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Recent purchases/orders, /lit/? I just ordered The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori for myself, as well as some Zola, Balzac, and Turgenev.

What have you bought recently?

>> No.1284772

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

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< < This
It arrived about five minutes ago, so I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

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Henry III by Shakespeare. I'm excited!

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Read TBK, halfway through Golden Bowl. Probably gonna do The Castle/Amerika after that. I feel intimidated by Ulysses so I might get Pale Fire, Gravity's Rainbow or Moby Dick out the library if they have any of them & then have a go at Ulysses or perhaps even another of Joyce's before.

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bought it today

am 3/4 through it

decent read

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Just ordered. I occasionally read random authors' books that never break into the classics/mainstream tiers.

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I'm 2 chapters in. Very enjoyable, very witty.

>> No.1284838

Wonders of the Solar System by Professor Brian Cox
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Complete Novels of Kafka
The Complete Short Stories of Kafka
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien
Why Does E=mc2 by Professor Brian Cox
Equal Rites and Mort by Terry Pratchett
A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Quantum Physics: A Beginner's Guide by Alastair I.M. Rae
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ''trilogy'' box set by Douglas Adams

Ordered these from amazon yesterday

>> No.1284840

>>1284809

>Joyce

Read Dubliners and/or Portrait ... first, seriously.
You'll appreciate Ulysses all the more.

>> No.1284859

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I started last week but I haven't been able to read much because... it's kind of boring so far.

>> No.1284863

>>1284859

No need to qualify it with 'so far'. Just focus on the brilliant writing, the narrative isn't much fun.

>> No.1284876

>>1284840
Not the person being replied to, but if I was going to read one of them before Ulysses which would you recommend?

>> No.1284906

Within the past couple weeks:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
The Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson

>> No.1284922

robota, lolita, and haunted

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I'm curious about what to expect. Should be interesting at least.

>> No.1284929

Today, I bought
*Kafka was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
*Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
*Flying Saucers by Carl Jung
*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L Stephenson
*The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
*Sacco & Vanzetti: Italian Immigrants and Anarchists
*The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot

from http://shop.occulter.org/collections/occulter-black-books because of dat binding

>> No.1284939

>>1284929
>Flying Saucers by Carl Jung
That sounds tres interessant!

>> No.1284943

>>1284876

Well personally I read Portrait, Ulysses then Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of shorts of his, so if you're totally uninitiated you may wish to start there, but if you feel up to it try Portrait.
Hope this helps.

>> No.1284964

>>1284939

I'm hoping it's as interesting as it sounds! A book by Carl Jung about the psychological significance of UFOs sounds pretty neat.

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Yesterday, I bought these from Amazon:
The Silmarillion by Tolkien
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Essays by Orwell
The Dragons of Eden by Sagan
Contact by Sagan


gif related.