Thread 24687497

Flex
Your
Stack

You're being a tryhard. Stop it. No one is impressed.

I couldn’t find a small bookshelf at target but I found a mini wooden dish rack that can hold like five slim paperbacks. So I’m using that now. Looks almost intentional if you have brain damage and thankfully I’m the only one who can enter my apartmenr

>>24687509
Why is trying hard a bad thing?

And for the record this is the only type of reading I enjoy. I'll try fiction...eventually

They should make kids read actual nonfiction in school. And definitely not fucking trauma novels about some dumb bitch that gets raped. I dint need a book to tell me not to rape women, I mean mosr of them are fat and retarded anyway but I digress.

Why didn't all my history teachers give us book recommendations? Because we were coddled and they thought it was too hard for us. Either that or they didn't care. True education is done by the individual. Education with nuance requires some heavy reading. And learning about the world is fun

>>24687497 (OP)
Guffawed with gutso.

Why do people keep wasting time reading books? You could be spending that time collecting books and sorting them by color on your shelf

>>24687634
>Why is trying hard a bad thing?
Despite the effort, the authenticity is lacking. That's why it is labeled try hard. If it was authentic, the person wouldn't have to try.

>>24687634
>And for the record this is the only type of reading I enjoy
saddest thing I've read in quite a while

>>24687694
Oh, sorry. I'll go and read some cute and valid lgbt romance stories so I can be in the know :)

If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtube. Is it surprising that there are people that exist who like to learn about the world and ideas? Why is that sad. It's not.

>>24687497 (OP)
>Applebaum
Nice fiction written by a "journalist."

>>24687720
>If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtube
for your own good just shut up

>>24687720
You should ask both of your dads if goldomor have more place in your world than gay romance. Also why would leave bookmarks at the beginning of the books? It looks like you've barely read them.

>>24687650
are the graham hancock books any good?

>>24687720
>If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtube
Lmao

It's not your traditional stack. A biology textbook, a novel, and a magazine in french.

>>24687720
>If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtube

>>24687900
this must be a femanon

The three Bukowski I've finished and everything else is a mix of in progress or yet to be read

The performance is palpable. This is a stack of books a woman would read in public to appear intelligent.

Add some variety to your tastes, if this is not bait.

Here is what exists of my current physical stack at the moment minus a book or two (can't find them at the moment) digital stack of 114+ ebooks I need to read/finish reading not included. I'm missing one of the Dale Pendell books and a book about the history of Opiate use in China. Am I insane? Most likely. Will I ever read all of these books? Doubtful. Do I have a problem? Most assuredly. Are these books/subjects of any worth/value/ interest to the average /lit/pig? Probably not.

I'm currently working my way through the 700+ page Daoism book in this stack. You people cannot even approach my ever-growing list of "to be reads"

Am I "flexing?" No. Not in the slightest. Please send help.

Anne Applebaum is a Jew bitch whose entire output is poorly researched anti-Russian propaganda

>>24687497 (OP)
>Mises
based

>>24687650
>The Great God Pan
Exquisite taste.

>>24687725
What have you written?

>>24688472
Tell it to post tits

>>24689277
How's that Annie Jacobsen?

>>24689551
If you haven't read it already it's not to late to throw the Kerouac away

>>24689525
I haven't read it yet, lol

Here is my book stack.

>>24689521
>What have you written?
Original peer reviewed historical research on the positioning of nomenklatura, intelligentsia, intellectuals, professionals and white collar workers in relation to self-articulating movements of workers. I'd recommend you read Sheilah Fitzpatrick and Andrle if you're interesting in how the soviet union was fucked up. Haraszti Miklos is just a standard fordist narrative from an intellectual sent down to be a worker, he didn't really penetrate the factory.

You can read better than Applebaum: you're worth it. Drinking shit won't turn you into spiderman, reading refuse won't allow you to critique actually existing socialism.

>>24687497 (OP)

>Red Famine

Those Cossack barbarians had it coming desu

>>24687650
>Graham Hancock
>Varg
lmao what a fuckin goof

>>24687888
They're great if you want to read retard babble

>>24692032
Or we could just read anything you type, same difference

>>24692030
Does one stack define a man?

