Stackie wackie thread

[Anonymous No.20013551]

[Anonymous No.20013556]

Is Vitruvius really good?

[Anonymous No.20013806]

[Anonymous No.20013809]

Can I just assemble any books together and post it? What’s the point of these threads other than to get praise from strangers who don’t read?

[Anonymous No.20013810]

>actually starting with the Greeks
Based

>getting the Penguin editions
Not so based. Should have gotten Oxford.

[Anonymous No.20013813]

>>20013810
Hackett or bust

[Anonymous No.20013905]

>>20013810
>>20013813
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
(autistic screeching)

[Anonymous No.20013912]

>>20013809
I really like showing off books that I recently bought or am reading. If you're not a fan then filter it.

>>20013810
Better introductions and footnotes? I mainly chose them because I like the way penguin blacks look and the people inside reddit told me they're decent.

[Anonymous No.20013969]

Philosophy is great, but at some point you need to pick one and apply. That's when you start doing real stuff, and that's where Foxfire books come in.

[Anonymous No.20014176]

>>20013809

I saw the pics in a specific folder for book titles/spines that look interesting

It has conversation potential, so lighten up you try tryhard faggot

[Anonymous No.20014194]

>>20013912
Redditor is also an exhibitionist. Go figure.
>>20014176
So you have all the time in the world for random chit chat about spines?

[Anonymous No.20014342]

>>20014194

No but I have a few minutes to discuss the book itself, not the spine. Your unwarranter anger is affecting your reading comprehension. What are you on about?

[Anonymous No.20014529]

>>20013813
That's a strange way to spell Loeb

[Anonymous No.20014573]

>>20013809
Im under the impression its books that one just bought. Thats all ive ever posted here

[Anonymous No.20014598]

This is what I am reading currently. The Yeats is a reread because I try to read most, if not all of, of W.B Yeats' work four times a year. A personal favourite of mine next to Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Enjoying Everyman, but it isn't wowing me that much. Durer's Angel is amazing though. Marie-Clair Blais is a Quebecois writer and she's great, especially with her Catholic themes and dense writing. Highly recommend. The Duino Elegies have been pretty good so far. Was expecting a bit more (decided to read them after watching Wings of Desire and hearing that this collection of poetry inspired the movie), but I've heard it gets better.

[Anonymous No.20014689]

>>20014598

Rilke is incredible, though I like his prose better than his poetry. I'm sure it has more to do wiry my ability to comprehend poetry tho

[Anonymous No.20015006]

Eurofag here, haven't read too many mcnovels but I'm excited to go through these
>>20013806
What's up with sapiens being shilled everywhere? Is it good?

[Anonymous No.20015016]

>>20013551
u wack dat stack homie :)

[Anonymous No.20015229]

>>20015006
>What's up with sapiens being shilled everywhere? Is it good?

I read it but it seemed like the author was kind of pulling some things out of his ass and selling them as facts without backing them up

[Anonymous No.20015248]

>>20015006
any history book that uses 'homo sapiens' as a stand-in for 'human' is not worth reading.

[Anonymous No.20015258]

Please be nice

[Anonymous No.20015265]

>>20015258
I spy the funny japanese man

[Anonymous No.20015339]

i'm about to read this. i hope it's good

[Anonymous No.20015416]

>>20015248
Any book that uses human instead of Man is not worth reading either.

[Anonymous No.20015556]

>>20015006
I got the book because I love anthropology. It's not bad at all but nothing otherwordly either.

[Anonymous No.20015585]

How to u get a job being a cover artist at Penguin? Laziest shit I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.20015619]

>>20015585
I think Penguin covers are good

[Anonymous No.20015649]

[Anonymous No.20015918]

>>20014342
>unwarranter

[Anonymous No.20016244]

I made a great haul today. Particularly happy with my ne Braudel trilogy. I already had a copy of the first book, but these editions have lots of illustrations.
The book on the bottom is called "The Coasts of Illusion". by Clark B. Firestone. It was published in 1924 and is a history of myths and legends from around the world. You can check it out for free here: https://archive.org/details/coastsofillusion0000fire

[Anonymous No.20016309]

my year of reading :) bit of a beginner stack

[Anonymous No.20016332]

>>20016244
Waverley is better than the other two Walter Scott novels that you got on your stack

[Anonymous No.20016364]

>>20013806
This is like when I would buy Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards cuz they were cheaper and make up what they said

[Anonymous No.20016365]

>>20016364
Lol.

