Post stacks of any kind, pic rel is my most recent haul
>>25253679>han KangFuck you mongorian.
>>25253688sensitive already, huh?
Picked these up from a charity shop and a second-hand bookstore yesterday.
>>25253679When did Sappho put out a new book?
>>25253679Egyptian book looks interesting.I got some nice stacks going on. Cleaned and reordered some of my shelving yesterday evening. Left is all books right is all Xbox 360 games except for the Red Dwarf box set in the front row.
>>25253954Left: 0/10Right: 10/10
>>25253954King of the normies.
>>25253970This book on Tao is great. Goes into heaps of stuff like ancient Chinese history, breathing regimens and Chinese medicine check it out.>>25253972I'm anything but normal I promise you that.
Opened it again on a random page and it was this illustration
I can't for the life of me get into poetry.
(You)'re never going to finish all of those books.
This is how you limber up before earth bending.
Rate my current stack
>>25253679>fantasyslopYou'll read this.>Light and ThreadYou might read this.>SapphoYou're not going to read this, but you don't want the women you know to know that.>Madame BovaryYou might read this when you have no other option.>EBBYou're never going to read this, get real.>HerodotusYou got memed into buying this book. You're never going to read it. >Dead SoulsYou'll read this before you read Madame Bovary, I guess.>A Skeleton Key to Finnegans WakeYou'll never read this or Finnegans Wake. Come on.>Reflections on the Human ConditionHoffer? Seriously? You'll read this and you'll think it's insightful.>The Tibetan Book of the DeadYou'll read this while high. >The Egyptian Book of the DeadYou'll read this while high and you'll feel very impressed with yourself.>Eliot vol 1You'll read Prufrock, get filtered halfway through The Waste Land, and you'll never read Four Quartets. >Eliot vol 2Please be serious.>Seamus HeaneyYou're never going to read this, but you should.
>>25253954>heckin vidya>heckin kjv>heckin paperback thrillers>heckin mafia coffee table bookget off my board and don't come back until you've aged out of your parents' health insurance
>>25254019weakling mindset, go back
>>25254175i've already read finnegans wake, a drama of exile, some sappho, the waste land, try harder normie
>>25254272You know I'm right, you scatterbrained little BITCH
>>25254281>scatterbrainedshut up
Gottem.
>>25254281you don't read so no one cares what you "think"
>You don't re-ACK!
>>25254073This seems really cool, thanks anon, pic saved.
>>25254016
>>25254363I dunno what I'm looking at but it seems kino.
>>25254315FTFY
>>25254490kek, good shit
>>25254490kek
>>25254279>I've already read finnegans wakeNo you haven't.>a drama of exileNo you haven't. >some sappho.jpgs of If Not, Winter don't count.>the waste landI believe you got filtered halfway through.
>>25254516
>>25254183What about this RC hobbyists magazine from 1973? I found it in my building's library. Kinda cool.
>>25254569nta but that looks sick, post some pages
>>25254583
>>252545832
>>252545833
Today I dropped by a bookstore. I asked the owner to put aside some books I saw but I couldn't buy today, will post them in a few days.
>>25253987>>25254004what book?
>>25255654low t hands
>>25255716
>>25254019>literally projecting
Books in my work bag
>>25256731Pic bcuz I'm a scatterbrain
>>25254019If 5, I do it.
>>25256738>fell for the bukowski memeYou don't have to do that to yourself. If you want some actually good plainspoken contemporary poetry, read Raymond Carver's poems or Jack Gilbert's poems
>>25256876>CarverDimwit MFA slop. You have mediocre taste
>>25256878I was talking to someone who thinks Bukowski is a poet, which is why I specified >good plainspoken contemporary poetryJack Spicer also works>well those guys suck tooYou don't know who they are
>>25256897>I was talking to someone who thinks Bukowski is a poetYou responded to a picture of a stack of books anon bought, you wimpish pseudo-intellectual.
>>25256904They're books he carries in his work bag. This means he reads them when he has downtime. Are you so retarded you think he bought them just to carry them around?
>>25256876What's the meme about Bukowski?I picked up Post Office at a used book store without having heard of him because I was delivering packages for fed ex at the time (as stupid as that sounds) and liked the random page I flipped to. Since then I always grab anything by him I happen to find when I'm out.
