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What's the last book you purchased/received? Pic related, of course.

>> No.1279287

Metro 2033

Won't be getting anymore until Christmas.

>> No.1279289

Fuzz acid and flowers.

>> No.1279301

Antigone by Sophocles (short read; under 100 pages. Recommended if into tragedies).

Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus and The Goodly Feast (satirical look at the catholic church, which I really liked for the time period he was writing in).

Assent of Mount Ventoux by Petrarch

A Fable about Man by Vivies

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rableais (very long. Serious read for serious people who love late humanist works).

Basically ancient and contemporary literature along with late humanist works in the renaissance period.

>> No.1279308

Two Russian textbooks and the workbooks that go with them. They're called Golosa.

>> No.1279311

The Complete Flann O'Brien wending its way to me from Amazon now.

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Here's what I got in the mail yesterday - Eugene Onegin and Home of the Gentry by Turgenev.

I've also got these on order/in transit:
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
Thirst For Love by Yukio Mishima
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

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clive barker - books of blood vol 1-3

>> No.1279348

neil gaiman -american gods - done.
heller - catch XXII -atm.
dostojevskij - crime and punishment ( too heavy atm )

>> No.1279355

A Clockwork Orange
and
The King In Yellow

Only a couple chapters into A Clockwork Orange and it's exactly what I hoped for. I'm hoping The King In Yellow will live up to what I've heard about it.

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>> No.1281268

Franny and Zooey
We Were the Mulvaneys

>> No.1281519

carl jung -psychology and alchemy

>> No.1281522
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A gift from a friend before my departure. Inscribed inside is "Don't come back the same". I don't know how to take that...

>> No.1281523

Underworld by Don Delillo. Found it for 6 bucks at my local bookstore.

Found Notes from Underground, Pevear and Volohkovsky (sp) translation for 6 bucks at a bookstore in my college town. I've been very pleased, they were both on my amazon wish list and Notes was amazing. Haven't started Underworld yet.

>> No.1281525

Oliver Twist by Dickens and Sons and Lovers by D.H Lawrence, which I bought the other day for $6 AU each.

>> No.1281527

>>1281522
This book was great. Loved every minute of it. Finished it last week.

There's alot of angst but its very good.

>> No.1281529

Got these yesterday

Charles Bukowski - Post office
Dantes inferno
The Grand Design

>> No.1281533

I got all of these at once:
The Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
The Odd Women by George Gissing
The Travels by Marco Polo
Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
Selected Works by Cicero
Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville and Geffroy de Villehardouin
Hesiod and Theognis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovish by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga

>> No.1281534

A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

picked 'em up at the used bookstore the other day

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>>1279355
>Only a couple chapters into A Clockwork Orange and it's exactly what I hoped for.

Isn't it awesome when you start understanding all the nadsat? Re-read the first few chapters after you've finished it. It's great stuff.

My last purchase. I loved Flashman and Royal Flash but for some reason i'm having trouble getting into this one.

>> No.1281542

Hrm, the last book I got in the mail was Ender's Game by some lovely anon (and I ended up really digging it). But I ordered The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson) and In The Dark (Richard Laymon) last week so it should be in any day now. Except today's Sunday. Wahh.

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Let the Right One In

Searched days for one with this cover, but only found the one with the poster of the American version movie as its cover, with little notes and stamps saying "Now a major motion picture from the director of Cloverfield (Oh, god...)" "The Phenomenal International Best Seller" "Some random Swedish girl says this about the book" etc etc

But the worst part is that book is completely white, with hints of black and red. Every other person I meet asks me if it's the newest book from the Twilight saga, laughing a little to themselves.

GAH!!!!!!!!!

but the book so far is bloody fantastic, though it seems to lose something in translation. okay. /rant

>> No.1281553

The Corrections - Jonathon Franzen
Will you please be quiet, please? - Raymond Carver
At Home in the World - Joyce Maynard
And Quiet Flows the Don and The Con Flows Home to the Sea - Mikhail Sholokhov
The Cossacks - Tolstoy
Virgin Soil - Turgenev

All second hand from my home town book exchange for a cost of about $7

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>>1281551
you talking about this one?

lol i know what you mean, i saw it the other day in the "Teen Supernatural Romance" section.

>> No.1281557

>>1281553
SWEET, ADDED VIRGIN SOIL TO MY 'TO-READ' LIST, THANKS MATE.

>> No.1281558

The Story of Modern Art - Norbert Lynton
A World History of Art - Hugh Honour, John Fleming
Towers of Midnight: Book Thirteen of The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

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>>1279285
You're a pretty cool guy OP. Here's mine, birthday present

>> No.1281582

>>1281555
> Let the right on in
> Teen Supernatural Romance
> 12 year old twitards pick it up

imokaywiththis.tar.gz

>> No.1281583

>>1279285
lol same

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This

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>>1279324 here
Got this one in the mail yesterday!

I also ordered An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.

>> No.1282513

>>1282455
Well, I also just ordered these:

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Smoke by Ivan Turgenev
Old Goriot by Honore De Balzac
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I guess I felt kind of obligated to get the Austen and Bronte. Who knows, maybe I'll enjoy them.

>> No.1282519

>>1282513
And also just ordered The Drinking Den by Emile Zola. Dammit, why can't I stop buying books ;_;

>> No.1282525

I bought the Complete Tales & Poems of Poe and We the Living

>> No.1282531

Swann's Way (of In Search of Lost Time). 60 pages through at the moment.

>> No.1282734

>>1282531
I've been thinking of trying to tackle Proust; how is SW so far?

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I ordered three books last week. I just finished Hudson House. Fantastic book. Now I'm reading Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. After that I'm going to be reading that new Stephen King novel that just came out

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I read it years ago, of course.

>> No.1282860

Mona Lisa Overdrive