ITT recent purchases

It's pretty good. Horn uses different arguments that I expected. Does a way more historical and scriptural approach—for the sake of answering protestant objections on their playing field.

>i'm going to argue against the guys who have a slightly different version of my faith while almost nobody educated believes in a personal god anymore

That's not true at all. A lot of educated people believe in God. It's why theological colleges and universities exist, you moron. You need to start going outside more often and talking with people.

To be honest, I like it when authors I read mention God. Because I believe in him. And when they incorporate him within their philosophy like Rousseau, then I am even a bigger fan. It is something that brings it that much closer to reality and nearer to my heart.

cool for you, you rude piece of shit; i'm not saying god doesn't exist, i'm saying that about nobody believes in him anymore, which you just confirmed when the only example of a godfearing 'educated' group you could come up with was, i wish i was making this up, students of theology. that's about three or four closeted gays somewhere in europe, wake up

Locus Solus
Exercises In Style
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

man, I just can't read?

>while almost nobody educated believes in a personal god anymore

this screams angsty 17 year old

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_evangelical_seminaries_and_theological_colleges

I'll bet they learn other stuff than 'theology' there too *gasp*

Best in thread desu

My newest acquisition.
Excellent taste, ordinary men is disturbing but insightful.

OP here
best post. You have great taste

>The transmission of affect
This sounds like the bottom barrel of self help. 0/10

I loved Ordinary Men. Its conclusion made me feel really uncomfortable. Great choice.

Do Christmas presents count?
>Infinite Jest
>Shasekishū (sand and pebbles)
>The Doctrine of Awakening
>Hunger
>Genki
Started reading The Doctrine of Awakening and like it so far, maybe a bit more esoteric than Evola intended but I'll push through. And obviously it's not hard to ignore the stuff about the "Aryan spirit"

Thanks, pretty basic taste as far as I've seen though. Maybe I was drawn to The Wealth of Nations for a different reason than most though. Once I get my basics out of the way I'll try to develop a more unique taste. If you have any recommendations on economics or political philosophy I could always use some.

Unironically, Democracy: The God that Failed by Hoppe is a great read. Whether he convinces you of an ancap monarchy of you just have a good laff, he knows economics pretty well so that aspect will be a pretty well-defended and alternative perspective, compared to what you're reading now.

Awesome thanks much

That's pretty silly. Affect theory is obviously a thing.

I think you literally judged it by its cover.

kind of long list because I got a lot of Christmas money
>The Divine Invasion
>Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Mason & Dixon
>A Primer of Soto Zen : A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki
>Pisan Cantos
>The Man From Snowy River & Other Verses
> The Maine Woods by Thoreau
>Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts
>Tagore's Gitanjali

Husserl - Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie. Erstes Buch: Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie
>(Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology)

Husserl - Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften
>(The Crisis of European Sciences)

Hegel - Science of Logic, first book.

Hi

8/10 I have everything but Gulag Archipelago. Crime and Punishment is great but it shouldn't be your starting point into Dostoevsky.

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>I think you literally judged it by its cover.

>Crime and Punishment is great but it shouldn't be your starting point into Dostoevsky.
But everyone on Veeky Forums says it should

Bacchae, Euripides
Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
The Coat, Nikolai Gogol
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Demons, Fyodor Dostojevskij
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

8/10

Only read Master & Margarita and Lolita, but I really loved both books.

7/10

Solzhenitsyn and Dostojevskij are great, Macchiavelli not so much. Bought The Prince a while back to see what the fuss was about but I can't say it was an enjoyable read unfortunately...