>>25256530Why is your finger a toe?
Some classics
>>25257016Don't listen to that fag, Bukowski is great.
Please immediately stop posting Chinese “literature” and Penguin pulps to this board
>25257785>coping and seething
I’ll grant you seething but I’ve nothing to cope of
>>25256530thanks
>>25254183Dafuq is wrong with the Bible you petulant atheist? Your father didn't hug enough?
>>25253679What’s the publisher on that Seamus Heaney? Looks nice.
>>25257997Faber & Faber
>>25258319Buíochas
>>25257785>HONK
>>25254175wow, you want to sound smart so bad, huh
>>25253679How are the notes/annotations on the F&F volumes of Eliot and Heaney? My ignorant ass needs poetry "explained"
>>25259257Probably too elaborate for someone still struggling with poetry. Lots of commentary sections are interesting and provide loads of publishing and editing context, but then there's very microscopic deep dives of every line of the major poems and those are more designed for people who are already poetry nerds. F&F is a major poetry house so they cater to a specific market of poetry lovers.
>>25259261Got it. I might still get them because why get anything lesser. The same type of book+apparatus/notes etc in Italian (eng facing text) is like 70+ EUR which is bullshit
>>25259272I'll post pics of the commentary sections in a sec to give you an idea
>>25259283Eliot Vol. 1 (1/3)
>>25259321Eliot Vol. 2 (2/3)
>>25259324Heaney (3/3)
>>25259321>>25259324>>25259328These actually look really interesting, worthy of additional deep dives. Thanks. I got the LOA Wallace Stevens recently, that plus these might make for a great 2026. Tired of reading poems on the interwebz
>>25253679Anne Carson is generally regarded as the pre-eminent Sappho edition plus hers is dual language. You bought the wrong one.
Thoughts? First time posting here
>>25260291Big ups for Melville
>>25260370I didn’t even notice, thank u bro - might be my next pick to read
(You)re never going to read all of those books.
>>25260291little too popnonfic for me but that's a killer kierkegaard edition, def the best one-volume selection of his work. afaik hong/hong are the standard english translators. programmed to kill is a long schizopost that's 10% insanely insightful and 90% just insane. the novella toward the middle of The Pale King titled "something to do with paying attention" is the single best thing dfw ever wrote if you ask me
>25260715They'll all be done this year.
Wrong
>>25260778Was very disappointed in Programmed to Kill, only got through the first little bit. I had a true crime phase this semester: Killer Clown, Eye of the Chickenhawk, that sort of thing. Right now I’m reading some syntax books: Artful Sentences, Elements of Style, Karen Elizabeth Gordon’s books.Thank u for the info about The Essential Kierkegaard; I’ve been into philosophy since I was 18 (Now 23) and I’m only know getting around to taking my time with it. I own a lot of the Hong/Hong translations, so hopefully with that Anthology and LitCharts, I can make more sense of the First Authorship. I’m a big DFW guy, I read IJ at 19 and registered to the audiobook last month and that book is right up there with my favorite book, The Idiot, for me. Good Ol Neon is also my favorite short story, it’s a great articulation of a lot of horrifying internal stuff but also a very brief introduction to some Wittengstein. I definitely want to read The Pale King this summer, I started listening to a narration of that particular section but I didn’t finish it.Also picture of my shelf
>>25255654I'm back with more books.
>>25261159Did you have to move your bad dragon XXL dido you use to gay fuck yourself in the ass to take this picture?
>>25261343Count ur days pal
>>25260860Cope more little boy
>>25261343i dunno what crawled into your panties, his books are cool
These are "books I will never read" threads.
>>25261565sorry the fact that some of us still enjoy reading triggers your fee-fees
>>25261576It does but you're also not reading most of these books.
>>25261577I'm going to read all of them by the end of the year, meanwhile you will do nothing but bitch and complain, overdosing on cope.
>>25261606If it wasn't true, you would not be this triggered. Let's be honest.
>If it wasn't true, you would not be this triggered. Let's be honest.
>>25261350One.
