/lit/ - Literature

op will be the first to post his list

you giftin' OP?

someone post and see if op delivars.
potential epic awaits.

fuck it, i'll take the plunge

if i get anything on the list, i'd be super grateful...so i'm hoping for the best, but not expecting anything
http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/1OZSU82XDRT0T

did op delivar?

amazon.com/wishlist/2ALG9VVSQPZFS

always lookin for recommendations on linguistics and philosophy of language. i don't attend a university so it's hard to gauge my level of education and determine what to pursue next.

>>938237
either no, or not yet

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/XEJ98QZ4NU43/ref=cm_sw_su_w

Just so you guys know, I'm in brazil, and there aren't many books, and one of them is comics, but these are the only ones I want to own, I'm usually a lend, borrow, library kind of guy.
It would mean a lot if someone could gift me one of these.

http://amzn.com/w/22YLM4B0BGZ8Z

I still don't know if Michael Ab. ever got the two books I bought him.

>>938245 here
oh yeah here's my picture with a timestamp so you know it's real because I hear that works in here.

how can you tell if someone has bought you a book?

these threads are stupid

>>938288
there's a drop down box that usually says "Unpurchased"
move it to "Purchased" and see if anything is on the list

>>938290
not when someone buys you a book.

>>938290
besides the obvious beggars there is, from time to time, some good discussion to be had in these threads when people with similar interests see each others' lists.

wishlists are fucking stupid

if you want a book so badly buy it.

if you don't have the money, go to a library.

wishing never accomplished anything

aaawwwww snap someone bought me the man in the high castle! fuckin a, thanks so much. i don't even know when it happened, but i hope that whoever bought it for me is here.
that makes 2 books bought for me and ive only bought 1 for another anon - so ile be refraining from posting my wishlist anymore till i buy someone else a book.
fuckin a. i love this place.

I wish some girl would award me with fellatio.

I'm willing to suck dick, if someone buys a book for me.

http://amzn.com/w/12J7DFZ0H1063

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>>938227

Bro most of these you can probably pick up for like £2 at your local second-hand bookstore. Go find one, have a dig, see what you uncover :)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/2KERE2J0NV8BE

http://www.amazon.ca/wishlist/11RI2OB79GQT2

sure is trollin' in this thread

>>938345
oh wow, the egyptian book of the dead. i might have to look into that. have you read the tibetan book of the dead?

>>938355
>have you read the tibetan book of the dead

not list owner, but i saw the movie. seriously, it was one of those weird trippy nfb numbers.

This phenomenon is proof that /lit/ is the best board on 4chan

http://amzn.com/w/1BOCPJDW929G2

>>938355
List owner here - Nope. I would like to eventually though.

Some of the books I still need for my "library".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/4GHE10Z1E7VE

>>938357
heh, whoah. that sounds really bizarre, probably terrible, but somehow... i am drawn to it.

>>938361
>>938357
>>938355
I like all of you

been interested in reading both books of the dead
so brofistan for mutual interests

http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/19JE4C8PIBM4M

Never done this before, so if someone buys me a book or two I'll be more than happy to buy them some. Just got my paycheck on Friday, as well.

>>938366

it was, in fact, quite terrible. probably best enjoyed with some, uh, herbal enhancement.

>>938367
here's the image you are looking for, bro.
on a side note, i haven't read the tibetan book for some time now. i think im gonna go pick it up again now.

>>938245

Where is stephen pinkers Language Instinct?

I'd rather compare tastes. I'd feel like a little bitch if someone bought me something and I didn't pay back in full.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3LYPXH2FG1E9F/ref=lst_llp_wl-head

And no one but a little bitch likes feeling like a little bitch.

So, actual book discussion time: how was the latest Pullman novel, the one about Jesus?
I've been pretty disappointed with most of what he's written other than His Dark Materials so I'm kind of iffy about it.
I've also been meaning to read the Haruhi books but they look a little too similar to the TV series (or rather, vice versa. Egg came before the chicken and all).

