Recent Purchases

[Anonymous No.12491419]

Used book sales have quite literally become the highlights of my life. Make me feel less lonely pls

[Anonymous No.12491429]

>>12491419

I got Lolita, Heart of Darkness and a collection of Jack London books for a total of £2 from a charity shop, a couple of days ago

[Anonymous No.12491438]

>>12491419
Sorry you're feeling lonely, mate. We should organize another used book swap on here, the last one was a lot of fun

[Anonymous No.12491468]

>>12491419
Today I bought Ring, last friday night I bought the others.

[Anonymous No.12491483]

>>12491419

Got all this for around £20 or so a few weeks ago. The World Goes On is the only one I paid full price for.

Death in the Afternoon-Ernest Hemmingway
The World Goes On-Krasznahorkai
Kafka on the Shore-Murakami
Norwegian Wood-Murakami
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
Platform-Houellebecq
On the Road-Jack Kerouac
Paris-Zola
The Remains of the Day-Ishiguro
The Madhouse-Aleksandr Zinoviev
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
The Outsider/The Stranger-Camus
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind-Yuval Noah Harari

[Anonymous No.12491485]

>>12491483

I forgot to list The Histories by Herodotus.

[¿ No.12491510]

[Anonymous No.12491511]

>>12491419
I had a real bad time with that translation of Anna Karenina. Everything seemed to be worded really awkwardly.

[Anonymous No.12491620]

>>12491438
That sounds neat, unfortunately I missed the last one.

>>12491468
Love that LOTR find, congratulations.

>>12491511
I read it on a kindle a few years ago and didn't have a problem, but that might be because I had no comparison to draw.

[Anonymous No.12491754]

Just got this, anons. I think I could learn all 218,632 words by the time I die (I'm sure I already know 30,000).

[Anonymous No.12492021]

Goodwill haul from this past Saturday. It's weird how I always find great stuff at the goodwill bordering the ghetto part of town.

[Anonymous No.12492031]

>>12491419
I thought we had the same copy about Irish mythology but mine is called Irish Folk and Fairy Tales not Fairy and Folk tales

[Anonymous No.12492073]

ordered the Mann 2 months ago. Didn't show up. asked for my money back. Arrives literally the next day. Feel bad .

Guess it's ok since a another order arrived almost torn in half and i didnt complain. if thats any excuse =/

[Anonymous No.12492113]

>>12491419

I got the wordsworth edition of dosto as well lol. Kicked myself a little after hearing the P&V translation is better than Garnett but I'm still gonna give it a read.

We're all connected in our interested of reading anon. Don't be lonely!

[Anonymous No.12492473]

>>12492113
Based poor pleb, getting the absolute worst editions like I used to.

[Anonymous No.12492509]

Probably 50% of these books were acquired used/thrifted (gifts, Goodwill, Half Price Books, thriftbooks.com, mom n pop places, appopriating abandoned books, etc.)

[Anonymous No.12492526]

>>12492113
>abridged

[Anonymous No.12492531]

>>12492509
i love your book shelf man!

[Anonymous No.12492547]

>>12491483
Murakami's great. Remains of the Day is supposed to be fantastic, I haven't read my copy yet that I bought some time ago
>>12491510
Lolita is always awesome. I need to go buy a copy
>>12492021
LTZ is really good. If I remember it's very dry and nihilistic and not as dramatic as I thought it would be.
>>12492113
C&P is great and so is Kafka

Recently I've bought some Calvino (seen a bunch of his books used but a bit pricey even for used) I scored Invisible Cities for $1 albeit with highlighter markings in it. Making my way through Swann's Way right now and loving it. It's like everything everyone said Joyce was but actually good.

[Anonymous No.12492627]

>>12492113
>We're all connected in our interested of reading anon. Don't be lonely!

Thanks man, that's a comforting thought. I have already read the P&V translations of most Dosto works so I figured I'd give Garnett a try. Some people say they prefer her translation, so we'll see.

