Stack Thread

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well i got Shogun for free, since the local supermarkets are book trading for free so i might as well take advantage of it

I think its a good book, the author just made some really bizarre choices with character names.

what historical characters are relevant in the story, so i can revelate them?

Every major character in the Sengoku Jidai has been renamed and given a stir-fry.

There was a big book sale so i took my wife, kids and mother in law. This is our haul.

Currently reading the bible and walden, what do I go for next?

>top one is the stranger + state of siege
>fourth is the sun also rises
>5th is the gambler - dostoyevsky
>9th is notes from the underground

The stranger. It's a quick read and a good one.

>take a picture of a pile of books
>post it on the internet

What's the problem with that? It's just a conversation starter.

Your cynicism is ruining this atmosphere and making you see what isnt actually there; you only see people posting pictures of books to brag, but theres actually a whole lot more going on.

Yeah, I heard names were bastardized in Shogun, but can it be relatively easy to tell who is who? Like being the nippon board this is I know for the most part what Nobunaga and Hideyoshi are like

And how much fiction is it? One of those where meat and narrative are added to already existing historical events?

Is that the version of the Bible with the Dore illustrations I've been seeing on Amazon? I want to replace this pew bible I have, but I dunno, that one seems a bit too thick and unwieldy, like opening to the middle will obscure the text near the spine. Thoughts?

Yeah, this.

Stack threads offer some of the best discussion on this board. I don't get why people like and feel the need to complain. It's fucking annoying.

>opening to the middle will obscure the text near the spine
You don't know how those hardbacks are bound, do you?

I've finished the bottom book and am about halfway through the top.

It has to do with how intellectualism and literature is perceived even among those who read a lot of literature. I really don't get it either, this board is too discuss literature and so often I see people jump to conclusions like angsty high schoolers.

Heres my modest stack of current reading

>married people post on Veeky Forums
this is the weirdest shit that i haven seen this week

No, I don't usually go for hardcovers, but I thought I would make an exception for this one

I guess I could assume that unlike a thick paperback the pages would not execute a deep curve down the middle, but the binding would slightly bulge up while the book itself is still able to be set flat

Maybe but ive been on the internet since bbs' were a thing through aol phishing and Veeky Forums since 2005. Some habits die hard.

How is that Fitzgerald? Im and Im really enjoying the prose he offers. Just started part 2 and really like where its heading from here.

I tried so hard to get into shogun, just couldn't fucking do it. I think I managed to get about ten chapters in.

I thought the first 3/4's of This Side of Paradise were great, but then it sort of petered out. I'd definitely recommend the book as I enjoyed it more than The Great Gatsby (from what I remember of it).

Cancer stack, reporting in

as advertised

Hello my fellow literates

Don't be a tease, show us some cover art.

woops wrong reaction image

Anyone else study Megan Stack for VCE?

This isn't a stack, but I just ordered these and though Veeky Forums might be interested. Lately, I've been working on getting a better grasp of politics and religion as well as learning some police investigation techniques so I can be better informed about the world around me.

this is way worse than

How is it worse? My goals are to learn about politics, policing, and religion. Why is that a bad selection of books? Especially Arabic, because with how many of them Obama has let in It will be in demand by police departments soon when they start committing a bunch of crimes.

Did Steven King get paid by weight?

Probably, that book is like 8 pounds

its incredible read it

because who can forget the canon-shattering masterpiece that was "the day my butt went psycho"

man you sure weren't joking phew

yeah at least was conscious of his cancer

I hope you're taking the piss

What does taking the piss mean? Is that like some gay british shit? And my stack isn't cancer. I already stated my reasons for it, and I haven't gotten one constructive response.

>The Day My Butt Went Psycho!
true patrician

It sounds like something i would've wanted to read when i was 7. Books like this are quite advanced compared to the picture books most first graders are reading. Just getting someone of that age to take an interest in reading at all is quite a feat.

Yeah, its the one with the illustrations. Its the Barnes & Noble KJV.
I think it would be ok to open an exception seeing that is the bible, its a book that you will probably keep for life, and if you take care of it, it would be very nice to pass to someone you like.

you are a bitch ass nigga

I'm entry level and just started reading so please don't bully.
I have Crime and Punishment in the mail so I'm gonna start reading some big boy books instead of just short ones as well.

I loved it. A prime Fat Seventies Book.

