Stack thread/recent purchases thread
Stack thread/recent purchases thread
Brayden Fisher
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Owen Foster
>petersburg
>kokoro
Nice.
Haven't bought books in maybe 6 months but I still have several big ones unread on my self like Crime & Punishment and The Magic Mountain.
Logan Wood
When do you think you will be finished with that stack, OP?
David Wright
I got these all for $100. Pretty good deal for books that would cost $45 normally each.
Jackson Gonzalez
Alright, I guess this is the right thread to ask this: I'm somebody who has to finish a book - I can't just leave it just because I don't like it.
However, this means that I might be much slower in reading because I have little motivation to do so often enough. This is why I'm considering reading multiple books at the same time/in parallel. Do you guys do that? Would you recommend that? And how many books should I read in parallel?
Henry Lopez
I often read short stories inbetween readings of a long novel.
Joshua Brooks
I do that all the time. Generally I swap between a fiction book and a nonfiction book. And just open the one I feel like reading at the time. I'd say that more than 3 at the same time might start to get overwhelming.
If I'm reading something super long, I sometimes mix some short stories in between, when I get bored.
Matthew Edwards
>I'm somebody who has to finish a book
why?
Alexander Roberts
WARNING SOME OF THESE WERE GIFTS
Juan Perry
Yeah, I think I have to start doing that as well. Especially because I'm often on projects where I want to read "all books in X category".. Like all books that were nominated for the German Buchpreis.
I'm always worried of missing out. The book could end up being great in the end, no matter how shitty the premise is.
Luke Scott
It's not the same at all but i see it kinda as watching multiple shows or following multiple uni courses. You should be able to follow every story without mixing them up, easily. It also keeps things fresh and in the case of reading a really depressing book, a happier novel might be a good way to offset foul moods.
Samuel Perry
I was thinking about that comperison too actually. Like, I'm watching 8 different things and I don't mix them up, it should be possible with 3 books too, right?
Dylan Watson
>The Opposing Shore
good taste
Benjamin Young
3 will be easy for you, big fella. And if the stories are shorter than 200 pages you can even juggle 4 or 5. You can do it fren amigo
Andrew Lopez
Sure beats reading them.
Brandon Flores
Facts
Asher Hall
>Boll
nice taste OP
Owen Sullivan
What is the best Boll?
Jayden Murphy
The Lost Honour of Katarina Blum is my favourite. Very funn.
Carson Bailey
Andrew Nguyen
>Canada Dry
My nigga in christ
Andrew Reed
Keep the soda water flowing, brother.
Liam Nguyen
yeah these books are never going to be read
Luke Mitchell
Caleb Morales
I'd read all of those before any of OP's.
Alexander King
Based. Reading rationale male right now and other Ted’s works. What’s under Republic?
Noah Stewart
Why, they are all pretty intresting.
Jose Baker
Oo I'm reading GR relatively soon
Jayden Gutierrez
Jaxon White
The Plague and Ilyich are dope. Tolstoy fucks around a little bit with existentialism there, which to my understanding isn’t his usual thing.
Jordan Ward
Dude what the fuck is wrong with you.
Throw some of that weeb shit away and make room for "White Identity".
Jack Clark
>The Theology of St. Paul
And I thought I was the only dude today with those two volumes. God bless!
Liam Gomez
Jordan Russell
Buckle up.
Josiah Baker
going through a bit of a hardo phase are we, user? You might like Donald Ray Pollock
this looks like it was taken in a professor's/pastor's office
Mason Foster
which version of Leviathan is that? I like the spine a lot
Brody Kelly
>this looks like it was taken in a professor's/pastor's office
Nah, just my bedroom until I get the new bookshelves. I also doubt there are professors or pastors with copies of Logos Rising.
Jackson Wright
>Harassment Architecture
Ryder Brown
based esoteric history
Jace Davis
Nowadays I keep at least 2 books going on at any time, one dense, one a little easier, and always one fic/one nonfic
Juan Turner
Mostly from this last year, with the exception of the art books. Current reads.