>>12492509
I see that Quran my dude, Mashallah.

[Anonymous No.12492661]

>>12492627
I've been lonely AF in my life and let me ask, what do you do and are you social at all? Do you work, are you a NEET?

[Anonymous No.12492664]

I wish my charity shops were as good as /lit/s seem to be. Middling market town woes.

[Anonymous No.12492677]

Post shops in your town.
>Nashville
>McKays, Rhino Booksellers, Grimeys (has used and new lit and music lit), Goodwills (hope you enjoy Danielle Steele and Tom Clancy) although I did find Crime and Punishment at a Goodwill (it was a library copy that was never returned)

[Anonymous No.12492697]

>>12492677
>WHSmith
>that's literally it
Not including charity shops

[Anonymous No.12492703]

>>12492697
Damn that blows. Any other cities in Britain good like Manchester or Leeds or London? I'm basing my guesses off of where cool indie bands and culture heads are from

[Anonymous No.12492712]

>>12492703
Exeter has a interesting shop called bookcycle where you can pay as little as you want for three books per day, regardless of value. Unfortunately the one day I was in Exeter was the one day they were having they were closed for electrical maintenance, so I never got the chance to see. I imagine university cities are fairly good for selection. My local library has a biannual book sale of varying quality.

[Anonymous No.12492718]

>>12492697
UKfag here. I remember going to this one second hand book store called 'The Works'. I think it's a chain so you'll find it in multiple cities. They've got more modern selections

>Oxfam
>British heart foundation??

If you're in the area, Rochester has the biggest second hand book store in england I think. I went in once, it was bloody massive

[Anonymous No.12492724]

>>12492473
>>12492526
What good is a thinker if they aren't poor eh?

[Anonymous No.12492730]

>>12492712
I've heard Exeter is a cool place, I believe if I am not mistaken Radiohead is from around that area (Oxford and all that jazz). I think they went to the Exeter school. That's awesome I think McKays in the US does that sometimes.

[Anonymous No.12492736]

>>12492661
I teach piano for a living, and write for joy and satisfaction. No social life, but I've tried. It's hard finding people with similar interests and I don't want to resort to dating apps. All I can do is hope that literature continues to fill the void.

[Anonymous No.12492737]

>>12492677
McKay's here in Greensboro as well

[Anonymous No.12492763]

>>12492736
Ok, not so bad. You aren't a shut in like Dickenson or an invalid like Proust. For me music only does so much for me, it's defiently something I wish was more social but if you don't know anyone in the local scene you're kinda just floating in the ether at bad shows (which is a real shame that shows aren't social). Being social as an adult is tough. I'm lucky my job is essentially a social situation but it pays even if my closer friends aren't here and I don't see them as much
>>12492737
I've always wanted to stop at the McKays in Knoxville TN but I never get a chance to. Also I BELIEVE there is/was a McKays in Raleigh but I may just be day dreaming (it wasn't that large).

[Anonymous No.12492799]

>>12492763
You're right! There were locations in Raleigh and Fayettville that shut down due to poor management. The Tennessee and North Carolina chains were owned and operated separately after the owners divorced, but the Tennessee stores recently purchased and refurbished the remaining NC stores.

[Anonymous No.12492801]

>>12492677
>Virginia Beach
There are a couple solid Goodwills (pic related and >>12492021 were all at my favorite on different dates), for better condition and selections though the best places I've been to are Smith Discount Books on Providence, and Book Exchange at Lynnhaven.

[Anonymous No.12492815]

Not living in an English speaking country makes me envious, since buying used is a pain in the ass when you don't want translations. Eurocucks, where do you buy your books for cheap? Is Book depository the only affordable option?

[Anonymous No.12492816]

>>12492799
I had no idea about the history of the whole thing.That's very interesting. McKays in Nashville is our best bookstore. Probably the only place to get cheaper $4-5 books at that range from Marquez to Gaddis to Chomsky without getting too expensive.
>>12492801
Again, Murakami is dope. How is VABeach as a place, I've only ever vacationed there.

