Recent purchase stack>Inb4 anons call it basic
>>23304989The last book I bought is pic rel. Pretty comfy and fun so far.
>>23304995I'm Chinese and I wanna read the original text but gave up after failing to understand the first paragraph.
>>23304989I’m a kindle user but this is what I got recently
>>23304989not basic, but it looks like the /lit/ equivalent of a /fit/ newfag buying an advanced power-lifting set. hopefully you follow a logical difficulty gradient.
>>23304989looks like you inspire to read 4chans list of "important" titles to read instead of what you want to read.
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>>23305040 I don't really have any books I particularly wanna try out, and I read M&D and liked it so I figured out I'll just go on with top 100
>>23305049We both got Naked Lunch lol
>>23304989The entire right stack should be dumped into the trash.
The Kybalion is for a friend. I've never had any issues with online shopping before, but they sent me the wrong volume of The Decline of the West, and a completely different Plato book from the one I ordered. It is what it is though.
>>23305326where did you buy them?
>>23305330Thriftbooks. Aside from this error, I would honestly recommend them. If I cared more it would be relatively easy to get a refund.
>>23304989Suttree is wonderful, one of McCarthy's best and definitely his funniest. Enjoy, OP.
>>23304989The new Everyman’s Library Byron and Lady Chatterley’s Lover An Everyman Collected Poems YeatsThe Everyman’s box set Vasari’s Lives of the ArtistPlotinusSayings of the Desert FathersPenguin Early Greek PhilosophyH.D. Collected PoemsDa Vinci’s Notebooks A collection of Balzac short stories The Book of my Life by CardanoThomas Browne NYRBThe two Dante NYRB’s Livy’s first book
>>23305309Show your stack then
All used for very cheap money
Someone tell me why used sellers on ebay aee allowed to post their listings with 0 pictures only a stock photo
>>23305544I don't have to explain shit to you pal. You will my buy my crusty yellowed copy of infinite jest that was being used as reading materiel during my poos.
>>23305544I don't know but it's annoying when you want to see what the book physically looks like. All pictures should be photos of the real product.
>>23305551No i will not, i avoid those sheets like the plague. Is blacklist them if given the chance
>>23305554Ebay is supposed to require pics for all pre-owned Only new can be stock
>>23305326you at least have butchers crossing. I love that book. also got warlock on my to-read shelf. looking forward to it after having read mccarthy's awful crossing trilogy.
The only recent purchase I made was this baby
Don QuixoteFahrenheit 451A Guide to Kernel Exploitation
>>23306074I just read Dandelion Wine the other week, Bradbury is a lot of fun to read
>>23304989Porn Land by Kevin ShamelCows by Matthew StokoeThe Slob by Aron Beauregard
>>23305398did you see this https://www.amazon.com/My-Friend-Van-Gogh-ekphrasis/dp/1644231190/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1IG735XMH6APF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FEDhHokey4LhXaskTd3t4mHkf_PmIPAi_FJBSOIlWK3FJAyjmDyo_CANU62idJ3huElzFM-Cfqb4AqRiuUxOMo1gxQQ0q41IYX4dRBraDr8hG1RT9NsHSlol3G1F8WRijgOqYJsTaNdglHkKyO-SoFi-m5MprpSxxx5Z3Bf8i43YESqBRPfZLlkGi-wkeOwjflUK1Y5QGMFimx7jsREW-U36N1lSjR6RONuxtmjycl4.YmiHsZ3A65hlJ8rx-CGialZS5r7vafuxxbNA4xALEBg&dib_tag=se&keywords=emile+bernard+van+gogh&qid=1713618196&sprefix=emile+bernard+van+gogh,aps,202&sr=8-3
>Lermontov
>>23305037this is accurate. OP isn't going to be getting through that stack any time soon.
>>23305672I'm excited to start it. I read Stoner just a little bit ago, and it was the best book I read for the first time this year. It's good to know that he can take on a wide range of genres.In all honesty I know nothing about Warlock, I just thought the cover looked cool.
