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hey lit, whats your bedside book at the moment?

>> No.9687038

The Odyssey, by Homer.
Greek Myths, by Graves.

>> No.9687068

>>9687038
is it the edition w/ the comics on the cover?

>> No.9687073

> The Last Man, Cousin de Grainville, 1859 ed

Reading it in the language it was written in: French

>> No.9687077

Bed is for sleeping. If you need a book to relax there, you're tucking in too early.

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9687080

>speak quickly, outlander
for some reason all my Gene Wolfe novels have absolutely hideous covers

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>>9687077
>Bed is for sleeping
>he doesn't read before sleeping

and/or

>Bed is for sleeping

Don't you use for having the sex with literary qts?

>> No.9687225

>>9687030
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Art of War

>> No.9687244

>>9687030
Why does that pic looks so comfy? I just want to take a bite out of that Russel book.

>> No.9687250
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>>9687030
This book is so boring it's literally just there to put me to sleep

>> No.9687259

>>9687086
normie faggot

>> No.9687389
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9687389

God, this picture is so fucking pretentious.

I'll let it slide because of Eco, though.

>> No.9687445

>>9687030
Against the Day, Pinecone

>> No.9687518

Illogic of Kassel, Vila-Matas
Genoa, Paul Metcalf
Requiem, Curtis White
Locus Solus, Roussel
Jack Spicer lectures
2 by Sukenick
Imaginary Women, Michael Westlake
Goodnight Pun-Pun Vol 5, Asano

>> No.9687531

>>9687030

Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams.

>> No.9687553

1984
The Time Machine

>> No.9687693

>>9687389
>babys first philosophy book, something by umberto eco, some short novella
>pretentious

Why do you get embarrassed by books, anon?

>> No.9687701

I have Fooled by Randomness by my bed right now since I already read Antifragile and it's basically the same thing. It's super easy to read before sleep and doesn't have anything I have to follow

>> No.9687715

Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel

>> No.9687789

>>9687068
Not him, but would owning the edition with the comics on the cover be a good or a bad thing?

>> No.9687800

Also sprach Zarathustra

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>>9687030
As always

>> No.9687827

Tropic of Cancer

>> No.9687840

>>9687030
The handmaid's tale. Just starting.

>> No.9687854

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

>>9687822
which translation?

>> No.9687867

>>9687030
A Clockwork Orange.

>>9687077
Nah mate, getting comfy with a good book helps me get to sleep. Otherwise, I stay up the entire night.

>> No.9687876

>>9687854
RSV

>> No.9687889

>>9687840
fucking herdprole

>> No.9688042

>>9687030
What other two books are those?

>> No.9688085

>>9687030
Shit that's confy

>> No.9688092

>>9687030
what's your instagram?

>> No.9688121

>>9687068
It's a translation

>> No.9688145

Blindsight by Peter Watts
He Died with his Eyes Open by Derek Raymond

>> No.9688296

>>9687244
nice dubs. its the lowered blacks
>>9687389
lel
>>9688085
>>9688092
thanks i guess. not sure if youre being sarcastic

>> No.9688605

Men Among the Ruins

>> No.9688660
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Between Sartre and Camus by Vargas Llosa.

>> No.9689077

Anna Karenina, enjoying it a lot.

>> No.9689148
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9689148

Started on this little thang today.

The Concept of Anxiety -Kierkegaard

- I have nothing to say about it. I'm not that far into it yet.

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9689158

Brothers Karamazov. Been putting it off for years. 120 pages in and still nothing but overly dramatic Slavs

>> No.9689205

>>9687086
I wake up early to read. Bedtime is entirely dedicated to Stockhausen.

>> No.9689211

Poop

>> No.9689225

Siddhartha

>> No.9689248

Catch 22, it's really great; in fact, I'm going to go read it right now.

>> No.9689328
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Just finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods, currently reading Tehran at Twilight by Salar Abdoh and then I'm moving on to Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika and Charles Yu's How to live safely in a science fictional universe

>> No.9689345

>>9688660
patrician detected

>> No.9689349

A collection of short stories by Marky Mark Twain.

>> No.9689473

As I lay dying.

>> No.9689538

I always read books about books in bed.

>> No.9689545
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>>9689538
>pic related
I didn't sleep much last night bc it's p good desu.

>> No.9690742

>>9689211
Based poop poster

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>>9687030

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why am i so pleb

>> No.9691161

>>9690747
is that baudolino? Why is it so thick?

>> No.9691169

>>9691161
I think it's The Island of the Day Before

>> No.9691185

>>9690747
Look at you with that milled receiver. Give us a better pic there gov'na.

>> No.9691190

>>9689473
Faggot

>> No.9691191

paulo Coelho - Eleven Minutes

>> No.9691209

There's a stack that looks like this from top to bottom:
>Heinrich von Ofterdingen - Novalis
>Demons Pt.1 - Dostojewski
>Demons Pt.2
>Collected Works - Hölderlin
>Latro in the Mist - Wolfe
>Soldier of Sidon - Wolfe

>> No.9691310

>>9691169
my curiosity remains. I have that book; its not that thick at all.

>> No.9691320

>>9691310

The other anon was correct, it is The Island of The Day Before.

The green book is Tristram Shandy, and the one underneath that is a selection of plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.

