/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18657311]

Anybody else get goodies in the mail yet?

[Anonymous No.18657322]

Got them much quicker than the batch I got for last November’s sale

[Anonymous No.18657335]

No idea why they all turned sideways. Glowies probably just fucking with me again

[Anonymous No.18658499]

yup

[Anonymous No.18659498]

>>18657311
I got this in the mail this morning. I don't know if this thread is about a specific seller, though.

[Anonymous No.18660388]

>>18659498
Back on July 4th weekend NYRB classics had a book sale for 40% off if you ordered 4 or more books. There was a big thread about it with people sharing their picks. I was all excited that my order finally came in.
I’m not sure if nobody else got their orders in yet or I’m just the only fool retarded enough to be excited about it.

[Anonymous No.18660444]

>>18660388
Here ya go lad

[Anonymous No.18660453]

>>18657322
>The Long Ships
Good taste anon

[Anonymous No.18660478]

>>18660388
Arigato
I loved Berlin Alexanderplatz and Life and Fate
Moravagine was a strange one but I really enjoyed the part set during the 1905 Russian Revolution.

[Anonymous No.18660483]

>>18660453
Thanks anon
Can’t decide whether to read that one or the Fermor first. I’m a huge Patrick Leigh Fermor.

[Anonymous No.18660570]

i'm far too cheap but here's what i'd've bought from nyrb sale

The Journal 1837–1861, Henry David Thoreau
Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson
The Root and the Flower, L.H. Myers
Pages from the Goncourt Journals, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Letters from Russia, Astolphe de Custine
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Poets in a Landscape, Gilbert Highet
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, François-René de Chateaubriand
The Child, Jules Vallès
The Life of Henry Brulard, Stendhal
Kolyma Stories, Varlam Shalamov

thanks for reading

[Anonymous No.18660629]

>>18657311
Is that a tarot card? Looks kinda familiar

[Anonymous No.18660694]

Indeed I have. Not sure which I will start with yet, should finish up my current read in a few days and in I go.

[Anonymous No.18660727]

>>18660629
Yes Rider Waite deck

[Anonymous No.18660731]

>>18660694
Only one I’ve read is The Recognitions
I’ve started JR but couldn’t get into it
I should try again. I did eventually enjoy The Recognitions but it took a few attempts

[Anonymous No.18660735]

>>18660694
>>18660731
Is it true that JR or The Recognitions is written without any punctuation marks?

[Anonymous No.18660743]

>>18660731
I am tempted to start with The Recognitions, it is the one I want to read the most, but time is limited right now so I will probably go with one of the shorter ones. Maybe Speedboat, I am really curious about it.

>>18660735
Definitely no on The Recognitions, probably no on JR. I think you are confusing the lack of identifying the speaker in dialog, you need to learn their voice to identify the speaker. The excerpt from The Recognitions that sold me on it.

>No fragment of time nor space anywhere was wasted, every instant and every cubic centimeter crowded crushing outward upon the next with the concentrated activity of a continent spending itself upon a rock island, made a world to itself where no present existed. Each minute and each cubic inch was hurled against that which would follow, measured in terms of it, dictating a future as inevitable as the past, coined upon eight million counterfeits who moved with the plumbing weight of lead coated with the frenzied hope of quicksilver, protecting at every pass the cherished falsity of their milled edges against the threat of hardness in their neighbors as they rung together, fallen from the Hand they feared but could no longer name, upon the pitiless table stretching all about them, tumbling there in all the desperate variety of which counterfeit is capable, from the perfect alloy recast under weight to the thudding heaviness of lead, and the thinly coated brittle terror of glass.

[Anonymous No.18660755]

>>18660743
>I think you are confusing the lack of identifying the speaker in dialog

Exactly, thank you for your answer.

[Anonymous No.18660847]

I'm getting a zipper cover pocket KJV today, I'm not even trying to christlarp.

[Anonymous No.18661677]

>>18660731
>I’ve started JR but couldn’t get into it
Did you get to the point where Bast does the rehearsal with the kids and the lecture on Mozart? that's when it started to click with me. then when they did the field trip to the stock exchange is when i just started blasting through the book

[Anonymous No.18661738]

>>18660483
>I’m a huge Patrick Leigh Fermor
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.18661824]

>>18661677
I don’t think I did get that far anon
It’s been a while. I think JR did show up?
On a class trip to Wall Street maybe?
It was a little confusing. I should try again. I did enjoy The Recognitions and I do enjoy a challenging read.

[Anonymous No.18661834]

>>18661738
I’ll never tell.

[Anonymous No.18661997]

>>18657322

How are Fermor's travel books? Do they have anything do with nature?

[Anonymous No.18663392]

>>18661997
I’ve only read three so far
A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water and A Time to Keep Silence
Mostly he writes about people and places, sometimes giving little historical sketches of a building or painting
He doesn’t describe flora or fauna all that much. More interested in landscape and history than a naturalist’s pursuits.
At least in the books that I read.

[Anonymous No.18663397]

no