[Anonymous No.12492832]

>>12492801
Those covers look much better than the abstract art on current Murakami editions

[Anonymous No.12492846]

>>12492832
I agree. The old covers look so awesome and the new ones just look boring. Same with the old PKD covers and the old ones! However the Gaddis reissue covers are dope and the old ones are just OK.

[Anonymous No.12492852]

>>12492718
>The Works
Isn't that a franchise of random tat? Saw a Rasputin biography in there once that looked interesting among the endlessly discounted Game Of Thrones collections.
My (West Midlands) high street is lower than a grave; most shops are charity shops. We have them all.

>>12492730
I have a day trip to Oxford this June so I hope to check the shops out there.

>>12492815
Abebooks, bookcycle, there are so many online book retailers to skim through

>>12492832
The Vintage Murakami covers are minimalist to a fault

[Anonymous No.12492860]

>>12492852
What is England like now a days? I only know England from a musical culture perspective and that ends in like mid to late 00's.

[Anonymous No.12492864]

>Richmond, VA
>Chop Suey, Goodwills (which happen to be very good for some odd reason), various bookstores I cannot remember. Chop Suey is the best bookstore in town.

[Anonymous No.12492882]

>>12492547

I finished Norwegian Wood last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read some Murakami before but I wasn't completely sold on him yet but I'm going to start reading Kafka on the Shore this week. My favourite so far is Hardboiled Wonderland.

Glad you're enjoying Swann's Way. There's a lot of great scenes and descriptions in there but people just seem to hype up the Madeleine cake. Within a Budding Grove is probably my favourite so far of the first three books I've read of ISOLT.

>>12491510

>Reading Kafka and Nietzsche in French

I don't know why but this feels like all kind of levels of wrong.

>>12491468

That is a really nice edition of LOTR. Which publisher is it?

>>12492113

I just finished Call of Cthulu and other stories myself lately. Didn't really enjoy Cthulu the first time I read it in a different collection but on the second reading I loved it.

>>12492664

You just have to time it right. I'll occasionally frequent mine every couple of months or time it when term ends for the university students to get some decent hauls but the choices become predictable the more you go in there, same old Dickens book, same old Trollope book, same old Austen books, etc.

>>12492718
>>12492697
>>12492677

Another Britbong. All I'm stuck with is a Waterstones, Blackwells, and Oxfam. I've noticed Blackwells sells second hand books but I haven't bothered to check there yet but I probably will sometime this month.

[Anonymous No.12492885]

>>12492816
Murakami is one of my favorite authors, so as soon as I saw those on the shelf I grabbed them. I owned Norwegian Wood already, but I'd recommended it to a friend so I figured for a dollar it'd be a nice gift.
I dont mind living in VB, but I've never lived anywhere else, so I'm looking at throwing away my STEM education and taking a more personally fulfilling job that would give me an excuse to do some traveling.

[Anonymous No.12492895]

>>12492860
Brexit meandering has most people, regardless of opinion, either apathetic, frustrated or disgusted. Another day in the life, in other words.

[Anonymous No.12492900]

>>12492882
I've read Wind Sing/part of Pinball, Wild Sheep, Norwegian, and Wind Up Bird. I just started Hardboiled and want to start DanceX3 and also Kafka. Yeah the cake scene is amazing and probably one of the things people bring up when they bring up Proust but the describing of the church scene directly afterwards is just as good if not as climactic and romantic. It's up there with the churchgoing scenes in Joyce's Portrait except with less fire and brimstone
>>12492885
I'm right there with you in throwing everything away for something more fullfilling
>>12492895
That's a bummer but that's what the US is facing too

[Anonymous No.12492910]

>>12492882
>I just finished Call of Cthulu
Nice! Ctulhu's definitely the next book I'm picking up then.

