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These (well, maybe not the Joyce)

>frogposting

No, no, it's a joke, you see
>maybe not the Joyce
>maybe
what's your problem

TLoTiaT looks really cool tho.
I didn't even know you could buy My Immortal.

Up to 1941, when the Nazis killed off Fraktur, in fact. Which is a real shame, since it made the German language more unique and more readable by making characters like k thinner and introducing ligatures for common things like ch tz and ck. ß is a ligature of the long s and z.

Nobody I know will ever see these...

Pretty much any poetry
My leatherbound classic collection
These will probably make me look better in 10 years, at my age they look like autism flags

>The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
My nigger.

>These will probably make me look better in 10 years, at my age they look like autism flags
I own a luther bible form 1706. I'm 22 and not even religious.

>it is a shame german is not bound to one shitty typeface anymore
kys retard

Was that due to populism?

Those ligatures sound very helpful but was the long s helpful? Ive just started reading older english literature so I might be just unused to it but it seems superfluous

Might have to hide my power level to avoid being pretentious. I really liked it though, especially Eveline and The Dead.
It's fun holding a shitpost in your hands, but the paperback is a bit large compared to ordinary paperbacks. I like having on my shelf along with the classics, so when a normie compliments my shelf I can take knowledge of him approving of Veeky Forums shitposts (although I think several of the "experimental" techniques used in it could be used in an interesting way in a real novel, especially the black boxes thing).
You can buy My Immortal on Amazon in the UK (or on Lulu), no idea if it's a legitimate copy, especially since the author has apparently been found recently (turns out she later became published as a minor YA novelist). It came with "criticism" (which was basic but I appreciate the writer's efforts), various sequels which are probably all fake, but it also came with Raven's two stories, which I hadn't been able to find elsewhere.

>shitposting

Idiot. Fraktur and Antiqua coexisted for centuries. Scientific stuff was written in antiqua to make it look more latin and art and literature was generally written in fraktur. 80% of Germans are not even aware of the fact that fraktur ever existed nor can they read it. It's a cultural loss comparable to the simplification of Chinese characters.

No. Goebbels came up with it because he wanted to force the conquered lands of Europe to learn German and everyone buying German books, but he thought that learning Fraktur was to complicated for non germans. The nazis then claimed that the predecessor to fraktur, schwabacher, was the work of jews (for which there is no real evidence) as an excuse to ban it. Hilariously enough people these days think that fraktur is a nazi font because the nazis used modernized versions of fraktur quite often. (which is actually really fitting for fascists, merging the modern with tradition)

Top to bottom:
Grotesque Fraktur (nazi font)
Fraktur
Grotesque Antiqua (aka Futur aka sans serif)

cont.

The main benefit to Fraktur is that it makes compound words easier to read.
1. By making them smaller.

cont.

2. By removing ambiguity, because according to the rules of 1901, using a s instead of a long s is only legal if it is at the and of a syllable or word, which gives you 100% certainty on how to pronounce a word. For instance, take the minor character "Lischen" from Faust 1. Is it pronounced "Lies-chen", or "Lisch-en"? If it was written in Fraktur you would instantly be able to tell that it is the first and not the second, since the "short s" marks the end of the syllable.

Everyone in D/A/CH can read Fraktur and it is still used "for flavor" very often. Stop regurgitating wikipedia and fuck off, useless nigger.
>cultural loss comparable to the simplification of Chinese characters
Literal autism. Neither Fraktur nor traditional Chinese have disappeared and nothing has been lost. Again, fuck off and kys.

>Everyone in D/A/CH can read Fraktur and it is still used "for flavor" very often.
Nobody in my generation at least. My mother who was born in the 50s can still read it along with sütterlin and kurrent, but I sure as hell can't read those, because it is not taught in schools anymore. Also reading a sign and reading a book are different things. Not to mention that most sings that use "fraktur" don't actually use it properly and change certain characters to look more like their antiqua counter parts (for instance, a fraktur k looks a lot like a t and a fraktur x looks a lot like an r) along with ignoring the rules of 1901, which negates the whole point of using fraktur in the first place.

>and nothing has been lost.
Do you have any idea how many letters of grandparents may have gone to the trash because people were not able to read them? We've used this script for almost 500 years and now almost nobody remembers it even existing.

