ITT: We judge you based on what books you have on your desk right now

>tfw homeless and no desk
In my bag though:
>Brothers karamazov
>Clockwork Orange
>1Q84(gift from GF)
>Herodotus' histories
>Odyssey
>Peter Matthiessen's snow leopard
>Kjv new testament
I feel like this is bretty good, decently diverse.

Your some kind of a rambling hobo, that scrounges my last cigarettes

You’re the kind of guy who would attack Achebe’s criticism of HoD without having actually read it.

>Joyce - Ulysses
>Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta
>Long, Sedley - The Hellenistic Philosophers
>Kerenyi - Labyrinth Studies
>The Epicurus Reader
>Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
>Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
>Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
>Epictetus - Encheiridion

no desk but here's what's unshelved and to-be-read I guess
>Nelly Arcan - Whore
>Anthony DeCurtis - Lou Reed: A Life
>Marquis de Sade - Justine
>Hiroki Azuma - Otaku: Japan's Database Animals

how did you end up homeless? that's a solid bit of reading.

Tolstoy - War and Peace Volume III
A collection of Ming era novellas
Lao She - Tea house
Shakespeare - Hamlet

King Lear
Rimbaud's Complete Poetry
Athenaze
The Golden Notebook

>Aurelias's Meditations
>LOTR
>Neuromancer
>Four Novels by Philip K. Dick

Plz no bully for cyberpunk phase

DH Lawrence - complete short stories and women in love

Which four Dick novels? I've only read Flow My Tears which was pretty engaging but I thought the conclusion was unsatisfying. Neuromancer is also a lot of fun and his short story collection Burning Chrome is good if you want to see him write outside of the cyberpunk genre (there's still some cyberpunk stories in it, but also body horror and more "standard" science fiction).

>The Origin of The Brunists - Coover
>Poems of Heinrich Heine
>The Tale of Genji - Royall Tyler translation
and two books i want to, but probably will never read
>The Leopard
>High Fidelity

Hamlet
The Member of the Wedding
Giovanni's Room
Persuasion
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Modernism: An Anthology

>An introductory textbook of logic by Paul Tomassi
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Ligotti
>Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols by Nelson Goodman
>You Must Change Your Life by Sloterdijk

Eh

>The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2nd Edition)

>Infinite Jest by DFW
>The Will to Power by Nietzsche
>Moonchild by Aleister Crowley
>Revolt Against the Modern World by Evola

>a collection of Gogol's plays
>Milivoj Solar - Theory of Literature & History of World Literature
>Auerbach - Mimesis
>an old intro to Russian that I should get rid of
>Wagner - Der Fliegende Holländer libretto
>a literary magazine with contemporary Czech poetry and lots of other shit
>Shakespeare's complete works
My desk is a fucking mess.
Now we just have to wait for that autist who will reply to everyone itt with a one-word comment or rating

>Der Zauberberg byThomas Mann
>Discrete mathematics
>Real econometrics
>Goethe-Zertifikat C2 exam booklet

pseud

patrician

fell for the Veeky Forums meme

Whoops, didn't notice it in the mess
>Nescio - Amsterdam Stories

> Daphnis and Chloe - Longus
> Collection of Keats - Keats

>Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
>Bridge of Waves - W.A. Mathieu

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
Shogun - James Clavell
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankly
Tao Te Ching - Lau Tzu
The Rebel - Albert Camus
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
The Discourses - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Measure of a Man - Sidney Poirier
The History of Rome - Michael Grant
What to Expect the First Year - Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

*Sidney Poitier

Goddamn fat fingers, man

Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa

>Sidney Poitier

Yes.

I can’t believe how much of a 15 year old I must look like

calderon - life is a dream
stevenson - treasure island
huxley - brave new world
Bible

>Leaves of grass
>Rimbaud's works
>Catcher in the Rye
>Nabakov's short stories
>Howl and other poems
>Waiting for Godot
>e. e. cummings collected works
>rudin's principals of mathematical analysis
>alfhor's complex analysis
>munkre's topology
>category theory in context
>some ring theory papers
>leçons de mathématiques d'aujourd'hui vol. ii (only volume I have)

>naked lunch
>nina berberova various stories
>rene guenon on dante’s esotericism
>mishima the temple of the golden pavilion
>brodskij embankment of incurables
PLEASE JUDGE ME

mimesis did wonders for me, one of the first hyper intellectual and acute essays of my life.

The Basic Works of Aristotle
Herodotus - The Histories
Teeline Word List
Teeline Course Book
The Trivium
Logical Chess Move by Move

>The Trial
>Brothers Karamazov
>Oblomov
>Doktor Faustus (Mann)

choke me daddy

nice

>Shakespeare Complete
>War and Peace
>Finnegans Wake
>Sir Gawain
>Moby Dick
>Sextus Propertius Elegies
>KJV Bible
>Odyssey
>Underworld
>Plato Complete
>Gravity's Rainbow

>Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia - Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine

>Neomachean Ethics
>Being and Time
>Phenomenology of Spirit
>The Agony of Power
>Portable Bible from a Gideons Evangelist w/Psalms and Proverbs only for whatever reason, i picked it up because why not

I don't have anything on my desk but unsent letters to women I never really loved.

