Some recent purchases

[Anonymous No.5392517]

So, /lit/, how did I do?

[Anonymous No.5392524]

>the juliette society

just .... why?

[Anonymous No.5392529]

Does Sasha do book signings? She is my whorefu

[Anonymous No.5392540]

>>5392529
She probably just slaps the first page onto her dripping pussy, then tosses it back to you.

[Anonymous No.5392548]

>>5392540
Thats much better.
>dfw cum on the page first

[Anonymous No.5392552]

At least you passed.

[Anonymous No.5392584]

>>5392548
>>dfw cum

[Anonymous No.5392587]

>>5392524
>>the juliette society
>just .... why?

So /lit/ would have something to talk about?

But seriously, it was very much bargain bin, and it appears to have a place in the tradition of Sade, which is enough to make me at least want to skim, even if said skimming proves ultimately unrewarding.

[Anonymous No.5392665]

>>5392584
lmao

[Anonymous No.5393605]

Bookstore in Copenhagen had a sale again.

It was only when I came home that I noticed that I had payed pretty much exactly the same if I had just ordered them on Amazon.

[Anonymous No.5393610]

>>5392665
ayy

[Anonymous No.5393656]

I liked Anathem.

[Anonymous No.5393774]

Here's mine.

>>5393605
The Myth of Sisyphus is by Vintage Books, am I right? I've been meaning to get that.

[Anonymous No.5393777]

>>5393774
And here's a couple of more.

[Anonymous No.5393787]

>>5392517

[Anonymous No.5393798]

>>5393787
Truly pleb-tier.

[Anonymous No.5393801]

>>5393774
Yeah, it's Vintage.

[Anonymous No.5393811]

>sasha grey has been published and you havent

[Anonymous No.5393814]

>>5392517
>Sasha Grey
Here we go

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.5393815]

>>5393811
if you were as famous as she you would be published too
why don't you earn the fame her way yet

[Anonymous No.5393822]

>>5393815
believe me nobody wants to see that

[Anonymous No.5393962]

>>5393787
I have been wanting to get that jg ballard collection.
>>5392517
I need to read those Edward St Aubyn books. I love catty upper class white people.

[Anonymous No.5393988]

>>5393798
What do you like to read? What is wrong with any of these books?

[Anonymous No.5393992]

>>5393605
>>5393774
>>5393777
For me these are try hard window dressing tier.

[Anonymous No.5394012]

>>5393992
That's fine because your opinion is shit.

[Anonymous No.5394016]

>>5394012
So is yours. thanks for taking the bait bby.

[Anonymous No.5394021]

>>5394016

[Anonymous No.5394022]

>>5394021
>posting an image macro maymay as a burn. SIR YOU HAVE WON THE INTERNET!

[Anonymous No.5394024]

>>5394022
yes

[Anonymous No.5394120]

>>5393992
Speak the word, Brother!

All these pretencious faggots and their so called "littureature" Real books are written by Stephen King and Tom Clancy and Hadoku Morukami

f*cking posers

[Anonymous No.5394131]

>>5394120
Its Hadoken Makimuki

[Anonymous No.5394159]

>>5394022
That's not an image macro

[Anonymous No.5394256]

>>5393801
Vintage are shit, right? I acquired a good few of their modern classics just because they're ubiquitous, but the paper and print quality sucks and red spines isn't very pretty on my shelf.

[Anonymous No.5394451]

>>5394256
Still better than penguin in my opinion. The quality of Vintage varies quite a lot between books.

[Anonymous No.5394454]

>>5394256
Vintage has some incredibly high quality books as well as some low quality ones.

I will usually always pick Vintage over Penguin because Penguins almost always feel cheap.

[Anonymous No.5394468]

>>5392517
You did fine. Just try and swallow next time.

[Anonymous No.5394835]

>>5394468

The penis mightier than the sword?

[Anonymous No.5394898]

>>5394454

For me, Penguin (and Oxford World's Classics in recent years) are usually preferable, because what I'm buying are mainly translations of ancient and early literature, and they are the series publishing new translations, and with significant ancillary material. Penguin are the more reliable there, since they publish paperback originals and they don't (and OUP does) relegate some new books to overpriced print-on-demand after only a few years.

[Anonymous No.5394922]

>>5394898
Oxford does make some very nice prints I have to say. And yeah, for very old literature, Penguin is usually best.

[Anonymous No.5394946]

>>5393814
someone tell me about this Sasha Grey book... can she write as well as lick toilet seats?

