/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19140672]

Stack thread/recent purchases thread

[Anonymous No.19140683]

I'm too lazy to take a pic, but
>Five Years in Buenos Aires (1820-1825)
>El Aleph
>A Russian Beauty (Nabokov)
>Foucault's Pendulum

[Anonymous No.19140729]

A dark night's passing - Naoya
A tale for the time being - Ozeki
The crying of lot 49 - Pynchon
The floating opera and the end of the road- Barth
Death on the installment plan - Celine
Mandarins - Akutagawa
Omensetter's luck - Gass
1Q84 - Murakami
The sound of waves - Mishima

[Anonymous No.19140744]

A-am I /lit/ yet?

[Anonymous No.19140858]

>>19140744
>Baguette
No

[Anonymous No.19140908]

>>19140744
Yes.
>>19140858
Seethe, subhuman anglo.

[Anonymous No.19140940]

>>19140744
Based and french pilled

[Anonymous No.19141015]

>>19140672
Just bought some books i am to read and some favourites which I don't own physically:

Aim to Read:
Georges Perec - Life, A Users Manual
The Dictionary of Saints
Cervantes - Don Quixote

Bought but already read:
Maldoror
The Tunnel
Autoportrait and Suicide by Edouard Leve.

[Anonymous No.19141237]

[Anonymous No.19141297]

>>19140672
Recently finished Don Quixote and The Death of a Beekeeper
I own Lewis Carroll's complete illustrated works, and I'm considering to spend some time on it, since I have not read Sylvie and Bruno yet

[Anonymous No.19141307]

>>19140744
basé

[Anonymous No.19141611]

>>19141015
Life was a disappointment

[Anonymous No.19141629]

>>19140744
Not possible.

ESL's can't be /lit/.

[Anonymous No.19141702]

>>19141629
>ESL(((')))s
ESL trying to fit in but failing lmao.

[Anonymous No.19142093]

>>19141629
I'm a native English speaker. French is my second language :)

[Anonymous No.19142121]

>>19141015
>>19141611
>Life was a disappointment
Your life or the book? Just kidding.
Why? I was curious about the guy.

[Anonymous No.19142133]

>>19142093
Dangerously based

[Anonymous No.19142147]

>>19142121
there are a handful of stories there that are great but a lot of it is tedious. also hate the listing. i really liked a man asleep and things from perec. going to try species of spaces.

[Anonymous No.19142233]

>>19140672
Bruh Henry James is NOT good enough to justify this stack, I am sorry

[Anonymous No.19142240]

>>19142233
Nah Henry James is goated. You should see my entire Henry James collection.

[Anonymous No.19142323]

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[Anonymous No.19142331]

Where you lot buy your books? Been buying em off amazon but the selection is lacking. Price seems good compared to local stores though. Mostly cheap paperbacks or dust covers. Shipping has been an issue as well. Local stores don't have what I want sometimes amazon doesn't either. For example I wanted the overcoat but could not find it.
Maybe there's a great book store in DC? In nova so I could get there.
Most stores just have modern books or overpriced paperbacks. Lot of manga too which is odd.

[Anonymous No.19142344]

>>19142331
go to the library and it will save you tens of thousands of dolllars. if you can't find something at the library you can buy it used online (thriftbooks)

[Anonymous No.19142356]

>>19142331
Amazon or abebooks. I mostly buy used in very good condition.

[Anonymous No.19142394]

>>19140744
I don't know, I can't read upside down

[Anonymous No.19142399]

>>19142323
Skip Jung and the bible crap, other books are pretty based though

[Anonymous No.19142428]

>>19140744
I don't know, I can't read

[Anonymous No.19142530]

the sickness unto death is the best book i've read recently. either/or i read in college

[Anonymous No.19142552]

k

[Anonymous No.19142607]

>>19142331
Amazon and Thriftbooks are usually more expensive, I buy most of my books from Abebooks and Ebay

[Anonymous No.19142612]

>>19142240
how many books about him do you have?

[Anonymous No.19142616]

>>19142356
>>19142607
Abe is garbage if you're not in the States. In Canada, the shipping often costs more than the book.

