/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11463236]

Stack thread. What are you reading?

Sorry isn't a real stack. Anyone else get surprisingly good finds at thrift stores? I picked these up over three visits at a Value Village. They do promotions pretty often so it winds up cheap as hell. Really happy with the Tristham Shandy, which is a cool edition from 1948, and the Don Quixote, which is the only leather bound book I've had and it feels fantastic. I've also wanted the Loeb Virgil volumes for a while now and they're basically perfect other than the dust jackets.

[Anonymous No.11463429]

>>11463236

Love Geoff Dyer. Like Niall Ferguson but more eccentric and charming.

[Anonymous No.11463777]

>>11463236
>Really happy with the Tristham Shandy, which is a cool edition from 1948
Is it annotated?

[Anonymous No.11463909]

Mostly a stack of to read and to reread but theres a few favourites there that don’t vanish

>>11463236
Plagues probably the beat thing Camus ever wrote

[Anonymous No.11463923]

>>11463777
It is not. Should it be?

>>11463909
I've wanted to read it for a while, I was really glad to have found it. And I couldn't resist the cover, which is fantastic. 60s Penguin was the best.

[Anonymous No.11463926]

reading all these books at once, ask me anything

[Anonymous No.11464201]

>>11463923
>It is not. Should it be?
Yeah, theres tons of period jokes, allusions and references and likewise a decent amount of text (sometimes almost entire chapters) in French.

[Anonymous No.11464257]

>>11463236
Good haul; you're gonna have an awesome summer.

[Anonymous No.11464296]

No hate pls

[Anonymous No.11464334]

>>11464296
The bottom five all have that delicious acid free paper mmmmm

Nice

[Anonymous No.11464338]

>>11463926
What does having ADHD feel like

[Anonymous No.11464417]

>>11464296
>(((Ardent)))
Why? May as well read Wilhelm Reich and Theodor Adorno if you want Jewish pseudo-philosophy. Replace her with Schmitt.

[Anonymous No.11464454]

Not a stack, but still a beautiful book.

[Anonymous No.11464465]

>>11464417
Arendt was influenced by Schmitt

[Anonymous No.11464497]

>>11464338
pretty good actually

[Anonymous No.11464517]

>>11463236
Why is your cop of the plague much thinner than mine?

[Anonymous No.11464561]

"the adventures of pinocchio". Finally I decided to read the book

[Anonymous No.11464606]

judge me. let the heavy weight of judgement begin

[Anonymous No.11464614]

>>11464606
what's wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.11464622]

>>11464614
whats wrong with your mom

[Anonymous No.11464636]

>>11464622
she denies that she wants to copulate with me

[Anonymous No.11464639]

>>11464636
ive read atlas twice. watch out i must be a baaaaad dude

[Anonymous No.11464656]

>>11464465
And Ayn Rand was influenced by Aristotle, what's your point?

[Anonymous No.11464663]

>>11464606
no ones replying to this cause they thing youre joking bro

[Anonymous No.11464886]

1/2

[Anonymous No.11464889]

>>11464886
2/2

[Anonymous No.11464923]

Imotation of Christ
philosophy course vol 3
12 rules for life
Brothers Karamázov

[Anonymous No.11464925]

>>11464886
Is 12 rules for life actually any good? The only people I see recommending it are bugmen

[Anonymous No.11464943]

Used to work at a thrift store and we sold books for $1. Sure there are usually 4 copies of 50 shades of grey but you can find some gems. I went around all the shops near me and picked up about 15 books for $30 from Hume to Stendhal to American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.11464950]

>>11464465
To make him kosher. The purpose of Jewish secondary lit is neutering and reframing hostile threats to the service of the group evolutionary unit. Strauss does the same.

Schmitt is a theorist of how and why right wing authoritarianism should be. Having a Jew add on "and that's a bad thing!" doesn't not contribute to his work.

[Anonymous No.11465082]

>>11464943
is this a joke?

[Anonymous No.11465173]

Reposting here since that other thread is dead I guess. I think I did pretty good with my selections.

[Anonymous No.11465182]

Please rate this

[Anonymous No.11465187]

>>11465173
>locke
Read Leibniz u fag

[Anonymous No.11465192]

>>11464925
Not quoted, but I'm reading and it's pretty cool. Not much different from what he says in his podcasts however, so if you saw all of them, you don't need it

[Anonymous No.11465196]

>>11465182
meme'd
>>11465173
based
>>11464943
*snap*
>>11464923
*squint*
>>11464889
>>11464886
hipster
>>11464606
kys
>>11464296
meme'd

[Anonymous No.11465306]

the divine comedy
robinson crusoe
paradise lost
leviathan

[Anonymous No.11465325]

>>11464606
Meditations is only like 80 pages long, how did that penguin edition get so thick? Is it mostly others interpretations of his work?

