/lit/ - Literature

>>17053474
you purposely damaged those books to make it seems like you've read them, you're not fooling anyone anon

>>17053699
Those are second hand books, he hasn't even touched them

>>17053474
Based but they seem a little random so not sure how you'll read them except as a bunch of facts but idk your reading goals

>>17053699
God you're stupid

>>17053699
genuis bait

>>17053740
I just grab any good books they have, no specific goals.

small but dense
also I never saw the Roman de Fauvel discussed around here, it looks really promising

>>17054213
Qrd?

>>17054883
It's a French satirical book from the Middle Ages in which a donkey becomes king of France and then the most powerful man alive, he marries "Lady of vain glory" and they have many devilish children. Of course everyone bow to him as a horse of power. It's in verse and I got the text in Old French so I'm really enthusiastic about it. Currently going through the (very long) introduction.

>>17054883
Unfortunately these are not in my copy, but goddammit medieval illustrations are kino!

>>17055013
Based troll

>>17055013
yess queen give us nothing

My xmas stax

>>17055307
Should get you through

Rate the titles I'm getting for Christmas:
>Complete Collection of Emily Carr
>To the Lighthouse
>The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
>A Time of Gifts by P.L. Fermor
>The Oxford Macbeth
>The Oxford Wuthering Heights

>>17055536
Only read To the lighthouse, it was really comfy. Got it three Christmas ago.

rate stack

>>17053474
this arrived today so this is my stack for now.
i have had it on my list for ages but finally got around to buying it.
it's the only real book about godward. i see his pictures posted on here occasionally but he is largely forgotten.
the book was expensive, but it is beautiful. the binding, the paper, the reproductions of the paintings all appear to be excellent.
i am looking forward to spending some time with it over christmas.

>>17055536
>>A Time of Gifts by P.L. Fermor
brilliant book, written by a remarkable man. enjoy it anon.

>>17055609
well, when i said largely forgotten, i should have really said compared to his peers. i mean his work still sells for $1.5 million

>>17055013
based ((upvote))

Consumerism thread

>>17053474
>Goodwill edition
Their prices are pretty bad compared to Salvation Army and local thrift stores. Definitely gives those a shot if you haven't already.

>>17055606
>been reading for 6 months and fell for too many memes/10
If that Brothers K edition is by Wordsworth, I hope for your sake the translation is Garnett's.

>book haul guys, look at my consumerism, please validate my materialism, just bought this, thoughts?

>>17055307
A strange mix of very based and very cringe, excellent anon.

>>17055679
Fortunately, I'm not so much of a sperg that I have to research different editions of books and get whichever ones faggots like yourself pretend are important

>>17053474
All of these were a birthday gift from my sister and even though I already had all of these (except for the sasha one, which seems interesting) I still appreciate the gesture

>>17055778
Your sister is based.

>was supposed to catch up my reading today
>ended up reading iron man comics instead

>>17055606
Breddy gud
>>17055673
They're all under $4, most under $2
>>17055704
KYS it's Xmas.

>>17056120
That's pretty good. I think the one near me probably charges more.

>>17055307
posting the same ass pic since last month

>>17053474
You found that at Goodwill?
OP, from the bottom of my heart, I have only one thing to tell you: go fuck yourself you lucky bastard.

>>17056920
$4, it was the most expensive. They've had IJ b4 too.
Its usually got quite a good selection, rich white town.

>>17054961
Sounds like something that smug Voltaire would write.

>>17057000
Damn, I wasn't even aware they had books at good will.

>>17057013
Mine has like 120' of shelves and 4 big 4x4 bins of books. It's interesting to see the selection. Probably 30% are your standard women's trash grocery store tier books. 25% are hardcover biographies, mostly political. 20% religious. Rest are random.

>>17056639
>last month
how new are you

>>17055729
it is a translation you fucking retard. Wordsworth classics are notorious for using cheap translations. They are only worth it if the original text was in English.

>>17053474
Here's my livingroom stack right now. I'm reading a great book about the CIA special ops called "Surprise, Kill, Vanish" by Annie Jacobsen & reading "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" on Kindle and Audible.

