How did I do /lit/?
>>7929275
Reddit/10
Shame on you..
Reconsider the value of the thing you call life, you poor, pathetic excuse for an entity.
![low-cut-wise-guy-fedora-hat-60[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gVFetyB.jpg "low-cut-wise-guy-fedora-hat-60[1].jpg")
>Reconsider the value of the thing you call life, you poor, pathetic excuse for an entity.
>>7929275
nice bait pal
>>7929312
Where did you find the picture of me? I'm OP btw
reddit.com
>/r/atheism
>/r/mensrights
>/r/kotakuinaction
How'd I do /lit/? Bought these a few days ago.
>>7929361
Really well, good job. Some really based books there.
>>7929361
Wish I could find that edition of Dhalgren.
>>7929275
>WAKE UP SHEEPLE
>>7929380
I've heard from some anons that Delany is a crappy writer, but I've seen Dhalgren on some employee rec lists at Chapters, so I'm not sure. What do you think?
Also, I've never read any Poe before. I'm gonna go look up The Raven before reading that collection of his science fiction, but can you recommend any specific stories in that collection to read first?
Thanks.
I commend you for the Hoff Sommers but nothing else.
>>7929275
copypaste/10
>>7929361
Summer Glau has or had that exact edition of East of Eden. There was a thread where /lit/ detectives identified it from a corner sticking out of her bag at the airport or something. The lovelorn OP wanted to get closer to his waifu by reading what she was reading.
>>7929275
>The God Delusion
stay miserable friend
>>7929275
>>7930070
Stay deluded, dumbshit.
>>7930079
Mike Hunt seems a little out of place?
>>7930070
I read it; it didn't change my mind about anything. The Selfish Gene was interesting, though.
>>7930079
>not including moby dick
>>7929275
The edgy teen starter pack.
Might as well order Mein Kampf now so that you'll have it for when you've reached that phase in 2 months.
I bounce back and forth between fiction and non (especially history) but I picked these up the other day. Enjoying Hell and Good Company so far.
>>7929275
embarassing
>>7929275
Shit teir books, fuck off.
>>7929408
>>> /gamergate/
got these today from a trawl of local charity shops. The Borges was a nice find as i've been waiting impatiently for it to come back from hold at library, pushkin press specter of alexander wolf not bad for £1 either.
Also got Poor Things by Alasdair Gray during the week.
>>7932376
He's not wrong though. WSF is well-researched, factual destruction of a whole slew of feminist statistics. It's a smooth-reading, well-structured whole, and has funny observations at times. Looking forward to buying TWAB.
>>7933701
Calm down Sargon Of Akkad.
>>7933488
Is the Borges translated by di Giovanni? Because that would be a nice find.
>>7929275
understands everything/10
>>7929361
Gave me hope in these dark times/10
>>7931543
Cool history/10
>>7933488
Pleasantly original/10
>>7933742
>pic related/10
>>7933771
shitpost/10
>>7929275
I will pray for your soul.
>>7933742
how many pages are each of those trotsky books? surprised he had a life interesting enough to warrant three volumes
>>7933938
About 450 each.
>>7933938
They go into the Russian revolution in great detail and into Russia in general in that time period.
>>7933938
If he was even in the same country as the events of the time I'm sure they can fill up three books on him.
>"Trotsky was eating lunch when Archduke Ferdinand was shot"
>>7929275
go on about books you haven't read and pretend you know what you're talking about
also mention 1984 5 billion times
the rare b8 that's 10/10 while being obvious b8
It would be difficult to assemble a worse set of nine books. I'm sure I could do it with a little bit of thought, but it would not come to me immediately.
>>7934018
tell us your 9 favorite books. this will be interesting
>>7934023
I haven't read that many yet.
>>7934018
Anne Coulter
PUA Guides
Snooki's Memoir
Minecraft Novels
Paulo Coelho
Eat Pray Love
Heaven is For Real
Collected Tweets of Tao Lin
The Secret
Anything by Tony Robbins
Anything by Joel Osteen
Movie novelizations
Fad diet manuals
Too many goddamn novels here
Read something else once in a while
>>7934103
I'm a Chemical Engineer and that book on Au looks interesting. Pics of interior?
>>7929275
Looks like the typical -haul-of a 15 year old 'redpilled' /pol/tard
>>7933771
>replying to your own post
>calling your own post a shitpost
>>7931552
what the hell is this reaction image? "你的中文很好啊" means "Your Chinese is very good."
>>7934309
I wouldn't say anyone fell for it
This board is so bad nowadays that the shitposts and regular posts have merged into one indistinguishable semi-shit state. You can't have real bait in an environment like that. Everything is bait. This whole fucking board is bait.
>>7934265
I'm not a commie though.
>>7929275
Aside from the God delusion, which in my opinion is the Atheist bible and written by an influential scientist. Your books are not necessarily bad, but a waste of time. You need something with more historical significance. Something that'll really give you some knowledge. Those are books that could be burnt, and no one would care.
>>7929361
Is Dhalgren the most literary SciFi book?
