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Oliver Gomez
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Isaac Kelly
*sighs* It's okay to read these books while you're starting to learn to read adult books, but you NEED to understand that Yea Forums is a board of intillectuals, who have already read all of those books. I myself have read each one in that stack multiple times. You are a pleb, and you will remain a pleb for a very long time. As you develop as a reader--IF YOU CAN--I suggest you stop all posting.
Alexander Watson
lmao post pics or neck yourself you knave
Jayden Jenkins
:)
Hunter Johnson
Most of this is entry tier
David Hill
Nice Modern Library book ;) maybe we raided the same dead library.
Thoughts on Lear? I fell in love with Hamlet and reread it a dozen times and watched half a dozen versions this year but I haven't given the other good tragedies the attention they deserve.
I only have the vague idea of John Donne (assuming I'm assuming the right Donne-poet); how is he?
Aaron Powell
Oh, I missed the Rabelais! I've been thinking of picking that up as a follow up to Tristram, which I love, and which nods to Cervantes and Rabelais more than any other literary figures (as opposed to his philosophical allusions or his poking fun at the controversies of his day), and I still have some dim aspiration of saving Don Quixote for when I can read it in español.
Adam Stewart
I don't think he ever topped Hamlet, but Lear's one my favorite of Shakespeare's later plays, but I think making Lear's children daughters (Goneril and Reagan particularly) is a mistake--it works in some scenes, but in others it's too contrived to not be distracting. I think Kurosawa makes the work into something even greater because he changes the sexes of Lear's children, but also because he adapts the original play's meaninglessness for a Japanese audience, making
Donne's hit or miss for me, but he's a poet worthy of exploration if only for his engagement with Christian themes.
Where's your stack?
Henry Collins
Some of those are high school and college level. good try, champ. you'll get there soon.
Cooper Jenkins
>Where's your stack?
I'm OP
Wyatt Myers
>Nag Hammadi
Ew
Anthony Cook
did you just pile up every book you own?
Camden Perry
Books you’ll never read
Logan Reyes
>IM OP IM OP ME ME ME ME LOOK GUYS LOOK LOOK ME ME IM OP IM OP GUYYYSSS
Leo Bell
I always wonder what this term truely meant, what do do mean entry tier, so what fucking not entry tier, what he begins with something you don’t deem as entry tier, THE.LN WHAT THEN FUCKINNG WHAT MONGREL, he tread it and entered into the field fucking pussy. Fucking fuck off, die die
Austin Wood
I think it looks entry tier because there's only the most famous works of each of the author's, so there's no indication he's read anything by any of these author's before. For example, if someone had Kants Critique of Judgement, you know they've already read some Kant, so you wouldn't call them entry tier
Landon Perez
did you ever think that you were trying to hard, and never developed your own taste, having only read what people told you was good.
Adam Ward
I picked up a bunch of stuff while I was in the city.
From left to right:
>Lingqijing
It's basically an ancient-Chinese "Divination for Dummies" book. Picked it up because it was the price of a cheeseburger, and I actually know that the translator is a sinologist and not some new-age mysticist hack.
I actually tried using it, and it's laughably simple to get a divination with it. It's a fun little oddity.
>The Rákóczi-epic
A baroque Hungarian epic. I read about it in a large, multi volume monograph, and it seemed interesting. It had a bunch of essays and notes packed alongside it, while the poem itself is around 3900 lines long, coupled into 4 line stanzas. I expected some fun rhymes, but so far it seems a bit forced.
>Fyodor Mikhailovich Nietzky
It's a book on Nietzsche's later philosophy, and his interpretation of Dostoevsky's *Demons*, hence the title.
I had the chance to read parts of it a few months ago, and it seemed interesting.
Bottom row:
>20th Century Chinese Short Stories
I picked it up alongside the divination handbook. Though originally this was the one I went to the store for. An acquaintance told me that that specific store has it for a bearable price, so I grabbed it.
I'm mainly interested in the short stories by Lu Xun, Lao She and Gao Yingjian that are included in it.
>André Gide - The counterfeiters
Same acquaintance gifted me it, saying that it's a classic, and is absolutely worth reading. I hope it's good, and by the description, his opinion seems to be true.
David Bell
Tranny's being hormonal. Didn't your doctor also prescribe something for the mood swings?
Sebastian Moore
Hahahahaha fucking leave him alone faggot, stop projecting
Logan Sullivan
This response makes no sense.
Oliver Sanchez
What if he genuinely enjoys those books?, and it’s too* not to, fucking illiterate cunt
Jack Garcia
Let me guess, you’re OP?