>>25261190I also just picked up that Theroux book at a library sale. Dunno why, never heard of him in my life but it called out to me. I have high hopes for it. Or I’m just going looney
>>25262652Keep on counting biatch
Small stack but I just went through town and found these. However - as >>25261565 remarked - it's unlikely I'll get around to reading any of them for a long time.
Spanish stack, god I love catedra
>>25263639Brown.
>Brown.
>Posts of picture that perfectly illustrates what he's currently attempting to dolol, lmao. You are brown.
>lol, lmao. You are brown.
>>25263648Im literally a white european reading Baroque literature>Brownbruh
>>25263776>>25263779Melty detected.B R O W N
>56 percenter thinks he's white
Why's this Spanish dude so BTFO?
>>25263639Rock on hermano
Charity shop finds.
good finds today in Bologna
>>25265770>>25266349
>>25260291what was so scandalous about franklin
my current Gene Wolfe stuff
>>25268006Sexy.
>>25253679Some goods my family gifted me last week for my birthday.My copy of What Darwin Got Wrong bears the stamp of my childhood library. Thriftbooks purchased it and shipped it from Calgary to Dallas, only for my sister to buy it and have it shipped back to Calgary. It's retarded how much entropy was generated throughout this circulation, I suppose I can't judge when I don't shop locally.>>25260291I wasn't a big fan of Programmed to Kill. I read it immediately after Eye of the Chickenhawk; both books overlap quite a bit, the latter presents its argument in a much more convincing manner.Dovey predominately presents his narrative through direct quotations, whereas McGowan often writes as though the broader conspiracy is already obvious and just needs to be written rather than proven. As another Anon stated, only about 10% of the book is insightful. I'm certain there's an abridged version online that's actually worth reading.
>nick land
silver fang!
Just passed another antique library in Italy and they had all of Princeton's facsimiles of Blake, in hardcover, in excellent conditions. I'm now eating a juicy gelato and wondering if I should go back and take them despite the price. Feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity, never seen them as a complete set. What do
>>25269105how much?
>>25254363for a moment i thought it was based browne, but it turned out to be boring bronte.
>>25269052If you are alluding to Dostoevski’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigmarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search.
>>25269158650 eurinhos. I will sleep on it.
>>25269365yeah that's expensive. if you can afford it then go for it, i doubt a better price will pop up
>>25267846He’s a turtle and that pisses me off>>25268741Definitely agree, which is a shame because a lot of the reviews of PTK were positive. Ur stack looks dope, Hamlet’s Mill and Xenosystems looks cool. Consider The Lobster is awesome, I really DFW’s review of Joseph Frank’s Dostoyevsky that no one ever mentions (the review not the JF Biography). There’s a really good audiobook of Consider The Lobster narrated by DFW that has a narration of the first essay (Big Red Sun) which is a great listen/read. Highly reccomend.
>>25271266>There’s a really good audiobook of Consider The Lobster narrated by DFW that has a narration of the first essay (Big Red Sun) which is a great listen/read.I'll check it out! Big Red Son is a great read; it includes one of my favourite non-fiction footnotes of his, I always have a giggle at the exercise gag.I had no clue Edward Tufte's mum was an expert on style as well, hard not to envy that family.
>>25269365Yeowch, expensive. But it is the first time I've heard of a complete set on sale though.
Bought all of these over the course of the weekend. Value Village is better than any used bookstore I tell ya.
>>25271266Christ, I had that EXACT edition of Strunk and White when I was in high school. Bought it used for a buck eighty at Mr. K's bookstore. Haven't seen that cover in a while damn
>>25271570Edward Tufte seems like a cool dude I need to check out some of his stuff>>25272596Can’t wait to read it - just got into syntax and that sort of thing, and it’s awesome. Doing some YouTube Linguistics courses too helps.
>>25254175Insane projection. Why are you so damn cucked?
>>25261645>If it wasn't true, you would be a bitch like myself.We know.
>>25269365Did you make a decision?
>>25274403Impressive. Have you read Absalom before?
>>25274403Based trilingual.>mfw i'll die a filthy bilingual
>>25254088rated
>>25268741>from Calgary to TexasTed Cruz?
>>25254016Who have you tried reading? You didn't start with hard poets like Pound or Eliot, did you
>>25253954forza motorsport 4 is kino.