>>24688464
Seriously, what's wrong with what I said. Vidya or anime is way more fun than reading. If I'm gonna read I'm gong to read what I like
>>24689387
Thanks. People not in the know will never know our superiority

>>24693414
>Vidya or anime is way more fun than reading

>>24693427
Nah nigga I'm fr

>>24693427
>>24693470
It's just two different things. You can enjoy the fruits of your labour, you can enjoy an ice-cream.
Doesn't mean it's relevant to compare the two.

>>24693513
Yeah I enjoy reading nonfiction in a different way than I enjoy youtube, anime or videogames

>>24690067
I want to kiss you femanon

>>24689282
The brown stack

>>24687650
Cool

>>24693558
>femanon
Anon, I...

>>24693633
Shhhh now

>>24693142
It does when dudes have gibberish like Graham Hancock books

Which one should I read next?

>>24693730
Miller

>>24687497 (OP)
Nothing says relevance in 2025 than a private citizen who lived 2000 years ago

Used bookstore haul + finally got a copy of Ovid
>>24693730
What’s a good place to start with Ballard? Also I’d go Vineland, it’s probably my favorite Pynchon

>>24694307
crash is probably the best place you can go, that or atrocity exhibition in my opinion

>>24694317
Sounds good, I’ll check out both. Thank you

>>24693558
>Sees a couple books debunking Castaneda
>You are brown
What the fuck is wrong with you?

sorry i’m new to this board i might not be as cool as you guys

>>24694916
The back of your books is brown and beige. I didn't mean nothing about the color of your skin

>>24695041
The bottom book is clearly red.

>>24695057
It's more like bordeaux

>>24695070
>It looks red!
Correct.

>>24694996
You have to be female

>>24695092
It is a brownish red

>>24695096
>It is red
Thank you for your concession.

>>24693715
Obsessed

>>24695095
is this an insult..?

>>24687589
Horror and sci fi fan i presume? The Plath looks out of place, though.

>>24695107
No

>>24695114
oh, well
you’re right but i don’t see how that’s relevant

>>24695116
The guys here don't see females very often

>>24695116
I wasn't implying that, just making an observation.

>>24695152
I haven't been with a girl in almost a decade.

>>24695152
Lots more femanons and gaycels here than any other boards.

>>24695110
I read all sorts. Picrel is what I've read so far this year, and as you can see it's pretty eclectic.

picked up these today at the thrift store in the free bin
>Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (tl. Leonard Tancock)
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

>>24693730
The Tempest

>>24694996
The Screwtape Letters
>>24695095
Even if she is, my recommendation is the same.

>>24695189
Citizen of the Galaxy
Nightfall and Other Stories
True Names

>>24695339
>>Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Kinda boring and vaguely incestuous. Not his best. I liked the coal miner father the most.

Good day at work today

>>24687634
>True education is done by the individual.

I could not agree more, anon. Most of my profitable learning is done independently. The attainment of a degree is just a foot in the door at this point. I can't stress this enough. It sometimes feels like I am more aquainted with certain topics than my professors, and I am still in undergrad.

>>24695185
Gay yes, there’s like 5 women here compared to the normal 1 on other boards

>>24694996
one of these ill read the bell jar just so i can tell women my opinions on it, any other required foid reading? Don't answer with stupid bullshit like rupi kaur or whatever

Books are obsolete in the era of ebook readers and internet piracy.

>>24687634
With this response, you're literally proving >>24687509's point.

>>24687509
This

>>24697576
How so?
You are just indoctrinated by the school system to feel this way. Before, people would read and talk about books/ideas. But that drive has been beat out of you. But it hasn't been beat out of me

>>24697777
Anti-intellectualism is THE movement in America, you’re not allowed to actually care about literature beyond a surface level. Throw away your bullshit and buy yourself some YA brotha

Ay yo is bro reading a book?!
*skull emoji*
Bro really decided to wake up today and read a book