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[Anonymous No.18516844]

Post what you've recently bought, or what you're reading
Abuse others for their poor taste

I've just bought these to feed my short story addiction

[Anonymous No.18516855]

[Anonymous No.18516859]

They haven't arrived yet.

[Anonymous No.18516925]

>>18516859
mirin' those prices

[Anonymous No.18516941]

>>18516925
The shipping was more expensive than the books themselves. But buying things in dollars isn't exactly cheap for me either.

[Anonymous No.18516966]

[Anonymous No.18516977]

[Anonymous No.18517027]

Anyone who can tell me how good the McCarthy's are? I didn't actually choose to get them myself, I got given them.

[Anonymous No.18517033]

>>18516859
>buying from an amazon subsidiary.

[Anonymous No.18517292]

Too bad darconville's cat is so expensive.

[Anonymous No.18517548]

>>18516966
>urbanomic
kek

[Anonymous No.18517552]

>>18517027
Not nearly his best, but they are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.18517573]

>>18517548
?

[Anonymous No.18517605]

>>18517573
They are a meme publisher. Everything I have read by them (Fanged Noumena, Omnicide, Dialectic of Pop, Number and the Siren) has been pretty bad. I would bet on that book also being pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.18518189]

>>18517605
>Dialectic of Pop
Lmao

[Anonymous No.18518756]

>>18516855
qrd on this???

[Anonymous No.18518786]

>>18516941
>The shipping was more expensive than the books themselves

Why you accept that?

[Anonymous No.18518787]

>>18516844
2/3 I don't know what the blue one is about.
Today I received these, they are a birthday present from my wife, she also bought The Twenty Days of Turin.

[Anonymous No.18518816]

>>18518787
>the book of three
>five books
Won't catch me reading these

[Anonymous No.18519694]

>>18518816
kek

[Anonymous No.18519721]

>>18516966
White noise is the worst book I have ever read. It actually stopped me from picking up a book for a couple months it was that bad, I have no clue why I stuck it out to the end.

[Anonymous No.18519731]

Out of curiosity for people who post their stacks here - where do you get book recommendations from? Like, where do you go to find titles one should own in their library?

[Anonymous No.18519801]

>>18516844
The Tartar Steppe + The Opposing Shore = you also need Waiting For Barbarians by Coetzee

recent buys: Henry VI (Shakespeare), Confucius, Tao Te Ching

[Anonymous No.18519948]

>>18519731
I follow patrician people on goodreads

[Anonymous No.18520060]

>>18517605
it’s bleeding edge phil and phil adjacent shit. of course the majority will be bad. fanged noumena is good by the way

[Anonymous No.18520067]

>>18519731
twitter , sometimes here. do notpost stakcs thouh

[Anonymous No.18520074]

>>18519731
Bibliographies, footnotes, endnotes. I've picked up entire authors that way.

[Anonymous No.18520170]

>>18516844
>I've just bought these to feed my short story addiction
have you read borges

[Anonymous No.18520223]

>>18520170
only Ficciones

[Anonymous No.18520240]

>>18520223
the aleph is pretty good if you ever want to continue down that road

[Anonymous No.18521031]

>Kafka - The Trial/The Castle
>Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Örkény - One Minute Stories
>Csáth - Collected Short Stories

[Anonymous No.18521046]

>>18518786
I really wanted those books, mainly that Norton Introduction to Literature. And it is not like there are alternatives to it in my country. I mean, there are, but I want something with anglophone literature. So it is not like I have lots of options, and while it isn't extremely cheap like 4 bucks are for you, it isn't expensive either. And I paid something like 9 dollars for the first book and an additional 4 each.

[Anonymous No.18521057]

>>18517027
fuck churchill and fuck you

[Anonymous No.18521273]

I would like to get back to reading after a year but I dont really know with which one should I start. One from fiction, one from nonfiction I guess. I want to read something long this summer, cant decide between Mobydick, GR and Border Trilogy (I already read All the Pretty Horses a couple years back, thinking of rereading it)

[Anonymous No.18522438]

>>18521273
Moby Dick first

[Anonymous No.18522488]

>>18516844
The Opposing Shore is EXCELLENT. Enjoy.

[Pip No.18522517]

>>18521057
Soap dope

[Anonymous No.18522538]

Aiming to finish these by the end of July
Give me some recs for books written in English

[Anonymous No.18522581]

>>18517033
where else can you get cheap secondhand books online?

[Anonymous No.18523224]

>>18522538
Australian?

