/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3715405]

>Hard cover book
>Under 500 pages

[Anonymous No.3715409]

>hardcover book
>not leather bound

[Anonymous No.3715415]

>paperback
>has jacket flaps

What's the reason for that?

[Anonymous No.3715423]

>reading something with over 500 pages.

It's called filler. Les Miserables would be under 500 pages if it excluded pointless history and naming people no one knows.

[Anonymous No.3715424]

>hardcover book
>not deckle edged
>trash

[Anonymous No.3715426]

>paperback
>under 300 pages
>30$

[Anonymous No.3715432]

>paperback
>pocket sized edition

[Anonymous No.3715440]

>>3715423

>The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.3715442]

>>3715423
>not putting history in your books set in historical locations

[Anonymous No.3715453]

>Classic novel
>New edition... Edited by....

[Anonymous No.3715467]

>book
>chapter ends half-way in the middle of the page
>the other side of the page is blank
>all new chapters start on right-hand page
these obscure feels

[Anonymous No.3715475]

>>3715453
>with an introduction by...

[Anonymous No.3715481]

>books
>not papyrus rolls
10/10 my jimmies were abundantly rustled

[Anonymous No.3715482]

> female author

[Anonymous No.3715494]

>>3715475
Oh my goodness don't even get me started.

>those few pages after the introduction where the authors talk about themselves

[Anonymous No.3715499]

>book
>WINNER OF AWARDS BLAH BLAH! sticker

[Anonymous No.3715504]

>Throwing hardcovers away

And into the trash you go!

[Anonymous No.3715513]

>abridged editions
>modernized language poetry editions
>having the original language on one page and the translation on the opposite
>poetry books with 5 line poems a page
>the SELECTED works of ______, no complete works available
>deckled edges
>cover bent in such a way that it always rests slightly agape
even when lain flat

[Anonymous No.3715526]

>reading a novel originally in non English
>include a ton of non English phrases

I hate having to stop reading and find Internet so I can translate the words.

[Anonymous No.3715527]

>>3715513
>not appreciating bilingual editions

[Anonymous No.3715537]

>>3715526
idk if i totally agree, i feel like there might be a reason for this sometimes, but goddamn the chapter of the savage detectives with all the latin drove me nuts. google translate came up with actual nonsense, i had to just ignore the phrases and feel like a pleb

[Anonymous No.3715548]

>10GBP for a paperback novella

Standard for waterstones fucking why

[Anonymous No.3715560]

>>3715527
Seriously, these are great for when I need a little hand-holding through the original if it's not in English.

[Anonymous No.3715654]

>Hardcover
>$50+
>Glued binding, not sewn

[Anonymous No.3716146]

>"Easily the most erotic of Murakami's novels"

[Anonymous No.3716257]

>>3715654

[Anonymous No.3716269]

>>3715548
>AU$23 for a penguin modern classics paperback.
I wish my work wasn't in a rich suburb :(

[Anonymous No.3716317]

>>3716269

fuck that for a joke

ausfag here, you're getting anally destroyed with prices like that. buy off bookdepository or something, if you're buying from shitty retail stores then i have no sympathy for you

[Anonymous No.3716329]

>>3716317
No, I'm well aware, and I didn't end up buying it. Normally I can get them for $10 - 15, but I buy a lot of my books second hand anyway. This shop was just a "artsy" little store with overpriced records and dvds too. It had a decently selection though, so it's a bit disappointing.

I tend to be an impulse buyer though, and I also like to shop at good small businesses, so I don't use bookdepository as much as I probably should.

[Anonymous No.3716343]

>>3715494
>I first read this book
>And it had great impact on my
>Come to think of it, this book means to me

[Anonymous No.3716468]

>>3715481
>papyrus rolls
>not stone tablets

[Anonymous No.3716508]

>soon to be a major motion picture!

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.3716515]

>>3715423
>implying any single word in the Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, or In Search of Lost Time is filler
lele

[Anonymous No.3716519]

>>3716343
>My inspiration for editing this novel was
>I'd like to thank [random people]...

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.3716518]

>introduction that spoils every single aspect of the plot

[Anonymous No.3716533]

>>3716518
jeff go back to /fa/ggot

[Anonymous No.3716540]

>Blurb on the back
>"Tour de force," "breathtaking," "the most important book of the year," "takes you on a journey"

[Anonymous No.3716548]

>Reviews written from non-literature magazine editors
>New York best seller

[Anonymous No.3716555]

>>3716518
you can't be this new, I recognize your trip

0/10

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.3716571]

>>3716533
>>3716555
don't care that it's now fashionable in literary circles to not give a fuck about spoilers, I still think it's retarded

[Anonymous No.3716657]

>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

The new edition of The Great Gatsby they are releasing for the new film makes me want to throw up.

[Anonymous No.3716681]

>J.K. Rowling, Russian style!

[Anonymous No.3717419]

>A riveting, neat, new and exciting coming of age novel, a real page turner! We interviewed this modern day C.S Lewis on her influences, she responds, "I'd say my major influences are definitely Bukowski and Hemingway." Now a major motion picture!

[Anonymous No.3717429]

>>3715440
>people who read dostoyevsky in english

[Anonymous No.3717545]

>>3715423
Depends on how much you view as filler. That shit with the priest I could certainly do without.

[Anonymous No.3717547]

>>3716515
All of In Search of Lost Time is filler in a way, that's kind of the point.

[Anonymous No.3717560]

>"Can't put it down"

[Anonymous No.3717596]

>Talked about in the same breath as the Hunger Games

Thank god it's a sticker.

[Anonymous No.3717600]

>“A work of genius . . . an erudite, breathtakingly cerebral novel whose prose is crystal and whose voice rivets and whose conclusion defies you not to cry.”
DFW on Wittgenstein's Mistress

>“Don’t even ask.”
DFW on Blood Meridian

>“Cogent, acute, beautiful, merciless, and true.”
DFW on The Middle Mind

His blurbs are the least pretentious things he ever wrote.

[Anonymous No.3717619]

>trying to buy out of print paperbacks
>all end up being upwards of £30

[Anonymous No.3717624]

>paperback
>over 500 pages
make it stop

[Anonymous No.3717629]

>>3717624
I read the complete works of Montaigne in paparback, it was horrible.

[Anonymous No.3717633]

>>3715654
This is why I only purchase books from a fine press like the Folio Society. Otherwise I just borrow from a library because mass market bindings are complete shit. I want to bequeath my books to the next generation, but I can't do that if they are falling apart.

[Anonymous No.3717638]

>>3716657
Yeah, and for the next 5 years it's going to be the only edition in circulation. I regret not getting one of those shiny hardcovers they had going for a while there.

[Anonymous No.3718615]

>Main character is a four year old girl through 9/10 of the novel
>Respected child
>Last few chapters she hits 14
>Author makes her out to be a whore

NOPE

[Anonymous No.3718628]

>>3717638
>one of those shiny hardcovers they had going
which?

[Anonymous No.3718824]

>>3717545
you are aware of the fact that valjean's redemption is pretty much the point of the book,right?

[Anonymous No.3719479]

can someone explain this trash maymay

[Anonymous No.3719494]

>fantasy book
>no map

[Anonymous No.3719513]

>>3716555
What's wrong with disliking spoilers?
and this isn't /b/, no one gives a shit if you're new

[Anonymous No.3719531]

>Hardcover book
>less expensive than paperback version

[Anonymous No.3719535]

>>3719494
>fantasy book
>release separate book with map and description of world

[Anonymous No.3719537]

>>3718615
What book was that?

[Anonymous No.3719572]

>>3716657
y