Christmas Haul

[Anonymous No.19628400]

Am I going to make it, lit bros? I have just gotten into reading over the past 6 months and have only read beyond good and evil + Mein Kampf so far

[Anonymous No.19628415]

>>19628400
yea, it's a good start.

[Anonymous No.19628430]

my haul
I'll try reading all of them this year<span class="fortune" style="color:#fc2d53">

Your fortune: Happy Hanukkah![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19628480]

>>19628400
You are definitely going to make it, bro. That is a great start.

[Anonymous No.19628589]

>>19628430
Why are you reading Nietzsche in English?

[Anonymous No.19628595]

>>19628400
Rate mine

[Anonymous No.19628598]

>>19628595

[Anonymous No.19628731]

>>19628595
>not in italian

[Anonymous No.19628736]

>>19628595
Basiert

[Anonymous No.19628832]

this is mine, mostly from my mom

[Anonymous No.19628898]

>>19628731
>Nooo you have to read in a language that you are not familiar with so every little detail goes straight over your head

[Anonymous No.19628959]

>>19628400

Don't worry, fellow /lit/bro. Everybody's going to make it. In a way, we're always already making it. Good job on not hauling more than two books. Whenevery I buy more than two books there are some books that I undoubtedly not read to completion.

I like the recognisability of the left cover design. They say that I should not judge a book by it's cover - and I am not doing that, I am just liking its cover.

Good job on reading Mein Kampf, or good job on reading it to completion - I could not get past the fact that my version was printed in German and that my skills in the German languages are 'nicht so gut'. Try to not be bothered by people who say what you can and can read, or are even afraid of what you read. I am reading BIJBEL now and I have the weird small feeling that people where I am are afraid of me reading it, although I have read two other different versions already. I am fine.

Sorry, I'll start a blog when I have the money. Have fun reading these wintery days and beyond! Warm greetings from an Anonymous reader and noob writer from an Alocal place. Merry Christmas.

[Anonymous No.19629014]

>>19628430
Where did you get that copy of Moby Dick? Looks beautiful.

[Anonymous No.19629043]

Mom got me the books I asked for during the pre Thanksgiving sale.
I must have been a good boy

[Anonymous No.19629064]

>>19628959
>Good job on not hauling more than two books.
I just have an understanding that I will complete minimal recreational reading during my academic semester, so I intend on finishing Notes from the Underground by the end of my holidays and then having Crime and Punishment prepared for the end of the semester. I don't want to get too ahead of myself and begin stockpiling books endlessly.
>Try to not be bothered by people who say what you can and can read, or are even afraid of what you read.
I seldom read in public places, but occasionally I will be asked about my reading from a friend/colleague/date. I have sufficient confidence in articulating precisely why I am interested in reading what I read, paired with the charisma to subtly redpill whoever I am talking to more often that not. From my perspective, if somebody is put-off by my reading, they almost certainly are not the type of person that I would enjoy spending any time with.
Merry Christmas, anon. Enjoy your holidays and hold your loved ones near!

[Anonymous No.19629090]

>>19628832
Nice Mishima

[Anonymous No.19629112]

>>19629014
not him but I think it's the Penguin English Classics range

[Anonymous No.19629139]

>>19629112
What gave it away, was it the picture of a penguin on the spine?

But yeah, it's this line:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/penenglib/the-penguin-english-library.html

[Anonymous No.19629155]

mine
I'm very happy
Merry Xmas friends

[Anonymous No.19629177]

>>19628430
>Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Nice one. I've looking out for the 75th anniversary edition one.

[Anonymous No.19629178]

>>19628400
No haul for me, I was gifted an ebook instead
Guess I'll just fall for the meme too
At least reading will be dramatically cheaper now

[Anonymous No.19629186]

Yi Jing with commentaries,
I'm very happy.

[Anonymous No.19629207]

>>19628832
>it's all gay fiction
Does your Mom know?

