]

>>17167380
getting more books tmrw (probably pnin, ada, and walden, maybe some chekhov) very excited

[Anonymous No.17179262]

>>17168693
kys

[Anonymous No.17179282]

>>17168693
ah i have a copy of a good man is hard to find !

[Anonymous No.17180883]

>>17179249
Good selection there fren

[Anonymous No.17180891]

>>17178083
Why

[Anonymous No.17181517]

>>17174697
Based selection

[Wojakposter No.17181694]

My christmas stack

>>17173170
Its good anon, you should read it

[Anonymous No.17181794]

>>17172307
Do you also enjoy Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You?

[Anonymous No.17181828]

>>17181794
>Mock the Week
not him, but damn you mentioning this made me sad. it used to be so good...

[Wojakposter No.17182086]

Show me what you've got

[Anonymous No.17182266]

>>17181694
Mort is a fun read, I’ve heard it’s a good place to start but I haven’t read any others

[Wojakposter No.17182335]

>>17182266
I just read them in the order they were in released in, although I guess it doesn't matter for most. 1+ 2 were good, 3 didn't really had the same spark for me, but now this one has it again. I'm only 10 pages on but I'm already sure it's gonna be good

[Anonymous No.17182461]

>>17168798
based
>>17172434
cope
>>17173139
cope

[Anonymous No.17183759]

Bump

[Anonymous No.17183995]

>>17167380
Are these supposed to be for what you're currently reading, just bought, or planning on reading? I've never understood the purpose.

[Anonymous No.17184410]

>>17183995
Mine is what I’ve got for Christmas, so generally the next few books I plan on reading. I suppose some people could showcase a nice find from a charity shop or a rare book too.

[Anonymous No.17184431]

>>17167380
Whats the idea of this thread? Is it just asking what youre reading right now?
>Moby Dick
>a William Blake collection

[Anonymous No.17184613]

>>17178061
Interesting. Whats Maus about?

[Anonymous No.17184626]

>>17174697
Probably the best stack i have seen posted

[Anonymous No.17185103]

>>17172376
motivation, anon, motivation

[Anonymous No.17185473]

Not pictured Great expectations.

[Anonymous No.17185513]

>>17184613
Its a graphic novel about the holocaust

[Anonymous No.17185516]

Kindle paperwhite chad here. Don't need a stack of paper to show people I read.

[Anonymous No.17186064]

>>17185516

and yet you need to show off to anonymous retards?
wow

[Anonymous No.17186117]

>>17174398
Cool stuff anon. I don't know anyone IRL who is into TG/Coil

[Anonymous No.17186162]

I've been trying to move beyond just lit-fic and horror into different genres so I'm giving a bunch of fantasy and scifi a try

[Anonymous No.17186987]

>>17186117
Thanks anon, I am just a super industrial/ noise nerd and love reading about music. Plus the scene touches so many authors and directors and artists. it's How I started reading stuff by J.G ballard, and dennis cooper, and watching pasolini and derek jarman films. Amazing stuff!

[Anonymous No.17187058]

>>17167380
Hi, good evening fellow spengs

[Anonymous No.17187114]

>>17185516

A kindle is even worse than reading a pdf from a computer monitor. You're not shown enough text at once on a small tablet, and it slows down your pacing

[Anonymous No.17187122]

>>17186987

I'm into a lot of this stuff, except the fashion and I am not gay

[Anonymous No.17187325]

>>17187122
just havent met the right guy yet

[Anonymous No.17187870]

>>17167380
Stack is going down quickly but i got new ones for christmas and new year.

[Anonymous No.17187934]

>>17187870
What else is included in Dagon besides Dagon? I know it has to be more because the story titled Dagon is only like 7 pages max.

[Anonymous No.17188031]

>>17187934
Many short ones, 31 stories in this one. I'm reading Reanimator right now.

[Anonymous No.17188047]

>>17187934
30 my bad.
Dagon (Dagon, 1917)
La Tombe (The Tomb, 1917)
Polaris (Polaris, 1918)
La Malédiction de Sarnath (The Doom that Came to Sarnath, 1919)
Le Bateau blanc (The White Ship, 1919)
Les Chats d'Ulthar (Cats of Ulthar, 1920)
Celephais (Celephais, 1920)
De l'au-delà (From Beyond, 1920)
Le Temple (The Temple, 1920)
L'Arbre (The Three, 1920)
Les Autres Dieux (The Other Gods, 1921)
La Quête d'Iranon (The Quest of Iranon, 1921)
Herbert West, réanimateur (Herbert West, Reanimator, 1921-1922)
Hypnos (Hypnos, 1922)
Le Festival (The Festival, 1923)
Prisonnier des pharaons (Imprisoned with the Pharaons, 1924)
Lui (He, 1925)
Horreur à Red Hook (The Horror at Red Hook, 1925)
L'Étrange maison haute dans la brume (The Strange High House in the Mist, 1926)
Dans les murs d'Eryx (In the Walls of Eryx, 1935)1
Le Clergyman maudit (The Evil Clergyman ou The Wicked Clergyman, 1937)
La Bête de la caverne (The Beast in the Cave, 1905)
L'Alchimiste (The Alchemist, 1908)
La Poésie et les dieux (Poetry and Gods, 1920)
La Rue (The Street, 1920)
La Transition de Juan Romero (The Transition of Juan Romero, 1919)
Azathoth (Azathoth, probablement 1922)
Le Descendant (The Descendant, probablement 1926)
Le Livre (The Book, probablement 1934)
La Chose dans la clarté lunaire (The Thing in the Moonlight, 1927)

[Anonymous No.17188069]

>>17185516
Supremely based

>>17187114
>Can't handle tablet reading
never gonna make it. Today's ereaders are pretty good, unlike the first gen ones. For a lot of older people with bad vision they're easier to read on than paper.

[Anonymous No.17188577]

>>17185473
>Not pictured Great expectations.
I was expecting it.

[Anonymous No.17189741]

>>17188047
Excellent selection

[Anonymous No.17190166]

>>17189741
I hope it is i just started reading it :)

[Anonymous No.17190710]

>>17190166
I’ve got 3 compilations but The Alchemist isn’t in any of them, feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.17191085]

>>17190710
I already have 3 books from lovecraft i think that's the last one i'll read, if i need more i'll just get the stories i'm missing online, they're not hard to find.

[Anonymous No.17191094]

>>17190710
I have 2 differents stories in 2 differents books the cover are bad you actually need to check inside which one they added in extra...

[Anonymous No.17191127]

>>17168693
>GGS
>the world's biggest "evolution stops at the neck" argument / coping mechanism

[Anonymous No.17191157]

>>17168810
Heartily kek’d anon

[Anonymous No.17191210]

>>17168693
1599 is pretty good although I'm not fond of his Hamlet revision theory (basically that Shakespeare revised the play and made Hamlet a weaker character to make a better drama)

[Anonymous No.17191789]

>>17191085
Not one for reading at a pc my dude

[Anonymous No.17191946]

I don't usually make stacks, but here are some of the books I'd like to finally get around to reading this year.

[Anonymous No.17191980]

>>17168693
>Goys, Gays, and Semen

lmao

[Anonymous No.17192363]

>>17191789
yikes