Have you checked out 1Q84 by murakami? I'm reading it now myself but its confusing and crazy but interesting

[Anonymous No.12492919]

>>12492900
You should read Men Without Women

[Anonymous No.12492922]

>>12492910
Not the anon you responded to but I've heard mixed things about 1Q84 so what do you think about it
>>12492919
I'll definitely check it out

[Anonymous No.12492926]

I have a small pile of books I'm looking to give away, would anyone here be interested in doing a book swap for fun?

The books probably aren't worth their weight in shipping since they're mostly vintage copies of various classics but I'd still like to get them to a good home if possible. I'm in the US but fine with shipping internationally.

>>12491468
How are you liking Tolkien's letters?

>>12491510
I recently worked through a series of Flaubert novels, even after all that Madame Bovary still incites the most out of me. Have you started it yet?

>>12492801
Top 3 are great reads, gibbons has been a long favorite of mine for ages. I'm surprised the books are in such good shape, my local goodwill tends to be pretty rough.

>>12492852
When you buy books online do you like to buy in bulk to save on shipping or do you pay that $4-5 per book so it doesn't sell out?

[Anonymous No.12492929]

>>12492763
Sounds like a good thing if you can satisfy the social need just by going to work. I've met some people through music, but I never got into any scene or anything. It's not easy being a classical snob.


Here's a little treat for my compatriots:
https://www.booksalefinder.com

[Anonymous No.12492934]

>>12492926
That sounds interesting, what are you offering?
>>12492929
I know a classical snob, it's definitely a world I am not hardcore into yet I do love classical music. Thanks for the link, will check

[Anonymous No.12492937]

>>12492926
I used to buy books new out of a pretension of wanting them to buy pristine. Then I bought online in 'near perfect' condition. Next I bought only in store, to cut down on packaging and make it more of a hobby and less of a consumer experience. Recently, though, I don't buy anymore books as I have hundreds to read through.

>>12492929
>social need just by going to work
Worked for me.

[Anonymous No.12492954]

>>12492937
I've accepted that at this point my social life is none existent outside of work since my friends are either too busy or don't care enough.

[Anonymous No.12492962]

>>12492661
I contemplate not showing up for work, not finishing my classes and just killing myself all day. My life’s just peachy

[Anonymous No.12492973]

which do i read first lads?
only thing i've read of him previously is the necklace and just picked them up from oxfam for six quid

[Anonymous No.12492977]

>>12492962
Slow your roll there anon. I've been there before BELIEVE ME. There's things you can do and people you can see. I'm assuming you're in your early 20's but I could be wrong. First thing you gotta do is change your behavior and thoughts all day every day and put work into that shit hardcore. It's difficult and tough but it's doable.

[Anonymous No.12492984]

>>12492973
I'd say just read them in the order you have them.

[Anonymous No.12492990]

>>12492977
My dubs confirms it

[Anonymous No.12492993]

>>12492864
I spent three years in rva and never heard of that place, but I'll keep it in mind for whenever I go next. I loved Richmond Book Store on West Broad. Such a cozy spot and a lovely owner. Lots of memories there.

>>12492962
There's comfort in the contemplation of suicide. It is like saying to fate, 'At least I still have this under my control!' I entertain the idea often, but try only to entertain it. Surely you would be missed.

[Anonymous No.12493024]

>>12492993
Chop Suey is EXCELLENT please go when you have the chance. The owner is awesome and they have a great collection of new and used 2 floors. Somehow I've never been to Richmond Book Store and yet I lived there for 19 years. I've also enjoyed the comfort in the recklessness and idea of suicide but shit ain't worth it honestly. Maybe its the stupid optimism I have that I'm going to do something with my life that keeps me alive.

[Anonymous No.12493090]

>>12493024
I definitely will next time I'm in that lovely city. It's easier to be optimistic when living in Richmond, the city just has a way of taking care of those who appreciate it. I only live two hours away now, but it feels like I'm in another country. I hope to spend some quality time with the James sometime soon.

