Stack thread

Rate, judge, rec, shitpost, whatever. What does Veeky Forums think of my bedside stack?

Honestly I don't like it but I'm assuming you're like 18-22 so its cool.

Current readz

I'm 22 to be honest. I like informative and offbeat sorta stuff but I've got a long ways to go in my reading journey. I'll read a lot yet.

>dat Montaigne
>dat Chesterton

10/10 patrician taste. Got any more volumes of Ignatius Press's Chesterton?

More of a recent purchase, but I will be reading them for the next few weeks.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Satyricon and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.

These are my next reads. Currently finishing Benedetti's La tregua (The Truce).

The ones in Spanish are Mishima's Sun and Steel, and Calderón de la Barca's Life is a dream

Yeah, I've got a copy of In Defense of Sanity and The Well and The Shallows. That's the only volume of his collected works I own though, probably will end up getting more over the years.

And as long as we're posting stacks, here's some of the books I've picked up this past week.

you're an insufferable faggot

this confirms it

I also have In Defense of Sanity and that edition of the Father Brown stories.

I like you, Chesterbro.

Same my man, I love Chesterton. It's like, you always know what he's defending in his writing, but it's always a surprise how he does it. And he's just so enthusiastic it's infectious.

it's bad for the books but whatever you need to feel better about yourself

I would like to read the Upanisads and the Bhagavad Gita as well.

>B&T
Hope you're having a good time :^)

It's like you just included Heidegger just for show or something.

heidegger is actually the only book in that pile that i'm reading currently.

I'd recommend St. Francis of Assisi by Chesterton if you haven't read it already.

Tens bom gosto, anão

I like it. I mean, honestly I don't like Kerouac nearly as much as you apparently but it's a good stack in that it isn't just someone going to a used bookstore, buying all the Veeky Forums meme books and taking a picture, these seem like the sort of things some guy on Veeky Forums might actually be reading without forcing it.

Can't make out the bottom book, what is it?

Anyway, Book of Prefaces, Chesterton and James stand out in a good way.

bump

No pics but:
Don Quixote-Cervantes
Parade's End-Ford Maddox Ford
The Magic Mountain-Thomas Man
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace
Life and Fate-Vassily Grossman

Going away on holiday for around two months or so, won't have internet in my apartment so lots of free time to read without distractions if I don't go out, was thinking of either starting Don Quixote, since it is Spain I'm going too or Infinite Jest.

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Did I get meme'd?

didn't know about Satori in Paris by Kerouac. Anyone by any chance have a pdf or epub of that?

I like your stack faggot

absolutely

Why's your LoTR so thick? It's about 3x thicker than IJ but mine (50th ann. ed.) is the same thickness as IJ.

It's a boxed collection, sorry for the state of them, I got them used for cheap

cool! I'm reading on the road right now, never read any jack kerouac before. about half way through and it's awesome!

Very good stack. Great Kerouac, points for Howl, but you need more Ginsberg.

The Whitlam one is going to sit there a while, there are some very dry sections based purely around statistics

¿siɥʇ op noʎ p,ʎɥM

Hopefully picking up some Crowley and Stirner soon.

Nathanael West's Library of America volume

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lel

>unironically buying books

mirin

Literally me

CBA to go take pic

>Yates - Revolutionary Road
>Guns, Germs and Steel
>Seneca - Letters of a Stoic
>Schopenhauer - Discourses
>Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, other works I can't remember.
>Frankpan - The Silk Roads
>Fanged Noumena
>The Establishment
>The White Man's Burden: why Western Aid to the Third World has failed

looks pretty fucking stupid yo, enjoy not living in the real world, pal

'mire me boys
beast and mand (midgley)
how to do things with videogames (bogost)
closer (krozer)
neo-bohemia: art and commerce in the postindustrial city (i'm lazy to check the authors name)
remediation: understanding new media (same as above)
how we became posthuman (hayles)
also reading:
the present age: the death of rebellion (kierkegaard)
relational aesthetics (bourriaud)

kiss my ass

p based

humanities students are this poor? lmao

explain pls

jokes aside, I can't get these books in physical for the moment, and I really wanted to read them now
also, how did you get to the conclusion i study humanities? kek

B&T is at home in that heap of trash

In the best way possible. This is only acceptable if you're a noob. You seem like you might be the type of person who buys books just to look at them though, dont buy anymore until you're finished.

