/stack/ thread

[Anonymous No.19861528]

Write about what you have read, what you plan on reading etc.

[Anonymous No.19861537]

>>19861528
"No"

[Anonymous No.19861546]

>>19861537
Who said that?

[Anonymous No.19862011]

how's the ccru book?

[Anonymous No.19862012]

I plan on reading le greeks

[Anonymous No.19862242]

>>19862011
Don't read it without doing any read-up on the ccru. I did it and it did not go well.

[Anonymous No.19862250]

>>19862012
That doesn't look like the greeks

[Anonymous No.19862394]

>>19862250
That is the only "stack" that was already laying around

[Anonymous No.19862534]

[Anonymous No.19863962]

[Anonymous No.19864251]

>>19861528

[Anonymous No.19864300]

>>19864251
Based Historybro

[Anonymous No.19864367]

>>19864251
Any book you recommend on Thomas Jefferson? I know remarkably little about him.

[Anonymous No.19864405]

>>19861528
I see /lit/ has completed your programming, best of luck with that, you are going to need it.

[Anonymous No.19864423]

The GOAT German writer

[Anonymous No.19864425]

>>19861528
what's the purpose of stacks? do you guys read those over and over?

[Anonymous No.19864519]

>>19864425
They used to just be stacks of recently read books or the like, find a stack of books that are mostly things you like and there is a good chance you will like the others, ask questions about the ones you don't know about. Sort of a /lit/ take on a thread for things which do not deserve their own thread. But /lit/ no longer reads so these threads are just for validation in decorating choices and affirmation of image.

[Anonymous No.19865833]

1/3

[Anonymous No.19865839]

>>19865833
2/3

[Anonymous No.19865846]

>>19865839
3/3

[Anonymous No.19865849]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
Take meds

[Anonymous No.19865928]

>>19865849
never

[Anonymous No.19865959]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
this is fucking hilarious, how much of these shelves is ironic?

[Anonymous No.19866682]

Faulkner, the latter half of Flannery O'Connor, early half of Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty's novels, McCuller's novels, Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Joyce, Melmoth the Wanderer, Brontë, Radcliffe, Suttree, Homeward Angel, Kierkegaard. Short stories of Poe, Bierce, Ligotti, and others. I read one short a day and a standard novel a week, something like Moby-Dick will take two weeks. I will probably run out of novels before December but I have enough material to look over again or start on a Greek or Persian history. I have no idea what I'm reading 2023 probably lots of history and short stories.

[Anonymous No.19868033]

>>19863962
incomprehensibly based

[Anonymous No.19868885]

>>19864367

If you want to get technical, "The Adams-Jefferson Letters"..There are plenty of books about him. More popular is "Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power"

There is a book called "Undaunted Courage" that gives some neat beginner insights into who Jefferson was. Its about the Lewis and Clarke expedition which Jefferson sanctioned. Lewis worked in the white house with Jefferson. He was his aide and lived with.

[Anonymous No.19869893]

Been working my way through Balzac, in french, to sharpen my skills and bc I'm doing research/playing with the idea of writing a bit on him in a tertiary manner.

[Anonymous No.19870692]

>>19864423
The only good one of those is Steppenwolfe, Siddharta is okay and I threw Narcissus in the garbage after I tortured myself by forcing myself to read the rest.

[Anonymous No.19870706]

>>19870692
Not op, i read just finished reading through glassbead game after reading siddhartha and steppenwolf in a while ago. Whats wrong with Narcissus? The only big thing I can critique Hesse on is the slight saturation of the whole “enlightenment” theme, but he does a fair job of changing it and adding other elements etc.

[Anonymous No.19870718]

>>19862534
Bro I thought quote of mao is as short as the little prince

[Anonymous No.19870737]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
Holy kek

[Anonymous No.19870739]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
This is like the only interesting set of shelves that have ever been posted

[Anonymous No.19870768]

>>19861528
Those pulp classics are ugly as hell, but I'm retarded and thought they were visual adaptations so I got it anyway. Don Quixote and the Critique, I am halfway through. Even after reading Hume, Kant was a bit difficult and I had to make my own dictionary for like a month before I made first progress. But I think I get him now. The dictionary of symbols is fun, the author mentions a lot of Jung, Eliade and Guenon.

