/lit/ - Literature

0/10 buying from Am*zon

>>18336232

implying I’m going to leave my house to get a worse price at a chain bookstore

>>18336232
I buy a my books used from Amazon from T*xas-based book sellers. T*xans don't deserve them.

>not using a library or zlib
Wow anon, you're bad with money, huh?

>>18336311

Not everyone’s a poorfag

>>18336170
/lit/ doesn't read. so it just buys books to pretend they read and then shits on other people to deflect from that fact. This is why everyone is trying to insult you in one of these obnoxious internet penis measuring contests instead of actually commenting on your books.

>>18336170
yikes/10

how do you shut ins even manage to make posts online genuinely impressed you started this thread, good job op!!!!

>>18336311
the books i want can't be found in my library because wrongthink

>>18336247
>implying Amazon is the only online seller of books as well as the cheapest
Anon, I...

>>18336343
>not wasting money makes you poor
Pretty sure you have that backwards

I bought this after seeing it mentioned in a thread a couple of days back and I love it. Super interesting and actually kinda hilarious.

You really should stop buying from Am*zon though try alibris

>>18337446

That Kwaidan cover is really nice

>>18336232
>I hate it because it's popular
I hate this part of 4chan so fucking much. I hope you choke on your own vomit.

>>18336170
I usually just pirate ebooks but I figured with his overzealous use of endnotes and such, it may just be easier with physical editions.

>>18336170
Amazon thread?

>>18337693
> there isn't a good reason to hate Am*zon
>t. hylic

>>18336170
Why don't you support your local (LGBT-friendly) library, anon?

>>18336170
I see you have bought my diary desu

>>18336247
use abebooks fag

>>18338661
Picrel

>>18337898

Every book is yellowed and smells like an old persons council home not to mention the selection is garbage. I’m in North England what do you expect desu

>>18337728

Based horror bro I’ll check out a couple of those titles

>>18337693
>Contributing to the rise of globo-corpo-homo-overlord
I'm sorry your too much of a reject to go outside to a book store you degenerate retard

Nothing because Im broke.

>>18336170
I don’t buy books.

stuff
>>18340855
cant read any of that shit but i can discern evola. he's alri
>>18337446
i enjoyed the evola,
btw nice one w/ kwaidan, do enjoy a bit of lafcadio hearne

Americanah
Stone Junction
Midnight's Children
Cloud Atlas

>>18336170
>inb4 translation pleb

>>18336456
Where are good places to buy books online?
I am trying to expand my collection and was curious at what place was the best to get physical copies.

>>18342173
@upresssalesbot on twitter lets you know when university presses have sales

>>18336170
I bought the new 1921 translation of picrel (via Amazon sigh) and I've got a nice copy of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea coming (my first time ordering from AbeBooks).

>>18342212
This one.

>>18340861
Based poorfag.

rate my books

>The Life of a Stupid Man

Nice, someone wrote my bio.

>>18336170
I pirate all of my books

Got these two recently.
>Ezra F. Vogel - Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Hundred and 150 pages in and it's pretty good, but Vogel sometimes stretches his words too much and repeats himself. It's well researched and in-depth, but it's a bit irritating at times. Hungarian edition is pretty meh. Uses the borderline useless local transcription system with a table collecting names in pinyin at the back, which makes it mildly irritating at times to read, and one day I'm going to probably send a pipe-bomb to the publisher if they keep doing this with their China-centred books.
Honestly, it's unsettling to read at times, knowing that everything would be very different if this man lost the power struggle in the CPC.

>Wagner - The Brown Book (Diaries 1865-1882)
I got this to augment my understanding of Wagner in the future, but don't know when I'll actually tackle it, if I decide to tackle it cover-to-cover. Really, I don't feel in the mood right now to slog through a bunch of wordy, romantic letters. Maybe later, or in smaller chunks.

>>18344308

>How to do nothing

Do you really need a guide for that ?

>>18336170
some socks

>>18345584
more socks. and american psycho

>>18336170
Attention:
If you want to buy books, buy with book depository on Abebooks, then refund a day after the estimated delivery. Literally free

>>18336266
Seething.

>>18345709

I hate the obligatory wine vouchers you get with every book depository order. Are wine aunts really the last readers left?

>>18347456
Based! I ordered them last night.

>>18336170

Should have these on Tuesday, fairly excited about them, should be interesting.

>>18345709
lol im going to try this rn

>>18336232
FPBP, fuck any of you that use Amazon when there's viable alternatives (the best choice being an actual book shop)

>>18347456
Incredible.