>>7934350
>what even is bait m8?
>>7934500
Delancy, please stay away from the underage b8.
>>7934549
I am not Delancy by virtue of subsisting thereupon an ordain beyond infinitesimal allotment forth my metacarpus scrawling the abutting august space odyssey potboiler over a perusal about here, a slapdash assembly filled of inane comments.
Whatcha think lads?
Keep in mind these all came from my fraternities library :^)
Anyone else into reading screenplays? bottom two are sorta pleb but were $2.50 each
How did I do?
>>7935127
The books are ok but I know you're a pleb because that edition of Tom Sawyer has an absolutely lovely picture on the cover and yet you didn't put it in the front so that it would be visible.
>>7935127
>snapchat text
anyways, not a bad way to spend a B&N gift card, I guess
>>7935130
>Literature is purely about aesthetics
>>7933738
yep
>tfw got my tax returns
Getting pic related in a couple days along with:
Dashiell Hammet - Collected Stories
James Baldwin - Collected Essays
Lichtenberg - The Waste Books
Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly
Melville - Moby Dick (Norton critical edition)
v excited
>>7933715
I can't imagine what it must be like to get this butt blasted over people disagreeing with you on the internet
Please don't be harsh
>>7937641
Check out John D. MacDonald if you have not already. ;)
>>7937641
Holy fuck, great choice.
Read'em all! :D
>>7938264
Sounds good f a m, I just picked up Ross Macdonald's archer stories today too.
>>7938929
But buying books feels so good.
>>7938934
Disassociate the feelings of buying books and gaining knowledge. You'll save yourself a lot of money and the embarrassment of owning books you haven't read.
>>7929275
This is all so, so terrible
I can only assume you work in a bookstore and arranged this as bait
It's just too perfectly terrible
>>7929361
> Annihilation
Honestly, I thought this series was really boring. I mean, I read the trilogy, but at some point, it began feeling like a chore. Otherwise nice choices
>>7937938
I have that same edition of that mythology book
>>7929275
You must be slaying mad pussy.
Post wishlists? Here's mine:
Atherton, Complete Old English
Burrow, A book of Middle English
Byock, Viking language 1; Viking language 2
Caesar, Commentary on the Gaelic war (Latin)
Dassow, The Egyptian book of the dead
Kamrin, Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
Ligotti, The conspiracy against the human race
New testament (Greek)
Old testament (Hebrew)
Anonymous, Hypersphere
Bukowski, South of no north
Delany, Dhalgren
DeLillo, Underworld
Faulkner, The sound and the fury
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (French)
Gaddis, The recognitions
Gass, The tunnel
Hawkes, The beetle leg
Hemingway, A farewell to arms
Herbert, Dune
Hermans, De donkere named van Damokles
Hugo, Les Misérables (French)
Lovecraft, Necronomicon
McElroy, Women and men
Melville, Moby-Dick
Mulisch, De ontdekking van de hemel; De Aanslag
Multatuli, Max Havalier
Reve, De avonden
Smith, The legend of the 10 elemental masters
Theis, The eye of Argon
Voltaire, Candide (French)
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
Whitman, The waste land
Williams, Stoner
Wolfe, The book of the new sun
Woolf, The waves
>>7939116
I currently have 367 books on my wishlist.
>>7939121
That's quite a bit. I'm always trying to slim down my wish list. If anyone has any criticism of what I have on it I would appreciate it, whether it be additions or removals.
>>7939116
>Whitman, The waste land
What is this
>>7939137
Originally had Leaves of Grass but forgot to change author.
>>7939156
You changed it from Whitman to Eliot?
Good choice
>>7929275
Edgyman/10
>>7933771
Color me impressed
>>7939134
I don't think Dune really belongs on that list. It might be entertaining, but it's fairly childishly written. For example, the protagonists are brave and smart and just and strong. The bad guys are fat, ugly pedophiles who can't support their own weight and backstab each other at any chance. Hebert is literally incapable of subtlety, and will beat you over the head with the idea of a sustainable planet. It is not a "deep" book
>>7929275
>2020-4
>still buying printed books
>>7939116
I (>>7939231) would also add that I was fairly disappointed with Sound and the Fury but immensely enjoyed As I Lay Dying. AILD is not nearly as experimental, and I guess that's where the value of S&tF lies. I think my main problem with S&tF is that they used an appendix/epilogue from another edition as the Forward, which spoiled nearly the entire plot. Then you see the story out from four different perspectives, which would have been much more interesting to discover the story by piecing those perspectives together, rather then just recognizing the parts from the Forward.
Also disappointing was that I thought from the forward that the book would just be dripping in discomfort, and I was right. Except the discomfort was not from the themes, just from the tedium of reading in the idiosyncrasies of the perspectives.
>>7933742
>trotsky
gulag/10
>>7939231
Have you ever read Dick? Or specifically DADoES? I want SciFi but with literary merit.
>>7939267
Literary Scfi for me means Stanislaw Lem. Solaris or The Fururologixal Congress are the only ones I've read, and recommend.