[Anonymous No.19870770]

>>19870739
Even if it is awful, I have to admit that it's nice seeing something different.

[Anonymous No.19870831]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
Since you're an expert, tell us your thoughts on whether UFOs are real and if aliens sent them?

[Anonymous No.19871004]

>>19865846
>no pulpy erotica with greys.
ngmi

[Anonymous No.19871018]

>>19871004
He used those those to make the bookcase. He makes his own glue.

[Anonymous No.19871533]

>>19870706
The utterly absent signified in the glass-bead game filtered me, to be honest. Hesse seems to be someone with big concepts but in the naive sense of what of [concept] were really big? Then insert this concept as a concept, that a character or narrator might reference, but never ever employ it structurally or formally. His novels are all the same in this emptiness.

[Anonymous No.19871590]

>>19871533
>never employed structurally or formally
wrong, his characters always develop according to a transcendent or archetypal mold, following this path is the sole point of his narcissismic narratives. but you're right in that they overcome and surmount their little personal myths ("individuating") but only up to a point of recognizing that central concept as real, operative in and through themselves. meanwhile it's obvious that it's just hesse trying to bring his mc's to that predetermined realization, to which you the reader are supposed to be brought too. whereupon one can commit suicide or transcend or w/e the concept implies.

it'd be better if his characters realized they were being manipulated so ruthlessly for a textual endpoint, and struggled against this determinism (a la nabokov). as they (do not) exist, they are unsubtle puppets tied to a prosaic chain-gang of "symbolism"

[Anonymous No.19871597]

Two stacks.

[Anonymous No.19871646]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
ayyyyy lmao

[Anonymous No.19872241]

bamp

[Anonymous No.19872538]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
bruh, actually redpilled

[Anonymous No.19873066]

>>19872538
>bruh

[Anonymous No.19873967]

>>19873066
ye, some parts of 4chan are flooded by zoomer normies. It's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.19874032]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
anon did you take all pills at once?

[Anonymous No.19874112]

I mainly read technical books. I also like reading about music history and primitive electronics. This month I've read Geometrical Vectors by Weinreich (it's sorta an entry-level topology book), Pickin' on Peachtree by Daniel, Saga of the Vacuum Tube by Tyne, Reflex Klystrons by Hamilton, The Gunnplexer Cookbook by Richardson, Theory and Design of Electron Beams by Pierce, and Materials and Techniques for Electron Tubes by Kohl. I'm trying to get more into fiction, my friend suggested Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut. Give me some other suggestions!

[Anonymous No.19874201]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
Based and redpilled anon
They're out there

[Anonymous No.19874595]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
holy based

[Anonymous No.19874695]

>>19863962
He’s the only author I’ve found worth reading all the way through.

[Anonymous No.19874720]

>>19864423
Demian next. Narcissus is true kino, don’t listen to the other anon, he’s just jelly he had to stay in the cloister.

[Anonymous No.19875106]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
these (un)ironically destroy all other shelves that has been posted here

[Anonymous No.19875113]

>>19865833
>>19865839
>>19865846
Inconceivably based and definitely not a pseud

[Anonymous No.19875479]

>>19865833
>>19865846
>>19865839
George Noory? is that you?
...ART BELL !!!!! AHAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.19875499]

[Anonymous No.19875578]

>>19864425
Are you stupid? That's your first thought? Not that the stacks are recently read or recently purchased, but that they are read on repeat?

[Anonymous No.19875868]

>>19874112
Do you have an EE background?

[Anonymous No.19875980]

Tonight

[Anonymous No.19876009]

>>19875980
>Illustrated edition of Moby Dick
Is that really necessary?

[Anonymous No.19876059]

>>19876009
I don't even like it honestly, never finished it, probably never will. Read most of it as a kid, came back to it as an adult, put it down so often it's not funny. If I didn't get it for less than a modern paperback, I wouldn't have bought it. It's a bit overhyped. I'm much more of a 19th century/European lit person. American writers have interests outside of my own.