>The tale of the Heike (Japanese Epic I'm very curious about; at least having read 1Q84 won't be an utter waste of time)
>Middlemarch
>Tristram Shandy
>Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia (book about greek mythology, recommended by user)
>Complete poems of W. B. Yeats + a collection of Irish tales of his
>Brothers K (I read an abridged 400 pages version my aunt gave me, with no indication of it being abridged, and I now want to read the real thing)
>That Milan Kundera book. Dunno how the English translation is titled because i bought the Italian one. 'Being the insufferable laziness?' Yea, that sounds right. Probably a meme, but who cares, I love memes.
>Ulysses and GR. I read IJ last year and kinda liked it, so I'm now preparing myself to undertake the Ultimate Meme Experience (TM).
>1984, because there were like 9€ left on my sister's Bonus Cultura, and I said 'why not?'.

Currently finishing an it lit anthology. Dunno where to start when I'm done with that.

Bullshit, crime and punishment is a fine starting point

r8 no h8

You should read him in chronological order, starting at Notes from Underground.

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Picked these up yesterday.

I did some drunk shopping.

>Createspace print on demand shit
you fucked up.

My recent purchases, all used unless noted otherwise:
>Iliad, Fagles translation
>Odyssey, Fagles translation
>Divine Comedy by Dante, Mandelbaum translation, brand new Everyman's Library
>Proust on Art & Literature
>Nabokov's Lectures on Literature
>Finnegans Wake by my fart sniffing savior James Joyce
>Anna Karenina and War & Peace, both new, Maude translations, the Oxford World editions that just came out in November 2017. I got a whiff of each of these novels and determined I'll read these several times in my life, so I paid extra for the new hardcovers (same with Dante, i love that ginny motherfucker)
>Billy Budd and other stories by Melville

Validate me, Veeky Forums, for I am too intellectually insecure to form my own opinions

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>fagles
you get points for the wake

Got these at a criminal price, £1 per book!

...yes?

don't wanna sound like a shill but use thriftbooks you guys, you can get books for four dollars that i see people spending 15+ in this thread

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Behead All Satans
Cinderella's Concrete Shoes
Pandemonium of The Sun
On Women
Der Hexenhammer
On the jews and their lies
Green Eggs and Ham
Ulysses

wealth of nation is not going to give you a fundamental understanding of economics. get an intro to micro/macro textbook.

t. econ student

Wuh? I've taken intro econ classes and read intro econ books I didn't ask for intro books I asked for recommendations I got Wealth of Nations because Warren Buffett talks about in the foreword to Security Analysis

some day i hope to learn to give even twice the fuck that Doctor gives.

Replied to the wrong thing somehow

Becky Cloonan is great, so when I realised she'd done an annotated version of Dracula I just had to pick it up.

Also got that new Thrawn SW for the crack. Expecting it to be shite though.

Picked this up this weekend.

Also Hunger by Knut Hamsun but that's on my Kindle.

legit fun read

Stock up on aspirin.

Anybody got any good books on thoughtforms/tulpas? I'm tired of working with limited sources or having to talk to people from /mlp/

>Proust on Art & Literature

If you read and loved In Search of Lost Time you'll be happy you bought this. If you haven't read it yet, this collection may underwhelm you.

>If you have any recommendations on economics or political philosophy I could always use some.
Not the user you're talking to, but a few books on politics/economics/philosphy that I would recommend are:

>On liberty - John Stuart Mill
Deals mostly with politics and philosophy, about the dangers of democracy and how it is important to keep the power of the government in check.

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
The name is pretty self-explanatory.

Tiger by the tail - Friedrich Hayek
Is a collection of articles Hayek wrote arguing against Keynesian economics, compiled by one of his students. You can also check out his book 'Denationalisation of Money' which is quite interesting, not least now with the emergence of new monies like BTC and others.

Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek
A warning cry against socialism and big government. Hayek argues that the collectivist ideas of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Economics in one lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Short, easy-read that you can finish in a couple of sittings. I will argue that this is perhaps one of the single best books to start with if you're interested in economics.

Vision of the Anointed and- or Quest for Cosmic Justice - Thomas Sowell
Arguments against collectivist ideas and the notion that man is perfectable if you simply perfect the institutions in which he lives in.

