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Post 'em my dudes. What would you recommend to each other? (Besides death.)

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Is the Landmark Histories series good in terms of translations, notes and supplemental material? I recently dug up old Penguin copies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and Livy and I've been digging this Oxford Polybius I found for cheap.

>Aztec Philosophy
Is it interesting?

Also, would you recommend that Penguin translation of "Meditations"?

1/9
-Ulysses
-sources on medieval european history
-history of warefare
-ada
-zitate und aussupruche
-economic history of europe
-sound and the fury
-spqr
-introducing symbolic logic
-oxford companion to philosophy
-lolita
-inferno bilingual edition
-ivanhoe

2/9
-complete shakespeare
-essential canon of classical music
-complete sherlock holmes
-principles of physics

3/9
-dangerous book for boys
-julius caesar
-selected poems of john donne
-love letters between abelard and heloise
-selected poetry of john keats
-discourse on the method
-nazi gold
-casebook of mathematical curiousties
-one day in the life of ivan denisovich
-around the world in 80 dyas
-monkey
-the surgeon of crowthorne
-existentialism and humanism
-talisman walter scott
-the conquest of the unemployed
-totalitarianism in a tundra (sue me)

whoops sorry
3/9
-dangerous book for boys
-julius caesar
-selected poems of john donne
-love letters between abelard and heloise
-selected poetry of john keats
-discourse on the method
-nazi gold
-casebook of mathematical curiousties
-one day in the life of ivan denisovich
-around the world in 80 dyas
-monkey
-the surgeon of crowthorne
-existentialism and humanism
-talisman walter scott
-the conquest of the unemployed
-totalitarianism in a tundra (sue me)

4/9
-chronology of british history
-plays and players bernard shaw
-medical dictionary
-tlp wittgenstein
-the innocents abroad
-highway code
-puzzle of ethics
-social contract
-clockwork orange
-alice in wonderland/looking glass
-king lear
-four quartets
-as a young man
-the Caucasian chalk circle
-grapes of wath
-js mill
-the holy shrine
-die verwandlung
-german dictionary

im writing it out so you dont have to turn your head 90 degrees
5/9
-book theif
-delta of venus
-wittgensteins mistress
-a book about paper planes
-against nature
-BE PREPARED
-political studies
-joined up thinking
-great expectations
-henry 5
-puzzle of god
-henry 5 again
-pnin
-sun tzu
-number devil
-more bernard shaw plays
-meanwhile (hg wells)

ive read almost all of these so feel free to ask me about any.
6/9
-godel incompleteness theorems
-groundwork on the metaphysics of morals
-jane eyre
-mrs dalloway
-puzzle of ethics (again?)
-what do we really know
-great expectations (again)
dubliners
-crying of lot 49
-consider the lobser etc
-book on epistemology
-the crusades
-la letteratura italiana
-philosophy and sex

7/9
-road to reality
-artemis fowl
-beginners italian reader
-eytmologicon
-the picture of dorian gray
-magus
-sons and lovers
-percy jackson
-adventures of a wimpy werewolf
-the works of oscar wilde
-collection of michelangelo paintings
-dictionary of idioms
-lord of the flies
-30000 years of inventions

>Is it interesting?
Yes. Maffie is upfront about trying to not whitewash original Mexica thinking, and it is a thorough scholarly work in a field that's bloomed because of new research in the past 5 years. Haven't finished it yet, but it's relevant to my interests and walks through Nahua semiotics, metaphysics, and cosmogony.

It's the only copy of Meditations I've read. It's bog standard, I guess. Not especially elegant, but I don't imagine the author was one for ornament.

Yeah, the Landmark series is loaded with footnotes, maps, and generally written to give you a context of the material. It's good. Better than Bauer, I guess? Dunno if that's saying much.

