STACK THREAD

>>24519609 (OP)
How gay is Death in Venice?

>>24519609 (OP)
Perfume is fantastic, enjoy.

>>24519609 (OP)
Bought these at a thrift store a week ago

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>>24519743
Heavy nonce vibes here.

>>24519628
>Perfume is fantastic, enjoy.
A fucking disgusting story.

>>24519609 (OP)
SA-core

>>24520056
SA?

>>24519743
Berlin Alexenderplatz is one of my favourite novels, have fun.

Sharing my pastack in case there are any italianons itt

>>24520176
Very heavy nonce vibes.

>>24519609 (OP)
I haven't read a single book that wasn't required by school curriculum in my entire life.
Except for "The Alchemist", it was shit.

my massive stack, will probably take me a life time to get through it

>>24520134
sexy

>>24520194
>I haven't read a single book that wasn't required by school curriculum in my entire life.
me neither, it's never too late to start brotherman

>>24520198
I kinda hate reading.
But I am so bored and lonely that I'm thinking of doing it just to kill time.
What is more entertaining though, is discussing the contents or a literary work with others, even if I despise the fact that other people have different opinions from mine.
That's why I cine to lurk here, to see other people discussing these things.

>>24520253
Are you me?

>>24520080
>Fellow Dutchfag
Goedemorgen meneer.

>>24520330
>meneer
Why does this sound so similar to "my nigger"?

>>24520188
It’s called motherly love, not brotherly or otherly.

>>24520073
s*xual ab*se(r)

stuff I've touched recent enough to be not on the shelf

>>24520330
Het is middag a sa7bi

Picked these up yesterday.

>>24520590
Is het nie al tijd voor uwen avondkost, hè kaaskopske?

>>24520196
BASED. Same.

>>24520797
Ik heb een lekker pizzake gegeten, en jij?

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>>24521212
pastaatje bolo uit eigen makelei

>>24521224
Está buena esa edición de rojo y negro? Prefiero leerla en español por su cercanía con el francés
>>24520196
Thanks, it cost me a lot to find those editions

In the middle of The Corrections, Blackwater, and Henry Adams

Bump

>>24522377
How is Henry Adams?

what am I in for bros?

>>24520487
it's good to have books lying about. all the books I am in the process of reading are also off my shelves

>>24525180
if you had problems like insomnia,these are your best remedies

>>24519618
Fairly. A generous reading could interpret it as more being about the sensitivity to and envy of the boy’s youth, but it’s still pretty gay.

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>>24519609 (OP)
chomo-core kek

>>24519609 (OP)
Should I replace a book if a fly walked on it or flies around it? If book covered some dust should it replace the book with a new one?

Books lose their sense of newness and cleanness after a while right? Books do grow old kind of?

>>24520487
Joseph Campbell the best to ever do it

>>24524913
Henry Adams is great. Unorthodox thinker about a lot of things: the role of intellectuals in public life, scientific progress, relations between morality and politics, and the continuities and discontinuities of history.

>>24528020
I want to effort post, so heres kind of what the Education is on:

Its not only about how his classical education been rendered outmoded, but he also questions whether the so-called liberal education then being offered (while he taught there later in life) at, say, Harvard (elective system rather adherence to Western civ type requirements, emphasis on "modern" subjects such as science and contemporary literature, etc.) is also already outmoded even before it consolidates; so, more generally, the book is a reflection on one of Adams's aphorisms: our power is always running ahead of our mind -- that is, modes of production, market abstractions, military force, technological development, geopolitical power, etc. all outpace education, thought, intelligence, etc., leaving us primarily guided by inertia (the momentum of forces we create but can barely harness) that seems to accord with what we think we want (to the extent that those wishes can be clearly comprehended and articulated: hardly a given) rather than by self-consciously directed human history (echo of Marx there), which is arguably the goal.