But I'm heavily biased to the right. So with that said, I also suggest reading material from the left to get a grip on both sides of the argument. I wouldn't suggest Marx though. Keynes' General Theory is a really interesting read.

>If you have any recommendations on economics or political philosophy I could always use some.
Not the user you're talking to, but a few books on politics/economics/philosphy that I would recommend are:

>On liberty - John Stuart Mill
Deals mostly with politics and philosophy, about the dangers of democracy and how it is important to keep the power of the government in check.

>Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
The name is pretty self-explanatory.

>Tiger by the tail - Friedrich Hayek
Is a collection of articles Hayek wrote arguing against Keynesian economics, compiled by one of his students. You can also check out his book 'Denationalisation of Money' which is quite interesting, not least now with the emergence of new monies like BTC and others.

>Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek
A warning cry against socialism and big government. Hayek argues that the collectivist ideas of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

>Economics in one lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Short, easy-read that you can finish in a couple of sittings. I will argue that this is perhaps one of the single best books to start with if you're interested in economics.

>Vision of the Anointed and- or Quest for Cosmic Justice - Thomas Sowell
Arguments against collectivist ideas and the notion that man is perfectable if you simply perfect the institutions in which he lives in.

But I'm heavily biased to the right. So with that said, I also suggest reading material from the left to get a grip on both sides of the argument. I wouldn't suggest Marx though. Keynes' General Theory is a really interesting read.

>while almost nobody educated believes in a personal god anymore
t. 17-year old edgy STEM-focussed illiterate.

Hmmm I've got most of those on order but Tiger By The Tail sounds interesting I'll check that one out too, thanks much

Not him, but someone's mad that they wasted their life studying liberal arts instead of doing something useful. The bible is provably false. You have to be mentally deranged to have read the Bible to believe in the Skyfoogle. Fortunately for most Christians, they haven't read the Bible, they merely LARP about it. Also a reminder that a "personal god" is a relatively new invention in the grand scheme of things. Pagan cultures persisted for thousands upon thousands of years while the proto-Jews were busy sacrificing each other left and right like barbarians.

oops

R8 and h8 :)

>Buying English literature such as Fagles' translations of Homer.
You could buy e-reader and save money and paper.

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4/4

Waiting on these three currently.

>Don Carpenter

Nice.

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Physical copies are comfy and aesthetic
>inb4 brainlet for liking books for more than just the words inside

I just started shopping for Paradise Regained and, well you know, one thing leads to the next...

Sorry, but I want to draw/write children's books. Anyone have any recommendations?

Johnny Got His Gun is my mom's favorite book if that means anything. And The Changeling sounds interesting enough that I just impulse bought it so I'd say you did at least pretty good.

Anybody read this? Opinions?

Thanks, I've only heard good things about both of the books you mentioned, and people regard Kenzaburo Oe pretty well so I'm very interested in trying his work. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids is his first full length novel, and The Changeling is the one that interested me most in terms of premise. I hope you find The Changeling enjoyable, user.

As an alternative to Marx a friend of mine also suggested the Unabomber Manifesto

That nigger needs to chill out on the footnotes though holy fuck.

actually thought this was an Animorphs

You got shafted on those reprints, just download an ebook.

archive.org/details/elijahreformera00taylgoog
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515633

old hardback copy of Mason and Dixon for £2. Nice.

Yes, yes, equally destructive.

Add Things Fall Apart and Plato's Apology. They haven't arrived yet.

Can't speak for the rest of the books but Things Fall Apart is a great read, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. It's nice how the author doesn't add any values to anything that happens, rather simply just tells a story.

Guess 99.9% of the world's people, including nearly every thinker and philosopher, were just mentally deranged. Imagine thinking that.

It gives you principles of economics which are still followed and debated about today.

It's a worthy read, to be sure. Don't avoid the abridged version in this case though, it is very verbose.

I got that cagliostro book at the top for twenty bucks but I’ve seen it online for over 1000. Anyone know anything about it/why it would be selling for so much unless the high prices are for suckerz?

*$700