stack threadpost current stacknot pictured is the fiction i'm going through rn
>>25230149>rogue """scholar""" edition>not arktos editionI physically winced
>>25230149Nice.. dress?
>>25230169it was the only one in stock that wouldn't have taken ages to arrive at the time>>25230172thanks??
>>25230182You will never be a woman troon
>>25230149I'm at work right now so I can't take a pic atmOpus - Gareth GoreGrieve Like a Man - Jonathan FannGod Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
I've got a big fat one for you here guys.
>>25230227oki??
Picked up this stack today at a grocery charity donation book bin. I've never read a line of Faulkner before, the only Vonnegut I've finished was Breakfast of Champions, and the Grifters was a nice find since it helps me fill out my Black Lizard Thompson run.
>>25230149I'm not going to post it but I have a 3 foot tall stack of Gene Wolfe books on my desk for some reason. I'm not sure why I keep them together like that.
>>25230717>fell for the Vonnegut memeI hope you're not over the age of 18...
My stack of sloppy slop.
can i participate with my annas-archive haul?
>>25230336That's one unwieldy Bible edition
>>25230804No Horus Heresy?
>>25230913No. I don't enjoy reading about space marines and their endless drama.
>>25230149>For M And Act Uality
>>25230149Got this one a few days ago. Paid something between 70 to 80 Euros. I plan to read through them in the next few months. Was very surprised to find David Irving in an apparently left leaning second hand shop. Translation of titles from German to English:Gontscharow: OblomovSebastian Haffner: In the Shadow of HistorySebastian Haffner: The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to HitlerJoseph Ratzinger: Values in a Time of UpheavalDavid Irving: The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe: The Life of Field Marshal Erhard MilchKonrad Lorenz: The Waning of HumanenessKonrad Lorenz: Civilized Man's Eight Deadly SinsKonrad Lorenz: About AggressionEysenck: The Inequality of ManKolakowski: Conversations with the DevilIrenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Human EthologyToynbee: A Study of History
>>25231016I'm pretty sure it says something like "world history" on the last one you lying bastard
>>25231225Please don't bee mean. "Weltgeschichte" == "world history", but for some reason the title in english is "A Study of History". I even checked the chapters on amazon before posting. They are the same. Trust me!
>>25231242I've got my eyes on you.
>>25230800You have to be 18 to post here, as you well know.
>>25231016have you read any toynbee before??
>>25230912I like it. It's not that unwieldy, defo not as unwieldy as my NRSV New Oxford Annotated Bible 5th ed., which is huge and floppy.
>>25230336i have that same bible
>>25232772No. I heard that name a few times before and saw the book for 3 Euros. I failed a little to read Spengler, because he talked about the most random shit in his autism filled book. Toynbee seemed to have a similar non-linear theory. And the chapters of A Study of History seemed a little more straight-forward.
if you can't tell I started reading books this y ear
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>>25233657were these written by Matthew Perry himself or one of the writers of the show?
>>25233631>shitty penguin clothbound paint already peelingimmersive crime and punishment experience because it'll literally look like you got blood on your hands
>>25233661They're written by the motherfukin' GOAT, Mr. Raymond Chandler.
>>25230336I couldn't finish the Imago Sequence. I don't know what people like about this guy's writing.
>>25233631I wanted to read Don Quixote in French, but when I looked it up, I discovered that ALL the currently available translations were either hot garbage, removed entire paragraphs to make the book """flow""" better, or used a weird tone that didn't fit Cervantes.So I guess I'm never reading Don Quixote.
>>25233662lmao yeah, a lot of the reviews warned about it, but this was the cover I liked the most (or disliked the least). I've found the paint mostly comes off when it's scraped or rubbed hard, and I think I'm gentle enough with my books that I'm not too worried about it. They're definitely not meant to be traveled with.
>>25233670Don Quixote kicks so much ass. Maybe try an English translation if the French ones are so bad. It's worth whatever effort you'd have to put in.
>>25233627>because he talked about the most random shit in his autism filled bookit's all pertinent to how each culture reflects its destiny though; from the most fundamental such as their mathematics to how its reflected in their art
>>25233952I think I dropped it in the chapter about math. I just failed my linear algebra exam and suddenly a German Autist from the Weimar republic wanted to explain to me that systematic similarities in math from different cultures can predict the fall of my culture. Of course he had more arguments but I didn't really knew that back then. The schizo overwhelmed me. It was one of the first books about politics and stuff I have tried to read. Did you read it whole? How difficult do you think it was?
>>25230520Repulsive tranny freak. I can already tell how ugly you are.
>>25233981>systematic similarities in math from different cultures can predict the fall of my culturethat's not what he's saying thoughin fact he argued against the flattening different cultures' mathematics by relating them just based off of superficial similarities in nomenclature, and instead argued for seeing the distinctiveness of each and how their idiosyncrasies affected every level of culture, even seemingly far removed ones such as art>Did you read it whole? i have roughly 100 pages of the first volume leftidk when i'll get around to vol 2 or man and technics>How difficult do you think it was?the first sections where he's laying the groundwork are probably the most difficult; it becomes a lot easier once you get the hang of it>>25234059you can't, anoni'm more grotesque than you could have ever imagined
>>25230336I have that Bible, but it's the unauthorized version King James doesn't want you to read.
>>25234123What made you interested in Spengler and Schmitt? I just picked up my library's editions of decline of the west and was blown away by how well it reads, breath of fresh air after crap like Hegel and h*idegger. Schmitts concept of the political and book on Hobbes are excellent as well if you want to continue after political theology.