[Anonymous No.19629218]

>>19629043
>Tarka the otter
Am jelly, merry Christmas<span class="fortune" style="color:#d0aa01">

Your fortune: Krampus is coming to your house![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19629222]

>>19629178
Ebook or ebook reader?<span class="fortune" style="color:#ec117e">

Your fortune: Happy Kwanzaa![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19629360]

>>19629207
if she does, she never brings it up or hints at it

[Anonymous No.19629377]

>>19629218
Tarka is my first pick. As soon as I finish Snow Country

[Anonymous No.19629422]

>>19629178
>I was gifted an ebook instead
why would your family spend money on a book tell them to refund it since you can download it for free

[Anonymous No.19629875]

>>19629222
>>19629422
I meant a kindle my bad. I'm new to this<span class="fortune" style="color:#01d0aa">

Your fortune: You're on the Elf Watchlist.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19629947]

>>19628589
Hallo, mein Bruder. Was ist dein Lieblingsbuch von ihm?

[Anonymous No.19629964]

>>19629947
I don't speak German. I was wondering why that guy purchased Nietzsche in German when he plans on reading Bertold Brecht, among others, in German.

[Anonymous No.19629973]

>>19629964
Maybe his German is not so good. Brecht is more easy than Nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.19630564]

Merry Christmas /lit/

[Anonymous No.19630574]

Mum got me John Donnes complete poetry, Ted Chiangs "Exhalation", Nikolai Leskov "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," and Guido Morselli "Dissipatio H.G."

[Anonymous No.19630600]

>>19630564
Nice haul friend, merry Christmas to you also.<span class="fortune" style="color:#01aad0">

Your fortune: You got an extra thick slice of fruitcake.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19630603]

>>19630564
Also got my parents Don Quixote and a collection of H.G. Wells novels

[Anonymous No.19630616]

>>19630600
Thanks

[Anonymous No.19630667]

Christmas haul 1/2

[Anonymous No.19630669]

>>19630667
2/2

[Anonymous No.19630692]

>>19628430
Wait a minute
Are you german or anglo? This makes no sense

[Anonymous No.19630746]

>>19628400
>read beyond good and evil + Mein Kampf so far
Good start, reading a tranny and a divinely inspired political leader. Now try a good book too.

[Anonymous No.19631201]

>>19628400

What I got<span class="fortune" style="color:#7f11ec">

Your fortune: You're getting a lump of coal in your stocking![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19631212]

>>19631201
have you read any jung before?

[Anonymous No.19631223]

>>19628400
That is a nice edition of C&P. Can I ask which one it is?

[Anonymous No.19631235]

[Anonymous No.19631237]

>>19631235
Nice. I would like to get into Patrick Suskind.

[Anonymous No.19631240]

>>19628400
Why notes from the underground is bigger than C&P ???<span class="fortune" style="color:#aad001">

Your fortune: You're on the naughty list![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19631241]

>>19631235
I loved the collector<span class="fortune" style="color:#fc2d53">

Your fortune: Happy Hanukkah![/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19631380]

>>19631235
Does Penguin not make or ship the modern classics for the US? I never see them here.

[Anonymous No.19631418]

thanks mom!!!!!

[Anonymous No.19631424]

>>19631418
I love moms so freaking much

[Anonymous No.19631425]

>>19631212
Yea I have read man and his symbols and am finishing memories, dreams, reflections soon.

I already have psychology and alchemy and am probably going to read that prior to Aion.

[Anonymous No.19631427]

>>19631418
Nice. I have that edition of Baudelaire.

[Anonymous No.19631436]

>>19631380
You can get them easily on Amazon or book depository in the USA. They do say Penguin Random House UK inside

[Anonymous No.19631443]

I asked for a couple of them but my mom tries really hard to surprise me. She usually just looks up top 10 lists and picks from there

[Anonymous No.19631472]

>>19630669
Is that the screenplay for Le Samourai or are you trying to slip a DVD in with your purported haul?
If the latter, did you really think that /lit/ would fall for such a ruse?