[Anonymous No.20016425]

Not a stack but I used my wagie tax returns recently to buy a shit ton of books form this press

[Anonymous No.20017489]

bump

[Anonymous No.20017494]

>>20016425
Oh crap are they due soon?

[Anonymous No.20017501]

>>20013809
Interesting to find a snap with books you like and take the other books as reccs.

[Anonymous No.20017508]

>>20015258
I cant. You read Fisher, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.20017520]

>>20013551
I'm probably going to get shit for this but a few years (probably 4 or 5 years ago) ago my mother insisted I get an e-reader so ill be dropping recent hauls here if you dont mind

[Anonymous No.20017523]

>>20017520
First set

[Anonymous No.20017526]

>>20017523
Second set

[Anonymous No.20017542]

>>20017526
Third set

[Anonymous No.20017554]

>>20015229
This especially with the idea of grain n wheat domesticating us. But go figure some fag jew hates hierarchies as they actually manifest

[Anonymous No.20017596]

>>20016309
u should read thomas s. kuhn structure of scientific revolutions. also i hate the way you stacked these; it should go

smaller books
^
|
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larger books

[Anonymous No.20017610]

>>20013806
>O macaco nu

[Anonymous No.20017697]

What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.20018008]

>>20017697
How’s middle school going for you?

[Anonymous No.20018015]

>>20018008
If only. If only modern middle-schoolers actually read books like that.

[Anonymous No.20018019]

>>20018015
I read Moby Penis, Paradise Lost, the Iliad, and Ulysses when I was just about 12 years old, and I’m a Zoomer. I can’t remember anything about them except for the Iliad, which I’ve re-read several times, however.

[Anonymous No.20018029]

>>20018019
kys

[Anonymous No.20018037]

>>20018029
Do you remember every single movie or book you’ve watched?

[Anonymous No.20018043]

>>20018037
>movie or book you’ve watched
*movie you’ve watched or book you’ve read

[Anonymous No.20018075]

[Anonymous No.20018135]

>>20017596
i just stacked them as fiction-nonfiction so i can switch between them and keep my brain happy. ill check it out thanks!

[Anonymous No.20018853]

>>20016425
This seems like an interesting press, you know any others like them?

[Anonymous No.20018868]

>>20015006
Harari is into some crazy shit. Sapiens wasn't bad if you want a broad overview of the history of Humans for the last 100,000 years, but reading it won't change your life. His second book, Homo Deus can be read like a companion the Klaus Schwab's Covid 19: The Great Reset. Listening to Harari's talks at the WEF disappoint me. It's not like I disagree with what he says as most of it is just facts rather than opinion, or at least opinion disguised as fact, but the future as envisioned robs humans of their humanity.
>>20015258
>tfw no matter how much you try you'll never be as hard as Mishima
>>20016244
How is On War? Any similar recommends?

[Anonymous No.20018939]

>>20018868
>Woolf
>Wolf

>Greene
>Greene

>Kennedy
>Kennedy

>Idiot
>Idiot
>Idiot
>idiot

[Anonymous No.20018951]

just got these for school, they any good? haven't started them yet

(Sophie's world, the expulsion of the other, the plague)

[Anonymous No.20018979]

>>20018951
The Plague is fine, but you need to read the Stranger and the Myth of Sisyphus before you end the semester.

[Anonymous No.20018987]

>>20018979
before or after the pest?

[Anonymous No.20018998]

>>20018868
how the fuck is that Confederacy of Dunces so big?

[Anonymous No.20019028]

>>20018987
After is fine, they are all stand alone books. But the get a better grasp on Camus they should be read while they are fresh.
The myth of sisyphus and the stranger are mandatory readings for Camus, while the fall/the plague/the rebel are suggested.
Lucky that you get to read the Stranger in French, it is much better in French

[Anonymous No.20019060]

>>20016332
If I see it around, I'll grab it.These were not books I sought out, just random finds at the local used book store.

>>20018868
>How is On War? Any similar recommends?
I've never seen anyone here say anything nice about it, so it's probably good. Similar would be "The Art of War" by Machiavelli in that same stack. Randomly flipping through "On War" I came across a bit where Clausewitz says one should not call their book on war the "Art" of war, so shots fired at two dead guys I guess (if the translations of their titles are correct).

I also completed my Kenneth Roberts collection. All 8 of his historical fiction novels.

[Anonymous No.20019069]

[Anonymous No.20019071]

>>20018998
Thick and hard, but not long.

[Anonymous No.20019250]

Checking in.