>>17057703
Ireland?

>>17057181
Again, I don't qualify whether or not I should pick up a book in a bookshop based on whether I know if it's the 'right translation'. I see the book and I buy it, because I'm a normal person. Not an autist.

>>17055609
Nice! It really is strange that Godward never got the recognition that Tadema and Bouguereau did.

>>17055307
Most cringe picture iv seen posted here

>>17055606
Based Magyar

>>17055606
Best stack itt

>>17053474
Great copy of Nausea, I love old new directions paperbacks even though they're usually not in great shape and the paper quality hasn't held up well

>>17055307
0/10 bait

>>17057703
>reading some shitty book glorifying the CIA
>the rise and fall of the third reich
I wish this was bait

>>17055572
To the lighthouse is my favorite book; fuck it is good.

>>17057780
:}
>17058009
>cope for the fact he reads lame drama literature just because the characters in the books still shit in a pot at night.

>>17055013
>tfw no French native /lit/ frens to talk about books with

>>17055778
Based sister and I just ordered the three boxed works last week.

>>17055307
How is Weaponized Lies?

>>17055719
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

>>17053474
Books I found at my parents house from when I was younger

The undiscovered self is really good nice job OP

>>17058881
Good haul

>>17059367
So is that Skinner

>>17053474
>Fiction

>>17055307
this is still funny

>>17055778
clean your room bucko

My winter haul. Tear me to shreds.

>>17058009
>he doesn't enjoy out-of-this-world nonfiction books about cool and unbelievable events
>>reading some shitty book glorifying the CIA
>>the rise and fall of the third reich
>>I wish this was bait
>he can't take a book at face value and must infer doubt as to its moral integrity since anon is a dirty fucking communist
>he's a loser who won't read awesome books full of adventure because he's a fragile commie who doesn't like to read about how bad Stalin was :((
sad! many such cases. fuck you,

>>17060330
I dropped out of my HS lit class when I saw the summer reading list had The Bell Jar, The Color Purple, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings on it.

>>17060060
>Jung
>fiction

pls r8 my stack.

>>17062228
East of Eden and Monte Cristo are great and comfy, Dune is pretty good for genre fiction, can't comment on the other 2

>>17061756
Both Dune and Cristo are a waste of time

>>17062302
>t.faggot pseud
if you enjoy it, read it anon

>>17060688
ur a loser if you don't like The Bell Jar

>>17057816
kys imbecile

Right, just finished Journey to the End of the Night like 10 minutes ago, easily one of the best books I've read all year, an absolutely glorious piece of literature and that. What do you reckon though lads, which one should I go for next?

>>17062499
>kill yourself because you didn't get the superior translation

>>17062511
maupassant

>>17057816
>I'm a normal person
Not with that book selection. Also you reek of being a faggot 19yo.

>>17062511
Read murphy and tell me what you think, I'm in a beckett phase

>>17062842
says the autist who attacks people for not buying the right translation.

>>17062978
This is all I said in that respect, you insecure faggot
>If that Brothers K edition is by Wordsworth, I hope for your sake the translation is Garnett's
Picking a good translation is not autism, btw. Only a retard would think so.

>>17062853
Been wanting to get started on him for ages, so yeh maybe that will be then one I read next. What did you think of it then if you've read it?

>>17055013
Umm based

>>17055307
Leave here.

>>17055778
Your sister is cool

>>17053474
Yo, that's crazy. I just got the Undiscovered Self too

>>17063828
Nice synchronicity

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>>17064816
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>>17064835
Trois

>>17055646
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

>>17064835
How's the King Arthur collection? and how's Starmaker?

>>17057703
>reading an oxford paperback edition of the bible

>>17064837
>6% of 107 pages

I bet that was a thrilling page

>>17064873
honestly what's wrong with that

>>17064869
I'm only reading Le Morte d'Arthur from that collection and it's been cozy. Starmaker is cosmic scale as per Olafson's usual, but I'm not far enough in to rate it. So far so good though.

>>17065132
Olaf's
>>17064875
lol I make the writing very small and wide so it condenses a 300 page book like that to 100 page count.