/lit/ - Literature

>>3027588

Penguin have hardly any good books that I like, anyway.

EVERYONE POST YOUR COLLECTION OF PENGUIN CLASSICS

>>3027590
So edgy

Because what you read matters. Not the covers.

>>3027599
b-b-but i want an aesthetically pleasing book collection

>having a collection

_ _ e _

>>3027599
Usually this. But there are exceptions. Especially if it's a set. If I'm buying a book series, I go out of my way to make sure they all have the same cover artist.

EVERYONE POST YOUR COLLECTION OF PENGUIN CLASSICS NOW

>>3027609
the republic by plato
metaphysics by aristotle
critique of pure reason by kant
ethics by spinoza
genealogy of morals by nietzsche
civilization and its discontents by freud

>>3027606
Is the word "Greg"?

How can you guess my name? Am I really the only guy with a collection?

>>3027599

Yeah. I picked this up. It looks good on my shelf.

bunch-a faggots up in here

>>3027616
looks very bad

>>3027616
You can pretend you're playing the game that inspired the book!

>>3027615

fuck yeah. have that as well.

can't believe that's imagepasta

>>3027609
Juvenal - The Sixteen Satires
Tacitus - The Histories
Cicero - Selected Works
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Brontë Sisters - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey

>btw i'm a girl

>>3027634
>Cicero - Selected Works
how good is it?

>>3027609
I have about three shelf metres of penguins. More like five if you count pelicans.

>>3027635
It's a really nice collection, I think. It's split into two parts: Against Tyranny and How to Live. The first is comprised of Against Verres, the Second Philippic Against Antony and some of his letters, which include letters to and from Caesar and Pompey. The second has On Duties and On Old Age; the latter "anticipates Schopenhauer and modern gerontological research," according to the introduction. Translation (by Michael Grant) is in mostly contemporary English, so some of the rhetoric is lost but it flows very well. There's also an effort on giving context in the introductions not just for contemporary events, but greater historical events as well (bits about French Revolutionaries being inspired by Cicero and such).

>>3027676
>you will never be a loved member of the Dark Brotherhood family

>>3027590
Sunhawk, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard anyone say.

>>3027612
>genealogy of morals by nietzsche

penguin classics haven't published that one.

>2012
>lying on the internet

>>3027588
>collecting penguin classics

That's like being disappointed that your Walmart clothing brand is out of stock.

>>3027588
>tfw you really don't give a fuck about the state or covers of your books.
feelsgoodman

>>3028017
>2012
>not being OCD about your book covers

enjoy your non-existent sense of style and aesthetics

>>3028025
they're books. only care about the inside.

If you were gonna collect something to look good, why choose Penguin classics? I mean, I like Penguin classics -- they're very readable, they have decent covers, and decent notes -- but those spines crease like nobody's business. You can barely open them without getting an ugly white line down the side.

My collection of Penguin classics:
>Wuthering Heights
>Don Quixote
>Wuthering Heights
>Villette
>Wuthering Heights
>Pride and Prejudice
Seriously.

I have Wuthering Heights in a shitty small Vintage 'not for resale' version too.

>>3028031
I guess that is what you tell yourself when you look into the mirror as well?

>>3028084
touché

>>3027634

>>btw I'm a girl

You know the rules.

Was it the Penguin version of Dorian Grey that had Franz Liszt on the cover?

>>3027588

collections are for manbabies. stfu.

>>3027616
Jesus fucking Christ, what? Why would you do that?

That game was sacrilege.

>>3027634
>btw I'm a girl
filtered

I'll get the penguin version as long as it has a good translation

Sometimes they don't

>penguin.

Not buying Everyman.

>>3028195

This. I'm pretty spergy about translations and try to do a little research before selecting any particular one.

Whenever I can buy a Wordsworth copy I do. Who wants to pay more than £2 for a book?

>>3027609
The Great Gatsby
1984
Animal Farm
Catcher In The Rye

>>3028601

Could you be any more fucking obvious?

>be broke
>have to buy the Wordsworth edition
>tfw

sometimes the cover art is incredibly irrelevant to the book

Penguin's cheap books always tend to look nice - give me a plain cover rather than a shit one.

>>3028642
>tfw reader's digest free books bought for pittance from charity shops
Get on my level, plebes.

>>3028663
readers digest? Aren't those abridged editions?

>>3027634
I hate you more than anything anywhere

>>3028667
Yes


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