>>18345709
i dont get it. arent they 2 diff websites

>>18342220
worth it. i need to buy this. i got it from my library.

>>18345584
trans?

>>18337728
Are you that guy from japan that has a tiny reading place with the chair between the bookcases?

>>18345709
Don't you have to send the book back?

>>18345709
>>18348287
their inventory is shit

>>18336170
Rate me anons:


The Unabridged Mark Twain
the oxford akjv classics bible
Thomas Malory's Morte D'arthur

>>18337925
Amazon own abebooks

I bought a Can Future Days t-shirt

>>18348208
Yes.

>>18349900
Can is good.

Just ordered
William Gaddis - The Recognitions and JR
John Dos Passos - The USA Trilogy
Carson McCullers - Complete Novels
Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
William Gass - Middle C
Cormac McCarthy - The Border Trilogy

Hopefully they will keep me busy for awhile.

>>18336170
Not exactly recent purchases, but I was given all these by someone who I lent a book to's dad, and apart from Sebald, who I've seen praised highly on here in the past so I know he's meant to be good, I have never heard of any of these before. Has anyone here read any of these before and can tell me whether they're any good?

>>18336170

>>18349941
That better not be sunlight in the top left, that’s so bad for paper pages desu.

did anyone already read this one? thoughts?

>>18351670
Who the fuck cares about this theory wank? More INFINITE JEST and BLOOD MERIDIAN

>>18351676
if you still haven't reread those books at least twice, then you shouldn't be on lit desu, but clearly you dont get Lazzarato haha & now you try to hide your incompetency

>>18351670
>>18351676
but seriously, any reviews already? thoughts? ideas?

>>18351676
Irony? Go back redditnigger

I got these last week. I've decided they're the last ones I'm going to buy until I make a serious dent in my collection.

>>18337446
BASED CONNOISSEUR

>>18345588
>more socks. and american psycho
KEK you fucking mong lmao

Some Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Banana Yoshimoto, Theodor Kramer, Tanizaki, a book about Hokusai, Hiromi Kawakami, Kawabata.

>>18351954
is that a good reading of Hegel? serious question

>>18347570
>(the best choice being an actual book shop)
Bookshops these days stock only the latest goypilled bullshit. What's the fucking point?

>>18338976
Get yasel to the chazzas mate.

>Dead Souls
>Pushin: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
>The Sorrows of Young Werther and selected writings
>Beckett: First Love and other stories
>Rimbaud: Selected Verse and Prose
Got all this for 13.50, how'd I do?

Support your local bookstore

>>18347486
Great taste

>>18350887
I'm ikterested in tht Pagnol one. He made some great films.

>>18351670

(((Italian))) theory. Haven’t read it yet but probably won’t pasta easters have done nothing but tarnish Marx since they put pen to paper

>>18352764
My local bookstore is all essentially political propaganda from the USA's democratic party despite the fact that I live in Europe so fuck that

>>18353943
Italian theory is absolute dogshit and not worth reading

>>18352658
>Bookshops these days stock only the latest goypilled bullshit
Imagine not having based mom and pop used book stores near you

>>18349941
are you Hokkaido anon?

>>18351605
It's a soulless led light.
>>18354752
No, I live in Tokyo.

>>18336232
Fpbp

I got memed into buying Call of the Crocodile. Should be arriving this week

>>18351601
So what's the difference between Marvel and DC?

>>18354054
>>18353943
i guarantee to that in a few months time zizek will be sharing lazzarato's ideas, without referring to them, in his various talks

>>18344308
>Dutch
1/10

>>18336170
Don't buy from amazon but from your local bookstore or another site!

>>18356655
Please elaborate?

>>18357177
No, you know exactly what I mean

>>18336247
Amazon's shipping has gotten so bad. My books always arrive damaged with them.

>>18357956
Pleaseee?

>>18337446
I’ve been buying from Amazon for lack of alternatives but this alibris site looks nice

>>18336170
>he doesn't buy books from the local book store to support local businesses

>>18358299
Hey asshole, try doing this while living in Canada.

>>18358299
Local bookstores have shit taste in books

>>18342220
Based.

I just started reading Runaway Horses

Other than that my latest book order also included Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.

>>18347456
Ok, I don’t get the meme... are these actually good books?

>>18336232
Most local book stores are pozzed negro worshiping trannies nowadays. I’ll just take the convenience over supporting the businesses of commies

>>18358937
>businesses of commies
found the evola reader

>>18358947
Neo-Communism is primarily a social contagion. It clearly exists within the capitalist system.
Neck yourself tranny

>>18358977
>retro-keynesianism is primarily a social contagion. it clearly existed within hunter gatherer societies.