>>938376
I'm not sure I understand the question. If you are looking to put it on your own list -
from your wishlist, there's a bar on the top of the screen you can type in. Just search for it there. Click on the title when it appears. Then on the right hand side there's a button that says "add to wishlist."

>>938380
the link to your wishlist isn't working

>>938386
Eh, worked when I tried it. Whatever.

www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/2KG7R9A0G56S9

I would absolutely love anything.

>>938328
>i'm willing to suck dick

Name your time and place.

Post pics of yourself so I know it's worth it.

>>938342
yeah, I know this is probably true
The problem is that Im out of the country until the beginning of September, so unless I want these books in Japanese, going to a local 2nd hand store won't do any good.
I'd like to have some waiting for me when I get back though

>>938402
oh yeah son, i see that rand in there. if i had money i would totally buy this for you, just for the trolling potential. we'll probably have a good shitstorm on our hands anyways.

>>938402


I wish I had the money to get you the Freud, Dante or Saki.

Stephen King and Ayn Rand on the other hand...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/23Q3EKAPGJT8M

Mostly language stuff, some of which are relics from years ago, but there are some novels, too.

>>938376
did you find it?

http://www.amazon.ca/registry/wishlist/2D4UDGGFNLI1F

Just started my list. Getting Pale Fire would rock.

Has anyone actually bought anyone anything?

>>938275
Hi, I did get the books you bought - The Princess and the Goblin and Frankenstein, right? Already done with both XD

Thank you so much <333

>>938443
in this thread, i don't think so

Damn, Putin looks badass in that picture.

Here's mine, as usual, recommendations are more than welcome.
http://amzn.com/w/3LVL1DV3YY20I

well since everybody else is doing it I just put this baby together today http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1QMI8VI3BGU3U

>>938470
You're linking us wrong. Notice how the format of that URL isn't the same as all the others posted here? Yeah.

>>938474
like it matters but thanks, the real link is http://amzn.com/w/1QMI8VI3BGU3U

>>938462
Damn Lynch, he does I wish he was my friend.

>>938443

no kind anons so far. doesn't matter; it's still fun.

>>938497
just putting the list together is kinda fun actually

http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/12E5DOIPKFJ1Q
Some tasty things

>>938345
I got gifted Deathbird Stories recently. I've only read the first story so far (started it yesterday) but HOLY CRAP was that good. Smart move putting it on your wishlist.

>>938443
I've bought a book for anon. I plan to start a thread next payday so I can gift more.

http://amzn.com/w/GSFWEN1H17TC

Beggars cannot be choosers, but either one of the Buddhist books. Even if no one goes for my wishlist, it is amazing that Anons are doing this for one another. :3

http://amzn.com/w/1XMGF2QA0MSVS

I'd love the audio engineering book, but that's expensive and I'd be happy to get anything at all.

Amazon is so dramatically overpriced.

Is there a way to do this kind of thing with bookdepository?

>>938495
Ohh we're on the same boat there, dear anon. This guy is awesome.

>>938516
Bookdepository doesn't have $<1 used books, at least none that I'm interested in. On amazon You can find quite a few books for less than 50 cents. And then you pay maybe $4 for shipping. Even the new books tend to be about the same price.

>>938516
Unfortunately not. While you can make a wishlist, bookdepository are yet to implement a feature that would allow someone else to buy the books for you. I suggest emailing them and letting them know you'd like this feature - a few of us did so last thread.

>>938516
Does bookdepository carry used books? I couldn't tell, but lots of books on amazon can be had for pennies (literally) and the shipping is maybe $4. I've purchased quite a few used books for about $4.01. The only cheaper way to acquire these books would be at a physical location, like a thrift store or something.

Ausfag here. It's worth a shot!

http://amzn.com/w/38J2GHDOSNY39

>>938546
>Does bookdepository carry used books?