>>24528160
If the first part of the book (before the 20-year gap) examines older modes of thought (classical education, liberalism, conservativism, gradualism in geology, Darwin's work, statistics in the social sciences, avant garde poetics, developments in art history, classical diplomacy, et al) and finds many of them wanting, then the second part arguably takes up what were then current and even cutting-edge forms of thought (from various fields: physics, mathematics, psychology, engineering, historical thinking, et al) and tests them against contemporaneous deeper trends in material production and resource extraction (coal, emergent oil, electrical power, radiation and x-rays, etc.) and economics (currency trading, trade imbalances, collapse of older imperial powers: Spain, Britain, etc) to see if they are likely to provide guidance moving forward: when Adams then writes near the close of all this that thought would need to learn how to "leap," he may be suggesting that models based on continuity and gradual development (unity across time) are unlikely to be up to the task, while those that account for rupture and discontinuity in history (catastrophism in geology: Clarence King; Marx's theories of radical or revolutionary shifts in power and production; etc.) may have chance, since they can at least attempt to incorporate multiplicity (substantial change) across time and in historical thinking, and can hence historicize their own particularity as forms of thought that are responding to their own complex and unfolding presents -- that is, to paraphrase another of Adams's aphorism, they can follow the force that attracts (whatever that happens to be in a given historical moment: a difficult thing to judge, and part of the work of critical thought, arguably).Or as Adams also puts it, in a methodological axiom: study success (which does not mean simply follow the fads and ascribe to the standards by which something is judged a success, but study those as well, by examining them in relation to their own historical contexts, analyzing and judging the first principles they claim as their foundation).

>>24528162
Appreciate the effortpost. Speaking of men who were cognizant of changing times, I’m always amazed by the lifespan of Bertrand Russell; he was born a few years after the American Civil War and he died when the US was in Vietnam. The changes he witnessed over the course of his life!

I love books and reading

>>24519609 (OP)
I've read less than a quarter of these books and I have more in the closet.

>>24529027
Siciliano che vuol leggere
risi

>>24529036
>risi
More like seethi

>>24520274
Hey it's the guy who chopped his penis off

>>24520274
What the fuck is that thing next to the book?

>>24529131
phallic imagery

>>24529131
post surgery keepsake

>>24529040
Guarda, Calo sa parlare l'inglese!

>>24529274
>Guarda
More like seetha,
Btw you can't speak Italian and you're not making any sense.

>>24529299
sono rumeno

How do I protect my books from dust/damage/age/flies/poop/sweat/ect? Same can be applied to my bookshelves.

>>24519609 (OP)
Latest haul

>>24528609
me tooooo!!!!!!!!!! I finished reading one day YIPPEEE

>>24519743
Just got this monster for the upcoming weeks. It probably weighs 5-10 lbs

>>24529131
hot potato

>>24529738
I always wanted that book on napoleon but it's too expensive everywhere.

>>24519609 (OP)
Aftermath of a bookfair a week ago.

I have an update:

>>24529910
>I always wanted that book on napoleon but it's too expensive everywhere.
>>24529738
You should show a few pages to us, anon.

>>24530225
It’s a giant book, like twice as heavy as the Hackett Complete Plato hardcover. Flipping through it seems very thorough with good maps (some foldout), battles, and illustrations. It’s also really nice without the dustcover. I’ll post a few pics of the nude book, an example of the table of contents, a couple pages, a couple maps, battles and illustrations

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>>24530256
Alright. Thanks in advance.

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>>24530281

Bump

>>24520253
I was like that until I “touched grass”, and started experiencing the world and society more, as the retarded zoomers say; I still hate society, but the world is unironically beautiful.

>>24519609 (OP)
hey, you smelly pseud fucks. these stacks suck big time. if I had the displeasure of knowing you, I'd come to your smelly little rooms and knock over your dumb book towers. I'd take a big dump and cram the dookie down the hollow spine crease. I'd rip out key pages and ingest to them to create more shit, which I'd then make you ingest. you are mincing little egotists. books are a status symbol to you. I hate that. I think it's time someone gave you your just desserts--i.e., a big steamy helping of my shit

Sdagg :DDD

>>24529738
I’m always amazed people have the time or the reading speed to read things like this. After like 10 years of active reading its still going to take me another 10 years to go through all the meme /lit/ books properly.

>>24529933
Missä tämmönen bookfair oli? Hieno kasa

I just bought a stack of kino but its all Dutch

>>24532124
kom maar op

>>24532129
ik ben verlegen :3

>>24529027
Very nice.

>>24532062
Sastamalan vanhan kirjallisuuden päivillä. Tuli melko kalliiks, noin 200€

>>24521224
Tengo esa misma edición concreta de El color prohibido

>>24519609 (OP)
Pervert stack

>>24529302
Stick to Romanian

I hope to get through some of this before returning to work in August

>>24532308
200 egee aika crazy, mut hienoja kirjoja

>>24525180
Why did you get the Wordsworth?