>can still read it along with sütterlin and kurrent, but I sure as hell can't read those, because it is not taught in schools anymore. Also reading a sign and reading a book are different things

Nigga, just start reading stuff in Fraktur, and you'll learn it in a weak. Had some trouble with an old book in blackletter, so I changed my fonts on web, sublitles, and ereader to Gutenberg Textura. So I could read familiar stuff that way. I learned the fonts in few day. Could breeze through the book after that, no problems whatsoever.

Fraktur seams to be similar. If anything, capitals are easier.

>Nigga, just start reading stuff in Fraktur, and you'll learn it in a weak.
I did. But trying to read kurrent (hand writing) is hopeless.

>how many letters of grandparents may have gone to the trash
That's on you and your mental challenges. Even if you can't read Fraktur or Kurrent it would take a week or two of of training to be completely fluent in it. Those aren't ancient hieroglyphics and we didn't break the Rosetta stone. It's just a fucking typeface. Your whole hurrdurr smells of Reichsbürger-tier autism.

They're harder, but certainly not impossible learn. It just means you haven't spent enough time learning it. No matter what script a person uses in handwriting, he will use same characters. It's just a matter of recognising them and remembering what they are. The roughest way is to copy each letter to a page, and build an alphabet. Then go from there.

A little patience and you should get yourself going. Now if the text is written in shorthand that's completely different story.

probably the three I have from A.Rand

I bought a copy of the english translation of kizumonogatari from my uni bookstore. Didn't read it but felt compelled to affirm my autism

As were so far from the topic already. Can anyone recommend any good cowboy novels? All I've read are one book from Zane, and three Vinetou novels.

Lonesome Dove obviously. Warlock is also excellent. Elmore Leonard's westerns are a lot of fun.

The ones I read tend to be by Louis L'amour although I would also recomend any of the Big Jim Westerns by Marshall Grover.

The Bible

I also have three Demonworld novels. Probably only Germans know what I'm talking about.

Reeeeee
I have the shitty yellow Reclam edition. These ones are pretty expensive especially for Balkaniggers like me hunting for German Veeky Forums on ebay.

OP here. There are not that great compared to normal literature.

It's just a crossover between Fallout and MLP with the author trying to pass a message about Aristotle's theory of virtue.

But the author fails miserably by writing the contrary of what Aristotle promotes. Also behind the "muh freedom" defended by the character, you can see a thin veneer of being cozy with some fascistic ideals.

It's niche. I like the books because the community that grew around them is rather awesome. It's basically a community bond.

don't start a thread with something nobody's gonna be able to top op

I keep it hidden under my bed; hopefully I'll be able to sell it to a collector someday.

>best paperback edition of Dubliners

my nigga

What about the past sins books?

Mine is in much better condition.

Past Sins is a slice of life story about the redemptive arc of a villain (think Lich/Sweet Pea in Adventure Time if you know the show).

It's eh. Super cheesy and still got to be the most read fanfic in the brony fandom.

The value in this book is that it can be auctioned to a heck lot of money. I remember someone bought a copy for £5,000 back in 2014.

>The value in this book is that it can be auctioned to a heck lot of money. I remember someone bought a copy for £5,000 back in 2014.

Holy fuck

so are almost all of those books investments?

Are they smutty/lewd like the material Bronies post on Veeky Forums?

How much money did you invest in this stuff

I have one second edition "Fallout:Equestria" , two third edition "Fallout:Equestria", one edition of "Fallout:Equestria - Pink Eyes", and one first edition "Past Sins".

Overall it cost me around $200 but because I had them shipped overseas. Otherwise it would have costed me around $90-100.

Yeah, the "Fallout:Equestria" books have the chapter 20.5 who is basically lesbian porn but with 2D horses.

Is that the one with Nyx?

Yes.

"Mein Kampf" and "Der Untergang des Abendlandes".
It's dangerous to have books like these in my line of work - and if you read them, you better do it ironically.
Living in Germany btw. Atleast these are actual books so our government can't kick my door in for thoughtcrimes.

I've been reading a lot of entrepreneurial books lately. And I am no longer in sync with the thoughts of the wagecucks.

I really enjoyed The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, but the name alone would keep me from talking to people about it.

What's your line of work? Polizei aber Politiker?

I'm a teacher at a secondary school, Anglo equivalent would be a Grammar School. We are rather conservative, but I don't think for one second that in the political climate Germany is in right now and has been for a longer time now there would be anything holding people back trying to get me off staff and denounce me publicly.
It is time again to be careful regarding things you think and say in Germany.

Yeah. I feel for you. Back when i was in Collège (French high school) from 2007 to 2010, my history teacher openly said she owned Mein Kampf. Well, she was our history teacher. But nobody cared.