>>23306364All I know about Warlock is that Thomas Pynchon liked it
>>23305000Would there be much use in learning to read old language mandarin like that, like would people think you're hot shit and/or is there other cool texts from then that are also as good or would be mostly useless and not worth it just for that one text
>>23306189Yeah. I have it opened on another tab from the shelf thread, thank you, I just haven’t replied in that thread bc I haven’t been on /lit/ much since then. I also have it written down on my “books to get soon” list. Interesting publisher. It looks like an art gallery that publishes books related to art. They publish a pretty neat list of books
>>23305326Have you glanced over The English Cabalah yet? qrd?
>>23304989a few basic bitch classics but felt it was finally time to read them. Stalingrad is the thing I'm most looking forward to reading.
>>23304989Last book I bought, along with Machiavel's The Prince (commentary by Napoleon Bonaparte).
>>23305034I always imagine people like you to be the smartest shit ever. What do you do, are these purely out of interest or related to your work somehow?
>>23306470My Chinese is extremely rudimentary but I don't think the gap is huge in the first place and there's definitely an entire Chinese literary canon/tradition to explore if that's what you're asking.
>>23307339dilettante>>23304989dilettante
I've been watching the price of a book go up 30% one day and then down 30% the next day on AmazonIs this common?
>>23306787I haven't started it yet, but I've been searching for a copy for a little while, and upon receiving it, it definitely meets my expectation from the little I have read.Eisen is part of a theosophist society with a comparatively strong 'Christian' bend as opposed to some others. They also seem to focus a lot on a wise-man named Agasha.I don't know much about Agasha, aside from that his, and as far as I can tell it's unlikely he was a real person at any point. In terms of the kabbalistic system itself, it's an honest and pretty detailed attempt at transferring may points of a more traditional Hebrew system into English with a lot of Pythagorean numerology inserted where it fits. The problem I've found with a lot of theosophic writings on kabbalah is that they always try too hard to link everything back to the more schizophrenic theosophic ideas, so the writings become worthless as a study of anything but theosophy, and they become unreliable sources on the practice. If Eisen has this problem then it's not immediately apparent.There are a lot of little charts and illustrations, which are very obviously hand drawn, although I'd say that adds to the charm. It also places a lot of emphasis on Tarot Cards. It looks like interesting stuff regardless of the writer's occult biases.
>>23304989Same as ever. Much to think about here.
>>23307356Gibbon gets the location of Mecca wrong by misunderstanding Diodorus Siculus
>>23307783Rand and Peterson - then Nietzsche.Why mix shit with truffle?
>>23307798Yeah, Peterson deserves better.
>>23307798This desu >>23307801
>>23304989Basic? More like based.
>>23304989not basic, just fucking gay
>>23307783Yuck.
>>23306470It's good for reading some old folk stories and some of their epics (The big 4 of the Chinese lit). But no, it's not something that would make girls go wild for you, at least not where I am at.
>>23307464I'm OP and I've studied years of Mandarin in school, including basic Classical Chinese, and I can tell you that other than it using the same characters, the meanings are so different it could almost be a different language.
>>23307614Different sellers
>>23308165It's the same sellerAmazon UK
>>23307339NYRBs
>>23307783LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>23307794Yeah. I hear he gets plenty of things wrong, but that he's very articulate. I just barely began reading it, so I'll see it for myself.
>>23307794>>23308263I don’t think anyone reads Gibbon for the accuracy. Gibbon himself is the main appeal with great writing and an ambitious project
>>23307783These three books, when read together are sometimes referred to as the "poor man's bachelors degree".
>>23305398Got a couple today in the mail so here’s a pic. Just waiting on the Da Vinci Notebooks, Oxford World Classics
>>23308285This guy pseuds. Hoping to achieve fraudstership eventually.
>>23305034i've been interested in this late days on process theology, what about that book? any comments?
>>23308296Pure kino. I remember you from the shelf threads
>>23308024Hasn't felt that way to me in my very limited experience, but I'm sure someone who's intimately familiar with the living language would notice the differences more. Also I've mostly tried reading poetry and I know that's "literary Chinese" whereas some of the novels are considered more vernacular which could be more liable to change over time.