[Anonymous No.12493101]

>>12493090
You put it into words better than I could've. RVA is also way more progressive than it seems to be form the outside (mainly the city and the young crowd, not necessarily the city proper I guess). It's a great city and I used to dislike it when I lived there because nothing seemed to happen (music events etc esp. as a young man I could never do anything) . Now after living in the south proper I'd love to come back

[Anonymous No.12493202]

>>12492934
They're mostly volumes I've replaced in my library or stuff I bought but ended up not wanting to keep. I have to go through it all again but off the top of my head:
>The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante (Bantam Classics edition, tl. Mandelbaum)
>Bouvard and Pecuchet by Flaubert (tl. Krailsheimer)
>Sentimental Education by Flaubert (tl. Baldick, I think)
>Small paperbacks of most of Hesse's works (I want to say tl. Neugroschel)
>Nausea by Sartre (tl. Alexander)
>No Exit by Sartre (tl. Gilbert)
>The House of Mirth by Wharton (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Edition- condition is iffy on this one)

>>12492937
>hundreds to read through
I know the feeling, these days I try to support local bookstores and avoid online shopping so I don't accumulate more than I can handle. Even then my bookshelves still pretty overstuffed, hoping to clear out some space this month. What does your library look like anon?

>>12492973
The order you have now is fine. A Parisian Affair and other stories rounds up some of his more well known pieces which may be a good note to end on. Personally I prefer Like Death best and would save it for last, especially if you have the Richard Howard translation- it reads like poetry in prose and does Maupassant great justice.

[Anonymous No.12493215]

Finally broke down and bought the Frank Miller edition of GR and now I hate myself

[Anonymous No.12493234]

all from current year
fuck the near constant stream of recommendations i mine from /lit/ and fuck all the second hand books stores in my town.

[Anonymous No.12493237]

>>12492627
Next to my Bible and sharing the shelf with a slew of other religious texts/religious philosophy :)

[Anonymous No.12493259]

>>12493234
Fuck dude
>calvino, Solzhenitsyn, Shelley, Williams, Steinbeck, Ishiguro, Cortazar, Nabakov

J e a l o u s. If you're saying fuck your bookstores then where did you get these from?

[Anonymous No.12493313]

>>12493215
Dont worry, I did the same. It got to the end of December and I figured I'd never find a used copy of either, so I bought these two new as Christmas presents to myself.
No regrets, I started GR on January 1 and loved it, and I'm about 60% of the way through Room to Dream.

[Anonymous No.12493325]

>>12493234
The Croning is one of my favorite novels but you have to read through Barron's short story collections first if you haven't already.
At least Occultation and The Imago Sequence. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All makes the novel a much better experience, but it's not as "necessary"

[Anonymous No.12493330]

>>12493215
>>12493313
Man I must be lucky because I found a copy of the OG version with the orange cover for $5! I made it to the early 200's and loved it but put it down to read other books. I'll probably finish it this year.

[Anonymous No.12493339]

>>12493330
I get lucky now and again (found The Pale King for a dollar on Saturday so I really can't complain about my luck) but I had an inexplicable urge to make GR my first book of 2019.

[Anonymous No.12493344]

>>12493215
>>12493313
Is it hard to find GR used? It's a nice edition either way, don't feel bad for treating yourself to a new book.

>>12493330
Where'd you find it for $5? Good find.

[Anonymous No.12493361]

>>12493339
I made The Recognitions my first book of 2019. I made a reading group thread about it but my first two weeks I was so busy I had absolutely no free time with work until last week, and I finished Franny and Zoey first but I'm not complaining.
>>12493344
I went to McKays in Nashville. Odd pricing considering other Pynchon books are $7-10 such as Against the Day (makes sense due to its length) but oddly not for COL49 (possibly due to its demand?)