Easton Mitchell
Not pictured: The 3 greek Bibles behind the JP ones.
Lincoln Perry
Nice. I've been planning to get the recent 2018 JBSIV Bible, but it's been on backorder since January. I've been thinking of supplementing it with the Franciscan Bible translation, though in that case the online listings confuse me about whether the "paperback" Franciscan is actually what we'd know as a paperback or whether it's listed as such due to a floppy cover, and whether JP Bibles are like it are sewn or glued bindings. Are your JP Bibles the NIT, the New Interconfessional Translation from JBS?
Christian Lopez
One is ESV and NIT(The Diglot/ actual leather is sinple black), The small one is a Meiji Restoration Bible.
And tell me about it, I had to reorder the Diglot 3 times because they kept putting it on backorder or being mislabeled as available.
The covers are definitely Leather despite the Tankoban Softcover distinction, Meiji seems to be rice paper, and the Diglot is a more modern feeling but equally thin.
Elijah Allen
I'm terrible at opsec fuck, Binding picture second try
Benjamin Hall
Those look like glued.
Gavin Ortiz
I Guess you're right, I can't find any sewing in the signatures without ripping it apart. I was planning on rebinding them anyways desu so I didn't think to check.
Cooper Thomas
>plus sized elf
Fucking based my dude
Austin Bell
Some great stacks itt, unironically.
Jonathan Cruz
>inb4 “tell me you don’t read without telling me you don’t read”
well that’s kind of the point. I only read No Country for Old Men last year and I decided that I wanted to read more this year. I understand that I’m poorly read and I didn’t know where to begin so I googled some from the Yea Forums charts. I’m ‘bout 150 pages into Ulysses and I’m really enjoying it although the stream of consciousness style is really disorienting at times so I’ll read sparknotes after each chapter to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Hopefully reading will help me be less gay and retarded.
Isaiah Cruz
>getting in to real books right away instead of genre shit
Good for you, user.
Hunter Martin
Paul Valery gang rise up. Now there’s a writer who never wrote for the common crowd. Also I really need to start reading Powys, ideally on a vacation to England around Glastonbury and Wessex
Gavin Evans
>What’s under Republic?
Enjoyed it but it was a pain in the ass to read as a non native English speaker
Eli Sullivan
Got it on Amazon for cheap
ISBN-13 : 979-8612391401
ASIN : B085HLXFV8
Joshua Garcia
David Nguyen
An honest answer without a hint of pretentiousness. And you're actually reading. I wish Yea Forums was more like you user
Daniel Rogers
>NatSoc
>Manga
The nexus of Yea Forums autism. Pls leave
Easton Young
A pretty sure-fire way to determine sewn vs glued if you can't see the signatures in the gutter is to just look at the paper. When you open the Bible, do groups of pages "bunch up" together or is everything unnaturally uniform?
Anyway, these are the ones I was talking about:
amazon.co.jp
and one of these two
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amazon.co.jp
If JBS and Crossway released another diglot with the JBSIV and the ESV2016, that'd probably be a safe purchase, too.
Jeremiah Cox
Assuming the diglot looks like picrel inside, I like it.
Elijah Jackson
The only super cringy thing there is Infinite Jest, otherwise looks like some classics, A good start but night not be able to hold your attention long if these are your introductions. I always suggest reading something short and enjoyable to get in the habit.
Animal Farm maybe? Serves your seeming need for culture while also not being monolithic.
Chase Cruz
Might* not Night :^)
Justin Gutierrez
Recently read both of those, Magic Mountain is a lot longer than Crime and Punishment but both are excellent.
Dylan Brown
Yup thats exactly what it looks like, and the side is marked for each book's start, So you can reach them at a glance. Yeah looking at it in the daytime its pretty obvious they are glued lol. I was looking at the first one of those too, it looks really nice. I'm not super up to date on my JP translations since my kanji is lacking, Hence why I went with the NIV and a Meiji with Furigana. My original intent is to use them to study Kanji, but I love the Diglot so much I might start carrying it. (IMO a Bible is a study tool as much as it is a Holy book, thats why I have the greek versions aswell)