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Stack thread?

>> No.18170020
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I'll probably finish Ubik tomorrow and then go back to Nietzsche

>> No.18170035

pls validate muh consoomption guys

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>YASSSS LETS SHOW OFF OUR NEW PURCHASES!!

>> No.18170045
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I never understood what these stack threads were about
are these books that you've just bought or are currently reading or what?

>> No.18170046

>>18170037
Buying things is nice. Maybe you should stop being lazy and get a job so you can buy nice things instead of being salty.

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>> No.18170132

>>18170045
It could be either of those I guess. I've ways liked these threads because I like looking at books and you get some nice recs, specially from non-native English speakers. It's also one of the more literature-focused threads in this board desu.

>> No.18170153

>>18170132
>It's also one of the more literature-focused threads in this board desu.
what, you don't like the endless religion threads?

>> No.18170159

>>18170020
What's the Riverside Shakespeare about? I love the big picture on the spine.

>> No.18170201

>>18170159
It's his complete works

>> No.18170254

>>18170080
>uncontrollable screeching

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>>18169913
Nice Canetti. What's that Penguin edition of Mao II though: CAF? never heard of that imprint.
>>18170020
Ubik seemed like a pale version of his earlier work imo. If you're into that and Jung you might be interested in the novel at the top of my stack, The Manticore.
>>18170037
Suck my balls.
>>18170080
Are those novelizations of comics? Wtf.

>> No.18170270

>>18170256
"Contemporary American Fiction". Never heard of it either until now, it's not even the cover I ordered. Thriftbooks does that a lot.

>> No.18170455

>>18170020
yawn

>> No.18170460

>>18170080
based

>> No.18170514

>>18170256
>The Manticore
cool ill look into it

>> No.18170535

>>18169913
2/10
>>18170020
3/10
>>18170080
4/10
>>18170256
2/10
Shit thread so far.

>> No.18170561

>>18170535
post stack

>> No.18170566

You guys really went all in on larp even buoght the books you claim to read that's A for effort
Where do you place the books so people will noticed them?
And does that really allow me to have no personally or identity?

>> No.18170571

Is it weird that I never buy more than 1 book at a time? As I’m finishing a book, I order whatever I’m in the mood for and don’t feel obligated to read a book 2 months ago that I’ve lost interest in

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>>18170561

>> No.18170576

>>18170566
only 3 people besides me have been inside of my apartment in the last 3 years.

>> No.18170593
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>>18170574

>> No.18170605

>>18170576
Only two people have been in my house in the past five years and one of them is my tulpa.

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>>18170615

>> No.18170635

>>18170629
you have to study the ops
and respect their stupidity

>> No.18170686

>>18169913
Stack thread? more like fag thread

>> No.18170699

>>18170576
So I don't need a display case?
Do I just upload the pictures I have taken to reddit or something
I'm new to this real life role-playing thing
Is there anything else that I would need

>> No.18170698

>>18170615
literally gay books. milo lmao. machiavelli? ur not a politician ur a retard. then again politicians are retards
>>18170535
0/10 stfu nigger

>> No.18171009

>>18170574
is this just 1000 pages of Twitter schizo theory?

>> No.18171039

>>18170615
lot of cringe, lot of based here. don't know what the fuck to make of this

>> No.18171075
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all thanks to my public library :^)
>madness in civilization
probably not going to read the whole thing, just the chapters that interest me. that's the beauty of non-fiction fellas. it's good from what I've read so far.
>The Gambler
3 chapters in, great stuff, first time committing to Dosto.
>The Sea
recommended this by another anon, have not started yet.

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Halfway through some of them. Particularly like the Taschen book and how it orders the images.

>> No.18171680
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>> No.18172149

>>18170080
I had no idea X-Men stories got turned into books. Are they any good?
>Golden
Okay, they should be shit, but are they any good?

>> No.18172178

>>18170256
Read Buckley.

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>> No.18173747

Which stack in this thread is the most based so far?

>> No.18173766

>>18170046
The cringiest post I have read in 2 months 14 days.

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>>18173227

>> No.18173932

>>18170080
Based

>> No.18173945

>>18171039
Nothing based there, literally all cringe

>> No.18173948

>>18170615
So you're telling us you're a hyper-capitalist Asian?

>> No.18173960

>>18170037
I buy my books from thrift stores.

>> No.18173974

>>18173227
Absolute lad/10. Nice Irving.

