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ITT: Book collections worth having.

>> No.10334981

>>10334972
Apparently the Landmark Arrian in hardback because it's fucking impossible to find below MSRP

>> No.10335047

>>10334972
Pic not related

>> No.10335355

>>10334972
I have most of the Great Books series. It's pretty good.

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>> No.10335427

>>10335413

"THREE NOVELS" is just the bloody worst thing.

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>>10335413
when will a Fahrenheit 451 hit those volumes jesus fuck

>> No.10335452

>>10335413
>not a bait.jpg
the worst thing is that is true

>> No.10335456

>>10334972
If you really fall in love with an author you might be able to justify buying their anthology, but for the most part book collections are just status symbols that get in the way of genuine literary experience.

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>> No.10335489

>>10335463
What
Tf is that. His stories fit in a single book, and so does his poetry. What's the rest? Never read his essays n shit btw

>> No.10335505

>>10335489
and that is not all that he wrote

>> No.10335548

>>10335413
I’ve got the divine comedy, it’s not bad.

>> No.10336485

>>10335413
Complete Lovecraft, Divine Comedy, and Illiad/Odyssey are only mildly acceptable ones in there. And that's a tepid, begrudging acceptance of their existence. You'd be better off tracking down a Folio of them though.

>> No.10336494

>>10335413
>Stephen King
>Douglas Adams
>Dan Brown
Why would they ruin the collection with such atrocious "literature"?

>> No.10336525

>>10335413
Does the girl who posted this know that she's a meme?

>> No.10336670

>>10335413
Goddamn bricks, all of them!

>> No.10336677

I'm conflicted about books.

I love them but I also want to own as few material possessions as possible. Which would of course mean not keeping a collection.
Having some incredible ones always on hand for reference material would, however, be useful.

>> No.10336693

>>10336677
Just hide your bookshelves.

>> No.10336696

>>10336485
The saturation/brightness is turned up, a lot of the darker brown ones really don’t look bad

>> No.10336710

>>10336696
I have a couple of the B&N leatherbounds. Very much regret them. I wish they'd stuck with the old style from when they first started, just black/brown leatherbound books without much detail on them. These gaudy bright colors with horrible cover art offend me.

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>>10336677
>would of

>> No.10336791

>>10335413
>>10335413
what is the "Star Wars" book?

>> No.10336798

>>10334972
Harvard's five-foot shelf. Cheaply available, fairly thorough and with quite a number of surprises/unusual choices (I think mostly due to length... New Atlantis over New Organon; Milton's prose over Paradise Lost)

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>>10335413
>99% of the translated works are just public domain translations outdated since the 1900s

>> No.10336808

>>10336718
would / of course / mean
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>> No.10336812

>>10336791
The novelizations of the original Star Wars trilogy.

>> No.10336850

>>10335413
this is plebeian

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Who Ancient Commentators on Aristotle here?

>> No.10337037

>>10335463

What is this?
Is it in English or French?

>> No.10337165

>>10334972
That collection is designed to produce a certain kind of person by omitting some key players in this whole western civy game. Enjoy your secular empiricist positivist starter pack.