I'm touring some friends of my parents, who are visiting my city, and yesterday they bought me these books when we dropped by a second hand bookstore and a Kinokuniya.I can't say no to free books.
>>25254363this image inspires the same reaction as the bed pan
>>25278694>forza motorsport 4 is kino.I've never played it for any length of time. A buddy of mine liked it and we played split screen but I never got into it. Currently playing Skyrim again, I never finished it before. My character is female and I just became a werewolf.
Thread is already eleven days old and I BET (You) still have read nor finished a SINGLE ONE of those books.
>>25279287>*have neither read nor finished*Don't do shrooms, kids.
>>25274403How is that Cien años de soledad edition? I been needing to get into Garcia Marquez, loved Cronica de una muerte anunciada.
>>25261190very rarely see anyone reading TLP. You started yet or read him before? Crotchet Castle is a laugh.
>>25279280it's the best motorsport game in the franchise but 1 and 2 were really good. you should try the campaign, it's narrated by Jeremy Clarkson. that game was a big part of my late teenager years, i love it a lot.it's even sadder now because the game that started it all, Motorsport, was killed and now they'll only make Horizon.
>>25279729I didn't start yet, and didn't even know him. But it was so cheap (12.60 USD for the set) I couldn't let the opportunity pass
>>25254363if you use this you're a faggot get a backpack or something
>>25279287i've read 1 :)
>>25282084Liar
>25282092>mad and seething
>25282216>doesn't read, will NEVER read
still mad kek
yes, you are
>25282092>25254519
I recently got back into reading again. This is what I've read so far. I just finished Fahrenheit 451 and immediately started reading it again, because it is so enthralling knowing everything beforehand.I've just ordered three more books, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye and Lolita.
>>25282662Boring >Hurr durr unibomber I'm so edgy
>>25282729To be honest, there were some neat points in it, but mostly it was just dumb rambling. I get how it can be satisfying to do and make stuff yourself, but I don't want to spend the majority of my day on just getting and making food and maintaining everything. That's where I disagree with him. I mostly read it to check out what all the hubbub was about, and because it kinda fit in the theme of oppressive authorities I've been reading about.
>>25282662Good on you nigga, fuck the hatersI'm trying to get back into reading as well, currently finishing up A Confederacy of Dunces and I've already ordered Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsWill post the pile once they're here
>>25283281Please tell me this is photoshopped or made with an AI.Javier Marias is slop, not worthy of being considered a modern classic.
Sunday fleamarket haul from pastaland. 35€ total. I'm particularly satisfied with Aretino's letters and the scifi. I read/will read some of these in the original language, too.
>>25253954hey, nice slections, but does that stack also come with a collectable funko figure?
go back to /meal/
$10 from the flea market
>>25285049i also like this guy, because he'll give 50% credit if you return a book you've read
>>25284038Too many translations.>>25285049I'd give you a 10/10 but those price tags make me want to kill myself.My favorite bookseller is more subtle when tagging cheap books. And the expensive ones have a folded piece of paper rather than a sticker.
>>25283272>Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Fucking love that book. Hope you enjoy it.
>>25286984It sounded so promising that I sprang for the Folio Society edition
>>25283272>Cold Comfort FarmI looked it up and this is the cover of the latest editionWHY
>>25253679no pic, but currently all of Donald Davidson and The Seas of Language by Micheal Dummett. About to finish Kaffee und Zigarretten by F. von Schirach>>25254363ywnbaw. never. why do you still post here? you are not even fooling yourself. just stop with the act and admit that it has been a mistake if you have to talk about it. everyone does mistakes>>25272579confessiones are kino>>25260291I tried reading Kierkegaard but I could not. his prose is too flowery for philosophy and at the same time his writings are too philosophical for belle lettres. I totally get why many people love him for this, but I am too autistic for this poetic philosophy. anyways, have fun and a great time reading it!
>>25287528>all of Donald Davidsonlist them, i only own 3 of his
>>25254019no u
Fifteen days into the month and I'm CERTAIN (You) haven't finished all of those books still.
>>25289200i've only read 3 thus far. they will all be done by the end of summer
>>25253679Got these at Barnes and Noble today.
