/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5906187]

So how was everybody's Christmas?

[Anonymous No.5906193]

How does one celebrate the birthday of a non-existent entity?

[hope you enjoyed festivus !trap0OylHY No.5906197]

There's already a thread about gifts given and another about received ones. Go read and bump those.

>>5906193
Same way you celebrate the second impact.

[Anonymous No.5906209]

>>5906193

*adjusts hat*

[Anonymous No.5906292]

>>5906197
>second impact

Oh fuck, next year is the year of Eva isn't it? Time to rewatch the show.

[Anonymous No.5906455]

>>5906187
that illuminated letters book looks cool

[Anonymous No.5906485]

>>5906193
Gentleman, please, dont waste your precious time with these fundies

[Anonymous No.5906511]

I got and almost finished A Homage to Catalonia by Orwell. I also received The Metamorphosis (never had it in school), a collection of Flannery's shorts, a book about the history of urban planning, and some OReilly books on regular expressions and sed & awk.

I wish I could disappear for a week and just read them all.

[Anonymous No.5906514]

picturing your poor old mam shopping for your fascist books

[Anonymous No.5906528]

>>5906514
Lel

[Anonymous No.5906545]

>>5906187
Surprisingly good, OP.
I have a nice family.
Nothing /lit/ related to report though.

[Anonymous No.5906894]

>tfw they won't stop discussing Satanism
>tfw I hate religion of all types
>tfw I am so bored I want to poke my own eyes out

[Anonymous No.5906901]

>>5906894
Part of the problem here is that the Satanist is a blowhard who won't shut up or let anyone else get a word in edgewise.

[Anonymous No.5906904]

>>5906193
M'lady

[Anonymous No.5906974]

Pretty great. Got these new book ends for my bookshelf. Also "Storm of Steel".

[Anonymous No.5907094]

>>5906514

>one book is about sailing in the Caribbean
>one is about calligraphy
>one is about traditional government/philosophy

Yup, we got ourselves a proper Mussolini over here

[Anonymous No.5907111]

>>5906974
Holy shit, why is Aristotle so fucking bald?

[Anonymous No.5907118]

But Christmas is on the 7th of January

[Anonymous No.5907129]

>>5907111

Meth is a hell of a drug

[Anonymous No.5907138]

>>5906974
>mfw /lit/ has tricked people into actually reading the Greeks

TOP KEK

[Anonymous No.5907243]

>>5907138

>not actually reading the Greeks

Kek's on you

[Anonymous No.5907279]

>>5906974
Woah that's patrician as fuck

Where can I buy those bookends?

[Anonymous No.5907287]

i just overcooked 8 lbs. of prime rib

fuck me in the ass

[Anonymous No.5907296]

My Granddad's been reading 1984 and loves it so I had to pretend to like Orwell out of politeness.

[Anonymous No.5907298]

>>5906187
Oh cool OP, I got a book about revolution too!

[Anonymous No.5907303]

>>5907279
>patrician

They're 40 dollars at Barnes and Noble.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/home-gift-homer-and-aristotle-cast-marble-bookends-set-of-2/12601703

[Anonymous No.5907335]

[Anonymous No.5907346]

>>5907138
Is this bait or are you actually retarded?

[Anonymous No.5907347]

>>5906187
savage detectives, dictionary on philosophy, and 100 movie posters. p cool haul, more excited about my sweet camera tho.

[Anonymous No.5907350]

>>5907346
The Greeks didn't have anything worthwhile to say that you can't get from Wikipedia.

[Anonymous No.5907354]

>>5907298
i like brand but the nigga should've released his anti-capitalist book for free

[Anonymous No.5907357]

>>5907335
that is the most boring looking pile of books in the world

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.5907360]

>>5907350
kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeeleekekekelkrerkekekekekleekelelekelel

[Anonymous No.5907361]

>>5907350
Ok, so just bait then. Thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous No.5907365]

>>5907335
>>5907357
this is a very mark corrigan pile of books

[Anonymous No.5907366]

My mum got me a zizek book, she said it way "by that beardy guy you like"

[Anonymous No.5907370]

I'm literally living in a /lit/ family here
>two religionists discussing world events and history they know little to nothing about with no references
It's enough to make me become a Hellenist!

[Anonymous No.5907376]

>>5907365
Thanks Jez.