>> No.18174261

>>18173960
And how many of them do you finish?
What the fuck is it with this place and having like 10 books in a "stack", yeah sure you collect some books you gonna read should be 1-3 books, not 10 books that just stay on your desk for 4 months and you don't open them.
"But but I found them cheap and I might read them in the future" stfu, it still makes you a consoomer.

>> No.18174910

>>18170615
Oh fuck me, I used to be like this
Thankfully I'm in between third position/reactionary in political thought

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>>18174261
>And how many of them do you finish?
>What the fuck is it with this place and having like 10 books in a "stack", yeah sure you collect some books you gonna read should be 1-3 books, not 10 books that just stay on your desk for 4 months and you don't open them.
>"But but I found them cheap and I might read them in the future" stfu, it still makes you a consoomer.

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just a few, i'm reading a lot more on my ereader + computer/phone.

>> No.18175692

>>18171078
that tragedy book looks like exactly what i need

>>18171075
i love both those stories, enjoy

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Rate him

>> No.18175766

>>18175722
he has good taste in books

>> No.18175781

>>18175722
pretty cute but im allergic

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reading for summer

>> No.18176450

>>18174261
>And how many of them do you finish?
lots of 'em.

>> No.18176454

>>18175722
Looks like he says the N word.

>> No.18176467

>>18173227
Gebaseerd

>> No.18176472

>>18170615
You get all those for your 16th birthday?

>> No.18176514

>>18170615
>>18170629
>>18170698
>>18171039
>>18173948
>>18174910
>>18176472
Are you all tourists? This old meme pic gets posted in every stack thread

>> No.18176628

>>18176514
I was just playing along mate. it's a 2nd level bait waiting for some fag like you to act superior for being on 4chan for a long time.

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>>18176628

>> No.18177082

>>18176514
basically

haven't been on here in years

>> No.18177100

>>18177082
Fair enough

>> No.18178487

>>18176382
Nice Burnham i just picked that up myself. I want to read him and Sam Francis this summer.

>> No.18178491

>>18176382
>Assmann

>> No.18178714

>>18170046
people who spend a lot are usually compensating for something. see niggers

>> No.18178739

>>18176382
Ass Man lol

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A modest update to my previous stack image from the last thread. I finished re-reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and have here replaced it with this new volume of Origen which just arrived a couple of days ago. I read about five of Eckhart's sermons today and I'm feeling like cracking the Origen open after I refill my covfefe.

Bless

>> No.18178834

>>18178714
This is true. For example, I bought a house to compensate for being (or perhaps, not wanting to be) homeless.

>> No.18178882

>>18178834
are you a retard? obviously a house is a good investment, im talking about useless shit. You sound like a defensive retard

>> No.18178910

>>18170574
10/10

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>> No.18179230

>>18179183
epic

>> No.18179249

>>18175722
He looks like hes a relative to niggerman.

>> No.18179265

I've only just started collecting books, rate my first 5
>inb4 lol game of thrones

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>>18179265
Oops forgot pic

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>>18171078
Based.

>>18175722
Extremely based pussy.

>>18178827
Based.

>>18179183
Way too colorful. Not based.

>> No.18179325

>>18170045
>are these books that you've just bought or are currently reading or what?
The two are one in the same.

>> No.18179346

>>18174261
Last year when lockdowns were first declared I decided to stock up on some books before Amazon got completely flooded with orders and their labor got impacted from false illnesses. I ordered about 10-12 books constituting around 2400 pages and that was my stack.
I finished the whole thing before that self-same month was even finished.

Go project your delinquent (perhaps even non-existent?) reading habits on some other board, tourist.

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Posted this in the last thread. Have finished Gabriela clove and cinnamon, Explosion in a cathedral and the short stories by Flannery O'Connor. Decided to borrow 'Dona Flor and her two husbands' by Jorge Amado from the library which I'm currently reading. Next up is probably Ada.

>> No.18179399

>>18169913
How is The investigation? One of few Lem books I haven't read yet

>>18171078
Shit

>>18171680
Good

>>18179183
Shit

>>18179291
Shit

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>>18174910
>Thankfully I'm in between third position/reactionary in political thought

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>>18173227
>notities

>> No.18179514

>>18179265
You don't collect them, you read them.
Also, abandon pop fantasy; the rest is a good start.