>>25289815
>>25289829Abridged looking ass Bhagavad Gita
>>25289846Eh, I didn't have the money for something nicer. Black metal band Oranssi Pazazu are playing my city tomorrow and I need to save.
>>25289849311 is doing a nearby festival but I have my SCUBA courses so I can't go.>Oranssi PazazuGasundheit? Are you having a stroke?
>>25289860Its a black metal band, you know shit like Hate Forest and Deathspell Omega. But you're a 311 fan i wouldn't expect you to know (i had a 311 shirt in high school when their album Transistor came out). Also you must be the Scuba dude i recommended a book to in the history thread.
>>25289876If you've seen someone talk about SCUBA on this board lately, it's me. I like metal well enough. Just never heard of 'em.
>>25289884Since you like 311 do you like Bad Brains? I Against I was an album I wore out constantly. I still listen to it often. Reminds me of my punk daze.
>>25289887Hmm, never heard of them. Might check them out.
>>25253679just deleted a number of books i finished recently. i can't even bother to remember the names of them. lolita, a learned disguise, the brothers karamazov, hyperion, flowers for algernon are some of them, i believe.
I bought a set of books. I'm keeping these and reselling the leftovers.
>>25289843not everyone has a brain running on training wheels like (YOU)
>>25290011>pindar odesbased, i plan on reading those
>>25253679
>>25290399Based retard. I have The Twice-Dead King, I was planning on reading it sooner than later.
>>25290411I wish there were more necron focused books. I'm trying to find cheap inquisitor focused books too, but that's somewhat not available.
>>25290411In the meantime I'm going to try to read this insanity.
>>25290416I'm not expecting a novelization of the War in Heaven, but at least a tie-in novel, from a Necron perspective, of the Mechanicus series.
>>25290488A "The War in Heaven" series would be absolutely amazing.
>>25289890Do it
>>25290399Did you just jump from book #4 to book #60
>>25257016Bukowski is great and what he does is a lot harder than people think. For a start he's almost always funny. When people on /lit/ try and parody him they're never funny.
>>25265770Fear Is The Key is one of Alistair MacLean's best I think. I mean obviously it's crap but it's fun readable crap and the ending is surprisingly poignant. Did you pick it on a whim or have you read any of his others? I would probably put The Last Frontier and Ice Station Zebra at the top (the latter much better than the film).
thanks knausgaard for the fosse rec
>>25290425baited and memed by jewtubers again eh?
>>25290425reddit manual
>>25290425it fits in with the rest of the junk food in that pic
>>25290425>Unfinished Rubix cube>Loads of tie-in Wamhammy slopThe joke wrote itself.
>>25290993>Nigger
>>25290993>die nigger die
>>25290993>AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING
>>25291129>>25291125both of those books are pro-black texts. Ive been reading a lot of monkey spirituals
>>25291146odd. I wonder if there's any pro-white texts with those titles
>>25291341there better not be or how else are we supposed to cash in our victimhood points
>>25263876You Europoors deserve every migrant
>>25292103You burgers deserve every freeze peach right getting replaced by anti-woke comedy podcasts
Here's mine
>>25263876she's swedish btw
>>25294297Norwegian
>>25294310same thing
Picked these up for free yesterday from a marketplace posting, was mostly interested in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Doors of Perception, and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
These are my most recent purchases, mostly charity shop finds. I read the original publication of De Quincey's Confessions earlier this year from the library, but couldn't pass up on my own copy for £2, one day I'd like to read the extended second publication, but it is much rarer to find, and I have seen it regarded as a lesser, bloated work.I had been wanting to read a Beowulf translation with alliterative verse for a long time. I read Heaney's translation as a teen and didn't really think much of it, read Tolkien's and Shippey's which were great, but missing the magic of true alliterative verse; EP's Seafarer translation really got me hooked. This translation is by Michael Alexander, and its really good so far. I just read Pere Goriot last week as my first Balzac and found it very entertaining, if not a little cartoonish in places. The influence on Dostoevsky is apparent. I saw Eugine Grandet with a tattered spine for £1 and thought I'd give it a go. If anyone has any other Balzac recs please let me know. The Oxfam books I visit almost weekly had almost every C.S. Lewis book on a single shelf, seemingly a Lewis lover donated their entire collection. I am not a Christian, but an interested, fence sitting agnostic. The only Lewis I've ever read was The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a child. I heard that this book is a good intro to his apologetics. I recently saw a thread about the Good Soldier Svejk on /lit/ and my interest was piqued, was surprised to find a copy a day or so later in Oxfam for £2.99. As for Waverley, I found that on a donation shelf in my University's library, and having never read any Walter Scott, but having had Ivanhoe on my to read list for years, and having recently been reading about the Jacobite Rebellion I couldn't pass it up, especially for free.