[Anonymous No.19631489]

>>19628430
yagmi. Merry Christmas anon

[Anonymous No.19631514]

>>19628400
Yes, those are life changing books, and I would recommend NFTU immediately before CAP

[Anonymous No.19631523]

>>19631443
Man travels with charley is fucking superb. So much heart, and a lot of depth that I didn’t expect

[Anonymous No.19631562]

>>19631418
> Mom sees book cover
> "Oh gee, my anon seems to be into some hardcore shit"
> Mom randomly flips to a random passage from Meltdown
> "uh ... 'Meltdown has a place for you as a schizophrenic HIV+ transsexual chinese-latino stim-addicted LA hooker with implanted mirrorshades and a bad attitude.'"
> Mom knows you're gay now

[Anonymous No.19631707]

>>19631472
it's a DVD. I also have another DVD in there. Le Samourai is basically literature

[Anonymous No.19631716]

>>19628400
Bretty good, loving The Bible and The Holy Fathers so far.

[Anonymous No.19631719]

>>19628400
>Mein Kampf
Were you as bored as I was? It was insufferable. I hope the editor got Zyklon Omega for his work.

[Anonymous No.19632299]

>>19629186
Tőkei Ferencnek van egy három kötetes kínai filozófia szöveggyűjteménye kommentárokkal. Érdemes lehet beszerezni. Egy ezresért vettem meg anno mind a hármat.

[Anonymous No.19633175]

>>19631425
Should probably read the archetypes and the collective unconscious before aion as well. They are 2 parts of the same volume

[Anonymous No.19633231]

Bottom 5 on the right were gifts, rest things I ordered for myself.

[Anonymous No.19633246]

I got Goddesses by Joseph Campbell and The Hunter Gathers Guide to the 21st Century by Brett Weinstein and his wife.

[Anonymous No.19633247]

My 2cents

[Anonymous No.19633266]

>>19633247
You should get the Spawn comics while you're reading go to hell and back books lmao

[Anonymous No.19633273]

>>19633266
PArdon?

[Anonymous No.19633280]

>>19633273
Bill and ted 2: hyperted

[Anonymous No.19633321]

New translation, I'm going to reread War & Peace

[Anonymous No.19633366]

>>19631240
Perhaps in surface area, but accordingly, C&P is > 700 pages and notes is 126 pages

[Anonymous No.19633659]

>>19628959
>I am reading BIJBEL now and I have the weird small feeling that people where I am are afraid of me reading it,
Nobody cares

[Anonymous No.19633680]

>>19628430
Just stopping by to shit on der Richter und sein Henker. Why it that a classic.

[Anonymous No.19633726]

>>19633175
Yea good point - ideally I also want to read a bunch more scripture/ biblical analysis before Aion as well.

[Anonymous No.19633731]

Tell me I'm cool and intelligent. I'm American btw

[Anonymous No.19633783]

>>19630746
>implying a one-balled sadomasochist is different from a tranny
kek

[Anonymous No.19633801]

>>19633731
>cool and intelligent
You fucked up something as simple as a stack photo

[Anonymous No.19633809]

>>19633247
based

[Anonymous No.19633826]

>>19633801
Should he have posted the picture right side up so we'd have to read the titles upside down? I think anon did a good job.

[Anonymous No.19634247]

>>19633826
Why did he put the books upside-down in the first place?

[Anonymous No.19634544]

>>19630692
bilingual citizen of USofA (born) and Kingdom of Bavaria (live)
anyways, anglos are germanic
checkmate chud

>>19629964
>>19628589
>>19629973
because I like the covers
simple as

I could [should] have gotten German versions of Homer but 'Ilias' instead of 'the Iliad' sounds like a gay romance novel so no
sugma

>>19633680
gift poison

>>19631489
Happy Julfest anon!