[Anonymous No.12493362]

>>12493259
from said stores (and once a month library sale)
I'm saying fuck them for having so much, it's great in one sense but between now and this time last year when I started browsing /lit/ I've gathered about 80+ books.

but it's really a fuck myself from gathering a huge list of things I'd like to read and generally not having enough time to read a book every 2 weeks

>>12493325
I'll keep that in mind whenever I'm browsing thru my stores.
decent horror books have been the hardest to find. People must prefer holding onto their weird lit.

[Anonymous No.12493368]

>>12493344
Like finding most things used, it's up to a combination of luck and the area you live in. Mostly luck, though. But something else to consider about books like Gravity's Rainbow is that most times the people who would own them are the type of people who collect/hoard books.
Not the type who would buy a copy of Finger Lickin' Fifteen, read 30 pages, and then toss it in a donation bin.

[Anonymous No.12493378]

>>12493362
I'm right there with you anon. Also anybody else having the problem where a bookstore has like 9 copies of Lolita or Catch 22 and instead of pricing them down due to the amount the store has they just keep them at $7-10 dollars? Maybe I'm cheap as fuck but still..

[Anonymous No.12493389]

>>12493368
It was like that before the vinyl boom in the early 2010's. I remember never finding Pink Floyd on vinyl because everyone who owns any PF on vinly would never sell it because its so good unlike the 1000 copies of CSNY or Bread records.

[Anonymous No.12493396]

>>12493362
I'll keep that in mind whenever I'm browsing thru my stores.

I've never actually seen Barron in any of the bookstores I frequent, used or new. Honestly he's one of the major exceptions to my "buy used whenever possible" rule. I love his writing enough that when he has a new release out I usually preorder, and I've got everything he's put out outside of multi-author anthologies on my shelf.

[Anonymous No.12493411]

>>12493396
Meant to greentext the quoted bit but whatever. Phoneposting is a fickle whore on the best of days.

[Anonymous No.12493419]

>>12493378
>9 copies of Lolita
I wish, I live in the whip end of the bible belt and that one is hard to find even new due to its notoriety.

[Anonymous No.12493437]

>>12493419
I also live in the bible belt but it isn't horrible (nashville), where do you live anon? They probably have flanner o'connor and maybe faulkner at least. If they only knew that Lolita is basically a dictionary and not as lewd as people think

[Anonymous No.12493491]

>>12493437
I'm >>12493234 so obviously O'Connor is a go and tons of Faulkner as well (can't wait to get into either Light in August or Absalom, Absalom! this year)

in upstate SC and even though the city I'm in is pretty progressive Nabakov in general is just a bitch to find. was lucky to get a hold of Ada.

[Anonymous No.12493518]

>>12493491
I've been meaning to get into Faulkner since he's a modernist and also just a great writer in general. I just need to bite the bullet and get most of Nabakov's works

[Anonymous No.12493849]

I had some luck this past weekend. Found the McCarthy starter pack for $1 each as well as Death in Venice and Ulysses

[Anonymous No.12494172]

>>12493368
I volunteer in a thrift shop and was put in charge of the book section. I thought I'd go to the source and get dibs on books that I'd like to read. I still have to pay for them but at least I can grab ones I want to read.
I recently got Penguin Classics Roman Poets of the Early Empire and Outer Dark after sifting through hundreds of books.

The reality of the situation is that most donated books are often bog standard romances and terrible 90s thrillers/mystery novels. Books people want to get rid of but are too lazy to think and realize that the books are junk and have no resale value. I've thrown out hundreds of Daniel Steele books.
Good quality used books are hoarded by those who buy and read them. Quality horror books are incredibly hard to find.

[Anonymous No.12494536]

Rate

[Anonymous No.12494559]

>>12494536
Murakami and Soseki. Instant win from me. But then again I am japfag hence biased

[Anonymous No.12494597]

>>12492815
I use Bookfinder.com to find the best price.