>>25255654>>25261190>>25278714>>25290011One thread, five stacks.>>25295176I red them all.Eugenie Grandet is a parade of unlikeable characters.
>>25294563anti-white racism prevails yet again
>>25294175I have Little Ice Age. I see you have a bio of Hoover. My grandfather hated him.
>>25292146Weak bait.
>>25268741I have Pathogenesis. Never thought I'd see that on here
>>25295458>LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU
>>25268741Also Albions Seed is a doorstopper. I tried reading it, got fed up quick.
>>25295462For (You)
Mostly new copsFew recent reads
>>25295176Lewis's apologetics are pretty lackluster in my view. If you approach them with a critical eye, you'll see they only work based on motivated reasoning, that you have to already want to believe in order to be able to swallow them (which would seem to defeat the purpose, but I guess there is a large audience of temporarily embarrassed believers waiting to be won back without much of a fight). Take his famous argument that Jesus must have been "Lord, Lunatic, or Liar". This is, of course, a forced trilemma, purposely ignoring that he may have been a genuine (if misguided) preacher who was elevated into legend status by documents written decades after his death by authors who were writing in Greek and who would have know a lot about mythology and how to craft a compelling supernatural narrative (liberally borrowing from Egyptian and Greek myths, I.E. being born of a mortal woman impregnated by the highest God, see Dionysus, or to die and resurrect, see Osiris).He does at least acknowledge that Jesus's teachings are immoral if he wasn't a deity, though you might assume that if you were willing to acknowledge that his teachings only make sense if the end times were just around the corner, and especially when Jesus explicitly said the end would come before those present around him passed away, that it would prove conclusively that the character of Jesus was mistaken in a profound way seeing as that clearly did not happen (just how many generations past the one promised to see Judgement day can people wait and still buy this stuff?)
>>25289829Nice, I found the Upanishads kinda hit or miss (being older and stranger myths) but I thoroughly enjoyed the Bhagavad Gita. Have you started in at all yet?
>>25282662Don't mind the bitter resentful posters, read what you want. Teddy boy was genuinely a murderous psychopath though, he ended up just bombing commercial flights full of normal people for fun. His book is free online though, so you could have just perused it for free that way.What did you think of the other books there?
>>25297661Thank you for your reply anon, genuinely insightful effortpost. I recently read the Bible in its entirety for the first time (having attempted to do so since I was a teen but previously dropping it through the tedium of it). I have been reading some Aquinas and Augustine and its all very interesting but not necessarily compelling. There's compelling aspects, but not enough of a chain of logic for me to feel as if I can take the rest on "faith" whatever that feels like or means. I was hoping Lewis had something more compelling to say but I'll give it a read anyway. I just feel a bit lost regarding religion in general. As a westerner to what should I turn for meaning? I wish it were possible for any of it to not feel like a LARP. I was raised atheist, which now feels empty to me. I brushed against some form of Neo-paganism as a young teenager but that is the LARPiest of LARPs. I don't see how I could sincerely ever suspend by disbelief at everything that would have to line up in order for me to truly become a Christian and have any kind of faith. But in the meantime I guess I'll just read apologetics and see what they have to say.
Why doesn't anyone here read anything contemporary?