Isaiah Watson
:) my most recent book haul
just got into reading and picked these up over the weekend
Connor Morris
>DUHH DUHH IM OP AND DISSS UHHH WURTT ISSS ITTTT UHHH DIS REPLY IT MAKE NO SENSE!!!! SPEAK UHHHH SPEAK UHHH SLOWER PLEASE UHHH IM OP
Michael Diaz
How much did that lot cost?
Kayden Sanchez
idk my mommy paid :)
Adrian Reyes
dude how rich are you to just pick up such an expensive haul in one go
Jonathan Bell
What just arrived except the Kundera one which I was already reading
Joshua Campbell
parents give me their credit card, they dont care :)
Jason Bell
Cool to see people modern man in search of a soul. Jung is interesting, although a bit euro-centric.
Jackson Wilson
I have little to say but effortposting and serious reading is too often unrewarded so you deserve at least one (You). If you like the Gide try Daumal.
Isaiah Flores
The state of Yea Forums.
Kayden Peterson
I'm not OP or the poster you responded to
Cameron Carter
they're daughters because otherwise there would have been no Lear's master plan to relay on gavelkind to handle his succession. his first plan is actually smart, things go to shit when he gets mad at Cordelia and comes up with a new plan which is shit, laying the foundation to what happens in the play. if he had at least one son, bam, he's the heir, and that's it. but the guy has only daughters, and he kind of doesn't really like the eldest (his favorite is Cordelia), so he comes up with the masterplan. so his children being female is key to the plot, otherwise the actual "tragic" stuff wouldn't happen later. also, their husbands are very important to the plot. king lear is amazing and there's a lot going on with it, but these details often get overlooked because they're not easy to spot. but it's very good even as a basic read, i'll give you that
Jose Garcia
is that burton an abridged version? seems thin
Adrian Sanders
It's a selection of parts from the full work.
Julian Parker
It was a gift. I'm slightly ashamed of it but it'll be my toe-dipped-in-the-water and I intend to follow up with the full Burton if I end up liking him as much as Sterne.
Ayden King
Joshua Phillips
Nice. Have you read it?
Lucas King
The pic may be upside down, all $5. That’s a hardcove copybook of 2666, the lady was literally just giving it away becuase she didn’t think it was worth anything becuase she had never heard of the book before
Charles Cox
>A Treasury of Asian Literature
Tell me about the book.
Jace Ross
Check my Stack teehee
Chase Cruz
I don't even read any more. I just buy books to post them in these threads.
Angel Perry
Excellent taste richanon
Brandon Russell
Yikes
Based
Jaxon Diaz
Imagine reading Christopher over peter
Andrew Williams
Picked the physicals up a few days ago because they were cheap for good quality, plus I needed the locke for reference for an essay. Kindle came in this morning and has gotten a lot of use so far.
Landon Morales
Plan to be done by August
Dominic Russell
Selections from India Japan China and either Saudi Arabia or Pakistan if I’m not mistaken. Plays, verse. Book is a little old but everything is very lyrical and fresh
Caleb Thompson
Local book fair finds, cost 30aud for the stack. That's about 20 freedom dollars.
Also bumped into local sex cult leader cadifor with his wife and girlfriend, complete with slave collars saying shit like "sir I found a nice edition of this, our one at home is falling apart"
Henry Roberts
youtu.be
Joseph Garcia
Cost me about 5 dollary doos
Nathan Davis
He sounds like a pretty happy guy
Brayden Flores
Is the Modern Library edition of The Arabian Nights a complete edition, or is it just a large selected edition? How is the translation?
Oliver Sanders
Catholic literature
Gabriel Taylor
>just got into reading so i bought $500 worth of assorted major classic works over the weekend
Yea Forums memed another one
Angel Ortiz
The most Yea Forums post in weeks
Adrian Foster
It's amazing to me that people still think Christopher is better than Peter.
Jack Hernandez
There is literally nothing wrong with reading assorted classic works. The classics are the classics for a reason.
Jonathan Torres
>Adorno
You have the complete faggot collection of Marx, don't you?
Xavier Lopez
It's Richard f Burton's translation, which seems to be fairly reputable.
It's a selection from the original translation
Mason Price
Read Kokoro asap. You won't regret it.
Blake Russell
You and everyone else on Yea Forums
Thomas Miller
What edition of kokoro is that?
Sebastian Garcia
based nyrb buyer
Liam Sanchez
are wordsworth dostoevsky translations really that bad?
I got karamazov and a short story collection from them
Charles Hill
>his criticisms also apply to his own stack
>he doesn't realize he's a hypocrite
Adrian Ortiz
Adrian Wilson
Cool, I love hearing about lesser known epics. Nice stack overall.