[Anonymous No.20019412]

>>20018043
>read
>on /lit/

[Anonymous No.20019449]

>>20015649
Where do you find the Penguin Modern Classics, anon?

[Anonymous No.20019467]

>>20015649
I thought the Bhagavad Gita was like 500-1000 pages

[Anonymous No.20019513]

>>20019467
Only versions with like 9 commentaries. The copy I have has 2, plus introductions. Outlined in red is the actual verse being discussed.

[Anonymous No.20019543]

$130, I can't believe how huge it is

[Anonymous No.20019551]

>>20019543
Is it printed for the legally blind?

[Anonymous No.20019580]

>>20019250
no e reader :(

[Anonymous No.20019587]

>>20019551
>>20019543
Sort of, a large portion is pictures and writings of Jung which are fairly difficult to see on smaller text. It's beautiful though a bit overkill in size.

Here's my select schizo stack from the past month.

[Anonymous No.20019780]

>>20013551
Hey stack bros!

[Anonymous No.20019796]

>>20019587
So what's your goal with these? That's some dense reading. I have a very clear goal in mind when I add to my collection and I don't want to read anything there. (I have Meditations, though, and I might crack the Bilbe and Tanakh as some point)

[Anonymous No.20019834]

>>20019587

I don't know why, but the fact that The Red Book is the only one wrapped in plastic tickled me.

[Anonymous No.20019843]

>>20019796
Mostly to learn about other realms and beings. I became a bit obsessed after i had a vision one night that changed my pov on a lot of things.

[Anonymous No.20019944]

>>20019780
>Hey stack bros!
>*spills sardine juice*

[Anonymous No.20020228]

>>20019843
You're being led into the occult by evil principalities brother. Don't do it. Those books in your stack are fine but do not read any further or read anything on spells or other dimensions or demonology or anything like that. Focus on the Holy Bible. You know if a spirit is of the Lord if it speaks the truth about the good news of Christ and this is not it.

[Anonymous No.20020268]

>>20017697
Is the HarperCollins edition of Moby Dick the one with the small, hardly-readable letters?

[Anonymous No.20020362]

>>20019449
Bookdepository or amazon

[Anonymous No.20020396]

>>20019944
Want some sardines anon?

[Anonymous No.20020807]

>>20019449
TELL ME ABOUT THE PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS!
WHY DO LAY IN THE STACK!
LOTTA LITERATURE FOR AN IMAGEBOARD POSTER!

[Anonymous No.20021116]

>>20020362
BANG BANG BANG

[Anonymous No.20021190]

>>20017526
Thank you. I must look up this one now...
[Burroughs was the purveyor of a bizarre, provocative, and uniquely personal writing style that was informed by science, science fiction, and society. In these respects, The Revised Boy Scout Manual does not disappoint, providing more of what Burroughs fans love. In this 1970 composition, Burroughs turns his eye to the electronic age, advocating in his "joking, or is he?" style for mass assassinations and the manipulation of societal behavior to effect change. Among the concepts explored by Burroughs are "fake news" (in the first printed appearance of that term) -- the use of fabricated or altered news events to further one's own agenda.]

[Anonymous No.20021251]

>>20017508
Understandable

[Anonymous No.20021344]

>>20013905
underrated post

[Anonymous No.20021358]

>>20016244
>Clausewitz
Check out Antelope Hill Publishing. They have a lot of his stuff.

[Anonymous No.20021370]

>>20017523
>>20017526
>>20017542
absolute scum of the Earth. Physical books or die, faggot

[Anonymous No.20021410]

>>20017697
How's the Rouse translation of the Iliad? I've never tried it.

[Anonymous No.20021557]

>>20013969
Based and appalachia-pilled.

[Anonymous No.20022107]

>>20013551

[Anonymous No.20022135]

>>20022107
I want to read Berlioz's memoirs one day.

[Anonymous No.20022300]

Still got to get to my books.

[Anonymous No.20022786]

>>20022300
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.20022825]

>>20015006
>sapiens being shilled everywhere? Is it good?
I read it on a plane ride from the US to Europe and I'd say it is basically an airport book. It doesn't say much special and really is just pop science but for anthropology. The only reason I can think of why you should read it is because so many other people have so you can at least say you know it. Plus people who don't read see the word sapien and will think you are smart so it is a great book for being a pseud.

[Anonymous No.20023607]

>>20013551
Is Introduction to Metaphysics an actually good introduction to metaphysics?