[Anonymous No.5395018]

>>5394922

OWC is still a long way behind Penguin in terms of range, but has published a lot of new translations in recent years. And both have seriously expanded the quantity of annotation, by experts, in recent times. Some other series are of course worthwhile, for individual translations, or for keeping important older ones in print (Everyman and even Wordsworth spring to mind), but Penguin and OWC remain preeminent.

[Anonymous No.5395063]

>>5394946
>implying the act of licking a toilet is contrary to feminism

[Anonymous No.5395108]

Funny when Random House bought out Penguin.

[Anonymous No.5395136]

>>5395108
>Funny when Random House bought out Penguin.

More a merger than a buy-out: Bertelsmann (which owned Random House) owns 53% of Penguin Random House, and Pearson (which owned Penguin) 47%. That they didn't call the new entity Random Penguin shows that they have no soul.

[Anonymous No.5395268]

>>5393774
TCoL49 is GOAT

[Anonymous No.5395405]

>>5395268
What's a GOAT?

[Anonymous No.5395410]

>>5395405
Greatest of all time. It's how the kiddos say something is good, nowadays.

Actually, not kiddos. Just fat, on-line spergers.

[Anonymous No.5395414]

>>5395063
that's not what was being implied at all
are you femanon?

[Anonymous No.5395433]

>>5394946

The prose is probably best described as functional.

[Anonymous No.5395484]

I'm sort of surprised nobody has commented on the Bök: is /lit/ into Oulipo and its heirs and relatives? Does constrained writing have the potential to produce genuine innovation or insight; or does it in the end come across as merely a formal game for its own sake?

[Anonymous No.5395509]

>>5393774
>Thomas More
>no Saint or even Sir

[Anonymous No.5395517]

>>5395509
very secularized since a man for all seasons

[Anonymous No.5395549]

>>5395018
OWC has some brilliant editions and is defnitely the top choice. Penguin are at least consistent.

>>5395268
Lot 49 is surely just a bluffer's guide to themes explored more fully elsewhere in Pynchon? I mean, I guess it's more formally virtuous than the rambling books, but dude will still break into impromptu comic setpieces just because. The doorstops play to his strengths.

[Anonymous No.5395617]

>>5392517
Saved from mediocrity by Eunoia.

>>5395484
It's not just a brilliant stylistic exercise, but also a fast-moving erotic story. I felt nihilistic before reading it, but it made me enjoy life, language, philosophy and lust.

[Anonymous No.5395633]

>>5393774
Stirner, Lot 49 and The Stranger are first-rate, the rest is OK canon fodder. No shame in reading these books when you're a freshman.

[Anonymous No.5395642]

>>5395633
The Sun Also Rises is top tier comfy.

[Anonymous No.5395709]

>>5393774

How are Tolstoy's other short stories? I have only read The Cossacks and War & Peace

Enjoy Rimbaud and The Count of Monte Cristo though, both of them are very good pieces of work.

>>5393787

The history of torture sounds interesting. Let me know how it goes.

Sorry that there's no picture but here's what i've got recently:

The Final Empire, Mistborn book one-Sanderson
Inherent Vice-Pynchon
Mason & Dixon-Pynchon
The Darkness that Comes Before-Bakker
The Warrior Prophet-Bakker
The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
The Spanish Civil War-Hugh Thomas

Getting some extra money soon so strawpoll decides which book I buy next, I only plan on buying one since I need to save up.

http://www.strawpoll.me/2506928

[Anonymous No.5395771]

>>5392517
From Goodreads, "Even more odd is a comparison made between William Blake and - believe it or not - ejaculation: “You know that line by William Blake about ‘the world in a grain of sand?’ Well, I can see the universe in a grain of Jack’s come.” That awkward analogy may just have ruined one of my favourite poems. "

[Anonymous No.5397344]

>>5394451
>Still better than penguin in my opinion. The quality of Vintage varies quite a lot between books.

I've found much the same with Penguin: some of the older editions have been reprinted for decades, including being apparently photographically enlarged from the old smaller size, and look bad. Newer volumes, though, like Stallings' Lucretius (2007), Tottel's Miscellany (2001), and Rowe's Platos' Republic (2012), are crisp and clean.

[Anonymous No.5397384]

>>5395709
>The history of torture sounds interesting.

Mannix's bibliography, and the appearance of that volume, suggest sensationalism to me.

[Anonymous No.5397897]

>>5392517
>anathem
fucking great. 8/10 easily for me. personally preferred Cryptonomicon a lot more, but this is def a good one.

