/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19265224]

Stack thread/recent purchases thread

[Anonymous No.19265323]

[Anonymous No.19265339]

>>19265224
>recent purchases
did you buy it off someone whos house was waterlogged?

[Anonymous No.19265351]

>>19265339
Huh? I buy used usually.

[Anonymous No.19265362]

>>19265351
Nigga them spines ashy af.

[Anonymous No.19265371]

[Anonymous No.19265381]

>>19265371

[Anonymous No.19265388]

>>19265371
>all translations

[Anonymous No.19265398]

Return of the Native is really good. A Bend in the River is quite a compelling work too.

[Anonymous No.19265441]

Didn't we have a stack thread yesterday? Anyhow, good taste, The Defense made me feel physically uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.19265464]

>>19265224

[Anonymous No.19265482]

Stinky guincel thread

[Anonymous No.19265667]

>>19265388
They will never learn anon.

>>19265482
Seethe

[Anonymous No.19265697]

>>19265482
Name a socially acceptable publishing house.

[Anonymous No.19265741]

>>19265667
nice

[Anonymous No.19266551]

>>19265388
sorry i cant read french arabic and latin it wont happen again /lit/ sir

[Anonymous No.19266720]

>>19265441
We did, it was mine. No bumps though.
>>19265667
>Vintage faulkner
Based, I like the cover art a lot as well as the books themselves. I'm actually close to finishing light in august.

[Anonymous No.19266748]

Not my most recent purchase but a good one

[Anonymous No.19266875]

>>19265224
The Defense is great, but there isn't enough chess in it. I should be able to replay their championship game

[Anonymous No.19266964]

>>19265697
>Copper Canyon
>Pantheon
>Any reputable university press
>Infinityland
>Graywolf
stop giving money to big 5

[Anonymous No.19266974]

>>19266720
based schnitzel reading the German classics in their native language

[Anonymous No.19267411]

>>19265381
ngl good stack

[Anonymous No.19267620]

>>19266720
>Based, I like the cover art a lot as well as the books themselves. I'm actually close to finishing light in august.
I honestly hate vintage classics, the orange colour is awful but I went to the two bookstores in my city and that was the only edition available unfortunately. It's my first Faulkner book though, how are you liking light in august? Some anons told me to start with as i lay dying and I might read another Faulkner after.

[Anonymous No.19267714]

[Anonymous No.19267727]

>>19267714
Neat stack. Vanished Kingdoms is a fascinating book, I really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.19267767]

>>19267620
>How are you liking light in august?
It's brilliant. Again his prose is the highlight for me, I'm just so in awe about it. But the story is also very engaging and unlike some of his other stuff it's more accessible due to the linear timeline and neutral narrator. The sound and the fury is still my favorite though. I've also read as i lay dying which I liked a lot, it's kind of like the essential elements of Faulkner's writings packed into a short little story so it serves as a great entry point (though I read tsatf first).

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[Anonymous No.19267943]

[Anonymous No.19267991]

[Anonymous No.19268000]

>>19265362
no cap

[Anonymous No.19268056]

>>19267991
oh wow big books you must be a big reader boy

[Anonymous No.19268133]

>>19267991
>Richardson
I kneel

[Anonymous No.19268327]

>>19267991
faggo-

>Richardson

Based

[Anonymous No.19268340]

>>19267991
Have you dipped into the Dosto at all yet? What kinds of things does it contain?

[Anonymous No.19268649]

>>19267991
unfathomably based for Spenser

[Anonymous No.19268708]

>>19268649
thoughts on coover

[Anonymous No.19268773]

[Trox mf No.19269275]

>>19265224
Nice spines xD I guess they were eating by some sewer rats or shit like that ?

[Anonymous No.19269743]

>itt: people unironically buying canon paperbacks brand-new
why spend triple the amount of money? You can get them for dirt cheap in used condition. The spine isn't gonna look new anyway once you've finished reading.

[Anonymous No.19269759]

>>19269743
$10 isn't a big deal and new books can be kept in good condition

[Anonymous No.19269765]

>>19269743
Some of aren't poor anon

[Anonymous No.19269767]

>>19265224
Finished fight club a month ago, the first book I finished in 2 years.

[Anonymous No.19269793]

>>19265224
I bought some books by aristotle recently. (I'm german if you are wondering about the titles)

Organon, physics, nicomachean ethics, politics and metaphysics. Also on the soul but it is not on the pic.

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[Anonymous No.19269892]

>>19265362
happens when you read them, you should try doing that with yours

[Anonymous No.19269912]

>>19265362
>caring about the aesthetics of a book
Are you a teenage girl?

[Anonymous No.19269914]

More music books. Finally found a copy of The Audio Programming Book for a good price, if I had known how good it was I would have happily payed full price, somewhat regret putting off buying it for so long but I always expected it would only have a few useful bits at most. But it was nice to get an as new copy for $15.

