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Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:21:00 2014 No.5004198 [DELETED]

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recent purchases thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:30:57 2014 No.5004250 File: 1.07 MB, 1934x2046, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:34:54 2014 No.5004267 >>5004250 You going to read that Ulysses this bloomsday?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:40:37 2014 No.5004292 >>5004250 Fuck I need to buy 2666

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:44:24 2014 No.5004307 File: 67 KB, 600x800, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:52:17 2014 No.5004339 File: 209 KB, 2048x1152, recent_purchases.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish they had the edition of No Longer Human with the really attractive cover.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:59:49 2014 No.5004367 File: 40 KB, 460x500, 1365130176282.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 19:59:58 2014 No.5004369 File: 25 KB, 304x500, No_Longer_Human_%28Osamu_Dazai_novel%29_cover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5004339 This one

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:02:13 2014 No.5004379 File: 33 KB, 310x350, 1390823586997.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5004367

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:04:07 2014 No.5004387 >>5004267 I just snapped it up before someone else grabbed it for $3. I still have stuff to read for muh references first.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:06:01 2014 No.5004391 File: 47 KB, 424x319, 1377271765996.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >being so eager to waste money that you buy things you'll only need for a few weeks and probably will never use again, and if ever, only once every couple of years

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:08:12 2014 No.5004400 >>5004391 nobody on /lit/ reads for the sake of reading, they read to impress other people

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:10:48 2014 No.5004416 >>5004400 True, it is the reason I bought >>5004307

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:11:27 2014 No.5004419 >>5004391 >not spending most of your money on your favorite books to help the economy flourish

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:12:29 2014 No.5004427 >>5004400 This. Why do you think these threads are always filled with books /lit/ is always recommending to newcomers? There is hardly any hidden gems and it is just people trying hard to become /lit/ certified--which is embarrassing and insecure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:12:43 2014 No.5004429 >>5004419 >proliferating the concept of spending money to enjoy ideas >any year

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:12:47 2014 No.5004431 >>5004369 Correct.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:43:38 2014 No.5004568 >>5004198 Lit, pick what I read first Denis Johnson-Angels Thomas Pynchon-Vineland Jim Butcher- Skin Game Robert Coover- The Orgin of the Brunists.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:44:14 2014 No.5004570 >paper books You are killing the planet you fucking monster.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:45:48 2014 No.5004581 >>5004427 >The literature board doesn't give good book recommendations Autist pls

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:47:58 2014 No.5004591 >>5004581 >the music board doesn't give good music recommendations Why should /lit/ be any different? It's just a big circlejerk for hipsters.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:50:22 2014 No.5004605 >>5004591 Actually, both the literature board AND the music board have given me decent book and music recommendations, even outside of the High School Entry Level category of books and music.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 20:53:47 2014 No.5004621 >>5004605 Same here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:01:40 2014 No.5004664 >>5004391 Your home must be rather empty.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:32:56 2014 No.5004791 >>5004198 Doctor Zhivago-Pasternak Buddenbrooks-Mann Light in August-Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:42:45 2014 No.5004823 File: 143 KB, 1280x720, WIN_20140526_231322.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read Shackleton's journey. It was awesome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:47:21 2014 No.5004840 >>5004823 I just read the beginning of sickness unto death, last night when I was tired, and he threw the relation of relations is the self, and the relation has a positive relation that is the relation of ur mum. Damn that shit was confusing

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:52:52 2014 No.5004853 File: 184 KB, 800x375, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm a huge book nerd, i know

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 21:59:40 2014 No.5004864 >>5004853 bait/8

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 22:00:15 2014 No.5004867 >>5004853 >Stephen king Dude wat

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 22:05:11 2014 No.5004884 >>5004568 Vineland

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 22:09:36 2014 No.5004897 >>5004867 What's wrong with Stephen King?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 22:18:48 2014 No.5004927 >>5004391 Please leave /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 22:49:39 2014 No.5005039 >>5004568 I'm about to finish reading Angels. It's excellent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 12 23:29:32 2014 No.5005137 >>5004427 We all have to start somewhere feggot