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How'd I do /lit/?
>>8065378
>stack of books
>The Doors
The CD booklet doesn't count, m8
17 year old, why can't you plebs have some originality, fuck. You might as well be buying YA cause you'll never go beyond what you have.
What defines a 'stack'?
i remember my first year of college
Sword And The Stone is amazing, make sure to read the whole Once And Future King
>>8065413
>not reading all that shit in HS
pleb for life
>>8065420
i was too busy playing video games and getting friend zoned by girls i had a crush on
>>8065378
what, you want a fuckin medal?
>>8065439
Yes pls
This is my summer list.
Be very pleased to give V and Paradise Lost another go, the rest are totally new to me.
Could anyone who's read The Savage Detectives let me know what I'm in for? I was just looking for something decent set in South America.
>>8065378
is there some extra content with that copy of Dune? it looks huge.
>>8066073
Yeah, it has an appendix at the end of it.
>>8065378
Primitive.
>>8065919
Going places.
Why do you guys have so many books in your stacks? I just shelve everything I buy immediately and then choose what to read next when the time comes.
>>8066532
I don't have enough room for all that shelving. At this point I just pile 'em up beside my bed and put the ones I've read and the valuable ones in my bookshelves.
>>8065378
do you consume le drugs
>>8066592
yes
>>8066592
No.
No stack.
Just this.
>>8065378
I remember thinking of Wolfe as a kind of doorway into psychedelic and beat culture and being wholly underwhelmed and bored out of my skull by his writing. Seriously, it's like that idiot abroad series without the humour or self-awareness. Joan Didion is infinitely more self-aware and in-tune with, if apart, from the counter-culture movement. Read Wolfe, if you must, but consult Didion.
>>8066958
>Seriously, it's like that idiot abroad series without the humour or self-awareness
>>8065378
As funny of a stereotype as this image is, I still love the Doors and Kerouac
>>8065919
TSD is one of the best books I've ever read.
Go for it.
I'm never buying fiction again after getting a Paperwhite.
>those tiny stacks
laughinggirls.jpg
>>8068082
so desperate
hoping to read all these by the time school starts back up. The second one from the bottom is Camus
>>8068185
The Master and Margarita is fun as fuck. Read that one first, anon.
Rate
I've got two stacks, one is just my next few books I plan on reading, the other is all my unread books.
Stack 1
>>8068224
Stack 2
>>8068185
Yevgeny Zamyatin - Wuz
why do almost all you fags suck at taking pictures
>>8068082
You seem pretty into Rome
>>8068294
"Starting with the greeks" took over my life last year and I still haven't been able to get off that wild ride.
>>8065919
The Savage Detectives is easily the greatest work to come out of Latin America in the past twenty five years.dont worry friendo. ur gonna have a great time :)))
>>8066958
I enjoyed Wolfe because of how interesting the story of Ken Kesey was to me
I mean there is a fucking part where he runs away from the mexican police catching a train getting shot at
His writing did kind of diminish what happened at some parts though
>>8068323
I'm sorta there too, I'm becoming kinda fascinated with just how much Greek and Roman culture has shaped the modern world, and just how advanced they were as a people. They did plenty of stupid stuff, but it's way easier to identify that as someone living thousands of years after.
>>8068357
Yeah exactly. Their histories and cultures are surprisingly relatable and humbling; it's hard to feel superior to the past when you discover that you think and feel exactly as people did 2000+ years ago.
And as someone who hated history and accordingly had no experience with it until /lit/ memed me into the Greeks, I think they're great for practicing how to read nonfiction. If you're in a similar boat, check out Polybius for a cool narrative on the Punic wars, and a lot of instruction on reading/writing history.
PS what are you reading now/which time period are you in?
>>8068385
Currently, I've just got the Iliad and Odyssey lined up in terms of reading. But I've been studying art history and world history, and I'm just going over the Greeks /Romans. Stuff like their architecture and election system are just really amazing considering how damn long ago it was.