Nope. Try betterworldbooks or thriftbooks for that. It'd be sweet if abebooks had something like it (I suppose based on ISBNs).

>>938328
Enjoy Snow Crash, bro. And you didn't even have to suck dick for it.

>>938546

Bookdepository has the cheapest new books. As for used books, it really depends on where you live and what the shipping to there will cost. Here in Canada, I'm often better off buying new at bookdepository than buying used on Amazon or eBay.

>>938568
>Here in Canada, I'm often better off buying new at bookdepository than buying used on Amazon or eBay.
Seconded for Australia.

>>938564
GOOD MAN
>>938328
CONGRATULATIONS
>my face when this shit happens

Don't expect anything, but will be grateful for anything. Just quit my soul-sucking retail job to attend school fulltime, so I can't afford books anymore.
http://amzn.com/w/3CPMOL2H9V4DA

http://amzn.com/w/2W6M56NFI0GQK

Soon I will be able to buy people shit in these threads.

http://amzn.com/w/18SBMZOZSXP3N

now lets see. who can I buy shit for...

Here goes, have yet to get anything.

http://amzn.com/w/1GIGRI7DHUGF8

>>938563
The prices still come out to be about the same. Shipping is free on those sites, but the cheapest books come in at about $4. Thank you for the link though.

Here's mine.

http://amzn.com/w/31DSEN1KC2UMC

>>938601
is that you tyler?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/3MUYE87TU7P4U

http://amzn.com/w/94Y8HWD07FEK

I always late to these threads

>>938598
Ah, you have The Divine Comedy, fantastic. I would gift this if I had any money. I recommend 'The Dore Illustrations' for it too, which is on my list if you'd like to take a look at it. They are brilliant.

www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/2KG7R9A0G56S9

>>938609
Uhm no.
Just a good looking girl to get your attention.

I love looking through other peoples and adding their stuff to my list.

amzn.com/w/11XUMRRPFSG9Z

This is just my "to buy" list. I'm also taking suggestions for books to add to my list. So if you want to take a look and suggest something then please do.

Most of the stuff is scifi, books on conciousness, AI, religion, and reality.

>>938682
>Most of the stuff is scifi, books on conciousness, AI, religion, and reality.
Oh hey, these sound like my list of interests!
>opens link
>Ayn Rand
>closes tab

>>938708
The synopsis to atlus shrugged seemed interesting. Is author really that terrible?

>>938758

Don't judge a book by it's synopsis. shitsux.

>>938758
Oh, yeah! Terrible philosophy, and terrible characters used solely for the purpose of proving her own theories regarding capitalism and "success" via glorification of material goods for the sake of objectivism.

>>938708
>>938786
>>938783

I removed the books from my list then. Maybe anon will read my list and give suggestions.

>>938758
/lit/ LOOOOOVESS her

failed wishlist thread.

Australian. Any suggestions are also appreciated

http://amzn.com/w/3Z3DIFLGFMU5

>>938811
Oh look, it's almost as if a huge wall just vanished right before my eyes!
I see you've been checking that cyberpunk thread, eh?

>>938439

Ha, I love Ligotti. I would've gotten you that if I had money.

>>938837

It's actually my thread. I recently purchase an ebook reader so plan to just #bookz most of these. At the rate that I read, I should be good on books for about a year.

I'm going to bed now but I'd like to thank anyone who gifts in advance.

>>938858
Ohh, that'd explain it. I've been taking notes on some of the titles mentioned there, not too shabby on the mangas though.

>>938849

Thanks for the thought, mate. Reposting for luck:

http://www.amazon.ca/registry/wishlist/2D4UDGGFNLI1F

If an anon would be so kind as to buy me a book, I would be greatful, or if anyone as any suggestions on other books I should add to my list, I would also be appreciative: http://amzn.com/w/1EMEBC8AJ8ANG

China Mieville's The Scar and Iron Council.

