/lit/ - Literature

Those books look like they've never been read.

>>20972457
How am I supposed to know that? I bought them yesterday at a second hand bookstore.

>>20972450
You’re never going to read them, you can stop posturing.

I like fantasy

>>20972450
Rate my stack plz

>>20972989
>Pessoa
I have the same book but published by Acantilado. Is it a different translation?
>>20973036
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>>20973919
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>>20972450

>>20973036
>>20973919
It would be for the best if you burned all of these, what a waste of paper and space.

bump

sage

>>20973978
Yeah, mine is translated by Moya-something and yours is translated by Perfecto Cuadrado. They even have different fragment order. I think yours is better, but was too expensive and I couldn't find it anywhere.

I sometimes cover my paperbacks with a plastic cover because my hands are always sweating

>>20973919
Horrible. What a shit thread

>>20975660
You've gotta be the sweaty IJ guy, if I had the picture readily available I'd post it.

>>20975772
I was supposed to post the pic yesterday when i first saw the thread but i got occupied with something

To be read soon vs. reading at the moment.

>>20975772
I thought I had it saved but apparently I don't have it. Someone else please post it.

>>20975660
>>20975772
Wait. Was it this one?

>>20975772
No, I am not that guy, as you can see I was just starting with the greeks

>buy out of print book
>near fine
>two days later
>new listing
>half the price
>fine
FUCK

>>20977297
As long as you didn't pay a three figure number...
it happened to me ;_;

>>20977297
>buy book, unsure of rarity status
>"good condition"
>turns out it has yellow pages and cover a bit teared when it arrived
>new listing
>same book but in new condition
>roughly the same price
>FUCK

>>20973919
saved you time

>>20973919
Freshman business student/10

>>20977304
A little less than $100 but the part I'm coping with is convincing myself I didn't miss the better listing the first time I looked.

>>20977322
Good means decent in this context. It's like a C grade.

>>20972457
But they’re just for display.

>>20973919
If it wasn’t for Hašek, I would’ve thought that this is bait. Absolute dog shit stack (except Hašek)

>>20977630
D - Acceptable
C - Good
B - Very Good
A - Near Fine
A+ - Fine
S - New/Brand New
I will post the books I've bought this year when the last few I've ordered arrive at the end of the month.

>>20972457
why would you read your books when it creases the spine and looks disgusting on your shelf?

>>20976197
annotations too, lad's not getting out of this one.

>>20978847

>>20973036
>woman fantasy

>>20973919
Cringe

>>20972450
i dont get it. Is it truly that showing off books gives you dopamine? If I flaunt a book i feel bad about the book itself tbqh. It makes me want to read a book less because it feels like im posturing. Just reading that book to be cool which was never the initial intention but because of the flaunt feels like it actually was. Anyhow books for this feel?

>>20973919
yo this nigga reading SCRUM

>>20976216
I read on the treadmill and have been sweating all over Dubliners recently

>>20979647
Post it.

$2ea from the council rubbish shop
They had a few Tom Clancey also but I'm not sure if he's worth reading

It was kinda nice to not find any good classics and mostly all books by sportsmen, Ellen Degenerate and Barack Obama on the shelves of the rubbish shop

I bought these in June and only read Silence. Didn't resonate much and was a bit tedious. May have more impact if one is religious.

Now and then I read a few entries from Little People and then imagine the beings I read about are going about their lives in my yard and areas nearby when I go for walks.

>>20981698
>They had a few Tom Clancey also but I'm not sure if he's worth reading
Every time I've revisited popular fiction from the 80s and 90s I feel disappointed because it just doesn't hold up for me. Dated cultural references, etc., the books just don't read as well. And I honestly don't remember much from his stuff any more than I remember what any episodes of Knight Rider or The A-team were about.

The one book where the Spanish amusement park had a roller coaster with cars shaped like Stuka dive bomber complete with sirens was fucking kek-worthy though.

>>20981901
Meant to add that his stuff was always just mindless TV-tier entertainment to me. If that's what you're looking for.

>>20972989
Fuck I want some Gredos so fucking bad.

>>20975660
Those Collin Classics are very kino, I wish I bought more of them when I had the chance.

>>20981909
>>20981901
Thanks, It's what I suspected.
Whenever someone can pump out books bigger than bricks and they are constantly front and centre in the bookstore, I assume it's fatuous and superfluous with the perfect level of engagement to make normie brains smile in the same fashion a finely tuned McDonalds French Fry elicits.

>>20981752
I'm excited to read Silence because I want to see how the Scorsese film compares. Also the original 1960's book cover is really goddamn cool.

>>20982077
>Camille Paglia
Why?

>>20982083
Glittering Images is good.

>>20982083
I just want to support her work. Provocations is probably the worst (it's a collection of essays/columns from her Salon.com days, not a lot of new stuff), SP is decent so far and Glittering Images is real kino, probably the only one I'd recommend.

>>20982077
is it worth buying the combined wizard knight? i own both books already.

>>20972457
Poor fag edging his small cock on the idea that hes the one reading books while the people that buy and own books don't read

>>20973919
I read that history of Germany and all i can say that iv read much better books and short summaries on german history

>>20982332
I like that Tor Essentials edition. The cover is nice, and is made out of some rubbery feeling material that's pleasant to hold. Cheap, but costs cheap anyway. I guess it depends whether you mind reading from a book that large.

>>20972450
Here's mine. What kind of person do you think of?
>>20973919
You watch those "If you're not doing these 12 things daily, you're not hustling enough" videos I'm guessing?

>>20973919
looks like a bunch of garbage, nothing in there i would consider reading

>>20982332
I think so. I also owned the pocket paperback versions of both books but this cover reminded me of The Book of Kells. The typeface is nice and it includes small graphite illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. As >>20982457 points out the book is indeed large, but that's a plus for me personally. I like heft.

>>20973919
You know you really don't have to read, it's not something you're mandated to do as a person.

>>20983398
Cute execution, pretty charming.

>don't have anything to say about what you read
>just go looking for validation for the kinds of books you purchased instead
what are you fags doing with your lives? you might just as well collect postage stamps.

>>20982077
nice and checked

prt 1.

don’t mind the wire cutters

>>20985722
prt 2

my taste isn’t nearly as high brow as some of you guys

>>20985733
A mix of some great books and some cringe. Sometimes A Great Notion is one of my favorites

>>20985770
Yea this is very apt, a lot of these books were bought before I really had a clue.

>Want to post stack
>I put the books I buy on a shelf

>>20974381
This niggas learning some good stuff. Right on

>you thought every image on this thread would be a joke?
>no

>>20986226
Holy based

>>20986226
go back >>>/pol/

>>20986226
Your parents are embarrassed about you

>>20986226
You belong on /lit/ and your parents are proud of you.

Just about finished with Antkind. And why yes, I did buy a copy of Mistress T's autobiography and think you should too!

>>20986226
You think about raping girls but you have never touched nor talked to one.

>having a phone with a camera quality good enough to let you distinguish the titles
ngmi

>>20986226
Lib status: seething.

just moved into a new place and this is what's not in boxes

>>20978825
Thanks for proving my point.