[Anonymous No.12494640]

>be in college 1600 miles from home
unable to buy anything for lack of space and it's probably for the best

[Anonymous No.12494666]

Going to start on these once I finish a few library books.

[Anonymous No.12494702]

>>12492677
>Lyttelton (Christchurch)
>Londonstreet bookstore
It's all right. A lot of Penguin Classics. 12 NZD for paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.12495040]

>>12493849
God that cover of Ulysses is awful. Yes, we get it yes, it it the first couple lines and the part of the last line.

[Anonymous No.12495057]

>>12493849
Where to start with McCarthy?

[Anonymous No.12495067]

This thread makes me want to go thrifting again but I'm already too far ahead of myself with things to read.

All of these and another ten or so from the thrift shop over the past few months.

>>12491419
I found that P&V edition of AK recently but I passed because I already had this Maude translation. Kind of regret it because it was something like $2 and now that I'm almost done with AK I'd liked to have had it on hand for some comparison (and physically it's pretty nice).

Looks like lots of people finding secondhand copies of Nabokov, Kafka, DFW, and Murakami. I've sadly yet to find any of those authors.

[Anonymous No.12495081]

>>12491510
>Naked Lunch is called The Naked Feast in French
An improvement tbqhwy

[Anonymous No.12495082]

>>12491510
Lolita is my favorite book of all time. I always lie when people ask me.

[Anonymous No.12495097]

>>12492882
>I don't know why but this feels like all kind of levels of wrong.
Not any more than reading Tolstoy in English or Borges in English.

[Anonymous No.12495144]

>>12492882
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/isbn/0395193958/
>>12492926
I haven't read it yet.

[Anonymous No.12495531]

>>12491419
These are my recent buys. Some at Salvation Army (no used bookstores in my town) and a couple as gifts, and a couple at b&n.

Also, for anyone even marginally interested in the Vietnam war, A Bright Shining Lie is the best I've ever read about that era.

[Anonymous No.12495599]

>>12491419
Getting into contemporary Mexican lit.

[Anonymous No.12495632]

>>12495599
Half the reason I'm currently learning Spanish is so I can read these cool books a Mexican girl at my school told me about. Most of them have been translated into English, but I wanted to learn another language anyway, so I'm learning Spanish now.

[Anonymous No.12495647]

>>12495599
y el juan pablo villalobos?

[Anonymous No.12495681]

>>12492113
Pretty good.

[Anonymous No.12495720]

>>12495632
That's cool, anon. Which books has she told you about?

>>12495647
One step at a time. I've heard about him but idk if he's my cup of tea. The rewiews are okay, I guess. His titles are meh. I'll look into him in the future. But Bolaño liked both Enrigue and Sada, and Harold fucking Bloom said Sada was one of the best writers of Mexico, so there's that.

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>>12493234
>Llosa
>Cortazar

Noice. Enjoy the feast, I thought that was a great book!

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>>12491419

I'm with you. no real friends. If I'm not working, I'm reading. And on my lunch at work I just read. Cannot wait to get into the book.

Used book sales sound like loads of fun.

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>>12494172
Yes.

I know the used book store grind (worked for credit). I pass d up a first edition Gear and Loathing in Las Vegas to buy a bunch of Tolstoy, eggers, and ,greene. I think it was a loss, but a good story lol

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>>12492864
Book People is also good. It's under new management that's really helpful, but I'll forever miss the original lady. She expected you to barter on bigger sales/more expensive books and I got some solid collections that way.

Small Heroes isn't used and doesn't have a large collection, but they have some interesting books as well.

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>>12494666
>Evola
>Muh Jesus wuz Budah
Drop that garbage, son

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>>12494536
>James Joyce
>Haruki Murakami
I like those authors, how are they related to Hemingway? Would I enjoy reading him? I even got a chart from /lit/ on Hemingway's works

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>>12495057
The Road is very accessible

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>>12491510
>Houellebecq
Is it me or this guy is everywhere? Mainstream media, /pol/, ads, /lit/...