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[Anonymous No.19269962]

>>19269765
same but as long as I'm not rich I'll always try to save money whenever I can.
>>19269759
it may not be a big deal at first but those few bucks amount to something in the long run. Let's say you buy 10 brand new books a month, $10 each, that's $100. If you bought them used you'd have likely saved roughly $50. That's not "nothing".

[Anonymous No.19270460]

>>19268340
Haven't read it fully yet, only the ficton (Vlas, Bobok etc)

[Anonymous No.19270740]

>>19266748
Very nice

>>19265381
>>19265441
>>19265464
>>19267714
Decent

[Anonymous No.19270745]

>>19269914
I’ve always been interested in Mahfouz. Make a thread after you read it

[Anonymous No.19270999]

>>19268708
The Origin Of The Brunists, Universal Baseball, and The Public Burning are all great

[Anonymous No.19271134]

>>19266964
Random House will buy them all, it's just a matter of time.

[Anonymous No.19271755]

I just spent 90€ on an anastatic printing of the Divine Comedy, I regret nothing but help me not feel like shit when I will have to renounce basic needs like alcohol for a while

[Anonymous No.19271870]

>>19270740
thanks, ive got all Pynchons stuff in hardcover except COL49 which im working on, i still need to get around to reading bleeding edge.

[Anonymous No.19271928]

>>19271755
>90€
>free book
Gonna need to see some pics of this thing

[Anonymous No.19271948]

>>19269962
Depending on your country tracking down a used book and getting someone to ship it to you is not worth the effort of something that only costs around $10 at max. I usually do a decent haul in a used book store when I am in the city but buying new is basically my only option for lots of books if I want them in physical format

[Anonymous No.19272173]

>>19265464
Wait how is your copy of the Canterbury tales that big.
I have a much older penguin one that my grandad gave me and it’s only about a third as thick.
He also has a copy with the original Middle English beside a modern translation of each line so you can directly compare the two and it’s not that big either. So what gives?

[Anonymous No.19272340]

>>19269918
>blindpill-core
>laptop in the background
>>19269914
>Mahfouz
based
>>19269793
why not just get his complete works?>>19268649
Is that you Jamesanon

[Anonymous No.19272415]

>>19272340
No, I'm Jamesanon (OP)

[Anonymous No.19272423]

>>19271948
I'm talking about the canon anon - shit that gets reprinted paperbacks every other year by a major publisher like penguins. Plenty of those get resold by normies who got filtered for as low as 3 bucks. I know that there are books which are rather hard to get and where buying new is the only reasonable option but I'm not talking about those.

[Anonymous No.19272429]

>>19271928
in a few days

[Anonymous No.19272461]

>>19265362
yes paper back are for reading buy hardback if you just want to sit it on your shelf

[Anonymous No.19272490]

stacking up

[Anonymous No.19272562]

>>19272423
Not where I live I literally never see those books for sale unless they were prescribed reading for students I don't see them on any second hand website or store and shipping from ebay would pretty much bring them up to the cost of a new book if I wanted to go outside my local area. Cannon books sell for like $3 brand new from Wordsworth almost always regardless of size, not worth tracking down a used copy. If you want a nicer copy shelling out up to $10 isn't that crazy.
A few extra monies for a fresh book is worth it if you receive a shitty used copy from some random seller. If I buy books I like to keep them in good condition for the most part. If I didn't care about reading them over and over again and displaying them I would just use my library or a kindle. Unless I can find someone selling something nearby it's not worth the fuel or shipping costs to get the book a little cheaper.

If I lived somewhere where I could constantly hunt for deals on books I would, it's fun and I am a pretty frugal person. It's just not logistically worth my time when they only cost a little bit of money to begin with or could end up on sale brand new somewhere

[Anonymous No.19272625]

>buy paperback book
>stretching spine softly
>spine cracks when I get to middle
ffs

[Anonymous No.19272660]

>>19267620
Start with Go Down, Moses... it's a fantastic short story cycle. Then if you like that go full grotesque and read Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson) and Lost in the Funhouse (Barth)

[Anonymous No.19272668]

>>19272660
I keep meaning to read mor Faulkner after really liking as I lay dying. Should I go for sound and fury or go down Moses next?

[Anonymous No.19272681]

>>19272668
GDM is way more accessible IMO but I like short form stuff. It's also a good intro to Faulkner's fictionalized universe and has way more interesting criticism out there if you like reading that kind of stuff.

[Anonymous No.19273461]

Got these today

[Anonymous No.19273726]

>>19267922
Based Douay reader
YGMI, Anon

[Anonymous No.19273827]

>>19273461
please be in london

[Anonymous No.19273870]

>>19273827
im in mayfair. why, you want to meet up?

[Anonymous No.19273980]

I've only read the lord of the rings and the Borges one

[Anonymous No.19273993]

>>19273980
I just finished the same edition of Don Quijote some days ago

[Anonymous No.19273995]

>>19273461
Lao Tzu would make a good Pepe

[Anonymous No.19274057]

>>19267943
Have you started the lonely crowd, anon? If yeah, what do you think of it so far?

