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Been away from home and came back to all this in the mail, today was a good day

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Are you in high school?

No, 28 yo, UK, I operate machinery for a living.

Everyone starts somewhere.

Nice to see all those Kafkas. Great books

Purchased all of these recently

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How the fuck is the Metamorphosis the same size as the Odyssey?

fuck off with this chick shit you faggots

Metamorphosis comes with a load of short stories too

How do I avoid those Penguin books/ They look ugly as hell in my library.

Learn German and buy Reclam editions instead

Three usually.
I like fantasy/sci-fi so I usually have one of those. I also try to read stuff outside of my comfort zone/usual interest so one of those and the third book is something im re-reading for a better understanding/deeper dive into the content.

The third book is usually a book from the non-fantasy/non-fiction category of stuff I read, but it's occasionally one from the former if it's particularly dense (e.g. malazan)

Good books, good post.
Are you Hungarian?

Forgot to mention a forth book which is usually in a language I am currently learning, or have learned in the past.

those are exactly the same books im reading right now just add blood meridian, some pratchett and king

>Are you Hungarian?
Yes.
I'm reading "Brothers" in English because the footnotes to the Hungarian edition explicitly stated that the Hungarian edition was translated from the English and not the Chinese, so why the fuck should I bother with it at all, not to mention it costs more used than a new English copy.

>final solution, Chabon
>Vonnegut short story collection
> Bleeding Edge (bought bc it was cheap)
> Jailbird, Vonnegut
>1Q84, Murakami

Also read mice and men this summer, hyperbole and a half (astoundingly mediocre, even at a layperson perspective), The Magicians, Currently reading Tenth of December which was based on a recommendation from a bookstore owner which has been beyond my expectations so far, Lolita.

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I'm reading it right now. It's a great complimentary text. I recommend doing Odyssey first.

>Julio Cortázar-Rayuela
My wife thinks my spanish is rusty so she bought this one last week. So far it feels like an arthoe movie. Hopefully it gets better.
>Nicomachean ethics
Actually fell for the start with the greeks meme. So far so good.
>The Divine comedy & paradise lost
Just got those last week as well. Haven't started yet.
Coming back to reading after a month of no reading. I was pretty burned out after reading the Illiad

got these two in the mail today

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Bump

One?

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whats that cloth thinf the book are resting on?

10/10 for fisher
0/10 for taleb

>yu hua
based, have you read To Live?

No. Only read a volume of his essays, as I mentioned before.

Do I realize that I post in these threads way too often? Yeah. Do I care? Eh not really. I've been less depressed and reading more lately so I'm happy to be sharing my renewed love for reading. I bought all of these last week; the Calvin and Hobbes book is There Is Treasure Everywhere and I still have one more book on Norse mythology on its way.

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>alt+f

Got a few more books today
>Thomas Bernhard - Autobiographical Writings
Bernhard is a great author. I like his style a lot. Even if it's "dark" in a sense, his writing makes me feel fuzzy and nice. Maybe it's just that I read it on a balcony during spring.
Basically, I just want to know more about him. His outlook on life, and the way he got there must be interesting, though I expect it to be a series of over-magnified mundane events that somehow got more meaning through his perception. The style is there, not paragraph breaks.
>Xi Jinping - The Governance of China
You ever leave your house and fall for a meme? The edition itself has no right to be as pretty as it is. I'm pretty sure the CCP is bankrolling the publication, and they are selling it at a net loss. But that's just my head-canon.
Seems like an "interesting" book, especially how Xi is here to stay as things are looking right now.
Another thing is that it reminded me of those old publications from the Soviet era. It's like a time capsule in a sense.
Looking over some of his speeches and articles, the thing I've noticed is that he quotes the Lun Yu and other classical writings a lot. Or at least considerably more than you'd expect from the leader of a socialist country.
>Bernáth István - Scandinavian mythology
Selections from the elder and younger Eddas, with accompanying essays and notes and a general introduction to the mythology of the Nordic peoples.
If I recall correctly, the guy was the foremost translator of Icelandic sagas in Hungary before his passing. He made so many translations that some are only being published right now, posthumous. His rendition of the Völsunga-saga war quite gripping. I remember I used this book once at the library. It's quite good.

Was there any plan in this, or did you just buy every book you could with "Nordic" and "Mythology" in the title? Not to be rude, just asking. Wouldn't it be better to organically build up a reading list through exploring the references of the authors you've read previously?

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Quoting the classics is pretty intrinsic to Chinese oratory, which is why Mao tried to force his own Little Red Book into the canon.

You don't consider delving deep into a subject, and going to every local bookstore to buy up all the (entry-level, I admit) books on mythology one can afford a "plan"? I'll dive deeper into the rabbit hole once I'm finished this stack. I'll probably read the Edith Hamilton book next actually, since I've never read all of it before and need a primer on Greek mythology. (I'm more familiar with Norse.)

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There's a shelf thread which is close enough. These sorts of threads just all just be rolled into a /share/ general anyways.

buy books? dude, I'm not a millionaire

Books aren't at all expensive

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Three at most, and only one can be a novel

Reading these at the moment.

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Four Quartets is so amazingly beautiful, wonderful pick.

>buyfaggots in my presence
kill yourselves. you buy 10 books, read half of one of them, and put them on a fucking bookshelf to clutter up your filthy bachelor pad no woman has ever entered so you can have a substitute penis to wank off. all of you are no different than cancerous booktubers with their "haul" videos. you are irl attention whores and should buy yourselves a fucking rope next time.

Are you sure that you are talking about us?

>Mad
>at books

1 novel, 1 philosophical work, 1 or 2 that I read for historical context

¿Qué tal esa antología de literatura picaresca? ¿Donde la has comprado?

i think bullying people for what they read is a bad thing! i dont think you should do it!

Bastante bien. Tiene todo los textos básicos e indispensables. La compré en una librería de viejos, muy barato.

>summer

did you mea fall?

it’s just an earphone satchel thing...