>beowulf
Personally not a fan of Seamus Heaney's translation [insert old english whining here], but I thinmka lot of people prefer it. If you have time, Michael Swanton's version (accompanied by the original text) is also worth checking out.

>juliette society
been meaning to read this for shiggles. do let us know how you like it

[Anonymous No.5398329]

>>5397384
I only bought it because Burroughs mentioned it in his novel Cities of the Red Night

[Anonymous No.5398400]

>>5398329

I've bought books - especially used - for similar reasons. It just struck me as somewhat typical in appearance to a type of book that appeared quite regularly around the 1960s, professing some educational or social importance, but whose appeal really depended largely on (in some cases the appearance of) shock or prurient value. I may of course be wrong.

[Anonymous No.5398408]

>>5398400
>a type of book that appeared quite regularly around the 1960s, professing some educational or social importance, but whose appeal really depended largely on (in some cases the appearance of) shock or prurient value

And, I should add, some books were simply marketed that way - several translations of Roman authors like Petronius, Apuleius, Ovid, and Juvenal were similarly presented.

[Anonymous No.5398650]

>>5394120
>trying this hard

[Anonymous No.5400227]

>>5398650
That's exactly what you are doing.

[Anonymous No.5400812]

>>5393605
Has anybody read ficciones? Im not a huge readerbut its been one that has intrigued me for a while. Will I be in over my head?

[Anonymous No.5400818]

Does anyone know where to find those leaked Sasha Grey nudes?

[Anonymous No.5400824]

>>5400818
I was probably asking for that

[Anonymous No.5400828]

>>5400818
... what?

[Anonymous No.5400846]

>>5400812
Not at all. The stories are fucking incredible and you surely will get something out of it.

[Anonymous No.5400854]

>>5400828
i heard there's a sex tape floating around

[Anonymous No.5402433]

>>5400818
>>5400854

I simply don't believe it.

[Anonymous No.5402461]

Finally exhausted that amazon credit I got for selling used STEM books I found. Thank you based STEM.

[Anonymous No.5402468]

>>5402461

[Anonymous No.5402952]

>>5393605
There better be red & white stripes on the sides of that bedspread.

[Anonymous No.5404683]

>>5402952
No, there aren't.

[Anonymous No.5404691]

>>5393777
>>5393774
why are you taking pictures of penguin classics?

[Anonymous No.5406759]

>>5404691

That's an oddly specific objection.

[Anonymous No.5406893]

>>5398408
>>5398400
Thanks for the little publishing history. Good post.

[Anonymous No.5406916]

I don't own a camera or smartphone but my recent purchases are:
The Odyssey
Ulysses
Some french poetry from Andrée Chedid
Voyage au bout de la nuit (apologies, I do not know the translated title)

[Anonymous No.5408452]

>>5406916
Tryhard here.

[Anonymous No.5408460]

>>5406916
>Voyage au bout de la nuit (apologies, I do not know the translated title)
so you either don't know english or don't know french

[Anonymous No.5410175]

>>5408460

Non sequitur: translated titles may be literal versions of the original, but in some cases the original title is retained (Les Miserables), and in others the translated title is less literal, or in fact quite different.

[Anonymous No.5411333]

Bought these today.

thoughts?

[Anonymous No.5411343]

>>5393605
Which book store?

[Anonymous No.5412282]

My backlog grows exponentially. Jesus.

[Anonymous No.5412324]

>>5412282
Hey I have ...isms

Not a bad little handbook

[Anonymous No.5412330]

[Anonymous No.5413201]

>>5411343
Politikens Boghal

[Anonymous No.5414524]

>>5412330
>college freshman

[Anonymous No.5414966]

My most recent.

[Anonymous No.5415378]

>>5393798
Ballard isn't pleb you fucking child.

[Anonymous No.5415681]

>>5412330
this is the worst thing i have ever seen

[Anonymous No.5415751]

>>5392517
Here you have. I'm pleb enough?

[Anonymous No.5415767]

Where do anons usually go for their dead tree books? New or used? Specialist or general booksellers, or general retailers (stationers, department stores, etc.)? How about discount / remainder booksellers? If used, commercial or charity?

Pic related: some recent charity sale buys. All but the MacIntyre show signs of use. Half (King, Forsyth, Fowles) cost the equivalent of about £0.30 / $0.50 / €0.35 each, and the rest were no more than about £1.20 / $2.00 / €1.40 each. The Fowles is in decent condition given its quality (mass market paperback) and age (1972 7th impression of an edition to coincide with the release of the 1965 film). I use these sales to buy mainly fiction I have a general interest in reading (while also donating).

