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ITT: The Last Book You Bought

>> No.535919
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535919

I gave it away
Still waiting for feedback

>> No.535924

>>535919
Snow Country is great.

>> No.535942

>>535924

Thousand Cranes is best Kawabata.

>> No.537499
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537499

riveting stuff

>> No.537516

The last book I bought was probably a Research Methods textbook for one of my classes.

As far as books I read for pleasure, I believe it was either Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes or Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

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>> No.537533
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>> No.539143

I don't remember. There were a bunch.
They're in the To Read shelves.

>> No.540210
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540210

New hardback, as a set with a new hardback of Children of Hurin, which is now my second copy of that, but for the equivalent of USD 12 / GBP 8 / EUR 9 for both I couldn't pass it up.

>> No.540226

>>534752
SO. FUCKING. BORING

I have read some thick stuff but shit

>> No.540237
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>>540237

Isn't his atheism a bit too weighty to be truly portable?

>> No.540468

>>540457

Yes. When it came in the mail I realised I'd been gypped. 500 pages? I can't carry this brick onto the subway without someone noticing it, damnit.

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>> No.540492

>>540468

You could always make it a fake cover.

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>> No.540496

>>540479

Translator(s)?

>> No.540501

>>540492

True say... will do

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540579

I bought the first edition but I can't find any pictures of the cover online.

>> No.540883

>>540496

Butler, with Greek nomenclature for the Gods.

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>> No.540922

>>540883

In that case, you might want to have a look at his little book at

http://www.archive.org/details/authoressofodyss00butlrich

or

http://www.archive.org/details/authoressofodyss00butluoft

in which he famously argued that the Odyssey was composed by a woman.

>> No.540931

>>540922

Sounds interesting. I'll take a look before I start reading it, then.

>> No.540962
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I bought a lot of books last time, so I'll just list 'em off.

Feet of Clay
Mort
The Colour of Magic
Time Enough For Love
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Transitions of H.P. Lovecraft
Neuromancer
All the ancient Greek plays
History's Great Letters.

The last one is interesting; letters from famous historic figures like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Napoleon, G Wash, etc.

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541345

>69 pages in

>realizes book is ~800 pages

>part 1 of 9

I don't think can deal with 8,000 pages of this...

>> No.541369

Third one of Stieg Larson's Millenium thing, for my girlfriend.

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541371

I've been getting really into the Beat Generation lately.

>> No.541383

>>541345

>part 1 of 9

Try part 1 of 13. Book 12 comes in two volumes, each as big as any of the others.

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541384

Not gonna read it until the second part comes out, though.

>> No.541393

>>541387

What is the point of these? No link, no message, nothing.

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Microserfs. I loved it.

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Malleus

>> No.541757

>>541384

I'm in the middle of a re-read of the rest of the series.

Started Book 10, manager at work dies, I get his position, haven't had time for more the 20 pages in 7 weeks.

At this rate, volumes 2 & 3 of aMoL will be out before I finish #13.

What makes it even worse is I have two Culture novels waiting as well, and one of them is Use of Weapons. grr...

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>> No.541788

>>535919
>>535924

I read this book while working a graveyard shift in another city a few months ago, and upon finishing I read the notes on the author and translator. This particular translator was born and raised in the same city in which I was working that night. It was pretty mind-blowing, trust me.

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needed some Sci-fi, and webber is a reliable guy.

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2deep4u

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Romans and Britons slaughtering each other