>>24533848
>>24525180
why not buy a proper edition of Wordsworth classics?

>>24530276
>no color by numbers exercises

kindergarten bros?

How do you take of your books? When my books are damaged or a fly touched them I replace free by ordering the new one and replacing with the old and sending then retour.

>>24533786
>Linkola
Yeah, I’m thinking based

>>24533887
Any Byron scholars here? I see a lot of ”selected poems” editions by publishers rather than whole works like don juan or manfred. Am I better off just reading these selections?

Small stack I'm working through (reading the Hemingway biography now). All charity shop finds.

>>24533979
The Wordsworth edition I have includes the full text of Don Juanbut does not include Manfred. It also leaves out few popular short poems, so I ended up adding them in pencil. It’s not that bad, though, and I’m happy with what I got. i think the Major Works of Lord Byronn from Oxford World’s Classics likely includes poems like *Manfred*. The only reason i didn’t buy that instead of the Wordsworth edition is that it was too thick(1,100+ pages in paperback! ) i was afraid the book would be too fragile to hold.

Luv me Gouden Eeuw
Luv me Classics

>>24534140
Messed up the phonepost ... paid 11eur for this

>>24520487
een ICT'er... schone stapel wel

>>24534419
een echte techie geeft zn tech boekjes als pdf

>>24527527
I own those Dazai books, and they are so ugly. I don't know why I bought them-- they were probably the only edition available in my country. A few days ago at night despair overcame me while thinking about wretchedness and I thought of spraying them all black before I drifted to sleep. I might just do that now that I remembered they exist again.

>>24519609 (OP)
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>>24529933
I'm readin that exact Pushkin book right now. It's so good. It's simple, has none of the unnecessary details that Tolstoy and Dosto bore me to death with. Good shit

>>24520112
adelphichad spotted

>>24519609 (OP)
Just some light reading I picked up for this month from Waterstones. amix of novels, poetry, and LnF with some philosophy for good measure. Next month I plan on reading some German novels after I'm done with this

>>24536833
Fixed sorry

>>24536854
>Sex: M
What is that tag on the spine? Second from the top

>>24536856
Oh yea, sorry I had that book before but I threw it in there bc I'm finally gonna read it. That's from when I went to the mental hospital and they tagged all my stuff

>>24536854
>infinite jest, mcelroy, Schmidt
Often memed, rarely read. Hope you enjoy them. Thomas Browne is fantastic

Why are so many of you Dutch

>>24537606
we are surrounded by the most /lit/erature nations and are one ourselves

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>>24520112
Neat

only began really reading in the last few years. found out sci fi isn't as interesting as I'd hoped. currently bounce between history and historical fiction

>>24539571
I like the Platonov, Soul is his best one imo

>>24520080
>IK BEN EEN KAT
IK OOK!

>>24520080
>De Wereld als Wil en Voorstelling
Why not just read it in German...

>>24519628
Perfume sucks dick. It's an interesting idea written by a child

>>24541535
holy filtered

>>24534002
I just picked up this Hemingway bio. Small world.

>>24536854
how much did bottom's dream cost you? i would do unspeakable things for a copy...

>>24542473
I'm over half way through and it's pretty good. I don't agree with all of the assertions made but it's keeping me interested.

>>24541535
completely agree. it pissed me off because the idea had so much potential but was written in a way that is mediocre at best

>>24542492
Wonder if they’ll ever reprint it

>>24538263
you can read turkish?

>>24538263
Also wondering if you can read turkish. I read Waiting for the Fear by Atay earlier this year as well as well as Madonna in a Fur Coat and am interested in getting into Pamuk.
>>24536854
Also curious how much you paid. I don't really regret getting it when it was >$100 since the thing is massive and I would never do anything more than flip through it, and because at the time I was moving from one city to another very frequently.

>>24522377
Nice stack. The Stand is great. James Ellroy is great too, read the one before L.A. confidential, forgot the name but it was real good. Reading 2666 now, pretty good so far

>>24522377
First Rikki reader I've seen on /lit/.

>>24544802
>>24544922
yeah I'm turkish.