>>25297707Literary fiction is like classical or jazz, the new stuff just doesn't hold up
>>25297710Try this
>>25297702I was raised Christian and felt a similar sense of emptiness in it because so many pieces didn't make sense and the answer was to just accept/ignore it. So I am now pretty firmly non-religious and can only view religions as cultural expressions, things pertaining to certain cultures at certain times where as the mechanisms which cause the people in those cultures to believe it is a curiosity to be examined through psychology. I think also there is something to be said for differences in the human experience. I am reminded of Freud's musings on the fact that a religious friend of his tried to explain a kind of oceanic feeling that the friend interpreted as being a tiny part of a huge whole which is the essence of God. Freud, like me, was bemused by this since no such corresponding feeling is to be found in his own experience. Certainly, nature has a majestic beauty at times, and I feel a great love of life, but I don't feel this God-feeling that others speak of. I don't know if perhaps that feeling is what you allude to, perhaps you could expand on that. Have you read Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle? I think he puts forward the best path to what he called "Eudaimonia" or The Good Life/Living Well. Aristotle outlines that adopting virtue and building community is the path to this outcome, and I think that is fundamentally true and that, in so far as religion is successful, it is because it fosters this roadmap to life. The roadmap is just as powerful without the supernatural trimmings, if you have the heart to pursue these things for their own merits rather than at the command of an authority figure (which would cheapen the virtue and community anyway, in my view).Modern life is a very tricky situation. Community is increasingly difficult to cultivate and enjoy. There is also a dynamic at play which can be counter intuitive regarding seeking one's own benefit in the community. Ideally, a community offers more benefit to all participants than it asks in contribution, in short, it represents synergy, it is greater than the sun of its parts. However, if each member continually calculates their own benefit in an attempt to ensure they receive more than they are expending, it destroys the very community and thus the machine that drives the synergy and the expansive benefits that would flow from a consciously selfless participation (even when the higher order of selfishness is theoretically acknowledged). Thus, to be self interested is to set aside self interest explicitly in favor of the community, which then eventually serves your self interest better than any other path. This is fundamentally why virtue is so important, and it must be viewed as important in its own right before the benefits can begin to accrue. Hopefully that makes sense, but at the end of the day I think we all do seek solidarity and comradeship with others even when we might muddle it up sometimes.
>>25297707The passage of time is a good filter for what has enduring merit. Modern stuff can be popular without having any actual substance or merit.
BestToWorstAnd still debating if shrodingers cat 2 is better than Sister Carrie
>>25297767Dungeon crawler carl is the best book of the past 10 years
>>25297800heckin
>>25253679great consoom, bro!
>25298148>am i fitting in yet u guyz
>>25284459>hey, nice slections, but does that stack also come with a collectable funko figure?No but I have this little guy on my nic-nak shelf. His name is Martin the Martian.
>>25298452>Martin the MartianIt's the creature from the black lagoon you dip
>>25298461>It's the creature from the black lagoon you dipTru well you learn something new every day I guess
some recent acquisitions. just finished reading The Name of the Rose
I'm reading Finnegans Wake and the House of the Dead, The Gambler, and some short stories by Dostoevsky. FW is going to take ages to read though, I hope no one requests it at the library so I'd have to take it back.
>>25294272how many members in your polycule?
>>25298801I read FW in 5 days but the last 3 were rough
>>25299518Was it for a Uni assignment? If not, why make yourself read it over so short a period that it is "rough."
>>25299571Not for school, but I did study lit in uni, including the first three main Joyce books. I spend most of my free time reading lately, so reading ~100 pages a day isn't out of the ordinary.>why make yourself read itso I could get it over with and move onto something else lol. and it's not like the book gets less rough if you procrastinate. People are right when they say the first 100-200 pages are the hardest, for whatever reason the first few chapters have the most insane syntax.
Christfag /// lurker here,Right most stack are books on icons.I mostly just read the New Testament Gospels and commentaries… “The Pilgrim’s Regress” by C.S. Lewis and “Past Master” by R.A. Lafferty were formative for me, if you know any books of allegory and fiction by Christian authors with well executed narratives and characters that live out or contemplate this faith please let me know, thanks.
>>25299518I'm only reading 25 pages a day because looking up the elucidations really breaks up my flow.
>>25299701you will love the jon fosse septology, read it now
>>25299715From a quick glance it looks interesting. Thanks anon.
I told myself I was going to buy only the books I really liked in pdf/epub (STOLEN AH-HA!), this is how I need to think about new furniture now...anyway fuck online shopping and the waiting game...
>>25269200nta, I enjoyed Crime and Punishment immensely.
