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Is it true? Is it true that there's some repressed alarm buzzing in the back of our heads constantly telling us that something is horribly wrong, and encouraging us to just break out of social constraints and destroy societal structures? This feeling that something is fucked up on an almost existential level, and were all just avoiding mentioning it? I thought it was just me originally, but this book seems to describe this sensation and I'm wondering if this is a common feeling for westerners.
Alienation
I'm alone
Im alone
I see the Library of America has good prices for hardbacks and a nice collection too. How's the quality? Is it worth it?
personally i find the cover design of all those to be absolutely bloodless and deserving of immolation.
The paper is a bit thin, but the bindings, typesetting, and editing are all solid. The selection of works for each volume is spot-on as well, so you can be assured you're getting a good overview on an author's most important works. I wouldn't necessarily want my whole library to be them, but I'd say they're generally worth it, especially considering you can get anywhere from 3-8 works for the price of one volume.
Hat did /lit/ think of this book?
>>7838402
Great fuel for fire
>>7838402
>Hat did /lit/ think
fedora obviously
>>7838416
platinum kek
>that moment when you realize that your reading backlog is longer than your life
>that moment when you realize your recent crap log is longer than your wife's
>>7838282
lowbrow humor for nonintellectuals. you're poisoning the gene pool. off yourself.
>poopoo tumor for doggosexxuals. yer pissinin gene's pool, faff yusef
What is your opinion of deluxe publishers like Folio Society, Easton Press, etc. Just found out about this today. Do people actually buy these? I mean they look really nice but god damn they are expensive.
>>7838233
If I could, I would, but probably regret it right away...
I own a bunch of Easton Press and love them. Great aesthetic, almost always great font size, useful footnotes a lot of the time, and they hold up. I've got a lot of Franklin Library books too which are nice but not quite the same quality. If you shop around on ebay you can get either for pretty good prices, as opposed to the $65-500 Easton wants on their site.
>>7838233
>$295 AUD
Holy fuck, why does it cost so much? It's only two fucking books.
Can anyone explain the whole Foppl arc in Mondaugen's Story in V? I'm confused especially by that extremely long sentence at the end of the third section: "If a season like the Great Rebellion ever came to him again..."
The flashback chapters in V. are so much harder to understand than the ones set in 1955-6
foppl luved the days of the rebellion when they got to kill nigas and drink wine and get money
condemning colonialism?
>>7837156
yea my brotha
/co/
I dunno, and I doubt many of us would anyhow. Read it yourself to find out, but if you want a judgement based on that cover, then it looksfucking atrocious, to befrank.
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but goddamn.
it's pretty bad. BKV is very hit-or-miss. Paper Girls and Y are great. Saga is not
I'm planning to study the bible, do I go for the King James Version? it seems like the most literary version however i feel like it would be tedious having to look up all of the archaic language? Which edition do you use?
>>7836750
>Study
What do you mean?
>>7836755
i should have just said read really, but i want to read it in depth and make notes and shit
>>7836755
probably read and truly understand as opposed to reading and remembering little
"STILL READ IT THOUGH, I CAN TELL PEOPLE I HAVE READ IT ALL NOW. I AM SO PRESTIGIOUS"
>people who read while walking
>>7835885
It's like people who text while walking.
>People who read while skydiving
What book can I read as an antidote to this?
I've reached a level of nihilism I didn't think possible. It's actually interfering with my day to day life.
Basically I need to re-delude myself into believing anything I do matters and that I'm lucky to be alive.
>>7835686
I have always used Pratchett to this purpose, let me think, there may be other things...
>>7835686
Take the redpill and you'll believe in God, capitalism, the family unit with a man at the head of the household, patriarchal societal structure, non-degeneracy, hierarchy, tradition, and whiteness
>>7835706and homosexuality
Start with the greeks!
Start with the GREEKS!
START WITH THE GREEKS!
And where do I start within the greeks?
>falling for the meme
dude anywhere
just read all of it
>>7835569
>trying to understand literary or philosophical history w/o working through the beginning of it all
>>7835569
i want redditors to go
What's the most /lit/ way to kill yourself?
weight of your own novel
>>7838497
At your desk, with a fur coat on your back.
r/ing philip mainlander screencap
Which are good online anarchist libraries?
toys r us
>>7836384
interestinfg
http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf
http://monoskop.org/images/6/6e/Vaneigem_Raoul_The_Revolution_of_Everyday_Life.pdf
>>7836388
I want books, not toys.
And they don't sell anarchist stuff there.
>yfw you realize that virtue is just the continuation of aesthetics in the moral plane
How did you conclude that? Great thought btw
>>7836288
virtue is moral aesthetics? I can get behind this
>>7836288
so anon.
why aren't you published like Rupi Kaur?
so beautiful
so strong
so true
>>7833812
I'M FUCKING A WHITE MALE
I'm kind of impressed at how she managed to turn such a dumb controversy and make her a household name with university educated women, getting to do talks at the TPL.