>> No.9691327

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Lolita
Collected poems of Hart Crane

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>>9691161
>>9691169
>>9690747
>>9691320

I agree with that anon. why is to thick? Pic related is my edition

>> No.9691372

>>9691363

I bought it used for next to nothing. The pages are yellowed and some what brittle, so I'd assume it got damp and was left out in the sun, causing the paper to expand. I've often seen two copies of the same book in thrift shops of differing thickness in proportion to their age or condition.

>> No.9691377

>>9691372

Moreover, mine is in English and yours Italian, and both are different editions.

>> No.9691452

paul auster - moon palace

>> No.9691481

>>9687030
>implying I read
I'm just here for the (You)'s.

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>>9687030
They're my guilty pleasure, gotta tear through Isaac Bell books soon.

>> No.9691560

>>9687030
lol @ you photographing your books and putting instagram filters on them like a fagboy. also, fyi I've heard that book is biased as fuck to the point of not being worth reading.

I don't keep books by my "bedside" but I am currently reading Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard (fiction) and One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse (non-fiction).

>>9687553
>>9687840
basic bitch

>>9691327
any good online resources for understanding hart crane? I'm intimidated by him.

>> No.9691951

>>9687030
The History of Western Philosophy as well, plus the latest issue of The Baffler.

>> No.9692017

>>9691560
>also, fyi I've heard that book is biased as fuck to the point of not being worth reading.

It is biased indeed and I wouldn't recommend it as someone's first philosophy book, but if you can take it with some prior knowledge, and a grain of salt, its a delightful read.

Actually, dis the condiment. You're too salty already.

>> No.9692028

>>9692017
>>9691560
the bias actually makes me like certain philosophers more. Russell's hate boner for Plato and Christianity was quite funny desu

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>>9687030

>> No.9692113

>>9692017
I'm the guy you replied to. So, if I have a bachelors degree in philosophy and want to read it mainly to patch up some holes in my knowledge as well as to get a "big picture" view of the development of western philosophy would it serve this purpose? Like I said I have looked into reading this book but I have heard to avoid it.

>Actually, dis the condiment. You're too salty already.
huh? I mean I understand what you're saying but what am I salty about?

>> No.9692124

>>9687030
Somebody actually took this picture and unironically posted it on their Tumblr and facebook. Fantastic.

>> No.9692191

>>9692113
>what am I salty about?
just joking because you're making fun of OP for posting that pic.

>So, if I have a bachelors degree in philosophy and want to read it mainly to patch up some holes in my knowledge as well as to get a "big picture" view of the development of western philosophy would it serve this purpose?

Yes. You don't even need to know that much. Just know that the author has got some biases against some philosophers and some in favor of others. He will make it apparent, though, so don't be worried of being tricked or anything. In general its a delightful read.

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>> No.9692394

>>9692191
Honestly, thanks. I had wanted to read it but /lit/ practically bit my head off when I asked about it

>> No.9692402

Not to brag, but...I'm currently nearly 500 pages into Ulysses and finding it quite deserving of its reputation among the cultural elite. Indeed it is my bedside table book currently, but that is simply because I do not spend many hours of my daily life apart from it. Joyce, while hopelessly erudite to some, is truly a beacon of enlightenment for me, an opportunity, finally, to commune with a worthy mind.

>> No.9692566

>>9692402
Can this become pasta?

>> No.9692572

>>9692402
Is the comma usage correct in this sentence?

>> No.9692585

>>9692572
yup

the comma between "for me" and "an opportunity" is debatable, but I've seen dependent clauses appended with commas like that many many times, so it's probably close enough to standard

>> No.9692589

>>9692124
haven't posted it anywhere else. I just took the pic because I thought it looked good, messed with the blacks and contrast an uploaded here. as some other anon said, posting pictures of books is really pretentious; i would never do it in any of my social media.

>>9692054
my cover says "the history..." but the first page has the same "a history". however, there's no "and its connection with..." anywhere in the book.

>> No.9692604

>>9692585
>Joyce, while hopelessly erudite to some, is truly a beacon of enlightenment for me, an opportunity, finally, to commune with a worthy mind.

I guess its correct. But a semicolon would be better imo.

>Joyce, while hopelessly erudite to some, is truly a beacon of enlightenment for me; an opportunity, finally, to commune with a worthy mind.

or even

>Joyce, while hopelessly erudite to some, is truly a beacon of enlightenment for me: an opportunity, finally, to commune with a worthy mind.

Please respond. I'm trying to refine my English writing.

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>>9687030
Right now I'm reading through this bad boy.
Fun stories, plus Howard really knows how to write action scenes. Not to mention it looks pretty.

>> No.9693209

Guns, Germs, and Steel. By Jared Diamond

>> No.9693232

Plato's complete works and Yotsubato volume 1

>> No.9693237

>>9692604
Semicolon doesn't work because the second clause isn't an independent one. Colon is dubious. I would probably use a dash or reformulate the sentence.

>> No.9693310

>>9687030
WILFRID SELLARS!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.9693339

a season in hell, rimbaud

>> No.9693348

Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, just started it

>> No.9693370

>>9692345
Does it matter which order I read the books in?

>> No.9693381

>>9687030
The Twelve Chairs

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>>9687030
One of my favourites

>> No.9693529

>>9693500
lol! buffy and socrates. such good taste

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Are you the same person who took this?

>> No.9693810

>>9687030
The Familiar Vol. 1, by Mark Danielewski

>> No.9693875

>2666, Roberto Bolano
reading it very slowly but I'm working my way through it

>> No.9694535

>>9693370
Not really, this one actually portrays the different "human conditions" and was his most famous one.

>> No.9694786

>>9693731
no