Currently reading/recent purchases/stack thread

[Anonymous No.9474151]

These are always fun. R8, b8, h8, st8, rec, shitpost, whatever. How's my taste?

[Indian Navy Lt. Commander !!dAj5WUfRw9Q No.9474357]

I am also reading the last samurai by helen Dewitt but it's an ebook so can't take a pic.

[Anonymous No.9474414]

I'm currently reading The Tunnel and i'm halfway through it so far

[Anonymous No.9474550]

What should I read after I get through this?

[Anonymous No.9474563]

>>9474550
you won't

[Anonymous No.9474573]

Always looking for suggestions

[Anonymous No.9474601]

Yesterday's buys.

[Anonymous No.9474604]

>>9474601
And last week.

[Anonymous No.9474617]

>>9474604
what translation of TBK? I'm reading P&V right now, and I'm enjoying it. I've heard ignat avsey is good too.

[Anonymous No.9474640]

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[Anonymous No.9474641]

>>9474550
One thing at a time.

[Anonymous No.9474645]

>>9474617
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[Anonymous No.9474652]

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[Anonymous No.9474653]

>>9474601
>Cicero
>more like Kekero

[Anonymous No.9474660]

>>9474652

[Anonymous No.9474663]

>>9474601
>>>selected

why do publishers do this

Cicero is one thing because his output is huge and much of it probably won't be interesting to someone casually reading him, but Montaigne is good from start to finish and can be easily had in one volume.

[Anonymous No.9474667]

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[Anonymous No.9474670]

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[Anonymous No.9474676]

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[Anonymous No.9474678]

>>9474663
Dont know but the edition was too nice to pass up. They were $1.50 each.

[Anonymous No.9474682]

>>9474678
>>>/pol/124436146

[Anonymous No.9474685]

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[Anonymous No.9474686]

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[Anonymous No.9474691]

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[Anonymous No.9474713]

r8 my vanity

[Anonymous No.9474719]

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[Anonymous No.9474724]

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[Anonymous No.9474731]

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[Anonymous No.9474737]

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[Anonymous No.9474749]

>>9474641
This is just my to read list. I'm not reading them all at the same time.

[Anonymous No.9474763]

>>9474737
stick around randposter, reading poliphil and literature can only do you good

[Anonymous No.9474790]

>>9474713
I want that book just for the cover.

Can you post a pic of the book open at a random page?

[Anonymous No.9474900]

Annual book fair - $2 per paperback, $3 per hardcover.
Wew lad.

[Anonymous No.9474967]

>>9474900
>Check Soup for the Jewish Soul.

Low energy b8.

[Anonymous No.9474982]

>>9474790
Fanged Noumena? Sure.

[Anonymous No.9475092]

>>9474982
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.9475130]

>>9474900
Oy vey
>>9474982
Seems like turbo-autism to me

[Anonymous No.9475169]

ratatataouille

[Anonymous No.9475197]

Got the last three of temps perdu left to go. Kind of blown away by it. Got any recommendations for when I finish it?

[Anonymous No.9475199]

>>9475169
what's the map?

[Anonymous No.9475219]

>>9475199
It's actually a curtain I made out of a world map patterned fabric a which neighbour was throwing out. Waste not want not.

[Anonymous No.9475240]

>>9474713
Pretty vain desu

[Anonymous No.9475246]

Currently reading schlocky space opera waiting for a couple of books by Edith and Francis Schaeffer to arrive from Amazon.

[Anonymous No.9475343]

Got these yesterday.

Short stories by Kafka
House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky,
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Spinoza
Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values by Max Scheler
Complete poems and translations of Miklós Radnóti

[Anonymous No.9475349]

>>9475343
Hungarian?

[Anonymous No.9475352]

>>9475349
Yes.
What do you think?

[Anonymous No.9475380]

Is the novel city of glass any good?

[Anonymous No.9475386]

>>9474713

>After Virtue
>Muh Virtues
>Muh Thomism
>Muh Aristotle

You are in for a fucking treat, kek

[Anonymous No.9475430]

>>9475352
Not bad. If you enjoy Spinoza, I recommend you read The Ash Wednesday Supper by Bruno. House of the Dead is interesting but certainly not his best work, though I'm presuming you would already know that if you're reading it. Never read Scheler or Radnoti but would be interested to - especially Radnoti.

[Anonymous No.9475456]

>>9475430
I think this was a pretty balanced haul.
I could have bough stuff like Kafka,Dostoyevsky and Mann cheaper online, but Scheler and Spinoza would have been more expensive.
I like the Dostoyevsky edition. Those are cheap, are usually in good condition and they are comfortable to hold.
Thank God most of the classics got released at least once in this format.
I like the Spinoza edition too. It was made for academic use in the 60s and 70s. Hardcover with gold letters.
I have Hegel and three volumes of Chinese philosophy in the same type of edition. These are usually more expensive.

I don't really know if Radnóti ever got translated. Guy longed for peace and harmony in WWII and the nazis left him in a ditch somewhere in the countryside.
His notebook was found after the war.
But he published before the war too.