NO ONE IS GIFTING YOU SORRY SANDNIGGERS STOP POSTING SHIT

So are "lol buy me books" threads bannable yet on /lit/? Because they sure as fuck should be.

>>938957
>>938955
>mad
>>938944
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorways_in_the_sand
I love the style. Might be relevant to your interest in Asimov.

>>938984
Looks quite interesting, thanks for the recommendation!

>>938957
hope not, i have scammed like eight people for $90 in amazon credit :3

>>939279
people gifting you things != scamming
even if you just return the books for credit. they are still giving you something, you are just liquidating it.

Bah, I'm always at work when these threads start.

I'm a little late, but anyone want to help out a previously generous anon?

http://amzn.com/w/1EP9H1FMQTA4S

I came up with a list of books I want to read a few months back in a text document a while back. Been slowly chipping away at it. Here's what I have currently, though the list keeps getting added to.

http://amzn.com/w/12P0VZUJ6WFSN

I'll see how generous /lit/ is, though I'm expecting nothing. I tend to give back though, so I guess time will tell.

Here's mine! I've posted in these threads 4 times now...I can still hope. Would love Norwegian Wood.
http://amzn.com/w/1ZIBYGPWAUU8X

>>939773
>Would love Norwegian Wood.
I see what you mean. Tee-hee.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/91IR5ANUD2UZ

>>938682
Enjoy Altered Carbon, bro. I bought a copy of it for someone else already, but based on your obvious interest in the genre (I can see that you were camping that cyberpunk-ish thread too) I think you'll fucking love it.

http://amzn.com/w/3Z3DIFLGFMU5

>>940041
>Sebastian
>Ship-to: No address entered
Son, we need to have words.

Wishlist share eh?

http://amzn.com/w/2BZAZGLVOS6I5

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

http://amzn.com/w/1YZQ6UIRIEW3M


Anything on there would be appreciated :)

>copy wishlist link
>browser tells me it's been entered before
>Greedy Motherfuckers.

>>940126
>NSFW List
>Books on domination, sexual photography

>>940126
So... Norse mythology.

>>940117
I'll tell you what he is, he's either a nutcase or an illegal immigrant, one or the other!

>>940147
maybe in other threads?
I haven't gotten anything.
been posting in these for like 5 days now.
I bought a few books for anon so it's alright.

>>940147
Who?

>>940160
Yeah. I'm slowly learning more about paganism, and the Norse gods fascinate me.

>>940150

This is what advertising is all about :D

>>938380 here, good to see someone else w/ Fitzpatrick's War on their wishlist. :D

>>940173
I respect modern Paganism for being one of the more benign religions.

If a pagan ever got political power it would start to suck though.

>>940181
It got recommended to me as a great "steampunk" style story. I'm trying to write one myself, and I thought if I read one it might make the process a bit less daunting.

>>940126

I can save you, or some generous anon, a bunch of money by just TELLING you what's in those screenwriting books. Start another thread on that topic, if you like, cause this isn't the place to do it.

Will give this a go.

http://www.amazon.ca/registry/wishlist/2D4UDGGFNLI1F

>>940166
Several people. Not listing them all.

>>940147
Not greedy, /lit/ is a small community, were like 10 or 20. I've seen plenty of these lists before.

>>940196
Really now? I uh, I guess I could do that. Thing is, I'm not really writing any stories I'd like to adapt at this time.

I'm not evening getting my film making equipment until the end of the year.

>>940211
*not even

Ugh, brain needs more caffeine.

>>938598

I would buy you one of those... but i'm poor. pretty good list, though.

>>940193
Never actually run into a physical copy of it anywhere, but the concept sounds pretty awesome.

On the other hand, it could suck. The Johannes Cabal series was on my wish list for a pretty long time before I actually picked up the books and realized I hated the writing style.

>>940203
Oh. Well I've definitely posted my list before, but never been gifted. *shrug*

hey guys, here's mine :)
http://amzn.com/w/21ZECVWRZRDWG

>>940278
>opens link
>Ayn Rand
>closes tab
again and again and again

>>940237
>I've never been gifted

I see what you mean.