[Anonymous No.11465347]

Rate my meme stack bro, 50 pages left on the bottom book, reading from the bottom up.

[Anonymous No.11465351]

>>11465306
I like your dog

[Anonymous No.11465399]

Help a nibba pick a book. Just finished GR by pinecone, not sure if I want to hop back in immediately and try Against the day or try something else. I'm currently 30 pages into The sound & the fury but can't decide.
Books cause mirrored
Dubliners and portrait of the artist
The sound & the fury
Blood meridian
Moby dick
In search of lost time: Swann's way
Ulysses
Against the day

(I've read about half the stories in dubliners)

[Anonymous No.11465410]

>>11465399
wew

[Anonymous No.11465536]

>>11465399
Do you ever read non-fiction? Western Canon literature is very important, but without the historical understanding and the philosophical underpinnings, most more modern (basically everything in the liberal era, Romanticism forward) is difficult to understand beyond a surface level.

Not everything necessarily needs to be 2deep4u for it to be literary, but I've found since I started alternting literature and contemporary philosophy/historiography, I started understanding the literature much more.

[Anonymous No.11465614]

I will start The Story of the Stone once I finish War and Peace.
Something that's been bothering me about my copy of W&P is that it may be an abridged copy since it's 682 pages long. However, the book itself has more width than height, so it may be because of that. It's was only 8$ tho.

[Anonymous No.11465638]

gargantua & pantagruel
the idiot (dosto)
el aleph

[Anonymous No.11465667]

>>11465536
Not the guy you replied to, but as someone who almost exclusively reads fiction, I find this very interesting. I've avoided non-fiction as I had always thought of it as being a very separate thing or interest from fiction, and I'd never been hugely interested in any particular non-fiction works, though I've read very few. I hadn't thought of them being so closely tied as you describe it. Do you have any recommendations on where to start?

[Anonymous No.11465750]

>>11465667
The meme (and also correct) answer would be the Greeks/Romans. Read Apolodorus' Bibliotheca and then Homer/Virgil/Ovid. It really depends on the period you're looking to read from. For example if you are reading German Romanticism and haven't read the mythos and philosophy which informs it and the reactions to it, then you're missing a lot of the allusions and substantial references.

The level of necessity of reading the surrounding philosophy is going to vary period to period, but if you're reading Dostoevsky and you haven't read the mythology and philosophy that informs him (Plato/Kant/Augustine) some of the emotional/psychological signifance of the characters may be lost. It all really depends. I'm not saying that it is mandatory to read the non-fiction that informs the Canon, but it certainly is helpful if you are looking for a deeper understanding (which some people may not feel is necessary)

[Anonymous No.11465762]

Reposting from an older thread
Got all of these for less than $10 from Savers in Redwood City, California

[Anonymous No.11465802]

>>11465347
Fourth Political theory is breddy gud brah. A lot more philosophical and less overtly political than I was expecting. Chapter 3 where he talks about rejecting the metaphysical idea of progress was a standout. He really should stop being so antifascist though. His main influences are de Benoist, Evola, and Heiddegger, its not like he's folling people into thinking he's not at the very least sympathetic to fascism that isn't literally nazism. I guess coming out and saying your pro fascist wouldn't work so well in Russia though.

[Anonymous No.11465857]

>>11465802
I think that's so strange because Russia under Putin is basically moderate National Socialism. I wish more people actually looked into what NS actually means, because it's not necessarily this massively totalitarian anti-market/anti-freedom system people think it is.
I understand we've done this bit of replacing the devil with Hitler in the mythos of the 21st century, but as a political/moral philosophy it is one that is surprisingly adept and malleable.

[Anonymous No.11465908]

>>11464606
Stack of a person who started reading a few years ago, nothing too bad except a lack of a formed taste that will inevitably come

[Anonymous No.11465943]

>>11463909
big fan of those hackett publishing books, I have their comprehensive Leibniz reader (Philosophical Essays, a bit of a misnomer of a title as it includes much more than those, a good amount of his correspondences in fact) and it held up really well throughout a semester of intensive use.

[Anonymous No.11465962]

>he doesnt have a digital stack

[Anonymous No.11466272]

>>11463236
Just arrived today. Reading Bonaventure, this copy has good translation notes. and /lit/ finally got me with the meme books.

[Anonymous No.11466282]

>>11463909
ayyyy, masks of god! solid choice bro

[Anonymous No.11466658]

I'm like 50 pages into the trial, and so far it's boring as hell. Does it get any better?

[Anonymous No.11466683]

>>11466658
No.

[Anonymous No.11466705]

>>11466272
There's a reason we call it the meme trilogy, if you read them you got memed. (except Ulysses)

[Anonymous No.11467066]

>>11466705
Not much of a meme trilogy if one of the books isn't even a meme.