[Anonymous No.19876102]

>>19874112
God I wish I were high-IQ in this way, rather than emotionally and literarilly.

[Anonymous No.19876181]

>>19875868
Yes, I work as a RF engineer. It's honestly sorta my whole life, except for ham radio (posted my station as a pic, because this thread needs more pics ;^) ) and occasionally shitposting online. That's sorta why I'm trying to broaden my horizons and I asked for suggestions for nonfiction books.

>>19876102
I don't think I'm high IQ, I just really enjoy this stuff and I tend to get obsessed over it. Probably because I'm lowkey autistic or something, kek. I feel like everybody has different interests, I wish I could draw well but my brain doesn't work that way. Drawing doesn't hold my interest and I don't find a lot of joy in it when I actually sit down and start drawing.

[Anonymous No.19876184]

>>19876181
>>19875868
*suggestions for fiction books. I'm a bit tired, ha.

[Anonymous No.19876188]

>>19876184
>*suggestions for fiction books. I'm a bit tired, ha.
The Bible

[Anonymous No.19876198]

>>19874112
Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia uses ideas from science and math in very funny and beautiful ways, pushing scientists and literary academic types up against eachother (seeing as you browse /lit/ that seems relevant). Plus, wonderfully, it can be read in a single evening.

[Anonymous No.19876205]

>>19876009
>he doesn't know about the rockwell kent moby dick
pleb.jpg

[Anonymous No.19876208]

>>19876059
Zoomie detected. Moby Dick is a 19th century book.

[Anonymous No.19876214]

>>19876188
:^) cheeky. Do you recommend the whole quadrilogy?

>>19876198
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll check it out, sounds really interesting from what you described. Have you read Flatland by Abbott? It's another book that a friend suggested, mathematical fiction sounds like a very cool concept.

[Anonymous No.19876230]

Odd request:
Does anybody know of any books like this one? I read this thing a few years ago and really REALLY enjoyed it. I love how it's super chaotic, blends reality and fiction, showcases an early era of computer hacking and phreaking, and has that whole "unreliable narrator" skew where you can never truly tell whether Brad is fucking with you or not.

[Anonymous No.19876246]

>>19876208
that's what I thought at first, but 19th c. European novels are mostly unlike Moby Dick, which is an anatomy or menippean satire in line with Tristram Shandy and Ulysses. Dissimilar to naturalists and realists like Flaubert, Balzac, Thackery, Hugo, etc.

[Anonymous No.19876260]

>>19876246
I always feel that 19th century Euros have a stick up their humorless asses and their writing is boring as fuck as a result. American literature on the other hand is sublime

[Anonymous No.19876275]

>>19876208
>>19876246
Look at the last line of what I said.

I think that being forced to read American fiction for a research project in early grad school, combined with college and high school reading lists made me hate American lit. Every fucking English professor thinks Melville be and Hawthorne are the best.

I never really got into Dickens, but I do l like Emerson and trollope. My goal is to read all of Balzac, chateaubriand and Zola this year.

[Anonymous No.19876277]

>>19876246
You've never read Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.19876283]

>>19876260
>>19876275
The research project was bc actually on the sublime, romanticism and technology in the vein of Marx's Machine in the Garden.

[Anonymous No.19876295]

>>19874112
john updike's rogers version is about a young man trying to use computers to prove the existence of god

[Anonymous No.19876308]

I just finished The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus. Fantastic novel that actually manages to end rather beautifully and manages to be spooky throughout. It's really a macrocosm of all of Romero's ideas, none are left unexplored and it's a fitting eulogy to the man, one he'd have been glad to live to see. Highly recommended, it can be slightly cheesy at times but it's a fantastic read throughout and it manages to haunt you and wow you well after its finale through means you won't see coming.

[Anonymous No.19876324]

>>19876059
>>19876275
What are your interests?