As for Dick, I've only read DADoES and was not as impressed. People are right when they list "DADoES/Blade Runner" as a film adaptation that's better than its source material. I can't comment on The Man in the High Castle or others by him
It's not exactly SciFi, but I'd recommend Calvino's Cosmicomics as well.
More literary than Dune but still not at the level of the classics you've listed is The Forever War. It's entertaining but still not exactly first rate.
>>7939282
linking literature to science fiction is always a stretch
>>7939116
have 651 items. At page 13(about half way):
Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Ambrose Bierce, The Complete Short Stories
William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland
Francois Mauriac, Vipers Tangle
J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban
Bela Zombory-Moldovan, The Burning of the World
Henri Barbusse, Under Fire
The Photography of Charles Sheeler
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memoirs of the Future
Robert Doisneau, Paris
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1
Tomas O'Crohan, The Islandman
Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan
Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era
Raul Ruiz, Poetics of Cinema
>>7939290
If you're interested in the ability to find literary merit in genre fiction, I'd recommend Susan Sontag's essay "The Pornographic Imagination." I found it in the Penguin Edition of "The Story of the Eye"
>>7929361
>Mfw I also bought The Rat and decided to give it to a friend
>>7934103
>folger edition
>>7934103
whats that book with the skull called?
>>7929275
walking Fedora
>>7939116
>>7939291
why would anyone care about a fucking wishlist you fag
>>7940193
why would anyone care about your worthless consumerism in general? yet you retards keep making these threads.
>>7938227
haha meme about the meme XD
>>7940242
you're oblivious to the point of these threads and I won't educate you, but posting a wishlist is asinine because you theoretically want every book in the world, and you/he didn't even include publishers in your wishlist which makes your retardation stand out even clearer
Do gifts count?
I just ordered
>Notes from Underground
>Sorrows of Young Werther
>Stoner
I think I fucked up and got the wrong translations though
>>7941076
Fuck off, nobody cares.
I read Vox Day's book. Possibly the worst book I have ever read. Poison. Pseudo-intellectual poison. Interesting only by accident. An absolute waste of my time. Good lord.
Funny thing is I have another one by him which "calls out" the so-called "New Atheists". I not reading that one because I'm made the mistake of reading one of his books and I'm not making it again.
>>7942497
*I'm, I. I don't know why he got nominated for (and actually won?) writing awards. It's most definitely bad. I'm not shocked he got thrown out of whatever sci-fi organization he was a part of.
The Byzantine Wars
The Varangians of Byzantium
The Arrian
A Short History of Decay
>>7939116
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
Masters of Doom
All The Light We Cannot See
The Brothers Karamazov
Diaspora
The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Sapiens
Rimbaud
Space is the Place
The Tenant
In The Land of Invented Languages
Flow Down Like Silver
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
The Master Switch
Death and the Dervish
Gang Leader for a Day
And The Band Played On
Replay
Roadside Picnic
Leo Africanus
The City of Dreaming Books
Being Mortal
Papillon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Long Ships
Shogun
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Finite and infinite Games
The Thief Of Always
Seeing Like a State
Steppenwolf
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Gods, Graves, and Scholars
King Leopold’s Ghost
The Stars My Destination
Blindness
Good to know there are other anons kicking around that are around as entry level as I am 2BeeH
>>7943154
>doesn't specify publisher
dominion imparted
>>7940467
there is no point to these threads. stop deluding yourself.
Kinda went overboard on my trip to Barnes & Noble.
>>7945144
>art of the deal
>knee-cha even though you've never read any other philosophy in your life
>fucking three halo books
>what appears to be a dog shit smeared into your carpet
I'm not sure if this is some Sanders supporter gone mad trying to make a statement, or if the average new/pol/ack is really this retarded. Either way, kill yourself.
How'd I do /lit/?
Paperback's were 99 cents, and the one hardcover (the world treasury), was 1.99.
Goodwill, niggas, it's a fucking goldmine.
>>7945144
>must be 18 or older to post
>>7945356
I haven't read these books, though I'm going to insult you for purchasing them.
>>7945334
I think you're mistaken; I see six Halo books in this shitkid's pile of mistakes.
>>7945697
expensive pile of mistakes
how much money do you think anon's mommy spent today on all those books he's not going to read? it's got to be several hundred, right?
>>7945144
That's an adult coloring book, folks.
>>7945696
But you didn't insult me..
Also, 'I, Claudius' by Graves is probably the best book I've read all year.
The Da Vinci code? I don't know. I don't watch TV(due to not having cable, not because I think I'd be wasting valuable time that could be spent on improving my vocabulary), so it's nice to read pleb fiction every so often.
Common Sense: now, I have no idea why I got this. I'll probably never read it.
And the Math, Physics, and Astronomy book is fucking wonderful. It has some of Feynman's writings, Hawking, Bertrand Russell, Neumann, etc. - I appreciate anthologies like this.
>>7933742
will u marry me comrade
>>7945144
Got it today.
>>7939116
hoi