>>940290
Brb, adding Farside books to my wishlist.

>>940289
Oh I'm not the only one who does that.

>>940302

I do that too.

Alright one last shot.

>http://amzn.com/w/1GIGRI7DHUGF8

>>940311
And Tyler again... Sup bro?

See what I mean? Small community.

http://amzn.com/w/258723V98BH9U

http://amzn.com/w/1LEXPI7PVF6JX
Dissenters will inevitably abhor.

>>940325
Hey man, you don't want that edition of City of Saints and Madmen. You want the most current (3rd I think) edition because it includes several stories that weren't in the earlier ones.

>>940326
What's with the absurd amount of vuvuzelas?

>>Really now? I uh, I guess I could do that. Thing is, I'm not really writing any stories I'd like to adapt at this time.

Well, then no need to post now. It's just....the basic screenwriting structure is about as simple as the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet. In other words, I can teach you how to do it competently in about 20 minutes, and save you the trouble of buying any one of the zillion books on the subject, let alone 350 bucks for a Robert McKee seminar.

>>940339
It's a wishlist.

It's for making my wishes come true.

http://amzn.com/w/15XJAXZ1O218M
Just lookin' to start a collection of classics. Surely there is nothing wrong with that.

is anyone even buying?

i'd be super gald if someone did and decided that they wanted to buy me something, so i'll repost:
http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1OZSU82XDRT0T


sage is because it's not necessarily contributing to the /lit/ society, but i want to post anyway

>>940340
Ah ok. Well feel free to keep in touch then. My email is mwglc@yahoo.com

>>940347
>is anyone even buying?
At least one guy. I've bought two people some stuff from list thread so far.

>>940352
>Everyone (including myself) immediately checks their wishlists

>>940345
Your wishes are a bit bizarre, I should say.
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>>940358
Nah, I'm not expecting gifts. I just posted mine to share. I've already been gifted by JP and another Anon. I'm lucky enough.

>>940352
well then i don't feel too bad for reposting

>>940337
Thanks

>>938598

>>Purchased
>>0 items
>>sadface

http://amzn.com/w/1KFNXAQ6XCDU0

Here's mine. Suggestions are welcome. Looking to expand my sparse collection.

>>940364
The reason I keep buying for others is that SOMEHOW people keep buying stuff for me. I only posted in the first few jp threads and he awesomely gifted my Deathbird Stories. So, I bought a couple of other people some books, then the day before last somehow I received Pale Fire and The Unincorporated Man. I don't know if someone bookmarked my wishlist or what, but I hadn't posted it for ages.

>>940363
Is it that unusuBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ?

If someone could get any of these for me it would be absolutely amazing. If you please, lit, I'd greatly appreciate any of these.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/29J16LH8PN8ZU

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1RLTDHHGWPRAH

Make my day Anon

>>940523
You haven't read Sirens of the Titans?
If I had money, today would be your day.
But I don't, it's not, sorry anon.

>>940572
>Sirens of the Titans
*Titan

>>940572

Man, that's like blue-balls, dude. What the fuck. I'm not that guy, but still, I feel sorry for him.

http://amzn.com/w/3UTUU4LL7O8ZS

the only people who like vonnegut are hipsters

>>940590
Agreed.

Vonnegut was a wannabe Twain-lite.

>>940587

If I had any money at the moment, I would definitely buy you a copy of Memento Mori. I fucking loved that book when I first read it, and actually wrote my college admissions essay about it. Good taste.

>>940590
>Man, that's like blue-balls, dude.
>Man, dude.

>>940583
>the only people who like vonegugt are hipsters

There you have it.

>>940602
http://amzn.com/w/32V394VY7HSUE

http://amzn.com/w/1E94L2LODSA4I

Mostly Fantasy novels for me. Looking for some suggestions too, if anyone has any.