[Anonymous No.19634784]

>>19634544
>Kingdom of Bavaria
The Mad King ist tot

[Anonymous No.19634807]

>>19631235
Minor update

[Anonymous No.19634887]

First time in /lit/ No bully plz

[Anonymous No.19635000]

>>19634887
Post something from dnd cookbook or pdf link

[Anonymous No.19635029]

>>19635000

[Anonymous No.19635041]

>>19632299
Kösz a tippet anon, de már rég megvan. Az egyik első könyvem volt a témában.
t. Kínabuzi

[Anonymous No.19635092]

>>19633731
>Perec
You read shit literature, faggot

[Anonymous No.19635159]

im not taking pics, all of those are in polish.

i received:
proust - in search of lost time vol 1 & 2,
bronte - wuthering heights,
conrad - heart of darkness.

bronte i almost bought for myself like 2 days earlier, so it was a great gift. currently reading it. proust i already had vol 1, the same translation even, by tadeusz "dat boi" żeleński, so i guess ill give it to my local library.

i gifted:
st. irenaeus - adversus haereses,
faulkner - absalom, absalom,
faulkner - light in august,
mario puzo - the fourth k,
mario puzo - the dark arena,
olga tokarczuk - journey of the people of the book,
a book about pedagogy for me mum.

i bought most of those from a small used books store in my town that is unfortunately closing down soon :( they had a "1 pln (~0,25 usd) for every book" sale going on but i found out too late and most of the good stuff was gone already.

[Anonymous No.19635304]

>>19635159
>my town that is unfortunately closing down soon :(
I know that feel
>they had a "1 pln (~0,25 usd) for every book"
I know that feel too
Piwo kurwa zubrowka dziekuje
I was in Krakow 10 years ago, loved the place

[Anonymous No.19635595]

>>19634887
That is the thickest volume of Republic I have ever seen.

[Anonymous No.19635706]

>>19630574
Ted Chiang is based

[Anonymous No.19636051]

I don't know what to put on an amazon wishlist so all that's on there are books
>inb4 2 copies of Animal Farm

[Anonymous No.19636068]

>>19635595
Alot fo forewards, and also large typing, its thick to make you feel smart :)

[Anonymous No.19636614]

>>19634247
Because he took the picture upside down.

[Anonymous No.19636819]

posted in other thread, here is everything I got, some artbooks in the first pick and I am absolutely so happy with my stack, glad the people around me know what a degenerate I am

>>19628595
this is a wicked cool copy, is it just inferno?
>>19628832
forbidden colors is easily my favorite mishima, hope you enjoy
>>19629043
your mom is very cool, good taste
>>19630667
that videodrome blu ray is really good

[Anonymous No.19636856]

>Jens Peter Jacobsen - Niels Lyhne
>The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
>The Poetry of Rilke
>William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience
>Confucius - The Analects
>Don Quixote
That is all

[Anonymous No.19636891]

>>19636819
Not him, but the covers says divine comedy

[Anonymous No.19637510]

>>19633826
>>19636614
Am I retarded or something? What am I missing?

[Anonymous No.19638866]

>>19637510
U r retarded

[Anonymous No.19639465]

>>19638866
But the books are on the floor upside down

[Anonymous No.19639611]

>>19636819
him, its the whole thing, with paradise and purgatory, some commentary, limited edition

[Anonymous No.19639705]

>>19628595
holy shit, that edition looks amazing and even has annotations
i think i'll buy it too, although it is quite expensive for me
anything i should read beforehand?

[Anonymous No.19640212]

>>19639611
Wonder how much that cost the person who got it for you

[Anonymous No.19640549]

>>1964021
You can find a price online but the person is a family friend wealthy so I think for him it was just something he thought I’d maybe like

Needless to say he was very right

[Anonymous No.19640563]

>>19640549
Was meant for >>19640212
Phoneposting is a chore

[Anonymous No.19640581]

>>19628400
yeah youre gonna make it, just read what you want and ignore faggots shoving guides down your throat

[Anonymous No.19640939]

not that many this year.

