Recent Purchases

[Anonymous No.2024600]

Recent purchases thread? I've been on a bit of a buying spree the last few days, pretty excited since its my first big book haul in several months (all for ~$100):

>Nadja by Andre Breton
>House of Incest by Anais Nin
>No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
>The Last Days by Raymond Queneau
>Aura by Carlos Fuentes
>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
>The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
>The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
>The Adventures of Ingenious Alfanhui by Rafael S. Ferlosio
>The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klima
>On Love and Barley by Matsuo Basho
>Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
>The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories
>Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
>Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories by Ivan Bunin
>A Winter Book: Stories by Tove Jansson
>Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
>41 Stories by O. Henry
>The Assistant by Robert Walser
>The Lost Honor of Katherina Bloom by Heinrich Boll
>Anna Edes by Dezso Kosztolanyi

Any opinions on any of these books or authors is very appreciated. A lot of the authors are entirely new to me, since I'm trying to read new things/some essentials. Particularly excited to be finally trying out Machado de Assis, Ivan Bunin, and some more surrealist literature, along with sampling some Australian lit and getting more stuff by Tove Jansson and Dezso Kosztolnayi, whose work I've really loved previously. Also got a couple of poetry collections, because I'm trying to get more into that. Definitely going to have trouble deciding which to start on first.

So, post your own recent purchases!

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024610]

i Goto the bookshop once a month, this motnh I bogiht 3 books.

waitnig for godto which ire ad today and it was godo but i'd Like to see the stage pridcution

i started reading The ILiad

and the diven comedy

[Anonymous No.2024611]

Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake

That's it. I still have a to-read pile that's larger than I would like it to be, so try not to even walk past the bookstore to avoid temptation.

[Anonymous No.2024612]

>>2024610
You should read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It's like Waiting For Godot pt 2. And better, in my opinion, but I guess that's not really relevant.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024613]

>>2024612
cokay thanks. if I findihs my toher two books (i pribably will- before the end of the motnh I imght buy those ones
thankyou

[Anonymous No.2024621]

>>2024613
drinking alone whilst on 4chan?

[Anonymous No.2024624]

>>2024621
yess sir

[Anonymous No.2024628]

Library book sale today:
>Virginia Woolf letters (1 & 2)
>The Hours

Not a huge haul but. Meh. They were free!

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.2024629]

>Just Kids by Patti Smith (unbelievably good)
>Galapagos By Kurt Vonnegut
>A Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry collection
>Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
>Cognitive Behavior Therapy by Tao Lin

[Anonymous No.2024630]

>>2024629
tell em what the tao lin is like i only read E^12 byt it was really enjoyabel

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024633]

>>2024630
accidentaly deleted my naemfield

[Anonymous No.2024632]

>>2024630
you sir are my hero.

[Anonymous No.2024636]

Not the best haul but they were only 6 dollars altogether.

Siddhartha by Herman Hess
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages by Bradon Sanderson
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
Sacrment by Clive Barker
Imajica by Clive Barker
Duma Key by Stephen King
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho

[Anonymous No.2024640]

>>2024636
>Imajica
>Earthsea
Nice.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.2024641]

>>2024630
Still haven't read it. It's a poetry book, not a novel like E. I'm pretty unfamiliar with his work, but the book was cheap and I figured anyone hyped as much as him deserves at least a look.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024642]

>>2024632
I dont knwo why I'm a hero but okay thanks you.

[Anonymous No.2024643]

Who is that chick?

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024644]

>>2024641
i quite liked some of his poetry i read online, maybe i'll buy it whne i make a amazon aorder next time I have moeny

He's worth it I think i know a lot of /;it/ haven't evne read anytihnh buy him but just saiy hes shit

E^12 was weird to get into buty funny and a good read i'd recommend that toy ou

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2024645]

>>2024643
the girl is paloma faith she's pretty and very quirky

[Anonymous No.2024659]

damn fine haul, OP!

Just spent £200 on classics books. Shit is so cash!

[Anonymous No.2025849]

bump

[Anonymous No.2025872]

>go into a bookstore that looks exactly like OP's picture
>"Hey, this looks cool. Surely there is a huge selection of interesting literature here"
>look around
>bill o'reily books
>other assorted right wing political rambling
>terrible, shallow self help books
>cookbooks
>terrible paperback crime fiction by authors who crank out three novels a year
>romance novels
>almost nothing else in the whole selection
>mfw

I picked up a copy of On The Road which I've yet to read, if only because I didn't want to feel like I wasted time walking in in the first place.