[Anonymous No.20023615]

>>20013556
some of his stuff is interesting but stay away from his instructions on building ballistae and other machines.

[Anonymous No.20023619]

>>20021358
No, they don't.

[Anonymous No.20023640]

>>20023619
Oh fuck, they did. Maybe it was someone else. Sorry, m8

[Anonymous No.20023672]

>>20023640
It's cool, I wasn't even gonna check, but it sounded wrong to me. Their purpose is dissident, and Clausewitz, though he would probably be called a "nazi" today, is very mainstream.

[Anonymous No.20023751]

>>20022786
27 years old.

[Anonymous No.20023768]

>>20023751
Oh, that makes sense, then. Good picture, anon.

[Anonymous No.20024412]

>>20013551

[Anonymous No.20024443]

>>20013806
Vai curíntia!

[Anonymous No.20024904]

>>20024412
Yoko sucks

[Anonymous No.20024949]

>go to barnes and noble
>walk to science fiction section
>just picked up 4 random books that were facing me

what am i in for?

[Anonymous No.20025018]

>>20023615
Why? Such machines are legal where I live.

[Anonymous No.20025132]

>>20024904
Incorrect, but I still love you

[Anonymous No.20025341]

>>20024412
Is that the Baronius Press Latin/English Douay-Rheims bible? How do you like it?

[Anonymous No.20025468]

Stacks of old times readin's

[Anonymous No.20025563]

>>20023607
A professor at my university once used it as assigned reading material for a course on the Philosophy of Science. I've never read it, but a friend of mine who took that course told me he couldn't understand much of it because it made too many references to Greek philosophers whom he'd never read.
I imagine reading Aristotle's Metaphysics would probably be easier than anything by Heidegger.

[Anonymous No.20025731]

>>20025341
It's extremely beautiful, easy to carry in a backpack or something, and the text is readable. It feels like it will last a long time, and the leather confirms it.

[Anonymous No.20026754]

>>20023768
Thank you. I drew it in my spare time.

[Anonymous No.20027817]

>>20013551

[Anonymous No.20027828]

>>20025468
>stealing books from the library

[Anonymous No.20027832]

>>20013809
>>20017501
this. same way i use goodreads. just stalk real people who like books i like. organic way of discovering unique recommendations you are likely to enjoy that wouldn't otherwise be served to you via an algorithm. i just lurk though i can't comment on others' motivations for posting which could very well be narcissistic.

[Anonymous No.20028836]

>>20027817
kek

[Anonymous No.20029122]

>>20025563
Aristotel's metaphysics is more difficult than kant and hegel combined. You will not understand it.

[Anonymous No.20029350]

>>20027828
It's "withdrawn" meaning they've replaced it, happens to old classics more often than you think. I paid a dollar for it at goodwill distro

[Anonymous No.20029566]

>>20027817

[Anonymous No.20030159]

books

[Anonymous No.20030178]

>>20029566
Any time I see an author put "PhD" or "M.D." after their name I immediately disregard anything they say.

[Anonymous No.20030208]

Currently in a homeless shelter, lent my copy of stoner to someone in here. Roast me.

[Anonymous No.20030220]

>>20030208
Based on how literate you are, I'm sure at some point you'll go from rags to riches eventually.

[Anonymous No.20030222]

>>20018951
Sophie's World is very readable, but the underage sex scene near the end made me a bit uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.20030242]

>>20030208
Dante is upside down, m8.

[Anonymous No.20030259]

>>20030208
>russiaboo
2/10

[Anonymous No.20030264]

>>20030208
You'll go from rags to riches eventually.

[Anonymous No.20030268]

>>20024412
much better
7/10

[Anonymous No.20030279]

>>20024949
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is pretty based. Read it anon.

[Anonymous No.20030285]

>>20019250
Calvin and Hobbes is pretty based.

[Anonymous No.20030290]

>>20017697
Pretty cool books.

[Anonymous No.20030417]

>>20030178
That says more about you than about those authors.

[Anonymous No.20030801]

>>20030178
I have a PhD and agree. All my accomplishmed friends don't lead with it, only when in Europe, and the people who do do this come from third rate institutions or have a chipon the old clavicle

[Anonymous No.20030818]

>>20013551

I feel bad for how much cave man nonsense you're about to wade through just to have the reference base.

[Anonymous No.20030829]

>>20030417
yeah, that he doesn't like reading psueds lol

no actual big boy academic does this shit, it's always plebs with something to prove and half the time they have a meme degree such as in that pic. credentialism is retarded and even moreso when the credentials you have are garbage.