>Waiting for the Fear
I've read the nyrb translation around the time it came out and thought it was pretty good (not perfect but turkish isn't the easiest language to translate so no judgement) it's a shame that they can't do tutunamayanlar, or tehlikeli oyunlar (which is my favorite). what'd you think of waiting for fear?

>as well as well as Madonna in a Fur Coat and am interested in getting into Pamuk.
madonna is fun, pamuk is a little overrated but I enjoyed my name is red.

>>24544965
That was a semi-random purchase for me. A guy I went to college with and had a few classes together was working at the local Barnes and Noble. I recognized him, and asked him if he'd read anything interesting lately. Told me about this book and bought it then and there.

>>24545131
>what'd you think of waiting for fear?
I really liked it and thought about it for days after I finished the last story. The first one, "Man in a white overcoat," surprised me because I thought it was a thoughtful blending of something like Kafka and Gogol, it felt so absurd until I was thinking about it the next day and realized it was an allegory for getting a job. The second one was delightful, "The forgotten," about the woman who finds her ex-husband in the attic, was so true to life despite the surreal/supernatural situation that it actually stopped me in my tracks after I finished it. The title piece felt like diving into a whole world, it became so real and engulfing while still being about a paranoid neet who's probably being pranked. The Letter one and the one about the delusional guy who thinks the girl is infatuated with him were fun and heartfelt despite the tedium. The Wooden Horse was really tedious and tough to get through, I need to go back and reread because I may have had a headache that day. And the last two stories were really touching and pathetic, the last one full of hopelessness and despair that really left me feeling down but in a good way. The whole collection left a mark on me like nothing I had read recently up until then and I am eager to get back to it soon.
>but I enjoyed my name is red
That was actually the one I was thinking of reading first, it reminded me of Calvino or Eco.
I'm interested if you have any other Turkish authors to recommend since I've just recently become interested in reading more from that country.

>>24545182
>The whole collection left a mark on me like nothing I had read recently up until then and I am eager to get back to it soon.
absolutely, atay is just one of those authors whose work lingers on in a very intimate way, his other books are incredible as well. I wish someone would translate tehlikeli oyunlar (dangerous games) and eylembilim (eylem meaning act bilim meaning science/knowledge) into english, I'd do it myself but my english isn't up to par.

>I'm interested if you have any other Turkish authors to recommend since I've just recently become interested in reading more from that country.
there is so much good shit! but most of it just has no translation. out of what has been translated off the top of my head I'd recommend ''human landscapes from my country'' by nazim hikmet. if you want more oğuz atay there is a translation of tutunamayanlar available (though finding a physical copy seems impossible since they apparently only printed a limited amount) the translation isn't bad per se but in my opinion it does somewhat fail to capture what makes the original so iconic. Though I have to say I'm a little self-conscious of my own syntax when speaking english so what bothered me with the translation might just be me projecting that onto the translator lol so try it out for yourself, the book is really good.

>>24545288
Also try the time regulation institute by ahmed hamdi tanpınar

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>>24545299
Not him but can you talk about the great books with no translation? I'm specially fond of dark/weird/trippy/surreal stuff. Is there anything like that? I'd love to learn turkish if it's a language with good books.

>>24545308
Fantasy and horror, also btw.

>>24544785
since i don't have a copy, they will definitely reprint it. when i get a copy, they will never ever ever ever reprint it again.

>>24545308
I'm outside pretending to be a social creature, so this won't be super in-depth for now since I'm phoneposting. But yeah to start off with there is a lottt of religious stuff, what happened in Turkey is that the religious tradition swallowed most intellectual domains moreso than it did in christian europe or even other muslim countries which is why there is no real independent turkish philosophy for example, everything just being inside religious literature, I think something somewhat similar happened in Japan too (though they got cool shit like the kyoto school post-meiji). What follows is that there's a huge mass of cool poetry and mysticism from the ottoman period, not exactly modern republican turkish but there's a lot of cool shit there that gets pretty much no attention from the courtly tradition to the folk tradition thats kind of the beating heart of turkish literature before the republic and the pre-republican period, for non-religious stuff Evliya Çelebi's travelogue is fun. There are some works in prose as well, the Ottomans didnt just write poetry but you hear about pretty much none of it except of the late-ottoman period's works that transitioned into the republican literary tradition. Out of that sufi (not the perfect term but its whatever) tradition the most important name in Turkish, is of course still: Yunus Emre who deserves all the praise he gets, you can think of him as somewhat of a saint I guess. Pir Sultan Abdal is also great. With the folk tradition, a lot of it is music based, but I think thats more general turkish culture than literature so I'm skipping over that. Namık Kemal (who I'm told I look like) is the one name out of the late Ottoman period that I like, but I'm not very well read on that period. This is probably quite boring so let me just give you a list of authors for everything before contemporary times that I like, probably missing some stuff, when I'm back home I'll go thru my library if anyones interested, but yeah: Nazım Hikmet, Oğuz Atay, Cemal Süreyya, Peyami Safa, Sabahattin Ali, Aziz Nesin, Yakup Kadri, Yahya Kemal, Orhan Veli, Sait Faik, Attila İlhan, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar it's all good stuff