I-is Gay Stud the author or the title?

shogun was fun...and kind of flat in terms of philosophy. It's just an epic adventure story on the scale of a Dumas novel. There is love, betrayal, redemption, many close calls yadda yadda yadda.

if you end up liking shogun try, musahshi by eiji yoshikawa. Like shogun on steroids.

SIddhartha is a great supplement to The Stranger haha.

Recently discovered Harvard Review at a bookstore. I'm enjoying reading a variety of essays, poems, and prose from living people instead of the usual selection of dead men.

Just finished Starship Troopers, on to Arthur C. Clarke. Cool beginning, but I'm literally 18 pages in.

The Bukowski book I'm absolutely devouring. I'm reading nonlinearly, so I've read some parts about 3 times, and some not at all. It's exciting, I love it. It's not beautiful writing at all. It's dirty, it's not particularly graceful or pretty, but it's honest and it gives you the whole of the man. I love it. I need more. Lately I've bought a bunch of poetry; there's a library downtown that has book sales on occasion where you can pick up a box and fill it with whatever you want for $20. It's provided me with eyefodder for weeks.

Umberto Eco is a brilliant writer. It saddens me I have to read translations, exclusively, however I very much enjoy his thoughts. I'm leaping around in that book, too.

Almost every book of mine has a bookmark in it. I've stopped being a hardass on myself and I've taken to reading things I enjoy. I'm going to continue down this path.

I started naked lunch and got about 1 chapter in before putting it down and never picking it back up. I mean to go back and read it. I always describe the book as reading like dirty neon, or the rainbow spread of light in a pool of oil.

I similarly started Catch 22 and decided I'd had more than my share of post-modern sentiment, though I found the writing excellent and clever. Almost too jampacked with clever shit. Heavy handed? It's brilliant, though. Just not right now.

Gatsby, solid. I've reread it a few times. Twist, never read. Frankly, I've no love for Dickens.

This looks far more like clutter than good reading.

Actually is an interesting selection, though you library'd the books instead of buying? HAHAA. No worries, I'm poor because of my habits.

Never read Rimbaud; I keep thinking "translated poetry, what's the point?", but I'll probably get around to it. Choose that translation for a reason? I've been reading much more poetry lately to try to strengthen a to this point much-neglected area of my reading diet. The Baudelaire looks interesting too, though honestly I only know of him because people here kick his name around. Read anything by him? He good?

The Lao-Tzu book looks awesome. The rest look interesting, but don't pertain directly to what I'm presently interested in. I'm generally a whore for primary sources.

Not a stack

I want pics of the inside of that bible. It looks purdy.

I can't read much of it. But you have an eye for good-lookin' copies of things. Where do you tend to buy your books?

Reminding me I've still gotta read Civil Disobedience... and learn Spanish.

Nice. My local bookstore had like 10 Nabakov books and no Lolita. And for whatever reason I just can't love This Side of Paradise. I keep putting it down. Jane Austin is on my list because I need to read more literature by women. Solely because she's a woman, yes. I've not really read any books by women. I've started a few, but I put them down again and again. Well, when I was a kid I liked Agatha Christie. But whatever. Digression. Which are your reading now?

Maybe I'll read that instead of East of Eden. Also, never read a Watts book. I'm curious, though my real mysticism exploration stage is 4 years past.

You've got some good in there. I love scifi, though I wouldn't read... most of what's in there. I've an unopened copy of Illuminatus! trilogy on my shelf. Never read a Stephen King book, though I'm supposed to. Hey, looks like if you want to write modern pulpy fiction, that's a great stack. Or just enjoy it. The copies are nice, at least.

I'm cocksure of you're sexuality, pretty thing. Why don't you male me? I want to member you forever. Etc.

not a stack

cont'd

I liked Meditations, but stopped halfway through. It was recommended to me by a professor I respected immensely when I was going through a tough set of addictions. His gesture did more to keep me sane than the book did; I felt a companion in the pain of addiction. The book is brilliant for perspective, however, and, though I'm no stoic, I respect the sentiment.

I read that copy of Siddhartha. Great little book. It's wisdom literature, if I've ever read it.

You'll have to tell me how No Longer Human is.