[Anonymous No.11467136]

>>11464606
>Ego is the enemy
>Ayn Rand
Not sure which one you're hate reading, but other than that this is a very good and pragmatic stack. Well done

[Anonymous No.11467150]

>>11466658
Start w/ Odyssey if you haven't already read it. Iliad is great and all that but it does get a bit redundant.

[Anonymous No.11467191]

>>11467150
i did, it was bretty great desu

[Anonymous No.11467551]

>>11464886
>>11464889
dont get so many brand new books
disengage peterson

[Anonymous No.11467643]

>>11464889
>Fear
Based. I thought I was the only one here with that book

[Anonymous No.11467651]

>>11467551
I buy new ones when I can’t find them at the used store. And also if the only copy is shitty or old or yellow. About 1/3 of them are used

[Anonymous No.11467663]

>>11467643
Is it good? I bought it simply because it was NYRB and I was looking for ones that seemed interesting

[Anonymous No.11467666]

got these yesterday at a used book store

[Anonymous No.11467718]

>>11467663
Definitely. It's a nice contrast to Storm of Steel imo.

[Anonymous No.11467790]

>>11464606
Very similar to me. See you at the top anon.

[Anonymous No.11467803]

>>11467790
Anon how the fuck did you get a bible that skinny

[anonymos No.11467942]

>>>>11466282
Is that Plato’s complete works?

>>11466272
Nice Nietzsche. It’s read well in the concert of theory regarding power

>>11467790
Does the prince have any reading value other than its historical influence?

Currently books I either have read this year or reading, need to find more fiction /non-theory

[Anonymous No.11467957]

>>11467803
It's a king James version so I don't think it has EVERY book, also the paper is fairly thin.

>>11467942
The prince is a short read so I say it's worth a quick skim. You're better off reading 48 laws of power or 33 strategies of war by Robert greene if you want more practical information

[Anonymous No.11467963]

>>11464454
is this loss?

[Anonymous No.11468028]

>>11467651
looks like maybe 5 of them didnt come straight from amazon

[Anonymous No.11468034]

>>11467790
>Finnegans Wake
pleb pseud alert

[Anonymous No.11468077]

>>11464923
based Kempis

posting memes.

[Anonymous No.11468103]

>>11468028
Steppenwolf, Middlemarch, The Gambler, Petersburg, Neuromancer, Nausea, Three Novels (Beckett) Anna Karenina, The Glass Bead Game, Invisible Cities, M&D, The Rings of Saturn, The Double, Madame Bovary, Death In Venice, We, I Claudius, The Invention of Morel, and Fathers and Sons all came from Half Price Books. I just only pick out the ones in good shape

[Anonymous No.11468115]

>>11468103
Oh and Under The Volcano and The Monk

[Anonymous No.11468329]

>>11463236
I find value village hit or miss. Usually miss and the books end up being more expensive and shittier than the used book store bargain bin finds. I got these recently at my local used book store bargain bin. Not the never let me go though.

[Anonymous No.11468426]

>>11468329
Great finds. How much did that cost you?

[Anonymous No.11468530]

>>11468077
never heard of icon, any good?

[Anonymous No.11468579]

Opinions lads?

[Anonymous No.11468587]

>>11468530
it's readable, lots of allusions to Big Names of literature and more than a little imitation. written by a shitposting guy I knew on a forum like 15 years ago. here's a sample.

[Anonymous No.11468591]

>>11468587
first thing i see "Or to be autistic."

[Anonymous No.11468601]

>>11468591
yeh, he would have fit in here very well

[Anonymous No.11468728]

>>11468579
based, except for evola. you got memed buddy.

[Anonymous No.11468774]

>>11468728
Evola being a meme has become a meme. We just need to forget about the autistic evolaposting from the last 6 months and everything will be ok again

[Anonymous No.11468968]

>>11465325
half the book is cited references. also every 'meditation' has a bit in the back where its critiqed

[Anonymous No.11468996]

>>11467790
>>11464606
lol i own about half of those too

[Anonymous No.11469032]

is reading the prince still relevant after his tragic death in the elevator?

[Anonymous No.11469399]

>>11465347
What's the 1177 BC one like?

[Anonymous No.11469921]

>>11468968
Makes sense.

>>11469399
A combination of interpretation of new primary sources/anthropological evidence/genetic information, re-interpreted existing evidence, and just so stories.

It looks at how the 4 centuries prior led to a situation in which a civilizational crisis was inevitable, and reflects upon the potentially visible warning signs and how they were explained away in the contemporary time.

[Anonymous No.11470072]

I’m kinda new in this hobby

[Anonymous No.11470194]

>>11470072
>reading a translation of blood meridian
anon..

[Anonymous No.11470340]

[Anonymous No.11470360]

Currently reading Outliers and listening to Peterson's 12 rules for life on audiobook, just finished the republic.

[Anonymous No.11471203]

copped these at a second hand bookstore in barcelona