It's time for the weekly stack accountability thread! Post last week's stack, this week's stack, and share your progress.The regular stack thread is mostly just people showing off how much stuff they bought. This thread is about being accountable and actually reading.I finished up the last 300 pages of Burton's Wanderings in West Africa. Andrew Robinson's Lost Languages, a book about deciphering lost writing systems, finally came in at the library so it moved to the top of my stack. 70 pages in it's fascinating stuff. I also read 60 pages of Antiques Magpie. It's pretty much just an assortment of factoids and anecdotes about antiques, kind of like what a Reader's Digest overview of antiques would be like. It's not particularly good, but it's decent to pick up when you only have a couple minutes.
>>24734455I'm just about to get a stack, I'll participate in the next thread.
>tfw /lit/ isn’t overflowing with stack crushers
This is everything I got this week. Lish is my favorite writer so I’m in the process of re-buying everything by him. I’m 50 pages into Dear Mr Capote. Fantastic book that should be 100x more famous than it is. Reading Dante for the first time, onto Cantos V, can’t believe how easily it reads, although I’ll probably donate that paperback, I found a different translation I like more. Orlando will be what I get to next, since I’m finishing up Septology as well.
>>24735421Have you started reading the cat yet?
>>24734698What are you going to stack, stack lad?
>>24735623I don’t speak catonese unfortunately
A third of the way through hard rain falling. This book is excellent, I need to read Carpenter’s Hollywood trilogy after this.
>>24736652>A third of the way through hard rain falling.That book rules so much. A few other gritty sort of books I liked that you might too:A Feast of Snakes - Harry CrewsLast Exit to Brooklyn - SelbyFat City - Leonard Gardner
>>24736252Here's the recent abebooks stack:> B. F. Skinner - Beyond Freedom and Dignity> Stanley Milgram - Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View> John Toland - Adolf Hitler> Nick Land - Fanged Noumena: Collected Writtings 1987-2007
>>24734455How does this thread work for accountability for posters like me? If I'm already deceptively posting stacks I'll never read, it's no strain on my character to drop fake progress reports.
>>24737069I'll personally quiz you on each book, cheating faggot.
>>24737080Good luck finding me, mate! I'll wait a few days and then start dumping my progress reports.
>>24734455I feel overwhelmed by what I read, I see way too many connections that have not been made, so imagine in what state I'd find myself in if on top of that was a literal stack.I don't get how you guys manage to consume so many books, the only way I can wrap my head around it is that you're in this game for the quantity. You only very superficially process the info you find in there and make up for your inability to reach any semblance of depth by just reading more and more.
>>24737069wtf? you MONSTER.
>>24736937I’m not a fan of Selby’s writing style, but I’ll check out the other two. I think I saw fat city at my local library.
I just finished the third book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Temple of Dawn, and the fourth book Decay of the Angel is the smallest yet so I can't wait to get to the ending since I heard many things about it. After that I'll probably read something lighter like Gogo Monster which interests me because it was released all at once when manga is usually released as volumes over several months/years.
>>24734455This shit is unfuckingfair now, I am trying to start with the greeks and I have to read 1 page of plato and then think about it for awhile. I am not crushing the greeks like a pulp novel
>>24737988It's not about reading as much as humanly possible, it's about making progress and being accountable to your stack