>>940615
>A Hero of Our Time

Damn fine choice, damn fine. I wish I had the money to shell out to get you that.

>>940615
Also, fuck. Someone besides me who actually knows about the Brave Little Toaster books!

>>940621
>Mostly fantasy novels

Read a real fucking book for once.

>>940621
Someone besides me who actually knows about the Brave Little Toaster books!

I have fond memories of the Lone Wolf books as well, a used bookstore in the small town I used to live in had somehow gotten a collection of those. I loved fantasy and loved owning a book that was part second-person novel and part tallying shit up with a pencil. Closest thing I had to DnD or other tabletop games. Was isolated from society a lot at that age because I'd taken a lot of sick days and my school wasn't sure whether or not to kick me out half the time. There weren't any other fantasy geeks in my town, so I figured a single-person pen and paper game/book wasn't too shabby.

http://amzn.com/w/1XMGF2QA0MSVS

Reposting :D I'm open to suggestions for stuff to add, too.

>>940647
Seconded.

>>940621

>fantasy novels

>novels

It would be a little more accurate if you'd actually chosen actual fantasy NOVELS and not childrens' stories and Choose Your Own Adventure shit.

Anyway, suggestions:

The Elric sga by Michael Moorcock seems pertinent to your interests. So does Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, and the Fahrfd and the Grey Mouser short stories by Fritz Leiber.

>>940669
Also, not sure how I forgot it, but if you're into medieval fantasy with swords and wizards, this is a pretty decent series that you'll get through in a couple weeks or less:

http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Dus-Lawrence-Watt-Evans/dp/1587156652

>>940661
The Johannes Cabal series needs to go off your wish list immediately.

Howard's writing is shit tier.

>>940661
Just from your wish list I can tell you smell horrible.
You're probably teenaged, incredibly greasy and have never heard of deoderant. You probably enjoy playing DnD in your neckbeard friends' cockroach-infested rathole of an apartment pretending to be a sexy elf chick. Just guessing.

>>940661
I can think of plenty of suggestions for things you to remove: like every single Roger Zelazny book. People who sit through his novels and like them must be masochists.

>>940669
>>940672
Thanks, I'll look into them. That list was pretty much made from shit that I started reading some book of and have been meaning to finish, that's why it lacks substance at the moment. The only stuff that was added that I've been meaning to START was Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Divine Comedy, which I've been meaning to read for ages (Sherlock Holmes was on there as well, but I got that recently)

Oh, and Lone Wolf books are great and I'm sure you've never even checked them out, so fuck you on that front.

Also, can someone tell me the names of two book series I keep forgetting. One is about a somewhat post apocalyptic wasteland where everyone rides on mobile cities that eat each other for supplies and such, the other I believe has a book called "The Knights of the World" in it (I think that was the title anyway, but nothing comes up on google that matches.)

Hey, wow! OP has a pic of me!

Theologus Autodidactus. The gay local bookstores don't stock it and I don't use Amazon.

>>940697
>the gay local bookstores

You frequent homosexual-themed bookshops?

>>940701
Yeah, the selection is usually better. The Hetero bookstores around here don't stock things written by Moslems at all, or anything but the Aryan master race. The homo bookstores stock all the cool stuff, if you're willing to dig through the chilling erotica.

Why, do you shop at bookstores NOT run by homos?

>>940678
A friend recommended it, the synopsis sounds entertaining. I'll have to go to a book store or something and read a few pages.
>>940687
I love me some Roger Zelazny.
>>940684
I'm 22, clean-shaven, smooth as fuck, shower twice a day, and have never played DnD(though I won't deny I'm slightly interested).

Oh come on, everybody knows that Barnes and Noble are a gay couple. Ed Barnes and Fred Noble. That's why they have so many copies of the Twilight novels.

http://amzn.com/w/1EP9H1FMQTA4S

Please help a kindanon out! I've given in the past (I swear) and I can always use new material

>>940720
The trouble with the Johannes Cabal books is that they try too hard to be funny.