[Anonymous No.18523382]

My new books are here

[Anonymous No.18523387]

My new books are here

[Anonymous No.18523397]

>>18523364
>>18523373
>>18523382
>>18523387
Jesus, anon

[Anonymous No.18523441]

>>18523373
>>18523382
>>18523387
Here you go, retard

[Anonymous No.18523445]

>>18516844
>>18523441

[Anonymous No.18523460]

>>18523441
Thanks. I can't reformat shit on my phone.

[Anonymous No.18523473]

>>18523445
useless drivel

[Anonymous No.18524011]

>>18516844
I've just bought Titus Groan after hearing good things. Should be arriving soon.

[Anonymous No.18524039]

Local library selling their basement books for 50 cents each.

[Anonymous No.18524067]

I think this stack is gonna stay pretty unchanged for awhile.

[Anonymous No.18524400]

>>18524067
Have you read any Mishima before this?

[Anonymous No.18524526]

>>18524039
post a joke from the book

[Anonymous No.18524571]

>>18524400
No. Anything I should especially know?

[Anonymous No.18524658]

>>18518787
Updated picture. I bought the ones on the left in a sale.

[Anonymous No.18524755]

>>18516844
Finally, a 10/10 stack.

>>18517027
7/10 Schulz is by far the best on here but Churchil is unerrated as a writer as well.

>>18517292
2/10 go back to plebbit

>>18518787
Hasek is based

>>18521031
6/10 Kafka is great and Kundera is interesting and underrated on /lit/

>>18521273
6/10 spend less time on /lit/

>>18522538
6/10 a great stack if you are 16 years old
Read Poe, Dickens, and Swift

>>18523387
3/10 you are supposed to read primary sources, moron

[Anonymous No.18524930]

just arrived

[Anonymous No.18525036]

>>18524755
>you are supposed to read primary sources, moron
Not translated into English and not accessible. Most Late Roman sources especially church histories have not been translated and are not available to the public.

[Anonymous No.18525106]

needed something to read while studying the language

[Anonymous No.18525454]

>>18524526

[Anonymous No.18525593]

Halfway through the J.KJ, good stuff.

[Anonymous No.18525626]

Middle book is poems and Evgeni Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Bottom book is Master and Margarita

[Anonymous No.18525768]

Reading the atlas, berlin stories and naomi

[Anonymous No.18525781]

>>18523224
Never understood why English books' spines face a different direction

[Anonymous No.18525905]

>>18516977
I guess you could say you can now have...an infinite sesh. lol!

[Anonymous No.18527421]

>>18521273
you won't read any of them

[Anonymous No.18527498]

>>18521031
szép stack

[Anonymous No.18527551]

i liek arth

[Anonymous No.18528923]

>>18525593
Who you callin pinhead

[Anonymous No.18529092]

[Anonymous No.18529222]

>>18524755
So more like 5/10 given that I'm 20?

[Anonymous No.18530889]

>>18516859
What editions of norton introduction to literature would you guys recommend?

Is the anthology American literature one good?

[Anonymous No.18531070]

>>18517027
Here's the full birthday boi stack. A couple didn't make it on time (Zemsta and Berlin Alexanderplatz), but oh well. Don't think I'll be needing to buy any more for quite a while, but then again I have just got paid for the first time since like fuckin March.

[Anonymous No.18531143]

>>18523441
How were those Crusades books?

[Anonymous No.18531172]

This isn’t all I’m reading, I’m reading a bit of history of info-European culture, and history of western science etc. to try and understand the frame of mind of the men I’m reading.

Let me know if this is an ok surface level western philosophy track.

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[Anonymous No.18531295]

>>18516844
I've already used this one on the summer stack thread.

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[Anonymous No.18531820]

>>18531143
Just got them, they are a general overview of the history but not much in depth analysis. The Crusader armies one is good, the author keeps saying it as nomadic vs settled but he provides no proof, otherwise good.

[Anonymous No.18532551]

>>18527551
i have that junji ito book, it's pretty cool

[Anonymous No.18532906]

>>18524067
My mom has that same iPad case.

[Anonymous No.18533137]

This is gonna be my summer project, more or less. I ching and children of Odin were hand me downs. Only thing missing is a copy of The Holy Books of Thelema that’ll take a few weeks to ship

>>18519801
>Tao Tae Ching
Automatically the least cringe person in the thread

[Anonymous No.18533161]

>>18533137
nice, akira is my favourite manga

[Anonymous No.18533854]

Just picked these two up from goodwill today. TPTB looks pretty promising from a quick glance through, and the reviews on Goodreads indicate the same, but I have 11 more books that should be coming in the mail later today (of which I will post a picture of) so I may not even pick it up for a few months. Has anyone here read it or have any opinions on it?