[Anonymous No.5907378]

>>5907350
oh look a 16 year old

[Anonymous No.5907382]

>>5907370
My grandma and uncle had an argument over whether it's right for gay people to get married today

boy do i love the holidays

[Anonymous No.5907394]

>>5907365
there's no copy of "business secrets of the pharaohs" tho

[Anonymous No.5907411]

>>5907357

Other than Bataille, Wilderson, and Deleuze, you're right

[Anonymous No.5907417]

>being young enough to still get gifts that aren't cash to help with bills or leftover food from Christmas Dinner
posting underage is illegal, show me some ID please

[Anonymous No.5907420]

>>5907350
So true lol, can you believe all those stupid old men in Oxford and Cambridge who waste their lives being "classical scholars" and reading worthless old Greek works all day? :^)

[Anonymous No.5907439]

>>5906187
>Evola

I like your parents/siblings OP

[Anonymous No.5907447]

>>5907417

nobody gives fucking cash as a present except to underage kids. adults have money you little shit. the point is the thought that goes into the gift.

[Anonymous No.5907455]

>>5907447
i think there's a period of money giving in between, it's like presents as a kid, money when you're a broke coming-of-age student, back to presents when you've become an "adult"

[Anonymous No.5907457]

>>5906187
I got Hyena. Shit was so good. God damn funny, sure, but had some substance in it, and was sadly relatable. That my morning chapter.. Oh lord

[Anonymous No.5907475]

>>5907420
most people who applied to classics I met were frat boys or nouveau rich

[Anonymous No.5907480]

>>5906187
I got given The Sportswriter by Richard Ford and Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis. Are they any good?

[Anonymous No.5907505]

Book-wise, I received:
Pynchon- Against the Day
Bolaño- The Savage Detectives
Darnielle- Wolf in White Van
Lévi-Strauss- Structural Anthropology

Bretty good, I have a huge backlog already so I've got more than enough pages to keep me occupied for a while

[Anonymous No.5907510]

>>5907366

>mfw boomers are the most plebeian generation in centuries
>mfw they just won't die

[Anonymous No.5907514]

>>5907480

Imperial Bedrooms is p good, haven't read the other one so I can't comment

[Anonymous No.5907608]

This Christmas I got:

Metamorphisis- F.Kafka
On The Road- J.Kerouac
Brave New World- A.Huxley
East of Eden- J.Steinbeck
Paradise Lost- J.Milton
Anna Karenina- L.Tolstoy


I also bought my sister 'Of Mice and Men'. She doesn't read much so I thought something simple, short and emotive would be good to get her started.

[Anonymous No.5907619]

>>5907608
It's not that emotive, sure Lennie and George were a cute couple and the end was sad but other than that, meh.

[Anonymous No.5907665]

I'm pretty happy, considering they're what I asked for

[Anonymous No.5907676]

>>5907619
What would you have suggested instead?

[Anonymous No.5907679]

>>5907417

Sorry your family doesn't love you Anon

[Anonymous No.5907689]

>>5907665

>getting high school reading lists for Christmas

[Anonymous No.5907693]

>>5906187
scan some illuminated letters, might make for nice posting

[Anonymous No.5907697]

>>5907298
>how to be patrician

[Anonymous No.5907703]

>>5907665
>Les Mis
>Don Quixote
>and a knife

EDGE LORD

[Anonymous No.5907715]

>>5907665
did you get the knife so you could cut a hole in one of those thick books so you can keep your knife in it?

[Anonymous No.5907722]

>>5907715

Well, I didn't ask for the knife. My boy scout uncle gave one to both me and my brother.

[Anonymous No.5907725]

>>5907689

What do you mean? I've never read them and I want to.

[Anonymous No.5907727]

>>5906209
>>5906485
>>5906904
le epic memay!! le friends on reddit/r/4chan will love this great epic repsonse meem.!

[Anonymous No.5907734]

>>5907725

>posts on /lit/
>hasn't read Don Quixote or Les Mis

I can't wait for winter break to end

[Anonymous No.5907775]

>>5907365
I doubt Mark would be caught dead reading critical theory

[Anonymous No.5907780]

>>5907510
>yfw my parents are genX

[Anonymous No.5907784]

>>5907734
>implying you read

[Anonymous No.5907861]

>>5907780

>implying genX aren't just boomers 2.0

[Anonymous No.5907871]

>>5907287
Yeah I overcooked lamb.

Fuck lamb

[Anonymous No.5907928]

>>5906187
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
On the Road
Anathemas and Admirations

[Anonymous No.5907936]

>>5907689
My spanish class read a bit of Don Quijote, but other than that, that's not what I remember being high school reading, unless OP's in AP classes at some prep school or something.

