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Recent purchases thread?

I received these in the mail day, though Gormenghast was actually from a gifting thread (thank you so much for that, finger anon person! :D). I'm really excited about The Key by Tanizaki, and I think I'll be reading Cosmicomics for my first Calvino book.

So what have you bought/gotten recently, /lit/?

>> No.1260490

Grotus.

>> No.1260494

how you gonna get something cool like calvino and then buy some garbage like palahnuik? damn.

>> No.1260497

>>1260494
Honestly, the Palahnuik is for someone else in my house. But I'm probably going to read it anyway, just 'cause I haven't.

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I just bought the Bible. I figured I should read it.

>> No.1260507

dont bother...it reads like an overflowing trashcan.

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It's an important piece of literature though...supposedly...I'll give it a go.

I have the koran too. Have you read that?

>> No.1260515

>People whining about Palahnuik
>Don't want to admit their society isn't classless
Lovely. Fight Club is, in essence, the Great Gatsby.

>> No.1260714 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.1261821

>>1260515
what the fuck that made no sense

fight club was a terrible movie and an even worse book
go back to your suburban house and listen to green day, my little anarchist

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just got back from the book store
i bought this

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>>1261905
and this

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>>1260515
It looks like someone totally misread Fight Club.

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>>1261908
and this morning i bought this poster online

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A pretty eventful week-and-a-half or so. All but one second-hand, some in the mail, most from op-shops and a bookseller in town.

Is the Exorcist worth reading? I assume it's about as stupid as the movie was, but for two dollars it could be good for cheap thrills.

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OP here again, got this in the mail today also, and I've finished up Cosmicomics. Definitely reading some more Calvino, probably Invisible Cities next.

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I recently got my hands on a veritable treasure trove of philosophical texts

shit was so esoteric

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Awh, you're welcome!

I recently got Clive Barker's Books of Blood Vols 1-3 under a suggestion from some random horror thread. Bunch of short stories, I was getting into them until I got to the one about Cancer becoming personified and taking the shape of Marilyn Monroe, killing a teenager, ripping his eyes out, stuffing them up her vagina, then seducing another guy, getting him into her grasp and morphing into John Wayne and killing that guy by forcing its mutated fingers into his ears and pushing his eyeballs out from the inside. Then a fat chick managed to subdue Cancer because she rolled over on top of it and she was too heavy for it to get free.

Weird stuff, man. whatthefuckamireading.jpg, etc. Vols 4-6 have been ordered. XD

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Got these last week. <3 Aldous Huxley

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Recently got my hands on a veritable treasure trove of philosophical texts

shit was so esoteric

>> No.1262720

Today, I got The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel, and Pelican Shakespeare. I'm kinda mad now since I found out that they have a Complete Shakespeare collection.

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still waiting on cryptonomicon

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>> No.1262733

>>1262715
i wish there's a torrent. i'm interested.

>> No.1262736

Last books I bought were Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais (the Cohen translation), The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis, and Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan.

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I thought this was pretty cool.. a private press zine with some tapes and a poster

>> No.1262770

This is the best camwhore thread I've ever seen.

>> No.1262790

>>1262770
No that was the hipster-turned-virginia w00f thread

>> No.1262799

Moon Palace is so fucking good

>> No.1263601

>>1262799
So far I've only read In the Country of Last Things by Auster, but I loved that. I'm hoping I'll like Moon Palace just as much!