[Anonymous No.19142630]

>>19142323
Based spiritualist

[Anonymous No.19143085]

>>19142616
Stop being a leaf

[Anonymous No.19143185]

[Anonymous No.19143277]

This is my currently reading/finished reading stack from the summer. Still making my way through the poetry anthologies and reading The Satanic Verses.

[Anonymous No.19143485]

>>19142323
>Chef
based

[Anonymous No.19143495]

[Anonymous No.19143504]

>>19142323
Based australian poster

[Anonymous No.19143509]

>>19143495
nice quixote and cioran

[Anonymous No.19143511]

>>19143185
based and comradepilled

[Anonymous No.19143559]

>>19140672
most rrecent purchase, how ddid ii do bros ? its harrd to get phil books or any books worth a shit where i live. and amazon isn't an option. truly 3rd world hell.

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[Anonymous No.19143597]

>>19143559
dover and penguin are great trade paperback publishers
that catholic thing is cringe though

[Anonymous No.19143639]

[Anonymous No.19143642]

>>19140672

[Anonymous No.19143654]

>>19143597
wrong. penguin sucks dick because the paper on that edition is real fucking thin. dover kinda smell wierd and their print quality is bad. i just hope that wordsworth would start publishing more philosophy stuff because the quality of their books are pretty good for the price. the print is nice and the pages are thicker than penguin.

[Anonymous No.19143671]

>>19140672
I'm going home bros.
>>19143559
>O my God, my light, my guide, my love, my shepherd, my blah, blah, blah, blah, forgive me for stealing a pear and having fun as a kid
He was very dense.

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[Anonymous No.19143722]

>>19143703
LOOK AT THAT SPINE GODDAMN

[Anonymous No.19143728]

>>19143642
All well and good until some numbskull kicks your precious books on their way up the stairs

[Anonymous No.19143746]

>>19143654
I honestly love the smell, feel and look of Penguin Modern Classics. The regular black ones are in the same category as Oxford World Classics-cheap, but great selection

[Anonymous No.19143755]

>>19140672

>yotsusoba

that better be the japanese version

[Anonymous No.19143832]

>>19143722
You mean st. August or the bible? Or the I Ching? (Still have the three chinese coins)

[Anonymous No.19143843]

>>19143832
The hell happened to the St Augustin spine.

[Anonymous No.19143899]

>>19140672
Vernon Subutex 1 - Virginie Despentes
Manifestes du surréalisme - André Breton

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[Anonymous No.19143911]

>>19140744
basé et littératurepillulé

[Anonymous No.19143920]

>>19142616
This.
Jealous of all the good books I see on there for like $3-4 but the shipping is like $30 lmao
Though would recommend worldofbooks for anyone in Australia, great cheap second hand stuff there

[Anonymous No.19143951]

>>19143559
Based and doverpilled
>>19143654
Dover thrift is kino and perfect for us poorfags. Most of my Nietzsche stuff is dover and the print is fine so you capping

[Anonymous No.19143959]

>>19143495
If that Aristotle is as used as it looks then you on the right track anon also +1 for Solzhenitsyn

[Anonymous No.19143961]

>>19143511
*gay and Jewishpilled
Hail Hitler commie swine, tell me about the view when you're dangling from a tree.

[Anonymous No.19143978]

>>19140672
What henry james novel have you enjoyed the most OP? I've enjoyed his novellas/short stories a lot

[Anonymous No.19143992]

>>19143978
Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl

[Anonymous No.19144058]

>>19143978
Which novellas and short stories did you like the most anon

[Anonymous No.19144260]

Guenon - Symbols of Sacred Science
Evola - Tradizione ermetica (1947 edition)
Evola - Introduzione alla Magia box set (1971 edition, "intonso" or "untouched" with the pages stuck together)
JP Giudicelli - Pour la rose rouge et la croix d'or
Reghini - La tradizione pitagorica-massonica
Dante - Vita Nuova
Aeschylus - Orestian Trilogy
Herodotus

And probably another 100+.

You're mostly all plebs. Especially the leftists/commies. Bill Gates is right about you, take all your vaccines, slaves.

