So what's your bedside reading, /lit/? No cheating you fucks, post a picture like it is right now.

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Anonymous Tue Jun 25 13:33:48 2013 No.3882508 [Reply] [Original]

So what's your bedside reading, /lit/?

No cheating you fucks, post a picture like it is right now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 13:34:48 2013 No.3882512 >>3882508 >Neil Gaiman >1494 Try harder, OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:12:47 2013 No.3883002 File: 95 KB, 1043x662, umadfaggot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Op is a Male human who enjoys having sex with other human Men.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:34:47 2013 No.3883055 File: 1.56 MB, 2560x1920, 2013-06-25 17.14.23.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The new National Geographic is really interesting.

>>	GracieSunsu Tue Jun 25 17:41:47 2013 No.3883066 File: 2.47 MB, 2448x3264, aaphoto (71).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dance with Dragons, and I've only just started!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:43:47 2013 No.3883071 >>3882508 how is that gaiman books quality?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:44:47 2013 No.3883074 File: 2.79 MB, 3264x2448, 20130625_191023.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I actual hate Franzen so much.....I don't know why I'm reading him

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:50:48 2013 No.3883093 File: 1.76 MB, 1071x1435, 1370302370585.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3883074 >introduction to magic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 17:55:13 2013 No.3883101 File: 1.61 MB, 4000x3000, P1010826.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. /lit/ can decide what I read next of this pile.

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Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:04:13 2013 No.3883118

>>3883093
It's actually an unreal philosophy book. It defines magic as practical metaphysics and says that telepathy among other retarded new age shit is pure bull. Its just mind games and metaphysical rituals. If you asked me a month ago I'd be reading this book and loving it I'd laugh in your face, but this book is different, it's simply amazing; my reading of German Romanticism and Goethe has lead me here almost naturally.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:04:13 2013 No.3883119 >>3883055 How did you like Mermaid are real?

>>	Hashtag Slaffykins Tue Jun 25 18:11:13 2013 No.3883129 File: 41 KB, 428x672, completebeckett.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3882508 The only thing I have on my bedsit is this right now. I don't see the point of having lots of books out. Spaces on the bookshelf looks haggard

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:18:13 2013 No.3883143 >>3883055 I was thinking of subscribing. Is it really worth my money? Never read an issue before, since they're pretty much nonexistent where I live.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:20:13 2013 No.3883147 >>3883074 >Tao De Ching but no Bible nigga pls, get some taste in holy texts

Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:26:13 2013 No.3883163
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>>3883119
I'm not sure which issue you're referring to, or if you're making some obscure jab at Nation Geographic.
>>3883143
I thoroughly enjoy them. The photos are beautiful, and there are always great articles on science, archaeology and contemporary societies. I would say it is worth it, thought don't expect anything particularly insightful.

Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:28:13 2013 No.3883169

none. i don't sleep in my bed. i sleep when i can't help it, at my desk. i have many boxes of books to my right.
i just organized and packed any piles i might have had near to hand for shipping with me during a vacation which begins early tomorrow.
i just finished the final page of robots and empire, the last of asimov's foundation & robot universe novels that i hadn't yet read, at nine in the morning. i must have slept at some point, because here i am. hello.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:31:13 2013 No.3883178 >>3882508 >Fagles translation lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:32:13 2013 No.3883182 >>3883178 agreed, everyone should read the Pope translation or go home.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:33:13 2013 No.3883184 >>3883182 I'm more inclined to think that everyone should read the Pope + one or two other translations, since Pope is beautiful but he's also practically rewriting the texts.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:35:13 2013 No.3883188 >>3883184 > since Pope is beautiful but he's also practically rewriting the texts nah, he's faithful. keeping the feel of the poetry is more important than giving a literal word-by-word translation

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:36:13 2013 No.3883190 >>3883129 I wholeheartedly agree. I finish a book and I place it on the shelf. If I need it for research or want to revisit, I remove it, use it, and out it back. My bedside table isn't cluttered.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:39:13 2013 No.3883200 It'd just be my Kindle, everything I'm reading atm is on it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:40:13 2013 No.3883202 >>3883200 >owning a kindle y u no kobo??

