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Post your latest hauls.
How is my taste?

>> No.11432813

>buying new books
>from penguin no less
Did bad bro, did real bad

>> No.11432816

Not bad.
Just... not bad. I can't really say much else about this not-stack spread.

>> No.11432833

>>11432813
Do you know how many fucking book stores I went to to try and find these 5 specific novels?
I’ve driven close to 200 miles total the last couple days trying to find them. No store has these, new or used. I had to order them on Amazon, who then delivered in less than 24 hours. I wasted so much time.

>> No.11432851

>>11432798
One does not ask such questions, anon

>> No.11432874

>>11432798
It would seem you're developing it, haven't thoroughly refined it yet. Look for the John Marks translation of "Journey to the End of the Night." Manheim is fine for the rest of Celine's catalogue, but Mark's "Journey," is a much drier, sober read while Manheim's is saucier, crass, sensational.

>> No.11433103

>>11432813
I wouldn't have damn problem with Penguin if they would change the paper to acid free paper.

>> No.11433110

>>11432833
pls don't let this be the truth

>> No.11433111
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>>11432798
how'd i do fellas?

>> No.11433119

>>11433111
I rate you Ligotti.

>> No.11433123

>>11433111
will-neck-self-before-30/10

>> No.11433127

>>11433103
Same, thats the biggest reason. Their shit is waaaaaayyyyyyy marked up and its trash

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>>11432798
>Hauls

>> No.11433141

>>11433103
>acid-free
is that the reason the pages yellow?

>> No.11433144

>>11433141
no thats your disgusting fingures

>> No.11433149

>>11433110
It’s 100% the truth

>> No.11433153

>>11432833
Are you going to die?

>> No.11433158

>>11433153
Eventually

>> No.11433160

>>11433144
>types this abomination with his disgusting FINGERS

>> No.11433171

>>11433153
It just, you wasted some much gas and I assume paid for one day shipping to get these books.

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>>11433144
>no thats your disgusting fingures
>fingures

>> No.11433210

>>11433171
Amazon prime is free shipping

>> No.11433346

>>11432798
Nice OP, were you inspired by that thread about suggestions for books like Notes from Underground, no longer human and Hunger?

>> No.11433374

>>11432798
Tristram Shandy and Recognitions are both solid 5/5
Journey is 4/5
good stuff

>>11433111
cioran forever the goat

>> No.11433424

>>11432798
10/10, honestly. I really hope you enjoy The Recognitions.

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>>11432833
>Do you know how many fucking book stores I went to to try and find these 5 specific novels?
According to your anecdote, which is not a valid form of evidence by the way, zero. And then when you order them online you still make the choice of Penguin AHAHA

>> No.11433488

>>11432798
good/10

celine and gaddis is enough to save the penguin oversight

>> No.11433490

anyone else buy too many books and build up a tremendous insurmountable backlog

>> No.11433500
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has anybody else's NYRB sale purchase not shipped yet
>>11432798
The Recognitions is fantastic like paragraph-after-paragraph of amazing writing

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>>11433481
unfortunately penguin is sometimes the only way to get certain stuff without dropping big bucks. I would have gotten the Everyman Tristram Shandy instead of that copy.

>> No.11433509

>>11433490
i stopped buying books since i got an ipad, now i just torrent epubs that i dont read, it saves space, on the other hand, i blow so much money on audible, but i listen to like 3-4 hours of audiobooks a day probably so i feel i get my money's worth unlike unread paper books

>> No.11433513

>>11433490
i did, but it's okay. i plan to use my unread books as the step from which i fall to have myself hanged. but i will shoot myself through the heart first, dying even before i fall.

>> No.11433514

>>11433500
Nope, I give NYBR Classics a pass for being independent publisher.

>> No.11433522

>>11433490
yes, i plan to read everything i buy as i age.

>> No.11433529

>>11433500
mine is slated to arrive on thursday.

i'm never buying from them again, even though i will not make a dent on my backlog before these arrive.

>> No.11433565

>>11433500
>>11433424
>>11433374
>>11432798
should i read JR or recognitions first? i've seen people say that you HAVE to read recognitions first for some reason but jr sounds a little more appealing to me

>> No.11433584

>>11433502
>I would have gotten the Everyman Tristram Shandy instead of that copy
I know I did. I try to shop EL as much as possiblr. That delicious, creamy acid-free paper.