[Anonymous No.5415779]

>>5415751

Lolita. Alice. Is there something you would like to tell us, anon? ;)

[Anonymous No.5415787]

>>5415779
Yes, but the last time I was banned, so...

[Anonymous No.5415792]

>>5415751
>all dat Nabokov

[patrician intensifies]

[Anonymous No.5415798]

>>5415751
>reading translated Carroll
You disgust me

[Anonymous No.5415816]

>>5415798
That's why I said that I'm pleb.

[Anonymous No.5415820]

>>5395509
Its bad form, though not unheard of, to use Sir in that way

[Anonymous No.5415828]

Here's some e books I got recently...

[Anonymous No.5415844]

>>5415828

and these came in the mail yesterday. along with a copy of True Detective my dad got me for my birthday.

[Anonymous No.5415877]

>>5395509
>>5415820

Penguin house style seems to avoid titles on the covers for the most part, especially in modern and vernacular works, unless the author is typically known by the title. Augustine and Teresa of Avila are both called "Saint", but Aquinas is not. Arthur Conan Doyle is not "Sir". Byron and Tennyson do both, however, get their "Lord". Rochester gets name and full title, but he was not the only Earl of Rochester, and to call him simply John Wilmot would be positively obscurantist.

[Anonymous No.5416060]

these are the last books I've bought, for a class this semester. as for more /lit/ books, these are the last few I picked up:
books of blood
the terror
best of hp lovecraft
three men in a boat
the ruins
the book of the new sun
ghost story
the haunting of hill house

[Anonymous No.5416072]

>>5416060
forgot to add Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.5416112]

>>5415828
How's "The Time Machine did it"?
I'm meaning to read something from Swartzwelder.

[Anonymous No.5416130]

>>5416112
I haven't read that one, but I've read Earth Vs. Everybody and The Exploding Detective. They're super fun and you can blast through them in about an hour. Not much substance but who cares, they're hilarious. Only problem is getting ahold of them for cheap.

[Anonymous No.5416140]

>>5416130
Sounds great. Didn't plan to read them for the substance.

[Anonymous No.5416183]

>>5416112

Only read the first chapter so far but I'm really digging the humor. It's abuncha wacky fun.

[Anonymous No.5418431]

>>5412330

Philosophy (and classics?) student?

[Anonymous No.5418755]

Latest buys. Black march was great but its authenticity seems to be on question :\

[Anonymous No.5418816]

>>5418755

That's the Whiston version of the Josephus, right?

[Anonymous No.5419057]

>>5415767
I've had some ridiculous buys recently from a library sale. Otherwise charity shops for bread and butter, chain bookshops for something I specifically want.

Dedicated remainder stores are mostly disappointing but an OK way to kill 15 minutes.

[Anonymous No.5419093]

>>5415751
>reading translated nabokov and caroll
>especially when you obviously know english

[The cats No.5419106]

Someone I work with lent me Lost in the Funhouse and Coming Soon!!! by John Barth today.

[Anonymous No.5419125]

>>5419093
> 2014
> Caring about authenticity

A great translator is an artist in their own right.

[Anonymous No.5419552]

>>5419093

Aside from the truth spoken by >>5419125 being conversationally fluent doesn't mean one necessarily has a command of a language sufficient to read literary prose.

[Anonymous No.5419597]

>>5415844
>nyrb
It's agreed they're the most patrician publisher, right?

[Anonymous No.5419681]

OMG GUIZ RATE MY LIBRARY!!!

http://pastebin.com/2xSfJ80G

b = book
k = kindle

I'm too lazy to post pictures. 99% of them are 2nd hand books.

[Anonymous No.5419682]

The two copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude are to help me become better at spanish.

[Anonymous No.5419853]

>>5419682
not that it's a revelation to anyone who posts here but these are some insanely good books my friend. all three are some of my favorite things I've ever read (haven't read Marquez in Spanish though)

enjoy yourself anon

[Anonymous No.5420551]

>>5419853
I'm a native Spanish speaker so I never read the Engliah translation, but I remember quoting Marquez saying the English translation was brilliant perhaps better than his own work. He was very likely being too nice about it but it still shows how good the translation must be if it got such praise from the writer himself.