[Anonymous No.5907952]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gene Wolfe stuff
Dazai stuff
A clinical guide on neurodegenerative disorders
Kafka auf Deutsch
Catallus et Virgil in linguae Latinae
Some more /lit/core

(Note: Not everything is included by pic related)

It'll do for now. I've still got quite a backlog to work through before I can impress you assholes with my selections.

[Anonymous No.5907971]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Nausea
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Titus Andronicus
The Trial
Gravity's Rainbow

2entrylevel4u, I guess we all gotta start somewhere, r-r-right???

[=^.^= No.5907981]

>>5907971
Have you read other Pynchon or other post modern stuff?

[Anonymous No.5907996]

>>5907861
>implying gen x isn't the hardworking fabric holding the world together right now and never receiving any credit
Fuck right off

[Anonymous No.5908005]

>Ulysses
>Pale Fire
>collection of Washington Irving stories
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Adam Bede
>the Idiot
>the Awakening
>Emma
>Looking Backward
>the Divine Comedy

my people did very good

[Anonymous No.5908027]

>>5907354
bretty sure all proceeds at least go to charity

[=^.^= No.5908029]

So I just started Knockemstiff, first story was breddy gud. Really transgressive but it at least made a point rather than just being for the sake of it. Second story begins:

>I was coming down off the mitchell flats with three arrowheads in my pocket and a dead copperhead around my neck like an old woman's scarf when I caught a boy named Truman Mackey fucking his own little sister in Dynamite Hole

lmao

[Anonymous No.5908044]

>>5907981
I honestly have never totally understood the definition of postmodern, but I read The Portrait of the Artist by Joyce some time ago.

I'm more or less going in dry on GR, not too sure how it'll work out

[Anonymous No.5908058]

>>5907952
>he got the Penguin edition of Gravity's Rainbow

lel

[Anonymous No.5908059]

>>5908044
Portrait is not pomo.

[Anonymous No.5908063]

>>5908058
what's the best?

[Anonymous No.5908064]

>>5908063
the hackett academic version

[=^.^= No.5908066]

>>5908044
Sincerely: good luck. You probably won't like it, honestly. But I hope you do.

[Anonymous No.5908085]

>>5908066
thanks mate, I'll certainly try

[noko No.5908099]

Rate my Christmas haul fam

I especially would like thoughts on the Ruth Ozeki novel.

[Anonymous No.5908189]

Markets Lazarova, Harakiri, and 8 1/2 on Blu-ray
Crust and Crumb
Landmark Heredotus
Chippewa boots
2 Sweaters
A few small giftcards

Pretty good

[Anonymous No.5908198]

>>5907350
I fucking hate people liek u srsly like wtf? >:>[
>twothousandfourteen
>still thinking im a meymey
im high as fuck btw guys ;]

[Anonymous No.5908214]

My bro got me these. He figured out which ones i wanted by doing this wierd technique where hed come talk to me about books to figure out which ones id like.
>i appreciated the conversation more than the gifts and now that he's given them to me he is not interested in convo anymore.

[Anonymous No.5908219]

>>5908214
Sorry for horrible pic one on right is The Confessions of St Augustine

[Anonymous No.5908228]

>>5907996

Lol ok there Dad don't slam on the keyboard too hard

[=^.^= No.5908250]

>>5908029
Holy shit is this book fucking bleak. This is like hill people horror movie shit.

[Anonymous No.5908258]

>>5908029
I can't stop laughing at this post

[Anonymous No.5908265]

>>5906187
So I just bought books with the Amazon gift cards I received because my parents/loved ones never know what books to get me. I picked up:

Fathers and Sons-Turgenev
Eugene Onegin-Pushkin
Buddhas Little Finger-Pelevin
Oman Ra-Pelevin (I saw that another anon got this too)
Theban plays-Sophocles
Orlando Furioso-Ariosto
Some gifts for my pleb love interest (Saunders/Calvino)

[Anonymous No.5908267]

Everyman's Library copy of the Divine Comedy, a new wallet, $250, a freezer mug and a nerf gun

I had an amazing Christmas guys I hope all of you did too.

[Anonymous No.5908271]

>>5908267
>a nerf gun

What

[Anonymous No.5908275]

Well everyone got mad at me cause I started a new thread for this.... So I'll post here.

20 volume set of Dickens. Very old.

[Anonymous No.5908276]

>>5908271
It's seems childish but once you discover the fun of shooting cats with them, it's the greatest gift

[Anonymous No.5908279]

>>5908275

That's awesome. Do you know the exact age?