>>24545308
Oh lol I'm retarded just realizing that I misread your comment

>dark/weird/trippy/surreal stuf
There's a lot of this yeah, from kafkaesque to surrealist to weird fiction

>>24545313
>Fantasy and horror
Fantasy wise, there's no real fantasy tradition in Turkey, Ihsan Oktay has some stuff but I'm not a huge fan of him. I think there might be a few books but nothing of real note that I can think off of the top of my head. Horror wise idk what do you count as horror?

Also here's a cool traditional song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdmW-tjWC0 we play this during henna night before weddings, where the bride is surrounded by her female family members and is made to cry listening to this

>>24545131
>yeah I'm turkish.
Did you know that Max Lawton's wife Ecem is Turkish? Is she known in your country or something?

>>24545528
Who? I'm aware of Lawton because I'm into literature and specifically translation, but I don't know who she is. But if we're talking about cute Turkish women the queen is Neslihan Atagül. She's the reason I somewhat understand Korean idol culture.

>>24545528
I looked her up, crazy, Lawton could have done so much better lol he's actually the type to be quite popular in Turkey. Did he literally just date the first women he saw in Istanbul?

>>24545528
I just looked her up, damn, Lawton could have done so much better lol he's actually the type to be quite popular in Turkey. Did he literally just date the first woman he saw in Istanbul?

>>24545551
I don't know what her original last name was but she goes by Ecem Lawton now. Apparently she's some kind of videomaker. Maybe she's not known in Turkey.
https://www.instagram.com/ecemlawton/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12358051/

>>24545556
>he's actually the type to be quite popular in Turkey.
Long-haired Anglo American?

>>24545556
If anything I think he lucked out. She's better looking than Max, objectively speaking.

>>24545509
>There's a lot of this yeah, from kafkaesque to surrealist to weird fiction
Any recs?
>Horror wise idk what do you count as horror?
Poe, Lovecraft, some Kafka, King, Frankenstein, Dracula, Shirley Jackson, ghost stories.

>>24545558
Never heard of her before

>>24545576
She's a 6/10 just appearance wise, nothing wrong with that honestly, and I don't know if she's a super sweet person, but if you're a cultured foreigner living in Istanbul you could do a lot better in regards to looks. Not that that is all that matters ofc.

Tolstoy: Late novellas
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Francis de Sales: Philothea
Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Koeppen: Nach Russland und anderswohin (Travel Essays about travels to Spain, Netherlands, Soviet Union, UK and Italy among others)
Schneider: Die silberne Ampel (historical novel about Nuno Álvares Pereira)
Melville: Moby Dick

>>24545590
Try waiting for fear, kind of gay but the only thing I can think of right now wih a translation is night by bilge karasu.

>>24545499
+Mehmet Rauf, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

kek it's all good if you want to keep your secrets turkish anon.

>>24545499
>>24545600
Also that retard Nihal Atsız. Apologies for spamming the thread, I get autistic when my country's literature is brought up.

>>24545499
No Mehmet Akif? No Yaşar Kemal? No Necip Fazıl? No Yusuf Atılgan?

Bumping this from page 10

>>24519609 (OP)
i love shortstacks

Currently away from my main stack. Finished Clockwork Orange, about to finish Consequences of the Peace. Started some of Civil War - Caeser is surprisingly good at writing, even when he's trying to be dispassionate.

>>24549766
How have I never read Caesar, damn.