8/9 almost done
-look at the harlequins
-just so stories
-devils dictionary
-tom stoppard rosencants and guildenstern are dead
-men without women
-bilingual collection of german short stories
-paradise lost
-book about sons and lovers
-henry 5 (correction, one of the others was a book ABOUT henry 5)
-sons and lovers (again)
-the analects of confucious
-dorothy parker
-pale fire
-to the lighthouse
-heart of darkness
-hamlet
-henry 4
-brainteasers
-quantum popscience
-nausea

9/9 done. sorry to be that guy who dumps all his shelves. also does anyone know if stacking the books is worse for them than storing them vertically?
-moore utopia
-left wing communism
-defence of anarchism
-wuthering heights
-godels theorems (again)
-vineland
-teach yourself italian
-shopenheur essays and aphorisms
-the monk
-the road
-to accounts from freud
-different bilingual collection of short stories (italian)
-problems of philosophy russel
-communist manefesto
-augustine confessions
-italian dictionary
-a third bilingual collection of italian short stories
-screen burn
-moby dick

finito

Fellow Roman! How's the readability of SPQR? Seems to be a good companion to classics for the American with an eye on history to see forward into the future. Enjoyable? Nice collection!

>stacking the books is worse for them than storing them vertically?

Keep it light and upright, your spines should stay in good shape.

>fellow roman
not sure what you mean by that. if you are assuming im italian im afraid not. if you are assuming im in any way a specialist in ancient roman history, im afraid not a second time. spqr is the only book on roman history i own and i havent read than a handful in my life.

people will always accuse it of lefty bias, though mary beard (probably uk's most famous current roman historian) details exactly the point s she is trying to make so any bias is not covert.

its not a very good exhaustive, objective chronology of roman history. for starters it ends at an event to which she gives incredible significance -- 212 AD when Caracalla extends equal roman citizenship to all free people in the roman empire (you can already predict the message that she is going to make) -- hence saving herself from often the most controversial section in any history of rome: the collapse thereof (see novaroma.org/nr/210_Reasons_for_the_decline_of_the_Roman_Empire)

mary beard really pioneered the move in classics to focus much more on the lives of the people rather than the ins-and-outs of emperor. her psychological speculations might seem a little incredulous but she admits as much herself.

Cambridge ancient history is pretty much the authoritative set on roman history.

if you want a companion to the classics then The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the authority and the only one i have read (who needs two companions to classical literatature??)

thanks

Posting a friend's father's collection, who's a history professor.

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Finally cleaned out an old bookshelf and filled it with books I've had sitting in boxes for over a year.

Trigger Warnings: LOTR Trilogy is from 3 different collections, Fellowship is the movie edition; some books have library stickers still on them because i got them from sales and some books are 50+ years old used and have bad spines.

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that copy of for whom the bell tolls sure is big

Would hang out with you guys

They were pretty generous with page thickness and margins.

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Pleb incoming.

There was absolutely no fucking reason for you to take pictures of them sideways you complete retard.

Why the fuck is it impossible for Veeky Forums to take a decently composed photo of their subjects

>-the monk
Worth a read?

So comfy it almost hurts

Because this isn't /p/
I can take ok shots though, watch this space

What so because your shot is perfectly straight on its better? 45% of the shot is empty space. Clean up your act.

this man seems like quite a lark.

that Burroughs SF Gateway is a hardback?

sure is.

What does Philosophy and Sex cover? Would you recommend it?

Also, nice language books. You seem like a relatively experienced language learner judging from your choice of materials. Could you tell me some about etymologyicon as well? I was looking into that the other day. I really like to break words down and understand them.

I'm Nice shelves.

I need a shelf. This is my closet.

i like you

Nice closet shelf. I think you'd like Knut Hamsun's short novel Hunger.

tfw no shelves so i just throw my books in my laundry basket

Rate my recent cops and TBR stack. I've read Infinite Jest, I just felt like including it. Almost done with TBK.

What do I read next?

Stoner

That's a really ugly collection desu.

Meme/10

Take a breather from Russian lit and read Stoner, then go back and read ya boy Fyodor's The Idiot.

thanks chap

well some of the titles are vertical (most horizontal) so either way it would appear skewed. i literally spent about 5 minutes having to type out the titles for you, so what are you complaining about?? your books are nice but not enough to excuse your rudeness, mister.

yeah but not a re-read. i certainly wouldnt prioritise it over much better books. my copy includes the bravo of venice though i havent read that yet. (i know some people love this book so dont crucify me)

its a collection of essays about the love, marriage, contraception, abortion, conceptions of sex, pornography and censorship, homosexuality, and pedophilla with a couple case studies at the end. pretty arbitary choice of essays - seems like it was based on which they could get rather than the most seminal works.

its certainly not an exhaustive sumasion of sex in philosophy - and doesnt go into pre-modern views which is a bit shite tbqhuf. wouldnt recommend, you can probably find the essays online (the important ones at least)

>Also, nice language books.
cheers. i really like the concept of bilingual books. you normally dont need the translated side but if you dont know a word/phrase/idiom its easy to glance rather than get out a dictionary. also they normally include notes for things we might not have in our country.

