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FELLOW /lit/IZENS

Today's my birthday, and I gifted myself some books.

-William Faulkner - Light in August
-Flannery O'Connor - Collected Works (includes the novels Wise Blood & The Violent Bear It Away; short story collections A Good Man Is Hard To Find & Everything That Rises Must Converge; and selected essays and correspondence.)
-Sophocles I (edited by Richmond Lattimore; contains Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone)
-The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 3rd ed.

... all for ~$60. Does this sound like a good buy? Anybody read some of this stuff before? Where should I begin?

>> No.1725944

www.youcouldvegottenmostofthisusedforreallycheap.biz

flannery o'connor is awesome though start with her short stories

>> No.1725951
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Flannery O'Connor is the jam.

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>>1725951

WISE BLOOD IS THE JAM OF A LIFETIME

>> No.1726085

bamp

>> No.1726185

>3 books
>60 buckaroos
>20 buckaroos per book on average
>thinks its a good deal.


What a waste of good buckaroos.

>> No.1726188

4 books...$60...if you would've bought used you could've gotten loads more for that

>> No.1726189

you already bought them, so it doesn't really matter if it was a good buy or not...

>> No.1726195

So much of that could have been bought at your local used bookstore for half of what you probably payed.

Mfw my local bookstore has 3 copies of light in august and brothers Grimm oldschool hardcovers and possibly Sophocles

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Wise blood. It's a fucking kick ass book. If you don't like it, then you're doing it wrong.

>> No.1726387

>mfw I could pirate those books in about 15 minutes

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>buying yourself birthday presents

Hang in there OP :(

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>>1726388