[Anonymous No.5420556]

>>5392517
>not having the latest masterpiece of pomo literature

[Anonymous No.5420952]

>>5420551
I don't know the Spanish but I do genuinely think the English translation had really beautiful prose. I like the idea of translation as kind of bizarre collaboration for this reason.

I'm sure it's even better in Spanish, but I am happy calling the English translation a work of art in its own right, the way the KJV translation of the Gospels is.

[Anonymous No.5421243]

>>5420556
>masterpiece

might be overgenerous.

[Anonymous No.5421254]

>>5420952
>I like the idea of translation as kind of bizarre collaboration for this reason.

Translation certainly has the potential to be literary art in its own right, and a good match of translator and author (William Weaver and Umberto Eco, for instance) can be crucial to reception. OTOH, authors' own opinions on what is and is not a good translation are not always trustworthy: there is one of Milan Kundera's novels that was published first in a translation made without the collaboration of MK himself, and later in a new one with his collaboration, and several competent critics thought the earlier translation the better.

[Anonymous No.5421271]

>>5393605
>time of the assassins

my negro

[Anonymous No.5421275]

>>5414524
I finished college last year, actually.
>>5415681
Why?
>>5418431
No, I'm an electrician.

[Anonymous No.5421303]

>>5419682
What is the publisher of your copy of Notes from Underground?

[Anonymous No.5421307]

>>5402468
>implying you aren't gonna be mindfucked after all that

[Anonymous No.5421314]

>>5421303
vintage P&V translation

[Anonymous No.5422241]

>>5421254
There's also the Transtromer controversy. This poet who collaborated on a detailed translation then got pissed off when some dude who didn't even speak the language got a student to do a rough translation then basically edited the result into poetry. Result - completely non-literal, arguably better than the official versions.

[Anonymous No.5422274]

>>5393774

>thomas more

[Anonymous No.5422290]

Got this bretty cheap, I can't help but laugh halfway through because I just realize every story is about Conan going and wrecking people's shit, slaying pussy and hightailing it out of there to plunder loot.

The Devil in Iron is my favourite atm

[Anonymous No.5423013]

how did i do

[Anonymous No.5423043]

[Anonymous No.5423122]

Second handing

[Anonymous No.5423397]

>>5423013
So someone actually bought it.

[Anonymous No.5423415]

I bought a full set of the Aubrey-Maturin series and a copy of the Secret History of the Mongols.

[Anonymous No.5423519]

>>5423415
>Secret History of the Mongols

Is "Secret" the biggest lie possible in a book title?

[Anonymous No.5423535]

>>5423519
Well the name is apparently because the book was originally intended only for the heirs of genghis but clearly that didn't happen

[Anonymous No.5423788]

>>5423535

Oh, there are obviously exceptions (including titles of fiction). It just set me to thinking of books (and articles) that claim to present "secrets" - conveniently packaged for mass market distribution, of course.

[Anonymous No.5424345]

I have nothing to take pictures with besides my laptop's shitty built-in camera...

Stoner by John Williams
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Richard Yates by Tao Lin

[Anonymous No.5424760]

Two newish versions of less widely translated works. Not that I have good memories of Thoukydides ...

[Anonymous No.5426640]

Just picked these up for £1 from oxfam, how'd I do?

[Anonymous No.5426645]

>>5426640
Whoops, I mean £10

[Anonymous No.5426727]

>>5426640
Those sci-fi masterpieces sometimes go for £2/3 new, but good conditions on the Kundera and Saramago make great deals - not the kind of thing you'll often see secondhand.

[Anonymous No.5426744]

>>5393774
Based More.

[Anonymous No.5426745]

>>5426640
they translated Memorial do Covento to Baltasar and Blimunda? fucking degenerates

[Anonymous No.5426788]

>>5423122
Pft. Hurley translation of Ficciones.

[Anonymous No.5428252]

>>5394256
>>5394451
>>5394454

Vintage also do inexplicable stuff like this.

[Anonymous No.5428298]

>>5423013

Who does the money go too if it's wrote by Anons?

Do you just have a paypal account set up where you give the people who wrote it the details to take money out or something like that?

>>5426640

Your Oxfam seems to have a good selection. Mine does from time to time but it's hard finding stuff that's not Dickens or Bronte novels along with anything from the romanticism period.

[Anonymous No.5428407]

>>5428252
kæk

[Anonymous No.5428505]

4/10 made me smirk a few times

[Anonymous No.5428520]

>>5428298
It just pays the cost of making the physical book itself