[Anonymous No.19144440]

>>19143639
Nice AH book bro

[Anonymous No.19144493]

>>19143961
Wish a motherfucker would

[Anonymous No.19144523]

The Poetics of Space - Bachelard
The Writing of the Distaster - Blanchot
Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Submission - Houllebeque
Writings 1997-2003 - Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
The Suitcase - Dovlatov

This won't last me very long I NEED MORE

[Anonymous No.19144533]

>>19144493
bow down to the megacorps, slave. take big pharmas vaccine and show them your papers your dumb slave. do what you're told by them, let them control your speech online and dictate global policy, you fucking swine. you deserve to be enslaved.

[Anonymous No.19144535]

>>19143910
>moby dick
>black whales

[Anonymous No.19144551]

>>19144533
Based. Love you bro H.V.

>>19144493
Not scared of your stack of toilet paper and your little old lady "gun".

[Anonymous No.19144571]

>>19144533
already had my 2 doses
t. >>19143185

[Anonymous No.19144592]

>>19140672
Recent buys and stuff I'm currently reading

[Anonymous No.19144597]

>>19142331
Bookdepository if you're outside the US and UK since they offer worldwide free shipping and you can also use a VPN to get better deals
If you're in Germany or in central Europe, booklooker.de is the german equivalent of Thriftbooks

[Anonymous No.19144606]

>>19144571
good little goy slave, but you will be taking the boosters every 5 months. you will also allow the big tech billionaires and global banking cartels to control what you say and eat, and when you go outside, because you are a stupid commie servant.

[Anonymous No.19144628]

>>19142530
Based Kierkechad, Fear and Trembling was the first philosophy book iv read and everytime iv reread it i picked up more from it
>>19142552
Usedbooks chad, all seem like great books to read
>>19143185
Cringe
>>19143277
Iv only read the satanic verses out of curiosity and Joyce
>>19143495
Arthur Miller is great, just recently read some of his essays
Aristotle, Quicote, Solzhenitsyn, Cioran and Houellbecq are litcore
Also i think that in the 11th volume of Jung's work is that passage where he compares homosexuals/feminine men to chinese
>>19143559
The Confessions of Augustine are one of the best books written, people who reject it simply for being catholic are retards and smoothbrains
I had to read Pansees in college, wasnt as good as Augustines confessions
>>19143910
>Le shilled Moby Dick version
Where can I get one?

[Anonymous No.19144630]

Already finished The Death of a Salesman

[Anonymous No.19144638]

>>19144493
not a Nagant M1895 Revolver you failed

[Anonymous No.19144963]

>>19144592
based for buying Max Weber. Nobody here reads him.

[Anonymous No.19144972]

>>19140744
Very nice

[Anonymous No.19145243]

These are mine:
Solaris-Lem
Quiet flows the don-sholokhov
don flows home to the sea-- sholokhov
Red Sky- Black Death-- Yegorova
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaigns-- MacDonald and Cimpric
Byzantium and the Slavs-- Obolensky
Byzantium and the Rise of Russia-- Meyendorff
One few over the Onion Dome-- Meyendorff
Theology of Illness-- Larchet
Everyday Saints-- Tikhon
Hadji Murat-- Tolstoy
Up From Slavery-- Booker T. Washington
Beyond Band of Brothers-- Major Winters
Claiming Crimea-- O'Neill
A Brief History of Medieval Warfare: Rise and Fall of English Supremacy at arms-- Peter Reid

[Anonymous No.19145257]

>>19143843
It's just a cover disintegrated by the time, the book is old as fuck but is intact, I really like st. Agustine.
>>19144963
The fuck did you say about Max Weber?

[Anonymous No.19145318]

>>19143559
>Penises
Nice bro

[Anonymous No.19145472]

>>19143951
no i have been reading wordsworth classic editions and they have a better print quality than dover. its way cheaper too.