[Anonymous No.19876580]

>>19861528
I haven't read since October

[Anonymous No.19876598]

>>19865846

[Anonymous No.19876755]

I bought these tonight from Value Village. The Marilyn Monroe book has some verrrry tasteful and classic shots, including some nudes; and the A Clockwork Orange copy is the Penguin print one, with the classic multicoloured cover. And a beautiful paperback cover of Dracula, which is quite rare to find (a handsome copy of Dracula, that is). And that Ordinary Men book was in my Amazon wishlist, and I snagged it for only $6 dollars rather than twenty-odd. And the Emily Carr book I was looking for too – it's a nice copy on the outside but has some high schooler's banal notes inside, but they're not bad. And then I got an Apocalyptica CD lol.

[Anonymous No.19876771]

>>19861528
>The Nag Hammadi Scriptures
incredibly based. Is it a translation of the texts + commentary or what? I've been meaning to read them for a while.

[Anonymous No.19877748]

.

[Anonymous No.19877749]

>>19876771
Get Robinson's edition, not that one

[Anonymous No.19878918]

>>19877749
will do, thanks. Why?

[Anonymous No.19879098]

>>19869893
Cool editions on the left. I'm sick of everyone's crappy paperback collection

[Anonymous No.19879336]

>>19869893
>Balzac
Give me his best four books by common consent?

[Anonymous No.19879605]

>>19864251
i have 2 of those books and i resonate heavily with the first half of 20th century germany, try to figure it out

[Anonymous No.19879665]

>>19876324
Human comedie, Zola, Thackery, House of the dead, flaubert. Proust is pushing it.

[Anonymous No.19879680]

>>19866682
What are you starting with, and how are you getting on? I noticed there are quite a few authors there that are really great and don't get talked about on /lit/ enough.

[Anonymous No.19879921]

from yesterday

[Anonymous No.19880858]

What first?

[Anonymous No.19880867]

>>19880858
Just kidding, I'm listing these on eBay, I don't want them

[Anonymous No.19881851]

>>19865846
>first printing Communion
Based. Even if you don't believe in ayylamos that book is terrifying.

[Anonymous No.19881870]

>>19861528
Why does every second stack picture I see on this board have the Nag Hammadi library in it? You're not all gnostic schizos, are you?

[Anonymous No.19882070]

Finally renovated my office to get a decent set of shelves in and brought some from the family home. Reading Naked Lunch at the moment and alternating between hating it and vaguely chuckling at it.

I think the Beat poets might be degenerate and I'm only realising it 11 years after my first encounter with that shit.

[Anonymous No.19882073]

>>19882070
And making heavy use of the index of the new Malcolm X biography - amazing piece of scholarship

[Anonymous No.19882854]

>>19861528
Finishing up my last 2 deployment downloads. First Casualty by Toby Harnden is up right now, though I've slacked off too much. Mini Philosophy by Johnny Thompson is a lunchtime quickie as it's broken down into shorts.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for the Soviet-Afg war? Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite was fantastic, covering both the political and military aspect of the conflict, but I'd like to get some new material.

[Anonymous No.19883112]

>>19861528

Facebook, self absorbed tool

[Anonymous No.19884071]

>>19864251
Is the John Adams one good? I saw that in the nearby thriftshop for like $4.

[Anonymous No.19884164]

read pretty much all the classics (1984, Fahrenheit 451, of mice and man, the outsider, etc...)
Pretty into H.P. Lovecraft (he's pretty much the reason I got into books), read most of his book.
I'm half through 100 years of solitude right now (and I'm loving it).
I'd like to read greek mythology and philo books (odyssey, illiade, socrates, etc...)
Want to start dune, Edgar Allan Poe, The king in Yellow (which I can't find in physical form), I have no mouth but I must scream, Roadside picnic, Virginia wolf, Kurt Vonnegut, the divine comedy. Pretty much trying to get the classics.

[Anonymous No.19884206]

>>19883112

spacing!

[Anonymous No.19884745]

Pushkin, Wittgenstein bio.