>>23308318Thanks. Shelf and stack threads get shit on a lot but I’ve found they have good potential sometimes
>>23308877Yeah novels written centuries back were a lot different language wise. The Mandarin now is more wordy and has lost much of the terse elegance that Classical Mandarin has.
>>23308917Is D.H. Lawrence worth reading? I've seen his books on bookstore shelves a lot and wonder how would one describe his work as, and who has a similar style / subject etc.
>>23306330Yeah I estimate at least 5 months desu. I just bulked bought them since there was a sale on Taobao
>>23304989>>23307339Brothers Karamazov is the best book I ever read, Crime and Punishment one of the worst. It’s so highly rated I kept forcing myself to read it thinking it would get better. I was wrong.>>23305000I really liked the beginning. Daoist monkey king was good, Buddhist monkey slave was not.
>>23308978The first time I read it (when I just started reading more "serious" lit and classics instead of YA) I was really blown away, but rereading it now I felt like the effect paled for me a lot.
/// Braxton burst on the scene in 1993 and bowled people over with her beauty and talent /// More likely to divide are the whimsical nature of the story and the rather trite implied sentiment that music can unite /// The textbook included an inset box with definitions to help students /// Future epochs will remember us as a coarse and philistine people who squandered our bottomlessly rich cultural inheritance for short-term and meaningless financial advantage /// His home run clinched the victory /// Her emotions ran the gamut from joy to despair /// Municipal water filled the house's cistern only three times a week, meaning showers were short /// While they may have an ideological slant, they are not wedded to it /// The law gives the governor unfettered discretion to make these appointments /// They had noticed the stolid air of disapproval with which he had gone around, looking with critical eye upon the house and its surroundings /// Hawley took scalding criticism /// The rule of capture dictates that the first person who captures a resource is entitled to it /// A story that doesn't jibe with the facts /// Vigilance is needed to overcome the natural regressive tendency to become complacent /// He opened our proceedings today with the customary paeans of praise for the gas industry /// The former is appreciative of help and of others, while the latter is often hostile and leery of outsiders /// In the hedonistic life, people lose some moral purpose, a telos which provides the moral justification for the society /// Its comprehensive report, released in 2018, informed my research /// The resulting phages eventually burst out of the cell, destroying it, in an action called lysis ///
I haven't bought any books since December so here's a subtle shitpost stack
>>23305514dis nigga readin bout beetles
>>23309978Wish I was cool enough to be reading about beetles...
>>23304989Where can I get a hardcover edition of The Recognitions?
>>23304989I mean it seems like you bought a bunch of books to impress /lit/, this haul doesn't seem organic.
>>23310018What would an “organic haul” be to you?
>>23310033idk man, it was just an observation. I'm into pulp genre slop
>>23310070>I’m into pleb shit therefore you MUST be into pleb shit tooSorry, no.
>>23304989Only crime and punishment there is good. If you're reading anything written after 1900, you're a retardIf you're reading Joyce, you're a retardIf you read American or English authors, you're an anti-white bitch
>>23310245nice b8
>>23310245/threadOP should lift instead
>>23309978Maybe he meant to get book about the band the beetles and made mistake.
>>23310245>If you're reading anything written after 1900, you're a retard>thinks I'm going to read his entire walltext
>>23311449Nice, it was a willy Wonka style test and you passed charlie. Not that what I say isn't true, but everyone should cultivate a mindset to ignore advise and counsel in every facet of life instead giving way to instinct. White pride brother and good luck to you
>>23305701wtf new Theroux. Have you ever read anything by his brother, Paul? Part of me feels the same way about him as I do about Frederick Barthelme: a cut above the popular writers but nothing like their high modernist brothers.
>>23312082>>23308917forgot pic, check my doubles. That translation by Howard is good, based on my amateur high school/community college french.
>>23312082>new TherouxYup, and a pretty rare beast too. Signed and numbered.Closest I've ever come to Paul was watching the movie adaptation of The Mosquito Coast. I should read The Old Patagonian Express tho
>>23304989>acidic.