Sad how down the drain it's all going.

Es tut mir leid.

shorthand is a fucking abomination

Couldn't do that shit anymore. And I am a history teacher, too. It is like exposing teenagers and young adults to these kind of thoughts would turn them into fanatic fascists, something I don't believe.
Worst thing is yet to come. They start spinning the "institutional racism" and "all Whites are racists" more and more. I'm just gonna fuck off if thsi shit gets to much for me. But I still have friends and family that share normal thoughts and are normal people, so that's all good.

I really hope you are not in the same predicament in in your line of work.

I thought the reason Mein Kampf could not be published in Germany was that Bavaria held the rights to it. If I recall correctly a critical edition should have been published now that it has become public domain. Has the project been abandoned?
We read some excerpts in high school and I think anyone who actually turns into a fascist from reading that drivel would have been a nazi sooner or later anyway. It was embarrassing both in style and content. I really don't get the idea of opposing any kind of literature. The forbidden book becomes a mystical object precisely because it is not attainable. It also lends itself to the construction of a "it's forbidden because it's the shocking truth" narrative.

They actually did an annotated version. But as far as I am informed the book only contains excerpts of "Mein Kampf".
Couldn't agree more with your opinion on the book. It is nothing but mad rambling most of the time and would probably expose the author to contemporary readers as what he was - a madman. And yeah, the angle of "there has to be good reason for them I am not allowed to read this" is also always there.
But I guess our government doesn't trust its people.

>the community that grew around them is rather awesome. It's basically a community bond.

dude, cmon.

Only stuff I think might apply is my Supervert collection.

>take qt to apartment
>she glances at bookshelf
>"Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish"
>"Perversity Think Tank"
>"Post-Depravity"
>"Necrophilia Variations"
>nope's the fuck out of there

Come on my ass.

People are great even if Peterson and co. sell you nosological errors are civilizational death.

Bronies suck shit

>People are great

Yeah, but it's not like the Bronie community has anything special whatsoever about them besides being formed by social outcasts.

In my time, we were just normal nerds who used D&D to vent off our sexual fantasies

Bottom's Dream. The name alone makes people think it's something else, and is too experimental to show to anyone I know.

Orwell was a social outcast who lived with social outcasts. Outcastness isn't a negative

"Collège" is middle school, brainlet

i showed my friends bd and 5 minutes later we did coke off it

>won't show to any one
>makes a good conversation opener
...

I know exactly who you are, I wosh your band of pretentious pseuds all die of ass cancer.
>muh obscure writer first edition signed!

Fucking materialistic apes.

Name your price, boy

Any of my Peter Sotos stuff stays off the bookshelf. I'm not even going to try and explain that shit.

my dream journal

Calm down, friendo

WHERE'D'YA COP IT, BUDDY BOY?

My diary desu

I've got a lot of signed Gene Wolfe books (not that they're hard to find). Doubt I'll show anyone since so few people know who he is.

Much like the the circumflex accent was recently excised from ~2,000 words in French, hand-me-downs from older forms of languages are often rendered superfluous as common usage changes--whereafter they are frequently done away with. I'm not a linguist and only know so much about indo-european, but in Ancient Greek there are two forms of sigma, one of which is only used only at the end of the word. I'm assuming that the long s in English derives from the same source.

My guess is that it originally denoted an alternative pronunciation, either a liaison or a stress of some kind.

t. didn't check wikipedia

>appeal to orwell
nobody cares, fag

Haha what an idiot

most of it secondhand. unless it's one of the really rare ones like Show Adult, they're all "affordable" (less than $75 or so).

Delayed, thank you.

Fraktur is objectively poor in terms of legibility.

yes. it's the same in my original copy of mein kampf.

t. Plebean Brainlet

i want that, where can i get it?

why the swastika

was rudyard praised by the nazis or something?

Not the book owner; but I can only assume that because Kipling lived a period of his life in India, he might have picked up some of their symbolism there.

I own the first two published volumes of Heavenly Nostrils. It would look embarrassing for an adult male to have cutesy unicorn comic books in his book collection, but fuck the haters, this stuff is on par with Calvin & Hobbes and anyone who has read it would know that is truth.

Do you ever think how much of the stuff you reply to with ''brainlet'' is bait?

fair enough

There are printing runs done once every year. Maybe a new run will come by next year.

There are talks about printing another fanfiction called Project Horizons which is 1.8 million words long.

Agreed

that sounds pretty neat, thanks.