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Far too first-day-on-Veeky Forums tier for me to make any judgement
niceme.me
What's hour of our death about?

>What's hour of our death about?

Western cultural attitudes towards human death over the past 1000 years (starts with Arthurian legends). Doesn't look to be quite what I was hoping it would be, i.e., a more direct inquiry rather than an overview, but to be fair I only read 2-3 pages on the night I got it.

Been reading Anatomy of Melancholy which sets the bar pretty high as far as looking into death and depression; also been reading a book that takes a broader (geographically) view of a more specific part of death (suicide) which although lacking the depth/charm of Anatomy is interesting because of how different some of the perspectives are, especially tribal views from Africa, Pacific Island cultures, etc.

Hour of Our Death seemed a bit shallow for the first few pages, and also, being western-focused, a bit too familiar to someone raised in that culture. Will probably give it a shot after finishing Anatomy but unfortunately I think it'll be less interesting.

I like the Frazetta cover on the Mars book.

rate me, guys

do I fit in?

big on grateful dead? they're what got me into playing music.

stop reading literary fiction and start reading philosophical material.

rented Lamborghini in garage/10

>literary fiction
>philosophy
potayto, potahto

I mean a children's cartoon can depict philosophical concepts. Hume and Kant get right to the point.

Currently on my nightstand

2012 Estonian Design Awards
Karl Barth secondary source
the New Testament
Camus' Myth of Sisyphus

the myth of sisyphus changed my life

>reasoning that you cannot reason

It's nice light before-bed reading.

How so? I've been looking for a physical copy but they're all expensive as fuck. I've got The Fall coming any day though.

I'm really excited to get into Sisyphus. Right after I finish The Feast of the Goat

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You are either a weak skinny-fat manlet faggot or you're a girl. But judging on the fact that you're French, I am guessing that you are the former.

>HALO: THE ESSENTIAL VISUAL GUIDE

French? Are you retarded?

R8, h8, I don't care

F

very low iq

my tastes are kinda normal, i think. rates are welcome

so fucking alpha he bought a copy of gorilla mindset and they gave him a second one for free

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Why is your copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh at least 4x as thick as my copy?

pretty shitty actually

heyo I have my primary bookshelf in a cooler cuz I was evicted and I'm living in the woods and it's dark right and I only got tiki torches but on the sunup maybe I can post a pic of the spill bucket.

lol if real

>Penguin
>100 page introduction
>100 pages of citations

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It contains the text from the Babylonian and Sumerian poem fragments as well as the Standard version.

>There are entire lines with ellipses
>Be constantly reminded that parts of the epic are lost or damaged, and will never be completed
It fucking hurts!

I've finally have got me enough time (and disposition) to tackle these beasts.

R8 me family

nu i drisnja

pidori

Did you cop Citizens for Trump? Posobiec's prose is incredible.

v. nice.

Can we be friends, user?

>Jokerman font.

Goodlookin' stack, bb. Like yr editions, too. Mm.

>The Feast of the Goat
three kingdoms

yehhhh i really love it.

doubt youll read any of them

>lauren southern

Please rate my pile, got most of them used on the cheap.

Unfortunately the spine broke on "Making Money" :( Still can send it back though

Start reading actual books instead of escapist fiction.
>star trek technical manual
Fuck, where did you came from, 70's?

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

Nice try, but that's not even a real Tolkien quote.

Did I say it was?!

rsd fanatic

>Books in german and english
>thinks s/he is french

I find it funny when people keep falling over and over again for Fagles, the meme man.

People reading this that still didn't buy your copies of Iliad and Odyssey: do yourselves a favor and go with Lattimore.

Oh you guys don't understand do you? Wealth? That can change in a second. A split second decision. You really don't understand the gravity of the situation?

Paperbacks are fine, hardbacks are way too expensive.

oh pls, even guy davenport likes fagles.

>hardbacks are way too expensive.
No they aren't. They take too much space though.

bump

Can't read but a few of these titles but props for Pearl Buck there!

I really enjoyed Butcher's Crossing & Warlock. :)
What edition of The Three Kingdoms are those? Last I checked my only options on Amazon were giant (prolly abridged) versions and sets a little outside my $$$
good stack.
Sexy Quixote.

>abebooks.com/9787119005904/Three-Kingdoms-Chinese-Classics-Volumes-7119005901/plp
The 2-volume set of Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel is unabridged too. There is a 5-volume set with both english and the original chinese text, but it's pricey.

You sound like such a fag. Fagles is fine.

Got another pile today, what do you think Veeky Forums ?

pretty shit t b h kys mm ;^)

Thanks, senpai :^)

>halo 4 and 5 anywhere near the other halos

get that shit out of the picture and it will be a 10/10

I like it

26 bucks

bump

Did you include that price as though it was a good deal? What?

>three kingdoms
>four books

This triggered me

why the fuck is your inferno literally 3 times my copy from vintage

what penguin series are these? got damn beauties

does the vintage one have both translations in it?

i mean original + translation sorry

How exactly?

The fuck is that Wilde and Aristotle?

did you seriously buy that createspace tier shit off of amazon? and for philosophy in translation of all things?

stop reading pamphlets

Sorry dude I think you fucked up with that Browne.

whoops wrong review

look here instead:
amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1L7ZB2CDC6MGD

I finished Lattimore's Iliad not too long ago. I asked my brother to read Fagle's so we could compare afterwards, but frustratingly, he didn't. Would you mind pointing out some of the main differences? Why is one better or worse than the other? My own research seems to indicate that they're about the same, Fagles is just more modern.

I was thinking about reading Fagle's Odyssey to compare for myself. Does it matter?

Its penguin so the usual, 100 page intro and 100 page commentary. I actually enjoyed reading it side by the side with the story

Are you in high school?

Phone's dead, so I'll just post text

>Gift from teacher
Jose Saramago - Blindness
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Toni Morrison - Beloved

>Recent purchases
Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
ee cummings - Selected Poems

Ignoring the right pile because I've read none of them except Catcher. I rate the left stack but word to the wise do not read Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Fucking terrible.

Moby Dick, Monte Cristo, Earnest, 22, Great Expectations (in that order) are well worth the read.

Followup post

>not resizing your photos and removing exif data

you guys are dumb as shit.

Everything but the Illiad is a first time read

What does it matter to you?

this isnt /b/, nobody on the hobby boards are trying to get you

What does exif data even tell you?

get out

I think I have half of these on my own bookshelf. Good choice on the Master and Margarita translation you picked too, it's better than P&V's IMHO.

Can't see if it's there but after you read Foucault and Eco's Baudolino check out his novel Foucault's Pendulum. I also highly recommend checking out Eco's Opera Aperta as far as theory goes too, especially if you are into music as well.

These are some of the recent things I picked up from the bookstore I work at. I have some Kobo Abe, Osamu Dazai, and Mann's Magic Mountain on order currently as well. Was stoked to get Men Without Women as an ARC from work.

>Robespierre
He literally did nothing wrong