I use those as bookmarks desu

send them and see what happens

>Ficciones
>The LPI Workbook
>Preparing to Write the LPI

Bedside table:
>A Short History of Decay
>The Diaries of Franz Kafka
>Last Rites - John Lukacs
>Aspects of the Novel
>The Doors of Perception
>The Name of the Rose
>Marcuse - Alasdair Macintyre
>Twilight of the Idols
>Metaphysical Beliefs
>Forbidden Colours
>Discipline and Punish
>Sexual Personae
>Simone Weil: An Anthology
>Mishima: A Biography
>The Birth of Tragedy
>Acts of Worship - Mishima
>The Way of Man - Buber
>Diary of a Man in Despair
>The Revolt of the Masses
>Soumission
>Thomas Mann: Literature and Eros
Yes I’m stacking like a madman

Not OP, but just read Achebe's criticism for the first time.

His argument has important points, but is on the whole reductive and banal. He admits in the closing paragraph that Conrad's work was anti-imperialist, but his insecurities demand so much more of the author.

One gets the sense that a young Achebe idolized Conrad. Years later, the realization that Conrad was an imperfect human with a sense of superiority for blacks like him, prompts a blind rejection of the work in it's entirety. It's not enough that HoD be critiqued for these flaws- no, Achebe insists the work be pulled from it's pedestal, struck from the canon, and expunged from the reading lists of modernist lit courses. Literary merit be damned!

It's telling that he selects HoD as his target. "The Nigger if the Narcissus" in fact works far better to call out Conrad's racist black-civilizational-foil trope and often false racial sympathies. But that one isn't his magnum opus...

An interesting look into Achebe's mind and limits as an intellectual to be sure.

My criticism aside, it's one of the stronger pieces of critical writing on the novel; I appreciate your calling it out here

>It's not enough that HoD be critiqued for these flaws- no, Achebe insists the work be pulled from it's pedestal, struck from the canon, and expunged from the reading lists of modernist lit courses. Literary merit be damned!
Definitely agree, that’s my main issue with it. It’s like Achebe doesn’t trust people to be able to read a book, that is racist is some aspects, without being influenced by those racist ideas. In reality, his criticism made me much more aware of those ideas and actually enriched my reading experience, all the while acknowledging it’s flaws.
I’m glad you read it.

tropic of cancer, dune, some collection of writings by hesse, kurt tucholsky, joel peter witkin photobook, master and margarita, peter altenberg

After virtue - alasdair MacIntyre
Selected works and essays - Seneca
Bible
Plato complete works

You only ever read female authors that are deeply cemented in the canon, and most of them you think focus too much on the female condition rather than the human one.

>Marek Kubale - Mild Introduction to Algorithm Analysis
>Krzysztof Giaro - Computational Complexity of Algorithms in Exercises
>Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls
>Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie - The C Programming Language
>N. Modlińska - The First Book To Learn the Russian Language on Courses for Adults (1951)
>Memories of my great grandfather's sister
>Aleksiei Novikov-Priboi - Tsushima
>The Bible
>Stanisław Lem - Solaris

cyкaaaaaa

there's stalinist propaganda dripping from every page in that Russian textbook, it's hilarious

Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
Oxford Companion to the Bible
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls In English
New American Bible
New Revised Standard Version
1 Enoch
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

General interest in philosophy, a dilettante

CS major, russophile

>on my desk
The Foundation trilogy by Asimov.

Gareth Roberts - Shada (Dr Who novelization based on unproduced Douglas Adams script)

Philisophical Investigations

J.M. Roberts - Twentirth Century

Communism, Fascism and Democracy: The Theroetical Foundations

Capital

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tsetung

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

Emma

Infinite Jest - Wallace
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography - Rice
The Holy Bible

...

>A new history of western philosophy
>German for reading
>German-Norwegian and Norwegian-German dictionaries

>Lingua Tetri Imperii - Victor Klemperer
>The Bible
>The Right of War and Peace - Hugo Grotius
>History of the Political Ideas in Brazil -Nelson Nogueira Salgado
(This last one there is no translation for english, I myself translated the title for you gringos)

Other books I keep in my wardrobe after I cleaned the bedroom last time.

Fuck, I forgot to add one
>A Illustrated History of War - Tim Newark

>Robert Graves - The Greek Myths
>Erwin Panofski - Studies in Iconology
>Edgar Wind - Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance
>Virgil - The Aeneid
>Glen Vilppu - Vilppu Drawing Manual
>Yuri Stoyanov - The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy
>T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-62

>Swann's Way
>Dorian Gray
>Antifragile
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Tristes Tropiques

Just this

>Against the Day - Pynchon
>Simulacres et Simulation - Baudrillard
>A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller Jr.
>American Prometheus - Bird
>Complete Prose of Beckett
>Stand of Zanzibar - Brunner
>Literature et mal - Bataille

The anxiety of influence (Bloom)
Charmes (Valéry)
Complete works (Nerval)
SPQR (Beard)
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes)
Concepts of Criticism (Wellek)
El pensamiento de Cervantes y otros estudios cervantinos (Castro, A.)
Littérature française. La Renaissance III (1570-1624) (Morel, J.)
Litterature française. L'Age Classique I (1624-1660) (Adam, A.)
Soledades (Góngora)
La voz a ti debida/Razón de amor/Largo lamento (Salinas)
Biblia Nácar Colunga