[Anonymous No.19145571]

>>19144493
>le re volv a
fag, get a real gun

[Anonymous No.19145612]

>>19144535
woosh

[Anonymous No.19145850]

>>19143703
>Those publishers
Stop being poor

[Anonymous No.19145986]

>>19144963
I read some of his stuff like Politics as a Vocation and parts of Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik and now want to read his protestant ethics whole even tho im familiar with the base ideas and argumentation

[Anonymous No.19146003]

>>19144440
And I see you have an Imperium Press book. I'm thinking of getting Sociology of the South.

[Anonymous No.19146697]

>>19145850
What is your argument for that? The I Ching is a hard cover from penguin, the bible is mostly used by priests, the confessions by st. Agustine is old a fuck but a very good translation, the apocryphal gospels is complete but with letters for ants, and Faust and the Divine comedy are not cheap, they got a really good translations (the Divine comedy comes complete and with the Gustave Doré illustrations)

[Anonymous No.19146789]

>>19146697
dont waste your time replying to insecurity and this website will slowly but steadily become a better place

[Anonymous No.19146857]

>>19146789
Tranks anon

[Anonymous No.19147014]

>>19143703
Stop larping

[Anonymous No.19147222]

>>19147014
>Stop larping

[Anonymous No.19147797]

>>19140744
Is folio good? Was looking for a nice edition of my favorite book and they folio has one that caught my eye, but the price put me off. However, it would have a permanent place on my shelf, and if the quality was not lacking the price could be accepted.

[Anonymous No.19148023]

>>19147797
Yes

[Anonymous No.19148326]

Recent cops
>Cao Yu - Thunderstorm
>Tian Han - Selected one act plays
>András Kappanyos - Moustache cup, untranslated
>Eduard Limonov - It's me, Eddie
>Mark Elvin - The pattern of the Chinese past

[Anonymous No.19148354]

>>19144493
should've used a tokarev or nagant, not a little ol snub nose

[Anonymous No.19148610]

>>19141237
awesome haul, pay a low price I hope?

[Anonymous No.19148880]

>>19143185
>Philosoophy
Marxcucks stay losing.

[Anonymous No.19149282]

>>19144630
Just read it as well. I liked the 50’s banter and the play format was interesting and refreshing for me but I didn’t care for the story. I imagine in the 50’s this concept of “the American dream of success ain’t all it’s cracked up to be” was new, but since I’ve seen that story so many times the plot and characters felt very bland. What did you think anon?

[Anonymous No.19149774]

bump

[Anonymous No.19149795]

>>19146697
> EdicionesTerramar
>Sudamericana Iching and not the Ritsema Karcher edition
Cheap and pseud pilled desu

[Anonymous No.19150107]

>>19149795
The publisher is from penguin group with the Richard Willem translation, sudamericana is the brand from latinamerican distribution, not cheap and get your shit together. Also what is your issue with Terramar? The quality is not terrible at all, as some idiots wrongful believe.

[Anonymous No.19150383]

[Anonymous No.19151929]

Currently working through this

[Anonymous No.19152102]

>>19140672

[Anonymous No.19152302]

>>19149795
Youre fucking retarded
Unlike you people actually read the books they buy and dont care what publisher they are from
Youre the pseud here

[Anonymous No.19152635]

>>19148610
thanks anon. the Will to Power is custom bound Ludovici translation. Is worth every penny. Stanford translations are execellent but the font is small as fuck and book looks like a cheap ass mass market paperback. modern publishers are fucking kiked. I am custom printing/binding books. fuck em.

[Anonymous No.19153954]

>>19152102
You’re telling me they couldn’t fit “Aaron’s” on the spine without a hyphen?

[Anonymous No.19154184]

>>19149282
I loved it, which isn't surprising given my admiration for Eugene O'Neil and Tennessee Williams. I cared for it less for it's social commentary (the idea that the American Dream is nothing but an illusion isn't a new one to me either) and more for how it portrayed Willy and how his attempt to reach the American dream leads him to destroy himself and his family when the disillusionment gets too much for him to keep going. In a way though, I suppose it does feel a bit like an inferior version of O'Neil's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Either way, it's a solid play in my book.

[Anonymous No.19154197]

>>19151929
based library utilizer

[Anonymous No.19154207]

>>19140744
Today I learned French is written upside down.