Camus, Dostoevsky, McCarthy, all well-loved names here. I've never read a full Hemingway novel, worked halfway through a collection of his short stories, but I really feel like I need to read Old Man and the Sea. Can anyone tell me whether or not it's necessary? If not, what is the best full novel to read by the man to "get him"?

me

Alright. I did it. Errybody gets a (you).

Didn't like Filth all that much
Skagboys was worth the effort if you liked Trainspotting

Notes From the Underground is classic, and Child of God is great except for that heavy handed bit before the climax when they explain the title and McCarthy gets in his pseudo-philosphical misanthropic mental masturbation
Helly jelly
Is Thoreau worth reading if I'm ambivalent about romantic literature? I like some romantic poetry

okay stack, clearly manicured and added to for the picture.

Tell us what you think about the ones you're reading.

did you buy this shit from a yard sale or something?

Just finished it in August- not worth the time. Main character is a Mary Sue and big dicked self insert. For 1200 pages you can be spending your time reading better books. Whole book builds up to two measly paragraphs in the epilogue.
4/10

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>this cunt can't take the piss

W E A K
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>Flowers of Evil not Fleurs du Mal
>A Selection
AAAAHHHHHH

>Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao, by Li Ying Chang
>Li Ying Chang
>Lying Chang
>Lying

Only a fool would take that book at its word.

i think im gunna be sick

I thought the lower book said Lying Chang. Haha.

>I want pics of the inside of that bible. It looks purdy.

see youtube.com/watch?v=AcBQw63gX1Q

I always buy them on old-book stores and sometimes I find some very nice stuff. The two leatherbounds, for instance (first [state of siege and the stranger] and fourth [the sun also rises] books ) are from a publisher here in brazil that back in the day made some very good looking books, they were both published in 1982.

Last time I went downtown to trade some books I was very lucky, found the two in pic related for very cheap. I really like the cover of this edition of dubliners, it was printed in 76 in UK and both are penguin

About how much did you get those for? Any other cool finds to share? This is pornography to me.

I am so-very-jealous of your bible, btw

Pretty much. Half price books had a 2 dollar sale.

Not very exciting here, but dis my shit

I gave the store 2001: A Space Odissey, Skagboyz, Trainspotting and Porno, four books I enjoyed but not the kind of book I wanted to keep, and in return I got those two plus The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. Its always a good deal getting classic national writers because most people don't people here don't care about them so they are VERY cheap.

That same day I got The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Kafka's Amerika and Notes from the Underground trading in another store.

So basically, I got them all for "free", only trading books I didn't want anymore.

Sachnovelle by Stefan Zweig
An e-reader(Reading Dream-quest of unknown Kaddath by H.P Lovecraft and Konosuba )
Selected poems and Novellas of Frigyes Karinthy
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke

Opinions?

German history is pretty interesting 2bh, anyone got any reccs based on this stack?

Mein Kampf

>I always describe the book as reading like dirty neon, or the rainbow spread of light in a pool of oil.

what gay autism

These threads wouldn't be a complete pile of shit if you fucking morons actually read the books you bought
>b-but you're just projecting. I do read these books!
Oh yeah? Then why is this board such a shit hole? If you idiots actually read the books you bought, this board would be incredible. There would be a lot more discussion and a lot less shitposting.

I read mostly history because I'm gay which is better suited for Veeky Forums even if it's an utter shite board.

>lol Hitchens

Is that book on the far left Stewart Lee? If it is, how is it? I've been meaning to get it for a while now, he's a fucking excellent comedian.

Hitchens was a great writer though so I don't get what you mean.

its both darling :0

High school Junior/10.

I actually had to read the great Gatsby in my junior year. I didn't pay much attention to it but I want to read it again

I didnt read any books in highschool. I was too busy getting pussy, doing drugs and skateboarding.

question: the oxford ovid's metamorphoses is in verse or in prose?

Starting GR right after this post. What does my stack say about me?

I'm building a library of the essential Stoic texts. I'm focussing more on the practical ethical teachings than the theoretical ones.

>no opinions
>no books
>ad hominem

I think suicide is too good a way for you to go.

I hope the cancer in your soul eats through your balls before it takes you.

You are very lonely.

Verse.

How do I stop buying one dollar books at used book stores? It's like really cheap crack.

Some of these have been in my "to read" stack for ten+ years. I made a huge dent last year but I've been busy the last few months.

go to bed Tao

all respectable pass times

How pleb is my gf?

Exceedingly, dump her now.