Juan Howard
My stack mostly consists of books for my courses at uni this semester. Heidegger I read for my own pleasure and Henry James is a possible author for my MA thesis
Comfy picture and based post
why do you read Adorno in English but Schönberg and Houllebecq in German??
Good stack. Would be interesting to know how long it takes you to read all those.
Dylan Garcia
What the fuck is that Anatomy of Melancholy?
Nicholas Hughes
Owen Stewart
No fiction books are boring.
You cannot change my mind
John Lee
Non*
Tyler Diaz
you're partly right. the non fiction books everyone is posting itt are all popsci. it's all Richard Dawkins, Sapiens, and Sagan.
Andrew Green
Walden
Lucas Jones
Chase Flores
You should read the two previous books in the border trilogy before reading Cities of the Plain
Matthew Davis
Logan Gray
I have. They were good.
Lucas Phillips
Not pictured: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, currently on my bedside table.
Why can't more publishers be like Everyman? I mean how does NYRB justify charging £20.00 for a shitty paperback of Anatomy of Melancholy when Everyman sells a high-quality hardback of similar length (eg Montaigne) for 25% less?
And you can almost always find super cheap used copies of Everyman books on top of that.
Adrian Cox
This one is a relatively new finding, as in, the manuscript was only found in the 20s. Then it was fucking lost again, and it resurfaced during the 50s. Then it was released in 88 in book format.
It kept the original spelling, which makes it look a bit wonky, but it's still readable and grammatically sound even today.
It chronicles the campaigns and deeds of George Rákóczi II, the Prince of Transylvania.
Mason Sullivan
Cool books and I love Everyman but the slightly different designs on all of them is triggering me
Benjamin Stewart
Impedimenta. It’s a spanish translation though.
Jose Peterson
everyone should own a copy of five dialogues. good stuff.
Isaac Long
>tractatus
you won't be able to understand a thing
Joseph Miller
Is the translation in the Five Dialogues Hackett volume the same translation they use in their complete works volume?
Justin Sanchez
Ian Campbell
>he fell for the cuck-oro meme
wew
Julian Collins
Why would you buy a more than 50 year old textbook on "modern" French? Not trying to slight you or anything, just honestly curious as to your thought process on this when there are plenty of decent French textbooks that will actually teach you the contemporary vernacular.
Robert Lee
>not a single copy of Mein Kampf in any of these stacks
the brainlet often fears the strongest and brightest ideas
Jordan Green
Very nice
Here is my summer stack
Anthony Butler
Yeah, that's why he picks one that caused the total destruction of a nation in a decade.
Lincoln Fisher
its not the edition but the tranlsation you should be looking at. garnett is ok but bland, p and V are too literal and autistic. garnett revised is best probably
Ayden Wilson
Aaron Davis
Partial summer stack
Nathan Wright
london?
Jack Clark
Too lazy to take the books out. I'm more into /his/ lit, and I'm currently reading The Crimean War by Orlando Figes. I have read about 8 books from what I have on here.
Luke James
No
Hunter Howard
>Gargantua and Pantagruel
>Candide
Good choice
Christian Adams
>Kundera
Einmal Ist Keinmal, my friend
Nathaniel Morris
The Bible
Michael Allen
Recent pick ups:
>The Glass Bead Game
>Oblomov
>Bleak House
>The Dispossessed
>Flowers for Algernon
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
>In Search of Lost Time: The Fugitive
>Nicholas Nickleby
>Cat's Cradle
>The Goldfinch
>Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
>The Ritual
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>The Bone Clocks
Justin Gonzalez
>all that pop history
oh no no no
Brayden Foster
James Long
Justin Flores
And I left out The Aeneid for some reason.
Carter Foster
Soul Mountain is an excellent novel.
Good haul.
Isaac Scott
Tell how what I have is pop history. Sure, some of these like the Penguin History of Europe series is made for a casual audience in mind but after reading them, you kinda need more background to understand some events or who some people were. Don't be like those /his/ posters who just post that phrase without a reason to call it so.
Anthony Green
Mein Kampf has been doctored, everyone knows that. Also Hitler was defeated in both world wars, whilst Churchill was victorious. 'The World Crisis 1911-1918' was a fairly good read.
Grayson Hall
Great stack, have fun with Sand, it´s one of my favourites!
Jackson Sanders
Stand aside plebs
Jose Hughes
Warum Adorno nicht im Original?
Sebastian Peterson
you scarred that shelf with the coverless shandy
Evan Carter
I'm new
Nathaniel Adams
Fuck why is it upside down