>You seem like a relatively experienced language learner judging from your choice of materials.
naah i can only read german and italian (and english ofc). im trying to learn french atm.

>Could you tell me some about etymologyicon as well?
its a collection of interesting eytymological stories/connections. each chapter is somehow connected to something in the last so it loops around that way. its more of a coffee table book in my opinion. i wouldnt sit down and read it cover to cover but if im waiting for 10 minutes i might read a chapter (though you can get lost in it and read for a while).

>I really like to break words down and understand them.
you probably need an etymological dictionary, instead. there are some great ones out there.

at least stack them by a wall

if you mean they are shit books then you are objectively wrong fäm. if you mean they are worn then thats because i dont keep books unless im planning to read and refer to them often. if you mean they are shit pictures then i concur.

I ran across a sale for several books I was interested in, and consequently have run out of shelving space, for now. But here's what it looks like, currently.

No Maths and Analytic Philosophy? Great shelf nonetheless.

I'm not the best with math, but I do have some books scattered about, just not in the shelf currently. I have been meaning to look into some more diverse philosophical styles, though. For analytic philosophy I only really know of offhand Bertrand Russell, and Wittgenstein. Who else should I be looking into?

Is it worth buying any paperbacks at all? I've read (several times) that they often fall apart. And since I'm starting my physical collection, this bothers me a lot. The books I want should last more than a few years.

Though when it comes to Analytic Philosophy in general I mostly recommend some standard, contemporary introduction to the area one fancies, as an exception, you can look into the magnum opus of the father of

Analytic Philosophy,
Philosophy of Language,
Philosophy of Logic,
Philosophy of Mathematics, and last but certainly not least
Modern First-Order Logic that underlies all of modern, 20-21th century mathematics

...Gottlob Frege. This book is also considered to be a paradigm case of conceptual analysis that analytic philosophers are so fond of.
The book is called "The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number" and it is surprisingly accessible to non-mathematicians. Give it a try, if you can; maybe it will ignite a flame in you to learn more of this stuff.

No they are quite durable. I buy only used books and trade paperbacks from the late 60s and early 80s are still in great condition. Not sure about mass market paperpacks but they are read-once-and-trash anyway. Hardcover should only be reserved for books longer than 500 pages since those tend to wear at the spine faster.

Yes it is. I've got paperbacks from 1971 and they are in good shape.

>that Beowulf translation

Thank you. Nice with a clarification on that.

One of the books I'm after, is the Aeneid (~550 pages). Is the oxford worlds classics edition fine for the long run? Even though it's a paperback.

What's your point? Heaneywulf is a perfectly fine poem, some parts are pretty bad and some are pretty good, it just doesn't cut it if your interest in Beowulf is philological

OP here. I have a copy of Aeneid floating behind the second shelf somewhere. Specifically, it is pic related version. I've read it a few times and love it. It's been rebound in turtle back / duralam.

>It's been rebound in turtle back / duralam.
Just found it at my prefered (online) bookstore. However, it just says 'paperback'. Does that mean you had it rebound afterwards? Or is it referring to the lamination fx? Non-anglo here, so some of the terms are new to me.

>Infinite Jest unread
Every time

Have you read Lispector's book yet?

Been meaning to get that

It was rebound by the public library I bought it from, afaik. Paperback should last fine. Almost all of mine are paperback. As long as you keep them away from moisture (which you should do anyway) and don't treat them too harshly, they'll be okay.

Pic related for your interests. Font, translation, print quality.

Sounds great; will do.

>A passion to avenge my fallen town
>And punish Helen's whorishness
Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the view.

