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Recent gets thread.

Post ur gets.

>> No.3748599
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>Buying books

>> No.3748621

>>3748599
>posting the most obvious thing you could post in a thread like this

Good shit, though, OP. Should keep you busy for a bit. That copy of Ulysses looks thick as fuck. What publisher is it from

>> No.3748622
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First one is Lolita.

>> No.3748629

>>3748622
Nice selection; the cover of Lolita is horrid though.

>> No.3748635

>>3748629
I have to see a good cover yet.

>> No.3748632

Amberes by Roberto Bolaño
El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche by José Donoso
L'Immoraliste by André Gide
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

>> No.3748638

>>3748621
Random House 1961

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>> No.3748655

>>3748635
The first edition of it was lovely. A green hardback, if memory serves correctly. Just the name of the author, title and publishing house. Tasteful.

>> No.3748770

books

>> No.3748778

If that's Penguin you should reevaluate nigga

>> No.3749093

>>3748635
Youtube has a vid of VN himself showing off some covers and commenting.

>> No.3749280

>>3748586
How is No Exit? Just picked it up at a discount bookstore after reading The Wall.

>> No.3749465

>muh fetishistic trinkets
>pls adore me

>> No.3749987

>>3749465
you forgot your pic

faggot

>> No.3749989

>>3749987
>>>/b/

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>>3748635
I quite like the one I have.

>> No.3750064

>>3750025
never read lolita would it be a good read for a male hs senior or I'm i not even close to the intended audience

>> No.3750072

>>3750064
I read it sophomore year and quite liked it.
I'd say go for it.

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yeah

>> No.3750108

>>3749465

>muh empty wallet
>pls giev me tissue

>> No.3750119

>>3748635

I own this cover.

My purchases:
Wasp factory
Atlas Shrugged
Ulysses
Edwin Drood
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

how did I do?

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>>3750119

>> No.3750123

>>3750064
I read it this year and am a hs senior. I loved it

>> No.3750125

I bought a KJV, some books on Old Occitan and the troubadours and the VSI to Late Antiquity. After exams I'll probably treat myself to some Augustine and Jerome.

>> No.3750126

>>3748586
>Pornografia
Que coño? What's it about?

>> No.3750130

>>3750120

lol wut. it's like they're trying to hype the pedoness with these covers

>> No.3750142

>>3750130
>these covers

>> No.3750143

>>3750120
that is a beautifully written novel, but i only could get through half of it for some reason.

>> No.3750147

>>3750143

protip: it's your A.D.D

>> No.3750163

>>3750143
I'm not an avid reader, the road trip part is not so enjoyable like the first part, but I don't consider it like a problem.

>> No.3750199

Been in a bit of a snag lately, so not as much money for books. I did buy the abridgment of Vollmann's "Rising Up and Rising Down" yesterday.

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>> No.3750390

>>3750273
I would have given you a medal, but it's hard to tell what some of those are.

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Local bookstore was going OOB and visited the used bookstore.

>> No.3750860

>>3750077
God, those new penguin covers are horrible.

>> No.3750876

>>3750860
You mean the new old Penguin covers?

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Read I Am Legend, enjoyed it. Reading Frankenstein right now

>> No.3750952

>>3750860
Those are pretty old, plus each Penguin series has a somewhat different look. Most people seem to be used to the "Penguin Classics", which has the best titles.

>> No.3750964

>>3750952
They are? The bookshop i visited only had 1984 in those ugly orange covers, they seemed new to me.

>> No.3750980

>>3750898

>satre

>> No.3750993

>>3750980
camus can do, but satre is smartre

>> No.3751017

>>3750980
...because?

>> No.3751023

>>3751017

Because the only people that read JPS are edgy teens.

>> No.3751034

>>3751023
your unproductive cynicism is giving me la nausee

>> No.3751041

>>3750834

Thats not a very good North Korea book.
Most books on the place are shit and inaccurate.

Speaking as someone who taught english in South Korea for 3 years, and has met tons of Best Koreans.

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>Is this /lit approved?

>> No.3751056

>>3751042
There isn't such a thing like lit approved

>> No.3751095

>>3751042
why would you want u to approve your reading material you fucking bitch

>> No.3751145

>>3751042
>2 Hemingway
Mah Nigga

>> No.3751188

>>3750898
>i'm legend
>no book cover
You lucky bastard!

>> No.3751284

>>3751042
I enjoyed Freedom.

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Reading this right now...

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>>3751299
Before that I read this one.

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>>3751301
aaand before that this one.

>> No.3751304

>>3751303

I.
You and everyone else is stupid.

END

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Paideia - Werner Jaeger
Cuentos Completos (complete tales) - Jorge Luis Borges
El humo en la botella (the smoke in the bottle) - Juan Ramón Biedma
Cantembury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Presocratics (compilation)
Hieros logos - edition by Albeto Bernabé

>> No.3751337

>>3751322
woah buddy

>> No.3751460

>>3751041
What about Nothing to Envy?
And Aquariums of Pyongyang?
I'm considering getting those.

>> No.3751482

>>3751308

wouldbefriends/10

>> No.3751569

>>3750119
Wasp Factory isn't worth the read. Back when it was published it was relevant but there have been far better literary studies of the psychopath since then. You're best off returning it to the shop and getting something else.

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pls stop the commodification of reading

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>> No.3751615

>>3751611
Trying to hard

>> No.3751621

>>3751615

Trying to hard what?

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>>3751621
Trying to hard my penis

>> No.3751630

Generation Kill
Pale Blue Dot
Red and Green Mars

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Payday was Friday.

>> No.3751681

>>3751665

Aside from the fact that I hate the Naked Lunch and feel the Alchemist is a stones throw from YA that's good stuff.

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I'm just getting started with literature, really.

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>>3751694
Have you read Dante's Vita Nuova?
You should read it before you jump into The Divine Comedy. It's great.

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>>3751694
>Hitchens

>> No.3751786

>>3751694
>>3751774
What's /lit/'s consensus on Orwell? I'm neither of the people I've linked, and the only work of his that I've read was his debate against Tony Blair.

>> No.3751793

>>3751774
what is this supposed to mean?

>> No.3751808

>>3751786
Neat ideas, neat plot, shit prose. At least, that's what I think.

>> No.3751820

>>3751808
I think he meant to say Hitchens, not Orwell.

>> No.3751823

>>3751808

This. But he was still influential enough to make him essential reading, even if it's just a cursory read.

>> No.3751824

>>3751793
Disgust

>> No.3751832

>>3751820
Oh well, serves me right for jumping into a thread at random.

>> No.3751840

>>3751820

'Arguably' and 'Mortality' are worth the time.
Not too interested in his militant atheism side.

>> No.3751843

>>3751308
I just read about Demanding Impossible and am thinking about buying it, would you say it's worth?

>> No.3751850

>>3751843

Also thinking of buying it, seems really interesting.

>> No.3751859

Ocidental Mithology - Joseph Campbell
The Society of Spectacle - Guy Debord
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldtrich - Philip K. Dick
Groucho Marxism - Bob Black
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin

>> No.3752692

Love Songs - Sappho
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Ethics - Aristotle
The Analects - Confucius
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
How to Read and Why - Harold Bloom

i love goodwill