A much better experience can be had from just about any Terry Pratchett novel.

>>940726
Humanities major much?

>>Please help a kindanon out! I've given in the past (I swear) and I can always use new material

If I wasn't broke, I'd buy some of those for you, just because you're a fellow Scorpio.

If this wasn't 4chan, I'd suggest you find some way to give me your mailing address, and I'd just send you my copies of some of those books, since I've read them.

So I guess all I'm doing is bemoaning the fact that we can't organize some kind of bookswap thing because this is 4chan and we'd probably be giving our addresses to pedophiles, aspies, and the cyber police.

>>940730
Anything in particular you'd recommend?

>>940736
Night Watch is the best way to start with Pratchett.

Also, look into Neil Gaiman's work. Start with American Gods and avoid Neverwhere like the plague.

>>940742
Added, thanks :D

>>940742
Neverwhere is fantastic, if you are into that kind of thing.

The only work of Gaiman's I don't like is The Graveyard Book. He's definitely my favourite living authour. Favourite dead one's got to be Steinbeck.

>>940734

Haha, indeed. I'm a lit and Creative Writing major. All I do is read/write.

>>940788

I look forward to your writing about reading and writing appearing in McSweeney's.

>>McSweeney's.

Dave Eggers here. Please spell it correctly. It's McSweeny's. You added an extra E.

And yes, I know it's 4am in Brooklyn, I'm wasted and have nothing better to do with my time than post here.

>>940819

Kudos for giving a flying one, Dave.

>>940794

Well look at you being clever.

Bumping this for an answer to my question:

>Also, can someone tell me the names of two book series I keep forgetting. One is about a somewhat post apocalyptic wasteland where everyone rides on mobile cities that eat each other for supplies and such, the other I believe has a book called "The Knights of the World" in it (I think that was the title anyway, but nothing comes up on google that matches.)

>>943037
Go into some shitty dump of a used bookstore, you'll probably find them there for like 25 cents.

>>940089
>Woke up this morning
>Add books to list that I plan to buy
>Notice a book is missing from my list and I know I
>Put it there.
>Check Purchased
>Someone gifted me Altered Carbon
>My face when

Thanks anon. And just FYI I've gifted to anther anons too. The cycle really works. I'll continue to gift.

>>943069
Congrats anon. I, too, have both gifted and been gifted. It's a fabulous thing. That trolls gravitate towards these threads may be evidence of their worth.
The funny thing is that some of the people posting their wishlists are undoubtedly also some of the same people trolling in here. Oh well, it's all fun and games I guess.

>>943047
I'm asking what the names of the series are, not where I can get the books.

I have a wishlist but don't feel like posting it til I have money to actually carry the favor.

http://www.amazon.ca/registry/wishlist/2D4UDGGFNLI1F

Recommendations welcome!

>>943147

Recommendation: don't read Proust ''A la recherche du temps perdu''. Find some great art exposition instead, you'll save time.

>>943155

Care to explain why?

>>943209

Yup. Because you'll read a 1200 pages and will have no idea of what happened in the whole book, but will have lots of Provence's paysages perfectly described in your mind, which you can find in an art gallery.

>>943225

Samefag here: I retire what I just said. I truly got bored a lot of times while reading it, but I don't regret it at all. Read it once, you won't reread it, but he truly masters descriptions, making it a good read.

>>943254

So not a particularly enjoyable read, all in all.

>>943437

Depends of what you like. You'll daydream for sure, but no, I wouldn't call it an ''enjoyable read''.

>>943455

Are there better Proust reads then?

>>943461

There MUST be. But I can't tell, I never read anything else from him since A la recherche du temps perdu really bored me. I heard he was a heck of a genious though, so I might do that witthin the next weeks. I still suggest you A la recherche du temps perdu if you're yourself a writter. My writting skills really improved since I read it (I'm a frenchfag, so it might not show when I write English though).

>>943483

Thanks for the insight.