>that alien sticker

they are among us the truth is right there

Just a heads up that the Oxford Polybius you posted contains only a handful of Polybius' total (40) books. It's all the complete ones (1-5 I think) and the fragmented but nearly whole ones (6, 12), but if you want more of Polybius (and you should, because he's great), your only other choices are:

-Penguin Polybius, which draws from more chapters, but none in their complete form (or very few, definitely less than the Oxford text). Basically a selection of Polybius.
-Loeb Polybius. 6 volumes which are each pretty pricey at $26, but the Oxford you already have covers all the material in the first 2 loebs, so if you want a complete Polybius you only need 4 loebs. You can also use the Penguin text which, supplementing the Penguin, makes up almost all of what equates to Loeb 1-4, leaving you only 2 Loebs to buy. You'll miss a few paragraphs, but not much; the later books are typically pretty fragmented.

Hope you enjoy him! He's a blast, if you can downshift to him from more exciting historians like Livy (whose books 21-30 on the 2nd Punic war you should definitely check out, if you haven't already, for a less academic but more dramatic and personal depiction of the war). Polybius is also one of the greatest ancient teachers of history, so if you're not super experienced in the field, he can help out a lot if you pay attention.

Let me know if you have any questions, but otherwise, enjoy!

PS Plutarch is notorious for being chopped up and repackaged under names like "the makers of rome." If you want him complete and in the order intended, you have to either buy Loeb (expensive) or Modern Library (not expensive). The others you listed are always found complete from penguin et al., but you may want to check before reading that the volumes aren't too old, and the translations aren't too stilted. Penguin especially is known to have some lifeless translations, but their newer editions have been making a conscious effort to modernize. Waterfield, the translator of that Polybius you have, is widely respected as a consistently solid choice.

i just got it last week. i'm trying to meme it up.

I'm new here.

oof - low ceiling. you and your bf hobbits?

you'll fit right in, boy

don't have a pic of my shelf but just improved it today trading these books

for these books, without spending a single buck

Have you read Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy? I've seen it on a few shelves on lit but nobody has responded to any attempts I've made to figure out what it's about, how it's structured, or even if they would recommend it.

Any input?

>reading translations in hue speak

most of theses 'new, modern' books are way easier to find in portuguese around here, and there is no way I would bother importing a book just to have the satisfaction of reading irvine welsh and bukowski in english...

portuguese are the plague of Veeky Forums

a literal meme shelf. do you also cross off a book on the top 100 meme list once you've finished it?

thats really offensive and rude

wtf is your problem

Is that Basic Works of Aristotle really worth it?

I read Landmark Histories and loved it, for what it's worth. The supplemental material, maps, images, etc. are really what puts it over the top. Translation for Herodotus is probably not too crucial desu. I'm sure they are all fine (I have nothing to compare it to, since I only read Landmark though).

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2/6

3/6
(this is my chinese lit collection)

4/6

5/6
Karinthy collection

6/6
Well,what do you think?

You have nice books

Any good books for learning mandarin?

I have no acces to madarin texts,they are translations.
I'm pretty sure the PRC government has some nice book for this purpose.

Fair enough, my bad. I figured you had learnt the language, so you might have some specific useful titels.

I would learn it,but sadly,I have neither the time nor the acces to materials/teachers.
Not to mention the money.
Even getting these in hungarian was hard as a rock.
They have been out of print for ages.
There is a serious lack of discussion about china on Veeky Forums.

>There is a serious lack of discussion about china on Veeky Forums.
Amen to that. Which title on that shelf is your fav?

The three character classic
And the Tao Te Ching
Read 3 version of Tao Te Ching.
A prose,a verse and an english verse,and I think the verse translation in hungarian is pretty neat.

Jesus, that was quite the recommendation. After such a glowing write-up, I'll be sure to check this out. It sound fascinating, honestly.

I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, unfortunately, only flipped through a bit of it before purchase.
The impression I have of it from what others have said is that it's formatted as a bizarre medical text of sorts, addressing depression, however ends up being much further reaching in it's scope than just melancholia, evolving into more of a philosophical essay instead.
It might be garbage, but I love the premise, and look forward to whenever I eventually get to it. Hopefully another user will respond to this with a more detailed answer for you.

:^)