>>25299933Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
>>25253679>shit people buy to put on a shelf>>25253699>>25254088>shit people who actually read buy to actual read
>>25273424>watchmenGayGo read a real comic like sin city or Parker
A fellow tokyo anon on this board told me about a cool bookstore and I checked it out today. Thanks anon
>>25301007You went to Kitazawa? Did you sell a kidney or a lung?
>>25301007>>25301043Wait, the scifi ones are from Kosho Youtou. I swear I saw that copy of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said last Friday.
>>25301045You got it, Gene Wolfe and Shakespeare are from Kitazawa (and damn, yeah, pricey shop. 5k yen for the two). Dick, Vonnegut, and Analog are from Kosho Youtou (1400 yen total). Thanks for telling me about Kosho, wouldn't have found it otherwise
>>25301082>5k yen for the twoYou got robbed.I know that Gene can be pricey but the Shakespeare one isn't worth more than 100 yen.I got all these Shakespearea for 1000 yen from that bookstore in Jiyugaoka, and Kono always has paperbacks from 100 yen.
>>25301113Damn, hearing that now I feel like I got fleeced. What's the Jiyugaoka bookstore? Keep the good recommendations coming.My waifu thinks I am 積読ing too much. I'm envious of your home library
>>25301113>>25301118I had the thought while at Kitazawa that it would be cheaper to order the books from US amazon and have them shipped here, but I spent a while browsing and it's a pleasant shop and I felt like I should buy something from them to justify the time I spent there
>>25301118Nishimura Bunseido (西村文生堂)They go by "洋書専門店 文生堂書店" on Yahoo Auctions, and they have some alt accounts. That's were they have the good stuff.
>>25301121Much obliged
>>25301119If you ever feel guilty find some good book from the 900 yen display books corner (the ones with the red sticker.) Last time I went there I got a 900-page volume full of Elizabethan plays.Or check the paperbacks under the table where they display the stamps and ex libris, prices aren't great, but at least you can get something for 500 or 700 yen.
>>25301124thankfully the shakespeare was one of the red sticker ones. Gene Wolfe was 3,900 yen, definitely could have bought it cheaper new at Maruzen or even from overseas
>>25297775Why is Sister Carrie getting shilled so much here?
>>25297670I have other books I'm reading atm
>>25300613congratulations being another useless fat permanent adolescent i guess
>>25301124>A retailer sticking a plate on the inside cover of a book to be sold.What an asshole.
>Past a certain age, a man without a Hitler book can be a bad thing
>>25301690kek
>>25301615I know I’m in the minority on this, but I don’t mind it at all. Seeing where the book has passed through elevates it from being just a fungible book into a unique object with a history. It helps that the Japanese take meticulous care of their things anyways and except for the small, unobtrusive sticker, the books are in essentially mint condition.
>>25290993>needing hacksgaard to discover FosseWhat’s it like having shit taste?
>>25301948anti white racism prevails again
>>25289846are you retarded?
>>25289829is that the Juan Mascaro translation of The Bhagavad Gita?
>>25301007Are you Canadian?
>>25301121Checked it out today; they must be saving all the good stuff for their yahoo auctions page because this is all I found. Good prices though, 600 yen for all three
>>25303219Good price. Kitazawa loves milking old Tuttle editions, asking thousands of yen for books that aren't worth more than one thousand.Read them in this order: Botchan, And Then, Mon. If you can find Sanshirō, read it after Botchan.
>>25302665I have no idea lemme look
>>25299701I have that Penguin City Of God
>>25303298Those Kitazawa prices are absurd. Thanks for the reading order suggestion, senpai
i like japanese philosophy. japanese poetry is okay (basho, santoka, etc). japanese lit is fucking awful and i cant put my finger on why.
>>25253679Bought this a few hours ago. Paid 50 Euros for all of it. They conditions of them looks worse in the picture. Probably can't read them in the next 3 months though. Translation from German to English: Arnold Fürle: Critique of Marxian Anthropology (hasn't been translated into English)Peter Handke: Short Letter, Long FarewellKnut Hamsun: Under the Autumn StarCollected novellas from StrindbergCollected dramatic works from WagnerCollected works of Schiller