[Anonymous No.19154581]

>>19152302
Based anon

[Anonymous No.19154717]

>>19154197
Only because I have more epicuriosity than cash I'm willing to spend or space I'm willing to dedicate. If it's good enough to share with the rest of my family and friends, I'll seek it out and buy it. But I wish to try my hand at reading all the nonfiction I get a whimsy for.

I hate Gravity's Rainbow, the wording is so jarringly unpoetic and unnaturally pretentious as if the author wrote it with a thesaurus next to them. Am I too simple minded for this board?

[Anonymous No.19154732]

Why are 90% of books black/red/blue with gold/white/black text?

[Anonymous No.19154760]

Not a stack but I got two new bookshelves today to sort out my overflow, and because my other bookcase was falling apart.

[Anonymous No.19154768]

>>19154760
Nice room, I envy you.

[Anonymous No.19154780]

>>19154768
>room
It’s my fucking apartment’s living room, I’m not a child, I have my own place

[Anonymous No.19154808]

>>19154780
>apartment’s living room, I’m not a child
HA

[Anonymous No.19154810]

Thomas Browne and Meister Eckhart

[Anonymous No.19154814]

>>19154808
I know, apartments are fucking gay as shit. I’m currently talking to realtors about buying cheap rural land to gtfo of this circuit board of human suffering

[Anonymous No.19154818]

>>19143920
Thank you!
I too have been jealous if things like Abes Books and have resorted to libgen if I wanted to read something enough.
My library has also been kind enough to order books in for me when I ask.
But I’ll give this a look.

[Anonymous No.19154942]

[Anonymous No.19155550]

>>19154942
how much money do you have to waste those folio society editions are crazy expensive

[Anonymous No.19155564]

>>19144493
>Taurus
Thanks for the laugh, faggot.

[Anonymous No.19155693]

>>19155550
None of the books (except the top one) cost me more than 20$. They’re all from local second hand bookshops.

[Anonymous No.19155991]

Thrifted these for $20cad

[Anonymous No.19155997]

I got a copy of the Everyman's Library edition of the Authorized Version of the Old Testament, from Indigo.

[Anonymous No.19156755]

>>19154780
>Nice room
>It's not a room, it's a room
based retard

[Anonymous No.19156763]

>>19155991
Just buy a collected Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.19156830]

>>19156763
those books are unwieldy. the best way is vintage arden editions of the individual plays. the new ones are hundreds of pages of commentary (junk)

[Anonymous No.19157974]

bump

[Anonymous No.19157981]

Went to a book sale a couple of days ago, now i need another bookcase

[Anonymous No.19158236]

Pls no bully

[Anonymous No.19158973]

>>19154942
Nice ornaments

>>19155991
I like the 1984, haven't seen that cover before

>>19157981
Is this a photo of the book store? Or did you just buy everything they had, including 2 copies of the Hobbit?

>>19158236
>Buying Shakespeare individually

[Anonymous No.19158993]

>>19154780
I said room, not bedroom. Nice views btw.

[Anonymous No.19159116]

>>19143185
Oh look a /leftypol/ faggot shilling leftist and socialist literature he's never read. Remember that thread a while back explaining how to demoralize our board by continuously spamming leftist books? Yeah so do I.

[Anonymous No.19159295]

It will post sideways because my phone is a fag but I got
>As I Lay Dying
>Walden
>Journey to the End of the Night
I had been looking for Journey in several book stores for well over a year and I found one just today at last. It's marked up with pen pretty heavily, but it's readable still and I'm happy with it.

[Anonymous No.19159632]

>>19159295

[Anonymous No.19159790]

>>19144493
Lenin was 1.53m (5ft.)

[Anonymous No.19159794]

>>19143185
>The Poverty of Philosoophy
A man of culture I see....

[Anonymous No.19159913]

>>19159794
kys faggot

[Anonymous No.19159922]

>>19159295
>Celine
based

[Anonymous No.19159923]

>>19159794
Kuká(c)s György lmao

[Anonymous No.19159953]

Recent purchases, all for $1 each. I've already read Céline as an ebook but I couldn't pass up a great quality old New Directions copy like that.

