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New year, new books. Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Dec 31 08:38:07 2011 No.2289283 [Reply] [Original]

Post your list of protopurchases!

Walden – Henry David Thoreau
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Man in the Dark – Paul Auster
Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster
Mr Vertigo – Paul Auster
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Melancholy of Resistance – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Little, Big – John Crowley
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
A Clash of Kings – GRR Martin
Starter for Ten – David Nicholls
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt – Aimee Bender
The Death of Artemio Cuz – Carlos Fuentes
Terra Nostra – Carlos Fuentes
The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares
Who Killed Palomino Molero? – Mario Vargas Llosa
Mason and Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Shadows In Flight – Orson Scott Card
The Return – Roberto Bolano
The Insufferable Gaucho – Roberto Bolano
Distant Star – Roberto Bolano
11/22/63 – Stephen King
Wuthering Heights – Charlotte Bronte
Lady Chatterly’s Lover – DH Lawrence
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis
The Third Reich – Roberto Bolano

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 08:51:07 2011 No.2289293 >>2289283 But "proto" means old, past, Sunhawk. I bet you meant just the wishlist was old, not the purchases. >Post your proto-list of future purchases!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 09:12:06 2011 No.2289306 >>2289293 Proto means first. Still doesn't make sense in OP, but you're wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 09:19:07 2011 No.2289314 >>2289293 >>2289306 Guys, I think he meant the books he purchased to read in 2012? So he purchased them in 2011, proto 2012. Or something, Sunhawk seems a bit strange.

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person !.avztqSy6I Sat Dec 31 09:27:06 2011 No.2289325
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>>2289283
>mfw I'm still stuck on 2008 'hipster'
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
I enjoyed this, I hope you do to. Also:
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

>A Clash of Kings – GRR Martin
Why bro?

>Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
>Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis
Don't, seriously. BEE only had 1 good book. (Rules of Attraction).

Paul Auster is good. Although I've only read the New York Trilogy. Bolano and Pynchon are top.

I thought you were going to do a lot of Poetry ths year brah?

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Anonymous Sat Dec 31 09:50:06 2011 No.2289348

I've actually already bought a lot of the books I'm planning to read over the next year:

>Tutelary Tales by Villy Sorensen
>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
>Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood: Modern Albanian Short Stories
>The Passive Vampire by Gherasim Luca
>The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
>Hebdomeros and Other Writings by Giorgio de Chiciro
>100 Poems from the Japanese
>The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz by Ladislav Novak
>Contemplation by Franz Kafka
>The Horse has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry
>Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
>House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
>Moonstone Woman: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako
>The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy
>The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy
>Estonian Short Stories

And then a few I've still yet to buy:

>The Dedalus Book of Flemish Fantasy
>A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
>May by Karel Hynek Macha
>I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
>Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi
>Land of Wooden Gods by Jan Fridegård
>Inventor of Love & Other Writings by Gherasim Luca
>Zenobia by Gellu Naum
>Tangled Hair by Akiko Yosano
>Essays in Idleness by Kenko Yoshida

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Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Dec 31 09:59:07 2011 No.2289351

I thought I used proto correctly? Doesn't it just mean any version of something, or building up to something? A protopurchase is a purchase I haven't made yet.

I think I'm gonna add to the end of the list, with Beyond Good and Evil, but I know this'll set /lit/ off.

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Caracalla !!S1oOkTjvsv2 Sat Dec 31 10:00:07 2011 No.2289352

Plato-The Republic

Wittgenstein-The Philosophical Investigations

Heidegger- On Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Jaegwon Kim- The Philosophy of Mind

Faulkner-Absalom, Absalom

Bolano- 2666 (I'll let you know how it goes, sunhawk)

Lane Fox-The Classical World

Amis- Lucky Jim

>>	Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Dec 31 10:03:06 2011 No.2289358 >>2289352 Yes, tell me what you think of 2666.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 10:08:07 2011 No.2289361 i'm waiting for third reich in the mail, it was in sparks nevada the other day and then louisville last night :D girl in the flammable skirt rules also, futile final warning that imperial bedrooms is really, really bad

>>	Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs Sat Dec 31 10:17:07 2011 No.2289368 >>2289361 How long is The Girl In The Flammable Skirt?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 10:20:06 2011 No.2289372 >>2289368 about 200 pages... she has another collection, willful creatures, that's around the same length but i haven't read that one

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 31 10:21:06 2011 No.2289374 File: 103 KB, 709x458, yeti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2289361 >2012 >still waiting for the third reich