[Anonymous No.19640964]

>>19640939
forgot to put the names in English (even though they're all quite obvious):
>The Lost Steps, by Carpentier
>The Petty Demon, by Sologub
>The Book of Monelle, by Schwob

[Anonymous No.19640980]

Boxing Day

[Anonymous No.19641276]

>>19628400
Nice picks, that's where I started with Russian lit as well. I would intersperse these with other Russians so you get some different perspectives rather than just going on a Dostoevsky marathon. I started with those two books, but then read some Tolstoy, Turgenev, Goncharov, now I'm back to Dostoevsky, reading Demons.

As for Christmas gifts, all I got was a book about growing mushrooms at home from my sister-in-law. I was happy to get it but its not really /lit/ material.

[Anonymous No.19641866]

I'm getting paid on the 30th, so I'm getting my books on January 3rd at most.

Planning to get:
>Lord of the Rings trilogy + the Hobbit
>Full Lovecraft Collections
>Books about astronomy
>Demons by Dostoyevski
>Full poetry from Nicanor Parra or Neruda.

[Anonymous No.19642181]

>someone decided we should do secret santa this year
>finally my turn
>aunt hands me my present, i can tell it's a book
>as I'm opening it "Well anon I know you like to read and I think this book could really help you!"
>finish opening it
>"How to win friends and influence people. Thanks aunt...."
>Can feel everyone laughing

[Anonymous No.19642218]

>>19631223
Macmillan collectors library. They’re tiny and the pages are a bit thin but the quality is decent

[Anonymous No.19642297]

>>19631514
Currently reading NFTU, will begin CAP when I finish the winter semester - thanks!
>>19631223
The other anon is correct, it is Macmillan
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781509827749

[Anonymous No.19642306]

>>19631719
>bored
In some ways, yes. Although, it is difficult to not be fascinated by the man's thoughts and ideas. I view it as more of a collectors item than a great literary work, I have a few copies of Mein Kampf actually.

[Anonymous No.19642362]

The Flaubert has essays from Baudelaire, lukacs, and others

[Anonymous No.19642867]

>>19628400
admittedly not just Christmas, but all from within a week of the 25th

[Anonymous No.19642877]

>>19628400
My condolences on the lame books, after all, we all know that Dosto was a degenerate pulp fiction writer who was paid by the word to fuel his insatiable gambling addiction. If you like his work you are the literary equivalent of a soccer mom picking up a harlequin romance novel in the check out line at the local super market.

[Anonymous No.19642900]

>>19630564
nice

[Anonymous No.19642906]

>>19630746
>Book has penises on the cover
Hell no, nice try, fag

[Anonymous No.19642937]

>>19634887
Piketty's Capital is very good. Lots of well supported observations on the trends of wealth and money in a globalized economy. His prescription's are "left wing" in the eyes of Americans, so /lit/ mostly hates him, but he's actually very based.

[Anonymous No.19644052]

only /lit/ gift was $25 card for amazon, not really sure what to get with as my backlog is just tremendous already and im otherwise quite poor so i will hang on to it for a rainy day i guess

[Anonymous No.19644103]

>>19628400
Crime and Punishment is a fucking BANGER

[Anonymous No.19644178]

>Got £50 from my nan

Tempted to get Pelicans complete Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.19645457]

Z

[Anonymous No.19645739]

>>19629360
>she doesn't hint at it
uh... she just outed you. She knows.

[Anonymous No.19646405]

>>19628430

>The Iliad
>Homer

>The
>Odyssey
>Homer

[Anonymous No.19646840]

>>19646405
kek

[Anonymous No.19646932]

I only read on my Kindle nowadays so I can't participate in this thread with pictures.

[Anonymous No.19646961]

>>19628598
>not blake's illustrations
>>19628595
0

[Anonymous No.19648312]

>>19628400
They got you a shitty translation