>>8068437
I would recommend you Summerson's The Classical Language of Architecture if you've not read it yet. It's astonishing to see how much their architecture influenced so many different styles. from the medieval to this day.
>>8068237
omg
>>8068237
László Krasznahorkai - Kangz
i have a bookshelf
>>8068660
you just dont ~get~ stacks bro
>>8068660
thanks for showing us your unread books
>>8068660
Bookshelves are for finished books. If you put unread books on your bookshelf, you are a liar.
>>8065378
>Only having a small stack of books
>Not a bookshelf filled with hundreds of titles
Fuck me, did you just start reading last month?
>>8068745
Stack =/= shelf
They are different things.
>>8068265
it's part of the stacks A E S T H E T I C
>>8068752
Semantics aside he's still clearly right about you being new to reading. Lurk more and make fewer posts about your "stack".
>>8068757
I'm not OP, and I'll post about whatever I want.
>>8065378
The sixties are over OP. I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
My mainstay.
>>8068727
Only if to you, a bookshelf's number one purpose is to make a statement to people who look at it. But that's not what they actually do. They're meant to hold all kinds of books, including the ones you're planning on reading next, or soon.
>>8068765
And a recent one. Already through the Adorno Lectures and just about to hit the Transcendental Dialectic.
>>8068727
>Not reading your books more than once.
You fuckers make me sick.
>>8068775
>not grasping everything in a single reading
>>8068775
Nigga I aint got time for that shit. How the hell am I gonna finish the entire western canon if I'm re-reading Gatsby once a month?
>>8068779
Superhuman claim, there.
>>8068779
Why not just throw the book away then? Why keep it?
>>8068790
Autists often claim to be superhuman.
>>8068793
Because I blindly hope that one day some girl will see my bookshelf and it will get me laid
>>8068801
>He thinks the average woman is concerned with anything other than Vampire masturbatory aid love fanfiction.
>>8068819
there is no book you can read that will convince girls to fuck you
at least, not that alone.
>>8068846
This. Women are purely base creatures. They give zero shits outside of wealth and physical appearance.
>>8068185
There is absolutely no way it will take you that long.
Do you read very slowly?
>>8068727
i think there's some read books on there, they're just at the bottom of the shelf
Rate positively anons
>>8068976
Nothing there worth spending time on, anon.
>>8068727
there's maybe 3 books on there i havent read. at least half of them i've read more than once.
>>8067373
Why? What about it did you enjoy?
What should I read next? already read Lolita and The Body Artist
>>8068976
>Rate positively
I positively wouldn't read any of that
>>8066592
Maybe.
>>8068201
Books/10
>>8068194
Agreed.
>>8066592
i don't know
>>8071840
You going to grow up to write some great tv series on fx.
>>8071840
anyone here liked the tin drum?
>>8068201
infidel/10
>>8065378
>How'd I do /lit/?
Insecure/10.
>>8068224
Prepare to be soo disappointed by Neuromancer. That is the biggest joke ever played on readers ever. I am not convinced that anyone likes that book as much as the internet suggests people do.
>>8068772
dr. carter is this you? do you post on /lit/? lol
So what's a stack? The immediate to-read books? A bunch of books you're leafing through all at once? Mixture of the two?
>>8066732
For god's sake take the sticker off before it ruins the book.
>>8072670
Nice. Enjoy it. Most enjoyable books I've read.
Also, to the thread, if you just buy hardcovers, nobody can falsely accuse you of not reading the books even after bending rather than cracking.
>>8065378
>the doors
>hemingway
>kerouac
>electric kool-aid acid test
>HST
literally me 15 years ago
>>8073512
Don't worry, it says it has nine lives.
>>8065428
at least you were friends with real girls. normie.
>>8071840
Jeez, your chat must be great.
Rate.
>>8065394
Kek
took a pill in ibiza vinyl
now that's what i call music
Moby Dick
> patrician taste
> getatmebrah