[Anonymous No.9475462]

>>9475456

>Guy longed for peace and harmony in WWII and the nazis left him in a ditch somewhere in the countryside.

Good.

War is good. Peace is stagnation and decadence.

[Anonymous No.9475487]

>>9475462
You can't wage eternal war you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.9475492]

>>9475487

No such thing as eternal peace either, you fucking faggot.

Swallow the black pill and realize that war is inevitable, and that therefore we must endeavour to make it as useful/productive as possible.

[Anonymous No.9475496]

>>9474151
Finishing Summa Contra Gentiles and Justin Martyr and 2 other volumes of Church fathers, then moving onto the stack. It has Wittgenstein, Maritan, O'Connor, Russian fantastic tales and more Aquinas.

[Anonymous No.9475499]

>>9475492
>[colour] pill
Neck yourself please

>make it as useful/productive as possible
At least this, we can agree on.

[Anonymous No.9475520]

>>9474414
>cartarescu
nu

[Anonymous No.9475521]

>>9475496
gotta admit that spelling of Aquinas's name gave me a chuckle

[Anonymous No.9475526]

>>9475496

>(((Akvinski)))

Mein gott...

[Anonymous No.9475531]

>>9475521
What's so funny about it?

[Anonymous No.9475634]

>>9475496
>Jokerman font.

I thought that shit died a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.9475647]

>>9475634
Aquinas and Maritan are new books as in never sold before, but were printed at least 30 years ago.
Aquinas even has a commie Jesuit modernist introduction which is trying to excuse Aquinas for not being ecumenical.

[Anonymous No.9476096]

>>9475520
>nu
huh?

[Anonymous No.9476369]

>>9474982
jesus, i think im going to cancel my purchase. This autism in pure form.

[Anonymous No.9476443]

>>9476369
>>9475092
who are these newfags that don't know Nick Land

[Anonymous No.9477125]

Why do you guys buy/read so many books at once? Bet you don't finish, let alone begin reading them. Is it just for the street-cred?

[Anonymous No.9477509]

>>9477125
Sales and discounts. The joy I get from buying them. I've read most of the books I bought.

[Anonymous No.9477572]

>>9474357

Bottom book is really good imo

[Anonymous No.9477610]

>>9477125

>tfw buying books faster than I can read them
>Will have to buy a new bookshelf soon

I do read though.

[Anonymous No.9478089]

[Anonymous No.9478098]

>>9477125
>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.

>Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.

[Anonymous No.9478955]

>>9474550

You can skip great Gatsby.
Generic story with a theme that you can learn from literally anywhere else, and the writing style is just shitloads of hollow symbolism that don't support the ideas strongly at all.
The theme is decent, but it's not worth reading such a poorly written book.

[Anonymous No.9480867]

>>9475169
Complete Cosmicomics is so fucking good. The Spiral is my favorite story in it.

[Anonymous No.9480921]

>>9474151
Here's my bedside stack of what I'm currently reading. The gold-ish one with no spine title is Girl Scouts Badges and Signs.

[Anonymous No.9481115]

>currently reading
Notes from Underground
The Razor's Edge, which I picked up on recommendation from here as something in the vein of All Quiet on the Western Front. Not exactly what I was shooting for, it's out in the car somewhere
Also technically reading Rules for Radicals but it's offensively bad and mired in the same faux-liberal horseshit as most modern activists and only reaffirms my disgust for that political circle
>recent purchases
Complete Works of Kurt Vonnegut on preorder

The stack to the right is a bunch of books and manga I've already read but not had the time or drive to make room for on my very limited shelving.

What should I read after Notes bois?

[Anonymous No.9481127]

Milan Kundera the unbearable lightness of being
atm

[Anonymous No.9481181]

>>9480921
Have you read the Rings of Saturn yet? I've been torn between buying it or not for a year or two.

[Anonymous No.9481192]

>>9481127
dosta dobro

I have a copy in Russian. I enjoyed it, especially the part about kitsch.

[Anonymous No.9481297]

>>9481181
I'm halfway through it--I'd definitely say it's worth getting, and I actually paid new price for it (I almost always buy used). It's really meandering, which is why I only read a chapter or two at once, but meandering in a constantly interesting way. I wish I had the kind of associative memory Sebald must have had.

[Anonymous No.9481758]

>>9474151
Don't have a picture but I was gifted the following for my birthday:

The Little Prince,
Heart of Darkness,
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
The Three Musketeers and
The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Anonymous No.9481877]

>>9481127
I have a special edition of this book in spanish, but I borrowed it to this girl for another book and now I feel she's gonna steal it.

[Anonymous No.9481936]

>>9480921
>A Canticle For Leibowitz
Is this book good? I heard about the premise of the book, and it sounds like something I would really be into. Is it worth my time?

[Anonymous No.9481956]

>>9481936
I really enjoyed the first two parts, but I just can't get into the last part of it. Still stuck there.

If the post-apocalyptic monastery premise sounds interesting to you, I'd definitely read it--it also reads pretty fast, imo, so isn't that much of a time investment.

[Anonymous No.9482277]

>>9481956
Interesting.

The "post-apocalyptic monastery premise" sounds awesome honestly, so I'll probably read it eventually.