[Anonymous No.20030831]

>>20030801

>Clavicle

Story checks out.

[Anonymous No.20031254]

>>20030208
why 2 copies of something when ur homeless?

[Anonymous No.20031330]

>>20030208
>gulag archipelago
at least read an honest work about the soviet union

[Anonymous No.20031464]

>>20030208
Why are you homeless, and what do you do? Is that sheet music?

[Anonymous No.20031475]

>>20030208
Why homeless? You hearing voices?

[Anonymous No.20031581]

>>20030831
I know

Classic stack I paid 12 bucks for 4 Loeb's today

[Anonymous No.20031637]

>>20031464
Currently giving music lessons. It’s a stack of instructional material.
>>20031254
Both were gifts. The Everyman version is the one I prefer. It’s been read a lot, hence the dings and nicks.
>>20031475
I do have an illness, but not the voices.
>>20031330
I’ll re read Stalin’s high score again, thank you.

[Anonymous No.20032601]

>>20030829
>>20030801
And this impacts the content of the book how? You assume he's a pseud because of some retarded notion. If Train McTrainface, PhD Er MS, had written an interesting book, I couldn't care less about what his name was or what he put behind it. Shallow disilliusioned academics like you need to go back.

[Anonymous No.20032941]

>>20017542
>>20017526
>>20017523
>posting kindle screenshots in a stack thread
you nigger

[Anonymous No.20033843]

>>20032941
COPE

[Anonymous No.20034358]

>>20029566
imagine unironically buying these books lmao

[Anonymous No.20034432]

>>20018075
the boethius is a nice touch

[Anonymous No.20034438]

Please don’t be mean

[Anonymous No.20034833]

>>20022135
They're very entertaining, and Berlioz is known for his embellishments, but he also gives a good idea of the state of the business of being a composer in his time, especially as it relates to dealing with orchestras and the like.

[Anonymous No.20034838]

>>20013551
>translations

[Anonymous No.20034852]

>>20034438
Handicapped homosexual

[Anonymous No.20034944]

Everything here I got for free from a book exchange in my college

[Anonymous No.20035037]

>>20034438
How do you like Fanged Noumena

[Anonymous No.20035052]

>>20015006
Absalom, Absalom! is one of the greatest books ever written. enjoy.

[Anonymous No.20035188]

Goodwill today

[Anonymous No.20035206]

>>20034852 Wrong. I have a boyfriend

[Anonymous No.20035236]

>>20035037
I don’t like a lot of it but I thoroughly enjoyed the essay on trakl

[Anonymous No.20035251]

>>20013806
Are you a social scinces major or something? Because other than that theme your books come out as kind of generic

[Anonymous No.20035729]

>>20029566
Based, one of the greatest works on the Holocaust

[Anonymous No.20035842]

>>20035052
I'm sure I will. I read the sound and the fury and loved it, especially quentin's part.

[Anonymous No.20036193]

>>20035188
Actually good stack. You and I could carry on if we met.

[Anonymous No.20036209]

>>20017697
I spy,
with my little pecker,
your mom's little fecker

[Anonymous No.20036576]

>>20013551
I enjoyed the double more than crime and punishment. Notes was best of the three.

[Anonymous No.20036989]

>>20036193
Maybe, I frequently create feelings of oppressive Sehnsucht in others. This longing gives way to alienation, feelings of rejection, and ultimately, ideas of some banal betrayal. The truth of the matter, that is, in the most direct manner, to put it straightforward in a sense, me might carry on well.

[Anonymous No.20037175]

>>20036989
On second thought perhaps not

[Anonymous No.20037294]

>>20037175
I can already feel your latent resentment and feeling of inadequacy percolating above the friscallating dusk light. Now, may I please get you some "Salmon with Mayonnaise"?

[Anonymous No.20038239]

>>20037294
Kek

[Anonymous No.20038242]

>>20013551
That copy of the Introduction to Metaphysics is overprices as fuck

[Anonymous No.20038322]

>>20015339
Really take time with the first pages, every word has significance. The rest of the text is easier than the first pages of SUD but if i only had either the first pages or the rest of the text I would choose the first pages since they explain the whole system he builds in this text.

[Anonymous No.20038439]

Current stack. I'm way too deep into Arno Schmidt at this point.

[Anonymous No.20038683]

>>20013810
Black spines are easier for colour coding on your shelf though

[Anonymous No.20039548]

>>20024443
kkkkkkkkkkk