[Anonymous No.5908286]

>almost 2015
>not posting in all christmas threads

[Anonymous No.5908295]

>>5908286
That's strange. What is McCarthy doing there next to all those good authors?

[Anonymous No.5908301]

>>5908295
Iunno, probably being a great author

[Anonymous No.5908311]

>>5908295
kek, and thank you. i guess a lot of people hate his writing in that book but i think it serves the mood well

also portrait of the artist as a yung nigga, the stranger, and white noise are in the mail

>Newpatrician/10

[Anonymous No.5908312]

>>5908295
>murakami is great
>mccarthy isn't

very kek

[Anonymous No.5908314]

>>5908279
I only started my research, because I've been with family today. It seems like they were published in 1867 though! My grandma gave me them. I'll try and get more details tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.5908319]

>>5908314
You lucky, lucky guy. Needless to say, keep them safe. I keep my best editions in a separate bookcase

[Anonymous No.5908330]

>>5908312
I'll bet you enjoy the books of George Martin.

[Anonymous No.5908334]

>>5906187
Great, until I had dinner with people, non family, and confirmed to myself that any notions of being socially comfortable I had were easily constructed manipulations of memory, and no matter how hard I try, or don't, I am a social retard. So christmas was fantastic. I was given the gift of self awareness.

[Anonymous No.5908359]

>>5908319
That's the plan. I'm just worried about transport though. We're driving home in a few days, pretty far. Going to have to pack them very carefully. A couple have a fair bit of spine damage, but other than that they're great.

[Anonymous No.5908362]

While at my parents I raided my dads library, not a bad haul. I could club a man to death with that Forsyth monstrosity.

[Anonymous No.5908376]

>>5908362
>one of the Brian Herbert Dunes

burn it

[Anonymous No.5908378]

>>5908362
How many pages is it?

[Anonymous No.5908403]

>>5908376
Really? Is it like brian sanderson with wheel of time?

>>5908378
About 1100, small print on big pages.

[Anonymous No.5908491]

>>5906187

[Anonymous No.5908498]

>>5908491
Points for Persona and first ed IJ. Why the obscure Foucault?

[Anonymous No.5908522]

>ask 'how was your christmas?'
>post pictures of acquired objects

modernity!

[Anonymous No.5908539]

>>5908498
1st edition isn't the only with that cover, right?

[Anonymous No.5908540]

>>5908522
stop

[Anonymous No.5908547]

>>5908498
Of Infinite Jest that is.
>>5908539

[Anonymous No.5908552]

>>5906545
>mfw those crack rocks.

[Anonymous No.5908560]

>>5907335
my body is ready

[Anonymous No.5908565]

>>5907780
underaged b&

[Anonymous No.5908594]

>>5908565
>yfw I was born in 1989
>my parents are GenX

[Anonymous No.5908612]

>>5908594
okay well, your parents are ghetto af and therefore to discern the characteristics of the middle class within which the condition of the manifestation of generational theory.

[Anonymous No.5908645]

>>5908539
it is first ed

>>5908498
making my way through all his lectures at the collège de france

[Anonymous No.5908649]

>>5908044
I read GR when I was 16 after asking my mum for a book rec, having not even read required books for english classes, had no problem. Actually GR ruined my life because it got me excited and obsessed with reading. Just go with it and don't worry if you don't get everything - all serious opinion of any book can only be grasped on the second or third read.

[Anonymous No.5908658]

>>5908612
having a kid in your mid-twenties qualifies you as ghetto af?

[Anonymous No.5909232]

>>5908522

This is a board for discussing books, so we're posting pictures of books we got for Christmas. Would you prefer a bunch of off-topic threads?

[Anonymous No.5909250]

It was alright

[Anonymous No.5909254]

>>5909250
>Dutch crime n punishment

[Anonymous No.5909257]

>>5909254
blame my gf
I looked the translator up and he seems decent enough

[Anonymous No.5909260]

>>5909257
You have a great gf for getting you that though.
But who cares about it being in Dutch. You might just sharpen your Dutch by reading that.

>Ik lees sneller dan jou

[Anonymous No.5909264]

>>5909260
But dutch is my native tongue, what are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.5909274]

>>5909264
Do you really believe you speak Dutch perfectly just because it's your native tongue?