[Anonymous No.9483032]

>>9474573
How is Only Revolutions? I didn't finish House of Leaves but intend to pick it back up, seems like the kind of thing where lightning can't strike twice

[Anonymous No.9483049]

These two bad boys just arrived.

[Anonymous No.9483071]

>>9481758
hope u had a good birthday

[Anonymous No.9483373]

I started reading recently
Am pleb?

[Anonymous No.9483390]

>>9483373
Nah, Steinbeck, Hemingway and Kafka are great entry level fiction writers. Definitely look into Hemingway's short stories, it's where the bulk of his literary value is concentrated.

[Anonymous No.9483395]

>>9474151
all shit, but stapledon is good

>>9474357
antony beever writes like like a pay-per-view documentary, please step up your history reading

>>9474414
try not to fall alseep too much during your readings

>>9474550
you'll probably be confused reading so much morality stuff you'll come out of it when a confused and patchy world view

>>9474573
way too much /lit/ memes, you need to read 100% more classics

>>9474601
not bad, but you can get all of that shit for absolutely free, and probably with a better translation for the greeks

>>9474604
that translation of Karamazov is serviceable, but dostoevsky is execrable!

>>9474713
i am indifferent

>>9474900
throw out everything but Nabokov and Pushkin

>>9475169
I am indifferent on Calvino, you can get Dante in superior translation absolutely free elsewhere

>>9475380
ultimate door-stopper

>>9475496
I enjoy aquinas, but ultimately indifferent to philosophy

>>9480921
Canticle for Leibowitz is ok, but you people really need to stop buying into the Fagles meme.

>>9481115
Lots of garbage, and Ebenezer Le Page is a laughable book - the ending with Le Page deciding to go with the idiot hippy as heir is one of the most contrived things I've ever read

>>9481127
good nocturnal literature - stuff I read to put me to sleep at 4am


>>9483049
left looks interesting

[Anonymous No.9483399]

>>9483373
kafka is good, i have hopscotch sitting around unread - but not because it's bad, i merely haven't gotten around to it

>>9483390
hemingway and steinbeck should be forgotten in the dust-bin of musty 20th cent. lit

[Anonymous No.9483414]

>>9483395
>Lots of garbage
Not gonna lie, most of those were recs I picked up haphazardly from /lit/ quite a while ago and now have little interest in reading. Lesson learned. Still going to take a pass at them all just to further solidify my experience with middlebrow easily digested work before moving on to more dense works.

[Anonymous No.9483435]

>>9483414
the problem with /lit/'s taste is that it is either

1. insufferably conventional
2. too hung up on whatever contemporary garbage their professors or goodreads/modern contemporary trends consider important literature

if you wish to believe in what I am about to tell you, I stepped away from /lit/ for over 4 years and have not heard much of anything about DFW/Pynchon/dellililllo, or any other modernist memes and my appreciate for literature has progressed 10x

Read a classic like Moby Dick or David Copperfield, and don't give a dried fig for what anyone thinks.

[Anonymous No.9483441]

>>9483071
Appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.9483443]

>>9483435
Pretty good general advice. I'm looking to branch further out from Americana and Modernism in general - I love Dostoevsky and will probably be looking into Tolstoy soon. A bit hesitant to jump into Moby Dick, will probably save that for a guided reading course at some point, and can't stand Dickens.

[Anonymous No.9483450]

>>9483443
Forgot to mention that I'm looking for some more philosophical works as well, something with more substance than modern political ethics or "durr can we prove that the thing exists lmao", maybe something related to aesthetics? My Greek basics are decent up through Plato, Aristotle looks like a cunt to read through, any recs?

[Anonymous No.9483455]

>>9483443
Then read David Copperfield, it's Dickens at one of his best, and does not have the usual morality patter that I believe you may dislike him for.

The only grating scenes in Copperfield is the DAT BABBY'S A PORKEEPINE. You'll understand when you read.

[Anonymous No.9483461]

>>9483450
Whatever catches your interest, philosophy can be interesting for certain people, at only certain times in life really.

[Anonymous No.9483597]

>>9483395
>left looks interesting

If you haven't, you should read Vallejo. He's amazing.

[Anonymous No.9483613]

Bought yesterday, what do you think?

[Anonymous No.9483672]

>>9483613
Hackett's Leviathan is better desu

[Indian Navy Lt. Commander !!dAj5WUfRw9Q No.9484141]

>>9483395
>antony beever writes like like a pay-per-view documentary, please step up your history reading

I respect your opinion and I am grateful that you expressed it but "like a pay-per-view documentary" is exactly what I was looking for, I have read John Lewis Gaddis and Odd Arne Westad and I found them great in their own regard, Gaddis more so but I needed something that was more fast paced, Beevor was just right.
See I am not reading them academically, I am just having fun.
>>9477572
Indeed

[Anonymous No.9484146]

>>9483613
>santamaria

that triggered me to remember i was going to ax why lit never reads santayana, he seems p chill but is becoming unread these days, did he write something politically incorrect somewhere and is now zapped from the canon

[noko No.9485567]

[Anonymous No.9485737]

>>9474550
good stack