[Anonymous No.18534032]

>>18525454
These books are so cringe. You should see if you can get your money back.

[Anonymous No.18534046]

>>18525454
based

[Anonymous No.18534205]

>>18516966
Tell me how you like that Delillo. Got White Noise and Libra recently as I’m building out my contemporary lit collection.
The Morrison wasn’t purchased butni discovered this whole going through my dad’s old books in the attic.
The Swann’s Way is in terrible condition and I’m going to get a refund.

[Anonymous No.18534771]

>>18525454
dear oh dear

[Anonymous No.18534810]

Just arrived

[Anonymous No.18535749]

>>18534810
fan of wagner?

[Anonymous No.18536189]

>>18524930
nice

[Anonymous No.18536775]

>>18533854
What order should I read these in? The bottom one is Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus btw.

Also Second Sale didn't send two of my books :/ (The Antichrist and The Basic Works of Aristotle).

[Anonymous No.18536802]

>>18531070
>History of England

Very nice. I have the same edition and it's a great read

[Anonymous No.18536947]

>>18531295
If you can read English why wouldn’t you read Gravity’s Rainbow in English?

[Anonymous No.18537052]

>>18536802
That's very good to hear. I'm thinking I'll read the Churchill first, reading something else after each volume, and then do the same for the Macaulay. Should keep me occupied for a good while that

[Anonymous No.18537823]

>>18536947
I have Vintage edition of GR. I bought this one mostly to support the publisher and to give my self additional reason to reread it. I've read Confederacy of Dunce, both on my own language and in the original, and for some reason I prefer the translation.

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[Anonymous No.18539024]

>>18537917
>Moby
lmao

[Anonymous No.18539509]

>Yu Hua - To live
>Yu Hua - Chronicles of a Blood Merchant
>Su Tong - Rice
Apparently during the last two-three years they have been publishing a bunch of cool Chinese novels in Hungarian with the help of the Foreign Language Press and I've been living under a rock, so I blew some of the cash that went through my hands on three.
Don't know about the Su Tong one, but Yu Hua is a pretty cool author in my experience.
>The Bhagavad Gita as is
Suspiciously cheap used for a book as pretty and well made as this one is. It was published by the Hare Krishna guys. Don't know much about them besides how they own a farm and practice agriculture there. Generally, I'd rather have half a million of these guys than a single scientologist in the country.
I had a few lectures on "Hinduism" and I felt the need to pick it up after the lecturer talked about it so passionately in class. It's amazing to sit in to a lecture where the presenter makes you question whether or not you picked the right major, in a positive sense of course. So many interesting things to study, so little time, so little strength.
The amount of care that seemed to have went in to the commentary and translation-work is astounding. It puts academic volumes to shame in some regards.
>Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2
This has been a monumental project for Hungarian publishing. Don't know where they got the money for it, but I don't think there has been a prettier book published in recent memory. Clothbound, acidfree paper, hand sewn, two silk bookmarks, notes by sinologists and so on.
As I said, I have no idea where they got the money from to have all this sweet stuff with it (and to print 5k copies), but I got kind of afraid that they'd stop after volume one after shit hit the fan because of covid, but they're chugging along steadily and now 2/3 volumes are out. It's going to be so amazing once all three volumes are out.
Volume one was fun, so I'm looking forward to reading volume two too.

[Anonymous No.18540726]

Bump

[Anonymous No.18540908]

>>18516844
I’ve read The Tartar Step and The Opposing Shore. Dunno if it was the translation I took issue with, but I found the latter failed at everything the former did well. The overly formal language obliterated any semblance of intrigue. Hope you enjoy them more than I did.

>>18517292
Agreed. Got Laura Warholic too, but Darconville’s still eludes me. One day.

Recently got Karl Ove Knausgård’s new book The Morning Star in a Swedish edition. English isn’t out yet, but it’s one to look out for. Very entertaining.
Also got two John Cowper Powys novels, Owen Glendower and A Glastonbury Romance.

[Anonymous No.18541094]

Trying to decide what to read. Likely going to finish Blueschild Baby and crack open The Atlas. Haven’t read any Vollmann yet.

[Anonymous No.18541515]

>>18521057
t. Streetshitter

[Anonymous No.18542252]

I now own every book by David Kilcullen in print and digital.

[Anonymous No.18542308]

How many more until I achieve Redpill Moksha bros...

[Anonymous No.18543100]

>>18529222
its ok anon, those are good books and we all have different times
im gonna give you a 6/10 because its honest work

[Anonymous No.18543110]

>>18527551
There is a better edition of the giger one
durer its god tier, nice taste
also that one junji ito artbook its beautiful