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>> No.18179578

>>18179520
Shit

>> No.18179586

It's like most of you are trying your best to come off as pretentious douchebags no one wants to hang around with. Throw your shitty philosophy and political books in the bin and read some fiction you virgins.

>> No.18179833

>>18179586
I miss when I used to think that the majority of people on a literature board would read because they enjoyed reading and not just to make themselves look better to others.

>> No.18179853

>>18179183
I want to get the bottom two but the Borzoi book looks retarded

>> No.18179879

>>18179586
Philosophy and politics are fiction because it's just some dumb shit made up by man

>> No.18179895

>>18179325
>he thinks people on here actually read
oh nigger child

>> No.18179897

I've never understood the point of these threads.

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>>18179895
I read of my stack for 3 hours today.

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>>18179922
yet you type like an illiterate

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>>18179931
No u

>> No.18179958

>>18179931
>>18179953
u both suc diks haha

>> No.18179970

>>18170080
based chad

>> No.18180020

>>18176382
Campbell and Burnham are both great reads, though Campbell is harder to get into. Enjoy.

>> No.18180531

>>18173227
Based Irving. How is the Goebbels one? I really want it

>> No.18180587

>>18179183
based
>>18179853
I read it, it's good

>> No.18180656

>>18178827
>Origen
Unfathomably BASED.

>> No.18180767

>>18179273
No lotr?

>> No.18180982
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>> No.18181135

>>18175722
Based cat

>> No.18181444

>>18179346
Im gonna bet you came here during the lockdowns, this place really filled up lately. We usually had some good conversations and book tips in these threads. Now it is this consoomer hell from pol, thanks for your contribution.

>> No.18181620

>>18170037
>on /lit/
>Noooooo buying books is consooooming
holy shit get your head checked faggot

>> No.18182352

>>18181444
>muh /pol/
Go take your pills

>> No.18182709

>>18180982
nice

>> No.18182815
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Meine deutschen Bücher.

>> No.18182960

>>18176514
No? I merely commented on it
>>18179434
sure buddy, I read more than you

>> No.18183818

>>18182815
Based.

>> No.18184178

>>18180982
Why is your edition of The Possessed bigger than War and Peace? Its half as many pages if I remember correctly

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>>18169913
Tis my "going to read when I'm done with my thesis" stack + collectibles!
>>18170037
But libraries are closed. Unless you actually steal them from your local bookstore, Tyrone.

>> No.18184224

>>18170256
Not him, but they're not novelizations. Just licensed novels using the characters. Don't blame me, I don't read them.

>> No.18184790

>>18184178
Differences in type size and paper thickness I guess. I agree it seems odd.

>> No.18184939

Perhaps not the right thread, but what's the best translations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's books?

>> No.18184957

>>18184939
IMHO Dostoyevsky is fine with any translator. I did not like Garnett though. Dostoyevsky sounds stilted and awkward in any translation. You don’t read him for the words, but those powerful moments

>> No.18184983

>>18184957
Ah ok, because I've seen discussions of people praising Pevear and Volokhonsky, Oliver Ready, or David Mcduff for their translations. I just kinda wondered if there is an optimum one to read.

>> No.18184992

>>18184983
It’s all preference. I’ve read Avsey, P&V, Garnett, Maguire, Ready, Katz and Slater but they all blend together as I don’t think one stands above another. The epilogue of TBK is the epilogue of TBK no matter how a sentence is phrased. I did not care for Garnett, even though I think she’s fine for Chekhov and Tolstoy

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>>18185039

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>> No.18185148

>>18185039
Why do you only have one volume of The Man Without Qualities?

>> No.18185152
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>> No.18185595

>>18179273
swap out game of thrones for LOTR, not worth reading because the series isn't over

>> No.18185618

>>18185152
This is a shelf, and an incredibly famished shelf at that, not a stack. Perhaps if you rotated the image.

>> No.18185655

>>18185053
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvk

>> No.18185868

>>18185618
That’s my dresser and these are the books on top of it

>> No.18186459

>>18170080
based

>> No.18186463

>>18170615
cringe

>> No.18186477

>>18175722

good toxoplasmosis boi/10

>> No.18186945

>>18185053
Is nobody going to tell him that he should more to Europe? Or, at the very least, work from home in the U.S. while also teaching at an European university?
If all else fails, he should be able to find work in a White-majority community college.

>> No.18187045

>>18185868
A false stack, indeed

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>>18176628
>TWAS MEARLY ACTING A RETARD

but also >>18176514