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:41:13 2013 No.3883204 >>3883202 I dunno. It was a gift and works just fine for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:44:13 2013 No.3883206 File: 291 KB, 1536x2048, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:49:13 2013 No.3883220 >>3883147 >implying this isn't a desktop book thread and that I don't also own and have read a bible >implying I don't have god-tier holy text taste

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:51:13 2013 No.3883222 >>3883163 Google mermaids The Body Found I believe they are real, just that they don't speak out language or Atlantis. Just marine mammal like Dolphins and Whales.

Anonymous Tue Jun 25 18:56:13 2013 No.3883236

>tfw no table next to your bed
Ah well. It's not like I would use it anyway. I have books strewn about the room and I wouldn't have it any other way. I do have around 20 books stacked on my desk and a full bookshelf (hence the desk stacks) in here but I can't be assed to take pictures of it all.

Current "bedside" reading is The Last Arguments of Kings, Complete Plays of Sophocles, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, and Infinite Jest.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:09:13 2013 No.3883253 >>3883222 What does that bullshit have to do with anything in my picture?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:37:13 2013 No.3883297 File: 74 KB, 1347x763, kobo master race.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I haven't started any of them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:37:13 2013 No.3883296 >>3883253 I thought "well this guy likes science, i wonder if he saw the mermaids scientific evidence" sorry i was wrong to ask.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:40:13 2013 No.3883305 >>3883297 Do people actually use their e-readers for real books? I only use mine for genre fiction.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:44:13 2013 No.3883315 >>3883297 >IJ >real book >not fiction >not bad I think you are confused.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 19:45:13 2013 No.3883317 >>3883305 Yes, I use mine for anything I'd like to read that has a decent ebook version.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 20:04:13 2013 No.3883361 >>3883305 yeah, it's nice but I'd rather have an actual copy. only advantage is cheap (read: free books) and easy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 20:14:13 2013 No.3883378 File: 43 KB, 295x400, kid_sagan.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3883297 >Carl Sagan

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 20:15:13 2013 No.3883383 File: 1.13 MB, 2048x1536, Matt's reading.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3882508

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 20:19:13 2013 No.3883392 >>3883315 >>3883378 >>I haven't started any of them I'm open to suggestions though

Anonymous Tue Jun 25 22:25:13 2013 No.3883609
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>>3883383
I like your style, at least for Proust and Syme. I had a hard time with the Hughes book. If an author wants to favor his own opinions over historical accuracy he should at least be polite enough to make those opinions worth something in their own right (see my D.H. Lawrence book in the photo)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 22:29:13 2013 No.3883620 >>3883074 Is Evola any good? I plan on reading some of his works, should I start with revolt agianst the modern world?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 22:35:13 2013 No.3883633 well I mean my bookshelf is right next to my bed... so I'll just say I've been reading neuromancer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 22:39:13 2013 No.3883640 >>3883101 read the Great Gatsby. How have you not read that yet?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 23:36:13 2013 No.3883715 File: 32 KB, 721x305, reading.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I used to believe that I would only be able to appreciate a book if I read it in its pressed and physical form. I was wrong!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 23:50:13 2013 No.3883745 >>3883715 >Catcher in the rye >VladimirNabokov Seeing that both of those are pedophile books..... i must assume that every book in that list is also pedophile enabling...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 23:53:13 2013 No.3883753 >>3883392 I would suggest not reading Beautiful and Damned.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 25 23:54:13 2013 No.3883758 >>3883055 >the smiles of today are the marshmallows of tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:00:13 2013 No.3883772 >>3883753 any reason?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:17:13 2013 No.3883812 File: 2.01 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3882508 Just started reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:23:13 2013 No.3883819 >>3883812 >meditations myeownigga,jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:28:13 2013 No.3883826 File: 897 KB, 1920x2560, 0625132126c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3882508 No cheating... Oh you cheeky cunt.. Goddamnit it even has my shitty manuscript in it. Here I go, be gentle.

Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:30:13 2013 No.3883829
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been reading The Rebel for about a month now, been busy with other things and holy lord it's a dense read.

started The Castle a few days ago, loving it so far and been plowing through a chapter or two a day. I think i like it more than The Trial even, I'm in love with the prose style.
still on the introduction to the Proudhon book, waiting until i finish The Rebel to really delve into it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:30:13 2013 No.3883830 File: 35 KB, 460x288, 6040.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3883826 >Erotic Manga

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:35:13 2013 No.3883836 File: 1.46 MB, 3264x2448, 20130625_213126.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >muhnigga, monet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 00:35:13 2013 No.3883838 >>3883830 I'm so embarrassed....

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 02:22:13 2013 No.3883980 >>3883609 I love those French editions...too bad I can't read French

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 02:31:13 2013 No.3883996 >>3883055 Who published that copy of the illiad?

Anonymous Wed Jun 26 05:50:13 2013 No.3884245

Don't have a camera handy, but currently:

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
William Dunham - Journey Through Genius
Richard Feynman - Q.E.D.
Nick Montfort - Twisty Little Passages
Christian Queinnec - Lisp in Small Pieces
Robert Wright - The Moral Animal
John Conway - The Book of Numbers
Andrew Tanenbaum - Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 05:58:13 2013 No.3884249 My whole room is so filled with fucking books I can hardly even walk through it. I'm making my way through every one of them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 06:01:13 2013 No.3884251 The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield Treatise of Human Nature by Hume

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 06:03:13 2013 No.3884253 i have only Game of Thrones on my nightstand right now and im not reading it.

Anonymous Wed Jun 26 06:31:13 2013 No.3884284

>>3882508
>>3883055
>>3883066
>>3883074
It must be expensive to own such luxurious books.
I don't have any beautiful editions like this, but I'm fine with this. It always amazes me how Anons from /lit/ take care of having jolly books even if it will be used and burnt out by the hardcore readings that will break out the paperback, the bookbiding and the flang. Anyway.

Anonymous Wed Jun 26 07:35:13 2013 No.3884342

I only reserve my top shelf for books i've yet to read. Sorry no pictures, my camera is busted. i'm currently reading His Dark Materials again before I begin Paradise Lost this summer.

Books on my top shelf:
Jude the Obscure
Poe's complete works
The Last Man
Ulysses
Edwin Drood
Great Expectations
Demons
Paradise Lost
Brideshead Revisited
Varney the Vampyre
Infinite Jest
For Whom The Bells Toll

>>3884245

How is Aurelius's Meditations? I almost picked it up yesterday but I got Brideshead Revisited instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 07:44:13 2013 No.3884347 >>3884342 I really enjoyed it. There were two or three passages in it which really struck me as being very beautiful and wise and made me stop for several minutes.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 07:56:13 2013 No.3884368 >>3883143 NatGeo is a load of nonsense, there is nothing of any sort of informational value. Just a load of pretty pictures and short, boring articles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 08:36:13 2013 No.3884404 File: 1.32 MB, 2560x1920, 2013-06-26 14.24.01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is one of my bedsides.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 08:54:13 2013 No.3884420 >>3883838 You have no reason to be! This is an anonymous image board, and none of us would ever be able to find out your real name, David.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 08:55:13 2013 No.3884422 Understanding Philosophy -- Through Jokes! The Prince The Road Less Traveled A Dance With Dragons Taipei

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 09:28:13 2013 No.3884461 File: 9 KB, 374x544, 1366731632001.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3884423 That's really cozy I like you I think you are cool buddy!!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 13:38:01 2013 No.3885003 >>3883640 Wow I had to wait a whole day for an answer. Also question, why haven't you read the rider on the white horse yet ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 21:11:02 2013 No.3886108 >>3882508 I, too, am reading The Aeneid, Thus Spake Sarathustra, and The Prince. Are you me?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 21:16:02 2013 No.3886122 >>3886108 No you guys are both 10edgy11me fedora aficionados.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 21:17:02 2013 No.3886128 >>3886122 Jk i like those books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 21:46:01 2013 No.3886183 File: 1.10 MB, 2592x1944, IMG_20130626_201358.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sorry it's a disorganized mess.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 21:58:01 2013 No.3886208 >>3886128 47edgy9me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 26 22:12:01 2013 No.3886242 >>3883996 Canterbury Classics. It's not actually my book, I'm borrowing it from a friend.

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