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>>12495057
Oprah's Book Club

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>>12497075
Are you retarded or posting ironically?

I can't tell.

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>>12497088
he's simply the best

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>>12497133
Why? Isn't he the French guy that got in trouble for pointing out the "de-Frenchization" of France?

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>>12497338
>not getting the leather bound Gideons bible

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>>12492509
what is the "aesthetics" book?

[Anonymous No.12497791]

>>12492509
Poor American Gods.

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>>12497766
Seems like a relatively generic like art history text book (the USED label on there is definitely from a college bookstore). Search libgen for "aesthetics" and you will probably find something near identical.

[Anonymous No.12498033]

Just got these in the mail.

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>>12498033
Nostromo is my favourite novel.

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>>12497744
not that anon, but where do you get them cheap? i've been looking to buy a cheap leather (pleather) bound kjv bible but most of the ones i've looked at have been pretty pricey.

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>>12498046
Really, why? Not trying to sound like a jerk, it's just the book that I'm least interested in of these, even though I liked HoD.

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>>12491419
Where is SIEGE?

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>>12495599
Enrique is streets ahead the other contemporary Mexican and Spanish authors I’ve read—mostly post-modern masturbatory go-nowhere plots or posturing socio-politico scene girls—, really the only living author I can think of that can meld the themes of man’s “quiet desperation” dilemma with an actual insight into how thoroughly fucked up the modern world is, the ineluctable bonding of sex and violence with our irrepressible yearning for redemption. I’ve only read Muerte de un instalador, Virtudes capitales, Decencia, Hipotermia, Vidas perpendiculares and Muerte súbita, but his short stories are my favorite part of his work. I’m really excited to read Ahora me rindo y eso es todo when I get it.

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>>12498033
>El beso de la mujer araña
I read it in highschool. they do anal

[Anonymous No.12498232]

My Grandfather just sent me these out of the blue (he used to teach literature at the Naval War College) Haven’t heard of most of them but should be interesting. He also sent me his 1929 edition of Storm of Steel last month which was a great read.

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>>12498197
I've already read that one, just bought another copy because the ad said it was an older version that I wanted, but I got the wrong copy again. I really liked the book, which is why I bought 'Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'. Have you read any more Puig?

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>>12498289
No, just that one. I've never been into Puig.

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>>12498310
I see. That's fair enough. Have a good one, anon!

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>>12498076
a book written by a neo-nazi charles manson fanboy. yeah seriously. he even got the name for his org (the universal order) and its symbol (a swastica over the scales of justice) from manson who he met/corresponded with in prison. he advocates total war with what he calls "the system" (presumably "zog"/the us government/globalism/etc.). atomwaffen are followers of mason's ideals. the leader of the group goes by the name "rape" and is a satanist. that should tell you everything you need to know.

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>>12498177
Are you Mexican? Where did you get Virtudes capitales? I haven't been able to find it and La muerte de un instalador I've only found it in a book along two other Mexican novels (La tumba and someother).

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>>12498033
>>12498061

Conrad is a terrific writer with global all enveloping perspective that is almost unique.

He also passes the most important test of being right about the world. Novels like Under Western Eyes and Nostromo contain in them so much of WW1 and the Russian revolution to where its hard to believe that they were written beforehand.

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>>12498859
Cheers anon, I've become more interested in it now, especially when you mention the Russian revolution.

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>>12498177
>Enrique instead of Enrigue

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>>12498753
I’m a burger-born Mexican. Did you read Agustín and Revueltas’ works along with Muerte...? Good shit.
>>12499592
Shut up, Álvaro, Valeria me lo mame.

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>>12499659
>Shut up, Álvaro, Valeria me lo mame.
Me lo mama*. Anyway, are they known in the States? Enrigue seems way superior to his wife but somehow it seems she's more known there.