>>19159295
What else is in that Thoreau collection?
>>19158973
I see piles of van Vogt in every single used book store's scifi section, no idea who he was otherwise.
>>19158236
Enjoy anon
>>19154760
Nice, where'd you get em?

[Anonymous No.19160035]

>>19140672
Got room for one more?

[Anonymous No.19160036]

>>19158973
Immensely based. I just bought Capital and Manufacturing consent myself and am on the last chapter of Piketty.

[Anonymous No.19160105]

>>19140940
>>19142394
>>19142428
Not funny

[Anonymous No.19160115]

>>19159953
The book contains
>A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
>Civil Disobedience
>Walden
>Life Without Principle
>The Maine Woods
>Cape Cod
>The Journal
Fellow Journey to the End of the Knight friend. Is Story of the Stone an unabridged version of Journey to the West?

[Anonymous No.19160116]

Books are too expensive, plus missus does not approve the purchase of more books...

[Anonymous No.19160171]

>>19160115
Hm. I'm gonna read Thoreau soon but I wanted to explore more than just Walden and Civil Disobedience. Sounds like a nice collection.
Story of the Stone is another name for Dream of the Red Chamber. That's the first unabridged volume of five. My understanding is it's more of a social and psychological novel than Journey to the West, which appeals to me more.

[Anonymous No.19160230]

>>19154780
You're so fucking retarded. Don't step on a needle on Denny.

[Anonymous No.19160233]

>>19155991
You didn’t do that well lol

[Anonymous No.19160239]

>>19160036
How's Capital? I just slugged through Marx's Capital and feel like I need a break from economics for a bit, especially if it's gonna be as dry as Marx

[Anonymous No.19160242]

>>19158236
Read Hamlet and Macbeth and then As I Lay Dying

[Anonymous No.19160246]

>>19159295
Are you in the USA? I see Journey everywhere. Good stack though

[Anonymous No.19160377]

>>19160246
Yeah USA. I just have had piss poor luck at bookstores until today.

[Anonymous No.19160470]

>>19160116
You are a fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.19160523]

>>19160233
chad knock your lunch tray to the ground again? christ you are weird

[Anonymous No.19160935]

>>19143597
>catholic thing is cringe

Prot detected. Go take your sola scriptura elsewhere

[Anonymous No.19160941]

>>19144592
The shelf was based until I saw Luther and Freud.

[Anonymous No.19161000]

>>19160233
Was going to buy half of these anyways so I’m happy

[Anonymous No.19161253]

>>19160239
haha, I had just finished vol 1 and 2 of Marx's capital as well. Piketty is more readable I would say, although it does contain a lot of information, specifically statistical trends of various things through the 19th and 20th centuries. Piketty uses many graphs throughout the book (although he tends to also have a paragraph just describing what is shown on the graph that you can skip). Much of the book concerns the concentration of wealth in the top 1%, 10%, and 40% in western countries before WW1, and diffusion of that wealth after WW2, and the subsequent reconentration of wealth that has been going on since the 70s. The historical context, his equation "r>g" (return on capital is greater than growth of economy meaning capital always wins against those with no capital), and the examples he uses (such as the returns on public universities which show the larger the endowment of a university, the higher the rate of return in exactly a perfect curve, probably due to the larger portfolios paying higher prices for financial experts but demonstrating larger fortunes grow even faster than smaller fortunes) all come together to make a really well supported, cogent case that capital concentrates into a few giant fortunes that effectively destroy meritocracy, and disenfranchise the bottom 50% who tend to own less that 5% of the country's total wealth. His solution is to increase banking transparancy especially between countries (to crack down on tax havens and tax evasion) and to institute broad progressive capital taxes which can support a more robust social state. I highly recommend diving in when you are so inclined.

[Anonymous No.19162500]

bump

[Anonymous No.19163039]

>>19140672
Reading:
Moby-Dick

Want to read soon:
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Rimas y Leyendas
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo, etc.
Dostoievsky - Crime and Punishment
Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Just bought:
Kafka's complete works
Alessandro Baricco - Silk
Anon - Lazarillo de Tormes

>>19141015
based. I loved Quijote and Life