[Anonymous No.5909279]

>>5909274
You're an idiot, Dutchfag. Leave the other Dutchfag alone.
Sincerely, an American

[Anonymous No.5909283]

I got a stratocaster and I've been smoking weed. Feels good

[Anonymous No.5909288]

>tfw the copy of The Road my mother bought me has a picture of the films actors on the cover

damn...

oh well

[Anonymous No.5909298]

I got the first edition collection of Brittanica Great Books and the six volumes of In Search of Lost Time among others, but those are the ones I particularly feel the need to tell a bunch of anons on an imageboard about.

[Anonymous No.5909308]

Did comrade Lenin bring you everything you wanted?

[Anonymous No.5909320]

My dad gave me a Jeremy Clarkson book. I guess it will be alright, Top Gear is funny enough.

[Anonymous No.5909321]

>>5906974
huh you have the old bald Aristotle and not the hot one with hair.

[Anonymous No.5909363]

>>5908286
>almost 2015
>can't rotate pictures

[Anonymous No.5909372]

>>5907298
>how to be parisian
Why would anyone in their right mind want that?

[Anonymous No.5909508]

Not bad. Got plenty of books but for some reason tfw no gf intensifies around this time of year. No idea why but it does.

[Anonymous No.5909561]

>>5908286
>Good authors.
>Murakami

[Anonymous No.5909574]

Have a kitsunekin boyfriend so I'm feeling rather satisfied in the tfw no gf department. Got a shitload of books I'm gonna try and read over the next two years.

[Anonymous No.5909735]

Gravity's Rainbow
Slaughterhouse: No. 5
A Moveable Feast
A Farewell to Arms
The Blind Watchmaker
Homage to Catalonia
A Clockwork Orange
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Childhood's End
The Demon-Haunted World
Unpopular Essays
I am a Strange Loop
War is a Racket
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
House of Leaves
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dubliners
Crime and Punishment
Notes from the Underground
Metamorphosis
Waiting for Godot
Tyranny of Words
How the Mind Works

never read before
what do it read?

[Anonymous No.5909742]

A bit late to the party, but how'd l do, /lit/?

I got the Thirty Years' War book myself, just wanted to include it because l thought it looked pretty.

[Anonymous No.5909771]

>>5909735

House of Leaves is pretty fun, I'd recommend starting with that and Underground

[Anonymous No.5909797]

>>5909288
Why is that a problem?

[Anonymous No.5909811]

>>5909797
looks lame as heck

[Anonymous No.5909846]

>>5909257
>transliterated Фёдор Доcтое́вcкий on cover

literally why

[Anonymous No.5909851]

>>5908311
>portrait of the artist as a yung nigga

This made me laugh much harder than it should have. I really need to stop working nights.

[Anonymous No.5909854]

>>5909308
Ehm, in 5 days he will.

[Anonymous No.5909855]

>>5908064
Why?

[Anonymous No.5909892]

>>5906187
I got pneumonia

[Anonymous No.5909911]

>>5906187
awe yiss

[Anonymous No.5909935]

My mother bought me a 1959 notes from the underground from a flea market. It was pristine, probably not even opened. Not valuable as such but pretty cool still.

[Anonymous No.5909945]

>>5909935
Post pics you tease

[Anonymous No.5909953]

>>5909735
House of Leaves sucks, no.
I'm a Strange Loop is pretty difficult, but intriguing.

If you're fresh into lit, stick with Slaughterhouse Five, Dorian Gray, Clockwork, A Farewell to Arms, and Notes/Crime and Punishment. I would read these works first but that's just me.

[Anonymous No.5909954]

I know I'm late, but I'm really happy with what I got

[Anonymous No.5910457]

>>5909742
That edition of Lolita is very good.

[Anonymous No.5910573]

Hardcover english version of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Hardcover or no go. Can't believe how most of you are pleb and read paperback. How can you live with yourself?

[Anonymous No.5910918]

>>5908295
4chan did that not me

[Anonymous No.5910922]

>>5909735
House of Leaves is a joke.

Read Slaughterhouse Five first, it's easy. Save Gravity's Rainbow until last. Crime and Punishment is heavy and philosophical, make sure you're in the mood for that.

[Anonymous No.5910937]

>>5909363
4chan did that not me i promise

[Anonymous No.5910945]

>>5910922
On the contrary I found C&P to be a digestible page turner but that's just my experience

[Anonymous No.5910951]

>>5910945
It's very enjoyable, it's just thought-provoking. If you're not ready for it, the profound parts will sag on you like a heavy load.

It's not a light read. Russian writers are known for giving a very deep read.