[Anonymous No.19884766]

>>19884164
>the classics (1984, Fahrenheit 451, of mice and man, the outsider, etc

[Anonymous No.19884789]

How many books are you reading at once?
How long does it take you to go through them?
And would you start a book on 2 different but similar subjects (for example Ancient Egypt, and book 2 Greeks)? Or would you do one history book, one sci-fi book, etc?

[Anonymous No.19885101]

>>19884789
>1
>Month or so, depending on how interested I get
>Nope. I have a non-fic book, a philosophy book, and the Book of the Dead in the chute rn, no way I could balance that. I like to read and reflect on books like the last two.

[Anonymous No.19885496]

[Anonymous No.19886290]

>>19885496
is reading with Parkinson's disease difficult?

[Anonymous No.19887067]

>>19876230
i have this autographed

[Anonymous No.19887112]

>>19884745
>German and Turkish books
Checks out.

[Anonymous No.19887155]

Recent buys...Current reading list for the new year

[Anonymous No.19887470]

[Anonymous No.19887867]

*mogs entire thread in a single post*

[Anonymous No.19888030]

>>19887867
Damn those editions look nice but the taste in books are so reddit

[Anonymous No.19889044]

>>19887867
>jurassic park
is it worth reading? the movie was fun enough

[Anonymous No.19889049]

>>19861528

Mostly The New Yorker and Nat Geo. I have shoe boxes full of them

[Anonymous No.19889075]

>>19887867
>>19884088

Mr. Funko pop

[Anonymous No.19889217]

>>19861528
No photos currently but I'm working on reading: Storm of Steel, Walden, Tough Trip Through Paradise, Camels!, Can Life Prevail?, Ride the Tiger. and Arabian Sands.
In terms of Walden, Can Life Prevail, and Ride the Tiger I am hoping to find some sort of interesting ideas that may influence my worldview.
The rest I simply enjoy because I like hearing and imagining adventures in strange lands (I suppose Tough Trip Through Paradise was just in Montana but it applies for the rest)
What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.19889230]

>>19889217
If you enjoy Walden at all beyond the forest-anon larp, in terms of philosophical content and approach to mind/nature, Emerson is greatly superior. Some of the greatest essays I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.19889232]

>>19887867
>all those expensive hardcover copies of thrift store-tier pulp
Not sure if cringe or based. I'm leaning towards incredibly cringe.

[Anonymous No.19889279]

>>19889230
>if you enjoy Walden at all beyond the forest-anon larp
Rent free.

[Anonymous No.19889660]

Rate

[Anonymous No.19889669]

>>19889660
literal teenager/10

[Anonymous No.19889676]

>>19879921
pound mishima & turgenev first.
didn't even know father & sons was that short, i might have to get it now, always thought it was 1k pages but maybe i was confusing that with Mann's joseph & brothers

[Anonymous No.19889702]

>>19889669
climate denier spotted

[Anonymous No.19889789]

>>19863962
That's honestly based. The people who are obsessed with one particular author are the most interesting to talk to in my experience.

[Anonymous No.19889792]

>>19865846
You're possessed. See a priest.

[Anonymous No.19889797]

>>19889660
Read the stack on the right and throw out the one left.

[Anonymous No.19890266]

>>19888030
>>19889075
>>19889232
Sounds like jealousy.

[Anonymous No.19890288]

>>19865846
Redpill me on aliens in Italy. Or is it just talking about Albanians?

[Anonymous No.19890351]

>>19890288
>Albanians
che schifo...
>>19889676
not him but Fathers and Sons is a round 200 pages if I remember rightly, a great little book
Jospeh and his Brothers is like 1600 pages

[Anonymous No.19890608]

>>19889044
ye, but when grant is with the kids it makes you want the dinos to just kill them

[Anonymous No.19890795]

Just got these (I hope the image doesn't flip)

[Anonymous No.19891028]

>>19890795
Read it in french, Kleist would have. Because all your eighteenth and nineteenth century buds were french speakers

[Anonymous No.19891046]

>>19891028
I had French in school and I hated it. Don't know if I have the patience now to learn it again.