Not him but I think he's referring to the fact that there is only philosophy in your stack which some people believe to be solipsistic mental masturbation or some academic virtual reality, which is a stupid yet defensible stance, one taken mostly by those who have trouble reading philosophy. Nice collection btw, but I'd be lying if it wouldn't look better with some fiction or poetry.

Went to thrift stores on my day off

It's all in one stack because it is on my desk. Where I work. Fiction is elsewhere.

don't excuse yourself, you read only the most traditional philosophy, you must not feel at home in this world lmao

best one in here desu

I work in the history of philosophy...

pretty lame bro, do something that isn't limited to the appeal of the 5-10 kant specialists in your school dude

not him, but you sound like you are salty about not having an education

i study philosophy actually, i'm just against the type of philosophy this guy's into

also, there's nothing specially "educated" about reading all the oxford books on metaphysics... even a monkey could do that

You study philosophy? Right...

And I really don't know what you could have against 'my' style of philosophy. What do you work on? What kind of philosophy do you approve of?

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This second post of yours made it very clear that you don't study philosophy.

>even a monkey could do that
Source? You're talking a bunch of bullshit. Now your entire argument is falling apart and you're sweating bullets.

Non-english native, newbie to english books. Which one of these is the easiest to read?

I've only read the bottom two, but i'd say catcher

451, Mockingbird, Catcher.

In order of most basic language to least (Catcher has a lot of dated vernacular)

>shitpost
Catcher in the Rye isn't very hard to read; neither are the other two but Catcher doesn't use any obuscure English words as it's written from the perspective of a sixteen/seventeen year old.

best one so far.

why instead of buying a kindle with built-in dictionary and reading those books for free you chose to import them? lol

I don't live too far away from a bookstore, and there's a section for foreign books, and althought the titles are very limited, I managed to get some more famous ones.

I have a Kindle, btw

I like the majority of books in your stack, and yet somehow I think I hate you.

That's a really nice selection, actually; and some sure pretty Tolkien. I can't read the bottom title though.

bump

The African Trilogy - Chinua Achebe

I've already read Things Fall Apart and I loved it so much I wanted to read the rest of the trilogy.

I've read like half of them, they were just some that were sitting around, additionally I'm going on vacation and plan on getting through IJ and Ulysses at the very least

Only if you don't read them. I'd personally pass on the Tolkien.

You're missing House of Leaves

>black holes
how is it and what is the imdb number?

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>imdb number

wat

sorry meant isbn

pfftahaha

ISBN-13: 978-0199602667
ISBN-10: 0199602662

It's actually pretty good. I have very basic knowledge of physics, so sometimes I have to read a passage twice or thrice in order to fully grasp it, but I am able to grasp it because the language helps explain the topics easily. It also includes a lot of images, so that also helps.

thank you

why will noone ever tell me what a fucking stack is

It's not that hard to figure out.

I have those exact same edtions of the Lydia Davis book and TSAR.

mirin u're latin american collection

who is your favorite author?

Are you going on vacation for two months?

A stack of books you idiot.

a collection of nootropics intended to have a specific holistic effect on your thinking and disposition

DUDE

New to Veeky Forums. How did I do, folks?

Sorry for the shitty picture.

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memes?

Read in the past month and a half or so.

should avoid murakami but whatever, pleb will pleb.

Actually most impressive stack i've seen here tbqh

What publisher is that on La Vida es Sueño