>> No.11433618

yesterday I ordered
>Montaigne Complete Essays
>Letters to a Young Poet
>a collection of Chekhov
>The Tartar Steppe
>The Flowers of Evil
>World as Will and Rep Schoppy
>Spaces and other Pieces Perec
>Blind Owl Hedayat
>Boredom Moravia
>Winesburg, Ohio
>Hard Rain Falling
>Today I Wrote Nothing
can't wait desu

>> No.11433635

>>11433565
Either or. It doesn’t really matter either way, they aren’t connected.

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>> No.11433792

>>11432798
Oh hey is this the cringe collection thread? I love this hot new meme.

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>> No.11434478

>>11433618
Based

>> No.11434483

>>11434380
I've been meaning to try Hauge for such a long time but never got round to it

>> No.11434501

Ordered some of them and picked up others at some stores. Very excited for all of them.
>Master and Margarita by Bulkagov
>Moscow Stations (also called Moscow-Petushki) by Venedikt Yerofeyev
>Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
>Fragments of My Diary by Maxim Gorky
>Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich
>The Zone by Sergei Dovtalov
>Heart of Darkness by Conrad
>Life and Faith by Vasily Grossman
>Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna
>And Quiet now the Don Mikhail Sholokhov

>> No.11435263

Nice

>> No.11435543

>>11432833
Amazon?

>> No.11435553

>>11432833
Just use bookdepository faggot.

>> No.11435555

>>11435263
nice

>> No.11435564

>>11432798
Absolutely patrician, good job.

>> No.11435624

>>11433141
Yes, and part of why it wont last long, somewhat similar to certain newspapers.
>>11435553
>bookdepositry
same owners, and one thing to note if you order several items they might dispatch seperately.

>> No.11435805

>>11432798
Nice, I loved storm of steel and would like to read hamsun, mostly for growth of the soil, even though it'd prolly be better to start with his earlier work I guess.

>> No.11437299

>>11433111
>>11433111
i hope you do better with your panic attacks

>> No.11437794

>>11433565
TR because it actually has prose/narration, and is a bit of a warm-up for JR's entirety being in unattributed dialogue

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11437805

its time to take the washington pill

>> No.11437823

>>11433618
based desu

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How am I doing c/lit/s?

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$40 used!

>> No.11438574

>>11433500
Mine hasn’t shipped yet, I emailed and they said they’re catching up on the backlog of orders and should be done in the next few days. I was a media mail pleb so prob got sent to the back of the queue

>> No.11439162

>>11435805
are you, dare i say it, le redpilled?

>> No.11439200

>>11437299
cheers budd <3

>> No.11439388

>>11437862
You done good

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20p each at flea market. Quoth the very cockney bookseller: "Solzhenitsyn eh? Banned in soviet Russia you know...no idea why."

>> No.11439578

>>11433111
I hope you manage to overcome your panic attacks <3

>> No.11439581

I got Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal the other day because it was only about 80p and I saw it on that /lit/ edge-core literature chart so I thought why not.

I assume it's about cannibalism, right

>> No.11439591

>>11439396
> no idea why

lol
very surprised to see so many people aware of Solzhenitsyn IRL. At work last month there was a whole discussion on the Gulag Archipelago.

>> No.11439613

>>11439396

I want to read that Ibn Fadlan one

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>>11439613
Yeah, haven't cracked it open yet but I'm stoked.

>> No.11439653

>>11439581
It's like 3 pages long. I assume there are other works in the volume too?
Modest Proposal is important to read just because it's so widely referenced, but it's well worth getting balls-deep in Swift no matter what your literary interests are.

>> No.11439668

>>11439653
My copy is about 50 pages and it's got other chapters too about famine in Ireland. I assumed the other chapters were also a part of A Modest Proposal.

Been meaning to read Gulliver's Travels for a while so will probably pick that up next if I enjoy Modest Proposal.

>> No.11439689

>>11439668
Nah, it's just the part about babies. But the rest should be interesting reading; I visited some of the old ghost towns in Ireland last month and I'd like to learn more about it.

>> No.11439715

>>11439642
not that anon but that sounds pretty cool