[Anonymous No.19274130]

>>19273870
depends are you a smart dresser girlie?

[Anonymous No.19274139]

>>19269767
this book is like the Harry Potter of continental philosophy

[Anonymous No.19274478]

Really pleased to finally have found a collection Trakl. And Fosse is great, really looking forward to that one.

[Anonymous No.19274718]

>>19267991
Richardson sama

[Anonymous No.19274723]

>>19273870
based mayfair resident. London chads rise up

[Anonymous No.19274777]

>>19274723
>London chads
they're called niggers these days I believe

[Anonymous No.19274784]

>>19272173
there's like 500 pages of notes in the back

[Anonymous No.19274786]

currently reading

[Anonymous No.19274798]

>>19268133
>>19268327
>>19274718
Samefag

Wouldn't expect anything less from a faggot who pretends to like Richardson desu

[Anonymous No.19274908]

>>19273980
I want to buy that RAE edition of Borges works. How does it look inside? I read some bad reviews about the poor print and binding job.
I already have Don Quijote, same RAE, and it looks fine.

[Anonymous No.19274957]

>>19273827
Lmao

[Anonymous No.19274982]

>>19274908
The spanish in the RAE edition of Quijote is modernized? Or is it faithful to Cervantes's spanish?

[Anonymous No.19275290]

>>19273827
Sorry bro I’m a dude and live in the GTA

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[Anonymous No.19275396]

>>19274057
I have not. But I just flipped through it and I think I found a cum stain.

[Anonymous No.19275448]

>>19275396
jesus

[Anonymous No.19276147]

>>19275300
based

[Anonymous No.19276325]

>>19275300
epic

[Anonymous No.19276533]

>>19274908
I think it is not as bad as most of the reviews say, but probably i was lucky. The quality of the print is poor if you compare it with the Don quijote edition and the binding is pretty similar in both editions. What I truly hated of that Borges edition were the essays written by pretentious faggots about Borges, but it is less than 100 pages I guess. Overall is a good book, I would recommend it.

[Anonymous No.19276611]

>>19273993
How much time did it take you to finish it? I tried to start reading Don quijote, but realized I probably don't have enough time time at this moment in my life to finish it and it seems to be a pretty demanding read.

[Anonymous No.19276716]

>>19276611
I read it in like a year. Took a break between part I and part II though. And sometimes I read an entire different book between chapters. It's not difficult but there's not really any accumulative story in it or anything to look forward to. So you get what you read moment by moment. Its definitely a great book, I doubt there's any relevant topic left untouched, there's history, ethics, theology, religion, poetry, myth, love, etc, etc. Also it's very easy to read things in more than one way, there's a quote from Nabokov that says that Cervantes was cruel, and seen from a modern perspective (don't know if it was this way in the past) it has some truth to it. All in all I'd say it is exhausting but rewarding.

[Anonymous No.19277286]

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[Anonymous No.19277296]

>>19269767
the subtle art of not giving a f*ck for roidtrannies and PUAcels

[Anonymous No.19278607]

>>19270745
Will do if I am still around, I seem to be giving up on /lit/. Seeing some actual variety in this thread for the first time in a good while gives me some hope, but the catalog is not exactly reassuring. The last time I looked in a stack thread almost every stack was primarily Melville, McCarthy and Dostoevsky, and everyone was talking about which editions had the best covers.

I did read the first 20 pages or so when it arrived just to get a taste, the premise and the style are solid, should be good. Probably will be a month or so before I read it in earnest, there are a few books ahead of it.

[Anonymous No.19279356]

>>19273461
Saw that exact same impressionist book in one of the book shops I went to yesterday. Wish I took a look at it now.

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[Anonymous No.19279484]

I bought twelve Henry James hardbacks for twelve bucks, I won't be posting a picture.

[Anonymous No.19279834]

>>19279484
>I won't be posting a picture.

[Anonymous No.19279967]

>>19279466
>Celine.

Bravo fren. Incredible books.

[Anonymous No.19280052]

>>19279484
>cheap bucks for cheap books by a cheap writer
Very based

[Anonymous No.19280121]

>>19274982
The punctuation and the spelling are modernized, but the vocabulary not as much as I expected.
>>19276533
Much appreciated!

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[Anonymous No.19280574]

>>19265224
>Chandosbrief
Nice

[Anonymous No.19280706]

>>19275290

>live in the GTA

Rather be dead than live there.

[Anonymous No.19280746]

>>19280550
>Penguin Kant
Ouch.

[Anonymous No.19280807]

>>19280746
not him but why

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[Anonymous No.19280844]

>>19268773
>The International Jew
Red Pill me on this book

[Anonymous No.19280868]

>>19274478
There are many different Trakl collections on Amazon.

[Anonymous No.19280894]

>>19265371
the bollingen ibn khaldun gets thinner with every reissue lol

[Anonymous No.19280902]

>>19265464
paul schmidt rimbaud absolutely goated

his mayakovsky is great too

[Anonymous No.19280929]

>>19280807
The translation is really bad.