I recommend getting another easier book and reading it alongside C&P. When you want to read but don't want to brood, take out your lighter book. When you have a minute, take out C&P.

[Anonymous No.5910961]

Swann's Way, Davis translation
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
I think my grillfriend might have bought me the Bell Jar and Anti-Oedipus but she aint here yet

[Anonymous No.5910990]

I didn't receive anything;_;

[Anonymous No.5910992]

>>5908005
is jane austen as much of a beast as i want her to be?

[Anonymous No.5911002]

>>5910457
>That edition of Lolita is very good.
>doesn't even have a pic of a little girl on the cover

[Anonymous No.5911108]

>>5911002
>not posting this edition

[Anonymous No.5911118]

>>5908491
This is an old picture. I remember seeing it months ago. I asked you why you didn't have best cronenberg film and you gave me some reason. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.5911149]

>>5911108

>"The only convincing love story of our century"

[Anonymous No.5911160]

>>5911149
Also the quote is from Vanity Fair, of all places. Yeah, that's a shit edition but at least it has a bit of sex appeal, which is what a good Lolita cover needs.

[Anonymous No.5911172]

>>5911160

>all a book about emotionally manipulating children so they'll let you give them special hugs needs is a subtly sexualized image of a child on the cover

Yup sounds about right.

[Anonymous No.5911177]

>>5911160
kill yourself, you fucking filthy scum

[Anonymous No.5911178]

>>5911172
One must imagine Humbert horny.

[Anonymous No.5911366]

>>5911178

No, one would rather not.

[Anonymous No.5911383]

>>5906187
>2014
>still celebrating Christmas
confirmed for pleb with slave mentality

[Anonymous No.5911397]

>>5911383

>repping Nietzche
>not celebrating traditions
>not recognizing that there are things greater than self
>calling other people plebs

[Anonymous No.5911420]

New Kindle Voyage owner

What's the /lit/-approved site to download ebooks? Do i just plug the kindle in with the usb and drag it over?

[Anonymous No.5911426]

>got being and time from my gf for my birthday on dec 1
>got being and nothingness from her for christmas

my gf best gf

i also got
>brothers k
>candide
>dorian grey
>the wall and other short stories

not bad

[Anonymous No.5911496]

I have a $25 dollar B&N gift card what should I buy?

I'm thinking some comfy history(Greek, Japanese, Napoleon) or an art book.

[Anonymous No.5911522]

The only book I got for Christmas was Paradise Lost.

[Anonymous No.5912133]

not all of these were presents, about half just books I found around the house that I hadn't read yet so I'm bringing them back to my apartment. pretty good haul though, no?

[Anonymous No.5912485]

>>5912133
v nice

[Anonymous No.5912586]

Books I received:

I Am a Cat
Moby Dick
The Tale of Genji
The Gambler
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

[Anonymous No.5912590]

>>5911420
Check the Sticky for your first question.

[plebcore virgin/loser No.5912596]

I received four books by Eric Hoffer.

>>5912586
>The Tale of Genji
Badass m8

[Anonymous No.5912626]

How'd I do, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.5912684]

>>5912626
>The Open Society and its Enemies

well, you don't need a doorstopper to tell you who the enemies are

[Anonymous No.5912708]

>>5912684

>you don't need a doorstopper

A soapboxing /pol/ refugee on /lit/ isn't much of a reader? Big surprise there.

[Anonymous No.5912813]

Dog got a hold of my Demons book by Dostoyevsky. Had it for two days and there is a bite mark on the bottom right of it.

Apart from that, good.

[Anonymous No.5912848]

>>5912626
>falling for the start with the greeks meme

[Anonymous No.5912864]

>>5912626
>translated

trash them

[Anonymous No.5913218]

>>5907665
>Les Mis
Great book.

[Anonymous No.5913516]

Didn't get any books from family, but bought these today with some of the money my grandma gave me

[Anonymous No.5913537]

Not so much, only Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg in terms of fiction. Though I also got Africa by John Reader and Génial 3 (a French textbook), which was nice, been wanting them for a long time.

I should wish for the 4 great Chinese classics for my birthday.

[Anonymous No.5913546]

>>5912848
Need I say it?

Can you just leave lit? Were I a mod, I would autoban anyone posting that tipping shit, anyone posting 'meme', and anyone doing new sincerity bullshit.

[Anonymous No.5913590]

>>5910457
Oh yes, and both it and 1984 are practically the same when you take off the cover. It might sound autistic, but I really, really like that.