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Recent purchases tread.

>> No.2681193

>>2681189
looks like something went horribly awry at the printer's

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>>2681189
ftfy

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The gulliver's travels is a gift for someone

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Anyone read it? I haven't even started yet, how is it?

>> No.2681230

>>2681220

I on chapter 43 and quite like it.

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Here are mine from last week. I've been reading out of the top two mostly, and really enjoying both. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert is ridiculously well-read - I don't even think I knew half the authors in the anthology going in.

And Altenberg's penchant for exclamation points makes me happy.

>> No.2681234

>>2681230

*I'm

Fucking captcha

>> No.2681237

>>2681231

putting your books in pea soup probably isn't good for them

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>>2681231
And here are my recent library check-outs, if those count too. Top one is Grooks 4, bottom one is A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie.

I've absolutely loved the whole Grooks series so far. Hopefully I'll be able to get ahold of the fifth volume too, but my library seems to be having trouble getting it. Museum of the Weird was also nice. Longer stories than the ones in AM/PM, and so they were more developed (and stranger).

I've started up all the others except Empire of Signs so far. Sisters by a River may be my favorite Comyns of all. The inclusion of her spelling mistakes and the stream of consciousness kind of make it seem like the pinnacle of her detached childlike writing style. Except it was her first book.

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>>2681237
>not marinating your book purchases in pea soup
>2012

>> No.2681249

>>2681196

i don't know why this made me laugh even harder

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>> No.2681262

>>2681246

singular pleasures is very lightweight but a lot of fun

have you read his story "country cooking from central france"? it rules http://www.english.txstate.edu/cohen_p/postmodern/literature/mathews.html

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>this

>> No.2681283

>>2681262
I'll bookmark it! This is the first thing by Harry Mathews I've checked out, I think I only found out about him last month. But I love all the Oulipo work I've read, so I was interested.

I have a friend who I like sending unique books related to sexuality every Christmas, which is probably another reason behind my picking up. Last year it was The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners by Pierre Louys, which is sometimes called the only successful blend of humor and erotica.

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Here they are. Used paperbacks. Together cost me a little over $7.

How is The Book Thief, by the way? Being the last item on the "FICTION" shelf, it caught my eye. I picked it up because I had heard good things about it, and the idea of Death as a narrator intrigued me.

>> No.2681295

>>2681285
Awww, shit homie. You bought the "Book Thief".. My last GF bought that.. fucking terrible.

>> No.2681300

>>2681295

Oh? I thought it looked interesting. Very well, I'll focus on Crime and Punishment next.

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>>2681300
Same dude...

Did you say Crime and Punishment? Ho, ho, ho.. Wow, now that's a great book..

>> No.2681315

get off lit erik

>> No.2681319

and make something of yourself

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Just bought this yesterday.

>> No.2681444

Recently made an order for a big chunk of Kobo Abe's repertoire. Be jelly.

>> No.2681453

>>2681444
Already own almost all his books, so not so jelly. Did you pick up any of his plays or short stories too?

>> No.2681482

The Outsiders, Slaughterhouse 5 and Looking for Alaska

>> No.2681492

I bought Sabriel. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but it looked okay.

>> No.2681496

>>2681322
That actually looks interesting. Have you started reading it? Would you recommend it?

>> No.2681500

Honore de Balzac - Old Goriot
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Homer - The Odyssey

>> No.2681501

>>2681496
I've only gotten through the first couple stories. I enjoy it thus far. Just don't expect it to be like somebody reading you stories. It's more like a textbook of sorts than a storybook.

>> No.2681672

OP that's gonna be real annoying reading through the mirror or maybe you're a mirror person how is the alternate dimension anyway

>> No.2681676

I found a copy of Lystrates at a garage sale for a quarter.

>> No.2682991

bump