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I can't be the only one who buys books faster than you can read them. Post your book backlog!

>> No.7509209

>>7509190
mein gott, pure ideology!

>> No.7509245
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7509245

Not even close to being my entire "to read" pile, but more accurately my "to read before spring" pile. Doubt I'll clear that mark.

>> No.7509260

Stalin - Kotkin
American Psycho

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These, I've started on Russian THinkers though

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>>7509190
hmm... >>7509209 this tbvhi

>>7509245
Looks extremely interesting, but 100% nonfiction? really?

>>7509260
small. B+

>>7509270
good on you

still working my way through the basic works of existentialist fiction at the moment, with some interludes

>> No.7509292

>>7509277
>Looks extremely interesting, but 100% nonfiction? really?

I usually get kindle versions of fiction because I read them once and usually never again. Non-fiction stuff I like to keep hard copies of to easily go back to and reference or re-read chapters.

>> No.7509297

>>7509292
Makes sense.

>> No.7509316

>has a finite to-read pile

stay pleb

>> No.7509337

>>7509245
that sowell book bangs btw

>> No.7509363

>>7509277
what does "mein gott, pure ideology" mean?

>> No.7509369
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>>7509363
I assume it's a flawed Žižek reference that was written with German words instead of Slovenian-accented English out of ignorance. I could be wrong though.
It means, in short, that those books are pure ideology.

>> No.7509409

>>7509245
How's that Pinker?

>> No.7509410

>>7509369
>It means, in short, that those books are pure ideology
thanks, but that doesn't get me much closer to understanding what that means

>> No.7509428

>>7509409

Haven't touched that book yet but I thoroughly enjoyed The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Language Instinct.

>> No.7509490

>>7509190
>I can't be the only one who buys books faster than you can read them
Library master race. Benefits of a physical text + it's fucking free. Stay poor

>> No.7509506

>>7509410
how about goddamn lurking more

>> No.7509509

>>7509490

You must have a nice library. My city's library rarely carries the books I'm looking for.

>> No.7509512

I intend on reading Hamilton's Mythology and Campbell's The Power of Myth before the new year. And when the year starts I'll dig into Don Quixote (reading it in spanish is my big goal for next year) and I'll also read some comfy fantasy stuff like The Once and Future King and LotR.

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Yet to read: #1

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>>7509522
Damn phone

>> No.7509528

>>7509525
These I'm in the middle of but I either stopped reading them or haven't finished

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>>7509528
Forgot pic

>> No.7509540

Oh baby.

Currently reading: Crime and Punishment

To Read:
Voice From Chernobyl
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Centennial
Anthem
Notes from Underground
The Brothers Karmazov
Gravity's Rainbow
(Christmas was kind)

And then for memes, I got Binge and You Deserve a Drink

>> No.7509587

>>7509540
>Binge & YDAD
holy homosex batman

>> No.7509623

>>7509587
It's rough, man, I know.

>> No.7509735

>>7509277

Stringberg is based, i had to read that edition for uni. Ghost sonata is my favourite. Brecht is dope too

>> No.7509745

I've got about 300 books on my 'to read' list.

But soon I'll read 'The Peloponessian War' by Kagan (I've already read Thucydides'); after 'Theaetetus' I'll read 'Sophist'; after Kagan's I'll read 'Storm of Steel' by Junger.

>> No.7509780

>>7509260

Well, if you're really keen on a biography of Stalin, I would read Stalin by Robert Service. I've read both and Kotkin seems extremely partial to the Soviet Union and essentially sucks Stalin's dick to the point where it interfere's with objective truth about his history.

>> No.7510168

>>7509506
oh, it's a /lit/ meme. So no information was actually being communicated

>> No.7511044

I had an idea for a spinoff thread. On new years eve we all post our to read piles and the next poster tels you what, from that pile, will be the first book you read in 2016! anybody interested?

>> No.7511286

>>7511044
Just make one, /lit/ is a communist utopia, all cunts are equal here

>> No.7511294

>>7509190
I would post, but I wouldn't want it to turn into a bookshelf thread...

I just like books. I'm not a fan of reading them.

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These basically, grandad bought me the first for Christmas

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the next few to read

>> No.7511765

>>7509270
are you enjoying russian thinkers?